What’s Next? A Look at 2025 with Brian and Kyle

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- 2024 was more than just another year in the books,

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it was a year of explosive growth,

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both physically and spiritually.

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So before we hit the ground running

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for an even bigger 2025,

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let's turn back the calendar and see

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how God moved around here in 2024.

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We Go. It's a part of our DNA

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to go out into the world and make change.

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982 people traveled across the globe

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to places like Nicaragua, Nepal,

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South Africa and Alabama.

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We traveled a total of 238,776 miles.

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That's enough to fly around the world 9.5 times.

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We know if you want to grow,

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you need to get out of your comfort zone.

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That's why our camp experiences are continuing

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to expand with nine different camps

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and getaways throughout the year,

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we saw 7,529 people get to experience community

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and freedom that our camps provide.

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There was record breaking heat at Woman Camp,

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with 1672 campers and heat as high as 94 degrees.

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Sheesh!

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Followed by the largest Man Camp with 2270 men

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that braved hurricane force rain

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and wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour.

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But that wasn't enough for us.

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Just a few weeks later, we held

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our first ever Revival at Base Camp,

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where we almost shut down the highway

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because over 8500 people showed up.

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But what happened inside our buildings was just as big.

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For the 22nd time, we held

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our Super Bowl of Preaching

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with 21,500 hot dogs eaten,

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24 random props and one Sasquatch.

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We saw friends and family get to hear about God

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in a language that they understand.

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We've had over 250 people get miraculous physical healings.

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Over 2000 people said yes to Jesus

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and got baptized this year.

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737,200 instances of Scripture read

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in the Crossroads app

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and 4.1 million prayers prayed.

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We had 13,120 TFD and Go! Pantry boxes

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donated to our neighbors

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and our cities and families devastated

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by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.

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We had over 11,000 Christmas gifts donated

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to families who are down on their luck

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or with incarcerated parents.

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And we pushed ourselves to see what it would take

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to have 10X growth in ten years,

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with all of us coming together to make

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a financial commitment of $200 million

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over the next three years to see more and more

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and more of the amazing things that God has for us.

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Well done, team.

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And let's see where God takes us this year.

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- Well, hey, welcome to Crossroads.

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You're joining us for a unique weekend online only.

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Brian's here, and we're actually in

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the brand new Crossroads Dayton space,

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set to open in 2025.

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And we're here because we're talking about

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the new things that are going to come up this year.

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And I have a hunch, okay.

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This is usually the time of year people like to,

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like, reflect backwards on what happened

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and all the things.

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I have a feeling you want to reflect forwards.

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- I like reflecting backwards, don't put me in a box.

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I could do backwards, I could do forwards.

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I could do either one. - You can do anything,

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you're versatile. - I am so capable.

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- That's awesome.

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I mean, it was an amazing year at Crossroads.

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Absolutely incredible year.

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So let's actually start there.

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As you think about the year we had,

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what's the thing you're taking forward with you

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going, "Man, I'm so thankful for blah"?

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- Well, it's hard not to mention the most obvious.

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I'm just thankful for how the whole Push for 10X went.

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We all started that thing off a little queasy,

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a little uncertain.

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We knew there was gonna be a financial component

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at the end of it, and therefore

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that's tough for all of us, myself included.

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I was on that journey longer than anybody,

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just figuring out if I wanted

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to bring it out to the masses.

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And how that thing went.

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I was just over having a dinner party

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with some friends just the other day,

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and they said, "man, we went into this

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with our feet dragging, but this was

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the perfect thing for me, the perfect thing."

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So I don't even think about the, you know,

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the -- I'm not even thinking right now

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of what $200 million-ish does for our ministry

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and for the Kingdom.

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I'm thinking about stuff like the revival.

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- Yeah.

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- That was -- to have lines and masses

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coming in to a place where they hadn't been

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and just kids and people all over the place.

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And people we know who actually got

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literal physical healing there

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and the beauty of the the worship down in the woods.

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- Yeah.

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- I had like guffaw cries when Lib and I

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went down that woods, the woods worship.

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We were down there about midnight

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and it's just like [crying].

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It was stunningly beautiful and powerful.

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So everything about that, The 10X Push,

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I mean, let alone talking about the end

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where everyone came in and consecrated themselves

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and made their commitments.

