Walk It Out Inspirations
Walk It Out inspirations explores physical steps to achieve and overcome challenges or take action to move forward despite obstacles or setbacks with the goal of motivating, empowering, and inspiring listeners to take steps toward their personal growth and success through practical tips, strategies, time management, and other skills. Episodes feature interviews with individuals from a variety of backgrounds that share stories of triumph and truth that offer diverse ranges of perspectives and ideas.
Walk It Out Inspirations
Navigating Life's Storms: Crafting Strong Relationships and Divine Intimacy Through Love and Communication
Embark on an enlightening exploration of the threads that weave the tapestry of our relationships, with the guidance of Apostle Sharon, whose sage reflections from her 'Relationship Chronicles' offer a roadmap to nurturing connections that can weather life's storms. Her seasoned insights illuminate the journey toward building wholeness within ourselves and our relationships, emphasizing the transformative power of divine guidance. Discover how embracing patience and understanding can help us navigate the complex challenges of domestic violence, and learn why honest communication is the cornerstone of any bond, be it with partners, peers, or family members.
Feel the embrace of healing as we unpack the Shiloh Experience, a life-altering event that promises more than just words—it's an immersion into the profound depth of "I am" declarations that shape our destiny. Experience the catharsis of releasing offense through forgiveness, guided by the nurturing force of love, and grasp the importance of acknowledging our spiritual essence over transient emotions. Apostle Sharon's wisdom, paired with personal anecdotes, sheds light on the path to spiritual and personal breakthroughs, inviting you to experience the power of presence, awareness, and connectivity.
As we close this chapter, let's contemplate the sanctuary our relationships can become when built upon a foundation of strong communication. The soulful blend of mind, will, and emotions, bridled by spiritual insight, erects a fortress where connectivity is the bedrock, God the steadfast door, and love the sheltering roof. For those yearning for a divine connection or a renewed bond with the Creator, we open the door to confession as the gateway to a fulfilling relationship with God, underscoring the enduring nature of spiritual metamorphosis. Join us on this voyage of self-discovery and divine intimacy, where every step taken in truth and wisdom leads to a richer, more resilient communion with ourselves and the world around us.
Relationships are a part of the beauty blocks for healthy life and spiritual growth. God uses relationships to help move us farther into our destiny and to help us grow in. Christ. Healthy relationships are not found but built. A healthy relationship needs commitment and willingness to be accommodating to each other's needs. Marriage is more than a physical union. It is also a spiritual and emotional union. According to Ecclesiastes 4, verse 9, two are better than one, two are better than one. So therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate Kingdom marriage in its purpose.
Speaker 3:Kingdom marriage in its purpose. Well, hey, everybody Good afternoon everybody.
Speaker 2:Thank you guys for joining in.
Speaker 3:Listen, we had a phenomenal time last week when we discussed the topic can two broken people come together and build a whole relationship? Now I know we were a little bit transparent and open, not even a little bit. We kind of shared our foundation and our relationship and said, yes, it is possible. But then we got to thinking and we got to talking and we realized, yeah, we was transparent and we told everybody how it happened between us and we're prime examples. But they say his word says that we perish due to lack of knowledge. So we need to share with you guys some of the components. What is the key factors of building a whole relationship? What does that look like? Even coming from a broken person, what does that look like? How do you aim towards that goal of building a whole relationship? Not just a relationship where you got your boo thing, you got your spouse, but just relationships in general co-worker, church members, family members. We got to know these foundations. Ain't that right?
Speaker 2:That's correct.
Speaker 3:So the main thing that we said we want to talk about and I'm so super excited because we got a special guest that's joining us to talk about this Let me just tell a little bit about her, but before I do that, you know I don't do nothing without the Holy Spirit, right?
Speaker 2:I led the first time- we have to open in prayer. We thank you, Lord, for this time together we thank you that it would be you that it would be conducting this show today. Let it accomplish what you set forth for it to accomplish. Lord. Let all minds and hearts be clear, and we do this humbly in Jesus name. Amen. And we can now open. Amen, amen Thank you, I'll be better next week.
Speaker 3:Y'all. He don't like to be put on the spot, but you know that's what a wife does. Kingdom wife, they push their husbands. That's what we got to do, amen.
Speaker 2:The Holy Spirit knows.
Speaker 3:So we are going to talk about communication. Yes, I feel like that's the foundation of every relationship. That's why we starting off there. There's other key components and you might hear them along the way, but you know what I also want to go into.
Speaker 2:What? Because there's a bunch of Cs.
Speaker 3:I know, but within communication the key pillow talk.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:I definitely want to go into talking about pillow talk, because I feel like society has perverted that term pillow talk.
Speaker 2:Right, but that's in the context of couples right.
Speaker 3:I mean yes, no, not really. I mean they perverted it when it comes to couples. But what we're going to shine a light on is pillow talk is not just for couples, that's true, and it's not just about the setting.
Speaker 2:What it sounds like, pillow talk Right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we're going to go into that. So, first and foremost, I definitely want to welcome, I guess, apostle Sharon Listen y'all yes let's please.
Speaker 3:Y'all have not been following the sweet roles of Sharon on Facebook or not even following her. Let me tell y'all something. Listen, this woman of God is phenomenal and she has. It's called Relationship Chronicles. Listen y'all, she be dropping them, gems. I'm trying to tell you. She be having me run all around my house every time I read, because it'd be some good, good stuff, invalid information that will help you along the way about relationships. She speaks hashtag facts. She speaks the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I love apostle sharon. Let's talk about this. This relationship chronicles. I just like the title, okay.
Speaker 2:That's your introduction.
Speaker 3:Yes, okay, it is. Listen, it's so much, to be honest, to unfold. All right, it's a whole book.
Speaker 2:I'm excited to get into the wisdom.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Let's get it. Let's get it.
Speaker 3:Let's dive in. Let's talk about the Relationship Chronicles. Tell me more about Relationship Chronicles.
