WEBVTT - Taking Risks for the Lord 0:00:00.380 --> 0:00:04.430 Coming to you from the Morning Star Mission sponsored studio. 0:00:04.460 --> 0:00:08.390 This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:00:08.539 --> 0:00:10.910 You know, sometimes you just got to put it out there. 0:00:10.940 --> 0:00:15.560 The life of the Christian is one of faith taking risk. 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:20.180 They are interchangeable terms, and it's part of what we do. 0:00:20.210 --> 0:00:22.490 We get out of the boat, we put a toe 0:00:22.489 --> 0:00:26.120 in the Jordan. God says, be strong and courageous. I 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.510 know there's giants in the land, but let's go. Big 0:00:29.510 --> 0:00:32.660 boys and big girls. We got Jesus on our side. 0:00:32.659 --> 0:00:35.659 Why are we hesitant to put it out there sometimes, Ali? 0:00:35.690 --> 0:00:42.740 Well, I mean, because we're so acutely aware of our 0:00:42.740 --> 0:00:47.510 own limitations. And so we have a thought that it 0:00:47.510 --> 0:00:50.360 depends on us. And so if I'm, if I think 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.810 that I'm limited to what I have, boy, it's I'm 0:00:53.810 --> 0:00:55.430 not going to go much past what I think I 0:00:55.430 --> 0:00:56.030 can do. 0:00:56.060 --> 0:00:58.520 That's a good summation. I think that's right. And the 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.840 only remedy for that Because if we look at our 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:07.120 own capacity, unless you're absolutely like, cocksure of yourself was 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.220 what my dad always used to say. If you're cock 0:01:09.250 --> 0:01:12.700 sure of yourself, that'll get you into some trouble. Because 0:01:12.700 --> 0:01:14.800 sometimes you get out into the middle of the storm, 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.560 you realize, whoa, I don't have this thing here. 0:01:17.650 --> 0:01:19.750 It doesn't take much for us to be confronted with that. 0:01:19.750 --> 0:01:24.370 Even the most confident person you come up against things 0:01:24.370 --> 0:01:26.590 that you cannot handle all the time. 0:01:26.620 --> 0:01:29.890 Yeah, but most of us struggle with the man. I'm 0:01:29.890 --> 0:01:31.720 pretty certain I don't have what it takes, so I'm 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.949 going to stay at home. There is a phenomenal passage 0:01:35.950 --> 0:01:39.640 in Ecclesiastes that is just a hoot. Ecclesiastes is a 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:40.690 comedy book. 0:01:41.709 --> 0:01:43.929 Why? Why is Ecclesiastes a comedy? 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.360 No, it's filled with comedy. If you just read it 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.460 straight up. Let me give you a couple of samples. 0:01:48.460 --> 0:01:48.640 Here. 0:01:48.670 --> 0:01:51.130 Okay? If the clouds are full of rain, they empty 0:01:51.130 --> 0:01:53.530 themselves on the earth. And if the tree falls to 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.410 the south or to the north, in the place where 0:01:56.410 --> 0:01:58.720 the tree falls, there it will lie. 0:01:59.050 --> 0:01:59.410 Okay. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:01.450 Okay. Yeah. Fair. 0:02:02.170 --> 0:02:05.620 Yeah. Rain is gonna come down. It's gonna fill those leaves. 0:02:05.620 --> 0:02:07.930 And when the tree falls. We don't know if it's 0:02:07.930 --> 0:02:10.269 north or south. But there's going to lie. 0:02:10.300 --> 0:02:12.880 There's the tree. It is what it is. 0:02:12.910 --> 0:02:15.490 And then the next verse is even better. He who 0:02:15.490 --> 0:02:18.489 observes the wind will not sow. And he who regards 0:02:18.490 --> 0:02:21.910 the clouds will not reap. You know what that's talking about. 0:02:23.830 --> 0:02:29.800 You can analyze yourself into spiritual paralysis. Oh, look at 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:34.570 the winds. Ain't going out today. Look at the clouds. Yeah, 0:02:34.570 --> 0:02:35.739 we better not do that. 0:02:35.770 --> 0:02:36.160 Mhm. 0:02:36.190 --> 0:02:38.980 Yeah. There's always going to be winds and clouds. 0:02:39.010 --> 0:02:39.429 Yes. 0:02:39.460 --> 0:02:44.170 There's going to be scorching heat. Chance we could get 0:02:44.169 --> 0:02:46.420 hit by a meteor. I guess the odds are kind 0:02:46.450 --> 0:02:48.820 of low but chance is real. 0:02:48.850 --> 0:02:49.419 Yeah. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:55.780 So this this day today, I want you to think 0:02:55.780 --> 0:03:00.720 about putting yourself out there. Not recklessly and not presumptively, 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.750 and not being so sure of yourself that you're like, 0:03:03.780 --> 0:03:09.030 I got this. But absolute faith in God that he's 0:03:09.030 --> 0:03:13.530 got this. Yeah. Which is a game changer. One of 0:03:13.530 --> 0:03:17.550 those guys that puts it out there every day is 0:03:17.550 --> 0:03:22.020 one of the coolest dudes in Chicagoland. I'm not overstating it, Ali. No. 0:03:22.050 --> 0:03:22.619 No way. 0:03:22.650 --> 0:03:25.889 No. I mean, he's a faith walker, for sure. 0:03:28.290 --> 0:03:31.139 Hang on. Because we're going to get to a story here. 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:38.400 I'm imagining more than one. Phil Kwiatkoski Pacific Garden mission. 0:03:38.790 --> 0:03:40.170 Been around for how long now? 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:45.630 Oh, boy. It's the country's oldest continuously operating gospel rescue mission. 0:03:45.660 --> 0:03:48.390 It's got to be over 100 years old. I mean, 0:03:48.870 --> 0:03:50.040 you got this thing started. 0:03:50.070 --> 0:03:52.950 It founded in 1877. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.100 Oh, yeah. So it's well over 100 years old. Like 0:03:56.100 --> 0:04:00.480 close to 150, 50 to be accurate here. That's been 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:01.350 around a while. 0:04:01.380 --> 0:04:02.670 Yeah, 148 years. 0:04:02.730 --> 0:04:04.590 The building's looking pretty good. 0:04:04.830 --> 0:04:05.370 Yeah. 0:04:05.460 --> 0:04:05.940 Guess it's a. 0:04:05.940 --> 0:04:06.210 Different. 0:04:06.210 --> 0:04:08.790 One. Yeah. It actually used to be just down the 0:04:08.790 --> 0:04:12.900 road a piece. You remember when that was still there? 0:04:12.900 --> 0:04:13.530 Super high. 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.420 I do, I do. 0:04:16.260 --> 0:04:19.469 But now they. They've grown and expanded. Hang on. Buckle up. 0:04:19.470 --> 0:04:22.980 Get a swig of water. Ali, what are we heading into? 0:04:23.010 --> 0:04:26.460 We are headed into stories of life change. When you 0:04:26.460 --> 0:04:30.210 think about the crisis that we. The addiction crisis. The 0:04:30.210 --> 0:04:35.790 homelessness crisis. The despair crisis. What do you do? What 0:04:35.790 --> 0:04:39.089 do you do? This guy's got some answers and some 0:04:39.089 --> 0:04:41.940 examples of hope restored. 