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Speaker 2: Oh? We answered questions? We did? I did two?

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Speaker 2: the spirit tasts.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about that.

440
00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 2: Oh, do you want to tell the story? Yeah, So

441
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 2: there was this one house.

442
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 1: Were several stories that tells.

443
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 2: One this is only one. There's like a bunch of

444
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 2: spirit tast and stuff, but there is this one house

445
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,719
Speaker 2: that I want to with just if we split up

446
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,880
Speaker 2: into little groups of our team. So it was mere translator.

447
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,919
Speaker 2: Can I say the Americans names?

448
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: Probably not, We'll just say it.

449
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 2: So anyways, were the.

450
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 1: Girls was on this podcast one time.

451
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,640
Speaker 2: Though, who can I say his name?

452
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 1: Sure?

453
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,400
Speaker 2: Okay? So I was with Travis if youond know Travis,

454
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,360
Speaker 2: and we went to this one house and right off

455
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 2: the bat, Travis was like, oh, yeah, this is a

456
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 2: spiritual ass and I was like, how do you know?

457
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 2: And he pointed to this little like pole and it

458
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,359
Speaker 2: had like a real it looked like a horror movie

459
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 2: gall it was really scary. It was like plush and

460
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 2: it had it was it was homemade, so it was

461
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 2: made from cloth, but it was like made to scare

462
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 2: off the evil spirits. And then we went up to

463
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Speaker 2: the porch and there was a lady and her daughter.

464
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Speaker 2: We're talking to her daughter. First, there was like a

465
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 2: I on the on the above the door, and so

466
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Speaker 2: the daughter was super nice. She was probably maybe like

467
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:10,159
Speaker 2: fifteen sixteen. She's probably maybe fifteen sixteen, and so it

468
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 2: was it was easy to talk to her. And so

469
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Speaker 2: then her mom came over and the daughter accepted Jesus.

470
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 2: And so the mom came over and the mom said

471
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Speaker 2: that when she went to church, she didn't she doesn't

472
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Speaker 2: go to church, and she's a spiritist because whenever she

473
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Speaker 2: went to church, she would scream. She would scream and

474
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Speaker 2: throw herself on the floor and get nauseous. And then

475
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Speaker 2: right when she said that, right when Travis told me

476
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 2: what she was saying, a moth flew by and it

477
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Speaker 2: was like a big one. It's like this big and

478
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Speaker 2: it looked like you took like craft scissors, like kids

479
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 2: scissors with zigzags, just cut it up and ripped it up.

480
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 2: And then the lady who lived there said, oh, look,

481
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Speaker 2: an evil spirit is coming to visit us. She like

482
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Speaker 2: kind of backed up to the wall. And I was like, Travis,

483
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 2: what does she mean in evil for? And he was like, oh, yeah,

484
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 2: that's a demon moth. And I just I didn't know

485
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 2: what to do. I was just standing there. But it

486
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 2: gets really heavy.

487
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: Sounds really heavy. Yeah, you could feel it. One time

488
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: we went to a house and there was a woman

489
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Speaker 1: that answered the door, and she she had this headband

490
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,360
Speaker 1: that she had made out of vines and all these

491
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Speaker 1: leaves in the front of her forehead, and she had

492
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Speaker 1: her eyes closed because she was obviously having some kind

493
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: of migraine. But there was like all the spiritist things

494
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Speaker 1: above her door, and the eyeball like you said, and

495
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: like the little tiny idols in her house. And it

496
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Speaker 1: was dark and.

497
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Speaker 2: Dirty and their dogs are mean.

498
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's an interesting connection with Christianity and cleanliness and

499
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Speaker 1: nice dogs.

500
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Speaker 2: Yeah. The dogs would try to attack me a lot.

501
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Speaker 1: And it's really scary you find a spirituist house. It's dark,

502
00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 1: smells bad, the dogs are mean, the cats are malnourished,

503
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: and the chickens are like featherless. There is when you

504
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:11,239
Speaker 1: when you have a demonic spirit around you, or if

505
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 1: you're just outside of Christ at all, in those places.

506
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: It's more evident in those mountains that there is an

507
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: uncleanliness and a darkness that follows you. So this woman

508
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: answered the door and she had this We were like

509
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 1: trying to give her tilan a and she was like, no, no, no, no,

510
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: these spirits will hurt me, don't hurt me. She couldn't

511
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: even open her eyes. So here we stood at the

512
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:42,360
Speaker 1: door offering the love of Jesus. Which is interesting. I'm

513
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: going to be preaching John five the Pool of Bethesda,

514
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like this moment in the at

515
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Speaker 1: the Pool of Bethesda when Jesus says, do you want

516
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 1: to be healed or do you want to be made well?

