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For over 25 years Proverbs 31 Ministries' mission has been to intersect God's Word in the real, hard places we all struggle with. That's why we started this podcast. Every episode will feature a variety of teachings from president Lysa TerKeurst, staff members or friends of the ministry who can teach you something valuable from their vantage point. We hope that regardless of your age, background or stage of life, it's something you look forward to listening to each month!
Meredith Brock:
Hi, friends. Welcome back to The Proverbs 31 Ministries Podcast, where we share biblical Truth for any girl in any season. I'm your host, Meredith Brock, and I am here with my co-host, Kaley Olson.
Kaley Olson:
Well, hey, Meredith, and hey, everyone listening. I'm so excited to introduce you to our teacher for today's episode soon. Her name is Kiwi. You'll hear a little bit more in the episode about how she got her nickname. But my goodness, Meredith, it was such an amazing story of how God provided for her through legitimate poverty. And it's really not often that we hear a story of true poverty these days because it's easy to tune it out with social media or it's easy to intentionally swipe away from really, really hard things. But as a mom — we talked about this — it hits different whenever you hear a story like Kiwi's today. But it filled me with so much hope and so much excitement for what God has done and is doing through people like her who have been a part of an organization called Compassion International.
And Compassion International is actually one of our partners in ministry. And today they're actually sponsoring this episode, and we talk about this at the end of Kiwi's episode. But you [Meredith] and I are actually Compassion sponsors ourselves, [sponsors] of children. And what Compassion does is they bring real solutions to the poverty that so many children in today's world are facing, all in Jesus' name and through the generosity of sponsors. You can visit compassion.com/proverbs31 or click the link in our show notes to join us in sponsoring a child today.
Meredith Brock:
But before we jump in to hearing from Kiwi, I wanted to share our latest First 5 study guide with our listeners. The content is so stinking good. It's titled Keep Holding On: 30 Promises From God You Can Cling to Right Now. So if you're looking for hope to just keep going and not give up, or maybe you're looking to enrich your prayer life, or maybe you're looking for a way to start the year off in God's Word in a new and fresh way, this study is for you. Our prayer is that you would learn the character of our Promise Keeper and therefore be able to hold on to those promises so much more. Because I'm telling you, you guys, our whole life … Your whole life changes when you know the character of God and the promises that He has made to us. And so we can come before God confidently when we know those things. And we are hoping that this study will do that just for you. So you can grab your copy of the study guide using the link in our show notes or by going to p31bookstore.com.
Now, on to the show. All right, Kaley, I am excited to be here today with you and with our guest teacher. Her name is Kiwani, and she's a good friend of ours. So the first thing you should know is that everyone calls her Kiwi.
Kaley Olson:
I love that name so much.
Meredith Brock:
Oh my gosh. And I can't wait for our listeners to get to know her because as adorable and lovely as the name Kiwi is, she's even better than her name.
Kaley Olson:
It's one of my favorite fruits. So I mean, I already can't wait to meet her.
Meredith Brock:
I actually had the pleasure of meeting her last year when we were out on tour with Lysa [TerKeurst], and her story just touched me so much that I really wanted her to come and share her story with our podcast listeners. So welcome to the show, Kiwi. I am going to let you take it away, my friend. Introduce yourself to our listeners.
Kiwi:
Hi, everyone. Hi, Proverbs 31 listeners. I am so honored to be invited. Hi, Meredith. I can't wait to see you in flesh again. And hi, Kaley, my new friend.
Kaley Olson:
Hi.
Kiwi:
My name is Kiwi. Well, most of the people calls me Kiwi, but my real name, as Meredith said, is Kiwani. It sounds Hawaiian. I wish I was born and raised in Hawaii. Who would not wish they were born there? It's such a beautiful island. But I know that God has a plan and purpose why I was born in the Philippines to my very poor family.
I used to … When I was a young, young kid, I used to wonder: Why was I not born in another country? Why was I not born into a rich family? I would not know the reason why, especially at the time, but God always knows. He has a plan and a purpose.
We were living back then in the middle part of the Philippines, which is the Bacolod city. And my dad, he was an alcoholic. Each night, my parents, they would fight because he was always drunk. There are three elder brothers ahead of me who died because we just cannot afford the medical care necessary for my mom to have a checkup [during pregnancy]. So my third brother, he was supposed to be born [via] Cesarean section, but my parents just cannot afford the fees. So what they did … They cut my mom open without proper anesthesia. My brother didn't survive.
