WEBVTT - Transformational Tools and Transformational Stories 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.360 Coming to you from the Morning Star Mission sponsored studio. 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:08.080 This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:11.760 On this Freedom Friday. Man, we don't want the rocks 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.280 calling out, so let's get our voice to it. We're 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:17.400 asking you right now. Tools of transformation. Who or what 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.560 has God used in your life powerfully? To watch God 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:24.720 really alter some things in your life and make big 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:28.120 steps in this relationship with Jesus Christ? Give us a 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.160 call right now. We're going to go wide open phone 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:37.720 lines for these next 20 minutes for sure. 855 five 7898. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:42.160 What is your story of transformation? What tool has God 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.479 used to transform you on this Freedom Friday? Testify. You 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:50.960 get a soapbox to tell a whole lot of folks 800, 555, 78, 98. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.920 You know, this one's a real recent development for me. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.680 And and I love even just the little bit of 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.560 taken in so far. It's it's the Wild at Heart 0:00:59.670 --> 0:01:03.750 podcast by John Eldredge. And I've been listening. I started 0:01:03.990 --> 0:01:07.430 listening to his series on his new book, which is 0:01:07.430 --> 0:01:11.590 Experience God really? Because I think sometimes we don't expect 0:01:11.590 --> 0:01:14.670 to experience God the way that he wants us to. 0:01:14.709 --> 0:01:17.869 He read a quote that changed the way I look 0:01:17.910 --> 0:01:20.110 at things and convicted me a little bit. He said 0:01:20.110 --> 0:01:24.670 that it's not that we don't experience God like the 0:01:24.670 --> 0:01:28.229 disciples and apostles, because Jesus cared about them more or 0:01:28.270 --> 0:01:31.990 attended to them more than he does us. We don't 0:01:32.030 --> 0:01:35.589 experience God the way they experienced God because we don't 0:01:35.630 --> 0:01:39.390 attend to Jesus the way they did. And that was 0:01:39.390 --> 0:01:40.790 convicting for me. 0:01:40.830 --> 0:01:41.670 It's a great statement. 0:01:41.709 --> 0:01:44.870 Yeah. If I want to experience God, I have to 0:01:45.069 --> 0:01:48.870 be with him and attend to him like the disciples did. 0:01:49.310 --> 0:01:52.230 Love it. Good word. Jonathan, what's the name of that podcast? 0:01:52.270 --> 0:01:53.990 Wild at heart. Yeah. 0:01:54.030 --> 0:01:58.230 Really good. Great. Great brother. What do you say? 805 0:01:58.230 --> 0:02:07.350 555 7898. Transformational Tools in Your Life 805, 55 7898. Joan. 0:02:07.350 --> 0:02:08.950 What do you say, Joan? In Ohio? 0:02:10.110 --> 0:02:14.630 Hello. Thank you. Um, the transformation tools in my life 0:02:14.870 --> 0:02:18.990 were two radio programs. One was focus on the family 0:02:18.990 --> 0:02:24.390 with Doctor James Dobson. And on his broadcast, he had, uh, 0:02:24.389 --> 0:02:29.150 for Nichols, the founder of Moms in Prayer International. Sharing 0:02:29.190 --> 0:02:33.389 of praying scripturally for your children and their schools. Talk 0:02:33.430 --> 0:02:38.750 about transforming lives, praying scripturally for children. Uh, it just 0:02:38.790 --> 0:02:42.470 changed my life. It's absolutely changed my life. 0:02:42.870 --> 0:02:46.070 That's beautiful. Isn't that great? I mean, the amount of 0:02:46.070 --> 0:02:50.350 transformational tools out there are, they're so diverse. There's so many. 0:02:50.630 --> 0:02:55.910 And we're asking you to champion them this morning. 805, 55, 7898. 0:02:55.950 --> 0:02:59.180 It's freedom Friday. Let's roll. Marshall in Florida, it looks like. 0:02:59.180 --> 0:03:04.900 What do you say, Marshall? Hello? Marshall. Yeah, I got you. 0:03:04.900 --> 0:03:05.500 Let's go. 0:03:05.700 --> 0:03:10.340 Yeah. All right, sir. Well, I was saved in 2009. 0:03:10.340 --> 0:03:13.980 I went through went into a ministry discipleship program called 0:03:13.980 --> 0:03:17.780 Loving Hands Ministries. And they provided a place to where 0:03:17.780 --> 0:03:21.860 I was able to get free from drugs and alcohol. 0:03:21.860 --> 0:03:25.139 I've been in addiction for many, many years, and this 0:03:25.139 --> 0:03:27.859 place has allowed me to come to fall in love 0:03:27.860 --> 0:03:31.580 with Jesus and become a disciple of Christ. And I've 0:03:31.580 --> 0:03:36.900 been free from drugs, alcohol for 14 years now, married, 0:03:36.940 --> 0:03:40.860 got three children, serve in my church. But most of all, 0:03:41.020 --> 0:03:43.380 I'm a disciple. I'm a follower of Jesus Christ. And 0:03:43.380 --> 0:03:45.780 I want to, you know, want to tell people about it. 0:03:45.820 --> 0:03:50.260 Marshall that's awesome bro, I love it. 0:03:50.300 --> 0:03:54.580 It's so beautiful. That is so beautiful. What's the fresh 0:03:54.620 --> 0:03:57.100 thing God's doing in your life right now, Marshall? on 0:03:57.100 --> 0:03:58.540 this path of discipleship. 0:04:00.220 --> 0:04:03.500 Well, he, um. We started a new thing for our 0:04:03.500 --> 0:04:07.420 church on Wednesdays. Um, we're going through a devotional called 0:04:07.420 --> 0:04:10.500 secrets of the Secret Place by Bob Sorge. But most 0:04:10.500 --> 0:04:14.340 of all, he's showing me that my family, especially my 0:04:14.340 --> 0:04:17.700 children and my wife, are my, uh. That's my ministry. 0:04:17.740 --> 0:04:20.900 I mean, we're youth directors at our church, but, uh, 0:04:20.940 --> 0:04:24.900 just calling us back to disciple our actual our children. 0:04:24.900 --> 0:04:25.980 That's most important. 0:04:26.339 --> 0:04:28.860 Awesome. Marshall, you're a good man. Thank you for calling 0:04:28.860 --> 0:04:35.180 in from Florida. 800 555 7898. Beautiful man. Gabriel in Florida. 0:04:35.180 --> 0:04:36.060 What do you say, Gabe? 0:04:37.460 --> 0:04:40.739 Gabriel. Hello? Oh, this is. Yeah, this is this isn't Gabe. 0:04:40.740 --> 0:04:43.020 This is Gabriel. What do you say, Gabriel? 0:04:43.220 --> 0:04:43.620 Me? 0:04:44.180 --> 0:04:48.140 Yes. I was richly blessed by a book called Hope 0:04:48.140 --> 0:04:50.580 in the morning. M o u r n I n g. 0:04:50.980 --> 0:04:54.260 It is a biblical based book for those that are 0:04:54.460 --> 0:04:58.490 going through grief and have walked through extreme suffering. My 0:04:58.490 --> 0:05:03.130 husband got into the wrong friends, the wrong crowd, started 0:05:03.130 --> 0:05:06.970 using drugs and is currently incarcerated, actually being charged with murder. 0:05:07.370 --> 0:05:09.850 And the Lord, you know, stripped me of all my 0:05:09.890 --> 0:05:14.090 earthly security. My husband, my provider, everything. My home. But 0:05:14.130 --> 0:05:17.170 he has restored it all. And that book truly was 0:05:17.170 --> 0:05:20.250 just such an encouragement to me to hear the testimonies 0:05:20.250 --> 0:05:23.370 of believers who have suffered, who have walked through the 0:05:23.370 --> 0:05:26.490 valley and truly have seen the Lord's faithfulness on the 0:05:26.490 --> 0:05:27.170 other side. 0:05:27.570 --> 0:05:29.850 You're a rock star, Gabriel. You know what? I can't 0:05:29.850 --> 0:05:31.890 do this for everyone. But I want you to stay 0:05:31.890 --> 0:05:33.370 on the horn. I'm going to get you a Carlin 0:05:33.370 --> 0:05:37.490 crew prize pack, so stay on the horn. Gabriel. Gabriel, 0:05:37.529 --> 0:05:39.609 do you have children? Where are you at? 0:05:39.650 --> 0:05:43.250 I have, I have six children. Yes. I was pregnant 0:05:43.250 --> 0:05:48.090 with my sixth son when this happened in, um, November 0:05:48.130 --> 0:05:52.450 of 2023. And I decided to name him Gideon after 0:05:52.450 --> 0:05:56.290 judges chapter six. Gideon who tore down the temple that 0:05:56.290 --> 0:05:58.930 his father built to the false god Baal, and who 0:05:58.930 --> 0:06:02.450 rebuilt the temple. And God used mightily, um, through the 0:06:02.490 --> 0:06:06.250 through the failures of his father. Gideon was chosen. And 0:06:06.250 --> 0:06:08.770 that's the that's the name I chose for my youngest son. 0:06:09.850 --> 0:06:14.370 That's, you know, Gabriel, this is mind blowing. The kind 0:06:14.370 --> 0:06:15.930 of joy that you have in the Lord with the 0:06:15.930 --> 0:06:20.450 situation that you're in. This is all God's, sister. This is. 0:06:20.610 --> 0:06:21.530 100%. 0:06:21.930 --> 0:06:24.970 100%. Anything you get in, you see, good in me 0:06:25.010 --> 0:06:26.810 came from the Lord. That's the truth. 