December 17, 2024 • 30 mins
Join us as we share our personal journey in exploring the shifting perceptions of marriage and the challenges of representing Christianity with empathy and kindness. We highlight the power of leading by example, especially when it comes to influencing the younger generation and being a source of support in a world filled with conflicting messages.
We also reflect on the missed opportunities for spiritual mentorship with Gen Z, a generation searching for purpose amidst the chaos of modern distractions. The conversation is enriched with stories from mission trips to Juarez, Mexico, where we witnessed the power of faith and resilience firsthand. Here, we explore how prayer, guidance, and community can help nurture the hopes and dreams of those who face adversity daily. We challenge previous generations to step up and support the youth, helping them recognize the opportunities God presents and encouraging them to walk by faith.
Lastly, we shine a light on the remarkable work of Hunger House International, an organization committed to making a difference by following divine guidance. We share our gratitude for the opportunities to spread hope and emphasize the importance of supporting such impactful causes. By trusting in God's provision and embracing the power of community, we invite you to join us in fostering positive change and being "hope dealers" in a world that desperately needs light and transformation.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
here's a question for you is marriage overrated?
Why aren't people gettingmarried anymore?
A new pew research poll foundthat two and five young adults
think marriage is an outdatedtradition marriage rates are at
their lowest right now.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is marriage really even worth it?
More than half of marriages endin divorce.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
If you get married, you have to be stuck with this
person for the rest of your life, right?
That's why you get married.
So that's why it's declining.
Why would you get married ifyou don't, if you want to have
just one partner?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
when you can have multiple Marriage is stupid.
Welcome to the Married AFpodcast, the self-proclaimed
greatest marriage relationshippodcast in the world.
We're your hosts, matthew andMonica Powers, and this is part
two of our conversation, whereyou Talk too much.
You talk too much.
Clearly, you talk too much.
Well, we talked about Juarez,mexico, and your mission trip
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there with Hunger HouseInternational.
We went way longer than wewould have expected.
The conversation was justflowing, so we had to split it
into two parts.
We we went way longer than wewould have expected.
The conversation was justflowing, so we had to split it
into two parts.
We hope you enjoyed part one.
Enjoy part two of just reallythe amazing things that are
going on in Juarez, mexico.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yes, you want people to be able to see Like in high
school.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Jesus freak.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It was Jesus freak.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yes, and ultimately that's our goal.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
That's super If people can look at me and see
Jesus.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I won.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, I was so irritated that people called me
that in high school I got votedmost school spirit and most
likely to become a preacher.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yes, you did.
Looking back, that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yes.
Now I'd say ha should haveknown.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Look what you were doing, God Right.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
All the way back then .
But of course go to college andall those weird things happen.
And it comes back full circlewhen you're like, what am I
doing?
I now get to go to high schoolas a walking talking billboard.
Not that I go in there saying,hey, let me tell you about j.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, you're not one of those people who walked up to
a stranger and say I'm notthose charismatic people.
Hey, do you know that Jesusloves you?
Where would you go if you wereto die right now?
You're freaking people out withthat.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, because how many times did Jesus do that?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, he didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Ever no.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
No, jesus was so kind and caring and empathetic and
loving.
He was very truthful.
Yeah, he met people whereverthey were and the crap that
they're in, but he will let youknow what he stood for, let you
know what the truth is.
He will correct you, butcorrect you in such a loving way
.
We get that wrong so much.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
That's why Christians have such a bad.
I guess this is a stereotype Ofa Christian.
Oh, you're a Christian.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, judgmental.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Very, um, you know you're.
You're not truthful, you'revery two faced.
Yes, and that's, that's the,and that's because we correct in
such a horrible way.
Well, if you don't change yourlife and do this, you're going
to hell, and while there may betruth to that, that you'll be
separated from God in eternity.
There's a much better approachto that love people be,
empathetic to their situationand what they're going through.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I'll be the first to say I've even said to our kids
in the checkout line at Walmartwhen we're leaving the kids will
ask where are we going to hellif we don't change our ways.
As a funny thing, and then itgets somebody's attention and
they're like wait, you just saidthat to a kid.
Well, now I have the softballteam and the volleyball team and
I've been asked for studentsthat are doing stuff where they
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have plays or they're trying outfor something.
They have come to me and saidCoach Powers, can you pray for
me?
I have this.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You're dang right.
I will kids that you wouldnever expect.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
No, the kids that might not have the best rap, the
kids that might get in fightsor go to alternative school,
those kind of kids.
I get to walk in a very darkplace and my light shines bright
and I couldn't be more proud ofthat moment.
So my opportunity is massive.
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And then it went to anotherperson.
I got to pick another personand I got my chat GPT Bible and
they get to see this and it's aperfect way to open up other
doors.
Yes, we say at church all thetime time we'll do anything
short of sin to get people inthe doors to get to people to be
able to experience jesus so themore things kept popping around
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, you know they'd call the nextperson, not the only one.
Other person was as strong as Iwas and being I do this all the
time I get, I get to do this,it's only one other person.
And then that moment it hit mehey dummy, you not once thought
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about your podcast?
Mostly because I don't thinkabout podcasts.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You don't listen to podcasts.
You don't listen to podcasts.
Sorry, If you listen to ourpodcast and have podcasts.
Yeah, I don't want aboutpodcasts.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You don't listen to podcasts.
I don't listen to podcasts.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Sorry if you listen to our podcast and have podcasts
.
Yeah, I don't want to listen toyours.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I'll listen, I listen to them all the time, but you
definitely don't.
So I pulled up the stats.
It was everybody's time thatwas done.
I said I think I need to add tomine and they're like okay.
I said I know.
You said you haven't.
You don't have these people inyour life to be able to
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introduce them to Jesus.