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It was a magical, magical season for our church

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and one I don't think I'll ever forget.

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- Yeah, it's interesting, the Revival weekend,

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you know, you and I were it was sort of

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a little bit of a divide and conquer, right?

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You were like, "Hey, I'm going to take The Revival."

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I did week one of The Push.

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Came with my family to The Revival,

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waited in line for an hour.

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It was like, "Holy crap, I can't -- I --

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We're just waiting.

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I guess we're waiting to go to church?

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That's never happened before in my life."

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And then I will never forget, you know, again,

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a little bit behind the scenes stuff,

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but I think it's interesting, and convicting honestly,

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I thought doing The Revival in week one

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of The Push on the same weekend

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would mean that everybody went to The Revival,

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and of course, no one was going to want

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to show up for the start of the thing

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that we were very, very clear about

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would end in you being asked to make

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a three year above and beyond financial commitment.

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Of course, no one's going to show up.

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And I'll never forget walking out Sunday morning,

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first service, and I just look out and it's full.

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And not just like normal full, like, overfull.

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I think that was the moment I went, like,

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"Wait a minute, God -- God's in this."

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- Right. The spiritual energy, the fire

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from that Revival just spread into all of our sites.

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- Yeah.

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- The other thing for me that's so significant is,

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you know, you're dealing, it sounds like

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you're dealing with a little bit of a cold here.

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- Yeah, a little bit.

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- And you're dealing with it why?

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- Uh...

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Because you bore significant weight in The Push.

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- Yeah.

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- That's why, your systems are run down.

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I know that. Been there, done that.

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That's the way it's happened to me

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every single push

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or campaign-like thing that we've done.

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This is the only one that I felt great afterwards

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because people like you were bearing a lot of weight.

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You just mentioned you gave the opening,

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opening talk for the whole Push.

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Like, I would have never had somebody else do that.

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I would have always been the guy

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who had the ball in that situation.

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And you were the right guy and did amazing.

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And that's part of why you're sick.

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You just -- you've borne a lot of weight here

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over the last couple months.

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And, man, well done, good and faithful servant.

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- Thanks, man. - Sucks to be you

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because I feel nice and healthy

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because you did so much work, but not me.

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- I'm just got to find somebody next time

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to do the thing I'm doing. - Right. Exactly.

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- The trickle down effect,

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a pyramid scheme, I think is what it's called.

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Yeah. It was an amazing year, amazing year.

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And couldn't be more excited about where we're going.

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So let's turn the page to where we're going.

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2025 about to kick off.

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What are you most excited about?

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- I'm most excited about, okay,

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well, let's go back to The Push

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and then I'll get to The Push Part 2.

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I'm most excited that the things

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that we felt God asked us to expand

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the territories that we have,

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unless we have miserable failure,

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miserable completion rates,

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those things are going to get done.

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And that's a lot of fun ministry to start doing in 2025.

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For you, for me, for all of our volunteers,

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that's going to be great.

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But closely related to that, but not the same,

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is I do feel like God has taken our church

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to another level.

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I do feel like revival is in the air.

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I do feel like people are open to the Spirit

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in ways that we weren't before.

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I do feel there's a deeper level of devotion.

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I do feel like there's an openness to

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the X factor of the presence of God

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that's infiltrating our church.

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And I think that's some --

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That's going to be taken off in 2025.

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Even just just this this last talk I gave,

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well, a couple weeks ago when I did Die Hard.

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By the way, we all know now, right?

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We all know the Die Hard is a Christmas movie.

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We all agree, right? - Oh, 100%.

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You know the biggest piece of evidence

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for why it's a Christmas movie, you didn't say?

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- Well, what is that?

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- It ends in a kiss.

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Every single, the Netflix Hallmark Christmas movies,

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it always ends with the couple

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that you want to be together kissing.

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- Oh. - There you go.

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- Where were you in run-through? I needed that.

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- Sorry. Yeah, I know. My fault.

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- Oh my gosh. But this will maybe tie into

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where I want to go in 2025, it's an interesting thing.

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In that talk, it was fun.

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I smoke a cigarette on stage is always good.

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- Can I do that in my next talk too, you think, is that a --

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- Yeah, but it wouldn't be authentic

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because you never smoke. So it wouldn't work.

