When Is Failure Not Failure?

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:05.799 I Am Yours, I am yours, I am yours. Send Me, 2 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:10.750 Lord. I welcome to the Gospel Center pro life podcast. This episode, 3 00:00:10.750 --> 00:00:14.470 Vicki and I share how failure is never failure if we're obedient to God. 4 00:00:15.070 --> 00:00:19.030 Will share a biblical perspective as well as some stories from our experiences that will 5 00:00:19.070 --> 00:00:35.140 encourage you. Stay tuned. I felt show passis touch your heart. Welcome 6 00:00:35.140 --> 00:00:38.369 to the Gospel Center prayer life podcast. Guys, appreciate you tuning in. 7 00:00:38.810 --> 00:00:42.409 Appreciate you guys who share this podcast with your friends and with your family. 8 00:00:42.490 --> 00:00:46.530 We certainly would love to hear some feedback from you guys as well. If 9 00:00:46.530 --> 00:00:50.039 you want to shoot me an email. D Parks at cities for lifecom or 10 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:53.679 her vcs Oregat cities for lifecom. We'd love to hear from you what you 11 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:58.159 think about the podcast, if you have any ideas for episodes coming up. 12 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:00.119 We have some episodes that are that are going to be a real blessing to 13 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:03.679 you guys. This episode, we hope, will be a blessing, but 14 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:07.109 in the next couple of weeks we're going to do an episode about sex trafficking 15 00:01:07.150 --> 00:01:11.150 and how the issue of sex trafficking ties into the issue of abortion, and 16 00:01:11.430 --> 00:01:12.670 then we're going to have a good friend of ours, Sheryl Chandler, on 17 00:01:14.109 --> 00:01:17.750 to talk about her ministry, as she does baby showers for mom that mom's 18 00:01:17.790 --> 00:01:21.939 that choose life, and also she's been involved in Pro Life Ministry for thirty 19 00:01:21.980 --> 00:01:23.340 plus years, so she could give us, I think, a lot of 20 00:01:23.459 --> 00:01:29.739 insights on ministry and how to be affective. So make sure you guys, 21 00:01:30.060 --> 00:01:32.930 tune in for those in the coming weeks. But we're going to jump into 22 00:01:32.930 --> 00:01:37.170 a subject today that, as sidewalk counselors, I think we all have dealt 23 00:01:37.209 --> 00:01:40.689 with and deal with on a regular basis. If you're on the sidewalk, 24 00:01:41.090 --> 00:01:42.370 maybe if you're in a pregnancy well, I know if you're in a pregnancy 25 00:01:42.409 --> 00:01:46.930 center, any really any realm of ministry, you're going to deal with the 26 00:01:47.010 --> 00:01:52.799 issue of feeling like you're a failure. We've talked about discouragement, we've talked 27 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:56.680 about burnout and all that sort of thing. This sort of speaks to some 28 00:01:56.799 --> 00:01:59.719 of those same points, but I think in this episode we're going to give 29 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:02.989 you some encouragement and share some stories with you, yeah, about what God 30 00:02:04.069 --> 00:02:07.150 can do even when we might feel like a failure. Like we're not doing 31 00:02:07.230 --> 00:02:09.150 what God has called us to do because we don't see any fruit. God's 32 00:02:09.229 --> 00:02:13.469 doing stuff behind the scenes. But let's talk a little bit, Vicki, 33 00:02:13.550 --> 00:02:15.419 before we get into some of the stories, we get into the biblical story 34 00:02:15.460 --> 00:02:19.500 of Joseph, let's just talk practically. Yeah, what are some of the 35 00:02:19.580 --> 00:02:23.180 emotions come with feeling like you're a failure out there on the sidewalk? You 36 00:02:23.259 --> 00:02:29.539 haven't seen any interactions or had maybe even seen any visible outward fruit. That 37 00:02:29.659 --> 00:02:32.770 didn't feel great. Yeah, well, I'll tell you. We talk with 38 00:02:34.210 --> 00:02:38.530 sidewalk missionaries from all over the nation through regular contact now to be encouragers, 39 00:02:38.969 --> 00:02:45.840 and one of I think the most common down that they feel is when they 40 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:51.280 don't see saves. They don't see saved babies, or they'll say they have 41 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:59.030 poured everything they have into a woman and and the woman chooses to abort anyway. 42 00:02:59.669 --> 00:03:05.030 It is so discouraging and we are all questioning ourselves at those times. 43 00:03:05.110 --> 00:03:10.229 We're saying, what did we do wrong? It's almost impossible not to personalize 44 00:03:10.229 --> 00:03:13.939 it. What did I do wrong? When I say wrong, what could 45 00:03:13.979 --> 00:03:17.659 I or should I have said or done differently? And you second guess. 46 00:03:17.860 --> 00:03:22.659 Yeah, and you think and it can become severe enough, and I've heard 47 00:03:22.659 --> 00:03:25.340 it where people say I am not cut out for this, I god is 48 00:03:25.419 --> 00:03:30.650 not using me, I'm not meant to be a sidewalk counselor I need to 49 00:03:30.770 --> 00:03:35.129 quit and go, you know, I don't know, do something else, 50 00:03:35.370 --> 00:03:39.610 but this is not for me. So it can be really severe. The 51 00:03:39.930 --> 00:03:47.120 emotional response can be pretty severe and we feel like a failure. We have 52 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:52.560 let down ourselves, we've let down our fellow counselors, we've let down the 53 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:55.030 mother, we've let down the baby and we've let down God. I think 54 00:03:55.550 --> 00:03:59.909 all of us have been there. Yeah, at to some degree or another, 55 00:03:59.949 --> 00:04:03.430 at some point or another. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, but of 56 00:04:03.590 --> 00:04:08.830 course in a biblical perspective, as one of the things that we always say 57 00:04:09.990 --> 00:04:14.379 is that our victory is in obedience. Right, that's where the victory is 58 00:04:14.419 --> 00:04:18.379 found. We're not called to save babies, we're not called to get people 59 00:04:18.420 --> 00:04:24.689 saved, we're called to be obedient to God. In within that comes the 60 00:04:24.769 --> 00:04:28.290 fruit of babies will be saved and the Gospel is going to go forth and 61 00:04:28.329 --> 00:04:30.970 people are going to turn to the Lord. But even if we don't see 62 00:04:31.009 --> 00:04:35.569 those things happening, because there are days and there are weeks and there are 63 00:04:35.689 --> 00:04:40.399 scenarios in which you don't see any real outward fruit. And so, yeah, 64 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:42.600 like you said, you feel like a fail. You feel like you've 65 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:46.040 let everybody down, you've let even the Lord down. But ultimately the Bible 66 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:49.680 tells us God sees the heart, God looks at the heart, and that 67 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:54.910 kind of brings me to the story of Joseph, and you guys know, 68 00:04:55.069 --> 00:04:58.149 well, I'm not gonna I'm not going to recap that story completely, but 69 00:04:58.230 --> 00:05:00.310 you guys know, Joseph got a dream from the Lord, he had a 70 00:05:00.430 --> 00:05:03.949 calling, he had a vision from God. Ultimately, his brothers and even 71 00:05:03.990 --> 00:05:08.540 his father and mother were going to look to him for provision. They were 72 00:05:08.579 --> 00:05:11.540 going to bow down to him in their dream. Right. Yeah, exactly. 73 00:05:11.939 --> 00:05:15.819 And if you haven't watched the movie Joseph, King of dreams, you 74 00:05:15.899 --> 00:05:17.779 know the movie I'm talking about. Some dream works like a cartoon that it's 75 00:05:17.819 --> 00:05:20.850 not a big it's a cartoon. It's like the Prince of Egypt movie. 76 00:05:20.930 --> 00:05:25.850 Ever. Watch that about Moses. Awesome, two of my favorite movies. 77 00:05:26.370 --> 00:05:29.610 Watch that movie. It's really good. It's not exactly a line in line 78 00:05:29.610 --> 00:05:31.889 with the Biblical text, but pretty much anyway, that's a little little rabbit 79 00:05:31.970 --> 00:05:38.519 trail for you guys. But Joseph Story is one of a parent failure, 80 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:42.439 failure after failure after failure. Yeah, he had a vision from the Lord. 81 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:44.680 Of many of you guys, you feel called to be out there on 82 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:46.319 the sidewalk, and certainly you are. We are called to be out there 83 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:50.310 and to be a voice for those babies, just like Joseph called to be 84 00:05:50.509 --> 00:05:54.589 at least in some position. I guess he didn't really know exactly what when 85 00:05:54.629 --> 00:05:57.509 the Lord gave him the dream, but he knew he was supposed to be 86 00:05:57.509 --> 00:06:01.790 in some position of authority and ultimately to help people. But about down to 87 00:06:01.829 --> 00:06:05.379 him, respect him, follow him. He was the leader. And Yeah, 88 00:06:05.540 --> 00:06:10.420 and what happens to him? So he ends up as a slave in 89 00:06:10.579 --> 00:06:13.459 potiphar's house. Well, first of all his brothers try to kill him and 90 00:06:13.459 --> 00:06:15.860 they throw them yeah, and then they then then they decide no, we're 91 00:06:15.860 --> 00:06:17.139 not going to kill him, will throw him in the well. And then, 92 00:06:17.259 --> 00:06:19.850 yeah, then he sold as a slave. Yeah, so he ends 93 00:06:19.889 --> 00:06:25.810 up in Potiphar's house and he does well there and his fateful there and gets 94 00:06:25.850 --> 00:06:29.930 a pretty good position and Potiphar's house. But then he's set up, or 95 00:06:29.930 --> 00:06:32.480 at least lied on by Potiphar's wife. He ends up in jail. Yeah, 96 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:36.680 and the Dungeon, I would say. Yeah, and he's got this 97 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:43.160 promise from the Lord, he's got this this promise of success, and yet 98 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.720 there he isn't a dungeon as a failure at least years, according to the 99 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:48.790 world over two years. Yes, it's in good law. Yeah, so 100 00:06:48.870 --> 00:06:53.949 according to the world standards he was a failure. Again, however, we 101 00:06:54.149 --> 00:06:57.509 know the story right. The Lord set things up where ultimately he's second in 102 00:06:57.589 --> 00:07:01.259 command of Pharaoh. This this, what was apparently a failure to him ultimately 103 00:07:01.740 --> 00:07:04.699 is what the Lord used to propel him to that position. Had he not 104 00:07:04.819 --> 00:07:09.220 been there in prison, he would not been exposed to the Butler in the 105 00:07:09.259 --> 00:07:14.500 baker who ultimately was the Butler that told or the cupbear of Pharaoh, is 106 00:07:14.819 --> 00:07:18.529 one that told Pharaoh about Joseph and the interpretation of the dreams and all of 107 00:07:18.649 --> 00:07:24.490 that. Say. Think Cup Arrow was apparently watching Joseph during this time in 108 00:07:24.569 --> 00:07:28.850 jail, taking note of something about Joseph that he was willing then to to 109 00:07:29.930 --> 00:07:33.920 recommend Joseph Too Pharaoh, and I think that's an important little side point. 110 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:40.800 Yeah, he Joseph's been watched while he's in these terrible situations. Absolutely, 111 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:45.870 and of course that reminds me of a principle again that we teach with our 112 00:07:45.910 --> 00:07:49.870 sidewalk counselors, is the principle of the we're not really out there primarily for 113 00:07:49.949 --> 00:07:53.550 the babies or for the women. Hey, we're out there for the Lord. 114 00:07:53.589 --> 00:07:56.990 Yeah, the Lord looks at what we're doing, he looks at our 115 00:07:57.029 --> 00:08:00.939 fatefulness. He sees US Day in and day out, serving in some some 116 00:08:01.100 --> 00:08:05.740 pretty brutal conditions, not just weather conditions, but you know, opposition. 117 00:08:05.860 --> 00:08:09.220 People come call you all kinds of names. You're trying to humbly serve the 118 00:08:09.300 --> 00:08:13.610 Lord and people are even passing by, maybe giving you the Middle Finger. 