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The second,

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see if you just wanna check that we're going live.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we're live now.

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Could you check in there, Seb?

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Yep, I see us, we're live.

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You see us, we're live.

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All right, back to back.

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This is session 10 for day one.

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How crazy is that?

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This is the wildest summit ever,

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29 sessions in three days,

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and we're so honored to be here with Nick Boyer,

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all the way from Tete, Mozambique.

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Nick, how are you doing?

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Doing great, thanks for having me.

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Oh, a pleasure.

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It's very, very good to have you here.

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Nick and I actually met in Mozambique

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like 11 years ago, over 11 years ago now,

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which is, well, yeah, about 11 years ago, isn't it?

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No, no, just over 10, just over 10,

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because my wife and I,

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when we woke up in Mozambique,

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the first morning we woke up in Mozambique,

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it was our one-year wedding anniversary.

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So we've been married 11 years,

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it's a decade, just over a decade

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since we were at Harvest School together

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with Roland and Heidi at Iris Ministries, which is awesome.

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Seb, how are you doing?

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We've had nine sessions today,

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just about back-to-back the whole way through.

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Yeah, I'm pumping, I'm pumping.

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Jesus is alive, he's on the throne.

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Energy pumping through my veins is awesome.

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Yeah, absolutely, and it's just so,

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this is actually really energizing.

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Two things, like the testimonies

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of how God's moving all around the world,

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totally changing infrastructures

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and rearranging things on a big scale,

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but then also just on these personal moments

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where Jesus is just encountering individual people

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and rocking their lives,

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like testimonies we just heard from Ricky.

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And so, yeah, it's just wild.

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God's on the move in like every context.

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And so, Nick, we are so, so excited

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to jump into your space right now in Mozambique, Africa,

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and hear what God's been doing in your space.

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Yeah, we're super excited.

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On the 22nd of this month, in a few days,

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my wife, Marlene, and I will be celebrating 10 years

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living in Tete Mozambique, Africa.

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Wow.

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It's been a wild, crazy journey,

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lots of hardships, lots of trials,

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but the Lord has been like crazy, crazy faithful.

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There's things we've been praying for

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and had prophecies over us for years and years and years

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that we're seeing amazing breakthrough with,

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just get in favor with government officials

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and through, like we've got a,

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what we call Shekinah Healing Home here in Tete.

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We built a boy's home and rescued a bunch of boys

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off the street that we took in as our own sons.

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And yeah, it's just crazy how God's like,

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things are coming to pass that we've been chasing after

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and praying into for a very long time and going after.

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And things are just like escalated

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at a crazy rate here recently.

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And yeah, it's opening doors for us to speak

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in the government and on a national level

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to be able to bring kingdom into Mozambique

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because we're believing God for this nation

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to be radically transformed.

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So it's exciting.

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Well, I love that.

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And how about you pray for us

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and let's light this session up

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and just so excited to hear.

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It's like everyone we talked to is like another window

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into a whole move of God that's unfolding.

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And it's so exciting.

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So pray for us, my man.

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So excited for you to release what you're carrying.

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Yeah, Jesus, we thank you so much for your goodness,

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for your love, your mercy and grace.

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God, I thank you for what you're doing

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through this Kingdom Business Summit,

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through Raising Royalty, through Sebastian,

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through Benji.

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We thank you for this movement, God,

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and that your hand's upon it.

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And Lord, we just pray that you would move mightily,

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that you would give us download vision,

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download strategy, show us exactly the methods

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and ways you want us to have impact

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through kingdom businesses and through mission

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and all the different areas we're working in.

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Show us how we can disciple nations,

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how we can radically transform culture for the kingdom.

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We're believing you to move mightily in and through

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all of these people and the people watching

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through their businesses, through their ministries,

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through their churches, through their families,

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through their workplaces.

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God, we just pray that you would move

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in a mighty, mighty, mighty, mighty way.

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And that amidst chaos in the world,

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the global church would unite in power, in unity.

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and just start to transform culture, transform communities,

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that you'd be glorified, in Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Amen, I love it.

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Dude.

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Very cool.

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Yeah, this is wild.

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And it's so crazy that you're about to celebrate 10 years

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actually living and being based in Africa, in Mozambique.

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Yeah, in three days.

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In three days' time, you've got your 10-year anniversary.

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And I want to like, I mean, to me, I want to highlight for people

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how much of a big deal that is that you're still there.

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It is not easy doing cross-cultural, being away from family, being,

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you know, like, so could you just unpack for us a little bit

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of what it's cost you.

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What's it been like to actually be there for a decade?

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I'm really excited.

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Soon we're going to start hearing some of these crazy cool testimonies.

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But so often that breakthrough that you guys are walking in,

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it doesn't just come easy.

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It comes off the back of sacrifice,

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comes off the back of really laying your life down.

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So it'd be really cool right now as we start just to hear from you

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like some of, like, what's the price been to be in Africa?

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The price has been heavy, but it's been nothing but an honour.

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Like, it just rakes me saying that because Jesus is worth it.

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And he's just shown up so mightily for us.

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We've gone through a lot of crazy, crazy attack,

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crazy stuff that the enemies tried to run us away from our mission.

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I mean, we were in the first few years here.

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We had hit men put on us.

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They come in our home, attacked us, tied us up with electrical cords,

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tried to rape my wife.

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They stole everything we had, threatened to kill us,

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told us we need to leave the country.

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So we've gone through some pretty wild stuff over the 10 years.

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that we know when there's opposition, we're on the right track.

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it's because we're taking territory and we're actually creating change.

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We try to remind ourselves when the going gets easy

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and we're just flowing along, check ourselves

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to see if we're really, really advancing Kingdom,

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if we're really pushing the mission forward

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because we're not in the hot seat and the enemy's not really after us.

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So, yeah, it's not been easy.

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Being away from family, all of our family being in the States

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and 10 years away, it's been very, very hard.

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That's a sacrifice.

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And just crazy battles, infertility, eight years of infertility

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while living here on the mission field, things like that,

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that just try to drag you down and take your hope and your joy away.

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and we've seen him move in such mighty ways

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that we just keep our hand on the plow and he keeps showing up

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and keeps coming through and pulling us through

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every little thing that's thrown at us and going beyond that

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and just moving mightily and opening crazy doors that no man can open.

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So that's what's kept us in it.

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And just seeing him move on the people here in Tete,

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moving on our boys, radically transforming them

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from little rascals on the streets, stealing,

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to now they're leading worship.

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They're doing flood release and out sharing the gospel

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and preaching to people and praying over people.

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and fruit come through has let us stay the course.

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Awesome, man. I love it.

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And for, I have to be honest, I pulled up a map of Mozambique

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and just to lock in for me where Tete is

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compared to some of the places I've heard of before.

