We are the best.
This is Jimmy and Annette and we are so happy to be with you.
We are living up in a down world.
This is show number 52.
How many weeks are there in a year?
52 weeks.
Wow.
This is a milestone.
Even though we've skipped a few weeks, it's still our 52nd show, so it's a year we've
been doing this.
That is remarkable.
A year's worth of shows.
I know.
Remarkable.
I don't know what the great stats are, but I was looking at rss.com and we've
had about 40,000 downloads over this last year.
That is unbelievable.
40,000 downloads.
That's probably pennies compared to some of these.
Just to listen to us ramble on.
Ramble?
Are you rambling?
Well, maybe sometimes.
You are ravishing.
I will say that.
You look gorgeous.
You dressed for success today.
I don't have a professional outfit on because I'm-
Now why?
Well, I knew we were going to go to the bank to do some business and I just felt like I
needed to look like a banker.
Cranked it up.
I could be a banker.
And Natasha at the bank complimented you.
She said you look stunning.
I know.
Maybe I need to wear this again tomorrow.
She's from the Ukraine and has the coolest accent I've ever heard.
She's super sweet.
And she was an attorney in the Ukraine.
I know.
Not the Ukraine.
In Ukraine.
I got to say that right.
She has to just be a clerk here.
I know.
Until she goes back, which she is.
And her sister's like a dentist, a doctor.
Yes.
But she's an assistant here.
And she's doing a dental assistant here in the States.
It's very sad.
They're going back and rebuilding their lives at some point.
But anyway, she complimented you and that was awesome.
It was sweet.
Made your day, didn't it?
It did.
Or made your morning anyway.
And then you laid a big one on me in the church.
Wait, what?
What do you mean, laid a big one?
You grabbed me and kissed me.
Oh, well, hey.
You never do that.
Girl, you look great.
What can I say?
I was like, okay, I'm going to wear this tomorrow and the next day, and the next day.
We have cameras all over our church.
I'm sure it was caught on video somewhere.
I don't know that we do inside that part, do we?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, are you kidding me?
Okay.
Well, someone's going to see you grab me and kiss me the way you do.
PDA.
You've never done that.
Are you okay?
No.
Well, you sort of puckered when you were walking towards me.
I thought you wanted a kiss.
Oh, really?
You even said kiss me.
I did not.
And you had lipstick on and I did.
I did not say that.
You just grabbed me.
Well, maybe I misunderstood.
Wow.
Maybe the Lord was telling you to kiss me.
Maybe I needed to kiss you.
I don't know.
Maybe you needed to.
I don't know.
I'll say there was a song by Foreigner called Feels Like the First Time.
Yes.
Now, I know that song.
That's what it was.
It was like, wow.
And you don't have a clip of it or anything.
A clip?
Oh, that song.
No, I should build in some classic rock clips.
I know you should because that is our background.
Since I live in that world.
Yeah, that was my world.
I mean, what was the first CD I ever bought you?
Def Leppard.
Exactly.
That was the first album we bought for our Sentinel.
Was it?
For Christmas.
Oh, that's right.
That's true.
It's a little nostalgic thing.
We bought him a record player, which was hopefully better than the one they had.
And we bought him an album because he loves classic rock.
I think it was Hysteria.
Def Leppard Hysteria.
Hysteria?
Yeah, I think it was Hysteria.
Anyway, it was amazing.
A long time ago.
Right to my heart.
Straight to my heart.
I know.
And we're classic rock kids.
It wasn't classic when we were there.
It was just rock and roll.
Oh, it was just rock and roll.
Now it's classic.
Oh.
I used to listen to FMX and Lubbock.
That was like a huge radio station for rock music.
And they were doing classic rock back before.
Which we enjoyed then too.
I know.
It's crazy.
It's really classic rock now.
I know.
I mean, I hear it on music in grocery stores now.
Is music still in business?
It's a thing.
Yeah, there's things.
It's weird.
I know.
It's weird.
But it's been a long day, hasn't it?
Yes.
How many meetings have we had?
We had this plan to come in at 10.30 in the morning.
I know.
I had it on my schedule.
And it is five o'clock in the afternoon.
And we're just now getting started.
We're on fire.
Everybody's gone from the office.
It's quiet around here.
And we're here working.
This isn't work.
This is play.
Right.
Hey, if you love what you're doing, it's not work.
Well, it is.
But it's still work.
I need a drink of my coffee.
We have had a day, meeting, meeting, meeting, meeting, challenge, challenge, challenge,
challenge.
Your day started with a challenge.
The last two days have been rough for me.
Just because I'll make some strides in something and then I have to go back and start all over.
This is all on the administrative side of what you do, which is the people side of church.
Then there's the business side, the administrative side.
People don't get it.
Most people have no clue.
They just think we come in.
We drink coffee.
Yeah, hit the air conditioners on and church.
On an event, a massive event, massive event.
And now we're doing it three times.
Three times a week.
On Sundays.
And our church is growing.
We had the largest crowd we've ever had, largest attendance on a Sunday that wasn't a special
Sunday like Christmas or Easter.
I know.
It was unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
I'm still kind of buzzing from it.
We're going to have to hire more staff.
I know.
It's crazy.
I'm literally going, looking, going administratively.
We're going to need some part-time help.
I know.
