This is Jimmy Internet and we are excited that you're here with us on this evening to
weekend evening. Hello, gorgeous. Saturday evening. We don't do podcasts on Saturday
evening. We wanted to get one in this week and we're leaving next week for a staff retreat.
Don't know if we'll be able to get one until the end of next week. So it is what it is.
We have to do it at different days, different times. We have day jobs. We have day jobs.
We work. We have a lot going. And I worked what? Six days this week. Oh, yeah. It's been
a big week. Seven days. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I get it. That's my life too. People think we come home
and we don't do anything, but we're always studying. We're always listening to things.
We have to fill our buckets up. So we have something to give out, right? Exactly. Exactly.
So we are on episode number 76 and we are in our home studio and I have, it's a tent city in here.
There's blankets everywhere. I feel like an adolescent when I'm putting that up, like a child.
You look like we're setting up tents like we did when we were little kids. That's what I'm saying.
It's like forts, tent forts. Yes. But they do work because the last time we recorded at home,
we're experimenting. This is called Pod Mobile by Audio Sigma. It's a really cool
interface. You don't have to plug it in. It just plugs right into your phone or your computer,
your iPad, and you can, wherever you are, you can do a podcast. So this is amazing. So it makes it
really nice. And me and Adam Curry are experimenting with this because we're going to be doing,
launching a local show soon, which I'm super excited about called Hello Fred. Tina said today,
she said, well, I don't know if Jimmy's going to have time. I said, oh, he'll put it on the calendar.
This will be part of his time. He would never bail on that because this is so important,
very important. So I'm excited for you all to do that. Thank you. I'm looking forward to it. It's
going to be great fun because I love doing stuff with my bestie, Adam Curry. So you had a big day
today. I did. I was able- So let's work our week backwards instead of forward. You know what I mean?
Let's start today and then we'll reverse engineer and go back. Okay. So what did you do this morning?
I spoke at a women's luncheon today and it's the first time I've given my full testimony at church
in years, seven years, maybe. Yeah. It's been a long time. It was like the first year we were here.
We've been here almost nine years, maybe eight years. And we have a whole lot of new people
who weren't privy to the information. And so it was really, it was interesting, but I absolutely
loved it. I was apprehensive thinking about how can you do this week after week? Cause you have a show
as Adam says every week and I can do it. It's the spiritual warfare that I don't like to handle.
Well, and that's what people don't understand. They think, oh yeah, will you prepare a sermon
every week or two? They probably don't even think about you preparing. They probably don't realize it.
They just, I get up there and talk and they think that's just normal, but because that's what they're
used to, but they don't realize the hours of filling our buckets that we do all week long.
And cause you have to study and you have to dive deep and you have to ask the Holy Spirit,
what is it that you want to say? Because I'm just the conduit. I'm just, I'm the hands and feet and
the mouth and whatever you want to say. And so to me that's weighty. And so we don't just flippantly
put together any messages, whether it's a testimony or a sermon. And so to me it's very heavy.
But the spiritual warfare that we experienced, and I say we, because it started with, well,
it started with you Sunday, but actually the week before when you walked out of the house
and there was a snake in the, in the back by the door, by the back door. And, but then last Sunday,
you had a really rough Sunday. First service was fantastic. I felt it was so fantastic. Wait,
let me just say this. I have never seen you so energetic first service. Now you can talk.
I mean, which was amazing because I felt so good coming in. I was excited about the message. I was,
we're starting a new series, talking about the book of Acts called Mission Possible. So I was
pumped up. I was ready to go. First service, green light, go. Pedal to the metal. Got out for second
service. And it was like the energies drained from my body. And I felt, I felt a spiritual attack.
And I know it sounds spooky or whatever, but at the end of the day, we're spiritual beings living
in a physical world. I mean, it's, which isn't even our home. Think about it. We always think
we're physical beings who also have to interact with the spiritual world, but it's actually the
opposite. We're primarily spiritual beings. We just happen to have earth suits for a short amount
of time compared to our eternity. It's temporary. It's very temporary. It's a temporary dwelling
and it's subject to a fallen world. It's also subject to influences. And so I got up to preach,
start the message, and I just felt this weight on me. And I felt something in the atmosphere that
I haven't felt in years. And it was, it was hatred. It was like daggers were being thrown at you.
