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One Leg Up With Youth Ministry Leader and Fmr. NCAA Football Athlete Ahmard Vital Powered By Podmatch 12-31-24 · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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Speaker 1: All right, well here we are back on One Leg
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Speaker 1: Up on Alex S. Garritt and with me once again
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Speaker 1: as Amar Vita Amar.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, hey man, thank you for having me on man.
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Speaker 1: You know when Welis ended our message, our speak, you know,
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Speaker 1: a conversation. Last time, I played a bit of your
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Speaker 1: inspirational message to the guys in Texas, tell us what
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Speaker 1: you're doing.
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Speaker 2: I do more of that motivation this year. How is
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Speaker 2: your year?
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Speaker 3: Year was a little rough, but you know, we were blessed.
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Speaker 3: And here in the state of Texas, I've been doing
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Speaker 3: a lot of stuff with a lot of sports teams
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Speaker 3: out here, been working with some high schools with some
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Speaker 3: leadership work. I have a program called Brotherhood Belief where
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Speaker 3: we really focus on the idea of servant leadership, working
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Speaker 3: with the young men to understand that, you know, being
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Speaker 3: a leader is not about being on top. It's actually
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Speaker 3: about being below who those you serve right and being
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Speaker 3: there for them. And so I just got back from Idaho.
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Speaker 3: Here recently, I was out of a town called Cuna,
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Speaker 3: right outside of Boise. I've been to Amarillo and a
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Speaker 3: lot of other places. I've done some work with some nonprofits,
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Speaker 3: working with a group out of Austin, Texas doing they
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Speaker 3: help build tiny homes for the homeless community. The inner
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Speaker 3: city of Austin has about sixty five hundred homeless people
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Speaker 3: and so they're looking to eradicate that they're looking at
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Speaker 3: a ten year plan, and they just bought some land
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Speaker 3: and they were breaking ground and we had a gala
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Speaker 3: to try to raise some money. Thankfully, we pulled in
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Speaker 3: about five figures worth of income and one night we
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Speaker 3: had a couple hundred people there. So it was a
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Speaker 3: lot of good donations coming from that. And really, man,
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Speaker 3: just getting back out here, trying to redo the website,
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Speaker 3: my marketing plans, my one sheet, and you know, update
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Speaker 3: my videos and get back out there and do some
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Speaker 3: more motivational speaking. I've been excited to see what twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty five brings. Twenty twenty four it kind of kicked
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Speaker 3: us in the teeth a little bit. We had some
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Speaker 3: family issues and some business issues, but man, you know,
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Speaker 3: God brought me through all of it, and we're still
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Speaker 3: here and we're still fun.
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Speaker 2: We have survived a quarter of a millennium.
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Speaker 3: Okay, that is just incredible.
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Speaker 1: Thing about so true that quarter of a century, I
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Speaker 1: guess I would say, right, so that's pretty fit right there.
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Speaker 1: All right, I'm already gonna say that you've been traveling.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned Idaho. Boise State's probably electric right now because
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Speaker 1: what's going on?
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Speaker 2: Are you following the college football playoff world as well?
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm catching I'm catching some action here and there.
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Speaker 3: I'm a football junkie. I absolutely love it. College football
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Speaker 3: is one of my phase right now. As we saw,
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Speaker 3: you know, you expand the playoffs bring more people into
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Speaker 3: the party. First round was a little suspect a lot
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Speaker 3: of lopsided wins coming out of that. But you know,
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Speaker 3: we're we're looking for the quarterfinals coming up. We got
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Speaker 3: a couple of matchups coming up here. I know one
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Speaker 3: of them is actually, like you said, being played today,
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Speaker 3: Penn State versus Boise State. I would probably say Penn
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Speaker 3: State is going to take that one. Penn State was
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Speaker 3: absolutely dominant in Round one. Boise State I think has
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Speaker 3: been a great story, you know, just like some of
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Speaker 3: the other teams, you know, the Indianas and the SMUs
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Speaker 3: great story. But I think Penn State has has a
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Speaker 3: lot going Uh. Defense is pretty strong and offense can
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Speaker 3: put up some points. Man, and I think that's gonna
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Speaker 3: be an interesting game. I love I absolutely love Genty
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Speaker 3: what he's done this year. I think he was very
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Speaker 3: close to winning the Heisman. I thought he deserved to
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Speaker 3: win it. It's just you know, when you have a
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Speaker 3: super soldier who can play both sides of the ball
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Speaker 3: and he's six foot plus and can just do anything.
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Speaker 3: Hey man, it's hard to turn away from the work
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Speaker 3: that Travis Hunter did this year with Colorado and sou
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Speaker 3: But I'm looking forward to Washington Penn State Boys and
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Speaker 3: State game. Here today, I got to actually have Alabama
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Speaker 3: Michigan on in the other room right now. Now, I see,
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Speaker 3: I see you, So what do you so? Are you
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Speaker 3: a Michigan fan? No, I'm mainly or a Dame fan.
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Speaker 1: But with Michigan, I have a friend who likes him,
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Speaker 1: and I was I have an infinity for Harball. So
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Speaker 1: there's kind of that too, you know. And now it's
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Speaker 1: funny what's happening with that program. It's amazing Strowmore. It
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Speaker 1: took them to the ball game, right that. That's amazing.
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Speaker 1: But then JJ McCarthy goes to Minnesota. He's injured the
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Speaker 1: whole year. I'm hoping to see what he does in
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Speaker 1: the NFL.
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Speaker 2: Though. Got to say, you know, it's a Michigan product
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Speaker 2: right there.
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Speaker 1: But I'm already got to say this twenty twenty five
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Speaker 1: is coming with a lot of hope and all that.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sure you're instilling that message through your work
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Speaker 1: and even through your writing.
