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Don't get down when you're seeing the worst, cause the last will be the first.

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What a day I'm telling you, all things will be new.

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Living up in a down world. Yeah we're living, yeah we're living.

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Living up in a down world.

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This is Jimmy Internet and we are living up in a down world.

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We are living up in a down world and this is episode number 37 and we are thrilled that you're here today.

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We're missing somebody, aren't we missing that? I know.

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We're going out of town after church tomorrow and we had to take him to the...

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Take who? Chevy, sorry.

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Mr. Chevy. Chevy, we had to take him to be boarded.

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No, I took him to puppy jail is what happened. Well you call it puppy jail.

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It is puppy jail. It reminds me of when you go to the city to the dog pound to go look for a dog.

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It's these kennels that are impersonal and cold and it's like a gulag.

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But they do have someone that comes in and spends, I hope, they play.

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I know, that's true. No she was darling. The girl that met me there, she was super sweet and super sweet to Chevy.

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So I feel good about her. She works there on the weekends and he'll be fine, but I'm just a big softy.

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He's my buddy. I know it. So the house has been quiet today. I know.

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Without him. And we were taping our show on a Saturday. Yes.

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So it was a special edition kind of thing. Because we're going to be leaving here Sunday through Wednesday.

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We didn't want to take all of our gear. It's kind of a pain. Right. Yeah, it's hard.

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If we were going for a real long time, it would make a difference. Right, extended time, sure.

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So it's easy for us to do it on Saturday. So if you're listening, we've had a short week, but a good week.

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We've had a good week. Now, if you listen to episode number 36 last week and the one before that,

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we were kind of like, oh my gosh, reentry from sabbatical, being off for two months, having no weight on our shoulders,

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and then suddenly walking in to the fire and like drinking from a fire hose.

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But things have settled out. We're in a good place and everybody's reacclimated.

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We've all come back to equilibrium. So good things. Good things.

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Only enough for us to just leave again. Sam, we're going to be gone all week from the office.

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But we're not going to be gone on Sunday, although Tommy Hayes is going to be preaching at our church.

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A week from Sunday. Yeah, a week from this Sunday. I'll be preaching in the morning.

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But we pastor a church called Bridge Church, and we're in Fredericksburg, Texas, right in the middle of the hill country.

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Beautiful, beautiful place. And we've been here, what, seven and a half? Coming up on eight years.

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January 30th for you. Your birthday. You moved here on your birthday.

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I know, wild. I'll be what, 46? Ish? Ish? 46 and holding? Something like that.

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I know, I know. I'm 61, but I'm a strapping 61. I'm fighting. I'm fighting it.

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You're fighting. That's hilarious. Which brings up something we're doing,

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and I'd like to share just a little bit about our carnivore journey. Day 83.

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I know, not that who's counting, right? Day 80, I'm totally counting. Nobody's weighing or anything like that.

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I'm not weighing every day. Not every day, but you are getting tiny. Girl.

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It was fun going into another closet where I have all my fall and winter clothes, putting them on and then falling off.

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Or some that I've had for four years that fit again. I know.

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It was like going shopping. You're shrinking before my very eyes.

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And finding clothes that actually fit you. It was fun. It was very fun.

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I know. You were having a blast. How many hangers did you end up with after going through all those clothes?

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Probably what, 30, 40 hangers? Because I got rid of so much stuff.

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and I gave it to a staff member at our church that we love, and now I wish I wouldn't.

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I need those back. It's an excuse to buy new, I guess. I bet we have 50 hangers or more.

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I know. It was crazy. I saw that pile of hangers. Wow.

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They're all in the utility room now. They're there so that when I wash and dry, I can just hang around.

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And you know, it's not so much the weight now. It's totally switched to health.

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I mean, like really switched to total life victory, which is everything.

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Mind, body, spirit.

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Yes. And for me, I just feel I can't get over the energy.

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It's just like it's blowing my mind to eat steak every day, which we're eating steak.

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I had a big old chuck eye. Yes. Full of fat. I had filet, two filets.

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I know. Two filet mignon. They were not from KNC.

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Explain to those listening because not everybody's heard of the carnivore diet.

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It's basically beef, butter, bacon, and eggs, and salt.

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It's what our ancestors ate. Right.

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We decided at the beginning of our sabbatical, it's like, this is the time to really...

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It's simple, right? It simplifies your life.

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Everything. I mean, our cleanup time. I mean, of course I'm grilling.

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You girl, you're like a philistine, a Neanderthal.

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We've done our research hours, hundreds of hours of videos and learning about this and what it does for you.

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I've completely reversed hypertension.

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You look so, it's crazy when I look at you because it's just like, it's mind boggling to see big muscles, but lean, but it's a lean body mass.

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I was always able to build mass, you know, build muscles, but just never...

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It's 90% diet.

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I'm not anti.

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I'm following the rules because I'm seeing the results.

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I'm the rule follower.

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I've become a rule follower.

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It's like, what?

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I'm just going to say it straight up.

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I really felt the Lord was leading me into this.

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Not skeptical, but just so different.

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The food pyramid is a joke.

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It needs to be tossed out the window.

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40% in those states.

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I'm surprised it's actually that low, honestly.

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You've got 40% of the population of America, or 38 is the lower ones, that are obese.

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Doctors are handing out pills.

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It is not good.

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We call it total life victory.

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spiritual journey, all mixed into one, because really it takes all three.

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So I'm really excited about it.

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We've been looking at titles and all kinds of stuff.

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And to me, it's just one more extension of who we are as pastors and who we are as followers

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of Jesus, getting the word out.

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But part of my heart is to really speak up for the beef industry.

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And farmers are just under fire right now.

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And I'm worried about the next generation of farmers who are going to say, and ranchers,

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small farms, small ranches, who are going to say it's not worth it because they're

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getting priced out by a big food industry.

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Farmers attacks on what they're doing, and they're trying to push these small farmers

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out.

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And they're even now creating lab-created meat.

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Yeah, they're creating meat in labs now, lab-grown meat.

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That just blows my mind.

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Oh, yeah, chicken in a Petri dish.

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I can't even imagine.

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A steak made in a Petri dish.

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And this is not dystopia, and this is not future.

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This is happening now.

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And it's a tragedy of what's going on.

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They're trying to get rid of the way we've eaten for thousands and thousands of years.

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They want to keep us sick because then it's just more money in their pockets.

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There it is.

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It all goes back to economics.

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That's what my poli sci professor told me in college.

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First day of class, he said, make no mistake about it.

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It's all about money.

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It's all about money.

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I mean, like, now let's have class.

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I mean, let's stun a bunch of freshmen, incoming freshmen, get their minds blown.

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But he said, make no mistake, the world turns on money.

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And true, as we've grown up.

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We've seen it.

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We see it all the time.

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We see it in politics.

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We see it in all these industries.

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By the way, I pray for these industries.

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I don't pray against them.

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I pray for them.

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And I pray for change in their lives.

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I pray.

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I don't, I never pray against anyone except for the devil.

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So I'm for people, but I'm for wisdom and I'm for doing what really helps people, not

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just lines our pockets.

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And so, so that, that channel will have a lot of that, but I really want to speak up

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for farmers.

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We use K and C cattle out of, they're in the Austin area, which is not, it's our from us.

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And they have a ranch, small ranch, and they're producing grass fed, grass finished, good,

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good quality.

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They are humane with their animals.

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They invite you to come out to the farm.

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There are small farmers all over America right now.

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And if you're in a local community, find out who the farmers are and who are doing beef.

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And, and you can go talk to them directly.

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So much better than the grocery store.

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And you don't know if they're adding red dye to make it look better, which most grocery

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stores are doing that.

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It's a real thing where they're actually taking scraps and putting it together with a, it's

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a sort of a cellulose binder.

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Yeah, it's awful.

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We saw a whole news show on it.

