1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:28,640 This is Jimmy and Annette and we are excited to be here. 2 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:30,640 We are living up in a down world. 3 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:35,120 Do you know you say that every Sunday at church but you never talk about the podcast. 4 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,920 You just bring that statement up every single Sunday. 5 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:39,920 You're going to go there now? 6 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:44,000 Well, I just shouldn't you let the church know? 7 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,000 People might want to hear what you have to say. 8 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,000 You know what? 9 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,000 You're right. 10 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Here's what I need. 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Okay. 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Every pastor needs their pastor's wife either to have a microphone in their hand. 13 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:52,000 No, not going to happen. 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Oh, no. 15 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,000 You know I want that. 16 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,000 The other thing is- 17 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Because I need to fix your stories. 18 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,240 No, we need to get you a dry erase board. 19 00:00:58,240 --> 00:00:59,240 Oh, is that what I want? 20 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:04,640 So like if I get a detail wrong, which happens often, you can just jot that down and then 21 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,600 can flash it up at me and I'll see it and I can correct myself without the humiliation. 22 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:09,600 Right. 23 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:10,600 Aren't you hilarious? 24 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:12,160 We can make that happen. 25 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:13,160 Right. 26 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:14,160 Okay. 27 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:15,160 We'll see. 28 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:16,160 We probably have a dry erase board that'll work. 29 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:17,160 No, I want a microphone. 30 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:18,160 No, no, no, no. 31 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:19,160 Not going to happen. 32 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:20,160 I have to fix. 33 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:21,160 Okay. 34 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,880 Yesterday, I didn't tell you this, but you said you were in sixth grade when you were 35 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:30,400 telling a story and then you said six years old and I'm like, wow, if you're in the sixth 36 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,480 grade at six, you're a genius. 37 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:33,480 It's just details. 38 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:34,480 Details. 39 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:35,480 I know. 40 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:37,520 But see, I could fix that. 41 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:39,400 I could just say, nope, you mean- 42 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:40,400 Oh, that would be- 43 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:41,400 Yeah. 44 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:42,400 Yeah. 45 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,800 And then every sermon instead of being 35 minutes long would be 55 minutes long. 46 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:46,800 It would be long. 47 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:47,800 At least. 48 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:48,800 Oh my gosh. 49 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:49,800 Okay. 50 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:50,800 But we digress. 51 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:51,800 This is Jimmy Nanette. 52 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:52,800 We are so happy to be here. 53 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,680 Our dog, Superdog Chevy is with us. 54 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,640 He's just trying to get comfortable in Nanette's lap right now. 55 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:00,800 But like I said, we're living up in the down world. 56 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:05,520 It's our podcast and we wanted to start this podcast because we want to help people be 57 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,560 excited about life even though the world seems to be losing its ever loving mind. 58 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:14,640 So how did we just, this'll be just kind of a quick review of last week. 59 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:19,320 How did we help ourselves to pull away from all the news and the noise? 60 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:20,320 What did we do? 61 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,520 Well, we turned off the TV. 62 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:23,520 Boo-yah. 63 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,360 I mean, like it's rocket science. 64 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:27,360 Right. 65 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:31,240 And it's not like we don't have a little, you know, a 13 inch black and white TV. 66 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,040 We have a 85 inch TV. 67 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:35,040 We like TV. 68 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:36,040 Yeah. 69 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:37,040 We love movies. 70 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:38,040 Well, it's funny. 71 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:39,040 We get that TV. 72 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:40,040 We put it up. 73 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,520 We have to buy a new media center because, you know, we had a smaller TV. 74 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:43,520 Right. 75 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:45,520 So we needed a larger one to accommodate it. 76 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:46,520 We upgrade. 77 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,960 We get used to it after about six months and you're like, we need a bigger TV. 78 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:50,960 It's not big enough. 79 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:51,960 Yeah. 80 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,480 And you know, I can't even fit another console in there. 81 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,640 So no, we're going to need a theater projector. 82 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:03,120 Now we use YouTube video clips of coffee houses with fire going. 83 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,600 We turn jazz music, jazz music on. 84 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,800 That's been, it's been refreshing. 85 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:08,800 Very refreshing. 86 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:09,800 We have bought back. 87 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,080 We mentioned this last week, but this is important because some of you actually have written 88 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:13,720 in and asked about this. 89 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:18,720 And some have even shared their own stories of kind of unplugging and pulling back or 90 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:20,880 going off the grid all together. 91 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:26,240 But it just has really helped us gain back hours and hours of our time in the evenings 92 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,560 where our evenings are relaxed. 93 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,800 And I've noticed this, we're going to bed earlier. 94 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:31,800 Have you noticed? 95 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:32,800 Yeah. 96 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:33,800 Yeah. 97 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:34,800 I mean, even with the time change. 98 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,840 Better sleep because we're not worrying about what's going on in the world. 99 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,760 Even though, I mean, we're not putting our head in the sand. 100 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:41,760 No, not at all. 101 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:42,760 Not at all. 102 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,120 We're not dwelling on it. 103 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:49,480 And we're not listening to fake news because every news station, that's my soapbox, it's 104 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:50,560 all fake. 105 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:51,560 You don't know what's real. 106 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,160 Wait, if it's on the internet, it's real. 107 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,600 So some people say. 108 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:58,840 My granny used to read the National Enquirer. 