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Nina and Michelle, are best friends with a passion for the Lord. They bring uplifting conversations, encouragement, and shared personal stories of overcoming and victory straight to your screen.
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0:22 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. I'm Michelle Humphreys. And I am Naina Keegan. Welcome to the broadcast today. This is gonna be part 2. So if you have missed part 1, we are interviewing each0:34 other. Everybody has written to us, and people have always asked how we met, how we started to do what we're doing, how we got saved. There's so many questions, and so we are interviewing each0:45 other. And so it is my turn to ask the questions. And so That's kinda scary. And so we know that here you are. You're doing all these amazing things in ministry. People, I0:57 don't know if they know that you work for the FRC. You have worked for Pat Robertson over at CBN, that you are you have Grace Grace, that you're doing so many things for the Lord. And1:09 you got saved as a very small child. And so do you wanna talk about that? But your your childhood was a little crazy like mine. So tell us a little bit about that.1:21 You know, it is difficult sometimes to talk about your childhood when there was so much pain involved. And I1:34 was desperate for God almost from birth. I mean I just remember my parents were partiers and my dad had a great job and he ended up having his own company so he was1:45 partier with money and he was, they were really, they dabbled in darkness whether they realized it or not. I don't think they understood what they were1:57 doing, they were not mean parents at all. And I knew I was loved so there's a lot to be said for you can make a lot of errors at raising children but if they know2:09 that they're loved there can be healing from that alone. But the darkness that I felt as a small child I remember thinking,2:21 oh what, how, how do I get out of this? It was like a trap almost. I did have a really good extended family and so I2:33 had wonderful grandparents. And the wonderful thing about 1 set of my grandparents is that they got saved in their mid-40s and so they had already raised2:45 their children. So it was kind of like too late for them. They had 4 children and now they were praying for them to be saved and they were praying for us to be saved. And so I can2:56 attest, I am the example of what happens when grandparents pray and they don't have any reach.3:05 And now we are grandparents, it's3:07 so know what our grandparents And it makes a difference and thank God for my grandparents. On 1 side I had a little grandma that was just my best friend, my first best friend and I3:19 spent a lot of time with her but she was not saved. And then on the other side I had my saved grandparents. The biggest thing that happened to me as a child was3:31 we moved across the street from a couple and their 4 children and their names were Bill and Ramona Holcomb and they'll forever be in my hall of faith because3:43 although my family was across the street partying and I mean they would have some crazy parties and I was in the house, Bill and3:55 Ramona Holcomb were across the street praying for my parents and praying for me. They understood that my brother and I were probably in danger to be in that kind4:07 of environment because they understood spiritually what must have been happening in the household. And so in fact, Ms. Ramona now has said, I remember4:18 standing in the yard with my hands out towards your house.4:23 Isn't that amazing? God always sends, doesn't he? He sends the people that don't even, you have no idea, even until later in life, it's always somebody was praying for you. Somebody was lifting you up in4:35 prayer. It's amazing the power of prayer. Never give up. If you're praying for somebody, just never give up. God will send armies. God will send people, the neighbors, the neighbors.4:45 He sent them. If ever anybody was sent to me, was Bill and Ramona Holcomb. And they invited me to church and they invited me to this little children's camp.4:57 And I went to this camp and went with their daughter who was 3 years older than me and I was actually technically 3 years too young to be there and5:09 somehow I got in, thank God, because I had an appointment with Jesus. And I really hadn't heard the gospel like this, like I heard there. And the first day that I was there5:22 I heard a sermon called Jesus Stands at the Door of Your Heart and He Knocks and if any man opens the door he will come in and sup with you. And you know I grew up in an Italian family and5:34 so I got sup. We had big Italian dinners and we had all the family there and thank God for extended family. And thank God for the village that5:46 it took to raise me. And I feel sorry for people who don't have that. And so anyway, understood sup. And I didn't have the guts, I5:58 was very, very shy and I did not have the guts to go down to the altar like they wanted. So the next day my neighbor Kathy, Bill and Ramona's6:10 daughter got hurt and so she had to go home and Bill and Ramona came and picked her up and they looked at me and they said, are you coming? And I knew I wasn't6:21 saved and I don't know, I just couldn't leave.6:25 That always amazes me for how old you were that