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Boss Babe vs Woman of God (5 Major Differences)

May 21, 202537 min
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A Christian message about godly women and the proverbs 31 woman versus, boss girls and boss babes who the world promotes as being the best way to live.

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If you haven't yet heard her message to all women, you're missing out. I was raised by a single mother, I went to college, I got my degree in statistics which is a male dominated field, I got my job at Visa and at the age of 24 I bought my home in the Bay Area which is an expensive market to purchase a home. It just proves to you that I worked my butt off to get what I had. After I bought my home, I proceeded to remodel the home with my own two hands using YouTube tutorials.

So like literally I did not need a man, I did the manly work. I scraped to popcorn ceiling, I put in a full laminate floor. I learned how to use a table saw and not cut off all 10 fingers, right. So like I proved it. I did the thing. I proved that I can live this life without a man. And I'm telling you it is not fulfilling because at the end of the day, I was sitting in an empty home absolutely miserable that I was alone. So I need a man to fulfill my greatest potential in life,

which is to become a mother. There is nothing that's better than becoming a mother and having that legacy. And when you find the right man who wants to have that legacy as well, you will want to submit to him. A couple of weeks ago, I made a video on five major differences between an alpha male and a man of God. And in the video I said, listen guys, I've done these videos in the past and I'm perhaps not the best person in the world to talk

about these things. I kind of have a picture of mind of certain Christian men that I think, oh, they do a great message on this. And I think, is this really my calling? But I did it anyway. And I said I might even delete the video at the end, but all of

you said don't delete the video. And then I asked you, would you like me to do a video about what we should be looking for in the Bible of what a woman of God is, who is a woman of God as the scripture describes it. And I kind of regret making that statement because the comments section was basically unanimous. And please make this video, Joe. So I have done it today. This is I've done some studying. But again, I'm just a little bit wary thinking, I hope what I'm saying doesn't get

misunderstood. And it's very difficult to, to pitch it to Christians because on one side you've got this idea of in Christianity of the trad wife, you know, the traditional wife who stays at home, looks after her children. That's one side. But then on the other side, at the other extreme, you've got the Christian women who like what we're talking about the the boss girl, the boss babe who is very independent and she does all of this and she has her own

ways. So let's get to work, shall we? Now, if you've never been on this channel before, this is my coffee channel. It's very different to my main channel, Off the Curve Ministries. And we just basically drink coffee together and look at Bible verses. It's really that simple. And some of you might have noticed in both the channels I've got these new mugs, I have to keep emphasizing this. I know you trust me anyway, but this isn't a money making

scheme. It's literally just a way so that, you know, you can remember to pray for the ministry and just kind of, I just think it's kind of cool because some friends made this for me and people are asking can I get one of them? So we are actually selling them at the moment if you want to get a copy. And we've also asked people if you want to take a picture of yourself with the mug. I'll send you an e-mail once you

buy the mug. If you take a picture of it, we'll put you up here in the channel. And one brother even did a very short video. So even if you do a video, we'll put you here at this moment now on the channel. Hey, Joe, I got your cup. Coffee day is pretty good in this cup. OK, have you got your coffee or your hot beverage ready? Well, let's talk about it now. Just before I come to the first difference, I think it is important for you all to know.

Again, please don't misunderstand me when we're talking about a boss babe, a boss girl, an alpha female, somebody who's very independent. They have their own business. They they run things themselves. They're kind of like, I don't need any man. I can do everything myself. Just please do know I am by no way saying that Christian women cannot work. Here's a little secret for you. For many years, Emma funded my ministry when I was just doing St. preaching and working at churches.

We didn't have enough money to to bring home the bacon if you like. And Emma, you know, worked very hard in a school and provided for us if you like. Even though I did have a salary, it just wasn't enough to to cover everything. So please don't ever think that that's what I'm trying to say. You know, this is 1 where you know, there is a stereotype we get in our heads.

And actually I'm going to share some verses of you of women of women who worked in the Bible. If you've got a Bible there, you will need Proverbs 31 open because we're looking at that an awful lot today. Proverbs 31, verse 16, it says she considers a field and buys it from her prophets. She plants a vineyard. And then verse 24, it says she makes linen garments and sells them and supplies sashes for the merchants. So in other words, this woman

has got a business. She's an entrepreneur, if you like. She's very industrious. She is making money, you know, and she's providing for a family. We've also got Lydia in the Bible who was a seller of purple cloth which was very expensive. So yes, women can work. Hope that's clear. And me and Emma have even chatted about if there comes another point in my ministry, would she go back to work?