109 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,320 And she thought she knew all the stars. 110 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:04,360 She called Judge Judy, Judy. 111 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:05,760 Like my friend Judy. 112 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:06,760 I know. 113 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:07,760 She was... 114 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,560 She would talk about famous people like they were best friends because she read their stories 115 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:12,560 in the Enquirer. 116 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:18,000 She felt, I mean, literally she acted like she knew everybody she talked about. 117 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,720 That was how I got introduced to her. 118 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:20,720 Yeah. 119 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:21,720 I'm like, okay. 120 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:26,600 And remember when we went into her apartment and she had Judge Judy on and it was so loud. 121 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:27,600 Jerry Stringer. 122 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:28,600 Oh, that was awesome. 123 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:29,600 Oh my gosh. 124 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,760 I'd never watched that show in my life until I sat in her living room. 125 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:33,760 I was forced. 126 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:34,760 Oh my gosh. 127 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:35,760 Forced to watch it. 128 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:36,760 It was torture. 129 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:37,760 Why would you even want to... 130 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:38,760 I guess that's entertainment for some people. 131 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:39,760 We all have enough drama in our life. 132 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:40,760 I don't need that. 133 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:41,760 I want to watch somebody else's. 134 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:42,760 Yeah. 135 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:43,760 I've got my own... 136 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:44,760 I had teenagers in my home. 137 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:45,760 That's all I... 138 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:46,760 Oh my gosh. 139 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:47,760 That was enough drama, wasn't it? 140 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:48,760 Right. 141 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:49,760 We've had a great week. 142 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,760 I mean, we've had a busy week. 143 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:52,760 Oh my God. 144 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:53,760 Okay. 145 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:54,760 But you know what? 146 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:55,760 I have to say this. 147 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:56,760 I have to stop you right now. 148 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:57,760 Okay. 149 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:02,440 Because yesterday you told the church to go to hell. 150 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:03,720 Are you sure about that? 151 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:04,720 Yes. 152 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:05,720 You actually told... 153 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:06,720 I didn't say them to go... 154 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:07,720 No, no, no. 155 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:08,720 I said, let's go to hell. 156 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:09,720 Let's go to hell. 157 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,520 That's a little different for all you listeners. 158 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,280 I'm doing a series called Heaven in the Real World. 159 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:20,720 And after doing several weeks of just talking about the glory of heaven and what's coming, 160 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:22,200 which is really amazing. 161 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:24,520 It's really helping me in a lot of ways. 162 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:31,520 I really felt led by the Holy Spirit and by my wife with these conversations, AKA Holy 163 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,520 Spirit 2.0. 164 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:35,520 But we've been having... 165 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:36,840 We have conversations about everything. 166 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:37,840 We talk about the Lord. 167 00:05:37,840 --> 00:05:38,840 Well, you had me do all your research. 168 00:05:38,840 --> 00:05:39,840 Yeah, I had... 169 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:42,480 Not all, but I do a lot of your research for you. 170 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:44,280 We're both watching different things. 171 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:47,680 We're looking at things, using our Logos Bibles. 172 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:48,680 Man, that's just... 173 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:49,680 That program's amazing. 174 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:51,920 So, we're digging and researching. 175 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:52,920 Two heads are better than one. 176 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:54,920 But we started talking about the need... 177 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:56,160 We need to talk about hell. 178 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:00,440 I mean, two of the things the church talks the least about, it seems like these days, 179 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:01,440 is heaven. 180 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,560 And definitely, we don't talk about hell. 181 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:04,560 It's like the massive... 182 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,840 Not unless you're a fire and brimstone preacher in the Baptist Church or Pentecostal. 183 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:09,840 Not that. 184 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:10,840 Not that. 185 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:11,840 Really? 186 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:12,840 What is it? 187 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:13,840 Not me. 188 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:14,840 I mean, I'm a pastor. 189 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:15,840 I live out in a down world. 190 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:16,840 I mean, I came up with that in college. 191 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:17,840 So, anyway... 192 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:18,840 But you know what? 193 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:21,720 It doesn't scare me because I know where I'm going. 194 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:22,720 Exactly. 195 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,920 So, if you're a Christian and you're following Christ, and you know, a lot of people think 196 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,960 that just because they believe or they go to church, that's enough. 197 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:29,960 Right. 198 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:30,960 No. 199 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:31,960 You have to live for Him. 200 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,080 You have to release your life to Him. 201 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,920 And I mean, literally, it's not just... 202 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,040 I mean, even the demons know who Jesus is. 203 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:41,040 They believe. 204 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:42,040 I know. 205 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:43,400 The Bible says they know who He is, they believe, and yet they tremble. 206 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:44,400 Yeah. 207 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,400 Because they don't know Him in a saving way. 208 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,360 They don't have faith in Him, trust in Him, and all that. 209 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,800 So yeah, so we felt like we needed to talk about it. 210 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,240 It's like a massive elephant in the room in church. 211 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:56,920 You know, it's interesting. 212 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,240 The atmosphere, when I started talking about hell, well, first I said, let's all... 213 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,640 Y'all ready to go to hell, something like that. 214 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:07,760 And I got a few snickers, and it's like the air got sucked out of the room. 215 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:09,800 The barometric pressure went to Him. 216 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,320 Although, the first service, there was a little bit more... 217 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:14,320 There was more energy in the first service. 