The Things That No One Sees That Lead To The Results Everyone Wants

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:05.839 That sounds like something I wanted to do. Sign me up. So probably 2 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:11.439 we're going to lose some volunteers over making this point, but the best counselors 3 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:16.320 are the ones that just say, no matter what, three of the most 4 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:21.719 scary words on earth. Yeah, I will do it, no matter what. 5 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:27.879 I Am Yours, I am yours, I am yours, and me 6 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:33.880 Lord, I am yours, I am yours. I'm welcome to the Gospel 7 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:39.560 Center Pro Life Podcast, a podcast designed to equip, encourage and challenge you 8 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:43.399 in pro life ministry, and always with a focus on the Gospel. Stay 9 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:57.600 tuned. I felt show passish touchs your home. Use Me. Hey there 10 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:02.719 everyone, welcome to the Gospel centered pro life podcast. I'm Vicky Kazier and 11 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:07.680 I'm here with Daniel Parks. We're here in Charlotte and we are and we 12 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:17.599 try to equip and encourage people interested or currently doing sidewalk outreach. Like many 13 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:21.159 of the podcasts we've done in the past. We've been doing this about two 14 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:23.959 years, I guess, maybe a little longer now, and like many of 15 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:29.760 these these podcast are they they come out of real life situations that we faced 16 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:34.120 or questions that people working on the sidewalk have asked. This one came out 17 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:38.879 of a little bit of a different source, but I it is being applied 18 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:44.359 to sidewalk counseling. But it was from a podcast I listened to on leadership. 19 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:47.599 Yeah, and it was I don't remember the woman's lame name, but 20 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:57.200 someone that was interviewed and asked about some of her things that she's learned as 21 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:01.879 she became a billionaire. Yeah, when she sold a small business that she 22 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:07.439 started that grew into a huge business and she sold it to Lori l I 23 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:13.280 think, for a billion dollars. So this episode is going to help encourage 24 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:19.879 you guys to be billionaires. So how I wish so. That definitely means 25 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:23.280 that you guys need to share this podcast with people and you need to leave 26 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:27.800 us a review. We often beg you guys to do leave us a review. 27 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:31.199 But with this episode, as with some of our others, we're going 28 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:36.960 to be talking more kind of in a philosophical realm, I guess, and 29 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:39.479 some of our podcast episodes were speaking more in the practical realm, like how 30 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:45.560 to do certain things. This is more behind the scenes, more of like 31 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:50.759 our mentality, things like that, and the title of this episode's The things 32 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:54.120 that no one sees that lead to what everyone wants. So, in her 33 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:58.319 case, everyone wants to be a billionaire, right, yeah, and I'm 34 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:01.479 sure you guys are listening want to be billionaires as well. But unfortunately, 35 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:07.039 allowed to you earlier, we are not going to teach how to be billionaires. 36 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:08.159 We but if we could, we would, if we could. But 37 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:13.199 what we do know is we do know how to effectively reach out out abortion 38 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:15.719 centers and see baby saved. Right, we've seen baby saved over the years. 39 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:21.159 We've seen, I mean at this point, thousands, maybe five or 40 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:23.800 six thousand babies that have been saved, yeah, through what was previously cities 41 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:29.879 for life and then now love life. And that's what everyone wants in this 42 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:32.360 ministry, Right. We want to see baby saved, we want to see 43 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:37.159 souls saved, want to see people come into God's family, we want to 44 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:39.360 see abortion workers quit. We want to see an impact. You want to 45 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:46.039 see fruit, visible fruit that comes as a result of our activities at the 46 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.280 abortion centers. Right, that's correct, and what correct? Yes, but 47 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:53.919 there are things that no one sees behind the scenes, things going on in 48 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:59.840 our own lives, sacrifices that we make, that that lead to those results. 