Speaker 4:Well, hello everyone and hello to this wonderful couple that's doing this awesome podcast, and thank you for allowing me to come and share and to just get my perspective as it relates to relationship. Relationship Chronicles is just something that the Lord just drops in my spirit to share. I've always loved the concept, the idea, the premise, the covenant of relationship, especially man-woman relationship, but not just man-woman relationship, but all relationships in general, because I do believe that God created us as beings in the earth to relate. He gave us dominion over animals and creeping things and all of that, but our dominion is over things in the earth, not humans in the earth. So that means that we have to relate to one another.
Speaker 4:So my relationship chronicles is just, you know, whatever I'm waking up to, that God is dealing with me as it relates to relationship. A lot of times it's man, woman, sometimes it's, you know, a mother to her child, sometimes it's a leader to the sheep, or those that they are covering or those that they are spiritually leading. Whatever it is, there is a relationship. I mean, the Bible just tells us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. So even if there's a relationship with our neighbor, the mailman, anybody there's varying kinds of relationships and I just like to talk about them. So those are my relationship chronicles.
Speaker 2:Right and basically, whoever we communicate with, there is a relationship to be established there. With whoever we communicate with, there's always a chance for a relationship with whoever we communicate with.
Speaker 4:Whoever we communicate with and whoever we commune with, with amen, right, right God. You know he wanted to be in relationship with you, know mankind, and so he would come in the cool of the day and that was a communing time, you know. And so, even as husband and wives or families or things like that, with our kids, people of our household, we're communing. We should be at least one another, and communing does involve communication, absolutely. Communication is a must and communing, you know, we commune together.
Speaker 3:Yeah you know, that's amazing, that that's amazing the things that you share, because it draws me to two questions. It draws me to two questions. The first question is when I hear relation, you hear relate, and then communication, you hear communion commune root words. Right. So Is it fair to say, or is it fair to ask do you have to relate to an individual in order to even open up or begin a relationship? Like, what is the foundation of starting a relationship?
Speaker 4:I definitely believe that there has to be. See, when I think about relate, I think about a connectivity. It's got to be some connectivity. I mean we can relate with pets, we have relationships with pets, and so even with our children, how we relate or that place of connectivity with the child differs in how we relate or connect to our spouse.
Speaker 4:And I believe that every relationship needs a point of connectivity. I'm a counselor, so I do a lot of premarital counseling. I do marital counseling and I'll ask people you know they meet somebody well what are your points of connectivity? Because if you lose points of connectivity, guess what happens? You lose relationship. So that means that if we have no points of connectivity, we will sit in a room and say nothing. How many couples do you know that we're in the same house? We pass each other like ships in the night. Yes, points of connectivity. The guys that's in the man cave with the husband of the house, these guys have points of connectivity. Perhaps they all like sports, right, they got the same conversations. They like talking about the same thing. So it's got to be points of connectivity. So I ask couples a lot, man and woman what's your point of connectivity?
Speaker 2:That's a good question. What's your point of connectivity man and woman? What's your point of connectivity? That's?
Speaker 4:a good question.
Speaker 2:What's your point of connectivity? That is a good question because, yeah, in order to maintain that relationship, there has to be something there, multiple points. Sometimes it's the kids, but let's say they don't have children. So, there has to be some point of, like she said, some point of connection, of relation there to keep that line of communication open.
Speaker 4:Keep that line of communication, keep that line of relatability. Maybe we both like talking about current events, maybe we both are political buffs and so we meet at that point. So what is the connectivity? Maybe we both like to golf, maybe we both, you know, we worship together, pray together and all that. Believe it or not, that's just not automatic with couples.
Speaker 3:That's good. Listen, we're talking about connectivity. This is kingdom marriage in its purpose we have.
Speaker 3:We are the purpose couple and we have our special guest we. We want to ask you, apostle shan, because you you dropping some good gems, listen, those that just joined in. This is kingdom marriage in its purpose. We are the purpose couple. Right now we're dealing with can two broken people come together and build a whole relationship? Right now we're dealing with can two broken people come together and build a whole relationship? Right now we're dealing with the foundation of the components of building a healthy relationship and what it takes to build a whole healthy relationship. So let's go back into the connectivity. Sir, you said you had a question. I'm curious to hear this question.
Speaker 2:I wanted to share her wisdom on the subject of people that are broken. How that communication? How do you, if? How do you establish that connection, people that are broken, that want to try to come together. Is there a way? Is there even a way?
Speaker 4:Well, okay. So I think you're talking about, in this instance more so, a man-woman relationship. Correct, yes, and so, yeah, there is a way that perhaps seems right to a man, but it often leads to some form of destruction in the relationship. So let's think about it like this To make a whole, it takes two. To make a whole, these two shall become one, stay flesh. Now, that's interesting, two becoming one. And so one would think, oh, well then why is it not a half and a half? Wouldn't that make one? But it's something very supernatural about God that he takes one, he takes a two and turns and he fuses it into one synchronized flesh, doing things in unity and harmony, and all of that.
Speaker 4:How can two walk together unless they be agreed? We need to think about is this Can broken people come together, or fragmented people come together, or half a person come together? Sure, they can come together, but what will the health of that relationship look like? Will that be a whole relationship? Probably not. There's going to be some parts that are missing. That should be a part of the connectivity to make the whole. But you got something missing on your end and I got something missing on my end, so we can't quite make a whole connection there, that therefore communication is off and all of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4:So let's look at how God did it. So God decided to make mankind, and we know that wrapped up in mankind was two kinds male and female, right, right. So what did God say? He made a clarion call for us. Let us make man, let varying dimensions of myself be involved in the making of mankind. So well before there was a let us versus a let them, you know a them there was a us, there was the dimensions, all the dimensions of God in being him, jesus, the Holy Spirit, us coming together to make the specimen of mankind. That had male and female. So I believe that what makes for a whole relationship is each entity of the relationship, the male and the female spending that time where God is making us.
Speaker 2:That's interesting because the triune being part of it should be also incorporated into uh, into our, our human relationship. Yes, believe, that's true.
Speaker 4:Yes, we I need. Before God brought forth Eve to the man he had, did some work with the man.