218 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:15,920 Energy in the second service? 219 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:16,920 It was like, whoa. 220 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,400 I think everybody was worried they're going to hell. 221 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,480 Well, I mean, we had this great bumper video for the... 222 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,280 In fact, y'all should go look at it. 223 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:27,280 It's online. 224 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:28,280 It's at bridgefbg.com. 225 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:29,280 It's on YouTube. 226 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:30,400 Yeah, that video was great. 227 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,160 Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas. 228 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,200 And all of our videos are there. 229 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,080 They're on our front page of our website, bridgefbg.com. 230 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:39,480 Go check it out. 231 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,280 And we showed this great bumper video that was kind of a man on the street thing where 232 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,560 they went and interviewed men and women on the street and said, so what do you think 233 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:47,560 hell is? 234 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:48,720 Who do you think goes to hell? 235 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:53,080 And they stuck a microphone in their face, and the answers were just all over the map. 236 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:54,560 It was crazy. 237 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:59,880 And so that was a perfect segue into saying, you know, we just don't know what we're talking 238 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:00,880 about. 239 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,880 There's such a wide variety of beliefs and thoughts about hell. 240 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,440 Because people think that if you're good, you won't go to hell. 241 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:07,440 And that's not... 242 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:08,440 I can be... 243 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:09,440 God is a good God. 244 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:10,440 He would never send a good person to hell. 245 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:11,440 He wouldn't send people. 246 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:12,840 But He doesn't send people to hell. 247 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:13,840 He doesn't. 248 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:14,840 We send ourselves to hell. 249 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:15,840 That's the myth that I busted yesterday. 250 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:16,840 Oh my God. 251 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:17,840 Well, I don't even think you went there yet. 252 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:21,120 Well, I went there in one of the services, but I'm going to really go there in the next 253 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,880 and part two, that God doesn't send anybody to hell. 254 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:30,920 We go to hell by choice, by our refusal to accept the gift that's been extended to us. 255 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:31,920 Now, we can get into it. 256 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,440 We're not going to dive into the leads on some of this. 257 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:35,440 Maybe next week we could. 258 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:37,280 I mean, I think it's really important. 259 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,160 But just so you know, I'm not a hellfire and brimstone kind of guy. 260 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:44,240 I'm Mr. Positive, the glass is always half full. 261 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,520 No, my glass is running over most of the time. 262 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:48,520 Yours is always running over. 263 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,640 My leaky buckets are overflowing. 264 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:51,640 So I'm a very positive individual. 265 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:53,600 It's hard for you to preach on it, but then... 266 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:54,600 I was nervous, to be honest. 267 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:59,000 You felt convinced that you have to go there. 268 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,000 I did. 269 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,000 I did. 270 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,000 I really did. 271 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,200 Then when Sunday morning rolled around, I got up. 272 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:08,400 I had this energy and this passion because I believe that the reason we need to talk 273 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,040 about is because we love people and we don't want them to go there. 274 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,200 So it's really a love thing, not a fear thing at all. 275 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:16,880 And so that just got Annette and I... 276 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,560 We've just been batting all this around for weeks now. 277 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:24,000 But also another thing came up that we started talking about, and this is something we feel 278 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:29,600 like maybe it'll help our listeners as they think in terms of just doing life daily. 279 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:34,720 Because our whole point of doing this podcast is to make faith real for the rest of us. 280 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,640 I mean, let's just bring it down to where we live. 281 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,800 And so we were thinking in terms of this idea... 282 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:45,640 Joyce Meyer wrote a book years ago called, Battlefield of the Mind. 283 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:50,080 And then our pastor, when we lived in Nashville, Tennessee, went to a great church there called 284 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:51,080 Grace Chapel. 285 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,160 It was a Calvary Chapel Church. 286 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,240 Pastor Steve Berger and his wife, Sarah, wonderful leaders. 287 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,040 He was doing a series called Mind Wars. 288 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:02,040 Remember that? 289 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:03,040 Yes, that was really good. 290 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:04,040 It was real similar. 291 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:10,600 It was real that the battlefield for our lives is not out there where you work. 292 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:12,520 It's not even in your home. 293 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:14,080 It's in your mind. 294 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:15,540 It's in your mind. 295 00:10:15,540 --> 00:10:20,720 And so we wanted to talk about that a little bit because our minds are constantly under 296 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:21,720 attack. 297 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:26,840 I mean, let me just ask you Annette, do you ever get mind wars when you look in the mirror 298 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:28,320 in the morning and get up? 299 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,440 That's probably my biggest mind war. 300 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:31,440 So tell me about that. 301 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:32,440 Especially as I age. 302 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:33,960 Well, the mirror talks back to me. 303 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:34,960 You're freaking gorgeous. 304 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:35,960 No, but I'm... 305 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,840 And I love you by the way. 306 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:39,840 Thank you. 307 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:40,840 I love you too, baby. 308 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:41,840 I didn't steal that from Adam Curry. 309 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:42,840 I'm telling you. 310 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:43,840 I love you. 311 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:44,840 No, no. 312 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:45,840 It's for real. 313 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,520 Oh, Adam, I knew this was going to happen this week after hearing your podcast last week, 314 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:49,520 but that's okay. 315 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:50,520 I believe you. 316 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:51,520 And I know you do. 317 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:52,520 I'm going to tell you that now. 318 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:53,520 No, no. 319 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:54,520 When I... 320 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:55,520 Oh my gosh. 321 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:56,520 Here we go. 322 00:10:56,520 --> 00:11:00,520 Well, Adam said he's going to get you some more sound effects, so I'm ready for you to 323 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:01,520 do that. 324 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:02,520 I'm like totally excited. 