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Today, you want to find Psalm 95,
6 through 11 in your Bible,
as we will be reading it a
little bit later on after
we read the devotional.
And I love this devotional.
I'm not quite sure what it's
feeding into me.
Is that feeding into me?
That makes no sense whatsoever.
It kind of does.
Feeding into me,
like dropping into my soul.
I was trying to sound like, you know,
when you go to church and
people have all these pithy sayings.
Yes.
It sounded like there was
going to be something like that,
but it didn't work out.
So you know what it meant.
Hey, it's March 14th.
Yes.
It happens on March 14th.
Andy Falco Brian Jimenez was
born on this earth.
March 14th.
Really?
Yes.
Oh my gosh, I completely forgot.
Oh, you did not.
Oh my gosh.
You would never forget your birthday.
But today, for now,
we can talk about my birthday later.
We are reading from Toja for
the Christian Leader.
It's March 14th,
a devotional that's
entitled Sheep Are Led.
Psalm 95,
six through seven is the reference.
And he says in the New King James, oh no,
in King James, oh come,
let us worship and bow down.
Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker,
for he is our Lord, our God, sorry.
And we are the people of his
pasture and the sheep of his hand.
Cattle are driven, sheep are led,
and our Lord compares his people to sheep,
not to cattle, thank God.
It is especially important
that Christian ministers
know the law of the leader,
that he can lead others
only as far as he himself has gone.
Good point.
The minister must experience
what he would teach or he
will find himself in the
impossible position of
trying to drive sheep.
For this reason,
he should seek to cultivate
his own heart before he
attempts to preach to the
hearts of others.
If he tries to bring them
into a heart knowledge of truth,
which he has not actually experienced,
he will surely fail.
In his frustration,
he may attempt to drive them
And scarcely anything is so
disheartening as the sight
of a vexed and confused
shepherd using the lash on
his bewildered flock in a
vain attempt to persuade
them to go beyond the point
to which he himself has attained.
The law of the leader tells
us who are preachers.
Oh my gosh,
why am I having trouble with
that sentence?
The law of the leaders tells us
who are preachers like us,
that it is better to
cultivate our souls than our voices.
We cannot take to our people
beyond where we ourselves have been.
And it thus becomes vitally
important that we be men of
God in the last and highest
sense of that term.
Lord,
help me to listen to you and be
spiritually nurtured to
have my soul cultivated by
you in silence and in solitude.
Amen.
I forgot to say one thing is
because I was so distracted by the date,
March 14th, is that comment.
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What do you get from Tozer today?
So much, actually,
because if you juxtapose it
to what's happening in our
world today in the church,
it's all about creating a
good sermon that gets
people on their feet, jump up and down,
get excited, feel motivated.
It's all about the outward
displays of excitement today.
over the preacher and his
message as opposed to being
down on our knees and
saying lord make me holy as
though as thou are holy so
that I may lead others to
holiness um help me to
follow you so that I can
help others follow you
right in other words that
are manifestations of
christ is what will draw people to christ
Not the words that come out
of our mouth or not the
cute way in which we preach
the word or we wear cool
outfits that people are
attracted to or we have
good food because that works too.
That it is a sense of I feel
the Lord's presence in their presence.
I feel the Lord's presence
when I'm with that person.
And the only way that's
possible is that we have
achieved a level of
holiness and discipline in
ourselves that Christ has
made manifest in us.
And so I just,
I think it's just so important.
I think this is a really,
really important point in
our days of glittering and glitz.
And our preachers are more
focused on being good
orators than on holiness.
Right.
You also want,
and this goes for a lot of
different things, not just preachers.
Preachers and teachers.
Is that you want to,
when you're listening to somebody,
you want to know that they
have experience in what it
is they're talking about.
Right.
And they walk in it.
And I think that's why it's so important,
especially where Jack is now.
pastor jack hyams over at
calvary chapter hills or
mark driscoll when they
talk about going through
difficulties especially
mark driscoll when he's
speaking speaking in the
portion of the bible it
talks about how god will
carry you through the
difficult times in life is
that mark driscoll can
speak on that subject right
he if you know his history
at all he had a church in
washington and it all went
sideways and he was
churchless and homeless and homeless.
And, uh, and then has now created, uh,
God has given them the gifts of,
of his perseverance through
a church in Arizona.