Speaker 4:He had the man. He had placed the man. He had placed the man. He had given the man some, some do's and don'ts and all of that. He had set him where he needed to be in the garden. He positioned him, and all of that. I'll say, if God has not, if God, if the man has not had that time with God, then yeah, he should be left alone. Because you know, I might say it's not good for man to be alone, but that is a man that has been worked on by God, has been positioned. He's ready to now embrace that part of him he's ready to embrace. But if he hasn't, and then you haven't been built as a woman to last and not just perform. I'm a woman that was built to last, not a woman to just perform. So when we come together and we got missing pieces in all of that, it makes the work a little bit harder in trying to make the relationship whole. If I'm not whole, you're not whole. You know we're on the struggle bus a little bit.
Speaker 4:And I'm not saying that you know, everybody knows this, you know this revelation. But we get together and that's why we need the wisdom of God, the counsel from God, the multitude of counselors to preserve the purpose of the people getting together. But it could be a work in progress. You know it's a work in process, I should say a work in progress. You know it's a work in process. I should say a work in process and a work.
Speaker 2:It's a work, at least he used to always say, about the three Stranded cord To a relationship.
Speaker 3:So what? I will always share with him and I still share to this day that three stranded cord Starts with you first, individually, before it goes into an actual relationship. Because, just piggybacking on what you're saying, god deals with the individual first. And that was the thing, guys, between my husband and I. Yes, god had him to to come connect with me. We crossed paths and the connectivity was business. That was the beginning of our connectivity. It was business. That's what connected us together. We were both business minded people trying to go in the same direction, both trying to build up nonprofit organizations to assist others out there. That was our key. That's what opened the door, because the lead already knew on my end, if there was no connectivity, I did not want to be bothered with you, especially if you were a man.
Speaker 4:And that opened up the communication. Yes, because you could talk business.
Speaker 2:Correct.
Speaker 4:Yes, business, and you expand it from there. But it has to be some point of connectivity in order for us to even initiate a relationship.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you said that led into the relativity.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Relativity.
Speaker 3:Because, honestly, as it opened that door, it opened that door of communication where, as we communicated and got to know one another more and more, we realized, hold on, we got a lot more connections than just business. Hold on, wait, you lost somebody, I lost somebody too, you have this, I have this too. So it kind of started to build things Now, him and I. It took us three years and it was fine because God was building him as God was also building me.
Speaker 2:God's timing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was all in God's timing, and I just find it and, honestly, this revelation just dropped on me just now. It took three years. When I think about that, three, that's the triune number. That's the number you know, that's one of the perfecting numbers. So it was in God's timing of us saying I do, of us deciding okay, yeah, you're my husband. Oh, yeah, you're my husband. Oh, yeah, you're my wife. So, with that, though, we were broken. We did not try to rush into anything or force anything on one another. We understood where each other was at. Going back to what we discussed in the first episode, we put our guns on the table and we let each other know this these are my triggers right here. Yeah, you push that trigger, a bullet's coming out, this gun, and I can't, I can't tell you where it's going to hit. It might hit your heart and, I apologize, you might bleed a little bit more, but I, you, I forewarned you, I told you, I notified you.
Speaker 2:So yeah, they're putting the guns on the table thing. It was very, very important In our case that putting the guns on the table thing is very, very important.
Speaker 3:In our case that was really important.
Speaker 2:So I hope that other people see that as well because, yeah, that transparency, that putting it on the table where you're at you, if you have the trust to do that, then, yeah, you have a foundation, you can build a foundation.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think that was great, that analogy that you use by putting the and let me add this loaded gun, yeah, on the table. The loaded gun because the variables of life and experiences, especially negative experience in life, is what loaded the gun. You didn't try to hide the weapon. You didn't put it at your foot and covered it up with a jacket at your waist, you put the guns on the table. These are loaded weapons and the trigger is. The triggering is what will fire the weapon and possibly hit you in an insulting or hurtful way.
Speaker 4:And what I'd like to say, one of the prophetess that was on my live, our Sunday live, said this. She said wholeness is not a destination, it's an awareness. That's good.
Speaker 4:And so you guys were aware of where you were less than whole. It's all in this gun. It's loaded. I could fire off my mouth at any minute, at any minute, because these are areas where I'm not whole. And so you just look at all of the areas where you're fragmented as bullets in the gun. How many rounds can you fire? My God, I got 10 rounds in this gun.
Speaker 4:So when you put the guns on the table and you step away from them, being vulnerable, being transparent- it lets him know what he's dealing with it, lets you know what's, you know what kind of ammunition he got in his gun. Right, that's great, right there, because that means that, uh, wholeness, you are aware, I'm aware, and and you can't be whole unless you're aware of where you're fragment.
Speaker 2:That's right. No surprises. These people come up with this, saying about red flags and everything no, no surprises, no surprises.
Speaker 3:We're back. Oh my goodness, this is listen. The fire has picked up.
Speaker 2:Thank you again for being with us, apostle Sharon. Yes, my goodness, this is listen. The fire has picked up. Thank you again for being with us, apostle Sharon.
Speaker 3:Yes, my God, my God from Zion, my God, this is getting good. We last left off. We talked about awareness. Listen, I hope y'all taking notes of the one word God said all you need is just one word, because the one word holds so much power. Listen, so far we dealt with communication, we dealt with connectivity. Now we went into awareness.
Speaker 3:My God, listen, I don't want to go into this awareness, because what came to me was in order to be aware of what's in the gun, one must first be self-aware. That's self-awareness. You have to be real with yourself. If you're in denial of the type of bullets that's in your gun, how can one? It's impossible. It's impossible to sit there and say this is what's going on, this is what I have in my gun, if you're not in a place of being honest and real with yourself. So let's talk a little bit about the bullets that's in the gun. What types of bullets that can be loaded in the gun? Domestic violence being one that's like the number one, I believe majority of the women. Their gun is fully loaded with domestic violence.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:From relationship to relationship, whether it's parental relationship to boyfriend, relationship to any type, and because there's multiple layers of domestic violence. You have verbal abuse. There's multiple layers of domestic violence. You have verbal abuse, you have emotional abuse, you have physical abuse, you have mental abuse. That adds up, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So I want to talk about that. How does one get to a point OK, you get a connection with someone, there's a connectivity, right. However, you're still not fully transparent with your own self, you're still not real with yourself, you still haven't gone through the full process of self-awareness. So how does one get to that point, once they've connected with somebody, if that's possible?
