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Adam Davis (00:00):
I used to get an
adrenaline rush when I'm driving
120 miles an hour of high speedchase or in a foot pursuit or in
a fight, you're drilling goesthrough the roof. I get some
kind of a rush when somebodysays, your willingness to be
vulnerable, created a moment forme, where I'm now changed
forever.
John Matarazzo (00:21):
Welcome to along
the way. I'm John matter as your
host and fellow traveler, thankyou for joining me along my way
as I've tried to become morelike Jesus every day. The goal
of along the way is to identifythe moments in life that Jesus
really is walking with us andtrying to get our attention. But
just like the disciples alongthe way to amaze us, we are
missing those moments that ourhearts are burning within us. I
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want us to be able to identifythose moments, learn from others
and apply those lessons to ourlives so that we don't miss the
blessings that God has for usalong the way in our life
journey. former police officerAdam Davis was prepared to
commit suicide and ended allwhen he was dramatically saved
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in the front seat of his patrolcar. In this interview, you will
hear how God's call on his lifehas now helped 1000s of first
responders on the brink ofgiving up his books like behind
the badge, bulletproof marriageand prayers and promises for
first responders bringencouragement to people battling
fear, justice, peace, sacrifice,and many more topics. I'll get
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now here's my along the wayconversation with Adam Davis.
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Well, Adam Davis, it is apleasure to have you on along
the way we connected a littlebit ago with a charisma news
story that I was really touchedby the things that you were
sharing when you were you werereally talking about a book, a
devotional and kind of a God'spromises book that you had
written. And as you were sharingmore about your story and how
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that came about, I decided thatI needed to have you on along
the way to get the full storyabout how God has been moving in
your life. So Adam, it's greatto have you on along the way.
Thanks for being here.
Adam Davis (02:52):
Oh, absolutely.
John, thank you for having meon. And I'm really looking
forward to our time togethertoday.
John Matarazzo (02:57):
Yeah. So just as
a way of introduction, I know
you were a former policeofficer, and now you've written
several books. And we weretalking about the prayers and
promises for first respondersbook that you wrote. And I just
want to hear more of your story.
So Adam, how did God bring youto where you are today kind of
paint the picture of your lifeand where God brought you from
and what you're doing today?
Adam Davis (03:21):
Yeah, appreciate it.
John, you know, there's two wayswe overcome the overcome the
enemy, blood of the lamb and theword of our testimony. And, and
today, this is a punch in hismouth. It starts back when I was
a little boy, around five yearsold, of parents divorced. And I
was left in the care of an oldermale who was not a family member
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not related. And in the NHSCare, I was exposed to a really
hardcore pornography, andeventually become the sort of
guinea pig I guess, for him topractice all the things that he
watched. And so you know, a lotof abuse and a lot of things
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along those lines. It's justreally evil straight from the
pit of hell and parents rememberwhen my mother remarried, she
remarried a preacher so I grewup going to church now, I always
joke about it and say I was inchurch 1213 days a week. There
all the time, grew up, you know,Pentecostal and in then at 15, I
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was left in the care of amarried woman who was more than
twice my age, married withchildren and she was one of the
worship leaders of the churchand she would make me you know
daiquiris with alcohol and
John Matarazzo (04:48):
as a teenager
Adam Davis (04:51):
as a 15 year old
while I was in her care, better
home, and then we had a physicalsexual relationship that lasted
for, I guess around a year orso. I was snowed under it sounds
impossible to, you know, to bedeceived and manipulated and
something like that. And whenyou're told that it's God's plan
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for, you know, that God sent youto be a part of their healing
and blah, blah, blah, you know,it's, I look back. And I see
where I was being sort of, Iguess you could say groomed. And
in sort of desensitized tothings, and even though like, I
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guess the thing that really gotmy attention was down the road
and be just like somethingclicked, and I'm like, it
doesn't matter. What's going onthis, this is not right. This
is, you know, this is wrong.
It's just times of change. Youknow, if you brought it up now,
and it's a 15 year old boy wasin that situation, now the woman
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will go to prison, then theyslap your high five and tell you
good job and brush it under therug, and nobody talks about it.
And you know, and then at 18, Igot married, and I don't regret
getting married at 18, this fallwill be 22 years we've been
married. But at 18, I was, I wasreally messed up my perspective
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of relationships of what godlyand healthy sex look like, what
trust means, you know, I wasjust, I was really messed up.
And I didn't realize I mean, Ilook back now and realize that
then. Sure. So we fast forward afew years, and I had a lot of
bitterness. I mean, I had a lotof hatred in my heart, you know,
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for what happened to me on bothinstances. And shortly before
our first son was born, who wasgraduating from high school this
year, shortly before he wasborn. I just recognized hate in
my heart and bitterness, and,and I felt like, if I was going
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to be a good dad, you know, Ihad to address the hate and, and
the bitterness and just the the,it was just straight from the
pits of hell, the emotion that Ifelt. I wanted to kill the dude
that hurt me when I was a littleboy, I felt like he robbed me of
a childhood, of normalchildhood, right. And so I just
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call out to God, that we've beenpretty accustomed to trying to
carry my burdens on my home,which is a really stupid move.
I'll try it though, Vishal. Wehave some is already paid for.
We all do. But I started theprocess. And it started with
something like this. And this isreally complex. Okay, this is
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really complex. This is this ishow this is how my journey
started. It has been going onover 18 years now. I forgive
them. Yeah, I didn't feel anydifferent. The first time. I
didn't, you know, I don't feellike I forgave him. But looking
back, it was a step of faith inobedience in response to what
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God has called us to do. And soI began the forgiveness process
and after game after game, and Iforgave him, and I forgave him.
And somewhere around 2008 ishManish applied to become a law
enforcement officer. And how oldwere you? Oh, my goodness, see,
18. Late 20s weren't quite 30yet. And so, start my career in
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law enforcement. And I start offon night shift, patrol. And you
know, when I go, when I wentthrough the academy, I got
injured. There's a muscle thatruns from the side of your hip
down to your knee along theside, and I tore that, and a
little crutches, man, I thoughtmy faith was solid. I grew up
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going to church all the time.
