What Happens When You Just Ask?

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God chose us, this generation.

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We're living in the end times.

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It could happen.

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We could be raptured.

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I mean, there's nothing that's missing.

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I mean, it's crazy, this world.

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But, you know, when you know all that, we don't have any fear about all the stuff that's going to happen.

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Hey, the market's going to crash.

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So be it.

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Who cares?

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We're still going to heaven.

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I mean, this is going to happen.

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The dollars are going to come.

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This is going to take all our money.

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Who cares?

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God loves us.

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We're going to heaven.

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Welcome to the Ignite with Barry McGuire podcast.

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How would you like to have the time of your life for the rest of your life?

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How would you like to defeat fear effortlessly, knowing for sure God is hearing and answering your prayers and directing your steps and making everything work for good?

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This is exciting.

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Here's the question.

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How would you like to ignite your life?

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Stay tuned.

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Hi, everybody.

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Welcome back to Ignite.

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Here with Donny Oshesky, one of my dearest friends who died.

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He died.

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If you haven't seen part one of this, because this is part two, you need to stop.

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Go back and watch part one because you won't be able to understand what we're saying here very well without understanding that this is a man who was dead.

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He was Lazarus.

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He was dead.

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And then God said, Donnie, come forth.

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It's an amazing story.

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We won't go back into that now because time is precious.

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But it has now become like his pulpit.

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which, of course, he has many reasons to share God's love with people.

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This is just being one of them.

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But it's pretty amazing when you've been dead for 55 minutes and you're walking around with energy and with that infectious smile that Donnie has, you know God is real.

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At the end of our last podcast, something had popped into your mind of a story.

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Can you recall what you were going to tell us?

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You know, we were just talking about sharing the gospel with people and different situations happen.

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And, you know, we shop at Stater Brothers.

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And I shop there all the time.

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And this time, my wife Pam was with me.

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And so we were at the checkout counter and we were checking out.

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And, you know, Pam sees I share the gospel with everybody.

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Yeah.

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So sometimes she thinks I might be a little too much.

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So she tries to protect me.

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She's my loving wife who loves me, doesn't want me to do anything wrong.

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So we were checking out, and she was going to do the money thing.

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And I said, hey, to the guy that was doing our baggage, I said, hey, brother.

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And she thought, hey, brother, to this guy.

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He's our grocery beggar.

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I knew the guy.

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She didn't know I'd talked to him numerous times before.

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He's a Christian, and he walks with the Lord.

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Made a bad conversation.

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So I called him brother.

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Yeah, sure.

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We're brothers in the Lord.

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So I called him that, and he said, oh, yeah.

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And then he said, hey.

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Tom over here, the checker, he's a Christian too.

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Mind you now, we're talking about the Lord.

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There's five people in a line behind us.

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Yes, of course.

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During the conversation.

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Of course.

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It's perfect.

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And so, you know, the conversation went on.

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It's a trifecta.

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We back...

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He bagged up the groceries, and we went on our way, and we all said, see you later.

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Great knowing that you're a Christian, because I didn't know who the cashier was.

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So, you know, we walked on, and Pam said, you know, why did you call that guy brother?

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And I explained to her that he's a brother of the Lord.

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She goes, oh, man, I thought you were just, you know, calling everybody brother.

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So, grocery stores are a great place to share.

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I was at...

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It wasn't...

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It was Sprouts.

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It's right by our house.

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I stopped by there to pick up just a few items because that's all we get from that particular store.

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And it was early morning.

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I walked in and I went to the back to grab some eggs

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And some milk.

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And I was in the back section back there, and I was picking up some eggs, and a gal was there getting some eggs and milk.

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And I said, I get these eggs because of them.

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We just started talking about eggs.

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So we were talking about eggs and this and that.

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Find a point of contact.

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I get these kinds.

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They're more expensive, but look, there's nothing wrong.

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They're all, you know, organic, and they're the best that you can get.

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They're a little bit more, but hey, we're worth it, right?

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And so I ended up coaxing her into getting the right eggs.

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But anyways, we walked over to the milk, and she was, oh, I'm getting some milk too.

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So I said, you know, can I ask you a question?

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I said, do you know Jesus?

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And she broke down and she said, yes, I do.

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And you know what?

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I wouldn't be around right now with the way life is.

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She goes, I came here from another country and we're so glad to be here.

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And she just starts sharing with me.