It's wild.
Are these not the best problems a church can have?
These are great problems because they're not really problems.
They're just challenges and opportunities.
But they are challenges for sure.
They are.
Yeah.
But we're living up in a down world.
We need a bigger building.
That's what Lonnie Frisbee in the movie, The Jesus Revolution, leaned over to Pastor Chuck
Smith and he said, you're going to need a bigger building.
Yeah.
It feels like...
For real.
The thought of that scares me.
Our why is bigger than our why not.
So we've got to move forward.
Whatever God tells us to do, period.
This isn't about us.
This isn't about even Bridge Church.
It's about what does God want.
There it is.
So we've got to start praying.
Yeah.
Where's Mr. Chevy today?
I know.
We feel terrible.
We can't bring him.
It's just too... I would be interrupted too much to have to take him out.
I'd worry about him doing on the carpet.
I know.
I'm just like, I want him here, but I don't want him here.
I know.
Life has picked up its pace.
I know.
It has.
So he's just off the show.
I know.
For now.
I know.
He just had his eighth birthday too.
I know.
And he's so fluffy right now.
He looks like a wash mitt.
Tina said, I like him better like this because he's so fluffy.
He's fluffy and cute.
He does look cute.
He does.
He's a good boy.
But I miss him.
I miss him.
I text the groomer and said, when can you get Chevy in?
But she never wrote me back.
So maybe it's not a number you can text.
No, I think we need to call.
Yeah.
And so we'll get that.
But I don't know if I want to get him groomed.
I don't want to get him groomed much because it's still... It's actually winter here
in Texas.
You just need to get that.
Even though right now outside it's 66 degrees.
Technically, it's winter.
It's crazy.
But it's been nice.
But it's coming.
It's beautiful weather.
Do you think we got another blast coming?
I know we do.
We do.
We might.
We do.
We hope everybody's doing good out in podcast world.
How's everybody doing?
Hey, we love getting notes and messages from you and boostograms are always fun.
We love hearing from you.
So if you ever thought, hey, I should write them, and then you go, no, I don't want to
bother them.
You're not bothering us.
We love hearing from you.
We love encouraging you.
That's something that we live for.
We live to build up people.
We live up in a down world, but we want everybody to live up in a down world.
And so feel free to write us.
We do have some emails, notes I'll read in just a bit.
And but just want to find out how you're doing today because I know I know life can get tough
out there with the election year.
People are spun up.
I know we went to dinner with Adam and Tina the other night and he wow.
All he talked about was how people are getting spun up.
He feels like his job is to spin people down.
Yeah, just to try to get people to talk them off the ledge.
Quit losing your mind.
You can't when you get spun up, you don't think well.
You just you kind of go you go primal.
You go to your basic human experience.
We lose our mind.
Yeah, you default to your base of mind.
Speaking of mind, you talked about the carnal mind on a day.
I did.
I had to do something on Sunday.
So for the y'all who don't know, I'm a pastor of a church in the hill country of Texas.
And we have a growing church.
It's exciting.
There's a lot of people were having a good time with it.
But I'm talking some hard stuff and I'm doing a series called mind wars.
This was the second week.
It's called the carnal mind.
So I told everybody said, I need y'all to do something like what I say, say this out
loud.
We love Pastor Jimmy.
So everybody yells it back.
We love I said, I'm going to need that later.
After this message, I have to tell you what happened today.
What happened?
Which because I haven't seen you all day.
I'll tell you before I broadcast it, but I'm going to broadcast on the podcast.
I'm not sure what to think about this.
Our administrator said that she got a phone call from a woman was her first time in church.
She wanted to talk to you and she likes to just find out if they really need to talk
to you or if it's something she can handle.
She knew you were in meetings and she's the woman said, I just want to know what Pastor
Jimmy meant.
Every time he asked the church to say, I love Pastor Jimmy.
I don't understand that.
Why wouldn't he say I love Jesus?
Why is he trying to get love from the church?
She had to say, he was joking and she goes, he was a new person.
Wow.
Well, yeah, that's true.
They don't know me.
I'm going to freak them out.
She said he was going to say some hard things that's hard for people to hear.
That was his way of breaking it up a little bit and just having fun.
That's what he was doing.
She goes, oh, I would never have thought that someone would question that.
We were laughing the whole time.
The whole church was laughing.
It was funny.
The whole church was laughing.
Then I said, because I'm about to deliver something.
I'm going to need to hear this again.
We just laughed about it.
Our church knows me too.
They know my weird, corky sense of humor.
If you're new, which we had a lot of new people.
A lot of new people.
They think you're just nuts.
They think it's all about Jimmy and not Jesus.
That is not true.
Oh my gosh.
We're all about Jesus.
Wow.
The whole point of your message is about Jesus.
We're talking about the carnal mind.
The carnal mind is the fleshly mind.
What carnal means by definition is it's when you default back to your basic, primitive
human experience.
It's what happens to you when you lose your mind.
Driving a car may cut you off.
You and what you were before Jesus came into your life because literally we're supposed
to be different people when Jesus comes in.
We're not supposed to act like everybody else, which makes us question some people's Christianity.
The thing is, we're supposed to be different from the world.
That doesn't mean the world doesn't come out of us every now and then because if it's been
in you, it's going to come out of you some way, some time.
