Sept. 17, 2025

We talk about trusting God. God will help us succeed, if we trust and have faith in God's timing-not our timing

We talk about trusting God. God will help us succeed, if we trust and have faith in God's timing-not our timing
Spotify podcast player icon
Spotify podcast player icon

Peter and the guys had been fishing all night and caught nothing.  Jesus told him to go to the deep water and cast their nets one more time.  Peter reluctantly did, and his nets were so over loaded with fish they couldn't bring them all in.  God has a time for all of us to have aplenty, we need to be willing to cast our nets into the deep water at Gods appointed time. Just believe and trust.

There is a scene from my favorite movie of all time, "The Holiday" where Jack Black first meets Kate Winslet and so sweetly gets the eyelash out of her eye. God continues to bring that scene to the forefront of my thoughts these days. “Ya know, legend has it that when the Santa Ana’s blow, all bets are off. Anything can happen.”Yep. That describes exactly where we are right now in the world and how I feel even about my personal life. All bets are off.Anything can happen.I feel this to the core of my spirit and I mean it in the most hopeful way.While the war between good and evil rages on, we do know how it ends. Love wins. If God is for you, who can be against you?I feel like I am on Holiday at the moment. Nothing in my life is how it was. Not even my rigid, inflexible habits.For example, normally I need to eat before 7pm and not drink alcohol, otherwise, I wouldn't be able to sleep.Last night, I decided to have a glass of wine while we recorded the podcast I've been doing with my friend Jeff, then drink a little more wine, then eat dinner at around 8:30.And I slept like a baby. For 10 hours.I'm not sure what exactly is going on. But all bets are off. Anything can happen.God told me this would be a special time of healing, restoration, and nourishment for me, and it has. Replenishment was the word He used.And He has been showering me with not only grace and love but lots of communication.He loves to communicate. After all, He spoke the universe into existence. The root of communicate is “commune” which when used as a verb means “intimate and intense communication.”It’s been intense.And so, God continues to tell me “walk by faith and not by sight” and “Things are not what they appear to be.”All bets are off. Anything can happen.After all, FAITH is believing that reality is not how it appears to be in the physical realm. Jesus looked dead on the cross, and in fact, HE WAS dead. But things didn't stay that way.This morning in my prayer time, I wasn’t really picking up on anything God was saying. I couldn’t hear Him because my neighbor was out on his patio talking to who I presume to be his daughter.Suddenly God responded by saying, “Stephanie, did it ever occur to you that I AM speaking to you right now, in your natural environment. Why don’t you pay attention to what this FATHER is saying to HIS DAUGHTER?”Ooooh! Ok, God, I hear ya! (Sometimes the most obvious answer is the answer.)And this was all I heard him say… but it was enough.“Honey, I am just so happy and excited for you. And I’m excited for me, too, because I get to be a part of it all through you. Okay see you soon. I love you.”Mike drop! Enough said.The winds are blowing.Biblically, east winds come to bring judgement and destroy all that is wicked while the west winds come to bring relief and replenishment…  to reward the righteous.Both are blowing right now.Can you feel them? I bet you can.Stay close to the Lord through these storms. Hold on tightly to HIM. Remember things are not what they seem, and faith does move mountains and it’s all going to be okay. Because LOVE wins.All bets are off. Anything can happen

You can watch and listen to Stephanie on her YouTube channel - In the Service of the Queen - where she talks about the blessed Mary     https://www.youtube.com/@InTheServiceOfTheQueen

You can catch Jeff on numorous podcasts   https://coolcasts.cooolmedia.com/

Please follow These Times on whoever you listen on, so that you don't miss an episode.

WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:03.200
Waiting the day night sounds.

2
00:00:03.839 --> 00:00:08.679
I gotta get to that stuff bugs gets imagines me

3
00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:17.719
on my way so magical as was my bon. We

4
00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:18.440
don't know.

5
00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:22.879
There's no for that today.

6
00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:27.480
Hello everybody, I am Jeff and welcome to these times

7
00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:28.359
the Jeff and Steph.

8
00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:29.839
Steph, how are you doing today?

9
00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:31.760
Doing great? Doing great?

10
00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:35.840
I've been opening artwork that has come for my new

11
00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:37.600
place all morning and trying to figure out where I'm

12
00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:38.240
gonna put stuff.

13
00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:40.359
But doing good? How are you doing?

14
00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:41.560
Doing good?

15
00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:44.039
I mean, it's kind of a chili day out here

16
00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:46.439
in Colorado. Here, we've been in the eighties and then

17
00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:48.399
we had a front move. It got into the forties

18
00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:52.000
last night. Really yeah, so then this day, I don't

19
00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:53.520
think it's supposed to be about seventy, but then we're

20
00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:54.640
back in the eighties, so that's cool.

21
00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:57.159
Well, it's hot here today, and it got really hot

22
00:00:57.240 --> 00:01:00.679
yesterday afternoon and then it started pouring down. It was

23
00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.079
kind of a weird day, but I was so glad

24
00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:07.040
because my neighbor's in my old neighborhood. I love them

25
00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:09.879
to death. They just left for like three weeks to

26
00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:12.760
go to Italy. He's from Italy. She's from Ireland. And

27
00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:15.200
they had asked me to water. They've got tons of plants.

28
00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:17.840
I got a whole front yard full of wildflowers and

29
00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:20.760
a whole backyard full of fig trees and all kinds

30
00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:22.680
of stuff. And I'm supposed to go over there on

31
00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:25.400
water this week, and I really didn't want to. And

32
00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:29.159
then it poured down rain along enough yesterday that I'm like, Okay,

33
00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:30.959
I think I'm Good's coirl.

34
00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:34.239
No, my biggest cho is you know, everybody's been following.

35
00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:36.920
They don't know of all about my cats, and they

36
00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:37.200
have that.

37
00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:39.799
Outdoor Yeah, how the cat's doing well?

38
00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:44.079
The ones inside are finding the outdoor cat. He's finally

39
00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:46.680
made his progression where he moved inside this week, so

40
00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:49.000
he's been inside and he just thinks he's so cool.

41
00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.280
But he's still, you know, has a couple of times

42
00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:53.680
a day his school outside. You know, it has to

43
00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:56.760
check his domain out outside and everything right, but he's

44
00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.319
starting to become an indoor cat. Well, then we got

45
00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:01.879
to call my brother and his wife are leaving town.

