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The Hidden Trials of Masculinity: A Deep Dive into Faith, Mental Health, and Relationship Dynamics

February 09, 2024 J. Stone Season 2 Episode 10
The Hidden Trials of Masculinity: A Deep Dive into Faith, Mental Health, and Relationship Dynamics
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In The Lounge Podcast with Stone and B
The Hidden Trials of Masculinity: A Deep Dive into Faith, Mental Health, and Relationship Dynamics
Feb 09, 2024 Season 2 Episode 10
J. Stone
Ever wrestled with the notion of unshakeable spiritual resilience or grappled with the silent burdens of mental health? Erin, a faith-based life coach and beacon of inspiration, steps into our world, sharing her profound insights on intertwining Jesus's teachings with the fabric of our day-to-day lives. Through her journey as a single mother and advocate for men's mental health, she reveals the often overlooked trials men face and the transformative power of steadfast prayer, especially highlighted in her energizing Monday prayers on Instagram.

Navigating the delicate balance between strength and vulnerability, this episode strips back the layers of societal expectations on men, shining a light on the harsh realities that can lead to depression and anxiety. With Erin's guidance, we explore how relationships can act as both a cradle for growth and a catalyst for downfall, emphasizing the significance of mutual recognition of our flaws and the pursuit of shared understanding. Our candid conversation takes a turn towards the sensitive areas of temptation and sexual morality, where I share my own battle with sexual purity and the profound understanding that grace is always within reach.

As the dialogue unfolds, we weave through the sacredness of marriage, the role of targeted prayers, and how divine guidance can shape our relationships. Amidst the backdrop of Black History Month, we pay tribute to the omnipresence of black history and its pivotal role in our lives. Join us as we lift the veil on these deeply personal topics, inviting you to reflect on your own spiritual and relational journeys, all while looking forward to the wisdom our next guest will bring to the table.

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Ever wrestled with the notion of unshakeable spiritual resilience or grappled with the silent burdens of mental health? Erin, a faith-based life coach and beacon of inspiration, steps into our world, sharing her profound insights on intertwining Jesus's teachings with the fabric of our day-to-day lives. Through her journey as a single mother and advocate for men's mental health, she reveals the often overlooked trials men face and the transformative power of steadfast prayer, especially highlighted in her energizing Monday prayers on Instagram.

Navigating the delicate balance between strength and vulnerability, this episode strips back the layers of societal expectations on men, shining a light on the harsh realities that can lead to depression and anxiety. With Erin's guidance, we explore how relationships can act as both a cradle for growth and a catalyst for downfall, emphasizing the significance of mutual recognition of our flaws and the pursuit of shared understanding. Our candid conversation takes a turn towards the sensitive areas of temptation and sexual morality, where I share my own battle with sexual purity and the profound understanding that grace is always within reach.

As the dialogue unfolds, we weave through the sacredness of marriage, the role of targeted prayers, and how divine guidance can shape our relationships. Amidst the backdrop of Black History Month, we pay tribute to the omnipresence of black history and its pivotal role in our lives. Join us as we lift the veil on these deeply personal topics, inviting you to reflect on your own spiritual and relational journeys, all while looking forward to the wisdom our next guest will bring to the table.

Support the Show.

Follow us on IG [CLICK HERE]

Subscribe and please leave some feedback in the comments section.

For business inquires email us today PLMedia@mail.com

Now accepting sponsorship opportunities, available to anyone who subscribes.


Speaker 1:

5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, this is your boy, j Stone, coming to you live with another edition of In the Lounge with Stone and B. I am so excited today to have one of the best, one of the best. She is after God's own heart. When I say that, I mean it. If you go to any of her pages. She is professing God from the heels to the heels, wherever she goes. Jesus, jesus, jesus. A long time ago, my grandmother used to say take him everywhere she go. She would love to, because everywhere she goes, jesus goes right along with her, and I love it. I need everyone to put their hands together for a faith-based life coach. That means she's telling you straight from what God wants you to do. She's not giving it to you from what she thinks. No, this is from God. She's a mother, she is a podcaster. Oh man, she's the owner of a lot of companies. I got to. I'm going to just, I'm going to just, in fact, I'm going to just tell everybody put your hands together, put your hands together, put them together again. I'm going to do like the old church do it For the father, for the son, and the holy ghost. Clap your hands together for Erin. Her podcast is named Confessions of a Practicing Christian. Once again, it's Confessions of a Practicing Christian. Erin, tell the people what's going on with you.

Speaker 2:

Hey, hey, hey, hey, it's me Erin, for these Confessions of a Practicing Christian host and also faith-based life coach and, just like he said, giving it to you from a Godly perspective and a little bit of my perspective because, you know, everybody has their own individual walk with God. But as for me, you know it's me falling down and getting back up and telling it to you from a real life, raw, relatable perspective, not sugarcoating. You will fall, but the Bible says a just man falls seven times and get back up again.

