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 My Testimony: “YOU & I Conquering MY World” FULL VERSION

“You & I”

This morning—just like I’ve done every single morning since I first shared that this would be the next song I’d post—I put “You & I” on again. And here we are, the day after Thanksgiving, and I’ve had it playing on repeat… again.

Somewhere around the last replay, it suddenly hit me:

“Wait… didn’t I promise this for November 28th?”

I checked the date and—yep—it’s November 28th.

So here I am, voice typing at the last minute. But honestly? This is where He shines. When I’m weak, rushed, unsure—He steps in strong. I find myself saying, “Darling, let this be exactly what You want said. Not what I might have said if I had more time.”

There’s a moment near the end of the song where the lyrics rise and I’m singing with Him:

“We can conquer the world.”

Oh my goodness. Every time, it stirs something wild and brave inside me. I want to shout it. I don’t have the voice for it, but I have the love for it—and I sing anyway, because with Him it feels true:

We really can conquer the world.

Not in some dramatic or negative sense.

But our world.

This life.

These battles.

These seasons.

With Him, nothing is impossible.

It’s You and I.

Recently, walking through children’s “first love” again, I felt myself being gently pulled back to that precious time in my life when it truly became just the two of us. Back then, He and I were best friends—long before I ever imagined Him as my Husband. But even then, deep inside, I wanted to be married to God.

I had no idea that one day I would be the Lord’s bride… singing love songs to Him… doing all He has led us to do in this last year—especially in these recent months filled with so much uncertainty in the world.

And all the fear swirling around about AI?

He brought it full circle for me.

While the world worries about artificial intelligence taking over, I am connected to Almighty Intelligence. That changes everything.

I use AI tools all the time now. But instead of it pulling me away, it has only drawn me closer—to Him, my Husband, the One I sing “You & I” to. Every time I write or respond, I come to Him first:

“What should I say? What should I do?”

And I follow what He whispers. I don’t go back and fix or polish because I want His fingerprints on everything. Even when the program offers alternatives—Do you want this? Should I change that?—I pause and ask Him again:

“Darling, what do You want?”

Sometimes He says, “Yes, choose that.”

Sometimes He tells me to read, to listen, to open something, to go somewhere in the app—step by step. It has become a dance with Him. And with it, the fear just… dissolves.

Do you know why?

Because of Missing Person.

That testimony led me back to the girl who had nothing but Him—and who was fearless because of it. I had lost it all. My children and I were living in deep poverty, relying on government assistance just to eat. I know what humility feels like. That season taught me never to judge any woman walking through hardship, because I’ve been there.

We lost our home. Our belongings disappeared. But in that little, broken-down place where my kids slept on the floor—and then on a mattress we pulled from beside a dumpster—

THIS IS where I found Him.

In pure humility.

In nothingness.

In surrender.

Those were some of the happiest days of my life, because I didn’t realize then that He alone was enough.

That’s the “missing person” I went searching for.

And I found her.

Now, when I sing “You & I,” I can feel how far He’s brought me. I still don’t own much—we really live simply—but I have everything, because I have Him. 

I want to encourage you with something practical. When you start singing the songs He leads you to, set a reminder or note that opens directly to the link. That’s what I do—I just tap it each day, close my eyes, and let it play. On my app, if I even try to look at something else, the music shuts off. And I laugh every time. It feels like His gentle, romantic way of saying,

“Stay with Me. Look at Me.”

I hope each of you has found that missing person—the one who loved Him without fear, without distraction, without trying to hold everything together.

Now go sing “You & I.”

There’s a part that says, “You may not be here always.” When I get to that part, I change the lyrics. I sing over them. I speak the opposite of what’s trying to come at me. If you want to understand that more, go to the GPS Living Lesson—I’ll link it below.

We need to practice this. Not just for us—for our children. They’re walking into a world filled with technology we never had to navigate. But instead of fearing it, we can use it to become stronger, more dependent on Him, more aware of His voice.

Because it’s true:

“All things work together for good when we love Him and walk in His purpose.”

These are not fearful days.

They are beautiful days—because we get to walk through them with Him.

So when you hear that chorus—

“We can conquer the world”—

hear it the way I do:

You and Him.

Hand in hand.

Heart in heart.

Almighty Intelligence guiding your every step.

And you truly can conquer your world…

your children’s world…

your everyday world.

I cannot wait to hear what each of you experiences as you sing it.