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He is lining up the breaks you need. 37 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 5: He is pushing back forces of darkness. 38 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 6: If you will keep moving forward in faith, you are 39 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 6: going to come in to unuse your faith breakthroughs, healing victories, 40 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 6: things that you couldn't make happen on your own. 41 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 5: You have to stir up your praise, stir up your fat, 42 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 5: start speaking victory over your life. Start thanking God that 43 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 5: he's fighting your battles, that this too shall pass, that 44 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 5: greater is coming. Hey, everyone, great to have you with 45 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 5: us today. It's got a great hour lined up today. 46 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 5: Got some of my friends and mister Nick Nilson with 47 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 5: us hosting the program. But guys, I got a new 48 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 5: book out. Walk got Beautiful Victoria by myself. You can't 49 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 5: miss you in the Beautiful Yellow mentioned my book. But 50 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 5: so my new book, y'all, is called Your Greater Is Coming, 51 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 5: Discover the Path to your bigger, better and brighter future. 52 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 5: I'm excited about the book because I know, you know, 53 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 5: we go through tough times. We think we kind of 54 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 5: get stuck there. But now you wouldn't be alive unless 55 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 5: God had something amazing in front of you. So hope 56 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 5: you'll stay tuned in with us. You can pick up 57 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 5: a copy as well. But Pastor Nick Nilson, thanks for 58 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 5: always hosting and be a part of of our Flakewood fans. 59 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm excited to talk about the idea of this 60 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 7: book and how relevant and how necessary it is. I 61 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 7: know we have some of our team here where we've 62 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 7: explored the book. We're excited to discuss it. Yeah, But 63 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 7: I mean, in general, I feel like it's a relevant 64 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 7: book and it's timely. 65 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 4: But what main thought. 66 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 7: What spurgs you inspired you to write it? 67 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 4: What's the main idea of the book? 68 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,079 Speaker 5: You know, Nick, The main thought is there's we all 69 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 5: go through disappointments, negative things happen. Man, the pandemic hit, 70 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 5: and you know, just life happens. And it seems like 71 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 5: at times we can kind of just put our faith 72 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 5: on hold and let me just make it through and okay, 73 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 5: I'll just survive. But there's a scripture that I based 74 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 5: the book off on in Psalm seventy one. It says 75 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 5: God allowed you to suffer much hardship, but he will 76 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 5: restore you to greater honor. Now, I think the principle 77 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 5: is God doesn't say that we won't go through things, 78 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 5: you know, some suffering, some hardships, some bad breaks, some disappointments, 79 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 5: but we can't stop there. The promise is I'm going 80 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 5: to bring you out better. I've got greater honor coming, 81 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 5: greater health, greater friendships, greater you know, just greater in general. 82 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 5: And so the thought is that we're not going to 83 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 5: see the greater if our mind's not in the right position, 84 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 5: if we're thinking, well, why me, why did this happen, 85 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 5: Why did this person leave, or you know, why did 86 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 5: this door close? Well that's what causes us to get stuck. 87 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 5: But I don't believe that God will let a problem 88 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 5: a difficulty of circumstances come into your life unless he 89 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 5: knows how to turn it around to greater, unless he's 90 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 5: going to bring it out greater. The scripture talks about 91 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 5: that God will make the enemy pay for bringing the trouble. 92 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 5: So my thought with this book is, let's get our 93 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 5: hopes up, let's believe that greater is coming. Yeah, I 94 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 5: went through the pandemic. Yeah maybe it slowed me down. 95 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 5: Maybe some of these other things have happened, But how 96 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 5: do we know that God's not using that to launch 97 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 5: us into new levels? And so I talk about I'm 98 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 5: reading here in the back, start believing again, start dreaming again, 99 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 5: start making plans for what's in your heart, because I 100 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 5: really believe that our you know, our mindset. I was 101 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 5: going to say our lack of faith, and everybody has faith, 102 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 5: but sometimes we're just living in a defeated mentality or 103 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 5: even just a maintaining mentality. And I believe in being content. 104 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 5: Every season is not a growing season. But I don't 105 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 5: believe that you have to be satisfied and maybe just 106 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,840 Speaker 5: accept where you are is always where you're always going 107 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 5: to be. Because maybe I didn't have a good childhood, 108 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 5: or I had a bad break at work, or I 109 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 5: talked to somebody yesterday and after fourteen years they lost 110 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 5: their job and it was a difficult time. It was 111 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 5: six months where it was real, but you know what happened. 112 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 5: God opened up a better door that was close to 113 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 5: their work. Is on the radio program yesterday and I thought, 114 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,720 Speaker 5: you know what, that's the way God is, and that's 115 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 5: the message that your greater is coming. This book will 116 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 5: help you get your mind going in the right direction 117 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 5: so you can receive the greater awesome. 