One Pro-Life Brochure Changed Her Life (Interview with Izzy, a mom who chose life)

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:05.799 I Am Yours, I am yours, I am yours, s and me, 2 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:10.630 Lord, I am yours. Welcome to the Gospel Center pro life podcast. 3 00:00:10.750 --> 00:00:13.550 Can you believe that just one pro life brochure can save a life? 4 00:00:13.589 --> 00:00:17.149 And this episode we do an interview with Izzy who's babies life was safe just 5 00:00:17.269 --> 00:00:25.019 because someone got a brochure in her hands. Stay tuned. I felt show 6 00:00:25.699 --> 00:00:38.570 Passi touch your heart. Use Welcome to the Gospel Center pro life podcast. 7 00:00:38.729 --> 00:00:42.490 Appreciate you guys listening. Appreciate you guys joining us in this podcast. We'd 8 00:00:42.530 --> 00:00:46.570 appreciate if you guys would share this podcast and leave us a review. We've 9 00:00:46.609 --> 00:00:49.289 got a lot of as we shared on the last podcast, a lot of 10 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:55.560 pretty stay interesting reviews from pro abortion people who don't particularly like what we do. 11 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:59.280 But that's okay. We were able to share some of those reviews and 12 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:03.719 hope that was a blessing you guys. But we've got a special guest today 13 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.750 in this podcast. We think this really will be a blessing to you guys. 14 00:01:07.189 --> 00:01:10.950 This is a mom that chose life back in two thousand and eighteen who's 15 00:01:10.989 --> 00:01:15.390 just been a blessing to the ministry. Is he and she's joining us on 16 00:01:15.629 --> 00:01:18.939 zoom. Of course you guys can't see her, but you'll you'll hear her. 17 00:01:19.299 --> 00:01:22.140 So if the autos audios a little choppy, that might be why. 18 00:01:22.659 --> 00:01:26.459 But hopefully it'll be good quality for you guys to listen and hopefully this interview 19 00:01:26.459 --> 00:01:29.620 will be a blessing to you guys. And these interviews are designed not just 20 00:01:29.780 --> 00:01:32.299 to show how great of a ministry we have, although we think it is 21 00:01:32.420 --> 00:01:36.810 great, but it's to equip you guys. Maybe there's some things, some 22 00:01:36.930 --> 00:01:41.609 mistakes we made in reaching is he things we could have done better and she's 23 00:01:41.650 --> 00:01:44.049 going to share with us. Maybe things we could have done better, maybe 24 00:01:44.090 --> 00:01:47.519 things we did perfectly. I don't know. But either way we want you 25 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:51.840 guys to just be equipped and so sometimes you can learn from other people's experiences 26 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:56.000 and we can certainly learn from the perspective of a mom who came to an 27 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:02.390 abortion center. That's always helpful, because perspective is often times massively helpful for 28 00:02:02.469 --> 00:02:07.829 us to just connect with a heart of someone who maybe we have never been 29 00:02:07.870 --> 00:02:10.990 in their shoes before. So so is he's with us today. She's got 30 00:02:12.030 --> 00:02:16.780 her little girl, Nazi in the back seat asleep and hopefully she'll stay asleep 31 00:02:16.860 --> 00:02:23.659 for this interview, but yeah, so is he. Just introduce yourself real 32 00:02:23.740 --> 00:02:27.860 quick and and then we'll get into just sharing some of your story, some 33 00:02:27.939 --> 00:02:30.409 of your background and what ultimately brought you to the abortion center and then, 34 00:02:30.569 --> 00:02:35.210 ultimately, what turns you away. So, hi, I'm is he. 35 00:02:35.849 --> 00:02:38.729 Thank you, guys, for having us on your show. It's a blessing 36 00:02:38.849 --> 00:02:43.490 to have met you, guys. Yeah, it's a blessing to know you 37 00:02:43.729 --> 00:02:46.199 isy. You've been a real blessing to our ministry for very special woman. 38 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:53.199 Thank you, guys. Are Very special to us too. I grew up 39 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:59.310 in New York City. I was I grew up in the Bronx. When 40 00:02:59.310 --> 00:03:05.270 I was eleven, my parents got divorced. They both got into newish relationships 41 00:03:05.270 --> 00:03:09.310 almost immediately. I had moved in with my mom and, you know, 42 00:03:09.469 --> 00:03:14.060 she would go out with her partner. I would be home alone on the 43 00:03:14.099 --> 00:03:16.699 weekends and I had lots of freedom. I made friends from the neighborhood who 44 00:03:16.699 --> 00:03:22.020 were a lot older than me. I started smoking pot. Eventually I dropped 45 00:03:22.020 --> 00:03:25.699 out of school and I just went downhill from there. HMM. I have 46 00:03:25.979 --> 00:03:30.729 seen God's hands deliver me time and time again, even while I was in 47 00:03:30.889 --> 00:03:36.930 sin. Yeah, you see, the seed was planted in me at a 48 00:03:37.009 --> 00:03:40.520 young age. I have family who passtor, a church in the Bronx and 49 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:45.240 which I was actually dedicated by my uncle through marriage there in that church. 50 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:51.800 My father wound up going to prison. My mom and I unfortunately never had 51 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:55.509 a good relationship. It's now work in progress and I'm praying to God that 52 00:03:55.590 --> 00:04:01.789 he will restore our relationship. Yeah, Amen, I know. I knew 53 00:04:01.830 --> 00:04:05.069 that I needed a drastic change and I had no idea what to start. 54 00:04:05.909 --> 00:04:10.979 Now I have a childhood friend. It's pretty funny because I actually met her 55 00:04:11.020 --> 00:04:15.220 at this same church where I had told you that I was dedicated to gotta, 56 00:04:16.220 --> 00:04:20.139 and she's been living in North Carolina for quite some time now and she's 57 00:04:20.259 --> 00:04:24.370 been trying to convince me to move here for the long guess, and I 58 00:04:24.490 --> 00:04:29.410 never took her up on it until then. Yeah, she tells me she 59 00:04:29.529 --> 00:04:32.009 has a job for me here, but I had to stop smoking. I 60 00:04:32.170 --> 00:04:36.329 had never stopped smoking weed before. Like I could have headaches of cold, 61 00:04:36.490 --> 00:04:40.920 I could be dying and I would never stop smoking. Yeah, I'd always 62 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:44.319 smoke. So this I didn't know how I was going to pull it off, 63 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:46.959 but God right. Yeah, I prayed a guy for his assistance and 64 