49 00:03:59.919 --> 00:04:03.800 Right, and those those things are again the things that no one sees 50 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:08.919 but there are necessary in order to get the results that you want. That's 51 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:12.479 correct. That's a great summary of what this is about, and I will 52 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:15.839 say that the things no one sees are usually not easy. Yeah, they're 53 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:23.319 used. They almost always involve immense personal sacrifice. Yeah, so we wanted 54 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:29.160 to go through some of that. On the sidewalk again, you said it's 55 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:34.720 those tangent results everybody wants, and we also see that people quit very quickly 56 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:41.920 if they don't see those tangible results that they think show success. That would 57 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:48.839 be baby saved, workers quitting, whatever salvations. So I wanted to talk 58 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:57.160 about this, about about the things that are going on prior to becoming a 59 00:04:57.279 --> 00:05:03.480 and I'm putting this in air quotes, successful sidewalk counselor what's going on and 60 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:09.240 what has led to that? Yeah, because in many cases it's not what 61 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:13.040 you would think. Right now, I do want to say something that we've 62 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:16.759 said often. I'm going to echo that in this episode, that the victory 63 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:24.560 is in obedience and every scenario is different, like what we have going on 64 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:27.720 here at the latrobe abortion center is quite a bit different than what goes on 65 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.120 at the window of abortion center three miles down the road or less, right, 66 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:33.600 and that's quite a bit different than what happens at the plan parenthood that's, 67 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:38.720 you know, five or six miles down the road. So scenarios are 68 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:45.399 different and some scenarios lend themselves more interactions and things like that. But also 69 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:48.639 want to say that this is this, this has to do with the motive 70 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:53.800 and the attitudes of our hearts, because the victory is in obedience, not 71 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:56.720 with the interactions that we have, not with the babies that are saved, 72 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:00.759 and we glory in that and that's visible fruit that God graciously lets us see. 73 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.639 But we do have to come with the mentality, and we talked about 74 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:06.759 this some months ago in another episode. We talked about the motive for what 75 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:11.560 we do. We have to come with the right motive, and the right 76 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:14.959 motive is not glory to me. Look at me saving babies right. That's 77 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.959 not the right motive. The right motive is not it's fun to go out 78 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.279 and interact with these people like it can be joyful and praise God that we 79 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:25.199 get to see a baby saving all that stuff, but our motive, first 80 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:29.879 and foremost has to be that we want to glorify Jesus, that we're out 81 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.800 there in obedience to him, and when we do that, that's where the 82 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:40.879 victory is. Right, Jesus was victorious in his apparent defeat. Right on 83 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:45.600 the cross. Jesus won the victory on a behalf of all of those who 84 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.720 put their trust in him. It's amazing. Right, Jesus wins this eternal 85 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:53.319 victory on the cross and, of course, through his resurrection. But it 86 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:57.040 looked like a defeat. Why was that a victory? It's because it was 87 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:00.639 obedience to the father. That's why that was victory. It was obedience. 88 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:04.040 So the victory is in obedience. When you step out on that sidewalk, 89 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:09.519 in obedience to God, you are victorious. Right, even if you don't 90 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:12.920 see Babysave, that's right. But that out there, that to and in 91 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:17.199 fact it's the last point what you just said that actually didn't write in the 92 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:23.879 article, which is reframe the meaning of success. Yeah, that's a a 93 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:29.600 big part of being a success is redefine what success means when you're at on 94 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:31.439 the side book, but you said that really well. But the so the 95 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:38.800 first thing that's going on that leads to the victory you want. Yeah, 96 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:43.040 specific commitment. Yeah, be there. Be there and don't just say I'll 97 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:46.480 show up when I feel like it, because you'll feel like it maybe once 98 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:49.240 a year, maybe not even that. Yeah, so be have a specific 99 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:56.040 day time and honor it. Yeah, there are some sidewalk counsels that I 100 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:58.920 work with the I would say, you know, the best ones. They 101 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:05.040 will even schedule vacation time around their sidewalk commitment, right, because they recognize 102 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:09.879 just what you said. It's for God, it's an obedience to God, 103 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:15.720 and therefore they will do whatever it takes to show up there. And the 104 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:22.519 victory in thinking about redefining victory and success that the victory is showing up when 105 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.920 you said you would show up. Yeah, yeah, life happens, stuff 106 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:31.360 happens. Yeah, a lot of our volunteers are either stay at home moms 107 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:33.799 or you have other things going on in their lives. We understand all of 108 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:39.559 