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0:02 We wanna honor God because He sees everything.0:10 You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's the god of all things possible. He's the god of all0:22 miracles.0:52 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. I'm Michelle Humphreys.0:55 And I am Naina Keegan. Welcome to our broadcast today. Today, we're gonna be talking about when you are at your wit's end. And, you know, how many times people say that? I'm just I've had it. I'm at my wit's end. But1:07 did you know that's in the Bible? And that's in Psalm 1 0 7, and it's really about, these these sailors that was sailors that were in a boat, and they were getting tossed to and fro, and everything was1:19 happening to them. And they just, you know, they they they just didn't even know if they would make it out alive. They were just, they came to the end of themselves and they were at their wits end. But what we're gonna1:30 talk about today is in that story that, it's it wasn't until they gave up and knew that it literally says they knew they could not do anything more. They couldn't do anything1:42 to save themselves. And when they gave it all up and turned it all over to the Lord was when they began to see some things change. And so today, I know so many people are so discouraged and people1:54 are without hope. And lots of people are feeling like they're at their wits end right now in this nation and in their own personal lives, but we need to hand it all off to the 1 who is in charge of2:06 everything. And when we finally stop striving and hand it off to him, then we're gonna see some victories. So we're gonna talk all about that today.2:15 Absolutely. I love it that we have a place to go. We can cry out to the Lord, and it says in our time of trouble, it says, I sought the Lord, and he heard, and he answered.2:27 And Psalm 1 0 7 is truly a fishing hole for me Yes. Probably in every Bible that I have, which I have I have probably over 20 at2:39 least, but it's it's probably underlined in all the Bibles because there are times in your life, no matter what, where you get to that place where you say, okay, God.2:51 I have tried everything I know to do, and I'm at my wit's end. You know? And and I usually will just look up to the Lord and say, I've got nothing. I can't think of3:02 1 thing to do. I am like at a crossroads here, and you have got to deliver me. You have got to answer me. And and that's what I love about the Lord is that3:14 he cares enough about us that we can go to him when even if we've done that in rebellion, Even if we've done that in rebellion where we have3:26 tried everything without asking him, and then we go back to him. It's almost3:31 like he's standing there going, have you had enough? Like, are you ready? Yeah. You know, because when, you know, that's a very good place to be when you have tried everything. And because3:43 then, ultimately, he will be glorified, and he'll get the glory and the answers and the way he brings you through it. You know, but if you think about it, the Bible tells us over and over again that he wants us to3:55 enter into his place of rest.3:57 Yeah.3:57 And so so what is the place of rest? The place of rest is when you're no longer striving. It's a place of of his grace that can bring you through any and everything. Because, you4:09 know, so many times, what does it say? Count it all joy when you go through trials of many kinds. Many are the afflictions of the righteous. You know, don't be surprised as if something strange seems to be happening to4:20 you. You know, it's over and over again. The Bible talks about these different situations we will encounter, and yet when you're continually trying to figure out how you're going to fix the4:32 problem, if you're immediately going to the phone, to your friends, to, you know, whatever it is to to discuss the problem, talk about it, and you're you're not going straight to the Lord to seek his wisdom on the on4:44 on the whole situation. And you will see him just walk you through step by step, but we have to surrender. You know, seek him first, but give it all to him and don't keep4:56 taking it back.4:57 Well, that's true. And I remember, I I think I was still a teenager, and I had someone that I cared deeply about that I had been witnessing to that was falsely5:08 accused and put in the local jail. And they really were falsely accused because the person went back and said they did it. So it was, you know, it was5:20 just a a loved 1 that I had been praying for for a long time who had mocked me and just said, you're you're stupid for believing what you believe, and I just kept praying for this5:32 person. And they were in the parish jail at the time. And I remember crying out to God, getting on my knees for this