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Speaker 1: Radio Jim, when we talk about prayer, What does prayer

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Speaker 1: mean to you? Yeah, so prayer used to mean to

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Speaker 1: me before my financial crisis when I lost all my money.

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Speaker 1: It was one way communication. It was, you know, like,

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Speaker 1: I'm broadcasting my thoughts and my ideas to God. This

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Speaker 1: is what I'm going through, this is why I need

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Speaker 1: you to do a one way communication. And that did

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Speaker 1: not work for me. And I'll tell you I had

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Speaker 1: I had some very very sincere uh tear filled prayer

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Speaker 1: sessions where I was telling God all of my problems

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Speaker 1: and telling him what he needed to do to fix

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Speaker 1: those problems. But it all changed for me, as they

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Speaker 1: talked about in my book, when I decided that prayer

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Speaker 1: was not a one way communication but a two way communication.

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Speaker 1: That is, I would go out to like the beach

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Speaker 1: with a yellow pad and I would sit and listen

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Speaker 1: to God for one to three hours sometimes, and I

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Speaker 1: come back from that prayer session, I would write down

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Speaker 1: what I felt God was leading me to do, and

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Speaker 1: I come back with pages of ideas and notes and direction.

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Speaker 1: And I really learned through through everything I went through

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Speaker 1: that God is there to talk to us today and

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Speaker 1: their prayer is It should not be a one way broadcast.

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Speaker 1: It is a It is a conversation. And I think

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Speaker 1: that those that are wiser and sometimes tragedy makes you wiser.

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Speaker 1: I think I got wiser. You spend it listening and

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Speaker 1: ten percent or less of it talking. Uh. The idea is,

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Speaker 1: for many people, God is my co pilot. It sounds cute,

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Speaker 1: but really God should be your pilot and you should

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Speaker 1: be pilot. You shouldn't be the one deciding how it's

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Speaker 1: all gonna go. And then asked him to come in

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Speaker 1: and make it work. And that's what I always did.

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Speaker 1: I I was a guy that had it all figured

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Speaker 1: out by the age of thirty. You know, I had

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Speaker 1: all this money. I was flying all over the country,

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Speaker 1: making tremendous amount of money, going on vacation to Europe.

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Speaker 1: All of that good stuff was happening. Then I lost

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Speaker 1: all my money by the age of forty. And my

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Speaker 1: story is not different from a lot of celebrities, a

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Speaker 1: lot of wealthy people. I took my eye off the ball.

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Speaker 1: I had an accountant who was my brother, and while

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Speaker 1: I was busy doing all those things, he stole all

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Speaker 1: my money and wiped me out. But I think it

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Speaker 1: brought me to a new level spiritually where I really

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Speaker 1: started to understand that prayer was this two way conversation

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Speaker 1: and if you're listening, God is speaking today and and

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Speaker 1: that's what became so exciting for me. Have you been

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Speaker 1: able to break bread with your brother ever since? No?

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Speaker 1: You know, UM, it's it's a tragic thing. And this

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Speaker 1: will probably even shock you more than the bitcoin increase

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Speaker 1: in value. UM. I have over the years received phone

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Speaker 1: calls from many many other people who we're victims, are

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Speaker 1: victims just like I was of my brother. So so

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Speaker 1: so he has gone on to other places has been.

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Speaker 1: Has he gone to jail for any of this? Uh,

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Speaker 1: he is presently on trial, I'll say, going to be

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Speaker 1: another Yeah, there's gonna be another book here about all

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Speaker 1: of this, and it's it's sort of in abeyance right now,

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Speaker 1: waiting for the outcome of his most recent situation. Not

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Speaker 1: to disparage him, because I've forgiven my brother and I've

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Speaker 1: moved on. Um, But I wanted to talk in this

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Speaker 1: next book, um, sort of about the next chapter of

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Speaker 1: my life, because so many people have said, Man, this

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Speaker 1: book came out in what are all the things that

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Speaker 1: have happened to you since then? And so many things

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Speaker 1: have and there will be another book and there is

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Speaker 1: more to the story, and uh that might be coming

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Speaker 1: out sometime in the next year or so. You have

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Speaker 1: your own prayer method, don't you. I do? I do,

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Speaker 1: And and you know, so many people have asked me

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Speaker 1: how uncomfortable I feel telling anyone how to pray, because

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Speaker 1: I just feel like, wow, that's that's such a personal thing.

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Speaker 1: Who am I to tell someone else how to pray?

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Speaker 1: But people have asked me over and over again, So

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Speaker 1: I actually put that in the book. I I put

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Speaker 1: in the book how I Pray, and I modeled it.

