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Hello and welcome to the Arise 
Church Podcast. 

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We are so glad you're here and 
want to thank you for joining us

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today for the audio version of 
our Sunday morning message. 

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We want to invite you to join us
in person at our Sunday morning 

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celebration every Sunday at 10 
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We are located on Old Jenks Rd. 
in Apex, NC. 

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I would love for us to do this. 
Would you please help me give a 

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big warm welcome to Tuff Harris 
as he comes and ministers to us 

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this morning and as he comes, 
his wife Mary is here. 

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Mary, will you stand up? 
And they're daughters with them.

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Some of the other kids went. 
Would you help welcome their 

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whole family here in Jesus name?
Thank you so much. 

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You guys have been so welcoming 
and and we got to spend some 

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beautiful time and you guys have
stayed. 

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It's it's the second time I've 
been here, the first time my 

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family's been here. 
I dipped a toe in Asheville. 

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We had a conference there. 
I really didn't get much of 

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North Carolina. 
We flew in, did a conference, 

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flew out. 
It was, it was just kind of a 

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quick, a quick moment. 
But but yeah, you guys have been

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so welcoming. 
I met a lot of you guys already 

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and got to hear some of your 
stories and some of your 

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encounters with Montana and the 
mountains and some animals and 

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and we got all the good stuff, 
you know, all the animals, the 

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big ones. 
And so you guys are all welcome 

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at any time. 
Stay at the training center, 

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come and visit. 
And yeah, we'll we'll point you 

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in the right direction and just 
make sure you bring some bear 

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spray and some some bells. 
You know, some people joke 

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around about how those bells are
more like a dinner bell than a 

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in deterrent. 
But yeah, we just want to thank 

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you, Ty, Lily Lilia and your 
family, Faith Jude Jewel. 

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Like, man, we love you guys so 
much. 

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We just feel, feel so connected,
so close, just being able to do 

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ministry, spend some time 
together. 

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The last few days I, I found out
a little bit about pastor Ty. 

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He, he loves, has a shares the 
same passion with me and my son,

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which is fishing. 
And he mentioned earlier we, we 

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were fishing off the, the pier 
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early and, and Jude and I just 
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We knew it closed down at 10, 
but we're trying to get those 

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last little nibbles in and, and 
we ended up hooking into a big 

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one. 
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I mean it, it took the pull it, 
it took the line and, and it 

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just, it just ran and is going 
left and was going right. 

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And then it stopped and I'm 
like, Oh, I, I snagged up and 

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I'm pulling, pulling. 
Next thing it's it's, it's up 

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again. 
I'm like this thing is heavy. 

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And it got so heavy. 
My, my right bicep was cramping.

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My wrist was hurting. 
And, and you've seen the scene 

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before where you're just going 
down the pier, just knocking 

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everybody over and. 
Everyone's like, whoa, they're. 

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Trying to get their line out of 
the way and, and it was a 

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struggle. 
I mean, it was, it was a big 

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time struggle and we were 
hanging on to it and, and all 

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the way until I had to call out 
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I literally was like Judah, you 
got to get some help because we 

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went into the area and it was 
starting to get dark and I, I 

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couldn't see down below and I 
was just struggling. 

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I was struggling to try to just 
bring it to the, to the surface 

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of the water. 
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like, you got to you got to get 
help. 

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You got to. 
Run and, and ask some of these 

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guys to to help out. 
And so he he runs over and just 

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randomly starts tapping 
strangers on the shoulder and 

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said, Hey, we, we need the 
flashlight and then another guy.

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We need a net and then another 
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By that time it's the buzz is 
going and the whole pier is just

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like surrounding me and you're 
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and talking about what it could 
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And some guys were already 
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And the legends start going. 
You know, I knew. 

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I I fished off. 
This thing, you know, decades 

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ago and caught this, the monster
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But it was interesting because I
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the struggle is what brings us 
together like, and and this is 

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not my sermon that I'm preaching
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fascinating to me. 
And I was, I was telling Thai 

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about that. 
I was like, man, I love the 

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pier, how everybody just jumps 
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We didn't know it was a lizard 
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When that fish came out, we 
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this ugly lizard face with big 
teeth and you're like, what is 

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this? 
Nobody knows. 

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And he's, I looked at him and 
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is. 
And then some guy behind his 

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that's a lizard fish. 
You know, it's like, wow, 

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everyone's kind of willing to 
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But when we're really 
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there's definitely a sermon in 
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And again, I'm not preaching 
that, but but wow, what a what a

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cool picture to see. 
Sometimes when you're in great 

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need, desperate need to be able 
to, to not struggle, but 

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struggle together with people. 
It became a fun moment, became 

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awesome. 
And we just really enjoy that. 

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I didn't get to pull it out. 
We all figured it was a Stingray

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that wasn't going to let go And,
and, but everybody had a good 

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time, you know, fighting this 
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of getting behind me on that 
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Yeah. 
I just wanted to, to thank the 

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worship, the, the worship 
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let's just give me a hand. 
That was that was amazing. 

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I love that. 
You know, I've always, I've 

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always wondered, man, it'd be 
awesome to be a, a worship 

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leader. 
And how do those guys do that? 

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How do they, how do they lead? 
And just just such an awesome 

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voice. 
And, you know, there's so many 

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buttons on this. 
And I'm always wondering is, is 

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it a button they push and then 
all of a sudden they're just, 

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they're amazing. 
I think it is. 

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You know there's a few buttons 
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It says worship leader. 
It says wrapper. 

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You guys have a wrapper button 
and you also have a, you have a 

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Sean Connery button on this one 
it says Sean Connery. 

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I guess you can turn into Sean 
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And so I'm going to try one of 
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One, should I go? 
I'm going to go. 

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For the wrapper button ready. 
Just because you Christian don't

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mean that you the coward acts 
one verse 8 says Jesus gives you

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the power in your hour of need 
to be free. 

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Give God the deserve glory for 
what he's doing in your life. 

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Remember, he's the one who took 
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So if you really want to be down
with God, it's get on your knees

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and pray like me. 
It's true when they say you pray

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you stay. 
Don't serve him for a week, but 

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all eternity because he's big G.
Yeah, I love this Mike. 

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I absolutely love this mic. 
I'm going to have to push it 

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over to sermon right now. 
All right, I'm going to. 

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I'm going to preach a good 
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Now, now. 
Let's let's start off with a 

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little. 
Prayer, I'm actually going to 

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pray I'm enrolled in, in the 
Crow tribe in Montana. 

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They're, they're known as the 
Abzalaga Nation, but I want to 

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pray a small prayer in that and 
then I'll translate it and then 

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I'll, I'll pray from there. 
So. 

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Bow your heads akbarak diya aho 
gaji hinababe ichish SHO daje 

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chawagila zichish hook balak BA 
duhilechiya sash ichik diwa gum 

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daza palasa ichik akbarak diya 
aho gaji. 

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Great father, great creator. 
Thank you so much for this day. 

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It is a beautiful day and I 
thank you for calling me to 

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yourself. 
You call me rejoices in prayer 

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and my father who is a well 
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It is good to see you today. 
My heart is happy and I'm full. 

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So great Creator, we thank you 
today for this opportunity. 

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We thank you for all that you've
created, the beautiful creation,

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the fish in the sea, the birds 
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sitting here today, Lord you. 
Your handiwork is amazing, Lord,

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we marvel at who you are and we 
just bring all of that glory 

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back to you and just say thank 
you, we honor you, we worship 

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you in this moment and in your 
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Amen. 
So today, hopefully we can learn

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a little bit about a little bit 
about my history and how we got 

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to this point. 
But I also want to help you guys

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with winning. 
How many of you guys like to 

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win? 
So you've heard it before. 

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There's winning and Nope, there 
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Today we're going to teach you 
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learning, two different things. 
There's winning and learning. 

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And this is something not that 
I've learned playing football, 

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but also in ministry and just 
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You know, if we have a winning 
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lose, that doesn't feel good, 
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But if you have a winning 
learning mentality, when we feel

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like we lose our behind or we're
hurting or there's something 

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going on in our life and it's 
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we're losing, if we put in that 
category, we're just going to 

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avoid it. 
But I want to encourage you that

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that that's the best time. 
That's the character 

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development. 
That's the building blocks that 

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that I believe that the Lord has
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something deeper than just 
winning because winning feels 

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good. 
You know, if your sports team is

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winning and, and everything's 
going well, if you're losing it,

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it's just, it's not a good year.
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year, I guess. 
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mentality that I would like to 
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And people always ask me about, 
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played on, Miami Dolphins, 
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Steelers, and I actually played 
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Stint in Edmonton. 
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before I retired and they used 
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they're called the Elks and just
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But I've been on teams that went
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I've been on teams that had the 
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Football League. 
I've been on teams that won one 

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game an entire year. 
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you've played for a lot of 
coaches, successful coaches, you

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played for a lot of 
organizations, a lot of 

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different systems, which one 
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Which one is the one that that 
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that's going to take teams to 
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Is it, is it their lifting 
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Is it their coaching? 
Like what is it? 

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And I always tell them the same 
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The one that works is the one 
that you commit to. 

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And it doesn't really matter 
which one has the best facility.

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It doesn't matter which one has 
the best coaching, has the best 

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offseason trades or free agents 
coming in that year, Which one 

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works? 
Is the one that you commit to 

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and I would I would submit to 
you that whatever we learn in 

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the word of God isn't isn't the 
best Bible study. 

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It isn't the best church to go 
to. 

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It isn't the best worship leader
or preacher that I listen to or 

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the podcast that I listen to. 
It's the one that you commit to 

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and I think it's so true in 
following the Lord is is it 

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could take us. 
You could take a simple 

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scripture or a simple chapter 
and just commit to it. 