you you you knew that you needed to stay. Because most kids, if you would have thought about that being a 7 year old would have thought, I gotta go. These people6:37 are I don't know anybody. I'm I'm little bit like, there was such a draw, the Lord, on6:42 your life. Really didn't care. I really wanted to I wanted Jesus. Mhmm. And I want I knew I6:49 needed him. That's amazing. That's a lot for a child that6:53 is. It had to be the Holy Spirit.6:54 Yeah, 100 percent.6:56 And so 5 days of that camp by myself and every night they would say come down to the altar and every night I would wimp7:07 out and I was just, I could feel the draw. I know what it means, it says that no man comes to the Father unless I draw him. I felt7:19 it like7:19 a7:19 magnet. And on the last night, thank God, this scripture still drives my life today. It says if you are ashamed of me before men, I7:31 will be ashamed of you before my father in heaven. Terrible. And so the preacher said that and I got up. I got up from the back of that little chapel and7:43 I walked to the front and I met Jesus at the altar and I have never been the same. I mean, never. Life7:55 dreams for has been so real. I didn't know anything about theology or the word or anything but I knew Jesus and I just knew everything was gonna be alright. Mhmm.8:07 You know? And it's not, again, like your life changes, like all the the the bad stuff goes away, but now you have him in the midst of it all. And we're gonna talk more about that when we come right back. You're watching8:18 Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle.8:20 The world needs to be reached with the message of Jesus. And that is the mission of Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, to see people's lives change with the saving power of Jesus Christ.8:32 When you donate to Grace Grace Ministries, you're also reaching orphans and the underprivileged throughout the world as well as the United States. The Bible says that when we help the least, the forgotten, and the8:43 overlooked, we have done something for Jesus himself. Will you be a part of what God is doing to help those in need and those who are hungering to hear the real message of Jesus? Give today by logging8:55 on to naina and michelle dot com or text the word give to 3 2 5 6 0 3 3 3 5 4. You can also send in a check to 63 15 b FM 14 88 Road9:07 number 1 22 Magnolia, Texas 77354. Grace Grace Ministries is a 5 0 1 c 3 charitable organization. Gifts are tax deductible, so join us in the great commission9:18 today. Give now.9:22 Welcome back. You're watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle and I am interviewing Michelle and we are talking about how she got saved and she was just telling us all of that. So you got saved at9:34 the church and then how was that? Now you're going home to a family who's not saved. Right.9:40 So that was interesting because when I got home, I was so excited. I had the joy of the Lord. I didn't know I had the joy of the Lord, I just was super happy and9:52 just went to tell my mom, hey mom, I got saved. And she said, from what? And I didn't know, I don't know what I got saved10:04 from. It was good. I'm just saved. And then my parents didn't go to church. So for a little while I went to church with Mr. Bill10:16 and Mr. Ramona and their family but then we moved not long after that. And so unsaved people don't go to church and 7 year olds don't have wheels.10:28 So basically I 100 percent just didn't have a way to get to church. Sometimes my mom would wake up and she would bring me to different churches. Like10:40 I went to the Catholic church, I went to Baptist church, I went to Lutheran church, went to Methodist. I mean I feel like the Lord allowed me during that time to learn about a lot of religions. And I10:52 really would sit in some of those churches and think, you made the whole universe. Now I was a kid but I knew him. This cannot be you. There's more.11:04 There's got to be a place where there's more. And so I mean I don't know why my mom decided to do that, it was such a hippie thing to do to drop me off. I would have to find the children's church.11:17 I babied my kids, but to think about dropping my child off, go find whatever they've got there, just drop me off in a robe in whatever church. It was crazy. So11:28 anyway, I'm grateful for it now but looking back as a mom, I was like, what?11:34 I know.11:35 Some of that stuff is crazy. No.11:37 It is crazy. A whole different era we've It was.11:41 It really was. Fend for yourself, right? So just come home when the lights are on.11:47 Let's fast forward a little bit. So now you meet your husband when you're young. You're pretty young.11:55 Well the way I met my husband is my brother was super hyperactive and he was dyslexic. And back then they really did not know what to do with people like that. And so12:07 my parents just, they thought, randomly picked a school out of the phone book. And so they said, we'll lower the student teacher ratio and this is gonna help Craig. So Craig starts12:19 going to this Christian school and Craig starts changing. He comes home and he says, today I had a headache, my teacher prayed for my12:31 head and I felt warmth and my head was healed. And my parents were like, oh my goodness, what in the world is happening up at the school? So anyway,12:43 they decided, this