Don't get down when you're seeing the worst,
cause the last will be the first.
What a day I'm telling you,
all things will be new.
Living up in a down world.
Yeah we're living, yeah we're living,
living up in a down world.
Oh!
This is Jimmy Internet and we are coming to you from
the heart of the Texas Hill Country,
Fredericksburg, Texas and the Bridge Studios.
And we have a special guest with us today.
We sure do.
Who's here?
Mr. Chevy.
Mr. Chevy is here and he's like almost asleep.
He was so excited to get in our car and drive over here.
I know cause you said, do you want to go?
And he knew.
And he perked up.
He was like ready roll.
He was like oh.
He's tired today though.
He had a dramatic day.
I know.
I was going to say traumatic but dramatic.
Because he got groomed today.
Beauty salon, yeah.
Beauty salon day.
That's never traumatic for me.
That's always my best day.
But he's a guy.
Ever.
He's a dude.
Well but you know he does like to be beheaded.
So I'm sure he loves when they use that razor.
He actually does act like he loves it.
I mean when I carry him in there he's like super excited.
They must treat him very well.
I'm sure.
Cause they all call him Mr. Chevy.
So they all know him.
So it's funny.
He makes friends everywhere he goes.
He does.
He's a good dog.
Yeah.
So I'm glad he's with us.
How are you doing today?
I'm good.
It's been a crazy day I guess.
I don't know.
I don't know how to feel today because we're on our little short sabbatical for a month.
And I'm like I started I've worked.
And then I told Tina she goes well hopefully you won't you know be working too much.
I'm like I know.
I can't stop.
So I did a little bit of work.
But we did a little bit of play and we got in the pool for a little while and just enjoyed
ourselves.
I'm kind of relaxed.
It's super hot here.
I think I'm the heat.
That's what it is.
But we're relaxed too because it is nice knowing that we can sort of do this reboot.
We're calling it a sabbatical reboot or reset.
It's like we're doing it every year.
But we're only doing it the month of June.
Half the amount of time.
And we're not as disconnected as we were in our first big one.
We changed our phone numbers.
I can't change our phone numbers.
No we're not doing that again.
That was wild.
But we needed to do that.
No it was good.
And so we've maintained where we don't not everybody has our phone number.
So it's good.
But we need to be a little bit more available because Pastor Brian is on his own for the
first time.
Well Pastor Russ is here.
Thank goodness.
And Pastor Jeff.
They're holding it down.
I'm not worried about them at all.
So we've got some plans.
We had a really first of all this is show number 69.
Oh wow.
So we're moving right along.
But yeah we had a great week last week.
Let's kind of bring folks up to speed.
We weren't going to start our vacation slash sabbatical till July 1st.
But we got blessed with a trip from the Holbrooks.
Michael and Jill.
To Colorado for a week.
They won it in an auction and gave it to us.
And Tina and Curry were supposed to go with this.
Tina and Curry.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Hello.
Tina and Adam Curry.
We're supposed to go with this and couldn't last minute.
But we ended up going and it was wonderful.
It was I loved breathing in the Colorado mountain air.
That was beautiful.
8,000 feet.
That's the altitude there.
And we stayed in Avalon.
No.
Avon.
Which is like what five miles down.
I mean just a little.
Ten minutes from Vail.
From Vail.
We spent most of our time in Vail.
Yeah.
Once we found Lion's Head Village and Vail Village we just hung out.
I know exactly where I want to stay next year when we go.
It's beautiful there.
I mean.
I was shocked.
The whole area.
That whole valley.
I didn't know it was a valley.
So it's a mountain valley.
And it's got sheer mountains on each side.
And it's absolutely stunning.
I've driven through there but I was a kid.
Probably didn't appreciate what you appreciate now.
Or just didn't remember it because we drove all over Colorado many, many years.
I mean that was our main vacation spot.
So anyway it was great and the weather was amazing.
It was like in the 70s and 80s.
The mornings were super crisp and cool.
The only thing is that was really hard on us a few days was no air conditioning in our condo.
Yeah.
What's up with that?
I know.
I've never done that.
People don't do that I guess.