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Just say, I want to understand. 
I want this to be a part of who 

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I am and it will transform you. 
Or you can just keep listening 

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to all the gurus and all the 
podcasts and all the people in 

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the preachers and wait for them 
to tell you that nugget that 

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that's the one that's going to 
unlock me. 

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That's the one that's the system
I'm going to follow. 

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But I'll submit to you. 
It's the one that you commit to.

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So for the next, you know, few 
moments that we're together, 

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let's just commit to. 
Learning and winning. 

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That sounds pretty good, right? 
Winning and learning. 

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I love that. 
So. 

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So who am I? 
Tough. 

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Harris, nice to meet you on the 
count of three. 

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I want you all just to yell your
name really quick 123 Nice. 

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I'll I'll remember all those. 
But yeah, grow up. 

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Grew up in Montana on the Crow 
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Half Native American, half mix 
of all kinds of other things 

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enrolled in in the in the tribe.
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It was hard for me. 
It was hard. 

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I didn't really fully fit in to 
any group. 

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I I was wasn't enough of, of 
anything wasn't enough native to

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to fully fit in with the 
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I wasn't enough white to fit 
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two options you had in Montana. 
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Montana, but those are kind of 
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and those groups kind of ping 
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You don't really fit here. 
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together was sports. 
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like, hey, but he's athletic. 
He can run. 

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So that was my, my ticket of 
acceptance to get in. 

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And it was hard. 
It was hard to grow up in the 

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reservation. 
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of difficulties that the 
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of different history how we got 
to this point. 

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And really the reservation is, 
is a place of segregation. 

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It's just they're set apart, put
on their own reservation. 

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They, they're supposedly 
governing themselves and taking 

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care of themselves. 
But not every tribe is, is 

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figuring it out. 
There's a lot of struggle and 

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there's a lot of pain and that 
that was life. 

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That was just life that was 
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And I had a mom who was a 
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who was a praying grandma. 
Thank God for the praying moms 

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and the praying grandmas for the
kids like us who are running 

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around trying to figure out on 
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the, the hills and the wherever 
we're at just trying to figure 

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out life. 
And, and, and it's those 

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grandmas and those moms and 
those, those faithfully praying 

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parents that, that we're here 
today, you know, and many of you

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can attest to the same exact 
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we'd be without them praying 
grandmas and praying moms. 

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And for me, I had a mom that was
faithfully reading her Bible, 

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faithfully praying. 
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seeing my mom at the foot of her
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crying out to God and just 
seeing that. 

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And I would hear the things 
she's praying for. 

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She wasn't silent in her 
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And I would sit there and I 
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praying for. 
Days would go by, weeks would go

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by, months would go by. 
And occasionally I'll see those 

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prayers be answered. 
The very prayers that she was 

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praying were being answered. 
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God was faithful. 
Sometimes he wasn't faithful in 

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the exact moment, but he was 
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Almost every prayer that I, I 
heard my mom prayer have either 

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come to pass or is in the 
process of coming to pass right 

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before our eyes. 
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the scripture that says the 
prayers of a, of a righteous 

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woman will prevail. 
And so I encourage you guys, my 

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Indian name and, and my prayer, 
I mentioned it earlier is 

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rejoices in prayer. 
I was named my by a clan uncle. 

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They went through the ceremony 
of the process and he named me 

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and it's rejoices in prayer. 
I love to pray. 

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I like to pray. 
And so I love and like to pray 

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because I see the power of, I 
saw the power of it in my life. 

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I saw the power of it through 
my, through my family, through 

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my mom's prayers. 
And so I'm a believer. 

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I'm a believer in the way and, 
and so growing up, there was a 

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lot of opportunity for us in 
church. 

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We actually grew up in a really 
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We had a very small church, but 
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pastor or even the pastor 
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We would do this thing called 
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He would always have the altar 
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service, end of the service. 
Sometimes we started with one. 

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There was altar calls all the 
time, but there was these altar 

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calls and I think I went to 37 
altar calls every single time. 

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He was like, do you want to 
accept Jesus as your Lord, 

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personal Lord and Savior? 
It was a yes, I came and got 

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received it. 
We only had a, you know, a dozen

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people in our church, but our 
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salvations was pretty high. 
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me. 
I think it was because I went 32

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times that year and and they're 
reporting some good numbers back

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to whoever they're reporting to 
you, right? 

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How many salvations do you guys 
have? 

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Wow, you guys are there's a 
revival down there, Revival of 

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1. 
He keeps coming, but they're 

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going to count it. 
So but yeah, so I didn't, I 

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didn't know what it meant fully 
to follow the Lord. 

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I just knew I I was committing 
and committing to it. 

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And of all those altar calls? 
I don't know which one took, but

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one of them took, you know, and 
I thank God for being faithful 

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for. 
For my little heart being turned

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over and I'm and I remember I'm 
I'm only I'm only about 9 years 

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old nine years old up that time 
trying to figure this thing out 

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and so I'm also a a husband and 
actually I need a little water 

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and I did that on purpose 
because I want Mary to come up 

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and deliver the water to me 
Everybody give her a little hand

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beautiful as you can see here my
beautiful wife I got a beautiful

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wife three beautiful children 
and one ugly 1 and I think we. 

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We have a. 
Picture that we can pull up and 

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we can see, yes, there's my, my 
family. 

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We just recently took this in 
the fall. 

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Montana is already a little 
chilly in the fall. 

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You can see the little ugly one,
the little one between my son 

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and and my, my daughter, there 
is a little pug Boston terrier. 

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And she, it looks like a guy, 
but looks like a boy dog. 

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But it's a she and she's pretty 
ugly. 

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But she doesn't know that 
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though we tell her that because 
she's deaf too, poor little 

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thing, she's deaf and ugly and, 
but we love her. 

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That's, that's all, that's all 
that matters is we love her. 

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So I was raised in this little 
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It was, it was called Saint 
Xavier, Montana. 

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It was on the Crow Indian 
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less than 100 people. 
There's more people in this room

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than in my hometown. 
And so I, I literally, I, I 

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didn't know what I didn't know. 
The world was really tiny, 

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really small. 
The things that we, we 

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discovered and learned were 
literally things that we saw 

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either on television or heard 
stories of people traveling and 

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coming back with these big grand
stories and that we didn't know 

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what the world was all about. 
Little tiny town. 

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We never left and have a lot of 
money. 

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So we never left that little 
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But again, sports was, was the 
thing that drew me back into 

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these groups. 
I was accepted. 

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And so I put a lot into sports 
and my, my parents started 

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training us. 
We, we had a little, little 

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ranch and, and had some horses 
raised some pigs at one point, 

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some chickens and they would 
train those horses and they 

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ended up running those horses 
and, and we had one that, that I

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think 1, seven or eight quarter 
horse short, short races. 

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And she was awesome. 
It was, it was amazing horse. 

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They trained her from basically 
birth all the way to all these 

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championships. 
We had her for like 30 years. 

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She was an old, old bear at that
point. 

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But we love this horse. 
And they would, they would, we 

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would have chores, taking care 
of these horses, learning how to

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train horses. 
And that was just life, you know

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it. 
We'd race these horses through 

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the fields, the plowed fields, 
it strengthens their legs and 

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we'd brush them down, water them
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And at the end of the day, at a 
hard working training these 

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horses, we'd give them some 
oats. 

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And later my, my family, we 
started getting into sports and 

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they took a lot of those same, 
same tactics and, and put them 

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into our training. 
You know, they're like, you got 

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to strengthen your legs, like we
strengthen our horses legs. 

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We know how to get these animals
fast. 

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And so we'd same like the horses
run us through the fields and 

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just get our legs strong. 
We had these plowed fields. 

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It's just kind of like similar 
to like running on the beach, 

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you know, trying to strengthen 
our legs. 

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And at the end of the day they'd
hose us down and gives us some 

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oats. 
Somehow it worked, right? 

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So I have a book in the back 
that that I wrote. 

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It's 101 outstanding recipes for
an athlete. 

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I can say dad jokes because I 
told you I have 3 kids, right? 

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So I can say these, but yeah, so
we currently reside in Billings,

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Mt and that's, that's home for 
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Now. 
My wife is actually originally 

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from Minnesota. 
She was a golfer. 

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We've met at the University of 
Montana. 

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She was on a golf scholarship. 
I I was a walk on for the 

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University of Montana football 
team and I met her and I, I 

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didn't tell her I played 
football for a few weeks. 

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I had to, I had to, had to test 
her to see if she was in it for 

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the right reasons. 
Like I told her right out the 

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gate, I'm a football player. 
Maybe she was in it for the 

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wrong reason, right. 
But, but we dated for a while 

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and I didn't tell her and so I 
was going to reveal it to her. 

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So I said, Hey, I need you to 
meet me at the game and we're 

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going to go to the, to the Griz 
game. 

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I was red shirting and I said, 
I, I need you to meet me in this

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section. 
I got a ticket for you and, and 

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I'll meet you down there. 
And so she's walking down all 

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the way to the bottom where 
where the section is. 

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And she's she's walking, it's 
roped off. 

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It's like roped off. 
And she's like, well, how do I 

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get into the section? 
And it's all the red shirt 

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football players and. 
And she just immediately thought

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he's playing a joke on me, like 
he's playing some sort of joke 

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on me. 
And then in the middle of all 

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these just brawny, just big 
shoulder, tall, masculine men is

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this little guy. 
Hey, Mary, with my little jersey

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on, it was kind of baggy. 
It wasn't even tight on me. 

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I'm like, hey, Mary? 
And she's like, oh, OK. 

