distraction episode 19 seaon 3

The hosts of the Word of Mouth podcast, Nate and Shelby, discuss distractions and how they can affect our ability to focus on what's important, particularly in a spiritual context. They use the story of Martha and Mary to illustrate how distractions can take us away from our relationship with Jesus. They also talk about the different types of distractions, both external and internal, and how they can impact our emotions and mental state. They suggest prayer, renewing the mind, and creating a clean heart as ways to combat distractions. They also touch on the importance of analyzing and evaluating situations before reacting emotionally. Hey, welcome to Word of Mouth podcast with Nate and Shelby. We are back in the building and we are excited, of course, just to be here again. How did it do, Shelby? Sorry, I was distracted. Good man. She came out the door with it, y'all. That was funny. That was hilarious. Good one. Martha was distracted. Yes, she really was. All the preparations she had made. Look, you just coming in with it, okay? Listen, y'all don't know what we're talking about today. Hey, guess what we're talking about today. Y'all know where we're going. We're talking about distractions, apparently. We're talking about distractions. I will tell you about it. I posted something today on Facebook. If anybody wants to go to the Facebook post on today, October 10th. They would have to know your name. Nate and Shelby. Word of mouth. He ain't going to give it up. Listen. All you women trying to get him off this island. Oh, my God. He's not giving it up. It's Nathan Brown. Nathan Brown. You can go and look at the post today. It says, Distracted people distract people. Nate and Shelby was talking. Yes. Nate and Shelby was talking. I was saying how the distraction can cause us to not be able to grasp and understanding. She started pulling out scripture. That's why you heard the Martha talk when the podcast started. Tell me what you're talking about, Shelby. Martha was distracted. She had too much going on. Mary was sitting at the feet of Jesus. Just going, Oh, Lord. That's what she said? Oh, Lord. Yes. She's going to sit in your presence. Martha's running around the house like a chicken. Look, sis, you better get up off your butt and do something. God, do you not see her sitting on her butt? She ain't helping me at all while I'm running like a chicken with my head cut off. All that Thanksgiving dinner she was making and Martha just sitting there? No, Mary was sitting there. I mean, Mary was just sitting there. Martha was running. Yes, and that could be a distraction. But why doesn't the word say that Mary was distracted by Jesus? Hmm. Because a distraction was what takes you away from Jesus. Actually, that's the podcast. Thank you for tuning in. That was the answer. That's really good. It didn't say that Mary was distracted. It said Martha was distracted, which means the focus should have been Jesus instead of the thing. And preparing for your party. Trying to impress. People-pleasing. Oh, now I just said that. And she said it out loud to y'all. So this is going to be a little intense today because Because Nathan and I already pre-gamed and he already knows that I'm going to sell myself out on this one. He's just waiting. It's going to get intense. I'm going to out myself too. I'll start off. I do get distracted sometimes. I think we all do. But I get distracted by people. People distract me in a way where they don't know that they're distracting me and I'm praying for them and I'm looking at them like Oh, okay. I have an inner voice. Are you really praying for them? Because with that face it looks like you're just praying. I have an inner voice that talks to me. And I have to talk back to it. No, you don't want to hurt them. No, you don't want to hurt them. I get distracted easily. I just don't show it. You can tell if y'all don't know Shelby when you meet her if you ever meet her you can tell when she's distracted because her whole face changes. Her facial expression shows everything. It does. It gives me up all the damn time. You know what? If you ever want to win a lot sign up with me at poker because I don't have a poker face. I'll just get my ass kicked. I'll just write you a check because I'm never going to see you again. Wow, that's what's up. My face. I wish I could control it better. I can't. You have a different look. Something disgusting. Something weird. Pissing me off. If it's pissing you off then the devil's trying to rise up. Your whole face say it before you say it. I know. It's terrible. I hate that about myself. There's probably a million of people that struggle in that area. How can you change that? I can't. Right. I wish I could. I'd be more stone-faced about stuff. I'm not going to let you know what I think about that. Let's talk about the definition of distraction. The last one is really good. The first one says the act of distracting or the condition of being distracted. The second one says something that makes it difficult to pay attention or that draws attention away from familiar or everyday concerns. That's interesting. Difficult to pay attention? It makes it difficult to pay attention. The third one mental or emotional disturbance agitation or confusion. Mental or emotional? Disturbance. My brain is moving. Mental or emotional disturbance. Something that can happen to the inner part of you is a distraction. I thought this is real good. External? Yes. That would be the second definition. In talking about it like this I don't think that we give enough prudence to the third mental and emotional disturbance. That would go into more of a spiritual aspect. You look at how Paul wrote in Ephesians we wrestle not against flesh and blood but we wrestle against principalities and powers. Those are