Speaker 4:Oh, it's very possible, it's very doable, and all of that being self-aware. Self-aware is not blank, that's first of all. Self-aware is not blank. Self-awareness is not pinning the tail on the donkey of somebody else doings.
Speaker 4:God wrote all that stuff down of what was done to you, who left you, who didn't take care of you, who lied to you, who cheated on you. You're not self-aware if you come in talking in another relationship and you're bringing all of these things about what the other person did to you, what your mama did to you, what your daddy did or what your you know how your kids don't respect you or how the last man or your husband or your wife did these things. Self-aware says this this happened to me and this is how I was left feeling it. Internal things. Once you become self-aware, you stop playing the blame game. You know what this stuff happens to me. Listen, it will be.
Speaker 4:If I got shot in my arm and I go to the hospital, there's a the police are going to deal with who shot me, but the great physician is going to deal with the injury in my arm. So when I am aware, I'm not just aware that you shot me, I'm aware that you shot me, I'm aware that it left me injured in some way. My goal is to get in a place of where I can be healed and then go into recovery. And self-aware says you know what I like you and I know you like me, but I want to be honest. I'm going to let you know this gun that's on the table. You know, I'm still carrying the wounds of my past and it's not a scab yet. It's not. It might be a scab, but it's not a scar yet, which means that re-injury could take place because scabs can come off and you'll bleed again, but once it becomes a scar, it no longer hurts.
Speaker 4:And so this is what self-aware is it's, it's, it's. I refuse to continue to blame, but I take responsibility of where I am now, what it did to me and how I'm. I want to let you know I am on the road to recovery and again I like you and I know you like me.
Speaker 2:Now, why can't we all just get along?
Speaker 3:Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends?
Speaker 4:Why do people don't like people? You know what I'm saying, but I got my eye on you and I know you like people.
Speaker 2:My goodness, that sounds like wisdom was more prevalent. I mean, my goodness, that sounds like some adult talk right there Listen.
Speaker 3:I'm so proud of us, babe, because that's everything we do. I like it.
Speaker 4:You like it because you got a little womb. You know you're liking somebody, you still feel good. Let's put it all together in its right, in its right perspective, right pockets.
Speaker 2:Too many people use that to push the other and it ended up pushing people away.
Speaker 3:It does. It does Because, honestly speaking, just being transparent within our marriage, even while we were friends, the reason the Lord allotted the reason the timing was three years because he knew I was bitter. He knew I was broken beyond broken, like my pieces, was a thousand piece puzzle. It was no four piece puzzle. So he knew the abuse that I had gone through. He knew the trauma that I dealt with from childhood on up. He knew these things. He knew I had rejection issues. He knew I had love issues and trust issues. So, with that him knowing, I thank God for his patience because he was still gentle with me. For his patience because he was still gentle with me. He was willing, he still saw fit, because he saw beyond my almost like how Ruth did Naomi she saw beyond her bitterness.
Speaker 4:Yes, and you still liked him yes.
Speaker 3:I did.
Speaker 2:Although I tried to act like I did it. She said I thank God for his patience. I thank God for his patience. Let's thank God for his patience.
Speaker 3:You know. So, with that, that self-awareness is so important because, honestly speaking, even after we jumped the broom and said I do, I still had some of those rules. Just being transparent, there was a time I realized I had to learn how to be affectionate again. He just came behind me to give me a hug and I blacked out and went off. Get off me, Don't touch me like that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that was a trigger for you that was a trigger for you.
Speaker 3:And when I realized he backed off and he understood because of what he knew, what I had gone through and everything, and I was like, oh my god, I still need help with this well, because the guns were on the table, we did.
Speaker 2:that was the reason why I could be like okay, you know, I understand, but see, that's why it's important, because if not, I could have been offended.
Speaker 3:Right, yeah, and that definitely takes into place. That's good. See, now we got another key word Praise the Lord. Thank you, Guys, you just putting it all together, so y'all listen. I hope you guys are enjoying it. I know it done got fiery. Get you a bottle of water, get your pen, your pad. Make sure you're taking notes In the meantime. Listen. In order to keep this podcast rolling, we got to pay some bills, so we will be back with you shortly. Lord, who am I that you are mindful of me?
Speaker 4:Whatever follows I am is that's why you got to watch your own I am statement. I am tired, I am, I'm sick and tired, I'm this, I'm so disgusted. Whatever follows I am is I wouldn't be able to minister like I could minister without an experience, and I'm not just talking so y'all testify about the experience of being jacked up and the experience of the breakup and the experience of the loss and the experience of walking out on you and the experience, but I'm talking about the experience with I am.
Speaker 3:The Lord continues to appear at Shiloh and there he revealed himself. Every year in Chicago Illinois, the I Am meets us at the Shiloh Experience. Are you ready to have an experience like no other with the I Am? Register for this year's Shiloh Experience happening at the Westin Chicago Northwest on October 25th through 27th. There's day classes, ministry sessions, sisterhood, love, fellowship and a banquet. To register today, you can go to wwwsweetroseofsharoncom. That's wwwsweetroseofsharoncom. That's wwwsweetroseofsharoncom. See you there. All right, we are back. Listen, it is really heating up and turning up. Listen, we done ran down the list of words. Hold on, you want to run down them again? What we talk about? Communication.
Speaker 2:Relativity.
Speaker 3:What Connectivity. You again what we talked about Communication Relativity.
Speaker 2:What Connectivity you mean? Connectivity CC.
Speaker 3:CC, cca, I lost you there. No, I didn't.
Speaker 2:Awareness, awareness, awareness, cca Carry Awareness.
Speaker 3:It's for awareness. All right, cca, I'm like I could carry, I could feel I don't know we started talking about weapons.
Speaker 3:I know, right, we went into weapons and all of those things my bad. The key words that we dealt with within this episode is communication, connectivity, awareness, and then we kind of did a little snippet about offense before we went on a commercial break. But before I go into talking about the word offense listen to that commercial just now about the shallow experience, let me tell you y'all, listen, I'm just going to tell y'all from experience, I just I'm just going to throw that's our bonus word within this segment experience. Okay, listen, it was definitely for me, it was a life changing experience. It really really was. Things were activated within me that I didn't even know existed, that was there within me, that I didn't even know existed. That was there.
