February 4, 2025 • 57 mins
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What if you could tackle life's chaos with the power of discipline and community support? Join us in this episode of Christian Warrior Talk as we navigate the spiritual and practical battles of daily life. We begin by addressing a schedule change, welcoming Saturday as our new day of gathering, and reaffirm our pledge to nurture a humble and grateful heart, pursue a meaningful relationship with Jesus Christ, and invest deeply in fellowship. Our community has stood as a pillar of support since the COVID lockdowns, and we continue to toast with "strength and honor," celebrating God's creation and blessings.
Experience the transformative journey of engaging with the Bible, with a focus on 1 John 1. We delve into the importance of walking in the light, acknowledging our sins, and fostering a genuine connection with Jesus. Rather than relying solely on others' interpretations, we emphasize the value of personal Bible study guided by the Holy Spirit. By consistently aligning our actions with biblical teachings, we aim to master the art of doing the "next right thing," helping us navigate life's myriad challenges with confidence and faith.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone and welcome again one day late.
We had some technicaldifficulties last night and some
events, so I'm coming to you onSaturday, which I think is
going to be our new day.
I'm going to have to updatethat with all the changes.
I know that we've been like awhirlwind with all of our
changes and I apologize for that, but I think it's all for the
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better and I think it's going tomake a lot of sense in the end.
I'll explain it later, butwelcome to Christian Warrior
Talk, a Christian fellowshipshow where we fight three
battles Monday through Friday.
One we fight to get a humble andgrateful heart aligned onto the
Lord.
We check our pity parties atthe door and we realize that no
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matter how many aches and painswe have or how many things are
going wrong in our life, itcould be much worse.
We have way more blessings thanthat and we deserve none of the
blessings that we have.
So we're just thankful to ourLord and Savior for what we have
and for his love for us.
Two we deliberately pursue arelationship with our Lord and
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Savior, jesus Christ, throughthe studying of his holy
scripture and through prayer.
Three we invest in one another,in fellowship, like iron,
sharpening iron.
We come together, invest thistime.
We hold each other accountableand we learn from our setbacks.
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We pick each other up when wefall and we celebrate our
victories and we learn from oneanother.
No one can know everything,no-transcript.
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We all need to know tactics,but this is a Christian
fellowship show.
This is where we come to pourinto one another.
And again, I know I'm not goingto see a lot of my regulars
tonight because I'm a day lateand I didn't give anyone a heads
up, but I just wanted to comeon tonight and to drive forward
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because I didn't want to skip aweek, because I know that some
people count on this show, asfeeble as it is and as small as
it is and as unimportant as itis in this world.
I know sometimes I get messageswhere, hey, something really
bad just happened in my life andyou know, something you said
helped me get through that.
So that's what we're here for.
We're here for you, we're hereto connect with you.
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We started this back in itsfirst iteration.
It was right when the COVIDlockdowns happened and we were
all so isolated and it got a lotof us through some hard times.
So if you're watching this show, you know it is customary when
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you watch this show to saystrength and honor and you know
where you're coming from, so youknow.
For example would say jasonfrom tennessee and and we would
toast you again.
It doesn't have to be analcoholic beverage, it can be
anything you want, but, um, yeah, you know it could be.
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We're not against that here.
So let's go ahead.
After I refill my beverage,let's go ahead.
And, which is prettyembarrassing, when I'm drinking,
it's the only sparkling stuff Icould find in the house right
now.
But let's go ahead and let's goto war and let's fight our
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first battle.
Heavenly Father, lord, we thankyou.
We thank you for all theblessings in our life, those we
know and don't know, for allyour protections, lord.
We thank you for your commongrace.
We thank you for your creation.
We thank you for this universe,the sun, the moon, the stars
and this earth, everything fromthe mountains to the ocean, the
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bottom of the oceans andeverything in between.
We thank you for your animalkingdom how magnificent it is,
and we're thankful that you gaveus all for food.
We thank you for your plantkingdom, plant life, and how you
gave that to us as well.
Lord, we thank you for so manythings in our lives.
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We thank you for the sunrisesand sunsets.
We thank you for the sound ofbirds in the morning, children's
laughter.
We thank you for the warm touchof a loved one, the cool breeze
on a hot day.
We thank you for the smell ofmorning rain and good food
cooking.
We thank you for the taste ofgood food and drink.
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Lord, we thank you for all theloved ones in our life that are
still here with us and we askthat you help us to never take
one second for granted whenwe're spending time with them.
We thank you for the memoriesof the time that we have with
those who are no longer with us.
Lord, we thank you for yourholy grace, for choosing us
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while we were still traitorsbefore the foundations of the
earth, earth writing us into thebook of life.
But we are so thankful that youloved us while we were still
traders to you.
But we thank you for this timefor everyone coming together
right now to invest in oneanother, whether now or later,
watching or downloading this onsome podcast later on.
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And, lord, we pray that weproclaim you with every breath
of our lungs and serve you withevery beat of our heart.
We pray that we glorify you andonly you serve you and only you
please you.
In Jesus' name, we pray, amen,all right, so that is first
battle one, thank you very much.
Now let's get to our secondbattle, which is we deliberately
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pursue our relationship withour Lord and Savior by studying
a scripture.
Now I better make sure you guyscan actually hear me.
No one's told me you can't hearme, which would be a really big
bummer.
If you can't hear me, which canyou hear me right now?
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I see I got some hearts and Iwant to make sure that you can,
but I don't know.
Oh, you might be able to.
I forgot I had this in here.
Hold on, yes, you can.
All right, so sorry about that.
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I'm a one man show and oh, allright, brandy, thank you so much
for letting me know you canhear me.
So you can't be a Christian.
Thank you, lauren.
So you can't be a Christian andnot read God's word.
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He commanded us to love him, toknow him, and how can you
profess to love Jesus if youdon't read what he said to you?
Right, and again, here in 1 John, we're going to get back to the
basics.
John is great with the basicsand I want to get into this, but
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you got to be in the word.
Hey, melinda Mai, thank you somuch, for you can hear me, I
appreciate that.
So we're going to be, you know,in 1 John.
Okay, so 1 John, chapter one,verse one, is where we're going
to be.
If you want to turn to that,and I appreciate you all Well,
let's get into 1 John, 1.
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And I'm reading out of theEnglish Standard Version.
So you guys know, although Ireally love and I thank my
friends over at Logos I thinkit's Logos Ministries I want to
pull this up Got their card heresomewhere.
A good friend of mine overthere, kaz, sent me this and
it's a beautiful Legacy StandardBible that I absolutely love
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and it's got Trident on thefront and, look, it's got my
name right there.
Pretty darn cool.
It's absolutely beautiful.
Such a great Bible to read.
It's my favorite Bible to readnow.
But my study notes in ESV areseconded on there, absolutely
the most accurate that I foundin any study Bible out there.
So let's go to this, all right,and I should be able to pull
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this up for you and let's seehow this works.
We'll go to 1 John 1.
And we'll go to the Biblegateway and we'll go to the
Bible gateway and that way it'son the screen just in case you
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don't have it where you're at.
So let me share my screen, allright?
So let's do this, and I'm goingto move these over, because the
Bible is way more importantthan I am.
Please disregard all the adsand whatever that are on there.
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So okay, so let's get into this.
The word of life, that which wasfrom the beginning, which we
have heard, which we have seenwith our eyes, which we looked
upon and have touched with ourhands, concerning the word of
life, the life was made manifest.
We have seen it and testify toit and proclaim it to you.
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The eternal life which was thefather, which was with the
father and was manifest to us.
That which we have seen andheard, we proclaim also to you,
so that you too may havefellowship with us, and indeed
our fellowship is with thefather and with his son, jesus
Christ.
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And we are writing these thingsso that our joy may be complete
.
Walking in the light.
Now, this is so hard to do,right?
This is the message we haveheard from him and proclaim it
to you.
God is light and in him is nodarkness at all.
If we say we have fellowshipwith him while we walk in
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darkness, we lie and do notpractice the truth.
Walk in darkness, we lie and donot practice the truth.
But if we walk in the light, ashe is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another andthe blood of Jesus, his son,
cleanses us from sin.
If we say we have no sin, wedeceive ourselves and the truth
is not in us.
If we confess our sins, he isfaithful and just to forgive us
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our sins and to cleanse us fromall unrighteousness.
If we say we have not sinned,we make him a liar and his word
is not in us I mean holy smokesIf we have fellowship with him.
While we walk in darkness, welie and do not practice the
truth.
If we do not walk the talk weprofess as Christians, we are
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not what we say we are.
We have no good in us, no lightin us.
So the carnal Christians outthere, of which I was one during
my early stages of babyChristianity, before I had a
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biblical IQ, before I read theBible, the whole way you go and
you get saved and you say aprayer, a modern churchianity,
and you're good to go.
Many people stop there and theyare not good to go.
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We have to read the Bible toknow what we are to do and we
want to read the Bible so thatwe are accountable to him and
we're reading it with our owneyes.
We're not counting on someoneelse, some other man, to filter
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it down to us, because, as youknow, there's countless
denominations and there's a lotof things that we disagree about
.
But pray to the Holy Spirit toreveal the truth to you and to
help you discern what is of Him,and you'll be off to a great
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start.
When I get bored, I'm in a stormof life.
I'm in a season oftumultuousness.
The only way I get out of thatis to do slow things down and to
do the next right thing.
Every step is one step at atime, and I just do the next
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right thing, no matter howcomplex the problem, no matter
how many problems are out thereand sometimes there's so many
problems.
