May 27, 2025 • 42 mins
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What do you do when life becomes so difficult that you don’t have joy? How can you have joy when life sucks? The guys break it down.
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What do you do when life becomes so difficult that you don’t have joy? How can you have joy when life sucks? The guys break it down.
#joerogan #podcast #mensministry #christianliving #biblestudy #cussing #charliekirk #joerogan #jasonwhitlock #fearless #menshealth #christianliving #vincevaughn #timtebow #christianmotivation #churchmemes #mensministry #promiskeepers #timtebow #patrickbetdavid
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yo, what are you doing right now?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We are going to get real about men's issues, who
Jesus is and who we are as men in Christ.
We're gonna hear Trey, Jeremy, Michael and Brad break it down.
These guys call themselves the cousin Christians.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
All right, guys, what is going on through a head shot?
Years ago?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I got a speeding ticket, and you know, I've gone
through those things where you have to sit and listen
to the state trooper Orribia, the laws and all that
craft for like six hours and it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I went to one of.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
These comedy driving schools, which is great. They had it
like in the back room of the Denny's this oh yeah,
oh wow. This guy was a stand up comedian and
all he was doing was going through and just reading
the material, but he would kind of add his own
jokes to it. But this guy didn't have to do
much because we had a crazy lady in our group
and she would make these bizarre comments, like he'd be
reading something and she'd say something that is totally just
(00:59):
didn't make sense, and he would just look at the
rest of us like you wouldn't say anything. He would
stop you look at us like like did you just
hear that? And we were all cracking up, and this
leady had no idea that we were laughing at her,
Like she thought she was funny, but she was just
so off base and untinged and weird.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And he would just look at us like solarious. Yeah
it's funny. So Halidy comedy driving schools a way to
go if you couldn't take it.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I had a year Karen screaming me at carl Ossyester,
maybe because she supposedly was. There was like fifty cars
trying to get through the history Karashi and how they
have three.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
She's screaming me because I go through.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I got an automatic thing, so I just go through.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And she figured she was there before me.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
But she had to pay, so I go through the pilot.
I said that I'm up.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
She's screaming academy like over a arm. Yeah are you kidding?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Any back up? And yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Give and give her the spot in front of me.
There was like fifty cars waiting to get in.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I'm like, I mean people are just lost through ever
eleven nights now, huh.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
What was the last time someone flipps you and Barry
while you're driving.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It happens to me all the time. Flipping no, just kidding. Anyway,
I had a guy coming off. It was over by Orland,
you know the Parmer lines that looked like Mickey Mouse.
I got him in the shade out right there, that
off raft. He's coming off and I'm in the right light.
I can't go anywhere, and he.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Flipped hogs and flips me off because he's merging in before.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
But it's my fault because I'm in the right lane
and he couldn't get out.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And it was how I was like that The stuff
I see on the road, guys and Mitch just blow
your mind.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
That the Ignor episode he sign out works, you gotta
do this, it's actual.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Yeah, look up the definition of ye right.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I was driving back to Orlando one day on five
twenty eight. Then it was open road. Dude in the
right lane, he was going to the speed limit. I
was going, you know, fifteen miles over and left lane,
and for no reason, he starts to east to get
over into the left lane.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He thought there's nobody in front of him.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
He's going slow, and I didn't yield like I just
kind of kept going and so he had this word
back over the right lane and he flips me.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Off, like, dude, nobody, you're right pasting lay. Yeah. I
was in the passing lane. I was going faster than head.
It was obvious. So I don't know. I don't know
where people.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Were that the passing lane is for eighty five miles
an hour. It's not for seven, right, the right lane
is for seven.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, And for some reason, people in the United States
are are just obstinate, Like we drive to Jacksonville a lot,
and people will not get out of that left lane.
But when we were in Europe, like we're in Germany,
people they have no problems over then. Like I drove
on the Autobahn, Oh, that was which was amazing. I
was going like one hundred and thirty and I looked
at my view ear and some dude was flying up
behind me. I don't know what he was doing, but
(03:44):
he was about to run me over. So I got
over as quickly as I could. And you just don't
see that in America. People just want to they.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Want to ride in the big boy lane and go
go seventy three. So I got okay, So I got
a question.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Let's let's let's let's take that scenario and let's go
back two thousand tire all right, nothing with okay, Jesus
and the Apostles, or walking from like Bethlehem to in
the left lane to to to Jerusalem it's twenty five
twenty six miles or whatever it is. Are they complaining
(04:17):
about the traffic if there's slow people alive light?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Are some people walking? Want to know the people on
the donkeys are bitching at them because they're that's what
it is, okay. Or if you have a trailer, you're
pulling yo Jews, get in the right leane. Kind of
donkey coming through. Donkey here on the flane, don't get hi.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
I just wonder if they had, if they had these
conversations around dinner table that night. You know, I was
walking from Bethany to through the Sheep's Gate and it's
it's three miles, and you know how Londa took me
to walk three miles. It took me seven hours because
of the idiots in front of you walking through in
the left lane in the left leg with a guy
on the donkey yelling and what would be the quote
(05:00):
of a Karen back then call would be like a
Miriam or so they're like, here's this Miriam in the
left leg.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, that's right, we'd get out of the way. Yeah,
the shorten air, what does them be? That thing mean?
I don't know what the middle finger means? What does
that mean? Do you know what the real what that
really means? I think I got golting gears on. But
Michael's got all the his story that his stor golle.
He found out the meaning of the word ship that
fantasy store high to try and transit.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah, anyway, because they don't will it would run it anyway?
The medium back in the sixteen seventh, fifteen, sixteenth century,
when they used.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
To do bows and arrows, well, they would the arch
they cut this finger off archer so they could not
call their bowl match if they got well what the enemy,
if they got captured, if they got captured. So they
cut it off.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
And so what that turned into was ha, ha, I
still have this fata fer and you gotta be called dude.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Where do you find this stuff? It's true, It's interesting
though it is I still have this fingers. So they
would show it really and it was kind of a
I can still shooting you, right, Yeah, I still have,
and it's now turned in the fuh my gosh, the
originations of the daily gestures and cuss words that we
(06:15):
say to that missus Cheffy. Cheffy is a busy man.
And all the people that are looking for mister West Virginia.
He we be back with us next week. We got
Garrett sitting there, uh to join us. And some has
been on my heart, and you and I talked about it.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
There's some things that are going on in all of
our lives.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
And I keep thinking of Natalie's song counted all joy
right and rejoice in our suffering romans, which you know,
uh howbou was trumpet out loud when up things are happening.
To me, God's working everything together for the greater good,
and good, bad and ugly is I'll going to come
(06:58):
together for the greater good.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
But goes to soon. Sometimes I'm not. I'm not in
the enjoy season, right man? What do we do? We
got We got got two common friends, no names, you
know me. It was one's on his deathbed and ork
so dear but dearly loved.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Got another one that you know, Garrett and I know
very well, Aristonum since he was like seven years old,
probably Garrett how to swim.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And he calls and he's got cancer.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
This guy is a ordained minister and uh one of
the most joyous people I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I get the called and he's got this rear for
all of a cancer, and and all of a sudden,
I don't feel joyful.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
And I know we've talked about our feelings versus truth
and all that, but as the Christians, as we walk,
I just always feel like.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
The times that suck out number of the times I
feel joy I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Does that mean sense to you?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, I think we counted more when it's because in
our pain point you seem to have it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Affect us when we walk through. Garrett, by the way,
you a son, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
That you can turn to me or so I think
when you're in pain and steal it boring and if
you want to go to youth, feel it with you.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
You want to be able to, uh like, yes, justify
your pain so you kind of rally the troops. And
me think it's you know, I've got a friend that's
whose sons being the little nasty cancer now too.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Just she's an amazing warrior of God. And that's I
guess how do we how do we fight it? How
do we fight the goodle drums.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
And the lack of joy?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I mean I had you talked about this, I think yesterday,
and I said, are a lot of people just waiting
for the other shoe to drop? We just is that
how we walk walk lives? As far as a relationship
with Oh, this is going to happen. So I'm just
gonna wait till the shoe drives? How do we fight?
And then those Arabs?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
What are the weapons of our warfware as believers to
get through these times?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
While we were asking God, really, why is this that?
