They Said Yes to God - And It Changed Everything

excited to have you on the channel today and I'm super excited about our guests. I've got a few guests with us. We got the team from Eddie James Ministries in the area ministry here at Brookside Church tonight. And I don't know, I asked them randomly about 30 minutes ago to jump on this podcast and we had some really participants. So if each of you guys want to just introduce yourself, we'll start here and work our way around the table. And then I'm Aubrey Merrill. I'm 29 years old. I'm from New York. Nice. Nice. Nice. I'm Rebecca Berto. I'm 23 years old. I'm from Jersey. I'm Jayvon Manny. I'm 26 and I'm from Grazeboro, North Carolina. Fantastic. Well, thank you guys for being willing to sit down and talk with me on the show. But then also tonight, I'm looking forward to the time of ministry. it's going to be a powerful night. Really trusting that the Holy Spirit is going to do some amazing things. So, let's just start out, man. Tell me how you guys got involved in ministry, right? Cuz we were talking offline. You're all under 30, right? You're on the road. You're traveling telling people about Jesus and life, man. How did that happen? How do you end up in a van with Eddie James? traveling from place to place. You've been overseas, I'm sure, and all over the place. So, who wants to go first and just bring us into that story? Not the wall looking at me. well, I actually grew up with in a ministry family. My daddy's a traveling evangelist. so besides a few fallings and falling back from Christ, I always wanted to do ministry. how I got to NJ's ministry though is my brother actually he's a piano player and he joined first. He literally graduated high school and the next day he flew out to the ministry. Wow. Wow. Wow. then a couple months later, Eddie randomly asked him, "Hey, doesn't your sister sing?" And at that time, I was going through like a transition and I know the Lord was calling me to something different. I just didn't think it would be Eddie James ministry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so, I quit my job. I quit what I was doing within ministry on my own and I decided to take a step of faith and come and join this ministry. Yeah. So, what does that feel like to just take that leap? Like I've heard somebody describe it before jumping off a cliff without a parachute and trusting that the Lord's going to catch you, right? Like what did that feel like for you making that leap? Definitely very scary. And thank God for my parents having Holy Ghost fil parents that pray and that can lead me into the right path. But they didn't help much because they also believe in hear me hearing God for myself. So it was a lot of prayer, a lot of fasting and really seeking the Lord which I actually I thank God for that because it taught me that I for anything going on in my life and he sees it in my life to make sure that I do hear from God for myself. I'm not hearing from my parents. I'm not hearing from family. I'm not hearing from other people. But on top of their advice and what they speak over me, I can also say I know that the Lord spoke this, this, and this. So it was very scary transition. but I heard the voice of God clear and he said, "Go." So I had to just do it. I had to be obedient. Yeah, that's awesome. That's fantastic. So what about you? How did you Yes. Yes. Yes. Jon, right? Jon, perfect. Yes, sir. Well, I've always been a follower of Eddie James since like 2016. since with Aaron Moses and Dante was a part of the team and I was just following him and I was working at the police department in Greens of Ron, North Carolina and nothing wrong with the job. I just felt like my life was it was stagnant. I felt like it was something greater. God had something greater for my life and I just felt like it was time for something new and I just I always had a call to ministry ever since I was 3 years old. I started playing the drums when I was three. Then I taught myself the piano, taught myself the bass, and taught myself a little bit of the acoustic. And then so I played at my grandfather's church for about five years. Started when I was like eight or nine. And then when I was 16, I preached my first sermon. I met my granddad's church. He's a pastor in Kingston, North Carolina. And then I just knew that there was a call of God in my life. So I contacted Eddie and DM'd him in Instagram. and I said, "Hey, I feel like I'm called to ministry." And he called me. He was "What's your phone number?" sent him my phone number and we talked about an hour on the phone and then literally he said, "Can you join me as early as next week?" I said, "Oh god." So I had to leave like put in like not even a two week notice at my job like one week. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. and immediately he flew me out to Atlanta just him and ever since then I've just been in training, ministry, preaching, singing and just allowing God to use me and just say yes to the call. Yeah. Yes. So, so there's was there a wrestling in that cuz you said you felt like you were always called to ministry but you were pursuing a secular career, right? what was that wrestling match like for you? Yes. When I was little, I always wanted to be a police officer. So, that was it was something big that I had to a big decision. decision. decision. So, that felt like a purpose for you, too. too. too. Yes. But, I thought of the rich young ruler, when God told him to sell everything, let go of everything to follow. follow. follow. I'm I appreciate that, . And he didn't. And he went back. But I said, what? I got to say yes to Jesus who won because I know I have the answer to God for that. So