46
00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.200
They are going to well she remember we told you

47
00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:06.200
that she just celebrated her sixtieth birthday and we had

48
00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:07.159
a big party and all that.

49
00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:10.479
Well, her grandkid her granddaughter.

50
00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:13.800
It's her birthday coming up, and she's from Ohio, so

51
00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.719
that's where our kids and family are and everything like that.

52
00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:19.439
So they're going back to Ohio. So that means that

53
00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.479
I get her or their little dogs. They have, like

54
00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:26.080
a Yorkie Pooh and like the little tiny yipper dogs

55
00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:28.159
and all that kind of stuff. And I was like, okay,

56
00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:31.120
and I watched him for years, so they know this

57
00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:33.560
house will. But then the funny thing is, so the

58
00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:35.439
cat finally gets used to coming inside and now.

59
00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:37.240
He's gonna have these little yipper dogs running a round.

60
00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:38.800
Poor cat.

61
00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:41.960
I have to say, I'm not the biggest fan of

62
00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:45.639
the I think that's an accurate description yipper dogs.

63
00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:48.039
The little yipper dogs are not. Well.

64
00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:48.639
Then get this.

65
00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:51.520
She was doing a rescue, you know, helping kind of

66
00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:54.840
doing the books and everything for dog rescue and you know,

67
00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:57.080
placing them in they're forever homes.

68
00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:57.759
And all that kind of stuff.

69
00:02:58.039 --> 00:02:59.840
So without telling my brother, when he was out of

70
00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:03.000
ten down, she took in a four month old great Dane.

71
00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:05.400
Oh my gosh.

72
00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:08.759
So now no, I mean I guess it was three

73
00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:09.800
months when she brought it.

74
00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:12.360
Oh, and so they got these little dogs that weigh

75
00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.319
maybe eight pounds, and now they got a dog that

76
00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:18.400
probably grows eight pounds a day almost thing.

77
00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:20.199
And so are you going to be watching him too?

78
00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:23.199
No, No, that's why they're driving. They're taking there.

79
00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:24.879
They have one of those kind of like you know

80
00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:27.159
those vans that kind of they're a van, but then

81
00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:29.599
they have like a motor home feel to them that

82
00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:31.639
kind of have a bathroom and kitchen in there. So

83
00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:33.360
they're taking him in that.

84
00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:36.879
That's cool, that's cool. Yeah. I like the dogs. I

85
00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:37.360
like them.

86
00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:41.319
I love all animals, but I love the mid sides dogs.

87
00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:44.039
Not too big, not too small, not too yippy, the

88
00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:45.560
kind of dogs you know they can go on a

89
00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:47.680
hike with you and then just chill out and leave

90
00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:48.639
you along and be quiet.

91
00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:50.479
That's what black lab.

92
00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:53.159
Yeah, well, I like the huskies. I don't know.

93
00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:54.960
The labs are a little hyper for me. I've got

94
00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:57.120
a lab mixed now and I love him to death.

95
00:03:57.159 --> 00:03:59.879
But they do have a lot of energy. They liked

96
00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:03.120
play and they're very smart, so you really you do

97
00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:04.599
need to kind of really interact with.

98
00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:05.039
Them a lot.

99
00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:05.879
Yeah.

100
00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:08.240
I think that it's kind of funny between dogs and

101
00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:11.039
cats and all that kind of stuff. Cats they they'll

102
00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:13.159
play with you, but only on their turns. Where dog

103
00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.719
you can get a dog to play anytime you want exactly.

104
00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:18.279
He can be snoring under the couch and you pick

105
00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:20.120
up his rabbit and he's like ready to go.

106
00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:21.600
You know.

107
00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:24.000
I know this is kind of a labored analogy or

108
00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:25.560
what you would call it. It's kind of like, uh,

109
00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.519
but have you actually adopted, not adopted, brought in astray?

110
00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:31.319
Yeah?

111
00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:34.079
I think actually he was a rescue, and then my

112
00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:37.720
cat was a rescue, had a bunny for two days

113
00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.959
one time. I've had quite a few strokes, Yeah.

114
00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:45.040
Because I was kind of thinking about with Hobbs out

115
00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:47.079
there when he came in. It was kind of like

116
00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:49.120
I said, it's an analogy and it's kind of labored.

117
00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:52.120
But so when he first came, he needed help, you know,

118
00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:54.519
that's all they needed. He didn't trust me or anything

119
00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:56.720
like that. And this is like every one of these

120
00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:59.519
cats has been astray and they've all done the exact

121
00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:01.360
same thing. They come, they need help, you know, they

122
00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:02.439
need somebody to food them.

123
00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:03.399
You know, I need food.

124
00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:06.319
So then you start giving them some food and then

125
00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:09.319
they start okay, You're you're okay. So they realize they

126
00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:11.639
need you. Then they get comfortable around you, and the

127
00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:14.079
more comfortable they get around you, then the more they

128
00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:16.040
need you because then all down there inside now you've

129
00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:18.079
got litter box and all that kind of stuff, but

130
00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:21.959
they just think you're cool because you're providing everything they need. Well,

131
00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.839
then they get a little so now the analogy is

132
00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:25.680
between us and God.

133
00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.439
Okay, okay, where are you going with this?

134
00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:32.000
Okay, so then they realize they need you. But then

135
00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:34.959
once they get comfortable with you and they you're providing

136
00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.680
everything they need, then they get bossy. Then they want

137
00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:39.480
to make sure why haven't I been fed at this time?

138
00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:41.279
And why hadn't my little box been clean yet?

139
00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:42.079
Right?

140
00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:44.399
So you kind of get that analogy, you know where

141
00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:44.920
you're going.

142
00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:47.439
Yeah, we get a little bit bossy with God.

143
00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:49.720
Don't we, right, And it's kind of like the more

144
00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:53.319
you give them, the more they expect, and then they

145
00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:56.639
they don't understand that things happen that they that you

146
00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:59.519
can't control. You know, Hey, I'm going out to dinner,

147
00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.519
going to eat late tonight, and I'm sorry, you're gonna

148
00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:04.680
You're not going to start to death. I'll be back.