118 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 4: What do you feel like? 119 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 8: You know, I was thinking about this and I love 120 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 8: the way this I love this greater sign right here, 121 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 8: because in math, you're either greater then or less then, 122 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 8: and greater then is really it's an enlarging place. You know, 123 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 8: someone may be saying, well, I don't feel greater then, 124 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 8: But if you go through difficulties the right way, you 125 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 8: will come to a spacious place, a larger place in 126 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 8: who you are and your experience and even how you 127 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 8: can help other people. So I think that the difference 128 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 8: between if we stay in discouragement or we rise above 129 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 8: it is what we're expecting, what we're thinking about our life, 130 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 8: what we're thinking about our God. And so I love 131 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 8: this book because it gives you a mentality of my 132 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 8: God is greater than this situation. I'm not going to 133 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 8: go to the less than sign. I'm going to the 134 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 8: greater than Sign. Yeah, it hurts, it's painful, you know, 135 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,679 Speaker 8: and sometimes we sit here and it's easier said than done. 136 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 8: But when we begin with this foundation, somehow we can 137 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 8: get to that greater place more quickly and not get stuck. 138 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 5: And that's what I love about this book. 139 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 8: And so I think that it would be nice to 140 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 8: say that in life we'll never have challenges and never 141 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 8: have problems, and we're not looking for challenges and problems. 142 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 8: I mean, listen, I've been through some and I don't 143 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 8: like it, and I don't really want. 144 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 5: To go to those places. 145 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 8: But through this book, I see that I can be 146 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 8: pointed to the greater Sign instead of the less than sign. 147 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 5: I love that victory. It reminds me of that scripture 148 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 5: it says that God brought the Israelites out of Egypt. 149 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 5: They went through not getting exactly right, but they went 150 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 5: through great affliction, but he brought them to a place 151 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 5: of great abundance. It's exactly what you're saying. You come 152 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 5: through those difficulties, but you know on the other side 153 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 5: is greater. It's greater abundance, greater victories, greater relationships. So 154 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 5: you know, again, getting our getting our mindset that in 155 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 5: that place is what allows God to bring it to past. 156 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 4: Yes, Clayton, you have a question for Joel. 157 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 9: Yeah, Joel, in your chapter the shaking is for shifting, 158 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 9: you talked about the COVID pandemic, which was obviously devastating 159 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 9: and disruptive for all of our lives. I know that 160 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 9: was a season where God began to shift some things 161 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 9: in my own life. What would you say, are some 162 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 9: ways that through COVID, you know, we were able to 163 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 9: positively look for greater steps in looking for God during 164 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 9: that season. 165 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great question, Clayton, And I love that 166 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 5: thought the shaking is for shifting, because you're right, you know, 167 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 5: COVID shook up the whole world, which you ever thought 168 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 5: the world would shut down like that. It's like, what 169 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 5: is God doing? But you look in the scripture many 170 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 5: times when there was a shaking, it was for God 171 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 5: to position people to move forward into their destinies. And 172 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 5: so I think one thing just for me personally, for 173 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 5: us personally. You know, it helps to recognize what the 174 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 5: right priorities are, helps us to refocus, and I think 175 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 5: that's what God does sometimes. Again, I don't think God 176 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 5: sends all the storms, but I do believe He can 177 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 5: bring good out of it. And so it helped us 178 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 5: to realize I think in general, in just the world 179 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 5: that you know, it's not all about work, it's not 180 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 5: all about just achieving. It is about our family and 181 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 5: our purpose and what we're doing. So I think it's 182 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 5: just important when you go through shakings in your own 183 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 5: life to recognize that God is up to something. Again, 184 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 5: like we were talking about, feel well, but again I 185 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 5: think about in the scripture, it was the Disciples were 186 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 5: in I believe it was in Jerusalem, but there was 187 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 5: so much persecution. It says they were pushed out to Samaria. Well, 188 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 5: if you read it, it says in Samaria that's when 189 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 5: everything blossomed, That's what. But it took the shaking to 190 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 5: get them out of where they were. And you know what, 191 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 5: the shakings may not always be comfortable, but God, again, 192 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 5: I believe it's leading to the greater and so that's 193 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 5: one of the points there is just you know, these 194 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 5: things that we go through in life. I know it's difficult, 195 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 5: but you have to have that attitude of faith that God, 196 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 5: you're still in control. God. I trust you God. There's 197 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 5: some shaking going on in my life. Well maybe, like 198 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 5: I mentioned earlier that one lady she was lost her job. 199 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 5: There was a shaking, but you know what, it opened 200 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 5: up a better door. I believe that's the way God is. 201 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 5: I think about it. Even says about Job. You know, 202 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 5: we all know the story of Job, and he went 203 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 5: through all these difficulties and it was so unfair. But 204 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 5: it said at the end, after this Job came out 205 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 5: with twice the cattle, twice the sheep. And it said 206 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 5: he went on to live one hundred and forty years, 207 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,080 Speaker 5: to see his children and grandchildren great grandchildren. And so 208 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 5: after the shaking, there are many great years of joy 209 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 5: and peace and victory. So keep your you know, keep 210 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 5: your heart from going to the self pity, the depression. 