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Speaker 2: Am I right?
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Speaker 3: I am? I am? And it's one of those things, man,
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Speaker 3: where I'm actually, you know, really doing I'm going to
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Speaker 3: get back into writing and I'm actually right now, I'm
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Speaker 3: really kind of doing what I have to do, like reflection,
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Speaker 3: personal inventory, like hey, what works, what didn't work? What
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Speaker 3: did I miss? Where can I trust more? What can
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Speaker 3: I serve more? I'm really going through that process right now.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be a brutal process because you have
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Speaker 3: to be I have to be honest with yourself. Hey
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Speaker 3: where did you Where did you fall short? Where do where?
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Speaker 3: Do you need to put your attention towards? Man? Because
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Speaker 3: we can get so distracted so easily on so many things,
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Speaker 3: and when you really look back at it's like, wait
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Speaker 3: a minute, I just spent four hours doing what and
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Speaker 3: so I really want to get down to the grassroots.
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Speaker 3: If I put my camera around, you see it in
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Speaker 3: my office is about halfway or forty percent complete as
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Speaker 3: far as cleaning, and I really just need to purge. Man.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes many times less is more. It's just a lot
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Speaker 3: of things needs to go a lot of thoughts need
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Speaker 3: to go, a lot of things need to go, and
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Speaker 3: maybe even some relationships need to go. And so I'm
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Speaker 3: really kind of in that, you know, get off the
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Speaker 3: grid for a little bit, you know, sit with myself,
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Speaker 3: talk to my father and to see what what do
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Speaker 3: you have for me this year? And I think that's
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Speaker 3: sort of where I'm at right now. It's it's a
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Speaker 3: really painful but a fulfilling part of life that I
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Speaker 3: go through many times throughout the year.
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Speaker 1: Well, I know that he's going to be guiding you,
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Speaker 1: you know, your father from abolving your father year on Earth, right,
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Speaker 1: So you.
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Speaker 3: Got absolutely you got a lot of them, for sure.
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Speaker 3: I'm Mark.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned a few things just a few minutes ago
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Speaker 1: with the one sheet of that to build your brain,
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Speaker 1: I mean, how important is that to you? And how
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Speaker 1: important does the others have that small business mindset of
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Speaker 1: going out there and sort of being out there with
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Speaker 1: with I don't want to say promoting yourself, but basically with.
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Speaker 3: Branding.
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Speaker 1: I guess that's part I'm trying to make because you
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Speaker 1: want to do the one sheet and all that. How
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Speaker 1: important are those things though? When people want to get
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Speaker 1: off the ground running, especially in twenty twenty five and
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Speaker 1: started the new year.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, branding obviously is extremely important. It's pretty much a
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Speaker 3: foundational piece of marketing because branding is not just what
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Speaker 3: you do. Branding is who you are. And the interesting
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Speaker 3: thing is is that when you go into branding, it's like, Okay,
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Speaker 3: when people see me without knowing me, what am I?
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Speaker 3: Who am I telling them? I am?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 3: What am I telling them? I represent?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 3: It's not just what you do? Is what what? When
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Speaker 3: you show up? What am I getting? When Alex shows
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Speaker 3: up in my building?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 3: And that's and that's that's sort of where I'm working
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Speaker 3: right now. And the issue is is like the me
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Speaker 3: who's online right now, it's not not me, but it's
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Speaker 3: not the fool me. That me has grown faster than
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Speaker 3: you can update the packaging, and so I obviously need
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Speaker 3: to get with some I guess, with some of my
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Speaker 3: people and figure out how to repackage that because my
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Speaker 3: faith has just grown exponentially in the past two years
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Speaker 3: and I'm leaning in on it. I'm actually I have
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Speaker 3: an announcements coming out next year where the church leadership
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Speaker 3: saw some things in me, and I'm going to be
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Speaker 3: moving in a different way. I probably will go on two,
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Speaker 3: possibly three mission trips that next year. And so it's
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Speaker 3: interesting that you would ask me that question at this
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Speaker 3: time because you know, with me working with the youth ministry,
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Speaker 3: with me going on mission trips, with me serving in
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Speaker 3: the church or whatever, are.
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Speaker 1: You also a chaplain at some point? Do you do
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Speaker 1: chaplain work for these different teams you work with?
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Speaker 3: You know, I've seen that work. I love that work.
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Speaker 3: I haven't pursued what that looks like, but I absolutely
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Speaker 3: would love to do it because it would be right
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Speaker 3: in my wheelhouse. I love athletes, I love ballers, and yes,
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Speaker 3: let me pray for you, Let me pray for your safety,
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Speaker 3: let me, you know, be there in the trenches with
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Speaker 3: you guys when times are getting tough and we can
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Speaker 3: lean on our faith to make us get it through
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Speaker 3: this game. And we know that. You know how we live,
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Speaker 3: how we move, and how we breathe, and how we
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Speaker 3: do everything. Lloyd, it's it's it's in conjunction with what
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Speaker 3: God has for us. And so I would like to
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Speaker 3: get into that now. And I probably need to pursue
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Speaker 3: in looking into what that, what that would entail, and
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Speaker 3: what that what it takes to be able to become
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Speaker 3: one of those.
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Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this to mar because when
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Speaker 1: I first part you'all, I was so fascinating that you've
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Speaker 1: taken your work on the field and brought it off
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Speaker 1: the field with you when you see these athletes. So
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Speaker 1: are you reminded of your journey? If I may ask that.
