June 7, 2025 • 42 mins
Today's episode of Sunday Service by Pray.com features Kenny Luck.
Host Stephen Gunn welcomes speaker and author April Simons for a heartfelt conversation on faith, identity, and generational legacy. Sharing personal stories and miracles, April emphasizes the power of hope, the importance of speaking life, and God's faithfulness through every trial. This uplifting episode inspires listeners to embrace their purpose and believe that healing, restoration, and abundant life are available through Christ.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Then Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power
is given unto me in heaven and in earth Matthew,
twenty eighth eighteen. The Father granted all power and authority
to you, Jesus, and seated you at his right hand.
Your disciples saw the miracles you did as they traveled
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with you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You healed the.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Sick, raise the dead, and set the oppressed free from
demonic bondage. As I surrender to your will and walk
with you, your power will manifest in my life. As
I decrease and allow the Holy Spirit to guide me,
signs and wonders will accompany your word. Nothing is impossible
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for you. And when I pray in your name, you
show up in power and answer my prayers. What an
exciting adventure it is to follow you.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
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Speaker 5 (02:13):
Hello, and welcome to another edition of the GB America podcast.
I'm your host Stephen Gunn. With me today is a
special new friend, April, hosting Simon's and we met at
the NRB conference in the Dallas area and Great Vine specifically,
and it was such a pleasure and we're so glad
to have you on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
April.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
I'm so delighted to be here. It was so great
meeting you guys, and y'all do an amazing job. Love
your podcast, so I'm excited and honored to be here.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, thank you so much. Awesome it was.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
It was a very good lot of a lot of
good contexts there at the When I'm at context, I mean,
I'm a people person, so I love getting to just
say hi to people and meet people and connect. So
how was what was your experience in the in the
environment there, you know what.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
I'd never been. It was a huge I've never seen
so many people walking around with badges and so that
was fun. But it was just great. I mean a
lot of great people. It just a lot of wonderful
people there, and I enjoyed getting to interact with people
that sometimes I see you on podcasts or TV. And
it was just a fun time.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
It is. It has been very good, awesome, very good.
Well let's see here. So I obviously just meaning to
meet you recently. I'm excited about kind of getting to
hear your story a little bit more so.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You've been your.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Speaker, your writer, tried to get to travel around and
do things. How did how did God kind of bring
you into this season of this writing and speaking opportunities
for you?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Well, I think it's kind of evolved since I was little.
I grew up in a pastor's family, grew up in church.
Actually have a good side of the preacher's kids story.
I loved this, and uh, yeah, there's some of us
out there. So it was great And I always kind
of thought that you know, I might do something like this.
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I didn't know exactly what it was, but my parents
kind of instilled it us at an early age that
you can get up in front of people. And I
was shy as shy could be, and I just did it.
But my dad, early on when I was a teenager,
taught me to get up on the stage the platform
in front of eight thousand people and take an offering
this is funny, or make an announcement so bad. But
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when I got off that platform, he'd say that was
the best I've ever heard. So he just encouraged me
in it. And after my kids grew a little bit,
I have five kids that I just have always loved enjoying.
I call myself a hope dealer, hope coach, and I
just love giving hope backed by the Word of God,
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because hope has a name, and it's Jesus Christ. And
I like to say, Stephen that I come from a
long line of hope givers and I'm just carrying on
the tradition. And I couldn't love what I do anymore.
And I'm so grateful and honored that I get to
do it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's so great. And I just go and give honor.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Uh, you know, I grew up actually listening to some
of your dad's messages and I really really enjoyed his
teachings and just to just it does bring up good,
good memories for sure, to think back some of those
really good messages back, you know, probably for me, I
think I heard those probably in the early nineties, my guess
you know that time. So anyway, I love that you
grew up with that legacy of that, and I guess
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talk at bit about that. What does that look like
for you in terms of carrying on not so much
in name, but so much and passion and purpose into
what you've guts put you into. Now, what does that
look like for you on on a week to week basis?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
I think, you know, I like to say this, inheritance
is what you live to someone, but legacy is what
you leave in someone. I feel like what's been left
in me and my brothers and sisters is just to
continue that line of hope, that line of miracles. You know,
you can't tap me out of a miracle. I've seen
it with my own life, and I saw my mom
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go from being given up to a few weeks to
live to be filled it wasn't an overnight thing, but
I saw it, and so I when I pray for someone,
not that I have great power. We all have the
same great name on the inside of us. But you know,
it just I know God can do it. I've seen
him do it, seen him do it for her and
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many others. So I feel like that legacy of faith
is kind of in there, because you know, when you
see a miracle, I mean, you can't deny it, And
so I see a faith, that legacy of hope. It
just I just I just see it kind of strung
along in our family. And you know, I picked up
one of my dad's books the other day, and I
never read his books, you know, and he's been gone
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for twenty six years, but as a kid, you don't
really well, I didn't read my dad's books. But I realized,
I thought, I do this. He has books of declarations
and just hope filled stories of the part of God.
And it's what I do and my siblings do. And
so I would say that's that legacy, just weaving it in.
You know, we're optimists because God's word is optimistic, you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Know, it's absolutely Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
That's just kind of where it stands for with me.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's great. That's great.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Now tell me a little bit about your latest book.
What what is there? Is there one recently published? I
can't remember how the timing of it is coming out
soon where we.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Are with the book.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
The next book is coming out next year sometime. The
title is up in the air, so I can't give
you a title of it yet, but that's fair.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
That's fair.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Spring. And my last book that came out a year
or two ago is called Better than Ever and getting
your happy back, stressing less and enjoying everyday life.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
And we'll we'll put a link in there for those
who want to catch you know, find out a way
to get the copy of that online or whatever. So
with uh, with your chance to speak, what are some
of the what are some of your favorite I guess
key points or key message if you if you kind
of had a you said hope Dealer, which I think
is excellent. What is your kind of your maybe your
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core core message right now? Do you feel like God's
kind of put on your heart for people right now?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
You know? I believe my one of my basic my
foundational scriptures is John Tinton Jesus the enemy comes to
still kill and destroy, but Jesus said, I've come to
give you life and life more abundantly. And so my
core thing is, don't get God mixed up with the devil.
You know, if it's still killing or destroying, that's not
from God. And God wants to still live this abundant
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life and the amplified says overflowing life. So what does
that look like? What is that? Is that a lack?
Is that a victim mentality? And if you're in that place,
it's okay because we can all grow and become better.
And I like Stephen to say this. You know, sometimes
people say, well I didn't come from that background. I
didn't come from knowing God. I came from you know,
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a house that you know was in disarray and chaos. Listen,
everybody's got a little dysfunction in their house. Don't worry. Sure,
this is the great news with God. This is the
hope that just because you didn't come from a healthy
family doesn't mean a healthy family can't come from you.
That's on the basis none of us have been you know,
God didn't look at any of us and say, well,
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you've messed up too much. You know, you have plans
d for your life. Thank God, this is imperfect people.
So I think that's the crux of my story. God
wants to use this right now where we are and
where we are is not where we're destined to be.
