October 2, 2025 • 67 mins
Kristin Kurtz welcomes back Diane Brask of Global Seed Planters to share an Ephesians 3:20 testimony of God’s faithfulness. From deep roots on a Wisconsin farm to wings spanning the nations, Diane has spent decades reaching unreached people groups through discipleship, leadership training, and practical missions. She shares a powerful update on a recent season marked by 66,000 salvations, key staff transitions, and a miraculous recovery from a serious back injury. Listeners will be stirred to believe God for the impossible, stay faithful through transitions, and live with a renewed sense of purpose in their own Kingdom assignments.
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Email - info@globalseedplanters.org
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SPEAKER_04 (00:16):
Welcome to the Hope Unlock Podcast.
I'm your host, Kristen Kurtz,and I'm also the founder of New
Wings Coaching.
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(00:38):
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Get ready to dive in as weuncover empowering keys and
insights in this episode.
So tune in and let's unlock hopetogether.
Welcome to the Hope Unlockedpodcast.
I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host.
I pray this episode is like aholy IV of hope for your soul.
Please help me welcome my dearfriend Diane Brass to the show.
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I'm so happy to have her backagain.
She actually was on previouslyon episode 100.
If you want to go back andlisten in, you'll probably want
to after you hear her storytoday.
But I did ask her if she'd beopen to coming on again to share
with all of you because she haswalked through quite a bit this
last year and has such atestimony that I know will bring
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hope to many.
So, Diane, for those of thelisteners who haven't heard your
story, could you just tell us alittle bit about yourself?
SPEAKER_00 (01:28):
Sure.
Thank you, Kristen, and thankyou for the privilege of being
on again.
I really enjoyed it.
I don't know the exact date, butI think it was sometime last
year.
It was I was on with you andjust loved being with you on
Hope Unlocked.
Yes.
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My great-grandparent, grandpa,and grandma immigrated from
Sweden in the 1870s andhomesteaded here.
And so um I have deep, deeproots, but God has given me long
wings too.
So while I'm rooted here, I havetraveled all over the world.
(02:15):
I've been in about 50 countries,Kristen.
And the more I've traveled, themore laser focused I've become.
SPEAKER_04 (02:35):
Yes.
Well, I love I love what yousaid, like deep roots.
And you said something about thewings.
Yeah, long, strong wings.
Long and strong wings.
And we both have a connectionwith eagles.
So that makes a lot of sense.
Um, tell us tell us a little bitabout your ministry.
Um, for those who didn't hear umyour story last time you came
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on.
SPEAKER_00 (02:57):
Um the ministry is called Global Feed Planters.
Um, it makes it sound a littlebit like uh we're farmers, and
we do do farming, but it's kindof a clever name because we
don't want it to be blatantlysounding like some Christian
organization, which is that is100% who we are.
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But we plant all kinds ofthings.
Yes, we plant seeds, but we alsoplant Bible schools, we plant
orphanages, we plant clinics, weplant God's word, we plant solar
players, we plant um clinics.
So we plant a variety of things,but it's all focused, every bit
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of it, on bringing the love ofJesus in word and deed.
We say we're a little bit likeour favorite thing in
kindergarten (03:49):
show and tell.
We want to show the love of Godto the ends of the earth, but we
also want to tell people aboutthe love of God to the ends of
the earth.
So our exclusive exclusive focusis ends of the earth.
SPEAKER_04 (04:07):
Yes.
And how long has the ministrybeen around?
SPEAKER_00 (04:11):
Well, I've been doing this.
So I was 20 years, I'm gonnagive roughly 20 years of my life
right after graduating fromBethel University in St.
Paul, I did 20 years of youthministry.
It's where I learned everythingabout evangelism, discipleship,
and even that's when we beganshort-term missions.
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Following that 20-year stint in2001, I began a missions focus.
And so from my first trip, 2001,I went with a friend um to ends
of the earth kind of thing.
We went uh to unreached peoplegroups, and we spent the first
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month in India and um literallywent to remote villages that had
never seen a white person in anyform.
So that's when I started, youmight say, Global seed planters,
but we didn't have that namethen.
We weren't we were under anotherministry, we were under their
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wing, and that ministry wascalled International Ministerial
Fellowship.
And they're a 501c3 or acovering for a variety of miss
uh ministries that need thatkind of covering.
So these were, you might say, my501c3 until 2014, 2015,
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somewhere in there, where Iincorporated what I was doing
and called it global seedplanters.
SPEAKER_04 (05:49):
Yeah, so beautiful.
And I, if you guys have heard mystory with um even the podcast
here, the Lord called it a seedcast.
So I feel like I'm on adifferent, I'm on mission, but
in a different way to reach thenations.
And I loved when I heard abouteven your ministry name, I was
like, I need to know her.
Exactly.
I'm not going over like foot be,you know, feet on the ground,
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boots on the ground, but it'sgoing through the airwaves
through sharing, you know, yourstories and other stories.
Um, I would love to hear, youknow, again.
So those of you who didn't hearthe fullness of Diane's story,
please go back and listen toepisode 100.
But I want to just kind of fastforward to um I interviewed you
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in November and November of2024.
And I would love for you toshare a little bit of what's
happened over this last yearsince we last had you on.
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (06:44):
I know a lot, a lot, right?
I know.
Well, first of all, I wentthrough some of the most
difficult times of my ministrylife.
Very confusing, very hard.
Um, I'm not one that struggleswith depression or
discouragement.
I'm pretty up most of the time.
SPEAKER_02 (07:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (07:06):
Um, last year was very productive.
We busted our butts, we leftnothing, nothing on the field.
We just went for it.
And we saw more happen all overthe world than ever.
Uh, altogether, we saw about66,000 people give their lives
to the Lord.
SPEAKER_02 (07:27):
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00 (07:28):
So, not too long after our podcast, Kristen.
Um, my key person resigned.
My right-hand person that's ourdirector of operations.
I'm a face for the ministry, I'mthe voice for the ministry, I'm
the CEO, but I'm not the onedoing the work in the weeds that
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keeps everything.
I'm not in operations.
I lost my operations person.
And December is not a good timeto lose someone like that
because year-end is always veryintense.
Yeah, um, the majority of ourfunding comes in in January.
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It's really so we have to staywith our, you know, nose to the
ground and our boots to theground right through the end of
the year.
We're not done until midnight onDecember 31st.
SPEAKER_02 (08:27):
Oh wow.
SPEAKER_00 (08:28):
So I lose her and I start spiraling.
I'm already uh kind of burnt outby that time every year because
I that last quarter, I go hard.
So, oh what does that look like?
I'm just curious.
It looks like it's steady, it'sday and night, it's traveling,
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it's connecting, it's speaking,it's writing, writing letters,
it's fundraising, it's you know,I have to raise all the money
for all my staff and foreverything we do.
So it's not lightweight.
Last year um I we raised$750,000.
SPEAKER_02 (09:12):
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (09:12):
That doesn't happen without a lot of effort.
SPEAKER_02 (09:16):
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00 (09:17):
So now I come and I've lost my operations person.
So I go in January.
I every year I do this.
About the first week of theyear, I go whole up and I fast
and I don't fast.
I take that back.
I seek the Lord with all myheart.
I take I do two things.
I review the year that was, I gothrough all the appointments,
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everything that we did, trackeverything, um, kind of do the
numbers on everything.
So every partnership, everyoutreach event, every Bible
distributed, every solar player,every travel engagement, I go
through all of that with theLord.
SPEAKER_03 (09:59):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (10:00):
And I ask myself hard questions like, was this a
fruitful event or project?
Would I do it again?
Um, did I sense the Lord's favorand blessing on it?
So I just really go over thewhole year and I'm kind of like
a farmer.
You know, farmers they measuretheir harvest.
Farmers still just say, Oh, itwas a great year.
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Then a farmer will ask them,Well, how many bushels to the
acre did you get?
Um, how many tons of milk didyou ship out?
Um, how many uh pounds of thisdid you get?
So it's always, they don't justsit at the coffee shop and say,
Oh man, my year was great.
They ask each other those kindsof questions.
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What about the results?
SPEAKER_03 (10:46):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (10:47):
And so those are the questions I ask myself.
Then the other thing I do is,Lord, speak to me about this
year.
So in January, when I walkedinto my annual place, I said,
Wow, Lord, I really need to bewith you this year.
And I need some.
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I'm feeling burnt out,discouraged, frustrated, like I
don't have any gas in the tankto start the year, and I need a
new staff person.
SPEAKER_02 (11:22):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (11:23):
So what I need from you, Lord, is a verse.
I need you to say to me what ison your heart that is crystal
clear.
I need a verse that's my anchoras I start this year.
And immediately the Holy Spiritresponds, your verse for the
year is now unto him who is ableto do exceedingly abundantly
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above all that you can ask,think, or even imagine by his
mighty power that is at workwithin you.
Wow, I just sat back and I said,Now that's a verse, Lord, I can
enter the year in.
SPEAKER_03 (12:02):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (12:02):
So even though I'm really feeling low, you're
saying to me, watch out, lookout.
I'm gonna do exceedinglyabundantly.
SPEAKER_03 (12:14):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (12:15):
I mean, you don't hear that expression, it just
pretty much means I'm gonna blowyour mind, Diane.
Yes, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Amen.
SPEAKER_04 (12:26):
And so that's what Ephesians 3.20, right?
Ephesians 3.20.
Ephesians 3.20.
SPEAKER_00 (12:31):
Yes, powerful.
Oh, I just say instead ofexceedingly abundantly, now unto
him who is able to blow yourmind.
SPEAKER_04 (12:40):
Yeah, say that again.
Somebody needs to hear that.
SPEAKER_00 (12:43):
Like I now, God, no matter how we're feeling, yes,
our uh, because if we're if Iwas gonna base going into this
year on my feelings, I wouldhave been crawling lower than a
snake.
SPEAKER_04 (12:55):
Diane, I understand.
SPEAKER_00 (12:57):
So that's how I started the year, and that verse
from the Lord literally flippedmy mood in a moment, in a
moment.
So I have nobody in mind forthis new position, yeah, and I
need her quickly.
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Um, within two days, I met her.
I did not know her, and in twodays, I had a I had a conference
call with my board that nightand with my advisory council.
And it was one of the best boardcouncil meetings I've ever had.
(13:40):
And I spilled my guts.
I didn't hold anything back, Ididn't try to pretend I was a
woman, hear me roar.
Yeah, I just said, you guys, I'mdoing awful.
I'm about as low as I've everbeen, and I need you, I need you
to stand with me, and I need Godto intervene.
And we need a director ofoperations soon.
SPEAKER_04 (14:04):
Yeah.
Can I ask you a little bit aboutthat?
You know, you you vulnerablycame to the meeting and shared
exactly where you were at.
Did you had you had that type ofvulnerability previously where
you you did do something likethat in the past?
Because I know for somebodywho's like quote unquote in
charge or you know, runningthings, it can be hard for
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somebody.
And maybe somebody who'slistening in today just hasn't
ever given themselves permissionto be vulnerable like that
before.
So, like going into it and thenkind of going out of it, and
after you shared, like what wascoming for you.
SPEAKER_00 (14:40):
Um because I'm not typically down or feeling
helpless or feeling, you know,that kind of no, I don't, but
when I need to, I always do.
I don't have a problem withpretending that I'm someone that
I'm not.
Um, that though was a differentkind of definitely a different
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kind of sharing, but I neededto, and I knew that.
And they responded accordingly.
I've never had a board meetingwhere I felt like everyone was
100% in because they also knewhow much um our previous
operations person had meant tome and the ministry, and so uh
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they knew her well.
And so um they just leaned intothe moment.
Um, they said, Diane, you needto be asking everyone because
none of us had anyone in mind.
Oh wow, and they said, you needto be asking everyone, who do
you know that I need to know?
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Who do you know?
I thought that was a really whodo you know that I need to know?
That is such a good question,and so that question led to me
meeting somebody that I did notknow two days later, who ended
up being the person we hired.
(16:08):
Oh wow, by the end of the month,we had her now.
So that was exceedinglyabundantly beyond what we could
ask, think, or imagine.
Boom, God drops her in our lap.
Then um a couple months later,uh our administrator who works
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with this person, she alsoresigned and she worked closely
with the director of operations.
So she resigns.
Now we need another person.
