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Life In The Wild with Michael Bethany
Ep204 | Embracing the Wild Pt.2 |Continued Conversation with Darius and Laneshia
Welcome to another episode of #LifeintheWildPodcast! Join me, Michael Bethany, as I sit down with two incredible friends, Darius and Laneshia. In this heartfelt conversation, we share the untold story of our friendship, reminisce about unforgettable moments with Fred Hammond, and discuss the profound impact of "Life in the Wild" on our lives.
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I could have eaten and then I'd never know. Or I could obey God and see his miraculous power work in my life, not only change my heart, but get rid of my shingles. Like it is just that simple. It's simple even though it's not always easy, and what more validation do you need than the presence of Jesus himself to say I'm proud of you, You're in the right place, doing the thing that you're called to do?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And same thing with you. You're in the right place, lanisha. You're in the right place, and so let's talk about this. You guys read some of the early, early exposure chapter. At least, that's the name of the chapter. Right now it's called Early Exposure. Oh yeah, and this chapter? It deals with how platform talented people. These are people who have these flashy abilities to do different things. The other people want to platform, or they may want to platform because they're incredible presentations, but because the talent is seen before the character is experienced, I will present something prematurely, which I call then early exposure. So there's a couple of sections y'all wrote that y'all read, and this is y'all the first. This is my wife read it.
Speaker 3:I read it.
Speaker 1:Right, I want to say y'all stepped into my space here we did. Thank you and you read just a portion. You read a dark room and early exposure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1:I'm going to let Lanisha you just read this. So it's fresh. Yeah, where do you want to go? You want to go? Early exposure, yeah, early exposure, let's go with it.
Speaker 3:You know, when we were, you were debating over which sections of the book you wanted us to read. I'm glad that you decided on on those and, selfishly, I'm I'm reading it going Now. Did he choose this? Because this is where I am right now, wow, because I'm processing through some things right now. But what an incredible picture to put to an experience that people have that they don't know is happening. Because I loved how you talked about how you and your brothers you know y'all are all incredibly talented. You know you grew up in a talented family and it's it's nothing for somebody to come to y'all's house and be like, oh, let me hear you know Michael sing or you know check play or whatever, and it's like you're out here now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You're out here now and you got to keep that up, but a lot of times people are not saying, hey, let's work on that stuff that you need to be maintaining behind the scenes before you get on this open microphone.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Before these lights turn on, before all of these things, and so I probably need to read it again. I hope that it's coming out sooner than later because, because we need and we've been through, like, through different ministry platforms. We've, you know, had an opportunity to go through, like character and core things and courses and trainings and be made aware of things, blind spots, you know, opportunities, things that we need to, like, check in our own hearts.
Speaker 3:you know, not saying that you have to be perfect and I'm not saying you have to be polished but, I'm saying you know you need to be aware of that, you need this information, and so as I was reading, I was tracking back in my life, because I grew up on platforms. You know in my family how many times have we been before a live might, before the lights, before a crowd and it was he mentioned it earlier. You know things going on that that were unchecked. You know things that were surfacing that maybe you weren't aware what was the issue.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But when you are on those platforms, those things get exposed to a certain degree. Yeah Right, that's right. We want to put out the, we want to put out the good stuff, right? We don't be, seeing all our junk on a stage. But hey, and sometimes it's necessary. You know it's a part of your testimony too, Right.
Speaker 3:You get to share the things that you have overcome, the things that you're going through, the places that God has shown you that other people need maybe deliverance in you know or encouragement that they're not alone. You're not the only person that's struggling with this or dealing with this, and you're standing before people with an open microphone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, you know what I mean. Early exposure is real, like it's. Like you didn't ask for it, didn't ask you. All you did was what you was natural to you, and then now they're pushing you out.
Speaker 2:Yes, man, look, let's be real and honest when it comes to you know, mostly black Christians in church. That's the norm, yeah, yeah. Get out there it probably happens in other church, say it's from other people from other backgrounds. But I know for sure, if you are a kid or a young person and you have a talent, they're going to put you up in front of people. Yeah yeah, I've seen it a million times they put little Timmy up.
Speaker 3:Not that like the real little Timmy, I'm just saying. Like I'm just saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they put a little little little, jarring up the preach Right.
