Bonus Episode: Build your faith/James Recap

Welcome back to “Babe, We Need to Talk” with Alexx Rogers! BWNTT is a sit-down chit-chat about Jesus and all His goodness! In this special bonus episode we chat all about the James study we did together on socials, and expand on some of the comments y’all shared! 

Reading from: James chapters 1-5 

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Transcript

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Hello and welcome back to Babe. We need to talk. I'm Alex, your host, and I'm so excited you're here today. Guys, this is like a little bonus episode. I really felt it on my spirit, on my heart, whatever you want to call it, to do a podcast over the book of James, which we just read on social media together. If you didn't join in the Bible study, that's totally okay. We're gonna, I'm not gonna read the whole thing here, but we're gonna just like recap a little bit of what we've learned. Um, I went through the comments and put um like some notes together on them so we can kind of like as a group touch on all of them and just chat about like what God is teaching us through all of it. I love the book of James. It really is one of my favorites. It's one I go to when I need a kick in the butt. It's one that I read like parts of like pretty consistently in my quiet time and my Bible time because it's just full of such good truth. And like the whole reason this page exists, like the I don't want to call it a tagline because I don't think God is God of taglines, but like the blurb that he gave me when I was um thinking on and praying on this whole page and this whole community was hard truths from great love. And I think that James is so full of hard truths from great love, just wanting us to be more like Jesus. And I just think that we all need that sometimes. Um, I know that it can be a bit of a daunting book to read from the Bible when you are newer in the faith, but I also think that it's so good and it can be and it's so encouraging. So, anyways, I thought we could do like a recap of it. I also wanted to say thank you so much for just like being here and listening and doing this study with me. Um, it was so fun. I we have a lot of new followers since I started this study, and I love that. I love that God's word is just like spreading and that people are so hungry for it. His word never comes back void, and I'm just so grateful for it. And it's such just like a breath of fresh air, you know? We're gonna be chatting about it. I'm gonna talk, we're I'm gonna do a little recap of it. Obviously, it's gonna be hard to touch on everything we learned in it, but I'm gonna try my best. And like I said, I'm gonna go through the comments, and so I have um some notes over here in my journal, and it's gonna be fun. Also, I was laughing because when I was going through the videos to like gather all the comments to like write down what we should talk about, I the first video of like introducing the study, I was like, hi, I'm Alex. And I'm my whole mission is to figure out what to do with my hands when I'm talking, and you guys still haven't figured it out. I don't know what to do with my hands when I'm talking. So the episode that actually is coming out Monday, you're gonna have to forgive me because I was very emphatic in it and I kind of hit my Bible a few times, and you can definitely hear it. So if that bothers you, I'm so sorry. I am trying so hard to do better about stuff like that. And I want to say thank you for giving me so much grace while I'm learning this. Like, the whole reason I have this podcast is just to get you in your word and to share the good news and to share what God has done in my life. And I'm such a flawed person and I've had such kind of a wild, crazy story that I haven't even shared all of it. But um, like I want people to be able to listen and know that like God accepts you as you are, but He doesn't want you to stay that way and that it's okay to try a new thing and not be perfect at it. And we're what 16, 17 episodes in, and I'm still learning. And so I just appreciate you being patient with me as I do that, you know? And actually, like I almost cried last week. I recorded a podcast which will come out Monday, um, the Monday after Father's Day. And I I sat here for an hour and recorded, and God was just giving me all this, all this, all these things to say. And then I go to like grab my phone at the end and I wasn't recording at all. And so I had to take like 2,000 deep breaths and then do it again. And I felt like I left some things out, but God was like, leave it, it's fine. Like you can touch on the things later, it's gonna be okay. Let's just get into it. So I wore my count it all joy shirt again for the podcast to wrap or to like, you know, I guess fully wrap up James with this little recap. I love this shirt so much, it's one of my favorites. This is from one of from one of my very last collections I did with Clothe and Strength for Clothe and Strength. And I wear this shirt all the time. But this is also a verse that no lie, no cap. I hope my son hears that because he would be so irritated and it would be hilarious. He hates it when I say cap and no cap. And if you're a mom of teens or preteens, you know what I mean. But I repeat these verses to myself all the time when I'm facing something that seems so so hard, or when I'm facing what seems like the same thing over and over again. Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow. For when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing. And that's from James 1, that's verses 2 through 4. And again, I'm reading from NLT. We're reading from my new Bible this time. That's what we did the study in. We broke in my new Bible with it. It was so fun. And small plug, this is from Hosanna Revival. I do not get anything from telling you that, but I just think they have the most beautiful Bibles. And I'm a big journaler when I Bible, like I have, I will write in my Bible and write in a journal. That is, I just love, I love to write, and I that's how I process things. I repeat this to myself all the time. So of course I had to make a shirt out of it because that's just what I did, you know? But I think that so many of us needed this reminder, and that's what a lot of the comments kind of said on social media was it's so hard to praise God when we're facing hard things. And James also talks about that later on, too, in chapter five, uh, talking about patience and endurance through verses seven through 12. And I think I think it's a reminder that we all need so often because we can pout and we can negative spiral and we can be so cranky about things. But God says, Hey, I am building you up in the faith to make you stronger tomorrow than you are today. So be joyful, put a smile on your face. And one thing I actually tell my kids sometimes is, hey, I know it hurts, but sometimes if we smile through the pain, not saying that to ignore the emotions, but there's proven, like scientifically proven, that if you smile through the pain, it tricks your brain into thinking it's not as, you know, it's not as painful as it is. So I kind of think of that too, whenever I'm trying to count it all joy when I face trials and tribulations of any kind, because God is just building us up. And one thing I've actually I didn't know I was gonna talk about this, but I will use an example of um God building us up a little bit. And this is like, it's so small, but it's also not one of the ways that God was building me up in my patience and endurance and was through controlling my tongue. Okay. And about, I don't know, December of last year, around Christmas time, I started noticing that I was having all of these like weird encounters in public with people just like being very cruel to me with their words and with their actions. And I was noticing that I wasn't really responding. I was just like, okay, like it was just all very weird, all very, all really odd and all that like past Alex, even like a year, two years ago, Alex would have popped off to these people and escalated the situation, right? After a few weeks that all of it started, I started experiencing really big and heavy and hard things in my life where I had to control my tongue, like really control my tongue, really tame it, really not say the thing that I wanted to say, or say the thing that I wanted to say, but say it wisely, like we talked about last week, using that discernment on how and when to say things, I had to just really control everything I was thinking before I filtered it out through my mouth, right? And I was like, you know what, God, I'm so grateful for all of the tiny situations because now I'm in these big situations where it really matters what I say because these are people that I really, really love and I want to go about it the right way. So it goes back to that's just one small example, but God just takes like these little testings, these little trials to build us up for bigger ones. And it might mean and it might scare you to think like, oh, he's building me up now. I have these small trials. What to just have a bigger one later? Yeah, probably because that is life with Jesus sometimes. It's hard. Like we are constantly combating the world and the ways of the world, and it's difficult, friend. And one of the comments actually on um, I don't remember which day it was of the study, but was talking about patience and endurance. I guess it was day 12. And we were talking about patience and endurance and how sometimes it's that right after you accept Jesus into your heart, right after you start actually like actively walking with Jesus and you let the Holy Spirit baptize you, life gets a little difficult. And my pastor actually has a really good way of explaining it. And he's like, You were running with the devil, and then you turned around and you ran smack face into the devil. And he doesn't want you to change course. And so you're gonna experience spiritual warfare, you're gonna experience like you're gonna start seeing the ways of the world be so irritating to your spirit because once you're baptized in the Holy Spirit, you're baptized in the blood of Jesus, everything changes. The veil is completely lifted over your eyes, over your ears, and you start to see and hear things like Jesus would. And it is difficult at first, but oh, it's so worth it. And he's he's patiently building you up. Like not only are you having to be patient with God, he's being so patient with you as he builds you into the person that he wants you to be, as he builds you into the light that this world needs. And it is difficult, but he's there with us. And in the beginning of the study, I think it was day two. No, it was still day one. We talked about the difference between testing and temptation. James says, remember when you are being tempted, do not say God is tempting me. God is never tempted to do wrong, and he never tempts anyone else. Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death. Okay, testing and temptation don't both come from God. We're being tested by God. We're being tempted by our own flesh, and we're being tempted by Satan because while God sees all, knows all, is all, Satan only knows what he observes, what his minions observe and what he observes. So he knows what you're tempted by, and he will whisper in your ear, just like he did to Jesus in the wilderness. And we have to stand firm. And the way that these go hand in hand with each other, while God is one and flesh and Satan are the other, testing and temptation, like God's testing and building us up helps us resist the temptation of the world of flesh and of Satan. Let's move on. Okay, so you're baptized in the Holy Spirit, you're baptized by the blood of Jesus, you accept him into your heart, and you start reading your Bible. You start reading the book of James, the book of Psalms, the Gospels. You start to learn who he is. When you're doing that, when you've been truly baptized by the Holy Spirit, you're going to start behaving differently. We cannot have, we cannot read the word and not be active members of it. We can't read the word and not fulfill it when our heart is completely changed. There are plenty of people who can read this Bible and walk away from it with no change. They haven't been saved truly in their hearts. But when we have, we have good faith and we have good works, because faith without works is death. James reminds us that we cannot, he says in chapter one, verse 22, but don't just listen to God's word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. And then also in chapter two, in verse 14, he says, What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith, but don't show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone? It's just that reminder that we're meant to be a light. We're meant to go out and do God's will. And God's will can look different in all of our lives, but it has the same end game. It has the same goal of adding to the kingdom every day, of showing his goodness every day, of in the situations that we're in in public or with family, being graceful and gentle and controlling our tongue, even when we want to be like, are you kidding me? It's that discipline of reading the word, changing our heart, changing the way we think, and then our actions reflecting what's inside of us. Because what we put in us comes out of us. James even tells us here in chapter one, verse 21. So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives and humbly accept the word that God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls. We have to put the good things in us so good things come out of us. When we are still filling ourselves with the world and we're going to that for our comfort, we're going to our old vices and our old crutches to fill something inside of us that only God can fill. We're going to those idols instead of the only one we be sh we should be putting our eyes towards. Like those things are going to be what comes out of us. Instead of going to God, learning his word, letting it fill our hearts, letting it fill our minds, and then going out and doing exactly what it says. And this is going to bring us actually back to chapter three, controlling your tongue. This was a day, like I said, that got the probably the most amount of comments. And one of the things that was commented on a lot or asked about a lot was gossiping. And there was a lot of like, a lot of women commenting, like, I come from a gossiping household. I really struggle with this. I've noticed like the the um the spirit of gossiping is over me. How do I control it? What do I do? How do I get rid of it? And what I really feel like God, because I also have struggled with that. I've also struggled, I think that most women probably have struggled with gossiping. And I think something to ask ourselves individually, and I mean, individually and corporately, is why are why am I sharing this piece of information? Because sometimes we can go to somebody, I'm really, you know, my friend is really struggling. I'm really sad for her. She needs prayer. Now that needs to be a trusted person, and your friend needs to be okay with needs to be okay with the fact that you told this other person that. And it's really hard. And one of the other verses that I quote a lot that isn't from James, take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ. A thought is just a thought. What we do with that thought is what matters. We can turn it, we can grab it, we can take it and make it obedient to the Bible and what the Bible says, or we can give in to the temptation of our flesh and go down that spiral. So when you have a thought like, I'm so tired, you can turn it and you can say, God has given me enough for today. When you have a thought like I'm broke, you can think my riches are in heaven. God has given me enough for today. When you have a negative thought, that person doesn't like me, that person this, that person that, you can turn it and say, I know what God says about me. God tells me I'm loved and chosen and worthy because I walk with him. So whatever thought you're having, whatever repetitive thought that you're having that's leading you down a negative spiral, I encourage you today to take it, to make it obedient to Christ. And it's gonna help you control your tongue because once we can control our thoughts better and make our thoughts obedient to Christ, our words will also be obedient to Christ. They're gonna start sounding more like Jesus. They're gonna start sounding more like what James is telling us to do. Whew, I get a little like worked up about our words because it is something I struggle