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S4 58. My Supernatural life – The Days of Noah Podcast · Millennial Mustard Seed

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Welcome back to the show. This one is a little bit
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different. You guys, this is me being
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interviewed on the days of Noah podcast which is hosted by Pete
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and Luke. They are brothers.
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They got a really great show going over there.
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And I want you guys to go give them some support, Link in the
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description of the show notes as to where you can find the days
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of Noah podcast and leave them a five-star rating and review and
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yeah, keep it simple. And quick, and right to the
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point, right? So, did I ever tell you my life
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story? I'm just kidding.
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You're about to hear that in a second.
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So with all that being said, I hope you guys got a laugh out of
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that, but seriously, this is me being interviewed.
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And it covers some chasms, some things that have been left out
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over the course of these last four years here on the podcast.
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So, if you'd like to know what happened, some of what happened
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throughout the course of my life, Then stay tuned because
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we're going to get right into it and I'm ready.
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Are you guys ready? Welcome to the days of Noah
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podcast, where we talk all things biblical Supernatural and
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strange? Today, we have a special guest
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with us, Rodney Smith, the host and creator of the millennial
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Mustard Seed, pod cast. And we're privileged to have
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Rodney with us as he shares life's journey, his ups and
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downs, his testimony, and how God has been faithful through
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it. All, even allowing him to
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understand some of the more stranger Supernatural things
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that Rodney has been through, providing a Biblical context for
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it. It's really cool to get a chance
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to talk to Rodney a especially because the different ways that
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our shows in many ways our tracking along the same lines
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and so it was a privilege to get acquainted with Rodney and we
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look forward to working with him more in the future.
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Make sure to go and check out Rodney's podcast.
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Once again it's called the millennial Mustard Seed and I'll
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make sure to have a link to it in the description.
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Give him some support and love on here.
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Is show and let's get started talking to Rodney.
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Overtime shifts. So I'm at at the fire station,
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we get a call. I'll let you guys have it and
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I'll jump back in. That's right.
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Yeah so welcome Rodney Smith. So you the Creator and and soul
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host of the millennial must. Sorry my butchered that the
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Creator and soul host of the millennial Mustard Seed, pod
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cast, And that's been going what about for years?
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Yeah we're on season four. I had a show before that called
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not of this world that went for a little over a year, okay.
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And that was a horrendous audio quality and I was just kind of
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get in front of a microphone and taking a step of Faith, just
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doing something right. Are those episodes still out
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there? Yeah this is still out there I
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don't recommend the real ones. Yeah it's just you know, a mini
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audio library, just kind of talking about more Fievel.
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Okay, it's still out there though.
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Yeah, yeah, good deal. Listen.
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We talked a little last night about a few things, kind of what
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we wanted to to discuss, but yeah, for the most part, it's,
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you know, about you your testimony with Christ your
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podcast, you're the issue that almost ended the podcasts and
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then I thought also, if we have time, you know, just about kind
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of how our shows are really similar and kind of dovetail
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with one another. I think I first found you, I
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don't know three months ago. Something like that.
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When I was I think I was stalked Earl or saying or someone just
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more episodes of her on different shows and found that
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you had had interviewed here and I was a little jealous of course
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because we've been trying to get Lauren, but like we talked last
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night, we're planning to do that second half of this year so
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that'll be good. But yeah, Luke and I started
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Last November we were just fans of blurry creatures and wanted
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to talk about similar things, not necessarily the creature
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aspect, but maybe more of how the Nephilim and the biblical
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stories ties into current world events and end times and all of
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that stuff. So but yeah, I guess start kind
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of with whatever you want to start with, you know, with your
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testimony or whatever you want to talk about with your Your
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life and then we'll kind of move from there to the podcast side
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of things. So, Yeah.
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Sounds great. I want to do a real quick
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prayer. Yeah absolutely let's do that.
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Father I thank you for this opportunity.
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Ask for wisdom. Peace.
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And a sound mind or God. That anything that I shared, my
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testimony will be helpful to someone else out there and I
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thank you for these two men who are diving deeper into your word
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and just seeking the faith is that you would bless their show
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and grow it in season and we just give you all the praise.
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Thank you for the breath. Life.
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Thank you for this new day in Christ's name, we pray.
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Hey man, thanks Ronnie. Well, it's interesting story and
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I've wrestled with how much to share just because I'm still
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processing a lot of it. Myself sure today's interesting
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because it's Shavuot shibata. I don't know if I'm saying that
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correctly, and I'm not big on Jewish holidays, and I don't, I
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don't have the mental capacity to try to understand like
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everything is like going on, but I know when there's like
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talking, Things I try to just reflect and talk with God and
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say where am I supposed to be? What are you trying to show me
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in these Seasons? These time slots that were in
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and I think it's really interesting that the interview
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was scheduled for today, huh. So a little bit of reflection
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and just testimony and making a declaration of God's goodness
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and seeing how he has brought us alone.
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A lot of the times we like to think, oh, we're content
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creators were influencers, but God works in us and through us
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to cause his To come about. So yeah with with dr.
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Laura Schlessinger. Just to address that real quick.
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She has been in my life for a few years now actually it was
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2020. I believe when I first had
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contacted her and there was a series of things that had
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happened in my personal life, that will dive into a little bit
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here about how the show almost came to a screeching.
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Stop the cameras off the microphones off.
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It was just this communication of I'm going to speak life into
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you. I believe God has As a calling
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on your life and that was, it was it was critical at that
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point in time because I know that sometimes we can be in a
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desert season, we can still go to the church, we can be under
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the umbrella, we can have other people, but the word says, how
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good is the right word in a specific season, right?
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And that was, that was a kind of one of the reasons I'm still
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here today. That's why whenever she wants to
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come on, I'll lay the red carpet.
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I'm like whatever God put on your heart.
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Let's go. Let's dive into everything.
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It's just anointed, it's always anointed.
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So, yeah, I'm trying to think what, what was some of the other
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questions you asked me in there in the warm-up?
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Kind of maybe with? Yeah, your background coming to
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Christ, I guess. If you want to however, much you
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want to spread that out. Detail-wise is up to you.
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I think it's always cool to hear people's testimonies because
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we're familiar with ourselves, and we don't think it's all that
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unique or special. Social, but when someone else
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tells it, or you tell to someone else, it just, oh, wow, that's
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really cool. How that God worked there.
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So, I didn't grow up in the church.
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And I talked about this with Chris Trice, a few episodes ago.
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I don't know when this will Arrow Macho or yours, but I
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talked a little bit about how my father was disowned from the
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church and just from his family because his mother had died when
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he was seven. So it was like, a generational
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thing when it came to church like I was growing up.
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We weren't going to church, my dad kind of hat like this step
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back and just watch them, they're really fake.
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They're not really there for you, kind of mentality and that
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was generational for the way that we grew up.
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So, really, my mother was the one who would take us on like
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Easter and Christmas and like, candlelight services for
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Christmas Eve. So we were getting little
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Snippets of the word, but I grew up very secular on the youngest
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of three. And we grew up outside of
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Philadelphia. So diverse culture, a lot of
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things to get into a lot of different influences.
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Has. And so for me I kind of was
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blowing in the wind really but when I was seven years old and I
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don't think I've ever shared this on air before.