0:04:42.210 --> 0:04:45.360 He was sharing the gospel on the radio. And then 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.710 he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Carl 0:04:49.710 --> 0:04:51.720 and crew on Moody Radio. 0:04:51.750 --> 0:04:53.820 Ali, do you ever look at people that do ministry 0:04:53.820 --> 0:04:56.070 and go, how do they do that? 0:04:56.100 --> 0:04:57.650 Yes, all the time. 0:04:57.890 --> 0:05:00.830 How do they do that? This guy is one of 0:05:00.830 --> 0:05:04.130 those guys. When you think about ministry and sometimes you 0:05:04.130 --> 0:05:07.310 look at someone and go, I couldn't do that. This 0:05:07.310 --> 0:05:10.430 man's in that category. Phil Kwiatkoski with us right now. 0:05:10.430 --> 0:05:13.730 Pacific Garden Mission has been around a while, hasn't it, Ali? 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:18.890 It's the oldest continuously operating gospel rescue mission right here 0:05:18.890 --> 0:05:22.430 in Chicago. And Phil, you've been president for how many 0:05:22.430 --> 0:05:23.539 years now, boy? 0:05:23.570 --> 0:05:27.950 Since 2013. But I've been here since 1988. 0:05:27.980 --> 0:05:29.900 Oh my word. Yeah, I was a student. 0:05:29.900 --> 0:05:33.020 At Moody Bible Institute when I came down here, and 0:05:33.020 --> 0:05:35.000 I've been here ever since, so it's been a long, 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:35.930 long time. 0:05:35.930 --> 0:05:39.260 So a gospel rescue mission in a city like Chicago, 0:05:39.290 --> 0:05:43.880 with all of its challenges. From your vantage point, what 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.450 keeps you going after so many years of doing this? 0:05:47.450 --> 0:05:49.880 Because you see many stories of hardship, but also so 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.469 many stories of victory, right? 0:05:51.500 --> 0:05:54.469 Yeah. I mean, this is a place of incredible pain, 0:05:54.470 --> 0:05:58.280 but what keeps me going is those stories of redemption. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.940 When you see changed lives, people that were absolutely broken, 0:06:01.940 --> 0:06:04.849 drug addicted, homeless and you see them a year or 0:06:04.850 --> 0:06:07.940 two later coming in. They're married, you meet their families, 0:06:08.300 --> 0:06:11.480 they're working. To me, that's what keeps me here. Every 0:06:11.510 --> 0:06:14.930 time I hear these stories, I say, that's why I'm here. 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.289 Do you ever look around Phil and go, I don't 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.690 know if God can change that life now. You know 0:06:20.690 --> 0:06:22.430 what I'm talking about here. I'm not. I know you 0:06:22.460 --> 0:06:24.770 got you. And I got our theology right. But sometimes 0:06:24.770 --> 0:06:27.590 you look at things and go, I don't know. Does 0:06:27.589 --> 0:06:28.400 that happen? 0:06:28.430 --> 0:06:32.300 Unfortunately, it happens all the time. Some people I look 0:06:32.330 --> 0:06:34.219 at and I think, I don't think anything is ever 0:06:34.220 --> 0:06:37.070 going to happen with that guy or girl, and it 0:06:37.070 --> 0:06:41.300 seems so far gone. But then you see, miracles take place. Yeah. 0:06:41.330 --> 0:06:43.790 You know, I was thrilled recently and I just want 0:06:43.820 --> 0:06:46.610 to share this with you. There was this, uh, two migrants. 0:06:46.610 --> 0:06:49.700 This one guy was a part of the Venezuelan. That gang, 0:06:49.700 --> 0:06:52.610 that notorious gang. And his girlfriend was here. They had 0:06:52.610 --> 0:06:56.440 a kid. He overdosed right down by the Chicago River. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.780 And a group of us went out there and they 0:06:58.779 --> 0:07:01.179 tried to bring them back, and it didn't work. The 0:07:01.180 --> 0:07:03.400 ambulance came and they gave them a shot of something, 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.349 and they brought him back to life. But he was 0:07:05.380 --> 0:07:08.650 he was gone for 15 minutes dead. He came back. 0:07:08.650 --> 0:07:12.340 He was pounding on the windows. He was angry, violent. 0:07:12.340 --> 0:07:15.640 And his girlfriend got saved. So she got saved. They 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.840 have a little kid. And then soon thereafter, he accepted Christ. 0:07:19.870 --> 0:07:22.660 And I just saw him. He's walking around with his Bible, 0:07:22.660 --> 0:07:25.090 and they call him Lazarus because he was risen from 0:07:25.090 --> 0:07:28.060 the dead. And here's the fruit of the salvation. She 0:07:28.060 --> 0:07:31.390 was offered free housing for one year. And she said, 0:07:31.390 --> 0:07:33.190 I don't want to take it because I want to 0:07:33.190 --> 0:07:35.530 live right before God and I can't live in sin. 0:07:35.530 --> 0:07:37.930 So she decided I'm not going to take the housing 0:07:37.930 --> 0:07:40.420 right now. She says, I want to marry this guy. 0:07:40.450 --> 0:07:43.540 So they're going through marital counseling, but he's telling his 0:07:43.540 --> 0:07:46.810 other migrant friends about Jesus. They're making fun of him. 0:07:46.810 --> 0:07:50.560 And I thought here was a guy almost overdosed from drugs, 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.560 went to hell, and now he accepted Christ. He wants 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.710 to be a family man. I hear that story and 0:07:56.710 --> 0:08:00.070 I say, that's why I'm here. 0:08:00.580 --> 0:08:03.280 Oh, Phil, I mean, he's in Tren de Aragua. I mean, 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.470 come on. And God delivers him. 0:08:05.650 --> 0:08:07.810 He was violent, and the guy said he would walk 0:08:07.810 --> 0:08:10.750 around mean angry again. One time he's banging on our 0:08:10.750 --> 0:08:14.080 windows and I'm thinking, is there any hope for this guy? 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.740 And somehow he got saved and to see his family. 0:08:17.740 --> 0:08:21.370 But when his girlfriend said, I can't accept free housing 0:08:21.370 --> 0:08:23.410 because I know it's going to be temptation and I 0:08:23.410 --> 0:08:24.670 want to live right now. 0:08:24.700 --> 0:08:24.940 Wow. 0:08:24.970 --> 0:08:28.090 I said, that's the fruit. There's something happened to these folks. 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:32.620 How many of these people that you minister to have 0:08:32.620 --> 0:08:38.319 a little bit of an upbringing in a real committed 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.189 Christian home or kind of culture, and when they get saved, 0:08:42.190 --> 0:08:45.160 everything starts to click together. Is there some of that 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:45.969 going on? 