January 11, 2026 • 57 mins
SEMENT 1: Sean Feucht: Unstoppable Revival
Sean Feucht joins us to share how revival is breaking out in the midst of opposition and why preparing the next generation for spiritual warfare is urgent for the Church today.
SEGMENT 2: Reggie Dabbs: Hope is Real
Reggie Dabbs shares how he discovered God's love even in the foster care system, and why he is determined to share this message of hope in every school in America.
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
So what do you do when worship meets resistance. Well,
today's guest has been lifting up the name of Jesus
in some of the most unlikely places, and he's here
to share a God.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Is moving even in the middle of persecution.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
But before we get to that, joining around the table
is April Simon's. We got to get ready, like for
some of the pushback. I mean, it's not like it's
not easy to get easier, and no it's not.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
But carrying the name of Jesus everywhere is the most
important thing. And I appreciate our guests persistence. Yes, paying
off the devil can't win, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And a kindle.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
You know, there is nothing like praise in worship to
bring in the power of the Lord, and that is
the main thing we can do to push the devil back.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's true. Rachel Lamb Brown, how are you doing. I'm good.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
You know a lot of other people would have quit
by now, and so I'm grateful for not just our
guest persistence, but boldness to keep going despite what the
naysayers have to say.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's good, Rebecca Lambwise. We are in a battle.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
A lot of people don't really even understand that there
is a battle going on that we can't see with
our natural eyes.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That's so true.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
And I think what's going on in America now, I
think it's easier to see.
Speaker 7 (01:33):
The spiritual warfare.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Because I think it's more blatant the attacks. I think,
especially with what our guest is doing and seeing the
pushback against that that's not just like a natural thing.
There's something behind that supernaturally. And you know, we don't
warr against flesh and bud. We you know, our enemy
is not people or enemy are those entities, you know,
But we have the victory in Jesus, and we deceed
(01:56):
to be bold in that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's right, Dorothine Newton, Yes, are you ready?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I am ready?
Speaker 8 (02:01):
I am ready.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
You know we are.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's not even an option.
Speaker 9 (02:05):
We're called to be the light into this world because
there's so many dark places. So I'm excited. I'm excited
to learn more about what's going on.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Actually, yeah, well, Sean Floyd, welcome back to the table.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I don't know how You're in the middle of a
lot of controversy, but we're going to talk about some
of that today.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, from canceled permits to revival and fields. Sean Foyd
has seen the battle of darkness in light firsthand. Today
he shares how God is moving amid opposition and how
you can be part of it. So you just really
want to hold these worship rallies and see people touched
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and changed and hear the gospel and get baptized. And
what's going on with why with their resistance for that?
Speaker 10 (02:55):
Well, you thought after twenty twenty and twenty twenty one,
twenty twenty two, maybe things that chill out, But no,
we are These are days of great revival and great resistance.
And I think, you know, I want to start off
by saying, anybody that wants to do great things for God,
you have to expect to be controversial in this hour. Yeah,
(03:17):
and you have to expect to have pushback otherwise it's
not really worth doing. So I think that COVID kind
of showed us Okay, Wow, there's a lot of darkness.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
There's a lot of.
Speaker 10 (03:27):
Forces that don't want us to do what the Church
has been doing for thousands of years. But that same
anti christ spirit or Christophobia or whatever.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
You want to call it is still present.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So you just returned from Canada not long ago. Tell
us a little bit about what happened, you love.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
K You know I worshiped it.
Speaker 10 (03:46):
I worshiped in Turkey this year, in Iraq this year,
in Israel this year, and Mozambique on the beach, and
even in these persecuted areas, the fiercest resistance I've faced
the year came in Canada, and I didn't have that
on my bingo cards.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
So do you think that you were intentionally targeted because
there's been other people that have been bind But do
you think because of your bold stances?
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Yeah, I mean I think that. Listen.
Speaker 10 (04:11):
I mean I have a twenty year history of worshiping
in that country, no incidents, no real controversy. I think
that that Canada has changed. I haven't changed. My message
has stayed the same. I've been pretty consistent. However, you know,
when you want to take worship like we do, and
we have this mandate to bring it into the public square,
right out of the church, or we have a motto
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the church has left the building, Let's go where the
people are, Let's go where the addicts are, Let's go
where the confused are, Let's go where the you know,
a press starting and when you go into those places.
They can do pride parades, they can do you know,
drag Queen's Story Hour, they can do margins.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
But the moment Christians want to come and worship.
Speaker 10 (04:52):
They are dangerous. We need to remove their permits. We
don't know what they're about. They're big, it's they're hateful.
So in one sense, you know, yeah, nine out of
eleven cities were canceled. But in another sense, this became
the number one trending story in Canada this summer.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, and because of.
Speaker 10 (05:13):
That, all of a sudden, you have all these eyeballs
people watching it, people showing up. I wasn't even a Christian,
but I wanted to know what this crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
But it works for your good.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
It did, and that's how it always turns out. It's
literally a replay of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But the people, a lot of the people that were
resisting or thinking that you're biggot or hateful or whatever,
they come and they're like, Wow, it's not about that
at all.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's about the love of Oh.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
I mean, there's so many videos and viral stuff on
TikTok of people that came I'm a gay man, or
I'm a transi ram or whatever I came to see
was and all I did was feel love. All I
did was feel All I did was see Christians and music.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
What's the big deal?
Speaker 10 (05:54):
And so the pushback didn't even all come from Christians, right,
The push in fact, just came from people that we
actually came and witnessed it.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
And they give you a reason why so many of
your permits were I'm assuming they were approved at one point,
and then they yeah, oh.
Speaker 10 (06:09):
Yeah, I mean we have a very robust team. You know,
when we secure a venue, we got to get insurance,
we got to get porter parties, we got to do
the logistics, we got you know, it's a whole situation.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
And not only that.
Speaker 10 (06:21):
We have our bus, we have our truck, we have
a million dollar sound system we have you know, it's
a lot that goes into it.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
So when they cancel it, you know.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
And can say as the government, yeah, the government of
nine of eleven provinces, you know, out of safety concerns,
and you know we don't. You know, it's all under
the guise of health and safety.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Safety concerns because you're singing worship music.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
We're just so dangerous. We're just dangerous.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
But why would they initially approve it, then to only
take it away.
Speaker 10 (06:52):
Because they they because they got pushed back from radical activists.
Radical leftist activists pushed back, you know, said we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You know, we're going, which is a small minority. Oh,
it's to the Canadian people.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Why it's super smallest minorities usually have the loudest voices.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It's so annoying.
Speaker 10 (07:12):
It's it's the it's the it's the tail wagon, the dog.
It's it's the fact that we allow these people to
be the loudest, and the government's enable these activists and
childlike people to you know, they set the table for them,
they cater to them.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
They you know, almost like they're afraid of them.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, well it's going.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
To kind of make you feel good because the enemy
is so hard at work against you just got to
know it's something that God wants you to do and
the enemy is afraid and you know, as there's power
in the name of Jesus worship.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
But with all the logistics and everything, all a plane
and a pre planning, I mean, do you still do
it once you're there?
Speaker 8 (07:50):
That was my question.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
What did you do? Did you just well you go
to a field.
Speaker 10 (07:56):
Well it was kind of amazing actually, like field, the
the I mean you could just feel the hand of
the Lord. I mean the first one Halifax was canceled
and we didn't.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Have anywhere to go.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
Most of the churches sorry if you're from you know,
Nova Scotia, but most of them are pretty pretty lukewarm
and didn't want the smoke, didn't want the controversy. And
a farmer called this at eleven pm that night, a farmer,
a farmer, and he said, I have a farm. He's like,
I have been praying for twenty years for something like
this to happen on my property. He's like, I will
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get up at five in the morning and listen to
this harvest the wheat from my field so that we
can build a parking lot. And the moment he said that,
I said.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
This is God.
Speaker 10 (08:41):
I said, I said he's going to harvest the wheat
and he sent us the pictures. That just gets me
emotional thinking about it. So then we show up there
and what happens. Salvations, baptisms, healings break through right on
this point. And he was standing back to this farm,
you know, had overalls on.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
He's just watching it.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Just cry.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
How powerful that he'd been praying for twenty years and
in the perfect moment, God would bring that dream to fruition.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, and people showed up, Oh thousands.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
How did they know?
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Were you hoss?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You got all social media?
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Yeah, I mean it's.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
Just yeah, it's just it's it is. It's filled dreams deal.
It's it's really just getting the word out there. I mean,
there's so much hunger in oppressed countries like that. You
got to remember, this is a country that literally threw
pastors in prison. They had one of the most fiercest
brutal lockdown policies in the whole world. Yeah, So out
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of that oppression and out of that resistance and darkness
really creates hunger in people. You know, the church rarely
is hungry in seasons of of of comfort, right, you know,
it almost takes these kinds of push for people to
be like we need God.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, well you know I want it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
We're going to show you just a little bit some
of what happened in Canada. But one of the things
that I think is really important for us to to
say is that, you know, Sean wants to go into
a place and worship the God of the universe and
encourage people, pray for people, see people come to the Lord,
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see people get healed. All these things have happened. And
guess what, He loves everybody. Everyone is welcome. There is
no hatred, there's no bigotry. These are all lies from
the enemy. And once people come and see, they're like,
what is the deal?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And that's what happened because persecution couldn't stop the move
of God in Canada. Let's watch these beautiful testimonies of
people being baptized in the middle of all of it.
Speaker 10 (10:46):
All right, so I am here in New Brunswick. We
just finished, let us worship. We're next our bus, Caitlin.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
What happened?
Speaker 11 (10:53):
Well, I showed up and I was feeling a lot
of oppression and just stuff going on in my life.
And God took all these beautiful people behind me and
baptized them and his love. And it's also my seven
year anniversary of walking with Jesus today. Well, so that's
the best gift I could have ever gotten.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
And they're all baptized. Hi, everybody, everybody, and the.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Baby yes, and the baby wow, and new and.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
News and brother in law and fiance come on, And
what the enemy tried?
Speaker 7 (11:26):
To stop. Look what God's doing, baptizing people, getting their
hearts set on fire.
Speaker 10 (11:30):
Come on, let's get in in here Canada for Jesus.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Awesome.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
So right now we're doing spontaneous baptisms. You just set
up this thing and kids are getting baptized tonight.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Right as we finished.
Speaker 12 (11:45):
Guys, we changed venues like six hours ago. It was
an hour and a half away from our original venue.
So many people came and now tonight God's marking the
next generation. They're getting baptized.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Guys. This is so special. God's moving in Canada. The
resistance the greater of the breakthrough.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
If you dry talk two hours, I get here for wals,
we get past.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I just want to say we love our Canadians, Okay,
we love for you. And when we talk about some
of the things that happened, it's not against you. But
I think it really is a call for for all
of us as believers to begin to stand up and say, hey,
this is not right and we need to stand up
and do something. You know, even when their permits were
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denied and opposition tried to shut it down, the sound.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Of worship could not be stopped.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Let's take a look at this powerful moment together. Well,
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you know, if you ever go to a football game,
it's louder than that. It's right that much more to
worship the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
And that's really what you're doing, encouraging people to worship God,
to recognize who he is and what happens when that happens.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
There's something about a holy alignment that comes back in you, right,
because I mean you could talk about boldness all day
and you talk about rising up and all this kind
of stuff, but it's like you have that moment like
Isaiah had Isaiah six. You know, I see the Lord
high and lifted up like he's the one pulling the
strings here, He's the one in control. And out of that,
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the only response you can have is send me. I'll go,
you know, I'll be the hands and feet of Jesus.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
I'll go preach the gospel, I'll go worship. I'll go.
