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pathway to promise podcast, Episode Number 43. Do what you love, love what you do with Dr. Brad Miller This is your own daily. I’m author of month in the marketplace. I’m excited today with my friend Dr. Brad Miller today, we share a passion for help helping leaders thrive Brad is particularly passionate about helping people overcome adversity, and finding a life of promise through this podcast the pathway to promise you are on the pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller Bradley’s every person has a god given promised life of peace, prosperity and purpose, and that you must have a plan and a guide to get there. The pathway to promise podcast Not only is your guide through the wilderness of depression and disappointment that stand between you and your promise life, but also brings you insights and direction from inspiring successful thought leaders who have transformed their lives. Welcome to pathway to promise. Now here’s Brad Hello, good people. And welcome to the pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller What an honor and a privilege it is for you to join me today. I’m here to offer some encouragement and hope in your life, hopefully to give you some tools to help you overcome adversity, and defined a pathway in your life to peace, prosperity, and purpose. Today, we’re we’re sharing an episode which is also can be found on our new YouTube channel pathway to promise YouTube, you can find it there. And so you’ll hear some references to YouTube on this audio here. I think you can understand that. So appreciate your indulgence with that. If you want to find out more about me and about what we do here in pathway to promise head on over to pathway promise.com, our blog and a web page where there are website there. And there you can also pick up the resource to free resource the four minute way to frame your day for success. I think you’ll enjoy it and find it helpful. So right now, it’s going to do the teaching that can be helpful to you to overcome adversity in your life right now. Hello, good people and welcome to pathway to promise YouTube channel with Dr. Brad Miller that’s me. We’re here to encourage you and give you stories and of hope and encouragement today we’re talking about do what you love, love what you do. The pathway to promise YouTube channel is here to help give you hope. And if you an encouragement and tell you a great stories that can help encourage you and give you good the tools to help you overcome adversity. And you can go to our website pathway promise com to get more information or check out our podcast pathway to promise podcast. Also, if you like us, dude, you do your thing, make your comments below and give us a thumbs up and subscribe we would really appreciate it now do what you love, love you do. One of the things I love to do is read and there’s just a you know, a famous author by the name of Isaac Asimov, some of you are fans of Isaac Asimov of his great you know, great intellectual curiosity and his his writing, which is just sores because of you know, all the science fiction type of stuff that he’s involved with. And it’s good stuff a prolific writer. And there’s a book about him called Asimov laughs again, and in this book, which will put a link to it in in our notes down below. And Isaac Asimov’s relates how there was an incident where or a story when he was interviewed by barber by Barbara Walters, and whenever TV specials. Now she’s more recently ratio has been other TV show the view but for many years, she had specials on a radio basis where she would interview great figures of our time. And so she was interviewing Isaac Asimov about his books that he’d written. And he asked him how many books he had written it. And he asked me a large number dozens of books. And she asked him, don’t you ever want to do anything else? But right? And he said, No. And she pressed on him a little bit, don’t you want to go hunting or fishing or dancing? or hiking or do something else? And, and and he said, No, no, no, no, he was adamant about it. And she continued, now what would you do if you had a medical appointment, and the doctor said you only had six months to live. And Isaac Asimov said to her type faster,

type faster. He knew what he was about. He knew what his life was all about. It was about writing, and writing and writing. And he lived out his passion, his passion lived through him. He spent his life doing what he loved. You know, what? Isn’t it really the goal for all of us in so many ways to spend your life doing what you love. So many of us don’t, we are filled, we feel stuck in some debt in a way of life, or maybe a job or situation that we feel stuck in. George Burns, a comedian, he has been dead for quite a while but but he said this, I honestly think it’s better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something that you hate. Now, I understand that some of us feel stuck. And we feel it’s hard to get out of the places that we’re stuck. But we can make incremental steps, we can start taking action to do what we love. Maybe that’s like as if as a ball baby is writing, but maybe you’re not writing all the time. Maybe you’re writing for 10 minutes a day. Whatever it is, do something that you have passion about. And you can venture step by step into the unknown, a little bit of doing your passion doing your bliss. It’s scary. Of course it is it scared to do things. It’s a little bit scary for me to be on these YouTube videos, I’m used to public speaking, but I haven’t done a lot of stuff on video. And but you know what, when you take a risk, that’s often the most fulfilling thing that you can do. for it, it said, you know, the reason you go out on the edge of a limb because that’s where the fruit is at. So let me ask you this, if you’re satisfied with what you’re doing, you’re passionate about what you’re doing. Yay. Awesome. Go for it. Have fun with that, and expand on that if you but if you’re not, if you’re feeling stuck, if you’re feeling a place where you are not being fed, or you are not alive, and you’re not doing your passion, you’re not doing your Isaac Asimov thing of type faster, then start taking action to do something about it. Maybe it’s time to do something a little less familiar, a little less safe, and to do something to follow your heart. When you do that, you’re going to live in hope, and grace and be encouraged. And you will be able to overcome those adversities in your life. And get yourself on a path of peace, prosperity, and purpose which is exactly what we’re about here on the pathway to promise YouTube channel and our podcast pathway to promise and you can check us out at pathway promised calm and we hope that you’ll join us on these episodes. And you know, like and subscribe and comment, all that kind of stuff. We can help be helpful to to one another. Until next time, this is Dr. Brad Miller I want to encourage you to keep your promises because there’s power in a promise kept. Thanks so much for taking the pathway to promise but Dr. Brad Miller as a subscriber, you’ll be a vital part of the pathway to promise community visit us on the web at pathway promise.com. Until now next time, remember to stay on your pathway to promise.