inner. Right. If I think about it in my own life I've got plenty of external distractions but I think I'm more distracted by my internal stuff. Wow. Don't you? Absolutely. External throws me off at times. I think that's why I can keep a straight face but internal I've got to be by myself because my emotions are everywhere. I just said that out loud and I'm really truthful. Internal there are times where I freaked out because I was distracted. Do they call that anxiety? There are times the external is what caused your freaking out the internal is what caused the distraction. That's what I'm saying. Yes. I didn't know how to hold that. How do you fix that? Not be distracted internally? Pray for the renewing of your mind. Of course, number one. The transformation of your spirit. Number two, creating a clean heart. When that stuff pops up you've got to shut it down. No, I don't do that so don't look at me. Thank you for saying that. Those three are probably I can tell everybody else how to do it. Do I do it? No. That's called a hypocrite. Here I am right here. Helping people. Helping. That's a great thing. I don't think we look at those steps when we are distracted internally. I don't think we look at those steps. There's no way possible. I'm thinking, hey, take a breath. No, because we have tunnel vision. It's all about what's welling up inside of us. How do you think anger starts? It's not an external thing when it's anger. It's internal. Anger is the poking of something that's down in your crawl. Notice you said down in your there it is. They've got to get you there. Yeah. Or they just have to tap the right thing. Oh, push the right button? Uh-huh. Have your buttons ever been pushed? Oh, my gosh. We're talking a show, y'all. My buttons get pushed all the time and as we all just discussed my face will give it away whether I say it or not. But I'll probably say it because I don't have any problem letting you know. That part. So your buttons are pushed and your face gives it away and you just go ahead and get them straight. Right? I guess. Kick them in the teeth. I don't go zero to sixty. Fifty-five? Okay. She'd be right at fifty-two. Listen. I have been distracted more internal than external by the fact of how spiritual warfare is so consuming and no one's paying attention. I feel like the distractions now are so external that we're turning a blind eye. I said it really slow. It's right there in front of us. I saw it probably a year ago. So are we just supposed to rebuke everything? How do we stop that, Nate? We'll start off with your first step. Let's just step back and kind of analyze or evaluate some things. If you're distracted in a relationship is your first thought to get it corrected or would you first think how did this happen? That's a good question for all you relationship people. Because he's still on his island. Yeah. Do you approach it right then or do you take a moment analyze and see where it's coming from? Because in my Shelby voice we still got to get to the root of that thing. And once we get to the root of that thing we can pluck it up. And we can't get to the root of it if we attack it head on first. Because we got to know what it is. Let's talk about that. But I also think you can analyze yourself to death and analyze the situation and make a big situation out of nothing. You don't call me out like that for real? But then you make a situation out of something that's really nothing. I think we're all kind of guilty of that. I'll be the first to get in line. No. No, that's true. You're right, that's true. It's good to try and figure out the root of course. You need to do that but I think for most of us when our emotions are involved it's difficult to get that far. You just want to deal with the surface that's going, ow, that hurts or ooh, I don't like that. Not really worried about the root of it. And some stuff is surface. Not everything goes deep. How do you know? If you're a significant other just so happen to get mad and say, hey, I don't want the fork to sit on this side of the plate. My immediate thought would be to that person. There's proper etiquette with the fork and the knife. You have to do it right. I agree. I would think more into it and this is the analyzing. I would think more into it like what happened in your childhood? Who poked you with a fork? Right. What did daddy do? I would start thinking hard on that thing like why is this such a trigger to you? Oh, God. I want to know what you think about me now because I know you've been stewing on things I do. I am sure. You've got me all diagnosed. Upside, right side. I love you, Sheila. You're the one. Yeah. I could see that. You kind of go, hmm. Yeah. You snapping over a fork, something happened. I also think that when you're in a relationship you snap at something like a fork even though that has nothing to do with what you're snapping about. You're actually snapping about something that goes much deeper than that but the fork is just a surface issue that brought it to light. I don't know that. You don't know that unless you're willing to sit there and figure it out. That means you have to go deep. Yes, and so does that other person. They have to be willing to go deep. You can't surface that. Can you surface anything? If it was what you just said and you're with someone I'm saying you, Nathan or with someone and they said the fork and the whatever and then you go, hmm. What would you just say to them? What about the fork really upsets you? I couldn't say it. Because my mind is already saying it but I couldn't say it out loud. You couldn't take her aside and say hey baby, let's have a talk for a sec because I know that you got really floored by this fork thing but something's telling me it's not about the fork. She'd be like, fork you. And this has been word of