I tell women all the time that that every door that God opens,
he closes some and we couldn't, we can't understand why, but
then he puts us in other places and the door opens and here's a
divine plan. And I tell people all the time
to make sure you're listening enough to God and not your.
We talked about that in Proverbs about trust the Lord with all
your heart. Lean not into your
understanding. Take out at him and you direct
your path. Well, look, he directs our path.
Sometimes we're off the we're off the path.
So he has to close the door to make a shift and go back where
we are supposed to be because that's where your blessings are.
That's that's where your Kairos moment is.
That's where the doors open for you is when we allow God's
present Holy Spirit to speak into our lives and listen
instead of talking studying on prayer a couple of days ago and
and I shared it with one of my classes and I was saying this
prayers communication and that's a two way St.
We can't say we prayed if we didn't let God talk.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you once again welcome to the Kingdom's
podcast. And today I'm going to meet a
very, very special guest fighting out of all of bomber
United States of America, America.
Doctor Iver Rod, how are you, Doctor?
I am wonderful and I'm under honored to be on your podcast
today. It's just been an adventure and
I've enjoyed every moment of it. Oh, wow.
I love and respect to you. Love and respect to you.
Yeah. Yvette Rice.
I know people have made that joke with your name, a lot of
rice. But I still eat rice today,
earlier today. So we cannot do without rice.
My last name, I rejoiced at it first I wondered about it when I
got married to my husband, but the word that word rice, if you
think about it, that is a food substance that is used all over
the world to feed exactly. And from a divine standpoint of
where God has aligned my life here I am I feed people all over
the world the word of God, which feeds the soul.
So there's a reason everyone's name and I'm even though now in
the South sometimes it's not pronounced rice.
Is rice my pronunciation in the correct way?
I I remember going to Jamaica and I think they call us the
Reese's, the Reese. Yeah, Reese.
Yes, thank you. This Reese.
But then you know he says good is just one syllable.
It's not Ademola. I've had so many variants of my
name that I don't even know what name is real any longer.
So I just tell people call me AI.
Look, that's my first name is Patty Muller.
My middle name is the CMS. So yeah, I love that Monica AI.
I've been around for a long time.
Exactly, now that your nieces are very popular, so that works.
That was right. Cool.
Somebody was was jealous of me recently goes like, oh wow, you
have such a cool Monica like like excuse me, I've had this
Monica all my life. I've always been AI.
I've always signed emails AI. But you guys did not get it
right. But now when I send my when I
send my emails, AI, you guys are.
You guys are raising eyebrows. Yeah.
Like, why? Why?
Yeah, I've always been AI. Wow.
It's just this stuff. Doctor Rice, you are many things
that of course, you feed many souls.
Right. And let's talk about ladies
living in victory. And excellent Is that life or
leave? It's live we're all about our
lives and so my the acronym for my company is LLVE, but we
pronounce it live. But it's ladies living in Victor
and excellence. I through my the path that God
chose for me from engineer to at home mom to back into the
marketplace as a program manager of a multi $1,000,000 contracts.
I noticed a pattern when it came to women in the marketplace
especially and industries that were male dominated and I also
noticed it in ministry. We've already discussed that I'm
way I'm double your senior so. Double my age.
I don't I don't understand the alignment right.
I am 33 or 60 exactly. So tell them what I told you
backstage. It's.
Almost. I'll leave.
It. I will leave it.
I will leave it to you. I will leave it to you.
Some people may say, well, it could be double trouble, but
we're going to say it's double victory because anytime, God,
I've spoke something twice, it happened immediately.
So that's the way we're going to look.
Once have I spoken, twice have I heard that all power belongs to
God. That's right about it. 33 + 66
is 99. Wow.
Another victory. So think about it, with my
generation of women and even in younger women when I came back
to the marketplace, things had not changed a whole lot when it
came to women in leadership or women in industries that were
male dominated. And I really felt the pulling
from the Lord to start live. But like I told you, I did not
start in obedience. I called it everything but
ladies living in Victory and excellence.