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Speaker 3: Yes, because I believe that a lot of a lot
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Speaker 3: of what, a lot of what who I've become was
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Speaker 3: learned on learning sports on the football field, on the track,
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Speaker 3: on the basketball court obviously, basket ball didn't make the
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Speaker 3: cut going forward, and football and track words sort of
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Speaker 3: my things. I played college football, obviously, And it's just
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Speaker 3: so much, I mean, so many books, so many books
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Speaker 3: from corporate America and different motivational speakers and coaches where
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Speaker 3: what you learn on the football field is things you
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Speaker 3: need in life, teamwork, accountability, discipline, you know, servant, servant leadership,
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Speaker 3: all of these different things you learned on the football field.
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Speaker 3: And so I'm glad that I'm able to use all
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Speaker 3: of that and now I have a stronger faith component
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Speaker 3: that comes with it as well. And I'll be honest, Alix,
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to best bring it all together in the
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Speaker 3: branding and in my mark and in everything I do,
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Speaker 3: and what does that look like? Obviously I know that
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Speaker 3: I am a christ follower doing all of these other things,
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Speaker 3: but I'm trying to incorporate how all of that will
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Speaker 3: come together in my presentation. I know when I show
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Speaker 3: up on that, but how do I convey that to
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Speaker 3: the people? And so obviously I'm living it, but you
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Speaker 3: obviously have to show, you know how this all comes
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Speaker 3: together and how things are made and done.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know, I'm just saying, as you're talking here,
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Speaker 1: it seems like you've really grown in your faith this year,
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Speaker 1: So tell me about what that journey was.
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Speaker 3: So I'm a youth ministry leader here in the Williams,
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Speaker 3: Texas what a church called Grace Willing is part of
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Speaker 3: a larger group called Grace International, and I've been going
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Speaker 3: to I've been going there nearly four years. And as
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Speaker 3: I was as I went on my third mission trip
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Speaker 3: this past year, we went to Utah, went to Tuila,
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Speaker 3: Utah and worked with one of our churches out there.
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Speaker 3: The percentage of Christians is very low, So you have
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Speaker 3: to know that we're going into a territory where there's
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Speaker 3: going to be a lot of prodigals. And so as
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Speaker 3: I'm going through these these different mission trips, these different
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Speaker 3: conferences and things of that nature, I realized that I
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Speaker 3: have an influence of being in schools. I have an
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Speaker 3: influence of being indifferent and different venues, and I'm understanding
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Speaker 3: that I can utilize that in such a great way
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Speaker 3: going forward. And so what I've done is I've I've
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Speaker 3: brought in someone to be a basically to be a
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Speaker 3: disciple to them. Right, I'm a Timothy and I have
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Speaker 3: a Paul, But I also have a group of young
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Speaker 3: men whom I'm discipling them. And so for me to
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Speaker 3: be able to pour in more to our youth, I
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Speaker 3: need to become more and I need to be I
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Speaker 3: need to allow God to use me more. And with that,
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Speaker 3: I wanted to be able to to be able to
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Speaker 3: express that in the best way possible his will, not
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Speaker 3: my own will, and be better for them. And so
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Speaker 3: you know, obviously my Bible reading is up. I have
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Speaker 3: a steady prayer life. Obviously, service is just what was
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Speaker 3: taught to me from my fathers long ago, and I
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Speaker 3: continue doing that. But it's just it's just doing more
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Speaker 3: of the Lord's work and doing more of what he's
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Speaker 3: calling me to do as opposed to what's am I
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Speaker 3: to do? She to do? And so that's kind of
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Speaker 3: where things have changed with me. I'm being more intentional.
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Speaker 3: I'm meeting with men who are Bible scholars and have
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Speaker 3: all of this knowledge and saying, hey, pour into me,
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Speaker 3: and I'm submitting to them and I'm honoring them in
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Speaker 3: that spot. And so all of these things have occurred
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Speaker 3: and it's just made me a stronger man overall, but
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Speaker 3: it also brings it also opens the door to more
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Speaker 3: attacks it you're people always think they like as you
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Speaker 3: as you become stronger in your faith, like things get easier. No,
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Speaker 3: it becomes more challenging because you're accountable. More and more
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Speaker 3: things come after you. But then you just lean on
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Speaker 3: your faith and you continue to pray your way through
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Speaker 3: it and wait for your father to share what you
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Speaker 3: what you need to do to be to make it
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Speaker 3: through the moment.
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Speaker 2: Were you a type on the athlete to recognize him
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Speaker 2: on the field.
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of these athletes, you know, point
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Speaker 1: to the sky and that it is a reference to
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Speaker 1: God right a lot of the time, and they're press
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Speaker 1: confidences when they talk about their their game, they actually
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Speaker 1: say thank God, Thank God. Were you like that as
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Speaker 1: an athlete thinking backer?
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Speaker 3: I was, But if I have to be honest with
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Speaker 3: you and the audience, I was kind of a I
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Speaker 3: don't want to say a show Christian, but I just
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Speaker 3: it was just something. It wasn't It wasn't a at
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Speaker 3: that time, high school and college. There was not a
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Speaker 3: deep rooted faith. I believed in God. I had my
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Speaker 3: Bible next to me, I prayed and all of those
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Speaker 3: different things, but it wasn't anywhere near who I am now.
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Speaker 3: But I did recognize that God was my strength. I
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Speaker 3: did use to recognize Him in my touchdowns and different
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Speaker 3: different things like that. And we prayed before games, and
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Speaker 3: we prayed for protection and all of those different things.
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Speaker 1: And I tell you what, the most emotional part of
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Speaker 1: any football game, high school, college, whatever level is when
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Speaker 1: they're at midfield doing the final prayer as they come
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Speaker 1: together after facing each.
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Speaker 2: Other for forty minutes or sixty.
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Speaker 1: Minutes, they come down to midfield and just pray with
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Speaker 1: each other. I think that's one of the most strongest
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Speaker 1: parts of the whole game. And I know many people
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Speaker 1: don't stick around to see that, but when you see
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Speaker 1: that it's a pretty moving moment.
