We Get To Do This - Robots, Rumors and Revival

0:00 Abba Father, we thank you for a new day, and we get to do this. Lord, even as we have a conversation about just what's happening, really the crossroads between culture and Christianity, we ask Holy Spirit that you would guide our thoughts and guide our words. Father, that we would speak things and that you would speak things that would help us navigate the complexities of this world. And today we choose to praise you, to celebrate you, to acknowledge you, and to say this, that Jesus has not left the building. You are still the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. No matter what's going on in our world and our culture, you are Lord, and we honor you in it. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. It's Wednesday, November 4th, 2026. We get to do this. This is episode number 57. Well, you ho you ho to all the believers in Christ curious of get to nation and the hallelujah Well done. Welcome to another transmission of the ministry of truth -telling. Come on, brother.

1:19 I love that it was on the newsletter Yes, it came from a note which will not discuss later. I'm looking forward got a question for you. It's an important question. Is the grid down? What grid? The power grid? Do we have a blackout? Are there riots in the street? No. So far not. I'm so disappointed. Just a few people rattling their keyboards online, which I literally did not look at this morning. At least I got my wind up radio. I was so set. I was so ready for everything. Did you purchase your package, your survival package? I have one from the early Alex Jones days. No, I still got it. From another election cycle. Yeah, I hear you. Wow. It's been so interesting this morning, looking at the feedback. how everyone says, we've turned blue. Like we're out of air or something. You know, like we're being choked to death. We flipped blue. Oh my gosh. The sky's falling. Well, everybody was rushing to Facebook and jamming on Twitter. I'm like, give me some scripture, Lord. Let me look at what's going on. And there's a lot of scripture about this moment that we're in. No kidding. You know, I got up this morning and I thought, I saw like a 10, 15 Central Standard Time. check my phone once last time, check my bot to see what all the 1500 polls were saying. And I'm thinking, this doesn't look good. This isn't going to be good. I'm going to bed. So I went to sleep and

2:51 then I got up at 530 this morning and I did not get online. I just decided I'm going to pick up my Bible. I'm going to leave my screen over here. I did my daily grind, not knowing really anything. I mean, I knew where it was trending last night. There was enough that it was a I knew where it was going to land. I didn't know how far it was going to land, but it landed. And so I did my daily grind and felt man just had such a sweet time of fellowship in the Word. And I love writing those. I'd already picked the scripture yesterday for it. So I just kind of had to fill in the blanks and write it out. And then after I started looking at what happened, I'm like, wow, that was pretty appropriate daily grind. Do you want to just read it really quick?

3:40 Cause I saw that this morning. I'm like, did he write two depending on the outcome of the elections? That's like a football team. So you got jerseys for each team and somebody just bought a bunch of jerseys that are going in the trash, right? So he had the trash bin. All right. Well, I started this way. Good morning. We get to do this. Let's make heaven crowded. Seasons change, circumstances shift, and the world around us can seem uncertain. But here's the good news. God is still on His throne. He changes times and seasons, raises up kings and removes them. Nothing catches Him by surprise. keep your eyes on Jesus, your heart anchored in His faithfulness, and your confidence in His sovereignty. The scripture is Daniel chapter 2 verses 19 to 21. I found this yesterday. I was doing some searching and I was thinking about Jeremiah where it talks about his role, his call by God was to pluck up and to tear down and then to build up. I mean like you're going to tear some things down, but then you're going to build some things back up.

4:44 So that was on my heart. I almost went that direction. Then I decided to do some word searching because I thought, I know there's a scripture about how the heart of the king is in God's hand and he turns it as he wills like a river. And I thought, I know there's another verse. So I started doing some deep thought. I found this, Daniel chapter two. Here's the scripture. Then Daniel praised God of heaven, praised the God of heaven and said, praise be to the name of God forever. Wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons. He deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. So the title of the Daily Grind is Seasons Change, God Doesn't. Perspective is a ground leveler.

5:29 When our perspective changes, it does not mean that our circumstances have changed. I woke up today ready to embrace whatever comes my way with faith, hope, and love. Daniel praised God and celebrated that He changes times and seasons and He deposes kings and raises up others. Keep your focus on the greatness and sovereignty of God and, like Daniel, give Him praise. Today, stay the course. Keep your focus on God's plans and purposes. Honor Him with your thoughts. opinions and actions. I wanted to write in keyboards. I literally was thinking keyboards when I said actions, so that's code for keyboards. And then a simple prayer. Father, I trust you with all that takes place in this world. I like Peter when I step out onto the water with my eyes focused only on you. In Jesus' name, amen. This would have been my six midterm Election cycle on no agenda right a lot of people like you quit at the wrong time Well, hopefully a lot of you are here who wanted to hear some deconstruction but so I've been through five full -on election general election midterm election cycles and This I felt so different mmm because Typically, I'd be looking at what their pundits are saying. I mean, I still did my normal kind of, you know, technical research.

6:58 It's interesting to note that in Texas, the same amount of Republican voters came out as previous years. There were just a lot more Democrat voters, or people who may have thought they would have voted Republican, voted Democrat. Our new governor, I mean, she had like... a million more votes than even Beto got. I mean, that's really interesting. But I was so at peace because when you're a believer, and I've had nothing but an entire season of realizing who's really in control, and I know who's in control, and I know why this, well, I don't know why this happened, but I know who is in control of what is happening. And that gave me such peace. And it really put some things into perspective. So I also went looking for scriptures. I woke up at 3 .02 this morning.

7:45 I'm like, Lord, you beat me up. I know your 3 to 5 a .m. is kind of your time. So I'm going to have to sleep in later. But what you got? And I went searching for some scripture applicable to today. By the way, I have a question because I was talking with Tina yesterday on Curry and the Keeper, which has now been revived. Yes, looking forward to it. Welcome back. I have a robot whose only job is to find Scripture about something that I tell it. And she said, well, that's cheating. I'm like, no, it's not. That's not cheating. Is it? Tell me, Pastor Jimmy. That's not cheating. Sorry, keeper. Sorry, Tina. That's not cheating. It's no different than having a concordance in the back of your Bible. Exactly. Because that would be cheating, right, if you use a concordance? No. No, I'm just saying using the same logic is what I mean. So it's just a tool. It worked really well. And so here's one that I know that you've preached from the pulpit before, 1 Timothy 2. I urge you first of all to pray for all people ask God to help them Intercede on their behalf and give thanks for them pray this way for kings and all who are in authority not some not just red, you know, not just blue, all who are in authority, so we can live peaceful—this is my favorite part—so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity.

9:07 This is good and pleases God our Savior who wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth." And, you know, so you were asking really for Ford to pray. If we pray, this is what I was doing, and you can correct me. for the rulers, our representatives, because they're not really rulers, but I'll just call them representatives, pray for help, intercession, thanks, and for their salvation. And ultimately, it's to give us a quiet life. And I woke up feeling, this morning when I got up, Back in the day when I wasn't at all politically minded, and there was an election, I'd be like, eh, okay, whatever, who's on first? And my life would just go on.

9:53 And this morning I realized, okay, things are changing, but I still had that feeling of, all right, okay, my life will go on. And there's a big something, well, two things. Can we once and for all put to rest that money buys elections or if you have more money, you're more likely to win? That's just not true. No matter how much money you throw at it, it's ultimately not money that makes it happen. And so let's just stop that with how much money somebody has. The other thing is I think in our world of red team, blue team, you know, my team, your team, we've forgotten how our government actually works. You know, if you go on the street and say, well, who runs the country? Well, it's the Democrats now because they got the House and the Senate. No, we have three equal branches of government and Congress is one. They hold the purse strings, not unimportant, and they make the laws. And then we have the judiciary, including the Supreme Court. Last time I checked, still conservative in nature and not To me, banking laws, they don't make laws. No, they don't make laws. They interpret and enforce. They interpret. They're also not always, they should not, well, that's a more constitutional question we need to ask Ray Green, but it's not necessarily that their law is the ultimate law, but that's pretty much how it plays out. And then you have the executive, which is still in charge of borders, international agreements,

11:27 the judiciary, so police. You know, there's a lot that the that the executive branch has, including veto power. So it's not like, you know, the world is over now. All of a sudden, we all got to be flying trans flags off of our F 250s. You know, but people are go nuts and they and they forget how it actually works. In fact, when you have a Republican president and a Democrat House and Senate, Typically, and we saw that this morning, the financial markets love it. Interesting. Your 401k just popped up this morning like crazy.

12:10 It's like 16 % historically. If it's one of the two houses, then it's 9%. So it's not necessarily all bad, but people are so worried. I'm like, no. Tallarico doesn't run Texas. He represents Texas in the Senate. I'm very interested in our new governor. Honestly, I feel that I lacked in looking at what she stands for. Yeah, that was a left hook. I didn't see that one coming. There's a lot of things that I have heard her talk about, which she's not in charge of. But you know, this is the time. So I've got a few more scriptures. Jeremiah 29, 7. This is really about praying for the peace you live. And work for peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare.