Speaker 3:Listen, the wisdom that is like flowing and just a flowing and a pouring and a flowing. It just don't make nothing, that kind of sense. It built my confidence and also it made the vision that the Lord has given me. It made it so much more clear because we did vision boards too'all. I love a vision board. We did vision boards and can I tell y'all there are things within the vision board that have already begun manifesting, this podcast being one of them. Praise the lord. Yeah, so I listen. I want to Apostle Sharon tell the people about the Shiloh experience, because I need them to experience what I experienced.
Speaker 4:Wow, I'm telling you Shiloh. Shiloh really stands for the epitaph of Jesus Christ. It's the epitaph of Jesus Christ. Shiloh was where Hannah went, you know, when she was just having all these bad relationship issues with her husband and couldn't bring forth a baby and all that. And Hannah went to Shiloh and just poured out of herself and she left there pregnant. So most people, women, when they come, they leave either activated or impregnated with something.
Speaker 4:Shiloh is also a safe place. It's a safe place. Shiloh is not a conference, it's an experience and it's one for you to have, and we do it once a year. It's going to be in Chicago area, a suburb called Itasca, Illinois, October 25th, 26th and 27th. Don't come looking for a church service. It's not that there will be times where you'll feel like you're in a high level institution, university classes, all kinds of stuff. It's the sisterhood, the fellowship. It's just a wonderful experience where you can see and experience various dimensions of I am, that I am, and one thing we found out last year is that when I am shows up on the scene, he's coming to bring into existence what already is. So come to Shiloh. Come to Shiloh in October, you all.
Speaker 2:Is this only women or?
Speaker 3:No, actually, men can come to and experience. Yes, men can come to and experience. Yes, yes, men can come to and experience. And, honestly, I loved it because indeed, like she said, it's not a conference at all when I tell you, from the first day to the last day, it is nothing but experiencing. And I thank God because he kept repeating you need to get to shallow, you need to get to shallow. And I kept saying what is a shallow? He took me to read shallow. About every scripture I read, shallow was in there. Okay, I know shallow is a place, but where is shallow in reality? You need to get the shallow. And we're talking about connectivity.
Speaker 3:My sister, sadie, she sent me the invite. She said, listen, we're going to do this registration and everything, because I need you to come with me this year, because I need you to experience what I've been experiencing. And when I saw the flyer and I saw the shallow experience, I said, lord, this is what you was talking about. I need to get. And can I tell you everything? You know all the adversity that I went through trying to get there and then trying to get back up. Try to keep me in Chi-Town, y'all. Try to keep me at the airport. Y'all Praise, tried to keep me at the airport, y'all They've got a home though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, praise the Lord, hallelujah, it was that experience that got me home. But listen, y'all do not want to miss it. Listen, the registration information will be in the comments section. Y'all need to go ahead, get your seats now, go register. You definitely do not want to miss it now.
Speaker 3:Let me tell y'all something that ties into we dealt with connectivity, we dealt with communication. We're dealing with relationship plenty. She talked about hannah. Hannah went to shallow because she kept having all these screwed up relationships. I wonder why. But we're not going to talk about that. That's a whole nother subject for another time.
Speaker 3:But anywho, I want to talk about the spirit of offense, because there's no way possible. I don't care how broken you are and honestly that could be one of the bullets the spirit of offense, when everything offends you, the smallest thing offends you. It ain't even about you, it has nothing to do with you, but all of a sudden you offended, you feel some type of way because it just reminds you of somebody in the past or reminds you of a situation that you've been through. Let's talk about how does one overcome that offense, being at that level of offense? Because in order to have connectivity, in order to have healthy communication and be able to communicate. That offense got to come down, because that's a whole Jericho wall by itself. I yield it to you, apostle Jaron.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's offense. The Bible tells us in Proverbs that it is really hard to win a brother or a sister, anybody that's offended, because it's like a strong, fortified city. And I look at the Bible. Let's just know offense is a woe and I think that offense is really almost like Leviathan, like pride. These are things that God has to deal with.
Speaker 4:If a person is offended, you could bring her flowers, you could cook him a good meal, you could do foot massages, you could do anything you want to do. It's not going to penetrate the heart because it's like having a just prison of bars. You know, it's not even a forest, it is a steel bar that got your heart enclosed and that needs a God. You need God to do something with a brother offended. God. You need God to do something with a brother offended. It's a lose-lose situation. If you're trying to involve yourself or engage with someone that's offended, nothing you do will help. That takes God, taking down those bars of offense and giving an opening to the heart being able to receive.
Speaker 4:So offense is terrible. Offense is probably like one of those exploding bullets or something. Offense is really, really terrible and it's really hard to relate to someone that's old-fitted. It's difficult, it's a losing thing. You have to be able to step away from that person and allow God to deal with them. That might take some time. You may have to come back in another season when God has dealt with that offense, those bars that surrounds their heart. It was the word that helped me.
Speaker 2:It was the word that helped me with that spirit of offense and to not be offended. I pray that for anybody listening that they receive the spirit of casting, that be able to cast down that spirit of offense. You have to deal with that because that can really be a detriment to trying to get to know somebody or trying to be in a relationship with somebody. It damages communication. That leads to more other offenses and bullets and it leads to other stuff.
Speaker 4:One of my favorite scriptures about offense is from Psalms 119. That talks about great peace. Have they that love thy law or the word, like you just said, and nothing shall offend thee. So to stay out of offense you really got to be a lover of God's word.
Speaker 3:I remember the scripture but I think that was it. So I'm over here cracking and chuckling on the inside. The little girl in me is having a little bit of fun. I like to play with words, I like to scrabble, I love when the Lord has me to rearrange words, to go even deeper and dive in to the true meaning of offense. And, honestly, what I'm hearing is every time I hear it on repeat basically people that are offended, they just fell off the fence. You know, because his word said they started out on the fence but they had one leg on one side of the fence, another leg on the other side of the fence, and his word said a double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways. So what? You got one part of yourself on the left side, one part on the right side, so you're a little wobbly already and so your mental is unstable. So somebody blow on you. You just gonna fall off the fence, plain and simple.