You just want to walk up tohaven't walked up to a stranger
and said, hey, do you believe inGod?
You don't have to do that.
This person said that maybethey should do more on social
media.
I just kept saying you are yourplatform, whether you know it
or not.
People are looking at you,they're following you, they're
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seeing all the things that youwere doing and they hear the
words that you say.
Pulled up our stats for thepodcast.
I said we are in 786 differentcities all over the world and
we're in 47 different countriesall over the world.
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Our number one country is theunited states clearly makes
sense we're two.
I'm going to say it wrong isCzech Czech Republic.
But it's Czech.
Now the name of it has changed.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And when we saw that, we were like, wait a minute,
was this Czech Republic?
Turns out it was yeah, it'scrazy.
And it is so cool.
That is our number two country,so we wanted to know a little
bit more about who's listeningthere, so thank you from
everybody there.
We have learned a lot about thepopulation of the Czech people.
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I have found out that there areonly 11.7% of people there that
are Christians, so if thispodcast is reaching those ears,
I couldn't be more thankful.
But to know that the rest ofthat country is either agnostic
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or atheist, or I can't rememberwhat the other.
There's a very littlepopulation with maybe one or two
different religions.
If those ears are being openedbecause of two little people
from Alabama with a Southernaccent, wow, that's what God
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wanted and that's what he'll.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's what our prayer from the get go was God.
If you want people to hear this, take it to him.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yes, we have hardcore said if he's going to open a
door for us, we're going to walkthrough it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yes, and whenever you don't want us to do this
anymore, you shut it down.
Shut it down, make it clearWe'll do the next thing that you
want us to do.
But if this is what it is, thenthis is what it is.
But it's funny you talk aboutthe platform and when people
talk about it, well, I don'thave the opportunity.
I don't have people who aren'tChristian, who are in my life.
I just don't have it there.
I want to do more here and here.
If we ask God for thoseopportunities he will make, all
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we have to do is ask them andthen not be so dense to not
recognize the opportunity whenwe see it.
Yeah, I mentioned this to youthe other day.
So I'm sometimes I'm way toodense to realize the, the things
that god will just put right infront of you.
And I'm like michael scott, youknow, tell it to me like I'm
five yep please you do.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I said did you not notice that?
Like what are you talking?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
about.
Yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
it's not.
It's not like you didn't noticeit, but you didn't see it the
way I saw it no, exactly sothere's that adh brain again
going well, you didn't thinkabout, you thought about it, but
then you never thought about.
Oh, look at that, that that'stotally god, because I prayed
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for this and not once.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
God's slapping you in the face, thinking here, it is
dummy yeah, I mean I should havebruce's all over from the time
so it's just like, dude, likeyou, you asked for this, it's
right here in front of you.
Will you please just takeadvantage of it already.
I can't make it more clear.
It's like that.
Uh, the the story where theguy's stranded and a boat comes
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by to get him, a helicopter.
People come by to try and savehim.
Every time he's like no, god'sgot this, god's got this, god's
got this, and he dies, gets toheaven and he's like god, I
thought you were gonna save me.
He's like bro, I sent you aboat, I sent you a helicopter, I
sent you a life raft, I sentyou all this stuff and you
didn't see it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I feel like that's my every day yeah, well, the next
day I didn't get to do thedevotion, but the day after we
had a question that said we,where are the lost people in
your life?
Who are you discipling?
That was easy for me to answertoo, because I get to walk and
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talk that every single day,especially to the next
generation.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
To the young generation.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Gen Z needs to hear it.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's so overlooked how badly the next generation,
the next generation, is sodesperately seeking fulfillment
and purpose and something, andman, the world is throwing all
sorts of options we have failedgen z?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
oh badly, because no one we're considered millennials
.
They're the generation rightafter us, right, right
everything.
I just remember everythingbeing blamed on millennials.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Millennials, millennials.
Now it's Gen Z.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Here comes Gen Z, but how can we continue to blame
the next generation when thegeneration before them was
constantly blamed for everything?
So we get that stigma in ourhead.
Well, it's millennials' fault.
No one above us wanted to teachus anything.
They wanted to just blame usfor all the things.
That also made me startthinking of those poor kids in
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Mexico.
How are they going to knowthey're not that dog that just
can lay there and just getshocked every day?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Just because you were dealt these cards doesn't mean
something can't change.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, because I had a .
It was probably a question thathas never been asked and I'm
typically good at that, but dothese children ever talk about
hopes and dreams?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
And I had this conversation with Ethan.
I was just on the way back fromone care point, going back to
the orphanage, and he goes oh, Imean, I'm sure it's talked
about.
And they think I said becausegrowing up we always thought,
well, I can't wait to be anastronaut, I'm going to be this,
I'm going to be that.
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Those are our hopes and dreams,right, proverbs 16, 9.
We can make our own plans, butthe Lord determines our steps.
I don't know how or why or thereason that made me go.
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Hey, baby, I want to go on amission trip, I'm going to go
there.
I have, no, I have never said Iwant to go on a mission trip.
Never, I have said hey, I'll goon a mission trip if we can go
to Africa, because I just wantto go to Africa.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yes, I want to go on a safari.
I want to do this while I'mthere and this while I'm there.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I want to go experience this, and you're not
going to do that when you'rethere, but that was my only.
Juarez is one of the mostdangerous cities in the world.
I've been there when riots havetaken place, baptizing children
.
At the same time, a riot breaksout and there is bloodshed all
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through the city.
Not once did we know about it,until we had left.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
That's proof that God , his hand, is all over hunger
house, guiding them their nextsteps yeah, and they you know,
ethan and lindsey have the, youknow, they have the faith to
trust that.
I mean, that could be so hardfor people to trust and be like,
okay, god, I'm, I'm steppingout in faith on this.