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Wow.

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And what a blessing it was.

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So I did, in a couple of minutes, just say a quick prayer for her and her family and for the Lord to bless them and to carry on.

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And then I went on my way.

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She went on her way.

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How great do you think she felt leaving the grocery store?

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Almost as great as I did.

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Because I tell you, I get excited.

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Exactly.

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Because, you know, Christians need love, too.

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And we need to move everybody.

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That means our Christian friends as well.

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We need to affirm them in their faith, encourage them in their faith.

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And as I was just spoken to, I need to speak to people.

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So there's so much good coming out of that.

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You have no idea the impact you had in her life and how her life might have been adjusted.

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It probably was adjusted in a way of more fervor for the Lord and sharing the Lord because of your kindness.

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You just follow God's lead.

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You never know where it's going to go.

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That's it.

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Just, you know, don't be afraid to share.

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That's it.

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I mean, I think too many times, I'm not now.

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There's no, my wife said, there's no filter on him anymore.

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So you're going to get what you get.

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And, you know, I think sometimes she's like, oh, no, I hope he doesn't say anything right now.

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And I don't.

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A few minutes later, I do.

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So it's all timing.

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If the Holy Spirit says, share, share, you know, what are you going to do?

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You're not going to offend somebody.

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You don't want to filter what the Holy Spirit is saying to you.

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He's nudging you.

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And, you know, when you do that, really with reckless abandon, you'll be amazed how you'll be saying things.

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You have no idea how...

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something you may not have ever said before or admitted before, but how it affects that one person that you're talking to.

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Only the Holy Spirit understands that.

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So if you're trying to judge what to say and not to say, rather than just being free to allow the Holy Spirit to speak through you, you're really inhibiting the Holy Spirit to do the work that He wants to do in the lives of those around you.

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So good for you.

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Well, so true.

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Sorry, Patty.

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You know, in my life growing as a Christian and sharing, you know, before, there was a lot of things.

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Oh, you know, do I need to know this?

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Do I have to do chapter and verse?

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What's going to be the best?

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If you plan anything, it's not from your heart.

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It's not from God.

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It's all rehearsed.

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So don't do that.

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It's nice to know chapter and verse and rattle some things off if it's the right thing.

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Somebody needs to hear this.

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Oh, this is a great verse for you.

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Then here and let them know.

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But that's when you love on people, you just love on them without agenda.

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You're not loving on them so I can get them to the sinner's prayer.

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You're loving on them because the Holy Spirit wants to love on them.

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His love is salvationing them.

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And at the same time, you let them know you're a Christian in some way that's just obvious without being offensive.

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Oh, God, you must make God laugh or something.

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You say something that doesn't bother.

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So they know there's God sensitivity there.

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And that's the reason, the provocation for your loving on them.

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But when you do that and it's pure love for no other purpose, that's it, folks.

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You don't have to be trained.

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You don't have to prepare.

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You don't have to hyperventilate.

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You just love on people.

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And that's really God's loving on people through you.

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And when you do that, they are relaxed.

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They're not attacking you.

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They're relaxed.

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And they're enjoying the conversation.

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And they ask you words and things.

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And you may have the answer or may not.

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But even if you don't, the Holy Spirit gives you the answers.

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And that's intimacy with God when you realize that God has put you right where he wants you.

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Right at that moment.

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How else in life can you know you're right where God wants you to be?

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God's orchestrated the conversation with the people that you, somebody you've never met before and never see again.

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He's given you the words to say the person is being changed in front of you.

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I mean, that is intimacy with God.

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I can't say it enough.

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That's, that's where he wants us to be every day.

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When you have that every day, all day long, it ignites your life.

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That's why I wrote the book entitled ignite your life.

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Donnie is ignited.

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Why is he ignited?

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Oh, man.

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Because he's living for God's purpose.

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He's using everything that God has allowed him to go through for God's purpose, not just to draw sympathy, but to give glory to God and to lead people to God.

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Your story is so great, Dottie.

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I know you're just in a reunion.

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You've been looking forward to it.

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I really haven't heard about it, but you're going to go back with people that you grew up with as a teenager.

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How did that go?

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You know, it went really well.

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You know, the people that I did share with were very receptive.

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I was surprised that one of my good buddies, I grew up since elementary school,

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Wow.

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He was, I said, you know, Paul Charles, how you been, buddy?

