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And turn to your Bibles to Psalm 69,
29 through 33, Psalm 69, 29 through 33.
And we'll be reading from
that particular part of the
Bible after the devotional.
All right.
So we are reading from A.W.
Tozer for the Christian
leader for June 20th.
The title is We See God Too Small.
Psalm 6930 is the reference for AW,
and the Bible says,
I will praise the name of
God with a psalm and will
magnify him with thanksgiving.
Worship rises or falls in
any church altogether
depending upon the attitude
we take toward God,
whether we see God big or
whether we see him little.
Most of us see God too small.
Our God is too little.
David said, oh, magnify the Lord with me.
That's from Psalm 34.3.
And magnify doesn't mean to make God big.
You can't make God big,
but you can see him big.
Worship, I say,
rises or falls with our concept of God.
That is why I do not believe
in these half-converted
cowboys who call God the man upstairs.
I do not think the worship at all
I do not think the worship
at all because their
concept of God is unworthy
of God and unworthy of them.
And if there is one terrible
disease in the church of Christ,
it is that we do not see
God as great as he is.
We're too familiar with God.
Sovereign God,
expand my vision of you today.
Give me some grasp of your
majesty and declare to me your glory.
Then draw me to my knees in
awe and reverential worship.
Amen.
Can I read this one more time?
Yes.
Worship rises and falls with
our concept of God,
and that's why I don't
believe in half-converted
cowboys who call him the man upstairs.
So in other words,
we don't think enough of God.
Yeah,
it's got to flip it to say God the
man upstairs.
It's flip it, yeah.
So in order to,
you can't really properly
worship if you don't have a
majestic view of God.
That's the terrible disease
is that we don't see God as
great as he is.
We're too familiar.
And sometimes we go in
half-heartedly with our worship.
We're not thinking of that concept.
Right.
We don't flip it.
Interesting.
What about the other parts here?
Worship rises or falls in
any church altogether.
So there also is a culture
that can be created through worship.
There's a power that comes
from the corporate body,
from the church body,
as well as what comes to us individually.
So if the whole church is
too flippant about God, then
then there's a different
energy created in that church,
just as if that individual
worshiper was too flippant about God.
This reminds me of any
organization where the
leadership isn't holding up
what would be considered
the high standard of operating,
following rules, showing up on time,
making sure their work is
done before they leave,
maybe making sure their
desk is cleaned off before they leave.
I mean,
these are all little tiny things
and people kind of get upset about,
I don't need to do that.
And then if you have a boss that says,
you're right, you don't need to do it.
It's not that big of a deal.
Then things began to decline.
And the same thing happens
with all kinds of the concepts.
I love what we've been
talking about lately, you and I,
about the different people
that we run into in our
life that either have been
Christians for a very long time
and even those that are new.
We see that one of our
newest friends who's new to the faith,
essentially,
I think they're new to the faith.
Well, kind of like you.
Yeah.
You've been walking around churches.
Yeah.
You thought it was just going to church,
and I can still get drunk.
It's okay.
I can still do a whole bunch
of things because they
really don't talk about how
the consequences of that in our church.
They just tell us everything's great.
And then if we want a new car,
we just pray for it.
If we want, you know, good health,
we'll just always pray for it.
And so then you become lazy
in following the commands.
But then like one of our
friends who had some idols
that were in their home, they decided,
you know,
after all these years of having
them in their home decided,
you know what?
I've been hearing about this
lately and they took action.
Because they know the power
and greatness of God that he says,
do not have these things.
And you have people to take action.
You have other people that
have been in the faith for a very,
very long time who they're
doing something.
They take God's commands.
They think, well, we do enough.
We run all kinds of ministries.
We give to the poor.
We hand give money to, you know,
homeless people every chance we get.
So it's okay that we have,
we live in this one sinful situation.
At least we're not as sinful
as some other people.
And say, look,
there's these people over
there that are doing it too.
So it's okay for me.
Right.
And so you have all of that stuff.
But I think if you have a
good Bible teaching background,
pastor,
that these things kind of pop up
and can be addressed from time to time.
And you don't have to worry
too much about pulling them out.
Because you know you're living in,
I hate to say safe place, a safe space.
The church.
If the leadership is strong
and you have enough Bible
following people that you
can bring up these things
and not be crucified as an
overzealot person.
There's just so much going on right now.
I don't even know how to
express all of this,
but there is so much.
I follow these guys through Remnant Radio.
The stuff we've seen on the news,
I think the beginning of
the fall was Carl Lentz.
Then we saw T.D.
Jake's fall,
one of the world's richest
pastors in the world, literally.
He's worth $220 million.
Robert Morris.
But to be
Honest his, his was 25 years ago.
It's just now his victim has
just now come to light.
So he has confessed that sin
to his church for years, but the victim,
um, was a minor when it happened.
He was 20, she was 12.
And so that's kind of, it's resurfaced.
But Tony Evans too.
And so when you talk about,
and so at the charismatic end,
so the Remnant Radio guys
are talking at the charismatic end,
IHOP just fell.
A whole bunch of other new
apostolic reformation,
NAR churches are also
falling where the Lord's
just going across the earth
and sweeping his church,
basically just falling.
Wheat from the tares,
sheep from the goats.
