1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 I would like to apologize for the absence. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:15,000 We'll get into that in this show and some of the things that God has been walking me through. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:25,000 But I wanted to get back on what God has put in my heart to come to you each week and share with you. 4 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,000 But first, let me pray for you men. 5 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Father, please give your strength to all the men who you have designed these words for. 6 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:49,000 The courage to strengthen, to lead their families, churches, communities, and the areas of their lives which you created them for. 7 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:57,000 As they move forward in their days, Father, lead them, guide them, protect them, and yes, it was mighty name. 8 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,000 We pray, amen. 9 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:07,000 That is my hope for each and every one of you as it has been since God put this on my heart to start the show. 10 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Three and a half months of absence explained simply is like Peter. 11 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,000 I took my eyes off Jesus. 12 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 I tried to. 13 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:33,000 I started looking at how this was becoming more about me instead of about God, how I was going to monetize it, how I was going to make my way. 14 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Through the blessing and avenue that God has given me to be able to sit here and share with you what God has put on my heart. 15 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:58,000 I think that at some point in our lives that we all face those trials and walk through those experiences so God can show us that it's not about us. 16 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,000 It's about him. 17 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:05,000 I've heard and I believe 100 percent. 18 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:15,000 We are unwilling to step into what Jesus has called us because we believe the things that he has given us. 19 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Are ours. 20 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:29,000 And what he's shown me what he has shown me and what he has been putting on my heart as of late is that none of it is ours. 21 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 We own nothing. 22 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,000 We are to be stewards of everything that we have. 23 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:45,000 The experiences in our life that he has allowed us to go through the hardships, the trials, the disappointments, the successes. 24 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:51,000 They are never meant specifically for us. 25 00:02:51,000 --> 00:03:04,000 If we're in my belief and what he's shown me and put on my heart is that if we are true followers of Jesus Christ, we understand that others are more important than us. 26 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:18,000 And that if we are believing that we own the circumstances that we've faced in our life, we're wrong. 27 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:27,000 It is my belief that everything that we go through in life, the trials, the hardships, the successes are not meant for us. 28 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:34,000 It is a byproduct that we benefit and that we grow from those experiences. 29 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:44,000 But the true nature of each one of those experiences is for the benefit of someone else. 30 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Your testimony that those stories create, that they bring to light in your life and how Jesus has walked you through them. 31 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:02,000 And to where you are right now is for someone else. 32 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:10,000 He is giving you, given you all of those things. 33 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:18,000 And through your faith in him, where you are standing right now is meant for someone else. 34 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:26,000 There is nothing that you have experienced in your life or my life that that is for me. 35 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:36,000 It's for me to share with someone else and to help them grow in their faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 36 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:46,000 So with that being said, I want to humbly apologize for being gone and taking my eyes off of Jesus. 37 00:04:46,000 --> 00:05:03,000 But thankfully, as he did with Peter, as you start to sink and you cry out for help, Jesus is faithful to reach down and drag you out of the water and put you back on the path that he created you for. 38 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:27,000 And I am very thankful that he has put it on my heart to come back and do this show once again so that I can share the word or words or thoughts that he has put on my heart that may help and benefit you in some way, fashion or form. 39 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Because as I found out, you know, thinking about this show and how I wanted to grow it and how I wanted it to be this and how I hoped it would lead to different things and different opportunities. 40 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 That's not the reason. 41 00:05:46,000 --> 00:06:01,000 This show was designed for the one person out there that is struggling in something one person, God's person, that he intended this to be. 42 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:23,000 And I have tried to make it something of my own and I am deeply sorry for if this show has impacted you in any way, taking something away from you that God meant for you and make it about myself. 43 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:38,000 So I wanted to apologize humbly and ask for your forgiveness and I'm getting back to what I believe God wants me to do. 44 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 I don't care where it goes. 45 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:58,000 I said that before, but I lost my lost my way back have a stronger renewed vision of God and his plan, not Todd's plan. 46 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,000 So again, I want to apologize for being gone. 47 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:10,000 That's the reason, you know, you get out there and things start kind of going good and being right. 48 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:22,000 And I made it about me instead of about the people that God gave me the message for and his wisdom and love and faithfulness. 49 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,000 He has shown me that it is not about me. 50 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:46,000 I know we say that and it's hard to realize that I'm still faulty, even though I believe I am a new creation in Jesus Christ, even though it just I'm just I'm just a man. 51 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:51,000 And I hate to say that, but my in my weakness. 