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I met him, and he said, hey, I'm a pastor.

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I've been a pastor for 43 years out in South Carolina.

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And he's been a pastor in a church, and he just loves the Lord.

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His life is wonderful.

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I mean, we lit up.

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It couldn't break us up.

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Finally, my wife's like, honey, get over here and talk to other people.

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Then there's a lot of people that were lost, still doing the same things.

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These people, I'm so sad.

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I'm not putting anybody down, but people are stuck in the world in their old ways, and they're still doing the same thing.

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I used to drink alcohol.

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Then God said, stop drinking alcohol.

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and get married, and I did.

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And you know what?

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My life got better and better and better.

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You listen to the Lord, you do what he says.

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We have the Bible, we have scriptures that just tells us, just reminds us of the things.

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And you know, I'll say one thing, I just wanna mention a prayer.

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My brother-in-law married to my sister, he was in the hospital, he's dying, and he's got some really bad liver diseases and he's not doing good.

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About three weeks ago, I went over there and I went to the hospital.

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I go, what room's he in?

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I went to the hospital and I said, hey, Andy.

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And I was just there alone with him.

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God moved everybody else out.

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It was just us.

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And you know what?

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I led him in the sinner's prayer.

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I talked to him a while about the Bible, told him a couple stories in the Bible.

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And then I said, Andy, where are you?

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Oh, I think I did that years ago.

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No, you think?

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No.

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I held his hand, and he's got all these things in his hands and, you know, his bones.

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And I held his hand, and I just looked in his eyes, and I just loved him.

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And he knew it was just me loving him.

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I hadn't seen him in a long time, but he knew who I was.

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And he was just like, wow, I just prayed.

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He accepted.

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And Jesus—

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we're going to heaven again.

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He was just like lit up.

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You're going to heaven for sure.

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There's no guesswork.

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It's done.

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We just confirmed that.

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You just said the sinner's prayer.

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And I went back last week to pray with him again, just to go there and pray with him.

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He was on the seventh floor.

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That's the worst floor.

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That's the floor of death.

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You're at

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the end, right?

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So I went up there and my sister and his mother were there sitting down in the chairs all smug and I said, hey guys, how are you doing?

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You know, they're like, oh, okay.

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I went around the other side of the bed and I reached down and grabbed Andy.

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Andy, it's me, huh?

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He lit up.

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And they were talking about, they go, oh, the priest just left.

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He was praying over Andy.

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I go, oh, okay, that was very nice of him.

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Great.

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So, hey, Andy, remember when I just went and just talked, and Andy's countenance just changed.

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Because I was there talking to him again.

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I reached the guy, came over, and I held his hand.

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I'm like, what are you guys sitting in the chair for?

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Come touch the guy.

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Let him know he loves you.

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His eyes lit up.

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He was just alive again.

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And they're witnessing this.

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They're seeing that they couldn't.

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He wanted to go home.

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I said, hey, I came home right now.

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Look, dude, you can't go home right now.

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You know what?

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You got to listen to these people out here loving on you.

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These doctors, they love you.

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Let them do their job.

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Hey, Andy, remember, I went through this stuff just a year ago.

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I know.

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I know.

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It's hard.

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I wanted to go home, too.

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I couldn't.

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I did what they—so just—

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They're loving on you.

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Just every time they come in and say, we're going to poke you.

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Just think of it as they're loving on you, Andy.

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And he goes, yeah, I like that.

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I go, hey, look, I'm going to be back.

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I know we can't eat ice cube chips this time, but the time before when I was there, we got to each eat a cup of ice cube chips together.

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Oh, man.

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Oh, man.

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And so I said, next time we're eating the ice cube chips.

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Yeah.

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What was he dying of?

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liver, cancer, he drank himself to death, quite honestly.

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It's so sad.

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I would be so bold as to say that that liver cancer is probably the best thing that ever happened to him in his entire life.

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People have a hard time understanding those kind of things.

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But God, he doesn't give us things like that, but he allows them.

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Why does he allow them to get our attention?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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He's not putting you through that.

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So many people, when I tell them God loves you, he can't love me, he's beating up on me all things.

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He's doing all the same.

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He's not doing that to you.

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He's not beating up on you.

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No.

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He's allowing you to go through things to get your attention.

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To finally say, uncle, okay, God, I'm done.

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I need you.