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But so I'm curious inside you talking about that,

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I know from being around Heidi recently

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that there's a lot of ISIS happening up in northern Mozambique.

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And you, to me, look like it's kind of more Western kind of inland.

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Are you experiencing the same kind of upheaval and push

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and like so literal war zones happening around you guys as well?

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Is that a reality for you too?

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On the ISIS side, that's further north, east of the coast,

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Pablo Delgado province.

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that had that affect us at all here in tech, because we are Western and Inland.

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They haven't really moved into this area.

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I mean, over the years, there's been lots of government fighting and things between

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the parties that has been close by, and having to drive through military convoys because

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of chaos going on between the two government parties and things like that.

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So as far as the ISIS thing goes, we're quite far, I mean, it's about a three-day drive

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to that area where that stuff's going on, so that hasn't affected us very much, luckily.

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Okay, well, I know it's not easy living over in that part of the world, just for context

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for people.

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But I'm so impressed by people who've done what you've done.

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There's such a special place, I think, in the heart of the Father for people who are

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willing to go above and beyond and put convenience aside for the sake of the gospel and for the

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sake of the advancement of the kingdom.

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It's incredible.

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But I understand that you've got a lot of little business projects that you're going

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on with some of the people you're working with, and would love to hear how's that going,

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some of the stories that are happening as that's kind of pumping around you.

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Yeah, right now, we've had some crazy flooding.

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There's been a lot of cyclones hitting the coast of Mozambique lately.

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And here in Tet province, we've got a lot of flooding that's happened.

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A lot of families have completely lost everything.

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So we've been doing a lot of relief work lately.

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Going out and we're helping rebuild houses and we're building some new houses for families.

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There's about 300 families that completely lost everything from one little community,

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lost their homes and all their possessions, everything.

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So we've been going out and helping the relocating the people to another village and we're helping

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build homes there to get people on their feet and get them started working alongside government.

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It's been amazing through starting businesses in the community alongside the mission that

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we do.

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It's been amazing how God's just opened these radical doors with government and we've been

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called by the governor of Tet, the secretary of state of the Tet province and they're asking

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us for answers.

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And they're literally asking us to come and sit and hey, we need answers from God and

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we know you have them.

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That's exactly what they've said to us.

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And so it's completely Jesus.

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There's nothing we've done to make that happen besides be obedient and follow through what

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God's asked us to do.

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But here lately, it's been really exciting, amazing to see those connections and open

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up and to where the government's asking us for how do we make change?

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How do we actually create change here in our community, in the city that's going to last?

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They're asking us to do crazy stuff.

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We just got asked to sit on a board, on a panel of four government officials across

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the nation of Mozambique to fight the epidemic of children begging on the streets and not

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being in school and stuff like that.

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Small kids from seven and eight and under and it's a huge epidemic here.

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So they've asked us to come and give insight and answers into how can we change this epidemic

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in the nation of Mozambique.

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So God's just given us this radical favor, where we're actually stepping into a lot of

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new things for us, where for the first several years, it was just in the dirt, on the ground

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sitting in dumps with orphaned children, feeding them, loving them, sharing Jesus with them,

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and just grafting to build a base here, build all of our housing and things like that, and

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the home, the Shekinah home for our boys, to where now we're seeing a big transition

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and things that God's spoken for years over us that would happen, that I really, if I'm

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honest, doubted for a long time, like how could that ever happen with little old us?

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But we're just saying, yes, Lord, and getting up every day and saying, Lord, whatever you

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want, whatever you have, we're here to do it, and we're going to continue with it.

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Here is some pretty cool stuff happening, where we're getting to see God move in mighty

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He's raised up an amazing Christian leader over the social services and children welfare

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department in Tet.

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that we've been praying for, for 10 years, like going after really hard stuff's just

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lot of radical changes it's fun to be a part of. That's really really key and really powerful I

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think that that's something that is so so critical right now right with we want to be really conscious

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of in all of our areas when wherever we are based that we're decreeing we're declaring we're seeing

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a better brighter future you know like moaning grumbling and where you've been like you've been

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and put in this hostile environment right but you've just been in this place of prayer this

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place of faith even when it's been real hard that's so cool to now see you know like 10 years

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on um legacy happening individuals you know like your own sons and be cool to just hear some more

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stories as well about you know like you've actually gone in there and you've got sons there but also

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shifting government shifting businesses this is like this we you're seeing a real systemic

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transformation starting a spark here yeah yeah um yeah I think it it it's all about perseverance

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and and something God told us early he said don't despise the days of small beginnings

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and just stay faithful and stay true to to what what I say and stay obedient to what I've called

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you to do and um I've I've I guess I've found it I've it's childlike faith I've just trusted and

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trust the Lord and have childlike faith that he's going to move and do as he wants if we just let

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him move us and let him him lead us and so yeah through that I mean like taking in our boys our

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sons um that were just rough little rascals I mean we had government officials and people tell us

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these kids will never change they can't change they're always going to be thieves they're going

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to be back in prison and all this to where now they're in the top of their class every one of

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our boys in the top of their class they're they're leading worship at their graduation at their

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school uh leading worship at where they had all these families that that were displaced from flood

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relief and and out praying over people and declaring things over this city that that that

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God's done in their life and how they've been transformed and now the government's come back

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in and they come for visits inspections things like that and and they're showing up and saying

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they're seeing our boys out serving in the community on their own not forced not pushed by

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us um they're just they got it they they got sonship and and they get it and they're out

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doing it and so now we've got government saying can this be the model of what we want all other

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non-profits or NGOs to represent in the nation of Mozambique and it's just the testimony of God's

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goodness goodness and faithfulness just through saying yes um God told us several years years ago

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he was looking for a yes people when no ifs ands or buts he said I've got plenty of people giving

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me if ands or buts yes I'll go but yes I'll do this if and adding all these taglines on he's like

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I just want you to say yes and go and follow me and and that's what we've tried to do and live

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by a model that the light's always great until it's red we trust him that he's good enough father

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he's not gonna let us go far enough down the wrong road so we just keep going and running forward

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and um if we get off track God's good he's a good father he's gonna steer us back in the right

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direction and put us back on track and he just keeps doing that and then when when it's green

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and we see it's green the light's green we just keep running in those directions where God's

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moving his hands upon it and um he's showing up and through that uh it it's naturally creating a

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cultural change here in in our local community in our village in Padua through our discipleship

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school with our workers that are on my construction uh crew from my construction company those guys

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are going out and and praying over people in the villages and and actually living it out and so

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I think for us it's just been a matter of uh creating opportunity and and living by example

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and just staying true and faithful amidst whatever is thrown at us the child the tribulations all