I said yes. So I'm here now and I stepped down in crazy faith. That means let go of job, money. I still had car bill. I still had my phone bill, everything. But I said yes. And God has not failed to provide for me. I'm now that's incredible. Fantastic. Yes, sir. So good. So how did you end up here with Daddy and the team, man? What's your first name again? Sorry. I'm terrible. Aubrey. Okay. Yes. you've told me like six times. So, it is it's terrible. We have on we did a concert for Teen Challenge. we had two nights and one of the guys, his name is on Austin and like two weeks ago we were at a church somewhere and I called him Anthony but he commented on me. So then I did it again on Friday night in front of 500 people like calling him his wrong name and so yeah anyways Aubrey not Austin but yeah so I didn't grow up in church but I grew up in the false care system and I was in the system for 18 years and during that time I just went through abuse after abuse and that led to me ultimately drinking just doing stuff pills just going down this dark road and so one day I end up homeless. I was living in my car and just suicidal, depressed, just the worst of the worst. When I step into this homeless shelter, cuz I didn't want to be there in the first place. This woman, she just shared her testimony with me. And I don't know why, but every night when I couldn't sleep, I would just go to her. She worked at night and she would just share the goodness of God. And because of that, she said, "Well, I didn't this pastor that you should connect with." Wow. And I'm "I don't really want to do that." like I'm comfortable with my sin. I'm okay. That's when he hear testimony. That's it. but I don't know. There was this pulling Jesus was pulling on my heart, tugging me. And because of that, I tried to commit suicide one more time, but she said, "what? I think you should give everything up. Step out in faith and really go to a program." So I went to Eddie James' dream life program. I tried to leave that, but God was "No, you're not leaving." And because of just staying there and just being obedient, God placed me in front of Eddie James. Wow. So I've been connected with him through his dream lighter program. Ever since that day in my life has been there. And how long has that been since the moment where you Three years? Three years. Wow. And just serving Jesus since, since, since, man. So would you say that suicidal moment was that your rock bottom if you will? Yeah. Yeah. Cuz at that point in life I just lost my job. I got fired and then I started working at dollar store and I was like I don't want to do this. I feel like I was created for more. So there was this pulling, this tug between should I get another job or should I commit suicide. And I remember the lady telling me she's "You just always call on God." And in that moment like God, if you're real, like you didn't create me to work a secular job. You didn't create me to deal with to battle depression and awful lot of stuff. stuff. stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You say you created me for war. Like you have all this good stuff for me. Why am I not seeing it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I was if you can't give me, you're not God, then I'd rather die. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He provided, man. He provided. So he's he's real. He's alive. He's powerful. And he's faithful to his word. He says that he's going to do it. Yeah. That's so good. Yeah. So that process like for you like cuz we always talk about addiction, right? As it's not the it's not the fruit, right? It's the fruit, not the root, right? There's some other stuff going on. Come on. We we end up pursuing drugs or any type of behavior really to deal with something going on. So what was happening on the inside of you that caused you to turn? Did have you uncovered that over the last 3 years that I guess it was just all the stuff that I went through when I was in the false case and stuff. Yeah. Just as I came to Christ, he was just bringing it to my memory, not to army cuz daddy always says, "God cannot heal what you conceal." And I tried to conceal it for the longest time, but he's just "No, son. I'm I'm bringing this to your remembrance so this way I can heal you from it." And I didn't deal with that when I was going through my addition. I was just masking it and covering it. But once I came to the ice, it just exposed it all. Yeah. One of my friends, she's actually one of the ladies that goes to our church, she's, she does a lot of therapy in regards to like trauma and people that have walked through that and she told me a few weeks ago, we were talking. She said that, therapy and counseling and digging into these things, it takes the memory that's been shattered in a million pieces all across you and brings it back together. Mhm. doesn't change what happened to you, but it gives you the right perspective. And that is that's the journey that the Lord walks us through in disciplehip, right? We get the right thinking around our trauma and our past. And so, man, I'd love to hear a little bit. I want to talk a little bit more about addiction, right? We had a little bit offline. We were talking about, everybody at the table has an addiction story, but you guys have been on the road. you're ministering to people and you're seeing people all over the place struggling with this stuff, getting set free from it and so on. Yeah. Let's just talk about that a little bit. You made a statement to me offline that a lot of people look at addiction and they're thinking like I was broke. I was had nothing left. I was doing the street life and all of that and that there are some