Thanks so much for taking the pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller as a subscriber, you’ll be a vital part of the pathway to promise community visit us on the web at pathway promise.com until next time, remember to stay on your pathway to promise

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Hello, good people. And welcome to the pathway to promise YouTube channel with Dr. Brad Miller that’s me. We’re glad that you’re here today, we’re talking about sticky, getting Sticky, sticky together. So what we’re here on the pathway to promise YouTube channel is to share words of hope and encouragement. And to help you get on a pathway to peace, prosperity and purpose. You can you know, if you like what we’re doing here, please subscribe to subscribe and give us a thumbs up. We appreciate that. And in reading that little bell there, so we can you can get more issues of the pathway to promise podcast you’ll also find out more at pathway promise.com and our podcast pathway to promise podcast. sticking together an old story is about two guys who are out fishing. And they went fishing in a little small rowboat. And Dave is pretty uneventful to one of their eyes, hooked on a big huge fish. He’s trying to reel it in all of a sudden, he couldn’t handle it. He struggled all sudden, this big fish get it pulled him overboard. And he can indian guy, the guy couldn’t swim, it began to panic and, and yelling, screaming, and he started yelling his buddy, save me Save the salmon, the friend rates down to you know, to try to grab me and he got ahold of his hair, cut his head. And he pulled and pulled the info and the guys to pay came off. That didn’t do any good does it? And he went out of the water again. And he came up Xiaomi Help me Help me Help me Help me and the guy to preach the friend that reached out again. And he was able to grab a hold of the man’s arm by his wrist. And he pulled it pulled. And it was an artificial limb his plastic arm came off. That sounded good. The guy is in worse shape. Now he starts to flailing around again. And he’s drowning. He’s kicking and he and the man the other his buddy reaches out and grabs him by the foot and pulls a foot and it’s an artificial leg that he’s got. He pulled the one leg off and then it continues flashing. Why would you help me? Why would you help me help me? I’m going to drown it finally the other guy called that kind of disgusted man. How can I help you if you don’t stick together? How can I help you if you don’t stick together? It’s a choice. We make friends to stick together. We can stick together our own psyche and our own emotions if we choose to. We don’t have to fall apart when bad things happen. And moreover, we need to stick together in community with other people that might be if you’re married, that your spouse or maybe your kids or some snitch significant group of friends, stick together, encourage them and let them encourage you. You know, that is you know, there’s a lot of there’s so much division in the world right now. So much division people are separated by all kinds of things, you know, divorce happens, disease comes in break, you know, is a horrible thing to deal with. We got you know, all kinds of political unrest and you know, there’s you know, violence, all kinds of things that want to divide us, let’s choose to stick together don’t live in isolation. Isolation can lead to depression. And that’s not what this is about. We need to get out and connect with other people. And along the way Yeah, there’s going to be you know, when people get together, sometimes it’s going to be conflict, but you can choose to work through that if you do stick together if you have a bigger goal in mind and so beautiful thing it’s a beautiful thing when you stick together and have community so if you feel like things your life are falling apart, maybe they are but I would encourage you to choose to get with other people in your life and choose to stick together maybe we can be helpful to one another in that put your comments below if you’ve what ways do you stick together without with other people? Some of the things that you do to build community and give Let us know your comments are you going to go over to pathway promise calm. And that’s where our blog is at. And also the podcast pathway to promise a podcast you can check that out. We bring in we have interviews with great leaders who have found ways to overcome adversity, that they’ve had their life to live a life of peace, prosperity and purpose. That’s what I know that you can do if you choose to stick together. I’m Dr Brad Miller here to help you stick together in your life. And I want to see you next time here on the pathway to promise YouTube channel. Until then, I encourage you to keep your promises because there is power and a promise kept

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pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller episode number 41. Eight free ways to improve your personal relationships.

Kevin Murphy 0:15
Hi, this is Kevin Murphy, author of the three rooms where I help people change your thoughts to change your life. You’re connected to the pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller helping you overcome adversity to find your promise life Miller

Brad Miller 0:31
Bradley’s every person has a god given promised life of peace, prosperity and purpose, and that you must have a plan and a guide to get there. The pathway to promise podcast Not only is your guide through the wilderness of depression and disappointment that stand between you and your promise life, but also brings you insights and direction from inspiring successful thought leaders who have transformed their lives. Welcome to the pathway to promise now here’s Brad Hello, good people. And welcome to the pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller What an honor and a privilege it is for you to join me today. I’m here to offer some encouragement and hope in your life, hopefully to give you some tools to help you overcome adversity, and to find a pathway in your life to peace, prosperity, and purpose today, where we’re sharing an episode, which is also can be found on our new YouTube channel pathway to promise YouTube, you can find it there. And so you’ll hear some references to YouTube on this audio here. I think you can understand that. So appreciate your intelligence with that. If you want to find out more about me and about what we do here in pathway to promise head on over to pathway promise.com, our blog and a web page where there are website there. And there you can also pick up the resource to free resource the four minute way to frame your day for success. I think you’ll enjoy it and find it helpful. So right now, let’s get into the teaching that can be helpful to you to overcome adversity in your life right now. Hello, good people. And welcome to the pathway to promise YouTube channel with Dr. Brad Miller that’s me, I’m here to be an encouragement and a hope purveyor in your life and help you to overcome adversity. To achieve your promise life of peace, prosperity, and purpose. Today, we’re talking about eight free things you can do to feel better about others, eight free things to do to help you feel good about other people. So we’re going to get into that just a second, just remember that we are all about being helpful to you. If you if you think we’re helpful, please go ahead and subscribe to our channel. And, you know, give us a thumbs up and all that good stuff and tell others about it soon. So we could be helpful to others. And you can always find out more at pathway promise dot com. Eight free things that can make you feel better, don’t cost you anything but a little bit of energy. Here they are simple checklist. First one is the gift of listening to get the listening. In our world where we have incredible distractions. YouTube is one of them. You know your height, your phone, your TV, the honking horns, a job, they everything, your kids can all be a distraction, because it’s all pulling at your time pulling your energy and we have all kinds of things, all kinds of messages coming at us. But if you have someone in your life that’s important to you, if you take a moment to truly listen to them, look them in the eyes. Look when the eyes, you know, square up your body to them, and listen to them. Even for just a couple minutes, it makes a world of difference. They will feel valued. And guess what you will be listening to as well. seek first to understand, then you’ll be understood is one of the keys to effective living Stephen Covey talks about. So take time to listen, don’t interrupt, don’t do anything. Just listen. That’s number one listening. The second one is the gift of affection. Now, let me just say a word about the gift of affection is just being especially a loved one in your life. Your spouse, your kids, your parents, people you care about your friends is tell them that you like them, tell them that you love them. And if it’s appropriate, you know hugs and kisses to your wife or to your spouse, pat on the back to your kids Good job.