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Speaker 1: You know, my my prayer method is modeled, you know,

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Speaker 1: along the Lord's prayer is of course the example prayer

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Speaker 1: that Jesus gave us in the New Testament scriptures. But

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Speaker 1: I go through my prayer method and um, it's largely uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it starts out largely by, you know, number one,

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Speaker 1: taking responsibility, you know, for any part you might have

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Speaker 1: in those problems that you're going to God about. I

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Speaker 1: think that's important not to beat yourself up, but to

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Speaker 1: just take responsibility for maybe some things you did to

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Speaker 1: lead up to that, including in my own case, not

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Speaker 1: my brother. But I also then quickly go into uh

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Speaker 1: an attitude of gratefulness, because I think sometimes what happens

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Speaker 1: is we were going to God asking for more and

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Speaker 1: we already have enough now. And and that's only for

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Speaker 1: a person to decide in that that prayer transaction that

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Speaker 1: goes on between them and God. But I think sometimes

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Speaker 1: we need to stop and realize what we have. And

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Speaker 1: I think we get really really depressed because we don't

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Speaker 1: realize how blessed we already are. And this is one

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Speaker 1: of the things that happened to me. I mean I

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Speaker 1: reached the point three separate times, George, as you know,

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Speaker 1: as I've shared before, where I've planned out my own

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Speaker 1: suicide three separate times. Part part part of getting away

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Speaker 1: from that is to say, wait a minute, there are

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Speaker 1: people right now going through things a lot worse than me.

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Speaker 1: I still have my health, I have a tremendous family,

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Speaker 1: I have a terrific wife. Um, I'm still I've got

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Speaker 1: the still the mind that I had that got me

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Speaker 1: to having all this money and success. So I can

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Speaker 1: I can get it back again. I can recover from this.

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Speaker 1: So when you start sitting down really taking an inventory

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Speaker 1: of all that you already have, Wow, I mean just

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Speaker 1: having a great family, a terrific wife, and having my health,

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Speaker 1: you know, you could start. You could rebuild from anywhere

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Speaker 1: with with that. And those are the kind of things

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Speaker 1: that I think people need to hear when they're losing

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Speaker 1: a house to foreclosure, which which I did. You know what,

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Speaker 1: houses come and go, It's not the end of the world.

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Speaker 1: Cars get repossessed, You get a new car at some point. Uh.

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Speaker 1: your house. I mean, it's a horrible, terrible thing that

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Speaker 1: to go through. But then you say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: we were all still here. We're all in good health. Uh.

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Speaker 1: and and and yourself realizing, yeah, if you if you

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Speaker 1: look at all the blessings you already have, which is

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Speaker 1: what I think Thanksgiving is so great about. Somebody sent

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Speaker 1: me a meme on Facebook today and it's said, exactly

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Speaker 1: one day after we thank God for everything we already have,

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Speaker 1: we go out to get more stuff, you know Black Friday, uh,

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Speaker 1: where everybody's in line fighting for that, you know, shopping

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Speaker 1: on that day. It's too crazy. It's funny, isn't it funny? Though?

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Speaker 1: It's like today's the day we're thankful for all we have,

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Speaker 1: and tomorrow's the day will get out there and people

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Speaker 1: will literally get into fist right. Oh yeah, it's horrible.

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Speaker 1: It is something else, and it really does tell you

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Speaker 1: where our country is. And you know, you hear people

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Speaker 1: much wiser than me that will say, hey, look, if

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Speaker 1: you travel around the world, even a poor person here

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Speaker 1: to people in other places. And I think that's not

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Speaker 1: just true if you look at you know, living here

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Speaker 1: versus another country, but the idea that you know, if

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Speaker 1: you just sit down and honestly take an inventory of

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Speaker 1: your situation, I think most of us have so many

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Speaker 1: blessings that we just take for granted on a day

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Speaker 1: to day basis. When prayer works, why James, what is it?

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Speaker 1: What is it tapped into to work? Yeah? So I

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Speaker 1: always think prayer works. I think it always works. That

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Speaker 1: if if you set up a scenario where you say,

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Speaker 1: don't get it, prayer didn't work. Um, that's really a

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Speaker 1: problem to just set it up that a. I think

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Speaker 1: the way to approach it is to ask God for

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Speaker 1: his will. And if God wants me to have this thing,

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Speaker 1: this job, this, uh, new house, new car, whatever it

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Speaker 1: is I'm praying for, then it's going to happen. But

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Speaker 1: I have to trust God that he knows what's best

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Speaker 1: that I want, Maybe having that thing is not the

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Speaker 1: me they've prayed for things that they didn't get a job,

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Speaker 1: an opportunity, and now they look down the road and

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Speaker 1: off where they were. So prayer always works. Um when

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Speaker 1: you say it's not my plan, it's God's plan, and God,

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Speaker 1: this is what I would like. But I understand you

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