Hey, good evening, it's July 21st, 2025 with all these amazing mighty men of valor and
this is Mike and we're with the Afro and I'm leading tonight so yeah.
So you know Joshua had a major, previously we were talking about Joshua having a major,
making it through a fast and getting a new job that he wanted so dude that is like praise
the Lord.
I love that dude, wins, wins, wins.
Anybody else got some wins?
I'm currently on a fast, eating for a day and fasting for a day and then on my eating
days like today, I eat all my meals in a three-hour window and I'm purposely doing it after school
so it's kind of just like being ferocious in my studies and being, I don't know, just
less bogged down about thinking about what I'm going to eat, just saving it for afterward
and so far things are going well.
Only a weekend though but you know, just spending time learning how to make myself better.
Well and you're in your place which that's a win and you got a robotic lawnmower.
I mean so David got a robotic lawnmower, he's in his place and in his school and I mean
that's a bunch of prayers answered right there, right?
Just the fact that, I mean and we're so proud of you bro for, I mean like you wanted it,
you went and you pushed forward and you got and you're in it, right?
And like I say, it's beautiful, it encourages me, right?
Like you guys, dude, like David stepped up and went after it and he's getting it.
I mean it makes me like, oh well how can I step up, right?
So anybody else?
I have something to share but it's, I don't know, I want to give everybody the chance.
Everybody say nothing when you want to.
It's so depressing.
All right.
What's going on Hunter?
Oh, I, you know, there's a, I just got an email.
Can you hear me?
Yeah, I hear you.
I can hear you.
All right.
Well, I went out and I heard about I need to do some coaching before I get into LoveSeat
and, but I accidentally went, bombed into, I saw an email that was not in my primary
thing about Jackie giving me about Pedro doing a coaching about goals coaching and reset.
So I signed up for it.
I spent $295 on a fee for that.
So I joined in and I figured, you know what, I got a lot to do.
I want to, I want to solve some problems, this six month program.
Wow.
So you're going to jump in?
I just jumped in weeks ago and I got done with Prime and I'm already taking care of
finances and I went 20 days without looking at pornography.
That's amazing.
Awesome.
I figured, you know what, if the more you walk away from self and the more you want
to pursue intimacy, the less appealing it is to you because you want, it's all about
pleasure.
There's no intimacy in porn at all.
And it ruins your perspective for your future life and every woman.
Not to mention it's a lot of those people, a lot of those pornos are years old.
Do you think those people in those pornos have moved on with their life?
So maybe you should do the same.
Not to mention.
And also, so I figured I started some goals and everything.
I started new kinds of goals, like talk to have one conversation with a woman, like a
normal conversation with anybody, level one, level two relationship once a day or once
every couple of days, because it's better than staying lonely and isolated.
And also I'm already working on Jiu Jitsu and going to the gym today.
I did six sets of each and I'm going to get up and work and start.
Way to go.
Yeah.
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu?
Yes.
That.
I've thought about doing that.
I don't know.
But everybody I see that does Jiu Jitsu ends up getting hurt.
So like, you know, like, I don't know.
I kind of like whatever.
So that's cool.
It's just who you roll with, Mike.
Is it really?
Yeah.
You know, I think it's the white belts are the most dangerous people in the world.
That's what I heard.
They're going nonstop fast.
Yeah.
And I'm also trying to do it.
Yeah.
That's one of my goals as well.
And I'm going to do that.
And then I'm going to I'm also going on the singles cruise in January.
So figure, you know what, let's travel.
And I'm all set and ready and I'm going to get set to go for it and do calls.
Dude, that's awesome.
What?
What's up?
Did somebody say something?
Well, no.
And I'm also going to have to work today on getting a haircut.
Yeah.
Yeah, I might need one of those, just thinking, you know, but that's all right.
Yeah, me too.
So, all right.
Well, Hunter, that's really good.
You know, that's, you know, this week, you guys, you know, Jackie was talking about …
Hey, guys.
Sorry.
Oh.
I don't want to interrupt.
I just wanted to pop in in case that you guys didn't find out the announcement that there
is no other group for men this week except for this.
Obviously, Faith Friday, Supernatural Saturday, Sunday, but just no Tuesday.
So, that was removed from your calendar because we're going to have a women's only session
and just wanted to let you guys know.
All right.
Hi, Jackie.
Hi.
I love the mid-set, the reset, the halftime, so, yeah.
Yeah, and if you guys have any questions about that, let me know.
I'd love to answer them.
I see a whole bunch of bright faces in here that I haven't seen in a while.
David Gamma is here.
I see people that I have not seen in a long time, so that's great.
Jesse's here.
That's awesome.
So, I'm assuming that you're leading tonight, Mike?
I am.
Okay.
All right.
Well, you guys, if you're not involved in the halftime reset, make sure the halftime
shift is what we're calling it.
Make sure that you watch that replay.
It's on Thursday.
Thursday's replay from last week.
And then, also, I need volunteers for single spotlight, which is next on the 31st.