is like the first time ever, to go to this church, this random church. And we go in and I promise12:54 you, you could feel God so strongly that I started looking up at the ceiling because I thought surely I'm going to see the hand of God. And I thought it was a little strange, people had their hands up13:06 in the air and it was very different from any church I had ever been to but people were, there were people that were getting healed, they had a guest speaker and I later found out she was like13:18 famous, her name was Vestal Goodman and she was a woman who was like fire. She was like the fire of the Holy Spirit. And so it was like a different type of13:30 service for everyone including me. And so anyway, I end up just getting hooked. Like when I went home that night I was in bed and I13:42 thought, that's you.13:44 That's church.13:44 I know, that's church. You are there and I'm going back. And by that time I had just gotten my driver's license so I would go pick up my little grandma that hadn't been saved, she13:56 didn't drive, and we would go to church together. And my parents just went sort of sporadically at that point. And man I was getting introduced to the Holy Spirit and then14:08 I got introduced to my husband. And his uncle actually started the church like years and years before his parents helped start the Christian school that14:20 my brother went to and here we were. And we married early and I felt like okay, I have this awesome Christian man14:32 and I always prayed for a guy that would be similar to Mr. Bill who was just so sweet to his wife and you know, loved her so much because of the love of the14:44 Lord. And I just thought this is gonna be a breeze. You know, now I've solved all my problems. And in the14:51 midst of this, I know you had, like, a vision that you saw lights. So because like how what happened? What was that about? And15:01 Well before I got married, when I was 17, my dad my dad got saved and he, stopped drinking. And15:13 he stopped drinking for like 9 months, got baptized, was in the church and then he started drinking again. But he was remorseful and he15:25 stopped. He abruptly stopped and he abruptly died shockingly of DTs. I don't know if you realize how very dangerous it can be to get15:37 off of alcohol when you are an alcoholic and just abruptly stopped. So all of his organs shut down and he died. And so I was 17 at the time and I15:49 just was so aware of my mortality I thought wow. There was a sweetness in his death because I knew he was right with the Lord. So I knew I would16:01 see him again but there was also just like, oh my goodness, life is short. I better do something for God. I wanna show up in heaven having accomplished16:12 whatever it is that God wanted me to do. So I had this big plan that I would go to LSU and that I would be a golden girl and that was my grandma's dream for me. And16:24 I actually had a scholarship to LSU, we were the LSU Tiger family and I said, wait a minute, after my dad died, what do you want me16:36 to do? And whenever I asked that question I just in a moment in my mind's eye saw a globe and the globe had16:48 lights all over it. And I knew he meant broadcast the gospel and I thought, okay, I'm going to work for CBN.16:57 Yeah. So we are gonna come right back in a moment and we're gonna hear the rest of Michelle's testimony. Stay right there. You're watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle.17:11 We wanna honor God because he sees everything.17:18 You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's the God of all things possible. He's the God of17:30 all miracles.17:39 The world needs to be reached with the message of Jesus. And that is the mission of Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, to see people's lives change with the saving power of Jesus Christ.17:51 When you donate to Grace Grace Ministries, you're also reaching orphans and the underprivileged throughout the world as well as the United States. The Bible says that when we help the least, the forgotten, and the18:02 overlooked, we have done something for Jesus himself. Will you be a part of what God is doing to help those in need and those who are hungry to hear the real message of Jesus? Give today by logging18:14 on to naina and michelle dot com or text the word give to 3 2 5 6 0 3 3 3 5 4. You can also send in a check to 63 15 b FM 14 88 Road,18:26 number 1 22, Magnolia, Texas 77354. Grace Grace Ministries is a 5 0 1 c 3 charitable organization. Gifts are tax deductible, so join us the great commission today.18:38 Give now.18:39 We are back. You're watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle. We're interviewing Michelle today, and you are about to tell us now that you went, you you you saw this vision,18:51 and you immediately had the idea that that meant That18:56 I was going to work for CBN because before I started going to church at Glad Tidings Assembly of God, I19:07 was watching Pat Robertson on TV. I would watch CBN 700 Club, my parents even began to watch 700 Club on TV.19:17 Which is ultimately how we met too.19:19 Right, it's kinda crazy. And that was my first thought is that I would broadcast the gospel and I didn't know exactly what that meant except that I would19:30 work with the 700 Club. So I married my husband, went to college, majored in mass comm with that vision