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How Do You Refuel Your Spiritual Tank?

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How Do You Refuel Your Spiritual Tank?

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September 16, 2024 5:11 pm

Pastors and Christian leaders share their experiences and strategies for refueling their spiritual tanks, discussing the importance of prayer, fasting, and biblical encouragement in maintaining their faith and avoiding burnout.

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This is kind of a great thing and I'll tell you why. Where pop culture, current events, and theology all come together. Speak your mind. And now, here's today's Truth Talk Live host. How do you refuel your spiritual tank?

That's the question today on Truth Talk Live. You know, if you've got a go-to Bible verse that you like, or do you have some other process that you like to go through. You know, you all of a sudden you feel the spiritual tank is running on the empty. You know, what is your process?

What's your favorite verse? Maybe you've got a story along those lines. We would love to hear it. It's a call-in show and of course you guys out there listening and the ones that make it work. So you call in with your story.

We would love to hear it. 866-348-7884 is the number to call in and share. 866-866-348-7884. And here to help us out because they've got a refuel conference coming up.

We've got Adam Lancaster's in Lynchburg and Dr. Carson. Our old friend is at the beach of all places. Anyway, Adam, what's going on? Hey, how's it going, Robbie? Hope you're having a great day. Yeah, I am. I am. It's fixing to get better because I'm hearing about this conference.

Yeah, we're really excited. So we've done a conference for church leaders at Thomas Road in Lynchburg, Virginia for many decades. And over the past about 15 years, it's really been centered around equipping and resourcing church leaders.

And whether that's your senior pastor, lead pastor, associate pastor, or whether you're just a volunteer lay worker, but you're heavily involved, our goal is for people to come attend. And it's quick. It starts Monday night and then you're wrapped up by Tuesday afternoon.

But we try to pack it full of great encouragement and insight just to help leaders. Wonderful. And so when is this coming up? It's a week from tonight. So next Monday and Tuesday, the 23rd and 24th of September.

Wow. So get on board. And so if somebody wants to come to that, do they stay in Lynchburg then? Yes, you can come up Monday.

You can grab a place to stay Monday night. We've got some great guys, some great pastors. Our pastor, Jonathan Falwell, will be kicking us off. And then we've got a guy, Dave Stone, who was pastor at Southeast Christian Center in Louisville for many years, is going to join us.

Jimmy Scroggins, who's a pastor out of Florida, Greg Surratt, and then Jared Stevens, and a couple other guys. We're going to have a great time. It'll kick off six o'clock Monday night, and we'll have a great time. And then Tuesday during the day, we've got sessions. We'd love to have anybody who wants to come up to Lynchburg. It's a great spot to visit this time of year. Oh, yeah.

I guess the leaves are about to be in full array and all that kind of thing. And Dr. Carson, you've taken part of this many years, right? Yes, sir.

Absolutely. Adam, how are you doing? I am doing I recognize that voice, my friend. Robbie, Adam and I did a whole lot of convocations together.

Adam is incredible when it comes especially to the keyboard. But he's also great with administration, and Refuel is one of the great tools God is using to help pastors stay in the race. Yeah, because it is a struggle out there for pastors.

I think they're dropping off in unprecedented numbers and certainly difficult for churches to find one and all sorts of things along those lines. And so this is a real opportunity out there for people that are struggling, right? Yes, the opportunity to come and, one, hear some very inspired preaching.

That's one of the things that happens at Refuel. But then you're also connecting with other pastors and Christian workers, Christian lay leaders, who can share similar stories and pray together. I can't tell you how many new friends I've made through the years by being a part of Refuel. Oh, yeah, it's a great way to connect, right, and get other resources from other pastors and those kind of things. You know, anytime you can attend a conference like that. And so is there a cost involved, Adam?

No, that's one of the great things about Refuel is that there is no cost. You can come absolutely free. If you have to travel up here, you know, get a hotel room or Airbnb or whatever suits you. But as far as the conference itself, Pastor Jonathan, every year is always adamant that, hey, this is a free resource. We want to help the guys that don't feel like they can afford to go anywhere. We have a lot of bivocational guys that show up that are working jobs and also being a pastor to people. And so there's no cost. And it's really centered, like Dwayne said, like I've mentioned, around encouraging leaders in the church because it's easy to get burnt out. It's easy to get discouraged.

