SPRING CLEANING: Missing The Blessings in Front of Us | Love By Faith with Kyle & Selina Almodovar #071

In this episode, we discuss how couples are missing the blessings in front of us.

Kyle and Selina explore how couples often overlook common blessings because they fixate on what they lack in their relationship.

• Tendency to forget we once prayed for a spouse while now feeling desperate for the next best thing
• Recognition that blessings exist throughout all seasons, whether high or low
• How looking too much at the big picture makes us miss the small blessings for today
• Marriage as clay that God shapes throughout our journey together
• Importance of measuring smaller blessings to build momentum toward bigger ones
• Practical ways to embrace current blessings rather than waiting for perfect circumstances
• Connection between contentment with current blessings and our relationship with God
• Need to trust God's sovereignty and perfect timing in our lives

Take inventory of your blessings, pray for contentment and good vision to see what's around you, and trust that what God has given you in this season is enough until He blesses you with more.

Chapters

• 0:00 Seeing Blessings But Not Feeling Blessed
• 6:33 Fixating on What We Lack
• 15:04 Relationship Blessings Amid Imperfections
• 22:12 Counting Daily Wins and Blessings
• 28:21 Embracing the Blessings You Have
• 31:37 Trusting God's Perfect Timing

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Seeing blessings but not feeling blessed.

Speaker 2: 0:02

You fall in love, you get married, and then things beyond your control start to set in.

Speaker 1: 0:08

I want to get this done. I want to get to this point.

Speaker 2: 0:11

It starts to tarnish the pretty little picture that you had, and that's when things start to get challenging. We're not perfect people.

Speaker 1: 0:20

By any means.

Speaker 2: 0:21

But by trusting in God we learn what it takes to build a friendship a relationship and marriage that has stood the test of time.

Speaker 1: 0:30

With a keeping it real style. We're going to talk to you about everything everything that we've been through, are going through and have overcome all by learning how to lean on God and each other in order to help you learn how to love by faith.

Speaker 2: 1:00

Morning, Selena Morning. Oh, you got your big thermos today.

Speaker 1: 1:03

I went big today.

Speaker 2: 1:04

Wow, what made you? Are you tired?

Speaker 1: 1:08

No, I feel strong.

Speaker 2: 1:09

How many ounces is that? I think it's 24. 24 ounces of espresso it's three shots of espresso.

Speaker 1: 1:16

It is three, it's a latte, it's a big latte.

Speaker 2: 1:20

It's a big latte.

Speaker 1: 1:21

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:22

It's a big latte. It's a latte coffee.

Speaker 1: 1:25

It's probably closer to a flat white than a latte. Okay, because I don't use any steam, it's just more milk. So it's probably closer to that. It's great Delicious. I love it.

Speaker 2: 1:37

I bet how long does it take you to drink that whole thing?

Speaker 1: 1:42

I sip on it so I sip slow, so this will last me until 1 or 2 o'clock.

Speaker 2: 1:46

I feel like it is giving movie theater size. You know, like when you ask for a small popcorn or a small drink, the length of the cup is like from my hand to my elbow. It's giving movie theater latte. I love my coffee and I drink it five days a week and it's wonderful.

Speaker 1: 2:06

It's giving movie theater latte. I love my coffee and I drink it five days a week and it's wonderful. It's wonderful. It makes my day A day without it. One time I forgot it on my way to work One time and it was just like and I drank it. I was just like no, this is horrible. I could not sleep that night. Yeah, let's get to what we're talking about today. We're in spring cleaning series.

Speaker 1: 2:26

yes, this week we're spring cleaning out the topic. Uh, it was in our notebook seeing blessings but not feeling blessed. Blessings but not feeling blessed you want to open up. Tell us what you're thinking in that topic.

Speaker 2: 2:42

I think the reason why this particular topic landed in our journal is because, as couples, we often overlook the common blessings that God has given us, because our eyes are so fixated on the things that we lack in the relationship.

Speaker 1: 2:59

Okay.