You know.
You just pick the lowesthanging fruit and you do the
next right thing, and then youdo the next right thing and you
do the next right thing.
But how do you know what thenext right thing is?
It's the next right thingAccording to his word.
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According to his word.
His word is the manual foreverything you know.
I've been pouring into Proverbs.
Reading a Proverb, you know.
A Proverb, a Psalm, you know.
Most days I do an Old and NewTestament, but I'm always doing
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a Proverb and a Psalm, becausethe Proverbs are packed with so
much wisdom.
What you're going to see,they're all going to caution you
about what you say.
Just you know and it seems likeevery other proverb is warning
you about tongues what you cansay, what you shouldn't say, how
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things that come out of youdefine you.
So again, walk the walk, talk,don't just talk the talk, and
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it's hard, it's going to be oneof the hardest things you ever
did.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
It's going to be one of the hardest things you ever
did.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
It's going to be one of the hardest things you ever
do and it doesn't stop.
But when you break it down andyou make it simple read the
Bible, do the next right thing,lead by example for your family
Well then you'll find everythingelse falls in line.
So that's two battles done.
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Let's roll into our third now,which is fellowship time.
So I want to start this off.
I see we got some people here,so, brandy, Strength and Honor.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Strength and Honor, strength and Honor, strength and
Honor, strength and Honor,strength and honor, strength and
honor, strength and honor,strength and honor, strength and
honor, strength and honor,strength and honor.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Good to see you as well.
So the forging this has beenthe hardest forging I've done,
but I have stuck with it, evenbecause I've accepted a lack of
perfection, and it has been themost important one I've been on.
And again I learned so muchabout myself.
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Every time I do one of these, Ireally see where I struggle, I
see where I fail, I see where,how I get in, the problems that
I get into.
And here's one thing that I cantell you If you're depressed or
you're feeling down or you'remiserable, work out for two
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weeks before you take anymedication before you do
anything and what you'll findout is that once you start
working out and you get pastthat initial post-workout
soreness is you're going to berunning around in a much more
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positive mindset than you werewhen you weren't.
I can't tell you, even thoughit's the first thing to go
always with me, that when I workout and when I am bettering
myself and I invest in myself inthat way, it starts an
avalanche of good decisions forthe day, because it required
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discipline to do it.
I did it in spite of notwanting to do it usually or not
having enough time and a millionthings and having to prioritize
and putting other things off.
But, man, it makes all thedifference in the world and you
know it doesn't have to be hardstuff every day.
You don't have to go out thereand, like CrossFit, crush it or
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anything like that.
I'm just going and walking for30 minutes or an hour, going to
the gym, and maybe it's not yourbest day, so you're not hitting
it hard, but you're going inthere and you're moving the
needle forward, you're movingthe ball down the field.
So important.
So important because you know Iwas talking to my wife, lauren,
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who, god bless her, she's themost patient woman on earth.
You know I get up every morning, I say my prayers before my
feet hit the floor and I go outand start the mentality with,
hey, we're going to crush thisday.
And then, once my feet hit thefloor, the pain starts, like you
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know pain in my knees, pain inmy back, and it starts grounding
away at my peace and, let's say, the kids were playing or
whatever.
Whatever we have a busy life.
You come out and kids got stuffeverywhere doing whatever toys,
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clothes, whatever because we'rea working farm and we're
running in a million directionsand we still haven't even
unpacked.
And we've been here almost fouryears all the way, and we got a
basement full of stuff that weneed to unpack still.
but you know, you come into thekitchen, get your cup of coffee
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and I've got multiple houserenovations that I've done,
where I've done the hard stuffyou know, I put in the sliding,
the French doors in the kitchen,I've replaced the walls with
shiplap, but I haven't done thetrim, or I go in the bathroom
and I haven't done that trim, orI haven't done the quarter
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round, and all that stuff andevery imperfection starts
chipping away at my sanity,starts chipping away at my
standard, starts chipping awayat my peas, and then when you
roll in, you know, start doingfarm stuff and you're like man,
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we're not doing the chickensright.
You know we're only getting 10to 20% of our eggs because the
chickens are free ranging andlaying them everywhere else and
we're just wasting money.
You start seeing everythingthat's wrong.
Then we can't seem to find dogcollars that work the darn on
our livestock guardian dogs, sonow they're just outdoor pet
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dogs not doing their job rightnow.
They bark and they've keptthings away, but they're not
free-ranging our property withappropriate collars right now
because we haven't found asystem that works.
But you get my point.
You start seeing all thesethings in your life and you've
got your own.
You've got your own things thatyou haven't finished or you're
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not doing right.
You're not doing 10 out of 10.
And if you're a perfectionistor heck, just someone who wants
to be good at what you do.
It can be crushing.
It can be crushing.
So you know, today I sat downwith Lauren, you know and this
is part family and this is partfundamentals and I'm like what
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is one thing I can do today?
Right, because today's SaturdayI got to get ready for church.
Tomorrow, you know, I had to dothis podcast.
I promised my girls that Iwould do a movie and popcorn
with them.
I promised my girls that Iwould do a movie and popcorn
with them, and you know so myday is rapidly evaporating and
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I'm like I need to do somethingto advance.
Can I fix one problem today?
Can I permanently fix oneproblem today to take it off our
plates?
So one distractor against ourpeace, my peace anyways, my
sanity can be done.
And there I was.
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And God is faithful, heprovided one.
One of our Highland halfHighland cows, um, is itchy
right now.
He must've picked up some mites, whatever we're treating it,
but he was itching on our barbedwire fence line.
We got some wooden posts andthen tripods, because they're on
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corners, and he itched his backon those and lifted it right
out of the ground.
Now it just so happens we had atree come down that collapsed,
some of our barbed wire fenceand we had put temporary
electric wire around it and youknow, today that was a nice
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three, four hour project where Iwent out there with my chainsaw
and I just had somebodysharpened not too long ago and I
went out there and I went towork and I started cutting down
wood and trimming up the pathand next thing, you know, I'm
out there and I'm clearingdebris off the old fence line
and then I'm restringing the Bobwire and I pounded the post
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back in and it felt good man.
And now when I look out of myfence I'm not going to see that
tree taking down that wire andthen the electric fence around
it and all that stuff.
I can sit there and say jobwell done.
I have reclaimed a part of chaosin my life and I moved the ball
.
That was low hanging fruit andthere are other projects that we
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need to do.
We need to do all kinds ofdifferent things, but that is
just one example in my lifewhere I was raging like raging
at the chaos.
And you know, I just come backfrom a walk with Lauren, with
our livestock guardian dogs whoare having to walk twice a day
because we're not letting themrun at night because our you
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know the radio collars they havesuck and I hope Lauren can type
the name of that Brandon hereso we can let them know that
they suck.
And then we also bought anextremely expensive satellite
GPS collar one of those and thatdoesn't work very well.
So we're going to hardlinecollars where we are going to
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put the line along our cow fence.
We're going to string it alongthere and the dogs will be able
to run the 10 acres all day, allnight on there and if they
cross that line like aninvisible fence, they'll get
zapped and that'll work.
And then they'll be doing whatthey're supposed to and their
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quality of life will be amazingand I'll be able to feel better
about it.
But when you have a farm, abusiness, a farm and a business,
a farm, a business, a ministry,a church, a family, all these
things, and you guys have yourown.
Everything you don't do rightor is broken will wear at your
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sanity and it's going to chipaway until you're raging inferno
.
You is to pick the lowesthanging fruit and make progress
and then the next day picksomething else.
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Then the next day picksomething else, right, Whether
it's, you know, trash in youryard, trash on your street,
whatever assaults your peace.
Every time you walk by stuff,grab one piece in each hand and
bring it in and put it in thetrash.
You know, whatever it takes toget back to peace.
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And remember the doorway, theopportunity of doorways.
As you've been listening to mefor a while, you know that I
recommend that you treat a doorevery time you leave a room like
you're at the dinner table yougot to go to the restroom, or
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you're with your kids and yourfamily in the morning.
You got to go to the restroom.
When you go in the restroom,reflect You're like was I light
in that room?
Like John's talking about, wasI light in that room?
Like john's talking about, wasI light in that room.
Did I brighten that room or didI darken that room?
And what you're going to findmore often than not is you were
darking, you were, you weredarkening the room.
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So when you leave that room andyou come back, use that doorway
as a reset to come in and be alight in that room.
Usually what I do when I'm doingthat and I noticed that as I
put on some uplifting Christianmusic and then I make sure I
make eye contact with peoplearound me and start talking to
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my kids and playing with them,or talking to my wife and seeing
that, or helping declutter, orassisting, or just trying to
talk about something that shecares about or what my kids care
about.
You know, but you're fine ifyou do that, it's going to make
you super accountable, likesuper accountable when every
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time you leave a room, you gradeyourself on whether you were
darkness or light in the room orif you were brightening or
darkening the room, and you'llfind that the more that you're
light in the room, the morepeople are going to want you
around, and this is even outsideof work.
I mean outside of the home.
It also has to do with work.
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Lauren is calling in.
Hello, hold on, I'm going toput you on air here, hold on.
This is great, all right, hello.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Hello, I think I have Go ahead over me in the
background.
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I can hear you.
Thank you for calling in, Iappreciate it.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Oh, you're so welcome .
I was just listening to whatyou were talking about and I had
my own perspective on tacklingthe chaos and all that stuff,
and it's certainly been aproblem for me as well.
And what I am trying to makemyself do is break things down
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into way smaller goals than youmight initially put on the paper
.