And it's just a time of worship, prayer and teaching for really less than 24 hours to fuel you back up, to go back and make a difference for the kingdom wherever you're at. Wow, what an opportunity, really. And it's available to so many of you out there, Liston.

Dr. Carson? Yeah. And while, you know, we're one week out, but the beauty of this, as the planning has taken place, you could have a whole week conference and you could have three days. This has been put together so that a pastor, again, lay leaders as well, can come in on a Monday night and be done on Tuesday. It's so that you don't get worn out by coming to a conference. Right. And obviously, or maybe not obviously, a lot of pastors are off on Monday, so a good day to travel fits in their schedule because usually they work weekends, right?

Yep. And then they're back home for what's going to be happening on Wednesday, but they get a major spiritual infusion of the Word of God, fellowship, Adam, those prayer times, those worship times. Those are some of the most refreshing times.

Yeah, we got to go to a break. When we come back, I would love to hear from you guys. What do you do? What's your favorite Bible verse or what's your go-to?

How about you out there, Liston? I would love to hear it, especially if you're a pastor, lay leader, or something like that. 866-348-7884 is the number. Call in and share. We'll be right back with a whole lot more refueling.

It's Happening at Liberty next week. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live! Today's show, how do you refuel your spiritual tank?

How do you do that? We would love your calls at 866-348-7884. And I'm just going to shout out, Bucksmen, I haven't heard from you in a long time, or another listener that we haven't heard from. We would love for you to call, 866-348-7884. And we're so blessed to have with us Adam Lancaster with Thomas Road Baptist, as well as Dr. Carson.

And a little clarification, I mentioned Liberty. It's in the same neighborhood, but the event's happening at Thomas Road Baptist Church. Am I right, Adam?

Yes. So the conference, it takes place at the church, but I mean, we're on the same side of the mountain here. So if you know where Liberty University is at, then you're headed towards the right spot. There you go. It's actually, yeah, it's there, and it's happening again next week, the 23rd, September the 23rd. Starts at 6 p.m. absolutely free.

That's F-R-E-E. And it starts Monday night, and you're finished up Tuesday. You can get back to church on Wednesday. I mean, wow, and the lineup of pastors and people that are going to give you some input there is just absolutely amazing. But I also, you've got a huge, you've got a huge, oh, go ahead, Dr. Carson, you were going to ask Adam. I was going to ask Adam, if they don't come on Monday night, can they still come Tuesday morning?

Absolutely, yeah. If you can't make Monday night, you can show up Tuesday morning. We'll have our host team here, and they can get you, you know, all signed in and registered. And it's definitely, definitely an option if you can't make Monday night, or if you can't make Tuesday. Maybe you live a couple hours away, but man, I'd love to come over and see what Monday night's like.

Come on over. We're going to have a great time. Pastor Jonathan and Dave Stone will be speaking Monday night. We'll also have Charles Billingsley, our teaching pastor and worship leader on Monday night, as well as L.U. Praise, which is our gospel choir from Liberty University. Yeah, and wow, I can tell you, that's quite a worship lineup, having enjoyed worshiping with those guys before. That's absolutely amazing. So again, if you're wondering how to refuel, what a great way to go find out is you go to Thomas Road next week. Again, the leaves will be beautiful. What an opportunity.

Maybe take your wife up there, and she can hang around Lynchburg while you attend, or maybe she can come right with you, right? Absolutely. And if you've got one more information, the website's real simple. It's Refuel.org.

That is simple. Refuel.org. And you've got a huge announcement. Talk about refueling, like we're trying to refuel the whole world, right, Dr. Karsten?

Yes, sir. We are six months away from a very important date. Today is September the 16th, 181 days.

Six months from now is March the 16th. And next year, March the 16th, another way of saying that is 3-16 is a Sunday. And we're just trying to shout out an announcement to every pastor out there. Hey, take a look at your preaching calendar. Wouldn't it be great if on 3-16 you preached your very best John 3-16 message? And the Lord just laid on my heart back before this past March 16th, wouldn't it be awesome if every pastor in the world preached their best John 3-16 message because it's God's greatest message to all of mankind? And so on this episode of Truth Talk Live, Robbie, thanks for allowing me to just tell everyone who's listening, think about what could happen if your church, your pastor, your Sunday school teachers, small group leaders, youth pastors made March the 16th a day of proclaiming John 3-16. As Dr. Elmer Townes said, the greatest verse in the Bible. So start thinking on this, pastors. March the 16th preached John 3-16. I know, I'm excited about it. And then on the 23rd, everybody's going to do a baptism, right?