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:54.790 on April nineteen, two thousand and seventeen, that morning I didn't smoke and 65 00:04:55.110 --> 00:04:58.470 then I didn't smoke for the entire day and I had no idea how I 66 00:04:58.589 --> 00:05:00.350 was going to pull this off. And I'm I just want to stay the 67 00:05:00.470 --> 00:05:04.949 fun fact. For those that that are familiar with for and twenty, it's 68 00:05:04.990 --> 00:05:12.019 National Weed Smoking holiday. Yeah, April twenty, so just a day before 69 00:05:13.060 --> 00:05:16.379 was my first day that I hadn't smoked. Wow, that's just God showing 70 00:05:16.459 --> 00:05:19.699 off. Yeah, I'm like, so how am I going to pull this 71 00:05:19.819 --> 00:05:25.889 off? I get a call from a buddy of mine who I actually used 72 00:05:25.930 --> 00:05:30.889 to play golf with and he invites me to Florida to play golf that upcoming 73 00:05:30.930 --> 00:05:38.199 weekend. This gentleman is actually a recovered attict and his field of work was 74 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:43.120 helping people get off a drugs. Okay, this man had no idea what 75 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:46.720 I was going through at that time when he invited me to go out and 76 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:51.189 to Florida to this golf outing with him. So that was another God moment. 77 00:05:51.389 --> 00:05:57.870 Yeah, I was getting cravings here and there, but I I was 78 00:05:57.949 --> 00:06:02.110 distracted, you know, playing golf and I wasn't thinking about it. On 79 00:06:02.269 --> 00:06:12.259 our way back, I start sweating, I'm getting withdrawals and I'm even feeling 80 00:06:12.379 --> 00:06:16.060 suicidal and Lucky for me, I'm thirty threezero feet in the air. Yeah, 81 00:06:17.100 --> 00:06:21.970 so now I'm I'm desperate and I'm in my head and I'm like, 82 00:06:23.050 --> 00:06:27.290 okay, I'm going to make all the changes, all the necessary arrangements that 83 00:06:27.410 --> 00:06:30.050 I need to move to Charlotte. So I call my friend and I tell 84 00:06:30.050 --> 00:06:35.319 her I'm ready to go. So I mail my stuff down south and my 85 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:39.920 my friend had a job for me here and God is just helping me in 86 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:45.160 a supernatural way. So at that point you're you're trying to get away from 87 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:48.870 the old friends and the culture that you were kind of member style. Yeah, 88 00:06:49.470 --> 00:06:53.389 yeah, absolutely. So it's like there's this open door to come to 89 00:06:53.509 --> 00:06:58.550 North Carolina and and ultimately you kind of check all the boxes that you need 90 00:06:58.589 --> 00:07:01.220 to check and your bags are packed in your headed this way. That's it. 91 00:07:01.459 --> 00:07:06.420 That's exactly what happened. So I get to North Carolina and I start 92 00:07:06.540 --> 00:07:12.420 working with my friend. Then I pick up another job. Eventually I'm working 93 00:07:12.459 --> 00:07:16.970 three jobs and I'm back down to two and I get transferred from my first 94 00:07:16.970 --> 00:07:23.050 job to another location and now I meet at this new location, I meet 95 00:07:23.170 --> 00:07:27.850 my daughter's father. Okay, so I'm new here. He's, you know, 96 00:07:28.050 --> 00:07:33.279 taking me out. We are, he's showing me around town and we, 97 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:38.639 I mean we pretty much hit it off. And come November I find 98 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:42.560 out that I'm pregnant. Mind you, sorry, I had moved here on 99 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:47.430 May seventh of two thousand and seventeen, so that was only six months that 100 00:07:47.509 --> 00:07:51.430 I had been here in Charlotte and here I am pregnant. So just imagine 101 00:07:51.629 --> 00:07:57.069 the desperation, like I had just left New York behind to start a clean 102 00:07:57.230 --> 00:08:01.339 slate. I come here and I'm just on to get my feet went get 103 00:08:01.420 --> 00:08:03.899 established, and now I'm pregnant. Yeah, with the guy that I barely 104 00:08:03.939 --> 00:08:07.819 even know. Yeah, so I run to the abortion clinic and I meet 105 00:08:07.860 --> 00:08:11.180 you, wonderful people offering US help and hope and, best of all, 106 00:08:11.300 --> 00:08:16.730 Jesus. Yeah, which the father of the baby pushing you for the abortion, 107 00:08:16.769 --> 00:08:20.649 did even know about the baby. Um, we had both decided that 108 00:08:20.769 --> 00:08:26.329 it was in fact, very soon. He has three other children, so 109 00:08:26.009 --> 00:08:31.519 you know, our daughters his fourth. So there was definitely some pressure there, 110 00:08:31.799 --> 00:08:35.679 but at the end he was very supportive like once we were in the 111 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:39.679 abortion clinic and he you know, I broke down in tears, you know, 112 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:45.669 reading this pamphlet and he knows of God to so I know that he 113 00:08:45.830 --> 00:08:52.830 was also convicted. Yeah, so just to help other folks who are who 114 00:08:52.830 --> 00:08:56.259 are listening, who are maybe out of an abortion center or praying about going 115 00:08:56.340 --> 00:09:03.059 out to an abortion center, walk us through real quick maybe even from making 116 00:09:03.100 --> 00:09:05.580 the appointment to showing up for the appointment and kind of what the scene was 117 00:09:05.980 --> 00:09:09.779 when you actually showed up, maybe some of the things that when you made 118 00:09:09.779 --> 00:09:15.889 the appointment that they told you, and just kind of set that stage for 119 00:09:16.009 --> 00:09:18.210 folks that are listening, if you can. Well, when I called, 120 00:09:18.250 --> 00:09:24.159 it's actually pretty interesting because there was sometimes when I had I had gotten cold 121 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:28.759 feet. I got it I was gonna have my baby, I was going 122 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:31.240 to get an abortion, and I was kind of pink punting back and forth 123 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:35.720 from that and I try to make a prenatal appointment and it was so much 124 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:39.389 harder to make a set of prenatial appointment then it was to set an abortion, 125 00:09:41.309 --> 00:09:45.389 to get an appointment to get an abortion. And so when I called 126 00:09:45.470 --> 00:09:50.029 them and they asked me to just bring my ID and four hundred dollars and 127 00:09:50.110 --> 00:09:52.980 that's all I would need to me my appointment. I came in and the 128 00:09:52.100 --> 00:09:58.179 