What Do You Think Makes You Disqualified?

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866, the number to call in, 866-348-7884. Again, what do you think makes you disqualified that actually, as it turned out, made you uniquely qualified? Now, Bob Young, the way that that happened was that he was involved in drugs and alcohol and several things when he was younger. And they came after he'd come to Christ and actually, you know, somewhat matured and was doing well. And they said, we want you to work with youth.

And he goes, no, no, no, no, you don't understand. I had this checkered past. And they said, well, you know, what you think makes you disqualified.

Actually, Bob makes you uniquely qualified. And then he would go on to share all sorts of amazing things along those lines. And so I'm just guessing that you got a story like that. And I would love to hear it.

866-348-7884, 866-348-7884. We have actually the poster child for that. A young man by the name of Danny is with us here in the studio very soon on his way to Southeast Asia. Like, man, what an adventure he is fixing to be on.

But he has quite a story. And so Danny, why don't you share with the listeners a little bit about what you would think a lot of people would think makes you pretty disqualified. Yeah, so man, first off, thanks for having me here. And I'm extremely nervous to be talking on the radio right now. It's my first time doing that.

So just bear with me as I fumble through my words. I would say, you know, growing up in a broken home, for one, dealing with a lot of physical, emotional, verbal abuse as a child, getting kicked out of multiple high schools for beating up bullies because I couldn't stand seeing people getting picked on that couldn't stand up for themselves. Not going to school, getting involved as a carpenter at 17 years old running away from home. You know, let's see, you know, drinking the pain away from my childhood, you know, jumping into some drugs to also numb that pain. Riding motorcycles for a very dangerous motorcycle club down in Florida, working at the clubs and bars that they own.

As a bouncer, actually. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And so did you ever see God kind of protect your life in the middle of all that? Brother, I've been shot three times, I could show you the scars. I've been in a coma, life support, four fractures in my skull. I mean, you name it, man, I God has been to jail seven or eight times like I, you know, I was lawless as you could be running as far as hard as I could, you know, to fill a void. And I'm beyond blessed every morning I wake up. I truly like, you know, people say that and I wake up every morning. I'm like, wow, God's all fit to keep a wretched sinner like me alive to just bring him glory. And I couldn't be more honored to try to do that every day. And so the neat thing from my perspective in the story is that, you know, one of the organizations I dearly love is the Winston-Salem Rescue Mission, and so as it turns out, you know, God's clearly used that organization in your life to help, right?

And specifically Alpha Acres, am I right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I, you know, I just, I knew I needed a change and I knew there wasn't anything good down for me in Florida and, you know, I didn't have any support system at all. I mean, you know, all these thousands of friends that they don't want anything, you know, good for you, but they just want from you and, you know, I reached out to someone I knew and they happened to be working at the Winston-Salem Rescue Mission. So I was so deep in it, the club that I was working at was literally called Sensations. Oh, wow.

Yeah. And I worked my last night there at 3 a.m. Sold everything that I had, motorcycles and everything, had two duffel bags, had a girl drop me off at the bus station there, took a miserable 14-hour bus ride at 3 a.m. up here and got dropped off at this bus station downtown Winston-Salem and got a hitchhiked ride out to Alpha Acres and checked into that program, man, yeah. So it's just this amazing story, right, because had you ever been in Winston-Salem in your life? Never.

I would never pick it either. I grew up in Southern California. I love the beach, you know. I lived in New York City, which wasn't too far.

Florida, the beach is right around. So let's be honest, Alpha Acres isn't exactly Winston-Salem, too, for those people in Ohio that are listening. Yeah. Alpha Acres is in Yadkinville, North Carolina.

Yeah. It's specifically a big cornfield out there in Yadkin County. It was a 110-acre farm. And the option was, hey, you know, you can come downtown to the Winston-Salem Rescue Mission where there's this, you know, piece of the rescue mission called Alpha Acres out on a 110-acre farm. And I'm not a fan of the country, to be honest, but I was like, get me out on that farm. I need to get away from people. Yeah.

And that place was an absolute, absolute blessing in my life, without a doubt. See, we are going to hear a lot more from Danny, but first we got Bucksman. He's in Ohio. He's got a story for us. Bucksman, you're on Truth Talk Live.

What you got? Hey, brother Robbie. Nice to meet you there, brother Danny.