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So she stands by me. 
She's looking at me and I'm just

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like, hey, I play football. 
And she's like, really? 

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You play football? 
And I'm like, yeah. 

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And. 
And so we ended up dating for 

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six years because it took me 6 
years to become a man and, and 

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try to figure out how to do this
because I, I didn't know what it

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meant to date. 
I didn't see a lot of pictures 

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of what it meant to date, to 
have a healthy relationship, to 

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get married. 
My parents were married by the 

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grace of God and they stayed 
together and they're still 

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together today. 
But, but I did not see a healthy

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marriage. 
I did not see a healthy 

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relationship. 
I didn't see healthy courting 

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and date. 
I, I didn't know what that 

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looked like. 
And so six years of testing and 

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trials and tribulations dating 
my wife, my, my girlfriend at 

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the time, and she was thoroughly
tested. 

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Like she went through through a 
lot, lot of pain and suffering. 

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And it wasn't because I wanted 
that for her. 

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I just didn't know how to get 
this, this out. 

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Like, how do I get out all the 
garbage and get in what the Lord

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has instructed me. 
And so when we were dating, we 

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were together. 
There was times where it felt 

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like we're winning. 
And then the other times there 

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was a lot of learning. 
There was a lot of learning and 

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trying to figure this out. 
And again, I didn't know what it

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looked like. 
I didn't, I didn't see the 

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picture. 
I didn't have a, a picture for 

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me. 
So a lot of what I've had to do 

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in my life is a lot of 
pioneering, like figuring out 

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and just kind of making those, 
those mistakes. 

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And again, they're not losses. 
They're building blocks for the 

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Kingdom of God. 
If we're willing to give them 

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back to the Lord and say you can
use them and he'll build a 

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character back and you he'll 
give you back and, and he'll 

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just dawn on you one day. 
Wow, where did I get this? 

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How did I, how did I get this 
wisdom, this knowledge, this 

444
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,160
understanding and you can look 
back at that building block that

445
00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:01,000
God was like I was with you and 
I allowed that because that is 

446
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,880
what you're standing on today. 
That is the blocks that you're 

447
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:08,560
standing on to be able to, to 
share and give your testimony 

448
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:12,560
and, and give your, your heart 
that will help others understand

449
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:17,040
that they're story is not lost. 
There is no loss in the Kingdom.

450
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,880
God will use every bit of it. 
You know what, I think some of 

451
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:22,800
we were talking a little bit 
about some hunting and stuff 

452
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,320
with some of the guys here. 
But with in hunting, especially 

453
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,200
with the natives back in the 
day, there was, there was not a 

454
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,640
single piece of the animal that 
they did not use. 

455
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,000
I mean, every single piece was, 
was useful for something. 

456
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,160
There was no waste. 
And it reminds me of the Kingdom

457
00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,480
of God where God doesn't let 
things go to waste and just put 

458
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,840
it in a scrap pile and say 
that's, that's unuseful. 

459
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,240
He will use it every bit of the 
mess, every bit of every aspect 

460
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:51,600
of our life if we allow him. 
So a lot of people are like, 

461
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,600
man, how did you make it from 
this little town, Saint Xavier 

462
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,800
to the NFL that that seems like 
a big leap. 

463
00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,840
And so I got a list of things 
here, just some qualities that. 

464
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,440
What it takes to be an NFL 
player? 

465
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,040
Just a few. 
Of them here confidence, 

466
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:12,680
bravery, assertiveness, 
fearlessness and leadership and 

467
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,640
I possessed at a very high level
absolutely none of these 

468
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,680
qualities. 
I did not have these qualities. 

469
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:24,240
I was actually really shy, 
really timid, unsure of myself. 

470
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,880
There was a few things that I 
was sharing with athletes. 

471
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,360
I was fast. 
I can catch a ball. 

472
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,400
Everything else my life was just
I was so unsure of myself. 

473
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,080
I did not know how to live this 
life. 

474
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,880
I didn't know how to walk this 
out, but by the grace of God, 

475
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,200
staying in the word of God, 
staying in Proverbs, staying, 

476
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,000
you know, my dad said, read 
Proverbs everyday. 

477
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,200
It's kind of like a 
multivitamin. 

478
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,680
You know, it's just like you 
need it everyday, just a little 

479
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,320
bit here, a little bit there. 
It's, it's going to help you. 

480
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:49,520
It's going to help you get 
through life. 

481
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,240
It's going to give you wisdom. 
It's a literally of nine years 

482
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,040
old. 
I, I made a, a commitment. 

483
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,360
I'm going to, I'm going to read 
the word of God and I stick to 

484
00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:59,800
Proverbs and I read it and, and 
that wisdom over time again, 

485
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,240
just like my mom's prayers, I'd 
see her pray and I can see the 

486
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,440
benefit of that in the future. 
I knew if I'm reading the these 

487
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,720
proverbs and just letting it 
saturate my mind and my thoughts

488
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,880
and when I'm making decisions, I
could see it play out. 

489
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,600
It went from like I read it and 
I believe and I want to believe 

490
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,560
it to I played it out and it was
actually something that happened

491
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,560
in my life. 
And then it became a strong 

492
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,720
belief and just seeing it over 
and over. 

493
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,040
God's word, not just in Proverbs
anywhere. 

494
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,840
I was exploring all over the 
Bible and realizing his word 

495
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,560
everywhere was just stabilizing 
my thoughts, stabilizing my 

496
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,880
future, stabilizing and not just
in a hopeful way, like I hope it

497
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,680
works out someday or maybe sign 
of kind of sort of maybe it was 

498
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,120
like, no, it was concrete for 
me. 

499
00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:42,800
You can't undo the testimonies 
that I have, the things that 

500
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,640
I've walked through that God 
showed up time and time again 

501
00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:50,280
and he just sealed it in my 
heart, sealed it in my mind that

502
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,960
his word was true over and over 
and over again. 

503
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,400
And some of it I still struggle 
to wrestle through trying to 

504
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,120
figure it out, but I know he's 
faithful to reveal it in its 

505
00:24:58,120 --> 00:24:59,920
time. 
And so I don't, I don't want to 

506
00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:01,880
rush it. 
I don't want to to push it to 

507
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,520
say I read it. 
I need to see it tomorrow. 

508
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,600
I need to see it today because 
his faithfulness with my mom and

509
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,120
her prayers, the faithfulness as
a child, a little 9 year old boy

510
00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:12,320
trying to figure life out and it
just takes some of it takes 

511
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,080
time. 
It's the building blocks that 

512
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,400
he's putting in your life that 
is building up to a place of one

513
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,480
day you'll stand, you'll be able
to see further and do things 

514
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,760
much, much more than you ever 
thought you could before. 

515
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,320
I never thought I'd leave, leave
that little town of Saint 

516
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,280
Xavier. 
Going to town meant we went to a

517
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,000
town of 2000. 
That was huge for us. 

518
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,280
We're like, well, we're going to
town, you know, and there's a 

519
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,800
movie theater there and all 
kinds of stuff that was huge for

520
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:35,600
us. 
I didn't think I'd ever go much,

521
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,440
much further than that. 
But just letting God build 

522
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,960
those, those blocks, letting him
put him under me and, and 

523
00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:45,360
solidify what I believed. 
And it could take you anywhere. 

524
00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:48,440
And I always tell, I always tell
kids, I tell people that that 

525
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:53,520
like God wants, he wants, well, 
he has a plan and a purpose for 

526
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:54,840
you. 
We read in scripture that he 

527
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,720
before, before we even born, he 
had a plan and a purpose. 

528
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,720
And so those blocks, he knows 
exactly how to, to put them 

529
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,360
under your feet. 
And we don't at times, sometimes

530
00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:06,480
we're trying to force it. 
We're trying to trying to get 

531
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,080
ahead of our, you know, 
sometimes on the mountain in 

532
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,800
Montana, we talked about getting
over your skis a little too far,

533
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,800
you know, and that's, that's 
where you get into Rex. 

534
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,520
That's where you force the issue
When, when you just got to kind 

535
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,280
of sit and ride it, ride it 
because God has a path and 

536
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,160
you're going to get there. 
You just got to be patient. 

537
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:33,400
And so how did, how did I, or I 
should say what, what did I use 

538
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:39,080
to, to get to this point where 
it's winning or learning? 

539
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,120
Because it, because it wasn't 
easy, because many times I had 

540
00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:44,800
the deep sense and the deep 
feeling that I lost this one. 

541
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,600
I think when our relationship, I
think we broke up of the six 

542
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,680
years we dated, I think we broke
up at least once a year, at 

543
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,600
least once a year minimum. 
And it's just devastating about 

544
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:59,760
the feeling of I just lost. 
I lost that one and just praying

545
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:03,480
again and just thank God because
she got Mary got a word early in

546
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,360
our relationship and she hung on
to that word, powerful, strong 

547
00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:08,680
word. 
And it was just you were made 

548
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:09,680
for tough. 
That was it. 

549
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,720
That's all she heard in her time
of prayer and her time on the 

550
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,560
end of her bed trying to figure 
it out is you were made for 

551
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,400
tough. 
And I think I don't know if she 

552
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,880
had a single friend that that 
likes me, at least not one that 

553
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,880
lived anywhere near us. 
But they were just like, why 

554
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:26,920
Mary? 
Why would you? 

555
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:28,760
Why would you be with this guy? 
Why would you hang out with him?

556
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,200
He's he's torturing you, you 
know, and, and I was trying to 

557
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:32,920
figure it out and trying to 
figure it out. 

558
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:37,320
It just everyone around her was 
like, no, but there was only one

559
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,160
yes. 
And the yes was the Lord you 

560
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:41,160
were made for tough. 
That's all. 

