Episode Transcript
[00:00:06] Speaker A: Welcome to Fresh Love.
[00:00:12] Speaker B: Hi. How are you?
[00:00:14] Speaker A: Good.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: How are you? You're so cute, by the way.
Hey.
[00:00:19] Speaker A: I'm so nervous.
[00:00:20] Speaker B: Yeah, this is our fourth take. Just letting. Letting you guys know.
Hey, it's our first episode. It's our first episode, babe.
[00:00:30] Speaker A: Welcome to first love.
[00:00:32] Speaker B: Welcome to first love.
Yeah. That's so exciting. It's happening.
[00:00:36] Speaker A: It's happening.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: It's happening.
[00:00:38] Speaker A: It's not just conversation. It's actually filming and editing and editing.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: And all that stuff. Posting and.
Yeah, I mean, it's been two years in the making. I know, but we're here.
[00:00:51] Speaker A: I know.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: And praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.
[00:00:52] Speaker A: When we announced it, I was so scared. Scared. I thought, oh, my gosh, is it even going to. You know, are we gonna get followers or anything? But we're just so grateful for your support, guys.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Thank you so much.
[00:01:04] Speaker B: Thank you so much.
[00:01:05] Speaker A: You're encouraging.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: So encouraging.
[00:01:07] Speaker A: Yeah, you guys came up to us, our friends out there, shout out to our close friends and even, you know, our acquaintances and wherever you are on this planet. Thank you for following us.
We're not a Mars.
[00:01:21] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Fair, fair, fair.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: But thank you. We're so grateful that, you know, you guys are following us and you're taking the time to listen to our conversation about life.
[00:01:31] Speaker B: Just live ministry, marriage.
[00:01:34] Speaker A: Marriage.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: We're gonna have some mates.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: Mates, yes.
[00:01:38] Speaker B: We're gonna have a bit of mischief. Oh, it's all M's. It's all M's, baby. Hey, you look cute, by the way.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: Oh, thanks. You look cute, too.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: Amen. Listen, call me handsome, bro.
[00:01:53] Speaker A: All right? Sorry. You're very handsome.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: Don't call me cute, man.
Hey, anyways, listen.
[00:02:01] Speaker A: Anyway.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: You're so pretty.
[00:02:03] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:02:04] Speaker B: Why? Why you look so beautiful?
[00:02:06] Speaker A: Back to the point.
[00:02:07] Speaker B: Why you look so beautiful, huh?
[00:02:09] Speaker A: You know who reminds me of, like, when I do this?
[00:02:11] Speaker B: You're doing the Wiggles.
Hey, we're getting distracted. Listen, listen, we got an agenda.
[00:02:17] Speaker A: We have an agenda. We actually have a plan.
[00:02:19] Speaker B: All right, so what are we talking about, girl?
[00:02:21] Speaker A: Well, it's our first episode, so I think it's just, you know, Right. That we talk about how we first met.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess. I think that's a great way to start.
[00:02:31] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:02:32] Speaker B: Just so you guys can know, I guess, you know who we are and kind of capture our heart for this podcast. Yes. And, you know, one of our hearts is actually that discipleship through conversations. That's what we were saying. That's it. And as mentioned before, it's been two years in the making, and this Is really a God thing, isn't it, babe?
[00:02:55] Speaker A: It is.
[00:02:56] Speaker B: It's really a God thing. It's birthed through prayer.
[00:02:59] Speaker A: And let me tell you, it's been.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Hard, and there's definitely been some resistance.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: Yeah, there were times when it was really, really hard. I'm like, oh, my gosh, I don't want to do this anymore. But we're here now.
[00:03:09] Speaker B: We'll pursue that. And I think once you get to know how we met, you'll get to see the heart of it as well. Yeah.
How did we meet? All right, let's cut to the chest, how we met. So I guess the story kind of starts with basketball. Basketball with me, because we met through church. But I'm gonna just take us back on how I got there.
[00:03:31] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:03:32] Speaker B: You know what I mean? So long story short, yeah, your boy was, you know, on his journey, you know, on that faith journey, finding himself. But, you know, when I was finding myself, I ended up losing myself.
