No matter how far you’ve strayed, God’s grace is always just one step away. Emy uncovers how struggles, loss, and even our own disobedience can be used to fulfill God’s greater purpose in this powerful reflection on the story of Ruth and Naomi. Ruth’s journey from a foreigner to a woman redeemed is a testament to faith, perseverance, and divine favor. Her decision to leave her old life behind led to blessings beyond what she could have imagined—ultimately playing a role in the lineage of Jesus. Your pain does not lack purpose, and your obedience is bigger than just you. Step into the newness that God has for you today!Thanks for watching this episode! I would love to connect with you guys! I am so blessed for every one of your faces!Instagram: @savednotsoftpodcastPersonal Instagram: @emymooreeTiktok: @savednotsoftpodcastShop the merchandise!https://savednotsoftshop.comI GAVE MY LIFE TO JESUS! :https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3SxFDFmGgk-TBNA-8rtWdDJqi5JWw6_jyAzBiyGlwON96nw/viewform?usp=sf_linkNeeding Prayer?:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdnDYvYSLpLJhHc3ZVPUX3XripoQEermFjcPN2cB5UWg19Hg/viewformDo you want to tithe towards my ministry? DONATE HERE!https://cash.app/$savednotsoftpodcastFeeling led to donate towards our wedding? Click the link below! No pressure, we value prayers above all :)https://www.zola.com/wedding/emyandmalikSupport the show
Chapter 1: What is the beauty of starting new?
It's amazing that God has called me to this position and I am blessed and honored and I will never take it for granted. And so starting off into the new year, I think, you know, what's like the perfect word or message going into the new year? And I wanted to talk about the beauty of starting new and starting fresh. I think it's one of those like new year revolution. Yeah, that's what it's called.
is like every year you're wanting to leave something behind and not take it into what's new and what's to come. And what God has instructed me to communicate is that there are new mercies each and every single morning, limitations back set up all day. And how there is a new grace, there's a new favor that God has allowed us to step into each and every single day.
And so what do you do when you're falling into the same cycles? If you're in iniquity, if you're still in those chains and you're looking for new life and new beginnings and just a freshness. And we're going to talk about what Jesus says about that because Jesus does promise new life, fresh water, and more so eternal life with him as well.
So we're going to pray and we're just going to get into what God has.
has for us so let's just pray super quick dear actually before you pray my name is emmy moore and welcome to safe not soft this episode not this episode this podcast is catered to let people know that they are heard loved and seen by god sorry i didn't mean to pray with y'all prayer time i just realized if you've never clicked on here you may not know what this is uh but basically this is a podcast catered to let them let people know that they are heard seen and loved by god
Now let's pray and let me stop playing with y'all. Okay, let's bow our heads. Dear Heavenly Father, I just thank you and praise you, God. I thank you for this platform. I thank you for the opportunity to exercise and speak the word, God. I thank you for your gospel. I thank you for the good news of Jesus Christ, God.
God, I just decree and declare that as we step into this new year and as we step into new beginnings, Father, that you just bless our walk. Like Psalms 119, 105, God, that thy word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path, God. Let your word be the light that's on our path, God, that guides us through every circumstance, God.
Even if this year is a year of trials or if it's a year of celebration, God, just lead us through each and every single season and day in and out, just through your word and through your promises and what you say, Father.
God, I just ask that you give your children a new profound confidence as they listen to this episode, God, not because of my words or what's coming out of my mouth, God, but because it's appointed by you, God, that you have given us the blueprint. You are showing us where to go, God. And I just thank you that you're so compassionate upon us, Father. So, God, speak to us. Speak to us.
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Chapter 2: How can we embrace new beginnings in 2025?
How are we not bringing an old season into a new season?
And if you love the things of God, just like me, and if you've been praying into the new year, I would like to think that God has been setting a lot of expectation for each and every single one of you who are listening, that God is promising some great things this year, maybe some hard things have already broken out, and we're stepping into a new season.
So how do we step into new seasons without bringing the baggage of, Old ones and even if you just came to christ and you're a new christian and you didn't know god last year How do you live a life that is apart from the world and now one that's cohesively with god?
And I think that first starts with just embracing and accepting that jesus is lord and so the kind of introduction that I wanted to bring into this is that um, I wanted to show that you know, whether if You just became a Christian yesterday, or if you've fallen a thousand steps back, there's just one step that's back to God, and that's through repentance. It's turning to Him.
I don't care if you found Jesus yesterday or if you found Him 10 years ago, and then you backslid and you're trying to find Him again. This year is a new beginning, and God needs you close to Him. And I really want to emphasize to God's children that you may think that you're far, but the Lord is near. It's just a matter of you turning around.
And so, yeah, I want to address a desperation that the people of God may have for restoration, regardless how bad they may have messed up. I think through the Bible, you know, we see all these characters as, you know, biblical characters who have done amazing, great things for God. And I think that's awesome and it's great.
What I love about the Bible, though, and what I love about each and every single Bible character is that God does not fall short of showing that humans have always been forever flawed. Like we will talk about the exaltation of like David all day, how David was an amazing king, how he was a man after God's own heart.
And yet this man committed adultery, murder and rebellion and all of these things. And yet God used those very things, didn't permit them, but God restored him from things that he's inflicted upon himself because of God's grace and kindness and mercy. And this is just kind of the whole like synopsis of the Bible.
From the beginning of time, the moment we read Genesis 1, 1, we see the goodness of God that he created the earth and the heavens and everything that is in between it and on it. And through that, whenever he created human beings with the sole purpose for us to be in perfect harmony with God, we messed it up.
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Chapter 3: What lessons can we learn from Ruth and Naomi's story?