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So yeah, you may think you're buying this beautiful steak and it's got dye in it and

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it's been glued back together with cellulose and some kind of stuff, all to make it look

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good for you.

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And then you think I'm eating healthy and you're eating something that's full of junk.

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Well, that's why you need to make sure it says 100% beef.

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Yep.

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Absolutely.

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And ask questions.

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In fact, if the local, we have a great local butcher here.

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It's actually a processing shop and man, their stuff is fantastic and it's local.

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And so we've, we've bought some stuff in there, but we're really trying to support small farmers

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specifically directly.

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And that would be K and C cattle for us.

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You can find them on the internet and they do ship.

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And if you're anywhere in the hill country area, they can deliver.

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Houston, San Antonio, Austin, all the area products.

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We just drive over to San Antonio and meet them.

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So anyway, that's just part of our journey and it has literally been a life changer for

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us.

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We feel the healthiest we've ever been.

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We have more energy than we've ever had.

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I have to say, you know, we spend a lot of time with Tina and Adam and Adam, he absolutely

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loves meat and he loves supporting the farmers, which is the beef initiative.

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He and Tina are the ones who actually turned us on to K and C, but he loves his potatoes.

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And you know what?

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I do too.

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I do too.

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I'm having a hard time.

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Well, I had to make mashed potatoes for our kids.

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We had them over Wednesday.

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We had them over last week and I had to taste it just to make sure I seasoned it well.

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And you got no judgment from me.

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And then when I was cleaning the pot, you know, I had to lick the spatula really well

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so that I could clean it better.

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You know, that was so hard.

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Those were the best mashed potatoes I've ever, ever made.

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You say they're the best.

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Maybe they tasted the best because you haven't had anything in three months.

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Adam, if you're listening, I get it because I love potatoes.

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It's potatoes that I have a hard time with.

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Hey, potato on, you know, just go for it.

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Do what you got to do.

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But I didn't, I did good.

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Because this is really something, I have health goals in mind.

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The weight is not the issue for me.

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If it's not good for me, I don't want to partake.

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Yeah.

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And I'm only saying my leaning into it so strictly is because I want to finish strong.

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I buried six people this last year, six funerals with just the one we did recently.

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That's in less than a year, less than nine months.

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And many of these people who are beautiful, precious people, they were health issues,

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they were diet issues, top two diabetes, adult onset of top one diabetes, heart issues.

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I mean, we've been to the hospital, been visiting people, several people, and we look at them

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and we're like, you didn't have to be here this young, you know, you're 74, but you should

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be healthy.

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And so that's part of my, I mean, it's, I won't call it a soapbox, but a bit of a mission

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to get the word out that you can feel good.

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You can be healthy.

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You can eat the proper human diet, the PhD, and feel like a million bucks.

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I don't know how I could ever go back to eating the way I was because when I feel this good,

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the thought of not feeling this good, I can't do it.

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I can't even wrap my mind around it.

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And I'm not tortured.

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I just had a massive 1.2 pound chuck-eye steak kicked out on the grill, slathered with butter.

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Oh my gosh.

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I mean, that's heaven.

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It's funny because people, I hear people say a lot, well, I couldn't just eat meat.

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I would be so tired of it.

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And it's so funny.

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You put a steak in front of you and it's just like, you're not tired.

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I mean, it gets better and better.

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It really does.

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Yeah.

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It's shocking.

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It really is.

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Butter, bacon, and eggs.

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My gosh, we're killing it.

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I'm so proud of you, by the way.

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What's beautiful for us is we're doing it together.

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And we do everything together.

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We do.

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We do.

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It's beautiful to do it when you got your best friend, your way better half, and you're

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doing it together.

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You're encouraging each other.

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And when one has a bad day, you pick them up.

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No, we got this.

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And so, yeah.

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But the beauty of it is for us is it's so easy and so simple.

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It's a lot easier than I anticipated.

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If anybody is listening and you're interested, you can write us.

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And our website is livingupinadowndworld.com.

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And you can write us on that website.

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And if you have questions about this, I'll just email you some links to some great videos

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of some of the doctors, the medical doctors that are teaching this.

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I mean, we're talking heart surgeons and neurological surgeons.

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We're talking optometrists.

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I mean, from all fields of medicine saying, this is the proper human diet.

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This is what we were made to eat.

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And so, I'll be glad to, if you have any questions, send you some resources that would help and

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encourage you.

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And what'll happen is if you start on this journey, you'll find that the weight loss

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is just a bonus.

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It's how you feel and how your health begins to come around.

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How diseases become reversed.

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Absolutely.

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I don't have high blood pressure.

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I don't have to take a single pill.

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I'm 61 years old.

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And I used to carry one of those pill things.

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When we travel, I had to put all my pills for seven days or however long we're going

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to be done.

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And I'd have 70, 80 pills that I'm taking vitamins.

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When you're eating the proper human diet, you're getting all those nutrients.

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No, I don't take anything.

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I don't have to.

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I feel like I don't even take anything before I go do a hard workout.

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And we're working out five days a week right now.

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And we take no supplements, no caffeine.

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And we fast.

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We don't even eat till after our workout.

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And I'm going off caffeine.

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I mean, I'm literally I'm half caffeine it and hardly having any.

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In fact, I just don't need it anymore.

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Yeah.

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Crazy.

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I know.

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But I feel great.

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Coming from you.

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I know.

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I always had to have stimulus.

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I always had to spark.

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You sure did.

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More than.

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Not anymore.

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So anyway, feel free to hit us up on that.

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And we get excited about it.

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I hope we're not freaking anybody out.

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But it has been an amazing, amazing journey.

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And we're just moving on.

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Total life victory, right?

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Right.

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So, man, good things are happening.

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Well, first, what we did have, we always have to give updates on our date nights with Adam

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and Tina.

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So they had us over and Tina made burgers and from K and C and they're carnivore burgers.

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So it means you don't do a bun or any of the extra fixings.

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You just do a great grilled burger with butter and cheese.

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We did raw cheese, not processed cheese, but real raw cheese.

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And bacon, lots of bacon.

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She made two pounds of bacon.

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Lots of bacon and she made deviled eggs.

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Deviled eggs.

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Oh my gosh.

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It was amazing.

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It's really good.

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And we had such, we were over at their house.

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Last night.

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We were over there at five and got home after 10.

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After 10.30.

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I don't know.

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But we had such an amazing time.

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We have, God has so blessed us with this relationship and these friendships.

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And I was so proud of Tina because Adam asked her to pray for the meal.

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And I'm so proud of them.

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They're growing so much and they're stepping out.

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And she just prayed a, in her words, a lovely prayer.

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It was a beautiful prayer from the heart.

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She's always been a little inhibited in public.

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She mentioned that.

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Most people are, even people who are very extroverted or have been in church all their

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life are inhibited.

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And I was-

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It can be intimidating to pray in public if you haven't done it.

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Especially if you're with pastors.

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And so I really appreciate her stepping out.

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I was proud.

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I was proud of her.

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Beautiful.

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And then we just had a wonderful time.

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We had a great meal together.

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Then we went out in the backyard and it was a beautiful night.

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You know, finally, you know, it was only 90 last night.

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So it was like our temperatures have been nuts, but it's all relative because now 88

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feels good.

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So we sat out last night and we talked for hours.

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And we talked about everything.

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The world situation, the political situation, spiritual.

482
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,920
Adam and I have been talking so much.

483
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,800
And this is Adam and Tina Curry, for those of you who don't know, they're just dear

484
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:11,800
friends of ours.

485
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,040
And we're just on a journey together.

486
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:20,360
But he and I, we talk a lot about what God's up to in the world and what we're seeing

487
00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:25,000
in our different spheres of influence with Adam having, you know, having a broadcast

488
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:30,640
and being the pod father, you know, one of the inventors of podcasting.

489
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:35,240
And so he has a perspective there that's really, really quality.