517
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 1: And it's amazing how many people go no, and they

518
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: shut the door back into their darkness. Saw that time

519
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: and again.

520
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 2: It's really sad too, because you're there for a while

521
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 2: and it's just no. Yeah, And it's really sad that

522
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 2: they believe that they'll get hurt.

523
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. The lie from the enemy there is that

524
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 1: if you hear the Gospel, if you take a Bible,

525
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: if you hear the good News, the demons will hurt you.

526
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: They literally think that, and not only them, but they'll

527
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 1: hurt their family.

528
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 2: Yeah. So they say no, especially their family.

529
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So sad.

530
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I want to talk about the end of the trip.

532
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: I think that's a big part of the story. How

533
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: he got home. Oh that story. If you're trying to

534
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: get a gift for someone that you think has everything,

535
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: how about a special video message from me. It's easy

536
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 1: to do. Go to cameo slash granger Smith and you

537
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: put in the prompt what you want me to say.

538
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: I get that message on my phone. I'll say happy birthday,

539
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,719
Speaker 1: happy anniversary, whatever personalized message you want me to say

540
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: to whoever you want me to say it to. I

541
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: send it to you and you give it to them.

542
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. Go to cameo dot com slash granger Smith.

543
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: It's worth that we need to tell these kind of

544
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: stories because it's we need to tell people. We must

545
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: tell these kind of stories so that they're not forgotten

546
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: and that they're spread. What a better way than a

547
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: podcast to do that. So we had prayed so much

548
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:44,719
Speaker 1: on this trip to get the plane. Right before we left.

549
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: We were flying from South Carolina because that's where the

550
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: plane was donated from the the charter plane. The day

551
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: before we left, there was a huge problem. The pilot's

552
00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: dad died. He went a while. We had trouble the day.

553
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 2: Before we left to get to the country.

554
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: Yes, so that when that happened and we were able

555
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,239
Speaker 1: to get two new pilots. But when that happened, that

556
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: messed up our the the entry to the country from

557
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: their government. They're like, wait, you changed pilots. No, we

558
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: don't approve anymore. So all the time it took us

559
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: three months to approve this, the arrival of this private plane,

560
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: they canceled it and so we just I remember I

561
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: told Travis, I was like, should we look into commercial flights?

562
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: And he said, brother, I think that would be unfaithful.

563
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:47,239
Speaker 1: I think that would be doubting God's goodness. I was like, Uh,

564
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: you're right. He's like, well, we're going to continue to pray.

565
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: We're going to believe that God's going to do what

566
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: he said he's going to do or he's not going

567
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: to do it, but but either way, he faithful and

568
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: we're going to trust him. And I was like, yeah,

569
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: that's probably a lesson I needed. And so we went

570
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: to bed that night hoping to fly the next day.

571
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: We were all there and we woke up the next

572
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: day and the country, the government approved it. They had

573
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: approved it, so we flew in and then when we landed,

574
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: you know, then we were praying for the government to

575
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: accept all of our medicines, and they did. And we

576
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: kept praying through how the medicines would get to the people,

577
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: and that the gospel would go out, that we would

578
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: be faithful in the message, that we would be safe,

579
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: that the plane would get to come back, because maybe

580
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: the plane wasn't going to get to come back, like

581
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: maybe they wouldn't approve it to come back and we

582
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: would just be stuck there or something. But it did

583
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: come back. The Lord delivered, delivered, delivered everything. He answered

584
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: every prayer and far beyond what we even asked. And

585
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: by that I mean like when the plane came back,

586
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: they were able to bring way more medicine, you know,

587
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: so way more than we could ever hope for. The

588
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: Lord did and we got back and we landed safely

589
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: back in South Carolina. Just a beautiful trip. We went

590
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: to the airport. We got incredible pizza and wings and

591
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: a cold coke zero with ice, you knows, like all

592
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: the things we got ice cream. We were just loving

593
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: every bite of fresh food and ice cream and a

594
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: drink with ice in it, just like, oh, it's so

595
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: amazing to feel these the things that can become easily

596
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: normal to us a living in the US when you

597
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: take it away for eight days and get it again,

598
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: it's just it's a novelty. And one of the guys

599
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: that was with us on the trip, he was eating

600
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: at the table with us in South Carolina, he said,

601
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: you know what, in some ways, I think of heaven

602
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: as a place where novelty is never lost, meaning everything

603
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: is novel all the time, like every food, every sight,

604
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: every smell, every sound, loving someone, it's always fresh and amazing.