211 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 5: Why did this happen? Nothing goods in my future? No, 212 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 5: God has something amazing in front of you. He's shaking. 213 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 5: The shaking was to shift you into new levels, greater joy, 214 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 5: greater peace, greater fulfillments. 215 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 8: You know, I love those I love those examples from 216 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 8: the Bible. And I was also thinking about when Paul 217 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 8: and Silas were in the prison and there was a 218 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 8: great shaking, Yeah, and that great shaking was something that 219 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 8: caused the jailer and all the people, the prisoners in there, 220 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 8: to be look within themselves. They became aware of what 221 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 8: was going on within themselves, and the Bible said that 222 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 8: they gave their hearts to Christ, you know, and things changed. 223 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 8: The jailer's family changed. And I think sometimes God is 224 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 8: shifting and shaking because he wants us to change. He's 225 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 8: always trying to get us to a better place. And 226 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 8: as we know humans, we can get very comfortable and 227 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 8: we can get very lackadaisical, and so the shifting can 228 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 8: sometimes just cause us to be more aware and more 229 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 8: aware of our family. And I think that's what you 230 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 8: were saying, you know, more aware of what's going on 231 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 8: in our life. So sometimes those shiftings are for our change, 232 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 8: for us to change, and it's not easy to change, 233 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 8: but sometimes God will shift it so you will change. 234 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 8: So I think even in my own life, you know, 235 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 8: there's some things that I can look back and I 236 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 8: can think I didn't like that shifting. 237 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 5: I didn't like that. 238 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 8: But you know, if it wouldn't have happened, I wouldn't 239 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 8: be ready for this next season. I wouldn't be aware 240 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 8: of different things. I wouldn't have changed some things. So 241 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:51,680 Speaker 8: I think that's important as well. 242 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 5: I think that's great, Victorian, and I think as well. 243 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 5: As you go through these difficulties, the scripture says God 244 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 5: to takes you from glory to glory, and I believe 245 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 5: to the challenges. This could sound negative, but I don't 246 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 5: mean it to be. The challenges can get bigger and bigger, 247 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 5: but every challenge you go through, that's fuel to go 248 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 5: through the next challenge. That's how God's taken you higher. 249 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 5: Let me give you a better example. So when I 250 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,079 Speaker 5: first started ministering, if I would face some of the 251 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 5: challenges that I faced today, it would have defeated me. 252 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 5: But I think, you know what, God, you brought me 253 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 5: through the compact Center. God, you helped me overcome this. God, 254 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 5: I look back with my mother and how she overcame. 255 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 5: So every challenge, it may get bigger, but it's because 256 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 5: there's a bigger destiny in front of you, and that's 257 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 5: fuel for your faith. You know, David defeating Goliath and 258 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:39,719 Speaker 5: then you know he's got King Saul after him. Well, 259 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 5: God just kept building him. There were bigger challenges, but 260 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 5: that's how we reach our destiny. So know that God's 261 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 5: working behind the challenges. He's working behind the scenes things 262 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 5: we don't understand. Sometimes it's the enemy trying to stop us. 263 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 5: Sometimes it's the hand of God just using trouble as 264 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 5: transportation to move us to where we're supposed to be. 265 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 5: I think it all boils down. I know I've said 266 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 5: it three times, but it boils down to keeping that 267 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 5: attitude of faith God. I trust you. I don't understand it. 268 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 5: I don't like it, But God, I know you're working 269 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 5: in me, You're working around me, and you're taking me 270 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 5: to greater awesome. 271 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:16,679 Speaker 7: We're gonna go to some of the questions from the 272 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 7: Talk Shop Live crew, and these are these are general questions. 273 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 7: Some of them are specific related to the book. But 274 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 7: this is a question that came in from Janet from 275 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 7: San Antonio, Texas. She asked, your father was a great minister. 276 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 7: Did you always feel you're going to be a minister 277 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 7: in following your dad's footsteps? 278 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 5: I really didn't, Nick. My dad was a great minister, 279 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 5: and I admired him. He was my hero, you know, 280 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 5: growing up with this little boy seeing my dad speaking 281 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 5: in front of the church, in front of thousands of people. 282 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 5: And we'd travel across the United States during the summer, 283 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 5: and I see my dad at these big conferences and 284 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 5: everybody loved my dad. But I never thought this was 285 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 5: in me. I thought that's my dad, he can do that. 286 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 5: I was behind the scenes doing all the production. But 287 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 5: you know what, God's dream for our life is bigger 288 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 5: than our own. When my dad suddenly passed in nineteen 289 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 5: ninety nine, I'd only ministered one time before, but I 290 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 5: knew I was supposed to step up and pastor the church, 291 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 5: and I didn't feel qualified. My mind told me, there's 292 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 5: no way nobody's going to listen to you. You shouldn't 293 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 5: be up there. But you know what, I took that 294 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 5: step of faith. Sometimes you have to you have to 295 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 5: went out sometimes probably a lot of times, you have 296 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 5: to bypass what's up here and listen to what's down 297 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 5: in here. You have to follow what God's put in 298 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 5: your heart. And it didn't make sense to my mind, 299 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 5: but I took that step of faith, and you know, 300 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 5: there I stepped into greater I stepped into what I 301 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 5: never dreamed, never dreamed I would be doing this, never 302 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 5: dreamed i'd be here with all of you guys today 303 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 5: and be sitting in the This is an extension of 304 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 5: the Compact Center where we're in right now. And so 305 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 5: you know it's part of our core message that you 306 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 5: don't know where God's taken you, you know you stay faithful. 