0:06:28.410 --> 0:06:31.970 What's. What's the situation with your man? He's looking. He's 0:06:31.970 --> 0:06:34.290 looking at life. Plus. Is that what he's looking at? 0:06:35.130 --> 0:06:38.330 He is. He is. So I reached out to my 0:06:38.330 --> 0:06:43.810 father in law to help us, um, to do an intervention, essentially. And, um, 0:06:43.850 --> 0:06:48.730 his his father, he is being charged in connection with, um, 0:06:48.730 --> 0:06:52.770 murdering his own father. And so I was grateful that 0:06:52.770 --> 0:06:55.719 I was able to escape that day with my children. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.400 The day that event, the event occurred. And the Lord 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.360 has shown us great mercy since. But, um, it's been 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.360 a very sobering time for us. And just looking at 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:11.360 how the sin of others affects you and thinking through, um, 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.920 just the faithfulness of the Lord, truly. And I do 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.680 pray for my husband and that the Lord would, you know, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.440 bring true repentance for him. But currently, uh, that is 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.960 what he's facing. That is what he's looking at. And I, 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.440 I pray for him often, and so do my children. 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.600 And I'm grateful for the pastors and leaders at my 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.560 church who have faithfully walked my family through this, and 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.680 thinking about those conversations with my children and what all 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.600 that looks like. I mean, the Lord has been mightily 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:40.120 merciful in all of that. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:45.000 Gabrielle, you are so inspiring. You know, I want to 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.000 give you something here that the Lord's laying on my heart. 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:48.520 I'm going to turn to it in Scripture, and I 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:53.760 want you to hear me. Um, this is from Exodus 20, 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.200 verse 20. Gabriel I. This is for you, sister. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:07:58.360 Thank you. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.320 You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.320 any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.440 that is in the earth beneath, or that is in 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.040 the water under the earth. You shall not bow down 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.160 to them or serve them. For I, the Lord your God, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:15.000 am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.800 on the children to the third and fourth generation of 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:22.280 those who hate me. Comma, comma. This for you, Gabriel, 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:27.800 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.160 me and keep my commandments. Gabriel, you know what you're doing, sister. 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.199 You are breaking the chain. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:36.080 Praise the Lord. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.560 You are breaking the chain, Gabriel. And you are. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:40.719 Inspiring. 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.800 You are inspiring to myself and so many tens of 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.160 thousands listening right now. Gabriel. 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:48.560 Oh, sister. Stay. 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.870 Stay on the horn. What are the ages of your kids. 0:08:51.870 --> 0:08:52.790 What are the ages? 0:08:53.710 --> 0:08:57.110 Oh, my oldest is 15 and then I have an 0:08:57.270 --> 0:09:00.949 11 year old. My daughter's the only girl. She's six 0:09:01.390 --> 0:09:06.069 and my son is four. He'll be five. I have 0:09:06.070 --> 0:09:08.870 a three year old and a one year old. My youngest. Gideon. 0:09:10.230 --> 0:09:13.390 Mhm. I got to tell you, Gabriel, you're taking my 0:09:13.390 --> 0:09:18.630 breath away, sister. Wow. This is sobering and beautiful. Stay 0:09:18.630 --> 0:09:20.230 on the horn. I'm getting you a call and crew 0:09:20.230 --> 0:09:20.990 prize pack. 0:09:22.150 --> 0:09:22.910 My goodness. 0:09:26.110 --> 0:09:28.750 If that doesn't rock your world. If that doesn't. 0:09:28.950 --> 0:09:30.470 Go get your pulse checked. 0:09:31.270 --> 0:09:34.710 Yeah. Somebody put your index finger on your neck and 0:09:34.710 --> 0:09:39.390 make sure you've got a pulse. Oh my goodness. We're 0:09:39.390 --> 0:09:42.630 going to spin a record here. What's your story on 0:09:42.630 --> 0:09:45.830 this Freedom Friday? What do you say? What's a tool 0:09:45.830 --> 0:09:49.230 of transformation? God's used in your life comes in a 0:09:49.230 --> 0:09:57.829 lot of different forms. 805, five, five, 78, 98, 805, five, five, 78, 98. 0:09:58.190 --> 0:10:02.750 A basketball mom who's mastered the dad joke. Ali is 0:10:02.750 --> 0:10:06.390 in the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:10:06.710 --> 0:10:09.750 You just heard a phenomenal story. I mean, peel paint 0:10:09.750 --> 0:10:14.110 story here from Gabriel, and she's in Florida. She's got 0:10:14.110 --> 0:10:18.590 six kids. Husband's incarcerated, looking at life plus for murder. 0:10:19.070 --> 0:10:21.870 And God has rocked her world by the power of 0:10:21.870 --> 0:10:23.790 the Holy Spirit. Some of you are asking, what's the 0:10:23.790 --> 0:10:26.590 book that she read? Hope in the morning. Hope in 0:10:26.590 --> 0:10:29.550 the morning. It's the name of the book. Wow. Incredible. 0:10:29.590 --> 0:10:32.750 Going back to the phone lines, what's that on this 0:10:32.750 --> 0:10:36.150 Freedom Friday? What's that transformational tool God has used in 0:10:36.150 --> 0:10:39.430 your life? Misty. First time caller. Tennessee. What do you say? Misty? 0:10:41.070 --> 0:10:42.429 Good morning guys. 0:10:42.470 --> 0:10:46.750 And, um, my tools. A little more unconventional than most, 0:10:46.750 --> 0:10:49.189 I would think, but it's my son. 0:10:50.540 --> 0:10:51.580 How has God used him? 0:10:51.620 --> 0:10:56.660 My son. Um. My son started going to attending church 0:10:56.660 --> 0:11:00.020 when he was in middle school, and he is now 0:11:00.020 --> 0:11:04.020 almost 30. And he and his wife, the walk that 0:11:04.020 --> 0:11:04.780 they have. 0:11:06.179 --> 0:11:07.099 It's just. 0:11:07.780 --> 0:11:10.140 Phenomenal. Phenomenal to. 0:11:10.140 --> 0:11:10.460 Me. 0:11:10.900 --> 0:11:11.940 And it's got mama. 0:11:11.940 --> 0:11:12.420 Cooking. 0:11:12.420 --> 0:11:13.420 Now too, right? 0:11:14.580 --> 0:11:18.900 Absolutely. I mean, I've always been a believer, but to 0:11:18.940 --> 0:11:22.420 watch my son and my daughter in law made me 0:11:22.460 --> 0:11:27.219 want to be and follow the way I should, the 0:11:27.220 --> 0:11:30.500 way God has intended me to. And my daughter in 0:11:30.500 --> 0:11:36.140 law gets up every morning and post on, um, her story. 0:11:36.340 --> 0:11:41.060 She reads a different book every single day. So when 0:11:41.059 --> 0:11:45.780 she's on posting and reading, I'm reading with her and 0:11:45.780 --> 0:11:48.900 I'm following with her Mr.. 0:11:49.140 --> 0:11:52.060 Mom, Misty is going. God, how did you give me 0:11:52.059 --> 0:11:53.820 a daughter in law like this? And what did you 0:11:53.820 --> 0:11:56.580 do to my son? What a cool thing that your 0:11:56.580 --> 0:12:00.660 kids are. Are inspiring you to walk with Jesus. Misty, 0:12:00.700 --> 0:12:02.220 you are a blessed woman. 0:12:03.340 --> 0:12:06.980 Absolutely beyond. Blessed beyond. 0:12:08.140 --> 0:12:09.020 Way to go, Misty. 0:12:09.059 --> 0:12:13.540 And I thank God every day for giving my son 0:12:13.660 --> 0:12:16.900 the woman that he gave to her. I prayed for her. 0:12:17.460 --> 0:12:20.260 Please God, bring this woman into my life. And when 0:12:20.260 --> 0:12:22.980 he did, oh, oh. 0:12:23.620 --> 0:12:25.500 You didn't know her life was going to smack you 0:12:25.500 --> 0:12:28.500 upside the upside the head and go, let's go, mom, 0:12:28.500 --> 0:12:29.180 let's go. 0:12:29.340 --> 0:12:30.540 That's great, I didn't. 0:12:31.580 --> 0:12:34.540 Oh my goodness, Misty, first time caller in Tennessee. Thank 0:12:34.540 --> 0:12:39.180 you sister. Oh these stories. Oh I gotta rub my eyes. 0:12:39.179 --> 0:12:45.900 This stuff gets too good. Oh 800 555 7898 what 0:12:45.940 --> 0:12:49.130 tool of transformation is God used in your life? You've 0:12:49.130 --> 0:12:52.570 heard it all this morning. What tool of transformation has 0:12:52.610 --> 0:12:54.690 God used in your life? Give us a call right now. 0:12:54.730 --> 0:12:57.650 800 555 7898. 