Like I'm a list maker, I lovemy list.
So you have the to-do list ofeverything that you want to
accomplish and you say clean thejunk drawers or clean the
kitchen or declutter thecounters or whatever it is,
Clean the basement and thoseinevitably, are bites that are
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way too big to chew in onerealistic setting.
So I have reduced it down to onedrawer, one cabinet, one
countertop versus all of them,all the windows, all the, you
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know.
Just break the category downinto like one little section of
the category and it has made itso much easier to accomplish
that goal.
Feel so happy that Iaccomplished that goal and
motivate to move on to the nextone.
Like I can't tell you how muchI love cabinet now, because it
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was just one thing and you knowI didn't say okay, I need to
organize all the cabinets.
it was what do I need to do tomake this one thing, that I'm in
there so many times a daycooking?
And so I got my little lazySusans and tackled that it took
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me 20 minutes and then it's done, instead of saying I need to do
all the cabinets today or Ineed to declutter the kitchen,
like that's never going tohappen if I put that on my list.
So, um, it's helped a lot tobreak it down to like, yeah,
literally what one drawer can Ido, or one shelf, or what one
window it could even be onewindow or one wall I could that
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every surface needs to becleaned and it never gets done
if.
If you say you need to do allof, I think you need to do all
of it.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
one so have you found like a sweet spot of time, like
a 5, 10, 15, 20 minute project,like I know it's probably there
is variable based upon what youhave, but what is the smallest
amount of time that you've beenable to find one step to make it
better?
I mean?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
five minutes is enough to like I'll look out the
same dirty window, like fromthe sink.
I look at the window that hasthe water spots all over it from
the sink splashing, or thewindow sill that's right there.
That's like grimy from all ofthe sink splashing and you can
take five minutes just to beable to clean one window or
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clean that one window sill, andthen you can cross that one off
the list for however long ittakes to build back up, which in
our case is not very long.
But five minutes is enough toaccomplish that versus the oh,
I'm going to wait until I canhave time to clean all the
windows or whatever.
So you can actually do a lot infive minutes to give you an
immense amount of peace andmotivation to.
(31:35):
I did something today.
I did something today.
But I think it's it's uh, theconversation that we were having
earlier today of you know you,you get out of bed all happy and
motivated and then you lookaround and you see all of this
stuff and I asked you cause likecan you, can you go through
that once, like theacknowledgement of I see all
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this stuff and then not resetthat mood every day that you
walk out into the same chaos.
I think that's something thatI've tried to work on, because I
can relate to the anxiety thatcomes from living in a cluttered
place, a place that's just not,in any shape or form, the way
we would want it to be, in anyshape or form, the way we would
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want it to be, and you have towork so hard to not go back to,
like, acceptance level zeroevery day.
You know you have to do thatonce.
You have to mourn where you areand go through all the grief
process and then start from theend of that process in the next
morning of the.
(32:40):
Okay, I know exactly what Ineed to do to make one ounce of
progress today, and then onemore ounce, and one more ounce
and it just grows on itself.
But you're gonna, you you shootyourself in the foot, morally
and otherwise, if you go backevery day with the same open
eyes of oh my gosh, this isoverwhelming.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Well, there was also some mercy that God gave me
today.
So I've been lamenting.
You know, I've done one wallover in Shiplap, which is where
we also put the French doors in,and the intersecting wall which
runs along the kitchen table Ihad not yet and I've been
lamenting that, and today I wasjust moving stuff around and our
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one plus year old son is rightnext to the wall which I would
move.
I would immediately move that ifI had done that wall.
But I looked at what he's doneto that wall by being there and
that is in his food explosionradius, which I didn't realize.
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We had an ex food explosionradius, but gus has our son, gus
magnus luther is one and whenhe eats he splatters it
everywhere.
Would you agree with that?
Yeah, hold on.
You switch your back onsmacking liquid.
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Yeah, from smacking liquids andsplattering it everywhere.
And I'm like, oh, my god, Iwould have been absolutely
crushed if I put up this reallynice wood wall and it was
covered with this stuff.
Yeah, so lesson learned, I'mglad I didn't and I saw that and
I'm like, okay, cause thatwould have, that would have
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crushed me, you know, so, um, soI, you know, I think there's
also, you know now there aretimes when I've been like just
fuming or whatever, and I walkedby and I'll see something that
should be done, and I'm like Ididn't do that, I'm not picking
that up, and I'm like all I dois just add to the chaos.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
So now if I see something I don't agree with,
I'm addressing it, and you know,and hopefully making a dent in
taking back the house from chaos.
It certainly has to be a teameffort.
If it's, each person says, well, I didn't cause it, therefore
I'm not addressing it, then weget nowhere, which I think is
the case for most things familyrelated yeah, particularly when
you have a one-year-old, athree-year-old and a five and a
half-year-old, so um, whichthey're finally becoming very
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helpful human beings.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And you know that there there is that part but man
holding it down with three kids, five and under.
You know, you parents out therewho can maintain a, you know, a
museum-like house?
God bless you.
I don't know how you do it well, everyone has different factors
.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
It's very tempting to look at other people's
snapshots that they show you andsay, wow, they have like mop
looking floors or their socksdon't turn around when they walk
on the floor or whatever.
Then you're like okay, well,they probably don't live in the
tennessee muck, the farm andthree giant dogs and all this
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stuff.
And, yeah, we could do betterabout taking our shoes off at
the door and all that.
But they are not dealing withan apples to apples scenario.
So I'm not.
I can't ask the apples.
My, you know how.
I'm not.
I can't compare myself to that,but it does take a mental shift
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to be motivated by people whoare doing something clearly
better or they've figured out asystem that works better.
Instead of just either beingenvious or hating them for it or
make it make you more bitterabout your own situation, you
can.
I think I'm choosing to bemotivated anytime I see be like
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wow, they're crushing it.
They clearly have figured outthat it can be done, so that
means I can figure out that itcan be done.
What do I need to do to makethat happen?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
exactly.
So I I know we get a big eventcoming up here at not like
public event but personal eventcoming up here on the homestead
and we're going to shift fromkind of just the pillar of
family to foundations orfundamentals.
How you know, I know we haveMoki.
(37:21):
You want to explain who Moki?
Speaker 3 (37:24):
is.
I get to talk about cows, nowyou get to talk about I told her
today, I literally told herbefore the show you can call in
and talk about cows.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
I'm not going to talk about cows now you get to talk
about.
I told her today, I literallytold her before the show you can
call in and talk about cows.
I'm not going to talk aboutcows any other time, but on air,
so go ahead.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Well, I've been sharing I don't know.
I've been sharing the journeyon Instagram stories for the
small minority who might see itthere.
For the small minority whomight see it there.
Yeah, it's a first for me andfor the farm, therefore, that we
have a milk cow who's about tohave her first baby.
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So therefore, she has neverbeen milked before and I have
never milked a cow that's neverbeen milked before.
So we are on this ride togetherand I'm just crossing my
fingers and saying a prayerbecause once they have their
baby, like you have to milk them.
There's no other choice.
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So she is a cow that wassomewhat feral up until like
halfway of her pregnancy.
She was raised by her mom.
We've really been doing a goodjob at kind of getting hands-on
with her, so she was verynervous.
She got bred by our bull so wedidn't have to be hands-on with,
like, doing artificialinsemination or anything like
that.
So it's only recently thatshe's even been handled, getting
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used to being handled.
So I managed to get a halter onher, teach her how to kind of
respect head pressure and thingslike that, and in the couple of
weeks that I've had of notmilking another cow, I've been
able to focus on trying to teachher to come up into the milking
area and stuff, and she's donereally really well, considering
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how much has been thrown at her.
But I'm still very nervous forthe when it actually happens,
because you don't you don't messwith their udder at all, like
before the milk comes in, theyhave the baby and all of that.
So like I can't practiceputting the machine on her, I
don't have putting the machineon her, so hold on If I can see
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how I can get her to.
I don't have the video up atall, so I know she's going to
come in right now.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
This is your, so here she comes.
Let me see here.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Are you playing an audio?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I'm not playing the audio, I'm just showing you the
field right now where it does aclosed captioning.
But Mocha in the field rightnow where it does the closed
captioning.
But Mocha I can't figure outhow to go backwards in Instagram
on a PC, but Mocha is a halfHolstein, half Jersey cow and
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she's got big old horns Right.
So you know, and she was kindof feral and I was pretty
nervous with it, but you've donea real.
This is her right here.
There you go.
So this is Mocha in thestanchion today.
You've got her tied off andshe's not digging that too much,
but you can see her, she, shereally is doing well.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
She is.
So I'm hoping that continues.
Obviously, once they've had thebaby and hormones, then they're
uncomfortable because, justlike humans, when your milk
comes in you get swollen andedema and it's uncomfortable.
So that pain and nervous andall of that stuff is going to
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change things for the first weekor so.
Um, so we're just going toremain optimistic.
Um, we are.
I am currently planning to takethe baby away so that I'm not
dealing with like mama bearsyndrome as she's figuring out
how to be a mom and wanting toprotect the baby or save all of
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her milk for the baby, becausecows will not let down their
milk either at all or completelyfor the person if they are
trying to save it for their babyand that can just make milking
complicated and I just don'twant to deal with that for a
first time.
Cow that we're all figuringthis out, maybe you would go
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okay, maybe she would be greatat it, but for now the plan is
to take the baby away, milkmocha and then bottle feed the
baby that milk.
If it's a girl heifer calf welikely will keep it.
