"Our Buckets Runneth Over"

100:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000This is Annette, Jimmy and Chevy coming to you from the200:00:07,000 --> 00:00:36,000home, our studio. We are on episode 33. We are living up in300:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,000a down world. We want to welcome you to our podcast today.400:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000Yes. We had to switch it up today because I wanted, I think500:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000I needed to do the intro just for a change. And I'm glad you600:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000did because it sounded so refreshing hearing your voice700:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000first. Thank you since you love my voice so much. I do love800:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000your voice. Well I'm so glad. I like it when we're on the900:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,000phone together and you're just talking. I love it. Really?1000:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,000Yeah, I love it. I'm learning to love. Unless I'm in trouble.1100:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,000Oh well that's true. That's a whole other story. And then1200:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000you're in the doghouse. That's another, hey that's an insult1300:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,000Chevy. He didn't appreciate that comment. Well it's been a1400:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000crazy week. Wow has it? Well it's our last week in1500:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000sabbatical. I know so it's kind of weird isn't it? So in my mind1600:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,000Faith said are you excited about coming back? And I said well1700:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000yes and no. She goes I get that. I get that. I said yeah I'm1800:01:24,000 --> 00:01:29,000excited to go back. I'm really excited to go to church and see1900:01:29,000 --> 00:01:34,000people. But it's been so refreshing. I don't know I don't2000:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,000want to lose this. Our buckets are full. Our buckets are very2100:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000full. And overflowing. Yes absolutely. What are they2200:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,000overflowing with? What would you say just out of the top of2300:01:44,000 --> 00:01:49,000your head? Gratitude, peace, joy, love, contentment. Oh my2400:01:49,000 --> 00:01:54,000goodness powerful. Naomi wrote me and asked me what I've2500:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000learned. I said it's not what I've learned it's what I've2600:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,000received. There it is. And those are the words that I sent to2700:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000her because I felt like that's where I'm at. And I don't want2800:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,000to lose that and I don't think we have to. No I agree. I think2900:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,000it's just we're resetting ourself. And when you reset3000:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,000yourself you have a new standard. Exactly. And I believe that's3100:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,000where we're at now. We're going to have this new standard. In3200:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,000fact you even said today when I go to church on Sunday I'm just3300:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,000going to preach. I'm not going to do welcome announcements.3400:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000I'm not going to do offering. I'm not going to do communion.3500:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000It's just going to they're going to continue doing what they've3600:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000been doing and you're going to come in and preach. That's3700:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000resetting. That's hard for a pastor. That's resetting for the3800:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,000team too because they got to step up. Sometimes leadership3900:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,000whether it's a company or an organization or a church needs4000:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000to step aside for a season so that others can step up and4100:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000shoulder the weight, carry the government so to speak on their4200:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000shoulders the weight of it. And then they learn, they grow, they4300:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000expand. Exactly. And then when leadership comes back in they4400:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000can continue to carry that and run with it because they're now4500:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,000conditioned to it. And that's really what I see happening here.4600:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,000So what it has done for you and I takes more of the load off of4700:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000us, spreads it across the team and they also get to explore4800:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000their skills and competencies and get to expand their capacity.4900:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,000And so I'm excited about going back to almost a different5000:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,000church. And it's so strange. I mean we go back on Sunday but5100:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,000you have to get ready for Sunday. So your sabbatical is just5200:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000almost really over before Sunday because you do have to spend5300:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000time studying. True. And even though you have a lot of5400:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,000overflow because of what's happened, you still have to write5500:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,000it down. You still have to get the notes to the team. There's5600:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000a lot to do. Yeah, here we go again. We're back in. And you5700:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,000know while part of me will miss the freedom that we've had and5800:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000just being able to offload weight and responsibility, another5900:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,000part of me is ready. It's like I'm ready to step back in. When6000:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,000I played sports growing up, which I played everything growing6100:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,000up, I never wanted to be second string ever. I signed up to6200:04:02,000 --> 00:04:07,000play. I want to play. So I'm the same way in my adult life. I've6300:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,000never wanted to be second string in anything. I want to play the6400:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,000game. I want to be in the game. And so it's going to be nice6500:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,000stepping back in. That really bodes well with my personality.6600:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,000But so much of what we've learned out of this overflow we're6700:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,000talking about, our buckets are filled, our tanks are full.6800:04:26,000 --> 00:04:31,000Really what we've done, I would say this because I heard6900:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000Pastor Bill Johnson say this recently. He talked about Sabbath7000:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,000in the New Testament is every day. It's like every day we7100:04:38,000 --> 00:04:43,000labor out of the posture of rest and the position of rest. We7200:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,000enter into that rest now as New Testament Christians. And so7300:04:47,000 --> 00:04:52,000I've really adopted and adapted that into my heart to where now7400:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,000when we step back into the fray of life, I don't see it as a7500:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000gerbil wheel now. I see it as laboring out of the place of7600:04:59,000 --> 00:05:05,000rest, Sabbath-ing every day. Sabbath is a lifestyle, not just7700:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000a practice. And it is a practice and should be.7800:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000We'll continue doing that on Mondays.7900:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,000But in terms of mentality and how you approach things, we8000:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000approach from a Sabbath mentality.8100:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,000Exactly.8200:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000It's a huge shift for both of us.8300:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000It really, really has.8400:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000Yeah. What else?8500:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,000What a gift.8600:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000Oh, I know. I was sharing with a friend today. I have a friend8700:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,000in Arizona, Pastor Dennis Lee, and Pastor Dennis is about to8800:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,000start his sabbatical. He's never had one before. He starts8900:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,000on September 17th. So I just shared some things with him and9000:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,000said, you know, before we started, we visited with a9100:05:41,000 --> 00:05:46,000pastor, Pastor Matthew or Pastor Matt, who said to us with9200:05:46,000 --> 00:05:52,000great regret and remorse, I squandered. I squandered the9300:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,000gift. I squandered the sabbatical. And that really9400:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,000imprinted us so that our whole mentality, how many times have9500:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000I said, we are not going to squander this?9600:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,000Exactly. Well, we didn't.9700:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,000Over and over. No, we've stayed focused and we have entered9800:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,000daily practices of our renewal and getting our buckets9900:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,000refilled with the presence of God and hosting the presence of10000:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,000God and walking with Him. So I appreciate Pastor Matthew, even10100:06:19,000 --> 00:06:23,000though it was out of his pain, he shared a key for us to say,10200:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,000we will not squander it. So I shared that with Pastor Dennis.10300:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,000I said, man, whatever you do, I said, we even changed our phone10400:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000numbers that we'd had for what, 11, 12 years?10500:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,000A long time.10600:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000Yeah, a long time, over a decade.10700:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,00012.10800:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,000Yeah, so over 11 years. And what it did, it created silence.10900:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000It created automatic silence because nobody could call us.11000:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,000Right.11100:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,000We had a handful of people we connected with throughout this11200:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,000time, which was wonderful. But the fact that we had that piece11300:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,000and our phones were just blowing up constantly, we, way too many11400:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000people had our phone number and that's not going to happen this11500:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000go around. So we have new