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You have to let go of what's dead to make room for what you want to live right. You have to let go of the dead things. Sometimes that is a person, sometimes that's a place, sometimes it's a job, but sometimes it's an emotion. Right, I think about how many times we make good decisions but then, because we feel sad, we go back. We go back to something that we know is not good for us, because we don't want to sit in the sad feeling. Don't bring no drama my way. Don't bring no drama my way. Don't bring no drama my way. What's up everybody? It's your girl.

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Lish Speaks, and welcome back to another episode of. I'll Just Let Myself In the podcast, where we don't wait for imaginary permission slips, we let ourselves into our God-given doors. I hope that you're excited about this episode because we're going to be talking about the resurrection, and not just the resurrection of Christ, but resurrection in your life. This one is called Into Resurrection. Let's get into it.

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Before we get into our episode, we have one of the best segments in podcasting and it's called what I'm Stepping In. It's where I tell you about the sneakers I'm wearing for today's episode, and today I am wearing an Air Force One the Air Force One LV8 ice cream edition. I love this shoe. It's very cute, very demure, very chill. I got it at the Nike factory store actually in here in Georgia and it's a grade school edition Very, very chill shoe. You're seeing the colors on the screen Mint green, a little pink, a little brown. I got these a couple of Easters ago Resurrection Sundays ago and I wore them then. I don't think I've worn them since. As I was looking through my sneakers today and I had this shirt picked out, I was like, oh yeah, they kind of go with this. So you got the vibes today, but those are the Air Force One LV8 ice creams and y'all know what we say on this podcast. If you like them, go get you some.

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So on this episode we're talking about resurrection, because Easter Sunday is coming, resurrection Sunday is coming. I know there's some. There's been controversy in the past about what to call it. I think what we mean by it is most important, but I love the idea of talking about resurrection because resurrection is. It's so important.

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When we think about Jesus resurrecting from death on a cross, not only should we celebrate the fact that he died for our sins and his resurrection allows us to have new life because of it. But we also need to think about the fact that that resurrection power lives within us so that the dead things in our lives, the things that we struggle with, the things that we fear right. We have power to change them because of Jesus' sacrifice. One of my favorite scriptures about the resurrection is in Philippians 3, starting in verse 10. It says that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being comforted by his death, if by any means I may obtain to the resurrection from the dead. This is Paul talking and he talks about the power of the resurrection of Christ and if you know Paul's story, he knew that better than most.

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But I think about the power of the resurrection of Christ in my life and what that can mean for me, and it's humbling because in order to believe in the power of resurrection, you got to know that a thing is dead right. You got to know that something is not resurrection. You got to know that a thing is dead right. You got to know that something is not working. You got to know that something needs to be changed and in my life I try to really focus in on how God can change me, can fix me, and so one of the premises of this podcast if you listen a lot, you know that our premise is that we are letting ourselves into our God-given doors, and I want to encourage someone in this episode to allow God to resurrect your dreams.

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Allow God to resurrect your dreams. There are things that you are thinking of right, things that have been on your heart, things that have been on your mind, things that you wanted to do. Since childhood You've had that idea. You've always wanted to work in that field. You've always wanted to, you know, become that thing, and it can be something as big as a, you know, superstar being in the entertainment industry. Or it can be something simple, like I always wanted to be a teacher or I always wanted to be a dentist. Right, I say simple. Those are the things that keep the world turning right. But it could be something that's everyday, right as the people that we see, and sometimes life just gets in the way, sometimes our upbringing gets in the way, sometimes circumstances that happen to us get in the way. But I want you to be clear that God has the power to resurrect any dream that you've had. Ask yourself is there something that I want to do that I'm telling myself I cannot do, and why? And when you think about that, take some time, even if you have to write it down journal. It take some time to really think through what lies you're telling yourself, because the truth is that's the only thing that's holding you back. It's the things that you are telling yourself.