And we both say of course. And there's some women who are listening to me right now who are struggling massively. Perhaps you are a single parent or you know your husband's not well or all kinds of different things and you're working hard. I want you to know you are doing a wonderful work for the Lord God and He is pleased all of your labours. OK difference #1 The difference from the worldly woman, the boss girl, the alpha female versus the the godly woman is there is

a real emphasis on the external. Again, let's look at Proverbs 31 verse 30. If there are any men listening to me right now, which I expect there will be, you need to memorise this verse. If you're single and you haven't got a wife yet, this should be your verse that you should dwell on. Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised. So here the Proverbs is saying charm is deceitful.

You know, there there are women of the world out there who are charming, they're funny, they can capture, but it's all the front. You know that once they've got you where they want, once they've got you wrapped around their finger, they soon change. And then there are also women who are very beautiful. It says here beauty is passing, meaning it's fleeting. It's here today, but it's gone tomorrow. You know, all of us, men and women alike, we look in the mirror and every day we're

getting deeper wrinkles. If you're a man, you're losing more hair. The greys are coming through. You know, we're just, we're drooping. We're all getting older, aren't we? Let's be honest. You know, I remember hearing a comedian, an older comedian saying when he walks down the stairs, it's like a musical instrument. It's like, you know, all the creaks and everything that you can hear as you're going down. We're all getting older, aren't?

We're all winding down. But I actually heard somewhere, and again, I should have looked at the original Hebrew before I got on video, but I think the word might be hebel. Hebel, or the word that means common, it's vain. The original word, in other words, it's beauties everywhere.

And it's kind of true, isn't it? You know, everywhere you look because of makeup, because of filters on, on, on Snapchats or on Instagram, because of all the technology and all the things we can do right now, beauty is really common. You know, it's it's not like it was 100 years ago where you you had one woman and she you know, she turned heads now now

everyone can be beautiful. Every man can be, you know, in one sense beautiful and you're handsome and you're saying, well, Joe, come on, tell me what the secrets are. I don't know how to be and I don't know the secrets ever, as you can see right before you. But the point is this, the Bible saying, don't focus on those things. It says, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised. That's what the godly woman does. She fears God. She doesn't fear man.

She doesn't fear the approval of of those men who will say, oh, you look great today, or those other women at work that she might be trying to be competitive with her at school. She doesn't worry about all of that, She fears God. My greatest priority is to know God deeply, inwardly, and to fear him as my maker. Now I know exactly what some of you are thinking you're saying, Joe, it's all very easy for you to say that. But here I am as a single woman and I'm trying to attract another man.

I'm trying to meet the right man. But it does seem like all these Christian men is all they care about is looks. You know, some of them, I go on their Instagram and I see who they're following and it's it's just all worldly women. Well, if that's you, sister, I just want to say this. They're not the men that you want to to find. Do you know something that I think a godly Christian man would find very attractive?

I think he'd look at your Bible and you'd see how well worn is your Bible. Some people are a bit sensitive about this, but I personally quite like it when there's lots of highlighters in the Bible where you've highlighted passages or there's a passage that's well thumbed or there's

notes and you scribbling those. I think that's something that women should be concentrating more on is how how many notes, how much time are they spending in the words rather how much time do they have to spend looking in the mirror? I think, you know, this verse is coming on any topic about beauty and it's one Peter chapter 3, One Peter chapter 3, verses 3 to 4. Do not let your adornment be merely outward arranging the hair, wearing gold or putting on

fine apparel. Rather, let it be the hidden person of the heart with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit which is very precious in the sight of God. So hear the Bible saying, you know, don't worry about your outward appearance and your hair and how you're arranging things and your jewellery, but concentrate on a gentle and quiet spirit. Now again, this could be so easily misinterpreted. You know, it is the Bible saying here, women cannot have opinions.

Women must just be silent. They must never speak. They must be docile and passive. No, it's not saying that, but it is given when we look at the Proverbs and we look at Scripture in the whole weight of it, it's saying the woman of God, she isn't chaotic, she isn't loud and outspoken. She she isn't wild and unruly, just shouting all the time. She's got a gentleness about her. She cares. And I'm sure we can all think of

examples of that. Perhaps a mother, a grandmother, a lady at church who's just, they're gentle, they're quiet, they've still got a mouth, they're still very well spoken.