If it's a boy a bull calf weprobably would sell it.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Um, so we'll see just , it just makes you you know, in
the beginning, when cows likeyou know everyone is ridiculous,
they're like oh, cows arereally friendly.
It's like it really depends onthe breed, right?
I mean, our cows have neverbeen abused, they've never been
(42:21):
whatever, and they just spook,right?
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Yeah, I wouldn't have actually, I mean my default.
I wouldn't say that cows arefriendly.
I wouldn't not in the way likeyou think of horses and stuff,
but I I guess it probably forboth horses and cows it would go
down to just like what is theirexperience from?
I think horses just tend to behandled more.
The cows are more synopsis.
They're not aggressive, butthey're just like I'm good, like
(42:47):
you, give me my bubble likeyou'll be there, I'll be here
and we're fine because, yeah,karen's been here for three
years now and she's still.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
She doesn't want you to touch her right and like
she's never had a bad day onthis farm ever.
Right, and you know, and likeyou know, I guess I find in the
summer, when we're giving themapples more, that they tend to
tolerate us more and we'll letyou rub on them or whatever, but
outside of, like Wally who wehad, who was a Highland who just
(43:17):
loved being rubbed on andbrushed and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Gracie loved her cuddles too.
That's true, she was apersonable one.
Yeah, maples's like whatever,leave me alone.
Yeah, um, she's, she's mocha'smom and she's got a toad.
Um, mocha, seems.
I mean she, she stopped, likeif I scratch her and stuff,
she'll stop and kind of enjoy itversus walk away from it.
(43:45):
So she's got potential, more sothan I actually expected.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
How's Honey come along?
For those of you who don't know, honey is Gracie's baby.
She's half Black Angus, halfJersey, and you know she's
always seemed more social.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Yeah, I mean, she's had less than Mocha, she's she
like she'll let me pet all overher and stuff.
Um, we find out in about twoweeks now I think.
Yeah, because she was so shewas.
We don't have a bull onproperty anymore, so she was
artificially inseminated finally, I think a week ago, and that
(44:30):
went so well I was able to getoff.
It went, yeah, really well weare.
So we are a homestead that gotahead of our fees as far as,
like, animal first,infrastructure second, and so
we've gotten away with it.
And then, like, a certainsituation will come up.
They're like, well, crap, wedon't really have a way to do
that.
And then it makes things takeaway longer than they should as
(44:53):
far as efficiency goes.
Um, so I I probably would havewanted to get her bread a couple
of months ago but it justdidn't happen.
But finally got a halter on her, figured out a place, a way to
secure her.
Jason's idea of to the winch ofhis truck worked great and she
was, she was polite and she didit.
So we'll find out, um in acouple of weeks.
(45:15):
If she doesn't apparently cycleagain, then we'll assume that
she took um and so that would bea November baby.
Now we are, I'll get to do itall over again now we have been
downsizing our operation.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
We our first two years here.
It rained a lot and we had aton of, we had almost double the
cow.
Well, we had over double thecows.
We have now, at one point onthis property, 15, and we were
up to 15 at one point and nowwe're down to six right now.
(45:50):
Now we have six and, um, youknow, that's about right for the
, for the 10 acres we have yeah,I was actually so.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
I was just so.
I've done increasing amount ofresearch on regenerative farming
, regenerative grazing,rotational grazing, all of those
kind of buzzword things thatreally do.
They have their place and theirpurpose.
And we excessively overgrazedour field for a solid year and a
(46:24):
half, two years, and justdidn't manage it properly.
And so there are calculationsout there on kind of cow acres
or cow days, I think they say.
It's like so how many pounds oflivestock can you have per
square foot, square yard peracre, kind of whatever size
(46:45):
you're working with, per acre,kind of whatever size you're
working with, just based on yourspace, and you want to have a
minimum of 30 days rest periodfor each section.
So you take the total amount ofsquare feet per yard per acres
(47:05):
that you're working with dividedby how many sections you like a
minimum of 30 sections or moreand there's calculations on kind
of figuring out exactly whatsquare footage you need for the
amount of pounds of animals thatyou're working with.
Or this is the square foot Ihave for a day.
(47:28):
So, therefore, how many poundsof animals can I have for a day?
So therefore, how many poundsof animals can I put on?
And so I was running ourcalculation and it's like
homeschooling homestead math,you know this is instead of
algebra and calculus and uselessmath that kids get.
This is what my kids are goingto be learning.
But so in the we're like 1,000to 1,500 pounds of animals, more
(47:59):
than what would be ideal forour field, especially to let it
recover.
So that would be downsizing.
Another cow or two we cansqueak it.
I just don't have as muchwiggle room with the exact
poundage.
I figured that we're about5,800 pounds of cows currently
(48:21):
with this, four adult cows andtwo youth that we have soon to
be potentially three youth.
So we're actually a little overstill, which it seems like we
have so few, but we're not quiteat the field happy place to let
the grass recover and improvewell, and I think that also
(48:44):
depends on moisture levels too,right like yeah, that's all.
Yeah, there's the factors ofwhat kind of last summer was
horrible.
Yeah, we had to hit during lastsummer and that was so you need
to, like I, if we had been ontop of it more.
If I had been on top of it more, it would have been.
Well, I would have startedpracticing this rotational
(49:04):
earlier, because I did see thebenefits almost immediately when
I started it, but that was likeend of summer that I finally
got my act together on it andthen show either keep the
movement, hanging them moreaggressively, or pulling them
off the field into a sacrificearea more aggressively to let
the grass catch up on itself, oryou downsize your herd more
(49:30):
aggressively when you're dealingwith environmental conditions
that are out of your control.
Speaker 1 (49:35):
Right.
Well, I appreciate you callingin and and talking cows and, you
know, dealing with chaos in thehouse.
So love you, babe.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
Talk to you later, love you Good night everybody.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
So, again, we're going to start taking calls and
I really hope a lot of people dostart calling in.
We're going to start that nextweek.
I'm going to really push it.
I'm going to probably schedulea few people to call in, you
know, again, cause I really wantthis show to be a community
show and, again, we don't alwayshave to talk about homesteading
.
Homesteading is just one topicand that you know as Christian
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warriors that we need to do, wehave to be self-sufficient.
The other is tactics, and boyhave I been doing a lot of
active shooter stuff lately andI can't wait to talk about that
and we're going to talk aboutthat.
Um, we'll talk a little bitabout now and we'll talk a lot
about it next week.
So, for those of you guys whodon't know, who haven't watched,
what pays the bills here isTrident Shield.
(50:40):
Trident Shield is my securityconsulting, emergency
preparedness company that I dofor you know, schools, christian
businesses, you know anyone,and the Lord has blessed us and
we have been doing very wellwith Christian schools and we're
very thankful for thoseorganizations who trust us with
(51:01):
their kids and with theirteachers and their staff and
everyone else, and it has been adream to work with them and
we're so, so thankful ActorShooter isn't going anywhere.
I think it's going to justcontinue to get worse until we
turn back to God.
But as we, as I, as I, travelaround the country whether I'm
(51:22):
in Cal, you know how you dealwith this problem in California
is very different than how youdeal with it in Tennessee or
Florida, versus Massachusettsstates, blue states that just
totally neuter your ability tohave, you know, armed personnel
(51:54):
on property to deal with things.
But even if you are in a statelike a red state, where you can
arm your teachers or have armedsecurity staff, et cetera, et
cetera, you still should betraining everyone and you still
should be training your olderand you still should be training
your, your older kids, becauseyou don't know where it's going
to happen, you don't know howhow it's going to happen, you
(52:16):
don't know who's who's going toget injured, who's going to go
down, and everyone in an activeshooter needs to know exactly
what to do.
So again, you know I'm theprevious episodes I've been
leaning heavily on prepping talkon bugging out, on prepping in
your house and how to do allthat stuff.
But you know, next week we'regoing to talk about active
(52:37):
shooter more and uh and and andhelp you um understand how you
should be solving that problemright and for your workplace.
Whether your, your company,doesn't train you, um, if you're
still in the workplace andyou're not working from home, um
to where your kid goes, whatyou should do for your kid?
(53:00):
Um, again, you should betraining them or getting them
training.
I'm not saying that you need tobe an active shooter expert and
train them, but you should be,you know, getting training for
them, because what happens inmost schools is terrible.
You know we, we train companiesall around or schools all
(53:20):
around the nation, and everyoneafter they go through our
training is like you know, I'vebeen doing this for 20 years, a
teacher for 20 years, I've beenin so many different school
districts and this is the firsttraining where I actually feel
like you know, I know what to donow and that is, but that is.
That is unfortunately not theexception.
That is the rule that we seethat most people count on police
(53:45):
departments to train and mostPDs have no idea what they're
doing.
They don't know how to trainpeople.
They go through a governmenttraining session, which the
government does nothing well,and they have their very
cookie-cutter active shootercourse they teach.
(54:05):
That is horrible, versus aspecialist who has been doing
this for 10 plus years and isconstantly thinking outside the
box and helping people deal withchallenging scenarios,
challenging situations.
Um, instead of just run, hide,fight.
Well, I just told you theentire state federal plan and
(54:27):
doesn't tell you how to fight,doesn't tell you how to run and
doesn't tell you how to hide, um, so so again, you know, the
skills that we teach in activeshooter always work well across
the board on in all aspects ofyour life.
So, um, that's all I wanted tocover tonight.
Um, I just wanted to tease thatout.
We're going to cover ActiveShooter pretty heavy next week
(54:51):
and I'm going to have some otherpeople call in and I really,
really appreciate you guys.
