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When Spiritual Attacks Confirm You're on the Right Path: Finding Peace in the Chaos
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In this raw and vulnerable episode, Pam and Mandi open up about their recent health scares, emotional struggles, and the intense spiritual warfare they've experienced. After riding a wave of blessings throughout 2024, both hosts found themselves facing unexpected medical emergencies, mental health challenges, and moments of darkness they hadn't experienced in years. They share how these attacks actually confirmed they were on the right path in their faith journey, and why difficult seasons often precede breakthrough moments. Whether you're dealing with health issues, relationship challenges, career uncertainty, or simply feeling under attack from all sides, this candid conversation offers faith-based wisdom for seeing beauty in the chaos, taking one step at a time, and transforming spiritual attacks into spiritual growth.
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Intro
The Importance of Sharing Personal Experiences
00:00:56
Pamela Rivet
Hello, ah welcome back to another episode of Finding My Best Self. We had to unfortunately so last week. So if you are wondering where we were, we're really sorry. um Life has been lifing. And so this week we're back with you and we're doing a joint episode this week.
00:01:16
Pamela Rivet
That was not necessarily planned for this to happen, but after what's been happening over the last few weeks, Mandy and I felt that it was really important to come on and do a joint episode to talk about what's been going
Authenticity and Relatability in Self-Care
00:01:30
Pamela Rivet
on. So we're going to hit a little bit on um our personal life and what we've been going through each individually and together. yeah um And as well as what we're so hearing from lots of our friends and just what apparently is going on in the world right now.
00:01:49
Pamela Rivet
um And just kind of touching on, I know we talked a lot this year about self-care, but we're going to talk about self-care and just a little bit of a different aspect, just because it's what's really, really hit us hard this year, especially here in the last few weeks. So, and just being again, just truly,
00:02:08
Pamela Rivet
um very open and honest and real and authentic and taking y'all along this journey of life with us. and Literally with us. Yeah.
00:02:19
Pamela Rivet
And hopefully y'all can relate. Hopefully, um maybe we help some people and just knowing that you're not alone and whatever it is that you may be experiencing today,
00:02:31
Pamela Rivet
whether it is in a very similar aspect to us or even just taking it and putting, you know, this situation in your own terms, because it is overall at the end of the day, how we're both coping and handling the situations.
Mindset Changes and Coping Strategies
00:02:46
Pamela Rivet
It's something that everybody can do. And it's a way in a mindset and how you choose to look at it and to see it and how that, how that has changed for us over the years.
00:02:56
Pamela Rivet
um So with that being said, I guess well we'll jump into it from, i mean, I really do want to just jump in from like what you said before we started that we don't really talk about exactly what happened because this is really what kind of kickstarted the ah chaos.
00:03:20
Pamela Rivet
Two weeks. i don't wait Hold on, I'm saying two weeks, but wait a minute. My episode, which I'll share with y'all in a minute, was at the beginning of march Yeah. So it's really been a month.
00:03:32
Pamela Rivet
Yeah.
Health Struggles and Faith's Role
00:03:33
Pamela Rivet
And so we've just kind of kept quiet because, you know, when there's medical things that go on, you just want to sort them out before you actually speak publicly about them. them We've just been kind of dealing with things before. We were like, when are we goingnna be ready to share? Like what's been going on? on So, but there was something that happened.
00:03:51
Pamela Rivet
um with Mandy and i and that it didn't have anything to do with MBS per se. It was more so just ah an experience that we had with a friend. Mandy and talk a lot about about mandy and i talk a lot about And we don't want, let's just preface this episode that we don't want it to be 100%, I guess, biblical and and anything like that. However, for Mandy and I personally, that's where all of this is going to come from. So just know that we're going to talk about that in that aspect.
00:04:28
Pamela Rivet
um But we have been... um diving deeper and deeper into our faith and our calling with MBS and in our personal lives
Spiritual Reflections from Friendship
00:04:37
Pamela Rivet
too. So we had a sit down meeting with ah a friend of ours and there were just some things that happened, some things that were said and some revelations that we had some really, really deep personal faith-based revelations that were had.
Insights from a Health Scare
00:04:56
Pamela Rivet
And it was after that day, ah that experience some really, really heavy spiritual warfare type things. Because if you know anything about faith, if you are some you know someone who does read the Bible and in scripture, you know that the closer that you get to your calling and the more that you lean into God and the more obedient you are, the more that the enemy will try to attack because there is nothing
00:05:27
Pamela Rivet
that the enemy wants more than to stop you from doing what God is calling you to do. ah So with that being said, um shortly after that, which also, um if you follow us on MBS and you saw our, the day that we posted that we were doing a photo shoot and things like that, um that, which was an incredible, awesome day of getting our hair done and you know, just being completely pampered and having all of these, such a great photo shoot and everything was completely fine at 10 something or that
Managing Health and Spiritual Challenges
00:06:05
Pamela Rivet
night.
