Vinney Todd: Why You're Never Alone or Beyond God's Love
Have you ever wondered if you always have angels with you? Vinney shares what he has learned about angels, love and agency since his near death experience.
Episode Discussion Points
Where our spirit guides are beside us, and why we have more than one.
Ancestra/Family guide (usually stands on your right)
Spirit guides part of your spirit family (stands on your left)
Also have guardians and higher guides
All these guides work together to help you connect with God and get answers that are right for you and those you love.
Who angels are and why they sometimes show up with wings
Angels share God’s love for you purely
God loves ALL His children all over the world. Therefore He has planted truth all over the world in different cultures. God wants all of His children to progress, grow at their own pace and come home to Him.
“Through the grace of God we are going to go further than we think we deserve to go.”
Because we are each unique God helps each of us build our own divine path which helps us achieve who we want to become.
Why Vinney believes the writers of the US Constitution “divined” it’s principles so God could share His light with the world. There is an awakening happening right now to shine God’s light bigger and brighter.
Why agency or freedom is so very important, and why you should guide people with love, not authority, as you exercise your agency.
Bible Verses Shared
Psalm 91:11-12, 14 God’s angels are always with us and around us to help us because of His tremendous love for us, His children.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands. . . because he hath set his love upon me.
Genesis 2:16-17 God gave us agency or the ability to choose from the very beginning.
“Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat.”
Galatians 5:1, 13, 14 God made us free from sin, and we should share this love with the world.
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
“Ye have been called unto liberty…by love serve one another.”
“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Invitation
Pray for God’s love to help you as you love others through their good and bad choices. Remember He loves you through your choices and is committed to helping you grow at your own pace. God will also be with your loved ones and help them grow and progress and make choices at their own pace with their own angel guides.
Connect with Vinney
Website: https://www.livinggodslight.com/
Vinney will be publishing a book about his experiences in the afterlife within the next 6 months. Check out his website for more information because we just barely scratched the surface of everything he experienced there.
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Transcription
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Tamara Anderson 0:02
Have you ever wondered about angels? I don't know about you, but I have, are they always with you? Do they stand on your right side or on your left like the little angel and devil portrayed in cartoons? Well, you're in luck. We're going to cover this topic today with someone who had a near death experience, and can tell us where they stand because he can see them now. Stay tuned.
Tamara Anderson 0:31
Welcome to Stories of Hope in Hard Times, the show that explores how people endure and even thrive in difficult times, all with God's help. I'm your host Tamara K Anderson. Join me on a journey to find inspiring stories of hope and wisdom learned in life's hardest moments.
Tamara Anderson 0:56
Hello, and welcome to another episode of Tamara's Takeaways on the Stories of Hope in Hard Times podcast. And I'm really excited to be able to give you a couple of little bonus clips today, which I was not able to include in my interview with Vinney Todd last week.
Tamara Anderson 1:14
Now, last week's interview Vinney told us all about his near death experience and the things he learned, going to heaven and back. One of the key things being the power of God's love, and how much He loves us always, always, always no matter what. And so today, I'm going to give you a clip that will talk a little bit more about angels, and where they stand and who they are and why you are never alone.
Tamara Anderson 1:43
One of the key things that it's good to know, first, we're loved.
Vinney Todd 1:47
Yes.
Tamara Anderson 1:48
And we need to love ourselves unequivocally.
Vinney Todd 1:51
Unconditionally. Yeah.
Tamara Anderson 1:53
Second, that we're never alone. We have guardian angels. Is that what they're called? What, oh, what do we call this?
Vinney Todd 2:02
Since I'm a scientifically minded person.
Tamara Anderson 2:04
Oh, yes,
Vinney Todd 2:05
I'm gonna break it down for you.
Tamara Anderson 2:06
Break it down for us, man.
Vinney Todd 2:08
So there is family guides, they work one side of your energy. There is spirit guides, which are spirits who have lived here in the physical realm and died. And they now work as workers. But they're not your family as far as like genealogy in this world. But they're your spirit family. So they work the other side of your energy. And so both sides get spirit guides. So one side is ancestral. And it's funny, I'm left handed. So my ancestral guides end up showing up on my right side, my family genealogy ones, but then my spirit guides that are non geneology show up on my left side, right.
Vinney Todd 2:46
But then a whole nother layer of that is you have guardians and you have higher guides, these are beings that have reached a really high level of existence. Some have lived, some haven't. But they're not. They're definitely not angels, though. But their guides, they strictly work the higher frequencies. So when you need an answer, that's going to serve a better purpose for you, for friends for whatever, you only go to those guides. And what will happen is if you're not getting the answer right, your family guides come in and try to help you understand it. And it's so instantaneous. This is very, it's all like instantaneous.