And so when he speaks on that subject,
you know,
that it's coming from somebody
with experience.
Right.
And, um,
when you have young pastors
sometimes come up when the,
when the lead pastor is out of town,
it is hard.
I know it's hard for me
because I'm being slightly older,
you know, it, you know,
I'm not 25 anymore.
Are you sure?
Yes.
Is that when you have a young pastor,
it is, it really,
it shouldn't necessarily be this way,
but they will begin to get
into some parts of the Bible.
And I, and I, in my head slightly, I go,
what do you know?
Oh, you know what I mean?
And I don't mean, I'm not,
I'm not trying to be a jerk.
I mean, it sounds like a jerk, but like,
for whatever reason,
he can be speaking biblically and,
And that's fantastic.
But you know what, though?
I think if you compare that
to like when we heard
Pastor Josh speak at our
church at East Anaheim,
you don't know how much
he's necessarily walked
through because he's a
young brother and he was
raised very conservatively.
So he he doesn't have this, you know,
crazy checkered past.
uh but his passion for the
gospel there's something to
be said for people like
pastor bob copeny like josh
who've walked with the lord
most of their adult life
yes there's also a maturity
a a sense of discipline of
holiness when they tell you
this is what the lord
demands you trust that
because they are living a
certain amount of it.
They may not have seen
troubles in the way some others have,
but they sure know what it
means to follow the Lord faithfully.
You use a phrase for people
often that I love,
and you call them seasoned saints.
Yes.
I definitely didn't make that up.
I wish I could take credit for that.
Yeah.
But that is, you know,
when you're talking to somebody,
just not from a pastor
point of view or a leader of a church,
just when you're talking to people,
you know,
I love getting information from
seasoned saints.
Yes.
About their walk with Jesus Christ.
Yeah.
You know, for sure,
where they've had their ups
and downs and difficulties
and even maybe at times
where they maybe got frustrated with God.
You know,
it's good to hear from those that
have that kind of experience.
So just away from the
leadership issue of what
this devotional is talking about.
That you surround yourself, I think,
is important.
Absolutely.
People in small groups and
maybe even just talking to
them while you're at church,
sitting next to them.
For sure.
And to talk to them about how God has,
you know, helped them through situations.
especially for me listening
to parents whose children
were prodigals at one point
and have come back around.
It is so comforting for me
to hear their stories of
faithfulness and patience
and forbearance till they
got to see their kids come
around and how beautiful an
experience it's been.
I love that too.
Let's read the scripture and
we'll get a little bit more
out of God's word.
Okay, so we're in Psalm 95,
a call to worship and obedience.
Oh, come let us worship and bow down.
Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker,
for he is our God.
And we are the people of his
pasture and the sheep of his hand.
Today, if you will hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as in the rebellion,
as in the day of the trial
in the wilderness when your
fathers tested me.
They tried me, though they saw my work.
For 40 years I was grieved
with that generation and said,
it is a people who go
astray in their hearts and
they do not know my ways.
So I swore in my wrath they
shall not enter my rest.
So this is an admonition
from the Lord directly to humanity.
Don't test me.
like they did in the wilderness.
Don't be an idiot.
Don't worship false idols.
Don't go astray as soon as I turn my back.
Understand the miracles I've
performed in your life.
Be grateful for all the
things I've carried you through,
or you will never enter my rest.
And this, I have got to tell you,
in the craziness I've
experienced in this past year,
the worst thing God can do to you
is not let you enter rest.
So I swore my wrath,
they shall not enter my rest.
So God help us.
If God swears over us,
you will not enter my rest.
And you see that I can call
to mind certain people in particular,
where they're just not
willing to do the hard work
of walking in obedience to the Lord.
though the Lord is calling them,
and just chaos, right?
Life is just complete chaos constantly.
And they seem like they're drowning.
And you're wondering, you're looking at it,
you're like, why?
Why are you in such chaos?
And I think that's one of
the things that the Lord
will do to us to get us to
make our crooked path straight.
Mm-hmm.
So that you just almost
can't do it anymore because
you're so tired of the chaos.
Wow.
I'm glad you brought that up.
Oh, yeah?
Because I feel like, I don't know.
I mean, I would always,
I didn't start taking a nap
until about five years ago.
But now I've learned to love them.
Because taking naps back in the day,
I'd take a nap and I'd wake
up and feel tired.