I don't see it, I don't knowhow it's going to work, but I'm
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trusting you.
When you see all that bloodshedand the chaos and the
destruction around you, it'd beso easy to say you know what.
I'm stepping off of this, I'mdone.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
They are living proof that you are to walk by faith,
not by sight, because all thethings that you can see you
would just instantly nope.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Totally.
That's just trusting in theLord that when he says, hey, I
will go before you, I will notleave you Believing the promise
of his word.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
So, thinking of all those kids who, yeah, they
probably what do they have tolook up to?
Mexico just had an election.
It was an election year.
They now have a female, thevery first female, as their
president.
Alright, in the entire Countrywhen there was new people being
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elected.
I want to say it was countrywhere there was new people being
elected.
I want to say it was the numberit's 31 or 36.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
People who were running for office died.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Wow, as in it was a car wreck.
Wrong place wrong time.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
that also made me start thinking about donald
trump.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, were they trying to take.
Is this or wait a minute?
What is happening in the world?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
it's a whole nother conversation for another day.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
But hope deferred makes the heart sick.
But dreams fulfilled is a treeof life.
The kids that are probablyhaving more hopes and dreams are
the ones that come to theorphanage, because Hunger House
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is, that's like, the number onelocation.
Multiple locations, but thatlocation is a constant.
There's someone there every day.
They live at the orphanage.
They're getting fed, they'regetting the word of Jesus.
There is a curriculum.
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These kids go to school.
The first thing that they dowhen they get out of school is
come to the orphanage.
Even if they are not part ofanything, they want to be at
that orphanage.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
They want to be there they want to be fed.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Not only are they getting food, they're getting
fed the truth, which is theBible.
They have curriculum and it isso fantastic to see those kids
are going to be able to continuebecause Hunger House will give
them if they continue to go toHunger House and get fed and
participate in the things HungerHouse pays for their school.
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Public school is not free, sountil they get to middle school
that's when most kids stop goingto school- Not free, I get it.
Because they can't afford itWith $200 a month.
Could anybody?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
No, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
But if you continue to do all the things, they get
to go to school.
Hunger House pays them to go toschool.
My thought was there are waymore that are getting to the age
, that are middle school.
They've come through middleschool, they're in high school
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now.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Which is incredible.
It's very few, but they have toget there.
But what are their dreams?
What are they thinking?
Because they don't know.
I mean, of course you can watchall the videos on YouTube
TikTok, because we were doingTikTok videos with these kids
and of course I don't haveTikTok, so I'm like I don't know
that song.
And then they were singing allthis stuff in Spanish and these
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songs.
I'm thinking, oh my God, did wejust cuss?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
What did we just say?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So of course I'm looking at the lyrics.
I'm more worried oh God, isthis sexual?
What are we doing, these adultswith weird white people, with
these kids?
This is not okay.
So of course we had to look atthe lyrics to make sure I was
like don't post that.
Don't post that.
Don't post that.
That's terrible.
Why would you do that, monica?
Why didn't you know?
But it wasn't anything, theyjust wanted to have a.
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They're just having fun theyjust want to dance, which is
great.
They get to see all thesethings and they get to have
these hopes and these dreams.
But my I guess I'll wrap thisup my whole thing was what can
we do to help them?
I know God prepares us.
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What is it?
Proverbs 16, 9.
We make our plans.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
We do.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But the Lord determines our steps.
Of course, his thoughts aregreater than our thoughts.
So he's gone and said well, youthink you got this done.
Watch this.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's a good plan plan, but watch this.
It's a great plan.
The difficult part is iswaiting for that to come through
waiting just because you'rewaiting doesn't mean that he's
not working somewhere in thebackground waiting, does it?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
it stinks, it's awful so for these kids that are
actually there, might be ahandful of them, five to eight
maybe, that are actually in highschool now.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
That are the ones that need to be maybe poured
more into, because once theyfinish high school, what are
they going to do?
The majority of these kids quitin middle school, mostly
because their parents can'tafford anything anymore.
They need them to go work too,or while they're at work, you
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got to stay at home and watchthe kids because you're the
oldest and we can't afford foranybody to go to school.
Or I'm gonna stay with the kids.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You go work so we can have money and things and
survive.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, but brings me back to Proverbs 13, 12.
Hope deferred makes the heartsick, but a dream fulfilled is a
tree of life.
So keep dreaming, there's nevera reason to stop.
And if we have hope, just thatsmall mustard seed of faith, you
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know?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
it's all it takes.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It's all it takes to believe that God can do the
unimaginable make that plan, buthe's going to determine the
steps that you take for that.
I just was thinking.
Those kids need more things tothink about so they can make
that plan, so the lord candetermine their steps yeah, and
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if that, as long, as long as thehope is put, and what jesus can
do.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
You're right, the hope is it can be deferred and
it can be frustrating and we canthink well, god's forgotten
about who I am.
This isn't going to happen.
You're like that dog.
This is just my life.
This is where I'm stuck.
There's no end in sight,there's no way out of it.
But you're right, the dreamfulfilled is the tree of life,
and the reason the tree of lifeis so important is because in
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the beginning that's, we seeadam and eve.
They're in the garden.
It's the tree of life is soimportant is because in the
beginning, we see Adam and Eve.
They're in the garden.
It's the tree of life.
So it's just God reconcilingand bringing everything back
together.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And that's not just for the kids in Mexico, that's
for anything.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It's for anything and anyone, in any situation.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
No matter what it is.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
To just bring them and not lose in the hope of
Jesus.
And when you have that, whenyou experience it, you may not
get any of the things in thislife that you asked for.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
You may ask for the perfect marriage and you might
not get it.
You may ask for the perfectkids you may not get it.
You may ask for your bankaccount to be full you may not
get it.