Just like he said in the
book of Revelation in
chapters two and three, you know,
describing each of the churches,
you think you're this and that,
but I'm going to take your lampstand,
you know,
just accusing them of all of
this hypocritical behavior,
inappropriate behavior and what have you.
And so it's like we're
living that out right now.
And may the Lord have mercy on us all.
because we have no idea from
one day to the next, um,
what would cause us to fall.
Um,
and God forbid that should ever happen
to any of us,
but you're just kind of
shocked at what's happening, what people,
what people think it's okay.
Or, uh,
Did they have enough,
did they not have enough
reverence for God?
Did God become too commonplace for them?
Or were they never believers
to begin with?
I always think of these
things in light of the way
Pastor Jack describes it is
they walked of us, they left us,
they were not of us, you know,
just they were never meant,
they never were, they were showmen.
But I don't know.
It's hard to say.
Hmm.
It is.
Should we say hi to our friends?
Yep.
Hello, Carrie.
Hi, Corrine.
And she says,
I have no idea where I'm watching from.
What does that mean?
Like you don't know where
you are physically?
No, you are on Facebook.
That we know.
And Iris is in Paso Robles.
Oh, look at you.
Do you like that?
Say churros.
Churros.
Iris is coming to our home church.
Is she really?
Nice.
Is she bringing an iris?
that means hi gary it's a
flower and says this is so
strange I was thinking this
morning about me seeing god
as too small and putting
god in a box it's something
I do even without knowing
it please pray for my
family absolutely helen
yeah and uh the way I
describe it to andy I was
like it's the holy spirit
radio he's just confirming
for you the things that
you're learning and
And confirming that it's him.
And Pastor Bob was saying
the other night that when
you're asking God to speak
to you and you hear a scripture repeated,
it's in your morning reading.
And then the pastor says it in the sermon.
You should take these as
cues that God's pointing
you to something.
They're like pieces of a crossword puzzle.
That's different than when
you're sitting in church
and your spouse is elbowing you and say,
are you hearing what the
pastor's talking about?
This is for you.
That's different.
But see,
I do that sometimes too to tell you, hey,
we just talked about that.
Yes, that's different.
Right?
Yeah.
So sometimes it's like you
want – like God is leaving –
little breadcrumbs and we're
both on this like treasure
hunt with god just like he
just just mentioned psalm
69 right remember we were
listening to psalm 69 last
night so it's so it's
supposed to trigger in your
mind I really need to study
psalm 69 god's saying
something to me absolutely
right true true that carrie
says this is something I
have been praying about
holding god in high esteem
especially in america we
seem so cavalier with
respect for people which
carries over into our
approach to God.
Yes.
So true.
Okay.
Hello, Kate saying hi to everybody.
And you're on Facebook.
You're watching on Facebook.
Yes.
She's coming.
No, not at all.
Nope.
Not at all.
I, you know, this is,
this situation that we find
ourselves in in this world
right now and it's not just
you know nationally
in regard to the open border,
to all the wars that have
begun just in the last couple of years.
All that situation is tough.
And Christians are brought up a lot,
Christian nationalists and
all that kind of stuff.
You've written about it in
your articles for the Christian Post.
But it really seems to be a...
a common topic between the
teachers union and, and what's right in,
as far as what's supposed
to be in our schools,
which should not be in our schools.
So, and I, and I've been,
I have a show I've been
wanting to do in the next
couple of days because
people think just because
you want kids to go to
school and not be taught about, you know,
same sex marriage and,
gender issues to the books
that have pornography that
they've been trying to get
into our children's library to, you know,
just having kids follow
rules and withholding those rules.
Don't slack on those rules
that those things to some
people look like that's a
Christian ideology.
And I don't know,
I don't think that it is.
I mean, if you are, uh, you know, an Islam,
if you are Mormon, if you are atheist,
you want to be able to send
your kids to school so that they're safe.
protected from atheism you
really okay when you're
talking about god centric
or at least what god in air
quotes well I have a friend
that's atheist and he's
right with me on all this
stuff but that's okay so
this goes back to the whole
frank toric apologetic oh
the existence of god so in
other words of people who
are atheists who claim to
be atheists but claim a morality
then they have to be
acknowledging the existence
of God because that moral
compass can only come from God.
Otherwise,
there is no such thing as a
moral compass.
We all do what's right in our own eyes.
My friend is super atheist.
Yeah.
But yet he wants to protect his kids.
He hates the... That's arbitrary.
Is it?
Absolutely, it's arbitrary.
If it's not based on God,
what is it based on?
Because I want to protect my kids.
Another lady says,
I'm protecting my kids
because my kid's trans.
And you're stopping my trans
kid from being welcomed in the school.
That's her truth.
That's my truth.
That's her truth.
That's what I'm saying.
But nobody, okay.
But nobody from the
Christian faith is going, look at you,
you transgender person.
We're just,
like when I had Beau on the
show the other day,
on the Andy Falco show, he was saying,
we don't even care.
I mean, we don't even think about it.
It's not an issue with us.
There's some kids that do.
I mean, you know, in Eldo,
we had kids harassing the trans kids.
Really?
Yeah.
significantly yes absolutely
fate to their face yes I
don't I don't remember any
of that yeah it was huge last year
taking pictures of them in the bathroom.
