180. Jesus Loves You!

Speaker 1: 0:00

what's stopping you from putting a ring on it, since you know dudes are afraid of commitment. You know, I once told a woman this at my job. I said if a dude proposed to a woman, you oh. First of all, let me just say this. Let me put you up on game. Let me put you up on game First of all. Men do not like commitment. It takes. Women are more likely to commit than a man.

Speaker 2: 0:30

Is it all right if I ask why? All right, you know what? Let's not get into that.

Speaker 1: 0:37

No, we can go there. So when we think about again, again, I'm a little older than you. I'm not that old, though. Nine years apart, nine years difference. You know, I told y'all I've been out of the game for a long time Men are more likely to have at least when I was again, I don't know how it is now Men are more likely to have more options and more choices, like I could be with girl number one. Let me not say girl one, woman number one, woman number two, woman number three, not woman number four. So when they get woman number one, it's hard for them to commit to woman number one because they got woman number 10. Welcome to the Call by God podcast. With Adne Godin and myself, nixon Sylvain. This show is about dialogues of biblical characters and testimonies of Christians who submitted to the will of God. Each week we bring on one guest so that they can share their story of how they were called by God. I hope this show inspires you, enjoy. Hello and welcome world to the Call by God podcast. I'm yours truly brother, nick, and I come before you. I have a special guest. Adne is not here today. So Adne is in the spirit, but I'm here with my special guest my younger sister. I can't call her my baby sister anymore because she's grown up so fast, but she's my, not my baby, but she's my young sister, sister Currie or Talaria Currie how you doing on this blessed day?

Speaker 2: 2:10

I am blessed brother Nick, it's sister Currie here.

Speaker 1: 2:15

Hey man, don't be acting shy now. Look, sister Currie been on our episode before, so y'all gotta go back. I'll leave all the past episodes that she been on. They'll be on in the show notes, but you doing good, sister Currie.

Speaker 2: 2:28

Yes.

Speaker 1: 2:29

Yeah, I guess for me you didn't even ask me how I'm doing because you typically what happens. I'm gonna tell you what happens when I do the episode with sister Adne. Hi, sister Adne, sister Adne, be like Nick, how you doing. So you know, this is this. What we're doing is like more like a devotional, because you know we talk like pretty much every week three, maybe four or five times out of the week. So this is like, I guess, a telephone conversation or devotional, that it's like we have these conversations all the time, all the time.

Speaker 2: 3:01

What's actually? How are you doing? How are you doing, brother Nick?

Speaker 1: 3:04

Oh, now you're gonna ask me how I'm doing. I am blessed by the best, I can't complain. I can't complain. So this is nothing different than what we do over the phone. You know how we talk about daily trends or daily topics, but it was just laid on my heart just to produce this particular episode, and so in this particular episode I wanna talk about Valentine's Day. So, as you know, in a few days it's gonna be Valentine's Day, and it was just laid on my heart. Now I do have some upcoming episodes, some powerful upcoming episodes of people's stories that were called by God. We do have discussions of biblical characters. That's coming up. But for some strange, odd reason, valentine's Day was laid on my heart and I figured that we gotta come up with this episode and it has to be produced. So that's pretty much where I'm at right now.

Speaker 2: 3:56

Wow, so we're gonna be talking about love.

Speaker 1: 3:59

Love I mean the real love, the real love. Not the worldly love. But before we have our discussion, first of all I wanna give the glory, praise and honor to my Lord and my Savior, jesus Christ, for giving Adne and I the fortitude and even the perseverance to just do the podcast. As you know, since the Curry podcast could be burdensome, but it's a good burden because you know that you're doing it for the will and the call of God, that what God has placed in your heart. So for me and Adne, we take great pride and great joy doing what God has laid in our hearts. So we're excited. Also, we wanna thank you guys. Without the podcast it's possibly wouldn't be possible. It is the hearts. You know. God know how to touch the hearts of man. So when people are listening to the podcast, it's something that they probably hear from the podcast. So they're like man, I need to share with my coworker or I need to share with a family member or I need to share with my frenemies I guess that's a new term. The frenemies Like they friend, but the enemies. Judas was a frenemy. Judas was in the family of God. Yeah, he was in the family. One of the 12 disciples, he was in the family. So not only he was a friend cause. You know, jesus Christ even loved his enemies. So he was like a frenemy. Frenemy, oh my goodness, yeah. But Jesus Christ still loved him, although despite he knew that Judas would be traded yeah, ain't that something, friend? So Wash his feet. Wash his feet and everything. So that's the thing God wants us to do that to our enemies too. We gotta wash our enemies feet. We can't even think ill will of our enemies, or that stuff will come 10 fold on us. You know how some people be like oh they better not mess with me, or God gonna come get you. And they really want God to harm their enemies. You know there are people like that. They be like don't you know that I'm a child of God? Like they, not somebody mess with me. And they be praying Like God, could you have a calamity come against them? God will turn that calamity around and it's gonna come right to that person doorstep, that Christian doorstep, so you can't even be praying for your enemies. Downfall, that's how serious. Because remember, and we gonna talk about that, we gonna talk about John 3.16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, so whoever should believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life. So when Jesus Christ was on the cross, that's a symbol of love, sacrifice and for all, even for those that haven't believed in him. And that's why, when God created man, he created man as his own image. So all of humanity is created in an image of God. In other words, we bear his characteristics. So, yeah, so God loves all.

