The Power of Your Thoughts and Speaking Life

In this podcast episode, Choncé and Tee discuss the importance of our thoughts and words when it comes to our bodies, fertility journey, and loved ones. They share their personal experiences and breakthroughs in these areas, offering valuable insights and words of encouragement.

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Welcome back to the waiting on your miracle podcast. This is T and this is Sean say, and we're so excited to have you back. We are so glad to have you back. And we are at episode seven. Can you believe it? Yay. I love seven. It's one of my favorite numbers that, and yeah, seven. I feel like we've gone through quite a bit up until this point and, as you notice my voice is back. I could, I was just joking and I was joking and saying the last few episodes I could not listen to myself at all. So I apologize you hear the episode, No! Let me turn the volume down, but they were good episodes though. You were speaking some good stuff. And speaking of that, we're talking about speaking life today. And, we're going to start off on that foot because the Lord is always working with me in this too. So this topic is going to be so, so powerful because we all struggle sometimes with, saying things out of our mouth. We all have some type of story where we've had a past experience in our life where we said things out of our mouth that were not true. There were lies from the enemy and we believe them. And then we start to see things happening throughout our lives. So we're going to talk about the exact opposite of that. Speaking life, speaking life over yourself. over your friendships, over your relationships, over your marriage. Speaking life is the way we combat the lies of the enemy. And we set ourselves up in this life to receive all the goodness that God has for us. And that's what we're going to talk about today. Just giving examples of what speaking life is, what God says in his word, when it, when he says you can speak life, there's a scripture. That we're going to refer to, to just kick it off today. And that scripture is Proverbs 1821. And that is the tongue has the power of life and death and those who love it will eat its fruit. Amen. Yes. We're going to talk about the power of declaring and affirming, not only throughout our journey. Our fertility journey, but it just in general, and maybe you might catch yourself thinking about a time where you did the exact opposite. And that's not to be condemning yourself or feeling down about what you said, but it's just to recognize and see it and start to reform and change. That Behavior. First, can we segue into what are some of the things we've said to ourselves? And maybe some things we said out loud, that were not good for us. Sean, say, can you think of a time you said something about yourself or your, you know, family or friends or anyone that wasn't speaking life? Yeah, for me, I feel like it's everyday talk. So was there anything that was profound? Maybe in the past, but I think I've been so big on speaking life and changing my speech that I haven't really thought about it lately. But I know just, you know, Trying to think off the top of my head. I've definitely said a lot of absolute statements, about myself or about others, like, you never do this or this is not for me. And then also that comes out of my thoughts too. I've been trying to check my thoughts. Cause it also says in Proverbs are the abundance of the heart. The mouth speaks. Sometimes like critiquing people and critiquing myself a little harsh, because I've always been the biggest critique of myself, and I've been really hard on myself, even back when I was in school and I would feel bad if things were not perfect or if I didn't excel in certain ways. A lot of the time I have said negative things about myself, in terms of even body image, my abilities to do things. Sometimes I haven't always been the best, most positive critic of my family around here in my household. Just saying things that don't speak life. And one of the biggest, turnarounds for me was just hearing somewhere I realized, someone said like, either you're speaking words of life or you're speaking words of death. It's not really an in between. So when you think about it that way, it's like, what would you rather do? Why wouldn't you want to speak words of life? I also realized that when I was speaking negatively about myself and others, it was coming from a place of disbelief and I didn't believe that things could change or be better and I felt like I couldn't speak words of life until the situation turned around, until things got better. Until I saw, for example, my body image issues, until I saw a change in my health, then I couldn't speak better. I couldn't speak positively about myself. Or if my husband, like not doing something around the house that I expected him to do, which is a normal part of marriage and life. I felt like, I couldn't speak positive into him. I couldn't say certain things until I saw the change until I got what I wanted. And that's just kind of the opposite of what, you faith is, because God speaks into things and they happen. So us speaking his word, his promises, is an extension of that, I have definitely went back and forth with. Not saying the most positive things, I didn't think speaking life would do anything to help. I