folks that deal with addiction and that happens. That becomes the story. M but there are a lot of other let's just call them acceptable addictions right in our society today. So do you want to talk about that a little bit? Yeah. I was just explaining how like and I've even seen it in my own life about how addictions doesn't always look like drugs or alcohol or sex but it can look as simple as your cell phone as Instagram as Tik Tok. And I feel like that's the number one of what's happening in our generation. And I feel like it's something that we really don't talk about often when it comes to addiction. And it's true. It's taken away from you from praying, from reading your word, from worship, from church, from God himself, and it's become if I don't do it, then I'm either going to be upset. It's like food, like and that could be even an addiction that's anything that can affect your emotions. anything coffee drinkers I'm sorry but if it affects your emotions if it affects how it No if it affects how you treat people if it takes you away from the character of God it's an addiction and even those things we need to come for because God has called us to act and be and love and be kind and be gentle and live a certain way and we have all these things taking us away from not only being like him but from him himself. Yeah. So what you mentioned that you said you noticed it even in your own life sometimes with the phone and whatnot. So what type of accountability mechanisms have you put in your life like to recognize that stuff when it's starting to pop up and take it captive and deal with it? what does that look like for you practically speaking? Delete the apps. I think that's number and I literally had to do it yesterday. Like I found myself these past couple and be honest these past couple weeks as soon as I wake up it's like a natural habit just go straight into Instagram or straight into TikTok like it's not into straight it's not into God thank you for this day or God thank you for waking me up this morning or even like the long hours on the road. I'm not taking that time to have a personal time with God or read my word or do something for the kingdom, but I'm on my phone scrolling all the hours, or even when I get to a church building, I have all this time. And then I find myself not only praying, I don't pray all day until it's right an hour before service and I need to pray. And God's that's you can't do ministry like that. You can't even do life like that. an hour before service, that's the only time that you're going to give me, and it's just listening to the Holy Spirit because sometimes we could be prideful in that and not lean into what God is trying to do in your life and trying to tell you, hey, you're distracted. And it doesn't even have to be a phone. it could be people. It could be friends. even within our team, we have many conversations. We're very brother, sister, or we're very close people. We're a close family knit and we even can distract each other if we're not careful, find ourselves talking for hours. And God loves community, but he also loves us being communed with him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, So, So, yeah. That's what we're Yeah. It's such a process of taking things captive and like being almost like you said earlier being open enough to the voice of the Lord to hear when he's speaking and like these relationships or relationship addiction even if you will like have become unhealthy and that's something people don't want to talk about a lot cuz it's hard to like see another person that God's called me to love and care for but also have to say I've got to keep some distance for a moment cuz it's not not healthy. what I'm saying? And so, so just from your perspective talking about this whole addiction thing and we're just do you have any experiences or any like not personal but we're just rubbing up against it yeah I think it's the perfect time this is me number one the first time I'm telling this but when I was a little kid I was molested by a cousin cousin mod several times and it led me to having an addiction to pornog pornography and and my whole years in elementary, middle school, high school. I was addicted to pornography and it caused pain and scars in my life and I tried to like mask it. I tried to fill that void with pornography, and I was just looking at it and I was just consumed with it, like literally I would be watching it five, six, seven, eight times a day, . So I was, my lunch breaks at school, I would go and watch it. When I got home, I would watch it and it just caused me to just I would just consume with it. cuz I didn't deal with that pain of being molested, when I was a kid. but just really just praying to God and just fasting about it. The Bible says some things takes fasting and pray prayer. not everything leaves or comes out overnight. Not everything comes out instantly, but it takes being consistent and praying and fasting and to dealing with that root that was causing that pain. And just pornography, it just it ruined my mind. It ruined my relationships with people, even in my house, my family, it caused me to act different towards my mother, my father, and it just the enemy, he knew what he was doing, though. He knew that God had a plan and prayers for my life. And it just he thought he won, but I'm I'm victorious, . Come on now, sir. So, did I hear you right the first time you said that? Yes. Yes. In abroad. Yeah. Out loud. And Wow. Well, thank you. Yeah, that is not easy to share that part of your past, especially in front of audience, people you don't what I'm saying? You don't know. I appreciate you being vulnerable and just being open