Speaker 2:Like Luke Warhol.
Speaker 3:Luke Warhol. He said I spit you out. He said I spit you out. You have to choose. You cannot be it's one or the other. That means you just totally off, you're unstable.
Speaker 4:So either you love God's word or you don't. Right, you just love his word. If his word says I got to forgive you for the all you know or what I got against you, either I'm going to forgive you or I'm not. So but when I'm halt between two opinions, yeah, you're going to mess around and get offended sooner or later. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3:So that was funny to me. Thank you, holy Spirit. They say you know a good medicine for the soul. Cause when he said that, he said they just fell off the fence. Oh, like that, that's funny, that's good, that's good. So how? We? We know that it takes the word and, honestly, offense is something that can muster up. You can have so much word in you and things will come to try to offend you. How does one prevent themselves from falling into the entrapment of offense once again after they've overcome offense?
Speaker 4:One time I was planning to teach on offense at my church this was years ago and the Lord showed me a picture of a big rock, and offense looked like a big rock, like a stumbling block. Rock like a stumbling block it's what it's designed to make you stumble and you are the one that's going to fall. Like you said, you're the one that's going to fall and may have a long period of time in getting up. So offenses must be avoided number one, because they're going to come, According to scripture. They're going to come, but it's a woe. But I think that really would help us not be offended.
Speaker 4:We already talk about loving God's word, but when those little dings come in life, where somebody says something that hurts your feeling, go ahead and forgive right away. Don't delay things that the Bible tells you that you're supposed to do. Go on, so it won't sit there and build up until 20 years later. Now I come and I do something. I really wasn't trying to offend you, but because you got this buildup of stuff, now you're offended. So don't let things build up in your life. Deal with this stuff at the onset of it. Deal with it. God, I'm hurt. That hurt my feeling. God, I do feel some type of way. Lord, I feel rejected All of those things that come that could cause you to be offended later.
Speaker 3:Go ahead and deal with it now that could cause you to be offended later. Go ahead and deal with it now, Right. And the other thing that I found to be helpful, because there's times along my journey and my walk that I do see where that offense tries to come and be like, hey, how you doing, you remember me and I'll be like we're not doing this today, Because the reminder, the foundation of preventing and putting yourself in the entrapment of offense and having that to keep you bound is, yeah, the foundation of it is his word. When you have word in you as well, just as Jesus did when he had to do, he did the 40 day fast. Stuff was coming at him and all he did was combated with God's word. There's times, if you see, there's a moment of rejection that tries to come back at you to make you feel offended that they rejected you or they didn't receive from you. God said it in his word. He said I'm paraphrasing it but in a nutshell he said listen, they're not rejecting you, they're rejecting me.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:When they receive from you, they really ain't receiving from you, they receiving from me. So at times I'll be transparent and honest. At times when I see rejection trying to say, hey, they ain't pay you no mind, they ignoring you, that reminder that light bulb comes off and be like, okay, you know, I, I can't worry about, as long as I know I've positioned myself. I was obedient to the voice of god. I did what he told me to do. What happens thereafter, that's between them and god. I move on.
Speaker 3:If it was rejected, guess what? You didn't reject me take no feeling and also stop taking things so personal. When you have that mindset where you feel like the world is revolved around you, offense is going to be there all the time and you're going to feel offended. You have to realize sometimes some things that might come at you. It's not you the person that had a bad day. Somebody ticked them off and they ventilating right now they going through a vent and you just so happen to be the target so, ladies, where does love play a part in all of this?
Speaker 4:ooh oh, okay, I want to say that again, say that again we just love playing a part in all of this well, we know that number one, love never fails.
Speaker 4:All right, and, and love is god. God is love, all right, and god is a spirit. And what I was thinking about, uh, when the woman of God was speaking, was this we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Right, that's what we are. So we are a spirit with a soul and a body, and so we're not, per se, soulish led, but we are spirit led. So, whatever I feel, my late husband used to say all the time baby, your feelings are real, but not necessarily true.
Speaker 4:And so David, when he had his problem David said in Psalms 51, he was like God. I know you desire truth in the inner parts and in the hidden parts. Make me to know wisdom. So truth is my wisdom. You know, I pull from wisdom, from truth, not necessarily from my feelings, because my feelings can change, okay, and feelings can linger, all right. And so what I? What I do personally? I flush my feelings through the realms of the spirit, because I need to land in a place called truth. That's where I need to land, and when you flush your feelings, or your emotions, or the soulless you, through a higher dimension which is spirit, then you come to better wisdoms and you come to better conclusions of the matter. I said your soul, which is a makeup of your mind, your will, your emotions, your intelligence and your intellect, can reside in spirit realm, but it also dips into your human experiences.
Speaker 4:Your spirit don't do that, but your soul dips. It's dipping into the conversation you just had and somebody says something that you didn't like. Well, you got to take the things of the spirit, god's love, his word, the fruit of the spirit, all of that to raise that soul back up to a place called truth and where truth allows you to see or give you a different perspective. And then that's where you say you know what I feel it? But that's not true. It's very real. Our feelings are very real, but our realness don't always take us into the revelations of God. But truth will Right.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 3:That children will Wow. That Wow, honestly speaking, with that.
Speaker 2:Your late husband was really wise. Yes, he was.
Speaker 4:He really was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 3:So then I yield.
Speaker 2:You yield, you yield.
Speaker 3:I got that answer, yeah so tying everything together, you have communication. But the foundation of communication is connectivity. So let's build this house. We are going. I like building, y'all, I'm a creative person, I like building, so let us build. We're going to build a solid foundation Of this First portion, communication.
Speaker 3:So the foundation is connectivity. Okay, it has to be a connection. Okay, the connection then builds the frames, opens up the door of communication. Ah, I love when the Holy Spirit help you do something, he helping me build this house. I like this. Okay, y'all, I get excited. Y'all. Y'all don't understand Me and the Holy Spirit, we the best of friends and I get excited when he get involved. So the foundation is connectivity. The frame of the house and everything is communication. The windows of the house is awareness. Okay, that, that was good. I really like that. I really like that. The windows of the house is awareness. Now, you know how they say that we, we must make a house, a wife is to make a house, a home, and you know those little cliche sayings. I'm not good with them. But so we got foundation connectivity. But I'm going to add to the connectivity, right? So before I can connect fully and have a solid connection with someone else, how is my connection with God?