I mean, I know I am. Yeah, you go to the book of John and John 3-23, John the Baptist is going down to the river to baptize. So salvation on the 16th and baptism on the 23rd and Easter is not until April the 20th.

So there you go. So you're looking at, have a big event at Valentine's, now have Easter in April, but now right in the middle of February and April, March the 16th, we proclaim God's greatest message to mankind. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. I tell you, just that verse in itself for me, Robbie, refuels me because what a great gift we have received from our Lord and Savior.

He gave His life for us. Yeah, that's amazing. Absolutely great stuff. So exciting.

What's coming up? And so Adam, how about for you? What if you got a Bible verse or something? Because I know you're a busy guy up there. I bet occasionally you need to be refueled.

Oh, yeah. Well, I think the best way to stay fueled comes from daily habits, which I think getting in the Bible daily is just a great way to constantly remind yourself of the great story and the arc of the story and God's redemption of mankind. My personal favorite verse, my life verse, you know what that means, is Galatians 2.20, I am crucified with Christ, it is not I who live but Christ who lives through me, and I have to remind myself of that daily because it's a day in, day out battle.

No, it's a minute by minute. Yeah, on a practical note, I try to set up boundaries in my life and guard against being too busy because doing too many good things means you don't do the great things. And so having some boundaries in life helps to guard against that on a daily basis. There you go. There you go. How about, and so Dr. Carson, again, we know John 3.16, but also, I mean, having been a pastor, certainly a campus pastor at Liberty for a number of years, can you remember a time when you, man, you needed it, you needed some fuel in the tank, and what happened? Well, there's no question, and that's why the Good Fellowship, Hebrews talks about us not forsaking the assembling together, and when you get around good friends, and you have that fellowship, and they sharpen you, that's one of the best ways. We find a lot of pastors are in the ministry, and they are lonely, and one of the things I liked about Pastor Jonathan with this idea refueled years ago, really stepping it up, was to give these guys these opportunities to come in and get to know one another, and create groups where they could, you know, text one another, call one another, and share one another's burdens.

I would have burned out a long time ago if I did not have wonderful people around me that could just give words of encouragement. There you go. Well, we've got to go to another break, but this is my opportunity to remind you, this is a live call-in show, and you guys are the ones that make it work, so you've got to call me. 866-348-7884, 866-34-TRUTH, a lot more refueling going on.

We'll be right back. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live today. How do you refuel your spiritual tank?

How do you do that? 866-348-7884, 866-34-TRUTH. I want to share a couple things. We've got Dr. Carson with us as well, but I know in my case that the Bible's an integral part of it, but another huge part, a really significant part of my own refueling process, is prayer. Literally, getting in touch with the big guy.

I remember, it's kind of funny, it's a refueling story. For those who know me, I do the Christian Car Guy radio show, I was in the car business for 40 years, and I reached a point in my career where I had been promoted to where I was no longer competent. And as a general manager of Crown Dodge in 1991, I was failing miserably. We weren't selling any cars, we were losing money, and our customer satisfaction rating reached an all-time low. At the time, they rated it as a 4.0 scale, and if I'm not mistaken, our score was like 1.8.

I know it was a solid F. And when I saw that, I realized I was probably going to lose my job, because if you don't have a good customer satisfaction rating, you will lose your franchise. And so my dealer, I knew, I was not going to be long for this world if I did not straighten out the situation, but I really did not know what to do. And so I'd heard this message from a pastor in Greensboro about what I now call the five slamma jamma cat's pajama prayer, which is just simply to listen rather than talk to God. And so I actually went out into a field and I was just like, okay, God, you know the situation, I mean, I've spent all these years in the car business, now I'm a total failure, what's next? And I just listened, and I fell asleep, and my boss was looking for me, and my wife was looking for me, and I was in more trouble.

But the next morning, I went back, and again, I just, God, you know the situation, I need to hear from you, what's my next move? And a thought occurred to me, and I'm sure it was God speaking to me, I know, because I never would have thought anything this ingenious as what he gave me that day, which really has almost become a key thing in my life daily, just like Galatians is for Adam, was he said to me, Robbie, when all is said and done, it won't matter how many cars you sell. And it won't matter what your customer satisfaction rating is, or how much money you made for your dealer, none of that, that's not gonna matter.

