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I was at a great event
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Fantastic.
We the people.
I'll tell you a little bit
more about it after we get
done with the devotional.
But make sure you prepare
your Bible for 1 John 5, 13 through 15.
1 John 5, 13 through 15.
We'll be reading that in
just a little bit.
Weren't there five comments
I know this for?
That may have happened, I think.
How does it happen?
Can comments disappear?
I think maybe they can delete them, maybe.
Oh, okay.
It depends on the platform.
I'm not quite sure.
Do you want to go to those right now?
Is that what you're saying?
No, just wondering.
Oh, I'm too late.
I'm already going to say hi
to Kelly Elliott.
How are you?
Hi, Kelly.
All the way from Florida.
Kevin Kramus.
Why did I say Kramus?
I don't know.
I don't know either.
Kramus.
I saw him earlier on my rant
on my live broadcast from my truck.
People love my rant from my truck.
Really?
Yeah.
I can't.
I just can't.
The libs really love it.
I take a couple minutes.
I listen to a couple minutes
and then I just... You're
married to me and you love me.
I know.
I love you.
This morning was really good.
You should need to go back
and listen to the replay.
Watch out for former Fenton Muslims.
That's a good title for my
That is really good.
Former Fenton Muslim.
Yes.
Hedi Amir Mahdi.
Chalco Jimenez.
Yes.
Kelly says,
I can't believe you would be
considered dangerous.
We love your podcast.
I know.
It literally says that.
Well,
the communist Jesus lovers are dangerous.
And Kevin says my truck rants are great.
Thank you, Kevin.
I think Kevin loves me a
little bit more than you love me.
No, it has nothing to do with love.
What does it have to do with?
It has to do with just flavors.
You know, it's just like,
do I not love you?
Because I don't love peanut
butter chocolate ice cream.
No.
You just, you love that stuff.
I'm just not a fan.
Well,
the libs come on and start commenting.
None of them came on today.
I think they've learned their lesson,
but they used to come on
and comment and then they got grilled.
All right.
We're going to be going to A.W.
Tozer for the Christian Leader.
and it is april 22nd the
title is two conditions
must be met two conditions
first this is slightly
controversial I think I'm
curious to see what people
will say all right I don't
know remember we want your
comments so uh first john 5
14 is uh aw's reference
here and he says and this
is the confidence that we
have in him that if we ask
any thing according to his
will he heareth us
When we go to God with a
request that he modifies
the existing situation for us,
that is that he answers
prayer that are two
conditions that we must meet.
That's a difficult sentence.
If we're going to him to answer prayer,
he's requiring two conditions to do that.
When you reword it, it makes more sense.
His language is sometimes awkward.
Yeah.
One of the conditions is we
must pray in the will of God.
And two,
we must be on what old-fashioned
Christians often call praying ground.
That is,
we must be living lives pleasing to God.
Yes.
You know, actually, Steve,
the guy that invited me to We the People,
had a little bit of that
discussion today.
about how difficult it is to
be in that place.
Praying ground?
Praying ground, yes.
Oh, we talked about that last night too.
Yeah, it's awesome.
It is futile to beg God to
act contrary to his revealed purposes.
To pray with confidence,
the petitioner must be
certain that his request
falls within the broad will
of God for his people.
The second condition is also
vitally important.
God has not placed himself
under obligation to honor
the requests of worldly, carnal,
or disobedient Christians.
He hears and answers the
prayers only of those who
walk in his way.
The truth is that God always
answers the prayer that
accords with his will as
revealed in the scriptures,
provided the one who prays
is obedient and trustful.
Further than this, we dare not go astray.
Lord, in the power of your Holy Spirit,
help me to be obedient.
May everything I do and
think be pleasing in your sight.
Amen.
Yes.
So I think this is
controversial because I
don't think Christians
place upon themselves the
requirement to be holy.
And before they pray,
I don't think I know of a
single person ever in my Christian walk,
which has been not so long.
You guys have been have been
saints way longer than me.
But where someone says, you know,
I keep praying.
you know, for my sickness to be healed.
But you know what?
I'm actually really not right with God.
And that may be why.
Like,
have you ever heard somebody confess
that?
Like,
I need to really need to get my act
together because God's not
answering my prayers.
And I think I need to be holier.
I think I need to be living right.
Have you ever heard somebody say that?
kind of tonight with Steve.
I hope I didn't hear it wrong,
but that's how I took his
little talk that he gave.