Well at 8,000 feet you don't really have to have it.
But the knots were warmer than normal.
That's true.
So I was like can we handle this?
Well thank goodness I found a box fan.
Oh there's a box fan in the closet.
That's why.
Yes.
And that's kind of saved the day.
And that kind of scared me when we first got there.
I thought oh no we can't stay.
There's no air conditioning.
We put our air down to 64 and not here in Texas.
We like it cold.
Even in the winter we do that.
We run air conditioning year round.
We run it year round because we like it cool.
And so that was a challenge but we made it work.
You know and when we first got there we were kind of iffy.
We were like I don't know.
I think it just it caught it came on very quickly because we were working so hard and pedal to the metal and running and gunning.
And then it was like you know just boom time to go.
And I think it kind of caught us off guard.
So we weren't as excited about it because we were so running and running and running.
And then when we got there we even talked about maybe maybe come back early.
Maybe we shouldn't stay the whole time.
And then we woke up the next morning and it was like the Holy Spirit spoke to both of us and said you need to relax.
Enjoy this gift.
Enjoy it.
And I'm telling you we did.
Boy it was so good.
We just shifted our mindset.
And literally it was like what are we going to do today?
Let's go do something fun.
Let's go eat somewhere fun.
The bed was the most comfortable.
The bed was amazing.
The condo hotel bed I've ever slept in.
It literally felt like I was in my own bed.
And it was a big big condo too.
It was huge.
Two bedroom two bath but big.
Lots of space so.
And it just turned out great.
I mean you know there was a place to work out.
We were able to you know just stay physical.
Yes.
And of course lots of good like breakfast places.
There's a lot of good places to eat around there.
I think the biggest challenge for us was the food was so expensive there because we wanted
to go have a nice breakfast and by the time we left our bill was $80 for a breakfast.
It was crazy.
Yeah.
And that was kind of I was shocked.
I felt like we were in Fredericksburg.
Yeah but it feels no it's worse than Fredericksburg.
It's more like Southern California.
They definitely get you.
But I was a little bit shocked about the cost of eating.
But it was so good.
And as carnivores we did have our moments where we were like let's get that pancake.
Yeah.
Let's enjoy this.
We're on vacation.
So we can't do that now that we're on real vacation.
No way.
We had to come back and go no we can't do that.
We've been full on.
Yeah.
Because we're coming up on our one year carnivore.
Yes.
On July 4th of all days.
Yes.
Because last year it's when we started our Ketivore journey.
Yes.
And three weeks into it we shifted to full on carnivore.
So it's all the same thing.
But we thought well let's just deviate.
Because usually when we go out of town we don't deviate from our eating.
No we're very committed.
But we decided it's been a year let's kind of celebrate.
And we were good until we decided to have Mexican food.
Oh that was not good.
And I will never do that again.
Not good.
That was a total reminder of why we're eating like this.
We're doing it.
And what it did to my body in terms of how sluggish I felt.
How lethargic I felt.
I just it was like a blanket.
Yes.
A hot blanket got placed over me.
I felt even emotionally I felt down.
I was like this is not good.
Well you just can't have gluten.
No.
Not good.
I really do believe you have a gluten allergy.
And you know how you test that is by elimination.
Right.
Died elimination.
Right.
And then you add things back in.
And as soon as we started adding that in.
Boom.
You're sick.
I felt so good all year long.
We've only like every once in a while we'll have a piece of sourdough bread at a steakhouse
or something.
Just to have something with butter on it.
But that's rare.
Very rare.
And it doesn't ever bother me.
But this just eating a full on tamales enchiladas with rice and beans and chips.
I did the whole full meal deal.
Oh man.
And then we got on the plane the next day.
But we said okay.
I chatted pretty good.
I was alright.
We came back and said okay strict carnivore.
And we have been strict.
Oh we've been hardcore since we got back.
And feel so much better.
Oh my gosh.
Literally I turned in like a day.
I know.
Once we got right back on my body said oh thank you very much.
That's the beauty of this way of eating is you can just flip the switch.
Go back and it doesn't take as long to recover.
Almost instantaneous for me.