So glad to hear stories of a major redemption. And I'll tell you, brother, I come from some of that background. I had a rough background. And I got to say, I had drugs and alcohol and everything you can think of at my fingertips, Danny. But for some reason, your father and my father kept that urge away from me. But I've got two dead brothers due to opiates. And it's hard. And it's amazing how, when you go through those kinds of life trials, how much purer and wonderful the Lord Jesus Christ is.

That's what I've noticed in my life. Yeah, about Bucksman, how old were you when you came to Christ? Well, that's a hard question, brother, seriously, because I got religious for a while.

So honestly, the Spirit of God entered me in and around March of 2010. All right. All right. Well, we got to go to a break, Bucksman. When we come back, a lot's happened in 14 years, is it? Wow. Yeah. And wait till you hear the rest of the story. So you're going to want to stay tuned. But most of all, we need your story. 866-348-7884. Truth Talk Live You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. Oh, here's your question today.

What do you think makes you disqualified that actually makes you uniquely qualified? Actually, if you look at 2 Corinthians chapter one, where it says the God of all comfort, isn't that where it goes? The God of all comfort comforts us that we might comfort others with a comfort we were comforted with.

Well, if you came out of those kind of situations, then, well, you can check me on that, Bucksman. You know, isn't that 2 Corinthians chapter one? I think that's the first Corinthian letter there, brother Ravi, but I do get my Corinthians mixed up. But yes, it is the Corinthians letter written by Paul. Yeah, it's one of them.

I'm pretty sure it's two. But I could be wrong. It's easy. Anyway, did you check me?

I was trying, but I'm already nervous enough. The listener that knows this can call in at 866-348-7884 and straighten me out if I'm not right. But I do know that the verse is along those lines that like, man, you know, as soon as I was healed from cancer, God healed me from cancer. I mean, cancer people have come into my life since this that I've been able to pray with and comfort and all that kind of stuff. When I was crushed with a Jeep and I ended up with a leg and all that stuff, next thing I knew, I had this opportunity to go visit people that had horrible motorcycle accidents and their legs were in a similar situation.

It's amazing, right? And so similarly, as we're hearing from Danny and, you know, what he's gone through in his life with his father, et cetera, et cetera, when he comes across, a young man is troubled. And you can imagine what the young people in Southeast Asia are going through. Then you can imagine what that is. So, Bucksman, when we left our hero, you are going to tell us your story.

Yes. So I believe you asked me, when did I get saved there? That's a hard question, because I remember being filled with God's Spirit to where supernaturally, you guys, I loved people.

I had a peace. I've even had signs and wonders that have occurred since that date. So I believe, Robbie, that I was saved, come to the Lord, really, or he came to me on that day. And so since those days, he has used all of my life from where I remember up until talking on this program today. He's used everything that I've gone through, kind of like what Danny's story is, to his glory.

I'm able to reach a diverse amount of people from everywhere from CEOs all the way to drunks and prostitutes. I've literally led a pimp in East Dayton to Christ with his two women on his arms. That's literally happened through your brother, Bucksman.

How fun. Yeah, it's just where I no longer yielded to me, I yielded to him. But like Brother Danny's there, when God brings us through that, and like he's been through three shootings, I have been through countless tornadoes, countless car crashes, two bike crashes, motorcycle crashes, that is. He spared me of a mass shooting that happened in Dayton, Ohio, in 2019. So like Brother Danny, we know that there's a calling on our life, Robbie, when we can literally say God saved our literal physical life through all these kinds of things that would normally take a man's life. It gives you more of almost a soberness that you're in God's hands.

You are in the one who created the sun and the moon and the stars and all the galaxies. Hands right now, when you realize that about yourself. And I would throw that out to anybody in Truth Talk Live who's listening. If you've been through things and you're listening to this program right now, you've got a calling on you, sir or man. So don't use your life flippantly. Don't use your life just spending it going to a church service or something.

Get involved with what God's doing, because he saved you through all those things, like he did Brother Danny and Brother Robbie and myself, for a purpose. And you don't want to squander that. You just don't know.

You don't want to squander it. So my funny story is, guys, is during 2020, I protested because all of the barbershops and the beauty shops and the hair salons were shut down due to COVID. So I used to be a clean cut guy, just had a little little goatee. But I was a clean cut guy. Now I look like Grizzly Adams.

There you go. You're not the only one. What's fun is I play this stereotype to my advantage because people kind of look like me.

I'm just going to say this. They look a little disheveled. You know, I'm not always print all the time. I work at a lumberyard, so I'm wearing T-shirts and jeans and ripped up jeans at that. So I kind of look homeless sometimes, which guess what, guys? I can talk to homeless people. It does.

