March 22, 2024 • 49 mins
"Good enough may not be good enough" on #TMI with Maiekayla
Maiekayla connects with Liafaith, a dynamic speaker, worship leader, talented singer/songwriter, and accomplished author on #TMI #TooMuchInformation for an engaging conversation about "when good enough just isn't cutting it!'
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Maiekayla connects with Liafaith, a dynamic speaker, worship leader, talented singer/songwriter, and accomplished author on #TMI #TooMuchInformation for an engaging conversation about "when good enough just isn't cutting it!'
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There's just something about the tops ofclouds that makes me certain you're near.
In the world below looks so small, it's still I find it's true when
my whole little life is faltery.I'm ocupie space in your heart through and
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through. There's just something about myworld flipped upside down that brings me back
to your heart, just when nothingis what it I thought it was.
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I have nod the charts than thetrucks, that you're up to something good,
something good. Yeahs just something aboutbut she just everything I thought I
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knew when I thought I had foundgood enough, then I found my heart
be grubbed. I see that herepaw too much of your heart for God
enough to be good enough. SoGod enough had to God from the tops
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of the clouds. So the flippedupside down, I know, I know
that is something and earth shaking somethingthat something your up again. And then
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the same Nasa the song nass sasson us shows sssssst ss hoes AGAs the
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scene shots. This has it HappyThursday. You guys, welcome to another
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episode of TMI with Michayla. Didyou guys love that music, that sound,
that voice, so you guys,I have a special guest here today.
Can we give it up for missLeah Faith Hi here, Thank you
so much for being here. Itwas like a back and forth and trying
to get you in here. ButI'm excited now to finally meet you.
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Yeah, it's excited to be here. It's such a beautiful voice. So
the name of the song is There'sJust Something. There's Just Something? So
where where did this all come together? Yeah? You made this song?
Right? Yes? All right?I want to know the backstory. Yeah.
So I was honestly going through areally rough season of heartbreak and was
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really dealing with some deep seated liesthat I was believing about myself and didn't
even realize how deeply they had gone. And I was in this relationship with
this guy and from but it wasjust good enough type of relationship, Like
it was like, Oh, thiswill work. I can make this work.
Maybe this could work. And itjust fell to pieces and I was
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gutted and heartbroken and devastated. AndI had this moment with the Lord.
I was on a plane and Iwas praying I always have greating comes with
the Lord on an airplane. Idon't know what it is. I think
it's just like airplane mode is onwith the Lord, and I heard him
say good enough isn't good enough,so good enough has to go. I
love that, And that was wherethe hook of the song is that line
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right there. It was such alife changing encounter where so often in our
souls were like, I'm not reallydeserving of much more this, so I'll
just settle for something, and theLord just ripped it out of my life
and it was painful, but itwas for my good did you know,
Oh my gosh. Okay, soI didn't know this was going to be
about a relationship story. Okay,now this isn't a whole other top right,
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No, it's so crazy because Iwas just actually the last show I
had Shirelman. And also that's actuallyhow we got connected, you guys,
So thank you Charrel. Thank sure. She and I were actually talking about
love and relationships, marriage and stufflike that, and we were just talking
about how people we tend to settlesometimes because we're impatient, or we're lonely,
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or we have our own insecurities,and we end up settling for the
wrong person. Right, So,I mean, I don't want this to
get you say what you want tosay. You don't have to say anything.
Okay, this is all your business. So with that being said,
wow, okay, I love talkingabout love. I love it too.
So how long were you in thisrelationship for? It was what the kids
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would call a situationship. Okay,it was not good, like it was
just like really rough. But honestly, it was one of those weird situations
I haven't talked about this in solong, where he and I led worship
together, okay, And for somereason, when people see a guy and
a girl leading works together, peopleare like, you, guys are supposed
to be together. I know whatyou're talking about. Don't give people those
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prophetic words if you don't really believeit in yourself. So anyway, it
was just not a good situation.And it went on for years of us
like kind of going back and forthtrying to figure it out. And I
just like didn't know that I wasworth more than that. Did you feel
like you gave into those thoughts thatpeople were saying, like, oh,
you guys will look good together,and you thought that that was it?
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I just yeah, I was likeI always thought that the worst thing that
would happen to me is that Iwould remain single for a long time,
which is a lie from the pitsof hell. And so I was like,
Okay, well, maybe if Ican convince this guy to be with
me, then I won't be alone. But I had a spiritual ones tell
me it's better to be single thanto wish that you were, yes,
which I'm like, that's a realword, that's true. Oh my gosh,
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girl. Yeah, it's better towait for the right person than to
be with the wrong person just becauseyou don't want to be alone. Yes,
yes, Okay, it's so crazythat you're talking about this because I'm
going through my own stuff in mylove life. Yeah, maybe my love
life that I have created in myown head. I don't know. But
delusion also comes with this, youguys, sure, but wow, no,
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thank you for opening up about thattotally for me, I'm very I
get nervous about talking about my lovelife. Yeah, well, there's no
love life that exists, but rightnow I feel Yeah, but no,
I think that's that's true. Ithink I was in the same situation,
not situationship, but situation too.Actually dated a guy in ministry, and
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I think even in my head,everybody said we were cute, and then
we grew up together, so itmade sense our families were closed. And
in my head, oh, thisis a guy from church, so that
means he's a man of God.No. No, And I don't know
your your situation, but just becausea guy goes to church, that does
not mean he's a man of God. Just because he grew up in the
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church and his family's in ministry doesnot mean he's a man of God.
And I'm not saying they're fake Christianseither. I'm just saying, oh,
it comes to biblical terms where ittalks about being equally yolked. So everybody
has their own walk with God too. Well, this isn't about me,
This is about love. But howdid you did you already know from the
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beginning that you guys are not it? No, I just like I said,
there were so many lies that Ihad believed since childhood. Part of
my testimony is I had an eatingdisorder when I was younger, and I
was told at a really young agethat I like wouldn't that I wasn't lovable,
Like just like believing those lies asa kid almost and it gets into
your head, just gets into yourhead, and you just buy the lies
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of the enemy, and so Ijust I was in my brain singleness equaled
being unwanted and unlovable, and that'sjust once again, it's just not the
truth. But because I believed that, I you know, kind of grabbed
on too. I was grasping forstraws. I was like, well,
if we can kind of make thiswork, then maybe that'll mean I have
worth maybe and I'm lovable. It'scrazy because I'm like, I knew that
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the Lord loved me the whole time, but I was like, but I
need this to Yeah, yeah,no, I get you. I get
you. Sometimes it's people will tellyou, oh, well, you're already
loved by the Lord, that's enough. But sometimes I'm not. I'm not.
I am not downgrading God's love andI'm not trying to put anybody else
to compete with that. God's lovewill always beat it one hundred percent.
But sometimes there are thoughts in yourhead that's like, am I being delusion
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right now? The delusional? Rightnow? What am I trying to convince
myself? Mikayla. But there iswhatever real, Like we were created for
relationships, and so there is areal part of us that craves human connection
and human affirmation. Yes, andso I think sometimes we villainize that of
like, if you don't believe thatthe Lord loves you and that's more than
enough, then you don't have enoughfaith. And I'm like, well,
wait a second. The Lord putspeople in our lives to remind us of
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his love for us, but wejust have to make sure it's in balance.
Yes, correct, Yeah, Ithink if you don't, I think
it's really important to be secure withyourself first before you get into a relationship,
because then if you are not securedwith yourself, the wrong person's gonna
end up telling you how worth listsor how worth it you are. It's
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crazy because you were talking about aneating disorder, right. So I'm the
type of person I don't really justdate anybody. I only had one boyfriend
my entire life, and let mejust say he came and he went,
and then I never went into arelationship again. But it's crazy because I
think before then I trained my I'vebeen in so many situations where so growing
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up I was I never fit in. So I think that also plays a
role with how you give yourself ina relationship. So with that being said,
I've never been in a relationship growingup, So when I got into
one, and this guy has beenin I'm probably his third fourth girlfriend by
that time, So in my head, I thought he knew how a relationship
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went. So I followed along,and most of the time I'm very I
it's I don't want to say it'salways my way, but sure that's the
way you want. Yeah, Andthen certain there are certain things where like
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there's some questions in my head like, oh no, MICHAELA, maybe maybe
you should just cooperate. You know, it's a relationship is give and take,
So sometimes I mean that is true, but then sometimes you end up
giving up your values to compromise withyour partner. Did you ever feel like
there is compromising? Yeah, forsure. And I think it's crazy because
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it's a slippery slope, right.I think it's really easy as believers to
say, well, I would neverdo X, Y and Z, or
I would never even think about X, Y and Z. Yeah, but
when we see the way that thedevil works, it's never just like a
quick turn. It's always that slowfade. And so looking back, there
were moments and I was like,what was going on there? Yeah,
but it was that slow fade,and I think that's where we have to
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draw our lines so far back sothat way we're not having the slow fade
of things. Well, I'm soproud of you. Well, thank you
for even opening up about this,because I'm sure it's probably a vulnerable area
for you. I'm really passionate abouttalking about this kind of stuff, and
I didn't even mention this to youearlier. But so we talked about the
fact that I write children's books,but I'm also releasing my first like not
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kid's book, oh later this month. That's just a Christian book about singleness
actually, and yeah, you knowI don't read books, but I would
actually want to read this and geta get your autography. Yeah. Well,
honestly, I keep on talking aboutthis book as the book I didn't
want to write because I had writtena blog about, honestly, another more
recent heartbreak that I went through,heartbreak, I mean, got part of
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the problem with being an artist isyou end up feeling things really deepens.
