Galatians 2 Bible Study | Homesteading and Faith: The Grit and Grace of Farm Life

The crack of dawn on a bustling farm brought an unexpected chill, and with it, the miracle of birth as Peg Pig welcomed her piglets into the world. Amidst the flurry of activity, we're reminded of the delicate balance between the wonders and hardships of farm life. In this episode, I share a poignant moment from the barn that will touch your heart and draw you into the reality of homesteading—a reality that's as raw as it is rewarding.

Have you ever considered the parallels between your faith journey and the grit of farm work? We'll traverse the grounds from a muddy barnyard to the sacred truths within scripture, examining how the lessons of the land echo the messages of the Bible. From Paul's bold confrontation with Peter to the necessity of faith over law, this discussion ventures deeper than the soil we till. Join us as we tackle the tough and sometimes messy aspects of daily life, including the practicality of castrating bulls, with a dose of spiritual insight that's sure to resonate with believers and homesteaders alike.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Farm Life
• 16:11 Faith, Farm Life, and Castrating Bulls
• 23:30 Christian Fellowship Show Discussions
• 31:07 Trump, COVID, Politics, and Raccoons
• 48:33 Prayer for Unity and Protection

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:39

Hello everyone and welcome to Christian Warrior Talk, the Christian Fellowship Show, where we fight three battles Monday through Thursday. One, we fight to get a humble and grateful heart aligned onto the Lord. Two, we fight to pursue our Heavenly Father, holy Spirit and Lord Jesus Christ by reading the Holy Scripture and through prayer. And three, we spend time in fellowship with Iron, sharpening Iron, connecting the body from all around. Well the world. So happy, I think, thursday to you. Is it Thursday? I think today's the last day of this week. It is All right, I got to check. Everything bleeds together. When you work seven days a week, it's all one big whirlwind. So sorry I'm a little late. Tonight Got a great announcement Peg Pig finally had her baby. So far I think she's had 11. We were hoping for 12, but you know, I think we had an order for a total of 12, 10 and 2. But as of right now I think it's only 11, but she's not done yet. She hasn't delivered the placenta. So Lauren's checking on that while I stream to you guys.

Speaker 1: 1:58

But you know the farm is an interesting place. Let's just say that you know you're sitting around and then boom, you've got something going down and you got to drop everything and go deal with it. And we went back there and, yep, peg had already delivered 11, I think. So now it was cold. Today was like the worst day for that. It actually like snowed here, you know, it didn't stick, but it was like that little white, fine pebble snow. It might have been called freezing rain, I don't know, but it was 40, but it was snowing, which is weird, right? So, anyways, it was wet and cool here today in the 40s, and that's the day she had her baby. So we went, you know, dropped everything we had.

Speaker 1: 3:03

Today's a day where we get like 2 000 pounds of feed and we're offloading the feed and moving it all around, and then, um, we go and get straw to bring it back to the babies and we, um, we always got to make sure to keep the rest of the pigs away from the babies, not because our pigs are going to like try to kill them, but if they step on them, they pop them, um, and it is. It is really dangerous for them until they're really more mobile. We've lost at least one every litter to, you know, being stepped on. And, um, you know, because peg weighs six, seven hundred pounds and some of our other pigs weigh six, seven hundred pounds. So you step on a little piglet this big, you know they're, they're mobile and they're way stockier and tougher than like even puppies are at that age. But, um, you know, they're still pretty vulnerable to blunt trauma. So we, um, we ended up having to section off a section to keep the other ones away. And that's always on a clock, right, because the other pigs are going to get curious. They going to come over there and next thing, you know, if they see all the straw, they're going to want that comfy bed. So everything was on a clock so we had to drop everything. Go take care of that.

