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Iris.
Hi, everyone.
How have you been doing, Iris?
We missed you.
We'll get to some of these
other comments after we
read a little bit of the devotional.
So we're reading from A.W.
Tozer for the Christian
Leader on March 5th.
The title is Faith Must Be Demonstrated.
For by faith the elders
obtained a good report,
says Hebrews 11.2.
The lesson that comes to us
through the many dramatic
illustrations of faith in
Hebrews 11 brings us back
to my earlier statement.
Faith in God is to be demonstrated,
not defined.
Just as God's church
demonstrates Christian love,
this demonstration of godly,
humble faith is God's ideal
for his church.
It is not enough for
preachers in their pulpits
to try to define love.
The love that God has
promised must be
demonstrated in the lives
of the believers in the pews.
It must be practiced as well
by the man who occupies the pulpit.
we should put the matter of
faith in that same category.
God wants his people,
including the ministers,
to demonstrate all the
outworking of faith in
their daily lives and practices.
Lord,
the pattern set forth in Hebrews 11
seems so unattainable.
Strengthen me by your spirit
to be able to demonstrate
this type of unshakable faith.
Amen.
Should we go straight to the scripture?
Or do you have something you
want to comment on the devotional first?
I thought the scripture
really kind of tied everything together.
Absolutely.
So for those of you who may
not remember or didn't open your Bible,
Hebrews 11 is the account
of all the prophets and all
of the wonderful things
that were accomplished by
ordinary men living
extraordinary lives through faith.
And it's just a beautiful
testimony of everything
that was done by these men
just by believing in what
God had promised.
And even if they didn't see the promise,
they believed anyways.
So now faith is a substance
of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen,
for by it the elders
obtained a good testimony.
By faith we understand the
worlds were framed by the word of God,
so that the things which
were not... Sorry,
I'm going to read that over.
By faith we understand that
the worlds were framed by the word of God,
so that the things which
are seen were not made of
things which are visible.
There's a little bit of a
brain twister for me.
And actually,
I like the way Enduring Words
says it because this one sentence he says,
just as our physical
eyesight is the sense that
gives us evidence of the material world,
faith is that sense that
gives us evidence of the
invisible spiritual world.
Very difficult to explain to
a person what faith is.
Right.
And
I also love the fact that
Tozier says that it's
something that we have to
demonstrate and we have to work out
In our daily lives.
And actually,
I just had a conversation with Zara,
our daughter, about that, that, you know,
I keep telling her these,
I just speaking these promises over her.
And she's like,
I'm tired of you saying that.
It's not happening.
And I was like, you have to have faith.
You have to be patient.
You know,
they're just so used to instant
gratification.
If they don't see it right away,
then I think it's not going to happen.
And that's what faith gives you.
is faith to believe in the promises of God,
however long it takes, you know,
Sarah and Abraham waited
decades for the child of the promise.
And that's after they heard from an angel,
you know,
and yet they still went and had
that unsanctioned child, you know,
they like, wait,
this is really a long time.
Okay.
Let's get to it.
Let's, let's find another,
let's find a workaround.
Yeah.
It just, and yeah,
And so you can imagine for
everyday people that don't
hear the voice of the Lord,
holding on to God's promises are hard,
but that's what faith's all about.
The evidence of things not seen.
I do love the enduring word
on this when it says that
faith is a sense, like you were saying,
because it reminds me.
So I'm going to have to use a dog analogy.
Oh, great.
I actually haven't had that in a while.
and it is this and I'm hope
I hopefully I can explain
this how it I i you know
how sometimes you I can I
can feel it yes and I'm
thinking about it but I'm
not sure that I can
articulate it yes but I'm
going to give it a shot so
I testify in court cases
many times for scent
detection dogs dogs that
find illegal narcotics and like faith
Like the Bible's sitting right there.
Just because we're sitting
near the Bible doesn't mean
we're going to get faith.
that faith is going to be
just like floating in the air.
Or we go to church necessarily.
Floating in the air,
but that doesn't mean we're
going to catch it.
The wind may be blowing the
wrong direction.
And so when I'm testifying in court cases,
what it seems to be to me
is that the prosecuting
attorney and even the
handlers themselves think
just because the narcotics is in the car,
that the dog will smell it on the outside.
Just because it's there,
then the dog will find it.
