Do you mean “good” or God? // S07E01

What’s the difference between good intentions and God intentions? There’s actually no good without God, but we can easily mean well but be outside of God’s will—and that gets us and others into trouble. Where are your intentions taking you, and how is that impacting your future and your walk with Christ?

VERSES FROM GOD INTENTIONS:

 Psalm 16:11, Isaiah 5:20, Joshua 24:15, Ephesians 1:9-11, Proverbs 14:12, Genesis 6:5

QUESTIONS TOUCHED ON IN GOD INTENTIONS:

• How do I please God?
• Does God care about my intentions?
• What are God intentions?

QUOTES FROM GOD INTENTIONS:

“We need to be in the father steps when we make these decisions. Because otherwise the things that we’re doing, what are they doing to further the kingdom? That’s, that’s the reality of this. What are they doing to further the gospel? What are they doing to further the kingdom? What are they doing for God? If it’s outside of God and I’m just doing my random is what, whatever, well, where am I? I’m lost.”

The Pantry Podcast, Shea Watson, God Intentions

“And our own pride will try to tell us, no, that’s not true. You can serve yourself. You can be self-serving and you can be it. You can be the ultimate, but at the root that’s just Luciferianism, because that’s what Satan wants. So near serving his purposes, even if you don’t believe in him, you’re serving his purposes by being self-serving first and foremost, but you will serve something.”

The Pantry Podcast, Michelle Watson, God Intentions

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EPISODE INTRO

Michelle: What’s the difference between good intentions and God intentions? There’s actually no good without God, but we can easily mean well but be outside of God’s will—and that gets us and others into trouble. Where are your intentions taking you, and how is that impacting your future and your walk with Christ?

SEASON INTRO

Shea: Hey, I’m Shea.

Michelle: And I’m Michelle.

Shea: Are you equipped for the real battle? In the spiritual, it’s not just about your weaponry…it’s about what you consume and who’s calling the shots in your life. You’re listening to The Pantry Podcast, Season 7: God Intentions where we look at the way we live and ask, “Is this from God or do I just think this is good?”

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Shea: And now let’s dig into the meal.

EPISODE

Shea: Hey, this is The Pantry Podcast. I just want to say, “Welcome! Welcome to the show.” Man! We’ve got people listening from all over the place, but today I want to just shout out three countries: Azerbaijan…Cambodia…India… What is up?! And to the rest of you who’re listening right now, I just want to say, “Hi!”

Michelle: Shout out where you are listening from in a review or a comment—this is our first season on YouTube, so give us some grace because we’re not used to staring at cameras; we’re used to staring at each other. So, yeah, you’ll see us go back and forth this season, but it’s going to be cool. I know.

Shea: But no—man! Today is the first episode of the season. We are talking about God Intentions during the season. And I think that’s really important to understand when we’re talking God intentions versus good intentions, right? Because when we’re talking about God intentions, then that means I’m walking with the father. You know, every everywhere in the Bible, okay. In Psalm 16, 11 says, you make known to me the path of life. Now this is God, that is a God thing, right? He makes known in your presence. There is fullness of joy. So see what I’m walking with God when I’m with God, when my intentions are geared towards God, when I’m listening to God, when I’m allowing the holy spirit to speak to me and guide me about God, listen to that. Your presence, there is fullness of joy and your right hand are pleasures forevermore. It’s like when I walk in his path or when I listen to him and I walk according to the way, or I make my choices, according to the way that God is guiding me, then that is when the provisions and the promises start to unlock themselves.

Michelle: Yeah. I think that we always mean well in whatever way we define, well, whatever morality the person in question has whatever motives. We mean. Well, for at least the benefit of ourselves, if not for someone else, but that doesn’t always align. And when I was looking through all the different places where he speaks about us, because the Bible is all about Jesus, it’s all about God, but it’s also a user manual for us. It reveals who we currently are. And I was looking at Proverbs 14, 12, where it says there is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death seems right. That’s a good intention. It seems right. And yet it’s not, it’s not good enough. And rather than getting stuck there and beating ourselves up about that, God has given us an alternative choice in Genesis six, five. It says then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth.

