Don't get down when you're seeing the worst.
Cause the last. This is Jimmy Nanette, and we
are coming to you from our studio in the middle
of Fredericksburg, Texas. Good morning to you.
Good morning. It's been a minute. It has. It's
been a hot minute since we've been on the air
together and have done a podcast. Yes. I've missed
this. Well, we've been kind of busy. We've been
very busy. And traveling. We're going to have
more. construction going on in the church so
we may have to move it home you know what if
there's if you hear something if you're listening
today and you hear stuff banging and you won't
today though they're not doing anything stuff
out there yeah they are actually they're fixing
that hole That's true. So, yeah, there's stuff
going on here all the time. That's just the way
it is. It's our life. We're always under construction.
Well, luckily, our office is pretty, or our studio,
I should say, looks more like a studio than an
office at this point. Oh, definitely looks like
a studio. Luckily, we have it pretty soundproofed.
Yeah. No, it's fantastic. It's just when they're
above us that that's where it sounds like. A
freight train. Yeah, and we're doing audio only
today. Yes. Yeah, I didn't want to have to make
Faith do all the production side of it. Even
though she's in here and would do it. She's with
us, but I didn't want to have to do all that
production side of it because... Most people,
hey, somebody's at the door. See, this is our
life. Yeah, you can answer the door. This is
totally our life. Hey, it's okay. It is what
it is. We want to welcome you to Living Up and
Down World. I think we're on episode number 100.
You think? I think it's 100. I thought it was
like. It may be 99. But you don't know. I can
tell you. I can look it up. So let me see where
we're at on this. Do you know? No, I'm looking.
Okay, look. Do you know what episode we're on?
Do you think it is? I think it's 100. I was thinking
it was 90. I thought it was 98. We have been
running and gunning and blowing and going. So
I'm looking it up right now, going to my dashboard
here. We are on number 100. We are. Wow. There
should be like bells going off or something.
We should have like fireworks going off. 100
in our busy life. Wow. 100 episodes. Well, we
finally did it. That's a milestone for us. That
is a milestone. You're looking particularly spiffy
this morning. Absolutely gorgeous, as always.
People are going to tell us to get a room if
you keep doing that. Room with a view. Room with
a view. We have a lot of travel. I don't want
to go into all of our travels, but we did have
a really big, wonderful, fun weekend. We just
got back from the K -Love Fan Awards. Someone
asked me, why would you want to go to that? Oh,
my gosh. Because we get ministered to. This is
where we can go. And it's not just... It's not
just concerts. It's actual mostly worship where
we can go and receive. Whereas when we're here
at the church. We're thinking about everything
we're about to do, going to have to do. If the
music is off, if it's, I mean, there's so many
things going through our mind when we're here
that we don't really become fully abandoned to
worship. But we go there and it's like refreshing
time. But receive. Yeah. And we just need to,
everybody needs a place where they can go and
get their buckets filled. Yes. And if you're
a worshiper, you'll understand it. If you're
not, you would not understand. But we love music.
You're a guitar player. Going to play on the
worship team this Sunday for the first time.
I just did a sound check a little bit ago. Has
it been a year? It's probably been over a year.
It's probably been about a year since I played
on the worship team, so I've been missing it.
But this K -Love Awards, which will be shown
on TBN tomorrow night, we were part of the actual
taping. But we were also, they do a full -on...
worship, concerts, speaking, all kinds of stuff
from Friday through Sunday night in Nashville.
Basically three, two and a half days of music.
And it's the highlight of our year. We go every
year. This is our third year. Yeah, it's one
of our favorite things we do. We already are
signed up for next year. And CeCe Winans was
probably my favorite. Wow. She is like the queen
of gospel music. It was phenomenal. She's phenomenal.
When she does That's My King. Oh. I just I just
want to fall down. It is so good. And she led
worship for the church. They actually have a
church service on Sunday mornings for anyone
who wants to come. And I mean, the whole place
was packed out. We were almost on the back row
and she led worship. So it was reminded me of
when we were at our church at Bethel World Outreach
Center. in Nashville and Debbie Winans, who was
her sister, led worship. And they look just alike.