And I would never be able to
not get that feeling out of me.
um but it kind of coincides
strangely enough it's not
definitely not my age no
but it kind of coincide I
saw that I saw it look let
me get rid of this uh this
here so we can um that it
isn't the nap but
know even in the chaos as
happy as I could be and
positive and that kind of
stuff there were days where
I was like I am just so
tired like the day that I
decided I'm exhausted from me
You mean before?
Before.
Well, I mean,
you said you used to drive
yourself to the hospital
with a panic attack.
Oh, yes.
I forgot about that.
I put that out on my mind.
A couple times.
Yes.
And so, because it all catches up to you.
Yeah.
You try to hold it in and push it down.
You shall not enter my rest.
Right.
But...
Since my time of being born
again and walking with Jesus,
I can get a little
frustrated maybe from time to time,
but it doesn't last.
It doesn't compare to that.
No.
It doesn't compare to those days.
The rest comes quickly.
And his rest, his comfort.
And I think that's one of
the biggest things.
I think I've shared it,
but not in that way.
Because there's something
differently different.
you know,
having him in your life and having him,
the Holy spirit and being
able to lean on them and to
go to him and read his word
and that kind of stuff.
It gives you comfort, but it's that,
that rest glorious.
Cause if you're don't get rest,
you get crabby.
I mean, not I mean, not just crabby,
but you're just you're on
edge over everything.
You're you're cranky or not
thinking straight.
Can't think straight.
Clarity is no longer clear.
There is no clarity.
And you just feel like
you're being pulled apart.
I love that.
Thank you.
It's Jesus.
That's so, that's so important.
That's something else that I
could share with people.
I love those little pithy
things that God gives you every so often.
Nuggets?
Yeah.
Nuggets.
Somebody in their walk, they're like,
you know, they're like,
like they just walked in from a, you know,
hurricane.
Always.
Yeah.
And it's, it's bright and sunny,
sunny outside right now.
It's not this,
the wind just started blowing,
but they come in like,
and their hair is messed up
and their shirts are all crooked and
And you go on a rough day.
You want rest?
You got to you got to get another word.
You got to spend more time with Jesus.
Because all this will will become better.
And also,
in addition to spending time in his word,
you have to walk the walk.
Yep.
So you have to, I always harp on this,
that you have to practice holiness.
If you're not trying to live
the word and things keep falling apart,
you realize that you
haven't surrendered to the
Lord to make your crooked path straight.
Be the light unto my path.
You know what I mean?
In order for God to do that,
you have to stay within his boundaries.
And you don't realize that
you're not doing that
because you're unwilling to
surrender certain aspects of your life.
Wow.
This is some good stuff right here.
You want to go on?
No, go ahead.
What also reminds me of is
what I'm dealing with in...
Talking to the local
community who are all upset
that some principals and
vice principals and
teachers are being let go
from the local school
district and they're.
And no matter what,
including the woman who
decided to bring the
vibrator to high school, the teacher,
and demonstrate or to talk
about how it can be used
for certain types of things,
that their combat,
when we're attempting to
get her removed and we're
saying that this should not be happening.
Is this the one that happened last year?
Yes.
Or a principal that's being
removed because of other
stuff that they're doing.
Their argument always is, well,
he's really nice.
He's really kind.
Totally not.
And it's kind of like this
devotion reminds me of the
same thing is that I'm
telling them he wasn't
hired to be your friend.
He's not been hired to be
the friend of the students.
That's not his job.
He can be friendly.
He can be a good dude.
But his job is to run the
school and to create a
culture of excellence and
make sure they're getting
educated and that they're
safe and they can use the restroom.
This is their job.
Just because they're
friendly or just because
they become your friends or
they become their kind,
it tells me nothing.
They have not told me, well,
you know what he did to this school?
He transformed it.
Yeah.
The grades were – nobody's
ever said that about any of
these firings.
No.
Not once.
And so a pastor is not in
that position necessarily
to be the friend of the flock.
Because a herder, a shepherd,
will sometimes break the
legs of the baby sheep that
are running away.
He's got to break their legs.
Jesus will break your legs too.
If you're lucky.
Yeah,
so understand the role is not always...
And same with a parent.
Yes.
We're not meant to be there.
Oh my gosh,
that's one of my favorite
things to say to my kids.
Yeah, I'm not your friend.
Stop looking at me.
