Get Grounded with Chrystal Evans Hurst

The time is 4:00pm. I was so blessed by the word today. I don’t pray like I use to or read the Bible but I started back and it feels so good.

My children had been taken my trash out and setting it out for me for it to be picked up. I had not been able to do so for sometime. I had been hard head trying to prove that I could. I had been raised to be “ Independent!!” God had been teaching me to learn to be “Depended” On Him!! It has been twice now since I been able to take my trash out. I Give God The Glory for giving me the strength to do so. He get’s all the Glory!!🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 🥰❤❤❤🙏🏽

One Spiritual Discipline I really enjoy and that has marked my life is Journaling. It helps me to keep a record of the things God has been speaking to me and track His Faithfulness to me. It also helps me to stay encouraged in the Lord. One that I struggle with is the Word. This is an area that I could defienitely grow in and it would keep me more Grounded.

This really helped me. It's exactly what O asked God for today. To know Him better, to know myself in Him. To be confident to be more spiritually connected. In my prayer closet this was my request. God spoke to me through you. When you said it's not just going to happen, and that we have to spend time getting to know God to know ourselves. Connecting with who we are in spirit. Listening out for Gods voice. We're not going to get it through social media, podcast etc. but we have to read our bibles, pray, and fast. Thank you for this. I'm so grateful to learn from you. I'm thankful to God for this pod cast! It's working for my good. I'm praying for you and your family Chrystal. Thank you for allowing God to use you. I'm looking forward to joint your inner circle soon🙏🏾.

Love the lip color 💋

Gosh this is so timely. Thank you Chrystal for taking the time to record. I appreciate you. I needed this!

Hi Chrystal- I am so blessed by your channel in this season of my life. You are like the big sister/ mentor that I yearn for🙏🏾 May the Lord continue to bless your ministry.

I think i found the reason i follow this channel. This speaks to my deep need . Thank you 💖

Thank you Crystal for not taking this live down. I always see the notifications that you were live but because of the time zones when I can't watch that precise time you are live, I will be at work. So when I then look for the live I can't find it. Please don't take future lives down I really love your genuine talks ❤️

I always seem to listen to you at the right time. It is 🤯 that you mention being disciplined, particularly spiritual discipline at a time in my life where I am feeling the Lord’s pull in that direction. I shouldn’t be surprised. This is no coincidence. I’m just amazed at how God sends confirmation.❤ You have my attention.

I need to spend time in His word. Studying it and hearing His voice. We are spiritual beings in a human form just for a short while here on earth but here to eternity as a spirit being.