0:12:58.010 --> 0:13:01.810 He was running from God, but God's love brought him home. 0:13:02.010 --> 0:13:05.890 Carl is in the crew. It's Carl and crew on 0:13:05.929 --> 0:13:06.969 Moody Radio. 0:13:07.330 --> 0:13:08.930 By the way, if you're looking for Carl and crew 0:13:08.929 --> 0:13:11.450 on Facebook or Instagram, be sure to put in Carl 0:13:11.450 --> 0:13:14.689 with the K, Carl and crew with a K and 0:13:14.690 --> 0:13:18.010 crew with a C. Some people think flip that around. Nope, 0:13:18.050 --> 0:13:20.490 it's Carl with a K. Check it out. Follow us. 0:13:20.530 --> 0:13:22.449 We got a lot of new stuff that's coming up 0:13:22.450 --> 0:13:25.050 here soon, and I want you to be positioned and 0:13:25.050 --> 0:13:27.170 ready to go. When we pull the trigger on this stuff. 0:13:27.170 --> 0:13:29.449 It's going to be a lot of fun taking your 0:13:29.450 --> 0:13:32.490 stories today. It's overwhelming. The stories that have come in today. 0:13:32.730 --> 0:13:34.929 This is why you want the show cast. We'll give 0:13:34.929 --> 0:13:37.410 you more details on that. But this is exactly why. 0:13:37.410 --> 0:13:39.530 In fact, we're going to put Gabriel front and center 0:13:39.530 --> 0:13:41.610 on the show cast for sure. Her story out of 0:13:41.610 --> 0:13:46.050 Florida epic. Taking your stories right now. Every story is 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:50.160 powerful because it's God's work in you. Tools of transformation 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.319 on this Freedom Friday. What does God used in your 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.160 life to really change you? Rachel in Ohio. What do 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:55.880 you say? Rachel? 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:57.559 Hi. 0:13:58.480 --> 0:13:59.040 Um. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:00.120 So God is. 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.720 God has used a lot of things to change my life, but, um, 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.160 one of the biggest ones. So my story is quite 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.559 a bit like Gabrielle's. Um, my ex-husband went to prison, 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.600 and I was left with several children. Um, I was 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:18.680 also an abuse victim. And so when that happened, I 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.480 ended up turning to alcohol. Yeah. And I lost all 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.880 five of my kids, and I was supposed to go 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.960 into treatment, and I. As soon as I refused to go, 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.400 God crashed my car and totaled it. And, uh, my 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.160 dad just happened to be there to pick me up 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.080 and detox me. And I got all five of my 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.480 kids back, and, um, going back to school for missions 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.600 is what I was originally going for, you know, 15 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.200 years ago. So. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:51.360 Wow, Rachel, what a turnaround. What happened between losing kids 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.360 and getting them back? There had to have been God 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.480 at working you radically. They aren't given those kids right 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:56.040 back to you. 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.240 Oh, no. It took about two years and it was 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:06.720 I mean, God still continually strips us of, you know, 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.480 the things of this world to show us what's important. 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:14.320 And even despite all the things I've done wrong, my kids, 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.360 I still see God pulling them and pulling them. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.680 Yeah. Rachel, let me ask you a question, because you've 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:26.960 gone through some tough stuff. How important is the Word 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:28.960 of God in your life right now? That's got to 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:30.600 be front and center, I would assume. 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:36.000 Oh, huge. If I if I don't read my Bible, 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.520 I the whole day is just off. 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.480 Yeah. You know, I heard a stat recently, in fact, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.230 we used this a couple of years ago and I 0:15:45.230 --> 0:15:48.430 just want to use this. I suspected this with Rachel. 0:15:48.710 --> 0:15:51.430 People that are experiencing this kind of fresh streams of 0:15:51.430 --> 0:15:55.150 living water flowing through their soul. There's empirical data that 0:15:55.150 --> 0:15:57.230 proves this. You read the Bible one day a week. 0:15:57.230 --> 0:15:59.750 Not much change. Two days a week. Not a lot 0:15:59.790 --> 0:16:03.310 of change. Three days a week. Not a lot. You 0:16:03.350 --> 0:16:06.030 crest that four day a week, you start to get 0:16:06.030 --> 0:16:09.390 that higher percentage of in the word versus not in 0:16:09.390 --> 0:16:13.270 the word into you. Boom. Things begin to change. There 0:16:13.310 --> 0:16:16.550 is a direct line. There's a straight line between Bible 0:16:16.550 --> 0:16:19.470 reading consistently, being in the word and getting the word 0:16:19.470 --> 0:16:23.390 into you. This isn't about some pharisaical thing where it's like, yeah, 0:16:23.390 --> 0:16:25.070 I know the word man. I've been in the. Oh 0:16:25.110 --> 0:16:27.390 no no no no no, I'm talking about humbling yourself 0:16:27.390 --> 0:16:29.790 under God's hand, being in the word, getting the word 0:16:29.790 --> 0:16:33.670 into you. It's transformative. What's the fresh thing God's teaching 0:16:33.670 --> 0:16:35.310 you right now, Rachel from Ohio. 0:16:37.030 --> 0:16:37.310 Oh. 0:16:38.470 --> 0:16:43.550 All kinds of things. Um, continuing to trust is a 0:16:43.550 --> 0:16:48.270 big one. Especially I'm a single mom of five and 0:16:48.350 --> 0:16:50.590 you know my oldest is going to be 18. So 0:16:50.750 --> 0:16:53.670 they're starting to drive and move out. It's a whole nother. 0:16:54.190 --> 0:16:55.630 That's a whole nother world in your. 0:16:55.630 --> 0:16:56.390 Area of life. 0:16:56.430 --> 0:16:59.270 Yeah, yeah. Do you have help alongside you right now, Rachel? 0:16:59.270 --> 0:17:01.150 Do you have people that come alongside you? 0:17:02.190 --> 0:17:04.430 Oh, yeah. I have a beautiful church family. 0:17:05.030 --> 0:17:09.510 Wow, Rachel. You're awesome. Again, I can't give these to everyone, 0:17:09.510 --> 0:17:11.150 but I'm going to give away another one. Stay on 0:17:11.150 --> 0:17:13.909 the horn for Carl and crew. Prize pack. Sister, you 0:17:13.910 --> 0:17:16.230 need this in your house. Okay, so we're going to 0:17:16.230 --> 0:17:18.430 shoot it your way. You didn't. You didn't call to get. 0:17:18.430 --> 0:17:23.909 But you're getting it anyway. Way to go. Overwhelming stories 0:17:23.910 --> 0:17:29.670 of transformation. Overwhelming. Can God change where you're at today? Oh. 0:17:29.670 --> 0:17:33.670 Can he? You might say, Carl, I. I came here 0:17:33.670 --> 0:17:36.229 thinking that I've got some issues in my life, and 0:17:37.830 --> 0:17:41.950 those issues aren't diminished by hearing these stories today. What 0:17:41.950 --> 0:17:45.220 it does for you, is it? It gives you a 0:17:45.260 --> 0:17:49.300 breath of hope that says if God can minister to 0:17:49.340 --> 0:17:54.020 people transformative power in the situations that they're in, he 0:17:54.020 --> 0:17:56.540 can help me. That's exactly what the Spirit of God 0:17:56.540 --> 0:18:03.260 is doing in your life today. It's just awesome. Love's 0:18:03.300 --> 0:18:05.580 got away, man. This is Andrew Ripp, and boy, does 0:18:05.580 --> 0:18:09.900 it give us a call. Still taking stories of life change. 0:18:10.140 --> 0:18:14.340 Transformational tools 805 55, 7898. 0:18:14.660 --> 0:18:19.260 She's a choreographer extraordinaire, and everything is Greek to her. 0:18:19.700 --> 0:18:23.419 Super dei is in the crew. It's Carl and crew 0:18:23.420 --> 0:18:24.700 on Moody Radio. 