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So this is one of the building and the building stories to why
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I am the way I am. I guess I was 7 years old and at
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the time my dad sister was like the only person who was walking
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around with a Bible and really just believed in it and stood on
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it. And, you know, she's always
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talking with people about remember, she's on the telephone
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is the long curly. Or did a stretch like 10 feet
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across the room and I'm sitting there playing with my Batman so
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it like seven years old, she was talking over the phone with
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somebody about this, God of just pure love, like undeniable
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beyond what we can comprehend. Just, you know, I forget exactly
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the verb issues using but in my, my young seven-year-old mind,
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I'm sitting there playing with his Batman soy and I had a, an
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experience that stayed with me. My whole life, I was terrified
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to even talk about it for many years because What happened is I
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was saying to myself. If a god like that is real, I
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will serve him some day but I had I don't know if it was out
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of body or what happened, but I was up in the corner of the
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room, looking down at my younger self playing with this Batman
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toy and I just was flooded in light in this experience.
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And that was that. So covered up for years just
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because out of the fear to talk about it and not knowing what
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happened, it was odd. It was like all in one second
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but it just was strange as a seven-year-old.
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You don't have the language to try to explain what's going on.
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You're just like, yeah, well okay over imagination.
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I don't know, I mean, there's things that as you grow up and
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get older you think like what was going on there?
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But it was just this distinct deep feeling that if this is
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true I will serve a god like that.
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Yeah I will serve him hmm. So many years later about 19 or
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20 years old I have an out-of-body experience.
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I got jumped by handful of guys knocker a very secular so we
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were partying drinking and smoking and I fell asleep on the
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third story of this this house in a spare room and I was woken
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up and buy a friend and some guys that crashed A party.
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And they were just, it was, it was wild.
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So, I come down and outside, and I peek my head out of the door
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and look both ways. And I see like, three guys
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standing there and I just say, yo, did you jump my friends and
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they just came out of the woodwork and they tried to kill
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me. So I mean, not just like a black
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guy, like they tried to kill me. I was swollen from the back of
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my ear, to the front of my nose. Like I had my brain has slowed
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up and tapped the inside of my skull and I started sitting up
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out of my body and that really freaked me out because at this
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point in time you know I got friends going into the military
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into college. I'm trying to figure out exactly
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what I want to do with my life. You know I was working at the
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Philadelphia outlets at the time if I remember correctly and then
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doing like blacktopping on the side and now I got this big
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question mark in my mind. What's really going to happen
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when I die? I'm dealing with PTSD after
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that. Like what is really going to
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happen. This is so weird.
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And when I You know, go to the churches or see the church
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lingo, if you will, over the way that they move, I couldn't bring
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these kind of things up, right with people that were in the
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quote-unquote church and that that Disturbed me even more.
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I just remember thinking like there's something here, there's
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something so much deeper. There's so many blinders on
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myself and everybody around me. But there's this tugging
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something more. So I just wanted to stay on that
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path and through Dealing with like a PTSD and dealing with,
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like, just weird. Something that happened, you
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know, early on and then later in life and trying to find my
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place. Find my voice and wrestle
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through all of these different things that I was experiencing
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well at 24, I find myself in a courtroom in Norristown PA and I
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get judge Danielle, and Danielle means God is my judge, right?
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It was nothing violent. It was just like my license was
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suspended. I had heard, of course some
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money. I was Not living a good life.
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I tried to change in a secular sense without leaning on God.
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So I'm like, I want to do better.
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I do not want to end up like what I was seeing other people
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end up like I'm like I don't want that path but my sister she
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was taking me to church in Norristown PA the time and I
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remember hearing like Romans 8 and 10, all who call upon the
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name of the Lord will be saved. Just simple first like that and
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there's no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
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And I remember A thinking but does that include me like today?
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Like can I be a part of that? So I go to the court for I
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believe this is the second time I got locked up, I got a purge
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release agreement. I didn't have to serve the six
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months by God's grace and I Surrender my heart completely
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and I'm just like, God no matter what happens if I get locked up
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today. If I'm free like I just can't do
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this on my own anymore. I can't.
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I'm at the I know myself. So I had this secret moment
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where I'm getting a little choked up because I'm reflecting
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on on things that I don't usually think about.
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That's right, yeah, back-to-back the back but I just have this
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moment where I say, whatever it takes, Whatever it takes.
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I just need you to come in and give me that open.
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Heart surgery. I need you to do it.
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My effort is worthless. I have nothing to bring to the
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table and I just said, Take my heart.
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Take my thoughts. And create a me the best man.
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That's the man that I'm called to be, because I can't oblige
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what that is, but I'm going to trust you with this process and
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that's when things started to shift and change and I know a
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lot of people that call giving your heart to Jesus, like, some
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people say oh that's that's corny.
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Right? They'll say, oh, you need to
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repent and be baptized immediately to get the Holy
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Spirit. I think, I think we're all a
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little wrong and we're all a little write.
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The word means what it says and says what it means.
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You know, we can't argue the word, but this, this unique
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process, SS. It was just a surrender and then
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God gave me favor and areas that I didn't think I was going to
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favor. So things slowly started to go
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uphill from there and then I was baptized in the name of Jesus,
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you know, I continually repenting, like we can't say, we
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have no sin, we deceive ourselves.
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I don't teach saying, I don't think it's okay to do the things
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of the world is doing. I want to be holy and set apart
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but I understand my journey it was long and drawn out.
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It was like over time it just kind of kept being critiqued.
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That brings me closer to him and then the podcast kind of
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started. I had the wild idea in mind.
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I was actually at the time listening to Basile and gods
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from Canary cry radio. Okay, yeah, right.
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And I'm at where I'm at a factory, I'm working all day,
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right? And I and tough Missler was
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like, the first real Fringe guy that I like really was into but
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like, you know, the entertainment and the cooler
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newer version of it was dazzling, God's, right?
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And I have this wild idea. Idea.
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Like what, what if I just started to take a step of faith
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and talk about the things that are going through?
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My mind, the things that I'm thinking about the things arm
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wrestling, would, I'm finding out as I'm studying the word.
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There's like these connections that I quite didn't know what to
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do with, about personal experiences and thoughts and
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just whatever you want to call it.
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And just, you know, being being upset in my immaturity with the
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church people because I couldn't vent or talk to them about these
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things. So, that was bothersome I wanted
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to create a space where I'm like I want to capture this journey,
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you know, Walking with God, no matter what comes no matter what
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happens. I'm going to walk with the Lord
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and we're just going to see how this pans out real quick.
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What was it about your the the church environment or or this
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sense that you got from the leadership maybe that you
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couldn't talk about stuff? You were dealing with?
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Yeah. I think like a lot of the people
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I was surrounded with didn't have such an intense like
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traumatic background like I do Did.
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So they were more just mellow. Like we're going to, you know,
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just reading the word and I'm coming in like high emotion like
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dealing with these things. Like you know I had a dream or
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what do I do with that experience?
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When I was seven or my out-of-body experience, when I
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got jumped in it was like oh well hold on a second, this kid
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might be suffering from demoniac perseverance.
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Yes, big like just slow down stop, but it was years and years
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of questioning and I couldn't find a healthy way, more healthy
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dialogue with other men because God is now bringing me into
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manhood I don't have good Godly examples.
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I mean in the church. Yeah but it's like there's like
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a sacred secular divide there's like the world and then you flip
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the switch and come into the church and his the church and
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everything is like holy and cool there.
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But the to there was Chasm that connected those and made sense
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to me and I felt like I wanted to be genuine.