numbers and that was, I told him, I11600:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000said, you should change your phone number.11700:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,000Or get a burner phone.11800:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000Or get a phone that, yeah, and put your phone away.11900:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000Because he might not want to change his number.12000:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,000He may not.12100:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,000I mean, I think I was ready because we've had our phone12200:07:11,000 --> 00:07:16,000number from Nashville for so many years. And I felt like this12300:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,000kind of, you know, a lot of people think that when a pastor12400:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,000takes a sabbatical, that they're not going to come back.12500:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,000That's true.12600:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000And I thought this actually says we are.12700:07:28,000 --> 00:07:29,000So I'm getting excited.12800:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,000We're at so much so that we changed our number to a local area code number.12900:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,000That's right. We're here.13000:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,000And so I felt like that was kind of part of that.13100:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,000Kind of symbolic, isn't it?13200:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000Yeah.13300:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000Or a gesture.13400:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000Definitely.13500:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000Yeah. It works both ways.13600:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,000I like that.13700:07:43,000 --> 00:07:44,000And it's been good actually.13800:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000I actually can remember it, which is huge.13900:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,000Should we share it on the podcast?14000:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,000No.14100:07:48,000 --> 00:07:49,000Oh, okay. You're right.14200:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,000That's the whole point.14300:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000Kind of defeat the purpose. I'm kidding.14400:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,000Exactly.14500:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,000No, I can't quote it, which I'm excited about. It's a miracle.14600:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000So what a great week we've had.14700:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000Now we're moving into sort of a transition.14800:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000I did something yesterday for the first time.14900:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,000I know.15000:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000For the first time through the whole sabbatical.15100:08:04,000 --> 00:08:08,000I've not even peeked at our church services online.15200:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000And you watched Pastor Eddie Freeman's message because we heard something.15300:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,000We got feedback.15400:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,000People were like, oh my gosh, this was amazing.15500:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,000And I was like, okay, I have to at least hear it.15600:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000And I was cool with that.15700:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000But I didn't watch any of the rest of it.15800:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000All I watched was him.15900:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000And I actually didn't even look at him.16000:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,000I was at the gym and I had it in my ear.16100:08:26,000 --> 00:08:31,000To me that was the same as listening to Gateway or whoever.16200:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,000And so, yeah, it was phenomenal.16300:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000He did a phenomenal job.16400:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,000Ended up preaching the message that impacted him the most in his life,16500:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000which impacted us.16600:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,000And impacted us from Pastor R.T. Kendall.16700:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000R.T. Kendall that preached at their church a few weeks ago.16800:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,000And he preached it from his perspective.16900:08:50,000 --> 00:08:56,000He didn't take all of his notes, but he used some of his insight.17000:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000But it was amazing.17100:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,000It really was.17200:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,000That's the only thing I've listened to.17300:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,000I can't wait to listen to it.17400:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000I know it was because you were telling me about it.17500:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000But I'm looking forward to listening to it myself.17600:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000We're going to go back and listen to all of them.17700:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,000Well, what I did yesterday, I watched the opening, the credits, so to speak,17800:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,000on the podcast, on the video, the broadcast.17900:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000And I just was so proud.18000:09:16,000 --> 00:09:17,000And then I watched just clips.18100:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,000I didn't actually watch the whole thing, but I just skipped around.18200:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,000And it made me so proud of our team.18300:09:24,000 --> 00:09:29,000I was watching them step up because they've had two months to do it.18400:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000So they've really gotten good at it.18500:09:31,000 --> 00:09:37,000And it made me happy because I already felt it took more weight off my shoulders.18600:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,000Stepping back in, it was like next Sunday, and I'm not playing guitar next Sunday.18700:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,000So we will literally show up, love on as many people as we can,18800:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,000because I can't wait to be like a family reunion,18900:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,000and just teach and preach the Word, which I'm so excited about.19000:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,000I have to tell you something that Faith told me this morning.19100:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,000Because I told her, you know, I said we were about to get ready to go to the gym.19200:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,000And so I said, I need to get off the phone because I've got to go get ready to go to the gym.19300:10:03,000 --> 00:10:07,000And I said, yeah, it's going to be quite interesting because we're in a routine.19400:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000And you know what she said to me, this was so interesting.19500:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000I didn't even tell you this.19600:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000She said, well, I just want you to know that we've built in so many things in the week19700:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000that you'll be able to work out every day.19800:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000I'm just like, what?19900:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000What have they built in to where we can go work out?20000:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,000What has our team done since you've been gone?20100:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,000I know.20200:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,000What does that mean?20300:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000I didn't even expound on it because we're not supposed to talk about church.20400:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,000I can't wait to find out.20500:10:29,000 --> 00:10:34,000She just wanted to share with me that that was not going to be something20600:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,000that we were going to have to worry about.20700:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,000I'm like, okay.20800:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,000I have to say it out loud.20900:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,000We are so blessed by the people we work with.21000:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,000Wonderful.21100:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000For those of you who may be joining us for the first time,21200:10:44,000 --> 00:10:49,000Annette and I are lead pastors for it's called Bridge Church,21300:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,000Fredericksburg, Texas.21400:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,000And we've been there about seven and a half coming up on eight years.21500:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,000No, not eight years, it's about seven and a half years.21600:10:58,000 --> 00:11:03,000We've been there and we are so blessed to serve with this church and serve this body.21700:11:03,000 --> 00:11:09,000We actually relaunched the church from Oak Hills, so no need to go into all that detail.21800:11:09,000 --> 00:11:14,000But we've been there seven and a half years and we could not be happier21900:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,000and be more in love with a group of people than this church.22000:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,000They really are our spiritual family.22100:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,000So we've missed that.22200:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,000I had to mourn and grieve a little bit of that loss.22300:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,000That was the adjustment during the beginning of the sabbatical.22400:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,000Anyway, having said all that, we're excited to come back.22500:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000We're a little nervous.22600:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,000It's kind of going to be weird walking back in there for the first time.22700:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000I know.22800:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000It really is because you just don't know what to expect.22900:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,000A little bit strange, but I'm excited anyway.23000:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,000My excitement way overweighs the weirdness.23100:11:44,000 --> 00:11:50,000So you've had quite...I mean, God has been speaking to you in so many ways23200:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,000throughout the sabbatical.23300:11:51,000 --> 00:11:57,000Me too, but I love hearing you expound and share on what He's been speaking.23400:11:57,000 --> 00:12:03,000I know this morning, He led you into Ephesians chapter one and blew your mind.23500:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,000I have two different devotions I do in the morning.23600:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,000One of the devotions I did, He was talking about wisdom.23700:12:10,000 --> 00:12:15,000I thought, oh, surely He's going to use that verse as part of the devotion.23800:12:15,000 --> 00:12:23,000This was Bill Johnson's The Way of Life devotion, which is phenomenal on Bible...23900:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,000Uversion.24000:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,000Uversion.24100:12:25,000 --> 00:12:30,000He didn't use that scripture, but I really felt like the Lord said,24200:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000go find that scripture.24300:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,000So I went...I knew it was in Ephesians