13:09 Then for rulers, Psalm 72, 1 -4. Give your love of justice to the king Oh God and righteousness to the king's son help him judge your people in the right way Let the poor always be treated fairly May the mountains yield prosperity for all and may the hills be fruitful Help him to defend the poor to rescue the children of the needy and crush their oppressors. I mean there's so much Daniel 2 as you were saying 21 he controls the course of world events. He removes kings and he sets up other kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the scholars. So as I'm just reading through all this, I'm like, this is the whole point. This is the point of this book is that these moments, or really any moment, how big or how small, go to the book.

14:00 This is the truth. We are the ministry of truth telling here. Just by reading a book, and it's been that way. Bring out the book. Yes, it's been that way. in throughout history. And so I feel so good about it. In fact, the president last night, he was talking to everybody. And I was watching Politico who, you know, I left leaning, of course, and the woman Dasha, I forget her last name. I don't know if I have her her info, but she picked up her phone and said, Well, let me just call the president. This is This is the Donald Trump that I knew from the New York days. Everybody had his cell phone number.

14:44 You could call him for anything, for a party, you know, something going on in MTV, you know, I need some help, you know, people would call him for money. And so he's still kind of, I don't have that number anymore, but he still kind of operates that way. So here's a bit of this conversation. Call the President. I think it's time. We've been talking about him. Let's see if he picks up. We've called everyone in J -Mart's politics. Let's see what happens. Oh yeah, but we're getting there. Literally dialing in. Dasha Burns is her name. I left all this in because I just thought it was so realistic, so funny. And then how it works. This is how it used to work back. Hi, may I ask who's calling? Hi, this is Dasha Burns with Politico. That's a TV in the background where the president is. Hello? One moment, please.

15:39 I'll connect you. Hey, Dasha, how are you? Hey, Mr. President, I'm doing well. Hey, Mr. President, he just picks up. But listen to what he says. You're on with me and my colleagues here at Politico. I'm just wondering, what's your message? What do you think happened with your party tonight? I wasn't on the ballot, and we didn't get the people out, but I wasn't on the ballot. If I was on the ballot, we would've won. We would've won it all very easily. But you know, Mr. President, you told voters that you were on the ballot to go vote as though you were on the ballot. Yeah, I said, say you're on the ballot. Think about me being on the ballot. But they didn't agree, and they didn't like the candidates in most cases. Just one of those things. Are there certain people elected, by the way, too, but not enough. Are there candidates that you think didn't do enough in this election? No, I don't want to blame anybody.

16:27 I just want to say, you know, it was a very interesting period of time. I watched with great interest, learned from it. What did you learn, sir? Curious what you learned. Well, we're going to work with the Democrats to make sure things go well for our country. Very important. They've already called and they want to work with me. I have the right to veto everything. But I don't want to be just sitting there for two years vetoing everything. I want to see things happen too. I've already spoken to certain leaders of the Democrat Party. So he wants to do what's right for America. Yeah. You know, this, of course, can be taken by many online as he was always a Democrat. He was a Manchurian candidate. I'm sure it's out there. If he truly is who I think he is, he will. And, you know, if there's stuff that crosses his desk he doesn't like, he's going to veto it. And, you know, all this nonsense about the control. You know, you still need two thirds of the Senate for important votes like impeachment. So, impeachment can come from the House, but to actually remove the president needs a lot more of the Republicans to get on board.

17:38 My prayer for our rulers, I say that in air course, is that they don't go straight down to impeachment. But here is a unique opportunity to actually get some real things done. I mean, not much got done in the past two years in Congress. The so -called one big, beautiful bill, which I think was important for a lot of the tax cuts that came in. The president still controls the border. That is still his domain in the executive. So we'll see. I'm not upset. And it just has more to do with, I know who's in control and we got to keep praying. And hopefully a lot more people will start thinking about their faith and how that relates to the times we're living in now.

18:31 Well said, brother. I just wanted you to finish that because I love. I know you have other things to say. No, no, no. I'm also just mindful. I don't want to step over on you because we tend to do that sometimes because we're both excited. That makes it real. Yeah. Yeah. We're both excited. I'm with you a hundred percent. I woke up, I went to bed a little tentative last night. I'm going, Ooh, Oh no, this doesn't look good. You know, what's this mean? And then I quickly fell asleep and never thought about it again. I got up this morning and did not feel the need to go. Jump and look I just thought I'm like because here's what I was thinking. How is this? How is it gonna change my day? Even if the worst in my mind the worst outcome happened and I'm like it shouldn't change my day Because I'm going to stay the course. I'm gonna keep doing the right thing the next right thing I'm gonna keep living life of long obedience in one direction So to me it was like this really doesn't change anything. I do It may change some things culturally maybe, but like you said, it's two years. He keeps got veto power. So I know all that. So I'm like, I don't know that a lot's going to change. There may not be as much moving forward as he had hoped, you know, in terms of what he wanted done. I don't think he's going to be a lame duck, but he, but within his power, you know, and with his purview, I think he'll continue to move forward. You know this the war different things have been a very high level distraction

20:01 I think to what they were trying to get done then the midterms Panic set in with the GOP. It's obvious because it's not often your president goes and campaigns for you in Texas Yeah, you know and although in fact maybe never in Texas because Texas has been so solid since 1988 and so So I noticed that and I thought boy, there's a lot of distraction on the agenda moving forward, and you could see and feel the loss of momentum over the last few months. Well, even the president stopped doing rallies. When that happened, I'm like, okay, he knows what's going to happen. He doesn't want any of that ick on him. He doesn't want to, you know, he's like, I'll just dial in on a Zoom call. Right, right. He kind of knew what was coming, I'm pretty sure. So all I had to say is I woke up this morning and said, I choose joy. I choose grace. I choose mercy. I'm not going to jump on and see what any of my friends are saying online. I can tell you what some of them probably are, but I'm not going to go down that road because my mentality is like, God's on the throne, man. God's in control. We keep doing what we do. And we stay vigilant. We continue to be salt and light. And our role as believers, as Christians, is indeed to speak. and be in some way the conscience of the nation in whatever nation we live in. It's always been that way historically. And so we continue to do that.

21:29 And I did look at some figures and I found some really interesting things about Gillespie County where we live. So this is for our home folks. This is actually some pretty, I think, good news. And it also tells me that we're doing our job here. All right. So Gillespie County stayed deep red. Listen to this. I had my bot do some deep dive on this. From the county's unofficial precinct report, the unofficial one, Paxton won about 73 % in Gillespie and Abbott about 76 % with a 66 % turnout. Now I read that and I go, we did our job here. We got people out to vote. We presented the issues as they are, our people are informed. Do you have turnout numbers? I don't yet because I was going to do that, but I think they're all in right now. They weren't this morning. To me, we did what we're supposed to do in our little neck of the woods, our corner of the woods. Now it's like, if everyone will do what they're supposed to do in their corner of the woods, we would see different outcomes.

22:31 But I'm totally trusting God on this. I love Isaiah 26. No, I have it right here. You have it? Well, you read it then. You got it there. Read it. the poor and oppressed trampled underfoot and the needy walk all over. This is what I wanted to finish it off with as a new believer. This is what is so amazing about trusting in God.

23:14 Because I know this is going to be a great two years for conservative keyboard warriors and podcasters. Because I was that guy, like, oh, this is all, here it comes. And every single thing is going to be over -analyzed. But you know what, it resulted in nothing. It's still the same, you know, in the pendulum swings, if anything. I don't know why, but I have this feeling that it actually might be a great two years. It's a funny feeling I have about that. I could be totally wrong, but man, I'm at peace. So I'm sorry I jumped in on your Isaiah 26 because that just hit me so hard yesterday. No, great minds think alike, right? I wrote a daily grind on it and I titled it, Perfect Peace in a Restless World. Because right now, I mean, the world's, and I wrote this before, obviously this had been a few days ago, and I want to share bits of it because I think it'll help people. Perfect peace.

24:15 Some days, most of us would settle for just a little imperfect peace. Imperfect peace. The prerequisite for perfect, which actually means whole or complete, is a mind that keeps God in the center based upon an unshakable trust. How's your trust quotient these days? The depth of your trust in God determines the depth of your peace. Keep your mind state on Him and enjoy the peace of God that passes or transcends all understanding. That line right there, that was like a totally God moment. The depth of your trust in God determines the depth of your peace. That's it. That's why you're feeling peace, because you are trusting your Father. You know, Igbok, it's that coffee mug from Franklin, Tennessee.