The acronym was the same, but I was saying learning to live in
victor victory and excellence. And you know how God can
reprimand us when we're not hearing his voice.
I finally, I finally got on my face and said, OK, God, I
surrender. I know the world's going to say
this is crazy. Why is she doing leadership
development and professional development for women through a
biblical lens? Because that's supposed to be
taboo to mix them, but I knew what the Lord was telling me.
That's when Ladies Living in Victory and Excellence was
rebirthed. And I started what's called the
Faith Field Executive Leadership Institute for Women and doors
Open, Things change. Because I saw so many women that
they wanted to combine their faith and trust in God and what
their marketplace assignments were, but they were a little bit
afraid to do it. And then I saw women who like
me, they left the marketplace to go raise a family.
And then when you come back after being away for a long
period of time or there's a gap, people treat you differently.
And so I wanted to encourage women to understand something I
had to. I remember the day when the Lord
told me that I had been away for 15 years.
Now I'm really about to date and you're going to laugh.
When I left, when I left the marketplace, there was number
that they were just starting to use computer aided design.
We were doing engineers with a draft court and AT square right.
I know you're thinking you have this dinosaur on your show, but
listen, we talked. No, no, no.
So, So what what I'm thinking is when I was at university, I had
a lot of architecture students. They were always carried the the
theme, the square at the at the bar.
They're all in like this. Exactly.
So here I am re entering the marketplace and I'm going into a
company. They hired me because I had the
background of the leadership and development and training because
they needed me to do technical leadership and training and our
team was overriding help menus for software that the government
had built in house. But I get there and I'm thinking
of all of the things that I have to overcome and I remember every
day I was a 25 minute drive and I remember every day going,
Lord, Are you sure? But I started realizing that as
I prayed and spent time with him in that 25 minute drive, the
Holy Spirit became my best friend.
You know, the Lord Jesus said I won't leave you orphan as an
orphans and John is a John 16. He said I'm sending you the the
Holy Spirit is coming the conference and that word
comforter means helper, teacher, God stand by.
He's everything we need. And so I started depending on
him every day that I went to that office and I'm leading this
team. And I just started realizing he
really is my helper, my comforter teacher.
It that word breaks down advocate.
So he'll even fight for you when you can't speak up, a fight for
yourself. And so I started realizing what
I call God empowered confidence. And that made me so bold and put
me in a place of leadership that I knew I wasn't supposed to keep
it to myself. And I knew there were other
women who felt like I did, who had to take gaps away from the
marketplace, whether it was to take care of a family member,
their parents, raise children, take care of themselves,
whatever it was that they could re enter the marketplace in a
place of power and confidence if they trusted God instead of
trusting themselves. So that's what Nevello became,
became. That's what it's all about.
Now we spoke a bit about the impact versus income conflict.
Yes, peak faith. All of us at some point face
that situation when it comes to your calling, meeting your
calling, or making a living. How difficult was it for you,
and how were you able to reconcile that conflict with
your own self? So, so it's funny you asked me
that question at this time. I remember when we stepped away,
when I stepped away the from the marketplace the first time, my
salary was more than my husband's and the insurance,
everything that we needed was set up within my my job.
I worked for the the government at the time that time too.
And but we prayed and God spoke to him and gave him peace for me
to walk away. And the day I did well when we
set the paperwork in process, it was amazing, but it was God.
His job started providing health insurance dental insurance eye
insurance and he his salary was doubled weeks before I was
supposed to leave. Now you know that does not
happen so with divine and event in the mid I wrote a book called
mountain movie made easy while I was away the first time and
something that God had to jump out on the page at me and I'm
I'm going the long route but I'm going to get to where we're
going to I'll try to shorten it down was in the scriptures.
It said that if we have faith as a mustard seed, then we can move
this mountain. And so I used to think growing
up that and I heard men and ministers say it, if we have
faith the size of but I went back and translated that and it
says as meaning like. And so God had me to study the
process of the mustard seed and it's in Scripture.