that was talking about wisdom24400:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,000and understanding, your eyes being enlightened.24500:12:39,000 --> 00:12:44,000And I just...I started reading and I couldn't quit reading Ephesians.24600:12:44,000 --> 00:12:48,000I read the whole chapter of Ephesians this morning.24700:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,000I just...and I have another...right now I'm kind of reading the Psalms.24800:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,000I felt like the Lord has led me to read the Psalms.24900:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,000But for some reason today, I was like, okay, I'm going to read just a couple25000:12:59,000 --> 00:13:05,000of the Psalms, but I really, really...something He wants to glean out of that.25100:13:05,000 --> 00:13:14,000And so one of the things that I love about Paul talking to the church at Ephesus25200:13:14,000 --> 00:13:20,000is he's praying over them that they will receive wisdom and revelation.25300:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000And do you want me to read some of this?25400:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,000Sure, yeah.25500:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000This is so good.25600:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,000Share what God's showing.25700:13:25,000 --> 00:13:30,000So he says...and I'm going to read Ephesians 1, but he's thanking God for them25800:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000like he always does.25900:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000He's just...he was an amazing apostle.26000:13:34,000 --> 00:13:45,000But he says this, even before he, God, made the world, God loved us and chose us26100:13:45,000 --> 00:13:50,000in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.26200:13:50,000 --> 00:13:58,000Okay, so that jumped out because I was listening to another teaching recently26300:13:58,000 --> 00:14:07,000talking about our image and how we have a hard time receiving love because of how26400:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000we feel about our own selves.26500:14:09,000 --> 00:14:10,000Very true.26600:14:10,000 --> 00:14:15,000And so I was thinking about, you know, we've talked about me having issues with26700:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000body dysmorphia.26800:14:16,000 --> 00:14:20,000Really, I like the way you changed it to image dysmorphia, although I know I'm26900:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000made in the image of God.27000:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000That...there's still...there's a lot of...27100:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000Can I say something?27200:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000Yeah.27300:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000So the power of reframing something.27400:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,000Yes.27500:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,000So if you say...so words matter and definitions of words matter.27600:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,000So if you're talking about body dysmorphia, it kind of limits the scope of that.27700:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000But what God is doing, he's working on the whole person, right?27800:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000All three parts, which are?27900:14:42,000 --> 00:14:47,000Physical, emotional, spiritual.28000:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,000I mean, all three.28100:14:49,000 --> 00:14:54,000And so...but anyway, when I was listening to this or reading this about how much28200:14:54,000 --> 00:15:00,000he loves us, I was thinking back of how...you know how John, the disciple,28300:15:00,000 --> 00:15:08,000always referred to himself as whom God loved, whom God loved.28400:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000Now, you can take it any way you want.28500:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,000And when you're reading the Scriptures where John is talking about,28600:15:15,000 --> 00:15:20,000I'm the disciple whom God loved, you can take it as, wow, he's pretty boastful.28700:15:20,000 --> 00:15:25,000What, does he not believe God loves any of the other disciples when he's talking28800:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000with them about it?28900:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,000But no.29000:15:27,000 --> 00:15:33,000What the revelation that came to me through a teaching I listened to a while29100:15:33,000 --> 00:15:38,000back was that he had finally gotten a revelation of God's love.29200:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,000It wasn't he was telling them, but he needed to hear it over and over and over29300:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000to continue that revelation.29400:15:44,000 --> 00:15:45,000Beautiful.29500:15:45,000 --> 00:15:52,000So again, in reading this, that just really stood out to me.29600:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000So can I repeat what you just said?29700:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,000Yes.29800:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,000Sometimes it's good to hear something over.29900:15:56,000 --> 00:15:57,000Yes.30000:15:57,000 --> 00:16:04,000Even before God made the world, God loved us, chose us in Christ to be holy30100:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,000and without fault.30200:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,000Yes, which is without blame.30300:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,000In his eyes, without blame.30400:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,000Yes.30500:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,000Oh, my goodness.30600:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,000Blameless.30700:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,000That is massive.30800:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,000Yeah, that's thunder in my soul.30900:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,000It is.31000:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,000Let me go to this other Scripture.31100:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000I love this.31200:16:17,000 --> 00:16:24,000God has now revealed to us, this is verse 9, his mysterious will regarding31300:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,000Christ, which is to fulfill his own good plan.31400:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,000And this is the plan.31500:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,000At the right time, he will bring everything together under the authority of31600:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,000Christ, everything in heaven and on earth.31700:16:37,000 --> 00:16:41,000Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance31800:16:41,000 --> 00:16:48,000from God, for he chose us in advance and he makes everything work according to31900:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,000his plan.32000:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000He chose us in advance.32100:16:51,000 --> 00:16:58,000There again is showing how much he loves us that he actually chose us in advance.32200:16:58,000 --> 00:17:03,000Okay, I see what you're doing.32300:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,000And now the Gentiles have also heard the truth, the good news that God saves you.32400:17:07,000 --> 00:17:12,000When you have believed in Christ, he identified you as his own.32500:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,000I love that.32600:17:13,000 --> 00:17:19,000Ah, he's identified us as his own by giving us the Holy Spirit whom he promised32700:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,000long ago.32800:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,000I keep changing this so it's moving my words.32900:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,000Sorry.33000:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,000It's because our notes are connected.33100:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,000Okay, I'm going to go to...33200:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000I know our notes are connected, but you can't do that anymore.33300:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,000I'll stop.33400:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,000Because I don't know where I'm at now.33500:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,000Verse 13 is what you just did.33600:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,000Okay, let's see.33700:17:36,000 --> 00:17:42,000The Spirit is God's guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised.33800:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,000He has purchased us to be his own people.33900:17:45,000 --> 00:17:49,000He did this so we would praise and glorify him.34000:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,000Okay, stop right there.34100:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000Praise and glorify.34200:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,000Okay, he made us in his image.34300:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,000He purchased us as his own.34400:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000But there's a caveat there.34500:18:00,000 --> 00:18:06,000There's something weird to do and it's to glorify and praise him.34600:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,000Okay, this is where I have a hard time.34700:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,000Sorry, I was touching this.34800:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,000This is where I have a hard time with people who say I don't like worship.34900:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,000Okay, this is what we're created for.35000:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,000Created to worship God.35100:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,000Yes.35200:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,000To praise him and to give him glory.35300:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,000Yes.35400:18:21,000 --> 00:18:25,000And that, boy, that scripture, it stuck out to me this morning.35500:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000So let's sit on that for just a moment.35600:18:27,000 --> 00:18:36,000So I came to Christ a little bit later in life as a 19-year-old and instantly,35700:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,000everything in me wanted to know the Bible.35800:18:39,000 --> 00:18:43,000I wanted to read the Bible, so I started reading it totally unguided.35900:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,000I just started, picked it up and started reading.36000:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,000No clue, but there was something in me.36100:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,000There was a voracious hunger for the Word of God.36200:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,000Because God put that in you.36300:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,000Because it's in me.36400:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,000As a follower of Christ, I get to know him by knowing his Word.36500:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,000And if it's not in you, it makes you wonder.36600:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,000Right, yes.36700:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,000Bingo.36800:18:59,000 --> 00:19:04,000So I just devoured the Word of God.36900:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,000The other piece was I wanted to worship.37000:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000I wanted, it was innate.37100:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,000It's inside us.37200:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,000Right.37300:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000We're created in the Imago Dei, the image of God,37400:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,000and something in us wants to worship him, autopilot.37500:19:17,000 --> 00:19:21,000I mean, and then when you become a follower of Christ, it's like, there it is.37600:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,000There's this desire and this release.37700:19:24,000 --> 00:19:31,000I have a massive concern as a pastor of 38 years, leading churches all over America.37800:19:31,000 --> 00:19:37,000I have a massive concern about people who have zero desire to worship God.37900:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000Right, but they'll go to a football