person,5:44 and just saying, god, you have got to help this person. You have got to help this guy. And I got this scripture. It says it says,5:56 those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, bound in affliction and irons. In other words, they were behind my Bible at the time was they were behind6:08 iron bars, which was perfect because it caught my attention. And it says, because they rebelled against the words of God. Now this person was in jail for something that6:20 they didn't do, and it wasn't long until they were out because there was a confession from someone else. But they despise the counsel of the most high. Therefore,6:32 he brought down their heart and labor. They fell down, and there was none to help. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he heard them.6:41 Yeah.6:41 He answered them, and he put them on the right path. And that is exactly what happened. It didn't happen that minute, but that was enough for me to know God is speaking through his word to6:53 me about this person that I care deeply about, and he rescued them.6:59 Don't you think that that's the very reason for the trials? Because even even in that in in verse 25 of that of Psalm 1 0 7, it says, God himself7:10 initiated the storm, for he commanded and raised the stormy wind. Mhmm. And so God knew they were in that storm. God knew. But you know what? What what happened? When they had had7:22 enough, they cried out to him and came to their wits' end and then laid it all down and repented, asked the Lord to help them. And so so many times, these trials7:34 and did you ever notice, Michelle, sometimes the trials are always the same? Like, what is your button? What is your mountain? It seems like until you actually learn to let that go and give it7:46 over to God, it seems like the devil knows that that's your button that he pushes, and you're you keep going around and around the same old mountain. And we keep expecting different results. But if you don't just7:58 let the Lord have it all, you know, then then, you know, he he he knows what's going on, and he's the 1 who has all of the answers for all of that.8:08 And like you said, being at your wit's end, that's a good place to be. And if you're there, we're gonna talk more about something that just recently happened to Nina and Richard, her husband, where they8:20 felt like they were at their wit's end, and we're gonna talk about it when whenever we come back.8:27 When I started MyPillow, it was just a problem solution, 1 product company. Well, since then, with the help of my dedicated employees, we now have hundreds of products, some you might not even8:38 know about. To get the word out, we're having a 25 dollar extravaganza. 2 pack multi use My Pillows, 25 dollars. My Pillow sandals, 258:50 dollars. And for the first time ever, our 6 pack towel sets, you guessed it, just 25 dollars. Our brand new 4 pack dish towels, 25 dollars. And I've9:02 never done this before. Premium My Pillows with all new Giza fabric, any size, any loft level, even king-size for only 25 dollars, and there's so much more. So go9:14 to my pillow dot com or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code for our 25 dollar extravaganza. Order 75 dollars and over. Your entire order ships absolutely9:25 free.9:27 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle. We are talking about being at your wit's end. And recently, Naina and her husband Richard went to9:38 Colorado Springs and to Pikes Peak, and something happened that caused them both to say, alright. We're at our wit's end. Tell us about that, Nina.9:48 This was a crazy story, but a God story nonetheless. I will start by that that particular morning. Richard had pre ordered our tickets to go up to Pikes Peak. It was supposed to take a10:00 shuttle, and he had gotten them online, like, a month before we even left home. But that particular morning, I went outside my hotel room. It was raining. And from Texas, I was just so happy10:12 to be cold and have a chill in there. So I went out on my patio, covered patio of the hotel.10:17 You were happy to be cold.10:18 I was so happy. And so I had my coffee and my bible, and I look up and it's raining, and there's this humongous beautiful double rainbow in the sky. It is 6 30 in the morning and it10:30 was so gorgeous and it looks so close and the colors were so vibrant and I woke Richard up and I was like come and see this. You have to see this beautiful rainbow. So that's how I started my day, and that will come back10:41 again later. So we go up we we get an Uber that's gonna take us to Pikes Peak. And so we have to show the tickets at the gate at the bottom of the mountain that we have10:53 the tickets to meet the shuttle. And we didn't know where the shuttle was, and the guy from the gate directs us to go