that. Yeah, but this point is very important. Bible says each man 109 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.840 will proclaim his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find faithfulness means 110 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:48.759 a lot to the Lord. And faithfulness is doing what you said you would 111 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.120 do, whether you feel like it. Or Not right, and this is 112 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.240 what I would encourage. I've had brand new people, I know you have 113 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:58.000 to Vicki brand new people that come out to shadow and they're excited about this 114 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:00.000 ministry and they're like, well, I want to come out here everyday, 115 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:03.120 I'm going to come out here every day next week and we say hold on 116 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:07.120 a second. That's appreciate the zeal, appreciate the desire, but I would 117 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:13.159 much prefer that you pick one day to come out for three to four hours 118 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:16.559 and be faithful in that one day for six months or for a year or 119 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:20.759 for some of our our counselors five, you know, six, seven, 120 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:24.159 eight years. They've been out here on a regular basis, right on that 121 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:28.879 same day, consistent. I'd rather see that then you come out for five 122 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.879 days for the next two weeks and then you just burn out and you find 123 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.039 out it's not maybe what you thought it would be. Right. It's better 124 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:39.799 for you, and this is for you guys who are leading sidewalk ministries, 125 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.399 but also if you guys that are volunteering, it's better for you as a 126 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:46.320 volunteer to put one day on your calendar, to be faithful to that day 127 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.000 and maybe build around that day. Maybe you can come other days, but 128 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:52.840 you really need to have one day on your calendar that you're committed to come 129 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:58.039 and come consistently, barring some other thing that absolutely you have to go to. 130 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:05.120 And then again, build a maybe, maybe commit to Monday and in 131 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:07.200 the Lord leads and you come out on Wednesday. But you don't want to 132 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:13.279 forsake that what you've committed to at the you know, don't want to do 133 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:20.240 extra things and forsake that commitment because you want to be faithful on that particular 134 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.240 day. Yeah, but consistently and and like I would say, every single 135 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.559 one of the main points that we're going to go over, not only will 136 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.960 help you to become the best sidewalk counselor that you can be, but the 137 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:37.519 best person that you can be. If we honor commitments in every area of 138 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:43.440 life, we will definitely be honoring God. Yeah, more consistently in every 139 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:48.799 area of life. Commitment is a big deal. It's very important. Yeah, 140 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:54.000 I know in our kind of modern American mindset, even the kind of 141 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.279 the church hopping mindset, you see that with people that church hop right, 142 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:00.840 they won't commit to one specific church. They go from this Church of that 143 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:03.679 Church of that church. And why do they do that? Well, a 144 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:07.000 lot of times because they don't want to submit to authority. They want to 145 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:09.000 kind of do their own thing and people will spiritualize it. I have had 146 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:11.919 people do this in sidewalk ministry when you try to pin them down, will 147 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:16.720 you volunteer on a particular day so I know that I can, I can 148 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:18.879 rely on you to be there that day. That's I want to be led 149 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:24.919 by the Holy Spirit. Your spiritualizing really carnality. You just don't want to 150 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:31.240 submit to leadership and you God ordained direction. Yeah, and yeah, don't 151 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:33.279 do that. God doesn't do that. Honor that, don't do that. 152 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:37.320 I've started coming, I guess, because I'm getting old at this. I've 153 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:39.879 done this for a long time. or I will just outright say if you 154 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:45.360 can't make a specific commitment, it really doesn't help us. Yeah, I've 155 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:48.360 been really honest about that, because it doesn't. If I can look at 156 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:50.120 the calendar and not know that we have enough people, I have to still 157 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.720 scramble and get enough people and if they show up then anyway, well, 158 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.679 Gosh, we're grateful to have you, but I still had to do double 159 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.679 the work. Right. So, honor your commitments species and make a specific 160 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:09.919 commitment. Yeah, the second one daily sacrificial preparation. And one of the 161 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:13.240 points made in this podcast that, of course, I liked because I already 