52 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Jesus is strength has shown through. 53 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,000 And put back on my heart what it was meant to be. 54 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:03,000 So again, I humbly apologize. 55 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:11,000 And for those of you who will continue to listen, thank you, because this is God's word, not Todd's word. 56 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:26,000 It just he's using me as a voice to reach out to you and to maybe help give some insight as to what he is wanting you to hear. 57 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:34,000 If that's you, then again, thank you for being back and tuning back in. 58 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:39,000 I can't promise you. 59 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:46,000 That I won't take a break to refresh and renew my soul. 60 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:51,000 I'm hoping it doesn't take three months any longer to do so. 61 00:08:51,000 --> 00:09:00,000 But I am rededicated and want to continue to put God's word out there. 62 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:10,000 He has shown me that I need to be disciplined to get my butt up and do this, not make excuses and not be afraid of what he's put on my heart. 63 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,000 That's what I intend to do. 64 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Now, Satan will try to sidetrack me again, I guess you could say to put obstacles in my way. 65 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:37,000 They trip me up the last time because I allowed them to because I wasn't continuing to rely on my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 66 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:49,000 But he has refreshed my mind and my spirit and has set me on a path that this time, I believe will be. 67 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Right, not to say I won't have any problems or struggles, but men, we do this together. 68 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:09,000 I am just a voice in in in in this current time that we live in that has finally realized that Jesus is the only way. 69 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 His word is the only way. 70 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Again, you've heard me say on this show before that we must stand on his truth and his truth alone. 71 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:25,000 And I felt that, but I wasn't seeing that and it kind of disheartened me at the time. 72 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:39,000 So another reason I took the break until I could find to make sure that what I was saying here was truly a message that God had put on my heart and not the world has put on my heart. 73 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:54,000 I didn't want to be deceived by Satan and say things that misled you or confused you or confused myself. 74 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Like I said, we're in this together. 75 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:01,000 So I should say we instead of you or me us as men. 76 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:07,000 I didn't want to lose that truth of what God started this out to be. 77 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,000 So with that said, I can apologize a million times. 78 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:20,000 I can spend the whole show apologizing and I probably should for you that were loyal and listened and I am so grateful that hopefully you'll come back. 79 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,000 I will put this out there. 80 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Like I said, there is a Facebook page. 81 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,000 I haven't started that process back up yet. 82 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Just to let you know what's going on. 83 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Little update, but I'm going to try to get better at that. I've tried to stay off social media during this political season because like I told some of the guys that are men's group and I'm done with politics. 84 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:58,000 I'm done with I'm done with this world and listening to the to the crap that comes out of every facet of media, social media, radio, TV. 85 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,000 I mean, all of it. 86 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 I'm done. Right. 87 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:08,000 I understand that God puts in authority to people that he chooses for specific reasons. 88 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:20,000 You know, and our church has been going through the Daniel, the book of Daniel Bible study and it just confirmed in my heart that you know what I'm done with it. 89 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,000 I'm no longer choosing this world. 90 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:33,000 I'm choosing to stand on the truce and the foundation and the principles of the father, son and the Holy Spirit. 91 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 The world is lost. 92 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 It is gone just like a current Babylon. 93 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 We are living in it, men. 94 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:51,000 And one of the things he has put on my heart is that, you know what, just like Daniel and his three friends, I'm standing on his truce, his word. 95 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 I'm not worried about what the world is doing. 96 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,000 I'm going to be different. 97 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000 I'm going to act different. 98 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,000 I'm going to look different like we as Christians are called to do. 99 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:16,000 And that is to call them in for us to look different, be different, act different and not back down from what the world says we as Christian men should look like to stand in it and stand strong in it to team up together to know that you and I are going to be different. 100 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:24,000 To team up together to know that you and I are not alone in the fight. 101 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:37,000 We have Christian brothers and sisters who believe as we believe and believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God and everything in it is the truth 100%. 102 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:44,000 And no matter what the world says, no matter what the world does, doesn't change the fact. 103 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:52,000 And we have to stand on that and we have to speak out in that so that the world can see that we are Christians. 104 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Yes, we are flawed. 105 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,000 We are imperfect just like every other human being on this earth. 106 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,000 I'm not judging you. 107 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 I'm just telling you the truth. 