And if we can just really believe God is who
he says he is, he can do what his word
says he can do, and that we are who he
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says we are, man, we can get to that abundant
life that He's promised us for, not just for us,
but for our family because the Scripture says in one
hundred his faithfulness is from generation to generation. So I'm
just all bad. Let's latch on to that faithfulness of
God and let's just live that abundant life.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
That's good, I know. I think that is so crucial.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I feel like there are probably so many people out there,
you know, even listening to our voices in the conversation,
that I think the identity is maybe the biggest you know,
thief the enemy comes in deal is is who who
we are. And one of the things for me that
has been super helpful in my walk with go with
God has been to know who I am. I also
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remember whose I am? Yes, and I think that that
is so crucial in the foundation knowing that you know,
my story real quick is that I lost my dad
at twenty two, and you know, the God God came
in super naturally in a way of putting people in
my life to just mentor me and pour into me
as a son, you know, and as his father figures
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and so which pushed me not away but towards leaning
into God as my father.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Right.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
And so you know, your dad's been gone, what twenty
six years? Things for me, it's twenty three, it'll be
coming up in twenty three years here, and this may
for me and so like you know, when we walk
that out, are we have great legacy, as you mentioned,
great stories and things to look back on on our
earthly father. Even more so was what is what's what's
that replica of or a mirror if you will, of
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what the image of God the Father is? And so
I think I think that's super crucial. So what would
you say to somebody maybe who's the identity structure that
had any struggle that kind of really trying to find
that out?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
First of all, I think the main thing is you
got to get in God's words, so you know what
his word says about you, and I can tell you
some things. He says, you're a masterpiece. He says you're
an original, You're one of a kind. He says his
mercies are new every morning, that you are a child
of him. If you have him in your heart, and
he says you're loved, he'll never leave you, He'll never
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forsake you. So I think sometimes what we get wrapped
up in and all of us do this, we keep
reminding God of what he's already forgotten. So, in other words,
you know, maybe messed up like all of us have
messed up, and you just don't think maybe maybe they
didn't have a father like us that forgave and was
kind and drew them into God. God is not a
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bad god. He's not in heaven waiting for you to
mess up. He said, hey, confess your sins, and you
know what, then don't keep me reminding me of him
for gotten it. It says as far as that, he
says from the West, so far you know your sins,
I won't remember anymore. So we got to get out
of that mindset and change the narrative and stop telling
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God who we used to be and start thanking him
for who he says we are. And that's the power
of declaration. That's my next book coming up, The power
of that declaration to speak over your life. It's not
just wishful thinking. It's backed by the word of God.
It's God we are. So if you're that way and
you don't know who you are, or you feel like
you're you know, you're just not worthy. You just got
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to change that. You just got to realize what that
shows me. And we've all been there. You don't know
really who God is. And if you just let him
in and you go into the Word of God and say, God,
show me, holy spirits, speak to me, show me who
I am, he will, and man, it'll change your life
for the better.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Amen.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
You know, I think that you made me think of
another part. I think a key factor in that phase
of post college and just that, you know, wrestling with
that whole light.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Again, great foundation, great early phase for me, you know,
and I never really struggled with that. But in terms
of like now when being an adult and what kind
of things was the character of nature? Right, look into
the character of nature through the stories of the Bible.
I want to know who who God is. Look at
look at how he treated people, look at how he
you know, his people, and I think that is that
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is where you see who he is through the stories
from the Old Testament to New Testament, all the way
through that, and and then that tells the story of going, okay, well,
this is really who he is. And that he calls
me his son and his daughter son or daughter, not both.
You know that that that that is, that is who
I can accept right here, had accepted me. But I've
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got to accept that and go exactly not by my marriage,
not by who I am or who you know, how
great or not great I am, but by how great
he is.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Exactly, this is so good. And I think we've got
to remember this that God doesn't pick people the way
people pick people. That's right, imperfect people. So that qualifies
all of us. And thank God for that.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Yeah, he doesn't have a Christian draft where he goes okay,
let's see it.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
That's for this and thank good Lord. Yeah, so true.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So tell me about this.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
So you as we've kind of gone into you know,
the last five ten years, social media, digital, that whole
realm has kind of been growing. I mean, obviously we're
you know, we're on you know, podcasts, and we're you know,
people are viewing us over across different platforms. We're on
YouTube or on pray dot Com and different things like that.
How have you seen the interaction engagement with people grow
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through your podcast and through different platforms.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
God's put you in man.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
It's it's so neat because you can sit here from
your home or wherever you are, and you can just
you know, there's really no excuse anymore. You can if
you have a you have a phone, if you have anything,
you can pick it up. And and I've just seen
I've just seen such amazing things. You know. My YouTube,
I've focus a lot on you know, living your purpose
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and that you're amazing everything that we're talking about. I
see a lot of interaction. I see a lot of
people who you know, need that extra offh just to
just to make it through the day. And I also
just see people who need prayer. There's a lot of
hurting people out there, and I love the opportunity to pray.
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Also do something with my mom on my YouTube channel.
Once a month, I do a House of Hope. And
my mom's ninety one. She's my hero and people love her.
I tell her Mom. I people just want to hear you.
I'll ask you questions, but you know there's something from
that long life of wisdom. What She's had a lot
of mistakes, She's had a lot of great things. And
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so I love being able to do that with her.
And because she was healed of cancer and given that miracle,
she has prayed for so many people. And I did
a I've done several things on her her miracle, just
just her speaking the scripture and that millions of views,
just people who need hope. And you know, I did
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it in a way just to help people so they
can light bed at night and they can turn those
scriptures on soft music and hear the word of God
because a lot of people are at the end of
the rope. A lot of people are facing things that
you know, we never dreamed or you never dream face.
And you know if you had that one little hope
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of encouragement, that one little boost of hope, that shot
of hope is what I say, That's what I love
to do. And it's just been amazing. I'm amazed by
what God can do through this.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yes, agreed, Absolutely agreed.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
You know, I I just in my I'm in the
broadcast world here last ten eleven years myself, and it's
been so fun to hear stories from people, you know,
broadcasters around.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
There's a gentleman who was on the network.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
For a little while and he was in California and
he had made turned on one of his rooms into
a studio and referred to you know, you know, just
just one of the room, just put some stuff in
there and recorded teachings and and he his calling, he
felt called at that late night hour, right that that
midnight you know, midnight one two am, you know, when
he really wanted to bro when did a broadcast in
that time frame specifically, And I was like, wow, that's great.
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And he called me the next day after his first
broadcast and he said, Steve, and I had somebody I'd
prayed with two or I think it was two or
three people that were suicidal and needed needed hope right
here about hope. And I just think that there are
people right now, like you mentioned that time in society
and you know, culture and different things are pushing from
every direction and we have to push back out from
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that force withinside of us to say no, you know,
this is not going to overtake. And for those who
don't have that hope, they need that otherwise that forces
can definitely feel overwhelming. Yeah, absolutely so. So I want to,
you know, take a moment here. I want you to
speak to somebody who's listening and they just they need
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that nudge just to just take a moment and just
follow a spirit and just just encourage somebody who's listening
right now, they're listening or watching, they need to see
or hear just kind of that encouragement.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Well, you know, you're here for a reason, and this
is the great thing. God knows who you are, where
you are, and what you're going through, and people around
you may not know. And you may be hurting, you
may be gone through some severe trauma, you may be
troubled in your mind right now, and just know this,
You're not alone. God is always just a prayer away,
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and you have people who believe in you and who
need you, and you know what you're needed. You may
think that nobody cares, but God cares, and we care
about you, and I always believe that. You know, just
God sets you up. God sets you up to hear
this right now, and I just want you to know
you're loved, you're needed, You're wanted, you're desired, you're important,
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you have a purpose. God created you on purpose with
a purpose. Come on, you haven't done too many bad things.
You have failed God too many times. You haven't been
in prisoned too many times, been addicted too many times. No,
God doesn't look at that. He looks at who you're
made to be, who you're destined to be. So I
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would just encourage you just to if you need help,
find someone that can help you and talk to you.
Get involved in a good church, a Bible, believe in church,
and then just start getting in the Word of God
and get a translation that you can understand, and start
reading in the Gospels. Like Stephen said, you know, Jesus
went about doing good, He healed, he sat with the sinners.
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I mean, if that didn't tell something right there, he
ate with them. And you know he believes in you,
and I just don't. I never want anybody to give
up because you're so needed here on this earth. And
I just want to encourage you. This is a new day,
shake off yesterday and just just step into that destiny.
Your destiny is just waiting for you to show up.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Come on, amen, I was encouraging just yeah, I just
want to echo that. I just that is so great.
If here was watching this, listen to this, let us
know like that this blessed you, This encourage you.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
That's that's Uh.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
We love to hear and and like you, Like she said,
maybe if you aren't connected, maybe you know, we can
connect you with somebody or some different ministries in the
area where you are. And uh, you know, I also
want to maybe encourage people by testimony. So what you
know for me, Uh, you mentioned miracles. Obviously your mom's
testimony of her miracle cancer. That's incredible.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
I'm thinking back to I was on a mission's trip
and had a lady with a groiter on the side
of her neck and laid my hands on it. Not
that my hands are they're big, but they're not that powerful, right,
I can't squeeze those things away, And so put my
hand on there and prayed and it literally just disappeared hand.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It was incredible.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
And yeah, and so maybe what are some maybe some
things that you've seen from small to big that might
just sharing some stories about what God's done and maybe
through you, through your ministry, through people you know, that
might just be a a benefit or and a blessing
to somebody.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Well, somebody came up to me in May, and the
May before I had been at this certain church and
I prayed for her to have a baby. She couldn't
have babies, she'd had miscarriage except to miscarriage, and she
when she came this time, I didn't remember, just because
I you know, you kind of go a lot of places.