Well,
we have a boy in the girl's bathroom
that's not harassing them, that's saying,
what's a boy doing in the
girl's bathroom?
I'm not going to have the
whole trans argument with you,
what is a boy, what's a girl.
I'm not going to argue
against my own point of view.
My point is that, as Kerry says,
atheists borrow morality from God.
If the morality is not based
on two genders,
God says there's two genders.
If you're not basing your
morality on God's law,
then it's absolutely untrue.
So it's just like saying my
truth must be everybody's truth.
Because, for example,
I have a friend who says,
I definitely believe in God
and I believe in all the
things that God says except abortion.
I don't believe a fetus is a person.
I mean, that's problematic.
You can't make it up.
You know what I mean?
You can't arbitrarily, you can say, listen,
I believe in everything God says,
but the one thing I can't handle,
I can't abide by is the abortion thing.
If my kid is a teenager and
it gets pregnant,
I'm going to have an abortion for her.
You know what I mean?
Like God's going to have to forgive me.
You know what I mean?
That's one thing, but saying no,
a fetus isn't a baby.
You can't arbitrarily decide
what part of God's law you
want to keep or throw away.
I see that.
You know what I mean?
So otherwise you're just making,
you're just, you're making it up.
And like God says in judges repeatedly,
everybody,
every man did what was right in
his own eyes,
which include the guy who
chopped up his concubine
into 12 pieces and sent it to the judge.
He thought that was perfectly fine.
That's so interesting.
I'm glad you brought this up.
Or did I bring it up?
Samson.
Yeah.
Right?
What did all the crazy things Samson did?
He was told not to eat from a carcass.
He was told not to cut his hair.
He was told not to marry
outside the tribe.
But what did he do?
He did.
All those things.
But the same atheist friend.
Right.
does believe that abortion
is a woman's right.
That's what I'm saying.
But he does.
He believes like we believe
that we don't need abortion
centers in our schools.
That's not there's not a
place for abortion.
It is.
What is the basis for that line?
I don't know.
You can see how interesting it is, though.
I don't think it's interesting.
It's hypocritical.
It's just stupid.
Because you're saying
abortions are okay down the street.
I just don't want them done here.
It just doesn't make any sense.
Well,
I think it makes sense only because
our schools are not medical centers.
We don't need medical
centers in our schools.
They call them community schools.
We don't need to make our
schools community schools.
You have an argument that
revolves around God-centric law.
And everything that emanates
from that law makes sense.
But when an atheist tells you,
I will kill the baby down the street,
but I don't want to kill it on my school,
that is arbitrary.
I don't know.
What do you guys think?
This topic really annoys me.
If you haven't noticed.
Because it's just,
I have a number of atheist
family members and just
listening to them my whole life,
it's like being in a psych
ward because you're just
listening to them.
They're like,
they pull things out of a hat
and you're just like,
premarital sex is fine.
Abortions are not fine.
Kids have to obey their parents.
I was like,
where do you get the rule that
kids have to obey their parents?
That's my role.
And I was like, yeah,
but they have a different
morality than you.
They said,
my morality says I don't have to
obey you.
Why is yours right?
Because I'm a parent.
Well, I mean,
and how does that afford you
any privileges?
Because you're a parent.
Well, when you follow God,
it says so in the Bible.
Exactly.
It all emanates from God.
Interesting.
Carrie says,
So as you make a point, Hetia,
people say God will have to forgive them.
They make themselves higher than God.
And I mean, we all, you know,
are in predicaments
occasionally in our lives
that are out of our control
where we do something and
we are pleading for God's
mercy and forgiveness.
But that's completely
different than saying,
I accept God in this circumstance,
but I don't believe God in
that circumstance.
Either you take the whole
thing or you take none of it.
Interesting.
Iris also says.
Also, when you break one commandment,
you've broken them all.
Thou shall not murder.
Yes.
Oh,
I thought that said also when you break
the first commandment,
you've broken them all.
I see what you're saying there.
Okay.
I suppose either would work.
If the first commandment,
thou shalt not murder.
I think so.
Then it works either way.
Thou shalt not use God's name in vain.
No.
All right.
We are reading from Psalm 69,
29 through 33.
I am suffering and in pain.
Rescue me, O God, by your saving power.
Then I will praise God's name with singing,
and I will honor him with thanksgiving.
For this will please the
Lord more than sacrificing cattle,
more than presenting a bull
with its horns and hooves.
The humble will seek their
God at work and be glad.
Let all who seek God's help be encouraged.
For the Lord hears the cries of the needy.
He does not despise his imprisoned people.
Uh-oh, let me make sure it's ours calling,
so let me just...
She's fine.
This will please the Lord
more than sacrificing.
Okay.
Yeah.
Just, you know, my praise,
my worship is more
important to God than my sacrifice.
It's in Psalms a lot.
I'm actually in the part of
Samuel where David was
dancing when he got the ark back.
And Michelle said,
Mikal, however that's pronounced,
Saul's wife, was like,
why are you making such a
fool out of yourself?
The help thinks you're ridiculous.
And he's like, oh, no, they don't.
I will dance to my Lord.
I will be undignified.
I love that expression.