561
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,760
That's the word she got early. 
And after that it's kind of 

562
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,840
radio silence. 
It was just like radio silence. 

563
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,000
You had to trust that one word 
that she got about me. 

564
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,520
And so she hung on to it 
faithfully. 

565
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,600
And again, I was, I was also 
testing her. 

566
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,720
I was testing her through like 
all the, all these different 

567
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,360
ways is, is she going to hang in
there? 

568
00:27:56,360 --> 00:27:59,480
Is she going to be the one? 
And, and I knew early, I really 

569
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,280
knew early, but, but again, it 
was, how do I pull that trigger?

570
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,480
How do I, how do I get going 
and, and, and move this down, 

571
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,280
down, you know, the football 
term, how do we move this down 

572
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,640
the field? 
How do we get some first downs 

573
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,760
on this? 
You know, and I just felt like I

574
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,960
was losing every, I felt like I 
was fumbling. 

575
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,440
I felt like I was throwing 
interceptions and it just was 

576
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,680
not going anywhere. 
And until I fully committed, you

577
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,240
know, I was, I was curious for a
long time, is it her? 

578
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,280
Is it not her? 
Should I, should I not? 

579
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,480
Lord, it just seems like it 
would be a lot easier if if it 

580
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,440
was like this and looking for it
a certain way until I, until I 

581
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,760
in my heart, in my mind, I fully
committed to say I am committing

582
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,520
100% fully to this process. 
And I literally said when I said

583
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,600
that in my heart, in my mind, I 
said, will you marry me? 

584
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,920
The moment I committed, I just 
immediately looked at her in the

585
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:46,960
eyes and said, will you marry 
me? 

586
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:48,920
I was trying to figure out how 
am I going to propose? 

587
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,240
How am I going to do this? 
How am I going to lead a family 

588
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,600
and and a wife? 
I had no clue. 

589
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,400
But the moment I committed 
everything just it just started 

590
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,600
unfolding and I didn't know the 
full, I didn't know the full 

591
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,720
game or what I was about to get 
into and all of the stuff. 

592
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,800
But I knew the first step. 
I knew the first step and that's

593
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,200
all I needed. 
And so if we're going to 

594
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,960
football analogies, football is 
like you're not going to know 

595
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,280
how the game is going to go in 
the second quarter or the third 

596
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,280
quarter or the fourth quarter, 
but you can train and prepare 

597
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,920
for the same mentality. 
And every quarter that we're 

598
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,240
going to win in this quarter, 
we're going to win in this 

599
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:23,400
quarter. 
We're going to win in all four 

600
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,200
quarters. 
And if we have to go overtime or

601
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,760
double over, we're going to win 
in those in that quarter too. 

602
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:29,960
And everything else we're going 
to learn. 

603
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,200
We're going to learn as we go. 
The teams that were really 

604
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,840
successful that I was on, they 
didn't get down on each other. 

605
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,840
They didn't, they didn't ever 
say we're losing, we're behind. 

606
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,040
They didn't, they didn't use 
that kind of language. 

607
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,240
It was a mentality that was 
we're going to win this quarter,

608
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,360
We're going to win our our 
one-on-one battles. 

609
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,440
We're going to win on 3rd down. 
We're going to win in the red 

610
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:49,600
zone. 
It was just we're going to win. 

611
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,840
And everything else was learning
on the fly. 

612
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,720
So I learned a ton from sports 
that the teams that were really 

613
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,920
successful had that mentality. 
They're just like we're going to

614
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:02,800
win and they prepare to win. 
They don't just hope to win, 

615
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,240
they prepare to win. 
And when they don't win, they 

616
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,320
use it just like the Kingdom. 
They used it for knowledge and 

617
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,320
understanding and building 
blocks For the second quarter, 

618
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:12,920
for the third quarter, for the 
fourth quarter. 

619
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,320
You get in the fourth quarter, 
we're down by three touchdowns. 

620
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,240
We're not losing. 
That's not even a mentality that

621
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,680
we carried. 
We're not losing. 

622
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,480
We're actually, we've learned a 
ton to this point and we're 

623
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,800
going to use that going into 
this fourth quarter. 

624
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,360
We won games when I was at the 
University of Montana. 

625
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,600
We had my red, including my red 
shirt year. 

626
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,000
We had five Big Sky championship
games. 

627
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,240
Went to the national 
championship. 

628
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,720
We ended up losing. 
We took second, but did we lose?

629
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:39,440
No. 
We learned, right? 

630
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,680
We learned and they went on to 
win even more championships and 

631
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,200
they went to the back to to the 
national championship a few 

632
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,200
times even after I left. 
And they just kept learning. 

633
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:49,560
They just kept learning. 
They didn't give up. 

634
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,240
They still have a win mentality 
and they're still going today. 

635
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,160
They're still have a a this 
year. 

636
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:55,440
This year is an undefeated 
record. 

637
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,120
But the teams that I've been 
around that that just been 

638
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,800
fascinating to watch. 
Like what's the difference? 

639
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,840
Because some teams have great 
better players, faster players, 

640
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,320
Some teams have better coaches, 
coaching staff, and it's just 

641
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,160
like, what's the difference? 
What's the difference? 

642
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,280
And it really is a mentality. 
And I believe the Lord is, is 

643
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:16,240
helped me with that in, in life 
because there is winning and 

644
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,320
there's learning. 
And if, if we put it in the 

645
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,880
loose category, we can easily 
fall right into, to a place of 

646
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,600
depression and fall right into a
place where it just seems 

647
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,200
hopeless. 
Because the blocks that God 

648
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,320
wants to put in your life, the 
building blocks, the foundation 

649
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,560
that he wants to give you. 
Sometimes it takes a lot of 

650
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,240
energy and a lot of pressure and
a lot of what seems like a 

651
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,440
mistake in the in the wrong 
direction and all that stuff. 

652
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,440
And it can get exhausting. 
You know, a season can get 

653
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,160
exhausting when it doesn't seem 
like, when it seems like, man, I

654
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,040
I trained all offseason and then
I sprained my ankle and I'm out 

655
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,200
for two weeks. 
And then you, you can get 

656
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,240
frustrated pretty easy. 
You know, you work a lifetime to

657
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,280
get to this point and you tear 
your shoulder and you're out for

658
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,480
the season. 
And it's like, wow, like life 

659
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,120
can hit you pretty hard. 
But I remember taking that same 

660
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:01,720
mentality into the training 
room. 

661
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,240
I broke my foot one year. 
I tore my shoulder one year. 

662
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,160
I hurt my neck, my back, like so
many injuries, so many stories. 

663
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,840
But as I went into that training
room, it wasn't, I lost, I'm 

664
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,760
here and I'm, I'm giving up. 
I took that same mentality, that

665
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,560
same winning mentality. 
I'm going to go in, I'm going to

666
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,200
win in the training, I'm going 
to show up and I'm going to give

667
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,600
everything I got because at the 
end of the day, everything that 

668
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,960
I wanted to do was, was for the 
glory of God. 

669
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,000
And so if I'm just winning and 
then saying, praise the Lord, 

670
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,360
it's, it's awesome. 
God is good. 

671
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,120
And then I lose and then I go 
and hide. 

672
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,120
And I don't want nobody to see 
that side of it. 

673
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:33,800
I think we do that in the 
Kingdom of God. 

674
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,840
I think we, we love to show the 
winds. 

675
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,560
We love to show the celebrations
and, and oh man, look what I 

676
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,440
did. 
And then when we make a mistake 

677
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,040
or something's not going right, 
we tend to hide. 

678
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,120
But I want to encourage you 
guys, just like the pier, just 

679
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,280
like the fishing event, man, 
Sometimes we're struggling and 

680
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:49,960
we're about, we're about to snap
the line. 

681
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,560
I mean, it is so heavy what 
we're trying to hang on here. 

682
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,520
It is so heavy. 
Call out for help, call out for 

683
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,760
for someone. 
I need a flashlight, I need, I 

684
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:00,760
need a net, I need some I need I
just need help. 

685
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,120
And it was amazing it it is 
amazing. 

686
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:04,760
Strangers will show up, people 
will show up. 

687
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,360
People want to be useful. 
People want to be used. 

688
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:09,880
You know, we always think, oh, I
don't want to interrupt anybody.

689
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,200
That's the best part of life. 
That's the best part of life is 

690
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,320
to interrupt. 
And I'm my nature is to from the

691
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,320
town of 100 people is to to hide
and be man, there's so many 

692
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,000
people like getting overwhelmed 
with 200 people right now. 

693
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:28,040
He's just like there's, there's 
so much going on where where my 

694
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,760
upbringing, where I'm from, it's
like I tend to like want to 

695
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:34,480
default back to that. 
But I would encourage you guys. 

696
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,600
It's the struggle. 
It's it's the seeming losses and

697
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,400
and the pains and stuff is what 
the character that's it's really

698
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,040
where the character is built. 
Winning builds a little bit of 

699
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,760
character just a little bit, but
it's actually in the in the 

700
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,440
feeling of loss or the feeling 
of behind or the the fourth 

701
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,160
quarters when you're down. 
And it's like, man, I don't know

702
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,840
how I'm going to recover this. 
I don't know how I'm going to do

703
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,040
this. 
It's just one play at a time. 

704
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,360
We always say that in football, 
it's just one play at a time. 

705
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,520
And I want to share just a 
little bit of scripture before I

706
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,840
get into a couple stories that I
want to share with you guys. 

707
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,800
And it's out of Isaiah chapter 
402931. 

708
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,560
A lot of you will know this. 
And 29 says, He gives power to 

709
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:17,960
the weak, and to those who have 
no might he increases strength. 