So, yes, I was just on this journey, and. But every Saturday afternoon, babe, there would be, like, a pickup game at our local rec center.
[00:03:59] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: And, you know, being Filipino myself, I love playing ball with the Filipinos.
And there was a Filipino community, right, that plays every Sunday in the afternoon. So I played with. I played with them because, for one, the Filipinos. Yeah, we get along. Da, da, da. You know, same humor. And number two, same height.
[00:04:25] Speaker A: But you're pretty tall for a fellow.
[00:04:26] Speaker B: Nah, nah. Pretty average. I'm pretty average.
[00:04:28] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Because if I play with the other guys, then I'm, like, really short. You know what I mean? Fair enough.
Anyways.
But there was one time where I came in early with these guys, and I noticed that before they play, they would pray.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: It's not, like, huddle thing.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: No, they huddled. Yeah, they huddled. And then one guy that was like, the guy who kind of organizes the event, he's like, hey, guys, we're just gonna pray. And they prayed. And I'm like, oh, man, that's mad. Like, I was part of that kind of prayer huddle. And, you know, while I was, like, at the bench talking to the guys, I'm like, hey, like, why'd you guys pray? Like, what's this thing? And then the guy's like, nah, bro, we're a church. We're actually a church. And I didn't know that. And I've been playing with them for the past few weeks already.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: This random person that just suddenly joins their. And they're so nice that they even, like, tell you to.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: This is like, yeah, but it wasn't a. It was. It wasn't a private event. It was a very. Because it was their outreach.
So the guys are like, oh, this is a church. This is kind of like our outreach fellowship thing after church on a Sunday, and we just invite people. And so I'm one of those people that got invited to just play and play, pick up games with them.
[00:05:46] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:05:47] Speaker B: And they're like, hey, man, you should come to our church.
And I'm like, all right, bet. You know, like, let's go. You know, I'll come to church because I was on my journey. Remember, I was on a journey. So I'm thinking, okay, maybe this is God saying, hey, this is. This is it.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:03] Speaker B: So I'm like, what's the name of the church? And they gave me the name. They shall rename. They shall remain. Rename. They shall remain nameless.
The church.
But the church had a couple key words in them, right? So I'm thinking, okay, I'll see you on Sunday. And then I go on the Sunday comes, and I'm like, hey, yo, what was the name of the church again? And I'm trying to remember those keywords. So I put them. The keywords. But the thing was, I. I flipped the keywords around. Little did I know there was another church that was named like that. But the key. The keywords were there, but they were the other side around.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: I checked on the website.
It's a bunch of Filipinos as well. So I'm thinking, this must be it, right? So I go in and I'm looking for my friends. They're not there.
[00:06:51] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: I'm like, where is these guys? I'm thinking, they must have pranked me or something. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, I go in anyway. I'm like, hey, I might as well.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: It's church.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: I might as well be here. I might as well. And I'm going. I was on a journey, so I might as well just. Hey, yo, hey. I'm already here. Let's just sit down.
And then there you are. You were actually hosting that day. I still remember. It was the 1st of February, 2015.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: Was it?
[00:07:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:23] Speaker A: Okay. Oh, my gosh. Yes. I said on platform. It's my birthday.
[00:07:28] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And then. So I was there. I was sitting at the back seat of the church. Like, back row back. Not backseat, back row of the church. And then you were hosting.
[00:07:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:37] Speaker B: And I was like, dang, who's that cutie?
[00:07:40] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:07:40] Speaker B: Who's that cutie over there, man? I'm like, Dang, she's so pretty, man. And I actually knew someone at that church from the. From my. From my old high school. And so I sat next to her, and I. And I asked her, hey, how old is she? Just, you know, just to make sure that we legit. You know what I'm saying? And she's like, no, she's your age. I'm like, oh, okay, okay, okay. We got this. We got this. And so I stayed, remember?
[00:08:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:08] Speaker B: And then you were just doing your thing. You were hosting. I was mesmerized by your beauty. Obviously, I was worshiping God as well.