small little actions that show affection, affection Now touch each other touch one another appropriately, you know, keep boundaries that need to be kept with with other people, but show signs of affection, it can be a good word in their life. So listening, a gift of affection. The third gift is the gift of laughter. And I just wanted to share with you if you laugh, it’s going to it’s going to be if you laugh and the other person laughs or if you tell them a joke or something like that. It’s going to be helpful. Okay? You know, there’s a lot of stuff that happens in, in our body and our, the chemical reactions in our body when we laugh. And if you laugh with other people together, it’s you know, it’s magnified. That’s why comedians you know, get such a charge out of making people laugh. And when people go to comedy shows, to enjoy and to be together to laugh with other people. If you can tell a joke or be laugh at yourself, that don’t laugh at the expense of other people, but laugh with them, you’re gonna have a lot of fun together. You know, tell funny stories tell stories about your family from the past. And, and and guess what, one of the things will happen is somebody will say something, you know what I’ll love to laugh with you, we’d laugh together that special when you laugh together, guess where I wish I had a really good Good, good joke to tell you. But I don’t write down maybe I’ll come up with one by the end of our time together. The third, the fourth thing, the fourth thing is the gift of solitude. Now, what I mean by that, this has to do with the kind of the listening gift as well. When we listen and discern what’s going on with other people. There are times when people want to be left alone. And we don’t want to invade their space, you know, something the gift of affection, we are in people’s space oftentimes by a hug or, or some sign of affection. But the solitude gift is one where sometimes people need to be left alone. And we need to be sensitive to those times give people space, don’t interrupt, don’t invade their space, and give people the gift of solitude. Okay. So number five is the gift of kindness or favor. This is actions that we can take, go out of your way to do something kind for somebody else, acts of kindness, random acts of kindness can be done to strangers on the street. And other kinds of acts can be done to your family and your friends. But it is giving a good word to them. It’s being kind holding the door for somebody being the one who goes out to Starbucks to get the coffee to bring it back to the other people in the office, do kind act and kindness will be returned to you. It’s a reciprocal relationship. And I just encourage you to do just that. To be a kind person, every day, go out and do something kind and you will be blessed. It’s a good thing. The fifth thing, or the Yeah, the fifth thing is the gift is sort of like the gift of kindness. But it’s putting in a tangible ways to give a written note. Okay, you have to have a written note. I was cleaning out some boxes my office earlier to earlier today I came across a note that somebody wrote me probably 25 years ago, saying how much they appreciate me appreciated me. And it gave me a good warm feeling about that person it was 25 years ago when that happened. But I kept that note for a reason because it made me feel good. Guess what happens when you write someone else’s note. It makes them feel good. It doesn’t have to be a birthday. It doesn’t have to be, you know, Christmas or some special occasion. It’s even better when it’s not a special occasion. Just because you appreciate somebody writing a note. Now it can be an email, the chorus or could be a text message, or some sort of sort of online message like a Twitter direct, direct message. Those are cool. But you know what nothing really is as awesome as getting that card in the mail. Or that thank you note and just do it. You’d be surprised if you do this one time a week to somebody in your life. Write them a note, write them a card, you’ll be surprised what the impact it has in your life. Write a written note. The seventh of the one thing we do is have a free thing that we can do is be is give somebody the gift of a compliment. The spoken word is a powerful thing. A powerful thing. And that is what

when you give somebody a word, that’s a compliment. Hey, you did a good job today on the project. Hey, way to go on your presentation. Hey, good job, son or daughter at school. And hey, wife, you look beautiful today. Compliment people and how they look or color people what they have done accomplished. Don’t overdo it. Just be appropriate in this. be simple. Be sincere. Be to the point. It’s, you know, you’ve cooked a good meal today. It guess what when you do that, when you come some compliments somebody you heard the term it makes their day? It does. It does. So the third the the last one here, the eighth gift that you can give somebody is one of the most important ones and has to do with your attitude. Have a good attitude, have a pleasant disposition. You can choose to do this everybody, you can choose it. Everybody has bad things happen to them. We all have gone through some bad thing. You know, you lose our job, we have a bad diagnosis. The doctor, we have a financial reversal. Our dog gets sick, I happened to me last week it cost me $1,000 to get my dog veterinarian bills last week. Things happen. We don’t have to go bad with them. We don’t have to get better, we can get better. And it’s a choice we make to have a cheerful disposition. So the easiest way to feel good in your life is to choose to feel good and treat each other as they feel good to make them happy. Hey, thought about a good day joke. Remember the the deal about the gift of laughter? Here it is. I used to do the hokey pokey. But I turned myself around. That’s a bad dad joke. I got a ton of them. Let me tell you. This is Dr. Brad Miller and we are here on the pathway to promise YouTube channel to be helpful to you to help you to give practical tools to be encouraged to have hope in your life and to live a life that is on a pathway to peace, prosperity, and purpose. You can find out more at our website pathway promise com that’s where our that’s one of the places where our podcasts, the pathway to promise podcasts lives. And we’re here to be helpful to you. Please like and subscribe and all that good stuff. And keep a keep with us as we can be helpful to you Dr. Brad Miller good people will see you next time and remember to keep your promises because there’s power in a promise kept. Thanks so much for taking the pathway to promise but Dr. Brad Miller as a subscriber, you’ll be a vital part of the pathway to promise community visit us on the web at pathway promise.com until next time, remember to stay on your pathway to promise