0:18:24.980 --> 0:18:28.140 What up? What a freedom Friday. Tools of transformation. We've 0:18:28.180 --> 0:18:30.580 been asking you, what has God used in your life 0:18:30.580 --> 0:18:34.660 to transform you? And, I mean, this is this is epic. 0:18:34.700 --> 0:18:37.260 This is why we open up phone lines here, especially 0:18:37.260 --> 0:18:41.580 on Fridays. Uh, right here in Illinois. What do you say, Gloria? 0:18:42.660 --> 0:18:48.460 Um, dad used dance ministry and flag and banner ministry 0:18:48.460 --> 0:18:55.740 to totally transform, uh, all of everything related to ministry. 0:18:55.780 --> 0:19:00.340 And June 1st actually marked the 40th year that I've 0:19:00.380 --> 0:19:05.580 been involved in this, uh, which is really great. 0:19:05.940 --> 0:19:07.460 Let me tell you something, Gloria. Let me tell you 0:19:07.460 --> 0:19:09.780 something funny. I was in South Africa when I lived there, 0:19:10.060 --> 0:19:12.100 and I saw for the first time in my life 0:19:12.100 --> 0:19:15.179 in a European church in South Africa. I saw a 0:19:15.180 --> 0:19:17.980 dance ministry. And I'm like, what in the world is 0:19:17.980 --> 0:19:23.460 happening right now? Somebody call security? And then I realized, no, man, 0:19:23.859 --> 0:19:26.220 we got we got the David thing going on here, 0:19:26.260 --> 0:19:31.140 dancing before the Lord. Yeah, that was my first thought is, okay, 0:19:31.540 --> 0:19:34.380 who let these folks in here? Because they're coming down 0:19:34.380 --> 0:19:36.860 the aisles and they got banners going and everything, but boy, 0:19:36.859 --> 0:19:41.250 it was it was an expression of worship and. it 0:19:41.250 --> 0:19:45.410 was beautiful. Mary in Indiana. What do you say, Mary? 0:19:46.490 --> 0:19:48.010 Good morning. How are you? 0:19:48.170 --> 0:19:50.090 Great. What's your story, sister? 0:19:50.890 --> 0:19:54.290 Well, I wanted to say that I am a reader, and. 0:19:54.290 --> 0:19:57.129 But I had never read the Bible. And while I 0:19:57.130 --> 0:20:00.369 would go through it and read scripture, trying to support, 0:20:00.410 --> 0:20:02.890 you know, things that I wanted to support, but I 0:20:02.890 --> 0:20:05.770 never read it. And I realized that other books that 0:20:05.770 --> 0:20:10.050 I read, I read for understanding and trying to understand 0:20:10.050 --> 0:20:12.210 what the author was trying to say to me. And 0:20:12.570 --> 0:20:14.730 so one day, I decided that I was going to 0:20:14.770 --> 0:20:18.490 read the Bible with that intent to understand it, and 0:20:18.810 --> 0:20:20.450 it transformed my life. 0:20:21.369 --> 0:20:24.530 So cool. Mary. See, this is the stuff, man. It 0:20:24.530 --> 0:20:27.090 comes in so many different shapes and sizes. Thank you. 0:20:27.090 --> 0:20:30.570 Mary from Indiana. Getting an understanding of what the Word 0:20:30.609 --> 0:20:33.290 of God is saying. Getting something to illuminate. It's cool, 0:20:33.290 --> 0:20:35.649 by the way. Keep it pinned right here. I might 0:20:35.650 --> 0:20:38.530 have a couple of copies because I'm behind the curve 0:20:38.770 --> 0:20:42.290 of moody Bible commentary to give away. I just might, 0:20:42.850 --> 0:20:45.770 but not right now. Not right now. Jake in Florida. 0:20:45.770 --> 0:20:46.730 What do you say, Jake? 0:20:47.850 --> 0:20:49.570 Carl. Good morning. How you doing? 0:20:49.609 --> 0:20:51.450 I'm doing great, man. What's your story? 0:20:52.570 --> 0:20:56.650 I decided to sell everything back in 2018 with my 0:20:56.650 --> 0:21:00.010 wife and daughter, and we lived in our van and 0:21:00.010 --> 0:21:03.490 traveled around, and we were in Arizona, and I took 0:21:03.490 --> 0:21:07.050 a walk one day, and I felt the presence of Jesus. 0:21:07.050 --> 0:21:11.050 And ever since then, it hasn't stopped. I've been a 0:21:11.050 --> 0:21:14.410 believer and my family, our life has just been transformed 0:21:14.410 --> 0:21:17.290 from this experience. And ever since then, we've, uh, we've 0:21:17.330 --> 0:21:19.410 given our lives to God. And it's been wonderful. 0:21:19.810 --> 0:21:22.410 Jake, this is awesome. You know what you are? You're 0:21:22.410 --> 0:21:27.090 a transformed hippie, modern day hippie, Jake. That's what you are, man. 0:21:28.330 --> 0:21:29.490 That's awesome. Jake. 0:21:30.690 --> 0:21:33.450 He led us into the direction, and now we build, uh, 0:21:33.450 --> 0:21:36.250 vans and tidy homes for people who want to experience 0:21:36.250 --> 0:21:38.639 life on the road. So he he guided us to 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:39.280 a path. 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:41.560 Oh. That's awesome. How old are you, Jake? 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:44.359 I'm 37 with four children. 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:48.640 Oh, Jake, this is great. We got so many young 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.639 people listening to this show now. This is so cool, Jake. 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:56.040 Godspeed to you, man. Thanks for calling in. Oh my goodness, 0:21:56.080 --> 0:22:02.440 Paula in Florida, what changed your life? Hello, Paula. 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.680 Are you thinking of Paulette? 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:10.679 Oh, we got the wrong name. We'll go with Paulette. Sorry, Paula, 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:13.600 we called you. I called you Paula. You're Paulette. We 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:15.520 got you in Florida. What do you say, Paulette? 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:20.080 Um, I want to tell you about a tool that 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:25.359 has been very useful in my Christian walk. And it's 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:27.600 a book by Sarah Young. I don't know if you've 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:28.280 heard of her. 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:29.840 Oh, yeah. Jesus calling. 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:33.680 Calling. And I've been using that for 20 years, and 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:36.600 it's really like my go to reference book. And it's 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:42.080 a big help. And the other resource is Moody Bible Station. 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:45.479 And I bought myself a second radio so that I 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:50.680 could have that throughout the house at all times. And, um, 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.600 it's a big resource to me. And I'm trying to 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:57.520 put God first. But this morning it was difficult because 0:22:57.760 --> 0:22:59.520 my cat had a fur ball and I had to 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:01.640 deal with that first, but I had to get back 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:05.360 to it. I tried to have my devotions first, and, um, 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:08.399 today I just had to adjust because that's what happened. 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:10.120 I had to deal with that big furball. 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:13.359 Paulette. Paulette, you crack me up, sister. Only a cat 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:15.680 owner would know that that that a fur ball could 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:19.080 take away from a devotional. But hey, fur balls happen, man. 0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:20.520 They happen. You gotta deal with them. 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:23.200 Yeah, sometimes I cough so much, I think I'm going 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:24.040 to have a fur ball. 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:25.880 That's concerning. 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:28.320 I'm just wondering what you were going to say to that. 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:33.199 I don't have your calls. Right. Taking your calls right now. 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:40.510 800 555 five, 7898. What's your transformational tool? Oh, it's great, 0:23:40.790 --> 0:23:43.590 a great devotional and moody radio right after the fur 0:23:43.590 --> 0:23:46.230 ball is cleared. Give me a call right now. 800 0:23:46.270 --> 0:23:48.710 555 7898. 0:23:49.190 --> 0:23:52.230 He was sharing the gospel on the radio and then 0:23:52.270 --> 0:23:56.590 he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Carl 0:23:56.590 --> 0:23:58.350 and crew on Moody Radio. 0:23:58.550 --> 0:24:02.949 Carl and crew on this Freedom Friday celebrating transformational tools. 0:24:03.230 --> 0:24:07.629 Keep those calls pouring in. 800 555 7898 Tonya first 0:24:07.630 --> 0:24:09.830 time caller in Tennessee. What do you say, Tonya? 