Speaker 1:

So yeah, that's it. You got to get back up. You don't get back up while you're in your mess and you don't want to do that because God God is a forgiving God.

Speaker 2:

That's one thing I didn't know he is.

Speaker 1:

He is a forgiving God, a loving God, a merciful God, a God that will always be there with you through the ends of the world. When you're going through, he's right there with you Long time ago, my grandmother had a poster in her. Well, I don't know if you want to call it a poster, but it was a picture of Jesus and it was carrying. You know, you've seen the footprints and it was called Footprints.

Speaker 2:

I've seen that yeah.

Speaker 1:

And in it I'm prayer phrase, because I don't remember the whole thing. It says it was only, it was me and you, jesus, walking, but I only see one prayer footprints, and that means Jesus was carrying you all the way through, and that's what we want him to do carry us all the way through. I listened to this song called Jump, don't Jump Off the Ship. It means back in. I forgot what, what, what's, what's the, what's the? What's the scripture? Go. Jesus was in the bottom of the ship and the the waves was tossing to and from, to and from, and they were scared so they were going to jump off the ship. So the song goes jump ship, you don't have to jump ship. Hold on to Jesus until you get to the shore, all right, so I love things like that. So, um, it is Black History Month. It is Black History Month. It's almost over, but it's Black History Month. We used to get a day, then they gave us a week and now they give us some months. Wow, but Black History Month is every, every, every day you live, you hear your black, you got history.

Speaker 2:

That's it.

Speaker 1:

So what have you been doing today? What's going on on your podcast? I know you had a live. What's going on?

Speaker 2:

Man. So today has been quite busy for me. Actually, I just got off alive and another thing about me I advocate for men and women alike Just so happened. You know, God has graced me to be able to intercede, more so in this season, on behalf of men and, with that being said, me being a content creator, the season that I'm servicing a lot of men on Instagram. Ok, and with that being said, it's me. Every Monday, I do a prayer and it starts out to the man on the other end of this screen.

Speaker 1:

I love it.

Speaker 2:

It has garnered so much attention because it's like, oh, it's somebody advocating for men and it's a woman. Oh my God, yes, and how that first started out. You know, god, I was literally headed to work and God told me pray for men. I actually did a podcast on men mental health, because I believe the closest you can become to a man is being a single mother, and for me, you know, that's big because I fall in that category at this point in time. I used to be once upon a time there, but you know the children falling. God just has a plan for my life, and so, because I'm in that season, I'm having to care the weight slash of a man and a woman, and so it's like knowing how that feels. It's like, ooh, it ain't no excuses At all. I mean, you got somebody looking at you and looking up to you at that.

Speaker 1:

And awesome, I'm hungry Feed me what I'm hungry. You can be in the breakdown and they won't stop you and you just walked through the door and said I'm tired. I don't care about you being tired, I'm hungry.

Speaker 2:

Right, you can be scared.

Speaker 1:

I need some attention, I need some food, I need you to talk to me, I need some help with this homework. Right, mama, right, mama, don't stop. So that part, though, never, ever stop.

Speaker 2:

Ever, ever. And so, from that perspective, I know what it is to have the weight of the world on your shoulders and no one's coming to help you and you can't complain about being a mummy no, you got a chin up, chest out. And so, coming from that perspective, it's like I know what it is to have the weight on your the world on your shoulders and really you can't complain, you just have to keep pushing. But you need somebody to encourage you, and so that's me pouring back into them from a godly perspective and through God, because God also gave me the scripture. It's a verse I forget what it is, but it goes Simon, simon, how Satan has desired to sip you apart, like we. But when you have turned, strengthened I pray your faith, failed you not. And when you have turned, strengthened your brothers and emphasized, strengthened your brothers. And I said OK, god, you want me to pray for them. And so it's growing and I'm definitely advocating and praying and intercing for men and just coming over resources to be able to help me and be better and also to change the narrative. I feel like in this day and time, so many women and men are against each other. It's like men are nothing and men are hardly women, ain't nothing, and that's not the way God created things to be. He created us for a purpose to mirror our relationship to him.

Speaker 1:

So yeah, what I do like is that you have been in a relationship. You was married. Most of the time when people want women to get married, they go get a little better against a man. But you're here advocating for men. You're here showing, making men be stronger, helping them, praying for them, and that's the biggest thing you can do for any man. It's pray for him, because it's crazy that a lot of people, a lot of men, you can ask a man how are you doing? The first thing you're saying I'm good.

Speaker 2:

I'm OK.

Speaker 1:

I'm good. And yes, we go through the emotions, we go through the pains, we have depression, we get anxiety, we have all this. But we have been told so much that we can't show that, we can't show that part. We can't show that, we can't show that weakness or anything. You have to be strong 24, 24. And if you do show that to a woman, she's not going to want to be with you, she's not going to want to be around you. She wants somebody strong that can bury her, help her with her load and everything. But it's a part of a man that a woman can do two things. A woman can either bury a man or raise him up.