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And in this case, God had orchestrated all that to the point where he knew he was in desperate situation and brought you in again to sit down, to be bold enough to share and lead him for eternity.

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I've got to tell you, for eternity, he's going to be thankful for that cancer.

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Because if it wasn't for that cancer, he probably would not have made the right decision and gone the wrong way.

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Can you think of it?

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I mean, when we look at life through God's eyes, it's an entirely different picture that we're sitting in.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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And he allowed you to know why.

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I mean, God makes things work for good, not necessarily for our good.

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You know, that wasn't necessarily for your good that you spent two and a half months in the hospital.

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But look at the good that's come out of it.

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And for God, if it's good, it means it's souls.

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What can I do to get?

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He has one goal.

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Get as many people into heaven as possible.

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And that's our one goal.

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If we live correctly, all that matters to us.

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It's not selling car wax or whatever we're doing.

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We do all that, but we use that as a platform on which we have opportunity to talk to people with the one goal, lead everybody to Jesus.

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And you so exemplify that.

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I mean, it's just, when you do that, you're living for God's purpose.

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Romans 8, 20 again says, when you do that, when you live for my purpose, I'll make everything work for good, not necessarily in your life.

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It didn't say, sometimes it's misquoted.

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Everything in your life worked together.

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It didn't say that.

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No.

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You know, he said, I'll make everything work for good because of what you went through.

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Look at the people that are on their way to heaven right now.

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Oh, wow.

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The prayers that went out.

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Wow.

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They're amazing.

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Think of that.

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The prayers that first went out, the prayers that continually go out.

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And you know what?

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I mean, my prayer life over these last months since I've come back, the Lord is just, he loves to talk to us.

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He wants to talk to us.

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I talk to him every day in the dark of our living room.

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Lord, I'm here.

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And he loves it.

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He goes, oh, I'm here.

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Good you're here.

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I got some stuff.

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Okay.

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You know, you're fine.

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He's amazing.

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He loves us so much, but he loves us all the same.

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And people don't get that.

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They don't know it.

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I try to tell them.

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He never leaves us or forsakes us.

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Way back decades ago, I mean like 50 years ago, when I might pray once a week or so, I read this scripture, Pray Without Ceasing.

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And that seemed so bizarre to me, like nobody's gonna just walk around praying all day long, 24 hours a day, seeking God.

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I mean, that doesn't make any sense to me.

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About a year ago, it occurred to me, I'm basically praying without ceasing, because wherever I go, my first thought is not, how do I sell more car racks, or how do I get more cars?

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My first thought is, how do I move them closer to Jesus?

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I'm continually praying for my environment,

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He's top of mind.

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You know what I mean?

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There's nothing that compares with that.

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And so we really do not have an effort.

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It's effortless.

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It's just it's freedom.

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I want to share one thing that me and my wife do.

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Since we went out to Jack Hibbs Church, you know, COVID kind of let us out there.

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We met Tim and Jeanette, our best friends, and Dana and Wendy.

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But amazing fellowship that we've had.

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But one thing Jack said when we first got there, he said, you know, get the one-year Bible.

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Start reading.

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There's a way to start your prayer life.

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Read it every day.

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I said, read it.

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Oh, it's on audio.

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Oh, me and Pam, every morning, we did it this morning, we get up in the dark of our living room, we have a cup of coffee, and we...

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relax, and we listen to the one-year Bible.

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We've been through it.

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This is our sixth year in a row going since Jack said to get it.

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And we've done every day.

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We don't miss a day.

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Don't miss a day.

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If we're gone, hey, it's right.

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It's an app.

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It's on the phone.

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But we listen every day.

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And then we pray for everybody that needs our prayers, the people that are sick, in the hospital, and then our prayers.

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amazing, amazing.

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Try it.

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If you've never done it, oh my gosh, what a great way to learn the Bible.

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We know the stories of that Bible.

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I mean, don't know all the names, but God put all that in there when you think about it for a reason.

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Why did he tell us all this stuff?

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Because he wanted you to, anyways, amazing.

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You're in the game.

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You're in the game, you know, and it's a team sport.

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I mean, the people you talk to, most likely you won't get them across the finish line in one conversation.

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And that's why he uses all of us.

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And he brings one and brings somebody else in the scripture, one fertilizers and one waters and one plants and with that.

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And we all get rewards for that because we're all part of a team.

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And the problem is there's only about 30 million of us in the United States that are born again believers.