with. And I think that I've heard before, which I don't know if I've mentioned it on this podcast or not, but I've heard before that like Satan will take what God wants to use the most and he will try to use it against the kingdom. And I just really believe that. And I have to like hold fast to that sometimes. Like I can't have, I can't let Satan have the gifts that God gave me. I can't let Satan use the gifts that God gave us for good. Like, we can't do that. We have to stay obedient to Christ and learn the gifts that God gave you and not let the world or Satan have a foothold in your life, especially there, but anywhere in your life. Flee from the devil. And actually, it's a good little segue to uh chapter four, drawing close to God. Chapter four, verse seven says, So humble yourselves before God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world. And I think that so many of us kind of live there, um, at least for a little bit in our walk with Jesus, right? Like we're washed by the blood, and then we we have this period of like, oh, I love these things of the world, but I desire God more. I love so much too that James remind us, reminds us that wisdom comes from God, and all we have to do is ask for it. If we lack wisdom in an area, all we have to do is ask for it. So when you're trying to draw towards the comforts of the world, ask God, God, flush this out. Give me the wisdom to draw closer to you, give me the desire to draw closer to you, and he will do it. When we ask these things in God's name, he is going to give it to us. When we ask with pure hearts, and if you don't think that your heart is pure right now, ask him to flush out anything that is impure and you're gonna start seeing changes in your life. You're gonna To start seeing that, oh, this show that I love to watch does not glorify God. This book that this book series I love to read, God does not glorify God. This place that I like to go with my friends does not glorify God. And sometimes, unfortunately, it does mean that you have to have put up healthy boundaries between certain people in your life that aren't going to push you towards Christ, but try to pull you away from it and towards the world. God says to wash your hands of this, to wash your hands of the way of the world. Does that mean we get to be cruel to other people? No, but it does mean that we have to put our some distance while God is building us up, while he's putting us through these tests and these trials until we can endure to physically say no, because sometimes that is hard, right? It's hard to something that you've always done and that has been a habit in your life. It's hard to walk away from. And God is sitting there and he's telling you, He's saying, draw close to me, flee from the devil. What I have over here is so much better than what the world offers. And he'll build you up, and then you get to go out, and then you get to make the world a better place and make it more, you get to be more like Jesus and go out and show people Jesus and show them the goodness and the fruit that they're missing. Okay, and we're gonna back it up just a little bit back into chapter three, again, talking about true wisdom coming from God. And then he also talks about, I think this one was a little bit hard for some people to wrap their head around because James talks about how jealousy and selfishness are not God's kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind. And that also goes into chapter four. He talks about you want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can't get it, so you fight and wage war to take it from them. Yet you don't have what you want because you don't ask God for it. And even when you ask, you don't get it because your motives are all wrong. You want only what will give you pleasure. So all of this tying in together, I know that this part is hard when we hear that the such things are earthly and spiritual and demonic, but they are. And these, and I know, I know that especially if you're newer to the faith, you probably think, oh my, like the whole demonic talk is crazy, but there is a real war going on around us, a spiritual war that the whole they want your soul. Like the devil wants your soul. He wants you far away from God. He was cast out of heaven and he wants you with him. He does not want you to shed these demonic spirits and these demonic influences and the worldly influences. And we've talked before too, like the Bible says that Satan is the God of this world, lowercase G God of this world, where God is the God of everything, and He you there is a fight for your soul going on. And maybe you're in the middle of that fight right now. And I'm gonna actually share something with you. I haven't shared, I've only shared this with like two people. Um, but I have shared with y'all that I ran from God for years, which is so funny because you can't really run from God. But I tried to run from God for years, and last summer he encountered me in such a huge way. And when that happened and I decided to run, like stop running from God and just run back to him. I experienced some insane spiritual warfare and a few in a few different ways, too. One of the ways is every time I would sit and read my Bible and I would start having like, I could feel my heart changing. I could feel the like I could feel my neuropathways changing. Um and I know that sounds crazy, but it's like I could physically in my body feel my brain changing to understand the Bible more. And when that would happen, I would start getting these like insane, hot