Ordinary Faith, Extraordinary Impact: Joe’s Journey to Nepal

In this episode of 'Seen and Heard,' host JT welcomes his friend Joe, also known as 'Average Joe,' to share his awe-inspiring experiences in Nepal. Joe discusses his humble beginnings in a small farm town in upstate New York, his passion for hunting, and his recent scriptural insights. The main focus of the episode is Joe's mission trip to Nepal, where he visited remote villages, shared the gospel, and witnessed God's profound impact. Highlighted moments include praying over and witnessing the healing of a young boy and sharing the story of Jesus with a 21-year-old monk. Joe's reflections emphasize the importance of being the light of the world in dark places and trusting in God's grace to meet us in our weaknesses.

 

00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Guest

00:19 Average Joe's Background and Humble Beginnings

00:46 Joe's Move to Texas and Love for Hunting

02:13 Spiritual Insights and Preparing for Nepal

07:03 Arrival in Nepal and Initial Impressions

07:55 Empowering the Local Church in Nepal

09:15 Reconnecting and Sharing Stories in Nepal

09:57 Adventures and Spiritual Encounters in Remote Nepal

16:10 Reflecting on the Discovery Bible Study and Nepal Trip

16:19 Learning About God Through Hardships

17:42 Insights on People's Faith and Beliefs

18:22 A Miraculous Healing Encounter

22:40 The Impact of Witnessing God's Work

26:15 Encouragement to Live as the Light of the World

27:57 Praying for Nepal and Closing Thoughts

Episode Transcript

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I'm JT, and this is Seen and Heard.
Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. 3 00:00:04,503.3333333333 --> 00:00:10,328.3325 This is a place where we just can't help, but tell others of what we have seen and heard God do in our lives and in the lives of those around us. 4 00:00:10,365.105820106 --> 00:00:11,315.105820106 On today's podcast. 5 00:00:11,315.105820106 --> 00:00:12,440.105820106 I have my friend, Joe. 6 00:00:12,848.439153439 --> 00:00:14,548.439153439 And he wants to tell us about his time. 7 00:00:15,48.439153439 --> 00:00:15,598.439153439 In Nepal. 8 00:00:15,798.439153439 --> 00:00:18,115.105820106 Alright guys we've got average, Joe with us here. 9 00:00:18,565.105820106 --> 00:00:19,40.105820106 Hey buddy. 10 00:00:19,515.105820106 --> 00:00:20,940.105820106 Tell us why you'd like to be called average, Joe. 11 00:00:21,140.105820106 --> 00:00:22,40.105820106 Hey, JT. 12 00:00:22,241.772486772 --> 00:00:22,716.772486772 I think. 13 00:00:23,16.772486772 --> 00:00:27,250.105820106 I just picture my life as something that's not something that's super noticeable. 14 00:00:27,333.439153439 --> 00:00:29,583.439153439 In the eyes of man definitely grew up super humble and. 15 00:00:30,41.772486772 --> 00:00:31,491.772486772 Didn't aspire to be. 16 00:00:31,675.105820106 --> 00:00:32,125.105820106 Anything. 17 00:00:32,350.105820106 --> 00:00:34,525.105820106 No, he has a PhD at the end or anything like that. 18 00:00:34,616.772486772 --> 00:00:35,941.772486772 But just kinda walk through life. 19 00:00:36,316.772486772 --> 00:00:39,16.772486772 With a very ordinary family and felt like I had a very ordinary life and. 20 00:00:39,475.105820106 --> 00:00:41,350.105820106 And I'm just thankful that God wants to use. 21 00:00:41,775.105820106 --> 00:00:42,500.105820106 Lives like that. 22 00:00:42,658.439153439 --> 00:00:43,208.439153439 For his glory. 23 00:00:43,208.439153439 --> 00:00:44,508.439153439 And, so yeah, I just. 24 00:00:45,133.439153439 --> 00:00:46,133.439153439 I feel like I'm a pretty average guy. 25 00:00:46,316.772486772 --> 00:00:46,591.772486772 Yeah. 26 00:00:46,766.772486772 --> 00:00:50,33.439153439 Are you from Texas originally? No, I'm not. 27 00:00:50,100.105820106 --> 00:00:53,675.105820106 I moved down here in January of 2018, but I grew up in the Northeast actually. 28 00:00:53,975.105820106 --> 00:00:58,266.772486772 Upstate New York and a super small farm town, and local there, right until I moved here. 29 00:00:58,625.105820106 --> 00:01:00,375.105820106 Tell something about your farm town. 30 00:01:00,758.439153439 --> 00:01:06,558.439153439 Yeah, let's see, we were right on the north end of candidate, what lake, which was actually an Indian. 31 00:01:06,933.439153439 --> 00:01:08,333.439153439 Word for the chosen spot. 32 00:01:08,333.439153439 --> 00:01:14,566.772486772 And I'm not sure exactly why they named it that, but, I was right in the middle of the finger lakes, which is a super pretty region, especially in the fall. 33 00:01:14,925.105820106 --> 00:01:16,125.105820106 We have a full four seasons. 34 00:01:16,125.105820106 --> 00:01:17,100.105820106 Every one is very different. 35 00:01:17,125.105820106 --> 00:01:21,900.105820106 And in October, every year, God just paints the hillsides and we get our first fros and. 36 00:01:22,316.772486772 --> 00:01:23,241.772486772 It's apple picking time. 37 00:01:23,308.439153439 --> 00:01:23,933.439153439 It's pretty sweet. 38 00:01:24,8.439153439 --> 00:01:25,658.439153439 I really enjoyed that part of life. 39 00:01:25,683.439153439 --> 00:01:25,908.439153439 Yeah. 40 00:01:26,91.772486772 --> 00:01:26,366.772486772 Man. 41 00:01:26,516.772486772 --> 00:01:27,66.772486772 That's awesome. 42 00:01:27,306.772486772 --> 00:01:30,212.328042328 I'm at Joe's house right now, here in Austin. 43 00:01:30,837.328042328 --> 00:01:35,387.328042328 And there are a bunch of dead animals hanging all around us on the walls. 44 00:01:35,387.328042328 --> 00:01:37,820.661375661 Like how long have you been, hunting? Yeah. 45 00:01:37,887.328042328 --> 00:01:40,712.32804233 When I was six years old, I went with my dad the first time. 46 00:01:41,70.66137566 --> 00:01:41,970.66137566 He was a deer hunter. 47 00:01:42,303.99470899 --> 00:01:44,53.99470899 And I went with him and was just totally hooked. 48 00:01:44,78.99470899 --> 00:01:44,690.57823129 I just loved. 49 00:01:44,857.24489796 --> 00:01:45,957.24489796 I just love getting out there. 50 00:01:46,115.57823129 --> 00:01:49,655.54421769 The first light and, yeah, chasing something and just the challenge of it. 51 00:01:49,755.54421769 --> 00:01:53,713.87755102 Sometimes having to endure things like cold weather and, heavy winds and. 52 00:01:53,888.87755102 --> 00:01:55,13.87755102 Yeah, I just always felt like. 53 00:01:55,180.54421769 --> 00:01:56,255.54421769 Whenever I scored. 54 00:01:56,380.54421769 --> 00:01:58,530.54421769 It was from a lot of hard work and time and effort. 55 00:01:58,555.54421769 --> 00:02:00,588.87755102 And, so it was really sweet when that happened. 56 00:02:00,672.21088435 --> 00:02:03,80.54421769 Yeah, it was the harder seasons that made the good ones. 57 00:02:03,80.54421769 --> 00:02:03,505.54421769 Really good. 58 00:02:03,505.54421769 --> 00:02:06,747.21088435 And, so getting to the point where you actually walked up on something, you're gonna throw a tag on, was. 59 00:02:07,322.21088435 --> 00:02:07,822.21088435 It was pretty fun. 60 00:02:08,30.54421769 --> 00:02:09,230.54421769 Cause I was pretty picky along the way. 61 00:02:09,305.54421769 --> 00:02:10,455.54421769 I passed on a lot of animals and. 62 00:02:10,622.21088435 --> 00:02:12,622.21088435 So, yeah, it was just a joy to do that. 63 00:02:13,130.54421769 --> 00:02:15,380.54421769 I do want to get into your trip to Nepal and. 64 00:02:15,380.54421769 --> 00:02:17,788.87755102 How God used you and your buddy, Robert. 65 00:02:17,788.87755102 --> 00:02:21,675.49886621 While you were over there, but this podcast is called, seen and heard. 66 00:02:22,225.49886621 --> 00:02:31,46.71098743 And so, man, I would just like to ask you, what is something that God's been teaching you or God's been doing in your life lately? That you would like to share with others? Sure. 67 00:02:31,71.71098743 --> 00:02:31,321.71098743 Yeah. 68 00:02:31,405.04432076 --> 00:02:32,455.04432076 This isn't going to sound. 69 00:02:32,700.49886621 --> 00:02:33,808.83219955 To Yeah, too wild. 70 00:02:33,808.83219955 --> 00:02:33,983.83219955 And. 71 00:02:34,209.5897753 --> 00:02:35,192.92310864 And Earth shaking, but. 72 00:02:35,329.286745 --> 00:02:36,604.286745 I'm just super thankful that. 73 00:02:36,864.13522985 --> 00:02:39,855.80189652 That Jesus allows us to come to him with everything we have. 74 00:02:40,405.80189652 --> 00:02:42,872.46856318 You know, when you've got like, Questions concerns Hertz. 75 00:02:43,180.80189652 --> 00:02:45,430.80189652 Stuff that you just have no idea the answer to. 76 00:02:45,639.13522985 --> 00:02:47,230.80189652 I'm thankful that he's right there. 77 00:02:47,655.80189652 --> 00:02:51,305.80189652 And that in the process of getting to some of those conclusions and finding that piece and. 78 00:02:51,714.13522985 --> 00:02:54,139.13522985 Receiving, you know, answers to questions and things like that. 79 00:02:54,614.13522985 --> 00:02:55,164.13522985 In the process. 80 00:02:55,164.13522985 --> 00:02:57,339.13522985 He knows exactly what we need for each day. 81 00:02:57,839.13522985 --> 00:03:02,589.13522985 And one thing I've been thinking about recently is that like, I don't have tomorrow's grace today. 82 00:03:02,755.80189652 --> 00:03:04,155.80189652 I have today's grace today. 83 00:03:04,730.80189652 --> 00:03:07,630.80189652 And the reason I don't have tomorrow's grace is because I don't need it yet. 84 00:03:08,105.80189652 --> 00:03:09,480.80189652 But when I get there, I'll have it. 85 00:03:10,55.80189652 --> 00:03:13,805.80189652 And looking back at seasons in my life, knowing how much I felt. 86 00:03:14,197.46856318 --> 00:03:17,72.46856318 Either confusion or just struggles in seasons. 