And that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil. Continually. Now this is pre flood, right? That’s what motivated the flood. But again, our hearts are deceitfully wicked. You know, who, who can know them, you know, so we know over and over that we have a differing opinion on what is right. And that the only way to solve that is to dive deeper into the word of God, build our relationship with Christ, build our relationship with the holy spirit and then let him lead our steps, let him shape what our intentions are. And the more that relationship deepens the cycle that we go through day to day improves. And so that’s the difference is we can sit and make our own choices all day based on what sounds right. Seems right. Feels right yet. That’s not going to get us to the same place with God as if we’d say, let your will be done and let you shape my intentions.

Shea: Yeah. I think that comes down to like understanding moral values and where they come from. Um, y’all, let’s just be real. My moral values on my own shifted all the time. It was like, it was so seasonal. It was like, there was no stability. Um, and it’s amazing. And, but what’s cool about this is when you think about moral values and when you think about moral values in the world, it always comes back to the divine. It always comes back to a God. It’s like there has never been a satisfactory answer for these grounds of objective moral values without an appeal to a divine authority.
Speaker 0 00:04:58 Yeah. Because I mean moral relativism and like the whole, like what is truth kind of thing where there is no truth. It’s only based on your personal truth. That gets messy very quickly, unless everyone’s quietly agreeing on some things that go back, like you said to what God said, doesn’t need to happen. Right? If, if we all quietly agree that just murdering at random and pillaging at random is wrong, then sure. Your whatever your truth is kind of thing seems to play out. But you’re playing by a set of rules quietly, ignoring them and adding on, I’d say secondary and tertiary rules on top, um, like the minutia rules, but you still have the same root rules because as soon as those get broken, then everything just goes to pot pretty much. And you end up in a messy situation where, what happens, collective groups that want the stability, the Cray, they crave the stability, the security, the safety, right?

Speaker 0 00:05:55 Like, you know, if you, if you’re a psych person like me, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, like the things at the bottom that you need in order to get up to the self-actualized way. Right? You can’t care about a gym membership. If you don’t have food, you know, like you just like are certain. So it’s like, you can decide what exercise is morally best. Right. You can choose which goat cheese is. The one that’s ethically sourced. If you have access to a grocery store, you know what I mean? So it’s like, yeah, you have to take those steps back and see where the root comes from.

Speaker 1 00:06:25 I think we could say that people don’t need to believe in God, necessarily for, for goodness to exist. Right? Like goodness it’s built in, I I’ve, I’ve read several stories while we were looking at this and it talks about like going out to a tribe or a, you know, uh, people that are out in the middle of nowhere never had any contact with humanity and you go into, and there’s some set of morals, there’s this built-in idea of doing right. Yeah. And now of course, you know, we all know that the, you know, because of the fall, well, we, weren’t making such good judgements on those, uh, morals very often. Where are we? But, uh, but, but we do need to say this, but without God existing, there would be no such thing as goodness. Right. I think that we have to sit there in that and think about that.

Speaker 1 00:07:09 And I know we could sit here and say, well, that’s what every decision I make. And I would say, yes, I would say that in every decision that you make, we would bounce it to God first and say, okay, God, this is how I feel. And then you allow God to come in and speak. You know, I just recently did a sermon on that. It’s like, you know, pray, pause, and then proceed. Because I think we need to be in the father steps when we make these decisions. Because otherwise the things that we’re doing, what are they doing to further the kingdom? That’s, that’s the reality of this? What are they doing to further the gospel? What are they doing to further the kingdom? What are they doing for God? If it’s outside of God and I’m just doing my random is what, whatever, well, where am I? I’m lost

Speaker 0 00:07:56 Right in Ephesians one in nine to 11, it says, God has now revealed to us. His mysterious will regarding Christ, which is to fulfill his own good plan. And this is the plan at the right time. He will bring everything together under the authority of Christ, everything in heaven and on earth. Furthermore, because we are United with Christ. We have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance and he makes everything work out according to his plan. Now, when I see that, now that doesn’t spell out everything that’s in his will like down on those super specific levels. But what it does reveal is it all works out for him. Whether or not you like him, whether or not you follow him, whether or not you even believe that he’s there. It all works out for him. In the moment. You might question how this specific incident works out for him, but he knows the entire game plan in a way that we just don’t.

