Hey everyone.

This is the first episode of These are the Valleys, the podcast.

I'm I'm extremely nervous guys.

If I'm being a hundred percent transparent and honest, I don't know what I'm

doing here, but I am being obedient.

So that's all that I really need to know, right?

That's definitely all you need to know.

Yeah.

So we're going to call this episode progress pending because

God is continually working and progressing in my life.

And I don't feel that I've reached the mountain top just yet.

So we'll see, we'll see where this ends up, where he takes

this and, and what it turns into.

This podcast is meant to be an encouragement.

It's meant to be a light.

It's meant to be a tool, a resource mouthpiece, a mind reader for those

that are currently in the valley.

And what the valley is spiritually or metaphorically on this podcast,

is basically a place where you're waiting on God, where you're

feeling like God has almost left.

You like, it just feels barren.

It feels dry.

It feels like the wilderness.

It feels isolated.

It feels lonely.

Yes.

So that's basically what the valley is for the purposes of this podcast, for

the purposes of all metaphors to be used until the end of this podcasts time.

So when you hear me refer to the valley, just know I'm referring

to that, that rough spot.

And so the point of this podcast is for me to pour into you guys having

just recently come out of the valley myself and I mean recently I struggled

sometimes with feeling like other people had been through what I'd been through.

And I struggled some times with finding the words, to articulate how it's feeling.

I struggled sometimes with continuing to renew and refresh my trust.

I struggled with putting my full faith in God and being obedient

a hundred percent of the time.

And for a long period of time, I was not very long suffering guys.

So.

The valley was extremely difficult for me and I, I don't like to wait.

I like to be in control and I like to know the next step and the

next move and to always see fruit.

And that's just not what the valley is.

So, yeah.

Yeah.

We're going to get into that a little bit more, but basically what led me

to start this podcast was God, this is a hundred percent a God led podcast.

This is His podcast.

If y'all ever hear me say my podcast, just know I'm speaking

out of flesh at that minute.

This is God's podcast.

It's not even my idea is completely His idea.

And so I guess I can just tell the little story about how this came to be.

So I had in 2020, I had a million dollar idea for a podcast.

I just knew it was going to be the next big thing.

And even to this very moment, I know that that idea is very monetarily valuable.

Basically the idea was I wanted to have an anonymous podcast where you

would know I was the host, but you would never know who my guest is.

And I would voice change, like equalize their voice or whatever, and change

the pitch of their voice so that they would sound like a different person

and sign the NDA, a non-disclosure agreement and vow to never tell

who that person was on the episode.

And they would come on and tell me like that juicy is gossip or tea.

They're messiest life experiences, just the dirt.

Like I just wanted the dirt y'all if I'm being honest.

And that is a million dollar idea.

I know off the top of my head, probably about 50 people that

would tune into that podcast alone, just for the mess of it, you know?

And it came around the time that we had a stimulus.

Y'all we got them stimuli baby.

I said, oh, I know just what I'm gonna do with this.

I said, I'm gonna buy some podcast equipment.

So one thing y'all should know about me off rip.

I'm a very multi-passionate person and what that can sometimes lead to is

like impulsive 100% investment into an idea that is sometimes very fleeting.

So I did a whole bunch of research into the best podcast equipment and

how to do this and how did do that and what platforms I should put it on and

how to monetize it and all this stuff.

I was like extremely obsessed with it for like a week.

So when the stimulus came, I took $600 of that, y'all and invested

it into podcast equipment.

Mind yall, not even the equipment that I'm currently using right now, baby.

I spent $600 on podcast equipment and was like, bet, I'm going

to do this as a great idea.

I had a friend at the time who I was like, She has the best messiest story

she had just came back from a wild vacation and has so many stories to tell.

And I was like, oh yeah, you're gonna be my first, my first guest.

So I'm trying to set up this podcast equipment two days

before we're supposed to shoot.

I mean, not shoot, but record.

And I spent hours.

Yall.

Hours trying to get this podcast equipment to work.