So, if you want to volunteer for single spotlights, and for those of you that already volunteered
and you didn't get any feedback about matches, we're actually going to be putting out your
matches to you this week.
And so, everyone had matches.
Everyone had people that reached out about them, and so we will be giving those to you
guys.
Do you guys have questions for me?
Is that why your hands are up?
Yeah.
Otherwise, I'm going to leave.
Okay.
Hunter, what's up?
Well, I'm sorry.
Forgive me for being delayed about the reset, the halftime reset, but the thing is, I'm
joining Pedro with a six-month program, and so I figured, I assumed that was the coaching
I needed to be on the spotlight, or no?
I mean, it doesn't have anything to do with that.
I mean, I'm a marketing partner of Pedro's, and I will be part of that group as well,
but that doesn't have anything to do with this group.
Oh, never mind.
So, yeah.
Thanks.
I'm just going to do wherever I got to go to get on the spotlight.
Gotcha.
Okay.
Hunter, thank you for letting me know that you're doing that, and I think that will be
really good for you.
Stephen, what's your question?
Hi there, Jackie.
I just quickly want to check the Ask Jackie on the app doesn't work on my app.
Has there been an update recently, or is there something wrong with that Ask Jackie page?
You're saying the form that you filled, like the form that you asked your question in is
not populating for you?
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah, that's right.
So, it's Google Drive.
Sorry, the file you have requested has been deleted, as pops up on my screen.
Anyone else recently have that same situation with that?
I haven't tried it.
Okay.
We will test that, and I will let you know what's up with that, but thank you for bringing
it to our attention.
Okay?
Okay.
Thank you.
Questions?
Hi, Jackie.
Hi.
I'd be interested in doing the spotlight if you need another person.
We always need another person, so as many guys as we can, that ladies love to meet you
guys.
They love to hear you guys answer their questions, so definitely, for sure.
And what about you, Joshua?
Joshua?
Yeah.
Yeah, I'd love to be part of the single spotlight.
I finished the heart work again, like 10 or so days ago.
I still need to do that form, like what do you, the qualities are non-negotiables and
a wife sort of thing, but pretty much done.
I haven't started that other part alongside the heart work with all those like 24 videos
or something.
I'm blanking on the name of it right now.
The Love Story Accelerator?
Maybe.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
So it's phase two.
It's phase two after the heart work is what you're talking about.
Well, I think I'm still in phase one.
It's the heart work and then that other course thing in the app.
Yeah.
The only other course that we have besides the heart work videos would be the Love Story
Accelerator.
So it's boundaries and dating 101, online dating, like those videos.
Is that what you're referring to?
The PATH sessions.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, yeah, we have some replays on PATH sessions.
Those are just different topics that I've taught on over the last couple of years of
our program.
They should be titled, so you could go through and look.
There's some attachment style stuff in there that could be interesting.
Um, to use sort of like a library of content, so you don't have to finish those, um, that's
not required.
It's just there for you if you want it.
Okay.
I was just wondering if there was anything you wanted me to do before I like go to single
spotlight or something like that, so no, I mean, all of you are entitled to have a single
spotlight.
Uh, we don't let men stay in here that we don't think are safe and, you know, doing
the hard work is in your benefit because going forward in relationship is going to require
it for you, um, because we are, we're going to run into problems.
All of us are.
And, um, a lot of people cut and run when they run into a problem, they start convincing
themselves that, you know, if this was a God match for them, that it would be easy and
there wouldn't be any, you know, rocks in the road, you know, any potholes.
And that's just not true, especially not in the year 2025.
So please make sure that you understand that there is going to be conflict.
It's how you're going to address the conflict, how you're going to frame the conflict when
it happens.
Are you going to make a mountain out of molehill?
Are you going to own your side of the street?
Are you going to realize, um, if it's a trigger of yours, that that's what's happening or
you're going to blame the other person and the ladies get the same type of teaching.
So you don't think that, you know, this is a man thing and we're like trying to make
it a man thing because it's not, um, we tell the ladies the same thing.
Yeah.
I can't tell you how many, you know, potentially really good matches I have seen that gets
shipwrecked by people not doing their hard work.
So, right.
And I see some of you are reluctantly here after, um, trying to go it alone for a while.
And so glad to have you back and seeing that, you know, community is good and that we need
coaching and that we need to address things before they become problems.
You can definitely address something before it becomes a, you know, a, a hand grenade
that blows up your life.
Can address it first before it becomes a serious issue.
So, um, yeah.
All right, guys.
Well, I'll let Mike do whatever kind of stuff you guys are going to do tonight together.
Um, David bought a truck today.
That's where he is because I told him this morning when I woke up, you can't use my car
anymore.
And you've got to go find a car of your own because, uh, his car we gave to my homeless
brother and my brother now lives in that car.
Probably a little too much information, but so we've only had one car for a while now
and it's starting to wear thin.
So David is the, is an F one 50 man now.
So for you truck dudes, you could be like, you know, Hey bro, he's feel, listen, he's
feeling like a tall man.
He's feeling like a tall man with this truck.
He looks good in it too.
Why are you telling on me right now?
