# Your desperation is delaying you! | Counterfeit vs. promise pt. 3

An episode of [Amani Talks Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1669865575), 19 Jun 2025, 24 min.

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Wrapping up ur mini-series of counterfeit vs. promise with letting go of our desperation. Counterfeits come to test our obedience, but obedience cannot live with desperation. Let's go through scripture to learn how to tackle and finally let go of desperation. For sponsorships and collabs 📧 : amani@a-listme.com FOLLOW MY SOCIALS ❤️ https://www.instagram.com/amaniwortham/ https://www.tiktok.com/@amaniwortham?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc #christianpodcast #christian #jesus #podcast #blackpodcast #blackchristian #amanitalks #amanitalkspodcast

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Hi guys, welcome back to the Amani Talks podcast. You're
[0:03] Speaker 1: here with your host Amani on the podcast where we
[0:05] Speaker 1: talk about our faith based topics and zepening our relationship
[0:08] Speaker 1: with the Lord. So we are continuing on with our
[0:11] Speaker 1: three part series. Sorry you guys that I did not
[0:13] Speaker 1: post last week. I was back home with my family
[0:15] Speaker 1: and I did not pre record, and sorry that this
[0:18] Speaker 1: episode is also getting out late. Our problemse. I'll try
[0:20] Speaker 1: to do better in the future with posting regularly. But
[0:23] Speaker 1: let's get back into our three part series talking about
[0:26] Speaker 1: counterfeit versus the Promise. And we are on our third week,
[0:29] Speaker 1: so wrapping up our little mini series, and today we're
[0:31] Speaker 1: going to be talking about overcoming the desperation that you
[0:35] Speaker 1: may feel to be more inclined to take the counterfeits
[0:39] Speaker 1: presented to you in your life, because these are desires
[0:42] Speaker 1: that we have in our life. These are ones and
[0:44] Speaker 1: needs that we have prayed about, and when our blessing
[0:47] Speaker 1: is right around the corner, the devil might try to interfere,
[0:50] Speaker 1: present you with this counterfeit, to knock you off your game,
[0:52] Speaker 1: to ruin your testimony, to steal the blessings that God
[0:57] Speaker 1: has for you and if you are desperate enough, you
[0:59] Speaker 1: might take the counterfeit because it's coming a little bit
[1:02] Speaker 1: quicker than what God.
[1:03] Speaker 2: Has for you.
[1:03] Speaker 1: Right, So we've already talked about what the counterfeit versus
[1:06] Speaker 1: the promise is. We talked about waiting for the promise,
[1:10] Speaker 1: and now we're going to talk about releasing your desperation
[1:13] Speaker 1: so that you're less likely to take counterfeits. So, first
[1:16] Speaker 1: of all, to be able to truly let go of
[1:18] Speaker 1: our desperation, we need to be able to overcome the
[1:21] Speaker 1: temptation to take the bait when a counterfeit is presented
[1:25] Speaker 1: in our lives. So Philippians four six is the verse
[1:27] Speaker 1: that we're going to open with. And it's a verse
[1:29] Speaker 1: that I really like, and I come to it whenever
[1:31] Speaker 1: I feel anxious desperate, whenever I'm really pleading with God
[1:34] Speaker 1: for something. And Philippians for six says, be anxious for nothing,
[1:38] Speaker 1: but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let
[1:41] Speaker 1: your request be known to God. And the peace of God,
[1:44] Speaker 1: which should pass is all understanding, will guard your hearts
[1:47] Speaker 1: and minds through Christ Jesus. And I love this scripture
[1:51] Speaker 1: because it's so true. Once you actually release your desperation,
[1:55] Speaker 1: your anxieties about the things that you want or need
[1:57] Speaker 1: in your life. The peace that comes is, you know, like,
[2:02] Speaker 1: there's nothing like it. And I like how this verse
[2:04] Speaker 1: specifies in the peace of God. And you only will
[2:08] Speaker 1: get peace from God when it comes to anxieties and desperation.
[2:12] Speaker 1: You will never get it from the world. The world
[2:14] Speaker 1: actually will give you the opposite. It'll egg you on.
[2:17] Speaker 1: It will fulfill your desperation. It'll say, yeah, of course
[2:21] Speaker 1: you're desperate because this thing is so good.
[2:23] Speaker 2: Get it, like, get it.
[2:24] Speaker 1: Right now, with your money, your power, your time, whatever
[2:27] Speaker 1: resource that you have, make sure you get this thing.