25:02 I saw it at Puckett's in Franklin and it's Igbok. And I remember seeing the coffee cup and going, Igbok, what is that? And in tiny print underneath it said, it's going to be okay. And that has just been something I've adopted as sort of just a slogan to say, you know what? God's in control. Now, a lot can happen underneath that large umbrella of control, right? He allows the free will of man. And there's also, I mean, there is a flip side to this whole coin, and it is that God will allow judgment. He will allow consequences. And it could be that some people are going to get what they voted for. Oh, well, and that would be a lesson we all got to learn. That's a part of the process. I do wonder, I'm kind of sharing your optimism right now because - Because it's contagious, brother. Hey, you're rubbing off on me. Well, I woke up that way. I woke up feeling good about things and going, okay, I'm pretty sure when I look at the news and really when I scroll social media, I'm going to be like, oh my gosh, hair on fire. So I haven't yet. I haven't even had a chance to get online because I've had meetings this morning. So, man, ignorance is bliss right now. I'm like, hey, it's all good.

26:24 But I'm not afraid, and it is because my trust quotient is high. And that gives me the peace that passes all understanding. And for any of our friends that are listening that are Christ curious, or maybe you're a believer, you've walked with God for a long time, but yet you're still getting rocked by all of this, just refuse to be unshakable. There was a great book, It turned into a series that Max Locato did years ago called Unshakeable Hope. It's just this mentality of when you have hope, which means a confident and joyful expectation of a desired good, that's literally by definition what it means. When you have that kind of hope, not just wishful thinking, you become impermeable and you become unshakeable.

27:10 You can be that way in the middle. When everybody else is screaming that the sky is falling, you can say, well, hey, God's got this. And it's not to live in denial. Real hope is confident and joyful expectation. Confident. That means you're sure that it's going to be good. You're sure the outcome. You may not know what the outcome is, but you know it's going to be good because it's God. And man, I tell you, Tina and I have both witnessed this so much in the past few months, certainly in the last week. I'm sorry, in Christianese, our season. Hey, I like that word. I know. It works. A lot of people are like, what's the season you're talking about? When you really, when you really give it to God and like, okay, God, this is not going my way, I give it to you. It's amazing how things spin in sometimes 30 minutes. Like what just happened? I gave it to God and then it changed. And then for me, the final, The final piece of Scripture, which is, I just love this one so much, 1 Thessalonians 4 .11, make it your ambition to lead a quiet life. You should mind your own business and work with your hands just as we told you. The natural tendency of the fallen in this world is to get busy, get yelling, get organizing. We got to do stuff. We got to talk

28:42 about it a lot. I hope everyone else feels this way. I hope everyone else sees that the sky is not falling. Texas has had a Democrat governor before, Anne Richardson. People liked her a lot. So I don't know about our new governor. I should probably start remembering her name, Gina. Hinojosa, I think it's Hinojosa. Hinojosa, yeah. Hinojosa, yeah. We'll see. We'll see how she does. And hallelujah. Hallelujah anyway. The Lord's got it all under control, everybody. All right, you tease you got one. Hey some cool things happening on Times Square I don't know if you saw this but the Bible becomes the main attraction from Times Square to Osaka Japan check this out So the Bible was the main attraction in New York's Times Square last night as large digital billboards Were lit up with messages from the you version Bible app All over, the whole thing. All on Times Square, cool. Similar Bible scenes were also on display in Piccadilly Circus in London and Osaka, Japan. Was that coordinated? Yes, it was coordinated through the U version. That thing is billions of downloads. It's amazing what they've done. They have over a billion, yeah. Amazing.

30:04 I've met the guy who did that. Just a super chill tech guy. Aren't they from a church that has a lot of… Oklahoma City. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Life Church. Life Church, yeah. Pastor Craig Rochelle. Other ministry partners were also featured like The Chosen and The Bible Recap. This event marks the start of Global Bible Month, a 30 -day challenge to encourage people to read scripture daily. And I want to encourage you, whether you're Christ curious or you've been in the Word your whole life, pick up your Bibles, put down your screens, and let's get in God's Word. Let's bring the book back out. I bought me a new Bible. I noticed you flaunting that. I like that because it's small. It's small and yet it's not micro print.

30:49 Yes, where'd you get it? I want that one. This one is the NIV Zonderfen. It's called the compact Bible with large print. Okay, and it goes that's not large and I'm like, it's like it's good to me. I think enough Yeah, that is exactly the size. I would want an IV version. I thought my backpack. That's why I wanted it My big Bibles are so heavy. Yeah, I wanted something I could so I'm keeping it. That's a beauty I'm bringing out the book man. The beauty the booklet check it out. You know, you can hold it Thank you. Ah, it feels yeah. It's nice, isn't it? So I encourage you if you're Christ curious You've been with Jesus for a long time or maybe not even stepping into that place yet. Man, go to online. On your phone, you can download the YouVersion Bible app. It's free. It has a jillion translations.

31:38 It's good stuff. Man, daily devotions. They have Bible plans, and I actually fired one up, which I really liked, which I recommend to people. Let me just find it here for a second. 30 famous Bible verses explained. Oh, nice. That's what I'm doing for this month. Oh, very cool. So one every single month. And it's some of the toppers, you know, it's like the greatest hits. That's great. And it gives you, you know, and these are usually really short, so you can kind of commit them to memory. And it's not like a really long devotional because I get kind of tied like I got to work on this devotional today. And so it's short and then it takes you into the scripture and you can read what comes before and after it. I really like that one because it's just those big, big Bible verses. Good stuff. I love it. Here's another resource. This is simple.

32:30 You don't need an app for it. Just get your Bible out. There are 31 Proverbs. And the Proverbs, if you read them in the New Living Translation, they absolutely make sense. And you can do one chapter a day, one proverb a day. So, it's just one chapter and that'll get you 30 days. So, join us and get on the 30 -day Bible reading. There's so many other opportunities to do that, but just I want to recommend if you're Christ curious and you don't have a Bible and you're wondering what… what translation? There's like a jillion of them. So let me just direct you to a couple that are very easy to read. And I'll give you just a little low level fly over what that is. I've got, I went ahead and picked up the new international version because it's, it's the best, one of the best, what's the, what's the word, not a compromise, but it's a, what it kind of is a compromise between scholarly you know, writing, but also conversational language.

33:25 So it's easy to read. It's very well recognized. It's very well used. So NIV, New International Version, you can get that one. Another one that's really good for reading in a more narrative style is the New Living Translation, which I highly recommend. I usually use a more scholarly, like the ESV, which is English Standard Version. and then I'll cross -reference it with the New Living Translation and go back and forth, or the NIV. I use all of those. So those are three that I would highly recommend. The English Standard Version, most scholarly. The in -between that's kind of a blend of scholarly and good narrative in colloquial modern language is the NIV. And then one that's really good if you're reading like the Old Testament stuff, passages and narrative things, the NLT, which is the New Living Translation.

34:15 That's what I read only. Yeah, that's great. I love it. I like that Baryon though. The Baryon. I like, why do I say this wrong? Berean. I don't know. Berean. Bereans were a group of people that were very much about, they sticklers for the law. They were sticklers for the scriptures. But it seems so easy to read. Yeah. It's probably, it's probably a more modern translation. Your friend probably used it because it's probably not copyrighted. I'm sure you can get access. Oh, no, of course. That's exactly why he used it. By the way, so Jonathan. Tell me about that. I was telling Brian about it this morning. I am beta testing his new app. It's really cool because you can, through email, you can request that someone join you for daily prayer. It helps you set up prayers for certain people. It'll remind you. It'll give you kind of like your prayer chain, your prayer list, which this morning popped up like, oh, wow. And it reminded me to pray for certain people. So you can really pray together. But much like, I think it's like K -Love on their app. You can say, hey, I need prayer and there's a map and you can see what.

35:28 people need prayer and you can let them know that you prayed for them. I love that. It's going to be so cool. Is this the one he's doing that you showed me? No, that was the secret one to take into any country you can cloak as a game. This one is purely so believers can work together and pray together. I'm helping him knock out all the bugs. I found a few already. But that's what I do. I'm good at breaking things. So I'm really excited about that. So as soon as that's available, I'll let everybody know. And that's only going to be on Android at this point? This, I mean, it takes a little bit with all the Vibe -coded apps these days. So on Android, you can.

36:13 It's called sideload. You can load any app you want on your phone without going to an app store. Apple doesn't have that availability, so he is going to make an Apple version, but it has to go through this process, and Apple has to bless it. They even look at things like, do you have the rights to these translations? All that kind of stuff. But I was really impressed. I like his work. I like the apps that he makes. And I've been using his Bible app, which right now... you can get that app as a what's called a PWA. So progressive web app. We'll put the link in the show notes. Cool. And then so it is basically like like a safari bookmark, only it's more of an app -like experience. Funny enough, it's what Steve Jobs originally envisioned. He never wanted an app store. He wanted it to be done in this manner so everybody could create an app simply.