Speaker 1:I don't, I don't even know. No, jeremy.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying, like, how many times have we seen that? Yeah you know, and they up there really just mimicking what they see Right Other preachers do, but what that's doing it is it's really feeding the, it's feeding their flesh, because people are like, oh, go from. You are amazing, you know, keep it going. And you start building this dependence on how people react to your gift.
Speaker 3:Was it the blue light exposure?
Speaker 2:that you were talking about. So that's the dark room, yeah, the dark room, and there that.
Speaker 3:I'm thinking about that as you're speaking because you know you get up there and you can sang Michael, get up there and saying, but nobody's telling you. And I'm just for the sake of the conversation. When we just read how you even handle that kind of stuff the people, the praise you know what they're saying to you the criticisms, the all the things that come with the human factor having an audience, how do you deal with that?
Speaker 1:The blue light is the human audience.
Speaker 3:Man this Okay.
Speaker 1:So you guys read a part of your business? Yeah, we don't. We don't tease this chapter. Yeah, so here it is, in the dark room of development. It is a room that has to be completely blocked, of a particular kind of light.
Speaker 3:Right, not the light, but they put a little line. Okay.
Speaker 1:That are like green light, blue light on the light spectrum. On one side of the light spectrum the energy for that light is intense yeah, and if you're going to develop film in a dark room, that type of intense light will destroy the development process.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:As a matter of fact, the actual photo paper, which is me that this image is being impressed upon, cannot handle blue light until a development process is done. Then you could open up the window shades and turn on the light on, because I can take it, because now I've been developed enough to process that level of energy. Yeah, the light that I can handle in the development phase, or the photo paper can handle, is red light, because it's low enough on the light spectrum to give you an ability to see and to perceive, but not intense so much that it is insensitive to where you are.
Speaker 2:Hmm.
Speaker 1:So it's, here.
Speaker 2:I think I just had a epiphany.
Speaker 3:Oh yes.
Speaker 2:Okay, what you just explained makes me think about Adam and Eve in the garden. Yes, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the light that they did not need to be exposed to. God allowed them to have pick of all the trees, all the fruit in the garden, just don't eat that one. The tree of life is the red light. That's the development, the God development that we need. But, man, when we eat of that tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it opens up exposure to things that are destructive to us, so much so that we can't even eat of the good stuff anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because it's going to just.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, they will put it out of the garden Put it out, the entire experience.
Speaker 1:That's what you explained. It just took me there. I think that's a great way of looking at it, because the pre-exposure to blue light, which is the praise, the applause and the criticism of humans, of people, before a person has established an integrity of character that is defined by God's word, by the Holy Spirit, by a sense of identity, will create a new image. And so now what people say to you is more important than what God sent you to say. How people applaud and praise what you've done becomes the oil or the gas that energizes the vehicle to go. So now I'm motivated by people, and this is something that you did.
Speaker 1:Say this, and here's the thing when you grow up as a talented person with the platform talent, yes, you do get exposed early, and it's very, very common, but you realize it doesn't matter how, because for me, the people I got exposed to it wasn't many people. It's not about the amount of people, it's the perspective of the people. It is actually you being placed in a position, and this is one of the reasons why when you see celebrities or well-known people behaving in a way that seems unusual to you, is because they've been exposed to a lot more blue light than you've ever been exposed to the level of impact that most of them had, far before they understood what they were there for, had already damaged them to a point that their behavior is now an out of working of an inward trauma. That is what, and it's not that something bad happened to you, it's that you were pre-exposed. You were exposed before you were prepared. I write about this that I was in a position where I was on a platform singing about a God that I did not know.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I was on the platform, standing in a position that you're a target, literally a target, not just a target for people, but even a target for the enemy. Yeah, I was attached to something that was bigger than me and I had to then grow in that environment. And so, talking about this now, this is not a matter of if you should be in this environment or if you, if you're in this, you need to hurry out of it, but, as you, understanding the dynamic of what's happened in your development, so that first you get a, you get a chance to determine where you are and what's really happened and how that's impacted you, so that you can start making different decisions. I had to make some very different decisions. I had to understand that there were even seasons and I talked about this in the past that I was Pursuing things that God was not releasing for me. I tried everything I could to make it happen and God was literally saying it's not them, it's me, it's. It's not, no, it's not.