00:06:06
Pamela Rivet
Um, I ended up having my first ambulance ride ever in my life. Um, really, really scary moment. Um, so I was in the emergency room overnight we and what i didn't really I knew partially what it was, but I didn't. It was just worse than what it's ever been. But I've ah i've been having stomach issues for and my entire life.
00:06:29
Pamela Rivet
No, not my entire life. I've been having issues with my gallbladder. Or not gallbladder, because that's gone. Since I had my gallbladder out, I've been having issues with my stomach. um So long story short, I found out that I have what's called an alias in my small intestines.
00:06:45
Pamela Rivet
Um, no, I have not seen a doctor yet because they want me to go to a gastro doctor. And that's a whole different story in itself that we don't need to talk about on the podcast. But, um, I am taking natural, doing natural remedies to hopefully try to correct it myself. I've also, which y'all have heard me talk about her before Casey Trostclair, I've reached back out to her and getting all of my blood work redone.
00:07:07
Pamela Rivet
um and in reaching out to her, i found out that there are some other things that, may or may not be an issue, which I don't want to talk about because I don't know for sure.
00:07:19
Pamela Rivet
um yet that she was more concerned about than she was the issue with my small intestines, um, which, and if that is really what it is, it is a lot more serious than just my intestines.
00:07:32
Pamela Rivet
Um, so I'll share with y'all when I know more on that. So, um, with that being said, that was, it like took me for, it was like a tailspin, right? The entire march of month of March was, i was coming down off of this, you know, really bad attack that I had.
00:07:54
Pamela Rivet
um, which when I have those attacks, it just really throws my entire system off, right? Because my intestines are not right. Everything's backed up, which affects me mentally, emotionally, physically, like the whole nine yards, like everything just threw me for a loop.
00:08:11
Pamela Rivet
So I spent the entire month of March. Um, after that, I say the entire month March, but just trying to get myself back to together And then twice in March, I had some of this really heavy spiritual warfare type of tax where have not for the last two years ever really sat in a place in a really dark place.
00:08:36
Pamela Rivet
I have not sat in a really, really dark place and had really hard, really bad thoughts in years. in years And that happened not once, but twice.
00:08:49
Pamela Rivet
And just having to really dig deep into my faith and just to pull myself out of those situations.
Faith Journey Through Challenges
00:08:56
Pamela Rivet
I don't even know, like I'm just telling my story at this point because I know that we want to talk about like what else we've been doing.
00:09:03
Pamela Rivet
But that was what had happened with me, um which so just so that y'all know, everything is for the most part okay now. um i Like I said, my my stomach's feeling a lot better and I'm waiting on, I got my blood test back everything.
00:09:19
Pamela Rivet
everything that was really high. Um, cause that's what, I guess what was so scary about it is that afterwards, um, my liver levels were through the roof. My kidney levels were really high. i had some really, my white blood cell count was really high.
00:09:34
Pamela Rivet
Um, my blood work was really scary to look at, um, from that night in the emergency room, but everything's back to normal. So, that feels good. And I don't know if that's partially because of the things that I've been doing, um, to help it because it was a month later that I got my new blood work done.
00:09:51
Pamela Rivet
Or if it's just really because my body was just in shock moment and just made all of my levels skyrocket, regardless they're back to normal, which is why I'm talking to you guys about it because now I feel a little bit more okay to actually speak on it.
00:10:04
Pamela Rivet
Um, but, and then not long after that, Mandy had a full whirlwind two weeks of issues and still coming off of it. So that's why last week I was originally supposed to do a solo and it just, just life life.
00:10:21
Pamela Rivet
And, um, I don't think it's coincidence that both of us are kind of going through similar things, not similar, but similar. Um, But it's definitely been like you were bringing up, it's been two years since you had those dark thoughts. And I mean, the same for me, like totally spun me back into 2020, 2019.
00:10:41
Pamela Rivet
twenty nineteen And the same things that I was dealing with then started to creep up again and completely just kicked me off of my my feet and still is like, I still sitting here, i can still feel it. And it's definitely something that I'm trying to fight through with.
00:11:00
Pamela Rivet
um being more in my faith. And I know that we'll kind of jump into that, but it's for sure one of those things that, you know, i was fine. Everything been going for the most part great. Obviously I've had some big decisions in my life that I'm having to make at this time. And I think that that's where a lot of this has stemmed from.