game.38000:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,000Oh, and lose their minds.38100:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,000And lose their minds.38200:19:42,000 --> 00:19:43,000Or a concert.38300:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,000Now, I can understand in church, some people are more reverent.38400:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000You know, they're not expressive.38500:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000Not everybody's the same.38600:19:52,000 --> 00:19:59,000But if you don't even have a desire for worship and you don't even want to come during the worship time,38700:19:59,000 --> 00:20:07,000you want to wait and come to church during the sermon or whatever, it just, I question.38800:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,000Me too.38900:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000Do you really have a deep love for God?39000:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,000Do you, no, let me put it this way.39100:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000Do you understand God's love for you?39200:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,000Because when you understand God's love for you, it changes everything.39300:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,000Another way to say it is, do you know him?39400:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,000Do you know him?39500:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,000He knows you, but do you know him?39600:20:22,000 --> 00:20:28,000Because if you knew him and what he thinks about you and how he sees you,39700:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000you wouldn't be able to hold back worship.39800:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,000Yes, right.39900:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000You'd become one of those people.40000:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,000Okay, let me go on.40100:20:34,000 --> 00:20:40,000I'm going to go on to number six, verse 16.40200:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,000I have not, this is Paul again, talking to the church at Ephesus.40300:20:43,000 --> 00:20:47,000I have not stopped thanking God for you, which I love that.40400:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,000I pray for you constantly asking God, now this is what he's asking God,40500:20:51,000 --> 00:20:58,000the glorious father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight40600:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,000so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.40700:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000Okay, that's our life scripture.40800:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000You and I have talked about this.40900:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,000Used to be that I may know him, Philippians 3, 10, and the power of his resurrection,41000:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,000blah, blah, blah.41100:21:10,000 --> 00:21:15,000This one, I think, is more powerful because when we gain wisdom and understanding,41200:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000we have it all.41300:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,000Think about that.41400:21:18,000 --> 00:21:24,000We have it all because he says we have the mind of Christ,41500:21:24,000 --> 00:21:31,000but we have to tap into it, and that wisdom and understanding comes with that.41600:21:31,000 --> 00:21:36,000That's what every believer should be praying is for wisdom and understanding.41700:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,000Now, I don't just pray that spiritually.41800:21:38,000 --> 00:21:42,000I pray for us doing this keto, this diet that we're doing.41900:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,000It's not even a diet.42000:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,000It's just our new life's...42100:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,000Carnivore.42200:21:45,000 --> 00:21:50,000Yeah, or excuse me, carnivore, yes, keto-vore.42300:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,000We literally have been praying and asking God to give us wisdom and understanding42400:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,000because we don't want to do something that's just a fad.42500:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,000A lot of people do that.42600:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000They go from diet to diet.42700:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,000We want to do something that's going to be best for our health.42800:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,000So we're using this in every area of our life.42900:22:08,000 --> 00:22:13,000But also, you and I talked about, obviously, having the issues that I've had43000:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000with body dysmorphia.43100:22:15,000 --> 00:22:21,000I want wisdom and understanding, so much of how much God loves and cares for me43200:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,000that he wants me to not care about those things.43300:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,000Right.43400:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000You know what I'm saying?43500:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000Yes, and that's where reframing comes in.43600:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,000Yes.43700:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,000What reframing does, it's like taking a frame off of a picture,43800:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,000because it looks one way, and you put a different frame on it,43900:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,000then the picture looks different.44000:22:36,000 --> 00:22:37,000Right.44100:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,000It freshens it up or it changes it.44200:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000And I love that because I love interior designs.44300:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,000And so when you reframe, so in terms of body or image dysmorphia,44400:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,000which is so common, I think everybody has it to a degree.44500:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000Well, think about it.44600:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,000Because we live a life of comparison.44700:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000Well, think about it.44800:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000We live a life of comparison.44900:22:54,000 --> 00:23:01,000And let's just say we have a group picture made, and you show me a picture.45000:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,000Who's the first person I'm going to look at?45100:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,000Myself.45200:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,000I'm going to see.45300:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,000And then if I don't like how I look, I'm going to say,45400:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,000not a great picture.45500:23:10,000 --> 00:23:11,000It's a terrible picture.45600:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000But it's all about me.45700:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,000What is wrong with us?45800:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000We're very me-centric.45900:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,000Ego-centric.46000:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000Very me-centric.46100:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,000And that's something I think God wants to work on.46200:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,000And we need to change that from me to God-centric.46300:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000That's where we need to be.46400:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,000And I feel like that's one of the things that He's really been showing me46500:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000through this sabbatical.46600:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,000Let me go on to this.46700:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000He says in verse 18,46800:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,000I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light46900:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,000so that you can understand the confident hope47000:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,000He has given to those He called.47100:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,000Okay.47200:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000His holy people who are His rich and glorious inheritance.47300:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,000Again, we are called.47400:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,000We are chosen.47500:23:54,000 --> 00:23:59,000Gosh, if we could all get a hold of that,47600:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,000it would change how we do anything.47700:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,000You know what I'm saying?47800:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,000Yes.47900:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,000We live so under the fray instead of over the fray,48000:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000like you say, quite a bit.48100:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,000Above it.48200:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,000This is where living up in a down world comes in.48300:24:14,000 --> 00:24:21,000This is why we have to fill our things with things that God says about us.48400:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,000We're chosen.48500:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,000We're called.48600:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,000We're holy.48700:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000We're loved.48800:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,000We're blameless.48900:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,000All of those.49000:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000And they're all true.49100:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000And yet the world will tell us the opposite.49200:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000The world will say, you don't measure up49300:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,000because you don't look like this billboard49400:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000or you don't look like this magazine cover.49500:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,000Or you don't look like all the Instagram pictures that you see49600:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,000or whatever social media is dishing up that week.49700:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,000Right.49800:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000And you know, back, we talked about this earlier today.49900:24:49,000 --> 00:24:54,000Back in the days when they didn't have TV, internet, the whole bit,50000:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,000they didn't have to compare themselves.50100:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,000Now, and they did.50200:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,000Yet they did.50300:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,000Yet they did.50400:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,000It's an old condition.50500:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,000Yes.50600:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,000But look at our world.50700:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,000We're constantly comparing ourselves.50800:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000Our heart is assaulted daily.50900:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,000But you know what?51000:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,000Who we should be comparing ourselves with is God51100:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000because He's our standard, not people.51200:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,000But how many times do we compare ourselves with other people?51300:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,000Am I good enough?51400:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,000Am I pretty enough?51500:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,000Am I broad enough?51600:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,000Is my voice good