Why are you allowing this? T as I don't realize
these did said we here seeing is a set and
he steals our joe? So how do we? How do
we all to count?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Speak?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well? As far as what to do?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Writing Psalms on forty two, where David says, why so downcast,
but my soul wife is so disturbed within me, put
your hope in God, for I will get prese and
my savior, my God. And then it's forty two, verse
five and songs my soul is downcast with then be
therefore I will remember you from the land in the
Jordany the Heights of Earning. So I mean, David, would
(09:55):
you know you would remember if I can't remember when
God did delivery?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I'm the good God did you things.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I feel like we talked about the difference between happiness
and joy, like happiness is more of a temporary thing
based on feelings.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Whatever's happening right now, be happy.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Joy is more of a a biding and I think
of it as more of an anchor, And it's like
the ship might still me blown around, but you still
have an anchor, like you're still not So I feel
like joy is going to keep me from going completely
into despair. But I had a day last week I
felt and I'm joy, And I felt like I would
be delusional if I said I had joy today because
(10:32):
I don't know. It's like I'm just not feeling and
it's it's reality. And you have Jesus talking about in
this like duringless world, you'll have trouble and take card
I've overcome the world. So for me, it's it's remembering
and trying to turn my focus back to God and
who he is. But still we're still going to have
the feeling. Some days there's still going to be those
days where you just feel like everything sucks and you
(10:55):
don't know what to do, but I.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Don't want to get out of bed. Right, I've had that,
you know. You and I talked yesterday about your fam
what is worthly emotions that you've gone to list this.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Particular I called him immediately. I hear it and I
could not believe it. It was a crazy thing. I uh,
I had it in my calendar. It was his birthday
about I'm going to go And on that day, I
had about three hours and I just needed a chill
and a movie came on.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
It's called from Love of the Game, Kevin Costa, You score.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
I watched Hilly Chapel right, and that movie was significant
in my life because this young man that I hired
with my company, I was training.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
He was in training with me and something happened and
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Movie as at a movie theater. So we played hooky
from work to go watch that movie.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Yeah, well I'm nuts and he's one of the most
inspirational guys out there novels, he said, I was, and
that movie was on Netflix, so I started watching it.
I texted him, I said, hey, dude, have your birthday
look when I'm watching. I took a snapshot of Billy
che Apple from the from the back. He's like, you know,
ready to start his pitch right clear Remember clear.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Acon's one of the best lines ever. But his prayer
was his prayer was better to remember.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
At the end he goes he said, Lord, I know
you could care less about the ball games.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I could even care less about what's about to happen
the gear.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
But if you could just make this pain go away
for about ten minutes in my shoulder, I sure would appreciate.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
That's but anyway, Drew right, he broke the news to him.
He said, Man, I'm sorry for another touch. I need
to let you know something. And it it there ain't
no joy in that, right. And I think about a
common friend we have.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
This mother is staring at her son that's in hospice
right now, and what do you say to this person?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
No, he's about to go to a better place or
some ship like that, right, you know?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
And how do they we we walk through this minefield
of life in our our culture, the Western culture is
just so got to have it all, have it now,
be happy now, instant gratification and all these other things
we don't look at the big picture enough. And when
the tragedies happen, boom, this yever gets in between your
(13:22):
ears and make you start and dialate.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And God truly is you know, the joy of the
Lord is our strength. But then we don't. Sometimes we
don't have joy.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
So where does that that that strength come from to
be able to go through beyond the next chemo or
the next time.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
You know, X ray or whatever it is that they're
knowing through I just.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
That that scripture you I've kind of all joy when
you go.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Through various trials. But now.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
But as an unbeliever, as an unbeliever.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
They have none of that right now, right so the
depths of.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Their soul doesn't have that relationship with.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Christ to be able to And I think in those times,
and I truly believe this, that the Holy Spirit gives
you immeasurable.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And non strength and love and support when you go
through those times. I truly believe it.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
You know, speaking of the couple that's in our small group,
and you know they they yeah, she went through the
night ere her daughter having cancer, right and they're on
the backside of it now and then things are looking
great and just having can The conversations with hers so
enlightening to me, because you know, you.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Read the scripture count this joy when you go through it.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Well, I don't have to feel the joy right right
because she you.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Know, everyone's got great intentions, and everyone's caring and loving
and wanna and you know I've and I've heard her
say and someone else.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Like sometimes I just want people to show up.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Yeah, And you know, I just I don't want to
here are the questions. I don't want to feel that anymore.
My mind's tired, I'm worrying about it anyway. I don't
feel like I need to explain it anymore. We have
a common friend that just wrote a book called Conversations
with Miscarriage. I might have mentioned it in a podcast
or two, but Alex is an amazing woman who has
(15:17):
been through two and she had finally had a beautiful
baby that was a struggle for her to have, and
she through those two miscarriages. She captured her thoughts and
put it in this book, Conversation Less Carriage, and I
was reading part of it this morning. It just so
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much of it rings true about what we experience, and
it's okay to say sometimes one time I just shut
down a lot, right.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
It's okay to feel that, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
One of the things I appreciate about this Solves is
that Dame, it spends a lot of time saying, God,
where are you?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Like, like, yeah, he's honest with the despair.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Like when he was hiding in a cave and he
was on the run, you know from Saul and again hiss.
He talks about his bones you know, or sticking out,
and he's he's sick, and he's all this, all these
different things. So he was very honest, Like he didn't
just say buck up, buddy, like you know, I've enjoyed
all things.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Like he was.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
He was giving air to to how he felt. But
then he does always resolve.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
He always does resolve back to you know, a Riiseo guy,
you you know, deliver me from my end, right, So
he comes back to that. But like like you were saying,
I think sometimes when we gloss over the pain and
just say, hey, they're going to be in a better place,
and that's not that's not helpful. So yeah, if you
just have a you'd be able listening air to say, man,
I'm sorry you're doing through that.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I know that's tough.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I know that stuff, and you can pray with them
and maybe later come back and say, you know, guy's
gonna work this together.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But it's not.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Always the thing to say in the alt right. So yeah, dummy, David.
I just find comfort in reading the song.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Because and then there's so many times he is he
is wailing in on you know, he's grolling.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
What do you like?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
So it's just Faul talks about our spirit. If we
don't know how to pray and we're under the spirit,
our spirit grows for as suiting to the Lord in privet,
and I think that's a good lesson to learn and
try to rip them for It's okay to growth. Sure,
life sucks, and right, it's okay to growl. Yeah, and
(17:22):
everybody talks about my faith is a relationship you know
with God or a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Do you mentioned that? But then you have to ask
yourself are you are you.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Being honest with God as your relationship?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Are you giving him everything?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Because you know, if it's a true relationship, then you
ought to be able to give him those or the
troubles and be able to have an honest conversation about
how you're feeling and telling God's going to get mad
at you for being mad as feeling his emotions right,
think it's better to let them out. And David's a
perfect example of like, that's a true giving tape relationship
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with God that he's exercising every part, you know.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
And then the other piece that to that relationship is
we need to be hearing.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
From God as well.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
So when he's giving all of our concerns, giving him
our anger, ask you know, asking, well, I be grely
honest about how we're feeling, because who knows how you
feel anyway.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
But then also you need to proceed the knowledge from him.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
And what I've discovered is the level ife I didn't
get into whares cons we used to be in the words,
so that we're we're so.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Knowledgeable about how we are living in.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
A spiritual world.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
That's going to give us the understanding that okay, you know,
the joy is is coming.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
It's on the other side.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
And then su we lived here, you know, while we're
here going through all our peace states.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
But you're not going to get that, you know, if
you're not in the scripts and having that Frida, all
our vans work people are.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
So that was a scripture that I I was trying
to apparently from those to billion that was job. Then wow, sirs,
this is amplify, So I'll read it off.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
But to as many as did receive and welcome how
he gave them right to the authority triple become children
of God. That is, those who believe aren't getting to
hear trust in to rely on this and there are
no chalance, there's no planned parents.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
We were all shool drink right. And I find that
for me is I think are our children even though we.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Call them ours, they're still kid as similar we give
them up to Him in prayer, through trials and tribulations coming,
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But the guys that see that, you don't think.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Those parents, Some of those parents are praying for their kills.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
We personally know someone who's young start went in there
and it's right, and he well, yeah, I can't imagine
if I got the call, you know, Garretts, someone else
was wanting to check in that. That's a tough one, man,
because I want to be able to fix the control
it and take care of it and all that.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Sometimes I can't admit.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
And if they feel think about Michelle and and Sean.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And I'm like, gosh, that's see, how do you cope?