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Speaker 3: Actually, Yeah, you see all the saints, all the faith,
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Speaker 3: all those all those following together and they hold hands
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Speaker 3: whether they won or lost, and they circle together because
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Speaker 3: not only do we know that that it is Him
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Speaker 3: as the reason why we're able to play this game
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Speaker 3: and we came away safely, but we're a lot. We
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Speaker 3: have life because He was so for us to come
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Speaker 3: together and gather together and go to him. And prayer
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Speaker 3: is such a powerful statement and it's beautiful and I
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Speaker 3: and I'm glad to see more of that. I heard
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Speaker 3: the Boise State coach after the after the I think
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Speaker 3: it was after the conference championship win, and he and
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Speaker 3: he spoke very very strong about his faith, talked about
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Speaker 3: Christ and it was just like it was just a
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Speaker 3: breath of fresh air. And it was a lot of
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Speaker 3: people who were just like, Yes, more of this, more
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Speaker 3: of this, because because we've turned so much to so
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Speaker 3: much darkness, so much paganism, so much idle worship of self,
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Speaker 3: to the point where it's just like this life that
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Speaker 3: we have, it's not about us. It's just not right.
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Speaker 3: It's so much bigger than that. But and I'm glad
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Speaker 3: we're getting back to that, and there's a lot of
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Speaker 3: good people on the ground, and I pray that I'm
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Speaker 3: continuing to be a representation of that myself and go
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Speaker 3: out and do the good work and show others that,
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Speaker 3: you know, there's something bigger than yourself to be able
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Speaker 3: to commy.
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Speaker 1: By the way, when you do those mission trips in
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Speaker 1: twenty five, keep us posted because I love to know
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Speaker 1: more about what they what you were doing, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the work of the Lord, So that would be awesome.
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Speaker 1: You know. The other thing about football players, and I
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Speaker 1: think all athletes recognize this is God gave you a
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Speaker 1: gift to play, you know. I think there's that undoubted truth,
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Speaker 1: isn't it.
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Speaker 3: It absolutely is, and it's and it's interesting you say
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Speaker 3: that because that's you're grateful for the talent He gave you. Like,
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Speaker 3: you know, if you're you're six ft plus, I mean
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Speaker 3: you're blessed with with with height, with physical ability. Some people,
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Speaker 3: you know, are just born being able to run fast. Now,
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Speaker 3: of course you have to continue to cultivate those talents.
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Speaker 3: But you look at some people and say, like everybody
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Speaker 3: didn't get that, Like that's just the truth. You know,
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Speaker 3: some people can run like win, some people can jump.
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Speaker 3: Some people are very physically naturally large and just doing
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Speaker 3: the doing the waste to go along with that. I
17:07
Speaker 3: mean you, I could do all the ways in the world.
17:10
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be six foot five ever, that's
17:12
Speaker 3: just not going to happen.
17:14
Speaker 1: But it's done a really good job there of making
17:17
Speaker 1: sure athletes get the education because they realize not everybody's
17:20
Speaker 1: gonna be a number one draft pick. Now everyone's gonna
17:23
Speaker 1: be even drafted in the NFL, n b A, NHL.
17:26
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen for everybody. So do you feel like
17:28
Speaker 1: the n n c A is done a good job
17:30
Speaker 1: insuing education or could do they more? Could they do
17:33
Speaker 1: more for those athletes that may not have the chance
17:36
Speaker 1: to make it? If you if you, if you know
17:37
Speaker 1: what I mean?
17:40
Speaker 3: You know, it's debatable what the role of the n
17:42
Speaker 3: C double A is right now, and and and and
17:44
Speaker 3: and in all of totality, like right, we we can
17:48
Speaker 3: we can you know, look and say, okay, what role
17:52
Speaker 3: does the n C double A play at this point
17:54
Speaker 3: in time? And I owe money these these uh, these
17:56
Speaker 3: these colleges have their recruiting going. You got the TV
17:59
Speaker 3: contract and different things like that. But I don't believe
18:03
Speaker 3: that these student athletes, students athlete has been promoted as
18:08
Speaker 3: much as it should. Yes, I think the percentage, the
18:12
Speaker 3: percentage of young men who go on to play college
18:14
Speaker 3: football is small from high school and the percentage to
18:17
Speaker 3: go to the NFL is even a quarter of that.
18:22
Speaker 3: And so obviously a lot of these guys they're going
18:26
Speaker 3: to go on and be pros and something else. And
18:29
Speaker 3: I know when I was coming up in the nineties,
18:31
Speaker 3: it was always known that, like you know, you went
18:33
Speaker 3: to school to play football and that's the only thing
18:35
Speaker 3: you want to go do. I think that mindshet has
18:38
Speaker 3: shifted these days a little bit more to where guys
18:41
Speaker 3: are going and they are getting their education. Some guys
18:43
Speaker 3: are going to get advanced degrees, which I think is awesome.
18:47
Speaker 3: You graduate with your degree, you go to another school
18:49
Speaker 3: and start a master's program. I think that's amazing. I
18:52
Speaker 3: love when guys go ahead and graduate from college and
18:55
Speaker 3: then join coaching staffs and go on to do those
18:58
Speaker 3: types of things and pour into you young men. I think,
19:01
Speaker 3: though all those things are great, and you're right, the
19:04
Speaker 3: pathway of success for most of these guys is not
19:06
Speaker 3: going to come on Sundays on Sundays playing in the NFL,
19:10
Speaker 3: or Mondays or Thursdays. It's going to come from doing
19:13
Speaker 3: professional work. Some things you learned at your four year
19:16
Speaker 3: institution and you move on with your life and do
19:19
Speaker 3: great and amazing things you did. You use sports as
19:24
Speaker 3: a means to earn yourself a better life. Your school
19:28
Speaker 3: is paid for, Maybe you made a little bit of
19:29
Speaker 3: money while you were in college, and now you've gone
19:32
Speaker 3: on to do something else and hopefully you have no debt.