My mom screamed for pain, and it was just … Life was like that at that time.
But after that, I was born and another sister. And I just remember growing up in the Philippines, it was so difficult that the very basic needs my parents can hardly provide for us. There will be several nights, me and my sister, we would beg my parents, "Mama, Papa, we cannot sleep because we are just so hungry.” But even [though] my parents would give up the food that they're about to eat, which most of the time would be rice and soy sauce or rice and salt, we would still be hungry. And I remember I would look at my neighbor's window as I was walking toward our house. I would watch their television from outside of their house, but I would look at their table and see food and wonder, Why do they have food tonight? And what's wrong us? We don't have it.
And this story … I always tell this because this is a very important story in my life. When apples were imported — we don't have apples in the Philippines, but when they were imported from America to the Philippines — I would beg my mama. Whenever we go to the flea market or the wet market in the Philippines, I would beg my mama, "Ma, I really want to taste this apple. Please, let's buy." But even a rotten apple, Meredith and Kaley, we could not afford to buy. But I always say that this is not a sad story because our God is a good God. He is good. He cares for us. He is close to the brokenhearted. Even when we are in that situation that we thought that, Oh, God is not looking at me — He's not listening to me… He is there.
One day, my dad, who was an alcoholic, picked up a tract from the floor in his workplace. I don't know if your younger podcast listeners would know what a tract is, but a tract is a reading material about Jesus. So in the tract, it says to go to a crusade. So my dad went to the crusade. He heard about the love of God: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16, KJV). In the crusade, my dad received Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior. And for the very first time, my dad went home sober.
My mom was so surprised, asking him, "Hey, what's wrong? What happened to you? Why are you sober tonight?" Because every night, he would always come home drunk.
My dad said, "Nothing is wrong with me. I received Jesus as my Lord and Savior when everybody else said I'm not going to change, I'm going to die an alcoholic. But the Word of God says, ‘Nothing is impossible with Me.’"
So my dad brought us to church, and me and my sister, we would join Sunday school. In Sunday school, the kids there, they would always sing Christian songs, kids' songs. In this particular song … They would always sing this song: “Jesus loves the little children, all the children in the world. Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight.” But as a young Kiwi, at age of 7, I could not understand that. If He loves the little children, then why is our situation like this?
But you know what? The story didn't end there because He is good. We have a good, good Father in heaven. At the age of 7, I was registered to the Compassion program, and at the age of 7, my face was on a packet in Australia, and somebody from Australia picked up that packet. The very first thing in his letter [was that] he said, "Kiwi, you are pretty, and, Kiwi, Jesus loves you." You know what, Meredith and Kaley? I've never thought of myself as beautiful when I was a kid. It's not in the Filipino culture to tell their kids, "Oh, you're so beautiful. You're so pretty. You can be what you want to be." I have never thought that that word will be attributed to me.
But later I begin to realize, Lord, is this how You see me? That I'm beautiful and precious in Your sight? That I'm fearfully and wonderfully made? That I am, little Kiwi, a child of the one true God? I would go to our church every Saturday and every Sunday, or sometimes after school, and in the program in our church, Compassion partners with the local church. So my teachers there, they would teach us how to do the basic things: brushing your teeth, washing your hands. They will have doctor's appointments or dental appointments for us because we cannot afford those things. But the most important thing is telling us about Jesus. One day my teacher told me, "Hey, Kiwi, yes, you are poor. This is your situation. But,
Kiwi, this is not your destiny because in Jeremiah 29:11, it says, ‘“For I know the plans I have for you,” [declares] the Lᴏʀᴅ, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”’ (NIV)."
And sometimes, there's a lot of people who love this verse, but sometimes we stop in that verse. We keep on repeating that verse, but there's a verse after that. In it [God] says, “You will seek Me. Seek Me, and you will find Me. When you seek Me with all your heart, I will be found” [paraphrase of Jeremiah 29:12]. So you know what? I begin to open my Bible. I begin to read the words of God. I begin to grasp the promises of God in my life, memorizing the words of God over and over again. And I begin to believe that those words are true. And it is true. They are. They're the words of God, the living Word of God.