Speaker 1:The church is not, it's not the record company, it's not the radio promoter.
Speaker 1:I Won't let it win, because if I let that win, if you think you've been pre-exposed now, if I let them pick the record up and, and I can tell you, I have a list of Opportunities that I thought were missed for me.
Speaker 1:I had a list of record deals and contracts and things that I was like why is it that every time I get signed, every time I get an opportunity, every time I get someone's attention, it stops before it starts the car? Everyone listen, I have people approaching me. I'm like, hey, I didn't ask them, right, they asked me, they wanted to do this with me and I was excited about it and it still didn't happen. And perhaps that is God's Not the lack of gospel vision, but the presence of his protection. Yeah, right, and so for a creative person who who understand what it's like to have to walk away from things and both of you've had to walk away from some things, yeah, can we talk about the exchange between what you've had to sacrifice and now what you have, and then what God brings and reward to you that you thought you had to chase?
Speaker 3:Wow, wow, that's that this is an overwhelming question Because, yes, I, I, we have had to walk away from many things that we thought, well, this is it right, it's lush.
Speaker 3:Yeah the water is fresh, nice and cold, the temperature is fine. So I have this thing that I just say out loud and it's probably like a Me medicating myself by saying you know what, nothing's wasted, nothing's lost, because I don't always understand why I have to walk away from certain things. But later on I get to find out that you know what? I learned a valuable lesson in that place. I gained a new connection, a friend. In that space I got an opportunity to sew into somebody, and In that way I'm always looking for people, yeah, so I got an opportunity to give something that God wanted to Use my hands to give. There's so many things right, we can go down the list and then sometimes it's not that easy. Sometimes it's like I don't understand that.
Speaker 2:I.
Speaker 3:Don't understand why I had to walk away from that. I don't understand that yet. But God is faithful and my exchange is always looking at it through a winner's winners lens. I'm always winning something because God is a good father and he's always giving good gifts to his children, me being one of them, yeah, you being one of them. So, looking back at all the things that we've had to walk away from, it's like, okay, nothing lost, even if I I have to keep telling myself that until I understand, understand it, that nothing was lost, and then you get the lesson.
Speaker 3:I think when you, when you get over yourself this is, you know myself talk, get over yourself and pay attention to what it is that God was trying to get to you a word, a lesson, a connection, a new perspective, faith, because it takes faith to walk away from things that you know. You're talking about your journey with Fred. Do we just use that as an example? It takes faith to walk away from something like that Mountain, mountain top, experiences. Right, that's what the world sees and that's what we know it, what it is. It takes faith to do that. Faith is not easy and it doesn't feel good a lot of times and you know what speak.
Speaker 1:I don't want to tell too much of Fred story, but Fred tells a story about how he was with the winemates. They yes and he was just online recently.
Speaker 3:He just told me again with one of the wine and Marvin Marvin was on there, I think if we were talking about the same thing and he talked about how Marvin wine.
Speaker 1:He had this point where he was with one of the hottest, you know, gospel groups and he was starting his own, yeah, and he had to walk away, yeah, from that to do something new, and I think something that we see is like what you're walking into it's not as developed as what you're leaving. Oh my god but, what if God?
Speaker 1:wants to use you to develop the thing that you're walking, that's what I'm saying, like we're back in the wilderness, like you're like, yeah, something now has to grow. You got to have faith that what God is growing is is better for you than what you have to leave.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man look, and it's, it's about perspective though, yeah right. So in my testimony, when get, when God you know, gave us the the, the, the charge, like okay, it's time for you to walk away, I'm like, okay, all right, you must have something like yeah, you think crazy, prince, about the car.
Speaker 1:It's about to be about the gold. Yeah, we're going on to a prince.
Speaker 2:I had. I had really unhealthy expectation of what the next season was gonna be. And when I tell you, nobody called me for years for. For one whole whole year at least, I didn't get one phone call. Yeah, now you know Right where, where I came from.
Speaker 1:You know, I've done.
Speaker 2:I find myself in a church ministry running sound for third graders. Yeah, I'm in a kid's room Running sound playing.
Speaker 1:You go from, you go from. South Africa tour.