119 00:08:13.730 --> 00:08:16.050 Some of you guys experience that. Today I got shoved out of the way 120 00:08:16.209 --> 00:08:20.730 by what two hundred pound guy who is very angry because he didn't want me 121 00:08:20.810 --> 00:08:24.810 to talk to the women. Right. Yeah, so there's that and it's 122 00:08:24.810 --> 00:08:26.839 easy to get discourage. We have to remember we're doing this as unto the 123 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.920 Lord, so we're always going to be victory, victorious, we're not going 124 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:33.639 to be failures if we're doing it as unto the Lord. But it is 125 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:39.080 easy and you can imagine the feelings that Joseph had while he was there in 126 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:43.070 that dungeon. Here he has this promise from God and he's got this call 127 00:08:43.190 --> 00:08:46.110 from God, and you guys on the sidewalk, you've got this call from 128 00:08:46.110 --> 00:08:48.950 the Lord. You're out there because you feel the Lord has birds you with 129 00:08:48.029 --> 00:08:52.269 this call, but you feel like in one sense you're in a dungeon. 130 00:08:52.549 --> 00:08:56.220 You got a place of darkness and death, at a place of a parent 131 00:08:56.419 --> 00:09:01.299 failure. But the Lord sees the fatefulness and it would be so easy for 132 00:09:01.419 --> 00:09:05.379 him during that time period to have become very discouraged. I and I don't 133 00:09:05.779 --> 00:09:09.090 think the Bible really addresses that. I don't know if he did. It 134 00:09:09.490 --> 00:09:13.850 doesn't seem like he did. Right, you did? It certainly isn't talked 135 00:09:13.889 --> 00:09:18.769 about. Right, he was discouraged or that he he said, Oh man, 136 00:09:18.090 --> 00:09:22.850 maybe that, maybe I misinterpreted that dream. or I really can't wait 137 00:09:22.889 --> 00:09:24.799 to get back at my brothers for what they did to me. Look at 138 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:30.519 this terrible sequence of events that they began. Yeah, or you know, 139 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:33.519 and what am I doing here in jail? Yeah, when God promised me 140 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:37.039 so much. Yeah, I think you'd have to believe, just at least 141 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.710 from a human perspective, that Joseph certainly dealt with those. You have to 142 00:09:39.870 --> 00:09:43.230 think. Yeah, and I would, you know, tend to believe that 143 00:09:43.309 --> 00:09:46.950 that's the case. Yeah, if you make a comparison there, here's a 144 00:09:46.990 --> 00:09:48.710 man in a dungeon and here we are on the sidewalk in America, with 145 00:09:48.750 --> 00:09:52.539 a lot of freedoms and all of that. Really a great count, really 146 00:09:52.539 --> 00:09:56.179 a great comparison, but it's sort of brings to mind this idea again that 147 00:09:56.940 --> 00:10:01.379 we need to be faithful to the Lord, that we're not failures as long 148 00:10:01.419 --> 00:10:05.539 as we're doing what we do as unto the Lord. So Joseph Story is 149 00:10:05.740 --> 00:10:09.409 one and it's a story. Maybe we look at it's just kind of a 150 00:10:09.649 --> 00:10:13.289 disconnected story. It's something that, yeah, we can relate to, but 151 00:10:13.409 --> 00:10:16.610 maybe not dire directly in our modern context. But I want you to share 152 00:10:16.690 --> 00:10:20.480 real quick the story that you shared. We shared it on our facebook cities 153 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:28.039 for Life Charlotte facebook of the Custodian here local had ye, not an exactly 154 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:31.000 similar but here's a man that's fateful, that's doing what he's going on too. 155 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:33.799 The Lord in the Lord uses right well and and I didn't share the 156 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:35.710 whole story because it was kind of a long story, but it's well worth 157 00:10:35.950 --> 00:10:43.870 worth sharing. So this custodian had come to the love life prayer walks which 158 00:10:45.110 --> 00:10:52.700 our churches gathering and praying and marching around the circle loop that the abortion center 159 00:10:52.139 --> 00:10:58.620 is on. And so they knew of love life and they and the resources 160 00:10:58.700 --> 00:11:03.379 that love life provided and they knew of the sidewalk counselors. He had seen 161 00:11:03.419 --> 00:11:07.129 them, okay, had seen us in front of the abortion center. So 162 00:11:07.289 --> 00:11:15.009 the Custodian had served many long years, his entire life as a custodian faithfully, 163 00:11:15.409 --> 00:11:22.399 and it's time to retire. So he had retired and he discovered while 164 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:26.600 in retirement, just as he's starting retirement, that there's a glitch in the 165 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:30.840 pension. I didn't quite understand that part of the story, but for whatever 166 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:35.389 reason he had to come out of retirement for one month. Wow, for 167 00:11:35.590 --> 00:11:37.950 just one month. He had to go back to work. Now, imagine 168 00:11:37.990 --> 00:11:41.789 that man, that cod of bomber. Right, you probably got plans. 169 00:11:41.870 --> 00:11:45.190 Maybe and your wife are going to go on a have occasion somewhere. Had 170 00:11:45.309 --> 00:11:48.700 extended like, I don't know, trip out West or something like that. 171 00:11:48.059 --> 00:11:54.100 Connect with his wife and enjoy life and finally sit back in custodio work is 172 00:11:54.139 --> 00:11:56.860 not easy war on top of it, it's not glamorous work. I imagine 173 00:11:56.899 --> 00:12:01.490 it was hard in many ways to be a custodian. Humble work. Yeah, 174 00:12:01.649 --> 00:12:07.649 so, so the the but the custodian goes back to work and in 175 00:12:07.850 --> 00:12:11.649 that month he was cleaning a new school personnel. I'm not going to tell 176 00:12:11.690 --> 00:12:16.480 you what her job was, but she worked at a school and he his 177 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:20.159 job was to clean her office. So he just meets her in that month. 