Latest / Why I Believe / Kevin Kahl: Three Weeks to Live
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- 0:03Exciting as I wanted to speak.
- 0:06Alrighty?
- 0:07Got started.
- 0:10We gotta fuel up.
- 0:11We need have a good time tonight, alright?
- 0:13Alright.
- 0:13She's talking about it.
- 0:15I saw her smile.
- 0:16Yeah, beer.
- 0:18Exactly.
- 0:19I like the energy.
- 0:22We were starting off.
- 0:23with Michelle Von Rudy with why I believe.
- 0:26I think it's a really great opportunity.
- 0:32This is a great time for us to do it.
- 0:38What about God?
- 0:40us in?
- 0:41Why why would we believe?
- 0:42What did
- 0:44with that Michelle, will you come on up?
- 0:48yourself and get started.
- 0:50Thank you.
- 0:59Thank you, Anthony.
- 1:00Hello, everyone.
- 1:01I'm Michelle von Ruden, host of Why I Believe Podcast, and I'm so honored to be here today.
- 1:06I want to give you a little bit of backstory about the podcast.
- 1:10Because I gotta be honest with you, starting a podcast in 2026 was not on my bingo card.
- 1:15But it just so happens on Christmas morning at 4:15 a.m., I awoke with a very clear message from the Holy Spirit saying,
- 1:25Start a podcast, call it Why I Believe, share your story of how I've saved you, and share other people's stories.
- 1:33And like most people try to do, I was very obedient and I said, do you want me to start today?
- 1:40So given that it was Christmas, I put it on hold, took a bunch of notes on my phone, and the next morning I got started.
- 1:45So the podcast actually launched on April 1st of this year.
- 1:49After working three months to figure out how to do a podcast, how do I find guests, and what does that look like?
- 1:54So I'm very happy to announce that we now are in week 27 of the podcast.
- 1:59We are in over 20 countries with over a thousand downloads so far.
- 2:03So it just continues to keep growing.
- 2:06Thank you, thank you.
- 2:08So one of the things I did with this growth was besides interviewing people is I decided we needed a little thing to kick us off on our weekends.
- 2:15So I started a segment 10 weeks ago called Faithful Friday.
- 2:19So every Friday you download the podcast, and I have a little three to five minute segment.
- 2:25And what I thought, since today was Friday and it's so fitting, we're gonna do that today for you.
- 2:29Is that okay?
- 2:32All right.
- 2:40So normally I would tell you that if you're driving, feel free to come back to this and reflect when we're done and you're in a safe place.
- 2:46But we're not driving, we're here.
- 2:48So I'm gonna start off by reading.
- 2:53John chapter 4, verses 1 through 6.
- 2:57Let not your hearts be troubled, believe in God.
- 3:01Believe also in me.
- 3:03And my father's house are many rooms.
- 3:05If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
- 3:11And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
- 3:19And you know the way where I am going.
- 3:22Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not know where you are going.
- 3:26How can we know the way?
- 3:28Jesus said to him, I am the way and the truth and the life.
- 3:33No one comes to the Father but by me.
- 3:36If you had known me, you would have known my Father.
- 3:38And also, henceforth, you know him and have seen him.
- 3:44So, my reflection question for the day, and I want you to think about it this weekend as you're here at OneFast, meeting amazing people.
- 3:51What situation are you trying to control instead of trusting God to lead?
- 3:58What situation are you trying to control instead of trusting God to lead?
- 4:04Now I like my show's a little interactive, so if anybody would like to share, I am more than welcome to come bring you the mic.
- 4:12I gotta have at least one taker.
- 4:17Alright, that's fair.
- 4:18So I'll tell you one of the situations I always try to control.
- 4:21My life.
- 4:22How many people sit there and try to control the way the path is gonna go?
- 4:25Right?
- 4:27I was doing it and it wasn't working.
- 4:29When I said, hey God, why don't you show me the way?
- 4:32Things started to go good.
- 4:34So as you're here this weekend, think about that and think about what that looks like for you.