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.160 Oh, yeah. There's a number of people that are raised 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.500 with Christian families, are raised in the church, and they 0:08:50.500 --> 0:08:53.170 just walked away from it. But when they come here, 0:08:53.170 --> 0:08:57.000 they encounter the gospel themselves and come to Jesus Christ, 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.030 and you hear families call us and say, thank you. 0:09:00.030 --> 0:09:03.750 And I had a mother. This one, this one girl, Lisa, 0:09:03.750 --> 0:09:05.699 was a drug addict for years. She did not see 0:09:05.700 --> 0:09:09.240 her mother for three years. Imagine as a parent, not 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.130 seeing your child for three years. She said her heart 0:09:11.130 --> 0:09:15.630 was broken. The daughter came here. She accepted Christ. The 0:09:15.630 --> 0:09:18.720 two of them sit together in service every Saturday now. 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.970 But the mother said to me, thank you for giving 0:09:20.970 --> 0:09:24.210 me my daughter back. And when I heard that, I 0:09:24.210 --> 0:09:27.449 just you almost break down in tears. And her name 0:09:27.450 --> 0:09:29.580 was Lisa again. And she shared the story. When she 0:09:29.580 --> 0:09:32.040 was living in sin, she was one day sleeping in 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.860 the bed with her boyfriend and a gang broke into 0:09:34.860 --> 0:09:38.250 the room and shot and killed her boyfriend. The guy's 0:09:38.250 --> 0:09:41.850 body was there, the corpse was there. She was in trauma, 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.810 addicted to drugs, no hope in life, separated from her 0:09:45.809 --> 0:09:49.140 family and to see her sitting in a service now 0:09:49.140 --> 0:09:52.230 with her Bible singing praises to God. 0:09:52.260 --> 0:09:52.770 Wow. 0:09:53.070 --> 0:09:53.820 Goodness. 0:09:54.090 --> 0:09:56.069 I always say that to the staff. I said, that's 0:09:56.070 --> 0:09:58.829 why we do what we do. Yeah, that's the reason. 0:09:58.860 --> 0:10:02.069 Well, Phil. Phil Kwiatkowski, Pacific Garden mission with us right now. 0:10:02.070 --> 0:10:04.620 Let's talk about a little bit about what you do, 0:10:04.620 --> 0:10:07.290 because people are hearing the stories and go, what in 0:10:07.290 --> 0:10:11.400 the world happens inside this building? You still on Canal 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:15.330 Street last I checked. What's happening inside those walls? That 0:10:15.330 --> 0:10:17.760 this kind of transformation is possible. 0:10:17.790 --> 0:10:21.420 It's the gospel. It's primarily a homeless shelter. Men, women, 0:10:21.420 --> 0:10:23.490 children will walk through our doors. We'll see on any 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:28.440 given night, anywhere from 600 to 800 homeless individuals. And 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.150 many of them, when they come here, they come here 0:10:30.150 --> 0:10:33.870 in crisis. And real quick, I just this guy named James, 0:10:33.870 --> 0:10:37.290 he was a drug addict, meth addict, took everything from him. 0:10:37.290 --> 0:10:39.179 He was on the streets. And this is what he 0:10:39.179 --> 0:10:40.920 said to me. He wrote me a letter. He said 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.770 I cried the first night I slept on the third 0:10:43.770 --> 0:10:46.770 floor because they gave me a pillow. I hadn't had 0:10:46.770 --> 0:10:51.179 a pillow in over three years. Here's a guy crying 0:10:51.179 --> 0:10:54.380 because he has a pillow. When I'm at home, I'm 0:10:54.380 --> 0:10:57.710 worried that my cable go out or, you know, he's 0:10:57.710 --> 0:11:01.189 crying because he. He didn't have a pillow. So people 0:11:01.190 --> 0:11:04.220 come here, they're broken. And think about this. In order 0:11:04.220 --> 0:11:07.130 to come to a shelter, that means every door is closed. 0:11:07.130 --> 0:11:10.730 Your family either can't have you or doesn't want you. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.820 Every door. So you end up at Pacific Garden Mission. 0:11:13.820 --> 0:11:16.340 And we have the gospel. Three times a day. We 0:11:16.340 --> 0:11:19.310 don't make it voluntary. It's mandatory if you want soup. 0:11:19.309 --> 0:11:22.250 We are not government funded. So we can set our 0:11:22.250 --> 0:11:25.189 own rules because God's people support God's ministry. You have 0:11:25.190 --> 0:11:26.030 to hear the gospel. 0:11:26.059 --> 0:11:26.900 I love it. 0:11:27.230 --> 0:11:29.540 And once you hear the gospel, if you get saved, 0:11:29.540 --> 0:11:32.780 we have a drug program. People will deal with their 0:11:32.780 --> 0:11:36.680 addiction from a biblical perspective. There's a discipleship program. You 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.920 can stay here for a year and a half, be discipled, grow, 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.189 go to classes and a lot of these folks because 0:11:43.220 --> 0:11:44.719 as we know, Carl, I heard you a couple of 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.260 weeks ago talking about salvation. There's a lot of lot 0:11:48.290 --> 0:11:52.390 of issues people deal with, right? And it's just the beginning. 0:11:52.390 --> 0:11:55.179 But you counsel with somebody, you talk with people. Then 0:11:55.179 --> 0:11:58.569 we have graduations where we get jobs for folks, and 0:11:58.570 --> 0:12:00.490 people come here and they hire our folks and they 0:12:00.490 --> 0:12:03.280 can go back into society. But to see somebody who 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.640 was drug addicted and homeless when they graduate and they 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.250 go to work, I just praise God and lift up 0:12:09.250 --> 0:12:09.730 my hands and. 0:12:09.730 --> 0:12:10.599 Say, thank you, Jesus. 0:12:11.110 --> 0:12:14.290 Now, here's what's weird about your job is that you 0:12:14.290 --> 0:12:17.740 guys are down there serving people, many of whom are 0:12:17.740 --> 0:12:20.650 enemies of the cross, and they don't like what you're selling. 0:12:20.650 --> 0:12:23.140 And I remember one time as a little guy going 0:12:23.140 --> 0:12:25.840 with my dad to the Anchorage Rescue Mission. He went 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.600 every week and he preached and he played his fourth 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:32.380 string guitar. And I got up there with my dad 0:12:32.380 --> 0:12:34.989 and he says, all right, we're going to sing a 0:12:34.990 --> 0:12:36.760 song to you. Me and my son. And we sang 0:12:36.790 --> 0:12:39.880 a song at that rescue mission. And then this guy 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.520 in this front row, man, I found out later he 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.209 got saved. But he was a cussing fool. First time 0:12:46.210 --> 0:12:48.160 I'd ever heard anything like it in my life. My 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.650 dad's in the middle of preaching and he starts cussing 0:12:50.650 --> 0:12:54.220 out my dad while he's preaching the gospel, raging on 0:12:54.220 --> 0:12:56.950 him and then looking at me, raging on me. How 0:12:56.950 --> 0:13:00.520 do you handle when you're up there giving the gospel, 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.460 or you're given a cup of soup and they're basically 0:13:03.460 --> 0:13:06.190 shaking a fist at God, not you, but they're shaking 0:13:06.190 --> 0:13:08.260 a fist at God. How do you handle that? Because 0:13:08.260 --> 0:13:10.809 a lot of people try to share their story and 0:13:10.809 --> 0:13:13.990 they meet resistance. How has God given you the ability 0:13:13.990 --> 0:13:15.040 to soldier on? 0:13:15.070 --> 0:13:18.250 I would rather have somebody angry than apathetic, because when 0:13:18.250 --> 0:13:21.190 you're angry, it shows. Maybe something's going on when you 0:13:21.190 --> 0:13:23.860 just don't care, it's harder to reach them. And again, 0:13:23.890 --> 0:13:26.110 you know you're going to have opposition. And we do 0:13:26.140 --> 0:13:29.530 most of those folks, if you have a conversation with 0:13:29.530 --> 0:13:32.109 them outside, say, come here for a second. Look, if 0:13:32.140 --> 0:13:35.290 we're giving you free clothes, we have a clinic here. 