They look alike. They sound alike. They both
sing the same. And so it was like, it kind of
took us back. It did for me in a good way. But
she led worship. And then Jonathan, what Jonathan?
Jonathan Pacluda. Pacluda. He. Did a phenomenal
message, really spoke. He preached. He's one
of the pastors. He's from Waco, Texas. He pastors
a Baptist church in Waco. Of course, he's from
Texas. All good pastors are from Texas. There
we go. And so he spoke, and he's been part of
a movement called the Unite Us Movement. And
what it is, it's a group that goes to all these
college campuses. They've been to 17 college
campuses in about the last 18 months. Is it out
of his church or is it just part of a movement?
It's just part of it. They have several different
people they bring in to speak and preach. And
he's done 17 of these. I mean, on Auburn campus,
all these college campuses. That you're hearing
about. I got to sit down and visit with him for
a little bit. And I just said, so tell me what's
going on. I mean, what do you think's happening?
He said, it's the gospel and it's Jesus. He said,
God has stirred a hunger for Jesus. and the gospel
of Jesus Christ in the next generation. Which
is, they're our next leaders, which this is what
we need. We don't need to regress. We need to
progress. He said that he, in his meetings, the
17 he's done, he has seen 20 ,000 students give
their hearts to Christ, come to the altar and
sign a card saying, I'm giving my life to Jesus
Christ. They pray to receive Christ there. Then
they get follow -up materials. Okay, I was going
to say, I hope they're getting discipleship.
They get materials and they plug, this is what's
needed. about this movement. I read about it.
One of their hearts is to make sure that students
get plugged into local churches so they can be
discipled, so they can grow. Because that was
the one thing Billy Graham said he regretted.
He said he did all of these revival meetings,
but there was no follow -up. Remember him saying
that before he passed? He said, that's my one
regret that we didn't do. I would totally agree
with that. So Jonathan, I was talking to him
and I asked him about, so he said, yeah, definitely
the gospel. There's a hunger for the gospel.
It's new. The people that are leading this movement
in all the meetings they've done. Boy, I said
he's done 17. He hasn't done 17. There was. There's
17 total so far. He's done some of those. He
saw 20 ,000 people come to Christ. Gosh, just
in the ones he saw. These are all college students.
In all of the meetings combined, they had over
80 ,000 young people give their hearts to Jesus.
That's unbelievable. That is miraculous. It is.
But yet you're not hearing that in the media.
No, you won't see that in the media. CBN reports
on it and several Christian outlets report on
it. But really, it's almost an underground movement,
even though it's happening on these campuses.
Wow. I think it's just the beginning. I think
we're seeing the beginning of an end time harvest
that is going to be not just the great awakening,
it's going to be the greatest awakening. Or the
greater, I love that. Or the greater or greatest
awakening where we're going to see hundreds of
thousands of people come to Christ. We need to
in this day and time. Which right now is happening
all over the world, by the way. Yes, yes. So
God is moving, as we say, Aslan is on the move.
God is moving in major ways all over. And Jesus...
He always used an interesting phrase when he
was talking to not only his disciples, but when
he was teaching to broader audiences, he would
use this phrase for those who have ears to hear.
And the reason that's so important is that. You
can be sitting in a revival, and if you don't
have ears to hear, you won't even see it. You
won't even know that it's happening. And a lot
of the historical revivals, a lot of people didn't
even know they were in the middle of one. Right.
And then they read about, oh, wait, we were in
the middle of one? I didn't even know. History
tells the story. Because when you're in it, you
can't see the forest with the trees kind of thing.
But right now, revival is happening across the
world. And the bottom line is we have to ask
ourselves, do I want to catch this wave? Yes.