87 00:03:17,239.13522985 --> 00:03:20,664.13522985 And in the day and in the moment and be like, I don't have what I need. 88 00:03:20,664.13522985 --> 00:03:21,489.13522985 I need more than this. 89 00:03:21,789.13522985 --> 00:03:24,739.13522985 But then looking back and saying like, I absolutely had everything I needed. 90 00:03:25,214.13522985 --> 00:03:27,389.13522985 And all that I needed came as I needed it. 91 00:03:27,489.13522985 --> 00:03:30,572.46856318 So I'm really thankful that the grace I need for tomorrow, I will have that. 92 00:03:30,572.46856318 --> 00:03:31,397.46856318 It will be there. 93 00:03:31,564.13522985 --> 00:03:36,472.46856318 And I think that's something that God has kind of enlightened in my mind recently and given me to hold onto. 94 00:03:36,639.13522985 --> 00:03:37,772.46856318 So, yeah that's what I want to share. 95 00:03:37,939.13522985 --> 00:03:38,64.13522985 Yeah. 96 00:03:38,114.13522985 --> 00:03:43,589.13522985 Is there a specific passage that comes to mind when you think about all that? I was actually just thinking about, Ephesians. 97 00:03:43,797.46856318 --> 00:03:44,347.46856318 Three. 98 00:03:44,514.13522985 --> 00:03:44,964.13522985 20. 99 00:03:45,130.80189652 --> 00:03:50,55.80189652 That says a, not a Hema was able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think. 100 00:03:50,480.80189652 --> 00:03:52,580.80189652 According to the power that is at work within us. 101 00:03:53,130.80189652 --> 00:03:59,305.80189652 And thinking that's the God that we have on our side, that they he has in his hands, all that we need. 102 00:03:59,730.80189652 --> 00:04:06,214.13522985 He has all the riches all the glory, and he's able to do more than we could even sit here and write down, ask for and dream up and scheme. 103 00:04:06,214.13522985 --> 00:04:06,314.13522985 And. 104 00:04:06,564.13522985 --> 00:04:09,889.13522985 At shout or fill out a whiteboard with, he could do more than that. 105 00:04:10,339.13522985 --> 00:04:12,139.13522985 And it's according to the power that is at work within us. 106 00:04:12,139.13522985 --> 00:04:12,939.13522985 And so that power. 107 00:04:13,414.13522985 --> 00:04:14,289.13522985 Within us. 108 00:04:14,814.13522985 --> 00:04:16,889.13522985 The same power that raised Jesus from the dead exists within us. 109 00:04:16,939.13522985 --> 00:04:21,964.13522985 And there's a lot of days where I think it doesn't feel like like you're overjoyed and just overflowing and. 110 00:04:22,347.46856318 --> 00:04:26,397.46856318 There's a reason why so many scriptures like limitation that so many Psalms and other places. 111 00:04:26,830.80189652 --> 00:04:27,855.80189652 We're God's people. 112 00:04:27,905.80189652 --> 00:04:28,730.80189652 Get to go to him with everything. 113 00:04:28,730.80189652 --> 00:04:29,355.80189652 They have everything. 114 00:04:29,355.80189652 --> 00:04:31,955.80189652 They don't have all their needs, all their questions, all these things. 115 00:04:32,122.46856318 --> 00:04:34,297.46856318 And then he uses all that weakness for his glory. 116 00:04:34,297.46856318 --> 00:04:38,372.46856318 So I'm thankful that I get to be one of those weak and foolish things in this world that could confound. 117 00:04:38,897.46856318 --> 00:04:40,897.46856318 The wise and the strong and so. 118 00:04:41,64.13522985 --> 00:04:43,714.13522985 Yeah, I think that's really humbling to know that we get to go to him. 119 00:04:44,264.13522985 --> 00:04:44,839.13522985 As a mass. 120 00:04:45,114.13522985 --> 00:04:45,414.13522985 As a. 121 00:04:45,889.13522985 --> 00:04:48,839.13522985 As someone that, that doesn't know how to do a lot of things or whatever the case may be. 122 00:04:49,264.13522985 --> 00:04:50,539.13522985 And he wants to use us. 123 00:04:50,539.13522985 --> 00:04:54,789.13522985 If we'll walk with him in humility and accept him coming with his power to meet our weakness. 124 00:04:54,839.13522985 --> 00:04:55,64.13522985 So. 125 00:04:55,614.13522985 --> 00:04:55,839.13522985 Yeah. 126 00:04:56,264.13522985 --> 00:04:57,589.13522985 That's kind of what I was just thinking. 127 00:04:57,755.80189652 --> 00:04:57,930.80189652 All right. 128 00:04:57,930.80189652 --> 00:04:59,755.80189652 So let's just jump into your trip to Nepal. 129 00:04:59,922.46856318 --> 00:05:05,505.80189652 Like, why did you go, what were you expecting? Tell us about the preparation to getting there. 130 00:05:05,672.46856318 --> 00:05:06,72.46856318 Yeah. 131 00:05:06,72.46856318 --> 00:05:06,772.46856318 Yeah, totally. 132 00:05:06,847.46856318 --> 00:05:10,189.13522985 So one of my really good friends Robert, he moved there. 133 00:05:10,355.80189652 --> 00:05:11,255.80189652 A year and a half ago. 134 00:05:11,330.80189652 --> 00:05:11,705.80189652 And. 135 00:05:11,872.46856318 --> 00:05:14,747.46856318 When he moved there, because we did so much life together, state side. 136 00:05:15,5.80189652 --> 00:05:17,5.80189652 We were both in leadership at our church. 137 00:05:17,55.80189652 --> 00:05:18,480.80189652 We were on ministry teams together. 138 00:05:18,480.80189652 --> 00:05:18,730.80189652 We. 139 00:05:18,897.46856318 --> 00:05:20,955.80189652 We actually lived together before he got married and just. 140 00:05:21,122.46856318 --> 00:05:30,714.13522985 Had a lot of life together when he moved over there, I had started talking to him about a plan to join them for some period of time, to be a part of what they're doing to see them. 141 00:05:31,39.13522985 --> 00:05:32,664.13522985 And to jump into some of that work that they're a part of. 142 00:05:32,830.80189652 --> 00:05:36,297.46856318 So that conversation had been going on for quite a while until I would say. 143 00:05:36,464.13522985 --> 00:05:37,64.13522985 Last summer. 144 00:05:37,64.13522985 --> 00:05:40,589.13522985 At some point we basically just said like, let's pick a month, let's start putting this together. 145 00:05:40,589.13522985 --> 00:05:41,514.13522985 And we decided on March. 146 00:05:41,680.80189652 --> 00:05:45,330.80189652 So there's a lot of time knowing that I was going to go in March before. 147 00:05:45,605.80189652 --> 00:05:52,405.80189652 Before I went and the preparation, I mean, I think just having conversations with him, knowing like what to expect to some degree here in a lot of life updates from him. 148 00:05:52,755.80189652 --> 00:05:55,505.80189652 I had a rough ballpark idea of what it might be like. 149 00:05:55,672.46856318 --> 00:05:57,97.46856318 But I've never been to that part of the world before. 150 00:05:57,97.46856318 --> 00:05:58,872.46856318 So it was all new as I got there. 151 00:05:59,39.13522985 --> 00:06:01,764.13522985 And yeah, prep prep was just yeah. 152 00:06:01,764.13522985 --> 00:06:07,255.80189652 Conversations with him and time spent praying and realizing like, And the son of a gun, we're going to go to the other side of the world where. 153 00:06:07,805.80189652 --> 00:06:09,130.80189652 Darkness rules so much. 154 00:06:09,130.80189652 --> 00:06:15,355.80189652 And not to say that there isn't plenty of darkness here in the states, but it would be a different context with a different Yeah, a different kind of. 155 00:06:15,522.46856318 --> 00:06:19,880.80189652 Frame of darkness where a lot of Hindu and a lot of Buddhist. 156 00:06:20,239.13522985 --> 00:06:20,714.13522985 People. 157 00:06:21,14.13522985 --> 00:06:23,305.80189652 So there's some here for sure, but not like there. 158 00:06:23,355.80189652 --> 00:06:23,580.80189652 So. 159 00:06:24,14.13522985 --> 00:06:24,664.13522985 Yeah, I think. 160 00:06:24,830.80189652 --> 00:06:25,580.80189652 Prep was in prayer. 161 00:06:25,630.80189652 --> 00:06:27,355.80189652 And just conversations with him, getting ready to go. 162 00:06:27,522.46856318 --> 00:06:30,14.13522985 What were you most excited about for this trip? Yeah. 163 00:06:30,14.13522985 --> 00:06:34,472.46856318 I think when we booked the flights I had like a moment where I was like, oh man, this is so cool. 164 00:06:34,472.46856318 --> 00:06:34,722.46856318 Like. 165 00:06:34,889.13522985 --> 00:06:40,247.46856318 I get to go to the other side of the world with the greatest news of greatest gift, the greatest treasure that anyone could ever ask for. 166 00:06:40,722.46856318 --> 00:06:45,272.46856318 Which is actually what their hearts they're the deepest parts of their hearts are looking for every day of their lives. 167 00:06:45,272.46856318 --> 00:06:46,172.46856318 They just don't know it. 168 00:06:46,505.80189652 --> 00:06:48,830.80189652 Every one of us is made to desire. 169 00:06:49,280.80189652 --> 00:06:49,780.80189652 Him. 170 00:06:50,155.80189652 --> 00:06:53,680.80189652 And that's why you see people running in all directions, trying to find satisfaction. 171 00:06:53,705.80189652 --> 00:06:55,5.80189652 What they're truly looking for is Jesus. 172 00:06:55,380.80189652 --> 00:06:56,105.80189652 But they don't know that. 173 00:06:56,105.80189652 --> 00:06:57,305.80189652 So they look in a lot of other places. 174 00:06:57,639.13522985 --> 00:06:59,789.13522985 So getting to go there and just be a light. 175 00:07:00,297.46856318 --> 00:07:03,522.46856318 Was something that really brought me a lot of joy thinking about before we went. 176 00:07:03,689.13522985 --> 00:07:06,814.13522985 Tell us about what it felt like when you first landed in Nepal. 177 00:07:06,980.80189652 --> 00:07:07,405.80189652 Yeah. 178 00:07:07,639.13522985 --> 00:07:13,230.80189652 Actually I had one of those air tags in my bag and we landed and we had a ton of luggage. 