Don't get down when you're seeing the worst,
Cause the last will be the first.
What a day I'm telling you,
All things will be new.
Living up in a down world.
Yeah we're living, yeah we're living,
Living up in a down world.
Oh!
This is Jimmy and Annette,
We are living up in a down world,
We're on episode number 34,
Thank you for joining us today.
I gotta say, you look absolutely stunning.
Really?
Yes.
I'm laughing because...
You're laughing out loud, you're LOLing.
It's just, yes, I don't feel very stunning today.
It's our day off, it's our sabbatical,
It's Labor Day.
Sabbath, we end it with a sabbatical.
Yes, and I've not labored in my parents today.
We labored, we hit the gym this morning,
Planet Fitness over in the big city of Bernie,
It was jam packed.
I hated it today, why do these people have to come to the gym?
Don't you people have jobs? Oh wait, it's Labor Day.
It's Labor Day, never doing that again.
We will take the Labor Day off and work out at home.
I've never seen that many people there.
No, it was awful.
Okay, so crazy thing though, I was able to get to every machine,
everything, I don't know why, just sort of worked out that way.
Everybody decided to do legs today, and today was my leg day.
I'm so sorry, I'm thankful I didn't do legs today.
I know, you should be.
Because I ended up having to do...
Wait, when did I do it? I did that on Saturday.
Right, well I ended up having to go back to machines I'd already done,
and did three more sets because...
Yeah.
I wasn't going to say, I'm not going to say what I was going to say.
But there was a gentleman.
There you go, nice.
On one of the machines for 40 minutes.
The one machine I needed for about five minutes.
He was on it 40 minutes, almost the whole time we were there.
Not happy.
That tends to happen when there's like one machine.
That's a gym snob, isn't it?
No, they call them a lunk.
A lunk, a gym lunk.
You know what, I think you would have to be...
What was the Holy Spirit trying to teach you through that?
Oh, for sure.
Was it one of the fruit of the Spirit?
Patience.
Patience, maybe.
Yes, but you know what, I didn't say anything to him.
I almost did.
You said plenty to me.
I almost walked over and said, are you done yet?
But listen, that's not good etiquette.
I get it.
There are people, there's a hundred people in the gym today.
The injustice of it all.
Yeah, let's change the subject.
Moving right along.
Because I'm trying to live up in a down world.
We are living up in a down world, I repeat.
Should we scrub that?
No, we don't do that here.
No, no.
We're just real.
Keeping it real today.
We still had a good workout.
We had a good time.
Yes.
We came home and we rocked some short ribs.
No.
I've never, okay, wait a minute.
Okay.
We've never cooked short ribs ever before.
Ever.
And we're rocking a lot of meat right now on our carnivore journey.
And so when we bought...
Tina told us what to do with it.
Right, so we bought meat from KNC Cattle, which is our favorite place to get great meat.
Out of Austin.
Oh, check them out online.
Great ranch.
Fantastic.
It's basically ranch to your table, to your fridge.
And so we...
But this came in a bundle, and we didn't know what to do with it.
So I was like, okay, Tina, what do I do?
And she goes, you're going to hate it.
And I said, why?
That's a setup.
Well, and I didn't love it because it's real fatty and it's not the kind of fat that you
can enjoy.
It's that mushy...
I would say it turned out as well as it could have considering what it is.
Well, my stomach didn't handle it very well.
No, your stomach did not.
No, so I will never do that again.
I did a little better.
Of course, I'm twice your size, so I can handle a little bit more, but it tasted like roast.
No, it did.
It tasted like a roast I make in a crock pot.
We did it in a crock pot.
We cooked it for eight hours.
And man, it just fell off the bones.
But for some reason, it was so much fat.
Although, on carnivore, fat is fuel.
It is, but...
So even though it's a little too much though.
I'll take the fat from ribeye over that.
Little too much, right.
Yes.
Yeah.
So we tried anyway.
We gave it our best shot.
Yeah.
Don't look forward to trying that again.
No, it's coming in our next bundle, but I think I will give it away.
We're learning a lot on our carnivore journey, aren't we?
Oh, yes.
I mean, we're just figuring things out as we go, and we're submitting...
I mean, we're watching a lot of videos and a lot of really experts in that field, and
so the journey's going well.
What I don't...
It's so mind-boggling to me is the energy we have.
I know.
It's crazy, really.
I mean, I thought keto, we had a lot of energy.
But for some reason, I feel like we have more now, or either I don't remember so much when
we started keto in 2018, but it's just been over the top.
I'm certain that we have much more energy doing carnivore than we did keto, and we're
staying in ketosis the whole time, so it's really crazy.
I mean, it's remarkable, and we won't drone on about it, but it is an amazing journey,
the best I can ever remember feeling in my life.
I know.
It's cleared up several things already in my...
Not that I have a lot of bad health issues.
I don't.
We're actually very healthy, both of us.
But the little things we did have are either going away or they're cleared up and even
reversed.
It doesn't even make sense because everything we've heard is, you know, meat is bad, eat
vegetables, eat grains.
Fat will make you fat.
Yeah.
You need to eat plants, salads, and misinformation.
Not these days, not the way...
Well, all the plants we're getting now aren't the plants we were getting 50 years ago, 40
years ago.
Exactly.
Things have changed.
The GMOs and all the bioengineering has destroyed the health.
They've turned fruit into candy instead of actual fruit.
Which I'm still doing a little bit of fruit.
Yeah, you love your watermelon.
Well, it's watermelon.
But you're not overdoing it.
No, I'm only having a few pieces and I just...
It's blueberries.
It's blueberries because that's a good berry, but that's it.
Yeah.
That's it.
Not much.
I'm staying a little more closer to the line.
I'm a probably what, 99% meat and then an eggs, butter, bacon, and then 1% maybe fruit.
So I'm doing good.
I think as long as I feel good, I can do that.
So what we're doing and while we're talking about this is that one of the things that
we really embraced over our sabbatical, which was two months and ended last week, is this
idea of total life victory.
In other words, having balance between your body, your mind, and your spirit.
And so we engaged those three realms throughout the whole thing and we engaged them and did
this, our spiritual, our mental, our physical, everything we did, I wanted to make sure that
it was replicatable.
We could continue to repeat this.
Yeah, sustainable.
Sustainable outside of a sabbatical.
So we didn't do anything that we can't do in normal life.
Right.
I was real intentional about that because I didn't want to have this amazing mountaintop
experience at a sabbatical and then go back in the work world and go, ugh, can't wait
for another five or six years to get another one of these.
Not at all.
In fact, it's like, no, this actually has led us into the next chapter of our lives
and we were strategic and intentional about that and that is exactly what's happened.
So everything we did and are doing is sustainable and it can be repeated.