And what I have to do and
come in there and say, no,
there's other factors.
One of the things that's a
big factor is when I was a
handler and an instructor,
I taught everybody that I knew,
everybody that I got asked to train,
I taught them that the best
way to have a vehicle is
with the windows closed and
the doors closed because
the pressure of the odor
that's inside there builds up.
And then the odor comes out
the little seams and cracks
and crevices where the dog
on the outside can smell it
to indicate to it that it's
present on the inside.
That's the only way the dog can find it.
I'm getting all these cases
now where the windows are open,
the doors are open.
and that dogs are coming
around the dogs are doing
nothing but the handlers
are saying well uh looks
like he alerted looks like
he he licked his lips and
uh and wagged his tail so
that must be it so what I'm
saying is that the it what
they've done is they dogs
not magicians yeah they
made it difficult you know
they they they've caused
air fresh air to come in
and dilute so in that case
could the handler instruct
the driver he has to close his windows
yeah absolutely oh yeah you
tell them before hey before
you get out of the car roll
up your window and then
does he wait a couple
minutes yeah you just have
to wait like 10-15 minutes
if you can again it's it's
something that we teach
actually the guys stopping
the cars so if it's not us
stopping the car right we
tell as soon as you can
roll up those windows and
get those doors shut get
the guy out talk to him
have him close the door,
make sure the windows are
rolled up while you're
talking to him and running
his license and all that kind of stuff.
That gives it time to build
up on the inside.
We've taught that for decades.
Why it went away, I have no idea.
So getting back to my analogy.
I think they're afraid of
him getting out of the car
and shooting him.
No, you get the guys out of the car.
It's safer to have him out
because you pat him down,
you stand him there.
Yeah, but nobody does that anymore.
sometimes they do usually
when they want to kill you
like you're getting lynched
if you're right black while
driving they tell you to
get out of the car but
usually nobody tells you to
get out of the car right so
back to my analogy okay
just clarify so it's the
odor is essentially
invisible they're molecules
I mean if you had got some
type of instrument you
could probably see them but
you know to us they're invisible
And so just because there is
something there does not
mean that it's going to hit
you in the face.
There's things you have to do.
There's things that if you do them right,
the dog will find it.
As Christians, if we do what it is,
our due diligence,
and we do our job of reading the Bible,
being in the Word,
paying attention to the
pastor who's giving the
message and following up with those,
you know,
maybe some research or going to
enduring word and that kind of stuff,
then that's where faith
really begins to set in
because you're active and
you are searching for God's word.
And that's going to be the
things like what the
handler needs to do to make
sure to have the best success possible.
There's things he has to do.
There's things as Christians
that we need to do
in order to make sure that
we get in faith and the
sense of faith begins to
work and you locate it and
you find it and you make it
a part of your life.
Well done.
Well said.
We got a little distracted
by the guy in and out of the vehicle.
Yes.
Important.
Yes.
I mean, I love it that he made it a sense.
Faith is a sense.
yes it's amazing I never
thought of it like that
it's a sense you've got to
have I like it also
thinking of it as an organ
the other guy said it is an
organ like a muscle yeah
it's got to work it yeah
it's got to be built and
it's I am and struck by the
uh the sower the parable of
the sower so much it just
runs through my head all day um
Just thinking about how the
seed is sown on the side of
the road with no soil gets, you know,
burnt.
It never grows.
it grows among the thorns it
gets choked out by the
cares of this world or gets
planted on good soil and
that's how faith is that's
what the word gets in our
lives is that you get
really excited they're
happy about it but you know
it gets burnt up it doesn't
get planted into good soil
and so it's so important
that we have we have a part
to play we're just not we're not just uh
vessels of of flesh and
spirit we actually have
responsibility to um to
nurture faith you know what
I mean yep hope that made
sense I'm having a little
bit of brain fog right now
because your hello kitty hat
I don't know.
I don't know what the Hello Kitty had,
or it's this flu I'm fighting off.
I like what Lisa says here
about Barry McGuire.
Barry McGuire says,
you guys can bring
everybody who listens and
watches a little closer to Jesus.
And for people who are already believers,
you comfort and strengthen them.
That is beautiful.
Thank you, Lisa.
Hi, Cindy.
Cindy has a whole new
population of churchgoers.