So I feel great.
We just had steak.
So it's in the evening.
We used to record earlier in the day.
But since we're here at the studio after hours.
We wanted to wait until everybody was gone.
So we could come up here.
But I'm going to change the subject because I want to go to Sunday and what happened on Sunday.
Because you were supposed to preach your last sermon for the month.
And we're in a series called Beyond Red and Blue.
And last few weeks before you were scheduled to preach you said I want to bring you to the
studio.
And you said I want to bring Colby Wiltsie in and let him share a story.
And you brought him in.
And oh my gosh.
That was so eye opening.
I could hear audible just like what?
I mean like the things he accomplished but the things he found out that was going on in
Corpus Christi which is actually going on in most towns here.
It's corruption.
And he.
George Soros backed DA's and judges.
And yeah.
I mean dark stuff.
But I didn't want to hear.
I knew you knew his whole story which is why you brought him in.
But I wanted to hear it from him.
And so you had just told me bits and pieces of one little story.
But he opened up with.
He had many stories.
And I was shocked at what one man can do when you put your mind to it and you say I'm going
to research.
We're going to uncover everything we can.
And he got on with an organization called Citizens Defending Freedom as a director.
And it's changed his life.
He started as a local director.
Yes.
And then he's now the director over all the Texas chapters.
And these are all over Texas.
And Citizens Defending Freedom there.
Their goal is to train equip people there.
They deal with election integrity corruption and really trying to return our state and
our nation back to its founding documents.
How we started this thing which is based on God's word.
It's faith based great organization.
Highly recommend you check it out.
I actually have the interview.
So instead of doing a sermon.
I love the way you did it.
He's not a preacher.
So I had this idea while we were in Colorado when you first invited him.
He thought he was going to have to preach and he's like I've never preached before he told Naomi services.
And so we kind of flipped it and decided to do interview style.
And that was wonderful.
It was like you were sitting there doing a podcast with them.
It was like and that's exactly what it was like.
And it came up because we were in Colorado and I was thinking about it.
And I just felt like I'm putting a lot of pressure on this guy.
He's never preached before in a pulpit per se.
And that's not fair.
So I thought his story is so good.
I want to set him up so he could really T way I put is I'm going to tease the ball up for you so you can really, really hit it.
And so we did it.
We did it podcast style.
You can see that you can go to bridge FBG dot com our website and just go scroll halfway down the page.
And it's right there or you can go to YouTube.
We're on YouTube at Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas.
Make sure you put Texas on the end of that or you'll end up in Virginia.
It's definitely worth listening to.
Yeah.
It's from June 30th.
It is worth listening to.
I think the message part of it starts at about 45 minutes in.
So you can skip that front if you want to.
Yeah.
Skip the music and all that.
Go right to that.
Yeah.
So we were sitting on chairs and we both had microphones and I did a little intro just talking about salt and light.
Jesus said you're the salt of the world.
You're the salt.
You know, you're salt and light.
Light of the world, salt of the earth.
And we're to go in and be salt and light.
That's what we're called to do.
So I kicked it off with that and then I had him share his story and it was compelling.
Oh, my God.
Powerful.
So I also have that link on our newsletter.
Oh, OK.
You can sign up for our newsletter by going to livingupandadownworld.com and it just says newsletter.
You just click on it.
Give us your email address.
We'll get these out to you.
And so the link is also there.
And I have a whole section on Colby and Sarah, his wife.
Amazing young lady.
Powerhouse in God.
You and her are like sisters from another mother.
I know.
It's crazy.
And me and Colby are like brothers from another mother.
Although she could be my youngest daughter.
She's young.
They're young.
But we just hit it off and we had such a great time just being with.
And I really think I believe he has more stories to tell.
And I would love to bring both of them back.
Yes.
And her be able to share because I think she has a lot to say.
Well, my idea of I mentioned this to them while they were here is for you and me and to be in chairs or on stools and them to be on stools.
Everybody.
Oh, I love that.
And we all have a conversation about what does it mean to say our family is going to get in the arena?