Speaker 2: 6:37

God is kind to the jest and the unjust.

Speaker 1: 6:39

That's right. That's right, so let's dive into it. So I was reading this article. It's from E Claudus the second and y'all could do a simple Google search. It's on timcatcom and I wanna read just a brief description of the origin of Valentine's Day. As you know, valentine's Day, sis, you know that is my birthday and but you know the weirdest thing, I don't sometimes I forget it's my birthday cause it's so many things going on. My anniversary got me, it's my anniversary and it's Valentine's Day. Yeah, so sometimes I even forget. But but, and we're gonna read it right now, let me just read the description. We'll just have a discussion about it. Yeah, let's do this. So the origin of Valentine's? Right? So we're gonna start by saying this so, hearts, this is what the author said. He said hearts and flowers, cupids and candy. So when you think about Valentine's Day, that's what you think about. And you know, just strangely, before I even start reading this whole description of the origin of Valentine's Day, I'm going back in retrospect to when I was in middle school. So, middle school was a big thing teddy bears and candy. I didn't have a girlfriend, and I'm not, nor, nor I am not promoting no, no, dude to have a girlfriend. Cause in middle school or in high school, yeah, yeah. So, cause we know, we know what can happen when those things happen. Yeah, we used to call that, we used to call that puppy love. We used to say, yeah, man, I like this girl or I like this, you know, girls, I like this boy. We said that's puppy love. In other words, that's not really love. That's why I like this discussion that we're talking about. Yeah, we talking about Valentine's Day, but yeah, but there's a greater love. There's a greater love that we're gonna talk about. I just thought I'll put that in there cause, oh, we gonna get, we gonna get to it. But I'm just trying to make it relatable because I'm just a little being a little transparent. When I was in middle school, no girls gave me no teddy bear. I ain't getting no teddy bear. I'm gonna tell you why. People around this time, sis, they feel lonely. Oh, wow, yeah. Now don't get me wrong. The lovebirds, the ones that deem to be in love, is my boyfriend, is my girlfriend. They're the so-called relationships that may happen in middle school, high school, college and beyond. The relationships. We're not talking about covenant. We're not talking about marriage, and marriage husband and wives that's a given Just for husbands ought to love their wives, as Christ led the church, and the wives ought to respect their husbands. So we're talking about people that are deemed to be in relationship like boyfriend and girlfriend. So when I was in and I'm gonna even go back to high school we're gonna talk about the word. When I was in middle school and high school, I don't recall a girl buying me a teddy bear or giving me anything for Valentine's Day. So I said that to say this, that even though it was my birthday and I guess for me it's a little bit different because it was my birthday so I looked at it like it's my birthday but at the same time, even though I was celebrating my birthday, at times because we're human at times when you're not in a relationship, because when you're especially that young middle school, high school you see other couples holding hands and on Valentine's Day holding hands, they're matching colors red, pink and white and they have teddy bears in the doo by her, teddy bears, flowers, whatever the case may be and then you find yourself you're not in a relationship. You could feel lonely. You start to think to yourself like man, I'm not attractive or am I ugly? You start to think things like that and you start to belittle yourself like man, I'm not really Participating, yeah, yeah. So I'm saying that because there will be young kids that was going to be listening to this, but we're going to show them a greater love. So I'm just pretty much painting the picture for them that I'm glad now that I'm a little older and I'm wiser. I thank God that I didn't have to indulge in those type of activities as far as, although it would have been good because I was young and immature, but now that I'm wiser, chances are, if I would have been doing that with a young lady in middle school and in high school, chances are that wouldn't have been my wife today. It's a very slim chance. Nobody's a LeBron James. Lebron James married his high school sweetheart. It's seldom that you hear somebody that hook up with somebody in middle school and high school and that becomes their spouse. That is rare. That's a very small percentage. So that's why I just thank God for even the experiences that I experienced in life. But I'm saying that I had to go through those things. Now it caught up with me, although this episode is not about me, but I'm just sharing relevant points that happened in my life. But after high school I was in a relationship and that was the woman that we did things on Valentine's Day. We shared that day together and I'm like, oh, wow. So this is how people felt. People felt it's like you feel love. You get in the flowers, the candy, the restaurants, you're dating. It's like a special day to most in the world. This is it All. The 364 don't matter, but February 14, people get like man. They be feeling some kind of way. But even before I even read the description, what were some of your experiences, if you could recall?