I was on a journey. I was on a journey. But here's the thing. When you finished hosting, you walked around the back.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: Yes. Me and you locked eyes, and we actually locked eyes. And I remember that moment. And when I saw him, I smiled, and I was like, whoa, why did I smile? I don't smile. It was a big smile. It was a sudden smile, and I literally felt my heart skip a beat. I don't know. I shouldn't say literally, but figuratively.
[00:08:47] Speaker B: You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I got it.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: But anyways, and then I looked away, and I asked myself, why would I smile like that? Like, who is this rando that smiled at him smiling back? But he was cute. He was cute. You were really cute.
[00:09:02] Speaker B: Thanks, babe.
[00:09:03] Speaker A: And. But it was just a passing moment. I kind of, like, forgot about it already.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: And that's how we kind of met.
[00:09:10] Speaker A: No, we haven't officially met.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: We just saw each other. We did lock eyes.
[00:09:14] Speaker A: Yeah. But eventually it started coming.
[00:09:16] Speaker B: We locked eyes. And I would say from that moment, I was like, dang, she the girl. Oh, wait. I fell in love instantly. It was love at first sight, baby. It was love at first sight.
[00:09:29] Speaker A: Well, there you go.
[00:09:30] Speaker B: No, you're gonna say it's love at first sight.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: It's fact checked, guys.
[00:09:35] Speaker B: It's fact checked. It's fact checked. But, yeah, after that.
[00:09:38] Speaker A: After that.
[00:09:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Went on a journey.
[00:09:40] Speaker A: Yeah. We got to know each other more. We spent more time together. I would pick him up, Bible studies and prayer meetings, and we go out and eat late at night just to get to know each other. But, you know, he was on a journey.
Discipleship, you know, one on one conversations. But we're adults, so we're okay.
[00:10:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Yep, yep.
[00:10:07] Speaker A: So we're fine.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: But.
Yeah, I think so. That was like, fine, but I think, you know, I guess, you know, this is. I guess part of our heart is like, you know, we're gonna be real here, like, for. For Those who know us. You're gonna find out some things about us, I guess.
[00:10:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:23] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, like, we didn't actually do it the right way at the beginning.
[00:10:28] Speaker A: No. So, you know, when we met, we were broken people and we had a broken picture.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: Whatever relationship looks like.
[00:10:35] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:10:36] Speaker A: Had, you know, trauma. We had past experiences, baggages that you would, we never really, really dealt with. And then we decided, hey, let's get married six months after knowing each other because we felt that we can do it. But little did we know, it's going to be a hard road, but we're so grateful because God was with us and we had, you know, my parents and his parents, diva's parents, who are always there to support us and are good friends. And, you know, there were times when we felt lonely and moments where we thought, nah, that's it, let's call it quits. But.
[00:11:19] Speaker B: Because not everyone really kind of approved or.
[00:11:23] Speaker A: No, because we were mucking around.
[00:11:25] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like. Like I mentioned before, you know, we didn't really do it right. And I guess, you know, I was somewhat of a bad influence to you.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: He was a bad boy.
[00:11:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Why you say it like that?
He's a bad boy.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: No, like the movie Bad Boys 2. 1 and 2.
[00:11:46] Speaker B: With Bad Boys. Bad boys. What you gonna do? What you gonna do when it comes for you? Tell hello your mama. Tell her. I don't know. I don't know the words. I only know that part. Hey, listen, so, yeah, I was a bad influence. You know, we're on a journey. Yeah. We keep saying, I'm on a journey. I'm on a journey.
[00:12:08] Speaker A: But he's on a journey.
[00:12:09] Speaker B: But I did.
[00:12:10] Speaker A: I was on a journey myself. I was not perfect. I may be attending church, but I had so much going on in my life.
[00:12:16] Speaker B: Yeah. I think it's so important right there. Just as pause.
For those young adults who are thinking about relationships, it's so important to be equally yoked.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: Yes, absolutely.
[00:12:29] Speaker B: You know, because, like, we were a fruit of not being equally yoked.
[00:12:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: Like, we were. We were a result, you know?
