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Opposing the New Christian Antisemitism with Dr. Michael Rydelnik & Calming Your Anxious Child with Micah Maddox · Karl and Crew

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  S1: Broadcasting from Chicago, across North America and beyond. It's Carl
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  S5: We do not know what to do. But our eyes
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  S5: are on you. God responded to Jehoshaphat with the words,
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  S5: the battle is not yours, but God's. And ultimately he
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  S5: got the victory. I think the tendency when we think
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  S5: of prayer is to kind of hope against hope becomes
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  S5: kind of a Hail Mary of sorts. It's like, wow,
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  S5: we got to do. Something's got to happen here. But
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  S5: if we look at the pages of Scripture, what we
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  S5: find is that God answers prayer. In prayer can do
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  S5: something inside us with regard to our emotions. Now we're
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  S5: going to unpack this big time later on in this hour.
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  S5: But from fear to peace. Oh yeah. Philippians four six
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  S5: through seven, from sorrow to joy. Oh, the story of Hannah.
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  S5: She looked drunk in the first chapter of First Samuel.
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  S5: Isn't that something that that narrative, it's like Eli's looking
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  S5: at her and and like, what's going on here, young lady?
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  S5: Have you been drinking? She goes, no, I'm drunk in grief. I'm.
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  S5: My heart is aching. Cried out to God, and the
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  S5: statement was made. God has heard your prayer. And she
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  S5: walked away glad. And she actually went and ate. So
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  S5: what do we find? Over and over in Scripture we
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  S5: find emotions are radically transformed as we pray. And one
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  S5: of the things that I've been spiking here for the
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  S5: last couple of days is that when we get into share,
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  S5: we do find ourselves up against battles. I mean, there's
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  S5: no question about that, right, Allie?
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  S2: Absolutely. I mean, it's a it is a big effort.
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  S2: No question. There is a we have a dashboard sitting
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  S2: in front of us with a very large number that
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  S2: represents what people behind the scenes have calculated is going
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  S2: to take us. The projections for what's going to take
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  S2: to keep the lights on, to keep Mike's hot, to
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  S2: keep the the place running. And we always say it's
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  S2: not about reaching a budget. It's about reaching the world
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  S2: with the gospel. But there are numbers that can feel intimidating.
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  S5: Yeah. Big time. And we we hit some roadblocks from
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  S5: time to time. And I'm going to anchor our little
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  S5: battle moments in this passage of Jehoshaphat. And he was
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  S5: just there's nothing like being honest. It would be a
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  S5: weird thing to wade into any kind of spiritual war
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  S5: and just say, well, God is sovereign. Well, that looks
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  S5: past the reality of the situation. And we've had a
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  S5: couple of times during share where we've hit a bit
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  S5: of a roadblock. And Ali does a good thing, man.
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  S5: I just say to her, hey, would you mind shooting
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  S5: a quick video and sending it out to the prayer warriors?
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  S5: And she boogies like never before, and she scoots out,
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  S5: takes a little video, and within five minutes we've got
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  S5: it loaded up. And it's been beautiful to watch. Not
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  S5: only do we send out this kind of red alert,
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  S5: let's be praying. We we hit a roadblock here. And
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  S5: then there's breakthrough. And this shouldn't surprise us because this
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  S5: is exactly what happened with Jehoshaphat. And there wasn't there
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  S5: was no need to do battle with the enemy because
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  S5: God threw them into confusion and they warred against themselves.
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  S5: It's an epic passage that we can hold on to Ali.
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  S2: It starts with the acknowledgement of we don't know what
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  S2: to do. That's a humble place to be. We don't
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  S2: know what to do. Our eyes are on you.
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  S5: Yeah, our eyes are on you. Okay. So we're topping
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  S5: it off. Got some good news. Uh, in fact, let's
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  S5: Yeah, this is going to be an amazing effort and
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  S5: I'm thrilled. I am absolutely thrilled that so many of you,
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  S5: many for the first time, plopping down, going, I'm going
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  S5: to pray for half an hour. And like Ali said,
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  S5: we're going to send you prompts. And the, the, a
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  S5: big chunk of praying for a half an hour is
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  S5: listening to the Lord. And we love hearing back from
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  S5: you our prayers. What you sense the Spirit of God
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  S5: is saying. And you might say, well, Carl, come on, man,
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  S5: they could be. People could be thinking anything. When you
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  S5: listen to God speak. Here's what we know from John 14,
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  S5: John 15 and John 16 that as we abide in
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  S5: our relationship with Jesus, the Holy Spirit will remind us
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  S5: of the words of Scripture. This is why it's so
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  S5: good to be armed with the truth. We'll remind us
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  S5: of the words of Scripture and many times you will
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  S5: hear from the Lord. Boom! This is what God has
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  S5: laid on my heart. It absolutely comports with truth. This
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  S5: is what we find in the word. And we utilize
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  S5: those things, don't we?
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  S1: God showed her she didn't have to. Ali is in
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  S5: One of the things we got to remember and we
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  S5: tackle it here often is that it's Christ at work
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  S5: in us to his glory. We are his workmanship. He's
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  S5: designed us in a way that really, uh, if we're
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  S5: not allowing him to do the tinkering with what needs
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  S5: to be changed in our life, we're relying on ourself
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  S5: to do it. And God wants to deal with issues
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  S5: in your life, renouncing ungodliness, worldly passions that things that
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  S5: you're getting out, taking hold of self-control, living righteous and
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  S5: godly lives in this present day. That's his role as well.
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  S5: So whether it's taking stuff out, laying stuff down, or
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  S5: picking stuff up and conforming everything inside of our soul
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  S5: into the greater good, it's all God. It's all God.
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  S2: It has to be.
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  S5: Oh my goodness, man, I, I just, I go on
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  S5: this riff constantly because we have really made the mark
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  S5: when it comes to sanctification. Big fancy word for growing
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  S5: up in Jesus. We have. We have. So put this
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  S5: on our shoulders when it is God who works in us,
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  S5: full stop. Emotions were tackling. You know what? I'm going
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  S5: to ask Doctor Michael Ray Dolnick a question that he
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  S5: probably doesn't get asked much at all, but that is
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  S5: when you see anti-Semitism as a Messianic Jew, what does
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  S5: that make you feel like?
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  S6: Well, it's just so heartbreaking. It's it's beyond belief. That's
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  S6: the two emotions I have. I just can't believe I'm
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  S6: seeing what I'm seeing in this day and age at
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  S6: this time. It's beyond belief. I can't believe it. And
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  S6: then the second thing is I'm so heartbroken. I saw
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  S6: a reel the other day of some people in full
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  S6: Nazi garb. They were wearing swastikas on their arms, just
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  S6: standing in the middle of New York City with their bullhorn,
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  S6: making all sorts of false, horrible, hateful allegations about Jewish people.
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  S6: And I mean, we have freedom of speech in our country.