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I wanted to be in the world and rustled through the same
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questions and talk about God and be the same person.
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I was at the church, the bails been thinning.
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So I think God. Is an opening people's minds is
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spectrums to the idea that there shouldn't be a divide, the
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church isn't a hospital. You know, the church is for the
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Saints is a holy places where we can come and fellowship and we
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can come together and praise God, right?
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But then also like raising up the right people to receive the
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the wide spectrum of different cases if you will that are going
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to be coming to Christ. And I think I was kind of a part
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of that locally and I have great communication, great
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relationship. With, with some of the churches
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still that I was going to back then it's like they've kind of
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seen me grow and realize like, okay we're feeding him, the word
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were watering, and planting seeds in his life and they say,
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you know, diligent and good but a lot of it was just my own
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personal case and being upset that nobody could reciprocate me
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on it, you know your yeah, this is crazy.
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So my wife had that similar experience, she she came from
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worldly background, a lot of witchcraft.
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Crafts People, in the occult, practicing all kinds of
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paganism. And then social her experience
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to the supernatural was the dark side.
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You know, seeing Shadow People demons, astral projection, you
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know, these out-of-body experiences and stop using
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demonic, you know, power. So when she came to the church
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and surrender her life to the Lord similar to you did, You
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know, all the people that she's around, she's thinking these
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people are my, you know, these are, these are guys are going to
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be a good influence and they're going to encourage me and she
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found a lot of division and quick Enos and totally blinders
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to the supernatural in the church because of kind of what
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you were describing. Yeah.
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You know they just very In their own lane but not really
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embracing what it says in the book of Acts all these
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Supernatural things that our reality and so she's had to
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process that as well. So you know what I think I think
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her background has been a positive thing that the Lord is
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used to propel her into maybe a more of a leadership role
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because she's had some positive experience.
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Isis after that, you know, her born-again experience but I
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don't know she-she's eyes wide open to all of it whereas some
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people are still not even willing to go there.
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It builds character, you know, you that that the leadership
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men's, how do you really find yourself being able to minister?
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To those people that are coming in the floodgates?
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Now, with these similar stories, when you have a background like
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with what your wife experience and me, and I'm sure you guys as
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well to it all to some capacity. End up.
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The thing that we thought was, our weakness becomes this
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strength where you're a magnet for a Generations that are
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rising up with similar experiences, so very cool.
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Yeah. So getting into, so you had the
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first podcast you're getting into Missler, which which I've
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watched a few of his things back in the day.
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But I was kind of I was robbed. Skiba was one for me and and and
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and of course, my brother Luke was was telling me about
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Nephilim, so that was kind of mine.
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But yeah, go go into that, I guess.
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Yeah. So with Chuck Missler, I was at
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the church and I was wondering and I'm talking with the Lord
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secretly and I said, God what are we going to do with like
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aliens and Bigfoot and these Nephilim that are mentioned in
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the Bible? Because culturally there was a
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lot of like alien influence, believe it or not I mean in the
22:15
Philadelphia area there's some unique locations where neighbors
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and just friends family members of his like lights in the sky.
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This is weird that this whole weird compartment of like
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people's Rinses and stuff going on but it could never be talked
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about in the church. So when I, when I asked the
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pastor a couple questions, he's like, I'm going to recommend
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this DVD set by Chuck Missler to you.
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I think he's going to help. Wow, you know, so I'm like, you
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know, falling out of my chair like watching Chuck Missler,
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DVDs and like 2014 for like months on end just like oh my
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God someone finally that like really Did everything for me
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that I couldn't find another places.
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Right? So yeah I mean Chuck Missler
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still to this day at the Bible in 24 hours.
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I listened to inaudible at least like once or twice a year just
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to see these threads and some of his insights.
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He really is this perfect connection between the Layman
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and the scholar. He's like that that Uncle or dad
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figure that everybody kind of wants in the church.
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You know, who's like gonna take those people that come on with
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like the strange aspects? We say right?
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Let the word mean what it says, and teach them some beautiful
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gold nuggets out of the word of Truth.
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So yeah, yeah. But but moving in to that first
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podcast, not of this world, this is like end of 2018, mid to end
23:40
of 2018. I go to a men's retreat in
23:43
Allentown PA with, with a group of guys, right?
23:46
And they do like these push-up contest and like, all this cool,
23:49
like, you know, stuff before this, you know, men's the tree
23:52
and we had a friend Brooks, who was getting ready to?
23:55
Go into the military, another one of my best friends, Nick
23:58
long, he's a holistic nutritionist and he trains
24:02
people. You trains from military people,
24:03
all the way up to older people with injuries and, you know,
24:06
he's super fit, you know? He's like that guy, we're having
24:10
this conversation on the way up about.
24:14
Where in the Old Testament, I'm not going to go into much
24:17
detail, but, like verbatim. When we get to this conference,
24:21
after these push-up challenges, and all this cool stuff, the
24:24
opening statements are about the guy who is, and I forget the
24:28
name is years ago now, but he's walking in the desert and an
24:33
angel appears before him and he says, are you with me or against
24:36
me? And the angels, like, take off
24:38
your shoes, your on, Holy Ground.
24:41
And that was the opening line at the conference.
24:45
So the me Brooks and Nick, and look at each other.
24:47
Like, yeah, right. Like this is cool.
24:49
And so we come back from that and that was a unique experience
24:52
in itself. But my boy, Nick decides to do
24:54
this Mount Everest challenge. So what he does and he put
24:59
someone like, you know, some gear and for eight and a half
25:03
hours, does this Mount Everest, Jacob's Ladder Mount ever
25:06
something like that challenge, where it's like, non-stop
25:08
working out on this like, you know, sterile Lifting and
25:12
Records it and then like it catches some traction locally,
25:15
we're like the owner of the gym and people are getting
25:17
interested. He's coming down to the last.
25:19
Like two hours, people are recording him, he gets off his
25:22
hands or ripped up, you know, he's all like, there's like
25:25
eight and a half hours of this workout.
25:26
He's drenched and he has this shirt on, you know it's like
25:30
like a muscle shirt. Yep.
25:31
And the owner of the gym says, why did you decide to do this?
25:35
Like he didn't tell anybody, people just realize, like, yeah,
25:37
this guy is doing something crazy and it says, give God the
25:40
glory. So we hold the shirt out and
25:43
he's like, I give God all the glory.
25:44
This is an opportunity for me to use my stupidity to just like
25:48
share with the world, how good God is.
25:50
So I'm Blown Away by what Nick did.
25:53
He said he was encouraged by like the whole conference and
25:56
just you know, seeing God move in his life.
25:59
We were like. Alright that's it, we're
26:00
starting a podcast and I see like we're going to talk about
26:04
this radical, you know, men of Faith or just stuff going on
26:08
that we wanted to capture the experience.
26:10
So not of this world. Oh, the first episode, I think
26:12
it was called Jacob's Ladder and I'll talk with Nick about that
26:16
whole experience in the conference.
26:17
Oh, okay. Yeah, that's how the first show
26:20
kind of really like it already was in mind we were thinking
26:23
about it but like that's what pushed it into reality and me
26:27
that this interesting little pocket is yeah, yeah.
26:31
And so you did that for a year and what was it that that switch
26:36
to? I want to call it something
26:39
different. I want to do something
26:41
different. Or change it into Millennial
26:44
Mustard Seed. Yes.