There's residue of the sin nature in us.
Exactly.
Yes, we receive the gift of salvation from Jesus Christ.
He died for us on the cross and we say, yes, I want that.
Thank you.
Then we identify with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection through baptism.
Now we're in the family, but that doesn't mean all your habits and all the things, the
residue of your past life just goes away.
It doesn't.
There are no accidental saints.
You don't just suddenly become a saint.
It takes years and it takes walking with God and walking with Christ, Jesus, and getting
to know him.
And crucifying our flesh.
And killing the old man, so to speak.
You are a new person in Christ when you become a Christian.
When you get saved and you're a disciple of Jesus, you're a new creation.
But sometimes your mind doesn't want to believe that and so you'll default back to who you
were before.
And that's where we have to really change the way we think.
That's it.
That's what the whole idea of mind wars is because we know there's the war of being a
Christian, we know there's a real devil, real enemy and all that.
But the war is not some hand-to-hand combat kind of thing.
It's not shotguns or guns or bows and arrows or anything like that.
The real war happens between your ears.
It's the war in your mind.
Boy, does it ever.
Man, does it ever.
I mean, you can wake up in the middle of the night and have a war going on.
Exactly.
Or have these dark, malevolent thoughts that come to you out of nowhere.
We're having a great day and then boom, out of the blue, this thought comes in your mind
and it triggers something in you.
And then you have to ask the question, where did that come from?
Yes.
Because a lot of times it's not from you.
Right.
It's not.
Well, there's a real enemy out there.
He loves to insert.
He loves to infiltrate.
He loves to bring these what I call intrusive thoughts.
He intrudes.
So these intrusive thoughts will come to you out of nowhere.
You're having a good day, like you were saying.
No big deal.
Tuesday afternoon, hey, I get off work in a couple of hours.
It's great.
And then something happens and you get triggered.
The enemy is an opportunist.
Oh man.
He's very cunning and crafty.
He's smart.
He is scary smart and he loves to trigger us leveraging past mistakes or past things
that were done to us, past traumas.
He will leverage those things to just get in your head.
Which we have the authority, the Bible says submit to God and then resist the devil.
So we resist the devil by ignoring what he's saying, but also by speaking that we don't
believe what he's saying.
And then he will leave, but he always still comes back.
It's not like you resist him, he's gone and it's never going to happen again.
No.
He looks for other opportunities.
The actual construct of that sentence out of the book of James is the scripture you're
referencing means to resist and keep resisting.
It's not just a one-time thing.
We live our lives resisting the enemy.
We don't live our lives with the enemy in mind.
We have Jesus in mind.
He's number one, period.
But we're always wise too and smart of knowing there's a real enemy out there.
The smartest thing that the enemy can do to any human being.
And if you're listening today and you're like, oh, they're talking about the devil.
We're talking about the dude with the pitchfork and horns.
A lot of people don't believe.
They don't believe that the devil's real, that Satan's a real being.
He's a created being according to the Bible.
God did create him, but he spun out.
He chose using his own free will to go another way and rebelled against God and took a bunch
of angels with him.
And so obviously he was cast down.
But what he loves to do, one of his best tactics is to convince us that he's not real.
That's true.
Man, if you are living your life and you think that spiritual warfare is not real and that
the devil's not real, you've already lost.
You're already on the ropes, so to speak.
He's winning around three and around four.
He really is.
So we have to resist him and continue to.
We do that in our mind.
We do it with our words, but we do it in our mind, in our head.
The Bible says in the book of Romans, it says, be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Be changed.
Don't be conformed to the world.
Be transformed.
Be changed by changing the way you think or the renewing of your mind.
I love what you said on Sunday.
We need to think about what we're thinking about.
That's a Steve Berger quote.
Pastor Steve Berger was our pastor in Tennessee.
You've been saying it long enough.
You can take it now.
I can own it now.
I'm going to own it now.
But it really is.
It's true.
It's really true.
Say it again.
It's important.
You've got to think about what we're thinking about.
There you go.
Wow.
And I think so many times we just allow any thought to come into our mind or stay in our
mind and then we say things, but we're not really thinking about it.
The Bible talks a lot about fools and what comes out of their mouths and how it's better
to not talk than to say things and sound like a fool.
And so, boy, you were right on Sunday.
It was very strong.
Very...
Oh, I'm sorry.
No, go ahead.
I didn't mean to cut you off at all.
No, it's okay.
I had a thought and I opened my mouth.
I know.
Oh, sorry.
I was talking about thinking.
I had a thought.
Okay.
So what was your thought?
Out of the abundance of the heart, mouth speaks, right?
So anyway, Joyce Meyer wrote a book back in 1995 called The Battlefield of the Mind, great
book and it was renewed in 2011, updated.
And in that book she says this, Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can
defeat us in our experience.
Oh, that is so true.
And that really follows the biblical precedent.
Verse 23, 7 says this, for as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
That is so spot on.
As someone thinks in their heart about themselves, that's how they become.
As the head goes, so goes the body.
In shepherding terms and sheep, as the shepherd go, so go the sheep.
So whatever is the head, the mind for us, the thought, everything will follow the thought
life.
That's true.
So be transformed, be changed, change your form by the renewing of your mind.
Our minds have to be...
Or changing the way you think.