Speaker 2:

Come on color. I love that.

Speaker 1:

Honestly, that's what it is Like the words I don't need no woman, I don't need no man. That's a lie, because if you get me, it is. Or if you get me, I just say it's all my life. God wouldn't have put us together and what I'm saying is put us together it wouldn't have been an Adam and an Eve, it would have been just Adam, that kicking it, chilling, doing what he's doing, and God would put Eve somewhere else around the corner and say, hey, you going over there, don't mess with him. But no, you put him together. And he called her a help mate. That don't mean to put her in back of him or in front of him, that means to put him on the side. What did he make Eve out of the rib?

Speaker 2:

Ah, Come on good, you better preach, young man, you better preach.

Speaker 1:

That's what the thing about it is he made her out of his rib so he could stick to the side. And they always say two miles is better than one One, one one. Sometimes, when we don't think that's when y'all kicking out no baby. We need to do it this way, this way, and learn this women Learn how to speak to your man.

Speaker 2:

Agreed.

Speaker 1:

Because don't talk at him? Talk to him. You can get all kind of stuff out of him if you talk to him, not talk at him.

Speaker 2:

And, if I can say, not just talk to him. Sometimes talking don't help, because sometimes y'all just said each other nicks, though I always say the highest form of love is freedom. You thought enough to take me before God. If you love that man, pray for that man, because there will be some silent battles that you aren't even aware of, because men go through depression that they don't even speak about. They can have a smile on their face, they can literally just go through the motions.

Speaker 1:

Same as women. Yeah, that's the thing about it. Is this With us as being African-Americans, we don't have that. We don't have that thing says go talk to this person about your problems. That was go pray about it. I look at it like this therapy God put it here, god made therapies, god made doctors, god made all this For us to talk, for us to be, for us to be somewhere to get some kind of help. Men need help. I'm not gonna say in line say, oh man, I'm the strongest thing in the world and nothing hurts me. No, we get our feelings hurt, we get emotional, we get upset the whole nine. But sometimes it's that thing that you hear when you get emotional around a woman, a woman that say, oh, you're a punk.

Speaker 2:

You don't wanna hear that.

Speaker 1:

You don't wanna hear, I'm being a punk, but I'm showing you my emotions, I'm showing you what I care about. But you know, and that's when we go back in it Say I'm saying you know what Can't show you that.

Speaker 2:

Can't show you that. I agree, and on top of that it's sometimes we as women, because we did sit on what we want, we forget to listen and again, I can't speak for everyone. I've been in a relationship where I was the problem as well.

Speaker 1:

You know, for the most part I'm like you know why you come from baby, why you come from you. Is he really talking, oh Lord?

Speaker 2:

you want them recording everything, because everyone has. No one is from you know.

Speaker 1:

I have no idea. She was the part of the problem. This is a woman. The only person I ever knew was to apologize was Anita Baker. On that song.

Speaker 2:

I am the only girl.

Speaker 1:

The only woman I ever knew to apologize was Anita Baker. Now I got another one. Look at this. God is good, wow, yeah, honestly, that's a good thing and I'm joking around, but it's a good thing to know you had a part to deal with it, like when I in my divorce I'm not saying it was all her.

Speaker 2:

No, I'm not.

Speaker 1:

I had something to deal with that. A little minute part. She had the big part. No, agreed, but I had something to deal with that. Seriously, if it wasn't nothing to, if I didn't have a part to do it, we would still have been kicking it together.

Speaker 2:

That's right. That's the exact angle that I come from. I think a lot of people don't take part. Like I said, I just got off a lie and you know it's always. You know me or talking about well, why? women don't do this and why they want this and why they want that, or why they expect this, or how come I gotta do this? And the first thing that I said a lot of the things that you guys are saying and are taking it fail because, at the end of the day, nobody makes you talk to anybody. If you speak with a person and they're not speaking your language, dismiss them politely.

Speaker 1:

But you gotta understand.

Speaker 2:

People on as a project. Don't be okay with things that you're not okay with, and I think that's the problem in society. People are in a different zone.

Speaker 1:

A man and we go and I might be just talking, but if I am, somebody gonna say something to me. But most time a man looks at a woman, Woman ain't open her mouth, Woman ain't saying nothing, Woman ain't made a move or anything. What is he looking at? That body type. We don't know if this woman bad, crap, crazy or not. But he looking ooh, she got this, she got that, she got the body, she's great. Let me see if I can talk to her. I keep telling people when they talk to people, they're not talking to them, they're talking to a representative. They, that's that person, that's that fake person that comes out. Ooh, great, I make that, I do this, I do that, I'm great. That's just like when you run for the president. President will tell you anything that you wanna know or anything that you want to hear, just to listen to him and to get that vote. Same thing with if you dating a woman or a man, a man come up and tell you everything under the sun. Maybe I have to give you the stars, the moon, the mountains Whole night. Maybe I give it all to you. He get to sing an as-yet song last night, you know whole thing. So that's the same thing. Vice versa with a woman. One will show you part of what she'll do for you, and then you get the rest. So I'm just saying.