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.260 Lawndale clinic runs our clinic. We have doctors, we have nurses, 0:13:38.260 --> 0:13:41.650 we have a barber. We give you three meals a day. 0:13:41.650 --> 0:13:44.530 And how you pay rent. We ask you one thing. 0:13:44.530 --> 0:13:47.020 Just sit in the service. You don't have to believe 0:13:47.020 --> 0:13:48.939 what we believe. You don't have to like it. Just 0:13:48.940 --> 0:13:52.080 out of respect. And most folks, I found out. All right, 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.330 I got you. You know, they will sit there because 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.750 especially in the winter time, uh, the alternative is what? 0:13:57.750 --> 0:13:59.550 You have to leave and you stand outside so they 0:13:59.550 --> 0:14:01.200 will listen to the gospel. 0:14:01.230 --> 0:14:04.050 All right. Give us a quick word of encouragement for 0:14:04.050 --> 0:14:06.839 someone who's like, all right, I'll sit there. And then 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.300 one day, the Holy Spirit blindsided him. You got to 0:14:09.300 --> 0:14:10.650 have one of those, Phil. 0:14:11.010 --> 0:14:12.990 There's guys that have been sitting here, and I see 0:14:12.990 --> 0:14:15.720 them all the time, maybe for five, ten years. And 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.510 I think of a guy that was recently on our program, 0:14:18.510 --> 0:14:21.030 and he was sitting here for many years, and all 0:14:21.030 --> 0:14:23.850 of a sudden somehow. And that's where it's God. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:24.360 Yes. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.310 Something just clicked. 0:14:26.340 --> 0:14:26.820 Yeah. 0:14:26.850 --> 0:14:32.130 Something clicked. And he gets saved, joins our program. And 0:14:32.130 --> 0:14:34.380 when you see him now in the program, it didn't 0:14:34.380 --> 0:14:37.080 make sense before. And that's just the Holy Spirit. It 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.710 makes sense and real quick. What also is exciting is 0:14:40.710 --> 0:14:43.859 I got a letter from somebody, an email. And this 0:14:43.860 --> 0:14:47.790 guy says he was here in 2005 for four months. 0:14:47.790 --> 0:14:50.790 He says, I was a drug addict, I was hopeless. 0:14:50.820 --> 0:14:52.770 And he says while sitting at the old lighthouse. And 0:14:52.770 --> 0:14:55.290 this is his own letter on State Street at 20 0:14:55.290 --> 0:14:57.690 years ago, I accepted Christ. He said, now I have 0:14:57.690 --> 0:15:00.150 founded an outreach called children of the Lord. I have 0:15:00.150 --> 0:15:03.240 pastored a church in Milwaukee, am now pastoring a church 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:06.570 in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. He says, keep doing what you're doing. 0:15:06.570 --> 0:15:09.810 It works. Here's a guy that's here 20 years ago. 0:15:09.990 --> 0:15:10.920 You know, he's he's. 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.260 Not a convert that I would ever know his name. 0:15:13.260 --> 0:15:16.320 He never joined a program. Nobody would. He wouldn't be 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.300 in one of our newsletters. I have no idea who 0:15:18.300 --> 0:15:21.780 he was, but he heard the gospel left, and now 0:15:21.780 --> 0:15:25.739 he's pastoring a church. And I thought, wow. I mean, 0:15:25.770 --> 0:15:27.840 that's that's the power of the gospel. 0:15:27.870 --> 0:15:30.870 One of the ways that you capture some of the stories, 0:15:30.870 --> 0:15:35.220 like you've shared today, Phil, is through the unshackled radio program, 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:39.810 which is an incredible, compelling drama, true life stories, as 0:15:39.810 --> 0:15:42.870 this is a ministry of Pacific Art mission. Capturing some 0:15:42.870 --> 0:15:45.840 of these stories. Give us a word on unshackled! 0:15:45.930 --> 0:15:49.790 Oh, unshackled is amazing. It is the oldest radio program, 0:15:49.790 --> 0:15:52.940 secular or Christian in the country. Every Saturday we tape 0:15:52.940 --> 0:15:55.730 it live at 3:00 and people are welcome to come 0:15:55.730 --> 0:15:58.010 and they sit and it's a live audience. But guys, 0:15:58.010 --> 0:16:01.520 to hear the stories again real quick. There was a lady, Rose, 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.460 who was a crack cocaine addict. We just did her 0:16:04.460 --> 0:16:07.460 story two Saturdays ago in the midst of her addiction. 0:16:07.460 --> 0:16:11.360 She was going to sell her child for $10,000, and 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:15.500 she stole $65,000 from her mom for her drug addict. 0:16:15.530 --> 0:16:18.229 She comes to the mission, gets saved. She comes back, 0:16:18.260 --> 0:16:21.260 does her story. And seated in that audience was that 0:16:21.260 --> 0:16:24.410 daughter that she would have sold for $10,000 and her 0:16:24.410 --> 0:16:27.140 mother was next to her. And at the end of 0:16:27.140 --> 0:16:29.840 her unshackled story, they recreated what happened to her. Her 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.750 mother has dementia, and the judge was going to award 0:16:32.750 --> 0:16:35.780 custody to somebody in the family. So some in the 0:16:35.780 --> 0:16:38.060 family were saying Rose was no good. She was a 0:16:38.060 --> 0:16:41.000 drug addict, the judge said. She's been down to Pacific 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.910 Garden Mission in her life has changed. I award custody 0:16:43.910 --> 0:16:46.640 to the mother, but the mother was sitting in that 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.100 unshackled story. It's one of those I walk out with 0:16:49.100 --> 0:16:52.130 tears how different her story could have been if she 0:16:52.130 --> 0:16:53.780 would have sold her child. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:54.200 And. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.130 Then her child was in service with her. That's unshackled. 