162 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:18.440 do this, is every great leader and every high achiever seems to have a 163 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:24.240 common theme that there's someone who gets up early. Yeah, now, not 164 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:26.519 that getting up early in and of itself is is a wonderful thing, but 165 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:31.519 what that shows is, and this is why I do it, when I 166 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:35.480 get up early, I've got all this quiet time. I've made a commitment 167 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:41.159 to give this quiet focus time to preparing for what's going to happen on the 168 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:46.879 sidewalk. It's when I do my Bible study it, it's when I do 169 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:50.679 prayer time, it's when I walk the dog, but during that during that 170 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.639 quiet dark time, it's when I'm able to really think about all the things 171 00:12:54.639 --> 00:13:00.960 that might happen on the sidewalk and mentally and emotionally and spiritually be prepared for 172 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:09.039 them. And according to this podcast, people who are highly successful high achievers 173 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:13.639 in their field seem to have this common thread in their life. Yeah, 174 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:20.000 so it shows a willingness to sacrifice, but it shows an understanding of intentional 175 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:26.840 preparation. Yeah, and as a part of that, you you really change 176 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.279 your whole life because you have to back Chanean. And what I mean by 177 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:35.000 that is it for me to get up at five every morning, I need 178 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:37.679 to be in bed latest by nine. Yeah, or I'm going to be 179 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:43.879 exhausted the next day. Right. So that affects how I conduct myself at 180 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:48.159 night. What's going to happen at night when I get to bed? My 181 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:52.320 whole life becomes affected by that choice. Yeah, and for me, honestly, 182 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:56.039 to be honest, it's not much of a sacrifice because I like getting 183 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:00.840 up early. For some people this would be an enormous sacrifice. But it 184 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:05.720 again, it goes back to that commitment. Yeah, are you committed to 185 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:11.799 doing what it takes in order to be excellent in whatever field? But we're 186 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:15.200 talking about sidewalk counseling. Well, if you want to be an excellent sidewalk 187 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:20.919 counselor, then you really need to be in the word and you really need 188 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:26.000 to have targeted time in the word, targeted time and prayer and and time 189 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:31.960 when you're really focusing on working through what's going to happen out there. Yeah, 190 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:35.440 so I'll translate with Vicki saying into if you want to be as good 191 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:39.399 as Vicky, then you have to get up at five o'clock in the morning 192 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:43.879 or earlier, or earlier. Right now, sometimes I get up at a 193 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:48.039 quarter of five. Yeah, yeah, the obviously that's not going to work 194 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:52.960 out for me. Seven o'clock is early for me. Okay, but you 195 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.320 can read define early in the same way you read define success. So a 196 00:14:56.440 --> 00:15:01.080 man. Amen. The point here is, though, Guinea up and enough 197 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:05.440 time to prepare your mind and your heart for ministry, because if you just 198 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:09.919 get out of the bed, comb your hair and hopping the car and head 199 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:13.240 off to the abortion center, yeah, you're not. You don't have enough 200 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.879 time to prepare your heart. Now, maybe your drive to the abortion center 201 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:20.080 is a little longer, and certainly I would encourage you on your drive there 202 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:24.919 to be preparing your heart, to be praying, but to have some quiet, 203 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:28.720 peaceful time before the Lord to prepare your thoughts, to compare your mind, 204 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:31.639 especially if you're in a leadership role, is really crucial because in that 205 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:35.360 leadership role, whether you're a team lead for one of the days at the 206 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:39.600 abortion center, whether you lead the ministry at an abortion center and you oversee 207 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:45.480 some some other leaders, some team leads or volunteers. Your outreach has to 208 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.440 do with reaching the MOMS going in, for sure, but it also has 209 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:54.840 to do with training people, overseeing, people relating to people that you're overseeing, 210 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:56.799 and you have to prepare your mind for that stuff even thinking through. 