Hi babe.
Did you get it?
I did.
And it, you know how it goes at the car dealership.
You never know whether it's going to be three hours, two hours, eight hours.
You know, you just never know what the process is going to be.
And so I apologize.
It's, I was literally in the finance house for the last 30 minutes.
So I apologize guys for not getting on here before.
Well, Mike is faithful and he's here to help.
So, um, all right guys, so if you want a single spotlight, just, I'll, I'm going to make a
post in your group and just, just comment, say, Hey, I'll do it.
I volunteer.
So I'll make a post, make sure that you're in the app and you're also in the Facebook
group.
If you have Facebook, if you don't, the app is fine.
Um, but we do a lot more community over there in the, in the Facebook group.
So the app, the community feature on the app is a little squirrely in my opinion.
Um, okay.
I'll check, ask Jackie, let you guys know what's up with that.
And then if there are asked Jackie questions in there, I'll go ahead and answer them.
And then I'll do a live in the Facebook group and answer those questions.
So David, are you going to take over with Mike now?
Yeah.
Mike, definitely.
Um, my, my, no, I'm not muted.
Yeah, definitely.
Mike, um, let us know what you got and then I'll just stay on here with y'all as well.
So all right guys, thanks for jumping in.
Tim, do you have one more question for me or you just had your hand up?
Oh no, no.
Sorry.
Um, no, I kind of knew.
Okay.
So where do I, where do I go then to sign up for the single spotlight or the spotlight?
I'm going to make, I'm going to, are you in the Facebook group, the Monatha challenge
group or are you in the men's monthly 1822 group and in the app?
I don't think so.
I'd be happy to join.
I did join some group that I got an invitation for, but I don't think it's that.
Okay.
So David, if you can point them in the right direction, I'm going to make, I'll make a
post in both places so that whoever wants to sign up for the spotlight can, and you
guys, that's next week on your calendar, July 31st.
Okay.
Can you guys, July is already over.
It's crazy.
Wait, it's my birthday.
It's next week.
Literally the 31st.
That's not right.
Is it?
It is.
Wow.
That's, that's insane.
Okay.
Yep.
31st.
All right. Well, it's next week then. And so I will see you guys then. See everyone. Bye
All right
So cool. So yeah
Definitely will get you invites into the Facebook
The monthly men's group and there's a messenger too that we use just for people
quite often so
All right. So sorry getting back to so you guys like wins, you know, like like Jackie said a really good thing
Or I mean, she's a lot of really good things but um, like handling your stuff before it blows up your life, right?
You know, that's a big deal and you know, there's all those like she said they were optional videos
But you guys I don't really I would I'm not gonna contradict her
But those all those videos are huge. I got deliverance from one of those videos. It really helped set me free
so like I mean
they're not very long and they're well worth the watch and they go through and
And I'll allow yourself to experience some of the things that might come up in them and help you get better
I mean because ultimately what's this the whole point of this is that we all win, right?
so
But you know, I just I just want to also honor that you guys are doing that
And David just linked. I
Think it is
Yeah, I did I don't still hear me I'd put the link to the invite link to the men's monthly group on Facebook
Well, thank you
So like so like this week you guys
you know, I don't like really sharing my crap, but I have been like this is my gal at church who's the pastor's daughter and
I just have had so much anxiety over it and which is kind of my tip like, you know
Hey, if you know attachment styles, you know, I've been working towards secure
But it's only when you're in the fire that you actually your attachment styles start coming up, right?
And so, you know like this week I just ended up
spending three hours as a puddle on the floor of my my room because
There's a lot of things that I've just haven't been addressing and I've been running from you know
I've been fasting but it's funny because I went I started gaming again and
The Lord asked me to stop to fast that and to pray and and as I did, you know
Like I
Just if you don't grieve thing if there's things chasing you and you don't grieve them and you don't work through them
they're gonna wear you they're gonna they're gonna chase you down and you're gonna end up crashing and burning and
I ended up we went on a church thing this weekend and I actually drove her in my car and because I had
Had gotten rid of all the junk and and processed done all the heart work on all the stuff that I had been putting off
I was actually able to be present and have a great time and be myself which
I hadn't been able to because I had just all the stuff that was going on. So I just really encourage you
The heart work is really important
you know, and so
And apparently I have golden retriever energy, but I don't know. I don't know how that goes
But you know, you know, I love golden retriever
so
but I just I just want to encourage you the steps work and it's better to do them now and
Or if you start feeling anxious or you start feeling
Weighted I
It wasn't just my dating life. It was my work life
It was my everything life and I just had a reckoning with it
Did I want to sit on my floor in a puddle for three hours? No
But I needed to
right
so
What about you guys
like
What are the like Jackie was talking about
It's halftime like it half we got half the year left and to like so my what was my halftime thing, you know
I I don't want to jump over and look at it
but basically was, you know, I want to be engaged by New Year's and
I want to have my prophetic channel blowing and that was my half time reset like what?
In the light in the next half this year. Where do you guys want to be?
What do you guys want to do?