- 4:39What it looks like for the people around you.
- 4:41Because you never know who you're going to meet and how your story can change their life.
- 4:46So with that, I want to go to my traditional podcast, which is where I interview people.
- 4:51And today I have the pleasure of having my friend, Kevin Call, join me on stage.
- 4:57Kevin, if you want to make your way up here.
- 4:59Thank you.
- 5:05You
- 5:10Thanks, Kevin.
- 5:12Thank you.
- 5:13Alright, as I said, this is Kevin Call.
- 5:15Kevin, can you just tell us a little bit about yourself?
- 5:18Well, I'm a terminal cancer survivor.
- 5:22Nope.
- 5:26I was a uh nope that one's not working either.
- 5:30Where's the audio guy?
- 5:32Technical difficulties.
- 5:33Here we go.
- 5:34We'll share.
- 5:35Oh, now it's
- 5:38that one's working now?
- 5:40Nope.
- 5:42Hello.
- 5:43Okay.
- 5:44So six years ago I was a terminal cancer non-believer, given three weeks left to live, and on Good Friday, 2020, I opened a Bible and received healing.
- 6:01Three weeks later they gave me three weeks to live, sent me to hospice, and did not treat me.
- 6:09That was in 2020 and now I am healed by God's word.
- 6:15So that's my story.
- 6:19That's awesome.
- 6:20So Kevin, you were saying that you weren't a believer and you happened to find Jesus in your lowest moment.
- 6:27And a lot of my guests say that they're like, I was at nothing.
- 6:30And Jesus asked us to surrender ourselves to him.
- 6:33And that's what you did, right?
- 6:35That's exactly what I did.
- 6:36In desperation, I opened the Bible for the very first time in 2020.
- 6:43So you said prior to twenty twenty you were not a believer.
- 6:46No, never never read the Bible, never went to church.
- 6:50cutting it out well.
- 6:51Okay, so you never read the Bible, never went to church, and what was your thoughts on it?
- 6:56Did you have friends that were faithful or was it just like, eh, that's not my style?
- 7:02Yeah.
- 7:03For six years during all the cancer treatment, everybody told me, You need Jesus, you need to read the Bible, but nobody said how that would work or even if that would work.
- 7:15So so I had no understanding.
- 7:17I believed the doctors would heal me and I never I never gave it another thought.
- 7:23Until until
- 7:25And so Yeah, I think you know, um doctors can do amazing things, right?
- 7:29But they're doing God's work.
- 7:31At the end of the day, that's what they're really doing.
- 7:33And so tell us, when you decided, when you got that call, that urge to open the Bible, where did you start?
- 7:42the funniest thing is I never knew where to start in the Bible and I opened the Bible.
- 7:48God told me to start on Deuteronomy 34, which is the death of Moses.
- 7:55So I'm dying.
- 7:58And I surrendered to God and read Deuteronomy 34 and realized that Moses was 120 years old in number seven.
- 8:05He climbed to the top of the mountain, his body was strong, his eyesight was clear, and then he died.
- 8:11So I took that as I don't have to die of cancer.
- 8:16I that was the very first scripture that I read that on the very first day that I opened the Bible on 41020, which was Good Friday of 2020, right before I went into hospice.
- 8:28And then I read Joshua and Joshua 1 9, be strong and courageous, and I became the Joshua in my own story, and that story is where Joshua leads these people, the Israelites, into
- 8:44their promised land.
- 8:45Well I I led myself into hospice, which was the Jordan River, and then into my promised land, and I'm in it right now, leading cancer patients into their promised land.
- 8:58That's basically it.
- 9:00Yeah.
- 9:03Story.
- 9:04So now you're talking to other patients.
- 9:06You're talking to people because you've been there.
- 9:07I always like to say we are powerfully positioned to serve the people we once were, whether that's we're talking about our faith, we're talking about business, it doesn't
- 9:15matter this the scenario, right?
- 9:16If we could if we've been there and done that, we can help the people that are around us.