0:24:11.670 --> 0:24:14.750 Um, I just wanted to call and share. God is 0:24:14.750 --> 0:24:18.070 really transforming my life, and I'm thankful I grew up 0:24:18.070 --> 0:24:21.550 in church, but I ran from God because things happened 0:24:21.550 --> 0:24:26.350 as a child that I didn't understand. And, um, I've 0:24:26.350 --> 0:24:31.710 been through a lot of abuse, and I had PTSD 0:24:31.750 --> 0:24:34.429 so bad I wouldn't leave my home. And so my 0:24:34.430 --> 0:24:39.950 church has this ministry celebrate recovery. You've probably heard of before. And, um, 0:24:39.950 --> 0:24:44.870 I started a study last year, and I worked through that, uh, 0:24:44.869 --> 0:24:48.590 writing down everything in my life, just taking a look 0:24:48.630 --> 0:24:52.550 at it. And I was so thankful for the step 0:24:52.550 --> 0:24:55.750 study group I was in. The women were just all 0:24:55.790 --> 0:24:58.910 very encouraging and pointing each other to Jesus. And we 0:24:58.950 --> 0:25:02.070 worked through all of those steps. And and then we 0:25:02.070 --> 0:25:06.550 have something to also called freedom ministry at our church. And, um, 0:25:06.550 --> 0:25:09.270 it's a deliverance ministry. They help me to look at 0:25:09.270 --> 0:25:12.550 the strongholds in my life. Fear was the main one, 0:25:12.550 --> 0:25:16.310 especially with what I have experienced in my life, that 0:25:16.350 --> 0:25:19.669 there was so much and they we broke those strongholds 0:25:19.670 --> 0:25:23.389 and they helped me with that list of people. And 0:25:23.430 --> 0:25:25.910 I was on that list. I needed to forgive myself. 0:25:25.910 --> 0:25:29.350 So I've been writing forgiveness letters, and it's just been 0:25:29.350 --> 0:25:31.910 so there's been so much freedom that I found in 0:25:31.950 --> 0:25:34.660 that and finding who I am in crossed again. 0:25:35.100 --> 0:25:38.859 Tonya, that is so cool. Yeah. Shame what Satan's trying 0:25:38.859 --> 0:25:41.100 to do there is he's trying to pound you with shame. 0:25:41.100 --> 0:25:45.140 He's the accuser and the deceiver, and so he will 0:25:45.140 --> 0:25:48.060 deceive us into taking bait. And then he smacks us 0:25:48.060 --> 0:25:51.460 upside the soul when we take it. And we've got 0:25:51.500 --> 0:25:55.740 to be able to detach that choice that was made 0:25:55.780 --> 0:25:58.739 there from our true identity in Christ. And Tonya, I'm 0:25:58.740 --> 0:26:01.100 so glad you're getting free, sister. We love you. Thank 0:26:01.100 --> 0:26:03.500 you so much for calling in today, Tonya. First time 0:26:03.500 --> 0:26:08.540 caller from Tennessee. Wow. I'm telling you, man, God is 0:26:08.540 --> 0:26:11.140 on the move. Uh, if you aren't getting that out 0:26:11.180 --> 0:26:16.940 of today, you're missing it. Like the broadside of Mccready's barn. Yeah. Wow. Wow. 0:26:17.740 --> 0:26:19.500 Taking your calls, we got time to get a couple 0:26:19.500 --> 0:26:23.940 more in here. 805, five, five, 78, 98 on this 0:26:23.940 --> 0:26:27.580 Freedom Friday. What's the transformational tool God has used in 0:26:27.580 --> 0:26:28.220 your life? 0:26:28.700 --> 0:26:31.380 Your shot of hope to help you through the day. 0:26:31.660 --> 0:26:34.770 This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:26:35.050 --> 0:26:38.850 On this Freedom Friday, we're celebrating tools that transform. Get 0:26:38.850 --> 0:26:41.730 up on the soapbox. Share your story. What are you 0:26:41.730 --> 0:26:45.090 grateful to God for? Some tool of transformation that God's 0:26:45.090 --> 0:26:50.530 used in your life mightily. 800 555 7898 Jeremiah in Michigan. 0:26:50.530 --> 0:26:52.290 Take it away, my man. What's your story? 0:26:53.850 --> 0:26:57.410 Um, well, I was adopted at a very young age, um, 0:26:57.410 --> 0:27:01.290 by a very Christian family. Um, my parents were awesome 0:27:01.330 --> 0:27:06.250 all through my life, praying for me always. My dad always, um, 0:27:06.650 --> 0:27:10.930 pretty much keeping it all about Jesus. Um, little, um. 0:27:10.970 --> 0:27:13.570 He always prayed Jacob's prayer over us as kids going 0:27:13.609 --> 0:27:18.330 to bed, and, um, he never takes the same way 0:27:18.369 --> 0:27:22.050 back from going to a trip. And I always wondered 0:27:22.050 --> 0:27:24.490 why he always said, no, no, don't take the same 0:27:24.490 --> 0:27:26.850 way you came, take a different way back. And I 0:27:26.890 --> 0:27:31.129 listened to the Bible app. And in somewhere in First 0:27:31.130 --> 0:27:33.850 Kings or second Kings. It talks about not taking the 0:27:33.850 --> 0:27:36.729 same way you came and I and I called my 0:27:36.730 --> 0:27:38.570 dad and I said, that's where you got that from. 0:27:38.609 --> 0:27:42.490 And he just kind of laughed and he said, yeah. So, um, 0:27:43.050 --> 0:27:45.610 really the best resource would be the Holy Spirit would 0:27:45.650 --> 0:27:48.969 be God, because all, all good things are his are 0:27:49.010 --> 0:27:50.730 his good ideas first. Right? So. 0:27:50.770 --> 0:27:54.250 Amen, brother. Amen. Jeremiah. What a dad you have, huh? 0:27:55.210 --> 0:27:58.730 Man, he's he's so awesome. He's awesome. Shout out to, uh, 0:27:58.730 --> 0:28:01.649 Rick Vanderwoude. He's listening, he's listening. He listens to you 0:28:01.650 --> 0:28:05.370 guys all the time. But, uh, really just just an 0:28:05.369 --> 0:28:06.050 awesome man. 0:28:06.369 --> 0:28:07.690 So how old are you, Jeremiah? 0:28:08.650 --> 0:28:10.650 I am 34. 0:28:11.050 --> 0:28:14.090 34. If you're forgetting your age right now, dude, it's 0:28:14.090 --> 0:28:16.050 going to get worse as you get older because you're 0:28:16.050 --> 0:28:16.730 young enough. 0:28:16.810 --> 0:28:20.570 Well, I did, uh, I went through a about a 0:28:20.570 --> 0:28:24.770 decade of hard drug use, and, uh, and I'm coming 0:28:24.770 --> 0:28:28.370 out of the the I'm I'm on three years outside 0:28:28.369 --> 0:28:31.720 of that now. So, um, my dad was with me 0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:34.320 through all of it. You know, he. He prayed with 0:28:34.320 --> 0:28:38.280 me and and always supported me. And now he kind 0:28:38.320 --> 0:28:40.840 of runs a home ministry at his house for for 0:28:40.840 --> 0:28:42.720 guys that are looking for the same thing and just 0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:44.840 pointing them all to Jesus. That's so. 0:28:44.840 --> 0:28:45.240 Cool. 0:28:45.560 --> 0:28:48.600 That's so cool. I relate a lot to, um, to 0:28:48.640 --> 0:28:50.680 that guy about the tattoos and things like that. I 0:28:50.680 --> 0:28:53.400 have a cover up myself of of a brand that 0:28:53.400 --> 0:28:57.120 I had of of of my own. So, uh, I 0:28:57.280 --> 0:29:00.640 texted Inc. I'm looking forward to connecting. 0:29:00.640 --> 0:29:04.200 So right on Jeremiah. You're a good you're a good brother, man. 0:29:04.200 --> 0:29:06.160 Thank you for calling in this morning. But we've got 0:29:06.160 --> 0:29:08.520 something for you right now. I'm blown away at how 0:29:08.520 --> 0:29:11.400 many people want to know where they stand with God 0:29:11.760 --> 0:29:14.760 and get a tool of transformation. We got something really 0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:17.400 interesting today. I didn't know that people would grab it 0:29:17.400 --> 0:29:19.840 like this. I should have known. When you ask people 0:29:19.880 --> 0:29:22.400 take a quiz to learn about yourself, it's an awesome thing. 0:29:22.400 --> 0:29:25.360 Whether it's Myers-Briggs disc, you name it, whatever it is, 0:29:25.880 --> 0:29:28.880 and we've got something that's going to help you spiritually 0:29:28.880 --> 0:29:33.080 pin Pinned down one of seven areas that you need 0:29:33.080 --> 0:29:36.200 to grow in most and cheer for you in an 0:29:36.200 --> 0:29:39.080 area where God's really doing a work. This is a 0:29:39.080 --> 0:29:42.600 great little tool, comes right out of the seven resolutions, 0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:47.000 and we actually work this up. A couple of years ago, 0:29:47.920 --> 0:29:52.200 had a organizational psychologist form a quiz. Gary Chapman told me, 0:29:52.200 --> 0:29:53.720 you got to have a quiz, Carl. You got to 0:29:53.720 --> 0:29:56.960 have a quiz. So it's a great little tool because 0:29:56.960 --> 0:30:01.440 it helps people launch a discovery process that is really awesome. 0:30:01.760 --> 0:30:05.680 And some of you feel stuck today identifying where you're 0:30:05.680 --> 0:30:08.960 stuck and opening up kind of the portal to wow, 0:30:09.000 --> 0:30:11.400 this is how I can walk forward. It's a pretty 0:30:11.400 --> 0:30:13.960 good little tool and we've had hundreds of these things already. 0:30:13.960 --> 0:30:14.600 Head out the door. 0:30:14.640 --> 0:30:17.040 Yeah, I'm really excited about this because sometimes you can 0:30:17.040 --> 0:30:20.400 feel stuck, but not necessarily know where that feeling is 0:30:20.400 --> 0:30:23.720 coming from. You know, it's like, oh man, something's wrong. 