Sidenote, going to churchdoesn't make you a strong
believer, going to churchdoesn't fill you with the power
of the Holy Ghost. In orderchurch doesn't cultivate the
gifts of the Holy Spirit, youwant a church is, it should be a
time of celebration with peoplewho are family. That's where
they're supposed to be. That'snot your feeding place. And so
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anyway, I thought I had justthis whole jacked up perception.
And the only person ever fat forme, was my dad. You know, going
through all that stuff. And Ilook back. And I think that, you
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know, the more that I've sharedthese, these points of pain for
me these experiences, the morethat it's helped other people
that have been carrying stufffor four or five, six decades,
talking about unforgiveness,talking about resentment. So
anyway, I started my career inlaw enforcement. I really felt
like that was where I was goingto be the rest of my life. I
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started off on that shift patrolwas moved to Asia patrol moved
to traffic homicide became FBItrained hostage negotiator,
eventually moved to criminalinvestigations were handled
different types of propertycrimes, and then was eventually
put over a number of sexoffenders. And my job was to
keep them in check. And Ienjoyed hunting sex offenders.
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Sure, I enjoyed hunting sixpredators, and it was probably
the highlight of my career,frankly, but I've never
mistreated them. But I showedthem zero grace and zero mercy.
Because I was wants that littleboy. And pill, the law did my
job. But somewhere along theway, I guess I lost myself, you
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know, and that's maybe hard forsome people to understand.
Because I grew up with what Ithought was a pretty solid,
moral compass, and I have theair quotes going up. But I was I
was trying to perform good forGod, I was trying to be good for
God, I was trying to live up toa set of rules and regulations
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and laws. And it was in theburdens were too heavy, nobody
walked me down. And I starteddrinking pretty heavy every
night, and was unfaithful to mywife. And I never did anything
as a cop to dishonor the badgeother than, you know, basically
being an alcoholic and anadulterer. And I found myself
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separated from my wife, and mykids got to know she was my best
friend. But I become completelyand totally emotionally numb. No
conscious, I was seeking thatrush. Like everybody tries to
seek, you know, at differentdifferent ways, you know, and it
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led me to a Sunday was workingovertime and pull over to a
parking lot of an abandoned gasstation, just south of town, my
uniform marked patrol car, blackand white lights, everything. I
pulled out my assault arm, Ilaid it on my leg. And
I said, Hey, I don't know whereyou're at. I don't know if you
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can hear me.
But I'm tired of interrogatingyou. I'm tired of the fatten.
I'm tired of the burdens. I'mtired of feeling hopeless. I'm
tired of feeling helpless. I'mdone. This is it. But if you
have something if you can doanything with my life, if you
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can do anything with me, you canhave it. Otherwise I'm out. And
we got around in the chamber.
And the way the farm functions,there's not a there's not a
safety and you know, cockpit oranything, I just ran through one
of the chambers good. And I'mgonna tell you something. Have a
hug. My wife and my childrenhave felt the embrace of friends
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and family. All across thiscountry. I have been in church
services from a very young age,but nothing, nothing compared to
the love that embraced me inthat patrol car that day. And I
think too often we get caught upin saying a short prayer on
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Sunday, and then go on to dealwith the devil on Monday.
Instead of equipping ourselves,and understanding I'll go back
to this. One of those nights Iwas drinking this was this was
like a this was a tuggingprocess is a little drawing and
a wooing and a luring this verygraphic and I'll try to be
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clean. But I was I drank a lotand I was going to total it
vomiting. And and there was thislittle voice that said, there's
nothing you can do to change mylove for you. There's nothing
you can do to change my love foryou. And I'd had two dreams
prior to this moment in the carbecause I was interrogating God
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that's that's a really arrogantthing to say, I get that it's
like, probably worst of theworst. It wasn't on his
existence. It was you know, areyou really good? And are you
really love that you know whatlove is? Do you see the same
things that I'm seeing? And Ithink you know, I was I was
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raised and taught not to ask Godwhy and not to question God. But
the more I've you know, sort ofboldly lay those things out
before him the more I'vediscovered that He is a God who
was very gracious, and he iskind and he is good. And he has
perfect love. And he is bigenough and strong enough to
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handle our most absolutelyignorant questions so that we
can come up with. And but it'sin the asking in the seeking
that I discovered a perfectlove. And it was in my moment of
absolute complete and totalbrokenness, that I discovered a
living God who cared about memore than I could ever love
myself, because I didn't lovemyself, and I become totally
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numb. And you know, that day,something drastically changed.
Everything wasn't made perfectthat day, there wasn't like, you
know, the, the clouds didn'tclear in the sunshine through
there were still things to dealwith. But I thank God, they
restored my marriage, and thatHe redeemed me. And but
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something clicked that day. Andinstead of drinking from that
point forward, I went home, andI sat down, and I began to
write. And I would just dumpeverything that was in my head
from that day, I would just layit all down. And, and one night,
shortly after the events ofFerguson, Missouri, we were, we
were getting hammered pretty badwith calls and different things.
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And it was it was really roughat one point, but
John Matarazzo (16:19):
where were you?
At that time?
Adam Davis (16:22):
I was saying
department, South Alabama. And
and so in that moment, like, Iwas sick of seeing all the hate
on the news, against lawenforcement. And I sat down to
write that night. And literally,same way I was on a patrol car,
I said, Hey, how are ya? I don'tknow if you can hear me. But
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who's going to help us? Who'sgonna speak to us who's gonna
love us? And that same voicethat said, you can learn nothing
you can ever do to change mylove for you said, write a book.
And I thought that maybe thatwas a result of something that I
had eaten within the past 24hours. And so again, I went back
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to this argument interrogatingGod and I was like, you know,
you've got the wrong guy. hadbeen on the job. 35 years, I've
been here for six, or whateverit was at the time. I don't have
a PhD amount of chaplain, not apastor, not a preacher. You got
the wrong guy. But because of myprevious experience of
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interrogating, and wrestling,and all that wonderful,
absolutely idiotic thing thatdid. I had learned to tap out
earlier. And so I wrote it. AndI self published a book. And I
designed the cover and I learnedhow to design it. And I learned
how to do all the things and I'mnot going to mention the name of
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it, because bless its heart. Idid what I knew how to do it.
But it got the attention of apublisher that was released in
2015. I believe. I left lawenforcement in the fall of 2015.
We got my first major book deal.