Speaker 2: 12:21

My era I'm about nine years younger than you, so my era there was a lot going on and I also visualized a lot of people bringing the big teddy bears and the chocolates and the balloons, and I too, I never really celebrated it. I didn't have a partner or somebody that I was, as we would say back in the day, going out with. I wasn't going out with anybody that was in middle school. So I still saw people like I would wear the colors, I would go to, like the little parties they would have at the school, dances and stuff. But as far as like getting somebody something, no, now high school, I still didn't involve myself with participating on that day, but I would wear the color and so forth. But again, I would always see people getting it done and being all involved and holding up the hands and everything. And I really got to experience it when I got older. Then I was like, oh, it's just a day. And even then, when I experienced it, I was like it's just one day. And so that was totally my experience on those days from middle school on up, and it's always still been just a day. It didn't matter who I was with, if I was alone, if I was with somebody, it always just felt like a day to spend, that you will be spending, and it's not that you don't want to spend, it's just that you see through everything that the world is trying to. You know the energy they're sending out to everybody else in the world.

Speaker 1: 15:11

Yeah, well, that is well said, so let me do this. So now I'm going to be disciplined and let me read the description about the origin of our Valentine's. So, as I mentioned, when we think about Valentine's Day and modern world, we think about hearts, flowers, cupids, candy, relationships, boyfriend, girlfriend and what have you right? So it said, today's symbols of Valentine's Day are where we moved from the circumstances which launch this annual display of avert affection. So, it says established as a religious holiday. I found that that was quite interesting when I read it. It said that it was established as a religious holiday. The Feast of Saint Valentine honored the Christian martyr who lost his life during the reign of Roman Empire Claudius II. According to various historical accounts, valentine, a holy priest in Rome, was persecuted for his Christian faith and executed on February 14, approximately 270 AD. His crimes against the Roman Empire differed depending upon the sources, but some believe he was arrested for secretly performing Christian marriages, despite Claudius's orders to the contrary, while others cite his penchant to assist Christian martyrs in their escape from Roman prisons as his primary offense. Either way, valentine became a symbol of love and compassion and was conveniently plucked from obscurity several hundreds of years later, when the Christian church gained a stronger foothold in Europe and set abound, eradicating pagan rituals. Again, depending on the source, we're told that the Feast of the Saint Valentine came to replace a mid-February fertility festival called Lupersalia, or that it was established to abolish the heathen village custom of boys drawing the names of girls on the 15th of the month in honor of the goddess Februaryta Juno. Still others claim that sending greetings to loved ones of February 14 dates to the middle ages, when it was believed that this day marked the beginning of the mating season for birds. So there you have it crime, passion, forbidden displays of affection, all the makings of a great love story. No wonder it endures to this day. So that is just a brief history of February 14. I think of it like a bloody day. So we think about certain days so. But now as we transition into the modern world, like present day, they celebrate it like a way of. To me I think it's more like a marketing thing. You can imagine how many Valentine's Day cards that they sell these people are very brilliant and smart or flowers, bouquet of flowers, and it's mainly the people in. Mainly affect the most is women, because women want to feel loved. It goes back to the scripture that we mentioned earlier husband, love your wives. Husband, love your wives. Women want to be loved. You know, that's just the nature of the beast. Women are emotional. So when you talk about a day like that, that's where a lot of emotions is brewing in the air. Women tend to want that attention, most women. They want that attention, especially if they don't have a mate. They don't have somebody to say, girl, you know, you look beautiful. Or calling her Texana and say, yeah, you know, I love you, girl, wait till I come home. But we ain't talk about no relationship or boyfriend and girlfriend relationship. We talk about the real. We're going to talk about the real relationship that one could find is only in Jesus. But before we talk about that, what are your thoughts on Valentine's Day? I know we talked about it a little bit based on our experience, but what are your thoughts? So, when you see the things that transpiring in modern day, what are your thoughts?

