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- Episode 7 The Purpose of this Podcast: We are honored that you have chosen to listen to this podcast. Join with me, where the information will be biblical, filled with joy, and very helpful. Stay tuned to the end where you will learn how to communicate with Rayburn and Donna about today's episode. Hi, I'm Rayburn Hare. This is Join With Me Podcast. what a Amazing weather we're having in October in Missouri. cool enough that my wife thought it would be nice to build a fire in the fireplace and never recorded here, so we're gonna give that a shot. But anyway, I hope by now you've you've listened to maybe four or five episodes. You've heard you've heard about Donna and I, our story, our individual stories, Our together story, how we come together. so I it was important not because we're trying to talk about ourselves, but because we just wanted you to know who was bringing you this podcast. I'm asking you to listen. I'm asking you to join with me, and I'm gonna explain a little bit about that today, I think. What that means and what we're asking and we're learning by the way. We're we're trying to get better. I apologize for some of the clarity on our videos. We we're we're we're learning. So please bear with us. it's not my tech guy, it's me, Donna trying to, you know, do some things on our own and recording release recording wise and So and even this one I'm trying to struggle because my lighting and and my clarity is not the best. But anyway, just bear with us as we try to get better. But but I I just want to move on now from our individual stories to what this podcast really is. what we're trying to accomplish with it. you know, what's next? where where we're headed with with this podcast. You know, join with me. You might say, where in the world did that come from, Raven? Did you come up with it and come up with the idea? Nope, not not at all. As a matter of fact, I'm just gonna tell you once again another story, kind of. everything's a story, it seems, but but it's important you you understand where this came from. Join with me. October twenty five, twenty seventeen. I hadn't know that date, so because I have it written down in in my Bible. If you went to if you went to 2 Timothy 1 8 and you were to read that verse, 2 Timothy 1 8, in the New American New American Standard, you would see the second part of that verse says, join with me in suffering for the gospel. According to the power of God. Now, back in 2017, when I read that phrase, I had read it, goodness, I maybe hundreds of times, but join with me. It literally is one of those phrases just jumped off the off right off the page. I wrote a note, I had a note that day, that date, I said, join with me. I don't know what this means, but there's something there for me. I had a good friend that I used to run with almost every Saturday morning. I asked Brian, I said, Brian, join with me. I want you to pray with me. What does that mean? How is where and Donna and I talked about it. We gotta pray. What does this mean? Well, just to try to keep this story somewhat short, from there, it literally became what I really a recording effort. I said, okay, join with me. I'm not asking anybody to join. So it's not, okay, you gotta sign up, you gotta subscribe. No, not that type of join, but it was an effort to say, hey, listen, I'm seeking the father. I'm living life. I love life. I want you to join with me. And I would always say, I don't have all the answers about life. I just know who does. So join with me as I seek the Father. So it became an effort to just say, hey, look, join with me. And from there, my goodness, it became a recording and and then ultimately another story I'm not gonna tell right now, but in twenty nineteen we purchased the retreat, that's where I'm at now in Cole Count, Missouri. a cabin 10 acres it became a place that we began to do retreats and conferences and and and try to serve people so it became a place it it later has now become a podcast and so what can i say i mean are we done no absolutely not don and i have the time of our life trying to Follow the Father. If you've if you picked up on anything through my story from the very beginning in 1977, that Father, I'm gonna follow. Wow, has my story been a just his his leading and my failing at times? But but here we are. We're we're trying to we're trying to do a podcast that basically says we're trying to seek life. I'm trying to make this something that's fun, something that's you know, that will at least grab your attention. I had somebody ask me something this week and somebody said, So this is a religious podcast. And I said, Well I said, I I suppose it would come under a religious category. And I said, there's no doubt, and I was very clear, it is a faith-based ministry. Our our ministry, join with me ministries. our podcast, join with me podcast. There's no doubt it is a faith-based podcast. But I wouldn't actually say it's just a Religious podcast. That to me, there's plenty of religious podcasts where people are teaching the Bible. they're giving principles to live by by the Bible. And and and I'm listen, I listen to some of them. So good stuff. And I'm I'm not saying that we won't do some of that, but I wouldn't by no means say that we are a religious podcast and that's all we're doing. Now, if you remember, join with me podcast is thrilled to have our first sponsor. Hydro Pool and Spa located in Blue Springs, Missouri. They're on seven highway located about on the I-70 eastbound exit ramp. But my friends at Hydro Pool and Spa have an amazing October special. For the month of October, if you'll call them, they have a pool closing special that's amazing. Now, for 11 years, I opened and closed a pool, so I know a little bit about that. I never did it myself. Why? Because I didn't want to risk freezing and having pipes to freeze and all that additional cost and one thing or another. But so I always contracted with someone to close and open my pool. So here's what they're willing do. For the month of October, if you'll call Hydro Pool and Spa in Blue Springs, they will come and close your pool. Make sure it's done right. Remove your ladder, put your cover on. Put all the