Sorry, job.
My job is to parent you.
Yes.
Oh, I love this.
This is fantastic.
What are they saying?
Hi, Kelly.
Well,
I think we got a lot of good birthday
wishes.
What?
For who?
For you, Kathy's saying.
Please pray for the people
across the United States
experiencing tornadoes and
headed toward Kentucky.
We're monitoring Ryan Hall, y'all,
on YouTube for storm
chasers on the ground.
Best coverage ever.
I've never heard of that.
Yeah.
and happy birthday andy hers
is on the 20th woohoo
kate's also wishing you
happy birthday and so is
dave dave who bostic bostic
thank you thank you and
kelly's husband is march
15th his birthday happy
birthday to your husband
kelly oh we're the same age
almost just a day
difference yeah I was born
in 1962 also I should have
worn my 1962 shirt why didn't you tell me
She actually knew that.
She says you're one day
older than my husband.
How did she know what year you were born?
Fascinating.
Probably from Facebook, maybe.
Oh, Facebook tells you a year?
I probably, I mentioned it about my shirt.
She's been on long enough to
see my shenanigans.
Oh, yeah, that shirt.
That shirt, I remember.
Oh, yeah,
because she wanted to buy the
shirt for her husband.
Yes, I can't believe I didn't.
I remember that.
I didn't wear it today.
I wasn't thinking.
I need you to do some of these things,
Snooks.
Plan your t-shirts?
Remind me about my, my, uh,
That outfit.
What do you wear when you're
on television?
They call it something.
Uniform?
Yeah.
Not uniform.
I don't know.
What do they call it?
I don't know.
Something.
But cutesy time is over.
Costume?
I'm telling you that right now.
Hey, you know how I have arrived?
You know how I finally made
it in this world of school
board meetings and that kind of stuff?
Finally.
I've been a little upset now.
I've had a lot of local
people that hate my guts.
Did Dan Bongino mention you?
I guess so.
No, I got an email.
It was a threat from the
teachers unions and Planned Parenthood.
What did they say?
They just made a video threatening me.
Say that I'm creepy.
I want to see the video.
They tried.
They tried their very hardest,
but I don't think that it
hit what they thought.
Why didn't you show me the video?
We haven't had a chance.
What do you mean they made a video?
They made a video.
Yeah,
they took one of my videos and cut it up.
and try to make it sound bad,
what I was talking about.
But they didn't do that good of a job,
at least not in my opinion.
But then they said,
there's more where this
came from at the bottom.
This is the beginning.
So I thought that was awesome.
Yeah,
when they bothered to cut and paste
videos.
Oh, it's very well done.
So, you know,
it wasn't like just some random parent.
They don't have time to put
together this kind of video.
How do you know it's the school unions?
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares like the
teachers unions and Planned Parenthood.
They get everybody all riled up.
Oh, listen to Kate.
Pedophiles are known for
being nice and friendly.
Without niceness,
they can't coerce others.
Yes, Kate, you're the best.
Terrible.
Yes, Kelly did see you wearing the shirt.
That was it.
Should I go change?
Not costume.
Oh, my gosh.
Why can't I remember what it was?
Hi, Iris.
Happy birthday, Andy.
You know, as you may have heard,
those of you who have been
watching a while,
Andy's birthday is a whole month.
Yes.
I even forgot it was today.
Every day, every meal is, it's my birthday,
hon.
It's my birthday.
Kate says what?
What?
You are the creep.
I first thought it was you
are the creepiest person I've ever met.
You are the least creepiest
person I've ever met.
Thank you, Kate.
I don't remember where we were.
I don't know if it was one
of the something,
a comment that kids made or something.
I was laughing.
Was it one of the comments
the kids made that I was like,
you know what?
I think it was your daughter who said,
yeah, dad, you're creepy.
And I was like, you know what?
Your dad is probably one of
the least creepiest people on the planet.
Like he goes out of his way
to not be creepy.
And we've seen a lot of creepy dads,
you know?
So if I'm at a park and I'm
walking in and a little kid
walks in the restroom and I
have to go to the bathroom,
I won't go in until they're out.
Yeah.
I mean, that's the kind of stuff.
Yeah.
He wouldn't hug my daughter
for the first like year and
a half that he knew her.
Now I hug her.
I loved her then too, but I just didn't,
you know,
there's that period of time when
they become your child.