149
00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:07.680
I'll always be here to help you out. But that's

150
00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:09.839
kind of a weird analogy, but it's just kind of like.

151
00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:12.879
Now, that's really cool that it popped into your mom

152
00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:16.000
because it actually makes the point that I was wanting

153
00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:17.839
to make with scripture today, the thing that I was

154
00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:21.279
wanting to talk about about casting your nets another time

155
00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:24.160
and not giving up when you haven't had results work

156
00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.160
out your way in the past. But there's also a

157
00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:29.480
warning with the message that I was getting this morning

158
00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:32.720
of not taking advantage of God's mercy when he does

159
00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:35.120
show up and give you a lot. When he finally

160
00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:37.439
shows up and kind of works everything out and gives

161
00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:41.959
you all this answers all your prayers. Basically, there's a

162
00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.360
limit to his grace if you continue to screw it up.

163
00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:50.800
Basically, Yeah, that's definitely it. Because you really want to

164
00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:53.279
talk about this, go ahead and tell us what came

165
00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:53.879
to you today.

166
00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:57.040
Okay, So this morning when I was like just in

167
00:06:57.079 --> 00:06:57.600
my prayer.

168
00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:00.399
Time, and I don't know how even came about, really,

169
00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:02.720
I think I just anyway, it was like it was

170
00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:05.759
like the story from Luke if Luke five, verses four

171
00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:08.439
to eleven, casting your nets, and basically it was like

172
00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:10.639
when Peter, James and John had been fishing all night.

173
00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:14.439
They were frustrated because they weren't catching anything. And Jesus

174
00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:17.360
shows up on the scene and he's like, I've read

175
00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:19.079
the scripture because he said, you know, you need to

176
00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:21.519
read the exact words, don't just paraphrase. So he says,

177
00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:24.759
go out where it is deeper and let down your

178
00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:28.199
nets to catch some fish, and it says no. Sooner

179
00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.120
had they done this than the nets begin to tear.

180
00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:33.839
They had so many fish. When they're bringing them up

181
00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:35.519
under the boat, the boats began to sink and they

182
00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:38.000
had to call for help. And then of course Peter

183
00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:41.240
immediately falls down and realizes this is a supernatural thing

184
00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:43.839
that's happening, and he feels it makes him feel unworthy.

185
00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.560
There's so much to unpack here. So this miracle happens.

186
00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:51.439
They've been trying all night. They were frustrated. They didn't

187
00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:53.639
think even Peter said, look, we've been fishing all night.

188
00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:55.959
Basically there's no point in it. But okay, I'm not

189
00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:57.199
going to argue with you. If you tell me to

190
00:07:57.240 --> 00:07:58.879
do it, I'll do it. So they do it, and

191
00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:00.560
they get more fish and they know what to do

192
00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:03.560
with and so he immediately feels unworthy and falls down

193
00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:05.800
and says, you know, depart from the Lord. I'm not worthy,

194
00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:09.199
and Jesus says, don't be afraid. From now on you

195
00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:12.040
will be fishing for people. And as soon and then

196
00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:15.160
as soon as they had kind of got all the

197
00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:17.879
fish taken care of, they left everything behind and followed him.

198
00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:20.439
So that's kind of where the story ends right there.

199
00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:23.720
But it's like, how many times do we pray, pray

200
00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:27.800
and pray and then nothing's happening, nothing's happening, and then suddenly,

201
00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:30.639
like God just starts pouring all I think that there is.

202
00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:32.960
I think we're in this moment what God's telling me,

203
00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:36.200
it's a Chiro's time. The doors are opening, and so

204
00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:39.600
He's going to be pouring out so many blessings and

205
00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.919
so much grace in answering prayers that a lot of

206
00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:47.080
us probably could have that tendency like Peter, to feel unworthy,

207
00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:49.639
to be like, okay, I'm not even worthy of all this.

208
00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:53.919
But but God's like, don't be afraid, you know, just

209
00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.360
leave everything behind and follow me. Don't be afraid. I've

210
00:08:57.399 --> 00:08:59.440
got you covered. Like you said that with the cats.

211
00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:02.039
It's like this perfect analogy, like I love you, I'm

212
00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:04.399
going to take care of you, and I'm going to

213
00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:07.679
provide all your needs and just trust me basically.

214
00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:10.679
Yeah, And one thing you have to do is you

215
00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:12.879
have to throw out your nets. You know, God can

216
00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:14.840
do anything you can, but tell you throw out that net.

217
00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:17.919
Right The message you know that I'm getting right now

218
00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.399
is don't be afraid to try again, because right now,

219
00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:27.399
this is a this is a retime. It's reconciliation, re establishing, reconstruction.

220
00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:32.759
It's a retime. And so like God is redoing a

221
00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:35.320
lot of things, and he wants you to not be afraid.

222
00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:38.159
If you've tried something in the past, especially like a relationship.

223
00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:40.679
Maybe it's a job you've tried for and things haven't

224
00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:43.159
worked out, and it's like things have never quite gone right,

225
00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:47.759
don't be afraid to cast that net again because sometimes

226
00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:51.000
it's the Chirost moment. It's God's divine timing, and we

227
00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:53.919
are in that timing. I think, you know, Like I

228
00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:55.879
was writing about my blog, he's been speaking to me

229
00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:58.559
through the movie The Holiday with Cameron Diaz and Kate

230
00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:02.639
Winslet and day. If people don't know they switched houses.

231
00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:05.120
Their lives weren't going too great and they were kind

232
00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:08.000
of at their wits end with their own life, and

233
00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:10.399
so they thought the answer was to switch lives. And

234
00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:14.480
Kate Winslet goes to sunny California and takes over the

235
00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:17.240
huge mansion that was Cameron Diaz's house because she's a

236
00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.559
movie trailer maker, and she goes to England this days

237
00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:23.720
in this tiny, little snowy cottage and they kind of

238
00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:27.879
trade lives over the holiday, over the Christmas holiday, and

239
00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:30.919
so that's another message. Right now, it's Christmas season, God

240
00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:33.320
told me a while back. A lot of times, you know,

241
00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:36.519
people know that's old phrase. It's Christmas in July. So

242
00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:39.279
a lot of people start receiving a twinkling in of

243
00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:42.200
gifts in July, and nothing really good happened for me

244
00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:45.360
in July. But he was like, no, it's Christmas season

245
00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:49.559
from now until the Epiphany. It's not ending, like we're

246
00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:52.879
just getting started. So hanging there with me. So it's

247
00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:55.240
interesting that he's started like speaking to me through the

248
00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:59.159
holiday again. And that's a Christmas movie, you're a you know,

249
00:10:59.399 --> 00:11:03.000
it kind of center around the Christmas season, and he's saying,

250
00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:06.159
I'm bringing in lots of gifts and don't be afraid

251
00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:09.000
to try something again that hasn't worked out in the past,

252
00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.919
because it's different. What's different is now I'm showing up

253
00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.320
on the scene right because Peter and Peter and John

254
00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:17.159
and James were casting their nets and they weren't catching anything.

