0008 How To Start Reading The Bible and Prepping.

This episode emphasizes the transformative power of faith, community, and personal accountability through the 90-Day Forging Challenge. We discuss the importance of gratitude, practical prepping tips, and strategies for effective Bible reading, encouraging listeners to engage in their spiritual journeys actively. 
• Introduction to the 90-Day Forging Challenge 
• Importance of humility and gratitude 
• The five pillars: faith, family, fitness, fundamentals, finances 
• Power of community and fellowship 
• Insights from Proverbs on communication 
• How to start prepping. 
• How To Start effectively reading the Bible 
• A call to action for accountability and connection

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Chapters

• 0:00 Christian Fellowship Show and Forging Challenge
• 9:36 Christian Fitness and Accountability Group
• 27:47 Effective Bible Reading and Study
• 42:53 Prepping Essentials for Urban Preppers
• 59:01 Prayer for Fellowship and Nation

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:39

Welcome to Christ Forged Locking Shields, the Christian Fellowship Show, where we fight three battles. We fight our first battle, one to get a humble and grateful heart aligned onto the Lord. It's real easy to get entitled when you're not being grateful, and it's real easy to start griping and complaining. So we fight to get a humble heart, because it's not natural as humans, we tend to not do such a hot job at that. And with a humble and grateful heart, the Lord will be patient with you, all right. So we fight to do that. Here too, we deliberately pursue relationship with our Lord and savior, um, through the studying of his Holy word and through prayer. Three, we spend time in fellowship with iron sharpening iron, you know, um by investing in one another, by praying for one another, by sharing our experiences, by doing, you know, what this accountability group that we do called the forging, a 90-day forging, which is actually a way of life, but it starts with 90 days where you submit all aspects of your life, your faith, your family, your fitness, your financial or your fundamentals which is, your skill set and your finances to the Lord. All right. So the third battle, again, is fellowship, and we celebrate our victories, we pick each other up and we fall and we learn from our setbacks. That's what we do here and again. This is the home of the 90 day crucible challenge, or sorry, forging challenge used to call the crucible, but rebranding and stuff. So I hope you guys had a great week. I don't expect to see my regulars on tonight because I'm a day late. I just want, before we pray in and do everything else, just to give you a little heads up about where I've been. So I had the honor of training. It's what I do, that's what pays the bills, that's what keeps all the lights on is I had the honor of training another Christian school, classical Christian school in Pennsylvania on how to do. You know, active shooter, workplace violence, active assailant, preparedness training and such a fulfilling thing to do, watching the light bulbs come on from everyone in the audience, people who had no hope now having hope, um, but also teaching them how to handle violence throughout their entire life. You know, a good active assailant training will cover everything. You know the whole spectrum of violence, because active shooter is the nuclear war of violence, um, and everything up to it. So again, super awesome group of people that we trained with, so thankful to do it. My favorite clients are Christian schools, classical Christian schools to be more precise. They just I share so much in common with them that it really is amazing. So let's go ahead and let's get our first battle won and we'll go from there.

Speaker 1: 4:15

Dear Heavenly Father, lord, we thank you. We thank you for another day, another day to get it right. Lord, we thank you for all of our blessings, known and unknown, all of our protections, known and unknown. Lord, we thank you for your common grace, your creation, this universe, the sun, the moon, the stars, this earth, everything from the mountains to the oceans and everything in between. We thank you for the life, the fish in the sea and their great variety, the animals on the land and the birds of the sky, plant life. How amazing and beautiful and wonderful is your design. Lord, we thank you for the sunrise and the sunset. We thank you for a cool breeze on a hot day and a warm fire on a cold day. We thank you for the sound of birds in the morning, children, laughter. Thank you for the smell of fresh morning rain, good cooking, thank you for the taste of good food and drink, and we thank you for everyone who's in our life, all of our loved ones, and we thank you for everyone who's in our life of our loved ones. We think about the impossibility of the trillions of cells each of us has, that had to work near perfect for us to even be here today. And when you take that and multiply by the trillions of cells that are in everyone, it's just amazing. We're so blessed.