place was congested. There was nowhere to sit. They had this movie on 129 00:09:58.019 --> 00:10:03.139 and like the girls are just watching TV and laughing and I just couldn't believe 130 00:10:03.179 --> 00:10:05.740 it. As a matter of fact, it was a girl there who must 131 00:10:05.779 --> 00:10:09.809 have been at least six months pregnant. Her stomach was huge. Yeah, 132 00:10:09.850 --> 00:10:13.210 yeah, and that's the I mean, it's interesting that you say that. 133 00:10:13.409 --> 00:10:18.049 I could some normal thing as I'll say. It's interesting that you say that 134 00:10:18.090 --> 00:10:22.279 about the the ease of making the appointment as opposed to the difficulty of making 135 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:26.200 an appointment to an Obie doctor. It's like, you know, it's you 136 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:28.679 can just call up on the phone now, yeah, we'll take you, 137 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:31.799 will take you, just bring your four hundred dollars in your ID. You 138 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.070 try to make an OB appointment. Sometimes that can be a pretty difficult pass 139 00:10:35.070 --> 00:10:37.909 away. Two months. Yeah, that's a shame. Did they do any 140 00:10:37.909 --> 00:10:41.549 kind of counseling over the post? I couldn't believe it. Did they counsel 141 00:10:41.590 --> 00:10:45.350 you, I mean the abortion center? Did they counsel you over the phone 142 00:10:45.350 --> 00:10:48.750 or anything like that? Part of you showing up? No, no, 143 00:10:48.990 --> 00:10:50.220 not at all. It was like, yeah, I did just come in. 144 00:10:52.299 --> 00:10:54.500 Okay, can you come in in the morning? We have an opening 145 00:10:54.539 --> 00:10:56.820 in the morning. And that was it. It's almost like if I was 146 00:10:56.860 --> 00:11:01.299 ordering food from Doordet. Yeah, wow, yeah, and so you were 147 00:11:01.379 --> 00:11:05.129 talking about kind of how it was when actually you came into the abortion center. 148 00:11:05.169 --> 00:11:09.009 You said it was it was packed inside of there. There was a 149 00:11:09.090 --> 00:11:11.690 young lady in there. That was you said. She was looked like she 150 00:11:11.769 --> 00:11:15.529 was six months pregnant. Kind of continue on that vein and just share kind 151 00:11:15.570 --> 00:11:18.679 of what it was like in there. There was nowhere to sit. These 152 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:22.399 girls were just glue to the TV. I couldn't believe it, you know, 153 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:26.759 like we're killing our babies, babies right now. Their hearts are beating 154 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:31.519 inside of us. They're feeding off of whatever we ate this morning or you 155 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.950 know, and and here they are, they're watching this movie and they're just 156 00:11:37.070 --> 00:11:41.429 laughing and and it's like nothing. The girls are they work there, are 157 00:11:41.549 --> 00:11:46.179 just answering phones and make an appointments and just chilling their gum and blowing bubbles 158 00:11:46.259 --> 00:11:50.419 with, you know, blowing bubbles with they're going. It's absolutely normal. 159 00:11:50.620 --> 00:11:56.340 It's just normal. It's kind of like it's another day, a nonchalant kind 160 00:11:56.340 --> 00:11:58.419 of atmosphere, like, just like you said, another day at the office, 161 00:11:58.419 --> 00:12:01.889 right. And how did that kind of strike you? I mean, 162 00:12:01.929 --> 00:12:07.570 obviously it struck you as odd and as troubling, but what were what was 163 00:12:07.649 --> 00:12:09.409 going on in your heart that time? You're in this waiting room full of 164 00:12:09.450 --> 00:12:16.120 people you've sense because you've known the Lord, and so you're sensing some of 165 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.240 the darkness. I'm sure that's inside of that place. fact, what's going 166 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:22.120 through your mom what's going through your heart at that moment when you're sitting in 167 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:24.799 that waiting room and you're still going back and forth whether or not you should 168 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:26.279 go through with the abortion? Right. So now I'm in the abort and 169 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.990 the abortion clinic and I have this pamphlet in my hand and I'm leading through 170 00:12:31.070 --> 00:12:35.590 it. I'm now explain that big and by the whole spring that pamphlet for 171 00:12:35.629 --> 00:12:37.509 a second is see, because I'm not sure, or maybe I missed it, 172 00:12:37.629 --> 00:12:41.950 but where and how did you get that pamphlet? So, this pamphlet. 173 00:12:43.029 --> 00:12:48.059 When we drove into the abortion clinic, they were amazing people standing outside, 174 00:12:48.340 --> 00:12:54.659 angels of God that were offering us help, leading with us not to 175 00:12:54.700 --> 00:12:58.610 kill our babies. And I received this pamphlet from one of the sidewalk counselors. 176 00:12:58.769 --> 00:13:03.450 Okay, and I did in fact bring this pamphlet inside with me and 177 00:13:03.529 --> 00:13:07.129 they didn't say didn't try to grab it or anything. They didn't even see 178 00:13:07.129 --> 00:13:09.289 it. It was like invisible to them. It was a spiritual thing. 179 00:13:09.370 --> 00:13:13.639 I honestly, it's a supernatural thing. They did not see it and I 180 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:18.000 bought it in with me. I began to skim through it and I saw 181 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:20.600 the pictures, I read the Scripture on there and then I saw a picture 182 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:26.559 of an aborted fetus in the back of the book and if I'm not mistaken, 183 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:28.710 and said that that baby was eight weeks. Oh, and I was 184 00:13:28.870 --> 00:13:33.789 fourteen weeks pregnant. Well, I mean my daughter was was pretty much formed. 