108 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Why? 109 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Because I love you. 110 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,000 It's coming from a place of love. 111 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:12,000 I'm not going to argue with you if you think you're pink, purple, green horn, unicorn. 112 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,000 I'm not arguing with you. 113 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 I'm just telling you you're wrong. 114 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,000 And why I think you're wrong, you can either accept it or not. 115 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Just because I don't agree with you doesn't mean I hate you or it's coming from a place of hate or anger. 116 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,000 That's not what it's meant to be. 117 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,000 I'm not going to be tolerant of it either. 118 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Either I'm going to leave or you're going to exit my area. 119 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:47,000 Because I have to stand on and look like what Jesus called me to stand on and look like, which is his truth. 120 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:55,000 His word alone supersedes everything else and it doesn't matter. 121 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,000 What you think you are. 122 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,000 It doesn't. 123 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,000 God's truth is God's truth. 124 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Either be on one side or other if you want to be on as in biblical times, bail side or Satan side and you think you can be a purple headed green horned unicorn. 125 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Then okay, fine. 126 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Then take that side, but I'm taking this side. 127 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:32,000 You know, and we as Christian men have to really group up, stand lock arms, stand together and fight this battle that we're fighting. 128 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Our country is in trouble. 129 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Our world is in trouble. 130 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Why? 131 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Because Christian men have decided to listen to the culture and listen to the things that this world has to do. 132 00:15:47,000 --> 00:16:01,000 This world has said, you know, like I said, and grooming people, you know, by changing their names, changing their mind, changing all these things come to play. 133 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,000 And it's Satan's plan to try to destroy Christian men. 134 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Why is Satan trying to destroy Christian men? 135 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Because we are whether you agree or not, this is what I believe and what I read when I read God's word. 136 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:27,000 We are the only thing on this planet, man, that God formed and breathed his life into us in his image. 137 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Right. 138 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Genesis tells us that. 139 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,000 And we have to stand on that. 140 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 He didn't come looking for Eve. 141 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 I know you've heard me say this on the show before. 142 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,000 He did not come looking for Eve in the garden. 143 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 He came looking for Adam. 144 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Period. 145 00:16:52,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Men, Satan is trying to take us out because if he can make us step down and back down and not be who God called us to be, then he has free access. 146 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,000 He didn't go. 147 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Satan did not go after Adam in the garden. 148 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 He went after Eve. 149 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 He goes after our children. 150 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:19,000 He goes after the things because if we are standing firm in Christ, he knows he cannot break us. 151 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Right. 152 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:21,000 He can beat us down. 153 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,000 He can beat us up, but we're going to continue to get up. 154 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,000 And that's where we're at now. 155 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:33,000 And we have been as a whole, we have been beating beaten down. 156 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:46,000 And if we're not standing up and speaking out and speaking the true gospel and truth of Jesus Christ, no water down version, the real version of what Jesus Christ says this life should look like it should be. 157 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Then we as men have to come together and group up and form our army that God has called us to be. 158 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Satan can't beat us as a group. 159 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 He can beat us individually. 160 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:17,000 But when we get together as Christ loving men and step out with our army, our squad, our platoon, our company, whatever you want to call it. 161 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Our people and we stand in his word. 162 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Unstoppable when we stand on his principles because no weapon formed against us can destroy us. 163 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 None. 164 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Ever when we stand on God's word and his truths and our faith and our hearts are in his son, Jesus Christ. 165 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 There's no way. 166 00:18:46,000 --> 00:19:00,000 We already know this Jesus did that on the cross, but we have to take that as 100% and that is our that is our launch launching point in order to stop the madness that's in this world. 167 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Demand or bring forth. 168 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:17,000 I'm not going to say demand. That's kind of a wrong word, but bring force. Bring to light the truths that Jesus Christ has told us to bring forth. 169 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:31,000 And men, it's time for us to once again lock arms, group up, step out and start making the changes that God has called us to make. 170 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:40,000 Each one of us is made for a specific time and place in God's plan. 171 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:49,000 You know, this podcast is where one of the ways he has shown me that I need to be more active in our culture and our way. 172 00:19:49,000 --> 00:20:05,000 You know, he put me in place right now with this voice and this opportunity to talk to you to help strengthen you to help encourage you to help maybe in some ways grow you in the truth of Jesus Christ. 