Speaker 4:He's the door.
Speaker 3:There you go. Okay, well, there you go.
Speaker 4:Come on, let us, let us, yes, let us make it Open the door Right, open the relationship to us.
Speaker 3:Yes, exactly.
Speaker 4:Let us make.
Speaker 3:So I hope y'all taking notes out there, because we building a house y'all we probably bless y'all and help y'all within this relationship. We building this house right quick, so y'all bear with us. We HGTV right now, all right. So we got connectivity, we got the foundation.
Speaker 2:House of God.
Speaker 3:TV, house of God, tv, oh I. So we got connectivity, we got the foundation. Yeah, house of god, oh I like that come on through here with the acronyms house of god, tv. I like that. So we got connectivity. That's the foundation we've established, as, as apostle uh sharon had mentioned. The door door is God, that's the door, okay. Communication that's the remaining of the frames, okay. So now awareness that's the windows, okay. That's the windows, okay. The spirit of offense.
Speaker 4:We frame nothing with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, we frame nothing with it, yeah.
Speaker 4:Right, we frame nothing. We frame nothing with it. It certainly cannot be the roof.
Speaker 3:What's the roof, love, love would be the roof, because his word says love.
Speaker 2:I agree, yeah, okay, she said it covers. Yeah, it covers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, love covers the multitude of sin. Love casts out fear, so it prevents things from coming in All right.
Speaker 2:The rough. Also, you guys are answering my question now Because, yeah, love is a big part of all of this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so foundation connection door is God. The windows is awareness, the roof is love. Okay, the windows is awareness, the roof is love. When you have all of that solidified and in its rightful place, you will have a solid house.
Speaker 2:Don't use cheap materials.
Speaker 3:Don't be a cheapskate on it. You have to give your all in every area, Not just okay, I'm going to give you a little, a drop, a drop, a little snippet, or I'm going to give you some of my triggers, but I ain't going to tell you all of them because they might chase you away. No, what's going to chase me away is when I find out about the other triggers that I didn't know of and I'll be like what did I get myself into? Let's have a lot of windows in our house, Exactly A whole lot of different areas.
Speaker 4:Let's have windows in the kitchen, in the bedroom. I love a house with a lot of windows letting in the sunshine. Let's let in light.
Speaker 3:Yes, that's good. I'm glad that she said that, because the windows being awareness when you allow, because god is the door, but god also is that light that shines in, when god shines light, because god will show you you, but it's the matter of you accepting what god is showing you. Amen, because he created us, he going to show you your areas like, uh, because when we go through them, tests and trials, that's his way of shining the light on. Yeah, you still got to work on this area right here. Yeah, you still not whole in this area right here. Yeah, you still weak in this area right here. Oh, this area is still a wound.
Speaker 3:Because I give an example of that when I had to go to court for my car accident, I had to reopen that wound and I didn't realize that wound wasn't fully healed because I broke down again and my husband tell you, I was on shutdown for a whole week. I didn't want to talk to nobody. I didn't want to say nothing to nobody because it was so much within that I was like, god, this was an injustice. God, this was not fair, this was unfair. The way they just chewed me up and spit me out it was yeah, it was a snippet.
Speaker 3:I felt offended. I'll be honest with you. I felt offended because I was just like, and in the same token, I was just like, and in the same token, I was just like God. This was not what the vision I saw. This was not Expected, it was unexpected. I didn't expect this process To go this way. That's when he had to show me and he had to reveal to me, and he shined a light. He said let's go back To what I showed you. Now, how much of that did you add to what I showed you? Right, you set higher expectations than what I said, right? Is it that your disappointment and and and that offense came up because it didn't pan out the way you wanted it to, the way you expected it to. So the lesson that I took from that, my takeaway from that, was my expectations must meet the expectations of god yeah, now where.
Speaker 2:Where you ended up was where he, where he set out for you to be in the first place. It was that journey.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That where you were offended in the journey.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But where you ended up with was exactly where he wanted you to be and it worked out well for her, everybody. It worked out well, but the process wasn't pleasant. But you know, that's in his word too.
Speaker 3:And that's the one thing that we have to do. Go ahead, Apostle.
Speaker 4:To accomplish the warfare. It just sounds like a Jeremiah 29 and 11 experience.
Speaker 2:That's awesome.
Speaker 4:He already had a hope, and hope was that cord that connected you to your expected end, and he already knew the end at the beginning, but you had to accomplish the warfare in the middle. So that was just a Jeremiah 29, 11 experience.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, most definitely, and I'm glad because it's everything that, again, it's everything that he said it was going to be.
Speaker 4:Yeah, to God be the glory.
Speaker 3:Just to wrap this up, you guys, we just finished building the house of God on TV, hgtv, yeah, hgtv. We just got through the HGTV segment where we took the words and began to build the house. Just giving you guys a visualization of what this looks like in dealing with communication, because every component, in every word that we spoke of, we basically wrote communication down into smaller syllables, into smaller words, to have a full understanding of how to succeed in communication. How can I continue to communicate, how can I continue to have healthy communication without it being I'm shot to, being fired, and people are getting hurt, injured or broken even more than what they already are. So, within that, I want to wrap this up with that three-stranded cord, because, his word said, a three-stranded cord is uneasily broken. It is very important to have a great communication with God Because, honestly, that three-stranded cord, it starts with you individually. How does it start with you? It's you yourself and God. Because, honestly, that three-stranded cord, it starts with you individually. How does it start with you? It's you yourself and God, because God must be in the center. He's dealing with you, he's dealing with the inner part of you and he's dealing with the deeper part of you. He's going deep, digging in the well of you and within that he is the connection to make you to become one with him. That is the connection Now within a relationship, within a marriage. Again, god is okay, rewind.