185 00:13:35.230 --> 00:13:37.029 Yeah, already. You know, I had I had heard that, 186 00:13:37.470 --> 00:13:41.389 you know, they're just cells, that they don't feel anything. And so, 187 00:13:41.779 --> 00:13:43.259 do you know? I believe the lies and I'm like, okay, 188 00:13:43.299 --> 00:13:46.539 well, they're not going to feel anything and I I can't have this baby 189 00:13:46.580 --> 00:13:50.100 right now. I'm not ready and and the devil is a liar. Yeah, 190 00:13:50.460 --> 00:13:54.980 I meant one of the moms that I'm sorry, not a mom. 191 00:13:54.259 --> 00:14:00.649 She she was an employee at Planing parenthood and she gave a testimony which she 192 00:14:00.809 --> 00:14:05.450 said in this stood with me, that went a mom was sedated and they 193 00:14:05.529 --> 00:14:11.720 had to perform use the ultrasound to locate the baby before they performed the abortion 194 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:18.159 and that she saw that the baby was fighting for its life and trying to 195 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:22.000 grab onto its mom and that that just that just stood with me. I've 196 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:26.950 never forgotten those words. Yeah, so this is an important point for folks 197 00:14:26.990 --> 00:14:31.309 who are listening to this podcast again, who are out there on the side 198 00:14:31.309 --> 00:14:35.750 walks are praying about going out at their local abortion center. What is he 199 00:14:35.830 --> 00:14:41.100 as sharing is is pretty powerful, but it pretty basic in that what really 200 00:14:41.139 --> 00:14:43.740 helped change her mind was a piece of literature. Yeah, and as actually 201 00:14:43.740 --> 00:14:48.100 it was vicky that got that piece of literature. To use that correct that's 202 00:14:48.500 --> 00:14:52.620 yeah, and so it because we might think, people tend to think like 203 00:14:52.820 --> 00:14:56.009 well, I've got to be like I've got to have all the answers, 204 00:14:56.370 --> 00:14:58.690 I've got to have all the stuff figured out, I've got to say everything 205 00:14:58.809 --> 00:15:03.610 just right, I've got a whatever, whatever people are using as fear and 206 00:15:03.889 --> 00:15:07.000 reasons why they might not go out and minister at an abortion center when, 207 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:11.639 in this case, your baby was saved because somebody handed you or slipped a 208 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:16.480 piece of literature in your vehicle and in God use that piece of literature. 209 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:22.269 Vickie didn't really particularly say a word herself, but that literature spoke volumes, 210 00:15:22.350 --> 00:15:26.070 is what I'm hearing you say. That's right. Yes, and prayer, 211 00:15:26.309 --> 00:15:31.350 prayer, Yeah. So one of the things the Bible says, and it's 212 00:15:31.350 --> 00:15:33.870 an important truth that we all need to, as children of God, understand 213 00:15:33.870 --> 00:15:39.139 and allow it to minister to us. Where Paul talks about he plants a 214 00:15:39.220 --> 00:15:43.899 seed, a police comes along, as and waters, but God gives the 215 00:15:45.019 --> 00:15:48.659 increase. Right. So you had some seeds planted in you pretty early, 216 00:15:48.740 --> 00:15:52.450 you said, eleven years old. Even before that you were raised in church. 217 00:15:52.490 --> 00:15:56.490 So there's these seeds that are planted. They obviously had not, had 218 00:15:56.529 --> 00:16:00.769 not grown up into what God intended, because you ultimately fall into the kind 219 00:16:00.809 --> 00:16:03.519 of drug lifestyle and just turned away from the Lord. And yet those seeds 220 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:07.679 were still there. And what happened really it's just far as what I'm hearing 221 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.679 is when Vicki gave you that piece of literature, that was just pouring water 222 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:15.360 on that seat have been planted some years ago, but Vicki pour some water 223 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:19.750 on that seed and here it is. This seed is growing and growing and 224 00:16:19.909 --> 00:16:25.350 growing. Ultimately, that see growing in your heart translated into your precious little 225 00:16:25.509 --> 00:16:29.230 girl being safe. So talk a little bit about that. So you've have 226 00:16:29.389 --> 00:16:33.139 the literature, you're reading through it. You see that powerful image, and 227 00:16:33.179 --> 00:16:36.620 there's some images in that booklet of babies in the womb, but also that 228 00:16:36.700 --> 00:16:40.019 powerful image in the back of the booklet, which is a baby that's a 229 00:16:40.100 --> 00:16:44.259 victim of abortion, and you see that the horror of what you're about to 230 00:16:44.340 --> 00:16:47.570 do in the whole blob of tissue, clump of cells, that whole lie 231 00:16:47.769 --> 00:16:51.929 that people use, that's just right, dispelled. That darkness is has been 232 00:16:52.610 --> 00:16:56.210 dispelled by the light of truth. What happens after that point, though? 233 00:16:56.370 --> 00:17:00.289 You see that you know that I can't do this. Do you leave immediately 234 00:17:00.330 --> 00:17:06.359 or how's that? How's that scenario? R and and I tell my daughter's 235 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:08.279 father that I just can't. I look at him and I like, I 236 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:11.160 can't do that, I just can't, and he's like so let's go. 237 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:17.150 And I there was a line of girls waiting to be to check in, 238 00:17:17.230 --> 00:17:19.630 I guess for their appointment. Yeah, and I'm like, excuse me, 239 00:17:19.710 --> 00:17:22.069 and I got in front of the person who was in front of the line 240 00:17:22.269 --> 00:17:26.509 and I asked a girl from ID and she just she's like what's what's wrong? 241 00:17:26.789 --> 00:17:30.460 You will right, and I'm like I just I just can't do this. 242 00:17:30.619 --> 00:17:33.299 And she try to tell I remember her saying, Oh, come on, 243 00:17:33.539 --> 00:17:37.259 girl, like like it's nothing, wow, like oh, it's fine, 244 00:17:37.339 --> 00:17:40.140 oh, I don't worry about it, it's nothing. Like. But 245 00:17:40.259 --> 00:17:42.339 they were so busy, like if, maybe, if they wouldn't have been 246 00:17:42.339 --> 00:17:45.049 so many people there in the phones wouldn't have been ringing off the hook, 247 00:17:45.930 --> 00:17:49.170 they probably would have tried to stop me, yeah, to talk me into 248 00:17:49.450 --> 00:17:52.809 into going through with the abortion. Yeah, it sounds like they were starting 249 00:17:52.849 --> 00:17:56.970 to do that, right. They that's what they were trying to do. 250 00:17:56.490 --> 00:18:00.319 I called that vibe from her. I did, because she was being very 251 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:04.759 hesitant, and given me my license and you and I grabbed my license and 252 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:08.200 we were out of there. Yeah, and we drove right past you guys. 253 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:11.759 Yeah, how I wish that I would have said something to you guys 254 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:15.029 then. But yeah, what was going through your mind? Just that you 255 00:18:15.190 --> 00:18:18.950 just wanted to get out of there as fast as possible. Oh, absolutely. 