Changing the way you think.
New Living Translation, beautiful.
So true.
So here's the definition of the carnal mind because we talked about that.
The carnal mind is the default mode of the human experience.
Isn't that so on?
The default mode is what we go to when we're angry.
Yep, that's true.
What happens, our anger, we default to the basic human experience and we bypass everything
we've learned, everything we've trained, the things that are the boundaries that are in
our mind that we've learned and trained and it goes all out the window in a moment.
It certainly can, can't it?
It sure can.
Yeah.
You ever lost your mind?
Oh yeah, I think I did last night.
And this morning?
And you did too because I was upset.
You were.
Me, you were upset.
No, I was upset at the situation.
Yeah, the situation.
And it wasn't another person, it was an organizational thing.
It was a banking thing.
Yeah, banking thing.
There was an error in our banking and...
You're trying to get it resolved.
Just our processing of credit cards information.
And finally, you got to the point where you just to use the... you defaulted, you went
into your default mode of your human experience.
Default of my human experience.
And I was so...
You went primal.
I was spun up.
You were spun up.
I know, I was afraid to try to talk you off the ledge.
Because every time I tried to do something that they wanted, it wasn't good enough.
They needed some other kind of documentation.
I'm like, oh my gosh.
I can't imagine people, and I think about this, who have lost their identity through
banking or people scammed them or something, and the things they have to go through.
And ours is just changing from one bank account to another, and the things I had to go through.
But can you imagine if your identity is stolen and what you have to do?
I was spun up over something small compared to what a lot of people go through.
Here's a pro tip for men.
If your wife is spun up and she's losing her mind, that's not the time to say, hey, calm
down.
Hey, you need to chill out.
That is...
Or don't throw a Bible verse out.
Worst thing ever.
Worst thing.
I didn't do that.
No, you didn't.
But I can tell you were...
I was...
You were upset too.
You were spun up and it started to spin me up.
Well, you know what?
Guess what?
We're human.
What?
I know.
But...
We defaulted.
It could have been worse.
Oh, it could have been way worse.
It could have been.
We actually were fine.
We went to bed good, and then we...
Because we're never mad at each other.
At 11 o'clock, I'm looking at my email, did the bank get this figured out?
And I wake up this morning, still not the right documentation.
I'm like, oh my gosh.
Here I go again.
I still don't know the end game of it.
I still don't.
And it still isn't resolved, which I know that's hard on you.
That is hard to not have closure.
I'm an executor.
You are.
And that sounds bad, but I'm...
Executor in the...
No, you're executioner.
That would sound bad.
Executor's good.
But I don't know if a lot of people can distinguish that.
But anyway, I mean, I get things done.
I'm not a procrastinator.
I get things done.
I mean, I do the laundry two or three times a week.
You're amazing, superpowers.
I mean, my daughter, my oldest daughter, lets hers pile up.
She's probably not listening to this, so it won't matter what I say.
But lets her laundry pile up because she hates it so much.
And if she would just do it every few days, it wouldn't be overwhelming.
I know, honey.
You're so right.
I've got that down pat.
I actually enjoy doing it because I like my laundry basket to be empty.
I love that about you.
And you help me.
I do.
You do help me.
I try to pitch in.
You don't ever want me messing with the washer dryer.
That's for sure.
No, and I don't care.
That's easy.
It wouldn't be good for either of us, but I don't mind helping with the other part.
But I am a get it done kind of person.
Yes, you are.
Oh my gosh.
And I love that about you.
And when I have people around me that aren't...
Like your husband?
Yes.
That's when I get spun up.
Yeah, you're a little bit more of a procrastinator than I am.
No, I'm just paced.
I move at the pace of grace.
Yeah, you're more deliberate and patient.
I am very intentional.
I'm more impatient and I want to get it done.
But I do try to get it done, right?
I'm not one that will...
No, you do.
You're excellent.
That is for sure.
I am.
I try to be.
For sure.
I try to be.
I know.
So what do we do about these intrusive thoughts?
What's a way that...
Like when things come to your mind, you get bombarded with something.
Your mind gets assaulted with these thoughts.
You're not good enough.
You're not pretty enough.
Blah, blah, blah.
What do you do?
Well, you can't rehearse those thoughts.
Oh, there you go.
That's the worst thing you can do.
What happens when you rehearse them?
You nurse it.
You rehearse it.
Yeah.
And that is very dangerous.
There are times, especially in my past, that I would do that just because I don't know
why.
I remember being a child in junior high and upset that my boyfriend left me when I was
young.
I mean, young, young.
And what do you do?
You play the songs that you used to listen to together, and you keep playing those, and
you just keep rehearsing.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
Right.
Yes.
I remember, and I'm like, I look back at that and go, why do we do that?
I know.
Torture.
It was torture.
And that's the opposite of what we need to do.
We need to do the opposite.
We need to bring in new things.
Right.
New...
New things.
And we need to replace with something good rather than something that's going to continue
to nurse that.
One way to say that is to reveal and then replace.
Yeah, that's good.
To reveal means you identify what's going on in there.
Yes.
You have to identify when an intrusive thought hits you, you have to identify, is this the
truth or is this a lie?
There you go.
And then if it's a lie, then you've revealed it.
Now you need to replace it.
But too many of us believe that lie.