Really?
Spanish speakers.
Wow.
Yes,
we're going to be praying for Cindy
and her new congregation members.
Hola, como esta usted?
Bien, y tu?
That's the accent of Vandy's Spanish.
I know, taco, enchilada, tostada.
Hi, Kate.
Churro.
She finds Super Tuesday pretty exciting.
Yes, it's been really good today.
kyle and the cv nice to hear
from you long time no see
we are fantastic kyle v in
the cv yes uh lisa says I
heard a brilliant scientist
testimony describe her
faith journey finding and
walking with jesus not
everything that matters can
be counted and not
everything that can be
countered matters yeah yes well said yes
God's word is a power that
creates what is seen from
things that are not visible.
Amen.
Yeah, I like that too.
Just back to the power of the dog's nose.
It's a superpower.
Yeah, but if it's such a superpower,
why does it not work if the
window's open?
Because, see,
they want to think just because it's,
again,
just because they're the dogs that smell.
Because of wind currents,
especially on a vehicle
that's stopped on the side of a freeway,
trucks are driving by and
wind comes off of those trucks.
You've ever been on the side
of the road with a flat
tire and it rocks the vehicle?
You've never been on the
side of the road with a flat tire?
I don't drive cars that get flats.
Even back in the 70s or 80s,
you don't remember ever.
So anyway,
those of us that have gotten
flats on the back.
That should have been a fear
of my entire life, but it never had it.
Oh, really?
Yes.
Well, anyway,
I pulled over a lot of cars
on the side of the freeway.
And when a truck and a car go by,
it rocks.
It's like hurricane winds.
And so that wind on an open window.
It's almost choked.
Shoves fresh air into the
compartment of the vehicle, diluting.
So if there's like two grams
of methamphetamine in there,
the odor coming off of that
is just a little bit of
odor coming out of there.
And you've got a tidal wave of air coming.
flushing away that little
bit of odor that was built up.
So we only see the cases of
the guys who did this
arbitrarily and actually found stuff.
Because there's probably
thousands that don't find stuff, right?
Yes.
Well, listen,
we're only pulling over cars
that have a high
probability of narcotics in them.
What does that mean?
You get really good at that.
What is a high probability?
Like, what does a car look like?
When your mom's driving down the road,
I'm not going to pull over
thinking I'm going to find narcotics.
Your 80-year-old mom.
So is it the age of
It's where they're coming from.
It's the type of vehicle
they're driving from
because we follow them.
We know where they're coming from.
Like if they're on the I-10
and it's a certain listen,
we profile whether they
want to admit that or not.
You know about profiling.
Sure.
You profile and you you know who it is.
Rental cars with with with with, you know,
people that look like tweaker.
Yeah.
Rental cars going down.
Yes.
They get pulled over all the time.
There's vehicles that we
just know that we can see the people.
The other thing that we pull
over quite often are people
that are being targeted and tailed.
We follow them out of a neighborhood.
What do you mean?
Somebody else is tailing them?
Yeah.
What?
The Crime Task Force or
major narcotics investigators.
And so why would you bother
if somebody else has already got it?
Because they say this guy,
we've been watching this guy.
He was in the neighborhood
where we know they're,
we know they're selling
narcotics and he's leaving.
Can you pull them over?
Oh, they want you to pull them over.
Yes.
They're in a plane.
They're in a plane car and
in plain clothes.
Oh, so they don't want to be detected.
So they're like, can you do it?
Yeah.
We need you to pull over
that car and then run your dog around it.
Get an alert.
Once the dog alerts,
we'll go in and find the
dogs and arrest the guy.
So you faked alerts?
Me?
No, not ever.
You didn't need to.
If a dog didn't alert,
then we just let him go.
That's how it's supposed to work.
You don't pretend your dog
alerted and then go, hey, we see it.
We see it every day.
We see it all the time.
But no, I mean,
you're not pulling over just, you know,
the average man coming home
from the office.
I mean,
based on the number of cases that we have,
do you think we should pull
canines from the field?
No,
there's hundreds and thousands of
searches done every day.
That are good.
Okay.
And there's dogs that search
and they don't indicate and
so they let them go.
I mean, I had that all the time.
I knew a guy was dirty and the dog didn't,
for whatever reason,
because maybe the windows
were broken or maybe because, I mean,
there's a whole number of
reasons why a dog won't find odor.
