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Fighting for Kids, One Mile at a Time with The "Praying Ninja Warrior" · Faithful Fitness With Coach Alex VanHouten

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Faithful Fitness Podcast for my Dad. Coach
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  Speaker 1: Alex Van Houghton helps you get stronger and mind, body
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  Speaker 1: and spirit. He believes that your body is a temple,
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  Speaker 1: so taking good care of it is an actual worship.
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  Speaker 2: I should know.
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  Speaker 1: I live with him every week. He brings truth from
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  Speaker 1: the Bible too, of some science and stories that will
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  Speaker 1: set your heart on fire. May God bless you to
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  Speaker 1: become everything He made you to be, just one percent
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  Speaker 1: better every single day.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, guys, This is coach Alex Vann Houghton on
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  Speaker 3: the Faithful Fitness Podcast. I'm joined by mister Nick Appachello.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, brother? How you doing this Thursday?
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  Speaker 4: Bless brother blussed, same man, same.
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  Speaker 3: You were telling me that you got up at one
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  Speaker 3: this morning to train. Can you tell us about that
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  Speaker 3: before we get into our conversation.
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  Speaker 2: What was that about?
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  Speaker 4: Just after talker too and I'm just trying to get
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  Speaker 4: some different angles on my legs and you know, he'lls
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  Speaker 4: make you stronger, and just like opportunity to wake up
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  Speaker 4: in the morning and praise the Lord and pray and
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  Speaker 4: just do something a little bit different.
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  Speaker 2: So why one in the morning, I mean, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: But why one in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I had to be at work at three am,
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  Speaker 4: so I knew that I wake up at you know,
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  Speaker 4: twelve thirty to get to Conway, you know, at one am,
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  Speaker 4: to do some hills and then hit the gym up
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  Speaker 4: before three AM before I to go to work.
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  Speaker 3: So, dude, that is dedication to anybody listening. If you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I go into work early, shut up, like you can
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  Speaker 3: still get up and you can still train. I promise
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  Speaker 3: you're not getting up at one High five to you, brother,
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  Speaker 3: appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: I want to you.
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  Speaker 3: You dropped it just now, and I feel like this
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  Speaker 3: conversation is gonna be powerful. We're gonna be talking about
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  Speaker 3: a prag Ninja Warrior Foundation, We're gonna be talking about
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  Speaker 3: a really cool upcoming event. We're going to be talking
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  Speaker 3: about the awesome things that God's doing through the Prag
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  Speaker 3: Ninja Warrior Foundation, and really prayer itself. It's an amazing topic.
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  Speaker 3: But before we get into those things, you just said
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  Speaker 3: before the Tahoe to hundred and you said that, You
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  Speaker 3: said that as if like that's a normal thing, And I,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, what is the Tahoe two hundred? You
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  Speaker 3: just finished this thing. What is the Tahoe two hundred?
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  Speaker 3: So the listeners understand what just happened in your life?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's uh, it's it's two hundred miles, it's not
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  Speaker 4: one hundred, so it's double crazy. It was. It was
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  Speaker 4: a very very very uh different process of my life
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  Speaker 4: and journey that that I didn't know that would happen
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  Speaker 4: this soon. I did twenty twenty three, I did one
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  Speaker 4: hundred miles, or I saw a traveler and work into that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it was a lot of different things. A
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  Speaker 4: couple years before I did, I did a potential to
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  Speaker 4: try to do one hundred miles by myself twenty four
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  Speaker 4: hours of prayer and run for twenty four hours, and
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  Speaker 4: we and we prayed for the ministry. And I was
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  Speaker 4: going to try to run twenty four hours. That was
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  Speaker 4: in twenty one, twenty two, and I made it sixty
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  Speaker 4: three one time, and then seventy three the other Wow,
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  Speaker 4: and then and then I was like, well, I need
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  Speaker 4: something to organize, something set up. But I learned a
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  Speaker 4: lot from twenty one twenty two and then going into
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  Speaker 4: twenty three for the Arkstall Traveler one hundred and a
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  Speaker 4: whole meaning behind the running was the Ministry of Printage
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  Speaker 4: Warror Foundation, you know, running for kids with cancer, you know,
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  Speaker 4: running the kids with diseases, running kids with autism. A
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  Speaker 4: very very big spectrum of what prenancial Warror is. We'll
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  Speaker 4: get it that little later, but it's very deep. You know.
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  Speaker 4: When we go out there, we set up you know,
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  Speaker 4: where people could pray for an hour, and people could
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  Speaker 4: pray for ten minutes, you know, while I'm running, and
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  Speaker 4: we just kind of worked work strated that way. So
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  Speaker 4: that was kind of the twenty one twenty two big
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  Speaker 4: thing was like pray for twenty four hours and the
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  Speaker 4: arkstyle travelers a little organized, but I still had twenty
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  Speaker 4: four hours of prayer. I didn't know. I thought it
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  Speaker 4: would take me a little bit longer than twenty four
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  Speaker 4: hours for the one hundred miles, but you know, I
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  Speaker 4: was like, okay, But everything you learn stuff in life
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  Speaker 4: through the process nutrition and you know, training plans and
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  Speaker 4: people that come in your life to kind of kind
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  Speaker 4: of guide you a little bit. And I didn't have
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  Speaker 4: a lot of guiding back then in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 4: but twenty three I had had had people that was
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  Speaker 4: with one to come along and pace me, and they
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  Speaker 4: understand the cause, they understand the prayer, and I had
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  Speaker 4: twenty four I had twenty four people set up to pray,
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  Speaker 4: and I had four extra at the end just touse
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  Speaker 4: it may take me twenty eight and it did take
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  Speaker 4: me twenty eight hours to finish one hundred miles. So
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  Speaker 4: started that race really well. The training was really awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Throughout the race. About mile forty it kind of shut down,
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  Speaker 4: so I knew I was at a certain point in
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  Speaker 4: my training where I just basically walk from forty well
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  Speaker 4: fifty five to one hundred and I made it across
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  Speaker 4: the finish line am in. But the prayers set up
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  Speaker 4: and the people following the journey was absolutely astonishing for
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  Speaker 4: that race, and it was it was really cool just
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  Speaker 4: to kind of see, you know, like Lori Lafferty, she
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  Speaker 4: always prays first and kind of hear her story. Her
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  Speaker 4: daughter Madeline passed away with cancer, and she had a
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  Speaker 4: really unique story during that because the previous year she
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  Speaker 4: prayed the first time during the first hour of twenty
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  Speaker 4: two and twenty three in between that her daughter passed away,
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  Speaker 4: and in the ministry of Pretty word was hard because
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  Speaker 4: these kids die of cancer and it affects the family greatly,
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  Speaker 4: so that in that process of me setting her up
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  Speaker 4: for the first prayer person because she prayed with me before,
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  Speaker 4: and I remember her prayers in twenty twenty two, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and she she called me that day and we pray
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  Speaker 4: with She prayed with me, and she said, I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'm there, I'm your errand I'm lifting your
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  Speaker 4: arms up as you continue to praise the Lord and
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  Speaker 4: glorify him and and and and finishes finish this race.
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  Speaker 4: And but twenty three is a little different because I
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  Speaker 4: never contacted her, but I put her in in that
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  Speaker 4: position to pray. But uh, months later I contacted her
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  Speaker 4: finally and she talked to me because she lost her daughter.