490
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:41,000
And he was in the entertainment industry for, you know, his young years with MTV and other

491
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,000
things like that.

492
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,240
And so he just has such an interesting view on the world.

493
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:50,840
And now his faith is beginning to come into everything he's doing.

494
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,080
And he's seeing God move and God work.

495
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,200
In fact, he had a miracle this week.

496
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,440
Seeing that God's been moving his whole life.

497
00:24:58,440 --> 00:24:59,440
That's true.

498
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:05,680
And he's now recognizing it in his last year, which is, you know, God is always working.

499
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:06,680
Are we aware?

500
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:08,520
And boy, he's been made aware.

501
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:17,360
And he, it's like he's doing flashbacks in his life and he's seeing how this was orchestrated

502
00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:18,360
by God.

503
00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:19,640
This was orchestrated by God.

504
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,080
This, but he never knew that before.

505
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:23,560
And now it's like a puzzle piece.

506
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:24,560
It really is.

507
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,560
Or like, remember the Connect the Dots thing we did as a kid?

508
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,240
You know, it always was a sailboat or something.

509
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:34,320
And he's connecting the dots to all these events that have happened in his past.

510
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:35,960
He's realizing that was God.

511
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,340
God was there all along working, teaching me, training me, equipping me, preparing me

512
00:25:40,340 --> 00:25:41,760
for now.

513
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,400
And the things he's doing with podcasting 2.0, Value for Value.

514
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:51,080
I mean, he is really, God has just put this entrepreneurial drive and spirit in him and

515
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:52,680
he is running with it.

516
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:53,680
Creativity.

517
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,520
I mean, he's going for it.

518
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,280
And it is beautiful to watch.

519
00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:58,280
He's alive.

520
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:02,640
He's one of the most generous people I've ever met in my life.

521
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:13,320
It's beautiful to see someone like him who is a public figure, very well known, but generous,

522
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:17,600
not puffy, not, he doesn't withhold.

523
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,600
He's just generous with everything.

524
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:24,520
And then God does a miracle in his life and brings Tina along.

525
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,600
And what a match made in heaven.

526
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,120
These two, it's hand in glove kind of thing.

527
00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:35,280
And it's so beautiful to watch them grow together and do their faith journey together.

528
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,400
Which is not usual either.

529
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,640
Most couples, it's usually the female, the male comes along.

530
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:47,560
Maybe years later.

531
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,440
Their journey started together.

532
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,080
And that's why God's blessing that journey too.

533
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:53,800
Because they're still on the journey.

534
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:54,800
Exactly.

535
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:59,320
They still get on and then they get off because life happens.

536
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:00,600
Or it gets better.

537
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,120
Things start to work and they go, oh, I don't really need God anymore.

538
00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:05,120
And not them.

539
00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:06,120
Not these guys.

540
00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:08,880
God's got such a destiny that he's working out.

541
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:16,160
And I love it because in a sense, we've been doing this together for 30 plus years, right?

542
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,520
30 years of while.

543
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,080
And they're beginning their journey.

544
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:26,280
And I'm excited that God put us together because we've walked out doing life together and we

545
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,920
get to model that for them and do it with them.

546
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,920
In fact, we're traveling with them this week.

547
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:31,920
Yeah, we're leaving Friday.

548
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:37,000
So we're going to the Ignite Conference.

549
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,400
It's a podcast conference.

550
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:40,400
Spark Ignite.

551
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:41,400
I think it's what it's called.

552
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,400
Aspire, I thought.

553
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:43,400
I don't know.

554
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:44,400
No, no, no.

555
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:45,400
What is it called?

556
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:46,400
Ignite.

557
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:47,400
Ignite.

558
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:48,400
Okay.

559
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,400
So it's a podcasting conference.

560
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:50,400
He's going to be here and he's going to be on a panel.

561
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:51,400
It's an award ceremony on Saturday night.

562
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:52,400
An award ceremony for Christian podcasters.

563
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:57,720
It's going to be in Houston, so we're going to fly out there.

564
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,840
Although we've got a lot of travel this week.

565
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,160
We're leaving tomorrow for Dallas for a conference.

566
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,520
At Gateway Church there in Southlake, Dallas area.

567
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,280
So we'll be there for a couple, three days, I guess.

568
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,280
Looking forward to that.

569
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,280
That's always just such a refilling time for us spiritually.

570
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:12,280
It is.

571
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,200
It's going to be more filling of our tank.

572
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,880
I have no telling how we're going to come back from that.

573
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:17,880
I know.

574
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:18,880
It's been wild.

575
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,320
But we come back.

576
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:26,640
We have one day turnaround and then we fly out for Houston with Adam and Tina.

577
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,840
And you know, I was talking, we talked a lot about Adam, but I got to boost up Tina too,

578
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:35,120
because this girl, she is a woman of many talents.

579
00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:36,520
Oh my goodness.

580
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,280
She's helping somebody write a book.

581
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:42,600
She's got these massive editing skills, marketing skills.

582
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:47,040
I mean, she's like, I just, every time we're around and we spend extended time, there's

583
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,640
another layer that gets peeled back.

584
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:54,680
And I'm just, again, so happy to be, have this friendship with them, but also just to

585
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,600
watch them grow.

586
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:57,960
I am just cheering them on.

587
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,360
I feel like a cheerleader with pom poms going, yay, go team, go.

588
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,340
You got this team, Curry, go, go.

589
00:29:04,340 --> 00:29:05,340
And it's awesome.

590
00:29:05,340 --> 00:29:08,560
And then also, of course, they're master podcasters.

591
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,060
I mean, they're rock stars in the podcasting world.

592
00:29:12,060 --> 00:29:15,680
So if you've never listened to their podcasts, in fact, you're probably listening to us because

593
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,400
of their podcasts more than likely.

594
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,400
A lot of people are.

595
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,720
Yeah, they're just so generous, even just talking about us, but we love to build them

596
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:23,720
up.

597
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,960
And so they do a great podcast called.

598
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:26,960
Curry and the Keeper.

599
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:28,600
Curry and the Keeper were our favorite.

600
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,120
So we always listen to it.

601
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,520
Usually the night it comes out or the next day, it depends on how late it comes, we get

602
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:34,520
it.

603
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,420
We're becoming early to bed kind of people, early to bed, early to rise kind of people,

604
00:29:38,420 --> 00:29:39,420
but we love it.

605
00:29:39,420 --> 00:29:41,400
And it's just a joy to listen to them.

606
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:47,080
They're always talking about their journey of faith and their love for God and their

607
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:48,820
journey together as a married couple.

608
00:29:48,820 --> 00:29:55,760
And then Adam has a phenomenal podcast, so informational, so powerful called No Agenda.

609
00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:00,140
And it is three plus hours, two times a week.

610
00:30:00,140 --> 00:30:07,680
And it's just the amount of content and information that they put out and talking about deconstructing

611
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:12,640
the media, which hallelujah needs to be deconstructed.

612
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,160
And they're doing that skillfully, him and John Dvorak.

613
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,180
So that's another I would recommend podcast.

614
00:30:19,180 --> 00:30:24,520
If you want to be in the know, that's a little behind the scenes and that's really raw, really

615
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:32,960
honest and coming from two extremely traveled and smart men who really see through all the

616
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,840
junk and the lies.

617
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:35,840
Political and media junk.

618
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:36,840
Yeah.

619
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:37,840
And it just comes out.

620
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,120
Kareem the Keeper, No Agenda, amazing, amazing people.

621
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,280
So yeah, we love our friends, don't we?

622
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:45,760
And Phoebe, their dog.

623
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,080
Phoebe's my love.

624
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:48,080
She's my girl.

625
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:49,080
She loves you.

626
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:50,080
Yeah, I know.

627
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:51,480
She loves you too.

628
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:52,960
She's always nuzzling up to you.

629
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:54,920
You're like, oh no, I'm scared.