Speaker 3:Going back to the individual God also. God said I'm going to be in front of you to lead you where you need to go. I'm also going to be behind you because I'm going to shield and protect you. When he said, no weapon formed against you shall prosper, the reason that it's not going to prosper, because he already got the hedge of protection. He's that shield behind you, that whatever fiery darts or whatever things that try to come at you that you did not see coming, because it's behind you. Because he said, forgetting those things that are behind you, meaning that pressing towards the mark of the high calling. So with that, that means I have no business looking behind me anymore, so I don't see what's coming behind me All I see what's coming at me ahead. So he said I got to be behind you and I got to be in front of you, so you need to be sandwiched with me.
Speaker 2:Holy Spirit is right here.
Speaker 3:Yep, you got the Holy Spirit on both sides. That's a whole full circle. And within a marriage, he is not just, he doesn't just lead you within the marriage, but he is also the center of the marriage. He is what keeps that three-stranded cord together. He said what I put together, let no man put us under, let no man part. That's not just within a marriage, that's within connections, within friendships, that's connections within coworkers, that's connections with church members, that's connections even with your own children and your family members, when God is the center of that, when he joins it together, when he connects. See, he knew that he had to speak the language of business to me, to even have an opportunity to even talk to me, because he knew my mindset was lord, I'm about my father's business. Whatever you will have me to do, I will do oh, business. You say okay, let me introduce you to a gentleman. That's the same exact way and that's how. Because he knew if he would have talked Any other, hey you beautiful, hey you pretty Shots would have been fired. Just being real. Y'all Listen. We transparent on this, on this show, on this podcast.
Speaker 3:So these are very important. Make sure you build your relationship with God. It is very, and those that have not Built a relationship with God Yet it's very, and those that have not built a relationship with God yet, it's not too late, you still can. All it takes is that confession. That's where it starts. This is my confession, that is. All it takes is the confession and you acknowledging that Jesus Christ died for your sins and he died just for you. He didn't die just for you. I'll say it as my apostle dad says he died as you.
Speaker 4:That's good.
Speaker 3:Understanding and knowing that he died as you. It starts there and saying Lord, I know that I'm a sinner, but I'm coming to you asking for forgiveness. Help me to no longer be a sinner but to build a relationship with you, as you died as me. So you know what I've gone through, what I've been through and what I'm still having to deal with. Help me through this process. That's all it takes. And then you take it from me.
Speaker 3:This is not no overnight shipping process, because one thing I learned about the metamorphosis process is it is a continuous thing. It never ends. As you develop, as you grow, as you mature, you're going through another metamorphosis process and then another metamorphosis process, because the metamorphosis all it is is the opportunity to develop, grow and mature in God and get to the next place in God and not remain complacent or comfortable, because I tell y'all now that journey with God, there is no comfortability, none whatsoever. But as he said, when you take upon my yoke, as my yoke is easy and my burden is light, as you learn from me, so I just want to encourage you today build your house on a solid foundation and that solid foundation being build your house of communication, so that that is the open door of building healthy relationships, the opening door of beginning the process of being made whole. If you can't talk about it, then you can't be about it. If you can't talk about it, then you can't be set free.
Speaker 3:And can I let y'all in on a little secret? Communication can also be done in writing. If you're one that has trouble opening your mouth and communicating how you feel, what your troubles are, what you're going through in your trauma, pick up that pen and write. I'm going to tell you from a little girl, my therapist. That was the best solution she could have ever offered, because that writing saved my life. It was the beginning of my communication process. And then from there, the Lord progressed me a little bit more and said okay, now I want you to read out loud what you wrote. So I want to encourage you, apostle Sharon, any final remarks or any words of encouragement for our audience?
Speaker 4:Well, I say amen, so be it, to everything you said, especially the therapeutic part of, you know, enhancing your communication by learn how to write it out. I can't tell you I wrote a whole poem about if my journal could talk all the things that it would tell you. So I think journaling does help one in that one dimension of learning how to communicate. I think what we really did today was to build this house called Relationship, building a house of relationship, because relationships fail a lot, because we don't even know how to relate anymore. Some people outgrow each other or we stopped walking together and all those types of things. But I think what we did today was to really build a house called relationship and what it looks like, what that house looks like in relationship. And certainly we need God. So I would just encourage those that are listening today work on the components of relationship.
Speaker 4:A lot of times you just try to just rush all in. You know where angels don't even tread. Start working on the components. You know how well do I communicate, how well do I connect, even with people that were in the same place of connectivity, but I'm still, you know, I don't even know how to make the right connections. You know how self-aware am I, you know? Do I have a? Am I in a prison? Called offense? Have I fallen off the wall in some kind of way? Isn't called offense. Have I fallen off the wall in some kind of way? So let's just look at ourselves, and I think we could do this thing, especially in a man-woman relationship, because it's what God it's. By God's design, he wants us to relate, but we have to become more relatable. So that's just what I would just encourage everybody Look at how relatable you are. Just take those words that we use one by one and see how well you do those in those particular areas.
Speaker 2:That's good stuff, I agree.
Speaker 3:Mr Purpose you got any closing remarks. Words of encouragement I already said about that paper trail guys.
Speaker 2:That's right, Write it down. Write it down if you can't speak it. That's right.
Speaker 3:Because I mean he says it in his story Write the vision. Make it plain, Make it plain. Write out your communication, Because there's times we can go, like you said, that paper trail. We can go back to it and be like, wow. I remember when I was in this place. Look where I came from you know. So, alright, guys, listen, this has been awesome, this has been phenomenal. Listen, y'all be sure listen.
Speaker 2:We must do this again, Apostle Shea.
Speaker 3:Yes, definitely.
Speaker 2:We will.
Speaker 3:If y'all enjoyed listen, make sure y'all follow and subscribe on YouTube. Also, follow us on Facebook as well at Walk it Out Inspirations Podcast. Be sure to follow us. In addition, listen, don't forget about the shallow experience. You definitely listen. You don't even have to be in Chi-Town Listen. Take a vacay, because that's what it take that time for you. That's a part of the self-awareness that shallow experience will have you to be self-aware. It will help you along that process, one of the components. So, yes, y'all, make sure y'all check out the shallow experience. In addition to that, y'all be sure Go ahead, join the Sweet Rose of Sharon group as well on Facebook. Also, follow Apostle Sharon on Facebook. She drops gems every morning. The morning thought I love it every time. Love it every time. So listen y'all. We love you guys, as always. Listen until next time. Y'all take care.