And you know, I mean, naturally in the physical, you start looking to see, is there somebody hating
on me? I mean, is there somebody's mad or somebody? So I'm looking at, you know, what, 200 and something
people out there in the second service, because we had like 500 and something people in both
services. Yeah. So I'm looking out there. So there's a couple hundred plus people and I'm just
looking, is there somebody like, is there a gun pointed at me? I mean, it was weird. And I felt,
I'm just going to say what I felt. I felt a spirit of hatred and a spirit of mockery. Like someone
was like mock, there was a something just like, dude, you're full of it. You know, what do you,
you don't even know what you're talking. I mean, you know, most likely there were people in the
church that felt that because there are plants, enemy plants. There are people that infiltrate
Christian churches all over the United States and they may look and act like the best Christians.
And from the intel we have and what people have told us who are in the know on this, I mean,
we're talking about intentional infiltration to come in and disrupt and destroy and cause a
disturbance, cause division and dissension and sow in seeds of negativity and all that. All that's
real. That's the world we live in. And so we're just kind of constantly on alert, full alert.
I don't sit and think about it all the time, but all of a sudden on Sunday, it was like, whoa,
what's something's here and it's ugly. And I can't put a finger on it. I don't know if it was just
totally spiritual. I don't know if there was a combination of somebody there in the physical,
but it was, it was a strange thing. And I haven't felt that in many years.
And I thought it was interesting because you had so much energy first service. It was as if you've
taught this, this was your third service to teach it. And you were on fire and you gave us a lot of
good information from the book of Acts that people didn't, that have not connected with Luke, who
authored the book of Acts and law authored Luke and 33% of the new Testament, I think you said,
or 30% of the new Testament. But just in talking about that and the fact that he wasn't one of the
original disciples and he came, he's best friends with Paul. He, he was kind of under his ministry
or with him in ministry. And those were things that we had, we didn't know, but then you went
into some detail and it was really, really enlightening. But then the second service,
there was a hesitancy. I mean, it, it wasn't that much different, but I could tell, I can tell when
you're different. And, but most people wouldn't even know it, but because I live with you, I know,
but when we got in the car and you just said, I'm, I'm glad that's over with you, you don't know
what I've just gone through for the last hour. And I'm like, what? And then when you shared it,
and then you began to share it with a couple of other people in church, they felt it. And it was
it was, uh, at the start of a very tough, tough week. So for those who don't know who we are,
we're Jimmy and Annette Pruitt. We are both pastors. I'm a lead pastor and that is,
is an associate pastor or really co-lead pastor with me as my wife. And we lead a church called
Bridge Church in Fredericksburg, Texas. And it is a growing church. It's an exciting church. We have
a big footprint in our area, biggest footprint in our area actually. And God's moving big time. We
always say Aslan's on the moon, move on the moon, Aslan's on the move, which is a C.S. Lewis reference
from the Chronicles of Narnia where Mr. Beaver says, Aslan is on the move. You know, he's really
excited about it. And it's, it's when things started to change and we see that happening.
And in light of that, um, I mean, in light of it, we are like in warfare. It's like we're
over the target. Well, you know, I thought it was awfully quiet the last few months, honestly,
because of the things that we are diving into and bringing our church body into and revelation that
we're receiving from what speakers we're bringing in that are opening the eyes of people to see some
of the lies and deceptions that are happening in our country right now. And this really does,
we're really addressing things on both a nat, both a local and the national state and national level.
And when you start hitting those things, you're hitting big stuff, you're moving big rocks.
And that's when the enemy really doesn't like it and he will do anything. And so that happens Sunday
and we go to work on Monday and I don't remember anything. Oh, Monday, we, we,
Mike Smith, who is a former stuntman. So we had a full, full, we didn't, we didn't slow down.
Hollywood stuntman for 20 some odd years. And what's the name of his movie? In, he, well,
out of shadows and then into the light, there's two movies. So let's recommend that we, people
need to see this movie. You can go to into the light dot movie and see both of those. They,
there's a charge to rent them by Mike Smith. And we, we decided after we've seen it four times
and we met Mike Smith, we've met him twice. We met him at Mar-a-Lago when we went and.