178 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:26.039 Now, apparently, during that month, this God fearing, godly man 179 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:31.190 who has faced now, in a sense, failure, disappointment at the very 180 00:12:31.269 --> 00:12:33.429 last he's backed. I know if I was retired and had to come out 181 00:12:33.429 --> 00:12:37.750 of retirement for like one day, I would be totally bombed. And he's 182 00:12:37.789 --> 00:12:41.750 got to do it for a month. And but but apparently he did his 183 00:12:43.070 --> 00:12:50.259 work in such a manner that the the woman, the school employee, knew 184 00:12:50.340 --> 00:12:56.059 that he was a Christian, or suspected, because she finds herself now, 185 00:12:56.659 --> 00:13:00.929 suddenly in after a month of the custodian cleaning your office, she finds out 186 00:13:00.970 --> 00:13:07.570 that she is pregnant and unexpected pregnancy and actually really bad circumstances. Yeah, 187 00:13:09.090 --> 00:13:13.480 and she doesn't know what to do. She knows that she cannot have this 188 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:18.799 baby. She knows she has to abort. That's that's what she's feeling. 189 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:22.720 There is no other option but to abort this child. But there's a piece 190 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:28.870 of her that knows maybe that's not the only answer, maybe it's not the 191 00:13:28.909 --> 00:13:33.190 best answer. So she goes into work and the custodian is there as she 192 00:13:33.350 --> 00:13:37.789 finishes her day and she says, Hey, we let me ask you, 193 00:13:39.149 --> 00:13:43.899 are you a Christian? And he said well, yes, and she said 194 00:13:43.940 --> 00:13:46.940 because I really need I need to talk to someone who knows God. She 195 00:13:48.059 --> 00:13:52.820 didn't know God, she was not a believer, and yet she knew that 196 00:13:52.059 --> 00:13:56.929 she needed to talk to someone who was. And the person that she chooses 197 00:13:58.009 --> 00:14:03.049 to talk to is, just as God would have it, this man who 198 00:14:03.809 --> 00:14:09.250 was only there because he had been called into an apparent failure out of retirement 199 00:14:09.970 --> 00:14:15.360 to for a month to clean her office. Yeah, and he's there at 200 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:20.759 the exact appointed time. Yeah, that God has appointed. Yeah. And 201 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:28.190 so the the Custodian then listens to her story and he said he was way 202 00:14:28.309 --> 00:14:31.669 out of his league right. He did not feel at all equipped. He 203 00:14:33.070 --> 00:14:35.590 he said. When later I spoke with him and and he told me, 204 00:14:35.629 --> 00:14:41.740 I had no idea what to tell her. She had significant tissues. I 205 00:14:41.940 --> 00:14:43.659 just didn't know what to do. So I prayed first of all. I 206 00:14:43.820 --> 00:14:48.620 took her out into the beautiful day and I said, do you see that 207 00:14:48.899 --> 00:14:52.889 sun? Do you see that light that the sun is casting? That's where 208 00:14:52.889 --> 00:14:54.250 you need to be. You need to be in the light, not in 209 00:14:54.330 --> 00:14:58.049 darkness, and I can point you to people who can lead you to that 210 00:14:58.210 --> 00:15:03.169 light. Yeah, and so he prayed with her and then told her about 211 00:15:03.210 --> 00:15:09.639 Love Life Charlotte, and then told her about these sidewalk counselors who help women 212 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:15.879 in dire situations like hers, and he asked if it would be okay if 213 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:20.669 one of those sidewalk counselors called him, called her, and he contacted love 214 00:15:20.789 --> 00:15:26.990 life, who then contacted me and I called her and ultimately we had a 215 00:15:26.070 --> 00:15:33.950 huge, long discussion about God and about her circumstances. She I shared the 216 00:15:35.029 --> 00:15:39.059 Gospel, as I do with everyone when I'm given the opportunity. She came 217 00:15:39.179 --> 00:15:41.740 to the Lord and when I finished sharing the Gospel, I said, well 218 00:15:41.820 --> 00:15:48.700 now, could you still consider killing your baby now that you've asked Jesus to 219 00:15:48.740 --> 00:15:50.529 be Lord of your life and she said no, she could not, and 220 00:15:50.690 --> 00:15:54.850 so she chose life. Yeah, as well. And it was only it 221 00:15:54.929 --> 00:15:58.090 was only later that, and I don't even remember the kind of miraculous circumstances, 222 00:15:58.169 --> 00:16:02.450 where I met the counselor, I'm sorry, the Custodian, and and 223 00:16:03.169 --> 00:16:07.159 he told me the background of the story, which made it even more miraculous, 224 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:11.480 and it just made me think a couple of things. Number One, 225 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:18.240 when God has called us to whatever situation he's called us, and it may 226 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:25.269 seem like a failing situation, a situation we just really do not want to 227 00:16:25.429 --> 00:16:27.710 be in, but if he's calling us there, first of all go, 228 00:16:29.149 --> 00:16:32.389 yeah, go where he's calling you, like the Custodian did. He went, 229 00:16:32.710 --> 00:16:36.580 yeah, he went back and and and God had a divine appointment for 230 00:16:36.700 --> 00:16:38.620 him. But the second, I think major point, which I think is 231 00:16:38.740 --> 00:16:44.220 a major point for me in the Joseph Story, is people are watching. 232 00:16:44.259 --> 00:16:52.289 Yeah, people are watching us, perhaps more strongly in the periods of time 233 00:16:52.809 --> 00:16:59.250 when we're facing grave disappointment or failure. They're watching US and they're watching our 234 00:16:59.769 --> 00:17:06.440 walk with God, particularly Joseph in the story. I read nowhere that Joseph 235 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:11.039 ever abandoned God or his faith in God, he seems to have. In 236 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:15.869 fact, when he's asked to interpret the dreams, he shows a marked change 237 00:17:15.990 --> 00:17:21.069 in his character. He doesn't take the glory like he kind of did, 238 00:17:21.430 --> 00:17:23.910 kind of lorded it over his brother's he said you're going to bow down to 239 00:17:25.069 --> 00:17:29.269 me in the original dream, but now he says I can't, I can't 240 00:17:29.349 --> 00:17:33.700 interpret your dream, but my God can. So he gives God the glory. 