211 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:00.360 I mean, I would encourage you guys, especially if you're a leader, 212 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.679 to be praying for each of your volunteers, maybe for that day when you 213 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:10.679 get up Monday morning. Pray for your Monday team leads and volunteers, of 214 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:14.120 course, pray for the MOMS. This is an opportunity to kind of get 215 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:17.440 all the stuff in your head out before the Lord and give it to him 216 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:22.000 in prayer and to be thinking through even various scenarios that you're going to encounter 217 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:23.919 through the day to prepare your heart for those things. Now, the more 218 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:27.159 you do this, the more it becomes second nature to you in the easier 219 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:36.440 it becomes. What a life of productivity is a life of discipline. That 220 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:40.480 is the reality. It is, it is and that's actually what we call 221 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:47.240 what we labeled us. The third unseen preparation is discipline, selfdiscipline. Again, 222 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:52.080 I think, in short, supply often in modern times. Yeah, 223 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:55.679 said, yeah, you know, it's all about do what you want, 224 00:16:55.720 --> 00:17:00.639 when you want, what makes you happy, instead of be disciplined so that 225 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:06.759 what God wants is evident and and that you're prepared and ready for it. 226 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:11.559 It does not appear miraculously selfdiscipline. Like I I think you can think of 227 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:17.400 many of these things as almost like muscles and if you don't do these things, 228 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:22.240 those muscles will become weak flappy. If you do them, the more 229 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:26.160 you do them, the more you are selfdisciplined, the easier it is to 230 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:33.400 be selfdisciplined. Yeah, but it relates directly to some of the other things 231 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:40.880 that that we already talked about, that you're training yourself to do the things 232 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:42.559 that it takes. Yeah, even though they're not fun, right, and 233 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:47.920 they're often not fun. Yeah, often times when we put our flesh into 234 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:52.039 subjection, it's not fun, right, but God is glorified through it. 235 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:56.119 Our flesh. A lot of times, our flesh Lee desires are what gets 236 00:17:56.200 --> 00:18:00.200 in the way of God's glory in God using US insignificant get ways. If 237 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:04.920 you look throughout church history to men and women of God that made an impact, 238 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:11.200 these people were disciplined, people had as a pattern of their lives. 239 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:17.319 Regular Times in prayer, regular times in fasting, regular times in the word. 240 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:19.279 Often Times they had a regular pattern to when they got up and when 241 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:25.440 they went to bed. An abiding life, Jesus said, if you abide 242 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:29.319 in me and my words, abide in you. This is in John Chapter 243 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:33.319 Fifteen. We's talking about bearing fruit, abiding in the vine. An abiding 244 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:37.039 life is a disciplined life. Yeah, that does it mean that everything's regimented 245 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:42.720 and everything's there's no like flexibility and any of that stuff. So I'm not 246 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:47.880 trying to squeeze joy out of your lives, but if you want to have 247 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:52.039 a life that abides in Christ and a life that's disciplined or a life that 248 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:55.880 bears fruits and fruit and you're going to have to have a disciplined life, 249 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.519 not just flying by the Sea of your pants and just winging it right. 250 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:03.880 Yeah, I agree, and I do a lot of checklist and the reason 251 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:08.200 I do that is not, as some people believe, so that I can 252 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:14.680 check it off and feel accomplished. Not at all. The checklist. I'm 253 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:18.839 serious. I do checklist. Feel so good to check it out, feels 254 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:22.119 good to check some stuff off, but also do it to help. You 255 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:25.400 know, discipline myself. It's how I organized my life. It's how, 256 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:30.240 if something is important enough that it that I write it down, put a 257 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:33.160 little checkbox next to it and make sure at the end of the day that 258 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:38.759 I have done that it reflects my values. This is important, I need 259 00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:41.759 to do this and I'm going to do whatever it takes to help me to 260 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:48.160 do that. So the fourth unseen sacrifice of a great sidewalk counselor is a 261 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:56.319 willingness to serve without seeing results. This is so important. Yeah, and 262 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:03.799 so difficult, and so difficult it is. But we have to remember where 263 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:07.640 we started, what you talked about. Yeah, the the victory is in 264 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.319 showing up, in the obedience to the Lord. So when you've showed up, 265 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.039 God has has received the victory and you've had the victory. Yeah, 266 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:22.160 and God will not always give us the results. We will not always see 267 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:25.400 them. I do want to tell a story at this is perfect time. 268 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:27.920 There was a God story today that I didn't tell Daniel because I thought it 269 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:33.839 might work in this is it works perfectly in this. So there was a 270 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:37.960 woman walking down the street today. I just came from the sidewalk and I 271 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:42.200 could tell she came from the neighborhood behind the abortion center, very very dangerous 272 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:48.400 neighborhood, very low income, and she was not nice to me initially. 