[2:29] Speaker 1: It's always pushed on us through consumerism.
[2:33] Speaker 2: Through rom comms.
[2:35] Speaker 1: Through you know, whatever thing that you're desperate for the
[2:38] Speaker 1: world is going to tell you go after it with
[2:39] Speaker 1: all your might. You want that career, you better clock
[2:42] Speaker 1: those eighty hours a week forget about your family. The
[2:45] Speaker 1: world will always validate your desperation. God says, give it
[2:49] Speaker 1: to me, and the peace that I give to you
[2:52] Speaker 1: or surpasses understanding, will guard your heart and your mind
[2:55] Speaker 1: through Christ Jesus. So we know off the bat to
[2:58] Speaker 1: be able to overcome our desperation. The first thing that
[3:00] Speaker 1: we do as we pray, but we already know that, right,
[3:03] Speaker 1: And I think that we get tired of hearing, oh.
[3:05] Speaker 2: Pray about it.
[3:05] Speaker 1: I'm gonna pray for you. I'm gonna pray for you, y'all.
[3:08] Speaker 1: Prayer works, Okay, prayer works. I just had a break
[3:12] Speaker 1: down like two days ago about something, and I was
[3:16] Speaker 1: just so frustrated with the matter. And I'm just like,
[3:19] Speaker 1: I'm tired of just praying like I have been praying,
[3:21] Speaker 1: Like God, I have been praying. But it's like, am
[3:24] Speaker 1: I being specific in my prayer when I'm praying? Am
[3:27] Speaker 1: I actually making it so that I'm paving the way
[3:30] Speaker 1: for this very specific thing to get done? And sometimes
[3:34] Speaker 1: I keep it very general with God, and I'm just like,
[3:36] Speaker 1: why am I keeping it general with him? As if
[3:38] Speaker 1: he already does not have the specifications of the things
[3:42] Speaker 1: that I need or want right now? Be very specific
[3:46] Speaker 1: with God? And that's not for God's benefit. Like I said,
[3:49] Speaker 1: he knows, it's for our benefit. When we pray specifically
[3:53] Speaker 1: and then we see that specific thing getting done, that's
[3:56] Speaker 1: a testimony builder, that's a faith builder for us, so
[4:00] Speaker 1: that we know the next time when we are in
[4:02] Speaker 1: great need, remember that very like that one thing that
[4:06] Speaker 1: you prayed about. God did it exactly. Actually he did
[4:09] Speaker 1: above and beyond what you even prayed for. But he
[4:12] Speaker 1: gave that to you or he worked.
[4:13] Speaker 2: It out right.
[4:15] Speaker 1: We gotta understand, prayer should be our number one. It
[4:18] Speaker 1: should be the number one go to. It should not
[4:20] Speaker 1: be the afterthought after what you tried to do failed.
[4:24] Speaker 1: It should be the first thing that we go to.
[4:28] Speaker 1: And it's not for God. You know, we don't pray
[4:31] Speaker 1: to God for God. Sometimes we feel like we pray
[4:35] Speaker 1: so that God gets like, oh she prayed today, Oh
[4:38] Speaker 1: she's good. God don't need our prayers. We need our prayers.
[4:42] Speaker 1: You are overlooking your blessing. You are actually taking away
[4:46] Speaker 1: from your blessing when prayer is not the number one
[4:49] Speaker 1: thing that you go to. And I know it's hard
[4:52] Speaker 1: to kind of have these ideas of the things that
[4:54] Speaker 1: you could do to accomplish your goals or to get
[4:58] Speaker 1: the things that you want or need. But I'm telling
[5:00] Speaker 1: telling you you do things in your own power, and
[5:02] Speaker 1: you'll have to keep doing things in your own power
[5:04] Speaker 1: to keep it. You do things in your own power
[5:07] Speaker 1: to get that man, all the power that you got
[5:11] Speaker 1: in you, you better be able to keep them too,
[5:13] Speaker 1: you know. So the things that we are desperate for,
[5:16] Speaker 1: when we take it into our own hands, you'll wring
[5:19] Speaker 1: yourself dry trying to keep it. Release it to God.
[5:23] Speaker 1: Go to prayer first, in prayer, with thanksgiving a supplication.
[5:27] Speaker 2: Make your request known to.
[5:28] Speaker 1: God, and the peace from God, which passes understanding, will
[5:33] Speaker 1: guard your heart and mind through Christ Jesus Amen. They
[5:36] Speaker 1: ain't not such a good verse. I love that verse.