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
You know, So has any of this deterred you the
pushback or is it calls you spurred you on?
Speaker 8 (14:27):
Well?
Speaker 10 (14:27):
It was funny when we were in Seattle because you know,
we had so much.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Pushback and protesting, first from the mayor.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
But then he came back around yeah and welcome.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
Oh, but it was hundreds of crazy activists with kazoos
and perversion signs. Some of them were half to me
again and I turned. I had him turn the speakers
to them, to the protesters.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
This was just like last week.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
And I said, I want to tell you guys a story.
Can you just let me tell you a story. This
guy up here playing keyboard with me right now protested
me for two years.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Guess what he's now in my band?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Wow?
Speaker 7 (15:04):
And I said, the love of God's going to get you.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
I said, you just hang.
Speaker 10 (15:09):
Out here long enough, keep coming back.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
The love of God's going to get you. So you
know I do.
Speaker 10 (15:14):
We have so many stories of the angriest, most you know,
hateful people, So tell us staying in.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
The proximity of worship.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
I just say, just stay here, the media, the protesters.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Stay here.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
You know, you hear we're hateful. You hear where bigots
see how hateful we are. Just hang out right, get
your get your you know, get your cameras out, capture
it all.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
And it's amazing how.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
Even at the end of that in Seattle, protesters were
coming up to my keyboard players saying how did you
switch to the other side?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And what did he say?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Oh, he just told him his story. And when I
showed up, I was angry. I didn't know why he.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Was doing this.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
I had a mask on.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
I was frustrated, and he said I Then I came
back again.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
And then by the third time I came.
Speaker 10 (15:55):
Back, I was at the altar wow, and the love
of God overcame me.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
You know, So tell us some more of those stories.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Oh, there's there's so many we had.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
When you were about the angry one.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Oh, we guys, I'll tell you one. We're in Chicago.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
We had this really really angry BLM protester and he
was in the back and he was screaming at us,
and he didn't know that I had my buddy, who's
who's a black preacher. I had him getting up there,
and I'm like, this boy's about to get it.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
So the preacher went up there.
Speaker 10 (16:23):
He started preaching, lay down your offenses, get free of.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
All this stuff.
Speaker 10 (16:27):
This guy, this raging group activists who the two main leaders,
start weeping. They get on their knees. They came as
protesters to stop us. They ended up getting baptized in
the back of a pickup Trust.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
You mean you mean Black Lives Matter?
Speaker 7 (16:46):
Yeah, they grew. Then they did what they came to.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
They came to protest, they did that. They came to
come against us. But they didn't realize that. These people
don't realize even in Canada.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Like my whole team is in diverse.
Speaker 10 (17:01):
Most of the time, I'll be the only white guy
up there, especially in California. I have a Hispanic guy,
I have an Asian guy plays drums. I have a
you know, black girl that sings with me. And so
they have this narrative that I'm this racist blah blah
blah blah blah. And then they get up there they're like, oh, no,
maybe this is not true.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You know, he's the only one with blonde hair in
blue Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Literally most of the.
Speaker 10 (17:21):
Time I am, you know, but I don't even think
of it that way. I just find it funny that
God will use even those that come against you, like
he will.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Even use that. I mean, it's like it's like Paul.
It's like Saw the Paul kind of stories. Like that's
what we need to see in America, right.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
Because when he calls you to it, he will see
you through it every time. Every time that's a good one.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
That's a good I know you weren't shocked by, you know,
some of these like liberal left responses when you were
in Canada. But were you shocked by some of the
church's negative response towards you?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Not really.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
I mean, you know, the church, I think as a whole,
they don't you know, the bigger the church, the larger
the ministry, that the least risky or controversial, they want
to be so for whatever reason, I embody controversy. And
so you're going to get the smaller, the kind of
mid level churches that will rally with you.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
The bigger ones.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
You know, we got too much at stake, which I
really think shows that shows what's.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Happening with the church right we.
Speaker 10 (18:25):
You know, it's like we we can never get to
the place to where we refuse to stand up for
righteousness and justice and truth like we can never have
we never want to be too. It's like one to
one pastor I won't even mention his name, massive church.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Well, Seana, we love what you're doing, but we're in.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
The middle of a big building project right now, and
we can't ruffle feathers with the city and I'm like,
your city is anti christ. Your city. You don't understand.
If you were to stand up in your city for
the right to worship Jesus, your church would probably double.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
In size and God would provide for you.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
But it just shows the enemy exactly where to gets.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
It's been cowardly.
Speaker 10 (19:03):
Yeah, it's cowardly, Like we have a society and in
many ways churches that are full of cowardly leaders. And
right now, boldness is the currency of the kingdom. I'm
telling you, it is the currency of the kingdom. Whether
it's on public transit, you know, protecting innocent girls' lives,
or whether it's it doesn't matter, that is the currency
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right now.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Or this so called Christian you know on the internet,
we call them the internet trolls you have are self
appointed just trying to divide the church. It's just crazy.
What's going on, right Yeah?
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Yeah, I mean those those people are great. It's like
when they start coming after you know something BIG's about
to happen in your life. You go there, you know,
it's just a sign. You know, the enemy will rile
up anybody that he can to try to get you
off track.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So what do you see like, do you see an
open window that God has given us with this new administration.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
I mean I was just talking to my missionaries today
in the Middle East in Iraq, and I said, guys,
we need to go hard right now for Jesus, Like
we need to go and break every.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Law in the Middle East.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
We need to plan as many churches as we can,
save as many people as we can.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Talk about the Christians and the missionaries that are in
these Middle Eastern countries compared to what Yeah, American Christianity lost.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
And the thing is is that but because of this
administration we were in. I was just meeting earlier this
year with the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, and you know
that's a Muslim country and that's a country that's been
very persecuted towards Christians. But now that is at bay
because we have an administration and we have Mark Rubio,
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and that's looking for nations that are trying to persecute
Christians and so and so right now, whether it's in
America signing up for your school board to run sign
or it's overseas, we need to put our foot on
the gas. And that's my biggest message to Americans, we think, oh,
we want an election.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
It's time to chill.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
No, no, no, It's time to push harder, take It's time
to take ground.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
It's time. It's time listen.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
We went to fifty US capitals to pray, to take communion,
to worship, to get breakthrough. A breakthrough came. Now we
need to push for more, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, SOE, do you say that that evil is abounding?
I know, grace will much more abound. But do you
see that evil is getting stronger?
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (21:26):
I mean, I mean, this is what happens towards the
last days you have. You know, Darkness covers the face
of the earth, Darkness over to the people, but the.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Glory of the Lord rises on you.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
So we live in the confluence of these two realities.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
My question is do you think everything that you went
through prepared you for this moment to not be phased
by any of the pushback.
Speaker 10 (21:49):
I mean, I think that the more you the more
you walk through this and you find out your ways
to respond, the stronger those muscles get, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Like another notch in your bill.
Speaker 13 (22:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
What would you say to someone who's watching you that's like, oh,
that's just how he is.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
I can't be bold like him. What would your advice
be to that?
Speaker 10 (22:09):
I mean, I would my advice to them would be like,
First of all, I never asked for any of this.
Second of all, I'm an artist. I want to be liked,
you know. I mean we all want to be accepted,
We all want to be liked. We all have that
in us. But I think for me, I've just been
walking in a season where the fear of the Lord
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has to be greater than the fear of man.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Yes, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Everyone is not going to like you if you're in
the will of God, which is the safest place to be,
by the way, But if you're in the will of God,
and if you're gaining ground in territory, then the enemy
is going to come against you and people are going
to hate you.
Speaker 10 (22:50):
And you don't have I would say this, if you
don't have resistance, My question is are you really following.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Jesus so you're doing anything?
Speaker 10 (23:01):
Yeah, you know, And and that doesn't that doesn't mean
there's a dem behind every bush and we need to
like glorify it. But it just is like like every
morning we wake up, it's like every demon in hell
is like, you know, they're just waiting to see, like
are the people of God going to show up? And
when we do, they're active, you know, yeah, and then
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they don't, you know, lukewarm Christians people that are just
you know, on the chill train, like they don't really
mess that much, like they're there there are disturbed and
when we're living in a spiritual war, right, this is
our reality.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Because you're human.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
What are some practical things that you do when you're discouraged?
Like how do you overcome and push through discouragement?
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Well, I think the number one thing is like turn
this off, okay and then get in the word.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
But then I think the other thing for me and.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
Everybody has their places of rejuvenation. I just got to
get outside. I got to go on a hike. I
got it, Like you know, Jesus went on a mountain
side to pray.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
I like to go on a mountain side.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
You're a California guy.
Speaker 10 (24:07):
I like to get on a mountside, and preferably during
hunting season with a rifle. But I like to get
and for me, like that is restorative, you know. And
so I think it's just important for people to develop
a rhythm in their life where they're finding those places
where they can. I mean, if Jesus had to do it,
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if the son of God had to build that into
his life, how much more should we prioritize that, you know?
Speaker 7 (24:35):
And he was way more.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
He was so disconnected from the crowd, whether it was
a whether it was applause or hate, right, Jesus in
the middle of revival, no one could find Jesus. Then
they saw him on a mountain. He was more connected
to his Father. And I think that that's something we
really need in our lives.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Well, it's something that's so important. I mean, we can
know the Lord, you can be saved, you can go
to church, but how personal are you you in your
relationship with the living God and the one who created you.
It really is important to have intimacy with the Father.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
How talk to our audience about that.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
You can't survive without intimacy. You can't survive without you know.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
We revival has to happen in the secret place before
it will ever.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Happen in the public place.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
And so I think that, you know, people will look
at what we're doing across the world or these gatherings,
and they'll look at the pushback and they'll see God
breaking out.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Where did that start?
Speaker 10 (25:30):
Starts in the secret place, you know, it starts in
the still small voice. It starts with the connection of
our heart to the Father.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So good, so good. Well, you have a book coming
out quickly.
Speaker 10 (25:40):
Yes, and it's on spiritual warfare, on spiritual warfare, and
it's coming out and it is written in real time.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah. So yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
And the thing about it got me tickled is he said,
his wife said, would you get done with this book?
Because you have thrust this interest into warfare, writing a
book on spiritual warfare exactly. And I told you I
wrote a book call through the Storm if I didn't
have another storm. Oh my goodness, I'm right wing on
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God's happiest people, the blessing of the Lord whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Okay, but anyway, we are people.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I want you to remember that no matter what you're facing,
that God is still moving. He's sovereign, His light will
always overcome the darkness as we stand in his truth.
And what I love about Sean and what he does
is understanding that he goes to these open air places
in cities and he worships God. He invites people to come,
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and he invites people to experience the love of God
and to hear the gospel and to be baptized and
to just worship, and their lives are changed and transformed
because a lot of these people, Sean never go to church,
They would never step into church, but they'll come and
see what's going on there.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
So let's keep praying for Sean.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
And if you're watching today and you need prayer, that's
why that prayer line numbers on the screen. We have
prayer partners standing by ready to pray with you. We
literally get calls from around the world and it's our
honor to pray for you. I want to thank Sean
for joining us and learn more about his ministry. Visit
Seanfoyd dot com. If people want to know about the
upcoming worship services, how would they get that information?