So and it can be repeated for others.
Well, and we've added intermittent fasting, which is so good.
Now when we get to work, you know, we don't have to eat until we get home because we're
fasting and I think it's going to be really good for us.
I think what's remarkable for me is how my appetite's gone.
I just, I don't crave anything.
I'm not thinking I got to have some sugar or I got some carbs or I want to go to Mr.
Gaddy's and rock a pizza.
Oh, can't even imagine that right now.
So all that's gone away.
I mean, it literally has cleared out of our system.
So what happens is that you break habits and you break micro habits, both big, big things,
big cravings, big, but also micro things that you don't even really think about.
And one is your appetite leaves so that you're not always craving food.
Well, we haven't had carbs in what?
Two months, over two months.
60, we're on like day 63 or four?
64 days.
Day 64.
Yeah.
So, and I don't miss them.
Oh, I don't miss it.
We were at HUB, our big store in Bernie, and we were going through the aisles and you were
over, you had to go, you went and got a big yellow onion and I waited with the basket
and our whole, we definitely looked like carnivores.
Butter, eggs, meat.
I mean, that was about it.
Water.
And water.
Yeah.
And then you got an onion and some watermelon, but I waited, but I had to wait because I'm
trying to stay out of people's way because even the store was crowded today.
So I stand over here and when I stopped, I turned around and stopped at this area and
I looked around and everything around me was Halloween cookies, cakes, pies, and it grossed
me out.
I literally was like, I'm among the enemy right now.
I feel like I'm surrounded by the enemy.
Well, Lord, rebuke you.
And that's really strange coming from you because you are a sweetaholic.
Was.
Exactly.
I was going to change that, but you really were.
I mean, this is like pretty remarkable that you've made such a 180 turn.
So for me, more of a 180.
I'm just kidding.
But anyway, it's going great.
What do you got there?
You're holding your phone.
I want to talk about what happened last week.
We had a couple of outings with Adam and Tina.
I had to ask you, now what do we do?
Last week was kind of a blur.
And a lot of it was because I think I had such anxiety and anticipation for going to
church on Sunday for the first time.
Let's talk about that after we talk about this.
Look at me.
I'm like Tina.
I'm saying follow the list.
Wow.
What is happening to me?
I know.
You're turning into Tina and I'm Adam.
I'm just going to do whatever you tell me to do.
I'm becoming disciplined.
I'm following the rules.
And then I'm going to call you an ogre or something.
What is happening to me?
Right.
So yeah, where were we?
Tina.
Oh.
We went over to their house on Tuesday night over to the Curry's.
And if y'all don't know who they are, it's Adam and Tina Curry, just two of our best
friends, humans on the planet.
And they have an amazing podcast called Curry and the Keeper.
And they birthed this podcast.
I mean Adam invited me and said, Jimmy, you should be doing it.
You're a natural podcaster.
You preach every Sunday.
You got stuff.
You should be doing this.
And he invented podcasting.
He is the pod father.
And I'm like, man, if Adam Curry is saying, hey, you should be a podcaster, I'm like,
let's go be a podcaster.
So here we are.
Then the very first day we did it, I'm drug you and said, you're going to do it with me.
So that's how that happened.
So he's our exec.
I call him our executive producer because we pay him the big bucks to do this.
Ha ha.
But we want to push in.
They've promoted us so sweetly and so just from the heart.
And we're promoting them because we love them, value them, and we love their show.
It's hysterical.
And so check out Curry and the Keeper podcast.
You can find on any of the platforms.
So we went over to their house on Tuesday night and Tina has come over to our side.
She's a carnivore.
I knew she'd do it after.
Well, they went on their big trip and she came back.
I feel horrible.
All I've eaten is carbs.
I got to do something.
But you know what?
If you're going to eat carbs, Italy is the place to eat them.
Or Paris.
I would have done the very same thing.
But yeah, I agree, coming back here, time to make a change.
Although Adam's not ready to do that.
Adam, he calls us the meat Nazis.
We are the meat Nazis now.
So hilarious.
So it's hilarious.
She makes dinner for us.
She makes this trot.
Was it trot?
Trot tip.
It was phenomenal.
Oh, massive too.
And we're eating and eating.
It's like three pounds of meat.
And eating.
Oh, it's probably more than that.
That was huge.
And she forgets about Adam's baked potato.
Not the only non-carnivore thing that we were eating that night.
Did she overcook it?
I don't know.
She undercooked it because she forgot about it.
And he's just sitting there going, thanks guys.
I'm not going to join you though.
He won't join us.
No, no, no.
And that's fine.
It's good for him.
But it was hilarious because she just totally forgot.
We were just so busy eating our trot tip.
Rocking that steak.
And again, that was some K&C cattle.
I mean, it was...
Well, she turned a lot of people onto that.
That was one of the best things I've had that trot tip like that.
Because I've never had one like that.
Oh, that was huge.
Yeah, we're keeping K&C in.
We have to.
Especially with our carnivore dinner.
Well, the processes are way better than ATB.
True, true.
At this point.
Well, it was a carnivore's dream dinner for sure.
Amazing.
And on Friday night, we celebrated Adam's birthday.
59.
He's just a baby.
He's still a puppy.
I know.
People say that and I'm like, really?
When I was 59, I was not a baby.
Wouldn't feel like a baby.
But he is.
Yeah, I turned 59 on Sunday, but we celebrated on Friday night and we went to one of our
favorite restaurants in Fredericksburg.
Cabernet Grill.
Man, everything they do is over the top.
Where we go when we have a celebration.
Yeah, that's where we celebrate.
Birthday or anniversary.
Oh, we love it.
Valentine.
We love it.
So we sat down with him.
We were having a great time and then our waiter came over.
His name was Johnny.
Really nice guy.
And how did it come up?
I'm trying to think because I'm the one who told him.
About podcasting and he's the pod father and all that.
About what?
How did it get started?
I don't know how it got started somehow.
Oh, I said it's his birthday.
Oh, there you go.
And then he made some kind of comment and I said, he was talking about Joe, didn't he
talk about Joe Rogan?
Somehow Joe Rogan came up.
I think he did.
And I said, Adam's been on Joe Rogan.
And he looked at Adam like, what?
Like, oh wow.
And he said, what did you talk about?
And I loved.
Loved Adam's response.
His response was God, Jesus.
I mean, he could have said, I mean, what did he talk to him for two hours?
No, 33 I think.
And you know, the conversation of religion or whatever, however you want to say it, came
up for about 30 minutes.
But he didn't say the other stuff he talked about.
He said that.
I have to say.
That takes a lot of courage.
Well, what I have to say is I was so proud about him because he didn't even think about
it.
It was natural.
