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Oh, I thought it's pointing.
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He has viewers.
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What's that?
They will be watching people chew.
Chew and make noise.
Oh, my gosh.
I would shoot somebody.
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6-11 we'll be reading that
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are going to read from aw
tozer for the christian
leader it's june 9th at the
time of this live broadcast
and uh the title is
worshipers from rebels
That's all of us.
Yeah.
Right?
Well, yeah.
And not only so,
but we also joy in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom we have now
received the atonement.
That's Romans 5.11.
Sometimes evangelical
Christians seem to be fuzzy.
Did I yell in your ear?
I'm sorry.
Sometimes.
Evangelical Christians.
I sound like NPR.
That's nice.
NPR.
That's nice.
I like it.
Sometimes, Eddie.
Evangelical Christians seem
to be fuzzy and uncertain
about the nature of God and
his purposes in creation and redemption.
In such instances...
So sorry.
You jumped so hugely.
It really, your,
your cop voice comes out
every now and then.
I feel like I need to hold
my hands up and freeze.
When you want people to.
Yeah.
No matter what you say, I think of freeze.
Talking about ice cream and I'm like,
all right, I'm going to settle down.
But that was just a really strong.
It was a jump scare.
All right, let me start all over again.
Sorry, folks.
Sometimes evangelical
Christians seem to be fuzzy
and uncertain about the
nature of God and his
purposes in creation and redemption.
In such instances,
the preachers often are to blame.
There are still preachers
and teachers who say that
Christ died so we would not
drink and not smoke and not
go to the theater.
No wonder people are confused.
No wonder they fall into the
habit of backsliding when
such things are held up as
the reason for salvation.
Jesus was born of a virgin,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
died on the cross,
and rose from the grave to
make worshipers out of rebels.
Lord,
keep the cross in the forefront of
our evangelical preaching
and fill us with your
longing for sinners to become worshipers.
Amen.
Yeah, well, you know what?
I've talked to quite often about, you know,
that's one of the things
that I think keeps men in particular,
and maybe some women,
but men in particular,
that they think if they follow Jesus,
that they have to give up.
Going to the theater.
Not the peekaboo theater.
The peekaboo theater, you better give up.
I'm just telling you right now,
give up the peekaboo theater.
But the regular movies.
I was going to go to, you know,
going to the bar with your friends.
Yes.
Going to Vegas, going to the river.
Right.
That all has to go.
And I guess some of it has to go.
If you can't keep a handle on it.
Everybody knows how to keep
a handle on it.
I don't think I've met
anyone that can keep an handle on it.
True.
So, so what's he saying here?
What is it?
What's the level?
Christ died.
I have a great example.
Okay.
I want to hear this.
We had our friends at church today, right?
Whose son just got married.
We were talking about the
arrangements for the couple
and what a story that was wild.
So, uh,
I told them, how'd you guys end up?
Because I knew they paid.
I was like,
how'd you guys end up being the
ones that paid?
And she said, well,
it's actually kind of a
crazy story that the parents,
the girl's parents kept
making us jump through
these crazy hoops in order
for them to be willing to pay.
And I was like, okay, so like what?
She said, well,
they absolutely said
absolutely no dancing.
And
And she said, well, that's a deal breaker.
I'm dancing at my son's wedding.
Like, what are you talking about?
She's like, what?
No, we're from XYZ country.
We do not dance.
And it was like a hill they
were willing to die on.
Now,
do we know whether they just wanted to
get out of paying?
So they came up with like no apple juice.
I didn't think about that.
That's a good.
Right.
Absolutely.
No apple juice.
They're like, well, why no apple juice?
Because they go to the same
church as all of us.
Right.
But Pastor Jack's church, we all know,
can be a little demanding.
So that's also what Tozer is
saying is you can't become a Pharisee.
Don't become so legalistic
and falsely legalistic
because David danced.
There is music and worship
and dancing out of joy in the Bible.
There's no restriction against dancing.
So our friends ended up
picking up the cash for the wedding.
Because they wanted to dance.
They wanted to dance.
She wanted to dance at her son's wedding.
And they wanted to dance,
the husband and wife.
And the husband and wife wanted to dance.
And so even up until the last minute,
they were threatening them.
We're not coming if you have dancing.
And they're like, well, guess what?
We're having dancing.