Some of them very confident, confident not in themselves though, confident in God, but they're so used, so precious by the Lord God. But again, I just want to before we move on, I just do want to emphasize this again, I know some of you'll be saying, but these Christian men is, it's all they seem to care about is, is the outward appearance.

Well, I could be wrong about this, but from my friends and from myself, I'll admit, I think when you are a younger man in your early 20's, the first thing you do look for is looks. I'm not saying it's right, it's just that the way men think sometimes, and I do believe you've got to be attracted to every, the whole part of if you're a man or a woman, you want to be attracted to your spouse.

But I do believe as you get older and the right men and the right men, even as young men will see the biggest thing is godly character that just shines through when there is a woman who truly knows the Lord, when there is a woman who prays, you know, a woman who prays to the Lord Jesus and knows Jesus

intimately. That can't be faked that that that is more precious than Ruby's, more precious than whoever is Miss Universe. It is so beautiful to see a woman who who loves the Lord. And even in older women, you see it, don't you, as those women in prayer meetings and they pray to God. It's, it's a beautiful thing that just speaks volumes to all of God's people #2 the boss girl, the alpha female, she's very loud.

Now I want to talk about this a bit more, just so that you understood where I was coming from when I read 1 Peter chapter 3. So I've got another proverb here. As I said, when you look at the whole of Scripture, it all, it all matches together. It all marries together. So Proverbs 7 verse 11, she was loud and rebellious. Her feet would not stay at home. You see here we see in the Bible, it's talking about a woman who is a very sinful woman.

If you read all the Proverbs 7 and it says she's loud, she's unruly, her feet are never at home, she's always out of the house. There's a restlessness there. You know, that's what the women of the world, they, they, they can't stay at home. They don't want to be at home. They don't want to build a home and a family. They want to get out. They want to have fun. They want everyone to hear their opinions and, and what they've got to say. I think that's what it's trying

to say. Also, when it says loud, I think it implies she's angry as well. She has no restraint over a spirit. And again, if you read Proverbs 7, she's lacking self-control in one area. You'll often find somebody's lacking self-control in other areas, whether that is with their temper or whether it is with, you know, gossip or even, you know, greed. It shows us that as men and women, we really must be

disciplined. Just tell me in the comments section if I'm sharing too many Bible verses with you. But I just these, these have all just come to me. So just look at Proverbs 11 verse 22, because this is something that I really do want to share with you as a ring of gold in a swine snout. So is a lovely woman who lacks discretion. Now that is one of the most, I don't know what to say, feisty Bible verses out there. And when I was younger, I asked my dad, what does it mean?

I don't understand what it means. You know, just like a jewel in a pig snout is so a beautiful woman without discretion. And he said, now I'm not going to name the name because I don't think that's the best thing, but there was a judge on Britain's Got Talent and he said, you know, on the outer appearance, she's very, very beautiful. But the way she speaks to those contestants, it's just not kind

at all. She can say some really mean, some really cruel things, and that's what the Scripture's saying here. You know, you've got this beautiful jewel, this beautiful Pearl, this loveliness, and you put it on a pig snout. And that's what the Bible's saying is if God has graced a woman with physical beauty, but she doesn't have that inner discretion, that inner kindness, that inner love, that peace. It's just like that picture just so it's so I'm fitting. It doesn't look right.

It shouldn't be there at this point. I would like to share this with you, my wife. As I said, this isn't about women not having opinions because I am abundantly grateful for my wife's strong opinions. You know, anyone who's met my wife will know she's a confident woman. And I'm not in any way saying you can't be confident in a woman of God. That's not my message at all here, as I think you've been able to see as we're looking at Scripture.

But my wife's opinions have helped me so, so much. You know, when they say behind every great man is an even better woman or whatever the phrase is. I'm not saying I'm a great man in any way. But you know, some of the graces that you might see in me have definitely come from Emma. And we're on, we're at this stage in our marriage now after 10 years where we can kind of we know exactly what each other are thinking.

So last Sunday I was preaching at church and I said my first, my first head in my first sort of section of my message. I said, Emma, well, she gave me her opinion. She said, Yep, you rushed that too much, Joe. You were worrying about something and you had your hands in your pockets too much. And I'm like, these are all the exact same things I was thinking in my own head. And she just knew. And many times she's just helped me in various ways where I've had maybe a dispute or an

argument or a situation. She said, Joe, no, you cannot say that. Or Joe, you cannot do this with my YouTube channel. Joe, you need you. You can't put that online. She has helped me and put sense into me where I've needed the most. And I'd like to think hopefully I've been able to do the same for her. That's why it's so beautiful when you're married. You've got to help me. Who? Who helps you? But I will say this, there is something I do say to Emma sometimes when we're in an argument.