So I'm like, I've had myhandful. But I had gone through this
breakup and I one hundred percent thoughtI was going to marry the guy like
I'll have and got my heart brokenand didn't see it coming. And I
ended up writing this blog post aboutit, and my mom called me,
and she is not you know somemoms like everything you do is perfection.
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She's not that mom. She willtell me if it's not good, no,
that's good. And I love that. I didn't love it as a
kid, but now as an adult, I'm like, I actually really need
I need it. And she calledme. She was like, Leah,
you know that I don't give acompliment unless they really believe it. And
I think you're great. I thinkyou're ANNOYT said, but I really think
there's something on the blog you justwrote. And she's like, I think
you should write a book about it. And I was like, I'm not
going to do that, Mom,absolutely not. And then I was in
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my prayer closet later that night andI was like, Lord, is this
from you? And me too?Yeah. I felt like he's like really
confirmed that I was supposed to doit, and so congratulations. I'm really
excited about it. And the wholepremise of the book came from I was
at this wedding of a dear friendof mine. We've been we'd met our
guys at the same time, andlike everything was moving forward really well.
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And then she got engaged and Igot dumped so right, and so I'm
at her wedding and I had thismoment where I literally just felt so heartbroken
and in my spirit, I said, Jesus, am I just going to
be the last person ever to getmarried? Oh my gosh. I have
this conversation all the time with mydad. Yeah, but I don't know,
keep going keep going mad, hesaid to me. Changed my life
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because whenever I said, am Igonna be the last person ever to get
married? He said, no,I will be. And I was like
what, And all of a suddenI had this picture of the fact that
Jesus is waiting for his wedding day. When we talk about we always talk
about like the Second Coming, asif it's like, oh no, and
of course there will be a lotof like crazy things that happened, but
ultimately all of this is leading tothe wedding supper of the lamb that's Truesus
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is united with his bride. Andit was this moment in my heart where
I was like, oh, youactually understand waiting for your wedding day.
That's that's so that's such a pureconcept to think about, right. See,
Okay, I wanna let's talk aboutpure right, pureness in a relationship.
And I feel like that that ideahas shifted over time. And I'm
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not going to sit here and actlike a saint. I'm just saying there's
things that I have learned and Ihave observed from my own mistakes too and
other people's relationships. But I thinkmaybe society has dropped the idea about waiting,
and they have dropped the idea aboutpurity and stuff like that. But
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I want you, guys, reallytest this. If you know somebody who
gets into relationships quick, if youknow somebody who who who are into one
night stands and who's sleeping around orwhatever. Okay, I'm not saying to
judge them, but listen to them, and I want you to really test
them or question them, kind ofobserve, like were they really happy?
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Because I promise you maybe like ninetynine percent of them they regret and they
don't feel fulfilled after that. Sothere is a beauty in intimacy and purity
and just the idea of waiting,not even just for just waiting for whatever
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it is. Whether I'm waiting forthat right person to come into my life,
or I'm waiting for that wedding day. I'm waiting for that person that
I'm going to commit to. Like, you wait differently when you know that
you're waiting for something good, youserve differently. You go through trials differently
when you know that you have somethinggood waiting for you at the end.
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This is so crazy, Okay.So I I know we just you guys,
We just met right now, Okay, So let me tell you guys
this. It's so funny. SoI on Instagram, I just posted I
don't post about my love life,okay, it's usually all professional stuff.
So I just posted this video ofme talking about this. Okay, sorry,
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Oh hold on, Oh okay,I don't know where I'm looking.
I don't know where to come express, Okay. So I know if that
sounds stupid, I ready know.I just pray. I have no regrets,
but I already know every you're gonnabe like, okay, whatever.
So I'm just gonna express my heart. And secondly, I need advice,
so we shall see how this goes. So basically, there's this guy I
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used to talk to. It's probablybeen over a whole year since I've spoke
to him. Anyways, hands down, this guy was my favorite guy.
Like, okay, truly, I'mI think I'm done hearing myself. But
it's just so crazy cause it's likeyou wait, you when you have like
your eyes or your heart set onsome thing and maybe you don't even know
what it is yet, you justwait differently. It's like all the other
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temptations are no longer temptations to you. Yeah, wow, Okay, I
really think it's the difference of like, if you're waiting in the dentist office
for a root canal, then you'renot waiting excited. You're waiting miserably.
But if you're waiting at the lineto get inside Disney World and you're like,
I'm going to Disney. This lineis long. Once we get there,
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it's gonna be amazing. Yes,it really does. Like you said,
it changes the way that you wait. It changes the heart posture.
And when we wait, as singlewomen or single guys or whoever, as
we're waiting, if we're waiting believingthat God isn't good, then it's going
to be miserable. But if we'rewaiting knowing he's a good Father who loves
us, who made us fearfully andwonderfully and knows what we need. Yes,
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more than we know it gives goodgifts than it is our heart posture
in the process. Yes, onehundred percent. I think because somebody asked
me one time, if God wereto would you be willing to wait and
like never have a relationship if thatmeans that God is going to give you
a marriage that lasts in the future. Right. I didn't even think that
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was a question asked. I thoughtthat's what we were all doing here,
like dating for something that's going tolast. Right. But then it's so
crazy because do you even think thatthat's a another concept that even exists now
that people are really just dating,not even for a forever thing in the
in their mindset. And I'm nothere to judge anybody, but I'm just
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saying, you're holding yourself short fromwhat God has for you. Yeah,
and that's something I have to learnfrom myself too. I was like,
God, should I commit to thisperson because in my head I used to
think it's I guess it's a sinto break up or whatever, Like is
this a test? Like maybe Ishould keep going? Sure, because maybe
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that's love. Like love, you'resupposed to love them even in the ugly
times. But that's why I discernmenttoo in prayers important because that's how you
get manipulated. Loving something and forcingyourself to love something that you're that aren't
up to your standards. It's makingyou compromise, right, But I don't
know, do you have advice forpeople in that situation. I think what
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you said about discernment is really keybecause there are moments in wonderful relationships where
you have to say, Okay,I'm gonna choose you, even though I
don't feel it right now, I'mgonna pray for you. We're gonna work
through this. And there are momentswhere it's like, okay, this just
isn't healthy, isn't from the Lord, and we need to cut it and
go. And I think, man, prayer and fasting. I know that
I feel like fasting is like theleast like sexy thing right now, but
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I'm like, no, it's soimportant that we fast and we say,
actually, I'm gonna lay everything downbefore the Lord and I'm gonna seek his
voice. I'm gonna really ask himGod, not what I want, but
what are you leading me to doyes, yes, and knowing the voice
of the Father. It's important knowingthe voice of the Father. So actually,
when I got into that relationship ship, I'm telling you the words of
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God just it was just everything gottested right, and I remember praying to
God because there is a time Iwas like, what am I doing here?
I'm I feel uglier, I feelI feel less worth it, I
feel I just feel like not evenmyself right. So it was really the
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word of God that I needed redirectionwith. And it's so such simple words.
So the thing is this, Ithink people they think that whatever is
from God is boring, whatever isfrom God is like it's very like there's
no like wooho with it. Youget what I'm saying. But I feel
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that now I feel like the wordof God. Okay, if you really
understand that God has the best,literally the best, like nothing else and
nobody else could even provide better,you understand more how important it is to
kind of hear his voice more clearlyand obey it more when you know that
his plans are the best. Andsometimes I think as people, we we
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listen to other people on what thebest may seem like or may be and
that's probably not it. Like peoplemay preach get with the richest guy,
get with the tallest guy, getwith the most successful guy, Like what
if that's not what God has bestfor you? So it's so important.
There's there's a few Bible verses thatI was reading into that got me through
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that season just so I got clarity. One of them was was having the
fear of the Lord? Right,And that's the beginning of wisdom because there
was a time that I was like, I don't even know if this is
right or wrong anymore, but itwas those simple words I was it wasn't
me being scared to serve God?Or was it me being scared to be
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alone? Was in me being fearfultowards break a breakup? Or was it
me being fearful towards God? Soit's like, who are you giving your
respect to? So those were thingsthat I had to kind of redirect myself
with. Yeah, so I feellike that's one thing and that's very biblical
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too, And yeah, I guessthe fruit of the Spirit and you had
to read what is love? Islove? Fear? Do you have fear?
Are you trying to pretend you don'thave fear, then that's probably a
red flag there and it's not fromGod. So absolutely, yeah, well
that was a thank you. Yeah, absolutely, I felt like I needed
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this conversation. Well, okay,so how did you move forward from that?
What a good question. Honestly,I think just seeking the Lord every
day. I think sometimes we feellike we need to know, like what's
next for my life? Where amI going? And sometimes you do need
to know that, but sometimes youjust need to know the next right thing
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to do. And it's cheesy becauseit's in Frozen where they talk about do
the next right thing. But I'ma Disney girl. I could tell you,
guys, you can't really see iton a camera, but she's bedazzled
out over here. But honestly,whenever I first saw that in that movie,
I was like, this is reallyquite biblical because we talk about the
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fact that the word says thy Wordis a lamp unto my feet and a
light into my path. And onceagain I feel like it's almost a Christian
cliche, but that doesn't mean it'sstill not true. Where a lamp isn't
a flashlight. A lamp is justgoing to show you the next step,
and it's not going to show youlike all the way down down, And
sometimes the Lord will give you thoseprophetic words about like hey, this is
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something for the future, and he'llgive you that long shot, but he's
only gonna give you the next stepto get there. And so I think
if you're walking through a breakup andyou're going through like what am I supposed
to do with my life now?Especially if you thought like this is it?