307 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 5: I'm not bragging on me, but during those seventeen years 308 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 5: I was behind the scenes. I tried to make my 309 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 5: dad look good. I tried to be my best in 310 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 5: the reduction and living a life that honored God, never 311 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 5: dreaming that one day I would be here. But even 312 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 5: going back and get a little off course. But those 313 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 5: seventeen years, when my dad would speak a message, I 314 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 5: would have to listen to it because we would edit 315 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 5: it down from he'd speak like forty minutes and I'd 316 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 5: have to edit it to thirty minutes for a television program. Well, 317 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 5: I realize now, you know I had to hear those 318 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 5: messages four or five times every week. Well, God was 319 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 5: getting me prepared, but I didn't know it. And I 320 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 5: think sometimes if God told us what we were going 321 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 5: to do, I would have been afraid. I thought there's 322 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 5: no way. But you know, sometimes God just pushes you 323 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 5: into your destiny and you experience the favor and the 324 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 5: grace for that season. But that's a long answer to 325 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 5: a short question. But I never dreamed I would be here, 326 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 5: And I guess the takeaway is you don't know where 327 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 5: God's taking you, stay faithful where you are. I think 328 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 5: another good principle is be your best where you're at 329 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 5: right now, because sometimes we think, and I wouldn't necessarily 330 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 5: this way, but sometimes we think, I know there's more 331 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,040 Speaker 5: in me, and I'm just at this certain job, but 332 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 5: I'm just at this certain level. But if you don't 333 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 5: pass the test of being faithful being your best where 334 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 5: you are, I don't believe those new doors will open. 335 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 5: So be your best where you are. God. You're not 336 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 5: working under people, You're working under God. Promotion doesn't come 337 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 5: from people, it says, it comes from the Lord. When 338 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 5: it's the right time, God will open the doors. You'll 339 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 5: come into your greater It's awesome. 340 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 4: What about you. 341 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 7: I mean, I know, stepping into pastoring and stepping into 342 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 7: that was new. It was it was something that you know, 343 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 7: you had to take a step of faith into as well. 344 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 7: How I mean, what's your perspective of did you ever 345 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 7: imagine you'd be doing this and ministering how you're ministering. 346 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 8: And no, no, no, because I didn't marry a preacher. 347 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 5: He tricked me. 348 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 8: No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, you know, I didn't. I 349 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 8: knew what I was getting into as far as the ministry, 350 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 8: and I loved ministry, and I loved helping people, and I. 351 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 5: Helped Joel's father a lot. 352 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 8: But you know, there was there's always something in you, 353 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 8: that there's a knowing in you that greater is coming. 354 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 5: Yes, you just have to. 355 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 8: And some people don't want to tap into that for 356 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,120 Speaker 8: several reasons. Maybe they feel like, you know, they don't 357 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 8: want to be egotistical, they don't want but God has 358 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,679 Speaker 8: put something bigger in all of us, and so I 359 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 8: didn't know what that was. 360 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 5: I used to ask Joel, Now, Joel. 361 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 8: You know, if something's coming down the pike, you have 362 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 8: to tell me. Make sure that you don't know things 363 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 8: I don't know. 364 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 5: And because I. 365 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,199 Speaker 8: Always felt like not this, but I always felt like 366 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 8: there was something else, and we did so many things. 367 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 5: But I think the thing is here. 368 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 8: People don't have to shy away from feeling like there 369 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 8: is greater in their life because God's already put in 370 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 8: you what you need, and if there's something that you 371 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:45,119 Speaker 8: don't have, He's going to. 372 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 5: Make sure you get it, because God is the one 373 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 5: who's calling. 374 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 8: And I think sometimes and I know I have so 375 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 8: much and still do put so much pressure on myself to. 376 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 5: Be what God wants me to be. 377 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 8: But really God just wants us to lean into him 378 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 8: and let him bring the greater, you know. And so 379 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 8: that's a lesson that we all have to learn, is 380 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 8: to not put so much pressure on ourself. And I 381 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 8: know that you have to put a fair amount of 382 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 8: pressure on yourself, you know, because it pressure is what 383 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 8: forms a diamond. Pressure is what brings out the best 384 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 8: in us. But there's a point from being under pressure 385 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 8: to being under stress. So much stress that we put 386 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 8: on ourselves. 