325 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:04,600 We're going to have a whole new bank of sound effects we can play with. 326 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:05,600 Right. 327 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:06,600 Okay. 328 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:07,600 Let's go back to what we were talking about. 329 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:13,800 Anyway, every time I look in the mirror, and especially as I age, the enemy will tell 330 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:14,800 me things. 331 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:15,800 You're worthless. 332 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:16,800 You're ugly. 333 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:17,800 You've got too many wrinkles. 334 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:18,800 You're not young anymore. 335 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:19,800 I mean, which I'm not, but... 336 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:20,800 Isn't that... 337 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:21,800 Boy, that's not just females though. 338 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:22,800 It's a recording that plays every day, and I believe it plays for everybody, but it's 339 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:23,800 what I'm doing. 340 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:24,800 I'm not doing it for the audience. 341 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:25,800 I'm doing it for the audience. 342 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:26,800 I'm doing it for the audience. 343 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:27,800 I'm doing it for the audience. 344 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:28,800 I'm doing it for the audience. 345 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:29,800 I'm doing it for the audience. 346 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:34,160 I believe it plays for everybody, but it's what you do with it. 347 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:42,520 I literally have to get it out of my mind, start quoting some scriptures that I know. 348 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:43,520 Okay. 349 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:44,520 Let's talk about that. 350 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:45,520 Wow. 351 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:46,520 Wow. 352 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:47,520 This is weird. 353 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:48,520 30 years of wow. 354 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:50,400 We finished just the sentences, and we interrupt each other a lot. 355 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,520 There are some scriptures, so let's talk about that. 356 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:53,520 Yeah. 357 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:57,320 I looked up some scriptures because I think in terms of what it means... 358 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:02,640 If our mind is where the battlefield is, then it only stands to reason that what we put 359 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:08,240 into our mind or what we allow into our mind, into our thinking, into our processes, can 360 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:13,720 actually impact and affect and inform what we say and do, right? 361 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:15,640 We need to start with what's going in. 362 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:17,120 Listen to the scripture. 363 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:18,800 You'll know this one, Annette. 364 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:20,040 Romans 12, 2. 365 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:21,520 You know this one well. 366 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:27,840 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that 367 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:33,640 by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 368 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:34,720 Let's go back to the principle. 369 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,720 I like the New Living version of that. 370 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:38,480 New Living translation says this. 371 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,200 It says the first part's almost the same, so I'm going to read it like that. 372 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:42,400 It's the second part. 373 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,720 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by changing the way you think. 374 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:47,720 The way you think. 375 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:48,720 I love that. 376 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:49,720 The NLT. 377 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:53,120 I love that translation for those of you who are interested in translations. 378 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:58,200 Very casual and colloquial, but still very sound and a good translation. 379 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,160 I highly recommend the NLT. 380 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:03,720 How do you change the way you think? 381 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:05,920 You change the way you think by renewing your mind. 382 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,780 Now you've got to go back to how do you renew your mind? 383 00:13:08,780 --> 00:13:11,240 It's by what you put in. 384 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:17,160 It's almost like, I remember being in class in college and we were learning early programming 385 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:18,160 on computers. 386 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:19,160 Oh my gosh. 387 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:20,160 That was hilarious. 388 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,640 I mean like very early stuff. 389 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,920 We're talking back in the 80s when basic, basic, basic programming. 390 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,200 I mean it was called basic. 391 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,840 But I remember our professor always saying, you're going to get out of this machine, this 392 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:35,720 computer, what you put into it. 393 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:36,720 Put into it, of course. 394 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:37,960 Whatever you put in is what you get back. 395 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:42,920 If it doesn't work, it's because you put something in that threw off the program or didn't work 396 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,920 with the program or you didn't write the right code or the right language. 397 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:51,120 So I always thought about that in terms of my spiritual life, that whatever I put in, 398 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:53,160 that's what's going to come out. 399 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:58,400 And I've said this for years and I don't think I stole this from anybody, but if I did, sorry. 400 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,880 I said it five times so it's mine now. 401 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,200 But I think I've said this for years. 402 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,120 You leak out what you're full of. 403 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:06,120 It's the same principle. 404 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:07,120 That's all it is. 405 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:08,680 I was a youth pastor by the way for 14 years. 406 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:11,840 So a lot of my isms come from those youth ministry days. 407 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:12,840 You're still a youth pastor. 408 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:13,840 I'm totally a youth pastor. 409 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:15,400 I'm 61 years of age. 410 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:21,280 But I'm trying to help people wrap their mind around principles that in terms they can remember. 411 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:26,000 That's why I say these silly isms, Pastor Jay isms, we used to call them or still do. 412 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,800 But this is one that's really powerful and it is you leak out what you're full of, therefore 413 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,920 you got to be careful what you're filling yourself up with. 414 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,000 And so this principle garbage in, garbage out. 415 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Remember that? 416 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,000 GIGO. 417 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,520 Whatever you put in, garbage in and you get garbage out. 418 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:45,440 Here's another scripture that's really powerful in terms of this. 419 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,640 It says, this is Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12. 