Who do you want to be at the end of the year because you got sick you got nearly
five and a half months that you can use to become
whatever you want to be and I love hunter that you're doing jujitsu and you're you're doing the Pedro thing because
You're gonna be a different man after that and it's also I'm not the man
I was on how I approach women first off you want it
It's more about you being had rather than possessing be be one to possess to be possessed rather than the other way around
Basically, I'm not gonna treat it as an aging rat race to have it pressured as an aging rat race to have it done
Again, I may be entering my mid my late 30s
But I'm not gonna go like it young people always tempted saying we want to have it done
You know hunter
How about how about you just?
Go as you and not worry about it
about like the rat race and this and that and just remember like I just shared I just
I just I I laid things down so I could be me and I couldn't be and I you know and I wasn't always in
my head so if you're always thinking if you're always reacting and thinking oh I'm doing this
and I'm doing that then you don't actually just to get to be present in the moment you know you're
either in the front or you're ahead you're or you're in the past and really the present is
where you need to be to be in relationship with somebody right and even with yourself I mean like
whether or not you're in a relationship or not you know being in the present and I'll be the
first to say I spend a lot of time in the future and that's where my anxiety comes from because
it's not here yet right so um so anybody like so I gotta share not exactly a win yeah
uh so uh real quick let me
jump on video for this be present and also silently brag about my uh robotic lawnmower
so uh yeah I uh kind of broke things off with how that I been going out on a date
out in Pennsylvania when things had gotten physical it kind of
at first I was able to just stop things before they got
busy you know uh but uh days later I noticed that I was getting angry every time she called
and uh Jackie had said that it was uh avoidant attachment
and I was like but I can't be right because I'm only anxious attachment but apparently you can
have both yep and be disorganized so so now I'm in an area where there's young ladies like
10-15 years younger than me they just keep giving me the uglies and keep asking me out and I'm just
like no no I don't want to go out on a date I don't I don't even want to spend time with myself
right now part of it's a little bit of uh anger or hostility for being so
kind of a broken sense of things but also just I don't even have the time I'm just like dealing
with the yard now because I noticed oh hey there's tons of dead grass out here and
it's that thing's fault but no it's really the weather's fault where it's just uh
because uh there is some such a delay in uh it working whenever it rains uh that it uh
just didn't get out and cut it so now I gotta take so like let's look so yeah so there's you
know depending on the relationship you can be anxious and you could you can vacillate between
vacillate between both of them right you know in some way but you know you said something that
struck me right it's like you don't even want to be with yourself right like or whatever like
right that is that that's that's that's a great indicator that you should yeah you're doing well
just until you can be with yourself you really shouldn't be with anybody else because
yeah you haven't reconciled that right but you know I haven't it's kind of like not having time
to breathe like I thought I'd have time to catch up this weekend and go to church and spend time
with a men's prayer group out here and uh just went straight into studying actually skipped church
altogether but uh jump into my bible every day it's just uh I don't know maybe just because it's
this uh first full week of getting set up and trying to uh get things to where I don't have
to worry about them so you just did a ginormous transition right your nervous system is jacked
right now so like you just ended it with somebody who you cared for right and in a not so awesome
way so yeah there might be a couple reasons why you're you're a little just disorganized and a
little out you know and you're starting a whole new thing so have grace and be gentle with yourself
right like you know and you know you don't have to check the box you know but
get take some time to just get just be for a minute and take a breath right you've been through
a lot you've done a lot of traveling right so um like I say you're you're a warrior but man
your your battery your your um your batteries are low right so
It's okay to not entertain offers
because your batteries are low.
You don't even have batteries for you right now, right?
So like, you know, so you're loving yourself well.
You know, like just love yourself well,
work through the things that,
see the cool thing is, is when things come up,
it's being revealed so you can heal it, right?
So.
Yeah.
Thank you for this, Mike.
So David, in six months,
this is your reset in six months.
Hello?
You still there, David?
I'm still here.
You were freezing there for about 30 seconds.
Was I?
My bad.
So I just got new internet.
So if you're in six months, you know,
if you reset, where would you like to be?
And you guys, I'd like to hear all your answers.
And New Year's Eve, this picture, New Year's Eve, right?
Where do you want to be?
What do you want to change?
Where do you want to be?
I feel at this point, it's just like,
low things down, just focus on.
Like a female friend, like in the sense of things,
I kind of, with some of my triggers revealed
with that last relationship,
I feel like the whole boyfriend, girlfriend thing
is not a good idea for me personally.
That is just like work on finding and making a friend
and just work on spending time becoming best friends.
And I know that's not everyone's cup of tea.
Yeah, that's MO.
But I feel like that's kind of like what I need.
So at six months, do you like to have a female friend,
have developed a female friendship?
Yep.
All right.
Just a friendship, not someone that I'm pursuing
with lust in my eyes nor my heart.
Not someone that I'm thinking, this is it.
This is the one.
This one's gonna be the woman I married type of thing
because I've,
ways gone, all right.
But just someone that I can just think of,
wow, this is such a great friend.
So keep that in your, keep that as your vision, right?