387 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 5: So the pressure is good. 388 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 8: I mean, I know that Joel faced a lot of pressure, 389 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 8: and I know that you talk about a lot how 390 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 8: he had to look in the mirror and he had 391 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 8: to tell himself that he could do it. He had 392 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 8: to you know, talk himself into it. And I had 393 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 8: to do the exact same thing. But so pressure is 394 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 8: one thing, but stress and where you get. 395 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 5: Really I used to get so discouraged. 396 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 8: I thought, man, Sunday comes around fast every single week. 397 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 5: You know, boy, it's a Sunday again. 398 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 8: But I think there's a greater in you, and I 399 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 8: think that if you'll just rest and lean into it, 400 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 8: God will help you get to those places. 401 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's so good. 402 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 5: And Nick, I believe the way I felt. You know 403 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 5: when my dad died that I didn't feel qualified, but 404 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,160 Speaker 5: I discovered God gives you the grace for every season. 405 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 5: So you may be thinking, well, I could never do this, 406 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,440 Speaker 5: I could never step into my greater. Well, you don't 407 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 5: feel it right now, but when the time comes, God 408 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 5: has already equipped you, empowered you. You're going to feel 409 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 5: things come out of you that you didn't know you had. 410 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:24,879 Speaker 5: I didn't think I would have this confidence, this boldness, 411 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 5: these gifts, these talents. But God's put in you everything 412 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 5: that you need so you don't have to be worried. 413 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 5: You know when vic Victoria used to tell me, Joe, 414 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 5: one day, you're going to pastor the church. I think 415 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 5: she is so off because I don't know. I didn't 416 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 5: cook it and get them to take the offering. I 417 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 5: didn't know. But you know what, there are things in 418 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,479 Speaker 5: me that I didn't know. That's what kind of it 419 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 5: really made me mad When she say that. I'd say, 420 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 5: I'm not a preacher. She'd say, oh yeah, Joe just 421 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 5: preach to them like he preached to me. But I 422 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,880 Speaker 5: thought it kind of made me frustrated because I think, 423 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 5: but what I didn't what I understand now is when 424 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 5: the time comes, you'll have the grace for it. Yes, 425 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 5: you'll have the desire to do what you're supposed to do. 426 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 5: That's what you're saying, Victoria. You don't have to put 427 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 5: so much pressure on yourself because God's going to give 428 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 5: it the grace. Yes, you have to fight the good 429 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 5: fight of faith and you have to. You know, it's 430 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 5: I'm not saying it's going to be easy, but it's 431 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 5: going to be doable. The grace will be there to 432 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 5: do it. 433 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 8: And you know, you were talking about the confidence you 434 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 8: have now compared to the confidence you had then. 435 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 5: That didn't come because it was easy. 436 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:25,199 Speaker 8: That came because you were doing what you're saying in 437 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 8: this book. It was an attitude with which you, you know, 438 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 8: embrace those challenges that came at you. And so when 439 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 8: you look back, you can say, yeah, there was some challenges, 440 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 8: but those challenges enlarged me. They made me more confident, 441 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 8: They made me see the world differently and how I 442 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 8: could make a difference in the world. 443 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 5: So I think that's don't you think that's huge? 444 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,399 Speaker 8: Like, think about every challenge you face, it prepared you 445 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 8: for where you are today. 446 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent. 447 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 4: Yeah. 448 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,120 Speaker 7: I'm going to go to another question Christina and Las Vegas. 449 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 7: She says, I'm purchasing a copy of the book for 450 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 7: my daughter who's just starting college. Can you speak some 451 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 7: words for young people beginning this next stage of life? 452 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 7: I know one of your one of your chapters of 453 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 7: the book is stepping into you know, stepping into a 454 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 7: new chapter next? Is best that kind of thing. Anything 455 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 7: you'd want to encourage them with. 456 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 5: Probably what i'd encourage my children as well, to keep 457 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 5: God first place, honor him with your life. He's going 458 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 5: to open the right doors. He's going to bring the 459 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 5: right people. And I think, you know, it's it's difficult 460 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 5: for young people to figure out who they are and 461 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,440 Speaker 5: what they're going to become and then all the options 462 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 5: these days. But I would just you know, live from 463 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 5: a place of trust, knowing that God's in control. When 464 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,879 Speaker 5: you keep him first place, He's going to bring the 465 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 5: right people. It says, what does it say, keep seek 466 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,640 Speaker 5: first of King. All these things will be added. He'll 467 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,439 Speaker 5: get you to where you're supposed to be. And I 468 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 5: do I believe too that God, will you know give 469 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 5: you the desires in your heart. My people ask you know, 470 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 5: how do I know what I'm supposed to do? Especially 471 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 5: young people? And again I don't think it's not always easy, 472 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 5: but I believe God leads you by desire, desires that 473 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 5: line up with his word. I don't mean crazy desires, 474 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 5: but you know, I always had a desire nick from 475 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,360 Speaker 5: the time I was a little well ten or eleven 476 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 5: twelve years old, to be involved in media, in the 477 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 5: production side of it. I love the cameras. We had 478 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:16,239 Speaker 5: some cameras down at the church when I was growing up, 479 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 5: and I go down on the weekends and get the 480 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 5: key and turn them all on and that stuff. But 481 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 5: that was just in me so and that's the pursuit 482 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 5: that I took. So I believe God puts things in 483 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 5: you that are natural that you gravitate toward. And I 484 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 5: believe that's part of your destiny doesn't mean it can't change. 