Do I want to be a part of it? And a lot of people
don't. And that's part of my heart is to stir
people's hearts to say, wherever it's happening,
I want to be that revival looking for a place
to happen. I want to be the awakening. Well,
this reminds me, yesterday you posted a post
about this revival happening, and you had great
positive comments, and then you had that one.
I actually shared that in my Bible study this
morning, what that person said. Said that they're
serving a fake Jesus. I'm like, what? So he's
judging what this conversion that's happening
with these young people. Who are giving their
hearts to God. I'll read it to you. I think this
is worthy of talking about. I was in shock. So
I posted, I said, God is on the move like a wave.
We don't generate the waves. We simply catch
the waves that God brings our way. And I said,
I don't want to miss his waves. Revival isn't
coming. It's already here. I stole that line.
It's already here from Twister. It's a great
line. Because you watch that every time we get
on a plane. And I was waiting for that line,
just like you were watching. He's hilarious.
And you were waiting for that line. So anyway,
here's what this guy said. I'm not going to use
his name. And I didn't respond to it because
I don't respond to people who. who have a negative
critical. There's no point. I don't have the
energy for that. Here's what he said. So I shared
the link from CBN .com. The return to religion
is a turn to Jesus, even among its skeptics.
And then it says most of us can't remember a
time when belief in God was growing, but now
it is. I got a report yesterday. Pastor Brian
brought me that report from Barna Research Group
saying that we're seeing a sharp rise in interest
in the Bible, in the gospel, in Christianity.
Christianity itself, not other occult stuff,
but I mean, literally Christianity is rising
in America as fast as it's risen in decades.
So we're seeing good things happen. So this guy
says this, after all this good, positive things,
he says, sadly, a wave to false Jesus. I'm like,
what? Because after my catching a wave, a wave
to false Jesus. So what did he mean by that?
He says, we need to read and even more so study
the Bible rightly divided. Amen. I agree. Definitely.
We're reading the same Bible, I think. It's funny,
though, you have different eyes, different perspectives.
He says, there's a counterfeit coming. It's been
happening since Jesus Christ resurrected. Well,
we know that. We know that. The Bible doesn't
say it will get better. So we need to be really
saved, discerning, and ready. So what does that
have to do with their conversion? I think he's
looking for a massive downturn and destruction,
yet we're seeing this great end -time harvest,
and God's moving. Exactly. Why not get excited
about that? Instead of throwing buckets of cold
water on new Christians, why not build them up?
Why not disciple them? Exactly. Why not get them
in the Bible? So that when the bottom drops out,
you can handle. They'll be ready. Exactly. But
that was a terrible statement. It is. This is
a joke. We need to have more of a positive outlook,
especially when people get saved. I'm going to
refrain saying what I really think about this.
Because we can't judge everyone's salvation.
You know what I mean? I mean, there may be people
that it wasn't real, but. But why not celebrate
those that are? Why not let God be the judge
of that, not us? That is just wrong. It's called
living up in a down world. Right. That's the
title of our podcast. I mean, really, the idea
is there's so much to be excited about in this
world. We know the world is off the rails. We
know things aren't great. But we need to look
at the positive things and not at the negative
things. Yes. My gosh. You know, Jesus, the Bible
says he was filled with joy, the oil of joy,
more than all of his brethren. I mean, he was.
He was joy. The second fruit of the Spirit is
joy. I know I say this a lot. I'm a broken record,
but I just get frustrated when... People can't
see the good, and they're always looking for
the bad. In our Bible study, we were talking
about how some people— Set that up a little bit
because not everybody knows what you're talking
about. Yeah, I'm in a Bible study with a bunch
of women on Thursday mornings, and we're talking
about the seven mountains. And today, though,
we were talking about the mountains of arts and
entertainment, which is, you know, the arts and
entertainment world is— there's so much propaganda
in there and just evil. But we were talking about—
Within this Bible study, we were talking about
how some people don't believe we're supposed
to be happy as Christians. And I said, I made
the comment. I said, well, you know, in the Beatitudes,
it says, blessed are you, blessed are you, blessed
are you. That means happy are you. So why would
God say happy if we're supposed to be sad all
the time and mad and doom and gloom? No. And
obviously he wants us to be full of joy. The
joy of the Lord is our strength. Hello. Joy relates
to being happy, being full in him and enjoying
his presence. Joy is enjoying. Think about that.