[5:39] Speaker 1: The next verse I'm gonna share is the verse that
[5:40] Speaker 1: I run to when temptation starts to overcome me, when
[5:43] Speaker 1: it comes to me being desperate for things right and
[5:46] Speaker 1: as first Corinthians ten thirteen, and it says, no temptation
[5:48] Speaker 1: has overtaken you accept such as is common to man.
[5:52] Speaker 1: But God is faithful who will not allow you to
[5:56] Speaker 1: be tempted beyond what you are able. But with the
[5:58] Speaker 1: temptation will also make the way of escape that you
[6:01] Speaker 1: may be able to bear it. And I love this
[6:03] Speaker 1: verse because sometimes as Christians, when we're going through something,
[6:07] Speaker 1: we tend to think that this thing, no one has
[6:09] Speaker 1: ever gone through this.
[6:10] Speaker 2: Oh, this is so hard.
[6:12] Speaker 1: This can't be what the other Christians were going through
[6:14] Speaker 1: back in the day. And the Bible is telling us
[6:17] Speaker 1: there is no temptation that you are going through in
[6:19] Speaker 1: this life that other people have not also been tempted with. Okay,
[6:23] Speaker 1: there's nothing new under the sun. And when you are tempted,
[6:26] Speaker 1: God will always make a way for your escape. I
[6:29] Speaker 1: love that part.
[6:31] Speaker 2: I love that part.
[6:33] Speaker 1: And just knowing that God does not allow us to
[6:36] Speaker 1: be tempted beyond what we can bear, lets me know
[6:38] Speaker 1: that I already have the victory over this temptation. God
[6:42] Speaker 1: has already claimed me victorious over it. He already said
[6:47] Speaker 1: this temptation will not overtake you.
[6:50] Speaker 2: Listen.
[6:50] Speaker 1: I never give you something that you can't overcome, and
[6:53] Speaker 1: I've already made a way for your escape. You have
[6:55] Speaker 1: the tools, you are already victorious. You don't have to
[6:58] Speaker 1: let this overcome you. You don't have to let this
[7:00] Speaker 1: tint your testimony. You don't have to let this steal
[7:04] Speaker 1: anything from your life. You are already overcoming it. I've
[7:07] Speaker 1: already given you what you need to overcome it. Now
[7:09] Speaker 1: at this point, if you want to give into temptation,
[7:12] Speaker 1: it's all you boo.
[7:13] Speaker 2: It's us, you know.
[7:15] Speaker 1: But God has never tempted us beyond what we can bear,
[7:18] Speaker 1: and he has already given us the escape routes. All
[7:21] Speaker 1: this stuff that we deal with is common, y'all. You
[7:24] Speaker 1: think you're the first person to wait for a husband.
[7:27] Speaker 1: You think you're the first person and not have no
[7:28] Speaker 1: money in the bank and not know how you're gonna
[7:30] Speaker 1: pay your bills. You think you're the first person that
[7:33] Speaker 1: has some sickness in the family. One of your kids
[7:36] Speaker 1: is sick like with nothing. All this stuff is common.
[7:40] Speaker 1: And when we're waiting for God to solve any of
[7:42] Speaker 1: our problems, if we are tempted by the counterfeit, God
[7:46] Speaker 1: makes a way for us to escape that temptation. You
[7:48] Speaker 1: just got to lean into Him. And the way that
[7:50] Speaker 1: I personally lean into God when temptations come into my
[7:53] Speaker 1: life is.
[7:55] Speaker 2: I just stop. Like I just stop, y'all.
[7:58] Speaker 1: Whatever I'm doing in the moment, I just stop when
[8:02] Speaker 1: I feel myself coming to the edge of the temptation,
[8:06] Speaker 1: right when I feel myself getting so desperate, I'm getting
[8:10] Speaker 1: worked up, you know, I just stop. In today's culture,
[8:15] Speaker 1: where we feel like we always have to be moving,
[8:16] Speaker 1: we always have to be hustling, we always have to
[8:18] Speaker 1: be productive at doing something, just stopping is the answer.
[8:23] Speaker 1: Sometimes God does not give us gold stars at the
[8:25] Speaker 1: end of the day based on our productivity. God doesn't
[8:28] Speaker 1: care how productive you are. He cares if you're obedient.
[8:32] Speaker 1: He cares if you're stopping and you're listening to him.