420 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,560 Ephesians 6, that's like the warfare passage. 421 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:52,560 So listen to this. 422 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:57,160 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, 423 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:01,040 against the cosmic powers over this present darkness. 424 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:02,920 Ooh, heebie-jeebies. 425 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:07,040 Against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 426 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:11,280 I mean that's literally saying, look, this isn't about who's on the other side of the 427 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,600 aisle politically speaking. 428 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:17,640 A Republican or a Democrat or an independent or someone who's on the other side of the 429 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,720 pond, Putin or Russian. 430 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:27,120 We want to make people our enemies, but the truth is that no human being is actually our 431 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:28,120 enemy. 432 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,920 There are forces at work, spiritual forces that are bigger than that. 433 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:37,680 So when we talk about mind wars, then you got to think in terms of maybe I'm not my 434 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:38,680 worst enemy. 435 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:44,800 Maybe that thought did not come from me or maybe the fear over China taking over America 436 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:50,520 someday or Russia or Red Dawn or whatever happening that maybe that's not what I should 437 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:51,520 be afraid of. 438 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:55,040 Maybe there's something bigger going on than just people. 439 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:56,040 What does that speak to you? 440 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:57,560 Yeah, I agree with that. 441 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:01,320 The thing is, is we're always going to be bombarded with thoughts because we still live 442 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:02,640 in this world. 443 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:08,720 But what I found is as a Christian, when I began to memorize the word, I realized I don't 444 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,920 have to dwell on those thoughts. 445 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,720 And once I dwell, that's where the problem comes in. 446 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:21,100 But when I just let it go and just get it out of my mind and think of what's that scripture 447 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:25,360 that talks about thinking on things that are lovely and what is that? 448 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:26,360 Oh yeah, yeah. 449 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,560 That would be Philippians chapter four, which is things that are good and noble. 450 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:31,560 Yes, yes. 451 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:35,800 And that's where I have to go. 452 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:40,280 I just want to allow myself to dwell on those negative thoughts. 453 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:41,280 That's really good. 454 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:45,640 I was looking on here on this Bible program, I just looked up these scriptures online. 455 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:49,000 Here's another one talking in terms of how do we fight these mind wars? 456 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,280 Okay, these thoughts are coming into us. 457 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:52,600 So how do we deal with them? 458 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:53,720 Well, here's the thing. 459 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:58,360 The thoughts that come to us, if they're not the truth, that means they're a lie. 460 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,540 There's no such thing as a half truth. 461 00:17:01,540 --> 00:17:03,600 So it's either the truth or a lie. 462 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:08,040 It may be a spin on the truth that sounds almost true. 463 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,080 And I remember hearing John Eldredge talk about this, and you probably remember this 464 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:12,080 from captivating. 465 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:17,280 I went to the boot camp up in Colorado with a group of guys and John Eldredge, who's a 466 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:20,480 great minister in his own right, he's also a therapist. 467 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:25,880 He was talking about how we make agreements with these thoughts that come in our mind. 468 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,080 It's almost like if you make a covenant or a contract. 469 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:30,800 So I remember pulling up a picture. 470 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,360 I was teaching this principle about agreements. 471 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:35,760 So this negative thought comes in your mind. 472 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:37,120 You're so worthless. 473 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:38,440 Nobody cares about you. 474 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:41,680 Nobody cares about your podcast. 475 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,840 Nobody cares that you're a pastor. 476 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,840 All this stuff that comes into my mind, by the way, it happens to me as much as you, 477 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,200 maybe more because the position I hold, I get attacked a lot. 478 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:53,720 Probably because you have a public position. 479 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,800 Get a lot of those mental attacks. 480 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:01,600 And what happens is, I have a choice when those thoughts come into my mind. 481 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:06,960 I can either arrest them, and the biblical word for that is a rebuke, means to arrest 482 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:11,760 or stop them, or I can get into agreement with them. 483 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,760 It's like I make a covenant with the enemy. 484 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,120 One time I was teaching on this principle, back when we did Wednesday night services 485 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:22,640 or study four or five years ago before COVID. 486 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,120 I was teaching the principle and I found this picture online. 487 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:28,480 I just Googled pictures and found this. 488 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:33,280 It was a picture of like a devil hand shaking the hand of a regular person. 489 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:34,280 Oh, that's right. 490 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,280 I mean, it was so well done. 491 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:37,280 Very high definition. 492 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:38,280 Because you're making agreement with the enemy. 493 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:39,280 Oh my gosh. 494 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:44,160 It was like, this is what we're doing when we just take those thoughts and welcome them 495 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:45,160 in. 496 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:49,600 And you may remember this principle about the seed, dropping the seed to the ground. 497 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:50,880 Why don't you share that? 498 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:56,880 Well, the principle is, let's just say for instance, when I was married before, one of 499 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,320 the major- You were married before? 500 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,120 Yes, honey, for about almost 14 years. 501 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:03,120 Shocking all. 502 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:04,120 I know. 503 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:11,800 I was in a very dysfunctional relationship where we were not kind to one another. 504 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,240 That's just putting it very kindly. 505 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:22,840 But I was being told things about who I am to my ex-husband. 506 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:28,080 My- was making a lot of very negative comments, calling me names and so forth. 