was good you guys and welcome back to another episode of your favorite aunties podcast. Listen today is auntie day aka Wednesday and we got another episode for y'all and we're feeling good. We're feeling really, really good about it and I'm going to pass it over to Nia and she's going to tell you why we're feeling good, we're feeling really really good about it. And I'm gonna pass it over to Nia and she's gonna tell you why we're feeling good. Um well you know it's hard not to feel good when you serve a good God. Huh? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah it's been on my mind, on my heart to celebrate the goodness of God. We have our complaints, you know what I'm saying?

We didn't say I won't complain as the song says. We complain a little bit. And also I know that we've had quite a few just like church-related episodes so far this season, but one thing we always wanna do is give God the glory. Don't ever get it twisted in the midst of everything that we going through or that we have critique for or whatever. Don't ever get it twisted. We love God. Do you love God? If you don't, what's wrong with you? So we want to speak well of him as T.T. Sheaam say, we want to speak well of him today because it is it is definitely overflowing in my heart God has been really really good to me. I don't know about you. Hello, but he has been very good to me and sometimes you just got to pause and think about all the things that he is doing and that's what I've been taking the time to do, like the last couple of days, I had some drives,

I had to go on, that's always my time to just think about things and pray and stuff. And I really got to thinking about the goodness of God and how good He has been to me. I mean, bless my family, bless my friends, brought me through different things, got me in a new season alive, just in the midst of the stresses and the worries. I'm like, my God has been really, really good to me.

And I bless him for it.

Do you see me? season alive just in the midst of the stresses and the worries. I'm like, man, God has been really, really good to me. And I bless him for it. Yes, amen. Amen. I can definitely see the goodness of the Lord in my life, especially as it pertains to those around me. So for me, I think about our friend who had that medical condition a year ago. Like it's been a year and that person is still here and that feels good. When I think about me being stubborn with my parents, you know, but God keeping them and not losing them in the midst of strife. When I think about the different things that I've gone through like my siblings times, but they're still here. Like we made it through and reconciled and this, you know, it's just the feelings and the thoughts that people are still here. That's what has been getting me lately, even in the midst of, you know, me being upset about stuff. It's like God is such a preserving God. And it's just to be kept. If he'll keep you even in

your ignorance or like when I found myself to be upset or be frustrated, it was a Lord who still kept me here and giving me another opportunity to see his goodness in spite of how I look at things. So that's that's where I am right now. Yeah, I know, just in you saying that, I know I have been so short-sighted, right? Like what is going on right this moment? What is it that I want right this moment? And I have been able to see in some different areas of my life, where I'm like, Lord, thank you. Because that isn't actually what I wanted. That wouldn't have turned out the way I wanted. And I've been able to take that into some other situations. I had a disappointment a few days ago. And I sat in it for a little while, but then I got to thinking about how in so many other ways, I have so many other examples of how I didn't get what I wanted in that moment,

but he had something better for me. And so even in that disappointment, I was able to say, all right, I feel some kind of way, but as soon as I stop feeling that way, Lord, thank you because you're either directing me somewhere else. You have something else for me. It was a rejection. So I'm like, you have something else for me. You have something better for me that I'm thinking this is the good thing you got something even better for me waiting

but you had to tell me no right here So I could say yes later and so all of those situations kind of came flooding back like you know what God This is for my good. Maybe you're protecting me Maybe I would have gotten that and not even liked it and I think that I want it right now There's always something more. There's always something beyond just the right now but it's so easy to get caught up in what you're looking at right now. There's always something more. There's always something beyond just the right now,

but it's so easy to get caught up in what you're looking at right now.