in mind19:42 because I thought okay, what major goes with broadcasting the gospel? And that major was mass comm. He was in the Navy. God has always been really really19:54 faithful to answer prayers. I think about even when I didn't know anything about God really except that I was saved, I remember 120:05 day, I'm backing up a minute, where I got my car stuck in like a sinkhole and I just got down on my knees on top of20:17 my car and said, God please intervene, like help me get this car out of this sinkhole and let me go home. And someone came out of like the woods with20:29 like a mechanic suit on and helped me. And I have always felt like that was an angel. And the Lord has always been really really faithful to me like when in my20:41 desperation. And it seems like I have been so desperate for God so often in my life because various things. Just because you get saved20:53 does not mean you're on easy street for the rest of your life. In fact it seems like sometimes There's more times,21:00 especially when you're working in ministry and serving the Lord.21:04 And I felt so called.21:05 He wants to steal your call. Wants you to quit. Does. He does. Sue, you have the vision about the lights and then you you're finished college, you think you're gonna go work at CBN21:17 And I live in Beach. In Virginia Beach where CBN is because Troy was in the Navy, guess where, Virginia Beach. So you know my little mind says okay, we're here because21:28 I'm working at CBN, I'm gonna hand my diploma to Pat and I don't care if I have to mop the floors, I'm working for CBN. And so eventually they'll find a place for me, right?21:41 God speaks to Troy and I and tells us we have to go home. In fact someone came out of the choir loft after we had talked about it, no 1 even knew that and he said, you've21:53 been thinking about moving home, God has released you to go. He hands us this sheet of paper that says this. And the next day Troy's company he finds out is bought out and before I know it22:05 I'm driving by CBN in a U Haul and I'm thinking what in the world is happening here? So God, how is this gonna work out? That was before22:17 you could work from home or anything like that. If you didn't live in the place where you worked, you didn't work there. So I'm driving past my dream and moving back home22:28 where we end up having our 3 children and then we ended up, years later Troy and I were, were donors to22:40 CBN and for the first time in their almost 50 year history they sent out an email to the Houston area that they were looking for22:52 someone that did exactly what I do and Troy is the 1 who saw it. I didn't even see it. He actually had to go into the email and to my email for something23:03 and he said hey, he called me from work. He said, hey, did you see the email from CBN? And I said, no, what email? He said, they have a job opening. And I said, come23:15 home right now. He was working and23:18 he had urgent help23:19 for lunch. I said please come home, let's fill it out, this is it, I know it. And I am telling you, I had 8 interviews, by the time I got to the23:31 eighth, I'm sitting before like in a boardroom of God's poles and silises of our day and they said, why would we hire you? And I said because I am23:43 the fruit of your labor. I mean I was discipled, basically cut my teeth watching you because I didn't have a car to get to church. And23:55 God is so faithful and then on 1 of my first days on the job I asked the Lord, I said God I don't wanna do the work of the spirit in the flesh and that's how24:07 he told me to go to your house and that's where I started.24:11 That's how we met and that was a divine appointment and God is so faithful and all of these steps. You know, I always say that if we knew what God knows,24:23 we would never change a thing because no matter what we've gone through, no matter the ups, the downs, the crazy things we've been through, it's, you know, everything works together for good and brings you so much closer24:35 to God. And I'm grateful every day that you listened and you showed up at my house and that here we are 12 years later, so still hanging, working in ministry together,24:47 doing amazing things that he allows us to do.24:51 And it's so much fun.24:53 And it's all for his glory. So anyway, we are just so glad we're gonna do another show coming up. We're gonna have to stay tuned and watch for that. It's gonna talk about everything God has had us do25:05 together since we met. So with that, we just wanna thank you all. We're gonna pray25:09 for you. Wanna pray? And then we'll we'll head out. And Lord, we thank you today. We we pray God that if there's anyone there, out there that feels the draw of Jesus25:21 pulling them close to you God that they will open the door and let you in Father, that they will be saved, that you will turn their life around. In Jesus' name, Let this be the25:32 day, Lord, that they get saved in Jesus name, amen.25:36 Amen. Hallelujah. We thank you for watching our broadcast today. However you found us, if you wanna stay in the loop with us, you can find us on the YouTube channel, Rumbles, all the smart TV25:48 apps. We also have a podcast. We're on all of those apps, also all over Facebook, social media. You can follow us over there. Leave us your prayer requests. 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