605
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: Being in the presence of the Lord is always novel

606
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: and never gets old. I was like, oh, that's a

607
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: good way to look at it. As I was eating

608
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: this pepperoni pizza that was amazing to my taste buds.

609
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: So we were thanking the Lord got we got on

610
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: the plane. They went back to where they came from

611
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: in America, their church, and we got on our plane

612
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: to go back to home for us, and that was

613
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,719
Speaker 1: a flight to Atlanta that was going to get us

614
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Speaker 1: back to Austin. We landed in Atlanta and we're walking

615
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: to our gate and this massive storm comes out of

616
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: nowhere and rocks the Atlanta airport.

617
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Speaker 2: It looked like the window when you looked at the windows,

618
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 2: it looked like just waterfalls. It looked like it was

619
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 2: just flooding.

620
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Speaker 1: I took a video of it, Yeah, to remember, because

621
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Speaker 1: I've never I've traveled for decades, I have seen airport

622
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Speaker 1: after airport. There was a time in my life when

623
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Speaker 1: I went to Atlanta that airport twice a week. Did

624
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: you know that when the music? Because I was flying

625
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: Delta and most cities have to hit that airport, So

626
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: I was going there on the way to tour and

627
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: back home twice a week. Either they are salt Lake.

628
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: I had never seen a storm like that. It came

629
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. It wasn't even on the radar, and

630
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: it hit Atlanta so hard that like you couldn't even

631
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: see out the window. Like you said, the water was

632
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: gushing down, and then the lightning started and hal shaking

633
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 1: the whole place, and then the hail on all the airplanes.

634
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 2: And you know what I heard. I heard that The

635
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,760
Speaker 2: reason that you're probably going to say in a minute

636
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 2: that that happened was because the what's it.

637
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: Called the tower where like the control tower.

638
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 2: The control tower got struck by lightning.

639
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: That's what I heard too. Yeah, yeah, So so they had.

640
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 2: To evacuate everything.

641
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, this beautiful trip suddenly has

642
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: this chaos at the end, and I'm like, well, lord,

643
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: what are you doing. Here's the thing. The next day,

644
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: this was on a Friday Saturday in College Station, Texas,

645
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: was my grandmother's funeral and I was officiating. I had

646
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: actually written the message to preach at the funeral in

647
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: those mountains.

648
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 2: Technically it was already that day because it was like

649
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 2: three am.

650
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: Well we'll get there, yeah. But I was like, we

651
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: would have arrived in plenty of time if we'd got

652
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: if that flight had flown on time, it would have

653
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: get us to Austin, gotten us to Austin Friday night.

654
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,320
Speaker 1: So suddenly things started changing and the flight got delayed,

655
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Speaker 1: and they came on the announcements and they said the

656
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: planes all got hit by hail. So magnets crews have

657
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 1: to go to each plane and approve that plane. One

658
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: crew to approve each plane to fly. The whole airport

659
00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: is shut down. Every flight. It was absolute chaos. So finally,

660
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 1: after four or five hours, the maintenance crew gets to

661
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: our plane. We're supposed to leave it like seven. Now

662
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: it's like eleven.

663
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 2: No, Now it's like two.

664
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,959
Speaker 1: No, like eleven. The first time you keep pushing it back.

665
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: The first time is eleven and they came on and

666
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: they said canceled. They found something damaged from the hail.

667
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: Our flight to Austin was canceled after pushed back five hours.

668
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: So then it got rescheduled for us to go to

669
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 1: Indianapolis and then Austin. And the flight to Indianapolis was

670
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,800
Speaker 1: at like two thirty in the morning. We changed gates,

671
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: get the airport is it's like midnight by now. The

672
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: airport is packed, like I've never seen a midnight airport

673
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: because no one's going anywhere everywhere. So the people start

674
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: sleeping and I'm like, babe, we need to get you

675
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: on the ground to sleep, and you're like, I'm not sleeping.

676
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: I was like, no, trust me, you have to sleep,

677
00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: like this might be one of these nights we don't

678
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: get into a bed and like I was trying to

679
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: get you talked into a neck pillow. They're like, no,

680
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: I think I'm fine. I was like, you don't know

681
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: what fine is. Like we've been hiking in the mountains

682
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: for eight days. I need to get you sleeping in

683
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,439
Speaker 1: this airport. So we get to the gate and it's

684
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: and all the planes are being held around the whole country,

685
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: maybe the world. I guess to not come to Atlanta

686
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 1: until this tower that we learned got struck by lightning

687
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: gets back up and running. So that flight to Indianapolis

688
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: delayed two forty five, two fifty three am, and we're

689
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: waiting by the time three am comes around, canceled in

690
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: d Indianapolis, all flights all outgoing flights in the Atlanta

691
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: airport canceled. They couldn't get the tower back up and running.