wanted to see the situation change and turn around first, then I would speak better about it. But I feel God's way is for us to, practice our faith, demonstrate our faith and our belief and our trust in him and his promises and start speaking life, speaking what his word says in advance before we even see anything, which is a great, foundation, even for this podcast, T, because we're talking about waiting on our miracle, and waiting on this, and how waiting is uncomfortable, and how waiting sucks sometimes. But, there's a purpose behind it, and it's one of the best times. To speak life into something when you don't even see that life or you don't see that growth or that fruit right away. Yes, I agree. And I like when you said, you had disbelief and the fact that maybe some of these things may or may not be for you. I can feel that because there's been times in my life where I've gone into things immediately believing it wasn't for me, even though the Lord revealed to me later saying this is something I have for you, but I didn't feel worthy enough to get it. And I set myself up in my head that it's not for me. I ought to be crazy even thinking this is for me. And, um, I'll give you an example. A couple of years ago, the Lord put in my heart that it was time for us to move. Initially, I wanted a comfortable home. It didn't matter to me how many bedrooms. I wanted to transition because I felt in my heart that the Lord led me to do it and it was time. As we started looking at houses, this was During the peak where all the houses were going under contract as soon as they went up I don't know if you remember that time. Tough time to get any type of house anywhere and and at the time The Lord put me in a place seeing a particular house. That was beyond what I was expecting and I was afraid to try to move forward. And my husband encouraged me, to go for it. The enemy has attacked me a lot with this thing in the back of my head, like, Girl, this, ain't gonna go through for you. They're not gonna approve you for this. But I was apprehensive. And after talking to my husband, I went forward not keep this story very long here. We did get the house. Things did work out for us and God blessed us with the home that was well beyond what we were coming into to get, but the point of this story is that I was shutting down the blessings that the Lord had for me with not only my thoughts, But my speaking of my thoughts and saying, I don't think that's gonna happen. And I canceled what the Lord was already putting in place. And thankfully he had a life partner with me that was doing the exact opposite. I think we do this to ourselves often. We even say phrases. We pray for a job, we get the job. And then we say, this job is driving me crazy. Or this always happens to me, or, small things when it comes to our bodies, we say out loud, like, girl, my head is killing me, you know, these are words that are so powerful and they shape how things happen to us. Getting back to the worthiness side of things, I think about, Psalms 1 39 14. I praise you for I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. There are times that you'll feel, um, less than, and sometimes that less than moment is what actually makes you speak and think a certain way. Maybe that speaks to someone the Lord has something for you to receive and you keep canceling it when you say Nah, I'm not good enough for this. Oh, I don't have the funds for this. I don't have the ability to do this. And I think that's stopping you dead in your tracks and keeping you from receiving the goodness of God. Yeah I feel like what you're saying is tying into agreement. the Bible talks about the power of agreement. In the new Testament, basically when two or more agree together, in Jesus saying in my name, When you're praying, it'll be done. But I also think you can agree with thoughts and with situations and circumstances. And I'm not trying to say this is the same as the manifesting trend or the, you can think and believe and this will happen and this will come out of thin air, but I do believe that. As Christians, we need to be understanding and aware of God's character, what his intentions are for us in our lives, which he lays out clearly in his word. And then also agree with that over negative thoughts over situations, over circumstances. The word of God should be more solid than anything else in our life that's going on. And God proves he's faithful over and over again. Like you were saying Tee with the example about someone just speaking into their situation and you're speaking words of death over your situation, your job, your housing, whatever you're praying for, you're contending for, for your life, you're coming into agreement with, something that God doesn't have for you that's not of God. I had to really, do some self talk to myself because your thoughts, if they're not, Sounding like God, they're not coming from God. You don't want to agree with that. Like just definitely negative things, things I've thought about getting offended, thoughts I've had bitterness toward people, people to myself. And if you sit and agree with that, then what happens? It kind of comes out your mouth and the things that you say and the actions that you take and the, Exercising your faith, or maybe not exercising your faith, or giving into fear, or lack, and scarcity, all these