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I want to look at the definition of resurrection. So the definition of resurrection is the act of rising from the dead to life again. It's the act of restoration, spiritual renewal and victory, and this word is used, obviously, primarily about Jesus and the Christian faith, but it's also used in the secular world. Right To resurrect the thing means to bring it back to life, means to bring it back to life. There's some parts of my story that if you follow me on social media you know, but if you're new here you might not know, and I think that it bears telling and reminding, even for those who know the story, because we can be so tempted to let past failures stop us from moving into new territory, not understanding that God will resurrect those very things, so that you understand that he wasn't finished with you there.

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So recently I had the opportunity to go to the BMI um BMI trailblazers of gospel ceremony. It was an amazing ceremony. I had a great time. You will have seen you know you've seen that episode by now if you watch regularly. If not, go back and check it out. But I was there and I was able to do the red carpet on the media side. I was able to be in the room at the media table and sit amongst people who've been doing media for some time, learn and just have a really great experience.

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Well, in that time, because I've been in the entertainment industry for a long time, I inevitably ran into people that I knew. And I ran into a guy named Omar. Shout out to O, he, omar, has known me for about a decade and so I ran into Omar. We kind of were both like, hey, you know what? Like almost like what are you doing here? Even though I wouldn't even be there he used to work for BMI. Anyway, I ran into him and he's like, hey, lish, what's up? Like you know. And uh, he's like what you doing in here, like how you doing, and I'm like, hey, I'm good, I'm on the media side. Like, uh, you know I was, I did the red carpet and he looked at me with like a sideways look and he said to me you're not doing music anymore, just like that.

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And I was like, um, I mean, you know I'm on, I'm doing media now and I'm not like I'm like I got a podcast. You know, I like excited about my new endeavors. And he literally looked at me and said you need to be writing music, celebrating this space that I'm in. Right, I'm celebrating being on the media. So I love being a media personality and learning even what that means more and more, week by week. You guys have heard me say this before.

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I studied the greats. I watched the greats, anyone who's had a daytime talk show, a nighttime talk show, all the people who have been on 2020 and Dateline and all that stuff. All of them I've studied because I want to know how to interview well. I want to know how to convey stories and topics that I feel like are important to media, particularly encouragement media, christian media, positive media. It may not always be Christian, but something that will uplift people. I want to be able to do that well. So I'm excited about this, this part of my journey, right.

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But if I'm honest, if I'm keeping it really super, super, super real. There is a part of me that always wonders, you know, if, if, if music was the right thing for me, like if I should have been doing this all along. And it's crazy because people will, people will see me doing this media stuff and they'll be like yo, this is your lane list, like this is what you should have been doing. And I'm thinking to myself well, when I was doing music, did they think it was corny Like, did they think that's not what I should be doing, even though some of those very same people were very supportive of my, of my music. And so, as as of late, I've been dibbling and dabbling and even in that space, I've been talking to my producer and my manager and just being like, I'm feeling like, do I still have it? You know, what Like can I still produce at the level that I feel like I was producing before?

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And I felt like when O looked at me with his head to the side a little bit, if you know O, you know he has one of those like kind of looks like New Yorkers have it just hit me like I should. I shouldn't give up on this gift that I have, and so I won't tell too much about the conversation because it's personal, but he went on to encourage me. He's like Liz, you got one of the like your pen, your sound like. And it's funny because O was the person who was running BET Music Matters when I was a BET Music Matters artist about a decade ago, got me on that stage and just really believed in me. He's the person who got me into my first um writing camp with BMI when he worked at BMI.