mouth. Yes, exactly. Oh my God. I've been there. It had an F. It had a K. I don't know about the O's but it had that other stuff. However, I felt like my psychological part of me I blame Northern University but the psychological part of me probably went too deep. And I heard you just say that. Yeah, there are some things that are surface. Go ahead, help me. You can't analyze everybody all the time, dude. The interrelationship's not going to get old. It messed me up a couple of times. It did. Because I was thinking I must stay on the fork. What's wrong with this fork? What's going on? And I don't approach it right then but I'll ask questions later like tomorrow's dinner my mind would be there'd be a spoon out and I'm going to have the fork in my hand. Does she have a problem with the spoon? And I'll look at her and see how she responds to the spoon. And then if she says, well, why did you give me a spoon? Then I can Okay, right there you were pushing buttons. I am, but I'm trying to figure it out though. I know, but we talked about why do we push buttons? Why do we get mad at the people we're in a relationship with or we act out of our emotion versus when we're around strangers. And we were talking about button pushing and I just pointed out that that would be pushing a damn button. That would be pushing a button and I'm trying to figure out what's up with this fork and you're not going to up and tell me. Why don't you just up and ask what's up with the fork instead of beating around the bush and pushing a button to the point that she gets pissed off and then you got a big old explosion. Ladies please respond. How many of us men have probably asked and still got shot down? You get the fine. I'm fine. Thank you. And you know that you're not fine. Those responses is what we get. And so if I would have asked up front tell me about this fork. Nothing. Nothing about the fork. I don't want to talk about the fork. There are times when we say we're fine we would like for you to go I know you're not fine so let's just go a little deeper. And keep digging. Pursue it a little more. Men have failed in that area. And women being cut your head off. And we're still trying to figure out I'm asking about the fork. You're just killing me. I just want to know about the fork. We've totally gone off the subject of distraction. We got distracted. Well I mean yeah. Okay. Let's get back to distraction. Because we got distracted. Yeah to a certain extent. Because that's still a distraction though. Like it's a distraction for us because we have painted this picture that when a woman say I'm fine or I'm good or whatever or I don't want to talk about it. And we shut down. That's a distraction. It's a reaction. I don't know that it's a distraction. It's a what? A reaction. Oh my God. Your face. I haven't seen that face. I don't think ever. Women know. Like y'all know what y'all be doing. We don't really know up front until we think about it. But y'all know. Okay I'm going to speak from me. She's a woman y'all. If there's something going on and I say I'm fine. Sometimes there's a test in that to see how much shit you really give about me. Okay man. And are you willing to stop and actually deal with it or are you just going to keep it rolling? So it's kind of like a test. Okay. Man y'all heard that. Yeah y'all heard that. So now I'm just outing myself again. See what we talked about earlier that anybody who listens to this podcast can know how to roll me. Oh my God. You know I've had situations with this podcast and women. So with that women listen and men listen and we know how to approach certain things to a certain extent. And so if a woman does say I'm fine then she's basically saying go a little deeper. Don't give up so quick. Sometimes there's a test there. Yeah. And there are some times I'm fine. And I'm saying I'm fine. But you know because of my face you're going to know whether I'm really fine or not. Wait. How do we know? Because your face is going to be that same face. No you said my face gives away everything. And I've heard that from several people. So when you say I'm fine. You're going to be able to tell from my face. I'm hearing the I'm fine. Now I'm fine with the attitude or I'm fine with the most sincere beautiful little face. What kind of I'm fine is that? There's all different kinds of I'm fine. It just depends on the situation. Got it. So that's a distraction for us as men because we don't know. We're going to turn this into relationships. I know. We're going to go back. I do want to ask a question in that aspect especially with men and women. Why do we let it be a distraction and we keep it going? What? I'm fine? Any distraction. Give me an example. I'm going to go back to the fort. If I know that you got pissed off about the fort and I don't address it right then. That's a distraction. Why keep it going? Why don't we address it? Why do it have to turn into something huge and as we said earlier now we're turning a blind eye to it because now you've been married for 50 years but you really got divorced after five. That's a whole lot. That's a whole other podcast. Didn't we just talk about that though? To a certain extent. Marriage and being married that long. But that's the distraction. It's the discomfort of it. We don't want to be uncomfortable dealing with what's there in front of us so we keep sweeping it under the rug and just pretending like life can go on and it will raise its ugly head in all different types of ways and you'll pop off at each other for stuff that doesn't have anything to do with it because you're not dealing with the real issue but it's out of discomfort and it's out of fear. I don't want to lose this person so if I just keep it moving and pretend like everything's okay I don't have to worry about losing them or I don't want to lose my