It just, that's what he said as a matter of fact.
Just rolled off of his lips.
And the guy said, I want, I need to hear that.
I want to hear that.
So we asked him his name.
Yep.
And I said, do you not know who he is?
He's actually the one who invented podcasting and the guy, he kind of just ignored me.
He really didn't say much, but he took down Adam's name.
He came back to the table and said, you're the, what did he say?
Godfather.
No, just pod father.
But it was like, he said, I went and looked you up.
It was hilarious.
So we're sitting there and so that happens and we're just, I'm just so proud.
We're laughing.
It's funny and I'm so proud of my brother in Christ, Adam, for just bringing Jesus into
it.
And then this other couple gets escorted, the restaurant starts to pick up, you know,
where they're already been announced picking up.
So this couple walks by and Adam's talking like he does.
And you can hear his voice.
Adam has a distinctive voice and it cuts through the mix, so to speak.
So other people, and this guy does a double take as he walks by the table.
I'm like, he just recognized Adam's voice and starting to figure everywhere we go, that's
happening now.
And he doesn't listen to no agenda.
He remembers him from MTV back in the eighties.
He stops and he says, no, no, no, he comes back over.
He goes and gets seated.
You're right.
He seats his wife and I'm thinking, man, that dude's a fan.
I mean, I could tell a super fan.
He comes back over to the table and he's like a kid.
He was like giddy.
He's like our age, but he's acting like a kid.
And he's like, are you Adam Curry?
From MTV?
All three of us kind of go, here we go.
Here we go.
And it was really cute.
And Adam was very gracious and kind, which he always is with fans.
And he's got him everywhere they go.
Now I know what Tina goes through all the time.
But you know, he paid his dues.
He did.
He's an amazing man.
He's remarkable.
He's very culture.
He knows the ins and outs of the world.
He's just an amazing man.
He really is.
And they make a power couple.
Boy, do they.
You talk about yin and yang fit together.
Oh, well Tina's brilliant.
Hand in glove.
I know they are.
They're a power couple.
Well, Faith said Tina looks like a supermodel.
Our daughter said that.
So I told Tina, I said, well, you're the supermodel.
You're my friend, the supermodel.
She's the new supermodel friend.
So anyway, after we're about to pay our check and the guy brings it and says, there's a
man in the back in the corner of there.
Your check.
This is just for your coffee because we ordered coffee afterwards.
This is your coffee.
Fifteen bucks.
He said, your meal's been paid for.
This was a very high dollar dinner.
Yeah, that is not pennies, right?
It's not chump change.
It was so nice of him.
So we all got up, all four of us, and walked over to his table and thanked him and introduced
ourselves.
And it was just one of those, it was already a blessed evening.
We laughed.
We were that table that was laughing probably way too loud.
Oh, I was thinking, oh my gosh, we're that table where we're the ones usually looking
over going, really?
Do you not know other people are here?
Usually it's people who have been drinking and stuff.
And we weren't even doing that.
We were just having water for club soda or something.
Or perrier, whatever it is.
Pellegrino.
So we're just drinking water and yet we're just having so much fun because that's what
friends do.
Well, we were laughing about how he was fangirling.
That's true.
That was funny.
Can you say fangirl if you're a fan?
He's fanboying.
I know.
He's a fanboy.
I've never seen one before.
I know.
It was like, whoa, calm down.
But apparently he's a very stoop businessman and awesome.
And they ended up exchanging numbers.
And Adam was like, here, call me.
Super cool.
So he's got a new friend.
Yeah, yeah.
Super cool.
What a blessed night.
It was a blessed night and topped off with that precious moment.
And we've been talking about the favor factor of God.
He says that his favor goes before us like a shield.
It surrounds us.
And the whole idea, I love it when we finish each other.
How do we do that?
I don't know.
Thirty years of wow will do that for you, right?
But yeah, his favor surrounds us as like a shield, the Bible tells us.
And his favor is for life.
You did it.
I did.
You put your hands on your hip just like I did.
I'm serious.
Just because I don't have arms on my chair because you're using mine.
Oh my gosh.
People can't see us.
I know.
You're using my comfy chair.
I know.
And I've got my hands on mine.
And I'm in your tiny child death chair.
OK.
So we're finishing each other's sentences.
I know.
I have to put my hands somewhere.
But you know what?
If we're going to finish each other's sentences, at least it's the Bible.
There you go.
We know the word.
It's scripture.
It's life giving.
I know.
I won't do that again.
What were we saying?
I'll try to.
You were talking about favor.
Oh, the favor factor.
Yeah.
It just seems like when you're in tune with him, the scripture says that when we look
to him, our faces are radiant.
And there's something when we connect, when we're communing with God, there's a favor
that comes around us.
The scripture is very clear.
His favor is for life.
He surrounds us like a shield with favor.
And things happen that are out of the ordinary, and you don't have to guess where it came
from.
You just say, that's the favor of God.
If you're in Christ, you can see it and feel it, and you know it's around you.
But if you're not, boy, you know, you're going to think that the favor is because of some
aura or the universe.
No.
I liked Adam's idea about the universe when someone made a comment about the universe,
one of his daughters.
Yes.
And he said, yeah, that's okay because God invented the universe.
God created the universe.
No.
That's brilliant.
Of course, you would come up with that.
Yeah.
He's brilliant.
He's sharp.
I love it.
So anyway, the favor factor is happening, and it just seems like it's happening.
I felt it at the gym today, not because I was working out, because I was able to get
everything in a crowd of gyms.
Well, not me today, but that's okay.
You must have been out of God's will or something.
I don't know.
You're so hilarious.
I really feel like the Lord was just saying, you need to do more of this.
Yeah, there you go.
So it was probably a better machine.
I don't know.
It is what it is.
Anyway, you connect the dots on these things.
I still got a good workout.
That's what we do.
You connect the dots.
I didn't let it just... I mean, I could have gone and tore into that.
Man, I've seen other people do that.
Oh yeah, that was you a couple weeks ago.
And I repented and apologized.
And then you went back.
It turned into a beautiful moment.
It was probably the same guy.
No, it was not.
Oh, okay.
You know who I'm talking about.
I do know who you're talking about.
But it wasn't the same guy.
No, not the same guy.
I actually thought about what you did a couple of weeks ago.
You confronted someone who was on the machine too long.
I went over and said... I was frustrated.
I said, are you going to work out?
Because he was sitting there.
He was on his phone.
Yeah.
And he was just sitting on the machine.
And I was scared because I thought, oh, he's going to come slash our tires.
I just saw... I went over to him and I said, are you going to work out?
And he goes, what?
And I said, well, you're on your phone.
I said, I did four sets on that machine over there and I was waiting for this machine.
And then he got snarky.