Speaker 0 00:08:48 And for the believer that is walking in faith with him, that’s a comfort. Sometimes it might be a little bit of a frustration, but overall, we walk in that as a comfort thing. God, it’s in his hands, not mine. Thank God it’s in his hands because he is good and love and truth and light instead of it being chaotic and random. But that makes me again, realize and humble myself and realize that I can have all the good intentions. I can have all the good plans for myself that I want, but not checking in with him, not testing it against the word of God, not inviting him in to influence it, shape it, show me which way to go and, and, you know, closed doors and open doors that he sees fit. When I don’t do that, it’s like, what’s the point? It’s wasting my time.

Speaker 0 00:09:29 Because if my intentions don’t align with his intentions, I’m going to lose every single time. Right. So why bat at it, randomly in the dark, when I can go to him in the light and ask him, I am going to stumble off the path, Lord, we both know, but my intention is to be with you. Like you not, oh, I’m just trying to do the best. You know, that I can. It’s like, no, that’s still putting so much pressure on you that causes the stress and the anxiety. And, uh, it just invites you to trip up all the time and have to beat yourself up because you were responsible. Whereas if you say, I want it to be you, God, he’s responsible for making it plain to you that that’s not the way to go. Or that is the way to go. So

Speaker 1 00:10:12 Thankful for those verses.

Speaker 0 00:10:15 I know because it takes, it takes all the pressure off. It’s like what we were saying with Rebecca last night and Abby, Rebecca was on in season six. So we’ll, we’ll link that episode in the,

Speaker 1 00:10:25 There are, there are local who do use the, we hang out. But I guess it depends on where you come from. I call them hoodies. You call them best where we grew up. Right.

Speaker 0 00:10:36 But yeah, she was saying the same thing, you know, I think, I think it’s so important to fall back on that. Like it is his job. It is not my job to direct my steps, you know, it, but it is on me to obey when I get that prompting, when I get that thing, like the obedience portion that people tend to cringe at, because it’s like, yes, praise God for grace. But grace, like you get to experience the fullness of the empowerment of grace when you start to walk in obedience.

Speaker 1 00:11:09 And I’m going to say that, okay, look, we go down path. Um, he also wants us to be, you know, people who chase after things. Right. Okay. So an example, we, we were going to move to Arkansas y’all I don’t know how many people know that. I think maybe we might’ve mentioned it in the laptop’s episode. Right. Um, but see, okay. I’m like, okay Lord, is this where you want us to go? And, and you know, you’re sitting in a thing and like, oh yeah, yeah. You know, everything, everything is clicking together. And you’re like, oh, this is the path. This is, this is where we need to go. And then all of a sudden he closes that door. But so what I’m saying here is we need to move. That doesn’t mean we just sit still and stop and don’t move and, and say, you know, okay, like when you hear the verse be steel, I mean, okay, look, it does.

Speaker 1 00:11:54 I mean, be still, you could still be moving. That just means what you’ve done. Right. You’re still in your soul, right. You’re still in your heart and you’re allowing God to move there. There might be a time when you have to be running and being still at the same time. And you know, there’s probably been people throughout history that were on the run or running or having to go through something, but they had to steal their heart. Right. Steal their soul so they could hear the voice of God and not the voice of anything else that the world was throwing at them. So I’m not just, we’re not sitting here saying, well, you know, you have to make sure before you move and move down that path. If you’re in the word, if you’re in God, if you’re in prayer, he is going to reveal himself. And, and, and it is this the right way. And he goes, nah, w why don’t you come back just a little bit over, back this way. And, and, and that’s what he did to us with Arkansas. And it’s okay. In fact, we sit here and we’re like, okay, Lord, we learned a lot. Right.