Speaker 1: 4:35

Now I will say b and yaya and baby magnus strapped to the front of Lauren. All of us were out there. It was all hands on deck and we were turning and burning man and there was a lot to be done in a little time but we got it done and so far, so good. I mean tomorrow morning we'll tell when Peg gets up to eat and drink. The risk is when she lays back down. She lays back down on the piglets. So if she does that, that's where you know if she mistimes that lay down or one of the pigs goes under her. They're pretty much toast. That's why pigs have so many babies, because they take such heavy casualties being born, and we've tried doing it in a protected environment and we lost more pigs that way than letting her do it out in the wild. Out in the wild she's always done it well on her own. She gets on a little hill, she puts her butt downhill, the pigs come out, piglets come out, and they don't go under her. And you know, and they're so cute. I mean, they're ridiculously cute.

Speaker 1: 5:53

I don't know if Lauren's posted a story yet. She's still running around trying to get Peg taken care of. I'm going to check on Instagram. I wish she'd start posting to Twitter, but you know you got to do what you got to do. Let's see here. Yep, she did so. Let's go on over there. I know we're a little early on this stuff, but okay, so all is well, great, all right. So I'm going to share this over.

Speaker 2: 6:34

Suspicious.

Speaker 1: 6:36

All right, so here we go, and I'm going to take this.

Speaker 2: 6:41

Hi you guys. I just came down to feed the piggos dinner. Pug didn't come, which is suspicious, and this is why there's 11 so far. I'm not seeing a placenta past yet, so I think she's still going. Last time she had 14. So far, these guys are all alive. I don't see any stillborns yet. It's amazing, amazing and I'm gonna run and get them. Of course, she's having on like the coldest day, the last cold snap before spring, so I'm gonna run and get these guys some straw because they are shivering. So we'll keep you posted.

Speaker 2: 7:26

Always an exciting day For there to be some babies on the farm. I'm just standing here waiting to see if she's going to have another one quickly before I leave, but isn't it amazing? So they were obviously born there and these little guys, they all made it, you know, within minutes of being born. They find the milk, they find warmth. God is just so amazing with how he makes these animals just survive and it's such a blessing to. Hopefully I can get one being born on camera for you guys, because I know not many people get to experience this, so it's always such a pleasure to share it with you all through social media.

Speaker 1: 8:18

All right. So, anyways, that's why I was late, but, as you can see, awesome, awesome, awesome. You know these are the good days on the farm when you have new life on the farm, right, new life is always exciting, it's always amazing, you know it's. You know the harvest is the hardest part for me, but babies being born is always epic, so I'm going to have to get that. Yeah, peg's an awesome mom. God made her a great mom and she does a great job and so, anyways, a great day on the farm anytime you have life coming on the farm.

Speaker 1: 9:09

You know, because pretty soon we're processing six of Peg and Al's previous litter. They are now about 300 pounds or so and it's time for them to go to processing. Which reminds me if you guys want a half hog or a whole hog, please DM me for prices and all that other stuff, we will ship. If you want one, you obviously get to pay for shipping and it, you know, between 150 and probably 200 pounds of meat. So, but people do it all the time. So, again, I know we have some left and we don't have freezer room, right, we have freezer room. Oh, eight boys and three girls. Holy smokes. Girls, holy smokes. Lauren's going to be busy castrating. We're going to be doing that early, early, early early, before they get mobile, lauren, because man does that. The older they get, the way harder it gets, and you know. So, anyways, good, good, good, good stuff.

Speaker 1: 10:23

You know, and this whole litter is sold already. You know, sold that other people are going to take and process and do stuff we have. You know we are. This is the first time we're sending meat to the butcher and we're selling, you know, usda pork that we're really excited about. So, again, if you want to have, um, pigs that have been drained, you know that are pasture raised, that have no drugs in them, no jabs, no, nothing, and they only get, you know they are out there, we, we, we give them co-op, uh, hog finisher and hog grower but we do not do anything else. And they are rooting up, eating you know God's diet all day long. I mean they do. They have about five acres that they are rooting up, eating roots and and everything else that's in the ground constantly. You know slugs and bugs and God knows what else, but um, and then they eat our leftovers, right, which, all of our stuff here is all good and raised here. So, anyways, if you're interested in some pork meat um, we are not doing cuts, like you can't buy bacon from us or a tenderloin, and whatever we're selling. You know whole and half pigs right now and whatever we're selling it, you know whole and half pigs right now. Um, you know we may do that in the future, but not right now. So, um, but when you try our pork, holy smokes it is, um, it's got such a depth of flavor to it the stuff from the store takes like sawdust, it's like the turkeys. You know, I'll never do store-bought turkey again, because our turkeys were so good, they had so many layers of flavor to them, unlike the sawdust. You know turkeys that live on concrete their whole life, right, so that's it.