things come into play, when I feel like what God wants us to do is agree with his word, his promises, and to therefore speak that out, and that's what speaking life is to me, it's speaking life. The word of God and declaring, knowing his promises, knowing he's faithful, declaring that out and being able to live that out regardless of what the circumstances look like. And I've seen definitely examples of this with people who, uh, maybe they're sick. There's a minister I follow who wrote a book about prayer and he was just saying how he was sick and he didn't deny his circumstances, but he still didn't speak. death over himself and speak those things. For me personally, I had a really bad bout of COVID. I think this was in 2021. It was really, really bad. And I had to have like steroids, I don't know what it was, some type of treatment or something. And I could have just given into death and just been like, yeah, there's people. Dying every day from this and I'm young, but what makes me so special? Or like agreeing with the negativity of the fact. Thoughts cross my mind. It's hard to feel like you can't breathe and wonder if your lungs are ever going to come back. But in that moment I had a choice and I chose to speak life and believe. God's word and his promises over me and know that if I pray something That he's going to come in and heal and restore and deliver me and that his will is going to be done in my life no matter what so and I also believe that everyone has a Day, they're born and the day that they die. So that's not going to change We're not in control of our own fate and what's going to happen. We can't manifest things that are not You For us or that God doesn't have in his plan, but then God tells us in his word what he has in his plan and he wants us to come to him at the same time. So I feel like just being able to trust God with myself and my health in that point, but I also had all these negative thoughts. So speaking life is a great way to silence those negative thoughts and to focus on him, our savior and our provider versus our current circumstances because circumstances don't last forever. I feel sometimes we go through seasons of life and we feel like, Oh, this is the way it's always going to be. Um, no, God has a timing for everything and he knows what's coming up ahead for us. And he's speaking to us. And it's just, it's just a way to just agree with him in advance to what he's doing. And we see so many, um, examples of this. A few years ago, everybody was talking about, like, the secret. You remember that? Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, that was a new age type of things. As far as affirming things, I think the first place to start with is the I am statements. I am statements are just very simply put. connecting yourself to whatever's at the end of the I am. There are positives and negatives there. If, if you are saying, you know, I'm tired, I find myself saying this often when I'm working and I have to catch myself and I'll have a long day and deal with so many different situations. And in my head saying, Oh, I'm tired. Oh, I'm stressed. And I have to think about it and sit there and, and really process it. And even after the fact think, wow, I've just declared out of my thought, right? That could, that could be what I speak out of my mouth. I declared that I'm not in the, place where the Lord wants me to be. I just declared I'm stressed I'm tired. I just married myself to that very thing. If you consistently do that, you start to see things start to happen in your life that are just that. We talk about what you speak. So as in the Bible, it says, so as a man thinketh, so is he. And at the same time, we are speaking it out loud, and we are basically saying, here I am, this is me. And whether or not we believe that we are actually doing that, that is what it is. I'll give you another example. For a long time had been talking about my finances and speaking deaf on my finances. I had literally said things like, Oh girl, I'm broke. Yeah, you know, and you'll find yourself saying like, shoot, I'm broke. But once I get this, Then I'm going to go ahead, like you said earlier, once you get certain things in your life and you'd say, well, now I can speak life because I see this and I have this in my pocket and I have this going on. So now I can speak life. But in those circumstances, when you're actually in it, And you're going through it when Sean say said when you said agree with his word and his promises knowing the word of God is so important, because then you are declaring that you're declaring what the Word of God says for you versus. saying something like I'm broke. I remember, um, a lot of people would believe that was that it was somewhat delusional to be this way. But I remember that I had my little putt putt car, um, a little beater and I was driving out, you know, miles to see my sisters and I literally had maybe 10 in my bank account. And, I had a lot of things going on. I didn't have, what God had for me quite yet. But I learned at an, at an early age, even though I've had ups and downs with it, I learned the basics of speaking and believing and even speaking things as if they're so, and I remember I would, I would try my best to refrain from saying certain things. And again, I fell into saying I'm broke and some things here and there, but