Speaker 2: 19:52

I truly believe the part where it says that it is a form of practicing a false God. I can't remember the name, but because we have to think about it. I mean, these entities, they've been here for thousands of years. You always speak about that, nick, and they've been studying us and what's the best way to cause someone to false worship or worship a false God, you know, without having them actually acknowledge that they're doing so, you know, you put it in a box of chocolates, something that is at ease for them. So, you know, although it's a form of like a day of love, right, and I believe it's all about how you kind of like put it, you can take it and say, well, this evil was done upon my brother in Christ, and now they, they've turned it to a day of love because his mission, his soul mission, was to have a Ministry of marriages, christian marriages. So now they've turned it to like a day of love. But when has the enemy actually allowed the ministry of of God, really, you know? So go forth and actually Prosper right without fighting. So I believe that they've made this day also about their own false God. So it's like two things at war yeah, it's what he died for, and it's also a false God Worshipping all at the same time.

Speaker 1: 21:47

Yeah, yeah, that's good. So, so it's. I know you mentioned that it's like a day of love, but I think people ought to define what. What is love? Because I think, because you know, I've been in, I all my life says I've been in three real relationships, and all Three of those relationships were based on lust. All through those relationships, I used to tell these women that I loved him. And these are not relationships all at the same time. These are, like, when I mean real relationships, really relationship that I deem to take seriously. Like man, you, like you, are my girlfriend and I used to say that I love, love you. I say, yeah, you know, I love you, but that was in love, that was, that was lusts, that was I desired to have them. So when we think about love, the word you know, the word love, is just thrown out there loosely by the world, like a dude could walk up to a girl, say you know, I love you, love, love you. Well, I don't know now, I don't know how it is in the dating world. It's been a long time since I've been off the market. So, sister Kerry, you probably help you with this one. But, but, um, but oh, or a woman may walk up to a dude. Well, you know, you find I love you, you know I mean like stuff like that. But when we, when we want to define what love is, love is God. And so so we talk about these three loves eros, and we talk about filet-o, like brotherly love, air, eros, relational love, and we talk about agape, unconditional, and that's that word. Agape is what the world Clearly don't understand, because if they did, now the saints understand it. Well, most saints. Well, if you're a saint, if you're a christian and you gave your life to god, you had to have an understanding A why you have a zil up, a why you gave your life, your, your soul to christ. Because that's what happened. Because when, when we gave our lives to christ, we understood the gospel. We say hold up, use on a cross. That was supposed to be me. I'm the one that's supposed to be hung on a cross, like the thief on a cross, and I'm the one that was supposed to be going to to Hades. So we think about these things. That's why I said like for those, for them that are in the body of christ. So we should understand that. You know, the bible says in John 15, verse 3 says greater love has no one than this that someone lay down his life for his friends. That's what jesus christ did for us. So when we talk, talk about unconditional love, we ought to think about god. God is love and love is god. So I want people to To understand that. So, as you and I mentioned, in a few days it's going to be valentine's day. So what's going to happen, sis? You know what's going to happen. People will be lonely, and I'm talking about to the lonely folks, the people that's in relationship. I'm not even, I'm not even going to count that because if it's if, um, if, uh Boyfriend in relationship does not have the foundation in christ and to the point where they want to get married, I'm not even going to count that because at some point it's, it's not going to last. There's no faithfulness. It's not going to last. So we're talking about married folks, people that are people that are married, and people that are under a covenant. They're blessed because, you know, god blesses the just as well as the unjust. So god, love covenants. So if you are in a relationship and you're going to celebrate valentine's day with your loved one and I'm talking to the dude Talking to the brother yeah, I'm talking to you. What's stopping you from putting a ring on it, since you know? You know dudes are afraid of commitment. You know I. I once told a woman this at my job. I said if a dude proposes to a woman, you or first of all. Let me just say this I mean, let me put you up on game. Let me put you up on game. First of all, men do not like commitment. It takes women are more likely to commit than a man.

Speaker 2: 26:12

Is it already? If I ask why, all right, you know what?