Oh, really?
Because I've never heard
somebody say that.
Everyone's like,
why doesn't God answer me?
As if God's a jukebox.
It seems like everybody
automatically expects
hey, I've been praying.
Why isn't he answering?
And we had a long talk about
this last night at home
church about the fact that
the sins are forgiven on the cross,
but our actions have consequences.
And they have consequences on our lives,
on our children's lives.
The sins of the father are
passed to the third and
fourth generation.
There is culpability from our ancestors.
There is culpability from us.
And
We have to be in God's will.
We have to know God's nature.
We have to be in line with God's purpose.
We have to be in line with
his requirements of obedience.
And I don't think that's
stressed often enough.
I really don't.
I do feel that for some of us,
people like me,
who really became ingrained
in my old man,
because of the amount of
time it took me to find God.
But you're a great example of that, right?
Where you were living in
pretty much debauchery and
then yelling at God,
why aren't you answering my prayer?
Right.
Yeah.
Like you're a perfect example of that.
Like,
I don't understand why you don't
answer me.
Well, and then, and then something, gosh,
darn it.
Then, then God finally just says, okay,
I'm going to like hit you
over the head with a mallet.
Right.
And then, and then that happens.
And then finally it clicks, it clicks.
And, but you know, you,
you bring up something that
sounds more like a
conscious decision that,
like daily that I need to be
right with God.
I don't know that I necessarily have that.
I think what's happened with
me is that I've realized
that when I am walking in
ways that God wants me to
live my life and to speak
and all these things,
I see how my life changes,
how being right with God
Um,
has shown me that there is great love
and grace and, um,
and reward on this planet, uh, by, by,
by doing that.
And it's just something that
is kind of has been happening.
Um, and then each step I take again,
I'm not telling you that
you should take the amount
of time that I have taken to done this.
You should do this today.
But beginning to read the
Bible just a few months ago
every day has changed a lot.
I mean, it has added even more to my life.
But it's not something that
I wake up in the morning and say,
you know what,
today I'm going to be right
with God because I want him
to answer my prayers more regularly.
No, I don't think it's a quid pro quo.
That's what Kate's saying too.
It's not like I give this
and then I get that.
It's not a jackpot machine.
Right.
I give it a quarter,
it gives me three lemons.
You know what I mean?
There's no quid pro quo with God.
But we shouldn't have the audacity to...
to be praying fervently and
living in debauchery and
then yelling at God for not answering us.
That's all I'm saying.
Okay.
Is that, you know, I mean,
there has to be a certain
amount of right living.
I mean, I'm not saying it.
Tozer is saying it.
I'm just echoing this principle.
You know, like, I mean,
don't you think it's a little bit insane?
We're looking back now.
Don't you think?
Like,
why aren't you making my marriage work?
You know, he's like, well, you know.
well it's kind of like the
kids that I'm dealing with
right now is that they they
you know we we gracefully
give them things and yet
they they talk to us like
crap sometimes yes and it's
all you know especially the
teenagers yeah I guess it's like
Like, why are you giving me attitude?
Like, like they said to us,
is it because I expect you
to do what I tell you to do?
I tell you to wake up.
I expect you to wake up in the morning,
get dressed, make your bed.
I, you know, because I, I, we,
we give you a lot.
Like you have a life that is
better than 95% of the planet.
And yet, you know, we still, and so I,
they remind me of me
towards him in my 20 years
walk as a Christian and name only.
I could sit.
He's given me so much.
And yet I'm going, okay, God,
where were you?
Why did you take away my,
my huge business that I had?
I had built this.
I built this business and it,
and I prayed that it would
be saved and you didn't save it.
I, I,
I did all the hard work and all you
had to do was save my business.
But didn't you do the crappy work too?
He didn't stop me.
He didn't stop me from
making bad decisions.
I was so mad at him.
Come on.
What do you mean?
The good things he doesn't
get the credit for and the
bad things are all his fault.
So ironic.
All the good things that
happened were because of me.
Right.
Doesn't he understand that?
Oh, so Lisa,
we haven't seen you in a while, Lisa.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Kate.
And Lisa says she agrees
that it's not stressed enough.
I presume she means holiness.
Kate says, I'm not sure about that.
That healing is a gift.
If we have to perform,
then it's dependent on us.
Holiness comes as we spend
time with God and holiness
comes from him.
Yes.