630
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,800
Because she almost bit me.

631
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,000
So I'm a little apprehensive.

632
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,000
She's over it.

633
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,160
Okay, she's over it, but I'm not.

634
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:03,160
She's healed.

635
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,160
Yeah, now you got PTSD.

636
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:05,160
I have PTSD.

637
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:06,520
She's healed.

638
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,480
So let's talk a little bit about what God's up to around us.

639
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:10,480
Yes.

640
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:11,480
I mean, crazy cool stuff.

641
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,960
I mentioned that actually Adam had a really cool week.

642
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,680
He and Tina want to get involved in the local community.

643
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:24,640
So they showed up to the Fredericksburg City Council meeting and there's some tension going

644
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:25,640
on.

645
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,200
Every community has tension, right?

646
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,200
Right.

647
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:34,120
And it's the City Council and they're talking about taxes and they had a $12 million surplus

648
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:38,160
in our town and they were talking about raising taxes and people are showing up with pitchforks

649
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,640
and torches, you know, going to what?

650
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:47,720
If you have $12 million in reserve, why would you raise taxes?

651
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,480
So Adam and Tina went.

652
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,920
And he had mentioned to her that he might talk.

653
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:53,920
I might say something.

654
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:54,920
He might say something.

655
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,000
Well, she signs him up and he's the first one.

656
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,320
And they call him first.

657
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:00,320
He's brand new.

658
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:06,320
He signs up and I can't verbatim say what he talked about, but he literally just from

659
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:11,840
a story of his past and his experience in business and running a large business, he

660
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:20,320
just laid out just this extremely, I would call it spirit led and inspired speech in

661
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,760
two and a half minutes.

662
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:30,580
And after he got through and the mayor said, basically he had a change of mind, a change

663
00:32:30,580 --> 00:32:32,760
of heart and decided we could take the risk.

664
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:33,760
We'll be fine.

665
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:34,760
We're not going to raise taxes.

666
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:35,760
So we're not going to raise taxes.

667
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:41,800
And Adam said, I saw a direct correlation to what the Lord gave him because he didn't

668
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,440
even know what he was going to say when he stood up.

669
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:44,440
No, he hadn't planned.

670
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:49,920
He was kind of like me on Sunday mornings, but I trust God and he always speaks.

671
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,800
But the same thing, he kind of got up there just freewheeling it and God just gave him

672
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,560
exactly what to say.

673
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,720
And then it created an instant result.

674
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:03,680
Now I had prayed too for that meeting that morning because he and I send up prayer flares

675
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,360
to each other like, Hey bro, pray for me.

676
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:10,520
In fact, I said, Hey, we're going to do our podcast today instead of Monday.

677
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,280
And he said, got you prayed for you and you're covered.

678
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,280
But we do that for each other.

679
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,880
But we feel like when we pray, things should happen.

680
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:21,920
We feel like what's the point?

681
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:28,120
If you don't have the faith to believe that God's going to do something, it may not be

682
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:34,000
what you want him to do, but don't we need to be praying for his will, not ours?

683
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,000
Absolutely.

684
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,120
Because I think he knows better.

685
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:41,600
So here's the thing when we're in alignment with his will and we're praying and I want

686
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,880
everyone listening to hear this.

687
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,360
When you pray the word of God, you're praying the will of God.

688
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,380
You want to know how to pray in the will of God?

689
00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:51,240
Pray the word of God.

690
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,660
Get in alignment with his word.

691
00:33:53,660 --> 00:33:57,640
And we've been, I've been doing a series called Lord teach us to pray.

692
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:03,200
And we're going through the Lord's model prayer that he taught his disciples when they said,

693
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,200
teach us how to pray like John taught his disciples.

694
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:12,840
And Jesus said these words, when you pray, say, he didn't say when you pray, ask.

695
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:19,240
He said, when you pray, say, and the idea there is really a proclamation, a declaration,

696
00:34:19,240 --> 00:34:20,400
a decree.

697
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,640
And so it's, it's called an imperative, which means it's not a question.

698
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:24,640
It's a statement.

699
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,920
Actually it's a statement of command.

700
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,680
And so he said, do it like this.

701
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,320
You're declaring your stating.

702
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:39,720
And so Jesus would not have taught his disciples and us how to pray and how to declare God's

703
00:34:39,720 --> 00:34:40,720
will.

704
00:34:40,720 --> 00:34:41,720
Your will be done.

705
00:34:41,720 --> 00:34:45,740
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

706
00:34:45,740 --> 00:34:47,400
Your kingdom come.

707
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:48,400
Same.

708
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:52,320
And he would not have given us to say that if he didn't intend for there to be measurable

709
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:53,320
movement.

710
00:34:53,320 --> 00:35:00,920
And it during tomorrow is give us this day, our daily bread and forgive us our debts as

711
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,040
we forgive those who have debts against us.

712
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:04,040
Yes.

713
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,720
You're using those two provision phrases.

714
00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:07,720
Yeah.

715
00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:12,200
Provision and release where we release people and we come out saying, you know what?

716
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,720
I don't have an enemy on in this world.

717
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:17,960
I, I give up the right to stay offended.

718
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,760
I give up the right to stay angry.

719
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,760
I give up the right to not encourage, I mean to withhold encouragement.

720
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:32,880
So this idea of when you give up your right to be or stay offended, you actually set yourself

721
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,320
up to never have an enemy again.

722
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,600
Now doesn't mean you won't.

723
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,280
People aren't going to toss it at you or it's going to come at you because it will.

724
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:40,680
There will be resistance.

725
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:41,680
Will there not?

726
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:42,680
For sure.

727
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,920
But you now have positions yourself.

728
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,320
You have the ability.

729
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:47,880
Oh, to rise above it.

730
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:48,880
Definitely.

731
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:49,880
Definitely.

732
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:56,320
So when we pray and he gave us these imperatives, not questions, you're not asking, we're declaring

733
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,540
what he told us to declare.

734
00:35:58,540 --> 00:36:01,600
That means we are in alignment with his will.

735
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,000
When we're in alignment with his will, he answers, he moves.

736
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:11,560
And so now in my prayer, I've been using the Lord's model prayer as a template for prayer.

737
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:15,040
And I mean, when I pray now, I expect something to happen.

738
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:22,720
But again, we had reason to pray for someone this week because one of our elders was in

739
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:24,840
a bicycle accident.

740
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,800
He was riding on his 26 mile ride that he did.

741
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:29,800
He's a real deal cyclist.

742
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,960
He's a real deal cyclist, 71 years old.

743
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:33,960
And he bicycles.

744
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:34,960
Rides 26 miles every day.

745
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:39,000
26 miles every day in the morning in the dark.

746
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,000
For fun.

747
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,000
Five in the morning.

748
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,000
Okay.

749
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,000
He's got a headlamp.

750
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,000
He's got a lot on his body.

751
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,320
He's got a headlamp type thing.

752
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,160
Well, and he happened to be doing his ride.

753
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,560
He was really excited because he had to, I guess there was a day or two he missed.

754
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,080
So he's really excited.

755
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,080
And two miles into the ride, a raccoon comes.

756
00:36:58,080 --> 00:36:59,520
Of all things.

757
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:00,520
Yes.

758
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,520
And it flips him.

759
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:04,520
It's major.

760
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:05,520
It is a bad.

761
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:10,000
So the text I got was, is that John has been in a cycling accident.

762
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,000
I thought it was motorcycle.

763
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,000
I did too.

764
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,000
That was my first, because he has a motorcycle too.

765
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,200
I'm the one who sent that.

766
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:19,840
And then, and then the, and his hip is, he has multiple fractures in his hip.

767
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,160
Which he does.

768
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,600
So he said, when we talked to him, so we got the word and we said, let's get in the car

769
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:26,600
and go.

770
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:27,960
So we had a couple of appointments to take care of.