692
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: Everyone people are fighting, screaming at the police, screaming at

693
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,240
Speaker 1: each other, cursing at God.

694
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,280
Speaker 2: Actually best fighting this fighting.

695
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: Or sleeping on the ground, that's what's going on.

696
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 2: Running around trying to find something to do like we were.

697
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking, Lord, what's happening? And it's the first

698
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: time I started thinking, was I not faithful on this trip?

699
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: Did I not did what I all? The evangelism in

700
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: the mountains? All that was that not pleasing in your sight?

701
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 1: Was I in some way unfaithful to deserve this? These

702
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: are things I think, These aren't realities. That's not what

703
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: the Bible says, but that's what my mind says. Are

704
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 1: you unhappy with me? God? We prayed for a plane

705
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,760
Speaker 1: to go to this country that hadn't seen a plane

706
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: in fifty years, and we got it. Can I not

707
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: have the plane from Atlanta to Austin? Or were those

708
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: other people on our trip, the other people that are

709
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: now home by now, were they more faithful? Did they

710
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: deserve it more than me? I guess they did. I'm

711
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: thinking all these thoughts, and I'm like, Okay, I got

712
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: to get you. We got to get outside because we

713
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: got to get an uber and get to a hotel.

714
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: And as I'm going, I'm thinking as we go out there,

715
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,399
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, we got to get an uber far from

716
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: here because all the hotels right around this airport are

717
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: going to be all booked because of all these people

718
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 1: dumping out into the city. So we go out to

719
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: the street and it's packed at three thirty in the morning, packed,

720
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: And I'm like, we might as well just sit here

721
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: on the street. You and I. We've been sitting in

722
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: the mountains of this Latin American country with all the

723
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: fleas and ticks. We could sit in the street of

724
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: Atlanta with everyone else. I remember, I was like, just

725
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: lean your back on my back. We'll lean into each

726
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: other and try to close your eyes. I'm waiting for

727
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,240
Speaker 1: an uber and it's just spinning. You can't find.

728
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 2: Any That was our last resort, just to sleep on

729
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 2: the ground outside, Yeah.

730
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: Sleep on the ground, no bags. In fact, if we

731
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: would have had our bags, we actually would have had

732
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: a tent and a sleeping bag and a pillow. We

733
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: didn't even have our bags. We just had what was

734
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: on We just had what was onnest. Yeah. So so

735
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get an uber and I want that

736
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: uber to get us far from the city, and then

737
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 1: I want to have a plan where we could get

738
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: out back to Austin early that next morning. But then

739
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 1: I started realizing, I don't think this is that flight

740
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:49,439
Speaker 1: to Austin's going to happen. Because Delta kept saying not available, now,

741
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:53,280
Speaker 1: not available, because their app was crashed, their website was crashed,

742
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: all the planes stuck, no one could get anyone on

743
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: the phone. The line to talk to customer service was people,

744
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 1: eight hundred people. There's no way. So I'm starting I'm

745
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: starting to think I don't think we're going to I

746
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 1: don't think we can get out of Atlanta. And I

747
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: started worrying, like the funeral Lord, would you have me

748
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: miss my own grandmother's funeral. Finally, an uber attaches after

749
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: what thirty minutes. Maybe we get in this uber. It's

750
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: this guy from like Africa or something. I think he's

751
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: from like North Africa. Very rude, and I had I

752
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: had a hotel address that was in Marietta, Georgia, which

753
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,760
Speaker 1: is about forty minutes north of the airport.

754
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 2: But he didn't check it first. You didn't know if

755
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 2: there was any rooms.

756
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: I got see, I just wanted to get Let me

757
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 1: get in the car, let's start driving north. Let's get

758
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: away from the city. Let's get a hotel, and then

759
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: I could regroup. I could figure out. I could stay

760
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: up all night and figure out this flight out of Atlanta.

761
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: There was like an eight am flight. So we get

762
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: in the car driving to Marietta and I called the hotel.

763
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: They say, we're sorry, we're all booked. So I pull

764
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: up maps. I get one right next to it, click

765
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 1: on it. Sorry, we're all.

766
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:13,320
Speaker 2: Booked in Atlanta anymore.

767
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: We'll get on another one booked, booked, booked. I started

768
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 1: calling everybody booked, and then on my Delta app flight canceled.

769
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh lord, oh lord, what would I do

770
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: I have my daughter. I don't know what to do.

771
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:31,760
Speaker 1: I like, we're in a real situation. There's no place

772
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: to sleep. The only place really to sleep would be

773
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: the floor of the airport. But then Delta rebooked me,

774
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: do you know, and they rebooked me Sunday night. This

775
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: was Friday. Oh yeah, they booked me to Austin's Sunday night.

