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

Ali Yost. It's like really hard for me to get any words out right now because I am smiling so big.

You guys have no idea how grateful I am to be here with you all today. It's been a minute for me

personally with just being in the studio. It's been so long and it feels so good to be back.

It feels so good to be back on this couch. We have our coffee on ice, of course, right here in our handy-dandy little CW-C-O-I glass Tumblr cup. I love her. We always have the other one displaying behind me too. They are still available as well. If you guys ever want to match with me, they're still on our site with the rest of

the merch. Gorgeous, splendid, scrumptious. Next, we also have... Wait, that coffee's really good, actually. I got it from Starbucks today. And I don't even know, what did I order? Some type of cinnamon something, and it's actually really... I'm taking another set. That's really good. Yeah, that's gorgeous. Okay, what a good day. And of course, first and foremost, above all else,

we have our Christ. We have our word, which we will be reading today, because I told you guys in the last episode, we were starting 2nd Corinthians, and so we are going to continue 2nd Corinthians. I don't know if we're going to finish. This might be something that you guys will have to do on your own with the Lord, and the Holy Spirit finishing 2 Corinthians, but we finish the third chapter. So we're going to pick up in chapter four. Obviously, per usual. I mean, this is something that we do on the podcast here. If you're new, we will just simply sometimes read scripture. I don't know. Sometimes I'll pop in and I'll have a little commentary if, like, I feel something's like a little revelation has happened. Other times we just read right through it. Yeah, this is life. This is life and I'd love to read it with you guys. So if you're in a place to sit down and study this and read along, I think that would be the best. But if you're not, I'm happy to still just read it to you. If you're going on a little walkie poo or you're in the car or you're just not in a place where you can actually read your Bible. Oh, I brought something. Actually, show and tell. Can I show you guys something really cute and fun? Hold on. Just because we're on the topic of the Bible, I have to show you guys this, okay? You guys are my family. I don't know. I just want to show you guys all the new things that happened in my life and all the little things that I get. So it was my birthday, like, I don't know, a couple months ago. And my sister sent me this care package. She

lives in New York. I live in California. So we do the longest distance ever for sisterhood. My sister Ashley, I love her so much. I have a best friend named Ashley and then I have like a blood sister Ashley. She's my one and only sibling. I'm obsessed with her. I would literally die for her. She's the best person in the world. Anyway, she sent me this care package for my birthday, for my 30th birthday. Obviously everything that was in my care package had to do with Jesus because she's just the best and she knows how much I love Jesus. So one of the things that she put in this care package, and I've been saying I want one of these, is a little tiny, look at the, no, look at this little tiny Holy Bible. Do you see how little and it is? I mean, it's giving like size of hand. And I wanted a Bible this compact and small so I could just put it in my pocket at all

times because obviously too big. And then I have my other travel Bible too that's like yay big,

but still not pocket size. And so it's ESV and it's the New Testament and then the Psalms

and Proverbs. So New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs is what this is. I'm just obsessed with it. Look how cute it is. I think she said that she got it off of Amazon. So I don't know. If you guys are wanting a little mini travel, pocket-sized Bible, I think you can just go on Amazon and say pocket-sized Bible. I don't know. But shout out to my sister Ashley. I love you so much, Ash. Thank you for my little

tiny Bible. I'm so excited and proud of it that I had to show all my friends on the podcast. So, there it is. Anyway, back to what we were going to do. We're going to read Second Corinthians, starting in chapter four, okay? Little rundown on my Bible. I know I do this a lot, but if we have any new listeners. Hi, this is my Bible. I am reading the NLT translation. I also got my Bible from Hosanna Revival. They're the best. I shout them out every time. I'm obsessed with them. They create the most beautiful Bibles and journals and just things that you can use even for studying. And I have a code with them so you guys can use it. It's just my first and last name, Ali Yost. They're the best. They're the best. You should totally support them. Okay,

so let's dive into it. Do we all have our Bibles now? I'll give you guys a couple seconds.

Are we there? Cool. We're going to start at the top. Second Corinthians. Chapter 4, verse 1.

Therefore, since God in his mercy has given us this new way, we never give up.

We reject all shameful deeds and underhanded methods.

We don't try to trick anyone or distort the word of God.

We tell the truth before God and all who are honest know this.

If the good news we preach is hidden behind a veil, it is hidden

only from people who are perishing. Satan, who is the God of this world, has blinded the minds of

those who don't believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the good news. They don't

understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God. You see, we don't go around

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