Rooted & Rising: Growth from the Greenhouse

About Rebellion & Redemption

• E's Greenhouse • Season 1 • Episode 18

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Have you ever felt trapped in a cycle of rebellion, knowing deep down something needs to change but unsure how to break free? Sandy Vasquez's powerful testimony might be exactly what you need to hear.

Sandy opens up about her journey from a hardened heart in her early twenties to a life transformed by God's redemptive power. With refreshing vulnerability, she shares how an intervention by godly friends became the catalyst for change in her life. "When they sat down and prayed for me, that really changed the trajectory," Sandy explains, highlighting how the prayers of righteous women caused spiritual strongholds to crumble.

The conversation weaves through Sandy's life-altering experiences, from a divine 4 AM wake-up call that led her to take her daughter on a mission trip to Mexico, to the challenges and joys of fostering and eventually adopting three children. Her husband Daryl (affectionately nicknamed "Harry Poppins") emerges as a beautiful counterbalance to Sandy's task-oriented personality—he with his people-focused heart, she with her efficiency-driven mind.

Whether you're struggling with your own rebellion or trying to help someone who is, this conversation offers hope that no one is beyond the reach of God's redemptive love. Listen now and discover how God can transform even the hardest heart into a vessel of His grace.

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Denise Jackson:

Good morning girls, Buenos dias.

Denise Jackson:

Buenos dias. I'm learning a little. So this morning, at Rooted in Rising Girls from the Greenhouse, I have Sandy Voskins. She and I have been friends for a long time and in the near past she and I went last year to Mexico on mission together and had such a great time on mission together and had such a great time. So we're going to talk this morning about just some different things in our seasons, but one of the things I want you to know about Sandy because she's an expert at this, I feel like, because she's gone through so much she fostered children and she ended up adopting those three children along with her first child. So she has four children and being the mom of four children I really can identify with and it's a tough journey but such a blessed journey. So down the road, maybe today or maybe later we'll talk about just some of those challenges and how God's helped us, but today I'd just like to introduce you. Let you talk to the ladies and then talk to me.

Sandy Vasquez:

Okay, well, one story that I haven't thought of until right now you mentioned Mexico was how we got there. So I am not an early bird. It's hard for me to get up and meet someone at 8. It's hard for me to get up for work at 6.30. And so you know, everybody's advice is always like have your God time first thing in the morning. So it's on your heart, but for those of us that that's not our best time, it's hard.

Denise Jackson:

So I'm exactly the opposite. I like to wake up early, I like to have my God time first.

Sandy Vasquez:

But it's a challenge. So I feel like that giving God your best time may not be at six in the morning. It may be for you in the afternoon, when nobody's around and it's quiet and it's not rushed and it's not, you're not hustling. And it may be at night, when the kids are in bed and it's quiet. You can reflect and look back at, like, what has God done during the day and it's just, you're quiet. Yeah, it might be your best time.

Sandy Vasquez:

Well, for some reason, a couple of years ago I woke up at four and God was telling me now is the time to go and take your daughter on a mission trip. Because now you know, with four kids, our budget is pretty tight and pretty strict and every single day we have itemized exactly what we spend on. So we know monthly, we know yearly, we have our goals and savings, and so I always rationalize we can't afford that. I can't just take a trip. I can't take $2,000 and take my daughter, like I'm not going to leave my husband with three kids, like all the reasons why it's not going to work out. But you had heard, about the mission trip.

Sandy Vasquez:

Yeah. So our church had been doing it for many years and we thought, oh, that would be so great to take the kids, but, like when you know, when they're teenagers or when they're adults, you know it's never a good time Just it wasn't. Well, he woke me up that morning at four. I looked at my clock and I was like, wow, this has never happened.

Sandy Vasquez:

I've never woken up this early and heard from God like you need to go, and so it's easy, when you hear like a directive from God, to just say like well, I mean, that would not be great. But here's my bullet list of why that's not going to work?

Denise Jackson:

And did I really hear from God? Was that really his voice, all those questions? Did you go to Daryl and ask him?

Sandy Vasquez:

Well.

Sandy Vasquez:

At first or not, I mean, he's support, he's the supportive husband. Yeah, if I said you know God wants us to move to Japan, he's kind of like he's just support. He's the one that they make a joke like. You know, if I wanted to buy a llama, my husband would say, well, that's a huge inconvenience, but why not? It makes you happy. He's pretty. He's a yes man, yes, yes, and so watching the kids is no problem. He's a great dad. His dream job, if he could, would be a stay-at-home dad he loves, he was really nurturing.