19:35
Speaker 3: That's a beautiful thing, and I think more guys need
19:37
Speaker 3: to embrace that and make sure that you have a
19:40
Speaker 3: degree that's actually going to be worth something on the
19:42
Speaker 3: open market. That's a whole nother podcast for another day,
19:46
Speaker 3: but it's a beautiful thing when guys can utilize their
19:48
Speaker 3: skills and talents to leverage that into becoming successful in life,
19:52
Speaker 3: because that's exactly what you're doing.
19:55
Speaker 1: I think some of these teams need to hire you,
19:57
Speaker 1: especially for the first round picks.
19:59
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know, I feel like the wet
20:01
Speaker 2: behind the years.
20:01
Speaker 1: Guys just get drafted need this kind of encouragement going
20:05
Speaker 1: into their their year, and even those who are in
20:08
Speaker 1: the college level.
20:09
Speaker 2: Are you doing college level at all or what or
20:11
Speaker 2: NFL level or is it a high school based.
20:13
Speaker 3: So I still have some colleges on a team. I
20:16
Speaker 3: have a couple of I have a couple of junior
20:18
Speaker 3: colleges and community college I've worked with. There's been some
20:21
Speaker 3: D one schools. It's just it's been a couple of
20:22
Speaker 3: years since I went back into some of those schools.
20:24
Speaker 3: I've done more with nonprofits and startup businesses and and
20:28
Speaker 3: and small small businesses and things of that nature as
20:31
Speaker 3: of late. But I am going to start firing back
20:33
Speaker 3: up my my contacts in the college world because I mean,
20:36
Speaker 3: you know, I got several colleges here in the state
20:38
Speaker 3: of Texas I've been working with, and so I just
20:41
Speaker 3: need to just I need to get back in touch
20:43
Speaker 3: with them. Like I said, this year had a lot
20:45
Speaker 3: of family issues going on, so we just were sort
20:47
Speaker 3: of off the grid, making sure the foundation of the
20:49
Speaker 3: family was good. And then we'll get We're going to
20:51
Speaker 3: get back on the playing field of life and and
20:53
Speaker 3: doing the good work with more people. But yeah, it's
20:56
Speaker 3: been a good it's been a good run.
20:59
Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned my team. By the way, I
21:01
Speaker 1: do love Notre Dame. That's my number one college crew,
21:03
Speaker 1: so I keep watching them. I've been thinking Texas, uh
21:08
Speaker 1: is someone to watch out the Longhorns or someone to
21:10
Speaker 1: watch out for this college football playoff.
21:12
Speaker 2: And I don't think I'm gonna be wrong on that.
21:14
Speaker 3: I might know that uh, that that that defense is
21:17
Speaker 3: is is nasty. I'd say them and Georgia are really
21:22
Speaker 3: just doing doing some great doing some great things out there.
21:27
Speaker 3: Obviously Texas offenses is putting up some points as well,
21:30
Speaker 3: but that defense is I think top two, top three
21:32
Speaker 3: in the country. Uh. I've seen so many fourth downstoffs
21:35
Speaker 3: from that defense has been it has been absolutely amazing.
21:38
Speaker 3: Me being a guy from the state of Texas, typically
21:41
Speaker 3: am always gonna wrap my Texas schools most of them
21:44
Speaker 3: as far as wanting to have success on the field
21:46
Speaker 3: and things of that nature. But yes, not I agree
21:49
Speaker 3: your team. Your team is looking looking pretty solid right now.
21:52
Speaker 3: I love I love the transformation Freeman made from year
21:55
Speaker 3: one to year two, how they bounce back from that early.
22:00
Speaker 1: Remember the team, Well, it was Northern Illinois University who
22:04
Speaker 1: actually won a bunch more money by winning that game.
22:07
Speaker 2: By the way.
22:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's funny.
22:09
Speaker 1: I had someone who was an alumni of Northern Illinois
22:12
Speaker 1: on my podcast a few weeks later. How about that
22:14
Speaker 1: for timing? But no, that was a special win for them.
22:18
Speaker 1: But you're right, Notre Dame bounce back. I didn't like
22:20
Speaker 1: the idea that they were going to fire they should
22:23
Speaker 1: fire Freeman.
22:24
Speaker 2: You know, I'm like, no, don't go with that.
22:26
Speaker 1: You know, he's a great coach and his recruiting is
22:28
Speaker 1: so amazing, and you know he's impressed by the Bears.
22:32
Speaker 1: The Bears are impressed by his coaching too, So we'll
22:34
Speaker 1: see if that ever happens. But you know, Omar, I
22:36
Speaker 1: got to say this as we're talking. When we first talked,
22:40
Speaker 1: you were doing a lot of this on TV, you
22:42
Speaker 1: were doing the college football analysis, but has growing deeper
22:46
Speaker 1: in your faith sort of taking away from that big
22:49
Speaker 1: lights TV sports analysis.
22:52
Speaker 2: Would you say or what's you know? Is that a
22:55
Speaker 2: reason why you're.