37:07 Of course, it didn't work out that way. He died. People changed their minds. But it's good stuff he's doing. Has Jonathan developed a prayer app, like for a prayer list? I've been thinking about that because I've been thinking about either trying to vibe code one or have somebody do it that knows more about it than I would. This app has that prayer list in it and that's the whole point of the reminder. You can just put your own prayer list in there and it'll remind you. You can even set it for certain times of the day to remind you of a certain person. I do like that. It's really easy to navigate. Good. Jonathan, man, run that through the apple core. He was really excited that we talked about his... Holy moly! Holy cow! Yeah, we want to bless him. We want him to get that out there. nk .tools if you want to see all the stuff that he's done.

37:59 Very cool. Let me give you a more revival thing. Yeah, no, of course. Revival hits University of South Alabama, 596 people. Students decide to follow Jesus. Revival fires are still burning on America's college campuses. This week, thousands of students encountered the salvation message of Jesus Christ once again, thanks to the ministry of Unite U .S. Movement, which is a great student. They go to campus after campus and they're seeing thousands and thousands of people come. This time, nearly 600 young people pledged their lives to Christ on Tuesday night at the group's latest revival event. The Unite U .S. ministry tells CBN News that 52 people were baptized outside immediately afterwards. So man, God, Aslan is on a move on college campuses, brother. He is indeed. That's it for the revival report. Is that the revival report, Artif? Actually, there was something really cool as it comes to young people Gen Z. I want to play this clip that came in from CNBC, who of course review this as...

39:07 Financial news and stuff you can invest in but just the general idea at the or the the reporting itself was interesting This looks a little different from the usual Diplo crowd. Yeah that Diplo is a is like a DJ You know these DJs they make millions of dollars a year play all over play spin their records I'm sorry USB stick with mixes all over the world And they are kind of the new rock stars fits are more athletic The drinks include electrolytes, and the party, well, it starts with a five kilometer run. I don't want to spend the rest of my career playing to the night until four in the morning, five in the morning, sunrise until two p .m.

39:48 the next day. About 12 ,000 people paid as much as $250 to take part in Diplo's Run Club in Queens in late October. After the race, cold plunges, product samples, music, and a festival that still includes some guilty pleasures, like cocktails and beer. I'm Alex Herring and I cover economics at CNBC. I looked at the companies benefiting as young adults look for new ways to connect and build community. And I'm Brennan Gomez. I cover consumer health and wellness. I dug into the growing demand for organized sports among young adults. Diplo's push into the daytime party is part of a broader shift. Young adults are increasingly finding ways to socialize through running or strength races and recreational sports leagues, activities that put fitness and wellness at the center with a built -in community around them. So I like this because this is Gen Z. They're looking for connection. You know, all of the dating apps are literally financially crashing.

40:45 Those that are public are, you know, their stock is tanked as people are seeing that not only does it kind of not deliver the results they want, but they want real connection. So two things about this. One, here's where you can go and target them. If you're looking to making disciples out of people, they're out there. They're together. And guess what they're looking for? Community. That's amazing. And I see more and more opportunity for Christ -centered organizations of things. And I'm just excited about that. That's great. That the willingness is there, that they're already looking for it. And based upon your revival report, man, there's a lot of What should we call it?

41:32 Just, what is the word I'm looking for? Low hanging fruit. Low hanging fruit. That's what it is. I love that word. Low hanging fruit, yeah. So I'm excited about that. It's just, man, that's cool. Then it is true. Lauren reached out to me, my friend that I talked about. She said, thanks for the shout out and thanks for adopting me into your family. So I love Lauren. She's amazing. I can't wait for her to get back up here. Hopefully you guys are good to meet her next time. And I hope she'll bring some friends with her to the bridge and come see us, Lauren. Let me see, we got some other emails. Man, people are just, go to the sub stack, WGTDT .com. People are interacting so much. You know, I finally got my Jesus Is My Exit Strategy t -shirt in.

42:22 Okay, unless you want a collector's item, do not buy this. I'm gonna show you why, hold on. What is wrong with this t -shirt? It's way too low. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's not a good placement. It's not good placement. It's like the Jesus is my exit strategy is almost across my belly. Yeah, that's a little low there. Unless you want that collector's item, do not buy it. I will have the robot make. Tina's like, I guess you're not going to be much of a retailer, huh? That's a no. It's a first try. There's nine people who have it. They're probably like, this is great.

43:03 This morning, because it comes in folder like, oh, I'm so excited to put it. Oh, no. Completely, complete fail. T -shirt fail. So one other thing that people were really all in a tizzy about, just to show you the insanity. our world and the conspiracy theories. Goodness, I even posted, I think it's Isaiah, let me see, did I save that one? What is the, here it is, Isaiah 812. And we've done this one before, I think, on the podcast.

43:46 Don't call everything a conspiracy like they do and don't live in dread of what frightens them. So it was this Learjet 60, a horribly sad event. Yeah, terrible. But I just pulled a version of any random amount of people online and this is what you got. Because something was fishy here. Now watch this. The crash site is located roughly eight miles from President Donald Trump's Mar -a -Lago estate. Why is that an important detail? Why? Do you pay attention to the show? What did I cover the last episode what that they put air defense systems around Mar -a -Lago?

44:31 So this became the theme It was a missile it was a an assassination attempt, you know It wasn't even a plane that with the missiles they took out the actual plane missile that fell to the ground Yes, it was the best blow up the best kind of missile because it was you know was unintentional I know and stuff I could go into all the very technical details. And I was hoping you would talk about this, at least a little bit of the technical of what actually happened, how they do a stall at that level with the ice and all that. Yeah, this is the most important thing that people don't, it's also the terminology.

45:11 When you hear stall, you think about your car engine stalling and it just stops. The way an airplane flies is it has The wing goes through the air and the way the wing is shaped, it has upward pressure underneath the wing and downward pressure at the top of the wing and the angle of the wing and the actual physical shape of the wing is what creates lift. This is what, you know, the Wright brothers started, you know, in, oh, I should know the date, 19... It was seven? I think it was seven or eight. So that's what they figured out. You could do it, you know, just... with bicycle pedals almost, you didn't need much to get airborne. So any disturbance to the shape of that wing can cause what is called a stall. So the stall in this case means the wing no longer provides the lift to keep the aircraft in the air. Now, you have a stall speed, which is the speed that of the air flowing over the wing. That's not the forward speed over the ground. So if you have a headwind, which is why aircraft always try to take off into the wind and land into the wind. And it's nice if there's not lots of gusts because that determines the amount of lift. If that is removed for any matter, then your wing stalls and then you're basically

46:42 a flying brick. There's another type of stall, which is an overspeed stall. And if you go too fast, then the dynamics of the wing also stop providing lift. So in accidents in aviation, there's only three things. It's human factor, so pilot error, or you can say ATC error, but pilots can still do whatever they want. They're in charge up there. It's not like breaking the law if you say, no, no, I'm up here, you're down there, I'm doing this. Weather and mechanical.

47:23 So the one thing you learn about weather, and that's part of your pilot's license test, is you never, ever, ever go into a thunderstorm. I don't care where it is, because what's happening inside of that cell. In a small aircraft, you literally could be catapulted up like Dorothy, like the Wizard of Oz. There's massive updrafts in a thunderstorm. 10 ,000 feet, you could be thrown out of the top of that. You could also be slammed down. So really what, I mean, any type of clouds, if you can, you want to avoid it. Now, when you have clouds up that high, there's a lot going on. And this cloud cell, in about the span of a minute expanded from 35 ,000 feet to over 41 ,000. Wow, it was capping at 41. Yeah.

48:19 So any clouds even in the 30 ,000s is going to be associated with very active unstable air mass. That's, you know, every pilot knows this. Even if there's no precipitation, no rain or no hail. So you pay attention to icing conditions. Every 1 ,000 feet you go up, the temperature drops by two degrees. So where they were, they're like minus 47 degrees, which typically that's so cold that you can't even get ice on the wings because it freezes before it even hits the hits the wings. But again, in this situation, a lot was going on. So this is why we have anti -icing systems on aircraft. The anti -icing system on this particular aircraft, the Lear Jet 60, is bleed air from the engine, so you can keep your wings pretty hot. We don't know if they had their anti -icing system on before they went in, because you want to go in with hot wings. Unfortunately, The Learjet 60 is very unforgiving due to its wing design.

49:31 So it has that swept kind of cool looking one, but the wings are actually quite small. So in the situation where you may have icing on the wings, but also on the tail, which has... a number of very important pieces to it, mainly for your pitch control, the stabilizer or stab, as we call it, the instrumentation sensor. Well, that's a pitot tube. If you've ever seen an aircraft that has that little stick with a metal tube with a hole in it, you also have pitot heat. That should keep it free and clear, but you won't know what your airspeed is if that thing freezes over. Airspeed acknowledges everything in an aircraft, no matter where you are. So with this particular airplane, when you're in this type of condition, you are in a very narrow envelope of airspeed. And it's really crazy, especially with ice. You could drop by 20 knots and you would be in a stall by under speed, but you could go up by 20 knots and you could be in an overspeed stall. This is known of the Learjet. Not all planes have this very narrow band. They got themselves into what is probably the worst possible condition.