So when I was 9 years old, my parents … It's just so hard to live in the province, and it's just so hard, of course, when we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior, but our life didn't drastically change. What changed was our thinking that God has better for us than this. That God has a plan. That life will not end here. So my parents, [when I was] 9 years old, decided to move to the central business district, which is Manila, but we need to take a boat ride. So at that time, we don't have money to go to Manila. We only have enough to pay for one ticket, which is my mom's ticket. So me and my sister and my dad weren't able to come at that time. So me and my sister boarded this super big ship, and we would hide in the bathroom so that the ticket inspector won't caught us [or find out] that we don't have tickets. And it was just such a scary moment for me and my sister. We were in the very, very bottom bunk of the ship, where there are fruits or cargos.
And the people in there, they were stealing fruits from this cargo. And I was a hungry kid. As I was about to get something from that cargo, from the basket, from the fruit basket, somebody told me, "Kiwi don't do it. Jesus sees you." And I was so scared because I know that what I did was wrong, but as I repeat that line — Jesus sees you; Kiwi, Jesus sees you — it softened my heart that Jesus saw me in that situation, that He knows when I'm struggling, that He knows if I'm hungry. So why would I be sad or not trusting Him? He sees me. He's there, and He is able to do something about my situation.
I thought when we moved to Manila, Everything's going to be all right. But it was such a difficult, difficult time that we have to transfer from one place to another because we cannot afford the rent. It would be flooded most of the time, but our heart is just focusing on Jesus, [who] is the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2).
In high school, I told my mama, "Mama, I want to get out of this situation. I don't want to be poor anymore. I want to be able to go to college. I want to be able to take up something." But even then I know that even [if] my parents would double their jobs, triple their jobs, won't sleep, just work every day, it's impossible to take me to college. But yet again, nothing is impossible with the Lord. Because as I was about to go graduate high school, somebody from Compassion told me, "Hey, Kiwi, we have this program to take students to go to college, and we're going to pay for everything." You know what, guys? God did provide. He who began a good work in us will be faithful to complete it (Philippians 1:6).
I am now a physical therapist working in a hospital here in Dallas, Texas, because of God's faithfulness and God's grace. After graduation, I need to take a very, very difficult exam that in the Philippines, only 2% passes. I was so scared to take this exam. I would tell the Lord, Lord, You said in Your Word [that] we're not the tail but the head. So I want to top my exam. But in reality, I was just so scared of the unknown, so scared to fail, so scared of what people might think if I fail. But every time I opened my Bible, God would comfort me, telling me, Kiwi, is there anything too hard for Me? And the answer is: Nothing, absolutely nothing, is too hard for the Lord. “All of My promises for you are yes and amen,” [He says in 2 Corinthians 1:20].
You know what? Out of 1,700 students who took the exam in the entire Philippines, I landed 10th place. And because of that, our government gave me a medal. And as I was receiving this medal, I told the Lord, Lord, if only my [Compassion] sponsors were here. I'm going to give this medal to them. Because of them, this is a reality. Because of them, I was able to get this medal.
In our church in the Philippines, before every year, we have prayer and fasting, but usually I don't join because I was hungry when I was a kid. But that year I said, "I'm going to join, and I'm going to pray that I'm going to meet my sponsors." It seemed so impossible, but yet again, nothing is impossible with the Lord.
So March came, and a group of Australian sponsors came to the Philippines and asked me to give my testimony. And as I was giving my testimony after that, they told me, "Kiwi, we want you to come to Australia, and we want you to meet [your] sponsors." That same year, I was able to go and meet my sponsors. And when I saw them, I just cannot contain myself. I just ran to them and hug them, and over and over again, I told them, "Thank you so much. You didn't just change my life but my family." And I know one day, my community … You know what, guys? My mom became a pastor of a small community church in the Philippines. And before the pandemic, we opened our kids' ministry, our own kids' ministry in our own backyard, and we named it “To God Be the Glory Kids Church” to give Him all the glory for what He has done in our lives.