Jesus taught it in a in a biblical example where the seed
goes into the ground and it's so tight, but then it goes on the
stick, but it it branches and rises up so great that the fowl
and the birds of the air could have a home there.
So that meant that my faith may start off small, but I have to
digest the word of God, spend time with him in prayer to
develop it so that it can house what we need.
And so many times in my situation and in the battles we
face, where we have to decide whether we're going to listen to
God and follow his path, even if it means stepping away and
taking a lesser salary for our period of time or do it the
world's way. That's where our faith has to
grow. And like I shared with you
before we actually started recording, I remember the day
I'm whining and crying out to God about something.
Oh Lord, I need this, this and this.
And he goes, oh, so you the daughter that wrote mountain
move mate, he's a talking about faith.
And now you're whining to me. Why are you not trusting me for
you? And you know what I think many
times we forget how much God loves us.
And if we really understood how much he loves us, we would never
doubt anything that he wants us to do or ask for us.
Because remember, he wants he wants us.
He wants his best for us. So with that understanding that
He wants his best for us, why would he leave us in a situation
where we'll be denied everything that Christ died for us for?
So when it comes to faith, some of force have that faith as a
must secede and allow that faith to grow.
I remember the parable in the Bible.
You know, there are people with different kinds of hearts, the
rocky heart, the fertile ground. Right.
Some people, the seed Gemini, right?
Or how about wait for it, those people that take their mustard
seeds and sprinkle it on their McDonald's burger.
You know, I see the sprinkles, you know, on those burgers.
It's like some people, they just eat it up like they don't have
the time to invest that. And we have, we have a very
minor peak generation right now. We even the TikTok generation,
people have that cognitive bias. People have the recent bias.
People don't remember even things us by us last year, the
last thing that they saw. People don't even have good
attention span any longer and it's leading us into a faithless
generation. Right and.
If the last thing that is so, So what would you say to the next
generation of the leaders, you know, billionaires like that or
the Gen. Z and of course the upcoming
Gen. Alpha or 10 AI if you wish.
You know I I just. The Lord flashed before me, the
prodigal son. He thought he could have it
better by doing his own thing. He didn't need what his father
had for him. But the in in the middle of all
of that, his father never took away the blessing of the
inheritance. He gave him what he asked for.
And even though he went and squandered it and he ended up in
the hog pit, he ended up in a place where he realized, he
said, even my father's servants are doing better than me.
And so I think sometimes God allows us to stray or get in
positions or put a, he allows us to do our own thing, but he
keeps just enough cord on us. So at the right time and the
right moment, he could pull us back.
I mean, I lived that life when I went off to college, but we've
talked about Tuscaloosa, AL and I enjoyed myself.
I, I, I straight up did all of these things thinking I'm living
for God, but I'm really not living for God.
I could do my own thing and, and I had a, I've had a master's
role the moment right after I graduated.
In fact, I graduated in petroleum engineering and I did
not get a job because the oil industry plummeted.
I did not get a job for 12 months.
So all of these plans I had for myself, I was going to be on an
oil rig in Texas or Louisiana somewhere making all of these,
all these hundreds of thousands of dollars that was eventually
going to equate to millions. God had me and a place where I
had to come home and depend upon my parents again temporarily,
but He brought me to my knees just like the young man in the
hog pen. But what I would say to you, to
your generation and to those generations is this, remember
something, we may go out there and we may experience all these
things and think which we think in our own what we don't need.
You know, we, we have this place where we really don't need God
anymore. You'll come to that place where
you find out that you do. But know this, this the same way
the father with the prodigal son had his hands stressed out.
Why? To receive his son and give him
another inherited because remember, he squandered his
person. He gave him another inheritance.
So it's still waiting on you. The blessings, the benefits, the
promises, they don't go away just because we do.
We just have to find our way back to Him and realize
everything that we were chasing after is already waiting for us
if we go back to the One who created it for us in the first
place. It's really refreshing having
having leaders like yourself in this agent's time and you know
the Bible says something starting to show myself a
Workman that be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth right
finances something in this generation.