Yeah, and you find yourself inthe place of like what now God,
asking him, Man, God,how do I What does obedience today
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look like? What is serving youto day look like? What is honoring
you to day look like? Ithink that really saves us from asking questions
that we honestly don't need the answerto quite yet, and just saying like,
okay, God, today, showme the way forward. And so
that's honestly been like my season.I've just been saying, okay, Lord,
show me the next great step.And some days it's looked like fasting
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more and it's looked like a lotof communion honestly, because I think when
we take communion and we break thebread and we drink from the cup,
we remind our souls that Jesus isno stranger to sorrow. Yeah. Amen,
it's really easy to feel like heis. It's really easy to feel
like you're just up there and youdon't know. He does know. He
knows what rejection feels like. Heknows what betrayal from someone who loved him
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felt like. And so I thinkwhen we take communion and we're heartbroken and
we worship from a place of heartbreak, we give Jesus an offering that we'll
never able to give him on theother side of eternity. When you choose
to love him and you choose toworship him when it's hard, you're giving
him a rare sacrifice of price.So I love what you said when you
basically, when you serve God,even in inconvenient times, you have a
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supernatural favor waiting for you at theend. I heard this preaching where they
said something about if your finances aregetting hit, if your love life is
getting hit, like whatever area ofyour life is getting hit where the devil
is really attacking, and you knowthat you did everything in your best to
honor God and do what's right,really you're going to get a whole pour
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out of blessings in that area.So I'm a huge believer in that,
and that's not just something I'm tryingto speak motivation into, but like I've
even experienced and I already experienced itall in different areas of my life where
everything just was taken away the nextthing, you know, like I gone
through a lot of trials, thenbam, a few months later there was
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like a pour out in that seasontoo. Yeah, so well it's biblical.
We see it all throughout, yeshypsure where the thing that's attacked is
actually the place of anointing in theperson amen, or we see you know,
I think about Joseph, and he'ssomeone that I resonate with a ton
because he's like, I've got allthese great, big dreams and then everything
goes wrong and the place where theLord had spoken becomes the place of attack.
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But in all reality, it's actuallya place of refinement. And it's
really easy to feel like this isthe devil attack. I mean sometimes it
is. Sometimes it is you needto get the anointing a all out,
you need to be rebukeing things.Yes, sometimes you need to go to
war in that way, but sometimesyou also need to pause and say,
is this the Lord's refinement in mylife? Is this actually his kindness making
me ready for the thing that Hehas for me? And I think more
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often than we want to admit,that is what it is. Amen,
refinement, That's the word. Yeah. So you said earlier that when you
posted about this on your blog,your mom told you you should turn this
into a book or something. Right, why did you not want to do
it? I was really mad thatI was single again, Yeah, and
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so I didn't want to write abook about singleness. Did you feel like
a part of you is disappointed?Deeply? Yeah? Deeply in my soul
was so disappointed, and I wasfrustrated at the thought that maybe God was
asking me to use this place ofdisappointment to reach out to other people,
and I just I didn't want todo it. I had like a pretty
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hard no in my heart. Hewas like, and I'm a I've followed
the Lord all my life and he'salways had my yes, and this felt
like, honestly one of the firstthings I was like, I'm not doing
this, like I feel that,I feel that, I feel that,
and in God's just going to keeppoking you and be like, right,
I'm gonna tell you you're gonna needto do this right, because there was
something in me that I was like, I I as much as I don't
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want to do this, I don'twant to waste the pain. I don't
want to waste the season, eventhough it's the season I didn't. That's
very mature of you. Thank you. I feel like I was like crying
on the floor. So it doesn'tthe memory doesn't feel much. But no,
it's fine, it's fine. Theother side of it was it was
cool to walk through. And Ihave a dear friend that I've known since
I was a kid. She's acouple years younger than me, and she's
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married now with a baby, andshe does book editing, and so I
took it to her and I waslike, hey, I'd love for you
to be my editor on this project. Wow, And she just was more
excited than I was. And Iactually brought it to her because she told
me, she was like, I'mthe only married person in my community.
All the other girls in my lifeare single and they're going through what you're
going through. And so even thoughshe was on the other side of the
promise, she had more excitement thanI did for the other people in her
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life. Where I was sitting heregoing like, well, God, I'm
gonna do this because I want tobe obedient, but not because Yeah,
but there's more the fact that youjust said that I'm doing this because I'm
trying to be obedient. I'm noteven doing this because it's for my old's
sake. Like that alone just showsyour stillness before God, and thank you
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the girl. The Lord will takecare of you already know it's faithful.
And I think that really was evenin the place of frustration or able to
declare his goodness and say, God, I have no idea what you're doing
right now, but I do rememberwhat you've done before, amens. I
think it's in those moments that wehave to pull in our own testimony and
our own history with God and remindourselves and if we get to wear our
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own lives, like my mom hasan incredible aalk with the Lord, and
she has a radical testimony. Sothere been times in my life where I've
had to say, I don't knowwhat you're doing in my life right now,
but I do remember how faithful youwere to my mom and my grandma.
Thank God, so and so andso and so, and it is
that reminding our souls of how goodGod is in those places of disappointment.
M hm, see, I lovethat. It's just see okay, Well,
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I want to take the moment Godto really appreciate his faithfulness, and
I want to talk about the stuffthat we probably think are little to God.
It's so crazy to know that Hemade it important, yeah to him,
you know, like our cries are, whatever we were struggling with.
He made it important. Your breakup, he made it important to him,
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and he allowed things to fall intoplace. Wow, that's so beautiful.
So actually, this is what Iwas thinking about too this morning, because
there's there's like a conviction on mewith certain stuff that I feel like God
wants me to talk about. Butthen a part of me was too disappointed
in myself, and I think apart of me was too embarrassed as well
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to open about it. But there'ssomething that spoke to me where you have
to be able to open up aboutI guess like your your fallouts, because
that's how Satan has a stronghold overyou. So this is what I'm hearing
this morning, right was I don'tlet Satan win by blackmailing you, because
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everybody's testimony is different, and thestuff that you go through the biggest pain
that you're going through is going torelease it once you once you let your
pride or whatever that is that's blockingyou from fulfilling whatever God's calling you to
do. Once you release that,it's going to release other people from certain
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strongholds that they have. So thefact that you answered this knowing that you
didn't want to do it, Igive you props. Thank you. And
you're just starting your book right yeah, I'm the book is finished. I
got the final through from the mailthis weekend, and so I'm going to
be submitting it to official publishing.This is awesome. It should be in
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about two weeks. Is I thinkyou're going to start seeing like how powerful
your your your decision of obedience wasonce this book starts to be released.
Oh my gosh, you guys,I don't even know we were going to
talk about this today. Exciting,this is beautiful. I'm excited. I
want to read your book well inmy heart for what I ended up dealing
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with it is it's about two hundredpages long, but only seventy five of
it. Seventy five pages of itis actually a book the rest of it
is a guide to a journal.And I'm doing this redemptive work with the
phrase dating Jesus, because when Iwas growing up, whenever someone said they
were dating Jesus, it was theirway of not dating someone in youth group
that they didn't want to date,Like they were like, oh, I
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don't want to date you. Somedating Jesus. And I just thought it
was so cheesy growing up. Yeah, no, that's the word cheesy.
Yeah, but I you know,I got a ton, Like I said,
it's such a long story, wecan talk forever about it. But
the Lord uprooted all these lies inmy soul, and he actually addressed the
fact that I hated that phrase andtold me, you hate this phrase because
you don't feel like you're worthy todate me and to know me as your
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bridegroom. And so that was likethis huge part of my story where all
of a sudden, I was knowingJesus as bridegroom. What a crazy thing
that the word talks so frequently aboutthe fact that he's our our husband,
he's the lover of our soul.And so the majority of the book,
I'd say, you know, seventyfive percent of the book. Seventy percent
of the book is a guided journalfor women to take on Jesus states As
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cheesy as it sounds, but toreally sit with the Lord somewhere and say,
Lord, what do you love aboutme? What lie is my believing
about our relationship? Mm hmm?What do you want to say to me
right now? Lord? What doesmy soul need to hear from you?
And it has just these guided questionsand at the end it literally has like
a space to write a love letterto Jesus because I think so often we
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forget that we are the bride andhe is the groom and He's coming for
his bride. Yeah, yeah,yeah, I ain't gonna lie. Yeah
that does sound real cheesy, butI respect the girls. You're gonna keep
doing it. I'm gonna write myletter to Jesus when I get that book.
Okay, Oh I love it.Okay. So this is this was
a beautiful conversation. This is justlike one part of the podcast today.
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But when are you releasing this?How can we get a hold of your
books? Yeah, it'll be availableat the end of March. It'll be
on my website Lea Faithlive dot com. It will also be available on Amazon
as well. So if you ifyou type in Jesus is waiting to that's
all. That's cute. I lovethat the wait. Yeah. Well okay,
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So you're a you're a you're alover, you're an ex, you're
a situationship, and you are aworship leader. Yes, I am.