He said, what's really gonna matter is how many people you really help. And for whatever reason, God knew that was a message right straight to my heart, and I immediately embraced it completely, went back to the dealership, called everybody together, service department, sales, everybody, I never normally had a meeting on Saturday, but I called everybody in, I said, okay guys, from now on, we no longer are gonna sell cars, we are going to help people. I said, I don't care if they wanna buy a Nissan, I don't care, if they've got bad credit, you're gonna help them get better credit. Don't worry about selling a car, worry about helping, is the person sitting in front of you helping? I said to the service department, I said, guys, don't worry about selling a bunch of services, what they want you to do is look at the person in front of you, what's wrong with their car, what do they want? Help them get it, fix it, whatever the situation is, same with the parts department.

Think about if it's a mechanic standing in front of you or a customer, how can you help that person? I said, that's what we're gonna do, this is the new call to action, that's all we're gonna do, and I just feel like God is saying this is the way to turn around the company, and oh, did he turn it around, but I give God all the glory for that. It totally refueled me because he gave me, he gave me something I didn't have, and that happened through prayer, but also, I'll give you this one, Dr. Carson, as the Christian car guy, one of the first metaphors I ever did on the air, which, by the way, I want your story, you heard mine, what's yours, 866-348-7884, 866-348-7884. So, one of the first metaphors I ever wrote up, which is still pretty, in fact, extremely popular at ChristianCarGuy.com, is don't you want to be a four-stroke Christian, and you may know that a gasoline engine is a four-stroke engine, which means that every time that the crankshaft, you know, goes around, it does something different, and so, you know, the first stroke of a four-stroke engine is called a intake stroke, right? You gotta have gas and you gotta have fuel in the cylinder or you're not gonna have anything happen, okay? And so, what you intake is critical to whether or not you're going to have what they call pre-ignition, because if you ever heard your car knock, what that's telling you is that you've got cheap fuel, your gas is cheap.

So, if you take in, you know, hamburgers and hot dogs into your body all the time, you know, or if you take in, you know, Facebook and Fox News, whatever it may be, you know, if you're taking that stuff in, let me just tell you, if you're Robbie Dilmore, pre-ignition is going to happen, okay? Your intake stroke is critical to the fact of being a four-stroke Christian, right? And because the stroke coming after the intake stroke is the compression stroke, right? And so, what's gonna happen then is that piston begins to go down to bring in the gas, it's gonna go up to compress the mixture, right? And so, what it's gonna mix is everything that you've taken in, and that is gonna be hopefully much prayer, much Holy Spirit, much Word of God, right? Fuel that, you know, and what you talked about earlier, Dr. Carson, walking with other Christians and have an input like you gave me last Friday about the crab.

We'll tell that one in a minute. But nonetheless, so your compression stroke is critical because of what your intake was, right? And so, if you're gonna be a four-stroke Christian, your intake stroke has got to be the good stuff because the compression stroke is happening. But here's the cool thing, okay?

We talked about, like, let's just take you, you took in John 3.16, right? And you compressed that, and now you've got the power stroke, right? And so, a power stroke is, now you're gonna take all this stuff and you ignite it at a precisely top dead center, right?

The moment that you get the maximum power. And so, when it is ignited, you can now go share, right? What the Holy Spirit has given you to share with an unbelievable power stroke, okay?

And so, with that power stroke, you're gonna go out and you're gonna, you know, allow God to light up the world. Well then, the last stroke, which is not to be forgotten, is now that piston has gone back down. The power stroke will drive the piston back down, which means it's got to come back up again. Only this time, the valve's open, and it pushes out the exhaust, okay? So now you see, it took in the fuel, it came up and compressed, it ignited, boom, there's power stroke, and then it went back up, it's gonna push out the exhaust, okay? And so, if you're like me, and you've screamed at the Sophie lady today because she aggravated you, and you didn't employ Galatians 2.20 right that moment, then, oh my goodness, you need to confess, Lord, I have sinned, please forgive me, please, right? And so, you gotta get rid of that exhaust, okay?

And there's no place to have a good, clean cylinder for the next intake. Are you following me? Does this make sense, Dr. Carson? Wow, I'm learning stuff.

I am not mechanically inclined, and I have learned, I just realized how all that works, and I'm thinking about the spiritual implications. Again, you gotta get the right stuff in, you gotta get the wrong stuff out. It is. Yes, and that's the refuel component.