As I said to Andy,
it's definitely not a quid pro quo.
Um,
I think it's more on the extreme end
where,
as we were discussing and laughing
about that, if you don't, um,
if you don't practice
holiness and then you're
just angry at God for not
answering your plethora of requests, um,
it's maybe,
maybe something else that
you're not doing in terms
of being within God's will.
Um,
Holiness comes as we
surrender to the Holy
Spirit and Paul had
holiness and was never healed.
I don't know.
Did we mention?
Oh,
I think one of the example was healing.
Kate,
but I didn't mean only I didn't mean
it in specifically reference to healing.
I just use that as one example,
whether it's our children or a job,
as Andy was saying,
like he was praying for his
business to be saved and it wasn't.
No, of course,
not at any fault of his own.
But that's what I mean.
Like, you know,
we just pray for these
things and we're not living right.
And in my own example,
when we were talking about
what was going on with Zara
and one of the people last night asked me,
well, how many years did it take?
And I said, it was about seven.
And along the way,
up until this last month, the Lord,
before she was baptized,
kept telling me steps along the way.
One was a sobriety.
The other was just my temperament,
things I had to do, not working,
all of these things that
came up along the way.
that as I was praying and
praying and praying for her,
God would give me instructions.
I need you to do this.
Then don't seemingly relate to her at all.
But, and up until this last one,
which is like,
you have to start your book
in the middle of my trauma
and my turmoil and my, in like, oh my God,
what is going to happen?
It's like, write your book.
And I was like, what?
Uh,
so that's what I mean about being
within God's will and
obedience is that he's training us.
He's challenging us.
He's putting us through trials.
And through that process,
he's telling us things to do if we're,
if we're paying attention
and they may not seem to
have anything to do with
what you're praying about.
And yet, um,
In my experience, they do.
They do because he's trying
to order your steps and
everything falls into place
the way he wants it to fall in place.
Does that mean,
because I've talked about this before,
that COVID was the best
thing that happened to me?
Right.
Everything about COVID was
the best thing that ever happened to me.
Do you think that the whole
COVID thing was just for me?
For sure.
Yeah.
Don't tell Biden that.
I mean, because I'm telling you,
so much amazing thing came out of COVID.
And I was definitely ill.
I was pretty close to dying.
About as close as you could come.
And I could not have been closer to God.
And so I'm just thinking
about what Kate wrote about Paul,
is that the illness and the
pain and the suffering
was such a great tool that
God used to bring me closer to him.
Yes.
And I think for Paul too.
And it wasn't for healing,
strangely enough.
Yeah.
It was that I go, wow, God, I love you.
I am thankful for what you've given me.
And he humbled me.
That's what I was just going
to say to Paul,
that God didn't heal him
because it was always humbling for him.
Who knew that I needed humbly?
Who knew?
How strange.
Why in the world would you need that?
You never know.
God's so funny sometimes.
But it was perfect timing.
Amen.
It was everything.
know just to kind of go
through it a lot there may
be somebody watching that
doesn't know us very well
but uh we met during covet
yes I got sicker than a dog
in coven ended up in the
hospital uh you saved my
life through a conversation
with the doctor who wanted
to do something that was
going to kill me yes um who
knew that the doctor kept
trying to kill people and
my girlfriend of only a week
saved my life and knew
better than the doctor um
my my kids my kids
connected like never before
because they my oldest one
had to come and take care
of the younger ones which
was amazing uh the the my
new daughter got to meet my
my the other children uh
and get connected during a
really wild time but we got
to spend a lot of time
together early on yes in as
an early family I had cancer
um we had both had homes
that we we couldn't get out
from under uh and then
everything changed and
miraculously both sold like
in in in really miraculous
ways which is a completely
different story that would
take far too long to tell you about
Uh,
because of the sale of the homes that it,
I, I now cancer free.
Yes.
For the procedure that I
could not have afforded
without the homes selling
the home selling one of the
homes selling.
Um, I mean, just, I mean,
it's just an incredible
story that we should write
in a book one of these days.
Yes.
And none of it that I can recall ever.
And I, and I wanna make sure and be, uh,
totally, uh, honest that.
Did I blame God like I did
with the loss of my business?
I didn't blame God for being
as sick as I was and it
hurt and it was bad.
I couldn't breathe.
And I had to walk around
with an oxygen tank.
I didn't ever go, woe is me, God, why me?
I don't recall ever doing that.