He said, well, I'm on this machine.
I said, no, actually you're not.
You're just on your phone.
Oh, I can't believe.
Right now I'm boiling thinking about this.
At that point, the Holy Spirit's like, what are you doing?
No, yes.
And that would be me too saying that.
And so I said...
I'm glad I didn't see that.
I said, well, look, I'm not trying to just get on your case, but there's a lot of people
here waiting to work out and you're just on your phone.
Wow.
So I went back over and did something else and he just out of spite stayed on that machine
the whole time.
Of course.
Just on his phone, not even wearing it, just being cocky.
So I go to work out and do some of the things and the Holy Spirit's like, what?
What was that?
That was not being Christian.
That was pre-Jesus Jimmy Pruitt from when he was 17 years old.
Which is why I didn't go blast the guy on the legs yesterday.
What I did, what I did, I had made a commitment.
First of all, I gave up the right to be offended, but also give up the right to withhold encouragement.
So I started looking for him and I couldn't find him.
I'm like, he's got to be here.
So I said, Holy Spirit, please, I want to go apologize to this guy.
I want to repent to him.
So I looked, looked, looked.
I finally saw him on the way out.
I had my backpack on.
I was already...
I know.
I saw you and I was like, what is he doing?
I go back through the gym all the way across the front and he's on the bench press and
I wait for him and I go, Hey man, I said, can I talk to you for a second?
He goes, he's looking at me like, what?
Nobody does that in the gym.
I said, well, hey, I just need to apologize to you.
I really, I was a jerk back there and I'm really sorry about that.
I bet his mouth just dropped.
He did.
He was like, he goes, it's okay, dude.
I said, no, it's not okay.
I was the jerk and I'm really sorry about that.
Would you forgive me?
He's probably like, what?
We're in a gym and you're asking me to forgive you.
He goes, yeah, it's cool.
It's cool.
I said, well, man, what's your name?
So we introduced ourselves.
Did you grab his hand?
Did you shake his hand?
Yeah, I shook his hand.
You shook his hand?
I did.
I said, man, I'm Jimmy.
In the gym?
Yeah, I know you don't typically do that.
I broke man law.
But anyway, this was the moment and he was just, man, his eyes brightened up and he
just said, man, thanks for coming over here.
I said, yeah, I just, I couldn't leave without saying I'm sorry.
I said, that's not my character.
And I said, man, I hope to see you around here again.
Have you?
No, I haven't.
He said, you too, man.
Have a great day.
I mean, it was like...
He was probably like, that's the weirdest exchange I've ever had in a gym.
Oh, definitely.
It was the weirdest exchange I've ever had in a gym.
People that aren't Christian would have a hard time doing that.
But I think when you do know the word and you do go into your flesh by mistake...
Yeah, I made a mistake.
I think he's always pricking our heart to try to get us to do the right thing, but we
don't always follow through.
And you did.
And when you were telling me what happened in the car...
Oh, the look on your face.
You're like, he's going to come kill us.
He's going to follow us.
He's going to kill us.
Because people are crazy right now, especially in the San Antonio area where we live.
Very crazy.
Crazy drivers.
Right.
I mean, a woman got a spear thrown for her windshield and almost went through her windshield
through her steering wheel if it would have hit her, it would have killed her.
That's how crazy the world is.
So I was thinking, this isn't a good exchange, Jimmy.
And I was boiling.
And then you were like, let me get to the end of the story.
And you did.
And I was like, oh, okay.
Well, I have to tell you though, when I went back over there, I had no fear, no nervousness.
I was like, no, I have to...
No, because you were doing the right thing.
I have to take care of this.
And so I felt so happy when I saw him because I would have been really...
That would have been heavy on my heart that he left.
And I just like, oh my gosh.
So I was so happy.
And I think I was thinking...
And we left with our life intact.
I'm so happy.
We did.
We didn't get killed or our tires slashed.
No, the good thing is that maybe for him as a younger guy, maybe he's like, man, maybe
that stirred something in his own heart.
And maybe it revealed, man, there's some good people in the world who made a mistake and
made it right.
So I just felt like the Holy Spirit was pleased with that.
I was pleased with it, so I know the Holy Spirit was.
No, I just felt the pleasure of God in that.
And so anyway, that's the deal.
King David, this is what I love about David.
David made some big mistakes, right?
Boy, did he.
He had some bad...
He had some fully human moments and yet he was always quick to repent when he realized
his wrong.
That's what marks King David.
I don't think of him as a terrible sinner who made a lot of mistakes.
I think of him as the man whom God said through Scripture, he's a man after my own heart,
and it's because he was quick to repent.
So when he made a mistake, he was quick to turn.
Yes.
Would you do that with us too when we have any kind of disagreement?
You'll repent even if you didn't do anything wrong.
I'm a peacekeeper.
You really are.
I love the peace.
And I'm like, wait a minute, this was not you.
This was me.
You know how that goes.
I don't like this harmony with people, which is really a tough trait to have as a pastor
sometimes because you're always going to have critics.
You are.
You're always going to have detractors or to be on social media or be doing a podcast.
There's always people that are going to mess with you.
You just learn to say, you know what, if I could see that person in 3D, there's a story
behind all that.
There's a reason they're the way they are.
I'm learning those things.
That's an ongoing journey.
I'm learning it anyway.
So yeah, that's what happened at the gym.
So gym drama.
Gym drama.
Planet fitness drama.
For sure.
Oh man.
So yeah, so we wrapped up our sabbatical.
We mentioned that a minute ago and then we went to our church for the first time in two
months.
Saturday night, I didn't sleep well.
You didn't sleep good.
I didn't have a great night either.
Well, I think I was so anxious and I don't know why I was anxious.
It's an odd thing because I know the church didn't fall apart.
The building is still there.
I've heard nothing but good reports from Tina on everything is going great.
I mean, obviously we're going to hear tomorrow when we go back to work.
Staff meeting.
We'll hear all the drama.
But I don't know why I was so anxious.
It was just an odd feeling.
I was shaking when I walked in and it wasn't coffee.
I had decaf and I had maybe not even half a cup.
We walked into hugs and love and people just...
I calmed down by the second service.
By the second service.
I know.
First service, I was just...
But worship was phenomenal.
It was absolutely beautiful.
Passion rest.
We cried.
We both wept.
The new song.
What was it called?
Yeah, yeah.
Fantastic.
Trust.
Trust?
It's Trust.
Yeah, it has to do with trust.
The song is just called Trust?
Something like that.
I've got to learn it.
We're playing it on Sunday and I'm playing it.
I'm so glad.
I've got to learn that song.
I heard it for the very first time and I sang it as if I've been singing it my whole life
because it was kind of a take off of Blessed Assurance, but a much better version.