And they have all their shields down. And it's awesome. And I can talk to other people who wear their hair long and got the long beard. Like there's a certain village that I minister to because that's where the hippies live. All the old hippies.

So I go and share Christ with the hippies. It really is. It really is. We're going to get to some other folks, but thank you as always, man.

Your stories are wonderful, and I appreciate what you're doing. And you're right on. Absolutely.

Yeah, use whatever you are for his glory, not your personal glory. There you go. Amen. Love you guys. Love you too. Thanks, Bucks. All right.

Bye bye. So, yeah, getting back to your story, Danny. And at what point did Southeast Asia become part of the equation in your life? So, you know, really, I've had some vivid dreams of being in some tribal villages with specific people groups. And I had a lot of opportunities to go to multiple areas over the world. And I was at the time in a relationship that the individual had thought that there was a calling in Southeast Asia also. And there was an opportunity to go specifically where I wanted to go. And I had peace about going to the place, not so much of the relationship. Right. And so we got these tickets and then a week later we broke up and she changed.

And I mean, she canceled hers. And I'm like, well, I was like, God, I don't have any people in this area of the world. So, but I've got peace.

If you're going to make this happen, make it happen. And within three days I met three pastors specifically from that area of the world that had people in the underground churches specifically exactly where I'd bought my plane ticket to fly into in three days. And I mean, if that's not God alone, it's like you're not looking for the breadcrumbs.

And this is like a loaf of bread. So I went alone and I went and I was passed off from, you know, pastor to whoever and traveled all around wherever they wanted me to go. And so when we come back, we're going to hear more about these dreams.

I want to know about the dreams, but I want to know your story as well. So you call us. You know, what did you think made you disqualified that actually made you uniquely qualified?

866-348-7884 is the number to call in. We'll be right back. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live.

And today's question is what do you think makes you disqualified that actually makes you uniquely qualified? You know, there's all sorts of addictions that people were addicted to that ended up, you know, being their ministry. You know, I did a hundred interviews at the National Association of Christian Counselors in Nashville one time. I did a hundred interviews in three days. And I was asking God, like, what do I do? You know, they're like 10-minute interviews.

How do I get something good in 10 minutes? And he just gave me that question from 2 Corinthians, like, you know, if the God of all comfort comforts us with the comfort we comfort others with, how does that work out in your life? And that was just a question I asked. And then, man, if these people were counseling people about not having an abortion, guess what?

They'd had an abortion. Or if they were counseling people that were attempting suicide, time and time again they'd attempted suicide. Well, this is the same kind of thing that, you know, you've been through some stuff. Whatever that stuff may be, it makes you uniquely qualified. And so that testimony could encourage somebody else that's suffered with that exact same thing.

If you call in today and share that, the number again is 866-348-7884. So when we left our hero Danny, he'd had some... You said, and I didn't stop you there to begin with, but I'm very interested, you said you had some very vivid dreams prior to the invitation to go to Southeast Asia. Yeah, I just had these dreams of being in just villages, just working in them with a specific, short, tan, complexion people. But not Hispanic.

And I'm half Hispanic, so I'm like, all right, well, what's happening here? I mean, that's all they were. They were just so vivid. I don't dream a lot, you know? And I just, over the years, just had these very vivid dreams. And I knew I'd been called to overseas work, so when I went, it was just confirmed. There were times where I just started crying.

And not in sadness and peace. It's hard to explain. And just hearing, this is where my dreams were. And then when I got on the plane to come home, again, I went by myself, and I was sitting next to two strangers, and I just started bawling. And I was grabbing my face, stuffing my face into the window, and these two guys were looking at me like, what the... And I'm just like, I'm sorry, guys. And my heart was still over there. Yeah, well, some of the faces of people that you'd ministered to while you were there, was that what grabbed you?

No. That's the weird thing about it. It wasn't like seeing anything, despairing. I mean, there's some nasty stuff going on over there.

This might be a little blunt, but I can show you a video on my phone of five, six, seven-year-old kids smoking some hard drugs. And it's just lost, it's just dark. And it wasn't seeing any of that, no.

It was when I was just alone. I just get hit with this presence. It's hard to describe, man. I can't really make too much sense of it, other than I know when I got back here, I said, God, if this is what you want me to do, you gotta show up boldly. And, brother, he has in so many incredible ways.