Speaker 10 (27:23):
Find it on social media. We'll let you know. Just
follow us on social media.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Okay, just fine, just follow Sean Foyd.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, okay, all right, us worship, yeah and let us
wait and let us worship. Okay, And of course, as always,
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being here. Thank you ladies, and hey, we're we are
egging you on. We're praying for you and just believing
for a great harvest of souls and revival in.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
This next year.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
And so you'll come back and give us an update, right, Well, okay,
you'll text me sometimes and say you're not gonna believe
what's going on, and I'm like, tell me, tell me,
But I just pray today. If you're watching and you
don't know Jesus, it's so easy to invite him into
your heart. Just say Jesus forgive me, come into my
heart today, and he will.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Meet you right where you are. We love you. We'll
see you next time.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
By back for today, Well, abundant hope is our inheritance
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in Christ, yet many of us still carry the baggage
of past pay Well, today's guest's going to share how
he discovered God's unfailing, unconditional love growing up in the
foster care system. But before we get to that, join
me around the table is April Simons.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
We have a real man of God on fire today.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I love it talking about hope because everybody needs hope. Yep,
And we always say it. Hope has a name, and
it's Jesus Christ, and that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I love the story. It's going to be great. An
A Kendall, how are you doing? I'm doing just great.
And I love this story too.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I love the way that he reaches so many young
people because what a young people's life has saved. That's
a lifetime that's saved. So that's going to be great.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Rachel Lamb Brown, we love testimonies.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Yes, and this is one of my favorite guests.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
His story.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
It's so impactful just to see where he came from.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
He didn't let that limit.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Him and God has done so much through his life
and it's incredible to see the power of.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
A transform life. And he's right here in our area.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
But the last time we saw him we were in
Australia together and he was preaching in Australia.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
My favorite pictures, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Dorothy Nieden, are you ready for a good word today?
Speaker 9 (30:04):
I am so so ready because you know what it's
It's God's proof that you know, no matter what has
happened in our past. You don't have to take it
to the future because He has great plans for us,
and it is evident that the story today is.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Going to be phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I posted a picture of me and you on Instagram
and everybody's.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Like, I just love them. I love Dorothy. Dorothy is
a woman of God. I loved it. I loved it.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Cindy Johnson, how are you, hey, I'm doing great today.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Now, you know our guest and I do start in preaching.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yes, for many years actually probably thirty years or more.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
But the impact that he's he was only two years
old when he started.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Well that the impact that he is having today and
that he had many years back on our community, yeah,
was huge.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
That was the four four worst area.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yes, Well, he was abandoned as a baby, embraced by
his life loving foster parents, redeemed by God. Reggie Dabs
is living proof that your past doesn't define your future.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That's a good word for you today.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
No matter what you've been through, no matter where you
are right now, your past does not have to define
what God wants to do in your life. So I
want you to stay right there. So they were like, well,
you don't even know listen. Good story coming up. Well
today he's going to share how God is opening doors
for him to bring this message of hope to schools nationwide.
It is amazing what God is doing. He's just written
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a book with John Driver. Just keep breathing, and it's
a shocking expos of letters you never imagined a generation
would write. We'll get into that later, but these are
actually the cries of young people that you have ministered
to throughout the years, right.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
Absolutely, Yeah, kids who have heard me in programs and
then they went to their computers and wrote me a letter.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Well, welcome Reggie Dabs.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Here.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
So good to have you, and I do love your story,
and I love the story of your parents, who are now.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Both with the Lord. But tell us a little bit.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Start at the beginning of your birth and what happened.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Yeah, I have a brother, two sisters, my mom. You
know them, by the way, do you have met them? Okay,
my mom kept my brother, kept my sisters. But she
said I was a mistake and she gave me away
to her favorite teacher at school, which is the greatest blessing.
Speaker 14 (32:27):
It.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Oh, we know you weren't a mistake, by the way,
You're not a mistake. No, no one is a mistake.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
No one.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
The world will label you though, the world will make
you want to carry. And I like it at the
beginning when he says the baggage will carry baggage. Yeah,
I'm gonna call this whole. You got to drop that bag.
You've got to let it go. You got to drop
it because you wasn't meant to carry it.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And that's that she said you were a mistake.
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Well, there's circumstances around my birth. She actually slept with
a man to get food for my brother and sisters
and got pregnant, So that's why she says I was
a mistake. But you got to And I just look
at people all the time and I say, I'm here. Yeah, yeah,
it doesn't matter how you're here, and what you do
while you're here matters. It matters the most. So yesterday,
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it's a memory, and you know what it can be.
There's a reason why the front windshow is so much
bigger than the rearview mirror, because if you spend your
time looking back, you're going to run into something. So
you got to look ahead. You can't you can't look well.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
And yeah, I mean something has to be said to
the fact that you know your mom, your birth mom
rather had a story of I'm sure brokenness and pain
and going through different things. And when you look at her,
you and you look at her through the eyes of God,
you kind of have a different perspective, don't you.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
Absolutely? And when you look now, I met her a
few years back. I met her and we have a relationship.
And now she'll call me five times a day. Oh really,
but she doesn't remember her Wow. And so my other
siblings would go, why is she only calling you? And
I said, I'm her biggest mistake, And so I literally
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will pretend like it's her first time calling. Just have
a good conversation. To hang up, and if I'm available,
I do.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I know she's so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Okay, So she gave you up to her favorite teacher.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
Teachers, she gave to her favorite.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Teacher who I guess couldn't have a baby, right, No, Okay,
So what happened you when's your earliest memory of your.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
Well, I just I've always thought that was my favorite.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
How old were you you were baby?
Speaker 8 (34:33):
They took me when I was a baby, okay, And
I thought that was it until first grade when everybody
had a first and last name when teacher took attendance,
and I only had Reggie. And when I asked, she goes,
you don't have a last name. And I remember asking
my parents. It was parent teacher conference. I hate parent
teacher comforts, but I remember asking them. All my friends'
parents were young and they were older. So when we
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got in the car going home, I'm in the backseat like,
why y'all old? But when you're six you can get
away with that. You don't try that when you're older.
And they literally sit me down and told me my story,
which was good.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Well, they had already raised six kids before you came along,
and so that says something to their character and their integrity.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
Oh it was unbelievable. And I see, and I'm glad
it taught me. Like people look at like cleaning people
like janitors, and I'm like, yeah, don't understand. I think
the janitor is the most popular guy in the school.
And I always want when I do assembly programs, I
look at janitor, I go, you're my hero, and I go,
are you going to be in there?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Your dad was, Yeah, he was a school and your
mother was a teacher. Okay, so talk about when did
you kind of come to a knowledge of God and
really invite him into your heart.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
When I was thirteen and I think one, I couldn't sleep,
I'm waking at three o'clock in the morning. I had
one of those clocks with red numbers. You know what
I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
How do you think that was happening?
Speaker 8 (35:55):
Well, this happens every day because now in schools, I go,
anybody wake up at three o'clock steering at the ceiling.
Eighty percent of the room raise their hands, and those
are middle schoolers. So it's like, it's just that in
the middle of the night, you start thinking stuff you
don't normally think during the day because you're pre.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Audity as a Christian.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You just start praying that day because the Lord uses
the three o'clock.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
Absolutely, yeah, sure, absolutely. But at thirteen, I was like, dude,
my mom gave me away. I don't have nobody I
should give up.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
I started crying the enemy into your ears right like everybody.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
And you know what, people when I do this as
my testimony, people go, wait a minute, he's like me.
The more we can identify with the younger generation, the
more they're going to listen to us, but we have
to be willing to share. It's the blood of the
lamb and the word of your testimony. It's where you
came from. And I do that, and I tell them.
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At thirteen, I wanted to give up, and my bedroom
door open and I told him, I said, I don't
like scary movies called black people Die First and scaryus.
Come on, you know what I'm saying. I'm just saying.
I'm just saying. But it wasn't. It was, and it
clowned it wasn't. It was my false secre dad. And
he literally slept at my door for two nights because
he knew I was sad. And the second morning he
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heard me cry and he came in and told him
he loved me. And then he opened the Bible and
he read John three sixteen. He says, I love you,
but somebody loves you more. And that's when everything changed. Wow.
All I needed was one person. All people need is
one And you know, for some people, this is table talk.
You're there one person that's going to get them through this,
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and you're the one person they literally are looking. You're
looking for hope, you're looking for How do I make it?
How do I get through this, but you have found
it not in a television show, but then the reason
behind the show. I know every time they don't talk
about Jesus a lot, but just for a moment, let
me tell you. If it wasn't for the Lord, where
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would I be? And you just need to The Bible says,
taste and see that the Lord is real. Try him,
see what happens. Give him an opportunity in your life.
Because we all broke. We're all broken, But Jesus.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Would you just lead us in a salvation prayer and
we'll repeat after you there. I feel like there's someone
watching that you just kind of came across it soon
you stopped to listen. But your heart has been opening
more towards the things of God, but you don't really
know which way to go. And so it's no accident
that you're watching right now. Because the Lord has your number.
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I mean, the one who created you, loves you so
much and wants to have relationship with you.
Speaker 8 (38:28):
Reggie Romans ten nine says, if you declare what's your
mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, and believe in your
heart that God raised them from the dead, you will
be safe. Not you can not you mind, you will
be saved. This is the most important moment. So we're
just gonna ask. We're doing it. I'm gonna help you
with that prayer and asking Jesus to be lord of
your life. So just say, Jesus, Jesus, right now, right now,
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I ask you to be lord of my life. I
cannot change my past, but I can give you that
I can give at you. Thank you Jesus for carrying
my bags, my pain, my shame, shame. Thank you Jesus,
Thank you for this moment, this moment for me to
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say yes, for me to say to Jesus, Jesus, be
my lord, show me how to live this life for
you in Jesus name, Jesus. Amen, Amen.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
You know, if you prayed that prayer, there's a number
on the screen. I want you to call and tell
us and let us send you the Gospel of John
for free. And it's just a great place to start
in the Bible. But this is a new day, you know.
I love the story of how your mother wanted you
to play an instrument.
Speaker 8 (39:44):
In which instrument is that saxophone? Okay, yeah, she loved
a saxophone.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
And so what when did she start saying okay?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
What does she say?
Speaker 8 (39:51):
Like, Well, to be honest, I'm a little a d
D okay, And so she came in one day and
I was throwing the cat across the room, trying to
catch him before he hit the counch, and she says, okay,
there's something wrong with him. And so literally she read
up on it and found out that music and rhythm
can calm guys like me down, can keep me focused.
And so she got a She went to the pawn shop,
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got an Alto saxophone and had me play with the radio.
I got fidgety, and it literally works. Goodness. It's a
soprano saxophone. It looks like a clarinet and I can
do here. Yeah, I'm good. But it's just it's just it's.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
For all those people, they just yeah, I love that.
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And for those of you that don't know, that was
amazing grace. So I know now that you are going
into schools, I mean, God's supernaturally use opened doors. You
are what they call a what speaker, motivational speaker public
school and so you can't get so much into talking about.
Speaker 8 (41:46):
You can't say, but you can show.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
His love like you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
And kids can go and look at Reggie Dabs and
find all.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
These youtubes.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Of you preaching and and and I know that's happened.
But I think we have some stories to share. Can
we share some of the These are some of the
letters and that you've gotten.
Speaker 8 (42:09):
From from kids, actual students who've heard me in public school.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Now they used to actors in.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
This, Yeah, but the letters are from are from them.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
They're their words, because you know, today we're surrounded by
generation of kids who are literally dying to be heard.
And Reggie his ministry is a safe place to ask
some of the hardest questions.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Take a look at this.
Speaker 14 (42:34):
I don't really like to talk about it, but I
feel like I can tell you. It started off with
me getting sexually harassed by my grandfather for my entire life,
and then after my parents found out, they confronted him,
and a week or two later.