507 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:30,840 I just don't want to go into the details of it. 508 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:38,560 But what happened back then was I internalized it and I began to agree with everything he 509 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:45,600 said that by the time we met, after I went through my divorce and went through counseling 510 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:52,200 and by the time I met you, you were saying all these kind and beautiful things that were 511 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:58,520 so opposite of what I had heard from him, even from my past childhood. 512 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:04,100 And I had to learn, you pretty much taught me the word of God and what it said. 513 00:20:04,100 --> 00:20:11,360 And I had to learn that when a seed gets put into your hand, whether good or bad, you can 514 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:16,080 take that seed and if it's good, you put it in your heart and you can dwell on that and 515 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,160 you can overcome things. 516 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:27,280 But the thing is, a lot of times we'll dwell on a seed that's bad because we're just prone 517 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:31,440 to that as humans to go negative. 518 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:37,800 And then we have the opportunity to turn it over and let it go. 519 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,520 And that's one of the things that you taught. 520 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:40,920 Where did you get that principle from? 521 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:41,920 Do you remember? 522 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:42,920 I don't even remember. 523 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:44,720 I'm a hundred years old, so it's hard to remember. 524 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:45,720 Don Finto. 525 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:46,720 Probably Don Finto. 526 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:47,720 I think it was Don Finto. 527 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:48,720 It might have been Don. 528 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:49,720 He taught us other things like that. 529 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:57,060 But taking that, see whatever, like if someone calls you a name or something that's not who 530 00:20:57,060 --> 00:21:02,160 you are, you take your hand and you just turn it over and you say, no, I don't take that. 531 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,720 You don't do it right in front of them. 532 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:04,720 No. 533 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:05,720 As you're walking. 534 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,120 And I have literally walked away from conversations. 535 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:13,840 This may help somebody here where whenever someone says something derogatory or whether 536 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:18,500 it's somebody or a thought, either way, whether it's a mind war either way, somebody says 537 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:23,100 something that slanders you or you overhear somebody putting you down or whatever, it's 538 00:21:23,100 --> 00:21:25,480 such a mind war to begin with. 539 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:31,400 And the principle is this, is that those are seeds and you can either plant a seed or you 540 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,040 can just drop it to the ground and move on. 541 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,880 But the choice is yours whether you're going to receive that seed into the soil of your 542 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:42,820 heart, into the soil of your life, or you're going to throw it down on the ground. 543 00:21:42,820 --> 00:21:46,900 And so whoever it was that taught us that, it might have been Don, whoever. 544 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:51,920 But the idea was you put your hand out and literally I do this physically. 545 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:56,880 And I may be walking away from a conversation where something was said to me, and trust 546 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,560 me it happens as a pastor, we get all kinds of crazy stuff. 547 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,800 We love people and it's a good thing that we do because sometimes people say the craziest 548 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,120 things. 549 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:10,400 And remember that show, Kids Say the Darnest Things? 550 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:11,840 That's really dating myself there. 551 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,960 But people, Christians say the craziest things where you're going, I can't believe it's 552 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:16,960 come out of their mouth. 553 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,760 They don't even know they just sliced it in half. 554 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:25,800 But what I do is I take my hand and as I'm walking off, I just, just one smooth motion, 555 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,160 they don't even know what I'm doing. 556 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:33,680 I'm literally turning my hand over and dropping those seeds to the ground and refuse to let 557 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:39,040 the enemy use another, maybe even a good person who didn't even mean it, but just weren't 558 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,880 thinking in what they were saying because words matter. 559 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,580 And the battlefield mind really comes around words. 560 00:22:45,580 --> 00:22:49,080 So I walk away from those conversations or from those kinds of things. 561 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:53,560 And I just literally turn my hand over as though I'm dropping them to the ground. 562 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,360 So back to words, what we say matters. 563 00:22:57,360 --> 00:22:59,380 Our words are powerful. 564 00:22:59,380 --> 00:23:01,400 Our words are like power containers. 565 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:07,160 Well, think about what we say to children when they're young and we call them, well, 566 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:08,920 I don't, I've never done this. 567 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:10,960 I hope I've never done this. 568 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:16,400 Called my child stupid or instead of saying you did a stupid thing, which I don't even 569 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:17,400 like that, honestly. 570 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,040 All they hear is stupid. 571 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,160 And boy, think about what that does to them. 572 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,760 It is that word that's a seed that goes in. 573 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:32,560 But then it germinates and germinates until they become angry with the world and with, 574 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,880 you know, and just reeks habit in their heart. 575 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:37,360 But it starts in the mind. 576 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:39,120 This is where the mind war is happening. 577 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:40,920 And I know that you are listening. 578 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,840 I'm sure you're resonating with us because things happen to you. 579 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:49,560 Sometimes it's just walking by a mirror and your first thought is you are, you just look 580 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:50,760 terrible. 581 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:51,800 You look old. 582 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,560 You look tired. 583 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:54,560 That's always a fun one. 584 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,160 When somebody says you look tired, are you okay? 585 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,840 And you know, I was until you said that I'm feeling tired. 586 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:08,480 I mean, again, the power of words and us learning how to manage our words and, and be careful 587 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:09,880 with our words. 588 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,000 And here's another principle. 589 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,320 The more you mature in Christ, and really I would even say it like this, the more you 590 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:23,360 grow in your, in the grace and the power and the anointing that's on your life as you mature, 591 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:27,640 actually your words carry more authority and weight as you mature. 592 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:31,880 And so there's even a sense where we need to be even more selective in what we say and 593 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:38,000 how we, how we speak things and weigh our words carefully because they can either take 594 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,600 somebody out or they can lift somebody up. 595 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:41,600 Right? 596 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:42,760 So other scriptures. 597 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:43,760 Here's another one. 598 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,120 And this is a, again, it has to do with mind wars. 599 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:47,520 It has to do with the enemy. 