That book released in May of2018. So I got the deal in early
2017. And that book was was theone that all publisher said
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nobody is going to buy becauseit's two matches for cops,
nobody can buy. And it's stillourselves. Every other book that
I've done, how like,significantly, it's reached
somewhere in the neighborhood of60,000 labs that I'm aware of
like that I can count for Jesusfor His kingdom, and it's led a
lot of people to him. And we'vewritten a book on marriage
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called bulletproof marriage andspiritual warfare called
spiritual combat. I've coauthored with a force recon
Marine throughout a dailydevotion for military called
behind the lands that helped himtell his story, a book called
fat for us published by Nelsonbooks, and then just prayers and
promises released about sixmonths ago, and just finished my
book, which released early nextyear called unconquered. And so
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this has all led me to a placewhere I look back and you know,
there's days I feel reallyguilty for leaving law
enforcement. But at the end ofthe day, this is an eternal
mission. This is somethingthat's a really a lot bigger
than myself and continuing tolearn every day because I'm a
really slow learner, that headmits it when he said, bring
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your burdens bring me the weightthat you carry, that even means
childhood trauma, or adulthoodtrauma, that means all types of
trauma. That means your pastsins, that means the burdens you
carry, that means the guilt, theshame, that means everything you
know, and and there's been somany more pieces to that puzzle,
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but the greatest breakthrough Iever found was in a place of
surrender and obedience to Him.
You can have all the things inthis world but a few Don't live
surrendered to Him, it's a wasteso true. I mean, there's really
no reason to live except forhim. And if we're not doing
things daily that have aneternal, you know, impact, we're
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really wasting the time that wehave. And it's really short.
Ben. So I've put out I thinkthere's nine books out now and
speak across the country, mentorlaw enforcement officers and
other first responders coachthem and been able to touch
1000s of marriages, and helpssave 1000s of marriages. I don't
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know how many suicides havebeen, you know, stopped, and how
many law enforcement officersstayed on the job. I know that
we've reached around 100,000 forhis kingdom, since May of 2018,
that I can count that's, youknow, that I can count just in
books. And my goal is, is 5million over the next five
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years, I think we're about tohit a, a place where it's, it's
going to begin to exponentiallygrow. I mean, you know, and, and
it's, it's one of those thingswhere I've had so many guys say,
Dude, I wouldn't share Iwouldn't share everything that
you've shared. But here's thereason why I do it. Because just
like share and the abuse fromchildhood, teenage years,
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my sins as an adult, when I talkabout how I overcame that, and
how God redeemed me and how Iover you know, work through that
it sets people free man, becausethere's people living in in
isolation because of theirceiling. And that's what the
enemy wants, he wants to ask,select your show, he can destroy
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you. And, but, you know, pray toGod that, uh, that He delivered
me from from, from alcohol,needing it every single night
just to feel somewhat normal.
That He redeemed me andreconciled my marriage and, and
then it gave revealed to me agift that he'd used to touch
others. So out of pain camepurpose and in tremendous power.
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And so I'm on a mission to touchas many people as I can with
with their gospel and to leadthem to a laugh. That's really
and truly than unconquered laughthat you understand that you
never lose. When you're on hisside.
John Matarazzo (22:17):
Amen. Amen. You
know, Adam, the, you talked
about growing up, and thisdealing with the sexual abuse
and how that was a huge, hugething that you just had to deal
with growing up and then thenyou've got to be on the other
side of it, where you weren'tthe abuser, but you were then
going after the abusers as apolice officer, you know, you
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had this, this pain and thisthis wound in your life? How did
God heal you of that? Can we canwe talk about that a
Adam Davis (22:49):
little bit. It's, I
don't know how to put it into
words. I didn't talk to atherapist at all. Until one of
the first time I ever talked toa block of lessons. Legit trauma
therapist was last year. Wow,almost almost 40 years old. So.
And her exact words, she'sspirit field believer, she
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literally at the end of oursession, she said it is a
testament to the faithfulnessand goodness of God, how he has
preserved you because you are amiracle. It is a miracle that
you're able to function and todo what you're doing. There's
like, I know a lot of peoplethat have been through this, and
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they're not in as good a placeas you are. So I'm gonna be
honest with you. I wish that Iwish that I knew. You know, I
know. I know a number of thingsin those. I don't know exactly
how He healed me. But I do knowthis. I know that it required me
to acknowledge that there waspain. Because I tried to pretend
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the techniques didn't exist. AndI think that's normal for most
people, maybe especially men.
But I tried to pretend it didn'texist. So I had to acknowledge
the pain. Because ignoring itdidn't make it get any better.
It just made it get worse, justlike an infected wound. And I
had to begin to seek Him. Notfor the healing, but for who he
is. I learned that I couldn'tcontrol what people had done to
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me. But I could control how Iresponded going forward. Right?
And then I can no longer livetrying to control and manipulate
all the circumstances andorchestrate my life to do what
he's given me to do in thismoment. Take the next step and
surrender everything else tohim. You know, and if he's a lot
of my life, he's he owns everystep in the orders or steps he
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owns. Man, you know, those arejust the first three thing that
you know that's there's 10things that I call the
unconquered code, and they areall they're all born out of.
That's what the new book that'scoming out next year is based on
Is my testimony, but it's basedon these principles. And it's, I
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look back in January, I'mwriting the book and I would
write my testimony, write thestory and finish the book. I'm
like, man, there's just, there'ssomething missing, like, you
making a meal and you taste it,you're like, what is missing?
In short, I'm sitting here, itwas like, one of those clear
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screens popped up where youcould see the white chalk going
across it, or white ink orwhatever it is. And it was
unconquered code, and bam, therethey were. And the number one
thing is acknowledged pain,okay, I'm hurting, and I don't
understand it. You don't have tounderstand that. Acknowledge
that you're hurting, acknowledgethe pain, acknowledge there's a
trauma, there's an experience ofhow you respond to it. And all
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right, I'm gonna seek Him andask Him to guide me down this
path. And it really became aplace of intimacy with the
Father, and not seeking him forno financial provision, not
seeking Him for opportunities,not seeking Him for any other
thing except, Hey, show me whoyou are. reveal Yourself to me.
Because in the revealing, thehealing just happens. Right?
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When you when you see who he is,in that moment in the revealing
things just happen. And it justlike the peace that surpasses
all understanding, there's ahealing that takes place. But
healing sometimes is it takestime. And I think that I'm still
on a on this path of healing. Idon't think it'll ever change.