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Just always have been the same, no matter when I've seen him over the last decade, no matter where he was at I think he's at Sony now, but no matter where he was at in the music industry, if he could help, he would help. He's actually the person who told me and I've said this on the podcast before as well he's the person who told me just give me something to support, I'll support you, but you got to give me consistent things to support, right, and that's what I was putting a single out like every other year. And so to have him say that to me, even though, right, I'm on this great platform here on Holy Culture, on Sirius XM, even though I'm doing red carpet and just I literally just had interviewed Kirk Franklin, like he was like that's cool, but you need to be right in music, and he went on to introduce me to some people here in Atlanta that that you know, he he has worked with in the past and he spoke very highly of me. Stuff, you can't pay for. You can't pay people to go introduce you to someone who could change your life and say all these great things about you, right, you can't pay for that. I say all that to say this I needed encouragement to resurrect a thing that I said was dead, but God didn't say it was dead.

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I think about Jesus and how people thought Jesus was dead, but God knew Jesus was going to rise again, right, and the truth of the matter is there are things in our lives that we have called dead, that other people have called dead, that we have thought to ourselves. Maybe that just wasn't for me, you know. You may even be thinking you're a failure in a certain thing, right, I've had that thought about many things in my life, but maybe not. Maybe God can resurrect that thing if it is his will. You know, I don't know what will happen when it comes to music in my life. I have no idea, right, I have a passion for music. I can't go a day without talking about it. I certainly don't go a day without listening to it. My ideas have ideas. I have ideas and concepts for other artists and albums that they can do and stuff I could write for them, because that was another part of my career.

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When you know, back in the day, when I knew I was writing for other artists and figuring things out in that lane as well, I don't know what God would do, but it convicted me. It convicted me and he wouldn't let it go. After the event he came back to me and was like yo person I connect, like the people I connect with, like, don't fumble it. Like, but you know, like, get on your stuff. You should be writing, you know. And, as God would have it, I was going to a studio session after that for another artist that I'm getting to know. That artist played me his music and I left there super inspired, like man, like it's just. Music is just so powerful. But if you would have left it to me, I would have said that part of my life has kind of died and even in the way that I would speak about my career like people would be like. So, like, how did you connect with Holy Culture? I used to be.

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I'm kind of still I don't know if I'm an artist I was doubting myself in a way that God never intended for me to doubt. And so this week, as I was preparing for this podcast, that's the thing that kind of kept coming to my mind, like there are things in your life that need to be resurrected that you call dead, that God didn't even call dead. Dreams that you may have that may help people. When I think about my music whether it's for me or for another artist that I'm writing for right, I know what I'm putting into the earth is healing. I know that I'm not going to write anything that you can't play in front of your seven-year-old niece, right? I'm not going to write anything that's going to put somebody down, or certainly not going to write anything that doesn't uplift my people. You know what I mean. Like that's just not going to happen, and so why would God not want that in the earth? Why wouldn't I want to put that out?

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I had to ask myself some really deep questions about my own insecurities, about my relationship to failure or my relationship to things not going, not moving as quickly as I want, because when you're gifted, you will pivot. When you don't find success in something quickly, right, and it's a gift it is a gift. Knowing when the season has ended is a gift, right. However, sometimes you're still supposed to persevere in the other thing as well, and I think that that's part of what God is calling me to do. What shape that will take, I don't know. I'll tell you this much. I should I say this on camera, I guess I will.

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I don't have interest in performing my music to a room full of people who don't want to hear it. I think I've done the. Everybody put your hands in the air when I say this. You say that, like, I've done it. I've been, I've traveled, I've performed in different states, cities, I've done the open mic, I've done all of it, and so I think part of my I guess confusion about my relationship to music sometimes can be in. You know the grind that I know that it takes to get a song off the ground, but you know what God can do, whatever he wants to do with it, and I think I got to open up my mind to that.

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So what is it in your life that you call dead Right? Is it your education? Is it you know I really want to go back to school, but I don't know, I can't, I don't think I can do it? Is it a promotion at work? Is there something that you know you want to go after but you're telling yourself that you can't do this and that you're a failure at that and all these different things? What is it in your life that you need some resurrection power over? You know to get really deep and honest. Is it something in your character? Is it an addiction? Right?