Yeah. So the movie by Mike Smith and into the light, an amazing, amazing movie. And we saw it,
how many times? We, well, we've seen it four times. We saw it, we got invited to go to Mar-a-Lago
and I knew they were going to show the movie there, but the week before Laura Logan and Joe
Logan gave us that movie and asked us to preview it. Joe Burkett, Joe Burkett, it's his name. Oh,
I'm sorry. Did I say Joe Logan? You did. Oh my gosh. I know that he probably hates that. I bet
he gets out a lot. I bet he does. Laura Logan and Joe Burkett gave us that movie. We, we watched it
at home and then we watched it again at Mar-a-Lago. And it was quite enlightening about what,
what is really going on with the world with SOPS and how we're turning into a Marxist nation. And
anyway, it's, you just really need to go to into the light dot movie and watch these two movies out
of the shadows, out of shadows. We need to support Mike and what he's doing. Cause he's, he's opening
the eyes of people, general Flynn's in that movie. What's really going on in Hollywood. Exactly. In
Hollywood and beyond. And so Dr. Keith Rose is in it. Um, Lara Logan's in it. I mean, just amazing.
You say Lara, I say Lara. It's Lara. Okay. Everybody says it different. I need to ask her.
When you ask her, she'll say, whatever. Cause she gets tired. She's from South Africa. She has a
great voice. But it's Michael Flynn, general Michael Flynn is in the movie, which is why,
you know, we were invited to Mar-a-Lago and he presented the movie with Mike. They're on the
same board of America's future. So then we saw that. And then I think we saw it another time,
um, at one of a pastor's conference that we went to Dallas and we decided it was, um,
we met Mike and said, Hey, we had our picture made with you at Mar-a-Lago. He goes, Oh, you're one of
a million. I've had my pictures, but we said, you know, we really want to bring this movie to our
church. We need our body to be exposed to truth. And so we brought them in Monday night. I think
it's interesting. If you find, if you think about the timing of this, there was a snake in our house
outside of our door just a few days prior. Then Sunday, you're just, you know, it's weird.
Spiritual warfare, like crazy while you're preaching. Then Monday night, we show this movie
and over two, over 200 show up to watch this movie. And a lot of people left there with just what,
um, I did not have any idea this is going on and it was enlightening. And so, um, and then big time
spiritual warfare, when we go to work on Tuesday, three different instances that were just devastating
to us that, that, um, attacked our character. Yeah. Um, accusation orientation, which we always
recognize the enemy in this stuff. He's the accuser of the brother and the scripture calls. And,
and it's part of, um, being a leader and having a larger sphere of influence.
The more people you have influence over in terms of your sphere and your reach, the more
stuff happens. More people stuff happens, happens in churches, schools, organizations, businesses,
but it's, it's just devastating either way. It's, it hurts, but here's what's interesting about it.
This time we've had this happen. It kind of comes in cycles through the years. We just didn't have
three at one time. Right. This is kind of a big hit, but also had a series of dreams, which I don't
do this either, but I had dreams about violence. I had dreams about tornadoes and I had dreams about
floods. And these were all happening. Like every few nights, I wasn't sleeping as good as I have
been all of a sudden. And I was having these weird dreams. I would wake up and I was like,
huh, man, just my adrenaline is pumping. So it was harder to get back to sleep. So there's a
series of things that happen. These were all spiritual warfare stuff. And, uh, and then this
week I met a family from Missouri and we're talking and he's a chiropractor in Missouri.
His son's going to be an intern at the Patriot Academy here in Fredericksburg, uh, uh, Rick Green's
place, Rick and Kara's place. So he's going to serve as a, and so they came, the parents wanted
to meet me. They came on Wednesday night to our, um, biblical, um, citizenship, biblical citizenship
class. I got too many names rattling around and, uh, his name was Ross. The dad was Steve, a
wonderful family. And, uh, his dad was just kept tearing up while we, while I was sharing the
vision of our church and what we're doing. And he was, he was overwhelmed by it. This is on after
a week of just hit, hit, hit. And yet it was a great week where our church, so many good things
are happening. You had nearly a hundred women signed up for you. But I've also, I've, I've,
I've not slept in two weeks, which is never have trouble sleeping ever. So we know things are
up, right? Things are up and we know the enemy's busy as lands on the move, but the enemy always
counter moves, but he's a counterfeiter and he's a liar. He's a deceiver, a manipulator. So it's not,
it's not real. It just feels real in the moment. And then it's like a smoke screen type stuff. It's
almost bait and switch, you know, smoke and mirrors kind of stuff. So we've been sensing that,
but this man handed me a coin. I've got it right here. Yeah. I remember we were out with Adam and
Tina one evening at one of our favorite places in town to go, especially on Sunday evenings. And
we're all tired and, uh, a stranger, a stranger came up and handed this. They overheard us talking
about God. And he just felt led to give Adam a coin. Not you, but he gave Adam. I thought that
was interesting. He ignored you. Adam was talking more than I was that night. So anyway, gave him
one and it's this coin right here. And this man gave me the same coin. He said, I always give this
to people when I feel like the Holy spirit tells me to. So he gave this to me on Thursday morning.