00:11:20
Pamela Rivet
Um, I let it get the best of me and I didn't trust. And that, that word obedience is my word for the year. And I think that these situations that have happened have really stemmed from just that spiritual warfare to trying to have me not trust and not be obedient and fall back into those old habits of anxiety, like stress, um the dark, deep depression, like all of those things. And, you know, and and to the outside, we look like we've, we've been fine. Right. And that's the scary part. Social media. That's the scary part is because. you
00:11:55
Pamela Rivet
never know what someone's going through. And that's why we, we do this. That's why we have the podcast too, is to to shed light on those moments where people really need to know that they're not alone because we, we look like we have it together when really, you know, we're struggling and we don't want to be silent on silent on that because it can't help someone else. And so, you know, Monday night, uh, two weeks ago, sitting, watching a movie with my daughter and it just hits me out of nowhere.
00:12:23
Pamela Rivet
intense head pain. Um, like someone was pushing on my brain, you know, I've never had that before. um I do have tendencies to to pass out, so that's nothing new, but I was like, okay, well maybe I just need some water, you know, just got up acting, you know, like everything's fixed dinner. And then all of a sudden I go to faint.
00:12:44
Pamela Rivet
And so I went lay down, I ended up fainting and I just called like, I gotta, I gotta get this checked out. So they treated it like it was an aneurysm just because of the head pain, the, you know, passing out nauseousness and all of that. Luckily it was not that because that would have been super scary. um and Blood work came back fine, gave me some fluids and sent me on my way. Well, that whole week I was not myself at all.
00:13:11
Pamela Rivet
um The headache, honestly, if I can be completely honest, hasn't gone away until probably this weekend. And yeah, I think a lot of it now looking back is hormonal, um which that's something that I'm to have to you know check into and get get seen for.
00:13:28
Pamela Rivet
But then I ended up back in the ER. um i was at school and um my heart rate was irregular and my blood pressure was really low. And so they sent me to the ER.
00:13:40
Pamela Rivet
So I don't know if it's stress related heart related, but I'm just following through because I do feel like it's important to take care of ourself. And I feel like that was the main message for me that I needed to hear, whether I needed to be thrown into this whirlwind of two weeks where I'm um literally praying through it day by day, minute by minute, and just praying over us, ourselves, and just knowing that we're safe, we're protected and that, you know, there's more for us and we just have to trust and be obedient and make sure that we're doing the things to take care of us.
00:14:18
Pamela Rivet
And so slowing down has been the words that I hear, you know, and that's, what's kind of happened. Um, I did take off couple of days of work, which would have never happened.
00:14:31
Pamela Rivet
Um, But because this kind of kicked me off my feet and I was not okay. I can honestly say that. And I mean, I still at this point, um i can I can still feel my body. And I mean, if you ever had anxiety or panic or any of that before, you know what I'm talking about. And it just, you don't feel like yourself. You're completely off.
00:14:53
Pamela Rivet
You just feel like you're going through the motions and trying not to have the triggers that would trigger you before. And honestly, I felt so defeated though, because I felt like I had worked so hard to get to this point to not do that again like I knew i was grounded in my faith I knew that it was spiritual warfare I knew it was from the enemy but at the same time your body almost responds back to that it's almost like that muscle memory that's like oh this is happening let's completely shut down and that's what was happening was
00:15:26
Pamela Rivet
um I don't know if that was causing the heart to kind of skip a beat and do different things like that because that's what's happened. So I still want to follow up with that.
00:15:37
Pamela Rivet
um For sure, the pain is part of it. And i just or I just have been so upset over it because I just feel like... like, how am I letting myself get back to that? Like I was doing so good and literally, you know, but I also think it's a response to the stress that I was putting on myself.
00:15:57
Pamela Rivet
It's
Relying on Faith in Life Pressures
00:15:57
Pamela Rivet
delayed response, but it was for sure. You stressed about all of these things and now your body is reacting to that because it's trying to get rid of it almost because that weight has been lifted because I have been able to sort through those situations and And finally listen and pray on it and know what I need to do.
00:16:16
Pamela Rivet
But my body's reaction to it has just completely thrown me for a loop. And I feel like I'm back in 2019 where I'm constantly being triggered and constantly having to like pray through it to not spiral again.
00:16:30
Pamela Rivet
So yeah it's mentally draining and it's definitely kicked me out of my game where I'm not... I'm not myself. And I can honestly say that. And that's something that's really hard to, to say because you, you don't want to, to fall into that, depression again, or that anxiety, because you know that that's not coming from God.
00:16:49
Pamela Rivet
And I know that that's just not for my good, but I do know that the situation has been for my good because it has allowed me to see what I really need to focus on and where my faith needs to lie.