Speaker 2:

I agree with that totally. I totally agree with it. But again, like I said, I just addressed it the thing about people they neglect their discernment and God give you discernment and he tell you red flag, red flag. It's just you choose to look over those red flags and, like I said, I'm guilty. That's why I don't just put it on men or women. We look over red flags. That will cost us in the end. And then we end up better like, oh, this person or women, and we take it out on every single woman or man after that, when you should have chosen her. And that's why it's better to date from a place of being healed instead of a place to try to heal, if that makes sense. When you the same thing, the things that you tolerated when you weren't healed, aren't the things that you'll put up when you're healed, Like, say, for instance, if out the top in starting the conversation because you healed you all about your piece. If you meet somebody who says, oh, I'm not ready for a relationship, next caller somebody's time to try to see if they read up no no they'll do it. Wait a minute. You didn't even baby cut the chit chat. Next caller, you just said what you weren't ready for. I came for you. You about to waste my time.

Speaker 1:

And I think a lot of people.

Speaker 2:

They get caught up. They're a little toxic, because I've been a little toxic too. I like wasting time, because this is that what it is. That's it. Stop wasting your time in there If you know you want a relationship and you see somebody that you're interested in and they tell you they ain't ready for no relationship. It's a stage left baby. It's a stage left, okay, save yourself the heartache, even if you see, even if it's not a relationship, they're not a great communicator, they're a manipulator, they're a liar or they got a lot of trauma going on. They think I'm a little impet.

Speaker 1:

They will show themselves first to you. You can re-show them what they are. There's more part to say you know what? I can't deal with, that I don't want to deal with that or whatever. My whole thing was with me in any relationship I did or got with. I didn't lie. I was honest to the fact of the matter that if I had a girlfriend at the point in time and somebody else came and talked to me, I would let them know hey, I came out with you, I got a girl. Now, if you persist to do this, that's on you, that's your thing. But I'm not fined to indulge this in with you. That's crazy. So you know it's. I got a question when I told a couple of people that I was talking to that I was going to have you on and I said she was a Christian life coach. She was like, really like a life coach, life coach. I said yeah, she helps people with the problem, she prays for them, yada, yada, yada, whole nine. She said they were like ah question. So you know, the question is if you're dating a woman or dating a man, you see, the fact that a matter that they're going to be with you, meaning marriage, loving, whole nine getting kids. You want to marry this person. Is it okay to have sex with them right then and there, or do you still have to wait?

Speaker 2:

I'm going to give you the biblical answer and I'm going to give you the air and experience Cause.

Speaker 1:

literally, this is the life time that.

Speaker 2:

I can't spend literally. The biblical answer is no, it's not. You're not supposed to even play with yourself, let alone somebody else, because God created sex as a blending tool and literally it's scientific behind the bonding tool, the actual chemical. I think it's dopamine and a couple of other chemicals that release as the bonding mechanism. Literally y'all become one One. That's why the Bible says, when you lay down, y'all become one, cause literally now your mind is releasing chemicals and now you're attached to that person. It's a soul type, literally Like it's a whole little behind it and it ain't just saying it spiritually, like physically, you are tied. And even I heard, after you sleep with a person, their DNA is with you seven years after.

Speaker 1:

It's a soul type, it's a true soul type. Sex is, like you said, to bond that person with that other person. It is not to be spread from here to there, to there to there, even though we say you know what, nevermind, let me go and get hooked. Let me go and get hooked, yeah, we're gonna have some good old time. Yeah, girl, I love you. That's the quickest way to get a woman. That's it. Baby, I love you girl.

Speaker 2:

That is it. I'm so happy Give me them draws.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, come on girl.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's exactly right.

Speaker 1:

And you're talking sweet nothing's. The next thing, bloop, bloop up, yep got it. And then this is the crazy part about it you sitting you think, like dang, I messed up, now what I'm gonna do, it's too late now. But God is what, a forgiving God. Now, this is what we still do. He calls again and we do it again and again, and again, and again, and again, and we continue to do it and we're like I don't know what he's supposed to be doing. I don't know what to do. Why should I, why am I keep doing this? Because this is a to all my Christian brothers and sisters out there. Let me tell you this and let me tell you this now you have a body that's made by God and he put these chemicals and he's put these things in you that resistant to having sex, that thing to having sex. You cannot throw that away. That ain't something. You can pull out your body and say you know what? I'm going to put this on the corner right here. That's there. It's going to be there, because God put it there. But what can help you with? That is the word of God. You got to pray. You got to pray when them times come and you like, oh man, I don't know, I'm being real, I'm going to be a man right now. You know, honestly, you know them times you like shoot, she looked, I want this. And then sometimes you sit and say, god, I've been working hard at this. When you going to work this out for me, what's going on?