Now get a load of this.
Five years ago, a woman fromSeattle calls me and says, I
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have to interview a CEO of anonprofit for one of my classes
in college.
And I got your name from amutual friend.
Um, she and her husband aredonors of yours, and she said,
Oh, you need to call this DianeBrask.
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So I did this interview for herlike five years ago, and I just
saw it as a, you know, throw thedog a bone kind of a thing.
Um, meet her need to fulfill hercollege assignment and one and
done, right?
Well, after that, she has calledme two, three times a year
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saying, you have an opening.
Do you have an opening?
Do you have an opening?
And you know, I don't reallygive her the time of day.
I always just say, nope, there'snothing here.
No, we don't have an opening orthe money to hire anybody else.
And so, you know, we can chat alittle, but I I pretty much
would um throw her off.
You know, I I just I didn't Ididn't even give her the time of
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day.
Well then this this like Marchshe calls again.
Yeah, do you have an opening?
And I said, Wow, you are aspersistent as a tick on a dog.
You just you just do not take nofor an answer, and so maybe I
should give you the time of daytoday.
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Maybe we should talk a little.
I said, we do have an openingactually, and so we talked for
about 10 minutes, and I said,No, you're not the person we're
looking for.
Um, but maybe you're the personwe're looking for for something
else.
So we talked some more, yeah,and she's amazing, and so she
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ended up getting her master's ininternational community
development.
Oh, wow.
I mean, hello.
And then um, also, in she'sreally gifted besides a call of
God on her life, besidesmissions, besides all this stuff
that we need, she's also reallygood at quantitative and
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qualitative analysis.
In other words, you know,knowing how to come up with the
numbers to prove to your donorsthat what you're doing is making
a significant impact in theworld.
SPEAKER_04 (19:27):
That's amazing.
SPEAKER_00 (19:28):
So as of last week, Kristen, she's full-time with
global seed planters.
SPEAKER_04 (19:34):
I feel like clapping and jumping upside up and down.
SPEAKER_00 (19:38):
You can do that.
I've I'll tell you what, I feltlike clapping and jumping.
We flew her out here a coupleweeks ago so that she could meet
the whole staff and meet ourboard chairman, and we could
really kind of get a better feelfor each other.
And then she went home and spenta week uh talking to mentors and
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advisors and her husband andreally thinking it through and
came back with the phone callsaying, Yes, I'm excited to say
yes.
Oh my gosh.
Wow.
So, so, but I skipped the part.
So after all this exciting stuffgoing on, kind of the beginning
of the year.
SPEAKER_02 (20:18):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (20:19):
Oh, the most exciting thing, and this was
really exceedingly abundantly,yeah, I get invited to be a
guest on a podcast inTuscaloosa, Alabama.
Podcast is called A StrongerFaith.
So you have to audition to be onthis, and their whole team
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listens to your audition, whichis about 12, 15 minutes long,
and then they decide if theywant you to be a guest or not.
So they said, Yeah, come ondown.
So I part flew and part drove.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a longway from Grantsburg, Wisconsin.
SPEAKER_03 (21:02):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (21:03):
So I got down there, was on this podcast, and to be
really honest with you, Kristen,I didn't know how I felt about
it.
The guy was a little bit umdevil's advocate or an
interrogator.
It wasn't an easy one, it waskind of hard.
And I didn't know exactly wherehe was coming from.
In the end, I liked the theproduct that they produced.
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I love the podcast that they didbecause they did, I think the
podcast recorded was about fourhours.
Seriously, yeah, four hours, andthey added it down to just under
three.
SPEAKER_03 (21:41):
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER_00 (21:42):
So still very long, right?
But very engaging and verycaptivating.
Um, that was that was uh filmedor recorded on April 7th.
Okay.
On May 11th, I fell down thestairs and almost killed myself.
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I fell down 15 flight of stairsat the farm and broke my back.
Um, I broke seven vertebrae, tworibs, and my sternum.
And surgery resulted in about a10, 12-inch incision, two inches
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deep, my back being fused withrods on both sides of my spinal
column, 10 screws screwing meback together, and 50 staples.
To say it's been painful is uhbeyond anything that I can
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describe.
It's really been anindescribable summer.
So I'm laying at the bottom ofthe stairs and saying to the
Lord, how does this fit into theverse you gave me?
Right, right.
Like you're gonna do exceedinglyabundantly above what I could
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think, ask, or imagine.
Yeah, this would fit, but whereare we going with this?
SPEAKER_04 (23:13):
Like so you're actually laying at the bottom of
the stairs.
SPEAKER_00 (23:16):
Like I'm laying at the bottom of the stairs.
SPEAKER_04 (23:17):
Surely after this happens, and you're asking this
question.
Like, were you in a lot of painat this point?
SPEAKER_00 (23:21):
Like, could you No, to be honest with you, I was
surprised that I had as muchdamage as I did.
I think the grace of God was allover me that day because I was
home alone.
I was home alone from five inthe morning until seven at
night.
SPEAKER_03 (23:36):
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00 (23:37):
After this fall.
unknown (23:39):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (23:40):
And the Lord told me that he was right there with me.
Not to worry, he was there.
So, and he really was, becausewhen the ambulance finally came
at seven at night, becausesomebody came and called, um,
they were gonna, you know,really strap me down and put me
on the gurney and put thisstraight jacket on my neck.
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And I told them, you know, I I'mnot hurt.
SPEAKER_04 (24:04):
Really?
You said that?
SPEAKER_00 (24:06):
Yes, I said I don't need any strait jacket on my
neck, which I didn't.
I mean, I've always been able touh move my neck freely, but um I
get to Grantsburg and they x-rayme and they said, We're rushing
you down to North Memorial inthe cities right now.
So all that to say, yeah, I havehad a summer of slow, painful
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recovery.
My surgeon told me because ofthe extent of my injuries and
the extent of the surgery, Iwill not be recovered for one
year.
And so I'm looking at next May.
So how is this gonna play out interms of ministry for the
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summer?
Well, keep in mind now, right?
God had God had that podcastdone, God knew what he was doing
all the time because God knowseverything.
And so while I was laying flaton my back, going through
therapy, in excruciating pain,not even at home, in a
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transition place, God has thepodcast go live on June 16th.
Wow.
Timing, timing, exactly.
Only in God's sovereignty and inhis providence would and his
omniscience would he be able topull that off exceedingly
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abundantly, beyond now.
Who would pick falling andbreaking your back as a beyond
your imagination?
But this was this was God'splan, as strange as it sounds,
because as of like about today,that podcast has been viewed by
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60,000 people in 42 states andin 26 nations.
So I have traveled all over theUnited States and around the
world while lying flat on myback.
You talk about the brilliance ofGod, it would not have been the
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way that I would have chosen inmy wildest imagination to do
ministry this summer.
SPEAKER_02 (26:35):
Right, right.
SPEAKER_00 (26:36):
But I was able quite literally to travel and speak
around the whole United Statesand around the world.
Now, not just that, Kristen,there was no fundraising about
this podcast.
I was just doing like I'm doinghere.
I'm just sharing about theministry.
And people were literallysending in money to GSP, global
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seed planters, from around theworld.
Amen.
And so I thought that there wasa good chance the ministry was
gonna shut down this yearbecause I can't do anything to
raise money, and I'm the onlyone that does that.
Yes, right.
So I thought, okay, not gonna beable to pay salaries.
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Oh me of little faith, right?
Right, and God is just like,hey, I got this.
When you're when you're weak,I'm strong.
You're not the one in charge ofthis ministry.
I am.
You're not the word doesn't sayyou will supply all the
ministry's needs, it says Iwill.
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Wow, my God shall supply all ofyour needs.
So that's on me.
That's not on you.
Now you just watch me take careof you and take care of the
ministry.
Yeah, and then not only not onlyhas the ministry, we came out of
the summer with the most moneycome in that we've ever had come
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in in the summer months.
They're lean.
Summer's not a good time formoney.
And um, most ministries andchurches will tell you that
they're choking in the summerbecause people are spending
their money having fun, which iscompletely understandable,
especially if you live in someof the northern states where
summer's like two, three monthslong, right?
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So, yeah, God has beenremarkably good.
And while I've been at home,haven't been on a plane at all
since Tuscaloosa.
Um, so God has just I've hadvisions of being able to, our
farm is old.
I live on an old farm, it's overa hundred years old.
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And so it's got a lot of stuffthat needs to be done.
Yeah, people, Kristen, were sogreat this summer.
Um, the whole farm has had afacelift.
Um buildings have been renewed.
Restore buildings that shouldhave had a bulldozer and a match
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are now completely renewed.
The farm looks really great.
It looks it looks renewed, andthat's what I feel like God is
saying.
I'm making all things new.
Yes.
SPEAKER_04 (29:32):
Wow, not great.
Seriously, like, and that's like2 Corinthians 5 17, right?
My the right address?
I think I'm not sure.
Yeah, but like this renewal.
Um, I I would love to ask.
So for all these years, you'vebeen, you know, kind of
operating, doing ministry whereyou're the face, you've been
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boots on the ground, you know,fundraising, you've seen this
this new way.
That the Lord has stepped in,you know, during a time of you
needing to do it a differentway.
But do you sense that this islike an a new way that could
even be, I don't know, I'm justthinking of other people in
ministry who, you know, maybehave operated in this way where
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they've kind of done, you know,fundraising or or what have you.
One way I I talked to somebodyrecently and he said that
they're really strugglingfinancially with their ministry.
So I actually invited him on thepodcast so he could get the word
out.
Do you do you sense that there'sa a new way that the Lord's
really wanting to do that?
SPEAKER_00 (30:36):
Well, he's definitely he's he's definitely
doing that with us.
I can't speak for everyone.
I was on a um a financial orfundraising training class
yesterday.
And it was the same old, sameold stuff.
Okay, you know, some newinformation, but for the most
(30:56):
part, the same, all thecontacting that you need to be
doing, and the emailing you needto be doing, and the phone
calling you need to be doing.
There was really nothing new forme under the sun.
I assure you that there was nota single mention of if you want
to raise funds, um, be involvedin a traumatic injury, right?
(31:19):
Um, almost kill yourself, andthen God will take over.
I think the message for me isno, it's not about plug and
play, it's about trust my HolySpirit.
And which, by the way, it wouldbe amiss if I was not to say,
look, you talk about renewing ora new way or whatever.
(31:42):
Look what's happening in theworld.
Yes.
I have never in my lifetime,other than way back in the it's
50 years since we've seen a moveof God like this in America.
Back in the late 60s, early 70s,during the Jesus people
movement, when the Holy Spiritvisited a nation and then a bit
(32:08):
in the world, too.
Um, I have cried out literallyto God.
I have prayed, asking the Lordto do it again.
Lord, we've heard of your fame,we stand in all of your deeds in
our day.
Do it again.
Please do it again.
And, you know, started prayingthat a long time ago.
(32:31):
And then have been wondering,where are you, Lord?
How come we haven't seen revivalfor 50 years?
And then, you know, pretty muchI went back to there's a guy
named Evan Roberts that's famousin the Welsh Revival.
One guy that with a youth groupof 17 kids, one night in Loghar,
(32:54):
Wales, yeah, he shared what theLord had been doing in his life
in college, and it sparked arevival that touched the world.
And now this last Sunday we sawCharlie Kirk's memorial service,
and again, one guy whose passionfor God and zeal for God's glory
(33:21):
and for people to know Jesustouched the world by Monday.
They're saying that 100 millionpeople all over the world had
live streamed or had streamedthat funeral.
Then I hear from his wife thatoh, excuse me, I don't every
(33:44):
once in a while I get a stab ofpain from my back.
SPEAKER_03 (33:47):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (33:47):
Um I hear from his wife that Charlie's goal was
20,000 chapters in high schoolsand colleges.
As of this morning, 120,000.
Oh my gosh, it's okay.
120,000 requests from all overthe world have come in.
(34:11):
And I just heard beginning ofthis week that the request had
bounced all the way up to60,000.
Well, now it's been doublinglike every two days.
SPEAKER_04 (34:25):
Yeah, because at the memorial, I feel like they had
said that it was what 35,000 ormaybe it was just hundred,
hundred.
SPEAKER_00 (34:32):
It was a hundred thousand.
No, no, thirty five hundred.
Wow.