It was not working for the life of me.

I was reading the manual.

I was Googling, outubing, trying to reach out to a friend that I knew that was

a DJ and trying to help him, helped me with the interface and this that y'all.

I frustrated myself to the point where I was just like, yeah I.

I'm done I'm through I, and that's part of that multi passionate.

Y'all, fleeting.

Okay.

I was like, yeah, your girl is good.

I'm not, I I'm not doing it.

I was like, I'm going to try it again.

When my friend comes, so we're supposed to record on a Sunday

and that Sunday I hit her up.

Like, Hey girl, let me know when you're ready to come over.

No response.

Y'all.

Basically she flaked on me that day and I was so mad at her.

And.

Blah, blah, blah, blah.

Long story short.

I ended up not doing the podcast.

So last year, 2021 in like February, March, God put it on my heart

to start a women's Bible study.

And so I started that Bible study group just to have like community and, you

know, try to get other people my age involved in God and, you know, just, just

do what a Bible study supposed to do.

Okay, do what a Bible study is supposed to do, and I met some

really great women through there have grown in, in spiritual relationship

with a lot of the women there.

Shout out to the women of Signs and Wonder.

Woo!

But yeah, y'all I was on that pod-- Lord Jesus-- I was on Bible study

one day in like late November.

Right.

And we just usually just be talking whatever, whatever.

And I was like, y'all, Holy Spirit said to me-- and I usually just spit

whatever the Holy Spirit says to me out-- and I was like, y'all, I think

I'm supposed to start a podcast.

I think I supposed start another podcast, but like this time.

Like testimonies, like people's testimonies.

And they were like, oh yeah, that's a good idea.

And I'm like, okay, yay.

Yeah, I'm gonna do it.

Yeah.

Like I said, multi-passionate, I've been this way, my whole

life, you know, fleeting, fleeting, interests, and impulses.

So I didn't even pay it any mind, right?

Then two weeks later, I was at the spa with another friend of mine and one of

the girls from Bible study, I was talking to her on Instagram about her business.

Shout out Jordan, period pooh.

And she said at the end of her message, she was like, so the Lord is telling me

to say something to you about a podcast.

And I was like-- 'cause yeah, she's on the Bible study group, like

she's in the Bible study group, but she was not on that one session.

So I had not spoken to her about this podcast at all--

so I was like, oh, this has to be God.

Like, one, she's saying this, guys, and she's a very, very faithful woman

and two, she's discussing something that I never discussed with her.

And three, this is confirmation of something that I

literally said two weeks ago.

So I was like, Hmm.

Okay.

So I guess I really have to do this podcast.

So y'all long story short.

God has been dropping confirmation after confirmation, after

confirmation about this podcast.

He's literally been nagging me guys like extremely, extremely

persistent about this podcast.

So here we are.

I am moving purely out of obedience because I have nothing else.

And I would like to be a vessel for God and be available for anything

that he needs to do in this earth.

And I love building Biblical, spiritual community with people who are also on

this faith walk to Jesus and with Jesus.

So, yeah.

I got the title These are the Valleys after coming out of the valley myself

and having been on another Bible study group, shout out to Faith Talkers.

It's the belong group with Transformation Church, shout out

TC Nation., A lot of shout outs.

I was given the name These are the Valleys by the Holy Spirit.

It was, it was given through someone else and confirmed later.

So here we are guys.

So I kind of want to get into my valley and kind of share with you guys what I've

been through and what I've experienced.

I would like to say that I am not, I am not qualified to be a mouthpiece for this.

But it is God who qualifies the called.

Okay.

It is not the call-- it is not the qualified who are called it is the

calling that makes you qualified.

So I'm just going to be obedient.

So basically my valley took place over a seven month period.

Yes, seven months in the valley.

I'm sorry if that's not the most encouraging word for some of you

who have just started yours valley season, I'm not going to say that yours

is going to last, as long as mine.

I'm not going to say that you're just going to be as short as mine.

But all I can do is speak about my experience.