What if you put it in a safe?
No, the dog smells through it.
Really?
Yeah.
Is there anything a dog
can't smell through?
Yeah,
but I'm not going to tell them the
internet how to mask.
There is ways of masking it,
but usually they're not using it.
Wrap it in a dirty sock.
Here,
I'll tell you one thing that does happen.
They will take,
have you seen these
packages that have duct
tape all around them and
then plastic bag and then
another round of duct tape
and that kind of stuff?
The problem is they touch
the original stuff that's on the inside.
And now their hands have the
cocaine or the
methamphetamine or the fentanyl.
That's hysterical.
The fentanyl on their hands.
Stupus.
And they're taking the tape
now with the hands that
they touch the narcotics.
Oh, look, we're sealing this up.
And it's getting on the tape
that's on the outside of the thing.
That's hysterical.
As my dad says, if they were smart,
they wouldn't be criminals.
So I would say on an average,
a police officer, they're pulling over.
Like I hardly pull,
I only pulled over cars
that I thought they were
guilty of something.
I didn't make regular car
stops very often unless they were like,
are you supposed to?
Yeah.
I mean,
they want you to see you write a ticket,
you know,
every so often I got pulled into
the captain's office a few times.
I said,
and you haven't written a traffic
ticket in three months.
I know, but I go,
I've taken 15 people to
jail on the car stops.
I know, but you need to write like a,
Like at least like a 4,000 a
is like an out of date
registration or something like that,
or no front plate or the
brake lights not working or, you know,
cause you're supposed to
find occasional criminals that way.
No, they just, it's revenue for the city.
If every cop pulls over 10 or 15 people,
if every cop pulls over 10 or 15,
if you have 500 cops on
duty throughout a week, it's interesting.
Cause I was worried.
each cop pulled over 10 to
15 people like a day that's
that's a lot of revenue yes
and I just not I was not
interested in that I let a
lot I pulled cars over I
just didn't give them
tickets in light of the
interesting doggy convo we
have one client today who
was very type a she wanted
she wanted exact date she's
like okay so if I talk to him on the 15th
When will I have the report?
I need to know, like, is it seven days?
Is it 14 days?
And I said, I can't answer that.
And she's like, well,
I just need to understand, like, when?
And I said, okay, listen,
there's this process Andy goes through.
I said, I can go over to him and be like,
hey, can I have so-and-so's report?
And he'll say to me, I'm thinking.
Don't push me.
I'm thinking.
And so I said, some of them...
He says, I said,
some of them are a slam dunk.
He can put out a report
about what he saw in like a
couple of paragraphs, bada bing,
bada boom.
And I said, in other ones, it takes time.
He sits and he mulls it over
and then he comes back and he's like,
I just can't think of the words.
And so she's like, so you can't tell me?
And I said, listen, all I can tell you.
These are very unique
relationships Andy has with
each of these.
Don't rush the process.
So just wait till you talk
to him and he tells you, whoa,
you got a complicated case.
And if he says something like that to you,
then just know your
report's going to take at least a month.
So this whole doggy business
is complicated.
Zoe, do you understand?
I don't know how whatsoever
it is connected to faith at all, but.
But you understand how they
can pull over a vehicle and
there actually be narcotics,
but the dog not indicate.
No, unless they knew how to hide it.
No, no, no.
I'm just saying,
you know how that happens
often with cops because we
pull over cars that are
very likely to have narcotics.
So that happens a lot.
Repeat this phrase you said happens a lot.
Where they run the dog around.
And it does not indicate.
They claim the dog indicate.
But a dog only indicates by
doing one thing, and that is sitting.
The dog will sniff and then
sit on his own without any
influence from the handler.
And that tells us whether
there's narcotics in it.
And if a dog doesn't do that,
there's no indication,
but we get cases where the
dog walks around, does nothing.
And they say, my dog indicated,
but we have a video that
shows the dog didn't do that.
And so what I'm asking you is that,
but then they go in and
they do find narcotics.
You understand what I'm
saying is because we only
pull over cars that have a
very high probability of
having narcotics in them anyway,
because it's not just pulling them over.