Now, 14 years ago, I came to America to work as a physical therapist. And 12 years ago, I got married to a wonderful man from Chattanooga, Tennessee. I got myself a southern boy. And you know what? My husband, his name is Terry Cook, and he's an executive chef here in Dallas, Texas. Imagine: I was hungry when I was a kid. Now I'm married to an executive chef. What a surprise from the Lord. Only He can do things like that. And during the wedding … I invited my parents to come over to witness the wedding, be there. And after the wedding, I invited them to an apple orchard in Ellijay, Georgia. And my dad is picking up apples from the ground, and I told him, "No, Dad, not those rotten apples. God has blessed us exceedingly, abundantly, more than we could ever ask or think — we're now able to pick up apples from the tree, the freshest of apples." We would have never thought that that moment is going to happen to us because imagine: When we were kids, we can hardly buy even a rotten apple. We could not afford.
In that moment in that apple orchard, we're just celebrating about the goodness, the grace, the faithfulness, the compassion and the love of God in our lives. He is so, so good, and I know that God has blessed us not to just keep it to ourselves. God has blessed us because He has a purpose. God has blessed us to be a blessing to other people, to be His hands and feet to other people. I always say that, yeah, there's a saying, “Hurt people hurt people.” But blessed people bless people.
Guys, I'm now a [Compassion] sponsor of four children in total. Two from the Philippines, of course, because I'm biased, and one from Haiti and a little boy named Juan from Bolivia.
Eight years ago I went back home and saw my sponsored children, and one of my sponsored children, her name is Carla. She was 8 years old when I saw her first. But two weeks ago I went back home to the Philippines and saw her again, and she is now 16 years old. And I just cannot believe that God has enabled me to be part of her life, to see her grow, to see her mature. I remember what He has done in my life to take me out of the pit, to take me out of that situation, to take me out of such difficulty and make me shine for Him, give Him all the glory for what He has done. I told my sponsored child because she is undergoing such terrible, difficult situations in her life … Her dad left them, but I told her to not give up. “Hang in there. God has a plan. God sees you. He is close to the brokenhearted. He is not against you. He is for you. He's always there for you.”
And you know what? To see beyond this difficult, difficult situation, to see beyond this impossible thing in your life, this is what I did in my life when I was a kid. The first thing is to seek God first in everything that I do. It says in Matthew 6:33, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God … and all these things will be added unto you” (KJV).
So seek Him first — before you plan your day. Always ask the Lord: Lord, help me today. I'm seeking Your will for me.
And No. 2 is to believe in the Lord, have faith. Because without faith, we can never ever please God (Hebrews 11:6). To believe in Him, to fully surrender to His glory, to Him.
And No. 3 is to obey God. Sometimes we love accepting God because He's a Savior, but He is a King too. And if we know that He is a Hing, [that] He is our Lord, we have to obey Him. Obedience changes the course of our life, and it's in obedience that all these promises will be done in our lives.
So I told Carla, "Just hang in there. One day God will give you a chance. God will give you an avenue. Even God will give you a platform." This now … I'm talking here in the podcast to tell your friends, to tell your relatives, to tell the Church, to tell the world who doesn't know God yet, that He is a good and loving Father, that He cares for every one of us. So I bless Him. I honor Him. I give Him all the glory for what He has done in my life.
Meredith Brock:
Wow, Kiwi, I've heard your story multiple times, and it never fails to choke me up and to just be such a vivid and clear reminder of God's plan in our lives when we fully surrender to Him and seek Him. Like you said, we seek Him and believe Him and obey Him. Those three steps and three things to keep in mind are so important as we pursue a life with our God that pleases Him.
I do have one follow-up question: I am springing this on you on the spot, so our listeners should have grace, but I couldn't help but think as you were telling your story that you faced some … Even after you came to know Jesus and receive Him as your Savior, you still faced some really significant hardships. I don't know. If I was on that ship, and I had the opportunity, and I was just so hungry, and the people around me were stealing fruit, and I had that opportunity in front of me, it would be really hard not to. And I'm just curious, Kiwi. I think about our listeners who are listening right now, and they may not be facing that exact obstacle or challenge in their life, but maybe things just feel incredibly unfair, and they have faced hardship after hardship, and maybe their heart is growing a little cold toward God. Maybe even a little angry toward God. What would you say to them right now?
Kiwi:
He didn't really promise us [that we’re] not going to have tribulations or hardships in this world, but He already has overcome this world (John 16:33). And even when we're walking into darkness or situations that is really, really hard, if you just stop for a moment and really feel, you can feel His presence guiding you. He's there for you. And sometimes … In my situation, sometimes I think that these situations are allowed in our lives so that we just don't trust our strength, our own strength. Because how are we going to trust Him fully if we can do those things that are difficult, [if] we can overcome those things that are difficult, by our own strength?