255
00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:19.559
But when Jesus showed up and he told him to

256
00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:22.720
do it, and they did it out of obedience, then

257
00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:24.960
they caught more than they could even handle. And so

258
00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:27.720
what God's saying is now I'm showing up. I'm telling

259
00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:30.120
you to try this. Whatever I'm putting on your heart,

260
00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:33.840
do it again, try it again. And if you are obedient,

261
00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:37.480
it's going to be greater blessings than you can even imagine.

262
00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:39.360
But it's all from my glory, it's for my kingdom.

263
00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:41.960
And there is a little bit of a warning too

264
00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:45.559
that you know, God's going to give you so many chances.

265
00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.600
And he brought to mind also like Lot's wife and

266
00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:51.559
how she wouldn't leave her her past. She didn't want

267
00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:53.200
to leave the past behind. She abilly didn't want to

268
00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:55.840
leave her simful life behind. And she looked back and

269
00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:57.960
she turned into this pillar of salt. And He's saying,

270
00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.720
like he's this with this, you know, great word here

271
00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:05.279
about second chances and more fish than you can handle.

272
00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:08.039
And I'm doing miracles in this season and it's Christmas season.

273
00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:11.360
But don't take my mercy for granted, because if you

274
00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:13.279
mess it up again, a lot of people, He's saying,

275
00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:15.799
I've given you, I've brought this chance around more than once.

276
00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:18.919
This is not the first time I've given you a

277
00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:20.840
second chance. It might be a third or fourth chance,

278
00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:22.600
and don't mess it up again, because I think we

279
00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.399
are in a time where you can't take his mercy

280
00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:28.120
for granted and you can't look back.

281
00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:30.879
Yeah, I think that's definitely true.

282
00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:35.720
And oh sorry, you know, and you think about God

283
00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:38.080
always giving you abundance, and you think when you go

284
00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:41.600
back even before the story, when Jesus first approached Peter,

285
00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:44.879
you know, he wanted to speak on the boat, you know,

286
00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:48.080
because speak to the people on shore. And they say

287
00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:50.399
that the reason he would have done that is because

288
00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:53.600
of acoustics. You know, they didn't have megaphones or microphones

289
00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:55.559
or all like that. But if you speak from this

290
00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.360
from water onto land, the sound travels more.

291
00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:00.399
Oh interesting, And.

292
00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:02.600
So basically Peter and then they had been listening to

293
00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:04.639
him and they were actually folding their nets up, and

294
00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:05.679
I'm like, yeah, you can use.

295
00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:06.200
The boat whatever.

296
00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:10.600
And so he's speaking and you know, talking what Jesus would,

297
00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:12.799
which would be inspiring to hear anyway, but they're just

298
00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:14.559
kind of like putting their nets together and all that

299
00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:16.399
kind of stuff. And then he's done speaking, and so

300
00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:19.039
they had heard what he said. It was like instead

301
00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:21.480
of saying, thinks, let me use your boat. No, no,

302
00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:24.440
go out and throw those in, dude, we just we

303
00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:25.279
just rolled them up.

304
00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:29.879
You know, come on, man, we've been up all night long.

305
00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:32.480
We haven't caught anything, and now you want all right,

306
00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:34.879
So it's kind of one of those trust gods.

307
00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:36.399
Just one more time, right, that.

308
00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.840
Is the message, thank you, because Bob round about worthy

309
00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:41.639
way of saying it.

310
00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:43.320
You just you just put it in.

311
00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:47.000
A concise Trust God one more time, that's what he's saying,

312
00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:50.080
Trust me one more time. Don't look at the past

313
00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.240
and how bad things turned out for you or how

314
00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:55.279
you didn't get anything and nothing was going your way,

315
00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:57.039
but trust me one more time.

316
00:13:57.240 --> 00:13:59.159
Exactly one thing I got out of it when you

317
00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:01.000
sent me what you wanted to talk about, which is

318
00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.159
great about you know, trusting in God and you always

319
00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:04.360
get the abundance and all.

320
00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:05.039
That kind of stuff.

321
00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:07.639
Is. This is a total side note, but it kind

322
00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:11.679
of reminded me of when you read it, how we

323
00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:13.840
know later on in the Bible, how Peter becomes the

324
00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:15.960
rock that the whole church is found on.

325
00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:16.960
All that kind of stuff.

326
00:14:17.159 --> 00:14:19.919
And remember they're arguing about who's in charge, you know,

327
00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:22.080
all that kind of stuff if Jesus wasn't around, who's

328
00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:23.759
going to be the boss, and all this kind of stuff.

329
00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:26.120
But when you load this very first one, you can

330
00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:28.720
tell Peter, even though he was rough and tough and

331
00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:29.679
all that kind of stuff, he.

332
00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:30.519
Knew right off the bat.

333
00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:32.759
He dropped to his knees and said, man, I don't

334
00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:35.039
know what you are, but you know I'm not worthy

335
00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:36.960
of this. But then you think about what a leader

336
00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:38.679
is because once his nets were full and all that

337
00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:40.759
kind of stuff, he called what James and John.

338
00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:43.720
Hey, get over here. We've got too many fish.

339
00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.120
We need some help getting to shore, right, And then

340
00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:48.120
they all came to shore, and then what you said,

341
00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:49.919
Jesus says, Okay, now you're gonna be the fish or

342
00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:51.240
a men, so follow me.

343
00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:54.120
And Peter left. So those guys just followed.