26:46
Oh, I mean the podcast was getting like no downloads and
26:51
like I'm not a numbers guy but I'm like you know, we're getting
26:53
like maybe 30 to 50 downloads a month.
26:56
Yep. And going through not of this
27:00
world and I really doing this old period in time on keeping
27:04
journals and a logbook. And, you know, my experience to
27:07
stuff like that. And I'm have prayer journals and
27:10
digging deeper into the The word God is like Chuck Missler, you
27:14
know, they were really planning seeds that were causing my
27:18
private study to go deeper. So I'm like, I want to do
27:22
another show and I want the start of it to be based on this
27:26
biblical approach and capturing the actual Journey versus the.
27:30
First one was just kind of on the on the backside of what Nick
27:34
had done with this Jacob's Ladder challenge.
27:37
So I felt like I needed to kind of reinvent my Approach and I
27:43
had wrestled through about three months.
27:44
So this is in 2019 where I'm looking for a name of the show.
27:48
And I had all these cool names, you know, mapped out and stuff.
27:50
And I had this little tiny glass jar with a mustard seed in it,
27:55
that hang from a necklace, and it would always be at wherever
27:58
my desk was right. And, you know, something about
28:01
the mustard seed of faith and I really felt small and
28:05
insignificant my generation. Don't like it.
28:08
I'll just some guy, you know, undereducated overworked and
28:13
running this, this race of Faith.
28:15
So I'm like man that musty really resonates with me and
28:20
then I was just watching the rest of my generation, the
28:24
millennial generation, and just how chaotic everything was.
28:28
I mean, you know, we got super computers in our pockets when we
28:30
start getting hair on her face on our chest, right?
28:32
When we start becoming men. So, like, I seen this Stark
28:35
difference between talking with older people versus what was
28:39
relevant in my generation. So I thought it was really Faith
28:43
was not widely. Accepted people thought you were
28:45
corny for reading the Bible. Like I was really had some hard
28:49
times with shifting from over the course of these years from
28:52
the world, the way of living to this biblical way of living.
28:57
So I felt like this small and insignificant dude in the
29:01
millennial generation. So I remember when the name hit
29:04
me, I'm like, there's no way I would name it that.
29:06
Oh my God, that's Mouth, full people care for that and for now
29:10
I had trouble this morning. Happens all the time.
29:14
Oh man. And then um, I tried to come up
29:19
with other names of God just kept saying no.
29:21
Yeah, it's better to be obedient than to sacrifice them like our
29:26
God. I'm gonna go with it.
29:27
Yep. I'm going to go with it.
29:28
And yeah, that's how the the winner must have see was was
29:31
born over the course of all this journey.
29:33
It was like the reflection that acknowledgement of being this
29:37
little. Alcide and my generation like we
29:40
were born for such a time as this.
29:42
So like this is my generation, you know?
29:44
This is where I'm planted, this is the reality of it versus what
29:47
seemed more appealing, you know, because there's these other cool
29:50
podcast names, you know, like you know I'm not going to say
29:54
I'm just because I'm not going to name drop but everybody knows
29:59
you know these Dogman Sasquatch all this cool stuff and Cryptids
30:03
and so it was God always kind of keeps me on my toes.
30:06
You never Maybe you like too much in the front, where it's
30:10
like, I'm confident. And I know it's going to work is
30:12
more or less like in the back just praying like, dude, I hope
30:16
this works. You know, like am I doing this
30:18
right? And just this constant
30:19
communication has really kept me, humble.
30:22
Yeah, what when you yeah made that switch to to this show what
30:29
kind of what was your kind of your goal, or mission for that
30:32
what you wanted to talk about like for us it's you know, the
30:36
days of Noah. alright, it's similar to blurry creatures, but
30:40
it's more more big picture, not creature focused but yeah, Like
30:47
I was saying a bit ago, like, you have all of these different
30:51
cultural perspectives. You have people that don't
30:53
believe in God, but they're watching Ancient Aliens, right,
30:56
right? You have all of these topics
31:00
that I believe all of it is under the authority of Christ.
31:04
Like he is the head of the principalities Powers.
31:06
Rulers, dominions authorities, the archons.
31:09
But I'm seeing the misattribute ation to the reality of the
31:14
power water. Here it is.
31:15
God up top And in the Old Testament, he a lots.
31:18
These Gentile Nations to these lower case, G gods and I started
31:22
to see the gospel as like Christ is risen from the grave.
31:27
The Messiah, he comes in the flesh quarter of the scriptures
31:29
on the third day. He is risen but I also started
31:32
to see the power of how he Dethrone.
31:35
These lowercase G. Doctors.
31:41
This power move that the church was in focusing on.
31:43
So it my idea was I want to interview people from different
31:47
different belief systems different spectrums.
31:48
Right? Like all these little cliques, I
31:51
want to kind of represent them. Like, bring the best out of what
31:54
I see that people are doing right onto the show highlight
31:57
with the doing, right? I don't want to write a book
31:59
about what they're doing wrong. I don't want to contribute to
32:01
the division. I was thinking wouldn't it be
32:04
cooler to highlight what's right?
32:05
And allow just God to work. Work it out with people.
32:09
Like I don't need to be on here saying you're wrong.
32:11
R-right making videos about who doesn't have it all together.
32:14
I think that that's actually what I'm battling against
32:17
because I'm actually trying to just God will correct.
32:20
God will discipline? God will raise them up and he
32:22
will set them down and he has purposes beyond our
32:24
comprehension. So my idea was, I want to
32:27
capture this journey and and represent all of these because
32:30
I've had people on the show that her like hold drastic different
32:33
views. Okay, the guy next door all the
32:35
way up to like, you know, dr. Laura right.
32:37
Everybody in between. I don't discriminate.
32:39
My idea was, let's capture All of this and hoping that the
32:42
listeners, they see something represented on are that they may
32:47
be secretly wrestling with or connecting these puzzle pieces
32:49
together. There, you know, this tug of war
32:51
on the inside, like I feel something's wrong here but it
32:54
connects together and just kind of helping people as it was
32:57
helping me. And then the power of sharing
32:59
our testimony you know it really does give other people the
33:04
boldness. You know like Allah would say
33:07
the Intrepid host ale say she's this infected host writing.
33:10
It's like We see so many fake ones out there and a lot of
33:13
people in the secret conversations, they're all
33:15
feeling very similar. Like the campfire stories people
33:19
are talking about everything that won't talk about it the
33:21
pulpit. So I'm like this is a huge gray
33:23
area and I just wanted to be genuine and real.
33:25
I'm like I'm like let's make the gray area accessible to
33:31
everybody and let God do the judging on what should continue
33:34
and whatnot and just let like he's the great orchestrator
33:37
here. So yeah, that's the purpose of
33:40
the show. Was just a capture my faith
33:42
journey and to cover these wide spectrum of topics.
33:46
Always giving God, the praise always giving God the glory,
33:49
we're not glorifying Cryptids over here, we're not glorifying
33:51
the darkness. We're exposing the darkness and
33:54
we are really wrestling into adjusting.
33:57
Our reality grasping the, the Eternal truth of what's already
34:03
been set in stone and that's the glorification of God.
34:05
The Eternal God had because everything is going to fade
34:09
away. The Earth is going to fade away.