So that's, I think,
one of the things that
Tosha is referring to is
that you can't tell people
that that one action, even drinking.
Listen, swindlers,
drunkards and adulterers
will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Full stop.
That's Bible.
So you are not going to be a
drunkard and inherit the kingdom.
But you can't tell people
alcohol is forbidden.
It's not.
Right.
So that's what he's saying is like,
don't make up rules.
Don't become a Pharisee and
say you have to wash your
hands like this and that in
order to enter the house of God.
What's the Kevin Bacon movie
where they didn't dance?
Footloose?
Footloose, yeah.
I haven't heard this
discussion about not being
able to dance since Footloose.
Right.
I don't know.
The Mormons, too.
I don't like the Mormons dance.
Interesting.
You know,
we may come up against this
ourselves with the three girls.
that we have.
Now, I don't know.
I mean, is there an age limit?
Meaning having to pay?
Yeah, having to pay as the parents.
Courtney, we're done.
She's old enough.
That's what I was wondering
because she's going to be 30 in April,
next April.
I'm thinking over 25.
Right.
I would say 22.
Once you're a grown adult
and you make your own money.
You waited that long now.
Right?
Yeah.
You got to pay for your own.
I think the idea is that you
agree to help.
And they had a very funny condition.
They told the kids, listen,
we are not doing anything.
So you don't get a wedding
planner with this check.
You get a check.
If you want to put on your own wedding,
more power to you.
But do not look at me now as
the father of the bride or
whatever and think that I'm
going to now pick out your
colors and get you invitations.
And I think that would have
to be my condition, too.
Okay, how about this one?
Now, this ain't dancing,
but what about alcohol?
I would not serve alcohol at
a wedding I pay for.
If somebody else is paying, fine,
but I would not pay to get people drunk.
I cannot do that.
Like an all-you-can-drink... An open bar?
An open bar.
Absolutely.
And they'd be BYOB.
I'm planning on,
we have to have this discussion.
Oh yeah, it's already an issue, I'm sure.
Is it a tailgating party?
Are they going to throw the
top down and bring their own cooler?
Well, we already know that one of our kids,
the other person,
their family loves to partake.
Only one of the kids or the
four other kids?
We don't know the other,
who they're going to marry.
Oh,
you mean the potential spouse of that
one.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
But no, but you have your whole, uh,
the other half of their,
their own family.
I remember going to a
wedding when I was a
drinker and I was so upset
that they weren't serving alcohol.
Well, I'll tell you, I go,
who has a wedding where
they don't have a family of drunks.
Yeah.
My uncles all worked around it.
So, because my dad, um,
stopped serving alcohol 30 years ago.
So they would bring it in the car.
Yeah.
They would put it in the car,
put it in flasks,
go down the hall to the hotel's bar.
Every kind of trick you can think of,
they would do, which is fine.
If you do it at a venue
where there is an open bar,
that's not our problem.
Right.
Oh, you know what?
It was the Mormon fact
because my ex-family,
a lot of them were Mormon.
It was a Mormon wedding.
My mother-in-law and I,
we went out looking for
They said I had alcohol.
We cannot possibly be at a
reception and not be drinking.
Things you got to worry about.
Yeah.
Okay.
So interesting.
So in regard to this devotional.
Well,
and also in the situation you just
told about the family,
they'd be paying for the
wedding because it's their daughter.
Yeah.
So we would have no say.
Right.
Which is fine.
So in relationship to this devotional.
We could try to stay on target here.
Well, we did.
We did.
We were talking about false
teachers telling a false
gospel and confusing people.
Okay,
so that's why no wonder they fall
into the habit of backsliding.
Yeah.
When such things are held up
as the reason for salvation.
Exactly, because they just confuse people.
So we had a great question
from the audience.
I'm not going to name names,
but they sent me a question saying, well,
how do you know,
in response to our
devotional from yesterday, I believe,
that
They were asking,
how do you know when
someone's a false teacher
or a bad teacher?
And I don't want to get
caught up in listening to
somebody who's bad and find
out months later that I've
been putting nonsense into
my head or a slow creep.
I think nowadays a bigger
fear is the slow creep.
My piece of advice that
worked phenomenally well
for me since I had no
Christian friends and I
came to Christ online was
to be discipled.
it's one of the commandments of the Lord.