Speaker 1: 26:17

let's not get into no, we, we can go there. So when we think about Again, again, I'm a little older than you, I'm not that old, though nine years apart. Now your difference, you know. I tell you I've been out of the game for a long time. Um, men are more likely to have at least when I was again, I don't know how it is now Men are more likely to have more options and more choices, like I could be with girl number one, let me not say girl woman, woman number one, woman number two, woman number three, woman number four. So when they get woman number one, it's hard for them to come into number woman number one because they got woman number 10. So it's like if they could put all those women in one, they'll have the most perfect woman. So it's always something that they find in each woman. Yeah, so that's the thing. So that's how Men would think. Most men think they look at that. Man, I got this chick, she could cook. I don't know why I'm saying chick. I guess that's the old school word. Yeah, the old school word. Man, I got this woman. Man, she could cook. Man, I got this woman right here. Man, she know how to wash clothes. Man, I got this woman, boy, she go to the gym. Boy, she, she, she tatted up what it, what else? Bbl, right, that's the, that's the new word, bbl man, I got this woman right here, boy, she, she's smart, she got the brain, she got doctorates. And I got another woman oh, she is like phd type stuff level, you see that. And so when, when these dudes have all these options, it's harder for it, it's harder for them to commit, yeah, so it's harder for men to commit. So, whereas a woman, women can focus on one thing I mean, women is good at focusing on different things but a woman, when she meets a man, she knows what she wants, you know? Yeah, so, like my, my wife, uh, trinique, you know, I met Trinique, trinique, I know, trinique, if you're listening to this episode, I love you too. I know it might be bad times day, I love you too. Happy anniversary, honey, happy anniversary. Uh, my wife was like you're not gonna waste my time, like what are we doing here? I'm, you know, I'm not one of those women. You're not gonna waste my time. And I had to tell her straight up, like either we was gonna, um, move forward or not, because that that's what real women do. They don't let dudes come and they circle and kill five, ten years, 15 years of their lives. Because that's what happens a lot. These women hook up with these Losers, these dudes, and these dudes end up moving it with these women. Five, ten years went by, they done, had kids, and that same dude will go outside the household and sleep with other women.

Speaker 2: 29:06

Wow and never get in covenant never getting covenant. Nick out here telling everything. I just.

Speaker 1: 29:17

I'm just trying to help him on valentine's day, right.

Speaker 2: 29:19

You help your sisters out though.

Speaker 1: 29:21

Yeah, yeah, but I got to help the brothers out too. So the brothers, the brothers may say like man, how did this dude get like this? Jesus, I told a woman this if A dude does not fear god, he will not, he will not love you. He got to have the fear of god because now he has such a power source, a higher power than himself, to control him. I'm telling you, man, dudes, be off the chain. So all this that I'm talking about is lust, like Lust. Okay, this dude see woman number one. Lust all the way to woman number 10, to woman number 20. It's all lust, it's not love. And that's why I wanted to highlight to Women, because I know women going to be emotional on February 14 today. Well, I don't know what they they plan on listening to this episode, or even dudes. Dudes get lonely too. Yeah, so I know I'm talking to women, but dudes get lonely too on that day. And the reason why I put a lot of emphasis on this and I'm gonna let you speak, sis, but I thought, I just thought I'll say this Um, I just want people to understand that the only love that they could find is not in humans. We're gonna always let people down. Valentine's day is not a day of love. That's that's no, that's that's not. That's not true love. The true love is what you and I mentioned is god. God is love and love is god, and that's what I want people to understand.

Speaker 2: 30:54

And this I mean even as believers. It's an everyday, that is a everyday practice, that that's actually a command from our commander-in-chief. You know he says again I say love one another and God's. I said it today. I said God so loved the world, he so loved us that he gave his one and only son that we may have eternal life. You know, you know us bearing our sins to condemnation and the breaking of the law. Now we are saved from the curses of the law through the blood of Jesus Christ. That is love. You know to know that I could come down from across and Throw my hands up and, and you know, give it all up. Nope For us. Like he went through it for us. Our father sent him so fielding completed Says.

Speaker 1: 31:58

I'ma say this because I know you probably say this. When I was, before I became a Christian, I met a lot of women, dated women, had dinner with women, went to movies with women. I'm gonna tell you the women that I respected the church girls, but not the church girl that I was playing church. The church girls that understood their relationship with Christ, those were the ones that I respect, and I'm gonna tell you why. And I was afraid of them too. I'm gonna tell you why. I'm gonna tell you why I was afraid of them. I Wasn't more so afraid of them as in the flesh, but I was afraid of what they told me. So when I would ask them do you have a boyfriend? They'll say Jesus is my boyfriend. Man, that thing scared the demons out of me. Yeah, it is because I was in the covenant with God. So when women be like boy, don't play with me, jesus is my boyfriend, like I only uh-uh, you worldly, you're drunk, get away from me. Jesus is my boyfriend. That's what I'm trying to get people to understand. That when it comes to February 14, if it's, let me speak to the woman in the church first. Sister's in covenant with Christ, like yourself. Sister, curry, you have a relationship with Christ, although as Christians we're not focused on one day, february 14, as the love day. Our love day with Jesus Christ began when we gave our lives to him. That's when you are in covenant with him. So remember, husbands, love your wives as Christ love the church. So when you talk about marriage husband and the wife, the bride so it's the symbol, that's that's Christ in the church. You know, christ is the husband man and the church is the bride. So Christ, he loves the church, he loves his children at, just as Husbands are to love their wives. So on February 14, there's gonna be Christian women. That's gonna be like feeling lonely all down. Sister, I'm just. I just want to encourage you. Keep your head up. Jesus Christ is your boyfriend. You'll be working, even the dudes to Jesus Christ. He's your father, he's your maker, he's your creator. Because I don't even want the brothers to get discouraged, because brothers being they, feelings too. But we, we are so built to be macho, but we've been our feelings too. We may have not had that much estrogen and all these emotional hormones, but dudes being they, feelings too. You pretend dudes. Jesus is your boyfriend.