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- I do sometimes, yeah, out in the workshop. Yeah.

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- Fine. Fine. People watch like,

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"Is he actually inhaling?" Yeah. Yeah.

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I inhale. It was wonderful.

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But I'm still stunned by two things.

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One, on the more simple level.

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No complaints about that. No complaints.

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It was just sort of our church at its best.

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We were doing that kind of thing very avant garde,

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out on the edge, doing some earthy things.

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And God used it in a great way

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and our church is in line with it.

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It was really, really cool.

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The second thing, I was telling you about this earlier,

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is one of the -- I had a chance to be part of

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one of the more miraculous things that I've seen.

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- Oh, yeah, yeah. - Sheesh.

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Which ties into what I want to challenge people for in 2025.

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You know, I talked about we don't ask people for prayer

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and Jesus doesn't respond, generally,

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He doesn't do miracles unless someone asks.

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It's an act of humility.

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I think there's only one person,

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one person where I preached,

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which was a Thursday night in Oakley,

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three on Sunday.

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There was only one person who came up

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and asked for prayer for healing, one person.

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And that person got healed. - Wow.

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- Literal physical healing, Dave Stansbury

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dealing with recovery from throat cancer

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and all this stuff.

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He hasn't been able to produce saliva

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or taste food for years.

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Carries around a Camelbak or bottled water

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to give himself moisture.

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And I prayed for him to have saliva.

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And I was probably the straw that broke the camel's back.

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A lot of people have been praying for him,

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but the first time I actually put my hands on him.

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He humbly came forward and said,

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"Hey, would you pray for me?"

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I put my hands on him and all of a sudden

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he started producing saliva, spit in my hand,

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hasn't been able to spit for years.

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- It's crazy.

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- He went out and did taste tests of foods.

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Has his taste back. And I just thought,

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"Wow, it's really wild, like,

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the one person who asked, one,

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and a miracle took place.

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- Of the people who asked.

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- A verifiable miracle.

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- 100% that weekend got healed.

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That's interesting to think about.

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- Right, right. Now, I probably pray for some of

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the people who had family stuff or something,

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but as far as I remember, physical healing

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there was just one and that was it.

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It was 100. It was one for one, 100%.

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Only one guy you could also look at and say

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only one guy was humble enough to ask.

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I mean, how many other people were there

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that had a need, but maybe they just didn't want

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to bother me, which is fine.

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Maybe they went to somebody else, which is fine.

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Maybe they're busy. Fine.

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- It would be a waste of time.

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God's not going to heal me. Whatever.

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- One person made the ask, and one person got the gift.

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- Wow. Okay, so to carry that forward into 2025,

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what does that mean for us?

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- Okay, so a couple of things.

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Book of James says you have not because you ask not.

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And one of the regular things I do

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with my family every year is write,

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it's either New Year's or Christmas Eve.

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It can be either one.

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So you gather the whole family up and you read

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the story of Jesus and Blind Bartimaeus,

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which is from Mark chapter ten, where Jesus asks him,

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"What is it you want Me to do for you?"

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And we go around and we have everyone say,

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"What I want Jesus to do for me this year."

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And then I write them down and track them.

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And then next year we ask the same, same thing

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with all my kids and their spouses and all that stuff.

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And then we compare what happened last year,

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who's got what they asked for.

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And then we also have our ask for the next year.

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But again, it was that thing of Jesus,

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He makes him ask, He makes him humble himself

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and say, "What is it you want Me to do for you?"

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I think most of us are afraid of that.

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We don't want to waste God's time

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or actually really, what it is, I think,

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is we're afraid of being disappointed.

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Like, if I ask and then there isn't an answer of yes,

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then God doesn't care about me. God isn't real.

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My problems aren't real to God.

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Whatever. Whatever the thing is,

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some people just feel it as rejection.

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So better to not ask and not be rejected.

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And for sure, with all those things,

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Jesus doesn't do everything we want Him to do.

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He doesn't, but He sure as heck isn't going to do

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what He could do if we don't ask.

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We ask not because we don't have not.

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And this is a year where we as a church need to be asking.

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We need to be asking God to use us for an awakening.

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We need to be asking Him for things that

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our bank account can't provide because

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maybe some of us don't have a bank account anymore.

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Bank account can't provide anything.