344
00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.480
So it's like instant that this shows right off the

345
00:14:56.519 --> 00:14:58.840
bat that Peter was always going to be the leader people.

346
00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:02.200
Just those other disciples, they followed him from the very beginning.

347
00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:04.120
Right And Jesus didn't go up to John or to

348
00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:05.840
James and say Pastornette.

349
00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:06.799
He told Peter too.

350
00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:11.960
Yeah, Yeah, I've got chills right now because I just

351
00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:14.120
can't even help even you and I. We won't talk

352
00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:15.919
about him on here, but talking about some of the

353
00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:18.080
dreams we had last night. And we're in the middle

354
00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:19.480
of this when we'll come into the end of this

355
00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:23.039
novena we've been doing to Saint Joseph, and I do

356
00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:24.960
feel God is going to be moving in a very

357
00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:27.120
powerful way in our life, and he's showing me in

358
00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:27.919
small ways.

359
00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:29.799
Like I was a little bit late logging on.

360
00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:33.039
You know, I said, my morning's been crazy because I'm

361
00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:36.559
because so many packages were arriving at my door. It

362
00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:40.759
overwhelmed me, like everything showed up at once. It was

363
00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:42.559
like all this It was with the dog food and

364
00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:45.279
the cat food for one thing, but then it to

365
00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:48.639
go with your point, actually, you know, I provision. I'm

366
00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:51.240
providing for my animals, and then and then all this

367
00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:54.240
artwork that I had custom designed based around kind of

368
00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:57.840
the holiday, and like hopefulness and like new beginnings, and

369
00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:00.960
it's in reinventing your life. I mean, the main theme

370
00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.399
of the holidays is reinvent reinventing your life through God's

371
00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:05.480
kind of serendipity.

372
00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:08.639
But yeah, that's that's what was overwhelming me.

373
00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:10.440
So many things showed up at once that I was

374
00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:13.720
trying to get it all situated. And I think that's

375
00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:15.759
going to be happening for there there's a new level

376
00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:17.720
of the remnant, and you and I talked about like

377
00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:20.120
Charlie Kirk was one level. He was like, you know,

378
00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:22.399
there there were there have been people that have gone

379
00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:25.120
before us that kind of laid a foundation, and then

380
00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:28.720
there's a new level of remnant right rising up that

381
00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:31.919
God is bringing up right now and you're just seeing,

382
00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:34.519
like you said in the Last Days, I will pour

383
00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:37.759
out my spirit. He's pouring out a spirit. He's giving

384
00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:42.919
us revelations and prophetic insight, and he's he's giving these

385
00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:45.399
messages that he wants us to deliver, and he's going

386
00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.639
to be just doing so much that we can't look back.

387
00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:51.240
I mean, like he's saying, don't take my mercy for granted,

388
00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:52.960
and don't look back at the past, because you're not

389
00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:55.039
gonna have You're not gonna have time to anyway, because

390
00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:56.480
if you do, you're going to miss what I'm doing

391
00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:00.120
before you, because I've got so much coming for you

392
00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:02.120
that you can't be looking back. You need to be

393
00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:04.920
looking forward at what I'm doing now. I'm doing a

394
00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:05.599
new thing.

395
00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:09.000
Right exactly since you brought Charlie up, do you carefull?

396
00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:12.279
We veer a little bit no go ahead all through

397
00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:15.920
the Bible. It's forever. It's been kind of in my mind.

398
00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:18.079
It's not when I was younger, but now that I've

399
00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:20.319
gotten older and you're in your fifties, and I don't

400
00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:21.920
know about you, but you look at these guys in

401
00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:25.599
their late teenagers, twenty years old, you know, even thirty

402
00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:28.200
thirties are God, these guys are just man. They don't

403
00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:31.000
know anything. I don't know anything, you know, man. I

404
00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:32.880
don't think I was that immature when I was that

405
00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:35.839
name and everything. But when I was reading this what

406
00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:38.079
you sent me, I was kind of thinking, and it

407
00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:39.640
has to do with char I'll get to Charlie in

408
00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:43.039
a second, but you have to realize how young everybody

409
00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:46.799
was in the Bible between Mary and Joseph, and then

410
00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:49.119
when you have to think when Jesus was thirty years

411
00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:51.079
old when he was doing this, that man Peter and

412
00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:53.400
those guys, they were in their mid twenties, and I think,

413
00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:55.920
how I look at the guys in their twenties, and

414
00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:57.559
it was kind of like, going, man, you think about

415
00:17:57.839 --> 00:17:59.559
I mean, they tell you of them, he's old, oh

416
00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:03.599
the old and he probably forty, you know, right, So

417
00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:05.599
all these characters in the Bible, most of them are,

418
00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:08.599
you know, young, And it was kind of like, going, well,

419
00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:11.240
was when Charlie I kill well assassinated?

420
00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:12.920
Let's just kind of bluntly what it was when he

421
00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:13.519
was murdered.

422
00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:16.759
They basically there was such an outpoint of what the

423
00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:19.480
twenty years old that's in the teens, and it seems

424
00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:21.640
like that's like really growing. I don't know why it

425
00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:24.599
struck me, but it seemed like that was that might

426
00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:27.200
be maybe by the time you get fifty, you already

427
00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:30.680
should have already discovered all that. But in your twenties,

428
00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:33.960
that's the best time to probably experience God come to him,

429
00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:34.960
right because.

430
00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:37.640
You still have almost like this this fervor and this

431
00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:41.839
bigger about you and hopefulness about life still and yeah,

432
00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:43.440
but you know what's different times, I felt like God

433
00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:45.559
has to allow things like this to wake us up

434
00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:48.480
because in those times everything was centered around God.

435
00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:51.359
I mean, people would wake up saying praise.

436
00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:53.359
You ad One. You know, you watch the Chosen and

437
00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:56.839
you realize like their lives were centered around God and

438
00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:00.400
our lives are not. This culture is not centered on God.

439
00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:03.599
It's actually, you know, almost taking God completely out of it.

440
00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:06.359
And if you think about like Mary's mission from the

441
00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:11.359
age of three, and see Catholics know this, Protestants don't

442
00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:15.359
know this, but it's documented. It's not even arguable, it's

443
00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:17.720
so well documented, and it happened to a lot of

444
00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:21.039
young girls. So from the age of three, Mary was

445
00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:23.720
given to the temple. Her parents gave her up as

446
00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:26.759
a temple virgin, and she was looked after by Anna.