0:30:23.720 --> 0:30:26.560 But I just can't tell what I need to work on. 0:30:26.560 --> 0:30:29.390 This quiz will really help you identify that, I think 0:30:29.390 --> 0:30:31.950 it's worth checking out. It really only takes five minutes 0:30:31.950 --> 0:30:35.190 to get a really good, accurate reading of your best 0:30:35.190 --> 0:30:37.790 area and your area for most growth needed, and so 0:30:37.790 --> 0:30:42.550 just text the word quiz to 855 five, 78, 98. 0:30:42.670 --> 0:30:47.190 That's 805 five, 578, 98. Just the word quiz. 0:30:47.430 --> 0:30:51.030 Yeah. If you you might come up here's here's let 0:30:51.030 --> 0:30:53.310 me give you kind of seven buckets to think in. 0:30:53.350 --> 0:30:57.510 You might come up realizing, man I'm lacking essential spiritual discipline. 0:30:57.510 --> 0:30:59.670 So I'm missing out on hearing the voice of God. 0:31:00.470 --> 0:31:02.510 Or I'm not mindful of who I am in Christ. 0:31:02.510 --> 0:31:04.670 And that's an area that I really need to grow. 0:31:05.830 --> 0:31:09.710 It might be that God says there's something that's been 0:31:09.710 --> 0:31:14.430 hiding in the shadows. It's just eating your lunch. That 0:31:14.430 --> 0:31:17.630 sin thing that's holding you back could be that you 0:31:17.670 --> 0:31:19.830 got the wrong friends around you to go where God 0:31:19.830 --> 0:31:22.710 wants to take you. Whatever it is. Text the word 0:31:22.710 --> 0:31:27.910 quiz right now to (800) 555-7898. We'll get it out to you. 0:31:27.950 --> 0:31:32.710 Quiz to 800 555 7898. We can't get everyone who's 0:31:32.710 --> 0:31:36.630 calling in. And I'm sorry. It's hard. We got so 0:31:36.630 --> 0:31:38.830 many of you that are teeing it up here today, 0:31:38.830 --> 0:31:41.830 but we're grateful for those that we can get in here. Paula, 0:31:41.870 --> 0:31:46.070 first time caller from Florida. What transformational tool has God 0:31:46.110 --> 0:31:48.230 used in your life to give you freedom? 0:31:49.550 --> 0:31:52.630 Thank you. It was my brother in law who graduated from. 0:31:52.630 --> 0:31:56.470 Moody, became the pastor, and transformed my life from being 0:31:56.470 --> 0:32:00.470 a Catholic to understanding for the first time that Jesus 0:32:00.470 --> 0:32:03.430 took everything that I had done and I had messed 0:32:03.430 --> 0:32:06.950 up a lot, and that just floored me. The other 0:32:06.950 --> 0:32:09.790 thing was, I would say the main thing that happened 0:32:10.230 --> 0:32:12.950 in the last few years was suffering when we had 0:32:12.990 --> 0:32:18.630 a great ministry. My husband and I, we became accidental developers, 0:32:18.670 --> 0:32:21.470 helped a lot of people who all turned on me 0:32:21.510 --> 0:32:24.350 right after my husband died, and many of them were Christians. 0:32:24.790 --> 0:32:29.740 That was surprising, but that transformed me to really seeking 0:32:29.740 --> 0:32:32.940 the Lord, and he gave me scriptures. During that time. 0:32:32.940 --> 0:32:35.140 I had to get lawyers and it was tough. 0:32:35.380 --> 0:32:35.660 Yeah. 0:32:35.660 --> 0:32:40.180 That's hard. I think suffering was the thing that really 0:32:40.180 --> 0:32:41.380 got me serious. 0:32:41.700 --> 0:32:44.459 Yeah. I want to give you a Psalm here today. 0:32:44.460 --> 0:32:46.660 And for some of you that feel like, man, you're 0:32:46.660 --> 0:32:53.580 getting smacked around. Um, there are some psalms. Just bang. 0:32:53.740 --> 0:32:58.340 It's like when you read it, you're like, yes. Sometimes 0:32:58.340 --> 0:33:01.500 you might go through some betrayal or some something that 0:33:01.500 --> 0:33:03.260 you've gone through and you're like, God, why in the 0:33:03.260 --> 0:33:06.500 world is this happening? Listen to this in Psalm 112. 0:33:06.500 --> 0:33:08.060 I'm going to read it to you very short Psalm 0:33:08.060 --> 0:33:10.540 praise the Lord. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, 0:33:10.540 --> 0:33:14.660 who greatly delights in his commandments. His offspring will be 0:33:14.660 --> 0:33:17.220 mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will 0:33:17.220 --> 0:33:20.740 be blessed. Wealth and riches are in his house, and 0:33:20.740 --> 0:33:24.860 his righteousness endures forever. Light dawns in the darkness for 0:33:24.860 --> 0:33:28.660 the upright He is gracious, merciful, and righteous. It is 0:33:28.660 --> 0:33:32.740 well with the man or woman who deals generously and lends, 0:33:33.020 --> 0:33:37.420 who conducts their affairs with justice. For the righteous will 0:33:37.420 --> 0:33:40.979 never be moved. He will be remembered forever. He is 0:33:40.980 --> 0:33:43.740 not afraid of bad news. As hard as firm, trusting 0:33:43.740 --> 0:33:45.780 in the Lord. His heart is steady. He will not 0:33:45.780 --> 0:33:49.420 be afraid until he looks in triumph on his adversaries. 0:33:49.820 --> 0:33:53.340 Listen to this. He has distributed freely. He has given 0:33:53.340 --> 0:33:56.700 to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn is 0:33:56.700 --> 0:34:00.140 exalted in honor. The wicked man sees it in his anger. 0:34:00.180 --> 0:34:03.739 He gnashes his teeth and melts away. The desire of 0:34:03.740 --> 0:34:07.580 the wicked will perish. Here's the point. Outlive those around you. 0:34:08.300 --> 0:34:11.939 Outlive those around you. The greatest thing that you can 0:34:11.940 --> 0:34:15.739 do in betrayal is to live righteously, and God will 0:34:15.739 --> 0:34:16.700 handle the rest. 0:34:17.219 --> 0:34:19.980 It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:34:20.340 --> 0:34:23.740 What if you've been branded with an identity that is 0:34:23.739 --> 0:34:26.650 far from what God wants to do in your life. 0:34:27.969 --> 0:34:31.009 What do you do if you've got? What do you 0:34:31.010 --> 0:34:35.730 do if you've got gang symbols or signs or numbers 0:34:35.730 --> 0:34:38.489 tattooed on your bod? But you gotten out of that thing. 0:34:38.489 --> 0:34:40.530 What do you do if you've been branded with your 0:34:40.530 --> 0:34:43.529 pimp's name and his ID? What do you do if 0:34:43.570 --> 0:34:48.810 you've been branded with a barcode because you're a sex 0:34:48.810 --> 0:34:53.090 trafficked girl and you're a survivor? What do you do now? 0:34:55.050 --> 0:34:58.770 You know what the feds do? They call my friend 0:34:58.770 --> 0:35:04.130 Chris Baker. No joking. Award winning documentary on Inc. 180. Details. 0:35:04.130 --> 0:35:06.450 Coming up. You're going to want to hear this. 0:35:06.969 --> 0:35:09.930 You're listening to Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:35:09.969 --> 0:35:12.569 Carl and crew on this Freedom Friday. We're celebrating a 0:35:12.570 --> 0:35:15.370 whole week of tools of transformation. And if you take 0:35:15.410 --> 0:35:19.089 Tools of Transformation and combine that with this principle of 0:35:19.090 --> 0:35:23.010 spiritual freedom, boy, have I got someone for you. Chris 0:35:23.010 --> 0:35:27.690 Baker Bakers, founder of Inc. 180, Inc.. 180 is a 0:35:27.850 --> 0:35:31.370 powerhouse ministry in a way that you would never imagine. 0:35:31.370 --> 0:35:34.930 You might get it by the title. Chris Baker transformed 0:35:34.930 --> 0:35:37.690 by God. Did you ever imagine God would have you 0:35:37.730 --> 0:35:39.970 where you are today when he saved your soul? 0:35:40.570 --> 0:35:43.009 Absolutely not brother, I can't I still can't believe it. 0:35:43.010 --> 0:35:44.090 14 years later. 0:35:44.530 --> 0:35:47.890 It's crazy man. All right, so back up. You were 0:35:47.890 --> 0:35:50.770 radically altered by Jesus Christ. Give us that story. And 0:35:50.770 --> 0:35:52.609 then what in the world God brought you into? It 0:35:52.610 --> 0:35:54.850 starts with the feds, and then it goes beyond there. 0:35:54.850 --> 0:35:55.530 Take it away. 0:35:56.250 --> 0:35:59.049 Yeah. So I always believed in God. I grew up 0:35:59.090 --> 0:36:02.649 in a household with my mother, who was, uh, from 0:36:02.650 --> 0:36:06.050 Northern Ireland. And, you know, she dragged me to church 0:36:06.050 --> 0:36:08.770 as a kid, and I just I didn't pay attention, 0:36:08.770 --> 0:36:12.130 you know, and. Right. I as a teen growing up 0:36:12.130 --> 0:36:15.170 in South Central Los Angeles, um, I kind of ran 0:36:15.210 --> 0:36:18.170 as far away from God as I could and just 0:36:18.810 --> 0:36:21.649 thought I had all the answers. And, you know, growing up, 0:36:21.650 --> 0:36:24.440 I lost 17 friends to gang violence in LA. I 0:36:24.440 --> 0:36:27.960 was never involved, but all my friends were. By the 0:36:27.960 --> 0:36:30.719 time I turned 18, I'd been shot and stabbed twice 0:36:30.760 --> 0:36:35.040 and lost my best friend Dante. 21 years ago and 0:36:35.040 --> 0:36:39.719 moved my family to Chicagoland and through a series of events, 0:36:39.719 --> 0:36:42.320 ended up in a Christian counselor's office. And she prayed 0:36:42.320 --> 0:36:44.160 for me, and my wife and I encountered the Holy 0:36:44.160 --> 0:36:47.440 Spirit in my counselor's office and went to church the 0:36:47.440 --> 0:36:49.719 next morning. Six months later, I was on top of 0:36:49.719 --> 0:36:52.320 a mountain in Haiti, helping my church build a school. 