Denise Jackson:

He could have 20 kids.

Sandy Vasquez:

We call him harry poppins because he's always just. He puts on a chef's hat and he does like a whole show with them and he's like you crack the eggs and you mix the things and I'm really like why are you watching me go play like I'm nervous, I'm a nervous Nelly, and he's just really nervous Nelly and Harry Poppins just so comfortable taking care of kids.

Sandy Vasquez:

And so the interesting thing was like the finances. So I just God was like you can fundraise with your daughter. So we thought about you know, sending out letters and asking people for money. But God was like, no, you need to do something and work with your hands. So we decided to clean houses. I thought, okay, well, I already have a gift of cleaning and that's how God made me. And you know like how, how God gives you gifts, but it's not for you, it's for other people. So who else can I bless with that gift? And then they'll get something out of it. So it's like a, like a win-win. It's not just like we're taking, but we're giving and receiving, because I think in the body there's like natural givers. They're always just giving and then some are receiving. It's good to do both. It is. And even if you are like a natural giver, like if you're an educator or if you're in the medical field or you're a mom, you're always, always giving. Sometimes you also have to receive.

Denise Jackson:

Yes, I was just going to say that. So when I was young I had a lot of. I mean, I like to make friends, I'm a social person, but I remember thinking I only have a couple of friends that when I'm in need, give something back to me to help me and build me up. The rest of them I give and give and give, and that's hard. Now, later in my life, I ended up with a lot more friends that give and take, which I'm thankful for, but I remember thinking that as a young person that I was exhausted because I was always giving. So I think that's an important thing to learn. I think we're going to end up being givers the more that God changes our heart, because he is the greatest giver and he loves us so much. He wants our lives to be blessed, but I love that. You know that he wants us to work with our hands, he wants us to do good and then through that he blesses us.

Sandy Vasquez:

And it's okay to receive too. I remember one time someone bought my Starbucks on a really rough day and I was like, oh, I should pay that forward and keep this going. But then God told me sometimes you just need to receive, it's okay, you don't always have to be the one giving. Yes, I'm not that you also need to be the receiver and the rester.

Denise Jackson:

You know he tells us, rest in him. And for you and I, especially with our personalities, that's really the hardest thing I've ever gone through is to try to get myself to just be content in resting. I can make myself rest, I can go to sleep, but like if I'm sitting in my living room on a day when I don't have appointments and things like that, just being willing to rest there. I'm still learning. They don't wait upon. The Lord shall renew their strength. They shall rise up as angels and eagles. Oh your verses.

Sandy Vasquez:

Yeah, that deals with renewing your youth and eagles I'm going to read the whole thing, so we'll say it right.

Sandy Vasquez:

Okay. So one of the verses that really kind of changed my life was when I was a kid. I had so much energy and so much joy, but then I went through the hardest times, like a lot of people. You leave, leave the house, and you have no direction and guidance and you're off to your own will, your own selfish desires, your own journey. So my story, like many, took a wrong turn, like 18 through 22, and was a rough ride. And so when God brought me back— so do you think it was like?

Denise Jackson:

a rough ride, because it was all about you. You were just trying to fill your own—t trying to do everything to make yourself feel good.

Sandy Vasquez:

It was one of my other verses too is about hardening your heart. So in my life, when I've gotten into trouble, it's just when my heart is so hard and I'm apathetic, I don't care. I didn't care about my health, I didn't care about other people's, you know advice. I didn't care about going to church. I didn't care about other people's feelings or how my decisions affected them. I didn't care about resting. I just you worked, because that's what you did yeah and so.

Denise Jackson:

So then what changed that?

Sandy Vasquez:

um was it. Well, really it was friends, so kind of like you said you had a core group of friends. I always felt like I so kind of like you said you had a core group of friends. I always felt like I was kind of like the bad egg in the good bunch, like I was the bad kid getting into trouble, but my girlfriend, my group was strong. I mean I had some great, great friends from great families and really biblical friends that just let their.

Denise Jackson:

Is there one that stood out?

Sandy Vasquez:

Yeah, like a handful, like five of them.

Denise Jackson:

Oh, tell me your names.

Sandy Vasquez:

So Michelle was one, jen was one, kelly was one, caitlin was one. Like most of these, ended up being my bridesmaids and still friends to this day, 20 years later.