lifestyle or I don't want to lose the situation I'm in because it's comfy and it's what I know and I don't want to go outside of what I know because it's scary out there or it's paying the bills and I can't do that. I mean there's a lot of reasons that we just keep it moving but distractions I mean distractions are everywhere we're surrounded by them constantly especially with these damn phones as you see I check mine often because of texts or emails even when we're sitting here I get distracted by the damn phone and I'll be the first one to raise my hand but I ain't alone so y'all just get in line with me Nate, don't distract I'm speaking third party I don't check my phone during podcast hours I need y'all to know that He doesn't, that's true he's being forthright about that nor and I'm going to out her again nor will I if I need to talk to her I'm going to call I need y'all to know that I'm just putting it out there I'm not a big talker I'm not a big talker and I get it and that can be a distraction to someone yeah there's lots of distractions out there but the world wants us distracted that's where I was going there's a scripture where the bible says the enemy uses tricks schemes and devices those are distractions to get you off focus and to get you looking a different way compared to where you're supposed to be looking right and that's kind of why I feel to a certain degree that technology is of the devil because our attention span has become so much shorter and it will increasingly get shorter because we're instant gratification satisfaction, all that stuff and we expect things to happen right now just like that and it gets our mind or our want to deal with things that take longer it's not there anymore I don't want to deal with a relationship I don't want to have to deal with you know this fight that we're going to have I don't want to have to deal with this issue we're having because I don't have the patience basically what I'm hearing you say there's no more longevity we want everything everything's instant now I remember when potatoes used to actually come from actual potatoes once in a box or in a bag I don't know you're right and I also think unfortunately with relationships that the world has opened up so much with the social media that you can go get a replacement real damn quick facts if you're not particular about that replacement I mean if you're just searching for anything to fill that void it's all over the place yes and how does that make anyone feel male or female that you know that you can be replaced in less than five minutes you feel replaceable her eyes replaceable yeah you're right do it make you fall into a desperate mindset or do it make you want to continue to really pour into that thing that God has blessed you with in that relationship that depends on who you're talking to I mean we've said that I'm extremely loyal so I will tend to pour into what's already there but but love the but I mean it does make you it does make you question your value in a relationship if you think that you can be replaced like that yeah because what did you really matter in the first place but the day and age we live in I mean it is true yeah so I think all we have right now to me is hope and faith well shouldn't it be making us reach higher standards instead of it should make us expect more out of each other I think personally how does that work out because if you're I'm going to ask some men real quick how does that work out if I know that you're going to expect more out of me and I know this one ain't I'm going to go ahead and leave that one and go to the next sorry men but that's the truth and you know hold on women will do it too but I think there's accountability that needs to be talked about and there is a responsibility that needs to take place in what you've agreed upon in a relationship if you agreed upon this thing stick with it if you don't want to stick with it be honest absolutely tell them and be real about it and things can change too doesn't mean that you want them to but you're right be honest about it if it does because I think you at least owe them that out of respect here's something that's really not talked about a lot but it's the truth I'm going to tell you there's the ratio of men to women it's 20 to 1 statistically 20 women to 1 man and that man that part if he's a good man he's not whooping your tail he's wanting to do something with his life whatever may have you it's about 20 women that want that damn see I'm like so the ratio for women as well it's 2 it's reading this but it's 2 women I mean 2 men to 1 woman and that's because they like all being together I quit I digress right there I'm out Cheryl got the rest of this run that back what was that run that back so women 2 to 1 it's because they like them because they want both it's true can I raise my hand and say no not this one why 1 is difficult enough there is a certain amount of women that want both what are you reading Cosmo Forum it was something Google it was something it's up to us to really want to believe that stuff I have noticed that there's a lot of single women I have noticed that I also have noticed that there's a lot of men out here that there was a singer that said he had sung a song called Down Low don't make me explain it they do things on the down low duh that part so to that point it's hard to be a good man thank you so I have to say that I think being in this stage of life and being single for a time I'm noticing there's a lot more people that want to stay single they don't give a rat's ass about having a relationship I feel like they look at it as though it's overrated because we put so much emphasis on it back in the day but we put all that stuff on it back in the day and then it didn't get us nowhere you got couples that have been married