Like, example? Oh, man, I mean... You had to raise support, that's one giant thing. Yep, had to raise support. The goal is to build an orphanage out there, right, and then have some self-sustaining other ministries that can bring in a little bit of income to fuel that orphanage. And, you know, at a base, like, you know, thinking, okay, I need like $30,000, right? And then some monthly support to go along with that.

And, you know, God brought in, like, double that. And I go to a small independent Baptist church, and I hadn't gotten up in front of any church and asked for a dime. I didn't get up, I didn't ask anybody for a dime. And people just would ask me, what's going on in your life?

And I would just tell them. I mean, I had somebody from Illinois send me a check for five grand. I'll never meet him. Somebody sent me $12,000, never met the guy.

Talked to him on the phone, never got any further than that. How did you come across? I mean, how did that... God, I guess... Yeah. You know, somebody in another state was, you know, talking to somebody that had a heart to help unreached people groups and mentioned my name and somebody just on a leap of faith. Just went, wow.

Well, just think of what you were just talking about, orphans. Yeah. I mean, that's serious stuff right there. You know, I heard something real straight and loud and clear. I've canceled all your debt, son. Now you need to cancel yours.

And it scared me when I heard it. And I withdrew everything I had. I withdrew my... I had a small little 401K. I withdrew that.

I cleared my name of any financial debt I had. And I put, you know, 10,000, the other rest of it, towards this. I said, God, I'm all in.

You got it all. I love that. And you heard it clearly. I've canceled all your debts. Now you need to cancel yours.

Yeah. And I canceled all my debt. And I talked to some missionaries and they're like, well, the first thing you need to do is cancel your debt. And I said, I've done that.

They're like, you have no debt? I'm like, I don't. Really? I'm like, yeah. I mean, I was just, I felt led to do that. And I was like, well, that's the first thing you need. You know, that's one of the smartest, the worst thing you could do is go overseas with debt.

I was like, I didn't know that. Just something led me to do it. And, you know, just to meet people over there that have that same burden, that vision in the underground. You know? And so it seems crazy to me that here's this really, really poor, I mean, these people don't have money to do anything, but they have money for drugs? So it's like the, it's really the heroin capital of the world.

You know, there's this area out there between like four countries called the golden triangle. These are things I do not know. There's not something good.

I'm glad you don't. And so, you know, I mean, you're in these villages with nothing. You know, fathers are making a couple dollars a day on the fields. You know, I walk these villages and you just see crates of alcohol everywhere. And then, you know, they just entice these young kids to do that type of stuff and they don't care about them. You know, you either have money or you don't.

There's no middle class at all. It's kind of like, I've never been to a resort because, you know, full-time ministry budget. You know, I don't make that resort type money. But like, you know, from what I heard, you get to a resort, it's beautiful, it's lavish, it's great, and then you take one foot outside of it and it's terrible. And that was kind of like, man, these cities, some of the cities, you know, there's several.

They're pretty nice. I mean, you take a step outside of these cities and people are in shacks, you know? Eating dogs and cats just because they're running around the street. I mean, yeah. And so those fields that they're working in, I guess, are poppy fields. I don't know.

Rice fields, for sure, yeah. Some other stuff, I'm sure. Keep my nose down. You don't want to know.

Assume, fair assumption. And so how do you... You started or you're going over there to start an orphanage. How do you determine who the orphans are or how does that work?

I mean, you can walk the streets and there'd be kids five years old just asking, begging for food, you know? Dad's hooked on heroin, mom ran away. There's a lack of leadership from the men there, for sure.

The women out there carrying the load. And they run away. They don't want anything to do with that. And then these phones, or just the devil's playground, entice little kids with a rather relationship or money or a job and that's where trafficking kind of comes in and that sadness. So you can walk a village and see a little six-year-old kid. Where are your parents?

I don't know. Don't have them. Their grandparents might see them and they're just like, can you just take them? The people I'm with, just take them. Where?

They live five hours away. Take them. Please. It's sad.

And then, you know. Are they saying that with the people that are saying take them? Are they saying that with a good intention? No.

No. Just we can't afford them and they're not our kids. You know, I ask that stupid question.

Like, can the villages chip in and help? You know, with getting, they're like, people don't care about kids. It's like, what? You don't care about kids?

They're precious. And I never understood how people can harm children. It just.

And so isn't that fascinating? I mean, I didn't get it until just now. That actually, when you were a kid, is when you really felt abused. In other words, you were in their shoes. Oh, man.

I can tell you some stories, man. But, you know. That you felt right.