179 00:07:13,705.80189652 --> 00:07:15,855.80189652 And I'm like looking at my phone, looking at my phone. 180 00:07:15,880.80189652 --> 00:07:17,130.80189652 I'm like, it says it's right here. 181 00:07:17,130.80189652 --> 00:07:23,605.80189652 And like, we waited for forever and all the bags came off the conveyor and I'm sitting there and I'm like, something's wrong because it says it's here, but I don't see it. 182 00:07:23,605.80189652 --> 00:07:25,230.80189652 And I start looking all over when, across the. 183 00:07:25,680.80189652 --> 00:07:28,980.80189652 The room and then realized somebody had already brought my bag out and it was laying on the ground. 184 00:07:29,205.80189652 --> 00:07:31,580.80189652 But we loaded up, we had tons of luggage and we were tired. 185 00:07:31,605.80189652 --> 00:07:32,755.80189652 I didn't get a lot of sleep on the way. 186 00:07:33,205.80189652 --> 00:07:34,755.80189652 And Robert was there. 187 00:07:34,797.46856318 --> 00:07:35,197.46856318 Picked me up. 188 00:07:35,247.46856318 --> 00:07:35,997.46856318 I got a coffee and. 189 00:07:36,455.80189652 --> 00:07:40,455.80189652 Yeah, just driving around on the streets, seeing like, just very different traffic, very different. 190 00:07:40,889.13522985 --> 00:07:41,897.46856318 Atmosphere Yeah. 191 00:07:41,897.46856318 --> 00:07:43,422.46856318 So I think it was like a tired. 192 00:07:43,847.46856318 --> 00:07:46,647.46856318 Yet to present kind of deal going on for me. 193 00:07:46,814.13522985 --> 00:07:48,189.13522985 All right, so you get there. 194 00:07:48,264.13522985 --> 00:07:49,89.13522985 You're tired. 195 00:07:49,614.13522985 --> 00:07:54,839.13522985 But there's probably some excitement of the trip and just getting there to see Robert and spend a while. 196 00:07:55,47.46856318 --> 00:07:55,197.46856318 Yeah. 197 00:07:55,222.46856318 --> 00:07:58,372.46856318 Tell us about some of the work that, that he's getting to do there in Nepal. 198 00:07:58,705.80189652 --> 00:08:00,280.80189652 What's Robert doing? In Nepal. 199 00:08:00,730.80189652 --> 00:08:01,5.80189652 Yeah. 200 00:08:01,30.80189652 --> 00:08:04,939.13522985 So, so the goal is very much so to empower the local church. 201 00:08:05,289.13522985 --> 00:08:05,989.13522985 To reach. 202 00:08:06,439.13522985 --> 00:08:08,89.13522985 The people in Nepal. 203 00:08:08,297.46856318 --> 00:08:08,797.46856318 And. 204 00:08:08,964.13522985 --> 00:08:11,789.13522985 And with the resources that, that he's had and the. 205 00:08:11,955.80189652 --> 00:08:13,580.80189652 Yeah, just the love for Jesus that he has. 206 00:08:13,580.80189652 --> 00:08:14,555.80189652 He wants to. 207 00:08:14,830.80189652 --> 00:08:18,130.80189652 To meet locals that want to be about kingdom work and empower them. 208 00:08:18,339.13522985 --> 00:08:25,647.46856318 And that's not to say that he's not out there sharing the gospel broadly as well, but the goal is to plant churches and make disciples. 209 00:08:26,164.13522985 --> 00:08:28,614.13522985 To see people begin following Jesus that want to. 210 00:08:28,822.46856318 --> 00:08:31,647.46856318 Be about multiplication to share the gospel, to. 211 00:08:32,105.80189652 --> 00:08:39,555.80189652 Even push past a lot of cultural difficulties and there is a persecution that happens there in, in a large way. 212 00:08:40,5.80189652 --> 00:08:41,255.80189652 And so there's a lot of work. 213 00:08:41,297.46856318 --> 00:08:43,72.46856318 Needed in building relationships and powering. 214 00:08:43,280.80189652 --> 00:08:44,155.80189652 Nationals and. 215 00:08:44,705.80189652 --> 00:08:56,14.13522985 Yeah, the goal is just to see a movement of churches, multiplying other churches from people coming out of darkness into the light and at the same time, Him and his wife are heavily working on language. 216 00:08:56,364.13522985 --> 00:08:57,539.13522985 Because they don't have that. 217 00:08:57,922.46856318 --> 00:08:58,472.46856318 All done yet. 218 00:08:58,497.46856318 --> 00:08:59,47.46856318 Their schooling. 219 00:08:59,47.46856318 --> 00:08:59,497.46856318 Isn't done. 220 00:08:59,930.80189652 --> 00:09:00,480.80189652 So there. 221 00:09:00,880.80189652 --> 00:09:03,789.13522985 They're adjusting to life there, which for the most part they have, but. 222 00:09:04,147.46856318 --> 00:09:08,30.80189652 Learning language and learning more culture and working with nationals and. 223 00:09:08,197.46856318 --> 00:09:09,472.46856318 And other Americans as well. 224 00:09:09,880.80189652 --> 00:09:13,830.80189652 In that context in the cities and villages and even remote places. 225 00:09:13,855.80189652 --> 00:09:14,705.80189652 So kind of all over. 226 00:09:14,872.46856318 --> 00:09:15,72.46856318 Yeah. 227 00:09:15,72.46856318 --> 00:09:18,822.46856318 So a lot of times, whenever it's been a while, since you've seen somebody. 228 00:09:19,322.46856318 --> 00:09:22,497.46856318 And I know with today's technology, I'm sure you've talked to him often, but. 229 00:09:22,664.13522985 --> 00:09:24,14.13522985 It's been a while since you've hung out. 230 00:09:24,89.13522985 --> 00:09:24,814.13522985 And so. 231 00:09:24,980.80189652 --> 00:09:25,905.80189652 When you saw him. 232 00:09:26,72.46856318 --> 00:09:31,155.80189652 What was the story that he had, that he just needed to tell you about? Yeah, let's see. 233 00:09:31,205.80189652 --> 00:09:35,480.80189652 I think we probably shared a couple of laughs to start and made it lighthearted for a ways. 234 00:09:35,689.13522985 --> 00:09:37,264.13522985 But I think he started telling me. 235 00:09:37,764.13522985 --> 00:09:40,614.13522985 Some details around some of the other goers that are there. 236 00:09:40,614.13522985 --> 00:09:43,864.13522985 And some of the hard things they've been walking through and even some of the spiritual warfare. 237 00:09:44,72.46856318 --> 00:09:47,872.46856318 So yeah, just kinda some of the realities for him and his teammates and things like that. 238 00:09:48,39.13522985 --> 00:09:48,864.13522985 All right, Joe. 239 00:09:49,89.13522985 --> 00:09:54,822.46856318 As we look back on this trip to Nepal, What were some of the highlights, some of the standout moments from your trip? Yeah. 240 00:09:54,847.46856318 --> 00:09:55,197.46856318 Yeah. 241 00:09:55,280.80189652 --> 00:09:56,580.80189652 I think a few things come to mind. 242 00:09:57,130.80189652 --> 00:09:57,830.80189652 Part of the trip. 243 00:09:57,855.80189652 --> 00:09:59,655.80189652 I won't share locations. 244 00:09:59,714.13522985 --> 00:10:01,664.13522985 But we took a couple of flights out of Katmandu. 245 00:10:01,830.80189652 --> 00:10:03,80.80189652 To some more remote areas. 246 00:10:03,205.80189652 --> 00:10:05,364.13522985 Some we got into some very remote areas. 247 00:10:05,389.13522985 --> 00:10:07,789.13522985 We backpacked for about 43 miles. 248 00:10:08,289.13522985 --> 00:10:09,14.13522985 In a very alone. 249 00:10:09,180.80189652 --> 00:10:11,480.80189652 How do you backpack 43 miles? Like one way. 250 00:10:11,689.13522985 --> 00:10:14,639.13522985 No, we went we kinda made it w we went out and came back. 251 00:10:15,164.13522985 --> 00:10:17,739.13522985 Basically the same way that we got there. 252 00:10:18,230.80189652 --> 00:10:19,655.80189652 But we were trying to hit certain villages. 253 00:10:19,655.80189652 --> 00:10:22,255.80189652 So there wasn't, it wasn't exactly like on the same path. 254 00:10:22,605.80189652 --> 00:10:23,105.80189652 Twice. 255 00:10:23,314.13522985 --> 00:10:28,364.13522985 But some of it was, I mean, forgive me, but I don't think that's like average Joe kind of strength. 256 00:10:28,530.80189652 --> 00:10:31,155.80189652 I don't think that I could hike 43 miles. 257 00:10:31,539.13522985 --> 00:10:32,639.13522985 It really wasn't that hard. 258 00:10:32,730.80189652 --> 00:10:33,772.46856318 I mean, I made it pretty well. 259 00:10:33,797.46856318 --> 00:10:35,322.46856318 We didn't have issues with the altitude either. 260 00:10:35,322.46856318 --> 00:10:39,680.80189652 We got up to 11 or 12,000 feet and praise God, I didn't have like altitude sickness or any of that stuff. 261 00:10:39,980.80189652 --> 00:10:42,830.80189652 We weren't trying to go crazy distances. 262 00:10:43,239.13522985 --> 00:10:48,789.13522985 Were y'all like hiking circles around everybody else that y'all saw or like, No the local people. 263 00:10:49,97.46856318 --> 00:10:51,414.13522985 I think I have a new respect for them. 264 00:10:51,847.46856318 --> 00:10:55,422.46856318 I mean, they're wearing like dollar store shoes, like shoes that are just. 265 00:10:55,947.46856318 --> 00:10:56,947.46856318 Hardly anything. 266 00:10:57,114.13522985 --> 00:10:58,389.13522985 And they got some of them. 267 00:10:58,555.80189652 --> 00:11:02,30.80189652 A big old patch on their back with a strap on their forehead with a kid inside of the pack. 268 00:11:02,30.80189652 --> 00:11:06,197.46856318 And some of them were probably carrying stuff that was like five, six times the size of them. 269 00:11:06,505.80189652 --> 00:11:15,814.13522985 Obviously some of that was like, Hey, or like a bed or something rolled up that wasn't as dense obviously, but they carry a lot on their backs and they go a lot of places on foot. 270 00:11:16,339.13522985 --> 00:11:17,139.13522985 And. 271 00:11:17,714.13522985 --> 00:11:20,255.80189652 Yeah we were hiking alongside a lot of people. 272 00:11:20,255.80189652 --> 00:11:21,530.80189652 We ran into quite a lot. 273 00:11:21,955.80189652 --> 00:11:23,580.80189652 And So you're hiking. 