[8:34] Speaker 1: And sometimes we have to stop to be able to
[8:37] Speaker 1: listen to him. I realize lately that when I pray,
[8:40] Speaker 1: a lot of the times, I'll pray and I'll pray
[8:43] Speaker 1: for something specific, and I'll pray over it, right, and
[8:46] Speaker 1: then I'll immediately jump into the next thing. So I'll
[8:49] Speaker 1: be at my bedside, you know, the secret place wherever
[8:51] Speaker 1: you pray and you feel like you have this alone
[8:53] Speaker 1: time with God. I'll be you know, pray, you know,
[8:55] Speaker 1: good ten fifteen minutes, you know, maybe something in my
[8:58] Speaker 1: journal that I'm praying over, whatever it is. And then
[9:01] Speaker 1: I'll be like amen, and then I hop up, and
[9:03] Speaker 1: then I'll turn a TV on, or I'll hop up
[9:06] Speaker 1: and I'm scrolling on my phone and I'm just like, wait,
[9:10] Speaker 1: hold the phone, hold the phone. Am I having a
[9:13] Speaker 1: conversation with God?
[9:14] Speaker 2: Or am I not?
[9:15] Speaker 1: Not me?
[9:16] Speaker 2: Playing that? Like the telephone game.
[9:17] Speaker 1: You're like, you know how toddlers have the little plastic
[9:19] Speaker 1: phones and they be talking. Nobody be on the other end, Like,
[9:23] Speaker 1: d okay, I realized that's.
[9:25] Speaker 2: How I treat conversations with God.
[9:27] Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm here yapping away praying, and then I don't
[9:30] Speaker 1: even give him time to answer me. I'm like ba
[9:33] Speaker 1: da da da da. Okay, Amen, I'm cleaning up me
[9:37] Speaker 1: and a cat's doing something. It's like, what sense does
[9:39] Speaker 1: that make? Am I talking to God?
[9:41] Speaker 2: Or am I not?
[9:42] Speaker 1: And if I'm talking to God, how dare I not
[9:44] Speaker 1: give him time to answer me? Like Dug, I'm not
[9:49] Speaker 1: even sitting and being quiet in my quiet place during
[9:54] Speaker 1: my quiet time with God. It's supposed to be quiet.
[9:56] Speaker 1: I'm not even sitting and being quiet. I'm not even
[10:00] Speaker 1: and sitting still after I talk to God? Am my
[10:03] Speaker 1: actually allowing him the space and the time to respond
[10:06] Speaker 1: to me. We complain about not hearing God after we pray,
[10:10] Speaker 1: But are you even giving him room? Are you even
[10:13] Speaker 1: giving him space? Are you giving him time to answer you?
[10:17] Speaker 1: We pray and we jump up to the next thing immediately. Yeah,
[10:20] Speaker 1: of course you don't hear him because now you're on TikTok.
[10:23] Speaker 1: Ten seconds after you god done praying, you're watching a movie.
[10:27] Speaker 1: You immediately turned on the TV after you just got
[10:30] Speaker 1: done praying, of course you can't hear God. I should
[10:33] Speaker 1: never be complaining about not hearing God in my life
[10:35] Speaker 1: when I don't give him the time and the space
[10:37] Speaker 1: to respond to me. I can't recognize his voice in
[10:41] Speaker 1: my life because I don't hear it, because I'm immediately
[10:43] Speaker 1: hopping into the next thing. After prayer, I realized I
[10:46] Speaker 1: had to slow down.
[10:47] Speaker 2: I had to stop. Just stop.
[10:50] Speaker 1: Sometimes just not doing anything is the answer or the
[10:55] Speaker 1: way to hear the answer. And now that we realize
[10:57] Speaker 1: that no temptation or desperation has the power to overcome us,
[11:01] Speaker 1: that the Lord would never tempt us beyond what we
[11:03] Speaker 1: can bear, that he always gives us a way out
[11:06] Speaker 1: of the temptation. Now that we know that we're victorious
[11:08] Speaker 1: over those things, we also realize that the victory of
[11:11] Speaker 1: not falling for the temptation, not falling for the counterfeit presented,
[11:17] Speaker 1: is greater than the temporary satisfaction that we may get
[11:20] Speaker 1: from it.
[11:20] Speaker 2: Matthew four, verse ten through eleven.
[11:23] Speaker 1: And this is when Jesus was tempted by the devil
[11:25] Speaker 1: after forty days of fasting. Right, he's vulnerable, sorry, he's
[11:28] Speaker 1: in the wilderness alone, hungry, weak, The devil always comes
[11:33] Speaker 1: to you when you're desperate. Then Jesus said to him,
[11:36] Speaker 1: away with you, sayan, for it is written, you shall
[11:38] Speaker 1: worship the Lord, your God, and him only you shall serve.