241 00:17:33.819 --> 00:17:38.019 So in this time of a parent failure and testing, he has come 242 00:17:38.220 --> 00:17:44.529 to a greater understanding of who God is and a greater of understanding of his 243 00:17:44.769 --> 00:17:48.650 own lack of strength and then need to bely on God's strength. And people 244 00:17:48.690 --> 00:17:51.890 are watching him, those people in prison. Potiphar was watching him. The 245 00:17:51.970 --> 00:17:56.930 people in prison were watching him and just as that woman was watching the Custodian, 246 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:03.839 God ultimately is glorified, his purposes are realized and there's victory. And 247 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:11.200 I think that's a just such an encouragement to us as sidewalk counselors, because 248 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.549 we were also being watched in that story. This man, this custodian doing 249 00:18:15.670 --> 00:18:21.829 the prayer walk, saw us and new look at those people. They know 250 00:18:21.990 --> 00:18:23.549 what to do. I don't know what to do, but they they do. 251 00:18:23.789 --> 00:18:29.259 They're trained. Yeah, and and he saw us in action as he's 252 00:18:29.299 --> 00:18:33.500 doing the prayer walk and it was us that he called. Yeah, yeah, 253 00:18:33.500 --> 00:18:37.940 and that speaks again to this faithfulness, unto the Lord, that we 254 00:18:38.140 --> 00:18:42.410 do what we do not for ourselves, not for our own glory. We 255 00:18:42.529 --> 00:18:45.609 certainly don't do it to try to earn favor with God. We were accused 256 00:18:45.650 --> 00:18:49.049 of that by some folks that you're out here to, from the pro abortion 257 00:18:49.089 --> 00:18:52.089 people. Out here to try to make yourself feel better here to try to 258 00:18:52.210 --> 00:18:56.279 earn points with God is like no God has already given us all the points 259 00:18:56.359 --> 00:19:00.680 he can give us in that he gave us Jesus to be our salvation. 260 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:06.160 We're out there out of love toward him, right, and so when we're 261 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:11.349 faithful toward him, God will see to it that our faithfulness is seen by 262 00:19:11.390 --> 00:19:15.789 others and I would say even even if we don't find out about it. 263 00:19:15.869 --> 00:19:18.509 This is a promise that I always make. If you've listened to this podcast, 264 00:19:18.589 --> 00:19:21.390 you've heard me say this a lot, that if you are out there 265 00:19:21.430 --> 00:19:23.109 in ambortion center, if you are faithful to be out there, I can 266 00:19:23.150 --> 00:19:27.180 make two promises God will use you to save babies. Right. His word 267 00:19:27.220 --> 00:19:30.619 doesn't return void. Whe Do you find out about it or not? God 268 00:19:30.819 --> 00:19:33.299 is using your witness, your testimony, to be out there and just your 269 00:19:33.339 --> 00:19:37.259 presence out there to say babies. Yeah, and you're going to grow in 270 00:19:37.380 --> 00:19:41.250 areas of your life that you might not otherwise. Actually you definitely, I 271 00:19:41.329 --> 00:19:44.529 would say, won't otherwise grow. And one of those areas is one of 272 00:19:44.609 --> 00:19:48.650 faithfulness. The Bible says it's in proverbs twenty. I think it's for six. 273 00:19:48.170 --> 00:19:52.400 It says each man will proclaim his own goodness, but a faithful man 274 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:56.880 who could find God is looking for faithful people. Jesus says, when the 275 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:00.839 son of man returns, will he find faith on the earth? Is He 276 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:03.720 going to find faithful people? As he looks in your city, wherever you 277 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:08.910 are, across the United States or across the world? Is God looking in 278 00:20:08.990 --> 00:20:15.109 your city and is he finding faithful people? Are you faithful to do what 279 00:20:15.190 --> 00:20:17.269 God has called you to do, to be where God has called you to 280 00:20:17.349 --> 00:20:19.430 be? Because if you are just like that custodian, yeah, just like 281 00:20:19.509 --> 00:20:22.900 Vicki, whose faith will be out there in the sidewalk. Yeah, if 282 00:20:22.940 --> 00:20:25.740 your faithful, God is going to use you. Yeah, I re read 283 00:20:25.779 --> 00:20:29.700 a scripture here. This is Colossians chapter three and seventeen, and then I'm 284 00:20:29.700 --> 00:20:33.220 going to jump to verse twenty three, because these two scriptures are tied in 285 00:20:33.299 --> 00:20:36.130 together. And if you guys have an opportunity to just read the whole book 286 00:20:36.130 --> 00:20:38.569 of Collossians, as pretty sure it's a good book. Yeah, but Cassius 287 00:20:38.569 --> 00:20:45.009 chapter three speaks similarly to kind of what we're talking about in seventeen three, 288 00:20:45.329 --> 00:20:48.609 seventeen, it says, whatever you do in word or deed, do it 289 00:20:48.690 --> 00:20:51.480 all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, or the Lord Jesus, 290 00:20:51.559 --> 00:20:53.839 giving thanks to God, the father, through him. And skipping on the 291 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:57.480 Verse Twenty Three. And whatever you do, do it hardly as unto the 292 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:00.839 Lord and not to men. Yeah, it goes on a verse twenty four, 293 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:04.150 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance, 294 00:21:04.670 --> 00:21:10.670 for you serve the Lord Christ. So again this puts things in its proper 295 00:21:10.750 --> 00:21:18.069 perspective, that we're not serving those babies and those mothers primarily, we're serving 296 00:21:18.700 --> 00:21:22.299 the Lord. We're serving God now because, like we often say, we 297 00:21:22.420 --> 00:21:23.859 have to love God first and then we can love our neighbor, because we're 298 00:21:23.859 --> 00:21:27.740 serving the Lord. We're serving those babies, but he's primary, he's the 299 00:21:27.819 --> 00:21:33.170 focus. Our faithfulness is to him. We serve the Lord Christ, like 300 00:21:33.289 --> 00:21:37.410 it says, the Lord Jesus, and so that's what that custodian was doing. 