Speaker 0 00:12:41 Um, and now we’re like, okay, well now there’s a comfort. Even though it was a no to a place that we were getting excited about, it’s a comfort because we know his hand was in it. So we don’t sit in doubt. Was that him? We know all things work out for his will. And if you wanted us there, we’d get there. If he wants us there next week, we’ll be there next week. You know? And so we know in a way we can rest and be still in that and know, okay, there’s still a role for us where we are at. And so now we can be on the lookout again for another thing, but we can rest and, and kind of celebrate the, what’s the word, the certainty of our current station. We don’t have to say, well, are we supposed to be, well, we try to leave. And he said, no. So this is still our current station. And all of those things are very important to check in because we’re not saying paralysis is a good thing, you know, until he, until he says something, you know, every single time, like I’m not going to leave my house until he says something, unless he told you to stay in your house till he says something then, but,

Speaker 1 00:13:44 But I think it’s also with wisdom. Yes. But watch this even deeper. The love of God, the love of God. I mean our favorite verse, Romans 8, 28, of course, you know, it says, and we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, see, God intentions are love intentions. If you really want to think, because God is love. I mean, let’s just make the easy connection here for everybody. And so in that relational love of God and wanting to really show people or, or, or demonstrate to people this love, we need it to be something that he’s, he’s giving us something that he’s guiding us through because we want his love to be shown, not our own. Um, it’s amazing how he sifts us in those things. But you know, it was really cool about all this. It was cool about God he’s at this moment in time, he was staying at strains evil.

Speaker 1 00:14:40 He actually restrains evil. Um, y’all if you want to look at that evil, it would be mostly hell. I mean, he’s restraining hell right now. That is a final place for, and having the other night. And I know this sounds like I’m going deep in here, but I, but I am, because I think that we need to be in those God intentions, because that’s the alternative, the alternative to good intentions might not lead people to God. And I want people to know that God is restraining, restraining, this evil. I mean, we still see evil. We still see it every day. But imagine, imagine when evil is no longer restrained. Right. And you know, we could look at that in the tribulation when evil is just, it’s just like, oh, it’s just let’s imagine that. Yeah. But this is what God is doing right now, because why he’s furthering his kingdom. He’s furthering his, his, his children every day. That brother gets more children. I’m like, I’m done at one y’all. In fact, today we’re sitting at the, what was it? A Parker? Where was it? Where were you at? Where someone was telling us that we need another kid. And I’m like,

Speaker 0 00:15:42 We heard it twice today. So I’m like, God, these one of those doors,

Speaker 1 00:15:48 You know, like this is a little nugget. She’s like perfect. Y’all when I say that, okay, she has a problem, but no, you can’t, you can’t ask for a better kid. And I’m like, why would I want to roll the dice on that now? Now, now that’s a good intention. Right? Cause I’m sitting there and my is going out for a nine years old. Y’all and no, uh, this one she’s awesome. I don’t have to worry about nothing. I ain’t bringing nothing, but God could turn around and say, you know what? Y’all here. You need another one. Right. And I’d have to listen. And that’s what we’re talking about here. It’s just, it’s about making the right choice. Um, submission. Yeah. Submission. Yeah. I like that. Ooh. I like that.

Speaker 0 00:16:28 You know, like on that note, like in Joshua 24, it says, well, I’ll just, I’ll just read it. I always try to paraphrase them. Like, why not just read the perfect, um, if it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today, whom you will serve whether the gods, which your fathers served, which were beyond the river or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Now you’ll normally see in any kind of Christian home decor space, you will see a canvas you can buy that says, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. And I love, I love that. But when you look at that whole verse together, you realize that you can choose not to serve God, but as humans, we will always serve something.