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Some of us, you know, have been through things that cause us to look for escapes. They cause us to do anything, to not feel the pain or trauma of things that we've been through. And this runs rampant in the Christian community and I feel like we are just getting to a place, maybe in the last five to 10 years, and that could be just because of the explosion of podcasts and social media clips and all that that we're honestly having conversations about Christians being addicted to things like pornography, weed, alcohol. You know even some ministers being addicted to these things, and you can be let's. Let's be honest. You can be addicted to shopping. You could be addicted to food. You know, and these are the things that hide in plain sight. You know you may need God's resurrection power to bring you out of that addiction, because you can't do it on your own power.

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I want to encourage you to think through the things in your life that are not of God, that you know deep down in your heart, man, that this is not the way God would want me to live. He wouldn't want me to live in this addiction to fear. I was listening to a sermon this morning and I was like Sarah Jake. She was talking about how we need to call things on earth as they are in heaven and she said the angels are not walking around depressed in heaven. The angels are not walking around full of fear and anxiety in heaven. So what are we not doing as Christians to call things on earth as they are in heaven? That convicted me, because if if we can call things to be on earth as it is in heaven, then why are we not using that resurrection power to change the things in our character and in our life?

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You know God doesn't want us to be slaves to anything but him. He doesn't want to be slaves to anything but righteousness, and that's in the word. He does not want want to be slaves to anything but righteousness, and that's in the word. He does not want you to be a slave to any substance. He doesn't want you to be a slave to any product. Anything you can buy, anything you can get right. I'll tell you to be honest.

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You know I've had to deal with my addiction to shopping. You know, I every time I have any sort of accomplishment and baby the word accomplishment. It could be anything, it could be anything, right? I sent the emails that I was supposed to send. It's like, oh, let me just treat myself, let me go scroll, you know, whatever site I'm on at the time, and I think that there's something in me that had to start really addressing what is the feeling I'm looking for? What am I looking for? Is it some sort of validation? Am I trying to prove something to someone? You know, am I trying to prove something to myself? You know, just because I can afford it, should I just buy it? Prove something to myself? You know, just because I can afford it, should I just buy it? I had to really work through some things and God has been helping me to deal with and address that part of my addiction. You guys, we've already talked about my battle with my weight. That, by the way, I'm winning and working on, but it's a struggle to make sure that I am putting food in its proper place. To even talk about that on camera is a victory for me, right, but it's been God's resurrection power to help me change the things in my life that I need to change.

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Some people are battling some real stuff. Real stuff. Bring it to the altar and allow the same power that rose Jesus from the dead and allowed him to forgive your sins to allow you to change your life. You don't have to live in the space that you've been living in. God wants better for you and he will give you better if you ask.

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I think through times in my life where I felt very lost times in my life where I felt like I wasn't sure if ministry was what I should be doing. I wasn't sure if the place I lived in was where I should be living. I wasn't sure if the person I was dating was who I should be dating, and the only thing that allowed me to get through periods like that was having a deep connection to my relationship with God, understanding that I could go to him about anything, understanding that I could talk to him in a very, very real and honest way. You know, when you think about the way that David spoke to God, that's the type of stuff I'm talking about Talking to God in a way that keeps it so real that he can't, that you can't help, but to feel seen, heard and loved by him once you see that he still accepts you after you said certain things from him. You know, jesus rising from the grave proves that nothing is impossible with God. You know they drove nails through his wrist and his feet. He was dead, dead, dead, but then the stone was rolled away.

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There's no situation in your life that you cannot come back from. There's no mistake that you've made that God can't use for his glory. There is nothing that you could tell me that will make me say, oh yeah, I don't know what. God, yeah, god can't do nothing about nothing, nothing. And let me just say this for those of you watching who have made mistakes that feel um, catastrophic, that feel what's the word I'm looking for? Final terminal, that feel like they just cannot, you can't come back from that thing. I want you to consider that maybe you can't go back to who you used to be, but you can certainly be somebody new who can bring more glory to God from what happened to you.