273 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:51.680 You know, I tried to give her my information and said, are you 274 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:53.640 coming from the woman center? I wasn't positive. I guess I was up 275 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:59.799 the street little ways and she said no, I'm coming from this neighborhood and 276 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:02.200 and I tried to give her the information. You said, no, I 277 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:04.640 already have one. I said how do you have one, because I had 278 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:08.119 seen our cyber consolars. No one had given her one, and she said 279 00:21:08.160 --> 00:21:11.160 I got it a week ago, and then I said, oh well, 280 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:15.960 let me tell you why we give these two people and I started telling her 281 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:18.920 about our mendership program how we help the women, how we put our name 282 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:25.680 on there, how even this pamphlet alone can change someone's heart from abortion to 283 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:29.960 life. Yeah, and she said I know, and I said, Oh, 284 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:34.160 how do you know? And she said because I took it. I 285 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:40.000 brought it home that night. My sister found out she was pregnant. She 286 00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:44.240 wanted to have an abortion and I gave her this pamphlet. Wow, and 287 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:48.559 she chose life. It's amazing and and I just was overcome. Yeah, 288 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:55.119 I was overcome because we never saw that result of that faithfulness of whoever it 289 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:59.799 was that it handed her that pamphlet and I just said, Oh, I 290 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:03.559 just wanna. I did and she she hugged me because she knew I wanted 291 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:06.720 to hug her, but in the day of Covid we just don't do that. 292 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:11.599 But she hugged me and I said will you take another one? You 293 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:15.519 might, you might save another life. By now she's beaming and I gave 294 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:18.880 her my name and number again, not just my google phone number but my 295 00:22:19.039 --> 00:22:22.279 actual phone number, and and said please, have your sister call us. 296 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:27.160 We will give her a baby shower. That will that will give two full 297 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:30.640 years of what you'll need in this woman. I saw her texting right away. 298 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:33.799 I know she was texting her sister, yeah, telling her so this 299 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:38.599 is we didn't see that the person that handed that that pamphlet to her, 300 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:41.799 whoever that was, that it was a week ago. I don't know who 301 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:45.880 gave it to her. Yeah, and and the results they we would never 302 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:48.480 have known them, especially because other councilors tried to stop her down the street 303 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:52.480 but she was so nasty they kind of just let her go, which I 304 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:55.720 don't blame them. I mean often times, since that is best, right, 305 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:00.759 God just gave us this, this little glimpse into be selts. It's 306 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:03.000 pretty amazing that the Lord even with the woman being a nasty I kind of 307 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:08.359 wonder why she was nasty. Wonder if because after you had shared with her 308 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:12.839 or she'd shared with you that opportunity, or how God used her in that 309 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:18.160 in that particular situation. She seemed to be beaming. I wonder if she 310 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:21.400 was maybe conflating us with the pro abortion people or something like that, because 311 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:23.799 people that come they're pretty confused. I don't know. Either way, like 312 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:27.680 God use that. Yeah, and that is a result of faithfulness and right 313 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:33.519 handing out literature, whether you see results or not. Step principle of sewing 314 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:37.400 and watering. You know, sewing seeds were watering seeds. God gives the 315 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:41.720 increase. Yeah, and that situation God very graciously gave the increase. Yeah, 316 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:47.200 and also let us hear about the fruit. Right, and we do 317 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:52.440 what we do for God's glory. We do what we do in obedience to 318 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:56.400 him. We leave the results up to him and you know, we don't 319 00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:00.440 always get to hear about the results, but sometimes he graciously, let's US 320 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:03.319 hear about those results. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was pretty 321 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:07.519 awesome. And and I know that there are many facilities where you serve on 322 00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:12.599 the sidewalk that are harder than others and results really are harder to see. 323 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:17.480 There's a couple here in Charlotte we see the most results at, at the 324 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:21.799 one I mostly serve at latrobe. Well, there's the most abortions there and 325 00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:25.000 that's all they do there. It. Of course we're going to see more 326 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:29.559 visible results then at a plan parenthood, which is smaller, maybe in our 327 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:33.079 city, and where they do other things. Right. So we just want 328 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:41.839 to encourage you that this unseen sacrifice of serving willingly joyfully, even when you 329 00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:48.039 don't see results, is really valuable. Yeah, and ultimately you will see 330 00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:52.440 the results. One day you'll be standing beside the Lord and he will say 331 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:55.559 well done, good and faithful servant. Yeah, and all those babies that 332 00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:57.839 were saved for I have this picture of them all come running, yeah, 333 00:24:57.839 --> 00:25:02.680 out out to to hug you. Yeah, there's a scripture that comes to 334 00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:07.160 mind. And again, God lets us graciously see baby saved on a regular 335 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:11.400 basis here at La Trobe. Yeah, of course, keeping in mind sometimes 336 00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:15.799 there's forty, fifty people inside of that building to kill their child a regular 337 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:18.279 basis. Like twenty five people coming in there to kill her baby. Right. 338 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:22.319 So we see a massive loss of life as well on some pretty awful 339 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:26.559 resistance from pro abortion people. Right. So God graciously lets us see that 340 00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:32.480 descripture that comes to mind is at believe is in the gospel of John where 341 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:37.039 Jesus reveals himself after his resurrection to his disciples, and I think it's the 342 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:41.039 situation. I'm kind of going off the cuff here with the scripture, so 343 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:42.759 don't quote me on exactly. I'm not going to quote it exactly. Just 344 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:45.680 give us the gist to the story. Give you the justest of it. 345 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:49.680 Jesus reveals himself to his disciples. Believe that's the situation. When Thomas Jesus 346 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:53.079 says put your fingers here in the nail, prince, right here's my side. 347 00:25:53.160 --> 00:25:56.119 You know. He says, my Lord of my God, and he 348 00:25:56.160 --> 00:26:02.279 says you are blessed because you see and believe, but even more blessed are 349 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:06.559 those who believe and yet have not seen. Yes, and so I think 350 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:10.960 you guys who are ministering at these very difficult mission fields at these very difficult 351 00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:15.039 abortion centers were you don't see a lot of out result. Just take an 352 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.079 encouragement from the Lord, like you're still standing in faith, even though you're 353 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:22.880 not seeing on a regular basis the fruit of what you're doing, and God's 354 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:27.000 honoring that. If you're doing that in faithfulness to him, God's gonna Bless 355 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:30.920 and God's going to honor that, and I it's I guarantee you. Babies 356 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:33.960 are being saved behind the scenes that you don't find out about, and you 357 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:37.640 won't find out about maybe until you stand before the Lord, but God's using 358 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:42.920 you, guys. Yeah, I love that verse. I have never applied 359 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:48.160 that to sidewalk counseling, but it is perfect. Yeah, because it is 360 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:53.960 so much our story. We don't see the a lot of fruit often times. 361 00:26:55.079 --> 00:26:59.920 The fifth component is the willingness to suffer. Just know you're going to 362 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:03.119 suffer. Yeah, who wants to sign on to something where they we tell 363 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:07.160 you up front, be prepared. Right, you're going to suffer. You're 364 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:11.240 going to suffer big time. Yeah, you're going to be out there in 365 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:14.559 horrible weather, people are going to Taunt, to make fun of you, 366 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:18.400 even threaten you. Yeah, fellow Christians will even drive by and say you 367 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:22.920 shouldn't be out here, you are a shameful human being. Yeah, you're 368 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:27.079 going to be a miserable weather and and you're often not going to see food. 369 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:32.160 Now that sounds like something I wanted to do. Sign me up. 370 00:27:32.440 --> 00:27:37.759 So probably we're going to lose some volunteers over making this point, but the 371 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:44.119 best counselors are the ones that just say, no matter what, three of 372 00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:48.039 the most scary words on earth. Yeah, I will do it, no 373 00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:53.000 matter what. Yeah, and because I guarantee you will suffer. Jesus tells 374 00:27:53.079 --> 00:27:56.480 us we're going to suffer in this world, we will have troubles, but 375 00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.039 he also reminds us take heart, I have overcome the world. Yeah, 376 00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:07.279 keep your focus on him. Yeah, you're gonna be misunderstood. Yeah, 377 00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:10.559 you're going to be misunderstood by the people that are come to the abortion center, 378 00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:12.960 of course, about pro abortion people, but even by family and friends. 