You may ask for no stress, nodepression, no anxiety, no
sickness.
You may ask for all of thesethings and it may never happen.
But you said in Revelation 22,.
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Jesus says I am coming back.
And one thing we know when weread the Bible and we see any
promise that has ever been made,you see God fulfill all those
promises.
So if Jesus says I am comingback, he's gonna.
There's where our hope lies.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
There's that part where that waiting comes into
you, because we don't know whenthat's going to be.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
No, listen, it could be.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
It's been 2,000 years .
Speaker 2 (22:17):
It could be before we end this podcast.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Which is so cool.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It'd be great.
It could be next week, it couldbe thousands of years from now.
We just don't know when that'sgoing to happen.
So we live every day in honorof God, doing what he has called
us to do to be the light to.
In honor of God, doing what hehas called us to do to be the
light, to be able to be hopedealers for people.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I like that.
I'm a hope dealer.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Be a hope dealer.
Let them know that, hey, thereis hope, that even if you don't
get anything that you wanted inthis life.
Because what are we hoping for?
We hope for a lot of thesedifferent things, but are we
hoping for all that good and allof that stuff, or are we going
to hope in what has beenpromised to us?
And there's something so muchbigger on the line than just
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this stuff right now and when wereally think about it?
I know people will say you'recrazy, I don't know about all
that.
I can't explain it until youactually experience it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It's so hard to explain.
You know well Jesus and youknow what is this about being a
Christian and giving your lifeto Jesus and a relationship.
I can't explain it.
All I can say is it changeseverything.
Changes your mindset, yourthought process, changes your
heart, your patience.
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Even in the midst of disaster,you're able to find peace and
joy in that, because you believeI am coming back soon.
You know that that's going tohappen, and once this life is
over, there's something else outthere and that's I mean, that's
what we hope for.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
It is.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
That's what we want.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I know it's of course we hope and we want all that,
but it's also you can hope, butyou also have to deal, you have
to endure.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
There's a lot of enduring.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
And to be able to get through those things, to know
and believe that, yes, jesus iscoming back, you have to find
those people that believe thatsame exact thing those people
that believe that same exactthing.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
If you don't have people in your corner and don't
have those people who will pickyou up because you and I are no
different.
I mean, are there days I wantto quit?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yes, yes, you do.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Are there days where I feel absolutely hopeless?
Yes, absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
But I have those same exact days.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
We all do, every person.
Uh, there, there's no wayaround it.
Now.
I don't care how close to closeto god you you may be, you're
still gonna have days where youjust blow it up I quit, I'm done
, it's over and I'm completelyhopeless, but having those
people in your life I was gonnasay the person in my life.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I mean I have a lot of those people in my life,
those encouragers yes I'm notnecessarily one of the best, but
when I know someone if you callme on your way home and you've
just had a crap day- you cantell immediately too.
Yeah, tone of voice, everythingAll right.
(25:40):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, I don't even have to say it, I don't even
have to like, oh, you don'tbelieve how awful you can just
tell immediately, hey, whathappened.
And then you have to be a.
Well, you know you need to dothis.
It's just listening, you'll belike it's going to be okay,
because the reality is, the suncomes up the next day.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It does.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
No matter how much our world is crashing, the sun
still comes up tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
We are very petty people.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Very, and we have to, like you said, we have to be
able to endure it.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
You have to have someone on the other end
listening to you, listen to allof those things, whether you're
right or you're wrong, and tellyou keep your head up.
What would Jesus do in thatmoment?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
He would hug you, he would love you and let you know.
Hey, I know this sucks.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
We're going to get through this.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
We.
That's the thing we are goingto get through this.
We's the thing we are going toget through this.
We all need that.
So I encourage people findthose people in your life, find
those people who can do that,who can provide that to you.
You're not in this all alone.
But hope deferred makes theheart sick.
But dreams fulfilled is a treeof life and having hope in the
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foundation.
Jesus is coming, but he's herenow for you to be able to grab a
hold of and have hope have hopein all you do.
I think that's the message andthe theme for today.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So you're saying my ADHD brain rolled back into
something good?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
It rolled into something good.
And before we get out of here,just as we talk about Juarez,
anyone who's interested, who'slike?
What's this all about?
Hunger House International?
They are the ones.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
They are the missionaries Ethan and Lindsay
Everson.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We know them personally before they even went
, before they ever even Tobecome missionaries, before they
were even married yes.
But check them out.
Hunger House International theyare doing unbelievable things
for kids who would be completelylost, who would have absolutely
nothing, who some would be deadif it were not for them and
their hearts and just givingtheir lives away for other
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people.
They are a group and a ministrythat's near and dear to our
hearts and so many, but the workthat they are doing and the
impact that it is making isabsolutely unbelievable.
I would encourage anyone tocheck them out, see what they're
all about.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
We can put their website on our website.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I can find a way to put their website somewhere.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You said that people watch the YouTube thing they
watch the YouTube.
I know you can put links withYouTube.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Oh, I'm a master when it comes to putting things up
there?
Not really, but I'll figure itout.
Well, I just need to know whatthat website may be.
But Hunger House Internationalcheck them out.
We'll put a link on everythingso you can, because they are
doing absolutely unbelievablethings and it doesn't need to go
unnoticed.
They've just been obedient towhat the Lord has told them.
They are trusting God to guidetheir steps.
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He hasn't let them down so far,and he won't, because that's
who he is.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
He always provides.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Always provides.
Have hope in Jesus.
I promise you won't bedisappointed.
I love you, baby.
I love you Hunter.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Let's get out of here .
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Okay, god, we love you.
God, we're so thankful for whatyou're doing.
We're thankful just to haveopportunities that you have
given us.
We don't want to take thoselightly.
We pray for more opportunities.