34:11
The flower of the field you're going to fade away but the word
34:13
of God will last forever. So just helping people to not
34:18
look through a lens of fear. Not being afraid to ask
34:20
questions about the Bible. Yeah, kind of like some Secret
34:24
Angel. You knows our secret agent
34:27
stuff. I'm sorry, where it's like, you
34:29
kind of go in and you're like, we're gonna we're gonna pray for
34:32
these people. We're going to, you know, find
34:33
the people who have those questions and really just
34:36
showing it's okay to be genuine, right?
34:41
Yeah, I got a question for you. So, since you've shifted gears
34:44
with this new podcast, and you're letting people who, you
34:47
know, you look focusing on the positives.
34:50
Give me maybe your top three highlights.
34:54
If you can, obviously we brought up dr.
34:57
Laura several times. But what was it about?
35:01
Maybe three different guests that really stood out to you
35:04
three different episodes. Maybe that you want to share
35:08
that. We're like man this was wild.
35:10
No, that's a good question. That's a really good question.
35:15
I think like the first one. My sister Amber comes on early
35:19
in the season. And at that point in time, she
35:23
had really came back to the Lord.
35:26
And we were seeing her run circles around, you know, people
35:29
who were judging her years prior.
35:31
So God is using her and, and covering the Hat Man experience,
35:35
she had in the house we grow up, and I remember him that episode
35:38
came out. You know, we can't come on her
35:40
down. Like people listen to it and it
35:42
was like good responses and and I remember thinking this story
35:45
has been secret like all this time.
35:48
You know, her staring this hat man experience she had in this
35:50
This Old House, we grew up in that was like a huge moment for
35:53
me. Okay, people will listen right
35:56
and she felt good about getting it off your chest.
35:58
I felt good about capturing and sharing with people.
36:00
So that was like a huge. Yeah.
36:02
And like, that felt good. I feel like it's out in the
36:05
open. We aired it out, right?
36:07
Yeah. And I say, the next one showing
36:09
Carter comes on. And there's this moment where he
36:13
says he's talking about a pastor, he was being taught by
36:17
down south and they get a call to go to a family's house.
36:21
Because there's a bunch of snakes down at this, little
36:23
water way underneath these bigger rocks and the pastor, you
36:27
know, it was a snake Hunter too. So they go there, flipping up,
36:30
rocks and Shoals. Like, what are we doing?
36:31
You know, what's the purpose of this?
36:33
And the pastor's like, like, listen, every rock, you flip
36:37
over, there's not going to be a snake under there, just waiting
36:39
to strike you but And there is a snake there, you got to know how
36:43
to handle it. And then he like in that to the
36:46
fact that not everything is demonic in this world.
36:48
There's a balance, right? Like there's not a demon behind
36:51
every single Rock in life and that was that was huge for me
36:56
like because I'm still dealing with like the skepticism of like
36:59
rare is the cutoff line between the spiritual realm and the
37:03
physical and is their demons behind all the stuff.
37:05
And just that helped me to not take myself too.
37:07
Seriously to relax a little bit and to not look for demon
37:12
everywhere and that operating a fear is not the answer.
37:15
I think the next one. I mean, honestly, I would have
37:18
to say, I'll let go from the IDC, the intelligent design
37:23
Collective was another huge shifting point for me.
37:27
We, he comes on and aleko is we still talk to this day, he's
37:31
awesome. He had travelled for 10 years
37:34
and was a teacher of like an international student registry
37:37
overseas. And he had this testimony Mooney
37:41
where he's super smart guy like Academia.
37:44
The walls are right. And he has this near-death
37:47
encounter that he talks about outside of Wuhan in the hoobae
37:52
Providence, in like 2012, when him and his wife were riding
37:55
puddle bikes in over in China and it shifts his whole entire
38:01
direction of life where he then comes to the Lord as wife was a
38:04
Christian she was praying but he was like you know oh no I have
38:09
too many awesome answers. In the scientific world.
38:11
And, you know, physics and all this, all this different stuff,
38:15
but he then has this near-death encounter and comes to the Lord.
38:18
And three months later, we talked about this.
38:21
All on that episode. He gets baptized in Dalian,
38:24
which is the military capital of China in a bathtub in an
38:27
apartment. So like his story like the power
38:30
that I felt like it was displaying and how it helped me,
38:34
not become so scared to talk about my near-death encounter.
38:37
Also that was another huge shifting point where I'm like
38:40
this is Third, we need to be speaking.
38:42
So there are like three, there's plenty more.
38:45
There's, there's awesome conversations that have been had
38:48
over the last few years on the podcast.
38:50
I'm not like just I don't sling any episode out.
38:52
Like only got like 60 episodes over four years, but like the
38:55
idea is each one means something.
38:57
There's a nugget in each episode and I'm more worried about
39:01
trying to get a little more right than I've been getting
39:03
wrong instead of just throwing content out there.
39:06
So there are three points of significance.
39:09
Well, one thing you You touched on earlier was kind of God in
39:15
the mix in the mix of all these other lower lower case, G, God's
39:22
right? And it's interesting like as
39:27
we've gone through, you know, our show, it's really like,
39:31
sometimes I'll have a picture in my head of kind of a concept
39:35
maybe in, it's hard to put into words but I guess if you were to
39:39
think of maybe how the Regime, Evangelical Christian, kind of
39:43
perceives of God, and then other gods like Israel going after
39:48
other gods. It's kind of this huge divide
39:51
like God is way up here and then there's all these other things
39:55
that either don't exist people think or they are but they're
40:00
they're pretty weak, pretty powerless.
40:02
And I think when we talk about how the story of History, other
40:07
religions mythologies, Are all part and parcel of the biblical
40:13
Narrative of, you know, the Nephilim and these other false
40:18
gods coming to Earth and you know, kind of muddying the
40:23
Waters of True Religion. With God, it's not like him and
40:30
then there's all these others, it's like there's him and it's
40:34
like if you picture like a photo in a room, right?
40:37
Like you can tell who the real one is, He's standing Head and
40:40
Shoulders above, but it's interesting how God puts himself
40:44
amongst all these other ones. We're in our head, in our
40:49
Christian head were like oh you're so far above.
40:52
But he does that on purpose. I think the contrast himself to
40:56
all these other ones, right? Like he's like, I'm going to
41:00
have Israel for myself. You guys can have the other
41:02
ones. It's like, dude, you can snap
41:05
your fingers like the the Marvel movies, snap your Yours and
41:10
boom. All these guys are gone.
41:12
You know, Satan's gone. And I know he's gonna let these
41:15
things play out and he's gonna let you know, the evil to have
41:19
dominion in contrast and, and show himself against that
41:25
backdrop. I just think that's, that's
41:28
really interesting and also how it Bridges the Gap to to other
41:32
people. Other religions that we can say,
41:34
Hey, you know about that story like that new age story.
41:37
Well, guess where that comes from, you know?
41:40
Yeah, just like yeah, no. I was thinking the contrast that
41:45
the Lord uses is, I was gonna say that the cotton like with
41:54
it, where the Apostle Paul goes to the Parthenon and he's making
41:58
Declarations of this unknown God, because because the Greeks
42:02
had a statue to the unknown, God, right?
42:04
Because Greeks like love wisdom, they love learning, right?
42:07
And I think that's interesting. And the next First thing that
42:10
came to mind when you were bringing that up is it's the
42:12
glory of God to conceal a matter.
42:16
But it's the duty of the princes to seek it out.
42:19
So I think a lot of the times like God wants us more than we
42:23
can understand to be participants in redeeming.
42:28
Right. All of that, which was lost.