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And there's 300 million people that are lost.

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And they're lost because nobody's told God loves them.

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The problem is us, it's not them.

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They don't go to church.

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They're lost.

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And they're going to stay lost until we tell them.

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And the odds are, I mean, the number factor is quite large.

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I mean, we can't just work on one person a day.

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We've got to move on everybody every day.

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And if we're running out of time, which I believe we are, I think you said, wait, Donnie, the rupture is coming.

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Oh, yeah.

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We're running out of time.

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We're in the gun lap.

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So it's like charge.

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And every day, it's not Saturday or Sunday.

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It's seven days a week.

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Moving everybody every day closer to Jesus.

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That's what our calling is.

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And when we do that, his joy remained with us.

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John 15, 11, when we bear fruit, he says, my joy remained with you and your joy remained full.

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Amen.

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Joy every day.

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How blessed are we, Barry, talking about the times that we're in.

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God chose us, this generation.

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We're living in the end times.

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It could happen.

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We could be raptured.

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I mean, there's nothing that's missing.

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I mean, it's crazy, this world.

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But, you know, when you know all that—

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We don't have any fear about all the stuff that's going to happen.

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Hey, the market's going to crash.

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So be it.

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Who cares?

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I mean, we're still going to heaven.

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I mean, this is going to happen.

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The dollars are going to come.

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This, they're going to take all our money.

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Who cares?

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God loves us.

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We're going to heaven.

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You know, so we don't need to fear anything.

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We just move forward and go, oh, okay, I know that.

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That's cool.

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Okay.

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So what about it?

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It doesn't matter.

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So why did God work a miracle in Donnie's life?

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Why did he do that?

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I mean, it's not one, it's a list.

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I mean, there's a lot of miracles for Donnie to be saying, why did he do that?

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Why did he do that?

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He didn't do it for somebody else.

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Somebody else was not as bad off as him and he died.

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But Donnie didn't, why not?

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Because of Donnie, look, how many people is he affecting?

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Oh my gosh, yeah.

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Because you're living for his purpose.

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I think about this a lot.

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when you're living for his purpose, there's all kinds of promises to life and health and longevity and, and knowledge.

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And you're, you're the recipient of all this because you're living for him and he's, he's got you.

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I tell people I live on a day to day basis with God and I'm very happy with that.

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I'm happy to live one day at a time.

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I want to live a life that where if God looks at my life today, he'll be happy enough to say, Hey, he did pretty good.

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Yeah.

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00:22:54.338 --> 00:22:55.799
I think I would give him another day.

491
00:22:56.959 --> 00:22:58.460
If we would all live that way.

492
00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:00.921
And how do you do that?

493
00:23:00.961 --> 00:23:02.061
By moving everybody.

494
00:23:02.121 --> 00:23:06.803
Just focus, folks, on moving everybody every day closer to Jesus.

495
00:23:06.843 --> 00:23:07.063
Wow.

496
00:23:07.663 --> 00:23:08.003
Amen.

497
00:23:08.123 --> 00:23:09.284
Living in the fog.

498
00:23:09.304 --> 00:23:10.724
Live in the fog.

499
00:23:10.764 --> 00:23:11.665
The favor of God.

500
00:23:12.565 --> 00:23:13.426
Favorite God.

501
00:23:13.626 --> 00:23:15.449
It's a pretty cool thing.

502
00:23:15.709 --> 00:23:18.052
So you've got so many stories.

503
00:23:18.152 --> 00:23:23.278
Does anyone, like me, I have so many, I can't even keep up with them and to think I'm on the spot.

504
00:23:23.318 --> 00:23:24.920
But is there a fresh one?

505
00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:27.724
One more pop in your mind before we say goodbye?

506
00:23:27.744 --> 00:23:27.844
Okay.

507
00:23:30.430 --> 00:23:33.431
You know, again, it comes the store.

508
00:23:33.472 --> 00:23:38.014
When I go shopping, I mean, because sometimes it's early when I go in there.

509
00:23:38.034 --> 00:23:39.495
And there was a gal at the front counter.

510
00:23:39.515 --> 00:23:40.456
I've seen her a few times.

511
00:23:40.856 --> 00:23:41.357
Nice gal.

512
00:23:41.397 --> 00:23:43.778
And we just, you know, I've never said anything to her.

513
00:23:43.798 --> 00:23:44.619
I just did.