Speaker 2:

Okay, me so Me.

Speaker 1:

You know you like you put this in me, so I'm trying to be right by you. Help me, Help you.

Speaker 2:

That's the one, yes. You know, so, going back to your initial question, it was it's not healthy for you and the Bible even says all other things are outside the body, but when you have sex you sin against your body, literally. That's why, Because that's so tight, that literally is sinning against yourself, because sometimes you can't help. I mean, of course you know the Bible say don't nobody, not lie. But sex that's a different, that's a different type of you know.

Speaker 1:

I can't say that I can. I said it's days, it's times that things is just when I hear it just happened. I believe that. I believe it because it it ain't like you. Like, you know what. We're going to do this, we're going to do this, we're going to do this, but no, it just happened. It just happened and nothing. Just happens.

Speaker 2:

I'm a firm believer in it because the Bible say don't let your good be evil, spoken of him. You know good where you not. You ain't got to speak, you ain't got to speak it just.

Speaker 1:

it's just happened. We're speaking those things right.

Speaker 2:

I don't think that, just said just happy. You know good where you don't need to be hemmed up Nowhere to be.

Speaker 1:

You ain't got to be hemmed up. It's sometimes a smell, a freak a smell, or just a gesture or something. Just talking to you.

Speaker 2:

But you got to go lay down somewhere, exactly.

Speaker 1:

You ain't really got to lay down, but anyway, okay.

Speaker 2:

But whatever you do, you still got to in a stick.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Take them clothes off you have to. You have to stop.

Speaker 1:

Honestly, and you know what, I'm a stop. I'm a stop because you're right. You do have that time in a period and God gives you a way of escape. Honestly, don't? You do have that time to say you know what? I don't need to be doing this, let me stop. But how many of us say let me stop, don't do this. And it's there. Everything is there. Look at it.

Speaker 2:

I'm a huge because I've been guilty of that and I'm a good Like I said what they say I'm a recovery addict. Not all mean it literally, but you guys say see both, be like tell the line, I ain't gonna lie Like that has never been my problem and I'm at. My name is Erin and I'm fornicating.

Speaker 1:

Man.

Speaker 2:

And God tore me up with that symbol when I was out of his wheel.

Speaker 1:

The thing about it is this Nothing. What I can say is I can say this when you do it, the act, oh it's great, bam. When it's done, that's when the conviction hits, and and that conviction, that conviction, that conviction is like yo mama whipping your butt like for real, for real, for real, and God is sitting at the end. You see him do this. I done told you why you do it, why you do it, but it's just crazy. I don't mind. That's that. That was one of the questions I had on the. What's the name?

Speaker 2:

So, but I didn't get to fully answer. So the vocal answer is no, and it's a reason that you're not supposed to, because it really is sitting against your own body. That's the thing about it. So it's not healthy for you to create soul ties and it brings along a million other demons with it. To be quiet. So now, with that being said, the Aaron, like I said, I will be lying to you and say, oh, I've never done that. That's not my story. Thankful that God is a forgiving God, that he's a loving God. And he graced me to be able to, when I fall, to get back up. Do I practice that? And would I tell someone that's okay? No, absolutely not. You're not supposed to be doing it. You need to be touching yourself. It literally is wrong. Do I fall? Yes, so I don't like a lot of people. People are like oh, I'll do that, I try not to. I try my best not to Now. Please explain this.

Speaker 1:

I try not to put myself in those situations. But that's that scene Putting yourself in a situation. It's not. It's when, at point, at point times, we put ourselves in situations that we know what we're doing. So, at point in time, can we hear?

Speaker 2:

Yes, I can hear Literally. My baby came and he was trying to tell me something important. It's okay, it's okay, I'm sorry, it's okay.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I'm sorry, you are a mother and it happens Beautiful. Yeah, I've seen that mama. Look what the heck Get down.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, please, god, I've seen it.

Speaker 1:

That's when the church looks.

Speaker 2:

You know how your mama looks at you from the choir still.

Speaker 1:

I got something for you at the church In the name of Jesus, in the name of.

Speaker 2:

Jesus.

Speaker 1:

Cry out again.

Speaker 2:

Yes, God Again.

Speaker 1:

I heard my grandmother do that one time yes, ma'am, yes ma'am. I'm just feeling like y'all are going to get y'all butt beat. Yes, not me.

Speaker 2:

Yes God. So, yeah, so, going back to it, I'm sorry about that, but yeah, I'm all right. So, yeah, the biblical answer is no, that's not okay. Do air and do it have. Done it, hold on, have done it. There you go. If I have, you are still doing it and I'm literally recovering and it's a daily battle.