That who cared about the kids. Yeah. I mean, getting thrown into rose bushes, getting baseballs thrown at you, getting punched in the face. You know, it's like, man. I had three siblings, so I tried to direct that towards me.

You know, I was a little bigger. You know, so I could handle it. Right. Now, the Lord's put it on my heart to protect those that can't stand up for themselves anymore. All right. We got one more segment for you to call in and share your story. What do you think makes you disqualified that actually makes you uniquely qualified?

You call us 866-348-7884. We'll be right back. Truth Talk Live! You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live! Today, the question at hand is, what did you think makes you disqualified that actually makes you uniquely qualified when it comes to ministry? What's your story? We'd love to hear it.

We really would. 866-348-7884. We actually have Duane Kennedy at one of our wonderful employees at Truth Network. Duane, you're on Truth Talk Live!

It's nice of you to call in, man. Are you actually here, or are you out there somewhere? Yeah, I'm out here somewhere. I was listening to the broadcast on Facebook, and I was just like, wow, this is a great topic. Yeah, you could really resemble that comment, right? Yeah.

You know, it's so funny. You know, I got to say, my ministry was always in the streets, and I stayed in the streets sharing the gospel. I mean, we witnessed throughout Minnesota, Minneapolis, St. Paul, walking, walking for hours.

We put hours in. And then I got caught up in the church building, you know, and I became assistant pastor. I was in the church, still doing church work, still busy with the Lord and still doing things in his name and all of that great stuff. And somehow I got lost in that. And the funny thing about it is that I had to come all the way down here to Winston-Salem for the Lord to reveal to me some things.

You know, he'll get you out of your comfort zone to reveal things to you. And I came all the way down to Winston-Salem, and I was on a radio broadcast, and I said, I said, what you a call for? You know, I was kind of fired up that day, and I was like, what you a call from is what you a call to.

And I made that statement, and we're talking about probably three weeks. That statement just was in me. It was just burning me up. I hadn't had three shows after that, and that statement just was so real to me. And then he took me back to the scriptures and revelations.

He said, you're doing everything great, but there's one thing that I have against you. You left your first love. And I started crying and boo-hooing because my love was for the streets, ministry in the streets, sharing the ones that was stuck on the drugs, the ones that were just so lost and turned out, and they didn't know what to do. That was my ministry.

See, so in a roundabout way, he got me back into that same mindset that I had back then. So it's just wonderful how the Lord works things out. Oh, it's lovely. You know, and I love, love, love, and I know you do too, Wayne, when God gives you words, man, and those words are inspired.

What you're called from is what you're called to. I wrote it down. That is just powerful. That is powerful, my friend. Like, wow.

And that's exactly the point, right? Yeah, yeah. And so as you were talking, I was thinking, yeah, those streets of Philadelphia for you, man, that was a tough place.

Yeah, yeah. And it's just about sharing what you have, and he qualifies you because you were disqualified in what you were doing. And it's because of what you have that he pulled you out of that he makes you qualified to go back to that same location, to that same spot and share the gospel because they can relate. You're more relatable now because you've been through what they've been through, you know?

Right, and you can relate and you understand. That's so awesome, Dwayne. Thank you, man. You made my day.

I wrote it down. Well, actually, you know, I got to tell you, Danny's made my day in a number of ways, and then you just add, Buxman did a little earlier, and so we're lucky that God just, man, it's an honor, obviously, to hear what God does through this show and through this network, and so I appreciate you a lot, my friend. Amen. I appreciate you. Love you. Love you too, Dan.

Dwayne, God bless. Bye-bye. God bless. So, man, Danny, is that a great word or what?

Yeah. I'd never heard that one yet either, so that's fascinating to me, again, that you're going to have this Saturday, right? And so I just feel like, man, can everybody out there just pray with me right now for Danny? Like, Lord, thank you for Danny, and I thank you that you called him from this so that you could call him to it there in Southeast Asia.

You heard the screams of these little children that are hooked on horrible things, and people that don't care about him and all that, and you sent your man. And so, Lord, we pray your anointing on him, that you would give him the gifts and the abilities, that you would give him the resources in order to do what you have called him to do, help him to not leave his first love, as Dwayne talked about, but push into you, Jesus, and as he never has before, push into your words. Stay constantly in that and to see where you're going as we know that he faces some severe trials ahead and, Lord, we pray again that you would be the hero of his story, that you would get the glory.

And again, I just thank you for a chance to hear his story today and be encouraged by it, and I pray for those who heard it as well, that somebody out there would pick up their mantle and go do what God is calling them to do. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Amen. So how neat. So what, like Saturday you leave, how long before you're in Southeast Asia?