Speaker 0 00:17:10 And our own pride will try to tell us, no, that’s not true. You can serve yourself. You can be self-serving and you can be it. You can be the ultimate, but at the root that’s just Luciferianism, because that’s what Satan wants. So near serving his purposes, even if you don’t believe in him, you’re serving his purposes by being self-serving first and foremost, but you will serve something. And it’s telling in those verses, because it’s giving you an option between serving the traditions from the home you came from, or serving the traditions, the culture of where you’re currently at, right? Or you can serve that third choice. The Lord, our God, you can serve. He’s free of the traditions of men, both from your past and from your present. He’s not confined or defined by where you’ve been or where you’re at. And yet we always are trying to serve other things.

Speaker 0 00:18:04 That’s why the new age, just to kind of touch on that. The new age is so big in Christian generations and Christian spaces where self-love is starting to get more and more prominent in the culture surrounding and within the church. Because new age just goes back to empowering the self and trying to bring the self along to be that special. I’ll say just like in Hollywood, where the plot of a movie is, you’re a wizard, Harry surprise. You’re super cool, special and powerful human being. You know, you’re not just a human being. Um, you know, everything’s Sabrina, the teenage witch. It’s like, she wakes up, oh, I’m a witch book. I’m special. Now I’m special. I’m not just another person I’m special now. And that’s new age, new age, all it is at the root of all of it is. You’re not as basic as you feared. You’re special. What God says is you’re not as basic as you think you’re special, but you don’t need powers. You don’t need to change at all your special cause I made you

Speaker 1 00:19:08 Cause he’s got the power,

Speaker 0 00:19:10 Like the responsibility still isn’t with you. Like, here’s the gift of God. You aren’t responsible for everything. That’s the gift because that’s a heavy burden and his burden is light and so crazy tangent. But like it all comes back right to, well you mean well, because those crystals, right? You mean, well, cause those cars you mean well, cause that Enneagram you mean well, because you said it’s okay, but it’s not to your friend who feels like acceptance is not what love is. It’s like, no, the acceptance of every action isn’t love. It’s the exception, the acceptance of you, despite what you’ve done it’s love. And so those are the kinds, those are the differences. And the only way you’re going to know that the differences, the nuances is by going back to God, reading his word, getting to know God, and then you will encounter.

Speaker 1 00:19:58 So where you’re saying there’s competitors to a biblical morality. Oh wait. Yeah. You know, wash it and I’m gonna start this. And before I tell you which one that is, and that’s the show, you guys all know where we’re going to go here. So anyways, but no, like, okay, you have two kids, right. Two kids, one kid comes up and he’s like, Hey, yo, that’s not the way you’re supposed to do that. And the other one looks and he says, who says, right? So, but because we have that, the, um, societal consensus becomes the morality, you know, it’s this, this can go a far by my body, my choice. But then it’s not my body, my choice in every aspect of the world. Right. It’s my body, my choice in one aspect. But it’s not your body and your choice in another aspect. Right. You know, it’s like one aspect they’re like, give me my freedom to do whatever I want.

Speaker 1 00:20:40 And the other aspect of like, no, you can’t have your freedoms. Right. Okay. So, but that is an example of this societal morality. It’s like, is the society saying is right versus what is God’s saying is right. Um, so when you start to see that, it’s like, wait, wait, wait. We’ll hope it’s not fair. And I think that’s, uh, that’s something that even you guys probably say sometimes like, whoa, that’s not fair. That’s not fair. But when we take it, like Michelle was at Mount olive, beautiful tangent because it leads right in to this thought, you know, it’s like, whoa, um, man’s morality does shape the culture and changes things around us. Um, and I would prefer to stand on something like Michelle it’s perfect. Right. That doesn’t change. Right. Um, a verse on that, that I really came in. I was like, I actually, when this came to me, I’m like, oh, that’s a hard verse.