710
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,760
Even the youth shall faint and 
be weary, and the young men 

711
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,880
shall utterly fall. 
But those who wait on the Lord 

712
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,719
shall renew their strength. 
They shall mount up like wings, 

713
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,600
like eagles. 
They shall run and not be be 

714
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,639
weary, and they shall walk, and 
they shall not faint. 

715
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,840
I love the Scripture in Psalm 
2714. 

716
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,480
Very similar weight on the Lord.
Be of good. 

717
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,440
Courage and He shall strengthen 
your heart. 

718
00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:50,760
Wait, I say on the Lord with 
exclamation mark. 

719
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:55,440
Wait, I say on the Lord. 
In the last scripture, 

720
00:34:55,440 --> 00:35:01,560
Lamentations 325, the Lord is 
good to those who wait for him, 

721
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:07,760
to the soul who seeks him. 
These were scriptures. 

722
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,880
I remember just thinking He's 
asking me to wait. 

723
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,760
But I've learned waiting isn't 
waiting around. 

724
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,080
Waiting isn't just sitting there
just saying God is going to do 

725
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,240
it. 
Because I think a lot of times 

726
00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:23,280
it's, it's really easy to see 
Scripture like this or, or pray 

727
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,120
a prayer in such a way that God 
is going to do it. 

728
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,160
You know, you sit back and just 
say, I'm just praying, God will 

729
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:30,360
do it. 
He'll take care of that. 

730
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:32,960
You know, someone's offended me,
so I'm going to pray and God 

731
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,680
will take care of that. 
You know, something happened in 

732
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,120
my life, praying God is going to
take care of that. 

733
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:42,160
When very rarely in my life have
I ever had a moment where I just

734
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:43,520
pray and God just takes care of 
it. 

735
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:45,000
And I think it's for good 
reason. 

736
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,520
I think if, if we just prayed 
and it happened, I think we 

737
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:52,280
would get really, and again, 
just like my, my 100 town 

738
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,120
tenancy, I'm going to go back to
my defaults. 

739
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,720
If we were to pray and it 
happened, I think we would, we 

740
00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:00,560
would get a default in our 
prayer lives that just says God 

741
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,680
is our, you know, our wish, wish
genie where we just literally 

742
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:05,600
just wish for something and he 
makes it happen. 

743
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,800
I don't know, I don't, I don't 
care about the bat behind the 

744
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:08,840
scenes. 
I don't care about any of that 

745
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,040
stuff as long as I pray and he 
does it that I think we can get 

746
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:16,280
caught in a prayer life of just 
wanting for him to do things for

747
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:24,080
us when Jesus himself said it is
better that I go now, I think 

748
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,720
100% of us would agree if we 
walked with Jesus for three 

749
00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:30,320
years and saw the miracles and 
saw what he was able to do and 

750
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,080
see the power that he walked in.
It is not better that you go 

751
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,640
actually like we cannot do that.
We're inadequate, we're 

752
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,920
insecure. 
We we don't have what you have. 

753
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,600
And he says it's better that I 
go. 

754
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,880
Why? 
Because when I leave, not many 

755
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,360
days from now, there will be one
who comes and he will help you. 

756
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,880
He didn't send the doer, He sent
the helper. 

757
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:55,520
And that implies that you're the
doer. 

758
00:36:56,120 --> 00:37:01,080
He's called you to be the doer 
to walk this out to trust him to

759
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,840
trust in the Lord to wait upon 
him is that you're going to be 

760
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,480
doing this and the waiting for 
him to return one day for him to

761
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,560
show up on the scene to as we 
pray and wait for him to do 

762
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,760
something. 
It's actually an active waiting 

763
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,920
for you to start stepping into 
it because on the cross he said 

764
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:19,760
it is finished. 
It is finished. 

765
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,200
He's seated at the right hand of
the father. 

766
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,560
His work is finished and he sent
a helper that is going to help 

767
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,040
us do now. 
And so we're in this season. 

768
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:28,920
We're in this time where we're 
still waiting. 

769
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,520
We're still waiting on him in so
many ways. 

770
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,680
We're waiting for him to show up
in in our finances, in our lives

771
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,560
and and literally someday he's 
going to come again. 

772
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,360
And we're we're waiting for that
moment and we're excited for it.

773
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,640
But how are we waiting is very 
important. 

774
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,840
Is it I'm sitting here waiting 
for you or as I'm actively 

775
00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:51,480
winning and learning out there 
because he's building something 

776
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,200
in you and that testimony that 
that those blocks of your life 

777
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,000
is what the world needs to know.
They need to know how good God 

778
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,760
is in, in the hard times. 
They need to know how how good 

779
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,080
God is when, when we're behind 
in the fourth quarter, we're on 

780
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:07,600
our knees and we're trying to 
figure this one out. 

781
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,240
And it's those who trust in him 
that waiting in some 

782
00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:13,760
translations, it's, it's those 
who trust in the Lord, Those who

783
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,320
wait and trust deeply in the 
Lord, he's going to renew that 

784
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,840
strength. 
And so my freshman year, I 

785
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,120
haven't even played a, a game 
yet. 

786
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,600
The University of Montana, I, I 
won an entire season of waiting 

787
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,280
because I was a red shirt. 
And so I didn't even play, I 

788
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,360
didn't even play a single down. 
And I remember I was, I was a 

789
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,120
red shirt waiting for for 
something to happen, waiting to 

790
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,480
even get on the team. 
I walked on and I didn't earn a 

791
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:37,960
scholarship till that second 
year. 

792
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,960
Finally say you worked hard 
enough, we'll give you a 

793
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,240
scholarship. 
So I hadn't even played a single

794
00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:45,000
down yet. 
And I'm just waiting on him for 

795
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,240
for whatever he wants me to do. 
I'm working hard, I'm in the 

796
00:38:47,240 --> 00:38:50,360
gym, I'm figuring it out. 
So I'm waiting on him. 

797
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,080
And while I'm waiting, I'm 
working really, really hard to, 

798
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,720
to get my body ready, my mind 
right, everything. 

799
00:38:56,720 --> 00:38:59,720
So if something happens, if an 
injury happens, if anything 

800
00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:02,520
happens, I'll be the guy. 
But I'm also waiting a little 

801
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,480
bit beyond that because when I 
was nine years old, I made an 

802
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:05,520
agreement with the. 
Lord, I said. 

803
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,760
Lord. 
I'll follow you. 

804
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,000
I'll give you my life. 
I've turned it over 37 altar 

805
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,320
calls like I think I'm ready. 
And so I'm turning it over to 

806
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:15,720
him and and I'm giving it to 
him. 

807
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,680
But now I'm waiting. 
I said, I'll do whatever you 

808
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:23,200
want me to do with my life at 
nine years old, 10/11/12, I'm 

809
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:24,600
still waiting. 
I don't know what he wants me to

810
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,200
do. 
I said in the meantime, I'm just

811
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:28,400
going to keep playing some 
football. 

812
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,040
I'm just going to keep playing 
some football. 

813
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:34,440
So actively waiting, learning a 
sport, learning how to excel in 

814
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,080
this, in this sport. 
But in the back of my mind, 

815
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,120
always waiting for for his call 
in my life. 

816
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,400
And I started having success to 
junior high, high school, into 

817
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,240
college, and now I haven't even 
played it down yet. 

818
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,320
And the coach is addressing us 
much like this. 

819
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:49,520
And we're all kind of listening 
to him. 

820
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,560
He's going to tell us, you know,
what we're going to do getting 

821
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,640
the trip itinerary. 
We're going to head and go play 

822
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,280
the main Black Bears in in 
Maine. 

823
00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:03,720
And he says we need someone to 
do Chapel service on the road. 

824
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,600
If if anybody's willing to step 
out, one of the players to do 

825
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,680
just early in the morning before
the game, just little Chapel 

826
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:15,240
service sounded about like that.
Nobody said anything. 

827
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:21,680
Anybody, anybody. 
And it's not me because I'm a 

828
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:22,920
freshman. 
I'm unproven. 

829
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:24,080
I haven't even stepped on the 
field. 

830
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,200
Like I have no respect on the 
team yet. 

831
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,800
It's not me. 
So I'm, I'm sitting back waiting

832
00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:33,800
for someone to say something. 
I'm waiting because I'm like, I 

833
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,920
know, I know seniors that are 
Christians on this team. 

834
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,040
I know some juniors that are 
leaders. 

835
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,240
So I'm waiting. 
And then he says, well, I guess 

836
00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:43,880
we're just going to be heathens 
on the road. 

837
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,240
And I was like, I can't play for
a team that declares we're 

838
00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:49,040
heathens on the road. 
We're going to lose every game, 

839
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,840
right? 
But I'm not going to, I'm not 

840
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,840
saying anything. 
I don't have any of those 

841
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,880
courage and that ability. 
I don't have those things. 

842
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,840
So I'm sitting back and then all
of a sudden I, I just hear a 

843
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,640
little whisper from the Lord. 
How about you? 

844
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:07,960
And when he said that it was 
like those movies when a 

845
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:12,760
concussion grenade goes off and 
it's like it just blew up in my 

846
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,280
head. 
Like the coach is talking, 

847
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,000
things are happening in slow 
motion and I'm just like trying 

848
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,280
to collect myself and, and I 
just heard from the Lord and he 

849
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:24,080
said, how about you? 
And I'm just like, I don't even 

850
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:25,280
know what he said the rest of 
the meeting. 

851
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,080
He broke the meeting. 
We're about to get on to fly out

852
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,240
to play the main black bears 
and, and something in me. 