So how long have you been singing? Leah? I I think I've been
singing my entire life. Like I'mlike, I think I was one of
those little kids that was probably singingbefore I could really talk. I love
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it. Does your parents sing?Yeah? Oh there you go, gole
household. My my dad mom areboth worship leaders. Really yeah, my
parents do not sing. Wow.Well that's beautiful. So you grew up
in church all your life? Yep? Okay, how did what's your personal
testimony? How did you find God? I was three years old, oh
snap, yeah, And I remembersitting on the edge of my mom's bed
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and she was sharing with me theverse where says, behold, I sit
at the door and knock. Istand at the door and knock, and
whoever answers, I will come inand have a meal with them. And
I remember having a really clear picturein my mind of Jesus standing at the
door in my heart and the thoughtof him coming into my heart and having
a meal with me. I waslike, I want that. This is
what I want, and He's realand I love him. So I gave
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my life to the Lord at threethree, which I know a lot of
people are like, well, whendid you actually give your life to the
Lord? And I'm like, thatwas it. I was. I was
marked by his presence. And myparents love Jesus in the most beautiful and
not like religious. Yeah. Inever felt like we have to do this.
It was like, we get toread the Bible. This is God's
love letter. And my mom iseven more enthusiastic than I am. She
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makes me seem really like quiet andlike kind of chill and so that and
she lives her testimony in that waybecause she has a radical story. And
I just grew up in a familythat was in love with Jesus and so
that's that's a beautiful thing. That'sa beautiful thing. I know a lot
of people will actually make fun thatidea, but mat Me just tell you,
guys, it's a beautiful thing.And like you guys can even I
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can't even explain how important it isto preserve these values in the household.
Yeah, like my family's not perfect, nowhere close to being perfect, but
even our situations, like I couldkeep seeing that how important it is for
these biblical principles to be imparted inyour family. And the fact that you
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were three years old that just showsit's so important. I'm talking like I'm
a freaking parent or something. Ihave no kids, I have a dog.
You guys, topic, you're right. But I am gonna say because
I notice a lot of parents theythey don't take their kids serious, and
the things that they plant when they'rea kid, or the things that they
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plant in their homes and just likerather what their rituals or traditions or whatever
you do. I don't think adultsreally take it serious, because there's so
many adults where I hear them,they're just a kid. They'll get over
it, don't forget about it whenthey're older. The reason I'm saying that
is because I thought about so,I know you and I just met so
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some of the stuff that I do. I do a lot of stuff with
seeing entertainment and events, and Ithought about it. It's really because like
the reason I'm pursuing that in mycareer right now is because of my what
I grew up doing from a youngage, like in ministry. So my
point is if I never fed intothose things, if I if the adults
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around me were not feeding life intome, and I wouldn't have became I
don't want to say successful, butI wouldn't have pursued what I'm pursuing now
if it wasn't for those So withthat being said, it's so important,
like while every while your kids arestill kids, to be wise with what
you are feeding into their heads.Like if they have a singing, if
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they're gifted with singing, don't shutit down and be like, oh,
singing isn't gonna be a career foryou. Stop the singing stuff. Let
them pursue it. Respect it.There's nothing wrong though you want to tell
them like, oh, go toschool and stuff, But yeah, I
just want to say, whatever tocalling is that God has. It's different
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from men's success story. That makessense, Yeah, totally, yeah.
Yeah, And what you're saying ispart of why I ended up getting into
the children's writing world. I wasin a season where I would be praying
and I would I would continually hearthe Lord say disciple nations, disciple nations,
and I was like, yes,Lord, but what do you ask
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me to do? What's my rolein this? And I felt like the
Lord spoke to me about children's entertainmentand going after that mountain, right,
And so, because what you're sayingis so true, kids need to be
instructed in the ways of the Lord. Yes, because there's no junior Holy
Spirit. There's no junior Jesus.When they get saved, they get filled
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with the Holy Spirit the same waythat an adult does, but they need
to know how to do life withJesus. Yeah, so many things growing
up that like I look back andI'm like, why did no one tell
me I could hear the voice ofJesus, Like why was I not taught
that more often? Or you knowwhatever? It is, right, No
one's perfect, No one had aperfect theological upbringing. And so whenever the
Lord put this on my heart togo after writing kid's books, that was
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one thing that I was like,I want to talk about this. And
the main book that I have kindof showt Yeah, yep, yes please.
So it's called The Tales of GodmotherGadem Gadem is Latin for Joy,
and so she's the Godmother of Joy. She's based off of my godson and
I And in this book has threestories and the reading age is around six
to ten years old, but thelessons are applicable for any kid. And
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there's three stories in this one book. And then the third story, she's
teaching her godson, how do weslow down and hear the voice of the
Holy Spirit. That's beautiful and he'syou know, he's being bullied at school,
and so he's trying to figure outhow do I navigate this problem?
And instead of her saying, well, this is what you need to do,
she says, why don't we askthe Holy Spirit? And I think,
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you know, all day long,I could hear someone tell me the
right thing, but until I hearit from Jesus, Yes, that's when
it really is going to change confirmation. And I think that's something that we
need to empower kids, teaching them. It has to be biblical. It
has to lie thwart of God.It can't be like I was told to
go to the moon, like okay, like you know, maybe your kid's
going to be an astronaut. Idon't know, but you know, having
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that biblical grounding and then going fromthere and saying, Okay, what is
the Holy Spirit actually leading us todo in this situation. No, that's
true because it's more easier. Okay, if you start your kids off while
they're young and they're practicing all ofthese principles, when they get older,
they're going to know how to respondto certain troubles that hits their life or
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whatever. The reason I'm saying thatis because it's so crazy now that I'm
older, the people I used tolisten to and thought that were correct,
I'm seeing them right now kind ofturn away from things that they used to
preach to me. Right well,I'm not just talking about church people.
I'm talking about like adults, likepeople like my aunts and uncles or leaders
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that I used to think that we'recorrect. It's so crazy now that they're
turning away from certain things under pressure. Not everybody's perfect, so I understand,
like everybody has their own pressure onthem, so they fall short sometimes.
But it's just stuff like that,like what is love? Like,
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let's understand biblically what love is,because later on, when you're older,
if you don't have the right peopletelling you what biblical real, true,
godly love is somebody else is goingto tell you later what love is,
right, Like, let's talk aboutdating again. There are adults that I
know where they they don't say this, they won't admit it, or well
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they kind of do. But there'ssome people where they will just give themselves,
Like some females they would give themselvesto a guy sexually because they think
that's how they're going to be providedfor or that's how they're gonna be secured.
And I think nothing. I'm nothere to talk down on anybody,
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but I'm pretty sure there's stuff inthem that needs to be healed. So
it's just stuff like that where they'reeven preaching this stuff to their own daughter.
It's like, oh, if youwant to please a man, if
you want to keep them around,then you have to do this. So
it's just stuff like that. Wehave to really find our identity in God.
And don't get me wrong, it'shard because it's like, well,
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dank God, I'm doing this.Why isn't this person staying? And like
you're desperate to make things happen,so you go your own route. But
I'm gonna say whenever I want myown routes and ignored God's voice. Yep,
it did not turn out great forme. Is so right, And
I think it is the perspective thatI think sometimes we feel like God's laws
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and his rules are because he wantsus in line and he wants these things
for us, and he does wantus to be obedient, but it's because
his ways are actually better for us. The times that I've gotten really hurt
in my life were times that Istepped out his covering. And I think
that's the perspective shift. When we'relike, oh, I can't do this
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because of the Lord and all thatstinks, and he's you know, he's
making my life boring, it's like, actually he's protecting you, Yes,
something protecting you. Yeah, Ithink once you understand. So sometimes we
don't have to understand why God doescertain things. You just have to be
able to trust him. So that'sthe word trust, even if that makes
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no sense of why you're doing certainstuff. The reason I'm saying that is
because the Bible, if you thinkabout it, it's actually a place of
protection for you. You may notunderstand why, like God, why don't
why can't I just do this?It seems harmless, but you don't understand
what's on the other side of thedoor. The reason I'm saying that,
let's talk about like a basic Biblestory Adam and Eve. Right, so
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they didn't know what the consequences ofeating the apple was going to do.
Wasn't an apple? We don't know? Okay, we didn't know what the
consequences were going to be, butthey still it seems so very It seemed
very harmless to eat the fruit,right, But little did we know was
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going to open a door of sinand curses and consequences not just for them
but for the generations to come.Right. So it's stuff like that.
If we just chose to honor Godand stop trying to one up him or
try to question him or anything,well, I'm not going to say we're
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going to live in a perfect world, but things would have been very different.
This was a beautiful conversation, Charrelle. You should have been here.
Yes, all right, girls,So you are going to be worship leading
at Morfes, right, Okay,very excited for that. I'm so excited.
It's gonna be amazing. I loveit. So what are we expecting
for this event? So? Yeah, worship leaders from across the entire Las
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Vegas Valley and some from across thenation are going to be coming. I'll
actually be with a band called theWatch Worship and they're located out of Virginia
and North Carolina, and so thatcrew is going to be flying out here
for it. And we've got yeah, we've got some incredible worship leaders that
are going to be that are locals, Like I said, some flying in
and we're just expectant to meet withJesus I love and to see Him exalted
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over Las Vegas. We're going tosee people get healed and saved. I'm
going to also be doing like akid's corner type thing a couple of different
times throughout the days. We're goingto be reading books and doing some Bible
lessons with kids, because we wantthis to be a family event, all
ages, all stages to come andpartner with what God is doing in Las
Vegas. So this is a threeday event, two days, two day
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event, April thirteenth and fourteenth.Love it and how much our tickets?
How can we get them? Ticketsare avail about the roar Fest dot com.
Oh perfect, perfect, yes,all right, Okay, so we're
gonna close this up. This wasawesome. Before we leave, any social
media accounts you want us to,yeah, follow the roar Fests on social
media as well. And then I'munder Leah Faith Live and you can get
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all my books. I've got somefree resources and some new music coming out.