274 00:11:23,747.46856318 --> 00:11:29,297.46856318 And you're starting to get a little bit tired and this little old lady is just like carrying about 50 pounds on her back. 275 00:11:29,297.46856318 --> 00:11:30,422.46856318 Just passing you whistling. 276 00:11:30,647.46856318 --> 00:11:31,622.46856318 Not exactly. 277 00:11:31,672.46856318 --> 00:11:34,972.46856318 There, there was actually one point we were trying to take a shortcut off of a cliff. 278 00:11:35,297.46856318 --> 00:11:39,672.46856318 And there was a whole bunch of women with like one teenage guy and there was probably a. 279 00:11:39,839.13522985 --> 00:11:45,314.13522985 Five or six year old boy and then a one to one and a half year old boy that was on his mother's back. 280 00:11:45,739.13522985 --> 00:11:50,839.13522985 And I mean, I've done a lot of, I've done a lot of hiking in mountains and done a lot of backpack and kind of stuff. 281 00:11:51,180.80189652 --> 00:11:57,330.80189652 But we were coming up behind them as they were coming off the cliff and like this woman with a child and a pack on her back strapped around her forehead. 282 00:11:57,680.80189652 --> 00:12:02,580.80189652 She was grabbing onto like little shrubs and swinging herself down around the cliff to like descend this. 283 00:12:02,680.80189652 --> 00:12:03,105.80189652 I dunno. 284 00:12:03,130.80189652 --> 00:12:04,947.46856318 It was probably the last part was. 285 00:12:05,155.80189652 --> 00:12:06,280.80189652 60 to 80 feet. 286 00:12:06,514.13522985 --> 00:12:07,514.13522985 Have pretty steep incline. 287 00:12:07,814.13522985 --> 00:12:11,255.80189652 And the national partner we were, whether it was like, all right, guys, we need to turn on and go a different way. 288 00:12:11,255.80189652 --> 00:12:12,880.80189652 I was like, I think I could make this, but. 289 00:12:13,355.80189652 --> 00:12:14,230.80189652 We'll take his lead. 290 00:12:14,255.80189652 --> 00:12:19,14.13522985 If these women can do it, I'd like to try, but I followed my orders and we went back up the hill and came down the other way. 291 00:12:19,214.13522985 --> 00:12:25,830.80189652 Did did any of the like local goats, like that were also climbing up the mountain? Were they taking notes on these old lady? They probably were. 292 00:12:25,830.80189652 --> 00:12:26,630.80189652 We just didn't see him. 293 00:12:26,714.13522985 --> 00:12:27,114.13522985 Yeah. 294 00:12:27,539.13522985 --> 00:12:27,764.13522985 Yeah. 295 00:12:27,930.80189652 --> 00:12:28,180.80189652 Wow. 296 00:12:28,405.80189652 --> 00:12:28,805.80189652 Okay. 297 00:12:28,855.80189652 --> 00:12:29,555.80189652 So what else. 298 00:12:29,722.46856318 --> 00:12:30,172.46856318 Yeah. 299 00:12:30,197.46856318 --> 00:12:32,355.80189652 At one point this is one of the highlights for me. 300 00:12:32,580.80189652 --> 00:12:35,505.80189652 At one point I was on the trail and I was kind of separated from the rest of our team. 301 00:12:35,672.46856318 --> 00:12:37,122.46856318 I think I was ahead of them. 302 00:12:37,397.46856318 --> 00:12:41,289.13522985 And I was just praying And I was like, God, like open doors that only you can open. 303 00:12:41,339.13522985 --> 00:12:43,139.13522985 And my heart in that was like, God, I want to. 304 00:12:43,305.80189652 --> 00:12:44,105.80189652 I want to make you known. 305 00:12:44,105.80189652 --> 00:12:44,830.80189652 I want to share about you. 306 00:12:44,830.80189652 --> 00:12:47,630.80189652 I want to talk to somebody and tell them about Jesus and. 307 00:12:47,797.46856318 --> 00:12:50,839.13522985 And within only a few minutes somebody like nudged me from behind. 308 00:12:51,114.13522985 --> 00:12:52,964.13522985 I don't think I even seen him until he was right next to me. 309 00:12:53,314.13522985 --> 00:12:55,589.13522985 And he handed me a couple of sticks of gum and. 310 00:12:56,55.80189652 --> 00:12:57,805.80189652 Next thing I knew I'm walking beside this guy. 311 00:12:57,805.80189652 --> 00:13:00,155.80189652 Who's actually spoke enough English to have a conversation. 312 00:13:00,555.80189652 --> 00:13:02,680.80189652 He was on his way back to Katmandu actually. 313 00:13:03,30.80189652 --> 00:13:06,105.80189652 And we were conversing along the way, chewing gum and. 314 00:13:06,489.13522985 --> 00:13:08,114.13522985 I got to share about Jesus with him. 315 00:13:08,164.13522985 --> 00:13:11,414.13522985 I told him the story of Jesus and I'd asked, have you ever heard of Jesus? He said, no. 316 00:13:11,989.13522985 --> 00:13:15,639.13522985 And so I told him the life and the story and the death and resurrection of Jesus. 317 00:13:15,639.13522985 --> 00:13:24,339.13522985 And I said, what do you think about this story? And in all, by the way, he was a, he's a 21 year old monk who lives in a monastery and had just been traveling with his family for a little while. 318 00:13:24,722.46856318 --> 00:13:29,730.80189652 But it was headed back to this monastery, which is where I mean they have a lot of monks in the Paul. 319 00:13:30,80.80189652 --> 00:13:33,705.80189652 And they, some of them that have been among their whole life. 320 00:13:34,55.80189652 --> 00:13:35,930.80189652 Really don't know much about the outside world and they study. 321 00:13:36,155.80189652 --> 00:13:36,830.80189652 Tibetan Buddhism. 322 00:13:36,830.80189652 --> 00:13:38,980.80189652 And anyway, that's some of his context. 323 00:13:39,30.80189652 --> 00:13:43,339.13522985 And when I said, what do you think of this story? He said, I'm very proud of Jesus. 324 00:13:43,789.13522985 --> 00:13:46,39.13522985 And I've never heard anyone respond like that. 325 00:13:46,64.13522985 --> 00:13:52,955.80189652 But I sense that it meant something to him and I said, well, man, there's a book that is full of the story of Jesus. 326 00:13:53,305.80189652 --> 00:13:54,230.80189652 And it's called the Bible. 327 00:13:54,330.80189652 --> 00:13:56,705.80189652 And I would encourage you to read that and to read. 328 00:13:56,980.80189652 --> 00:13:58,330.80189652 The book of John and. 329 00:13:58,755.80189652 --> 00:14:00,930.80189652 He He said, I will do that when I get to the city. 330 00:14:01,380.80189652 --> 00:14:05,55.80189652 And shortly thereafter, there was a split in the trail and he was going the other way. 331 00:14:05,55.80189652 --> 00:14:07,30.80189652 So we split, but I had gotten his number. 332 00:14:07,355.80189652 --> 00:14:08,380.80189652 And actually, this is pretty cool. 333 00:14:08,380.80189652 --> 00:14:12,730.80189652 I tried to reach out to him in country and that didn't really pan out, but he found me on WhatsApp a few days ago. 334 00:14:13,5.80189652 --> 00:14:16,180.80189652 And we've been talking back and forth and he sent me pictures of what his life is like. 335 00:14:16,180.80189652 --> 00:14:16,305.80189652 And. 336 00:14:16,780.80189652 --> 00:14:19,380.80189652 Yeah, so I'm hoping to build some kind of a friendship there. 337 00:14:19,430.80189652 --> 00:14:25,505.80189652 And I actually asked him, I said, did you end up buying a Bible? And he said, no, I haven't had a chance, but when I'm free, I'm planning to. 338 00:14:25,780.80189652 --> 00:14:27,680.80189652 And I asked if he'd be interested in meeting Robert. 339 00:14:27,680.80189652 --> 00:14:30,330.80189652 And he said that he would, so this is kind of cool. 340 00:14:30,372.46856318 --> 00:14:31,372.46856318 I think I just felt like. 341 00:14:31,822.46856318 --> 00:14:33,822.46856318 Like, man, this is such a. 342 00:14:33,989.13522985 --> 00:14:40,139.13522985 Such a cool thing in the middle of nowhere, I got to like plant a seed, like put this seed in his hands that, that he had never had before. 343 00:14:40,589.13522985 --> 00:14:41,614.13522985 And what God will do with that. 344 00:14:41,639.13522985 --> 00:14:42,139.13522985 I don't know. 345 00:14:42,272.46856318 --> 00:14:42,772.46856318 But yeah. 346 00:14:43,22.46856318 --> 00:14:44,622.46856318 Some other stories, I think. 347 00:14:45,80.80189652 --> 00:14:48,780.80189652 I don't know that I've ever felt more weight of loss, Snus. 348 00:14:48,947.46856318 --> 00:14:49,622.46856318 And I've been to. 349 00:14:49,947.46856318 --> 00:14:51,947.46856318 Pretty dark places in other parts of the world. 350 00:14:52,422.46856318 --> 00:14:54,522.46856318 And yeah, growing up the way I did. 351 00:14:54,830.80189652 --> 00:14:58,305.80189652 Can you describe what lostness feels like? Like that weight that you're describing. 352 00:14:58,805.80189652 --> 00:15:04,405.80189652 Yeah, I think what was going through my mind so many times was that like, Jesus is the wellspring of life. 353 00:15:04,880.80189652 --> 00:15:09,80.80189652 And the fact that we get to drink from that spring and not thirst. 354 00:15:09,530.80189652 --> 00:15:10,380.80189652 Like before. 355 00:15:10,547.46856318 --> 00:15:13,822.46856318 Knowing that these people have never tasted that water. 356 00:15:13,989.13522985 --> 00:15:18,464.13522985 And their parents, their grandparents, and so many generations back have been living. 357 00:15:18,630.80189652 --> 00:15:20,455.80189652 Believing a lie. 358 00:15:20,655.80189652 --> 00:15:25,797.46856318 And it doesn't take a trained eye to see that like, The enemy is so. 359 00:15:25,964.13522985 --> 00:15:27,989.13522985 So rampant in the belief system. 360 00:15:28,139.13522985 --> 00:15:31,89.13522985 Of Tibetan Buddhism and it's pretty dark. 361 00:15:31,172.46856318 --> 00:15:34,197.46856318 There's a lot of pictures painted in their monasteries and their shrines and stuff. 362 00:15:34,239.13522985 --> 00:15:37,614.13522985 And they've got pretty graphic pictures of demons, stomping on people. 