Because I think that every timethat I share my testimony, I
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think that every time I go, it'sspeaking in front of an
audience. Every time that I getto coach somebody, or talk to
somebody one on one, I thinkthat that is part of their
healing. And I think writingthis book on Concord that comes
out early next year, is I saythat because I wanted to get
confused for prayers andpromises. at all, you know, I
think that's a major steppingstone. And sort of closing that
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chapter. And, and I think theenemy wants to silence us when
we're hurting, he wants toisolate it. He wants to
discourage us. You know, hecomes to kill, steal, destroy,
but he does show up and do itall at once. Most of the time.
He's very strategic about he'svery tactical about it. And when
you understand how the enemyworks, and some of his
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strategies and tactics, then youcan better recognize them in
your own life, you can see thathe's trying to discourage you.
Here you can see how he bringsabout anxiety and how he gets
you into a state of depression.
And you can also see how theworship brings you into a place
of complete peace. It brings youinto a place of joy, it brings
you into a place of abundantlife, you know, it's just
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getting our eyes focused in theright place. And so the healing
man has taken time, it's takentime and it happened through
surrender, in the break in thebrokenness of them beautiful,
which was birthed. I'm justreally classy redneck from South
Alabama. I'm not a theologian. Idon't have a Masters of
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divinity. I'm just, it's achildlike faith. I don't
understand what's going tohappen next. I don't know what's
gonna happen next. I just knowto trust him with every step.
John Matarazzo (28:10):
You man, amen.
And trusting him with every stepis very important, especially in
seasons of transition. And, youknow, you talked about the fact
that you were a police officerfor six years, and I'm sure you
didn't plan on being a policeofficer for just six years. It
seemed like that was somethingthat you really, really enjoyed
doing. You felt called todeliver that? How was it that
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God called you out of that? Andtell me about that process a
little bit more? I know, youmentioned it briefly, in the
earlier part of this interview.
But, you know, for me,transitions have always been
like, I need God to move andreally show me that this is the
right thing to do. Especiallywhenever you're leaving a
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season, that's not a bad season.
No,
Adam Davis (28:56):
absolutely. You
know, and I put this out there
most of the time, if you made aveteran, I was served in the
military armed forces forwhether it'd be four years, six
years, 10 years or 20 years, youshake their hand and what do you
say? Thank you, thank you foryour service.
John Matarazzo (29:11):
Thank you for
your service.
Adam Davis (29:13):
If somebody serves
four years, six years as a cop,
and they don't retire, becausethey think that I got in trouble
or something bad happened, or,you know, I couldn't hack it or
whatever I was, I was wanting toclimb the ranks in whether that
meant climbing the ranks withinmy department or go to a state
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or federal level. And I wasmaking, I think, $45,000 my best
year, and that was an average ofabout 55 hours a week. That was
my regular duty time plus overtime. My wife's homeschooled our
kids for a very long time. Sothat's her full time job. And so
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that started after I wrotespirit and truth. I learned how
I designed my website or learnhow to do self publishing and
learn how to do the books. Ilearned how to format them. And,
and I had people start to reachout and say, Hey, can you help
me with this? Can you help mewith that? And I remember in the
fall, early fall of 2015, I hadnearly $30,000 In business
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waiting for me to get to it.
Wow. And I had people ask me tocome speak in different parts of
the country, I had bookshelvesrolling out. And then here I am.
I'm like, I can't do all this.
There's literally only 24 hoursin a day. There's only seven
days in a week, and I'mstruggling to keep up. And
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somewhere deep down, I don'tknow how. But I knew that being
a law enforcement officer wouldbe for a season, I didn't know
how long the season was, in my,in my mind, my heart, like my
desire was that season wouldlast 25 years, 30 years. I
didn't know it was gonna be sixyears. You know, I gotta post
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Sunday morning, God had restoredour marriage. And I remember
waking up and putting on myuniform. And like, we're sitting
here talking that same voicethat said, there's nothing you
can do to change my love for yousaid, today's the day. And I
knew what it meant. My wife satup in the bed and she said, Hey,
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today's the day. And I said, Oh,you heard it, too. She said,
heard what. So I went and fillout the form and turned in my
notice with tears running downmy face, and received a lot of
flack for walking away from asecure job with government
retirement and great, greatbenefits. With a wife who
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doesn't bring any income in, sheworked hard, and homeschooling
our kids and taking care ofthem. But the very first month,
my income was tripled. Wow, it'snever been less than double what
I made as a cop in a month.
There, there's been hard timesthere's been feast or famine.
But God has proven Himselffaithful and good. Time and time
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and time and time and timeagain. And so I guess that it's
in the obedience, it's in thewillingness to take, the next
step is in the willingness tocut, and prune and grow in even
when you don't understand what'shappening, or why or where
you're going. You know, I've gotevents coming up. And I'm
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talking to different groups thatare outside of my area of
expertise. And I'm like, I don'tget this, like, I don't know why
they want me to come over here.
But God has, you know, what I'm,I'm going, and I don't know
what's in it, I don't know whyI'm gonna go. And I'm gonna do
it. And so it was in thattransition. And of course, my
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wife was supportive, she wasbehind it. I've gone on to help.
Probably 42 people across thecountry, and I've advertised it
probably once or twice in asocial media post. And at one
time, I had a website for it,but I didn't, you know, there's
no traction to it. But I'vehelped more than 40 people self
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publish their books. Some ofthem have gotten traditional
publishing contracts afterwards,God's given me a very unique
strategy to help people actuallysell books. The average self
published author sales, about250 copies in the lifetime of
the book. And the last one thatreleased sold 1000. In the first
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probably 60 days.
I've had some sale made 230 daysand some even more than that.
But being able to be agatekeeper and help people get
in that door, because I rememberwhere I was at, I remember every
literary agent that ignored meor rejected me every publisher
that said, No, four dozen ofthem that said, No, or it's not
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a good fit or whatever. And, andthen I remember the sharks and
the predators that I cameacross, he wanted to charge me
$50,000. And I was like, youknow, what, if I can not only
use my gift, but multiply it,that's what it means to be a
good steward. And so I wanted tomultiply the gift and help
others, you know, exercise thatyou have to use it in the right
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way without being takenadvantage of, and so that I
don't know how many websitesI've done, how many people I've
spoken to and from platformedand in churches across the
country, but I can tell you thischildlike faith is the most
powerful faith there is. Andit's the the simplicity of the
gospel is absolutely genius.