301 00:21:37.609 --> 00:21:40.329 That's right and being faithful to the Lord. Yeah, and I think 302 00:21:40.490 --> 00:21:45.450 it helps us to reframe the whole idea of failure. Yeah, there is 303 00:21:45.890 --> 00:21:49.640 no failure in the Lord. There really is not. Whatever he has brought 304 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:52.759 you to, there is a purpose to it. Yeah, and if you 305 00:21:53.000 --> 00:22:00.599 are truly working as to the Lord and not to men, you cannot fail. 306 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:04.390 It may feel like failure by worldly standards, maybe it is, but 307 00:22:04.470 --> 00:22:08.069 not by God's yards. Yeah, by got standards. You're in that place 308 00:22:08.630 --> 00:22:14.150 for a reason and even those whatever terrible circumstances you're facing, yeah, for 309 00:22:14.390 --> 00:22:18.740 a reason. Well, that sort of speaks to just our experiences out there 310 00:22:18.740 --> 00:22:21.339 on the sidewalk. You know, we've been, and I say it's all 311 00:22:21.420 --> 00:22:25.500 by God's grace that I've been able to be out there for going away actually 312 00:22:25.779 --> 00:22:30.410 little over fifteen years, just being out there consistently, and our team's being 313 00:22:30.450 --> 00:22:34.569 out there for over ten years. Individuals just preaching out and we've really, 314 00:22:36.170 --> 00:22:38.769 lack of a better term, planted our roots deep there at the abortion center 315 00:22:40.009 --> 00:22:42.450 actually right down the road from here, not not too far from our office 316 00:22:42.529 --> 00:22:48.240 here, and we have, on a regular basis, women come who they're 317 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:52.079 not coming to the abortion center. Actually, they're coming to us because we 318 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:55.319 helped a friend of theirs right over the years. We helped them over the 319 00:22:55.359 --> 00:22:57.990 years and they got a difficult situation. Our desires, of course, to 320 00:22:59.069 --> 00:23:03.230 break that cycle of sin and destruction, but sometimes that cycle is not broken 321 00:23:03.230 --> 00:23:06.990 immediately when they choose life for their their baby, they get caught in another 322 00:23:07.029 --> 00:23:11.029 situation. Yeah, we are thankful, however, that they've observed our faithfulness 323 00:23:11.029 --> 00:23:14.420 in such a way that, rather than going to the abortion center, they 324 00:23:14.460 --> 00:23:17.579 actually come to us, they come to the mobile unit or they just come 325 00:23:17.700 --> 00:23:18.900 and say, Hey, I know you guys helped me before. Will you 326 00:23:18.980 --> 00:23:22.900 help me again? Yep, yeah, and even to the point where we've 327 00:23:22.980 --> 00:23:26.099 had, and maybe you can recall this story, maybe share a little bit 328 00:23:26.140 --> 00:23:30.809 more that I'm sharing, but we've had people that work inside the abortion center 329 00:23:30.890 --> 00:23:33.690 right who hate us, yeah, until they realize that they need us. 330 00:23:33.730 --> 00:23:38.450 Right. We've even had people who are very close to some of the directors 331 00:23:38.529 --> 00:23:45.359 and some of the administrative folks come out to us because they knew that we 332 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:48.799 could help them, right, because they were in a difficult pregnancy situation and 333 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:52.240 they didn't want to have an abortion, even though they work for the abortion 334 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:55.200 center, actually reach out to us. You want to recount any of that? 335 00:23:55.359 --> 00:24:00.029 Right? I remember one story where I do remember some and some of 336 00:24:00.069 --> 00:24:03.630 them we actually are not allowed, because I'm sure laws, to tell who 337 00:24:03.670 --> 00:24:04.990 they were. But, like you said, they were pretty high up there 338 00:24:06.029 --> 00:24:10.339 and and they came on board the the mobile ultra sound unit, and we 339 00:24:10.380 --> 00:24:12.740 were just all like our eyes popping open, like, why did you come 340 00:24:12.779 --> 00:24:15.420 to us? I thought you hated our guts. But I do know of 341 00:24:15.500 --> 00:24:21.859 an another story where an abortion worker, she I think she was a nurse 342 00:24:22.140 --> 00:24:26.210 in in the abortion center and it was in the past seven years that I've 343 00:24:26.210 --> 00:24:29.650 been out there. I don't know exactly when, but where she had a 344 00:24:29.849 --> 00:24:36.210 woman who clearly just was so conflicted to the point that this worker told her, 345 00:24:36.289 --> 00:24:41.720 look, honey, you obviously don't want an abortion. There are people 346 00:24:41.079 --> 00:24:45.359 that will help you. Go Out and talk to those people on this sidewalk. 347 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.519 That's the abortion center. Yeah, telling I'm sure if anyone knew she 348 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:51.920 had said that, they would have fired her. I'm sure if the people 349 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:57.789 a management but but so are. Our actions speak louder than anything. We 350 00:24:57.950 --> 00:25:02.750 are there helping and end people are watching us. Yeah, watching US do 351 00:25:02.990 --> 00:25:06.470 that. So there's a second story. I don't know if we have time 352 00:25:06.549 --> 00:25:11.339 for me to tell. Yeah, the story very similar theme. That happened 353 00:25:11.460 --> 00:25:15.099 again within just the past three days, which is why this are we really 354 00:25:15.140 --> 00:25:19.420 failing when we think we're feeling are we really failing? And and and our 355 00:25:19.460 --> 00:25:25.490 answers no, but this was a day that it felt like failure. We've 356 00:25:25.529 --> 00:25:29.690 been out there, hot day, tons and tons of antagonism and opposition, 357 00:25:30.210 --> 00:25:33.809 no apparent baby saved. WE'RE CLEANING UP, we're packing all of our stuff 358 00:25:33.809 --> 00:25:37.559 away, feeling a little you can't help it, no matter how many times 359 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:41.519 we tell you it's okay, we're there for the Lord. You do feel 360 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:48.039 deflated. Yeah, when you haven't seen any apparent fruit. And a policeman 361 00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:52.789 comes and comes to me because I was still there. Again, it was 362 00:25:52.869 --> 00:25:55.910 it. He would have come to any of us, but I just happen 363 00:25:55.950 --> 00:25:57.829 to be the one that was still there. Yeah, and and he said 364 00:25:57.869 --> 00:26:03.589 Hey, we've got a mom at the police station, pretty desperate situation. 