God bless you and I will seeyou tomorrow.
Happy Lord's Day and I'll seeyou tomorrow at church, 11 am.
All right, bye.
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Hello everyone and welcome again one day late.
We had some technicaldifficulties last night and some
events, so I'm coming to you onSaturday, which I think is
going to be our new day.
I'm going to have to updatethat with all the changes.
I know that we've been like awhirlwind with all of our
changes and I apologize for that, but I think it's all for the
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better and I think it's going tomake a lot of sense in the end.
I'll explain it later, butwelcome to Christian Warrior
Talk, a Christian fellowshipshow where we fight three
battles Monday through Friday.
One we fight to get a humble andgrateful heart aligned onto the
Lord.
We check our pity parties atthe door and we realize that no
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matter how many aches and painswe have or how many things are
going wrong in our life, itcould be much worse.
We have way more blessings thanthat and we deserve none of the
blessings that we have.
So we're just thankful to ourLord and Savior for what we have
and for his love for us.
Two we deliberately pursue arelationship with our Lord and
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Savior, jesus Christ, throughthe studying of his holy
scripture and through prayer.
Three we invest in one another,in fellowship, like iron,
sharpening iron.
We come together, invest thistime.
We hold each other accountableand we learn from our setbacks.
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We pick each other up when wefall and we celebrate our
victories and we learn from oneanother.
No one can know everything,no-transcript.
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We all need to know tactics,but this is a Christian
fellowship show.
This is where we come to pourinto one another.
And again, I know I'm not goingto see a lot of my regulars
tonight because I'm a day lateand I didn't give anyone a heads
up, but I just wanted to comeon tonight and to drive forward
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because I didn't want to skip aweek, because I know that some
people count on this show, asfeeble as it is and as small as
it is and as unimportant as itis in this world.
I know sometimes I get messageswhere, hey, something really
bad just happened in my life andyou know, something you said
helped me get through that.
So that's what we're here for.
We're here for you, we're hereto connect with you.
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We started this back in itsfirst iteration.
It was right when the COVIDlockdowns happened and we were
all so isolated and it got a lotof us through some hard times.
So if you're watching this show, you know it is customary when
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you watch this show to saystrength and honor and you know
where you're coming from, so youknow.
For example would say jasonfrom tennessee and and we would
toast you again.
It doesn't have to be analcoholic beverage, it can be
anything you want, but, um, yeah, you know it could be.
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We're not against that here.
So let's go ahead.
After I refill my beverage,let's go ahead.
And, which is prettyembarrassing, when I'm drinking,
it's the only sparkling stuff Icould find in the house right
now.
But let's go ahead and let's goto war and let's fight our
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first battle.
Heavenly Father, lord, we thankyou.
We thank you for all theblessings in our life, those we
know and don't know, for allyour protections, lord.
We thank you for your commongrace.
We thank you for your creation.
We thank you for this universe,the sun, the moon, the stars
and this earth, everything fromthe mountains to the ocean, the
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bottom of the oceans andeverything in between.
We thank you for your animalkingdom how magnificent it is,
and we're thankful that you gaveus all for food.
We thank you for your plantkingdom, plant life, and how you
gave that to us as well.
Lord, we thank you for so manythings in our lives.
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We thank you for the sunrisesand sunsets.
We thank you for the sound ofbirds in the morning, children's
laughter.
We thank you for the warm touchof a loved one, the cool breeze
on a hot day.
We thank you for the smell ofmorning rain and good food
cooking.
We thank you for the taste ofgood food and drink.
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Lord, we thank you for all theloved ones in our life that are
still here with us and we askthat you help us to never take
one second for granted whenwe're spending time with them.
We thank you for the memoriesof the time that we have with
those who are no longer with us.
Lord, we thank you for yourholy grace, for choosing us
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while we were still traitorsbefore the foundations of the
earth, earth writing us into thebook of life.
But we are so thankful that youloved us while we were still
traders to you.
But we thank you for this timefor everyone coming together
right now to invest in oneanother, whether now or later,
watching or downloading this onsome podcast later on.
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And, lord, we pray that weproclaim you with every breath
of our lungs and serve you withevery beat of our heart.
We pray that we glorify you andonly you serve you and only you
please you.
In Jesus' name, we pray, amen,all right, so that is first
battle one, thank you very much.
Now let's get to our secondbattle, which is we deliberately
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pursue our relationship withour Lord and Savior by studying
a scripture.
Now I better make sure you guyscan actually hear me.
No one's told me you can't hearme, which would be a really big
bummer.
If you can't hear me, which canyou hear me right now?
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I see I got some hearts and Iwant to make sure that you can,
but I don't know.
Oh, you might be able to.
I forgot I had this in here.
Hold on, yes, you can.
All right, so sorry about that.
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I'm a one man show and oh, allright, brandy, thank you so much
for letting me know you canhear me.
So you can't be a Christian.
Thank you, lauren.
So you can't be a Christian andnot read God's word.
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He commanded us to love him, toknow him, and how can you
profess to love Jesus if youdon't read what he said to you?
Right, and again, here in 1 John, we're going to get back to the
basics.
John is great with the basicsand I want to get into this, but
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you got to be in the word.
Hey, melinda Mai, thank you somuch, for you can hear me, I
appreciate that.
So we're going to be, you know,in 1 John.
Okay, so 1 John, chapter one,verse one, is where we're going
to be.
If you want to turn to that,and I appreciate you all Well,
let's get into 1 John, 1.
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And I'm reading out of theEnglish Standard Version.
So you guys know, although Ireally love and I thank my
friends over at Logos I thinkit's Logos Ministries I want to
pull this up Got their card heresomewhere.
A good friend of mine overthere, kaz, sent me this and
it's a beautiful Legacy StandardBible that I absolutely love
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and it's got Trident on thefront and, look, it's got my
name right there.
Pretty darn cool.
It's absolutely beautiful.
Such a great Bible to read.
It's my favorite Bible to readnow.
But my study notes in ESV areseconded on there, absolutely
the most accurate that I foundin any study Bible out there.
So let's go to this, all right,and I should be able to pull
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this up for you and let's seehow this works.
We'll go to 1 John 1.
And we'll go to the Biblegateway and we'll go to the
Bible gateway and that way it'son the screen just in case you
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don't have it where you're at.
So let me share my screen, allright?
So let's do this, and I'm goingto move these over, because the
Bible is way more importantthan I am.
Please disregard all the adsand whatever that are on there.
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So okay, so let's get into this.
The word of life, that which wasfrom the beginning, which we
have heard, which we have seenwith our eyes, which we looked
upon and have touched with ourhands, concerning the word of
life, the life was made manifest.
We have seen it and testify toit and proclaim it to you.
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The eternal life which was thefather, which was with the
father and was manifest to us.
That which we have seen andheard, we proclaim also to you,
so that you too may havefellowship with us, and indeed
our fellowship is with thefather and with his son, jesus
Christ.
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And we are writing these thingsso that our joy may be complete
.
Walking in the light.
Now, this is so hard to do,right?
This is the message we haveheard from him and proclaim it
to you.
God is light and in him is nodarkness at all.
If we say we have fellowshipwith him while we walk in
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darkness, we lie and do notpractice the truth.
Walk in darkness, we lie and donot practice the truth.
But if we walk in the light, ashe is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another andthe blood of Jesus, his son,
cleanses us from sin.
If we say we have no sin, wedeceive ourselves and the truth
is not in us.
If we confess our sins, he isfaithful and just to forgive us
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our sins and to cleanse us fromall unrighteousness.
If we say we have not sinned,we make him a liar and his word
is not in us I mean holy smokesIf we have fellowship with him.
While we walk in darkness, welie and do not practice the
truth.
If we do not walk the talk weprofess as Christians, we are
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not what we say we are.
We have no good in us, no lightin us.
So the carnal Christians outthere, of which I was one during
my early stages of babyChristianity, before I had a
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biblical IQ, before I read theBible, the whole way you go and
you get saved and you say aprayer, a modern churchianity,
and you're good to go.
Many people stop there and theyare not good to go.
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We have to read the Bible toknow what we are to do and we
want to read the Bible so thatwe are accountable to him and
we're reading it with our owneyes.
We're not counting on someoneelse, some other man, to filter
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it down to us, because, as youknow, there's countless
denominations and there's a lotof things that we disagree about
.
But pray to the Holy Spirit toreveal the truth to you and to
help you discern what is of Him,and you'll be off to a great
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start.
When I get bored, I'm in a stormof life.
I'm in a season oftumultuousness.
The only way I get out of thatis to do slow things down and to
do the next right thing.
Every step is one step at atime, and I just do the next
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right thing, no matter howcomplex the problem, no matter
how many problems are out thereand sometimes there's so many
problems.
You know.
You just pick the lowesthanging fruit and you do the
next right thing, and then youdo the next right thing and you
do the next right thing.
But how do you know what thenext right thing is?
It's the next right thingAccording to his word.
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According to his word.
His word is the manual foreverything you know.
I've been pouring into Proverbs.
Reading a Proverb, you know.
A Proverb, a Psalm, you know.
Most days I do an Old and NewTestament, but I'm always doing
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a Proverb and a Psalm, becausethe Proverbs are packed with so
much wisdom.
What you're going to see,they're all going to caution you
about what you say.
Just you know and it seems likeevery other proverb is warning
you about tongues what you cansay, what you shouldn't say, how
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things that come out of youdefine you.