Sandy Vasquez:

Yeah, that's awesome. They basically came to town in Dallas. One of them flew in from St Louis and sat me down and said okay, here's what you're doing with your life and here's what you need to stop doing and leave behind, and we're going to start praying for a godly husband. You're not just going to date, mr Wrong, but you're going to find Mr Right. You're going to go back to church.

Sandy Vasquez:

And so it was kind of like a not awakening, but when they sit down down, so like an intervention so it was like they're like you're gonna start going to counseling because this is some really that big issues you have and a counselor needs to help you that we can't help you with that so?

Denise Jackson:

so were those the issues that had developed after you left home, or were they deeper and would you?

Sandy Vasquez:

you don't have to talk about um well, I'm telling my husband's really comfortable like sharing his whole life story, and I am with him and with maybe like five a handful of close friends, but when I'm like in public.

Denise Jackson:

I'm like, you're not in public, you're with me.

Sandy Vasquez:

The pg version well, and also as a teacher, I feel like, yeah, some story I edit. Yeah, you don't want to. There's the PG version, okay.

Denise Jackson:

Well, those deep things though we do, you know, like I think we were talking to Kate recently and she's a professional counselor we know that those hurts in our life have ramifications. They don't just go away just because you decide you've changed. They stay in there unless you really go in and take the route up. And sometimes you need a counselor. Sometimes you don't, because God can heal you completely without that, but sometimes you do need somebody to talk to you and walk you through the steps, and so did that help you.

Sandy Vasquez:

Yeah, so I went to counseling for about a year and went to some groups at church specifically for certain issues. And so the book Traveling Light that talked about Psalm 23, but really in depth, like why the Lord is our shepherd and I'm not a farmer we don't live in an agrarian society so it really went into how God anoints our heads with oil and the purpose of oil and all the things that farmers know, but in this 21st century we don't know much about shepherding and that book really changed my life a lot and it brought me back.

Sandy Vasquez:

Brought me back on the path.

Denise Jackson:

So do you remember what really brought? Like you were talking, but when was that was there a moment, well, probably when my friends came that night.

Sandy Vasquez:

So they sat down and prayed for me and that really changed the trajectory. So the prayer of righteous women together and crying and kids of armies, our enemy who is in the spirituals.

Denise Jackson:

fleeing. That verse is so good. Y'all, if you're in a bad place, ask for Godly women to come pray for you, or go to the elders and get them to pray for you at your church. There are so many places where God says go, get help, confess your sins one to another, somebody that won't judge you. And if they love the Lord, they won't judge you, because we all have sin in our life.

Sandy Vasquez:

That was the hardest part. I was like I can't tell anyone about this because they will really just be shocked first of all and just probably will lose a bunch of friends. But it was actually the opposite. So Psalm 51, the one where David commits adultery with Bathsheba and confesses his sins and asks God to redeem him and bring and come back to be close to God again, that one really helped too.

Sandy Vasquez:

But, my favorite verse is Psalm 103. It says praise the Lord, o my soul, praise his holy name and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things and renews your youth like the eagles.

Denise Jackson:

I love that so much. And it says he redeems your life from the pit. And in the Amplified it says the pit of nothingness. And that's what we chased after when we were young Nothing, feelings I didn't care about myself.

Sandy Vasquez:

I didn't care about others. I didn't care about my life or what I was doing tomorrow. I had no purpose.

Denise Jackson:

You know, when I was a pregnant teenager 16, Lee and I ended up getting married after a lot. So it was very emotional. You know, I felt shame and guilt and I dropped out of high school and so I went on. You know, we had Jenna, my oldest and our oldest, and you know I went on with my life. And then I was in a church where I have all those friends and there were like 20 of us gathered at a women's prayer sleepover and my friend Gay was the one that led us. She was like my age no, she was younger, but I thought she was older at the time. She had us in a big circle and she asked us tell us about your wedding. So I'm sitting on this side of the gate and that girl starts. So they're going around this whole circle. None of them knew that I was a cisgender.

Sandy Vasquez:

Oh, you're the last.