0:36:53.000 --> 0:36:55.640 I'm trying to serve as much as I could in 0:36:55.640 --> 0:36:59.160 any way that I could locally, you know, abroad, whatever 0:36:59.160 --> 0:37:02.719 it was, and really just started praying and asking the Lord, 0:37:02.760 --> 0:37:04.879 you know, Lord, I'll do whatever you want me to do. 0:37:04.920 --> 0:37:07.120 I tried to do it my way for 38 years, 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:09.440 and I found out that that was a terrible idea. 0:37:09.440 --> 0:37:12.960 So I'll do whatever you call me to, um, for 0:37:12.960 --> 0:37:16.239 the rest of my life. And in 2011, we were 0:37:16.239 --> 0:37:20.080 blessed with the calling of Inc 180. Although I didn't 0:37:20.400 --> 0:37:22.950 really listen to it at first because my my initial 0:37:22.950 --> 0:37:26.350 reaction to the Lord telling me, go do what you 0:37:26.350 --> 0:37:28.069 love to do more than anything and do it for 0:37:28.070 --> 0:37:30.549 free to help people that are trying to change their lives. 0:37:31.070 --> 0:37:33.310 You know, I walk into a church to this day 0:37:33.310 --> 0:37:35.670 and I have, you know, I have 131 tattoos that 0:37:35.670 --> 0:37:37.549 I chose to place on my body. And I love 0:37:37.590 --> 0:37:40.589 them all. They tell my story. But, you know, when 0:37:40.590 --> 0:37:42.790 I walk into a church, I see people, you know, 0:37:42.830 --> 0:37:45.629 women kind of grip their purse or walk around where 0:37:45.630 --> 0:37:47.190 I'm at to get where they're going. 0:37:47.230 --> 0:37:51.350 And you're a big you're to be fair, Chris, you're 0:37:51.350 --> 0:37:53.870 a big dude too, man. So you got a guy 0:37:53.870 --> 0:37:56.550 with a few tats who's a big dude and it's like, hey, 0:37:56.750 --> 0:37:58.270 it's very clear. This guy. 0:37:58.870 --> 0:38:02.270 Yeah, absolutely. And and I own that, you know, it 0:38:02.270 --> 0:38:05.750 was my choice. So, um, but, you know, he called 0:38:05.750 --> 0:38:09.790 me to it. And initially in 2011, we just started 0:38:09.790 --> 0:38:12.430 with removing gang tattoos. You know, we moved from South 0:38:12.469 --> 0:38:16.229 Central Los Angeles to southwest Chicago. And, you know, that's 0:38:16.230 --> 0:38:17.870 how I learned that the Lord has a great sense 0:38:17.870 --> 0:38:19.750 of humor because I thought I was leaving all that 0:38:19.750 --> 0:38:23.390 stuff behind when I left LA with my family. Yeah, 0:38:23.430 --> 0:38:25.870 just started trying to help people one at a time. 0:38:25.910 --> 0:38:27.830 You know, it's the whole theory of the one over 0:38:27.870 --> 0:38:32.230 the 99. And the ministry has greatly expanded over the 0:38:32.230 --> 0:38:35.790 last 14 years, and we work with state, local, federal 0:38:35.790 --> 0:38:39.750 authorities and help sex trafficking survivors who were branded by 0:38:39.750 --> 0:38:42.230 their pimps or traffickers with tattoos. 0:38:42.590 --> 0:38:44.430 Yeah. Now it's right there that I want us to 0:38:44.469 --> 0:38:46.590 slow down, because I think a lot of people hear that. 0:38:46.590 --> 0:38:48.469 And when I first heard this, I thought I'd heard 0:38:48.469 --> 0:38:51.110 it all. And you know my story. I got delivered 0:38:51.110 --> 0:38:54.109 from cocaine, I ran hard. I've never had a tat 0:38:54.150 --> 0:38:57.229 in my life, Chris, but I feel like God put 0:38:57.270 --> 0:39:01.190 a God, put a tattoo on my heart of salvation, man. Amen. 0:39:01.190 --> 0:39:04.350 And and it's it's one of the coolest things ever. 0:39:04.390 --> 0:39:07.549 I mean, I give all praise and glory to God, 0:39:07.550 --> 0:39:10.110 but a lot of these people, and this is what's wild. 0:39:10.110 --> 0:39:14.470 You got called by the feds to help people. Some 0:39:14.469 --> 0:39:18.149 were in gangs, some were being sex trafficked. Explain what's 0:39:18.190 --> 0:39:19.940 going on there, because a lot of people don't know 0:39:19.940 --> 0:39:20.740 what's happening. 0:39:21.660 --> 0:39:25.259 And it's crazy how those two worlds co-mingle, too. But 0:39:26.100 --> 0:39:29.580 you know, when people are in gangs, that's their their, 0:39:29.820 --> 0:39:32.620 their life. That's what defines them. And they love to 0:39:32.620 --> 0:39:34.939 have those tattoos all over their face and hands and 0:39:34.940 --> 0:39:37.180 neck and and the minute that they're out of that world, 0:39:37.180 --> 0:39:39.980 it's the first thing that they want gone. But sex 0:39:39.980 --> 0:39:45.060 trafficking survivors are almost always branded by their pimps or 0:39:45.060 --> 0:39:51.140 traffickers with names. You know, the pimps name barcodes to symbolize, hey, 0:39:51.140 --> 0:39:53.660 you're just a piece of product I could buy, sell, trade, 0:39:53.660 --> 0:39:56.820 or throw you away whenever I want. Um, we also 0:39:56.820 --> 0:40:00.220 see a lot of gang symbols branded on trafficking survivors 0:40:00.300 --> 0:40:05.180 or victims, because gangs are very involved in trafficking, and 0:40:05.180 --> 0:40:08.780 it's a very lucrative business for them. I love our 0:40:08.780 --> 0:40:12.540 our federal, state and local authorities, but when it comes 0:40:12.540 --> 0:40:18.380 to sex trafficking, it's an ever changing landscape. And unfortunately, Uh, 0:40:18.420 --> 0:40:20.820 and this is no slam on our local law enforcement. 0:40:20.820 --> 0:40:23.339 They're just behind the eight ball on how to investigate 0:40:23.340 --> 0:40:27.060 this stuff and shut it down, because it's constantly changing. 0:40:27.380 --> 0:40:29.859 And in a city like Chicago, where violence is such 0:40:29.900 --> 0:40:33.500 a huge part of the equation, unfortunately, that's where the 0:40:33.500 --> 0:40:34.260 focus is. 0:40:34.900 --> 0:40:37.460 Okay. Coming up, Chris Baker, my guest. He is the 0:40:37.460 --> 0:40:40.980 founder of Inc. 180 and an amazing man of God. 0:40:41.020 --> 0:40:44.819 Big award winning documentary documentary done on Inc 180 that 0:40:44.820 --> 0:40:47.299 was on TLN. Uh, we're going to have links for 0:40:47.300 --> 0:40:50.340 you coming up, but I want more details and stories 0:40:50.340 --> 0:40:54.700 of transformation from the inside out. Hang on. 0:40:55.219 --> 0:40:57.980 Your shot of hope to help you through the day. 0:40:58.219 --> 0:41:01.379 This is Karl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:41:01.540 --> 0:41:04.620 My guest on this Freedom Friday. Tools that transform you 0:41:04.620 --> 0:41:07.540 put freedom and tools that transform together. And what do 0:41:07.540 --> 0:41:10.739 you have? You got Chris Baker in Inc 180 tattoo 0:41:10.739 --> 0:41:14.140 artist that has been used mightily to help cover up 0:41:14.140 --> 0:41:18.850 not only gang symbols, but also So barcodes and pimp's names. 0:41:19.450 --> 0:41:22.370 That's almost hard to believe. Chris, for the average person, 0:41:22.370 --> 0:41:24.810 I thought I'd seen it. Heard it all. But this 0:41:24.810 --> 0:41:28.850 is brutal. These guys, Brandon, Brandon, these precious girls. Give me. 0:41:28.890 --> 0:41:32.049 Give me a story. Um, let me back up. You 0:41:32.050 --> 0:41:34.569 were first asked by the feds to come in. Was 0:41:34.570 --> 0:41:36.410 that kind of a wild thing for you to be 0:41:36.410 --> 0:41:39.049 contacted by them saying, hey, can you do cover ups 0:41:39.050 --> 0:41:41.489 for us? What were they? What were they asking you 0:41:41.489 --> 0:41:42.090 to do? 0:41:42.850 --> 0:41:44.890 Yeah, it was actually it was crazy. It still is 0:41:44.890 --> 0:41:47.010 to me to sit and think about it, but I 0:41:47.210 --> 0:41:49.529 actually had a federal agent that showed up at my 0:41:49.530 --> 0:41:52.009 church when I was asked to speak. My pastor asked 0:41:52.010 --> 0:41:53.810 me to give an update on Inc. 180, about six 0:41:53.810 --> 0:41:56.450 months into doing the work, and he happened to be 0:41:56.450 --> 0:41:58.649 there that day. And of course, we know God does 0:41:58.650 --> 0:42:01.969 everything for a reason, but he came running up after 0:42:01.969 --> 0:42:04.890 me in the parking lot after church that day and 0:42:04.890 --> 0:42:07.609 asked me to come speak to their gang unit. He 0:42:07.610 --> 0:42:09.810 set up a meeting for us about two weeks later, 0:42:09.850 --> 0:42:12.210 and that morning he called me and asked if their 0:42:12.210 --> 0:42:13.969 trafficking team could sit on it. I thought he was 0:42:13.969 --> 0:42:17.250 talking about drug trafficking because I had very, very little 0:42:17.610 --> 0:42:21.609 knowledge of sex trafficking at that point. But that day 0:42:21.610 --> 0:42:23.850 changed my life. They spent about three hours giving me 0:42:23.850 --> 0:42:26.290 a very high level understanding of what it looks like 0:42:26.290 --> 0:42:29.770 in this country and beyond, and asked me if I 0:42:29.770 --> 0:42:33.010 would be willing to expand the ministry to help trafficking survivors. 