Speaker 1:

It is.

Speaker 2:

It's literally being a single woman. I can't tell you that I'm just so sanctified and so holy so I don't have those thoughts. Literally, I have to ask God okay, God, Now you gave me this, you need to help me place my flesh on the subjection.

Speaker 1:

Come on.

Speaker 2:

It comes with a lot of fast and prayer and not getting him ducked.

Speaker 1:

Man.

Speaker 2:

I'm impressed.

Speaker 1:

I'm about to tell me. You said, man, I'm fasting so much and I feel lightheaded. Yes, yes, no. And one thing you said the touching of yourself, like, what like do you hear so much in? If you start reading up on touching your masturbation or whatever man have you, they said it's good for you, it's okay for you, it's okay to do. Now we go back into the biblical sense of it. We're in the Bible that it does it say that. Now we hear where it says do not let your seed fall to the ground. Now is it talking about sure man seed or just a seed period or what?

Speaker 2:

Well, it's talking about your actual. You know we can't say that online, but the stuff you know, the juice is. That's what it's talking about, because that's your you know, in the Bible days because that's what we're saying you know it was their lineage, they had boys and you know the boys carried on their lineage. It was true they wanted to have boys. Of course, girls, you know that's okay. But if you're not, if you're spilling your seed on the ground cause I'm trying to keep it, g, you know that means you don't want to continue that lineage. In a sense, god knew exactly what he was doing back then. So it was. It wasn't the spilling the seed, that was the problem, it was the rebellious act of doing it. Yeah, so it ain't that, it's. You do what you kind of do and you know what the purpose was and you know what lineage you supposed to be continuing, per God.

Speaker 1:

True.

Speaker 2:

So you literally told basically you was being rebellious.

Speaker 1:

And said, no, I ain't gonna do that, I'm doing something, yeah, true.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'ma get my eyes in. And God was like okay. Die, die, die yeah. When it comes to masturbation. That's not you're not going to see in the Bible, but masturbation, specifically the word masturbation but it comes under sexual immorality and it says you know, the Bible talks a lot about the things that are immoral when it comes to sexual things and sexual immorality, and if you have a personal relationship with God, god will talk to you, just like he talking to me. You see, he does. And so, with that being said, you know, if you've ever done that before and you walking with God, you had this look even when you weren't out there. People say I just feel nasty. I don't think you get that disgusting feeling, but you feel good.

Speaker 1:

I love disgusting, yeah, because, because he, like I, said that's that, that's that not consequences, but that's that, that's that. I said the word a little while ago, I forgot the name of the word that's when God chest has you. This is chest and it works. It works, but it so I say this to everybody what God put in us, he put in us to use with a young lady, young man, however, but he also put these stipulations in order. You have to be married to this, because he wants to keep procreating life. He wants the life to continue. That's right. This is the reason of this part. Now, yes, indeed, it's good to have it, it's fun, it's a great thing to do, but my whole thing to do it, the right way, is to just have sex with your wife or your husband.

Speaker 2:

Correct, correct, correct. And I will say a lot of people go outside of it and from a standpoint of that's the best. You remember the woman at the well and he told her I know you've had multiple husbands. And they say, when you lay down with a person, you know y'all become one.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

That's the thing about it. It ain't the action, it's the things behind that mentally, spiritually and physically that affect you. So yeah, just if you can refrain from it. That's why what Paul said is better to marry than burn. That's the importance of marriage. Yes, now he's got it, you got it. You know the fortification and the ex behind that is really. You know it's a lie and he know the sexual things that come behind it. True, True. Now that's my spiel on that.

Speaker 1:

We, that's a good spiel. I did with it, I agree with it. Now we're going to talk about this thing called marriage. And why is it different now? Like like back in the day, when people were was was together. They were together. You knew, you know your grandma, your grandpa. They stayed. They've been together for 50,000 years. You know he didn't lie to her, she didn't cheat on him. He didn't cheat on her, but it wasn't one of them things.

Speaker 2:

We're going to divorce Now we're going to stay together, we're going to be together, we're going to raise these kids and we're going to be good.

Speaker 1:

They lived 18 miles from whatever and he, he worked in the fields or whatever and she worked in the you know he was. He was tending the hogs and everything, cause, you know, back in the day black folks had land. Yeah, you know, they was doing it up and you know my grandmother, my grandmother and my grandfather, my grandfather. They stayed together for like, I think like 30, 40 years.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

And I'm talking about together. She didn't have no other man on the side, he didn't have no woman on the side. They argued, they got upset with each other, but guess what? It wasn't. I want to divorce. Nope, well, uh, uh, out of me. We're going to. We're going to come together and talk about this. That's my grandmother's name. Out of me, it was James, and out of me all the way, 30, 40 years. You can't get somebody to stay with you for two days. Now, you know, look you, you, you get a you and and what's crazy about it is people get divorced for the smallest fractions of things, for the things you should have talked about before you got married money. How are you with your mama? How are you with my mom? How are you about kids? What happens when you upset? Can you handle stress? Can you handle money? Can you hold a job? Do you have a job? Things like that, like we just get into stuff and says, ooh, he cute, Ooh, she cute. Let me talk to him, let's get with it. Oh, my heart just went out to him. I want to marry him. I love him so much baby.