[11:42] Speaker 1: Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and
[11:45] Speaker 1: ministered to him. And that last verse verse eleven, talking
[11:50] Speaker 1: about after the devil left, the angels came and ministered
[11:53] Speaker 1: to him.
[11:54] Speaker 2: Just imagine where we would be in.
[11:56] Speaker 1: Our lives, the things that we would have experienced if
[12:00] Speaker 1: we did not let our temptations and our desperations overcome us.
[12:04] Speaker 1: If you are constantly falling for the counterfeit, if you're
[12:07] Speaker 1: constantly falling for what the devil has for you instead
[12:10] Speaker 1: of waiting for God's promise, if you're constantly falling victim
[12:13] Speaker 1: to your own desperation, how will you ever experience angels
[12:18] Speaker 1: ministering to you? How will you ever experience the victory?
[12:22] Speaker 1: You are always feel defeated. You're always going to fall
[12:25] Speaker 1: into the cycle of desperation, falling for temptation, defeat, desperation,
[12:30] Speaker 1: falling for temptation, defeat. Let's break that cycle. We can
[12:34] Speaker 1: break that cycle. And then when we talk about the
[12:37] Speaker 1: victory of not falling for your temptation is greater than
[12:41] Speaker 1: temporary satisfaction. Let's talk about the temporary satisfaction. Okay, key,
[12:46] Speaker 1: wear it temporary, and sometimes it don't even really be satisfying.
[12:51] Speaker 1: I realize once I came back to Christ, right, I
[12:56] Speaker 1: had this certain thing that I was struggling with that
[12:58] Speaker 1: always felt good to me before Christ, pre Christ, and
[13:02] Speaker 1: I never had a problem with it, or I guess
[13:05] Speaker 1: not pre Christ, but when I was living in the
[13:08] Speaker 1: world right, and then the temptation re emerged after I
[13:12] Speaker 1: gave my life back to Christ and after I fell
[13:14] Speaker 1: for it.
[13:15] Speaker 2: I sat back and I realized, like, yo, that didn't
[13:19] Speaker 2: hit like.
[13:22] Speaker 1: This didn't feel as good as it used to, Like
[13:25] Speaker 1: that low key didn't hit like sin doesn't even feel
[13:29] Speaker 1: as good as it used to. And I realized, I
[13:32] Speaker 1: don't even want this anymore. So now not only have
[13:34] Speaker 1: I fallen and I'm falling into sin, and now I
[13:38] Speaker 1: have to repent and you know, talk to God and
[13:41] Speaker 1: you know, get back up. Not only have I failed,
[13:46] Speaker 1: but what I failed for didn't even really feel that good.
[13:51] Speaker 1: And this is just a testament to the closer you
[13:53] Speaker 1: get to Christ, sin really stops feeling good like the
[13:56] Speaker 1: sin just don't hit like it used to. I used
[14:00] Speaker 1: to really get deep, like when I tell you, like
[14:03] Speaker 1: deep personal satisfaction from certain things. Like it used to
[14:06] Speaker 1: feel really good when I did certain sin back in
[14:10] Speaker 1: the day.
[14:11] Speaker 2: I try to do that. Now it doesn't even It's
[14:15] Speaker 2: like that was it like?
[14:19] Speaker 1: And I think that it's more than just a mental Well,
[14:22] Speaker 1: I know it's more than just a mental thing. It's
[14:23] Speaker 1: a physical thing. Because we know that sin is physical
[14:27] Speaker 1: and ps I'm thirty eight. David writes about the physical
[14:29] Speaker 1: repercussions of sin. He says, let's start in verse two.
[14:34] Speaker 1: For your arros pierce me deeply, and your hand presses
[14:37] Speaker 1: me down. There is no soundness in my flesh because
[14:39] Speaker 1: of your anger, nor any health in my bones because
[14:42] Speaker 1: of my sin. He doesn't have health in his bones
[14:45] Speaker 1: because of his sin. For my iniquities have gone over
[14:48] Speaker 1: my head like a heavy burden. They are too heavy
[14:50] Speaker 1: for me. My wounds are foul and festering because of
[14:53] Speaker 1: my foolishness.
[14:54] Speaker 2: I am troubled.