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  Speaker 4: I was giving her some space and uh, I said, uh, hey,
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  Speaker 4: how you doing. And she finally contacted back and she said, well,
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  Speaker 4: I just want this is pretty deep right here. This
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  Speaker 4: is the ministry that we're in, she said, She said,
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  Speaker 4: you sent the you sent the schedule to pray on Friday.
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  Speaker 4: I sent specific like what we're praying for, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: God be the glory, you know, praying for the ministry,
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  Speaker 4: a praise the warrior, specific things we're praying for that
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  Speaker 4: on that day. But I didn't know she was going
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  Speaker 4: through all this. I know she's gone through a lot,
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  Speaker 4: but she said on Friday, when she she got the
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  Speaker 4: schedule to pray, she she planned to take her life
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  Speaker 4: that night. So and she decided to flush the pills
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  Speaker 4: and all that stuff. And she told me this two
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  Speaker 4: months after the race. Wow. So so it was just
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  Speaker 4: it was just God be the glory, just the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: for me to reach out at that point in time
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  Speaker 4: for that. So a lot of amazing stories like that.
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  Speaker 4: But I did that race and then twenty three, like
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  Speaker 4: I said, I finished, I was very very I injured
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  Speaker 4: myself and just a lot of different things that happened
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  Speaker 4: with that that race, particularly because I mean it was
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  Speaker 4: just like it was cool because he had had a
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  Speaker 4: lot of support, but it really shut me down for
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  Speaker 4: three months afterwards.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you said, you said you you had from fifty
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  Speaker 3: five ish to the end, so it sounds like something
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  Speaker 3: happened that kept you from running.
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  Speaker 2: What happened?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, my legs in general were like like pretty
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  Speaker 4: much rubbery, and I mean that lack that asked to
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  Speaker 4: build up or what do you want to call it
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  Speaker 4: in my legs are just like it just like I
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  Speaker 4: could walk, but running was not an option, and I
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  Speaker 4: knew it was. At some point I was walking fine,
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  Speaker 4: and I was going at a good pace, and I
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  Speaker 4: had a pacer there kind of talking me in all
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  Speaker 4: the way through. It's good to have people in your
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  Speaker 4: life that encourage you and motivate you and guide you
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  Speaker 4: in the right direction. And that's that's the purpose of race,
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  Speaker 4: you know, purpose of life. You know, trying to make
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  Speaker 4: it to the finish line with Christ obviously, but people
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  Speaker 4: in your life come in there, and just so he
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  Speaker 4: plugged in, and then the little Alan Stone plugged in,
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  Speaker 4: and then Nickey Meeks plugged in the last fifteen and
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  Speaker 4: we made the visial praise the Lord and uh so
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  Speaker 4: so so twenty four was was like, you know, thinking
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  Speaker 4: like what to do next and so like that that helped.
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  Speaker 4: I helped a lot of people. I suppo as I
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  Speaker 4: started run club in Greenbrier. You know that's available to
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  Speaker 4: anybody in Green Brier. It's we started a group and
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  Speaker 4: we got pretty six or seven, pretty faithful people running
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  Speaker 4: the group. One person, Amanda, decides she was a run
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  Speaker 4: a marathon. I got to help her finish her first
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  Speaker 4: marathon and she doubted herself so much to get in
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  Speaker 4: that race, and and and she did it, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and in our runs we would run and in midpoint
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  Speaker 4: we would pray, you know, and and that prayer helped
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  Speaker 4: her life turn around, for her to follow the Lord
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  Speaker 4: more as well. Amazing, She's got an amazing story, Amanda,
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  Speaker 4: and love her some, Amanda Rooney. She's been such a
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  Speaker 4: beacon light in my life. But at some point we
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  Speaker 4: need people in our lives to guide us in that
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  Speaker 4: right direction. And I didn't even know, you know, I said,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I said, we useduld pray, you know, halfway,
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  Speaker 4: and we're going to run back. And as you said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna pray while we run, and prayed that prayer,
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  Speaker 4: and her life completely turned around. She lost her brother.
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  Speaker 4: You just don't know things in people's lives, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: running helps that, you know, for me to help other people.
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  Speaker 4: So she did. And then and then bj Herndon he
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  Speaker 4: did the Arksaw Traveler one hundred and twenty four and
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  Speaker 4: I got to pace him for forty miles. Sixty on
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  Speaker 4: felt a lot better than my hundred, but he it
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  Speaker 4: was a hot, hot day. My hundred was cool. His
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  Speaker 4: hundred was really really really hot. So but he finished
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  Speaker 4: just just over twenty four hours, almost twenty to twenty
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  Speaker 4: four hours. He did really amazing. So so twenty four
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  Speaker 4: was a twenty three was a good you know, help people,
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  Speaker 4: you know, finish the races year for me in general,
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  Speaker 4: and this guide people and direct people in the run
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  Speaker 4: club and some about that. So so yeah, twenty four
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  Speaker 4: came and man, so June of twenty three it came
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  Speaker 4: up for Tahoe two hundred. It's like two hundred miles,
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  Speaker 4: that's crazy, but it's in Tahoe. I could convince my
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  Speaker 4: wife probably to go to Tahoe because we've been there
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  Speaker 4: twice before and she loves Tahoe. So I was like,
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  Speaker 4: that's a good race for that. But then June thirteenth
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  Speaker 4: is the date for Tahoe two hundred and for twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty four, and June thirteenth is the anniversary or Praying
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  Speaker 4: Injin Warrior, so so Praying Nja Warriors started on June thirteenth.
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  Speaker 4: At six thirteen am, I was trained for a spartan race,
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  Speaker 4: unmotivated to work out, and I sat there in the
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  Speaker 4: parking lot. I looked at a picture a little a
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  Speaker 4: little groom nat little girl named Emily Airs and she
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  Speaker 4: had leukemia, and I said, I'm gonna start praying for
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  Speaker 4: this girl right now. I'm gonna color mosuar. She's me
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  Speaker 4: by motivation. And it turned into a foundation from twenty
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  Speaker 4: sixteen to twenty twenty oh one, in twenty five, aren't we?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, one in twenty five? What am I talking about?
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  Speaker 2: So two hundred mouse is a long way?
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  Speaker 4: Yea twenty twenty four, the decision for to do it
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  Speaker 4: for twenty twenty five?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so yeah, yeah, So so the it just
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  Speaker 3: so happened that that the Praying Ninja Warrior Foundation date
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty five, it's anniversary date was the same
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  Speaker 3: as the anniversary date that started in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, So I want to I want to
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  Speaker 3: dig into the Tahoe two hundred a little bit before
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  Speaker 3: we get into what the what the found, how the
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  Speaker 3: foundation started?
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  Speaker 2: What I mean you started? You kind of that described
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  Speaker 2: it just now.
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  Speaker 3: But but dude, I'm going to say this because as
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  Speaker 3: a listener or watcher right now, I don't I don't
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  Speaker 3: want any eyes to glaze over because you are describing
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  Speaker 3: running one hundred miles as if it's normal, like as
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  Speaker 3: if it's just like a thing that people do sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Hey, I was I was pacing people for
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  Speaker 2: a marathon. That is great. You know my one hundred
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  Speaker 2: was cold. His one hundred was hot.
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  Speaker 3: Like you're talking about this, But but I want people
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  Speaker 3: to understand what when Nick says my one hundred, he
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  Speaker 3: means that he has committed to a one hundred mile
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  Speaker 3: race and then completed said race come hell or high water.