771
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:33,480
Then we drove over to San Antonio to University Hospital, which is a main trauma center.

772
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:34,480
And oh my gosh.

773
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:35,480
And he's here.

774
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:36,480
He is in the trauma unit.

775
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,920
Been in there since 930 in the morning and we didn't get there till about 2 30.

776
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:41,920
Yeah.

777
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,440
And then we walk in expecting to see hooked up to life support.

778
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:51,240
He's sitting there and he's just so happy to see us and in a good mood, feeling no pain.

779
00:37:51,240 --> 00:37:54,880
They, he, he told him, I don't want the full med deal.

780
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:59,560
I want to go minimum meds because I have a past, you know?

781
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,200
I mean, he was young and he lived in California back in the seventies.

782
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:04,920
He was there when the Jesus movement happened.

783
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:09,640
So he's got history with opiates and he's like, Nope, I don't want any of that.

784
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:16,200
And he was, they had to, so he said when, when he hit the pavement and he sort of came

785
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:21,800
to, cause he hit his head too, but he had a helmet on, he looked and his leg was spun

786
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:22,800
completely backwards.

787
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:23,800
Yeah.

788
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:24,800
I just can't even imagine.

789
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,560
It was facing the wrong way.

790
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,560
That right there had been enough to make me probably just pass out right there.

791
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:30,560
You could have handled it.

792
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:31,560
You're pretty good at that.

793
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:37,400
He was in the middle of the road and you know, luckily a bystander drove by, saw him, stopped.

794
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,840
He had, he had his lights, so he was holding his light up.

795
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:45,160
So they saw him and they called nine one one and he had to be, he had to be air flighted.

796
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:46,160
Yeah.

797
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,160
It was air flighted.

798
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:51,240
So what we did was we go up there and we're talking to him and then we, you lay hands

799
00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:52,240
on him.

800
00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:55,040
I lay hands on him and we just pray heaven down.

801
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:56,040
Yes I did.

802
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,120
I, I stood on God's word for his healing.

803
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,480
I stood on God's word for a miraculous recovery.

804
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,240
I stood on God's word.

805
00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:09,280
I really went after it like, you know, the hockey player, Wayne Gretzky says, I'm, you

806
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,440
miss a hundred percent of shots you never take.

807
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,520
So I said, let's take some shots here.

808
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,600
Let's, if we don't take a shot, we may not hit anything, but if we take some shots and

809
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:18,600
we might hit something.

810
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:19,600
Right.

811
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:23,280
And my attitude about praying for things like that, healing and you know, big things like

812
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:27,280
that is the worst thing that can happen is nothing.

813
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,080
But what if something happens?

814
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:30,080
There's always that.

815
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,920
So to me it's like the worst thing that can happen is nothing and everything's up from

816
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:34,920
there.

817
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:39,280
Even if it's incremental movement, sometimes God works through doctors and it's a slow

818
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:44,680
process following a protocol, healing, and God uses that.

819
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:46,840
And sometimes it's, it's more.

820
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:47,840
It's miraculous.

821
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:48,840
And this was more.

822
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:49,960
So what happened?

823
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,000
So we, we, we pray for him.

824
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:58,800
We say our goodbyes, we come home and we get a text later.

825
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,600
They were concerned he was going to have to have surgery.

826
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,120
Yeah, that was the big part.

827
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:09,320
And so one of the doctors, one or two of the doctors intimated that there would be surgery.

828
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,400
Another chief doctor said he wasn't sure.

829
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:16,560
You know, he was waiting for all the data to come in and everything.

830
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,680
And then he did have multiple fractures.

831
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:19,680
He did.

832
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:23,280
But they were, they were socket fractures like, like a gamekeeper's thumb.

833
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:27,600
I broke both my thumbs and playing sports where they break, it breaks the thumb out

834
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:32,840
of socket and when that pulls out a socket, it breaks and fractures all around the socket.

835
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,240
So they're, they're small fractures, zero fat body fat.

836
00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:37,240
Yeah.

837
00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:38,240
Zero.

838
00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:41,480
So he doesn't have anything to protect him from that.

839
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,160
So it's shocking that he didn't break his neck.

840
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:45,720
Honestly, it really is.

841
00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:51,880
So he did have multiple small micro fractures from, from the socket.

842
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,900
So they, they, they put his hip back in place.

843
00:40:54,900 --> 00:40:56,120
That wasn't fun.

844
00:40:56,120 --> 00:41:01,680
So they put it, they snapped his hip back and everything went back together perfectly.

845
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:06,720
And so we got there a few hours after that or, and, and when we were talking, I said,

846
00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:08,080
let's go after this, let's pray.

847
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:09,960
Cause he said, well, here's what I want to pray for.

848
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,240
I don't want surgery and I want to go home.

849
00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:14,240
And you know what happened?

850
00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:15,320
No surgery.

851
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,800
He walked down the hall and he went home.

852
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,160
I got to read this text to you.

853
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:21,200
A miracle.

854
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:22,200
This is so cool.

855
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,680
Cause I've been, I was keeping up with him and kind of barrage and okay, what now?

856
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:26,680
How's it going?

857
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:31,880
Cause we had to come back home and, and it's so cool what, what God did.

858
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:33,680
So I'm going to look at his, here it is.

859
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:34,680
Sean Bennett.

860
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:35,680
So he's so funny.

861
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:39,720
He sent me a meme of a raccoon dancing across the road.

862
00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:41,720
So that was from his spot cam.

863
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:43,520
So yeah, he's great sense of humor.

864
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,820
So check this out.

865
00:41:45,820 --> 00:41:46,820
So I was checking in on him.

866
00:41:46,820 --> 00:41:49,840
He says that ortho doctors came in about 5am to check me out.

867
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,980
They said they were very surprised.

868
00:41:51,980 --> 00:41:53,920
Everything looks so good.

869
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:58,120
They're recommending no surgery and go home today.

870
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,000
Said final say is up to a chief doctor.

871
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,020
Thanks for the visit and the prayers.

872
00:42:03,020 --> 00:42:04,680
God answered them to the letter.

873
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,040
Of course I was like, come on somebody.

874
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:12,040
I was all excited and I shared it with all of our elders and all of our friends.

875
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:16,480
And he says this, they were amazed and said, this was not normal.

876
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:17,840
I said, of course it's not normal.

877
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,240
It's super normal.

878
00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:21,180
So we're talking, we're going back and forth.

879
00:42:21,180 --> 00:42:24,080
And then I reached out to him a little bit later because he was waiting.

880
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:25,520
I said, Hey, did they send you home?

881
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,460
He said, waiting on the final doc visit for orders for release.

882
00:42:28,460 --> 00:42:32,780
The physical therapist said it was amazing.

883
00:42:32,780 --> 00:42:35,220
Walking down the hall never happens.

884
00:42:35,220 --> 00:42:36,760
Still no pain at all.

885
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,100
And he was off the meds by then.

886
00:42:39,100 --> 00:42:44,100
So he actually walked down the hall on this hip that that one point every time we may

887
00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:46,320
have to replace your hip.

888
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:50,220
I mean, that's how when he went in, it was bad.

889
00:42:50,220 --> 00:42:53,840
I mean, his leg was facing the wrong way.

890
00:42:53,840 --> 00:43:00,480
And 24 hours later, if your leg is facing the wrong way and they put it back, I mean,

891
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,040
all those muscles twisted.

892
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,160
So here's the last thing he said, doctors issuing release now.

893
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,160
He says, I feel like I said, run for us, run.

894
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,520
He said, I feel like running, you know, exclamation points.

895
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:16,160
Cause I sent him Isaiah 40 31 about renewing your strength like the Eagle.

896
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:21,840
And he said, and that was when he sent me the meme of, and then they released him and

897
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:22,840
he's home.

898
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:27,080
He wrote us when he got home, all the guys and said, still no pain.