22:57
Speaker 3: No, it's just got out. I got out of doing
22:59
Speaker 3: the daily rind of sports recruiting analysts work pretty much
23:03
Speaker 3: all together. I do a couple of things here from
23:05
Speaker 3: a written standpoint, but the TV work has been has
23:08
Speaker 3: been off for a few years now, and my faith
23:13
Speaker 3: has doesn't really have any correlation with it because now
23:17
Speaker 3: whatever I do going forward, Let's just say I went
23:19
Speaker 3: back into sports journalism, and I got back into writing
23:23
Speaker 3: and doing the late night Fox show here in the
23:26
Speaker 3: Houston area, and I'm going back to high school games,
23:28
Speaker 3: and I'm going back and covering college games, and I'm
23:30
Speaker 3: doing college football recruiting again. My faith is going to
23:33
Speaker 3: be the leader on the front end of that going forward.
23:35
Speaker 3: Whatever I do now, I'm taking the ministry on the
23:39
Speaker 3: battlefield with me with the work I do. So whatever
23:42
Speaker 3: I do, it's just now, it's going to be intensified
23:44
Speaker 3: and the fact that that my faith is going to
23:48
Speaker 3: go along with me, and I'm going to you know,
23:50
Speaker 3: be very open about that, not to be pushy, but
23:53
Speaker 3: to be open about it, right, And that's just what
23:56
Speaker 3: we're called to do. We're called to share and be
23:58
Speaker 3: you know, good servants to others. And so that's going
24:02
Speaker 3: to be the difference in me going forward. And I
24:04
Speaker 3: look forward to that transformation and it's still me. It's
24:07
Speaker 3: still like downloading downloading now, and it's still I'm still
24:10
Speaker 3: going through that process. But we're here and I'm more
24:14
Speaker 3: than willing to uh to start making that journey, which
24:17
Speaker 3: I've already been doing up to this point and continuing to.
24:20
Speaker 2: Do that when you're on the field, Right, did you feel.
24:24
Speaker 1: Like as ning a guy coming in for a tackle,
24:26
Speaker 1: did you feel like, all right, God, you gotta get
24:28
Speaker 1: me through this one tackle one after the other.
24:30
Speaker 2: Right, didn't feel like that sometimes?
24:31
Speaker 3: Or Alison still feels like that sometimes, just from the
24:36
Speaker 3: standpoint that you know, the trap, the road for which
24:40
Speaker 3: I got here is an interesting one. And you can
24:44
Speaker 3: probably go back and poll all the people I went
24:47
Speaker 3: to college with and they'd be like, that guy's a
24:49
Speaker 3: youth ministry leader. Really, that guy teaches the youth, he's
24:52
Speaker 3: leading the youth. He's you know, he's a man of God,
24:55
Speaker 3: he's a man of faith. And it wouldn't there would
24:59
Speaker 3: be many who was just like I would never imagine
25:01
Speaker 3: that he would do that. And then you know, and
25:04
Speaker 3: just to be honest, sometimes, man, you don't I don't
25:07
Speaker 3: deserve some of the things that have occurred to me. Right,
25:10
Speaker 3: I didn't earn this, some of this stuff. I've fallen
25:12
Speaker 3: short many of times. But I know that his grace
25:15
Speaker 3: is what is the reason why I'm able to still
25:17
Speaker 3: do the work, and I'm able to be in at trenches.
25:20
Speaker 3: And I know that based on the word, we read
25:23
Speaker 3: like he didn't always choose the most polished, the most righteous,
25:28
Speaker 3: the most respected people, right, but he chose those who
25:32
Speaker 3: had a heart to want to serve and give. And
25:34
Speaker 3: that I will say I do have. And so as
25:37
Speaker 3: I go in, I grow in my faith in things
25:39
Speaker 3: of the nature. I'm grateful that now I can look
25:43
Speaker 3: at myself and say, you know, God gave me another chance,
25:47
Speaker 3: and I'm going to continue doing this. And I love
25:49
Speaker 3: the young people I work with. I think they're amazing
25:52
Speaker 3: to see the next generation unfold before me, and I
25:55
Speaker 3: can look at them and say, hey, this road that
25:57
Speaker 3: you're about to travel, let me tell you about some
26:00
Speaker 3: of the pittholes, the potholes that you may fall into
26:02
Speaker 3: that I fell into many times and now I've come
26:05
Speaker 3: out of those. But let me save you from spraining
26:08
Speaker 3: your ankle a couple of times and be able to
26:10
Speaker 3: get you on a pathway that's going to bring more
26:12
Speaker 3: good into your life.
26:14
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I feel like youth ministry is
26:16
Speaker 1: so vital because here they are. You have an opportunity
26:20
Speaker 1: to get kids the perspective that they don't get in
26:23
Speaker 1: the classroom. And Okay, we could talk about separation of
26:26
Speaker 1: church and state all we want, but I also feel
26:28
Speaker 1: like they're not getting any kind of faith based thing
26:32
Speaker 1: in the public expoo system. I mean, if I can
26:34
Speaker 1: opplin for a minute, so do you feel like you're
26:36
Speaker 1: that backstop to say, Okay, here's this other perspective I
26:39
Speaker 1: want you to look at, which is God.
26:43
Speaker 3: Well, you know, to be honest, alex I, I told
26:46
Speaker 3: you I just got back from I just got back
26:47
Speaker 3: from Kuna write Us out of Boise, Idaho, and I
26:51
Speaker 3: offered coach you know, I did a leadership session with
26:54
Speaker 3: his coaches. I did a leadership session with his team captains.