So sometimes situations that are really, really hard that we think we cannot do anything about, it happens to us to just fully surrender. Like, Lord God, I cannot do these things, but You can because these are Your promises. That's why faith is very, very important — because if you don't believe that He can, then you're going to be in shambles. You're going to be like, Oh, what am I going to do? I think you're going to fear. You are going to grapple because, Hey, I cannot do these things. But if you believe that He can do it for you, then you're going to have that peace that passes all understanding that will guard your heart from all of the things that are difficult that comes to our lives.
Kaley Olson:
Yeah. So good. Kiwi, I am thinking about your journey of starting out in a third-world country and not having anything, and all of a sudden … You really have a “pit to the palace” story if there ever was one because now, in America, you have access to everything that you could possibly want. You don't have to pick up apples from the ground. And I feel like it's so easy … I don't want to speak for you, but I would assume that because you were in such dire need, it was very easy for you to see God work in your life [in the Philippines]. But I feel like we're so blind to that in America. So I'm curious, after you came here, what struggles did you face — or do you face, if any — to connect with God and make a relationship with Him a priority amid all of the distractions that we have today? Or even all of the things that are tempting to kind of take us away from truly seeking the Bible and [tempt us to] just [listen to] opinions about who God is? So tell me what that looks like for you now.
Kiwi:
So when I came here and I started earning money and started to buy things that it's hard for me to buy before, sometimes you get out of track and lose track of how, hey, you cannot do it by yourself. Because everything is just handed out. It's so easy here in America. I don't have to wash my clothes with my bare hands. You have the washing machine. And if you're hungry, you just go somewhere and buy food. But sometimes it helps me when I remember, hey, what happened to me before.
And I remember that there are still other people who lives like that. If you focus only on yourself and not … We are not just created just for ourselves. We are also created to love our neighbors. And there are still people out there who doesn't know the Lord, who are in their very difficult situation, and we are witnesses to them. And if you think about that, you're going to be like, Hey, Kiwi, all these things are meaningless. The material things are meaningless if you don't give glory to God and help other people get out of the situation that they're in. Because God did that for you, and somebody did that for you too.
I always remember during our graduation in Compassion, the CEO told us this words: He said, "Do not forget your roots in poverty. You may have been born in poverty, but poverty was not born in you. No matter how high God lets you climb, never forget to be thankful. Never forget to reach back and bring others along with you. And one by one, as we do that, we can change the entire world." And that's the Great Commission. To go out there, tell them about the goodness of God, and not just live for yourself. And you keep on reminding yourself about that. And sometimes if you don't do that, God will remind you about that. He will allow something to happen. And it's not pretty because —
Meredith Brock:
He wants our eyes off of ourselves, doesn't He?
Kiwi:
It's not because He wants to punish us. It's because [He’s saying,] Hey, my little child, my child, just focus on Me. He wants you to live your life to the full. But if you are focusing on different stuff, different things in life that is not really important, then you will lose track of what's important.
Kaley Olson:
Absolutely. I mean, at the end of the day, we're sheep. We don't know anything. We think we know a lot. But I love what you said: Don't forget your roots. And I feel like, Kiwi, in talking to you, there's really not a whole lot that Meredith and I have in common with the beginnings of … I mean, Meredith has a little bit more in common with maybe the family dynamics than I would and our listeners in America. It just feels like, Man, how do I connect with somebody's story like Kiwi's? And I want to share a quote that I heard Lysa share — Lysa TerKeurst — years ago. She’s very quotable, but I'll never forget it. She talked about how our tears can unite us. And no matter what you've been through, tears and hardship and heartache can be a gift of compassion that you extend to someone else. No matter what you've been going through, Kiwi, and how hard the hardship you've experienced, it still allows you to have compassion for me, even if what I've been through isn't nearly as heartbreaking as what you've been through. And I feel like for our listeners who are absorbing all of this: Take that away. Unite with Kiwi, and be grateful for what her story is.