50:53 I would say that the general consensus amongst aviation, aviators, airmen, and people who have been in aviation is this was unfortunately a case of get -there -itis. Like I've got high -end passengers, they want to get to the Bahamas. They do not want to hear we're going to have to land, we're going to have to divert for an hour or whatever it is. Unfortunately, this happens. There's pilots who I have flown with who have died because of this. I just want to make sure I get my customer. Kobe Bryant, no matter what conspiracies you've heard, the evidence shows that they never should have done what they did.

51:38 They shouldn't even have taken off. But you've got Kobe Bryant and his whole family picking up other celebrities on the way. It happens in aviation. It's jokingly, but not really, we say, day wrecker. And this does happen. But there's no conspiracy theory to this. It's also, I wouldn't say that you should never again get on the Lear Jet 60. I mean, there's all kinds of ways of looking at it. This was just poor judgment, bad human factor impacted by weather. And once they got into that situation, pieces of the aircraft literally started coming off before they even hit the ground and they knew it. And that's the sad part. Of course, I listened to the, I'm sure you did. You probably didn't hear the audio.

52:28 It's tragic. It's heartbreaking. Although it is interesting to hear what we believe was the pilot in charge who was not, I think the woman was doing the, the young lady was doing the radio. So she was the first officer co -pilot. It sounded like he was praying the Lord's Prayer on the way down. So we're happy to know where he landed and we hope that other people did as well. But the conspiracies about missiles and other things. That started almost immediately. Of course. I was reading Sunday evening about it. I read what seemed to be a credible account, and by everything you just said, that was a credible account. Then the next one I read is this long account of all the missiles. They actually took them out in the air, and we blew them out of the sky, therefore they... No, they actually landed. They put them in a hangar, and they are crisis actors. Oh, okay. There's that. They're from Austin, and it was a young family with the kids and the nanny and two friends. Tech giant, tech guy, yeah.

53:37 I wasn't familiar with him. No one else that I know knew of him. Maybe a tech giant, but he's a tech guy. Yeah. Yeah. So it's just sad. And we pray for them, of course. Sad for the 20 -year -old co -pilot who's flown her whole life, and here she is caught in a perfect storm. Again, this is the risk you take. What wasn't big news was that 70 people who perished in the train crash in Spain. No conspiracy theories there. Blip on the radar. And it seems like a lot more people, they're all God's children, they all count, even though they speak French. So that is the world. To me, the train crash is scarier.

54:26 Can you imagine? And this thing was traveling. There were several Americans on that. Yeah, I don't know how many. I forget. I heard the number, but I can't remember what it was. But yeah, heartbreaking. It is. There are things happening around the world that are just heart -wrenching. The pastor that was killed in Nigeria and then 40 of the church members taken. I've not seen any resolution on that as well. So I mean, there are things that are happening that are just... hard, and we just call that emotional heavy lifting. It's just hard lifting, hard work. So, want to do some robot stuff? Let's do some robot stuff. Because the robots are coming for us. Five -year browser and device could be costing you more online. The federal government is now investigating nine major companies for surveillance pricing, where prices actually go up the more you search.

55:16 Fox 11's Christie Fajardo with the details. From airlines to ride shares, even groceries. Experts say powerful algorithms are tracking your every move, your location, even how many times you search an item can result in paying more. Now the Federal Trade Commission is demanding information into how several companies use consumer and workers information to set prices and compensation. It's a practice known as surveillance pricing. And a Fox 11 investigation last year found consumers already knew it was happening. the fact that we have all this information on us, on how we shop, what we do is very disconcerting. But it's everywhere, I think. I don't think there's any way to stop it. The FTC is now asking Delta, United Airlines, JetBlue, Walmart, Target, DoorDash, Instacart, Uber, and Lyft for data to assess whether their prices vary from person to person.

56:08 Our 2025 investigation found several instances where it did. Take a look. One lift ride ordered from the same location and at the same time was five dollars more on one phone. We also found the same hotel rooms listed at different rates on different devices. But the feds are also looking at whether gig workers pay is varying depending on their data. I love the depending on your device. I guarantee you if you use an iPhone, your price is going to be higher in some cases. I guarantee you. Wow. So. This is good that the FTC is doing an investigation. I am so excited for the world that we're going into. I am so excited when our personalized robots are going to be negotiating on our behalf, arbitraging on our behalf. This is going to be such a golden age, what a golden time. as an optimist, I am predicting actually the end of the big social networks. We all have the ability to easily create our own social network, however we want it to work. Your algorithm will not be determined in the cloud by a machine or political motives. It'll be the algorithm that is based upon who you are, what you like, and you'll be able to adjust it and change it. And so for today, If you're using grokbot or dots,

57:42 dots, dots bots, Muse is still my favorite. Holy, holy macro brother. I downloaded it yesterday. Tina is off to the races. Oh, I know. She's like talking all the time. Off to the races. Voice command central. She is doing stuff. She is creating stuff. She did a reel for Curry and the Keeper. excuse me, with her Muse robot. She's going to be doing reels for We Get To Do This. It's great. And she's like, you were right. What? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Let me check my ears. What did you say? So what I want to say is that at Muse as well, you can ask your robot, give me your file on me. Give me your file. It's called the soul, which I can't help that. It's just weird. Yeah, it is. Give me your soul file. You can look at it. It's everything that this robot believes it is for you, and you can change it. You can edit that, and you can change it if there's certain behaviors you don't like. If, you know, pull up, give me what you got on Pastor Jimmy. and it'll show things like, yeah, no, I want you to, let's add this. You can change those little things to tweak your own algorithm and the results are astounding. Wow. The Google is no longer the predominant search engine. Search is being

59:12 done by your robot online, by alternative search sources. You can direct it towards what you want. you are in much more control than you think. And what is going to come out of this, I just see a golden age, a complete reversal of tech companies telling you what you can see, how you can see it, how the software you want is supposed to work, how your podcasts are recommended, podcastindexrobot .com. put that into your muse, into your grokbot, put it into your chat GPT, tell it you want it to start thinking about podcasts that you like or you'd be interested in or appropriate for your travel time. It's going to change everything.

1:00:01 I don't think we'll have just a couple of huge big media properties anymore. I know I'm usually 10 years ahead. But I think maybe now it's a little less. It's a little closer than we all thought. And even though we're seeing these so -called frontier models from trillion dollar valued companies, my belief is that it really is going to be on your own device, within your own control, and will likely have no additional cost. That is where it is going to go. Wow. I love it. I downloaded it last night. I'm just using it right now as you're talking because I was answering a question you brought up earlier about our registered voters for Gillespie County stats. And I was able to do that in a second.

1:00:50 It's right there. And so I like it. I actually told Annette, I think I'm going to drop Grokbot because I don't need it now. I think I'm going to stick with amuse. You can set up different chats with it and you can have a chat that is just for one particular topic or one exercise. meeting you over here, you got your main, but I was, it has a whole section on ideas where it will take you through what it can do and what, and it's just one after another. I was looking at all that going, wow. Yeah, it's the connectors. This is, so the big difference between the early chat bots and what these, and I'll just continue to call them robots. And what these robots are is the tool calls. So instead, you know, it used to be, you would say, tell me, give me information on X, Y, or Z. And it would probably say, well, I don't have any information after 2024, because that was I was trained on. So that is now gone.

1:01:46 Now it's really just interpreting what you're saying, what it predicts you mean, and then what its prediction is going to be coming back. So they've taught a child to comprehend and read and be able to write. But the tool calls are what's impressive. So they're called connectors in most cases. So you can connect your calendar. You can connect your email. I have mine currently connected to my notifications. Now it cannot because there's permissions there. I like the permission structure of Muse because it doesn't just do stuff. It has to have explicit instruction or you can do that per. per time. So it is looking at my notifications and it'll see text messages, signal messages, even notifications for a bank app, all kinds of that. And it'll say, hey, this is what I'm seeing. I don't have access to that, but it looks like you might want to check that out. It'll remind me later. It can draft text messages, which I can then approve, which I don't mind writing a text message. It actually does better spelling and grammar than I do, as you know. But I still give you the real deal, brother.

1:03:02 Oh, brother, I get it. I get the uncorrected versions. You know, calendar scheduling. I have my work email for Godcast connected to it so it alerts me of important things and customers who need certain things. It's the connectors that really make it work. So it is working on your behalf. And I told Tina yesterday, I had this fantastic executive assistant when I had my company, Thinking Ideas, Barry. And Barry, you could say, oh, Barry, man, figure out when I can do this. Can you swap some things around? And so the robot understands those commands and it's really helping me get things done. My passport's been renewed. I'm getting my hair cut on Friday.