776
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: I was like, like, I'm not I don't even know.

777
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: It's rare in my life. Have I been in a

778
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: situation where I didn't know what to do and I

779
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: didn't even have options. By now, it's three forty five,

780
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: almost four in the morning, and the driver says he

781
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: hears me calling hotels. He says, you do not have

782
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: room booked. I was like, no, sir, but I'm I'm

783
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: going to get one as we drive north. No problem,

784
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 1: I'm going to find someone that has room. Don't worry,

785
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: I'll get this figured out. Just keep driving, and he goes,

786
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: I can not keep driving if you do not have booked.

787
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm going to get one, and plus

788
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 1: I'll give you a tip. No problem, I'll I'll I'll

789
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: pay you extra. I just I need to get my daughter.

790
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: We need to get into a room, and he exits

791
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,799
Speaker 1: the highway and he goes, I must drop you off.

792
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 1: I must get back to with the money. This is

793
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: my living. I must make money at the airport. He

794
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: goes to this random gas station and stops at the

795
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: front of the gas station in Atlanta, nothing around there,

796
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: and says, I said, you're really going to drop us

797
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: off here? You're you're going to do this, And he goes,

798
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: I have no choice, and I said, you gotta do

799
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 1: what you gotta do. We get out. We go into

800
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 1: this gas station four o'clock in the morning. There's like

801
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: three men in there, playing those casino games, vaping, drinking.

802
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh lord, what is happening. We go up.

803
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: Remember we went up to the ice cream refrigerator and

804
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 1: you sat on that and I got out my phone.

805
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: Do you have any rooms available for tonight?

806
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 2: No?

807
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. Do you have any rooms available for tonight?

808
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: So sorry, we're all out? Hello, do you have any

809
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: rooms available? Sorry? With no rooms, how many do you

810
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: think are called?

811
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 2: Like? Thirty five? Thirty five in the gas station, not

812
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 2: even in the car, in the.

813
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: Car, baby, seventy yeah, I called it. Probably every hotel

814
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 1: in Atlanta that I saw in my map. The owner

815
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: of the gas station walks up and goes, she could

816
00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: not sit on this in my break the refrigerator. We

817
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: couldn't even sit down. We couldn't even sit in this

818
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: gas station in the middle of Atlanta. I couldn't it,

819
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: couldn't even sit down. And my heart was crushed. My

820
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: heart was broken. I just said, Lord, what have I done?

821
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: What have you? You have totally abandoned me. And I

822
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: remember I read the McShane plan. I thought, what's today's reading?

823
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: You know that because it was already morning. What's today's reading?

824
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: Guess what it was? PS. I'm twenty two. My god,

825
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,840
Speaker 1: my god, why have you forsaken me? I was like,

826
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: of course, of course that's my reading. That's my answer

827
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: from the Lord, and I was I was so broken,

828
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 1: and I got on my phone. I stopped calling hotels,

829
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: and I said, how far is Nashville? We looked it up.

830
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: It was four hours, four hours, and I said, I'm

831
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: gonna try to get it uber to Nashville because I

832
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 1: had it on my heart, just because it was familiar.

833
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:08,720
Speaker 1: I've lived there before. At least I'm in a city

834
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: that I know. I don't know this city. I don't

835
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: know Chattanooga or Jacksonville, Florida, or Huntsville, Alabama, or any

836
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: town in the radius, or Charlotte, North Carolina. These are

837
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: all like four hour radius towns. I'm like, I'll go

838
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: to Nashville. I caught dials an uber and put Nashville

839
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: International Airport on the Uber and he accepts it this

840
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: uber right away. I'm like, Okay, that's interesting. Somebody said yes,

841
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:37,919
Speaker 1: And I.

842
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 2: Remember you looking at me. You were like we were

843
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 2: standing outside waiting and he was like three minutes, two minutes,

844
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 2: this guy's going to cancel, Like does he not know

845
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 2: what he's doing? One minute? Does he not know what

846
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,399
Speaker 2: he's doing? And we were just waiting. We were ready

847
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:54,879
Speaker 2: to go back inside, ready for him to cancel.

848
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: And then he pulled up and I stopped you and

849
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 1: know what I do? You prayed, let's pray. What did

850
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: I say? I don't even remember? Uh?

851
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 2: You said, wait? I remember he said, Lord, deliver us,

852
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:14,439
Speaker 2: keep us safe. He said he said something like Lord,

853
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 2: deliver us and keep us safe and deliver us something

854
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 2: with this uber driver and yeah, and he said amen,

855
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 2: because he parked, So we think I think.