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  Speaker 3: Literally it body mind spirit, like I'm going, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to do this thing. And and as I understand it,
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  Speaker 3: you're not doing it for the purpose of seeing whether
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  Speaker 3: or not you can do it, which I imagine is
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  Speaker 3: part of the discovery process. But you're doing it because
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  Speaker 3: you have you have a very deep part for prayer.
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  Speaker 3: You're you're holding space for the things that you feel
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  Speaker 3: God has has laid in your life to pray for
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  Speaker 3: it specifically, it sounds like sick children and their families,
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  Speaker 3: and you're also making space for individuals to support you
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  Speaker 3: through prayer during the duration of whatever said race that
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  Speaker 3: you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Do I have that right?
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty spot on. Brother.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, So to the listeners and watchers, if you
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  Speaker 3: glazed over at any point in the last twelve twelve minutes.
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  Speaker 3: I need you to go back, and I need you
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  Speaker 3: to listen, and I need you to understand that that
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  Speaker 3: Nick is not talking about like walking one hundred miles
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  Speaker 3: over five days.
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  Speaker 2: He's not talking.
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  Speaker 3: About like some hoorah marathon thing that people I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: some people do whatever, but that's not the driving impetus
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  Speaker 3: for what Nicks up to and in describing for us
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  Speaker 3: how he got to this place where he's going to
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  Speaker 3: run two hundred miles and you've done it June thirteenth,
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  Speaker 3: that was at the time of this recording.
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  Speaker 2: That was a month ago.
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  Speaker 3: That he got it in his mind and heart and
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  Speaker 3: in a spirit that I'm going to complete a two
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  Speaker 3: hundred mile race for the same purpose that I completed
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  Speaker 3: one hundred mile race in the past. So that's where
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  Speaker 3: we're standing right now, two hundred miles. I can't I
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  Speaker 3: have a hard time convincing my wife that the death
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  Speaker 3: by five k is a fine idea. You and I
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  Speaker 3: met there by the way, that's where you and I
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  Speaker 3: first got to high five, shake hands stuff. And so
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  Speaker 3: I'm with a group of guys for the listeners who
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  Speaker 3: didn't know. I participated death by five k. Interestingly, in
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  Speaker 3: the same spirit I had. Every five k was dedicated
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  Speaker 3: to a purpose of prayer in the community that I
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  Speaker 3: was a part of it. I invited people to be
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  Speaker 3: a part of it because I believe in the power prayer,
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  Speaker 3: and I pray a lot when I run, Like the
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  Speaker 3: majority of the time that I pray is when i'm running,
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  Speaker 3: so that I'm doing this thing. And then Nick comes
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  Speaker 3: and you know, for me, thirty miles is a long way.
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  Speaker 3: We're running ten five k's, which is about thirty miles,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm hearing from him about his one hundred minds
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  Speaker 3: and that there's a two hundred mile coming in his future.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm thinking, like, that's absolutely insane. Like no offense, buddy,
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  Speaker 3: but that's absolutely insane. So how do you convince your
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  Speaker 3: wife that you're going to go to Tahoe with her
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  Speaker 3: and run two hundred miles and that that's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: okay and that that's good.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to I'd love to hear that.
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  Speaker 4: She was afraid I was gonna die. I mean literally,
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  Speaker 4: she you know, she worries about me, you know, out
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  Speaker 4: of these big runs, and you know, because I mean
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  Speaker 4: Arksaw Traveler to Tahoe elevation wise is twenty thousand more elevation.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's in you know, very very dry, no humidity,
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  Speaker 4: which is great, but it's just an environment that I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, it's going to be very different. It's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be twenty eight hours a hundred, it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: around eighty eighty three to you know, ninety five hours.
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  Speaker 4: That was my schedule plan to do.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that, right, it's about four days.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean yeah. So so as you know,
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  Speaker 4: I prayed before I talked to her because I wanted
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  Speaker 4: her to feel comfortable doing this, because you know, this
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  Speaker 4: is she's gonna go. She's gonna she's gonna be there
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  Speaker 4: with me, she's gonna pace me, my my two kids,
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  Speaker 4: Parker twenty three, Mackenzie twenty two, fixing the me this month.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they helped out. Had Parker just set up
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  Speaker 4: to pace me a little bit in the race.
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  Speaker 3: Is just your thing and there on board, it's yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's a family, it's a family endeavor.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. And then and then I'm like, I've got
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  Speaker 4: to take people with me besides myself and and Bjay,
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  Speaker 4: which he said, if I get into Tahoe two hundred,
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  Speaker 4: which is a lottery pick to get into pick, you
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  Speaker 4: actually got to be picked from a lottery.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Are you serious?
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Yes? So so so June, so June of twenty four,
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: you sign up and then they lottery pick you, and
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Nick up Chill's name got picked to get into the race.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I was like, how many how many people get to
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: run this race?
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Three hundred people get to get selected, and so my
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: name got picked, and I'm like okay. And then and
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: then you pay for the race. I don't know what
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: to say. How much it costs to get into the race?
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Six sixteen, sixteen hundred dollars to get into the race.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: But and then the travel expenses are fi stuff like that.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: But that's crazy at itself. But then you're about to
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: go go run two miles that potentially you might not
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: finish because because last year's twenty fours it was fifty
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: to fifty one hundred and fifty people one hundred and
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: fifty finished, undred fifty. That's a pretty big gap.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: That's a huge gap.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: So so my mind, obviously I started in prayer of like,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: so I convinced my wife Tahoe's a great place. She
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: loves Tahoe. So but then I'm at the look, I
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: got to figure out how to train from from June
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: twenty four to June twenty.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Five, you have a year to get ready to run
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: two hundred miles.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: So and you know, I learned a lot in the past,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: from nutrition, to training plans, to this and that. But
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I met a guy through Facebook named Wes Ritner. He's
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: done so this is gonna blow people's minds. He's won,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: He's ran twenty two hundred mile runs. He's fifty eight
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: years old. Met on Facebook, we connected, We did a
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: little face call kind of like this, and he said, well, like, well,
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: what are you gonna do? How you gonna do this?