Pastor Russ leads our worship and his wife, Wendy.
Pastor Jeff is also on our worship team and they're both leads in years.
And Abram led that song and just so thankful for our team.
They minister to us and I just received.
I just enjoyed it.
What was fun too is getting all the hugs.
I remember that video, that guy who held up a cardboard sign, free hugs.
Yes, yes.
That's how you felt.
You felt like you had that on your shirt.
I felt like I had that on my shirt because I was just hugging everybody and people were
coming over and it was really beautiful.
It was really ministered to my heart.
What I love too is Abram, when he started the church, when he welcomed everybody, he
welcomed us as being back and the church erupted.
Then Pastor Jeff, well Brian, praise for us.
Pastor Brian.
Pastor Brian in his part.
And then at the end of the worship when it was time for you to come up, they introduced
you and I guess we had to do that.
Pastor Jeff, he had been introducing all the guest speakers.
So he introduced me.
Well, and they had to because there were so many new people that didn't know what you
looked like, who you were.
We've had new people come since we've been.
Oh, this is the guy, the lead guy.
This is the guy that's been gone for too long.
Right.
But then they erupted again.
It was beautiful.
You know.
It's affirming.
Saturday night, I had a dream.
This was how anxious I was going to church.
And of course, you know, in dreams, churches don't look the same as what you're building.
Right.
You feel like you're somewhere else.
So we were, you were up there preaching and the place was packed and it was just shocking.
And then as you were preaching, people were walking out and it got down to like five people.
I think that's why I was anxious when I got up because it was like, what?
Not that that was going to happen.
I think the enemy messes with us in our dream life sometimes.
I do too.
Because I will often pray for our dream life and pray that God will protect our sleep.
Yes, we need that.
The scripture says he gives his beloved sweet sleep.
We need to do that every Saturday night.
Yeah, this beautiful prayer.
Especially Saturday night.
You're right.
That's a good point.
Just go to war before we go to sleep.
I think everybody should go to church because honestly, what's, I mean, every Sunday morning,
that's when the kids, something happens with the kids.
They're blowing up in the car.
They don't want to get ready.
They don't want to get up.
It's true.
Same thing happened with us every day when, when faith was going to school.
Oh, it was always drama.
It was a fight every morning.
I know there's a fight every Sunday morning with, with church people because God wants
to get something.
Yeah.
God wants to get something to them.
That's right.
That's why there's always resistance.
And isn't that the truth in this life that we live as far as being believers?
Yes.
There's, whenever you're onto something good and you're stepping in righteousness and doing
the right thing, there's always resistance.
Yes.
Always.
I remember pastor Dr. Rice Brooks was preaching one time and he made this amazing comment.
He said, for every step you take away from the cross of Christ in this life, there will
be 12 or 15 Christians patting you on the back, telling you it's okay and that you're
okay.
And it's wrong.
That went off in me like a bomb.
I've never forgotten.
This is 15 years ago.
Oh, at least.
When he said that.
And, and I think of that often how people will validate you.
We'll come around and say, Hey, you're okay.
You didn't do the wrong thing.
Sometimes we do the wrong things.
I would not have wanted any friends of mine to tell me when I accosted that guy at the
gym that you were right.
You had a right to do that.
I would expect my friends to go, dude, you need to check your heart and you need to repent
and go find that guy.
That's what I would want my friends to do.
I was reading in the scripture before we got started about your enemies.
And like this, it's Matthew 5.
That Bible is good on you by the way.
Something about revenge is what it says.
It says you've heard a law that says the punishment must match the injury and I for an eye and
a tooth for a tooth.
But I say, this is Jesus, but I say do not resist an evil person.
If someone slaps you on the right cheek, offer the other cheek also.
If you are sued in court and your shirt is taken from you, give your coat to if a soldier
demands that you carry his gear for a mile, carry it to miles.
Give to those who ask and don't turn away from those who want to borrow.
Then it goes on.
It says you have heard the law that says love your neighbor and hate your enemy.
But I say love your enemies.
Pray for those who persecute you.
Man, it's the opposite.
That's some of those scriptures that you were sure were not in the Bible, but there they
are looking at you like a mirror.
Whatever the world says to do, Jesus says to do the opposite and do everything in the
spirit of love because that's who God is.
His spirit is in us.
When His spirit is in us, we should be responding the way He responds.
Right?
So true.
Because we're supposed to be a reflection of His nature and character in this world.
Like you said.
Yeah.
Those who look to God will be radiant, the scripture says.
They're drawn to us because of the light.
Exactly.
So interesting enough, I actually thought about that passage this morning when I woke
up.
I always wake up early now.
God has me in this beautiful practice, which is now a habit of praying through the Lord's
prayer every morning before I get out of bed.
And now I'm doing the same thing.
I love that.
I knew you were awake because I didn't know if you were doing the same thing.
So I did that.
But what we're doing now that you brought that up.
Because we're one.
So we're always going to do everything in sync.
We're using the model prayer as a model.
That's exactly what it's called.
The Lord's Prayer or the model prayer.
And it's the prayer that when one of the disciples came to Jesus and said, Lord, teach us to
pray.
And he said, okay, pray like this when you pray.
And then he led this simple but profound prayer that is like a template.
It's not that we pray those exact words, although it's good to repeat those.
That's good.
But it's really more a template or a model.
More to make it personal.
Yes.
And that's what I've been doing.
So one of the parts of that says, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who
trespass against us.
And whenever I read that, immediately, there's people that come to my mind that where there's
been a breach of relationship or they left our church offended or they were offended
with me for whatever reason.
And there's a list of people.
With the Lord, it's not a long list.
But there is a handful of people that I still love dearly to this day.
And I pray for them every day.
I pray that they would be blessed.
I pray that God would prosper them, expand their tent pegs, as the Scripture talks about,
would enlarge, increase them.
And that someday, somehow, some way, if it works out, there could be a reconciliation
in that.
Yes, definitely.
I pray every morning, and I've done that all through the sabbatical, and now I'm carrying
that.
That's one of the main things we really receive from the sabbatical, was how much we're to
walk in, not that we haven't known this, but really walk in forgiveness and love and not
just say we forgive.
And sometimes we have to say it over and over and over and over.
But we need to pray for the person or people that have caused any kind of offense.
We don't pray prayers like, Lord, just help them to see their evil ways.
No, it's, Father, bless them, bless them, pour your life out upon them.
Give them what they need, meet their needs, give them provision.
It's not always easy to do that, because our flesh says, no, I don't want them.
Why should they be blessed after what they did?
How do we want them to pray for us?
Let me tell you something that, and this is how God uses prayer.
You cannot pray blessings for someone and stay mad.
At some point, there's a break.