But she came up nine months pregnant. He prayed, and again,
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it's not my prayer, it's just believing in faith and
standing in agreement. And you know, I can think of
one time me personally. In twenty nineteen, I had a
severe pain in my left leg, and I mean it
was bad and I couldn't I got to the point
where I couldn't walk. I went to MRIs and couldn't
figure it out. And finally I just got hooked up,
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by the grace of God, with a doctor, a specialist,
a neurosurgeon in town, one of the best. And he
read something in my MRI that you know, other doctors
hadn't found, and he said I needed This was on
a Friday. He said, I need to get you surgery
first thing Monday morning. And he got he came earlier
that day to get me in. First of all, that's
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a miracle. That is a miracle. You know, some people say, well,
you didn't get healed by Jesus. You know, you didn't
get instantly healed. I'll take the heel and anyway I
can take it. This is this is the great thing.
I had to go on that Friday before surgery, and
I had to get these tests done to make sure
I was okay for surgery. And one of the tests
was the doctor was a different doctor was testing how
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if my nerve damage was too severely, you know, gone
to where it was permanent. So it's laying on this
table and the doctor's right there next to me and
she's poking needles all in me, and it hurts so bad.
I was already in pain. It hurts so bad. And
I mean, I'm tough. I've had five kids, and I
can do it.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
That's really.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
But I'm laying on the table she's poking me, and
I have tears running down my face and I'm saying, God,
I don't I don't think I can take this pain.
I'm looking forward to surgery. And I saw her her profile,
she had her hair pull back in a scarf, and
I saw her skin. I thought, I got to get
my mind off this pain. So I just said, your
skin is beautiful. You know, as ladies talking about skin.
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I said your skin is beautiful. And she stopped what
she's doing and she looked at me and she said really.
I said, yeah, it's beautiful. What do you do? And
she just looked real startled, and she said, I guess
it's chemotherapy. I'm on my eighth round, stage four cancer.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
WHOA.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I realized at that point that she didn't have her
scarf to hide her hair. She had her scarf on
to hide the fact that she had no hair, which
is irrelevant.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
You know, it was a kind of an awkward silence.
I didn't really know what to say, and I said, well,
you look beautiful, and she said this. She said, thank you.
It's because of a lot of faith and prayers. And
I sat there for a minute because I'm in pain.
I'm playing on that thing, and I don't just go
around telling my mom's healing story unless I'm on a
platform or a stage somewhere. He said, because of faith
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and prayers. I just simply said this. I said, you know,
many years ago. My mom was diagnosed with metastic cancer
of the liver, given a few weeks to live, and
because of faith and prayers, she's now. At the time
she was eighty no, she was eighty eight years old.
She's totally cancer free. Now listen, this gives me chili's
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chili willies. Big old tears started running down her eyes. Here,
I'm waiting for my miracle. I'm waiting for my surgery.
Tears got down her face and she said, you're one
of two people who have ever given me hope. She said,
those people try to give me hope, but then they
tell me about the person that died of the same disease.
She said, but you and this other lady gave me hope.
And this other lady gave me a book by a
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lady who was healed of cancer. She said, I read
it every chance I get. It's my lifeline. Now listen
to this, she said, it's a book by DODYO. Stein.
I am telling you what. I have chills when I
tell you that, and I I mean, oh lord, here's
still coming down my face. And I looked at her
and I said, that's my mom. We had a moment
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in there, both crying. But this is a deal. This
is how good God is. This is these divine appointments.
Sometimes we pray this feeling a certain way. What are
the chances out of the billions of people in this
world that God would collide to people who were in pain,
suffering and needed hope and cause us to be that
hope for one another. Yeah, all on the way to
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my miracle, which happened on Monday morning. By the way,
I got surgery. I crawled in wheelchaired in and I
walked out been totally painfree.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
How God just ordains our steps if we can just
trust him and not try to give him the blueprint
for our miracle, for our life, but just say, God,
I surrender, because he can do so much more with
our surrender than he could ever do with our control.
He's a man.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Amen. Wow you know that?
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Wow, that is I love.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
I love how goodness of God, right, the goodness of
God to bring that together, to bring something where she
would be so encouraged and so blessed and so reminded
of His faithfulness in that moment.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
And you know what, had I had God held me
instantly what he does many times, heals people instantly that
I would have never had that with her, that divine appointment.
So you know, you just never know what God's up to.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Yes, So quick story for me on that I this
has been probably would have been about two thousand and nine,
I guess, so a few years back, sixteen something whatever
years back.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
So in two thousand and nine, and my knee.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
I'm a I'm a former baseball catcher, so my knee
is a little bit sore from playing ball. I played here,
played aird oru and so lots of practices, lots of
hard work. And I get a call from my mom
and she says, hey, we've got a guest speaker at
our church. She goes to a church, small, little Native
American church out south of south of town here, and
she said, we got a guest speaker coming. I think
you're going to want to come. And I said, oh,
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well who's you know who's coming? And she's no, Steve.
When you're gonna want to come? I said, well who
is it? She said, Oral?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Oh, we'll be there.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
You know.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
We loaded up and had it out there and uh,
you know, my knees and so we the oral preached
amazing message and it was oral Roberts, and he preached
and the healing line just like he used to do, right,
And so he had everybody come up, and I had
my knee prayed for, and I there's times that the
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other knee hurts and I go, okay, I should have
had both prayed for. But it's because it's one kept
me on the other. I remind me, remind myself and
remind the enemy.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Like, no, this was pray for us.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
This is a done deal, not because of because God
just just that that touch point, you know, his He
was all about that touch point of contact of agreement, right,
and so you know, let this let somebody, let this
this story be a visual auditory point of contact to
encourage somebody listening today that God does love you, that
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he is for you, and he can bring healing, He
can bring a miracle to your life. I have seen
you know, others, feet, legs, you know, uneven grow out
or they're even I mean, you know, missions, trips. You
just see all kinds of stuff. You get a chance,
and I think that's and I would I would just
encourage I think anybody. And I'm not you know, plugging
for any certain church or anything, but I just say,
(28:23):
reach out to your church and get plugged in if
you're if you're you know, in a church that has
missions programs, which everyone should get connected and go go
on a trip. You know, I wish every every student
here to or you would would go on any missions
trip because I think that's something that's crucial at that age.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I got to do it.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
I got to do it as a as a leader,
which is an amazing opportunity to just grow that area too.
For me, I was the only non medical person on
a medical mission trip.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Hello.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
You know, I was a communicator, could speak Spanish, and
so that was great. But I'm you know, I'm there.
I'm sitting at lunch with them and they're all talking
about cadavers and and I'm like this, this lunch is
no longer good, you know, I'm it's uh, it changed.
I go over it now like now I'm fine. Actually
is I see that as actually a changing port for
me because now in my family with my kids, I
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got four kids also, and I'm I'm the parent that's
the default for any kind of medical stuff. It's like okay,
hey let me look at it, Let'll help me do this,
and you know, nothing grosses me out. You know, it's
like I was carrying me then for something now which
I love.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Yeah, that's awesome. Things change your life, the build your
fly does.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Yeah, I think, you know, I think in the where
we're at now, and you know, in the States, sometimes
we get lulled into the normal, you know, and I
think putting ourselves in the place of going out outside
the walls of the United States is definitely something that
really can can you see the hunger right for faith?
You see the hunger for the Lord in just the
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ways that just we just aren't the same. And so
I'm just great for those who maybe do the same
from other countries and come here, you know, and bring
the ministry of the United States to be us as well.
So okay, so let's talk about I'm gonna shift just
a little bit in a good note here. What are
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you kind of just in a looking forward looking what
do you kind of see coming up in twenty twenty five?
