In this daily episode, I will share with you the importance of first seeking God instead of google.

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Hey, everybody, welcome to God's Voice Today podcast, where you will hear the truth that will set you free. I'm your host, Vladimir, and in this episode, I will talk to you about this simple concept that I call God over Google. So I'll go ahead and cue up the theme song and I'll be right back.

All right. Welcome back to God's Voice Today Podcast. Today, I decided to take a quick break right now and talk to you guys about something that has been on my mind. And it's just this idea of God over Google because lately, I've been catching myself more and more when having problems or facing difficulties, to just going to Google to see what Google has to say instead of what God has to say. And in my early days, when I first became a believer, I remember I would go to God first. I would run to the closet and I would pray. In fact, I remember the earliest example that comes to my mind was when I first got married 11 years ago and we were doing pretty well financially, doing pretty well, too, until one day.

My wife and I both were in college and one day we had to pay a lot of money for college tuition. It completely emptied our bank account. And I just remember struggling and the rent was coming up. I was freaking out. I was scared and didn't know what to do. And so instead of running to my parents, instead of running to my friends and other sources, I went to God, I went to the closet and I said, hey, God, I'm being responsible. I try to do the best I can. I'm trying to provide for my family, but I'm struggling right now. I don't have enough money for rent. I need your help. And I had this faith that God will come through. And the next day I received this letter in the mail and it was a refund from school. So I guess we overpaid or something like that. Maybe, perhaps it was a grant. I'm not sure exactly what it was, but it was exactly enough money for me to pay my rent. I was so excited. I was thrilled. I was running around. I was like, wow, what a coincidence. Right? And so I went to the closet again. I said, God, this was wonderful.

Thank you so much for taking care of my rent. I appreciate it. But my wife is turning twenty-one over the weekend and I invite a bunch of people over for sushi. I was going to make a bunch of sushi and I don't want to cancel this party because of lack of money. We still don't have enough money for the party. And so with that, I finished my prayer, and the next day I kid you not. I received another letter again. It was from school. I can't remember if it was a grant or a refund for something, but I got just enough money for the party and some just to get us through the month. What a miracle it was. And I just remember always from that point on, running to God, and God always delivered on his promises. God always took care of me. And at some point in life, I got sidetracked and Google became more popular and YouTube was getting more creators posting answers. I guess I was learning graphic design, web design, web development online, I would watch a lot of tutorials and I trained my mind to go to Google on everything. I would go to YouTube and search how to change oil, how to do this X, Y, and Z. And so then I started outsourcing the things that were really for God to take care of instead of Google, like issues, and I started searching for answers from people, people that can let you down instead of going to my creator, somebody who knows me inside and out, He can tell me all these answers that I need.

He knows me better than I know me. And so the reason why I'm talking about this is that I've been dealing with this autoimmune disease called vitiligo. I've been getting these white spots all over my hands and over the last five years, it kind of spread quickly. Now it's on the other hand as well and my elbows. And yesterday morning I noticed that something is coming in on my ...