Speaker 15 (42:47):
He told himself, when I was twelve years old, I
was in New cit into a gang looking for me.
Speaker 7 (43:04):
Right now, they wouldn't have killed me, but I guess
what I.
Speaker 16 (43:08):
Deserve, right, my boyfriend and his little brother and their
friend killed themselves. It'll be two years ago tomorrow, I
get abused and hurt all the time.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
No one cares.
Speaker 9 (43:22):
I want to die.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
I don't know what to.
Speaker 7 (43:29):
Do, but it's hard when my own dad tells me
to drop dead.
Speaker 15 (43:34):
There's something inside of me that tells me it would
just be better if I killed myself.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
But I don't want to do that, but it seems
like that's the only.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Thing I can do.
Speaker 13 (43:45):
Throughout my entire life. I've been beaten by my foster parents,
by families, boyfriends, by people I don't even know. I
grew up in pure hell and torture. I lost my
mom for five years due to her love of alcohol
and not own kids. I've been sexually harassed and bullied.
I've been kidnapped and raped. I've even harmed myself before.
Speaker 11 (44:34):
Your own. So the phrases.
Speaker 17 (44:43):
Say people in crisis don't need to just be fixed,
need to be listened to.
Speaker 7 (44:56):
Bound who's so.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
Bad even all else was taken away from no one?
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Well, those are just really heartbreaking. Some of those letters
that were written. Here's another one that's especially touching from Jasmine,
because you know thousands of teens who say that Reggie's
story changed their lives. One of those, again was a
girl named Jasmine, and this is heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Let's hear what she had to say.
Speaker 18 (45:36):
Dear Reggie, my name is Jasmine. You spoke in my
high school last week. I sat close to the back,
so you probably didn't really see me.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
I wore the gray hoodie.
Speaker 18 (45:46):
If you notice the three girls and one was crying.
That was my friend. I was very close to crying.
I thank you for coming to my school. I almost
started crying. You were telling the story about the girl
who cut herself. I tell you that to tell my story.
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About three years ago, I started having problems with my stepdad.
I was really stressed out, and I picked up the
habit of smoking cigarettes. Well, I got caught and got
in trouble.
Speaker 7 (46:23):
I tried to.
Speaker 18 (46:23):
Tell them why I started smoking. No one listened. A
couple of weeks went by, and my birthday was the
next Thursday. Well, on my birthday, I called my dad
and just wanted to talk to him. And my stepmother
were going out to eat. I asked them if I
could go with them since it was my birthday. He
told me I didn't deserve anything for my birthday, and
that I didn't even deserve a birthday. When he got
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done telling me, that he said he had to go.
When he hung up, he didn't even wish me a
happy birthday or he loved me.
Speaker 7 (46:54):
I was crushed.
Speaker 18 (46:56):
So after that I laid on my bed crying, thinking
about all the things.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Going on in my life.
Speaker 18 (47:00):
It was too much for me. I figured everyone would
be happy if I was gone, So I went into
the bathroom, busted a razor open, and tried to kill myself.
If my mother hadn't seen my cup mark, I probably
wouldn't be here. I still have problems to this day
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with my father. I now live with my father. To me,
he's not much of a father. I am sixteen. I
wasn't insecure person back then. I basically raised myself. I
love my mother. She's really the only thing I have
in my life. Your friend, Jasmine.
Speaker 19 (47:40):
I know sometimes you get overwhelmed. Sometimes people are forgotten
by those who should never forget. But Jasmine, we are
not going to forget. You are not overlooked.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
And you have so many of the letters in here,
and you put Jasmin's letter in here, and you put
your letter that you wrote back to her where you said,
dear Jasmine, the first thing I want to say to
you in writing so that forever everybody will know I
said it here. It is Happy Birthday too, Happy birthday
too you, Happy Birthday to Jasmine, Happy birthday too.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
You can hear my.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Beautiful voice singing through the pages. Well, I know many
people in the world have had that song sung for them.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
At Jasmine. We wrote it in the book for you. Why,
because that's how special you are. I know.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Sometimes you get overlooked. Sometimes people are forgotten by those
who should never forget. But you know what, we're not
going to forget.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
You are not overlooked. I'm so glad your mom saw
your cut, for it was too late. We see it.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Every day in someone's life. We catch glimpses of the scars.
We don't always know their names that we see them.
We see you, and I know we can't call you
out by your real name in this book. When I
met you that day in your school, I saw you.
I did not know then that your name is Jasmine,
but I cared then and I care now. You go
on and talk about there principles and teachers who know you.
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They are friends to you, even though you may not
think of them in that way. You see, they brought
me to your school hoping I would be able to
help you, and it worked. You did realize, and that's
why you wrote us. Your problems may not be gone
because you know we care, but knowing it is the
first step to breathing another day, because another day we'll
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bring another chance to live and see your circumstances change
for good.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
So listen carefully.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
You will always be loved, and all those birthdays that
everybody forgets, you will remember that. Your daddy, Reggie put
it in his book, Happy Birthday, Jasminae, never give up.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
I got your bags. I love that. What did she
say when she got that letter from you?
Speaker 8 (49:46):
She responded and she went, is this really you?
Speaker 2 (49:51):
It happens to me.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Answer every email and then we get thousands, but every
once in a while I will and they'll come back.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Is this really Jonie?
Speaker 9 (50:01):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (50:02):
Real fast. So you know that we about ten years
ago started doing elementary programs. So we go all the
way down to pre K four and we're in New Jersey,
pre K four. I'm doing my program. Halfway through it,
a little four year old yells, he's my daddy, and
I'm like, excuse me. And then we did a family
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night when it's for the whole community to hear what
we did during the day because everybody needs hope. And
she brought her mom, and her mom came up and says,
she said that you're her daddy. I went, yeah, it
was a little offsetting, and she goes, no, her dad
isn't alive because he was a bad man. And she's
been asking, how do I know who my daddy is?
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And she said, one day you'll meet the nicest, most
kind mo gentle, most loving man, and you need to
know that your dad.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
Oh my goodness, wow.
Speaker 8 (50:54):
And I was like, I'll do elementary programs for the
rest of my life because you just kids need hope, needed.
Speaker 5 (51:00):
Exactly has the school seen the impact that you made?
Have you ever gotten do you have a story from
like all?
Speaker 8 (51:06):
What they do now is they're tracking. They're tracking like
we do an assembly program and what they they'll go
back like four months later. And what they did this
year this past year, one school district said we really
want to make this work, so they brought us in
to do schools. But they had four educators watch the
programs and come up with slogans. So after we were
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gone one week, it was Uncle Reggie said, you can't
change your past, but you could change the future. A
week later, it was Uncle Reggie says, do your best
because you never know who's watching. So they had this
for a month and then a month later they went
back and they tracked attendance, behavior and test scores up. Up.
Speaker 2 (51:45):
That's amazing, that's amazing. Tell us what's up.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
And for people watching, how they can support you, or
if they're watching and they would love to see you
come to their son or daughter.
Speaker 8 (51:55):
School, if you would love to see us come to schools. No,
it is secular. It's we stay with it, the parameters
of education.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
And you tell your story.
Speaker 8 (52:04):
Yeah, I tell my story. Is the Youth Alliance dot com,
the Youth Alliance dot com and you can see the
Youth Alliance Youth Alliance dot com.
Speaker 2 (52:12):
That's the best.
Speaker 8 (52:13):
That's the best way to do public schools. Everyone else,
say a prayer for us, because I'm coming to the
end of my public school tour ability. I'm sixty two,
so when I turn you've only just when I turn
sixty six. But we got other guys. They're rowing in
with it, they're doing it, they're making it happen. Oh,
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absolutely so good.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
That's so good.
Speaker 1 (52:38):
And what do you see the Lord doing like in
this season? What do you feel like the Holy Spirit
is showing you for the next six months.
Speaker 8 (52:46):
I think you're showing me it's working because for the
past six months in public schools, I have kids. Every
week at least one kid will come up and go, hey,
you do a really good job. Have you ever heard
of Jesus? You got five minutes? Can I tell you
who he is? Can I tell you what he did
for me? And these are like six graders, bro, They're
like little Billy Graham's running around and the principles are like, yeah,
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he's our Jesus kid right there. We got to keep
doing it for our church kids, keep preaching to them
because they're getting it. Yeah, man, they're going public.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
Do you feel like there's almost like an open window
that God's given us for now?
Speaker 8 (53:21):
Absolutely, because he's coming. He's coming back. He is, He's
coming back, and we got to help. We got to
make the harvest is ripe. So he's got to keep
proclaiming he's coming.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
Just take a moment, if you will, and just pray
generally as you feel led for those that are watching.
Speaker 8 (53:36):
Right before we leave the air, Jesus I pray right now, God, God,
you know who we are, You know where we're at. God,
you created the heavens and the earth, You created television,
You created all this so that we can sit by
someone right now who's struggling. We can sit beside someone
right now who's trying to figure out the why. But God,
we know that no matter what the why is, You're
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the answer. So Jesus, I pray hope, I pray peace
in every circumstance. Right now, God, I pray that a
young man would put a gun down, that a young
lady would lay the pills down, that a blade would
be put back in the razor. Because there's hope God, God,
I pray God that this would be seen by not
the greatest of the great, but the lowest of the low. God,
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to let them know you still care about them, you
still love them, and you're on their side. So I
pray peace in Jesus' name, hope, in Jesus' name. Let
us be your hand extended. Let us God start conversations
that end up with but Jesus. So God, we all
need that moment in our life. But Jesus changed it.
But Jesus changed my life. But Jesus set me free.
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And God, we know we don't have to carry those bags.
We's got to drop those bags and turn to you
in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
Amen, everybody said, Amen, Man, Amen, Amen, we're out of time.
Don't you remember that even though you can't change your past,
you can decide today to change your future. And when
you say yes to God, you can live a life
filled with hope and faith and his unfailing love. And yeah,
you still have issues and problems that you have to
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walk through.
Speaker 2 (55:10):
I mean, the Bible tells us. You know, we're going
to have to.
Speaker 1 (55:13):
Deal with things. I mean, we don't live in a
perfect world. This is the difference for people who have
a relationship with the Lord. They're not alone and you
don't have to be along with whatever you're walking through.
Whatever you're going through. If you're watching today and you
need prayer, that's why that prayer line number is on
the screen. If you prayed the Salvation Prayer with Reggie,
call us, let us send you the Gospel of John.
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If you just need prayer in general, call us. You
don't have to give any information, just say hey, I
want prayer. The lady on TV or Internet or live
streaming or whatever. Said that I could call this number
and I need prayer.
Speaker 2 (55:50):
That's why we do that. Your important to us.
Speaker 1 (55:52):
Why do you want to thank Reggie for joining us today?
Make sure you order a copy of his book. Just
keep breathing. Some great, really insightful letters in there from
young people crying out for help. We got to reach
out this generation. He's doing that, of course. For more
you can visit him online at Reggie Dabs online dot com.
But if they want you to come to the.
Speaker 8 (56:12):
School, it's the Youth Alliance dot com.
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Thank you ladies for tratishues up, Cindy, We're not going
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You, we'll see you next time. Continue to call and
we'll take your call. And uh hey, it's a new day.