0:42:33.010 --> 0:42:34.850 And I was like, how could you possibly say no 0:42:34.850 --> 0:42:36.050 to something like that? 0:42:36.969 --> 0:42:40.450 It's just it's breathtaking. Give me a story of a 0:42:40.450 --> 0:42:43.689 young lady. Obviously, you're going to withhold her identity, but 0:42:43.730 --> 0:42:46.410 give me a story of something that happened that you're like, 0:42:46.650 --> 0:42:48.290 the boom crew needs to hear this. 0:42:48.810 --> 0:42:52.810 Well, actually. Perfect timing. I just had a situation. So 0:42:52.850 --> 0:42:54.609 three years ago, I was out at the Super Bowl 0:42:54.610 --> 0:42:57.850 in Phoenix helping state, local and federal authorities and other 0:42:57.850 --> 0:43:00.930 nonprofits with the search for victims around the Super Bowl. 0:43:01.450 --> 0:43:03.810 And I was doing removals and cover ups down there 0:43:03.810 --> 0:43:07.569 as well. I was in the FBI office in downtown Phoenix, 0:43:07.890 --> 0:43:09.850 and they brought in a ten year old little girl. 0:43:10.130 --> 0:43:12.010 And, uh. Come on, man, please. 0:43:12.050 --> 0:43:16.160 Yeah. And this, it just gets worse and worse. But, uh, 0:43:16.320 --> 0:43:18.960 this this little girl was trafficked by her own mother 0:43:18.960 --> 0:43:22.520 for drug money for two years, 10 to 15 times 0:43:22.520 --> 0:43:25.760 a day. And when they brought her in, it just 0:43:25.800 --> 0:43:29.160 absolutely knocked me sideways. I'll never say that. I've heard 0:43:29.160 --> 0:43:32.080 it all. I've heard a lot. But this one, um, 0:43:32.200 --> 0:43:34.200 they will all affect me for the rest of my life. 0:43:34.200 --> 0:43:38.040 Every story, every every client that I've been able to, uh, 0:43:38.080 --> 0:43:41.600 be a part of helping. But this one in particular, um, 0:43:41.600 --> 0:43:44.840 my wife and I, we do emergency placements for foster 0:43:44.840 --> 0:43:47.799 care while they're lining up more long term places. And 0:43:47.800 --> 0:43:50.719 I immediately went to, we have to adopt this little 0:43:50.719 --> 0:43:54.120 girl and help her get through the rest of her life. 0:43:54.160 --> 0:43:59.359 And fortunately for everybody, especially the little girl, she was 0:43:59.360 --> 0:44:04.799 actually just adopted by her caseworker and her her caseworkers 0:44:04.800 --> 0:44:07.839 husband is also a caseworker. Um, I was part of 0:44:07.840 --> 0:44:11.080 a zoom call with the courthouse in Phoenix about a 0:44:11.080 --> 0:44:14.640 week and a half ago, where they finalized her adoption, 0:44:15.000 --> 0:44:17.680 and for the first time, I got to see her 0:44:17.680 --> 0:44:20.680 face because when they brought her into me to remove 0:44:20.680 --> 0:44:24.080 the dollar sign tattoo between her thumb and her forefinger, 0:44:24.480 --> 0:44:28.200 she was wearing big baggy sweatpants and a hoodie with 0:44:28.200 --> 0:44:30.759 the drawstrings pulled real tight and I could barely see 0:44:30.760 --> 0:44:33.759 any of her face. The only thing that she said 0:44:33.760 --> 0:44:36.080 to me as I removed the tattoo off of her 0:44:36.080 --> 0:44:41.080 tiny hand was, thank you. When I finished, and to 0:44:41.120 --> 0:44:45.680 see her face, to see the vibrancy and the life 0:44:45.880 --> 0:44:50.600 back in her face for the first time absolutely was 0:44:50.640 --> 0:44:54.080 a gift from God to see that. And I will 0:44:54.080 --> 0:44:58.880 always remember her face, her story. But I'm excited to 0:44:58.920 --> 0:45:02.959 stay in touch. I've become friends with her now adoptive family, 0:45:03.280 --> 0:45:06.040 and just to be able to be blessed to see 0:45:06.080 --> 0:45:10.880 her life transformed in a radical, amazing, beautiful way. 0:45:11.520 --> 0:45:14.029 Chris Baker, my guest right now, he's the founder of Inc. 0:45:14.030 --> 0:45:17.109 180 God is doing something amazing. You don't charge for 0:45:17.110 --> 0:45:19.270 any of these removals or cover ups, do you? 0:45:19.590 --> 0:45:22.430 No, not a thing. And my my accountant thinks I'm 0:45:22.430 --> 0:45:25.750 crazy because we, you know, we always keep track of, hey, 0:45:25.790 --> 0:45:28.549 what would this have cost if we had charged for it? 0:45:28.590 --> 0:45:32.629 And we've given over $1.6 million in free services away 0:45:32.630 --> 0:45:35.190 in the last 14 years. And I love it because, 0:45:35.590 --> 0:45:37.510 you know, when they ask me, they're like, what's the catch? 0:45:37.510 --> 0:45:40.270 I'm like, there's no catch. Jesus paid for it already. 0:45:41.950 --> 0:45:43.150 And that's the bottom line. 0:45:43.310 --> 0:45:48.469 Chris, I love you, hot dog. I love you so much, man. Um, 0:45:48.670 --> 0:45:51.069 give us one more story. I'm not letting you go. What? 0:45:51.070 --> 0:45:52.710 What's God doing? Yeah. 0:45:53.350 --> 0:45:55.350 So much. I mean, I just literally just got back 0:45:55.350 --> 0:45:59.589 from Denver, Colorado. Um, I had a number. I had 0:45:59.630 --> 0:46:02.110 29 trafficking survivors out there that I went to do 0:46:02.150 --> 0:46:05.069 removals for, but also had a friend of mine who 0:46:05.070 --> 0:46:08.149 does full time prison ministry. And he had he had 0:46:08.150 --> 0:46:11.830 a young man who was a former gang member from Louisiana, 0:46:12.230 --> 0:46:16.110 now lives in Denver. Um, he was arrested and charged 0:46:16.110 --> 0:46:22.430 with murder. He was facing 123 years in prison. And, um, 0:46:22.830 --> 0:46:26.589 DNA evidence proved that he didn't do it, but he 0:46:26.590 --> 0:46:28.750 had a number of gang tattoos. He had 16 different 0:46:28.790 --> 0:46:31.030 tattoos on his body. And when I was out there 0:46:31.070 --> 0:46:34.910 this last week doing trafficking removals, I got the opportunity 0:46:34.910 --> 0:46:38.670 to sit with him and start the process of removing 0:46:38.670 --> 0:46:40.710 his tattoos. And I'll be going out there every month 0:46:40.710 --> 0:46:43.629 for the next 5 to 6 months to continue that 0:46:43.630 --> 0:46:46.310 process for him until it's done. But, you know, a 0:46:46.310 --> 0:46:48.109 lot of people look at what we do and they're like, oh, 0:46:48.110 --> 0:46:50.509 that's so great that you're able to remove those tattoos 0:46:50.510 --> 0:46:52.350 so they can go get a job. And yeah, it is. 0:46:52.390 --> 0:46:54.830 That's a that's a big part of it. But really 0:46:54.830 --> 0:46:57.710 the best part of what I get to do is 0:46:58.230 --> 0:47:00.830 I get to watch Jesus work inside people. You know, 0:47:00.830 --> 0:47:03.989 I often tell folks that Jesus works on their heart 0:47:03.989 --> 0:47:05.750 and their soul, and I work on their skin, and 0:47:05.750 --> 0:47:08.830 we try and meet in the middle. And, you know, 0:47:08.870 --> 0:47:11.980 through that, it's just a lot of listening. You know, 0:47:12.020 --> 0:47:14.460 the folks that I get to help, that's all they 0:47:14.460 --> 0:47:17.540 really want. They want someone to listen to them and 0:47:17.540 --> 0:47:20.780 not try to solve their problems. Because that's not my job. 0:47:20.780 --> 0:47:25.100 That's Jesus's job. And but just to to hold space 0:47:25.100 --> 0:47:26.739 for them and give them a place where they can 0:47:26.739 --> 0:47:29.700 be heard and be seen. And just to sit and 0:47:29.700 --> 0:47:32.300 listen to this young man's story was incredible. And we 0:47:32.460 --> 0:47:34.859 shared a lot of similarities in our life. You know, 0:47:34.900 --> 0:47:36.779 we've had a lot of pain. We've had a lot 0:47:36.820 --> 0:47:40.500 of loss. Um, but just to sit and be able 0:47:40.500 --> 0:47:42.580 to do that with him was really cool and get 0:47:42.580 --> 0:47:45.100 to start this relationship. I don't have clients. I have 0:47:45.100 --> 0:47:46.060 a lot of friends. 0:47:47.100 --> 0:47:51.819 Chris Baker I it feels like the Spirit of God 0:47:51.820 --> 0:47:56.299 is moving this ministry further down this road, and it 0:47:56.300 --> 0:48:00.020 seems like the avenue is getting wider and your touch 0:48:00.060 --> 0:48:04.700 points are getting. Uh, it's just it's overwhelming. I don't 0:48:04.700 --> 0:48:06.660 even have words to put to what God is doing 0:48:06.660 --> 0:48:07.580 through you, my man. 0:48:07.620 --> 0:48:09.620 I feel the same way. You know, I tell people 0:48:09.620 --> 0:48:11.379 all the time, the Lord lets me play in some 0:48:11.380 --> 0:48:12.820 pretty amazing sandboxes. 0:48:13.140 --> 0:48:16.339 Yeah, it's it's crazy what God has done in and 0:48:16.340 --> 0:48:19.900 through you. Again, Chris Baker, founder of Inc. 180. And 0:48:19.900 --> 0:48:23.500 here's what I want to do. Chris is a great communicator, 0:48:23.500 --> 0:48:27.580 and I want you to consider inviting him to an 0:48:27.580 --> 0:48:30.339 event that you have. Could be student ministry, could be 0:48:30.340 --> 0:48:33.339 a weekend service, could be a midweek prayer time. I 0:48:33.340 --> 0:48:35.500 don't know what it is, but I want to give 0:48:35.500 --> 0:48:37.140 you a link that's going to put you on to 0:48:37.180 --> 0:48:40.740 Inc 180 and actually his speaking page. There's other pages 0:48:40.739 --> 0:48:43.020 that you can get to because as you heard, he's 0:48:43.260 --> 0:48:46.140 he gives away these services for free and could be 0:48:46.140 --> 0:48:48.500 the Spirit of God is prompting you to throw some 0:48:48.500 --> 0:48:51.300 shekels his way and say, Godspeed to you, my man. 0:48:51.300 --> 0:48:55.020 You're doing God's work. Just text the word inc right 0:48:55.020 --> 0:48:59.660 now to 800 555 7898. Just that one word Inc 0:48:59.700 --> 0:49:09.660 I k to 800 555 7898 800 555 7898.