enough?51700:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000Okay, I'm learning, Adam Curry, I'm learning51800:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,000because I need to start to love who God made me51900:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,000and not try to change it.52000:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000Oh, I'm going to cry.52100:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,000Because I feel like I'm getting a revelation of that.52200:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,000Beautiful.52300:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,000And again, these are those nuggets of understanding52400:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,000and wisdom and revelation that God is bringing to us.52500:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,000And you know what the thing about this?52600:25:43,000 --> 00:25:47,000He gives this to us every day.52700:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,000We just don't tap into it.52800:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,000It's a gift.52900:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,000It is.53000:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,000It is a gift.53100:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,000Can I share something?53200:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,000Because what you said really sparked something53300:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000and it's out of Psalm 139.53400:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,000Yes.53500:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,000So listen to this.53600:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000This is how God sees you in me.53700:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000It says this, Psalm 139 verse 13,53800:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000for you formed my inward parts,53900:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,000you covered me in my mother's womb.54000:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,000I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.54100:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,000Marvelous are your works.54200:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,000And that my soul knows very well.54300:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,000My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret54400:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,000and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.54500:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,000Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed.54600:26:30,000 --> 00:26:35,000And in your book, they all were written the days fashioned for me.54700:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000When as yet there were none of them.54800:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,000The last verse.54900:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,000How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God.55000:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000How great is the sum of them.55100:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,000That's how God sees you and sees me.55200:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,000Exactly.55300:26:49,000 --> 00:26:53,000And it's almost like if we have such an issue55400:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000with how we see ourselves,55500:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,000then we need to constantly,55600:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,000it's like we need to have that scripture in front of us at all time55700:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000so that we can get a revelation.55800:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000Because revelation is only going to come55900:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,000through constant reminder of what God says.56000:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,000It's not going to come just through osmosis.56100:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000It's going to come because we're looking at the Word.56200:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,000Yes.56300:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,000That's why we have to stay in the Word.56400:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,000If there is ever a time in history that people,56500:27:21,000 --> 00:27:27,000the people of God, people who are exploring God and seeking, so to speak,56600:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,000if there was ever a time in history for people to get back to the Bible,56700:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,000it's now.56800:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,000Get in the Word.56900:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,000I cannot say it strongly enough.57000:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000You need to get in the Word.57100:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,000You need to get in the Bible as much as you're on screen time57200:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,000which is you're scrolling Instagram and doom-scrolling other things57300:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,000like X and Facebook and all that.57400:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,000You need to be in the Word.57500:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,000And if you're doing those things in a disproportionate amount57600:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,000to the time you're spending in God's Word,57700:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,000yet you say you're a follower of Christ, then there's a problem.57800:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,000Your tank is getting filled, but with the wrong things.57900:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,000Right.58000:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000And what will happen is you'll begin to believe the lies58100:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000that the enemy will tell us.58200:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,000Because he's an opportunist.58300:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,000Exactly.58400:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,000And a liar, the Bible says.58500:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000And we're not telling people to be legalistic.58600:28:15,000 --> 00:28:16,000No, not at all.58700:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,000But, you know, because I can get in the Word through song, too.58800:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,000I can listen to it.58900:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,000Worship.59000:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,000Worship.59100:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000I love music that has the Word in it.59200:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,000Our contemporary Christian music is amazing.59300:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,000Yes.59400:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,000K-Love Radio is fantastic.59500:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,000But what are we dwelling on?59600:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,000Exactly.59700:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,000What are we dwelling on?59800:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,000Yeah.59900:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,000So let me go through here.60000:28:33,000 --> 00:28:38,000Verse 19, I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness60100:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,000of God's power for us who believe in him.60200:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,000This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead60300:28:45,000 --> 00:28:51,000and seated him in the place of honor at God's right hand in the heavenly realms.60400:28:51,000 --> 00:28:57,000Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else,60500:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,000not only in this world, but also in this world to come.60600:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,000God has put all things under the authority of Christ60700:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,000and has made him head over all things for the benefit of the church.60800:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,000And the church is his body.60900:29:10,000 --> 00:29:16,000It is made full and complete by Christ who fills all things everywhere with himself.61000:29:16,000 --> 00:29:21,000I think the Scripture that really stood out to me is I also pray that you will understand,61100:29:21,000 --> 00:29:27,000this is verse 19, the incredible greatness of God's power for us who believe in him.61200:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,000Beautiful.61300:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,000God's power.61400:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,000For us.61500:29:30,000 --> 00:29:36,000For us to change us, to enlighten us, to give us wisdom, to heal people,61600:29:36,000 --> 00:29:42,000to bring miracles about, to bring people to salvation that we've been praying for.61700:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,000That's the power of Christ, not in us, but in him.61800:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,000To heal hearts.61900:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,000Yes.62000:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,000To mend hearts.62100:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,000Yes.62200:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,000Strongholds that are attached.62300:29:52,000 --> 00:29:58,000Because so much of what we do in this life comes through the lens of the grid of trauma62400:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,000and the grid of pain.62500:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000I've experienced all that.62600:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,000Almost everywhere.62700:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,000Right.62800:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,000But I would dare say to a degree.62900:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,000I literally trauma so much that, yes.63000:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,000But what it does, it taints.63100:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,000It does.63200:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,000Now you see everything through that filter and it actually changes the actual,63300:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,000instead of seeing what's true, you see a distortion.63400:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,000Right.63500:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,000And so until...63600:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,000So you have to change that filter.63700:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,000So this has to get healed over time.63800:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,000And we were talking in the car coming back from the gym,63900:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,000we got about a 20-minute drive and I made this comment.64000:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,000I said, it's interesting because it's like peeling a layer.64100:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,000Like an onion.64200:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,000The other day I cut up an onion for our dinner and I was...64300:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,000I accidentally kept grabbing layer by layer going,64400:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,000I keep pulling the layers apart.64500:30:40,000 --> 00:30:48,000But it reminded me of how we learn and process information that as we grow in maturity in Christ,64600:30:48,000 --> 00:30:53,000as we grow as followers of Jesus, it's like peeling layer back, layer back, healing happens.64700:30:53,000 --> 00:31:00,000And then sometimes we fall as we think, we had a moment at the altar with God or prayer and I'm healed.64800:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,000And then a trigger comes up and, oh, I'm not healed.64900:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,000All it is is another layer.65000:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,000You are getting healed, but it's layer by layer by layer by