Our family is going to engage culture because as children of God, as sons and daughters, our responsibility is to engage the culture and to take the gospel into the hard and heavy places as well as the easy places.
But it's being Christian isn't about being at church all the time.
It's about what are you doing Monday through Saturday?
Exactly.
When you're out there at work where you live, work and play.
And so I think it'd be great because I think I want to hear her perspective on what was it like when your husband was didn't know he was being filmed ended up on the on the evening news that went viral and all these people started coming against him and lying about you.
How do you how do you as a as a wife getting a hold of his phone number and calling and harassing and just it was bad.
And he's they're young.
He didn't even tell this part, but he they had to get 24 hour protection for days and days because the threats from the gangs, the bandidos.
But it didn't stop him.
No, that's what I love.
Stop it all persevered through the persecution.
Yeah, but he did what he and all of us are called to do.
And that's bring the gospel.
And they came out victorious on the other side, not only spiritually, but practically in real world terms where the D.A. that was crooked and running cartels out of his office had he resigned under pressure.
And because they they outed him with all the stuff he was doing illegally.
And the beautiful part of that story, a part of it is, is that the general who was a part of the cartels, he went to church and he ended up going to a church where a Liberty pastor was preaching.
We say Liberty pastor, we mean a patriotic pastor talks about America and he got radically saved and started going back to the groups, his lieutenants and sharing Jesus and sharing his testimony.
And they started getting revival broke out among the cartels and the gangs there in Corpus Christi.
I think he's snoring.
I was going, are you snorting?
I think they give him drugs when they give him a haircut.
I'm pretty sure.
I wish they'd give me drugs when I got a haircut.
So you don't have to endure.
Don't be so anxious.
But the thing is, is, you know, he he is willing to get out there.
He was not, he wasn't a politician.
He wasn't in city government at all.
He was not a pastor.
Still isn't, but I think he is, but he's not.
He's got it.
He doesn't have the title.
He was just an oil and gas person.
Engineer.
And God called him out of that.
And he heard about this ministry, Citizens Defending Freedom, and decided to apply for it and said, God, I don't even know what to do.
I don't know.
This year, this is all going to be you.
And God has just radically changed Corpus Christi.
And he's just ran with it.
They got the school board flipped with Christian and godly people on there.
A majority of Christians on there.
They got majority Christians on the city council.
And then there's another council, the library council.
I mean, every all of the power centers of the community now have godly people in there making decisions and writing policy.
I know I was like, wow.
But what he did, he gave us a blueprint and offered to help us in our own community.
And that's what they do.
That's that's what his job is, is to help others do this.
And even even on the legal side of things, they have attorneys on retainer that if you ever have to deal with threats from the ACLU and others that would that would try to threaten you.
They they've got your back.
They've got your back.
So anyway, it's good news.
It's like, you know, it's been a really kind of a good week legally for like, obviously, with what happened with Trump and then the beginning of the week with the or or last week with the debacle of a debate.
That was embarrassing.
Yeah, which we didn't watch because we were on a plane.
Yeah, I couldn't have I could have watched it anyway.
Either way.
And yeah, sad.
It's tragic, actually.
You know, I was reading a quote by Ronald Reagan.
Can I share this?
And the reason I want to say it is because, you know, Ronald Reagan was kind of the last great statesman that as a as a president, he carried himself presidentially.
And so listen to this.
This is from Ronald Reagan.
He says, Of the many influences that have shaped the United States of America into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the founding fathers abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual rights, which they found implicit in the Bible's teachings.
Of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual.
President Ronald Reagan, 40th president United States.
What a statement.
And what I love about President Reagan, you know, he he held the Bible in high regard and high esteem, and he often touted its value and virtue.
And he was the last president to really.
He really was.
He really was with such esteem and to have such a there was a dignity about him.
Whenever I even go back and you can go on YouTube and watch watch him.
And whenever I see a speech by him, I feel comforted.
I feel safe.
I feel like this is a man who's in control.
And when I mean that in the right way and in a healthy way, who is secure and who he is and who is God is and God give us more Ronald Reagan's.
I mean, we need it.
And and I'm not knocking on Trump or even Biden either.