And your school, right?
Who else?
Who else wants to jump in and share
what it's like to be in the club?
I think for me,
I'm not in a relationship currently.
I definitely wanna be in a relationship
and I think a committed relationship at that point.
I don't know if it'd be too soon for engagement,
but I'm just like very happy today
because of the job and everything.
So as a man, I'm like,
this is what God designed me for.
And so I have this increased vision
and really I just want the school year to go well
in my first semester coming up
and just planning what the spring one looks like
and be fully moved out,
I think towards Louisville or somewhere over there
and getting more involved in my messianic community
or some other communities I've been involved with as well.
So yeah.
And as a result of breaking this fast,
I've been very happy with myself in the sense of,
I freaking made this tray with like artichoke hearts
the other night, like just baked it in the oven.
So I'm learning how to cook
because I don't wanna eat processed junk all the time.
And so just by the new year,
just have like all these different recipes I've tried
and just know how to,
cause I didn't really,
I wasn't really using the kitchen very much before now.
And I baked a few times,
but it's been a long time
since I've like used the kitchen to cook.
And so just get to a point where,
no, that's like my regular lifestyle.
And then when I go out,
it's with friends or something,
once in a while, once a week or so.
So I'd say those.
So you wanna be in a relationship,
you wanna have more in your repertoire
and you wanna be established in your school, right?
It is like, I cook.
So I mean, it's nice to have a lot of things and I do.
I hate eating out all the time and the processed food because it's crap, right?
So I mean, and it's good to be a man.
I mean, like, we need to be men with plants, and you have a vision, you know, and like,
so that's a that's a really cool vision for, and you know, and may the Lord and for like,
for everybody here, may the Lord bless your vision for that.
May you actually find that one.
And may you be engaged in the new year.
But it takes but it takes action, right, like, you know, by putting yourself out there and
like you, you said you sign up for a spotlight.
So that's, that's a great step.
Right?
You know, and it allows the Lord to meet you in that thing.
Yeah, that's amazing.
You're doing great.
Who else?
Hey, guys, I'm Tim here.
My goal is I'd like to be just in a committed relationship, I guess that's only five months
away.
Right?
So.
So I'm probably not engaged yet.
But but yeah, it'd be nice to be seriously dating the girl who I think I'm going to marry.
No, that's, that's a good I mean, I get New Year's, I want to spend New Year's with somebody,
right?
Like, okay, let me rephrase that.
Let me be worse.
Like somebody in a committed relationship, right?
Yeah.
I mean, and, and like, once again, you said you said you sign up for a spotlight.
That's, that's a great step.
Right?
I mean, like, you know, I don't know if you guys know that biblical waiting isn't like
sitting around in your house waiting for the you know, I think Jackie said this, I don't
know.
I don't know if this is if she did or not.
But she's like, if you if you're waiting around in your house, the only person you're ever
going to get a chance to marry is the Amazon delivery guy or the UPS guy, right?
You know,
I'm the Amazon guy.
So maybe I might be in luck, but
you know, there you go, Hunter, like, you know, if you're going door to door, baby,
then I'm gonna be having you to to match to the UPS guy in our turf war.
Right?
So it was Tim, I saw it.
So other than like, relationally, where would you like to be?
You know, because like, do you know, one of the things is like, I want to be I'm working
out.
Like, I have been working out for a while because I want my body back.
I want I want physical freedom, and I want to feel good.
And I've been actually making Greek yogurt, so I get to get my protein, right?
You know?
Yeah, let's see.
You know, I think I think actually, that that is my main goal, because I feel like I'm fairly
balanced in other areas, like with friends and going to the gym a couple times a week
and okay, your job and stuff.
So I think my main thing that I need to, you know, that need to keep trust the Lord
with and working toward is, is really, you know, date a romantic relationship.
Well, may the Lord bless that.
Yeah, cool.
No, I just always always want to check because you know, because there's, while we're waiting,
we can always be working on things.
Oh, yeah.
And doing like doing the heartwork.
You guys, the more heartwork you do before you get in relationship, the less chances
you are going to scuttling it or screwing it up.
Yeah.
And winning.
Yeah.
And I'm also for New Year's thing, it might it'd be great to be in relationship, but I'm
just going to stick with a relationship with God.
That's in God's hands in control.
I'm just going to do what I control and as contribute to my own happiness, like travel.
Oh, and New Year's, I'll go on to singles cruise too.
That's what I want to see come back.
All right.
So that's good.
Huh?
Who else is who else?
Abram, how you doing?
What's going on?
You there?
You guys hear me?
Yep.
Dude, Abram.
I love you, bro.
I so want to come over and get some pizza from you, bro.
I just like I want to have a pizza party.
It'd be a little bit of a jaunt, but, you know, it'd be nice to all get together.
That's I agree.
Well, I just turned my house.
I just turned 40.
So I'm kind of, you know.
Yeah.
So I'm kind of, you know, thinking about things.
And my grandfather passed away a couple of weeks ago, 95.
So just like reflecting a lot on life a little bit.