layer.65100:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,000And sometimes it's year by year by year.65200:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,000Exactly.65300:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,000Sometimes there's a miracle and then sometimes it's slower.65400:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,000And yet the miracle can be the process too.65500:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,000It's both, it's a miracle whether it's in a nanosecond or it's years.65600:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,000But we celebrate the wins as we go.65700:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,000Exactly.65800:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,000Beautiful, Annette.65900:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,000Love what you're sharing here.66000:31:30,000 --> 00:31:41,000Well, and so to me, the issue that I have had ongoing with body or image dysmorphia, as you put it,66100:31:41,000 --> 00:31:47,000if I could just get a continual revelation of God's love for me, those things won't matter.66200:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,000And that's what I'm striving for.66300:31:50,000 --> 00:31:57,000If you're going to strive for anything, don't strive to look more beautiful, to be thinner, to be, you know,66400:31:57,000 --> 00:32:07,000a better person, strive to be, to have that revelation of God's love so that everything will flow out of that.66500:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,000So let me flip the coin here.66600:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,000Let me just flip the script, so to speak.66700:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,000That doesn't mean you don't take care of yourself.66800:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,000Exactly.66900:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,000You work on yourself and you improve yourself in your education.67000:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,000Again, mind, body, spirit connection.67100:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,000Right, right, totally.67200:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,000You know, that we're tripartite.67300:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000We're three parts, mind, body, spirit.67400:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,000So during the sabbatical, I've been focusing on mind, body, spirit.67500:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,000Exactly.67600:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000You and I have been having conversation of conversation.67700:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,000It's not one without the other.67800:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000Exactly.67900:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000Everything gets impacted and affected.68000:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,000So what we're not saying is just give up and say, well, forget it.68100:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000I'm just, I'm, this is, I've got high blood pressure.68200:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,000But what is your motive?68300:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,000And I've got all this stuff.68400:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000I've got all this physical issues.68500:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,000There you go.68600:32:45,000 --> 00:32:52,000To be fit for the kingdom so that we can continue to do what we're doing, not so we'll be prettier68700:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,000or thinner or whatever.68800:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,000And I like to say it like this.68900:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000It's living by the way God designed us to live.69000:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,000He designed our bodies to function a certain way, our minds to work a certain way, and69100:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,000our spirits to operate.69200:33:04,000 --> 00:33:10,000So as we grow and mature, we want to continue to explore through His Word and through living69300:33:10,000 --> 00:33:15,000this life with Jesus in relationship what that looks like and how that applies on an69400:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,000ongoing basis.69500:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,000Yes.69600:33:17,000 --> 00:33:22,000So for us, we've made some serious lifestyle decisions to say, I'm not going to partake69700:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,000of that anymore.69800:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,000I'm not going to have that anymore, but I am going to have this because it's healthy69900:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,000for my body.70000:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,000And we're doing the research.70100:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,000We're doing that with our minds and our wellness in every area.70200:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,000A friend of mine used to call it total life victory.70300:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,000Oh, yeah.70400:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,000Remember that?70500:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,000Pastor Linden.70600:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000Linden.70700:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,000He used to talk about total life victory.70800:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000Oh, that's what we should change our podcast to.70900:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,000Total life.71000:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,000I love that.71100:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,000Well, that's what living up and down world, it's the same.71200:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,000I know.71300:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,000It is.71400:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,000It's just different words.71500:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,000But he used to talk about total life victory and the mind-body-spirit connection.71600:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,000Now so was it on track with him for that.71700:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,000And we want to encourage you.71800:33:56,000 --> 00:34:01,000We're not saying don't give up on your body image and all that, but we got to get the71900:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,000horse in front of the cart and sit in the cart in front of the horse.72000:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,000Yes.72100:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,000Because look at all the energy we have now.72200:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,000I know.72300:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,000We're buzzing.72400:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,000And that's because of what we've done with our food.72500:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000And you've got to do what God tells you to do, not what we're doing.72600:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,000That's right.72700:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,000We would never tell you what to do.72800:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,000No.72900:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,440But the thing is, now we have so much energy, we're going to have the energy to do what73000:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,000God's calling us to do in times of revival.73100:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,000Absolutely.73200:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,000And mental focus.73300:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,000Yes.73400:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,000I want to think better.73500:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,000We don't have the fog.73600:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000I want to stay sharp, brain fog gone.73700:34:31,000 --> 00:34:36,200COVID did a number on us with all the brain fog.73800:34:36,200 --> 00:34:37,200Cultural trauma.73900:34:37,200 --> 00:34:38,200Yes.74000:34:38,200 --> 00:34:42,600And now we're resetting our self, our mind, spirit, body.74100:34:42,600 --> 00:34:43,600Yeah.74200:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,520Not just through diet, but through mind and through the Holy Spirit.74300:34:46,520 --> 00:34:50,320So this is a tripartite approach, mind, body, spirit.74400:34:50,320 --> 00:34:55,520And I love, we should just pull that total life victory.74500:34:55,520 --> 00:34:56,520I love it.74600:34:56,520 --> 00:34:57,520I know.74700:34:57,520 --> 00:34:58,520We really do.74800:34:58,520 --> 00:34:59,520Okay.74900:34:59,520 --> 00:35:04,160Last thing I would like for you to share, and we wrote this down on our note, is what75000:35:04,160 --> 00:35:09,560you've gleaned this revelation from the Lord's Prayer.75100:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,160Yes.75200:35:11,160 --> 00:35:15,080So I've been going through the Lord's Prayer and using it as a template because Jesus said,75300:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,440when the disciples said, teach us to pray, he said, do this.75400:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,680So that's how you pray.75500:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,280He said, here's a template.75600:35:22,280 --> 00:35:23,520Here's a pattern.75700:35:23,520 --> 00:35:24,760So I go through that every day.75800:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,120I've been waking up at five or six and for about an hour laying in bed.75900:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,080I don't get out of bed.76000:35:31,080 --> 00:35:35,160Most times I did today, but mostly I don't, I'll do it before I even get up.76100:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,560I have this prayer time with the Lord and I start with, you know, I break down each76200:35:39,560 --> 00:35:40,560part of it.76300:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,240So I'm just going to fast forward though to the part you and I talked about today.76400:35:44,240 --> 00:35:48,200And it was this, give us this day our daily bread.76500:35:48,200 --> 00:35:52,120And the revelation that went off in me, and the word revelation, this means greater understanding,76600:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,040it's to peel the layer back.76700:35:54,040 --> 00:35:58,960So what was revealed to me as I thought about that, meditated on, is first of all, it's76800:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,960a daily prayer.76900:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,800Give us this day our daily bread.77000:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,840I never thought about it that way.77100:36:05,840 --> 00:36:06,840It's a daily prayer.77200:36:06,840 --> 00:36:11,160It's a daily thing, but also it's a current thing.77300:36:11,160 --> 00:36:17,040So daily, and it harkens back to the Israelites when they were during the Exodus, when they77400:36:17,040 --> 00:36:22,400left Egypt and they were in the desert, they were crying out for food and God said, I'm77500:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,900going to feed you supernaturally.77600:36:24,900 --> 00:36:29,520He dropped manna, which is a flaky crusty kind of...77700:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,160Talk about bread since we're not doing bread.77800:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,160Oh yeah, we're not doing bread.77900:36:32,160 --> 00:36:39,000But anyway, it's a bread type substance and God supernaturally dropped it out of heaven.78000:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,760But he told them, only gather enough for you and your family today.78100:36:43,760 --> 00:36:44,760Don't store up.78200:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,560Because he wasn't going to give them day old bread the next day.78300:36:47,560 --> 00:36:52,080And what would happen is if they tried to like sneak some extra helpings, because what78400:36:52,080 --> 00:36:56,080if God didn't show up tomorrow, it would have worms in it.78500:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,080It would just go sour.78600:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,720That's how I have to think about bread