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that stuff and just saying yes lord uh over time people have seen that through the trials through

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the hard things we haven't given up and we just keep showing up and saying yes and um sadly that's

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not a very uh uh uh recurring thing that people see a lot of times when they go and get stuff

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people pack their bags and run and um through just trusting God in his goodness and that he's

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going to come through what he said it has uh it's changing culture it literally is before as we were

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talking about last night over dinner with a couple of other of our leaders here that like we're like

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guys can you believe we're like we got prophecies and words and things we've been hearing from the

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lord for years now and now we're actually seeing

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it change and these things are actually coming to pass where he's opening doors for us to really

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transform culture through business, through missions, through just laying our lives down

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and saying yes every day so yeah. That's cool, that's amazing. Dude I just want to jump back

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to something I mean you just kind of mentioned this casually but this is flipping crazy and

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most guys would just I mean anyone would be just like impacted to the core by this but you just

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kind of mentioned it and then just carried on in the sentence almost. You said that people came

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to your house, hit men, hired to kill you, tied you up, beat your wife so badly that they broke

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jaw and threatening rape and I mean some people that would be like game over.

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It'd be over but I just want to like jump into that space of that story alone because

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you know I've been you know just watching from a distance all the stuff that you've been doing and

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that's one of the stories that to me I'm like man that is huge that you know just when you first

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shared that testimony years ago I was like man that that rocked me to the core just as a friend

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hearing that but talk to me about that because so many people that would have just been game over

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right there. Yeah so in those early days we didn't have licensing and stuff from government to try to

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bring the boys into our home and we were still building the home then the Shekinah home but

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our boys are on the streets and one morning we were me and my wife were living in a mud brick

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house in the village no power no water roughing it seriously roughing it and the police showed

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up at our door banging on the door and we're asking where our boys at where our kids and we're

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like well they're on the streets they don't live with us we don't have the we haven't been given

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the authority to take them in yet and so long story short on that aspect there was a guy working

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for a company here who did this big scheme and stole a bunch of money from his boss and then

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found the street kids the thieves and basically pinned them as the ones that stole all this money

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and he was there with the police he showed up at our house very demonically oppressed

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and was threatening to kill us and all this and you know I'm gonna find those kids and I'm gonna

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kill them and throw them in the river and my wife did not like that too much and told him if he

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touched laid a hand on one of our kids she'd see dude that he rotted in prison and the guy didn't

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like that so he was just threatening us dumb we're like we don't know what's going on maybe the kids

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our boys did steal because at that time they were they were survivors and they had to steal to

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survive to eat every day and things like that and so we said we'll get to the bottom of it well long

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long story short after a few days of trying to figure out what was going on

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and we knew how to get to the truth of things with our boys we found out that they really

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hadn't stole the money and through doing some research and stuff we found out that this guy

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actually stole the money and framed our boys because they're known as the thieves and it

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seemed like an easy plan excuse me so about a week to two weeks later one day I was out here on the

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land working we were just with picks and machetes cutting trees and picking digging foundations for

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this kind of home and I ran home for lunch and to cool off for a bit and I was we got a knock on the

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door and went to the door and there's this guy there and he's looking around trying to look over

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my head into the house and stuff and he was asking for these American missionaries that work with

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kids on the street and I'm like that's us what can we help you with and he says well no I'm looking

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for this family that that that work with kids on the streets and they're from America but they drive

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a car just like yours but it's a different color and I said well I know in this city there's nobody

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else doing the work we do we're the only two Americans here working with kids on the streets

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and so uh Marlene came and gave the guy water we actually even prayed over the guy and then

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at 2 a.m that night or the next morning um we we Marlene heard a sound and woke me up and she's

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like babe I think somebody's trying to get in our house I said no it's probably just our guard

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talking to the neighbor or something and we just had a little guy that would sit at a friend of

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ours would sit at our house at night and guard and um and uh but I went back to sleep and again

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she woke me again said babe I feel like somebody's in the house and then all of a sudden I started

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hearing we had a

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another missionary girl here with us during the internship

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and she was crying outside of her door.

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And then I started hearing some whispering stuff.

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I was like, yeah, somebody's here.

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So I looked for something to grab to hit these guys

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to like attack or to protect my wife, protect my family.

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And so when I grabbed this like little marble elephant thing

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that was like a bookend piece, I grabbed it.

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And by that time the door came busting down

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and these guys shoved their way in with machetes

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and pinned us on the bed, climbed up on top of us,

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put the machetes to our throats.

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And they basically told us that they were hired

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by that guy to run us out of the country

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because we were foreigners and we didn't have authority

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to be in there, we shouldn't be in the country.

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And he wanted us to leave.

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And so yeah, they ended up, they had tied our,

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they'd already tied up our intern

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that was with us at the time.

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And threw her on the bed beside us

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and they tied us all up with electrical cord stuffed shirts

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and our mouths tied up cords around that

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so we couldn't talk or scream or anything.

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And then they drug my wife to another room

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and I thought they were just trying to separate us.

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And then I heard my wife scream and bloody murder

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and I really thought they were killing her.

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So I tried to lunge off the bed and get the guy off of me

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and rammed him against the wall.

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But I had my hands and my feet tied up.

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So I ran the guy against the wall, but he overpowered me

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and got back on top of me.

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And I saw fear in his eyes then.

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He was like, if you move again, I'll kill you.

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And just a minute or so later,

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the other guy comes dragging my wife in by her feet.

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And they told us, they're like, if you scream,

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there's guys, there's armed guys with guns

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and machetes outside the house.

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And they come dragging my wife in by her feet

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and throw her up on the bed beside me.

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It was the scariest I've ever been.

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I thought she was dead literally.

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she'd been knocked out.

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Her jaw was completely broken and her mouth was like this.

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And the guy tried to rape her in the other room

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and she was trying to wrestle and fight back

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just to keep him from raping her.

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And actually she hit the floor and it knocked her out.

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And so, yeah, they ended up taking everything we had.

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I think at that time we had like three or $400 to our name

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and we had it all in cash with no money in the bank at all.

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They took everything we had except some of our clothes

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and they told us to leave the country.

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And so for us, it was pretty crazy

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because my wife, after she came to,

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after she got knocked out,

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she started sharing the gospel with a broken jaw

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with these guys.

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And this radical love of God came over her.

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And me, to be honest, at that time

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I wanted to kill these guys.

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I wasn't thinking of sharing the gospel one bit.

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But Marlene started sharing Jesus with them.

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And she said, guys, you don't have to hurt us.

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We'll give you whatever you want.

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All this stuff doesn't matter.

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And she was just sharing Jesus with them and loving on them

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with her mouth completely broken.

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Her alignment of her top and her bottom teeth

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was completely off.