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: I said, I don't know. I'm gonna run two of miles.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I didn't even want to tell me.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: So he he was a god sent to come in
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: my life and basically basically send me everything that I
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: needed to complete two hundred miles. Could I probably could
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: have came up with a plan and a structure for
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: the journey. Yes, I could pray and all that stuff
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: and get people set up to go. But he orchestrated
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: something that that I didn't know because the hill strides
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: and and the tempo runs and just this, the in this,
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: the schedule in itself was perfectly aligned to train my
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: body to be able to get to elevation and the
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: altitude and the things that was going to come about.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: He told me everything that was going to come well.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: So there's I don't I don't mean to interrupt your
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: story because I want to. I want to start right
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: back there. But what came through my heart just just
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: now is a biblical principle. And this there's a in
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: in kings. There is a passing of the mantle of profits,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: so to speak, from Elijah to Elisha, and and there
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: is you know, Elijah goes through his his showdown with
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: with Ahab and Jezebel.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: He he uh.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: I actually talk about it in the devotional that I'm publishing.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Sometimes the most spiritual thing we can do is a
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: snack and a nap, you know. He's he goes through
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: a showdown, He's he wants to die under the bush,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: and and God's like, no, I'll send you an angel.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Here's some bread, take a nap, you know. And then
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: and then he goes to the mountain. He goes through
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: all this stuff. But then he meets a young man
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: named Elisha, and and throughout his trials, one of the
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: things that Elisha wants from Elijah is a double portion
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: of his spirit, is what he asks for. And and
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Elijah's like, hey, I can't give that to you, but
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: if God wants you to have it, you'll be there
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: when when he comes to get me.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: And so so when when.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Elijah is taken up into heaven, Elishah, what he has
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: left of Elijah is his mantle. And and today you
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: know a mantle linguistically means something along the lines of
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: the burden of leadership and the knowledge of how to
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: execute it right. And and that it sounds to me
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: like sure, I mean, I guess you could have tried.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: It might have been unwise. You could have tried to
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: do this first two hundred on your own. You might
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: have done it.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: But but having somebody who's been there and.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: And at least in some form of fashion understands your
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: heart behind why you're doing this, to support you one
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: hundred percent and say, hey, man, I've run twenty of these.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Here's here's what I would tell you to do if
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: I had it to do all over again. Right, that's
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: a very, very biblical idea, and I think it was
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: wise and humble of you to seek some help.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: He stripped it out really well, and uh it was
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: and like I said, the training itself and what he
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: put me on woollie hollow. Uh they carved out a hill.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Uh have the little swift backer there, but it's just
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: the hill that goes up. And I did that up
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: and down, up and down so many times throughout that year.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: And went to Mountain Ebo and you know, woke up
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: at twelve am and and and did so many so
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: many hill repeats. But it you know, and he put
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: and he put me in perspective because I had a
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: few races lined up and I did. I did love
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: it in February and Uh, I hurt my t band
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: and some of the pain I went through was through
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: the training was was was very I guess happens when
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: you're training that hard for stuff. But then you place
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: people in your life that really help you. Tom Broom,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: a chiroproactor that helped me. He's out of a process
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: fitness and Greenberg. Uh. Stacey Stacey Campbell massage therapist, very
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: very fantastic person and dating a very amazing person as well.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Andy Brew. Uh, she helped me so much. And then
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: a pt out of Little Rock Kara and Logan Blue Rose,
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: so I had them on speed dial. Uh, come and
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: see this, and and each one helped me in different
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: areas to get to get my training was supposed to be.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: But but that that year was was was very you
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: know when I trained these usually in the morning so
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: I could spend time with my family the afternoon and
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: stuff like that. And you know, I had to work
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: twelve hour shifts and but but training two hours before
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: I go to work and you know, an hour after.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: But I didn't. I didn't do a lot of miles
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: like in a row, like you know, eighty miles, ninety miles,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: one hundred miles. I did more just really small technical
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: things to help build my legs and my my achilles
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: and my hamstrings and my quads yep. Because I mean,
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: like one thing he told me to do was like
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: walk up a hill, sprint down, Walk up a hill,
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: sprint down, walk up a hill, sprint down. It builds
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: your abductors, which which helps your quads. And I had
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: so much quad pain in my in my previous races
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: that I think that's what set me like I couldn't
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: run anymore. So so building building them small little foundational things,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: you know, it was very smart laying the foundation and
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: then building there upon and then learning, you know, the
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: nutrition part. And he helped me nu nutrition a little
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: bit you as well, And I kind of took my whole,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: my whole, you know what I learned in the past.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: And if you don't eat in a fifty one hundred
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: and two in a mile race, you're gonna die. I mean,
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: everything's gonna fall apart. And it has and I've I've
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I felt that pain before and I sat there, you
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: know where I didn't complay one hundred miles, which I
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: was trying to do, you know, crying because I did,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: I didn't complete it. But but then you learn from
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: from those from those times were just like you, you
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: have to do this better, you know, and your Christ
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: you have to do these certain things. So you're not
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: gonna go if you don't pray, if you don't read
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: your Bible, if you don't do them simple things, you're
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: not gonna grow and bear fruits for God's glory. The
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: same same with you know, the running. I mean, if
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: you don't feel your body, if you don't do these.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: If you don't train, ride, if you don't if you
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: don't set these, you know, it's it's there's motivation. And
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: my wife was praying his Way Foundation, you know, you know,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: praying for nine hundred kids each and every day that
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: I woke up, I prayed for specifically. I run for
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: the specifically. But there also has to be the little
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: disciplines and that teaches people because you see these kids
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: fighting cancer, they had so much discipline. It's crazy, like
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: like they're in pain, but they're fighting. They're fighting a
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: way bigger battle than me. So I'm just coming alongside
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: of them and to supporting them, giving a platform and uh,
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: just continue to move forward. But there has to be discipline.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: There has to be you know, there has to be
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: a sense of motivation, but there has to be a
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: sense of direction, a sense of purpose. And it just
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: continued to to to migrate towards that as the year
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: went on, and you know, just just just the pain
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: of the training and uh, just the learning. And it
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: got to the day and of course we flew down there.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: We had a week before just kind of hang out
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: with the family because we knew the race was coming.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: And then the race started June thirteenth. We checked in
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: on the on the twelfth and walked up there and
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: I was scared to death, just just everybody's there. You
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: got to check it, bag is in, You had to
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: talk to the safety team, you had to like you
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: got to like you got to do a mandatory bag check.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: You have to have all this stuff in your bag.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: The bag weigh twenty pounds. On the day of the race.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: You yeah, all this stuff you had to carry, you know,
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: you had to go get your your tracker, you had
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: to get Yeah, you had to do everything that day.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: And it was like, this is this is this is
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: I've been ready so much to get to that start
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: line because all the training is yere. So I'm just ready.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: I'm just really start this race.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Let's go. Yeah.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: And I talked to a few people and you know,
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: just kind of see how they were feeling. Everybody's everybody's
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: pretty anxious and nervous and just like, thing, man, let's
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: do this. You know. You know, the one guy came
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: up to me, he says, I'm a preacher. You know.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: I see you got our shirt that says prayer on it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: He said, I'll pray for you, man. So many opportunity
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: to show Jesus Christ to people on these races. So
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: it was really cool that he did that. And I
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: met this guy, even Chuck from Michigan, and I said, hey,
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: I said, I'm wanting to run this with somebody. And
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: I said, if I see you on the day of
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: the race, I may, I may tag with you for
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: a little while. What pace you're going to go? He
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: was kind of he was kind of saying, okay, I
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: kind of had I had a structured plan what I
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: was going to do. That was my plan, but you know,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: I was going to go home my body felt any
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: of whom. So on the day of race we get
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: up there actually just just really confident. Just just I
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: mean the people that started praying for this race and
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: during this race was was the most amazing thing that
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: I seen. I mean, prayer changes people's lives. I mean,
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: especially the person praying, you know, the request, you know,
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: it's a constant requests to the Lord, you know, for
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: for what we're praying. But we had specific prayers and
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: we had thousands of people praying. It was amazing. So
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: on that day, sitting in the start line, I was ready.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: I didn't know what I was going to face. There
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: was a lot of unknowns. It was way different than
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: the hundred. But we was going to do this the
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: support for the Glory of God. And we was aing
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: to go to the finish line. And I found Chuck
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: from Michigan. I'm like, cool, dude's let's do this. So
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: so I don't know how the pepeople to get in
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: this race. So I started the race. They did a
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: loop around the parking lot and it kind of broke up,
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: broke the bottleneck going into the trail, and we started,
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: We ran, we walked, we just we just kept going.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Commerce Satan people come up. I usually tell everybody about
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Jesus and how you tell everybody about the ministry, you know,
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: everybody I talked to, and uh, it just just to
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: keep people, you know, if they don't know Jesus, they're
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: gonna know them if they're.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Gonna running with you.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: So so let's say I'm I'm some random dude who
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: what runs up next to you and and I say, hey,
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I see you're praying in your warrior shirt, Like what
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: is that?