literally, like, halfway up the mountain to this parking lot. And he said, that's where you're gonna11:03 meet the shuttle. And so as we're driving up there in the Uber, I said, you know, how do we get down? Like, do you have will an Uber come all the way up to the11:15 middle of the mountain to pick us up at this parking lot? And the Uber guy is going, I don't think so. I've never done it. I've never been up there. So when we get to the parking lot, my husband asks the shuttle driver,11:26 the bus driver. He said, how do we get back down? Because they wouldn't let an Uber in without us showing tickets. Right. Okay. So the guy from the bus goes, yeah, yeah, we bring you down. And we're like, okay. That's11:38 easy enough. That's what happens. Okay.11:40 You distrusted it.11:41 So Why wouldn't you? Meanwhile, it is super foggy, stormy. It is so so foggy that this bus now is driving us up these hairpin turns with11:53 no guardrail, and you cannot see 5 feet in front11:56 of you. And she texts me and says, will you please pray? I'm like,12:01 because Michelle hates moans. I do. I am usually fine with them, but I don't like to drive them out. Yeah. Okay. And so and so I'm going, oh my gosh, look at like you can't see12:12 anything and there's and then the bus has to go like to the edge to make the turn and you're like, woah. And so he's getting he's get gets us all the way to the top. You cannot see anything. No view, no12:24 nothing. Because it is it is literally you cannot see 5 feet in front of you. And then 2 trucks, 2 big like plows, like snow plows, it starts to snow and they start riding by and they're12:36 saying, on this loud speaker, clear, get off the mountain, big storm, lightning coming, take shelter.12:44 You you always wanna be at the highest point when it's not12:47 always almost 15000 square feet and feet in there. So anyway, I'm like, okay, let's get off this mountain. Right? And the whole time I'm thinking, but we have to take that bus now downhill on ice12:59 and snow. And so so we get the bus, and the guy starts taking us down the mountain, and, you know, slow slow slow, but he gets to that parking lot, that13:11 same parking lot halfway up the mountain, and he says, alright, everybody off. And Rich says, it's not the same bus driver. And so Rich said, I had asked the previous bus driver how do we get down to13:23 the base? And and he said, you take us. He goes, no, we don't. We don't we don't do that. And he goes, if you wanna wait around here in the parking lot till the end of our day, and this is like noon. This is this is13:35 in the parking lot is empty. There's no trees. There's no shelter. There's nothing. We're in there. All you can see is nothing. Like, anywhere you go, there's snow is coming, rain.13:46 Is there a shelter13:47 at all?13:47 Nothing. Nothing. Oh, my goodness.13:49 It's just a couple cars.13:50 That's it. I would have loved to have heard your commentary. She is hilarious when she gets nervous. And so13:57 I was like, so we both pick up our phone to see if we could at least try an Uber or a taxi. Right? Something. And nothing's working. 0 power. And this is like 2 or 3 days after that big14:09 cloud strike out outage, nothing's working. And so we're like, we're just stuck here in the middle of a mountain, in a storm, with all this stuff happening, it was crazy. And my husband,14:20 doctor Rich, says, we're gonna hitchhike. We're gonna hitchhike. There's no other way down. And I was like You would have loved to have seen14:29 this whole scenario.14:30 I said, first of all, nobody's gonna see us until they almost run us over because they're so cloudy out. And so he crosses I'm in the parking lot, and he crosses over to get on the hitchhike side.14:42 And I see him putting his son in the spirit.14:44 He has14:45 an umbrella. We have a bag of stuffed animals from the from the Pikes Peak from the kids. Kids. And and so he he literally, you know, 2 2 cars passing by. A 1 area. And14:56 finally I said, you know what? We're just gonna walk. What is it? Maybe like 10 miles. And I said, and maybe somebody will pick us up on the way, but we gotta get out of here. Like, it's getting bad. The weather's bad.15:07 And so I said I started to pray, and I said, Lord, send us a ranger. And the only time I'd saw I had seen a ranger was on the top announcing to get off the mountain. Right? And, like,15:19 instantly, this ranger, like, pulls up and it's and I'm flagging he goes, so you guys okay? We're like, no. We pull back into the parking lot, and he has to do all this paperwork to, like, try to get us15:30 down, and so he takes us he literally takes us down, like, a half a mile to to like this store, like it was a coffee house or a store. And he says, at least you15:42 have shelter, and we get out of the car and it's locked and