00:17:02
Pamela Rivet
Yeah. And you said it's hard to say that, but at the same time, it's good to say it. And I think that that's a portion of the growth, right? Is because I know, and I can probably speak for you too, that back in those times years ago, when we used to have those experiences of panic attacks and anxiety and depression, i would never have admitted I'm not okay. I would have never had said um' not okay. Like, or given myself the grace or,
00:17:32
Pamela Rivet
um trying or anything like that. It was, i'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. i'm Just shoving it down. just like Put it down and everybody everybody's like are you and like, I'm okay or whatever. Maybe behind closed doors, whenever I was alone, I was in tears crying and telling myself I'm not okay. But I would have never said out loud ah or especially to anyone else, I'm not okay.
00:17:54
Pamela Rivet
And that's growth, right? that's That's growth and in itself to be able to so just speak that. And And how therapeutic that is too, in a sense, to be able to just release that and say, I'm not okay right now. And I just need a minute or I just need some time to work through this because I'm not okay. Whether it's mentally, emotionally, physically, whatever it is. so I mean, that in itself is growth.
00:18:20
Pamela Rivet
I know for us, and this might be a little bit of a lengthy episode because I really want us to hit on over the last several weeks,
00:18:29
Pamela Rivet
the amount of times that we've talked and the and things that we've talked about what these last few weeks have shown us in so many different aspects, which I think initially the very, very initial thought was and going to the spiritual warfare, like the attack from the enemy and just the trying to take us down from the high that we were on. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:56
Pamela Rivet
from that day that we spent with our friend. um And just everything that's happened in general, all of 2024. If y'all follow me on TikTok, y'all saw my video that I said, I recently spoke to a friend. This is a different friend who said, if someone would have told me in 2024, that this is what 2025 would look like, I would have been like higher because we spent all of 2024 on like this high. And even the beginning of this year is just like,
00:19:23
Pamela Rivet
you know, it was just like going and going and going and we kept happening and happening and happening. And then like, you know, 2025 comes along and it's just like, not that it's so crazy because it's not that good things aren't happening. to say Good things are still happening, but at the same time, we're getting hit with a lot of different pressures, pressures, whether it would be And I'm speaking for ourselves. And I'm also speaking on behalf of a lot of other people and friends that we have that we've been talking to because, and this is why we wanted to come and do this on this podcast is because we we know that we're not alone and we want you to know that you're not alone because that is part of what's nice to have a good close group of friends that we're open with each other. um And then also
00:20:11
Pamela Rivet
seeing things that other people who were open about their lives on social media, who were also sharing. Yeah. I'm okay right now. Right. Things are really, really hard right now. So whether it is physically with your own body, you know, in a health way, whether it's in relationships, whether it's financially, whether it's inside of careers, whether it's, you know, family issues, like there's so many different people dealing with issues that in very personal, like deep ways. Like it's not surface level stuff, right? It's not like I got in an argument with my husband yesterday. this is like really deep, serious stuff.
00:20:55
Pamela Rivet
And that's hitting a lot of people that they're just trying to work through this year. So, and so I think when, when we first started seeing these things, it's, you know, again, 2024 great. And We were being obedient and, you know, it just like, it was just blessing after blessing. And even this year, we've seen a lot of that happening and on a much deeper spiritual level for the two of us. And as I'm speaking on behalf of us, and then it's like the enemy just completely knocked us. Yeah.
00:21:27
Pamela Rivet
And we knew that, right. And we knew that from jump. And like Mandy said, it's, it's, you know, but but at the same time, and you're praying and you're saying, God, I trust you.
00:21:37
Pamela Rivet
And, you know, out we're praying the, the protect over us, everything, like, you know, rebuking the enemy, like we're doing all of the prayers and doing all of the things and, you know, no weapon formed against me shall prosper and like all of the things and that, um, but at the same time, your body, you know, it's just,
00:21:56
Pamela Rivet
again, that, that full surrender and that trust. And we do, and I do. And that's what kept telling Mandy is like, I know that it's going to be okay. And so then we went from that into this thing.
00:22:09
Pamela Rivet
Being able to see it and not just this, but even ah some other things that have happened to, of being able to say, almost like to tell the enemy, like,
00:22:21
Pamela Rivet
Joke's on you. Right. Because as much as you're trying to hurt me right now, you have no idea how much you are helping me to glorify God right now. Or confirm things that we knew we were just, I think for me, it was like, oh, well, maybe like you question it, but like you have a deep knowing that like, this is what I need to do and to trust and all of those things. And so it's like the enemy was trying to push me back.
00:22:48
Pamela Rivet
To the past and how I was before. And it's like, no, like, I know exactly what's happening. Does it suck going through it? Absolutely. But at the same time, you're confirming for me all the things that I already knew. And it just made my faith stronger.