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Could could you could you fill us in as as
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: if we were a runner beside you?
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, uh yeah, we're running. Uh, we're sweating a little bit.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: We're we're or like this is crazy, you know, explain
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: where they're from, where I'm from, you know, And I
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: just started telling about the ministry. You know, it's started
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: being thirteenth. It was about a little girl named Emily. Uh.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: It started with her. It built into Emily, Elijah, and Evelyn,
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: the three E's. They all they all get a bon
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Mot transplant and Duke Hospital and kind of branch off
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: from there. I was, I was, I was doing a
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: spot race for them. I was about six kids.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: How did how did you know about these children?
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Where are their names coming from? In your life at
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: that time?
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Just I mean just those particular ones. Was was was
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: through uh Stacey, Uh, those three the three E's, but
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: building to two more kids. How how I got on
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: a Praying nine Warrior? Was Praynuice? Where your foundation was? So?
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I finished spartan race. I was gonna I
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: was going to asked Emily. I said what was next?
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: And she said, get on American Ninja Warrior. I tried
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: to get on the show. I didn't get the show,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: but I got the name Praying Ninja Warrior. So so
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: that's where that's where the Prey and Ninja Warriors thing
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: took off, and twenty eighteen July fifth it turned into
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: a foundation. We had about seventy kids on the team then.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: So each kid is a little different. Through Facebook, through
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: through moms or dads, you know, asking to pray for
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: their kids on Facebook, contact to me. We have a
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: prayagel Warrior dot com. People go email me say pray
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: for the kid, and it just way different ways to
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: connect to the foundation. But now, from twenty sixteen to
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, we pray for nine hundred kids around
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: the world, all different kinds of cancers, all differ kinds
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: of diseases, and it was it was like a stepping
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: stone to more and more kids. And how do we
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: pray for these kids? Obviously for healing for the cancer.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: You know, once they pass away, it's extremely hard on
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: the parents in a lot of different ways, so we
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: support them. I like to meet the parents, uh, And
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: we met a lot of parents doughout the past. You know.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: I met Jordan in California. That was amazing. He was
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: eleven years old, he had the the IPUG he passed
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: away and and I'd be telling these runners like stories
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: of of of of Jordan's and and and uh, just
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: just you know what they meant to me, and and
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: and and Reno when I when I flew into a Reno,
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: I met Lynn Hissing. Her daughter Katie Hissing had ewing
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: tircoma for for seven years. And he passed away, uh
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: last year, And but I got to meet her, you know.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: And just I went to Indiana last year and baptized Carter. Uh.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: He was six years old, and he passed away six
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: months after I baptized them. Yeah, just different opportunities to
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: connect the fai was in different ways. Each each family
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: is a little different, sometimes on the spiritual sense or
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: just just to be their sense. So and and we
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: don't force anybody to do anything sure that they don't
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: want to do. We just want to love him like
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Jesus would and be there for him. And in a
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: time of need.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: And uh, and you don't know this about me, but
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: we lost my niece, her name's Izzy Estina to glioblastoma.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: He was two years old.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: And the prayers prayed prior to that in both within
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: the family and then in in I would say in
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: support of the family. There was a time in my
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: life prior to her death that I would have told
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: you I was an atheist. I was not a militant atheist.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: I was not a I was not against the faith,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: but I I wasn't sure what to think about things.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: And so you know, in my heart and mind, God
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: wasn't there. But it was through praying for a miracle
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: for her death, right, you know, to prevent her death,
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: and then the praying and the grief after that brought
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: me closer to God's heart and actually ultimately, ultimately was
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: a big part of my conversion from atheists atheism to Christianity. Okay,
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: and I say that because you don't know that about me,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: But but there is a there is a there's something
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: deep and powerful about one the unity of prayer for
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: a specific person, the petitioning of the Father. Uh in
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: my own heart and mind, if I'm praying for somebody
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: and and I really want God's ear, God draws near
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: to the broken hearted.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: But he also.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: He also I don't know exactly how this works. And
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: I don't mean this to be a theological discussion. You're
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: you're a guy in the trenches doing the thing I
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: don't like. Ivory Tower Christianity very much.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: They have.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: They've got to you've got to mess with theology a
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: But I don't know exactly how to articulate this, but
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: I know that when I'm in prayer for someone else
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: and I am petitioning the ear of the Father in
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: his throne room, if there's anything in me that is
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: unworthy or or.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Double minded or or wrong, it's almost.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Like he teaches me to deal with that first before
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I can bring before I can bring this thing to
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: his heart. Not that not that his ears are closed
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: unless you're perfect or anything like that, but that it's
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: been a real experience of mine too to see that
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: that praying for somebody else deeply affects the way that
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: I pursue my own faith walk. And then you can
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: see answered prayer, sometimes in the way that you want,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: which you know, praise God, and then sometimes prayers answered
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: in the way you don't really want, and it feels difficult,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: but at the same time it teaches you to accept
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: the will the Father come what may. And I don't
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: say that in the leadst bit, the least bit with
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: light words. That's very, very difficult, and our family losing
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Izzy was the most traumatic and difficult thing that our
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: family has ever been through. But at the same time,
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: God brought peace and goodness from that situation in our life.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: And so so I say that out loud, to say
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: that to one to connect on that front, because I
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: see what you're doing and understand the power of it.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: But two, it brings me to a question, and I
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: think it's a question worth asking. When you bring the
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: names of these children in the foundation and you say, hey,
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: we're praying for this, there's joy when the prayers are
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: answered joyfully, but there's also a lot of sorrow and
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: suffering that come from bringing those petitions earnestly to the
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Father and then saying, hey, that that's not his will
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: right now. And and that's hard. That's a hard thing,
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: and a lot of people turn away from that. A
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: lot of people don't want to face that. But but
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: there there is an element of pain to this, this process,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: And and I wonder if if you would care to
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: comment or speak on on how God's taught you to
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: walk and run in that pain, because it's not easy,
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: but it's a necessary part of the process.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Oh that's that's deep, you know. Ibout ask me, how
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: do you how do you, how do you pray for
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: these kids? I mean, we got super close to families
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: that that that lost the kid with cancer. But but
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: and I think prayers upholding thing that kind of keeps
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: you going, and it keeps you in red diressing because
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: you have a person relationship Jesus Christ, and that keeps
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: you driven and motivated to continue you to because you
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: bear people's burdens and and the weight is so heavy.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: Sometimes I got a twenty pounds back pack on my
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: on my pack, you know what I'm carrying, and two
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: hundred miles. But you know the weight of losing a
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: child is so tremendously hard. You know when you when
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: you come to the family, you know, like what I
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: call Jordan's mom, you know, you know, it's just like
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: it's a holy spirit driven conversation because because it's you
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: don't want to say things to affect them, to make
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: them go in another direction, but you really really want
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: to listen to them. Listening is so important because obviously
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: when you speak to God yes or no, and he says, wait,
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: but the listening and be still didn't know that I'm
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: God and waiting for that right moment to say exactly
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: what is what needs to be said is probably the
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: most thing that I've seen in the ministry of talking
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: to families. And I'm not some super counselor got some
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: big degree or some theological degree, but I've had the
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: experience of setting with families. After Savannah died, she was
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: from spring Hill, right down the road. I led her
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: to the Lord, I baptized her, and her mom asked
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: me to do the funeral and we're sitting at the
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: funeral home or anniversaries July twentieth in a few days,
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: seven years of her passing, and that was the closest
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: one to the ministry. We pray for the kids and
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: families that for the illnesses we invest in there, we
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: invest in their lives and we hope for the future,