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  S6: But it was just amazing to me to see all
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  S6: the people there standing there with with this kind of attitude. And,
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  S6: and I it doesn't seem possible to me that here
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  S6: we are in a in the United States, in New
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  S6: York City, the greatest Jewish city in the world, you
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  S6: have hatred of the Jewish people coming from both the
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  S6: political extreme right and the political extreme left. The horseshoe
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  S6: has found. And so it's hard to believe. And it's heartbreaking. Uh,
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  S6: you know, when I see people out there with the swastika,
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  S6: it just is inconceivable. Yeah. It is. Since since so
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  S6: many of my I virtually all my family murdered under
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  S6: this mark of the swastika. Uh, it's it's it's it's
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  S6: just horrible.
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  S2: Doctor, what are the latest numbers that you have heard
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  S2: about the rise of anti-Semitism here in the U.S. well.
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  S6: 2025, it's hard to get some numbers. 2024 there. There
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  S6: was an 893% increase in anti-Semitic attacks in the United
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  S6: States over the last, I'd say five years is what
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  S6: they were saying. And in 2026, that means, uh, five,
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  S6: five years ago, antisemitism was the number one hate crime
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  S6: in America. Most people don't aren't aware of that. Uh,
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  S6: but since then, it has increased 893%, uh, nine times
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  S6: more likely. Uh, people, how do I put this? Yeah. Uh,
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  S6: Jewish people are, for the first time in my lifetime,
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  S6: afraid to wear their Star of David on the outside,
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  S6: young Jewish men are taking their kippah, the the skull
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  S6: cap that they wear off and putting it in their pocket.
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  S6: And this is in Jewish areas, not in areas where
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  S6: there are mostly Jewish people. Uh, the the statistics don't
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  S6: speak as loudly as, uh, Jewish people being fired upon
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  S6: with with pistols assaulted on the streets of, in Chicago,
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  S6: in New York City, in Los Angeles. This is happening. Yeah. Uh,
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  S6: and so, but the, the statistics tell us it's about
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  S6: a 900% increase in anti-Semitism.
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  S5: You know, Michael.
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  S6: By the way, can I say I like to call
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  S6: it Jew hatred because that's what it is. anti-Semitism is
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  S6: just a clean up word.
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  S5: Yeah. It is a cleaned up word. You're right about that.
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  S5: It's Jew hatred. Uh, Michael. Full stop. This is demonic
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  S5: because these. There's no reasonableness here. There's zero common sense.
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  S5: There's zero reflection. There's denial of the Holocaust. There's a
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  S5: claim of genocide, which is so absurd currently in Gaza.
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  S5: I mean, this is just demonic, Michael.
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  S6: It's. Yeah. You know, we know who the father of
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  S6: lies is, right? Yeah. And and if you read revelation 12,
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  S6: at the end of days, when Israel is being pursued
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  S6: to the wilderness to be destroyed, that Jewish people who's
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  S6: doing it, it's the devil. It's the it's Satan, the
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  S6: serpent of old. That's who is the one that is
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  S6: behind it. Uh, I think it's always he's always been
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  S6: the one behind it because he wants to obstruct God's plan.
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  S6: Because if he could destroy the Jewish people, then he
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  S6: can somehow maybe the before the the coming of the Messiah,
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  S6: before he came the first time, he could have obstructed
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  S6: the coming of Jesus who was to be born in
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  S6: Bethlehem of a Jewish mother. Uh, or now I think
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  S6: the key to the second coming, in my opinion, uh,
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  S6: based on Matthew 2337 through 39, is, uh, when the
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  S6: Jewish people will finally turn in faith to Jesus. It
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  S6: says in Matthew 23, verses 37 through 39, Jesus, the
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  S6: Lord Jesus, is saying, oh, how I would have gathered
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  S6: you as a mother hen gathers her sheep, but you
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  S6: were unwilling. Now your house is being left, you desolate.
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  S6: The temple will be destroyed. However, then he says, you
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  S6: will not see me again until you say, blessed is
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  S6: he who comes in the name of the Lord. That's
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  S6: the Hebrew phrase for welcome. And. And so he's saying,
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  S6: I'm not returning until Israel. The Jewish leadership welcomes me back.
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  S6: And that's what Zechariah 1210 is talking about, where it
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  S6: says they'll look upon the pierced one. That's what it's
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  S6: talking about. That's what Paul's talking about in Romans 11
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  S6: when he says, and then all Israel will be saved.
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  S6: That's what it's saying, that there will come a day
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  S6: at the end of the tribulation, I believe, when the
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  S6: nation of Israel will turn in faith to Jesus and
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  S6: he will return. Well, the enemy wants to destroy the
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  S6: Jewish people so that they won't.
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  S5: Yeah.
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  S6: And so he wants to obstruct God's plan, and he
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  S6: hates whom God loves. And the Bible is really clear, uh,
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  S6: that that God loves Israel. And when I say Israel,
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  S6: I don't mean the modern state. I mean ethnic Israel,
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  S6: the Jewish people globally.
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  S5: Yeah. And that will spill over to the to the.
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  S6: Of course they're part of that. Yeah. So, so can
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  S6: I just tell you, I've seen so much social media
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  S6: hate because I wrote this little book. How should Christians
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  S6: think about Israel? Moody publishers, you know, published it, advertises it.
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  S6: There's an amazing amount of hate comments on social media
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  S6: about this book.
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  S5: You can't even some of those you can't even repeat,
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  S5: can you?
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  S6: No. But here's one that a pastor wrote, and this
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  S6: is what. What is the kick in the head? He
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  S6: justified hatred of the Jewish people because of the Bible.
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  S6: Romans 1128. They are enemies of the gospel, he wrote,
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  S6: and he's defending the gospel. Except think about what the
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  S6: rest of that verse says. They are enemies of the
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  S6: gospel for your advantage. Gentiles, because the Jewish rejection of
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  S6: the Messiah led to the gospel going to the Gentiles
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  S6: for your advantage, because they remain chosen and beloved for
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  S6: the sake of the fathers. Yeah, he left out the
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  S6: rest of the verse.
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  S5: Yeah. And Michael, Jesus didn't say to the Jewish leaders
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  S5: of his day, your children of the devil, because he
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  S5: was condemning them. He was revealing something that they were
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  S5: in deception. They thought they didn't think they had it wrong.
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  S5: They thought they thought they had it right.
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  S6: Mhm. And, you know, wouldn't you say that anyone that
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  S6: has a blind spot or a misunderstanding or the wrong
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  S6: understanding of who the Lord Jesus is? Not just Jewish people,
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  S6: just globally, any ethnic group, where are they getting that from?
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  S6: Who has blinded the eyes? Their eyes.
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  S5: Yeah. The prince and power of the air. And here's
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  S5: the reality. We're. We got to get our theology straight.
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  S5: We're all born with our backs to God, Jewish and Gentile.
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  S5: Every one of us. Michael. Okay, coming up here in
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  S5: a moment. So what are we going to do about it?
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  S5: Sometimes you got to get people together and have a good, honest,
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  S5: biblical discussion. And it's not to take up arms. Our
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  S5: battle is not against flesh and blood. These are spiritual
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  S5: forces of evil that are at work here behind the scenes.
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  S5: So what do we do? Boy, have we got an
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  S5: announcement for you. Coming up straight ahead.