365 00:26:03.990 --> 00:26:10.700 She left the abortion center and would you guys come talk to her? Yeah, 366 00:26:10.859 --> 00:26:15.220 so what's interesting? First, they didn't go to the abortion center and 367 00:26:15.539 --> 00:26:19.970 say, would would you go talk to this distraught woman that you have made 368 00:26:21.130 --> 00:26:23.609 so, so distraught, and would you help her? They didn't go to 369 00:26:23.690 --> 00:26:27.730 the pro choice crowd, who claims that we hate women and they're the ones 370 00:26:27.769 --> 00:26:30.930 that are there helping women. Well, why didn't they go to then, 371 00:26:30.009 --> 00:26:34.359 to those people that are supposedly helping women? They didn't even use their own 372 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:38.759 police resources. There the cops. Why didn't they help the woman? They 373 00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:42.279 came to us. They didn't go to city council, who who is passed 374 00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:47.789 many laws hindering our ability to help these women. They came to us. 375 00:26:47.789 --> 00:26:52.910 Yeah, and we dropped everything. I went zipping over to the police station 376 00:26:53.869 --> 00:26:57.950 and this woman was again. She had been very, very terrible. She 377 00:26:57.990 --> 00:27:02.779 had been tricked into going to the abortion center. She didn't know was an 378 00:27:02.779 --> 00:27:06.500 abortion center. Her mother had woken her up early in the morning, driven 379 00:27:06.619 --> 00:27:08.579 three hours to bring her to the abortion center, telling her she was going 380 00:27:08.660 --> 00:27:14.460 to a doctor appointment, and then the mother dropped her with the name of 381 00:27:14.500 --> 00:27:18.049 a counselor that she was supposed to go look for in the abortion center. 382 00:27:18.730 --> 00:27:21.890 Again, the girl doesn't know why she's there. She walks in, quickly 383 00:27:21.930 --> 00:27:27.809 figures out it's an abortion center and she believed very strongly abortion was wrong. 384 00:27:29.130 --> 00:27:33.039 Yeah, she did not want to get this abortion. So she goes running 385 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:37.640 out and her mother is gone. Her mother has left with the car is 386 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:42.440 gone. The mother's gone, the mother's not answering the phone. All the 387 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:47.910 girl had on her was her phone and a charger. No Mon me, 388 00:27:48.349 --> 00:27:52.029 she did have her ID. No car. She's she is abandoned, three 389 00:27:52.109 --> 00:27:56.950 hours from home and clearly I think she probably got a hold of the mother 390 00:27:56.990 --> 00:27:59.059 enough to say I'm not going to do it, and that's when the mother 391 00:27:59.220 --> 00:28:00.740 just said, basically, you're on your own. Yeah, wow. So, 392 00:28:00.859 --> 00:28:06.220 so we got her a free ultrasound, we got her launch, we 393 00:28:07.099 --> 00:28:10.539 we shared the Gospel with her. She was honestly, she ended up. 394 00:28:10.619 --> 00:28:12.730 Just to kind of willow back you real quick, she was not at the 395 00:28:12.809 --> 00:28:17.809 latrobe abortion center, but she was at another abortion another abortion center around the 396 00:28:17.890 --> 00:28:19.170 corner. Yeah, and there's a police station not far from there. So 397 00:28:19.250 --> 00:28:22.690 apparently she either walked to the police station called the police. All them said 398 00:28:22.730 --> 00:28:26.730 what do I do? They gave her directions and said come to the police 399 00:28:26.769 --> 00:28:30.319 station and we think we know some people that can help you. Yeah, 400 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:34.119 and that's when they came and got us and and we I was going on 401 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:37.440 a long trip the next day and I didn't relish the idea of a six 402 00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:41.869 hour round trip drive, but I would. I would have, as would, 403 00:28:41.869 --> 00:28:45.029 I think, any one of our counselors had they been faced with the 404 00:28:45.109 --> 00:28:48.950 same situation. But it just happened the nurses, Sun was, who did 405 00:28:48.990 --> 00:28:52.150 the ultrasound for her, was going to be driving to her city that very 406 00:28:52.190 --> 00:28:56.019 day. Yes, God would have it again, I'm a miracle of God 407 00:28:56.180 --> 00:29:00.299 providing. And so we got this girl home, we got her launch, 408 00:29:00.460 --> 00:29:03.859 we got her help. We're going to be helping with a baby chower. 409 00:29:03.940 --> 00:29:10.369 We we've connected her already with counseling services and with mentorship services in her city. 410 00:29:11.130 --> 00:29:17.289 But the the main point of that story is that we were being watched 411 00:29:17.329 --> 00:29:22.369 during all these apparent failures. The police out there. They see us a 412 00:29:22.490 --> 00:29:26.319 lot, they're out there a lot and some of them don't particularly like us 413 00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:32.160 either. They don't, and that was why this was almost shocking that. 414 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:36.920 But who did they decide to go to? They've seen us in failure, 415 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:41.309 because there is the most most people do aboard. So it does feel like 416 00:29:41.430 --> 00:29:45.950 failure after failure. They have observed us, but what they have observed is 417 00:29:45.190 --> 00:29:48.549 that we are faithful, that were always there, that we do what we 418 00:29:48.670 --> 00:29:52.539 say, that we love the Lord and that we were the ones that they 419 00:29:52.660 --> 00:29:59.299 went to get help for this woman. So that the apparent failure of that 420 00:29:59.579 --> 00:30:02.900 day or of the whole year or all the years that the police have been 421 00:30:02.940 --> 00:30:07.609 watching us, when women by the drobe still go into a board, maybe 422 00:30:07.650 --> 00:30:15.690 it's not failure. Maybe it's it's God