on that. That's just incredible. so let's talk about that piece. He said it affected your relationship with other people. people. people. Explain that to me a little bit more. Dive into that. It just changes how you act. It just it's like a dopamine. I remember doing a research into the science of it. This is a dopamine, a chemical that's released in your mind. And it just like it just changes how you treat people, even your loved ones. it destroys marriages too as well. And I'm not even married yet. Mar get married soon, but it destroys marriages, man. But relationship that God has put together for you to have in your life, it just cause you to just act out of character. everything you see about women becomes lustful. The enemy just twists your mind and he just he perverts it. it's God made intimacy to be good. Like the enemy loves to perver per pervert things and to make it evil and bad and demonic and just overdo it. So, it just definitely messed up, relationships with certain people and it caused arguments with my mother, not knowing my father. He was also addicted to pornography. So, it was a generational curse that I had to pray and intercede and fast for through the show. show. show. Come on, sir. Come on. Break that. Yeah. That's so good. So you said prayer and fasting was one mechanism you employed to to break that. And I love to so you probably noticed it earlier. I love to talk about accountability and support systems cuz I think so often we try to lick things on our own and God put people around us for a reason. So how did you walk through that beyond the prayer and fasting? Yes. Well, I for one deleting, some stuff getting a blocker on my forum that keeps you from going on certain websites and content and stuff like that. And but isn't that a little extreme? No. Thank you. That was a setup. That's another question. Okay. Absolutely not. It is not. Whatever you have, the Bible says if your eye causes you to fl it out, would it better to enter the kingdom of heaven with one eye than to enter the kingdom with hell with two eyes than you weeping? dash, so I had to cut that thing off. it hurts, but I had to cut it off. off. off. Yeah, that's good. Man, that is such a powerful story, man. just sharing that and just even talking about like the vigilance, right? Like and I think that's the part we we are I can speak for myself, man. Like I was all in when I was going after me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. but then I come in and I give God this half effort and I'm I want total deliverance, but I'm only willing to give him half effort. And it just doesn't work that way. It's man, we've got to die to self. It is leaving everything behind and pursuing him. And so, let's let's go into that journey, right? Cuz isn't that extreme, right? Yes. Yes. Yes. This pastor, this program, like I can just do this by myself. I don't need to go to a program, right? like talk about that a little bit, cuz that process of going into a program and like coming under leadership, people you don't know, telling you what to do, and getting to that place. How did that happen? How did God work in that through that in you? Yeah. Yeah. So, I had to submit ultimately it's a mindset thing. one, you have to be intentional about it. Intentionality is key for anything if you want to be successful. And my mindset wasn't successful at that moment. I was very prideful and there's a lot of me I. So when I stepped into that program, like I said, I tried to leave and God was "No." I was "God, I fully submit to your will. We fully submit to it." And from that submission just can't credle. Yeah. So I think that is key to it. Just submitting, submitting, submitting no matter what it looks no matter what it is. And if God calls you to something as he did when he called me to it, the first part was obedience. I'm going to have the obedience come. Yeah. So yeah, that's really good. Come on. on. on. And so your journey now, you said you've been with Eddie's ministry 3 years. Yes, sir. And so tell me a little bit about after, I don't how long is dream life? Is it a year? It's Yeah, it's a year. And so tell me a little bit about the story afterwards, right? You're out, you're doing media now, but like how has God used you to reach people where you were at over the last few years? Yes. Yes. Yes. So, as like I said in the beginning, I was in foster care. And when I was three, a lady burned my hands. And because of this, I've created a shirt as you can see, saw 441. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. and this has just been a testimony. God using these hands, my hands should have been deformed. Then from being with Eddie and just submitting, like I said, God has used my hands. I had a dream one night. I'm not sure if it was a dream or an encounter or whatever. I believe it was a dream. I heard a voice said, "Don't ever be ashamed of being answerful. I'm going to use them." This is before I had this the shirt out and sell it. So God was telling me, just like I said, just from submitting, being obedient, and stepping out in faith, this right here, God has changed my life. Started as a dancer at Eddie James Ministry. Yeah. Now doing media and serving and doing all these things. things. things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's just been lifech changing and I never saw any of this stuff happening. I just thought I was going to serve one year and dream life and that was it. And just we had a local church serving God. Yeah. That's awesome. And so man what is man that's powerful. So this journey of ministry for you guys and this is my man one of my biggest beliefs is that when God pulls us out if we will just like I