Because there's so much thathappens when we just surrender
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and and say I don't have tounderstand that with my
intellectual mind. I just chooseto believe that's what I said
the car that day. As I said, Ichoose to believe now I
understand that demons believethat the enemy knows the
Scripture better than we do. Soif we only believe and know
scripture, what makes usdifferent than the enemy of our
soul, he has chosen to notsurrender. So if you're living a
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life where you've notsurrendered to Him, and you
know, scripture, and you know,you believe in God, we're no
different than the demons ofhail. You walk in a powerless
walk, you have a form ofreligion, there's no power
behind it, there's no meat,there's no teeth. They're just a
toothless lion roaring aboutwith no power whatsoever. And so
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the real power comes in thedaily surrender, there's not a
there's not a prayer that youcan pray, this is going to set
you free. It is a lifestyle ofcommunicating with a living God,
it is a lifestyle of dailysurrender to Him, it is a
decision every single day to getup and walk in victory, because
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of who your king is, you know,and understanding that, yes,
there's gonna be trouble in thisworld. There's gonna be pain in
this world, but there's one whohas come and he's overcome the
world. And so he, he blazed thepath before you had given
everything you need. And it gaveus a comforter, in the form of
the Holy Spirit. And so I thinka lot of us stop this enough.
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But we stop at the point ofpraying a prayer of salvation,
and we fail to walk into thepower of the Holy Spirit, and
the depth of the knowledge ofHis Word. And when we do those
things, it really changes, itreally changes the dynamics,
because then you can be areally, really powerful force to
be reckoned with. Inhale willknow your name, I'd venture to
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say there's a lot of us thatattend church that hell doesn't
even have our name on the radar.
I want to be on the most wantedlist and Hill. And a buddy of
mine said, I'd rather set up atriage at the gates of hell,
then set up a triage in achurch, I want to be the one
that's going out into into thedarkest, most violent places in
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this world reaching those whoserve us with the gospel. You
know, because I was cynical, I'manalytical by nature, that how
he's made me. And it's insurrender, where everything has
changed.
John Matarazzo (37:20):
Amen, amen. You
know, I love this whole thing of
surrender that you've reallyfocused on. And that's so true,
you know, the demons believethat they're not surrendered.
And that's a really gooddistinction between somebody
that is walking with the Lordthat knows the scriptures versus
somebody that's not. And I'mjust grateful that you are able
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to minister to our lawenforcement officers, people
that have served in, you know,first responders and military
and you're able to speak from aposition where there's more
respect, because you've had thatexperience, you know, sometimes
it's, it's easier to listen tosomebody that you can say, oh,
yeah, I respect them. They, theyknow what they're talking about,
(38:05):
rather than somebody that's justread it in a book somewhere. And
that's amazing that you havethis opportunity, and God's
given you this platform. Andhe's just, it seems like he's
just opened up these amazingdoors, I would like to hear some
stories of I mean, the whateveryou can about just how God has
used you to bring a life changeto somebody or has really
(38:27):
encouraged them. Because you'vesaid, You've had a lot of people
that have, you know, they'vegone, they've been restored, or
just want to hear some of thosestories.
Adam Davis (38:36):
You know, most of
this happens. I've gotten calls
at 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock,midnight, on a Friday night or
Saturday night, say, my wife ormy husband have, you know, this
has happened. And to this day,through circumstances, when most
people would be divorced. Theirtheir marriage is thriving. The
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ones who came to me and said, Icame to hear you speak, to check
off a box. But I had allintentions of turning into my
gear tomorrow and walking away.
And you reminded me, there'speople were fighting for, I
think probably, I have to thinkthere's so many that stick out
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in my mind. And I want torespect their privacy, of
course. But I think back some ofthe most powerful moments are
right after I've finishedspeaking. And you know, I've got
a book table set up at the backor whatever, and they come up
and they say, Hey, can I talk toyou? And I had one recently walk
up to me and he said, can I talkto you in private? And I not
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eating lunch and not eat supper?
I've been talking, talking andsigning books for like four
hours. And this guy walked upand he just started weeping. And
he said, you hit a nerve withme. I said, Okay, so what is I
(40:10):
still am a retired cop. Thankyou. So what I'm about to tell
you I've healed and for over 60years, I've never shared this
with the counselor, or thepastor with a chaplain, nobody,
and began to talk about abuse asa child. And then how he felt
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it, to blame for that, to blamefor the divorce to blame for the
deaths of his partners on duty,the, to blame for all these
things. And for an hour and ahalf, God allowed me the
opportunity to minister to him,he walked with a totally
different man, totally differentman. Because he was rid of the
shame. He was rid of the guilt.
And he was set free by the powerof Jesus. You know, and I think
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about the ones that have calledme, the ones that have text me
and, and I literally just givethem a triage them right, a tree
of spiritual triage, the onesthat call and said, Hey, I've
been medically retired. I'm noteven 30 years old. This is all I
know, what do I do? Where's mypurpose? are the one who heard
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my story and said, Monday wasthe day for me. Monday was it,
my wife's gonna be gone, we'regetting ready to file for
divorce. I'm in trouble at work.
I'm done. Monday was the day.
I've thought about it, and I'mready to die in my life, but you
said something today. To set mefree. It reminded me that I have
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a purpose for living. And so Imean, really, ah, I gotta be
honest, I get some sort of arush. When stuff like that
happens, man, like I used togive them a drill and rush when
I'm driving 120 miles an hour ofhigh speed chase, or in a foot
pursuit or in a fight, you'redrilling goes through the roof,
(42:03):
I get some kind of a rush whensomebody says, your willingness
to be vulnerable. Created amoment for me, where I'm now
changed forever. I rememberbeing on a on a ranch I'm not
gonna mention were very private,very large ranch. And there was
a lot of very special men.
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They're very powerful, verydangerous man. And I remember
this one guy walking up to meand and some of the most
powerful men who walked thisplanet. And this guy walked up
to me and he was drinkingwhiskey by the handle. Wow. And
he said, Who are you with a fewexpletives entered? And I told
(42:47):
him and he said, Why are youhere? Who would like to hear
that? I told him who invited me.