Speaker 2: 34:41

Oh, yeah, they run. Yeah. And For the ones that have no reverence for God, um, when I do, telling that Jesus is my boyfriend man, I remember this, this kid, I think you met him one time. I went to elementary school with him. You know God says pray for those who exploit you. You know, um, so With you know, even as a, as a friend, you know he's an associate of from elementary school, but, um, he, I don't know what word to find for it he doesn't have he, he, he doesn't have reverence for God. You know how you said that when women would bring up Christ, it would scare you. Yeah, no, like you know, if, if I'm having a conversation with my associate and, um, they, they say something that isn't Uncomfortable. You know nothing about what we're talking about. And guys, worldly guys, they like to get off topic, yeah, and venture off to like worldly topics, right, and you know we're talking about adult topics. And even for, like young girls out there, when you have a guy and, and you know, or a young boy, and he's trying to, you know, tell you things that it's worldly, try to revert him back to what is clean and what is pure, right, you talk about things that is clean and that is of pureness, and with me it's just. Like you know, I don't really want to have that conversation, but we could. We could talk about other things that's going on in the world. We can talk about Some scriptures, you know, some scriptures we may have questions about, but we not, we're not going there. I'm not, I'm not here to have a conversation about Worldly topics like that. As a woman, though. As a woman, because a lot of men they like to have they venture, they Like to, to worldly topics, but they say and men who's trying to get close to women who are Christians, they'll say, oh yeah, I love God. Oh yeah, let me pray with you. You know, oh yeah, let me pray with you. But as soon as you know you with them for about 30 minutes, the topic always ventures to the worldly topics.

Speaker 1: 37:25

Wow, that's so true. You know, you know what's crazy? Not that you brought that up, it's two Women of faith that I could recall before I became a Christian, that that that really touched me in such a spiritual way, and I'm gonna tell you how they did that. I'm gonna give you the one woman that did that and the other, woman number two. Woman number two had the greater impact on me and I'm gonna tell you why. Woman number one I Was worldly, you see how. You see that the morely dudes be trying to come on you. I did that to a the church girl. As soon as long as I didn't hear Jesus, I was okay, as long as they don't tell you, say Jesus, that I was okay to talk to them. But the minute they say Jesus, I'm like okay. I saw shaking them up, I saw shaking right, but, um, yeah, so before I became a Christian it was this church going woman, girl, woman, I was young, um, so she, um, when I said before I used to go to the club, she's to say Let me pray for you. She's to be on the phone, she's to pray for me before I go out and hang out, because the club is a dark place, you know, that's where the demons and the devils hang out. You want to go, you want to see the devils go to the club. That's what the demons hang out. People are not themselves. You are possessed with the devil, with the demons. Yeah, so she's to say, nick, can I pray for you? And then she's to pray for me, she's to pray for me, and then I tell you, I can't tell you me and my buddies, my club buddies, we used to hang out and then we should be riding drunk on the road. We used to be swerving drunk and I mean, I was in the driver, obviously, the driver used to be swerving, and so, thank God, those moments didn't even lead to our demise. We didn't get in a car accident, and thank God for that. So, yeah, this woman prayed for me a few times before, like she said you know what? She said look, I don't, you know jail with what you're doing, but she said let me just pray for you, and she prayed for me. So, and then it was another woman, and I spoke about this in the past, and it was another woman that I met. And then and I'm going to just be bold a little transparent moment, as worldly dudes think, when worldly dudes meet a woman, especially a woman, a woman that they deem to be like like a church girl, a good girl. So we think about church girl, we think about them like they are good girls. Yeah, I want me a clean girl, I want me a clean church girl. So in the world, that's how I thought. When I was in the world, I said, man, I want me a clean church girl. So I met this clean church girl. But when we exchanged the numbers she, she, the way that I came at her, I came at her the wrong way. I told her that I wanted to get in bed with her. The same night I met her I said like I want to get in bed with you. Like very bold and vulgar, like the language that came out my mouth.