am so intentional on telling people like you got to pursue your purpose. You got to find something and just pursue it. Like I believe that I believe honestly that's the answer for the addiction issue cuz I think a lot of times it's it's insecurity. there's identity issues that we're all dealing with and like when we get locked into something like God begins to reveal what he created us for and we go after it like the lifestyle addiction is incompatible with that it's just like and you we'll all have struggles don't get me wrong but like I'd love to hear that purpose right like so now you heard God's voice you were obedient to his voice and like so just explain me like what's God doing in you like your story right now like being on the road or even if there's just a ministry moment that you that just pops out. I'd love to hear a little bit about that about doing breakfast. Yeah. Yeah. Where God's got you right now. now. now. I feel like right now I'm in a place of well we're doing a big transition this coming up here of this will be my last year with Eddie James Ministries and just stepping in faith into another move which is crazy. And that's what I was trying to say like I'm happy that moment coming into the ministry happened because now I'm back at the square one of like now I had to let go of everything that I know and comfortable with EGM and now stepping into like real life, what God has truly called me to do and stepping out and doing that. so it's been a little full circle for me and trusting God in a whole different way. but also just going back to like the Instagram and being addicted to that. It's just being consistent with my relationship with God. sometimes when you have everything handed in to you and Eddie James is amazing and he gives you the platform, he gives you the songs, he gives you the sermons, he gives you everything where like it just makes it easy to serve and like you just feel comfortable. But now that God is pushing me forward to okay, now it's you. now it's like a whole different pressure of okay, now it's not Eddie James anymore. It's now me. and who is the people that you called me to? Who have you called me to help? Who you have called me to deliver? I know Eddie James has a heart for people who are who who have been addicted and a little bit we've talked I talked about it with him. I think I want to start maybe not a dream life but do what he's doing fulfill the same legacy and keep it going because I don't know anybody like Eddie James who just takes a whole bunch of teenagers and young people and raise them up and just says just come with me and I was like I'm literally just having these moments of like seeing Eddie like pour into other people and just like God saying this is what I want you to do many teachers but not many fathers Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. you see that following heart and then it's just Yeah, it's it's incredible. incredible. incredible. So, you talked about like that the pursuing the purpose and like balancing that, right? Trying to keep social media in check, right? And cuz let's be out of ministry, doing any type of ministry like this stuff is necessary, right? having the social media, doing the media, getting stuff out there, trying to connect with people. It's just the way we communicate now. So, how have you kept that in a healthy perspective? Because it sounds like you're on the path to pursuing your own ministry, right? And so, there's going to be a need for some of that. And so, how are you working through that? I'm still trying. I'm literally in the process of that because I feel like in this generation when it comes to ministry side, everybody's trying to be famous. Everybody's trying to be known. And I don't want to be part of that group, ? I want my heart to stay pure. I want my motives to stay pure. And it's easy when you have an Eddie James always on you and keep you on check, but once you leave here and there is no Eddie James, are you still going to be in check? And I feel like that's what God is trying to teach me now. Like you had to make sure your priority straight cuz if you're not careful and I found myself doing that. Oh my god, I need to post or I need to post this, or I'm looking at the likes, nobody liked this or nobody that many people commented. And that's where the addiction comes in, ? Like I'm always on there trying to check who's liking it, who's watching, who's watching my stories, who's, and God's "No, that's not the purpose. That's not the reason why I have called you. I've called you for the souls. I called you so that you could call them back to me. It's not about you. It's about him." Yeah, that is such a battle cuz like it's just the ability to go viral and like it just in an instance. It's algorithms. Yes. You don't even have to do anything. Yeah. So it catches up to you. You start to see the numbers and when they start to climb it's like it feels good, . It does. there is that in there. I don't have to worry about it. The Lord gave me a word like 12 years ago sitting in a church service and he told me I'm never going to be famous. No way. I'm thinking my son it wasn't put that way cuz I was our teen challenge dudes were on the stage singing choir and doing their testimonies and he told me very specifically I've given you a platform not so you can share your story but so you can elevate the story of others and so when I say he told me you're never going to be famous that's that's what it is right anything that we've been given is to elevate people and bring them to the gospel and there is that perspective because it's this grind of trying to like we got to be known like we got to try to get our names out there. We want more as many people to hear the gospel as possible. So, how do we like amplify the message but also trust God to send it, to where we can't. So, so yeah, let's talk about your purpose in this season, like where's God's got you, battling like not battling bug, you went through the addiction process, but also man, just like stepping into your call in ministry, and what does that look like for you now and what does it look like going forward? Yes, sir. Well, I believe that my main gift, my main calling is to preach. Come on. I feel that God has called me to a prophetic ministry. and if I can't go into detail about this, the first time I heard the voice of God, I was 13 years old. I was sitting in my laptop. I was watching Billy Graham, evangelist Billy Graham. And, I heard a voice, audible voice in my ear says, "Text your grandmother. I want to do a miracle for Deborah." And I never heard of this lady before. It's just a random lady. So, I text my grandma. I said, "Grandma, I feel like God is telling me to tell you to pray for this lady named Deborah, but she's going to come up to you on Sunday and she's going to ask you to pray for her cuz she's having a custody issue, but God told me to tell you that she's going to win her kids over God's got everything taken care of." And then about 2 weeks later, my grandmother called my mother and she said, "what? This lady car me, her name was Deborah, and she told me to pray for her cuz she was having a custody issue." And the next week, she wore her kids in the court. And so that was like one of the first prophetic encounters I've had. Yeah. and then after that I just it has been I guess a gift, . I just hear the voice of God. I think I believe just a grace. so I believe God is calling me to a prophetic ministry in this season. I also sing and then worship as well. But I just don't want to be put in one category. I want to do all I can to spread the gospel, the good news of Jesus. feel that if that's through singing, preaching, whatever, writing books, whatever I have to do to get the gospel out there, I would do it. I would say yes. So, what would you say to somebody who's man, they think that they're hearing the voice of the Lord and they're getting some of that, but yeah, I'm not really sure. Is that the Lord, is that just me? And how did you hone in on that and know that it was God speaking and have the confidence to call grandma? is that's that's crazy, right? like it like but yeah one thing I would say is prayer okay when you pray consistently the voice of God the Bible declares now Jesus says my sheep will know my voice when you get into a place of prayer Jesus didn't teach how to prophesy Jesus didn't teach how to sing he didn't teach how to do this and that but he taught how to pray he sat his disciples down and taught them how to pray the Bible says that our father which hallowed be thy name thy king come be he taught how to pray so I would say really hone need in prayer. Now, don't make prayer your addiction because oh, I want to pray just to hear the voice of God. You genuinely want to pray to get a relationship with him. Be intimate with him. And through prayer, his voice will become more clear. You begin to hear him more. You, little things he would, you would just, you would know his voice. He would always Yeah. So, well, y'all, I appreciate that. I know we're going to get ready to break off in a few minutes and get ready for this evening and so y'all on social media. Can you share your information? put it out there if anybody wants to follow and connect with you, Oliver. Yes. Aubry Leo Maro on. Okay. Instagram, Tik Tok. Which one's your primary? Instagram. Instagram. I'm old. I'm still on Facebook. U Rebecca Berto on me is Jayvon Manning. J A I O N. Last name Manning like P Manning. M A N I N. And there's two G's. And that's everywhere. hit on YouTube and Instagram. Instagram. Instagram. You already got MySpace. Oh, Oh, Oh, but I grew up in the generation where we social media came out cuz I'm 38 and and so we had MySpace, but we didn't have social media. Like I had I tell the story all the makes me feel ancient now. I'm my parents when I used to make fun of them for telling stories. But man, I had a desktop computer, 56k internet, and we would download music and it would take like an hour and a half to download a song of Napster and it was illegal and we were doing it anyways, but and I really do appreciate y'all from Thank you for having us. It's encouraging. like I told you before, to be at a table and be sitting here and I can't wait for the ministry time tonight because just to see people just passionate about Jesus and that really is it, right? Like when you get a group of people that just come in a room and are just passionate about pursuing the Lord. Come on. And you guys, this is you're having a blast doing this, but like this is a sacrifice to be here, too. And so I just want to say to each like I appreciate you like giving yourselves to the ministry, coming to bless our people, bless our team here, and you're doing it all over the place, man. And God is using you greatly. And so, yeah, just keep pursuing and, man, he's going to it's going to turn out all right. you're already seeing the fruit and so the future is incredible. Well, thank you guys so much for joining the Rebuilding Life After Addiction podcast. yeah, follow all our friends here. I will link all their descriptions up. No, scratch that. Let me say that again. I will link all of their social media handles up in the description. hit the like button, subscribe, all that jazz that I always jack up every time I try to say it. So, thanks for tuning in again. God bless. Yeah. Yeah.