Speaker 1 00:21:38 But uh, Isaiah five 20, it says, well, what to those who call evil good and good evil. Who’s ever witnessed that. Who put darkness for light and light for darkness. We’ve witnessed that who put bitterness for sweet and sweet for bitter. I mean, we see this constantly. Yeah. We see this constantly. Why I love the word of God, what I was all over the place in my thoughts and my, and how my morality, uh, you know, pornography that’s okay. It’s, it’s not doing nothing. Right. It’s just me and a computer or a laptop it’s curbing. Right. It’s, it’s taking care of the impulse and it wrecks marriages. Right. Just FYI and God knows this. And so he’s saying stay away from sexual immorality. Yeah. You know, it’s like, we have all of these great examples. And so when I came to the word of God, it was like, oh, I gotta change some things. Right. I gotta be different. And so that is why I like to stand on the word of God because it doesn’t change.

Speaker 0 00:22:37 Yeah. It has the stability that worldly morality, lacks worldly morality is dictated by the feelings of people and feelings were never intended to be at the driver’s seat, right? Feelings are there to enrich and flavor experiences and be warning signs against things that are wrong. And to give us that deeper ability to experience life, but they were not meant to be in the driver’s seat. And we currently see, we have historical documentation. We have real everyday documentation of feelings on every side of every issue, ruining the points and the actual issues that need to be discussed. Right. You know, and, and yet God doesn’t use his feelings to decide things like some of the fake made up manmade gods do. I mean, I love Greek and Roman mythology. And I was like, this, this is so much drama, so much drama. And all of the folk lore where the gods themselves just cannot get it together.

Speaker 0 00:23:43 They’re pretty much humans with powers. That’s like, uh, the tale, as old as time, humans with powers that, uh, just act crazy and are inconsistent, their own stories, contradict one another. And you can’t trust them for nothing. If anything, if you see one run because they are just psychotic in their behavior. And yet God doesn’t, it says he gets angry. He said, you know these things, but it’s never, that it’s always a root of love. Even in the flood, even in all these situations, there’s a sense of there’s the personal choice of an individual. Do you choose me? Or would you rather not have me? And because he just so happens to be the source of all life and light and love and safety. If you choose him, yay. And if you don’t, you don’t get any of those things, but you chose that. You actively chose that. And so then the outcome is, well, the flood happened, but nonetheless people wanted them anyway. So they just got the outcome that they chose. That’s a consequence of their own actions. It wasn’t him just deciding to smite everyone today because his wife cheated on him in hate in a Valhalla or Olympus or whatever. It was like a big difference between how man-made can write a story and how God wrote.

Speaker 1 00:25:02 So I’m just going to put this out to I, when it comes to Greece and all, all that bro, y’all I, I started to like, Hm, I’m going to Delta Lambda Mu, come on. I’m just going to say it because I’m like, wait, why are y’all calling it that? But anyways, that’s a whole side note for another episode,

Speaker 0 00:25:23 But

Speaker 1 00:25:25 Let’s lighten this for them a little bit though. I want to lighten this, uh, in the sense of, cause no, I mean, we’re coming at you real. This is, this is out of love because I mean, I had to learn this y’all. I mean, come on. I took the wrong ingredients out of the pantry all the time. And now I’m trying to organize the pantry, my pantry, my heart, my soul. And I’m trying to put the right things in that pantry so that when I open it up, it’s like, it’s an easier choice. It’s like, okay, well, yeah, I’ll just grab this, this and this because those are the healthy things for me. Um, but Michael Todd actually had a cool little analogy that I think that would help lighten this. And then we can like roll up and wrap up.

Speaker 0 00:26:04 So the difference between a good and a God intention, um, can be summed up great by this little story that pastor Mike Todd said about his kids. And he said, if his daughter, Bella, if you told her to clean her room, and then a few hours later, she comes back and he’s like, Hey, did you clean your room? And she’s like, no, but I washed all the cars. I cleaned the kitchen. I did the laundry. I dusted every room. I vacuum the whole house, you know, I mowed the lawn. So I did all that. He would be like, you’re still as disobedient as if you had sat and done nothing. The good intentions, the great, you know, if it was like, yeah, I did. I did that, the room. That’s all I did. Cause that’s all you ask of me. Right. Well, great check obedient. If, if with like the, the God intentions of like, okay, well, you know, it seems like I can help others ease their burdens by Klansmen of seven. You know, like there would have been a different response, but if you don’t do the thing, God asked for you to do that, God intended for you to do you’re, you’re just in disobedience and disobedience does not bear the same fruit as obedience does. Right.