363 00:15:38,39.13522985 --> 00:15:47,689.13522985 There's a one familiar painting in many of these places where it's really ugly, nasty, dark demon with big fangs is holding a wheel and that's what they call the wheel of life. 364 00:15:48,147.46856318 --> 00:15:48,697.46856318 So, yeah. 365 00:15:48,755.80189652 --> 00:15:53,247.46856318 Just thinking about, they've never tasted what I've tasted and yeah, they're just there. 366 00:15:53,272.46856318 --> 00:15:56,222.46856318 There's actually no known. 367 00:15:56,705.80189652 --> 00:16:05,455.80189652 Believers in these places that have come to faith in these villages of this specific people group, the only ones that have ever been known to come to Christ had actually done that in the city. 368 00:16:05,455.80189652 --> 00:16:09,805.80189652 So these villages way out there are extremely unreached and unengaged. 369 00:16:09,972.46856318 --> 00:16:10,122.46856318 Yeah. 370 00:16:10,122.46856318 --> 00:16:13,197.46856318 So you're familiar with the discovery Bible study. 371 00:16:13,405.80189652 --> 00:16:14,530.80189652 One thing that I thought about. 372 00:16:14,930.80189652 --> 00:16:16,880.80189652 A little while back in. 373 00:16:17,155.80189652 --> 00:16:18,105.80189652 I'd love to ask you. 374 00:16:18,272.46856318 --> 00:16:20,922.46856318 What did you learn about God? Through this story. 375 00:16:21,497.46856318 --> 00:16:23,522.46856318 Through your trip to Nepal. 376 00:16:23,689.13522985 --> 00:16:24,664.13522985 Yeah, I. 377 00:16:24,830.80189652 --> 00:16:25,555.80189652 I think. 378 00:16:25,689.13522985 --> 00:16:27,89.13522985 And you can ask more on this. 379 00:16:27,239.13522985 --> 00:16:27,889.13522985 I'm just going to try to. 380 00:16:28,364.13522985 --> 00:16:29,989.13522985 Yeah, share what it felt like. 381 00:16:30,14.13522985 --> 00:16:31,639.13522985 I felt like I was kind of towing a line. 382 00:16:31,805.80189652 --> 00:16:35,305.80189652 Remembering Jesus' words on the cross, or he's seeing the people that are. 383 00:16:35,472.46856318 --> 00:16:36,647.46856318 Are killing him and. 384 00:16:37,139.13522985 --> 00:16:38,364.13522985 And he says, father, forgive them. 385 00:16:38,439.13522985 --> 00:16:40,139.1352298 They don't know what they're doing. 386 00:16:40,614.1352298 --> 00:16:40,989.1352298 And. 387 00:16:41,414.1352298 --> 00:16:44,555.8018965 Looking at these people, it's like, They don't know what they're doing. 388 00:16:44,597.4685632 --> 00:16:46,147.4685632 They, they don't even know that this is. 389 00:16:46,314.1352298 --> 00:16:48,64.1352298 They're going in the wrong direction. 390 00:16:48,122.4685632 --> 00:16:49,122.4685632 I mean, I believe. 391 00:16:49,497.4685632 --> 00:16:58,864.1352298 That if there's people in there that are real truth seekers, they're probably questioning the things that they're following internally, but yeah, the they're following a false religion, a false God. 392 00:16:58,914.1352298 --> 00:16:59,264.1352298 And. 393 00:16:59,697.4685632 --> 00:17:01,772.4685632 Yet at the same time, like seeing how God. 394 00:17:02,130.8018965 --> 00:17:06,530.8018965 Created man in a paradise and man mankind has ran away from him. 395 00:17:06,889.1352298 --> 00:17:07,489.1352298 Four. 396 00:17:07,655.8018965 --> 00:17:08,430.8018965 For so long. 397 00:17:08,655.8018965 --> 00:17:10,430.8018965 So many generations, so many years. 398 00:17:10,839.1352298 --> 00:17:13,714.1352298 And just thinking like he's absolutely just to judge. 399 00:17:14,47.4685632 --> 00:17:19,572.4685632 People that, that run away from him and follow false gods and So, yeah, it was really sad to think. 400 00:17:19,572.4685632 --> 00:17:23,447.4685632 Like I don't know that anyone has ever worshiped Jesus on this piece of ground here before. 401 00:17:23,880.8018965 --> 00:17:27,639.1352298 And we got to just, as we walked Quote, memorize scripture and sing songs. 402 00:17:27,639.1352298 --> 00:17:27,814.1352298 And. 403 00:17:27,980.8018965 --> 00:17:28,530.8018965 And things like that. 404 00:17:28,530.8018965 --> 00:17:32,430.8018965 And something that was going through my mind was, I wonder if this has ever happened on this dirt before. 405 00:17:32,689.1352298 --> 00:17:33,264.1352298 Maybe not. 406 00:17:33,322.4685632 --> 00:17:35,447.4685632 But may Jesus be praised in our lives as we go through. 407 00:17:35,822.4685632 --> 00:17:39,272.4685632 And may it be for the first time or not, but it very likely could have been the first time. 408 00:17:39,439.1352298 --> 00:17:39,689.1352298 Yeah. 409 00:17:40,189.1352298 --> 00:17:40,987.4685632 That's really awesome. 410 00:17:41,187.4685632 --> 00:17:43,226.3574521 So, what did your story. 411 00:17:43,226.3574521 --> 00:17:45,301.3574521 Through Nepal teach you about people. 412 00:17:45,468.0241187 --> 00:17:45,668.0241187 Yeah. 413 00:17:45,734.6907854 --> 00:17:48,459.6907854 People follow many things that are put in front of them. 414 00:17:48,509.6907854 --> 00:17:50,959.6907854 And oftentimes I think don't ask many questions. 415 00:17:51,334.6907854 --> 00:17:52,959.6907854 To determine for themselves what. 416 00:17:53,359.6907854 --> 00:17:55,459.6907854 Truth actually is a lot of other cultures. 417 00:17:55,926.3574521 --> 00:17:59,126.3574521 You wouldn't really hear this in America, but you share the gospel with someone. 418 00:17:59,526.3574521 --> 00:18:03,976.3574521 And they actually tell you, I need to talk to my family and see what my family will do with this. 419 00:18:04,1.3574521 --> 00:18:06,176.3574521 And if my family is willing, then I will. 420 00:18:06,343.0241187 --> 00:18:07,834.6907854 I will follow Jesus, but Yeah. 421 00:18:07,859.6907854 --> 00:18:10,759.6907854 Just kind of seeing that the frailty of humanity that we. 422 00:18:10,926.3574521 --> 00:18:13,826.3574521 We follow what's put in front of us so many times, even if it's the wrong thing. 423 00:18:13,993.0241187 --> 00:18:14,193.0241187 Yeah. 424 00:18:14,201.3574521 --> 00:18:16,851.3574521 Even to To the point where it would cause you to walk away from Jesus. 425 00:18:17,151.3574521 --> 00:18:18,226.3574521 And believe a lie. 426 00:18:18,393.0241187 --> 00:18:18,568.0241187 Yeah. 427 00:18:18,718.0241187 --> 00:18:24,151.3574521 Is there anything else from the story that you learned about people are gone? Maybe I could just share a story. 428 00:18:24,201.3574521 --> 00:18:28,126.3574521 Another thing that's highlighted in my mind of this trip and then kind of share more from there. 429 00:18:28,459.6907854 --> 00:18:28,559.6907854 Yeah. 430 00:18:28,559.6907854 --> 00:18:29,834.6907854 So we were staying in a motel. 431 00:18:29,859.6907854 --> 00:18:33,209.6907854 It was me Robert and another goer that we were partnering with during that track. 432 00:18:33,543.0241187 --> 00:18:34,743.0241187 Which was not the full extent of the trip. 433 00:18:34,768.0241187 --> 00:18:36,718.0241187 That was about a 10 or 11 day. 434 00:18:37,118.0241187 --> 00:18:37,718.0241187 Part of it. 435 00:18:37,743.0241187 --> 00:18:41,484.6907854 But we were waiting for a Jeep ride to go to the. 436 00:18:41,934.6907854 --> 00:18:43,501.3574521 The airport the fly out of this. 437 00:18:43,951.3574521 --> 00:18:44,626.3574521 This region. 438 00:18:45,201.3574521 --> 00:18:48,776.3574521 And while we were at the motel in the couple of days, time we had. 439 00:18:49,351.3574521 --> 00:18:50,251.3574521 Between getting back. 440 00:18:50,501.3574521 --> 00:18:51,251.3574521 And flying out. 441 00:18:51,601.3574521 --> 00:18:53,226.3574521 We were in our room. 442 00:18:53,676.3574521 --> 00:18:55,451.3574521 And the window was open. 443 00:18:56,26.3574521 --> 00:18:57,976.3574521 And this was like a six story motel. 444 00:18:58,351.3574521 --> 00:18:58,926.3574521 And. 445 00:18:59,93.0241187 --> 00:19:00,768.0241187 We heard a bunch of screaming outside. 446 00:19:00,934.6907854 --> 00:19:02,326.3574521 And there was yeah. 447 00:19:02,401.3574521 --> 00:19:04,926.3574521 You could tell it was a lot of people and they were yelling, they were screaming. 448 00:19:05,93.0241187 --> 00:19:05,543.0241187 I thought. 449 00:19:05,893.0241187 --> 00:19:07,668.0241187 I'm like, I think this is probably a fight. 450 00:19:07,718.0241187 --> 00:19:09,793.0241187 I think something's happening outside really bad. 451 00:19:09,868.0241187 --> 00:19:10,843.0241187 It must be a fist fight or something. 452 00:19:10,843.0241187 --> 00:19:14,118.0241187 And we looked out the window and we saw a man running up the hill. 453 00:19:14,284.6907854 --> 00:19:18,234.6907854 With a boy in his arms and the boy was unresponsive and we didn't know what had happened. 454 00:19:18,684.6907854 --> 00:19:19,909.6907854 But we ran up to the lobby. 455 00:19:20,76.3574521 --> 00:19:27,126.3574521 And at that point, We're figuring out in the chaos of screaming and crying Hindus everywhere. 456 00:19:27,701.3574521 --> 00:19:30,376.3574521 That this boy had fallen from the fourth floor window. 457 00:19:30,851.3574521 --> 00:19:31,551.3574521 To the ground. 458 00:19:31,651.3574521 --> 00:19:35,251.3574521 And that ground was just a hillside of rocks and dirt. 459 00:19:35,651.3574521 --> 00:19:37,426.3574521 And so he probably fell about 40 feet. 460 00:19:37,593.0241187 --> 00:19:38,68.0241187 And. 461 00:19:38,234.6907854 --> 00:19:41,359.6907854 The boys on the couch and they're jostling him all, all over the place. 