There are way too many. OK, how fixed Christians?
How fixed is even good, right? We're talking about Christians
like steaks, right? I like my steak well done, but
we have medium steaks and of course you have the rare.
But some, some people are like even uncooked steak.
They go all around misrepresenting the word
Christianity. You know, sometimes I even feel
ashamed identifying as a sister. Of course, there are certain
people who change Christianity to like a terrorist group or
terrorist affiliation. Yes.
They just toss it around and you, you don't even feel proud
any longer to identify Christian and people don't even realize
that Easternity means being Christian means Christ like.
Right. Somebody who goes to church a
lot, right? I know somebody that goes to
church a lot. In fact, two people who have
actually misbehaved terribly back in recent times.
And there was one who was involved in an altercation with
another person. And I told them, you go to
church a lot. I, I, for a long time, you know,
I've not really even stepped foot in church.
They want to judge a person like myself saying, oh, you don't go
to church. You're like the devil that knows
a lot of the Scriptures. But excuse me, but do you know
the Scriptures? You know what the Scripture
says? They come to you and tell you,
oh, my pastor said this. Who the hell is your pastor?
I don't care who your pastor is. I don't know who your pastor is.
What does Jesus say? And guess what?
This person was fighting with the other person.
And guess what this person said? The person said, I'm not going
to apologize, I'm going to fight.
OK, Excuse me. What would Jesus do in this
situation? Guess what this person told me
Jesus Christ said? An eye for an eye.
Excuse me, Jesus. Jesus doesn't say.
That was Moses, not Jesus. Right.
As I was like, oh, you don't go to church and you're telling me
what I'm like, Excuse me? Well, you can check it.
Just check it. You're fighting.
You go to church and guess what? This person told me I'm going to
go to church this evening and ask for forgiveness.
But to to know it's seeing and still do it is seeing when I
really started working on this platform for the Faith Filled
Leadership Institute and for what I do specifically where I
do leadership development for women through a biblical lens.
I did some research and just in the United States alone, there
were over there were close to 40 million women who identified
themselves as believers. 30% of them don't go near a church and
in our company, I mean, in our country, you know, right now,
Christianity is being weaponized.
And so right, so I'm your weird point of I don't, I say I'm a
believer. And it's, it's, you know, hard
to to see that there is no Christ likeness there.
But something that the Lord really put in my heart was this
you go be the light in the marketplace and teach them,
welcome them, let them come into a safe space and learn about me.
And then I reintroduce them to spaces where they can then can
go to. I'm not looking.
I don't I don't bring in anything political.
I just talk about being Christ like and living for Christ.
And so I think though, in fact the Bible tells us what in
Matthews 5 it says for us to go and shine and be a light.
That was funny, it wasn't my mind.
Let your light so shine that the world sees the glory of your
Father within thee. My favorite, my favorite version
of Matthew 5 is in the Message Bible.
It says, let me tell you why you're here.
Let me tell you why you even put on this earth.
You'll put there to shine so that the whole world can see the
glory of God. And So what we tried to make
Christ likeness be in four with the four walls of the church
instead of Christ likeness being out where the whole world can
see us. And that includes the
marketplace. I mean, he said, I'm sending you
to the highways and the byways. We're on the highway of the, the
Internet right now. And we're talking about the
glory of God and we're talking about purpose.
And that's what I, I want women to understand that even in the
marketplace, we have a marketplace assignment.
I think I'm fulfilling my marketplace purpose by what I'm
doing. And it's all leading back to
shining for the glory of God, but at the same time being a
light to some people who will never walk in the doors of a
church because of what they've seen there.
We have to go out to the world and be that light and shine.
For him, a city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
No one lights a candle and puts it on a bullshit.
I think that that that is enough food for thought, right Be that
letting hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church, yes.
So if word is enough otherwise right, that you know our people
are white. And whether you realize it or
not, what you're in a marketplace ministry, although
although you bring different guests and they're speaking
different things, your life is radiating all over the world.