[00:12:39] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:12:40] Speaker B: At that time, you know. Yeah. You've been in church pretty much almost your whole life.
[00:12:45] Speaker A: But I wasn't perfect, you know.
[00:12:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
But you know, and mind you, we were still going to church.
[00:12:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:54] Speaker B: You know, we're still pretty involved.
Maybe not in, like, ministry, but, like, we were, like, engaging a lot. We were going to Bible studies. We were prayer meetings. We were going every Sunday.
[00:13:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: But we were still sinning.
[00:13:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: And Yeah, I think. Yeah. We were doing. We were doing relationship without God.
[00:13:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that's right.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: And that's because individually, we didn't have God in our lives type of thing. I mean, we were on a. We were on a journey.
[00:13:23] Speaker A: We were with God, but not really. Yeah, that makes sense. So we're doing all the right things, like, externally, but inside here, it wasn't right because he was very strong and.
[00:13:36] Speaker B: He wasn't our Lord.
[00:13:38] Speaker A: That's right. We were saved. He was a savior, but he wasn't our Lord.
[00:13:43] Speaker B: He wasn't our Lord. He wasn't our Lord of our lives. Like, we received him as our Savior, but he wasn't our Lord. You know, we knew we were doing the wrong things.
[00:13:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:53] Speaker B: But we weren't submitting to it.
[00:13:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:55] Speaker B: We weren't being obedient to.
[00:13:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:58] Speaker B: The conviction. Because, you know, me and you, we did felt the conviction.
[00:14:01] Speaker A: So that's where, you know that term hypocrisy, force.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:14:07] Speaker A: Comes into the picture. But, you know, there's so. It's such a bad word, hypocrisy, that it's. It's so shameful. But, you know, once we come to terms that we've all been a hypocrite at some point in our lives, we come to recognize that we're not perfect and we will never be perfect. But that's why we need to come to the Lord and repent and just, you know, say, hey, I messed up. And, you know, church is not a place for perfect people. It's a place for broken people where God can heal us. God can work in us. And, you know, he brings the. The right people, right leaders, right friends, right oversights to help us get out of that place and. And heal.
[00:14:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:56] Speaker A: Healing is such a, you know, a big word. And, you know, our healing journey is a very long journey. Like, up to this point, we're still healing.
[00:15:05] Speaker B: Yeah, up to this point. Yeah. It's still a journey. Like, it's never a journey.
It doesn't stop. Yeah. We never, like, say, we've, like, we've made it. No.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: Yeah. We're 10 years in, you know, and.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: We'Re still on a journey. We're still, like, learning stuff about each other because we're always evolving, like, in terms of, like, we're always growing.
[00:15:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:25] Speaker B: In our faith, we're always growing. In our journey, we're always.
[00:15:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:28] Speaker A: And that's what I love about God, because he gives that. He gives the command, you know, love the Lord, your God with all your heart. All your heart, all your mind, all your. All your strength. I need to read my Bible verse.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: Heart, mind, soul, strength.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: There you go. Heart, mind, soul and strength. And you know, because that's where your foundation is. And then he takes you from that foundation to the next, you know, journey. And you know, it's not like, okay, you, you come to the Lord and that's it, you're saved. That's done. God's done with you. You're on your right.
[00:16:04] Speaker B: No, not a set it and forget it.
[00:16:06] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:16:07] Speaker B: It's not a one time event.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: No. And that's with relationships, you know, once you say yes to each other, you say, okay, you're going to be my boyfriend, going to be my girlfriend. Oh, yeah. You're going to get engaged. Oh, yep. You're going to get married, you're going to have kids. That's it. No, it's a journey.
[00:16:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:22] Speaker A: It's an ongoing journey.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: Yeah. And even outside of like relationship we were talking about.
Yeah. Like, yeah, we say like, we say yes to Jesus, da, da, da, da. And we set it for. It's not about that. You know, I just go back to this quote that, you know, discipleship is not a yearly cake thing.
It's a daily bread thing.
[00:16:47] Speaker A: Amen.
[00:16:48] Speaker B: It's a daily thing to make a choice and, you know, pick up the cross and deny yourself.