256 00:18:18.990 --> 00:18:22.990 Yeah, felt such a desperation. Yeah, yeah, was there a 257 00:18:23.109 --> 00:18:27.900 sense of any I know because we've talked to thousands of women going into abortion 258 00:18:29.019 --> 00:18:33.579 centers and so we know there's there's this fight of potential regret, but also 259 00:18:33.660 --> 00:18:37.859 relief of maybe having the abortion. But where's there when you left that abortion 260 00:18:37.980 --> 00:18:41.130 center? was there a sense of relief or maybe a sense of Gret? 261 00:18:41.250 --> 00:18:44.930 Regret, or maybe a little bit of both? What was the what was 262 00:18:44.930 --> 00:18:48.450 the feeling driving down the road? Honestly, a little bit of both at 263 00:18:48.450 --> 00:18:52.609 the time. Yeah, I remember I had just been here six months. 264 00:18:52.650 --> 00:18:57.319 I really didn't know this guy and I knew, and I don't want to 265 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:03.640 say that, but I felt that there was going to be some kind of 266 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:07.119 hinderance. Yeah, you know, but she she us truly a blessing. 267 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:11.309 Yeah, to me she really is. She has saved me. Yeah. 268 00:19:11.829 --> 00:19:15.430 So I want to again folks that are listening who are going out to their 269 00:19:15.470 --> 00:19:18.230 abortion center and maybe not yet going out when you guys can understand kind of 270 00:19:18.470 --> 00:19:22.789 the scenario who in this this actually plays out a lot more than we think, 271 00:19:22.269 --> 00:19:25.700 because we might tend to think, okay, a mom choose us live, 272 00:19:26.180 --> 00:19:29.019 so she's of course going to walk over to the sidewalk or she's going 273 00:19:29.059 --> 00:19:32.019 to stop in the driveway and let us know. That was not necessarily the 274 00:19:32.099 --> 00:19:33.500 case. That was not the case for you. It's not necessarily the case 275 00:19:33.579 --> 00:19:38.009 for many of the moms that choose life. There's stories that I think we're 276 00:19:38.049 --> 00:19:41.849 not going to find out about until we stand before the Lord and the Lord 277 00:19:41.970 --> 00:19:45.049 shows us these babies that were saved. And I can say this for you, 278 00:19:45.289 --> 00:19:48.049 is he, and and for your daughter Nazi. You guys have been 279 00:19:48.089 --> 00:19:52.690 on kind of a national platform and shared your testimony and still continuing to share 280 00:19:52.690 --> 00:19:56.200 your testimony and even sharing on social media. There's going to be babies that 281 00:19:56.240 --> 00:20:00.440 are saved, is he, that you won't find out about right until you 282 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:03.880 stand before the Lord, that were saved because you shared your testimony, because 283 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:07.990 of this podcast, even right now. Yeah, I mean this is an 284 00:20:07.029 --> 00:20:11.950 equipping podcast. It helps equip Christians and people are going to be really encouraged. 285 00:20:12.230 --> 00:20:15.549 People, the boldness of God is going to rise up in people that 286 00:20:15.630 --> 00:20:18.509 are listening to this podcast that they can actually go and they can stand and 287 00:20:18.670 --> 00:20:21.940 they can hand out literature and babies are going to be saved just through you 288 00:20:22.059 --> 00:20:26.339 sharing this this testimony right, and they can also not be dismayed when they 289 00:20:26.380 --> 00:20:29.779 don't see any visible fruit. Because we didn't know that day. In fact, 290 00:20:29.779 --> 00:20:33.059 as I recall, it was at least several weeks or maybe months later 291 00:20:33.220 --> 00:20:37.250 that you did call me, because we put our number right, yeah, 292 00:20:37.289 --> 00:20:41.809 on the back of the so you had my number and my name and sometime 293 00:20:41.930 --> 00:20:45.210 later you decided to call. Yes, your number was in the back of 294 00:20:45.250 --> 00:20:49.559 the pamphlet. I was very hesitant. Yeah, and and using that number. 295 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:52.759 And why is that? So Ashamed? I mean, how how do 296 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.039 I call and say hey, I was I'm the girl that was going to 297 00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:59.119 kill her baby, you know, like God was. I was ashamed. 298 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:02.839 I was really embarrassed, Uh Huh, but I'm so glad that I did 299 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:06.470 call you. Yeah, and that what a great idea, you putting your 300 00:21:06.509 --> 00:21:08.190 number back there, by the way. Yeah, yeah, that's something we 301 00:21:08.269 --> 00:21:14.390 encourage all of the the folks that we train to do sidewalk ministry, whether 302 00:21:14.390 --> 00:21:18.700 it be our volunteers here locally or the sidewalk missionaries that were raising up Nashally, 303 00:21:18.180 --> 00:21:22.700 is to have some kind of personal contact number, because there are many 304 00:21:22.779 --> 00:21:26.900 women like yourself that would take a piece of literature and going on into the 305 00:21:26.940 --> 00:21:30.099 parking lot and maybe choose life or maybe take a piece of literature and keep 306 00:21:30.140 --> 00:21:33.250 driving. But we don't really know some of the needs that they have. 307 00:21:33.529 --> 00:21:37.930 That let mean we've got, thank God, so many resources to help meet 308 00:21:37.930 --> 00:21:41.569 these knees and we want to meet those needs. But so many would just 309 00:21:41.730 --> 00:21:45.650 take a piece of literature. And so to have a personal contact number on 310 00:21:45.769 --> 00:21:48.880 there, and we are intentional about it being handwritten to so that you know 311 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:53.359 there's there's personal contacts, not just some print out, even though print ounce 312 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:57.000 are great, right, but it's a personal contact number. Now for some 313 00:21:57.119 --> 00:22:00.240 folks who may be thinking, well, I want to put my contact number 314 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.990 on a piece of literature because I don't want it just going out to everybody. 