462 00:19:41,384.6907854 --> 00:19:46,434.6907854 And it's super hard to watch because like, they don't realize if this boys, you know, broken something or. 463 00:19:46,884.6907854 --> 00:19:48,684.6907854 Yeah, it has internal bleeding that this is really bad, but. 464 00:19:49,226.3574521 --> 00:19:57,793.0241187 W by God's grace inside of him giving us favor in this situation, Robert and I were able to kind of get in the middle of the mass chaos and get people to calm down. 465 00:19:57,793.0241187 --> 00:19:59,293.0241187 At this point, the boy was actually responsive. 466 00:19:59,459.6907854 --> 00:20:00,384.6907854 We got people to calm down. 467 00:20:00,409.6907854 --> 00:20:01,884.6907854 We got a lot of them to leave and. 468 00:20:02,393.0241187 --> 00:20:04,234.6907854 We were checking the boy out to see what was going on. 469 00:20:04,259.6907854 --> 00:20:08,84.6907854 His eyes were following our finger in front of them as we, we moved it. 470 00:20:08,459.6907854 --> 00:20:10,434.6907854 And his hands are moving, but his feet were not moving. 471 00:20:10,459.6907854 --> 00:20:15,493.0241187 And I asked Robert like, can you ask them if we can pray in Jesus name? And so he did. 472 00:20:15,493.0241187 --> 00:20:17,251.3574521 And some other woman that wasn't even the mother. 473 00:20:17,601.3574521 --> 00:20:18,176.3574521 Said yes. 474 00:20:18,176.3574521 --> 00:20:19,501.3574521 And so that's all we needed. 475 00:20:19,501.3574521 --> 00:20:22,426.3574521 We just put hands on this boy and started praying out loud. 476 00:20:22,518.0241187 --> 00:20:23,118.0241187 And at one point. 477 00:20:23,609.6907854 --> 00:20:28,284.6907854 Robert stood up and he said, we're praying in the name of Jesus so that everyone would know what we were doing. 478 00:20:28,368.0241187 --> 00:20:30,93.0241187 We were the only Americans there. 479 00:20:30,543.0241187 --> 00:20:30,893.0241187 And. 480 00:20:31,59.6907854 --> 00:20:33,784.6907854 So we lay hands on the boy and we're praying like in Jesus name, like. 481 00:20:33,951.3574521 --> 00:20:34,426.3574521 Be healed. 482 00:20:34,426.3574521 --> 00:20:35,501.3574521 Whatever's going on? Jesus. 483 00:20:35,501.3574521 --> 00:20:41,376.3574521 Would you put this boy back together? Whatever is not working, whatever could be wrong, you know, what'd you put your healing hands on this boy and we just fervently prayed. 484 00:20:41,626.3574521 --> 00:20:43,326.3574521 Out loud for about 10 minutes. 485 00:20:43,701.3574521 --> 00:20:45,576.3574521 And as we're praying, his feet started to move. 486 00:20:45,934.6907854 --> 00:20:46,934.6907854 And we kept praying. 487 00:20:47,101.3574521 --> 00:20:47,551.3574521 And. 488 00:20:47,718.0241187 --> 00:20:48,768.0241187 A little while later. 489 00:20:48,818.0241187 --> 00:20:53,526.3574521 So after, yeah, after about 10 minutes of praying over the boy someone came to take him to the hospital. 490 00:20:53,526.3574521 --> 00:20:54,626.3574521 And so they hauled him out. 491 00:20:54,793.0241187 --> 00:20:59,268.0241187 And later that night, we went up to the lobby and asked the guy behind the counter. 492 00:20:59,293.0241187 --> 00:21:01,43.0241187 I'm assuming this was the owner. 493 00:21:01,551.3574521 --> 00:21:06,184.6907854 If you had heard anything about this boy and I didn't share earlier, this boy was probably two years old. 494 00:21:06,351.3574521 --> 00:21:09,909.6907854 And the owner said, yeah the doctor that checked him out. 495 00:21:10,284.6907854 --> 00:21:11,659.6907854 Couldn't find anything wrong with him. 496 00:21:11,826.3574521 --> 00:21:13,651.3574521 And it's because you prayed. 497 00:21:13,818.0241187 --> 00:21:20,718.0241187 And I would have loved to have had conversations with many of the people in the room after that, but they were all like gone. 498 00:21:20,718.0241187 --> 00:21:22,418.0241187 There was like some conference that had taken place and. 499 00:21:22,584.6907854 --> 00:21:25,984.6907854 I think it must've come to a close and they had all left, so we didn't get to talk to them. 500 00:21:25,984.6907854 --> 00:21:26,351.3574521 But Yeah. 501 00:21:26,351.3574521 --> 00:21:27,676.3574521 When I walked into that room. 502 00:21:27,901.3574521 --> 00:21:31,451.3574521 I just heard in my mind, like the words of Jesus when he sends out. 503 00:21:31,876.3574521 --> 00:21:34,226.3574521 The 12 and he says, he'll heal the sick. 504 00:21:34,776.3574521 --> 00:21:37,426.3574521 And I was like, This is where we, this is where we'll be. 505 00:21:37,476.3574521 --> 00:21:39,101.3574521 This is where we go in and we do what he said. 506 00:21:39,126.3574521 --> 00:21:40,476.3574521 We put hands on him and we pray. 507 00:21:40,643.0241187 --> 00:21:41,493.0241187 And that was. 508 00:21:41,659.6907854 --> 00:21:42,684.6907854 Yeah, that was faith building. 509 00:21:42,684.6907854 --> 00:21:44,809.6907854 And that was a grace that God gave. 510 00:21:44,809.6907854 --> 00:21:48,659.6907854 And just thinking about this boy's life, I have no idea what will become of him, what he'll live to see and do. 511 00:21:48,968.0241187 --> 00:21:58,451.3574521 But God has put his hands on his life and I'm super thankful that we got to be a part of that and seeing how some of these things that maybe we think, oh, man, I don't know how to do that. 512 00:21:58,451.3574521 --> 00:22:03,276.3574521 Or if he's really going to do that through me stepping into faith and obedience sometimes. 513 00:22:03,793.0241187 --> 00:22:10,568.0241187 Even in tremendous weakness he wants to meet us there and not just so that we could say we have a cool story, but so that the kingdom of God would be seen. 514 00:22:10,868.0241187 --> 00:22:16,568.0241187 And known and heard and for his glory, right? I mean, in the word we see so many times Jesus heals and people believe. 515 00:22:16,593.0241187 --> 00:22:19,143.0241187 And so my hope and my heart is that is what's happening there. 516 00:22:19,143.0241187 --> 00:22:20,418.0241187 But unfortunately I have no idea. 517 00:22:20,926.3574521 --> 00:22:25,293.0241187 What any of those people are processing currently after being present for that? Wow. 518 00:22:25,459.6907854 --> 00:22:26,459.6907854 Oh, no, I don't know. 519 00:22:26,459.6907854 --> 00:22:32,693.0241187 Let's say, I can't even imagine what was going on in your heart and what you and Robert experienced. 520 00:22:32,859.6907854 --> 00:22:35,284.6907854 I can't imagine what the family is thinking right now. 521 00:22:35,451.3574521 --> 00:22:37,26.3574521 What the person who ran the. 522 00:22:37,193.0241187 --> 00:22:38,643.0241187 Hotel or whatever it was. 523 00:22:38,851.3574521 --> 00:22:40,126.3574521 What he was thinking. 524 00:22:40,431.9130076 --> 00:22:45,231.9130076 But as you look back on this trip, And what you saw God do. 525 00:22:45,398.5796743 --> 00:22:47,98.5796743 What you learned about God and. 526 00:22:47,265.246341 --> 00:22:49,506.9130076 You know what you've learned about people? Like, how does this. 527 00:22:49,881.9130076 --> 00:22:51,673.5796743 What does this change? What's different. 528 00:22:51,840.246341 --> 00:22:54,20.8018965 What difference is this going to make. 529 00:22:54,20.8018965 --> 00:22:57,18.0241187 And just another average Joe's life. 530 00:22:57,240.246341 --> 00:22:58,40.246341 Going forward. 531 00:22:58,523.5796743 --> 00:22:58,823.5796743 Yeah. 532 00:22:58,823.5796743 --> 00:23:06,173.5796743 I think that when we abide in Jesus and when we ask for things, And be brave to ask for things I got. 533 00:23:06,223.5796743 --> 00:23:07,273.5796743 Give me your heart. 534 00:23:07,698.5796743 --> 00:23:09,198.5796743 Let me feel what you feel. 535 00:23:09,198.5796743 --> 00:23:11,998.5796743 Let me see things more through your eyes than mine. 536 00:23:12,165.246341 --> 00:23:13,815.246341 As we pursue him in that way. 537 00:23:13,990.246341 --> 00:23:14,790.246341 That takes no. 538 00:23:15,323.5796743 --> 00:23:17,98.5796743 You know, no great training in the word. 539 00:23:17,98.5796743 --> 00:23:17,398.5796743 No. 540 00:23:17,565.246341 --> 00:23:20,23.5796743 No tremendous leadership or platform or. 541 00:23:20,548.5796743 --> 00:23:24,348.5796743 Accolade or anything like that, but just a heart that wants to know and love Jesus. 542 00:23:24,806.9130076 --> 00:23:26,6.9130076 And we know we do that. 543 00:23:26,31.9130076 --> 00:23:28,81.9130076 We get to experience things that. 544 00:23:28,248.5796743 --> 00:23:29,723.5796743 That I think. 545 00:23:29,890.246341 --> 00:23:31,540.246341 Sometimes they're actually really hard and heavy. 546 00:23:31,640.246341 --> 00:23:37,40.246341 And when we flew out of this area, I just felt such a tremendous weight on my heart. 547 00:23:37,431.9130076 --> 00:23:38,281.9130076 This is so sad. 548 00:23:38,606.9130076 --> 00:23:40,381.9130076 We walked past so many people that. 549 00:23:40,548.5796743 --> 00:23:41,473.5796743 That have never heard. 550 00:23:41,498.5796743 --> 00:23:42,98.5796743 And. 551 00:23:42,265.246341 --> 00:23:43,165.246341 Generations before them. 552 00:23:43,165.246341 --> 00:23:43,740.246341 I've never heard. 553 00:23:43,740.246341 --> 00:23:43,865.246341 And. 554 00:23:44,31.9130076 --> 00:23:47,56.9130076 When we left the last village and we walked past a shrine. 555 00:23:47,581.9130076 --> 00:23:50,556.9130076 On our way out to get on the Jeep to leave the area the final day. 556 00:23:51,81.9130076 --> 00:23:52,706.9130076 I just felt a lot in that moment, too. 557 00:23:52,873.5796743 --> 00:23:54,298.5796743 And I want to be able to feel that. 558 00:23:54,723.5796743 --> 00:23:55,973.5796743 I think sometimes it's easy. 559 00:23:56,140.246341 --> 00:23:59,815.246341 To not let ourselves feel that to distract ourselves in some way. 560 00:24:00,265.246341 --> 00:24:02,15.246341 And I've done that way too many times. 