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This is the year to go out and say,

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"Why wouldn't God bless our community

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and use us in a crazy, crazy way in the Kingdom of God?"

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So that's where I'm going this year

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and I hope all of us join me. - That's amazing.

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I mean, one, that exercise is incredible.

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I'll do that with my family.

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- And they love it. It's a tradition.

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They go, oh, and I go back to them,

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I have the notes and I go back to it every year

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and everyone looks forward to it.

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It's around the fire. It's really fun.

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- You guys commit to pray for each other

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throughout the year, or is it just like,

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hey, we share this and we kind of check in?

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- Yeah, we share it.

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We don't check in for a whole year

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to see if God did it over the next year.

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- That's awesome. - Yeah.

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And it's, you know, some of the things people put

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are really good things, but I always have to say,

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"This is not goals that you have to do,

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which is fine. You can have that list.

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These are things that you know that can't happen

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unless God gets involved."

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- Wow. Okay, so you are about to answer

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that question for yourself. What are some of the things

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you're thinking about asking God for?

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- Oh, gosh. Well, one of them is going to be

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just what I just said, I want -- I want a, um,

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I want to see an awakening.

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I want to be a part of an awakening.

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Yeah, I want that.

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Another one is I've got some stuff with kids

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that I just can't share. You know,

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I don't want to share publicly,

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but I'm going to be asking for them to ask for that.

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Uh, I'm also going to ask that I get

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the biggest buck I've ever gotten because

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I had opportunities this last year

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and they were heartbreaking.

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- We should put up in the, can we put up

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in the video the photos of this buck

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that you were chasing this year?

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- Yeah, yeah, it's fine,

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but there's actually two of them.

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You can put them up, put both of them up.

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It's, yeah. Horrible, horrible.

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You know, just a little background because

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this is -- most people find this incredibly boring.

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But just let me enlighten you, okay?

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Deer hunting is really, really hard.

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Now for everybody who's listening

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who doesn't hunt deer, you're going, "No it's not."

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- They're freaking everywhere in my yard all the time.

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How hard is it? - They're everywhere.

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You know why they're everywhere?

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You know the answer why are they everywhere?

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- Because they feel safe in my yard.

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- Right, because they know they're not going to get killed.

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- Because I'm not going to. Yeah.

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- And because they feel safe,

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they also don't care about human smell.

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None of that stuff because they know they're safe.

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No one's going to kill them. They don't --

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They never known anybody who's gotten killed

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unless it's been a coyote or something like that.

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When you get out in the country where I hunt,

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it's not that way.

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There's hunters there, there's coyotes everywhere.

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And if you do the slightest thing wrong, they're gone.

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If you're in a tree stand and the wind shifts

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and they're 200 yards away, they smell,

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"Oh, that's a human." They're gone.

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If you go out, you've got a corn pile,

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which has happened to me the first time,

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and you say, "I'm going to try something different.

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Just put some other nice tasty morsel on here."

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I did that, this massive elk of a deer

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starts coming in and he gets about 15 yards away

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and he stops and he goes, "Something doesn't smell

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the way it normally does."

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And he turned around and just walked away.

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I just had a comedy of errors,

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everything has to line up great to get a big buck

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because they're big, because they're really, really smart

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and they have super human or super animal senses.

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And so that's one thing I'm, like,

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it's a heartbreaking year, utterly heartbreaking for me.

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So let me ask for this year for God to deliver

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the right buck at the right time.

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- So some of your stuff is, like,

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more spiritually sounding stuff and help

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and some of it is just like, I just want to have fun

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and I want to do the thing I love

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and kill an awesome buck.

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You think God cares about that?

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- 100%. Look, the only way your faith lasts

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is if you believe you have

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a Heavenly Father who loves you.

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That's the only way it lasts.

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And if you believe that your Heavenly Father

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is only there to motivate you to do

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the utilitarian things that He needs,

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there's not going to be much of a love relationship there.

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You've got your kids.

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You want to bless them, right? - Absolutely.

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You want them to come and ask you things, right?

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It's part of the relationship.

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So if I don't take those things to God,

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it's a sign that the relationship

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has really gone cold.

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And basically, I'm on the verge of being a slave then.

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- Wow.

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- I'm just gotta hit my marks and do what He says to do.