How, and again, for me personally,
how different it is than Islam,
which is such a somber, like, drama.
practice as compared to
Christianity and the
singing and the worship.
And actually, to be fair, the extremists,
the Islamists have really
just destroyed the cultural
normative practices of Islam,
which actually did
incorporate a lot of
Christianity and a lot of
singing and dancing that
had happened in those communities.
But the extremists came and
wiped that all out.
You know, this also reminds me of,
I used to get this uneasy
feeling when the church
that I used to attend, the pastor,
on occasion, not all the time,
but on occasion,
when he didn't have a podium,
he would read something
from the Bible and they
would toss the Bible onto the ground.
And I would get this weird feeling like,
I don't know,
that just doesn't seem right.
And I thought maybe...
Maybe I'm just overdoing it.
Maybe it's just, forgive me, God,
for saying this,
but maybe that is just a book.
And then I, but then it's God's word.
Like you throw God's word on the ground.
And so I just tell, I always had,
I thought maybe it was just
me that I was just being too,
it's like when I say, tell the kids,
don't say GD.
And they go, why can't we say that?
Or, or,
C-R-A-P.
They go, that's not bad.
I go, it is.
I go, I don't want you saying it.
It's like,
I felt it was one of those things.
Like I just must be over the line.
My pet peeve.
Yeah.
And then I met you.
And then I think I had done something,
put the Bible on the ground
or somebody put the Bible
on the ground and you, oh yeah.
And you picked it up right away.
And I go, oh, I thought, I was thinking,
maybe it's just me.
People in church throw their Bible
Yeah, but it is about this.
The reason I bring it up is
this devotional is saying
that you need to put God at
such a high esteem that
that should bother you, I think.
Yeah, I totally agree.
And like using his name in
vain and all those kinds of things.
I think that although people
will sometimes say, come on,
just calm down with your rules.
Yeah, that's a green thing at this point.
Yeah.
It was easier when I knew less.
It's a story.
It's a story of all of our lives.
It's the walk with God.
I describe it like mountain climbing.
You're too far up to go back down,
and you're not far up
enough yet to reach the top.
So you're just holding on
for dear life in the middle
of the mountain,
hoping that you inch up a
little before you slide down.
know it's funny because I i
don't you know even though
I on occasion I have
trouble remembering not
remembering of of
backsliding on something
whatever that might be um
you know cussing or
something or you know
having a bad thought about
somebody so you'll have
these backslides but I i I
recognize it but I don't have
a problem with rules.
And I'm wondering if it's
because my dad had so many rules.
That was number one,
but also that's where I was
going to go in law enforcement.
There is rules for everything.
You got to think before you
do anything about how you
write a report about before
you enter data into the computer,
your shoes, your gig line.
Remember I told you, I saw,
I was watching Bosch.
I have a picture.
His gig line is not straight.
And it bothers me every time I see it.
It goes with the gig line.
Uh, but, uh,
it's that line of your shirt
and your belt in your, in your zipper.
It needs to be in line.
But, um, I love that.
I think that that I thank
God for that training.
That's why countries all
over the world send their
kids to military.
I think it's phenomenal.
I wish we had it.
And actually there's some of
the things that we were after nine 11.
bouncing around that we
would do something similar
a civil service kind of
like a Peace Corps thing
and make it mandatory to
kind of teach civics and
discipline I think it's a
very cool thing and Helen
is saying I've never heard
your testimony how you came
to the Lord I would love to
hear it sometime thank you
Helen as you hear us
constantly talking about
going to the website
resurrectministry.com it's
all on the website where is our little
We have a little overlay.
But if you continue, yeah,
if you go to this website,
there's a video.
I think the 500 Club one is 500 Club.
Is it called the 500?
700 Club.
Yeah.
That sounded weird.
700 Club.
I think for me,
that's one of your best... Oh,
did you like it?
Best testimonies.
Good synopsis.
Yes.
Especially since Pat
Robertson introduces you.
That or Jack's.
I love the one I give it faster, Jack.
Yeah.
But not to...
Shah what Helen had to say,
because I think she more or less,
you know,
hoping that we'll share some of
that stuff here, but we, but we do.
No, no, no.
I'm just going to say,
but we do on occasion speak
about our testimony on some level,
but you were just formally
in Islam and decided you no
longer wanted to wear the head covering.
He called my name and I ran
out of that place.
That was, that was beautiful.
um yeah that's uh it's
amazing and he did it just
so that she would meet me
at calvary chapel chain of
hills yes that's all that
got brought together god
said god moved heaven and
earth for you yes you are
his beloved I pray please
send me a formerly muslim
woman uh because I have no
prior experience with muslim women and i
I've tried all other women and yeah.
Oh, wow.
Horrible results.
Give me a Persian woman.
Maybe that,
maybe that will work and look at,
and then you magically
appeared like a genie on a magic carpet.
Of course, magic carpet,
Aladdin reference.
That was one of my first questions after,
do you have a camel?
I wondered if you had a magic carpet.
and that they were real.
And you looked at me like I was crazy.
And then you married me.
Funny enough.
That's all Jesus' fault.
You don't like who I am?
It's Jesus' fault.
I take no credit for that.
So I'm going to go back to
Corinne's comment here that
life was easier when I knew
less and I don't know a whole lot yet.