561 00:24:02,415.246341 --> 00:24:05,265.246341 I would lost people around me that I could have been more intentional to share with. 562 00:24:05,431.9130076 --> 00:24:06,781.9130076 But yeah, I think I'm going to remember. 563 00:24:07,356.9130076 --> 00:24:10,640.246341 That I got to feel for just a moment, a couple of moments in time. 564 00:24:10,806.9130076 --> 00:24:12,106.9130076 This huge reality. 565 00:24:12,131.9130076 --> 00:24:12,681.9130076 That is. 566 00:24:12,848.5796743 --> 00:24:14,723.5796743 So heavy in a dark place like that. 567 00:24:14,890.246341 --> 00:24:16,890.246341 And I think because other places I've been. 568 00:24:17,98.5796743 --> 00:24:19,823.5796743 Our mostly hi Muslim. 569 00:24:20,315.246341 --> 00:24:21,690.246341 A higher Muslim context. 570 00:24:21,898.5796743 --> 00:24:23,690.246341 And they all know like ISA. 571 00:24:24,115.246341 --> 00:24:27,890.246341 Jesus, you know, And so it's not like they're more or less lost than. 572 00:24:28,56.9130076 --> 00:24:29,56.9130076 Tibetan Buddhist person. 573 00:24:29,181.9130076 --> 00:24:32,906.9130076 But when you talked to a bunch of people that would tell you, I've never heard the name of Jesus. 574 00:24:32,948.5796743 --> 00:24:34,648.5796743 I never knew that there was. 575 00:24:34,815.246341 --> 00:24:36,790.246341 Anyone that came to earth, lived a perfect life. 576 00:24:37,73.5796743 --> 00:24:38,198.5796743 And was killed. 577 00:24:38,773.5796743 --> 00:24:41,273.5796743 And it was impossible for death to keep him in the grave. 578 00:24:41,298.5796743 --> 00:24:48,48.5796743 He rose and gives people the ability to be, to walk in newness of life, just like he did when he stepped out of that tomb. 579 00:24:48,373.5796743 --> 00:24:51,248.5796743 And these people don't know, and haven't heard us like their BC. 580 00:24:51,798.5796743 --> 00:24:52,123.5796743 It's. 581 00:24:52,290.246341 --> 00:24:53,365.246341 It's a lot to walk away with. 582 00:24:53,531.9130076 --> 00:24:57,840.246341 Is it crazy, but That's how you recently have been kind of processing this idea. 583 00:24:58,315.246341 --> 00:25:00,615.246341 That there's a portion of the world. 584 00:25:00,781.9130076 --> 00:25:02,106.9130076 That is BC. 585 00:25:02,315.246341 --> 00:25:02,765.246341 I don't know. 586 00:25:02,790.246341 --> 00:25:03,315.246341 Maybe. 587 00:25:03,690.246341 --> 00:25:06,440.246341 Maybe somewhere in our conversations, that kind of blurped in a little bit. 588 00:25:06,490.246341 --> 00:25:07,715.246341 I don't think we talked much about it though. 589 00:25:07,881.9130076 --> 00:25:09,631.9130076 I've just been really blown away lately. 590 00:25:09,681.9130076 --> 00:25:10,231.9130076 How. 591 00:25:10,398.5796743 --> 00:25:11,848.5796743 Yeah, we're over here. 592 00:25:12,15.246341 --> 00:25:12,990.246341 In the west, right. 593 00:25:13,40.246341 --> 00:25:13,590.246341 I'm here. 594 00:25:13,590.246341 --> 00:25:18,365.246341 And the Bible says in Matthew six, that we are the light of the world. 595 00:25:18,815.246341 --> 00:25:20,415.246341 You know, a city on a hill. 596 00:25:20,581.9130076 --> 00:25:21,81.9130076 And. 597 00:25:21,248.5796743 --> 00:25:25,748.5796743 May I talk also about how the world can be this dark place without Jesus. 598 00:25:25,915.246341 --> 00:25:31,865.246341 And so we have these lights, we're like little lamp posts and fireflies and spotlights. 599 00:25:31,865.246341 --> 00:25:36,140.246341 And it's like here in America, we're just almost hoarding all these lights. 600 00:25:36,665.246341 --> 00:25:40,131.9130076 And when you go to a place like Nepal, Where there is no light. 601 00:25:40,298.5796743 --> 00:25:41,498.5796743 You're the first Christian. 602 00:25:41,948.5796743 --> 00:25:44,198.5796743 That guy on the roads probably ever met. 603 00:25:44,523.5796743 --> 00:25:44,798.5796743 Yeah. 604 00:25:44,965.246341 --> 00:25:47,540.246341 That was his first glimpse at daylight. 605 00:25:47,765.246341 --> 00:25:48,15.246341 Yeah. 606 00:25:48,181.9130076 --> 00:25:48,556.9130076 And. 607 00:25:48,723.5796743 --> 00:25:52,648.5796743 It's just amazing to me that they are living in complete darkness. 608 00:25:52,815.246341 --> 00:25:54,990.246341 And we're over here with all this light. 609 00:25:55,156.9130076 --> 00:25:58,181.9130076 Just been hitting me more and more lately, especially as. 610 00:25:58,348.5796743 --> 00:26:01,998.5796743 That whole group is living in an existence that is. 611 00:26:02,373.5796743 --> 00:26:03,23.5796743 Jesus has. 612 00:26:03,190.246341 --> 00:26:04,965.246341 He has no place in it's before Jesus. 613 00:26:05,140.246341 --> 00:26:05,540.246341 Right. 614 00:26:05,706.9130076 --> 00:26:05,956.9130076 Yeah. 615 00:26:06,123.5796743 --> 00:26:08,773.5796743 It's really, it's just very destitute. 616 00:26:09,273.5796743 --> 00:26:09,848.5796743 It's just. 617 00:26:10,15.246341 --> 00:26:12,740.246341 They don't even know what light looks like. 618 00:26:12,906.9130076 --> 00:26:13,81.9130076 Yeah. 619 00:26:13,248.5796743 --> 00:26:13,598.5796743 Man. 620 00:26:13,873.5796743 --> 00:26:14,823.5796743 What would you. 621 00:26:14,990.246341 --> 00:26:15,240.246341 Yeah. 622 00:26:15,265.246341 --> 00:26:17,590.246341 So as you process this trip and as you. 623 00:26:17,756.9130076 --> 00:26:20,331.9130076 Are telling your friends and family here, back in the states. 624 00:26:20,498.5796743 --> 00:26:21,848.5796743 About your trip? Like what. 625 00:26:22,15.246341 --> 00:26:23,690.246341 Are your kind of. 626 00:26:23,856.9130076 --> 00:26:26,706.9130076 Encouraging words, provoking words. 627 00:26:26,873.5796743 --> 00:26:28,765.246341 How are you sharing this with others? Yeah. 628 00:26:28,765.246341 --> 00:26:33,881.9130076 The first thing that just came to mind, as you asked that question was yeah, for like anyone listening to this. 629 00:26:34,48.5796743 --> 00:26:38,106.9130076 That if you've come to know Jesus and he has changed your life. 630 00:26:38,273.5796743 --> 00:26:40,573.5796743 And you're confident that he's changed or eternity. 631 00:26:40,740.246341 --> 00:26:43,240.246341 The word says that you are the light of the world. 632 00:26:43,406.9130076 --> 00:26:45,106.9130076 Like we are the light of the world. 633 00:26:45,131.9130076 --> 00:26:50,531.9130076 And to what degree that we take ownership of that is the degree to which we'll live. 634 00:26:50,531.9130076 --> 00:26:51,6.9130076 Like it. 635 00:26:51,481.9130076 --> 00:26:55,848.5796743 And so I just want to encourage people that like, yeah, if you've lived a life where. 636 00:26:56,15.246341 --> 00:27:01,140.246341 So many people know your name all over the place, or if you've lived a life where you've never left your hometown. 637 00:27:01,515.246341 --> 00:27:03,990.246341 And there's only a handful of people that you would call close. 638 00:27:04,156.9130076 --> 00:27:05,231.9130076 But if you know, Jesus. 639 00:27:05,506.9130076 --> 00:27:06,731.9130076 You are the light of the world. 640 00:27:06,898.5796743 --> 00:27:09,473.5796743 And living like that brings so much more joy. 641 00:27:09,931.9130076 --> 00:27:11,156.9130076 It's like we exist. 642 00:27:11,381.9130076 --> 00:27:12,31.9130076 To shine. 643 00:27:12,406.9130076 --> 00:27:14,356.9130076 We exist to reflect the light. 644 00:27:14,606.9130076 --> 00:27:15,506.9130076 That is Jesus. 645 00:27:15,673.5796743 --> 00:27:21,831.9130076 And when we don't do that, if you're a believer in you're like, I feel so subdued or I feel so less than what I feel like I should be or could be. 646 00:27:22,356.9130076 --> 00:27:27,81.9130076 It could be because you got a bushel over you and you just need to lift that thing off and own it and be the light of the world. 647 00:27:27,248.5796743 --> 00:27:29,398.5796743 And yeah, the truth is I'm sharing these things. 648 00:27:29,448.5796743 --> 00:27:31,298.5796743 And yet I looked at my track record. 649 00:27:31,648.5796743 --> 00:27:33,573.5796743 I could be the light more, a lot more. 650 00:27:33,906.9130076 --> 00:27:35,856.9130076 But I'm thankful for the times that he has made me to be. 651 00:27:36,298.5796743 --> 00:27:36,848.5796743 Bright. 652 00:27:37,198.5796743 --> 00:27:41,873.5796743 And getting to own that and say, praise God, because of Jesus that Jesus in me, I get to shine bright in this world. 653 00:27:42,181.9130076 --> 00:27:45,131.9130076 I just think that one day when we stand before him, we're going to be, we're not going to. 654 00:27:45,298.5796743 --> 00:27:48,623.5796743 We're not going to regret a single moment in time where we live to make him known. 655 00:27:48,790.246341 --> 00:27:49,440.246341 Not one. 656 00:27:49,615.246341 --> 00:27:53,598.5796743 So, I just hope that we, as the bride can shine, like we're intended to. 657 00:27:53,798.5796743 --> 00:27:56,273.5796743 And see the lost come to Jesus all around us. 658 00:27:56,440.246341 --> 00:27:56,915.246341 All right, Joe. 659 00:27:57,15.246341 --> 00:28:01,81.9130076 So as we kind of wrap this up today, Yeah, I would love it. 660 00:28:01,156.9130076 --> 00:28:02,656.9130076 If you would just share with us. 661 00:28:03,181.9130076 --> 00:28:08,31.9130076 A little bit more about Nepal using the Joshua project. 662 00:28:08,198.5796743 --> 00:28:08,673.5796743 App. 663 00:28:08,906.9130076 --> 00:28:14,531.9130076 Usually we go in there as the unreached people group of the day, and you can pray for a people group all over the world. 664 00:28:15,31.9130076 --> 00:28:17,656.9130076 That has never heard the gospel or as little. 665 00:28:17,823.5796743 --> 00:28:20,173.5796743 Little to no access. 666 00:28:20,506.9130076 --> 00:28:22,31.9130076 To Christian or to the gospel. 