And so why would we? I mean, how can we lead
people to Christ if we're not happy? And if we
know where we're going. Yes. Why would that not
light up our circumstances? We have darkness
here. And right now doesn't mean that we won't
have it. We have to endure the light of the world.
So we're light in a dark world. We're up in a
down world. It's the same thing. Another piece
of that, which I think is really critical, is
that. First of all, we know that I love what
Steve Maxwell said when he had his encounter
with Jesus after he died for 15 minutes. And
he said, heaven isn't out there. It's not up
there. It's right here. He just put it over his
face like it's literally right there. So there's
so much to live for. There's so much good to
live for. And there's so much. joy to be had
and found. The word blessed means happy. It literally
means that. That doesn't mean goofy. It doesn't
mean silly. It means there's a joy that penetrates
the darkness. It's a light that penetrates dark
and it's life giving. Well, and go back to the
K -Love Awards that we were at. Most of the artists,
they do a showcase, artist showcase where they
talk about their songs, where the song came from.
And most of the people, that we heard from these
artists, their songs reflected a deep, dark place
they were in, but they were able to come out
of it because of Jesus. That, that should, that
to me, that was so, I loved how vulnerable they
were in telling their, their weaknesses, like
a Katie. Katie Nicole. Nicole talked about. Ben
Fuller. Yeah, but Katie talked about her being
in. She has depression. Depression. She struggles
with chronic pain. And so when she writes her
songs, it's out of that pain, but she's given
God the glory. And I love that. Ben Fuller, he
was an addict. 15 years. 15 years. He was in
the country music world. And now he's become
a Christian. Now, did that make everything fine?
No. But now he has a better. outlook. And so
when he sings, you can feel God in his songs,
the presence. That's what I love. What they're
singing about is they've been redeemed from that.
I noticed something in social media. This is,
it's always bothered me. I've never verbalized
it like in the open so much, but if I write a
post, I do a daily devotional. And if I write
a post about living a victorious life, I get
like no likes. I mean, people are like, Because
people tend to relate more in pain than they
do in victory. They do. They do in joy. But we
need to flip the script on that. As believers,
we've got to grab hold of this fruit of the Spirit
called joy. First one's love. Second one out
of the nine is joy. We've got to grab it. And
sometimes you've got to grab joy by faith. It's
not a feeling. Right. It's intentional. But it's
hard. And I can get that. I do too. Yesterday
we got bad news. We've had issues with their
kitchen. We've been in the process of rebuilding
and remodeling our kitchen for a year and a half.
Almost two years. And the cabinet people went
out of business, dropped all of our cabinets
off unfinished, basically. We've been in a dispute
with them, with a credit card company, trying
to get our money back because we had to pay someone
else to redo them. And we got news yesterday
that Citibank is... Siding with them, even though
we have pictures, we have emails from them. Total
ripoff. We're out $15 ,000 that we're being stolen.
Now we have a choice. And so yesterday I wallowed
in it a little bit because I was mad. I was mad.
Well, I think I was in shock that now we have
to pay an extra $15 ,000. No matter what level
it is. And I was bothered. I literally, I had
to get to the point, because that's a lot of
money for us. And what did you hear me say this
morning? What? What did you say? I don't know.
I didn't have my coffee, so I don't remember
everything you said. You're in a fog. You can't
talk to me when I don't have my coffee. I literally
said out loud, I forgive them. I release them.
Yes. I refuse to let them. And we'll let God
judge them. I'm not going to let their actions
dictate my mood, my countenance, and I trust
God. With the outcomes. That He'll return it
back to us a hundredfold. He'll take care of
it. I don't have to worry about it. And I had
to, this morning, I had to literally go, God,
this is in your hands. We're out this money.