856
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: That's what you said, So we opened the door and

857
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,959
Speaker 1: this guy's blaring Christian music Brendan.

858
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 2: Lake and it's not even just a Brendon Lake song,

859
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 2: it's graves in the gardens.

860
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, my god, this is interesting. And he said, I

861
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: wasn't expecting you here. I thought you'd be in this neighborhood,

862
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: like I wouldn't expect to pick anyone up at this hour.

863
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: At the gas station, I'm like, did you I said,

864
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: did you see the destination? And he goes, yeah, is

865
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: that right? Nashville, Tennessee. It's like, yeah, what do you think?

866
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 1: And he goes, I've never even been to Nashville. I

867
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: was like, could you get us there? And he goes,

868
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. It's a long way. He goes,

869
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: could you do five hundred bucks? No, he said four,

870
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 1: And he goes, could you do five? And I was like, yes, sir.

871
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: At this point, I am desperate, like probably would have

872
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: said yes to a thousand. Like what else am? I spoke?

873
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: I have nothing else. It's the only open door I have.

874
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 1: I said, yes, sir, I can. And then he said,

875
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:49,319
Speaker 1: do you mind if I played Christian music? He said,

876
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:50,919
Speaker 1: do you mind if I play Christian music? I'm trying

877
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: to be more open with my faith. And I was like, no,

878
00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:03,280
Speaker 1: I'm a pastor. I don't mind. And I said, actually,

879
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: we've been praying for this ride, that you that the

880
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,879
Speaker 1: Lord will deliver us through this and he.

881
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 2: Said he said, that's strange, and I thought he was

882
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,240
Speaker 2: going to leave it at that. I was like, oh,

883
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 2: and he said I did too. I was asking the

884
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 2: Lord to deliver deliver me when I pick up these people.

885
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 2: And then he said and then you said, wow, that's crazy.

886
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 2: And then he said the Lord does provide, and then

887
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 2: you went.

888
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, something about he just said that. I started crying, yeah,

889
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 1: which is rare, like I never do that, but he

890
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 1: said yeah, he said the Lord does provide.

891
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 2: And then I don't remember anything, just because I fell asleep.

892
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I bought a Then we stopped and we got

893
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: gas for his car, and I grabbed a I don't

894
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: remember that. We stopped at another gas station, got gas,

895
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 1: and I grabbed a blanket from the truck stop and

896
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: covered you with that plane.

897
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 2: And I had a neck pillow too that we got

898
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:09,800
Speaker 2: the airport.

899
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you crashed out and I couldn't really sleep.

900
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: But then the sun started coming up and I was like, oh,

901
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: I looked at all the flights out of Nashville and

902
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 1: there was none. There was There was one at six

903
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: pm Saturday, so I was like, okay, I'll get that.

904
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:37,399
Speaker 1: It was on Southwest. I booked that flight, canceled everything

905
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,839
Speaker 1: from Delta. It's like, we're gonna miss a funeral. But

906
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: I obviously the Lord does different plans. So I waited

907
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: for the sun to come up. And when it was,

908
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:48,720
Speaker 1: when we were like thirty minutes from the Nashville airport,

909
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, man, what's your story? And he goes,

910
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: what do you mean my story? And I was like, well,

911
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: I mean I'm in your car for a reason. You

912
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: have no idea where we've been or where we've come from.

913
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: But somehow I'm with you. So why am I with you?

914
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: And he goes, well, you know, I've got a family

915
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to make ends meet. And I was like,

916
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: but spiritually, how are you? He's like, actually not good.

917
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: We had played Christian music the whole drive four hours.

918
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: He said, not good. I've been I feel really far

919
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,360
Speaker 1: from the Lord. And that's why I prayed before you

920
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: got in, because I just I feel lost, feel I

921
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 1: feel like I have you know, I'm a Christian, but

922
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I have hope. And my wife

923
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: seems to have a better plan than I do. I

924
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 1: thought that I would be an evangelist maybe one day,

925
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: but I just feel so far. And I was like,

926
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 1: how's your how's your Bible reading? And he goes, yeah,

927
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,840
Speaker 1: that's the thing I don't. I don't read the Bible.

928
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,399
Speaker 1: He was in fact, I don't read anything. I don't read.