Emma will have some really good points, really good points where it's like she's flattened me. You know, I've got nothing to say here. You were 100% right. But I will end up arguing back with her because I'll say this, Emma, it's not what you said that's wrong, but it's the way you say it. And I don't know if you're married or if you're single, but you live at home or whatever. Just just bear that in mind. We love men, love to hear their wives opinions. I really do think most men would

agree. Hit the like button or let me know in the comments section if you've been helped by your wife. But it's knowing the way you speak. Be gentle, be gracious, have discretion when you share these things and listen as as it could be easily applied before we get a woman right in the comments section. Of course, it could be the opposite way round.

Men, you might have a great opinion, you might have a great pointer to your wife or to someone in your work, but it's the way you say it. Let that be a lesson for us all #3 the worldly woman promotes sin. The woman of gods is very different to the worldly woman. She isn't interested in getting involved with gossip. But the worldly woman says, come on, what is the gossip? Tell us, have a bit of fun. The the woman of gods. She doesn't let bitterness eat her up.

Someone wronged her all those years ago. She, it may still be painful to her, but she slowly learns to forgive the woman of God. She doesn't lose her temper. She doesn't fly off the handle over the slightest thing, but she knows to how to hold her tongue. She knows how to control her spirit and doesn't get angry. The woman of God, she's modest. She understands. OK, yes, when men look, it is their responsibility. Men shouldn't be looking. Men shouldn't be.

Men should be careful with their eyes. But she also knows that woe to the ones by which the sin comes. Woe if I've made anyone to stumble by the way I've dressed The woman of God. She doesn't lie. She doesn't let her friends, you know, like, tell her, come on, it doesn't matter. Your husband will never know where you've been tonight. Just just come out with us. But the worldly woman does. The worldly woman's jealous.

She's competitive. She always wants to be the best, to be the top dog, the alpha female. But the woman of God says, no, I'm happy as long as God is happy with me. I've only got my eyes on the judge. We're back in Proverbs. Proverbs 7, verse 21. With her enticing speech, she caused him to yield. With her flattering lips, she seduced him. Now, when I talk about the worldly woman promoting sin, this is actually very different from the the whole kind of boss girl mentality.

I'm thinking of a particular kind of woman. And actually I've got a very specific example, but I'm not going to name her. If you know she is, you know she is. If you don't, I'd rather protect you from knowing about this woman. And I wouldn't want to give her any more exposure, even though she's got way more viewers than than me.

But there is a woman online, maybe in the last 12 months, but particularly the last few months, who's gone very viral and she's just making great ghosts of sin where she, she literally is the, the, the modern day picture of this woman in Proverbs 7 who, who her feet lead down to death. You know, she, she has many guests there and they eat and dine with her. And those guests were strong men. But those men are going down to Sheol. They're going down to the grave.

And this woman, she'll post things online about her ventures of how she's done this and she promotes sin as if saying we're now in 2025, this is what the modern woman should be like. We've got freedom now. No more judgement. All this, you know, all this tolerance, it's wonderful.

And I can be who I want to be and I can make lots of money and I can make all of these men, you know, leave their their their wives, leave their girlfriends, you know, make a shame of their children, make a shame inside their hearts. And she makes it all seem like it's fun, but she doesn't realise that she will reap what she sows and she does. She doesn't realise that God is watching old friends. Maybe, just maybe there's an unbeliever listening to me right

now. And you may have some of that mindset. Just know God will not be mocked. And if I could challenge all of us, you know, if you're a young man and you're attracted to these things, or if you're a young woman and you are tempted by these things, please read Proverbs 7 and know a woman of God. She's the one who will be praised. She's the one who will leave a lasting impression because this woman and the women of this world who promote sin, they'll soon be forgotten.

As we said, beauty is fleeting. What will this woman be like in 30 years time when there's a younger model on the scene? Even 10 years time when all these men have? I don't want to speak. It's shameful to speak of these things publicly, but you understand what I'm trying to say. We're all ticking by, but the soul lives on and on and on. And that's why you'd be very wise to honour Jesus with your youth #4 the boss girl, the boss

babe. Her identity is built in her possessions, her car, her designer handbag, her money, the holiday she goes on the vacation, she goes on the people. And she spends time with the, the boyfriend that she has who's also, you know, a trophy really muscly. And he's got lots of money. That's often what these women of the world build themselves into. That's what they they hold highly in great esteem is their identity is in wealth and and possessions.