I mean, it's just we're in a different season of our nation and our world.
And we we need I'm not going to say we need a hero.
We just need a man of God to step up and lead.
And anyway, I'm hoping I'm hoping God sends that person.
And in the meantime, I love what Rick Green says about voting.
He says, if you wait to vote until a perfect person is in office, you'll never vote.
And until Jesus is on the ballot, you're going to be stuck with the lesser two evils.
So get out and vote.
Whatever you do, don't not vote.
Get out there and participate in the process.
Even if you think it's rigged, even if you don't trust the system, get out there because the numbers do matter.
The law of averages can overwhelm if the body of Christ got out and voted.
We could literally vote any president and we want if we would get together on the same page.
But again, the enemy's chaos is the weapon.
It's just as important to vote locally, though, because we can't change what's happening in big government.
We can in our cities.
And that's really important to get to know who the candidates are and what they stand for and what their record is for what they stand for.
And not just say, you know, with their mouth what they believe, but are they actually proving that out in what they've done in the past?
And I think that's really, really important for us to get involved locally.
There's a website called I voter.
I voter dot voter guide dot com.
I just looked it up because I just read about it.
And it it's how to find out what people are voting for.
It's voter guidelines assigned to regions and areas so you can find out what's being voted on in your area, your region, your representatives.
And another thing today, I set up an email.
I'm going to write my representative again.
I'm going to make it a habit to write my chip.
Chip Roy. Yeah, I'm going to write him again.
Last time I wrote him, it was about the border issue.
I was I hadn't decided which direction I'm going to go with it, but I want to encourage him and what he's doing because he's strong.
He's he's he's going after some stuff.
And so I want to encourage it.
It's more encouraging him and cheering him on than it is, you know, saying I need you to do this or whatever.
I'm just writing to say, keep running the race.
Stay the course.
And we need to write our representatives.
We need to they need to know our names.
They need to they need to know who we are because we're the ones who put them in office.
And once they're in office, they need to hear from us.
And it does matter.
It absolutely matters.
So just encourage you to engage at that level.
But yeah, thank you for bringing up Colby, Colby, Wiltsie, Sarah, his wife.
We had a great weekend with them.
Great people.
And so in love with Jesus, they are they are full on.
You know, I think, you know, as we were driving to church on Sunday morning, I made a comment.
I was little, you know, Laurie McClellan, who is our administrator right now, she lost her father last week suddenly.
And it was devastating to her and her family.
And so all week, I just had this heaviness on my heart for them.
And so as we were coming into Sunday and I knew what Colby was speaking, I was like, I don't want to forget that there are still people out there hurting
and that not everything is about what's going on with culture, but what what's happening in culture is affecting every area of everybody's life right now.
And but I but I was I was a little bit concerned and I thought, I hope this it doesn't go too far.
And it doesn't feel like we had church, that it's very politically charged and not godly.
And oh, my gosh, he so surprised me with the word that came out of his mouth, the scriptures, the Bible.
He preached. It was as if I was listening to a very seasoned preacher up there just talking about his testimony of how he was able to get things changed
around to what God wants in government.
But it was so moving for me.
So when I left, I was like, God, you had this plan the whole time.
Here I am kind of worried, like like Martha, you know, make it sure everything is done.
And I'm, you know, running around around the house, just checking on everything else and forgetting that Jesus is still on the throne
and that no matter what, he's going to be high and lifted up in church.
He was high and lifted up, if anything, it was more so than just a sermon because he gave true facts and testimony of what he did and what we can do and how I, you know,
I think the hardest thing is, is watching people come to church.
I'm not I'm going to make a broad statement.
This isn't just our church because we have such an amazing church, but broad statement that we have so many people come to church and then on Monday, they live a different life.
They go into the office. They might get in on course jesting, joking.
They might get in on the just worldly things that are not pleasing to God.
And that is not what God wants.
He wants us to live a life for him and turn this world around to where we're walking in holiness and godliness and not having these compartmentalized lives.
And I felt like he just the way he brought the word, it was so it was moving because he's doing what what has been in my heart.
And I want to see the church as as a as a whole literally walking out what we're supposed to be doing in this world.