514
00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:47.901
This time, nobody was around.

515
00:23:47.981 --> 00:23:50.002
And she did my checkout.

516
00:23:50.062 --> 00:23:50.422
And I paid.

517
00:23:50.442 --> 00:23:51.363
And, you know, I was standing there.

518
00:23:51.383 --> 00:23:52.444
And I said, you know,

519
00:23:53.935 --> 00:23:54.856
Can I ask you a question?

520
00:23:55.196 --> 00:23:55.997
Do you know Jesus?

521
00:23:56.757 --> 00:23:58.699
And she said, yes, I do.

522
00:23:59.199 --> 00:24:01.361
And we talked for a little bit.

523
00:24:02.262 --> 00:24:07.026
And she said she has to travel down from Norwalk now.

524
00:24:07.046 --> 00:24:07.947
It was her hardest thing.

525
00:24:07.967 --> 00:24:09.228
And I got that backwards.

526
00:24:09.448 --> 00:24:17.255
Before, she told me she had to travel down from Norwalk to go to work at this store, because they made her not work at that store anymore.

527
00:24:17.275 --> 00:24:21.258
If she wanted to keep her job, she had to drive from Norwalk down to Irvine.

528
00:24:21.498 --> 00:24:22.179
That was it.

529
00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:25.682
And a beautiful young lady, she was willing to do that.

530
00:24:25.702 --> 00:24:26.843
She said, I got to keep my job.

531
00:24:26.883 --> 00:24:28.224
I didn't have a choice, you know.

532
00:24:28.545 --> 00:24:30.887
This was our conversation before I asked her.

533
00:24:31.367 --> 00:24:35.811
And so she shared with that, and I said, oh, okay.

534
00:24:36.272 --> 00:24:42.858
But what she shared was just like, you know, there's the world making her do something she didn't want to do.

535
00:24:42.878 --> 00:24:44.239
And I said, you know what?

536
00:24:45.080 --> 00:24:46.701
you know why you had to travel down here?

537
00:24:46.721 --> 00:24:48.902
Because you were supposed to meet me today.

538
00:24:49.522 --> 00:24:51.743
And I'm supposed to ask you if you know Jesus.

539
00:24:52.504 --> 00:24:54.705
And she said, yes, she knew Jesus.

540
00:24:54.925 --> 00:24:57.106
And she actually went to a church out there.

541
00:24:57.786 --> 00:24:59.467
I think it was Jeff Johnson's old church.

542
00:24:59.487 --> 00:25:00.628
Somebody else has taken it over.

543
00:25:00.648 --> 00:25:02.449
But yes, so it was a Christian.

544
00:25:02.569 --> 00:25:03.849
I go, that's why you were down here.

545
00:25:03.889 --> 00:25:05.030
We were supposed to talk today.

546
00:25:05.690 --> 00:25:07.631
And anyways, encourage each other.

547
00:25:07.871 --> 00:25:09.432
So you're going through some crud there.

548
00:25:09.452 --> 00:25:10.573
We all go through stuff.

549
00:25:10.613 --> 00:25:11.973
I didn't tell her anything about me.

550
00:25:12.274 --> 00:25:15.575
But, you know, you were supposed to come here and get built up by me.

551
00:25:16.256 --> 00:25:17.957
So thank you for coming to work today.

552
00:25:18.697 --> 00:25:21.138
And it was a pretty cool moment.

553
00:25:21.979 --> 00:25:23.780
But little moments are great.

554
00:25:23.820 --> 00:25:29.743
We encourage people that are Christians just by asking them and saying, oh, you're going through that process.

555
00:25:30.083 --> 00:25:30.704
Pray for her.

556
00:25:31.024 --> 00:25:32.566
I'm going to be praying for you.

557
00:25:32.706 --> 00:25:35.329
So what you're saying there is so important.

558
00:25:35.349 --> 00:25:48.824
We think that we are witnesses to the lost, but the statistics tell us the people in the church, they may be not lost in the terms of going to hell.

559
00:25:50.023 --> 00:25:52.825
But they're lost in their faith and they're not close to God.

560
00:25:52.845 --> 00:25:53.965
They've lost their joy.

561
00:25:53.985 --> 00:25:56.367
They're complaining like everybody else.

562
00:25:56.727 --> 00:25:58.128
They're worried about everything.