But let's contrast that with the woman of God. Look at Proverbs and 14 verse one with me. The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish pulls it down with her hands. I find that and very, very challenging verse there. So here you are. You've got this wise woman and she builds a house. She cares about her children. You know, you marry it together with Proverbs 31. She dresses her children in the finest clothing. She cares for them.

You know, for those of you who homeschool your children, I could get emotional when I think of this, but mothers who, who, who, who spend time teaching their children, educating them, you know, teaching them how to learn and write, You know, mothers who nurse their own children with their, with their breasts. They, they feed their own children. They, they love them. They, they just build that house.

They care for their husband. They, they, they look at what meals are going to be the best meals that the husband's going to like, but also he's going to nourish his body. These are women that, that, that literally make the world go round and they, they do a wonderful job and they build the home. But then you've got this, this woman on the flip side, who tears it down. Perhaps she's got a home, but she's always nagging and she's always getting angry at her husband.

Or perhaps you know, her children. She doesn't spend time with her children. She just sends them off or puts them in front of their iPad or on a phone and doesn't doesn't do her responsibility. She's always out of the house or she causes so much friction or arguments. If she's not married in the home, she tears it down with her own hands. That's what the woman of the world does.

But the woman of God, she, she builds that home and the woman of God, she doesn't need her identity and possessions and money and success and how it looks, you know, keeping up with the Joneses having this beautiful house. Well, let's look at Proverbs 31 and verse 28. Well, firstly, just remember this as we're turning there.

Proverbs 31 verse 28, Just know her identity isn't in the Lord Jesus Christ. As that song goes, I am who you say I am and we believe that who who does Jesus say I am? He says I'm forgiven, I'm restored, I'm loved, I'm special because Christ died for me. I'm made in the image of God and the woman of God finds her identity in those things. OK, Proverbs 31, verse 28, it says her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also and he praises her. There's so much I could say on

this. The woman of God, her children, that is her reward at the end. If you're a mother, if you're a wife, when you've inputted into those children, when the rest of the world have been going on fancy holidays, when the rest of the world have been living for themselves. This boss girl's built her business and she's made herself amazing. And she said I don't need any man, I don't need any any children. I'm just going to be for myself. OK, that might be her reward.

But the woman of God, the mother of God, she's her reward is her children. When they say, mum, thank you for raising me in a godly home, thank you for telling me about Jesus. Thank you for setting a godly example to me. And the husband, he praises her.

He realises what a gem he's got in, in his wife who really does honour him and love him and support him and helps him to be the best man that he could be. But if you are a husband and you have got a great wife or you know, you've got a wife who loves you, you know, I think we, we'd all say none of us are great husbands. None of us are great wives. We, we're, you know, we've all, none of us are perfect.

But you know you, if your wife loves you and she's doing her best, tell her, praise her like this verse says, if you're a child and, and you've grown up, or if you are just a young person listening and your mother looks after you, she's loved you. She's helped you as much as she could. Tell her, bless her, praise her, thank God for her in your prayers and and let her know that you care. It's very sad when we grow up, we go to university and then we lose touch of our parents.

I think one of the most precious things is when you can become best friends with your parents. As you get older, don't forget your parents who imputed so much into you, made such great sacrifices. They could have done so many things, made so much more money, set up so many side businesses, but they sacrificed so much because you mattered to them. Make sure that's the same. I would like to just apologize at this point before we get to #5 I do know that this has been

very lopsided. It's been very aimed at mothers and wives, and I'm sorry about that. I will have to try and do another message, particularly for single women, but we are going to come to that just right now in #5 So the fifth thing, the 5th difference between the woman of God and the boss babe is self-reliance. It's this idea. It's me first. No one else is going to care about me. So I'm going to look after myself.

It's all about me, me, me. Let me turn to second Timothy chapter 3, Second Timothy chapter 3, and verses one to two. Now, this is aimed at both men and women. So we know the context, but know this, that in the last days, perilous times will come, for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud. You see, there is a generation, and I think we've all seen it before, of people who are lovers of themselves. They're lovers of selfie.