And then and then it's it's justit's exponential.
Go back to the verse again fromthe beginning of the year,
exceedingly, exceedinglyabundantly.
Let me blow your mind becauseI'm gonna do more than you could
think, ask, or even dare toimagine.
(34:56):
In your wildest dreams, if wecould interview Charlie Kirk
right now from heaven, he wouldsay, In my wildest dreams, I
never imagined anything likethis would happen, maybe until
he lived to be 90 years old orsomething.
But in you know, a few days fromhis death.
(35:16):
I mean, he was killed onSeptember 10th.
Right.
SPEAKER_04 (35:19):
We're only 15 days later here.
SPEAKER_00 (35:22):
Yeah, and and here it is, 120,000, Kristen.
unknown (35:27):
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (35:28):
I really do believe that this is going to be the
fuel starter, the firebrand forrevival, perhaps even the last
great outpouring of the HolySpirit.
In the last days, it says inActs, I will pour out my spirit
(35:51):
on your sons and your daughters.
Here we are talking on hopeunlocked right now.
And as we speak, the Holy Spiritis doing just that.
You talk about hastening the dayof the Lord's return.
May I suggest this would behastening?
And that only this generation,when that was written, when Luke
(36:15):
wrote that book of Acts backthere not long after Jesus'
ascension, ah, there was nosocial media back then.
SPEAKER_03 (36:23):
Right, right.
SPEAKER_00 (36:24):
And now we have all these ways, and this generation
of any generation ever knows howto hasten the day.
They just they just can't shutup right now.
And it's not all about CharlieKirk, and it's not about
conservatism, and it's not aboutall that.
This is primarily about Jesus.
(36:46):
Charlie's last trips, he wasgoing around the world speaking
like John the Baptist.
Repent.
He was speaking a message ofrepentance.
Repent and get right with theLord.
SPEAKER_02 (37:02):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (37:03):
Well, and he was last in, wasn't it, uh, Korea
prior South Korea?
Yep.
Yep.
And like that's caused anuprising there, from what I
understand.
Um, just in you know, hisassassination and this martyr,
he's a martyr.
He truly is.
And I I don't know, like, evenwhen I was watching the the
memorial on on Sunday, I justkept hearing my spirit like,
(37:26):
don't miss it, don't miss it.
And we're seeing thiseverything.
I mean, you could even, I'm justgonna go here.
Like, I could tell somebody thatthe sky is blue, and they'd be
like, No, it's black.
SPEAKER_00 (37:40):
Yeah, but no matter what the devil tries now, it's
too late.
He he he overplayed his handlike he did with Jesus.
Oh, he was so excited, I'm gonnakill this sucker.
And then before he knows it,Jesus has risen, and he must
have been saying, Oh, shoot.
Now what have I done?
(38:02):
Um, same thing with Charlie.
You thought you were gonnasilence his voice.
You didn't silence his voice,you magnified it, you amplified
it.
You yeah, and so people aregonna try to throw up anything
they can now, but it's too late.
It's too late.
The Holy Spirit is out ahead ofthem, and no matter what people
(38:23):
try to do, there's nothing thatthey can do to stifle God's plan
that everyone will hear aboutJesus.
You know, and this is theinteresting thing too, Kristen.
I have been to the ends of theearth.
I've been to places, no roads,no water, no running water, no
toilets, no electricity.
(38:44):
But you know what there is inthe middle of nowhere?
Cell phone.
And I have not been to a singlevillage in the world, and I've
been to a lot of them wherethere's not at least one
smartphone.
SPEAKER_04 (38:59):
I've been thinking about that a lot.
SPEAKER_00 (39:00):
Can you if you want to reach the entire world, just
do it through a cell phone?
Isn't that interesting?
It really is.
There, there's that beyond whatyou could think, ask, or
imagine.
SPEAKER_03 (39:13):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (39:13):
And just think you could literally reach and
disciple.
You just pack everybody into amud hut and listen to that one
podcast or that one um viewingon their on a the one smartphone
in the village.
And then tomorrow when the sunrises, they lay that little
six-inch by six-inch solar panelon the roof and plug in that
(39:37):
smartphone and charge it upagain so they can watch that
night.
So it's it's amazing the abilitynow to reach the ends of the
earth without having topersonally go there.
SPEAKER_04 (39:51):
So I'm I'm kind of curious, and you might have the
answer to this question, or youmight even be supplying the
phones, but how are they gettingphones?
Oh, every country has them.
You just got to get into twolike families in a village, you
know.
Like, is that how it works?
Can you tell us a little bitmore?
SPEAKER_00 (40:07):
Like, how does that they'd have to get somebody
because those small villageswill not have a phone store.
They have to get into a city.
Somebody has to get into a citywhere they can buy, but because
of even crops and stuff, umagricultural societies will have
(40:27):
them because they want to knowwhat are the current market
prices today, if I can get mycorn in or I can get my rice in,
you know, and so um reallyphones are running the world.
SPEAKER_02 (40:42):
Wow, wow.
SPEAKER_04 (40:43):
So I mean just think like you they say 100 million
people watched the memorial, butuh it's probably like how many
different times over that?
20 times that wouldn't you say?
SPEAKER_00 (40:56):
Oh, I wouldn't be I wouldn't be surprised.
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_04 (41:01):
So I would love you to, you know, because you
watched all of it, I did too.
Um and like you said, in yourtime, you've never seen anything
like this back in the JesusRevolution, you know, Jesus
people revolution time.
How old were you at that time?
SPEAKER_00 (41:18):
I was uh a sophomore.
SPEAKER_04 (41:20):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (41:20):
So you were 73.
I was a sophomore in 73.
You remember, and and I was Iwas at some of the events.
The biggest event of that timewas called Explo 72, and it was
an event held in Dallas, Texas,with 100,000 high school and
college students there.
(41:41):
And it was when Jesus PeopleMovement, when modern day
Christian music was birthed.
SPEAKER_04 (41:47):
Okay, wow, and you're seeing now we're seeing
so the turning point USAchapters that are opening are
opening where?
SPEAKER_00 (41:58):
In high school and college campuses across America.
That's the target.
SPEAKER_04 (42:03):
Parallel to who you were seeing coming to these
events.
SPEAKER_00 (42:06):
You know, it's all you look back to Jesus.
They believe that most of thedisciples were teenagers.
When God look at Mary, hechooses a 14-year-old.
Look at uh David when he slaysGoliath, he's like 16.
Look at the guys in the lion'sden.
God has always chosen youngpeople when he's wanted to do
(42:28):
something big because youngpeople just believe he can,
right?
They're not jaded yet, theyhadn't haven't had enough
negative experiences to kind ofgo, yeah, right.
Young people want to change theworld till they have enough
experiences to go, I don't thinkI'll be able to.
But God believes in teenagers.
(42:51):
I mean, who would choose ajunior high girl to be the
mother of your son, raising themost important baby in the
world?
And you choose a 14-year-old?
Are you kidding me?
Right.
Yeah, yeah, it confounds thewise, right?
Right, right.
And so, yeah, I I find itinteresting.
I think it's in the book ofDaniel that says that in the
(43:13):
last days, knowledge willgreatly increase.
And so here we are, you know, nocell phones, no transportation,
nothing back in Jesus' time.
Yet, even though there wasnothing to help prop up the
message or spread the message,Jesus changed the world through
(43:35):
a group of young people withoutany mode of transportation other
than their feet, without anycomputers and any cell phones,
the message still spreadglobally.
And here we are talking on HopeUnlocked podcasts that will have
technology to help spread it.
(43:58):
So now we have the Holy Spirit,we have technology that can
spread everything in ananosecond and be available to
the world of eight plus billionpeople can hear this message
within 24 hours once it goeslive.
(44:19):
It's incredible.
You talk about being able tohasten the day of the Lord's
return.
This is where we're at.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (44:28):
What would you what would you say to those who
because I I really like when Iheard of what happened with
Charlie Kirk, um, he really waskind of a voice in the
background for me, bolstering meback, you know, especially
during the COVID days when I wasneeding to speak up about some
things.
Um, you know, I I I at first Ididn't believe it.
(44:53):
I was like, no, no, I don't, Idon't think so.
And then all of a sudden I justfelt this fire like coursing
through my veins.
Like I felt back in 2020.
And I feel like we're kind of inthis phase two of um many
things, but what would you sayto people?
Because I, you know, I'm reallyI love helping women to get out
(45:18):
there and do what the Lord hascalled them to do because too
many are sitting on the bench.
And second of all, I love tohelp women use their voice and
roar.
What would you say to thesewomen, especially?
And and I know some women somemen listen in.
Did you feel that that fire comelike it almost an emboldened
(45:39):
phase?
SPEAKER_03 (45:40):
Like phase two.
SPEAKER_00 (45:41):
It hasn't died out, it's neither burning, and you
know what I think it's gonna be.
I believe yeah, it'sinteresting.
It wasn't, you know, it couldhave been both Charlie and Erica
killed in a car crash.
They could have taken them bothout, like Diana and and her
boyfriend.
No, Erica is left, yes, why?
(46:04):
Because I believe Erica is theone the the torch is being
handed off to her, and she isthe modern day Esther of our
day.
I really I believed it as soonas it happened.
The lady has it all gone forher.
She's got class, she's gotbeauty, she's got brains, she's
(46:26):
athletic, she knows how to runcompanies.
I mean, the woman is absolutelya needle in a haystack of women.
Forget about you know, theseyoung girls looking up to
whoever, yeah, uh Taylor Swift,um, you know, Hillary Clinton,
whatever, they're the Viewwomen, whoopi Goldberg.
(46:50):
They've got they've got Ericanow to be a model, an example.
Oh, and top of everything else Imentioned, Miss Arizona.
I mean, she's won beautypageants.
I think actually, when Trump wasthe one who owned it.
Anyway, I find it remarkablethat she's now stepping in with
(47:13):
the mantle of leadership on hershoulders.
And I think literally she wasborn for a time such as this.
SPEAKER_04 (47:21):
Amen.
SPEAKER_00 (47:22):
And so those women and girls that we're mutually
concerned about, we don't haveto worry about them at all,
Kristen, because for the firsttime in their lives, they have
an example of a woman they canfollow.
SPEAKER_04 (47:38):
Yeah, and she she stands for family values, she
stands like she's she's taking astand, truly.
SPEAKER_00 (47:45):
She's conservative, and she's conservative in all
those views, and as Charliesaid, more conservative than me.
SPEAKER_04 (47:52):
Wow, he he said that.
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (47:54):
Yep, yep, that she's more conservative than him.
I find it interesting that whilethey both spoke up about needing
to stay home and raise yourkids, that's not what she's
gonna be be doing.
She's gonna be running anonprofit.
SPEAKER_04 (48:09):
Yeah.
How how do you like how do youthink I'm not saying that you
would tell her what to do, butyou know, maybe for those who
are being called to again, likeI'm I'm just seeing this
resurgence in me is like, comeon, get off the bench and like
helping women go do the thing.
How can how can there be, youknow, balance is I feel like
(48:31):
balance is kind of unattainable.
How how can people juggle, youknow, a ministry calling, a
business calling, um, havingchildren, families?
Like, have you seen it done wellbefore?
Without burnout.
SPEAKER_00 (48:46):
Uh I don't know that I can answer the question right
away.
Maybe not that young.
Okay.
Um, because she's in she's inher mid-30s.
She's like four or five yearsolder than Charlie.
SPEAKER_04 (49:01):
Yeah, I think she's like that.
SPEAKER_00 (49:03):
Yeah, that's what I thought too, like 36.
But you know what?
It all goes back to calling andbeing set apart by the Holy
Spirit.
Because again, we have to throwthe weight of the responsibility
on God who does the calling.
God knows that she's got athree-year-old and a
one-year-old.
God knows she's just lost herhusband.
(49:25):
And so um, where God calls, Heprovides.
And so um, I'm sure that God andher staff are gonna be wrestling
with this on a regular basis andcontinually, you know, seeking
to try to juggle it and befaithful in all the
(49:48):
responsibilities that, yeah,especially Erica, she's gonna
have a lot.
A lot, a lot on her plate.
But yeah, you could hear whenshe spoke that it was God that
was filling her mouth.
Like, open your mouth and I willfill it, says the Lord.