Speaker 2: 3:00

You know like we're so quick to forget that when we were single, we were fasting and praying for a spouse, you know. But now we're sitting with our spouse in a season as though we are empty and we're just desperate for the next best thing. And I think this is a topic that we could really talk about and help couples with, because if you guys have been following us for some time, you guys know that Kyle and I have had a couple hard seasons. A few.

Speaker 2: 3:32

And we've had a couple of really good seasons and in the midst of all of that hindsight 2020, I think it's really important to remember there are blessings throughout all of those seasons, whether they're high or low. There are blessings throughout all of those, all of those seasons, whether they're high or low. There's blessings throughout all of it. And even now, you know we're constantly looking forward to. You know the the bigger house, or you know the the updated appliances, or you know whatever, whatever, and we are just so quick to forget. Like we're healthy, our kids are healthy, we're safe, we're in a safe place and we have the freedom to talk about Christ in our ministry to the world. Like that is a blessing.

Speaker 1: 4:18

Absolutely. You know it's funny the way you said it when I'm thinking about this topic and.

Speaker 1: 4:22

I'm planning and I'm like where does this feeling come from? And I'm feeling like what is going on? I know we're blessed, but why aren't I seeing the blessings? I catch myself and I'm looking too much at the big picture, looking too much at the long game, like you were saying, and I'm missing the small blessings, the blessings for today. And I remember my mom always telling me like Kyle, just stay in the moment, stay here. Like, stay here. We're not going to think about next year, next month, two years Like just stay here, enjoy this.

Speaker 2: 4:51

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 4:52

And I catch myself having to tell myself that, like, just stay here, there's blessings right here.

Speaker 2: 4:57

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 4:58

Just check it.

Speaker 2: 4:59

And talking about physical blessings, I also want to kind of spend this in a relationship blessing because I want to say, um, if, like I said, if you guys have heard us for some time, you guys have started to notice after 70 episodes, you're starting to notice that Kyle and I are not the perfect couple. I am very imperfect, kyle is very imperfect.

Speaker 2: 5:22

There might've been some things that we have said in the podcast where it was just too vulnerable for you guys and it made you uncomfortable and it made you feel like, whoa, I don't know if I see them in the same way anymore. I don't know if you know I don't. I don't think I can trust what they're saying anymore because of that one thing that I heard, that didn't I disagreed with you, know. And so we're imperfect, right, never tried to be perfect in the first place, but there are a lot of things that I may have said about Kyle.

Speaker 1: 5:52

It's right in the opening. We're not perfect people.

Speaker 2: 5:55

Right, right, right right. It's in our very first sentence of introduction. But there are a lot of things that I may have said about Kyle, about things that you could work on, or about things that I am frustrated with or the things that you have brought me closer to God because of, but at the same time, kyle is a blessing in my life. There is no other man that I could see being with, being with, and when I take the step back and when I look at the moment and think of all the things that my husband does, that is worth my submission, that is worth my, my kindness, that is worth my, my love. You know, I it, it just really blows me away, and I tell you this all the time.

Speaker 2: 6:42

Just randomly, in the middle of our day, I'll just pop it off and I'm just like thank you, thank you for putting up with me, and you're like where is this coming from? And it's because I'm so deep in my mind of like Kyle is such a good guy, he's such a good guy to me, he loves me so much. I can't believe he is putting up with all this crap that I'm putting out there. I need to do better, because I am seeing the blessing in the present time versus all of the nitpicking that we sometimes just fixate on. That really stops us from realizing the blessing is here and we're blessed to have these people in our lives.

Speaker 1: 7:21

I love when you catch me off guard with the gratefulness it does. It fills my cup, man, and I do notice it when I'm feeling like blessing, right, I look around and I see beautiful children, see a beautiful house, I see what is developing. I see the seed sprouting of what we planted in previous seasons, right, and I say, wow, that's it. Then I look around and I still see this is messed up, this is dirty, this is not right. This ain't how I want to be as a husband, this ain't how I want to be as a father. I go through these. I think it's the fickleness of our feelings, how feelings can just mislead us. We can't just lean into our feelings. We have to really take notice of what's real right, Because feelings are. You know, I feel like she doesn't love me. I feel like this house is horrible. I feel like you know I deserve a better car.