- 9:20And I think that's truly important.
- 9:22So what are you doing now?
- 9:23How are you helping those people?
- 9:26Yeah.
- 9:26Well, my wife and I, Kathy, we have a traveling ministry called Kingdom Road Ministries out of Florida, and we travel.
- 9:33And I started a Bible series called What Did I Read to Get Healed, which explains what did I read on day one, day two, day three.
- 9:41I read the Bible systematically, starting at Deuteronomy 34 and Luke 13, 22, the narrow door.
- 9:49So that's where God started me.
- 9:51So from that point forward, I read the whole Bible in a year, finished it three weeks ahead of
- 9:56one year out of the hospital, out of hospice.
- 10:00Now I teach on what did I read to get healed.
- 10:03And that's a free PDF if anybody wants to download.
- 10:06It's on Kevin Call Ministries.com forward slash gift.
- 10:10And you can get a free copy and then we go over it in a Zoom call or however anyone wants to ex have it explained the way it worked for me.
- 10:19So that's our ministry is that mostly with cancer patients.
- 10:24Yeah.
- 10:25Yeah, I love that.
- 10:25for those of you who didn't have a pen and paper handy with all the rain, it will be in the show notes because this podcast will go out within a couple weeks.
- 10:33So one of the things that I noticed when people give their life to Christ, they really start to develop that relationship, they change from the inside out, right?
- 10:41So you get this certain kind of peace that overtakes you, and then you get this passion to move forward.
- 10:47What are the people around you, because they've watched you die for six years, what was their reaction and how did they take the new Kevin?
- 10:56That's great.
- 10:57Actually, most of the people that were around me then have fallen off.
- 11:02God either removed them or they removed themselves because they didn't like the new Kevin.
- 11:07I've kept a few.
- 11:08A few of them have been very pivotal in my recovery, and then afterwards we've stayed in contact with quite a few.
- 11:14We have a friend here in
- 11:18Nero Claire that that that she's she was there on the very last day when they put me into hospice in Florida and then I've stayed in touch with her all the time.
- 11:27So a lot of the people I don't even remember me before now.
- 11:33It's a whole new tribe and it's a whole new people group.
- 11:38Yeah.
- 11:40Yeah, and I think that's really good that you said the way you said it, right?
- 11:43So God removed them from your life because they weren't for you.
- 11:46No.
- 11:47Right?
- 11:47And yes, Jesus sat around with the tax collectors and the sinners, and we can do that too.
- 11:51And we need to do that, right?
- 11:52We need to have those conversations with people.
- 11:54They need to understand where we came from, where we are, and where we're going.
- 11:58But not everybody's gonna be for us.
- 12:00And if we let those people stick around, they're gonna drag us back to where we were, and that's not what we're gonna We do not want to be dragged back.
- 12:09So what is your piece of advice that you give to people that are go walked in your shoes or that are like, all this peace is overwhelming and I don't know how to handle this, what
- 12:17do I do?
- 12:18What is your advice to them?
- 12:20Yeah.
- 12:22Now the best thing I could say is the word is true, and you have to believe.
- 12:28That's all that's all Jesus said.
- 12:31Pray in faith and believe, and all the things will be given unto you.
- 12:36So if you believe, I didn't I didn't have anything to unlearn.
- 12:40I didn't go to I didn't go to church.
- 12:41I didn't read the Bible.
- 12:43I didn't know anything.
- 12:44So when I read that Jesus healed Paul, I was part of the all, and I received the healing.
- 12:51So I believed.
- 12:51believed it so I believe I still believe everything about it so if you believe it cast out the spirit of unbelief and believe and wait for it to manifest because it will happen.
- 13:05That's basically I mean in a nutshell right
- 13:09Yeah, you said it's basically that in a nutshell, right?
- 13:11And so so now you're out, you're traveling, you found the love of your life, Kathy, right?
- 13:17Yeah.
- 13:18How does that look for your day-to-day life?
- 13:20How are you walking in faith every day?