173 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,000 And I am thankful that he has chosen me and I'm stepping into that. 174 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:20,000 I'm no longer backing down from what anybody says. If it doesn't agree with what Jesus tells me it's supposed to be, it's wrong. 175 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:29,000 And we can disagree and you can choose to go on and eat your purple unicorn pea or whatever you're going to eat. Doesn't matter to me. 176 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:48,000 But the truth is the truth and it's just it's gone too far and God is calling us men to step up to grow in him to lock arms and to go fight this battle that he has called us to fight. 177 00:20:48,000 --> 00:21:01,000 A friend of mine the other day asked me, he said, well, why hadn't God come back? Why hadn't he fixed this? Why hadn't he done that? And just out of nowhere out of truth. 178 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:08,000 I said, he's waiting on us. So he created us for and we have we have dropped the ball. 179 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:22,000 We have fumbled on the on the two yard line and it's it's now time to get serious. It's time to be who he created. 180 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:42,000 It's we we're not just wandering around on this earth without a purpose. If you're lacking purpose, if you're lacking drive, if you're lacking vision, then then then pray because we need to have those conversations with Jesus with Yeshua. 181 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:58,000 Right. That we need to ask for clarification and direction and be attentive to listen for the answer to be quiet to be still. 182 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:16,000 To let him show us what our purpose is. I'm not saying this is my only purpose. This podcast I have, as y'all know, I have a family and they they are my gifts and my blessings that he has given me to be watchful over. 183 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:31,000 But what I have learned is they're not the only thing I guess I'm going to have to be a multitasker, which is not one of my highest traits. But I do know that through his strength and his provision and his will, he will teach me and learn me. 184 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:48,000 And I'm thankful for that, that his grace covers my lack of abilities at this time. My lack of discipline at times being gone from the show for three and a half months. 185 00:22:48,000 --> 00:23:09,000 I am thankful for his grace and love and to give me another opportunity to fulfill what he has called me to do in this life, which is stand on his truth to share what he puts on my heart and to move forward with confidence that 186 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:18,000 it's about him, not me and that somebody, one person needs to hear this. 187 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:25,000 And it was the one person this past weekend that 188 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:41,000 made me realize that. And I want to say thank you Trent for bringing that full circle. Thank you God for giving me that word and that and that message. 189 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:59,000 So with that being said, man, it is time. I know this was kind of a ramble, but I do want to apologize again for being gone and apologize for making you about me and not about you, which is just meant to be. 190 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:17,000 Again, I do want to give you a point to reach out to. If you have any prayer or anything, please send me an email at the call of men show at gmail.com. 191 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:32,000 I'd love to hear from you thoughts, things, questions that you know you have or that maybe God's put on your heart that you're not sure what to do with. 192 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:43,000 Just please reach out to me so that we can pray together and we can be involved in this together. 193 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:52,000 But again, I humbly apologize to each and every one that we're following the show and enjoying the show. Thank you so much. 194 00:24:52,000 --> 00:25:07,000 We are back or yeah, we are back because it's God and I not me and God is God and I are back and looking forward to creating more content and. 195 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:15,000 As God leads me, not as I try to do, but as God leads me in the direction that he has called me to do. 196 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:23,000 So be looking for that, gentlemen. Again, thank you so much for. 197 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Being here and listening to the show. 198 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:44,000 I'm not sure how this is going to work. If it's going to be back to once a week or more times a week, I'm just going to follow where God leads me and rely on him instead of me this time. 199 00:25:44,000 --> 00:26:01,000 I give you that that word from me that sick sounding like crap, not feeling it, whatever. I will continue to do his will like I should have been doing to begin with, but I failed. 200 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,000 But again, thank you for. 201 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Watching the listening to the show and and. 202 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:25,000 I hope that you're happy that it's back and like I said, if you if you have any questions or any topic that is on your heart, please send me an email to the call of men show at gmail.com. 203 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:32,000 Love to hear from you. It's important. I feel like maybe that's why. 204 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Personally, I backed off because I didn't feel like it was reaching anyone. 205 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:48,000 You know, I can look at the analytics on my RSS feed. I can see all of the stuff and people listening, but I'd love to hear back from you. 206 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:56,000 Or you can hit me up on Facebook to call them in show. 207 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,000 Or you can friend me on Facebook either way. 208 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,000 Love to hear from you. Love to talk to you. 209 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:08,000 And only helps each other grow when we can do that. 210 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:14,000 I'm looking to learn from each one of you, hopefully through emails or or some kind of contact with you. 211 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,000 That is my goal. 212 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:28,000 That is this shows outreach is to help other men grow and stand firm in becoming and being who God created each one of us to be. 213 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:34,000 So man, as you go out today, just remember that God is with you. 214 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:41,000 God has created you for a purpose for this moment and trust in that and stand on it. 215 00:27:41,000 --> 00:28:01,000 And remember, as you go out and do what you do today, answer the call of men. 216 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:20,000 God is with you.