It is unfortunately a lost art, but it is,
um, seeking out discipleship.
In other words, um,
finding a mentor in the
faith that you can trust.
And it could be more than one.
I had, I'd say three.
And so I ran everything by
one of those three people.
Um,
Because you don't want to
double guess everything,
and you have to be able to trust someone.
And so the easiest thing is
to just filter them through
people that you trust,
and that's what discipleship is.
If somebody's telling you, listen,
you should read your Bible every day.
These are the things you
should try cutting out of your life.
These are the way you should
try to pursue holiness.
And yeah, well, I found this new pastor.
What do you think?
I don't think it's biblical.
I don't think you should listen to it.
It's not a...
It's not a Lord over you.
It's a teacher.
It's a discipleship.
It's a friend.
It's a mentor.
Cool.
All right.
Should we say hi to our friends there?
Yay.
Hello, ladies.
Carrie and Coco.
Hey, ladies.
Ann Kelly's here.
Hi.
And Jen.
Hello from Jim and Jen.
Love you guys.
A punch and cake were served
at our reception 49 years ago.
250 people and Chuck
Swindoll did the marriage.
Oh, that is glorious.
I love that.
That is the sweetest thing ever.
250.
That's a lot of people.
Well, that church was huge.
Evie free.
Yeah.
Um, you have to feed all those people.
That's what I think about.
Oh yeah.
Jan.
No, she said punch a cake.
A bunch of cake.
Yeah.
No food, no chicken, no.
How did you get away with that, Jan?
I love that.
And Coco,
I pitched in a flat amount per wedding.
End of that story.
So you did not become the
wedding planner either.
I was like, when she said it to me,
I was like, oh,
I got to remember to have that clause.
I am not the wedding planner.
We have our ways.
verify against the Bible and
agree with discipleship.
That was Carrie's input.
And Kelly says, yes.
All right.
What's scripture have to say
about this whole, Oh,
this is the reconciliation.
Romans five, six through 11.
You see at just the right
time when we were still powerless,
Christ died for us.
Sorry.
I suddenly was wondering
what version we were
reading and I got distracted.
You see, at just the right time,
when we were still powerless,
Christ died for the ungodly.
Very rarely will anyone die
for a righteous person,
though for a good person,
someone might possibly dare to die.
But God demonstrates his own
love for us in this.
While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
Since we have now been
justified by his blood,
how much more shall we be
saved from God's wrath through him?
For if while we were God's enemies,
we were reconciled to him
through the death of his son,
how much more, having been reconciled,
shall we be saved through his life?
Not only is this so,
but we also boast in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom we have now
received reconciliation.
Amen.
All that to say...
Christ died for everyone,
not just the elect,
not just those that would
one day accept Christ,
but he died for everyone.
He died so that we can live.
So those who believe in him,
how much more of a life we
will have as a result of
being God's friends versus his enemies.
So how much more than as
those reconciled to Christ
will we have a benefit in his life?
So then that gets us to the
Bima seat.
Yes.
Instead of the white throne judgment.
Yes.
And then we'll find out
where we sit in the stadium.
Front row or up in the sky.
And how many crowns we get.
Oh, Coco's got to wait, wait, wait.
Before you go for three days now,
just needed to hear a little bit.
Let me know if you're gone already.
But she was asking about
Greg Laurie's Harvest Crusade.
Coco was asking me.
I think it's an amazing event.
I think everybody who lives
in Southern California
should go once in their life.
I mean,
Greg Laurie's Calvary Chapel
through and through.
He speaks more topically now.
He used to be a lot more
expository Bible verse by verse before,
but just the crusade itself
is a extraordinary experience.
I agree.
Right?
You've gone several times.
Yeah.
I love it.
Yeah.
I love the whole kit and caboodle.
The whole nine yards.
It's being there with so
many people that are either
believers or searching and
Want to take their believing family.
Yeah.
And then you see it move.
You see the movement.
You see.
Yes.
See people coming down from
the stadium into the field.
And it's just makes you cry.
Emotion.
Yeah.
It's it's something else.
God fills that stadium.
Yes.
I think it's definitely worth it.
Yeah, definitely.
For sure.
