Interviewing Annie Mayfield - Part 6 - Lessons from her book and Conclusion | John Giftah Podcast

0:00 Speaker 1: Well, can you talk a little bit about your books and all people can stay connected with what you do and all that.

0:07 Speaker 2: Yes, Oh my gosh, well one, I'm adore of this conversation. It's definitely administered to me. So thank you so much again for everything you do. John.

0:15 Speaker 3: So I do I have. I have seven books.

0:18 Speaker 2: My seventh one came out this time, literally a week week ago, last Tuesday.

0:22 Speaker 3: It's called You Matter.

0:23 Speaker 2: And I think the through line of all of my books it's funny because it was kind of a journey these books in regards to I think you can see from a young age kind of what my God was, you know, even like with the beginning my first book was more of a self development book and I wrote it I was I was nineteen, and I think for me, like I believed in the in God, but he wasn't lord over my life. A lot of it was like, if it's meant to be is up to me, and here are tips and tricks to more confidence and all this stuff.

0:51 Speaker 2: And it's so funny because through the kind of progression of my books, you see that comes from the Lord, like you show up, you're obedient, but ultimately healing, your protection, your confidence, it all is a gift from God. It's something you receive, it's not something you earn your way to. And so the through line of all this, and we were kind of talking about this before the podcast started, but just where do you get your identity from?

1:14 Speaker 3: What is your identity? Is it in Christ? Or is it in everything you do?

1:19 Speaker 2: And even for me, like this book, you matter, Matter is something, it's anything that has weight, and so it's like where do you get your weight in the world? And I think about when Jesus was baptized, you know, it said like the Lord spoke and he said, this is my son with whom I'm well pleased.

1:36 Speaker 3: He said that before Jesus.

1:37 Speaker 2: Did anything in his ministry, and I think that speaks to people who are doing ministry also, people who think, like, if it's meant to be, it's up to me, I must be the one to get the promotion. And I'm not saying don't work hard, work hard, but there's a difference in seeking the Lord for your strength and then using that strength to fuel your hard work versus thinking I have to do hard work to get an identity, to be important, to be significant. And so you matter, specifically building your worth on the mark of Jesus and a blue check mark world.

2:07 Speaker 2: You know that blue check mark like on Instagram all the stuff. I think it's something for me. It symbolizes like where people tend to get identity from and tend to get worth from. And whether that be what people think about me, whether that be fame, whether that be fortune, whether that be security in my body, healing, you know, whatever, have you a spouse. Ultimately, what makes you matter is Jesus and the unveiling to use your book.

2:34 Speaker 3: They should get both of these books because you're a book too. It's kind of it's so perfectly intertwines.

2:38 Speaker 2: But the unveiling of that is what leads to the revelation of that, and so you matter. Like when you build your life on Jesus, that's when it's, you know, building your life on the rock. That's when it's sturdy to withstand the trials, versus building your life on what I can.

2:54 Speaker 3: Do if it's meant to be, it's up to me, on what other people think of me.

2:58 Speaker 2: That's building your life on sand, because that's it's going to blow away the next moment. And so anyways that you can find me on Instagram, you can find all my books anywhere you find books, you know, Amazon, barn and Noble, Target. But all that to say, Instagram is probably where I lived the most stories specifically.

3:16 Speaker 3: But that's me John, That's where you can find me in my podcast too.

3:22 Speaker 1: So I put all the details in the description. We just called plus very quickly. H some fun questions. I mean, any plans of coming to India?

3:31 Speaker 2: What I actually it's I adore India. I went to India when I was in high school. For three weeks, I adore and then I worked. There was a university I spoke with a couple of times and we had plans to take me to India, and then COVID hit and so I wasn't able to go, but I I would love to go back to India.

3:54 Speaker 3: I just think it's beautiful.

3:56 Speaker 4: Wow, that's great. Any plans of new books.

3:58 Speaker 3: Coming on, I am working. I'm already working on my eighth book.

4:02 Speaker 2: I tend to like I have this weird thing where I can't finish a book until I have the idea for my next book.

4:08 Speaker 3: So I am working on book eight.

4:11 Speaker 2: But right now, honestly, I think like I'm in a season of like focusing on May to shine the podcast having these sort of conversations, and then of course you matter just kind of doing some books speaking with that.

4:22 Speaker 4: Oh that's good. And also your thoughts on Scooby Doo.

4:27 Speaker 2: It's rob Scooby Do. I love that movie. Like when I was little, I couldn't do scary movies. That was super sensitive to anything scary, but Scooby Doo was one that I could watch and it was just it was like drinking coffee, like an expresso shot. I was just like, this is awesome, me so energized.

4:45 Speaker 4: That's so good.

4:46 Speaker 1: One last thing, any thoughts or was that you would like to share about this ministry the podcast, and I know it's brand new, but anything that you'd like to share or you'd like to share.