I refrained from declaring and, basing my life off of my current circumstances. Like you mentioned, because Sean say, you said circumstances don't last forever. I lived my life as if I was driving a seven series BMW and I had a mansion and in all of this, even though I had 10 to my name and, now I'm telling my age because I probably put like someone like 7 in my tank, which you can't do anything with now. But I put like 7 in my tank and I got 3 like to go to like the dollar menu and get my McChicken sandwich or something. Oh, those were the days, right? When you can go to McDonald's without spending like 40 bucks. I know, I know. So again, telling my age. But either way, I have this belief in my heart that my circumstances were not going to be like this long term. Getting back to affirmations, those I am statements are really important. And what I've learned how to do is I actually write I am. I have I am in front of me and I put that on cards sometimes in my pockets. in my purse and I'll look at it from time to time to say what I placed behind I am is very powerful. Instead of I'm broke, um, we can say, I am financially. sound. I am, stable. You're speaking these things as if they're so even if your current circumstances don't reflect it, you can affirm it because the word of God says it's for you. And that's kind of what you should think about. So I would encourage the I am, if you want to start In a place of just, declaring what's, what God has for you, yeah, I love that. That's a great, that's a great place to start. I do like declarations. I need to work on getting better at them. I'm just, in general, try to work on talking better. I love what you said about just not really, giving into the state of like your finances We all have points where money's a little tight but to continue to speak that out and put that out there, like our words, they have authority The enemy is listening and God honors our free will. So we have to speak out, like you said, speak those things as though they were. And also, just basing those declarations on God's word and what it says. It says that he's working. It says that he wants to grow and prosper us. It says that he'll provide it. He'll meet our every need. So even if money is low or tight, just saying, you know what, Lord, I declare that. I'm, covered by you and that you're going to meet my every need and that, and that you're my provider and that you're going to provide finances, you're going to provide checks in the mail and things that are going to happen and just thanking him in advance for that. But I do agree, not denying your circumstances and there's a big difference, but just declaring what God's word says and knowing that he's going to move you out of that season, out of that place you're in. But. I definitely, yeah, I agree with that. Especially with the finances. I never say it like even if I am like, no one will know. Cause I'm never going to say I don't have money because, there's just other ways to say it. Or even like with certain things, I try to teach, my son Jordan, we don't say things like, we can't afford and like he's older. So like, he knows, like we have financial conversations at home. We talk about things I'd like him to kind of practice with budgeting and stuff in the future. But. Even if we can't do something or go somewhere. I never say, Oh, I don't have the money. I can't do that. I just tell them like we have choices and we're choosing to do this. We're choosing to get groceries or we're choosing to get dinner this night, but this also means that we prioritize this so then we're not gonna go here and things like that. So just kind of speaking like obviously our circumstances, obviously you can't with finances afford to do everything, but you can't prioritize and just believing that God does give us enough. And he gives us what we need to sustain us and, and to grow. But definitely, yes, our, I think the, the bottom line with this is that our words have authority and, and power behind them. And when you speak, About yourself or others, it does affect them. Especially like kids too, and like inner city communities and, other circumstances where teachers or people, they don't have mentorship and they just speak negative into them their whole lives. You're going to go to jail. You're not going to be worth anything. You're not this. You're not that. Yeah. And then what do they grow up to do because you've spoken this stuff into them and our words do have power and also if someone is saying something and speaking something to you that you don't agree with, you don't have to accept it. a lot of things I do sometimes if I don't agree with what someone's saying about me or saying toward me, I just break agreement with it. I might not do it right there and there in their face, but I will just be like, I break agreement. With that in Jesus name or anything you said in the past about yourself or your partner or your kids or anything like you can always break agreement with that, in Jesus name and and replace that with something that speaks life. And especially with being on a fertility journey, I've just heard doctors say all types of things. And, and I do like doctors and I am grateful for doctors and I am grateful for medical treatments. I truly believe that, God gives wisdom to the doctors and, he's the author of knowledge and he's given