1:03:46 I mean, all these things would just slip my mind because I'm doing other things and then, you know, yeah, I got to do that. It's really working so well at managing things. And so the more familiar people get with it now, the more you're going to enjoy being able to use it down the road when capabilities improve. It's amazing. I'm blown away by it all. In fact, when I'm going through all the ideas, it will do so many different things. You can set up goals. There's very things. It'll get into health and fitness. It can track all of that. It can find better deals for your electric bill, your cell phone bill, your shopping online.

1:04:28 It can go give you different ideas. I'm going to be looking for potentially a new guitar at some point and I'll just get it. I'll send it out there and get the best price. I mean, it's amazing. It'll do all that. I mean, it does so much. I'm looking at all the ideas. flag a pothole or busted street light. Yeah. Who doesn't need that? Yeah. And then it'll send off the communication to the right department. I know it's crazy. Which of course means, you know, those departments are going to have to start managing the incoming stuff as well. No kidding. Listen to this one. Snap a picture of what's broken. I'll find the part you need and order it for you. Like what?

1:05:10 Yeah. This is genius. Once you kind of understand it and what you can do, then your imagination is really the only limitation. Yeah, it really is. I'm excited about diving into this. I resisted because I'd already did the grok bots and had them set up. But then the more you talked about it and then Tina was talking about, I thought, I'm going to at least check it out. And so I did this last night while we were just sitting in the living room. And I was like, this is amazing. And I think it's a higher degree of user friendly. It's a high user friendly level. Facebook friendly. It's real set up for that. I mean, it's set up for anybody to use. which I, you know, oh, I checked my context. You know, we were talking about that. I've like used 3 % of what's allowed.

1:05:59 I mean, I use nothing because I'm not coding. I'm not doing anything elaborate. And so I'm like, I'm paying X amount of money for grok when I could do this for free. Eventually it's all going to be virtually free. Oh, really? Okay. I thought you were going to say it's going to cost you. No, no, because it will be running on your device. And it will be open source. It will be, which means there's no hidden tricks or gimmicks in there. You will have complete control over the genies out of the bag that as we've talked about, that is why they're fear mongering. Like we need, we need regulation around this. We can't have people using the open, the open source models. China's probably in it. No, I got news for you. It's not. When it's open, it's open. And that's why just like open source of that PHP vulnerability, you know, when something's out there, everybody knows, we go to work, we patch it, we're safe again. And that, it's always going to win. But we've been forced into this convenience over the years. And don't worry, the app store will keep you safe. It doesn't.

1:07:10 The app store, everything's spying on you. So the further we get, the more control we will have. And man, that's going to be a democratization of our lives that we haven't even. Decentralization. That's what's going to be so good about that for us. It may hurt your stock portfolio if you're invested in Microsoft. Sorry. There you go. Too bad. Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff, brother. I'm loving it. Just one final thing. I won't go into too much detail, but people often witness spiritual attack and demonic attack. And as you know, I was in a conflict the past season, and in the last week, I really saw God working in that conflict, and really God just spread so much favor on us.

1:08:02 And then just as we were taking a breath, all of a sudden, like this lashing out, this attack came. And I even discussed it with you, and you said, well, you know, 43 years of being a pastor, this is the voice of the enemy. And all I could think was, is that all he's got? And I say this to let people know, from my experience, He the enemy may come across as big and powerful, but he's not He is so weak once you rebuke him to me. It's like really That's that's the all the Satan. That's the devil who is who is you know is the problem like no beaten Down done. It was an eye -opener for me how weak the enemy truly was at the end of the battle. I love what you're saying here because this is something that people don't understand is that when Jesus said it is finished on the cross to tell us I He meant it.

1:09:16 So when Jesus died on the cross, he paid the price. He paid the penalty for sin. That's what he did. He shed his blood and he had his body pierced. He and then he died and then he was resurrected. And in doing so, he completely detoothed and defanged the enemy. He took the keys of the kingdom away from him. Because remember, he had free reign on the earth. He was cast down to the earth. And so he was like, large and in charge, prince of the power of the air, you know, I mean, all this different stuff. And so Jesus took care of that on the cross. That's what the cross was all about. It was paying the penalty for our sin, but defeating sin ultimately. And so it's interesting how the scripture calls the enemy a liar and the father of it. And it talks in terms of, he says he was a murderer from the beginning, so he gives his MO, a liar and the father of it. So he was a murderer, a liar, and the father of lies, manipulator. you're in, whether it's a conversation or a conflict, or it doesn't even have to be something nefarious, but you sense something. You sense you're being herded, guided, maneuvered. We call that manipulation, right? There's benevolent manipulation. That's what parents do to their children, hopefully, to get them to do things. Teach them. Yeah, yeah.

1:10:44 It's benevolent manipulation. Then there is nefarious and dark manipulation that that the author of that, the source of that, is the enemy. After you walk with the Lord for a certain length of time, you will start to recognize not only the voice of your Father, but you will recognize the voice of the enemy too. But that happens over time, and it happens with experience, and it happens with battles fought and lost. You know, skirmishes, so to speak. though Jesus won the war, we still have to enforce what He won. We're like the police. We have to enforce the law in a good sense. What you experience, man, it's heavy lifting and it's exhausting. It's emotionally taxing, which taxes your physical body too. You'll feel the weight of it. You'll feel like you've been at the gym pumping iron.

1:11:43 It's like, what is man? I feel like I've been in a fight. Well, you have. And the enemy's smart. He's had eons of time to dissect us, watch us, play with us, experiment with us. He's seen rise and fall of kings and empires and power and he's seen it all, been the author of much of it. So he knows human nature very well. That's why I don't pick fights with him. Even though I know he's one, he's still tough. It's like a snake. You can cut the head off, but that head can still bite. You know what I'm saying? So it's not, I don't go around talking trash on the enemy.

1:12:23 I've just recognized that he is, though he has been defeated, he still has fangs. Thank you. That's a good warning for me. That's a very good point. I was just, at that moment I was - No, you're realizing something. Yeah. I was like, oh, okay. You can't hurt me. Now, will he try again? Of course. every single day with temptation and all these different things. But it was a true victory for the Lord, and I felt it. John Eldridge had a thing about that last week. I think I might have mentioned it, where he talked about there's a dark wave kind of coming across the world right now, like a spiritual dark wave.

1:13:06 And he said, but you have a choice." He said, when it comes knocking at your door, you don't have to let it in. I love that sense of, yeah, we don't have to take everything that comes at us. We can say, not today, Satan. Not here. Not on my watch. Get thee behind me. Jesus dealt with demonic forces very directly, very intentionally. He did it with the power of words. He told them where to go. You can too. That's the beauty of it. And be very careful online. I'll just say that. Be very careful. That's where he likes to hang out. Indeed he does. And he's got a lot of invisible followers, but he's out there. He is out there. And he can be subtle or he can be right in your face. The subtlety is tricky.

1:13:56 I pulled up one of my social media and it said, oh, you've been tagged in a post. I went, oh, what is this? And I didn't recognize the name. I clicked on it. And it was a lady who had reposted my sermon clip from the other day and all she wrote was, not impressed. I'm like, who are you? But what was interesting, that was my third response or second. My first response was, oh, ouch, man, why is she picking on me? I could feel myself drift for a minute. And down into, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop. I'm not letting this in the door.

1:14:37 Were you getting close to that reply button? Yeah, you can feel it. Well, no, I tend to not. I'm a pauser. I've learned the hard way not to bite back. You just feed the enemy when you do that. There's your temptation right there. Yeah, it is. Same thing when your keyboard's there calling your name, going, oh, say something. Just say something. And the answer's no. But brother, I'm glad you won the fight of the battle. Thank you for walking with us on that one. So, we have some people to thank, WGTDTdonations .com, which I will update today to reflect our new levels, which is really cool. We've decided to go with the whole armor of God, and since Get To Nation is clearly part of the army of God, We've decided that people always want recognition, want to commemorate something when they support a show. That's part of what value for value is.

1:15:39 This is what I've learned over 20 years. In case you hadn't noticed, there were no ads. There's no mattresses you can buy. There was no healthy supplements that you heard an ad for. No survival packages. We do have those t -shirts that are misprinted. Although that's not - They're great stocking stuffers. Yeah, we're working on it. So if you go to WGTDT .com, you can already see the beginnings of what we're going to be doing. to recognize people who've supported us. And this is cumulatively. I learned this with no agenda. People do this over weeks and months and years and decades. So it's not like you have to be a rich person to support us. $5 a month.