right now.78700:37:01,720 --> 00:37:03,040Moldy bread, right.78800:37:03,040 --> 00:37:11,240And so they were only able to depend on God for what was in the now, in the present, what78900:37:11,240 --> 00:37:12,240was current.79000:37:12,240 --> 00:37:18,600Well, I was thinking about that as I was praying one morning at 5.15 and it occurred to me79100:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,920and I said it out loud under my breath because I'm going to wake you and chavvy up from bed.79200:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,480But I said, Lord, I don't want yesterday's manna.79300:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,120I want what's current today.79400:37:28,120 --> 00:37:29,680I need a word from you today.79500:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,240I need to hear from you.79600:37:31,240 --> 00:37:32,240I need to walk with you.79700:37:32,240 --> 00:37:33,960I need to know you better.79800:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,640I want to have an ongoing conversation today.79900:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,480I want to practice your presence today because I don't want day old bread.80000:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,200And what do they do with day old bread at the store?80100:37:43,200 --> 00:37:48,040They discount it and put it on this little rack at the back of the store, you know, 70%80200:37:48,040 --> 00:37:49,480off day old bread.80300:37:49,480 --> 00:37:50,480I remember…80400:37:50,480 --> 00:37:51,880And it's never as good as the fresh bread.80500:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,160It's never as good as fresh bread.80600:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,120Remember when we lived in Abilene?80700:37:55,120 --> 00:37:56,120There was this place.80800:37:56,120 --> 00:37:57,440We drove by it every day.80900:37:57,440 --> 00:37:58,440It was torture.81000:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,640Mrs. Baird's Bread Bakery.81100:38:01,640 --> 00:38:02,840Huge facility.81200:38:02,840 --> 00:38:07,400And anybody within 15 miles of that place could smell fresh bread.81300:38:07,400 --> 00:38:08,440It was brutal.81400:38:08,440 --> 00:38:09,440It was brutal.81500:38:09,440 --> 00:38:10,440You drive through this cloud.81600:38:10,440 --> 00:38:11,440It's funny how it smells so good.81700:38:11,440 --> 00:38:12,440It's an aroma cloud.81800:38:12,440 --> 00:38:16,200But then when you got it from the grocery store because it wasn't fresh that day, it81900:38:16,200 --> 00:38:17,200didn't taste as good.82000:38:17,200 --> 00:38:18,200But it smelled good.82100:38:18,200 --> 00:38:19,200It was brutal.82200:38:19,200 --> 00:38:20,200It was torture.82300:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,600But I thought about that today and it was like, you know, that's current.82400:38:23,600 --> 00:38:24,600That's out of the oven.82500:38:24,600 --> 00:38:26,080It's hot out of the oven.82600:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,080But that's how I want words from God and wisdom.82700:38:29,080 --> 00:38:30,080You're talking about wisdom.82800:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,080I want wisdom that's fresh for today.82900:38:32,080 --> 00:38:37,640And we talked about when we do the newsletter, we talked about, let's put what our topic83000:38:37,640 --> 00:38:44,200is, we can't because when you do the newsletter, typically Saturday or Sunday, things change83100:38:44,200 --> 00:38:45,520with us daily.83200:38:45,520 --> 00:38:50,360We get a new and fresh manna from God every day.83300:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,320And so we have to…we just can't do that.83400:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,680I mean, if God directed us to do that, we would.83500:38:56,680 --> 00:39:01,680But we really feel like it needs to be fresh off the…out of the oven.83600:39:01,680 --> 00:39:02,680Out of the oven.83700:39:02,680 --> 00:39:03,680Yeah.83800:39:03,680 --> 00:39:04,680Oh, I don't want to talk about that.83900:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,080Because we're living off today's manna.84000:39:06,080 --> 00:39:07,080That's what that is.84100:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,800And so we kind of…we live our life that way.84200:39:09,800 --> 00:39:10,960You do that with church sermons.84300:39:10,960 --> 00:39:11,960I do.84400:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,760A lot of times you'll get up that morning and God changes everything.84500:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,040You're like, sorry.84600:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,040Pretty common.84700:39:17,040 --> 00:39:18,040Yeah.84800:39:18,040 --> 00:39:19,360I'm not…I can't do this series that I had planned.84900:39:19,360 --> 00:39:20,360I still study.85000:39:20,360 --> 00:39:21,360I still prepare.85100:39:21,360 --> 00:39:25,560I do all the work up front and then I'm always open to fresh manna.85200:39:25,560 --> 00:39:26,560Absolutely.85300:39:26,560 --> 00:39:27,560Yeah.85400:39:27,560 --> 00:39:28,560Still like the day old stuff.85500:39:28,560 --> 00:39:29,560No.85600:39:29,560 --> 00:39:30,560I hope you're encouraged.85700:39:30,560 --> 00:39:31,560Anything else on that?85800:39:31,560 --> 00:39:32,560No.85900:39:32,560 --> 00:39:33,560That was so rich.86000:39:33,560 --> 00:39:34,560Thank you for sharing.86100:39:34,560 --> 00:39:35,560No, that was so good.86200:39:35,560 --> 00:39:36,560I'm just glad that I'm…86300:39:36,560 --> 00:39:37,560Powerful.86400:39:37,560 --> 00:39:38,560…can hear from God.86500:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,080I think there's one tidbit you missed that was so good.86600:39:40,080 --> 00:39:41,840When you shared it with me, it went off like a bomb.86700:39:41,840 --> 00:39:42,840Okay.86800:39:42,840 --> 00:39:43,840What did I share?86900:39:43,840 --> 00:39:44,840It was that John…87000:39:44,840 --> 00:39:45,840No, I said that.87100:39:45,840 --> 00:39:47,240…it took years for him to come…87200:39:47,240 --> 00:39:48,240Oh, yeah.87300:39:48,240 --> 00:39:49,240Well, you need to camp on that a moment.87400:39:49,240 --> 00:39:50,240Yes.87500:39:50,240 --> 00:39:51,240Okay.87600:39:51,240 --> 00:39:54,400…and then 60 years before he wrote the book of John.87700:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,760And so 60 years from the time he was…87800:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,280With Jesus.87900:40:00,280 --> 00:40:06,640…with Jesus saying, you know, he sees everything Jesus does.88000:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,960He's there with all the miracles.88100:40:08,960 --> 00:40:15,560But did he have a revelation of God or was it when he wrote it 60 years later, was trying88200:40:15,560 --> 00:40:20,000to remember everything that happened and then put whom Jesus…88300:40:20,000 --> 00:40:26,840We heard one person, one pastor say, it took him 60 years to finally have the confidence88400:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,920and the revelation that I am the one who God loves.88500:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,200He wasn't saying he didn't love others.88600:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,680He was saying it for himself.88700:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,680…self because he gained the revelation.88800:40:36,680 --> 00:40:38,320I'm the disciple who Jesus loved.88900:40:38,320 --> 00:40:39,840Oh, I don't want it to take 60 years.89000:40:39,840 --> 00:40:41,760I don't want it to take 60 years.89100:40:41,760 --> 00:40:45,880And we are definitely growing, but it's a reminder to grow into it.89200:40:45,880 --> 00:40:46,880There you go.89300:40:46,880 --> 00:40:53,560It may have taken 60 years for us to really feel that and know his love.89400:40:53,560 --> 00:40:54,560Such a good word.89500:40:54,560 --> 00:40:59,040You know, you walked in the room this morning holding a Bible in your hand and I thought,89600:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,120oh my gosh, Katie bar the door.89700:41:02,120 --> 00:41:03,120Get a room.89800:41:03,120 --> 00:41:11,640I mean, when you are so filled with God's heart and word, I love you always, period.89900:41:11,640 --> 00:41:17,240But there is something that happens that makes you even more beautiful than you already are90000:41:17,240 --> 00:41:20,720because you already are to me, you're God's daughter.90100:41:20,720 --> 00:41:23,320But when you walk in the room with a Bible and I can see…90200:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,240I know you almost dropped what was in your hand.90300:41:26,240 --> 00:41:27,240I was like, wait.90400:41:27,240 --> 00:41:28,240I was like, oh, here it comes.90500:41:28,240 --> 00:41:29,240She's got a heavy heavy.90600:41:29,240 --> 00:41:32,240Well, and it's just that I have my phone, but I had my Bible.90700:41:32,240 --> 00:41:38,480And that was another thing we talked about is really, you really have this conviction.90800:41:38,480 --> 00:41:39,480I do.90900:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,320And want to talk to the church about bringing your Bible.91000:41:41,320 --> 00:41:42,320Bringing your Bible to church.91100:41:42,320 --> 00:41:43,320But it's hard.91200:41:43,320 --> 00:41:44,320I appreciate phones.91300:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,160If we have it up there, we can't get it quick enough.91400:41:46,160 --> 00:41:47,160We're going to have to have both.91500:41:47,160 --> 00:41:53,320But my thought on that is there's something that's tactile about holding a Bible.91600:41:53,320 --> 00:41:58,680Now I've got an iPad mini, which is book size, which I really like.91700:41:58,680 --> 00:42:02,420And I do a lot of my reading and study off of that because it's handy and I can get91800:42:02,420 --> 00:42:03,420different translations.91900:42:03,420 --> 00:42:05,480I can jump into Greek words.92000:42:05,480 --> 00:42:09,240But during the sabbatical, I've just gotten back into the habit of picking up my Bible,92100:42:09,240 --> 00:42:12,280the one that's got my notes in it, my highlights in it.92200:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,440I jot things in the margin.92300:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,760It to me, I don't see it as a holy book to not be used.92400:42:17,760 --> 00:42:18,760It's a workbook.92500:42:18,760 --> 00:42:19,760Right, exactly.92600:42:19,760 --> 00:42:20,760It's a book of life.92700:42:20,760 --> 00:42:21,760It's a manual.92800:42:21,760 --> 00:42:22,760Some people feel like it's so holy they won't even...92900:42:22,760 --> 00:42:23,760I mean, write in their Bible.93000:42:23,760 --> 00:42:28,440No, you need to write in that bad boy so you can remember what God spoke to you on that93100:42:28,440 --> 00:42:29,440moment.93200:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,320Well, I've taken one of your older Bibles that you have written in.93300:42:32,320 --> 00:42:33,880I kind of wanted it back different times.93400:42:33,880 --> 00:42:34,880No.93500:42:34,880 --> 00:42:35,880I had good notes in it.93600:42:35,880 --> 00:42:40,520Because I like seeing what you're gleaning out of and what your understanding and revelation93700:42:40,520 --> 00:42:41,520is.93800:42:41,520 --> 00:42:42,520So no, it's mine.93900:42:42,520 --> 00:42:43,520It's mine.94000:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,000Hey, so let's take a moment and thank some folks.94100:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,440First of all, I want to say thanks to everybody, don't we?94200:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,440Yes.94300:42:48,440 --> 00:42:49,440We want them to subscribe.94400:42:49,440 --> 00:42:55,840You can go to our website, livingupinadownworld.com, and you can subscribe and join our mailing94500:42:55,840 --> 00:42:56,840list.94600:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,080And all we'll do is send a weekly email newsletter.94700:43:00,080 --> 00:43:01,080It's very short to the point.94800:43:01,080 --> 00:43:02,080Throw a few pictures.94900:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,360It's more of a reminder that, hey, we've got our podcast coming.95000:43:05,360 --> 00:43:06,360So be sure and join us.95100:43:06,360 --> 00:43:10,600But we'd love for you to become part of our community just simply by doing that.95200:43:10,600 --> 00:43:11,920And that list is growing.95300:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,240We've had several more this week.95400:43:14,240 --> 00:43:19,880And then we also, we have people who bless us through what is called Value for Value.95500:43:19,880 --> 00:43:23,120And all Value for Value is, it's recognizing value in