Ten enough? But there were all this childrens.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
So what we portray as parents with our kids, the
love and the protection and the you know, bringing him
up and the way they should go and when they
are old they want to party from it. You know,
as as Christians, we have this amazing love for our children.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Well let's take that to the hand of the daughters.
What love does he have for us? Well?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
That she gave his only sub that whoever both believes
in him shall not perish for them the everlasting love.
It that's how much well he asked. So I guess
in those time, and you know, when you're going through
all this, Garrett sapt we have in order to go.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
To to to fill us, to fill our spirit doesn't
make it easier.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
So do you want to just say f this? You
know I told you that I don't. I don't know
if I could serve the Lord. I don't know if
I would just check out saying a what help me,
I'm done with this?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
But then I don't know what the Holy Spirit's going
to give me during if that should ever have and
during those times, I don't know. You know, you don't
know what's going God, he's a here to behalf in
the heaven least birth that spiritual banion, and.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
You know that's just out take these you're praying. Is
if you know, God to hear the prayers, and we
know that you already have what you pray for.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
But then there's all this spiritual stuff that's going on
as a believer, where Satan's starling enemies or throwing arrows
that gills in the Spearwell, they gotta go to work,
you know, so those prayers can be delivered to you
and answered.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And God's will see bull.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
It's actually talks like Daniel when he prayed and took
twenty one days to answer, and then he was getting up.
The prophet was was being overcome by the army of
this and I can't remember what trapastami is.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
The sais, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Well, was staying next to them, overwhelmed by the fact
that the armies were on the hill. And he said, oh,
his spiritual eyes and will open his spiritual eyes.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
The heavenly hosts were surrounding. They were not going to lose.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yeah, but in the physical he can He saw the army,
and in our physical we see the army. We see
the battle, We see what's.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Going on, and he has no idea what God's deemed
kind of saints.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Ready, God links in every situation, God whims whether we
can accept the answer or accept accept the outcome.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
He's always got wet.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
His will is always excuse me, he's gonna it's gonna happens, right.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Look Philipping's four for rejoice me. He beat me bad.
If somebody who's gonna read it.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Rejoicing the Lord always, I will say it again, rejoice.
Do not be anxious about anything. But in every situation,
my prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to
God the peace of God, which transcends all understanding.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
And then by like this last one finally, Brothers and sisters,
whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever
is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything
that's excellent, praise worthy. Think about such things. But what
do we do when we're faced with the problems. We
think about the problems. We think about, you know, the bills,
or whatever it is people being sick. We think about
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that instead of thinking about Him and his you know,
his power and what he can do. And I don't know,
I heard somebody use this term what weeks ago. I'm
talking about demo toxic positivity.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Have you heard that opposite toxic thoughts stive? Is that
a new one?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Uh, it's fairly new, but but I kind of scoffed
at it because, Uh, there's toxic masculinity and toxic positivity,
like like these traits that are good that down people
are just throwing these lips one like like you encounter
it enough that you have to have a label to use.
I'm like, well, that's you know, that's that's nothing to
wait until you uh run into somebody that has toxic
humility or toxic.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Generosity in me worth, Yeah, that's nast right.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
So so I mean what we're talking about in turning
your thoughts towards the Lord, it's not toxic positivity. It's
not this this insensitive denial of what's happening. But yeah,
I think that's key and what Garret said's key to
being being in the work and having that foundation because
there are times what I feel like I'm in despair,
but what a scripture will come to my mind? So
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I got remind me something a seed that was planted
in my heart a long time ago because I was
in the work, and I know sometimes it's the hardest
thing to do in the moment, just us to go
sit down and read the Bible or look up for
first man, that's uh, that's where the power is, and
that's that's the difference I think between what believers have
and non believers.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
What hope does a non believer have? What can they hope? Then?
What can they look too? Week?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
You know, we know that God is working all things
together for our good. Doesn't mean that what we're going
through is good, but he's working you together and he's
in the business of redeeming situations. And then so we
believe that he's going to redeem it somehow, and it
may not look like what we wanted to look like,
but somehow He's going to work together for For his book,
I found the scriptures.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
It was Elaijah and Elais shaw pri and said open
up his spiritual eyes and then the Lord dud he
saw the Cherion's fire. So that's in the Second Kings anyway. Yeah, Brad,
you know, I look at your listen daily issues that
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you have.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
To deal with. I'm like you know we were talking
earlier too out of you know way do we when
do we give up and just see it? Or do
we give up? O?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
You know, I think of PSB twenty three, and I've
said this before about either way. I walked through the valley,
shadow down the funeral evil because you're a ligand that word.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Truly is passage. We don't steak of those nows. That's
because of what.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
The Lord gives us in our relationship this Yeah, and
so you know I look at you and I yeah,
absolutely say I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, but you do.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
You and Jennifer Dolis definitely clinging the scriptures, you know
about entering our morning into dancing and sewy tears but
reading and joy. You know, we're thinking of those things
that we're still we're still in the valley right now,
but I am confident that some day we won't be
there anymore, and then hopefully we'll be able to encourage others.
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Your golf here, because we're going to go through it.
You know, everybody's going through their your difficult thayments. Let's album,
I don't know, I think it's you know, by Gary
said God or he notes here he knows what we're thinking.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
So for us to be reel it on with him,
he can handle it.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
We don't have to We don't have to dress ourselves
up like it's Sunday morning and we have to give
just smiles, the positive answers. We can be real with
God about how we're feeling and then give it to him.
I mean, how do you how do you lay your
burdens at his feet? Yeah, you speak them, Yes, you
express it and then ask him to help you through it,
you know.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
And that's the scripture about why do you worry about
what you need or what you s'll wear? Because Father
in Heaven already knows what you need prior to you
even going there.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
He knows what our needs are. So when when you
have that that spirit of God.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Inside you, and you can talk and you can reflect,
and you can praise Him in the good times and
hopefully praise Him in the bed as well. But that
that relationship for me, I can never go back to
the old ever again. I can't sure after what I've experienced,
you know.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
And it's it's it is like exercising him must because
when you're working out, you're not necessarily getting bigger or
stronger in that moment, but you will in the long run.
So if I'm in a difficult moment and I'm praying
to the Lord, I mean, sometimes I do get peace immediately.
Sometimes I don't. Sometimes I don't feel different at all.
But I know that by giving that to him, remembering
who he is, what he's done, in the long run,
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is going to build my faith. I'm going to become stronger.
But sometimes in the you know, you're just gonna have
a day of the socks and it's going to be hard.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
But what are you turning to? King Sack?
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I think I might have shared this before, but I
really have revelation the last her kindly had come in.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
And it was one that came right over the top.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Of us, right and and of course, you know you're
every day pulling up the National Weather Service and seeing
the track of that thing business coming and it's going
to come in through the Gulf coast to go over
and come right over.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
So well, and then the Weather channel twenty four second.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh devastated, it's going to be catastrophic.
They show the water level that exactly then, But what
did it do in my brain?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Had created this sense of anxiety, the sense of fear.
Oh my gosh, you gotta get bottled water that's spilled,
the bats over water.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Sure, let's make sure we have can goods because power
is going to be gone for at least a month.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
And you know all these things.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
And I'm not downplaying catastrophes because like the North Carolina
people of Kentucky people a lot. And I'm sitting there
putting up the hurricane shutters and I'm freaking out. I'm
sweating my butt off because it's always the day before
a hurricane, it's like one hundred degrees. And I noticed
there were two Samuel Krans next to me and they
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were just like chilling, and I'm like, they're not all
fired up.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
And then hurricane comes.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
We hunkered down, it goes over, come out the next
day looking for damage and debris, and it's starting to
take everything down.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
It's taking everything down.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I'm cutting my hand on the metal.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Hur hurricane shutters and I just feel gross and nasty.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
And now I got to get everything.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Set back up and so I get back to normal
life and all this. And I look over.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
And there they were again, and I'm going, where did
y'all go for her?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Really and now.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
But you know what they're doing. They're feasting because the
ground is so wet.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
The worms are coming to the top. And they're just
sitting there hammering the ground, chowing down. And I'll went,
I wonder where those two slept during the storm or
where they come down under a tree in a cave.