Speaker 2:

My last marriage taught me that, if I can say like you know, I used to think that if you love the person, that's all you need to make your word comes like. Let me show you you need more than love. You need God first. Yes, you need love second. And you need a person who understands your purpose and who's walking the same way, because a person can be a good person. This been my experience. They can be a good person, just not a good person for you because your past, they don't match.

Speaker 1:

I like that, Because even in love a person has to be equally yoked with you. Yes, People don't talk about that but not a good person for you. I like that. You can be a great person, but you ain't for me. So we're gonna move on and we're gonna try somebody else, yes, yes. Like you say, it's called wasting time. You don't want to continue to waste time. I'm sure we'll waste time, so I can dig that. I can dig that. I can dig that. Let everybody know what's your hand over here your IG, your emails, your Twitter, all that good stuff.

Speaker 2:

I don't have a Twitter. I have an IG and it's the real Aaron Faneese. That's my IG. My Facebook is Aaron Seals. I want to say Confessions of a practice in Christianity. So Apple, google, spotify.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so again, look me up, find me out and I would love to have you and definitely look If you have some interesting episode topics. I definitely would love to speak with you guys about that.

Speaker 1:

For sure, for sure, for sure. I love her introduction when she's getting ready to pray To the man on the other side of this camera. Where did you get that from? Let's dwell on that. Where did you get that from?

Speaker 2:

Honestly, that just came because I'm speaking to the man, honestly, just talking to the man on the other side of the screen, because I'm addressing it, because I mean I could have generalized the prayer for God told me to be specific in the pot, cause I did a podcast, if a soul, on mental health, because October and September one is suicide prevention month and one of them is mental health awareness money and those two months suicide rates are the heights. That bothers me being in God One, because that means the devil literally know he doing and I think it's funny that it's in October, september, october. You get that Lean right up until that month. That's not a Godly holiday and I know everybody be like, well, everyone on pagan holidays, hey, we talking about that right now we're talking about specifically. you know what's leaned up. Yes, yes, so now with that being said, I'm like I know that is a spiritual attack on people's mind and people don't know it because I'm an intercessor. God is being in tune with God and if God will tell you specifically who to pray for, because God to drop random people in your spirit, you be like what that's true.

Speaker 1:

That's true.

Speaker 2:

Literally. That's God. You ain't gotta know. Your job is to intercede on their behalf. And so I don't know the person that I'm praying for, but God, you know, and because they stopped and they submitted, because they're saying, okay, god, I touch and agree mentally with what this young lady is saying you open the door for the light to come in, not through airing, I was just the person, but the God, no matter how God do it, he's doing it, and so that's the point. And specifically he said to the man on the other end of the screen I know, you know, for me and for everybody, god has a way of putting everything back in order Cause, like I said on the here lady, everything has been on the rise. The woman against me, oh my God, I get so sick of seeing it and I mean, like you said, I'm not, I ain't never gonna say I don't need no man who said that, not me.

Speaker 1:

I hear it every day.

Speaker 2:

I want the man that God has for me, whoever he is there you go, there you go.

Speaker 1:

I want the man or the woman that God has for me. So, like I told you when we talked I got. Carlos Miller is my favorite comedian. He has this saying black men don't cheat. So, like I said, I use this same saying black men don't cheat. We just peruse, peruse. If you look up the word peruse, it means just to look a little bit. Don't touch it, just look at it. So just the thing about it is the reason I say that is sometimes around fellas. But I say that is because if you get the right man or you get the right woman and they're for you and you're for them, what's the need to cheat for it?

Speaker 2:

And furthermore, let me go a step even further, as we were mentioning God love you so much. You know exactly who it is that you need you God. If you know God, you know God love you too much to give you something that would destroy you. He even keep you yourself from going off the deep end. What make you think he'll give you somebody that's going to destroy you mentally, physically or spiritually? And because I know God love me that much. The person that he has for me, cheap baby, no we're the yellow in purpose, so black men, don't cheat the woman that God has for you.

Speaker 1:

There you go. I'm the one. That's the thing about it is. We look at, we get upset at when he goes out, or she goes out and cheat Guess what. God didn't pick him for you, you did that's the one. You did that for you. So you can't get mad at God, you can only get mad at yourself. Because she showed you her traits, she showed you what she was really about, and you decided to ignore them because she had a fat booty, or she had big breasts, or she was cute, or she smelled good or whatever the fact of the matter is, and you decided to overlook that and do what you wanted to do. But what? you wanted to do was correct.