563
00:25:58.148 --> 00:26:05.392
Statistics say about 76% of believers, of evangelicals, are living in fear.

564
00:26:07.053 --> 00:26:10.095
So we have a huge mission field inside the church.

565
00:26:11.011 --> 00:26:13.096
So yes, a lot of people say, no, I haven't.

566
00:26:13.156 --> 00:26:16.623
But for those who say they have, there's a whole lot more to that story.

567
00:26:16.863 --> 00:26:20.170
It doesn't mean, yes, I've accepted Jesus and I'm on top of the mountain.

568
00:26:21.180 --> 00:26:24.883
It means perhaps I'm inside the gate, and maybe they aren't even that.

569
00:26:24.983 --> 00:26:28.405
I had a friend who had cancer.

570
00:26:28.625 --> 00:26:36.570
I knew him from the car guy world, a very important guy in L.A., and he asked me if I'd come and pray for him for his healing, and I said, absolutely.

571
00:26:36.611 --> 00:26:47.458
So I went up about a week before Christmas, and I got a little bottle of oil, and I brought another brother with me, and I started to pray for him, and I said to him, the Holy Spirit just prayed.

572
00:26:49.317 --> 00:26:50.258
Stop me for a moment.

573
00:26:50.278 --> 00:26:52.819
I said, I just need to make sure that you're a Christian.

574
00:26:52.859 --> 00:26:54.100
I presume you are about this.

575
00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:55.360
Oh, yeah, I'm a Christian.

576
00:26:55.380 --> 00:26:59.963
I go to First Pres over here, and I've been in men's Bible study for three years.

577
00:26:59.983 --> 00:27:01.203
He gave me all that.

578
00:27:01.223 --> 00:27:03.125
I said, okay, fine.

579
00:27:03.445 --> 00:27:06.967
So I went again, and the Holy Spirit stopped me again.

580
00:27:06.987 --> 00:27:13.990
And I said, I'm sorry, but let me just ask you one more question.

581
00:27:15.451 --> 00:27:18.533
You're saying that you have prayed the sinner's prayer.

582
00:27:20.077 --> 00:27:23.540
And he said, I've never heard that term before.

583
00:27:24.521 --> 00:27:24.641
Oh.

584
00:27:25.602 --> 00:27:33.428
I said, yeah, I mean, you prayed and asked Jesus to come into your heart, to cleanse you from your sins, to forgive your sins, to give you new life.

585
00:27:33.988 --> 00:27:35.590
He says, no, I've never prayed that prayer.

586
00:27:36.811 --> 00:27:37.091
Wow.

587
00:27:37.271 --> 00:27:41.634
That was a man that asked me, he had faith enough to ask me to come all the way up to LA.

588
00:27:41.915 --> 00:27:43.736
I drove an hour and a half to get to him.

589
00:27:45.077 --> 00:27:48.060
To be healing, he believed that God heals.

590
00:27:49.096 --> 00:27:53.301
And I apparently was the closest friend he knew to God, so he asked me to come.

591
00:27:53.321 --> 00:27:58.848
And in the midst of it, and going to a Bible study and going to church, he wasn't saved.

592
00:28:01.370 --> 00:28:07.892
So when people say they're saved, I never ask somebody, I don't ever do that kind of approach.

593
00:28:07.932 --> 00:28:10.073
I just love when people let me ask questions.

594
00:28:10.553 --> 00:28:11.693
We all have different approaches.

595
00:28:12.293 --> 00:28:16.455
But even when they say they're saved, that's just kind of the beginning of the conversation.

596
00:28:16.915 --> 00:28:17.375
Yes.

597
00:28:17.775 --> 00:28:19.516
Don't presume anything.

598
00:28:20.156 --> 00:28:20.276
No.

599
00:28:20.476 --> 00:28:21.396
And ask questions.

600
00:28:21.436 --> 00:28:23.497
And more often, they'll be asking you questions.

601
00:28:24.431 --> 00:28:28.315
And anybody that sees your joy, Donnie, is going to be convicted.

602
00:28:28.576 --> 00:28:30.137
I'm convicted by your joy.

603
00:28:30.878 --> 00:28:31.999
I have joy all the time.

604
00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:33.120
I'm by yours, Barry.

605
00:28:33.140 --> 00:28:33.881
It's amazing.

606
00:28:33.901 --> 00:28:35.203
You're bouncing off the walls.