Corrine, you will be amazed.
Right now it may be difficult.
Yeah,
it's one of the best things that
Pastor Jack talks about is
that he just shakes up your
house and your furniture is
going all over the place
and things are breaking and
crashing and then you clean
up and throw a bunch of
stuff away and then you're afresh.
you're going to be shocked
and just have faith that in
the end you are going to go, wow,
not having these things in
my life is a blessing, not a,
not a negative.
It seems like a negative as
you're handing them over.
Well, it's just so difficult.
They're all your little
security blanket or it's just,
even though, you know, deep down,
They make you miserable, a lot of them.
They're comfortable because
they're what you know.
So it's the unknown that is
so supremely uncomfortable.
And it's only having friends
to walk alongside you to be like, listen,
we've been there.
It gets better, I swear.
It's the difficulty of...
that initial rearranging of
furniture that he does?
Yeah, they seem like nothing.
So if it's,
I'm just going to give a list
that this isn't Corinne's list.
This is just a random list.
So let's say you're doing yoga.
And let's say you wear a Buddhist bracelet,
which I see many of my
friends wear those Buddha bracelets.
They just like them.
Yeah.
But it's still a Buddhist bracelet.
They're prayer beads.
Prayer beads.
Thank you.
I was trying to think of
what that was called.
To, you know, hey,
all the friends are going
to Las Vegas and we're
going to go to a rave.
And, you know, I could just go on.
You know,
I have a membership to whiskey
that comes to me every month in the mail.
Oh, yeah.
Like the fruit?
Yeah.
Going to the river with a
certain group of friends.
Not that going to the river is evil,
but it could be.
But you have these friends
that just love to get down and party.
But you take all those things.
Each one of those,
what I look at is they're a
link in the chain.
The chain that's binding you
and holding you down from a
wonderful life with Jesus
that is free of all those
things that hold you back
and hold you down.
And as each one of those things break off,
getting rid of the beads to, you know,
ending that that whiskey
that comes once a month to getting better,
getting better.
Yes.
Surrounding yourself with
better friends like Deborah and oh,
my gosh, your husband, Eric,
Deborah and Eric.
We have these new friends
that we just really love
and think that they're fantastic.
And
um ron and and um uh you
know I can just go on with
with the changes that we've
been made and it's just the
chains begin to break free
faster and faster and
faster pretty soon that
that chain is gone and um
those moments of time where
you do have something
negative happen you recover
quickly or you have
somebody you can go to we
can go to deborah we can go
to jolene and we have
people that we can go to when we need
comfort or need some
spiritual guidance or
something like that.
Absolutely.
A pep talk.
Where I could not have gone
to any of the friends that
I had when I was traveling
around the world playing ice hockey.
There may be one or two,
but I couldn't have gone to
any of them and says, hey,
I need some help with
something I'm struggling with.
They would have laughed.
They would have said, oh, me too.
Let's go do it.
Whatever that is.
Oh, I love that expression, Terry.
It is a wing or a weight,
I believe Paul said.
Oh, nice.
I want to find where that is.
I love that.
Yeah.
So I just wanted to give you, Karina,
some encouragement that
this is all a part of the process.
And a part of the process
when you're lucky and when
you're blessed because the Lord's
the Lord's checking to see
if we're hearing.
And when we hear and we obey,
he rewards that obedience
with continuing to speak into guide.
I have experienced people
who the Lord speaks and
they don't believe what he says.
They don't do what he says.
They double guess what he says.
And it ends up quelling that
voice because sorry,
my memory has just been terrible lately,
but
Paul had pointed out that if you don't,
if you don't obey the voice of God,
then eventually it gets dimmer and dimmer,
you know?
And it's so,
it's just so important for us to not,
not ignore,
not ignore when he's speaking
and then just watch him speak even more.
Yeah.
I think another one for me,
one of the important things
was to take away my fear of death and
And now you're going to
laugh because as a police officer,
I didn't fear dying on the
job because I felt that was
one of the most
well-trained people in law
enforcement here being in California.
We had all the tools.
You have a courage.
Having courage is different
than not fearing death.
I realized that because as a kid, I had,
I was definitely afraid of
death because I didn't know
what happened when you died.
I had this, this, um, this,
this empty hole of thinking
that when I die, that that's it.
And I didn't want that.
I didn't want it to be it.
And I was so afraid of just it ending.
And the great thing about it,
when I became born again and had
the presence of Jesus
touched me in the way that
he did that day in Utah, it all changed.
I knew that my life was just
starting with Jesus,
that my forever eternity
life had just begun.
And again, being in the hospital,
being told that I wasn't
going to make it through the night,
I had no fear.
If that would have happened
two years earlier, I would have been, oh,
my gosh, you know, I don't want to leave.
I have kids and all of this
panic and all this fear
would have hit me.
I may not have shown it,
but I would have felt it
deeply that I wasn't ready to go.
where now it's, it's not,
I don't have that.
I know if, if he takes me,
it's because he needs me to
come to leave.
There there's, there's a,
there's a reason why I'm
not supposed to be here any
longer that I'm supposed to be with him.
Um,
and I feel comfortable that he loves my
children and he loves you.
And, um,
he'll take care of you.
I don't, it's, it's odd.
I can tell you that it's odd
because I had that fear my entire life.