[14:56] Speaker 1: My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolish See,
[15:02] Speaker 1: we like to do foolishness and then blame God when
[15:05] Speaker 1: stuff don't work out.
[15:06] Speaker 2: Ahm ah, I'm bookie. Ah ahm, Bookie. Let's reel it
[15:09] Speaker 2: back in.
[15:11] Speaker 1: My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness,
[15:14] Speaker 1: your foolishness, my foolishness.
[15:17] Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, clock that seat, Okay. I am troubled. I
[15:20] Speaker 2: am bowed down greatly.
[15:22] Speaker 1: I go mourning all the day long, for my loins
[15:24] Speaker 1: are full of inflammation, and there is no soundness in
[15:26] Speaker 1: my flesh. I am feeble and severely broken. I've grown
[15:30] Speaker 1: because of the turmoil of my heart. Lord, all my
[15:32] Speaker 1: desires before you, and my signing is not hidden from you,
[15:35] Speaker 1: my heart pants. My strength fails me, as for the
[15:38] Speaker 1: light of my eyes it also has gone from me.
[15:41] Speaker 1: And then David goes on and on and on talking
[15:43] Speaker 1: about how he physically feels the repercussions of his sin.
[15:48] Speaker 1: Sin is not something that just surrounds us. It's not
[15:50] Speaker 1: always just spiritual. Physically, you can feel your sin. When
[15:55] Speaker 1: you're deep in sin, things physically feel different. That's why
[15:59] Speaker 1: when you get saved or when you come back to Christ,
[16:02] Speaker 1: you be like, oh, I can't even listen to that music,
[16:05] Speaker 1: Like I physically cringe. I can't even listen to that
[16:08] Speaker 1: I can't watch that anymore. I'm more aware of this.
[16:12] Speaker 1: I can't do what I used to do. It doesn't
[16:14] Speaker 1: feel good to me anymore.
[16:15] Speaker 2: Sin literally has a feeling to it.
[16:18] Speaker 1: You are a new creature in Christ. There is a
[16:21] Speaker 1: one hundred percent renewal, and that's why sin just doesn't
[16:25] Speaker 1: hit the same anymore. You can't enjoy your sin anymore.
[16:27] Speaker 1: I sat back and I was just like dog like,
[16:31] Speaker 1: he really has saved me from this sin. He has
[16:33] Speaker 1: saved me from not only wanting to do this sin,
[16:37] Speaker 1: but also the physical payoff, the reward that I felt
[16:41] Speaker 1: like I used to get from this sin. I don't
[16:43] Speaker 1: even have that anymore, any incentive I have to sin
[16:46] Speaker 1: in this way.
[16:47] Speaker 2: I'm good. It literally is doing nothing for me anyway.
[16:52] Speaker 1: We need to practice not letting weak, temporary satisfaction be
[16:57] Speaker 1: greater to us in the moment than the victory that
[17:01] Speaker 1: we have over our sin, the victory that we have
[17:03] Speaker 1: over our temptations, over our desperation, the victory that we
[17:06] Speaker 1: can claim over not accepting counterfeits in our lives. And
[17:10] Speaker 1: I think we need to have a deep conversation also
[17:12] Speaker 1: about when you accept a counterfeit in your life, you
[17:15] Speaker 1: may think it's not doing that much damage, right, Like
[17:18] Speaker 1: I'm just doing this until something better comes along. You
[17:22] Speaker 1: have to come to terms with the fact that something
[17:24] Speaker 1: better may never come along because you're keeping the counterfeit
[17:28] Speaker 1: next to you. So if we're talking about relationships, for example,
[17:31] Speaker 1: and you have a man in your life that you
[17:33] Speaker 1: know God told you that you should not be with,
[17:35] Speaker 1: and sometimes it doesn't even take God telling us that
[17:38] Speaker 1: we shouldn't be with this person. We know, we know
[17:42] Speaker 1: this man don't let to go to church, So why
[17:44] Speaker 1: are you, as a Christian woman dating him? This man
[17:47] Speaker 1: curses and likes to go out and drink, So why
[17:50] Speaker 1: are you, as a Christian woman trying to date this man.
[17:53] Speaker 1: God don't have to thump us on the head to
[17:55] Speaker 1: tell us. It's sitting right in front of us. Sometimes,
[17:58] Speaker 1: like that be the thing for me, Like a lot
[18:01] Speaker 1: of us be praying about, Oh God, remove this person
[18:03] Speaker 1: from my life. Bro, the answer is sitting right here,
[18:09] Speaker 1: clear as day. Just get rid of them, Just.