And they said, What do you do?
And I said, I'm just a writer.
I'm a former cop, and I'm awriter. So what'd you say your
name was?
It came back and he was like,Don't you move? And then he goes
(43:09):
to a room in the house where bystay in the cabin or whatever.
It comes back. And he has mybulletproof marriage, really?
And he was like, Would you mindsitting down with me and talking
to me. And so with whiskey andbeer flow and like water, we sat
down, and we were able to talkand I was able to share with him
(43:31):
and able, you know, I had themoment, you know, a brief moment
to speak with some authority onthe speed by which he was
consuming alcohol, and thequantity by which you were
consuming and volume. And so Idon't always see the harvest. I
know that I spoke in a place anda very large casino, a very
(43:53):
large casino in the Northeastlast year. At a place that
wasn't it wasn't obviously not areligious event. It was not a
faith based event. Sure. Ispoke. Got a market ScotRail
who's a dear friend of mine, heintroduced me beforehand, and
then I get up to speak
John Matarazzo (44:09):
because they're
lone survivor, right? Yeah.
That's that's his book. LoneSurvivor. Yeah, yeah.
Adam Davis (44:13):
And so here's my
buddy, Adam Davis in the back of
the room. He's got a book table.
He's about to speak Ellis andwhat he's got to say. And for
nearly an hour, 1300 cops fromacross the country sat on the
edge of their seat and listenedto every word. And I was told
beforehand, don't share anythingabout your faith because they're
going to devour you if you do.
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And somewhere something clickedinside of me. I've been offered
deals north of one and a halfmillion dollars for different
programs I've created fordifferent talks for different
books, resources, whatever. If Iwould just remove any mention of
Jesus any major of Scripture andmake it universe and something
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rose up inside of me in thatmoment in front of nearly 1300
ops. And I said a lot of youprobably wonder how they
overcame these things. A lot ofyou probably wonder how I've
gotten to where I am today. AndI said, I have a best friend
who's really powerful. And hisname is Jesus. And I laid it out
(45:22):
there. So there is no lifewithout him. In the you know, we
got Muslims in the room, we'vegot atheists in the room, we've
got agnostics in the room, we'vegot Buddhists in the room, we've
got pretty much a mix of everyreligion you can think of. And
for seven hours, after Ifinished speaking that day, at
(45:44):
4pm, roughly, for seven hours, Ishared the gospel with cops, one
on one, gosh, I signed books, Itook pictures, I shared the
gospel, I coached and mentored Ipour it just it was ministry.
And I finished and I felt likeyou know, one of those wet rags
after you rinse it out, you getall the water out, you just
(46:05):
sling it down. I was done. I wasdone. But for seven hours, we
planted seen, and I mean, to seethe gods were real, real hope,
real power. And there's been alot of fruit that come out of
that moment of bravery. And Ithink they're gonna let me go
(46:26):
back and speak at the one inTennessee coming early next
year. So, you know, I could, Icould we could spend all week,
you know, I'm trying, trying tobe vague on some of them just to
protect the privacy, or somebodyto hear their story on there.
But there's, there's so manywhether they've been shot the
line of duty, and they reachedout I had one that was in the
shooting reached out to me theday after. And he's on a path to
(46:48):
healing. He is at work in a bigway. And it's beyond my ability
to comprehend, understand orfathom. I don't want to I just
want to be the guy that says yesto him every step of the way.
John Matarazzo (46:59):
Amen. Being the
guy that says yes, to him every
step of the way. You know, thewhole theme of this podcast is
called along the way basedaround the Emmaus road story of
how the disciples were along theway walking from Jerusalem to a
May us, which is roughly someseven miles. And you know,
they're walking along andthey're the here comes this
(47:19):
traveler along with them. Andthey're just walking step by
step. And he comes, he's justasked him, Why, why are you
downtrodden? They tell him, theyjust start talking with them.
And he explains the scripturesto them about why the Messiah
had to suffer why Jesus had tosuffer and die. And they get to
Emmaus, and the Bible says thathe would have walked on, but
(47:40):
they invited him. They invitehim. And they sit down at the
table. And it's Jesus indisguise. And they don't realize
it until this moment where theysit down at the table, Jesus
blesses the food, he breaks thebread, their eyes are open, and
then poof, he's gone. And thenLuke 2432, they turn to each
(48:01):
other and say, weren't ourhearts burning within us along
the way as he was revealing theScriptures to us? You know, you
talked throughout this, thisinterview so far, just all these
different steps that you'vetaken, and now God's led you.
And now you're you just want tobe taking those simple steps
with him. And just being thatguy that says yes. But as you
(48:22):
look back at your life, and I'msure there's, there's tons of
moments. Where do you now seeJesus walking with you that you
didn't see in that moment?
Adam Davis (48:31):
Oh, man, he's the
one who has my back, when I have
to face some dark hours, ifthere's a bad memory that comes
up, or if something sort of setsoff anxiety, or I remember going
through trauma therapy. And thelady said, can you put a shape
or a figure? Do you see thefigure shape in in the pain that
(48:54):
you feel in the thought so thatsaid, it's just a silhouette of
somebody? And it's, you know,it's just like, I can't see a
color? It's just a darksilhouette? And she said, What
do you feel? I said, absolutepure terror, evil. And so we
went through a series of things.
And then she said, what are youwhat are you here? I said, I
hear the voice of my father. Andshe said, What is he saying? He
(49:18):
said, Let's go. We got to dealwith this. But I got your back.
And he is my ultimate. He goesbefore me. It goes behind me.
And he has protected me inliterally, like literal ways,
literal moments of danger. He'sprotected me from some really
(49:40):
stupid decisions. He is my bestfriend. And moments where no one
else reaches out or no one elseknows. Something I'm going
through or the close. This canbecome a very heavy burden to
carry if you try to carry it onyour own and Avoiding trying to
make any of this about me, buthe is my best friend. You know,
(50:03):
he like as a cop. You wanted agreat backup partner that was
going to fight with you in afight. And he's not only my
great backup partner, he's theprimary officer, the chief, the
one who goes before me. And youknow what he is the one sounds
so cliche, but he makes the wayfor me. And I don't want to go
(50:26):
to any place in this world,where he doesn't go before me,
he is my shield. He is mysalvation, He is my portion. And
when I am in need, when I'mweak, he is everything. When I'm
strong, he is everything. He isthe foundation on which I stand.