And it's, it's called, um, it's a big coin. It's like those coins that the military gives.
And it says, uh, put on the whole armor of God, pray always. And on the other side,
it has all the pieces of the armor helmet of salvation, shield of faith, uh, loins,
Gert girded with, with truth. And then it's got, uh, the, uh, trying to read it gospel of peace.
That's the feet shot of the preparation, gospel piece, the sort of the spirit and the breastplate
of righteousness and the helmet of salvation. Isn't that cool? So he gave that to me. And it
really, you know, normally I just go, Hey, thank you. That's awesome. But the timing of that just
made me think, wow, this is like a God tap. God was saying, I got you. That was Thursday.
What was the day? Then we went out the other night to take the dog out and the snake was,
snake was back. It's the same snake. I'm certain it's the same one.
Because you didn't kill it. But the thing is, is we haven't seen snakes here in forever.
And so the snake represents the demon, the enemy, the enemy. And so it's literally,
and I remember when you saw the first one, well, it, the first time you made the comment to me,
a few days later, I didn't tell you this, which I hate it when you do that, but you,
I didn't tell you this, but I really felt like that the Lord showed me that that's the enemy.
It's a spiritual connotation. There's a spiritual war here. And then it was like,
I don't know if it was that day that you told me that or the very next day that snake showed up
again. And it's almost like, you know, I'm still here. You got to be on guard. You got to be on
guard. That guy gives me a coin. He encourages me. We have so many people praying for us.
An unusual amount of people saying, gosh, you guys must take a lot of hits. I mean,
because of what I'm preaching, I'm preaching. And yeah, we are now. I'm revealing things.
And it's a season of reveal of the way Adam Curry came up with that great, that great moniker.
Which is a confirmation of things we've been hearing. Oh my goodness. I mean, things in the
media, things in life, things in government, things are just getting revealed and exposed
and outed and things in the churches. I mean, so God is cleaning things up. I mean, he is exposing.
It's a hard season, but it's a good season too. But it is hard. So, you know, when you're doing,
you're moving a needle, I keep using that phrase, when you're moving the needle, it means when you're
actually making progress. That's when the enemy shows up and tries to get you off track. And
those three words- It's called distraction.
Distraction, disruption, it's all the same. It's spiritual warfare at the end of the day.
And the scripture is very clear that we have authority over that. We got to walk in our
authority and not give in, not cave in, but be strong, be strong in the power of his might,
not ours, but his might. And so Lord reminded me of three words. He spoke to me. Now it's been
three years ago. And it was one of the clearest words from God I've ever heard. And I'm a simple
man. So he only gave me three. It wasn't complicated. I see some prophetic people and be like 32 pages
of stuff. It's three words. And that was all I needed.
Stay the course. I knew what you were going to say.
Of course.
It's because it's come back to me probably a hundred times since then. And this is one of those,
during this week when I was like, Lord, this is, man, this is heavy. I feel like we're,
we're lifting heavy weights here. We're carrying a lot and are heavy buckets, you know, whatever
you want to say and pushing big rocks. And the Lord just reminded me, what did I tell you?
Stay the course. I mean, I don't even have to think about it. So autopilot right now.
It's interesting because this is what Tina was saying. She said, because of your all's
maturity in Christ and you know how to recognize the devil's activity,
you're strong and you can get through it really quick. And I think that that is very true
because if you don't recognize when things, these challenges like this come into your life,
that there's a real enemy that wants to distract you, disrupt you, take you down, then you might
take longer to recover from something, but you will recover. But you, it will, it could take longer,
but it's funny because the longer we are and the more mature we've become, even though we've still
got a long way to go. The older we get, the older we get. That's the maturity piece. The older we get.
You do learn to combat things really quick. You learn to see things for what they are and
take care of it with a word. With, I mean, last Wednesday night, I had to deal with some stuff and
I went, I had to go, I left biblical citizenship class for just a few moments to go into the
bathroom. No one was in the bathroom at the church. This is at the church. And I literally was like,
devil, I rebuke you. Jesus rebukes you in the name of Jesus. We're, you're not going to take
away our peace. You're not going to distract. You're not. And I just went to town until someone
walked in and then I just shut up, you know, because I didn't want them to go, what? Who's that?
Unless there was somebody sitting next to you going, wow, this lady's crazy.
No, I checked. I literally checked unless they were a small kid and their feet weren't dangling.
But literally I was like, you know what? You got to speak to it, but you got to speak out loud.
You can't just do it under your breath. And I thought, okay, because I had to deal with
something really heavy. I had to confront some people and to just put some clarity to a situation
and it wasn't fun. It was not fun because I love these people dearly, but I had to kind of set them straight.
But we also recognize the real source of conflict. It's not those people. They're precious. We love them.
That's why we address things and talk to people. We do it because we love people. And so sometimes
it doesn't feel like love when you're in the middle of one of those things, but it is.
And I was the one having to deal with it. And you were the one having to deal with it.
Which is not fun. But you went to war. You knew what to do. That's the beauty. When you know who you are,
you'll know what to do. Exactly. I want to read just a little bit of Ephesians 6. I'm going to read
all that whole passage, but listen to this. I just quoted it a minute ago, Ephesians 6, 10.
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God
that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh
and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities. This is all spiritual. This is high
up stuff. Against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,
against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Speaking of this present darkness, Frank Peretti wrote a book called This Present Darkness.
What was that? Like the 80s? That was the 80s. No, it was the 80s. And he wrote a series of books.
Late 80s. But I will never forget this present darkness. And when I read it,
I was like, this is far fetched. It's not anymore. It is like real. And he didn't write it. It's not
like a... It was a novel. It was a novel. It's not like an information. It's a fiction book
based on the spiritual realities that we deal with. Oh my gosh. I probably should read that again.
No, I shouldn't because I think it'll creep me out. But it... And I remember he actually came to
the church I was attending at the time. You weren't... I was... It was before my time.
It was before your time. And I remember just being mesmerized by the words he was saying and what was
really going on. And he had to put it in a novel form so that non-believers would read the book and
see and recognize when they do see it what it is. And boy, it opened up my eyes. And I could read
that book today and go, yep, that's happening now. This is happening now. This happened recently.
I could literally see that. I was struck this week and just... I think one of my Devo's I wrote,
I write a Devo every day. By the way, go to Living Up in a World Down... Wow. I do this every time.
Why? I have a brain block. It's because it's too long. Go to... Change the name. Go to Living Up
in a Down World dot com. Living Up in a Down... We should just call it Living Up. Just Living Up.
I'll see if I can change it. But I know there's other podcasts, but they're probably not even
in existence anymore. But because most podcasts only last about seven weeks. Living Up in a Down
World is a lot of words. A lot of words. LivingUpinadownWorld.com. Go there and just click on the blog.
It's at the top. It's in the menu. Click on blog and I do a daily devotion on there. And last week,
I was doing some on Spiritual Warfare because we're always write blogs kind of on what I'm in
because that's what's relevant. Yeah. You kind of know what's going on in your life as you write
your blog. So I just kept going and God kept showing me things. And one of the scriptures
he showed me was one of the Proverbs about being bold as a lion. The righteous are as bold as a
lion. And I thought, yeah. I mean, it's like a pep talk from a coach at halftime when you're getting
beat in the game and he comes in and charges you up and reminds you of who you are. And I just said,
that's right. I am bold as a lion. I'm not going to be timid. And I started walking in the rooms
different. And I told our staff on Tuesday, I said, you know, we've been here now coming up on nine
years in January. Right. And so that's a long time. That's long enough to tick some people off.
You think? That's long enough for people. There's people who realize I really don't like that guy.
And so, but being a public figure, I mean, I can't hardly go into a store, hardly a room without
somebody knowing who I am. That's it. We're a small town and we've been here long enough to know
everybody or a lot of people. And I told my staff, I said, there's not a room I don't walk into in
this city where someone doesn't hate me. That's true. Because that's just the nature of leadership.