You know, coming up ahead? Can what do you have
some expectations you have maybe things got just placed on
your heart. Obviously I know the book's coming, of course,
but just is there anything and just forthcoming? It would
be an encouragement yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Just really expect I expect. I'll just tell you what
I expect. I expect God to shift some things, and
been believing God for some things for a long time,
and I just believe that this is a year of
answered prayers. I believe this is the year that you know, I,
as always I've seen the goodness of God. This is
a year of God's faithfulness. This is what I declare
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over my life for every single day, I declared this
is my year, and I would encourage you to just
start declaring things over your life. So this is what
I'm expecting. I'm expecting, you know, just great things in
my family. I'm expecting great things in the ministry. I'm
expecting expansion. I'm dispecting I'm expecting new opportunities, new doors
(31:17):
to be open. So I have a lot of expectations
and a lot of excitement, and I'm just excited to
see what God's going to do. And I'm working hard
for it. And you know, it's just I believe it's
going to happen.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
You know.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
One of the fun things I think and you as
as parents, is a lot of that. For me, I've
seen it. My expectations, I have things for me and
my wife and as a family as a whole. But
it's fun to see expectations go on the individual level
with your kids and to see them grow. And that's
just you know, and their sports or their dance, or
their writing or their you know, whatever is they're emplolved with,
(31:54):
you know, to see them grow in those areas and
of course hunger in the Lord and you know, just
that level of expectations.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Do. Yeah, that's so good. Here's something good that you're
saying that. Sometimes we get focused on what our kids
aren't doing.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Not just kidding, no, never, never.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Sometimes it's easy to get focused on that prodigal that
hadn't come home. You get focused on they're doing everything wrong.
You get focused on I don't think they're ever going
to come back to God. But I want to encourage
you with this, and I heard this from somebody. If
you speak to the fool and your children, the fool's
going to rise up. But if you speak to the
king or the queen and your children, that's what's going
to rise up. So you know, start speaking what you
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want to see. Find that one good thing, Praise them
for one good thing. Man, you're such a great son,
you're such a great student, you know whatever it can.
You may think I don't have anything good to say.
You have something good to say. Start calling out. That's
one thing that my dad was a master out. He'd
call stuff out in me. And I think, I can't
get up there and take an offering. I mean, that
sounds so good. Now I can't get up there and
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do an announcement.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
But I did it.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
He called it out. But see what I think is
he saw me doing what I'm doing today and that
helped me. So you know, speak what you seek until
you see what you've said. And I say that one
ten times. Speak you seek until you see what you've said.
And let me say like that, change what you're saying
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and you'll change what you're seeing. Daddy wrote a book,
there's a miracle in your mouth? What are you saying?
The scripture says in Proverbs, a wise woman or a
wise person builds their house. The other one tears it
down by their own efforts. So that shows this right there.
We can be a builder or we can be a destroyer.
So I'm gonna be a builder. Build. I'm not going
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to magnify the negative. I'm going to magnify the positive.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That's good. I love that. Wow, that's great.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
All right, Well we're getting towards the end here, so
let's let's shift to the kind of what I say,
I call it my popcorn or just kind of This
is just like quick probably more of a quick answer
is this is not to be a story.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
It can be if you feel like a streak comes on.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
No issues with that. But one of our favorite questions,
I don't know how it's come up. Maybe we like
food a lot, But one of my favorite questions is
what's your favorite like go to just enjoy some good food?
What is your just go to just to really have
like a maybe a good savory, you know, food for you.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
You know, I live in Texas. I love me some
Mexican food.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
There you go, there you go. I love that. I
love that anything Mexican food, right, any plate does it?
That's good?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Right?
Speaker 5 (34:36):
So you have got to travel a lot. What is
one of your favorite doesn't have to be the favorite.
I'm not making your rank them or anything, but just
maybe be a favorite that jumps out to you places.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
You've gotten to go to.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Well, this has nothing to do with speaking, although I
have spoken over there is Italy.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yes, so that's one of the leaders. You get to
go to. What area is?
Speaker 6 (34:55):
I've been all over it and so just drop me
anywhere and I'm good.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
My wife and I got we got to go to
the northern part and along that and then along the
coast as well, not all the way south in the boot,
but you know, along the other northern Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, beautiful area there.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I love that. Let's see, Okay, what's summer? Flipping that?
What summer you haven't been that you'd like to go to?
Speaker 6 (35:21):
You know, I would like to go to. Uh. I've
been to a little bit of Switzerland, but I really
want to go back. I want to go I've been
like from from the top of Italy. I went over
there just for a day, but I want to go
stay there.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah. Awesome. What is a current book you're reading.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
I just finished doctor Aman's book on uh uh, it's
on happy. I don't know the title, but happy something
about happy. It was great, great, great book, so good.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
That's awesome. I love that.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
And then let's see here, what about I was trying
to think anything else that just jumps out of me.
Usually have some fun questions here. Oh, I know and
I'm actually gonna I'm gonna pivot back for a second
here on something kind of and and we'll end with this.
I guess we'll end the popcorn time. But I just
wanted to kind of carry back to a conversation you
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mentioned early about speaking the destiny, speaking the right things
over people with a quick whole story. So I grew
up at Victory Church Pastor Billy Joe, and I love
Pastor Paul's good friend of ours here he's across the
Corcross Street from us. Obviously he's doing a wonderful to
jout leading a church and doing great job over there
with a group there, the team. But I remember because
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it was Maybe Center, which is fun because I work
close by here to Maybe Center now, and coming up
the escalator, a lot of times he'd be there at
the top, you know, or after service he'd be there.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
At the end. Hey, mighty man, how are you?
Speaker 6 (36:50):
You know?
Speaker 5 (36:50):
I love that and every time, mighty man, mighty man.
And to the point that actually he and Sharon were
so gracious they actually did our wedding for us. And
you're busted encouraged by that greatly, am so so honored
and humbled that they were able to do that with
their time scheduled. But that's what It's something I have
carried that on and I speak that in my in
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my kids. You know, hey, mighty man, you know, hey,
princess to my daughter. You know, and I even say
it with them. I'm coaching, you know, athletes. I do
some coach with my kids. And you know that speaking
that mighty man, you know that that kind of purpose,
that that whole concept is. You know, like you said,
you have a chance to share maybe what their identity is.
You know, speak that over them because a lot of
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times I saw and think about it. Just recently in
a practice there as a boy, he was, you know,
we're they're they're six years old, right, SI seven years old.
They're tying hit. Swing them at the ball, not going
to go you know, wrong way away, but just that
little mind. I said, hey, look at me. He looked
at that. I said, you can do this. I know
you can do this, you know, and within two swings
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he just crushed it.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I was like, let's go. You know, just.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
That he's not my son, just a kid on the team.
I just really encourage and just speak that destiny like
that belief you end to end of people. So it's
so necessary. But well, this is I think this is
the theme of this has been hope. This has been
the Hope Hope podcast today.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
I love the Encourage, Hope and Healing podcast. You know,
honestly on that you know you mentioned earlier about medical
you know, you think back to here on campus of OORU,
they have the praying hands healing hands actually called a
lot of people are friends with praying hands are actually
healing hands historical and what that is was the hand
of if you look at them, my hands are big
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if you look at them once slightly a little bit more,
and that's the end of God. And the other one
is the hand of medicine coming together to bring healing
to the world. And so that was the original foundation
of that, a purpose of that, and I think that
that is a great story and a great reminder that
God can use the medical world in a good way
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to bring healing like he did for you and the others,
as well as also the time of you know, you
get healed just because of prayer and God goes.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Let's change that timeline. You know, it's on my timeline,
you know, not man's timeline. And so.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
Yeah, if you're listening to seeing this podcast, this has
been a blessing to you. If we want to encourage
you that God has great things in store for you,
that God has healing power for you today right here
and hope and you can be happy in Him, enjoy.
The Lord is everlasting and is new every morning. It's
probably every morning, So just encouraging that. April Simons, thank
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you so much for your time today. Thank you for
coming to join us. Definitely been a pleasure and an
honor to have you.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
With us today.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
Thank you so much. I enjoyed being with you.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
And we'll stay in touch.