(50:47):
His Grace has sustained methrough moments that most many
people have already beendestroyed. And I'm so grateful.
And I'm not a deep theologian,if any of my words touch the
soul of another human being, andprompt them to a closer
relationship with my best friendin it, because the power of His
(51:10):
Word is unchanging. It isbecause that he is a God who
remains the same forever. And,you know, just like the
strategies of our enemy, neverchange. And neither does our
Victor, the king. He is a mightywarrior. A lot of people may see
God as someone who who has hisfinger on a red button waiting
(51:32):
to destroy you. Or maybe you seehim as old feeble guy. But
that's not who he is. That's notwho he is at all. He's coming
back. And when it comes back, heis not going to be it's not
going to be a moment where yousee some, you know, really old
feeble, white haired whitebeard. He is coming back like a
(51:56):
roar in line. And he loves you.
And there's absolutely nothingyou could do to change his love
for you. And I'm going to tellyou this, and I know you've
we're running out of time, but Iwas talking to a friend of mine
who's retired law enforcementofficer out of California. And
(52:17):
we were joking. He is cared for,for a family member who has
severe dementia, like stagedementia and and I said, Dude, I
was like, I don't want to everbe a burden to people out there.
I mean, literally, if somethinglike that happens, throw me into
a pit a line for sharks oralligators. And he was like, but
you can't as well. You mean, Ican't just joke and he's like,
(52:41):
No, you can't. He said, Jesuswent all the way. When he could
have called on a host of angelsto rescue him out of that. He
chose to go all the way to thefinish line. He said, so if you
end up prematurely, you haven'tfollow the steps of just the one
you call Savior and Lord. Andman that hit me like a ton of
(53:03):
bricks. Yeah, who am I to cutshort my journey when I wanted
to. And that's the thing. Iwanted to die more than I wanted
to live. At the end, I wanted todie more than I wanted to live.
And now I recognize that was thevoice of the enemy of my soul.
He didn't want me to live, hedidn't want me to be married.
(53:27):
And let me tell you something.
If you're dealing with thisstuff today, and you're
listening to this, there's helpthere's hope. This is not the
end for you. There is a God wholoves you. He is ALIVE and He is
well he is not weak. He is notpassive about his love for you.
And if you will call on him, Istand by the promise of His
Word, He will not fail you ifyou will call on the name of
(53:50):
Jesus, because the holy spiritis alive and well. And he will
move he will not fail. He is nota respecter of persons. If
you'll call on Him and give yourlife till he'll change
everything. I'm thankful that heredeemed me. And I want you to
know something. You gotta go allthe way. You gotta go all the
way to the finish line. And, andhe'll give you strength when
(54:13):
you're weary. He'll give yourest when you need it. He'll
give you the opportunities he'llprovide every need. If you'll
call on him. He'll changeeverything about your so if I
had one piece of advice foranyone, law enforcement, other
first responders, anybody welive in perilous times. call on
the name of Jesus. There aretimes where people will
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compromise for the sake ofsecurity for the sake of
finances for the sake ofopportunity. I'm going to tell
you it even will even haven'tbeen attacked for speaking
truth. I'm going to tell you,there is no other way but Jesus.
If you will call on the name ofJesus, He will not fail you If
you will call on the name ofJesus, if you will be so
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desperate for Jesus, as you are,for a drink of water, for the
next breaths, it will be sodesperate for him as you are the
things of this world that youhave been, your life will be so
changed that you won't evenrecognize where you're at. The
person that I was 10 years agowas not the man I am today. A
man is not and I thank God forthat. Not thank God for that. So
(55:24):
quite simply call on Jesus.
Amen. Amen. He will respond andhe will not fail you.
John Matarazzo (55:32):
You know, Adam,
at this point, and I normally
ask people, the my follow upquestion of if you could go back
in time and visit yourself andgive yourself a piece of advice.
From what you know now, what youwould you go back in time and
say, I'm going to hold off onthat for just a second. Because
I feel like right now is a holymoment. And you just been
(55:53):
talking about calling on Jesusand calling out to him? Would
you lead somebody in a prayerright now and just pray for
people that, that what you'vebeen saying during this almost
hour has been really tugging ontheir hearts, I don't want to I
don't want to let this momentpass by just because of some
time. I want to give you theopportunity to pray with
(56:14):
somebody to lead them. And yeah,just this is a holy moment right
now. We'll get to that otherquestion in a moment.
Adam Davis (56:22):
Heavenly Father, I
come before you today. And I'm
so thankful for your Son, Jesus.
I'm so thankful for the bloodthat he shed for me.
I'm so thankful for yourgoodness for your love. Thank
you for the cross. Thank you forsitting in the absolute best for
(56:44):
me. And all those friends whoare listening. You know, the
desperation that I came to youwith, and that I still come to
you with. And I've told you somany times, I can't do this life
without you. I know that there'speople that put on a great show.
(57:07):
But deep down, they're hopeless.
Lord. I know that you're not arespecter of persons. I know
that what you did for me, you'lldo for anybody. And I'm just
asking you today for that one,the one who's listening? Will
you reveal your love to them ina way that will change them
forever? If you can redeem ahard hearted, cynical, wretched
(57:31):
man of a cop. You can touchanybody. And I know what I'm
asking you today. Dispatch yourspirit. There are people who are
hurting. And there's one whohears these words and I pray
that you will begin to stir intheir heart. Stir in those
(57:53):
emotions that have beenexperiencing pain for years.
Stir up and intervene. interruptthose intrusive thoughts. Your
words dance true. You neverchange. Father washed me with
the blood of your son. Cover mebefore battle. Empower Me with
(58:17):
your spirit. Cleanse me, forgiveme. For all of my sins known and
unknown. Satan, you're a liar. Iknow what you speak to people. I
know the words you tell them forlimitlessly. You speak into
(58:39):
their ears, you whisper. You'dbe better off dead. You should
have never been born. You'resuch a burden, your mistake.