And that's what we have to realize exactly is that the
places that God puts us, their strategic.
I tell women all the time that that every door that God opens,
he closes some and we couldn't we can't understand why, but
then he puts us in other places and the door opens and here's a
divine plan. And I tell people all the time
to make sure you're listening enough to God and not your.
We talked about that in Proverbs about trust the Lord with all
your heart. Lean not into your understanding
out of him and indirect your path.
What look, he directs our path. Sometimes we're off the we're
off the path. So he has to close the door to
make a shift and go back where we are supposed to be because
that's where your blessings are. That's that's where your Kairos
moment is. That's where the doors open for
you is when we allow God's present Holy Spirit to speak
into our lives and listen instead of talking studying on
prayer a couple of days ago and and I shared it with one of my
classes and I was saying this prayers communication and that's
a two way St. We can't say we prayed and we
didn't let God talk. So were we asking to?
Yes, one mouth for a reason. And as you can tell, I'm a
talker, so I have to reel myself in because he wants us to hear
him so much, because he has so much for us that we could miss
if we don't listen to him. I talk about this a lot.
There are 4 lines of skills, 4 lines of skills, listening,
speaking, read and write them. But a lot of people focus on
just a speaker in order to be a great communicator, getting to
master the world and professing life myself.
I'm grateful and really grateful being able to master all of the
four skills. And when I started out, this
whole podcasting journey back, I'm a CPA, right?
I'm an economist, a finance guy. A lot of people like, what are
you looking for in the world of podcasting?
You should have been doing this but.
I never worked at one day. I never worked one day of my
life in petroleum engineering. I graduated engineering that
that was the avenue to get me in that STEM industry.
I ended up working as a engineer.
When I did work for the government, I worked as a
mechanical engineer. Had nothing to do with
petroleum. I never got to be on one oil
tank tanker, not one time. Let me make you.
Let me make you feel bad. I'm going to make you feel bad
now. During my time at PwC, I audited
oil companies and yeah, I got to be on a couple of work time.
I'll make you feel bad right now.
I'm Shield. I'm going to do this.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry I have to do this, but I think that I
have, I have a picture where I was, I was the oil.
Oil week. Yeah.
Wow. Yeah, be be be being at the
already. And I am, yes, going to do that.
So I felt like I missed what I was supposed to be doing.
But I don't think so. I think the divine connections
and what we learned along the way lead us to where God really
wants to take us next. Because yeah, that humbled me.
It humbled me that I say 1212 months before I actually got
hired as an engineer and it moved back to my hometown.
So a lot of times our past, it is in our hearts do certain
things, but they lead or they connect to other things.
So So here you were an accountant on an oil rig.
Wow. So you experiencing, you
experienced something that I never had a chance to do.
And I thought, Lord, did I miss you.
I'm really supposed to be doing this.
But it was that was a place of development for me.
Those 12 months was a place of development and humbling for me.
And then in one day I went from waiting 12 months to in one day
I was going to take some mechanical engineering courses
and double my major. One day, first day of class,
gentleman walks up to me and say, Hey, don't you already have
an engineering degree? I'm going to bring your
application for the for the government and you fill it out
and and I'll turn it back in for you.
So this is that Monday of class of the first day of the week.
Maybe two days later, I bring it back to him.
The next day after me waiting 12 months, I get a telephone call.
Hey, can you come in for an interview?
I said sure. Next day go for the interview.
Been waiting 12 months. Remember, go in for the in and
they tell me, listen, we're going to send you to this
organization first if you don't like them.
Did you hear what I said? If you like them, come back.
We have a couple more places we can take you to and you'll have
the job of your choice before you leave here.
They got to the interviews like that.
So it was in that trusting in the Lord with all our heart
leaning not to my own understanding Now you know I've
been my understanding was God. I am being set up.
I'm waiting. I don't have a job.
All it is Why, Why, why, why? But he had a divine purpose in
it all. I didn't say that can only be
guarded as quite interesting. And I love what you said about
how God closed the second doors right.