So we had.
pastor bob today over at
calvary chapel we did they
give you a southern accent
I did I don't know why and
I know we've been talking
about worship for the last
couple days and we may have
overdone the whole thing
but I'm not sure can you
overdo it and overdo but my
gosh that um casey that casey
The last song,
what she said before it and
told us to listen to the
words and concentrate on
the words of that song.
Man,
I thought my shirt was going to be all
full of... I was going to need a towel.
You were that touched.
Oh my gosh.
I've heard that song.
How many times have we heard that song?
A million years.
Over and over and over again.
Yes.
But I've never heard it like that.
because it's Casey, it's her presence.
She's got an anointing to
usher us into the presence of the Lord.
So the Lord fills the room
where two or more are gathered.
He is present, but it's also,
and he gave a really great
description about all of that,
Pastor Bob today,
or I hope I'm not mistaking,
which is so much because I
listened to all of Pastor Jack too,
but about the importance of giving,
Attending church.
Was that Pastor Bob?
About the importance of being a church.
It's just because the assembly.
Oh,
because he was saying it right before
communion.
Yeah.
The importance of don't
forsake the assembly of the saints is.
The importance is not just
to be in community,
but that we are the body.
He is the head.
So he comes to dwell with his people.
So you're missing the
presence of the Holy Spirit
and the presence of the
Lord in that congregation
when you don't come.
So there was this spiritual
significance there.
That he is trying to impart
to us why it's so important
to be in church.
Do you remember the name of the song?
Yeah, Billionaires.
Billionaires, that's right.
You just said it.
Are you ready for that?
Years.
A billion.
Yeah.
Lyrics.
I want to know.
a billion ways billion Hold on,
it'll pop up on my feed.
Yeah, sorry, folks.
I just is it?
So will I 100 billion times Oh, so long.
So it's a Hillsong song.
So I 100 billion times
There we go.
Sorry.
I wanted to... Oh, man,
it's going to give me lurks.
God of creation, there at the start,
before the beginning of time,
with no point or reference,
you spoke to the dark and
fleshed out the wonder of light.
And as you speak,
a hundred billion galaxies are born.
That was the one,
the first start of the tears.
Yes.
And I don't know why it was, um,
the power of God.
Yes.
That, uh,
he just spoke and a hundred billion,
billion galaxies were
poured in the vapor of your breath.
The planets form.
If the stars were made to worship,
so will I, Oh,
I'm already getting teary eyed.
You're so cute.
It is the most of it.
You got to listen.
Uh, uh,
Corrine was saying she has to hear it.
Um,
And I hope they – do they
replay the worship on the
YouTube version?
Sometimes they cut it out.
After the service, just like Jack,
they'll cut it out after that day.
But if you catch it on the
day – And maybe Facebook.
I don't know if they
broadcast on Facebook.
I don't know.
Oh, my gosh.
I'm so sorry, folks.
But just – Like,
just as she cries every time she hears,
so will I. It is.
I don't know.
It particularly hit me today that –
you, uh, Corrine,
only thing you really need to do,
you know, if you've not,
if you've heard the song
before is to really listen to the words.
And,
and I think it also has to do with the
several days that we've
been in this devotional talking about the,
the power of Jesus and
worship and the importance of worshiping.
And it is,
what is it we're worshiping
other than he just existed.
You're worshiping Jesus.
the greatness and the power
of god right and that he
sent his son down here for
our sins it's the whole the
whole thing the whole thing
and I think that that song
just captures so much of it
all what else do we have
from pastor bob today um
wow I'm reading that it's
it's a she's right there's
a lot of words in this song
it doesn't the it doesn't repeat until
Oh, yeah,
so this is the point he was
repeating himself.
So we're in Revelation 1, 12, and 13,
and he was saying a really
beautiful thing.
If you are not listening,
you really should.
Pastor Bob Kopany is going
through the book of Revelation,
Calvary Chapel East Anaheim.
So if you juxtapose the way
he teaches the book of
Revelation to Pastor Jack Hibbs,
a lot of you are students,
listeners of Pastor Jack.
Pastor Jack is very much
focused on the
eschatological significance
of the book of Revelation.
That is his expertise.
That is his sweet spot, so to speak.
And you learn a tremendous
amount from the symbolism of that.
The way Pastor Bob is
teaching it is that we have
to understand the book of
Revelation personally and
how it's trying to reveal Christ to us.
And so in this particular couple of verses,
when he's talking about John's vision,
he says, and in the middle.