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I can't tell you being in media. I can't tell you how many stories I've heard and interviews I've watched. Like I told you, I watch a lot. It is the stories of people's comeback that are the most impactful. When someone has made a terrible mistake or went through a terrible situation and then they come back and go further and farther. There's nothing more inspiring than that.

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There's this guy that I love on social media. His name is Wallow. If you're from the hood, you probably know Wallow. But Wallow did a bid. He was in jail for drugs and violence. I don't know all the details of his situation, but he was in jail for years, decades.

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Okay, wallow came out and began to do motivational videos on his Instagram. Okay, in the rain, early, late, just him and his phone, a tripod, changing clothes in the car. He running down the street, good morning, good morning. If you watch Wallo, you know what I'm talking about. Over time and I remember when Wallo first started posting on Instagram over time, he started a podcast with his cousin Gilly. Gilly is a rapper from Philly they're both from Philly Started a podcast called Million Dollars Worth the Game where they sit down and they talk to young. They call them young bulls, but young guys. You know people in the industry, gangsters. You know people who may be caught up and try to warn them and really give them game about how they could change their lives. And when I watch Wallow, there's a video he has Dancing to Sounds of Blackness, optimistic. I watch that video at least once a week.

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One because it just makes me happy. But two, he is a physical reminder to me of what happens when you allow God to change your life. And I don't even know if he identifies as a Christian or not, but he is a very clear example to me of letting God change a situation that other people would have written you off, cast you out, said you wasn't going to be nothing, said you were going to go back. I remember him saying that you know they told him you're going to be back here and he said I'm never coming back here and I'm never going back. And it's funny because there'll be situations where you know things will happen and he'd be like God. You know I could crash out, but I'm not like I'm, because he hasn't really changed. That's what power can do in your life, you know. It can change you to a person that you didn't even know that you could be and his former. His former is greater than his latter who he is now in his forties and it is so much greater than the reputation that he had as a young man. You know, because he, he really allowed his life to change.

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I think about John P Key, who shared his story at the BMI, at the BMI Trailblazer Awards. He talked about how he used to be on cocaine, how he used to be on cocaine and he built his church at the very place that he used to be doing and selling drugs. That's the resurrection power of God changing a story. There's nothing you can tell me that you've done, seen, heard that you. You no way you can tell me that you've messed up. That would make me say that God cannot redeem your situation. I promise you he can redeem your situation.

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So, as we're going into this this season right Of of good Friday and Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, I really want you to start meditating on the resurrection power in your life and what God can do in your life. I got three things I want you to think about very practically that can help you in this time. These are three things that you can do. I won't say easily I was about to say easily, but that ain't true because it is going to take some some honesty with yourself, may even take some accountability from a friend, but these are three things that you can do to see resurrection in the dead areas of your life.

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First, you have to let go of what's dead to make room for what you want to live. Right, you have to let go of the dead things. Sometimes that is a person, sometimes that's a place, sometimes it's a job, but sometimes it's an emotion. Right, I think about how many times we make good decisions but then, because we feel sad, we go back. We go back to something that we know is not good for us, because we don't want to sit in the sad feeling.

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You got to let go of the thing and, practically, to do that real quick, I'm give you a practical within the practical is to really acknowledge what the decaying of that thing is making your life smell like? Right, we know a decaying thing. Don't smell good, right, we know old food in your trash. Can you be like. What is that? I didn't take the trash.

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Sometimes there's something that is dead. You are not acknowledging it and it is stinking up your entire life, right? You can't focus at work because that relationship is jacking you up. You can't focus at work because your health ain't good. You can't excel in the things that you want to excel in the life because you don't feel well, because you won't take care of this. This mindset, this dead mindset that you have, that's holding you back. You've got to really acknowledge what parts of your life are not working so that you have that's holding you back. You've got to really acknowledge what parts of your life are not working so that you can make room for the parts that God wants to let live.