600 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:51,480 James chapter four, verse seven, I want to bounce this off of you. 601 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:56,920 Submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you. 602 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,120 The key is the first thing. 603 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:01,440 Submit yourselves to God first. 604 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:06,160 Oh, I thought it was just you just bow up and resist the mean old devil. 605 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:07,160 Isn't that funny? 606 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:14,880 How we, we automatically go to the second part of the scripture and miss what God says. 607 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:15,880 Submit yourself to me. 608 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:16,880 You nailed it. 609 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,000 I don't think we can resist the devil without submitting ourselves first. 610 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,000 We can't. 611 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,000 We think we can. 612 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,040 And then we, to go toe to toe with the one who knows you better than you know yourself, 613 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,200 the enemy, it's not going to end well for you. 614 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:30,200 Exactly. 615 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:31,200 Yeah. 616 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,840 Well, this is just a few of the things that, that are peeing around in us and we want to 617 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:35,960 help you. 618 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,840 We want to invite you to write in. 619 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:42,800 If you have questions about faith, questions about your walk with God, you can find us 620 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,480 at livingupinadownworld.com. 621 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,920 Living up in a down world.com. 622 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,160 All you have to do is type that in, go there. 623 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:53,580 You can reach us there. 624 00:25:53,580 --> 00:25:58,820 You can, my Twitter feeds on the very front there, my daily devotionals, it's called blog 625 00:25:58,820 --> 00:25:59,820 on there. 626 00:25:59,820 --> 00:26:03,980 You can click on those and every day I post a daily devotional that I write fresh. 627 00:26:03,980 --> 00:26:04,980 It's hot off the press. 628 00:26:04,980 --> 00:26:05,980 How long have you been doing that now? 629 00:26:05,980 --> 00:26:06,980 About 18 years. 630 00:26:06,980 --> 00:26:07,980 I've got thousands. 631 00:26:07,980 --> 00:26:15,160 I've got just on my own database journal over 4,000 of those that I've written. 632 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,280 I should compile those into a Devo book. 633 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:18,880 That'd be a volume. 634 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:19,960 Many have said that. 635 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,720 So but anyway, you can, you can read our daily devotionals. 636 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:28,840 You can listen to the podcast right there, right off of livingupinadownworld.com. 637 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:29,840 So do that. 638 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:31,240 You having a cough attack over there? 639 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:32,240 You okay? 640 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,240 I know the Hamlet, that'll help. 641 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:39,000 One, one thousand, two, one thousand. 642 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:44,480 But anyway, so we want to invite you to go to that page and there's, you can write us, 643 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,600 you can ask questions, you can leave a review. 644 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:47,600 That would be awesome. 645 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:48,600 You can also subscribe. 646 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:49,600 Only if it's good. 647 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,560 If it's bad, well, we're just going to throw the seed down. 648 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,040 It's like mama said, if you have anything good to say, don't say anything at all. 649 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,680 So anyway, leave a positive review there. 650 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:00,680 And so do that. 651 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,840 So that helps us to know. 652 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,840 And then also on there, you can subscribe to the podcast so that when we generate a 653 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:12,840 new podcast, which is usually every, every Monday and then I work, produce it and then 654 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,160 it gets out on either late Monday night, Tuesday morning. 655 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,760 And that way you'll always know when they're coming. 656 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,760 So we'd love to have you be a part of that. 657 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,760 I do want to just share some good stuff here. 658 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,440 I mean, I think we might want to keep this conversation going for the next time, but 659 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:31,200 I want to share some things just as a source of encouragement and say thanks, Sir Brian 660 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:32,200 with an I. 661 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,800 Why do you say Sir Brian? 662 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,160 Because that's what his name is on Fountain. 663 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:43,680 Fountain, by the way, is a great app that you can use and you can actually do value 664 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,520 for value on Fountain. 665 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,520 So like if you like something, can boost it. 666 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,160 You can do a boost to Graham where you can write a note to us and say, Hey, that was 667 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:52,160 awesome. 668 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:56,020 And then here's 70,000 sats or a million, however many you want to give. 669 00:27:56,020 --> 00:28:01,040 It's all Bitcoin stuff, but that's a good way to actually say, wow, I value what you're 670 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,400 doing and I appreciate this. 671 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:03,920 This is helping me. 672 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:10,520 And Sir Brian with an I, I mean, just the other day, five hours ago, 33,443 sats. 673 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:15,760 I mean, and he says this, looking forward to another dose of excellence from Dame Annette. 674 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,360 Oh, and her sidekick, Pastor Castor. 675 00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:19,800 Did he really say that? 676 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,360 He did say that. 677 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:26,600 See, you're outpacing me there, which is exactly how I planned this. 678 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:31,280 Another person wrote very cool, a servant silence is their name and they, they're either 679 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,720 on Castamatic or fountain love your show. 680 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:35,720 Bless you guys. 681 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,760 And that's 3,300 sats on there for that. 682 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,360 Thank you so much. 683 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:45,720 Somebody named Adam Curry, Adam's awesome. 684 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,160 He's like our greatest supporter. 685 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,160 Thank you, Adam. 686 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:49,160 We love you. 687 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,400 And Tina, by the way, they're in Jamaica, Mon. 688 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:52,680 Can you believe that? 689 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:57,760 I'm having a little pictures and texts and I'm trying not to commit the sin of envy, 690 00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,800 but I had to pray that off of me. 691 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:04,480 I had to text her just now and say, it's okay to eat calories. 692 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:05,480 Don't count. 693 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:10,600 You know, when you're on vacation, yeah, Adam took his portable podcasting unit and he's 694 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,040 still doing all of like four of his shows. 695 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:14,040 Go anywhere. 696 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,040 It's crazy. 697 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:16,040 Yes. 698 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:20,520 So Adam, Adam sent us a 33,000 sats and that's just part of it. 699 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:25,460 He's really been a great supporter Tuesdays are so good with a new podcast from Pastor 700 00:29:25,460 --> 00:29:27,400 Jimmy and Damonette. 