Speaker 1: 8:23

Yeah, yeah, and those feelings are fake. Those feelings are wrong. Right, I deserve a better car, yeah, yeah. And those? Those feelings are fake. Those feelings are wrong right I have a reliable car. I have a car that doesn't even make a goofy sound. I have a car that's not even rattling right like the blessings are there. I have a car that has heated seats. I have a car that is. You know what I mean. I have a very deep thought. Okay.

Speaker 2: 8:44

Okay, this is a very deep thought.

Speaker 1: 8:45

Well, let's hear it first before you label it very deep.

Speaker 2: 8:48

Okay, fine, okay, what if the reason why we are like this is because Adam and Eve came from a place of perfection Okay, and they were accustomed to seeing things perfect in every way, and because of sin that has entered our lives, we have, since then, chasing back to the level of perfection that we know we had at one point and that we should have had had it not been for the fall of sin. And what if the reason why we are so dissatisfied with our present season and our upcoming seasons, and ourselves and other people, is because we are constantly chasing the need to have perfection back into our lives?

Speaker 1: 9:45

Yeah, I could totally vibe with that.

Speaker 2: 9:47

Is that deep enough for you, Kyle?

Speaker 1: 9:48

I think. So, okay, I think, and it is so. The point you're making is that it's our sinful nature. Yes, it's our fallen nature. Yes, To want more than we have. Yes, To see our garden and be like man. I got to pull all these weeds out. Yes, all these weeds out? Yeah, all these weeds in our relationship of us bickering. Yeah, all these weeds in our relationship of us not being on the same page parenting yeah us and the being on the not being on the same page financially yes all these are little weeds in our relationship yes and god said we're gonna toil in the garden right all day from the sweat of our brow.

Speaker 1: 10:20

All those little things are the sweat of our brow moments come on that. Yeah, it's absolutely right with what you're saying. Where it's, we're so. We so want this garden to just be the perfect garden of eden, this relationship to be just the perfect garden of eden relationship. And it's not. It's never gonna be.

Speaker 1: 10:36

We're both screwed up, we're both sinful right we both have issues that we're working through every day, and we both have new issues this season that are not last season's issues you know, what's so funny to me is cancel culture okay it's so funny to me, because we should all be canceled.

Speaker 2: 10:56

Who are you?

Speaker 1: 10:57

what do you?

Speaker 2: 10:57

mean, like, who are you to cancel someone for what they're doing? Yeah, if that doesn't you know, for for what they said or what they did, however long ago or however recent. It was when you yourself should be canceled, for what you say and what you do, because we are all sinners jesus with the woman caught in adultery.

Speaker 1: 11:18

All these people are shouting saying she did this, she did that, she did this, she did that. We should stone her. And jesus isn't even paying him any mind. That's. My favorite part is that he's just minding his own business.

Speaker 2: 11:28

I wonder what he wrote. I can't wait to ask him.

Speaker 1: 11:30

I want to see his face cringing at all these people. I picture him just cringing at all these haters around her Just like you guys don't even know. You guys have just such malice in your heart. He's just so sick of it and then he's like he just drops the bombest line Like whoever's, without sin throw the first stone. That's it. Yeah, oh man, it's one of my favorite things to read in commentaries. See what they say about what he wrote and what it means.

Speaker 2: 11:55

Oh, yeah, I love getting deep in the word like that.

Speaker 2: 11:57

Yes, so we're all chasing that perfection and we're all trying to seek the ultimate blessing, which I think the ultimate blessing would be a place where there's no hunger or thirst, where every tear is wiped, where there is no sadness or pain or cancer or anything like this. Like that is. Our ultimate goal is to be in the perfect place with the perfect King. And because we are striving for that, there's a lot of guilt in all of us where we feel like we're just not going to measure enough and so we try to control things, like we talked about in the last week's episode, and we try to force the hand and we try to you know, bend things and we try to you try to just get those blessings. And then we feel bad. Say, for example, you're trying to find a house and you just can't find a house. It's not because you don't have the money, it's not because you're not willing to move, it's because the market is not where it needs to be for you to find the house that is meant for you.