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And after it was all said and done,

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she said, babe, I get it now.

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And I was like, you get what?

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And she said, I get the love of Jesus

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that he would die for our sins

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even when we're at our nastiest, our ugliest.

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And she said, because the love of God came over me

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for these men, and my heart just broke for these men

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because they didn't know what they're doing.

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And they don't know who they're doing it to.

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And so it ended up being it shifted my mentality

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through her just being the radical lover

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she is to change and just see their brokenness

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and that these guys are operating out

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of their loss and brokenness.

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And it turned into an amazing story

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where we got opportunities to travel around the world

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and share with people.

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That kind of radical love of God

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that can rise up in us if we allow it

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to love our enemies at the worst time.

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So yeah, we had a million people in America calling us

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and from all over the world saying

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they would send us money to fly us home.

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I had pastors, I had ministers,

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I had people all over saying,

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no, you're not a good husband

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to have your wife in a dangerous place.

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You need to move back to America.

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I have worldly people.

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We have tons of people telling us like,

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you got to get out of there.

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You need to go back to America.

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It's not safe.

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And our thing was, when did Jesus call us to safe?

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When did he call us to easy?

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He did.

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He said, follow me.

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Pick up your cross and follow me.

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All the more testimony we're right

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where we're supposed to be.

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And we're going to press in and we're going to dig

483
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and we're not going to give up

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because that's what the enemy wants

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is us to run away and quit.

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And after that happened,

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we saw a radical transformation financially,

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physically in the natural here,

489
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spiritual breakthrough through.

490
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us saying yes and not quitting, you know, all these opportunities gone, where we hadn't,

491
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we were broke, completely broke financially. People weren't given at that point. They really

492
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didn't think we were going to make it over here. A lot of people I think were just watching

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to see if we would last. And so we were just living as a nonprofit thing. We didn't have

494
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businesses or anything. And we were trusting the body of the church to provide for us to

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do the mission God was calling us to. And yeah, it, we just dug our roots in even more.

496
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We're like, devil, you're not taking us out of the calling God has on our life and what

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you're going to do in this city and in this nation. And now through that perseverance

498
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and not giving up, it, those things are starting to really come to pass where we're really

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going after seeing this nation disciple and not settle for anything less. We want this

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nation to be dedicated to Jesus. And we want to see the government saved and give their

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life to Jesus from the top of the top to the poorest of the poor. We want to see them encounter

502
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the radical love of God and he's moving, he's doing it.

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Man, that is so massive. And this is, this to me, really helps to get to the very core

504
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of, like, like you said, the engine room, you know, we had earlier Pastor Todd Weatherly

505
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talking about joy is an engine room, but even deeper than joy, like joy is like a fuel,

506
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but there's a, there's the level that goes deeper here where love and that radical love

507
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is the engine room that drives it. You know, like if you get to the heart of, okay, hey,

508
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why we do, why do we do kingdom business? Why do we challenge people all the time? You

509
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know, like what, you know, for you, for example, why are you here in the mud in Mozambique?

510
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Why are you here? I love it on kids. Why are you adopting street kids and bringing,

511
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:10.280
you know, like it's, you know, why, why are you bringing these kids who aren't well house

512
00:32:10.280 --> 00:32:14.320
trained, you know, into your life, into your world? Why are you doing everything that you're

513
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doing? Man, just the fact that there's an engine room that that's burning at the core

514
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of who you are, that's so powerful and so strong. It's this engine room of radical love.

515
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It's just burning and blazing and actually forging a way ahead. And I, man, I would just,

516
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even just right now on a pause and just ask you to pray an impartation for everyone that

517
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that would be the engine room. It's like, because that becomes, you know, it's kind

518
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of a motivational cliche, you know, your why, but when the why is big enough, the how becomes

519
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:59.400
irrelevant. And yeah, it might be hard to do what Jesus is calling you to do. But when

520
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the why isn't, when there's an engine room at the core of who you are, that's burning

521
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with radical love, the what, the how, everything else becomes irrelevant. So man, even just

522
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we just pause right now, just love you to pray an impartation of that radical love that

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came on you guys in that moment.

524
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Yeah, Jesus. Yeah, I pray that across the world globally, Lord, that that radical love

525
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would consume us, that you are the why, we do everything we do. And that you, anything

526
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outside of that would just fall away, that it would be burned, that it would just die,

527
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that we wouldn't go for anything that's outside of that being the center and the core

528
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of all that we do, that it would be the radical love of God, the radical love of you going

529
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to the cross and dying for our sins, that that would be the center of everything we

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do, every business transaction, every business decision we make, or ministerial decision,

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every leader, pastor, teacher, nurse, doctor, the core of everything we do would be your

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love and who you are in the power of the cross and what you've done for us, God, that

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outside of that, not everything else is irrelevant. All the whys and the whos are

534
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irrelevant outside of your love and your power. And I just pray an impartation of that

535
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around the globe, everybody that's watching these live streams or watching them after

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the fact, that they would have a radical importation right now with a power of your

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love that you would overcome them in such a way that they would be radically transformed,

538
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that this would be a cornerstone marker in their lives, that they would be wrecked in

539
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:57.160
their homes, in the living rooms, in their offices, wherever they are, that they would

540
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have such a radical encounter with you right now, God, that they would

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never be the same, that they would never settle for anything less than your power and your

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love and that transformational mindset that that would happen amongst all of us to where

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every decision and everything we do is based out of that, is out of your radical selfless

544
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love.

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It's out of that.

546
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It's not about me.

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It's not about me creating a fortune or building this or doing this or being recognized by

548
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any government official.

549
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It's not about that at all.

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It's about what the radical love that you've laid down your life on the cross to give me

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eternal life coming out of me to everybody around me.

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God, I pray that that would be our mindset in everything we do, in every decision we

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make, that it would be based on your love and your power and your truth and your goodness.

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And as a united body of believers around the world, that if our mindset is that the radical

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love of God would come out of us and spill over onto those around us, that would create

556
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kingdom change in every culture, in every community, every tribe, every city, every

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nation.

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And that would be what changes governments.

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That would be what changes and begins the discipleship of nations for your glory.

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God, don't let us settle for anything less than that.

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Don't let me settle for anything less than that, God.

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I pray that you would slam doors in our faces for anything that's outside of that.

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Any mindset and mentality that we do out of selfish ambition or out of our own desire

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to elevate or self-promote or anything like that would just be slammed in our faces, God,

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and we wouldn't be able to go through those doors.

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That the only doors we could go through is that radical, laid down, selfless love in

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humility to see others encounter you and your goodness.

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And I pray that the hearts would be stirred and people would be radically transformed

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with that mindset today.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Wow.

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Wow.

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Wow, man.

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So good.

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Wow.