It's different when you hug your child.
Yeah, absolutely.
But yeah.
Thank you for noticing.
Yeah.
It was one of the qualities
I was looking for in a man.
Is that one of the things you told God?
Okay.
You can't be creepy.
I think it was implied.
All the other qualities
implied non-creepiness.
Because actually,
I don't know if this is
common for all cultures,
but I know in Middle Eastern culture,
because they're not very handsy,
like the last thing you want,
like you don't like handsy
people in general.
Like the hardest thing for
me to get used to in the
church was all the hugging
because I wasn't used to
people physically touching
me that weren't related to me.
Um, so that's something that we,
that we appreciate is when
somebody is not too, and, and every time,
and you do this too,
because anytime somebody is
overly handsy with a child or relative,
you're like, Oh, that, that,
I don't like that.
That needs to stop.
And that comes from your
experience and sex crimes, you know?
So it's not that you're
making that up either.
That's for sure.
Yeah,
just the one aspect that they focus
on is the,
I was talking about the dress
code and I was laughing at
the principal over at the high school.
He was trying to tell me
that he enforces the dress code.
At least three times.
It was like 27 times in a year.
And I laughed and I made a
video and I said, 27 times in a year.
And he said,
when you're dropping off your
kid in the five minutes
you're there dropping off your kid,
you can see 27 violations
of the dress code.
And that's all I said.
They should do it like a DUI stop.
It's dress code awareness day.
Oh, yeah, that'd be good.
Spring it on the kids and
just give all of them
citations that violated.
Look at you.
I'm going to have to give that.
I'll take it as my own.
I said,
you know what I was thinking the
other day?
I mean,
just like a DUI stop so that it's
random and that people
realize how bad it is.
But as I said in the video,
it's not all what you're thinking it is.
It doesn't mean that it's
because a girl has these
shorts that look like a thong.
it's not necessarily one
time you know sometimes
it's a crop top but other
things that you can't have
like budweiser on your
t-shirt right you can't
have uh the middle finger
uh on the shirt vulgarity
yeah I didn't say you know
like I look at all the
little girls and I see you
know their body parts
that's not what I said I
said violations of the
dress code right so anyway
they turn around make the
video oh look at him he
sits there and ogles at
kids for five minutes at
the high school that's what
here listen to his own
words and I said yeah I was
dropping off my kids for
five minutes you can see 27
violations of the dress
code and then and that's their video yeah
So it makes me kind of chuckle.
But they gave it a good shot.
They gave it a good shot.
I'm very proud of them for trying.
Good cinematography.
Yeah, it was very well put together.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, it's a really good graphic.
Maybe we'll show it to our audience.
Yeah.
I recognize the voice, too.
I just can't put my finger on who it is.
I've heard the voice before.
Really?
I'm almost positive.
Almost positive.
I'm going to identify that voice.
Can you get,
I shouldn't say this on the air.
I'll ask you later.
Yeah.
So yeah, that was my, I mean,
your birthday gifts to me are amazing.
So right below your gifts
that you gave me is the
gift of that getting that email.
That's fantastic.
Why?
Because that's who I despise the most.
That's who I've been talking
about for like two years.
And it's like,
how come they've not
acknowledged that I hate
them so much and been calling them out?
How come I'm not getting any, I don't,
I'm not getting any,
any hate from them specifically.
And I finally.
Is that from your Instagram
post about the.
It's a video.
It's a video that I created about stuff.
Oh,
and then it was after I spoke on
Tuesday and pointed out again,
that these are the people
that are harming our children.
so uh yeah so they put
together the video and sent
it to me personally uh kate
says kate feels the dress
code violation is a
responsibility at the feet
of the clothing shops and
parents well the clothing
shops they just want to
make money yeah and parents
yes there's that too to a
certain extent I understand
that completely but the
kids change at school you
know they dress one way out
the front door
Yes.
I did that my whole high school career.
And then something happens
once they get into the school ground.
Yes.
They go to the bathroom and
it's like Superman.
Switcheroo.
Yeah.
The old spin and the clothes
just kind of come off.
Well,
what I know what a lot of the kids do
is they just put a hoodie
on over the shirt.
Yeah.
Simple.
Yeah.
Yeah, we see a lot of that.
Iris says we never wore
pants when I was in school.
That was risque.
Now we wish they would wear pants, Iris.