Perfect, all right, Thank you, Leah Faith, thank you and
being here with us right until nexttime you guys. Happy Thursday,
There's just something about the tops ofclouds that makes me certain you're near.
In the world below looks so small, it's still I find it's true when
my whole little life is faltery.I'm ocupie space in your heart through and
(00:58):
through. There's just something about myworld flipped upside down that brings me back
to your heart, just when nothingis what it I thought it was.
(01:26):
I have nod the charts than thetrucks, that you're up to something good,
something good. Yeahs just something aboutbut she just everything I thought I
(02:01):
knew when I thought I had foundgood enough, then I found my heart
be grubbed. I see that herepaw too much of your heart for God
enough to be good enough. SoGod enough had to God from the tops
(02:32):
of the clouds. So the flippedupside down, I know, I know
that is something and earth shaking somethingthat something your up again. And then
(03:12):
the same Nasa the song nass sasson us shows sssssst ss hoes AGAs the
(04:40):
scene shots. This has it HappyThursday. You guys, welcome to another
(05:28):
episode of TMI with Michayla. Didyou guys love that music, that sound,
that voice, so you guys,I have a special guest here today.
Can we give it up for missLeah Faith Hi here, Thank you
so much for being here. Itwas like a back and forth and trying
to get you in here. ButI'm excited now to finally meet you.
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Yeah, it's excited to be here. It's such a beautiful voice. So
the name of the song is There'sJust Something. There's Just Something? So
where where did this all come together? Yeah? You made this song?
Right? Yes? All right?I want to know the backstory. Yeah.
So I was honestly going through areally rough season of heartbreak and was
(06:08):
really dealing with some deep seated liesthat I was believing about myself and didn't
even realize how deeply they had gone. And I was in this relationship with
this guy and from but it wasjust good enough type of relationship, Like
it was like, Oh, thiswill work. I can make this work.
Maybe this could work. And itjust fell to pieces and I was
(06:30):
gutted and heartbroken and devastated. AndI had this moment with the Lord.
I was on a plane and Iwas praying I always have greating comes with
the Lord on an airplane. Idon't know what it is. I think
it's just like airplane mode is onwith the Lord, and I heard him
say good enough isn't good enough,so good enough has to go. I
love that, And that was wherethe hook of the song is that line
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right there. It was such alife changing encounter where so often in our
souls were like, I'm not reallydeserving of much more this, so I'll
just settle for something, and theLord just ripped it out of my life
and it was painful, but itwas for my good did you know,
Oh my gosh. Okay, soI didn't know this was going to be
about a relationship story. Okay,now this isn't a whole other top right,
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No, it's so crazy because Iwas just actually the last show I
had Shirelman. And also that's actuallyhow we got connected, you guys,
So thank you Charrel. Thank sure. She and I were actually talking about
love and relationships, marriage and stufflike that, and we were just talking
about how people we tend to settlesometimes because we're impatient, or we're lonely,
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or we have our own insecurities,and we end up settling for the
wrong person. Right, So,I mean, I don't want this to
get you say what you want tosay. You don't have to say anything.
Okay, this is all your business. So with that being said,
wow, okay, I love talkingabout love. I love it too.
So how long were you in thisrelationship for? It was what the kids
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would call a situationship. Okay,it was not good, like it was
just like really rough. But honestly, it was one of those weird situations
I haven't talked about this in solong, where he and I led worship
together, okay, And for somereason, when people see a guy and
a girl leading works together, peopleare like, you, guys are supposed
to be together. I know whatyou're talking about. Don't give people those
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prophetic words if you don't really believeit in yourself. So anyway, it
was just not a good situation.And it went on for years of us
like kind of going back and forthtrying to figure it out. And I
just like didn't know that I wasworth more than that. Did you feel
like you gave into those thoughts thatpeople were saying, like, oh,
you guys will look good together,and you thought that that was it?
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I just yeah, I was likeI always thought that the worst thing that
would happen to me is that Iwould remain single for a long time,
which is a lie from the pitsof hell. And so I was like,
Okay, well, maybe if Ican convince this guy to be with
me, then I won't be alone. But I had a spiritual ones tell
me it's better to be single thanto wish that you were, yes,
which I'm like, that's a realword, that's true. Oh my gosh,
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girl. Yeah, it's better towait for the right person than to
be with the wrong person just becauseyou don't want to be alone. Yes,
yes, Okay, it's so crazythat you're talking about this because I'm
going through my own stuff in mylove life. Yeah, maybe my love
life that I have created in myown head. I don't know. But
delusion also comes with this, youguys, sure, but wow, no,
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thank you for opening up about thattotally for me, I'm very I
get nervous about talking about my lovelife. Yeah, well, there's no
love life that exists, but rightnow I feel Yeah, but no,
I think that's that's true. Ithink I was in the same situation,
not situationship, but situation too.Actually dated a guy in ministry, and
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I think even in my head,everybody said we were cute, and then
we grew up together, so itmade sense our families were closed. And
in my head, oh, thisis a guy from church, so that
means he's a man of God.No. No, And I don't know
your your situation, but just becausea guy goes to church, that does
not mean he's a man of God. Just because he grew up in the
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church and his family's in ministry doesnot mean he's a man of God.
And I'm not saying they're fake Christianseither. I'm just saying, oh,
it comes to biblical terms where ittalks about being equally yolked. So everybody
has their own walk with God too. Well, this isn't about me,
This is about love. But howdid you did you already know from the
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beginning that you guys are not it? No, I just like I said,
there were so many lies that Ihad believed since childhood. Part of
my testimony is I had an eatingdisorder when I was younger, and I
was told at a really young agethat I like wouldn't that I wasn't lovable,
Like just like believing those lies asa kid almost and it gets into
your head, just gets into yourhead, and you just buy the lies
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of the enemy, and so Ijust I was in my brain singleness equaled
being unwanted and unlovable, and that'sjust once again, it's just not the
truth. But because I believed that, I you know, kind of grabbed
on too. I was grasping forstraws. I was like, well,
if we can kind of make thiswork, then maybe that'll mean I have
worth maybe and I'm lovable. It'scrazy because I'm like, I knew that
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the Lord loved me the whole time, but I was like, but I
need this to Yeah, yeah,no, I get you. I get
you. Sometimes it's people will tellyou, oh, well, you're already
loved by the Lord, that's enough. But sometimes I'm not. I'm not.
I am not downgrading God's love andI'm not trying to put anybody else
to compete with that. God's lovewill always beat it one hundred percent.
But sometimes there are thoughts in yourhead that's like, am I being delusion
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right now? The delusional? Rightnow? What am I trying to convince
myself? Mikayla. But there iswhatever real, Like we were created for
relationships, and so there is areal part of us that craves human connection
and human affirmation. Yes, andso I think sometimes we villainize that of
like, if you don't believe thatthe Lord loves you and that's more than
enough, then you don't have enoughfaith. And I'm like, well,
wait a second. The Lord putspeople in our lives to remind us of
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his love for us, but wejust have to make sure it's in balance.
Yes, correct, Yeah, Ithink if you don't, I think
it's really important to be secure withyourself first before you get into a relationship,
because then if you are not securedwith yourself, the wrong person's gonna
end up telling you how worth listsor how worth it you are. It's
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crazy because you were talking about aneating disorder, right. So I'm the
type of person I don't really justdate anybody. I only had one boyfriend
my entire life, and let mejust say he came and he went,
and then I never went into arelationship again. But it's crazy because I
think before then I trained my I'vebeen in so many situations where so growing
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up I was I never fit in. So I think that also plays a
role with how you give yourself ina relationship. So with that being said,
I've never been in a relationship growingup, So when I got into
one, and this guy has beenin I'm probably his third fourth girlfriend by
that time, So in my head, I thought he knew how a relationship
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went. So I followed along,and most of the time I'm very I
it's I don't want to say it'salways my way, but sure that's the
way you want. Yeah, Andthen certain there are certain things where like
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there's some questions in my head like, oh no, MICHAELA, maybe maybe
you should just cooperate. You know, it's a relationship is give and take,
So sometimes I mean that is true, but then sometimes you end up
giving up your values to compromise withyour partner. Did you ever feel like
there is compromising? Yeah, forsure. And I think it's crazy because
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it's a slippery slope, right.I think it's really easy as believers to
say, well, I would neverdo X, Y and Z, or
I would never even think about X, Y and Z. Yeah, but
when we see the way that thedevil works, it's never just like a
quick turn. It's always that slowfade. And so looking back, there
were moments and I was like,what was going on there? Yeah,
but it was that slow fade,and I think that's where we have to
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draw our lines so far back sothat way we're not having the slow fade
of things. Well, I'm soproud of you. Well, thank you
for even opening up about this,because I'm sure it's probably a vulnerable area
for you. I'm really passionate abouttalking about this kind of stuff, and
I didn't even mention this to youearlier. But so we talked about the
fact that I write children's books,but I'm also releasing my first like not
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kid's book, oh later this month. That's just a Christian book about singleness
actually, and yeah, you knowI don't read books, but I would
actually want to read this and geta get your autography. Yeah. Well,
honestly, I keep on talking aboutthis book as the book I didn't
want to write because I had writtena blog about, honestly, another more
recent heartbreak that I went through,heartbreak, I mean, got part of
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the problem with being an artist isyou end up feeling things really deepens.