- 13:22Because it's one thing to say, God saved me.
- 13:24Here I am.
- 13:25I'm still here.
- 13:26Love Jesus.
- 13:27But how do you walk that every day?
- 13:29Because that's really what it comes down to, is how are we walking in our faith every day?
- 13:32You guys, I don't know if you've seen the back of my shirts or been stopped by my booth yet, but my favorite Bible verse is Matthew 5, 16.
- 13:40Let your light so shine before others that they see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
- 13:45And how are you walking in your faith?
- 13:48Yeah.
- 13:50Well I when I got out of the hospital during COVID and they allowed us to go to church, I found a church and I started serving.
- 13:59and then on worship Wednesday, God sent me Kathy.
- 14:04At worship Wednesday, I was praying for a godly wife or a godly like like you gotta understand that I was born again, so everything I did in the past had nothing to do with
- 14:14me.
- 14:14So even if I had been married, which I was, I'm starting over.
- 14:18So this is my first marriage.
- 14:21under God's covenant.
- 14:23So I was praying for God to send me the
- 14:27correct woman for me.
- 14:29So and she was praying for God to send her a godly man.
- 14:33And I was in Bible college.
- 14:35I retired.
- 14:35I was disabled and I'm I'm in Bible college.
- 14:37So God sends she says, Well what are you doing?
- 14:40Well I'm retired.
- 14:41I'm in Bible college.
- 14:42So that opened it up, you know.
- 14:44And now I'm we're traveling and every day we read the Bible together.
- 14:49We have a Bible study in the morning and we read scriptures.
- 14:53We just read the Bible together.
- 14:54So we're doing the whole thing and now we're
- 14:57Yeah.
- 14:58We're in.
- 14:59I don't know how to explain.
- 15:00Everything everything about our life has to do with Jesus or God or talking about it or witnessing the people or going to the hospital or just you get a word from God to pray for
- 15:13somebody and you go and pray for them and then you just don't even you don't even think about it.
- 15:17If you have to do it, you do it because you don't know what it means to to them and then they get the revelation or it may it may happen six months from now, but you do it.
- 15:26You're obedient.
- 15:28Yeah.
- 15:28Obedience.
- 15:29Obedient.
- 15:32Yeah, that's really good.
- 15:33a lot of times people ask me okay so you have Jesus so your life is perfect.
- 15:39Right?
- 15:39Would you say your life's been perfect since cancer?
- 15:41No, right?
- 15:42Like anybody here have the perfect life?
- 15:45No anybody?
- 15:46No.
- 15:47I gotta get one person to raise their hand, no?
- 15:50Thanks for playing along.
- 15:51I appreciate you
- 15:53Right, so our life isn't gonna be perfect, but what's super nice about this is that we know that we have somebody walking alongside of us.
- 16:00Yes, we all have amazing spouses, mine is in the front row.
- 16:02Right.
- 16:03We have these amazing partners in life, but we have that higher power.
- 16:06We have that somebody that says, I'm gonna be there for you when nobody else is.
- 16:10I'm gonna be there when things get so hard you don't know where to turn and you fall on your knees and you ask for me.
- 16:15I'm there.
- 16:16I'm there when you forget about me.
- 16:17I am there all the time.
- 16:19Right.
- 16:20And so that is so important that I think we lose sight of that, and so
- 16:23I think, you know, we've shared your hallelujah, I'm saved, but what have you walked through that's been difficult since then?
- 16:30Because I think the best way people learn and share and grow is by hearing our stories.
- 16:36And sometimes those are stories of trouble and sometimes those are stories of pain.
- 16:40And yeah, so what have you been through that people can relate to?
- 16:44Because not everybody can relate to stage four cancer, thankfully, not everybody here can relate to that.
- 16:48But what is something they could relate to?
- 16:52Well it it took me a year and a half for my body to catch up to the healing.
- 16:57So I was a hundred and twenty-five pounds when I went into hospice and they didn't treat me and then I had to gain the weight back.