Speaker 5 (39:42):
Maybe as you come out on the future rollout of
your book, we'll work with you on that and maybe
have another blip as well, kind of come a little
come back together on that and kind.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Of roll out.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
And if you're interested in finding out how can somebody
find you on social media? How can they get a
hold of you?
Speaker 6 (39:57):
What would your best context on social It's April O Simons,
s I M O and S and YouTube it's April
Ostein Simons. You can find me there.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 5 (40:07):
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Speaker 5 (02:13):
Hello, and welcome to another edition of the GB America podcast.
I'm your host Stephen Gunn. With me today is a
special new friend, April, hosting Simon's and we met at
the NRB conference in the Dallas area and Great Vine specifically,
and it was such a pleasure and we're so glad
to have you on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
April.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
I'm so delighted to be here. It was so great
meeting you guys, and y'all do an amazing job. Love
your podcast, so I'm excited and honored to be here.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, thank you so much. Awesome it was.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
It was a very good lot of a lot of
good contexts there at the When I'm at context, I mean,
I'm a people person, so I love getting to just
say hi to people and meet people and connect. So
how was what was your experience in the in the
environment there, you know what.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
I'd never been. It was a huge I've never seen
so many people walking around with badges and so that
was fun. But it was just great. I mean a
lot of great people. It just a lot of wonderful
people there, and I enjoyed getting to interact with people
that sometimes I see you on podcasts or TV. And
it was just a fun time.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
It is. It has been very good, awesome, very good.
Well let's see here. So I obviously just meaning to
meet you recently. I'm excited about kind of getting to
hear your story a little bit more so.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You've been your.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Speaker, your writer, tried to get to travel around and
do things. How did how did God kind of bring
you into this season of this writing and speaking opportunities
for you?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Well, I think it's kind of evolved since I was little.
I grew up in a pastor's family, grew up in church.
Actually have a good side of the preacher's kids story.
I loved this, and uh, yeah, there's some of us
out there. So it was great And I always kind
of thought that you know, I might do something like this.
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I didn't know exactly what it was, but my parents
kind of instilled it us at an early age that
you can get up in front of people. And I
was shy as shy could be, and I just did it.
But my dad, early on when I was a teenager,
taught me to get up on the stage the platform
in front of eight thousand people and take an offering
this is funny, or make an announcement so bad. But
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when I got off that platform, he'd say that was
the best I've ever heard. So he just encouraged me
in it. And after my kids grew a little bit,
I have five kids that I just have always loved enjoying.
I call myself a hope dealer, hope coach, and I
just love giving hope backed by the Word of God,
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because hope has a name, and it's Jesus Christ. And
I like to say, Stephen that I come from a
long line of hope givers and I'm just carrying on
the tradition. And I couldn't love what I do anymore.
And I'm so grateful and honored that I get to
do it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's so great. And I just go and give honor.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Uh, you know, I grew up actually listening to some
of your dad's messages and I really really enjoyed his
teachings and just to just it does bring up good,
good memories for sure, to think back some of those
really good messages back, you know, probably for me, I
think I heard those probably in the early nineties, my guess
you know that time. So anyway, I love that you
grew up with that legacy of that, and I guess
(05:21):
talk at bit about that. What does that look like
for you in terms of carrying on not so much
in name, but so much and passion and purpose into
what you've guts put you into. Now, what does that
look like for you on on a week to week basis?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
I think, you know, I like to say this, inheritance
is what you live to someone, but legacy is what
you leave in someone. I feel like what's been left
in me and my brothers and sisters is just to
continue that line of hope, that line of miracles. You know,
you can't tap me out of a miracle. I've seen
it with my own life, and I saw my mom
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go from being given up to a few weeks to
live to be filled it wasn't an overnight thing, but
I saw it, and so I when I pray for someone,
not that I have great power. We all have the
same great name on the inside of us. But you know,
it just I know God can do it. I've seen
him do it, seen him do it for her and
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many others. So I feel like that legacy of faith
is kind of in there, because you know, when you
see a miracle, I mean, you can't deny it, And
so I see a faith, that legacy of hope. It
just I just I just see it kind of strung
along in our family. And you know, I picked up
one of my dad's books the other day, and I
never read his books, you know, and he's been gone
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for twenty six years, but as a kid, you don't
really well, I didn't read my dad's books. But I realized,
I thought, I do this. He has books of declarations
and just hope filled stories of the part of God.
And it's what I do and my siblings do. And
so I would say that's that legacy, just weaving it in.
You know, we're optimists because God's word is optimistic, you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Know, it's absolutely Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
That's just kind of where it stands for with me.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's great. That's great.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Now tell me a little bit about your latest book.
What what is there? Is there one recently published? I
can't remember how the timing of it is coming out
soon where we.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Are with the book.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
The next book is coming out next year sometime. The
title is up in the air, so I can't give
you a title of it yet, but that's fair.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
That's fair.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Spring. And my last book that came out a year
or two ago is called Better than Ever and getting
your happy back, stressing less and enjoying everyday life.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
And we'll we'll put a link in there for those
who want to catch you know, find out a way
to get the copy of that online or whatever. So
with uh, with your chance to speak, what are some
of the what are some of your favorite I guess
key points or key message if you if you kind
of had a you said hope Dealer, which I think
is excellent. What is your kind of your maybe your
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core core message right now? Do you feel like God's
kind of put on your heart for people right now?
Speaker 6 (08:02):
You know? I believe my one of my basic my
foundational scriptures is John Tinton Jesus the enemy comes to
still kill and destroy, but Jesus said, I've come to
give you life and life more abundantly. And so my
core thing is, don't get God mixed up with the devil.
You know, if it's still killing or destroying, that's not
from God. And God wants to still live this abundant
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life and the amplified says overflowing life. So what does
that look like? What is that? Is that a lack?
Is that a victim mentality? And if you're in that place,
it's okay because we can all grow and become better.
And I like Stephen to say this. You know, sometimes
people say, well I didn't come from that background. I
didn't come from knowing God. I came from you know,
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a house that you know was in disarray and chaos. Listen,
everybody's got a little dysfunction in their house. Don't worry. Sure,
this is the great news with God. This is the
hope that just because you didn't come from a healthy
family doesn't mean a healthy family can't come from you.
That's on the basis none of us have been you know,
God didn't look at any of us and say, well,
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you've messed up too much. You know, you have plans
d for your life. Thank God, this is imperfect people.
So I think that's the crux of my story. God
wants to use this right now where we are and
where we are is not where we're destined to be.
And if we can just really believe God is who
he says he is, he can do what his word
says he can do, and that we are who he
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says we are, man, we can get to that abundant
life that He's promised us for, not just for us,
but for our family because the Scripture says in one
hundred his faithfulness is from generation to generation. So I'm
just all bad. Let's latch on to that faithfulness of
God and let's just live that abundant life.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
That's good, I know. I think that is so crucial.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I feel like there are probably so many people out there,
you know, even listening to our voices in the conversation,
that I think the identity is maybe the biggest you know,
thief the enemy comes in deal is is who who
we are. And one of the things for me that
has been super helpful in my walk with go with
God has been to know who I am. I also
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remember whose I am? Yes, and I think that that
is so crucial in the foundation knowing that you know,
my story real quick is that I lost my dad
at twenty two, and you know, the God God came
in super naturally in a way of putting people in
my life to just mentor me and pour into me
as a son, you know, and as his father figures
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and so which pushed me not away but towards leaning
into God as my father.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Right.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
And so you know, your dad's been gone, what twenty
six years? Things for me, it's twenty three, it'll be
coming up in twenty three years here, and this may
for me and so like you know, when we walk
that out, are we have great legacy, as you mentioned,
great stories and things to look back on on our
earthly father. Even more so was what is what's what's
that replica of or a mirror if you will, of
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what the image of God the Father is? And so
I think I think that's super crucial. So what would
you say to somebody maybe who's the identity structure that
had any struggle that kind of really trying to find
that out?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
First of all, I think the main thing is you
got to get in God's words, so you know what
his word says about you, and I can tell you
some things. He says, you're a masterpiece. He says you're
an original, You're one of a kind. He says his
mercies are new every morning, that you are a child
of him. If you have him in your heart, and
he says you're loved, he'll never leave you, He'll never
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forsake you. So I think sometimes what we get wrapped
up in and all of us do this, we keep
reminding God of what he's already forgotten. So, in other words,
you know, maybe messed up like all of us have
messed up, and you just don't think maybe maybe they
didn't have a father like us that forgave and was
kind and drew them into God. God is not a
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bad god. He's not in heaven waiting for you to
mess up. He said, hey, confess your sins, and you
know what, then don't keep me reminding me of him
for gotten it. It says as far as that, he
says from the West, so far you know your sins,
I won't remember anymore. So we got to get out
of that mindset and change the narrative and stop telling
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God who we used to be and start thanking him
for who he says we are. And that's the power
of declaration. That's my next book coming up, The power
of that declaration to speak over your life. It's not
just wishful thinking. It's backed by the word of God.