853
00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:33,520
I didn't know what to do, but I 
knew I someone's got to do 

854
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,120
something. 
And if no one's going to do it 

855
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:37,800
and God's asking me to do it, 
how about me? 

856
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:39,640
I got to do something. 
I don't know what to do. 

857
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,400
So I sheepishly like just 
shaking legs, just walked over 

858
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,600
to the coach, like, and his 
back, his turn. 

859
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,080
And I'm just like, I'm not going
to do it. 

860
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:47,960
I'm going to do it. 
I don't know. 

861
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:54,920
Hey, coach, He's like, yeah, I 
was like, I could do Chapel that

862
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,400
morning. 
I could do Chapel. 

863
00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:00,280
And he said, oh, yeah, keep it 
simple. 

864
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,400
A little poem, prayer and just 
like, pray for the guys, you 

865
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,560
know? 
And I was like, OK, OK, coach, I

866
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:08,560
got you. 
I got you, you know, and we fly 

867
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,280
to the main black bears. 
I haven't even played a game 

868
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:12,200
yet. 
I didn't sleep a wink that 

869
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,200
night, not because it was my 
first collegiate game because I 

870
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:16,800
had to do Chapel service the 
next day. 

871
00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:20,000
So I'm up all night. 
I'm just over at the the little 

872
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,520
desk they give you and I'm 
drinking some water and trying 

873
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,560
to figure this out and I'm just 
praying like, Lord, you got to 

874
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:25,480
show. 
I don't know what to do. 

875
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,360
And my first sermon sounded a 
lot like this. 

876
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,960
I looked at my sheet of paper 
and I went like this and it was 

877
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,200
monotone and I don't even think 
I took a breath the whole time. 

878
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:34,800
But I don't know what it is 
going to Jesus. 

879
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,920
Name Amen. 
And that was it. 

880
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,200
That was it. 
I was, that was my sermon. 

881
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,320
That was my first one. 
And I was just like, I'm so glad

882
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:43,760
that's over. 
Thank you, Lord, for asking me 

883
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,120
to do that one thing. 
I'm glad I'll never do it again.

884
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,840
And then I heard him say thank 
you. 

885
00:42:55,640 --> 00:43:00,560
And for him to say thank you, I 
was like, for that, you can't, 

886
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:02,760
you can't be serious. 
You can't be thanking me for 

887
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,760
there was nothing in that. 
There was no substance. 

888
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,400
There was no, you know, I tried 
to say your truth and I prayed 

889
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,280
for the guys, but I, I didn't 
know what I was doing. 

890
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,200
And he said, thank you. 
It was a building block. 

891
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,480
You see, I felt like I lost. 
I felt like, man, I'll never do 

892
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,320
that again. 
Because the, the feeling of 

893
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,000
losing is you don't ever want to
do it again. 

894
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,440
You don't like losing. 
Some guys said, I, it's not 

895
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,560
about winning. 
I just don't want to lose. 

896
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,320
They go all the way to the Hall 
of Fame with that thinking. 

897
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:31,440
They just like, I just don't 
want to lose. 

898
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:32,640
That's how much they don't want 
to lose. 

899
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,960
They'll work their life and 
leave their families and do all 

900
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:36,480
these things just so they don't 
lose. 

901
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,040
That's how much they don't want 
that feeling. 

902
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,880
And I didn't want that feeling 
ever again because I felt like I

903
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:43,480
lost. 
I stood before everybody and I 

904
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,320
felt like I, I lost. 
I was like, I do not want to do 

905
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,560
that again. 
And when the Lord said thank 

906
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,160
you, I didn't understand what 
winning was. 

907
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,920
I didn't understand how to learn
and use every bit of what God 

908
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,960
has in the Kingdom of God, even 
the losses, even the feelings of

909
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,280
that. 
And I remember when he said 

910
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,320
thank you, I started putting all
my my gear on. 

911
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,640
It's my first game. 
I wasn't even thinking about the

912
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,640
game. 
I mean, I'm just, I'm doing my 

913
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:10,560
assignments and stuff and I'm 
playing as hard as I can. 

914
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,600
I played so free. 
I played so free. 

915
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:14,920
I wasn't even nervous for the 
game. 

916
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,080
These guys are giants. 
We're going against all these 

917
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,480
guys and then they were a good 
team and that's some big boys on

918
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:20,920
our team. 
I just, I didn't even think of 

919
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:22,960
it. 
I was player of the game, my 

920
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:26,200
very first collegiate game, 
because I blocked a punt and I 

921
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,520
sprung it for a touchdown and 
just did all these things 'cause

922
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,200
I was out there just playing so 
free. 

923
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,000
This is easy. 
Football was easy. 

924
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:38,160
It was Chapel that was hard. 
Chapel was, I'd rather pull my 

925
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,880
hamstring and like all these 
stuff and get hit and snap 

926
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,200
bubbles and blood. 
That was the easy part. 

927
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,240
Chapel was hard and just for the
next 4 years of my collegiate 

928
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:50,120
career, I became the chaplain 
and I just one building block 

929
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,280
after another, figuring out how 
to how to serve him and and 

930
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,080
share my testimony and give. 
And he was just like he was 

931
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:57,440
every time, every time 
afterwards. 

932
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,720
And I it still gets emotional 
because it's, it sounds like 

933
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,000
every moment I've I've said yes 
to him. 

934
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,400
It's just thank you. 
I just, I need someone to take a

935
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,280
step. 
I need someone to do it and I 

936
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,200
will help you. 
I will empower you. 

937
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,880
I'll give you what you need 
because the Holy Spirit is a 

938
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:16,200
helper ready and willing on 
standby at all times. 

939
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,400
No sleep ready to go. 
So if you wake up in the middle 

940
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,560
of the night and you're praying,
it's right there with you if you

941
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,760
need, if you're in your 
desperate need and you're at the

942
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:28,880
last your, your last straw. 
It's like he's there and he's 

943
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,480
willing and there's there's no 
rest and he's willing to help 

944
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:33,520
you. 
But someone's got to take a 

945
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,280
step. 
Someone's got to move in that 

946
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:36,960
direction. 
Someone's got to say yes 

947
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,000
sheepishly as it is like we're 
going, we're going. 

948
00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:44,000
But God is faithful. 
He's absolutely faithful to show

949
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,520
up time and time again. 
Active waiting. 

950
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,320
Waiting isn't sitting around 
it's active waiting. 

951
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:56,000
That little 9 year old made a 
decision to commit that 20 year 

952
00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:00,320
old made a decision to commit to
his wife every commitment that 

953
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:04,000
ever made this says yes Lord 
with just fear and trembling in 

954
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,440
my knees and trying to figure 
this thing out is been blessed 

955
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,320
has been the best blessings of 
my life. 

956
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,800
I tell people that are stuck in 
decision land. 

957
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:16,120
The ones who are are in between 
like should I go left, Should I 

958
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:17,560
go right. 
I don't know what to do with my 

959
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,160
life. 
You know, is it her? 

960
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:20,640
Is it him? 
Is it the job? 

961
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,360
Is it, you know, what should I 
do? 

962
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,720
And when people ask me for 
advice, I was just tell him I 

963
00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:30,800
said choose the harder path. 
Choose the harder path. 

964
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:33,040
Why? 
Because it says broad is the way

965
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,080
that leads to destruction. 
Narrow is the path that leads to

966
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,360
to life. 
It's the hard path. 

967
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,000
There's a reason why very few 
travel it because everybody's 

968
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,240
sitting around waiting for 
something. 

969
00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:44,280
They're waiting for that big job
opportunity. 

970
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,120
They're waiting for for some 
windfall. 

971
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,080
They're waiting for that person 
to show up. 

972
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,600
When I was playing with the 
Tennessee Titans, I had a really

973
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:57,120
good friend who I love him to 
this day, just taught me so 

974
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,360
much. 
We walked together, did so many 

975
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:04,000
things together and he was an 
interesting guy. 

976
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,600
One thing that he did in his 
waiting, because he wasn't 

977
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:11,000
married, Mary Mary and I had had
been married just like one year 

978
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:16,880
at that point and we went to a 
couples Bible study and my buddy

979
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,560
went with us, but he didn't have
a girlfriend. 

980
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:24,240
He didn't have a wife, but he 
went to couples Bible study and 

981
00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:27,400
everybody made fun of him. 
I didn't make fun of him because

982
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,000
I loved him and but everyone 
else is like, what are you 

983
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,240
doing? 
You are the funniest guy ever. 

984
00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:34,760
Like this is a couple's Bible 
study. 

985
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,440
If you, if you didn't get the 
flyer, this is a couples, you 

986
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,680
know, and everyone would joke 
around about, but he was waiting

987
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:44,800
for his wife, but he was not, he
was not sitting there waiting 

988
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:46,320
for her. 
So I know so many guys just 

989
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:47,760
sitting there. 
Oh, she's going to be this, 

990
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,160
she's going to be that. 
And I'm waiting for her to show 

991
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:51,200
up. 
She's going to show up one day 

992
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,880
and I'll man, I'm going to know 
her instantly. 

993
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:54,920
All that stuff. 
And they're just, they're 

994
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:56,600
dreaming about who they're going
to be with. 

995
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,040
And if they're not saying it, 
they're they're chasing it, you 

996
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,400
know, and it's like they're 
trying to figure out who who 

997
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:04,360
they want. 
But my buddy was, I've never 

998
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,680
seen anybody wait so well. 
He waited and waited and his 

999
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:09,640
waiting, he was actively getting
ready. 

1000
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:14,160
I'm just like, what a picture of
us actively getting ready for 

1001
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:16,480
his return. 
One day, right, God will show up

1002
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:18,760
and man, it'll be, it's going to
be a great and terrible day. 