So again, walk the walk, talk,don't just talk the talk, and
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it's hard, it's going to be oneof the hardest things you ever
did.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
It's going to be one of the hardest things you ever
did.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
It's going to be one of the hardest things you ever
do and it doesn't stop.
But when you break it down andyou make it simple read the
Bible, do the next right thing,lead by example for your family
Well then you'll find everythingelse falls in line.
So that's two battles done.
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Let's roll into our third now,which is fellowship time.
So I want to start this off.
I see we got some people here,so, brandy, Strength and Honor.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Strength and Honor, strength and Honor, strength and
Honor, strength and Honor,strength and honor, strength and
honor, strength and honor,strength and honor, strength and
honor, strength and honor,strength and honor.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Good to see you as well.
So the forging this has beenthe hardest forging I've done,
but I have stuck with it, evenbecause I've accepted a lack of
perfection, and it has been themost important one I've been on.
And again I learned so muchabout myself.
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Every time I do one of these, Ireally see where I struggle, I
see where I fail, I see where,how I get in, the problems that
I get into.
And here's one thing that I cantell you If you're depressed or
you're feeling down or you'remiserable, work out for two
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weeks before you take anymedication before you do
anything and what you'll findout is that once you start
working out and you get pastthat initial post-workout
soreness is you're going to berunning around in a much more
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positive mindset than you werewhen you weren't.
I can't tell you, even thoughit's the first thing to go
always with me, that when I workout and when I am bettering
myself and I invest in myself inthat way, it starts an
avalanche of good decisions forthe day, because it required
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discipline to do it.
I did it in spite of notwanting to do it usually or not
having enough time and a millionthings and having to prioritize
and putting other things off.
But, man, it makes all thedifference in the world and you
know it doesn't have to be hardstuff every day.
You don't have to go out thereand, like CrossFit, crush it or
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anything like that.
I'm just going and walking for30 minutes or an hour, going to
the gym, and maybe it's not yourbest day, so you're not hitting
it hard, but you're going inthere and you're moving the
needle forward, you're movingthe ball down the field.
So important.
So important because you know Iwas talking to my wife, lauren,
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who, god bless her, she's themost patient woman on earth.
You know I get up every morning, I say my prayers before my
feet hit the floor and I go outand start the mentality with,
hey, we're going to crush thisday.
And then, once my feet hit thefloor, the pain starts, like you
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know pain in my knees, pain inmy back, and it starts grounding
away at my peace and, let's say, the kids were playing or
whatever.
Whatever we have a busy life.
You come out and kids got stuffeverywhere doing whatever toys,
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clothes, whatever because we'rea working farm and we're
running in a million directionsand we still haven't even
unpacked.
And we've been here almost fouryears all the way, and we got a
basement full of stuff that weneed to unpack still.
but you know, you come into thekitchen, get your cup of coffee
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and I've got multiple houserenovations that I've done,
where I've done the hard stuffyou know, I put in the sliding,
the French doors in the kitchen,I've replaced the walls with
shiplap, but I haven't done thetrim, or I go in the bathroom
and I haven't done that trim, orI haven't done the quarter
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round, and all that stuff andevery imperfection starts
chipping away at my sanity,starts chipping away at my
standard, starts chipping awayat my peas, and then when you
roll in, you know, start doingfarm stuff and you're like man,
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we're not doing the chickensright.
You know we're only getting 10to 20% of our eggs because the
chickens are free ranging andlaying them everywhere else and
we're just wasting money.
You start seeing everythingthat's wrong.
Then we can't seem to find dogcollars that work the darn on
our livestock guardian dogs, sonow they're just outdoor pet
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dogs not doing their job rightnow.
They bark and they've keptthings away, but they're not
free-ranging our property withappropriate collars right now
because we haven't found asystem that works.
But you get my point.
You start seeing all thesethings in your life and you've
got your own.
You've got your own things thatyou haven't finished or you're
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not doing right.
You're not doing 10 out of 10.
And if you're a perfectionistor heck, just someone who wants
to be good at what you do.
It can be crushing.
It can be crushing.
So you know, today I sat downwith Lauren, you know and this
is part family and this is partfundamentals and I'm like what
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is one thing I can do today?
Right, because today's SaturdayI got to get ready for church.
Tomorrow, you know, I had to dothis podcast.
I promised my girls that Iwould do a movie and popcorn
with them.
I promised my girls that Iwould do a movie and popcorn
with them, and you know so myday is rapidly evaporating and
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I'm like I need to do somethingto advance.
Can I fix one problem today?
Can I permanently fix oneproblem today to take it off our
plates?
So one distractor against ourpeace, my peace anyways, my
sanity can be done.
And there I was.
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And God is faithful, heprovided one.
One of our Highland halfHighland cows, um, is itchy
right now.
He must've picked up some mites, whatever we're treating it,
but he was itching on our barbedwire fence line.
We got some wooden posts andthen tripods, because they're on
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corners, and he itched his backon those and lifted it right
out of the ground.
Now it just so happens we had atree come down that collapsed,
some of our barbed wire fenceand we had put temporary
electric wire around it and youknow, today that was a nice
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three, four hour project where Iwent out there with my chainsaw
and I just had somebodysharpened not too long ago and I
went out there and I went towork and I started cutting down
wood and trimming up the pathand next thing, you know, I'm
out there and I'm clearingdebris off the old fence line
and then I'm restringing the Bobwire and I pounded the post
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back in and it felt good man.
And now when I look out of myfence I'm not going to see that
tree taking down that wire andthen the electric fence around
it and all that stuff.
I can sit there and say jobwell done.
I have reclaimed a part of chaosin my life and I moved the ball
.
That was low hanging fruit andthere are other projects that we
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need to do.
We need to do all kinds ofdifferent things, but that is
just one example in my lifewhere I was raging like raging
at the chaos.
And you know, I just come backfrom a walk with Lauren, with
our livestock guardian dogs whoare having to walk twice a day
because we're not letting themrun at night because our you
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know the radio collars they havesuck and I hope Lauren can type
the name of that Brandon hereso we can let them know that
they suck.
And then we also bought anextremely expensive satellite
GPS collar one of those and thatdoesn't work very well.
So we're going to hardlinecollars where we are going to
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put the line along our cow fence.
We're going to string it alongthere and the dogs will be able
to run the 10 acres all day, allnight on there and if they
cross that line like aninvisible fence, they'll get
zapped and that'll work.
And then they'll be doing whatthey're supposed to and their
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quality of life will be amazingand I'll be able to feel better
about it.
But when you have a farm, abusiness, a farm and a business,
a farm, a business, a ministry,a church, a family, all these
things, and you guys have yourown.
Everything you don't do rightor is broken will wear at your
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sanity and it's going to chipaway until you're raging inferno
.
You is to pick the lowesthanging fruit and make progress
and then the next day picksomething else.
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Then the next day picksomething else, right, Whether
it's, you know, trash in youryard, trash on your street,
whatever assaults your peace.
Every time you walk by stuff,grab one piece in each hand and
bring it in and put it in thetrash.
You know, whatever it takes toget back to peace.
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And remember the doorway, theopportunity of doorways.
As you've been listening to mefor a while, you know that I
recommend that you treat a doorevery time you leave a room like
you're at the dinner table yougot to go to the restroom, or
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you're with your kids and yourfamily in the morning.
You got to go to the restroom.
When you go in the restroom,reflect You're like was I light
in that room?
Like John's talking about, wasI light in that room?
Like john's talking about, wasI light in that room.
Did I brighten that room or didI darken that room?
And what you're going to findmore often than not is you were
darking, you were, you weredarkening the room.
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So when you leave that room andyou come back, use that doorway
as a reset to come in and be alight in that room.
Usually what I do when I'm doingthat and I noticed that as I
put on some uplifting Christianmusic and then I make sure I
make eye contact with peoplearound me and start talking to
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my kids and playing with them,or talking to my wife and seeing
that, or helping declutter, orassisting, or just trying to
talk about something that shecares about or what my kids care
about.
You know, but you're fine ifyou do that, it's going to make
you super accountable, likesuper accountable when every
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time you leave a room, you gradeyourself on whether you were
darkness or light in the room orif you were brightening or
darkening the room, and you'llfind that the more that you're
light in the room, the morepeople are going to want you
around, and this is even outsideof work.
I mean outside of the home.
It also has to do with work.
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Lauren is calling in.
Hello, hold on, I'm going toput you on air here, hold on.
This is great, all right, hello.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Hello, I think I have Go ahead over me in the
background.
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I can hear you.
Thank you for calling in, Iappreciate it.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Oh, you're so welcome .
I was just listening to whatyou were talking about and I had
my own perspective on tacklingthe chaos and all that stuff,
and it's certainly been aproblem for me as well.
And what I am trying to makemyself do is break things down
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into way smaller goals than youmight initially put on the paper
.
Like I'm a list maker, I lovemy list.
So you have the to-do list ofeverything that you want to
accomplish and you say clean thejunk drawers or clean the
kitchen or declutter thecounters or whatever it is,
Clean the basement and thoseinevitably, are bites that are
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way too big to chew in onerealistic setting.
So I have reduced it down to onedrawer, one cabinet, one
countertop versus all of them,all the windows, all the, you
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know.
Just break the category downinto like one little section of
the category and it has made itso much easier to accomplish
that goal.
Feel so happy that Iaccomplished that goal and
motivate to move on to the nextone.
Like I can't tell you how muchI love cabinet now, because it
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was just one thing and you knowI didn't say okay, I need to
organize all the cabinets.
it was what do I need to do tomake this one thing, that I'm in
there so many times a daycooking?