485 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 5: But I know this, God's going to get you to 486 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 5: where you're supposed to be if you keep it as 487 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 5: you keep in first place, I believe you will. Doesn't 488 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 5: mean you're not going to make mistakes, but if you 489 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,639 Speaker 5: choose to honor Him and you know, just walk in 490 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 5: his ways, I believe you're going to see the goodness 491 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 5: of God and your life's going to be bigger and 492 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 5: better and more rewarding than you've imagined. 493 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 4: Awesome, you've got good words. 494 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 5: Big Well. 495 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 7: I was going to say, I love the story with 496 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 7: Jonathan when you were praying for him when he was 497 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 7: stepping into college and he had met a friend and 498 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 7: by chance. I mean, I think that that's very encouraging 499 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 7: that God's got divine relationships set. 500 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 6: Up for you. 501 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 8: It does have divine relationships. And I believe that you know, 502 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 8: as a parent for sure that if you pray for 503 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,679 Speaker 8: your kids, I believe that you know that's that's a 504 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 8: great thing that you can do. You can't always tell 505 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,160 Speaker 8: them what to do, but you can certainly pray for them, 506 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 8: and that moves the hand right there that rules the world. 507 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 8: And I believe that also, and you know, I would 508 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 8: just say to the young person that's going to college. 509 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 8: You know, it may be scary and it may seem big, 510 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,120 Speaker 8: and you may think that you need to attach yourself 511 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 8: to someone or something to make it through. But it's 512 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 8: those attachments, it's those divine connections that make all the 513 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 8: difference in the world. Because this is a real formative 514 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 8: year and years, and so I think that you shouldn't 515 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 8: just you know, think I need somebody to I need 516 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 8: to you know, I need to find people. I always 517 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 8: pray God bring the right people across my path. Let 518 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 8: me see those like minded people, people that I can 519 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 8: really grow with. So as a young person, that's what 520 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 8: I would say. And God will do it. God, I 521 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 8: mean he did it. He did it for my son, 522 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,959 Speaker 8: He did it for my daughter, you know. And so 523 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 8: I just I think that's I think you need to 524 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 8: just start talking to God more than talking to your friends. Good. 525 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 4: It's good. So we have one of our Sarah, you 526 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 4: have a question for Joel. 527 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 10: I do such a powerful book and a timely book, 528 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 10: and you know, I was reading in chapter six something 529 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,399 Speaker 10: New is Coming. You talk about forgetting the former things, 530 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 10: the mistakes, the things in the past, and looking forward 531 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 10: to what God is doing in our life. I know 532 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 10: I believe that, but what are some practical ways that 533 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,159 Speaker 10: I can apply that to my life so that I 534 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 10: can focus on hope instead of what happened in the past. 535 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's so good, Sarah. I think that's something you know, 536 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 5: we all have to do on a regular basis, letting 537 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,360 Speaker 5: go of the old. I love that scripture. I wrote 538 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 5: the chapter off of It's in Isaiah. We all know 539 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 5: it. It says God says, forget the former things we hold. 540 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 5: I'm doing a new thing, and then ask a question, 541 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,160 Speaker 5: It says, can you not perceive it? And I think 542 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 5: that's a part of them. I think as long as 543 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 5: we can't perceive that something new is coming, as long 544 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 5: as we're stuck in the past, you know what happened 545 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 5: and what didn't work out, and why this person walked away, 546 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 5: I think that keeps us from seeing the new things, 547 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 5: and so practical ways to do it is. I don't 548 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 5: know that it when you say forget the past, I 549 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 5: don't know that it means you don't ever think about 550 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 5: the herd, or don't ever think about you know, lost 551 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 5: my dad. It's not that you don't, but it's just 552 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 5: not on the forefront of your mind. You're more grateful 553 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,360 Speaker 5: for what God has in front of you. You're focused 554 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,239 Speaker 5: on the future. I read that scripture the other day. 555 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 5: I've never spoken on it, but it says, be glad 556 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 5: for all the good things God has planned for you. 557 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 5: And I think our mind has to be in the 558 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,439 Speaker 5: present and in the future. If it's in the past, 559 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 5: I think it's stopping us. So I guess it's just 560 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 5: for me, Sarah. I just get up every morning and say, Lord, 561 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,919 Speaker 5: I think you for this day. I think she'll tell 562 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 5: you the first thing I say when to get out 563 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 5: of bed today, it's going to be