That's good. I know that, like you said, this particular season, we talked about a lot of the X. A lot of them. They do this, they do that. But the Lord has been great, huh? Better than good. And I think it is absolutely important to share with people how we feel in real time, but also share with them that we serve an amazing God. That it could have been a lot of other ways. And we save that all the time. Like, oh, it could have been another way. No, it could have been a lot of other ways and we save that all the time. I could have been in another way. No, things could have gone another way, but the Lord has been with us. And has not been against us. You know what I'm saying? That I tell anybody all the time. That will take me away. The Lord being against you. Forget your boss being against you. Forget your mama, your daddy being against you. Another enemy on the street being against you. The Lord making it a point to be against you to oppose you. How could you ever win? You can't. The Lord is on our side. And that right there is enough. That's enough. Come on. He is on my side and not a, I praise him because he ain't against me. And I lift him up on high because he's with me. He's for me. He wants things to go well for me. And even in the midst of how stubborn and childish I can be when I don't get my way, he has such a better understanding of what's going on and it's so patient, merciful and kind. I don't have enough patience for somebody like me. Cause I'm sorry, what? You gonna get it added to with me cause it didn't work out for you and I'm trying to hold something back so they didn't won't hurt you, but you mad cuz it ain't happy Come on you hurt. Yeah, no matter the fact I'm gonna make it seem worse We got to be petty with it now Hello, man, cuz I won't let you play with fire you gonna get burned And I'm sitting up here having a whole temper tantrum cause you won't let me stub my toe. We be mad at God. We be mad at God. Mad. Just like you said a couple of minutes ago, I'm glad it did not work out. Glad, I remember I used to, there was a situation I was sniting, sliding down a wall behind something. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you. But it's only when we look back on those things, do we see that you really preserved? Do you really kept? And they think about how long you stay mad at him over a situation where it's like, I kept you. I kept you. They could have gone another way for you.

And you mad. Girl what? Girl for him. Dive beyond it. Dive beyond it. Girl please. Yeah. It's very interesting. And I just I wanted to do the episode because I just since there was a a need to encourage because there is a lot going on both in the world and in our lives, we're dealing with a lot of different things and so it can seem very easy to reach for the critique, to reach for the complaint. It's very, very easy because we have plenty of them and I'm not saying they're not valid, but it takes a little bit of extra sometimes to reach for that praise, but it's what we need because like I said, you can fall into that place and stay there or you can praise God because there's just so many different things that I talked about before in a previous episode. So many things you don't even know is happening that he's doing for you.

And to just acknowledge, like, Lord, thank you, because it wasn't me, it wasn't what I wanted, it was what you wanted. I couldn't even see beyond it. I was talking to my pastor, we were just, I was telling him about the engagement and all of that stuff. And we were just celebrating together because it's something that he wanted for me too.

And so we got to talking about how God will always have

something else for you. And I got to thinking about how just this is just one example of a previous relationship to this one. In a previous relationship, I love gospel music. Just as a person, I love gospel music. I'm not a get secular music, but I love gospel music, just as a person. I love gospel music.

I'm not a get secular music, but I love gospel music.

And in a previous relationship, this person told me

that I listened to too much gospel music.

He wanted to listen to other stuff, mind you,

we in my car, but nevertheless.

What was he?

Yeah.

And now I am with someone who loves gospel music as much as I do. When we go on a road trip, we'll listen to some R&B for sure, but we also will spend a good amount of time worshiping and he ain't telling me I need to change it. He not telling me I need to turn it down. He's not, we get to worship together. And I never would have imagined that being in a situation where somebody was telling me I actually was doing that too much. You know what I mean? And so it's the goodness of God, is that's something that I wanted? Didn't even know God had something better for me, and so he wouldn't even allow me to go in that direction. But it's just the goodness of God that sometimes he just has something better for you. He has something better for you. So even if it is like a place where you're feeling rejected, you're feeling abandoned, you're feeling like, Lord, what is it? Why can't I just get to the next step? Why isn't this working out for me? Sometimes the answer simply is he has something better for you. And that's a beautiful thing, but sometimes it's hard. It is hard getting to that better place and it takes having people in your corner to remind you of these things. Like I don't think it's strange that he would have it be oppressed upon you to talk about this, to talk about his business because somebody needs to be encouraged. Yes. You know, because it's very easy to get discouraged. Yes. Very easy to get discouraged. Sometimes we need a reminder and it's cool when somebody be like, yeah, I see why you mad. And that's the, but also we need to remind them, but the Lord is good.

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