Again,
don't get lost in the fact that I
would go into buildings
with people shooting at me
and I would shoot back.
And yeah, I didn't, I did.
I had no fear.
I remember standing there
and the bullet going right
over my shoulder and then where is he at?
And then going towards where
that shot came from.
That's that's courage.
I think, and, and a, um, a sense of duty.
That's, that's my job.
Yeah.
I'd later on, I'd go, wow, I almost died.
And then I'd lay awake and
I'd be awake at home going, wow,
that was so close.
Just that I, yeah,
I'm so glad I didn't die.
So the fear, you know,
put me in a place of being
thankful that I didn't die
because I didn't, I wasn't ready to die.
Then that's where that would
all kind of manifest and come back.
But at the moment,
there is the courage
overrode that fear because
that's what I was supposed to do.
That's what I was hired for,
was to go in there and do that.
But the difference is when
you are in a hospital bed
and you're sicker than all
get out and you can't
breathe and the doctor comes in and says,
oh, this is not good.
we hope that you make it.
He was like, well,
I hope you make it through the night.
That's what we're just going to hope for.
That you better sign these
papers about whether you
want to be resuscitated or not.
The dream brings up,
I don't look at Buddha as
anything but a beautiful piece of wood.
I don't idolize it at worship.
It's just a beautiful piece of wood.
Yes.
So the important thing to
understand about idols is
that even if you don't
believe they're animated,
the enemy uses them and can animate them.
In other words, demons can possess idols.
And so whether or not you
are consciously worshiping that idol,
that idol has powers
potentially in your home.
So that's the wisdom behind
why we don't have statues
or anything that is considered a, quote,
idol or represents
something with idol worship.
So not that we're consciously worshiping
And most people who have
Buddhas in their houses are
not worshiping them.
They're not like, oh, Buddha.
They're literally decorative pieces.
And I think that was also a
trick of the enemy.
Those African masks.
I was going to say,
people that bring masks
from Hawaii or from Africa
that they put on their wall of demons.
Yes.
And they go, no, that's just art.
No, they're demons.
You're bringing them into your home.
Well, you Kirsten's just silly.
It's really stupid.
Okay.
Remember when we were house
shopping and we went into the house,
we went into a house.
Wait a minute.
I don't want to be a part of this.
Why are you involving me in your,
your masks or whatever you
have on your wall?
But remember,
we went to a home and as soon
as we we walked in, we go, oh, no,
it was thick with with evil spirits.
Yeah.
And it was it was something
we were already kind of committed,
but we couldn't get out fast enough.
And we said, we're number one,
we're not buying this house.
So let's just we got to get out of here.
There are paintings on the wall.
And it was what was some of
the imaging Hindu.
But they had painted
themselves into the painting.
Do you remember that?
They were in one of the
paintings with being
worshipped or something like that.
That was the African one of those.
Oh yeah, it was super creepy.
They were definitely satanic.
Yeah, that was creepy,
kind of crazy satanic stuff.
So even that house,
let's say that it was the
most perfect house as far
as design and setup.
It was a great house.
It didn't matter.
And we needed a house.
I was like, this had bad juju.
I wouldn't live in that
house if you paid me.
Like I couldn't get out of
there fast enough.
No way.
And again,
I think people sometimes will
think that that's silly, but it's not.
It's just not.
Either you believe, again,
going back to the first conversation,
either you believe the word
of God or you don't.
When God says angels exist
and demons exist and people exist.
So we know that the heavenly realm exists.
We know Satan and a third of
the angels fell because of
their competition with God and with Adam.
So they are roaming the earth.
Satan rolls around looking
for who he could devour.
He's the father of lies.
His goal is to steal, kill, and destroy.
So if they have access to
your life by virtue of statues,
why in the world would you
want that around?
You know what I mean?
Because you have no idea...
what consequences in your life,
whether it's bad relationships, pain,
anger issues, whatever it may be,
are connected to that negativity,
that demonic energy in your home.
And I'm not saying that for Corrine,
I'm saying that to any of us,
for any of us.
When I first came to faith,
I had boxes and boxes and
boxes of Islamic paraphernalia,
prayer beads, scarves, books.
And my mentor, I called my mom,
I was in prayer one day and
the Lord was just like, empty the house.
So I was like,
and I understood full well
what he meant by empty the house.
And I called my mentor and I was like,
I think I just heard from
the Lord to empty the house.
And she's like,
I'm not surprised at all.
She's like, get a giant trash bag,
throw it all out.
And I'm like, really?
Like the books too.
And all the clothes,
like very expensive prayer clothes.
She's like the whole kit and
caboodle girl.
Just take the whole thing.
It was hard.
It was hard, you know, but I had,
I had no idea what was,
you know what I mean?
We have no idea what our
spiritual development is connected to.
And it could be just God
changes our circumstances
because of our obedience.
You know, it's not that much different.
There's another thing we can
look at that people can consider.
And that is when you're
getting in a new
relationship with somebody
and that person has just come out of a 10,
15, 20 year relationship with a spouse,
let's say, and they divorced.
When you start dating them
and then are getting serious about
Do you want to go into their
home with all of their
marital stuff still in that home?
The pictures with the ex-wife.
Yeah,
even like little statuettes that they
picked up when they were on vacation,
on vacay in Cabo San Lucas.
With the little sombrero.
Oh, you walk in and go, oh,
where'd that come from?
Oh, my ex and I, we were in Cabo.
Oh, we were having so much fun.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, even the bed.
Like,
I was happy to know that you didn't
sleep with anybody in the
bed that we have, because that's your bed,
but you've never had a man in that bed.
Right.
And so I go, okay, I can,
we can keep that bed.
But it is one of those things.
There's bad juju.
There's bad.
We don't want that in our home.
When we're starting our life.
Yeah, that's the only thing that we can't.
We can't.
We can't chop out half of here.
Yeah, we can't do that.
But I mean,
that's the only thing we can't do.
But everything else.
Yeah.
You don't need to keep that little,
you know,
little chachka from your honeymoon.
It was.
We don't need that.
Oh my goodness,
my brother used to fight
with my mom because she
insisted to keep the old
wedding pictures with the ex-wife.
And she actually posts them
still to this day in the house.
My brother's like, what is wrong with you?
Why are you still doing this?
You know,
he's on his third wife since that one.
There's still pictures of the first one,
the first wedding.
And she said,
because that's the wedding she paid for.
Yeah.
Well, she paid for it.
She needs to get my wedding.
Yeah.
And so I paid for it.
That's so funny.
and so uh idols make an
entry point for demonic
activity amen and he says
yes I had to get rid of my
saint teresa and my holy
water font what is a holy
water font is that a
fountain I guess so the
little bowl probably where
you put the holy water oh I
mean you want to get into
the house you uh my
husband's mom had pictures
up all over her house of
the girl he wanted
that's funny the killer says
I threw a lot away after
god directed me to get rid
of everything after being
saved amen see korean how
many people had to do that
so it's common it's common
the lord does it um when
he's trying to draw you
close I love that that
there's so many people on
the broadcast that have had
a similar experience yeah
you'll find things on
occasion I i uh you know
you have a dianetic book I
remember oh tell us that yeah
I didn't know at the time.
I thought it was just a self-help book.
And then I learned later on, I go, Oh no,
that's Scientology.
Yeah.
There's a number of those
things that you just need
to purge yourself from whatever it is.
And actually my, my,
When the Lord said throw everything away,
I also had to throw stuff
away from an ex.
Stuff that had particular
significance that I knew it
had significance that
helped to break soul ties.
So I think it's really
important for if you're
single or that you have
stuff that you have held on
to that creates a soul tie,
got to get rid of that stuff too.
What if your ex-husband gave
you a beautiful ring,
gold ring with a beautiful diamond on it?
You don't want to
necessarily throw that out.
Can you melt it down and use
the diamond in a different setting?
Or what do you do with that?
So for me, all of that stuff, I never,
that to me is not an idol.
I don't think there's any need to, I mean,
you know, in settlements,
it's just like saying,
should I burn the money in
my bank account because it
was part of my settlement?
Yeah.
You wouldn't be saying that.
For sure you're not.
No,
that makes me happy that I get to spend
his money.
You would?
Yeah.
For sure you don't want me to do that.
Nor do you want me to do
that with the ring.
So yeah, to me, it's the same thing.
It's part of the settlement.
It's not like you steal them.
And in every relationship,
you don't necessarily get
to keep the ring.
It depends on your war settlement.
So this was definitely mine.
But pictures of your
honeymoon together should
not be hanging on the wall.
We didn't have a honeymoon.
And the bed that you slept in,
that should go.
I'm not looking at you directly.
I'm just saying.
Yeah.
Corinne wants an inspection.
Kate says it was hard at first,
especially in my ban, the bomb.
What's ban the bomb?
I don't know.
And Kate says, no,
it's still an attachment.
She thinks rings are an attachment.
Okay.
I've got tons of jewelry and
I don't think any of it's an attachment.
I didn't pay attention.
I assume either your dad
gave it to you or one of your people.
Well,
because also my relationship is a
little weird.
Yes.
Because it wasn't a proper
traditional relationship
and a lot of stuff I bought with my own.
Yeah, what was it, Helen?
Yeah,
Helen will learn about that when she
goes to the website.
That it wasn't a... Traditional marriage.
Yeah, it wasn't a bond necessarily.
I had to get rid of a gold
pendant that had pagan symbols.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
So tomorrow when you go to Corrine's house,
are you going to inspect
her house for... Honestly,
I don't need to inspect it.
I'll feel it instantly.
Like, oh, something burned me over here.
Actually,
that's how I found out another
one of our friends had
stuff in her house.
And I was like, because the Lord told me.
He's like, ask her about so-and-so.
And so I knew from never
even stepping foot in her house.
I still to this day have not
stepped foot in her house,
but I knew what was in her house.
Really quick,
if there's anybody that's
listening to this that lives in the... Oh,
that's cool.
Kate said she threw her
rings in a bush and one day
someone may find a treasure.
Oh, wow.
That's cool.
Corrine said that would
freak me out if you caught a vibe.
It's no problem, Corrine.
I don't have to tell you.
She catches vibes.
She's like when a pregnant
woman has enhanced smelling, you know,
during that period,
you can smell something a mile away.
She can feel demonic.
Demonic radar.