[00:16:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: And continue to look to Jesus. You know what I mean? Anyways, so six months in, I asked you to marry me.
We got a bit hasty.
[00:17:04] Speaker A: A little hasty.
[00:17:05] Speaker B: We got a bit hasty.
And then six months after that. So it's been 12 months since we've been kind of been together. So 2016, we got married. Right.
And for me, I think that's where it kind of. That was a pivotal moment, you know, because even up up until the wedding, like, we were still.
[00:17:28] Speaker A: Oh my gosh, we had so many fights.
[00:17:30] Speaker B: Fights?
[00:17:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:32] Speaker B: You know, again, broken people, broken views on relationships. Me and you had different worldviews at the time. I was on a journey. You know what I mean? You know, you were both on a journey, but like, you know, and I was leading you astray kind of thing. We both were, in a sense. Yeah.
Yeah. Girl, you tempted me.
You look so good, man. Hey.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: Oh my gosh.
[00:18:02] Speaker B: Why are you so beautiful? Why so beautiful? Anyways, anyways, anyways, the audience are probably cringing right now.
[00:18:09] Speaker A: I know.
[00:18:10] Speaker B: Sorry. So, guys, so mom and dad says soz.
Yeah. Like when our kid sees us kissing. Oh my God, don't kiss her. That's yuck. Man. Anyways, but I think when. On our wedding day, that was really pivotal for me, you know, because I was. I was.
I wasn't leading you. Well, you know, and I'm glad you.
[00:18:38] Speaker A: Had that self awareness.
[00:18:40] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, I think that was just God. That was God. That was the Holy Spirit right there. And I remember just.
I'm just picturing it right now. Like, I remember just watching seeing you walk down the aisle. And as I'm about to receive you as my wife, the Lord spoke to me. Clearly, man, clearly. And that's when I started crying.
And he goes, hey, man, it's time to man up.
[00:19:13] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:19:14] Speaker B: It's like you're not making decisions for yourself anymore.
You know, you got to consider her. You guys are one now.
[00:19:22] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:19:23] Speaker B: You know what I mean? And it's like, you gotta. You gotta. You gotta lead her. Right.
And instantly I knew what I had to do.
[00:19:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:36] Speaker B: But I. I knew that before I lead you.
[00:19:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:40] Speaker B: I had to leave myself first.
[00:19:42] Speaker A: Yeah. That is so.
[00:19:43] Speaker B: So that's where.
[00:19:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: Kind of like I kind of took my faith seriously. There was a shift in. In how I did this journey. It's like, okay, no more mucking around.
[00:19:55] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:19:56] Speaker B: Like, I need to take initiative and be responsible for my faith journey.
[00:20:04] Speaker A: I love that.
[00:20:05] Speaker B: So. Because. Because I. As I saw you walking down the aisle, God gave me a mandate to lead you now. But I can only lead you right if I lead myself right.
[00:20:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:17] Speaker B: And even that in itself is like a leadership, you know, tip right there. You know, the best way to lead others is to lead yourself first.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: You know what I mean?
[00:20:26] Speaker A: You can't see what you don't have.
[00:20:28] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. And so, you know, I made it a point to, you know, okay, go to church without you pushing me anymore. Like, I needed to be the one encouraging you to go to church, encouraging you to pray and encouraging you to read your Bible and. And go to prayer meetings and all that stuff. I went to a men's life group.
[00:20:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: Remember, I was like, really? Like, I wanted. Because I wanted to be around godly men because I wanted to be a godly man. I wanted to learn from the other guys and be like, okay, how did you do it? You know what I mean? And so that's kind of for me, like, personally, where it shifted for me in terms of, like, I needed to take responsibility of my own journey, so that way I can lead you. Well, and as a husband, as a.