something.95600:43:23,120 --> 00:43:28,920Like if someone's doing something for me and I see value in it, like a server at a restaurant,95700:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,760you know, they're doing something and I can tell they're going an extra mile and they're95800:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,360really, they're providing a beautiful service.95900:43:34,360 --> 00:43:37,600And I want to compensate them accordingly because they've earned it.96000:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,940It's like, yeah, value for value.96100:43:39,940 --> 00:43:45,000And so if what we are doing is encouraging you and helping you in your journey of faith96200:43:45,000 --> 00:43:51,120and in this life and living up in a down world, then we would simply ask, return the value.96300:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,280And there's different ways to do that.96400:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,480On our newsletter, we have a PayPal account.96500:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,200You can send in value to help us with that.96600:43:58,200 --> 00:43:59,800That helps us keep this thing going.96700:43:59,800 --> 00:44:08,600And also you can go listen to us on the website to support Podcasting 2.0, which is Value96800:44:08,600 --> 00:44:09,600for Value.96900:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,960Fountain is one that we use all the time and we like that.97000:44:12,960 --> 00:44:16,200And we like to boost our friends, Adam and Tina Curry.97100:44:16,200 --> 00:44:22,420We love, love, love their amazing podcast called Curry and the Keeper.97200:44:22,420 --> 00:44:25,200We recommend that you go and listen to that.97300:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,120They've been out of our lives for a few weeks.97400:44:28,120 --> 00:44:29,120They've been on vacation.97500:44:29,120 --> 00:44:30,120A huge trip.97600:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,480Well, we're having dinner twice with them this week.97700:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,640So we've got to make up for lost time.97800:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,920Got to catch up and we've missed them.97900:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,880And so we're excited they're back in town.98000:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,880We stay in touch with them the whole time, but it's different via text than going to98100:44:42,880 --> 00:44:43,880have dinner together.98200:44:43,880 --> 00:44:44,880So super glad.98300:44:44,880 --> 00:44:48,400But anyway, check out their podcast, Living Up in a Down World.98400:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,120No, he's our executive producer.98500:44:51,120 --> 00:44:56,200But Curry and the Keeper and then also his podcast with John DeVorek.98600:44:56,200 --> 00:44:57,200No agenda.98700:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,240So check those out and support them as well.98800:45:00,240 --> 00:45:01,240So again, thank you.98900:45:01,240 --> 00:45:02,640And just a couple of shouts.99000:45:02,640 --> 00:45:03,640Just want to say thank you.99100:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,880I'm going to pull this up.99200:45:05,880 --> 00:45:07,960Got a beautiful couple of letters.99300:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,480Man, I just love it when people sign stuff.99400:45:10,480 --> 00:45:11,480KTLD.99500:45:11,480 --> 00:45:12,480Remember what that meant?99600:45:12,480 --> 00:45:13,480Keep the lid down.99700:45:13,480 --> 00:45:14,480Keep the lid down.99800:45:14,480 --> 00:45:18,800You've got to get that soundtrack from Adam.99900:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,920Got a nice note from Andy Crow.100000:45:20,920 --> 00:45:21,920I'm not going to share what he is.100100:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,600A little more private in nature, but Andy, I'm praying for you, brother.100200:45:25,600 --> 00:45:30,520I did send you an email back just to encourage you and thank you for letting us know and100300:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,720how much you appreciate the podcast.100400:45:32,720 --> 00:45:34,420It means a ton to us.100500:45:34,420 --> 00:45:35,420So thank you, Andy.100600:45:35,420 --> 00:45:37,160I just want to give you a shout out.100700:45:37,160 --> 00:45:38,160Also Shelly.100800:45:38,160 --> 00:45:39,160Shelly wrote back.100900:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,880Shelly's been a listener and she wrote a beautiful...101000:45:41,880 --> 00:45:42,880Listen to this encouragement.101100:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,080Hi, Pastor Jimmy and Dame Annette.101200:45:45,080 --> 00:45:49,360You both came to mind the other morning as I was reading and in the spirit of not withholding101300:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,320encouragement, I wanted to send you a little.101400:45:52,320 --> 00:45:56,320I was reading in John 4 where Jesus met the Samaritan woman at the well, asked for water101500:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,120and offered her living water.101600:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,880She was surprised and taken aback by what he knew about her.101700:46:00,880 --> 00:46:05,400And later in the chapter it says she went and told everyone what he had said to her.101800:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,800He told me everything I've ever done.101900:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,000As the chapter continues, my favorite verse is verse 42.102000:46:11,000 --> 00:46:15,640They said to the woman, it is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have102100:46:15,640 --> 00:46:21,720heard for ourselves and we know that this is indeed the savior of the world.102200:46:21,720 --> 00:46:24,120And she writes this, this is beautiful.102300:46:24,120 --> 00:46:30,160When I read this story, I saw it in a new light and you and the Currys came to mind.102400:46:30,160 --> 00:46:35,000Podcasting isn't really the place that most would expect to hear about God or the gospel,102500:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,680but by sharing like you are on a weekly basis, your words might be meeting that Samaritan102600:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,800person at the well.102700:46:41,800 --> 00:46:46,980By sharing from your experiences, your pain and what God has done in your life, I believe102800:46:46,980 --> 00:46:52,000and pray that many more people will be able to say what those in the town did.102900:46:52,000 --> 00:46:57,840It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard it ourselves.103000:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,200What you say and how you encourage matters.103100:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,840And I praise God that you guys continue to share weekly.103200:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,960God is doing an incredible work in the world right now despite all the bad things that103300:47:07,960 --> 00:47:08,960are happening.103400:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,320I pray he continues to use you all.103500:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,520Thank you for being available and surrendered.103600:47:13,520 --> 00:47:15,960It makes a difference, Shelly.103700:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,200What can we say to Shelly to just say thank you?103800:47:19,200 --> 00:47:20,200Words aren't even enough.103900:47:20,200 --> 00:47:21,200I know.104000:47:21,200 --> 00:47:22,200I know.104100:47:22,200 --> 00:47:23,200That's beautiful.104200:47:23,200 --> 00:47:24,200That level of encouragement.104300:47:24,200 --> 00:47:25,200We've had lots of boosts.104400:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,040Can we have someone from Japan write us?104500:47:28,040 --> 00:47:30,040When was that?104600:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,040That was a while back.104700:47:32,040 --> 00:47:37,720No, it was first of the week right after we did our podcast last time because we mentioned104800:47:37,720 --> 00:47:44,320that we would be going to Japan, possibly doing a live with the Currys.104900:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,320You're right, I thank you for reminding me.105000:47:46,320 --> 00:47:47,320She lives in Japan.105100:47:47,320 --> 00:47:48,320I'm like, oh my gosh.105200:47:48,320 --> 00:47:49,320How cool is that?105300:47:49,320 --> 00:47:50,320I do have a beer.105400:47:50,320 --> 00:47:54,720Hopefully there's other listeners from Japan and we can be able to visit with them in person.105500:47:54,720 --> 00:47:56,320Do a meetup in Japan.105600:47:56,320 --> 00:47:57,320Yes.105700:47:57,320 --> 00:47:58,880Yeah, I'm pulling it up right now.105800:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,280Sorry, thank you for reminding me of that.105900:48:01,280 --> 00:48:05,520That was, you know, I've got Japan on my mind because Tina said when she got back we were106000:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,280going to start planning it and we need to start planning it now so we can put money106100:48:09,280 --> 00:48:10,280aside to go.106200:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,320So, let me, oh here it is.106300:48:12,320 --> 00:48:13,320Yep.106400:48:13,320 --> 00:48:14,320Oh yeah, here it is.106500:48:14,320 --> 00:48:18,960So, let me get where I can actually, I've got my other iPad up here.106600:48:18,960 --> 00:48:19,960So here's a couple of boosts.106700:48:19,960 --> 00:48:23,720First of all, I want to say a big shout out to Adam Curry for giving us a Striper Boost.106800:48:23,720 --> 00:48:26,640I'm not even going to hit the button, but Adam, thank you.106900:48:26,640 --> 00:48:30,920He wrote this, listening while in Europe was like being transported back home.107000:48:30,920 --> 00:48:32,520Welcome back y'all.107100:48:32,520 --> 00:48:36,440And whatever PJ had done with the sound, don't change a thing.107200:48:36,440 --> 00:48:37,440Five stars.107300:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,760Again, coming from our executive producer.107400:48:39,760 --> 00:48:40,760That's huge.107500:48:40,760 --> 00:48:42,800Who is a broadcaster extraordinaire.107600:48:42,800 --> 00:48:43,800That's huge compliments.107700:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,000So I'm hoping we're good to go.107800:48:46,000 --> 00:48:47,200Thanks my friend.107900:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,240And then yeah, her name is Mysterious Ways.108000:48:50,240 --> 00:48:54,560She says this, news that you may be joining Curry and the Keeper on a Japan adventure108100:48:54,560 --> 00:48:58,360made me realize that I can't sit on the couch any longer without supporting.108200:48:58,360 --> 00:49:04,200It's not much, but I'm honored to donate my first 1000 sats to this blessing of a108300:49:04,200 --> 00:49:05,200podcast.108400:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,560Where I may lack in donation amount, I'd be happy to make up for it.108500:49:08,560 --> 00:49:13,520On a no agenda Curry and the Keeper living up in a down world mashup meetup while you108600:49:13,520 --> 00:49:14,520were here.108700:49:14,520 --> 00:49:19,880God has made Japan my home for the past 18 years and he constantly amazes me with the108800:49:19,880 --> 00:49:21,800plans he has.108900:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,560Now I said she, it could be a guy, so I don't know.109000:49:24,560 --> 00:49:25,680Just Mysterious Ways.109100:49:25,680 --> 00:49:30,200So Mysterious Ways, thank you for the boost, but even more for the encouragement and we109200:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,840will take you up on that meetup mashup.109300:49:32,840 --> 00:49:34,680That would be so much fun.109400:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,120Tell us where in Japan.109500:49:36,120 --> 00:49:37,120Yeah.109600:49:37,120 --> 00:49:38,840We can start planning.109700:49:38,840 --> 00:49:40,400Again, thanks for the boost.109800:49:40,400 --> 00:49:41,540We love all of you.109900:49:41,540 --> 00:49:42,540Thanks for the encouragement.110000:49:42,540 --> 00:49:47,200We've got some great letters and what not and we are so thankful.110100:49:47,200 --> 00:49:52,320So from Pastor Jimmy and Daymanette and Mr. Chevy, we are out of here.110200:49:52,320 --> 00:49:53,520We love you.110300:49:53,520 --> 00:49:54,520Have a great week.110400:49:54,520 --> 00:49:55,520Any last words?110500:49:55,520 --> 00:49:56,800No, just thank you for listening.110600:49:56,800 --> 00:49:58,520We so appreciate all of your support.110700:49:58,520 --> 00:50:08,740Amen.