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And there's there's no joy in that.

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There's no relational intimacy in that.

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So yeah, you need to be looking at things

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that just you want.

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Jesus, when He says to the blind man, He says,

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"What do you want Me to do for you?"

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He wasn't saying, "Hmm. Uh, let me tell you

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what you should be asking." No.

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"What do you want Me to do for you?"

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Maybe the guy's biggest need wasn't that he was blind.

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And by the way, when he said, what do you want me to do?

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He also doesn't say one thing.

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He doesn't say, 'What's your one thing?"

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I always have to remind everybody that

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when we do this, people just want to do one thing.

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I say, "No, you can. You can do more one.

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You can do two, you can do three."

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Jesus said, "What is it you want Me to do for you?"

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- So He could have been like, ah, da da da da da.

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He's asking a genuine question.

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- 100% he could. He could, who knows?

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He could have asked for an American apple pie.

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He could have. He could have asked for anything.

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- Anything.

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- Jesus said, "What is it you want Me to do for you?"

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And I think that the reason why many of us

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are reacting against this is appropriately so,

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we've seen the health and wealth gospel abuse this.

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We've seen people, you know, getting the blessing of God

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and riding a Rolls-Royce

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on the backs of other people's giving.

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We've seen bad theology about

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God doesn't allow any pain and suffering.

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He does allow it for whatever reason.

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So we can see that all those things are abuses,

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all those things are untrue and still say,

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"There's a Heavenly Father who wants to bless me."

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Jesus says, "Which of you as a father,

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when his son asks for a piece of bread,

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gives him a stone?"

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He says, "No, no, that's not how

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our Heavenly Father operates."

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So I'm not talking about viewing God as a genie,

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having my faith linked to material blessings.

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I'm just saying, if I'm not going

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before the creator of the universe who loves me

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and has created me and wants to bless me,

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I'm not opening my life up to Him, it shows

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there's really an outage in our relationship.

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- Yeah, yeah. That's awesome.

00:20:33

Okay, so I also know about you, Mr. Brian Tome.

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You're a man who prays and a man who does.

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So as you think about 2025, is there anything

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you go, like, "Yeah. I'm going to ask God,

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I want to see these things happen"?

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Are you going to work at anything differently

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or different for a different thing

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than you did last year?

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Well, I feel like this year is a discernment for me.

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- Yeah.

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- You know, this is my last year at 59.

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My last year in the decade of the 50s.

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And then I go in the 60s.

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And I have a mentor of mine, Bob Beal,

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who wrote a book on the decades.

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And his conviction is your 60s

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are the most productive decade of your life.

00:21:19

- Wow.

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- Your 60s, which is really countercultural

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when most people are looking for their 60s

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to be the least productive.

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- That's when you finally stop being productive.

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- Right, it's when you stop doing things,

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that's when you, yeah, do all whatever

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you want to do because you put in your time.

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Well, I've had a really good life.

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I've had a fun life.

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I have time to do a lot of good, fun things,

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so my 60s, I want them to be the most productive.

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[So 59 I'm really looking to get a game plan]

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for how to best organize my time and my life for my 60s.

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And certainly what's happened with the 10X Push

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is a piece of that.

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And you know, your role where you are

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and doing the amazing work you are also

00:22:02

has sort of laddered me up

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to be able to think in those ways.

00:22:05

So that's really what I need in my, in this year,

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is a clarity about where to put my time,

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my focus, all that.

00:22:14

So I've got to actually after this taping,

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I'm meeting with a guy to talk about just that very thing.

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The guy's coming in to see me

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and I've got some other stuff,

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so I'm working on that pretty hard.

00:22:22

- Wow. That's awesome. - Yeah.

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- Okay, we're about done,

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but I'm just going to ask you this.

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Is there anything for those of us

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who are watching right now who have heard

00:22:32

you kind of push us on prayer,

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anything you want us to think about

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in these last couple of minutes

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as we head into our New year,

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or anything you want to pray for us?

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We can do that too.

00:22:42

- Well, I turn on you.

00:22:44

You've asked me some really good questions.

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What do you think? What?

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What kind of things do you think

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that we should be praying for as a church?