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You know, everything you lose is not a loss. You guys have heard that before. Everything you lose is not a loss, and sometimes you have to let things go so that you can have better things. We've all seen that example of you know, the little girl with the teddy bear and Jesus is asking her for the bear and behind his back he has, like the biggest teddy bear ever. It really is like that in life. Every time I have decided to let go of something that just wasn't what I was supposed to be doing, even if it was just wasn't what I was supposed to be doing for the moment. Right Like real talk. I let go of music, and God has blessed my life abundantly in the media space. Right Like, sometimes it's not even permanent, but you got to learn to let things go if they're not working in a certain season and allow God to do what he's doing there. So I think that that's a really important one.

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The next practical that I would give you is that you have to have an identity shift. That example I gave you guys about Wallow is a perfect example for that. You got to have an identity shift. You got to tell yourself I am not that person anymore. I'm not that person. I'm not the person that does that. I'm not the person who talks like that. I'm not the person who goes to these places. I'm not that person anymore. You got to have an identity shift. You have to stop living beneath your calling. I know I know it's not easy. Trust me, anything I ever say to y'all I've said it to myself in the mirror, in my journal, in prayer times, in my prayer closet we have to stop living beneath not just our potential but our God given call.

Speaker 1: 29:56

There are things that God can resurrect in your life. You know your testimony, the things that you've been through that he can use powerfully and you don't want to tell it because you're afraid of what people will think, or you're embarrassed, or you just haven't forgiven yourself. Listen, god can use it. Anything that you want him to use, he can use. And resurrection means that you walk in the authority of whatever has happened in your life. Whatever has happened in your life, you allow God to give you the authority to use that thing to bring him glory.

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Last but not least, I think you have to speak life where there's been death, or in other words, silence, right, and that kind of goes into what I shared a little bit earlier. Sometimes you have to speak your story. I remember going through a time where I really struggled with my past. I really struggled with my emotional makeup and like not understanding why I was the way I was. I really struggled to talk through my issues about my weight and my perception of myself, and I cannot tell you how much speaking in large forms, like at church, where I get to speak to the women in my church most Wednesday nights and you know speaking about my past there, or if it's been on this podcast, or if it's just been in a conversation with a friend. I can't tell you how much speaking life into things that you know, saying the quiet part out loud, as we say I can't tell you how much it has changed things for me. It has given me the ability to really feel freedom in a place where the devil wants me to feel shame. It has given me the ability to speak powerfully over the things that other people are afraid to speak of, which gives them power. And it has allowed me to say to myself this thing will not take your mental health. This thing will not kill you. You will not allow this thing to give you anxiety. You will not allow this thing to keep you up at night. It has really allowed me to have power over the things in my life.

Speaker 1: 32:09

In Proverbs 18, verse 21,. It's a scripture I love. This is life and death are in the power of the tongue. Some of you speak so negatively about yourself, about your life, about your finances, about your looks, about your health, and then you wonder why you feel surrounded by dead things. You're not speaking any resurrection power over your life. You're not speaking any life into the things that you care about, and so some of this is, you know, it will manifest in complaining. It'll show itself in complaining. It'll show itself in just super negative self-talk.

Speaker 1: 32:47

These are things that I have worked on so hard, so much so that when it comes to life like my future, my children, my success, it is the people in my life. They'd be hard pressed to hear me say anything that even sounds like I won't be successful. You know, because by the hook or by the crook, I'm going to be successful. I'm going to figure it out. That's how much belief I have in what God has for me to do in the earth. There's been plenty of times where things have tried to stop me and get in my way, and I've had to pray for God to show me the way to go. But I know you've given me a word, you've given me a purpose, you've given me something to share. Show me how to share it.