Speaker 2: 40:23

At least it came out your mouth. Some guys just get the. They touch your arm, your leg, oh wow.

Speaker 1: 40:29

So they took it. They took it to another level.

Speaker 2: 40:31

I mean I've heard and you know I'm just saying, but at least you verbally.

Speaker 1: 40:35

Yeah, I verbally yeah, but I'm going to tell you what she did for me though. So what she did for me, she said this dude is done. Like I don't know what kind of spirit this dude got. She said this dude done. I'm going to tell you what she did for me, and she revealed this to me later now. So all this, I'm telling you this happened after my transformation. She said she said, nick, that night you told me that I was so hurt that I had gone. You was. I fell on my knees and cried to God. This woman was like you remember, like when Hannah when she cried it looked like she was drunk. When she had no baby, samuel, when she had Samuel, samuel's mother, hannah, right. So she cried to God so hard that it looked like she was drunk. So this woman cried beg God for my soul salvation. Moments later. That's when God revealed himself, and that never left me. She, in other words, she, yes, yes, so she. So there's going to be some women that's going to listen to this episode, some worldly dudes going to try to post these God godly women, and I think, if a woman is so connected with God that she could, we can't control what people do, but she could pray to God for him. Or it could be vice versa. It might be a dude that's hurt, because women hurt dudes too, because I was a victim of that. Women hurt dudes, emotions and feelings, and dudes be feeling a certain kind of way and then the dude, the Christian brother, could pray for that sister, because you know, again, like I said, I don't know how the dating world is, I don't know if sister's more aggressive. I don't know any of that stuff. I don't know any of that stuff. So what I wanted to talk about, I want sisters and brothers to keep their head up, our sisters and brothers in Christ to keep their head up, that they are in a covenant with Christ and we know that the real love that they only could find is really found in Christ Jesus. And we're not talking about that, that commercial love. We're talking about agape love, which is unconditional love. And for the person that haven't obeyed the gospel, that may feel lonely, I want them to know that Jesus Christ loves you. If you're a male, you listen to this episode. Hey, bro, like Jesus Christ loves you, bro. He created you for a purpose. You have a calling. You just have to take heed to the call that he has on your life. So if you listen to this episode, all you need to do is hear, believe, repent, confess and be baptized for the mission of your sins and you shall be in the body of Christ, the spiritual body of Christ, and you can't go to any church. You got to go to a Bible-believing church. Yes, sound doctrine. And even if a woman listens to this episode, sister, sister in the world, look, I know you're lonely. Like I said, women are emotional. They get so lonely, they feel so hurt. It might be a recent breakup. The dude probably cheated on her, so she probably, like this is the day Valentine's Day that he did this thing to me. Look, sister, keep your head up. Jesus loves you. I'm going to say it again Jesus loves you. I'm telling you. So, before we close, I really want to put emphasis on Agape love and I want to read 1 Corinthians, chapter 13. You know we call that that's the love, that's the love chapter. Right, I'm not going to read all of it, I'm just going to read verse 13 through 4, through 8. And we're going to talk about it just briefly and we'll just close. So, as we mentioned that, love, love, love, love, love, agape, love, the same love. Remember that God is love and love is God. So 1 Corinthians 13 for 8, it says that love is patient and kind. So when somebody is patient and kind, that is love, and we could substitute that for God. God is patient and kind, that's true love, that's true love. So when we are expressing patience and kindness with folks, we are expressing love. Love does not envy or boast, right, god does not envy or boast. So, again, when you don't envy or you don't boast, that's love. Right there, because love don't have those attributes or those attitudes. Love is not arrogant or rude. Again, god is not arrogant and he is all powerful. What I like when I think about God? I'm going to tell you what I like about God, what I love about God. God created Adam, god created the whole world, he created the whole universe, created the whole world. But God, he gave Adam responsibilities. God didn't do it for them. God created Adam, put them in a garden and God put them to work. He said look, adam, you're going to cultivate. He gave them work. So you know, like how some parents, they start doing stuff for their kids, at least the ones that are able to do it. We're not talking about babies now, we're talking about the ones that are able, grown men, grown women. And they still got their parents supporting them when they know they could do it. And look, god gave Adam work to cultivate, to manage. God created. He said manage it. Yeah, god was an arrogant like this is my stuff, this is my stuff, treat my stuff like that. He just told it like manage it, be a good steward. Yeah, I gave it to you. Now you manage it. I wish I had time to go on that, but I'm not. So it says it does not insist on its own way, is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice at wrongdoing. So you know what I talked about that. So you know what I said. Like, don't be praying for your enemies, but they downfall. It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but it rejoices with the truth. Yeah, so even people do you wrong. You can't be doing that. Rejoice it. Oh, man, rejoicing People doing wrong, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're doing to you. But rejoices with truth. God love when people speak truth. Truth will get you killed, but God love when we speak truth, yeah, it's the enemy that does not like truth. So love bears all things, just like Christ bears all things, believe all things, hope all things, endorse all things. Love never ends, god. Love will never end. As for prophecy, they will pass away. As for tongues, they will cease. As for knowledge, it will pass away. And in conclusion, it says so now. Faith, hope and love. Abide these three, but the greatest of these is what Love. So February 14, people, it's kind of like a commercialized love. It's going to be more of a marketing thing, like how many cards you could get for your loved ones, or flowers or teddy bears. And look, since it's been years, since we've been in school, middle school, high school, college, but I can imagine what they're doing now. I think they kind of like have competitions with teddy bears now, like if you get the small teddy bear, they're like yeah, yeah, you're boyfriend, only love you a little bit, and you know them. Dudes, that got little, they got little change. They got a little money. Right, they bought a big teddy bears.