701 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,340 So Adam and Tina, we love you guys. 702 00:29:29,340 --> 00:29:30,340 We so value. 703 00:29:30,340 --> 00:29:32,040 I'm kind of already wishing they were back. 704 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,240 I know they just got there, but I miss those guys. 705 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:39,560 So anyway, be sure and tune into their podcast, Curry and the Keeper. 706 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,800 It has become so it's really what inspired us. 707 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:48,280 I mean, when we, a friend wrote us from Chicago and said, Hey, this couple, Adam and Tina 708 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,720 Curry are talking about you on the, on their podcast. 709 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:51,720 I'm like, what? 710 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:52,720 Who's Adam and Tina Curry? 711 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,920 And then we got to know them and turns out they lived in our town. 712 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,920 Tina had become in our church and it just turned into a great friend story. 713 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:02,520 That's just being, the chapters are being written right now. 714 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:06,600 And then as we were talking and getting to know each other, we were just raving about 715 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,960 their, I love their, their podcasts and they were like, well, you should do one too. 716 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,280 And we're like, well, okay, we will. 717 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,840 And just, man, in a very short amount of time, we were up and running. 718 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:20,600 So, and this is number 11, by the way, I know double digits. 719 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:21,600 Can you believe it? 720 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:22,600 Wow. 721 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,080 So, you know, we'll have a thousand before you know it in the can. 722 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:26,080 So what? 723 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:27,080 Okay. 724 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:31,920 So anyway, I just want to just give a big shout out to Curry and the Keeper go to fountain 725 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,760 castamatic, either value for value. 726 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,180 They have a website as well, but go and listen to their show. 727 00:30:38,180 --> 00:30:41,520 They do their show every couple of weeks, twice a month. 728 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:42,520 And they're a hoot. 729 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:43,880 You'll just spend most of your time laughing. 730 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,800 I'm ready for them to do it four days a week. 731 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:46,800 Me too. 732 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:47,800 And Tina, let's get this going. 733 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,320 She doesn't have enough to talk about. 734 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:54,360 I'm thinking if I were married to Adam Curry, I would have plenty to laugh and talk about. 735 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:55,360 No doubt. 736 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:56,360 Oh my goodness. 737 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:57,360 What an interesting company. 738 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:58,360 I pull up to an intersection. 739 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,840 It's spring break and I pull up on Main Street here in Fredericksburg, Texas. 740 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,920 And there are thousands of people already in the morning. 741 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:11,200 I mean, that just spring break jams our town and thousands and thousands of guests and 742 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,200 tourists. 743 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,880 And so I was crossing Main Street right by Market Plots. 744 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:16,920 It's our big park downtown. 745 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:23,520 I just had coffee with somebody and I've turned on the podcast and they are going on and on. 746 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,760 And I'm laughing so hard. 747 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,040 Because he's talking about what he wants for his baptism. 748 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:29,480 He's talking about his baptism. 749 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:33,280 He wants LED lights at the baptistry. 750 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,360 He wants me to play a solo on the guitar and rock out. 751 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:37,360 He is hilarious. 752 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,680 He wants to meet with the production team to give us some help about production to really 753 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:42,680 make this a big affair. 754 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,880 This is pretty big for Adam Curry to get baptized. 755 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,440 You know, that is really cool. 756 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,960 So for all of our listeners, be praying for Adam and Tina. 757 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,680 They're growing in their faith and they're on a great journey. 758 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,840 We're just walking with them and just enjoying the journey. 759 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,880 And you can watch it April 12th that evening. 760 00:31:58,880 --> 00:31:59,880 It'll be online. 761 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:00,880 We'll be streaming it. 762 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:01,880 Yeah, we'll be streaming it. 763 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:02,880 We're doing a night of worship. 764 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,280 So we have a full night of worship and then we're going to have baptisms. 765 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,760 We've got a lot of people signed up to be baptized. 766 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:08,760 We sure do. 767 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,000 It's really cool what God's doing. 768 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,880 So yeah, so anyway, we want to share those updates. 769 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,960 We also have other people that have written into the website just asking questions. 770 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,080 So do write us, livingupinadownworld.com. 771 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,140 Ask questions about your faith and the faith journey. 772 00:32:22,140 --> 00:32:24,840 We want to walk with you and help you in this journey. 773 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,800 Annette, any closing thoughts on this mind war thing? 774 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:28,840 Oh gosh. 775 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,480 There's so much to say, but I think we need to put it off till next week. 776 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,480 Do you think Chevy has any closing thoughts? 777 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:35,480 I think Chevy. 778 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:36,480 It's like... 779 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:37,480 Yeah, just keep rubbing my belly. 780 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:38,480 Yeah, exactly. 781 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:39,480 Good to go. 782 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:40,640 All right folks, we love you. 783 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,160 Thank you again for being with us. 784 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:43,980 We so appreciate you. 785 00:32:43,980 --> 00:32:45,680 We really are having a great time. 786 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,360 We look forward to this time. 787 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,000 Chevy really looks forward to this time. 788 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,440 I mean, when I was setting the chairs up, he was already like getting excited. 789 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:52,680 It's like he knows what's about to happen. 790 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:53,680 He knows what's about to happen. 791 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:54,680 Smart dog. 792 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:55,680 But we're here to walk with you. 793 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,360 We're here to help you on your faith journey, here to help you walk with Christ. 794 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:04,680 And so any way we can do that, through answering questions, through just the dialogue, we're 795 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:05,680 here for you. 796 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:10,760 So this week, I got a challenge for you, make it your aim to live up in a down world. 797 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:11,760 Goodbye. 798 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:40,040 Hey, everyone.