315 00:22:03.869 --> 00:22:07.910 Maybe get a google voice number or some other number. That's not your 316 00:22:07.910 --> 00:22:10.630 number, Vicky. You put your personal number there. That's kind of risky, 317 00:22:11.230 --> 00:22:14.509 but it's paid off, especially in is he store. But I mean 318 00:22:14.589 --> 00:22:17.380 you have moms that text you so all the time. I get calls off 319 00:22:17.460 --> 00:22:19.740 the time. It calls from moms that are seeking help. But I'm wondering 320 00:22:19.859 --> 00:22:26.779 to see why why you waited so long to call be and why did you 321 00:22:26.059 --> 00:22:30.170 call so you waited, maybe out of the embarrassment not knowing who I am. 322 00:22:30.210 --> 00:22:36.170 I'm a stranger you. So, but what what finally made you call? 323 00:22:36.690 --> 00:22:40.210 What was going on? I thought that I had to give you the 324 00:22:40.609 --> 00:22:45.920 credit that you deserved. I wanted to let you know that, because you 325 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:51.720 were standing out there and you gave me this literature, that that I had 326 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:56.240 in fact chosen life for my baby and I wanted to see. I was 327 00:22:56.319 --> 00:23:00.390 kind of, I guess, looking for a friend, looking for someone that 328 00:23:00.430 --> 00:23:03.910 I can talk to, that could maybe understand the situation I was in, 329 00:23:04.430 --> 00:23:08.309 and I wasn't expecting to be as blessed as I was by it either. 330 00:23:08.349 --> 00:23:12.980 Yeah, yeah, it's good you say that. Expound on that a little 331 00:23:14.019 --> 00:23:18.700 bit. So when you reached out to Vicki, you are more the motivation 332 00:23:18.859 --> 00:23:21.619 was just hey, thank you for being out there. You felt kind of 333 00:23:21.740 --> 00:23:25.339 almost like, I don't know, beholding to her because she helps you to 334 00:23:25.380 --> 00:23:29.329 use life just with that literature. But it became more than just hey, 335 00:23:29.490 --> 00:23:33.130 thank you, see you later. It became a relationship, and not just 336 00:23:33.210 --> 00:23:37.329 a relationship with Vicki, but a relationship with a church here in Charlotte, 337 00:23:37.450 --> 00:23:42.279 right, right, right, Vicky's. I love her so much. She 338 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:49.119 is so easy to talk to. She connected me to a mentor and also 339 00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:56.069 connected me to the body of Christ. She gave me so many phone numbers 340 00:23:56.190 --> 00:23:59.750 with different resources for job placement, schooling, like you name it, we 341 00:23:59.869 --> 00:24:04.430 had it and I'm very grateful for that. My mentor celebrated us with an 342 00:24:04.470 --> 00:24:08.789 amazing babys hour. I told Vickid the other day, I texted her I 343 00:24:08.950 --> 00:24:15.140 still have books and toys that Nazi can't use until she's five years old. 344 00:24:15.380 --> 00:24:18.460 That's amazing. I mean, yeah, I hadn't for diapers for like a 345 00:24:18.579 --> 00:24:22.619 whole year, and by diapers at all, like, yeah, we got 346 00:24:22.700 --> 00:24:27.089 everything, from crabs. I mean there's so many things that that we received 347 00:24:27.170 --> 00:24:32.410 that I wasn't expecting to be as blessed as we were. Really, we're 348 00:24:32.490 --> 00:24:34.490 blessed in so many ways. Yeah, and you're still in touch with that 349 00:24:34.569 --> 00:24:38.519 mentor, Right, she's come come up friends, right. Yeah, so 350 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:42.960 that was a mentor. I Mentor Three Love Life, Charlotte, who helped 351 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:48.359 you, helped to provide resources and became a good friend. Yes, yeah, 352 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:51.119 yeah, now, one of the things that I think is is pretty 353 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:56.910 cool. By God's grace, we see, I mean not enough, but 354 00:24:56.829 --> 00:25:00.670 praise God enough moms choose life, if you know what I mean. I 355 00:25:00.750 --> 00:25:04.150 mean when one baby killed through abortionist too many, and every life saved is 356 00:25:04.190 --> 00:25:10.420 a tremendous blessing and we so we see on a regular basis moms choose life. 357 00:25:10.539 --> 00:25:12.259 We praise God for that, but it's not very often that we see 358 00:25:12.259 --> 00:25:18.339 a mom who chose life actually bring her baby out to the abortion center. 359 00:25:18.980 --> 00:25:22.089 And it seems like you, you're pretty intentional. Every time you're in town. 360 00:25:22.210 --> 00:25:25.890 You're still back and forth to New York some right with with family and 361 00:25:26.009 --> 00:25:29.690 all of that. You come and visit and it's like you're intentional about stopping 362 00:25:29.730 --> 00:25:33.009 by and encouraging us and bringing a little nazy always. What does it feel 363 00:25:33.089 --> 00:25:37.240 like by yeah, what does it feel like to know that, okay, 364 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:41.400 one time you were in that abortion center, you're about to take the life 365 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:44.599 of your baby, but now here you are standing on the sidewalk and I've 366 00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:48.920 literally seen you. They're holding Nazi and even reaching out there and even engaging 367 00:25:49.069 --> 00:25:52.269 with some of the pro abortion people. What's that feel like, just being 368 00:25:52.309 --> 00:25:56.829 there on the sidewalk? That's that's only something God can do. Yeah, 369 00:25:56.829 --> 00:26:02.109 yeah, I love dropping by every time we're in town and encouraging everyone out 370 00:26:02.109 --> 00:26:04.539 there and remind them that they're not standing there in vain. I know that 371 00:26:04.859 --> 00:26:10.259 these pull choices are constantly attacking and mocking them and telling them that they're not 372 00:26:10.339 --> 00:26:11.980 doing anything. In fact, the last time that you were out there, 373 00:26:12.019 --> 00:26:17.779 which was recently, they told me that we had paid you and that you 374 00:26:17.819 --> 00:26:22.769 were a plant that and I know you poured out your heart to them whole 375 00:26:22.890 --> 00:26:30.170 showing them nasty and and there respons yeah, yeah, that's insane. I 376 00:26:30.210 --> 00:26:32.650 mean, you guys didn't even know I was in town. No, I 377 00:26:32.809 --> 00:26:36.119 popped up on you guys when you were training, I think you were training 378 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:40.440 those. That was correct. Yeah, you turn around, you saw I 379 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:41.920 mean you're like, Hey, what are you doing here? You guys had 380 00:26:42.039 --> 00:26:45.440 no idea. How wasn't town and well, apparently we planted you to convince 381 00:26:45.559 --> 00:26:51.470 people that that that we tell the truth as a liar, right. Yeah, 382 00:26:52.190 --> 00:26:55.470 yeah, I mean I think that's been a pretty common theme in many 383 00:26:55.549 --> 00:26:57.990 of the stories, and especially your story, is that God is good, 384 00:26:59.150 --> 00:27:03.859 but the devil is a liar. The devil uses all kinds of people, 385 00:27:03.859 --> 00:27:07.779 all kinds of just manipulation of these ideas, just simply, like you said, 386 00:27:08.299 --> 00:27:11.619 that it's just a Blob of tissue or club of sales, and the 387 00:27:11.740 --> 00:27:15.700 devil influences women to go into abortion clinics, take the lives of their babies, 388 00:27:15.730 --> 00:27:18.609 believe in the lie that's a Blob of tissue or clump of cells. 