899
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,320
I'm sore, but I have no pain.

900
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:35,160
I'm telling you, God is the God who healed, still heals.

901
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,400
The God who spoke still speaks.

902
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,960
The God who moved still moves.

903
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:45,680
I believe that what Adam experienced, what John experienced this week, I believe we're

904
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,000
going to see this happening more and more.

905
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,120
It's going to become the norm.

906
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:53,280
I believe that I, with all my soul, with everything.

907
00:43:53,280 --> 00:44:00,640
And even Adam was talking about as, because the world is, is becoming so, I mean, it's,

908
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,320
everything is evil right now.

909
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:03,520
It's dark, dark out there.

910
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,800
It's so dark that we're so ripe for a revival.

911
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:07,800
Yes.

912
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:12,180
To hear that from a brand new Christian is just mind boggling.

913
00:44:12,180 --> 00:44:13,180
But it's true.

914
00:44:13,180 --> 00:44:14,400
We've known that.

915
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:19,120
But it's getting darker and darker and the darker it gets, it's just a setup for God

916
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,320
to come in and do something miraculous.

917
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,800
I call, I say it like this.

918
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:26,800
It's a setback.

919
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,600
That's a setup for a God comeback.

920
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:31,600
God's up to something.

921
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,720
We're seeing big things happen.

922
00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:37,520
We're believing it for our church to have a revival.

923
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:41,600
Not just an old school revival like, okay, we're going to plan this in the month of May.

924
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,160
We're going to have four days of revival.

925
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:44,160
No, no.

926
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,720
We're looking for a spiritual awakening.

927
00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:52,880
We're asking God if it be His will that He would make us an epicenter of a revival that

928
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,200
will shake the hill country.

929
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:59,200
What's happening is there are these, these micro revivals are breaking out all over the

930
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:00,200
nation right now.

931
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,960
We had Asbury Seminary and College this last year.

932
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:05,640
No, it was this year, honey.

933
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:06,640
Oh, yeah, right, right.

934
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:07,640
At the first of the year.

935
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:08,640
First of the year.

936
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,280
Yeah, back in the winter, you're right.

937
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:19,360
And then recently we had an amazing breakout in Auburn University, baptized over 200 college

938
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,280
students in one night after one service.

939
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:25,160
They went down to a lake that was outside of the auditorium where they met and they

940
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,480
baptized these kids in full clothes.

941
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,440
Football coaches were getting down in the water baptizing them.

942
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,520
These little micro revivals are breaking out everywhere.

943
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:37,240
Guys like Sean Foy and others who are going all over the United States and doing these

944
00:45:37,240 --> 00:45:43,200
worship nights in Central Park and San Francisco and Portland.

945
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,960
And they're getting, man, they're getting harassed by Satanists and the cultists.

946
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,920
But man, you can't shut up the good news.

947
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:50,920
You can't stop it.

948
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,400
This is a wave.

949
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,160
And right now this is happening more and more.

950
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:59,400
And then many celebrities are coming to faith and beginning to speak out about their faith,

951
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:03,080
you know, the unashamed of who they are in Christ.

952
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:08,160
And it's a groundswell that's building right now.

953
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,960
And our nation is what Adam and I spent a long time talking last night about because

954
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:16,880
he's got his finger on the pulse of what's happening politically, economically, what's

955
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:18,580
going on in the world.

956
00:46:18,580 --> 00:46:20,960
And I have my pulse on the kingdom.

957
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:25,120
And together as we're talking, we're seeing that God is doing something.

958
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:26,840
It's a setup.

959
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:32,920
And so instead of being angry and crying about it all the time, I'm getting excited to say

960
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,600
this is a setup for something God's going to do.

961
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:39,440
And the thing is, is this is happening all over at universities.

962
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,760
It needs to happen in a church.

963
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:43,320
Happened at Texas A&M as well.

964
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:44,320
I know.

965
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:45,920
But it needs to happen in a church.

966
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:46,920
Exactly.

967
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,640
It's sad that it's not happening in a church right now.

968
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:50,640
It's happening in some churches.

969
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:51,640
I know, but you know what I mean.

970
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,640
There's some good things happening out in Redding, California.

971
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:54,640
Well, yes, but…

972
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:55,640
Pastor Bill Johnson's church.

973
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,840
It should be happening in all of our churches.

974
00:46:57,840 --> 00:46:58,840
No, I agree.

975
00:46:58,840 --> 00:46:59,840
I agree.

976
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:00,840
And that's what I'm praying for.

977
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:01,840
I'm like, God's surprised.

978
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:03,320
We've got our staff praying.

979
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,480
We need to get our church praying.

980
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:09,800
We started sending our staff out at the end of staff meeting every Tuesday.

981
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:10,800
To go pray all over.

982
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:16,000
And we go walk the whole property, walk our whole campus, and we pray over our campus,

983
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,960
pray over the different rooms and spaces and the worship center.

984
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:20,800
We don't want people just to come to church.

985
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,160
We want people to experience God.

986
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:24,160
That's right.

987
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:28,440
Have an actual encounter with a living God.

988
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,440
To move from exhaustion to encounter.

989
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:35,720
And to just to make sure that God reaches them from the inside out, not to where they

990
00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:40,520
just feel good when they come to church and then they walk into the world and get crushed.

991
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:41,520
Right.

992
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:45,240
Or they can handle the world that's going to crush them, and they can crush the world.

993
00:47:45,240 --> 00:47:46,240
That's the whole point.

994
00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:47,240
Better preach.

995
00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:55,680
Well, I'm ready to see Christians stand up and be Christians and not sit down and just

996
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,160
take everything from Satan.

997
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,560
Because that's what he's doing.

998
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,640
He's unable to do anything.

999
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,240
He just wants us to be weak.

1000
00:48:04,240 --> 00:48:06,200
And I don't want to be weak.

1001
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:08,360
I think there's a couple of things that need to happen.

1002
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:12,120
First of all, we need to regain the fear of the Lord.

1003
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:16,400
Not fear in cowering before him like he's going to thump us off the planet.

1004
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,080
The reverence of God and to realize he's God and we're not.

1005
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:21,560
And he's worthy to be praised.

1006
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:26,120
Jesus taught when he said, when you pray, say, our Father in heaven, hallowed is your

1007
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:27,120
name.

1008
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:28,120
Hallowed be your name.

1009
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:29,800
Hallowed be your name.

1010
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:30,800
Holy is your name.

1011
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,600
And this idea of lifting him up.

1012
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:35,440
And then the second thing, fear of the Lord needs to be restored in the church.

1013
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,680
And I think that's coming.

1014
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,640
I think holiness is going to be re-embraced.

1015
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,040
I'm not talking the outside stuff.

1016
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,040
I'm not about wearing your hair in a bun and ladies not wearing it.

1017
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:46,040
Please wear makeup.

1018
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:47,040
We want you to look amazing.

1019
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:48,040
Yes, you want me to wear makeup.

1020
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,040
I'm saying, no, no, it's not that.

1021
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:51,680
It's not the outside stuff.

1022
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:54,240
There's an inward purity that God's looking for.

1023
00:48:54,240 --> 00:48:58,240
In Matthew chapter 5, it says, the pure in heart shall see God.

1024
00:48:58,240 --> 00:49:02,040
That's a rhetorical because if the pure in heart is going to see God, what about the

1025
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:03,040
unpure?

1026
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:04,040
They're not seeing God.

1027
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:09,340
And God, I believe, is going to purify the bride, which is the church, and call us back

1028
00:49:09,340 --> 00:49:12,340
to a place of power and influence.

1029
00:49:12,340 --> 00:49:13,340
It's coming.

1030
00:49:13,340 --> 00:49:14,340
I know it.

1031
00:49:14,340 --> 00:49:15,340
I believe it.

1032
00:49:15,340 --> 00:49:16,340
I'm contending for it.