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: which is financial, but also Jesus Christ and uh, sitting
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: at that funeral home with mom across the table, making
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: a decision to bury her, you know, fifteen year old
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: child was so extremely hard. But it's it's a process.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: Nothing is going to be the same, as you know,
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: and I'll add is e to are prayer lists as well,
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: but uh, it just it just it's just being there
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: for that person because they're going to have so many
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: dark moments, in so many dark times. It's just I've
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: seen suicide. I've seen families, lucid childs. I won't go
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: into names, but i've seen, I've seen, I've seen them
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: take their lives because the pain. You know, in this life,
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: we're gonna have suffering, We're gonna have persecution. You know,
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: if you're get to have a golly crystal life, you're
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: go persecution. You know, job, you know for example, you know,
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: so we're gonna But but losing a child is just
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: another level. I mean, it's just but I don't know
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: how you know, I've preached, I've taught, I've asked for
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: direction for my life. God, what do you want me
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: to do? And he placed a little girl of my
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: life to know the direction that it was going to be.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: And that was praying his work foundation to be In
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: the foundation, we have directors in Mississippi, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, in
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: Arkansas and uh but two of the families from our
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: foundation has lost kids the care as well. So there's
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: also that support system where they could support me and
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: help me to understand how to help families and connect
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: with them because they feel it. Everything you know, well,
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: Lenord's lost three kids. One the one the d I
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: p G. Dana, and eleven days after that lost their
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: daughter Lydia, and two days have to she lost another
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: one of her sons. So she lost three kids and
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: she is superwoman. But but but there is there is
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: a degree in there being spiritual. But but the ones
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: that don't have Christ you could you could see a
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: huge difference in their walk and their pain. But just
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: because they're Christian doesn't mean that they don't struggle every day.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: We don't mourn like the world mourns. That doesn't mean
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: we don't mourn.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: Right, there's there's a there's an actual physical process of
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: grief when when we have when we have one part
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: of us that that remembers, sees, loves a family member
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: there all the time, and then another part of us
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: that understands that they're not here anymore, that that they've
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: they've gone on to to we're not part of this
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: physical realm, and and those two things are in conflict
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: in grief. And so like a Christian doesn't not mourn
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: as a bad noble negative but Christian does it not mourn.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: But there's a difference in the morning process. There's a morning.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: I part of part of our story for for our
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: household was I was mad at God. But that was
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: weird because I was an atheist. How could I be
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: mad at God? Who am I mad at?
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: But in but in my prayers for her, I saw
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: her in the throne room of God. It's a long story,
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: but but long story short. I had I had a vision.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: I did my own Tahoe two hundred, but it was
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: like Tahoe seven and I was I was very fasted,
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: so I didn't make it.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: I just passed out.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: But in my in my vision, and this was real.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: I wasn't like a I wasn't a hardcore praying person
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: at the time. I saw my niece who had been
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: through chemo, and she didn't have any hair, and she
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: was very.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Sick and stuff.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: I saw my niece seated in his lap with her
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: hair all back, and she was singing with the angels
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: the song from Psalms that says, better is one day
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: in your courts, Better is one day in your house.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: Better is one day here than a thousand elsewhere. And
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: she looked at me and she said, I'm where I
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: want to be. And when I woke up from this vision.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: This was three months before she passed. When I woke
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: up from this vision, I had the answer I did
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: not want, which is something like I'm not healing her here.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: But it gave me peace, which is a thing only
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: God can do. That that God can bring peace to
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: an answer you don't want. That God can pre peace
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: and hope to a situation that seems so so terrible
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: and devastating. And I got to share that vision at
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: her funeral with my sister and the family, and it
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: brought peace to many to be able to picture and
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: see her that that the suffering that she was going through.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: We don't know why, we don't understand it, but the
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: suffering she was going through was over and that and
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: that she was okay, and that when you when.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: You follow Christ, there is hope in that.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: Right, if you're not following Christ, that sounds like a
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: bunch of superstitious mumbo jumbo hokey strange things that people
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: tell themselves to delude themselves out of out of pain
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: and difficulty, And and it's so hard to explain that
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: to somebody who doesn't understand. It's so hard to That's
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: why it says it's it's in the gospel that the
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: truth of the gospel is.
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: Is foolishness for those of those.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Who don't believe. So so there's I'm i I'm sharing that.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: I don't intend for you necessarily to have to comment
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: on that, but because the work you're doing in praying
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: to Jowarry is one very needed I don't know if
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: people tell you this, I'm saying it out loud. It's
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: very needed in the sense that that many people shy
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: away from these very scary situations with children, especially where
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: it's it's hard to know what's God's heart, Why does
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: this happen? Like, how could how could a good God
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: allow this suffering?
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: That's a hard, hard, difficult.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: Painful question, but at the same time the answer being like,
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: you know what, I'm going to walk through this with you.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going to walk through this. I'm going to be
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: diligent in prayer.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: I'm going to wake up at one am and do
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: my hills with the child in mind that that I'm
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: praying for. I'm going to do this thing, and I
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: don't get to control the outcome, but I am willing
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: to walk with you in this come come, whatever the
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: outcome God wants, and and that is a well, that's
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: that's extremely brave of you and also well I imagine
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: deeply holy spirit led.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: So thank you for doing that. If somebody is listening
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: to this and watching this, you have an event coming
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: up local here at Wooster, Arkansas, Greenbrio, Arkansas for individuals
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: get involved. Can you tell us about what's coming up,
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: when it is, what it is, and how people can
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: get involved.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So two thousand and two we started foundation. So
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: we did five k's from twenty eighteen COVID year had
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: a blank heear. But we do this as a benefit
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: race for the Paintwser Foundation and since we other eighteen,
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: we've raised over one hundred three thousand dollars to get
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: the families for many things. We've bought caskets, we hair extensions,
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: medical bills, mortgage payments, and we get requests often to
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: pay these different things. But the race is set up
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: to raise awareness, give a platform for the for for
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: the kids, and there's there's pictures of the kids all
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: the way throughout the race. Uh you know, so an
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: opportunity for someone to pray for a family and need
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: uh just we have we have we usually have families
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: come out there and speak, you know, about their experience
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: and what they've gone through, and it's it's a very
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: very humbling, very uh very sobbering moment because they're saying
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: they lost their child, and they say why they lost
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: their child and what they're feeling now, and they go
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: very deep into that conversation. We had three speak you know,
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: to speak and uh just but it's in the opportunity
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: to get people physical and active and and and doing something,
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: you know, something you know that they can better their
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: body yet as well. But yes, September twentieth and Wooster, Arkansas,
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: we're plugging in a half marathon this year. So we're
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: jumping in to another realm here of possibilities for a
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: five k and a half marathon, and so I'm kind
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: of excited about that. The Green Bar run Clubs going
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: to be you know, orchestrating it as well, you know,
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: getting everything together. We got really really good aid stations
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: and really good safety through Wooster one really big hill,
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: so so that'll be fun for people as well, and
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: just just an opportunity to help the foundation and need
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: and help these families. I mean, so I'm really excited
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: about it. Getting the half marathon and I always want
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: to do one hundred miles, but I don't know if
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: that'll er ever go that far.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: But maybe that's a very niche market man. No, I
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: love it.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: I support one hundred percent. I'll be running. I'm very
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: excited to do so, and I would like to invite
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: anybody listening or watching to run with us. Let's say
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: you're not local and for whatever reason can't make it up.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Here is there?