0:16:58.130 --> 0:17:01.700 The stories of real changed lives. 0:17:02.210 --> 0:17:05.750 Oh, I gotta exhale, man. I hold my breath. I 0:17:05.750 --> 0:17:08.060 don't know how you do it. Still, that's where we started. 0:17:08.060 --> 0:17:11.240 I do not know how you do it. But, Phil, 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.760 you've never done anything but come in here and bring 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.540 the juice, man. You're filled up with God, man. Okay, 0:17:17.570 --> 0:17:19.340 here's what we got. Boom crew. We got a link 0:17:19.340 --> 0:17:21.440 for you that is totally different. We're going to turn 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.570 you on to some stories that are really cool, and 0:17:23.570 --> 0:17:25.220 there's going to be a way for you to find 0:17:25.220 --> 0:17:27.230 a link if you want to throw some shekels. Phil 0:17:27.230 --> 0:17:30.980 kwiatkoski his way through Pacific Garden Mission. But Ali, how 0:17:30.980 --> 0:17:31.520 do we do it? 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.399 Yeah. If you want more on the unshackled radio program 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:40.700 and Pacific Garden Mission, just text garden to 800 555 7898. 0:17:40.700 --> 0:17:43.610 You'll find it all using this one link garden to 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.280 800 555 7898. 0:17:46.310 --> 0:17:49.210 You can take him out of Alaska, but you can't 0:17:49.210 --> 0:17:53.170 take Alaska out of him. Carl is in the crew. 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.139 It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:01.899 If your hand is shaking, maybe you're sweating a bit. 0:18:02.410 --> 0:18:02.980 Chills. 0:18:02.980 --> 0:18:08.020 Scratching. Chills. Pacing the floor. It could be, in fact, 0:18:08.230 --> 0:18:14.140 that you have suffered from. Ali thinks it's funny. Withdrawals. Oh, 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.600 and we want to care for you right now. No 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:20.320 more scratching. No more sweating. No more. 0:18:21.550 --> 0:18:25.990 You are back. Oh. 0:18:26.260 --> 0:18:29.889 I'm back. See, Ali's getting so crazy working with me. 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.189 She doesn't know you like you do, Sabrina. She goes. 0:18:33.190 --> 0:18:35.650 She just goes on top of it. I'm back. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:35.950 Yeah. 0:18:35.980 --> 0:18:38.740 Okay, just pull up to the car and crew, drive 0:18:38.770 --> 0:18:41.410 through and pick up your prescription of. Ali thinks it's funny. 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:42.280 Oh, I like it. Yeah. 0:18:42.310 --> 0:18:45.460 Oh, it'll get that sweating and scratching. 0:18:45.490 --> 0:18:45.910 Okay. 0:18:45.910 --> 0:18:49.090 Got it You did that just for you. 0:18:49.300 --> 0:18:49.690 You. 0:18:52.660 --> 0:18:58.210 Withdrawals that have those symptoms. Come on! Fire! The stupid 0:18:58.210 --> 0:18:59.290 spot you're under. 0:18:59.320 --> 0:18:59.770 Well. 0:19:00.220 --> 0:19:01.090 Why does herself. 0:19:01.090 --> 0:19:04.540 Laugh no matter who joins her? It's time for Ali. 0:19:04.570 --> 0:19:05.650 Thinks it's funny. 0:19:05.740 --> 0:19:07.900 Sitting here hanging me out like summer sausage. 0:19:07.930 --> 0:19:11.470 Well, you generally, like, don't say anything anymore. 0:19:11.500 --> 0:19:14.439 Oh, you fired all the time without me saying anything. 0:19:14.470 --> 0:19:15.490 Oh. That's funny. 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:16.210 Guys. Ready? 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.430 All right. Yeah. Sorry. We're duking it out in here. 0:19:18.460 --> 0:19:19.960 Ready to have your mind blown. 0:19:19.990 --> 0:19:20.530 Oh, wow. 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:21.010 Yeah. 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.710 You just you just set yourself up for a lot 0:19:23.740 --> 0:19:24.760 of expectations. 0:19:24.790 --> 0:19:29.770 I don't care. She doesn't care because she doesn't think. 0:19:29.770 --> 0:19:32.530 If you think it's stinko, she thinks it's funny. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:33.670 Oh, whatever. 0:19:33.700 --> 0:19:36.700 Okay, so what do you call a fly who accidentally 0:19:36.700 --> 0:19:40.119 enters the beehive? He's in trouble, by the way. A 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.419 fly who accidentally enters the beehive. 0:19:44.350 --> 0:19:45.130 Oh, man, I don't know. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:46.649 He's a wannabe. 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.900 That's pretty good. That's good. That's a good one. That's 0:19:51.900 --> 0:19:54.629 a good one. Okay. This ought to be super. I 0:19:54.630 --> 0:19:55.110 will not even. 0:19:55.109 --> 0:19:55.379 Crack. 0:19:55.410 --> 0:19:56.580 A smile. No she won't. 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:58.169 This next one's gonna get her because I got to 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.750 gear myself up for this. This one's a little wing. Nutty. 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:01.530 Oh, good. 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.920 Oh, this one is okay. Okay. I got to gear 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.500 up for this one. Oh. What do you call a 0:20:07.500 --> 0:20:10.709 mother in the UK who is on the shorter side? 0:20:12.150 --> 0:20:12.720 Oh, goodness. 0:20:12.750 --> 0:20:16.649 A mother in the UK who is, let's say five 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.980 for shorter. Folks. She is crying so. 0:20:19.980 --> 0:20:20.940 Much trying to get. 0:20:20.940 --> 0:20:21.510 This joke out. 0:20:21.540 --> 0:20:22.650 A mini mum. 0:20:28.350 --> 0:20:33.210 Come on. My eye's twitching a mini mum. 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.460 I am losing it. It's all done. That's outstanding. Jonathan 0:20:38.460 --> 0:20:39.810 and Diana, can. 0:20:39.810 --> 0:20:41.100 We check their temperature? 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:42.090 What's the matter. 0:20:42.090 --> 0:20:42.540 With you. 0:20:42.540 --> 0:20:44.129 Two? Seriously, man. 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:44.910 I don't get it. 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:46.800 We're going to get a prayer committee going. 0:20:46.830 --> 0:20:47.760 Minimum. Minimum. 0:20:47.850 --> 0:20:48.510 Minimum. 0:20:48.540 --> 0:20:49.890 Minimum. Minimum. 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:50.400 Oh my goodness. 0:20:50.430 --> 0:20:51.300 Jonathan. 0:20:51.390 --> 0:20:52.140 What? 0:20:52.170 --> 0:20:53.700 Oh, boy. He didn't get. 0:20:53.700 --> 0:20:54.869 It. Thinking of the flowers. 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:56.430 In there really bad. 0:20:56.700 --> 0:20:57.900 Were you thinking the flower? 0:20:57.900 --> 0:20:59.460 I don't even know what the flower is. 0:20:59.490 --> 0:21:00.930 Jonathan. A mom. 