Confidence - Part 4

Teachable Woman Podcast

Reverends Michele Owes and Diana P. Cherry

Confidence-Part 4

Rev. Michele Owes: [00:00:00] Welcome, welcome, welcome back to the Teachable Woman podcast. We're excited to be with you as always. I am Reverend Michelle Oates. I am with Reverend Mrs. Deanna P. Cherry, and together we are teachers of good things. Mrs. Cherry, please say hello to our podcast family

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Hello, podcast family, and no matter where you are in the United States of America, on July the 4th, we celebrated 250 years of as a nation, and I want to say happy, birthday to all of us. And the other thing I want to say is that we love you, and we can plan to continue to teach good things, so we need good people who are going to be recipients of those good things.

So therefore, we need teachable women. Love you much.

Rev. Michele Owes: Amen. Amen. Well, we have been [00:01:00] teaching a series on confidence, and essentially what we've been sharing is that confidence is an assurance. It is a knowing. It is a hope and a belief that we have. We shared with us that our confidence should be in the Lord and not in ourselves. That's referred to as self-confidence.

And whenever we boast ourselves, then we're not considering the abilities, the faithfulness, the power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And so the scriptures tell us that our confidence should be in him. And so we're not saying that we can never know what we're able to do, or we can never say what God has blessed us to be able to do.

What we are saying is don't take credit for the one who began the good work in you, and that comes out of Philippians. [00:02:00] The first chapter, verse number six says, "Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." So that's essentially what we want you to know from this series, is that he began this work.

He is the author, and he is the finisher, and he enabled you to do whatever work you're able to do. But we have to be confident in this very thing that he, meaning God, who began this good worth in, work in us, he will perform it. We don't perform it. We obey his instructions. We do as he asks of us and, to perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

So he begins the good work. Help us out, Mrs Cherry.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: That word, [00:03:00] he'll, accomplish it or finish it, he'll complete it.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: ever have to worry about... Now, you're going to get weary sometimes, of course. You're going to wish you could leave it sometimes, of course. after you settle down, think about what you're thinking about, take an assessment of yourself, know that it is a good work.

You know that He began it. We didn't. He

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I never asked to be where I am or doing what I'm doing, but He began it. So that gives me pause to just rest,

Rev. Michele Owes: Yeah

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: it, a break, and know that He's going to complete it. He started it. He is the beginning. He is the

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: is even in the middle,

Rev. Michele Owes: Ye-

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: all we have to do is obey what He tells us to do. And we were sharing, the, I think the last podcast about the Holy Spirit.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Holy Spirit and I are such good friends. [00:04:00] It's, it, it's almost ridiculous what I ask Him to do nowadays and what I ask Him to remind me of. Something as simple as misplacing a TV remote or not finding my phone or just

Rev. Michele Owes: Yeah. Yeah

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: that I'm going to eventually find. But I'm His child. He's right

Rev. Michele Owes: Yeah.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: willing to help me. So what I've started to do more, and more, and more is just pause, say, "Hello," think about it, and just beseech Him to please lead, guide, and direct this crazy

little lady, 'cause right now I don't know up from down, from left, and I need your help. we have to have the confidence that He is there.

He will hear us, and He will help us.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: would be amazed as I, I am amazed. It's happening to me, but I'm amazed at how sensitive

Rev. Michele Owes: Yeah.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Spirit is

Rev. Michele Owes: I

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: to our [00:05:00] every want,

our every need, our every we- request. I had something that know I had packed when I moved from California and brought everything to Maryland, and for the life of me, I could not find something that I really wanted. And yesterday, I went out into my motor coach, and I prayed, and lo and behold, I went right to the cabinet. I didn't even know I had put it in that cabinet. So sometimes, sometimes we put... is high and lifted up, but sometimes we He's way up in the by and by, and He wouldn't dare hear something as simple as a little old lady asking where something is, as simple as what it was yesterday. But I find the more I ask Him

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes. Yes. Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: more He answers me. And the more He answers me, the more equipped I am to complete what He's called me to do, and I can't do it without Him.

Rev. Michele Owes: [00:06:00] Amen

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: but, but with Him, I can do all things.

Rev. Michele Owes: Amen.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: do all things. And so that's a confidence that we have to have. In and of ourselves, we can't do anything. The Word of God tells us that from Him, can do nothing. And with that, without Him, we can do nothing, and apart from Him, we are nothing.