Speaker 1 00:27:15 Mary and Martha, Mary and Martha, do you want it from the Bible? Read Mary and Martha, you know, Martha’s running around, uh, you know, good intentions, good intentions. Mary is laying at Jesus’ feet, eating in the word. You know, it was like, it’s like so great points on all this. And I think what we really want to dial in and this season is really showing the good intentions versus the God intentions. And y’all, I’m excited. I am excited. There, there is, it is, it is going to be a good season. There’s going to be some great episodes. Um, but look, as we go out in the world, as we leave our house where we wake up in the morning, right. Less arrange our pantries, right. Let’s start working on that list. Let’s start letting God work on that because what we do, we allow ourselves to be available.

Speaker 1 00:28:01 So just be available to God, be available to what he says to you, um, be available to his word. I mean, really, I know it’s hard. I know we have busy lives sometimes. And I tell people sometimes read one first or, or pick a verse or let a verse come to you. And then throughout that week, digest that verse, read it every day. Think about it. Kind of dig deeper into it, deep dig into the time. I mean, I, you know, it’s like, it’s like, I’m not that that might be actually adding more than just reading the Bible, but I’m just saying, I love Jesus. I love God. And I love it. And I love the holy spirit so much. I want to know more. Yeah. And I think that is where we want to be is just no more, right. Because when we know more, it’s like, like I was saying, now I’m taking out the bad things in my pantry. So when I opened that pantry door, I’m picking from good things, the good fruits. Okay. And that is what the season’s going to be all about.

Speaker 0 00:28:53 So as we wrap up, we do have something exciting stirring in the pot. We have 90 days to raise $40,000 for our brother in Christ, pastor Jackson, Kappa in Kisumu, Kenya. Um, if you’ve been following us on social media, you know, that we’ve also been helping throughout all of the COVID stuff, we’ve been helping them raise money for a food pantry that has helped feed people, not just from his church, but from the entire community. They are. They’re currently, um, their churches currently in the slums of Kisumu. And it’s been amazing. It has United churches. It has caused that church to grow so much that they have opened up extra services and they’re still past capacity and it requires them to move. And there’s an opportunity to have a one acre patch of land a few minutes away, um, that would allow them to expand, to have a permanent area for a permanent pantry, an area that could help house those that are in need at any given time.

Speaker 0 00:29:50 The street kids that he ministers to. This is a guy who will give the last shilling that he has to someone who needs it. And he’ll just expect God to provide them with another one for his own family. It is amazing what he’s done. And so they have to pay in Kenya. It’s not like, oh, we have a mortgage. They have to pay in full and they will officially own, but we are starting to help them raise these funds. We’ve got, I think at this point we’ve got 86 days when you’re listening, it’ll be about 84. So go to the pantry podcast.com/kenya and read about how you can help donations of any amount are going to be awesome. We’re using gifts and go. So it’s like minutia of how much they actually take. So go ahead and go there, share it with anyone who would be able to even give a dollar and, uh, and let’s see God work in the next couple months. Amen.

Speaker 1 00:30:43 Oh man. Okay. I just want to ask him on that because I mean, you’re talking about my brother in Christ, you talking about, uh, uh, he started out as discipleship with me and, and over the years it’s just been growing and growing to a beautiful friendship, beautiful brotherhood. Um, we work closely with that church, uh, in CA in Kenya. So this isn’t just for you. If, if you know somebody or you can pass it onto somebody we’re asking for that. I, I, I’m the worst person to ask for things in the entire world, but there’s times when God says no, no, it’s time for you to get out of that comfort zone and start to, to, you know, be in the ministry, start asking for things. And so we’re calling on you, we’re calling on you to share, we’re calling on you to, to really pray about it and really, you know, join us in this mission at least in, in the prayers and stuff. So, yeah.

Speaker 0 00:31:31 So until next time guys, bye.

Shea: Bye.