It's like a tipping point that happens where, okay, it reminds me of the, I've got to say
this.
Remember at Wet and Wild, you know, the big bucket that fills up in the kiddy land area?
The more we do something and repetitive and right, it's like filling that bucket.
And then at some point, so in terms of forgiveness, every day I pray for these same, these two
or three families, these same, and I pray for them individually and lift them up to
the Lord.
And what's happening is that's filling the bucket up.
And then at some point, the bucket tips because it's full of my prayers, so to speak.
And it's like, it's gone.
The pain is gone.
The hurt is gone.
The grief is gone.
The anger is gone.
And now, now as I'm praying for them, it's from a place of love.
It's from a place of joy for them.
And the next time I run into them, and I probably will, it's a small town, it'll just be love.
The firing pin of pain or trigger that would have caused anger or hurt is gone.
And that's what happens when you pray every day.
When you do, you forgive others their trespasses, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those
who trespass against us.
It's exactly what happens.
And God says He won't forgive us unless we forgive.
So we really have to do that.
That's part of who we are.
He made us and created us to be.
Come on, girl.
What I love about this model prayer is there's so many elements.
When you're praying, you're praying power.
You're praying His majesty, as we've talked about on the show before.
Which is worship.
Yeah, you're worshiping Him.
We're praying about His holiness, that Hallowed be your name.
The beauty of holiness.
I love, you had a epiphany, I think it was today or yesterday.
This morning I had connected the dots.
The beginning of the Lord's Prayer and the end were all praise, which I love.
You begin with praise and worship and you end with it.
End with it.
There's so much, there's so many elements.
Give us this day our daily bread.
That's our provision.
He provides for us.
There's power, there's deliverance.
Yeah, I love it.
Deliverance from the evil one.
Yeah, exactly.
Deliverance, freedom from.
So during that section of the prayer, I pray for government.
Start local, state, national, global.
I pray for organizations that God would deliver us from evil where there's been corruption
and the spirit of mammon has entered into government, where it's entered into big tech,
big pharma.
It just goes on and on.
There's a number.
Then I ask the Lord to deconstruct those structures and systems by His Spirit and put people who
are salt and light in those organizations to deconstruct and bring righteousness and
light.
And so I pray that every day and it's turned into, it's about an hour.
I never timed it.
I just happened to notice one day I woke up at five and got through and it was six.
What I love is yesterday, I'm going to go back to yesterday for a moment because you
preached on deeper and you said, God wants a deeper relationship with us and we need
to go from ankle to Ezekiel.
Ezekiel chapter 47.
From ankle to knee to waist deep to over our head with God.
And I love that because that's where His presence is.
But you said He's wanting to hear from us.
And you mentioned the model prayer, which is the Lord's Prayer.
And it dawned on me because you want to do that as your next series starting this Sunday.
That really goes right into that because if you're telling people God wants to commune
with you, then you're going to teach them exactly what that means and what it looks
like.
It's going to be so practical, but you're also going to be able to draw out what the
meaning of the prayer is in bits and pieces.
I'm really looking forward to the revelation God's going to give you because I think you're
going to get more revelation than you've ever had as you really dive into this even more.
Because we've been diving into it for a long time.
But you get a new revelation every day just this morning, that revelation.
And it's about praising Him in the beginning.
He gave me some daily bread, fresh bread, fresh manna.
I literally can't wait for you to preach on this.
I think it's going to be life-changing for people.
Thank you.
I really do.
My first sermon was the week before my first sermon back in two months.
I had been asking the Lord, what is it you want me to bring back?
Some people are going to expect me to look like Moses coming off the mountain with tablets.
Is it whiter than it was?
It's getting white now.
So anyway, I don't have a thick beard.
It's just kind of a…but anyway.
So I thought, there's this expectation.
So it's going to be this epic heavy Reve or something.
And the Lord just made it very clear but so like a still small voice, a gentle whisper.
He said, I'll tell them I want to hear from them.
And I just went, wow, that is really tender.
It's not hardcore.
It's not pulpit thumping or no theatrics.
Just tell them I want to hear from them.
And that's why I use that whole passage about a protocol for a relationship.
And that's going in deeper.
And that I'm going to bring up another scripture because as I was reading in Matthew, that
talks about the effective prayer.
The New Living Testament declares in the book of Matthew chapter 7 verse 7, keep on asking.
Okay?
That means you're communing.
You're talking.
Keep on asking.
You will receive what you ask for.
Keep on seeking and you will find.
Keep on knocking and the door will be open to you.
For everyone who asks receives.
Everyone who seeks finds.
To everyone who knocks the door will be open.
He's not talking about ask for things and it's going to appear before you.
He's not talking about it.
He's talking about the things that are the things of God like wisdom.
Ask for wisdom.
Ask for understanding.
Ask for the things that are going to bring hope and joy and peace in your life and you
will get it.
Too many people take this out of context.
What I loved about Solomon is he had wisdom.
He prayed.
He could ask for anything in the world and he asked for wisdom and God gave it.
That is the one thing I'm asking for right now.
In my daily prayer, my commune with him constantly, it's Lord give me wisdom in every area of
my life as we're eating this new diet, as we're searching for your word, what you want
to say to us, as we're talking to new friends, we're talking to church people, we're talking
to business people, we're talking to elders, board, give us wisdom.
When you have wisdom, you have understanding.
You have everything.
There's a passage of scripture, can't recall the actual which book or whatever, but it
says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the fear, this reverence, this
sense of awe of who God is.
Elizabeth Elliott was the wife of Jim Elliott.
Jim Elliott was one of my favorite missionary heroes who was killed in South America in
a terrible...
Great movie though.
Yeah, tip of the spear or end of the spear.
End of the spear.
Yeah, he died a martyr for Christ.
They were trying to bring Christ to a village and he got killed, impaled with a spear by
the Indians and his wife Elizabeth.
Instead of leaving the jungle and leaving that area in the Amazon, her and the wives,
the widows of Jim Elliott and the others, Elizabeth and the other ministry wives, missionary
wives went to that village and ministered to the very people that killed their husbands
and brought the gospel and led them to Christ.
You can read that.
What is that?
I'm sorry.
I found Proverbs 9, 10, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge
of the Holy One is understanding.
Gosh, think about that.
That is it right there.
The wisdom and understanding.
And that fear of the Lord means awe, reverential awe where you see Him for who He is, not that
you're afraid.
There's nothing to fear with God.
Well, Elizabeth Elliott, the quote that I read recently just stunned me.
I don't always remember things like that, but I saved it because it was so important.
She said, when you fear the Lord, you'll fear nothing.
I went, whoa.
Oh yeah, you've been saying that every day for weeks since you heard.
When you fear the Lord, you'll fear nothing.