It is. Refuel, that conference, is gonna help to get great stuff in, but there'll also be that part of, okay, what needs to be gotten out? Adam, we've been to Israel, you know, the Sea of Galilee is one of the freshest bodies of water in the world.

Why? Because it takes in, it gives out, takes in, gives out. The Dead Sea is dead because all it does, Robbie, is it takes in, it never gives out.

To back up your analogy about helping people, you wanna be refueled, you go help somebody. Oh yeah, that, you're exactly right. Yeah, that's amazing.

Take in that sermon on Sunday morning and put it to practice on Monday through Friday, B, put it into action. But you gotta tell the story about the crabs, man, everybody, you know, even though it's a little off topic, you know, but we got Mike and Dayton, it's hanging on for us, but he's gonna love the crab story. I never heard this about the crabs, but boy oh boy. Well, I am told that if you catch one crab and put it in a bucket, you gotta put a lid on it.

But if you catch two crabs or more, you don't have to have a lid because crabs will not let other crabs crawl out. And we've got Christians who just don't wanna see other Christians become all they can be for the Lord. You think about Mary of Bethany, her sister got all upset with her because she wanted to set her to feed her Jesus.

The disciples got all upset because she wanted to anoint him with the alabaster ointment. We don't need to be like crabs pulling each other down. We need to be building each other up and encouraging each other. And that's another reason you wanna go to this refuel conference at Thomas Road Baptist Church next week. We gotta go to a break, Dr. Carson, I'm sorry. We got Mike coming up, we got more Dr. Carson, but we need you. 866-34-TRUTH. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. Today's question, how do you refuel your spiritual tank?

I'd love your answer. 866-348-7884. 866-348-7884. We got more from Dr. Carson, but I got Mike is in Ohio, my good friend. How are you today, Mike? You still with us, Mike? Yeah, I'm here. Are you there? Yeah, we had a little computer glitch during the break if you thought it all was silent.

But our trustee Grayson, our producer, got it put back together really quick, and we are here. And so the question, how do you refuel, Mike? Yeah, shoot. How do you refuel? I would like to say refuel is like a reset, you know, like when your tank is empty, you're filling it back up.

Right. How do you reset or how do you fill your tank back up? I'd love to, you know, your, the caller, I mean, the pastor that's there said your habits, your habits help you refuel. Prayer and fasting helps you refuel. Getting them back into your Word, in the Word of God, helps you refuel. Finding a fellow believer and saying, hey, I'm struggling with this area of my life.

Can you pray for me? That helps you refuel. Listening to the Truth Network. There you go. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

Now you picked a winner right there. I can tell you how many times it's refueled me. It refills you too, Doc, right? Oh, absolutely.

It's putting the right stuff in the engine block. That's right. Yes, sir. That's wonderful stuff. So, Doc, you need to mention that we got a whole website for John 3.16, right? Yes, yes.

I failed to mention that earlier. If you're interested in learning more about preaching John 3.16 on March the 16th, 3.16, 2025, it's a Sunday. It's www.March316.com. And we're going to be putting resources there.

We're six months out. This idea is just starting to be promoted and hopefully we're catching – people will begin to grab hold of this. And I'm praying to God to give favor to the idea.

It's not about me. As a matter of fact, other people have this idea. But what a great thought Sunday if they – March the 16th is a Sunday and it only will happen again like in 2031.

It doesn't happen every year. And there's just no better verse in the Bible to convey how much God loves lost people. And, Robbie, I could see a lot of pastors creating a friend day and think about going into March saying, hey, bring your friends, your family, your neighbors, associates, and come. And I'm going to preach God's greatest message to mankind that he's ever given, John 3.16.

So, March3.16.com is the website. Oh, that's awesome. It's awesome. But, Mike, I'm not going to let you off the hook that easy. When did you – when did you reach that low point in the cabinet building profession or whatever, man, that you were just like, I think I'm going to give up on this. How did he come after you? Well, he's come after me several ways. I mean, friends, everybody wants a friend. And sometimes you run into bad friends and you try to associate yourself with bad friends. You know what I mean? And you try to fit in and you try to do things that they like to do. And you need to get away from that. You know what I mean?

You need to do what God wants you to do. And so how did you do it? How did I do it? Deciding to be – deciding to – I mean, what I'm – what I guess I'm trying to tell you, Mike, is tell me the story. You know, here you were. This was – man, this had happened. This was – you know, you'd had this guy and he wanted you to do that.

And I want the story, man. Well, that's getting a little – it's intimate. There you go. I know. That's the beauty of it. It is.