And so I got my little lazySusans and tackled that it took
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me 20 minutes and then it's done, instead of saying I need to do
all the cabinets today or Ineed to declutter the kitchen,
like that's never going tohappen if I put that on my list.
So, um, it's helped a lot tobreak it down to like, yeah,
literally what one drawer can Ido, or one shelf, or what one
window it could even be onewindow or one wall I could that
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every surface needs to becleaned and it never gets done
if.
If you say you need to do allof, I think you need to do all
of it.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
one so have you found like a sweet spot of time, like
a 5, 10, 15, 20 minute project,like I know it's probably there
is variable based upon what youhave, but what is the smallest
amount of time that you've beenable to find one step to make it
better?
I mean?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
five minutes is enough to like I'll look out the
same dirty window, like fromthe sink.
I look at the window that hasthe water spots all over it from
the sink splashing, or thewindow sill that's right there.
That's like grimy from all ofthe sink splashing and you can
take five minutes just to beable to clean one window or
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clean that one window sill, andthen you can cross that one off
the list for however long ittakes to build back up, which in
our case is not very long.
But five minutes is enough toaccomplish that versus the oh,
I'm going to wait until I canhave time to clean all the
windows or whatever.
So you can actually do a lot infive minutes to give you an
immense amount of peace andmotivation to.
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I did something today.
I did something today.
But I think it's it's uh, theconversation that we were having
earlier today of you know you,you get out of bed all happy and
motivated and then you lookaround and you see all of this
stuff and I asked you cause likecan you, can you go through
that once, like theacknowledgement of I see all
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this stuff and then not resetthat mood every day that you
walk out into the same chaos.
I think that's something thatI've tried to work on, because I
can relate to the anxiety thatcomes from living in a cluttered
place, a place that's just not,in any shape or form, the way
we would want it to be, in anyshape or form, the way we would
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want it to be, and you have towork so hard to not go back to,
like, acceptance level zeroevery day.
You know you have to do thatonce.
You have to mourn where you areand go through all the grief
process and then start from theend of that process in the next
morning of the.
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Okay, I know exactly what Ineed to do to make one ounce of
progress today, and then onemore ounce, and one more ounce
and it just grows on itself.
But you're gonna, you you shootyourself in the foot, morally
and otherwise, if you go backevery day with the same open
eyes of oh my gosh, this isoverwhelming.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Well, there was also some mercy that God gave me
today.
So I've been lamenting.
You know, I've done one wallover in Shiplap, which is where
we also put the French doors in,and the intersecting wall which
runs along the kitchen table Ihad not yet and I've been
lamenting that, and today I wasjust moving stuff around and our
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one plus year old son is rightnext to the wall which I would
move.
I would immediately move that ifI had done that wall.
But I looked at what he's doneto that wall by being there and
that is in his food explosionradius, which I didn't realize.
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We had an ex food explosionradius, but gus has our son, gus
magnus luther is one and whenhe eats he splatters it
everywhere.
Would you agree with that?
Yeah, hold on.
You switch your back onsmacking liquid.
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Yeah, from smacking liquids andsplattering it everywhere.
And I'm like, oh, my god, Iwould have been absolutely
crushed if I put up this reallynice wood wall and it was
covered with this stuff.
Yeah, so lesson learned, I'mglad I didn't and I saw that and
I'm like, okay, cause thatwould have, that would have
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crushed me, you know, so, um, soI, you know, I think there's
also, you know now there aretimes when I've been like just
fuming or whatever, and I walkedby and I'll see something that
should be done, and I'm like Ididn't do that, I'm not picking
that up, and I'm like all I dois just add to the chaos.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
So now if I see something I don't agree with,
I'm addressing it, and you know,and hopefully making a dent in
taking back the house from chaos.
It certainly has to be a teameffort.
If it's, each person says, well, I didn't cause it, therefore
I'm not addressing it, then weget nowhere, which I think is
the case for most things familyrelated yeah, particularly when
you have a one-year-old, athree-year-old and a five and a
half-year-old, so um, whichthey're finally becoming very
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helpful human beings.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And you know that there there is that part but man
holding it down with three kids, five and under.
You know, you parents out therewho can maintain a, you know, a
museum-like house?
God bless you.
I don't know how you do it well, everyone has different factors
.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
It's very tempting to look at other people's
snapshots that they show you andsay, wow, they have like mop
looking floors or their socksdon't turn around when they walk
on the floor or whatever.
Then you're like okay, well,they probably don't live in the
tennessee muck, the farm andthree giant dogs and all this
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stuff.
And, yeah, we could do betterabout taking our shoes off at
the door and all that.
But they are not dealing withan apples to apples scenario.
So I'm not.
I can't ask the apples.
My, you know how.
I'm not.
I can't compare myself to that,but it does take a mental shift
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to be motivated by people whoare doing something clearly
better or they've figured out asystem that works better.
Instead of just either beingenvious or hating them for it or
make it make you more bitterabout your own situation, you
can.
I think I'm choosing to bemotivated anytime I see be like
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wow, they're crushing it.
They clearly have figured outthat it can be done, so that
means I can figure out that itcan be done.
What do I need to do to makethat happen?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
exactly.
So I I know we get a big eventcoming up here at not like
public event but personal eventcoming up here on the homestead
and we're going to shift fromkind of just the pillar of
family to foundations orfundamentals.
How you know, I know we haveMoki.
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You want to explain who Moki?
Speaker 3 (37:24):
is.
I get to talk about cows, nowyou get to talk about I told her
today, I literally told herbefore the show you can call in
and talk about cows.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
I'm not going to talk about cows now you get to talk
about.
I told her today, I literallytold her before the show you can
call in and talk about cows.
I'm not going to talk aboutcows any other time, but on air,
so go ahead.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Well, I've been sharing I don't know.
I've been sharing the journeyon Instagram stories for the
small minority who might see itthere.
For the small minority whomight see it there.
Yeah, it's a first for me andfor the farm, therefore, that we
have a milk cow who's about tohave her first baby.
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So therefore, she has neverbeen milked before and I have
never milked a cow that's neverbeen milked before.
So we are on this ride togetherand I'm just crossing my
fingers and saying a prayerbecause once they have their
baby, like you have to milk them.
There's no other choice.
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So she is a cow that wassomewhat feral up until like
halfway of her pregnancy.
She was raised by her mom.
We've really been doing a goodjob at kind of getting hands-on
with her, so she was verynervous.
She got bred by our bull so wedidn't have to be hands-on with,
like, doing artificialinsemination or anything like
that.
So it's only recently thatshe's even been handled, getting
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used to being handled.
So I managed to get a halter onher, teach her how to kind of
respect head pressure and thingslike that, and in the couple of
weeks that I've had of notmilking another cow, I've been
able to focus on trying to teachher to come up into the milking
area and stuff, and she's donereally really well, considering
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how much has been thrown at her.
But I'm still very nervous forthe when it actually happens,
because you don't you don't messwith their udder at all, like
before the milk comes in, theyhave the baby and all of that.
So like I can't practiceputting the machine on her, I
don't have putting the machineon her, so hold on If I can see
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how I can get her to.
I don't have the video up atall, so I know she's going to
come in right now.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
This is your, so here she comes.
Let me see here.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Are you playing an audio?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I'm not playing the audio, I'm just showing you the
field right now where it does aclosed captioning.
But Mocha in the field rightnow where it does the closed
captioning.
But Mocha I can't figure outhow to go backwards in Instagram
on a PC, but Mocha is a halfHolstein, half Jersey cow and
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she's got big old horns Right.
So you know, and she was kindof feral and I was pretty
nervous with it, but you've donea real.
This is her right here.
There you go.
So this is Mocha in thestanchion today.
You've got her tied off andshe's not digging that too much,
but you can see her, she, shereally is doing well.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
She is.
So I'm hoping that continues.
Obviously, once they've had thebaby and hormones, then they're
uncomfortable because, justlike humans, when your milk
comes in you get swollen andedema and it's uncomfortable.
So that pain and nervous andall of that stuff is going to
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change things for the first weekor so.
Um, so we're just going toremain optimistic.
Um, we are.
I am currently planning to takethe baby away so that I'm not
dealing with like mama bearsyndrome as she's figuring out
how to be a mom and wanting toprotect the baby or save all of
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her milk for the baby, becausecows will not let down their
milk either at all or completelyfor the person if they are
trying to save it for their babyand that can just make milking
complicated and I just don'twant to deal with that for a
first time.
Cow that we're all figuringthis out, maybe you would go
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okay, maybe she would be greatat it, but for now the plan is
to take the baby away, milkmocha and then bottle feed the
baby that milk.
If it's a girl heifer calf welikely will keep it.
If it's a boy a bull calf weprobably would sell it.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Um, so we'll see just , it just makes you you know, in
the beginning, when cows likeyou know everyone is ridiculous,
they're like oh, cows arereally friendly.
It's like it really depends onthe breed, right?
I mean, our cows have neverbeen abused, they've never been
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whatever, and they just spook,right?
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Yeah, I wouldn't have actually, I mean my default.
I wouldn't say that cows arefriendly.
I wouldn't not in the way likeyou think of horses and stuff,
but I I guess it probably forboth horses and cows it would go
down to just like what is theirexperience from?
I think horses just tend to behandled more.
The cows are more synopsis.
They're not aggressive, butthey're just like I'm good, like
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you, give me my bubble likeyou'll be there, I'll be here
and we're fine because, yeah,karen's been here for three
years now and she's still.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
She doesn't want you to touch her right and like
she's never had a bad day onthis farm ever.