Not freaking out.
No, no midlife crisis.
I haven't bought like a 70 inch TV or anything like that.
But corvette.
Yeah.
No, it'd be nice to find some nice lady.
You know, and around New Year's, that'd be great.
Maybe spend the first holiday together.
That sounds nice.
But I'm just going to try to maintain my health.
I just, you know, grandpa had dementia here.
Grandma's 94, getting older and just, you know, society, I just see people, you know,
health's a big deal.
So just maintain that.
It's a goal of mine always.
And I've been working on.
down some debt, consolidating some debt, tightening up on the budget, kind of a thing.
Kind of some financial goals, some physical goals.
I've been working Sundays forever because I work in the restaurant business.
I've been doing that for over 10 years, but I'm really thinking about maybe switching
on my schedule and kind of hitting church back up.
I was raised Catholic and kind of got away from going.
I think I should really connect back with that.
So I've got some things thinking about and stuff.
I mean, everything is good, though.
Life's good.
Life's easy.
But just a few things, yeah.
That would be good steps.
And who knows?
When you go back, you could find somebody.
I mean, really, we just submit our steps to the Lord, and he's the one that aligns them.
So that's cool.
Awesome.
Who else we got?
Mr. James, you want to jump in?
I wish I was on my laptop, guys.
Sorry.
Sure, I'll jump in.
It's good hearing you guys.
What I would say is to continue to improve my health.
I just spent a week outside of New York City at my friend's lake house, and that whole
area, it's kind of like Dirty Dancing, if you're old enough to know that movie.
It's kind of like, it's just like camp.
Everyone's playing tennis, dancing.
It was just unbelievable how much people are doing to bring their
pulse up and doing stuff that's really enjoyable, kayaking.
And man, it was just really cool to put the cell phone down and really feel my body.
And I thought, wow, this is great.
I want more of this.
And yeah, definitely, I went on a date when I was there with a woman that I've been speaking
with in New York City.
She's a nurse.
She did this thing called 2x2.
It's like a religion, a sect of Christianity, where you just kind of go and you go out 2x2
and you live in people's houses.
It came from Ireland 100 years ago.
And sorry if anybody is a 2x2, but they kind of believe that Jesus is not so supernatural.
He's kind of not God incarnate.
So she's kind of coming out of that and going to what I would deem to be
like a good church.
And so just talking with her, her experience of coming out of that church.
And it's kind of like when I meet Mormons, they kind of have this starry eyed look and
very fresh about the world.
And kind of when the shine wears off for them, it's kind of like there's this interesting
way of looking at the world that I got that kind of from her.
Not to say like the 2x2 thing is like a cult, but I just, I mean, she's 38.
She's a virgin.
And she was like, she knows I'm moving to Austin.
She's like, hey, I'm going to get a job down there.
We can start dating.
There's just like a lot of pressure, you know, like the first day.
And I was just like, yeah, there's just so much insecurity.
I was like, I don't know if I can.
So I want to have patience, you know, it's been a month or two months since we started
really talking.
And I just decided like I want a secure woman in my life.
So I have to be the secure dude in all the aspects, you know, so that's what I want.
I want to like be secure in every single aspect of my life, not like wonky and wobbly in one
area and overcompensating the other.
Like I know I've done that and I could see where I could be the right size and just,
yeah, just bring God into that.
That's what I'm hoping at six months from now.
Just bring God into that.
And I think like everything else is going to work out, the professional development,
the women's stuff, everything, health, it'll happen.
I just have to like claim the time and keep it balanced and keep God in the center of
it.
So, yeah, thanks, Mike.
You nailed that, like claim the time, right?
Otherwise, like it'll be six months and you'll be like, what happened to it, right?
You know, and that's really good that you're looking at being secure and stepping into
that.
And you guys like whatever you want, you know, like start declaring it.
I'm going to be fit in for New Year's and I'm going to be in a relationship and just
start like standing on that.
And just, yeah, there's a point to standing on what you want, right?
You know, and obviously, the Lord's the one that delivers it, but, you know, that's cool.
Thank you for sharing.
Who else, anybody else want to volunteer?
I can step in.
All right, sweet.
Jesse?
My iPhone doesn't really work the best, but I guess one of the goals I have is just to be
in a better community of like-minded people.
I mean, I'm, you know, I'm very involved in our church, but it's a small church.
And now being a single dad, it's been harder to connect.
You know, we usually would hang out with couples and stuff like that.
So, you know, people are super gracious, but at the same time, people have lives as well
that they want to kind of keep rolling with.
So anyhow, that's one of the reasons why I'm connecting on here with you guys.
And I've, I think it's my third time on this call.
And I, the one time I was on vacations and I was driving and the other time I forget.
But anyhow, I completely forgot about last week, but yeah.
So I, that's the one thing that stands out is just being better connected.
I know Jackie had that Supernatural Saturday a couple of weeks ago about the
importance of friendship, of friendships.
That was really a good, a good word.
But yeah, I've been going through a lot here in Pennsylvania.