for 30-40 years and they're divorcing that's crazy but it's real but it's real and it's sad but it's the world we live in but I think we also don't value relationships longevity I think our society has decided that relationships are not valuable it's the longevity I think I just heard you speak about it earlier attention span yeah you can get my attention but only for so long but a lot of people don't want to put the effort in I mean they just don't it's out of kind of selfishness I think they just don't want to put the effort in why would they? you can put effort in everything else but why not put effort in a person that God has given you because it's too easy not to I mean this generation is in for some doom because man what kind of what does it say about us we're so microwavable that it's sad you cannot cook a chicken from it's beginning stages in the microwave I'm sorry it ain't going to taste good you can do it it's going to be like rubber might break your teeth radiation is not going to do justice to that chicken no by any means and it's sad that we have allowed just this stuff to keep going and we make it okay we're like oh well that's all I got so I'll just stick with that that's how we've done relationships that's how we've done friendships that's how we've done worship I was just about to say it honey well what did I say earlier I admitted that I am distracted from my relationship with God right now and I'm so glad we wrapped around to that thing because I want to know how do you do it how do we get distracted from hearing from God not just hearing from God but being distracted of wanting to do the things you used to do for God with God and I'm kind of on the fence with it because I feel like I don't think we're distracted from God I think we're distracted from ourselves and we get so hard on ourselves thinking that God is going to get us because we're not spending as much time as we did back in 2010 I feel like it's just us but I want to hear what you have to say no I do think that there is definitely truth in that because I know you know life ebbs and flows man you get the highs and lows and stuff like that times when you're really busy times when you're not all that and it comes back around but I think yes we do get the guilt and then that hampers the whole thing all together and guilt is from the pit of hell it is not from God so that's right where we need to stop that but you know I do think that like in my busyness I mean I generally start my mornings with doing a study usually wake up and talk to God a little bit and then do study and stuff like that but there are times when I don't have the time to do that which is a lame excuse but I'm using it anyway do I still talk to him throughout the day absolutely but is my focus on him from the get go no and I can tell you honestly my days are better when my focus is on him from the get go or I've at least taken a moment with him from the get go and you're writing stuff down I got a question so you say you usually start your days off like that right love it that's phenomenal so starting your days off like that my first question is did God give you this schedule to follow you're high God I believe ordains everything so if that's the case then I would say yes God gave you the schedule or did Shelby give it to you because it sounds like I think it's more us though your relationship hasn't changed I feel like if you're doing more then you're doing more for the kingdom but we beat up ourselves thinking that we're not spending that time with God the harvest is plentiful the laborers are few because some of us are actually getting into the ground and we're working for real you don't think that this ministry that both of us work for is pulling from us you don't think every time you come here that you have to labor and pray and fast and all of the above lay on your face before God because of the demonic and the satanic forces that you have to deal with just in this area yeah but that's the thing I haven't been getting on my face as much as I used to that's your physical mindset of you thinking that you haven't but you have you don't wet up the stairs anymore but how do you not wet up the tissue in your bathroom well I haven't I haven't lately I haven't I feel like you may be a little hard on yourself I think we all are and I do think there are seasons even to spirituality even to our relationships with God there are seasons because I do think there are times that you don't hear from him because not because of him more because of us but I also think there are times when he's silent 100% to create faith and to grow faith and to give you the opportunity to understand that he's still there even when he's silent but you learn that after the fact while you're in the middle of it well I mean he gave us the same characteristic there are times when we have to be quiet for real because there's so much noise and we can't even respond to it because there's noise and then there's other noise and then there's other noise and so everybody's pulling from every witch away if that's a word and we just have to be quiet so how do you not do you believe that this could be your season of just being quiet and waiting no I think I was already in that season you do have seasons come back I know but it just ended not too long ago so I don't think I'm in that anymore really are you putting me back in that season again I hope so I promise you I do because now you're making me think that I'm back in that season I just got out of that season but think about it what better time to be in that season with the world full of noise the world is full of noise right now knowing you personally I think you need to stay in that season because the enemy is so so afraid of you well he better be well he better be that's why no joke every time