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:02.100 A mom I don't know what a mum is. 0:21:02.100 --> 0:21:04.050 Has nothing to do with the. What were you thinking? 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:05.580 That she just totally stepped in. 0:21:05.580 --> 0:21:06.360 The goose poop there? 0:21:06.390 --> 0:21:09.179 Yes. I was like, the only thing that came to 0:21:09.210 --> 0:21:11.640 my mind was mini mart, but that I knew that, 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:13.500 wasn't it? I didn't know. 0:21:13.530 --> 0:21:15.210 Minimum, Jonathan. 0:21:15.210 --> 0:21:16.230 I didn't catch it. 0:21:16.260 --> 0:21:19.350 See, next time when I assume that he's not laughing 0:21:19.350 --> 0:21:23.100 because he didn't get it. Don't shame me because he's 0:21:23.100 --> 0:21:26.790 not laughing because he didn't get it. You got it. 0:21:26.820 --> 0:21:32.609 Text jokes to 805, 55, 78, 98. Text jokes to 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.790 805 five five, 7898. 0:21:35.910 --> 0:21:37.889 Again, I have to confess something, though. 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:38.640 You didn't get it either. 0:21:38.730 --> 0:21:40.649 A joke? Oh, no, I got it. I got it. 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:44.160 But there was one told way, way, way back. And 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:47.149 I thought I got it, but it didn't really. It 0:21:47.150 --> 0:21:49.070 didn't really resonate with me. I can't remember what the 0:21:49.070 --> 0:21:52.100 joke was. And I got in the car and I'm 0:21:52.100 --> 0:21:55.369 driving out of here and I'm about halfway home, and 0:21:55.369 --> 0:21:56.300 the thing hit me like. 0:21:56.330 --> 0:21:57.020 A ton of bricks. 0:21:58.010 --> 0:21:59.210 Well, that would be funny. 0:21:59.660 --> 0:22:01.310 If I had embarrassment that. 0:22:01.310 --> 0:22:01.670 I didn't. 0:22:01.670 --> 0:22:01.820 Get. 0:22:01.820 --> 0:22:02.840 It while I was live on. 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:03.740 Air. It's okay. 0:22:03.890 --> 0:22:04.220 But then. 0:22:04.220 --> 0:22:05.240 I thought I did. 0:22:05.270 --> 0:22:06.980 You know, it's one of those. It's like, okay. 0:22:07.010 --> 0:22:07.190 I. 0:22:07.190 --> 0:22:07.940 Got it, you got it. 0:22:07.970 --> 0:22:09.050 Well, that's not very funny though. 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:12.109 I know. Only those with a more refined sense of humor. 0:22:12.140 --> 0:22:15.140 I mean, I get it. Sometimes there's levels to this. 0:22:15.170 --> 0:22:18.800 That's a shot at Young thunder and super die I got. 0:22:19.100 --> 0:22:19.729 I counted. 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:20.960 You guys are rubes. 0:22:20.990 --> 0:22:23.510 I counted two texts of people who said they also 0:22:23.510 --> 0:22:26.570 did not get the the minimum punchline. So. 0:22:26.570 --> 0:22:28.970 So you're finding other people to validate? 0:22:29.030 --> 0:22:31.190 Okay. It's okay. Like I said, there's levels. 0:22:31.220 --> 0:22:32.179 There's there's. 0:22:32.180 --> 0:22:32.480 Levels. 0:22:32.570 --> 0:22:37.160 7% of America thinks chocolate milk comes from brown cows. 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:39.679 So be careful with your small percentages. 0:22:39.710 --> 0:22:40.580 Is that a real stat? 0:22:40.609 --> 0:22:41.900 That's a real stat. 0:22:41.930 --> 0:22:42.530 Yes it. 0:22:42.530 --> 0:22:42.950 Is. 0:22:42.980 --> 0:22:48.830 Come on stat Statman text jokes to 800 555 7898. 0:22:48.859 --> 0:22:51.139 I love torturing my teammates with this. 0:22:51.170 --> 0:22:51.410 Yeah. 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:52.969 No, it's it's just good. 0:22:52.970 --> 0:22:53.420 I got. 0:22:53.420 --> 0:22:54.470 Tears again. 0:22:54.500 --> 0:22:56.030 Oh, the two of you. 0:22:56.060 --> 0:22:57.380 Oh, yeah. 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:03.050 I think she's genuinely hilarious, especially with the British accent. 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:04.639 It was such a bad British. 0:23:04.670 --> 0:23:06.350 It was a bad British accent. 0:23:06.380 --> 0:23:07.340 That's what makes it good. 0:23:07.430 --> 0:23:09.199 She was crying, but I knew that I had to 0:23:09.230 --> 0:23:11.540 go for it. I knew it just. It would just 0:23:11.570 --> 0:23:13.550 add something if I just went for it. So. 0:23:13.580 --> 0:23:14.300 Clip, clip. 0:23:14.300 --> 0:23:15.800 That for me. I got to send that to my 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:17.510 mother in law because she's from Scotland. 0:23:17.540 --> 0:23:18.229 She'll see if. 0:23:18.230 --> 0:23:18.470 She. 0:23:18.470 --> 0:23:18.830 Gets it. 0:23:18.859 --> 0:23:21.080 Yeah, well, she'll get it, but I want to get 0:23:21.109 --> 0:23:23.480 I want to I want her to rate your accent. 0:23:23.660 --> 0:23:24.140 Well. 0:23:24.170 --> 0:23:26.000 000, no. 0:23:26.030 --> 0:23:27.410 That's terrible. 0:23:27.500 --> 0:23:27.920 Man. 0:23:27.950 --> 0:23:30.350 When I married my bride, I could not understand my 0:23:30.350 --> 0:23:31.340 mother in law. 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:32.989 Oh, and then. 0:23:32.990 --> 0:23:34.760 I found out that was a good thing. No. 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:36.680 I'm kidding. Whoa, whoa. 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:38.060 I'll send that to your mother in law. 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:39.770 I like my mother in law. 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:40.010 Yeah. 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:40.490 Chop that. 0:23:40.490 --> 0:23:43.060 Up. Chopping it over the line. 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:45.610 Now I'm over the line. 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:46.600 Yeah, it was too far. 0:23:46.780 --> 0:23:49.810 Oh, for crying out loud. All right, coming up here 0:23:49.810 --> 0:23:54.639 in a moment. Uh. Let's see. What are we doing here? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:23:54.670 --> 0:24:04.090 I remember where we're at. Gotta follow those breadcrumbs out there. Um. Boy, there's. Look, 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:06.760 I'm just going to give you the punchline right now. 0:24:06.790 --> 0:24:11.320 Butch and sunny. I didn't really understand how much they 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:14.470 put it out there until I began to understand what 0:24:14.470 --> 0:24:19.210 it takes to even come back. Details coming up. Got 0:24:19.210 --> 0:24:22.270 a little soundbite. I never get tired of these things. 0:24:22.270 --> 0:24:24.370 Does anyone else get tired of this stuff? 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:27.400 It's a great story. It's a great story. Yeah. 0:24:27.430 --> 0:24:28.600 Cool stuff. 