1003
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,040
Great for those who know him, 
maybe terrible for those who 

1004
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,760
don't. 
But but just what kind of 

1005
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,520
waiting are we doing? 
Are we waiting where we're 

1006
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,440
actively waiting, getting ready 
as if it's going to happen, 

1007
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:31,640
'cause my buddy man, that 
picture that he showed us was 

1008
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,360
like, he's like, it's going to 
happen. 

1009
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,480
Imagine. 
And one thing he said that stuck

1010
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,280
in me is like, imagine if she 
showed up and saw me waiting for

1011
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:42,840
her in a couple's Bible study 
getting ready, right, Right. 

1012
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:44,240
The woman would be like, Oh my 
God, it's you. 

1013
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:48,320
Oh my gosh, You know, like how 
many times do we pray for that? 

1014
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:50,160
We pray that he's, he's getting 
ready. 

1015
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,240
We pray that she's getting 
ready, You know, like how many 

1016
00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:55,000
people actually actively get 
ready and that kind of stuff as 

1017
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,640
opposed to just sit back. 
She'll show up one day, he'll 

1018
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,840
show up one day. 
That job will show up one day. 

1019
00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:02,680
The things that we want, the 
things that we, we're going for 

1020
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:04,880
it it'll, it'll show up. 
We're praying hard that it's 

1021
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,440
going to show up when all the 
while the Lord is like, it's an 

1022
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,520
active waiting and it's a trust 
so deep that says I'm taking a 

1023
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,560
step and it's not a step that 
all this is easy for me. 

1024
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:18,120
I can easily go down this route.
It's the step that's like I am, 

1025
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,240
I'm in fear 'cause that is, I 
don't want to go in that 

1026
00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:24,040
direction. 
Choose the harder path, harder 

1027
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,240
the better. 
I always say harder the better. 

1028
00:49:26,240 --> 00:49:29,200
Why? 
Because I always say with with 

1029
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:33,080
championships, if if they handed
out championship trophies and 

1030
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:35,560
you got them at Walmart and they
were 699 and every, hey, go pick

1031
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:37,240
one up man, Everyone gets a 
championship trophy. 

1032
00:49:37,240 --> 00:49:38,600
Was it really a championship 
trophy? 

1033
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,720
Is it really worth like putting 
it on the shelf and be like, 

1034
00:49:40,720 --> 00:49:43,200
man, we worked so hard for that,
for every bit of that. 

1035
00:49:43,720 --> 00:49:47,000
Or is it the one that says 
thousands and 10s of thousands 

1036
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,240
are going for it, but only one 
gets the prize? 

1037
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,280
Paul instructed us. 
He said run in such a way that 

1038
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:56,400
you get a prize, the price of 
the high call that he has in 

1039
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:57,880
your life. 
Every single one of you have 

1040
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:01,160
building blocks that they have 
got you to this point and 

1041
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:04,080
there's more building blocks to 
get you to the next point and 

1042
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,760
it's not going to be easy. 
And I would I would submit that 

1043
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:11,800
as we're looking as we're 
actively waiting for him, it's 

1044
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:14,640
not awaiting where we're sitting
back hoping. 

1045
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,600
You know, I I from the 
reservation, there's been so 

1046
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,240
many missionaries that have come
to the reservation. 

1047
00:50:20,240 --> 00:50:22,400
There's people come through, you
know, traveling evangelist, 

1048
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,120
different stuff and, and they, 
and they speak of all these 

1049
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:28,080
great things that God is going 
to do and, and the movements 

1050
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:29,440
that are coming and all these 
things. 

1051
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:33,880
And, and we've, we've sat in the
Pew and just hoped big, I mean, 

1052
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,080
big, we, we've had times where 
we're just on our face, just 

1053
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:39,440
snob bubbles like crying God 
show up, he's going to do it. 

1054
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,280
And we're literally on our face 
and these, these ministers are 

1055
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:45,320
preaching and just, and our hope
just grows. 

1056
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,160
But I've lived that scripture 
that says hope deferred makes 

1057
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:53,520
the heart grow sick, just hoping
and hoping that it never comes, 

1058
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:55,680
hoping for these businesses to 
come back to the reservation 

1059
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:58,040
that never comes, hoping for a 
prosperity for the people that 

1060
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,760
they can enjoy purpose in their 
life again. 

1061
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,160
And it just never comes. 
And people are wandering and 

1062
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:04,640
struggling and suffering and 
hurting. 

1063
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:08,920
And then the Lord spoke to me 
and he's like, there's so many 

1064
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,120
mountains, not just in Montana, 
but there's so many mountains 

1065
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,360
that are in front of the Native 
Americans, so many mountains. 

1066
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,200
But hope doesn't move those 
mountains. 

1067
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,160
Faith will move those mountains.
It's an act of faith. 

1068
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,800
It's an act of someone's got to 
take a step. 

1069
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:24,360
Someone's got to climb that 
mountain. 

1070
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,880
Someone's got to take a chance 
because we can hope and pray and

1071
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:29,440
say, God, you can show up and do
it. 

1072
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,160
God said, I did, I did it, now 
it's on you. 

1073
00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:40,760
And so. 
God is faithful to His word, if 

1074
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,560
we stand on that word, if we let
Him build that building, that 

1075
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:45,640
building block, don't rush the 
process. 

1076
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,040
Some of the prayers, some of the
things that we're hoping and 

1077
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,080
believing for. 
I remember I told that same 

1078
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,040
friend and a group of people, I 
said, the Lord, the Lord is 

1079
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:57,480
going to, he's going to give us 
a house and he's going to give 

1080
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,360
us a, a facility. 
And I didn't even know I was 

1081
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,880
describing the training center. 
I was describing our process 

1082
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:05,080
and, and disciple in guys and, 
and girls and all this stuff. 

1083
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,240
And I just said God's going to 
do it like he's going to do it. 

1084
00:52:07,240 --> 00:52:10,720
But but every day just actively 
taking steps in prayer, actively

1085
00:52:10,720 --> 00:52:13,960
working in that direction. 
And I just kept praying and 

1086
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:16,360
waiting on the Lord. 
So much waiting. 

1087
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,240
People thought my call was the 
NFL. 

1088
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:23,400
Like literally people were like,
I remember just telling people, 

1089
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,760
yeah, I'm waiting for whatever, 
whatever God has for me. 

1090
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:28,440
But actively like doing steps 
towards trying to figure what 

1091
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:29,960
what that is. 
And I didn't know what it was, 

1092
00:52:30,720 --> 00:52:33,840
but I knew it was there because 
I was believing and, and hoping 

1093
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:35,720
and praying and just putting all
that together. 

1094
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:40,080
And one day, and I always tell 
people like, whatever he gives 

1095
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,240
you, whatever he's put in your 
hand, just leave it open Because

1096
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,000
if you do that, that's there's 
no more in, you know, there's no

1097
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,400
more out, but there's no more in
either. 

1098
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:50,920
And so just leave that hand open
because I had the NFL in my hand

1099
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:52,840
and I was faithfully given 
everything I had to it. 

1100
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,720
And one day he shows up and he 
says, is it mine? 

1101
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:58,600
And I said, yeah, it's always 
been yours from since I was 9. 

1102
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,800
I said, I'll do whatever you 
want me to do, but I'm going to 

1103
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:02,880
play a little football. 
And he and he, he put football 

1104
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:06,720
in my hand through junior high 
high school, broke some NCAA 

1105
00:53:06,720 --> 00:53:09,160
records all the way to the NFL, 
started playing for these 

1106
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:12,240
awesome teams on these just 
childhood dream stuff. 

1107
00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:14,760
But I left it open. 
And he says, is that still mine?

1108
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:16,240
And I said, yeah, that's always 
been yours. 

1109
00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:21,440
He took it out and it was empty.
And he filled it up with a 

1110
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,360
vision, with an idea, with a 
dream that was so powerful. 

1111
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,800
And I knew that he was calling 
me to that. 

1112
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,000
And I wasn't shocked because I 
already knew that back when I 

1113
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:32,920
was 9. 
I already knew that God, 

1114
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,640
whatever you put in there is 
always good. 

1115
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,440
Like sometimes it's hard, but 
it's always good. 

1116
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:39,800
You know, winning championships 
and trying to raise the trophy 

1117
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,560
is hard, but it's always good. 
It's like whatever he's called 

1118
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,280
you to in your life, it's, it's 
not just winning. 

1119
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,600
And and if it's not winning, 
we're not going to follow you. 

1120
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,640
It's winning and it's learning 
and it's everything else in 

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00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,480
between that he wants for you. 
But there is no loss in the 

1122
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,880
Kingdom. 
There is no losing in the 

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00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,680
Kingdom. 
He even gives us the end result.

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00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:00,480
He tells us how the fourth 
quarter ends. 

1125
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,080
He gives it all to us. 
And that should come for us the 

1126
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:06,360
most to give us great hope. 
But not just hope, the kind of 

1127
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,640
hope that leads to a faith that 
says we can take steps 

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00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,440
powerfully to believe for our 
communities to believe, for our 

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00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,080
families to believe, for our 
marriages, to put us back in a 

1130
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:17,080
place of such power. 
Knowing that man, if he is 

1131
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:19,640
faithful through my life and all
these building blocks. 

1132
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,440
These building blocks are like 
those stones that you put in 

1133
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,400
your life and you and you 
repeat, you put them on repeat. 

1134
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:26,760
You teach them to your kids. 
You teach them to your families,

1135
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:28,840
you teach them to your friends. 
That's our testimony. 

1136
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,240
How are we going to overcome 
this, this battle? 

1137
00:54:31,240 --> 00:54:32,480
How are we going to overcome 
this life? 