(50:10):
When you're up in front of theworld two days after your
husband has just died, youshould be a bubbling, a bumbling
idiot with not being able to doa thing except ball.
Right.
And instead, she's able toaddress the world.
And if you think that youstopped, you've only ignited a
fire in me that is never gonnabe put out.
(50:34):
Yeah, like you're gonna regretthat you did this because now
his voice will just be louder,right?
SPEAKER_04 (50:41):
It's it's set off like this inferno wildfire, and
I and I know that there's a lotof people that are catching it.
They're like, Yes, I'm I'mgrabbing my torch and running
with it.
And then we've got other peopleon the other side that are like
um it's just so interesting, youknow.
But we've got other people onthe other side, it's like we
(51:01):
have to stay focused.
SPEAKER_00 (51:03):
I think that the other side has been remarkably
quiet because they know there'snot much they can say.
This is a tsunami.
That's like saying, I'm gonnasay something about the tsunami
that's coming my way.
Well, go ahead and try to saysomething about the tsunami, but
you ain't stopping the tsunami.
Yeah, yeah, it's big and it'sugly, but it's it's coming your
(51:26):
way.
And and that's you know, I thinkthe liberal, the wokes, the
whatever you want to call, um,they're seeing a tidal wave.
It's not just a tidal wave,they're seeing hurricane-size
storms, tsunamis.
That that's the Holy Spirit issaying, good luck.
(51:48):
Because if you think you canstop me, look at how fast I have
spread this around the world.
SPEAKER_03 (51:57):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (51:58):
I mean, they don't they don't have a plan to stop
this, right?
SPEAKER_04 (52:02):
Exactly.
And and then what what'sbeautiful is um, you know,
everybody gets an opportunity tochoose.
Like you can either jump shipfrom, you know, you're seeing
the tsunami coming, you can jumpship off like the the enemy lie
ship, or you can come on boardwith us.
Right with Jesus, right?
(52:22):
I mean, because this is like wetalked about earlier, just some
of the things that you'veexperienced in your ministry,
like you you couldn't even, youcouldn't make this up.
You you can't make this up.
It's it's beyond something wecould even conjure up.
Exactly.
Unfortunately, we've you know,we we've unfortunately lost, you
(52:44):
know, a man, but through is ituh Matthew 12, 23, like a seed
has to die, right?
Right.
And um, you know, unfortunatelythis happened to him, but what
we're seeing through just likewith Jesus, like he he died.
And I'm not saying Charlie isJesus by any means, right?
(53:06):
But goodness, just yeah, there'sthere's such a fire in me, and I
can't keep it contained.
SPEAKER_00 (53:14):
You know, as I sit here right now at the farm and
look out my window, I'm lookingat a cornfield about to be
harvested.
So every single stalk that hasat least two big cobs on it was
planted with one kernel of corn.
(53:35):
Now there's two cobs with rowafter row after row of kernels
of corn, and bushels and bushelsand tons of tons and tons of
corn that all came fromindividual kernels.
That's what's happening in theworld right now.
God, God is a ridiculousmultiplier.
(53:57):
He takes one and turns it intocountless.
Yes, and um He's got He's gothis harvesters too, all over the
world, yeah, and multiplyinghourly as we speak, too.
Like it's just it's nothingshort of miraculous what God has
(54:18):
done, is doing, and will do.
I really do believe we arelooking right now at the end
times last day's harvest.
How long this last day's harvestlasts, that we don't know.
But the Lord is not willing thatany should perish, but that all
(54:39):
should come to repentance.
One thing he's committed to ishe will not return till every
tribe and tongue and peoplegroup from the world has someone
present around the throne who isa believer and a worshiper of
(54:59):
Jesus.
And we're closer to that everyhour of today.
Yes, and that's what excites me.
You know, it's a weird verse,isn't it?
That we can hasten the day ofthe Lord's return.
That's by cooperating with theHoly Spirit to get her done.
Get her done, get her done.
(55:21):
I just love you.
That's what I'm yeah, I'mleaning into that now.
Get her done.
SPEAKER_04 (55:27):
Get her done.
Amen.
Well, I would love you'll haveto come on again because I know
that you'll have more storieslike in the next six months to a
year.
Um, I would love for you to justshare how can the listeners
like, what do you need?
What does Diane need?
What does the ministry needright now?
Um, I know financial donationsare always you know beneficial.
(55:49):
Um, and if that's the case,where can they donate to global
seed planters, first of all?
And then what else do you need?
SPEAKER_00 (55:56):
Well, I would say our number one need, it's not
material, not financial, it'sspiritual.
The number one need we need isprayer.
And you can tell by what I'veshared about my accident.
Another need that we have veryseriously is protection.
Um, we've been under a lot ofattack because of the nature of
(56:19):
our ministry, because we'refocused on those who have never
heard, we're focused on the endsof the earth, we're focused on
Buddhists and Hindus andMuslims.
The attack from Satan isintense.
Uh, I have one of my otherworkers that's going in for
pretty serious surgery verysoon.
(56:42):
So pray for our protection.
Yeah.
Um, also, we need prayer forwisdom.
This is not about if you thinkyou can run your ministry by
your good, your goodintelligence or your research or
your your brilliant mind.
No, you can't.
Yeah, um, ministry is not thesame as other businesses.
(57:05):
Ministry is about speak, Lord,for your servant is listening.
We need to be hearing from theLord.
unknown (57:13):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (57:14):
Now, I'd be remiss if I didn't say we also need
miraculous funding because weknow we now have the research in
place to know where the leastreached people are.
We have we have 200 indigenousmissionaries in their own least
(57:34):
reached nations that we support.
Um, and we could support more ifwe had more money.
I mean, it does take, it takesthe Holy Spirit, number one, but
then it he does work throughpeople.
SPEAKER_03 (57:49):
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00 (57:50):
And they need to be supported.
Um, and so man, if we had amillion dollars, which we don't,
but not yet, it would be easyfor us to distribute a million
dollars.
SPEAKER_01 (58:01):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (58:01):
And now when we have this new gal that does, you
know, number crunching andmaking sure about the impact and
all that stuff, it's evenbetter.
So prayer, protection, wisdom,and finances.
You know, somebody that'slooking, it'd be a fool if they
knew they could get 10% on theirinvestments and they kept
(58:24):
investing in what they weregetting, four to five.
Why do that if you know you canget 10?
But in kingdom investment, I canpromise you um the equivalent of
harvesting the corn.
You can invest one kernel andget a hundred times more, a
thousand times more.
Invest in the kingdom.
(58:46):
Um, not just any Christianorganization, any more than any
financial fund.
Invest in one where you'regetting great ROI return on your
investment.
SPEAKER_04 (59:00):
Yes, or like return on impact, even too.
SPEAKER_00 (59:04):
Right, right.
So last year our ROI wasextraordinarily high.
SPEAKER_02 (59:09):
Was it?
SPEAKER_00 (59:10):
Wow, 66,000 people giving their lives to the Lord
from this little ministry.
It's huge, it's huge, it's huge.
So I can say without anyboasting or anything, invest in
global seed planters.
God will give you a great ROI.
SPEAKER_04 (59:31):
Yes.
And I I just want to kind offollow up with that because
several years ago, you know, theLord was just showing me like,
do things for the one, right?
And and in the world's math,that doesn't always make sense,
right?
But he was showing me, like, youknow, math that we learned in
school, one times one in theworld is just one.
But in the kingdom, one timesone is exponential.
(59:55):
Yeah.
So even donating, if you have adollar, like it it's
exponential.
At least that's the way I seeit.
Would you agree?
SPEAKER_00 (01:00:02):
I would.
I know this.
You can, with an investment of$3, we can print and distribute
a Bible in a Hindu, Buddhist, orMuslim country in their native
tongue.
And from that one Bible, it'slike one corn kernel or one
(01:00:24):
kernel of wheat.
It just somebody sitting intheir mud hut with their family
and their neighbors, and theyfind John 3:16.
For God so loved the world thathe gave his only son that
whoever believes in him will notperish but have everlasting
life.
Wow, all of a sudden you've gota whole hut full of people
(01:00:47):
praying and giving their livesto Jesus because the Holy Spirit
opened up their eyes through athree dollar investment.
SPEAKER_02 (01:00:55):
Amen.
SPEAKER_00 (01:00:56):
Yeah, it's incredible.
SPEAKER_04 (01:00:58):
But beyond the Ephesians 3.20.
SPEAKER_00 (01:01:02):
That's right.
Amen.
Well exceedingly beyond.
So we should probably end fortoday or we could go on forever.
SPEAKER_04 (01:01:09):
I know.
Well, what is your um website?
So we can verbalize it, but I'llalso put it in the show notes as
well.
SPEAKER (01:01:15):
Globalseedplanters.org.
Okay.
And you can give online there.
It'll also give you theinformation where you could send
a check to our P.O.
box.
Um, but yeah, for this isprobably a younger crowd.
If not, they can have somebodyhelp them online or send a check
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to Global Seed Planters, P.O.
Box 107, Sandstone, Minnesota.
I believe the zip is 55072, notpositive on the zip.
SPEAKER_04 (01:01:51):
We'll put that in the show notes.
So if you guys want to justverify the address before
sending out your check, thatwould be amazing.
SPEAKER_00 (01:01:57):
And the best way to give two would be the greatest
need, because then your moneywill go to whatever has the
greatest need or the greatestROI return on your investment.
SPEAKER_04 (01:02:08):
Yes.
Amen.
Thank you so much.
Um I would love to just ask youone more question.
So, as you know, I I do this forthe one, and I would just love
for you to think of that onewoman or man who's listening in
today.
Obviously, there's more that arelistening, but do you have any
words of encouragement or orwisdom that you feel led to
speak over them?
(01:02:28):
And then would you pray us outtoday?
SPEAKER_00 (01:02:31):
Sure.
Let me pause a moment and askthe Lord.
I would just say believe.
Believe, silence your doubt,your skepticism.
Turn off the noise on that.
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Open your eyes to see that theHoly Spirit is moving in an
unprecedented way in the world.
And just simply say yes to him.
Or say like Thomas, Lord, Ibelieve.
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Help my unbelief.
Or get rid of my unbelief,right?
Lord, I believe.
And then do what Samuel did.
Samuel wasn't sure what wasgoing on back in his day.
And he didn't know that the Lordwas trying to speak to him.
So he went and talked to Eli andhe said, When you hear a voice,
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just say, speak, Lord, for yourservant is listening.
That's what I'd say to your onethat's out there.
Speak, Lord.
At least I'm trying to listen,right?
And and then move out in faith,like you did just genuinely hear
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from him.
SPEAKER_02 (01:04:01):
So good.
SPEAKER_00 (01:04:02):
So, Father, we come to you at the end of this
podcast, and very humbled by theunique and creative ways that
you do exceedingly abundantly.
That you are a God who loves toblow our minds and do far
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beyond, not just do what we'recapable of thinking or asking or
imagining, but far above andbeyond, you want to blow our
minds.
So we invite you to do that withevery listener.
Blow their mind.
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And um surprise them with whatyou're capable of doing.
And thank you, Lord, that youare making all things new.
Thank you that we can anticipatenew days ahead.
The old, forget the formerthings, do not dwell on the
past.
See, I'm doing a new thing.
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Do you not perceive it?
So we thank you that the windsof revival are blowing and that
you are doing new things.
SPEAKER_04 (01:05:20):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (01:05:21):
We're grateful in Jesus' name.
Amen.
SPEAKER_04 (01:05:24):
Amen.
Well, I wanted to before I end,I wanted to make sure I like
edit what I said.
I said Matthew 12.24, but it'sactually John 12.24.
It's truly, truly I say to you,unless a grain of wheat falls
into the earth and dies, itremains alone.
But if it dies, it bears muchfruit.
So I just wanted to edit myaddress of where I told you guys
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in the Bible earlier.
So it's John 12.24.
Um, but Diane, thank you so muchfor coming back on today.
I'm going to close with hope andlocked anchoring verse, which is
May the God of hope fill youwith all joy and peace in
believing, so that by the powerof the Holy Spirit you may
abound in hope.
And that's Romans 15, 13.
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So thank you again, Diane, foralways being a brave voice who's
setting so many free.
I can't wait to have you onagain.
I'll be back with anotherepisode next week.
Welcome to the Hope Unlock Podcast.