26:58
Speaker 3: And I always do a community service project when I
27:01
Speaker 3: come down to a city because I want to give
27:03
Speaker 3: back to the community which poured into me and giving
27:05
Speaker 3: me the opportunity to be able to speak unto their
27:07
Speaker 3: students or teachers or coaching staff whomever I'm there to
27:10
Speaker 3: speak with. And I offer the Bible study while I
27:13
Speaker 3: was there, not forceful. It's open to whoever wants to
27:16
Speaker 3: come by. And we had a coach and a couple
27:19
Speaker 3: of players come by, and right before I jumped on
27:22
Speaker 3: the plane, we had a Bible study. And so those
27:24
Speaker 3: are type of things I'm going to do going forward,
27:27
Speaker 3: I'll offer you know, just like when you guys go
27:29
Speaker 3: praying at the fifty yard line, it's not forced. We're
27:33
Speaker 3: going out there and kneeling. We're gonna pray, and we're
27:35
Speaker 3: gonna honor God. If you want to come, fine, if not,
27:38
Speaker 3: no one is upset. It's not forceful. So that's what's
27:41
Speaker 3: going to be happening with the new me. That's the
27:44
Speaker 3: new mean. I'm getting used to saying, Hey, this is
27:46
Speaker 3: what I want to offer for you. Here's what's available
27:49
Speaker 3: to your guys. And yes, we do need a restore
27:52
Speaker 3: sense of morality, which does which is biblical because a
27:55
Speaker 3: lot of the morality we have come from the Bible
27:59
Speaker 3: that it does need to be restored, you know, the
28:01
Speaker 3: separation between church and state. I mean, come on, like,
28:05
Speaker 3: can we say that the public school is better now
28:07
Speaker 3: than it was twenty five years ago? No, we can't
28:11
Speaker 3: exactly that. The morality has just taken a decline.
28:16
Speaker 1: So and at that point, you know, there are people
28:19
Speaker 1: out there in our generation, by the way, cheering the
28:23
Speaker 1: murder of the CEO in cold blood.
28:26
Speaker 2: I mean, is that a sign that we're not at
28:30
Speaker 2: all where we should be? I feel like it is,
28:32
Speaker 2: isn't it.
28:34
Speaker 3: Well, we know we live in a fallen state. We
28:36
Speaker 3: know that that's that's understandable. We all fall short, we
28:39
Speaker 3: all sin and all those things. But I do agree
28:43
Speaker 3: that the that there's a facet of there's a there's
28:47
Speaker 3: a there's a there's a portion of the society who
28:52
Speaker 3: is so far on the other side and glorifying you know,
28:55
Speaker 3: sex and death and you know, this level of equality
29:00
Speaker 3: that doesn't exist. Right, there's there's there's so many things
29:04
Speaker 3: that are going on simultaneously. And whereas I obviously don't
29:11
Speaker 3: like to see people, you know, do wrong unto old people,
29:15
Speaker 3: under children, not protecting women, or disrespecting other men, I
29:20
Speaker 3: don't like seeing any of that. I definitely don't condone murder. Right,
29:24
Speaker 3: So when we get to a point where it's like, okay,
29:28
Speaker 3: that's justified because you had a couple of claims that
29:31
Speaker 3: were denied, No, that that that we we can't get.
29:35
Speaker 3: We can't be there that that can't be the case. Right,
29:38
Speaker 3: we can't say, like I can look at someone and
29:41
Speaker 3: say that they're they're immoral, but it's not up for
29:43
Speaker 3: me for them to see punishment from me. Right, I
29:48
Speaker 3: trust my Lord Savior to take care of that right
29:51
Speaker 3: and it will come back around to you because it
29:53
Speaker 3: rains on the just and the unjust. However, cheering on
29:57
Speaker 3: murdering someone who have not I don't want to say legally.
30:03
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know what category we want to
30:05
Speaker 3: put it in.
30:06
Speaker 1: It's just like it didn't deserve, did not deserve to
30:09
Speaker 1: be killed like that in the middle of Manhattan.
30:12
Speaker 2: I mean, and I it's.
30:13
Speaker 1: Impacted us because we're in New York, you know, and
30:15
Speaker 1: it's like it just it's a share, it's an eerie
30:19
Speaker 1: healing and I'm here even more pissed off that people
30:22
Speaker 1: are cheering it.
30:23
Speaker 2: That's that's the point. And I think the school system is.
30:25
Speaker 1: The reason why they are because they've been grown to
30:27
Speaker 1: hate CEOs and everything like that, and of course they're
30:32
Speaker 1: not grown to love the Lord.
30:33
Speaker 2: I think that's what the point of all this is.
30:35
Speaker 2: So uh, this has been great.
30:39
Speaker 1: I always want to bring up for your twenty twenty
30:40
Speaker 1: five message before I let you go, and even a
30:43
Speaker 1: prayer if you want to give our listeners today.
30:47
Speaker 3: Okay, we can definitely pray go it. We can pray
30:51
Speaker 3: going into twenty twenty five. I'll ask you Alex, do
30:54
Speaker 3: you have any prayer requests for your podcast, for your family,
30:58
Speaker 3: or for your show.
31:01
Speaker 2: Transformative year that hit me.
31:03
Speaker 1: I mean, I was in the hospital for a whole
31:05
Speaker 1: week dealing with the goldstone issue, which I lent me
31:08
Speaker 1: for a whole month. So like, I want that transformative
31:12
Speaker 1: thing that I think God helped me with because he
31:14
Speaker 1: got me through that, right, I want that to be
31:17
Speaker 1: a lasting impact. I don't go back into those habits
31:19
Speaker 1: that led me to the hospital in the first place.
31:21
Speaker 2: So that's my one prayer that I learned from this
31:23
Speaker 2: transformative year and run with it.
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Speaker 3: We want, we definitely want to be able to take
31:29
Speaker 3: care of all of our people. So for all the
31:33
Speaker 3: listeners out there and for my brother Alex, let us
31:38
Speaker 3: let us go into prayer. Father Lord, we thank you
31:42
Speaker 3: for this time and for your presence. We thank you
31:44
Speaker 3: for your grace and mercy which you have extended to us.