Pants would be amazing.
I see some old pictures of the 70s.
You know,
I have some friends that are
putting up pictures from
their school book or they
have some pictures.
And I just... It was...
So it's just a different time.
I mean, even then,
I think they thought some
at some point that some of
that was risque, but you look at it now,
it's like bell bottoms and you know,
that's when they first
started to wear shirts that
were a little snug and that kind of stuff,
but not like crop tops, but yeah,
they didn't have like booty
shorts and things like that.
Really?
Oh yeah, for sure.
You're a lot younger than I am.
It was the 80s.
By the time the 80s hit,
the fashion was crazy.
Maybe in Beverly Hills.
Not in Orange County.
Oh, really?
Yeah, no.
We were pretty wild.
You guys were competing with movie stars.
And the kids were competing
with their parents who were movie stars.
Yes.
And so they had to show that, you know,
I'm Madonna's kid.
No, Madonna was.
Was Madonna a parent?
No, it was Donna Summer's kids.
Donna Summer's kids.
Who else did you have there?
We had
Playboy Bunny's kids and the
doctor to the mansion, his daughter,
a lot of producers, Rod Stewart's kids.
Rod Stewart's kids.
Yeah.
And a lot of the Brat
Packers were Beverly Hills High kids.
So, yeah,
we didn't have that influence yet
in La Mirada, California.
La Mirada is the courtesy
capital of the world,
so we were a lot more
courteous than Beverly Hills.
Oh, isn't that sweet?
So I want to give you the prayers.
One of them is our friend Sharon,
and I'll just give her first name.
Okay.
You know her.
And having difficulty with
one of her daughters.
Younger child.
She didn't necessarily do anything,
but another child...
Just is.
I don't want to say bullying,
but it's something very similar.
So we just need prayers on
how to deal with the situation.
That's what she called.
OK, so wisdom like wisdom.
Thank you.
OK.
And then.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, the attorney.
I had a call today with an attorney.
He at 10 o'clock,
he called me and said I couldn't.
have the call because his
son he needed to take a son
to the emergency room we
don't know exactly why but
if you're absolutely out of
breath like he was saying
I'm sorry I'm just I can't
talk right now so I gotta
take my son to the
emergency room so prayers
for him okay that's my two
And Kate says, but yes,
they have to buy the
clothing somewhere first.
True.
And Kate says,
I believe that it's not
about expressing
individuality much more as
it is about the
sexualization of children.
Yes.
Absolutely true.
Through music, movies.
And she says she'll get off
her soapbox now.
I love your soapbox, Kate.
I'm often on that soapbox.
Yes.
That soapbox is a little crowded.
You and I are both trying to stand on it.
We've got to make the box bigger.
What about you?
Do you have any prayer requests?
Family?
Friends?
I always like to pray for my
family to come to faith.
Saving faith in Jesus.
Can we pray for Courtney to come to faith?
We absolutely can.
Yes.
Well, whenever I pray for the prodigals,
I mean both of them.
Oh, I had a... Just really quick,
and I'm sorry.
But... Dan Bongino...
played a really good video
about it was there's two
parts to his discussion the
one was a video that he
played and it was a man
talking and I'm going to
mess it up but essentially
what the man was saying is
that he prays that people
go through difficulty he's
saying you have to go
through difficulty or else
you're not going to have an
opportunity to learn how to
get through difficulty
So his whole speech that he
was giving had to do with, you know,
praying that people would
go through difficulty.
It was really interesting.
So then Dan comes on.
After playing the video,
Dan Bongino has a podcast.
If you don't know who he is,
just look him up on Rumble or on Spotify.
And he got very,
you can see his face change.
And he says, my mom died this morning.
Oh.
and talked about how they
had a difficult relationship.
And he talked about that if
you don't know that there is, I mean,
there's somebody out there
that don't know there's a God.
He goes, but I'm telling you,
based on my experience last night,
because I guess she fell at
about three o'clock at night.
And he said somewhere about
that same time that he woke
up because he felt somebody hugging him,
like somebody had come home.
physically hugged him and he
was for one of the very few
times he was home alone
because his daughter and
his wife one of his
daughters and his wife were
out of town on spring break
at my in miami and so dan
was by himself and he all
of a sudden he woke up
really fast and was like it
goes like who just hugged
me and there was nobody
there and and it was about
the same time that his mom had passed
He goes, I'm not crazy.