929
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 1: I don't have time to read. And I said, did

930
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: you know you could listen? And you're in a car

931
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: like that if you make your living in this car,

932
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: did you know you could listen? Like I hadn't thought

933
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: about that, Like what app would do that? And I like, well,

934
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: there's a bunch. I said, there's one called Dwell dwe

935
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: and I looked up and he was already typing it

936
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: in the app store. It's like okay, and then what

937
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: do I do? So we could start with Matthew one,

938
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:24,320
Speaker 1: have you ever done that? And he's like, no, I

939
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: never done it. So I told him the gospel and

940
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: gave him the rest of the story, and all the

941
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: way up until the airport, I was like, hey, here's

942
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: my number. Let me be accountable for you. Obviously I

943
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: felt I didn't say I don't think I said it,

944
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,800
Speaker 1: but I felt like the Lord led me to this car,

945
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 1: which we still talk by the way, me and him,

946
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 1: but and he's in a heap of trouble, big time spiritually.

947
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 1: I've learned he's in a lot of trouble spiritually. So

948
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 1: I've been pouring in the best I can try to

949
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 1: faithful in that. But you know, we hit the airport

950
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: and we went to the desk and I said, could

951
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 1: we be on stand by for your eleven forty five?

952
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 1: And she was super sweet, she was like yeah, yeah, yeah,

953
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,760
Speaker 1: which still we'd still miss the funeral. But I just thought, well,

954
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: the Lord had other plans. He wanted me in that uber. Yeah.

955
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 1: I didn't sleep, but at least, at least I know

956
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 1: the Lord is faithful and I'm not. He's good and

957
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: I'm wicked, but but he somehow has delivered me here.

958
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 1: And so we went. We went into the airport Hilton.

959
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: It's connected to the airport, which is always booked, and

960
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 1: we went up to the front desk and I said,

961
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: do you have a room And she goes for when

962
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: right right now? And she was yes, which will we do?

963
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 1: I was like, that's the first yes I've gotten in

964
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: a while. That was the first hotel yes I've gotten

965
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: at about seventy. So we went up to the room

966
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: and I said, maybe take a bath, relax. We've got

967
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 1: several hours. We can go check in on this eleven

968
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 1: forty five flight if it's if, we can be on standby.

969
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 1: If not, we'll come back here till the six pm flight.

970
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: But just relax, try to get some sleep. And then

971
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: I knew what I had to do. Call my mom,

972
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: your grandma, And I called her and she answered and

973
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, She goes hi. I said I

974
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: have some bad news and she goes what And I said,

975
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: We're not.

976
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 2: Going to make it, said we didn't make it.

977
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: We didn't make it, and she said and then she

978
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 1: was like it's okay, and I'll start crying again. I

979
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: was like, we did everything we could, literally everything. We're

980
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 1: not going to make it, she said. And she was

981
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 1: following us on Life three sixty, so she knew where

982
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 1: we were at that point because I'd reactivated my location

983
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 1: services in Atlanta. She knew. She was like, it's okay,

984
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: it's okay. We'll find someone else. I was like, I wrote,

985
00:54:56,239 --> 00:55:00,439
Speaker 1: but I wrote the message. So Tyler or Parker, either

986
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:04,880
Speaker 1: one of those guys is perfectly equipped to lead this ceremony,

987
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: to lead the funeral. I've written the whole message. I

988
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: could literally text you right now, which I did, and

989
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 1: have Parker, Tyler, you pick one of those guys. All

990
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:15,759
Speaker 1: they have to do is read what I wrote, and

991
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:17,400
Speaker 1: it will guide you through the whole funeral.

992
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 2: And then all of us are crying, like she's saying

993
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 2: it's okay, it's okay, but she's like bowling her eyes out.

994
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:26,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, and ty She's on speakerphone. Tyler's in the background,

995
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 1: and he goes, where is he? She said? He said?

996
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 1: She said. He said he's in Nashville. And he goes,

997
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,720
Speaker 1: I'm about to text everyone I know in next Nashville

998
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:37,280
Speaker 1: for a flight.

999
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,879
Speaker 2: Be praying, he said, for a private jet.

1000
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tyler. So we start praying. We're like, okay, whatever,

1001
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 1: you know, start praying. I was like, I'm gonna go

1002
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 1: get some coffee. You relax, you get in the bath.

1003
00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: And then Tyler goes, hey, somebody replied, I won't say who,

1004
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: I'll protect them. Somebody replied, who you used to work with?

1005
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: And they said they might be able to get you home.