Speaker 2:I'm from the highest high To what's perceived as the lowest, low. But what, what was so great about that season for me, was I got a chance to, to be a part of a ministry that valued character over talent and it changed my life, changed my life to the point where now I'm starting to discover, like, who I really am and who God really wants to develop me into, be and man. It was so the humility that it takes to be in spaces like that and not boast It'd be like I'm too good for this because I came from here. Man, it takes so much humility and I needed that Cause.
Speaker 2:I didn't know how underdeveloped I was in my character, I didn't know. So I needed that time, forgot to work out those things in my heart, the way I looked at life as a husband, a father. I just I needed that development. And man, god was so faithful, like I didn't stay in the third grade room for long, but I needed that experience. And then God was started like orchestrating these instances where people started to like figure out who I was or what I did and they'd be like what are you doing here?
Speaker 3:Yeah, what are you doing? That was entertaining, to say the least, and I'm like man.
Speaker 2:I'm just.
Speaker 1:I'm just serving man I can recall at some point in my journey you know, after we've worked a lot of stuff together, did a bunch of records and worship pastor, big church and me really needing some help and you know I'm going to therapy, going to different things, and someone tells me about celebrate recovery and I start going to that, walking into this church, and nobody knew who I was.
Speaker 1:They didn't care, they didn't listen to the kind of music I recorded. As a matter of fact, it was a church of Christ. They didn't even play music in there. Yeah, so they didn't care about that.
Speaker 1:And I remember the season where God introduced me to a deeper level of like, hey, listen, this is not about what you have the ability to do. You need to spend some time here with these people, being in a community of people that you would never, ever choose. And now those are people that I treasure. Yeah, because that's where a lot of the talk about the core of who I am, that I'm able to place the ministry talents on top of Strong enough to hold it up. I'm grounded, yes, and when you get pre-exposed, you don't have the grounding to handle what comes along with that type of pressure. And you and I both know sometimes the predicament you find yourself in, the choices you end up making, the people you end up connecting with and those things that begin to derail you. And what the enemy is trying to do is he's trying to upset what God is putting in you. He's literally trying to subvert what God has spoken over your life and so it is the favor of God. As much as you would think, the favor of God is an upward promotion to a bigger and better place, but sometimes the best way for God to add to your life is to subtract. Oh man, absolutely, it is literally addition through subtraction. Absolutely, it is saying, and you won't get a call I have. It's not punishment, it's love. It's love, man, it is God's.
Speaker 1:There is a scenario. Let me tell you the dare there is. There is an altered universe. What do y'all call it in those movies? The multiverse, the multiverse In the multiverse. There is a version of you who did not exit the seas when you should have, and there's a version of you who never married this one. There's a version of you that was preoccupied with the opportunities that you can see and taste at the time, not aware of what God had for you in your future. I don't know that man. I know the one sitting in this room. I am grateful that I don't know the story that could have been. I'm grateful for everything. I missed Every party. I missed every event, every concert, every opportunity that I thought was mine, that never made it to my address. I'm grateful for every dollar that was intended for me that never got to my address. Yeah, I am grateful for every person who saw me and forgot to call me. Thank you, yes.
Speaker 1:Thank you. No, no, thank you. You don't even know that I'm talking to you, because you don't even remember. I wanna thank you because it was God's providence that allowed it to go, but only so far.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But to make sure that I got to the place he intended on time. And here's what I love that, even if you stepped out of God's will and you have done some things that you regret, I love the way God has the ability to reset your life. And I don't mean reset you back to zero, yeah, I mean redeem lost time and advance you to the place of effective ministry he intended you to be at this moment.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:This is what I have experienced in my life. There are years that I wish I could get back, but the power of God's grace to do something in me that I can't explain has even power over time itself to develop you and get you to where you should be on time, and that is the power of the wilderness. Now you can leave if you want, right? Nobody's holding you hostage to obeying God. No one's gonna make you do it. As a matter of fact, your friends are gonna tell you it. Don't take all that. When I share, over the years, things that God has led me to do as a matter of fact, I remember when the Holy Spirit told me Michael, I want you fasting for 21 days, starting Monday. And I'm thinking to myself you gotta be kidding me. Let me tell you what. The next thing I heard the Holy Spirit share with me. I heard what in the world?