So I'm like, I've had myhandful. But I had gone through this
breakup and I one hundred percent thoughtI was going to marry the guy like
I'll have and got my heart brokenand didn't see it coming. And I
ended up writing this blog post aboutit, and my mom called me,
and she is not you know somemoms like everything you do is perfection.
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She's not that mom. She willtell me if it's not good, no,
that's good. And I love that. I didn't love it as a
kid, but now as an adult, I'm like, I actually really need
I need it. And she calledme. She was like, Leah,
you know that I don't give acompliment unless they really believe it. And
I think you're great. I thinkyou're ANNOYT said, but I really think
there's something on the blog you justwrote. And she's like, I think
you should write a book about it. And I was like, I'm not
going to do that, Mom,absolutely not. And then I was in
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my prayer closet later that night andI was like, Lord, is this
from you? And me too?Yeah. I felt like he's like really
confirmed that I was supposed to doit, and so congratulations. I'm really
excited about it. And the wholepremise of the book came from I was
at this wedding of a dear friendof mine. We've been we'd met our
guys at the same time, andlike everything was moving forward really well.
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And then she got engaged and Igot dumped so right, and so I'm
at her wedding and I had thismoment where I literally just felt so heartbroken
and in my spirit, I said, Jesus, am I just going to
be the last person ever to getmarried? Oh my gosh. I have
this conversation all the time with mydad. Yeah, but I don't know,
keep going keep going mad, hesaid to me. Changed my life
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because whenever I said, am Igonna be the last person ever to get
married? He said, no,I will be. And I was like
what, And all of a suddenI had this picture of the fact that
Jesus is waiting for his wedding day. When we talk about we always talk
about like the Second Coming, asif it's like, oh no, and
of course there will be a lotof like crazy things that happened, but
ultimately all of this is leading tothe wedding supper of the lamb that's Truesus
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is united with his bride. Andit was this moment in my heart where
I was like, oh, youactually understand waiting for your wedding day.
That's that's so that's such a pureconcept to think about, right. See,
Okay, I wanna let's talk aboutpure right, pureness in a relationship.
And I feel like that that ideahas shifted over time. And I'm
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not going to sit here and actlike a saint. I'm just saying there's
things that I have learned and Ihave observed from my own mistakes too and
other people's relationships. But I thinkmaybe society has dropped the idea about waiting,
and they have dropped the idea aboutpurity and stuff like that. But
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I want you, guys, reallytest this. If you know somebody who
gets into relationships quick, if youknow somebody who who who are into one
night stands and who's sleeping around orwhatever. Okay, I'm not saying to
judge them, but listen to them, and I want you to really test
them or question them, kind ofobserve, like were they really happy?
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Because I promise you maybe like ninetynine percent of them they regret and they
don't feel fulfilled after that. Sothere is a beauty in intimacy and purity
and just the idea of waiting,not even just for just waiting for whatever
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it is. Whether I'm waiting forthat right person to come into my life,
or I'm waiting for that wedding day. I'm waiting for that person that
I'm going to commit to. Like, you wait differently when you know that
you're waiting for something good, youserve differently. You go through trials differently
when you know that you have somethinggood waiting for you at the end.
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This is so crazy, Okay.So I I know we just you guys,
We just met right now, Okay, So let me tell you guys
this. It's so funny. SoI on Instagram, I just posted I
don't post about my love life,okay, it's usually all professional stuff.
So I just posted this video ofme talking about this. Okay, sorry,
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Oh hold on, Oh okay,I don't know where I'm looking.
I don't know where to come express, Okay. So I know if that
sounds stupid, I ready know.I just pray. I have no regrets,
but I already know every you're gonnabe like, okay, whatever.
So I'm just gonna express my heart. And secondly, I need advice,
so we shall see how this goes. So basically, there's this guy I
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used to talk to. It's probablybeen over a whole year since I've spoke
to him. Anyways, hands down, this guy was my favorite guy.
Like, okay, truly, I'mI think I'm done hearing myself. But
it's just so crazy cause it's likeyou wait, you when you have like
your eyes or your heart set onsome thing and maybe you don't even know
what it is yet, you justwait differently. It's like all the other
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temptations are no longer temptations to you. Yeah, wow, Okay, I
really think it's the difference of like, if you're waiting in the dentist office
for a root canal, then you'renot waiting excited. You're waiting miserably.
But if you're waiting at the lineto get inside Disney World and you're like,
I'm going to Disney. This lineis long. Once we get there,
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it's gonna be amazing. Yes,it really does. Like you said,
it changes the way that you wait. It changes the heart posture.
And when we wait, as singlewomen or single guys or whoever, as
we're waiting, if we're waiting believingthat God isn't good, then it's going
to be miserable. But if we'rewaiting knowing he's a good Father who loves
us, who made us fearfully andwonderfully and knows what we need. Yes,
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more than we know it gives goodgifts than it is our heart posture
in the process. Yes, onehundred percent. I think because somebody asked
me one time, if God wereto would you be willing to wait and
like never have a relationship if thatmeans that God is going to give you
a marriage that lasts in the future. Right. I didn't even think that
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was a question asked. I thoughtthat's what we were all doing here,
like dating for something that's going tolast. Right. But then it's so
crazy because do you even think thatthat's a another concept that even exists now
that people are really just dating,not even for a forever thing in the
in their mindset. And I'm nothere to judge anybody, but I'm just
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saying, you're holding yourself short fromwhat God has for you. Yeah,
and that's something I have to learnfrom myself too. I was like,
God, should I commit to thisperson because in my head I used to
think it's I guess it's a sinto break up or whatever, Like is
this a test? Like maybe Ishould keep going? Sure, because maybe
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that's love. Like love, you'resupposed to love them even in the ugly
times. But that's why I discernmenttoo in prayers important because that's how you
get manipulated. Loving something and forcingyourself to love something that you're that aren't
up to your standards. It's makingyou compromise, right, But I don't
know, do you have advice forpeople in that situation. I think what
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you said about discernment is really keybecause there are moments in wonderful relationships where
you have to say, Okay,I'm gonna choose you, even though I
don't feel it right now, I'mgonna pray for you. We're gonna work
through this. And there are momentswhere it's like, okay, this just
isn't healthy, isn't from the Lord, and we need to cut it and
go. And I think, man, prayer and fasting. I know that
I feel like fasting is like theleast like sexy thing right now, but
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I'm like, no, it's soimportant that we fast and we say,
actually, I'm gonna lay everything downbefore the Lord and I'm gonna seek his
voice. I'm gonna really ask himGod, not what I want, but
what are you leading me to doyes, yes, and knowing the voice
of the Father. It's important knowingthe voice of the Father. So actually,
when I got into that relationship ship, I'm telling you the words of
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God just it was just everything gottested right, and I remember praying to
God because there is a time Iwas like, what am I doing here?
I'm I feel uglier, I feelI feel less worth it, I
feel I just feel like not evenmyself right. So it was really the
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word of God that I needed redirectionwith. And it's so such simple words.
So the thing is this, Ithink people they think that whatever is
from God is boring, whatever isfrom God is like it's very like there's
no like wooho with it. Youget what I'm saying. But I feel
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that now I feel like the wordof God. Okay, if you really
understand that God has the best,literally the best, like nothing else and
nobody else could even provide better,you understand more how important it is to
kind of hear his voice more clearlyand obey it more when you know that
his plans are the best. Andsometimes I think as people, we we
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listen to other people on what thebest may seem like or may be and
that's probably not it. Like peoplemay preach get with the richest guy,
get with the tallest guy, getwith the most successful guy, Like what
if that's not what God has bestfor you? So it's so important.
There's there's a few Bible verses thatI was reading into that got me through
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that season just so I got clarity. One of them was was having the
fear of the Lord? Right,And that's the beginning of wisdom because there
was a time that I was like, I don't even know if this is
right or wrong anymore, but itwas those simple words I was it wasn't
me being scared to serve God?Or was it me being scared to be
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alone? Was in me being fearfultowards break a breakup? Or was it
me being fearful towards God? Soit's like, who are you giving your
respect to? So those were thingsthat I had to kind of redirect myself
with. Yeah, so I feellike that's one thing and that's very biblical
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too, And yeah, I guessthe fruit of the Spirit and you had
to read what is love? Islove? Fear? Do you have fear?
Are you trying to pretend you don'thave fear, then that's probably a
red flag there and it's not fromGod. So absolutely, yeah, well
that was a thank you. Yeah, absolutely, I felt like I needed
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this conversation. Well, okay,so how did you move forward from that?
What a good question. Honestly,I think just seeking the Lord every
day. I think sometimes we feellike we need to know, like what's
next for my life? Where amI going? And sometimes you do need
to know that, but sometimes youjust need to know the next right thing
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to do. And it's cheesy becauseit's in Frozen where they talk about do
the next right thing. But I'ma Disney girl. I could tell you,
guys, you can't really see iton a camera, but she's bedazzled
out over here. But honestly,whenever I first saw that in that movie,
I was like, this is reallyquite biblical because we talk about the
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fact that the word says thy Wordis a lamp unto my feet and a
light into my path. And onceagain I feel like it's almost a Christian
cliche, but that doesn't mean it'sstill not true. Where a lamp isn't
a flashlight. A lamp is justgoing to show you the next step,
and it's not going to show youlike all the way down down, And
sometimes the Lord will give you thoseprophetic words about like hey, this is
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something for the future, and he'llgive you that long shot, but he's
only gonna give you the next stepto get there. And so I think
if you're walking through a breakup andyou're going through like what am I supposed
to do with my life now?Especially if you thought like this is it?