1033
00:49:16,340 --> 00:49:17,340
I'm standing for it.

1034
00:49:17,340 --> 00:49:18,340
I'm announcing it.

1035
00:49:18,340 --> 00:49:19,340
I'm saying it to everybody.

1036
00:49:19,340 --> 00:49:23,800
And I believe that God is going to do something in our time that's going to blow our minds.

1037
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,320
The other thing, that was a point.

1038
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:29,040
That was one with an A under it.

1039
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:35,240
But the second thing, I think he's going to restore, first of all, the fear of the Lord,

1040
00:49:35,240 --> 00:49:37,220
with the caveat of purity.

1041
00:49:37,220 --> 00:49:42,000
But I think he's also going to restore, and I totally lost it.

1042
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:43,000
Oh, no.

1043
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,000
I know.

1044
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,000
I got distracted.

1045
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,440
There was something else that was really on my heart about it.

1046
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:48,440
The joy?

1047
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:49,440
No, no, no.

1048
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:50,440
No.

1049
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:51,440
Wow.

1050
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,520
We'll come back to it later.

1051
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,400
I'm not going to edit that because it's the surreal stuff.

1052
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:01,400
Well, I do believe he's going to restore the prayer to the church.

1053
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:06,320
The body of Christ will begin to pray again, and will begin to believe God and believe

1054
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,720
his word, because that's another piece of it, is that...

1055
00:50:09,720 --> 00:50:11,000
He'll infuse our faith.

1056
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:12,560
Oh, my goodness.

1057
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:14,000
But we have to get back to the word.

1058
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:15,000
We've got to get back.

1059
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,480
We've got to re-dig the old wells that have been covered over.

1060
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,480
Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God.

1061
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:21,480
Romans 10, 17.

1062
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:22,480
That's it.

1063
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:28,880
So, you know, the only way you can have faith is by hearing the word of God.

1064
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:30,600
And that doesn't mean hearing him audibly.

1065
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:36,880
It means reading the word, hearing it, listening to it, adhering to it.

1066
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:40,840
Read it out loud so that you hear it.

1067
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,200
I remembered number two.

1068
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:44,200
Oh, of course.

1069
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:45,200
I knew you would.

1070
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:46,740
I knew it would come back.

1071
00:50:46,740 --> 00:50:49,200
We've got to cast down our idols.

1072
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,000
We have become an idolatrous nation.

1073
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:56,800
I mean, whether we're holding up celebrities, we're idolizing them, and we've turned them

1074
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:57,800
into idols.

1075
00:50:57,800 --> 00:50:59,440
We're worshiping them.

1076
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:05,400
Celebrities, we're worshiping TV stars, we're worshiping local heroes, we're worshiping

1077
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:13,140
stuff, materialism, all these things that has crowded in and literally, it's like thorns

1078
00:51:13,140 --> 00:51:14,140
and thistles.

1079
00:51:14,140 --> 00:51:17,880
It's grown up around us to where we can't even see the grass anymore.

1080
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:19,880
And we have got to cast down our idols.

1081
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:21,500
It's a repentance thing.

1082
00:51:21,500 --> 00:51:23,760
The word repent simply means to change your mind.

1083
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:27,860
It means to change the way you think, change the way you think and realign your thinking

1084
00:51:27,860 --> 00:51:30,960
with God's thinking, see things the way God sees.

1085
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:33,400
And sometimes we think repentance is saying you're sorry.

1086
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:39,020
Well, that may be one spoke in the wheel, but really it's more about turning and going

1087
00:51:39,020 --> 00:51:44,240
the other way, going back to God and turning your back on all the things that have pulled

1088
00:51:44,240 --> 00:51:47,240
for your attention and has garnered your attention.

1089
00:51:47,240 --> 00:51:49,880
So we've got to cast down our idols.

1090
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,880
So yeah, those are the two things I think that are massive.

1091
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:58,620
The fear of the Lord casting down our idols and what that will do, it will prepare us

1092
00:51:58,620 --> 00:52:03,280
to receive, it will prepare our character and our nature will align with His and we'll

1093
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,600
be able to receive what He pours out.

1094
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,520
He wants revival more than we do.

1095
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:09,520
Exactly.

1096
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:13,000
And so I'm trying to line myself up with that.

1097
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:14,440
And who knows what it looks like?

1098
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:15,440
Oh yeah.

1099
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:16,920
No, I'm not going to predict that.

1100
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,040
God's going to do what He wants to do.

1101
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:20,680
I think He's going to do a new thing.

1102
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:21,680
I do too.

1103
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,000
It's not going to look like revivals from the past.

1104
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:25,000
Right.

1105
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:30,520
And that's the thing about revivals is that typically the last generation that experienced

1106
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:34,960
revival can sometimes become the resistance to the new revival because it doesn't look

1107
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:36,940
like it did when they had it.

1108
00:52:36,940 --> 00:52:40,320
And so that's something we all have to be aware of to say, Lord, teach us, open our

1109
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:45,300
eyes that we may see, open our ears that we may hear, our heart we may know the truth.

1110
00:52:45,300 --> 00:52:48,360
And so anyway, so I believe that's what's happening.

1111
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,240
I believe that's what's coming.

1112
00:52:50,240 --> 00:52:51,240
You too?

1113
00:52:51,240 --> 00:52:52,240
Yeah.

1114
00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:53,240
Hey, we got some people to thank.

1115
00:52:53,240 --> 00:52:54,240
Yes.

1116
00:52:54,240 --> 00:52:55,240
So super cool.

1117
00:52:55,240 --> 00:52:56,680
We got some really nice stuff.

1118
00:52:56,680 --> 00:53:00,960
For one, Kevin wrote in and Kevin so appreciate hearing from you.

1119
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:02,320
He says, hello, Jimmy and Ed.

1120
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:08,000
I'm listening mostly from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, but also Pennsylvania, Western New York

1121
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:09,000
and Michigan.

1122
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:13,800
I drive about 10,000 miles every month as a courier.

1123
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:14,800
That's tough.

1124
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:15,800
10,000 miles a month.

1125
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,000
I don't like to drive at all.

1126
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,000
That is a short car life right there.

1127
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:21,920
I mean, wow.

1128
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:23,840
But he's got all this time to listen.

1129
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:28,400
So he says, like so many others, I was drawn into the Bridge family thanks to Tina and

1130
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,200
Adam Curry, of course.

1131
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:34,740
The first time I heard Jimmy refer to us as family was the first time that phrase ever

1132
00:53:34,740 --> 00:53:36,280
felt genuine.

1133
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:37,680
That is a beautiful statement.

1134
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:38,680
Thank you, Kevin.

1135
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:43,920
He says, I live streamed Adam's and 13 others baptism that remember we had our baptism

1136
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:45,440
and Adam got baptized.

1137
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:47,600
I had the privilege of doing that.

1138
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:51,800
He says, I felt more actively Christian than I felt in 30 years.

1139
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:55,800
God's majesty and love easily joined Cleveland Heights.

1140
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:57,160
That's my word, majesty.

1141
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:58,160
I know, majesty.

1142
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:02,920
It says, God's majesty and love easily joined Cleveland Heights and Fredericksburg side by

1143
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:05,120
side in prayer and celebration.

1144
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:06,120
Isn't that beautiful?

1145
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:07,120
That is beautiful.

1146
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:08,120
Kevin, thank you.

1147
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,960
He says, listening to Living Up in a Down World, Curry and the Keeper and Fun Fact Friday

1148
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:18,280
really cheers me up and pulls me through whatever trivial troubles the enemy casts my way.

1149
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:23,320
Thanks for sharing your stories and God's multifaceted glory, Kevin.

1150
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,720
Kevin, brother, appreciate you.

1151
00:54:25,720 --> 00:54:28,000
Man, you just so encouraged us.

1152
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:31,780
I just got your email today, so I'm going to write you back, but I just want to encourage

1153
00:54:31,780 --> 00:54:33,720
you and say thank you for writing in.