1:16:26 I know many people who've supported my shows. $5 a month. If you reach $1 ,000, then you will be cut. First, we're going to give you a title in God's Army, which would be Lieutenant Colonel. And we're just following the Air Force, Space Force, Army, I believe Marines as well. So the levels per time that you reach that, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier General. major general, lieutenant general, and general. And after that, we can only just give you stars. And I'll come and cook for you. But each one we've associated a challenge coin with. Challenge coins are fun.

1:17:08 Everybody loves a challenge coin. I love challenge coins. And I always have one with me. And there is a tradition amongst military, the coin check. And so if someone says, hey, do you have your challenge coin from that you know, that challenge coin we both should be carrying with us. And if you don't have it on you, then you got to buy a round. But we've done it in the order of the whole armor of God. So the first one for all lieutenant colonels, and we have people who are like $50 away from a couple who already are lieutenant colonels. We're going to be announcing those on the next show. You'll get the belt of truth challenge coin. And then after that, the colonels will receive the breastplate of righteousness. Brigadier generals get the feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel shoes or the sandals.

1:17:54 Then the Major General, the Shield of Faith, Lieutenant General, the Helmet of Salvation, and finally, of course, the Sword of the Spirit, then it's a general. With the first one, though, you'll get the wooden stand so you can place them in there and that'll fit six perfectly. I love it. I'm excited. I'm pumped about it. Yeah. So the first ones have already been ordered. I saw the draft. I love them. They're going to look great. Tina's been going back and forth with the factory. First, you have to pay for a mold. So, you know, there's some expenses. Yeah, you got to design them. Yeah, you got to do all that. And I'm just excited. Me too. And I know a lot of people are looking forward to something that's, hey, what are your levels going to be like? We weren't going to do no agenda.

1:18:36 But we had some good suggestions. Lots of suggestions. That was cool to hear. We thought this was kind of the easiest and the most apparent for us. So today, though, we want to thank people who supported us, starting off with Julie Herbert. who goes to our church. She does finances over at Harvard's Project Texas. We're doing a Christmas market this year in addition to a concert. So very excited about what they're doing. Yeah, she's amazing. And support that as well. But Julie. I see her every Sunday morning. She always has a fun word to say. And she said, sorry, I haven't donated. So what are you talking about, Julie? I'd like to do it quarterly. You got it.

1:19:17 So she sent us $250. Beautiful. Thank you so much, Julie. We appreciate that. Absolutely. All right. And then from Bull Verde, Texas, that's not too far from here. $144 from Paul Laster. He says, hi, Adam. After hearing the big update on No Agenda Show 1912, I'm excited to move our family support to this new endeavor for the kingdom. What an amazing run it has been and No Agenda has been such a blessing to my life and that community. Adam, we first met during COVID when my family brought you and Tina eggs from our small farm. Don't you love farmers and fresh eggs? Nothing like it. You and Tina got to meet the whole family. And while you were talking to the kids, I spoke to Tina about the changes I had heard in you on the show. Did they see you downtown or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:20:02 I remember this. It was like an illegal egg. It was when eggs were unavailable. An egg exchange. Yeah, a little covert. I remember this. This is cool. Paul Laster. I love this. He said, about the changes I'd heard in you on the show, she told my wife Melissa and I about your faith journey and that you were about to go public with your faith. I believe this was right before the Rogan experience. It's been a real honor to watch your faith journey unfold. I'm excited to see what God has planned for you next. You're right about… You're right about the battle being between spiritual good and evil. As it says in Ephesians 6, our war is against spiritual forces in heavenly and the high places. My son Josiah, who you met in Fredericksburg, is graduating from our Hill Country Christian Home School Co -op in May. And I wanted to see if you may be interested or available to give the commencement speech. Oh, I'd be honored to do that. Brother, that's cool. I hadn't even read that part yet. That's really cool. Of course, I'd love to. I think that group of kids and families would be so inspired by your story and faith journey. About five years ago, I felt led to start a publicly -based outdoor skills group for the young men in the homeschool co -op. We call it the Green River Boys. And we've been going strong with camps and monthly events since 2001. And this has continued here. There's a little bit. Oh, I just blew this whole thing up. And now it's small. You got it? Yeah. Go ahead. Since 2021, this year, many of the kids that started in that program will be graduating, starting the next phase of their lives. Hopefully some of the principles they've learned will serve them on their journey to adulthood. What a blessing.

1:21:30 He says he really appreciates Pastor Jimmy's words on the ebb and flow of different seasons in our faith. It sure is easy to get caught up in the muck and mud sometimes. Take care, God bless. Paul Laster, known in the No Agenda world as Black Knight Sir Lastro and family. And he sent us $144. Thank you so much, Paul. Douglas Engstrom from Sandy Lake, Pennsylvania, $100. He says, you're spearheading a renewing of the biblical Christian. In recent times, soft men and charlatans have donned the title of pastor, teacher, prophet, or apostle. Keep drawing the swords, Matthew 10 .34. All right, that's cool. $100 from Tyler Cichowicz. And no note with that, but thank you, Tyler. Free state financial planning, LLC. With a long note, but we'll cut it down some. $99 from Clarksville, Maryland. I think he has a name somewhere, but I don't see his name. Oh, it's JB. There we go. Viscount JB.

1:22:37 Adam and Pastor Jimmy, I'm a long time no agenda producer. I've been listening to, we get to do this pod. Thank you for the last 10 episodes or so. Adam, you and JCD kept my thinking clear the last 16 years. I truly appreciate everything you did for the No Agenda community. I want to let you know the people I hit in the mouth have been in mourning and how much of an impact you had on them. I'm truly sorry to see No Agenda go away, but... All caps. I'm excited to see what you both are building now. What I truly appreciate about WGTDT is that it has such a positive message that helps me stay grounded and focus on what really matters. All glory to God. I was raised Catholic and now a Lutheran, so I have a more traditional church background, but really appreciate everything you were doing.

1:23:18 Finally, Adam and Pastor Jimmy, if you need any financial planning help, happy to help you both pro bono. Oh, that's beautiful. It is the one thing beyond money I can provide is value to you both. And let's see, he is at freestatefp .com, freestatefpforfinancialplanning .com. Your money, your values, my advice. Thank you, JB. Appreciate it. All right. 7777, I love these. Dame Teresa Martin. And she says, Dear Adam and Jimmy, in the morning and thank you for your courage. Appreciate that. Men of God, your ministry of true telling is so very vital. Do not grow weary in well -doing. You shall reap if you faint not. Onward in these last days until we see King Jesus coming on the clouds." Dame Teresa Martin.

1:24:07 Man, she's preaching there. That's good. Yeah, she sent a check into the P .O. box with a written note, which I had transcribed. I love the handwritten notes. That's beautiful. Thank you, Dame Teresa. Darren Wilson in San Diego also sent $77 .77, and he sent us a jingle which... shut up slave with Christ. I listen to it, and I'm like, eh, it means a little work, but I appreciate it. And he says, Galatians 1 .10. I don't have that one memorized. I'm going to have that translated for next time. But thank you very much, Darren. Appreciate it. That's great. And then a dear friend, man, we love Steve Weiss. He's from Las Vegas, Nevada. And he's touring around with Lyle Lovett right now. You can read the first part.

1:24:53 The robot said do not read on air, but the first part. you can do. Greetings from the road. Okay, got it. Greetings from the road. Our tour rolls into Texas later this month. Can't wait to get to what's fast becoming one of my favorite places. And while Adam's Christian road travel has been an inspiration, the keeper must always be remembered as helping us get back on the road as well. She was a great spark. Blessings to you both, men. To you, man. Both you, man. There it is. And thank you for the continuing work, Steve. Yeah. So they'll be through again. We can have a dinner. Yeah. We had great just stakes with them and great conversation. $66 from Frode K, I believe.

1:25:36 F -R -O -D -E, Frode K. In the evening, Pastor Jimmy, Mr. Adam. I cannot remember when I first heard about the No Agenda Show, but I started listening during the Scandemic. I have to admit it was not my cup of tea and I just did not get it at the start. Well, I found the tone a bit too nasty at times, truth. Despite this, I kept listening. The show grew on me. So when John passed, I got quite sad like so many others experiencing all the evil in this world that happened during the so -called COVID pandemic. I started looking for truth. I realized that this was not just people against the UN, the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organization, the Bilderbergs and what have you got. This was deeper. My eyes were opened, and it became clear to me that we are in a massive spiritual battle on so many levels. This is good versus evil. This is light versus darkness. It's all around us. It was an ongoing process for several years, but in 2024, I was baptized in a river in a rainforest in Panama. Okay. That's cool. That's very cool.