Speaker 2: 12:58

It's totally something out of your control and I feel like a lot of times we do this with everything in our relationship, in ourselves, you know, with your health, with your job, with how you feel about yourself, with your community, with your church. You know there's a lot of places where we are trying to force the ultimate blessing upon us in order for us to feel good about things, but we're not capable of reaching it. It's out of our reach.

Speaker 1: 13:28

So it's people who are thinking they're going to be the CEO when they haven't even applied for the job yet that kind of thing Sure. Like that level, like they're reaching for the blessing of the CEO, but they're not willing to put the work to just become an employee.

Speaker 2: 13:43

Yes, and so like okay, let's take this back to relationships, let's take this back to marriage, and so you want your marriage to look a certain way. When you said in your heart, I'm ready to settle down, I'm ready to start looking, you had a thought, you had a mindset of what that settling down looked like.

Speaker 1: 14:03

A vision.

Speaker 2: 14:04

You had this vision of it's going to feel like this yeah, it's going to look like this, it's going to make me feel like this I'm going to be this type of husband, I'm going to be this type of wife. And then what ends up happening? You find your person, you fall in love, you get married, and then things beyond your control. You fall in love, you get married, and then things beyond your control start to set in and it starts to tarnish the pretty little picture that you had, and that's when things start to get challenging. Hey, everyone, we hope that you're enjoying this episode, and right now we want to just take a small minute to introduce to you the latest thing that we created to help you elevate your relationship and take it to the next level. It's called the Love by Faith Playbook.

Speaker 1: 14:51

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Speaker 2: 15:11

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Speaker 2: 15:49

It doesn't matter how much you prepare to have this painting perfect in your singleness. It doesn't matter how much you prepare in your engagement season, because, I mean, if you want to, if you want to reflect it like that, kyle and I, we are your poster children of preparing for marriage and doing all the things that we could have done to make this a quote, unquote perfect union, and we still got hit with life.

Speaker 1: 16:17

None of us are going to be perfect.

Speaker 2: 16:18

We still got hit with imperfections and we still got hit with things that came up from our past and things that came up from childhood traumas and things that came up from from current traumas, and there was still things that hit us and sin still tried to knock us down and shake us up and get in the way. It doesn't matter how much you are doing, it's still going to try to get in there and try to destroy. The enemy is trying to destroy you at every chance that he can.

Speaker 1: 16:49

Yeah, earlier in the episode I was talking about, you have the vision and you're so hungry to reach that final vision.

Speaker 2: 16:58

That big blessing yeah.

Speaker 1: 16:59

Where this is. Oh, this is the moment. Yeah, but you missed the steps on the way. The Bible talks about us being clay and God being the potter. Right, but our relationship is also clay. Our relationship as a couple is one lump of clay that God is shaping throughout the whole way. And when I was a kid, we went to church. We went to church, we went to Catholic church and I think it was during I want to say it was during the season of Advent. It did this visual and it started with a lump of clay on the altar, okay, and each week that lump of clay changed. Oh, each week that lump of clay, like one week it came in and then it was four lumps of clay.

Speaker 2: 17:38

Oh.

Speaker 1: 17:39

And then it was shaped a little bit and shaped a little bit, and each week until the end. This started as one lump of clay was now a family, and it all tied in with the message. That's beautiful. It was awesome, If you're judging the lump of clay in that first step or if you're so impatient. I think, impatience plays a big part in this.

Speaker 2: 18:00

Yes, yes.

Speaker 1: 18:01

Especially as a man, I am so like, I want to get this done, I want to get to this point, and so, as men get impatient and so, men, if you're feeling impatient, that's one of those things that you got to slow down, take inventory of the big picture and get reset, recalibrate yourself.

Speaker 2: 18:17

I don't even think it's a man-woman issue. I think it's a human issue of patience. I mean, think about, we live in a world where short form content is king. We're constantly scrolling through 30 second videos. We're constantly looking through all these commercials and ads. We're constantly fixated on a quick fix thing.

Speaker 2: 18:41

Help me lose weight in 30 days. Help me reach a goal in 30 days. We're constantly timing ourselves to reach a big goal in a certain amount of time with a lot of impact in between. That doesn't often work long-term and we're using that and it's starting to kind of blend into how we handle our faith.

Speaker 1: 19:05

That quick fix, that quick need, that quick hit of dopamine to get ourselves on track, to keep our faith feeling good. We can take advantage of that in a positive way. Let those quick hits be the feeling. Let those quick hits feed that blessing, that feeling because we're talking about being blessed but not feeling or seeing the blessings.

Speaker 1: 19:29

We'll take those daily wins and count them yeah, this is a great place to measure this is a great your your relationship is not feeling the blessings, or you're feeling blessed but not seeing it. It's a great place for journaling. Yes, it's a great place for keeping a log. A prayer journal with answer prayers right in the day to when those prayers are answered. A goals journal.

Speaker 2: 19:50

It sounds like something that we could add to our couple's playbook To the playbook Hello. It sounds like something that we could add to the couple's playbook of just some kind of log. Yeah, because it's very important. The Bible teaches us to remind ourselves of God's goodness. Remember what the Lord has done.

Speaker 1: 20:12

Let's go.

Speaker 2: 20:12

Even when you had Stephen, the first martyr in the book of Acts. He began his talk to the court and to the people with remember what God did. God brought the Israelites out of Egypt. God brought Abraham to a place and said your stars are the number. The number of stars you see are the number of the descendants. He brought it all the way back to Moses and to all of the things to say remember what the Lord did. Remember when they were at Jericho. Remember what God did. Remember David. Remember what the Lord did. And so he were at Jericho. Remember what God did. Remember David. Remember what the Lord did. And so for God to mention the recollection of His goodness in our lives that many times in the Bible, I don't think is a coincidence, it is an instruction, it's good.

Speaker 2: 21:00

And so for us, as people in today's day, in today's season, you're absolutely right In order for us to reach the bigger blessings, we have to measure the smaller blessings in between, to build the momentum and to build our strength and to continue our faith, so that we can run the good race and not grow weary.

Speaker 1: 21:23

Finish the race. It's Bible facts. That is great. No, that's real, and keeping track of those blessings will help you to not lose sight that God is really working in your life. God is really doing something in your relationship. God has brought you from somewhere, even if it's only two houses down or two steps forward, he brought you from somewhere and he's brought you to something.

Speaker 2: 21:46

Absolutely.

Speaker 1: 21:47

And he's going to keep working. And it's beautiful when you get in your journal and you get to that last one and the prayers are answered. There's new prayers.

Speaker 2: 21:55

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 21:55

There's new seasons and there's new blessings coming.

Speaker 2: 21:58

I always think about it as, when you're pregnant, okay, okay. When you're pregnant, um, we have three beautiful children, we had four pregnancies. But when you're pregnant, when you first realize I'm going to have a child, so many questions how is this going to happen? Finances can we even afford this?

Speaker 1: 22:22

space environment?

Speaker 2: 22:23

Can we even afford this space environment? Where's all the things going to fit? Where am I Like? You have so many unknown things that take place.

Speaker 2: 22:34

But by the time you reach month nine going into month 10, because you know your baby could be later, whatever, but it's how you reach that season you are so ready to meet this baby, you are so ready for the next, ready for the baby to come out, you are so ready to be the parent, you're so ready to invite this baby into your home that all of those unknown questions kind of figure themselves out.

Speaker 2: 22:59

And if they didn't figure themselves out, then oh well, we're just going to handle it as we go. Your whole perception changed nine months later, and so we have to kind of think about it like that Eventually it's all going to work itself out, or you're going to figure it out as you go. But the confidence that you've gained over the progression of those seasons has changed so significantly that you are now able to just be like it is what it is and it's going to be what it's going to be. And here I am and let's just do it. And so for us to look at each other in marriage and we see problems or we see issues, or we see insecurities within ourselves or unbeliefs within ourselves.

Speaker 2: 23:46

You see these things and you're just like. I just don't see my marriage going in the direction that I thought it would be, or I just don't see this relationship getting any better. We have to, like you said, count the blessings that are there, measure them, see where God is taking you, see what God has taken you from and has brought you to, and then you have to kind of go into it with a level of this pregnant confidence of like, as we continue to grow this thing and as it matures, it will either work itself out or God will show up in a way to change it, or I will be ready to handle it when it when I need, when it needs to be handled.

Speaker 1: 24:32

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 24:33

We will be ready to overcome it when it's time to be overcome.

Speaker 1: 24:37

As you're, as you're pregnant, the baby's growing, thinking, right, you don't see this baby for the first five or six months, right, right God willing your baby for the first five or six months, right, right, god willing.

Speaker 2: 25:54

Your baby is healthy and growing.

Speaker 1: 25:55

Yes, but you're doing all these things on your side, outside of the the body, outside of the baby, growing. You're taking the vitamins, you're taking the special supplements. You're doing the extra walking to keep your, your muscles how you need them, so that you're doing the extra work. You're doing the extra preparation. You're getting that nursery ready. You're buying them so that you're doing the extra work. You're doing the extra preparation. You're getting that nursery ready. You're buying the stuff that you need to take care of your baby At some point. You got some diapers in the house. You got the bottles ready. All these things are in place. You're doing all the things you can do so that when that child comes, when that blessing is there, you're able to walk into that season. So I think that's another huge takeaway. You're getting ready for this blessing, you're feeling the blessings, you're seeing the blessings but you're not feeling blessed is to do the things to embrace the blessings that are there.

Speaker 2: 26:49

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 26:49

Right, okay, so you can't tear down that wall and put up. You know, expand your kitchen.

Speaker 2: 26:55

You can't put an extension on your house An open floor plan. Yeah, so you can't get new carpet. Right. So you can't afford these things.

Speaker 1: 27:02

You can go to the grocery store and rent the $50 shampooer and shampoo the carpet. You have Come on. You can go and scrub the baseboard you have. Come on, you know what I mean. You can do the things to embrace the blessings you do have in your season so that you don't miss that big picture of, hey, I am really blessed, that's right. And so if you're missing it, if you know that you're blessed but not feeling the blessings, go and take care of those blessings that you have.

Speaker 2: 27:30

Oh, I never went on a real honeymoon. I never went. But now we can't afford it.

Speaker 1: 27:40

I guess we're never going to go. You better find an Airbnb an hour away and have yourself a getaway.

Speaker 2: 27:42

Go, enjoy it Absolutely. You better make the most of what you can with God has given you, because if you're not faithful with what he has given you, how can we ever expect to get more?

Speaker 1: 27:51

Absolutely. Go borrow a tent and go on a camping honeymoon. I promise it'll be just fine. If they're into camping, if that's your thing.

Speaker 2: 28:00

If that's your thing.

Speaker 1: 28:01

That's the whole point of this. Is that God's got blessings for you. Yes, you are blessed.

Speaker 2: 28:07

Yes.

Speaker 1: 28:07

And if you're not feeling it, do these things to take inventory of it and to take action on it and to embrace what is there. Yes things, to take inventory of it and to take action on it and to embrace what is there. Yes, pray for contentment, pray for patience, pray for peace, pray for that joy to overflow. Yeah, pray for good vision to see what's around you.

Speaker 2: 28:26

Yes, take it and love it and live it. And not only that. I think by choosing not to acknowledge the blessings in your current life, in your current season, should be a very big indication of where you are with your relationship with God. If you are not satisfied with what God is giving you, then there's something of a disconnect between where you are and how you feel about God, and that might need to be addressed.

Speaker 1: 29:01

So you might need to retune your main relationship.

Speaker 2: 29:04

Absolutely, absolutely, because think about it If we are fully okay with our relationship with God, if we are fully okay with our relationship with God, if we're fully content and we surrender all the things and we love our God and we're putting him first in front of our children, in front of our job, in front of our money, in front of our husband or wife?

Speaker 2: 29:26

if we're putting them first, then wouldn't he reveal to us all of the blessings he's given us in this season? And shouldn't that be enough? Should it? We should trust him in thinking. You know, sometimes you just got to remind yourself to do I trust God with what he's giving me right now? Do I trust where he has me in this situation? Do I trust that where he has me and the things he has given me and the prayers that he has so far answered in this particular season? Is this enough? And if it is yes, then we should be okay. You had a heart check. We're good. But if it's no, then you have a relationship problem with the father because you're not trusting that what he is giving you is enough hello say it again you're not trusting that what he has given you is enough, which means you're not trusting him because remember he's perfect taking a sip here he's made everything perfect.

Speaker 2: 30:29

He's made everything perfect in its time.

Speaker 1: 30:32

Let's go.

Speaker 2: 30:33

And so we have to be mindful of the time and the perfect placement of the things in our life, and we have to trust that that is God's sovereignty. We have to trust that.

Speaker 1: 30:46

That's perfect, selena. That is the most perfect bow you can put on this episode. All right, take that y'all. If you don't listen to any of it, even if you fast forward to these last three minutes, take that because that's the message, right there.

Speaker 2: 30:59

That's the message. So, even though we are praying for bigger blessings, we know that God has blessed you with the manna of today. He's blessed you with blessings already in your life, within your relationship, within your marriage, within yourself, within your surroundings, and that is worth being joyous for.

Speaker 1: 31:22

Being joyous for.

Speaker 2: 31:23

Joyous.

Speaker 1: 31:24

Yeah, okay, just make sure that's what you said. Yeah, is that a word? I think?

Speaker 2: 31:27

so, okay, it's worth being grateful for it's worth being thankful for and it's worth being content in until God blesses you with more.

Speaker 1: 31:36

Amen, and we are so grateful that you're here with us. We are so grateful to be in this season of spring cleaning and this episode is for you. If you're seeing blessings but you're not feeling blessed, this episode's for you. Amen, we're grateful. Let's pray.

Speaker 2: 31:52

Yes.

Speaker 1: 31:52

Lord, we thank you for this time. We thank you for this place. Lord, we thank you for the opportunity and the ability to take your word to the world, to go and share what you've called us to share. We thank you for this ministry. We pray to be your people speaking on your behalf, lord. We pray that the couples that hear this would be able to take away from it and use this and utilize it to connect with you better. Lord, we give you the glory for all of it, in Jesus's name Amen.

Speaker 2: 32:25

Amen. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you're on YouTube, please be sure to like, share, subscribe, so that we can continue to expand our YouTube channel for other people. If you're listening to Spotify, apple, iheart, all of the other places then shout out to you guys. Thank you for your support. We'd love to see what you have to say in a review or just by tapping the five stars, so that other people like you can find us and learn how to love by faith. We hope to see you guys again next week as we finish off our spring cleaning series, and we hope you enjoy the rest of your week today. Bye.

Speaker 1: 32:59

See ya, dude, that episode really hit. I was really pleased with that. That was really good. I caught myself getting like she's talking too much, but then you say stuff and it's just like that is a great point. I can't shut her getting like she's talking too much. She talked, but then you say stuff and they're just like that is a great point. I can't shut her up and she's saying that that is a good point. I can't shut her up and she's saying that thanks for not shutting me up, kyle I can't step on her toes when she's saying that woman quiet you.

Speaker 2: 33:27

Hey, you lady stop talking, yeah man I was saying um, we talked a lot about like pregnancy and baby and kind of leading into perfect talk for next week yeah, it's kind of leading into that next, that last episode what are we going to talk about next week? Quiet man. I can't do your batman voice. That was my batman voice. That was your batman quiet man, but I can't do your Batman voice. That was my Batman voice.

Speaker 1: 33:54

That was your Batman voice.

Speaker 2: 33:54

Quiet man, I can't get the raspy. Who do you work for? I sound like Marge Simpson.

Speaker 1: 34:03

I sound like your sister, the old smoking ladies.

Speaker 2: 34:07

The Patty and Thelma yeah.

Speaker 1: 34:09

Jubilee always does my voice and she sounds like that. Mom's there by. Hey, it's Dan.

Speaker 2: 34:14

Hey, it's Dan that. Hey, it's Dan, that's how she tells you. I got to go. I got things to do. Where are you going today? I got to go to get breakfast.

Speaker 1: 34:24

Awesome, we'll see you next time.