447
00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:29.400
Anna took care of all the young girls. So it's

448
00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:31.759
usually twelve to fourteen young girls that were raised in

449
00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:34.880
the temple that came from very holy families, and it

450
00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:37.640
was a huge sacrifice. Their parents basically gave them to

451
00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:40.039
God and knew they would never see him again. And

452
00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:43.400
so Mary grew up knowing the scriptures, reading the scriptures

453
00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:46.240
every day, cleaning the temple, taking care of it. You know,

454
00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:48.319
learning how to sew and clean and cook.

455
00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:50.599
For the priests, and her.

456
00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:53.880
Life was pretty different than the ordinary three or four

457
00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:56.559
or five year old. That the highlight of their days

458
00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:58.039
going to check e cheese. You know, we're getting a

459
00:19:58.079 --> 00:19:58.720
toy and.

460
00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:00.839
Watching car tunes, you know that.

461
00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:05.519
So maybe that's why these people were more spiritually mature

462
00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:06.440
at a younger age.

463
00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:09.839
Yeah, and I think that perfectly these times, because I

464
00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:13.759
mean you think, let's just go back to the eighteen hundreds,

465
00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:17.720
you know here in America. Well, these they they they

466
00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:20.519
couldn't let have their three or five year old girl go,

467
00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:22.559
you know, do something like that. They needed her on

468
00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:24.519
the farm. You know, she had to cook and clean

469
00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:26.400
for the house. She couldn't be going and doing it

470
00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:29.599
for the local church or something like that. That was

471
00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:31.839
something that grandma would do. You know, we need this girl.

472
00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:33.119
Doing this, right.

473
00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:36.799
Yeah, And it's just, yeah, the culture is so different

474
00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:39.400
than but you know, someone.

475
00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:40.440
Brought up I was listening I think.

476
00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:42.880
To EWTN that from the I think it was Bolton

477
00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:45.240
Shane who had said from the time that TVs were

478
00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:48.720
invented in the fifties, that's when you started seeing this

479
00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:53.119
decline and this spiral down away from God, because before that,

480
00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:55.519
you know, the kind of the common thing to do

481
00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:58.519
at night was to gather around and read the Bible

482
00:20:58.759 --> 00:21:01.839
or listen to some rad program that was usually very

483
00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:04.519
clean and innocent, even if it wasn't religious. A lot

484
00:21:04.519 --> 00:21:08.400
of them more religion, but you know, like a cowboy western,

485
00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:11.960
like you said, something simple, something, something innocent. And then

486
00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:14.960
once the TV came onto the scene, and I think,

487
00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:17.440
now we got the iPhones and all that. The more

488
00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:20.319
electronics we get, the further down the rabbit hole we

489
00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:21.720
get kind of away from God.

490
00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:25.599
Well, you know, you know, for two months, remember I

491
00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:28.240
didn't have a cell phone, and it was right, it

492
00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:31.440
was fighting. My number got locked up with the horrible carrier,

493
00:21:31.480 --> 00:21:33.920
and the career would look to my new carrier and

494
00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:36.279
all that kind of stuff, and so over two months

495
00:21:36.319 --> 00:21:38.160
it took me in order to get it all done.

496
00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:40.720
And now that I've had my phone, it's so much

497
00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:44.440
more convenient. But I think that stress and everything, I

498
00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:46.359
think it was so much better when I didn't have

499
00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:48.960
that phone. I mean, not for convenience sake, but it

500
00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:51.319
was so I didn't have those spam calls going. I

501
00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:53.680
didn't ever, my phone didn't beep and I had to go, oh, man,

502
00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:55.680
who is it? You know it was for that right

503
00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:58.200
for that couple of months, it was almost was actually liberating.

504
00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:00.400
It's almost kind of been a downer that they got

505
00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:01.960
it back, yeah, and I.

506
00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:05.039
Bet it was more peaceful. And then that's the thing.

507
00:22:05.240 --> 00:22:07.359
If we're going to be connected to God, it's you

508
00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:10.920
absolutely have to spend time in silence and disconnect from

509
00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:13.440
the world. And that's why, you know, that's why people

510
00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:16.119
go on these silent retreats, and you know, you have

511
00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:19.720
months and nuns that live in monasteries where they're cloistered

512
00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:22.759
and they kind of keep the outside world away because

513
00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:27.279
I mean, it's necessary. It's it's not optional, and you

514
00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:28.759
have to do that or you're not going to hear

515
00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:30.759
you're not going to be connected to God now.

516
00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:33.119
And I've noticed that in my own life, but I've

517
00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:35.799
noticed it more. I don't mind silence, you know. I mean,

518
00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:38.240
I like background music when I'm doing stuff and everything

519
00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:39.960
like that, but I don't mind if there's nothing on.

520
00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:42.720
But I have noticed that some people, from the moment

521
00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:44.359
they get there has to be a TV on, something's

522
00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:45.200
got to be on, They have to.

523
00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:45.960
Have music going on.

524
00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:47.319
All that kind of stuff, and it's kind of like

525
00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:49.799
or the news or whatever, and you know, we've got

526
00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:52.119
to have some noise. And I think, personally, I think

527
00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:54.559
maybe it might be a guilty conscious where they don't

528
00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:56.400
want to hear you know, they're trying to drownd out

529
00:22:56.440 --> 00:22:57.759
God because it's like trying to.

530
00:22:58.000 --> 00:22:59.000
Out their own inner voice.

531
00:22:59.039 --> 00:23:00.240
Maybe yeah, this is.

532
00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:02.559
Kind of like going I don't mind silence, you know,

533
00:23:02.599 --> 00:23:04.880
and you think of some weird stuff, and you think

534
00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:07.079
of some prophetic stuff, and you think of you know,

535
00:23:08.359 --> 00:23:10.880
you have to do, but it's kind of I think

536
00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:13.319
everybody needs to spend a little more time in silence.

537
00:23:13.599 --> 00:23:16.559
I totally agree, and I really have said from the

538
00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:18.839
beginning when I moved over here, I felt like God

539
00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:21.240
was saying I did hear him say several times, come

540
00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:23.240
away with me. He kept saying, come away with me,

541
00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:26.559
and He's let me know, this is a place. It's temporary.