I just was so thankful for
everything and for him
meeting me and being with
me and fulfilling his
presence was amazing.
I hope that's all making
sense for you guys because
God is amazing when you're
humbled and you find him
and just appreciate his
closeness and his love.
It's entirely different.
Carl gets a kick out of your kino.
Yeah.
Christian in name only.
That is very cute.
Instead of a rhino, you're a kino.
Yeah, absolutely.
And Kate says, same for her.
I would never become an
artist or a writer if I
didn't lose the use of my legs.
And I don't regret it for a moment.
This also brought me closer
to God and studying his word.
I am grateful.
Amen.
Wow.
Kate, that's powerful.
What does God's word have to say?
Well, it is, of course, John,
the disciple whom God loved.
I write these things to you
who believe in the name of
the Son of God so that you
may know that you have eternal life.
Write these things in the
name of Jesus so that you may know,
not guess, not wonder,
that you know you have eternal life.
This is the confidence we
have in approaching God,
that if we ask anything
according to his will, he hears us.
And if we know that he hears us,
whatever we ask,
we know that we have what
we asked of him.
Pretty cool.
Again, that's the aligning of the will,
right?
Anything we ask according to his will,
he hears, and if he hears,
then we have it.
It reminds me of one of the
most powerful things I
learned from Pastor Jack Hibbs early on,
finding his church.
That was another one,
found his church during COVID,
is that our eternity with
God starts at the moment
that we're born again.
Amen.
And like you in your Muslim faith,
you never knew when God was
right with you or even cared about you.
Right.
Even knew your name.
How horrible is that?
Yep.
But in our faith,
the true faith of the true
God and our Savior, Jesus Christ,
that the moment that we
accept him as our Lord and
Savior and are born again,
our eternity starts from that point on.
I had this interesting
conversation yesterday.
We had our home church, as we said,
with a young lady last
night who was struggling with her weight.
And so she was asking me
about my weight journey.
And so I had explained to her,
I was trying to explain to her, you know,
I had...
eating disorders,
taking prescription diet pills,
anything I could possibly get my hands on,
smoking a lot.
And I said, but and I said,
but this happened in two
phases where I said that, you know,
I became a devout Muslim
and all of that stopped.
And I said, but the weird thing was,
as soon as I left Islam,
it all came back as if I
was still 24 again.
And she looked at me, she's like, wow,
that's really weird.
And I was like, I was like, yeah,
I was like, that's how I mean,
that's what led me to cry out for God,
because I knew I could not
have been in a real
religion because I was not transformed.
There was literally no
transformation that occurred.
Monkey in, monkey out.
And she was like,
she was fascinated by that idea.
She's like, wow,
you could spend that many
years in religion and
experience no change.
It is crazy.
And you compare that to your
Christian walk where you're transformed,
you're transformed.
You're like, wow,
I literally I literally feel different.
Yeah, you know, from the inside out.
You're somewhat of a
different person than the
one that I met in line at Calvary Chapel,
Chino Hills.
I hope you're going to say in a good way.
No, in a fantastic way.
You were amazing then,
but I don't know what's after amazing.
Okay.
But...
There is definitely the light is brighter.
I hope so.
Coming from you.
From glory to glory, I hope.
Yeah.
I hope I'm not sliding backwards.
Not today.
Not today, Satan.
I think anybody would say
that that knows you well enough.
I believe that Jolene would say that.
Oh, you think?
I think so.
Oh, I got to ask.
Yeah.
I do.
I see it.
I see it daily.
Thank you.
You definitely changed exponentially.
Oh, absolutely.
Really?
Exponentially.
I think if you ask Zara,
she'd say the same thing.
Without even asking her, you ask her,
she'd say the same thing.
Wow.
She used to be terrified of you.
She's still scared,
but not nearly the same way.
I get a lot more hugs.
Yes.
I mean,
I get hugs even when I don't ask
for them.
Yes.
Which is nice.
Absolutely.
Yeah, no, you used to terrify her.
Really?
Absolutely.
How is that possible?
I'm such a nice person.
Because you're terrifying.
What?
I actually have been afraid
of very few people in my life.
So you're definitely top two.
I mean, if you're going to be with a man,
wouldn't you want him to be
terrifying to other people?
Well, yeah,
but you don't want him terrifying to you.
Well, right.
But in order to be
terrifying to other people,
you got to be a little bit
terrifying to you.