1006
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:13,280
Speaker 1: I was like, well that's cool. Where Like he said,

1007
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 1: can you be ready at eleven at the airport. I

1008
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:22,440
Speaker 1: was like yeah, it was like ten. Yeah, I went

1009
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: and got you. I was like, let's go get a

1010
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:27,880
Speaker 1: quick breakfast. Tyler just said be ready if possible, and

1011
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 1: then sure enough, at like ten thirty, he was like, hey,

1012
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 1: it's confirmed they have but there's a jet coming. I

1013
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: was like okay. I still didn't really know, like how

1014
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:40,399
Speaker 1: this is going to work, Like, okay, obviously we don't

1015
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: need bags, we don't nothing, we have nothing. Just okay,

1016
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:47,359
Speaker 1: And he said text amber in case you make it

1017
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:52,280
Speaker 1: clothes to bring. And we got to the little private

1018
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: airport and threw a shuttle and the guy said, hey,

1019
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 1: two passengers for a college station. I was like really.

1020
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 1: He was like yeah, all yours. We'll have you on

1021
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: the ground in two hours, which would be about one

1022
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 1: fifteen the funerals. At two. I was like okay, and

1023
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 1: we go and here it comes at taxis at a

1024
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: little bitty, tiny little jet. Just hold it. He just

1025
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 1: has four seats in it. We get in and they're

1026
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: like already going to eastwood Field College station. Texas. There's

1027
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: your seatbelts, there's your your little tables. If you any drinks,

1028
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: the run over here you guys ready, like yes, sir,

1029
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: all right, take off We land just like they said

1030
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: in College Station, Texas. At one fifteen, Mom's there with

1031
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: MAV and Lincoln with a suit for me, address for you.

1032
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: We go to the little airbnb they had, we throw

1033
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:57,640
Speaker 1: it on. We get to the funeral home at one

1034
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: forty five and I walk in there with one minute

1035
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: to spare with my Bible and start Minnie's funeral. What

1036
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 1: in the world It.

1037
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 2: Was probably the crazy state of my whole life.

1038
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 1: I mean, what in the world. That's the craziest thing ever.

1039
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 1: And so many people are praying, the whole other team,

1040
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:27,840
Speaker 1: the whole people in our country that we went to,

1041
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: the Latin American country, and the people we traveled with

1042
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: there like praying. And one thing Travis said is you know,

1043
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 1: I was on the phone with them he said something

1044
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 1: impactful because he said he was praying and he said, Lord,

1045
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:42,960
Speaker 1: it feels like what you're doing right now is bad.

1046
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 1: That's what it feels like to us. This feels bad.

1047
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:53,120
Speaker 1: But we know you are good. We know you're good.

1048
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: So We'll trust in your goodness. I was like, Man,

1049
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: I said, pretty good prayer. It's so just normal and

1050
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 1: like just so basic, but it's a good prayer. What

1051
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 1: it feels like, God, is that you're doing something bad,

1052
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: but your word says you were good. So I'm gonna

1053
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: trust your word that what you are doing is actually good.

1054
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 1: And it wasn't. But ten minutes later I called Travis

1055
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 1: and said, you'll never believe what our good God is doing.

1056
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:27,560
Speaker 1: A little bit of airplane, it's coming to pick some now.

1057
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 1: If one hotel out of the seventy had said yes,

1058
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: they had a room, we wouldn't have made it. Seventy

1059
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: if in that flight, if any of the other flights

1060
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: would have worked, we wouldn't have made it. If that

1061
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 1: uber driver wouldn't have picked up, we wouldn't have made it.

1062
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 1: If I hadn't had the feeling, the gut feeling to

1063
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 1: go to Nashville, we wouldn't have made it. If we

1064
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: had gone to Huntsville or Chattanooga, or Knoxville or Charlotte,

1065
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: that's not where the Lord had the plane ready for us.

1066
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: But he delivered us, and exactly the way he took us,

1067
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: through the darkest, most depressing gas station with my thirteen

1068
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 1: year old daughter in the middle of Atlanta, in the

1069
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: middle of the night, on no sleep, to make me

1070
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: question everything that I did. And the truth is, nothing

1071
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: that I did matters because what Christ did is what matters.

1072
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: And he's the one that makes me good, not anything

1073
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: that I do. But he brought me through all of that.

1074
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 1: For all the reasons, I have no idea one of them.

1075
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 1: I know. One reason is to tell it right here,

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Speaker 1: to tell other people, to remind them in their season

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Speaker 1: of darkness when it feels like there is no other

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Speaker 1: way that even when it feels like, Lord, you're doing

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Speaker 1: something bad, we know you are good. So there's that reminder. Crazy.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you were there to witness it, because if

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Speaker 1: you weren't there, it would make the story seem impossible. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you saw everything I just said.

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Speaker 2: If it wasn't sleeping. Yeah, we're trying to.

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Speaker 1: Anything else. We'll end it here. Yeah, until the next

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Speaker 1: adventure we get to say again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, love you, love you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for hanging out with me on

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Speaker 1: this episode of the Grangersmith podcast. I appreciate you being here.

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