Mm hmm. Anyone who's a leader has to make unpopular decisions. Right. And so you're always
going to have somebody to work that someone frustrates, someone mad, someone didn't like the
way you said it. Someone didn't agree with you, whatever. Because I mean, I was on how many stages
of the island this week leading prayer. I led prayer for city council. I led prayer for the
boots and barbecue. I was in the pulpit. I mean, then I was on the stage on Monday night leading
the panel with Laura, Joe and Mike as we did a panel discussion about the movie. So think about
how many times I'm on a platform in front of a lot of people. This week, if you add up everybody
that on the platforms that I was in front of, think about how many that might be. Wow. Yeah,
that adds up, right? Over a thousand between Sunday and Saturday night. And then so add another two,
200, another hundred. I mean, so just starts to add up. Yeah. You know, 1500 to 2000 people.
And that didn't include being online. We've had over 65 or 64,000 downloads on our podcasts.
Interesting. Nepal. Nepal's leading the charge. I don't know what's up with that. I know.
Something bounces over there or something. It's probably a digital thing. I don't know. But if
you're from Nepal and you're listening, thank you for listening to the show. Go to our website,
write us a note from Nepal. We'd love to hear from you. But anyway, all I'm saying is, and it's not
to brag, it's just to say, everybody has a different sphere of influence, but what happens is it cracks
open the door for a lot of people to know who you are, which means there's a higher potential or higher
possibility of more people not liking you. Right. If your sphere of influence is very small,
you may have one person who doesn't like you, but if your sphere of influence is large, you're going
to have lots of people always ticked. And so I've learned to live with that. My skin gets thicker
and thicker and thicker. That's the grace of God. Because really it gets thinner the older you get,
but we have to get thicker. Physically it's getting thinner, but spiritually much thicker.
So anyway, that's a God thing. And listen, for you listening to or with us today, first of all,
thank you for listening. But this spiritual warfare isn't just for pastors. We're people.
We're not just pastors. We're a husband and a wife. We're a brother, a sister, a mom, a dad,
a grandfather, a grand... Not just pastors. We're friends. We've got this sphere of influence with
all these different kinds of relationships, just like you. The only thing different is our job.
It's just different. But we all have the same kinds of connections. And so I know there are
times when you take hits and it hurts. Somebody comes to you and you say, yeah, well, that guy
just doesn't like you at all. He thinks you're a jerk or he thinks you're ugly or he doesn't like
the way you talk. And you think, how am I supposed to take that? I know it's like... Or someone tells
you, there's people calling you hypocrites. And you're like, what? I know. It just, you're like,
what? Like what? I mean, just those things... We're like the most open people. We have such an open
book. We're sure. Yeah. I don't know. So open it hurts. But anyway, we open ourselves up. But anyway,
all that to say is that everybody's taking hits at some level. Maybe somebody at work talking
behind your back and it gets back to you and it hurts. I mean, you're like, what? But I will say
this. The more clear my identity in Christ gets, the more I understand that I'm a son. I'm a son
of the most high God. I'm a King's kid. According to Deuteronomy chapter 28, I always go down this.
We're the head, not the tail. We're above only, not beneath. We're blessed coming in, blessed going
out. I mean, I can go on and on and on because I love that. But it reminds me of who I am.
And when I think about who you are, daughter of God, freaking gorgeous right now, as I'm looking
across the desk. Just now? Only now? I'm just kidding. You would do that. I'm just kidding.
Does this dress make me look fat? I mean, that's like a man can't win. So it's a lose, lose answer.
Don't answer men. Just anyway. Oh my gosh. I digress. Yeah. I was going to say you just
digress. You took me down the rabbit hole and I went. I caught it. But anyway, it's such a
privilege. Even the Bible even says that you're blessed when people come against you. Yes. When
people speak evil of you. You're countered all joy as you face various trials. You know, here's
one thing that has helped me and I hope it'll help our audience that's listening to this now is that
if you know people that are prayer warriors that are around you. That's my Bible turning. So if
that's making noise, that's like static. If you don't, you need to find those because those are
the ones you need to go to and say, Hey, I feel like I'm under a spiritual attack. And boy, that's
exactly what I did. I got every spiritual warrior, prayer warrior that I knew personally that I'm
close to and said, please pray for me this week. Because I've had, in fact, I couldn't even
really sit down and prepare fully my message until yesterday. And I had to speak today. And it wasn't
just my testimony. I actually let a video, the video that we actually put on this podcast before.