closed, no Internet closed. And so we're like, now what? Phones still don't work, nothing. And this young woman, probably15:54 in her thirties, comes to the door and she said, you know, we're closed and we can't and I said, is there any way you can just call us a taxi? She goes, we got nothing here. Phones don't work, nothing works. And so16:06 we tell her the story and she says, you know what? She looks at me and she goes, there's something about you. And she says, I'm gonna drive you down. Let me go get my purse. And she walks back out with her purse and she16:18 goes, today's just been strange. She goes, I started my day with the most beautiful rainbow. And she goes, I'm never up that early. And I said, me too. And I showed her my pictures of the rainbow,16:31 and she said and I gave her a scripture. I I gave her a scripture about double portion, and and she said, that's my scripture that I always say, tell me that again. Tell me that again. We get16:43 in her car, and all the way the rest away down the mountain the Lord was giving me was was was having me prophesy to her, and she she was literally like it was things that she16:55 needed to hear that she would receive, and it was like, so when you're at your wits end and you cry out to the Lord, he gave me a ranger, but the ranger didn't take17:06 us to the bottom even though we asked him, you know, just to17:09 leave us here. An unusual scenario.17:12 And he said, no. I I I have to just leave you here. And that she would be there. Everything's closed. That she would have seen the rainbow in the morning, and that she would have17:23 needed to hear what what the Lord had for her to say for me to say to her that day, and it was just so amazing. And and so she was she was in tears. I was in tears. My17:35 husband's like, here we go again. Guess this is how, you know, things kinda work. And I know we're a little over, but I'm gonna finish the story. He he, we we get dropped off at the bottom. She drops us off at the base,17:47 and we still have to walk to some place called Santa Land because which we know17:51 is, like,17:52 a mile away because we still had no Internet or anything. But, you know, I'm still in touch with her, with this this girl. I have been, you know, witnessing with her and counseling with her almost every18:04 day since then. And so, you know, what the devil, what the enemy means for harm, you know, when you're at your wits end, you can always see God's good in it. He knew where we would18:16 be. He knew that I needed to be there at that exact time, perfect timing, Lord. He knew the storms, he knew the outages, he knew everything, but to help this 1 particular person. And18:27 so it's it it was just it was an amazing divine appointment, and so next time you think everything's terrible and how are you even gonna get out of this situation, you can just remember that18:39 God's always in charge. And he he when you're at your wits end, you just seek him and he Nobody better. He will deliver you. And with that, we will be right back. You are watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle.18:51 When I started MyPillow, it was just a problem solution, 1 product company. Well, since then, with the help of my dedicated employees, we now have hundreds of products, some you might not even19:03 know about. To get the word out, we're having a 25 dollar extravaganza. 2 pack multi use my pillows, 25 dollars. My pillow sandals, 2519:14 dollars. And for the first time ever, our 6 pack towel sets, you guessed it, just 25 dollars. Our brand new 4 pack dish towels, 25 dollars. And I've19:26 never done this before. Premium MyPillows with all new Giza fabric, any size, any loft level, even king-size for only 25 dollars, and there's so much more. So19:38 go to my pillow dot com or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code for our 25 dollar extravaganza. Order 75 dollars and over. Your entire order ships absolutely19:50 free.19:51 Welcome back to Grace Grace. We are talking about being at our wits end, and I am sure almost everybody who is human has been at their wits end, and that20:03 was a story of truly being at your wits end. I can only imagine what you were thinking when Rich said, you're gonna hitchhike. That is hilarious.20:15 I cannot believe that was his suggestion, and it would be your suggestion to walk the 10 miles in. That's so funny too. With all our stuff.20:25 Yes. You know? So it just a hilarious set of events that, you know you know, we always talk about how we're gonna, you know, if we could write with all of our stories, we would say, what the heck is God doing now?20:36 Because it's so crazy, we would put it in the fiction section.20:39 Yeah. But but God you know what? I always think about this. It's like sometimes we're at our wits end, and we're crying