So my valley started in, I would say may.

So previous to me, I just want to let y'all know kind of the

setup on how I got where I am.

So.

In the beginning of the year, I was interviewing for my

dream job with Warner media.

I have been chasing Warner media, like my entire college career,

always looking for an internship.

I was looking for a job, always looking to volunteer at blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And I was interviewing with them and got really, really far in the

interviewing process where it was literally me and one other person.

And they chose the other person.

And I was just kinda like.

If this has been a desire of my heart for years, literally years,

and you're not giving it to me, then whatever you have has got to be better.

So I don't know if some of y'all know, but I was doing modeling

at the time model coordination.

It's kind of been like a theme throughout my life, but modeling

had really started taking over.

In 2021 for referral, like I was really taking it seriously.

And I ended up getting myself committed to a couple of New York fashion week shows.

So New York fashion week was supposed to be in September.

And of course people are going to start getting ready for that

way in advance way in advance.

So.

I found myself at some shows.

I had been going to like audition after audition, after audition for Atlanta

shows, I basically had a show like every week, every other week lined

up around this point and I was like, oh my gosh, life is going so well.

I had a great paying job.

That allowed me to be like flexible and kind of do what I needed to do.

Life was really, really looking up guys.

Seriously.

I graduated.

Officially from Kennesaw state university, shout out Al nation, who do, who?

In December of 2020.

And because of the pandemic, they were kind enough to

let us kind of have our own.

Chance to walk across the stage in may of 2021.

And I was super excited because I had the same graduation

day as my best friend Teyana.

And I was like, oh, this is going to be the best day ever, blah, blah, blah.

So one of our good friends, shout out the club.

Anthony Cooper, he was graduating the day, no two days before me, I believe for the.

Yeah, I think it was two days or was it the day?

Anyway, guys, within a really short period of time, he was either

graduating May 10th or May 11th, but I was supposed to graduate May 12th.

Y'all.

May 10th.

Was it May 10?

Yeah.

On May 10th.

On the way to Anthony's graduation, I'm dressed up.

I have clothes in the back of my car.

I'm just I'm ready to go.

Right.

I was going to stay at Tiana's house and we're going to get

ready for graduation together.

It was going to be great.

I'm literally six minutes away from the school.

When a car runs a red light and smashes into my car.

A van next to me.

And I'm like, since circling and flying out of the intersection.

This was particularly traumatic for me because I've been

in numerous car accidents.

I'm not the worst driver guys, but it's just, I really have personally found

that in my life, the enemy has really been trying to use car accidents to

physically kill me, like to take me out of the game for real and guys, like, I.

It was terrible.

Let me just say it's a very, very traumatic experience.

But long story short, I ended up having sprains and my foot and my pelvi s,

pelvic wall contusions, a contusion against my, across my chest, a large

laceration across my chest from where the seatbelt literally cut into my skin.

Like my knee y'all, my knee was fractured.

Just your, a girl was torn up.

Okay.

I was torn up.

But still so grateful for life, you know, because that could have

been the end of me, you know, that could have been the end.

And that is where I would say life really started going drastically

downhill in the month of May.

I think literally the week before I had lost my job.

Then that week had gotten into a car accident, totaled my car.

So I didn't have a car.

I was on crutches.

I had to drop out of, oh my gosh.

The next weekend was a fashion show.

I had to drop out of that fashion show.

The week after that was another one I literally had to drop probably

like four or five fashion shows.

It was ridiculous.

And I was butt hurt, guys, like butt hurt and.

I ended up going to physical therapy, all that stuff.

And they're like, yeah, yeah, we should have you healed up by New

York fashion week, blah, blah, blah.

And I'm like, okay, like, we're going to try.

So mind y'all, I didn't know that my knee was fractured at the time.

So, we were only treating my foot for a while.

It was a lot of crazy stuff going on when it came to my treatment

plan and how everything was handled.

But basically, I found out late that my knee was fractured.

And had basically kind of been furthering my injury because we

didn't know that information.