You're worthless. Look at whatyou've done with your life. I
know what you say to him. Butyou're a liar. And I don't know
(59:01):
who all hears this. And I don'tknow where they're at and laugh
but there's one. And I'm tellingyou, you're a liar. The truth of
God's word stands the test oftime. The blood of His Son Jesus
covers their ears, their minds,their emotions, their lives,
their families. They're coveredby the blood. And as they call
(59:22):
on the living God, as they callon the mighty king and the
mighty warrior Jesus as the callon his power, the power of His
Holy Spirit, the Comforter, youwill have to flee. You were
powerless. You were defeated.
And you know it. Take your handsoff those people. Take your
(59:46):
hands off of their emotions.
Take your hands off their eyes.
Take your hands off theirhearts, take your hands off
their ears. You defeated foe andgo back to where you came from.
And take all your minions withyou Not on my watch. Heavenly
Father, I thank you today forvictory in the hearts and lives
(01:00:07):
of those that are dealing withhopelessness, that are dealing
with worry that are dealing withanxiety that are dealing with
depression, depression, or anyother mental battle, spiritual
battle, relational battle,financial battle, you are the
victor, you are the hero of mystory. And I asked you to rise
strong and become the hero oftheirs. Deliver victory. Stir up
(01:00:31):
hope, once again, in the heartof every man and woman in this
nation. Reza Rick, the church,the body in America, resurrect
the burning fire of who you arein the heart of every man and
woman, boy and girl, fromschool, house to courthouse,
from playground, to bars, tojail houses to police
(01:00:53):
departments and fire houses, inthe cars on the way to work to
home everywhere in between HolySpirit begin to stir and move
draw men and women to you.
Because I believe following youshould be the way and it is the
way do what you do. I'll leavethe rest up to you. In Jesus
name. Amen. Amen.
John Matarazzo (01:01:16):
Amen. Thank you
so much, Adam. Absolutely. I
really feel God's anointing onthat prayer and covers so much
right there. My question that Igotta I gotta wrap up here with
is, you know, Adam, if you couldgo back in time and visit
yourself at a younger age,knowing what you know, now, what
advice would you give yourself?
What's going on in your life atthat time that you would want to
(01:01:39):
receive that,
Adam Davis (01:01:40):
I would go back and
I would say, Adam, there's going
to be people who hurt you inthis world. There's going to be
people who try to manipulate youin this world. And you may never
see a devil with horns or aweird looking tail or a
pitchfork. But He uses people,but in the very same manner.
When people say yes to God, theybecome his hands and feet. So
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you may experience pain, youwill experience trouble, people
may do you wrong. But that isnot a reflection of who God is.
Keep your feet moving, no matterhow bad the storm rages, keep
your feet moving towards Jesus,call him when the pain becomes
unbearable, call on him. Whenthe thoughts seem to be
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crashing, you call on him. Youcan't control what other people
do. But you can control how yourespond one day, you won't be a
little boy anymore. One day youwill be a man. And when you
become a man, you can fightback. And that's exactly what
you're gonna do. Surrenderyourself to human every moment.
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And prepare to fight.
John Matarazzo (01:02:49):
Amen. Sounds
like you've thought that out
very well.
Adam Davis (01:02:53):
No, I just happened
to just happen.
John Matarazzo (01:02:55):
Oh my gosh, that
I could picture you talking to a
younger version of yourself. Oh,man that just encapsulated
everything that you've just beentalking about.
Adam Davis (01:03:05):
And I appreciate
that, man. Thank you. I love how
you said
John Matarazzo (01:03:09):
you're going to
deal with these things, you
know, in the Bible Promises thatin this world, you will have
trouble. Take heart because Ihave overcome the world. That's
what Jesus says. And if we alignourselves with him, we will be
able to live unconquered 100%.
You know, I want to justencourage people to check out
your website, the Adamdavis.com, as well as I am
unconquered.com. And you canfind all of his information
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there. You can get his books,prayers and promises for first
responders behind the badge.
Other books as well. You know,Adam, just tell me a little bit
about living unconquered, aswe're wrapping up here and why
people need to take those steps.
And those four pillars. Yeah.
Adam Davis (01:03:53):
So I wanted to
create something that I could
take into government agencies.
So I created something that isobviously based on my
relationship with Jesus and myfaith in God. But it was secular
in nature. It was births flyingout of Minnesota in early 2021.
And a talk that I had entitledsheepdog and conquered, which is
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a topic for another day. Butliving in Concord doesn't mean
you're not going to have scars.
It doesn't mean you're not goingto sustain some wounds along the
way. It doesn't mean you're notgoing to fall. It doesn't mean
that you're not going to giveinto temptation. It doesn't mean
that you're not going to sin. Itjust means that when you do you
continue to move forward towardsJesus, He is the center of it
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all, you understand that thepain is real. But so as the
healer, you understand that youcan't control everyone else, but
you can take care of this righthere. You know that you can't
carry all the burdens in theworld, but you can surrender to
Him. And you know that in thepower of the Holy Spirit, you
can develop an uncommon resolve.
Those are just four of the 10and the unconquered code. It is
important to realize thisbecause I know that someone out
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there today is walking aroundsaying I feel defeated, I feel
beat down. Nothing I can doworks. And I'm going to tell you
something. His Word says thatyou're more than a conqueror.
This is not talking about richesand lining your pockets, I'm
going to tell you something,when you get this, and I'm
pointing to my heart right here,when you get this squared away,
and when this prospers, all theother things lined up, because
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when you seek Him first, all theother things come to you that
you need. You'll never have toworry about a thing another day
in your life. Because you know,he is in control. He is the one
in control, and he's going togive you the opportunities you
need. He's going to order yoursteps. God is faithful. I'm
telling you, 110%, God isfaithful. I don't know what you
need. I don't know what yourwhere your pain is. I don't know
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what you're struggling with. Butthere's a God who lives today.
He has not in a grave. He livestoday, and he's more powerful
than you could ever imagine. Andhis love is more pure than you
could ever fathom. And his peaceis real. And so that's what
living in Concord means. Itmeans I may have been raped. I
may have been abused. I may haveseen a lot, but he lives and he
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lives in me and because of him,I can live eternally as well.
John Matarazzo (01:06:09):
Amen, amen. And
you can be unconquered to
checking out I amunconquered.com, as well as the
Adam davis.com. For moreinformation, all those links
will be in the show notes aswell. Adam, thank you so much
for taking the time and allowingme to join you along your way.
Adam Davis (01:06:28):
Thank you so much.
Appreciate you.
John Matarazzo (01:06:32):
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