He goes, I am not crazy.
He goes, I am telling you,
somebody hugged me.
And then he went on to say
just one more thing is that
It wasn't but just maybe a
week or two ago because his
mother fell so they weren't
she wasn't like sick and died.
So we didn't know it was coming.
She just was walking up the
stairs or down the stairs
and slipped and fell hit her head died.
Oh, wow.
And he said we she would say I love you,
Danny.
And he goes,
I never said it back because
of the difficulties of relationship.
He goes, but a couple weeks ago.
She was on speakerphone and
my wife was there and he goes,
I just felt the need like I had to.
So when she said, I love you, Danny,
he said, I love you too.
And he says, my wife looked at me like,
oh my gosh,
I've never heard you tell your
mom you love her.
And he goes, so he goes, those two things.
He goes,
it just reinforces to me that
there is a God.
God is telling me that it
was time to say you love her.
The time is coming soon.
You're going to lose her.
That's why.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
The point did not come home to me.
Yeah.
I had to bring it all together.
Okay.
I told you I wasn't
necessarily going to agree,
but watch it and you'll get it totally.
Are you okay?
Did you just hit your head?
I just had a narcoleptic lapse.
I bet you they were all
riveted and they understood
completely what I was going on.
I told you I just heard it
just like a couple minutes ago.
Yeah.
So are we praying for Dan?
Is that what it is?
Yeah, pay for Dan and the loss of his mom.
Yeah, that's sad.
Sorry.
Why do you fall asleep when
I tell stories all the time?
I just didn't know where we were going.
I didn't know where we were going.
It's my birthday.
You're supposed to be nice
to me on my birthday.
I am.
I am going to be very nice to you.
You should be looking at me
like this when I'm telling stories.
On my birthday?
From now on.
In my birthday month, my month,
when I start to tell a story,
I want you to look riveted.
Yes.
Even if you have to put
toothpicks in your eyes, eyelids,
like the Flintstones, would you?
And I want reaction.
Happy Thursday.
I was awake, Andy.
Happy birthday.
Oh, my goodness.
Thank you, guys.
I appreciate it.
I don't want any more of
this nodding off during my stories.
Are you ready?
We do the prayers?
Yes.
Okay.
I'll try not to fall asleep
during your prayer.
Most of these are yours.
So don't fall asleep.
Oh, dear Lord, we come to you humbly.
requesting to heal our land.
We have so much dramatic
weather going around the
country right now, Lord,
and so many people are
suffering and are frightened, Lord.
And we ask that you grant
your hand of protection
over our nation and the
countries that are
suffering from tornadoes
and other kinds of dramatic weather, Lord,
for you can say to the
storm to be still and it will stop.
So we ask for you.
to bring a stillness back
into our air so that our
people can be safe.
We also ask that you bless
Sharon and give her wisdom
to decide how best to care
and nurture for her
daughter that is going
through a difficult time, Lord.
We lift them both up to you
and ask for your guidance
and your discernment.
And our client that recently
called and said he had to
rush his son to the ER.
We pray that they'll be okay
and that they find
healing and restoration also
to protect Kate as she goes
to the dentist and Iris and
her wrist Lord that it be a
non surgical solution that
the doctors are able to
provide her with therapy or
whatever it may be Lord to
solve whatever pain that
she's undergoing and that
that resolution will be as
easy and painless as possible Lord.
And we also lift up my
friend that you know that
is suffering from
reconstruction surgery and cancer surgery,
Lord,
that you continue to give her
healing and restoration and
peace so that she may come
to church and worship you
on the day of resurrection.
She's looking forward to
being back at church on those days.
days lord so we ask um that
of you and for all of our
friends that are suffering
lord that you give them
healing and we love you we
offer ourselves as a living
sacrifice we expect all
things ask all things in
the precious and holy name
of jesus christ amen amen
thank you uh kate's saying
we only get one day to
celebrate she's deprived
yeah uh I only get one day
too kate only andy gets a whole month
family tradition and said, amen.
Thank you.
Amen.
Thank you guys.
All right, my friends, we love you guys.
Happy Andy's birthday.
Pray for us.
We have our community group,
our last session tonight.
So pray that the Lord moves
in a powerful way.
We're looking forward to that.
Yes.
All right.
God bless.
Take care.
Bye.