That's how people relate is when they hear the story, you know? Yeah. You know, I'm into bowling.

I'm into bowling a lot. Really? Yes. I've shot many 300s, many 600s, many 800s. Wow.

Really? And I love bowling. And bowling, you go to a bowling alley and you're not around, obviously, Christians. You know what I mean? And you're out there and you're bowling and, you know, when you throw a bad shot, you hear all the F words that go out there. You know what I mean? And God has laid on my heart to be a witness out there in bowling, you know? When I try to do what God wants me to do.

And do I fail? Yes. My wife reminds me all the time. That's why I bowl with my wife more than before.

Because then this way I get a checkmate against me. You know what I mean? So if I'm reading between the bowling lines here, if I'm reading between the alleys here, trying to stay out of the gutter, because I don't want to strike out, you know, if I'm doing all those things, Mike, I'm thinking that you had some bowling buddies that really were, you know, hurting your relationship with God. And so you've got to figure out a way. And so you brought your wife into the equation to really help you, right? Yes, I did. Yeah, and I did.

And I did. I had my wife bowl with me more. She says, I don't want to bowl more than one night. And I says, well, I need you to, because this is what I like to do.

And you're going to bowl with me on Wednesday, too. Well, she's on a roll now. And believe me, Mike, I can't believe you said that, you know, or Mike, I can't believe you did that. And it's been helping.

It's really has. And it's, you know, and then here's the other thing I need to do in which I'm being personal and this is that's yeah, that's good. I need to pray before I go there. You know, I mean, I need to need to need to, you know, to do the things that God wants me to do before I go there. I know you're loud and clear, like if I'd only prayed before I talked to that Sophie lady today or so.

I think it's pronounced financial people in me. We just don't know. Oh, man, if I'd only prayed, she got under my skin and it wasn't pretty dark. Yeah, that Galatians five to twenty really. How about you, Doc? Is there when and when have you reached that difficult place?

What's the story? Well, I think when you get so involved in ministry, when you have a lot of different activities happening all at the same time, like with the Liberty, we would find ourselves again. You're giving, giving, giving, giving, giving your porn out your porn out and and one of the big things that happened to me, Robbie, and I know our time is short now, but everybody was talking about being a candle and you don't want to burn out. Well, I go, I don't want to be a candle.

I don't I don't I want to be something different because once a candle burns out, it's gone. I took an analogy of an oil lamp because with the oil lamp, you can. Refuel.

Here's that word. Refuel. But the key for this to happen is you have to pull away. You can't refuel in flight like like like there was some planes. You have to turn off that lamp, unscrew things, and then you pour in fresh oil.

And and that's one reason I recommend people going to the refuel conference at Thomas Road because you're going to get fresh oil. You pull away, you get away from the work. You rest, you relax and you get refilled with fresh oil. And now that that that life's going to burn bright again. Don't be a candle.

Be an oil lamp. And make sure that when you have opportunities to rest, to go on vacation, to do so, those are good things. We have to refuel, not just spiritually, but refuel physically and mentally. And those are some of the lessons I learned while I was campus Pastor Liberty.

I had to take care of myself even more so than an athlete would because as a pastor, it's difficult. You're constantly giving, giving, giving. But if you'll take time and refuel, pour in those. I like what you said, the good gasoline, good word, truth, network, hearing, good preaching, good teaching. Your mind's going to be filled.

Your heart's going to be filled and you're going to stay strong in the race. Yeah, a lot of people think that the expensive gas, you know, the high octane gas, it burns hotter or burns more powerful than regular gas. And nothing can be further from the truth. The high octane gas just has a lower spark point.

In other words, pure fuel, the right fuel, the stuff that won't make your engine ignite before it's supposed to, actually it takes more heat to get it to explode. Did you know that? I didn't.

Yeah. So, you know, a lot of people think, oh, I'm going to get that high test gas because it's going to spark better. It's not true. It actually is the other way around. And because the high octane gas or the more expensive gas has a higher flash point, on cars today that have all these electronics, they will adjust the timing and your car will get better gas mileage with a higher octane fuel.

And it's just something you can test, mid-range, tri-high octane to see which way you can go. Again, the Word of God has a very high flash point. That's it. The Word of God.

Date the Word. There you go. It's all there. Mike, thank you, my friend, as always. Man, I hope you bowl a 300 tonight. God bless. Thank you.

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