OK, so he says, and having turned,
I saw the seven golden lampstands.
And he says those are
clearly defined in the book
as the churches.
And he says that in the
middle of the lampstands,
I saw one like the son of
man clothed in a robe,
reaching to the feet and
girded across his chest
with a golden sash.
So that's Christ.
And he's saying God reveals
himself in his church.
He's standing amidst the lampstands.
blew my mind.
I've never heard that interpretation.
It is so simple and yet so significant.
And that's where he gets to
the point of why you have
to be a church because he
reveals himself in his bride.
This is his body.
This is who he comes back for.
This is who he lived for and
who he died for.
And so he reveals himself there.
So he's like,
you want to meet the Lord and
You should be present in his church.
And so even if you're like
one of our friends who
likes to hide in the back,
it doesn't matter.
You're still in the building.
You don't have to socialize.
You just have to be present.
Hello, Lisa Hernandez.
That song is divinely inspired.
So many of their songs.
I know people hate their guts,
but you know what?
I'm taking Pastor Jack's
rationale and I don't care
who's singing it.
I just like the words as
long as they're biblical.
Yeah.
Carrie says listening to
various good pastors can increase wisdom.
Oh, absolutely.
I don't know what I would do
without my roster of pastors.
You even turned on Pastor
Mark the other day.
You haven't been doing that
at bedtime much anymore
because he likes me.
He likes to raise his voice.
Yes.
And he startles you.
I've seen you get startled with him too.
Right.
So I feel like I'm in good company.
I'm not clear what this series is about.
It's about the nature of God,
but I don't know what book he's in.
So I don't know if he's
taking a break from books.
But I loved his Samuel, Samson,
the book of Judges.
His commentary on Judges was amazing.
I have to go back to that.
Pastor Mark Driscoll we're
talking about in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Trinity Church.
Amazing pastor.
He's been through so much.
I think what gives him so much wisdom
is the trials and tribulations that he,
much because of his own self.
Yes,
he continues to go through trials and
tribulations.
But he learns.
I mean, he takes it,
and he has good mentors.
One mentor kind of did him
wrong the other day,
but I think that he has the
ability to look at things
that he's gone through and
use them powerfully as part
of his testimonies.
Oh, you know, another thing is, I mean,
we brought up Zara a lot this week where,
you know,
there is like the topic of
discussion a lot.
But she had the opportunity today, right,
to share her a little bit
of her testimony.
Yes.
And so do you think this
might be one of the first
times she's able to share
something that made.
I think so.
And I wasn't even there.
Just did this.
She did it all by herself.
So awesome.
Yeah, that's incredible.
It was awesome.
I'm really excited.
I love that.
I think that could be one of
those moments that I don't
want to speak too much
because the devil hears stuff,
but it's one of those
moments that it just takes
you into the next phase.
Amen.
Thank you for that.
Oblique references.
That was a big word I was looking for.
Curious comment.
Do we know what she's referring to?
You don't tell.
Pastor Mark does.
Do you get that?
No.
I thought I had it for a second,
but I don't see it.
Explain, Carrie.
I would love to know.
Because Pastor Mark is one
of my favorites.
And Lisa says, how brave.
She gets it from her mama.
Thank you.
You gave your testimony today, too.
I will, because, so sorry, it was brief.
She didn't give a lot of details,
but she was explaining to her new beau,
his mother and father,
why she does not see her father.
So that gave her an opportunity to say,
well,
we were Muslims and when we left Islam,
my father no longer speaks to us.
And so they were like, oh, wow.
And so then I read her the scripture and
of uh uh christ rewards you
a hundred times those that
have left father mother
brothers sisters um shall
be will see their reward in
heaven a hundredfold that
is that exact message that
that jesus was sharing is
that your your family will
hate you yes that is zara's
story your story the minute
you begin following jesus
I was happy just to leave it
at don't want to talk to you.
I'm sure if they can slitter
our throats easily, they would.
We're infidels.
No wonder we both have a gun
in our nightstand.
Oh my gosh.
never know you never know
can you imagine seeing your
brother climbing through
the window I in dreams
really oh we have had
spiritual battles numerous
times in my dreams wow
surrounded surrounded by
the people from your old
yes yes it's horrible
they're such really uh I
can't even tell you but
he's a worshiper but god
willing one day he'll come
to faith in christ
Oh, you did.