a great day. 564 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 5: I think we just have to focus on the good. 565 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 5: I think the more we focus on the good and 566 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 5: thank God for what's right, the more it pushes down 567 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 5: the past and some of these you know, it's not 568 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 5: as easy. I had a man on our serious XM 569 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 5: program yesterday and at thirteen years old, his parents abandoned him. 570 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 5: I mean, it's just like, you can't even fathom this 571 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 5: kind of stuff. But yet today he's a country music 572 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 5: star and doing great things. But you know, I think, 573 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,400 Speaker 5: how did he do it? You know? And I asked 574 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 5: him that question. He said, you know, I just did 575 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 5: it one day at a time, and he talked about 576 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,919 Speaker 5: how he said, Man, Joel, I know I had a 577 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 5: rough pass, but I was grateful that this family took 578 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 5: me in. I was grateful that they paid me twenty 579 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,360 Speaker 5: dollars to mow their law, and I was grateful that. 580 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 5: I thought, man, you have an amazing attitude. But the 581 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 5: fact is he was. He was grateful for what was 582 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 5: God was doing in his life. I think, down deep, 583 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 5: like he said Victoria, he had something in him that said, 584 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 5: I'm made for more than this. And I think if 585 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 5: the battle takes place in our mind, and I wish 586 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 5: I could say you just snap your fingers and quote 587 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 5: through things and it's done. But I think it's an 588 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 5: ongoing battle. I really think it's this. I think forgetting 589 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 5: the former things, I think it's an everyday process. Every 590 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 5: day you're every day you're letting go and every day 591 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 5: you're reaching to the new. And so I think it's 592 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 5: just to make it up our mind that you know, 593 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 5: when we give energy to the past, we're giving energy 594 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 5: to the wrong direction. And so it's like, man, I 595 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 5: need all my energy to go forward, to love my wife, 596 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 5: to play with my children to speak each weekend. I 597 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 5: can't put any energy on what somebody said about me 598 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 5: on social media, or the fact that my father went 599 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 5: to be with the Lord, or the fact that it's, 600 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 5: you know, just disappointments. So, man, you've got a big, 601 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 5: bright future in front of you, no reason to look back. 602 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 8: What do you think, Dick, Yeah, I think that's true. 603 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 8: What comes to my heart when I think about moving 604 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,719 Speaker 8: forward is the idle mind is the devil's workshop. And 605 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 8: sometimes we idle. We just idle in these hurts, we 606 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 8: idle in these things. It's just just we're just like 607 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 8: simmering in those things. And I think that it's like 608 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,919 Speaker 8: the guy on the radio said, yes, you take it 609 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 8: one day at a time, but you stay busy. You 610 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 8: realize you have purpose, that your purpose is. You know, 611 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 8: sometimes there is you know, pain, but you have a purpose. 612 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 8: And I think when you look around and you think 613 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,199 Speaker 8: of all the people that you can give to, I 614 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 8: think that's purpose. I think when you look at your children, 615 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 8: you know, that's purpose. I know when your father passed away, 616 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 8: I remember it was so difficult. 617 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 5: We were all at the hospital. It was so sad. 618 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 8: I came home and I'm just so sad, so sad, 619 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 8: and here comes my little kids running around the corner. 620 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 8: They were like, well, my daughter was two months old 621 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 8: and my son was three. 622 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 5: Three and a half. They didn't know what was going on. 623 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 5: But I looked and I thought, this is purpose right here. 624 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 8: And you know, it's like they kept me going forward, 625 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 8: you know, kept moving forward. And I think it's just 626 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 8: it's like that. You know, I've talked to people who 627 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 8: have lost a child. I can't think of anything worse 628 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 8: than losing a child, and I can see how anybody 629 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 8: can idle in that. But if you have other children, 630 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 8: there's purpose, there's purpose. 631 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 5: The people around you need you. 632 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 8: And I think when we tell ourselves that and we 633 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 8: just don't idle in those just in that hurt and pain, 634 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 8: I believe it's easier to push forward. 635 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 4: That's awesome. 636 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 7: Got another question from some of our online family, Tyler 637 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 7: from North Carolina. It's another personal question. It's a good 638 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 7: question and it's a question that's asked often to you. Joel, 639 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 7: you look fit and in shape. 