But I think that there's a next step that we can take whenever we're thinking of the Great Commission overall: to go and make disciples. It doesn't just happen. I mean, we can pray for that to happen, but there's also prayer and action that needs to happen on our part. And I feel like you talking about Compassion meeting you where you were in the Philippines is so amazing. It's amazing to me that there's an organization out there with boots on the ground in I want to say almost every country, who have identified children who are in need and are partnering with them to help them know that God sees them. And so I want to talk about what that might look like for our listeners. And I mean, I really do. I don't want you to tune this out. I want you to tune in because as we're recording this, it's coming out at the end of the year. If you're listening in real time, you're thinking about, How do I serve my family? What am I going to get my family [for Christmas]?
But then there are all these people who are in need, and one monthly partnership that you can make, one decision to make a monthly financial donation to Compassion, can make such a difference in a child's life like Kiwi's. But, Kiwi, I would like for you to share. Tell me what Compassion did for you. How did they coach you and teach you the Bible? What improvements did they make in your lifestyle? Our listeners can hear that.
Kiwi:
Yes, so the contribution, the monthly contribution that you would give to sponsor a child, would give them supplemental food. They get to have dental and medical care. They go to school. They get to go to school. But most importantly, they get to hear about who Jesus is. And not just hear who Jesus is but experience Him — because it's hard to tell kids that are hungry, “Oh, Jesus is good,” but you don't feed them. You don't care for them.
But that's what Compassion does to really show you, “Hey, we are hands and feet of Jesus. We come alongside you to help you out of that pit, but we want … We just don't give you fish. We will teach you how to catch fish.” So to grow in the knowledge of God, to know who He is, that's like a foundation that we really all need to succeed in life. My mom would always tell me … People would ask, "Hey, why is my life not successful? Why is my life still like this? And I'm not getting out of my bad situation." But my mom would say, "Hey, did you seek God first? Did you inquire about the Lord first? Because He knows what's best for you. He knows what's best for us." So that's what Compassion did for me. The most important thing is the knowledge and the experiencing God through the program.
Kaley Olson:
Yeah, that's amazing. And they do this all through the local church and organizations there.
Kiwi:
Yes, yes.
Kaley Olson:
It's an incredible organization. So if you are interested in sponsoring a child like Kiwi, you can visit compassion.com/proverbs31 or click the link in our show notes to join us in sponsoring a child.
Meredith Brock:
And I just want to jump in here and say I personally sponsor.
Kaley Olson:
You do.
Meredith Brock:
I've sponsored a couple children, actually. I sponsored one a long time ago, and now she's graduated from the program. Her name was Christina from Tanzania. And now we have recently sponsored a little girl named Deborah from Rwanda who has the same birthdate as one of my biological — actually not biological [child] but my other little boy in our family. And it’s so exciting to be able to have that little connection in our family.
So I believe, if I've done my math correctly, your monthly partnership with Compassion really equals out to be about a $1.50 a day, y'all. And so you can change the trajectory of a person's life for less than you bought your coffee [for] this morning. And I want you to think about Kiwi.
Kiwi, you wouldn't be where you are without the intervention of Compassion. And I just want to encourage all of our listeners to consider if the Lord would be leading you in the direction to stand in the gap for a kid like Kiwi or Deborah or Christina from Tanzania — because there are kids out there who need it, and they need the physical provision, and they need the spiritual Good News of Jesus Christ. And Compassion is able to deliver both of those things.
So also, we couldn't be done with the show without talking a little bit about some fun things happening here at Proverbs 31. And so we wanted to remind you about our newest First 5 study guide, titled Keep Holding On: 30 Promises From God You Can Cling to Right Now. And if you're looking for a study to start the new year with, our next study will help you discern and apply promises from God when maybe life feels a little uncertain or unpredictable, maybe unreliable. It certainly does for me these days. So I'm going to be all about this study. You can grab a copy of that at p31bookstore.com or by visiting the link in our show notes.
Kaley Olson:
You know what's really cool about that resource, Meredith? When I wrote it in here for our notes to mention today, I didn't know the details of Kiwi's story.
Meredith Brock:
I know.
Kaley Olson:
Isn't it so neat how we learned from Kiwi about holding on to the truth of who God is to get you through what you're facing in life? [That] is exactly what the study guide is all about too. I think it's all amazing. So that's all for today, friends. At Proverbs 31 Ministries, we believe when you know the Truth and live the Truth, it changes everything.