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hello good people and welcome to the pathway to promise YouTube channel with me Dr Brad Miller We are here to help you overcome adversity to be a give you a word of hope and encouragement. And today’s word of hope and encouragement is aunt on the ball and on the ball I like to play golf. Not very good at it. One of the things when you play golf is your good golfing stories. I heard this great golf and story about this golfer was having just a terrible terrible day. And he you know, he knocked all over the you know, all over the fairways and into the rough. And he went over to the roof one time and his ball landed right on top of this good size ant hill. And so he got his five iron out and he took a whack at it and he blasted million ants around. And but he didn’t hit the ball, the ball didn’t go anywhere. And you know, be killing ants and flying everywhere. So he looked sized it up and he took another whack at it. blasted the head Hill again, me and dance went flying, but the ball stayed right there. If you’ve ever played golf, you know what I mean by this feeling. And then he heard one acid and another. Okay, Charlie, if we ever got to get out of here alive, you and I got to get on the ball. And so it is friends. I think I gotta get on the ball and you got to get on the ball. To get things done in life. Now one of the things I’m doing is starting this YouTube channel, where I have a podcast called pathway to promise podcast, and a blog at pathway promise.com where we tell stories and interview people who are doctors and other leaders who have overcome some sort of adversity, like overcoming the loss of a family or dreaded disease or losing your job or depression or divorce, all these type of things that happened. And we’re here to be helpful, here to be helpful. That’s my encouragement and hope to you to give you practical tools that you can hang on to, but you got to get started. So I’m starting here today with this YouTube channel. It’s Soto’s with all of us, there’s a time to think there’s a time to plan. There’s a time to kind of process at all but there’s a time to get on the ball and to do it. There’s a time to make a decision. You know, decision is when you move ahead, you cut yourself off from the past of the lingering thing and you are doing it. It’s been said I’ve heard it said that knowing something doesn’t make a difference. Knowing and doing something does make all the difference. So that’s what I’m doing here with his YouTube channel, my podcast, because I want to be an influencer on lots of folks like you. And if you want to help me be an influencer, just you know, go ahead and you know, subscribe to the channel and give us a thumbs up. That’s always helped, we’d appreciate that. But what’s the decision that you’re putting off? I bet there is one. I bet there is one regarding your family or about health situation or about your job or you know about finances about something. And if you’ve been procrastinating you know procrastinating qu about beginning a project, the only antidote to procrastination is action is action. So don’t just have around to it attitude, have a get on with it attitude. And so when you put when you die or therefore your dreams can be realized, once you start to get after and go into really get on the ball. It’s the only way to really live my friends. So I’m here to encourage you remember the pathway promise calm is as our website pathway to promise is the podcast. And we are here on the YouTube channel. pathway to promise YouTube channel to be encouragement to you to we’d love to hear from you with you comments below. Until next time, this is Dr Brad Miller encouraging you to keep your promises because there’s power in a promise kept

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Back on the pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller. It is our pleasure as always, to seek to help persons to understand that they all have a god given life of peace, prosperity, and purpose that helps them overcome adversity and achieve this peace in their life. And we’re glad to have you with us here today. And today we have just a great guest with us who’s done a lot of what we’re talking about here overcome adversity to have hope in his life and ability to share that with others. He is from Matt Crump ministries. Hashtag God’s got this His name is Matt crop. Matt, welcome to pathway to progress. Hey, thank you so much for having me today. I’m so excited to be here. It is awesome to have you here and you my audience probably can’t see you but I want them to go to your website eventually and see this awesome, awesome beard you got my man it is really they have to I’ve got so much work involved with so many to look at it you know, you got to get over there to God’s got this or what’s your website again, as well.

corrupt God God’s got this love God’s got this dot love you need to get over there and check him out lots of cool stuff on this website. It’s all about his story though. It’s about his story that mad have which is an awesome story of hope in the midst of, of challenges of adversity of things in his life so mad we I gotta say a lot about you and let’s hear from you what just tell us a little bit about your story about how you got through some really rough patches in your life and created Matt Krupp ministries and God’s got this.

Matt Crump 1:31
Thanks. Thanks, Brad. Yeah, there’s a I could probably talk for five podcasts right now. I’ve had a I’ve had I feel like a cat. I feel like I’ve had at least nine lives so far. He’s He’s really brought me through so much. I think probably where I would start would be most recent in in my life. Back it up. I’ve been a follower of Christ for for a little over 30 years and I don’t claim that I have arrived in perfection at all but

Unknown Speaker 2:00
I’m working on it.

Unknown Speaker 2:02
Yeah. On to perfection on to perfection, right. I’m working on it. I’m working on it.

Matt Crump 2:07
I’m working progress. I think, you know, back in 2011, I had to go in for a hernia surgery, had a botched surgery and had to go back to Duke to get work done. And that’s when a doctor looked at me and my wife said, we just looked at my husband’s back, she looked at and said, Oh, we can’t do the surgery that’s looked at and found out I had melanoma cancer.

had a couple of surgeries and fast forward a few months. They said things look good. I was all clear and started doing my follow up visits every six months then to a year and then finally after about three years it was over. They thought I was good. So I just went with my life. 2015 I ended up on stage at church getting ready to lead worship started coughing and started coughing up blood. That’s not good. That’s not a good now, I said the wall. This is different.

I went through and did worship got it all done. And then I’m pig at it just like I was the first time with with my back stuff. So I just went, went back to church went back to work on Monday and started having some problems started having some headaches and I went back to the house and that night, we went out with the family came home. And all I remember was the next day evidently that entire night. My family we always got together and prayed and they all came together. We all prayed together, talk together. Everything’s cool, except I don’t remember any of it.

Unknown Speaker 3:33
I remember coming home from dinner, and that was it.

Matt Crump 3:35
The next day, I started seeing flashes, lights and everything. You were kind of a blackout state or something like that, or what was going I was having. I was having seizures and I blacked out. Wow. Yeah. And I didn’t know that either. So I ran to the hospital. This is after I’d already been diagnosed with stage four cancer. It was in my adrenal gland. I’m on my leg and I had a lung tumor. So I drove to the hospital and it was a 45 minute drive.

Well, my wife works at a hospital. So I went there to replace instead, they did some work on me and the doc came in and she said, Well, I’ve got bad news for you. And I said, Okay, she said, Well, you have a bleeding brain tumor and the anus is on the way, we’re going to rush you to Duke. And I thought it was kind of a joke that because they work with Robin, that was kind of funny. I was like, Okay, this, she goes, No, I’m serious. This is bad. You have to go right now. Oh, my God. And it was crazy. Yeah. might have been an expletive or two at that moment. And yeah, we were scared and went in I had had the surgery within a day or two and, and,

and the recovery was, was the worst surgery ever had in my life with the brain surgery, it was the worst. And I could understand when people go through things like that, how they would want to kill themselves. And that is, it’s crazy. And people you know, they talk about, you know, in the Christian world, some folks they commit suicide, you go to hell, and I was, I’ve kind of re rethought that process over my life. I think

There’s there’s definitely consequences for things but sometimes people they just aren’t thinking right things just go crazy and you just don’t know me got the job. Right. But I mean, I was to the point where I wanted to kill myself I thought I couldn’t handle the pain anymore. I thought it was over. I was ready to say goodbye my kids, and I just couldn’t handle it. But But God, so he really started speaking life to me and encouraging me and I had friends that were encouraging me and that’s where where that hope button kind of kicked in. I’d already been saying God’s got this at this point. So now I had people tell him I’ll make them and by to tell me Well, you know, God’s got this you know, God’s got in my oh my god, I wish I never said that in the first place. Right? But right did and what it did was it brought a great accountability in my life, that accountability was what gave me some strength to push into to make my fight and that hope that we have on the inside. You know, I tell people all the time when it comes down to to happiness and joy. That’s one of the things I was really needing because I felt very depressed.