I'm asking for you to... Restore that money back
to us because this was not our fault. None of
this was our fault. We were listening to Caleb
this morning, and I love that they said that
there was a survey, and they were asking people
what their favorite story is in the Old Testament.
Remember that this morning before we came to
work? And I told you my favorite story is Joseph.
Oh, that's great. And I think it's because Joseph,
he didn't do anything wrong, although I'm a sinner.
I've done a lot of things wrong. in my life,
even as a Christian, but he had not. And yet
he was wrongly accused. He was, he was enslaved.
He was put in a, you know, a pit. He was enslaved.
He was put in prison, falsely accused of rape,
and he was put in prison. But in the end, God.
restored him a hundredfold and he became second
in command in his nation. And I think that's
how I ended well, he finished strong, he finished
strong because he didn't give up. And I feel
like for me, I, in thinking about hearing, you
know, Caleb talk about, um, people's, you know,
their old Testament. favorite. And I thought
about that. I'm like, Lord, why did I think that?
And I think it's because of where we're at right
now. We didn't do anything wrong. We didn't cause
our cabinet people to go out of business and
to not finish our project. And yet we're out
and then lie that they did. And yet here we're
out 15 ,000 because we had to pay someone else.
And I'm like, Lord, you, you're our redeemer.
There it is. You're, you can restore this. And
I had to switch the, I mean, I had to flip the
switch on, okay, God, we're going to walk in
joy in this, even though it's hard. It's not
fair. It is not fair. Now you sound like a teenager.
But, you know, someone asked me, well, can you
get an attorney and can you sue? Well, yeah,
it would probably cost more money than it would
be what we lost. It wouldn't be worth the effort.
But as Christians, this is the difference. As
worldly people, we could just... bad mouth and
we could go online and put them down and call
them out. Or we can say, you know what? God is
going to redeem this. We don't know how. We don't
know how He's going to restore $15 ,000 to us.
Can I get the word on this? Yeah, get the word
on it. Let's get the word on this. The thing
is, what we're talking about right now, everybody
can put their own story into that because everyone's
had stuff happen. Whatever they've been lied
about, they got unjustly fired. I mean, all kinds
of house burned down. We've all got stuff, right?
Where things happen and it's like, it wasn't
your fault. You didn't cause any of it. You just
happened to be the recipient of it. Here's what
Psalm 91, I've been spending a lot of time in
Psalm 91. That's been my go -to. Those who live
in the shelter of the Most High will find rest
in the shadow of the Almighty. You know, we heard
this a lot at K -Love too. We did. And you know,
you don't go to K -Love and experience everything
we experienced. Come back home, get bad news,
and then go back to the way we used to be. No,
we can't. That's why those experiences that we
have. that lead us to Psalm 91 should help us
be able to overcome this rather than sit in it.
Wait a minute. You're talking about living in
victory. We will get no likes on this podcast.
We won't. That's true. Yeah. We're trying to
overcome. It's so hard. It is hard. And that's
the thing. But it doesn't mean we don't have
hard times. Let me say it this way. It's simple,
but it's not easy. Simple doesn't mean easy.
But to choose victory, to choose blessing, to
choose joy when everything is happening around
you, screaming, run the other way, or quit, or
give up, or end it. And that's the fight we're
in. The Apostle Paul told young Timothy, he said,
fight the good fight of the faith. And the thing
is, we all have a fight to fight. We have many
of them and there's many battles. We know that
ultimately the war has been won. Jesus died on
the cross. He took the keys of hell, death and
the grave from the enemy, the keys of the kingdom.
And he took them away and he's given them to
us. But now this is where we have to fight our
own battles. Jesus had to go through his temptation.
He had to go through his being unjustly. accused,
being slandered, being betrayed by some of the
people closest to him. He had to go through his.