Yeah, it kind of comes with the territory.
Oh, it's so funny.
Isn't it?
You guys are the only ones who, I swear,
I know you don't believe this, but I mean,
maybe my kids, who cares what they think.
But I've never had anybody
say that I was terrifying.
Your kids would say that.
I said my kids.
Who cares?
I'm supposed to be terrifying to my kids.
But in law enforcement,
I knew so many people.
I've said this, unfortunately, before,
but they would say,
you're too nice to be a cop.
Why didn't you become a fireman?
Most of my friends,
when they met you for the first time,
were terrified.
They were actually worried for me.
They're like, Heddy, we know.
How dare you say that?
We know you're very strong,
but he's a little scary.
Like in what way?
What are you talking about?
Do that right there.
I can act very well if I
want to intimidate somebody.
I mean, you learn how to do that as a cop.
I was small.
I was like, I'm not like Carl.
Carl's like a monster.
Is he?
Yeah, he's huge.
Yeah, when he walks, you hear the...
um but uh and I look up to
carl and say hey carl nice
to see you and he shakes
hands like it's like
shaking hands with uh john
wayne you know this big old
hand wraps around your hand
um but I was like five I
mean was I'm now tall much
taller no I was five I'm
five ten and change and okay
but did you see have you
seen that uniform that's in
the little frame I was 175
pounds when I fit into that
uniform and so I was very
small so I I'm not as small
as pastor bob can you
imagine him being a cop
he's a tiny little guy uh
but um he's he's almost dainty
But I had to learn because I
was very shy growing up.
I had a whole bunch of stuff
where I just was not strong
in those ways.
But you have to learn.
You did learn very well.
My very first call was to a biker gang,
a bar,
a biker bar with the Hessians and I
believe the Mongols going at it.
Yeah.
And that was my very first call.
You learn quickly.
Yeah.
Get on the ground, guys.
My voice cracking.
We're going to get thrown
off of the network with the screaming.
That's how my voice was.
And I had to learn to have a
little bit more command presence.
Now,
the Academy says you need to have
command presence,
but that's all good on paper.
until you're there and you
got these big monsters.
They all look like Carl Whitney,
but with tattoos and big beards,
which is very intimidating to begin with.
I like this.
So Carl's talking about the
verse where he says,
the Christians who follow
the proclaim it and claim
it philosophy talk about
confidence dealing with this verse,
but always forget about God's will.
Isn't that true?
I don't know how many times
I've heard that verse cited
without the...
if God wills part in it.
And I just don't understand
how people could do that.
And I think you're asked for God,
he will give it to you.
And I, and I remember because, um,
when I would hear that as a new Christian,
as a very new Christian, I would be like,
Ooh,
really like anything we ask
of him he'd give us that's
amazing I mean I just
started to dream up things
that I wanted to ask him
for you know and then I was
like wait a minute within
his will okay so that that
has conditions that makes a
little more sense
um any prayer requests I'm
going to ask one more time
if you guys that are
watching have any prayer
requests just feel free to
put in the comments um if
there are people that you
know but you don't want to
say their name you don't
have to you just put them
in there but we may ask
what's their name uh
because it's a little
person more personalized
that way yeah but god knows
their name did you have fun
last night yes church I did
okay anything that
particularly stood out to you um
You know,
it's not that I don't love our
regulars that show up,
but it was fun not to have
them there because we got
to spend time with some of
the people that tend to be
a little bit more quiet.
And I'm not telling you
people that didn't come not to come.
I'm just saying that because of that,
it's easy to go to the
people that you know.
Right.
As you know,
you and I leading it and
people raise their hands
and that kind of stuff.
But we had a few new people
there that it was great to
get to know them.
Yeah.
And to hear like Karen's
testimony about how prayer
helped her instantaneously, pretty much.
changed uh what she was
going through with her
daughter I thought that was
amazing isn't it I mean it
was a huge transformation
it really was it was from
dark depression to light
and love and jesus and
jesus just so much jesus so
much jesus so I think that
was my favorite part was um
hearing new voices speaking
up and talking and telling
us a little bit about
themselves and that kind of
stuff I thought that was
great yeah jason talking
about his him and his son and how he
you know,
that the relationship with Jesus
got stronger, uh, with the,
with a son that has, um,
a lot of limitations with
his special needs.
Yeah.
I thought that that's
powerful for people to hear
because you've been getting to think,
you know, you know,
I'll get so many problems.
And then you hear, you know,
Jason's story and you go, Oh, sorry,
God didn't mean to be,
didn't mean to be whining.
Yeah.
Um,
Yeah, so I thought it was nice.
I know somebody that's a regular,
but we don't always hear
from them as our friends
from Calvary Chapel, East Anaheim,
who have the dogs.
Yeah.
I wasn't sure if we wanted
to say their name.
But hearing her talk and share,
that was awesome.
She always has tons of wisdom,
but she's usually quiet at
our home church.
Yeah.
What about you?
I also,
I loved having the chance to hear
from people that had not participated.
I think we had a friend of a
friend show up, Will,
the new gentleman from Egypt.
I think he added an
interesting dynamic to it as well.
He had questions and he's...
looking for a new church.
So he's on that journey, which I love.
That's kind of a fun journey.
And I just love talking
about prayer and the power
of prayer and getting a
chance to pray over one of
our friends going through a
very difficult time.
So it was really nice to get
a chance to pray over her.
And the Lord had given me so
many words for her.
And so afterwards I went up to her,
I was like, did any of that make sense?
Yeah.
I'm like,
was that out of my imagination or
was that God?
And she's like, no,
that all resonated with me.
And I'm like, oh, I'm so excited.
I literally started jumping
up and down like a little
kid because I was so
excited it was right
because it didn't come from me.
It came from the Holy Spirit.
It just flowed out of me.
And I was just so excited to
hear that it wasn't my imagination.
Yeah, it's hard.
It's still hard for me to just allow –
the holy spirit to work uh
through me in my words it's
there's something that I
get choked up like there's
things I can hear and I
it's like oh we can block
it our minds blocking I
think I do that
unfortunately a lot um but
I'm working on it yeah
there's days where it just
kind of it does and other
days where I'm kind of they
get a little bit nervous
I think everybody goes to that.
Everybody's like,
they get performance anxiety, you know,
where you just start
getting in your head about, I get,
I have the same thing.
Sometimes you get into your
head and you can't pray
what God wants you to pray.
Cause you're concerned about
what you should be praying
as opposed to what he sets
out for you to pray.
And then other times I just
really am able to convince myself, like,
let God, like, let God lead.
Yeah.
Let go, let God.
Yes.
Whose song is that?
Somebody's song.
Lisa is asking for John and Rochelle,
Amanda and Derek and James
and Haley to hear God
calling out for them,
for them to repent and
receive saving faith.
Amen.
Yes.
So just real quick, before I, uh,
we came on,
I had ran at a drive really fast, um,
from orange, the city of orange to here,
because I went there to, uh,
an event called, uh, we, the people, Oh,
see, uh,
a new friend of mine named Steve Scott.
It turns out we've,
we've ran like almost
side-by-side at a few
events at Trump rallies and
things like that.
And we have very, um,
a lot of friends in common
and he goes to Calvary chapel,
East Anaheim.
Um, and, um,
so it's it was interesting
that we just recognized him
no no um and so but it was
great we got there and then
there were a bunch of
people in the group at uh
it's held at zito's pizza
in orange nice uh and it's
on it says today monday
yeah on mondays um I'm not
sure if it's every monday
no I don't think it's every
monday but it's um first
monday first monday of the
month there's third monday
of the month or something
whatever where are we third
monday of the month
Something like that.
And it was great because they spent a lot.
I was not expecting this
because it sounds like it's
more of just a Patriots event or meeting.
And a lot of it is God.
God-based, Jesus-centered.
Meaning like what?
It all starts with prayer
and different people come
up and talk about what's on their mind.
or something that they want
to present to the group in
regard to biblical context and things.
Oh, so like our home church?
very much so it was not a
thing I i had a completely
different idea yeah um and
I would have wanted to go I
know the whole time I go oh
shoot yeah had you should
have came um the the saving
grace is that you would uh
there's there's no soft
seats that's all wood oh
yeah see we wouldn't have
done that and you would
have not been very happy
but uh the it was amazing I
gotta say I'll tell you it
was amazing and just a
great group of people
And they had a speaker.
Her name is Kira Davis.
And she's on all the
networks like Fox and
Newsmax and that kind of stuff.
And she subs in for Dan
Bongino on his radio show
when he's not there.
Oh, wow.
And she ran for school board in Capistrano,
but lost.
