Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of Christ with coffee on ice. I am your host,

Ali Yost. It is a joy and honor to be here with you guys today. How is everybody doing?

Happy Friday. We have our coffee on ice. We do, but first and foremost, we do have our Christ.

We have our Word of God here with us today. Yeah, I'm really excited for today's episode, you guys. Okay, listen, I'm not a counselor. Um, I'm not a therapist. But this episode is definitely kind of giving therapy, I guess, or just, I don't know, just sister to sister or sister to brother. We're going to talk about some things. And I really just want to speak from a place of testimony, okay? And I really, I try my best to honestly only ever speak from that place

because, yeah, I mean, I try my best to honestly only

ever speak from that place because, yeah, I mean, I can only really talk about the things that

the Lord has shown me, taught me, walked me through, right, when it comes to just, you know,

anything that I could bring here to the podcast. I always want it to come from a place of experience

rather than just talking about something without,

I don't know, really having wisdom. And the definition of wisdom is when knowledge is applied to life.

Right. So this really is coming from a place of wisdom that was provided by Abba. He gave me the

knowledge. And so we've applied and we've learned and we failed but we've also won and yeah I'd love to

just talk about it with you guys and share like what I've walked through and what I've truly learned

when it comes to healthy godly relationships and this doesn't always have to be romantic I feel

like we love to jump to that which is exciting and fun and feel free to do that because it does, what we'll talk about today absolutely applies to romantic relationships.

But a lot of these lessons and these things that I've learned have also totally applied to platonic relationships and friendships.

So today we're going to talk about what a healthy relationship is. I feel the like sponge bomb.

I've done that before. The rainbow with the sparkles. Okay, but healthy relationships. And I really believe that

the only way we can actually have healthy relationships with one another within the church,

whether it's romantic or platonic, is when God is at the center of it.

And so with everything that we talk about today, I think it'd be really cool for us to say, is this what God does with us? And I think that's a really good way to discern whether you're actually like operating in a place of true love, which we talked about a few weeks ago on the podcast. I don't know when it was, but we did. we talked about, you know, the definition of true love and what love really is.

And love really only comes from the character of God. It's who he is. Some of it will probably tie into that a bit. But yeah, I think that the healthiest way to do that is to be like, is this, you know, with each thing we talk about. Be like, this, yeah, this sounds familiar. this is actually something God would do with me, or I've experienced the Lord extend to me, you know?

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