Speaker 2:

So correct God, you discern, and clear indication. And then he even said his word. The blessings of the Lord, make it rich and add no sorrow.

Speaker 1:

No sorrow.

Speaker 2:

For clear indication that they're not from God is literally a situation keep coming up. The Bible says love is patient, love is kind, love forgive. It's so many different scriptures that gives you the role map for who that's man and woman, what the characteristics, what a God the man is, and if they're not literally going into those categories, you send yourself up for failure period.

Speaker 1:

True, true, I am not gonna lie to you, I enjoy this conversation, definitely. I sit here and enjoy this conversation on what God wants for the man, what God wants for the woman, about sex, about the masturbation, about how to find that right person. God says in his word a man that finds a good woman, finds a wife, and he up, say his favor in his life.

Speaker 2:

Rise up the Lord. Come on okay.

Speaker 1:

Oh, my whole thing is this Woman don't go out looking for a man. A man goes out looking for a woman, I agree, I agree. And on top of that, why he goes out looking for a woman, the woman's supposed to be getting and I heard this hide yourself, but prepare yourself to be revealed. So that's what it's supposed to be. I am so excited to have you on my show. I am so excited for you to. I believe you're gonna go to the tip tops, the tops, the tip tops. I will sit here looking at your podcast before we got on. I commend you on what you're doing. For God, I want you to keep going. I don't care who says something about you. If you need anything, I'm here for you.

Speaker 2:

Thank you. That means so much to me, coming from your brother in Christ. Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1:

I done told people. If you listen to my podcast and you don't love Jesus, guess what? You don't like my podcast? That's the one. God is going to be a matter matter. Long way I was homeless to living in a penthouse. I'm doing pretty darn good right now, not from what. I'm doing, but from what God's grace and His mercy and His love is everlasting and it's true it endures to all generations. So I'm excited. I'm thankful that you take the time out to sit in your car and pray for us men, that sometimes we don't get anybody to even just say hi, we get dirty looks, we upset somebody, upset us mad or whatever. But I'm thankful that you say, hey, I'm gonna pray for this brother. I don't know his name but I'm gonna pray for him. God knows who he is.

Speaker 2:

That's right.

Speaker 1:

God feels him, god understands him, so I'm gonna pray for him. God used me as a vessel to use to get something out of it and the thing about it is great. It's a wonderful quality to have. You're gonna go far and I know you're gonna go far and I'm excited for you. I am so thankful that you wretched off to me and said, hey, I wanna be on your podcast, and that was a great thing for me and know that you, beautiful lady, wonderful, I commend you. Great mother, great woman of God, you're gonna go far. That podcast you're gonna go tip top tops. Confessions, confessions of a practicing Christian. I like that. You got another episode coming out right.

Speaker 2:

That's why I drop every Tuesday, okay.

Speaker 1:

Okay, okay, and do you have you got a copy that you finished discuss?

Speaker 2:

Actually it's my week-to-week experience. Y'all get fresh, Fresh perspective.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

Okay.

Speaker 1:

Well, I know that's what it is is. It was a sprite and it doesn't get flat cuz I got some ice in it, so it's a flat, icy sprite, but yeah, so, ladies and gentlemen, I am so excited for you to tune into this. It will be edited, cleaned up and everything great. You got anything else to say?

Speaker 2:

no, thank you so much for having me, and so the man and women. I love you guys so much and good. And again, go to wwwairhamfineesecom If you want to book a coaching session and we could talk about life, career I love, and set some goals and boundaries in place to get you on the right track. This and purpose and all of the above. So yeah, that's it for me.

Speaker 1:

I love you, I love it. Do me a favor, lead us out in your favorite favorite thing, that, that prayer, what you do, give it to me.

Speaker 2:

Okay, by the guy in the name of Jesus, we come into your presence, into the man and the woman on the other side of the screen. Thank you for touching their hearts. Thank you for touching their minds, thank you for guiding them and leading them. God, in purpose and on purpose. Lord, I just thank you for perfecting all that concern them. Lord, ease and stress, leading their family in the right direction, giving them knowledge and wisdom. Lord, most of all, giving them favor and grace. God, lord, I just thank you just for touching their life and forgiving them a supernatural manifestation of your love. And then it's in Jesus night. We pray, amen.

Speaker 1:

Amen, amen. That went out to everybody and I hope you felt it because it was from the heart. This is your boy, j Stone, signing off. If you see me in the streets and it's raided, let me get you a coffee or a little minute. Hope you guys can hear me, oh.

Lounge With Stone and B
Men's Mental Health in Relationships
Struggling With Temptation and Sexual Morality
Understanding God's Plan, Masturbation, and Marriage
Discussions on Relationships and Faith
Podcast Sponsorship and Closing Prayer