So we think it's truth, and that's where it's dangerous.
That's where the war happens, right?
It is.
So how do you distinguish truth when things come to you?
Well, as a Christian, you've got to know what the Bible says about whatever that is.
Ding, ding, ding, you win.
Yes.
But people don't know where to go.
This is why I think this about you.
Oh my gosh.
When you get spiritual, girl, it's just...
Wow.
But you have to know where to go.
To me, you can Google, what does the Bible say about this?
You can chat GPT, which I wouldn't say that to Adam Curry because he would be upset about
that.
No, he has chat GPT.
He uses it all the time.
Oh, it's Tina.
I'm sorry, it's Tina.
But you can literally chat GPT on your computer and say, what does the Bible say about this?
And it'll just pull up everything.
It'll give you 10 scriptures.
It's great.
It's actually...
For Bible study, it's actually helpful.
It's not always a good thing.
But you know what?
The internet is not all good either, but there are some good assets.
Well, here's the thing.
You use tools, you don't let tools use you.
Exactly.
So that's what we do.
Exactly.
So you're the gatekeeper.
So think about it in these terms.
And I've been beating this drum and I'm going to continue to.
You are.
We are the gatekeepers of our mind.
Nobody else can.
Your friend, your spouse, your pastor, whatever, your boss, nobody can be the gatekeeper of
your mind.
Only you.
You can't be accountable to someone because it's your mind.
So...
Well, speaking of...
What?
You confessed today.
Which time?
What did I do this time?
You said you're going to stop having heavy cream.
Oh, no.
You're going to go there.
Yes.
It's because it's the end of the day.
I'm tired.
I literally forgot.
Well, you were like, I want you to keep me accountable, which I know I can't.
I even tried.
See, I proved my point.
You said I need help because I need to quit putting so much cream in my coffee.
Well, we're carnivore and cream is okay a little bit, but I think I'm having too much
with my coffee.
You think you are?
I can't even see the coffee.
I'm being nice to myself.
It looks like all heavy cream.
I like cream in my coffee.
What can I say?
I like a little coffee with my cream.
You do.
So it's heavy cream.
So anyway, it can stall your results in carnivore because it can be too much.
It doesn't do it for everybody.
It may not even be doing it for me because I'm actually still doing it.
But it can add some inflammation.
So I'm going to start starting tomorrow.
You walk into our office tonight after a meeting.
I can't believe you're tattling on me.
I know.
You are a tattletale.
Do we have any heavy cream in our refrigerator because we have a little refrigerator?
I totally forgot.
I said-
I lost my mind.
I thought you were going to-
I defaulted to my basic human existence.
So what's the point of accountability?
The point of accountability is it doesn't work.
Well, tell us what you really think.
It doesn't work.
Daymanette.
You talked about it on Sunday.
It really doesn't work.
So I'll prove my point.
There you go.
The hard way.
There you go.
Oh man.
Busted.
But I put it out on the podcast so that you would-
Oh, I see what you're doing.
I know.
If I get thousands of people to hear this, maybe 100,000, whoever-
Maybe he will go off heavy cream.
Maybe 10, whoever listens.
I went off heavy cream.
Yeah, you did.
Yeah.
Man, look how it's working for you.
I know.
It is.
Okay.
I mean, I do have a little bit of inflammation every now and then, but not like I did.
So I think it's just-
So while we're telling on ourselves, really what we're trying to do is help you.
And first of all, we're total humans.
We've never denied it, never will.
We are not perfect people.
I'm a pastor and so what?
I'm still a dude.
I'm a guy.
And so we have to deal with the things of life just like you do.
I mean, we get up on the same side of the bed as you do, sometimes the good side and
sometimes the bad.
It's just the human experience and that's who we are.
The beauty of it is, is that we know Christ, we love Him, and here's the thing, here's
the kicker, we know He loves us.
Even in our worst day, in our worst moments.
It boils down to we have a relationship with Christ.
There it is.
Cross is in the middle of everything we do and does it make us perfect?
No, but He's the perfect one and everything we do revolves around Him.
I cannot imagine, Daymonette, I cannot imagine not doing this life without Him.
Can you even wrap your mind around it?
No, and that's one of the things I'm always grateful for when I'm praying.
I'm like, Lord, I wouldn't be here if it weren't for you and I don't want to do anything else
but serve you the rest of my life.
I wish you'd tell me that, but anyway, I'm kidding.
I'm just looking at you in the eyes and you're saying that I'm melting over here.
You're so hilarious.
I know, I'm melting.
I always do.
But it's true.
I'm sorry, I kind of joked on a really good point you were making.
No, it's okay.
No, but it's true.
No, but it's out of our relationship and when you love God, you can love people well, you
can make better decisions.
You just have to be cognizant of what's in your mind and what you allow your mind to
rehearse and nurse.
We need to be rehearsing and nursing the Word of God.
And what God says about us.
We have a women's luncheon coming up in March and one of the ladies said, you know, I'd
love there to be a card on the table that all the women can take that has a prayer and
a scripture.
And so I came up with it.
I decided I don't want to do a card, but a bookmark.
And so I came up with this bookmark.
I'm really excited about it because I had faith make this bookmark.
And it has wildflowers on it because our theme has to do with wildflowers because it's a
spring luncheon.