Unknown Speaker 6:00
I was on a lot of drugs, a lot of medics and the medicine was really messed with my head. And I felt like

Unknown Speaker 6:08
I understood the difference between happiness and joy at that moment. So happiness,

Unknown Speaker 6:11
there’s happiness and unhappiness, but in the dictionary, there’s no such thing as on joy. Right? So,

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you know, happiness is an emotion. And I felt like wow, okay, there’s no joy and joy as a gift of the Spirit of God, he’s already in me, that means I have joy. So I had joy even though I was in a bad situation even though things can go sour. I still had this joy and that joy really was what welled up inside of me and one of the byproducts of that was happiness. Happy Yes sir. Right and start writing songs again started digging into life. And before you know it, I’m I’m running 120,000 miles an hour again, like little squirrel that I am. So that really is what gave me some strength at that point in my life to really move into what God’s got me doing right now. And now you are a proof

Fear of hope. And yeah, I love that terminology. Well, thank you. That was definitely enough. What does it mean to you to be a purveyor of hope for others? Well, that’s that’s good question. I never really had thought of the word didn’t even go through my mind in the past. And it really just popped in my head one day it was the Lord totally. I’m just not that good. So

I looked it up in the dictionary, and I thought, Oh, my God, this is this is me. It’s, it’s a person who’s just somebody who really, really is transformed and really pushes into people’s lives and, and helps them to get to that place, right. It’s somebody who’s who Pervaiz, someone who digs in who’s who strives who moves forward who has passion, but that’s me. And my biggest thing at that point was hope. I mean, I’ve always been a type of guy who wants people to to have hope to experience that there is more there can be more.

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Look at me, I’m dying. I still have joy. I still have hope and I

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I believe that somehow, some way I’m going to survive if I don’t, I’m with Jesus. The worst thing for me is saying of mine and my kids and my wife, right. But at that point, I felt like they all know what’s going on my daughter, she says to me, which kind of bums me out a little bit, but she says, I will Dad, you know, whether you live or die, and it’s okay, I just I know where you’re gonna go. So I’m not really worried about it. I’m like, No, you need to feel bad about it.

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I’m appropriate Guild, Tara.

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ahead. So I think it’s powerful to have even some of that legacy already working in my family’s life. And my daughter goes after it. She’s She’s She’s an evangelist at heart, my son. He’s coming up in his 80s he followers too, but he’s finding his own. So anyway. Yeah, that’s one of those things that people always ask me. How do I do what I do? Why do I do what I do? Help me do this. Can you help me do that? And I thought, you know, that’s what it is. That’s who I am. I am. I’m a purveyor of hope. Right? Well, actually, that’s not who I am. That’s an identity question. My identity

Is that I am a child of God. I’m a follower of Christ, right. And so the byproduct of that is I get to do things I get to be a pastor, I get to be a worship leader, I get to be a speaker, I get to be an author, I get to be a songwriter, I get to do these interviews, like I get to do all this kind of stuff. I get to be a purveyor of hope. Those are things I do, but who I am, is a follower of Christ. I am a child of God, and He tells me who I am. That’s my identity. So if you lose certain things, that’s what helped me to feel like if I die, I want okay, because my identity is not wrapped up in those things. I can’t go there. So that’s, you know, that’s the thing now you have a sense of purpose and direction and meaningfulness in your life. Whereas if you chose to, you could let you know that cancer diagnosis and all the pain of brain surgery that could beat you up and put you down and out. And the thing is, it does for a lot of people, doesn’t it Matt?

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meaninglessness. Yeah, I have to make the choice. I have to I have to overcome adversity, and we have an adversary. So he will do things to try

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distract and destroy. So things will happen that comes across my path to make me think about stuff I could I could think about death I can think about leaving whatever. And the other the other adversary we have I know a question you’ve got coming my way of I’m skipping ahead to another answer but

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is that we have two adversaries really in life the two biggest things Satan, of course, and and me, you were we are we are our worst advocate. We are the most evil things on the planet, right we we need a transformation through Christ to be changed from from good to bad, a new creation, right? But our nature, in itself is sinful evil, we want to do bad things. We want what we want. So I had to overcome myself. I have to overcome myself to which is one of the biggest obstacles I have. What were some of the things you did were some of the bold actions you took to overcome yourself and to push back against the evil one. What are some of the things you did? Yeah, I think well accountability and personal relationship.

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They’re vital. When people have a vested interest in you, it really, it really becomes intentional transformation at that point. It can be like an iron sharpening iron scenario. It could be a mentor or somebody that’s pouring his life into you. So, I’m all about this, I’m all about this.

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If I don’t have to take the long road or the wrong road, show me how to do it. Right? Always have an adversary, he’ll do anything, like I said, to do to destroy us to take us to a different area. But if you live from a posture of confidence, and faith and accountability and love and all those types of things, it’ll propel you into another. Another area of life that you’re not in one used to come to the other stuff. It’s like a there’s an old song that came out a long time ago. And it says Some Glad Morning, when the witness life is over. Yeah, I will fly away. Okay. I think that

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The craziest song of planet Earth I’m sorry to offend everybody here’s the deal. I don’t want to wait to start flying. I was promised abundant life and it wasn’t for the by and by it’s for right now on this planet I can enjoy life right? So people say, Man, I hear you’re dying of cancer doctor says you got eight months to live, you’re dying of cancer, okay? I don’t choose to die of cancer. I choose to live life and there’s a big difference. It’s a mindset and a decision and I’ve made a decision that I’m going to live life I’m going to live life to the last breath I take whether I die of cancer whether I die of a bus hitting me whether I die because I’m 175 years old my god that’d be crazy but

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but that’s that’s that’s living abundantly, man where to go. It’s how you do it. It’s it’s jet fuel. Those relationships, those accountabilities those moments is a jet fuel to transformation. It really helps you to overcome adversity. But in order to do that, you have to be empowered. And I take it you know, we’ve talked a lot about faith.

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Already but you are empowered by, by your spiritual life by God in your life that’s given you a sense of your purpose and direction. Just say a little bit more about your spiritual life, about God’s place in your life and how that empowers you to do some of the things you’ve been doing to be helpful to other help be helpful and helpful to others. Sure. I told you about the whole nine lives thing a minute ago, which I have to write down because I never said that. That’s a good one. write that one down, man. I like it’s funny. But it’s true. I when I before I knew Christ, I really didn’t know much about him at all. I didn’t I wasn’t raised a Christian. I didn’t go to church when I was a kid, a couple visits here and there but nothing, no intentional and serious.