In other words, setting all the doors to open.
And that is something I only say.
I don't understand why you are very much aligning with my
philosophies. You talk about having that light
and talking about me in the broadcasting industry, being a
ministry for me. And recently I celebrated
crossing the 100 country mark and becoming global top 2%.
Think about it, if I stayed back in the corporate world, who
would know me? Who would be impacted by the
work that I do? I didn't know like 100
countries. Right.
And even more than that is this. How many people would have
missed a message that they needed to hear on your podcast,
but you weren't in place for the guests that you had and the
people that had that you had and your voice, you weren't in place
for them to hear it. That's why it's so important for
us as children of God to make sure we are where we're supposed
to be when that moment comes, because others are going to miss
out if we're not there. Right.
It's right time doing the right thing.
Wow. So Speaking of impact, Speaking
of impact, anyways, like my friend who called me just before
we started the recording, we had that discussion earlier today
about the impact, right? Me being grateful.
I'm very big on gratitude because I think gratitude is
good attitude. And I was telling them I, I feel
very grateful, you know, for the impact I've been able to
achieve. And it's really interesting.
I need to play this one for them.
But I just see. Oh, she instructs on our
conversation from Ed today. You were listening to us without
our permission. That's divine intervention.
That's I'm laughing because even our entire the meeting, the
conversation, all of it has been a divine intervention,
intervention where God just aligns where we're supposed to
be or as we listen, we are obedient what he's telling us.
So I mean, he used us so many times to make impact.
And many times we underestimate the impact that God wants to
make through us. And it's a lot of times it has
to do with the people who knew us growing up are the people
that are around us. Remember, Jesus was, you know,
Jesus said. A prophet is without honor in
his own. In his own home.
So, so many times we minimize who we really are based on our
natural connections, because the people that we're naturally
connected to, like our families and our friends and the people
around us, they have minimized who we are not, not in a
purposeful, purposeful kind of way, but because they've seen us
in this ordinary life, They don't under or see the
supernatural life that God has established for us.
And so in these different spaces and, and you're in 100 countries
now they're going, wow, is this their camera?
Is this? Yeah, is it?
Is this? Is this man Joseph?
You know the mind. You know the one that it was
Joseph's, but we don't know. About that so.
We have to trust God in those processes of where He puts and
locates us because it matters. It doesn't.
Matter like it's the same guy I grew up with.
You know, I was in a place a few days ago when my husband, we
were at an organization for a dinner and the one of the women
asked, Oh yeah, she would go with me.
And I thought, boy, my life is so different from when I went to
high school, but that's what she remembered me from.
And so so we have to constantly remind ourselves of who we are
in the Lord and then don't worry about what they see us as,
because when the right time comes and God has elevated us to
that space that he wants us to be in, he'll remind the world
for you who you are. I love that and this speaks you
so better. I always say that human beings,
people, everybody listening to this part that don't care about
what people say. What is important is who you are
and who God says you are. Believe in yourself and believe
in your God. That's what really, really
matters. But people potentially for
validation. I believe for validation, yeah.
Like a lot of people say different is about me.
Like I'm tired, like I don't really care and I don't, I, I
try as much as possible not to let people change who I am.
Of course, if you're a kind person, yeah, people will test
you. That's where the God empowered
confidence comes in because if we try to live in our own, in
our own skin, in our own confidence, then we can distract
it or we'll we'll start to feel some sort of way about
ourselves. But when we allow the Holy
Spirit to remind us and what I call God empowered confidence,
man, we are, you know, it's not my business to worry about what
other people think. It's my business to think or the
word be concerned about what God thinks about me and who he told
me I was. You know, it's just like growing
up and and your parents and you had a question about, you know,
who you are and what you you would develop.
That's my, my, my family. I have a long lineage of
Macklin's in my family, my mother's side of the family.
And, and that was a strong lineage of women.
The women in our family were very strong.
And my grandmother only went through the 8th, the 8th grade
because in the United States at that time, because of the
desegregation and all those things, she was not able to go
any further than that in her education.