It's God we are. So if you're that way and
you don't know who you are, or you feel like
you're you know, you're just not worthy. You just got
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to change that. You just got to realize what that
shows me. And we've all been there. You don't know
really who God is. And if you just let him
in and you go into the Word of God and say, God,
show me, holy spirits, speak to me, show me who
I am, he will, and man, it'll change your life
for the better.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Amen.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
You know, I think that you made me think of
another part. I think a key factor in that phase
of post college and just that, you know, wrestling with
that whole light.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You know.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Again, great foundation, great early phase for me, you know,
and I never really struggled with that. But in terms
of like now when being an adult and what kind
of things was the character of nature? Right, look into
the character of nature through the stories of the Bible.
I want to know who who God is. Look at
look at how he treated people, look at how he
you know, his people, and I think that is that
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is where you see who he is through the stories
from the Old Testament to New Testament, all the way
through that, and and then that tells the story of going, okay, well,
this is really who he is. And that he calls
me his son and his daughter son or daughter, not both.
You know that that that that is, that is who
I can accept right here, had accepted me. But I've
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got to accept that and go exactly not by my marriage,
not by who I am or who you know, how
great or not great I am, but by how great
he is.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Exactly, this is so good. And I think we've got
to remember this that God doesn't pick people the way
people pick people. That's right, imperfect people. So that qualifies
all of us. And thank God for that.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Yeah, he doesn't have a Christian draft where he goes okay,
let's see it.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
That's for this and thank good Lord. Yeah, so true.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So tell me about this.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
So you as we've kind of gone into you know,
the last five ten years, social media, digital, that whole
realm has kind of been growing. I mean, obviously we're
you know, we're on you know, podcasts, and we're you know,
people are viewing us over across different platforms. We're on
YouTube or on pray dot Com and different things like that.
How have you seen the interaction engagement with people grow
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through your podcast and through different platforms.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
God's put you in man.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
It's it's so neat because you can sit here from
your home or wherever you are, and you can just
you know, there's really no excuse anymore. You can if
you have a you have a phone, if you have anything,
you can pick it up. And and I've just seen
I've just seen such amazing things. You know. My YouTube,
I've focus a lot on you know, living your purpose
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and that you're amazing everything that we're talking about. I
see a lot of interaction. I see a lot of
people who you know, need that extra offh just to
just to make it through the day. And I also
just see people who need prayer. There's a lot of
hurting people out there, and I love the opportunity to pray.
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Also do something with my mom on my YouTube channel.
Once a month, I do a House of Hope. And
my mom's ninety one. She's my hero and people love her.
I tell her Mom. I people just want to hear you.
I'll ask you questions, but you know there's something from
that long life of wisdom. What She's had a lot
of mistakes, She's had a lot of great things. And
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so I love being able to do that with her.
And because she was healed of cancer and given that miracle,
she has prayed for so many people. And I did
a I've done several things on her her miracle, just
just her speaking the scripture and that millions of views,
just people who need hope. And you know, I did
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it in a way just to help people so they
can light bed at night and they can turn those
scriptures on soft music and hear the word of God
because a lot of people are at the end of
the rope. A lot of people are facing things that
you know, we never dreamed or you never dream face.
And you know if you had that one little hope
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of encouragement, that one little boost of hope, that shot
of hope is what I say, That's what I love
to do. And it's just been amazing. I'm amazed by
what God can do through this.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yes, agreed, Absolutely agreed.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
You know, I I just in my I'm in the
broadcast world here last ten eleven years myself, and it's
been so fun to hear stories from people, you know,
broadcasters around.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
There's a gentleman who was on the network.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
For a little while and he was in California and
he had made turned on one of his rooms into
a studio and referred to you know, you know, just
just one of the room, just put some stuff in
there and recorded teachings and and he his calling, he
felt called at that late night hour, right that that
midnight you know, midnight one two am, you know, when
he really wanted to bro when did a broadcast in
that time frame specifically, And I was like, wow, that's great.
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And he called me the next day after his first
broadcast and he said, Steve, and I had somebody I'd
prayed with two or I think it was two or
three people that were suicidal and needed needed hope right
here about hope. And I just think that there are
people right now, like you mentioned that time in society
and you know, culture and different things are pushing from
every direction and we have to push back out from
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that force withinside of us to say no, you know,
this is not going to overtake. And for those who
don't have that hope, they need that otherwise that forces
can definitely feel overwhelming. Yeah, absolutely so. So I want to,
you know, take a moment here. I want you to
speak to somebody who's listening and they just they need
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that nudge just to just take a moment and just
follow a spirit and just just encourage somebody who's listening
right now, they're listening or watching, they need to see
or hear just kind of that encouragement.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Well, you know, you're here for a reason, and this
is the great thing. God knows who you are, where
you are, and what you're going through, and people around
you may not know. And you may be hurting, you
may be gone through some severe trauma, you may be
troubled in your mind right now, and just know this,
You're not alone. God is always just a prayer away,
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and you have people who believe in you and who
need you, and you know what you're needed. You may
think that nobody cares, but God cares, and we care
about you, and I always believe that. You know, just
God sets you up. God sets you up to hear
this right now, and I just want you to know
you're loved, you're needed, You're wanted, you're desired, you're important,
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you have a purpose. God created you on purpose with
a purpose. Come on, you haven't done too many bad things.
You have failed God too many times. You haven't been
in prisoned too many times, been addicted too many times. No,
God doesn't look at that. He looks at who you're
made to be, who you're destined to be. So I
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would just encourage you just to if you need help,
find someone that can help you and talk to you.
Get involved in a good church, a Bible, believe in church,
and then just start getting in the Word of God
and get a translation that you can understand, and start
reading in the Gospels. Like Stephen said, you know, Jesus
went about doing good, He healed, he sat with the sinners.
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I mean, if that didn't tell something right there, he
ate with them. And you know he believes in you,
and I just don't. I never want anybody to give
up because you're so needed here on this earth. And
I just want to encourage you. This is a new day,
shake off yesterday and just just step into that destiny.
Your destiny is just waiting for you to show up.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Come on, amen, I was encouraging just yeah, I just
want to echo that. I just that is so great.
If here was watching this, listen to this, let us
know like that this blessed you, This encourage you.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
That's that's Uh.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
We love to hear and and like you, Like she said,
maybe if you aren't connected, maybe you know, we can
connect you with somebody or some different ministries in the
area where you are. And uh, you know, I also
want to maybe encourage people by testimony. So what you
know for me, Uh, you mentioned miracles. Obviously your mom's
testimony of her miracle cancer. That's incredible.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
I'm thinking back to I was on a mission's trip
and had a lady with a groiter on the side
of her neck and laid my hands on it. Not
that my hands are they're big, but they're not that powerful, right,
I can't squeeze those things away, And so put my
hand on there and prayed and it literally just disappeared hand.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It was incredible.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
And yeah, and so maybe what are some maybe some
things that you've seen from small to big that might
just sharing some stories about what God's done and maybe
through you, through your ministry, through people you know, that
might just be a a benefit or and a blessing
to somebody.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Well, somebody came up to me in May, and the
May before I had been at this certain church and
I prayed for her to have a baby. She couldn't
have babies, she'd had miscarriage except to miscarriage, and she
when she came this time, I didn't remember, just because
I you know, you kind of go a lot of places.