You yell.
That's what he's talking about.
He yells, you yell.
That's funny.
Okay.
Anything else, Snooks?
I think that's it.
Any prayer requests?
I don't know if I didn't see
any come through,
but we'll give you just a
couple seconds if you guys
have any prayer requests.
Lisa, speaking of, how are you feeling?
Any prayer requests that we can have?
I know you were tired.
I have something.
Okay.
Oh, my gosh.
I don't even know.
Is this supposed to be your
prayer time or is this
supposed to be our guest's prayer time?
No, this is important.
Oh, my gosh.
So...
For three weeks,
I've had horrific back pain.
This is a praise report.
Yes.
For all of our people.
Yes.
All of our people.
I would stand up and I look like,
you remember when I had oxygen tank?
Do you remember how I looked?
I had oxygen tank and I was pushing.
I was looking very, very old.
Hurt my back the other day.
And I was like that for a good 15,
20 feet.
I couldn't stand all the way up.
And it took a while before I could stand.
The pain was excruciating.
And you couldn't bend down
and pick things up.
I couldn't put on shoes.
I had to wear my flip-flops.
And I picked a piece of
paper on the driveway.
I told the story.
And when I went to stand up
for picking up the paper,
I almost passed out.
The pain was excruciating.
I got completely dizzy and
thought I was going to fall.
And then over two nights on the devotional,
you shared it with the people.
And you said, pray for Andy's back.
Miraculous.
Thursday,
I was still in excruciating pain.
Friday.
Gone.
After the last prayer request.
I have no pain.
I was playing pickleball with my son.
I was playing basketball.
I was in the pool.
The kids were jumping on my back.
Prayer works.
Don't give up.
He's going, I don't understand.
I could tell when he got out of bed.
I looked at him and I was like, hey,
are you all better?
And he's like, I don't know.
I think so.
And it was miraculous.
And what did I do?
What did I do?
You want me to tell them
you're a little dancey?
Yeah, I did a dance.
You don't have to tell what kind of dance.
Oh, okay.
I did a little dance.
You did a little dance?
I danced and I was like going, oh my God,
look it.
See, right now, I couldn't do that.
On Thursday, Friday,
I wake up and I can do this.
And I was doing a dance.
And then playing pickleball.
And basketball.
I was playing horse.
It was amazing.
You just promise you're
going to take care of
yourself when you go back to the gym.
You just need you to be a little more.
Well, you know what's so funny?
Because I was trying,
and I was holding off
taking these drugs that the doctor gave.
They gave me steroids.
Nothing narcotic,
just muscle relaxers and steroids.
Yeah, they thought, well,
we're going to have to give
you something a little bit stronger.
And I go, you know what?
I'm not going to take it.
I didn't want to take it that night.
I'm going to forget why,
because I didn't have food
in my stomach or something like that.
So I go, you know what?
I'm going to start it tomorrow.
I didn't even start it.
And, uh, I, and I was curious,
it wasn't from the
medication because I was,
I was kind of laughing like, wow,
I wonder that's kind of, and I,
then I re then I remembered.
Everybody prayed and my back
pain was gone.
It was amazing.
Thank you, everybody.
Everybody who prayed.
Thank you.
Because I know you prayed
for my back a lot.
I did.
I actually had a long time.
I think you're praying for
yourself about my back.
I had a long time for Jesus
about the back.
I didn't sign up for that.
And I feel like Jesus was like,
I can't stop him.
He is just hurting himself.
And what do you want me to do about it?
And I was like, I get it.
I get it.
We're going to have a long
talk once he's healed,
but I can't have this go on
too much longer.
Yeah, you were praying for a bad.
You're praying for yourself
not to have a husband who had a bad back.
Yeah.
Is that the same thing?
It is.
Is it?
I think my friends will say
it's the same thing.
I wonder which one healed me.
Was it that prayer that
healed me or was it my
friends who actually care
about my pain and prayed for my pain?
I think it's both.
Really?
I do.
Okay.
Oh, Jim's AFib.
We will definitely pray for that.
Finally stopped two hours ago.
Wow.
I don't know what AFib is.
What is it?
I think it's heart palpitations,
but it's stronger.
Oh.
Your heartbeat is out of sync.
So is it like erratic heartbeat?