out. Like the Bible says, the effectual fervent20:51 prayer of a righteous man avails much. What does that mean? That means sometimes you're crying from your wits end, from your soul, from the depths of your soul. And I I21:04 I have done that many, many times in my life. I just was thinking even yesterday, you know, the how the world is just in21:15 turmoil right now and how so many are in rebellion against the Lord. And the Lord has the power, like in this scripture, to command the sea and to21:27 stop the water from from being tumultuous, and yet people still rebel against the Lord. And sometimes it takes21:39 those moments, like if you have a prodigal, if you have someone in your life like I was praying for this person, that sometimes it takes them being you've heard rock bottom, you21:51 can call it wit's end, whatever. Sometimes that's when they will finally cry out to the Lord. And, you know, so many times we wanna be the savior, so we22:03 rush in to rescue, rush in to comfort when actually we just need to let them cry out to the Lord and be still and know that he is God and that22:14 he will deliver them when they cry out to him because he's that faithful and he loves them more than we do. And I know that seems impossible.22:25 Right? And then but then again, he's glorified, then they get to see God move in their lives, then they have a testimony as to I had no way out of this, and I didn't know what I was gonna do. And22:36 then God showed up. And so God will work all those things out, but, you know, you and I have talked before about not touching the cocoon of what God is going to do, whether it's our a family member or22:48 whatever the case may be. You know, the the struggle that goes on in that cocoon is what gives the butterfly when he finally comes out the vibrancy and the strength that it needs. And so so23:00 many so so many times it's the struggle that causes us to really just give it all to God and then see him work in our lives. You know, people don't cry out to him with their23:12 when they're having this great little life.23:14 No.23:14 It's always in the pit. No.23:15 And and so many times, you know, like I run scenarios just like everybody else, you know, you're just running scenarios in your head. Okay. If I do this, if I do this, I'm you're you've got your, you know, this perpetual23:27 to do list that's going to fix whatever problem there is. But really, we need to stop everything and go to the 1 who can answer us. It says if we ask for wisdom, he will give it23:39 to us and and and and without finding fault. It says that that the word, thy word is a lamp into my feet and a light into my path. Do you is your path,23:51 needing a light? I we just went through a hurricane, here in Houston. We know what it's like to go for days where we needed a light. And, I'll tell you, it's24:03 not easy. But the Word of God is that light. The Word of God is that light in the darkness that can shine a light on whatever it is you need. We don't even know what we24:15 need. You know, the Bible says there is no search in God's understanding. Right. So that's so amazing that he doesn't have to think about your problem. He already knows what to do. So with that, we're gonna close24:27 out in prayer. And if you feel like right now you are at your wit's end, I'm gonna pray for you. And we are going to we're we're not gonna go 1 step more without crying to the24:39 Lord as he said we could do. Right. So, Lord, we thank you right now. We thank you God that, for all of us who feel like we are at our wit's end in24:51 whatever area. Lord, if there's anyone out there who does not know them does who does not know you, Lord, let them cry to you right now and and make Jesus Lord and and truly25:02 make you Lord. Lord, we ask you God that you would begin to give them answers even as we pray. God, you will speak to hearts all around the world. We ask you for this25:14 Lord in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Wow. Powerful prayer.25:20 I hope you enjoyed this show today. We I'm gonna remind you that you cannot heal what you hide, you cannot heal what you ignore, you can't heal what you cover, and you cannot heal what you avoid. And25:32 so when you're at your wits end, you know, give all of these things. God knows it anyway. Just give it all to the Lord and watch him move in your life. Good advice. It's so so much better than you could ask or think. So25:44 thank you for for watching our broadcast today. We invite you to head on over to all of our social media where you're gonna find daily devotions, you're gonna find just so much bible and some some we answer your prayer25:55 request, we wanna hear your praise reports, and we thank you for your partnerships with us. We are so grateful. 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