But I really want to talk to the women about what God says about us and how we need to
believe what God says.
So I wrote a prayer and then on the other side I talked about a scripture.
Do you have it where you can read it?
Yeah.
That would be cool.
I love the scripture.
Let me see if I can pull it up real quick.
This really, you know, I've read this scripture so many times, but when I read it this time,
I love it when the Bible does that.
It was like, just blow something up that you've read a dozen times.
Here it is.
Here's the scripture.
And this is out of Psalm 139, 13 through 19.
For you created my inmost being.
You knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful.
I know that full well.
Now I've read that dozens of times, but what really got me was the last sentence.
I know that full well.
Think about it.
We as women, I'm speaking for our gender.
I can't speak for men.
We don't know that full well.
We don't realize that we're wonderfully and fearfully made.
We're so caught.
Or the moment you start to have a good thought like that, this intrusive thought comes in
and says, oh, really?
Let me show you your flaws.
And boy, don't our eyes go to our flaws?
The first thing you look at in a photograph of a group of people that you're in, what
do you look at?
Yeah, we look at our...
Go to your flaw.
Yeah, we go to our picture.
Is my flaw showing?
The part I don't like about myself, is that what's showing?
Which is why I don't like it when you put any of my pictures on, because I go right
to that.
Oh my gosh, I spun you up on that one, didn't I?
This scripture, I know that full well.
I'm going to speak at the Women's Luncheon about that one sentence, because I don't believe,
because if I don't, and I'm a pastor, I'm seasoned, and I have a hard time with that,
I can't imagine all of these women that come in.
It's brutal.
It's a brutal assault on their mind and their soul.
Yes, it is.
Yeah.
But I want to know that fully well.
I want to know that.
And I think that God just sent me to that scripture, just because he's got to do it
with me first before I can even speak to anybody else.
When you read that to me, it immediately renewed my mind.
It was like an instantaneous yes.
And that's something that happens in the Bible.
You'll have these moments where you're inside.
You may not say it out loud, but you may not even think it, but there's something in you
screams yes.
Yes.
That's true.
And it's true of me.
When you read that, I just went all over me.
Yeah.
It's because you're so anointed.
It's powerful.
You're so sweet.
Well, no, I just think that, and I love it because I wrote out a prayer, and we're going
to give this out as a bookmark, and that way women, anybody can have it, and they'll be
able to keep it in their journal, their Bible.
And hopefully look at this, read that prayer and that scripture, and let it really take
root in their heart.
Because I feel like God's saying, Annette, take root.
Let this take root in your heart because you need to know this as much as anybody else,
if not more.
And yeah, if you're going to speak about it, you better own it.
And so it's like preaching a message.
It's got to get to you before it can get to them.
And it was that, I don't think I've ever really noticed that last sentence because I can say
it all I want.
Oh yeah, Lord, I know you knit me in my mother's womb.
I'm fearfully and wonderfully made.
But do I really know that full well?
So that's something to ponder.
Powerful.
Yeah.
Thank you for sharing that.
That's the vulnerable side, particularly females that struggle so much with body dysmorphia.
Yes, for sure.
It's a real, the struggle is real, as they say.
The struggle is real.
It really is.
It is.
But also is the victory.
The victory is imminent.
And it's all in our mind.
It's the mind of war.
Yeah.
Oh man, I love you so much.
But I love the series.
And I know you're not going to be preaching this Sunday because you've got Brian preaching
so that we can do it.
I'm playing guitar, playing lead guitar on the worship team.
And I'm doing a membership class.
But he's going to continue in the same vein of thought.
And it's going to be wonderful.
And we're going to get more out of it.
We're not going to get just as much listening to him and you and the other people.
The title of his message is Decisive Victory.
I know.
Dude, I want to hear that.
I know.
We'll be there first and third.
We'll be there for the first and third.
So that's awesome.
But I'm excited.
I'm really excited about it.
I love it, baby.
You just, wow.
It's a good series.
And I think the timing is perfect.
It's already helping people, the feedback that we're getting of people saying, that
thing about I need to start thinking about what I'm thinking about.
I'm starting to think about what I'm thinking about.
And I don't always like what I'm thinking about.
They're seeing things.
But we got to do something about it.
So yeah, for you that are listening, man, right in that same vein, start thinking about
what you're thinking about.
And then if it's not of God, which it's not that deep, you'll know, then eject it.
Reject it.
Resist it.
Don't, you're the guardian of your mind and you don't have to hold the thoughts that come.
You can't always control the thoughts that come.
They'll show up.
They'll come.
There's no guilt enough thought hitting you.
It's just now what are you going to do with it?
Don't plant it in the soil of your heart.
Exactly.
Should we thank some people?
Yes, let's thank some people.
Well, first of all, a couple of things.
This is from Renee Sechrist.
And I don't think I wrote, read this the other day.
I think this was from the last show, maybe.
But listen to what she says.
This is so cool.
I just finished episode 50.
Congratulations to you guys on the big five-oh.
Though I do agree with you that 52 marks the year and that is also a big celebration.
You did read that.
I did.
I'm sorry.
That's okay.
I'll do it anyway.
But 52 does mark the celebration.
She said she watched your story on YouTube.
And although you shared your story with me the first year you came to Oak Hills, yes,
I cried for your little girl too.