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And I ended up into a life of drugs, alcohol, women, the whole the whole scene, and I loved it until I got to a certain point where I just felt like I needed more didn’t know what it was.

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I couldn’t get drunk anymore. I couldn’t get as high anymore. All these issues. I wasn’t satisfied.

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With the with the relationships anymore, just whatever. And somebody talked to me about Jesus ended up getting stuck in the desert I was in the military and we were in the desert got assigned on guard duty for all of the tanks in the middle of desert for one week me and one other guy and one other guy was a follower of Christ and I was not so and he was also a former drug addict so God kind of trapped you there sounds like a trap me trap me good and I got a lot of great information great a lot. A lot of great.

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Life ported to be was out there. I did not make a decision to follow Christ what was out there that week. But a few days later, we were back out to a mission. And at that mission, I just could not stop thinking about everything you said. It’s like everything was on blast in my head. I heard every word he was saying over and over and over again. I was ready for a relationship I wanted things change and I read to his to his vehicle as a man let’s do this. I’m ready and hate took me and we started walking

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way from all of our unit and we walked up to this big mountain in the desert. And we got to the top of the mountain, it was literally Have you ever been in the desert before at night time is gorgeous. But we got to tell us a mountain was a full moon and the moon was beaming right down to the peak of the top of this mountain and we stood there and that’s where I gave my life to Christ. So I literally have had a mountaintop experience where Jesus

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changed me instantly. I was a drug addict, alcoholic, womanizer, did all those types of things, smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. instantly. Everything that I had in my life, that was those addiction, those problems was gone. Gone. That is, and it was amazing. Now there was a hole there because there was a lot of stuff that I had going on, on and you know, God’s pretty smart. He’s got some things figured out. He’s way better than we are. And that’s another little statement I can make has ever occurred to you that nothing’s ever occurred to God. Right. So it’s not like

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it’s another good one. I like that one. It’s not like you said, I don’t know what to do here. Matt. Let me figure this out. Now he already knew what’s going on. Right. So

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He gave me a new addiction basically, I just could not get enough of the Bible was written I was writing songs and all these kind of things and, and that was really a core moment for me and my faith with Christ that that he really poured into me and I gained so much from him during that period of my life. I wish sometimes I can go back to that moment and be that good. I’m not as good as I was then. I try you have to come off the mountain sometime don’t you had another real world and you had your Bernie bush experience? And now here you are doing some other stuff. Yeah, he’s he’s given me so many great opportunities have been in the ministry. Almost immediately when that happened. I was. I was a white boy and all in all black church. I was the only white boy and they let me do the announcements.

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In the announcement ministry, it was pretty powerful. I was I had it all down loss up today. Today at 12 o’clock

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lunch today. All right

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down

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Color response stuff down all that good stuff. It was good. So it all started and then just went there. So I was selling God sound like you had some pretty powerful relationship with your buddy in the Army or your military and then you had these relationships in the church or part of Tell me about it. Let me It was great. I moved in with the pastor right? Oh,

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well, I just want to talk about that for a minute. Let’s talk about the power of relationships or about how the power of relationships whether it be you know, family relationships or friends or influencers or things like this. The power of relationships to help people overcome adversity help people to have true life change to have hope as a source of hope to me, but I relationships.

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Yeah, I think starting off with that moment,

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I learned the value of relationships. I really, I had some I passed I didn’t. I didn’t offer myself too many relationships. While I was growing up. I guess I was an angry kid and didn’t have a very good home life.

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A lot of it was my fault. But so I wasn’t really good at relationships. I had some I had some people that were close to me but not you know, I didn’t understand the depth of it until I moved in with the pastor. And I consider her my spiritual father. He passed away Unfortunately, not too long ago, but he was, he was a powerful influence in my life. So he, we lived together, we ate together, we prayed together, we worship together, we were together,

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and he could, he could tell things that were going on in my life and be able to offer suggestions and help and hope during those moments that we’d had some phenomenal conversations that really were really fundamental in shaping the who have me in my walk with Christ. You know, I’ve learned a lot of things over the years, but it was definitely that that moment that he helped me do some things which helped me understand the value of relationships and I value so much. We have people around our home all the time, we got people that we’ve always had somebody live with us, my wife and I we’ve always had a home big enough to have somebody else

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Because we just feel like it’s important to pour into people’s lives and at times we want to be alone you like to walk around your underwear once in a while but

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you know that’s a visual that’s a visual image I could have probably have always had some Yeah, I love the beard man but though you gave me a visual image I could just do without their my man so

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sorry.

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It’s it’s a boxer briefs. So anyway, I feel better now.

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But that’s that’s what I understood. The value of relationship and definitely the core of the difference between religion and relationship. Obviously, you you’re a follower of Christ, you understand, I’m saying but I really, I really learned that religion is really what put Jesus on the cross and killed them. But it was relationship that allowed him to stay there he would, he could have come off the cross, sure, but it was it was the relationship that kept him there. And that’s powerful. I want to be a person that has that kind of relationship with people. I want to offer.

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That kind of relationship to people. I can only go so far because I’m human, he’s the best at it. So for me to be able to introduce people to him and then allow him to work through me as he lives in me as he lives in you it’s we do think you can only do something through us if he first does something in us right so it’s awesome because he did something in me now he could do something through me and I’m so thankful that he took an idiot like me and he’s using me to to bring transformation in this world. I’m flawed that’s the crazy thing is I’ve got flaws, I’ve got issues got problems. I pray I repented those things and he still uses me His grace is so amazing and I’m so thankful for what he is able to do through me and how he brought brought transformation in my life that now to other people, you know, that’s awesome. I’ll let slip the, you know, the primacy of grace that you’re talking about there because without that, man, we’re lost. I know I’m nothing and

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you’re, you know, despite of your underwear, your beard you’re not much either without grace.