1154
00:54:33,720 --> 00:54:38,660
We also got a course, Peggy Ladon has become such a dear soul, dear friend.

1155
00:54:38,660 --> 00:54:42,800
She wrote us last week and I missed that when I was doing our shout out, so I just wanted

1156
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:43,800
to share what she wrote.

1157
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:49,100
She says, hey guys, so grateful for your good work here and still praying for your reentry.

1158
00:54:49,100 --> 00:54:50,760
That was coming out of sabbatical.

1159
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,000
I'm not surprised that you had a bumpy reentry.

1160
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,000
Are you?

1161
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,040
Thank you for all the good stories and ideas.

1162
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:59,680
In fact, I'm enjoying learning about and listening to Pastor Bill Johnson.

1163
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,320
Yay, can't recommend him enough.

1164
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:05,040
She says, I did not know of him before you mentioned him.

1165
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:10,440
Also, I'm always listening to either you guys, Bridge Church sermons, or Curry and the Keeper.

1166
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,800
My husband Scott feels like he knows you as well.

1167
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:14,440
She's got a smiley face.

1168
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:15,920
It can be tough to keep up.

1169
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:17,920
God bless you and keep up the great work.

1170
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:21,640
Oh, and I'm totally looking into the book, Dreaming with God.

1171
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:22,640
I love it.

1172
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:24,280
Thanks for this tip, Peggy Ladon.

1173
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:25,280
That's beautiful.

1174
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:26,280
Thanks, Peggy.

1175
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:27,280
We love you.

1176
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:28,280
Peggy, you are awesome.

1177
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:29,560
We so love you and so proud for Jaden too.

1178
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:31,040
I've started following Jaden on Instagram.

1179
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:32,840
He's a sharp young man.

1180
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:33,840
That's her son.

1181
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:34,840
No, Jake.

1182
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:35,840
I thought it was Jaden.

1183
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:36,840
I thought it was Jake.

1184
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:37,840
It could be.

1185
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:38,840
It could be.

1186
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:39,840
No, it's Jake.

1187
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:40,840
Okay.

1188
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:41,840
Yeah.

1189
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:42,840
All right.

1190
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:43,840
Are you following somebody else?

1191
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:44,840
I'm just kidding.

1192
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,240
Oh my gosh, you're weird.

1193
00:55:47,240 --> 00:55:52,800
So Boostergram, we've got this from Heather Thomas, 33,444 sats.

1194
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:54,520
I may have read this last week, but I wasn't sure.

1195
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:55,760
But I wanted to make sure I got her.

1196
00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:56,760
Yeah.

1197
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:57,760
So I'll say it again anyway.

1198
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,120
She wrote, Pastor Jimmy, yesterday's sermon really resonated with me.

1199
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:01,960
I watched it again this morning.

1200
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:03,320
Looking forward to tonight's show.

1201
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:07,160
I wish you both those we love and especially those who have yet to find salvation.

1202
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,360
Heather, your blessing, such an encouraging word.

1203
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:11,360
Keep praying.

1204
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:12,360
Yes.

1205
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:13,360
This is a good one.

1206
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,200
I got this from Randy Black at John's Creek Studios.

1207
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:19,640
He's a musician and does recording and different stuff.

1208
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:22,440
I looked at his website and checked it out.

1209
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:24,680
Boostergram, he is again, Randy Black.

1210
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:26,520
He gave us 10,000 sats.

1211
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:27,520
Thank you, Randy.

1212
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:28,740
I really appreciate it.

1213
00:56:28,740 --> 00:56:35,840
After hearing about the show on the podcast rodeo show with Dave Jackson, Dave Jackson,

1214
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:36,840
he teaches podcasting.

1215
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:41,640
He has a podcast school and he reached out to me and we're going to meet up in Houston

1216
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:42,640
this weekend.

1217
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:43,960
Adam knows him as well.

1218
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:45,680
So I'm looking forward to meeting him.

1219
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:46,880
So he was watching his show.

1220
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:48,760
Apparently he talked about us.

1221
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:56,240
He said, the podcast rodeo, after hearing about the show on the podcast rodeo show with

1222
00:56:56,240 --> 00:56:59,160
Dave Jackson, I haven't missed an episode yet.

1223
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:03,280
Your love for each other and the Lord are an inspiration for everyone.

1224
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,880
Keep it up and share your stories with the world.

1225
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:07,360
Randy, thank you so much.

1226
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:08,360
Isn't that awesome?

1227
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:09,360
That's sweet.

1228
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:10,360
Such a nice guy.

1229
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:11,920
Of course, I love musicians.

1230
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:13,480
I'm a sucker for a guitar player.

1231
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:14,480
Yes, you are.

1232
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:15,480
Me too.

1233
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,320
Randy and I have a lot to talk about with guitars.

1234
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:20,840
So anyway, looking forward to connecting with Randy and I'm looking forward to meeting

1235
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,000
Dave Jackson as well.

1236
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:24,440
Really looking forward to that.

1237
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:31,200
I received a boost of Graham from somebody named Tina Curry, the keeper, AKA the keeper.

1238
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:33,320
And she did 25,000 sats.

1239
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:36,560
She says filling my buckets every time I listen to you both.

1240
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:38,360
Another great podcast.

1241
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:39,360
Love you both.

1242
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:40,360
We love you, Tina.

1243
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:42,400
Oh, we sure do.

1244
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:43,400
We do what we do with our daughter.

1245
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:45,780
I'm missing her tonight because they're out to dinner with some people.

1246
00:57:45,780 --> 00:57:46,780
So I'm not able to talk to her.

1247
00:57:46,780 --> 00:57:47,780
Oh, you can't text her.

1248
00:57:47,780 --> 00:57:48,780
I couldn't text her while we were recording.

1249
00:57:48,780 --> 00:57:54,200
You can text her while we were doing our show the whole time.

1250
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:58,000
So and then another, I got another boost to Graham, a striper boost.

1251
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,640
So this is from one Adam Curry.

1252
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:02,920
And he said, you have to do the striper.

1253
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:03,920
I know.

1254
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:04,920
Last week he was sad.

1255
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:05,920
I didn't do it.

1256
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:06,920
He said, what?

1257
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:08,100
He wrote, no striper sound effect.

1258
00:58:08,100 --> 00:58:10,960
Looking forward to kicking off a Hill Country revival at Bridge Church.

1259
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:12,520
So yeah, we're in this thing together.

1260
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:13,520
So one more time.

1261
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,200
Well, we're about to have, we're going to set up a prayer service on Sunday night.

1262
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:17,200
Yes, we talked about that.

1263
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,300
We talked about it last week.

1264
00:58:19,300 --> 00:58:22,040
So he could finally come.

1265
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:25,360
It's going to be praying for revival and spiritual awakening.

1266
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:30,680
That's all the whole service is geared towards prayer and seeking God and asking God to show

1267
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:31,680
up.

1268
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:32,680
So one more for Adam there.

1269
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:33,680
All right.

1270
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:35,220
I got you covered, Adam.

1271
00:58:35,220 --> 00:58:36,760
So that's it for this week.

1272
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:38,840
And we just want to say we love you guys.

1273
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:39,840
Anything in closing?

1274
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:46,840
No, I'm just excited to go to this conference tomorrow and come back with our tanks just

1275
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,000
full again and overflowing.

1276
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:50,000
And the podcast.

1277
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:51,000
And the podcast.

1278
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:52,000
It's going to be a busy week.

1279
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:53,720
It's going to be a busy, but amazing week.

1280
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:54,720
We'll have a lot to talk about next week.

1281
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:55,720
That's what I was going to say.

1282
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:57,280
We'll have a lot to talk about.

1283
00:58:57,280 --> 00:58:59,240
So hey, much love to everybody.

1284
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:23,360
Please live up in a down world.