And so I think that we can reckon with ourselves our nothingness, I believe that it builds greater confidence in who He is

and in who we are in Him. And so I'm just a little old nothing trying to do your best to serve Him, to please Him, but I have this

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: the one who began this stuff. I didn't ask for this. He began it, and He's able to finish it, to complete it, to bring it to a conclusion. So I'm just going to rest my little self in Him until that day [00:07:00] when He completes it, and pray that it's not real soon, 'cause I do want to live a long life.

Rev. Michele Owes: You got some wants in there too, huh?

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah, right.

Rev. Michele Owes: Well, you may be listening to this podcast and you may feel like your family life right now is overwhelming and that you're not able or you don't have what is necessary to bring your family into your vision of a godly family. Or you may be feeling like your job is overwhelming, the people that you know, your associates, whatever it is.

It's a good time to put your confidence in the Lord and ask the Lord to fix those situations for you. Have confidence in His ability rather than your own. I was just sharing with, Mrs. Cherry before we began to record this podcast that, two people that I know had a disagreement, and I was doing the things that I naturally knew to do to [00:08:00] try to make sure that this, these two people could solve this disagreement with one another.

and then I just prayed about it, and I asked God to fix it. I asked God to just intervene. I said, "I give you permission to just intervene in their lives. Do what only you can do." And I looked up and the thing was fixed and in a real way, in a genuine way, in a joyful way, far greater than anything that I could have done.

But I paused for just a moment to think about the time that I spent, first of all, hearing of the matter, being concerned about the matter, and then trying to do what I thought I could do about the matter when ultimately my real responsibility was the last thing I did, which was to pray and take it to the Lord immediately, have confidence in Him that He could fix what I couldn't.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah.

Rev. Michele Owes: You might be in school and feel [00:09:00] like you can't take another session, another assignment. You can't write another paper. you don't want to go another day. Just remember that Jesus is the author and He is the finisher, and if He got you to this point, He will walk you through to the end. Just don't quit.

Don't quit on your family. Don't quit on your relationships. Don't quit on your education. Don't quit on your church if you know that you're in the right Bible-believing, Bible-teaching church. And then don't quit on yourself because God needs you to be who He created you to be. He needs you to be whole. He needs you to be as He created you to be so that He can-- you can fulfill the plan that He has for your life.

So we want you to have confidence in God [00:10:00] Through Christ Jesus, that God is able to do the things that you and I cannot or could not of our own accord. And for those things that He has been successful in completing, we just want to make sure we acknowledge that He successfully brought us through, that He gave-- He sustained us as we worked through it, as we walked through it.

He caused us to be able to understand things we did not know. If you're working on your education, whether you have your PhD or your DD or your Dodo, whatever it is, you didn't get there by yourself. He caused you to be able to understand the things that you were able to and to make you able to complete it because He was your finisher

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes. And the thing we have to realize that no matter what the work is, no matter what we think of the work, it's a good

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: of God says,

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes[00:11:00]

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: a good work in us, He is going to finish it. He's going to see it through." So what we have to do is just rest,

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: things to Him

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: that prayer.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Him, step back, pause, think about it. Selah.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes, sailor

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: a break. Sometimes, we just have to take a break from things

Rev. Michele Owes: Yeah

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: and give God an opportunity to quieten us down

and to say, "I'm still with you. I'm still here. haven't changed. It was a good work when I called you to do it.

It's still a good

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: till I say it's finished."

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: that should give us a confidence. I think about, first of all, I think it's horrible some of the preachers, the charismatic type preachers talk about hymns, but hymns are a solace for our

souls. And I think about what a friend we

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes. Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: and if we sometimes if we just pull out an old hymnal [00:12:00] And just the Bible is great, the Bible is wonderful, but sometimes you just want to hear what somebody wrote about who went through some of

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: going and those hymns are just a wonderful thing. What a friend we have in Jesus.

Rev. Michele Owes: Hmm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: He hears all, He knows all, and He helps us through

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: and that, that's a confidence. And a lot of the people who wrote those hymns back, way back in the day, they were slaves. They were... They had horrible situations that we can't even begin to imagine, and they wrote those hymns out of the content of their hearts, of what they were going through. And they loved God, and they knew God, and they trusted God. And so out of the deepest hurts and out of the deepest situations, wrote songs from the depth of their being. And so sometimes it's just helpful... I [00:13:00] know when I'm around the house here, a lot of times I just hymn, I just hum some of them old hymns 'cause, I can't really sing.