Denise Jackson:

They would say to me and I've known these girls for a long time and they would say you're so young looking. And I would say I know it's in my genes, it was because I was young. I didn't tell them my age. I was like, if I tell them, they will hate me, I will be cast out. That's what I thought. So they're going around telling these beautiful wedding stories all around and it's getting closer to me and I'm like I'm going to lie, I'm going to make something up Because they're not going to. But by the time it got to me, tears were pouring out of my eyes and I told them the truth and they were all quiet at first. Oh great. They said get your pants and leave. And then some other girl across the way raised her hand and said could I tell my real story?

Denise Jackson:

And another girl raised her hand and said oh, I want to tell my real story, because it wasn't a good story. It was like a terror. You know, it was very hard, and so that's how we all feel, and you know who makes us feel that way, who speaks in our ear. You are worthless and they will hate you and they don't want you, and so you need to be by yourself. It's the enemy. His name is Satan, and I'm not afraid to say it because I stepped on his head in Jesus' name. But I didn't know that then, and so I was just frozen in this place of a root that was so deep in me of shame and fear and of being unloved. And now I'm set free from that so that I can tell you guys about it and you about that, and not worry that you're not going to love me because of that. That's who God is. He redeems our life from the pit of nothingness, of where we're lost, where we're seeking our own way, and it just doesn't bring any kind of joy into our lives.

Sandy Vasquez:

Yeah, I love. That Reminds me of the verse John 10, 10. My brother is an artist and so I had him draw like a charcoal, maybe pencil, like a black and white drawing His name's John. So John 10, 10, it says the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy, but I have come that they may have life and have it to the full, and I used to print little like those tiny pictures of it. That was a change.

Denise Jackson:

In Lee the full, yeah, and I used to print little, uh, like those tiny pictures of it, and that was, that was right there. Uh, he read it and he was like, really that's why you came, because before he was like so worried, god was gonna force him to be something that he didn't think he should be, you know. So that's great. So so you were talking about like going through that period in your life when you changed and then you went through a new period. What was that period?

Sandy Vasquez:

So then I met my husband thanks to my godly friends. Well, that's great. They also said you're not allowed to date anyone unless we okay him. So kind of like you know they put like an ultimatum that's how you okay him. So kind of like you know they put like an ultimatum.

Denise Jackson:

That's how she believed him.

Sandy Vasquez:

They had me write like a list of qualities too.

Sandy Vasquez:

Oh that's right. Make a list. Actually, I did that when I was younger and it probably has 50 items on it and I just didn't care. But then my mom showed me that from when I was young and I want my kids to do that. Just to think about and mine is so specific Must speak Spanish, must be okay with foreign exchange students living in our house and when you know, in 2017, someone from Young Life asked us if we'd like to host an exchange student from Germany for a whole year and we said yes and you loved her so much. You still love her. There's so many things that, like, I think women want to do. A lot of my women friends have told me I really want to foster, I really want to adopt, but my husband isn't on board, or I really want to dance or I really want to go on the mission field.

Denise Jackson:

Yeah, yeah, we hear those things, but if they're the desires of our hearts that God's put in us, I agree. You write them down and God will change their heart. He will just change their heart Because he gave that person to you and he knew the desires of your heart.

Sandy Vasquez:

And so mine is like I love, we love hosting. So just having an exchange student in our house was just natural, yeah. And then even one year, like a student needed a place to live, so we invited her mom and, I think, six kids. It was only a couple months but most husbands would be like no, that's too many people in the house. But Daryl's just a yes man, he just loves people, which is such a blessing really.

Denise Jackson:

I mean it may be sometimes frustrating, but really, gosh, that's Most of the time. Now Lee says yes. His past life he said no, no, no, no to everything, Like that was. His first default response was no, and it was so frustrating. But but really, like they're, they're there for our good. Just don't ever say no well, so his.

Sandy Vasquez:

We call him mr safety.

Sandy Vasquez:

So my friends laugh, because I'm like kind of more the daredevil, like I lived abroad a couple times. I just, I just I'm like not careless, but I just don't think twice. I act. I tell Isabella, sometimes I act, and then I think later. Or when I pray, it's like I'm I'm already taking the action. I'm praying like God, let this work out. I'm already jumped off the cliff. I'm like, please send me a parachute. Okay, I need that. Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings. Okay, I need that. Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings all the way down. That's how I live my life. So the kids get in the car and we go, and who knows what we're doing.

Sandy Vasquez:

So Daryl is more like Sandy, put on the brakes, he's like the more calm like. This is not safe. This is not good for us.