Being still to hear God’s voice ♥️

5 months later and this was so needed! Spiritual discipline ❤️

Learning and practicing forgiveness was rough for me. My life since 16 years old had been so challenging. I could not go to the college I wanted to go, I had to ask for my scholarship money back from North Texas University, I was embarrassed by students laughing at me for not being able to attend the college I wanted. My mom did not want me to use any of her family addresses for college in California. My mother's mom was crushed to death in a storm while she and her husband were parked off the highway. The man driving the other car killed his wife, too, in that wreck. This was two weeks from my graduatiton. I could not sit with the class but sat with my parents. After crossing the stage for diploma, I had to go home for my English class assignment the following day. After the grade, my teacher asked me for a private conversation. She had us write on our beliefs. My grade was A++, but her conversation was about my beliefs. She counseled me on re-writing with my beliefs. She said the paper only told what my parents believed. I was depressed and suicidal because of my grandmother's death. She was my best friend, my confidant, my teacher, my motivator, and she understood me. For 26 years I grieved over her absence. I was angry, no mad with God. I told Him he took my grandmother away from me when I needed her most. I attended a junior college as and Advanced Classes Student in high school, I graduated a year early, I had a new Buick car that was parked on the side of the house until the weekends while at Kilgore. When I went to UTA (they had the #1 School of Architecture in 1970) but my dad went into the Dean's office to make sure I was enrolled in Pre-Med classes and with that four year plan. Rebellion is a sin. I refused to take the MCAT exam. I went to Medical Technology school so I could graduate. I lived in misery for eleven years as a Med Tech at Parkland Hospital, NIH, and some lab that caused me to have corpal tunnel syndrome in both wrists. The totally electronic hematology machines caused a lot of writs motions. Working for NIH in Endocrinology was all urine for my part. I had to use special gloves and a hooded vent. Corpal tunnell went away, but I would get tested for rheumatoid arthritis. I left Dallas and moved back to Longview where I worked in an S&L. I was assigned to a branch in the mall making $700 with a college degree. I left there and worked as laboratory supervisor of a 9 doctor clinic. I developed IBS. Pain is the name!! My narcissistic spouse would beat me six times in five years. Divorce with a ten month old baby. No God and No Discipline. I moved to Houston following my baby's father. He had been so good to us. BUT when I got pregnant with that baby, he was the serpent and the chamelion. He started showing the serpent and started biting with nibbling. I went to work at AT&T to make money finally. I couldn't buy my Mercedes 450 SLC on any of my salaries. First night at AT&T, baby daddy stayed out all night. Oh, I forgot to mention something very important. While at Kilgore, the college choice of my parents, this little dude in the SUB called me a saddidy whore. Not knowing better, I opened my mouth to defend myself. He ended up making us a couple because I was taught to help the needy and poor. Talking is help to some. Christmas he bought me a diamond sweetheart ring and said we would get married since my boyfriend who went to Morehouse had gotten married to a Spellman student. He found the info in Jet magazine. So, my neighbor I had known since she was 4 told me we were double dating. To a movie. And that dude that gave me the ring pinned me down in the front seat of his car with my neighbor and her regular in the backseat. Im crying stop and no and those two stopped their activity, put their clothes on and got out of the car to sit on the speaker base. I looked at them. I could not look at him. He was an ugly black nig who was treating me less than a human. After he physically hurt me, he grinned and let me alone. Seeing blood in the restaurant restroom sent me further into depression, When I saw my mother the next day, she said, "Have you been having sex?" Seh turned around and closed two doors behind her leading to her bedroom. She NEVER cared to hear me. I wanted to tell her I was not having sex, but sex had me last night. That guy pinned me down with thighs and knees and one arm across my collarbones and neck. I tried to tell her again in 2013. She talked all about herself. I got up and walked away. My neighbor's constant had instigated the event. He was my AKA debutant escort. He begged me to do with him. I told him he is my girlfriend's boyfriend. He said she was fat and ugly. I asked why is he jumping her fence almost every day? I don't take my friends' stuff. I also told him I prefer older men because my boyfriend was at Moorehouse majoring in Accounting, has a car, his family likes me, he has money, his dad, an MD and mom a nurse, he is great to me, and has a professional job upon graduation. He was hurt and insulted. To pay me back, I had to get raped. His 30 pieces of silver was time in TDC. When I see him he has this smirky grin on his face, and is always trying to touch me some way with a smile. Ps 35. SO, in therapy for employer harassment, discrimination etc I had a nervous breakdown Nov. 11, 1995. Forgiving was hard and took discipline, I took the Concordance. I wrote down every scripture I needed to learn. I broke down why I needed to forgive persons, one at a time. I wrote my benefits, my losses, and what would God say. I would practice. Eventually, I was able to find embossed blank cards of extreme beauty. I used them to write Heavenly Father, I choose to forgive {name} for the hurt and harm they caused me by (cruelty, evil). I advanced to seeing Jesus, Him reaching out His hands to receive the beautifullly wrapped and bowed box of my pains, sorrows, let downs, accusations, hatred, evil, etc. that was meant for evil. Giving it to Jesus means I cannot take it back. I have given it to the right person. My son is 36. He has been concerned about how I feel about his dad. I told him many times that I forgave him a long time ago. He is forgiven until 2099. His dad died Sept 2022. He told me, "That dude should be in a federal penitentiary right now." Discipline means we had nothing else to say. Please forgive me for the length. Forgiveness can be this kind of process for many.

I started walking back in February, i did so for a month and then out of the blue started feeling sharp pain in my lower back. It got so bad that I couldn't bend over to do simple things. Needless to say, I had to stop. I'm taking my time to get better. All I wanted was to be healthy 😭. I staying still.

Viewing again from Orlando Fl @12pm today I viewed this on Monday morning and I was blessed by the message I wanted to say thank you🫶🏾

I will be working on Sabbath and silence to listen to what God wants to say to me. Thank you, Chrystal. ❤

Good morning to all

OMG!!!! Chrystal!!! working out HAS BEEN a "Challenge", I am not sure how many times I've cancelled Gym membership 'cause I just can't commit :face-turquoise-covering-eyes:yeah, not proud of myself.

My discipline is I read and do meditation with a devotional and Bible each morning and afternoon. My aim is to memorize more scripture and retain it. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with such down to earth savvy.