But the teachers union is very powerful,
put hundreds of thousands
of dollars for her not to win.
Anyway,
you heard the seal of God's running
Chad Williams.
He's running for city council.
Oh, really?
Oh, that's great.
But she has a podcast too.
And I,
I'm not sure what the title is of it.
I can't,
I'm not sure if I'll be able to read it.
She's an author of a book
called drawing lines.
Why conservatives must begin
to battle fiercely in the arena of ideas.
So she has a bunch of things going on,
but I just wanted to make
sure and let you guys know
about Kira Davis.
K-I-R-A Davis.
Really great speaker.
A lot of good information.
If you want to run for
school board or you want to
support your school board,
I think she's a great
person to follow because
she has lots of really good
ideas about how you can...
uh either like I said run
and effective even though
she lost but we learned a
lot from losing yes we we
understand it much more
afterwards like oh now I
know what I should have
done differently and so she
points out some of those
things and um and uh is
great at helping other
people run their run their
campaign so um great person
god that uh had a chance to
to hear her speak but she's
really awesome maria baker
hello maria baker maria she
wants prayers for
Family relationships to be restored.
Thank you and blessings to
our loving hosts.
Thank you.
Thank you, Maria.
Appreciate it.
Anything else?
No, I think that's it.
All right.
Got it.
Any other prayers or anything?
I have one.
Okay.
Add it.
I'm going to add it.
Dear Lord,
thank you for this time of fellowship.
Thank you for your word.
Thank you for inspiring our
hearts with a desire to
draw closer to you because
without that inspiration
coming from within us by
virtue of your Holy Spirit,
it is impossible.
And so we ask you to strengthen,
to strengthen the call,
the still small voice that we hear,
encouraging us to draw closer,
to read your word,
to fellowship with other believers,
to pray for the saints.
to intercede for them,
to intercede for our
families and for our children, Lord.
And in that regard,
we lift up Lisa's kids to you,
her kids and their spouses,
John and Rachel, Amanda and Derek,
James and Haley, Lord.
We ask that you draw them
towards saving faith,
that they would be able to
hear your voice,
that you hear the cry of
Lisa standing in the gap for them, Lord,
so that they would come to
saving faith and raise
children that know you, Lord,
and nothing is impossible for you.
We know that you are capable
of all things.
You are the miracle worker
and the way maker, Lord.
And we depend on you to do
these things because we
would like to spend an
eternity with our family
members and with our loved ones, Lord.
So we ask for you to do a
miracle in their lives.
We also ask for Maria that
you restore family relationships, Lord,
that you draw them close.
You renew ties of love and
of peace and of grace.
And I ask for that in our family, too,
Lord,
that you fill Andy and our and my
heart with grace for our
children and mercy that we
all learn to treat those
that are not yet.
walking with you or those
that are new and walking with you, Lord,
that we are patient and we
are kind and we extend
grace to them the way you
extended it to us and that
we learn the lesson of what
it means to be Christ-like,
what it means to love,
just to love until the ends of the earth,
to love
I don't want to say
unconditionally because you
do expect obedience out of us,
but you give to us unconditionally.
You gave the ultimate sacrifice.
And we have to learn to love like Jesus,
Lord.
So fill our hearts with that
kind of kindness, with that kind of love.
We love you, Lord.
We offer ourselves as a
living sacrifice in the
mighty name of Jesus that
we pray and ask for all things.
Amen.
Sorry,
I was just going on there for a while.
Just conversating.
Yeah.
And I just want to say, Lisa,
just continue to pray.
And I know that you will.
And for anybody listening,
it was a seven-year journey
that we're on.
Yes.
And Karen shared last night
that the relationship
between her and her
daughter were not always very close.
It's always been a little bit rough.
Yes.
But then we had prayer at our house.
Mariama prayed over her,
and it was a couple days later.
So it could be years waiting for it,
but put it in the right situation.
God works amazing miracles.
Brought her daughter not
only closer to her,
but closer to God almost instantaneously.
Through trauma.
Connected her with a boy who
runs a Bible study that she wants to be,
that she's excited to go to
all the time and connected
with other Bible-loving,
Jesus-loving friends.
This completely turned her life around.
Amen.
We do that for all of our kids.
You just can't give in, can't give up.
All right.
Anything else, Snugs?
That's it.
Amen,
says Maria and Kelly and everybody else.
We love you guys.
Thank you for joining us.
God bless.
Take care.
Bye.