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So, but yeah, you got some cool stuff that you’re offering to people. And I was interested in how what kind of things you’re doing now to be to live this out this life of hope and of grace. And again, what are some of the disciplines that you have? Or some of the things you’re offering your website? What are some things that you are helping to, to speak this word of hope into people’s lives? Sure, I guess the first part you said discipline, most important thing is my, my personal relationship with Christ. If I don’t, if I don’t maintain that discipline in my life, then nothing else is going to work. So I, I need to spend time with him not because I have to because I want to. I’ve learned long time ago that I don’t have to punch a clock with Jesus. I don’t have to read X amount of chapters a day and pray X amount of minutes a day to be good before his eyes because I’m no good. I’m his son. He loves me and anytime is good. So I value that with him and he speaks in my life. So I have a chance to read his word, to do studies, to share things with people that he takes to my heart when it hits

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happens. And he empowers me with, with, with faith with knowledge with competence I can share with other people so and as a result of that, I was able to, to move into a different area of my life, which is this is pretty tough. I’ve been a pastor for for almost 30 years. And about a year. Well, let’s see here 2016 two years ago may, I really felt like when they told me that I had eight months to live. I didn’t get scared, like I was gonna die a little bit I did. But the biggest thing that happened to me at that point was if I die in eight months, if I’m dead, do I feel that I have accomplished what I’m supposed to accomplish while I’m here on this planet? And I felt at that point that the answer was no. And it blew my socks off. So I prayed about several things that I wanted to do for God. And where are these ideas? Which one where do want me to go Lord, right. I was a pastor. I could stay at the church I was at. I could, I could put my name in the hat and go pastor someplace else.

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Do Move, move somewhere, I could follow my singing career and follow up through those things and do singing. I wrote all the time. So I could write a book. I have a desire to be with people all the time, I’ve had many businesses, and I had to shut down my last business because of the cancer and it it stopped my opportunity to have an influx of people coming to me that I could talk to all the time. As you can tell, I like to talk. So I thought, here’s what I’ll do. I’ll I’ll do a food truck. I thought that would be a good calling. Now that’s a new what I love it, but that’s

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the food truck. I was gonna I was gonna cook I love to cook and I got to talk to people and get paid. I thought this is awesome. I’m gonna do that right? Yeah, my wife didn’t like the idea that we got shot down. There you go. So in the in the line of all that stuff that happened one day I email people do things all the time I sent an email to a few publishing companies trying to get some ideas of what the steps to start writing a book. And I got a phone call from a gentleman and within a matter of a few minutes

He had heard my story and, and said that he really wanted to pour into me and then I needed write this book. And that’s when the book for God’s got this was born. And within a matter of a couple of months I had resigned from the church, I just felt as if I needed to take, I’m weaker. Now my body is weaker, I only have ability to do so much during the day, I have chronic fatigue, I’ve got pain issues, I got all kinds of stuff as a result of the cancer. So I didn’t think that I could be effective as a pastor and give everything I needed to do at the church and in the book and and pour my heart and life into that and then possibly go around to speak. So I made a choice to step down. And over that period of a year, God has really been changing me and preparing me for for something else. Everything I’ve been through my entire life gets to this point now with this new ministry called hashtag God’s got this and the new book coming out. Obviously God’s got this has some tools in there that help people identify moments in their life, that God may

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I have been speaking to them about about something, though, identify what that was that God was speaking and find out how that is can give them hope and transformation in their life. We can work through a worksheet and the tools that I provide help to reveal those moments in their life. I call it hope revealed, it gives them a chance to be

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I’m sorry, my speech is jacked up once and I apologize. It gives them a chance to walk in their transformation to own what God’s done, their life is powerful. But give us an example how that might work. If someone was going to read your book, or to apply your principles here to their life, let’s just say that they are going through a divorce or some other bad thing in their life. What are some things that they could apply from your book and for your, from your God’s got this process here? Well, I can give you a How much longer do we have? Oh, good. I’m good, man. Alright, so here’s a little here’s a little story I’ll use as an example in the in the book I wrote a chapter when I was eight years old. So we’ll do a cliff note version of this for the young people out there listening. Cliff Notes is the way you should

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cheated in school. So anyway, before, before you Google that you had to go to Cliff Notes. Yeah, there was no internet. So we bought Cliff Notes.

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Alright, so Cliff Notes is a little book that basically outlines the big book. All right now, you know, alright, so the cliff note version is, what was I talking about in the first place? You’re at eight years old. You had something happened to you? Yeah. And I decided one day that it was fall, and I wanted to build a birdhouse. So I I’m always been a dreamer. I’m always this creative dreamer kind of guy. So I decided to go out there and build a birdhouse. So I go out to the garage, and I found some wood. And I didn’t see a sock or anything, but I found dad’s toolbox and inside dad’s toolbox was this little little hammer about maybe eight inches long and one side had a hammer head on one side. I was an axe head on the other side. I thought axe would birdhouse right, so

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I start, I start building a birdhouse. I get

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piece of wood get lined up. My eight year old mind right I’m getting where I want to cut and I start whacking away at this thing. Well, there’s only one thing that was a hindrance between me whacking away it

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was coming off I keep going

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index finger. Yeah, there’s that.

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And I slammed right into my hand and busted it wide open and I put it in my mouth and I’m running to the house and my little sister was in there and I told her to be quiet. I didn’t want to get in trouble. I’m looking for band aids and I’m bleeding everywhere. Get into the bathroom. I got into the same blood everywhere. I got toilet paper all over it. I couldn’t find a band aid to save. Finally my mom hears all the commotion she comes up she goes nuts. She calls my dad I think I’m gonna die today. This is the day I’m dying. It wasn’t gonna be the birdhouse. My dad’s gonna kill me. There you go. So go to the hospital. Get the stitches right, go back. Alright, so that that’s a story that happened in the book fast forward. There’s a guy in the Bible and the Old Testaments name was Saul and he was a king and

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He went to battle this one time did a lot of battles and used to win a lot of times. But he went out to this one battle and as he was preparing for the fight the enemy the Philistines were coming and they had thousands and thousands of people lining up out there to fight this battle. And Saul had like 3000 people or something like that right so he had this little army they have this huge army but Saul’s taking no big deal God always gives us the victory anyway, so it was go down there and kick the butts and go home you know, big deal. So what happened was the solo soldiers started thinking a little different they saw they said, saw you realize just like 30,000 people down there, right? It’s like Yeah, no problem. So overnight, like everybody went AWOL, was gone. They’re only left with like 300 people, right? Got a few people. So sounds like

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crap. What are we gonna do? So So Saul gets up there? And he says, All right, what we have to do is go to fight but we got to wait because Sam supposed to show up before we can go out. Sam, this guy, this prophet, Sam, Samuel, and Samuel supposed to pray over Saul and give the Lord

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Words word before he goes out and fights. So someone sitting there he’s thinking, well, Sam’s not here soon, but here it’s getting later and later, we’ve got to fight this battle. He said, I know what I’ll do. I know exactly how Sam is going to pray. I know he’s gonna say I’ll do the prayer and then we’ll go get the Lord’s blessing go fight right so sounds like Lord give us the victory Baba blazer afraid it goes in the name of just give me wrap it up in the name of Oh my god, he looks at Guess Who’s there? Sam.