But she came up nine months pregnant. He prayed, and again,
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it's not my prayer, it's just believing in faith and
standing in agreement. And you know, I can think of
one time me personally. In twenty nineteen, I had a
severe pain in my left leg, and I mean it
was bad and I couldn't I got to the point
where I couldn't walk. I went to MRIs and couldn't
figure it out. And finally I just got hooked up,
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by the grace of God, with a doctor, a specialist,
a neurosurgeon in town, one of the best. And he
read something in my MRI that you know, other doctors
hadn't found, and he said I needed This was on
a Friday. He said, I need to get you surgery
first thing Monday morning. And he got he came earlier
that day to get me in. First of all, that's
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a miracle. That is a miracle. You know, some people say, well,
you didn't get healed by Jesus. You know, you didn't
get instantly healed. I'll take the heel and anyway I
can take it. This is this is the great thing.
I had to go on that Friday before surgery, and
I had to get these tests done to make sure
I was okay for surgery. And one of the tests
was the doctor was a different doctor was testing how
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if my nerve damage was too severely, you know, gone
to where it was permanent. So it's laying on this
table and the doctor's right there next to me and
she's poking needles all in me, and it hurts so bad.
I was already in pain. It hurts so bad. And
I mean, I'm tough. I've had five kids, and I
can do it.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
That's really.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
But I'm laying on the table she's poking me, and
I have tears running down my face and I'm saying, God,
I don't I don't think I can take this pain.
I'm looking forward to surgery. And I saw her her profile,
she had her hair pull back in a scarf, and
I saw her skin. I thought, I got to get
my mind off this pain. So I just said, your
skin is beautiful. You know, as ladies talking about skin.
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I said your skin is beautiful. And she stopped what
she's doing and she looked at me and she said really.
I said, yeah, it's beautiful. What do you do? And
she just looked real startled, and she said, I guess
it's chemotherapy. I'm on my eighth round, stage four cancer.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
WHOA.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I realized at that point that she didn't have her
scarf to hide her hair. She had her scarf on
to hide the fact that she had no hair, which
is irrelevant.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
You know, it was a kind of an awkward silence.
I didn't really know what to say, and I said, well,
you look beautiful, and she said this. She said, thank you.
It's because of a lot of faith and prayers. And
I sat there for a minute because I'm in pain.
I'm playing on that thing, and I don't just go
around telling my mom's healing story unless I'm on a
platform or a stage somewhere. He said, because of faith
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and prayers. I just simply said this. I said, you know,
many years ago. My mom was diagnosed with metastic cancer
of the liver, given a few weeks to live, and
because of faith and prayers, she's now. At the time
she was eighty no, she was eighty eight years old.
She's totally cancer free. Now listen, this gives me chili's
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chili willies. Big old tears started running down her eyes. Here,
I'm waiting for my miracle. I'm waiting for my surgery.
Tears got down her face and she said, you're one
of two people who have ever given me hope. She said,
those people try to give me hope, but then they
tell me about the person that died of the same disease.
She said, but you and this other lady gave me hope.
And this other lady gave me a book by a
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lady who was healed of cancer. She said, I read
it every chance I get. It's my lifeline. Now listen
to this, she said, it's a book by DODYO. Stein.
I am telling you what. I have chills when I
tell you that, and I I mean, oh lord, here's
still coming down my face. And I looked at her
and I said, that's my mom. We had a moment
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in there, both crying. But this is a deal. This
is how good God is. This is these divine appointments.
Sometimes we pray this feeling a certain way. What are
the chances out of the billions of people in this
world that God would collide to people who were in pain,
suffering and needed hope and cause us to be that
hope for one another. Yeah, all on the way to
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my miracle, which happened on Monday morning. By the way,
I got surgery. I crawled in wheelchaired in and I
walked out been totally painfree.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
How God just ordains our steps if we can just
trust him and not try to give him the blueprint
for our miracle, for our life, but just say, God,
I surrender, because he can do so much more with
our surrender than he could ever do with our control.
He's a man.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Amen. Wow you know that?
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Wow, that is I love.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
I love how goodness of God, right, the goodness of
God to bring that together, to bring something where she
would be so encouraged and so blessed and so reminded
of His faithfulness in that moment.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
And you know what, had I had God held me
instantly what he does many times, heals people instantly that
I would have never had that with her, that divine appointment.
So you know, you just never know what God's up to.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
That's good.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Yes, So quick story for me on that I this
has been probably would have been about two thousand and nine,
I guess, so a few years back, sixteen something whatever
years back.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
So in two thousand and nine, and my knee.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
I'm a I'm a former baseball catcher, so my knee
is a little bit sore from playing ball. I played here,
played aird oru and so lots of practices, lots of
hard work. And I get a call from my mom
and she says, hey, we've got a guest speaker at
our church. She goes to a church, small, little Native
American church out south of south of town here, and
she said, we got a guest speaker coming. I think
you're going to want to come. And I said, oh,
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well who's you know who's coming? And she's no, Steve.
When you're gonna want to come? I said, well who
is it? She said, Oral?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Oh, we'll be there.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
You know.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
We loaded up and had it out there and uh,
you know, my knees and so we the oral preached
amazing message and it was oral Roberts, and he preached
and the healing line just like he used to do, right,
And so he had everybody come up, and I had
my knee prayed for, and I there's times that the
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other knee hurts and I go, okay, I should have
had both prayed for. But it's because it's one kept
me on the other. I remind me, remind myself and
remind the enemy.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Like, no, this was pray for us.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
This is a done deal, not because of because God
just just that that touch point, you know, his He
was all about that touch point of contact of agreement, right,
and so you know, let this let somebody, let this
this story be a visual auditory point of contact to
encourage somebody listening today that God does love you, that
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he is for you, and he can bring healing, He
can bring a miracle to your life. I have seen
you know, others, feet, legs, you know, uneven grow out
or they're even I mean, you know, missions, trips. You
just see all kinds of stuff. You get a chance,
and I think that's and I would I would just
encourage I think anybody. And I'm not you know, plugging
for any certain church or anything, but I just say,
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reach out to your church and get plugged in if
you're if you're you know, in a church that has
missions programs, which everyone should get connected and go go
on a trip. You know, I wish every every student
here to or you would would go on any missions
trip because I think that's something that's crucial at that age.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I got to do it.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
I got to do it as a as a leader,
which is an amazing opportunity to just grow that area too.
For me, I was the only non medical person on
a medical mission trip.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Hello.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
You know, I was a communicator, could speak Spanish, and
so that was great. But I'm you know, I'm there.
I'm sitting at lunch with them and they're all talking
about cadavers and and I'm like this, this lunch is
no longer good, you know, I'm it's uh, it changed.
I go over it now like now I'm fine. Actually
is I see that as actually a changing port for
me because now in my family with my kids, I
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got four kids also, and I'm I'm the parent that's
the default for any kind of medical stuff. It's like okay,
hey let me look at it, Let'll help me do this,
and you know, nothing grosses me out. You know, it's
like I was carrying me then for something now which
I love.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Yeah, that's awesome. Things change your life, the build your
fly does.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Yeah, I think, you know, I think in the where
we're at now, and you know, in the States, sometimes
we get lulled into the normal, you know, and I
think putting ourselves in the place of going out outside
the walls of the United States is definitely something that
really can can you see the hunger right for faith?
You see the hunger for the Lord in just the
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ways that just we just aren't the same. And so
I'm just great for those who maybe do the same
from other countries and come here, you know, and bring
the ministry of the United States to be us as well.
So okay, so let's talk about I'm gonna shift just
a little bit in a good note here. What are
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you kind of just in a looking forward looking what
do you kind of see coming up in twenty twenty five?