allowing people to see my people will 423 00:30:15.730 --> 00:30:18.609 stand in the gap for me no matter what. Yeah, no matter what 424 00:30:18.730 --> 00:30:23.240 they face. Yeah, we're not pretending that it's at all easy. Oh 425 00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:27.079 No, day in and day out. Yeah, and you know, you 426 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:33.359 may look those who are doing sidewall counseling nationally. Maybe you've looked on our 427 00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:37.990 facebook page and some of our blog posts and that sort of thing and you've 428 00:30:37.789 --> 00:30:41.349 saw some of the fruit. And certainly God by His mercy. Yeah, 429 00:30:41.430 --> 00:30:45.269 we see baby saved on a regular Basi Do. Yeah, but if you 430 00:30:45.390 --> 00:30:49.099 look at the volume of babies that are being killed inside of that abortion center 431 00:30:49.700 --> 00:30:52.259 and compared to the volume of babies that are saved, if you did like 432 00:30:52.299 --> 00:30:59.500 a ratio analysis, the vast majority are killing their children. That's right, 433 00:30:59.539 --> 00:31:03.500 the vast majority of those that we reach out to. You might look at 434 00:31:03.500 --> 00:31:07.849 it and say, just you guys are failures. Yeah, the reality is, 435 00:31:07.970 --> 00:31:10.329 though, we're not if we're faithful to the Lord, and it's not 436 00:31:10.369 --> 00:31:14.369 just because we have these numbers of babies that were saved or whatever. Yeah, 437 00:31:14.769 --> 00:31:17.410 it's because we're faithful to the Lord. Were faithful to do what he's 438 00:31:17.450 --> 00:31:19.640 called us to do. So this is an encouragement to you guys. Continue 439 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:22.640 to be faithful, continue to do what God has called you to do, 440 00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:27.160 and God is going to position you to be used in some of these ways. 441 00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:33.349 You're going to have stories to tell of what God has done and your 442 00:31:33.430 --> 00:31:38.710 faithfulness is not overlooked, first and foremost by the Lord Right, but also 443 00:31:40.470 --> 00:31:45.309 by other people who are observing, by other people who are even maybe opposition 444 00:31:45.349 --> 00:31:48.420 people from the outside looking in. I mean I've even had some of our 445 00:31:48.460 --> 00:31:52.700 pro abortion opposition people say, I know you guys aren't going away because you 446 00:31:52.779 --> 00:31:53.660 know some of them. They're out there to try to get us to go 447 00:31:53.700 --> 00:31:57.420 away from that abortion center and telling Hey, till this place is closed, 448 00:31:57.779 --> 00:32:01.930 we're going to be here and we maybe even recognize we know that right. 449 00:32:02.250 --> 00:32:07.490 So even they might see our faithfulness and maybe it'll turn their horse. And 450 00:32:07.490 --> 00:32:09.490 I have another story that that. It's a quick one but one of the 451 00:32:09.890 --> 00:32:17.759 most. We've got this new crop of pro abortion people who really are very 452 00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:22.759 difficult and very, very adversarial. But one of them came to one of 453 00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:28.559 our other counselors and told her about a friend of hers who is in a 454 00:32:28.759 --> 00:32:31.269 very difficult situation and, in a mocking tone, said are you going to 455 00:32:31.349 --> 00:32:35.910 help her? And we said yes, and we did, and we did 456 00:32:36.549 --> 00:32:39.109 so they even knew. I think initially it was sort of mocking, but 457 00:32:39.349 --> 00:32:44.819 then I was the one that actually got called to help this friend and we 458 00:32:44.859 --> 00:32:47.619 actually had then another counselor be the one that contacted that friend. But I 459 00:32:47.779 --> 00:32:52.059 went to her like a couple days later and said you're the one that referred 460 00:32:52.099 --> 00:32:53.220 your friend, right, and she said yes, and I said, well, 461 00:32:53.259 --> 00:32:57.779 I want you to know we we've met, had several calls and and 462 00:32:58.099 --> 00:33:02.650 we are helping her, and she was genuinely I think surprised but grateful. 463 00:33:04.450 --> 00:33:09.569 So again here you know, where you least expect it, people watching and 464 00:33:10.089 --> 00:33:17.920 noticing, and even your enemies can become your cheering squat. Yeah, because 465 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:22.240 you're helping them. Yeah, but it all comes in faithfulness to the Lord. 466 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:27.549 It does. Our faithfulness is never failure. Yeah, as long as 467 00:33:27.589 --> 00:33:30.990 our faithfulness is unto the Lord. Right, right. So I hope this 468 00:33:30.269 --> 00:33:34.950 podcast was an encouragement. Do you guys who all of our PODCASTS are? 469 00:33:35.190 --> 00:33:37.910 We again, like I started out, like to hear some feedback from you 470 00:33:37.990 --> 00:33:40.619 guys, some ideas for further episodes. That would be a blessing to y'all. 471 00:33:42.460 --> 00:33:45.259 You can reach out to me at D parks cities for Lifecom, her 472 00:33:45.339 --> 00:33:51.180 V cussy organ cities for lifecom. Also check out our sidewalks for life website, 473 00:33:51.259 --> 00:33:54.500 sidewalks the number four lifecom, where we put out articles on a regular 474 00:33:54.539 --> 00:33:59.809 basis, almost a weekly basis, of some and mainly it's Vicki writing these 475 00:33:59.849 --> 00:34:02.809 articles, because you can write an article in like a third of the time 476 00:34:02.890 --> 00:34:07.690 that it takes me to write an article. These articles are supposed to be 477 00:34:07.730 --> 00:34:09.400 an encouragement. Do you guys? We hope that they are. Dealing with 478 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:14.519 all kinds of subjects, but focused around sidewalk counseling. So check that out, 479 00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:19.760 share that and wrap this thing up. So until next time, God 480 00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:30.110 bless gap. That's y'all. Give me O love for love, give me 481 00:34:30.869 --> 00:34:44.099 our love for gratitude. I know it will cost me my life. Nothing's 482 00:34:44.219 --> 00:34:45.860 too precious in some you