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It has to be the center of everything we do because without it, it's wood, hay, and stubble.

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It will burn.

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It will be tested by fire on the day.

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It will be.

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So anything we do outside of that is worthless.

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It's a waste of our time and life's this short.

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And I just feel like, God, that's one thing that's just been stirring in my heart that

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my life is this big, it's a vapor, and I want to exhaust every minute I can of my life laid

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down in humility, in servanthood, that people would see him and they would see his goodness

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and they would see the authenticity of Jesus, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, and

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his love would just be manifested in and through our lives to the people around us.

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Because outside of that, if we have any motive or any method, anything we want to do outside

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of that is worthless and it's a waste of time because it will be burned.

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And the only thing that matters is what we build on Christ, on our solid rock, on his

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foundation.

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It has to be the center of the core of everything we do.

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And so that's all we're trying to do is live by that.

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Like Jesus, if you're not in it, we're not in it, and show it.

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Don't let us be in it because it's easy to act in our flesh.

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It's easy to go after this opportunity and that opportunity.

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And we just try to live so in tune with the Father that any opportunity, even good ones

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that are not his God opportunities, he just slams the door.

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We trust him to do that.

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Don't let us follow our flesh and even our logical thinking that this is good or great

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or could be wonderful.

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If he's not in it, we're not in it.

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And we live by that.

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And I think we all have to live in that place that God's got to be in it and he's got to

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be the center of Jesus has to be the core of everything we do.

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Right. I love that.

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What a what fire, man, what fire.

607
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I just feel that burning right through me and I love it so much.

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Wow.

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What it makes me think of, and this is so cool, just to bring things back to that

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central core of a radical, burning, fiery love.

611
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And that, you know, that reminds me actually reminds me of

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some of the most profound moments you have in your life where just love just wrecks you

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to the core and you realize, well, it's like you

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also touch and connect with the broken heart of the Father.

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The space of radical love, you know, like when your wife with a broken jaw,

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she's not seeing attackers, she's just seeing.

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people that God desperately loves. Yeah. And this is like, to me, that's so central

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to the very epicenter. It's the engine room, like you said before. This is the

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engine room of everything that moves us and motivates us, is this burning, firing, radical

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love. And here's how, for me, just in my mindset, how it works out, I'm like, wow,

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it's the nature of love to dream for those outside of ourselves. Your wife

622
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owned it in that moment where preaching the gospel with a broken jaw to the people who just did that

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now demonstrates the nature of love just to dream for people. But we've got this

624
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saying that we use a lot, is that it's the nature of love to outdream darkness.

625
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That same fiery love that fuels us to love that one person in front of us there,

626
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it's the same fiery love, that same passion, that same engine room that also causes us to go,

627
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okay, right. Well, what's the nature of love? And I think when we look at what the nature of

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love is, we ask ourselves, okay, well, what expressions of evil is love okay with?

629
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What forms of corruption and manipulation and abuse and oppression, tyranny, or what forms of

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what forms of evil is love okay with? And for me, it's that type of love there, that radical love

631
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that refuses, it's a fire. And when you let it loose, it says a massive no to anything that's

632
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outside of the value of love. It says no to child trafficking. It says no to kids on the street. It

633
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says no to every form of unrighteousness with this burning, outrageous, passionate no. And it says a

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massive yes to yes to heaven in every context. So, I mean, it is radical. It's passionate. It's

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on fire. And I just want to say, thank you so much for really bringing people to the core,

636
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because that to me is the core of kingdom business. It's what moved Jesus. It's what

637
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moves the Father and the Spirit. It's what moves heaven. And it's what gets on the inside of us

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and stirs us to dream big dreams. Because right now, we're intensely trying to push the envelope

639
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and try to get people to step into a place of limitlessness. And what's the reason? Why do we

640
00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:56.080
say, hey, dream for nations? Why do we push the envelope constantly? It's not for the sake of

641
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you know, entertainment. Yeah. Like you just nailed it right there, man.

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Yeah. I just, I feel like God gave us a word several years ago. He's blurring the lines

643
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between ministry and business and using business as a means of ministry. That He was going to

644
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start a global reformation through business. And I believe that's what, that's why I was so excited

645
00:43:22.640 --> 00:43:27.440
when we talked the other day, Benji, about what you guys are doing. It really just like jogged

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with what we felt God speak. And so, it's that bringing, it's like letting the separation of

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church and state, like just killing that and everything being focused on Him. And through that,

648
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like, if it's about business and you're called to business, that's great and wonderful. God's

649
00:43:50.560 --> 00:43:55.840
called us to business as well alongside what we're doing. It's the mentality of the church

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it's the mentality in where we are and whatever stream we're in and what God's called us to,

651
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that the focus, the core is Him and His love. Because through that, all the other stuff

652
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comes with it. And so, we need people that are making millions of dollars around the world,

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that are funding kingdom work, that are able to have the connection in favor with government to

654
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reach people and stuff like that through finances or whatever it may be. But it's all about that

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core and what's in here in our hearts and where we are. And that our heart is right in every motive

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and everything we do. And it's about Him and nothing less and nothing more than bringing

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glory to God. And so, through that, like, I fully, fully, fully, fully believe with every bit of my

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being, if we live in that and try to live so in tune with the Holy Spirit, that anything outside

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of God moving and being on it, we don't want anything to do with it. That is what's going to

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00:44:58.480 --> 00:44:59.760
create radical change.

661
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.760
change cultures and discipline through business, through ministry, the two go hand in hand

662
00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:14.000
through whatever stream that we're running in and God wants it to be fun amidst all that

663
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hard stuff.

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We've had the funnest time of our life.

665
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It's the greatest adventure we've ever been on and it don't stop.

666
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There are some extreme lows that are quite scary, but then God takes us to these extreme

667
00:45:26.320 --> 00:45:30.840
highs as well where he just shows up and pulls us out of those dark places and just moves

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mightily and shows us his goodness through it and he showed us how he was even there

669
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in that attack with us in the room.

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That's what actually transferred my wife's thinking and the way the love of God welled

671
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up in her to overflow on these guys in that room when the guy was trying to rape her.

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She said she was praying, she was like, God, stop this man, stop this man, and then all

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of a sudden her prayer changed and she saw Jesus in the room and he loved that man as

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much as he loved her.

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And that's what shifted her mentality when she's like, I love him just as much as I love

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you and my heart's just as much for him as it is you.

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And there's no, there's nothing like that in the world, that kind of love and it's real

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and we can experience it.

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That was able to rise up in my wife in a situation that it shouldn't happen naturally, it doesn't

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make sense to love somebody who just beat you and broke your jaw and tried to rape you

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00:46:33.040 --> 00:46:40.600
and stripped off all your clothes and just humiliated you and abused you to love that

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man and love him purely with no other agenda, but to love him and for him to encounter the

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love we've encountered.