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  S1: Breaking chains and running free. You're listening to Carl and Crew.
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  S5: It's got the most disgusting TikToker. Yeah. Facebook reels sent
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  S5: to me here from Michael Ray Dolnick. 1.3 million views.
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  S5: Ali 6000 likes on this thing. And it's a picture
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  S5: of a couple young men, one being young men, one
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  S5: being interviewed there holding up a big old banner, and
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  S5: somebody asked some, what's with the swastika? So he's got
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  S5: an all white kind of button up, and then he's
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  S5: got on his right armband, a big, bold swastika. And
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  S5: he says, hey, we're we're, uh, National Socialists here and
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  S5: we're proud of it. This is brutal. Ali. This has
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  S5: happened in the streets of New York. Sister.
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  S2: Yeah. I remember a couple of years ago when there
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  S2: was the, um, the, a lot of college campuses were
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  S2: having these kind of takeovers on the campus. And there
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  S2: was a university not too far from my home where
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  S2: there was a whole setup that had taken over the
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  S2: whole quad. And it was to the point where Jewish
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  S2: people who lived in the neighborhood were fearful of walking by.
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  S2: And this was 2023, 2024, afraid to walk by this
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  S2: very well populated area where it was known that there
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  S2: was going to be hateful things spewed at them, or worse.
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  S2: And it was like the twilight Zone of what in
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  S2: the world is happening here.
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  S5: Yeah, you can only explain it in spiritual terms. Demonic terms.
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  S5: Micheal Ray Dominik, our guest here this morning. Okay, so
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  S5: what's the bigger yes. Here man. Let's get a summit
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  S5: opposing the new Christian anti-Semitism. You've tweaked that title, the
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  S5: new Christian anti-Semitism. What do you mean, Michael?
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  S6: That's because the emphasis this year is on what is
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  S6: happening in the in the evangelical world, there is a
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  S6: movement on the right, not on the left, not the
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  S6: radical left, which we've seen that. And it's, you know,
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  S6: taking over the left wing, you know, like that false
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  S6: charge of genocide. But now it's at Christian colleges, it's
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  S6: in churches, people who are embracing this. I got a
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  S6: note from a very, very nationally known pastor saying, I
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  S6: need some help here. I'm getting people who are in
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  S6: my church who I am connecting with, who are saying
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  S6: how much they hate Jewish people. I had a professor
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  S6: tell me in a class that he taught in Romans 11.
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  S6: A student came and confessed deep hatred of the Jewish
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  S6: people after hearing him teach Romans 11. Uh, it is happening.
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  S6: I had another at another Christian college. Uh, some students
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  S6: told me they came. A guy said he's been completely
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  S6: alienated and isolated because he won't go along with the
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  S6: hateful things that they're saying in the men's dorm about
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  S6: Jewish people. I see it on this anti-Jewish hatred, on
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  S6: the reels, the comments on the reels for this book
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  S6: of mine, people quoting Bible verses, taking verses out of
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  S6: context and endorsing, proclaiming hatred of the Jewish people. We
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  S6: need to address this. Everett Piper is going to be
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  S6: one of our speakers at the summit on November 7th.
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  S6: Everett Piper is the president emeritus of Oklahoma Wesleyan University.
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  S6: He's a committed believer. He has a large following on
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  S6: on social media. He got a picture of that book
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  S6: I wrote holding it, and he was pointing at it
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  S6: and it said, read this. That's what he wrote on
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  S6: social media, on Instagram, I think it was, he said
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  S6: within five minutes there were 1800 hateful comments. And he
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  S6: says his following is from the evangelical world. That's where
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  S6: it is. And that's when all of a sudden he realized,
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  S6: we've got a dramatic new problem. So we're going to
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  S6: have Everett Piper come and speak. Good. Don Sweeting, who
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  S6: is the president emeritus of Colorado Christian University, uh, current
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  S6: president of Dallas Seminary, Mark Yarbrough will be speaking. I'll
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  S6: be speaking, uh, we'll be hosted there by our new
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  S6: president from Moody Bible Institute, Rick Nelson. It's going to
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  S6: be a very important time to mobilize, to actually do
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  S6: something to learn and to learn what to do, uh,
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  S6: when we face this because it's growing and it's a problem.
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  S2: Doctor Michael Riedel with us this morning. Who is this
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  S2: for who? Who would you want to come and attend
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  S2: to this people who want to learn more. People who
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  S2: want to show support.
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  S6: First of all, we we want to help disciple people
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  S6: about what the Bible really says about the Jewish people.
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  S6: So if you're interested in learning about that, but this
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  S6: is who I would really love to come. People who
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  S6: want to be a Bonhoeffer. People who want to be
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  S6: a Corrie ten boom, people who want to follow our
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  S6: heroes of the faith from that time, from the last
• 20:58
  S6: time anti-Semitism exploded on our planet. If you want to
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  S6: be the kind of believer who who is faithful to
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  S6: the Lord, who stands up for what is righteous. That's
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  S6: who we want to come because we need. I need
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  S6: to see believers from all over the country, not just
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  S6: from the Chicago area, to come to Moody Bible Institute,
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  S6: to be educated and motivated to be those who will be,
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  S6: those who will oppose this new Christian anti-Semitism, to do
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  S6: something about it, to influence their families, to influence their kids,
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  S6: to influence their siblings, to influence the people they go
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  S6: to church with. Be the ones that will take a
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  S6: step like this. So it's November 7th, downtown Chicago, Moody
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  S6: Bible Institute. Yeah. There's parking.
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  S5: Okay, real quick question. We got to get, is this
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  S5: rise of anti-Semitism going to be. And I mean, it's
• 21:54
  S5: not just a rise, this staggering movement of Jew hatred.
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  S5: Is this going to be the precursor to driving Jewish
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  S5: people into the arms of the real Messiah?
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  S6: You know, I think every time there's pressure, there's a
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  S6: draw of the Jewish people to say, why is this happening?
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  S6: And it turns people to faith. Now, my mom survived
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  S6: the multiple concentration camps and the Lodz ghetto and and
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  S6: the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. That was the main camp that
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  S6: she was liberated from. She said in her time in
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  S6: the camp, Jewish people were more open than ever before.
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  S6: Rachel Friedland, who's with the Lord now. Jewish believer that I.
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  S6: Scholar that I have known for many years. He said
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  S6: his time in the Warsaw ghetto and in concentration camp.
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  S6: Those were the times when there was almost a revival.
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  S6: He would say, so I don't know, but it is
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  S6: my hope.
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  S5: We pray.
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  S6: I pray that if there's some good to come of this,
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  S6: it will be for people to say, Where's God in
• 22:53
  S6: all this and that they will turn to the Messiah.
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  S5: Okay, we got a link here, Ali. This has been
• 22:59
  S5: a sobering conversation.
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  S2: Truly. We want you to get more information. Just text
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  S1: Your spiritual pit stop to keep you going in the race.
• 23:24
  S1: You're listening to Carl and crew.