So what do you do when worship meets resistance. Well,
today's guest has been lifting up the name of Jesus
in some of the most unlikely places, and he's here
to share a God.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Is moving even in the middle of persecution.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
But before we get to that, joining around the table
is April Simon's. We got to get ready, like for
some of the pushback. I mean, it's not like it's
not easy to get easier, and no it's not.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
But carrying the name of Jesus everywhere is the most
important thing. And I appreciate our guests persistence. Yes, paying
off the devil can't win, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And a kindle.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
You know, there is nothing like praise in worship to
bring in the power of the Lord, and that is
the main thing we can do to push the devil back.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's true. Rachel Lamb Brown, how are you doing. I'm good.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
You know a lot of other people would have quit
by now, and so I'm grateful for not just our
guest persistence, but boldness to keep going despite what the
naysayers have to say.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's good, Rebecca Lambwise. We are in a battle.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
A lot of people don't really even understand that there
is a battle going on that we can't see with
our natural eyes.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
That's so true.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
And I think what's going on in America now, I
think it's easier to see.
Speaker 7 (01:33):
The spiritual warfare.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Because I think it's more blatant the attacks. I think,
especially with what our guest is doing and seeing the
pushback against that that's not just like a natural thing.
There's something behind that supernaturally. And you know, we don't
warr against flesh and bud. We you know, our enemy
is not people or enemy are those entities, you know,
But we have the victory in Jesus, and we deceed
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to be bold in that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's right, Dorothine Newton, Yes, are you ready?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I am ready?
Speaker 8 (02:01):
I am ready.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
You know we are.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's not even an option.
Speaker 9 (02:05):
We're called to be the light into this world because
there's so many dark places. So I'm excited. I'm excited
to learn more about what's going on.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Actually, yeah, well, Sean Floyd, welcome back to the table.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I don't know how You're in the middle of a
lot of controversy, but we're going to talk about some
of that today.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, from canceled permits to revival and fields. Sean Foyd
has seen the battle of darkness in light firsthand. Today
he shares how God is moving amid opposition and how
you can be part of it. So you just really
want to hold these worship rallies and see people touched
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and changed and hear the gospel and get baptized. And
what's going on with why with their resistance for that?
Speaker 10 (02:55):
Well, you thought after twenty twenty and twenty twenty one,
twenty twenty two, maybe things that chill out, But no,
we are These are days of great revival and great resistance.
And I think, you know, I want to start off
by saying, anybody that wants to do great things for God,
you have to expect to be controversial in this hour. Yeah,
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and you have to expect to have pushback otherwise it's
not really worth doing. So I think that COVID kind
of showed us Okay, Wow, there's a lot of darkness.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
There's a lot of.
Speaker 10 (03:27):
Forces that don't want us to do what the Church
has been doing for thousands of years. But that same
anti christ spirit or Christophobia or whatever.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
You want to call it is still present.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So you just returned from Canada not long ago. Tell
us a little bit about what happened, you love.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
K You know I worshiped it.
Speaker 10 (03:46):
I worshiped in Turkey this year, in Iraq this year,
in Israel this year, and Mozambique on the beach, and
even in these persecuted areas, the fiercest resistance I've faced
the year came in Canada, and I didn't have that
on my bingo cards.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
So do you think that you were intentionally targeted because
there's been other people that have been bind But do
you think because of your bold stances?
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Yeah, I mean I think that. Listen.
Speaker 10 (04:11):
I mean I have a twenty year history of worshiping
in that country, no incidents, no real controversy. I think
that that Canada has changed. I haven't changed. My message
has stayed the same. I've been pretty consistent. However, you know,
when you want to take worship like we do, and
we have this mandate to bring it into the public square,
right out of the church, or we have a motto
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the church has left the building, Let's go where the
people are, Let's go where the addicts are, Let's go
where the confused are, Let's go where the you know,
a press starting and when you go into those places.
They can do pride parades, they can do you know,
drag Queen's Story Hour, they can do margins.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
But the moment Christians want to come and worship.
Speaker 10 (04:52):
They are dangerous. We need to remove their permits. We
don't know what they're about. They're big, it's they're hateful.
So in one sense, you know, yeah, nine out of
eleven cities were canceled. But in another sense, this became
the number one trending story in Canada this summer.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, and because of.
Speaker 10 (05:13):
That, all of a sudden, you have all these eyeballs
people watching it, people showing up. I wasn't even a Christian,
but I wanted to know what this crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
But it works for your good.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
It did, and that's how it always turns out. It's
literally a replay of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But the people, a lot of the people that were
resisting or thinking that you're biggot or hateful or whatever,
they come and they're like, Wow, it's not about that
at all.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's about the love of Oh.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
I mean, there's so many videos and viral stuff on
TikTok of people that came I'm a gay man, or
I'm a transi ram or whatever I came to see
was and all I did was feel love. All I
did was feel All I did was see Christians and music.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
What's the big deal?
Speaker 10 (05:54):
And so the pushback didn't even all come from Christians, right,
The push in fact, just came from people that we
actually came and witnessed it.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
And they give you a reason why so many of
your permits were I'm assuming they were approved at one point,
and then they yeah, oh.
Speaker 10 (06:09):
Yeah, I mean we have a very robust team. You know,
when we secure a venue, we got to get insurance,
we got to get porter parties, we got to do
the logistics, we got you know, it's a whole situation.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
And not only that.
Speaker 10 (06:21):
We have our bus, we have our truck, we have
a million dollar sound system we have you know, it's
a lot that goes into it.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
So when they cancel it, you know.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
And can say as the government, yeah, the government of
nine of eleven provinces, you know, out of safety concerns,
and you know we don't. You know, it's all under
the guise of health and safety.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Safety concerns because you're singing worship music.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
We're just so dangerous. We're just dangerous.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
But why would they initially approve it, then to only
take it away.
Speaker 10 (06:52):
Because they they because they got pushed back from radical activists.
Radical leftist activists pushed back, you know, said we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You know, we're going, which is a small minority. Oh,
it's to the Canadian people.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Why it's super smallest minorities usually have the loudest voices.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
It's so annoying.
Speaker 10 (07:12):
It's it's the it's the it's the tail wagon, the dog.
It's it's the fact that we allow these people to
be the loudest, and the government's enable these activists and
childlike people to you know, they set the table for them,
they cater to them.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
They you know, almost like they're afraid of them.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, well it's going.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
To kind of make you feel good because the enemy
is so hard at work against you just got to
know it's something that God wants you to do and
the enemy is afraid and you know, as there's power
in the name of Jesus worship.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
But with all the logistics and everything, all a plane
and a pre planning, I mean, do you still do
it once you're there?
Speaker 8 (07:50):
That was my question.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
What did you do? Did you just well you go
to a field.
Speaker 10 (07:56):
Well it was kind of amazing actually, like field, the
the I mean you could just feel the hand of
the Lord. I mean the first one Halifax was canceled
and we didn't.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Have anywhere to go.
Speaker 10 (08:07):
Most of the churches sorry if you're from you know,
Nova Scotia, but most of them are pretty pretty lukewarm
and didn't want the smoke, didn't want the controversy. And
a farmer called this at eleven pm that night, a farmer,
a farmer, and he said, I have a farm. He's like,
I have been praying for twenty years for something like
this to happen on my property. He's like, I will
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get up at five in the morning and listen to
this harvest the wheat from my field so that we
can build a parking lot. And the moment he said that,
I said.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
This is God.
Speaker 10 (08:41):
I said, I said he's going to harvest the wheat
and he sent us the pictures. That just gets me
emotional thinking about it. So then we show up there
and what happens. Salvations, baptisms, healings break through right on
this point. And he was standing back to this farm,
you know, had overalls on.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
He's just watching it.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
Just cry.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
How powerful that he'd been praying for twenty years and
in the perfect moment, God would bring that dream to fruition.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, and people showed up, Oh thousands.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
How did they know?
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Were you hoss?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You got all social media?
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Yeah, I mean it's.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
Just yeah, it's just it's it is. It's filled dreams deal.
It's it's really just getting the word out there. I mean,
there's so much hunger in oppressed countries like that. You
got to remember, this is a country that literally threw
pastors in prison. They had one of the most fiercest
brutal lockdown policies in the whole world. Yeah, So out
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of that oppression and out of that resistance and darkness
really creates hunger in people. You know, the church rarely
is hungry in seasons of of of comfort, right, you know,
it almost takes these kinds of push for people to
be like we need God.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, well you know I want it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
We're going to show you just a little bit some
of what happened in Canada. But one of the things
that I think is really important for us to to
say is that, you know, Sean wants to go into
a place and worship the God of the universe and
encourage people, pray for people, see people come to the Lord,
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see people get healed. All these things have happened. And
guess what, He loves everybody. Everyone is welcome. There is
no hatred, there's no bigotry. These are all lies from
the enemy. And once people come and see, they're like,
what is the deal?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And that's what happened because persecution couldn't stop the move
of God in Canada. Let's watch these beautiful testimonies of
people being baptized in the middle of all of it.
Speaker 10 (10:46):
All right, so I am here in New Brunswick. We
just finished, let us worship. We're next our bus, Caitlin.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
What happened?
Speaker 11 (10:53):
Well, I showed up and I was feeling a lot
of oppression and just stuff going on in my life.
And God took all these beautiful people behind me and
baptized them and his love. And it's also my seven
year anniversary of walking with Jesus today. Well, so that's
the best gift I could have ever gotten.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
And they're all baptized. Hi, everybody, everybody, and the.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Baby yes, and the baby wow, and new and.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
News and brother in law and fiance come on, And
what the enemy tried?
Speaker 7 (11:26):
To stop. Look what God's doing, baptizing people, getting their
hearts set on fire.
Speaker 10 (11:30):
Come on, let's get in in here Canada for Jesus.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Awesome.
Speaker 12 (11:37):
So right now we're doing spontaneous baptisms. You just set
up this thing and kids are getting baptized tonight.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Right as we finished.
Speaker 12 (11:45):
Guys, we changed venues like six hours ago. It was
an hour and a half away from our original venue.
So many people came and now tonight God's marking the
next generation. They're getting baptized.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Guys. This is so special. God's moving in Canada. The
resistance the greater of the breakthrough.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
If you dry talk two hours, I get here for wals,
we get past.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I just want to say we love our Canadians, Okay,
we love for you. And when we talk about some
of the things that happened, it's not against you. But
I think it really is a call for for all
of us as believers to begin to stand up and say, hey,
this is not right and we need to stand up
and do something. You know, even when their permits were
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denied and opposition tried to shut it down, the sound.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Of worship could not be stopped.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Let's take a look at this powerful moment together. Well,
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you know, if you ever go to a football game,
it's louder than that. It's right that much more to
worship the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
And that's really what you're doing, encouraging people to worship God,
to recognize who he is and what happens when that happens.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
There's something about a holy alignment that comes back in you, right,
because I mean you could talk about boldness all day
and you talk about rising up and all this kind
of stuff, but it's like you have that moment like
Isaiah had Isaiah six. You know, I see the Lord
high and lifted up like he's the one pulling the
strings here, He's the one in control. And out of that,
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the only response you can have is send me. I'll go,
you know, I'll be the hands and feet of Jesus.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
I'll go preach the gospel, I'll go worship. I'll go.
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
You know, So has any of this deterred you the
pushback or is it calls you spurred you on?
Speaker 8 (14:27):
Well?
Speaker 10 (14:27):
It was funny when we were in Seattle because you know,
we had so much.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Pushback and protesting, first from the mayor.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
But then he came back around yeah and welcome.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
Oh, but it was hundreds of crazy activists with kazoos
and perversion signs. Some of them were half to me
again and I turned. I had him turn the speakers
to them, to the protesters.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
This was just like last week.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
And I said, I want to tell you guys a story.
Can you just let me tell you a story. This
guy up here playing keyboard with me right now protested
me for two years.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Guess what he's now in my band?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Wow?