[00:21:14] Speaker A: Man of God, it's so important that you're proactive. About your faith journey. You're not just waiting for handouts or someone to spoon feed you or baby you. Yes. You know, we all go on a journey where we're baby Christians or, you know, in a relationship. You're. You're still getting to know each other, but you. You have to help yourself as well. You have to lead yourself. You have to push yourself, be motivated. Not just motivated, but be disciplined to take the extra steps to get better, to be the man that God called you to be and not just sit there and wait for something magical to happen. But you're like, nah, I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna look for godly men, or I'm gonna join this life group or Bible study. I'm gonna pray, or I'm gonna be, you know, I'm gonna be attending church because I want to be strong in my faith, because I want to be the leader of this faith family. Not to, you know, overpower me in a way. It's. It's just the godly order that God has. Has planned for families where he's here. The husband and the wife and then children. But we'll talk more about that later on.
[00:22:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:29] Speaker A: Very important.
[00:22:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:31] Speaker B: How did you feel about that? Because I. I do remember sharing that with you when God spoke to me and says, like, hey, you gotta step up.
[00:22:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:22:42] Speaker B: You know, you gotta.
[00:22:43] Speaker A: It's amazing.
[00:22:43] Speaker B: You gotta take responsibilities of all this stuff.
[00:22:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:46] Speaker B: You know, because, you know, oh, I was so glad.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: I was so supportive because that was my prayer because, wow. You know, I. As. As we've mentioned before, I've been. You know, I grew up in church all my life. Not perfect. You know, I had my hurdles, I had my mistakes, but I felt. But I felt in that moment that I was more, in a way, spiritual. Mature in a sense, a little bit, but not really. But then I just knew that I can't be here. He has to lead me. I just knew that. It's not like, nah, come on, I'm gonna lead you. I'm helping him lead me because I don't want to be the bossy one because I already am a bossy person.
[00:23:32] Speaker B: You're a very bossy person.
[00:23:33] Speaker A: I actually am.
[00:23:34] Speaker B: You're a beautiful bossy person.
[00:23:36] Speaker A: Thanks.
[00:23:37] Speaker B: Not what I mean.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Not what I mean.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: Anywho, that's another story.
[00:23:43] Speaker A: Another story for another episode.
But anyways, on our wedding day, I remember I had. I had a song. I was going. I knew I had to sing this art.
[00:23:55] Speaker B: Is that the one you sang?
[00:23:56] Speaker A: I sang I keep forgetting the title. Okay, look it up. It's my city life. I'll look it up. I'll look it up. I'll look it up. I'll post it. I promise I will.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: But look it up now.
[00:24:08] Speaker A: Later. Anywho, I just. When I sang that song, it was me dedicating our marriage, our relationship to God, because I. At that moment, when I sang that song, I feel like. I feel teary up.
[00:24:22] Speaker B: I know.
[00:24:23] Speaker A: Every time I talk about it, because it's me offering our relationship, our bodies, our lives, our future together, our kids, and everything that we're gonna do on Moment to the Lord. When I sang that song, it was a dedication to the Lord that for me to live is Christ. Today is getting no longer I who lives, but Christ lives in me. Christ lives in us, in this relationship. And, you know, it took us a long time to really live out that, you know, that passage. And we're still.
[00:24:54] Speaker B: And we're still doing it.
[00:24:55] Speaker A: We're still learning and growing.
[00:24:56] Speaker B: We never make it. It's always a journey, but it's from glory to glory.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: Amen. And, you know, we can confidently say that we're so much better than where we were 10 years ago.
[00:25:06] Speaker B: 100%.
[00:25:07] Speaker A: It's all by God's grace.
[00:25:08] Speaker B: And we love each other more every day. Every day. I love you more.
What was the line that I always. I always say, I love you more now than I did 10 years ago.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: Okay, yeah, I'll take it.
[00:25:24] Speaker B: Does that make sense?
[00:25:24] Speaker A: I will take it.
[00:25:25] Speaker B: What do you mean?
[00:25:26] Speaker A: I'll take it.
[00:25:27] Speaker B: What's the word that I'll.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:25:29] Speaker B: I love you more now than I did before.
Anyways, the heart is that as each year. As each year goes by, it gets sweeter and sweeter.
[00:25:43] Speaker A: That's it. Our love for each other is growing. It's like our love for the Lord, you know, the more you spend time with God, each day your love for him grows even more.