Speaker 1: 12:16

So let's get a humble and grateful heart aligned on the Lord. Heavenly Father, lord, we thank you. We thank you for the countless blessings that we have and the protections we have. Father, lord, we thank you. We thank you for the countless blessings that we have and the protections we have. We thank you today for the healthy, happy 11 piglets that were born today on the farm. We thank you for protecting Peg, who is a beloved matriarch here and we hope she has many, many, many years left here, happy on the farm. She's such a personality.

Speaker 1: 12:43

Lord, we thank you for all your creation. We thank you for the mountains, thank you for the oceans, the seas, the rivers, the streams, the lakes, the ponds, the creeks. Lord, we thank you for everything for your animals, your loyal dogs, some people like cats I don't know about them, but you know your powerful elephants and your beautiful fish and everything else. Laura, we just marvel at it, at the brilliance of your design. Laura, we thank you for your sunrises and sunsets here Warm fire on a cold day and a cool breeze on a hot day. Thank you for the smell and taste of good food and drink. Lord, we also thank you for a touch of a loved one, children's laughter, sound of wind through the trees, waves breaking on the ocean. Lord, we thank you most of all for choosing us before the foundations of the earth, writing us into your book of life, choosing us while we were still traitors, saving us. So, lord, we pray that this time together glorifies you and only you, serves you and only you. We pray that we serve you with every beat of our heart and proclaim you with every breath in our lungs. In Jesus' name, we pray Amen.

Speaker 1: 14:29

All right, so, lawrence, turkey is ridiculous. Yes, cheerful coconut, thank you, it is amazing. You've had it around our table. See, that's proof. Right there there's someone in Oregon telling you how great our Turkey is. It's insane. So, um, now I'm going to get Lauren to let me raise turkeys again this year. Um, she hates raising the turkeys. I love them. The girls are so cute. They're a little. They're there. They're uh, you know it was awesome. They're awesome. They're so cute. Um, the band, the boys are nasty, though they, you know, they look like melted wax and all that stuff, but the little girls are cute. Um, so that's one battle one. Let's get to our second battle.

Speaker 1: 15:32

We're in 2nd Galatians and we're going to see Paul go to battle against Peter Rightfully so For the Gentiles, and I think it's pretty amazing that that's put in the Holy Bible. Paul accepted by the apostles, and again I'm reading out of the English Standard Version Then. So he talked about his journey in the first part of Galatians and now he's going to continue on the narration of his story. Then, after 14 years, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas taking Titus along with me.

Speaker 1: 16:11

I went up because of a revelation and set before them, although privately, before those who seemed influential, those being the apostles, the gospel that I proclaimed among the Gentiles in order to make sure I was not running or had run in vain. But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek. Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so they might bring us into slavery To them, we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you, for you and from those who seem to be influential. What they were makes no difference to me. God shows no partiality. Those I say who seemed influential added nothing to me. On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised, for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic mission to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles.

Speaker 1: 17:42

And when James and Cephas and John, all right, gentiles, and when James and Cephas and John, all right, so Cephas, being Peter and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me. They gave their right hand, in fellowship, to Barnabas and me that we should go to the Gentiles and they go to the circumcised. Only they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do. Paul opposes Peter, but when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned. When he came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned, for before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles, but when they came he drew back out eating with them, having a good time. And then some Jews or some Christians from Jerusalem, jewish Christians, came and all of a sudden he separates himself from those who he had been fellowship before. And Paul is pissed and he calls him on this. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews Justified by faith?

Speaker 1: 19:44

We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners. Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not, for if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself a transgressor, for through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives inside me In the life I now live. In the flesh, I live by faith to the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness I mean, I can't even imagine this. All right.