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: Uh, you've giving me a link for sign ups that
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: people can can sign up to run. Is there a
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: way for them to give to the foundation and support
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: it financially even if they're not able to be a
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: part of it.
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: There's a donation button on the run sign up as
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: well as you could sign up virtually and actually do
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: it wherever you want.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Oh that's so, there's no excuses. You can sign up
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: and run no matter where.
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: You are, and you got to meddle and a show
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: just like everybody else, and I'll send it to you. So,
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: like I said, I'm really excited about that option. Like
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: I said, I don't really neat for whoever wants to
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: go run and it can do it, So, dude.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: I've done a few virtual you know, five k's, ten
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: k's even a half marathon because I couldn't be there,
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: but I wanted to support it and do it. So
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: I'm going to make sure that that links in the
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: show notes. If you're listening to this, they've been moved
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: by this conversation and you're like, hey, I want to
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: support this foundation. Maybe I want to go get active
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: and do that. That would be good, and I want
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: to pray for some kids and their families. I need
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: you to sign up. I need you to click the link.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: I need you to bin, and I need you to
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: be a part of this. If you can do it locally,
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: I'll be there. I'll high five you and and run
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: with you. You might run faster than me. I'm not
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: a very fast runner, but I will do it. So
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: so I'm so grateful for you jumping on the podcast
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: with me and describing your experience. But I never actually
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: got to hear the two hundreds. So I'm going to
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: do like a rapid fire questioning just just a few things. Yeah,
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: because you know, I guess in a way, you don't
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: know about the two hundred until you run the two
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: under you get like a like a hat on you
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: that when you look up it says two hundreds the
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: new one hundred?
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: Is that what it says?
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: The bill there.
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I'm still working on my first one hundred man.
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: So here's some rapid fire questions. First, did you listen
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: to music on this two hundred mile run?
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: Was that a thing?
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: I did not listen to music, But I had a
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: lot of good conversation with Chuck and Jason and Dalton,
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: all three of them d n AFT unfortunately. But you know,
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: later on the race just kind of I kept tagging
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: with people and just having conversations with people because I
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: think that was really helping me continue to move forward.
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: So talking to people, and then I will say I
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: ran to Wes and my one thirty seven. He DNF
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: because he had some heart problems. But he came up
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: the trail two miles before and my body was shutting
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: down because I didn't sleep for sixty one hours. And
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: I walked up to him and I could I couldn't
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: hardly walk, and he said a word that motivated me,
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: encouraged me to go forward to the aid station. I
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: asked him, asked him how he was doing, how his
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: heart was. He said, his heart is fine, and he said,
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: you have a good heart. And I started running and
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: I didn't feel no pain for two miles. It was
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: crazy and I was crying and I ran as fast
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: as I could to the aid station and got my
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: first nap for one hour and steak tack was my
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: wife brought me, and that catapulted my whole race changed
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: Perspective's amazing. I only had three and a half hours
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: sleep the whole ninety three hours finished in the race.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: So okay, question two, what were the physical repercussions of
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: two hundred miles on you?
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: Like it was?
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: It was?
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: It was actually not bad at all. Really, I mean
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: I got to so I had I had a quad
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: ten didn't coming to my knee that hurt pretty bad.
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: I had blisters, but I had blister pads. My wife
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: doctor my feet up every aid station and changed them out,
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: washed my feet all that stuff. Thank you Jessica for
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: doing that. And I had. I didn't have any quad pains,
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: I had no pain in my legs. I developed this
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: stuff called Tahoe Long. It's altitude and dust mix. There's
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: a lot of dust out there, one hundred and ninety
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: so I made the fish line sipping on some water
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: and I made it there and I had I had
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: a call for nineteen days after Tahoe, So that was
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: about the worst thing that I had that the blisters
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  Speaker 4: went away. Of course, I finally slept for twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 4: It seemed like after the race, because I slept three
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  Speaker 4: and a half hours, but I had to get on
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  Speaker 4: a plane to come come back to Arkansas on Wednesday
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  Speaker 4: the next day. So but by Friday I was I
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  Speaker 4: was good. I mean, wow, I was really good. The
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  Speaker 4: blisters took about Sunday to call us over and then
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  Speaker 4: Monday I went to work and I didn't run for
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  Speaker 4: two weeks, but I could have.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know jack about how the body recovers
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  Speaker 3: from an ultra arun but I have to say that
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  Speaker 3: that sounds like a like a decent level of divine
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  Speaker 3: favor and also pretty miraculous recovery, because I mean two
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  Speaker 3: was no joke, man.
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  Speaker 4: The people following this, it was praise. We pulled the
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  Speaker 4: eight station. Wife said, you can't imagine how many people
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  Speaker 4: are praying for you right now. It's crazy how many people.
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  Speaker 4: Because I went on Facebook, but I didn't like I
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  Speaker 4: just kind of sent some pictures and something like that.
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  Speaker 4: But but the people that was praying, that was following.
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  Speaker 4: I hear stories afterwards. You know, event you know, you
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  Speaker 4: started on Friday, I went to work, and I did
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  Speaker 4: all this stuff on the weekend. I came back in Monday.
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  Speaker 4: And then Tuesday, at eight am Central time, you finally
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  Speaker 4: crossed the finish line. And you know, everybody surrounding me
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  Speaker 4: at work and we're watching the little tracker thing. He
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  Speaker 4: goes Nick, He's about to finish blah blah blah, and
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  Speaker 4: had had the YouTube live and all that stuff. And
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  Speaker 4: the amount of stories of the prayer and the support
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  Speaker 4: and just just the following and just the praying for
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  Speaker 4: the kids on the Prayers Word team. It was was
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  Speaker 4: was was so humbling. Even Chuck would he he dnf
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  Speaker 4: mile thirty two because he had Tyler lung and he
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  Speaker 4: was delusional. I was a little delusional, but it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: really bad. But he said, man, I left and I
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  Speaker 4: followed you and track you and and I got to
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  Speaker 4: talk to him and hear his story of how he fit,
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  Speaker 4: how he did finish. But man is I mean, thank
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  Speaker 4: you Jesus. But uh, it was it was humbling because
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  Speaker 4: because you get unknowns, you don't know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: We do that in life, right yeah, and uh, like
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  Speaker 4: what's going to happen? But when you faithfully follow the
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  Speaker 4: Lord in devoted prayer and not just say that prayer
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  Speaker 4: one why prayer in your mill. But prayer has changed
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  Speaker 4: my life where the unknowns are are preparation for the unknown.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm ready to set in motion the hard
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  Speaker 4: things because the Lord has guided me through the suffering,
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  Speaker 4: through the pain, through the conversations, through the deepness. When
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  Speaker 4: we pray, we paved that all the way through our lives.
