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- Joey Moralez: We are honored that you have chosen to listen to this podcast. Join with me, where the information will be biblical, filled with joy, and very helpful. Stay tuned to the end where you will learn how to communicate with Rayburn and Donna about today's episode. Welcome to Join With Me Podcast. I'm Rayburn Hare. And along with my wonderful wife of almost 47 years, we're gonna be producing a podcast. We're gonna do this on a fairly regular basis. We haven't determined all the frequency of you know all that stuff yet, but we're gonna be doing it regular on life. And you may say, Well, what does that just mean on life? Well, seeking life together. ⁓ is kind of our little foundation of what we're trying to accomplish in a podcast. Going to be doing it primarily in four areas, in the areas of faith, family, fitness, and fulfillment. Now we've had this platform really since 2017, 28, probably 2018 is when it really developed. So we've had the the the platform And we've used it somewhat, but this is different. This is a podcast. So we're going to be trying to to produce it in those four areas. And and and look, I'm over the time I'm going to r ⁓ develop that or kind of take that apart and let you know kind of what what that means, faith, family, ⁓ fitness, and fulfillment. ⁓ but this is the beginning stage of our podcast. We'll find our way. So I don't have all the answers at this moment. ⁓ we've had some wonderful help with technology. I'm so grateful for a couple people that God has brought into our lives that have helped us ⁓ with with with technology. I mean this producing this podcast ⁓ in a professional manner as much as we can is beyond me and Donna. It's just that simple. ⁓ so we've had some wonderful people in our lives ⁓ that have helped us ⁓ that ⁓ and continues to to help us to make this ⁓ something that that would honor the father ⁓ and please him and yet be about life something that's practical fun that that's going to be something hopefully you'll want to tune into and listen to hopefully you'll be able to want to tell your friends or somebody, hey, take a look, listen. ⁓ I'm gonna shoot straight. ⁓ you know, listen, I've not had I've I've had life like everybody else. ⁓ I have experiences, I've had, you know, ups and downs. I've been in the real estate business for ⁓ forty some years. I've been in ministry, I've ⁓ always had ministry opportunities and so so we'll be talking a lot about life, seeking life together. Let me just tell you, I think it's probably one of the biggest challenges of my life. And I really do mean that. as I've struggled with kind of what to do, how to do, if to do, what ifs, all those types of things. Let me just tell you, ⁓ let me just bring a verse to mind. I'm I'm you know, obviously scripture, well I say obviously, as you get to know me, scripture is very important part of my life. ⁓ not from a scholarly, intellectual, theological standpoint. I I'm not that person, but from a practical standpoint, I love the scripture. I love the word of God, and it's everything to me. So I'm trying to bring that in really from a practical standpoint, but not from a preachy-teachy standpoint. It won't be that. ⁓ 2 Corinthians 9 8, ⁓ last week. As I struggle with the technology, the frustrations, the all those things, and and and quite frankly, the fear, the just the sheer fear of what this means being out there in such a capacity, ⁓ God gave me second Corinthians nine eight, and God is able to make all grace abound to you so that always Having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed. Now listen, I'm not here to unpack that verse, only to say, as I read through the scriptures, God just gave me that verse and said, Rayburn, I'm able. I'm able to give you everything you need to do everything you should do. And in this case, it's a podcast. I just say thank you, Father. Thank you for being ⁓ an encouragement to me and showing me, you know, what I can do or what I should do. I'll tell you this, this podcast, this is just kind of introduction. Just trying to be honest and get it out there so you'll know kind of a little bit who we are, what we're doing. ⁓ this podcast was inspired by Matthew 10 twenty seven on June the tenth of this year. Now, when I say that, just understand, I've had the the idea for for really a year or more, but really not not the willingness or the seriousness to really do it. Join with Me Podcast is thrilled to have our first sponsor, Hydro Poolin and Spa, located in Blue Springs, Missouri. They're on Seven Highway, ⁓ located about on the I-70 eastbound exit ramp. But my friends at Hydro Pool and Spa have an amazing October special. For the month of October, if you'll call them, they have a pool closing special that's amazing. Now for eleven years, I clope opened and closed a pool, so I know a little bit about that. I never did it myself. Why? Because I didn't want to risk freezing and Having pipes to freeze and all that additional cost and one thing or another, but so I always contracted with someone to close and open my pool. So here's what they're willing to do. For the month of October, if you'll call Hydro Pool and Spa Blue Springs, they will come and close your pool. Make sure it's done right. Remove your ladder, put your cover on, put all the chemicals, the antifreeze, all that good stuff, make sure it's protected and done right. For $455, which is in line with what everybody else charges because I've checked on it. But here's the difference. Here's what they're willing to do. They will then come back next spring and open your pool for free. That's right, for free. So you have to call in October and let them close it for $455 and then next spring. You're already