They're always taking pictures of themselves. They love the way they look in the mirror or they stare at themselves in the mirror and they're so vain. And the Bible says that this is going to come in the end times. We're going to see more and more people who love themselves. And that's really what the boss babe epitomizes. It's about me. Look at me. I love myself. It's about me and my Kingdom. But the woman of God isn't like that. The one of God isn't always taking selfies, isn't always

looking in the mirror. And again, just no, it's, there's nothing wrong with taking the odd selfie. I'm not saying that, you know, it's OK to to take pictures of yourself, but just make sure there's balance there. Make sure that you are making sure that God is on the throne and you're not trying to to build your own Kingdom. And also there's something that I think we've also got from the world. And it's this sense of I'm going to love myself first. I can't love anyone unless I

love myself first. What absolute nonsense. Where, where have we got that from? That's nowhere in the, in the Scripture. The Bible tells us to deny ourselves. The Bible tells us to to that we are to to lay down our lives just as Christ laid down his life. We're told to to, you know, to take up our cross. Daily we see that the perfect act of love when the Lord Jesus Christ didn't love himself first. No, he he'd made himself nothing and went to the cross. That's what real love looks like.

So don't think you have to love yourselves to to be able to love other people. No, women, let me just sort of finish with this final verse and we are going to have to finish in Proverbs 31. As you can see, it's just such a precious, precious chapter of Scripture. Proverbs 31 verse 29. Many daughters have done well, but you excel them or you see whether you're single or not. I said I was going to try and share a little bit more with single women. Whether you're single or not,

you're a daughter. You had a mother, you had a father. Perhaps you don't know your mother or your father, but you are a daughter and if you're saved, you're a daughter of the most high God. And the question needs to be asked, are you excelling? Are you excelling for the Lord Jesus? Are you in the word? Are you praying? Are you using your gifts that God has given you not to advance your own Kingdom, but to advance his Kingdom?

That's what's so vital. And just to say again, if there is anyone who's single listening, I actually do get the whole idea of being a boss babe in one reality, because some of you, you've had fathers who I've just not acted like fathers in any way, shape or form. You maybe have been orphans. You've had no parents or you've had men who you trusted. You trusted them with everything. You couldn't have given them more. You tried this whole way of of being this, you know, gentle and

dare I say submissive woman. You tried all of these things and yet where did it get you? He went off with another woman or he left you and you think, well, I'm just going to serve myself because that's all you can trust at the end of the day. If that's you, please hear me. I understand. I don't want to diminish from the pain you're going through

and and know this. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being single and saying the Lord is the only man for me, the Lord Jesus, he is the only man for me. There is nothing wrong with that. That's a wonderful thing. So you can give yourself, what I am saying is be that daughter who excels, that daughter who gives herself up for the church, who spreads the gospel, who reads the Word, who is caring, who uses her gifts not for herself, but to extend the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

That's the message here. Come on then tell me how I did. Did I make a complete mess of it? One person actually in the previous video said why is it always men who are giving messages on how a woman of God should be? And I completely understand that and that's why I was very hesitant to do this message today. But tell me, what did you think?

Again, as I've said with with any video, if I get it wrong because I'm just a man with clay feet, all men have clay feet, I am more than happy to to delete the video. So if enough of you tell me this was nonsense, Joe, you missed the mark here. I'm okay with that. I know some of you say, oh, you're hiding away from the truth for you. I'm just saying, I'm saying I can get things wrong and I know that for a fact, mainly because of my wife showing me things and just older godly men showing me

things. So anyway, it's just lovely to be accountable. It's lovely to have these coffees with you. And I would just very briefly as a little diversion, I really would value a little bit of prayer at the moment, just feeling a bit the whole thing with our daughter Anna, as you know, who was sadly lost in in February. It's kind of caught with me a

little bit in a different way. And I'm just, I did a lot of, if you've seen my off the curb channel, I did a lot of videos kind of finding relief in activity. And now I'm just getting a bit tired and struggling with motivation. I'm feeling resources are, are wearing out time and yeah, other things. I'm just looking at what's going to happen in the future and those kind of things. So just please do pray for us.

Please pray for this ministry. And you know, I was meant to do Zoom meetings every month with a newsletter. And I'm sorry, just because of time. It's, it's, I'm really struggling to find that time. And then on top of that to do Evangelism St. evangelism every week. I do that every week. And that's a big priority. And then we've got, of course, we've got this coffee channel, we've got the off the Curb channel shorts, we've got a Spanish channel that we try to

oversee. There's a lot going on and a lot of it is me kind of doing it all in the background. So just pray for me, pray for my family, especially because I want to be there and be a man of gods and support my wife and my children through this time. And just, yeah, I just value your prayers. I really do need them. And if anyone else has got some prayer requests, just leave it in the comments section. Thank you so much. I really did enjoy this coffee. God bless you all.

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