Denise Jackson:

He really keeps me more aware. So he's not just a yes man, he's also your priest and king. He's sheltering you when he sees danger, and I think that's something I've learned. I mean, you know, I'm 67. And I've been married. I'm in the 51st year of being married and I'm still having to learn it, but I'm better at it because, like he'll say, no, I just don't feel good about you doing that. And I get peace now where I used to like it. How can you tell me what to do?

Denise Jackson:

I would just get all of the times, yeah, be irritated, uh, but thankfully he has taught me a few things over the years.

Sandy Vasquez:

Yeah, that's the same Cause. I'm very like, I'm very task oriented and I love projects and he's just very people oriented, like people and relationships, like guide his life. So I joke, now I don't need a counselor because I marry him and he I mean also in the Bible it calls God our wonderful counselor yes, so I feel like I can tell God my problems. And. But then Daryl too, he's just a mixed Mr. Fix it. He loves, like you know, when you do that strengths finder test and your top five and mine are all like organizational and kind of task and futuristic and goal oriented and his are all like restorative and nurturing and very like relational.

Sandy Vasquez:

And so sometimes to me the struggle in our marriage is I feel like he's inefficient and wasting time. He used to go on coffee trips and visits with people and he'd come back an hour later. I'm like, what are you doing? That could have been a 10 minute visit. We have these goals. And he's like, well, we were just chatting and then I fixed this machine for them and so I'm thinking waste, waste of time, inefficient and not hitting our budget.

Sandy Vasquez:

We've got finance goals and he's just really in it for the right reasons.

Denise Jackson:

I know. So it's so funny because we want to get things done and I do believe God wants us to set goals, but he also says that you make your plans, but I'll order your steps, you know. So that's a hard thing. We make plans and we head towards that, but then he veers us off and the people that will trust in him. Like now too, in my later years.

Denise Jackson:

I find like such ministry happens in the coffee conversations or these conversations or just walking. Happens in the coffee conversations or these conversations, or just walking out in the community. Like you run into somebody and like I the other day I went bought uh, god just put on my heart while I was walking to buy three flowers and I'm walking along and I don't know who I'm going to get into, and and I walked past this couple and they say hi. And so I turn and I say hi, I said are y'all visiting? And they said yes, we just got married and came to Inverly and I said, uh-oh, you might end up living here, because I know how those things happen.

Denise Jackson:

I said, but this is for you, and they were both like what I said but this is for you, and they were both like what I said yeah, but I just had me buy these flowers and I feel like this one is for you all, and they got so excited. So then I gave one to another person that I already knew because I saw them. And then I'm walking in the park and there's this mom with her kids playing and I'm just sitting over praying and then he kept showing me them and he said go give her a flower. And I go give her a flower and she started crying. Like God takes those moments where we're willing to say, okay, whatever you want, and he uses them amazingly, and so I feel like that's what he's doing with Daryl, but he wants to do with you and me too.

Sandy Vasquez:

I know that's. It's hard as a teacher too, because sometimes on my off periods, at lunch, I'll lock my door because I have so much work, so much paperwork. I have so many reasons to schedule my days minute by minute, hour by hour.

Denise Jackson:

So you know we've probably heard the phrase like interruption.

Sandy Vasquez:

interruptions are opportunities, and so I'm trying to learn. You know I'm 40 now, but it's like we're not all put together, and what I'm trying to learn this year and as a mom and as a teacher, is build some space in your schedule sometimes so that you can take interruptions and turn those into opportunities. Because those kids, really will.

Denise Jackson:

They're attracted to you, they love you and they've got issues and they're going to bring them to you. And the most important thing you can do, even if you can't pray out loud, is like I kept lists on my refrigerator prayer requests for my kids and I would just pray for them all the time. And one of them is a grown woman now and she and I have talked so many times about those prayer requests that God just like you said writing down our requests, whether it's about our husband or somebody's told us something. If you get the chance, pray then, but sometimes you can't. When you're working in a public school, you don't usually have that freedom, but you can pray and the prayers of a righteous man or woman avail much. They break down strongholds, they tear out what the enemy's plans are to kill, steal and destroy.

Sandy Vasquez:

And when we do that, we are doing the real work that we're supposed to do on this earth and my friend Kristen was reading something she wrote that said you know, you always say oh well, the least I can do is pray. Like you know, I can't send money or I can't go in person, but the least I can do is pray. And she wrote no, actually that's the most that you could do. So I'm still trying to change my thinking on that too, that instead of just, I am just such a doer and such an action oriented. That prayer sometimes seems so passive and so calm to me and I really thrive in, like the chaos and the doing, but you know, actually what you're doing is fighting.