I'm feeling moved to tell you because you did share in the past that you have body image
issues that you need to know.
You are beautiful.
Simply beautiful.
I have to agree with that.
Or in Jimmy-isms, brutiful.
Many more out there agree with Jimmy on this subject.
Your beauty permeates from the inside and then out.
I've not read this because this is going all over me right now.
Maybe not.
Maybe you just read it to me.
This is beautiful.
She came to me on Sunday and sat down before church and said, I watched the video.
And she said, Annette, even though I had heard your story before a couple of times, you had
shared and then you had shared with the congregation or women's ministry, whatever I did.
She said, when I saw it, it was like I saw you as a child and I started bawling because
I could feel what you were going through as a child.
Same thing happened to me.
Love it.
Wow.
Yeah.
That was moving.
Listen to how she ends this.
She says, I'm so very happy for you that God has given you Jimmy so that you could experience
the full bounding of a Christian marriage.
Yes, God is good and always keeps his promises.
Always.
Renee, we love you so much.
You and Dan, just two of our favorite people.
Thank you for listening to the show, but thank you for letting us know what's percolating
in your heart.
It helps.
Here's another note from a dear friend, Peggy Layden.
We love Peggy.
We get to see her this week.
I know.
We're going to see her on Friday night and Saturday.
She wrote an email and I have not responded.
I haven't had a moment.
I responded.
Oh, good.
I'm glad.
I love your emails.
Peggy, I love you.
I'm just not good at responding to emails because I'm so busy executing everything else
and Jimmy is fly by night.
Oh, I'll respond to everything.
No, it's good.
Don't drag me into this.
Well, you did respond.
I did.
All right, from Peggy.
She says, I see your growth at church.
She sees it, obviously.
I am not surprised at all.
It is so exciting.
God told me that that was going to happen when I felt prompted to reach out and offer
some teaming options.
She took us through Strength Finders 2.0.
We had such a blast with that.
With her, she was a jewel.
She was fun.
Love you both.
I'm so proud of you, Annette.
You are helping many women by leaning into all your truths and what God has done in and
through you.
God bless your week and can't wait to see you.
KYBO.
Keep your bucket till it's flowing.
That leaky bucket.
It's so funny.
Thank you, TJ the Wrathful.
Well, she says, KYBO, and I don't have the jingle for KTLD because it's really an Adam
and Tina jingle.
But you've got to get it from them.
KTLD stands for...
We've been keeping the lid down long before we met Adam and Tina.
Long before it was a thing with Adam.
We've always kept the lid down.
I never understood people that keep it up.
But we digress.
She says, I'm doing both.
Good for you, Peggy.
Good for you.
Keep your buckets overflowing.
Got this from Patrick Cobble.
This is really cool.
PJ and Adam, he wrote me an Adam, said, I'm on the journey since Veterans Day.
Brother, bless you, man.
Bless you, Patrick.
That's awesome.
And thank you both for your ministries, for bringing me back in.
Welcome home, brother.
Oh, gosh.
Welcome back in.
I love that.
He says, today was my first communion in 10 years.
Oh, my goodness.
Patrick, Duke of the South.
That's his handle.
Man, we're so proud of you.
We're for you.
Any way we can encourage you and help you, that's our heart.
Stay on the journey.
Stay the course.
And definitely keep your buckets overflowing.
Oh, I'm not going to do it.
I'm going to hit it again.
But anyway, brother, we're proud of you.
From Ashley Slater and Ben.
Oh, man, I got to give these guys a big shout out.
So Ashley and Ben Slater visited Fredericksburg.
I know.
They live in Minnesota.
And I didn't really get to visit with them because it was so crazy on Church Sunday.
But I got to hug their necks and say hi to them and catch up with them a little bit.
And she blessed us.
So Ashley has a business called Ashen Fire.
Oh, my gosh.
And she makes these journals.
Beautiful journals.
Beautiful leather journals.
Each one's unique.
They're hand done.
And I just want to give a huge shout out to Ashley and Ben.
It was so cool to meet you guys.
And next time you're in town, we are definitely going out for steaks.
We got to do some meat.
Yes.
She said, I think I heard your birthday is coming up soon on Curry and the Keeper.
Mine too.
I'm a Groundhog Day baby turning the big 4.0.
Congratulations for leveling up, Ashley.
In fact, now's the time that I am coming to Fred.
My husband and I will be attending the early service with Tina Adam on Sunday.
They did that.
And we got to meet them and hug their neck.
And just super stoked to get to meet them, first of all, but really also thankful for
the journals.
So cool.
So sweet.
Awesome.
Beautiful journal.
We were fighting over who's going to take which one.
I know, because I liked them both.
She told me we were going to fight over those.
That's true.
We did.
Yeah.
And you won, of course.
So, Boostergrams.
We've got some Boostergrams.
We've got a 2.0 platform, which is value for value accessible.
That means if you value what we're doing and you like what we're doing, you can show value
times, talents, treasure, whatever.
I mean, you can boost us with sats.
You can send us a note, whatever.
It's an encouragement to us.
And by the way, go to our website, livingupinadownworld.com.
Sign up for our newsletter.
We do it.
In fact, I'm way behind.
I got to get it done tonight, but we're airing this tomorrow.