We're not of this world. We're in it, but we're not to be of this world.
And that's why we can't go along with the way the world, the way the media, the way Hollywood,
the way the politicians are telling us to to act in this world and to watch in this world and to to where in this world and to just respond to the world.
We're supposed to be salt and light. It's like you said, that's who we're supposed to be.
We're supposed to be the ones that people look up to because we're standing up for something bigger.
And Colby, he he just what do you say? He hit it out of the park.
Is that what you're saying? Yes, knock it out of the park. It's a grand slam. It was beautiful.
It was totally the gospel. Totally. We encourage you to go listen to it.
You can watch it again on YouTube. Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas.
You can do that on YouTube and you'll go right to it. Start about 45 minutes in where I introduce and we just sit down on chairs, both of us.
We're having a conversation in front of the church and I just kept teeing it up for him to.
It's literally like watching a podcast. Yeah, yeah, it is. YouTube podcast on a church platform.
But it was so powerful. We'll have Colby and Sarah back because we have more to talk about.
And there are more stories to share. But go and listen to their God story of how God through them and using him turned a city around a city of three hundred thousand plus people around.
It's a border town. It's down on the coast, almost a border town right in close to the valley.
And there's some hard things going on down there because of the of our open borders right now.
A lot of crime and drugs and drug trafficking and sex trafficking. And they're shutting this stuff down.
Well, let me say it this way. God's doing it through them. He's using them. And that's all he wants. He wants us.
And what Colby's saying is that you don't have to be a preacher or a theologian. You don't have to be a politician or law enforcement or first responder or military.
Just suit up and show up. That was really what his message was. Yes, it really was. Suit up and show up.
And it may be that you're just there to pray. Exactly. And not even out loud.
It may be you're just your presence because you carry the presence of Jesus Christ in you.
You're a believer. Your presence needs to be there and you're praying under your breath at the city council meeting.
You're talking about a city council meeting or school board or shack meeting. Yes.
And we're going to be going into that starting in August and September.
You and I are going to start attending some of these meetings on a regular basis.
And our primary goal is not to go there and be belligerent. No, we don't want to be combative.
That's not us. We're not there to cause chaos. We're there to bring peace.
So we're going to go in and probably long before we say anything, although you know how God works,
we're going to be there. We represent nearly 800 to 1,000 voters here in our city.
That's a lot of voters, especially in a city our size.
As we go in there we're going to be lacing the atmosphere with prayer.
That's my goal is to go intercede. And if anything happens out of that, great.
But really our presence is there to pray. Yes, because if God tells you to open up your mouth, you will.
I will. But that's not the whole purpose.
And it's representing. We're representing Christ wherever we go.
The scripture says that we are his ambassadors as though he were pleading through us.
And so when we show up, Jesus shows up. And so that's what we're going to do.
We're going to bring the presence of God. We're encouraging.
And that's really why I brought Colby in, why I brought Rick Green in from the Patriot Academy and Brad Stein, God's comic.
The reason I brought all these people in was because they're mobilizing the church to go into their community and be salt and light.
In other words, taking the gospel into a practical world way.
Because a lot of people are so spiritually minded they don't do anything. They're just spiritual.
They just go from one revival meeting to another.
A conference or whatever. But they're not affecting their community.
Yeah, there's no real world impact. If we're just impacting each other and it's like playing badmitting with one another.
We're just hitting the thing over the net back and forth.
And when we're supposed to be out in the world being salt and light, Jesus said, go there for and make disciples of all the nations.
We're woefully behind on that because we have capitulated and we've stepped away from the public square.
So that our voice is now marginalized and we're not saying anything.
So it's time to reactivate, step back up to the plate, suit up, show up.
And then whatever God wants to do, He'll do. But He can't use you if you're not there.
It's like Isaiah 6, here am I, send me.
And that's one of my favorite passages right there.
That is what God wants. He just wants us to be willing and obedient.
He said, if you're willing and obedient, you'll eat the good of the land.
And that's what He wants. He didn't make us robots to where we own.
We have a will and we have a choice.