640 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 5: Amen, these are easy. 641 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 4: How do you keep up your energy? Each week? 642 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 5: I take a lot of steroids, No kidding, I'm kidding, 643 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 5: you know, I'm joking, y'all. How do I love I'm joking, y'all. 644 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 5: I love to exercise. I love to I grew up 645 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 5: playing sports to did you Nick? Nick was a great 646 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 5: football player, but I grew up playing sports. So I 647 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 5: love being outdoors. I love extra sizing, working out, playing basketball, Jonathan, 648 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 5: I play a lot of tennis now. But I think 649 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 5: it's all about balance. It's easy to work all the time, 650 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 5: and I can go long and hard, but it's not 651 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 5: healthy to work all the time. I'm gonna be better 652 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 5: on my weekends. I'm gonna write better books and do 653 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 5: better messages if I'm balanced physically, spiritually, and emotionally. And 654 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 5: so I take out of the question, you know, take 655 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 5: care of yourself. You know, take time for yourself. It's 656 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 5: not selfish to say, you know what I'm gonna have, 657 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 5: I've got this. I've got a couple more meetings today, 658 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 5: I've got to shoot some things. And then, you know what, 659 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 5: I'm gonna play a couple hours of tennis, and you 660 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 5: know what, There's a lot of work to be done. 661 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,239 Speaker 5: But that's important to take care of yourself. To have 662 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 5: time to laugh with your family. And we take walks, 663 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 5: we ride bikes, when we can, we travel together. But 664 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 5: we don't live This may sound funny, but we don't 665 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 5: live a pressured stress life. We live an enjoyable life. 666 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 5: We even even a real well known minister came around me. 667 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 5: This was years ago, and she says, you're so, You're 668 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 5: so calm, You're so and she was so. You know, 669 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 5: she was uptight. But you know what, I thought. You 670 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 5: know what, I have good people around me to help 671 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 5: me run the ministry, and I just think life is short. 672 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 5: The scripture says, a relaxed life, relaxed attitude lin LinkedIn's life. 673 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 5: I want to be around here a long time, so anyway, 674 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 5: you know, try to eat healthy. I try to eat 675 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 5: healthy as it can be a lot of Mexican food though, 676 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 5: but I like chocolate cake. It's chocolate cake. But I 677 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 5: think a lot of it too, okay, and I'll get 678 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 5: off of this, but a lot of it is hereditary, y'all. 679 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 5: My mind, I can eat anything I want and I'll 680 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 5: never gain a pound. It's just some of it is 681 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 5: just God blessed me with the DNA from skinny people. 682 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 5: So here I am you know to you know, you 683 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 5: you are what you eat. 684 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 8: You know, I'm just kidding, you know, it's not only 685 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 8: he's a very active person, but I think not just 686 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 8: what he's taken in, you know, food wise, but I 687 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,960 Speaker 8: really think it's what he's taken in the environment wise, 688 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 8: what environment he's allowing to get in him. And I 689 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 8: think Jewel is extremely disciplined credible to be able to 690 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 8: set boundaries up what gets in his psyche, what gets 691 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 8: in his heart, what gets in his mind. And I 692 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 8: think that's so important because it doesn't push out, it's 693 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 8: not taking room for other things that are really important. 694 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 8: And that's not an easy thing to do, it's really not. 695 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 8: But I think that's something that we could all benefit from, 696 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 8: is like, what are we allowing from the environment, from 697 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 8: the news, from other people to go in us? 698 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 5: Because that can be really toxic. 699 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 8: And yeah, you have to know what's going on, but 700 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 8: you don't have to know every detail. You don't have 701 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 8: to watch every show. It's every it's the same thing 702 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,520 Speaker 8: just being said differently, right, And so I think that's 703 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 8: one of one of his really big strengths is to 704 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 8: be able to set up boundaries and just say no, 705 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 8: I'm not taking that in. I know enough, I don't 706 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 8: want to do that, right, now, and so I think 707 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 8: that's I think that's really important, and not everybody. It's 708 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 8: probably comes easier to you, don't you think, Yeah, it does. 709 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 8: But we can all manage that. We can all learn 710 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 8: to manage that. 711 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 5: It's such a great point because your emotional affects your physical. 712 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 5: Really it's all intertwined. But you know, if you're emotionally drained, 713 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 5: you don't it. It affects your physical body. And so 714 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 5: you're exactly right. I'm good at letting things go and 715 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 5: you know, not letting it get down. I've done a 716 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 5: message called the Secret Place. A lot of things may 717 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 5: come to your head, come to your mind, come to 718 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,560 Speaker 5: your you know, stress during the day, but it shouldn't 719 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 5: get down into your spirit. You shouldn't let things get 720 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 5: down in here, even in offense, that's going to drain 721 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 5: you and take your energy. So I'm real good at, 722 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 5: like you said, Victoria, just keeping things out. And part 723 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 5: of that is just you know, I like to if 724 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 5: I'm listening to something, I want to lift it. Listen 725 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 5: to something uplifting, I want to lift it. Listen to 726 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 5: something encouraging. It's a great minister. On one twenty eight, 727 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 5: serious sexIf no I'm kidding, but sometimes Victoria I laughed 728 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 5: so hard. 729 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 8: Okay, okay, about you. 730 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 5: She got she got the news on at night. I 731 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 5: think Victory turned the news off because she comes out 732 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,200 Speaker 5: so upset, so so irinables. Would you turn that off? 733 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,319 Speaker 5: She started turning it off. That's so much better. There's 734 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,319 Speaker 5: so much easier to live life. You know what. 735 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,439 Speaker 8: One time I said, hey, I've quit watching so much news, 736 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 8: and he looked at me and he goes, I thought. 737 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 5: You were happy. I'm just good to know what's going on. 738 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,319 Speaker 8: To keep up with everything going on, I have to 739 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:36,960 Speaker 8: do all the hard work in the fan