I'm your host, Kristen Kurtz,and I'm also the founder of New
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feeling caged and stuck, unlocktheir true purpose and
potential, break free fromlimitations, and thrive with
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If you're curious to learn moreabout coaching with me, head to
NewWinksCoaching.net and be sureto explore the show notes for
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ways to connect with me further.
Get ready to dive in as weuncover empowering keys and
insights in this episode.
So tune in and let's unlock hopetogether.
Welcome to the Hope Unlockedpodcast.
I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host.
I pray this episode is like aholy IV of hope for your soul.
Please help me welcome my dearfriend Diane Brass to the show.
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I'm so happy to have her backagain.
She actually was on previouslyon episode 100.
If you want to go back andlisten in, you'll probably want
to after you hear her storytoday.
But I did ask her if she'd beopen to coming on again to share
with all of you because she haswalked through quite a bit this
last year and has such atestimony that I know will bring
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hope to many.
So, Diane, for those of thelisteners who haven't heard your
story, could you just tell us alittle bit about yourself?
SPEAKER_00 (01:28):
Sure.
Thank you, Kristen, and thankyou for the privilege of being
on again.
I really enjoyed it.
I don't know the exact date, butI think it was sometime last
year.
It was I was on with you andjust loved being with you on
Hope Unlocked.
Yes.
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My great-grandparent, grandpa,and grandma immigrated from
Sweden in the 1870s andhomesteaded here.
And so um I have deep, deeproots, but God has given me long
wings too.
So while I'm rooted here, I havetraveled all over the world.
(02:15):
I've been in about 50 countries,Kristen.
And the more I've traveled, themore laser focused I've become.
SPEAKER_04 (02:35):
Yes.
Well, I love I love what yousaid, like deep roots.
And you said something about thewings.
Yeah, long, strong wings.
Long and strong wings.
And we both have a connectionwith eagles.
So that makes a lot of sense.
Um, tell us tell us a little bitabout your ministry.
Um, for those who didn't hear umyour story last time you came
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on.
SPEAKER_00 (02:57):
Um the ministry is called Global Feed Planters.
Um, it makes it sound a littlebit like uh we're farmers, and
we do do farming, but it's kindof a clever name because we
don't want it to be blatantlysounding like some Christian
organization, which is that is100% who we are.
(03:18):
But we plant all kinds ofthings.
Yes, we plant seeds, but we alsoplant Bible schools, we plant
orphanages, we plant clinics, weplant God's word, we plant solar
players, we plant um clinics.
So we plant a variety of things,but it's all focused, every bit
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of it, on bringing the love ofJesus in word and deed.
We say we're a little bit likeour favorite thing in
kindergarten (03:49):
show and tell.
We want to show the love of Godto the ends of the earth, but we
also want to tell people aboutthe love of God to the ends of
the earth.
So our exclusive exclusive focusis ends of the earth.
SPEAKER_04 (04:07):
Yes.
And how long has the ministrybeen around?
SPEAKER_00 (04:11):
Well, I've been doing this.
So I was 20 years, I'm gonnagive roughly 20 years of my life
right after graduating fromBethel University in St.
Paul, I did 20 years of youthministry.
It's where I learned everythingabout evangelism, discipleship,
and even that's when we beganshort-term missions.
(04:34):
Following that 20-year stint in2001, I began a missions focus.
And so from my first trip, 2001,I went with a friend um to ends
of the earth kind of thing.
We went uh to unreached peoplegroups, and we spent the first
(04:56):
month in India and um literallywent to remote villages that had
never seen a white person in anyform.
So that's when I started, youmight say, Global seed planters,
but we didn't have that namethen.
We weren't we were under anotherministry, we were under their
(05:20):
wing, and that ministry wascalled International Ministerial
Fellowship.
And they're a 501c3 or acovering for a variety of miss
uh ministries that need thatkind of covering.
So these were, you might say, my501c3 until 2014, 2015,
(05:42):
somewhere in there, where Iincorporated what I was doing
and called it global seedplanters.
SPEAKER_04 (05:49):
Yeah, so beautiful.
And I, if you guys have heard mystory with um even the podcast
here, the Lord called it a seedcast.
So I feel like I'm on adifferent, I'm on mission, but
in a different way to reach thenations.
And I loved when I heard abouteven your ministry name, I was
like, I need to know her.
Exactly.
I'm not going over like foot be,you know, feet on the ground,
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boots on the ground, but it'sgoing through the airwaves
through sharing, you know, yourstories and other stories.
Um, I would love to hear, youknow, again.
So those of you who didn't hearthe fullness of Diane's story,
please go back and listen toepisode 100.
But I want to just kind of fastforward to um I interviewed you
(06:33):
in November and November of2024.
And I would love for you toshare a little bit of what's
happened over this last yearsince we last had you on.
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (06:44):
I know a lot, a lot, right?
I know.
Well, first of all, I wentthrough some of the most
difficult times of my ministrylife.
Very confusing, very hard.
Um, I'm not one that struggleswith depression or
discouragement.
I'm pretty up most of the time.
SPEAKER_02 (07:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (07:06):
Um, last year was very productive.
We busted our butts, we leftnothing, nothing on the field.
We just went for it.
And we saw more happen all overthe world than ever.
Uh, altogether, we saw about66,000 people give their lives
to the Lord.
SPEAKER_02 (07:27):
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00 (07:28):
So, not too long after our podcast, Kristen.
Um, my key person resigned.
My right-hand person that's ourdirector of operations.
I'm a face for the ministry, I'mthe voice for the ministry, I'm
the CEO, but I'm not the onedoing the work in the weeds that
(07:50):
keeps everything.
I'm not in operations.
I lost my operations person.
And December is not a good timeto lose someone like that
because year-end is always veryintense.
Yeah, um, the majority of ourfunding comes in in January.
(08:11):
It's really so we have to staywith our, you know, nose to the
ground and our boots to theground right through the end of
the year.
We're not done until midnight onDecember 31st.
SPEAKER_02 (08:27):
Oh wow.
SPEAKER_00 (08:28):
So I lose her and I start spiraling.
I'm already uh kind of burnt outby that time every year because
I that last quarter, I go hard.
So, oh what does that look like?
I'm just curious.
It looks like it's steady, it'sday and night, it's traveling,
(08:52):
it's connecting, it's speaking,it's writing, writing letters,
it's fundraising, it's you know,I have to raise all the money
for all my staff and foreverything we do.
So it's not lightweight.
Last year um I we raised$750,000.
SPEAKER_02 (09:12):
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (09:12):
That doesn't happen without a lot of effort.
SPEAKER_02 (09:16):
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00 (09:17):
So now I come and I've lost my operations person.
So I go in January.
I every year I do this.
About the first week of theyear, I go whole up and I fast
and I don't fast.
I take that back.
I seek the Lord with all myheart.
I take I do two things.
I review the year that was, I gothrough all the appointments,
(09:42):
everything that we did, trackeverything, um, kind of do the
numbers on everything.
So every partnership, everyoutreach event, every Bible
distributed, every solar player,every travel engagement, I go
through all of that with theLord.
SPEAKER_03 (09:59):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (10:00):
And I ask myself hard questions like, was this a
fruitful event or project?
Would I do it again?
Um, did I sense the Lord's favorand blessing on it?
So I just really go over thewhole year and I'm kind of like
a farmer.
You know, farmers they measuretheir harvest.
Farmers still just say, Oh, itwas a great year.
(10:23):
Then a farmer will ask them,Well, how many bushels to the
acre did you get?
Um, how many tons of milk didyou ship out?
Um, how many uh pounds of thisdid you get?
So it's always, they don't justsit at the coffee shop and say,
Oh man, my year was great.
They ask each other those kindsof questions.
(10:44):
What about the results?
SPEAKER_03 (10:46):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (10:47):
And so those are the questions I ask myself.
Then the other thing I do is,Lord, speak to me about this
year.
So in January, when I walkedinto my annual place, I said,
Wow, Lord, I really need to bewith you this year.
And I need some.
(11:08):
I'm feeling burnt out,discouraged, frustrated, like I
don't have any gas in the tankto start the year, and I need a
new staff person.
SPEAKER_02 (11:22):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (11:23):
So what I need from you, Lord, is a verse.
I need you to say to me what ison your heart that is crystal
clear.
I need a verse that's my anchoras I start this year.
And immediately the Holy Spiritresponds, your verse for the
year is now unto him who is ableto do exceedingly abundantly
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above all that you can ask,think, or even imagine by his
mighty power that is at workwithin you.
Wow, I just sat back and I said,Now that's a verse, Lord, I can
enter the year in.
SPEAKER_03 (12:02):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (12:02):
So even though I'm really feeling low, you're
saying to me, watch out, lookout.
I'm gonna do exceedinglyabundantly.
SPEAKER_03 (12:14):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (12:15):
I mean, you don't hear that expression, it just
pretty much means I'm gonna blowyour mind, Diane.
Yes, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Amen.
SPEAKER_04 (12:26):
And so that's what Ephesians 3.20, right?
Ephesians 3.20.
Ephesians 3.20.
SPEAKER_00 (12:31):
Yes, powerful.
Oh, I just say instead ofexceedingly abundantly, now unto
him who is able to blow yourmind.
SPEAKER_04 (12:40):
Yeah, say that again.
Somebody needs to hear that.
SPEAKER_00 (12:43):
Like I now, God, no matter how we're feeling, yes,
our uh, because if we're if Iwas gonna base going into this
year on my feelings, I wouldhave been crawling lower than a
snake.
SPEAKER_04 (12:55):
Diane, I understand.
SPEAKER_00 (12:57):
So that's how I started the year, and that verse
from the Lord literally flippedmy mood in a moment, in a
moment.
So I have nobody in mind forthis new position, yeah, and I
need her quickly.
(13:19):
Um, within two days, I met her.
I did not know her, and in twodays, I had a I had a conference
call with my board that nightand with my advisory council.
And it was one of the best boardcouncil meetings I've ever had.
(13:40):
And I spilled my guts.
I didn't hold anything back, Ididn't try to pretend I was a
woman, hear me roar.
Yeah, I just said, you guys, I'mdoing awful.
I'm about as low as I've everbeen, and I need you, I need you
to stand with me, and I need Godto intervene.
And we need a director ofoperations soon.
SPEAKER_04 (14:04):
Yeah.
Can I ask you a little bit aboutthat?
You know, you you vulnerablycame to the meeting and shared
exactly where you were at.
Did you had you had that type ofvulnerability previously where
you you did do something likethat in the past?
Because I know for somebodywho's like quote unquote in
charge or you know, runningthings, it can be hard for
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somebody.
And maybe somebody who'slistening in today just hasn't
ever given themselves permissionto be vulnerable like that
before.
So, like going into it and thenkind of going out of it, and
after you shared, like what wascoming for you.
SPEAKER_00 (14:40):
Um because I'm not typically down or feeling
helpless or feeling, you know,that kind of no, I don't, but
when I need to, I always do.
I don't have a problem withpretending that I'm someone that
I'm not.
Um, that though was a differentkind of definitely a different
(15:02):
kind of sharing, but I neededto, and I knew that.
And they responded accordingly.
I've never had a board meetingwhere I felt like everyone was
100% in because they also knewhow much um our previous
operations person had meant tome and the ministry, and so uh
(15:23):
they knew her well.
And so um they just leaned intothe moment.
Um, they said, Diane, you needto be asking everyone because
none of us had anyone in mind.
Oh wow, and they said, you needto be asking everyone, who do
you know that I need to know?
(15:46):
Who do you know?
I thought that was a really whodo you know that I need to know?
That is such a good question,and so that question led to me
meeting somebody that I did notknow two days later, who ended
up being the person we hired.
(16:08):
Oh wow, by the end of the month,we had her now.
So that was exceedinglyabundantly beyond what we could
ask, think, or imagine.
Boom, God drops her in our lap.
Then um a couple months later,uh our administrator who works
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with this person, she alsoresigned and she worked closely
with the director of operations.
So she resigns.
Now we need another person.
Now get a load of this.
Five years ago, a woman fromSeattle calls me and says, I
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have to interview a CEO of anonprofit for one of my classes
in college.
And I got your name from amutual friend.
Um, she and her husband aredonors of yours, and she said,
Oh, you need to call this DianeBrask.