pain, just like pains in all of my joints. And especially in the parts of my body that like I've had surgery on or I have broken in the past or injured or something, I would get these just hot, hot pains every time I would start having this spiritual, like a spiritual revelation or a like a huge heart change while I was studying my Bible. It was crazy. And I just remember being like, what is going on? Like, why is this happening? And God being like, just keep going, just keep going, you've got it. And another like way that I really experienced spiritual warfare was one night I had decided to start the Babe We Need to Talk account. I had start decided to like start just everything that God was telling me to do, I decided to say yes to. He said, Close your business, I closed my business. He said, you know, start this account. I started this account, go here, do this. I, everything God was telling me, I had a yes to because I was like, you know, God, obviously what I've been doing hasn't been working. So give me your wisdom, give me your clarity, give me that discernment. I want to listen to you. And one night I was asleep and I was in this like weird, this weird nightmare, I guess. And I was trying so hard to wake myself up. And when I did, I was still. But above me, right above me, there was this, I mean, demon. It looked like a demon just laughing and cackling and taunting me. And I woke up my husband and I was like, I am so terrified right now. Like, I don't want to, and every time I closed my eyes, I would see it again. And it was all night. I was just being taunted by these demons. And if I turned on my side, it was there. If I looked up, it was there. And I basically forced myself to like stay awake the rest of the night because I was so terrified. And what I think was happening was just not just what I I feel like saying just diminishes it, but I what I feel like was happening was just this big just war going on above me and around me, where I was deciding to say yes to God and the demons were mad. It was such a pivotal moment in my walk because I felt like I was shedding the things of the world. I felt like I was shedding the earthly, unspiritual, and demonic things, which unless you've experienced it and unless you've walked with God in that way, like it's really hard to explain. And some of you may mark me as crazy, and that's totally okay. But I know what I experienced. I know how heavy it was. And I know I think about it all the time too, because it was so scary. But I'm so glad that like God got me through that night. He he freed me from so much, so many chains, so many scary things. And I haven't had a dream like that since, haven't had a nightmare like that since. Thank God, because it was awful and terrifying. But I also, after that happened, I didn't sleep for like two weeks. I mean, I did, but I didn't, you know, like I was restless, had really awful sleep. It was not fun. But I that was, I had a couple people comment about how like people don't understand that there really is a demonic spirit over these things. And we need to flush them out. And I don't share that story to scare you. I share it to encourage you that while there is a fight for your soul, like Jesus has already won the victory. We just have to say yes to him and keep saying yes to him. Like once saved, always saved. Yes, absolutely. But I do think that there are times in our life where the Holy Spirit just comes upon us again, like another dose of it almost to like level us up to the next level, which I think is part of like the testing of our faith and the testing and the endurance and the trials and persevering and growing. Like I think that all of it's like so tied together. But anyways, I just felt I felt like sharing that today. And I didn't really want to share it. But sometimes sometimes we have to do what God tells us to do, even if we don't want to do it, which can be a huge, I think, stumbling block in a lot of people's walk because the world tells you, well, do what makes you happy, say no to the things you want to say no to, only say yes to the things you want to say yes to. And that's so just like following our passions and following our own desires instead of following the heart of God. And when we follow the heart of God, we ask him, God, fix my heart, posture it towards you, flush out all the fleshly desires. And sometimes it means that we have to say yes to things that we don't want to say yes to, and we have to say no to things that we do want to say yes to. And it's just a walk. But then one day, I want to encourage you because one day you're gonna say no to something that you used to want to say yes to, and you're gonna feel so free. You're gonna feel so free from it. Okay, let's move on. We're gonna go over here. We also talked about a lot about like not judging others and not putting like a preconceived prejudice on others in the church and out of the church and our brothers and sisters in Christ and not to treat each other differently. And we talked a lot about how like we get so much grace and mercy from God to give to other people, it's not just for ourselves. We talked about the power of prayer and confessing our sins to each other. And I feel like there can be kind of lines crossed between like confessing our sins to one another and gossiping, maybe. And I just want to remind you to when we're confessing our sins to one another, it is to a trusted source. It is to somebody who knows that we don't hoard the grace that God gives us, that we give grace to each other. James