[18:15] Speaker 2: Get rid of them.
[18:16] Speaker 1: We be praying to asking God to do things that
[18:19] Speaker 1: we can do in a second that He has already
[18:21] Speaker 1: given us the power to do. Sometimes I know he'd
[18:24] Speaker 1: be looking down on us like, girl, actually, I ain't
[18:26] Speaker 1: gonna do nothing because I'm waiting to see what you're
[18:28] Speaker 1: gonna do. And I've experienced that before too, keeping relationships
[18:32] Speaker 1: that I shouldn't and praying over them.
[18:35] Speaker 2: Like, well, God, you got control over this.
[18:38] Speaker 1: If I shouldn't be with this person, or I shouldn't
[18:40] Speaker 1: be friends with this person, or I shouldn't be dating
[18:42] Speaker 1: this person, just remove them.
[18:44] Speaker 2: The whole time he up there.
[18:45] Speaker 1: With his arms crossed like, nah, you remove him, Nah,
[18:49] Speaker 1: you remove him.
[18:50] Speaker 2: Actually, I've experienced this, y'all.
[18:53] Speaker 1: I've always said, you know, God would do a Rico
[18:55] Speaker 1: sweep when you pray the removal prayer. I personally experience God,
[19:00] Speaker 1: I'm not removing that person. Actually, God allowing him to
[19:03] Speaker 1: stick around because God is testing me. He wants to
[19:05] Speaker 1: see what I'm going to do. He wants to see
[19:08] Speaker 1: if I'm going to obey. No, I'm not gonna remove
[19:11] Speaker 1: this person. Let's see what you're gonna do with MONI.
[19:13] Speaker 1: Because I've already given you the resources to know that
[19:16] Speaker 1: this is not right. I've given you the Holy Spirit
[19:19] Speaker 1: to tell you that it's not right. You're ignoring these things.
[19:21] Speaker 1: I'm testing you. I'm trying to see what you're gonna do.
[19:24] Speaker 1: I'm testing your obedience.
[19:26] Speaker 2: But yes, let's.
[19:27] Speaker 1: Say that you're holding on to a romantic relationship that
[19:30] Speaker 1: you know that you should not be engaging with. But
[19:32] Speaker 1: you're like, oh, it's not that serious, because well, you know,
[19:35] Speaker 1: I'm not gonna stop him from finding my husband. Don't
[19:37] Speaker 1: let your boyfriend stop you from finding your husband. If
[19:39] Speaker 1: God's to me my husband, I'll say by to him.
[19:42] Speaker 2: M M.
[19:42] Speaker 1: It don't work like that. You can't have one foot in,
[19:45] Speaker 1: one foot out with God. He's never been a one
[19:48] Speaker 1: foot in, one foot out type of God. You know that,
[19:50] Speaker 1: He's never been a straddle the fence. He's never been
[19:53] Speaker 1: a keep something around until something better comes along. No,
[19:56] Speaker 1: you trust him and you give your all to him,
[19:58] Speaker 1: and that's when you see him work. You can't be
[20:00] Speaker 1: praying for what God has for you but still holding
[20:03] Speaker 1: on to the luggage, the baggage.
[20:07] Speaker 2: God do not work like that.
[20:09] Speaker 1: Until you are able to release everything out of your
[20:12] Speaker 1: life that you should not have and fully put your
[20:15] Speaker 1: faith and trust in him. That's when he reveals himself.
[20:18] Speaker 1: Can God reveal himself in any situation? Of course, y'all.
[20:21] Speaker 1: But all I'm saying is you cannot expect God to
[20:24] Speaker 1: move in your life when you are still wilfully holding
[20:27] Speaker 1: on to sin and holding on to something that He
[20:29] Speaker 1: told you that you do not need and you should
[20:31] Speaker 1: not have in your life. And when you're holding on
[20:34] Speaker 1: to that man that you know you should not be
[20:36] Speaker 1: with just to satisfy the time, just because you're lonely.
[20:39] Speaker 1: Oh he okay for right now. But when God sind
[20:42] Speaker 1: his big one, then that's you know, I'm not gonna
[20:45] Speaker 1: let him stop me from my husband. Like I said,
[20:47] Speaker 1: all you're doing is proving to yourself that you don't
[20:49] Speaker 1: fully trust God and delaying what God actually has for you.
[20:53] Speaker 1: He is an all or nothing God. You are with
[20:56] Speaker 1: him or against him. Jesus himself said that you are
[21:00] Speaker 1: a friend or an enemy. You are going to heaven
[21:03] Speaker 1: or you are going to hell. It ain't no in between.