I love how it says when Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people, it just shows that Naomi didn't just want to hear what God did, but she wanted to receive what God did. So what did she do? She got up, got everything she needed to go back and return to God.
And so it shows us that even though we make the deliberate choice to be enemies of God, that there is still an open door for us to turn back and pursue him. And so they get everything together. And the severity of Ruth and Naomi's position just kind of shows us that. kind of this lying tragedy they're in, which this is something I say all the time.
Sometimes God will allow you to hit rock bottom for you to know that he is the rock. And Naomi and Ruth and Orpah hit rock bottom. Naomi lost her husband. Naomi lost her sons, a.k.a. Ruth and Orpah's husbands. And because of that, they were both childless and widowed. They had no one to protect them. They had no one to get resources from them whatsoever.
They were the only they they were there to only fend for themselves. And so the people who were or women who were widowed and childless were considered the lowest of the low. So not only were these people enemies of God, but they also had a lack of resource. They were weak. They were impressionable and they were vulnerable, essentially. And through this.
Ruth, Naomi, and Oprah, or mostly Naomi, saw the tragedies and was just like, you know what? We're going to get up and we're going to go pursue God. And so what kind of ends up throughout this next part of the story is that Naomi, they're on their way to Bethlehem or to Judah, and Naomi just sat down Orpah and Ruth and was like, you know what? I don't have much to offer y'all.
I love y'all and I have such a connection with y'all, but there is nothing I could give you because I am a widowed and a childless woman. I have nothing to offer whatsoever. And so through that, it said that Ruth and Oprah
kissed her goodbye and they wept out loud and said to her we will go back with you and your people but Naomi said return home my daughters why would you come with me am I going to have any more sons who could become your husbands return home my daughters I'm too old to have another husband if I thought there was still hope for me even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons
Naomi was standing in a position to where she knew she was in the opposition of God. And she knew that she had became an enemy of God because she got up and left his provision to go pursue the opposing land. And so... Orpah basically kissed Naomi goodbye and was like, okay, I'm going to listen to you and I'm going to go back to Moab. AKA, she's going back to her old life.
She's going back to the false idolization. She's going back to disobedience. She's going back to opposition with God. But Ruth's response, Ruth's response was a little different than Orpah's. And what Ruth said was, In just a moment, because my iPad shut out for some reason. But Orpah said, or sorry, Ruth said, do not urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go, I will go.
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Chapter 4: How does God provide for His people in times of struggle?
And this is stated in Leviticus 19, 19 through 20. It commands farmers in Israel that they should not completely harvest their fields. They were called to leave some harvest behind. Whatever they dropped on the floor was for those who they gleaned. And so Ruth going to a field that just so happened to be Boaz's wasn't just a coincidence. It was the work done.
of god and so sometimes we're in tragic situations and we're looking on how we could you know move forward and see a positive outlook and god will start putting us in situations to where we don't know it at the time but it actually is him and so this field that ruth was gleaning and she didn't know at the time that that this man boaz god was going to use him to grant great favor
And so I think it even shows us Ruth's attitude towards her going and working too, because Ruth could have sat and moped and groaned all day about what to do next. But we see the attitude of Ruth. We see that the attitude of Ruth wasn't to just sit around and... complain or to be wearied by her state of mind, but instead she got up and she worked.
And I think sometimes when we're in seasons that are very desolate and we're coming out of, you know, we just sinned against God and we're an enemy to him because of we may have fallen short or fallen behind and we're not pursuing the things of God and we're looking to be reconciled back into his heart.
It's almost like sometimes we think that we have to have this super spiritual encounter in order to start being obedient or to pursue the things of God. When in this instance, Ruth just got up and went. And I think sometimes we could fail to do things for God when we just sit around and we're waiting for all day for something that he has called and ordained for us to go up and just do.
And so Ruth, she had the heart to just get up and go. She knew she was in a new land. She knew there was work that needed to be done and God was going to partner with her faithfulness. And so we get to the next part of the story where I say, I left it off to where Boaz said that he saw Ruth and he said, who is that young woman? Who does she belong to?
And the overseer replied, she is the Moabite who came back from Moab with Naomi. She said, please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters. She came into the fields and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter. So Boaz said to Ruth, My daughter, listen to me. Do not glean in another field. Do not go away from here.
Stay here with the woman who works for me. Watch the fields where the men are harvesting and follow along after the women. I have told the men to not lay a hand on you, and whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled. At this she bowed with her face on the ground. She asked him, Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you have noticed me, a foreigner?
Boaz replied, My God, this literally replicates us pursuing the things of God, even though we grew up in a different circumstance, even though we had, you know, maybe a different family or a Maybe you lived a life where it was born into a family that was very far from God.
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Chapter 5: What does it mean to truly repent?
But most of all, we just really appreciate prayer and being surrounded in the security of God's people and the prayers that they're releasing. And lastly, if you want some merchandise, save not soft shop dot com to get some new merch. There's going to be a lot more fun stuff coming out. That's not just T-shirts, which I'm really excited for.
But we had to do the T-shirts for a little while just to pull out the cool stuff in the archives. But God is good. And I'm very pleased of what he's doing.
three days so until then oh and also last announcement we will also for season three be posting weekly instead of bi-weekly so instead of once every two weeks it's now going to be every single tuesday which i know you guys are probably going to be so hyped about it so Yeah, I think that's all I have, but I love you guys. The Lord loves you even more. Get into your word.
Know that he loves you, that he wants to redeem you and that he looks at you and he has such a beautiful compassion upon you. So go blessed and I'll see you next week. Bye guys. Bye.