And the Lord made it work and they're fine, they're unscathed.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
And they just kind of hit me like, well, I
can be out of shape from Gende's not to eat down.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
The worry was there, I can lose all this. They
were like, man, it's time to chow down. The Lord
just provided for us. I turned it out, get out there.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
You know they call them the Rabbi of the skies
in West Texas.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
I don't want praised on Yeah, Samuel Crane, what's acted
in Florida, I guess, But I'm a pop one.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, I want to. I want rib and the sky
on my gril.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
I in West Texas, you could have you had a permit,
you coul hunt those things.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
And I'm never eating. They chased Leila and they kissed
me off. They chase your little dog. Oh yeah, well
they won't move either. Like like they'll stand in the
middle the road and go ahead, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Hit me?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, it's like like Michael with the car washing, like
are you gonna do? Talk at me all you want?
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Well, but that's just a lesson in life is I'm like,
y'all are fine, And you know, I hate the thought
of uh friends whose children then gotten into horrible accidents,
like the young man that's a motorcycle accent that we
went to the hospital with a few months ago as
a father, and it's a ribbage blood that you can't help, right, Yeah,
(31:59):
And I think of all the things Jesus said, how
much enjoyed was Jesus feeling when he looked up to
the heavens and quoted damas sitting flying?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Have you forsaken me? Father Tea? Why? And weeks and Jesus.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Experienced that unsettling thing about being human? And why can't
we lean into him since he's he said it and
filed it himself.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I think, I think sometimes we just have to get
through the moment. I think, so, I don't know, it's again,
I go back to the analogy of the ship. They're anchored,
so they're not really going to go anywhere, but they're
still getting battered by the waves by like like i
may have a day where i just feel like I'm
getting battered around, but I'm not like I'm not moving
away from the Lord. I'm not going to lose my salvation.
(32:46):
But I might have a rough day when stormy seas.
But with that anchor of joy and and you know,
the anchor of the Word and who Jesus is, that's
going to keep me grounded, that's going to keep me
from going you're breaking off and going over the edge.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
I think literally every saying in life is either a
testing of faith or the good things are you know,
a confirmation of faith. But on the testing of faith's side,
you know, you have to be in the words so
that you understand that God's grace is sufficient and it's
not just like a verse you tell people, but there's
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so many examples of faith is what unlocks that grace
and that sufficiency. And he only needs the size of
a mustard seed to work with because you know, we're
supposed to be in full faith, but we're human. But
God can make up the gap in that faith. And
one of my things that I pray over myself a lot.
(33:43):
Is this story from Mark nine, and it kind of
ties in with the grief that you're talking about feeling
as a father with your sons going through something or
whatever it is. But you know, this child was possessed
by it in it for years and years and years.
That obviously browned this guy's faith, you know.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
And like I was talking to the you know, one
of my best friends the other day with him that's
going through this, and he said, this is where I
felt my thing and I want to shoot I know
me too.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
But if you go to this story, what happens is
Jesus said it.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
You know, he's asking Jesus to heal herself to a
statement this is what a curus City's twenty three.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Is the initial question.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
Where he's petitioning Jesus to heal him.
Speaker 6 (34:34):
If you can that, Jesus, if you can, everything is
possible for the one who believes.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
So the belief unlocks the blessing. But then he goes
in curse twenty four and the guy.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
Says, Jesus, I do believe, but help me with my abse.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
So he had a little bit, a little bit of
faith that which was enough for God and it's like
God helped me with with the rest of the rest.
Speaker 9 (34:56):
There's always that gap, yeah, because he can't and then
and then he heal. So I find myself praying that
all the time, like I do believe, because I do,
but there's all these other things that are poken in
to make.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Me not believe. Lord, it will help you with Yes,
you know, I think that that's a knowledge thing. Yeah,
I getnowledge. Yeah, he was a weak. Yeah, so it's
being honest with God. You know, you have faith to him.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
With a God, I think it's being a rock right now.
I needed to come in and it helped me with
this a little bit of unbelief. That's that's creeped to
get just it.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
Uh, you know that that unlocks the he and last
signify confuseans.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Michelle said something and that's an all the group. But
I think you know when they were going through those
came up pret Somatos. She still had her faith, when
she was still a light in that ring.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Called the God.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
I'll never forget when I went to visit them the
first time in the hospital and her daughter was I
walked into Holmes and I was like a praying, Lord,
I'm not sure what him is. Say, I walked in
there was these two bright shining lights staring at me
from their faces and their hearts, and it just lifted.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Me up and my mother and daughter. Yeah, And my
point of that is what your Garrett is there, and
that is that little bit still glows in the side
of us.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
That that little spark emit in the shit I don't below,
it is still there.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
And so there are tones when they had in the
past and my despair and that I'm able to still
share or still bring that spark.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Alive, to be able to go you will love.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Even though I'm going through all this and even though
it sucks and I've turned away from you more, I'm
not following you, that spark was still there and I
still felt.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Just the hand of all the spirit gone through this,
and then.
Speaker 6 (36:54):
That's the powered grace rup there. So what's on your art, guys,
watch sucks right now. I'm not sure what's what you're
bringing to the party right now.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Or maybe it's.
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Trouble with your child, maybe your spouse. Maybe there's something
you feel like you need to be able to fix and.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Control, like Mike Thomas Houston.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
And uh, you know, it's it's kind of cool for
me sitting here with my own son and that I'm
like taking notes on some of the things he says,
because that is a gift of God. And I know
you've been drew to some valleys lately, and then just
as we all go through those seasons, oh and you're not.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Feeling the joy? It means, what's the best.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Way just to reset to start understanding what the joy
of Christ truly means?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
And we just hope it thinks about that then as
you're working through your week.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
But I'll guest, dear friends, and horrific things the past
couple of years and now very recently within the last weeks.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
I have here, sometimes I just will up. It just
was scream yeah, and that's all right.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
So that you said David screamed all ton of He
always brought it after the screaming, and he brought it.
And so hold on, you got a brother, you can
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Speaker 1 (38:19):
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Speaker 6 (38:21):
Didn't and continue the conversation, how the town and all
joy going, George is stup seem like he's there. So
we're only a few days away from Matthew West going
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Speaker 1 (38:42):
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Speaker 5 (38:50):
We have raffles.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
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Speaker 6 (38:57):
We're raising money for three things I wouldn't and the
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Some that's a mandly bang. So we are going to
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bucks and all the proceeds from that are going to
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Speaker 7 (39:26):
You know, we have seventy five thousand veterans in Gabar County.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Combind that with the active duty people.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
There's over one hundred thousand military people near our County,
and some of them have major problems.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Putting it on China getting their benefits and all Blood.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
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Speaker 1 (39:51):
Three the Celtech gun Raffle. Then then for our friends.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
At Amigos Increase Though our missionary partner in war is
they service the children in the impoverished parts of wars
in Mexico. And we are actually having a mission trip
we're going to be taking with a group of men
in October. I know at least three of us at
this time. We're gonna be going, hopefully the fourth we'll
be sitting right there around Cheffy to Chefy as well,
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Speaker 1 (40:21):
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Speaker 6 (40:25):
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Speaker 7 (41:29):
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Speaker 6 (41:51):
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to take guys in worlds and tents.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Basically, who I hear is the tame, The tame you
want to
Yo, what are you doing right now?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We are going to get real about men's issues, who
Jesus is and who we are as men in Christ.
We're gonna hear Trey, Jeremy, Michael and Brad break it down.
These guys call themselves the cousin Christians.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
All right, guys, what is going on through a head shot?