(17:20):
So I did this interview for herlike five years ago, and I just
saw it as a, you know, throw thedog a bone kind of a thing.
Um, meet her need to fulfill hercollege assignment and one and
done, right?
Well, after that, she has calledme two, three times a year
(17:41):
saying, you have an opening.
Do you have an opening?
Do you have an opening?
And you know, I don't reallygive her the time of day.
I always just say, nope, there'snothing here.
No, we don't have an opening orthe money to hire anybody else.
And so, you know, we can chat alittle, but I I pretty much
would um throw her off.
You know, I I just I didn't Ididn't even give her the time of
(18:04):
day.
Well then this this like Marchshe calls again.
Yeah, do you have an opening?
And I said, Wow, you are aspersistent as a tick on a dog.
You just you just do not take nofor an answer, and so maybe I
should give you the time of daytoday.
(18:25):
Maybe we should talk a little.
I said, we do have an openingactually, and so we talked for
about 10 minutes, and I said,No, you're not the person we're
looking for.
Um, but maybe you're the personwe're looking for for something
else.
So we talked some more, yeah,and she's amazing, and so she
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ended up getting her master's ininternational community
development.
Oh, wow.
I mean, hello.
And then um, also, in she'sreally gifted besides a call of
God on her life, besidesmissions, besides all this stuff
that we need, she's also reallygood at quantitative and
(19:14):
qualitative analysis.
In other words, you know,knowing how to come up with the
numbers to prove to your donorsthat what you're doing is making
a significant impact in theworld.
SPEAKER_04 (19:27):
That's amazing.
SPEAKER_00 (19:28):
So as of last week, Kristen, she's full-time with
global seed planters.
SPEAKER_04 (19:34):
I feel like clapping and jumping upside up and down.
SPEAKER_00 (19:38):
You can do that.
I've I'll tell you what, I feltlike clapping and jumping.
We flew her out here a coupleweeks ago so that she could meet
the whole staff and meet ourboard chairman, and we could
really kind of get a better feelfor each other.
And then she went home and spenta week uh talking to mentors and
(19:58):
advisors and her husband andreally thinking it through and
came back with the phone callsaying, Yes, I'm excited to say
yes.
Oh my gosh.
Wow.
So, so, but I skipped the part.
So after all this exciting stuffgoing on, kind of the beginning
of the year.
SPEAKER_02 (20:18):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (20:19):
Oh, the most exciting thing, and this was
really exceedingly abundantly,yeah, I get invited to be a
guest on a podcast inTuscaloosa, Alabama.
Podcast is called A StrongerFaith.
So you have to audition to be onthis, and their whole team
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listens to your audition, whichis about 12, 15 minutes long,
and then they decide if theywant you to be a guest or not.
So they said, Yeah, come ondown.
So I part flew and part drove.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a longway from Grantsburg, Wisconsin.
SPEAKER_03 (21:02):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (21:03):
So I got down there, was on this podcast, and to be
really honest with you, Kristen,I didn't know how I felt about
it.
The guy was a little bit umdevil's advocate or an
interrogator.
It wasn't an easy one, it waskind of hard.
And I didn't know exactly wherehe was coming from.
In the end, I liked the theproduct that they produced.
(21:28):
I love the podcast that they didbecause they did, I think the
podcast recorded was about fourhours.
Seriously, yeah, four hours, andthey added it down to just under
three.
SPEAKER_03 (21:41):
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER_00 (21:42):
So still very long, right?
But very engaging and verycaptivating.
Um, that was that was uh filmedor recorded on April 7th.
Okay.
On May 11th, I fell down thestairs and almost killed myself.
(22:05):
I fell down 15 flight of stairsat the farm and broke my back.
Um, I broke seven vertebrae, tworibs, and my sternum.
And surgery resulted in about a10, 12-inch incision, two inches
(22:25):
deep, my back being fused withrods on both sides of my spinal
column, 10 screws screwing meback together, and 50 staples.
To say it's been painful is uhbeyond anything that I can
(22:46):
describe.
It's really been anindescribable summer.
So I'm laying at the bottom ofthe stairs and saying to the
Lord, how does this fit into theverse you gave me?
Right, right.
Like you're gonna do exceedinglyabundantly above what I could
(23:07):
think, ask, or imagine.
Yeah, this would fit, but whereare we going with this?
SPEAKER_04 (23:13):
Like so you're actually laying at the bottom of
the stairs.
SPEAKER_00 (23:16):
Like I'm laying at the bottom of the stairs.
SPEAKER_04 (23:17):
Surely after this happens, and you're asking this
question.
Like, were you in a lot of painat this point?
SPEAKER_00 (23:21):
Like, could you No, to be honest with you, I was
surprised that I had as muchdamage as I did.
I think the grace of God was allover me that day because I was
home alone.
I was home alone from five inthe morning until seven at
night.
SPEAKER_03 (23:36):
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00 (23:37):
After this fall.
unknown (23:39):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (23:40):
And the Lord told me that he was right there with me.
Not to worry, he was there.
So, and he really was, becausewhen the ambulance finally came
at seven at night, becausesomebody came and called, um,
they were gonna, you know,really strap me down and put me
on the gurney and put thisstraight jacket on my neck.
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And I told them, you know, I I'mnot hurt.
SPEAKER_04 (24:04):
Really?
You said that?
SPEAKER_00 (24:06):
Yes, I said I don't need any strait jacket on my
neck, which I didn't.
I mean, I've always been able touh move my neck freely, but um I
get to Grantsburg and they x-rayme and they said, We're rushing
you down to North Memorial inthe cities right now.
So all that to say, yeah, I havehad a summer of slow, painful
(24:33):
recovery.
My surgeon told me because ofthe extent of my injuries and
the extent of the surgery, Iwill not be recovered for one
year.
And so I'm looking at next May.
So how is this gonna play out interms of ministry for the
(24:54):
summer?
Well, keep in mind now, right?
God had God had that podcastdone, God knew what he was doing
all the time because God knowseverything.
And so while I was laying flaton my back, going through
therapy, in excruciating pain,not even at home, in a
(25:17):
transition place, God has thepodcast go live on June 16th.
Wow.
Timing, timing, exactly.
Only in God's sovereignty and inhis providence would and his
omniscience would he be able topull that off exceedingly
(25:38):
abundantly, beyond now.
Who would pick falling andbreaking your back as a beyond
your imagination?
But this was this was God'splan, as strange as it sounds,
because as of like about today,that podcast has been viewed by
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60,000 people in 42 states andin 26 nations.
So I have traveled all over theUnited States and around the
world while lying flat on myback.
You talk about the brilliance ofGod, it would not have been the
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way that I would have chosen inmy wildest imagination to do
ministry this summer.
SPEAKER_02 (26:35):
Right, right.
SPEAKER_00 (26:36):
But I was able quite literally to travel and speak
around the whole United Statesand around the world.
Now, not just that, Kristen,there was no fundraising about
this podcast.
I was just doing like I'm doinghere.
I'm just sharing about theministry.
And people were literallysending in money to GSP, global
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seed planters, from around theworld.
Amen.
And so I thought that there wasa good chance the ministry was
gonna shut down this yearbecause I can't do anything to
raise money, and I'm the onlyone that does that.
Yes, right.
So I thought, okay, not gonna beable to pay salaries.
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Oh me of little faith, right?
Right, and God is just like,hey, I got this.
When you're when you're weak,I'm strong.
You're not the one in charge ofthis ministry.
I am.
You're not the word doesn't sayyou will supply all the
ministry's needs, it says Iwill.
(27:43):
Wow, my God shall supply all ofyour needs.
So that's on me.
That's not on you.
Now you just watch me take careof you and take care of the
ministry.
Yeah, and then not only not onlyhas the ministry, we came out of
the summer with the most moneycome in that we've ever had come
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in in the summer months.
They're lean.
Summer's not a good time formoney.
And um, most ministries andchurches will tell you that
they're choking in the summerbecause people are spending
their money having fun, which iscompletely understandable,
especially if you live in someof the northern states where
summer's like two, three monthslong, right?
(28:31):
So, yeah, God has beenremarkably good.
And while I've been at home,haven't been on a plane at all
since Tuscaloosa.
Um, so God has just I've hadvisions of being able to, our
farm is old.
I live on an old farm, it's overa hundred years old.
(28:54):
And so it's got a lot of stuffthat needs to be done.
Yeah, people, Kristen, were sogreat this summer.
Um, the whole farm has had afacelift.
Um buildings have been renewed.
Restore buildings that shouldhave had a bulldozer and a match
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are now completely renewed.
The farm looks really great.
It looks it looks renewed, andthat's what I feel like God is
saying.
I'm making all things new.
Yes.
SPEAKER_04 (29:32):
Wow, not great.
Seriously, like, and that's like2 Corinthians 5 17, right?
My the right address?
I think I'm not sure.
Yeah, but like this renewal.
Um, I I would love to ask.
So for all these years, you'vebeen, you know, kind of
operating, doing ministry whereyou're the face, you've been
(29:54):
boots on the ground, you know,fundraising, you've seen this
this new way.
That the Lord has stepped in,you know, during a time of you
needing to do it a differentway.
But do you sense that this islike an a new way that could
even be, I don't know, I'm justthinking of other people in
ministry who, you know, maybehave operated in this way where
(30:17):
they've kind of done, you know,fundraising or or what have you.
One way I I talked to somebodyrecently and he said that
they're really strugglingfinancially with their ministry.
So I actually invited him on thepodcast so he could get the word
out.
Do you do you sense that there'sa a new way that the Lord's
really wanting to do that?
SPEAKER_00 (30:36):
Well, he's definitely he's he's definitely
doing that with us.
I can't speak for everyone.
I was on a um a financial orfundraising training class
yesterday.
And it was the same old, sameold stuff.
Okay, you know, some newinformation, but for the most
(30:56):
part, the same, all thecontacting that you need to be
doing, and the emailing you needto be doing, and the phone
calling you need to be doing.
There was really nothing new forme under the sun.
I assure you that there was nota single mention of if you want
to raise funds, um, be involvedin a traumatic injury, right?
(31:19):
Um, almost kill yourself, andthen God will take over.
I think the message for me isno, it's not about plug and
play, it's about trust my HolySpirit.
And which, by the way, it wouldbe amiss if I was not to say,
look, you talk about renewing ora new way or whatever.
(31:42):
Look what's happening in theworld.
Yes.
I have never in my lifetime,other than way back in the it's
50 years since we've seen a moveof God like this in America.
Back in the late 60s, early 70s,during the Jesus people
movement, when the Holy Spiritvisited a nation and then a bit
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in the world, too.
Um, I have cried out literallyto God.
I have prayed, asking the Lordto do it again.
Lord, we've heard of your fame,we stand in all of your deeds in
our day.
Do it again.
Please do it again.
And, you know, started prayingthat a long time ago.
(32:31):
And then have been wondering,where are you, Lord?
How come we haven't seen revivalfor 50 years?
And then, you know, pretty muchI went back to there's a guy
named Evan Roberts that's famousin the Welsh Revival.
One guy that with a youth groupof 17 kids, one night in Loghar,
(32:54):
Wales, yeah, he shared what theLord had been doing in his life
in college, and it sparked arevival that touched the world.
And now this last Sunday we sawCharlie Kirk's memorial service,
and again, one guy whose passionfor God and zeal for God's glory
(33:21):
and for people to know Jesustouched the world by Monday.
They're saying that 100 millionpeople all over the world had
live streamed or had streamedthat funeral.
Then I hear from his wife thatoh, excuse me, I don't every
(33:44):
once in a while I get a stab ofpain from my back.
SPEAKER_03 (33:47):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (33:47):
Um I hear from his wife that Charlie's goal was
20,000 chapters in high schoolsand colleges.
As of this morning, 120,000.
Oh my gosh, it's okay.
120,000 requests from all overthe world have come in.
(34:11):
And I just heard beginning ofthis week that the request had
bounced all the way up to60,000.
Well, now it's been doublinglike every two days.
SPEAKER_04 (34:25):
Yeah, because at the memorial, I feel like they had
said that it was what 35,000 ormaybe it was just hundred,
hundred.
SPEAKER_00 (34:32):
It was a hundred thousand.
No, no, thirty five hundred.
Wow.
And then and then it's it's justit's exponential.
Go back to the verse again fromthe beginning of the year,
exceedingly, exceedinglyabundantly.