Speaker 1:These kids are just running up and down the stairs, I heard the Lord telling me something. That was funny. The Lord does have jokes. He told me Michael, you're not gonna die, as in my mind I was thinking, if I don't eat between one day I'm gone.
Speaker 2:Right, right Am I to you.
Speaker 1:I said start preparing the funeral, I ain't gonna make it, I just gonna just drive to the hospital and just get a room. And it was funny, but it was in that season. Now, during the 21 days, whole 21 days, in the middle of it I get shingles. So I'm sick, I've got shingles, I'm losing weight fast, I'm not feeling well. I met the doctor and the doctor's telling me what shingles are. I don't even know. It's like the virus for chickenpox still lives in you and certain things can traumatize those cells or that virus and they can resurface.
Speaker 1:Now I got shingles and they say, hey, these shingles don't go away, it takes a long time. And then I had a friend tell me man, you need to eat. Why are you taking yourself through all this? Why would you put your? You got shingles, man. It's obvious that something's wrong with this. Fast. You need to eat Now. You would think that's simple. I mean, look, it's food. You think God's so petty that he's going to get upset because you ate when you had shingles and you look, he's sick. He understands, because God understands everything. He always understands our heart. Here's something you miss when you tell God that he needs to understand your heart, when you need to understand his word that obedience is the preferable choice over telling God what he should understand. The long and short of it is.
Speaker 1:I continued the 21 day fast after the doctor told me I had shingles. After I prescribed medicine that I should have been eating food with, I was healed of shingles in a week, but what I got after the 21 days was a life changing transformation. The Lord told me what if I told you that the only thing separating you from what I showed you you can be and where you are right now is 21 days to me? Wow, would would it be worth it? I'm like, absolutely. I would take 21 days of hunger to be a new person. Wow, that is just. That's like a metaphor for for understanding, like whatever it takes to obey God. It does take all of that. I could have eaten and then I'd never know. Or I could obey God and see his miraculous power work in my life, not only change my heart, but get rid of my shingles. It it is just that simple. It's simple, even though it's not always easy yeah, sometimes.
Speaker 1:Listen, the pain is real, the sacrifices are real, the challenges are real, the financial. Not getting a call. Don't miss this. Not getting a call means money missing. That means I was getting paid. Yes, now I'm not getting paid. That's it. That's really what it means, what it comes down to. Now. I got a wife, I have a family and I'm trying to find a new way to bring in the bacon, and it's not happening. And I still have to trust you. God led me to leave my engineering career when we were working together and the financial crisis, the housing crisis, hit and our funding for the company went away and the salaries were gone. I went back to the recruitment office that had placed me before to find another job. They sent me on an interview. I went to this interview for a design job electrical design. I threw the interview. I only went to the interview because I felt it was the responsible thing to do, and I'm sure we talked about these things like what are you going to do? I don't know.
Speaker 2:What are we?
Speaker 1:going to do? We have to figure this out. I go to this interview. They're asking me questions. I'm like yeah, I can do it, I try. I wasn't selling myself at all because. I didn't want the job. I walked out of the office and before I got to my car, the recruiter called me and said they love you. They absolutely would love that.
Speaker 1:Here's what I said. You ain't getting out of this that easy. I'm going to make you choose. You try to throw it and it ain't going to be that easy. It's on you. I've already told you that this is a direction, and now it's getting tough. You don't like it, you want to bounce, you really don't, but you're trying to get out of this. And here it is. You get to choose. You either stay with me and obey or you take the job.
Speaker 1:We all know the story. I didn't take the job. The job was offering me more money than I was making at the company, so the decision had to be made, which meant I had to stay with a company whose funding just went away and then trust God. Now, how is that a bad predicament? I get to trust God for his provision. I didn't get the check that I hoped for.
Speaker 1:I got a whole life that I've been praying for. Listen, I can go on and on about this, but we have walked these days, nights, weeks, years together. I want to just tell you how much I appreciate y'all. Over the years of just being consistent friends, you guys have always encouraged me. You guys have always affirmed even for a while we weren't really connected and I remember we got reconnected at Gateway. We got to be together a lot more and then I moved and we were close to each other. So I moved with y'all. So y'all are here first and I came and I just see how God has placed us and close proximity and I'm so grateful for you guys to come share. I would ask y'all a question, and this is me opening myself up for a little fun, uh-oh.