Speaker 1: 20:58

So life on the farm, right? So 12 piglets born today they're all out there in straw with their mama Doing well. I think Lauren is still out there looking after them. We're so thankful for them and hopefully she'll pop in and give us an update to let us know, but eight boys and three girls. So we got. You know, lauren, sorry, I'll take their life. The deal is, you know, I'll end their life but Lauren's going to take their manhood. I will not castrate them and I hold the male bulls down and 11, I'm sorry, yeah, 11. And, lauren, are you back in the field or are you safe up here at the house? I just want to know so I can relax that part of my mind thinking that you're down there in the field with six and 700-pound pigs. So let me know if you're back. I totally lost my train of thought when she came in there.

Speaker 1: 22:06

But, um, I gotta tell you, you know this homesteading life. There are days that I want no part of it. There are days where I'm like man, I just want to sell all the animals. I'm tired of every type of animal poop everywhere. I'm tired of flies. Oh, manhood, yes. So I won't take the bull's manhood. I hold them down and Lauren's going to put the rubber band around their testicles. I kind of got a thing. I don't touch another male's testicles, no matter what it's not for me to do. Don't touch another male's testicles, no matter what it's not for me to do. But you should see, my calf and my quad have bruises this big from when the last bull kicked me. We're talking three weeks old and they're already almost 200 pounds strong. As anything Blasted me in the calf and in the quad and I've got giant bruises, uh, from them. So, uh, they're so strong. You gotta you know, every time Lauren and I procrastinate um having to do, you know, castration it is uh, it is something that we regret holding on to so, um, so I want to say hello to a ton of people who are here right now.

Speaker 1: 23:30

We got a full crew today. Bob's, your uncle. Good to see a cheerful coconut, good to see. Adrian's always good to see a Steve Raleigh, good to see you. Lauren, my love, great to see you. God links, welcome to the show. And Brandy, good to see you. God links, welcome to the show. Um, and brandy, good to see you. And joseph, uh, gather cole from from alaska, good to see you. So you know we got a full crew in the house. I think we got about 100 and let's see here, we got 111 watching over on x. So awesome guys Appreciate you. And we were up to, you know, an all-time high for us. We had 12 over there on Rumble. So thank you for you guys on Rumble.

Speaker 1: 24:14

Again, this is all live. So if you comment over there and if I see it, I'll bring it over here and share it in chat so you guys can all interact with each other. You know, that's why I share the chat there. I share the chat to the right because this is a Christian fellowship show. This isn't me monologuing forever. This is a Christian fellowship show where you guys can come and communicate sorry over here on my side of the screen and whether you're on X or YouTube or Facebook and if I see anyone comment over here on Rumble, I'll bring it over and you guys can all exchange with one another. So I'm also open to taking calls tonight. So if anybody wants to take a call in tonight to talk about the Crucible Challenge or something they're having issues with, they need prayer, whatever it is, by all means go ahead. You have my number. I'm making sure I'm set up for it right now. Let me see here, good, and let's see I am connected. So, adrian, if you want to call in or if the if Oregon wants to call, you know who I'm talking about. By all means, go ahead, give a call in and let us know what's going on in your world.

Speaker 1: 25:41

But I'm starting to see people lose their mind over the coming eclipse. I saw that some states have declared states of emergency and all that and that you know there's a couple theories on that. You know there's all the doomsdayers who are saying that you know, they know something's coming and that there's going to be power outages and this and that and the EMP attack, etc. Etc. But some of these towns that are doing this, that are in the track, they're going to have so many people in those places I mean millions of people descending on not so densely populated areas to where I think they needed to declare a state to emergency to get state funds for traffic control and all those other things Right. So, um, for, for, for assets and things for to make sure they can do crowd control and, if anything goes wrong, you know, to protect the people, et cetera, et cetera. So again, I think that's that's part of what's going on.