Once you pull them over and
you go up and talk to them,
then they look and they say, Oh,
and he's shaking yeah he's
like he's got a he's got a
syringe hanging out of his
neck maybe we should bring
the dog because you know
you walk up you go oh this
guy's a tweaker he's got
the teeth that are like
this and they're yellow and
they're you know they're
falling out those are the
those then they go hey we
need a canine and they call
the canine so that's how
that happens that's why it
happens a lot um thank you
kate see kate understands
Kate, you know, his stories are so long.
I can't follow.
After a couple minutes,
I kind of lose consciousness.
Right.
I don't know where we started.
Kate, thank you.
Yes.
Very clear explanation, Andy.
It's good illustrations of faith.
It's unseen, but it exists.
Amen.
I just learned,
I was shocked to learn the
other day that you told me
that you don't listen to
any of my stories and you never have.
That's what you said.
I've never listened.
I just wanted to let you know.
I've never listened to any
of your stories.
That's what she said.
I was misspeaking.
That's not true.
What do you mean?
How could I not have
listened to any of them?
Okay.
What sport was I ranked
number two in the state of California?
Pole vaulting.
That's only because I've
heard it so many times.
Every time we drive by a building,
somehow the pole vaulting
story comes back.
No, here's the rule.
I hear the first five
minutes of any story.
Oh,
did you read my report on the search of
the outside of a building?
Yes.
What did you think of that report?
I thought it was fine.
I didn't realize buildings
were so distinctive.
Oh, yeah.
Well,
and that's the story I was trying to
tell Roxanna, our friend.
I was just like, see,
there's a situation that
makes this case distinct
from any other or different
than the ones he's doing
every single week.
And so he has to think about it.
And that may take longer.
Yeah.
Is it a building?
Is it a package?
Was the window open?
Was the door open?
Did the guy get out of the
car in the middle of the
search and then change the whole air?
And I tell everybody the one
story which I found was the
most hysterical was the
white lab that literally
looked like he borrowed the
dog from the neighbor.
It didn't look like a working dog at all.
It looked like he just took
Sandy from next door and said,
I got to go to work.
My dog's sick.
Can I borrow your dog?
This dog had not worked a day in his life.
I can tell you for a fact,
I could get on the set and be like,
that is not a working dog.
Oh, boy.
And yet there were narcotics in the car.
Yeah.
And I see that's the problem
is that they could do this
over and over again.
The problem is my thing that I talk about,
that the reason I look at
these cases is I think
about all the times that
they did that to somebody
that's never used drugs in
their lives and never had drugs.
And we have one of those cases.
We have a bunch of those cases.
I mean, in the past,
I've had a bunch of those cases.
That's the problem.
We have a high profile one
that he's suing the city
for being stopped.
and I and I asked the judge
and the prosecutor I said
what if your daughter or
son if you have one was
pulled over and they
ran the dog around, the dog did nothing,
and they searched the vehicle.
Would you not have a problem with that?
That's the thing that I'm concerned about.
Integrity.
This case,
we're only seeing it because
there was narcotics inside.
But how many vehicles did this dog sniff,
supposedly sniff, and there was nothing,
and they just let him go?
We don't hear about those.
Those we never hear about.
So we could take 15 of those
to get to the one that has
narcotics in it.
We won't hear about the other 15.
That's the problem.
What about the poor people
who can't get an attorney?
Yeah,
I got people sitting in jail right
now from nonsense searches.
Yeah.
I had a video once where the
guy and he's got a
microphone on and he's
walking around the car and he says, sit.
And the dog sits and he says, alert.
And I go, what?
And you know, the judge says,
you know what?
I'm going to let that go.
The dog probably would have said anyway.
I go,
but he's on the video and the audio
saying sit to his dog.
How can you not?
And they let it go anyway.
That's how hard it is for the city.
So have we had enough of this discussion?
You don't seem to have.
I don't know how our
audience feels about it.
I know they're going to yell
at us that your mic is too
hot because you've been screaming.
Am I screaming?
Yes.
I try to back off when I'm screaming.
Yeah, I don't know if that's worked.
But faith.
Evidence of things not seen.
Oh, my gosh.
Have I told you how much I
love doing these devotionals with you?
No.
I love doing these devotionals.
Why do I have to always drag
you to them then?
No, you don't.
I have to beg him to do them.
Are you kidding me?
He's like, no, not today.