Right, and you know, and likeyou know, I guess I find in the
summer, when we're giving themapples more, that they tend to
tolerate us more and we'll letyou rub on them or whatever, but
outside of, like Wally who wehad, who was a Highland who just
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loved being rubbed on andbrushed and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Gracie loved her cuddles too.
That's true, she was apersonable one.
Yeah, maples's like whatever,leave me alone.
Yeah, um, she's, she's mocha'smom and she's got a toad.
Um, mocha, seems.
I mean she, she stopped, likeif I scratch her and stuff,
she'll stop and kind of enjoy itversus walk away from it.
(43:45):
So she's got potential, more sothan I actually expected.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
How's Honey come along?
For those of you who don't know, honey is Gracie's baby.
She's half Black Angus, halfJersey, and you know she's
always seemed more social.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Yeah, I mean, she's had less than Mocha, she's she
like she'll let me pet all overher and stuff.
Um, we find out in about twoweeks now I think.
Yeah, because she was so shewas.
We don't have a bull onproperty anymore, so she was
artificially inseminated finally, I think a week ago, and that
(44:30):
went so well I was able to getoff.
It went, yeah, really well weare.
So we are a homestead that gotahead of our fees as far as,
like, animal first,infrastructure second, and so
we've gotten away with it.
And then, like, a certainsituation will come up.
They're like, well, crap, wedon't really have a way to do
that.
And then it makes things takeaway longer than they should as
(44:53):
far as efficiency goes.
Um, so I I probably would havewanted to get her bread a couple
of months ago but it justdidn't happen.
But finally got a halter on her, figured out a place, a way to
secure her.
Jason's idea of to the winch ofhis truck worked great and she
was, she was polite and she didit.
So we'll find out, um in acouple of weeks.
(45:15):
If she doesn't apparently cycleagain, then we'll assume that
she took um and so that would bea November baby.
Now we are, I'll get to do itall over again now we have been
downsizing our operation.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
We our first two years here.
It rained a lot and we had aton of, we had almost double the
cow.
Well, we had over double thecows.
We have now, at one point onthis property, 15, and we were
up to 15 at one point and nowwe're down to six right now.
(45:50):
Now we have six and, um, youknow, that's about right for the
, for the 10 acres we have yeah,I was actually so.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
I was just so.
I've done increasing amount ofresearch on regenerative farming
, regenerative grazing,rotational grazing, all of those
kind of buzzword things thatreally do.
They have their place and theirpurpose.
And we excessively overgrazedour field for a solid year and a
(46:24):
half, two years, and justdidn't manage it properly.
And so there are calculationsout there on kind of cow acres
or cow days, I think they say.
It's like so how many pounds oflivestock can you have per
square foot, square yard peracre, kind of whatever size
(46:45):
you're working with, per acre,kind of whatever size you're
working with, just based on yourspace, and you want to have a
minimum of 30 days rest periodfor each section.
So you take the total amount ofsquare feet per yard per acres
(47:05):
that you're working with dividedby how many sections you like a
minimum of 30 sections or moreand there's calculations on kind
of figuring out exactly whatsquare footage you need for the
amount of pounds of animals thatyou're working with.
Or this is the square foot Ihave for a day.
(47:28):
So, therefore, how many poundsof animals can I have for a day?
So therefore, how many poundsof animals can I put on?
And so I was running ourcalculation and it's like
homeschooling homestead math,you know this is instead of
algebra and calculus and uselessmath that kids get.
This is what my kids are goingto be learning.
But so in the we're like 1,000to 1,500 pounds of animals, more
(47:59):
than what would be ideal forour field, especially to let it
recover.
So that would be downsizing.
Another cow or two we cansqueak it.
I just don't have as muchwiggle room with the exact
poundage.
I figured that we're about5,800 pounds of cows currently
(48:21):
with this, four adult cows andtwo youth that we have soon to
be potentially three youth.
So we're actually a little overstill, which it seems like we
have so few, but we're not quiteat the field happy place to let
the grass recover and improvewell, and I think that also
(48:44):
depends on moisture levels too,right like yeah, that's all.
Yeah, there's the factors ofwhat kind of last summer was
horrible.
Yeah, we had to hit during lastsummer and that was so you need
to, like I, if we had been ontop of it more.
If I had been on top of it more, it would have been.
Well, I would have startedpracticing this rotational
(49:04):
earlier, because I did see thebenefits almost immediately when
I started it, but that was likeend of summer that I finally
got my act together on it andthen show either keep the
movement, hanging them moreaggressively, or pulling them
off the field into a sacrificearea more aggressively to let
the grass catch up on itself, oryou downsize your herd more
(49:30):
aggressively when you're dealingwith environmental conditions
that are out of your control.
Speaker 1 (49:35):
Right.
Well, I appreciate you callingin and and talking cows and, you
know, dealing with chaos in thehouse.
So love you, babe.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
Talk to you later, love you Good night everybody.
Speaker 1 (49:52):
So, again, we're going to start taking calls and
I really hope a lot of people dostart calling in.
We're going to start that nextweek.
I'm going to really push it.
I'm going to probably schedulea few people to call in, you
know, again, cause I really wantthis show to be a community
show and, again, we don't alwayshave to talk about homesteading
.
Homesteading is just one topicand that you know as Christian
(50:15):
warriors that we need to do, wehave to be self-sufficient.
The other is tactics, and boyhave I been doing a lot of
active shooter stuff lately andI can't wait to talk about that
and we're going to talk aboutthat.
Um, we'll talk a little bitabout now and we'll talk a lot
about it next week.
So, for those of you guys whodon't know, who haven't watched,
what pays the bills here isTrident Shield.
(50:40):
Trident Shield is my securityconsulting, emergency
preparedness company that I dofor you know, schools, christian
businesses, you know anyone,and the Lord has blessed us and
we have been doing very wellwith Christian schools and we're
very thankful for thoseorganizations who trust us with
(51:01):
their kids and with theirteachers and their staff and
everyone else, and it has been adream to work with them and
we're so, so thankful ActorShooter isn't going anywhere.
I think it's going to justcontinue to get worse until we
turn back to God.
But as we, as I, as I, travelaround the country whether I'm
(51:22):
in Cal, you know how you dealwith this problem in California
is very different than how youdeal with it in Tennessee or
Florida, versus Massachusettsstates, blue states that just
totally neuter your ability tohave, you know, armed personnel
(51:54):
on property to deal with things.
But even if you are in a statelike a red state, where you can
arm your teachers or have armedsecurity staff, et cetera, et
cetera, you still should betraining everyone and you still
should be training your olderand you still should be training
your, your older kids, becauseyou don't know where it's going
to happen, you don't know howhow it's going to happen, you
(52:16):
don't know who's who's going toget injured, who's going to go
down, and everyone in an activeshooter needs to know exactly
what to do.
So again, you know I'm theprevious episodes I've been
leaning heavily on prepping talkon bugging out, on prepping in
your house and how to do allthat stuff.
But you know, next week we'regoing to talk about active
(52:37):
shooter more and uh and and andhelp you um understand how you
should be solving that problemright and for your workplace.
Whether your, your company,doesn't train you, um, if you're
still in the workplace andyou're not working from home, um
to where your kid goes, whatyou should do for your kid?
(53:00):
Um, again, you should betraining them or getting them
training.
I'm not saying that you need tobe an active shooter expert and
train them, but you should be,you know, getting training for
them, because what happens inmost schools is terrible.
You know we, we train companiesall around or schools all
(53:20):
around the nation, and everyoneafter they go through our
training is like you know, I'vebeen doing this for 20 years, a
teacher for 20 years, I've beenin so many different school
districts and this is the firsttraining where I actually feel
like you know, I know what to donow and that is, but that is.
That is unfortunately not theexception.
That is the rule that we seethat most people count on police
(53:45):
departments to train and mostPDs have no idea what they're
doing.
They don't know how to trainpeople.
They go through a governmenttraining session, which the
government does nothing well,and they have their very
cookie-cutter active shootercourse they teach.
(54:05):
That is horrible, versus aspecialist who has been doing
this for 10 plus years and isconstantly thinking outside the
box and helping people deal withchallenging scenarios,
challenging situations.
Um, instead of just run, hide,fight.
Well, I just told you theentire state federal plan and
(54:27):
doesn't tell you how to fight,doesn't tell you how to run and
doesn't tell you how to hide, um, so so again, you know, the
skills that we teach in activeshooter always work well across
the board on in all aspects ofyour life.
So, um, that's all I wanted tocover tonight.
Um, I just wanted to tease thatout.
We're going to cover ActiveShooter pretty heavy next week
(54:51):
and I'm going to have some otherpeople call in and I really,
really appreciate you guys.
God bless you and I will seeyou tomorrow.
Happy Lord's Day and I'll seeyou tomorrow at church, 11 am.
All right, bye.
Speaker 4 (55:05):
Thank you for standing shoulder to shoulder
with us in today's SpiritualVanguard on Christian Warrior
Talk, presented by ChristianWarrior Mission.
As we've united in prayer,let's hold fast to the truth in
Nehemiah 4.14.
Do not be afraid of them.
Remember the Lord, who is greatand awesome, and fight for your
brothers, your sons, yourdaughters, your wives and your
(55:26):
homes.
Until next time, let's keep ahumble and grateful heart,
deliberately pursue ourrelationship with our Lord and
Savior, jesus Christ, and equipourselves with the full armor of
God.
You're not walking this pathalone.
Lock shields with us andtogether we will hold the line.
May God bless you all.
(55:47):
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