Speaker 1: 27:04

Um, uh, and you know, I did see something pretty concerning today that farmer or rancher in Arizona who killed the illegal gunfight with some illegal aliens who were in camouflaged backpacks smuggling drugs on his property and he ended up killing one of them, or he's charged with killing one of them. They can't prove through ballistics that it was his. Here I'll show you the article, this old guy here, you know, and I can't even imagine having the cartel and guys with rifles and camis running through my property every day. And, you know, shame on the government for putting him through this to make him have to defend the border in his own backyard. Yeah, arizona is completely lost, completely lost. It is gone, as as with Maricopa County. So, yeah, the wife of the rancher accused of killing a little woman who found a den in his property, he testified and they charged him. They charged him originally with first degree murder and then it got downgraded to second degree murder and they want him to plea for, you know, like manslaughter or something. And he said no way, no way, I'm not going to plead guilty to anything, defending my, my wife. You know, my life, my wife and my property.

Speaker 1: 29:01

And this is what happens when you live in a cesspool of a state that has been completely compromised by the left. You know, it doesn't take long for anyone. You know, I wonder all these people who are squatting in all these houses, I wonder how those families are going to vote in that it's democratic law, democrat laws and liberals who are allowing them to Basically steal and bankrupt these people who, you know, have properties that they're supposed to have and they squat in them forever and destroy them. Where you have illegal aliens putting out on TikTok how to steal a home from an American, you know this is absolutely shameful. It's absolutely shameful and I'll do it like this so we can. There, we go. So you can see what I'm talking about and I'm not a little square. You know the day, you know we we saw this happen Was it in Michigan, with the riots and that couple with their their firearms as BLM, was coming down the street and was trying to break into their home and there they were dragged through the courts and made to be called every type of is there is for defending their property from blm.

Speaker 1: 30:34

Just get out of the blue states people. You're not going to win there. You're not. Everything's stacked against you. Get somewhere where you have a conservative governor and a conservative attorney general, conservative sheriffs around you, where you don't have to play with this madness. You don't have to deal with this madness. I mean, that was our topic last night, right, seems to be a repeating topic on here Every time I check the news is another reason to get out of those hell holes.

Speaker 1: 31:28

You know I got into it today. You guys know that I'm going to be. You know I personally am going to be voting for Trump for a third time. He was not who I wanted to be the candidate this time, but I put out a tweet today, or whatever it's called, on Twitter and um, and I think it's worth explaining to you guys, because this is from COVID. So let me and this is what we missed out on by choosing Trump as a candidate, by them destroying the DeSantis campaign and DeSantis are running such a terrible by. By, by, you know, them destroying the uh, the DeSantis campaign and DeSantis are running as such a terrible campaign. Right, but here it is.

Speaker 1: 32:17

Let's let's read this study here. This is from the vaccine heart failure in the U S Navy pilots is up 973%. Cardiomyopathy in U S Navy pilots is up 152%. Myocarditis inS Navy pilots is up 152%. Myocarditis in US Navy pilots is up 151%. Ignoring the consequences of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines is ignoring tyranny of the COVID vaccine. Unfortunately, that went out the window when MAGA destroyed the Ron DeSantis campaign. Trump can't hold anyone accountable for COVID-19 vaccines. He took credit for making them. What a loss, what an opportunity lost, and that's a fact. You know, everybody who did something wrong with COVID is going to get away with it, because Trump put his name all over it, if we're lucky enough for him to even become president. You know and if you guys haven't seen, I'm sure you've heard me talk about it or seen me comment on it I'm voting for Trump because Trump is chemotherapy. Right now, nobody wants chemotherapy. You look like crap, you sound like crap, you feel like crap and that's all going to happen if Trump wins.

Speaker 1: 34:03

You're going to look like crap, sound like crap, feel like crap Because of all the stuff that's going to to happen if Trump wins. We're going to look like crap, sound like crap, feel like crap right, because of all the stuff that's going to go on when that happens. But you take chemotherapy because you're going to die otherwise, and I think we need if we can't have DeSantis, then we need four years of chemo for the chance of saving this country. We may not be able to save it. I don't even know if it's savable. I don't know if America is ever going to be anything that it was before. Trump is chemotherapy, and I keep telling everybody who hates him I'm like you don't have to like chemo. No one likes taking chemo, but it's better than dying. It's better than seeing america die, which is what will happen with biden in office. So, um and I'm gonna get attacked by magGA for putting that up there Right, and again, I consider myself MAGA make America great again. I'm all about that. I'm all about loyalty to the constitution and um and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible liberty and justice for all. Um, it's not to a person, it's not to a family. This isn't England where you swear fealty to the queen or the king or the royal family. We have something more eternal and but we all got to get on the same side soon.