Maybe tomorrow.
So untrue.
Okay, maybe.
No, I love...
Do you love that you get to
talk about yourself?
No, I love what I learned today,
that faith has a sense.
I mean, it really, for me,
that made this whole devotional,
in addition to all of our
people that are watching, I love them,
just like, wow,
because I never looked at it like that.
Oh, really?
I felt that it was just
something that you had to conjure up.
You almost had to conjure up faith.
You see,
that's why I always felt like
hocus pocus for you back in
the early days.
And now, and I was been wondering like,
why, how is this?
I mean, how, how did I,
how did this happen?
Right.
How did my faith become something so real?
When before I felt that I
was just trying to conjure it up.
So do you think you always
had the sense or it's like
God flips the switch?
He gives you the sense.
You suddenly get the sense.
It's the indwelling of the Holy Spirit,
I think, for me,
that really was the difference for me.
But I got to tell you,
I'm having this fascinating
experience watching,
because I'm watching my daughter, right,
as she's tiptoeing around
faith and listening to your stories.
I...
I feel like that there's,
because I had a very
different experience.
I came and I drank the Kool-Aid.
I took the whole jug and I
was just like done.
So, but people watching that,
the dance of faith, I like to call it,
I see that there's this,
I could see what you could
have been going through is
that maybe it was this,
the flesh was overpowering the sense.
Because I see it with my daughter too.
It's like the sense is there.
It's fragile.
It's light.
But the cares of the world, the desires,
the temptations basically stamp it out.
Every time it tries to blossom,
it gets stamped out.
So not that it's not there,
but that it doesn't – it
just doesn't flourish
because it gets stamped out
by wickedness.
Well, again,
if I just – I'm not going to
go through the whole story, but the –
scenario that I discussed is
that you have to set you
have to set up the you have
to set up for success and
that that's that's a that's
a doing it's a it's a is it
verb what doing doing right
yeah it's verb yeah uh
there's you have to be
doing something you can't
just think that it's going to happen
And that's what I think is
the biggest thing was that, you know,
starting to read the devotional,
going to church on a regular basis.
You were doing that.
Yeah, but I wasn't now.
You were going to church on
a regular basis.
I wasn't doing it for my faith.
I wasn't doing it to help my sense.
I wasn't setting up for success.
I was doing it for who knows why.
But that's what I'm saying.
Sure it wasn't because you
did have the sentence,
but it was getting crushed.
I wanted to be at church
because I thought it would
fix my marriage.
I wanted to go to church
because I thought that it
would show me in a better light.
I went to church because I
knew it was the right thing to do.
So it wasn't a faith thing.
And it was out of guilt of
the things that I was doing
when I wasn't at church.
So it was a whole bunch of other things,
but it wasn't to gain faith.
I wasn't closing the windows
and the doors so that I
could have a better chance
of smelling the faith,
of sensing the faith.
I wasn't doing those things.
Those things are necessary.
You have to set up your
search for success.
Right.
Well, you've got that full circle.
Genius.
Absolutely genius.
And it means discarding things.
It means closing out,
closing the windows and the doors.
Stop smoking to the shenanigans,
the doors and windows to the shenanigans,
that rush of wind that
grabs you and takes you
back into the bar.
So true.
Yeah.
Wow.
But I love that.
No, I don't know what you're saying.
I love this.
And I got to tell you, though,
when we were talking to
Pastor Bob and Becky,
we had a good fortune of
going to dinner with them
the other night.
And I was like,
I was explaining why kids leave and go,
Christian kids go to Islam.
And
it happened for me in the
reverse because I had the
discipline of Islam.
What Jesus asked of me was easy or easier.
You know what I mean?
It was like, whoa, this is much,
much easier.
Um,
but I had discipline and the hardest
thing I think about, um,
walking the Christian walk is that, um,
there seems to be so much leniency.
Hmm.
And people are often falling
off the tracks because they,
because of grace, you know,
they feel like grace abounds and,
and my sins are forgiven.
And so I'll just get back up
again and I'll take a
little bit of this and a
little bit of that.
And then it quashes that light of faith.
And then it comes back again
in times of trouble.
Then it goes out again.
Like there's just this never
ending cycle of back and forth.
I don't, that's unfortunate.
Yes.
But I guess that's part of
what makes it personal too.