I can make a joyful noise, but I really can't,

Rev. Michele Owes: That's my line on the Joyful Noise. That's my line.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I know. know. it, sometimes it just helps to remember the hymns from our youth. They help us too to have confidence. Remember what mama said. Remember what grandma said. Remember the times that they talked about what they had gone

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes, Jesus

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: though things can get rough now, we have nothing to complain about in comparison to what our foreparents went through. and I love the scripture in Hebrews that said, "We have not suffered unto blood striving against sin."

Rev. Michele Owes: Hmm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: be striving against sin,

but we haven't shed one drop of blood in this fight that we have striving against sin. And we just have to have that inner confidence, that inner knowing [00:14:00] that God is God. He always will be

God, and I don't care what it looks like, I don't care what it feels like, I'm not going to be moved by my looks. I'm not going to be moved by my feelings. I'm going to trust in the Lord with all my heart, lean not unto my own understanding.

In all my ways I'm going to, acknowledge Him, and I know I know God

will direct my path.

Rev. Michele Owes: yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: directs your path, you can't fail. You cannot fail if He's directing your path. But we can't get off on our own and think that, like you said earlier, think that we're doing it on ourse- by ourselves and that

we're some great beings, 'cause it, it's not so.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: and God alone. And our confidence has to be singularly with God, on God, that God's not going to leave

us. He's not going to forsake us. He's not going to change. And so the problem is us.

Rev. Michele Owes: But yeah.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: to [00:15:00] walk

Rev. Michele Owes: You're like, "Wait, what? Me? How? How could it be

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Moi,

Rev. Michele Owes: me?"

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: moi. Vous.

Rev. Michele Owes: Look, as the song says, it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer. Like right now my mother, my brother, my sister, it's me.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: right.

Rev. Michele Owes: Now I was reading, Luke the 10th chapter, verses number 38 through 42, and this is the story of Jesus coming to the home of Mary and Martha, and he's there to have dinner, right?

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah

Rev. Michele Owes: And I have heard this story so many times, and the focus on Martha's personality about, how Martha was busy serving and, Martha was busy taking care of the needs of the people that were in her presence. And, many women can identify with the Martha mentality. but I focus this time on Mary's mentality and what was said about her.

So I'm just going to read that so that we're, [00:16:00] all together. It says, "Now it came to pass that they went-- that he entered," excuse me, "into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet and heard his word." Okay, so I'm just going to pause right there.

Martha received Jesus into her home, meaning she was preparing for company. And you all know how we get when we are preparing for company. We are busy cleaning and a-dusting and a-sweeping and a-vacuuming and a-wiping and a-getting ready and a-changing and that we are busy getting ready for company. And it's Jesus, all right?

It's not just anybody coming to the house. Jesus is coming to the house. But Mary chose not to be bothered by a cobweb or some specks of dust or whatever might have been on the floor. She chose to [00:17:00] sit down at Jesus' feet

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: Now, when you think about the fact, first of all, it says she sat at Jesus' feet. She wasn't standing, hanging in the doorway, trying to get an extra...

trying to hear something and not get involved in the room because maybe even at that moment there were not many women in the room or any women in the room. But she went and she sat at Jesus' feet. Here's what I love about that part. It's like she had enough confidence in him to know that she belonged there.

And you and I have to have enough confidence in our Savior to know that we belong with him, that he lives on the inside of us, that he is an onboard, savior ready to hear from us through the orchestration of his Holy Spirit. It said, "But Martha was cumbered about with [00:18:00] much serving and came to him and said, ' Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone?

Bid her therefore that she should help me.'" Now, Martha is not only an example of someone who is busy and encumbered about with so many things. She's also an example of someone who will tell on you. I think we used to call them tattletales when I was growing up. And she's telling on you to the person that you don't want to have a negative opinion of you.

She went straight to Jesus. It's "Look, I know she's sitting over there at your feet, but she should be in here with me." But I love the way Jesus answered and I think you and I need to focus not on Martha and not on Mary but on his answer. Verse number 41 says, "And Jesus answered and said Unto Martha.

Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things. [00:19:00] I'm going to pause right there. Is that not us? Are we not troubled, concerned, careful, worried about, thinking about so many different things? But in verse number 42, he says, "But one thing is needful," in other words, necessary, critical, important, "and Mary hath chosen that good part."

So good meaning having a beneficial effect. Mary chose the part that was going to have a beneficial effect. Martha chose the part that might look like it was of benefit for the guests, but it didn't have any benefit for Martha because she was only going to be exhausted at the end of the night and go to sleep.

But Mary chose the part where her soul was going to be fed. Mary chose the part where she could be changed in the privacy of her inner man in a [00:20:00] conversation with her savior just because she sat at His feet and listened. But Martha was wanting to make sure that the cornbread got out on time, that the chicken and the greens, whatever it was she was in the kitchen busy about.

But that was not needful. That was polite. And oftentimes we choose the polite thing over the needful thing. The thing that's critical and the thing that's necessary. He said, "But one thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen that good part," and here... And this is the part that blessed my soul, "which shall not be taken away from her."

In other words, Jesus is saying, "Don't even think about coming in here telling me to tell Mary to leave the needful part because she knows that my word is going to cause her to grow. She knows that my word is going to change her. She knows that my word is a necessity And no, I'm not going to take that from her.

And [00:21:00] so if you and I can take the time to do that which is needful, it will give us the confidence that we need in our Savior to know that no matter what is going on, He is working on our behalf because we chose the needful part, and He's not going to let anything be taken away from us when we have chosen the needful part, particularly if it's His will

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah. And that needful part is what gives us confidence i-in His testimony.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: that's the thing that's going to be long-lasting and everlasting. Whereas now I'm your Martha type, so generally I defend Martha to the end because I think when I was teaching, I was talking about Martha fixing, and cheese.

Now, I don't know where that came from, but, I always saw the busy work as the good work. And so if you're [00:22:00] a person like me, you really do have to, as I said before, you have to pause,

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: get out of the busy, and

sit down, acknowledge Him, and know that whatever He gives us is the good work. It is the good part.

It is the good thing, and we have to have confidence that the chitlins and cheese will get

Rev. Michele Owes: Yeah.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: if we do the good part, if we do that which is necessary. He's going to give us the strength

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: on until

we get it all done. Somehow we get it all done.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: the most important thing is to do that which is first.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: things first, and then He'll always come through. But whatever happens, we must never lose our confidence

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Him, in His ability know, to hear, to see, and to move on be- our behalf. So sometimes when it does seem like we're so encumbered about

Rev. Michele Owes: Yeah

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: [00:23:00] do this and what... They doing this and they doing that, and we're just so encumbered about that we lose sight of if He called us to do it, is a good work,

and He is going to help us to accomplish it.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yeah

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: be with us, He will be with us until it's completed, regardless of what it is, no matter how difficult it might seem at the

Rev. Michele Owes: 嗯

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: But frankly, I'm still a Martha girl

Rev. Michele Owes: I have my Martha moments. I have my Martha moments. I cannot deny that. But there's something about when I get on my knees and close the door and with my Father, the peace, the joy, the love, the... I can lay it all down. I can cast every care because I know that He cares for me, and I know that when I speak, He hears me.

But I, I [00:24:00] even know that I don't have to speak because He knows my thoughts afar off

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Oh, yes. Yes. Yes

Rev. Michele Owes: so I, there, there is no better place to be than to choose that needful part that Mary chose, to be at the feet of Jesus, to, to open up His Word and just say, "Speak to me, Father. I need something, but you know what I need.

Just speak to me through your Word and teach me and show me, and I am here, and I am without distraction, and I'm your daughter, and you know what kind of situations and circumstances are present in my life, and I want to represent you in them. 'Cause if I have to represent myself, it's going to be a change.

It's going to be a thing. Let's not make that happen." but I am going to say this. In the cha- in the most challenging times, when I pause [00:25:00] and I listen for His instructions, His instructions are so different from what I would do and what I would think. And it humbles me to the point, Mrs. Terry, that sometimes I am fearful of saying something that I'm thinking, just hauling off and saying something, 'cause you know we can haul off and say a lot.