00:23:02
Pamela Rivet
Yeah. Yes. That's what like, that's like jokes on you. Like, ha ha. Like you're trying to knock me down and you're not going to knock me down. I'm going to allow you to take me down and I'm going to continue to fight against you. And all you are doing is you're not pulling me away from God. You're making my faith right that much stronger. Yeah.
00:23:21
Pamela Rivet
You know? And so. It was like the recognition part initially of like knowing what it was and where it was coming from. And that's the huge part. And as if you don't, then you'd get sucked. but That's where the tailspin comes from. Right.
00:23:33
Pamela Rivet
And then it's seeing the beauty in it. And it, that's really hard. It's really hard to sit in things that are really hard.
00:23:44
Pamela Rivet
It's really hard to sit in. and especially when you're getting hit from multiple angles. And I know Mandy and I, We are both, you know, it's, it's multiple angles. It's, you know, like Mandy said, she has a lot of really big life decisions. She, and then just like the medical stuff, all of And it's just like when you, or you're in that spot where you feel like it's one thing and then another, yeah and then another,
00:24:05
Pamela Rivet
And another, and you feel like it's like, again, it's like in the ocean, like a wave. And you like, you finally coming up and you might be take a breath and another wave hits you again. And it's just like that constant, like the wave after wave after wave.
00:24:18
Pamela Rivet
And you're just like, that's where that anxiety and everything comes from. And it's just like, when am I going to get to take a breath? So it's, it's being able to sit in those things
00:24:28
Pamela Rivet
and be able to say, this is really hard. and I'm not okay, but God, i trust you. i trust what you were doing.
00:24:39
Pamela Rivet
i can see what you were doing. And that's like the third part is when not only it's the recognition, but it's the enemy, seeing the beauty in it and being able to say, you're just making my faith even stronger, but being able i don't I don't know how to explain this. This is such a hard thing to explain, to be able to, I'm going to refer you you talk about your verse because that's the best way for me to explain to it And that's, I told you, I wrote it in my journal this morning because I was journaling about, I was journaling about all of the things right now and how
Step-by-Step Faith Guidance
00:25:13
Pamela Rivet
feel.
00:25:14
Pamela Rivet
And wrote down, off I said, all I feel like right now is I don't want to, I don't like that term, just going the motions, even though that is what I wrote. I don't know what else to say because I feel like going through the motions is numb and I'm not numb.
00:25:28
Pamela Rivet
yeah I'm not numb to it. It's like, I'm in the place where I'm just like, one day at a time. And i don't even want to say one day at a time. It's literally one step. Like, okay. Like one step, one step at a time. And that's when I wrote down and I wrote down the Bible, which is Mandy's, uh, a light of my path.
00:25:49
Pamela Rivet
And, uh, the lamp of my you are the lamp of my life in the light of my path which is wild because that verse has followed me forever and I sent Pam a picture this morning of my bible that I bought in 2023 when I had like fully like okay God like I give it you and it's the first on the cover page with 2023 written on it.
00:26:12
Pamela Rivet
And she's like, i just wrote this verse down today. in early r I'm telling you that verse has literally been one but I think that's what it is. One step at a time. You can't see the light far, yeah but you have enough of a vision to see where you're going.
00:26:28
Pamela Rivet
Right. And it's each step is going to take you closer and closer to that. And I think that's where we're at. Yeah. We're getting hit so hard because, We do know. We have the knowing about everything. I mean, this doesn't just go with our business, our life in general.
00:26:42
Pamela Rivet
We can see it. We know it. Deep down, we know the direction it's going. We just have to be faithful and continue to trust. But at the same time, it's taking one step at a time and letting him light our path, not us trying to determine what that looks like.
00:26:57
Pamela Rivet
And that resistance is what causes the anxiety, the stress. And that's what I was doing myself. I was letting that side of it. take over and question, even though that I knew, you know, I know everything's going to work out for our good.
00:27:11
Pamela Rivet
i mean, that's, that says nothing is done. That's not going to be done for your good. And that's exactly what I was allowing myself to do was to question the things that I should have just trusted. i should have been.
00:27:24
Pamela Rivet
And ah just feel like the enemy grasped a hold of that and was like, right, like you're back in, you know, your days of anxiety and stress. So I'm just going to make that 10 times worse. And um I do still feel like there's things that I obviously need to do to take care of my body. I mean, I'm not saying that this was just all spiritual warfare. Like, I do feel like there's some certain things that I've been putting off that I need to take care of. And I think we can speak to that, too, because...
00:27:50
Pamela Rivet
as mothers, as women, we're constantly putting everything so down yeah everyone else first. And um we don't need to do that because what's going happen is going to build up, spiral, and then you're going to end up, you know, having a situation you might not have, you could have prevented, I guess.