Speaker 1: 35:59

You know, I'm watching these influencers on x and I swear. There are people who are pretending to be trumpers, who are Democrats, who are there to sow division. The entire Haley campaign is basically Democrats sowing division. And then there are former Ron DeSantis supporters who are Democrats, who are there to just try to make us fight all day. And that's what they do on Twitter. They engage, you know, dumping gasoline on open wounds and napalm on open wounds to make everyone say fine, I'm a now and never Trump, I'm a never Like.

Speaker 1: 36:35

I talked to somebody today who's a never DeSantis in 2028. And I said be gone Democrat. I mean, you're telling me what you're going to vote for in five years. You don't even know what the world will be like. You have no idea. Stop acting like a toddler. At some point you have to put on your big boy pants or your big girl pants and make adult decisions, not because your feelings are cool with it, because it's the only rational decision out there. I'm so tired of all the emotional garbage running in the election. It's like it's turned it all into a gossip like girls' locker room. It's like it's turned it all into a gossip like girl's locker room. It's terrible.

Speaker 1: 37:41

We got to unite around America, not around Donald Trump, not around Ron DeSantis, not around a party. We've got to unite around America and make the best decision for the longevity of America going forward. Who is going to represent godly principles better? Who is going to defend the unborn? Who is going to be tough on crime to save lives? Who's going to shut down the border? Whose family is going to are you going to feel, is your family going to feel safer under the current sock puppet and as president, or under Trump? 100%, it's Trump.

Speaker 1: 38:43

The temperature in the room will drop 40 degree, or drop 40 degrees when Trump's in office with Russia, cause he understands the situation and all the Democrats want to do is make Russia the bad guy. Don't think Russia is the good guy? I don't. I don't think that. Um, they're the boogeyman. China's the boogeyman. In my opinion, russia and us should have been allies if we had played this right. Instead, we made them China's allies. We took our biggest two threats and we made them best buddies when historically they weren't. Because we're stupid, because we have corrupt democrats in office who want to enrich their kids with ukrainian companies and oligarchs. So so that's my take on things you know.

Speaker 1: 39:50

Yesterday we had talked about. They're talking about spinning up the bird flu, and maybe that's what they're going to be their next covid to try to get more and how to seal the election. These are tough times and I'm telling you, as I've been saying all you know since last year, 2024, they're going to divide us among at least four, four camps they're going to take. They're going to pay black against white, like they always do. They're going to put um legal versus illegal, straight versus um LGBTQ, satanic alphabet soup, and then they're going to do women versus men because of abortion. Those are the four camps they're going to put us in and because of that, we're going to be driven to hate each other. We have to resist that, but at the same time, we have to address the risks of what that looks like. You can I mean the odds of you getting in trouble going into a major metropolitan city wearing something that declares which one of those camps you're in is going to increase your risk.

Speaker 1: 41:39

Oh, I didn't realize it was still on. I was watching that, I didn't. You know the trash panda Someone rescued that. But again I'm sitting there talking and I didn't even realize I was still sharing that. Sorry about the trash pandas.

Speaker 1: 42:00

Oh, I've had to kill a whole family of those guys, which sucks Because they came and decimated my chickens. You know, I am not. I don't have a good relationship with raccoons here. I would if they'd let me, but I've had to kill a rabid one once and then I had to kill multiple other ones who had come here to kill our chickens. They wiped out a hatchery. We had 40 of them and I think they wiped out 38. Yeah, which is awful, because they just suck the brains out and leave the rest of the ball right there. It seems like such a waste.

Speaker 1: 42:48

But we're going to take um. If anybody wants to call, get ready to call now. We're going to do a break, we're going to come back and if nobody calls, when we come back I'll pray us out and I'm going to get a start on my weekend. So I don't mean to cut it short. I know it was 10 minutes late. We ran late with Adrian the other day and all that stuff. We've had quite the day today.