us these tools on this earth. I also feel like, I was born at a certain time for a reason. If God didn't want me to do certain things medically or I didn't feel peace about them, that's one thing, but other things I'm going to. utilize services available to me as I pray through them and, you know, go to doctor's appointments and do things like that because I could have been born a hundred years ago and then it would have been different. But I'm like, why not? if it's available, um, and if it's something that I feel God has given me peace and understanding about, obviously being on a fertility journey being, married for a while and, and not being able to conceive. Then doctors and medical staff, they say things they should be honest. And I like a doctor that's straightforward, but I also don't like when people are clearly speaking death over our situation. And I also know that I serve a guy that's all powerful and is able to do even beyond what the doctors understand. So the doctors, I take what they say into consideration and we do. take medical diagnosis seriously and treatment recommendations, but I always take it to God ultimately, because I know that he has the final say and the final authority. And I know Raymond and I, we had met with a doctor earlier this year, like a male doctor. And he was like, we had to switch the doctor actually, which is totally fine too. If you feel cause health insurance is so expensive. Like I just, I want to be comfortable and, um, yeah, it costs a lot. So I'm not playing any games, but it was like, before we even were able to do any test results, he started saying a lot of just stuff, speaking death over us and over my husband. And it was to the point where it just got really bothersome to me. And I was like, I can see if we had test results to go off, but this is literally a console. You don't even have any test results. You don't know actually medically, any updated information. so. And even if you do, I believe,, God's a higher authority. So I ended up telling him on the zoom call, he just kept going. I was like, yeah, you know what? I'm not agreeing with that. I'm not believing for that. And I broke agreement with what he was saying right then and there, because sometimes doctors, they can make you feel bad about yourself and say things, and I get that they're trying to just give in their opinion, honest medical advice. But as soon as I said that he changed his whole, like. Uh, position his disposition and he was like, yeah, you know, I'm believing for that too with you and yeah, and we did end up switching to someone else who could explain things more clearly. And this doctor had a whole different perspective and certain things. The other doctor was like, no, not worth it. This doctor would listen to us. And I just didn't get that. We got the medical advice and the direction we needed, but without all the extra backtalk and the, speaking death. So just, that just goes to say, you don't have to tolerate when someone else is speaking death into your situation. And also if you, just take it to God too, and get really clear on his love, his care for you. And like we said, in our prayer episode, you can go back and listen. That was episode six, really pray for God to confirm certain things. Sometimes with the fertility walk, he's confirming, go to doctors or do this. Other times he's confirming rest, wait, it's not the season yet. Other times he's confirming something else. Um, adoption, other options, or, you know, I've heard so many different testimonies and stories, which is great, but I feel like for me, that's what I want to be led by... yes. I'm glad that you, broke agreement with what that doctor said about you and Rayma, and if you have a specialist like that, just go elsewhere. I've had a consult before, before we started, IVF. A particular doctor that just immediately went in on my age, you have to do it this way because basically you're older than you, you should be. At an advanced maternal age. Um, and that in itself, I've never seen and can find in the word of God. Yeah. You know, it's exact opposite. And you, get this. In the past, people would even call it, geriatric pregnancies. Like for real, like very dramatic, a little too much sprinkle. Yeah. Geriatric pregnancies. They had to change it because it was just, it's ridiculous. Even in the medical field had to change it. Again, if someone is speaking deaf, you can break agreement, like Shansay said.,yeah. Break agreement and then don't repeat it past what was said. So like if something said, like, for example, like with the doctor, me and Raymo were there. We broke agreement, we prayed after we got off the call with him. And my thing is, I'm not going to go around repeating that, telling everybody, giving that life and spreading that around. And also in terms of like, if someone else is saying something or something's going on with someone else, speaking life into that person and their situation over gossiping about it, because I also had a situation where I was talking to someone, uh, maybe like Two years ago or so it was like a family friend or old family friend, and they were just speaking so negatively, so bad, and just started trying to, this whole person's, I guess, persona and their character is just to gossip about people. And they were talking about my mom, and I've had people in the