you roar you roar big time so something to think about this will be your drive home yeah and we do need to speak I think we do need to speak about what's going on in the world while we're here today absolutely let's go there are times people who are just walking this earth are not going to understand the gravity of things that are happening right now yes now this is I want to give this disclaimer where we give our opinions about what we believe we're not prophetic about any of this none whatsoever and we're not saying that we're guessing the date or the hour because we don't believe we do that that's not the right thing to do we cannot do that if the angels don't know and he don't know ain't no way you gonna know promise y'all don't think Shelby know I definitely don't Shelby's anointed she don't know she don't know and we don't want to guess I really don't however this stuff that's happening we've already given a disclaimer this stuff that's happening in the world is not something that we are unaware of if we engulf ourselves in scripture and get understanding based upon the revelation that God can give to us the information is there right we have to be able to receive a revelation based upon the information that we read and there are scriptures that talk about wars and rumors of wars oh our cricket friend came back Nathan didn't touch any buttons that just happens we don't know why maybe that was God giving a little shout go God I feel like we we do have to give dialogue or at least want to talk about it that this stuff is it's not swept up under a rug okay well I think that okay we're gonna I'm gonna be a little more pointed we're talking about what's going on in Israel right now yes and what's going on in the Middle East and you were a misogynist but you know me I'm just like a troll in a china shop but we're talking about what's happening in Israel and in the Middle East and what appears to be on the horizon because it's going to affect us here yes so y'all need to be watchmen but this is for me personally I need to say this is not about fear because we know who has us and he has us regardless of what's happening in this world and he has us in his hand and he's not going to allow destruction to come to us because we are his children now if you're not his child we can pray we can get you there if you want to absolutely and we would love to do that so I don't want this to be like oh they're fear mongering no we're not no do not live in fear do not be afraid to walk outside do not be afraid to live your life do not let any of this convince you or be waiting he's coming and you gotta be waiting patiently for him you keep living your life with your eyes up honey with your heart in the right place but don't stop doing what you're doing because nobody knows the date or the time or the hour and we're not gonna but we do not live in fear regardless of what's going on in this world we do not live in fear regardless of what people can say on the news or whatever we do not live in fear because he's got us so just keep living be educated that's a good one have discernment and fellowship with him make sure your relationship is with him and that you're you're cued in that would be my suggestion I said this earlier keep looking up don't stop living you can't afford to just say oh my god I'm gonna ball up and go into a shell and die no he don't want that you gotta be a lion baby well what would be the purpose like you did all this living to go to a shell make it make sense you did all that time going through all the stuff you've been through in your life to go to a shell not only that but like we talked earlier you were born for a time such as this yes he could have put you in any era he wanted to he decided to put you here so I don't think you're supposed to be living in fear I don't think you're supposed to be afraid I think you're supposed to be living and you're supposed to have your eyes on the prize she said living living that's the mindset that we have to take continue to live I'm not waking up in fear every day now I had an incident poor Nathan poor Nate just a little while ago I had an incident I showed up where we podcast and fear overtook me consumed me to a place where my mindset was not right I immediately jumped into fear imagination got a hold of you I thought something happened to my girl like I was tripping bad in the place where we podcast I was tripping and then I'm hearing everything negative something you just said when you do operate in that kind of fear it's like it's other stuff that will add on and add on to keep you there yeah oh my god that's good it's like a fire and anything that's close to fire is going to catch on fire now I'm adding more stuff to that fear that's why it was easy for me to look at one thing and say oh okay and then something else oh oh this is and so I was consumed by fear and I also think that when we get in that place we actually look for things to create or to add to the story that we're already building in our head I'm on because we're in that mind frame how is it so easy for fear to set in but not faith that's the human condition I mean faith is because we live in this world this world is fallen this is this world is not it's his it's bad guys world it's not God's world right I mean he created it but he gave the bad guy dominion so facts but we should at least grasp to faith as quick as we grasp to fear but we don't our human condition doesn't do that no it doesn't no it doesn't and so as that took place I realized and we talked about and she was okay of course but we talked about and I literally was in a lot of fear where physically I was ready to do some things for real react my reaction was really really intense and it was fleshly and as I was you know just sitting in a chair and I was thinking I was