You know, coming up ahead? Can what do you have
some expectations you have maybe things got just placed on
your heart. Obviously I know the book's coming, of course,
but just is there anything and just forthcoming? It would
be an encouragement yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Just really expect I expect. I'll just tell you what
I expect. I expect God to shift some things, and
been believing God for some things for a long time,
and I just believe that this is a year of
answered prayers. I believe this is the year that you know, I,
as always I've seen the goodness of God. This is
a year of God's faithfulness. This is what I declare
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over my life for every single day, I declared this
is my year, and I would encourage you to just
start declaring things over your life. So this is what
I'm expecting. I'm expecting, you know, just great things in
my family. I'm expecting great things in the ministry. I'm
expecting expansion. I'm dispecting I'm expecting new opportunities, new doors
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to be open. So I have a lot of expectations
and a lot of excitement, and I'm just excited to
see what God's going to do. And I'm working hard
for it. And you know, it's just I believe it's
going to happen.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
You know.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
One of the fun things I think and you as
as parents, is a lot of that. For me, I've
seen it. My expectations, I have things for me and
my wife and as a family as a whole. But
it's fun to see expectations go on the individual level
with your kids and to see them grow. And that's
just you know, and their sports or their dance, or
their writing or their you know, whatever is they're emplolved with,
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you know, to see them grow in those areas and
of course hunger in the Lord and you know, just
that level of expectations.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Do. Yeah, that's so good. Here's something good that you're
saying that. Sometimes we get focused on what our kids
aren't doing.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Not just kidding, no, never, never.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Sometimes it's easy to get focused on that prodigal that
hadn't come home. You get focused on they're doing everything wrong.
You get focused on I don't think they're ever going
to come back to God. But I want to encourage
you with this, and I heard this from somebody. If
you speak to the fool and your children, the fool's
going to rise up. But if you speak to the
king or the queen and your children, that's what's going
to rise up. So you know, start speaking what you
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want to see. Find that one good thing, Praise them
for one good thing. Man, you're such a great son,
you're such a great student, you know whatever it can.
You may think I don't have anything good to say.
You have something good to say. Start calling out. That's
one thing that my dad was a master out. He'd
call stuff out in me. And I think, I can't
get up there and take an offering. I mean, that
sounds so good. Now I can't get up there and
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do an announcement.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
But I did it.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
He called it out. But see what I think is
he saw me doing what I'm doing today and that
helped me. So you know, speak what you seek until
you see what you've said. And I say that one
ten times. Speak you seek until you see what you've said.
And let me say like that, change what you're saying
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and you'll change what you're seeing. Daddy wrote a book,
there's a miracle in your mouth? What are you saying?
The scripture says in Proverbs, a wise woman or a
wise person builds their house. The other one tears it
down by their own efforts. So that shows this right there.
We can be a builder or we can be a destroyer.
So I'm gonna be a builder. Build. I'm not going
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to magnify the negative. I'm going to magnify the positive.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That's good. I love that. Wow, that's great.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
All right, Well we're getting towards the end here, so
let's let's shift to the kind of what I say,
I call it my popcorn or just kind of This
is just like quick probably more of a quick answer
is this is not to be a story.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
It can be if you feel like a streak comes on.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
No issues with that. But one of our favorite questions,
I don't know how it's come up. Maybe we like
food a lot, But one of my favorite questions is
what's your favorite like go to just enjoy some good food?
What is your just go to just to really have
like a maybe a good savory, you know, food for you.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
You know, I live in Texas. I love me some
Mexican food.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
There you go, there you go. I love that. I
love that anything Mexican food, right, any plate does it?
That's good?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Right?
Speaker 5 (34:36):
So you have got to travel a lot. What is
one of your favorite doesn't have to be the favorite.
I'm not making your rank them or anything, but just
maybe be a favorite that jumps out to you places.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
You've gotten to go to.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Well, this has nothing to do with speaking, although I
have spoken over there is Italy.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yes, so that's one of the leaders. You get to
go to. What area is?
Speaker 6 (34:55):
I've been all over it and so just drop me
anywhere and I'm good.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
My wife and I got we got to go to
the northern part and along that and then along the
coast as well, not all the way south in the boot,
but you know, along the other northern Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, beautiful area there.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I love that. Let's see, Okay, what's summer? Flipping that?
What summer you haven't been that you'd like to go to?
Speaker 6 (35:21):
You know, I would like to go to. Uh. I've
been to a little bit of Switzerland, but I really
want to go back. I want to go I've been
like from from the top of Italy. I went over
there just for a day, but I want to go
stay there.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah. Awesome. What is a current book you're reading.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
I just finished doctor Aman's book on uh uh, it's
on happy. I don't know the title, but happy something
about happy. It was great, great, great book, so good.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
That's awesome. I love that.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
And then let's see here, what about I was trying
to think anything else that just jumps out of me.
Usually have some fun questions here. Oh, I know and
I'm actually gonna I'm gonna pivot back for a second
here on something kind of and and we'll end with this.
I guess we'll end the popcorn time. But I just
wanted to kind of carry back to a conversation you
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mentioned early about speaking the destiny, speaking the right things
over people with a quick whole story. So I grew
up at Victory Church Pastor Billy Joe, and I love
Pastor Paul's good friend of ours here he's across the
Corcross Street from us. Obviously he's doing a wonderful to
jout leading a church and doing great job over there
with a group there, the team. But I remember because
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it was Maybe Center, which is fun because I work
close by here to Maybe Center now, and coming up
the escalator, a lot of times he'd be there at
the top, you know, or after service he'd be there.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
At the end. Hey, mighty man, how are you?
Speaker 6 (36:50):
You know?
Speaker 5 (36:50):
I love that and every time, mighty man, mighty man.
And to the point that actually he and Sharon were
so gracious they actually did our wedding for us. And
you're busted encouraged by that greatly, am so so honored
and humbled that they were able to do that with
their time scheduled. But that's what It's something I have
carried that on and I speak that in my in
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my kids. You know, hey, mighty man, you know, hey,
princess to my daughter. You know, and I even say
it with them. I'm coaching, you know, athletes. I do
some coach with my kids. And you know that speaking
that mighty man, you know that that kind of purpose,
that that whole concept is. You know, like you said,
you have a chance to share maybe what their identity is.
You know, speak that over them because a lot of
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times I saw and think about it. Just recently in
a practice there as a boy, he was, you know,
we're they're they're six years old, right, SI seven years old.
They're tying hit. Swing them at the ball, not going
to go you know, wrong way away, but just that
little mind. I said, hey, look at me. He looked
at that. I said, you can do this. I know
you can do this, you know, and within two swings
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he just crushed it.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I was like, let's go. You know, just.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
That he's not my son, just a kid on the team.
I just really encourage and just speak that destiny like
that belief you end to end of people. So it's
so necessary. But well, this is I think this is
the theme of this has been hope. This has been
the Hope Hope podcast today.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
I love the Encourage, Hope and Healing podcast. You know,
honestly on that you know you mentioned earlier about medical
you know, you think back to here on campus of OORU,
they have the praying hands healing hands actually called a
lot of people are friends with praying hands are actually
healing hands historical and what that is was the hand
of if you look at them, my hands are big
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if you look at them once slightly a little bit more,
and that's the end of God. And the other one
is the hand of medicine coming together to bring healing
to the world. And so that was the original foundation
of that, a purpose of that, and I think that
that is a great story and a great reminder that
God can use the medical world in a good way
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to bring healing like he did for you and the others,
as well as also the time of you know, you
get healed just because of prayer and God goes.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Let's change that timeline. You know, it's on my timeline,
you know, not man's timeline. And so.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
Yeah, if you're listening to seeing this podcast, this has
been a blessing to you. If we want to encourage
you that God has great things in store for you,
that God has healing power for you today right here
and hope and you can be happy in Him, enjoy.
The Lord is everlasting and is new every morning. It's
probably every morning, So just encouraging that. April Simons, thank
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you so much for your time today. Thank you for
coming to join us. Definitely been a pleasure and an
honor to have you.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
With us today.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
Thank you so much. I enjoyed being with you.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
And we'll stay in touch.
Speaker 5 (39:42):
Maybe as you come out on the future rollout of
your book, we'll work with you on that and maybe
have another blip as well, kind of come a little
come back together on that and kind.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Of roll out.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
And if you're interested in finding out how can somebody
find you on social media? How can they get a
hold of you?
Speaker 6 (39:57):
What would your best context on social It's April O Simons,
s I M O and S and YouTube it's April
Ostein Simons. You can find me there.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 5 (40:07):
We'll post those links and those information in the comments here.
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Speaker 2 (40:42):
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