We actually, I actually let use that. I'll put our, put both of our testimonies back on our
newsletter next week. They can just click on it and take them right to it. It's real short,
just like 11 minutes. And instead of giving my testimony, I let that nine minute video give it.
And then I expounded and taught on being redeemed and restored because the Lord wants to redeem us.
But he not only wants to redeem us, he wants to restore us. And there was a scripture in Job that
you and I actually, I sent it to you and we both had aha moments. But there's a scripture in Job
that says that God restored Job's losses double because he prayed for his friends.
Tanner Iskra And the friends that turned their back on him.
Dr. Terri Manning Yes. And that if you know anything about Job, Job lost everything. The
devil asked God if he could sift him. God said, yes, but you can't kill him. He does this,
which I don't know if any of us will ever understand why this happened, but he does this.
And then his friends come against him. Job is like, you must be sinning for this much stuff to be
happening, which I actually said today in my, in my speaking, because a lot of people think, wow,
when you have all this going wrong, there's something wrong with you. And you must be,
yes. And so those were Job's friends, but instead of turning on them, he forgave them and prayed for
them. Wow. What a lesson. We both caught that. You and I, when I shared that verse, you were like,
I've never caught that before. But the whole key is forgiveness. When we forgive those who have
wronged us, I did, I did. Because when you forgive those who've wronged us, it brings freedom to us.
It brings peace. It restores us. And so that's what God wants to do. He wants to restore. He
doesn't just redeem us. He restores us, but he doesn't just restore us back to the way we were.
He makes us better because he knows the end from the beginning.
Tanner Iskra And when Job lost everything, he was restored twofold, double. And I, that,
I just, that one scripture and me knowing the life of Job just gave me such peace that, you know,
and reminding me of how much I, through my testimony, I have lost and how much he's not
only restored double. I can't even, I don't even think I have the math to what he's restored. You
know what I'm saying? Because it's bigger than that. And so, you know, I say all that to say,
you know, not only restored, but added to, added to, it's like, that's why it's double. If it's
just single, if he just restores, that's one, but now he gave Job twice. That means more,
like a whole other life for him. It's not just stuff. It's the real riches of life. It's the
relationships. It's the appreciation. I mean, I don't know, he blessed him on every level,
every level, but that's what God wants to do with us. But, but me even, and I forgot to say this
to the women today, but me even having this revelation and trying to get ready to speak
in this warfare, this warfare that was coming, I really felt like the enemy wanted to distract me
from even speaking this message because somebody was going to get free today. And I do believe,
I do believe many got free today just from hearing. Many said today, I heard, I didn't know
Pastor Annette, but now I feel like I really know her. And that's, that was, that was just beautiful
to hear that. But the thing is, is I want them to know me now. And the, I want them to know
where I came from and where God took me because I wanted to give people the hope that he can take
your mess and turn it into a message. So anyway, it's, it was fun. And, but boy, that spiritual
warfare. So now I do not envy you doing this week after week. And I know that the spiritual warfare,
there's going to be an uptick because of what we're doing, because if you're not hitting the mark
or getting over the target, so, so to speak, you're not a threat, but when you're a threat,
Oh, get ready, get his attention. Yeah. But we know who we are. That's as greater as he, that is in
us than he that's in the world. It's absolutely okay. Right. Because listen to this out of Matthew
earlier, I was flipping pages of my Bible. I've got my electronic stuff, but I love my Bible. And
so listen to this out of Matthew chapter five, it says blessed are you when others revile you
and persecute you. What? Wait, what? Blessed. When people are really blessed, we are blessed.
I mean, come on girl. You know what the word blessed means though? It's two things. It means
highly favored, but it means happy. It's just, it's that simple. It means happy are you, but it also
means empowered to prosper and succeed. So you're empowered to succeed when people do this. Blessed
are you empowered to succeed and prosper. Happy are you when others revile you and persecute you
and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. There's the key. There's the key.
They're lies. It's not true. And things that were said about us, absolute, there was so much gossip
this week. I mean, untrue, just silly, ridiculous stuff. But it wasn't like from a lot of people,
it was just a small little smidgen. And it always is a little, but they seem to be louder than the
majority, right? Or at least that's the way it lands sometimes. He says, rejoice and be glad
for your reward is great in heaven. Oh, we got some big stuff coming. For so they persecuted the
prophets who were before you. So listen, y'all, this, this is real. This is where life gets real.