21 plus hours. Oh. And so when you get off the plane, do you already have people you're meeting and you know where you're going? I have people I'm meeting. I don't exactly know where I'm going. I mean, I know where I'm going, but I don't, which is cool. Yeah, I could see that that would be your life. In other words, you know, the life that you led is God trained you for such a, you know, a lot of people would be terrified, but in your case it looks kind of like intriguing. It's like, it's like the life that I was living in a sense without purpose, but now I've got it.

And everything that the Lord's brought me through is gonna be used for his glory and his love. I, one of my favorite all-time on-air moments is I interviewed a pastor from Southeast Asia who had spent several years in a prison swamp, you know, and obviously he said he was in prison. He couldn't speak English. He had three interpreters in here, and I was like, so what, you know, Billy Graham had sent him in here, and I said, so what do you, he wanted to talk about prison. I said, prison? I said, you know, when I think about a prison in that area of the world, I'm thinking of, you know, Rocky, not Rocky, but Rambo III, you know, where the leashes are falling off the ground.

And when he goes, exactly, that was it. I went, what? I said, you were in a swamp? And he was like, yeah. And I said, well, how long were you in this swamp?

However many years it was, it might have been six or seven. I said, well, what did you eat? What was in the swamp? What did you drink?

The water in the swamp. And I said, man, how in the world did you survive? And he goes, well, people are dying every night, like, hundreds. And I said, so, you know, whenever I've been given anything really, really difficult, nothing like what you've been through, God always gave me something. What did God give you?

And you know what he said? The 91st Psalm. And if you go read the 91st Psalm from the point that you're in a swamp, it literally blew my mind as I was sitting there going through it.

Take some notes here. And then, as I was sitting there, all of a sudden, I broke into tears. Because what I saw still amazes me to this day that I wasn't terribly surprised that God could sustain a pasture in a swamp for six years that was drinking that unbelievably horrible water and eating horrible food, whatever that was. That doesn't totally shock me. But what blows me away and just makes me love Jesus, this is similar to what he's doing with you, is a lot of those people in that swamp deserve to be there. You know, they raped somebody, they killed somebody, whatever.

They were put in there because it was a prison. God sent them a pasture because they were dying by the hundreds every night, right? And here's a guy that's leading them to Christ. And eventually I said, well, sir, how did you get out of the swamp? And what he said actually was good behavior. And I was like, good behavior? Well, I kept leading people to Christ and so they eventually had to get me out of the swamp.

Like, you know, so that was one of those stories. I still can't believe God honored me to share that. And I have never forgotten it because it was so impactful because when I see your life at this point in time, Danny, it doesn't blow my mind that you raise the support or whatever. What makes me so encouraged is God's sending those guys a pastor, whatever age kid. And he's grown you up through this situation and it's just awesome to see him now commissioning you and off you go. And how could we pray for you? What is it on your heart that you think we ought to be praying for?

Honestly, I could say mercy and compassion from the government. Oh, really? Mm-hmm.

Yeah. You know, I reference like the book of Daniel where they want him and his friends to eat the king's meat. You know, he sought mercy and compassion from the commander and the officials and then it's later in that chapter it says God granted that. And then unity among the brethren. You know, the brothers and sisters in Christ and underground churches because they have a very, they're very traditional, you know, and really stuck in like tradition. Mm-hmm.

And. Religion. Mm-hmm. That's their word. You know, and I'm more like it doesn't matter what America tradition is or your tradition, what does the word of God say about this? And that's where we need to meet and that's where we'll be unified and be in God and working in God's will, you know? So trying to, that might be, that's been kind of frustrating for some of them to hear but the Lord's kind of worked and kind of softened that because you can't, you can argue with me, I can argue with you all day, we can't argue with the truth, right? Right. We can't argue with the word of God. It's right there. It's word for word.

And so just for that, for those, I'd say those several things. Yeah, yeah. It's grace, right? It's favor, right? And it's amazing how God, you know, turned that on for Esther, you know, with one of the most evil kings of all time or turned it on, you know, for Moses. Like how in the world did he ever get in the presence of Pharaoh? Yeah.

You know, so, you know, somehow or another, he's got a way to do that. I don't know but it takes a courageous person to walk in that and realize that God's with you to stand there with that. And so, again, we'll be praying for Danny. We thank you so much for being with us today. Exciting we got to do this before you leave on Saturday.

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