Speaker 1: 43:13

So I'll tell you one thing I want to say that has been a huge help to my knee rehab Because a doctor friend of mine sent me a massage gun. Friend of mine sent me a massage gun, you know, one of those guns that has all the attachments that you know you can use yourself and it just destroys your muscle tissue. And, uh, this one here. It has been awesome, man, um, I've been using that and it's made a big difference in my knee. And he also sent me a TENS unit, which is, you know, the electrical shocking unit, which is, let's see, I had to hide it from Yaya, so it's ground here, it is this one here, and what a big difference it's making. Now, when I overdo it and I crush it and do a big leg workout, you know I still have a rough time sleeping, which you guys who are on the boards posting Good job posting on the boards.

Speaker 1: 44:28

For those of you who are posting, yeah, it really does work. It's, uh, it's fantastic, and I, the great part is, you can adjust the heads. Yeah, shocker works. It definitely works, um, particularly for breaking spasms, but it's also a way to strengthen muscles that you have a hard time reaching or getting to, so, um, so yeah, the tens unit really works.

Speaker 1: 44:43

If that's the case, um, the great thing is you can change out all the attachments and like, just work on the tendons and stuff under the kneecap and you know it'll make you. It'll make you see jesus, and you know it's. You know you got to make sure you don't say any explanatives when you hit a hot spot, but boy is it great. So, um, and just again, I'm not endorsing that, I mean I don't get any money from that in this paid promotion. Just telling you guys, we all got to be body mechanics.

Speaker 1: 45:19

As we're hitting it hard, as we're becoming better vessels for the Holy Spirit, as we are getting ready for the battles and the fights to come, every piece of kit that you can get that can help you, keep you out of the hospital, keep you flexible, mobile and strong and functional. Get it, get it, get it, get it. So, all right, so I'm going to pray us out, since nobody has reached out tonight and that's cool. So let's do that, you for this medium, that we have this technology to where we can reach people who are isolated and alone. When I spent time today in a fellowship call with a pastor, brother, who is suffering terribly, like many of us do, feeling isolated and alone.

Speaker 1: 46:22

The Christian journey was not meant to be alone, but it has become that. We have become a community spread thin. The remnant is spread thin Today, instead of church, living amongst each other and living lives together and walking through life together, it has become a social club. Lord, help us to connect deeper. Help us to invest in one another. Help us to get uncomfortable and vulnerable and not be afraid to invest in other people because we've been burned in the past. Lord, we know we'll be burnt, but we're called to take that risk over and over and over again.

Speaker 1: 47:34

No-transcript, whether they're silent, like a vast majority of our people are, or they're vocal. We prefer vocal because we want to know how to pray for you. You know I talk everyone in this chat I've spoken to on the phone at least once or more. Lord, we love you and you said you know us, that people would know us by how we love one another. Help us to love each other all the way. There'd be no part of our heart that would be kept from one another, that we would truly be family family Well, we're not interested in shallow fellowship and just hellos as you're walking down the street or driving by in a car. We want to go to war for one another. We want to fight for one another.

Speaker 1: 48:38

So, lord, now I pray for protection for this fellowship, for the persecuted church, for our troops overseas, our first responders at home and our veterans of yesteryear. Lord, I pray for protection for all of us, for the world, against World War III, in America, for a second civil war. That you would protect us from that. And I pray for my beloved America that she would turn from her sin, hit her knees, repent and seek your face and that you would see her and heal her so that once again we'd be one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Now I call this fellowship to attention. Put on the full armor of God, strap on the shield of faith and pick up the sword of the Spirit. And to boldly walk into the shield of faith and pick up the sword of the spirit and to boldly walk into the shield wall, locking shields to the left and right as we boldly march forward to take ground for your kingdom, for your glory forever.

Speaker 1: 49:57

In Jesus' name we pray Amen. All right, everyone, god bless you. I love you and I'll see you Sunday for church, because tomorrow I'm going to have me some fun. All right, god bless guys. Bye.