Years ago?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I got a speeding ticket, and you know, I've gone
through those things where you have to sit and listen
to the state trooper Orribia, the laws and all that
craft for like six hours and it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I went to one of.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
These comedy driving schools, which is great. They had it
like in the back room of the Denny's this oh yeah,
oh wow. This guy was a stand up comedian and
all he was doing was going through and just reading
the material, but he would kind of add his own
jokes to it. But this guy didn't have to do
much because we had a crazy lady in our group
and she would make these bizarre comments, like he'd be
reading something and she'd say something that is totally just
(00:59):
didn't make sense, and he would just look at the
rest of us like you wouldn't say anything. He would
stop you look at us like like did you just
hear that? And we were all cracking up, and this
leady had no idea that we were laughing at her,
Like she thought she was funny, but she was just
so off base and untinged and weird.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And he would just look at us like solarious. Yeah
it's funny. So Halidy comedy driving schools a way to
go if you couldn't take it.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I had a year Karen screaming me at carl Ossyester,
maybe because she supposedly was. There was like fifty cars
trying to get through the history Karashi and how they
have three.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
She's screaming me because I go through.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I got an automatic thing, so I just go through.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And she figured she was there before me.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
But she had to pay, so I go through the pilot.
I said that I'm up.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
She's screaming academy like over a arm. Yeah are you kidding?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Any back up? And yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Give and give her the spot in front of me.
There was like fifty cars waiting to get in.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I'm like, I mean people are just lost through ever
eleven nights now, huh.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
What was the last time someone flipps you and Barry
while you're driving.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It happens to me all the time. Flipping no, just kidding. Anyway,
I had a guy coming off. It was over by Orland,
you know the Parmer lines that looked like Mickey Mouse.
I got him in the shade out right there, that
off raft. He's coming off and I'm in the right light.
I can't go anywhere, and he.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Flipped hogs and flips me off because he's merging in before.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
But it's my fault because I'm in the right lane
and he couldn't get out.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And it was how I was like that The stuff
I see on the road, guys and Mitch just blow
your mind.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
That the Ignor episode he sign out works, you gotta
do this, it's actual.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Yeah, look up the definition of ye right.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I was driving back to Orlando one day on five
twenty eight. Then it was open road. Dude in the
right lane, he was going to the speed limit. I
was going, you know, fifteen miles over and left lane,
and for no reason, he starts to east to get
over into the left lane.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He thought there's nobody in front of him.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
He's going slow, and I didn't yield like I just
kind of kept going and so he had this word
back over the right lane and he flips me.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Off, like, dude, nobody, you're right pasting lay. Yeah. I
was in the passing lane. I was going faster than head.
It was obvious. So I don't know. I don't know
where people.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Were that the passing lane is for eighty five miles
an hour. It's not for seven, right, the right lane
is for seven.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, And for some reason, people in the United States
are are just obstinate, Like we drive to Jacksonville a lot,
and people will not get out of that left lane.
But when we were in Europe, like we're in Germany,
people they have no problems over then. Like I drove
on the Autobahn, Oh, that was which was amazing. I
was going like one hundred and thirty and I looked
at my view ear and some dude was flying up
behind me. I don't know what he was doing, but
(03:44):
he was about to run me over. So I got
over as quickly as I could. And you just don't
see that in America. People just want to they.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Want to ride in the big boy lane and go
go seventy three. So I got okay, So I got
a question.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Let's let's let's let's take that scenario and let's go
back two thousand tire all right, nothing with okay, Jesus
and the Apostles, or walking from like Bethlehem to in
the left lane to to to Jerusalem it's twenty five
twenty six miles or whatever it is. Are they complaining
(04:17):
about the traffic if there's slow people alive light?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Are some people walking? Want to know the people on
the donkeys are bitching at them because they're that's what
it is, okay. Or if you have a trailer, you're
pulling yo Jews, get in the right leane. Kind of
donkey coming through. Donkey here on the flane, don't get hi.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
I just wonder if they had, if they had these
conversations around dinner table that night. You know, I was
walking from Bethany to through the Sheep's Gate and it's
it's three miles, and you know how Londa took me
to walk three miles. It took me seven hours because
of the idiots in front of you walking through in
the left lane in the left leg with a guy
on the donkey yelling and what would be the quote
(05:00):
of a Karen back then call would be like a
Miriam or so they're like, here's this Miriam in the
left leg.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, that's right, we'd get out of the way. Yeah,
the shorten air, what does them be? That thing mean?
I don't know what the middle finger means? What does
that mean? Do you know what the real what that
really means? I think I got golting gears on. But
Michael's got all the his story that his stor golle.
He found out the meaning of the word ship that
fantasy store high to try and transit.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah, anyway, because they don't will it would run it anyway?
The medium back in the sixteen seventh, fifteen, sixteenth century,
when they used.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
To do bows and arrows, well, they would the arch
they cut this finger off archer so they could not
call their bowl match if they got well what the enemy,
if they got captured, if they got captured. So they
cut it off.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
And so what that turned into was ha, ha, I
still have this fata fer and you gotta be called dude.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Where do you find this stuff? It's true, It's interesting
though it is I still have this fingers. So they
would show it really and it was kind of a
I can still shooting you, right, Yeah, I still have,
and it's now turned in the fuh my gosh, the
originations of the daily gestures and cuss words that we
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say to that missus Cheffy. Cheffy is a busy man.
And all the people that are looking for mister West Virginia.
He we be back with us next week. We got
Garrett sitting there, uh to join us. And some has
been on my heart, and you and I talked about it.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
There's some things that are going on in all of
our lives.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
And I keep thinking of Natalie's song counted all joy
right and rejoice in our suffering romans, which you know,
uh howbou was trumpet out loud when up things are happening.
To me, God's working everything together for the greater good,
and good, bad and ugly is I'll going to come
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together for the greater good.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
But goes to soon. Sometimes I'm not. I'm not in
the enjoy season, right man? What do we do? We
got We got got two common friends, no names, you
know me. It was one's on his deathbed and ork
so dear but dearly loved.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Got another one that you know, Garrett and I know
very well, Aristonum since he was like seven years old,
probably Garrett how to swim.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And he calls and he's got cancer.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
This guy is a ordained minister and uh one of
the most joyous people I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I get the called and he's got this rear for
all of a cancer, and and all of a sudden,
I don't feel joyful.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
And I know we've talked about our feelings versus truth
and all that, but as the Christians, as we walk,
I just always feel like.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
The times that suck out number of the times I
feel joy I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Does that mean sense to you?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, I think we counted more when it's because in
our pain point you seem to have it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Affect us when we walk through. Garrett, by the way,
you a son, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
That you can turn to me or so I think
when you're in pain and steal it boring and if
you want to go to youth, feel it with you.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
You want to be able to, uh like, yes, justify
your pain so you kind of rally the troops. And
me think it's you know, I've got a friend that's
whose sons being the little nasty cancer now too.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Just she's an amazing warrior of God. And that's I
guess how do we how do we fight it? How
do we fight the goodle drums.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
And the lack of joy?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I mean I had you talked about this, I think yesterday,
and I said, are a lot of people just waiting
for the other shoe to drop? We just is that
how we walk walk lives? As far as a relationship
with Oh, this is going to happen. So I'm just
gonna wait till the shoe drives? How do we fight?
And then those Arabs?
Speaker 6 (09:09):
What are the weapons of our warfware as believers to
get through these times?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
While we were asking God, really, why is this that?
Why are you allowing this? T as I don't realize
these did said we here seeing is a set and
he steals our joe? So how do we? How do
we all to count?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Speak?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well? As far as what to do?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Writing Psalms on forty two, where David says, why so downcast,
but my soul wife is so disturbed within me, put
your hope in God, for I will get prese and
my savior, my God. And then it's forty two, verse
five and songs my soul is downcast with then be
therefore I will remember you from the land in the
Jordany the Heights of Earning. So I mean, David, would
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you know you would remember if I can't remember when
God did delivery?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I'm the good God did you things.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I feel like we talked about the difference between happiness
and joy, like happiness is more of a temporary thing
based on feelings.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Whatever's happening right now, be happy.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Joy is more of a a biding and I think
of it as more of an anchor, And it's like
the ship might still me blown around, but you still
have an anchor, like you're still not So I feel
like joy is going to keep me from going completely
into despair. But I had a day last week I
felt and I'm joy, And I felt like I would
be delusional if I said I had joy today because
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I don't know. It's like I'm just not feeling and
it's it's reality. And you have Jesus talking about in
this like duringless world, you'll have trouble and take card
I've overcome the world. So for me, it's it's remembering
and trying to turn my focus back to God and
who he is. But still we're still going to have
the feeling. Some days there's still going to be those
days where you just feel like everything sucks and you
(10:55):
don't know what to do, but I.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Don't want to get out of bed. Right, I've had that,
you know. You and I talked yesterday about your fam
what is worthly emotions that you've gone to list this.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Particular I called him immediately. I hear it and I
could not believe it. It was a crazy thing. I uh,
I had it in my calendar. It was his birthday
about I'm going to go And on that day, I
had about three hours and I just needed a chill
and a movie came on.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
It's called from Love of the Game, Kevin Costa, You score.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
I watched Hilly Chapel right, and that movie was significant
in my life because this young man that I hired
with my company, I was training.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
He was in training with me and something happened and
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Movie as at a movie theater. So we played hooky
from work to go watch that movie.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Yeah, well I'm nuts and he's one of the most
inspirational guys out there novels, he said, I was, and
that movie was on Netflix, so I started watching it.