Speaker 7 (15:04):
And I said, the love of God's going to get you.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
I said, you just hang.
Speaker 10 (15:09):
Out here long enough, keep coming back.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
The love of God's going to get you. So you
know I do.
Speaker 10 (15:14):
We have so many stories of the angriest, most you know,
hateful people, So tell us staying in.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
The proximity of worship.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
I just say, just stay here, the media, the protesters.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Stay here.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
You know, you hear we're hateful. You hear where bigots
see how hateful we are. Just hang out right, get
your get your you know, get your cameras out, capture
it all.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
And it's amazing how.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
Even at the end of that in Seattle, protesters were
coming up to my keyboard players saying how did you
switch to the other side?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
And what did he say?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Oh, he just told him his story. And when I
showed up, I was angry. I didn't know why he.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Was doing this.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
I had a mask on.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
I was frustrated, and he said I Then I came
back again.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
And then by the third time I came.
Speaker 10 (15:55):
Back, I was at the altar wow, and the love
of God overcame me.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
You know, So tell us some more of those stories.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Oh, there's there's so many we had.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
When you were about the angry one.
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Oh, we guys, I'll tell you one. We're in Chicago.
Speaker 10 (16:09):
We had this really really angry BLM protester and he
was in the back and he was screaming at us,
and he didn't know that I had my buddy, who's
who's a black preacher. I had him getting up there,
and I'm like, this boy's about to get it.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
So the preacher went up there.
Speaker 10 (16:23):
He started preaching, lay down your offenses, get free of.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
All this stuff.
Speaker 10 (16:27):
This guy, this raging group activists who the two main leaders,
start weeping. They get on their knees. They came as
protesters to stop us. They ended up getting baptized in
the back of a pickup Trust.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
You mean you mean Black Lives Matter?
Speaker 7 (16:46):
Yeah, they grew. Then they did what they came to.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
They came to protest, they did that. They came to
come against us. But they didn't realize that. These people
don't realize even in Canada.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Like my whole team is in diverse.
Speaker 10 (17:01):
Most of the time, I'll be the only white guy
up there, especially in California. I have a Hispanic guy,
I have an Asian guy plays drums. I have a
you know, black girl that sings with me. And so
they have this narrative that I'm this racist blah blah
blah blah blah. And then they get up there they're like, oh, no,
maybe this is not true.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You know, he's the only one with blonde hair in
blue Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Literally most of the.
Speaker 10 (17:21):
Time I am, you know, but I don't even think
of it that way. I just find it funny that
God will use even those that come against you, like
he will.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Even use that. I mean, it's like it's like Paul.
It's like Saw the Paul kind of stories. Like that's
what we need to see in America, right.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
Because when he calls you to it, he will see
you through it every time. Every time that's a good one.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
That's a good I know you weren't shocked by, you know,
some of these like liberal left responses when you were
in Canada. But were you shocked by some of the
church's negative response towards you?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Not really.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
I mean, you know, the church, I think as a whole,
they don't you know, the bigger the church, the larger
the ministry, that the least risky or controversial, they want
to be so for whatever reason, I embody controversy. And
so you're going to get the smaller, the kind of
mid level churches that will rally with you.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
The bigger ones.
Speaker 10 (18:17):
You know, we got too much at stake, which I
really think shows that shows what's.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Happening with the church right we.
Speaker 10 (18:25):
You know, it's like we we can never get to
the place to where we refuse to stand up for
righteousness and justice and truth like we can never have
we never want to be too. It's like one to
one pastor I won't even mention his name, massive church.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Well, Seana, we love what you're doing, but we're in.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
The middle of a big building project right now, and
we can't ruffle feathers with the city and I'm like,
your city is anti christ. Your city. You don't understand.
If you were to stand up in your city for
the right to worship Jesus, your church would probably double.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
In size and God would provide for you.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
But it just shows the enemy exactly where to gets.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
It's been cowardly.
Speaker 10 (19:03):
Yeah, it's cowardly, Like we have a society and in
many ways churches that are full of cowardly leaders. And
right now, boldness is the currency of the kingdom. I'm
telling you, it is the currency of the kingdom. Whether
it's on public transit, you know, protecting innocent girls' lives,
or whether it's it doesn't matter, that is the currency
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right now.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Or this so called Christian you know on the internet,
we call them the internet trolls you have are self
appointed just trying to divide the church. It's just crazy.
What's going on, right Yeah?
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Yeah, I mean those those people are great. It's like
when they start coming after you know something BIG's about
to happen in your life. You go there, you know,
it's just a sign. You know, the enemy will rile
up anybody that he can to try to get you
off track.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So what do you see like, do you see an
open window that God has given us with this new administration.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
I mean I was just talking to my missionaries today
in the Middle East in Iraq, and I said, guys,
we need to go hard right now for Jesus, Like
we need to go and break every.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Law in the Middle East.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
We need to plan as many churches as we can,
save as many people as we can.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Talk about the Christians and the missionaries that are in
these Middle Eastern countries compared to what Yeah, American Christianity lost.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
And the thing is is that but because of this
administration we were in. I was just meeting earlier this
year with the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, and you know
that's a Muslim country and that's a country that's been
very persecuted towards Christians. But now that is at bay
because we have an administration and we have Mark Rubio,
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and that's looking for nations that are trying to persecute
Christians and so and so right now, whether it's in
America signing up for your school board to run sign
or it's overseas, we need to put our foot on
the gas. And that's my biggest message to Americans, we think, oh,
we want an election.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
It's time to chill.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
No, no, no, It's time to push harder, take It's time
to take ground.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
It's time. It's time listen.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
We went to fifty US capitals to pray, to take communion,
to worship, to get breakthrough. A breakthrough came. Now we
need to push for more, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, SOE, do you say that that evil is abounding?
I know, grace will much more abound. But do you
see that evil is getting stronger?
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (21:26):
I mean, I mean, this is what happens towards the
last days you have. You know, Darkness covers the face
of the earth, Darkness over to the people, but the.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
Glory of the Lord rises on you.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
So we live in the confluence of these two realities.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
My question is do you think everything that you went
through prepared you for this moment to not be phased
by any of the pushback.
Speaker 10 (21:49):
I mean, I think that the more you the more
you walk through this and you find out your ways
to respond, the stronger those muscles get, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Like another notch in your bill.
Speaker 13 (22:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
What would you say to someone who's watching you that's like, oh,
that's just how he is.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
I can't be bold like him. What would your advice
be to that?
Speaker 10 (22:09):
I mean, I would my advice to them would be like,
First of all, I never asked for any of this.
Second of all, I'm an artist. I want to be liked,
you know. I mean we all want to be accepted,
We all want to be liked. We all have that
in us. But I think for me, I've just been
walking in a season where the fear of the Lord
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has to be greater than the fear of man.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Yes, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Everyone is not going to like you if you're in
the will of God, which is the safest place to be,
by the way, But if you're in the will of God,
and if you're gaining ground in territory, then the enemy
is going to come against you and people are going
to hate you.
Speaker 10 (22:50):
And you don't have I would say this, if you
don't have resistance, My question is are you really following.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Jesus so you're doing anything?
Speaker 10 (23:01):
Yeah, you know, And and that doesn't that doesn't mean
there's a dem behind every bush and we need to
like glorify it. But it just is like like every
morning we wake up, it's like every demon in hell
is like, you know, they're just waiting to see, like
are the people of God going to show up? And
when we do, they're active, you know, yeah, and then
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they don't, you know, lukewarm Christians people that are just
you know, on the chill train, like they don't really
mess that much, like they're there there are disturbed and
when we're living in a spiritual war, right, this is
our reality.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Because you're human.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
What are some practical things that you do when you're discouraged?
Like how do you overcome and push through discouragement?
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Well, I think the number one thing is like turn
this off, okay and then get in the word.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
But then I think the other thing for me and.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
Everybody has their places of rejuvenation. I just got to
get outside. I got to go on a hike. I
got it, Like you know, Jesus went on a mountain
side to pray.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
I like to go on a mountain side.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
You're a California guy.
Speaker 10 (24:07):
I like to get on a mountside, and preferably during
hunting season with a rifle. But I like to get
and for me, like that is restorative, you know. And
so I think it's just important for people to develop
a rhythm in their life where they're finding those places
where they can. I mean, if Jesus had to do it,
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if the son of God had to build that into
his life, how much more should we prioritize that, you know?
Speaker 7 (24:35):
And he was way more.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
He was so disconnected from the crowd, whether it was
a whether it was applause or hate, right, Jesus in
the middle of revival, no one could find Jesus. Then
they saw him on a mountain. He was more connected
to his Father. And I think that that's something we
really need in our lives.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Well, it's something that's so important. I mean, we can
know the Lord, you can be saved, you can go
to church, but how personal are you you in your
relationship with the living God and the one who created you.
It really is important to have intimacy with the Father.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
How talk to our audience about that.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
You can't survive without intimacy. You can't survive without you know.
Speaker 10 (25:16):
We revival has to happen in the secret place before
it will ever.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Happen in the public place.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
And so I think that, you know, people will look
at what we're doing across the world or these gatherings,
and they'll look at the pushback and they'll see God
breaking out.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Where did that start?
Speaker 10 (25:30):
Starts in the secret place, you know, it starts in
the still small voice. It starts with the connection of
our heart to the Father.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So good, so good. Well, you have a book coming
out quickly.
Speaker 10 (25:40):
Yes, and it's on spiritual warfare, on spiritual warfare, and
it's coming out and it is written in real time.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah. So yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
And the thing about it got me tickled is he said,
his wife said, would you get done with this book?
Because you have thrust this interest into warfare, writing a
book on spiritual warfare exactly. And I told you I
wrote a book call through the Storm if I didn't
have another storm. Oh my goodness, I'm right wing on
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God's happiest people, the blessing of the Lord whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Okay, but anyway, we are people.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I want you to remember that no matter what you're facing,
that God is still moving. He's sovereign, His light will
always overcome the darkness as we stand in his truth.
And what I love about Sean and what he does
is understanding that he goes to these open air places
in cities and he worships God. He invites people to come,
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and he invites people to experience the love of God
and to hear the gospel and to be baptized and
to just worship, and their lives are changed and transformed
because a lot of these people, Sean never go to church,
They would never step into church, but they'll come and
see what's going on there.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
So let's keep praying for Sean.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
And if you're watching today and you need prayer, that's
why that prayer line numbers on the screen. We have
prayer partners standing by ready to pray with you. We
literally get calls from around the world and it's our
honor to pray for you. I want to thank Sean
for joining us and learn more about his ministry. Visit
Seanfoyd dot com. If people want to know about the
upcoming worship services, how would they get that information?
Speaker 10 (27:23):
Find it on social media. We'll let you know. Just
follow us on social media.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Okay, just fine, just follow Sean Foyd.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, okay, all right, us worship, yeah and let us
wait and let us worship. Okay, And of course, as always,
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being here. Thank you ladies, and hey, we're we are
egging you on. We're praying for you and just believing
for a great harvest of souls and revival in.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
This next year.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
And so you'll come back and give us an update, right, Well, okay,
you'll text me sometimes and say you're not gonna believe
what's going on, and I'm like, tell me, tell me,
But I just pray today. If you're watching and you
don't know Jesus, it's so easy to invite him into
your heart. Just say Jesus forgive me, come into my
heart today, and he will.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Meet you right where you are. We love you. We'll
see you next time.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
By back for today, Well, abundant hope is our inheritance
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in Christ, yet many of us still carry the baggage
of past pay Well, today's guest's going to share how
he discovered God's unfailing, unconditional love growing up in the
foster care system. But before we get to that, join
me around the table is April Simons.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
We have a real man of God on fire today.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I love it talking about hope because everybody needs hope. Yep,
And we always say it. Hope has a name, and
it's Jesus Christ, and that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I love the story. It's going to be great. An
A Kendall, how are you doing? I'm doing just great.