• 23:27
  S5: How is prayer changed your emotions? And when I asked
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  S5: that question, some of you go, yeah, I know how
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  S5: that has happened. Some of you might wonder if prayer
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  S5: can actually change emotion. We've got I've got four for
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  S5: you here that are pretty quick and easy, that reveal
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  S5: this in a pretty powerful way. In Philippians four, you find.
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  S5: Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by
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  S5: prayer and supplication let your requests be made known to God,
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  S5: and the God of all peace will guard your hearts
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  S5: in Christ Jesus. That's quite a promise, isn't it?
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  S2: That's one of my favorites.
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  S5: And it's true. And you might say, well, why? Why
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  S5: could it be that I offer prayers to God? But
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  S5: I don't have peace. I, I want to be real
• 24:14
  S5: pastoral here and just tell you about myself. There's two
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  S5: different kinds of praying to God. One is praying while
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  S5: holding on to it, and the other one is praying
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  S5: while laying it down at the foot of the cross.
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  S5: One is praying. Believing. I still gotta keep my hands
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  S5: on this thing, and the other one is praying and believing.
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  S5: I gotta get God's hands on this thing. It's a
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  S5: big difference. It's a big difference. And my bride is
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  S5: famous for saying, let's lay it down at the foot
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  S5: of the cross. My bride says it all the time.
• 24:48
  S5: And there's something powerful about that. You know what I mean?
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  S2: Oh, yeah. And I know because you've told. I've heard
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  S2: you talk about it before. It's often. And your bride
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  S2: would say it's often something that you have to do
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  S2: repeatedly because it's easy to lay something down and there's
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  S2: a sense of peace. And then something happens that disrupts
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  S2: the peace, and then you have to lay it down again.
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  S2: And that's, I feel like a part of the, the
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  S2: sanctification process.
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  S5: It's so is it's an ongoing thing. I've got a
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  S5: couple things in my life that I've had to lay
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  S5: down at the cross, probably no less than I'm going
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  S5: to be realistic here. Probably 2000 times.
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  S2: Oh yeah.
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  S5: Probably a couple thousand times. But the but the promise
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  S5: is peace and it is real. Uh, another one is
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  S5: in first Samuel one. Bless her heart, Hannah. Man, she's
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  S5: just grieving because she doesn't have a son. And she's
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  S5: grieving so hard that Eli thinks she's drunk.
• 25:45
  S2: She gets accused of being drunk. Like, really? That's what
• 25:49
  S2: you think is happening here? She said it much more
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  S2: nicely than that.
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  S7: Yeah.
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  S5: And Eli spoke over her that God hears her prayers
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  S5: and her face was her face was no longer sad.
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  S5: She walked away and she had a meal. Really, really
• 26:04
  S5: cool answer to prayer. From sorrow to joy. So from
• 26:08
  S5: fear to peace or anxiousness to peace. And from sorrow
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  S5: or despair to. To joy. And then you have this.
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  S5: A soul that's getting wrung out of feeling like you
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  S5: can't catch a breath. Why so downcast? Oh my soul,
• 26:24
  S5: put your hope in God. And we find that in
• 26:25
  S5: Psalm 42. And there was a remembrance that man. God
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  S5: can handle what I can't handle despair, to hope there
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  S5: as well. And then you've got battles. How many of
• 26:36
  S5: you are facing battles today and you got battles moving
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  S5: on to victory. And I love Jehoshaphat. I love this story.
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  S5: I love the fact that I tell our worship teams
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  S5: this on both campuses at 180 Chicago, here in Chicago
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  S5: all the time. It's like, hey, you guys are out
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  S5: in front. We got a battle today, but we're putting
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  S5: our worship team out in front in Jehoshaphat to tradition.
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  S5: And I really believe that.
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  S2: Ali oh yeah.
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  S5: I believe that. And Jehoshaphat was looking at an untenable situation.
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  S5: I mean, he had armies aligned against him that there
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  S5: was no earthly way he was going to win that war.
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  S5: We do not know what to do. He cried out,
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  S5: but our eyes are on you. And God responds, the
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  S5: battle is not yours, but God's. Wow. So I don't
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  S5: know what emotion you're battling with today, but I've got
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  S5: four evidences right here. That prayer can change the emotions
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  S5: because you resolve to put it in the hands of God.
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  S5: Isn't that awesome?
• 27:43
  S2: It is. And I think one of the beautiful things
• 27:45
  S2: about emotion is that it often is the driver. It's
• 27:49
  S2: the thing that drives us to God because we are
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  S2: aware of how, you know, for me, a lot of
• 27:55
  S2: times it's anxiety that I find drives me to God
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  S2: because I'm feeling so anxious and I know that I
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  S2: can't make myself stop feeling that way. I've tried. It
• 28:06
  S2: just doesn't work. And so that's it's a powerful driver
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  S2: to to get you to God.
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  S5: Yeah. And yeah, it's God's dinner bell. You're right on, ally.
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  S5: So a question for you. How has prayer changed your emotions?
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  S5: You've got a testimony. How has prayer changed your emotions?
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  S5: We're talking emotions all week long. I gave you right here.
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  S5: You can grab one and go, that's my story. It's okay.
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  S5: You can say yes and amen. But how is prayer
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  S5: changed your emotions? Give us a phone call right now.
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  S5: We got a few minutes to get you in here.
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  S5: 805 557898 805 557898. How is prayer really going before God?
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  S5: Letting loose is something changed your emotions? 800 555, 7898.
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  S1: Your shot of hope to get you through the day.
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  S4: You are so so loved. God does not want you
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  S4: to stay in your past, and I want you to
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  S4: know and believe that today.
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  S1: You're listening to Carl and crew. You know.
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  S5: You gotta you gotta think how does Scripture interpret Scripture here?
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  S5: It's the whole and the grandeur of God that makes
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  S5: prayer sensical. Otherwise it's crazy.
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  S2: Very true.
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  S5: So we got a question for you. How has prayer
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  S5: changed your emotions? I gave you four examples right from
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  S5: the scripture. You might have more. Let's go to the
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  S5: phone lines. Ali.
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  S2: Let's go to Hannah calling in this morning from Burlington, Wisconsin. Hannah,
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  S2: how is prayer changed your emotions?
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  S8: So for me, um, before I came to Christ, I
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  S8: was a very angry person, very hostile and knee jerk
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  S8: reaction to every situation offensive to me. And as I
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  S8: seek God throughout 21:20 years of knowing him, it has
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  S8: changed to where I no longer just react, I. I
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  S8: seek him in prayer. I surrender out of myself to
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  S8: his dependence of what he wants me to do, and
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  S8: it has given me such peace and comfort with my family,
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  S8: with situations, with work and, you know, stuff like that.
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  S5: Hannah, you don't recognize yourself anymore, do you, sister?
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  S8: No, not at all.
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  S5: That's so cool.
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  S8: Years ago, I'd be like, that's not. I couldn't do that. No,
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  S8: I'm not the same person. In a good way.
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  S5: Oh, that's so cool, Hannah. Boom! Sister. Love you. Way
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  S5: to go, Mary Lou. Miami, Florida. What do you say,
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  S5: Mary Lou?