[21:06] Speaker 1: It never has been.
[21:07] Speaker 2: With God.
[21:08] Speaker 1: He has always been a very black and white God.
[21:11] Speaker 1: You obey him or you're not in the story. And
[21:15] Speaker 1: this is something that I recently just had to put
[21:17] Speaker 1: to practice in my own life, like, no, I can't
[21:20] Speaker 1: keep things around in my life to temporarily satisfy me.
[21:24] Speaker 1: But at the same time saying well, if God has
[21:26] Speaker 1: something better for me, he'll give it to me. No,
[21:29] Speaker 1: I can't entertain sin but still hope that God gives
[21:33] Speaker 1: me what I.
[21:33] Speaker 2: Want out of life. It don't work like that.
[21:36] Speaker 1: I had to recently be like, no, I'm going to
[21:39] Speaker 1: give God my all because that's how he's going to
[21:43] Speaker 1: show up in my life. When God shows up, he
[21:46] Speaker 1: gives it his all. Right, So why shouldn't we be
[21:48] Speaker 1: giving our all to him? So in this season of
[21:51] Speaker 1: us letting go of our desperation, letting go of the
[21:54] Speaker 1: temptation that comes from one team to take that counterfeit
[21:58] Speaker 1: that is presented to us, when we understand that we
[22:02] Speaker 1: don't have to be anxious for it, we pray number
[22:04] Speaker 1: one also that no temptation has the power over us.
[22:08] Speaker 1: And when we understand that we are already victorious and
[22:12] Speaker 1: that the victory of not falling is far greater than
[22:16] Speaker 1: any kind of temporary satisfaction, that's when we truly release desperation.
[22:22] Speaker 1: That's when we truly say, Okay, God, I'm going all
[22:25] Speaker 1: in for you because I want to see everything that
[22:28] Speaker 1: you have for me. I'm not trailing behind anything that
[22:31] Speaker 1: is temporary in my life. I'm not holding on to anything.
[22:34] Speaker 1: I'm releasing my hands of everything. This is how you
[22:37] Speaker 1: let go of your desperation, you guys. This is how
[22:40] Speaker 1: through the word you understand man like, I don't have
[22:44] Speaker 1: to be desperate for anything, I don't have to be anxious.
[22:46] Speaker 2: I don't have to accept the counterfeit.
[22:48] Speaker 1: My God that lives through me has already overcome the world,
[22:52] Speaker 1: so He's already overcome this too. And this is just
[22:55] Speaker 1: the encouragement that I need when I feel desperate. I
[22:58] Speaker 1: just remind myself of these versus and it recenters me
[23:03] Speaker 1: and it allows me to really release it so that
[23:06] Speaker 1: the peace that God has for me over this situation
[23:09] Speaker 1: will allow me to not be impatient, not be desperate,
[23:12] Speaker 1: not you know, release it all. So we're gonna close
[23:16] Speaker 1: out with this episode. I hope that you guys have
[23:18] Speaker 1: enjoyed this series. I am gonna take a little bit
[23:20] Speaker 1: of a break from the podcast. I won't be posting
[23:22] Speaker 1: next week, but I will be starting back up in July,
[23:25] Speaker 1: where we are going to go through a Proverbs a day.
[23:28] Speaker 1: I've never done that before and I really want to
[23:30] Speaker 1: try it. So yeah, we're gonna do a Proverbs a day.
[23:33] Speaker 1: That's very ambitious for me with posting consistently, but I
[23:36] Speaker 1: want to do it. And we are going to together
[23:39] Speaker 1: go through Proverbs for July, and I just hope that
[23:42] Speaker 1: you guys are yeah, that you that you're following me,
[23:45] Speaker 1: you're subscribed, and we'll go through it together because I've
[23:47] Speaker 1: never done it either.
[23:49] Speaker 2: Proverbs was really a feat for.
[23:51] Speaker 1: Me when I was reading through the Bible, so I
[23:52] Speaker 1: figure there is a certain way to break this down
[23:55] Speaker 1: to make a little bit more palatable, and of Proverbs
[23:58] Speaker 1: a day, I think is really going to be a
[24:00] Speaker 1: great study. So I will see you guys in July.
[24:03] Speaker 1: Have a great rest of June, and yeah, I'll see
[24:06] Speaker 1: you guys later.
[24:07] Speaker 2: Bye.

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