I texted him, I said, hey, dude, have your birthday
look when I'm watching. I took a snapshot of Billy
che Apple from the from the back. He's like, you know,
ready to start his pitch right clear Remember clear.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Acon's one of the best lines ever. But his prayer
was his prayer was better to remember.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
At the end he goes he said, Lord, I know
you could care less about the ball games.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I could even care less about what's about to happen
the gear.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
But if you could just make this pain go away
for about ten minutes in my shoulder, I sure would appreciate.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
That's but anyway, Drew right, he broke the news to him.
He said, Man, I'm sorry for another touch. I need
to let you know something. And it it there ain't
no joy in that, right. And I think about a
common friend we have.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
This mother is staring at her son that's in hospice
right now, and what do you say to this person?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
No, he's about to go to a better place or
some ship like that, right, you know?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
And how do they we we walk through this minefield
of life in our our culture, the Western culture is
just so got to have it all, have it now,
be happy now, instant gratification and all these other things
we don't look at the big picture enough. And when
the tragedies happen, boom, this yever gets in between your
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ears and make you start and dialate.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And God truly is you know, the joy of the
Lord is our strength. But then we don't. Sometimes we
don't have joy.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
So where does that that that strength come from to
be able to go through beyond the next chemo or
the next time.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
You know, X ray or whatever it is that they're
knowing through I just.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
That that scripture you I've kind of all joy when
you go.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Through various trials. But now.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
But as an unbeliever, as an unbeliever.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
They have none of that right now, right so the
depths of.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Their soul doesn't have that relationship with.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Christ to be able to And I think in those times,
and I truly believe this, that the Holy Spirit gives
you immeasurable.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And non strength and love and support when you go
through those times. I truly believe it.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
You know, speaking of the couple that's in our small group,
and you know they they yeah, she went through the
night ere her daughter having cancer, right and they're on
the backside of it now and then things are looking
great and just having can The conversations with hers so
enlightening to me, because you know, you.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Read the scripture count this joy when you go through it.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Well, I don't have to feel the joy right right
because she you.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Know, everyone's got great intentions, and everyone's caring and loving
and wanna and you know I've and I've heard her
say and someone else.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Like sometimes I just want people to show up.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Yeah, And you know, I just I don't want to
here are the questions. I don't want to feel that anymore.
My mind's tired, I'm worrying about it anyway. I don't
feel like I need to explain it anymore. We have
a common friend that just wrote a book called Conversations
with Miscarriage. I might have mentioned it in a podcast
or two, but Alex is an amazing woman who has
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been through two and she had finally had a beautiful
baby that was a struggle for her to have, and
she through those two miscarriages. She captured her thoughts and
put it in this book, Conversation Less Carriage, and I
was reading part of it this morning. It just so
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much of it rings true about what we experience, and
it's okay to say sometimes one time I just shut
down a lot, right.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
It's okay to feel that, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
One of the things I appreciate about this Solves is
that Dame, it spends a lot of time saying, God,
where are you?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Like, like, yeah, he's honest with the despair.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Like when he was hiding in a cave and he
was on the run, you know from Saul and again hiss.
He talks about his bones you know, or sticking out,
and he's he's sick, and he's all this, all these
different things. So he was very honest, Like he didn't
just say buck up, buddy, like you know, I've enjoyed
all things.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Like he was.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
He was giving air to to how he felt. But
then he does always resolve.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
He always does resolve back to you know, a Riiseo guy,
you you know, deliver me from my end, right, So
he comes back to that. But like like you were saying,
I think sometimes when we gloss over the pain and
just say, hey, they're going to be in a better place,
and that's not that's not helpful. So yeah, if you
just have a you'd be able listening air to say, man,
I'm sorry you're doing through that.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I know that's tough.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
I know that stuff, and you can pray with them
and maybe later come back and say, you know, guy's
gonna work this together.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But it's not.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Always the thing to say in the alt right. So yeah, dummy, David.
I just find comfort in reading the song.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Because and then there's so many times he is he
is wailing in on you know, he's grolling.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
What do you like?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
So it's just Faul talks about our spirit. If we
don't know how to pray and we're under the spirit,
our spirit grows for as suiting to the Lord in privet,
and I think that's a good lesson to learn and
try to rip them for It's okay to growth. Sure,
life sucks, and right, it's okay to growl. Yeah, and
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everybody talks about my faith is a relationship you know
with God or a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Do you mentioned that? But then you have to ask
yourself are you are you.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Being honest with God as your relationship?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Are you giving him everything?
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Because you know, if it's a true relationship, then you
ought to be able to give him those or the
troubles and be able to have an honest conversation about
how you're feeling and telling God's going to get mad
at you for being mad as feeling his emotions right,
think it's better to let them out. And David's a
perfect example of like, that's a true giving tape relationship
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with God that he's exercising every part, you know.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
And then the other piece that to that relationship is
we need to be hearing.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
From God as well.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
So when he's giving all of our concerns, giving him
our anger, ask you know, asking, well, I be grely
honest about how we're feeling, because who knows how you
feel anyway.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
But then also you need to proceed the knowledge from him.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
And what I've discovered is the level ife I didn't
get into whares cons we used to be in the words,
so that we're we're so.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Knowledgeable about how we are living in.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
A spiritual world.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
That's going to give us the understanding that okay, you know,
the joy is is coming.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
It's on the other side.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
And then su we lived here, you know, while we're
here going through all our peace states.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
But you're not going to get that, you know, if
you're not in the scripts and having that Frida, all
our vans work people are.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
So that was a scripture that I I was trying
to apparently from those to billion that was job. Then wow, sirs,
this is amplify, So I'll read it off.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
But to as many as did receive and welcome how
he gave them right to the authority triple become children
of God. That is, those who believe aren't getting to
hear trust in to rely on this and there are
no chalance, there's no planned parents.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
We were all shool drink right. And I find that
for me is I think are our children even though we.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Call them ours, they're still kid as similar we give
them up to Him in prayer, through trials and tribulations coming,
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But the guys that see that, you don't think.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Those parents, Some of those parents are praying for their kills.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
We personally know someone who's young start went in there
and it's right, and he well, yeah, I can't imagine
if I got the call, you know, Garretts, someone else
was wanting to check in that. That's a tough one, man,
because I want to be able to fix the control
it and take care of it and all that.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Sometimes I can't admit.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
And if they feel think about Michelle and and Sean.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And I'm like, gosh, that's see, how do you cope?
Ten enough? But there were all this childrens.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
So what we portray as parents with our kids, the
love and the protection and the you know, bringing him
up and the way they should go and when they
are old they want to party from it. You know,
as as Christians, we have this amazing love for our children.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Well let's take that to the hand of the daughters.
What love does he have for us? Well?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
That she gave his only sub that whoever both believes
in him shall not perish for them the everlasting love.
It that's how much well he asked. So I guess
in those time, and you know, when you're going through
all this, Garrett sapt we have in order to go.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
To to to fill us, to fill our spirit doesn't
make it easier.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
So do you want to just say f this? You
know I told you that I don't. I don't know
if I could serve the Lord. I don't know if
I would just check out saying a what help me,
I'm done with this?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
But then I don't know what the Holy Spirit's going
to give me during if that should ever have and
during those times, I don't know. You know, you don't
know what's going God, he's a here to behalf in
the heaven least birth that spiritual banion, and.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
You know that's just out take these you're praying. Is
if you know, God to hear the prayers, and we
know that you already have what you pray for.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
But then there's all this spiritual stuff that's going on
as a believer, where Satan's starling enemies or throwing arrows
that gills in the Spearwell, they gotta go to work,
you know, so those prayers can be delivered to you
and answered.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And God's will see bull.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
It's actually talks like Daniel when he prayed and took
twenty one days to answer, and then he was getting up.