Speaker 2: 48:00

Ten feet teddy bear.

Speaker 1: 48:02

Huge and you know what the girls say. They're like girl. He really love you, he got you that, that 10 feet teddy bear.

Speaker 2: 48:10

Put the balloons in there, yeah.

Speaker 1: 48:12

Yeah, so this was a good discussion, but I guess I gave it from a male perspective and I just wanted to highlight that the only love that we could find is in Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2: 48:26

I was going to say something to add on to what she said, but it passed my mind. But yeah, the greatest love that we can receive is from God, through Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior. You know, like you said to anyone, man or female, who's single, and they're not in covenant, I just wanted to tell my brothers or men who's out there that he who finds a wife find if a good thing, it's in Proverbs and he obtains favor from the Lord. So, instead of continuing, if you love someone, make them your wife and woman. You know, choose your men wisely and God will show you all the red flags. God will show you all the red flags and, like my brother said, five, ten years down the line, your life won't be wasted on a relationship or a situation that wasn't going to take you anywhere, but pray that God will lead you to a godly man that will lead you and build you.

Speaker 1: 49:38

Yeah, I like that. So I like that says I really enjoyed this episode. I know this is going to be a very eventful week for me my brother's getting older and wiser because obviously this week is my birthday and my anniversary. So I got to spoil my other half, you know. You know, her love language is gifts. So so you know, your brother got to go all out for my other half and I'm excited about that. I'm just so thankful to God for just my family, my spouse, my children, and even for the meaning and the understanding of love. And before I did not know, I didn't know what love was until I got saved. And even just thinking about it, just speaking about it, even right now, sometimes I just get emotional because I'm like, wow, God, like you died for me. You know, you got to make this thing personal. I'm like God, like you died for me and you died for the whole world, Like you really, really loved us. Like, in other words, when he was on the cross, he thought about me, he thought about you, Sister Curry, and he thought about the world and we were doomed to damnation. But but Christ said no, no, Satan, you can't have them. And he gave us victory. You know he said the same spirit that raises up Christ is going to be the same spirit that raises up in the last day. So I'm thankful to God for this episode. So y'all continue to just pursue Christ. You know, I just pray that hope, trust, and pray that these words meditate in your heart. If you feel it's not going to be a blessing to you, Well, if you even made it this far, obviously, obviously it's something that you enjoyed about this episode. But please go on our website, visit www. Let me get it right because that didn't be had to correct me, it was wwwcallbygodpodcast. You can leave a review on our episodes or you can share episodes. Continue to like, share. Go on our YouTube channel, subscribe to that. And I'm just so excited since the curry for February and I'm just excited for the 365, because we not only going to say February 14, we're going to say the 365, 365. So we just thank God because God is love and love is God. Anything you want to add?

Speaker 2: 51:58

Actually it's 366 this year.

Speaker 1: 51:59

Oh, 366. It's a leap year. Oh, I didn't even know that. Okay, all right. Well, so if sister Curry don't have anything to say, remember that Jesus Christ, he's the King of Kings and he's the Lord of Lords. All right, and be blessed. That's it for now. But before we go, please continue to listen, subscribe, share our podcast. Also, if you want to support our show, please scroll down to the bottom of the show notes and click on the link that says buy me a coffee. We were greatly appreciated. Thank you for listening and remember God is good all the time, and all the time God is good and also Jesus Christ loves you. Thank you.