tells us to confess our sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. We are all called to repentance. We are all called to the confession of our sins. And we give it over to God and we can forgive ourselves, we can forgive each other. But he tells us that when we confess to each other, that's when we are healed. So finding your people and finding people that you can confess your sins to so that they can pray for you, not so that they can judge you, and not so that they can condemn you, so they can pray over you and pray for you is such an important part of this walk. And he also reminds us, which we've talked about this a lot on the podcast and on Babe, we need to talk. Are any of you suffering hardships, you should pray, or any of you happy, you should sing praises. We are supposed to be praying and praising continuously. And I know that sometimes I know some of you may be in a season right now where you are thinking, I have nothing to praise God for. Everything is so hard right now. I am having so much trouble counting it all joy when I face trials and tribulations of any kind. Babe, I have been there. I get it. Start with the smallest thing. Thank you, God, that I have breath in my lungs. Thank you, God, for a house over my head. Thank you, God, for my friends, my husband, my mom, my kids. God, thank you so much for the food on this table. Why am I gonna cry? Ew, get those emotions out of here. I just not want to be emotional today. It can be the smallest thing. It doesn't have to be, God, thank you so much for this promotion. God, thank you so much that I have a job. God, thank you so much for the opportunity to get a job. God, thank you so much for the clothes on my back. When we are praising him with our lips out loud, it is such, whoo, such a weapon to the spiritual warfare going on in our lives. It's letting the demons and Satan and the world know you have no hold on me. Yeah, things are hard, but God has still so good. God has given me so many things. And that was another one of the comments that I got um a few of was I really needed this reminder to praise him even when things are bad. It's so easy to praise him when we're good. It's so easy to go to God and say, Oh, thank you for all of all that you're doing in my life when things are on the up. But when you're in the valley, you're still, you still gotta praise him on the mountain in the valley, pray and praise constantly. And there will be times that you are. There have been times that I've been, I mean, just last week, I was in the car and I was praying and I was like, God, I don't even know what to say anymore. You know what's on my heart, and this Holy Spirit will intercede for you. He will intercede on your behalf and get that prayer over. It is okay if you don't have the words, but I'm encouraging you today to just try, just start with the smallest thing of praise and give it over to God. We ended um our James study with restore wandering believers. My dear brothers and sisters, if someone among you wanders away from the truth and is brought back, you can be sure that whoever brings the sinner back from wandering will save the person from death and bring about the forgiveness of many sins. And I wrote here in my Bible, don't give up on that person or on yourself. The seeds you plant and water today will bring forth a multitude tomorrow. And I don't think I shared that in the study on social media, but it is just like something I wrote at the very end in my Bible, don't give up, friends. Don't give up. If you have someone on your heart right now that you are just you have been praying over, don't give up on them. If it's you that you've been wandering from God and you don't know your way back, just turn around. He is there. And just like James tells us, like, draw close to God and he will draw close to you. He is not playing hide and seek with us, he is not running from us. We may be doing that to him, but he wants your heart. He wants you to follow all of the things in here. He wants your faith and your good works, he wants your words and your praises and your prayers. He wants you to come to him with all of the trials and all of the tribulations. He wants you. He wants your heart. And if we're not giving our heart over to God, we're leaving ourselves open for the world and for Satan to come and snatch it up. And we we can't let that happen for each other. So if you have someone on your heart today, maybe reach out to them and just, hey, I love you. How can I pray for you? Hey, how's it going? Doesn't even have to be like, hey, I need you to turn to God. Doesn't have to be, hey, go to church with me. Just reach out, plant a seed, which ooh, I'm super excited because the next podcast that drops on Monday is actually all about seeds and planting and good soil and bad soil. So I'm really excited for that. But, anyways, I hope you guys love the James study. I hope you loved it as much as I did. I hope it's a book that you go back to over and over again and just study and love, whether you do it like through Instagram or TikTok, or if you do it on your own, I think that there's so much goodness in it. There's so much fruit from it. In the book of James, again, we read from NLT today. Um, yeah, if you don't already, you should totally follow us on TikTok and Instagram at babe we need to talk. We are on YouTube at babe.we need to talk, or you can always email me at heybabewe need to talk at gmail.com. And as always, do not take my word for it. Open gods. And I'll see you next time, babes. Thanks for being here. Bye.