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That's what it's all about.

685
00:46:49.400 --> 00:46:53.120
That's got to be the center of everything we do.

686
00:46:53.120 --> 00:46:57.680
And in the business world, like I feel like there's so many people in here that are called

687
00:46:57.680 --> 00:47:02.760
the business, obviously is this is a business kingdom summit.

688
00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:07.360
If your mentality in every transaction and everything you do is what does Jesus want

689
00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:08.360
to do?

690
00:47:08.360 --> 00:47:09.360
How does he want to reveal himself?

691
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:10.360
How does he want to love people?

692
00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:15.200
How does he want to transform this company or this business or this city through business?

693
00:47:15.200 --> 00:47:17.800
That is what the kingdom business is all about.

694
00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:23.880
It's about cultural change, real transformational change that shakes cities and shakes states

695
00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:25.800
and shakes countries.

696
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:31.120
That is how we can change the world is by uniting in every aspect, everything we do

697
00:47:31.120 --> 00:47:35.480
and only having the mindset of the radical love of God's got to come over the people

698
00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:38.000
that we're encountering day in and day out.

699
00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:39.960
Come on, man.

700
00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:40.960
Wow.

701
00:47:41.120 --> 00:47:45.160
See what's doing the I can see the deep things staring in you.

702
00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:51.360
I'm on mute there.

703
00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:52.680
There you go.

704
00:47:52.680 --> 00:47:54.520
Yeah, I'm just I'm just encouraged.

705
00:47:54.520 --> 00:48:00.600
I think the it's it's so it's sometimes you just it's hard to know exactly like what what

706
00:48:00.600 --> 00:48:08.800
to say and inside this because the we don't often hear messages of business in and on

707
00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:15.600
the same stage as a radical life of surrender and a radical life of like, you know, time

708
00:48:15.600 --> 00:48:18.680
of laying your life down.

709
00:48:18.680 --> 00:48:23.320
But it's the it's the it's the dream at the end of the day, it's the it's the goal.

710
00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:29.840
The part of the in the pursuit of discipling the nations really is the call to to lay your

711
00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:30.840
life down.

712
00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:38.840
And it's hard to even consider or perceive a life where where surrender isn't a part

713
00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:39.840
of the conversation.

714
00:48:39.840 --> 00:48:44.360
You know, some of the stuff that we get up to is is is crazy.

715
00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:46.680
It's you know, it's it's government, it's business.

716
00:48:46.680 --> 00:48:51.040
It's all the same stuff, even on opposite sides of the world.

717
00:48:51.040 --> 00:48:53.720
And yet, you know, the message is still the same.

718
00:48:53.720 --> 00:48:55.520
The methodology is still the same.

719
00:48:55.520 --> 00:48:58.240
The Jesus is still the same.

720
00:48:58.240 --> 00:49:01.640
You know, it's just Yeah, so it's just I'm inspired.

721
00:49:01.640 --> 00:49:02.640
I'm encouraged.

722
00:49:02.640 --> 00:49:03.640
So yeah.

723
00:49:03.640 --> 00:49:04.640
Yeah, man.

724
00:49:04.640 --> 00:49:06.600
I don't know if I have any questions.

725
00:49:06.600 --> 00:49:09.160
I'm just, you know, just encouraged by the story.

726
00:49:09.160 --> 00:49:10.160
Yeah.

727
00:49:10.160 --> 00:49:11.160
Absolutely.

728
00:49:11.160 --> 00:49:19.440
Well, Nick, what an absolute blessing that's been and really cool as well in the conversations

729
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:24.240
that we've had around business, I think just a couple of kind of last stories, and then

730
00:49:24.240 --> 00:49:25.240
we'll close it in.

731
00:49:25.240 --> 00:49:30.000
But it's really cool as well that you're there, you are even in.

732
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:34.920
You know, like you're in Africa, but I mean, it's the same same opportunities wherever

733
00:49:34.920 --> 00:49:36.680
you are in the world right now.

734
00:49:36.680 --> 00:49:40.480
And so it's really cool as well, because we're talking, you know, I know what it's like trying

735
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:42.880
to fund a ministry as well.

736
00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:47.240
And you got, you know, you got big bills and you expand and you dream more.

737
00:49:47.240 --> 00:49:51.800
And it's like flip, you know, like responsibility comes with that infrastructure has its cost

738
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.680
has its monthlies, weeklies, all of that.

739
00:49:54.680 --> 00:49:59.160
So it's just really cool as well, like in the midst of this and the conversations that

740
00:49:59.160 --> 00:50:00.080
we're having around.

741
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:04.240
how to create wealth. And what I love for you, one of the

742
00:50:04.240 --> 00:50:08.280
conversations we're having around crypto and crypto mining

743
00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:10.760
and some of the cool opportunities that we're talking

744
00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:13.920
about is that it doesn't matter where you are in the world right

745
00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:18.200
now, these opportunities are opening up for people to create

746
00:50:18.200 --> 00:50:20.960
wealth. And what I love is, you know, like you can fuse radical

747
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:25.760
love with, with wisdom. And this is basically what we actually

748
00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:27.760
one of the places we really started today was, you know,

749
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:31.760
it's got to be pure hearts and pure minds. But it's also got to

750
00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:35.040
be partnered with wisdom, you know. And when we do that, we

751
00:50:35.040 --> 00:50:38.400
come into this place where men things that really lighting up

752
00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:44.320
and that fusion of pure hearts and wisdom, which, which for you

753
00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:48.160
is really one of your stories. I'm keen just this kind of last

754
00:50:48.160 --> 00:50:54.160
story, but you started a construction business that when

755
00:50:54.160 --> 00:50:57.320
the floods hit, it was that construction business that

756
00:50:57.320 --> 00:51:01.080
you've been able to leverage all your, you know, all the

757
00:51:01.120 --> 00:51:04.920
equipment that you have there to actually go and serve, serve

758
00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:08.040
the people which in turn open up the door, you know, you're

759
00:51:08.040 --> 00:51:12.640
serving the poorest of the poor, but that service with your

760
00:51:12.680 --> 00:51:15.440
business materials and things that a construction company is

761
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:17.800
one of the keys that actually opened up the door to one of the

762
00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:19.440
most powerful people in Mozambique.

763
00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:26.360
Yeah, yeah. Um, for us, yeah, like we've got big dreams, big

764
00:51:26.360 --> 00:51:30.280
vision. And I think if if anybody doesn't have that,

765
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:32.600
you're not running with Jesus because he wants to do big

766
00:51:32.600 --> 00:51:36.880
things. Come on, you got real good. We can't. We just got you

767
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:39.840
got to whoever everyone who's listening live or in the replay,

768
00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:42.320
you just got to hear that. And you got to say this to yourself

769
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:48.000
as well. Jesus wants to do big things through me. That's so on

770
00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:49.760
point. So on point.