We pray that this, as always,reaches the ears that need to
hear it.
We pray for Hunger House andwhat they're doing, and that
you'll just continue to provideand allow them to be light in
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such a dark area of the world.
We're honored, we get to be apart of it and, man, we do this
together and we're thankful forthe hope that Jesus gives us and
don't let that go unnoticed.
Give us opportunities to beable to share that, god, and
we'll give you all the glory InJesus' name, amen.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Amen Play ball.
here's a question for you is marriage overrated?
Why aren't people gettingmarried anymore?
A new pew research poll foundthat two and five young adults
think marriage is an outdatedtradition marriage rates are at
their lowest right now.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is marriage really even worth it?
More than half of marriages endin divorce.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
If you get married, you have to be stuck with this
person for the rest of your life, right?
That's why you get married.
So that's why it's declining.
Why would you get married ifyou don't, if you want to have
just one partner?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
when you can have multiple Marriage is stupid.
Welcome to the Married AFpodcast, the self-proclaimed
greatest marriage relationshippodcast in the world.
We're your hosts, matthew andMonica Powers, and this is part
two of our conversation, whereyou Talk too much.
You talk too much.
Clearly, you talk too much.
Well, we talked about Juarez,mexico, and your mission trip
(00:57):
there with Hunger HouseInternational.
We went way longer than wewould have expected.
The conversation was justflowing, so we had to split it
into two parts.
We we went way longer than wewould have expected.
The conversation was justflowing, so we had to split it
into two parts.
We hope you enjoyed part one.
Enjoy part two of just reallythe amazing things that are
going on in Juarez, mexico.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yes, you want people to be able to see Like in high
school.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Jesus freak.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It was Jesus freak.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yes, and ultimately that's our goal.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
That's super If people can look at me and see
Jesus.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I won.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, I was so irritated that people called me
that in high school I got votedmost school spirit and most
likely to become a preacher.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yes, you did.
Looking back, that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yes.
Now I'd say ha should haveknown.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Look what you were doing, God Right.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
All the way back then .
But of course go to college andall those weird things happen.
And it comes back full circlewhen you're like, what am I
doing?
I now get to go to high schoolas a walking talking billboard.
Not that I go in there saying,hey, let me tell you about j.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, you're not one of those people who walked up to
a stranger and say I'm notthose charismatic people.
Hey, do you know that Jesusloves you?
Where would you go if you wereto die right now?
You're freaking people out withthat.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, because how many times did Jesus do that?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, he didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Ever no.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
No, jesus was so kind and caring and empathetic and
loving.
He was very truthful.
Yeah, he met people whereverthey were and the crap that
they're in, but he will let youknow what he stood for, let you
know what the truth is.
He will correct you, butcorrect you in such a loving way
.
We get that wrong so much.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
That's why Christians have such a bad.
I guess this is a stereotype Ofa Christian.
Oh, you're a Christian.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, judgmental.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Very, um, you know you're.
You're not truthful, you'revery two faced.
Yes, and that's, that's the,and that's because we correct in
such a horrible way.
Well, if you don't change yourlife and do this, you're going
to hell, and while there may betruth to that, that you'll be
separated from God in eternity.
There's a much better approachto that love people be,
empathetic to their situationand what they're going through.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I'll be the first to say I've even said to our kids
in the checkout line at Walmartwhen we're leaving the kids will
ask where are we going to hellif we don't change our ways.
As a funny thing, and then itgets somebody's attention and
they're like wait, you just saidthat to a kid.
Well, now I have the softballteam and the volleyball team and
I've been asked for studentsthat are doing stuff where they
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have plays or they're trying outfor something.
They have come to me and saidCoach Powers, can you pray for
me?
I have this.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You're dang right.
I will kids that you wouldnever expect.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
No, the kids that might not have the best rap, the
kids that might get in fightsor go to alternative school,
those kind of kids.
I get to walk in a very darkplace and my light shines bright
and I couldn't be more proud ofthat moment.
So my opportunity is massive.
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And then it went to anotherperson.
I got to pick another personand I got my chat GPT Bible and
they get to see this and it's aperfect way to open up other
doors.
Yes, we say at church all thetime time we'll do anything
short of sin to get people inthe doors to get to people to be
able to experience jesus so themore things kept popping around
(04:33):
, you know they'd call the nextperson, not the only one.
Other person was as strong as Iwas and being I do this all the
time I get, I get to do this,it's only one other person.
And then that moment it hit mehey dummy, you not once thought
(04:56):
about your podcast?
Mostly because I don't thinkabout podcasts.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You don't listen to podcasts.
You don't listen to podcasts.
Sorry, If you listen to ourpodcast and have podcasts.
Yeah, I don't want aboutpodcasts.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You don't listen to podcasts.
I don't listen to podcasts.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Sorry if you listen to our podcast and have podcasts
.
Yeah, I don't want to listen toyours.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I'll listen, I listen to them all the time, but you
definitely don't.
So I pulled up the stats.
It was everybody's time thatwas done.
I said I think I need to add tomine and they're like okay.
I said I know.
You said you haven't.
You don't have these people inyour life to be able to
(05:33):
introduce them to Jesus.
You just want to walk up tohaven't walked up to a stranger
and said, hey, do you believe inGod?
You don't have to do that.
This person said that maybethey should do more on social
media.
I just kept saying you are yourplatform, whether you know it
or not.
People are looking at you,they're following you, they're
(05:57):
seeing all the things that youwere doing and they hear the
words that you say.
Pulled up our stats for thepodcast.
I said we are in 786 differentcities all over the world and
we're in 47 different countriesall over the world.
(06:17):
Our number one country is theunited states clearly makes
sense we're two.
I'm going to say it wrong isCzech Czech Republic.
But it's Czech.