We're going through ours. Now the question is,
what will we choose? Because this comes down
to a choice. It comes down to a decision. It
doesn't come down to how you feel. If we operate
out of our feelings, we'll be blown like a West
Texas spring wind, which can be 60 miles an hour
with these storms we've been having. And you're
just blown back and forth. But when you choose
and you say, no matter what it feels like, I
choose this. My heart says, choose the right
thing. My head wants to go the other way because
my head's subject to my flesh. But my heart knows
and trusts that God is good. No matter what,
I can with my mouth say, I forgive them. I release
them. And I release them to God. And I take it
another step. I bless them. And when I bless
them, I place them under God's canopy of justice.
God's canopy of righteousness, God's canopy of
truth, and now He's the judge, not me. Right,
exactly. Which means we can't come in the aftermath
of being stolen from and badmouth them if we
say we forgive, release, and bless. Right, exactly.
Does that make sense? This sounds impossible,
and in your mind and in your flesh, it is. But
this is part of our spiritual growth. Yes. It's
very telling about your growth. how you respond
to things like this that happens, betrayal or
injustice or anything like that. And I want to
be found faithful. Yes. And yet it's hard because
we're human and we're... We're not happy. This
was a huge setback. Right. But I really felt
like even today, because, you know, I had my
day yesterday where I was just very somber. I
didn't really, I just was somber. Your brownie
mix day. My brownie mix. Because I was in shock.
And today I felt like the Lord said, it's only
money, even though it's like, it's only money.
It's a chunk of change. It's a chunk of change.
But you know what, at the end of the day in the
big picture, it's not going to matter. Yeah.
Not going to matter. Yeah. It's funny because
I opened up the mail yesterday and there was
a letter in there and it was from, I didn't know
I had a 401k. I guess I just started it when
I worked. Back in the day. Franklin Dental Care.
And I got a thing from Vanguard saying, if you'll
send this in, we tried to send you a check in
2017. I was hoping it was $15 ,000. It was $99.
But I'm like, okay, there's a 99. of the $15
,000. Okay, God, this is a sign. I was thinking,
because that came out of nowhere. We're talking,
what, nine years ago, eight years ago. I'm like,
what? I mean, that's pretty crazy. And so I was
like, okay, God, He can get it to us somehow.
He can get us that money. So think about what
the enemy intends. Speaking of Joseph, what a
great line at the end of that story. It says,
what the enemy intended to destroy. God is used
for good. And that's what the, you know, so the
enemy, we come off of this weekend, we're high,
we're, our buckets are full and overflowing.
We're like singing the songs in our head. We're
replaying the moments. Yeah. And then boom, we
just get this news like out of nowhere, left
field. I felt this, remember all weekend at the
Caleb, I felt this darkness. Remember I told
you, and I talked about it with the Currys because
they went with us, this heaviness. And I, I wasn't
sure. I just had a lot of things inside that
have been hanging over us, mainly our kitchen.
It is still not done, still not done. And I think
subconsciously it was worrying whether this is
because they credited the monies back to the
Citibank card, but they hadn't given a letter
saying it was complete. And then now. One day
from the deadline. Wow. One day. One day from
the deadline. It's been, what, six months? Six
months. We get the bad news. Now, we can take
that and go cry. You had your cry yesterday.
I didn't cry, but I almost did. Like I said,
I think I was in shock. Or we can say, not today,
Satan. Yeah. No. No, we will not give over our
joy to that. Right. Just like I wouldn't give
my joy over to that guy who wrote that stupid
comment. Yeah. I'm not going to give my joy over
that. I mean, he's the guy who makes all of us
look bad. You know what I mean? Right. I'm not
going to give away my heart to that. Right. And
make room for that in my mind or my heart or
my head. And so how, okay, so we've talked about
this. Let's talk about this practical. So what's
our go -to? How do we, when you get news like
that and you're reeling from it because you're
trying to process it all because it was just
wrong at the end of the day, how do we turn the
corner to find that victory? I went to the Word.