So I had to drop out of New York fashion week, guys.

Oh my gosh.

As an independent model with no agent, no manager, no nothing, to be a New

York fashion week in the first place?

It's a huge honor, but to have to pull out because of physical injury was

just something that my spirit was--

I was, I don't even think it hurt.

I was distraught.

I was angry.

I was frustrated.

I was pissed, guys.

Like if I'm being entirely honest, I was very angry.

Like, how could you do this?

How can, how --I'm thankful for life, God, but how could you

have allowed me to end up in this situation with everything going wrong?

Guys.

It was just terrible.

It was terrible.

I thought like, okay, I don't have a job, but I'll find a job.

I've never had issues with getting a job ever before in my entire life ever before.

And it was, let's see, lost my job in May.

And then I just got my first job back again in January and nope,

December 20, no, December 30th, 2021.

So I went seven months without a place of employment guys.

Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.

The skills that I learned at the job that I left in may.

I used to kind of support myself and freelance to do social media management.

So doing that, I only had two clients and one of the clients was my mom's business.

And then the other one was one of the previous clients and y'all, that

was bringing me $700 a month, guys.

Total.

Total.

As a 23 year old woman, 22, turning 23 year old woman, $700 a month living

well below the poverty line and somehow.

Somehow by the grace of God, I was able to attend birthday dinners,

buy people Christmas gifts, show up for people when they needed me, to

put gas in my car, go to LA y'all.

I went to LA, I took my significant other to Hawaii, like being,

being able to do so much.

Off of that 700, I don't know.

I don't know to this day, how I was really able to sustain and I give full

glory to God for that looking back.

But during that time I felt forgotten.

Guys, I felt forgotten.

I felt, I also felt like a fraud.

If I'm being honest, I get on Bible study every Wednesday during this time

and tell these girls about what the Bible says and how much God loves them

and how much we have to wait on God.

And this is also the time where I just discovered Maverick City Music.

They're a Christian worship group.

And I just discovered like the song of the year:

Wait On You.

"I'm gonna wait on you" like guys, that was my anthem, my An-them.

During this time, it was played out.

I'm sure it's in like the top 10 of my songs for my Apple Music 2021

Replay list because, baby, I was waiting on that song to wait on Jesus.

For real, I was seeking sustenance in worship music, in the Bible study

group, guys, what I thought God was using for other people, which he

was, he was really using for me.

Like at times the only reason that I read my Bible at all was for Bible study.

At times, the only reason I listened to worship music at all

was because of the Bible study and.

The enemy had me feeling like I was, I was an imposter.

Like I was telling people things that I couldn't take heed to

myself, and that was true.

But the thing is we operate this Christian.

We operate in this Christian life out of faith and not out of fact.

And, and I was speaking to those girls-- first of all, the Holy Spirit was speaking

to those girls because a lot of times the holy spirit was saying things during

Bible study that I needed to hear.

Okay.

It wasn't my own wisdom, but the Holy Spirit speaking to our faith.

Okay?

And not the facts of our situation.

So yeah.

Yeah.

I'm in a place of stagnation.

Yes.

I'm in a place of feeling frustrated with God.

Yes.

I'm in a place of being angry and being prayed out and being churched out

and being just, just through it, just through guys, back against the wall.

I have nothing left to give Jesus.

If, if God don't do it, it won't get done.

Like forreal.

And the enemy really wanted me to believe that I was an imposter and to stop doing

Bible studies and I'm not going to lie.

He did win probably like two, maybe three weeks out of the year where

I was just like, y'all I just, I can't like, I, I don't have it.

I don't have anything left to give.

And I just thank God.

Like we have to.

Especially in the valley, because in the valley it can get so easy to

look at all the things that you don't have, all the things that you're

lacking, that it can be difficult to find things to be grateful for.

But guys, those moments where I would call my friend, Whitney, or call my friend

Teyana and be like, I need y'all to pray for me because I, I can't pray any more.

I physically cannot pray any more.