42:30
Yeah. You know, I think he wants us to
42:31
be participants in it and that's the beauty of free will because
42:35
we're not a robot whose programmed to just wake up and
42:37
say yes, I love you. Lord.
42:39
What is the mission today? No, like we're going to have ups
42:42
and downs. We're going to have trials and
42:44
Ian's hardship and deprivation. We're gonna have ceases of
42:47
laughter seasons of crime. We're going to seize as a
42:49
breaking down season of building up and there's nothing new Under
42:52
the Sun. So like talking about these
42:54
perspectives and helping that, like we have no idea of somebody
42:57
sitting out there right now, that's going to be listening to
43:00
this interview going. I needed to hear that so bad.
43:05
Like a ripple effect, we just have no idea.
43:07
So even though it's just an interview in his just our
43:10
voices, it is building the kingdom in a way we are Way,
43:15
watering and planting seeds, as much more, we should be doing
43:19
the secret Works. Where I left hand doesn't know
43:20
what the right hand is doing, but so this is an opportunity.
43:23
I said this, I forget with who, but if the Apostle Paul was here
43:26
today you think he wouldn't be on a podcast?
43:29
You don't know nothing about the Apostle Paul right behind it
43:31
out, the windows three-minute, right?
43:33
He'd be on the podcast, he would be doing every you've utilize
43:36
everything, he had to be able to keep building The Narrative of
43:41
the power of God. I become I become All things so
43:45
that I might save some right? He would meet people where
43:49
they're at all men that I might stay.
43:50
There you go. Yep.
43:52
Yeah I think that's amazing. I think of the late Michael
43:54
heizer and going to UFO conferences, right?
43:57
And your we're bridging that Gap and and and also in now I think
44:03
we can also be less dismissive. Like I remember in high school,
44:07
you know, my buddy, I don't think he was really into it but
44:10
he's like, oh, Gaia the spirit of the earth and I kind of roll
44:13
my eyes about it, you know. Now I could actually say
44:17
something, maybe it. Maybe I need to talk to Gary
44:19
Wayne a little more, but I can actually say, hey, there's a
44:23
context for that and that's not necessarily false, but it's
44:27
lesser. Let me.
44:28
Let me tell you about the real, that they came to me.
44:31
I got something for him on that. Yeah, yeah.
44:35
But anyway, no, it's just a story from, from years ago.
44:37
I was just thinking about like, the average Christian doesn't
44:41
have a context for that. We just, we just dismiss it.
44:44
But I think this when we're talking about the supernatural
44:47
we can Bridge gaps that way and say look it's all part of the
44:52
same story but here is the truth of it.
44:56
All right. So yeah podcast is rolling on
44:59
and 2021 that's the year. Things almost came to a halt.
45:05
Uh yeah yeah, it's interesting because you know, we know what
45:10
happened with 20/20 and I don't give medical advice but But I
45:15
took me and my household, we chose not to go with.
45:18
Let's just say the little prick, right ostende withstood that and
45:23
it was difficult and there was, you know, it was mine early
45:26
difficult reflecting on. It was more like a a bit of a
45:32
burden, a Target on your back, if you will, just because of a
45:35
certain things that were happening that shows, who's who
45:39
Then things started to get a little bit better, we're
45:42
literally going to buy our first house at this point in time.
45:45
You know, my son is taking, he's 14 years old at the time during
45:49
a half or four years old and my wife is working.
45:53
I'm working, I've been at the same place now for almost nine
45:57
years but I go on second shift because of some of the layoffs
46:02
that was not ideal. I'm not a second shift guy right
46:04
now. Wake up at like, 4:30 a.m. so
46:07
getting done at 2 a.m. is Occult.
46:09
But I'm going through this, this process where things are getting
46:12
better. You know, we saved up money.
46:14
We're going to buy our first house at the time, I have my
46:17
dream. Girl, I got my dream car.
46:20
We bought a 2015, Cadillac ATS, and 14 and 17.
46:25
Scuse me, there's a lot of struggles.
46:27
A lot of hard things going on, but I'm feeling like finally, we
46:30
got a decent car. We're about to buy this house
46:33
for like three acres in a garage.
46:34
It's like everything she wanted. And I wanted, we're going to
46:37
close on the house. And they were petitioning for
46:41
the distance between the septic drainfield in the well, and not
46:45
to go too deep into a, but they were trying to position the
46:49
township to grandfather in the 79 ft distance because it had to
46:53
be 100 foot. This is for my loan side and so,
46:56
we're right up the closing, like, literally, we're supposed
46:59
to close in, like two days and because we were renting in a
47:02
town house. We're living in town at the
47:04
time. The guy who were buying the
47:07
house from because I have half of our money.
47:09
He's checked out, right? He's like start moving as we
47:11
start moving in because we're closing in two days, like it's
47:14
said and done. Township comes back and says no,
47:17
and they found, I forget what it was called, but some type of
47:20
nitrogen's in the water too. And they're like, no, we're not
47:23
approving this loving. So I'm like, Okay, well we keep
47:28
looking, right? So we go.
47:29
We start taking all of this stuff out of his house that we
47:32
thought we were buying and within a week and a half my wife
47:36
gets in a bad car accident. Thank God, she was okay, but she
47:41
totals the car. And so after that, I can't
47:45
juggle the podcast and the pressure and work and other
47:49
things that we're going on and so I'm looking at them going.
47:52
Well, we lost our dream house. I lost the dream car.
47:55
I almost lost my dream, girl, we're hanging on a thread with
47:58
that and so I'm taking care of her and she hasn't worked since
48:02
this is this is how long ago she hasn't worked since then.
48:04
Not that she's injured. It's just we wanted to change
48:07
the way that we're operating focus on.
48:09
Simpler lifestyle and just hone in on keeping this journey
48:13
going. But I cancelled the show I do
48:15
this episode. I think it was like December 7th
48:17
of 21 and I'm like and transmission or something.
48:21
Yeah, minutes or less than 45 minutes long.
48:24
Yeah, I'm in my truck on the way to work.
48:27
It's probably over. This is not more important than
48:30
the condition of my household. This is this show, right?
48:33
And it's just not more important than what's going on here.
48:37
I can't even be in a position to attend.
48:39
To minister if everything is out of order and the rest of my
48:41
life. So I realized God was showing me
48:46
put everything on balls and focus in prayer and focusing in
48:51
this season that you're in and allow what's happening.
48:55
And what's going to happen? Just have its way.
48:57
So I cancel all these interviews.
49:00
You know, we're grown a little bit.
49:01
I think at that time I had looked and we were like in the
49:03
top 200 and like New Zealand at one point in time for like two
49:08
weeks. Like I was seeing some chard And
49:09
stuff, and other countries, not not as much here, nice.
49:11
But I'm like, still like the shows growing, and I'm like, oh
49:14
wow, it's actually helping people.
49:15
Right? So it's like this critical
49:17
moment where God is like, nope, turn it off.
49:20
I'm telling you something else. I'm speaking to you in a secret
49:22
place, which what are you going to choose somebody off?
49:26
And just, yeah, a lot of stuff happened, but that's where, dr.
49:31
Laura and another guy flf, who is a Christian rapper from
49:37
California? I can't sleep with these two
49:40
because they were scheduled within, like two weeks or
49:43
something like that from me canceling.
49:45
And I'm like, really sorry. They both took an interest.
49:48
Like, are you okay? And I remember, just like the
49:50
email being like, well, no, because one thing I can't stand
49:55
about churches, you'll go with your buddy, Bob and you know,
49:57
Bob's life is a mess with Bob shows up at church.
49:59
He's like, hey, Tim, how's it going?
50:01
It's like I'm doing great. All smiles, you're not, we just
50:05
haven't prayed and, you know, I've been go to battle for you.
50:08
All week long now. You're here, you're not.
50:09
Okay, yeah, so I tell them I'm like, no, not okay, it's Iraq,
50:13
this is bad, please pray for me and dr.
50:17
Laura specifically, I'm she emails me back.
50:20
It's just like, can you call me? I'm like, sure, I'll give you a
50:23
call so I call her and She she says, I felt I felt it in the
50:30
spirit, something along the lines of.
50:31
She starts sharing with me this this season.
50:34
She went through when she was around my age, that almost
50:38
crushed her for two years. And then the encouragement she
50:43
was, like, I made it through, listen to God's voice, doesn't
50:46
matter what? It looks like on the outside.
50:48
Like just speaking in this season of me being like, yo,
50:52
like this is wild was happening right now and that meant a lot
50:56
to me, it was the right word in the right season the
50:59
microphones. Off the cameras off.
51:00
It's not like for show like we see some of these YouTubers or
51:03
some of these people. They're just bringing in all of
51:05
this entertainment, showing the inside secrets of the church to
51:09
the rest of the world. And that's why I'm In my
51:11
opinion, most people like I don't want to be part of that
51:12
because a rolling around on the floor acting like crazy but but
51:15
this was one of these moments where it was like, genuinely a
51:18
woman of God seeing another man of God going through a dark
51:22
season that she could relate to, and was helping to just
51:25
encourage me and sending me scriptures and stuff like that.
51:28
So that's kind of how dr. Laura played a part.
51:32
There's other people that played a part in planted seeds and
51:34
watered me and encouraged me through that.
51:37
But I remember months go by and I have no plan on starting the
51:40
pocket. Back up on grinding out at work.
51:42
I got the calluses on. They is the proven.
51:44
Stilton, is that I'm like, we're gonna try to just maintain
51:47
because I lost half my income. Some like, we just need to
51:49
maintain. Yeah.
51:51
You know what I mean? Yeah.
51:52
And I come home one day and because we're living out of
51:54
boxes in our apartment for like months.
51:57
Damn, that was living out of boxes.
51:58
You know, there's no time or no, mental capacity, even try to
52:02
unload the gun just like, what is happening and I come home.
52:06
And my wife unpacks, everything in the studio, and has it all
52:09
set up again, and I'm not. What?
52:12
She's like you need to get back at it, huh?
52:15
I'm like I'm flattered. But God said no.
52:21
So I'm not. Yeah, I'm like I'm not listening
52:23
to the voice of my life, you know?
52:25
And and how long after now. So from December to wants just a
52:29
few months. Okay.
52:30
Yeah, so it was, this is like March or almost April.
52:33
Okay. I said marks on those and she's
52:35
like, no, get back at it. Talk to God and get your
52:39
confirmation, who see what God says.
52:41
So I started praying about it and I don't I'm not getting
52:44
nothing in return but then I have like other people secretly
52:47
reaching out to me going. I feel like you need to get back
52:52
on air and I feel like you need to keep seeking the Lord and
52:57
keep asking questions. And, you know, the whole thing
52:59
and I'm a disagreement. I'm just like, no, like, like
53:03
things are still not better. Like we still don't have enough
53:06
money. We're just about making.
53:07
I don't How I'm going to have the time to do those because
53:10
this time consuming with podcast and editing and all this
53:13
different stuff. Yep.
53:14
And then I'll just get the confirmation from God.
53:19
I just literally Shifting the Atmosphere wasn't like one word.
53:22
Somebody said it wasn't the influence of this person to that
53:24
person and just I felt like I don't know, it just made sense
53:29
like I'm not alone. Like somebody else is going
53:30
through this too. And what if all of this is just
53:33
the continual building up to qualify us.
53:36
Like what if the testing is, God wants to see if our heart is
53:40
right before him? Are we in this?
53:41
Because we want to be famous, we in this because we think we can
53:45
do it better than somebody else and we want to, you know,
53:47
copycat what they're doing and mimic the world and bring this
53:51
perspective where we think oh well I got this background or
53:54
skill set or are we in it? Because the Living God God is
53:58
molding us and we're clay and we're just going, I want to walk
54:02
humbly with you. I want to deal with
54:04
righteousness and I want to learn to trust you above
54:08
trusting, the everything else going on in this world.
54:10
And I think that's why God allowed me.
54:12
And I'll say this in humility because I'm not a good example
54:15
of Christian. I tell people, don't follow me,
54:18
follow the word but God will use me.
54:20
I may be a telling me 10 millimeter wrench for certain
54:23
job because I'm still learning and working things out.
54:25
So God made pull me out of the two.
54:27
Ox and decide to tighten some things down with certain people
54:30
and yeah, and things, but that was my reality check for the
54:35
podcast and like all of that happening in life and then God's
54:39
faithful when we're not faithful, he's faithful.
54:41
Yeah. I mean, I'm here today, what are
54:43
we in 2023 and season four? I think I dropped episode 20, so
54:48
pretty interesting. Yeah, man.
54:50
And right, being willing to lay it down, I think that's God.
54:55
Brings us to that point a lot. It's amazing.
54:58
A lot of times that he doesn't ask us to actually do it but he
55:02
does bring us to that point to test us you know like Abraham
55:08
and Isaac. Right?
55:10
He didn't want him to kill his son but he's he's checking out
55:13
his faithfulness, checking out his heart there.
55:17
But yeah. Wow, that's awesome, man.
55:19
Yeah, cuz I was looking I was looking through your podcaster,
55:22
like, man. Have you told this story because
55:23
I wanted to be prepped on it but you just had kind of that five
55:27
minute, like you said and transmission.
55:29
So so thank you for sharing that.
55:31
So yeah so what's what's on the horizon man?
55:35
What's like your what's like your goals and your mission and
55:40
and and what are you what are you working on?
55:45
Good question. I mean right now it seems like
55:49
ever since I did the round table episode with William Ramsay and
55:52
I think it was nine shows total and this is let end of last
55:57
year. It's opened a lot of doors for
56:01
now. Like a lot of people want to
56:03
kind of collaborate, I guess you could say or just, you know,
56:05
talk and stuff like that. And I think that's really,
56:07
really cool. Because nice, my mindset is,
56:09
let's build the kingdom. These Ripple effects are doing
56:13
exactly. What they're supposed to do.
56:14
Okay? So I've been doing some pose
56:17
iums with other researchers. At this point in time we get to
56:19
part two recently for the show, just just continuing it on.
56:23
You know, just capturing as much as I can.
56:26
As some months, you'll get one or two episodes.
56:28
Someone should get four or five or whatever.
56:30
I just, I just do it at my own break because I'm a part-time
56:33
podcaster because, you know, I serve the Living.
56:36
God, I'm a husband, I'm an employee.
56:39
I'm a father, right? So it's like the podcasting is
56:41
just I'll feel I feel it building up.
56:43
This is a story. I want to tell this is something
56:46
that I feel is necessary and then I'll just release an
56:49
episode like that. So right now it seems very
56:52
unorthodox. It seems very kind of just like,
56:54
what is this kid doing? I don't really know.
56:57
Just kind of going day by day. I don't want to say oh we have
57:00
these plans that this is going to be successful and we're going
57:02
to make this much money influence.
57:04
This much, I think that's wicked.
57:06
Yeah, it does actually Wicked in my opinion but my thing is, I
57:09
just want to keep going day by day and we do have plans because
57:14
We want to have a vision, right? But that doesn't have to glorify
57:17
God. And you may say stop podcasting
57:20
and call me to something completely different and six
57:22
months from now, or in a two years and I have no idea.
57:25
But for right now just continuing to capture, man, and
57:28
trying trying to be malleable. Yeah.
57:32
God, is he doing claims that? Well, I, you know, you can hear
57:37
your passion when you, when you listen to you host in and
57:41
getting into talking to the guests and stuff and Our I think
57:44
that's contagious to man, just like just like these topics are
57:49
interesting but we all it all comes back to, you know, the
57:53
truth of God and so Supernatural stuff.
57:57
And and weird experiences, I think there a way to bridge in
58:02
that gap of how do we connect the weirder things of life into
58:07
the truth of the Bible? But yeah, man, I look forward
58:11
to, you know, keeping in touch. Thew and and seeing what we can
58:15
do together to and was it one episode?
58:19
I thought I thought you might have been with dr.
58:21
Laura are you were talking about super soldiers for Christ?
58:25
Is that did that come from? I listened to tons of things or
58:30
do. We go with Dan the walls and of
58:32
all? That's right.
58:33
That's right. I feel like each one of these
58:36
people. We have this unique thing going.
58:39
Yeah, but Dan, for that episode, there's the 40-minute marker.
58:44
And I just told this to somebody the other day.
58:46
I actually had another I'm just going to say it almost share all
58:50
the details but Vicky Joy Anderson, she's texting me as
58:52
she's listening to this episode. She was like, oh my gosh, this
58:55
is good and I'm thinking this about XYZ and it was
58:59
encouraging. We're just kind of going back
59:00
and forth. And I said to her, I'm like if
59:05
you haven't heard the Dan Duvall episode, I did, I think it was
59:08
my end of the year episode from last year.
59:11
I said 40 minutes into like 44 minutes it is probably no
59:15
definitely the climax of that recording and we talk about
59:20
super soldiers and Christ and the kingdom of God, that all
59:23
kinds of stuff in that episode we just were all over the place
59:26
intentionally but out of just overall excitement and had so
59:32
many questions for him. He's coming back soon.
59:34
So what will be able to do some other cool stuff but He talks
59:39
about how the kingdom of darkness does not have a back-up
59:44
plan for what God is doing and going to grow and continue to do
59:51
and I just recommend everybody on your show.
59:54
Go check, you don't have to listen to It's like 2 hours
59:56
long. If you don't got the time, just
59:57
go to the den of all. I was so good at 40 medicine and
1:00:00
listen to like 44 minutes because he shares, these
1:00:04
climaxes of encouragement that are for us.
1:00:07
It's for This generation. You guys have that doesn't make
1:00:10
you excited. Check why you're doing what
1:00:12
you're doing? Because this it's just this
1:00:15
powerful I think about it almost every day.
1:00:17
Yeah, that little clip that he talks about and then he shares
1:00:19
some visions that he's had and I knew Daniel ball, super
1:00:22
controversial but I really enjoy how he has even allotted a
1:00:28
personal time just for phone calls that I won't go into a lot
1:00:33
of detail but he called me you know a few months back before
1:00:38
Right before he went out of the country and he dropped some
1:00:41
stuff on me. And I'm like, wait, hold on.
1:00:43
Tell me more news. I'm sorry.
1:00:45
I can't tell you more. I'm going out of the country for
1:00:47
six weeks. I'm like, yo, and then three
1:00:49
days later. I get a call from somebody
1:00:51
completely unrelated. Who's like, yo, I'm heading to
1:00:54
Southeastern Pennsylvania worse. There's Revival coming.
1:00:57
God gave me a dream and so, there's so much that's happened.
1:01:01
I mean, you can just what I've shared with you guys is just
1:01:04
snip, it's just. Yeah, that's cool.
1:01:06
That's cool because God is going to Get the glory, I think the
1:01:10
last piece of scripture, I want to, I want to really throw at
1:01:13
the audience right now is going to be.
1:01:15
We plant seeds and we water systems and the labor is good,
1:01:20
the wages good. We will be rewarded for our
1:01:23
faithfulness but God Alone gets the glory because he causes the
1:01:28
growth. That's right a lot of
1:01:29
interesting stuff happening and super cool.
1:01:33
Yeah yeah man. No I love that episode with with
1:01:37
Dan Duvall. And yeah, I'm going to try to
1:01:41
reach out to him and get him on, but yeah, course I mean blurry
1:01:45
creatures. Just keeps V in that bridge to
1:01:47
all these great deaths and then when I came across your show,
1:01:51
it's like, wow, you got some of the same guys and I'm like, this
1:01:54
is cool. So man, thank you this, this was
1:01:57
great, good conversation. Thanks for telling a lot of your
1:02:01
story. May be some things that you
1:02:03
haven't mentioned before. And yeah I just I look forward
1:02:07
to Working with you in any way we could support each other.
1:02:12
I think. Yeah, just putting out our
1:02:14
little Mustard Seed of faith of, you know, we have a voice.
1:02:19
You know, that God's given us hopefully a unique perspective,
1:02:23
but but pointing people to the truth because we can't do it
1:02:27
alone and while we're going to face eternity so we need the
1:02:31
Lord. But thanks Rodney is gray.
1:02:35
Man, it was an honor, I really appreciate usual and the time
1:02:40
that we got to spend today and it feels good to share some.
1:02:44
Some of the story as I hear Minister myself to sharing other
1:02:47
people's stories and then reacting so it can grow in
1:02:50
groups and it's kind of neat to be getting interview.
1:02:53
And I like what you guys are doing over there on the days of
1:02:55
Noah podcasts and we are a diverse body and we're all over
1:03:01
the world. You know, the kingdom of God, a
1:03:04
clay seal. The church.
1:03:06
It is a government. We are a government.
1:03:10
Now, the government this ruling Council.
1:03:13
Yes. So it's an honor to be able to
1:03:16
hang out with you and it looks like your brother got called.
1:03:19
He's a firefighter. So you don't like bananas.
1:03:21
He's like he's not fire somewhere.
1:03:23
Like, Louisiana, where he was. He popped back on there for a
1:03:27
minute was just a video, he's driving the truck, man.
1:03:32
That's fantastic. Well, I'll tell you what, let's
1:03:34
let's pray for Him real quick. Yeah, sounds good protection and
1:03:46
have him to be a bright light by God and just give him
1:03:50
Supernatural favor as he fights fires today when I got to know
1:03:54
he served in the military as well.
1:03:55
So we just thank you for that hearts and we just ask that you
1:03:59
would continue to bless this podcast for Pete and Luke less
1:04:02
their lives than God is, they just ventured deeper.
1:04:05
Her into the mystery of what what's really going on and where
1:04:09
our positions are in your plane in Jesus name.
1:04:16
Thanks Rod. All right.
1:04:18
Well, listen, we'll be in touch. All right.
1:04:20
And yeah, I look forward to working with you again, man.
1:04:25
This was great. Appreciate it.
1:04:28
Thanks brother was an honor. Yeah.
1:04:30
All right. Sounds good man.
1:04:31
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