771
00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:56.000
Jesus used a bunch of poor fishermen, poor fishermen, like

772
00:51:56.000 --> 00:52:01.320
in raggedy taddy boats. And he did big, big things. He wants

773
00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:07.160
to do big, big things. He wants you to dream big. And the shame

774
00:52:07.160 --> 00:52:11.400
and the guilt of the enemy is a bunch of bullcrap that has got

775
00:52:11.400 --> 00:52:14.600
people bound that they can't do big things. God knows we're

776
00:52:14.600 --> 00:52:17.520
broken. Me and my wife, we ain't got it together. We ain't got it

777
00:52:17.520 --> 00:52:21.000
all figured out. We are jacked up broken people making mistakes

778
00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:25.520
left and right. But we say yes, Lord, in his mercy and grace

779
00:52:25.520 --> 00:52:28.760
comes over us and he uses us amidst our brokenness, amidst

780
00:52:28.760 --> 00:52:31.920
all of our crack and failures, he still uses us. And he wants

781
00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:34.840
to use every single one of us in a big way to dream and do big

782
00:52:34.840 --> 00:52:38.520
things. When I started really tapping into that and pursuing

783
00:52:38.520 --> 00:52:42.320
God about how are we going to do these big things and big dreams

784
00:52:42.320 --> 00:52:45.280
and big visions? How are we going to impact this nation? He

785
00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:48.240
told me he said, well, use the gifts and skill sets I've given

786
00:52:48.240 --> 00:52:51.160
you and what you love to do. And I love to build and I've got a

787
00:52:51.200 --> 00:52:55.880
construction engineering background. And God's like, use

788
00:52:55.880 --> 00:52:59.080
it right here in Mozambique. And I thought, well, I've been

789
00:52:59.080 --> 00:53:02.560
training 15, 20 guys here building our boys home and

790
00:53:02.560 --> 00:53:05.200
stuff. I've trained them. And all of a sudden, I got all these

791
00:53:05.200 --> 00:53:08.520
expats in the community saying, Hey, can you come build this for

792
00:53:08.520 --> 00:53:10.600
us and do this for us? Because you're doing the best

793
00:53:10.600 --> 00:53:13.480
construction in the city, because we do it in excellence

794
00:53:13.480 --> 00:53:18.240
and kingdom is excellence in all we do. And so through that, that

795
00:53:18.240 --> 00:53:21.240
opened those doors, then we get floods. And here's an

796
00:53:21.240 --> 00:53:25.080
opportunity, we can go literally, and there's 274

797
00:53:25.080 --> 00:53:29.760
families been relocated to a place in the bush. And they've

798
00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:33.600
allocated 25 hectares of land, and they've got canvas tents,

799
00:53:33.600 --> 00:53:36.400
they've given these families that don't breathe, and it's 40

800
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:40.720
degrees here. And they're sleeping outside on the ground.

801
00:53:40.720 --> 00:53:43.840
And God says, take your guys and your equipment and go start

802
00:53:43.840 --> 00:53:47.280
building houses and believe me for it. And we've got the funds

803
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:50.200
to build three or four houses already. And we're believing in

804
00:53:50.200 --> 00:53:53.840
for more. But through that, and just showing up and serving,

805
00:53:53.920 --> 00:53:56.680
we've got government officials walking up that are out there

806
00:53:56.680 --> 00:54:00.640
trying to sort things with UNICEF and all these big global

807
00:54:00.640 --> 00:54:02.880
organizations. And here we are these little guys, and they're

808
00:54:02.880 --> 00:54:05.440
like, what are y'all doing? Why are you here? And we're like,

809
00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:08.560
we're just here loving people. And we're trying to serve. And

810
00:54:08.560 --> 00:54:12.120
then we get appointment with one of the most powerful ladies in

811
00:54:12.120 --> 00:54:16.360
the country, Secretary of State over this province. And she's

812
00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:23.160
like, give us God's ideas. How do we change and create change?

813
00:54:23.160 --> 00:54:27.160
How do we prevent the people going back into flooding again,

814
00:54:27.160 --> 00:54:31.240
and things like that. So it is through servanthood, and just

815
00:54:31.240 --> 00:54:34.200
showing up and serving and being real, and not trying to get

816
00:54:34.200 --> 00:54:37.520
anything out of it, no agenda, but to love people, they

817
00:54:37.520 --> 00:54:41.360
encounter God, and serve them and love them. And through that,

818
00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:45.360
yeah, these doors are being opened for a greater impact for

819
00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:48.800
us to influence and have favor with other people that we're

820
00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:52.200
believing are also going to encounter the love of God. And

821
00:54:52.200 --> 00:54:54.320
then this nation will be decided.

822
00:54:55.600 --> 00:55:00.000
Man, come on. That's so well run. Just blown away.

823
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.000
by the time to get us so stirred, so lit up, so energized.

824
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:10.720
And I think just maybe as we come to a close,

825
00:55:11.600 --> 00:55:14.000
it'd be just so good to have you just to pray

826
00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:17.360
specifically into that line of like dreaming big,

827
00:55:17.360 --> 00:55:19.400
that people will just be lit up,

828
00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:24.400
that a radical and not lit up to dream big,

829
00:55:25.880 --> 00:55:27.760
just out of selfish ambition,

830
00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:31.280
but that radical love would be let loose

831
00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:34.400
on the inside of them to start out dreaming darkness

832
00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:37.840
and dreaming real big for what God has for them.

833
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:40.000
So, man, if you wanna wrap us up with that,

834
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:41.360
that would just be wild.

835
00:55:42.840 --> 00:55:46.880
Yeah, Jesus, I just pray for everybody listening in

836
00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:48.760
and that are gonna watch this later, God,

837
00:55:48.760 --> 00:55:52.840
that yeah, you just put big dreams on, big vision,

838
00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:55.760
and that you'd break off the mindset

839
00:55:55.800 --> 00:56:00.400
that I'm not good enough, or who am I to do big things,

840
00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:04.680
that you are sons and daughters of the King of kings,

841
00:56:04.680 --> 00:56:07.200
what could he not do through you?

842
00:56:08.160 --> 00:56:11.640
He wants to use you, so we declare that today,

843
00:56:11.640 --> 00:56:15.080
and we declare that you will do big things,

844
00:56:15.080 --> 00:56:19.920
you will be used to create change in your community,

845
00:56:19.920 --> 00:56:24.240
in your family, in your city, in your state or your country,

846
00:56:24.240 --> 00:56:27.520
that God wants to use you to do big things,

847
00:56:27.520 --> 00:56:30.680
and anything else beyond believing him

848
00:56:30.680 --> 00:56:33.960
to move in and through you as a son or daughter

849
00:56:33.960 --> 00:56:37.040
is a lie of the enemy, and we break it off in Jesus' name.