667 00:28:22,198.5796743 --> 00:28:26,548.5796743 And so can you just share a little bit more about Nepal and then maybe pray for us? Yeah. 668 00:28:26,598.5796743 --> 00:28:26,923.5796743 Yeah. 669 00:28:26,956.9130076 --> 00:28:29,906.9130076 So the country of Nepal itself has 227. 670 00:28:30,306.9130076 --> 00:28:31,331.9130076 Different people, groups. 671 00:28:31,415.246341 --> 00:28:37,173.5796743 And so we know yeah, it's every nation, tribe and tongue, right? So, in each nation there could be a lot of tribes and tongues. 672 00:28:37,548.5796743 --> 00:28:40,398.5796743 And there's 227 people groups in Nepal. 673 00:28:40,698.5796743 --> 00:28:43,48.5796743 And 218 of them are unreached. 674 00:28:43,48.5796743 --> 00:28:46,340.246341 So that just means that many are less than 2%. 675 00:28:46,698.5796743 --> 00:28:47,523.5796743 Jesus followers. 676 00:28:47,731.9130076 --> 00:28:48,156.9130076 So. 677 00:28:48,323.5796743 --> 00:28:48,623.5796743 So. 678 00:28:48,790.246341 --> 00:28:51,815.246341 There's almost 31 million people in Nepal. 679 00:28:51,981.9130076 --> 00:28:53,573.5796743 And there's 1.4, 680 00:28:53,573.5796743 --> 00:28:54,598.5796743 2%. 681 00:28:55,31.9130076 --> 00:28:55,815.246341 Christian adherent. 682 00:28:55,981.9130076 --> 00:28:56,706.9130076 It's heavily Hindu. 683 00:28:57,40.246341 --> 00:28:58,340.246341 81.4% 684 00:28:58,390.246341 --> 00:28:58,690.246341 Hindu. 685 00:28:58,856.9130076 --> 00:28:59,381.9130076 And Nepal. 686 00:28:59,548.5796743 --> 00:29:03,156.9130076 So, yeah, I'm just going to read a passage here that I think is kind of like an Anthem. 687 00:29:03,498.5796743 --> 00:29:05,23.5796743 Paul, the apostle wrote this. 688 00:29:05,23.5796743 --> 00:29:06,698.5796743 You'll find this in second Corinthians four. 689 00:29:07,198.5796743 --> 00:29:12,415.246341 And I just love the way he writes what the task is and doesn't sugar coat. 690 00:29:12,415.246341 --> 00:29:12,640.246341 It. 691 00:29:13,40.246341 --> 00:29:13,465.246341 At all. 692 00:29:13,573.5796743 --> 00:29:14,523.5796743 So I'm just going to read that really quick. 693 00:29:14,548.5796743 --> 00:29:15,198.5796743 And then Yeah. 694 00:29:15,323.5796743 --> 00:29:19,573.5796743 I'll pray as well, but it says, therefore having this ministry by the mercy of God. 695 00:29:20,73.5796743 --> 00:29:21,123.5796743 We do not lose heart. 696 00:29:21,290.246341 --> 00:29:23,715.246341 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. 697 00:29:23,740.246341 --> 00:29:26,615.246341 We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word. 698 00:29:26,865.246341 --> 00:29:31,115.246341 But by the open statement of the truth, we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God. 699 00:29:31,415.246341 --> 00:29:34,640.246341 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 700 00:29:35,40.246341 --> 00:29:41,840.246341 And their case, the God of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ. 701 00:29:42,115.246341 --> 00:29:45,565.246341 Who is the image of God for what we proclaim is not ourselves. 702 00:29:46,90.246341 --> 00:29:47,590.246341 But Jesus Christ as Lord. 703 00:29:48,65.246341 --> 00:29:53,140.246341 With ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake for God who said, let light shine out of darkness. 704 00:29:53,615.246341 --> 00:29:57,115.246341 Has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. 705 00:29:57,390.246341 --> 00:29:58,840.246341 And the face of Jesus Christ. 706 00:29:58,865.246341 --> 00:30:03,715.246341 So it's so clear that the unbelievers are those that are blinded by the enemy. 707 00:30:03,881.9130076 --> 00:30:04,981.9130076 And keeping their eyes closed. 708 00:30:04,981.9130076 --> 00:30:07,556.9130076 And every one of us that has come into the light was once. 709 00:30:08,131.9130076 --> 00:30:09,56.9130076 In the darkness. 710 00:30:09,515.246341 --> 00:30:11,115.246341 So I hope we, we can. 711 00:30:11,390.246341 --> 00:30:20,65.246341 Regularly, take a moment to think about the fact that we are set free from darkness that is no longer our reality, and that we've been given a task and a pretty clear. 712 00:30:20,198.5796743 --> 00:30:25,873.5796743 Expectation on what it looks like we might share and people reject and people refuse and it's because their eyes are veiled. 713 00:30:26,381.9130076 --> 00:30:29,381.9130076 So we ought to have compassion on these people and trust that as we share. 714 00:30:29,781.9130076 --> 00:30:31,706.9130076 There will be people that step into the light and just like we did. 715 00:30:31,881.9130076 --> 00:30:34,156.9130076 Is this where you'd like me to pray JT? Cool. 716 00:30:34,181.9130076 --> 00:30:34,406.9130076 Yeah. 717 00:30:34,715.246341 --> 00:30:35,440.246341 So I'll just pray. 718 00:30:35,615.246341 --> 00:30:37,440.246341 Over those listening and even over ourselves. 719 00:30:37,606.9130076 --> 00:30:42,956.9130076 Jesus, thank you so much that you have opened the flood gates of your grace into our lives. 720 00:30:43,481.9130076 --> 00:30:49,481.9130076 That we have been set free completely from the law of sin and death and that Jesus. 721 00:30:49,856.9130076 --> 00:30:53,856.9130076 On one side of the scale with his righteousness on the other side of the scale with our broken. 722 00:30:54,206.9130076 --> 00:30:59,131.9130076 Sin he wins because he's set us free and he came and paid our debt. 723 00:30:59,506.9130076 --> 00:31:03,131.9130076 And our sin can't tangle with his righteousness and win. 724 00:31:03,365.246341 --> 00:31:06,690.246341 When we are his, so thank you that you're washing us continually and making us more like Jesus. 725 00:31:06,690.246341 --> 00:31:08,165.246341 And that's the point of every season. 726 00:31:08,598.5796743 --> 00:31:11,333.5796743 And why all things work together for good for us. 727 00:31:11,808.5796743 --> 00:31:13,833.5796743 And the point is that we would become more like Jesus. 728 00:31:14,266.9130076 --> 00:31:15,941.9130076 So Jesus, I just pray that you'd use this episode. 729 00:31:15,941.9130076 --> 00:31:20,41.9130076 Use this time, these words for your glory, would you use our lives for your glory? Would you. 730 00:31:20,500.246341 --> 00:31:22,350.246341 Open doors around us for the gospel. 731 00:31:22,400.246341 --> 00:31:29,341.9130076 And would you give us the ability to take heart? When we see rejection but that we'd have compassion and be driven by love, towards the lost all around us. 732 00:31:29,766.9130076 --> 00:31:30,566.9130076 And that was your heart. 733 00:31:30,566.9130076 --> 00:31:31,316.9130076 Jesus was love. 734 00:31:31,366.9130076 --> 00:31:38,491.9130076 So Phyllis, up with that, and we thank you so much that everything is ours in Christ, and that we don't ask for these things without the ability to receive them, you are worthy. 735 00:31:38,491.9130076 --> 00:31:38,941.9130076 You are good. 736 00:31:39,66.9130076 --> 00:31:42,166.9130076 You are going to get praises for eternity and we're going to give them to you. 737 00:31:42,691.9130076 --> 00:31:43,591.9130076 I pray all these things in your name. 738 00:31:43,591.9130076 --> 00:31:43,891.9130076 Jesus. 739 00:31:43,891.9130076 --> 00:31:49,770.246341 Amen Well, Joe, I really do appreciate you taking the time to share your story on the show. 740 00:31:49,945.246341 --> 00:31:54,45.246341 I'm really thankful that we know through scripture that God loves to use. 741 00:31:54,211.9130076 --> 00:31:58,36.9130076 The week and lowly and have bridge and the normal. 742 00:31:58,203.5796743 --> 00:31:59,403.5796743 To confound the wise. 743 00:31:59,653.5796743 --> 00:32:02,103.5796743 God wants to use people like you and me. 744 00:32:02,270.246341 --> 00:32:03,370.246341 And that's just so encouraging. 745 00:32:03,620.246341 --> 00:32:05,20.246341 He wants to use all of us. 746 00:32:05,186.9130076 --> 00:32:08,11.9130076 And he wants to pursue and have relationship with all of us. 747 00:32:08,36.9130076 --> 00:32:09,311.9130076 I'm just really thankful for that. 748 00:32:09,486.9130076 --> 00:32:12,36.9130076 Yeah, I can just really relate to that part of the story. 749 00:32:12,203.5796743 --> 00:32:16,103.5796743 And just thankful for how much you shared about the people in Nepal. 750 00:32:16,503.5796743 --> 00:32:18,428.5796743 And just getting to hear your heart for them. 751 00:32:18,636.9130076 --> 00:32:24,661.9130076 Yeah, it is truly a blessing to be able to hear people tell of what they've seen in her. 752 00:32:24,661.9130076 --> 00:32:25,186.9130076 God, too. 753 00:32:25,736.9130076 --> 00:32:26,486.9130076 All around them. 754 00:32:26,653.5796743 --> 00:32:29,178.5796743 It's just so awesome to be able to see them light up. 755 00:32:29,345.246341 --> 00:32:30,620.246341 When they're talking about Jesus. 756 00:32:30,786.9130076 --> 00:32:31,511.9130076 And so guys. 757 00:32:31,678.5796743 --> 00:32:33,203.5796743 This is seen and heard. 758 00:32:33,478.5796743 --> 00:32:37,678.5796743 This is a podcast where we just can't help, but tell others of what we have seen in her God doing our lives. 759 00:32:37,845.246341 --> 00:32:39,778.5796743 And I just pray that will be your story too. 760 00:32:39,945.246341 --> 00:32:44,261.9130076 What has God done in your life this week? What'd you read in his word that blew you away. 761 00:32:44,428.5796743 --> 00:32:48,970.246341 Well, how did he meet you in that time of prayer this week? Tell somebody about it. 762 00:32:49,136.9130076 --> 00:32:49,811.9130076 He is worthy. 763 00:32:49,978.5796743 --> 00:32:51,203.5796743 We'll see you guys again, next time.