Now the name of it has changed.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And when we saw that, we were like, wait a minute,
was this Czech Republic?
Turns out it was yeah, it'scrazy.
And it is so cool.
That is our number two country,so we wanted to know a little
bit more about who's listeningthere, so thank you from
everybody there.
We have learned a lot about thepopulation of the Czech people.
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I have found out that there areonly 11.7% of people there that
are Christians, so if thispodcast is reaching those ears,
I couldn't be more thankful.
But to know that the rest ofthat country is either agnostic
(07:19):
or atheist, or I can't rememberwhat the other.
There's a very littlepopulation with maybe one or two
different religions.
If those ears are being openedbecause of two little people
from Alabama with a Southernaccent, wow, that's what God
(07:44):
wanted and that's what he'll.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's what our prayer from the get go was God.
If you want people to hear this, take it to him.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yes, we have hardcore said if he's going to open a
door for us, we're going to walkthrough it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yes, and whenever you don't want us to do this
anymore, you shut it down.
Shut it down, make it clearWe'll do the next thing that you
want us to do.
But if this is what it is, thenthis is what it is.
But it's funny you talk aboutthe platform and when people
talk about it, well, I don'thave the opportunity.
I don't have people who aren'tChristian, who are in my life.
I just don't have it there.
I want to do more here and here.
If we ask God for thoseopportunities he will make, all
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we have to do is ask them andthen not be so dense to not
recognize the opportunity whenwe see it.
Yeah, I mentioned this to youthe other day.
So I'm sometimes I'm way toodense to realize the, the things
that god will just put right infront of you.
And I'm like michael scott, youknow, tell it to me like I'm
five yep please you do.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I said did you not notice that?
Like what are you talking?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
about.
Yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
it's not.
It's not like you didn't noticeit, but you didn't see it the
way I saw it no, exactly sothere's that adh brain again
going well, you didn't thinkabout, you thought about it, but
then you never thought about.
Oh, look at that, that that'stotally god, because I prayed
(09:07):
for this and not once.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
God's slapping you in the face, thinking here, it is
dummy yeah, I mean I should havebruce's all over from the time
so it's just like, dude, likeyou, you asked for this, it's
right here in front of you.
Will you please just takeadvantage of it already.
I can't make it more clear.
It's like that.
Uh, the the story where theguy's stranded and a boat comes
(09:30):
by to get him, a helicopter.
People come by to try and savehim.
Every time he's like no, god'sgot this, god's got this, god's
got this, and he dies, gets toheaven and he's like god, I
thought you were gonna save me.
He's like bro, I sent you aboat, I sent you a helicopter, I
sent you a life raft, I sentyou all this stuff and you
didn't see it.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I feel like that's my every day yeah, well, the next
day I didn't get to do thedevotion, but the day after we
had a question that said we,where are the lost people in
your life?
Who are you discipling?
That was easy for me to answertoo, because I get to walk and
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talk that every single day,especially to the next
generation.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
To the young generation.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Gen Z needs to hear it.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's so overlooked how badly the next generation,
the next generation, is sodesperately seeking fulfillment
and purpose and something, andman, the world is throwing all
sorts of options we have failedgen z?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
oh badly, because no one we're considered millennials
.
They're the generation rightafter us, right, right
everything.
I just remember everythingbeing blamed on millennials.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Millennials, millennials.
Now it's Gen Z.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Here comes Gen Z, but how can we continue to blame
the next generation when thegeneration before them was
constantly blamed for everything?
So we get that stigma in ourhead.
Well, it's millennials' fault.
No one above us wanted to teachus anything.
They wanted to just blame usfor all the things.
That also made me startthinking of those poor kids in
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Mexico.
How are they going to knowthey're not that dog that just
can lay there and just getshocked every day?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Just because you were dealt these cards doesn't mean
something can't change.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, because I had a .
It was probably a question thathas never been asked and I'm
typically good at that, but dothese children ever talk about
hopes and dreams?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
And I had this conversation with Ethan.
I was just on the way back fromone care point, going back to
the orphanage, and he goes oh, Imean, I'm sure it's talked
about.
And they think I said becausegrowing up we always thought,
well, I can't wait to be anastronaut, I'm going to be this,
I'm going to be that.
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Those are our hopes and dreams,right, proverbs 16, 9.
We can make our own plans, butthe Lord determines our steps.
I don't know how or why or thereason that made me go.
(12:34):
Hey, baby, I want to go on amission trip, I'm going to go
there.
I have, no, I have never said Iwant to go on a mission trip.
Never, I have said hey, I'll goon a mission trip if we can go
to Africa, because I just wantto go to Africa.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yes, I want to go on a safari.
I want to do this while I'mthere and this while I'm there.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I want to go experience this, and you're not
going to do that when you'rethere, but that was my only.
Juarez is one of the mostdangerous cities in the world.
I've been there when riots havetaken place, baptizing children
.
At the same time, a riot breaksout and there is bloodshed all
(13:16):
through the city.
Not once did we know about it,until we had left.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
That's proof that God , his hand, is all over hunger
house, guiding them their nextsteps yeah, and they you know,
ethan and lindsey have the, youknow, they have the faith to
trust that.
I mean, that could be so hardfor people to trust and be like,
okay, god, I'm, I'm steppingout in faith on this.
I don't see it, I don't knowhow it's going to work, but I'm
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trusting you.
When you see all that bloodshedand the chaos and the
destruction around you, it'd beso easy to say you know what.
I'm stepping off of this, I'mdone.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
They are living proof that you are to walk by faith,
not by sight, because all thethings that you can see you
would just instantly nope.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Totally.
That's just trusting in theLord that when he says, hey, I
will go before you, I will notleave you Believing the promise
of his word.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
So, thinking of all those kids who, yeah, they
probably what do they have tolook up to?