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  Speaker 4: We could walk, not simply through it, because the narrow
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  Speaker 4: road is very difficult, but it's God guiding us with
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  Speaker 4: a light. Because because that night I had a light
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  Speaker 4: and I felt like Jesus was guiding every step of
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  Speaker 4: the path, even in the night and the day, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like the children are zero. I mean it was literally
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  Speaker 4: he was guiding me all the way to the finish line.
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  Speaker 4: And when I got to that, so everybody said, the
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  Speaker 4: last fifteen, last fifty, last two miles of race is
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  Speaker 4: fifteen hundred of elevation game. I almost ran that whole thing,
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  Speaker 4: oh my gosh. But got to the top and we
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  Speaker 4: had allful lot of time and kind of coasted in.
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  Speaker 4: But I've got to thank you, know, all my crew.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Drew came in for forty miles from Nevada.
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  Speaker 4: His daughter Era had has leukemia, and he came in
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  Speaker 4: and supported me of hit him, supporting his daughters, supporting
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  Speaker 4: the foundation, and now we have a lifelong friendship. You know.
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  Speaker 4: I ran to a guy that I graduated with him
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  Speaker 4: my one hundred from Arkansas, and I didn't know that,
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  Speaker 4: and his daughter had had a brain tumor. Uh Tori
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  Speaker 4: t or I and Uh. We had that conversation, me
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  Speaker 4: telling about the ministry and he told me, I don't
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  Speaker 4: tell a lot of people this, but my daughter was
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  Speaker 4: born with a brain tumor. But she's doing really good.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just like, it's just astonishing the conversation because because
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  Speaker 4: the Taler two hundred run, it's not it's a power
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  Speaker 4: walking situation. There's walking, there's sleeping, there's resting, there's it's
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: just keep just keep going through the journey to the
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  Speaker 4: finish line. But all the conversations and all the incoming
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  Speaker 4: prayers and conversations, and I even started facetiming people at
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  Speaker 4: the end because was like, these people followed me this long,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have a I'm gonna have a one v
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  Speaker 4: one conversation showing them Tahoe, you know, while I'm walking
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  Speaker 4: down this crazy mountain. It was it was just like
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  Speaker 4: this is this is, this is this is. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the views and Tahoe are amazing, but the experience I
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: had just devoted to God. I mean, that was my music.
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  Speaker 4: There you go, there you go, that was my music
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  Speaker 4: the whole way, because because God was guiding the path.
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  Speaker 4: I mean not in just two hundred miles my own life,
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  Speaker 4: but it showed me something. And you do this a
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  Speaker 4: lot too. You get away, get away from the world.
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  Speaker 4: And those four those three days and twenty two hours
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: was devoted time for me and God to help other people.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: But but for me to to continue to fill up
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: to help up other people. Yeah, oh man, But but
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: God said in emotion, got me in, got me in
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  Speaker 4: the race. It was June thirteen. That was it was
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: like everything, everything was there, everything I felt like was
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  Speaker 4: God's will for me to do this. Now, people made
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: out that a little bit, but it's it seemed like
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  Speaker 4: that was the past my life, and I don't know
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: what's next.
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  Speaker 3: But the September twentieth race is next. That's that's what's next.
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  Speaker 3: Man's next. As you were talking, and as we've had
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  Speaker 3: this conversation, this this passage in Hebrews keeps coming to
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  Speaker 3: mind in heart. I imagine you've read it a million times,
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  Speaker 3: since you love to run and pray as well. However,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: I don't want to mess it up, so I'm going
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: to read it and then I'm going to pray over
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  Speaker 3: you and the American Ninjau Warrior Foundation. It's not American
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: praying Ninjeorria, sorry, praying Ninja Warrior Foundation. And also the
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: event coming up. So this is from Hebrews. It follows
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  Speaker 3: after my favorite, well it's not my favorite. I love
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  Speaker 3: many places in the Bible. Is one of my favorite
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  Speaker 3: chapters in the whole Bible. I call it the Hall
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  Speaker 3: of Faith Hebrews eleven. So we're talking about Abraham, and
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: we're talking about Abel, and we're talking about Moses, and
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: we're talking about all these people who had faith.
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  Speaker 2: And then the writer says.
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  Speaker 3: This, Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great
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  Speaker 3: cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders us,
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  Speaker 3: and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us
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  Speaker 3: run with perseverance the race that's marked out before us,
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  Speaker 3: fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfector of
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  Speaker 3: our faith, for the joy set before him. He endured
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  Speaker 3: the cross, scorning its shame, and down at the right
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  Speaker 3: hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured
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  Speaker 3: such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: weary or lose heart.
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  Speaker 2: Can I pray for you, brother?
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  Speaker 4: Gonna say one thing, Yeah, have at it. One of
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  Speaker 4: the ladies on the team set me that exact verse
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  Speaker 4: and said, the cloud of witnesses it in her perspective
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  Speaker 4: is the kids that's passed away and the praying and
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  Speaker 4: shor team watching over and go out around the race.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: And she lost her daughter as well. And that was
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: a really profound moment listened to because I had her
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  Speaker 4: send it. She sent me a video. She said that
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  Speaker 4: very safe, that same verse, and she said, they're they're
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: watching over you. You know, the ones that passed away
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: and from cancer, the ones you've been praying for. So
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: you say in that verse brings a lot of emotions up.
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  Speaker 3: So thank you and you can pray for me. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you so much, Father God. Thank you so much for
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: this day. Thank you for the opportunity to spend time
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: with Nick today, and thank you for the mission that
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: you have called.
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  Speaker 2: Him to in his life.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you that he's willing to sacrifice mind and body
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  Speaker 3: in order to bring before you the families and the
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: children that you love and that you made and that
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: he's running for. Lord, but thank you for the foundation
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: of individuals who've come around him to support this endeavor
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: in effort. It's definitely not a one man's show. Definitely
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: couldn't be a one man show. And so Lord, I
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: pray you're blessing in your favor on the Praying Ninja
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  Speaker 3: Warrior Foundation. God, that you would continue to bring names
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: and continue to bring resources so that this foundation can
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: bless the children that you've called them to bless in
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: their families. Lord, I also pray for any listening or
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: watching this conversation who have a child who's sick or
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: has lost a child to an illness.
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  Speaker 2: God, I just pray that you.
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  Speaker 3: Would draw near to them. I pray that in brokenness,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: as you say, you draw nearer to the broken hearted.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: I pray that in their brokenness you will draw them
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: close heal their heart heal the bodies involved, and God,
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  Speaker 3: I pray that you'll bring good from something so terrible,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: difficult and devastating in our world. God, thank you for Nick.
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  Speaker 3: I pray that we have a great.
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  Speaker 2: Run on September twentieth, and that many joined us for it.
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  Speaker 2: We love you, Lord and Jesus name, Amen, Amen, awesome man,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much. And to our listeners and watchers,
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  Speaker 2: I hope you will.
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  Speaker 4: There it is.
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  Speaker 2: There's the patch.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: To our listeners and watchers, I hope you will join
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  Speaker 3: us on September twentieth, whether local or virtual. The links
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  Speaker 3: in the show notes and until then, you guys know
• 1:05:27
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