Denise Jackson:

You're fighting the battle. You're like taking your sword out and chopping off the enemy. You're like mighty, but we can't see, see that. So we think we need to see the physical things in the physical world.

Sandy Vasquez:

What you see in the physical world and daryl is better about that. He had ephesians. Is it ephesians 6? I? Love ephesians because it has so much advice about about women, about marriage, about warring yes, and about arming yourselves. And he, daryl, has always had that around the house wherever is.

Denise Jackson:

So now, wherever is the armor of God.

Denise Jackson:

You know, I told you I was such an arguer and now I think like what a waste to spend my time and cycles on like political things and talking about those over and over and over again.

Denise Jackson:

If there's really an issue and God's given me the eyes to see, the best thing I can do is pray, the best thing I can do. And walls fall down. Like you know, they change, it's changed our lives, it'll change your life. It'll change your life when you know that God's Word is the truth and it's not just the truth, it's power, power and love and a sound mind. If your mind is full of confusion and fear, it's not from God, it's from the devil. But if you speak life and life abundantly, if you bury the word of God in your hearts and you speak life and life abundantly, the enemy's plans for you, for all these people in the land that you live in, your territory, they start falling. And I loved, as a teacher, praying for my kids because that's a big battlefield, because they're right at the same place that you were, like when you were in your early.

Sandy Vasquez:

I think that's why I like working with teens and then I mean my kids are young, but my students at school are that teenage because it's so, I guess, just precious and there's just so much. There are some students that are really encouraging, that are really close to God and that stay the path, and they really encourage me too that not everybody has to fall far to come back. Some people can stay close to God, you know, all the way through.

Denise Jackson:

So, again, I realize that we have lots more conversations to have, sandy and I, but today we're reaching the end of this and before I pray, I want, just like Sandy, to offer her best advice for you. If you're in that stage of of you know it's been about you and we've been trying to fulfill that void maybe she can give you some advice, like her friends gave her yeah, the one that keeps coming back to me is is do not harden your hearts, as, uh it says.

Sandy Vasquez:

Do not harden your hearts as you did in rebellion hebrews 3, 8, and so I mean when I was in my 20s and 30s. It's even a struggle now, mary. I mean I feel like those struggles never go away. You have desires and you struggle to meet them, but like it says also in Psalm 113, god will satisfy our desires with good things. So there's still temptations there, but now we can war against them and we can meet our needs and meet our desires with good things instead of the wrong things. And so that's what I would encourage you just not to harden your heart towards God. When you hear His voice, just listen to it instead of hardening your heart, because the more you harden it like one sin leads to two, you know some the more you harden it like one sin leads to two, leads to three, and that that becomes your habits.

Sandy Vasquez:

So just one little action can, time after time after time, can lead to your habits and that leads to a lifestyle and that you know can really for the better for, the better or the worse, your habits becomes your lifestyle, and so that's what one little thing led to, two and three, and that led to a path of a lifestyle that I did not like, that hurt me, and so— Thank God, god cared enough to send your friends to interrupt it. Yeah. So now I tell myself, like Sandy don't harden your heart. Don't harden your heart towards your husband, don't harden your heart towards God. If he's telling you something, soften it and listen and receive it and don't just stay— don't stay like hardened.

Denise Jackson:

Okay.

Denise Jackson:

So let's pray for them, father God, and you can pray too, sammy, if you think of something.

Denise Jackson:

So, father, I just pray for who's listening today, if this is resonating, if you're feeling this in your spirit, we just pray that this will be good seed in good ground, your roots will go deep and you'll bear much fruit. I pray for women. Friends to gather around the women that are hearing this word and need it, that would intervene on behalf of the Lord. I thank you, father, that you send laborers to the harvest of our lives, and so we pray for those laborers to go and to be with those women today. Father, I thank you that you are the one that's mighty to pulling down the strongholds, but your word buried in our hearts has power, and you've said that, and so we trust that, and we're speaking the word over these women, that they've been given a spirit of power, love and a sound mind, that fear and confusion are not from God. We bind them in Jesus' name and we thank you, father, for the victory that is coming for these women. In the name of Jesus, thank you, father.

Sandy Vasquez:

Amen.

Denise Jackson:

Amen.

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