Vinney Todd 3:23
But yet you can break that whole process down if you think about it. So it's like I didn't get the right answer. Oh, family came in. Okay, I got the answer. But its so quick right. Now, a whole nother layer above that is angels. And angels are the beings that are not male or female. Some will show up with wings most don't. But they all have so much glory and light coming off them. It almost looks like they have wings, because it's so much light flowing off of them. But they will actually show up with wings for people who want to see angels have wings. But they have only pure love emitting off of them. And their love of you is the same love that God has for you. So when you pray to God, and they answer that prayer, you're not praying to the angel, because praying to an angel is the same as praying to God. They're one in the same, the same way that when we talk about Jesus, and we talk about other Ascended Masters, it's all that same loving force that God put on the earth for all of us.
Tamara Anderson 4:25
Wow. That's, that's amazing. So we're never alone,
Vinney Todd 4:30
never alone,
Tamara Anderson 4:31
we have spirits or angels with us always.
Vinney Todd 4:35
And I think principal might have skipped over too, which is really, really important. Yeah. And again, in some faiths, a lot of people are gonna have a hard time with this, but it's a fact. God loves every single one of us so much that He planted teachings all over the planet, in many different cultures and faiths. And to think that there's only one One path to Him, only one tiny little path to him is like saying, there should only be one flavor at Baskin Robbins. It's not going to work, that that model will fail, and does fail.
Vinney Todd 5:14
And, for instance, an example I give to a lot of people is if you're, say, you're in your house, and you look out and you see this beautiful tree in your yard, and you notice that your, your young five year old, is climbing up this tree. And you notice that they're getting to some really high heights. And then the five year old, like loses their their holding, and starts to fall and is barely hanging on, and yells for help. And unfortunately, the world's version of religion would teach you that as a parent, you're going to pull out your checklist. Before you do anything, you're going to pull out the checklist and say, let's see if they made their bed. Let's see if they've been kind to their siblings. Let's see if they're cussing lately. Were they cussing? Let's see if they're worth saving. That's what religions try to teach us. We are human parents and for human parents, what would we do with that was our kid?
Tamara Anderson 6:11
We'd run and save them,
Vinney Todd 6:12
We would do anything possible, I mean, even running through a stained glass door, like we would run through anything to save that kid. And that's the love of a human parent. The love of our Creator is zillions greater than that. And it's, it's truly asinine for us to think that a loving Creator would would poke a pinhole in a bubble and say, only those who make it through that are going to be with me. It just doesn't make sense. That's not built out of God's love. God created a plan that yes, there is a pinhole. And that's going to be those who make all the right decisions and do the best that they can. It just means that they get towards the front of progression. But doesn't mean that those of the back of progression are abandoned? Yeah, it means that they just progress at their own level, the way a loving God would want it to be. God doesn't want to push us too far.
Vinney Todd 7:09
He wants to push us though, wants us to because it through the grace of God, we're going to go further than we think we deserve to go. But yet, at the same time, God doesn't want to put, you know, round pegs in square holes. He knows we're built for certain things. He knows that, that we have certain energies, and that some of us want to learn different things differently. And so every single one of us gets a specific catered life path, or divine life path that builds us to be who we want to be-- every single one of us.
Tamara Anderson 7:42
So God loves us as our authentic self.
Vinney Todd 7:45
Absolutely.
Tamara Anderson 7:46
And he will take us as our authentic self.
Vinney Todd 7:48
Exactly. It doesn't matter what any mankind or womankind says about who we are doesn't matter. doesn't change anything. doesn't change anything. Wow. doesn't even matter. Your political party.
Tamara Anderson 8:05
Sweet. I'm so glad that doesn't matter. That is amazing. And and it's it's changed you right?
Vinney Todd 8:15
Oh, absolutely. From that time coming out, I'm speaking in politics. I'm, I'm a libertarian. And I'm, I really, I feel very strongly and the spirit is confirmed at many times for me that this constitution that we have is sacred. And it wasn't perfect men who wrote it. But it was it was imperfect men who divined, divined knowledge to write it, to give us the groundwork for bringing forth God's love in this country and on this planet, on this earth. And it's and we're seeing an awakening happen on Earth right now. And this is part of my story. Me being okay, talking about it now, is also part of the awakening happening that people are, are ripened now for this. They're ready for this kind of stuff. They're sick of everyone painting boxes around things. And when you put a box around a light, nobody can see it.
Tamara Anderson 9:13
That's true.
Vinney Todd 9:14
And God is that light. And God shines brighter and bolder and bigger than any box we can build. There's no box we can build that can contain it.
Tamara Anderson 9:25
No, absolutely not.
Tamara Anderson 9:26
Yeah. Isn't that fascinating? So we kind of morphed from angels into God's love and how He loves everyone all over the world. And I just think that's fascinating. I wanted to share with you a couple of really cool quotes first of all on angels and then on God's love. In Psalm 91:11 and 12 and part 14 He says, "For he shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee an all by ways. They shall bear the up in their hands because he has set his love upon me." Isn't that beautiful? I love that it kind of meshes those two concepts together that the angels are there to help us, to bear us up, because He loves us so very much. He's just never going to leave us alone. And that's such an amazing, beautiful idea to remember, especially on those days that we're feeling down and alone, that we aren't alone.