607
00:28:35.723 --> 00:28:37.705
I tell people about you all the time.

608
00:28:38.746 --> 00:28:44.973
It's just amazing the energy that you and Karen have, and you're just busy about the Lord's work all day.

609
00:28:45.173 --> 00:28:46.274
all the time.

610
00:28:46.514 --> 00:28:47.835
It's crazy.

611
00:28:48.295 --> 00:28:53.097
We're having the time in our lives at 85 years of age, we're having the most fun we've ever had in our lives.

612
00:28:53.498 --> 00:28:56.999
But I got to tell you, when I see you, I say to God, I want his show.

613
00:28:57.059 --> 00:28:58.020
I want what he's got.

614
00:28:58.940 --> 00:28:59.621
Plug me in.

615
00:29:00.361 --> 00:29:01.842
I'm so blessed to have it.

616
00:29:02.122 --> 00:29:04.183
I mean, the Lord has just touched me.

617
00:29:04.203 --> 00:29:05.144
Wow.

618
00:29:06.012 --> 00:29:06.352
Yeah.

619
00:29:06.792 --> 00:29:08.173
Well, thank you for joining me.

620
00:29:08.193 --> 00:29:11.013
It takes time out of your—I know you've got lots of things going on right now.

621
00:29:11.113 --> 00:29:11.934
It's not easy.

622
00:29:12.234 --> 00:29:16.775
Thank you for taking a little time out to share with our audience.

623
00:29:16.815 --> 00:29:18.096
Thanks for having me.

624
00:29:18.196 --> 00:29:19.676
Any last word you'd like to say?

625
00:29:19.796 --> 00:29:26.418
Any last tidbit of wisdom you might impart on our group before we say goodbye?

626
00:29:28.377 --> 00:29:32.460
Yeah, you know, hey, Solomon didn't ask for anything.

627
00:29:32.500 --> 00:29:35.802
He only asked God for wisdom, and he got it.

628
00:29:36.503 --> 00:29:38.064
And so, you know what?

629
00:29:38.164 --> 00:29:39.425
Pray for the wisdom.

630
00:29:39.585 --> 00:29:46.890
Pray for God to give you his wisdom, because without it, we need God's wisdom.

631
00:29:46.970 --> 00:29:48.190
So you mentioned it.

632
00:29:48.491 --> 00:29:49.171
Pray for it.

633
00:29:49.191 --> 00:29:51.192
Have a couple—and when you're in prayer—

634
00:29:51.993 --> 00:29:54.495
Prayer life is so, so important.

635
00:29:54.855 --> 00:29:56.536
I think so many miss it.

636
00:29:57.237 --> 00:30:00.379
I missed it over the years until I got closer and closer.

637
00:30:00.479 --> 00:30:05.503
And then, wow, and now God loves to hear from me.

638
00:30:05.823 --> 00:30:08.905
I can't wait to wake up 3.30 in the morning.

639
00:30:09.266 --> 00:30:10.647
Wife said, what time did you get up?

640
00:30:10.687 --> 00:30:10.987
3.30.

641
00:30:11.287 --> 00:30:11.948
It's 5.30.

642
00:30:11.988 --> 00:30:12.948
What have you been doing?

643
00:30:14.589 --> 00:30:17.952
Brian, God loves to talk to his kids.

644
00:30:18.192 --> 00:30:23.675
And he's always there at every moment since you were born, since he placed you in your mother's womb.

645
00:30:23.695 --> 00:30:27.978
He knows everything you thought, everything you aspired to, everything you're going to say.

646
00:30:28.538 --> 00:30:29.459
Loves you anyway.

647
00:30:29.539 --> 00:30:30.840
Has a place for you in heaven.

648
00:30:31.820 --> 00:30:38.104
And a plan for you from now until we see him face to face is going to blow you away and everybody else as well.

649
00:30:38.725 --> 00:30:39.405
Thank you, Donnie.

650
00:30:39.525 --> 00:30:40.046
Love your heart.

651
00:30:40.166 --> 00:30:41.086
Love you, Barry.

652
00:30:41.126 --> 00:30:41.867
Thank you, sir.

653
00:30:41.987 --> 00:30:42.267
Love you.

654
00:30:42.287 --> 00:30:42.527
Bye-bye.

655
00:30:43.708 --> 00:30:44.049
Bye-bye.

656
00:30:45.651 --> 00:30:48.275
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657
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658
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