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  S9: Yes! It's so funny that you guys are discussing about, um, releasing, um,
• 30:41
  S9: the feelings. And today I was doing a devotion that
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  S9: asked me. The hurts in our lives can take many
• 30:47
  S9: different forms. Which one do you relate the most? Anger, resentment,
• 30:51
  S9: bitterness and why? And I wrote down, I said, whatever
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  S9: it is that goes on in my life, I have
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  S9: learned to just release everything. All my feelings and prayer
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  S9: and prayer and exercise are the two main ways that
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  S9: I release my emotion. And it has helped me tremendously
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  S9: that I don't take any of those burden with me.
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  S9: When I go in prayer, I release them to God
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  S9: and I surrender it to the Lord, just like as
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  S9: you said, um, Mr. Boom. Yeah.
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  S5: You're in the boom groove, Mary Lou. You crack me up, sister. Uh,
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  S5: keep keep Mary Lou on the horn. I'm only going
• 31:31
  S5: to give away one, but I'm giving away a Carl
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  S5: and Crew prize bag right there. Uh, let's go to Juanita.
• 31:37
  S5: If we could get Juanita up right now. First time
• 31:40
  S5: caller one Nita, we can't get her up right now.
• 31:43
  S5: Let's go to Phillip first in Aurora. Phillip, what do
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  S5: you say?
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  S10: Oh, man. Hey, man. The Hannah and Mary Lou. That's
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  S10: what I'm talking about. Yeah. Boom, boom. Yeah. You know something?
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  S10: You want to change it for me was when. When
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  S10: I started making my prayers intentional and focused prayers. Yeah.
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  S10: Instead of praying in these generalities and these broad categories.
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  S10: I said, exactly what, what what am I looking for
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  S10: right now? What do I need right now? And when
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  S10: I made my prayer specific and intentional, you know, I, I,
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  S10: you know, you go right to the Scripture and the
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  S10: Thessalonians pray without ceasing. And in James we ask not
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  S10: because we have not or we have not because we
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  S10: ask wrongly, right? We have to be specific. And we
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  S10: got to make sure. Uh, Carl even said it in
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  S10: one of the bumpers. You know that if we're honoring
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  S10: or not honoring our brides, don't expect God to hear
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  S10: the prayers because they're hitting the ceilings and bouncing back
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  S10: on our big old knuckles.
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  S5: Yeah, you got that right. Philip, thank you so much
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  S5: for calling in. That's so cool. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Let's, um,
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  S5: let's just linger here for a moment. It is an
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  S5: awesome thing when we see that God can take our
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  S5: emotions no matter what they are, and turn them for
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  S5: his glory and our good. And the question is, can
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  S5: prayer do produce that. And the answer is ab solutely
• 33:05
  S5: it can, you know, let me put a banner ad
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  S5: up here because we are going to face a lot
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  S5: of emotions during share, big time, a lot of emotions
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  S5: during share. And one of the things that we're asking
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  S5: you to do is be prayers on behalf of all
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  S5: of us, not just us in studio, but all of
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  S5: us across the nation and beyond, because there's going to
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  S5: be a battle when you're trying to raise dollars for
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  S5: God's greater work. There's going to be battles, right?
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  S2: Absolutely. So if you're willing to be a part of
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• 33:52
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• 33:54
  S1: Your spiritual pit stop to keep you going in the race.
• 33:58
  S1: You're listening to Carl and crew.
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  S5: Yeah, man. Ben Fuller, if it was up to me.
• 34:03
  S5: And here's the beautiful thing. We have a perspective shift
• 34:06
  S5: because it's it's all God. And we're just asking you
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  S5: a simple little question. How is prayer changed your emotions?
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  S5: And some of you are like, man, I want some
• 34:15
  S5: of that. You know what? I've got a curveball coming here.
• 34:17
  S5: We're going to do that for you in just a moment.
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  S5: But we got a caller here, don't we?
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  S2: We do. Beth. First time caller from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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  S2: How has prayer changed your emotions? Beth.
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  S11: Well, I was on a mission trip, which I've been
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  S11: on several times. There was a couple there who was
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  S11: just on fire for the Lord, and somehow they just
• 34:34
  S11: kind of came in and somehow I was feeling either
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  S11: I don't know if it was resentment or jealousy. I
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  S11: just really was not feeling comfortable with them there. And
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  S11: I just thought, this is not how I'm supposed to be,
• 34:45
  S11: but I just, I couldn't ignore the feeling. And throughout
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  S11: the trip, you know, everything went well. But after that,
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  S11: I thought, you know, this isn't this isn't right. This
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  S11: is not of the Lord for me to be this way.
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  S11: And I prayed and asked the Lord to change my heart.
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  S11: And it didn't happen overnight, but eventually I came to
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  S11: where I just absolutely love this couple. I respect their faith.
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  S11: I respect their love for the Lord. I just I
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  S11: pray with them some and you know, we just it's
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  S11: just amazing how God changed my heart to love from
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  S11: having either resentment or jealousy or I'm not sure what
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  S11: it was, but I'm thankful.
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  S5: You know what, Beth? You are a precious woman of God.
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  S5: That takes a lot of courage, and that takes humility.
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  S5: And what this is every man and woman's battle. You
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  S5: aren't alone on this thing. Are you kidding me? How
• 35:32
  S5: many times have we walked into a meeting or into
• 35:35
  S5: a situation? We're like, that person drives me crazy. And
• 35:39
  S5: then God goes, really?
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  S11: Yeah.
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  S5: The tomb's empty and we're going to be that small. Carl. Really? Yeah. Beth.
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  S5: That is rich, sister, stay on the horn. You hadn't
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  S5: planned on it, but we're going to get you Carl
• 35:53
  S5: and crew prize pack. Yep. Stay on the horn. First
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  S5: time caller. God bless. God bless you, sister. That's why
• 36:00
  S5: we call you the boom crew right there, Ali.
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  S7: I love that.
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  S5: How sweet is that? Okay, here's what.
• 36:07
  S7: We're gonna do.
• 36:08
  S5: Pop up emotions right now. You can text us. What
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  S5: are the emotions that you're in right now that you are,
• 36:14
  S5: you know, are not of God and God wants to
• 36:18
  S5: heal them. Text us right now. And then I'm going
• 36:21
  S5: to have Ali pray over you in just a moment here.
• 36:23
  S5: Text us 805 557898. You're stuck in some kind of emotion.
• 36:29
  S5: It can be fear. It can be anger. It can
• 36:31
  S5: be rage. It can be resentment. It can be envy.
• 36:36
  S5: I mean, the list can go on and on. It
• 36:39
  S5: can be good old fashioned garden variety pride.
• 36:44
  S2: Yeah.
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  S7: And you.
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  S5: Need.
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  S7: Some relief.
• 36:47
  S2: I mean, just text it in a word or two,
• 36:50
  S2: just if you're willing to just be honest, we're not
• 36:52
  S2: going to shout out phone numbers or names, but if
• 36:55
  S2: there's an emotion that you are struggling with that you're
• 36:57
  S2: willing to just be honest about like, man, I know
• 36:59
  S2: that this is not of God, but this is, ah,
• 37:02
  S2: this is what's in me. 800 555, 78, 98 just
• 37:06
  S2: text us a word or two 805 557898.