I'm done.

I have nothing left to say to God.

I have been there.

If you are currently feeling like that in your valley, and you're

feeling some sort of shame or guilt.

Please, let that go.

Please let that go.

God is not mad at you for being upset at your situation.

He's not mad at you.

And the thing is, is that the valleys, a lot of times are not self-inflicted.

Like, it's a position that God has placed you in.

And during that time, y'all, when I was making $700 a month, God also shared

with me that I needed to stop looking for jobs and I needed to wait on him.

Huh?

Can you imagine, like I'm living at home with a college degree

with Caribbean parents, right?

Making $700 a month.

And when my parents are asking you how the job hunt is going, I'm telling them

that God told me to stop looking for one.

Do you know how that sounds?

Do you know how that sounds?

Do you know how that feels when you have $6 in your account using living

off of your Chick-fil-A rewards points for food and wondering how you're going

to make it to the next payday when your card is overdrawn and you don't

have the money for the overdrive fee?

There have been so many times where I, I have really had to sit

there and just, just look at God and be like, you can't be serious.

And I just want to encourage anybody who's currently in that

pit of the valley, like the valleys already low, but there are pits.

Like people don't tell you, it gets dark out there, man.

It gets lonely.

It gets painful.

It gets frustrating.

It gets.

It's it's it's sometimes you just have no, no other emotions, but anger.

And I just want to encourage y'all that you-- what you're feeling is valid.

Okay.

What's your feeling is not evil.

What you're feeling is not unjustified.

You are valid for how you're feeling.

But you can not stay there.

You cannot stay in that pit of anger.

You can not stay in that pit of bitterness.

You can not stay in that pit of frustration.

You are called to rise.

You are called to overcome.

You are called to be patient.

You are called to be long-suffering.

You are called to have peace that passes surpasses all understanding.

I don't think I ever, you know, I grew up in church.

I don't think I ever really understood what it means to have peace that

surpasses all understanding until you're in a situation where it

just doesn't make any sense.

It wouldn't make any sense for you to be happy.

It wouldn't make any sense for you to be at peace.

It wouldn't make any sense for you to still be pouring out love and

generosity and kindness to others, because you don't even have enough of

that to go, go around for yourself.

That point, that pit.

That pit is where you, that's the pressure that makes diamonds baby.

That is where you grow as a Christian.

That is where you really find out what you're made of and what

your faith is really built for.

And I just really want to encourage y'all that.

If that's what you're experiencing, you can take more.

I know, I know.

Jasmine, you don't know what I'm going through.

Jasmine.

You don't know how much money I got left.

Jasmine, you don't know how many times this person has said this to me.

You don't know how much my situation you don't know about

to get kicked out of my house.

You don't know.

Listen, listen, I am not invalidating what you're going through.

I am not trying to make it seem small.

All I'm saying is, is that God will never give you more than you can handle.

And this too shall pass.

I am speaking as someone who called my friends and said,

I have nothing left to give.

I'm done with God.

I'm done.

I'm not done with God.

I know he'll deliver, but I'm through with saying, I'm waiting on him.

He has to show me something.

Now I have nothing.

I have no other, I I'm done.

I'm through.

I don't even have words to, to articulate the frustration and the-- just the

wall that I have-- I've hit multiple times during my time in the valley.

And I'm here.

I'm here now, guys, I'm here on the other side and I'm, I'm here to encourage you

and let you know that you have fight left.

And if it's not in your physical strength, because baby, that physical strength

is going to run out in the valley.

You have to get your strength from Jesus.

You have to get your strength from community.

You have to get your strength from the Word of God.

Even when you don't know what to pray, you have no words left to pray.

That is the time to Google.

I mean, Google guys.

Go on the YouVersion app, if you need to.

And look in that search bar prayers for anxiety, prayers, for hopelessness,

prayers for fear, prayers for lack, prayers-- and just read what

somebody else wrote, because there are times, and I I'm here to validate

that there are times, where you don't have anything left to give.