Yeah, and you find yourself inthe place of like what now God,
asking him, Man, God,how do I What does obedience today
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look like? What is serving youto day look like? What is honoring
you to day look like? Ithink that really saves us from asking questions
that we honestly don't need the answerto quite yet, and just saying like,
okay, God, today, showme the way forward. And so
that's honestly been like my season.I've just been saying, okay, Lord,
show me the next great step.And some days it's looked like fasting
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more and it's looked like a lotof communion honestly, because I think when
we take communion and we break thebread and we drink from the cup,
we remind our souls that Jesus isno stranger to sorrow. Yeah. Amen,
it's really easy to feel like heis. It's really easy to feel
like you're just up there and youdon't know. He does know. He
knows what rejection feels like. Heknows what betrayal from someone who loved him
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felt like. And so I thinkwhen we take communion and we're heartbroken and
we worship from a place of heartbreak, we give Jesus an offering that we'll
never able to give him on theother side of eternity. When you choose
to love him and you choose toworship him when it's hard, you're giving
him a rare sacrifice of price.So I love what you said when you
basically, when you serve God,even in inconvenient times, you have a
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supernatural favor waiting for you at theend. I heard this preaching where they
said something about if your finances aregetting hit, if your love life is
getting hit, like whatever area ofyour life is getting hit where the devil
is really attacking, and you knowthat you did everything in your best to
honor God and do what's right,really you're going to get a whole pour
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out of blessings in that area.So I'm a huge believer in that,
and that's not just something I'm tryingto speak motivation into, but like I've
even experienced and I already experienced itall in different areas of my life where
everything just was taken away the nextthing, you know, like I gone
through a lot of trials, thenbam, a few months later there was
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like a pour out in that seasontoo. Yeah, so well it's biblical.
We see it all throughout, yeshypsure where the thing that's attacked is
actually the place of anointing in theperson amen, or we see you know,
I think about Joseph, and he'ssomeone that I resonate with a ton
because he's like, I've got allthese great, big dreams and then everything
goes wrong and the place where theLord had spoken becomes the place of attack.
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But in all reality, it's actuallya place of refinement. And it's
really easy to feel like this isthe devil attack. I mean sometimes it
is. Sometimes it is you needto get the anointing a all out,
you need to be rebukeing things.Yes, sometimes you need to go to
war in that way, but sometimesyou also need to pause and say,
is this the Lord's refinement in mylife? Is this actually his kindness making
me ready for the thing that Hehas for me? And I think more
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often than we want to admit,that is what it is. Amen,
refinement, That's the word. Yeah. So you said earlier that when you
posted about this on your blog,your mom told you you should turn this
into a book or something. Right, why did you not want to do
it? I was really mad thatI was single again, Yeah, and
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so I didn't want to write abook about singleness. Did you feel like
a part of you is disappointed?Deeply? Yeah? Deeply in my soul
was so disappointed, and I wasfrustrated at the thought that maybe God was
asking me to use this place ofdisappointment to reach out to other people,
and I just I didn't want todo it. I had like a pretty
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hard no in my heart. Hewas like, and I'm a I've followed
the Lord all my life and he'salways had my yes, and this felt
like, honestly one of the firstthings I was like, I'm not doing
this, like I feel that,I feel that, I feel that,
and in God's just going to keeppoking you and be like, right,
I'm gonna tell you you're gonna needto do this right, because there was
something in me that I was like, I I as much as I don't
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want to do this, I don'twant to waste the pain. I don't
want to waste the season, eventhough it's the season I didn't. That's
very mature of you. Thank you. I feel like I was like crying
on the floor. So it doesn'tthe memory doesn't feel much. But no,
it's fine, it's fine. Theother side of it was it was
cool to walk through. And Ihave a dear friend that I've known since
I was a kid. She's acouple years younger than me, and she's
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married now with a baby, andshe does book editing, and so I
took it to her and I waslike, hey, I'd love for you
to be my editor on this project. Wow, And she just was more
excited than I was. And Iactually brought it to her because she told
me, she was like, I'mthe only married person in my community.
All the other girls in my lifeare single and they're going through what you're
going through. And so even thoughshe was on the other side of the
promise, she had more excitement thanI did for the other people in her
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life. Where I was sitting heregoing like, well, God, I'm
gonna do this because I want tobe obedient, but not because Yeah,
but there's more the fact that youjust said that I'm doing this because I'm
trying to be obedient. I'm noteven doing this because it's for my old's
sake. Like that alone just showsyour stillness before God, and thank you
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the girl. The Lord will takecare of you already know it's faithful.
And I think that really was evenin the place of frustration or able to
declare his goodness and say, God, I have no idea what you're doing
right now, but I do rememberwhat you've done before, amens. I
think it's in those moments that wehave to pull in our own testimony and
our own history with God and remindourselves and if we get to wear our
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own lives, like my mom hasan incredible aalk with the Lord, and
she has a radical testimony. Sothere been times in my life where I've
had to say, I don't knowwhat you're doing in my life right now,
but I do remember how faithful youwere to my mom and my grandma.
Thank God, so and so andso and so, and it is
that reminding our souls of how goodGod is in those places of disappointment.
M hm, see, I lovethat. It's just see okay, Well,
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I want to take the moment Godto really appreciate his faithfulness, and
I want to talk about the stuffthat we probably think are little to God.
It's so crazy to know that Hemade it important, yeah to him,
you know, like our cries are, whatever we were struggling with.
He made it important. Your breakup, he made it important to him,
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and he allowed things to fall intoplace. Wow, that's so beautiful.
So actually, this is what Iwas thinking about too this morning, because
there's there's like a conviction on mewith certain stuff that I feel like God
wants me to talk about. Butthen a part of me was too disappointed
in myself, and I think apart of me was too embarrassed as well
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to open about it. But there'ssomething that spoke to me where you have
to be able to open up aboutI guess like your your fallouts, because
that's how Satan has a stronghold overyou. So this is what I'm hearing
this morning, right was I don'tlet Satan win by blackmailing you, because
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everybody's testimony is different, and thestuff that you go through the biggest pain
that you're going through is going torelease it once you once you let your
pride or whatever that is that's blockingyou from fulfilling whatever God's calling you to
do. Once you release that,it's going to release other people from certain
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strongholds that they have. So thefact that you answered this knowing that you
didn't want to do it, Igive you props. Thank you. And
you're just starting your book right yeah, I'm the book is finished. I
got the final through from the mailthis weekend, and so I'm going to
be submitting it to official publishing.This is awesome. It should be in
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about two weeks. Is I thinkyou're going to start seeing like how powerful
your your your decision of obedience wasonce this book starts to be released.
Oh my gosh, you guys,I don't even know we were going to
talk about this today. Exciting,this is beautiful. I'm excited. I
want to read your book well inmy heart for what I ended up dealing
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with it is it's about two hundredpages long, but only seventy five of
it. Seventy five pages of itis actually a book the rest of it
is a guide to a journal.And I'm doing this redemptive work with the
phrase dating Jesus, because when Iwas growing up, whenever someone said they
were dating Jesus, it was theirway of not dating someone in youth group
that they didn't want to date,Like they were like, oh, I
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don't want to date you. Somedating Jesus. And I just thought it
was so cheesy growing up. Yeah, no, that's the word cheesy.
Yeah, but I you know,I got a ton, Like I said,
it's such a long story, wecan talk forever about it. But
the Lord uprooted all these lies inmy soul, and he actually addressed the
fact that I hated that phrase andtold me, you hate this phrase because
you don't feel like you're worthy todate me and to know me as your
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bridegroom. And so that was likethis huge part of my story where all
of a sudden, I was knowingJesus as bridegroom. What a crazy thing
that the word talks so frequently aboutthe fact that he's our our husband,
he's the lover of our soul.And so the majority of the book,
I'd say, you know, seventyfive percent of the book. Seventy percent
of the book is a guided journalfor women to take on Jesus states As
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cheesy as it sounds, but toreally sit with the Lord somewhere and say,
Lord, what do you love aboutme? What lie is my believing
about our relationship? Mm hmm?What do you want to say to me
right now? Lord? What doesmy soul need to hear from you?
And it has just these guided questionsand at the end it literally has like
a space to write a love letterto Jesus because I think so often we
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forget that we are the bride andhe is the groom and He's coming for
his bride. Yeah, yeah,yeah, I ain't gonna lie. Yeah
that does sound real cheesy, butI respect the girls. You're gonna keep
doing it. I'm gonna write myletter to Jesus when I get that book.
Okay, Oh I love it.Okay. So this is this was
a beautiful conversation. This is justlike one part of the podcast today.
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But when are you releasing this?How can we get a hold of your
books? Yeah, it'll be availableat the end of March. It'll be
on my website Lea Faithlive dot com. It will also be available on Amazon
as well. So if you ifyou type in Jesus is waiting to that's
all. That's cute. I lovethat the wait. Yeah. Well okay,
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So you're a you're a you're alover, you're an ex, you're
a situationship, and you are aworship leader. Yes, I am.
So how long have you been singing? Leah? I I think I've been
singing my entire life. Like I'mlike, I think I was one of
those little kids that was probably singingbefore I could really talk. I love
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it. Does your parents sing?Yeah? Oh there you go, gole
household. My my dad mom areboth worship leaders. Really yeah, my
parents do not sing. Wow.Well that's beautiful. So you grew up
in church all your life? Yep? Okay, how did what's your personal
testimony? How did you find God? I was three years old, oh
snap, yeah, And I remembersitting on the edge of my mom's bed
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and she was sharing with me theverse where says, behold, I sit
at the door and knock. Istand at the door and knock, and
whoever answers, I will come inand have a meal with them. And
I remember having a really clear picturein my mind of Jesus standing at the
door in my heart and the thoughtof him coming into my heart and having
a meal with me. I waslike, I want that. This is
what I want, and He's realand I love him. So I gave
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my life to the Lord at threethree, which I know a lot of
people are like, well, whendid you actually give your life to the
Lord? And I'm like, thatwas it. I was. I was
marked by his presence. And myparents love Jesus in the most beautiful and
not like religious. Yeah. Inever felt like we have to do this.