Um, just, uh, I, I did the hard work, like I connected with this whole thing because
of a date that I went on and then she passed my number on the Jackie and then
Jackie contacted me like towards the end of March.
And then, um, she was going to kind of connect me with some potential matches.
In the meantime, she got me on board with dating.
So I, that Sunday I signed up on a dating app and the next week I went on a couple
dates, one through the app and one through someone I knew.
And then I just went out on like six dates in like two and a half weeks.
And so I kind of went through the season of like dating a lot.
And then I like went on a second date and realized I wasn't quite ready for this.
So I pulled back and that's when I did the heart work.
Um, it was really good.
Um, and then anyhow, coming out of that, I randomly connected, reconnected with
something like I intentionally wasn't connecting with anyone, but then I like
was at the theme park near our house for father's day and me and two of my
daughters ended up sitting next to, I sat next to this woman who I didn't realize
at the time was a widow and she was the only person on the rollercoaster.
And, um, so I'm like, and that's crazy that that happened when I found out what
her status was and then, um, reconnected with one of these dates a few days later
randomly.
And I don't know, the Lord kind of started reconnecting me with some people.
I'm like, okay, well maybe it's time for phase two, but then yeah, I told David
all about this, but it ended up, I've had this like neighbor that turned, I
didn't even know what this term meant, but situationship is apparently a real
thing.
Like I looked it up, I'm like, oh, that's what, that's what this is.
So I'm just trying to navigate that because there's definitely something
there, but I don't know, you know, Jackie says it's a yes until it's a no.
And so I'm trying to discern what's going on with that.
So anyhow, I just, it's good to have people to talk to.
And, um, I haven't said a whole lot on these calls.
Um, but here I am, I'm over here in Pennsylvania trying to live life and.
We have quite a few people in Pennsylvania and I, and I love, see, like you brought up
something that I think is really important.
Like in my life, as I started dating, like all these things kept surfacing and I'm
like, whoa, wait, time out.
Until you get in it, you don't, they don't pop up.
Right.
And, and that's why the heartwork is so, it's so cool to be able to do that.
You do.
Oh, like, oh, I'm going to do the heartwork for that.
And I'm going to get free of that.
I mean, even this gal that I went out, well, technically it was a church thing,
but you know, we were, I, she was in my car while we were driving.
Right.
You know, um, I had done my heartwork so I could be present.
Right.
Had I not done my heartwork, I wouldn't have been able to be present.
And right.
And so I just want to, I just want to, you know, um, give you props for like
doing the work and seeing it right.
and just, and getting back out there.
It's not easy, right?
And so great job.
You know, and so like, you know, like Jackie,
Jackie, you should really go back
and look at the, the, the, the halftime thing.
She, I watched that too.
That was really good.
You just need to just,
because she goes through the whole process
and I'm, and, and we don't have time to do that tonight,
but I really, you guys really need to go back
and check that out because,
well, let me rephrase it this way.
If you want your life to be different
and you want to end the year well in a different place,
I would highly encourage you to go do it.
If you, if you're pretty cool with where you're at,
then it's okay too, right?
I'm not gonna, you know, but I'm not, I'm a person,
you know, I, I, I want, I want God's best, right?
And the way she did it was really amazing.
So thank you for sharing, Jessie.
It's really good to see your face.
Thanks.
All right, we got like five more minutes.
Anybody want to share anything?
Yeah, I, just real brief, Mike.
I think when it was not Jessie,
but the guy who was talking before,
you had said something about like just going out
and claiming or something.
Well, it sparked a memory in me where
after I had the job interview for the job I have now,
Tuesday of last week, I still had three days left on my fast
and I came out of that interview,
I felt like it went really well,
but there's this moment where fear was trying to set in.
And fear has been, it's funny, my name is Josh.
I don't think it's a coincidence.
Fear has been like the major stronghold enemy
to try to use against me throughout my whole life.
And God had been,
he had me read the book of Joshua at the beginning
where he says, wherever you step foot, it's yours.
And so I, instead of giving into fear,
I just sat in my car, played worship
and I just said it out loud.
I said, this job is mine.
Yeah.
I set my foot in here, this is mine.
I just declare it.
I went to this prophetic thing that night
and the guy who teamed up with me
were doing prophetic exercise.
He said, God, are you sure this is what you want me
to tell him?
And he said, yeah, he was right.
I started crying the day when God reminded me of it.
And he said, what you said about,
you think this job interview went well is correct
and tell him that the job is his.
Yeah, that's amazing.
And what you nailed there is,
so one of those steps that Jackie did is you take,
so I took, I wanna be engaged.
I'm like, you guys, I just want,
you can choose whatever, however verbiage you want, right?
By New Year's and it's like, and took the scripture,
Lord, it's not good for man to be alone.
And the Lord brought Adam to Eve, right?
And then like, Lord, I just,
it's not good for me to be alone
and I'm declaring that I won't be alone any longer
on New Year's Day, right?
Or New Year's Eve, right?
So, and just aligning it with scripture, right?
We got a couple more minutes.
Anybody else real quick got something?