379 00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:19.599 Be Ready to be misunderstood and under appreciated and not appreciate it. But 380 00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:23.799 again, Dude, and faithfulness to the Lord, and God will honor it. 381 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:27.160 Tell you the Lord who honor it. Look at our MOTTEL. I 382 00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:34.680 mean Jesus was the absolute picture of someone willing to suffer for the greater good. 383 00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:40.279 Yeah, and so remember that every time you step out there with that 384 00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:47.359 willingness to suffer, you are you are being reflecting the image of your Safre 385 00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:51.319 if, your Lord and Savior. I think that's that's really powerful. But 386 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:56.039 we already talked about the six component a little bit, which is intentionally abiding 387 00:28:56.079 --> 00:29:00.240 in the Lord. Yeah, so I don't think we need to go too 388 00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:03.200 much more into that because we don't want to go over time. The last 389 00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:08.319 one, and I thought this was really good from this was right from that 390 00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:17.920 podcast I listened to, reframe rejection. Yeah, rejection is a huge part 391 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:21.839 of sidewalk counseling. Like you just said, you are going to face it. 392 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:25.839 You will be rejected pretty much by everyone. Yeah, except for there 393 00:29:25.839 --> 00:29:29.160 will be the rare woman that will I would I was rejected this morning by 394 00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:33.559 the woman walking down the street. Ultimately she changed towards me. But we 395 00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:38.720 get slapped, metaphorically, slapped in the face. Yeah, all the time. 396 00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:44.000 Yeah, rejection hurts. None of us want it, it's going to 397 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:48.079 happen. It is a given if you're involved in sidewalk counseling. Yeah, 398 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:56.319 but what if you look through rejection through a new lens and instead of looking 399 00:29:56.359 --> 00:30:02.720 at it as a personal insult and taking it like, believing it that that 400 00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:07.240 defines who you are, with those who are rejecting you have said you are 401 00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:11.279 what? Instead, if you look at it as a badge of honor, 402 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:18.359 yeah, I am rejected because I am speaking the truth that they don't want 403 00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:25.400 to hear. In again, modeling my Lord and Savior Again, who was 404 00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:30.079 more rejected than Jesus himself? Yeah, so I loved that. That made 405 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:34.839 me feel like, Oh, I am something else. I have been rejected 406 00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:40.680 today. Yeah, if you rejected because you're acting, you know, like 407 00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:44.640 a fool or whatever, that's different. Peter Talks about that. If you're 408 00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:48.000 persecuted because of your own sin, leave Peter. Paul talks about that and 409 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:55.640 one of the epistles. Yeah, but if you're rejected for Christ's sake, 410 00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:59.839 then you're identified with him. Yeah, and so it's just awesome encouragement. 411 00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:04.440 We can be identified with Jesus because of the rejection that that comes from US 412 00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:08.319 speaking the truth. And I'll say, if you aren't being rejected, you're 413 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:14.759 probably not hitting the truth hard enough. Yeah, honestly, possibly. Yeah. 414 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:18.279 So, guys. We hope this was an encouragement, even though there 415 00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:21.920 were some things that were a challenge for you. Guess God challenges us very 416 00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:25.079 graciously to help us to grow to be more like Jesus. That's the goal. 417 00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:29.799 After all, to be a disciple is to be disciplined. That's the 418 00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:32.880 root word of the word disciple, to be a disciple of Jesus, to 419 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:34.720 be disciplined in the ways of Jesus. I never thought of that. That's 420 00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:37.240 it's good. Yep, that's what it is, and so we hope that 421 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:41.640 this helped you guys to be more disciplined and what God's called you to. 422 00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.400 Hope this has been an encouragement challenge for you, guys. We'd love for 423 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.119 you to reach out. You can reach me, Daniel at Love Life Dot 424 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:52.000 Org. You can reach Vicky, Vicky with a why, at Love Life 425 00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:53.279 Dot Org. We'd love to hear from you, guys. We'd love to 426 00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:59.240 hear some feedback on this podcast or other episodes, ideas for other podcast episodes, 427 00:31:59.920 --> 00:32:02.559 and please leave us a review. We'd love to hear from you on 428 00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:07.160 the reviews and just get our ratings up a little bit more than what they 429 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:09.440 are. If you can do that with the be a trim, tremendous blessing 430 00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:19.359 to us. But until next time, God bless God bless you all our 431 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:30.960 love for love. Give me our love for gratitude. I know it will 432 00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:46.640 cost me my life. Nothing's too precious in some you