covered. They'll come back and c and open it for free. Now that is a deal, especially to have it done right. So please call my friends at Hydro Pool and Spa at 816-875-7171. Get it scheduled. Get in on this deal. It's only for October. October 1st through October 31st. So please call them. Thank you. And tell them that you heard about it on the join with me podcast, and that will be an amazing opportunity for you. Once again, thank you. But on june tenth of this year, God gave me a verse in Matthew chapter ten, verse twenty seven. Very sincerely Jesus spoke to me very clearly from this verse What I tell you in the darkness speaker. In the light. What you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops. Now, let me just tell you, just very briefly, what that means to me. The the Father was just very simply saying, What I tell you in the darkness. Now, the reason that means a little bit to me is I I'm an early riser and I enjoy spending time in the scriptures, in the word, early. in the dark. And and look, that's not something that's recent. It's something I've been doing better part over 40 years. So ⁓ so it's just a consistent thing with me. So God was saying, Rabor, what I tell you, what I tell you, that comes from Scripture. I mean that that's what he does. He tells us in Scripture, speaks what I tell you. Then then speak in the light. I love light. So now we're in the light. And then what I hear whispered, what you hear whispered, listen, this is ideas, things that come to me, things that ⁓ while I'm swimming, working out, driving, waking up at night, ideas, things that God just puts on my heart. He says, proclaim. And and I'm gonna do it. ⁓ with His help. But I but I recognize That I cannot do it without him. I'll take you to another passage just briefly. God just reminded me in John chapter 15 and 16. He just says, Look, abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in me. And then he goes on in the verse 5: For without me you can do nothing. So he's reminded me. Through the scriptures, hey, I'm gonna tell you what to say, but just remember you can't do it without me. Now, I listen, I I just ⁓ hear my heart. I'm just trying to just share my heart. Not once again, not preaching, not teaching. I'm really sharing to you what God's doing in me. That'll be a lot of what I do. and just simply in an effort to say, let's seek life. I'm seeking life. God's doing things in my life. ⁓ and here it is. And just trying to be vulnerable, be open. I will at various times share my opinions, my thoughts, ⁓ which may not be worth anything. but I will share some. This is not all church or biblical teaching. It's not all that. It won't be. Faith, family areas of family, wow, how broad is that? ⁓ fitness We'll try to talk about fitness. Things that maybe you don't even like to talk about. And then of course fulfillment. What does that mean? I'm unpack those over the next number of weeks or after we start, ⁓ the number of weeks I'm unpack those things. We'll have guests who I'm so blessed to be connected to people, numbers of people ⁓ from listen, parts of all over the country. ⁓ from the east coast to the west. ⁓ I have friends and people I'm connected to that I can bring on to this podcast. We have that ability. That's gonna be another little technology ⁓ ta ⁓ challenge, but I've got help. I'm very grateful that I've got help to accomplish that. So we'll have guests. ⁓ We're gonna we're gonna have fun with this. I I promise you you anybody that knows me, knows that I like to have fun. ⁓ I f most people think I'm a very serious person, which I am in many ways, but I l ⁓ listen from the time I was in childhood and early kin early grades, ⁓ I was in trouble all the time trying to, you know, cut up or Be smart or smart aleck, but having fun. I love to have fun. So we're gonna we're gonna try to do that. Now you can hear this podcast in a number of places. You can hear it on Spotify, Apple Podcast. If you choose to watch it, we're doing everything we do. I think most everything we do will be done on YouTube as well. So it'll be available on YouTube. Join with me. That's how it is. ⁓ so you watch it, listen, ⁓ and and hopefully those platforms will fit what you do, whether you go into work or working out or getting ready in the mornings, whatever. I've I've hear hear people listen to podcasts all the time. But I hope you will you will just join with me. As we seek life together. My wonderful wife's gonna be involved. she's gonna be doing some things that I think will be will be helpful. And she's always been helpful in a lot of it. She helps me. She's an amazing wife. We have an amazing relationship. Not perfect. ⁓ please don't. We're not the standard for ⁓ for marriage. But listen, my wife and I. Married almost 47 years. We have a wonderful relationship. And I I just cherish that and and I mean that. And I I can't do, I wouldn't want to do life without her. So she's going to be a part of this. She'll have her own time since she does podcasting. So I hope that you will, that you'll join with me in seeking life and this podcast. Certainly pray for us. ⁓ You'll tell others you'll like if you do it on YouTube, you'll like it. Whatever those things are, like and follow and and be a help to us. But I just I'm just looking so forward to this. This is fun to me. I just want it to be helpful, practical, ⁓ I want it to be ⁓ once again about life. So thank you, thank you, thank you. ⁓ this is Ray Bernhare Join with me podcast. We trust you enjoyed today's sharing from the heart. Want to learn more, please feel free to contact us at Rayburnhair at gmail.com. Or you can go to our website, joinwithme.life. Thank you for listening. Be sure to share with a friend and have a blessed day on purpose.