Tamara Anderson 10:31
Whenever I think of the thought of being alone, one of the songs that that starts popping into my head that I used to listen to as a young child. My mom would play this and sing it for me, was from Rodgers and Hammerstein, "You'll Never Walk Alone," which originally came from the movie "Carousel." And I wanted to share these words with you because I think they're especially pertinent. "When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high. And don't be afraid of the dark. At the end of the storm, there's a golden sky, and the sweet silver song of a lark. Walk on through the wind, walk on through the rain, though your dreams be tossed and blown. Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart. And you'll never walk alone. Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart. And you'll never walk alone."
Tamara Anderson 11:33
Isn't that beautiful? I love the whole idea that we're all going to go through storms, but we're never going to be alone. So remember that today. And always that you're never alone. Because there are angels on both sides of you and above you. And they are there. And they will help you as you communicate and connect to God every single day. And they'll help you with the choices that you make as long as you ask. So don't forget to ask God for help. And He will send it always and, and give you the inspiration that you need to keep going even one little baby step at a time.
Tamara Anderson 12:13
Now another concept that I'm going to tack on here at the end, is the concept of agency. And Vinney talked a little bit about this and about the power of choice. Because God in the very beginning, one of the first things he gave Adam and he was a pretty important choice. In Genesis 2 we read, "Of every tree of the garden dummies freely eat, but if the tree of knowledge of good and evil Thou shalt not eat." So you have lots of choices here. You can eat from all these trees. I'm telling you, you shouldn't eat from this one tree in particular, but it's ultimately your choice. And so God values our agency, he he values our our ability to choose. And he works with this as we make these choices. He doesn't suddenly just chop us off and pull out a checklist. As Vinney says, Well, did they deserve my help? No, He is our kind, loving father. And He wants to bless us and help us as we ask. So ask. Don't forget to ask, let me play this clip about agency for you.
Vinney Todd 13:18
It's still agency, it's all agency and, and to truly understand the system, we have to love agency. And we need to love the the ability for all of us to make choices. And we should never ever be pushing our choices on anyone. If we want to try to educate them. So they can make their own choice the best way, awesome. But do we do it out of love not authority. And that makes a big, big difference. Wow.
Tamara Anderson 13:42
I love that, that the core concept is love,
Vinney Todd 13:46
through all of it through all of it
Tamara Anderson 13:48
wasn't that cool that the core concept is love behind agency that, that when you're trying to help people make choices, whether you're a parent, and you're trying to guide your children in their decisions, that you need to come from a place of love and not authority and allow people the opportunity to choose for themselves.
Tamara Anderson 14:09
And sometimes that's hard. I know as a parent is hard for me to watch my children choose things that in my mind are mistakes. But sometimes even if you warn them, they're gonna make that decision. But then they learn it through experience. And I know that learned a lot of things through my own mistakes and my own experiences. And I've learned it. And so if the purpose is for us to grow and progress, sometimes the only way we can do that is by making choices--some of them good, and we're like oh, that was a good choice. And some of them not so great and the consequences we don't like and so we try to figure out a way around it.
Tamara Anderson 14:53
In Galatians chapter 5 there are several verses that talk about liberty and choice And, and how it all ties to love and so I thought that would be something really, really cool to share with you today. In Galatians, chapter 5 verse one, it says, "Stand fast therefore in the Liberty where with Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." And I love that. That idea that Christ has helped make us free from the consequences of some of these choices. That we can repent, we can take that burden off our shoulders and give it to Him, and stand fast in liberty and in our ability to choose. And then, in verses 13 and 14, he says this, "You have been called into liberty." At the end of the verse, he says, "By love, serve one another." So we're called, to be free, and to have this liberty. And with this freedom, he invites us to love one another. And then in verse 14, he just emphasizes it again, free, "For all the laws fulfilled in one word, even this, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." And that's beautiful, because we are free to choose how we treat other people. But if we are truly full of God's love, not only for ourselves, but for everybody else, that love is just going to shine and it's going to be amplified. And and as Vinney said, we'll be lights to the world. And you can't contain God's light. Because it's so bright and so powerful.
Tamara Anderson 16:39
And so today, before we go, I'd like to make the invitation to pray and ask God to let love be your motivating factor as you deal with the people around you in your life. If they are perhaps causing you stress for some reason, or you're feeling stressed because of the choices of other people. Remember to ask God to fill you with His love, and perhaps with a bit of His love that He has for that person. So that, that you can be patient with them as they struggle and learn and progress at their own pace, because God is surely patient and loving and kind with all of us as we progress and make decisions sometimes good sometimes bad. Remember, you're not alone, as you're making these big and important decisions. And also remember that the people you love aren't alone, either. And that God will bless and help them with their angels, through good and through bad. So hope on my friends.
Tamara Anderson 17:45
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Tamara Anderson 19:10
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