For sure.
Kate has some great wifely advice here.
Hedia, listen to his stories because faith,
hope, and love.
Have faith to listen and
believe he has a point to his stories.
Hope he'll get there quickly.
Love him by not saying
you're not listening.
Thank you, Kate.
Faith is not a feeling.
It's believing God's
promises in spite of no evidence.
Amen.
Lisa says, spirit of the age.
Yes, evil spirit of the age.
Yeah.
I didn't see any prayer requests,
but I think you wrote one down.
Cindy's Latino church.
We're going to do lingo.
Give her download tongues.
Everyone says that tongues
are not just a heavenly language.
They can be earthly
languages like they did in Acts.
Or she hits her head and
then suddenly speaks Spanish.
Have you heard of those people?
I hate to say that it was faith.
She doesn't have to get her
head knocked in.
You ever heard of that, though?
Yes.
People hit their head and
suddenly speak French.
Because they jolted something loose.
Yeah,
but they've never even taken class in
that particular subject,
and yet they can speak it.
Do you think that that happens?
I think that's true.
This is going to get into a
whole other discussion,
but if you believe that our brains,
if we're using only one
hundredth of our brain or
whatever that number is,
then we are created in the image of God.
Our intellect, our mind,
should be no different than
the rest of us if we're
made in God's image.
So the entire knowledge of
the world should be
contained in our brains.
We just don't have access to it.
Wow.
You just blew my mind.
Right?
It's not true.
Think about it.
So we could pray for Sidney
to download Spanish.
Yeah.
Because God can download Spanish.
I mean, how did missionaries,
how do missionaries for
centuries communicate with
a local population without
speaking the language?
Yeah.
I'd make car stops on
Chinese people and somehow
I'd get through the car stop.
I'd get them the ticket and
get them to sign it and
they didn't speak a word of English.
There you go.
We got some prayer requests.
Those ways of doing it.
The prodigals and for Kate's writing.
Okay.
Let's do it.
Dear Lord,
thank you for this opportunity
to spend with your sons and daughters.
Thank you for the laughter
and the knowledge and all
of the great things we
learn about canines, sense detection,
and the analogy to faith, Lord,
the trust in things.
That you have promised us
all the promises that you
have promised us in your word, Lord,
and the promises that we've
received personally from you, Lord,
may we hold on to each and
every one of those and treasure them,
and may our faith grow thereby.
And we want to, in particular,
bless all of our children, Lisa's
prodigals our own prodigals
our our friends our loved
ones everyone out there who
is far from you lord um
they want them to just have
saving faith in christ
jesus to walk with you to
hear your voice to live
righteously to pursue
holiness lord um not just
to buy fire insurance but
to truly walk with you and
to learn the discipline of
what it means to be a
soldier in the army of christ
Lord,
we ask that you bless Kate and her
writing and that it speaks
to the hearts of caregivers
and parents and everyone
who needs to hear her
message on how to keep children safe.
It's such an important topic right now,
Lord,
as our world is progressively more
upside down and kids are the victim.
It seems to be the victim and the target.
of wickedness these days, Lord.
So we ask that you use her
to keep them safe and her
writing be a source of
education and wisdom for
people that are involved in this field.
We ask that you bless Cindy
and that you download Spanish for her,
Lord,
that you give her the ability to
communicate the gospel message,
the truth of the simple gospel, Lord,
to her congregation and to
her new Latina and Latino congregation.
And bless my dear friend
who's in a hospital room right now, Lord,
recovering from treatment from very,
very difficult surgery, Lord.
Bless her and protect her.
Send your ministering angels
to minister to her heart,
to bring her peace,
to calm her anxious spirit, Lord,
and to give her your spirit
and your spirit of joy and
of love and of peace, Lord.
Thank you for all that you
do in and through us.
We love you.
It's in the mighty name of
Jesus that we pray.
Amen.
Hello, Kevin.
Nice to see you.
Hey, Kevin.
I'm going to be in his backyard.
Yes, tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning.
I will be there.
Well, I won't be there tomorrow morning.
I'm flying out tomorrow morning.
I'll be there in the evening.
All right, my friends.
We love you guys.
Then, Kevin, maybe I'll see you there.
Yeah.
All right, my friends.
We'll see you later.
God bless.
Good night.