chemicals, antifreeze, all that good stuff, make sure it's protected and done right for $455, which is in line with what everybody else charges because I've checked on it. But here's the difference. Here's what they're willing to do. They will then come back next spring and open your pool for free. That's right. For free. So you have to call in October and let them close it. For $455, and then next spring you're already covered. They'll come back and c and open it for free. Now that is a deal, especially to have it done right. So please call my friends at Hydro Pool and Spa at 816-875-7171. Get it scheduled. Get in on this deal. It's only for October. October 1st through October 31st. So please call them. Thank you. And tell them that you heard about it on the Join With Me podcast. And that will be an amazing opportunity for you. Once again, thank you. At some point, I've said that our podcast is really based on four areas. Based on four year areas: faith, family, fitness, And fulfillment. Now, obviously, faith, and I and I'm not here necessarily to unpack that today, but but we're faith based. My foundation is Jesus Christ and the Bible. Yes, that's my that's my foundation. But when you go from faith to family, now I I could make a case, I could say, well, the the the family, the the the that's a that's ordained by God and absolutely, yeah. But but family and family life is most all of us. I have four children. I have seven grandchildren. you know Don and I have lived life. We've had ups, we've had downs, we've had struggles, we've had struggles at times with each other. we've had struggles in business. We've had struggles in church. we've had struggles I I won't say unlike anyone ever. I I don't think that at all. But I will say this that God has uniquely placed us, whether it's churches, whether it's people, whether it's situations, uniquely placed us and taught us many things. Okay, so we when it comes to family, we bring that into the podcast. When we say fitness, I won't say that fitness has nothing to do with God. Matter of fact, I I I believe that it is a foundational part that this body belongs to God and that we have an obligation to be a good steward of it. And and by the way, listen, just being practical, you know what it means not to be a good steward of your body. Now now I'm not I trust me, I'm not I I might make a few enemies, might even make you mad. I I'm not trying to. I I want to be a help and encourage people because I I this is not a you know a an exercise fitness podcast, but it's a part of it. And it's part we'll talk about it. When I say fulfillment Listen, if I ask if I ask each of you, what what does it take for you to be a completely fulfilled person? You say, well define fulfilled. Okay, I it it it to me it means are you at peace with who you are, who you're becoming, are you accomplishing what you want to in life? that's by the way, those are I know those are heavy thoughts, and I'm not here necessarily to go into full detail about that. But but I just I want you to try to understand we're gonna deal with all of those topics. I've got some great guests lined up. Matter of fact, I hadn't had a had a thought today. I've got two pastor friends that have helped me with. with a retreat, with a conference, dealing with church or dealing we we've done that. I I hadn't asked them yet, but I think I'm okay with this. I thought, hey, listen, if you've got questions that you'd like to ask a pastor, maybe something you'd like to know about church, maybe something you'd not like to know about the Bible, maybe something you'd like to know about life, and you'd like to ask somebody that can authoritatively answer Well, I tell you what you do. You send me an email and and put that qu in a question. And I'm gonna have one of my pastor friends on and I and I'm gonna get some questions. I'm gonna say, hey, look, here's something people are asking. Can you answer it? I think that I look, I I just wanna have some fun. Because I guarantee you have a question that you're not willing or afraid or You're not you don't want to ask your pastor or you don't want to ask your church leader. you don't want to do that because you for various reasons, but you sure like to have an answer. Hey, I've got a safe way for you to do that. And if you'll email me, put it in the form. I don't you don't have to identify, I won't identify you. In no way. I'll just say, here's a listener that has a question, and here it is. And I'll have a pastor and from an authoritative standpoint. Either biblical, practical, experienced, whatever, and they'll answer your question. And I guarantee I'll bet the question that you have is something many other have too. So we'll have some fun with that. so if you will if you'll just send me an email, here's a question, Raven, I'd love to have answered. I don't care what it is, how theological, how simple or how private i it Just send it and we'll get it answered. So I just trying to give you somewhat of an idea of where we're headed with this podcast. I by the way, I don't know totally. I just know we're gonna take off. We're gonna if you ever look at our logo and you see our logo is kind of winding and it has faith, family, fitness, and fulfillment. And and that's kind of where we're on. We're on a road. And I'm I'm gonna just try my best to follow the Father and let him accomplish what he wants. By the way, thank you. Some of you have let me know you're listening on Apple, Spotify. I'm so thankful. I had a friend last night tell me he had listened to it on and found it on YouTube. I went there this morning and I found it. So I put it in to come up. So I'm so thankful for that. we're working, we're getting better. so I just hope you'll hang with us. let me know what you think, let me know how we're doing, like, follow, tell your friends. I got a new sponsor coming on. I'm really excited about. So anyway, thank you so much. I'm Rayburn here, and this is Join With Me podcast. We trust you enjoyed today's sharing from the heart. If you want to learn more, please feel free to contact us at Rayburnhair at gmail.com. Or you can go to our website, joinwithme.life. Thank you for listening. Be sure to share with a friend and have a blessed day on purpose.