Speaker 3:Remember you said that I did cause we've been serious for a minute.
Speaker 1:This is, I think we're a little over time, we're a little over our right there.
Speaker 2:Hour and 12. Hour and 12.
Speaker 1:So let me ask you guys a question Is there anything you guys would like to share with our family out there that watches us, the tribe, the folks that's just checking the podcast out right now? That a funny moment, something that I may have done or said, that I perhaps regret, man.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, this doesn't, because they saw me when I was not just Mike. They saw me when I was Mike on the mic, Mike on the mic. They saw me when I was Mike on the mic, all the jokes, the handmaiden. That's where I was gonna go with it.
Speaker 2:The daughter of God, See the handmaid. It wasn't like a specific moment, but the season of the handmaiden.
Speaker 3:that boy you have to describe what that is. I brought that up to my chagrin, please explain to the man. I was hoping you would use another one. No, you brought it up.
Speaker 1:So, the women of God, oh my gosh, don't get me canceled. It was a different time. It was a different time. It was a different matter. They don't care.
Speaker 2:I won't get into the philosophy behind the handmaid but I will say, I remember and there's some proof on YouTube. I think of a concert. Maybe it's on YouTube, maybe it's on my head. We're friends actually. We call you up on stage and you would do the whole handmaid.
Speaker 1:It was a comedy routine.
Speaker 3:It was a comedy routine and I was pretending to be an old preacher.
Speaker 1:Yes, and old preachers were sometimes called the women in ministry. I don't know if they actually did the handmaid. Oh, daughter, you know.
Speaker 3:Daughter, they're helping me.
Speaker 1:So here listen, so I appreciate your help.
Speaker 3:There you go, Siobhan. There you go. Siobhan's like boo.
Speaker 1:But that's in my past. I don't tell them jokes no more. My wife he's been delivered, she has banned that version of comedy from this house. My wife would say, Michael, you tell great jokes, but at the expense of other people.
Speaker 3:So I have laid that down. It's okay, because I started calling you son, you did and I'm okay with.
Speaker 1:it Just means that you're older than me. Man, you see, but this is our relationship, this is how we listen, I just like when you say something like that and just get that guy with the beard looking at you, it's like, well, man, that was funny, but it might not have been worth it. Hey look, I will say this I've always had so much fun I will say this you know we have grown a lot.
Speaker 2:Yes, we have A whole lot. I mean to be men in our early mid-20s when we first met. From where we were then to who we are now, is a testament of God's goodness and His faithfulness and, like you said, talked about just submitting to His development, doing what he's calling us to do and choosing that man. I've seen God and he's doing such an amazing work in you and through you. That's blessing us in real time. So I just want you to know that.
Speaker 1:Thank you, man, and I want to thank you for helping me on projects and stuff. You know, this year, or last year now, we released an album, overflow Live. Oh, yes, and I have some videos and YouTube. He helped us with one of those videos and content that we're producing right now. I want to thank you guys for believing in me, partnering with me and being a part of the Life in the Wild podcast. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, listen.
Speaker 1:So let me do this. I know this is not a commercial, but if you have not listened to the Overflow Live album, I want to just recommend and you can look in the show notes. There's a link there for Spotify or Apple Music or whatever. Rob is right here so you know what I'm talking about. He helps me with all that kind of stuff, but I want you to listen to the album, because the album is literally an expression or testimony of all the stuff we're talking about, the result, which is Overflow, which is the abundance of fruit that the Lord has nurtured and cultivated. Through this lifestyle I've learned to embrace.
Speaker 1:So this is Life in the Wild podcast. These are my friends, darius and LaNisha Fincheress. I'm so excited you guys have been a part of this. I hope you guys like share and subscribe. You are exceptional, right, because this is about exceptional people, exceptional callings, and you're committing to an exceptional lifestyle because you're going to see what God promised actually happened and manifest. But it won't happen without your faith, it won't happen without your participation. God's calling you to partner with him so that what he spoke of your life comes to fruition. God bless you. I'm Michael Bethan, your host of Life in the Wild podcast. Hello to you, boy.