• 37:10
  S5: Yeah, here we go. Anxiety, resentment. Jealousy. Anxiety again, resentment,
• 37:16
  S5: fear and anger. Shame, fear and anxiety. Fear and anxiety. Despair. Pride, anger.
• 37:24
  S5: I'm just reading them as they're popping in here. Anxiety
• 37:27
  S5: and grief. Critical spirit. Uncertainty. Yeah. That's fear. Anxiety and fear.
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  S5: Stress and fear. Snarky and pride. Thanks for the snarky.
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  S5: Love that one.
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  S4: That's a good word, isn't it?
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  S7: Snarky. Snarky. Love that. Yeah.
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  S5: Fear and anxiety. Fear, anger, pride and envy. Uh, anxiety. Frustration. Panic. Uh.
• 37:52
  S5: Road rage. Uh. overwhelm. Discouragement. I'm just reading them as
• 37:57
  S5: I see them plopping in here uncertainty, despair, worry, anxiety
• 38:03
  S5: over physical health, worthlessness. Boy, that's an emotion that we
• 38:08
  S5: got to get rid of here. Fear. Failure. Anxiety. That's
• 38:13
  S5: probably someone saying, I feel like a failure. That's an emotion.
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  S5: I feel like I'm the loser of the century. Self-Loathing. Yep. Doubt. Inadequacy.
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  S5: Just reading them as they're popping in here. Sadness. Sorrow. Disappointed. Uh, self-righteousness.
• 38:31
  S5: Way to be honest. Appreciate you. That's great. Uh, fear. Uh,
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  S5: anger with three exclamation points. That's strong. Anger, bitterness, overwhelmed confusion.
• 38:46
  S5: A lot of emotions out there. Ali, let's take him
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  S5: before the King of kings. Would you do that, sister?
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  S7: Yeah.
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  S2: Lord, we are just so grateful that we can trust
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  S2: you with our emotions. Lord, thank you that when I
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  S2: think of that Jesus, you were tempted in every way
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  S2: but were without sin, meaning there was the temptation to
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  S2: feel every one of these emotions. And we know that
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  S2: you felt anger. We know that you felt everything that
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  S2: we could possibly feel. None of it's foreign to you.
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  S2: And so, God, I just ask that for every person
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  S2: who's feeling first, I thank you for the honesty of
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  S2: the person who was willing to just own it. God,
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  S2: I pray that that next step that you would be
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  S2: the Lord over our emotions. That for every heart that's
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  S2: troubled and anxious and fearful, Lord, that you would give
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  S2: them great peace. Lord, for everybody who's battling pride or
• 39:43
  S2: self righteousness, God, that you would use that conviction to
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  S2: bring them to a place of humility. Oh God, Lord,
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  S2: for every person who's struggling with grief, with shame. God,
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  S2: let your word be the final authority in our life.
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  S2: God help us not to be ruled by our emotions,
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  S2: but God, but to be overcome by your love and
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  S2: by your word. Thank you for your word that tells
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  S2: us what's true, that we don't have to look within
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  S2: ourselves to find it. We look to you. We look
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  S2: to what you've already spoken. God, I thank you. Thank
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  S2: you that you have made us in your image with
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  S2: the ability to feel a range of emotions. God, we
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  S2: lay them before you. We lay them at your feet.
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  S2: We put them at the foot of the cross. God.
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  S2: Because we know that you are greater than anything we
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  S2: could feel. Lord, you are real. Give us your peace.
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  S2: Give us your calm. Give us your hope. God, give
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  S2: us more of you. Yeah. In Jesus name, Amen.
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  S7: Amen. And let it be who.
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  S1: Helping you take the next step in your walk with Jesus.
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  S7: God longs for us today to seek him and ask
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  S7: him to move in ways that we never could.
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  S1: You're listening to Carl and crew.
• 40:59
  S2: Well, if you are a parent or a grandparent or
• 41:02
  S2: just have kids in your life who you love, you
• 41:05
  S2: know that when they hurt, you hurt and nothing can
• 41:08
  S2: be can feel more challenging than going through stuff as
• 41:12
  S2: your kids do. What about anxiety? Have you ever tried
• 41:15
  S2: to parent or calm an anxious child? I have. Micah
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  S2: Maddox is joining us right now. She's got a book,
• 41:22
  S2: Calming Your Anxious Child A Biblical Game Plan for Parenting
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  S2: Through Big Emotions. Micah. Having gone through a season of
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  S2: this with one of my own kids, I don't know
• 41:31
  S2: if I have ever been more anxious than when I
• 41:34
  S2: noticed that my kid was really struggling with anxiety. Is
• 41:38
  S2: anxiety contagious? AM I alone in that? Because I felt
• 41:42
  S2: my my anxiety was through the roof watching my kid struggle.
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  S12: It's so true. It just. it kind of bounces one
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  S12: off of the other and escalates.
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  S5: Yeah, it's a real thing. Mike Maddox, again, author of
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  S5: multiple books, conference speaker, Bible teacher, blogger, pastors, pastor's wife.
• 41:59
  S5: You've got a unique perspective with that, don't you? This
• 42:02
  S5: isn't an isolated thing, is it, Mike? I want parents
• 42:05
  S5: and grandparents to understand this is a real challenge.
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  S12: Yeah. This is something that, you know, it feels isolating.
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  S12: We feel like we are the only one who is struggling.
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  S12: And when, you know, as a pastor's wife, we're sitting
• 42:18
  S12: in the congregation, we're listening to the message and we
• 42:21
  S12: feel like our kid is the only one who's ready
• 42:23
  S12: to get up and run out of there. And so
• 42:25
  S12: it can be really overwhelming. As I was looking for
• 42:29
  S12: resources for our own family, for help, there wasn't really
• 42:32
  S12: anything written by a mom who's sat on the floor
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  S12: in Walmart with her kid who is just out of
• 42:39
  S12: their mind. And so I've been there. We've got five kids.
• 42:43
  S12: They range in age from five years old, all the
• 42:45
  S12: way up to adult children. I wrote this hopefully to
• 42:49
  S12: offer some hope that there is help.
• 42:51
  S2: Michael, let's start with what kind of the what not
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  S2: to do? What was the biggest mistake you made early
• 42:57
  S2: on when trying to help your child?
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  S12: One of the biggest things I think I've made in
• 43:01
  S12: a lot of parents make is we try to correct behavior.
• 43:05
  S12: So our kid is acting out of sorts. They are
• 43:08
  S12: melting down, they're having a tantrum. And we're trying to just,
• 43:12
  S12: you know, troubleshoot and correct the behavior because we don't
• 43:15
  S12: want to be embarrassed by their behavior. You know, our
• 43:18
  S12: children are often considered a reflection of the parents. And
• 43:21
  S12: so the biggest mistake is just worrying so much about
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  S12: myself and my pride and my own, you know, parenting
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  S12: mishaps rather than really connecting and correcting the heart of
• 43:32
  S12: the child and getting to the core of the problem.