Let me blow your mind becauseI'm gonna do more than you could
think, ask, or even dare toimagine.
(34:56):
In your wildest dreams, if wecould interview Charlie Kirk
right now from heaven, he wouldsay, In my wildest dreams, I
never imagined anything likethis would happen, maybe until
he lived to be 90 years old orsomething.
But in you know, a few days fromhis death.
(35:16):
I mean, he was killed onSeptember 10th.
Right.
SPEAKER_04 (35:19):
We're only 15 days later here.
SPEAKER_00 (35:22):
Yeah, and and here it is, 120,000, Kristen.
unknown (35:27):
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (35:28):
I really do believe that this is going to be the
fuel starter, the firebrand forrevival, perhaps even the last
great outpouring of the HolySpirit.
In the last days, it says inActs, I will pour out my spirit
(35:51):
on your sons and your daughters.
Here we are talking on hopeunlocked right now.
And as we speak, the Holy Spiritis doing just that.
You talk about hastening the dayof the Lord's return.
May I suggest this would behastening?
And that only this generation,when that was written, when Luke
(36:15):
wrote that book of Acts backthere not long after Jesus'
ascension, ah, there was nosocial media back then.
SPEAKER_03 (36:23):
Right, right.
SPEAKER_00 (36:24):
And now we have all these ways, and this generation
of any generation ever knows howto hasten the day.
They just they just can't shutup right now.
And it's not all about CharlieKirk, and it's not about
conservatism, and it's not aboutall that.
This is primarily about Jesus.
(36:46):
Charlie's last trips, he wasgoing around the world speaking
like John the Baptist.
Repent.
He was speaking a message ofrepentance.
Repent and get right with theLord.
SPEAKER_02 (37:02):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (37:03):
Well, and he was last in, wasn't it, uh, Korea
prior South Korea?
Yep.
Yep.
And like that's caused anuprising there, from what I
understand.
Um, just in you know, hisassassination and this martyr,
he's a martyr.
He truly is.
And I I don't know, like, evenwhen I was watching the the
memorial on on Sunday, I justkept hearing my spirit like,
(37:26):
don't miss it, don't miss it.
And we're seeing thiseverything.
I mean, you could even, I'm justgonna go here.
Like, I could tell somebody thatthe sky is blue, and they'd be
like, No, it's black.
SPEAKER_00 (37:40):
Yeah, but no matter what the devil tries now, it's
too late.
He he he overplayed his handlike he did with Jesus.
Oh, he was so excited, I'm gonnakill this sucker.
And then before he knows it,Jesus has risen, and he must
have been saying, Oh, shoot.
Now what have I done?
(38:02):
Um, same thing with Charlie.
You thought you were gonnasilence his voice.
You didn't silence his voice,you magnified it, you amplified
it.
You yeah, and so people aregonna try to throw up anything
they can now, but it's too late.
It's too late.
The Holy Spirit is out ahead ofthem, and no matter what people
(38:23):
try to do, there's nothing thatthey can do to stifle God's plan
that everyone will hear aboutJesus.
You know, and this is theinteresting thing too, Kristen.
I have been to the ends of theearth.
I've been to places, no roads,no water, no running water, no
toilets, no electricity.
(38:44):
But you know what there is inthe middle of nowhere?
Cell phone.
And I have not been to a singlevillage in the world, and I've
been to a lot of them wherethere's not at least one
smartphone.
SPEAKER_04 (38:59):
I've been thinking about that a lot.
SPEAKER_00 (39:00):
Can you if you want to reach the entire world, just
do it through a cell phone?
Isn't that interesting?
It really is.
There, there's that beyond whatyou could think, ask, or
imagine.
SPEAKER_03 (39:13):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (39:13):
And just think you could literally reach and
disciple.
You just pack everybody into amud hut and listen to that one
podcast or that one um viewingon their on a the one smartphone
in the village.
And then tomorrow when the sunrises, they lay that little
six-inch by six-inch solar panelon the roof and plug in that
(39:37):
smartphone and charge it upagain so they can watch that
night.
So it's it's amazing the abilitynow to reach the ends of the
earth without having topersonally go there.
SPEAKER_04 (39:51):
So I'm I'm kind of curious, and you might have the
answer to this question, or youmight even be supplying the
phones, but how are they gettingphones?
Oh, every country has them.
You just got to get into twolike families in a village, you
know.
Like, is that how it works?
Can you tell us a little bitmore?
SPEAKER_00 (40:07):
Like, how does that they'd have to get somebody
because those small villageswill not have a phone store.
They have to get into a city.
Somebody has to get into a citywhere they can buy, but because
of even crops and stuff, umagricultural societies will have
(40:27):
them because they want to knowwhat are the current market
prices today, if I can get mycorn in or I can get my rice in,
you know, and so um reallyphones are running the world.
SPEAKER_02 (40:42):
Wow, wow.
SPEAKER_04 (40:43):
So I mean just think like you they say 100 million
people watched the memorial, butuh it's probably like how many
different times over that?
20 times that wouldn't you say?
SPEAKER_00 (40:56):
Oh, I wouldn't be I wouldn't be surprised.
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_04 (41:01):
So I would love you to, you know, because you
watched all of it, I did too.
Um and like you said, in yourtime, you've never seen anything
like this back in the JesusRevolution, you know, Jesus
people revolution time.
How old were you at that time?
SPEAKER_00 (41:18):
I was uh a sophomore.
SPEAKER_04 (41:20):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (41:20):
So you were 73.
I was a sophomore in 73.
You remember, and and I was Iwas at some of the events.
The biggest event of that timewas called Explo 72, and it was
an event held in Dallas, Texas,with 100,000 high school and
college students there.
(41:41):
And it was when Jesus PeopleMovement, when modern day
Christian music was birthed.
SPEAKER_04 (41:47):
Okay, wow, and you're seeing now we're seeing
so the turning point USAchapters that are opening are
opening where?
SPEAKER_00 (41:58):
In high school and college campuses across America.
That's the target.
SPEAKER_04 (42:03):
Parallel to who you were seeing coming to these
events.
SPEAKER_00 (42:06):
You know, it's all you look back to Jesus.
They believe that most of thedisciples were teenagers.
When God look at Mary, hechooses a 14-year-old.
Look at uh David when he slaysGoliath, he's like 16.
Look at the guys in the lion'sden.
God has always chosen youngpeople when he's wanted to do
(42:28):
something big because youngpeople just believe he can,
right?
They're not jaded yet, theyhadn't haven't had enough
negative experiences to kind ofgo, yeah, right.
Young people want to change theworld till they have enough
experiences to go, I don't thinkI'll be able to.
But God believes in teenagers.
(42:51):
I mean, who would choose ajunior high girl to be the
mother of your son, raising themost important baby in the
world?
And you choose a 14-year-old?
Are you kidding me?
Right.
Yeah, yeah, it confounds thewise, right?
Right, right.
And so, yeah, I I find itinteresting.
I think it's in the book ofDaniel that says that in the
(43:13):
last days, knowledge willgreatly increase.
And so here we are, you know, nocell phones, no transportation,
nothing back in Jesus' time.
Yet, even though there wasnothing to help prop up the
message or spread the message,Jesus changed the world through
(43:35):
a group of young people withoutany mode of transportation other
than their feet, without anycomputers and any cell phones,
the message still spreadglobally.
And here we are talking on HopeUnlocked podcasts that will have
technology to help spread it.
(43:58):
So now we have the Holy Spirit,we have technology that can
spread everything in ananosecond and be available to
the world of eight plus billionpeople can hear this message
within 24 hours once it goeslive.
(44:19):
It's incredible.
You talk about being able tohasten the day of the Lord's
return.
This is where we're at.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (44:28):
What would you what would you say to those who
because I I really like when Iheard of what happened with
Charlie Kirk, um, he really waskind of a voice in the
background for me, bolstering meback, you know, especially
during the COVID days when I wasneeding to speak up about some
things.
Um, you know, I I I at first Ididn't believe it.
(44:53):
I was like, no, no, I don't, Idon't think so.
And then all of a sudden I justfelt this fire like coursing
through my veins.
Like I felt back in 2020.
And I feel like we're kind of inthis phase two of um many
things, but what would you sayto people?
Because I, you know, I'm reallyI love helping women to get out
(45:18):
there and do what the Lord hascalled them to do because too
many are sitting on the bench.
And second of all, I love tohelp women use their voice and
roar.
What would you say to thesewomen, especially?
And and I know some women somemen listen in.
Did you feel that that fire comelike it almost an emboldened
(45:39):
phase?
SPEAKER_03 (45:40):
Like phase two.
SPEAKER_00 (45:41):
It hasn't died out, it's neither burning, and you
know what I think it's gonna be.
I believe yeah, it'sinteresting.
It wasn't, you know, it couldhave been both Charlie and Erica
killed in a car crash.
They could have taken them bothout, like Diana and and her
boyfriend.
No, Erica is left, yes, why?
(46:04):
Because I believe Erica is theone the the torch is being
handed off to her, and she isthe modern day Esther of our
day.
I really I believed it as soonas it happened.
The lady has it all gone forher.
She's got class, she's gotbeauty, she's got brains, she's
(46:26):
athletic, she knows how to runcompanies.
I mean, the woman is absolutelya needle in a haystack of women.
Forget about you know, theseyoung girls looking up to
whoever, yeah, uh Taylor Swift,um, you know, Hillary Clinton,
whatever, they're the Viewwomen, whoopi Goldberg.
(46:50):
They've got they've got Ericanow to be a model, an example.
Oh, and top of everything else Imentioned, Miss Arizona.
I mean, she's won beautypageants.
I think actually, when Trump wasthe one who owned it.
Anyway, I find it remarkablethat she's now stepping in with
(47:13):
the mantle of leadership on hershoulders.
And I think literally she wasborn for a time such as this.
SPEAKER_04 (47:21):
Amen.
SPEAKER_00 (47:22):
And so those women and girls that we're mutually
concerned about, we don't haveto worry about them at all,
Kristen, because for the firsttime in their lives, they have
an example of a woman they canfollow.
SPEAKER_04 (47:38):
Yeah, and she she stands for family values, she
stands like she's she's taking astand, truly.
SPEAKER_00 (47:45):
She's conservative, and she's conservative in all
those views, and as Charliesaid, more conservative than me.
SPEAKER_04 (47:52):
Wow, he he said that.
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (47:54):
Yep, yep, that she's more conservative than him.
I find it interesting that whilethey both spoke up about needing
to stay home and raise yourkids, that's not what she's
gonna be be doing.
She's gonna be running anonprofit.
SPEAKER_04 (48:09):
Yeah.
How how do you like how do youthink I'm not saying that you
would tell her what to do, butyou know, maybe for those who
are being called to again, likeI'm I'm just seeing this
resurgence in me is like, comeon, get off the bench and like
helping women go do the thing.
How can how can there be, youknow, balance is I feel like
(48:31):
balance is kind of unattainable.
How how can people juggle, youknow, a ministry calling, a
business calling, um, havingchildren, families?
Like, have you seen it done wellbefore?
Without burnout.
SPEAKER_00 (48:46):
Uh I don't know that I can answer the question right
away.
Maybe not that young.
Okay.
Um, because she's in she's inher mid-30s.
She's like four or five yearsolder than Charlie.
SPEAKER_04 (49:01):
Yeah, I think she's like that.
SPEAKER_00 (49:03):
Yeah, that's what I thought too, like 36.
But you know what?
It all goes back to calling andbeing set apart by the Holy
Spirit.
Because again, we have to throwthe weight of the responsibility
on God who does the calling.
God knows that she's got athree-year-old and a
one-year-old.
God knows she's just lost herhusband.
(49:25):
And so um, where God calls, Heprovides.
And so um, I'm sure that God andher staff are gonna be wrestling
with this on a regular basis andcontinually, you know, seeking
to try to juggle it and befaithful in all the
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responsibilities that, yeah,especially Erica, she's gonna
have a lot.
A lot, a lot on her plate.
But yeah, you could hear whenshe spoke that it was God that
was filling her mouth.
Like, open your mouth and I willfill it, says the Lord.
(50:10):
When you're up in front of theworld two days after your
husband has just died, youshould be a bubbling, a bumbling
idiot with not being able to doa thing except ball.
Right.