Speaker 1: 33:35

You got to speak to those things and so if you are, you know, able to get in your word, to really read through the story of Jesus's life, death, burial and resurrection, I want to encourage you to do that. You know, my favorite account is Luke, because Luke just is, uh, detail oriented. But in any of the four gospels I want to encourage you go ahead and really read through. You'll be surprised how many Christians have never read through the full story of Jesus's life, death, burial and resurrection. Read through one of the gospels, look. Look for the characteristics of Jesus, look through his life, look through the way he went to the cross and the way he went through the cross, and see that we have a savior that is not asking us to endure anything that he hasn't endured. He's not asking us to give up anything that he wouldn't have given up. He gave up his life so that we may have life and have it to the full. He wants us to have abundance. He wants us to have joy. He wants us to operate in true belief that he can do anything. And my encouragement is always, always, always, to get people to see that. I want everybody to believe that they can do whatever God has called them to do. That's why I started this podcast.

Speaker 1: 34:58

I started this podcast to encourage you to walk through those God-given doors, because I meet so many believers who walk around as if they are not chosen by God. The Bible says you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. It's not about trying to make something about you or trying to be a superstar. It's about spreading God's word in the earth. We're here to do that, right? Yes, the rocks will cry out if we don't. But he put us here, gave us ideas and a brain and a mouth and all sorts of platforms these days and all sorts of social media. It is easier than ever to share the word of God, to share your testimony, to help people see who God is in your life. I want to encourage you to do that, but before you do that, know he is for yourself.

Speaker 1: 35:49

I talked about this a little bit in the intro and as I close out, I'll say it again. You know there's been a lot of controversy between the word Easter and, if you should say, resurrection Sunday, and I won't get into the details about how I feel about that because that's not important. But what I will say is this Does the resurrection power of Christ have a place in your life? That's the most important thing. Come to church on Easter. Do all the things that you want to do. Go to church, call the resurrection Sunday, do all the things that you want to do, but when you leave Sunday and you wake up on Monday, I want to encourage you to make sure the power of the Lord's resurrection is reigning over your life, starting with your mindset to believe that any situation can change for the better, that any dead thing can be brought to life through God's power.

Speaker 1: 36:51

I hope that this encourages you to know that there's truly a beauty in seeing something that is dead be changed, seeing something that is bad be good, seeing something that is painful be healed. There is a true power in that and we cannot ignore it. And so, as we go into this season where we're looking at, like I said, the life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, for those of us who believe, let's make sure that we don't just believe in word, but that we also believe in deed, that we also use that same belief in the resurrection of Christ that we believe will have power in our lives, that we believe that it can have power in the lives of our loved ones, that we believe those who we've been praying for for years to change their lives and to come to Christ or to find Christ, that we believe that God's resurrection power can help them, that we believe that his resurrection power can save them and can change them. I want this to be something that goes beyond one Sunday a year where we all put on our flyest outfits and head to the nearest church. You know, easter Sunday, resurrection Sunday, is the most well-attended service of the year. Christmas and Resurrection Sunday the most well-attended service of the year. Christmas and Resurrection Sunday the most well-attended, and I have no problem with that. I actually think that's a great thing. I don't care what brings you into the doors of the church Go. I hear people say, oh, are people only going to come? Because? So what, come right. But my prayer, like I said, is that when you leave, you feel the power of change that can come over your life and I pray that it allows you to walk through whatever God given doors he shows you.

Speaker 1: 38:43

This has been another episode of I'll just let myself in with your girlish speaks that, whether you are listening on Sirius XM radio channel 140, shout out to Holy Culture, or you're checking us out on Holy Culture's YouTube or my YouTube channel, I want to thank you for watching. I want to encourage you subscribe to all the channels that we have right. Subscribe to Holy Culture, subscribe to Lish Speaks, follow me at Lish Speaks on all social media platforms and, once again, as I always say, write us an email. We'd love to hear from you speakers at lish speakscom. We'd be happy to hear anything that you have to share with us, any questions you want answered or any topics that you want us to cover. As I always say here, if you can let yourself in, the mechanism to open the door is either near you or in your hand. Allow yourself to let yourself into your God-given doors and stay encouraged. I hope you guys enjoyed this one and I'll see you back for the next. Peace Bye.