Like does he have some kind
of a monitor that tells him?
Yes.
Carrie, not only did I sign up for COVID,
I signed up for COVID,
I signed up for cancer,
I signed up for lots of children,
a very mean and nasty ex-wife.
All of those I knew.
All of them.
PTSD.
Poor Andy's been shot at.
He's been hit in the head.
He's got all these things.
All of that stuff I signed up for.
But I did not sign up for a bad back.
Because that means he can't
help me do anything.
I'm the one with the bad back.
That we knew.
Or the side effects of prostate cancer.
You didn't sign up for that either.
I didn't sign up for that either.
Me and Jesus.
You know when you have that
relationship with Jesus
where you're just like,
I know what he's promised.
Like,
I know as clear as day what he's
promised.
I know what I've signed up for.
And every time one of the
things I've signed up for irritates me,
I'm like...
and he looks at me and he's
like honey you signed up
for this so I don't want to
hear it out of you um but
that no I didn't sign up
for that and he says I know
I know you didn't but he's
just he's he's a little
reckless he's a little
reckless so jan says goes
fast the whole time he's
going to see the heart
doctor in two weeks see if
ablation will help hey jim
you got to say is you know
it's every time I look at
you jen that my heart does
this you have to say it
with sincerity just look at
her grab her by the face
and say oh my gosh my heart
is a flutter every time I
look at you so that in
other words she sees yeah
he has to tell her she
makes it miserable you may
cause me to die because you
your beauty is so amazing unsurpassed
You see me do it on the show.
It has AFib too.
I remember Carrie telling me that too.
Oh, wow.
82.
I got, Oh, I don't have my watch.
I have the other watch on,
but on my Apple watch.
Yes.
I have it on the heart thing all the time.
I check my heart rate all the time.
And I do notice when I look at you,
it's like way high.
It's incredibly high.
Okay.
So we got two prayer requests.
Lisa, you didn't answer me.
You didn't answer me whether
you're feeling okay.
Keep praying for John and I
for endurance and rest.
Oh, she did answer.
Sorry about that.
I missed it in the fluttering.
Yes.
Rest.
Jim and Ed.
Lisa.
Oh, dear Lord, thank you for joy.
Thank you for your peace and
your joy that is just supernatural.
It's something that passes
all understanding.
It's something that I had
never experienced before meeting you.
Thank you for making us
members of your family.
Thank you for allowing us to
be members of the body of Christ.
your church and that you
will return for spotless
bride lord and that we um
will remain faithful and
vigilant and courageous and
strong uh all the qualities
that you have taught us
throughout the centuries um
in your old testament all
the way through the to the
new of what you expect of
us in terms of
righteousness and holiness lord um
Give us the strength,
give us the endurance to
keep your commandments and
to love you with our heart, mind, soul,
and strength.
We ask for blessings for our
friends that are suffering from ailments,
Lord,
for Jim and for Eddie that have AFib,
Lord,
that you just make a right beat in
their hearts, that there's a steady beat,
Lord,
that you give their minds and their
bodies rest and
along with Lisa and John, Lord,
it's so important to have
peace and to have rest.
You take care of the details, Lord.
And so we ask you to remind
us of that and that we will
let go of our needs to
figure everything out
because we lay it at your feet, Lord,
and you will take care of us.
And we're so grateful for that.
We love you.
We honor you with our lives.
And, um,
It's in the mighty name of
Jesus that we ask for all things.
Amen.
Sorry,
I got my mind started to go asking
Jesus other questions.
Okay.
You know what we need to do
just before we need to get
t-shirts in a store where I
went to the graduation
party today and I could
have sold 10 of these shirts today.
Oh, you just set up an Etsy store,
but are you allowed to resell them?
I don't know.
So this one says,
God's Guns and Trump.
I think that one's going to
be a very popular one.
Yes, everybody loves this shirt.
But you bought it at the...
At a table on the side of
Yorba Linda Boulevard
down... I don't think
you're allowed to remake somebody else's.
I don't know.
Who knows?
Maybe it's copyrighted God
or Guns or Trump.
Right?
I don't know.
No,
but the design I would think is
copyrighted.
No, but I could have sold a bunch of them.
I should go.
Yeah,
you should go in the t-shirt business
because people love your t-shirt.
It's all used.
Yes.
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