31:47
Speaker 3: Heavenly Father, Lord, I pray that should be with Alex
31:49
Speaker 3: during his time with his podcast, with his family, with
31:52
Speaker 3: everything that he's involved with. Heavenly Father. For Lord, we
31:55
Speaker 3: know that you have brought him out of some pain,
31:58
Speaker 3: some sickness, and some different ailments of his body. Heavenly Father, Lord,
32:01
Speaker 3: I pray that you just bless his body, Heavenly Father,
32:04
Speaker 3: cover him in your blood, heal every cell of his body,
32:07
Speaker 3: and be able to restore the gallstones that have been
32:10
Speaker 3: worked on. Heavenly Father, Lord, and I pray that you
32:12
Speaker 3: not only bless him, but bless his home, Heavenly Father.
32:15
Speaker 3: For his fiancee, he's recently dealing with some surgeries, Heavenly Father, Lord,
32:19
Speaker 3: I pray that you bless her and bring her to
32:21
Speaker 3: full health, Heavenly Father. As they go through and they're
32:24
Speaker 3: dealing with these different issues, Heavenly Father, and they're going
32:26
Speaker 3: to see doctors, nurses, and hospital staff. Heavenly Father, Lord,
32:30
Speaker 3: I pray that you bless the staff, the hospitals, the doctors,
32:34
Speaker 3: the nurses, the office workers, everybody involved in the health
32:37
Speaker 3: care process. For Alice and his fiancee, Heavenly Father, I
32:40
Speaker 3: pray that you bless them, Heavenly Father, Godly minds and
32:43
Speaker 3: healing hands, Heavenly Father, Lord, bless them and bring peace
32:46
Speaker 3: and comfort over to them, Heavenly Father and full healing.
32:49
Speaker 3: In your name, Father Lord, I pray that this be
32:52
Speaker 3: a transformative year for Alex Heavenly Father, and Lord that
32:55
Speaker 3: you bring him increase Heavenly Father, spiritually, mentally, physically, and financially,
33:00
Speaker 3: Heavenly Father, thirty sixty one hundred fold blessings unto them,
33:04
Speaker 3: Heavenly Father. I'll pray that you bless his mind, his heart,
33:07
Speaker 3: his ministry, Heavenly Father, his work, and his financial being.
33:10
Speaker 3: Heavenly Father. Lord. I just ask you, the Lord, bring
33:13
Speaker 3: him the cares and the joys of his heart, Heavenly Father,
33:15
Speaker 3: that he may see an increase in his health, Heavenly Father,
33:19
Speaker 3: may see an increase in the love of his home.
33:21
Speaker 3: Heavenly Father, and Lord, I pray that the provision you
33:24
Speaker 3: put unto him, Heavenly Father is extended to all whom
33:27
Speaker 3: he loves, Heavenly Father, all of his audience, Heavenly Father's
33:30
Speaker 3: family and everyone. Heavenly Father. Lord, we thank you for
33:33
Speaker 3: this man in what you have done for him through
33:36
Speaker 3: the medium he has here with the podcast, Heavenly Father.
33:38
Speaker 3: Pray to it reaches those Lord who need to hear
33:41
Speaker 3: a good word, Heavenly Father, a word from you, a
33:44
Speaker 3: word of wisdom, Heavenly Father, and a word of just
33:49
Speaker 3: blessings and respect and accountability and responsibility. Heavenly Father. Lord,
33:55
Speaker 3: I pray the Lord that those who are in need
33:58
Speaker 3: of some level of encouragement, Heavenly Father, that they are
34:02
Speaker 3: led to Alex in all that he does here Lord
34:04
Speaker 3: and providing for his audience. Father Lord, we take Alex's health,
34:09
Speaker 3: we take his fiance's health, We take his work, his podcast,
34:12
Speaker 3: his mind is hard, his spirit is soul. We take
34:15
Speaker 3: everything Lord, that has been asked for on this list,
34:18
Speaker 3: Heavenly Father, and we submit it into your hands and
34:21
Speaker 3: to your authority. Know it is done. For Lord, you
34:23
Speaker 3: said what we ask for in your name. It is done.
34:26
Speaker 3: And for that and all the love and blessings we received,
34:29
Speaker 3: we are so truly grateful. Lord, We love you, We
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Speaker 3: thank you. We submit this into your hands, into your authority,
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Speaker 3: Heavenly Father, and anything that is not of you, Heavenly Father,
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Speaker 3: anything that is not beneficial and according to your will,
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Speaker 3: Heavenly Father, we place it at your feet, at your
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Speaker 3: altar at the cross, Father, knowing that your grace is
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Speaker 3: sufficient for all of our needs, and your strength is
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Speaker 3: made perfect and our weakness. Heavenly Father and Lord, and
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Speaker 3: we are so grateful. We love you, We thank you,
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Speaker 3: and this and your mighty gracious and loving Then we
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Speaker 3: pray the beautiful name of Jesus. Amen.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Amarin for joining us on one
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Speaker 1: log up to end the year and to begin twenty
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Speaker 3: Thank you, sir, appreciate you for having me on man
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Speaker 3: and bless you and your fiance and your podcast, and
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Speaker 3: we'll see you again soon.
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Speaker 1: And before I let you go real quick, you can
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Speaker 1: follow a mard at if I got this right, a'mard
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Speaker 1: ah m ar d vital v I t a l
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Speaker 1: on Instagram and is that your ex as well on Twitter?
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Speaker 2: Or what's your Twitter?
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Speaker 3: Everywhere? All right, it's a all Vital everywhere YouTube everywhere.
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Speaker 3: It's the same thing. No, no surname, it's just that.
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Speaker 2: All right, Amar.
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Speaker 1: Thanks again, and enjoy the rest of this college football playoff
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Speaker 3: Here, all right, Thank you, Alis, I appreciate.
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Speaker 2: You, God bless you.
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