1:26:38 Not that it was easy to follow the narrow path, but I have to admit that it feels pretty awesome to be on Team God. As well, I am happy for you, Brother Adam, and what a blessing that you met Pastor Jimmy and started this show. Finally, I can make a donation that feels right, the amount of $66, $1 for every book in the Bible. If I make another donation, I will also tell you guys and the listeners about a book I have written. And he ends with John 8 .32, and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Thank you very much, Frode. Appreciate it. Thanks, Frode. All right, $51 .99. No note from Ryan Albritton. The ex -Vermonters sent us $50. Thank you. And $50 from Eagle River, Arkansas, Robert Rock. Thank you, Robert. Wow. Why don't you just do these 50s passage immediately? I'll roll through these, $50. Okay, this is Jose Aponte, Denton, Texas. I know Denton. Marion Roman O 'Brien, East Hampton, New York, $50. Ryan Albritton, Greenville, North Carolina, $50. Kyle Perica, Piscataway, New Jersey. I hope I got that close.

1:27:42 Yeah, very close. Justin Zietzer, Batavia, Ohio, $50. Linda Oh, I remember Linda. Yes. Castle Rock, Colorado, $50. Let me just say Linda Lupatkin, imagemakersinc .com. There it is. Imagemakersincwithk .com for all your winning resumes. Excellent. All right. I'll do this and then you can do the reader. Yep. Sean F. Roney, $33 .33. Love it. Timothy Houtner, $21 .10. And there's Daniel J. Lewis, who was part of the podcasting 2 .0 band of misfits. We have actually helped you... get modern podcast apps and all kinds of great features in your legacy apps like transcripts and chapters. He sends 1776. I wonder if there's a message there from Burlington, Kentucky. Now, he's been in my life for a while. He says, I was sad about my first Sunday without no agenda in years, but that last episode was a beautiful tribute to the show, Adam and John and all the producers. I kept having to remind myself that I still get to listen to Adam here with Pastor Jimmy. 1776 is my favorite number, not just because of American liberty, but because of the liberty we have in Jesus, Galatians 5, 1. Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and Luke 4, 16 to 21. I built two apps to help podcasters, podgagement .com for tracking ratings, reviews, rankings, podcast network, podcast SEO and downloads, and podchapters .com to transcribe and chat to your podcast episode

1:29:14 in seconds. Adam, I've always wanted to ask for a special new karma on no agenda for my podcasting endeavors, but I'd actually rather combine it with prayers. So can you make it a new podcasting prayers jingle? Well, I do have what I do have for you. is this. Of course I have this. You've got prayers. So I think that should become a - It's actually very cool. Yeah, I'm going to put that one into the list. I like it. So we have that for future people who want it. Nice. Thank you, Daniel J. Lewis from Cincinnati Faithfully. He is of course a Hall of Fame podcaster, our Daniel J. Lewis. Thank you very much, brother.

1:29:59 Appreciate it. Very cool. Also, we have Lindsey Carson, $12 .34. Gratitude donation, previously explained in my first donation. I see one, two, three, four on the clock almost every day and use the prompt to say a quick prayer of gratitude. That's very cool. That is good. I see four, four, four, four. Eleven, eleven. I call them out. It drives the net nuts. Ten, ten. I call them out on the hour. She's like, really? Yeah. I think it's cool. That is a good way. I was seeing 11 11 for a lot that was some period in my life. It's crazy how that works. Yeah, it is Two donations of ten dollars and eighty cents one from Tristan Murray one from Eric Gibbs Thank you both very much ten dollars Cypress, Texas Zach Hanna Former no agenda listener. Love the show. Thanks Zach ten dollars from Jacques de Lille. I believe in Georgia Thank you very much and somebody from Collierville, Tennessee Mike original Mike I just asked for Collier beer. I know where that is You used to live around them parts. Let me see. We have Anthony Magner with $8 .74, Morgan Medlock with $7 .77. And then we have $5 .65, which I think is $5 in fees from Dustin Persec, Josh Pointer and Michael Hall. And then Michael Mason comes in with $5 .10. and says, this week I donate $5 .10 for Romans 5 .1. And here it is. Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord

1:31:30 Jesus Christ. And he says, please check out towardchrist .com. While it's free, use promo code MANUCAGOLDHONEY. I like Manuca Gold Honey. All right. We'll check it out, Michael. Thank you. From Carol Tindall, we have Tindall. Charlotte, North Carolina, $5, long time No Agenda producer. Love this show. God bless you both. God bless you, Carol. And Nicholas Stark, $5. And he has a note, Adam and Pastor Jimmy. Yo -ho, yo -ho, and hallelujah. There it is. In the spirit of JCD, short notes save lives. This one does not. Please do not feel obliged to read this note on the podcast. Let me see. He gives us a whole background of when he started to listening to No Agenda. And he says, this week I'm back in Arlington for the first time since I moved. One thing is clear to me, I'm at peace with being gone. I guess he was wherever he was. I'm not at peace out of disdain for that time in my life. I'm at peace exactly because I love that time in my life.

1:32:31 How fitting is it the same week I'm looking back at a closed door, the No Agenda show also ended. While it makes me sad the show ended, it reminds me of the tremendous value it provided in shaping who I am. Even more so as you, Adam, move into the next chapter, it reminds me of how much WGTDT is shaping who I am becoming. I'm extremely grateful for you and Pastor Jimmy and the Kingdom work God is letting you do. Your Kingdom work is inspiring to do greater Kingdom work myself. God bless Nick Stark, Grant Pass, Oregon, not a spook. Check out my website, oregonfreedom .com. Thank you very much, Nick. That's great. We have Sir Cascadia, $5. Hi, Adam and Pastor Jimmy. Here's a note, copy for the show. Hi, Adam and Pastor Jimmy, endures of WGTDT Nation. Please accept my $5 donation to the offering plate as a gesture of my gratitude and as fuel to fortify your souls with God's Spirit. Also, I just finished the book of Isaiah. and have completed 50 % of the Bible, a new record. Congratulations, Sir Cascadia of Oregon. a reason for it. Dear Adam and Pastor Jimmy, thank you for your courage, and I pray for your continued success as you focus your efforts on WGTDT moving forward. Adam, your final Noagena episode was as touching to me as the JCD Memorial episodes. You and Pastor Jimmy are following a crystal clear path with Christ as

1:34:02 your lantern, and may God bless your ministry. Colossians 3 23 and in the old school and whatever you do do it hardly as to the Lord and not unto men Owen from Australia Thank you down under right and Dwayne Spelman always $1 .53 and we thank him and thank everybody who supported us also You can support us other ways with value. We love the notes. You're sending us the ideas you send us We read them all I think we respond to as many as we can we have appreciate it. Also just telling people about the podcast is incredibly helpful. So God bless you all and thank you.

1:34:42 WGTDTdonations .com. Hey, you might just explain what hit them in the mouth means. There may be some listeners who've jumped on and they're not from no agenda nation. And so I say that and people look at me like, you did what? You know, I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm actually trying to see if I can find the original jingle. Oh. So early on in no agenda. Is it family friendly? No, it's family friendly. Let me see if I can just find it. I wouldn't play something that isn't family. So I don't have it handy. Another time? We were talking about how people could support us and there was this, I don't know which coach, a famous football coach, and he said, here's what we do.

1:35:33 We go out and we hit them in the mouth. And that just became a thing that we would say and I'll bring it for the next show because we had a jingle boom -boom Our formula is this we go out we hit him in the mouth So that just means you're making someone aware of the podcast and especially funny because I am NOT mr. Sports ball You know, so but that was a football coach who said that I'm like, you know ABC's game of the week or whatever and that just became a thing. I love it I love it go and hit so it's It's a metaphor, people. You don't actually need to go hit people in and out. It just means you're sharing the good news. Yes, but telling them about what's going on is always good. You want to close this out, brother?

1:36:13 Yeah. So Pastor Brian and I met this morning. We were talking about the midterm election, people being spun up, and he just said, you know, he said, we got to get people back in the book. He said, all this has done for me is make me more determined, more aware to get people more grounded. so when the winds blow, they may be bent, but they won't be broken. And I said, man, I just wrote a daily grind on that called guardrails for the journey. So here's today's daily grind. The scripture is Psalms 119 verse 11. Your word I have hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you. You're looking at me interestingly. Well, I've read this one. Okay. I'm waiting for you to bring it home. So here it is, guardrails for the journey. After saying yes to Jesus at the age of 18, I quickly developed a passion for God's Word, the Bible. The first verse I memorized was Psalm 119 verse 11, and it has been an anchor for 46 years and counting. The psalmist understood that guardrails were needed to keep him in the center of God's path. Truth is, we need those same guardrails for our journey too. God's Word deposited in our hearts has the ability to free us, keep us, guide us, and deliver us today. Take time to be in God's Word. Don't try to read long passages. Take one verse and meditate on it throughout the day. And pray this, Father, my heart is to return to your Word and let it produce guardrails to guide and protect me on the journey. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.

1:37:47 And we will be back on Monday. Is it next week? Monday for our first of two a week. Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo!