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I Didnt' Take Your Hand To Meet You · Rideshare Revival with Wally Bates

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  Speaker 1: I didn't take your hand just to meet you. Hey everybody,
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  Speaker 1: it's Wally Bates. Welcome back to Rideshare Revival. I picked
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  Speaker 1: up Brian from Walmart the other day. He was on
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  Speaker 1: crutches and struggling just to get in the car, really.
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  Speaker 1: And I asked, man, what's going on? He said, well,
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  Speaker 1: he had surgery on his left knee. And while he
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  Speaker 1: was recovering, he'd been compensating so much on his right
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  Speaker 1: leg He developed problems there. Two surgeries later on that
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  Speaker 1: side now, and Brian was still struggling. I told him, well,
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  Speaker 1: God's got you one way or another. Without hesitation, he said,
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  Speaker 1: he always does. So off we went. We talked about sports, life,
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  Speaker 1: really a little bit about everything. Just two guys talking
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  Speaker 1: during an Uber ride. And as we drove, I realized
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  Speaker 1: the more and more we were talking, Where I was
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  Speaker 1: taking him, it was going to a home for men
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  Speaker 1: who were unemployed, unable to work, or simply couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: afford a place of their own. Dude, Brian was dealing
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  Speaker 1: with way more than just bad needs. Life had knocked
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  Speaker 1: him pretty far down. Pretty hard. But there was still
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  Speaker 1: something about him. He still believed. He always does. I
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  Speaker 1: kept thinking about those words. So we pulled up to
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  Speaker 1: his destination, and just before he got out, I said,
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  Speaker 1: give me your hand. He reached forward, shook my hand,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, it was nice to meet you. And
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  Speaker 1: I held on to it, and I said, dude, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't take your hand to meet you. I took your
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  Speaker 1: hand to pray for you. So I did a prayer
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  Speaker 1: for healing, for those legs to be restored, for strength,
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  Speaker 1: for provision, and for God to remind Brian that even
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  Speaker 1: in this season of his life, he still had it,
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  Speaker 1: the prayer of healing. You could see it. He could
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  Speaker 1: feel it. Before Brian got out, I reached down and
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  Speaker 1: gave him one of those little mini Jesus I keep
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  Speaker 1: in the car and handed it to him. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a little thing. But man, the way Brian received it
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  Speaker 1: got to me. He was genuinely touched, genuinely happy to
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  Speaker 1: have him. As I watched him make his way inside
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  Speaker 1: on those crutches, I thought about how little he seemed
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  Speaker 1: to have right now. And somehow that little Jesus felt
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  Speaker 1: important to him, not because of what it was worth,
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  Speaker 1: but what it represented. A reminder he could hold on to,
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  Speaker 1: a reminder of what Brian already told himself he always does.
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  Speaker 1: God's got him. Rideshare Revival. There's hope at every turn.
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  Speaker 1: These are my prayers from the road. If you would
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  Speaker 1: like prayer, send me a line. I'd love to pray
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  Speaker 1: for you. ridesharerevival at gmail.com.