But she was one of the women who have started the 1st Girl Scout
Trooper organization in our city for for African American young
girls. And I look at that, she didn't
let what they thought about her stop her.
She knew what her mother had told her.
You are a Macklin and you can do this.
And it's the same way with us and God.
You are God's son. You are God's daughter and I've
given you the power to do this. Don't worry about what everybody
else is thinking about. Know who God says you are and
the Lord is telling us. Know who I say you are.
He says I say head and not to tell you on the top and not on
the bottom. I say you're blessed coming in
and going out. Everything you touch is black,
so why would you listen to the world?
Who's going to try to tell you you cannot be successful?
Wow, just want to like to know anytime I think about marketing,
I think far too big. So, but let's talk about leave,
right? So that honestly, yeah, anytime
God gives you a vision, God will make a provision.
Right. I want you to align with that
statement. God gave you that vision and of
course, interesting you have a passion for execution of that
vision. So how has the journey been?
What have been the provisions and what's the level of impact
you hope to achieve? And what's the level of impact
you have achieved thus far? Well, God has told me I will
make provisions for the vision, so I have to trust in him
absolutely. Even when I look at where I am
now and what He's promised me that it will be, I really have
to trust Him in faith. I think the impact that he's
allowing me to make as I reach out to women, it is now women
globally. And I actually ended up, I
checked a message from my podcast that I just launched.
In September and there was a message from someone in in India
and it was a gentleman actually. And he said, I love the way you
have incorporated leadership and business along with your faith.
Wow. That.
Sounds like messages that I get as well.
Right. And I'm like, Oh my God.
So so the impact is great. And, and The thing is that as,
as, as I continue to be obedient, you've got to open
more doors. He'll tell me, OK, I've got this
lined up for you and this is what I'm offering you.
It's just like when I was sharing about the, the 90 day,
and I mean, 90 minute intensive that I'm going to be doing or
I've started to do the second one is and probably be after
this podcast. But The thing is when he tells
me whatever rate to give, that's what I do.
And I have to trust him to make up the difference.
But he's also promised me some corporate accounts where I'll
actually go into an organization and speak into the lives of the
women there. And so I'm not concerned.
I used to be more concerned about it.
Now it's all on trust. I mean, I'm like Peter now we
are out there on, we're in the water, we're walking on the
water. We're just going to have to not
look down and just focus on the assignment.
And that's what I say to you. And in a lot of people out there
that are wanting to combine their faith with their business
side is focus on the assignment. Think that I will, I'll have, I
believe in my heart. There'll be 100,000 tuning in
women, tuning into women, the world in the marketplace,
because that's the that's my YouTube channel.
Women, the word in the marketplace.
And they're going to be listening and they're going to
hear their father's voice and they'll start saying, OK, this
will work for me. This will work for me.
I just, I just believe the impact is there.
In fact, I'm going to share an experience I had with you before
we close out. It was probably about a month
ago. No, it's maybe maybe six weeks
ago now. Now, if you could tell by my
background behind me, this is my office and everything's in all
in place. And what I saw, I'm really picky
about certain things. And, and the night it was on a
Saturday night, and I had dreamed about a woman who was
about to make a business deal. And in the middle of her going
to the deal, she knew in her heart she didn't have God's
peace about it, but she went anyway.
But when she got there, the people she's going to make the
deal with, it was almost like it was a shyster kind of back door
behind the scenes thing. And she got a revelation that
will not do it. And so she threw the briefcase
up. Money went flying everywhere and
she ran. And so when I woke up from the
dream, you know, I'm, I'm thinking about it the whole time
I'm getting ready for morning worship and I'm headed to our
church. And, you know, usually when I
speak online, I'm all got my little background and
everything's all neat. And I said, God, what do you
want me to do with this dream? I said, you want me to talk
about it tomorrow because no, you've got to say this now
because they're going to make that deal in the morning.
So I go live in my car on Facebook and I just say, hey, I
don't know who I'm talking to, but there's somebody out here.