The prophet was was being overcome by the army of
this and I can't remember what trapastami is.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
The sais, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Well, was staying next to them, overwhelmed by the fact
that the armies were on the hill. And he said, oh,
his spiritual eyes and will open his spiritual eyes.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
The heavenly hosts were surrounding. They were not going to lose.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Yeah, but in the physical he can He saw the army,
and in our physical we see the army. We see
the battle, We see what's.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Going on, and he has no idea what God's deemed
kind of saints.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Ready, God links in every situation, God whims whether we
can accept the answer or accept accept the outcome.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
He's always got wet.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
His will is always excuse me, he's gonna it's gonna happens, right.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Look Philipping's four for rejoice me. He beat me bad.
If somebody who's gonna read it.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Rejoicing the Lord always, I will say it again, rejoice.
Do not be anxious about anything. But in every situation,
my prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to
God the peace of God, which transcends all understanding.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
And then by like this last one finally, Brothers and sisters,
whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever
is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything
that's excellent, praise worthy. Think about such things. But what
do we do when we're faced with the problems. We
think about the problems. We think about, you know, the bills,
or whatever it is people being sick. We think about
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that instead of thinking about Him and his you know,
his power and what he can do. And I don't know,
I heard somebody use this term what weeks ago. I'm
talking about demo toxic positivity.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Have you heard that opposite toxic thoughts stive? Is that
a new one?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Uh, it's fairly new, but but I kind of scoffed
at it because, Uh, there's toxic masculinity and toxic positivity,
like like these traits that are good that down people
are just throwing these lips one like like you encounter
it enough that you have to have a label to use.
I'm like, well, that's you know, that's that's nothing to
wait until you uh run into somebody that has toxic
humility or toxic.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Generosity in me worth, Yeah, that's nast right.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
So so I mean what we're talking about in turning
your thoughts towards the Lord, it's not toxic positivity. It's
not this this insensitive denial of what's happening. But yeah,
I think that's key and what Garret said's key to
being being in the work and having that foundation because
there are times what I feel like I'm in despair,
but what a scripture will come to my mind? So
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I got remind me something a seed that was planted
in my heart a long time ago because I was
in the work, and I know sometimes it's the hardest
thing to do in the moment, just us to go
sit down and read the Bible or look up for
first man, that's uh, that's where the power is, and
that's that's the difference I think between what believers have
and non believers.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
What hope does a non believer have? What can they hope? Then?
What can they look too? Week?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
You know, we know that God is working all things
together for our good. Doesn't mean that what we're going
through is good, but he's working you together and he's
in the business of redeeming situations. And then so we
believe that he's going to redeem it somehow, and it
may not look like what we wanted to look like,
but somehow He's going to work together for For his book,
I found the scriptures.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
It was Elaijah and Elais shaw pri and said open
up his spiritual eyes and then the Lord dud he
saw the Cherion's fire. So that's in the Second Kings anyway. Yeah, Brad,
you know, I look at your listen daily issues that
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you have.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
To deal with. I'm like you know we were talking
earlier too out of you know way do we when
do we give up and just see it? Or do
we give up? O?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
You know, I think of PSB twenty three, and I've
said this before about either way. I walked through the valley,
shadow down the funeral evil because you're a ligand that word.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Truly is passage. We don't steak of those nows. That's
because of what.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
The Lord gives us in our relationship this Yeah, and
so you know I look at you and I yeah,
absolutely say I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, but you do.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
You and Jennifer Dolis definitely clinging the scriptures, you know
about entering our morning into dancing and sewy tears but
reading and joy. You know, we're thinking of those things
that we're still we're still in the valley right now,
but I am confident that some day we won't be
there anymore, and then hopefully we'll be able to encourage others.
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Your golf here, because we're going to go through it.
You know, everybody's going through their your difficult thayments. Let's album,
I don't know, I think it's you know, by Gary
said God or he notes here he knows what we're thinking.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
So for us to be reel it on with him,
he can handle it.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
We don't have to We don't have to dress ourselves
up like it's Sunday morning and we have to give
just smiles, the positive answers. We can be real with
God about how we're feeling and then give it to him.
I mean, how do you how do you lay your
burdens at his feet? Yeah, you speak them, Yes, you
express it and then ask him to help you through it,
you know.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
And that's the scripture about why do you worry about
what you need or what you s'll wear? Because Father
in Heaven already knows what you need prior to you
even going there.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
He knows what our needs are. So when when you
have that that spirit of God.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Inside you, and you can talk and you can reflect,
and you can praise Him in the good times and
hopefully praise Him in the bed as well. But that
that relationship for me, I can never go back to
the old ever again. I can't sure after what I've experienced,
you know.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
And it's it's it is like exercising him must because
when you're working out, you're not necessarily getting bigger or
stronger in that moment, but you will in the long run.
So if I'm in a difficult moment and I'm praying
to the Lord, I mean, sometimes I do get peace immediately.
Sometimes I don't. Sometimes I don't feel different at all.
But I know that by giving that to him, remembering
who he is, what he's done, in the long run,
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is going to build my faith. I'm going to become stronger.
But sometimes in the you know, you're just gonna have
a day of the socks and it's going to be hard.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
But what are you turning to? King Sack?
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I think I might have shared this before, but I
really have revelation the last her kindly had come in.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
And it was one that came right over the top.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Of us, right and and of course, you know you're
every day pulling up the National Weather Service and seeing
the track of that thing business coming and it's going
to come in through the Gulf coast to go over
and come right over.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
So well, and then the Weather channel twenty four second.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh devastated, it's going to be catastrophic.
They show the water level that exactly then, But what
did it do in my brain?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Had created this sense of anxiety, the sense of fear.
Oh my gosh, you gotta get bottled water that's spilled,
the bats over water.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Sure, let's make sure we have can goods because power
is going to be gone for at least a month.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
And you know all these things.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
And I'm not downplaying catastrophes because like the North Carolina
people of Kentucky people a lot. And I'm sitting there
putting up the hurricane shutters and I'm freaking out. I'm
sweating my butt off because it's always the day before
a hurricane, it's like one hundred degrees. And I noticed
there were two Samuel Krans next to me and they
(29:41):
were just like chilling, and I'm like, they're not all
fired up.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
And then hurricane comes.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
We hunkered down, it goes over, come out the next
day looking for damage and debris, and it's starting to
take everything down.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
It's taking everything down.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I'm cutting my hand on the metal.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
Hur hurricane shutters and I just feel gross and nasty.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
And now I got to get everything.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
Set back up and so I get back to normal
life and all this. And I look over.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
And there they were again, and I'm going, where did
y'all go for her?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Really and now.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
But you know what they're doing. They're feasting because the
ground is so wet.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
The worms are coming to the top. And they're just
sitting there hammering the ground, chowing down. And I'll went,
I wonder where those two slept during the storm or
where they come down under a tree in a cave.
And the Lord made it work and they're fine, they're unscathed.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
And they just kind of hit me like, well, I
can be out of shape from Gende's not to eat down.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
The worry was there, I can lose all this. They
were like, man, it's time to chow down. The Lord
just provided for us. I turned it out, get out there.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
You know they call them the Rabbi of the skies
in West Texas.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
I don't want praised on Yeah, Samuel Crane, what's acted
in Florida, I guess, But I'm a pop one.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, I want to. I want rib and the sky
on my gril.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
I in West Texas, you could have you had a permit,
you coul hunt those things.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
And I'm never eating. They chased Leila and they kissed
me off. They chase your little dog. Oh yeah, well
they won't move either. Like like they'll stand in the
middle the road and go ahead, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 6 (31:28):
Hit me?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, it's like like Michael with the car washing, like
are you gonna do? Talk at me all you want?