- 17:05I had to start eating and I tried to go back to work.
- 17:08I was a sheet metal worker in the construction field and a welder and I tried to go back to work but physically I could not.
- 17:15I couldn't work.
- 17:17so I had to
- 17:19walk away from my entire life.
- 17:22I gave everything I owned away.
- 17:24I gave everything away and I w went into hospice to die.
- 17:29And I
- 17:30come out of hospice and I had to start over completely.
- 17:33I had to trust God.
- 17:34I had to start from the very bottom and now I'm living the hundredfold.
- 17:40everything has been replaced.
- 17:43I've been renewed like the eagle, right?
- 17:45I went from the valley of death all the way to the mountaintop and I'm still on the mountaintop.
- 17:50Like I'm in the promised land on earth as it is in heaven.
- 17:54I mean, I am just walking it, whatever that means.
- 17:58So the hardest part was
- 18:01getting my physical strength back after six years of chemo and hospitalization and then gaining the weight and then admitting that I can't do what I used to do physically.
- 18:15That's a tough one, admitting that you can't be that person that you are.
- 18:19I think what a lot of times when somebody goes through something traumatic, and I can relate I I didn't go through stage four cancer thankfully, but I've been through some
- 18:26traumatic things in my life.
- 18:27Sure.
- 18:27And one of the things people miss is when we do that, we have to grieve the person that we once were.
- 18:32Yeah.
- 18:33Right?
- 18:33We miss that step.
- 18:34We're like, okay, I'm out of the hospital, I recovered from a car accident, or I got out of a bad marriage, or whatever the case is.
- 18:40We experienced trauma and we didn't process that.
- 18:44And I think that's where a lot
- 18:45that fails is because we don't take the time to realize that we're never gonna be the person we were before that event took place.
- 18:52Right?
- 18:52And so we have to grieve that person before we bring them back into the fold and say, okay, that was me then, this is me now.
- 19:00Who do I want to be?
- 19:01How do I redefine what success looks like?
- 19:03Because when you go through something like that,
- 19:06Success changes.
- 19:07It does not stay the same.
- 19:09And I that's really a key point because we have to grieve, we have to redefine what our success looks like, and we have to say, who am I going to be and how am I going to show up
- 19:17in this world?
- 19:18Because we are here to be disciples of Jesus.
- 19:21We are here to spread the good word, right?
- 19:23And that's what we're called to do, all of us.
- 19:26Right?
- 19:26And so how do we do that?
- 19:29What do we do?
- 19:29Where do we move that forward?
- 19:31And you know, we were kind of joking about this earlier today.
- 19:34We were looking at the sign here.
- 19:35So just so you guys know, so I'm here at two o'clock, right?
- 19:38We're talking about why we believe.
- 19:40Then at four o'clock we have evangelism 101, right?
- 19:43So then we're gonna talk about how do we share the word.
- 19:46And then at six o'clock, they're talking about accountability.
- 19:48I was like, they line that up perfectly.
- 19:51Right?
- 19:51So how do you stay accountable?
- 19:55How d and I know how you share the word, right?
- 19:57We both share the word in our own ways.
- 19:58You have Kingdom Ministries, I have the Why I Belief podcast.
- 20:01So we're both sharing, right?
- 20:02We have a belief, we share it.
- 20:04How are you saying accountability accountable?
- 20:07Uh it's foundational.
- 20:09It's it's foundational scriptures that I read on day one and as I read the Bible I keep defaulting back to the beginning of what I started reading.
- 20:19I didn't start in Genesis.
- 20:21I started with where it like what
- 20:24The words jumped out and I have a relationship with God.
- 20:27So the Bible is speaking to me when I'm reading.
- 20:30So when Joshua says, be strong and courageous, that's for me.
- 20:36Like I take these.
- 20:37It's a command, be strong and courageous.
- 20:39So I I just automatically default to all the positive affirmations and the positive things that
- 20:48Everybody received.