not only apologizing to God because of my actions but also as you just said God didn't give me the spirit of fear to operate in that mindset now we're human we're human and if if a huge snake you know just slithered his way up here I mean my humanness will jump and try to get away from it and then go find something to kill it with because it's human there ain't no serpents allowed in this area amen amen but my spirit man knows that God didn't give me the spirit of fear that doesn't change the fact that as a human I am afraid of certain things I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders well I didn't say spiders anything else but spiders but physically that's a different aspect from the spiritual and I think that when it's in 2nd Timothy 1 and 7 when God said I didn't give you that spirit but also the spirit that I did give you was power, love and peace yeah and that's what we need to operate in but we we don't we don't do that we let our imaginations run wild and and run rampant sometimes it's impressed on us can I say that it's impressed on us we were talking about what's going on overseas we are made to be in fear because what's given over these airwaves and how they feed us and how they boy that's real good and how they feed us they feed your fear just like the whole COVID thing they feed the fear so good I'm going to keep feeding it and keep feeding it until you just either take your own life run away for 40 years, be alive and run away and never come back or be dependent on the one who's creating the fear or fall prey that's the biggest wow that's good if they can get us to operate in a space of fear they will keep us there and they'll do whatever they want control it is, it's control I control what you look at I control all of these apps and what you hear, social media what you see, what you hear and what you speak because if I keep feeding your ears and your eyes you're speaking and what have we talked about how much power words have death and life are in the power of the tongue that's been his MO and his tactics from the beginning and if they speak lies over their own life then he doesn't have to he's in there like let them do it, let them talk and we do it but the cautionary tale is don't let don't feed those fears, don't feed those thoughts, shut them down and fill them with the word and feed off of that because if you live off of the word then you will not be afraid my God there's a 100% chance 100% chance that we're all going to perish really? yes 100% I'll be tripping now Shelby just said this to me earlier I just want to let you know that so I get it now, I get it now it's starting to manifest in my head I get it now I don't like the fact of how people can get to that place of perishing I don't think you need to be shot in the head and perish that way if you can avoid that just go to sleep go on home but I get what you're saying I need you to know I get what you're saying because it is a 100% chance that we will and we're going to leave this place and I don't want to leave this place full of fear full of it well I think that that plays into the whole thing of us thinking we have control over it we don't if you truly believe that God numbers the hairs on your head and your days are counted for you which they are and they're written in the book of life regardless of what we do on this planet that day and time is going to come for each one of us and it doesn't matter how we go out but where we're going matters and who we're going with come on I ain't preaching here but I think that we think that we control it and so therefore that's where the spirit of fear breeds if we just released everything to him and understood hey I'm still here today you know until he decides I don't get to be here anymore yeah you're right we're trying to control it and that's the biggest distraction now that doesn't mean you go out and walk in front of a train people come on now amen or not look at don't test faith or faith I should say don't test faith I agree you shouldn't be walking in front of a train we're not paying attention to vans and stuff like that did I say that on there no I'm saying okay he's pointing that at me so y'all don't God did not give us the spirit of fear that's right he didn't and that's where I live that's good that's good and I'm starting to understand it however you did point out earlier and we'll say this as we end everybody has their own way of dealing with certain things but the ultimate goal is for us not to operate in fear because he didn't give us the spirit of it and I'll take that the word says cast all your cares because he cares for us cares would be fears doubts all of the above I got it and I receive it and you need not fight because he will fight for you and be still don't have to fight ladies and gentlemen well somebody hit you well and also I mean like we've talked about before there has to be lions in this world yes and chances are if you were born for this time you're born to be a lion come on there are different types of lions there are some that are very big and have the big mane and they're like whoa like whoa they don't creep up silently and they're not real big but they do their damage and they fight just as strong so don't think because you're of little stature or anything like that or you're a quiet person that you can't be a lion because you can't in Jesus name thank you you be putting things in the perspective that we get it we get it we get some lions that are this and some lions that are that I get it thank you for tuning in to word of mouth podcast as we hear sirens I know and we never hear the sirens in the name of Jesus I just pray for whatever that situation is be there Lord ministering angels to all those people involved in the name of Jesus thank you all so much for tuning in love you