And I would just love to advise to you that you put some, some

systems in place, such as friends, that you have specific friends.

Hey, can I call you when I hit a wall?

There are certain scriptures that you may put on post-it notes around

your house, put on your mirror.

Okay?

There are certain songs that turn into your anthems.

Having those things, those are your tools.

That's your arsenal for the valley.

That is how you fight in the valley.

That's how you fight when you have no fight left.

And yeah.

So I just want to encourage y'all.

I'm going to sit with that and let that just, just be what that is right there.

So basically I stood on a couple scriptures during that time that I

would love to share with you if you are looking for some scriptures to stand on.

My favorite, one of my favorites is Luke 1:45 and it says "blessed

is she who believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her."

Y'all I have cried tears over this scripture because what I love

about it is that the blessing is not in the fulfilled promises.

The blessing is in the belief for the fulfilled promises, guys.

It's amazing.

Amazing what one scripture can reveal to you.

Jeremiah 29: 11 for "for I know the plans I have for you says the Lord.

Plans to prosper you and not harm you."

This one was hard for me to grapple with, and I literally had to just

profess it over my life over and over and over again, because it's hard to

believe sometimes when you feel harmed that God is not trying to harm you.

It's hard to believe, but this is what the word of God tells you is that the plans

are to prosper you and not to harm you.

And as someone who is currently on the other side of that

valley, I am so appreciative for everything that I went through.

I'm going to go through these last three scriptures.

Then, I'm going to let you know what's changed and what's grown

from what I've been able to see as a result of the valley

Psalms 46:5, "God is with her.

She can not fail."

Philippians 2:13 "for God is working in you, giving you the desire and

the power to do what pleases him."

This is for the times where you get tired of doing good.

The Bible says that we should not get weary of doing what is right,

but I ain't gone lie, it gets hard.

It gets hard, nie.

It gets hard to, to stay the right course.

It's it gets hard to remain obedient when you're not seeing

the fruit of your labors.

I love to pray that prayer when I don't have the desire and I don't have

the power to do what God pleases me.

And I just thank him for the work that he's doing inside of me to cultivate

and to, and to plow and to fertilize the seeds that he's placed in me.

And lastly, "in their hearts, humans plan their course, but the

Lord establishes their steps."

Proverbs 16:9.

In the valley, it's easy to also feel lost like you have no idea where to go.

You have no cards left to play.

You have no pieces left to move, but that is not true.

So the word of God says that your steps are ordered.

So, sometimes when you don't have the faith to believe these

things, you have to find the word and profess it over your life.

Like it is true.

Sometimes we have to speak those things that be not as though they were.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's, that's all I got to say about that, but what's changed.

Let's see.

I, okay, so there's a scripture, Lord.

I wish I had it on hand, but there's a scripture that talks about the fruits

of the Holy Spirit and the fruits of the Holy Spirit being peace, joy, love,

patience, long suffering, kindness.

I have personally seen growth in all those areas, in my life.

I am far more long-suffering than I've ever been after coming out of the valley.

One thing that I started saying to myself is I won't break.

I won't break.

I can bend.

I can twist, but I won't break.

God has allowed me not to be broken throughout all the pressure of

the valley, throughout all the turmoil and all the frustration.

I've hit walls, but I've broken through them.

Okay.

They didn't break me.

So what's, what's changed?

I'm wiser.

Y'all, I'm so much wiser than I used to be.

I am way more patient.

I'm slower to anger.

I am more humble.

I think that is one of the biggest things that came from

the valley for me was humility.

Never thinking that you're too good for a situation.

Never thinking that something couldn't be you.

Never thinking that, you know, poverty is beneath you, struggle is beneath

you, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

That was something.

And it's not that I was consciously thinking those things, but I really,

through the breakdown of the valley, I was able to see that there was some

pride in me that needed to go, okay.

It needed to go.

Also when it comes to pride, depending on Jesus, instead of depending on

myself, when you are a person that likes to be in control, there was a

certain level of pride that you're operating in and saying, oh, I got this.