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Well, but that's just a lesson in life is I'm like,
y'all are fine, And you know, I hate the thought
of uh friends whose children then gotten into horrible accidents,
like the young man that's a motorcycle accent that we
went to the hospital with a few months ago as
a father, and it's a ribbage blood that you can't help, right, Yeah,
(31:59):
And I think of all the things Jesus said, how
much enjoyed was Jesus feeling when he looked up to
the heavens and quoted damas sitting flying?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Have you forsaken me? Father Tea? Why? And weeks and Jesus.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Experienced that unsettling thing about being human? And why can't
we lean into him since he's he said it and
filed it himself.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I think, I think sometimes we just have to get
through the moment. I think, so, I don't know, it's again,
I go back to the analogy of the ship. They're anchored,
so they're not really going to go anywhere, but they're
still getting battered by the waves by like like i
may have a day where i just feel like I'm
getting battered around, but I'm not like I'm not moving
away from the Lord. I'm not going to lose my salvation.
(32:46):
But I might have a rough day when stormy seas.
But with that anchor of joy and and you know,
the anchor of the Word and who Jesus is, that's
going to keep me grounded, that's going to keep me
from going you're breaking off and going over the edge.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
I think literally every saying in life is either a
testing of faith or the good things are you know,
a confirmation of faith. But on the testing of faith's side,
you know, you have to be in the words so
that you understand that God's grace is sufficient and it's
not just like a verse you tell people, but there's
(33:21):
so many examples of faith is what unlocks that grace
and that sufficiency. And he only needs the size of
a mustard seed to work with because you know, we're
supposed to be in full faith, but we're human. But
God can make up the gap in that faith. And
one of my things that I pray over myself a lot.
(33:43):
Is this story from Mark nine, and it kind of
ties in with the grief that you're talking about feeling
as a father with your sons going through something or
whatever it is. But you know, this child was possessed
by it in it for years and years and years.
That obviously browned this guy's faith, you know.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
And like I was talking to the you know, one
of my best friends the other day with him that's
going through this, and he said, this is where I
felt my thing and I want to shoot I know
me too.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
But if you go to this story, what happens is
Jesus said it.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
You know, he's asking Jesus to heal herself to a
statement this is what a curus City's twenty three.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Is the initial question.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
Where he's petitioning Jesus to heal him.
Speaker 6 (34:34):
If you can that, Jesus, if you can, everything is
possible for the one who believes.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
So the belief unlocks the blessing. But then he goes
in curse twenty four and the guy.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
Says, Jesus, I do believe, but help me with my abse.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
So he had a little bit, a little bit of
faith that which was enough for God and it's like
God helped me with with the rest of the rest.
Speaker 9 (34:56):
There's always that gap, yeah, because he can't and then
and then he heal. So I find myself praying that
all the time, like I do believe, because I do,
but there's all these other things that are poken in
to make.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Me not believe. Lord, it will help you with Yes,
you know, I think that that's a knowledge thing. Yeah,
I getnowledge. Yeah, he was a weak. Yeah, so it's
being honest with God. You know, you have faith to him.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
With a God, I think it's being a rock right now.
I needed to come in and it helped me with
this a little bit of unbelief. That's that's creeped to
get just it.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
Uh, you know that that unlocks the he and last
signify confuseans.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Michelle said something and that's an all the group. But
I think you know when they were going through those
came up pret Somatos. She still had her faith, when
she was still a light in that ring.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Called the God.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
I'll never forget when I went to visit them the
first time in the hospital and her daughter was I
walked into Holmes and I was like a praying, Lord,
I'm not sure what him is. Say, I walked in
there was these two bright shining lights staring at me
from their faces and their hearts, and it just lifted.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Me up and my mother and daughter. Yeah, And my
point of that is what your Garrett is there, and
that is that little bit still glows in the side
of us.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
That that little spark emit in the shit I don't below,
it is still there.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
And so there are tones when they had in the
past and my despair and that I'm able to still
share or still bring that spark.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Alive, to be able to go you will love.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Even though I'm going through all this and even though
it sucks and I've turned away from you more, I'm
not following you, that spark was still there and I
still felt.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Just the hand of all the spirit gone through this,
and then.
Speaker 6 (36:54):
That's the powered grace rup there. So what's on your art, guys,
watch sucks right now. I'm not sure what's what you're
bringing to the party right now.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Or maybe it's.
Speaker 6 (37:04):
Trouble with your child, maybe your spouse. Maybe there's something
you feel like you need to be able to fix and.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Control, like Mike Thomas Houston.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
And uh, you know, it's it's kind of cool for
me sitting here with my own son and that I'm
like taking notes on some of the things he says,
because that is a gift of God. And I know
you've been drew to some valleys lately, and then just
as we all go through those seasons, oh and you're not.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Feeling the joy? It means, what's the best.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Way just to reset to start understanding what the joy
of Christ truly means?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
And we just hope it thinks about that then as
you're working through your week.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
But I'll guest, dear friends, and horrific things the past
couple of years and now very recently within the last weeks.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
I have here, sometimes I just will up. It just
was scream yeah, and that's all right.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
So that you said David screamed all ton of He
always brought it after the screaming, and he brought it.
And so hold on, you got a brother, you can
give a call to give a shout out, to shoot
us an email on our brother.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
The support pays on our website. Booed, look here if I.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Didn't and continue the conversation, how the town and all
joy going, George is stup seem like he's there. So
we're only a few days away from Matthew West going
to be at the King Center. There's a few tickets left,
so please get on board the next two or three
days and come join us Melbourne, Florida the Grace Experience.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
The video just came out. It looks phenomenal from mister
Brad right here. People have lined up to help us
fund tonight.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
We have raffles.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
So here's the deal. We're going to put it in
the YouTube description.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
We're raising money for three things I wouldn't and the
three raffles are this. It's called guns tanks at Harley's
Some that's a mandly bang. So we are going to
be raffling off a gift from the Celtech gun company
right here in Melbourne. It's a P seventeen series candgun
and twenty dollars a ticket. Six tickets for one hundred
(39:20):
bucks and all the proceeds from that are going to
go to the a VET Project to help them out
with their initiation.
Speaker 7 (39:26):
You know, we have seventy five thousand veterans in Gabar County.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Combind that with the active duty people.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
There's over one hundred thousand military people near our County,
and some of them have major problems.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Putting it on China getting their benefits and all Blood.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
And a Vet Project is going to be the recipients
of some of the funding for their doctor profit.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Three the Celtech gun Raffle. Then then for our friends.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
At Amigos Increase Though our missionary partner in war is
they service the children in the impoverished parts of wars
in Mexico. And we are actually having a mission trip
we're going to be taking with a group of men
in October. I know at least three of us at
this time. We're gonna be going, hopefully the fourth we'll
be sitting right there around Cheffy to Chefy as well,
(40:17):
but we're gonna be going October eleventh, and all that's
about to come out on our email newsletter.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
But their raffle is.
Speaker 6 (40:25):
A basic training package to Tank America, so you can
you and three friends can go get learn how to
drive an avid tank and go crush stuff, go run
over cars and everything else. And then the last raffle,
it's for the Cedar Rescue Mission Men's and Women's Rescue
Mission raffling off a Harley dates and.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
All the raffle tickets are twenty bucks ticket, so check
that out. Come see us with Matthew West.
Speaker 6 (40:53):
We got some amazing entertainment for that night, and we
we think a pretty amazing message of.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Bricks and we would love you to join us. It's
only a few days.
Speaker 6 (41:01):
From now, so check it out king center dot com.
All right, I just got the advertising them we call.
Speaker 5 (41:07):
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Speaker 1 (41:09):
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Speaker 7 (41:11):
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Speaker 6 (41:13):
Give us a like and a share on Instagram, Facebook,
follow us, subscribe to us on YouTube, fotter. Give us
your thoughts on these podcasts and where we'll go in
the message. We did them, but we try to discover
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next time.
Speaker 7 (41:29):
Bro, mister West, Virginia is gonna beat back in the
studio next time.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
But until then, I'm training. I'm Michael, I'm Brad, I'm Garrett.
We are the customer mistus snook. Good to move, Good
to have you, Garrett. Then let's just follow you. Love
your hear for a half. Want to drive a work
card And then and then they have another one that
machine gum, But I see I can shoot them. That'd
be cool, that's fun.
Speaker 6 (41:51):
Yeah, don't see fury, great mess, Oh my gosh, about
to take guys in worlds and tents.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Basically, who I hear is the tame, The tame you
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