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- I was convicted when I was putting together

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the week one message for The Push that

00:22:58

my prayers were very practical and, um, you know,

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they weren't, like, not small or insignificant

00:23:07

or not meaningful, but they weren't --

00:23:09

They weren't dreams.

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And there's this verse in the Psalms that says,

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"When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,

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they were like those who dreamed."

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And since then I've just been going like,

00:23:19

"Lord, what does it mean to dream?

00:23:20

What am I, what am I, what am I selling short on?

00:23:23

You know? What am I -- what am I not --

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Am I just thinking is impossible?

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And how do I, how do I pray towards those things?"

00:23:31

Um, so for me, part of that's impact of Crossroads,

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part of that's impact of my kids.

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And just, I just I don't want to be the dad

00:23:40

who's goal for my kids, and this isn't a bad goal,

00:23:42

by the way. I mean, this is part of my goal.

00:23:44

But it's just, you know, when they leave my house,

00:23:47

they're well-rounded human beings

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with a decent path in life.

00:23:50

And then I know I want him to change the world.

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I want millions of people to know Jesus through our family.

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Like, that's a -- that's one example.

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And so I think as I go through to 2025,

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that's kind of what I'm doing.

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And I don't have an answer.

00:24:03

I mean, if I did, I'd say it,

00:24:04

but I think it's that, going, "Okay. God,

00:24:07

what dream do you want this year?"

00:24:10

- Yeah.

00:24:11

- "And how do I start to ask?" - Yeah.

00:24:14

- So that's mine.

00:24:17

- I think Crossroads just needs to be aware of,

00:24:19

hey! Get ready. Like this is it.

00:24:21

The church starts all over new.

00:24:23

We're right now in a brand new facility

00:24:26

that will be up and operable here in Dayton.

00:24:28

That's the latest iteration of what

00:24:31

a building for us looks like.

00:24:32

It's going to be great.

00:24:33

It's a big, big, big, big, huge step of faith.

00:24:35

I mean, the number of people we have

00:24:37

coming to little middle school does not equate

00:24:39

to the amount of space that we've put here. Right?

00:24:43

- Yeah. - You know?

00:24:44

We've got massive plans that are happening

00:24:46

out in Base Camp.

00:24:47

We're going through the appeal process

00:24:49

for the lake that we're trying to get approved

00:24:51

out there right now.

00:24:52

We are challenging ourselves, you know, internally.

00:24:56

Like, how does Crossroads structure for awakening

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instead of only growing 20%, only is great.

00:25:02

That's awesome. If we grow 20%,

00:25:03

it's part of your job, growing 20%.

00:25:05

Awesome if we can do that, that's fine.

00:25:06

But how do we structure for awakening?

00:25:09

- Yeah.

00:25:11

- Figuring that out, we're going to be having

00:25:13

to take new ground this year in prayer.

00:25:16

I've challenged some people internally,

00:25:17

like, what is the next iteration

00:25:20

of what prayer looks like for us

00:25:21

corporately as a church?

00:25:23

We've got a real prayer system for staff members,

00:25:26

our rhythms, praying together.

00:25:27

But we need to get them for the whole church.

00:25:30

Awakenings break out when there's corporate prayer,

00:25:32

and we're all in on that.

00:25:34

And so we're going to be taking new ground there.

00:25:36

It's going to be a --

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It's going to be a year of firsts for us.

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- Can't wait. - Yeah.

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- Would you pray for us? - I would love to.

00:25:43

Lord, thanks for giving us the ability to dream

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and fortify those dreams with actual responses.

00:25:50

Thank You for how You responded with The Push for 10X.

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Thank You how You moved Your people

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to reallocate your cattle on a thousand hills.

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Thank You for dreams and visions of revivals

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and awakenings and for healings.

00:26:07

Lord, we want to see more of that this year.

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Lord, look at Your servants.

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I think we've proven pretty faithful.

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Whatever You've got going on for us,

00:26:14

whatever You've got going on, we're up for it this year.

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Whatever it is, whatever You've got going on

00:26:18

in the Kingdom in 2025, we'd like to be included.

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I pray these things in Your name, Jesus. Amen.

00:26:25

- Amen. Well, hey, thanks for watching today.

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If you're with us and you want

00:26:30

to share this with somebody, you can do that.

00:26:32

We will restart regular service both in person

00:26:35

and online next weekend. We'll see you then.

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