• 43:35
  S12: And a lot of times these behaviors that we're seeing
• 43:38
  S12: are rooted in anxiety. That doesn't mean that we don't
• 43:41
  S12: correct them. It doesn't mean that we let them go
• 43:43
  S12: and we make an excuse for it, it just means
• 43:45
  S12: that we have to address it in a different way
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  S12: and realize that it is anxiety that is running the roost. Now,
• 43:52
  S12: sometimes it's not anxiety. Sometimes we have kids that are
• 43:55
  S12: just going to misbehave. But if we know our kid
• 43:58
  S12: is the one who's struggling with anxiety, if there's continual
• 44:01
  S12: triggers that are flipping their lid, that are causing them
• 44:04
  S12: to melt down or act up or throw down or
• 44:08
  S12: shut down to where they're just not responding at all.
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  S12: When we notice those patterns, that's when we have to
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  S12: take a step back, become calm.
• 44:15
  S5: What do you do when you got a kid? Let's
• 44:17
  S5: get really practical here. What do you do when you
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  S5: got a kid in the vegetable section at a grocery store?
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  S5: They're doing a full meltdown. It's hard to sit down
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  S5: on the floor and go into a full let's mine.
• 44:29
  S5: What's going on here? When you got 20 onlookers. What
• 44:33
  S5: in the world do you do in that situation?
• 44:35
  S12: So in that situation, hopefully what the book will help
• 44:38
  S12: with is what you have already done before you've gotten there. Okay.
• 44:41
  S12: So the key is the preparation for the vegetable aisle,
• 44:45
  S12: because in that moment you are basically corralling chaos, right?
• 44:49
  S12: And so you're doing whatever you can to not make
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  S12: a spectacle and to get your groceries and get out
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  S12: what that might mean if you are in the middle
• 44:56
  S12: of chaos, it might mean you have to leave and
• 44:58
  S12: you've got to go. And I've been there, left a
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  S12: whole slew of groceries, and had to just get to
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  S12: the car to get out of the public eye because
• 45:05
  S12: we were a scene to be had. But what I
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  S12: hope the book will do, and what we have learned
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  S12: is there's some hard work that happens in the private
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  S12: moments of calm. We do have some moments of calm.
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  S12: And so in those moments, we've got to work really,
• 45:23
  S12: really hard to prepare for the moments of chaos. And
• 45:26
  S12: what that means is I'm teaching my child how to cope.
• 45:30
  S12: And the biggest way I'm doing that is I'm carrying
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  S12: them to Christ. I'm taking them to the Lord, and
• 45:35
  S12: I'm saying, God, I don't know what to do. I
• 45:37
  S12: need your help. And you've got to help because God
• 45:40
  S12: can change the child's heart. And God can help them
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  S12: be calm. He can change the pathways of their mind.
• 45:47
  S12: I can't do that. I can give them strategies and
• 45:50
  S12: and coping techniques, but I can't change a child's heart
• 45:53
  S12: and I can't change a child's mind. So in those
• 45:56
  S12: calm moments, we carry them to Christ. Don't be anxious.
• 46:01
  S12: Paul says in Philippians four, don't be anxious about anything,
• 46:05
  S12: but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let
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  S12: your requests be made known to God.
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  S2: Micah Maddox with us right now, author of Calming Your
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  S2: Anxious Child. You know, Micah, we've seen a a pretty
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  S2: big shift in terms of approaches to parenting. There was
• 46:21
  S2: a maybe a generation ago where children were to be
• 46:24
  S2: seen and not heard. That was heavy on discipline, didn't
• 46:28
  S2: really talk a lot about feelings. And then, you know,
• 46:31
  S2: people who grew up in that generation look at this generations,
• 46:33
  S2: maybe the gentle parenting and of feelings led approach and
• 46:39
  S2: you see a pendulum swing. We talk a lot about
• 46:41
  S2: the high ridge. There is a high ridge that doesn't
• 46:45
  S2: ignore discipline, but it also doesn't ignore feelings. How do
• 46:49
  S2: we biblically stay up on that high ridge?
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  S12: Yeah, I think this is so important to talk about because,
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  S12: you know, gentle parenting, some people define that differently. Here's
• 46:58
  S12: what I say. Jesus was gentle, but he was not
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  S12: dismissive or permissive. Right? So we have to find the
• 47:06
  S12: balance of being gentle, but also not letting things go.
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  S12: Just because we're trying to be gentle. We've got to
• 47:13
  S12: be intentional parents.
• 47:15
  S2: I like that.
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  S12: So it's addressing the issues. It's not letting it go
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  S12: because my kid's having a meltdown, so I'm just not
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  S12: going to make them obey. I'm just not going to
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  S12: make them mind. No, we're still going to demand or
• 47:29
  S12: expect obedience, but also realize the root of the problem.
• 47:34
  S12: If the root of the problem is defiance, that's totally different.
• 47:37
  S12: But if the root of the problem is that the
• 47:40
  S12: child doesn't feel safe, then we've got to address that.
• 47:42
  S12: So for instance, in our situation, we have two children
• 47:46
  S12: who are adopted through foster care. Along with foster care
• 47:49
  S12: comes trauma. Mhm. And so I cannot ignore the trauma
• 47:54
  S12: triggers that my children have because one that would be chaotic,
• 47:58
  S12: we would not be able to make any progress at all.
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  S12: Here's what I see in the Bible. I see Jesus
• 48:04
  S12: looking at a crowd of people, and he walks by
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  S12: and he sees them. And then what he does is
• 48:09
  S12: he approaches them. He sees them, and then he hears
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  S12: what they have to say. When we see him working
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  S12: miracles in the New Testament, people are crying out for
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  S12: the Messiah or for the rabbi, and they're saying, Jesus,
• 48:21
  S12: can you help me? And so he sees them. He
• 48:24
  S12: hears them, and then he comes and he he's with them.
• 48:27
  S12: And we never see him lording over or, you know,
• 48:31
  S12: coming on top of and being a dictator, like he's
• 48:34
  S12: always right there with him. When he healed the blind man,
• 48:38
  S12: he touched his eyes. He touched their ears. He was
• 48:41
  S12: right there with them. And so with our kids, I
• 48:44
  S12: have learned that if I can say, hey, I see
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  S12: you right now and I hear you, I hear that
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  S12: you're afraid of. And I name the fear and I'm
• 48:51
  S12: with you. You're safe. Then we can move from them,
• 48:55
  S12: throwing that massive fit of fear to a safe and
• 48:59
  S12: calm place. And we need to take a deep breath
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  S12: and realize God is with us. That little pattern I
• 49:05
  S12: see you, I hear you, I'm with you, will work
• 49:08
  S12: wonders for a kid who is struggling with anxiety.