I'm fearful of hauling off because it can derail what He wants to do

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Michele Owes: And so I will choose to be quiet and watch. and it may cost me some subdue of emotion. It may cost me some, "Girl, just be quiet. Breathe deep. Just go somewhere and sit down. just let Jesus be Lord over this situation.

He really doesn't need you."

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right.

Rev. Michele Owes: You know what I mean? He don't need you. Just let Him be Lord. Sit yourself down somewhere. You don't have to have a response [00:26:00] to or for everything

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right. And that's confidence when we're able to do that, when we're able to... There's an, I don't know if it's an old expression, but it's been around a long time, let go and let

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes. Yeah

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: and that's a degree of what confidence in

Him is. let go. And it's okay to say, "Lord, I have no idea

Rev. Michele Owes: what's going on. I don't know, but I know that Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: please work, in this situation?" This morning, I think I was in the bathtub, I'm not sure, but morning I said to Jesus, I said, "Jesus, thank you for giving us the Holy Spirit.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Thank you that we have someone who's so present."

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: sometimes I just don't think we give Him enough

credit by name. And, this morning I just said, "Jesus, thank you that you sent us another

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: in your Holy

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: and that your Holy Spirit is in us."

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: [00:27:00] He's not going to leave us. He's not going to leave us or forsake us because we have

the indwelling presence of His Spirit in us. and sometimes, I'm telling you, I just have such a fun time with the Holy Spirit these days.

It's sometimes I just can't believe the answers that I get. Like you were saying earlier,

Rev. Michele Owes: Yeah

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: just, He'll just sock it to you.

Rev. Michele Owes: Right?

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: like, "Okay.

Rev. Michele Owes: Immediately.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: me again."

Rev. Michele Owes: Yeah. And it's the fellowship, Mrs. Terry. It's the

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah. Yes

Rev. Michele Owes: because it delights Him to know that we trust Him that way, that we will inquire of Him. David went to a lot of battles and he inquired of the Lord before he went to battle. And sometimes if he didn't understand the question, he asked again.

And it is God's desire that rather than we go off on our path of thinking, that we inquire of Him. Even to,

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: yes

Rev. Michele Owes: Lord, I know you know where I left [00:28:00] those keys. Father, you know I got to get out of the house. Where are the keys, Jesus? Did the grandchildren take the remote, Father, or is it in the house?

Will I get a chance to watch the news tonight? You know what I mean?

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: know,

Rev. Michele Owes: Please direct me to it if it's here before I go buy a universal remor- remote. Just let me know if it's in the house, Father.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I know.

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes. And God, I know which direction I should be turning right now. I, I didn't bring my phone with me, so I don't have GPS, but I'm familiar, but kinda familiar.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Just tell me, is it left or right? You know what I'm saying? Right

Rev. Michele Owes: we can just cast every care upon Him because He cares for us. And life gets so much better when we have confidence in Him

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes. Yes. And so we have to keep that beginning confidence, that confidence where, we [00:29:00] hardly took a step without acknowledging Him. uh, y- really did acknowledge Him in all of our ways. But, I'm thankful because and more back to that place,

Rev. Michele Owes: Yeah

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I think a lot of it has to do with my being in this house

alone.

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: so as I'm getting ready to come down the stairs, I'll remember, hold onto the rails.

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Spirit leading, guiding, and

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes. Yes

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: And I just think the more we... Think about a baby. A baby can do nothing apart from you.

Rev. Michele Owes: हमम हमम।

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: a thing for themselves. I think that, old age or older age is childlike.

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: And I think that the more we rely on God, the more confidence we have in Him, the more He will stop us, the more He will push us,

the more He will nudge us, more He will lead, guide, and direct us. we cannot be [00:30:00] self-confident.

Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: We have to acknowledge Him in all of our ways give Him permission to lead, guide, and direct our path,

Rev. Michele Owes: Ye-yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: He delights to do that because He started a good work,

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: definitely wants us to finish

Rev. Michele Owes: Yes. And we can do that if we hold fast the confidence that we had in the beginning, the confidence where we knew He could and would do anything

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: do. Yes

Rev. Michele Owes: according to His will. Well, Mrs. Terry, that brings us to the end of this podcast, and I thank you so much for being with us, our podcast family and listening audience.

And Mrs. Terry, thank you for always making yourself available. Just wouldn't be the same without you

Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Oh, God bless you.

Rev. Michele Owes: God bless you. Love you