past try to talk to me about my parents, and I just don't tolerate any of that. I know my parents are not perfect. I know what they are, who they are, and that's it. I don't need to discuss things in the past or just other stuff like that. I just find it in poor taste, um, but this person was saying things about my mom and about what I want to say about my family line and just continuing to say stuff about, um, and that, that effect, that like impacted me. I'm like, I'm a little, I don't get offended easily. I'm a little offended at what you're saying because you're speaking literal, literal death. And you're speaking about the health of the people in my family line. And you're speaking mental illness and disease and sickness and things over us. And I won't even get into what they were saying because I've never repeated it. I think I told Rayma and prayed about it, broke it, but like, I'm not going to go sit and, and I even told my mom, I was like, yep, I'm not even going to say anything, you know, to you about it. And she was like, cool. I'm like, yeah, like we can kill it here. Like kill it here. Don't give that stuff life. Um, Instead, and I'll get to, um, our verse at the end, I'll save it for our verse at the end, but I have a good verse to wrap up. Ah, okay. Look, you, and I'm, you never even mentioned that to me. So I knew that you, let that go. Yeah. And it's as good as forgotten. Yeah. And I've forgiven that person and it's just an example, but it's, there was nothing, there's nothing positive to it. So I'm like, there's nothing that needs to be said further and just forget it. Let it, let it go in the wind. And. Break apart and just yeah, you're gonna ever say it again. That's for sure. Yeah. Yeah, I was, I was gonna say, I started speaking life over my husband. There's some things that all of our husbands or significant others, they don't do that we want them to do, and it's easy for us to spiral into talking about those things, that we don't like. One thing I was doing unknowingly my husband likes to snooze a little bit, like he likes to sleep in later than me. I'm an early riser, 5 o'clock, 5. 30 in the morning, sometimes even 6, 6. 30 latest. I'm up and. It's part of my routine. 13 years of marriage, I have had to wake my husband up, like get up and then he hits the snooze button and I do that like three times or so. And it annoyed me so bad that I started saying, things that I didn't realize were speaking. Like, you know, he never wakes up, and the Holy Spirit don't speak that. I was saying, you never wake up. And just imagine if I consistently spoke that over and over and over again over my husband and that something happened that wasn't what I was expecting to happen. Every day I've learned to have grace in my marriage and love the man the way he is. And even though I was annoyed with, oh, it's eight o'clock. Come on, get up. I'm thankful and, and so glad to have my husband wake up every morning. That's a gift from the Lord. So saying things like that would be speaking deaf. So even in our fertility journey I'm speaking life over him, over his count, over his stamina, his feelings, I want to speak life on my husband. From the, I am statements, we should acknowledge and give our significant others, tell your husband you are and whatever that is at the end, You are a great provider. You are and all of that and so on and so on. Speak life on the person you're with. This can be a very complicated process and it can strain your marriage. It can strain anything if you allow it to happen. So let the Lord lead you and, um, confirm and affirm your husband. Uh, or your wife if you're listening in as well. Um, a husband's doing the same and just do that for one another. I think that's so important, what you think it is. And that's so good and that's so powerful too because I've done that. Even just a, a little bit to start out in my marriage and, and if it improved, over time, but just seeing how things have changed, like things that I prayed for, things that I wanted. Rayma to do. I felt like a lot of them, God has given me peace about what he's doing and how he's doing it. Or I've seen things, change and improve. And it's just like me nagging or me being negative. It just, it never worked anyway. It just. Created issues and, can just really just eat away your intimacy, and your marriage, and how you feel about each other versus me, like one, praying about it. And then also just speaking, life into him and his abilities and what he's doing. And I just love that. I say things like just so simple, like tell them that they're healthy. Like, you know, you're healthy, Your body's fully equipped. Another thing that I've tried to do to speak life over myself is just to speak life over my body. and its ability, I think, especially walking through, fertility problems, we can definitely, attack ourselves and our bodies and, and just speak death over ourselves. And that's something that you definitely don't want to agree with. So even, like, sometimes I will lay hands on myself and just speak to my body. Command it what to do and just continue just to speak all the good things and acknowledge all the good things that it does like our bodies are Their temples and and they're so important and they just we can't do anything without our health and in a functioning body. So speaking like that speaking