So it all works out.
But do sign up for our newsletter.
And that way, you'll have a bump from us.
We don't overrun you or anything.
It's just a reminder.
Hey, we've got a show coming.
Be sure and be ready for that and be looking for it.
So, livingupinadownworld.com.
Bob the Shed with 100 Sats says, man, love to hear you love God.
I do too.
Now I do believe.
And he goes on and on.
He just builds up.
He's just being thankful that he boosted us with some sats.
So thanks, Bob the Shed.
We appreciate the note.
And Kevin Hallisey with 1,776.
Hmm, you think that means anything?
1,776 Sats.
Boosting from San Luis Potosi.
I did not know where that was.
Mexico.
It's in Mexico.
Dude, that is so awesome.
There is a Potosi, Texas right out south of Abilene.
So you kind of thought.
Not the same place.
Yeah, you thought.
This is San Luis Potosi.
He says, as I've added international jet flight courier work to my usual endless drive deliveries.
So he does a lot of driving in Mexico.
So he listens to us.
He says, listening always connects me to the living up community.
Bro, you are connected.
And I thank you for living up in a down world.
Down in Mexico.
So awesome.
I love it.
Thanks for writing, Kevin.
We appreciate you.
And the last one we have is a Striper donation.
From Mr. Adam, the pond father, Curry, who I have to brag on in just a minute before
we go.
We've got to talk about our night out with him.
Roswell is where the alien, he's directing this to you to correct.
Because last week you thought Area 51 was in Roswell, New Mexico.
I was thinking it was Roswell, but it's Vegas.
I know.
I got it.
You even took a stand on that.
I did.
You're like, standing your ground.
Yes.
I felt sorry for you.
But anyway, Roswell is where the aliens crashed and Area 51 is where they filmed the moon landing.
Oh.
This is from Adam.
Of course.
The conspiracy therapist.
Therapist.
Just clearing that up.
Area 51 is where they filmed the moon landing.
Love you guys.
Now, weekly.
He's excited about us doing it every week.
That's funny.
So that's it for the day.
So, just, we got to, we went out.
They took me out for my birthday because I need to talk about my birthday again.
And they gave you an amazing gift.
Oh my gosh.
A Shun, S-H-U-N, 12 inch classic brisket knife.
This knife is a Japanese made piece of art.
I'm so excited for you, honey.
It feels like a samurai sword.
So, we need to get that brisket out of the freezer so you can tear it up.
Tear it up.
Well, I cut my steak with it last night.
You did?
I went off Sean Baker on it.
Oh, I didn't have steak with you.
Dr. Sean Baker, the big guy, you know, 260 pounds of muscle.
I couldn't eat dinner.
I had too big of a lunch.
He uses a huge brisket knife to cut his steak.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, that's right.
You're right.
Eat off a cutting board.
It's what a carnivore does.
Well, it was a great dinner we had with them.
We had a, and we went to this cool place here in town that I, we've been here eight years.
Frieden Helms.
I can't believe you remember that.
It's very well done.
I've been talking about it all day.
Oh.
So, we went to this place.
It's old school German and it's this huge.
I never knew it was there.
Yeah, I didn't either.
And man, I found it.
I thought it was like a big hotel or something.
We had such a good time.
Destiny waited on us.
She's hilarious.
And we just, every time we go out with Adam and Tina, it's verbiage mayhem.
It's a verbal assault of the best kind.
We talk about God, the world, and other things.
That's our topic.
And what's funny is we'll talk all together for a little bit and then we pair off.
Have you ever noticed?
Yes.
Adam and I are one wavelength.
You two, you and Tina are over there.
And it's like nonstop verbal assault.
It's so fun.
And we always have such a good time with them.
We've been just walking with them and celebrating their growth in Christ because they are just
continuing to grow.
And she's bringing people to church that are getting saved and baptized.
Oh, Brandi, that was so cool.
We're baptized.
Awesome.
Did we even talk about our baptism service?
Yeah.
No, because it happened that night.
No, we did this last Thursday, remember?
We did?
Yes.
Oh, okay.
My bad.
Yeah, I think so.
Baptized 11 people.
I think we did.
Are you sure?
No, we did it on time.
I'm certain we did.
We recorded last Tuesday.
Tuesday?
Was it Tuesday?
Okay.
So, we had a big special service on Wednesday night.
We had like 200 people show up on a Wednesday night, which is the most we ever had for this.
We did a worship service, but we also baptized 11 people.
And it was...there were a lot of tears.
There was a lot of laughter.
There was a lot of joy and celebration.
And man, just saw some cool things happen.
So yeah, I see that.
I see the time you're showing me your eyes on there.
Well, I want to keep it shorter so people will want to listen.
Okay, I just want to say a big shout out to Adam and Tina just for blessing me with that
super cool knife that I'm still nerding out over.
Did you wash it so you could use it tonight?
Of course I washed it.
Okay, well, let's go home and have steak.
Very carefully.
Well, it's 5.43 p.m. here in the Texas Hill Country.
Oh my gosh.
We have not eaten since 9 o'clock this morning.
And I am ready to go all carnivore and Sean Baker on a steak.
So, let's go home and cook a steak.
All right.
Hey guys, we love you guys.
Hey, thanks for hanging out with us, living up in a down world.
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