I went to the Word of God. Now, I didn't just
go get my Bible out and start looking. I just
began to remember scriptures in my head. And
the biggest one was... Forgiveness. Well, and
one of the things I do. I don't want to be in
a prison of my own making. Right. One of the
things I do is I go back to where God's been
faithful in the past. Yes. Because we have history
with God. If you've never had history, you can't
go back. And some people have to start. But we've
had history in God where he's restored when we've
lost. And he's restored everything. And I just,
I have to go, God, you did it before. Yeah. I
know you'll do it again. Very good. The founding,
the building block or the foundation of faith
is trust. Yeah. And that's what you're saying.
He's trustworthy. He's trustworthy. If he's worthy
of our trust, then he should be worthy of our
trust when things don't look good. Right. And
that means when you get the bad news. Because
he's good all the time. He's not only good when
we want it, when we, when he's good to us or
when, when things are going well, he's good.
All the time. It's easy to be, oh, yeah, yay,
God, when things are going well. But when the
bottom drops out and you wake up the next day
like we did this morning, we went on our walk
this morning, and I said, I choose to forgive.
And I said, I choose. I didn't say I feel like
forgiving them. I said I'm making a choice to
forgive. And I don't know if it's the cabinet.
People were at Citibank. I think it's Citibank.
I don't think the cabinet people ever responded
because Citibank said last week and never heard
from them. So we don't even know who to be mad
at, right? Yeah, exactly. If we wanted to be
mad, we don't even know who to be mad at. I think
I'm mad at the Visa company. I'm mad at the devil.
Well, yeah, I'm mad at the devil, too. In the
words of Striper and one of their... Best Songs
Ever to Hell with the Devil. Oh, my gosh. That's
the name of the song. Wow. It's the name of the
album, too. It is. So, yeah, check it out. Probably
from 1989. But anyway, back in the day. You should
play a little clip of it. Oh, my gosh. Well,
yeah. You could. I maybe have it on a ringtone,
probably. It probably is. Anyway, so I want to
end the show today, our podcast, talking about
what do you do? So you turn to things like your
history in God. That's a great one there. I love
that. I remember when we heard that years ago.
where we have to understand if God brought me
this far, he's not brought me this far to abandon
me or to let me fall. Well, our first history
of God is when we got saved. Oh, yeah, totally.
That's it. So, I mean, you can't say I don't
have a history with God. And if nothing else
happened, the fact that I'm going to heaven instead
of hell, that should be enough. That is an indication.
Man. God's work. You can bank on that. Yeah,
exactly. Maybe we've got to put up with some
stuff in the in -between, living here in this
fallen world, down world as we call it. But at
the end of the day, He's good. He's faithful.
So the faithfulness of God, the trustworthiness
of God, the goodness of God, then that's something
you've got to decide before the bottom drops
out or before you get the news, the news that
we got or anything in your life. Because stuff
happens in this world, and it's not always fair,
and it doesn't always add up. And if you've already
decided God's good, you've already decided, I
refuse. I love what Michael W. Smith said a number
of years ago in one of the documentaries we saw.
He said one of the things, one of his number
one things is, I refuse to ever be offended again
in my life. I refuse to be offended. I will be
unoffendable. Right. I don't know if you remember
that. I do. I will never forget it. I refuse.
I will never be offended again. Because we can
receive that. offense, but we can do something
with it. And that is just to throw it out and
not allow us, we don't live and dwell in it.
Not carry it. And this is an offense to us to
be ripped off. So we have a choice. Do we carry
it or do we reject it and drop those seeds to
the ground and say, no way, not today, Satan.
Yeah, that's good. That's real. That's victorious
living. That's living up in a down world. That's
living as though you're blessed instead of cursed.
I'm happy. Yeah. Are you happy? I'm hungry right
now. You're hungry. I'll be happy when I get
some food in my belly. We do have some people
to thank. Yes. Steve Wise. What a wonderful night.