1138
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:34,920
There's so many pitfalls and 
it's it's a struggle. 

1139
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:38,120
And the Lord says by the blood 
of the Lamb, I did it in the 

1140
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:40,280
word of your testimony that 
you're going to do something. 

1141
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,360
We got to be tested. 
We got to walk through it. 

1142
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,960
We're not just going to sit 
around waiting for him, but 

1143
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:47,280
we're going to move forward in 
power. 

1144
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:50,560
And so I want to pray for you 
guys that we can move forward. 

1145
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:54,040
Many of you already know, as I'm
speaking, there's, there's been 

1146
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:55,680
a decision. 
You've been hanging on decisions

1147
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,840
for a long time. 
Some of you know that man, I, I 

1148
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:01,240
feel like I've been waiting kind
of the sit back kind of waiting 

1149
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:04,520
and I know I need to take some 
steps and, and they're scary, 

1150
00:55:04,720 --> 00:55:07,240
they're hard, but I want to 
encourage you guys harder the 

1151
00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:09,320
better because in the Kingdom of
God, there's winning. 

1152
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:11,640
You're going to win and you're 
going to win often. 

1153
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:14,600
And then there's learning. 
God's going to give you 

1154
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,720
everything you're going to need.
And it's a setup. 

1155
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:19,680
He's literally setting you up 
for the future. 

1156
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:22,280
I don't know the future. 
I know some of it. 

1157
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,240
I know what he's giving me. 
I know the parts of it we know 

1158
00:55:25,240 --> 00:55:26,560
in. 
Part we prophecy in part, we 

1159
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:30,280
believe big, we hope big, but we
got someone's got to take a 

1160
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:32,000
step. 
Someone's got to move forward. 

1161
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:34,160
And so let's let's all stand 
right now. 

1162
00:55:43,260 --> 00:55:46,780
So some of you I just feel like 
have been in that, that waiting 

1163
00:55:46,780 --> 00:55:51,100
season. 
It's been a long wait, but there

1164
00:55:51,100 --> 00:55:54,540
is no loss. 
There is no loss. 

1165
00:55:54,540 --> 00:55:56,380
The waiting and the 
strengthening. 

1166
00:55:56,940 --> 00:55:58,940
He promises he's going to give 
you wings. 

1167
00:55:58,940 --> 00:56:01,260
We're going to fly. 
We're going to see that vision. 

1168
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:07,640
We're going to see that future 
that that we know God has it for

1169
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:09,480
you. 
You've seen it in dreams. 

1170
00:56:10,240 --> 00:56:12,360
You can see it even now as you 
close your eyes. 

1171
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:18,520
God has not given up on it. 
In fact, He knows the plan. 

1172
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:20,080
He knows the process. 
He knows the path. 

1173
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,640
That is so difficult. 
And he says, I am proud of you. 

1174
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:27,960
Even though we're walking and we
seem like we're failing, he 

1175
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:29,800
looks at me and he says thank 
you. 

1176
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:31,600
Someone's got to take a take a 
step. 

1177
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:34,400
Someone's got to make a move. 
Someone's got to believe. 

1178
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:39,840
Someone's got to take action. 
I truly believe actions kill 

1179
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:42,480
demons, the demons in our lives 
that hold us back and lie. 

1180
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:44,960
All they have is lies. 
They're going to lie to you to 

1181
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:48,160
say you failed so bad. 
I don't think you're coming back

1182
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:50,600
from this one. 
You're in the fourth quarter and

1183
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:54,160
you cannot come back from this. 
But I want to let you know, not 

1184
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:58,720
only is Jesus going to come back
somebody, He's the greatest 

1185
00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:00,560
comeback of all time and He's 
coming. 

1186
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,080
He's coming for you. 
How is he going to find us? 

1187
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:06,400
How is he going to find you? 
Is he going to find you waiting 

1188
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:12,440
actively like my friend who he 
could see his wife, he could see

1189
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:14,440
his life, he could see those 
children being raised. 

1190
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:15,840
He could see the business that 
he was going to own. 

1191
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:18,400
He's seen the pastor, the church
that he was going to be pastor 

1192
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:19,800
and he saw before it all 
happened. 

1193
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:22,160
Why? 
Because he was waiting. 

1194
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:25,560
He was. 
Waiting and getting strength 

1195
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:27,800
from the Lord. 
You may not have it in your 

1196
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,880
hand, but leave the hand open 
because he wants to feel it. 

1197
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:35,440
Father, I pray for everybody 
here. 

1198
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:38,080
Lord, I pray for every mind, 
every heart. 

1199
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:39,520
Lord, I just pray that you fill 
them up. 

1200
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:43,720
Lord, stir it up. 
Lord, I just pray, Lord, that 

1201
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:45,560
you help us stir the Spirit in 
our lives. 

1202
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,760
It's there. 
It may be dormant, it may be 

1203
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:49,080
sitting there. 
But Lord, I just pray that you 

1204
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,000
stir it up. 
Lord, stir it up so it's 

1205
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:55,240
overflowing. 
It's not only for us, Lord, that

1206
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:58,920
overflowing that spill is for, 
is for someone else's fill. 

1207
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:00,720
Lord, I just pray that you fill 
them up. 

1208
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:05,640
Lord, help us, Lord, to not just
see our own problems, but we can

1209
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:08,120
see the problems of others. 
And we can say, I know a God who

1210
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:11,040
has a solution for that. 
I have someone that I've been 

1211
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:13,400
walking with. 
We just have to stir it up 

1212
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,720
together. 
And Father, when the weight of 

1213
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:18,320
the world is pressing down and 
we're struggling and, and we 

1214
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:23,120
can't hang on any longer, Lord, 
I just pray you help us to be be

1215
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:25,520
bold and courageous enough to 
say I need help. 

1216
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:29,600
I need help. 
This is too heavy. 

1217
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:34,440
And Father, I pray, Lord, that 
you help us be the ones that 

1218
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:38,280
come to people's aids as we hear
the voices, as we hear the cries

1219
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:42,680
of those who need help. 
Help us, Lord, to come and 

1220
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:45,400
surround the people, Lord, to 
help him. 

1221
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:52,960
Help him in the time of need. 
Lord Father, I pray for those 

1222
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:57,400
who are that feel feel dry. 
They feel like man, I. 

1223
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,680
I just need. 
To be filled up, filled up to 

1224
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:03,760
the top Lord, whether it's in 
their finances, their 

1225
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:07,120
relationships, whatever area 
Lord that they may be struggling

1226
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:09,120
with, Lord, let them know that 
that's a building block that's 

1227
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:12,680
coming that actually is required
to get to that next level. 

1228
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:16,600
Help them to to fall in love 
with your word like James 

1229
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:18,880
chapter 1, Count of joy. 
When we're in various trials, 

1230
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:22,880
we're being created and 
fashioned and formed for that 

1231
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,280
building block to stand on to do
your work. 

1232
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,240
Lord, I thank you, Lord, that 
you've you've given us great 

1233
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:35,800
trials, Lord, before us so that 
we be can be tested and approved

1234
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:38,680
and that we can go to that next 
level that you've called us to. 

1235
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:40,800
Lord, we all know it. 
We see it, we sense it. 

1236
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:44,040
Some of us have stepped into it.
It's not over. 

1237
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:46,680
There's always more. 
There's always more because 

1238
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:47,960
there's more people who need to 
know. 

1239
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:51,560
There's always more people who 
need a touch, a fresh drink of 

1240
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:53,760
water from the overflow of our 
lives. 

1241
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:56,880
So Father, I pray that you fill 
everybody up here today, Lord, 

1242
00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:00,920
fill them up oh so much where 
it's just spilling out of this 

1243
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:05,280
place, Lord, into the community,
into the schools, into the the 

1244
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:06,600
playing fields where the kids 
are. 

1245
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:09,320
Lord, they all, they need you, 
they want you and they don't 

1246
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:11,240
even know what yet. 
Lord, help us to carry the 

1247
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:14,600
message powerfully. 
Help us to carry it to a place 

1248
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:18,240
where it is dry. 
Help us to plant, Lord, in 

1249
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:21,640
places that make no sense. 
Help us to go and make that 

1250
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:24,560
decision to go to to distant 
places, Lord, that make no 

1251
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:27,680
sense. 
Lord, we will follow. 

1252
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:31,800
Lord, I pray, Lord, that people 
will get a single word from you.

1253
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:33,960
A single word has transformed my
life. 

1254
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:37,560
I pray that you give them a 
word, Lord, that'll set them on 

1255
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:39,840
a trajectory that will transform
their life. 

1256
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:43,480
Lord, you are faithful and you 
are willing, Lord. 

1257
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:49,640
So Lord, we offer our lives a 
living sacrifice, holy and 

1258
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:52,240
acceptable and pleasing to you. 
Lord, let it be a fragrance and 

1259
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:55,800
aroma to sacrifice our life and 
leave our hand open. 

1260
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:58,160
Whatever you want to place in 
our hand, Lord, we steward, we 

1261
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:02,920
take care. 
Of and tell you, come again, the

1262
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:05,960
greatest comeback of all time. 
Lord, we anticipate you, we 

1263
01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:11,840
actively wait upon you, and we 
are strengthened together and we

1264
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:16,840
help one another. 
We thank you, Lord, and in your 

1265
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:19,040
name we pray. 
Amen. 

1266
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:25,240
We want to thank you again for 
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1267
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:27,360
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We hope you were encouraged by 

1268
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,160
what you heard today. 
You can find 

1269
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:33,920
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1270
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:37,360
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1271
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:41,040
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1272
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:43,080
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1273
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:44,640
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