But Christians are, we're not using what God's given us to be a voice for Him.
And we need to be a voice for Christ. We have to be a voice for Christ.
The greatest weapon we have is prayer.
When we pray in an atmosphere, it changes the atmosphere.
You may not see the change. You may not see the shift.
It's like being on an ocean and there's a doldrum that happens.
You think, well, there's no current, there's no wind,
but you don't even know it, but you're being moved along
because there's a current that you can't see under the water that's moving you along.
And it's the same way when we pray in a meeting in a given environment,
we may not see movement, but there is movement happening.
That's why we walk by faith and not by sight.
And I want to encourage you, wherever you live, in whatever country you're in,
you have to evaluate and estimate what is my role for being a change agent in my country
because there's so many different kinds of government styles.
This podcast goes all over the world, literally, into the East, into Asia, into Europe.
It goes everywhere, South America.
And so it's not always just American here that we're talking about.
And anybody that has a pulse and a computer can see that the world is on fire.
The world is burning right now.
And we need believers.
We need those who love Jesus, filled with His Holy Spirit,
and are willing to get out in the arena, first of all, to pray.
Jesus, not Jesus, but through the prophet, we read in 2 Chronicles 7-14,
if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face
and turn from their wicked ways, turn from our wicked ways, He says,
I will hear from heaven, I will forgive your sin, and I will heal your land.
Can you imagine what could happen if the church really walked that verse out?
So we need to humble ourselves. We need to pray. We need to seek His face.
Why not do that in a city council meeting?
Why not do that on a legislative floor in the balcony?
You can go to your state legislature, you can go to your state capitol during session
and sit in the balcony and pray and believe that your prayers
are actually shifting things down on that floor because they are.
Well, and I think too, I think we lack courage.
You know what the Bible talks about, people that are cowards.
And we need to, if we don't have courage, then we need to pray for courage.
Absolutely.
The courage to be able to step out and to allow God to use us wherever He wants to use us.
And not everybody is supposed to go to city council or the school board.
Exactly, I agree.
But it may be just in their home. Act like a Christian in your home.
Can you imagine what would happen if we turned off the TV and acted like a Christian?
I'm not talking about any TV, but some of the shows that we watch like you and I did,
just act like a Christian, pray with your family.
Yeah, with just the attitude, I want to please God.
I want to honor God.
I just want to honor Him with my behavior, with my decisions,
even the nuanced micro choices that we make all through the day.
You know, is what I'm doing honoring Him right now or is this just all about me?
And that's just that.
But if we would do that, but now take that outside the church, take it outside of your house.
What does that look like at the workplace?
What does it look like where you play, where you hobby, whatever your hobby may be?
We all have hobbies and stuff we like to do.
What would it look like if you carried the fruit of the Spirit into your hobby place?
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, chillness, faithfulness, and self-control.
What would it look like if you showed up like that?
I mean, what would it look like if you didn't get in on the gossip?
If you just refused to gossip, you refused to bash other people.
And you say, you know what, I don't want to hear this and you walk away.
Or are we afraid of being persecuted?
Yeah, so good Annette.
We can be change agents and difference makers right where we live.
We don't have to go to Washington.
You don't have to go to your nation's capital or your state capital.
You can go where you live, where your sphere of influence is.
And you can suit up and show up right there and make a difference.
Can I get an amen?
Amen.
That was good.
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I mean, that's even more than that.
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You are both shaking your heads at the same time.
That was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
What, the dog in the...
Yes.
You were nodding at me and he was too.
Thank you, Chevy, for affirming.
But anyway, that's value for value.
So, I mean, value can be in a million different things.
It's not just about money and resources.
It's about your gift of time or your gift of giving a word of encouragement.
How many times have I thought about or have you thought about it?
I should encourage somebody and then you get busy and you forget to do it.
And in your mind, you think you did it, but you never did.
You didn't release it to them, so it didn't show value to them.
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Hey, you're beautiful.
I forgot to say at the beginning of the show, you're stunning.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
And so are you, Shevi, because you're all gussied up.
He's looking up at you.
He's pretty.
What about me? He's actually prettier than I am today.
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