542
00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:28.279
I don't know how long I'm going to be here,

543
00:23:28.279 --> 00:23:31.240
but this isn't not forever. So I feel like I'm

544
00:23:31.240 --> 00:23:35.440
on holiday and it's like this is such a quiet place.

545
00:23:35.720 --> 00:23:38.440
There's just a piece about this place. I can't explain it.

546
00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:41.119
It's weird and you never hear the neighbors you barely

547
00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:43.480
see them. I did finally meet a couple of my

548
00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:46.519
neighbors and they offered to watch my animals if I

549
00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:48.759
needed to travel at all, which was nice because I

550
00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:52.640
think God set me up to travel. But the overwhelming

551
00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:54.920
presence here is peacefulness.

552
00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:57.200
And quiet, and He's.

553
00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:00.240
Definitely just put me in this quiet, peaceful place because

554
00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:04.000
he's he's wanting to heal me, to replenish me, re

555
00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:07.359
energize me, re establish me, all these rethings, and then

556
00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:10.559
he wants me to hear him. So it's been interesting.

557
00:24:10.839 --> 00:24:13.480
I'm on holiday. I feel like I'm living out my

558
00:24:13.559 --> 00:24:14.759
favorite movie right now.

559
00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:16.000
That feels pretty good.

560
00:24:16.440 --> 00:24:18.440
Yeah, it's pretty good. It's pretty cool.

561
00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:22.680
And yesterday morning, like I've written, if you hadn't, if

562
00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:25.640
you didn't read my bloog, just go to LinkedIn and

563
00:24:25.720 --> 00:24:28.359
check out my blog. But basically, I was trying to

564
00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:31.799
hear God and I was not really hearing anything, and

565
00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:33.039
I was like, God, you know, why are you not

566
00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:35.200
talking to me this morning? And He's like, all I

567
00:24:35.240 --> 00:24:38.119
was hearing was my neighbor across the way, who normally

568
00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:39.480
is not out. You know, like I said, it's a

569
00:24:39.559 --> 00:24:41.559
quiet place. You don't normally hear your neighbors at all.

570
00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:44.480
But he was talking to his daughter, who was obviously

571
00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:47.319
his daughter, and I could hear him talking, and God

572
00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:50.279
was like, why don't you listen to this father who's

573
00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:51.480
talking to his daughter.

574
00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:52.759
Wink wink.

575
00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:53.240
You know.

576
00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:55.079
It's like, oh, I get it.

577
00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:57.079
So that's what you're trying to you know, that's what

578
00:24:57.119 --> 00:24:59.079
you put in my environment for a reason right now.

579
00:24:59.160 --> 00:25:03.079
And so he was in the most loving way. I mean,

580
00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:04.839
this man is just a sweet man. You can just

581
00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:06.880
tell he's really a good guy, and he loves his

582
00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:10.880
kids obviously, but just the sweetest just I'm so excited

583
00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:13.119
for you. He's like, honey, I'm just so excited for

584
00:25:13.160 --> 00:25:16.079
you and what's coming in your life. And and I'm

585
00:25:16.119 --> 00:25:18.079
excited for me too because I get to be a

586
00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:20.319
part of it through you. And I was like wow,

587
00:25:20.440 --> 00:25:22.359
and like that just really spoke to me. And then

588
00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:25.160
this morning he was out there again and it was

589
00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:27.640
like again, I was like, you know, God, what do

590
00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:29.559
you want to say to me this morning? And this

591
00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:32.720
morning he was a little frustrated with his daughter. He

592
00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:36.240
was like, yeah, I know, yeah, yeah, I know, yeah,

593
00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:39.599
I know, like you said several times, I know, I know, like,

594
00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:42.079
and I really feel like God because I've been talking

595
00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:45.039
to him about my birthday tomorrow, and I'm like, God,

596
00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:47.319
You're not gonna leave me feeling lonely and alone and

597
00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:49.680
forsaken and like none of my prayers answered.

598
00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:52.240
And it could be it could be a it could

599
00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:54.599
be a bad day for me not having family and stuff.

600
00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:57.880
So you know, I was It's like I was saying,

601
00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:00.400
and God was like, yeah, I know, Stephen, I know

602
00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.119
it's your birthday tomorrow. Like yeah, I know, Like I know,

603
00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:05.400
I've already got things planned out.

604
00:26:05.960 --> 00:26:07.000
Just trust me, I know.

605
00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:08.839
And that's what I felt like he was telling me

606
00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:12.200
this morning, Like through that Father he was like, I know, like,

607
00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:13.960
do you think I don't know when your birthday is?

608
00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:16.039
I created you.

609
00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:18.119
Yeah, I think you're gonna have a pretty good birthday.

610
00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:20.559
I think I will too, whatever happens, you know, even

611
00:26:20.599 --> 00:26:22.640
if it's just a hummingbird coming up to me tomorrow,

612
00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:26.279
that's fine. But yeah, and just to feel God's presence,

613
00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:27.960
that'll be fine.

614
00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:28.799
Yeah.

615
00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:30.079
I think we all need to remember.

616
00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:33.440
The Actually to sum up what we wanted to get

617
00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:36.720
through today is man, just do it, Just cast your nets,

618
00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:37.440
just do it.

619
00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:39.240
Yeah, No, matter.

620
00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:41.920
How tired you are, how many frustrated you are, just

621
00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:43.039
go for it one more.

622
00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:46.200
Time and trust that this time is going to work

623
00:26:46.200 --> 00:26:48.400
out different than the last time. I think that is

624
00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:51.160
really what God's saying right now. Trust trust that we

625
00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:55.880
have entered into a new season spiritually. The winds have changed.

626
00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:59.119
The winds have changed, and we're in a new season.

627
00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:01.680
So cast your nets and trust me. It's going to

628
00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:03.119
be different this time exactly.

629
00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:06.039
And I'm gonna switch over a little bit before we leave.

630
00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:07.839
I don't know how many of you know this, but

631
00:27:08.279 --> 00:27:12.000
September is actually National Prostate Awarmen this month, and of

632
00:27:12.039 --> 00:27:15.440
course it's about guys, so it's not like October when

633
00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:20.640
everything's pink and everything's breast cancer. Well, September for awareness

634
00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:24.440
months for prostate cancer. They combined it with suicide prevention months,

635
00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:29.000
so it's like, really, you're gonna how cool is that?

