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

Allie Yost. It is a joy and honor to be here with you guys. I love you so much. I love you.

I'm so excited to be here. We do have our coffee on ice. We do right here. A little ASMR for some of you.

Oh, it's just a vanilla latte. It's just a basic vanilla latte.

With oat milk.

Oat milk is a must for me. I know it's probably not the healthiest, but we love it. We have our Christ, we have our coffee on ice. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Guys, I am so excited for today. This is kind of funny. The reason why I think this is kind of funny is just because I'm like, God, I've already told this story before on the internet.

It was the first episode that we ever did for Christ with coffee on ice is sharing my testimony. And I just felt led to share it again. And I don't know if that's just because maybe there's a lot of listeners here that, you know, I don't know what kind, like how you guys listen to podcasts. For me, I don't go all the way to the beginning of the podcast I feel like that would be the right thing to do it's like if you're going to start a podcast you're going to start with ep one and make your way up but I actually go the other way I'll like start from the most relevant recent episode and then go down it's probably not right but that's just how I so I don't know how you guys are, but maybe there are some of y'all that are like that where you're like, honestly, I've really only been listening to you for the past couple months. I haven't listened to your first episode ever. And I do think that there's parts of my testimony that have evolved more. Like I shared my testimony of how I got saved by Jesus, but now I feel like there's more to my story with the Lord. Now that I've been walking with him for a bit longer

since the last time that I've... my testimony of how I got saved by Jesus, but now I feel like there's more to my story with the

Lord now that I've been walking with him for a bit longer since the last time that I gave my initial kind of outing story of like, this is how I found Jesus and this is how he saved me. But I felt led by Jesus to just share my testimony and my story with the Lord and how far he has taken me and where he's taken me from. So I don't know if that's something you guys are interested in, but I did feel

Jesus say that there's so much power in our testimonies. If you are a newer listener, I think it'd be really cool for you to know where I come from and that I just, I haven't always been this way. I haven't always had a Christian podcast. I was never on fire with Jesus and obsessed with him the way that I am now.

And my life looked really different even just a couple years ago. And so, yeah, I think it would be cool. It'll be vulnerable, but I'm excited.

And I just, I would love to share my story of what Jesus has done for me in the entirety of my life leading up to now.

I guess I can just start with how I was raised and my household

growing up. So I was raised Christian. My home believed in Jesus and believed in God. But one thing

that my house didn't have was it just there wasn't a whole lot of it. Like I love my parents and I

always want to honor them. And truly I believe the only reason I was ever able to find Jesus was because of the seeds of their faith that was planted in our home throughout my life growing up. But we definitely were not a super religious family. We just weren't. I don't know how many times I saw my parents open their Bibles. Yeah, there's no shame in that, but that's just the reality of my home growing up.

But we, you know, my parents taught me these nightly prayers that I would say before I would go to sleep and my parents would come in my room and they would pray it with me and I'd say, now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. The angels watch me through the night until I wake in the morning light, amen. And that's what I would pray every night. And then we'd say our

prayers at dinner too, which was God is great and God is good. And we thank him for our food. By his hands must all be fed. Thank you, Lord, for this daily bread. Amen. And we'd say that every day at dinner. So there was faith. You know, we celebrated Christmas and Easter. And we would go to church for those holidays, but going to church every Sunday

wasn't really a thing growing up. There were like cute little Sunday school things that my parents

had us be a part of when me and my sister were younger growing up. So Jesus was definitely in my

life. And I'm just grateful for that, like truly for any amount of Jesus to be in my life. And I owe my parents to that.

I am just so grateful for how much they did value the Lord. And yeah, so there was faith in my home,

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