And I shared the experience and I said, and I shared with them
that that God has a plan for you, but you're, you're trying
to make a deal and you don't have peace about it.
And, and I told him about the dream and what I saw and I said
the Lord said it's not him. And so I went live with it.
Well, probably within a 24 hour period, I had three different
women to message me and say thank you.
So we don't understand impact sometimes, and sometimes we have
to realize our impact. Sometimes we have to choose
impact and obedience over the money side.
And the money side will catch up to us because what does it say?
He first the Kingdom of God. Kingdom of God and every other
thing shall be added unto you. He added to me.
So if I seek His Kingdom and doing it His way and doing and
being obedient in my assignment, all the other things that we
desire, the big corporations, the employees, the people, the
reach is going to be added. But the key is seeking Him
first. So that's what live is all
about. So before we close, I'm going to
share a testimony with you as well.
So somebody sent me this. And by the way, back to that
same friend I was talking to, just shortly, this whole start
recording of that same friend told me something recently.
As I said, I'm going to be very, very mad at you.
I'm going to be very upset with you if I think what's talking
forecasting. You cannot afford to stop this
thing. This is your life.
This is what God has dropped you on earth to do.
Please don't have to think about it.
And the interesting thing is the very few times I've ever been
discouraged, you know, of course.
Yeah. The impact versus the income
thing. Right, Right.
Come on. You're very talented.
You know something else then just drop this.
Probably a distraction. Somebody from somewhere in the
world will always just pop up on social media, Instagram or
LinkedIn, TikTok, and send me a message.
This one came sometime earlier this year and I'm going to read
this right. Hello, Atimola.
How are you doing? I recently started listening to
your podcast and I'd like to mention that you are doing a
great work. I also like that you make a
reference to this creature in your conversations.
Hey so for me for me I'm grateful grateful that I'm
gathered in the word of God. You know been able to study to
show myself a food to work by the end of the year she and
actually means a word of two and yeah I'd like to end with Psalm
chapter 24 not who shall I send into the gill of the Lord either
have clean hands and a pure heart, but belief that of the
soul on to vanity a sworn the situation he shall read the
benefit of the salvation of the law.
This is the generation of the basically that Facebook Jake up
you tuck your head when you get something you doors and you just
think of glory, but not of course you tuck your head or you
get something you do check the other last indoors anything with
glorious farming. He was a king of glory.
Do not fight him at all. He's a king of glory say a lot.
So for me to you, it's a very, very big thing for you.
I obviously use an attitude of gratitude as good attitude and
any kind of person shares their time with you to share their
life with you because the S like the information of life this
time. So for me to you to love and of
course, massive respect. Did you have any last words to
say to the world? First of all, seek His Kingdom
first and everything else will be added.
And if he, if He wants to use you to be a light in the
marketplace, don't be afraid. Just trust Him to put you at the
right place at the right time. He'll make all the provision and
He's giving you, and I'm speaking to the ladies, there's
some of you. He's given you witty inventions
and ideas to launch your companies, but you've been
afraid and now is the time here. And so clearly now is the time
for God's daughters to rise up in the marketplace.
There's so many women in the Bible that you could read about
who actually had businesses. So it's time for you to run and
be obedient. And to you, I am so honored to
be on your podcast and the light that you continue to share and
bring. I just think I thank God for
what he's doing through you. And it's not like you're
reaching generations from the top to the bottom.
So know that it's not just one generation, is many generations.
Yeah, and I'm grateful that I'm in the middle.
I'm a millennial, you know, I'm a millennial.
So it's yeah, you can go up and you can go down, like easily.
They can relate. Yeah, absolutely more.
Especially Gen. Z&J Alpha, those guys that
difficult, they are difficult to deal with, but I love them.
I love them. Sad out to.
Keep being a lot sooner later they're going to catch the fire.
Just keep being a lot. Whoa, and of course from me to
you guys, it is always good for something in your life, right?
Conceive, believe, strive to thrive and achieve so that come
your way next, keep the fire burning.
God bless you guys. Bye bye.