00:28:05
Pamela Rivet
But um it's for sure just trusting what we already know and what we feel. And even if know, you should know that you just have to have faith in it and just continue to pray and know that it's going to work out for your favor. So it's that, it's that priming season, right? It's that yeah being able to see them. That's what I was going to say earlier is it's so to sit in this hard and not feel defeated. Yeah.
00:28:37
Pamela Rivet
I feel like, you know because um Look, I won't lie. like I can tell you I have prayed to God and asked him many times, like, when is this going to be over? right when and When am I going to come out on the other side? But I know that it's coming.
Learning from Trials
00:28:50
Pamela Rivet
But I'm so grateful for everything that I'm going through right now because either A, and so i was going to say A or B and and try to separate it, but it's not. Everything is such a huge life.
00:29:05
Pamela Rivet
learning, you know, going back into last year. And I know that I've talked about this on the podcast already, but at the end of last year where I started to feel like, you know, let me go back to the beginning of last year, you know, as God was like, I'm going to show you you, you know, and aligned me with all the right people in the right places at the right time. And, you know, building up MBS and all of this that's to come,
00:29:28
Pamela Rivet
And then at the end of the year, I started to get into a place of, he was like, okay, now you got a little taste yeah of what this is going to look like. But before you can see it through, there's all things you have to learn.
00:29:43
Pamela Rivet
And it was the, you still have to make time for your family. I learned that that got hit. I got hit hard with that at the end of last year of still taking time for you and your family and being able to divide those two things, you know, God, family, work. Right.
00:30:01
Pamela Rivet
And then earlier this year, I got hit with the whole, you know, financial piece of it of before you get to see, like, we got to, we got to go through this financial side of it. And, you know, and,
00:30:17
Pamela Rivet
and you know, tides and, and exactly, you know, giving and all of those things like that really got hit with, I got hit with this year, earlier this year.
00:30:28
Pamela Rivet
And then this happens, you know, with the, um, you know, the health, you know, the the health part of it is if you don't take care of yourself, your health is going to deteriorate through this, you know? so It's like, it's that, it's that priming, it's that preparation, it's that chipping away at our old self and creating the new.
00:30:51
Pamela Rivet
To, to, you know, he's planting those seeds, he's planting those seeds or, and, and just to, you know, to be able to see and experience everything that he has you.
00:31:04
Pamela Rivet
Um, Gosh, what did she say on Social Dallas this morning? know so If y'all do not listen to Social Dallas Church on YouTube or watch it, don't listen to it. Watch it.
00:31:17
Pamela Rivet
I'm telling you, I have sent this church to so many people. And one day I will take a trip there and I will sit in that church and listen to him because he has carried me through.
00:31:28
Pamela Rivet
since I think the first episode was sent to me or I say first episode, but there was one that was sent to me back in October of last year. And I have literally faithfully watched every Sunday since then, because pastor Robert has literally carried me through these last several months. And today he had a guest speaker, Charlotte, Charlotte something. Um,
00:31:53
Pamela Rivet
But anyway, it was, if y'all go look it up on YouTube, it's Social Dallas Church, their service from today. and she really hit, home she hit home on that. um And just talking about, you know, that God is like you, you're not going to get, you know, you are worthy, but you don't get until you are prepared.
00:32:13
Pamela Rivet
i don't
Growth Through Hardships
00:32:13
Pamela Rivet
know. It's just, It goes right back into what you were saying because while you were talking, that's literally I was thinking because she was saying that in order to get to where you need to be, you have to, it's it's the preparation part, but also know that the things that you're going through are those big lessons because you can't, was something to like you can't get what you deserve until almost like you're going to appreciate it more. yeah And you're going to be able to know that.
00:32:43
Pamela Rivet
you are worthy of all of these things at the same time, in order for you to really consume it and to know you have to appreciate it. And I feel like that's happened, which is not ironic. It's coincidental that both of us have been through that over the last couple of months, for sure that all of these little pruning things and changing the family, making sure that we, you know, put family first and and through all of this and,
00:33:10
Pamela Rivet
Because I do know what's coming and not just in our business, but personally, God's growing us to be um someone that can be, you know, able to speak on it.
00:33:21
Pamela Rivet
And we keep saying it every time, you know, this is going to be our testimony one day because all of these little things that are happening. aren't just happening on an accident. It's preparing us for something later. And I feel like once you see that, you don't look at the spiritual attacks as a
Struggles as Future Testimonies
00:33:37
Pamela Rivet
bad thing. It's like, okay, this is something else that I can attest to because I was able to go through it and to speak on it and to know that this came up on the other side.