0:24:29.410 --> 0:24:33.970 A basketball mom who's mastered the dad joke. Ali is 0:24:33.970 --> 0:24:37.900 in the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:24:37.930 --> 0:24:40.419 Okay, I'm going to. I'm going to give you the 0:24:40.420 --> 0:24:43.199 lead right now because I want to get calls in here. Uh, 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:45.810 I saw this live. Anyone will see it live. Super die. 0:24:45.840 --> 0:24:46.590 You did, I did. 0:24:47.550 --> 0:24:48.870 Oh, my. Really cool. 0:24:48.869 --> 0:24:51.960 So glad I did. Oh, the biggest, the best part 0:24:51.960 --> 0:24:54.330 of this whole thing was the dolphins. 0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:56.220 Oh, I didn't hear about the Dolphins. 0:24:56.430 --> 0:25:00.840 The dolphins? No, literally, the capsule hits the water. It's 0:25:00.840 --> 0:25:03.090 bobbing around for about 30s. And then all of a 0:25:03.090 --> 0:25:09.030 sudden those dolphins pod starts, just starts swarming around the pod. 0:25:09.180 --> 0:25:10.350 And they're pretty. 0:25:10.470 --> 0:25:13.230 They're jumping out of the water like they're excited. Oh, 0:25:13.230 --> 0:25:17.100 but it was beautiful. I mean, bluebird day seas were 0:25:17.100 --> 0:25:19.889 absolutely calm. All right, take a listen to this. 0:25:20.550 --> 0:25:26.340 200 copy, 200m brace for splashdown. 0:25:28.020 --> 0:25:32.159 And space freedom. Splashdown. Good. Main relief. 0:25:33.090 --> 0:25:38.850 Copy. Splashdown. We see main chutes cut. Nick. Alex. Butch. Sonny. 0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:41.910 On behalf of space X, welcome home. 0:25:42.480 --> 0:25:48.810 MC astronaut. Alex. Cosmonaut from Russia. Excuse me. Butch and sunny. 0:25:48.840 --> 0:25:54.149 Stranded in space. Excuse me. It began as a three 0:25:54.150 --> 0:25:57.960 hour tour and went on for nine months. Man. 0:25:58.050 --> 0:26:00.300 Seriously? It was supposed to be a week. No joke. 0:26:00.300 --> 0:26:03.689 A week. Nine months later, they're finally, finally back home. 0:26:03.720 --> 0:26:06.180 Here's the kicker. They know that going in that anything 0:26:06.180 --> 0:26:09.419 can happen. Yeah, you know that. They know it going in, guys. 0:26:09.450 --> 0:26:13.200 I guess you mentally have to be prepared for that 0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:16.920 because otherwise, I mean, it's a floating tin can in 0:26:16.920 --> 0:26:19.800 the sky that you can't get off of on your own. 0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:21.270 And so if there's a problem, you have to be 0:26:21.270 --> 0:26:22.620 prepared to be up there for a while. 0:26:22.650 --> 0:26:26.070 And here's the verse right out of Ecclesiastes 11, verse four. 0:26:26.100 --> 0:26:29.010 I love this. He who observes the wind will not sow, 0:26:29.040 --> 0:26:32.520 and he who regards the clouds will not reap. Do 0:26:32.520 --> 0:26:34.320 you know how easy it is to get your eyes 0:26:34.320 --> 0:26:37.350 on all the obstacles to God's calling on your life? 0:26:37.380 --> 0:26:39.240 Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo! 0:26:39.750 --> 0:26:43.610 Oh, I love even saying that because it's it's it's 0:26:43.609 --> 0:26:47.210 self provocative to me. I love that, I love saying 0:26:47.210 --> 0:26:49.370 things that get me going. You know what I mean? Yeah. 0:26:49.400 --> 0:26:54.560 It's like yeah, that's true. It is. We all know 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:57.859 what it's like to hear or suspect. At least we 0:26:57.890 --> 0:27:00.949 hear God's voice calling us to do something, jump into something, 0:27:00.980 --> 0:27:05.000 lead this, do this, take this job. Um, somebody texted 0:27:05.000 --> 0:27:07.850 in earlier and said, man, God told me I got 0:27:07.850 --> 0:27:10.880 to remodel my wife's bathroom. We couldn't afford a contractor. 0:27:10.880 --> 0:27:14.660 I've never done it before. And I am literally joining 0:27:14.660 --> 0:27:18.380 God in this thing. You know what? There's I don't 0:27:18.410 --> 0:27:23.690 know how many opportunities in a day God says, jump 0:27:23.690 --> 0:27:30.350 in there. Let's go. And I'm asking you to do it. 0:27:31.160 --> 0:27:33.350 And we want the stories of those of you that have. 0:27:33.380 --> 0:27:35.929 We're going to get a just a couple in here. 0:27:36.140 --> 0:27:39.229 But we want to get those stories of you who 0:27:39.260 --> 0:27:42.710 have heard God's voice, and you're putting it out there 0:27:44.240 --> 0:27:46.730 and there's an element of faith and risk involved, no 0:27:46.730 --> 0:27:49.670 question about it. Get your call in here right now. 0:27:49.670 --> 0:27:54.169 We want to hear your story. Calls 800 555 7898 0:27:54.200 --> 0:27:57.889 800 555 7898. 0:27:57.980 --> 0:28:02.929 She's a choreographer extraordinaire and everything is Greek to her. 0:28:02.960 --> 0:28:06.920 Super dei is in the crew. It's Carl and crew 0:28:06.950 --> 0:28:08.330 on Moody Radio. 0:28:08.359 --> 0:28:15.469 In an instant, heat shield comes off. Poof, vaporize. No 0:28:15.470 --> 0:28:20.330 bits and pieces of the vessel. No fragments of them gone. Poof. 0:28:20.330 --> 0:28:24.470 Why descending at. I forget what the mileage is, but 0:28:24.470 --> 0:28:31.490 going through heat of 3500 degrees, that's more. That's hotter 0:28:31.490 --> 0:28:37.730 than molten lava. That's hot. And then two chutes have 0:28:37.730 --> 0:28:39.820 to open, and then four more come out and then 0:28:39.820 --> 0:28:41.860 everything's got to be just right. And there's a level 0:28:41.860 --> 0:28:44.590 of risk involved. But the reward is huge. And that's 0:28:44.590 --> 0:28:47.230 the same way it is with God. We're not promoting 0:28:47.230 --> 0:28:51.250 recklessness or presumption, but man walking by faith is hearing 0:28:51.250 --> 0:28:53.800 his voice and going, I'm going to step out there. 0:28:53.800 --> 0:28:57.010 I'm going to put it out there. Isn't it fun, Ali? 0:28:57.040 --> 0:28:59.650 It is. And so we asked you to call in 0:28:59.650 --> 0:29:02.200 and share. What is the risk that you feel God 0:29:02.200 --> 0:29:05.320 is calling you to take in this season? Let's go 0:29:05.320 --> 0:29:07.870 to Paul. First time caller from Tennessee. 0:29:09.580 --> 0:29:12.400 Good morning. Thanks for having me on. I guess I'm 0:29:12.400 --> 0:29:15.580 jumping back into the fire, going back to a position 0:29:15.760 --> 0:29:17.620 that I was a company that I was let go 0:29:17.620 --> 0:29:20.680 from during the pandemic, while three jobs and one of 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:23.469 the positions that I lost, the company is doing better 0:29:23.470 --> 0:29:26.680 and they want me back four years later. Wow. So 0:29:26.680 --> 0:29:29.440 I'm really praying that it's a praying that it's a 0:29:29.440 --> 0:29:31.120 reset and not a repeat. 0:29:31.150 --> 0:29:35.290 Oh, you know what? That that's some guts there, Paul. 0:29:35.620 --> 0:29:38.140 How do you feel going back in? Are you are you. 0:29:38.170 --> 0:29:40.150 How's your heart with the guys that had to let 0:29:40.150 --> 0:29:43.480 you go? Obviously, you know that there was financial constraints, 0:29:43.480 --> 0:29:45.160 but how are you doing? 