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Capri Payne, the host of Feeding Your Soul, shares her journey of starting a podcast despite her technological challenges. She believes that offering a seat at her table is a meaningful way to connect with others, as depicted in Scripture. She reads Acts 2:46, emphasizing the importance of fellowship and breaking bread together. Capri's prayer is for the church to grow daily and for believers to thrive as disciples of Christ. She plans to have real conversations, invite guests, share recipes, and possibly venture into YouTube or social media platforms. Ultimately, she aims to learn about Jesus together and feed souls. Hello, and welcome to Feeding Your Soul. I'm your host, Capri Payne, but I dare you to call me Smooches. It's a lot more fun, and there's a great story behind it that I will share with you one of these days. But for right now, I want to share my heart with you. God has laid it on me that I would start a podcast quite some time ago, but I really didn't know how to get started. To be perfectly honest, my child says that I have got technology rage, and he is probably right. Just the thought of learning how to record and edit is incredibly overwhelming to me, and that's just the honest truth. So I'm going to ask you to have some patience, and if you have any tidbits of advice, I will absolutely soak those up. But the reason that God has asked me to do this is He has shown me that one of the most intimate things I can offer anyone outside of my nuclear family is a seat at my table. All through Scripture, we see how important a seat at the table is. Rather, that's when the Lord is preparing a table for us before our enemies, the Last Supper. So many different times, the table has been important. I know in my life, it's been a location for laughter and joy and tears. It has been a place of nutrients, not only physically through the food, because sometimes I've had some real failures and there was no nutrient value, but also through the relationships that you build around the table. But it's not always with food. Sometimes it could be playing cards or just having company over to visit. The Scripture that God laid on my heart to begin this with is Acts 2.46. I'm going to read that for you, and I encourage you to go back and read it in the translation that best suits you. We'll dig deeper into the value of different translations, but I'm going to read the one out of my husband's Bible today. He left it on the table, and to me, that's one of the most attractive things is to see him with his Bible or to find it laying out and reading what he may have last read. So in Acts 2.46, it says, So continuing daily with one another in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people, and the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved. And I went ahead and read 47, because that's my prayer, is that daily the church will be added to, that we will learn to love each other and to encourage one another in a way that brings more people into the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. But I want to challenge you to more than just the saving knowledge. I want to challenge you to more than just make it into heaven by the skin of your teeth. I want to challenge you to enjoy the journey and to learn and to thrive as a disciple of Christ. You know, Jesus didn't go around making Christians. He went around making disciples, and that's what he told us to do as well. So through this, I don't have a written agenda. I don't have a goal beyond just sharing my heart and receiving your heart as well. But what I want is I want real conversation. I will bring in friends and guests from time to time. I will share recipes. When I get the courage and the knowledge, I may add YouTube. We'll see. That is, again, another overwhelming thing for me, but God will provide. And if that's what he chooses for us to do, is to meet on YouTube or Facebook or Instagram. I have not figured that one out yet, but I do have an account, if that helps. But we will do whatever God tells us to do. We will pray for one another. We will laugh together. We will cry together. But most importantly, I pray that we will learn about Jesus together. So please, have a seat at my table, and let's feed your soul as only Jesus can. God bless you.