Radar, yeah.
To anybody that lives within
the Placentia-Yorba Linda
Unified School District tomorrow,
we are...
Is it celebrating the campaign launch?
I'm going to go with you.
Zara's going to the funeral straight from
Oh, nice.
Tomorrow's Friday or tomorrow's Thursday?
Oh, wait.
Tomorrow's Friday.
Sorry, Saturday.
Oh, my gosh.
I got a day ahead of myself
as the campaign launch for Maria Stubbs.
Maria Lupita Stubbs.
So if you haven't signed up
for that or can make it,
that would be great.
The more people, the better.
I think right now we're up
to about 60 people.
That's a pretty big campaign
launch for a school board spot.
It's going to be awesome.
There's going to be mariachis there too.
Yeah, it's going to be so much fun.
Tacos?
I am sure there's tacos.
My first husband was a Navy pilot.
He was tragically killed in a crash.
I can't seem to let
everything he gave me to go.
I hope that's okay with God.
You know, Kelly,
I think as Kate has pointed out,
we all have very different
opinions of these.
I definitely don't believe
this is not in the category
of idol worship.
This is not something I
believe that's in the Bible.
This is just personal.
I've, and this stuff I gave away of my,
that I had from my ex was
to break a soul tie because
I felt like I could not
break that soul tie.
So in your case,
I think this is all individual and what,
um,
the amazing thing about our God is
that he's alive and he speaks.
Yeah.
So, uh,
We need to each individually ask God.
Anything that's not
commanded directly in his
Bible is about our relationship with God,
and he will speak to us directly.
Yeah,
my use of X was an example of if the
person's still alive in particular,
you know, if your X is still alive.
that your ex, say you had,
say you had an ex,
I'm using you as an example,
but say you had an ex that
you just broke up when we met.
Uh,
I don't want to see his socks and shoes
inside your house.
That's what I was talking about.
So Kelly,
I'm sorry if I made it sound like
something else.
Um, but, um, yeah, I have a friend whose,
um, husband was a Navy SEAL.
He was killed in action.
And, um,
the ex is involved in a lot
of... Wait a minute.
He was killed in action,
so he's not an ex.
Right.
Well, his... What do you call that?
Deceased spouse.
You've heard of Murph, the Murph run.
It's an athletic competition.
They do it all over the place.
His name is Murphy.
But her current husband...
has to go to all these
events for her husband who was killed.
And so, but he loves it.
I mean, he was a proud, I mean,
he served America.
He was killed in the line of
duty and he knew that that
was a part of her life.
And that's amazing.
And I mean, that's what I'm saying.
I think it's only in the
situation where there's a
soul tie that needs to be broken,
not a relationship that was
based on love that just still,
that memories still fill a home.
I don't think that that's
something that God has a problem with.
Part of your life.
It's just like saying,
we're not going to have,
we're not going to let our
kids keep pictures of their
mom in their room.
Like, what are you talking about?
It's their mom.
You know what I mean?
Sometimes you are not going to break.
Entirely different.
And it's entirely different.
Yeah, for sure.
Thank you for bringing that up.
I think that's important to
talk about before we go off.
Yeah, absolutely.
Carrie says,
my mother-in-law kept Eddie's
first wife picture on the
wall until she died.
Not one of me.
Was she sending a message?
And let me tell you, Carrie,
I don't know about you,
but my mom was definitely
sending a message.
And he accused her of it all the time.
She denied it, but I know she loved it.
Your mom cracks me up.
She's a hoot.
She is.
I think we need to sign off.
Yes.
Coming up on a network here.
Yes, you just, yeah,
you need to pray us out.
Yes, let's pray us out.
Let's get this done.
And Andy's going out of town,
so we won't be on tomorrow.
Maybe hopefully Saturday, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
Maybe we go live from the event.
Oh, from Maria Stubbs.
Yeah.
Yeah, bring your gear.
Yeah.
Let's do it.
All right.
Dear Lord, thank you for this opportunity.
Thank you for your knowledge, the wisdom,
the timeless Bible that you give us.
Lord,
I heard a great expression of your
truth today that we believe in miracles.
We believe in prophecy.
We believe in all of the gifts,
but we don't want a new truth.
We want the truth, your truth, Lord.
Everything that we need for
righteous living is
contained in your Bible, Lord.
And so we ask that you
engrave it on our hearts
and bring it up to our
minds when we need it, Lord.
And anything that's not there,
anything that's personal to
each and every one of us,
that you would speak to our
hearts and send us a message,
whether it's through scripture,
through prayer, whatever it may be, Lord,
just draw us to the truth.
your truth, and your truth for our lives,
Lord.
Thank you for the blessing of our friends.
Bless them and protect them.
Give them healing and
recovery from their illnesses, Lord.
Bless Helen's family.
She's asked for blessings for her family,
and we continue to ask for
blessings for Kate and
for carrie for iris for all
of our friends for kelly
all of our friends on the
broadcast kareen that may
suffer from ailments lord
um that are debilitating
for them lord we ask for
healing you are jehovah
rafa all the cures are in
your hand lord and we ask
you for those to be spread
amongst your sons and your
daughters lord we love you
to the mighty name of jesus
that we pray amen amen
thank you my friends we
love you guys love you god bless