850
00:56:37.040 --> 00:56:39.400
And I pray that the truth and the love of God

851
00:56:39.400 --> 00:56:43.120
would overcome every single person that watches this,

852
00:56:43.120 --> 00:56:45.920
and that you encounter him in a way that you know

853
00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:48.440
that the goodness of the Father will overcome,

854
00:56:48.440 --> 00:56:50.200
and that radical love will rise up in you,

855
00:56:50.200 --> 00:56:53.000
and he wants to use you to do big things.

856
00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:55.160
So Lord, we pray for dreams and visions,

857
00:56:55.160 --> 00:56:57.840
signs and wonders to come over people,

858
00:56:57.840 --> 00:57:00.880
and that the lies of the enemy be broken off,

859
00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:04.240
and that people would step forward into the purposes

860
00:57:04.240 --> 00:57:06.520
and plans you have for them.

861
00:57:06.520 --> 00:57:09.280
And I just feel like saying this,

862
00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:12.480
I think we overcomplicate things too much,

863
00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:14.440
and it's not that complicated.

864
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:17.800
Jesus is a good father, and he gave you dreams and desires,

865
00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:20.920
he gave you passions and things you love to do.

866
00:57:20.920 --> 00:57:23.840
If you're confused about where to go and what to do,

867
00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:26.920
take the gifts he's given you and the things you love

868
00:57:26.920 --> 00:57:29.400
and find a place to activate it,

869
00:57:29.400 --> 00:57:31.360
to be used and for him to use you.

870
00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:34.720
And as you move, I feel like God,

871
00:57:34.720 --> 00:57:35.880
a lot of times in the church,

872
00:57:35.880 --> 00:57:38.200
we sit and we wait on God for this billboard sign

873
00:57:38.200 --> 00:57:41.200
because somebody else got it, this big prophecy.

874
00:57:41.200 --> 00:57:43.400
And a lot of times God moves on our move.

875
00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:46.500
So when we start moving, he starts aligning us

876
00:57:46.500 --> 00:57:48.560
in the right places to do the right things.

877
00:57:48.560 --> 00:57:51.560
So take the dreams and passions and what God's put in you

878
00:57:51.560 --> 00:57:54.480
and the things you love and find a place you can use it

879
00:57:54.480 --> 00:57:55.800
to do kingdom.

880
00:57:55.800 --> 00:57:58.480
Just start implementing that mentality of Jesus,

881
00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:01.440
you work through me, use my gift, use my talent,

882
00:58:01.440 --> 00:58:06.440
use my job or whatever I do to bring you glory.

883
00:58:07.120 --> 00:58:09.680
And through that, God's gonna start moving and doing things

884
00:58:09.680 --> 00:58:12.420
and you're gonna see a shift in and around you

885
00:58:12.420 --> 00:58:15.280
in your business or whatever it may be as you do that.

886
00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:17.240
And I think a lot of the dreams and visions

887
00:58:17.240 --> 00:58:20.040
will follow that because you're activating.

888
00:58:20.040 --> 00:58:21.800
Faith without works is dead.

889
00:58:21.800 --> 00:58:24.520
And I believe that's all about us activating our faith

890
00:58:24.520 --> 00:58:28.920
and moving and expecting, living in expectancy

891
00:58:28.920 --> 00:58:31.080
that God's gonna move in and through us

892
00:58:31.080 --> 00:58:34.760
as we go throughout our day and do whatever we do.

893
00:58:34.760 --> 00:58:36.160
So bless you guys with that.

894
00:58:36.160 --> 00:58:39.640
And yeah, just thank y'all Benji and Sebastian

895
00:58:39.640 --> 00:58:41.160
for what you're doing,

896
00:58:41.160 --> 00:58:44.680
raising royalty in this business kingdom summit,

897
00:58:44.680 --> 00:58:46.680
just praying that people are lit a fire,

898
00:58:46.680 --> 00:58:49.720
a blaze around the world like truthfully

899
00:58:49.720 --> 00:58:53.200
that people would just go radically on fire out of this

900
00:58:53.200 --> 00:58:57.460
and just start really living on purpose, on mission.

901
00:58:57.460 --> 00:59:01.160
And that we just unify with one common denominator

902
00:59:01.160 --> 00:59:03.200
around the globe that Jesus died on the cross

903
00:59:03.200 --> 00:59:04.560
for us and our sin.

904
00:59:04.560 --> 00:59:07.120
We need a savior and he's the only way.

905
00:59:07.120 --> 00:59:09.920
And we run together, link arms and run together.

906
00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:11.880
So bless you guys for what you're doing.

907
00:59:11.880 --> 00:59:14.960
I pray that God continues to use you all mightily

908
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:17.400
to shake people up and set people on fire,

909
00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:22.400
to go, to create funds, to live abundant and blessed

910
00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:26.960
and to do the radical stuff that God's calling you to.

911
00:59:27.960 --> 00:59:28.800
Come on, man.

912
00:59:28.800 --> 00:59:29.880
Well, thank you so much.

913
00:59:29.880 --> 00:59:31.800
That was just, that was pure fire.

914
00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:34.280
And we're so honored and so lit up

915
00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:37.160
and so grateful for what you've just brought my man.

916
00:59:37.160 --> 00:59:39.560
So thanks, bud.

917
00:59:40.040 --> 00:59:41.520
Thank you guys.

918
00:59:41.520 --> 00:59:44.320
Any questions from you, my man?

919
00:59:44.320 --> 00:59:46.440
No, great to meet you.

920
00:59:46.440 --> 00:59:47.400
Great to meet you, Nick.

921
00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:49.400
I'm honored to spend some time with you.

922
00:59:49.400 --> 00:59:51.480
So thank you for your time.

923
00:59:51.480 --> 00:59:54.480
Yeah, great to meet you too, Sebastian, bless you.

924
00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:55.520
Love to hear from you, Nick.

925
00:59:55.520 --> 00:59:56.360
Thanks so much.

926
00:59:56.360 --> 00:59:59.800
Love to the family and so excited for everything.

927
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:03.480
It's coming for you guys as you disciple a nation.

928
01:00:03.480 --> 01:00:05.920
You guys are on fire and we're 100% behind you.

929
01:00:05.920 --> 01:00:08.160
So bless you, my man.

930
01:00:08.160 --> 01:00:09.720
Thanks guys, bless you.

931
01:00:09.720 --> 01:00:10.560
See ya.