It was like, we get toread the Bible. This is God's
love letter. And my mom iseven more enthusiastic than I am. She
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makes me seem really like quiet andlike kind of chill and so that and
she lives her testimony in that waybecause she has a radical story. And
I just grew up in a familythat was in love with Jesus and so
that's that's a beautiful thing. That'sa beautiful thing. I know a lot
of people will actually make fun thatidea, but mat Me just tell you,
guys, it's a beautiful thing.And like you guys can even I
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can't even explain how important it isto preserve these values in the household.
Yeah, like my family's not perfect, nowhere close to being perfect, but
even our situations, like I couldkeep seeing that how important it is for
these biblical principles to be imparted inyour family. And the fact that you
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were three years old that just showsit's so important. I'm talking like I'm
a freaking parent or something. Ihave no kids, I have a dog.
You guys, topic, you're right. But I am gonna say because
I notice a lot of parents theythey don't take their kids serious, and
the things that they plant when they'rea kid, or the things that they
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plant in their homes and just likerather what their rituals or traditions or whatever
you do. I don't think adultsreally take it serious, because there's so
many adults where I hear them,they're just a kid. They'll get over
it, don't forget about it whenthey're older. The reason I'm saying that
is because I thought about so,I know you and I just met so
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some of the stuff that I do. I do a lot of stuff with
seeing entertainment and events, and Ithought about it. It's really because like
the reason I'm pursuing that in mycareer right now is because of my what
I grew up doing from a youngage, like in ministry. So my
point is if I never fed intothose things, if I if the adults
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around me were not feeding life intome, and I wouldn't have became I
don't want to say successful, butI wouldn't have pursued what I'm pursuing now
if it wasn't for those So withthat being said, it's so important,
like while every while your kids arestill kids, to be wise with what
you are feeding into their heads.Like if they have a singing, if
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they're gifted with singing, don't shutit down and be like, oh,
singing isn't gonna be a career foryou. Stop the singing stuff. Let
them pursue it. Respect it.There's nothing wrong though you want to tell
them like, oh, go toschool and stuff, But yeah, I
just want to say, whatever tocalling is that God has. It's different
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from men's success story. That makessense, Yeah, totally, yeah.
Yeah, And what you're saying ispart of why I ended up getting into
the children's writing world. I wasin a season where I would be praying
and I would I would continually hearthe Lord say disciple nations, disciple nations,
and I was like, yes,Lord, but what do you ask
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me to do? What's my rolein this? And I felt like the
Lord spoke to me about children's entertainmentand going after that mountain, right,
And so, because what you're sayingis so true, kids need to be
instructed in the ways of the Lord. Yes, because there's no junior Holy
Spirit. There's no junior Jesus.When they get saved, they get filled
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with the Holy Spirit the same waythat an adult does, but they need
to know how to do life withJesus. Yeah, so many things growing
up that like I look back andI'm like, why did no one tell
me I could hear the voice ofJesus, Like why was I not taught
that more often? Or you knowwhatever? It is, right, No
one's perfect, No one had aperfect theological upbringing. And so whenever the
Lord put this on my heart togo after writing kid's books, that was
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one thing that I was like,I want to talk about this. And
the main book that I have kindof showt Yeah, yep, yes please.
So it's called The Tales of GodmotherGadem Gadem is Latin for Joy,
and so she's the Godmother of Joy. She's based off of my godson and
I And in this book has threestories and the reading age is around six
to ten years old, but thelessons are applicable for any kid. And
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there's three stories in this one book. And then the third story, she's
teaching her godson, how do weslow down and hear the voice of the
Holy Spirit. That's beautiful and he'syou know, he's being bullied at school,
and so he's trying to figure outhow do I navigate this problem?
And instead of her saying, well, this is what you need to do,
she says, why don't we askthe Holy Spirit? And I think,
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you know, all day long,I could hear someone tell me the
right thing, but until I hearit from Jesus, Yes, that's when
it really is going to change confirmation. And I think that's something that we
need to empower kids, teaching them. It has to be biblical. It
has to lie thwart of God.It can't be like I was told to
go to the moon, like okay, like you know, maybe your kid's
going to be an astronaut. Idon't know, but you know, having
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that biblical grounding and then going fromthere and saying, Okay, what is
the Holy Spirit actually leading us todo in this situation. No, that's
true because it's more easier. Okay, if you start your kids off while
they're young and they're practicing all ofthese principles, when they get older,
they're going to know how to respondto certain troubles that hits their life or
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whatever. The reason I'm saying thatis because it's so crazy now that I'm
older, the people I used tolisten to and thought that were correct,
I'm seeing them right now kind ofturn away from things that they used to
preach to me. Right well,I'm not just talking about church people.
I'm talking about like adults, likepeople like my aunts and uncles or leaders
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that I used to think that we'recorrect. It's so crazy now that they're
turning away from certain things under pressure. Not everybody's perfect, so I understand,
like everybody has their own pressure onthem, so they fall short sometimes.
But it's just stuff like that,like what is love? Like,
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let's understand biblically what love is,because later on, when you're older,
if you don't have the right peopletelling you what biblical real, true,
godly love is somebody else is goingto tell you later what love is,
right, Like, let's talk aboutdating again. There are adults that I
know where they they don't say this, they won't admit it, or well
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they kind of do. But there'ssome people where they will just give themselves,
Like some females they would give themselvesto a guy sexually because they think
that's how they're going to be providedfor or that's how they're gonna be secured.
And I think nothing. I'm nothere to talk down on anybody,
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but I'm pretty sure there's stuff inthem that needs to be healed. So
it's just stuff like that where they'reeven preaching this stuff to their own daughter.
It's like, oh, if youwant to please a man, if
you want to keep them around,then you have to do this. So
it's just stuff like that. Wehave to really find our identity in God.
And don't get me wrong, it'shard because it's like, well,
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dank God, I'm doing this.Why isn't this person staying? And like
you're desperate to make things happen,so you go your own route. But
I'm gonna say whenever I want myown routes and ignored God's voice. Yep,
it did not turn out great forme. Is so right, And
I think it is the perspective thatI think sometimes we feel like God's laws
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and his rules are because he wantsus in line and he wants these things
for us, and he does wantus to be obedient, but it's because
his ways are actually better for us. The times that I've gotten really hurt
in my life were times that Istepped out his covering. And I think
that's the perspective shift. When we'relike, oh, I can't do this
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because of the Lord and all thatstinks, and he's you know, he's
making my life boring, it's like, actually he's protecting you, Yes,
something protecting you. Yeah, Ithink once you understand. So sometimes we
don't have to understand why God doescertain things. You just have to be
able to trust him. So that'sthe word trust, even if that makes
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no sense of why you're doing certainstuff. The reason I'm saying that is
because the Bible, if you thinkabout it, it's actually a place of
protection for you. You may notunderstand why, like God, why don't
why can't I just do this?It seems harmless, but you don't understand
what's on the other side of thedoor. The reason I'm saying that,
let's talk about like a basic Biblestory Adam and Eve. Right, so
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they didn't know what the consequences ofeating the apple was going to do.
Wasn't an apple? We don't know? Okay, we didn't know what the
consequences were going to be, butthey still it seems so very It seemed
very harmless to eat the fruit,right, But little did we know was
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going to open a door of sinand curses and consequences not just for them
but for the generations to come.Right. So it's stuff like that.
If we just chose to honor Godand stop trying to one up him or
try to question him or anything,well, I'm not going to say we're
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going to live in a perfect world, but things would have been very different.
This was a beautiful conversation, Charrelle. You should have been here.
Yes, all right, girls,So you are going to be worship leading
at Morfes, right, Okay,very excited for that. I'm so excited.
It's gonna be amazing. I loveit. So what are we expecting
for this event? So? Yeah, worship leaders from across the entire Las
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Vegas Valley and some from across thenation are going to be coming. I'll
actually be with a band called theWatch Worship and they're located out of Virginia
and North Carolina, and so thatcrew is going to be flying out here
for it. And we've got yeah, we've got some incredible worship leaders that
are going to be that are locals, Like I said, some flying in
and we're just expectant to meet withJesus I love and to see Him exalted
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over Las Vegas. We're going tosee people get healed and saved. I'm
going to also be doing like akid's corner type thing a couple of different
times throughout the days. We're goingto be reading books and doing some Bible
lessons with kids, because we wantthis to be a family event, all
ages, all stages to come andpartner with what God is doing in Las
Vegas. So this is a threeday event, two days, two day
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event, April thirteenth and fourteenth.Love it and how much our tickets?
How can we get them? Ticketsare avail about the roar Fest dot com.
Oh perfect, perfect, yes,all right, Okay, so we're
gonna close this up. This wasawesome. Before we leave, any social
media accounts you want us to,yeah, follow the roar Fests on social
media as well. And then I'munder Leah Faith Live and you can get
(49:25):
all my books. I've got somefree resources and some new music coming out.
Perfect, all right, Thank you, Leah Faith, thank you and
being here with us right until nexttime you guys. Happy Thursday,
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