This fear isn't this terror of God.
He's terrible to me.
No, it's just recognition of how awesome He is.
How amazing, how majestic, to use your word, how majestic He is.
It makes me want to do like a child does who wants to please their father.
They want to obey.
Beautiful.
It makes me want to be a better person.
There is a tiny bit for me in a good sense of fear factor, but it's not a bad fear.
It's a good fear.
There's a good fear.
You should be afraid of fire.
Exactly.
You should be afraid of a barbwire fence.
You should be afraid of a sharp knife because it's for your safety.
There's a healthy fear, a good fear, and what it does for me is if I'm tempted in a particular
direction to go over and accost a guy at the gym for using a machine while he's on his
phone.
I still can't believe you did that.
Looking back on it, I'm laughing about it because it's so not me.
No, that's why when you told me I was shocked.
I know, but anyway.
The fear of the Lord, as I grow and learn in that, it's that Holy Spirit because the
Holy Spirit was saying, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Whoa, stop sign.
Hello, four-way stop.
What would Annette say?
Yeah, red light, red light, caution.
I mean, it's like all the alarms were going off and I just kept going because I ignored
it and unfortunately, it could have hurt this guy.
Fortunately, God retreated.
It could have hurt you and me.
Thank you.
It could have.
You're so funny.
I'm sorry.
Get attacked or something.
No, it wasn't that.
What I realized is that as we've gone through the sabbatical, we've talked about the awe
of God, the fear of God and how it's gotten a bad rap because people say, oh, God's not
fear-fearsome and He's just love.
He's my buddy.
God's my buddy, my next door, my pal, my bro, my dude.
I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, back up.
He is the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords.
He is Aslan the lion, C.S.
Lewis, He is majestic.
He's powerful.
He is God Almighty, El Shaddai, God Almighty.
We need to have that reverential respect and awe and honor of who He is.
Yes, He is a good Father and He is our Abba Father.
We can approach.
We can approach Him like a child approaches that Father.
I respected my dad.
My dad was a firefighter.
He was a hero to me.
I approached Him with respect, not fear, but with reverence, with honor.
He treated me respectably back.
So anyway, this is such a powerful thing and it's been really powerful for me.
So that word, hallow, hallowed be your name, hallowed be your name, is that fear of the
Lord, that awe of God, that honor, that respect.
So I am excited.
I am almost beside myself excited to teach on this.
I think I'm going to call it, Lord, teach us to pray.
Back when we were Oak Hills Church, one last thing and then we'll land the plane.
Back when we were Oak Hills Church, Greg Hawkins was a part of our church.
He used to be with Willow Creek for 19 years and then he was with Oak Hills and we were
a part of that large.
And they surveyed and they got a survey back with several thousand responses of people
within the churches and the campuses.
We were a campus at the time.
And it was the top three issues in church and what people want from the church.
What do they want to learn?
What do they want the church to teach them?
Number one was teach us to pray.
Number two, teach us how to hear God.
Number three, I don't remember.
So the first two stuck with me because that is what people want to know.
They know they should pray, but they don't know how to pray.
And so I am very excited about starting this series this coming Sunday.
Teach us to pray.
I'll do kind of a general setup on Sunday and then we'll go into a series.
Now I'll break this down and unpack it.
And it has transformed my prayer life even though I've known the model prayer my whole
life.
Even before I was a Christian, we used to say it in grade school when I was a kid.
What?
Public school.
You've taught on this a few years ago, but you've gained so much more revelation since
then.
Practical revelation.
Yes, because that's how it is when you read the Word as a Christian.
When you continue to get in the Word, you'll learn things continually.
You don't get stagnant.
You're broke.
It comes alive to you.
It does.
It's living.
Because it's a living, living Word of God.
It says the Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword.
It pierces, it says.
And so that's what, the more you read it, repetition creates the opportunity for revelation.
It's not just information.
It's revelation.
Things get revealed to you.
And that's what's happened for me during the sabbaticals.
I think when I look back maybe two, three years from now, I think I'll say one of the
greatest things about the sabbatical other than you and I getting to spend uninterrupted
time together with no demands on us.
Being able to offload responsibility and literally focus on one another and on our God, which
is a great treasure and a gift I'll never forget.
One of the greatest gifts I've ever received in ministry was this.
But when I look back on what did I learn, what was my takeaway?
It would be that simple line, the Lord God, He wants to hear from you.
And what I've learned about the Lord's Prayer and how that has become a natural.
Now it's a practice because I did it for two months and I woke up and did it again this
morning.
It's so natural now.
So I always start by saying, good morning, Holy Spirit.
Good morning, Lord Jesus.
Good morning, Abba Father.
I like to call them with a descriptor name.
So the Spirit is holy.
Jesus is my Lord.
And my Father is Abba.
He's a good Father, an Abba.
So and then when I call the whole group together, I say, God, thank you, God.
I've got all three of them together.
So anyway, that would be my greatest, one of my greatest learning.
I'm sure there's others.
There are others, but I can tell you that's number one.
I think it's a good series to go into the holidays because a lot of times the holidays
can be tough for people.
That's true.
And the more you can learn to commune with God, the easier the holidays can be on you.
And another part of my motive is that I believe that revival is imminent.
I believe that God is going to bring revival across our land.
I think that the condition that our nation is in right now, the sad...
It's ripe for revival.
Every recorded revival in history, it was during times of political upheaval when the world
was at its worst.
Corruption was at its highest, political greed and corruption.
All those things were happening and the world was upside down and people began to call upon
God.
And I believe that this is a setup for God's big comeback.
Yep, I agree.
Totally agree.
It's a setback.
That's a setup for a massive comeback.
Yep.
Hey, we got some folks to thank.
Well, I mean, we could...
This is what a dent not do all the time.
This is our life.
So welcome to our living room.
We were going to shorten the show and...
I know.
We can't.
Because we have so many good things.
Our buckets are full and they're not just leaking, they're overflowing.
Yes.
Wow.
You're gushing.
All right.
Thank yous and shout outs.
First of all, I got to start with my good friend, my best friend, Adam Curry.
He sent us 77,777 sat, satoshis.
We call that a striper boost.
So there it is.
There it is.
And he writes this.
He says, from Dame Annette's intro, because you did the introduction last week.
I did.
Girl, you rocked it.
I tried to get her today.
Maybe next week.
We'll see.
Yeah.
She wasn't in it today, but I tried to.
He says, from Dame Annette's intro to the reframing, that was a part of the conversation,
to our daily bread.
Love this episode.
Oh.
Adam Curry, we love you, bro.
Thanks for the satoshis.
Yes, we do.
More than you know.
We have the keeper, Tina, 25,000 sats.
She writes, another amazing podcast.