And I love this story too.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I love the way that he reaches so many young
people because what a young people's life has saved. That's
a lifetime that's saved. So that's going to be great.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Rachel Lamb Brown, we love testimonies.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Yes, and this is one of my favorite guests.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
His story.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
It's so impactful just to see where he came from.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
He didn't let that limit.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Him and God has done so much through his life
and it's incredible to see the power of.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
A transform life. And he's right here in our area.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
But the last time we saw him we were in
Australia together and he was preaching in Australia.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
My favorite pictures, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Dorothy Nieden, are you ready for a good word today?
Speaker 9 (30:04):
I am so so ready because you know what it's
It's God's proof that you know, no matter what has
happened in our past. You don't have to take it
to the future because He has great plans for us,
and it is evident that the story today is.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Going to be phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I posted a picture of me and you on Instagram
and everybody's.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Like, I just love them. I love Dorothy. Dorothy is
a woman of God. I loved it. I loved it.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Cindy Johnson, how are you, hey, I'm doing great today.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Now, you know our guest and I do start in preaching.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yes, for many years actually probably thirty years or more.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
But the impact that he's he was only two years
old when he started.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Well that the impact that he is having today and
that he had many years back on our community, yeah,
was huge.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
That was the four four worst area.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yes, Well, he was abandoned as a baby, embraced by
his life loving foster parents, redeemed by God. Reggie Dabs
is living proof that your past doesn't define your future.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
That's a good word for you today.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
No matter what you've been through, no matter where you
are right now, your past does not have to define
what God wants to do in your life. So I
want you to stay right there. So they were like, well,
you don't even know listen. Good story coming up. Well
today he's going to share how God is opening doors
for him to bring this message of hope to schools nationwide.
It is amazing what God is doing. He's just written
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a book with John Driver. Just keep breathing, and it's
a shocking expos of letters you never imagined a generation
would write. We'll get into that later, but these are
actually the cries of young people that you have ministered
to throughout the years, right.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
Absolutely, Yeah, kids who have heard me in programs and
then they went to their computers and wrote me a letter.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Well, welcome Reggie Dabs.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Here.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
So good to have you, and I do love your story,
and I love the story of your parents, who are now.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Both with the Lord. But tell us a little bit.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Start at the beginning of your birth and what happened.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Yeah, I have a brother, two sisters, my mom. You
know them, by the way, do you have met them? Okay,
my mom kept my brother, kept my sisters. But she
said I was a mistake and she gave me away
to her favorite teacher at school, which is the greatest blessing.
Speaker 14 (32:27):
It.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Oh, we know you weren't a mistake, by the way,
You're not a mistake. No, no one is a mistake.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
No one.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
The world will label you though, the world will make
you want to carry. And I like it at the
beginning when he says the baggage will carry baggage. Yeah,
I'm gonna call this whole. You got to drop that bag.
You've got to let it go. You got to drop
it because you wasn't meant to carry it.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
And that's that she said you were a mistake.
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Well, there's circumstances around my birth. She actually slept with
a man to get food for my brother and sisters
and got pregnant, So that's why she says I was
a mistake. But you got to And I just look
at people all the time and I say, I'm here. Yeah, yeah,
it doesn't matter how you're here, and what you do
while you're here matters. It matters the most. So yesterday,
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it's a memory, and you know what it can be.
There's a reason why the front windshow is so much
bigger than the rearview mirror, because if you spend your
time looking back, you're going to run into something. So
you got to look ahead. You can't you can't look well.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
And yeah, I mean something has to be said to
the fact that you know your mom, your birth mom
rather had a story of I'm sure brokenness and pain
and going through different things. And when you look at her,
you and you look at her through the eyes of God,
you kind of have a different perspective, don't you.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
Absolutely? And when you look now, I met her a
few years back. I met her and we have a relationship.
And now she'll call me five times a day. Oh really,
but she doesn't remember her Wow. And so my other
siblings would go, why is she only calling you? And
I said, I'm her biggest mistake, And so I literally
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will pretend like it's her first time calling. Just have
a good conversation. To hang up, and if I'm available,
I do.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I know she's so proud of you.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Okay, So she gave you up to her favorite teacher.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
Teachers, she gave to her favorite.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Teacher who I guess couldn't have a baby, right, No, Okay,
So what happened you when's your earliest memory of your.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
Well, I just I've always thought that was my favorite.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
How old were you you were baby?
Speaker 8 (34:33):
They took me when I was a baby, okay, And
I thought that was it until first grade when everybody
had a first and last name when teacher took attendance,
and I only had Reggie. And when I asked, she goes,
you don't have a last name. And I remember asking
my parents. It was parent teacher conference. I hate parent
teacher comforts, but I remember asking them. All my friends'
parents were young and they were older. So when we
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got in the car going home, I'm in the backseat like,
why y'all old? But when you're six you can get
away with that. You don't try that when you're older.
And they literally sit me down and told me my story,
which was good.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Well, they had already raised six kids before you came along,
and so that says something to their character and their integrity.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
Oh it was unbelievable. And I see, and I'm glad
it taught me. Like people look at like cleaning people
like janitors, and I'm like, yeah, don't understand. I think
the janitor is the most popular guy in the school.
And I always want when I do assembly programs, I
look at janitor, I go, you're my hero, and I go,
are you going to be in there?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Your dad was, Yeah, he was a school and your
mother was a teacher. Okay, so talk about when did
you kind of come to a knowledge of God and
really invite him into your heart.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
When I was thirteen and I think one, I couldn't sleep,
I'm waking at three o'clock in the morning. I had
one of those clocks with red numbers. You know what
I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
How do you think that was happening?
Speaker 8 (35:55):
Well, this happens every day because now in schools, I go,
anybody wake up at three o'clock steering at the ceiling.
Eighty percent of the room raise their hands, and those
are middle schoolers. So it's like, it's just that in
the middle of the night, you start thinking stuff you
don't normally think during the day because you're pre.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Audity as a Christian.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You just start praying that day because the Lord uses
the three o'clock.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
Absolutely, yeah, sure, absolutely. But at thirteen, I was like, dude,
my mom gave me away. I don't have nobody I
should give up.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
I started crying the enemy into your ears right like everybody.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
And you know what, people when I do this as
my testimony, people go, wait a minute, he's like me.
The more we can identify with the younger generation, the
more they're going to listen to us, but we have
to be willing to share. It's the blood of the
lamb and the word of your testimony. It's where you
came from. And I do that, and I tell them.
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At thirteen, I wanted to give up, and my bedroom
door open and I told him, I said, I don't
like scary movies called black people Die First and scaryus.
Come on, you know what I'm saying. I'm just saying.
I'm just saying. But it wasn't. It was, and it
clowned it wasn't. It was my false secre dad. And
he literally slept at my door for two nights because
he knew I was sad. And the second morning he
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heard me cry and he came in and told him
he loved me. And then he opened the Bible and
he read John three sixteen. He says, I love you,
but somebody loves you more. And that's when everything changed. Wow.
All I needed was one person. All people need is
one And you know, for some people, this is table talk.
You're there one person that's going to get them through this,
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and you're the one person they literally are looking. You're
looking for hope, you're looking for How do I make it?
How do I get through this, but you have found
it not in a television show, but then the reason
behind the show. I know every time they don't talk
about Jesus a lot, but just for a moment, let
me tell you. If it wasn't for the Lord, where
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would I be? And you just need to The Bible says,
taste and see that the Lord is real. Try him,
see what happens. Give him an opportunity in your life.
Because we all broke. We're all broken, But Jesus.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Would you just lead us in a salvation prayer and
we'll repeat after you there. I feel like there's someone
watching that you just kind of came across it soon
you stopped to listen. But your heart has been opening
more towards the things of God, but you don't really
know which way to go. And so it's no accident
that you're watching right now. Because the Lord has your number.
(38:23):
I mean, the one who created you, loves you so
much and wants to have relationship with you.
Speaker 8 (38:28):
Reggie Romans ten nine says, if you declare what's your
mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, and believe in your
heart that God raised them from the dead, you will
be safe. Not you can not you mind, you will
be saved. This is the most important moment. So we're
just gonna ask. We're doing it. I'm gonna help you
with that prayer and asking Jesus to be lord of
your life. So just say, Jesus, Jesus, right now, right now,
(38:50):
I ask you to be lord of my life. I
cannot change my past, but I can give you that
I can give at you. Thank you Jesus for carrying
my bags, my pain, my shame, shame. Thank you Jesus,
Thank you for this moment, this moment for me to
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say yes, for me to say to Jesus, Jesus, be
my lord, show me how to live this life for
you in Jesus name, Jesus. Amen, Amen.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
You know, if you prayed that prayer, there's a number
on the screen. I want you to call and tell
us and let us send you the Gospel of John
for free. And it's just a great place to start
in the Bible. But this is a new day, you know.
I love the story of how your mother wanted you
to play an instrument.
Speaker 8 (39:44):
In which instrument is that saxophone? Okay, yeah, she loved
a saxophone.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
And so what when did she start saying okay?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
What does she say?
Speaker 8 (39:51):
Like, Well, to be honest, I'm a little a d
D okay, And so she came in one day and
I was throwing the cat across the room, trying to
catch him before he hit the counch, and she says, okay,
there's something wrong with him. And so literally she read
up on it and found out that music and rhythm
can calm guys like me down, can keep me focused.
And so she got a She went to the pawn shop,
(40:14):
got an Alto saxophone and had me play with the radio.
I got fidgety, and it literally works. Goodness. It's a
soprano saxophone. It looks like a clarinet and I can
do here. Yeah, I'm good. But it's just it's just it's.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
For all those people, they just yeah, I love that.
(41:28):
And for those of you that don't know, that was
amazing grace. So I know now that you are going
into schools, I mean, God's supernaturally use opened doors. You
are what they call a what speaker, motivational speaker public
school and so you can't get so much into talking about.
Speaker 8 (41:46):
You can't say, but you can show.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
His love like you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
And kids can go and look at Reggie Dabs and
find all.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
These youtubes.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Of you preaching and and and I know that's happened.
But I think we have some stories to share. Can
we share some of the These are some of the
letters and that you've gotten.
Speaker 8 (42:09):
From from kids, actual students who've heard me in public school.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Now they used to actors in.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
This, Yeah, but the letters are from are from them.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
They're their words, because you know, today we're surrounded by
generation of kids who are literally dying to be heard.
And Reggie his ministry is a safe place to ask
some of the hardest questions.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Take a look at this.
Speaker 14 (42:34):
I don't really like to talk about it, but I
feel like I can tell you. It started off with
me getting sexually harassed by my grandfather for my entire life,
and then after my parents found out, they confronted him,
and a week or two later.
Speaker 15 (42:47):
He told himself, when I was twelve years old, I
was in New cit into a gang looking for me.
Speaker 7 (43:04):
Right now, they wouldn't have killed me, but I guess
what I.
Speaker 16 (43:08):
Deserve, right, my boyfriend and his little brother and their
friend killed themselves. It'll be two years ago tomorrow, I
get abused and hurt all the time.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
No one cares.
Speaker 9 (43:22):
I want to die.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
I don't know what to.
Speaker 7 (43:29):
Do, but it's hard when my own dad tells me
to drop dead.