0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:48.190 Uh, it's a calling. I'm going back to work in 0:29:48.190 --> 0:29:51.700 foster care. Um, and it's a it's a place that 0:29:51.700 --> 0:29:55.510 really needs people with experience to serve our kids that 0:29:55.510 --> 0:29:58.960 don't have a permanent family. So I'm trusting God that 0:29:58.990 --> 0:30:00.550 I'm going to go back in it, and it's going 0:30:00.550 --> 0:30:01.510 to be different this time. 0:30:01.540 --> 0:30:04.090 Cool. Paul, stay on the horn, man. We're going to 0:30:04.090 --> 0:30:05.950 get you a Carl and Crew prize pack. Thanks for 0:30:05.950 --> 0:30:08.140 taking the time to call in. You didn't call in 0:30:08.140 --> 0:30:10.030 so you could get something, but we want to get 0:30:10.030 --> 0:30:11.710 it in your hands. Thanks for calling, Paul. 0:30:11.740 --> 0:30:14.440 Let's go to Gary. First time caller from Illinois. Gary, 0:30:14.440 --> 0:30:16.959 tell us about the risk you feel God's calling you 0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:17.680 to take. 0:30:19.090 --> 0:30:23.470 Um, I'm going to be, uh, in July and August 0:30:23.500 --> 0:30:26.530 of this year. I'm going with a team from my 0:30:26.530 --> 0:30:31.840 church to Kenya to minister to Kenyan pastors. I'm going 0:30:31.840 --> 0:30:34.420 to be doing a financial workshop for the Kenyan pastors, 0:30:34.420 --> 0:30:39.120 but we'll be going to four different It's also a 0:30:39.150 --> 0:30:44.580 widows and orphans ministry. And then. But prior to the 0:30:44.580 --> 0:30:50.100 trip to Kenya, I'll be hiking Mount Kilimanjaro with my son. 0:30:50.130 --> 0:30:51.420 Wow. Wow. 0:30:51.450 --> 0:30:54.780 Wow. That's great. Dude. That's putting it out there. Uh, 0:30:54.780 --> 0:30:56.730 are you fearless on this thing, or do you have 0:30:56.730 --> 0:30:58.500 a little bit of caution here? 0:30:59.760 --> 0:31:04.020 I've got some trepidation, no doubt about it. That's healthy. But, uh, 0:31:04.020 --> 0:31:07.590 you know, I'm. I'm saying, hey, this is the time 0:31:07.590 --> 0:31:12.719 to do it, so way to go. And, uh. Yeah. So, uh, I'm, 0:31:12.750 --> 0:31:14.070 you know, I'm praying to God that he's going to 0:31:14.070 --> 0:31:16.260 give me the courage and the strength. 0:31:16.440 --> 0:31:18.270 Where'd he go? Gary? Stay on the horn. You're getting 0:31:18.270 --> 0:31:20.160 to Carl and crew prize pack. I didn't tell you 0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:23.550 that ahead of time, but that's the surprise. I got 0:31:23.550 --> 0:31:27.120 a great one came in here. Honestly, Carl, remodeling our bathroom. 0:31:27.120 --> 0:31:31.830 It needs fixing, having moisture issues, but I can't afford contractors, 0:31:31.830 --> 0:31:34.260 so I have to do it myself. 0:31:34.590 --> 0:31:35.520 Wow. Oh. 0:31:35.550 --> 0:31:35.910 My heart. 0:31:35.940 --> 0:31:38.610 My wife is a great accountability partner. She will make 0:31:38.640 --> 0:31:40.380 sure it gets done right. 0:31:40.830 --> 0:31:41.220 I love. 0:31:41.220 --> 0:31:41.340 That. 0:31:41.370 --> 0:31:44.100 The problem is I've never remodeled before. I'm taking a 0:31:44.100 --> 0:31:47.040 big risk. However, God has already blessed me with a 0:31:47.040 --> 0:31:50.969 free vanity and wall set. Okay, see, this is. This 0:31:50.970 --> 0:31:54.390 is the life of a disciple, right? Ali, that's the stuff. 0:31:54.420 --> 0:31:58.500 Yeah. I mean, and you look to hear from the 0:31:58.500 --> 0:32:01.590 Lord on this stuff. You don't just decide. Okay? Time 0:32:01.590 --> 0:32:03.630 to take a risk today. Let me figure out the 0:32:03.630 --> 0:32:05.040 riskiest thing I can do. 0:32:05.070 --> 0:32:08.760 No, but when he tells you something, you go for it, right? 0:32:08.790 --> 0:32:11.850 And it can be remodeling a bathroom or going to 0:32:11.850 --> 0:32:14.400 do financial stewardship training in Kenya. 0:32:14.430 --> 0:32:15.120 In Kenya. 0:32:15.450 --> 0:32:19.140 How awesome is that? Here's what I'd say today. Put 0:32:19.140 --> 0:32:22.620 it out there. The clouds are always going to be there. 0:32:23.220 --> 0:32:26.790 The rain is going to fall. Put it out there, Saint. 0:32:26.820 --> 0:32:29.220 Let's go to Cathy calling in this morning from Wisconsin. 0:32:29.220 --> 0:32:31.650 Tell us about the risk God called you to take. 0:32:32.790 --> 0:32:35.520 Hi. Good morning. It's about a year ago now. A 0:32:35.520 --> 0:32:38.720 little bit over a year ago, that I was called 0:32:38.720 --> 0:32:42.320 to take on a role in county government, and it 0:32:42.320 --> 0:32:45.469 meant leaving a job that I liked, that I did well, 0:32:45.470 --> 0:32:48.920 that I was secure in, to step into a role 0:32:48.920 --> 0:32:53.570 which required a whole lot of faith and trust and 0:32:53.600 --> 0:32:58.100 an election. And it's been great. It's been hard, but 0:32:58.100 --> 0:32:59.240 it's been great. 0:32:59.270 --> 0:33:00.320 How long is that job? 0:33:00.350 --> 0:33:03.770 I've done it. Uh, I have a four year term 0:33:03.770 --> 0:33:04.520 right now. 0:33:04.910 --> 0:33:07.940 Oh, so you went for it and got this thing, 0:33:07.940 --> 0:33:08.540 is that right? 0:33:08.570 --> 0:33:11.450 I went, I went, I was I was appointed to 0:33:11.480 --> 0:33:14.450 fill a role that had been vacated, and that was 0:33:14.450 --> 0:33:16.910 only for about eight months. And then I had to 0:33:16.910 --> 0:33:19.010 run for the for the job. I had to run 0:33:19.010 --> 0:33:21.290 for election to keep the job. 0:33:21.320 --> 0:33:22.880 Wow, Kathy. 0:33:23.120 --> 0:33:23.600 For four more. 0:33:23.600 --> 0:33:24.620 Years. Come on. 0:33:24.620 --> 0:33:27.350 Kathy feels. That feels risky, right? 0:33:28.010 --> 0:33:34.040 It was scary. Very, very scary. And in the election process, 0:33:34.040 --> 0:33:37.280 ended up having an opponent that I wasn't expecting and 0:33:37.280 --> 0:33:40.070 had to go through a primary, so I had to 0:33:40.070 --> 0:33:42.080 run for election twice. I had to go through an election, 0:33:42.110 --> 0:33:43.820 I had to go through a primary process and then 0:33:43.820 --> 0:33:48.710 through a general election. Um, yeah, it was wonderful. I 0:33:48.710 --> 0:33:52.160 couldn't could not have done it without the Lord Jesus 0:33:52.160 --> 0:33:55.850 at my side. Uh, without encouragement from my husband and 0:33:55.850 --> 0:33:59.870 my family and neighbors. And and it was just great. 0:33:59.900 --> 0:34:02.630 Beautiful. Cathy, stay on the horn. You not only won 0:34:02.660 --> 0:34:05.630 a governmental position, you just got a car and crew 0:34:05.660 --> 0:34:06.709 prize pack. 0:34:06.740 --> 0:34:07.190 Love it. 0:34:07.220 --> 0:34:07.880 Yes. 0:34:07.910 --> 0:34:10.610 Okay. Put it out there. Here's my word to you 0:34:10.610 --> 0:34:13.219 guys today. I want you to listen to me clearly. 0:34:13.489 --> 0:34:19.460 Faith has uncertainty, but better to walk by faith than 0:34:19.489 --> 0:34:21.800 to sit on the spiritual couch and to come up 0:34:21.800 --> 0:34:26.090 with reasons to say no to whatever. Leading a group, 0:34:26.090 --> 0:34:31.580 going abroad, changing jobs. I mean, whatever it is, put 0:34:31.580 --> 0:34:34.490 it out there, right? Ali. Absolutely is risk. 0:34:34.520 --> 0:34:35.450 Faith is risk.