636
00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:31.759
And if you know the color, you know how pink

637
00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:34.680
is for breast cancer. Prostate cancer does have a color.

638
00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:35.640
It's baby blue.

639
00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:39.119
Oh interesting, Well, I did not know that you educated

640
00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:40.599
me on so many things.

641
00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:44.920
Well, one of the podcasts that I produce, it's called

642
00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:49.359
White So Serious, and they're actually have a really good book.

643
00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:52.279
They no experience. What they did is they didn't know

644
00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:55.400
anything about it. They were in there in their fifties, okay,

645
00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:59.960
and they were her the husband he ended up getting died,

646
00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:02.599
it's with prostate cancer by not even going in for it.

647
00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:04.400
He was going in for something else. They text his

648
00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:06.880
TLC levels and hey, wait, you got a problem here

649
00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:10.039
in boom. So they didn't know anything about prostate and nothing,

650
00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:12.319
and so as they went through it, they learned and

651
00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:14.480
learned to learn, and so they wrote a work book

652
00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:17.119
on prostate cancer and how to what happens to get

653
00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:19.799
yourself checked, to make sure that you have to go through.

654
00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:22.440
Then what happens if you are connected, and then how

655
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:24.559
you know, give your resources, you know how to hang

656
00:28:24.599 --> 00:28:27.400
in there and who to contact for support, and you

657
00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:30.079
know what you're going to feel like when you go

658
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:32.559
through your first you know, treatment and all that kind

659
00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:34.759
of stuff. And it's a really really good book. And

660
00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:39.400
it's just it's not clinical at all. You can tell

661
00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:40.799
they're from a small town in Georgia.

662
00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:41.599
Okay.

663
00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:43.680
And what's the name of it again.

664
00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:45.519
Yeah, I'm gonna put it on the show notes. It's

665
00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:49.960
called Empowering Empowerment okay, and I'll put it on that. Well, anyway,

666
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:53.279
tomorrow they are having a bell ringing ceremony and they've

667
00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:55.559
gotten it's going to be virtual, and they've got churches

668
00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:57.880
all over the United States and all over Europe and everything.

669
00:28:57.880 --> 00:28:59.680
You're actually doing it. So I'm going to put a

670
00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:01.920
link on that to you. But one thing, at the

671
00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:04.000
beginning of the month they'll promote the month. I actually

672
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:06.920
did a show with him, Elizabeth Is, she's the one

673
00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:10.440
who's actually her and David and so we did a

674
00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:15.000
show about prostate cancering and guys and women who love guys. Okay,

675
00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:16.960
the guys, I know, we're not as good as women

676
00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:19.160
about going to the doctors. You know, well, you need

677
00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:20.720
to get your prostate check. You need to get your

678
00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:23.119
prostate check. And guys, well I can't get into the

679
00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:27.559
doctor and all this kind of stuff. Well, now, do

680
00:29:27.559 --> 00:29:30.759
you have CVS Army pharmacies out therenis, yeah, we did.

681
00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:31.279
Well.

682
00:29:31.319 --> 00:29:33.839
They have teamed with a thing called lab Core, and

683
00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:36.880
here in Colorado they're all together. But if you get

684
00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:40.519
to go to a company called lab Core for sixty bucks,

685
00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:44.119
they will send you a test. You go to a

686
00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:47.559
CVS pharmacy or a lab coce store. You're the one,

687
00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:50.160
and they will take your blood, they will test it,

688
00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:52.079
send it in and if it comes back wrong, they

689
00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:54.319
will actually notify you right there. So you don't need

690
00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:56.640
to go to the doctor. It's really simple. There's no

691
00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:58.640
excuse not to go. And I said I would do it.

692
00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:00.400
I'm going to do it next week, so I have

693
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:02.440
to do it before the end of the month. So guys,

694
00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:06.039
you know, we we just break breast exams. Women, you

695
00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:08.279
got to get your best examiner, right, Well, we need

696
00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:09.759
to start doing that for the men. We need to

697
00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:12.319
start saying it's not that hard, you know, just go

698
00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:14.960
in get your blood test. And you know, the way

699
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:17.359
I look at it for my own good is if

700
00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:19.240
you think, well, if you get it's like best cancer.

701
00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:21.279
If you catch it early enough, you know, it's a

702
00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:24.160
lot easier to deal with, right. And so the thing

703
00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:25.920
that comes into me, if you want to win the lottery,

704
00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:28.319
you have to buy a ticket. So if you got one,

705
00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:30.519
if you've got one God to help you out, you

706
00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:32.240
got to get in there and get it checked. So

707
00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:35.440
that'll be information in our show notes today. But I

708
00:30:35.559 --> 00:30:37.759
want everybody to just kind of remember that this is

709
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:41.160
prosting cancer month and not just suicide awareness with so

710
00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:42.960
we need to take that seriously and kind of help

711
00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:45.200
everybody out and help all the guys out and bring

712
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:46.400
awareness to men's health too.

713
00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:50.480
Absolutely a good, good point, and it makes me realize

714
00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:52.880
I need to go get a mammogramm It's like talking

715
00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:55.079
about when I don't like going to the doctor, so

716
00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:57.559
it's not always just a man thing. I haven't been

717
00:30:57.599 --> 00:31:00.359
in four years, so I need to do that.

718
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:01.759
Thank you for the reminder.

719
00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:04.319
Okay, women, you got your reminder too.

720
00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:07.559
Yes, everybody go get checked out.

721
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:09.359
Yeah, I get yourself checked out, like I.

722
00:31:09.359 --> 00:31:11.799
Said, because apparently God's got big plans for us and

723
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:14.039
we're going to be cast in our nets and we

724
00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:14.720
need to be.

725
00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:17.839
Healthy exactly, and he can't do it unless we buy

726
00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:18.200
a ticket.

727
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:21.319
Right, That's right, that's right, all right.

728
00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:23.640
Well, thank you all for checking out another episode of

729
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:25.920
These Times with Jeff and Steph. Here's hoping that you

730
00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:28.480
don't lose hope and we are all in it together.