life to yourself is so crucial because Yeah, it's just, it doesn't make sense to, to speak death and, and negativity and talk to your body like it's broken and believe that, but then all of a sudden turn around and want certain things to happen. It's really hard, to do that. Just continuing and being consistent with just doing that. And I got to a point where I just believe, and, God has spoken to me, showing me, giving me confirmation. And I don't really know any other way, way to be right now. So I think it just continuing to do that, even, even if you don't see those results right away, instantly, I feel like we live in such a microwave society where, um, God is working all the time, but time is not the same to him as it is to us. We want everything now. We want it today. You know, all this stuff that we created on this earth is so we can rush, rush, rush, especially in this country and just run like crazy. And we want stuff instantly. And in our timing and God's works outside of time and space. And, um, it says, you know, a day with the Lord is like a thousand years. So it seems like a long time for us. It's really not a long time to him. And, and he's like, I guess that he's knows what's happening in the future. So he's working everything out. So at the perfect time, and just, I just get in awe of that, of knowing that we serve a God that cares and loves us so much that he, um, Knows what we need and when we need it and he knows what's building our character and he's given us tools He's given us words to speak over ourselves. So we definitely need to utilize that. So yeah praying over your Your husband your partner or speaking life over them speaking life over your body. What else t do you have anything else? Yeah, just confirming and, oh, just to add on to what you said, as well, just don't put a dead line on Jesus, but I want this by this time. Yeah. Don't work. Always. It doesn't work. Yeah. But yeah, affirming, um, your body, I'm just agreeing with you. I'm in agreement with you, with all you said, um, and also just believing in that in your heart. We're going to wrap it up and we're going to talk about our review that we had. We just want to give a quick shout out. Shansay, do you have, um, a quick shout out from one of our reviews? Yes, we do. We've definitely been encouraging you listening. If you feel led to give us a rating and review, it just helps other people know what the podcast is about and just provides some more credibility and also gives So, um, I believe it helps our podcast just be able to gain traction and, and come up on these platforms when people are searching for this, or they in need of hope and encouragement. So I just want to thank those of you who've given ratings, um, and I really appreciate it. And I wanted to read, Anna left a review actually that I wanted to just read and give her a little shout out. So, hey girl, if you're listening. Um, she says, she says, I love how Tia and Chauncey talk about identity in Christ and to have hope and expectancy during infertility. They speak about how to surrender to God's good plan for our lives and to hold on to his promises for our future families. I enjoy how they speak. About not putting limits on God from the fun ways they met their husbands to the heartbreak of loss around mother's day, their podcasts will leave you hopeful in the goodness of God. That was beautiful. Thank you, Anna. Little side tear. That was so sweet. Um, yes, I love that. Thank you. Thank you so much. So, um, Again, if you haven't left a review yet and you've been liking these episodes, feel free to just leave a review. It could be something quick, something you liked. And then we will try to read it on a future episode as well and give you a shout out. Yes. We are, um, so thankful that you join us today. We hope that this encouraged you and we hope that in some ways that today you can start to implement this, in your life, And start speaking life on you, on your family and your loved ones and on your fertility journey. Yes, yes, definitely. I will go ahead and close this out with our verse. I actually liked two of them. I couldn't choose. So the first one we already mentioned earlier in the episode, but this is a reminder, uh, Proverbs 18 21 is a great one to hold on to, uh, the tongue has the power of life and death. Think of those things. Um, and those who love it will eat its fruit. And then the other verse I wanted to highlight, uh, that you can meditate on is Ephesians 4 29. Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. Thought that was perfectly said. That's the NIV version too. So I can't add anything better to that, but let's try to speak life not only to ourselves, but to our loved ones, friends, coworkers, people we come across. You just don't know what, um, it wonderful impact that can have on them. Yes, absolutely. And just to close out today, you can always, like us on Instagram and, on Facebook. As well. And if you have any episode suggestions for us, we're definitely here for it. You can write us at admin at waiting on your miracle dot com. We would love to hear from you again, just rate us because we are a new podcast and we're growing. We really appreciate it. And we'll do a shout out just like we did with Anna. We pray that you. We'll be encouraged. Live in faith as you wait on your miracle. Bye. Have a wonderful week.