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  S5: Yeah. Love that. Our guest right now, Micah Maddox, she's
• 49:16
  S5: the author of a phenomenal work. And I'm really glad
• 49:19
  S5: that you've written this. You know, I want to hit
• 49:21
  S5: something because it dawns on me, there's a lot of
• 49:24
  S5: people because every parent has felt this at some point
• 49:27
  S5: where it's like, I don't know what to do. I'm
• 49:30
  S5: at my wit's end. And we actually back away from
• 49:33
  S5: the problem, which seems like it can only exacerbate it
• 49:37
  S5: to the person who has felt like I'm throwing up
• 49:40
  S5: my hands. It's a different thing, throwing up our hands
• 49:44
  S5: versus really throwing up our hands to God saying, God
• 49:48
  S5: help me here. How can you encourage someone who feels
• 49:51
  S5: like they're at their wits end, struggling with big emotions
• 49:54
  S5: from their kid?
• 49:56
  S12: First, let me just say I have been there. We
• 49:58
  S12: have been there. We have walked the path. Our son
• 50:02
  S12: is high functioning on the autism spectrum, has ADHD, PTSD,
• 50:07
  S12: generalized Anxiety disorder. So the mental health within our home.
• 50:10
  S12: And that's just one of my children. I have five,
• 50:13
  S12: but the mental health in our home is layers upon layers.
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  S12: So first I would say, I see you, I get it,
• 50:20
  S12: I have walked the path, I've been there. And then
• 50:23
  S12: I would say, let me just share a little piece
• 50:25
  S12: of hope. So our son, he's 11 years old now.
• 50:27
  S12: There was a time where we thought he would never
• 50:29
  S12: be able to. One function like a typical child. Two
• 50:34
  S12: we thought he would never be able to overcome some
• 50:37
  S12: of the pain of his past. Three we thought he
• 50:40
  S12: would never be able to overcome some of the fears
• 50:43
  S12: and anxieties that he dealt with on a daily basis.
• 50:46
  S12: Now he is functioning in a typical classroom without any
• 50:51
  S12: services at the moment thriving. It's incredible what he's done,
• 50:56
  S12: what God has done in his heart and his mind.
• 50:58
  S12: He won the science fair last year.
• 51:00
  S7: Oh, that makes your mom happy.
• 51:03
  S12: It's like so, so incredible what God has done. But
• 51:06
  S12: here's why. At some point, Ray learned that he could
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  S12: pray for his own anxiety. And so here's what I
• 51:14
  S12: would encourage a parent who's like, I'm at a loss.
• 51:16
  S12: I don't know what I would encourage them to pray
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  S12: over and with their child repetitively, constantly, all the time.
• 51:25
  S12: So raise a child who desperately needed help. And so
• 51:30
  S12: in those moments, even in the vegetable aisle that we
• 51:33
  S12: talked about earlier, even in the moments of Walmart or
• 51:36
  S12: wherever we might be in public, we would stop. We
• 51:38
  S12: would take the time to stop and pray right there.
• 51:41
  S12: And I did not care who was looking on because
• 51:43
  S12: we were desperate and we would stop and pray, God,
• 51:46
  S12: please help us right now. We are not feeling well
• 51:48
  S12: right now. We are overwhelmed. The fear is real. The
• 51:51
  S12: anxiety is real. The emotions are out of control. And
• 51:55
  S12: we need you in the name of Jesus. God, please
• 51:57
  S12: help us right now. And we did that regularly. And
• 52:01
  S12: it came to a point one night putting me to bed,
• 52:04
  S12: and I was about to pray with him and he
• 52:06
  S12: looked up at me and he said, mom, can I pray?
• 52:11
  S12: And for the first time, after months of us going
• 52:15
  S12: to God over and over for his anxiety ray, he
• 52:20
  S12: copied what he had been modeled, what had he had seen?
• 52:24
  S12: And he prayed for his own anxiety and for his
• 52:27
  S12: own heart and I would encourage that parent continue. Keep on.
• 52:32
  S12: God is in the miracle working business and he hasn't stopped.
• 52:34
  S12: He's doing it today, and I've seen it right here
• 52:37
  S12: in our own home.
• 52:38
  S2: Such a beautiful testimony. Micah Maddox, author of Calming Your
• 52:41
  S2: Anxious Child A Biblical Game Plan for Parenting Through Big Emotions.
• 52:46
  S2: Text calm to 805 557898. We'll send you more. Just
• 52:52
  S2: text calm CALM calm to 805 557898.
• 52:58
  S1: A basketball mom who's mastered the dad joke. Ali is
• 53:02
  S1: in the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody radio.
• 53:06
  S5: It's Wednesday. It's way more than hump day, man. This
• 53:10
  S5: is this day right here.
• 53:12
  S1: Making herself laugh no matter who joins her. It's time
• 53:15
  S1: for Ali thinks it's funny.
• 53:19
  S2: A couple of jokes to get you going on this
• 53:21
  S2: Wednesday morning. You ever watch rabbits frolic through a a
• 53:26
  S2: field or a neighborhood?
• 53:28
  S7: Yes, yes.
• 53:30
  S5: Right down the road, 100ft from me.
• 53:32
  S4: Their little tails.
• 53:34
  S2: Catch them early in the morning. Have you ever seen
• 53:37
  S2: rabbits hopping backwards? Typically, they have a forward motion, a
• 53:41
  S2: pretty unique little gait. But have you ever seen a
• 53:44
  S2: rabbits hopping backwards?
• 53:46
  S7: Never.
• 53:46
  S2: Never. What about a group of rabbits hopping backwards there.
• 53:50
  S2: All together.
• 53:51
  S4: Interesting.
• 53:52
  S2: It's a receding hairline. What?
• 54:00
  S7: That is outstanding. Your jokes today are amazing.
• 54:03
  S2: Ah! Thank you, thank you. This next.
• 54:06
  S7: One. Hold on. That one. We got to linger there, folks.
• 54:09
  S2: Receding hairline.
• 54:10
  S7: Oh! It's beautiful.
• 54:11
  S2: It's one of my. It's a classic. One of my favorites.
• 54:14
  S2: This next one is full on dad. Heavy on the cringe.
• 54:17
  S2: But you know what? We need it this morning.
• 54:20
  S5: I love.
• 54:20
  S2: It. You ever taken a karate class? Sure.
• 54:25
  S5: Really?
• 54:26
  S2: I've never. Of course, super Die has. She's got all
• 54:29
  S2: these interesting layers to her. Have you ever taken a
• 54:32
  S2: karate class with a pig?
• 54:34
  S4: No.
• 54:35
  S2: See? I got you there.
• 54:37
  S4: Got you there.
• 54:37
  S2: What do you call a pig that has a black belt?
• 54:41
  S2: Black belt in karate. Wow. Oh. Pork chop.
• 54:49
  S5: So, dad. So, dad.
• 54:52
  S2: Enjoy this on your Wednesday. So dad takes jokes to
• 54:58
  S2: 800 555, 78, 98 jokes to 805 557898.
• 55:06
  S5: Oh my goodness. Ali thinks it's funny. Come and get em, guys.
• 55:10
  S5: There's a pure dad one. And then there's one. That
• 55:13
  S5: first one receding hairline that's outside.
• 55:15
  S2: That was your favorite.
• 55:16
  S5: Yeah, I love that one.
• 55:18
  S2: Fair.
• 55:18
  S5: You've been on it today.
• 55:20
  S2: Thank you. Jokes to 805 557898.