- 20:50If you look at all the stuff, all the people that walk through all their episodes in the Old Testament and the New Testament, they had to believe, they had to be strong, they had
- 20:59to they had to cast out their own earthly problems and trust God.
- 21:04So you know it's foundational.
- 21:08If you don't have the bricks, you can't build the building.
- 21:10So it's foundational scriptures that I just keep going back to, I think.
- 21:16You know, right?
- 21:18Interesting, right?
- 21:20Okay and I didn't ask you this question, but I asked it on all my podcasts.
- 21:23What is your favorite Bible verse?
- 21:26Joshua 19.
- 21:28Yeah, Joshua 19.
- 21:29I saw the shirt over there.
- 21:30I gotta go to the Joshua booth right there.
- 21:35You know I I d I originally it was you know the one where they say you're saved by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony.
- 21:45And then as I dug deeper and I realized that what was my testimony
- 21:52T then I I started w studying what I read on the first day so I go back to that.
- 21:56Joshua one nine was on the very first day.
- 21:59Joshua all of Joshua, but one nine Yeah.
- 22:04amazing amazing so what are your what are your plans moving forward how are you taking this to the next level what are you doing with your ministry
- 22:14Well I joined a group called Kingdom Influencer.
- 22:19That's my guy's in Florida guy and gal from the Bible College.
- 22:22I went to Karas Bible College and they did too, and then they started their ministry of teaching us how to speak, write books, set up a website, how to have a signature
- 22:31presentation at a church, how to fine-tune your testimony so that you can present it.
- 22:39writing books.
- 22:40I have since wrote a chapter in a book, Set Apart, The Power to Rise Above.
- 22:46It's just a chapter, but that gets the
- 22:49rolling and then I'm writing a real book like a full standalone book which is quite difficult because then you go back to the beginning to find out what trauma did you live
- 22:58that created the physical ailments
- 23:04I firmly believe sin and what my sinful life was contributed to the cancer.
- 23:09I certainly do.
- 23:10Uh once I found Jesus and got the revelation of healing and and the understanding that I changed my life, I repented, which means turn from and go another direction.
- 23:20Everything changed.
- 23:22So now teaching, what did I read to get healed, and talking about what's happening is the ministry.
- 23:30Um
- 23:32All the rest will come.
- 23:34We have a podcast, we have we have a YouTube channel, we we interview people also.
- 23:38We have we're all on the same path.
- 23:40It's it's it's brother-sister kind of thing.
- 23:42We're doing the same thing.
- 23:43Um and who knows what it'll look like a year from now, right?
- 23:47Yeah.
- 23:50Yeah, and just like you said, you know, it's a brother-sister thing.
- 23:52And uh the nice thing about this is a lot of times you hear, well, do we need more ministry?
- 23:57Do we need another person doing another podcast?
- 23:59Do we need somebody writing another book?
- 24:00And the answer is yes.
- 24:02Yes, yes, and yes.
- 24:03And the reason for that is because I may say something one way and it's gonna totally resonate with you.
- 24:09And then you might be like, what is he talking about?
- 24:11And then somebody else over here is gonna be like, I don't know about that Michelle girl, but Kevin, he is on point.
- 24:16Right?
- 24:16And so we need the different voices to share the story and the message because somebody's gonna hear it differently.
- 24:24We can say the exact same thing and two people are gonna hear it two different ways.
- 24:27And so I just really want to thank you today for being a guest on the podcast.
- 24:30Thank you.
- 24:31I appreciate your time.
- 24:33You sharing your story with me and coming today.
- 24:34Thank you so much.
- 24:35Thank you, thank you.
- 24:44And I'm are you guys okay with humoring me?
- 24:46You guys want to humor me?
- 24:48Alright, so my daughter is an aspiring speaker.
- 24:50Her name is Emily.
- 24:51Come up here, Emily.
- 24:52And she wanted to interview some people.
- 24:54Are you guys cool with this?
- 24:56Alright.
- 24:57So this is Emily.
- 24:58She's seven years old.
- 24:59Say hi.