4:57 Speaker 2: I would just like to say, or be honored to say, like what you're doing is good work. You know, like when when we get up to heaven and God says like well done, good and faithful servant. I just it's so it can be so hard to be obedient to that seed God planted in you, not just from a logistics standpoint, but from an internal capacity standpoint. You know that like what's gonna happen? How is it gonna be received. And so I just think John, like what you're doing, it's so important, and you are being obedient to the seeds, seeds from people that will never ever ever get back to you on how it's impacted you, you know what I mean?

5:32 Speaker 2: Like you you know a fraction of the people you're impacting. And so I just encourage you, like as a brother, as a sister in Christ to my brother in Christ, like, just keep going because we got a lot of darkness in this world and you're shining light.

5:46 Speaker 3: Man, so power toy of.

5:48 Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Thank you so much.

5:50 Speaker 3: Conn.

5:50 Speaker 1: I have so much more to talk about. The time is less. Maybe we'll do with it another time.

5:55 Speaker 4: We will thank you so much.

5:57 Speaker 1: And is there something that be me or our vos can pray for you in particular?

6:03 Speaker 2: Oh wow, honestly, just pray for for healing. I'm going through physically, just some some healing things right now my body that doctors can't they don't really have an answer for. And so I would just love prayers for healing would be great.

6:18 Speaker 3: And what about you? How can I be praying for you? John? In the community.

6:23 Speaker 1: I'm just pray for the ministry that's something that I'm really praying that this, I mean, all the efforts that I'm putting in will reach more people, and we are placing to people because one of the challenges that I'm facing is that especially on Instagram right now or even on YouTube. I mean, I keep getting blocked on Instagram. I don't know if it's because of the conservative content, and recently I lost three thousand followers, and you know, it's like going all over the place and I'm like trying to figure out, like how how is this, how to do like what to do with it?

6:55 Speaker 1: So I'm just praying that, you know, God defaults the algorithms and the odd and continue to help the message to reach people.

7:03 Speaker 4: So that's something that, yeah, you could just pray.

7:06 Speaker 1: So usually I end the session with me a praying for the guest and then I ask the guest to also pray.

7:12 Speaker 4: For me and the ministry and the viewers.

7:15 Speaker 1: So I'll just do a quick word of prayer. I know we are almost in short of that now. I will pray, yeah, yeah, Lord, I pray for any in the name of Jesus. I thank you for this word that she shared so much of insight and you have been using a mightily, and I pray the name of Jesus that you'll continue to use mightily for the extension of your kingdom, new seasons, new levels. I see like a like a vision of like a new wine coming out. I just released that, like a fresh new annoying that will catapult you to new levels of your destiny.

7:48 Speaker 1: I release that word over you. Your ministry will flourish because you put God first place. And I want that flourish, that the word flourishes again. See I sense that in the spirit I released that over you, and I also pray for the for you to be healed in the name of Jesus. Lord, your word says in Exodus fifteen twenty six, I'm the God who heals you.

8:07 Speaker 4: You said, for by your strange healed.

8:09 Speaker 1: Your word also says that you sent your word and you healed everybody. And we release this word of healing over her, that she'll be completely made whole, completely made well in the name of Jesus, that she will experience wholeness and healing flowing through her right now, in this place, right now, in the name of Jesus, I release his word by faith.

8:29 Speaker 2: Amen and Amen, and Lord, I pray over John, and I pray for everything that he's doing in this ministry. I pray over him a spirit of discernment, discernment of what does say yes to, of what do they know to, not just on the outside but on the inside, but to worry about what not to worry about. I pray for a spirit of surrender over him, that he just surrenders to you the outcomes. He knows that his job is obedience to those seeds that you put in his heart, in obedience to planting the seeds in the heart of your children, which he does so well.

8:58 Speaker 2: And you just you just let him know that you're taking care of the rest. You're working behind the scenes, you're doing everything you can that maybe there's not a reason everything happens, but you are the God that lets everything slip through your hands, so there's a purpose behind it. Just as John mentioned earlier, everything works for the good of those that glorifying Lord, and so you are doing a good work in his life. I pray for stamina. I pray for her of endurance, and I pray for his people, his sheep that he's feeding today.

9:24 Speaker 2: Lord, I pray over them a spirit of just peace and surrender and awareness and sensitivity to where you are in their day, whether it's a moment of just oh my gosh, I can't believe John just said that, or Annie just said that, or God just did that, because that was on my heart. I pray that over them, that they are just sensitive to your fingerprints all throughout their day, Lord, and I pray over them just a spirit of refreshing, that they just feel refreshed, and that they go to the well that never runs dry and they have the patience to wait through the dirty part of the water to get through that underlying layer that's so crisp and so clean.

10:00 Speaker 2: Because Lord, you are the perfect provider and humor and protector, and we lift up your mighty mighty name, Jesus and Jesus Name.

10:07 Speaker 4: Amen, Amen, Amen.

10:10 Speaker 1: Thank you so much guys for watching, Thanks Hanny for joining us, and.

10:14 Speaker 4: We'll see you back very soon.

10:15 Speaker 1: All the details hunded in the description and you can check it out and be back very soon.

10:20 Speaker 4: Bye.