Mexico just had an election.
It was an election year.
They now have a female, thevery first female, as their
president.
Alright, in the entire Countrywhen there was new people being
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elected.
I want to say it was countrywhere there was new people being
elected.
I want to say it was the numberit's 31 or 36.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
People who were running for office died.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Wow, as in it was a car wreck.
Wrong place wrong time.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
that also made me start thinking about donald
trump.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, were they trying to take.
Is this or wait a minute?
What is happening in the world?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
it's a whole nother conversation for another day.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
But hope deferred makes the heart sick.
But dreams fulfilled is a treeof life.
The kids that are probablyhaving more hopes and dreams are
the ones that come to theorphanage, because Hunger House
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is, that's like, the number onelocation.
Multiple locations, but thatlocation is a constant.
There's someone there every day.
They live at the orphanage.
They're getting fed, they'regetting the word of Jesus.
There is a curriculum.
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These kids go to school.
The first thing that they dowhen they get out of school is
come to the orphanage.
Even if they are not part ofanything, they want to be at
that orphanage.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
They want to be there they want to be fed.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Not only are they getting food, they're getting
fed the truth, which is theBible.
They have curriculum and it isso fantastic to see those kids
are going to be able to continuebecause Hunger House will give
them if they continue to go toHunger House and get fed and
participate in the things HungerHouse pays for their school.
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Public school is not free, sountil they get to middle school
that's when most kids stop goingto school- Not free, I get it.
Because they can't afford itWith $200 a month.
Could anybody?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
No, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
But if you continue to do all the things, they get
to go to school.
Hunger House pays them to go toschool.
My thought was there are waymore that are getting to the age
, that are middle school.
They've come through middleschool, they're in high school
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now.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Which is incredible.
It's very few, but they have toget there.
But what are their dreams?
What are they thinking?
Because they don't know.
I mean, of course you can watchall the videos on YouTube
TikTok, because we were doingTikTok videos with these kids
and of course I don't haveTikTok, so I'm like I don't know
that song.
And then they were singing allthis stuff in Spanish and these
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songs.
I'm thinking, oh my God, did wejust cuss?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
What did we just say?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So of course I'm looking at the lyrics.
I'm more worried oh God, isthis sexual?
What are we doing, these adultswith weird white people, with
these kids?
This is not okay.
So of course we had to look atthe lyrics to make sure I was
like don't post that.
Don't post that.
Don't post that.
That's terrible.
Why would you do that, monica?
Why didn't you know?
But it wasn't anything, theyjust wanted to have a.
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They're just having fun theyjust want to dance, which is
great.
They get to see all thesethings and they get to have
these hopes and these dreams.
But my I guess I'll wrap thisup my whole thing was what can
we do to help them?
I know God prepares us.
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What is it?
Proverbs 16, 9.
We make our plans.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
We do.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But the Lord determines our steps.
Of course, his thoughts aregreater than our thoughts.
So he's gone and said well, youthink you got this done.
Watch this.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That's a good plan plan, but watch this.
It's a great plan.
The difficult part is iswaiting for that to come through
waiting just because you'rewaiting doesn't mean that he's
not working somewhere in thebackground waiting, does it?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
it stinks, it's awful so for these kids that are
actually there, might be ahandful of them, five to eight
maybe, that are actually in highschool now.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
That are the ones that need to be maybe poured
more into, because once theyfinish high school, what are
they going to do?
The majority of these kids quitin middle school, mostly
because their parents can'tafford anything anymore.
They need them to go work too,or while they're at work, you
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got to stay at home and watchthe kids because you're the
oldest and we can't afford foranybody to go to school.
Or I'm gonna stay with the kids.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You go work so we can have money and things and
survive.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, but brings me back to Proverbs 13, 12.
Hope deferred makes the heartsick, but a dream fulfilled is a
tree of life.
So keep dreaming, there's nevera reason to stop.
And if we have hope, just thatsmall mustard seed of faith, you
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know?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
it's all it takes.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
It's all it takes to believe that God can do the
unimaginable make that plan, buthe's going to determine the
steps that you take for that.
I just was thinking.
Those kids need more things tothink about so they can make
that plan, so the lord candetermine their steps yeah, and
(20:27):
if that, as long, as long as thehope is put, and what jesus can
do.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
You're right, the hope is it can be deferred and
it can be frustrating and we canthink well, god's forgotten
about who I am.
This isn't going to happen.
You're like that dog.
This is just my life.
This is where I'm stuck.
There's no end in sight,there's no way out of it.
But you're right, the dreamfulfilled is the tree of life,
and the reason the tree of lifeis so important is because in
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the beginning that's, we seeadam and eve.
They're in the garden.
It's the tree of life is soimportant is because in the
beginning, we see Adam and Eve.
They're in the garden.
It's the tree of life.
So it's just God reconcilingand bringing everything back
together.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And that's not just for the kids in Mexico, that's
for anything.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It's for anything and anyone, in any situation.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
No matter what it is.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
To just bring them and not lose in the hope of
Jesus.
And when you have that, whenyou experience it, you may not
get any of the things in thislife that you asked for.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
You may ask for the perfect marriage and you might
not get it.
You may ask for the perfectkids you may not get it.
You may ask for your bankaccount to be full you may not
get it.
You may ask for no stress, nodepression, no anxiety, no
sickness.
You may ask for all of thesethings and it may never happen.
But you said in Revelation 22,.
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Jesus says I am coming back.
And one thing we know when weread the Bible and we see any
promise that has ever been made,you see God fulfill all those
promises.
So if Jesus says I am comingback, he's gonna.
There's where our hope lies.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
There's that part where that waiting comes into
you, because we don't know whenthat's going to be.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
No, listen, it could be.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
It's been 2,000 years .