389 00:27:18.329 --> 00:27:22.009 He uses that same line to thank yeah, he uses that same lie to 390 00:27:22.089 --> 00:27:26.490 fuel the abortion industry and the people that are working behind the desk, the 391 00:27:26.609 --> 00:27:30.720 pro abortion people that are standing out front just being vile, just this this 392 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:34.240 whole lie that it's just a blob of tissue or clump of cells. But 393 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:37.799 is you? We know better. You got your you got your Blob of 394 00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:41.720 tissue, your clump of sales in the back seat. There, Miss Nazi, 395 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:45.950 that's who just your tremendous blessing. Talk a little bit about what God 396 00:27:45.990 --> 00:27:48.710 has done in your life through through her being in your life. So, 397 00:27:48.869 --> 00:27:55.309 because of Nazi, I blessed with the Gift of Motherhood. I stopped partying, 398 00:27:55.549 --> 00:27:59.380 I stopped smoking, and it led me, because of you guys, 399 00:27:59.579 --> 00:28:03.259 introducing me to the body of Christ all over again. I am and I 400 00:28:03.420 --> 00:28:10.299 was clear headed from not doing drugs and smoking, and glad God had cleansed 401 00:28:10.380 --> 00:28:14.210 me on the inside so that my baby can have a healthy womb to grow 402 00:28:14.289 --> 00:28:19.130 in. Yeah, she she has been such a tremendous blessing and she has 403 00:28:19.410 --> 00:28:25.569 literally just changed me. Yeah, she has changed me and I'm I feel 404 00:28:25.569 --> 00:28:27.720 like I'm a better me because of her and, of course, to God 405 00:28:27.799 --> 00:28:32.799 the glory pers and foremost, and I'm so thankful to you guys who for 406 00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:34.759 being out there and standing in the gap. Yeah, I wanted to ask 407 00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:41.279 you about that. I think your relationship with God did change from a moment, 408 00:28:41.549 --> 00:28:44.230 from the moment that you made that choice for life. You returned to 409 00:28:44.230 --> 00:28:48.309 the same circumstances, the same worries, the same fears, the same guy, 410 00:28:48.470 --> 00:28:52.589 the same just moving there six months ago and now you're pregnant with not 411 00:28:52.750 --> 00:28:57.819 quite knowing how you're going to manage. But something changed in you when you 412 00:28:57.940 --> 00:29:02.460 made that choice to follow God, which really is what that was. That 413 00:29:02.619 --> 00:29:06.740 choice to have your baby was the choice. So how has your relationship with 414 00:29:06.859 --> 00:29:11.569 God changed and developed since that moment? Oh, well, it has not 415 00:29:11.769 --> 00:29:15.490 been easy. When we give our lives to Christ, a lot of us 416 00:29:15.529 --> 00:29:19.890 think that it's going to be easy and it's not. I feel like I'm 417 00:29:21.529 --> 00:29:25.440 I've actually been attacked more than I used to when I was in the world. 418 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:30.119 But it is a narrow path and I understand why. You know, 419 00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:33.400 Shelly Baptize me. Yeah, and Shelly. Just just for the people that 420 00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:37.950 are listening that may not know, shelley was and and still helps with appointing 421 00:29:38.029 --> 00:29:42.950 mentors to MOMS who choose life, and so she knew you from very early 422 00:29:44.029 --> 00:29:48.509 on and was a very good friend from the beginning and helpful. She connected 423 00:29:48.589 --> 00:29:52.789 me to my mentor and contecttion to correct yeah, and she baptized me. 424 00:29:52.829 --> 00:29:56.259 Actually got baptized on the day of Pentecost. Yeah, made thirty one and 425 00:29:57.019 --> 00:30:00.539 this, this walk with Gadya, has definitely not been easy, but it's 426 00:30:00.579 --> 00:30:04.859 worth it. Yeah, and I'm seeing his hand move in a tremendous way, 427 00:30:06.579 --> 00:30:08.329 especially the way times are now, these days. We are, I 428 00:30:08.490 --> 00:30:11.529 do believe that we are living in the last days. Yeah, and you 429 00:30:11.609 --> 00:30:17.569 know, those who are standing in the gap for these babies are under massive 430 00:30:17.609 --> 00:30:23.000 attack in the spirit realm because about it. That says modern day were sacrifices 431 00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:26.440 to moloch. Oh, yeah, definitely is. Yeah, totally agree with 432 00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:30.319 you there. Yeah, yeah, the pasture a couple of days ago, 433 00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:34.789 just talking to me about that very that very point and just kind of the 434 00:30:34.829 --> 00:30:37.549 view. You know, you look at Israel back in the days of the 435 00:30:37.670 --> 00:30:44.069 prophets and how they'd rebelled against God and sacrifice their children to Molich and to 436 00:30:44.190 --> 00:30:48.869 bail and God judged the children of Israel because of that. What we're seeing 437 00:30:48.869 --> 00:30:52.819 in this day and age is not too much different. And when we have 438 00:30:52.940 --> 00:30:57.099 the high places, these abortion clinics, people are going and they may not 439 00:30:57.180 --> 00:31:03.220 be directly sacrificing to to molech or to bail or two demons, but they're 440 00:31:03.259 --> 00:31:10.730 certainly sacrificing to the college education, their boyfriend there, whatever relationship. They're 441 00:31:10.730 --> 00:31:17.009 trying to maintain their status quo. Now some are sacrificing to demons and making 442 00:31:17.130 --> 00:31:19.440 I mean we've certainly seen some of that. It's some of our facebook interactions 443 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:25.039 and some of our reviews on our podcast where these people are just blatantly Satan 444 00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:30.240 worshippers. But mostly in America the Satan worship is kind of under the you 445 00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:33.789 knows, under the radar whatever, but it's still darkness, it's still the 446 00:31:33.869 --> 00:31:38.269 spirit of