Love that Annette opened the show.
Look at you, girl.
Maybe I should have opened it.
I forgot how much people were commenting.
And then she said this, because I'd made a comment about, I fell back in love with holding
my physical Bible instead of a tablet or a phone, which I appreciate, digital.
I took my Bible to church.
I know.
And I took mine to the pulpit.
I've got it sitting right here.
My hand keeps, won't let go of it.
Fell back in love with a physical Bible.
She wrote, yes, there is something magical about holding your Bible.
To have God's word in my hand brings me such a comfort.
I struggled without it on vacation, as an app is just not the same.
Tina, I completely agree with you.
And so again, thank you for the sats.
You're a blessing.
We love you.
And Sir Brian with an I squeezed one in here like a few minutes ago, came out of nowhere.
33,400.
Yeah, we haven't heard from Sir.
Not in a while, but hey, here he is.
Yeah, I'm like, okay.
Better late than never.
He's not dead.
Good to hear from you, Brian.
33,444 sats and on fountain, he said a message for Dame Annette.
When you and Pastor Jimmy said your vows, God made you and Jimmy as one.
So don't let anyone bully you into boosting a podcast.
You're covered.
He's talking about Tina Braggs.
He is ragging on.
Well, Tina Braggs on me because I haven't boosted their podcast.
Because you don't know how.
I don't know how.
And Jimmy, Jimmy boosts for us.
I make up for it.
Yes.
I make up for it.
Yes.
So we're batting the batting the old ball over the net back and forth.
It's awesome.
Hey, thanks Sir Brian.
We love you, man.
I'm glad to hear from you.
Man, you fell off the edge of the world and I was hoping you're okay.
So good to hear from you and thanks for the donation.
We bless you.
Also Trinity.
She's one of our ongoing.
She's a monthly subscriber.
So she gave a donation this month and so appreciate that Trinity.
And then from our dear, dear, dear friend Martha.
You read this one.
It's so beautiful.
She said, I just finished listening to your guys podcast.
So thankful you guys had a great sabbatical.
Continued prayers for your ministry at Bridge Church.
You both sound amazing.
God is good.
We love Martha.
She came up to me at church on Sunday.
Oh, I didn't get to hug her neck.
I was just so happy to see her.
She was able to bring friends and they loved it.
And she's a dear friend.
She really is.
Thank you, Martha.
We love you.
Also, another one of your besties.
She said, I needed this today.
This is Jennifer Marshall.
Thank you.
Yeah.
She said, I needed this today so much that I had to rewind and listen again.
If you had a rough start today, take the time to listen to Jimena Netprewitt.
You will get a cup full of wisdom and understanding that flows from their overflowing bucket.
Thank you, Jennifer.
I missed you on Sunday.
I know you were in somewhere, Utah.
Oh, wow.
Utah.
Cool.
I'm looking forward to seeing you hopefully soon.
Jennifer, we love you and thank you so much for the kind words and for sharing that on
Facebook.
So we appreciate it.
Also, we got a letter via our website.
By the way, we have a website, livingupandadownworld.com.
You can always reach us there.
You can contact us.
You can send us an email.
You can leave a review.
You can read my daily devotionals.
You can listen to all the podcasts.
They're all archived.
All 34 of them are there.
There will be 34 today.
All 33 plus the one we're about to do.
And so Sandy Ship wrote, and I love her.
I love her email address, Texan and loving it.
That's a good one.
Oh, I'm the same.
I'm with you, Sandy.
She wrote, good morning, pastors.
Jimena Net.
I found the Bridge Church earlier, online early this year.
And when looking for a church, I feel like I know both of you because you've shared so
much with your audience, both at church and on your podcast.
So I thought I'd share about us.
And I won't go into the rest of that detail.
But she just was, it was so sweet.
She said, so happy that you had time to refresh and look forward to hearing you from the pulpit
again.
Thanks for being such an encouragement in my daily life and look forward to seeing and
meeting you in person someday.
Oh, we are too.
Sandy, that is so encouraging.
And we're so, we want to welcome you to Fredericksburg.
Yes.
I know you'll be here permanently as you, as you retire and you make your way here.
We're just, we're glad to welcome you to the family.
Thanks for coming up, Bridger and a living upper.
And then the last one Dean wrote, now Dean, Dean Kirkness, he's in Japan.
This is a cool thing.
I am super excited.
I'm more stoked now.
So Adam and Tina made a comment about Japan on their show and then we made it, we talked
about because we're all going to go, we're all going to go together.
We want to go to Japan.
I have a friend, good friend, Evan Archulia goes to our church.
He's just one of my bros, my brothers.
And he and his wife went to Japan this last year and he said it was one of the best trips
he's ever taken.
He loved it.
I can't wait.
And so he'll be able to kind of show us the ropes too.
He's good about that.
He helped us with Paris too.
So I didn't know we had fans in Japan.
So yeah, so Dean's been listening.
He found us through Curry and the Keepers.
He says, hi there, following up on my Fountain Boost post that was from last week.
Let me re-invite you to Japan for a visit.
As I mentioned, God has made Japan my home for the past 18 years.
In fact, he first brought me here in 2002 for the World Cup by giving me the ability
to win a global video game competition.
You go, boy.
And I hardly even played video games.
Let's just say that God's hands and sense of humor were all over it.
And he goes on to just talk about this opportunity and for us to do a meetup mashup where we'll
do a no agenda, because that's Adam's other podcast, no agenda, Curry and the Keeper,
Following Up in a Down World mashup meetup in Japan.
So whoever is in Japan, wherever we're going to...
Yeah, so we'll set it up.
He's going to help coordinate all that.
And that'll be so much fun meeting people from Japan who listen to our shows and listen
to our podcasts.
Who do?
I know.
Well, when I look at the world map, there's an analytics piece to rss.com.
Our podcast is being listened to.
In Scotland, because I want to go to Scotland.
I want to go to Australia.
Any Scots?
We'd love to hear from you.
I want to go back to Paris.
We'd love to hear from you.
We can do a meetup somewhere on the globe.
That's why we do air miles.
And we can do it with the Currys.
Yeah, yeah.
Love to.
So much more fun when you have another couple to go with.
Well, this has been fun.
And boy, have we rambled on today.
We are so full though.
It's hard to turn the faucet off when it's gushing.
I know, but it's all good.
It's a river.
Chevy is getting like...
He's growling.
Oh, I know what he wants.
I know what he wants too.
In the show, honey.
We're going to land the plane.
It's time to take Chevy out.
We love you, living uppers.
Live up in a down world.
It's going to be a great week.
And wake up in the morning and say, good morning, Holy Spirit.
And then say, something remarkable is going to happen to me today.
We love you.
Bye bye.