Speaker 2 (22:17):
It could be before we end this podcast.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Which is so cool.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It'd be great.
It could be next week, it couldbe thousands of years from now.
We just don't know when that'sgoing to happen.
So we live every day in honorof God, doing what he has called
us to do to be the light to.
In honor of God, doing what hehas called us to do to be the
light, to be able to be hopedealers for people.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I like that.
I'm a hope dealer.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Be a hope dealer.
Let them know that, hey, thereis hope, that even if you don't
get anything that you wanted inthis life.
Because what are we hoping for?
We hope for a lot of thesedifferent things, but are we
hoping for all that good and allof that stuff, or are we going
to hope in what has beenpromised to us?
And there's something so muchbigger on the line than just
(23:06):
this stuff right now and when wereally think about it?
I know people will say you'recrazy, I don't know about all
that.
I can't explain it until youactually experience it.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It's so hard to explain.
You know well Jesus and youknow what is this about being a
Christian and giving your lifeto Jesus and a relationship.
I can't explain it.
All I can say is it changeseverything.
Changes your mindset, yourthought process, changes your
heart, your patience.
(23:40):
Even in the midst of disaster,you're able to find peace and
joy in that, because you believeI am coming back soon.
You know that that's going tohappen, and once this life is
over, there's something else outthere and that's I mean, that's
what we hope for.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
It is.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
That's what we want.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I know it's of course we hope and we want all that,
but it's also you can hope, butyou also have to deal, you have
to endure.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
There's a lot of enduring.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
And to be able to get through those things, to know
and believe that, yes, jesus iscoming back, you have to find
those people that believe thatsame exact thing those people
that believe that same exactthing.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
If you don't have people in your corner and don't
have those people who will pickyou up because you and I are no
different.
I mean, are there days I wantto quit?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yes, yes, you do.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Are there days where I feel absolutely hopeless?
Yes, absolutely so.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
But I have those same exact days.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
We all do, every person.
Uh, there, there's no wayaround it.
Now.
I don't care how close to closeto god you you may be, you're
still gonna have days where youjust blow it up I quit, I'm done
, it's over and I'm completelyhopeless, but having those
people in your life I was gonnasay the person in my life.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I mean I have a lot of those people in my life,
those encouragers yes I'm notnecessarily one of the best, but
when I know someone if you callme on your way home and you've
just had a crap day- you cantell immediately too.
Yeah, tone of voice, everythingAll right.
(25:40):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, I don't even have to say it, I don't even
have to like, oh, you don'tbelieve how awful you can just
tell immediately, hey, whathappened.
And then you have to be a.
Well, you know you need to dothis.
It's just listening, you'll belike it's going to be okay,
because the reality is, the suncomes up the next day.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It does.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
No matter how much our world is crashing, the sun
still comes up tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
We are very petty people.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Very, and we have to, like you said, we have to be
able to endure it.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
You have to have someone on the other end
listening to you, listen to allof those things, whether you're
right or you're wrong, and tellyou keep your head up.
What would Jesus do in thatmoment?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
He would hug you, he would love you and let you know.
Hey, I know this sucks.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
We're going to get through this.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
We.
That's the thing we are goingto get through this.
We's the thing we are going toget through this.
We all need that.
So I encourage people findthose people in your life, find
those people who can do that,who can provide that to you.
You're not in this all alone.
But hope deferred makes theheart sick.
But dreams fulfilled is a treeof life and having hope in the
(26:56):
foundation.
Jesus is coming, but he's herenow for you to be able to grab a
hold of and have hope have hopein all you do.
I think that's the message andthe theme for today.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So you're saying my ADHD brain rolled back into
something good?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
It rolled into something good.
And before we get out of here,just as we talk about Juarez,
anyone who's interested, who'slike?
What's this all about?
Hunger House International?
They are the ones.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
They are the missionaries Ethan and Lindsay
Everson.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We know them personally before they even went
, before they ever even Tobecome missionaries, before they
were even married yes.
But check them out.
Hunger House International theyare doing unbelievable things
for kids who would be completelylost, who would have absolutely
nothing, who some would be deadif it were not for them and
their hearts and just givingtheir lives away for other
(27:54):
people.
They are a group and a ministrythat's near and dear to our
hearts and so many, but the workthat they are doing and the
impact that it is making isabsolutely unbelievable.
I would encourage anyone tocheck them out, see what they're
all about.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
We can put their website on our website.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I can find a way to put their website somewhere.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You said that people watch the YouTube thing they
watch the YouTube.
I know you can put links withYouTube.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Oh, I'm a master when it comes to putting things up
there?
Not really, but I'll figure itout.
Well, I just need to know whatthat website may be.
But Hunger House Internationalcheck them out.
We'll put a link on everythingso you can, because they are
doing absolutely unbelievablethings and it doesn't need to go
unnoticed.
They've just been obedient towhat the Lord has told them.
They are trusting God to guidetheir steps.
(28:42):
He hasn't let them down so far,and he won't, because that's
who he is.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
He always provides.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Always provides.
Have hope in Jesus.
I promise you won't bedisappointed.
I love you, baby.
I love you Hunter.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Let's get out of here .
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Okay, god, we love you.
God, we're so thankful for whatyou're doing.
We're thankful just to haveopportunities that you have
given us.
We don't want to take thoselightly.
We pray for more opportunities.
We pray that this, as always,reaches the ears that need to
hear it.
We pray for Hunger House andwhat they're doing, and that
you'll just continue to provideand allow them to be light in
(29:16):
such a dark area of the world.
We're honored, we get to be apart of it and, man, we do this
together and we're thankful forthe hope that Jesus gives us and
don't let that go unnoticed.
Give us opportunities to beable to share that, god, and
we'll give you all the glory InJesus' name, amen.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Amen Play ball.
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