Mike, would you be willing to share a little bit
or maybe other people have ideas
about when doing that is healthy
and when doing that is like,
because I personally don't come from a background
that kind of does,
I think it was all considered to be unhealthy.
And so I'd love to hear,
I hear you talking about scripture.
I hear you, it sounds like getting in touch
with the desires of your heart.
Are there any other principles
to kind of do that well from your perspective?
That's a very good point, Thomas.
Thank you for bringing that up, right?
So, okay, you guys, it's not hocus-pocus.
It's not like, you know,
but the thing is, is God honors his words, right?
But ultimately you're asking him,
you're saying, well, this is what I want
and I'm gonna, you know, and you're declaring it.
And there is a point in the spirit realm
to declaring things, right?
But ultimately it's his hand that delivers it.
So it's not you strong-arming him.
You know, a lot of people,
like it's the health and wealth crap, right?
You know, like name it and claim it.
I'm not saying name it and claim it, right?
But, you know, you can ask the Lord what,
you know, I, the first thing I did was,
Lord, what scriptures apply?
And those are the two I got, right?
And so I'm like, Lord, it's not good for me.
to be alone.
And I don't want to be alone on New Year's Eve.
So I'm expecting and I'm declaring that I won't be alone on New Year's Eve.
Does that help, Thomas?
Like, where it's you're aligning your heart with his word and asking him to direct your
steps and, you know, and to provide.
Yeah.
Thanks for sharing.
I mean, but yeah, thank you.
Because it isn't name it and claim it, guys.
I absolutely do.
Like that's just a bunch of crap.
Because God's not a God's not a cosmic vending machine, but he is a good dad.
And what you're basically saying is, you know, you're a really good dad and dad, I'd really
like it.
I'd really like somebody for you.
And even if I don't have somebody for New Year's Eve, I know you're still good and you're
and you're working it out.
Because it's not good for me to be alone.
Right.
And I'm tired of being alone.
And so and that's been my my heart's purge.
So that's that's kind of how I have been doing it.
Right.
But but there is a point to saying I'm standing on his word.
Right.
Because I won't be I'm not going to die alone.
I can stand on that.
Right.
Now, when that all comes to pass, I don't know.
So all right, we're at the hour, guys.
I want I want to pray us out.
Is there there's somebody who I just feel like there's somebody I really could use encouragement
right now.
Like, you're you're kind of low.
And you really I mean, I know, David, you're one of them, right?
Oh, totally.
But like, you know, can I share in your mind's purview?
Can I share the word that I put up on Facebook this, you know, I've been asking the Lord
for words to encourage people, right?
And this is the word that the prophetic word I got from the Lord last night.
It is not good.
If it is not good, it's not over yet.
Keep going on and you will see the goodness of God in the land of the living.
And the scripture to back that, sorry, is yet I totally trust you to rescue me one more
time so that I can see you once again, how good you are while I'm still alive.
Here's what I've learned through it all.
Don't give up.
Don't be impatient.
Be entwined as one with the Lord.
Be brave and courageous and never lose hope.
Yes, keep on waiting for he will never disappoint you.
And then you can always go to Romans 8, 28.
You know, so we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together
to fit into God's perfect plan of bringing God into our lives, for we are his lovers
who have been called to fulfill his design purpose, for he knew all about us before we
were born, and he destined us from the beginning to share the likeness of his son.
This means the son is the oldest among a vast family of brothers and sisters who will become
just like him.
Having determined our destiny ahead of time, he called us to himself and transferred his
perfect righteousness to everyone he called, and those he possessed his perfect righteousness.
And you guys, we were meant to, um, he's working all things out for our good, and you
know, and we're, we're, he loves us just like he loves his son.
So I just, if you guys are low, you realize he's working it out.
He says he's working all things out for good, and if it's not good, he's not done yet, right?
And some of you guys, you need to hear the word that your circumstances are lying to
you.
You know, you think this is all it's ever going to be, and that's not true, because
God has greater plans for you.
And so I just want to bring some truth into that.
Lord Jesus, I thank you for every man on this call.
I pray that you would give them their five-month plan.
You give them the scriptures to back that they can stand on.
Would you encourage their hearts?
Would you heal their hearts?
Lord, any of the, um, any heart work that needs to be done, would you, would you just
help them to face that, and would you gently just remove it and set them free?
And Lord, you know, in New Year's, I just pray that we, that everybody on this call
would be in a serious relationship with somebody that they're heading into marriage with.
And Lord, but like, but, but in all that, Lord, that we would never lose that you are
the one that really is the prize, that you love us so much, and may we, may we never
lose you in pursuit of a woman or anything else, Lord.
We love you, Lord, and we pray this in Jesus' name, amen.
Hey, y'all, have an amazing week.
Amen.
Make a plan and stick to it, guys.
Get her to, you know, in six months, you'll be able to have a completely different life,
right?
Make this your reset day.
Go watch that video, and, um, and just go, go with God, mighty man of valor.
Love you guys.
Have a wonderful week.
Thank you, Mike.
It was great.
Love y'all.
See ya.
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