I can handle this.

Oh yeah.

I'm really smart.

I can do dah, dah, dah.

Oh yeah.

My resume is really good so, I can get a job.

Oh yeah.

Listen.

Listen, the valley will show you that you ain't got control over the things that

you think you have gotten for yourself.

Wait until you get to a point where everything that you try doesn't work.

Wait until you get to a point where your resume isn't getting you any interviews.

Wait, till you get to a point where the works, that you are used to provide,

providing fruit for you, reaping nothing but benefits-- you're you're

I mean, reaping nothing by barrenness.

Like you're not gaining anything from your old methods and your old ways.

I've also become a lot stronger at being able to discern the voice

of God, to seek the voice of God.

I've become more disciplined.

More quickly-- I don't know if that's true-- but I was gonna say that I am,

I'm a lot faster to be obedient to God.

Of course, he's still working on my heart.

He kind of had to hound me down to get this podcast together, but in small

things, small obedience matters, as well.

So yeah, that's, what's changed in me.

And honestly, I don't think I could have been the woman that I am today

without going through the valley and be the me that I am today.

Literally May 2021 me is shaking in her Valentino boots, baby, because

she does not have the stamina.

She could literally never, okay.

She can never be who I am today.

And it's only through, it's only through the grace of God and the mercy of God

and through the purification of God, that, that I am who and where I am today.

Yeah.

So basically, what you can expect from this podcast going forward

is encouragement, enlightenment, revelation, scriptures, prayer, worship.

I want this to be a place for people who are currently going

through the valley to.be seen.

To feel heard, to feel less alone, to get tools, to continue

to fight through the valley.

Because I feel like this was something that I would have loved

to have on a consistent basis.

You know, one sermon here or one podcast there or one worship song here, speaking

to your situation really, really helps.

And it does keep you going, but having somewhere consistent that I can turn

to for edification and for growth and for spiritual, spiritual watering,

it was very, very necessary for me.

And so I hope that this can become that for other people and

turn people towards Christ when they have nothing left to give.

And I just want to leave y'all with this going forward: Revelation 12:11,

"for they overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony."

You already have the blood of the lamb, if you've accepted Jesus to

be your Lord and personal savior.

If you have not, please, please, you know you can reach out to me.

You can Google scriptures to be saved to, to give your life to Jesus.

And you can find those resources online, but once you have the blood

of the lamb, once you have Jesus, the next thing that you need to overcome

is the word of your testimony.

God.

Hm.

How should I say this, Holy Spirit.

God wants, God wants to empower you through what you've been through.

God wants to use what you've been through to fuel you forward.

And not only just you, but to fuel others forward.

I say a lot of times on a Bible study, sometimes the things that you're going

through is not even for you, sometimes.

Yeah, God is going to get something out of you and that's well and good.

But a lot of times the things that you go through is to help other people.

And I know now that the valley that I went through was so that I would have

been able to see what it's like to be in the valley, to see what it's like to

be in the pit so that I now can reach out and help others who are currently in

that situation and relate to what they're going through and, and be something for

them that I wish I had at that time.

So not speaking about myself, but for y'all get in community.

Get in Godly community.

Find a church, find a small group, start a Bible study, find a group of

friends too, and, the Bible says where two or more gathered He's in the midst.

All you need is one other person.

Okay.

And talk about what you're going through.

That is a great way for you to overcome what you're going through.

It says in the Word that you overcome by the word of your testimony.

So you can't fully overcome was just Jesus alone.

You need to overcome by verbalizing and telling people

what God's doing in your life.

That is how you overcome the valley.

That is how you overcome the frustration.

That's how you overcome the pit.

Yeah.

I think this is a great stopping point.

Thank you all so much for tuning in.

I hope you all will tune into the next episode of These are the Valleys.

It has been a pleasure and an honor to speak to you.

Yeah.

And I just pray that y'all go forth and be blessed and have the

strength and the power to keep pushing forward through the valley.

Love y'all.