And instead, she's able toaddress the world.
And if you think that youstopped, you've only ignited a
fire in me that is never gonnabe put out.
(50:34):
Yeah, like you're gonna regretthat you did this because now
his voice will just be louder,right?
SPEAKER_04 (50:41):
It's it's set off like this inferno wildfire, and
I and I know that there's a lotof people that are catching it.
They're like, Yes, I'm I'mgrabbing my torch and running
with it.
And then we've got other peopleon the other side that are like
um it's just so interesting, youknow.
But we've got other people onthe other side, it's like we
(51:01):
have to stay focused.
SPEAKER_00 (51:03):
I think that the other side has been remarkably
quiet because they know there'snot much they can say.
This is a tsunami.
That's like saying, I'm gonnasay something about the tsunami
that's coming my way.
Well, go ahead and try to saysomething about the tsunami, but
you ain't stopping the tsunami.
Yeah, yeah, it's big and it'sugly, but it's it's coming your
(51:26):
way.
And and that's you know, I thinkthe liberal, the wokes, the
whatever you want to call, um,they're seeing a tidal wave.
It's not just a tidal wave,they're seeing hurricane-size
storms, tsunamis.
That that's the Holy Spirit issaying, good luck.
(51:48):
Because if you think you canstop me, look at how fast I have
spread this around the world.
SPEAKER_03 (51:57):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (51:58):
I mean, they don't they don't have a plan to stop
this, right?
SPEAKER_04 (52:02):
Exactly.
And and then what what'sbeautiful is um, you know,
everybody gets an opportunity tochoose.
Like you can either jump shipfrom, you know, you're seeing
the tsunami coming, you can jumpship off like the the enemy lie
ship, or you can come on boardwith us.
Right with Jesus, right?
(52:22):
I mean, because this is like wetalked about earlier, just some
of the things that you'veexperienced in your ministry,
like you you couldn't even, youcouldn't make this up.
You you can't make this up.
It's it's beyond something wecould even conjure up.
Exactly.
Unfortunately, we've you know,we we've unfortunately lost, you
(52:44):
know, a man, but through is ituh Matthew 12, 23, like a seed
has to die, right?
Right.
And um, you know, unfortunatelythis happened to him, but what
we're seeing through just likewith Jesus, like he he died.
And I'm not saying Charlie isJesus by any means, right?
(53:06):
But goodness, just yeah, there'sthere's such a fire in me, and I
can't keep it contained.
SPEAKER_00 (53:14):
You know, as I sit here right now at the farm and
look out my window, I'm lookingat a cornfield about to be
harvested.
So every single stalk that hasat least two big cobs on it was
planted with one kernel of corn.
(53:35):
Now there's two cobs with rowafter row after row of kernels
of corn, and bushels and bushelsand tons of tons and tons of
corn that all came fromindividual kernels.
That's what's happening in theworld right now.
God, God is a ridiculousmultiplier.
(53:57):
He takes one and turns it intocountless.
Yes, and um He's got He's gothis harvesters too, all over the
world, yeah, and multiplyinghourly as we speak, too.
Like it's just it's nothingshort of miraculous what God has
(54:18):
done, is doing, and will do.
I really do believe we arelooking right now at the end
times last day's harvest.
How long this last day's harvestlasts, that we don't know.
But the Lord is not willing thatany should perish, but that all
(54:39):
should come to repentance.
One thing he's committed to ishe will not return till every
tribe and tongue and peoplegroup from the world has someone
present around the throne who isa believer and a worshiper of
(54:59):
Jesus.
And we're closer to that everyhour of today.
Yes, and that's what excites me.
You know, it's a weird verse,isn't it?
That we can hasten the day ofthe Lord's return.
That's by cooperating with theHoly Spirit to get her done.
Get her done, get her done.
(55:21):
I just love you.
That's what I'm yeah, I'mleaning into that now.
Get her done.
SPEAKER_04 (55:27):
Get her done.
Amen.
Well, I would love you'll haveto come on again because I know
that you'll have more storieslike in the next six months to a
year.
Um, I would love for you to justshare how can the listeners
like, what do you need?
What does Diane need?
What does the ministry needright now?
Um, I know financial donationsare always you know beneficial.
(55:49):
Um, and if that's the case,where can they donate to global
seed planters, first of all?
And then what else do you need?
SPEAKER_00 (55:56):
Well, I would say our number one need, it's not
material, not financial, it'sspiritual.
The number one need we need isprayer.
And you can tell by what I'veshared about my accident.
Another need that we have veryseriously is protection.
Um, we've been under a lot ofattack because of the nature of
(56:19):
our ministry, because we'refocused on those who have never
heard, we're focused on the endsof the earth, we're focused on
Buddhists and Hindus andMuslims.
The attack from Satan isintense.
Uh, I have one of my otherworkers that's going in for
pretty serious surgery verysoon.
(56:42):
So pray for our protection.
Yeah.
Um, also, we need prayer forwisdom.
This is not about if you thinkyou can run your ministry by
your good, your goodintelligence or your research or
your your brilliant mind.
No, you can't.
Yeah, um, ministry is not thesame as other businesses.
(57:05):
Ministry is about speak, Lord,for your servant is listening.
We need to be hearing from theLord.
unknown (57:13):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (57:14):
Now, I'd be remiss if I didn't say we also need
miraculous funding because weknow we now have the research in
place to know where the leastreached people are.
We have we have 200 indigenousmissionaries in their own least
(57:34):
reached nations that we support.
Um, and we could support more ifwe had more money.
I mean, it does take, it takesthe Holy Spirit, number one, but
then it he does work throughpeople.
SPEAKER_03 (57:49):
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00 (57:50):
And they need to be supported.
Um, and so man, if we had amillion dollars, which we don't,
but not yet, it would be easyfor us to distribute a million
dollars.
SPEAKER_01 (58:01):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (58:01):
And now when we have this new gal that does, you
know, number crunching andmaking sure about the impact and
all that stuff, it's evenbetter.
So prayer, protection, wisdom,and finances.
You know, somebody that'slooking, it'd be a fool if they
knew they could get 10% on theirinvestments and they kept
(58:24):
investing in what they weregetting, four to five.
Why do that if you know you canget 10?
But in kingdom investment, I canpromise you um the equivalent of
harvesting the corn.
You can invest one kernel andget a hundred times more, a
thousand times more.
Invest in the kingdom.
(58:46):
Um, not just any Christianorganization, any more than any
financial fund.
Invest in one where you'regetting great ROI return on your
investment.
SPEAKER_04 (59:00):
Yes, or like return on impact, even too.
SPEAKER_00 (59:04):
Right, right.
So last year our ROI wasextraordinarily high.
SPEAKER_02 (59:09):
Was it?
SPEAKER_00 (59:10):
Wow, 66,000 people giving their lives to the Lord
from this little ministry.
It's huge, it's huge, it's huge.
So I can say without anyboasting or anything, invest in
global seed planters.
God will give you a great ROI.
SPEAKER_04 (59:31):
Yes.
And I I just want to kind offollow up with that because
several years ago, you know, theLord was just showing me like,
do things for the one, right?
And and in the world's math,that doesn't always make sense,
right?
But he was showing me, like, youknow, math that we learned in
school, one times one in theworld is just one.
But in the kingdom, one timesone is exponential.
(59:55):
Yeah.
So even donating, if you have adollar, like it it's
exponential.
At least that's the way I seeit.
Would you agree?
SPEAKER_00 (01:00:02):
I would.
I know this.
You can, with an investment of$3, we can print and distribute
a Bible in a Hindu, Buddhist, orMuslim country in their native
tongue.
And from that one Bible, it'slike one corn kernel or one
(01:00:24):
kernel of wheat.
It just somebody sitting intheir mud hut with their family
and their neighbors, and theyfind John 3:16.
For God so loved the world thathe gave his only son that
whoever believes in him will notperish but have everlasting
life.
Wow, all of a sudden you've gota whole hut full of people
(01:00:47):
praying and giving their livesto Jesus because the Holy Spirit
opened up their eyes through athree dollar investment.
SPEAKER_02 (01:00:55):
Amen.
SPEAKER_00 (01:00:56):
Yeah, it's incredible.
SPEAKER_04 (01:00:58):
But beyond the Ephesians 3.20.
SPEAKER_00 (01:01:02):
That's right.
Amen.
Well exceedingly beyond.
So we should probably end fortoday or we could go on forever.
SPEAKER_04 (01:01:09):
I know.
Well, what is your um website?
So we can verbalize it, but I'llalso put it in the show notes as
well.
SPEAKER (01:01:15):
Globalseedplanters.org.
Okay.
And you can give online there.
It'll also give you theinformation where you could send
a check to our P.O.
box.
Um, but yeah, for this isprobably a younger crowd.
If not, they can have somebodyhelp them online or send a check
(01:01:38):
to Global Seed Planters, P.O.
Box 107, Sandstone, Minnesota.
I believe the zip is 55072, notpositive on the zip.
SPEAKER_04 (01:01:51):
We'll put that in the show notes.
So if you guys want to justverify the address before
sending out your check, thatwould be amazing.
SPEAKER_00 (01:01:57):
And the best way to give two would be the greatest
need, because then your moneywill go to whatever has the
greatest need or the greatestROI return on your investment.
SPEAKER_04 (01:02:08):
Yes.
Amen.
Thank you so much.
Um I would love to just ask youone more question.
So, as you know, I I do this forthe one, and I would just love
for you to think of that onewoman or man who's listening in
today.
Obviously, there's more that arelistening, but do you have any
words of encouragement or orwisdom that you feel led to
speak over them?
(01:02:28):
And then would you pray us outtoday?
SPEAKER_00 (01:02:31):
Sure.
Let me pause a moment and askthe Lord.
I would just say believe.
Believe, silence your doubt,your skepticism.
Turn off the noise on that.
(01:02:53):
Open your eyes to see that theHoly Spirit is moving in an
unprecedented way in the world.
And just simply say yes to him.
Or say like Thomas, Lord, Ibelieve.
(01:03:13):
Help my unbelief.
Or get rid of my unbelief,right?
Lord, I believe.
And then do what Samuel did.
Samuel wasn't sure what wasgoing on back in his day.
And he didn't know that the Lordwas trying to speak to him.
So he went and talked to Eli andhe said, When you hear a voice,
(01:03:36):
just say, speak, Lord, for yourservant is listening.
That's what I'd say to your onethat's out there.
Speak, Lord.
At least I'm trying to listen,right?
And and then move out in faith,like you did just genuinely hear
(01:03:58):
from him.
SPEAKER_02 (01:04:01):
So good.
SPEAKER_00 (01:04:02):
So, Father, we come to you at the end of this
podcast, and very humbled by theunique and creative ways that
you do exceedingly abundantly.
That you are a God who loves toblow our minds and do far
(01:04:24):
beyond, not just do what we'recapable of thinking or asking or
imagining, but far above andbeyond, you want to blow our
minds.
So we invite you to do that withevery listener.
Blow their mind.
(01:04:45):
And um surprise them with whatyou're capable of doing.
And thank you, Lord, that youare making all things new.
Thank you that we can anticipatenew days ahead.
The old, forget the formerthings, do not dwell on the
past.
See, I'm doing a new thing.
(01:05:08):
Do you not perceive it?
So we thank you that the windsof revival are blowing and that
you are doing new things.
SPEAKER_04 (01:05:20):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (01:05:21):
We're grateful in Jesus' name.
Amen.
SPEAKER_04 (01:05:24):
Amen.
Well, I wanted to before I end,I wanted to make sure I like
edit what I said.
I said Matthew 12.24, but it'sactually John 12.24.
It's truly, truly I say to you,unless a grain of wheat falls
into the earth and dies, itremains alone.
But if it dies, it bears muchfruit.
So I just wanted to edit myaddress of where I told you guys
(01:05:46):
in the Bible earlier.
So it's John 12.24.
Um, but Diane, thank you so muchfor coming back on today.
I'm going to close with hope andlocked anchoring verse, which is
May the God of hope fill youwith all joy and peace in
believing, so that by the powerof the Holy Spirit you may
abound in hope.
And that's Romans 15, 13.
(01:06:06):
So thank you again, Diane, foralways being a brave voice who's
setting so many free.
I can't wait to have you onagain.
I'll be back with anotherepisode next week.
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