[00:25:55] Speaker B: And. Yeah, yeah. And I think. I think for us, I mean, and this. This podcast is actually a part of this vision, a part of this heart. Because when we got married, we said to ourselves, you know, let our marriage be an example.
[00:26:12] Speaker A: Yeah, that's it.
[00:26:13] Speaker B: You know, one of our prayers was that, lord, use this marriage to advance your kingdom and glorify you.
[00:26:20] Speaker A: That's it.
[00:26:20] Speaker B: Remember, like, we wanted to really be. Like, we wanted to let this marriage be an example to our friends and family.
[00:26:29] Speaker A: Yeah. And to everyone else.
[00:26:30] Speaker B: To everyone else. Because, like, really, marriage is symbolic. Yeah, it is.
[00:26:36] Speaker A: A reflection.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: It's a reflection of Jesus and the bride.
And, you know, even in the Bible. The Bible begins with marriage and the Bible ends with marriage.
[00:26:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:48] Speaker B: You know, and so this whole thing of, like, this marriage, this relationship, not just with each other, but with God, you know, and, you know, we really. Our prayer was really like, lord, use this relationship, use this marriage to be an example to people.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: That's it.
[00:27:06] Speaker B: To see not only what love looks like when it's done right, what love looks like when you're in the center, but what. What Jesus and the church is like.
[00:27:16] Speaker A: Yes, that's right.
[00:27:18] Speaker B: How, you know, Jesus loves the bride and how the bride loves Jesus.
[00:27:22] Speaker A: So good.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: You know what I'm saying? And so, you know, with that said, this is the end. The podcast is just a part of that.
[00:27:29] Speaker A: Yeah, it really is an overflow.
[00:27:32] Speaker B: It's an overflow. We want to share some of our experiences, Our insight After 10 years of being together, and we've been discipled along the way. So it's not just. We're not just doing lives.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: And we're not saying we're experts.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: Yeah, we' saying we're experts. But, you know, there is something that's on our heart that we just want to share so the next generation can do it better or even just build upon what we. We've learned.
[00:27:55] Speaker A: It's good that you guys are on a journey.
[00:27:59] Speaker B: You're on a journey with us. We're doing this podcast.
[00:28:02] Speaker A: You can't escape.
[00:28:05] Speaker B: But.
No, but did you want to just share? Yes.
A ending scripture for us, and it's actually our wedding script scripture as well.
[00:28:19] Speaker A: So Colossians 3:14, above all these, put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And that's it. It really is the love of God that has brought us together, that has kept us together, and is the reason why we're doing this podcast to begin with. It's because we're just full of love for each other and God's love. And we're just so excited that you're.
[00:28:49] Speaker B: On this journey, on this journey with us. Yeah.
[00:28:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:52] Speaker B: So I think that's us.
[00:28:54] Speaker A: That's us.
[00:28:55] Speaker B: Thanks, guys.
[00:28:56] Speaker A: Thank you for tuning in.
[00:28:57] Speaker B: Thank you for tuning in. And I'll just finish with one more thing. Sorry.
[00:29:01] Speaker A: Okay. Yep.
[00:29:03] Speaker B: I think it's so important to note as well that, you know, we had a relationship without God, and now we had a relationship with God. Yeah, But. But in order for that to happen, it starts with us having a relationship with God. Individually.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: Yes, individually, and then together, because it.
[00:29:22] Speaker B: Wasn'T until I took responsibility of my own faith journey, you know, that God started to become in the center of our relationship because he was in the center of our life individually. So I just want to. Stop with that.
[00:29:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:34] Speaker B: Finish with that. Sorry.
[00:29:35] Speaker A: That's right. And for you guys as well, what, what are the ways that you, you know, take responsibility of your own faith.
[00:29:41] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:29:42] Speaker A: Your faith journey. Leave us a comment. Let us know.
[00:29:45] Speaker B: Comments.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: Give us feedback.
[00:29:47] Speaker B: Nice comments.
[00:29:49] Speaker A: Thank you. Thanks for tuning in and joining us. We'll see you again.
[00:29:53] Speaker B: Love you guys. God bless.
[00:29:55] Speaker A: Bye.