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And Sam says, What in the world are you doing? You know, you went out or this is not the way it’s supposed to happen. Now you’re gonna lose everything you had your kingdom is over. It’s done. Right. So what happened is what had happened was Saul decided to build the birdhouse. He didn’t want to wait for dad to come home with the salt and help him to build the thing and do it right. Instead he wanted to push forward do his own thing. do his own agenda. Not wait not listen, not have patience. Right. So what the Lord did for me was I had a chance to to reflect on that moment. I had a chance to to receive

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Some some thought process of teaching from the Lord and a chance to move forward in my life realizing that wow, that story back then is taught me that I need to learn how to have patience, how to listen how to wait for certain things to happen that I don’t want to rush it but i can i can do things the way God wants me to do and it was a moment in my life that brought some transformation it’s a God’s got this moment. So the book is full of stories like that. And there’s a whole chapter about the tools that I’m talking about reflect receive respond for the three tools about God’s got this moments and there’s a journal at the end of every chapter that will that will help people to go through what story I gave them to find their own help them to think of their birdhouse moment there whatever moment and they can go through the tools that I provide to help them think of their aha moment their Kairos their Wow, this I can’t believe that that’s what really happened in my life what that meant, right? So it’s really fun. That is really awesome information right? That’s good. That’s gonna be helpful to people in that book will be coming out before you know it.

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We’ll put connections to your book in our in our show notes. But one of things we do here in the pathway to promise we were like to talk about living a life of peace and prosperity and purpose. So I just want to ask you, Matt, what brings you peace? Wow, great question.

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Short answer God.

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Good Cop Out For some folks I realized but he is peace himself. He is PC is loving and to have him in my life. I don’t know how I would have peace without him. I told you that that moment where I was kind of out of my mind with the drugs that I was on got all depressed and all those things were happening. I, I had an element of me that was still sound enough to say, snap out of this man, what are you doing? And that was the Holy Spirit. That was the father. It was God in me. That was the peace of the Lord, the love of God that was bringing life to me that I would not have had without him. And he does that over and over and over again in my life.

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It’s awesome. I know when I don’t have peace if I don’t have peace, that’s a big difference do so sure. He definitely provides that to me. That’s great. How would you define prosperity? Well, I think prosperity obviously is way more than finances. I consider prosperity, a healthy life with family and friends that you love. I believe that that is great wealth. I believe that’s prosperity. I believe when you have those things in order when when that life pattern is established, and you know, one of these other things I’m get ready to teach. It’s called the flip which talks about faith, legacy, identity and purpose when you have those four things established in your life. It opens the doors for incredible things to happen in your life. It opens the doors for prosperity and in finances with business in life, I think it’s important to to control your money. My wife and I work very hard for many, many years to become debt free. And we are my wife teaches Financial Peace now and and we have a chance to pour that in other people’s lives. So one of the things that day at Dave Ramsey always says if you want to

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live like you’ve never lived before. You gotta live like you’ve never lived before. And it’s a choice, right? And I feel like to be able to be prosperous in those areas and to go after your dreams. I’m a dreamer. I’m an entrepreneur, I want to do a business and other business plans that I have. And God opens those doors for me to be able to walk in those businesses, even in the ministry, this nonprofit organization that we have now with Matt crumb ministries, he’s opened up some incredible doors for me to do what he’s calling me to do. And equip me to be able to do it it you know, you can’t do it for free, right? So he has to provide a way and that’s just what he does. You gotta follow him where he goes, and he’ll, he’ll provide with it. Matt, what’s your What’s your purpose?

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And my purpose, my purpose is to live for Him. That’s the only reason I’m here. And he gives me all kinds of ways to do that while I’m on this planet. But ultimately, the only reason I’m left here, I could have been dead so many times, Brad, I could have been dead in bad drug deals. I could have been dead. Well, I was in the Gulf War.

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I could have been dead in accidents with car accident. That’s where I almost went off the road in the trees. I could have been dead with I can so many ways with cancer already could have killed me several times. I’m already told I’m supposed to be dead. I’m a dead man walking. So now I mean, he gives me life. Right. So his purpose is in me to live for Him and I’m, I want to do the best I can to do that. Absolutely. Well, we are certainly enjoying you living out your purpose through Matt Crump ministries. Hashtag God’s got this. We look forward to hearing more from you. And if people want to understand what you’re up to these days, man, how can they get ahold of you? How can they learn what you’re up to what you’re working on? Tell us how can people make a connection with you? Yeah, that’d be fantastic. Thanks for that opportunity is very simple. You can go to God’s got this dot love. And when you get there within a couple of moments, the little screen of pop up and asked you to subscribe to our mailing list. And when you do that, we have a magazine that comes out once a week called hope revealed and hope revealed is a

Matt Crump 35:00
Small easing that goes over the men’s ministry that we offer to everybody for free every week, kind of has a theme for every week. So this week’s theme actually is why. So on Monday, you get the magazine Tuesday we have a podcast called hope revealed. And on Wednesday we have a YouTube show called hashtag God’s got this stories. It is it’s video stories about people’s lives and transitions about what they’re God’s got this moment, whatever that situation was some great stories on our YouTube channel. Thursdays the God’s got this blog Friday is another YouTube show called God’s got this meaningful moments where we wrap up the week so we have all kinds of ways for people to get connected great resources on the website, and several things besides the book which get ready to come out. I’m so excited about that. That some other resources that are coming out now that are just going to be so exciting and brings such transformation to people’s lives. We’re stoked so you can get all that information through the website God’s got this dot love. We look forward to doing that with the connections to all that on our website pathway promise. com

Brad Miller 36:00
It’s been our honor pleasure and I’m just jacked up to be I spent some time with with Matt cook with Matt clump and his back crop ministries God’s got this. Thanks, man.

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