It's just where it gets hard. Sometimes when people, the words used here are intense. When
others revile you and persecute you, the word persecute literally means in the Greek, it's the
same word that's used to run down and to take over. And I think our, oh, this is weird.
What is it? I think our living up and down world thing just played, but I don't know. I'll be able
to hopefully drop it out. So listen to this. It means to run down and to persecute, run down
and persecute. Wow. I know that's just mind bending. I know it's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
so we have some people to thank. Yes, we do lots of stuff here. Randall Black, I want to say thank
you for blessing us with satoshis. I'm looking at this from Saturn. It says it's through fountain.
So I'm not sure what app it's from, but thank you, Randall Black. Eric P also gave us satoshis and
blessed us this last week. Thank you. Value for values, how we operate. Eric, I'm looking. And
then also Sir Bies Grace. Sir Bies Grace. David blessed us as well. And let's see, I'm going down
through the list. Mr. Adam Curry, 77,700. He's the only one that gets a Strapper Boost. I know. We
need more people to do that. But I can't do a Strapper Boost on this. I don't have my main unit.
This is portable, remember? So I can't do a Strapper Boost sound and I'm not even going to try.
I could plug in my guitar and do a little riff, but I do have my guitars around me. But anyway,
I want to say thanks so much for you guys. You are such a blessing to us. Randall Black
and Johns Creek Studios, thanks. We appreciate you. Are you looking up something right now?
You're looking furiously because we've had people bless us. Yeah, we've had some others. Hey, be
sure and go to livingupinadownworld.com. I got it right this time. And click on subscribe. It's free,
but what it'll do, it'll get you a note. I'll send out a little, just a reminder newsletter when
we're going to have an episode come out. I wish we could do it at the same time every week exactly,
but the life of a pastor is insanity. You could plan your week all week long, but it's going to
get changed. Things are going to happen. That's the nature of what we do. We truly are. We do
frontline stuff. I mean, we're frontliners, so we're on the line because we love people. So we have
to be flexible, quick on our feet. And a lot of times things like that end up, we have to do it
on a Saturday night late. That's crazy, but it's all good. And we tried this. Are you finding what
you're looking for? You're feverishly over there. It was a week before. Oh, okay. Okay. We tried this
last night. We couldn't even get our equipment to work. We couldn't get our equipment to work. And
I think we even had a couple of glitches here. Are you okay over there? I got a choke. She's
all choked up. She's emotional. So we want to say thank you for listening. We love you guys. Hey,
do check out Curry and the Keeper, Adam and Tina Curry. Our besties got to have coffee with Adam
this week. We hardly ever get to talk alone. We're always with a bunch of people and then we're
always like, in fact, we were at the boots and barbecue thing and it's like 400 people there.
Right. Me and Adam are trying to talk and people are going, hey, the show started. Hey, they're
starting. We're like, don't they know we're trying to have a conversation here. So we did coffee this
week and man, just that's what friends are for. We had a great time. And you and Tina got to go
hang out, get some hang time. Can you talk now? I know you're... I am. I had a little, a little tickle
in my throat. So yeah, we had a great time. It's always great. And y'all did a Costco run for us,
carnivores. That makes me very happy. Lots of good steak. Very happy. Some of the best steak we've
ever had. No kidding. Costco's got it going on. Tina wants to know where they get their steak.
I don't know, but wherever it is... I don't even know if I care at this point. It's so good. It's
really good. And it's reasonable price. I mean, so yeah. So anyway, we've been enjoying that.
And we've had people in our house. I mean, it's been a crazy, crazy... Yes. We have contractors
in our house for several weeks. Fortunately, we love our contractors. They're actually friends.
And we can leave them. They're practically family. And go to work. Yeah, we've got to do what we've
got to do. All right. Well, listen, that rounds it up for us today. And we just want to say thank
you for listening. We hope this is an encouragement to you. Yes. Fight the good fight of faith.
Put on the whole armor of God. Go to Ephesians chapter six, starting in verse 10 and following,
and spend some time there because it'll tell you exactly what to do. And you can literally put on
the full armor of God and fight the good fight of faith. That's right. And by the way, we win.
Jesus said he wins. That means we're in him, which means we win. So hey, it's a win-win deal
to live as Christ, to die as gang. God bless you. Have a great week and keep living up in a down world.