00:33:47
Pamela Rivet
And that's what keeps me going. least I know you too, that you can get through the hard things because you know that there's something beautiful on the other side of it that you're going able to speak to later to show your faith for God and what all he's done for us.
00:34:01
Pamela Rivet
So, yeah. And it doesn't make the spiritual attack stop. Right. it doesn't tend someone It doesn't mean that they're going to stop. It doesn't mean that they're not going to come again.
00:34:15
Pamela Rivet
it just means that you're able to handle them better and be somewhat appreciative of them because it just lets me know that I am doing the right thing. Like you said, it's it's that confirmation yeah of letting me know that if I wasn't, I wouldn't be getting attacked by the enemy so ruthlessly. Right.
00:34:36
Pamela Rivet
You know, it wouldn't be coming at me from every angle all at once. You know, he wouldn't be trying to drag me down if I wasn't doing the right thing, you know?
00:34:48
Pamela Rivet
And so i guess in all of this, um it's just a matter of knowing that no matter what it is that you're going through, whether, you know, no matter what it is in your life, one of the other um services that I listened to, I think I made a TikTok talking about this a little bit too.
00:35:08
Pamela Rivet
um And so at Social Dallas, this was a weekend or two ago. And he talked about how God's not on a rescue mission. He's not coming to rescue you.
00:35:19
Pamela Rivet
So stop praying for God to rescue you from this. And he said, you know, Jesus walked on water. He didn't run. And he says, so like, you know, when they say in scripture that God is always with you and he's always there and he was always on the boat with them. um And I wish I could remember there's one specific portion of people when they're on this boat and Jesus is not there with them. He's not there.
00:35:44
Pamela Rivet
And he said, you know, it's like that. It's like you feel like you're in the ocean and you're on the boat alone. And he's like, and all these keep coming and crashing over you. And he said, but God's still there and he's watching over you the whole time. He's never going to let anything bad happen to you.
00:36:00
Pamela Rivet
said, but there may be people out there that when all these bad things start happening, he's like, you're looking up at him and shaking your fist at him saying, God, what are you doing? Why are you letting all of this happen? When are you coming to save
Finding Beauty in Difficult Times
00:36:13
Pamela Rivet
me? And he says, and what you should be doing is looking up at him and saying, thank you, God, for never taking your eyes off of me.
00:36:20
Pamela Rivet
And just know that when he's he said, you know, he's not on a rescue mission. this is ah This is a mission of revelation. And he's like, and when that time comes, when your revelation has come, he's like, he's going to walk on water and he's going to put his hand out and rest and save you from, yeah you know, from those waves.
00:36:37
Pamela Rivet
it's that, it's just,
00:36:38
Pamela Rivet
really sitting with and trying to see the beauty in the chaos, you know, as they, they, they talk about that. They have that saying the beauty and the chaos.
00:36:49
Pamela Rivet
And I truly think that that's what that means is being able to see all of the hard things that you're going through and a positive perspective of this really sucks and it's not fun and it's really hard.
00:37:06
Pamela Rivet
But I know that at some point, it's going to be for a greater good. And I'm going to be able to look back and see, or really, even you really do your faith and see God, you can, you can literally see what God is doing and what you can see and understand the reasoning. Why?
00:37:26
Pamela Rivet
i think that's the shift that you and I have recently had is I used to say, I don't understand God. Like, I don't get it, but I'm going to trust you and just, okay.
00:37:38
Pamela Rivet
Like, I don't, I don't get it, you know? And that was kind of going back to my vision with MBS at that time. Like, I didn't have that relationship with God. say Like, I can, like, know, okay, let's go. It all right. This is really scary. And I don't know, but okay. Like,
00:37:55
Pamela Rivet
no I'm gonna do and I'm just gonna trust you. Right. You know, it was like almost like that hesitant, like, um you know, whereas now over the last year and the the more and more I've dug into my faith and the more I dig into scripture, it's like, I can see oh yeah now in the here and the now I can see. And so that no matter what place you are in life, just know, I think it's just having that trust and having that faith.
00:38:22
Pamela Rivet
through the heart and knowing that if you are feeling those attacks and you are feeling like i was obedient, I did what I felt like i was supposed to do And now I'm getting hit sideways. Yeah.
00:38:37
Pamela Rivet
Don't stop. Right. This isn't, this isn't your sign that you need to stop. This is your sign letting you know that you're doing the right thing. Keep going and keep pushing forward and tell the devil that he can sit in the seat. You know, like, I know you're not going to go away and you're going to continue to taunt me, but you're going do it from back there.
00:38:56
Pamela Rivet
I got the steering wheel and I'm driving this bus. that came the other day. I was listening to some and they were saying that like if it's hitting you hard, yeah that's your sign to to run because it's literally faster. You're on the verge of whatever it is.