You've got to share this. We went to dinner last
night with one of our listeners. He and his wife,
Steve and Stephanie Wise, came in town, asked
us and the Currys to pick our favorite steak
place or barbecue place. Our favorite barbecue
place was not having barbecue last night, so
we chose a steak place. And he blessed us. They
blessed us with a wonderful meal. And we got
to hear their story and who they are. And he
does technical for Lyle Lovett. Well, what he
is, he's the front line sound guy. For Lyle Lovett.
It has been for years. In fact, when we asked
him, what do you do? Because we were just meeting
him for the first time. But they've been a faithful
giver. Thank you, Steve. I didn't put it together
last night until you drove off and I went, that's
Steve Wise. He's the one who's been giving to
us monthly. And we want to thank you for that,
especially right now. Thank you for the 60 -ounce
ribeye last night, too. That was amazing. But
when we asked him what he did and he said he
worked technical for Lyle Lovett, I was expecting
him to laugh like it was a joke. But it was true.
That's what he does for a living. That's why
they're in Texas. I was like, oh. They live in
Las Vegas. They're visiting Texas. But it took
a little time for vacation to come over and hang
out with us and the Currys. But also, they've
got a show coming up with Lyle. With Lyle Lovett
in Tomball. Starting a new tour in Tomball. And
then she works for Cirque du Soleil. How do you
say that? Circus. Yeah. Did I say it right? Oh,
okay. It is French. It is French, and I'm from
West Texas, so that won't happen. And she's worked
for them for 23 years, she said. She's a technical
director for them. It was a delight. to meet
them and get to spend time. I wish we would have
connected who they were while we were sitting
there instead of when they drove off because
it didn't, I knew you had talked to him through
email, but we, I didn't connect that they're
the ones who've been faithful listeners and givers
and Steve, Stephanie, thank you. If you're listening
to this, which I hope you are, I know you are.
Um, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That dinner
was next time you come in. It's our time to buy.
It's our treat next time. So, but thank you.
It was a blessing. It was such a blessing. Who
else? James Barron. He's a, he's a regular giver.
Adam Curry. I saw he boosted us again. I mean,
Adam Curry's a regular giver and just our best
friend ever. Yes. And that's who we went to Caleb
with. And we're going to Florida with them in
July. We travel with our besties. Yeah. You know,
there's, it's, travel's not always easy with
everybody. We've had one of those trips. Well,
we've decided that the K -Love trip is just us
four and no more. We are not inviting other people.
That is a special time. It's so hard to corral
a lot of people. It's hard to get six people
to sit at a table anywhere. And so that's kind
of our secret vacation, yearly vacation. We all
signed up again. It's just beautiful. I highly
recommend you watching the awards tomorrow night.
So here's my question for you. Yes. Audio or
video? Well, I like audio because you know me,
I don't like pictures of myself and videos. Kind
of leaning towards audio with this and then video
with the interview. I think that's the way it
should go because I feel more comfortable when
I'm not worried about the camera. And when we're
off in July, we can take one of the rigs home
and we can do it at the house. Yeah, we'll be
taking the whole month off in July again. We
do that every year. Every year. It's our rest
time. That way we can keep up. I don't like missing.
Yeah. I feel like we're... Not that we're letting
people down, but we're not building people up
that we could. Does that make sense? Yeah. We'll
try to be more consistent. We're going to be
more consistent. And I think we can do that on
the audio side a lot easier. And we're trying
to keep it to a minimum because we recognize
your time is valuable. Which, by the way, our
time's up. Oh, and we want to be, we want to
value you. I was letting you rock. You're rocking
and rolling today. Thank you for sharing today.
You shared some amazing things. It was great.
And it's just good being on the mic with you
again and, and reminiscing about an amazing weekend
where we were very blessed. Very, very blessed.
So yeah. So Faith, if you'll go ahead and hit
our outro there. There it is. Well, again, we
want to thank you for joining us. Episode 100.
100. Big Mark. Milestone. Living up in a down
world. We want you to have an amazing day. Yes.
On purpose.