death. Nonetheless, yeah, it's and that's a reality that that 447 00:31:38.430 --> 00:31:44.869 many Christians don't really understand. We were made for battle. Battle is not 448 00:31:45.109 --> 00:31:48.299 fun, it's not easy, but we were made for battle. And so, 449 00:31:48.420 --> 00:31:52.420 as we kind of wrap this up, all you guys who are involved 450 00:31:52.500 --> 00:31:56.500 on the sidewalk, all of you guys who are praying about getting involved on 451 00:31:56.579 --> 00:32:00.579 the sidewalk, now is the time for the church to rise up. Now 452 00:32:00.779 --> 00:32:05.930 is the time for us to stand and boldly proclaim who Jesus is. His 453 00:32:06.130 --> 00:32:08.289 Standard of truth, not the world standard of truth, but God standard of 454 00:32:08.369 --> 00:32:14.410 truth, and God's word does not return void. You're hearing that with is 455 00:32:14.490 --> 00:32:19.279 he and what God did in her life, there are women all over these 456 00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:22.319 United States and all over the world who are believing some of the same lies 457 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:28.839 that she believed and they're going into abortion clinics all across this nation. They're 458 00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:34.349 under this spirit of delusion and darkness and they're going to sacrifice their children to 459 00:32:34.430 --> 00:32:38.789 these false gods, these false ideas, and someone needs to stand in the 460 00:32:38.910 --> 00:32:44.500 gap. WHO's called to do that? It's not politicians, it's not not 461 00:32:45.019 --> 00:32:47.420 the Supreme Court, is not the Supreme Corp Donald Trump's not going to fix 462 00:32:47.539 --> 00:32:52.299 this problem. Joe Biden certainly is not going to fix this problem. It 463 00:32:52.660 --> 00:32:55.339 is the Church of Jesus Christ that is called to stand in the gap, 464 00:32:55.980 --> 00:32:59.890 and so I want to encourage you guys. Some of you are still dragging 465 00:32:59.930 --> 00:33:01.849 your feet. You've been listening to this podcast for a while and you've been 466 00:33:01.890 --> 00:33:05.970 praying. I want to get involved and listen to this podcast because, after 467 00:33:06.009 --> 00:33:07.849 all, these people are doing a great work. Well, it's not us, 468 00:33:08.170 --> 00:33:12.690 it's actually the Holy Spirit, and if you're a Christian, you've got 469 00:33:12.809 --> 00:33:15.200 him in you. You've got the Holy Spirit in you, and what you 470 00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:19.079 say, what you do, the literature that you hand out, the relationships 471 00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:22.839 that you that you offer and that you build out there on the sidewalk are 472 00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:27.269 going to bear fruit for the Lord. Now, like like is he said. 473 00:33:27.349 --> 00:33:30.029 It's not easy, right, no one's believing the lie. That soon 474 00:33:30.230 --> 00:33:34.710 is is he chose life, that her whole life became just a bed of 475 00:33:34.710 --> 00:33:37.990 roses. And is easy, though. It was a battle, but it 476 00:33:37.109 --> 00:33:43.259 was a battle where the Lord fights with you. The Lord is fighting on 477 00:33:43.460 --> 00:33:45.259 our side. When we take up that shield of faith, we will the 478 00:33:45.380 --> 00:33:49.539 sword of the spirit. The Lord is fighting alongside us. So is he. 479 00:33:49.859 --> 00:33:52.579 I appreciate you so much just sharing your testimony. Appreciate you just sharing 480 00:33:52.619 --> 00:33:57.930 the the encouragement that you shared massively encouraging to me and, I note, 481 00:33:57.970 --> 00:34:00.769 to Vicky. Always has been, is it? You're very unusual and and 482 00:34:00.970 --> 00:34:06.250 biblical in a sense, and that of the ten lepers that were healed, 483 00:34:06.690 --> 00:34:10.679 nine happily went on their way, rejoicing, but not turning around to thank 484 00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:15.000 God and to thank the one who had healed them. But you do. 485 00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:20.719 You consistently turn around over and over and over again to say thank you, 486 00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:24.630 and it means so much to us. You invariably do it on a very 487 00:34:24.750 --> 00:34:30.829 dark day when we sorely need some encouragement. God seems to always send you 488 00:34:30.949 --> 00:34:34.710 it just the right moment. Yeah, so it. That has been why, 489 00:34:35.110 --> 00:34:37.829 for me, is he is just one of my favorites, always will 490 00:34:37.909 --> 00:34:40.500 be. Just has so much gratitude in her heart, and I think that 491 00:34:40.539 --> 00:34:45.380 that is evidence of a heart that has been truly transformed by our Savior. 492 00:34:45.420 --> 00:34:50.900 Yeah, yeah, absolutely, so easy. Again, we thank you for 493 00:34:51.139 --> 00:34:54.289 coming on and sharing with us, and with that I want to wrap this 494 00:34:54.409 --> 00:34:59.050 thing up. So I guess we love you guys so much and we're so 495 00:34:59.210 --> 00:35:02.210 grateful for you and everything you guys do. Yeah, always remember it's not 496 00:35:02.489 --> 00:35:07.800 in vain. Anyone listening? It's not in vain. Amen. Amen, 497 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.440 thank you so, sir. So with that, guys, we appreciate you 498 00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:14.280 listening again, as we started out, we'd love for you guys to leave 499 00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:17.840 us a review on itunes. We'd love for you guys to share this podcast 500 00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:22.150 whether the other folks you think would be blessed by it. Shoot over ideas 501 00:35:22.269 --> 00:35:27.309 that you might have for a future podcasts for us, and we'd certainly love 502 00:35:27.429 --> 00:35:31.349 to put those ideas into a podcast. If you have questions, maybe you 503 00:35:31.429 --> 00:35:35.940 have just some questions about going out to the sidewalk. Maybe you have questions 504 00:35:35.940 --> 00:35:37.739 about how to get equipped and how to get involved. We'd certainly love to 505 00:35:37.820 --> 00:35:40.500 help you to do that and point you in the right direction. So you 506 00:35:40.539 --> 00:35:45.219 can reach out to me. D Parks Cities for Lifecom, you can reach 507 00:35:45.260 --> 00:35:49.420 out to hurt vcssi Oreg at cities for lifecom. But until next time, 508 00:35:49.739 --> 00:36:02.449 God bless give me our love for love, give me our loft for gratitude. 509 00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:14.960 I know it will cost me my life. Nothing's too precious. And 510 00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:15.239 some met you