Speaker 15 (43:34):
There's something inside of me that tells me it would
just be better if I killed myself.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
But I don't want to do that, but it seems
like that's the only.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Thing I can do.
Speaker 13 (43:45):
Throughout my entire life. I've been beaten by my foster parents,
by families, boyfriends, by people I don't even know. I
grew up in pure hell and torture. I lost my
mom for five years due to her love of alcohol
and not own kids. I've been sexually harassed and bullied.
I've been kidnapped and raped. I've even harmed myself before.
Speaker 11 (44:34):
Your own. So the phrases.
Speaker 17 (44:43):
Say people in crisis don't need to just be fixed,
need to be listened to.
Speaker 7 (44:56):
Bound who's so.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
Bad even all else was taken away from no one?
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Well, those are just really heartbreaking. Some of those letters
that were written. Here's another one that's especially touching from Jasmine,
because you know thousands of teens who say that Reggie's
story changed their lives. One of those, again was a
girl named Jasmine, and this is heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Let's hear what she had to say.
Speaker 18 (45:36):
Dear Reggie, my name is Jasmine. You spoke in my
high school last week. I sat close to the back,
so you probably didn't really see me.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
I wore the gray hoodie.
Speaker 18 (45:46):
If you notice the three girls and one was crying.
That was my friend. I was very close to crying.
I thank you for coming to my school. I almost
started crying. You were telling the story about the girl
who cut herself. I tell you that to tell my story.
(46:11):
About three years ago, I started having problems with my stepdad.
I was really stressed out, and I picked up the
habit of smoking cigarettes. Well, I got caught and got
in trouble.
Speaker 7 (46:23):
I tried to.
Speaker 18 (46:23):
Tell them why I started smoking. No one listened. A
couple of weeks went by, and my birthday was the
next Thursday. Well, on my birthday, I called my dad
and just wanted to talk to him. And my stepmother
were going out to eat. I asked them if I
could go with them since it was my birthday. He
told me I didn't deserve anything for my birthday, and
that I didn't even deserve a birthday. When he got
(46:48):
done telling me, that he said he had to go.
When he hung up, he didn't even wish me a
happy birthday or he loved me.
Speaker 7 (46:54):
I was crushed.
Speaker 18 (46:56):
So after that I laid on my bed crying, thinking
about all the things.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Going on in my life.
Speaker 18 (47:00):
It was too much for me. I figured everyone would
be happy if I was gone, So I went into
the bathroom, busted a razor open, and tried to kill myself.
If my mother hadn't seen my cup mark, I probably
wouldn't be here. I still have problems to this day
(47:22):
with my father. I now live with my father. To me,
he's not much of a father. I am sixteen. I
wasn't insecure person back then. I basically raised myself. I
love my mother. She's really the only thing I have
in my life. Your friend, Jasmine.
Speaker 19 (47:40):
I know sometimes you get overwhelmed. Sometimes people are forgotten
by those who should never forget. But Jasmine, we are
not going to forget. You are not overlooked.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
And you have so many of the letters in here,
and you put Jasmin's letter in here, and you put
your letter that you wrote back to her where you said,
dear Jasmine, the first thing I want to say to
you in writing so that forever everybody will know I
said it here. It is Happy Birthday too, Happy birthday
too you, Happy Birthday to Jasmine, Happy birthday too.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
You can hear my.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
Beautiful voice singing through the pages. Well, I know many
people in the world have had that song sung for them.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
At Jasmine. We wrote it in the book for you. Why,
because that's how special you are. I know.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Sometimes you get overlooked. Sometimes people are forgotten by those
who should never forget. But you know what, we're not
going to forget.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
You are not overlooked. I'm so glad your mom saw
your cut, for it was too late. We see it.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Every day in someone's life. We catch glimpses of the scars.
We don't always know their names that we see them.
We see you, and I know we can't call you
out by your real name in this book. When I
met you that day in your school, I saw you.
I did not know then that your name is Jasmine,
but I cared then and I care now. You go
on and talk about there principles and teachers who know you.
(49:03):
They are friends to you, even though you may not
think of them in that way. You see, they brought
me to your school hoping I would be able to
help you, and it worked. You did realize, and that's
why you wrote us. Your problems may not be gone
because you know we care, but knowing it is the
first step to breathing another day, because another day we'll
(49:24):
bring another chance to live and see your circumstances change
for good.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
So listen carefully.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
You will always be loved, and all those birthdays that
everybody forgets, you will remember that. Your daddy, Reggie put
it in his book, Happy Birthday, Jasminae, never give up.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
I got your bags. I love that. What did she
say when she got that letter from you?
Speaker 8 (49:46):
She responded and she went, is this really you?
Speaker 2 (49:51):
It happens to me.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Answer every email and then we get thousands, but every
once in a while I will and they'll come back.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Is this really Jonie?
Speaker 9 (50:01):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (50:02):
Real fast. So you know that we about ten years
ago started doing elementary programs. So we go all the
way down to pre K four and we're in New Jersey,
pre K four. I'm doing my program. Halfway through it,
a little four year old yells, he's my daddy, and
I'm like, excuse me. And then we did a family
(50:23):
night when it's for the whole community to hear what
we did during the day because everybody needs hope. And
she brought her mom, and her mom came up and says,
she said that you're her daddy. I went, yeah, it
was a little offsetting, and she goes, no, her dad
isn't alive because he was a bad man. And she's
been asking, how do I know who my daddy is?
(50:45):
And she said, one day you'll meet the nicest, most
kind mo gentle, most loving man, and you need to
know that your dad.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
Oh my goodness, wow.
Speaker 8 (50:54):
And I was like, I'll do elementary programs for the
rest of my life because you just kids need hope, needed.
Speaker 5 (51:00):
Exactly has the school seen the impact that you made?
Have you ever gotten do you have a story from
like all?
Speaker 8 (51:06):
What they do now is they're tracking. They're tracking like
we do an assembly program and what they they'll go
back like four months later. And what they did this
year this past year, one school district said we really
want to make this work, so they brought us in
to do schools. But they had four educators watch the
programs and come up with slogans. So after we were
(51:26):
gone one week, it was Uncle Reggie said, you can't
change your past, but you could change the future. A
week later, it was Uncle Reggie says, do your best
because you never know who's watching. So they had this
for a month and then a month later they went
back and they tracked attendance, behavior and test scores up. Up.
Speaker 2 (51:45):
That's amazing, that's amazing. Tell us what's up.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
And for people watching, how they can support you, or
if they're watching and they would love to see you
come to their son or daughter.
Speaker 8 (51:55):
School, if you would love to see us come to schools. No,
it is secular. It's we stay with it, the parameters
of education.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
And you tell your story.
Speaker 8 (52:04):
Yeah, I tell my story. Is the Youth Alliance dot com,
the Youth Alliance dot com and you can see the
Youth Alliance Youth Alliance dot com.
Speaker 2 (52:12):
That's the best.
Speaker 8 (52:13):
That's the best way to do public schools. Everyone else,
say a prayer for us, because I'm coming to the
end of my public school tour ability. I'm sixty two,
so when I turn you've only just when I turn
sixty six. But we got other guys. They're rowing in
with it, they're doing it, they're making it happen. Oh,
(52:36):
absolutely so good.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
That's so good.
Speaker 1 (52:38):
And what do you see the Lord doing like in
this season? What do you feel like the Holy Spirit
is showing you for the next six months.
Speaker 8 (52:46):
I think you're showing me it's working because for the
past six months in public schools, I have kids. Every
week at least one kid will come up and go, hey,
you do a really good job. Have you ever heard
of Jesus? You got five minutes? Can I tell you
who he is? Can I tell you what he did
for me? And these are like six graders, bro, They're
like little Billy Graham's running around and the principles are like, yeah,
(53:08):
he's our Jesus kid right there. We got to keep
doing it for our church kids, keep preaching to them
because they're getting it. Yeah, man, they're going public.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
Do you feel like there's almost like an open window
that God's given us for now?
Speaker 8 (53:21):
Absolutely, because he's coming. He's coming back. He is, He's
coming back, and we got to help. We got to
make the harvest is ripe. So he's got to keep
proclaiming he's coming.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
Just take a moment, if you will, and just pray
generally as you feel led for those that are watching.
Speaker 8 (53:36):
Right before we leave the air, Jesus I pray right now, God, God,
you know who we are, You know where we're at. God,
you created the heavens and the earth, You created television,
You created all this so that we can sit by
someone right now who's struggling. We can sit beside someone
right now who's trying to figure out the why. But God,
we know that no matter what the why is, You're
(53:58):
the answer. So Jesus, I pray hope, I pray peace
in every circumstance. Right now, God, I pray that a
young man would put a gun down, that a young
lady would lay the pills down, that a blade would
be put back in the razor. Because there's hope God, God,
I pray God that this would be seen by not
the greatest of the great, but the lowest of the low. God,
(54:18):
to let them know you still care about them, you
still love them, and you're on their side. So I
pray peace in Jesus' name, hope, in Jesus' name. Let
us be your hand extended. Let us God start conversations
that end up with but Jesus. So God, we all
need that moment in our life. But Jesus changed it.
But Jesus changed my life. But Jesus set me free.
(54:41):
And God, we know we don't have to carry those bags.
We's got to drop those bags and turn to you
in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
Amen, everybody said, Amen, Man, Amen, Amen, we're out of time.
Don't you remember that even though you can't change your past,
you can decide today to change your future. And when
you say yes to God, you can live a life
filled with hope and faith and his unfailing love. And yeah,
you still have issues and problems that you have to
(55:09):
walk through.
Speaker 2 (55:10):
I mean, the Bible tells us. You know, we're going
to have to.
Speaker 1 (55:13):
Deal with things. I mean, we don't live in a
perfect world. This is the difference for people who have
a relationship with the Lord. They're not alone and you
don't have to be along with whatever you're walking through.
Whatever you're going through. If you're watching today and you
need prayer, that's why that prayer line number is on
the screen. If you prayed the Salvation Prayer with Reggie,
call us, let us send you the Gospel of John.
(55:35):
If you just need prayer in general, call us. You
don't have to give any information, just say hey, I
want prayer. The lady on TV or Internet or live
streaming or whatever. Said that I could call this number
and I need prayer.
Speaker 2 (55:50):
That's why we do that. Your important to us.
Speaker 1 (55:52):
Why do you want to thank Reggie for joining us today?
Make sure you order a copy of his book. Just
keep breathing. Some great, really insightful letters in there from
young people crying out for help. We got to reach
out this generation. He's doing that, of course. For more
you can visit him online at Reggie Dabs online dot com.
But if they want you to come to the.
Speaker 8 (56:12):
School, it's the Youth Alliance dot com.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
The Youthalliance dot com. Some of you are going to
follow up on that. We'll get Reggie into school. You
got to hurry for you. Thinks he can retire anyway.
As always, make sure it falls on all social media.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for full episodes, exclusive content.
Speaker 2 (56:30):
Let us know how table talk is touching your life.
We love hearing from you. Of course, you can also
listen to the Joni Tabletop.
Speaker 1 (56:36):
Podcast, available now on all the major platforms.
Speaker 2 (56:39):
But thank you so much for watching. Thank you Reggie.
Speaker 8 (56:41):
You guys come back say I'm glad you're.
Speaker 2 (56:43):
Here in the area now.
Speaker 1 (56:44):
Thank you ladies for tratishues up, Cindy, We're not going
to cry any more, all right, We love.
Speaker 2 (56:49):
You, we'll see you next time. Continue to call and
we'll take your call. And uh hey, it's a new day.
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