00:39:08
Pamela Rivet
And that's when you get hit the hardest. And I think it's knowing that. And then it also helps you make decisions past that because you're like, okay, like I'm feeling this way because something big is happening or the decisions that I know I need to make. And this is, you know, from my personal experience,
00:39:24
Pamela Rivet
It just gave me so much more reassurance that I was on the right track because the decisions I have to make are big. And it's it's something that's really going to change the trajectory of.
00:39:36
Pamela Rivet
my life and what I'm doing, yeah my kids, my family, like everything. And i think that's why it was so heavy because i knew I needed to make it. and i knew I needed to decide, but then I also, you know, you have those hesitations, but this whole process of it happening just confirmed that I am on the right track and that I do need to listen to what I already knew.
00:39:59
Pamela Rivet
But then also feel like we don't need to it go. push us back or to be scared of it because it's something that if you really are deep in your faith and know that those confirmations, those little, think home like little whispers of hope, you know, those are the times that you really need to listen to it because that's, that spiritual warfare comes or when big things happen, try and make you second guess what you already know.
00:40:23
Pamela Rivet
You know that that is something that you just need to keep going with because Those are those moments where the big, you know, you're on the other side of the operation or that you know that you can look back and all these things are happening for
Peace as a Sign of Alignment
00:40:36
Pamela Rivet
a reason. And it continues to bring blessing, the peace.
00:40:41
Pamela Rivet
I feel like is 100% what you have to look for. if you're trying to go through something and it feels forced or not right, then it's not. But if you have a sense of peace around it, even within the chaos, that's whenever you know that it's from God and it's something that you truly need to do.
00:40:59
Pamela Rivet
And if it doesn't make sense or feels scary or you can see it but you're unsure, will have a peace about it for sure. Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:09
Pamela Rivet
Life. a It's good. And it's, you know, it's just, it's seeing, it's seeing the growth and it's seeing the change and it's seeing, don't even want to say growth. I mean, I guess it is growth in ourselves too, but seeing how much my relationship with God has changed over the last year and a half and just, Oh yeah. We would have, we would have definitely handled all of these situations a lot differently two years ago. it would without a doubt.
00:41:37
Pamela Rivet
You wouldn't have heard from me because I would have been isolating myself. and Oh, either that or three sheets to the wind, I would have been drunk. yeah, true. We would have been. I would have turned to the bottle and I would have drank myself until and I would have eaten and I would have been, would have put on a lot of weight.
00:41:55
Pamela Rivet
um You know, all kind of things would happened. promise you, could tell you all kind of things. But yeah. So if you're in that, if you are in that place. If you are in place of you're dealing with a lot of really hard things and hard. And that's the only that I can put it is that you're just like, it's right now is just hard. I'm getting hit from every possible angle even if it's just one, no matter what it is, just know to just dig deep and
00:42:30
Pamela Rivet
if you feel that your heart has come from you acting in obedience and you have done something that you've always wanted to do or something that you feel like you were being called to do or you just took a leap of faith, whatever. And then all of a sudden you're getting hit with something that's not your sign to stop.
00:42:53
Pamela Rivet
That is your sign to keep going. That is your sign of you did the right thing. And now someone's enemy is trying to to twist it and say, no. And what you need to be saying it's on you.
00:43:06
Pamela Rivet
You just let me know that this is what I'm supposed to be doing. And now I'm just going to push harder harder and I'm going to keep going. And I'm going to trust in God and I'm going to keep having faith and I'm going keep moving forward.
Perseverance Through Challenges
00:43:17
Pamela Rivet
And you ain't got to go nowhere. get that you're not going to go nowhere. But like I said, you can take it in the back seat, drive this bus. And that's what you need to do. It's just, just know that it's all.
00:43:28
Pamela Rivet
for a purpose and a reason and just ride the wave as much as you can one foot in front of the other and just know that he is the lamp at your feet and the light of your path.
00:43:39
Pamela Rivet
And that you're not alone and that the rest of us are, we're all going through We're being open for everyone. I feel like is the reason for this because a lot of people just don't want to share their, their struggles, but just know that,
00:43:54
Pamela Rivet
You're not alone and that it's all for a purpose. And I feel like you have that in the forefront and you don't let it consume you and let you know that anything that's happening is going to have some kind of lesson or growth.
00:44:09
Pamela Rivet
So hang in there. We're in there. We're in it with you. We're in trenches with you. We're all going to get through it together. So with that being we hope that you have a blessed week. and as always, remember, you are strong. you are capable.
00:44:25
Pamela Rivet
You are worthy. We love you. And we are endlessly rooting for you. Y'all have a good one.