Speaker 1: 6:05

So, lord, we thank you for every relationship in our life. We thank you for all the treasured moments. Help us to make more of them. People who are no longer with us, lord. We thank you for their memory, for all the moments that we had with them, even if they were cut too short. Lord, we come to you humbly. We deserve nothing, but you gave us everything. We also thank you for your divine grace choosing us to be yours, choosing us before the foundations of the earth, writing us in the book of life, choosing us to be yours, choosing us before the foundations of the earth, writing us in the book of life, choosing us to be your elect. We thank you, lord, for we don't deserve it. You chose us while we were your enemies. Lord, bless this time that we spend together, this fellowship. May the time that we spend together please you, glorify you and only you, serve you and only you, and may we proclaim you with every breath of our lungs, serve you with every beat of our heart In Jesus' name. We pray amen.

Speaker 1: 7:16

All right, there's one first paddle done, First paddle done. So I just want to let you guys know we are also on rumble right now. Uh, and just to let everyone know that, I'm just checking to make sure that we're we're working over there and it appears that we are so awesome. We're also on X, we're on Facebook and we're on YouTube. We've picked up some more subscribers on YouTube and I thank you for joining us over there on YouTube as well as all the other platforms.

Speaker 1: 7:51

Today we are going to be in Proverbs 18. Proverbs 18. And as I've been working through doing this forging right, working through doing this forging right, this 90-day forging challenge and those of you who don't know what that is, hey, my love, good to see you, Lauren. A 90-day forging challenge is for 90 days. It's a way to go from dying to yourself and doing the old you to in accidentally going through christianity, to deliberately doing christianity in all aspects of your life, and you're not going to get all the steps, everything right every day no one does not every day, but you're going to start getting more of them right, more days.

Speaker 1: 8:44

So we submit ourselves to the five pillars, which are faith we put faith first so we pray and get our time in the Bible every day. Two, we deliberately pursue family members, like we pour into them. We set time aside and say, okay, today I haven't done something with my son or my daughter or my wife or mom or dad, whatever, and you deliberately pursue them and you pour the love of Christ in them and you let them feel like they're the most important person in your life. Then you rinse and repeat and you keep doing it through different people and then you do it through to work through your immediate family, your friends, your coworkers, strangers, appointments that God sets. Three fitness, all of us, particularly me, since I just went through a knee replacement and it has really hobbled me and I'm fighting back from that and I really appreciate you guys praying for me, you know. But fitness we have to be good vessels for the Holy spirit. Your body can either be the biggest blessing or the biggest curse, depending on how you treat it. So me, I'll tell you what I'm doing. I'm trying to get 10,000 steps in a day. Cheerful coconut, good to see you. Trying to get a workout in a day Doesn't always happen. You know, we have a farm here, so when I do chores which Lauren and I sometimes change out on chores that is pretty hardcore, particularly in this frozen weather. But so I try to get 10,000 steps of workout in, plus the stuff I do around the farm and all that other stuff. The other thing is I'm trying to clean up my diet to where I am trying to do not I would call it more keto than I would call it low-carb, slash keto, more than I would call it carnivore Basically meat with some veggies, some fruits, some nuts. I need something crunchy or else I lose my mind. So that's what I'm doing and we'll see how it goes. But I am dedicating this year to Christ, doing it for Christ, going to honor him in all aspects of my life, and we'll see how it goes. And I, you guys, to do this, because don't do it I mean doing it for you is fine, but you barely like you right, and you haven't been able to follow through countless other times because you did it for you. So let's hey, bob, good to see you. So let's do it for Christ. Let's make this a sacrifice and an honoring of him. You do that. I think great things are going to happen for you.

Speaker 1: 11:51

All right, the next is fundamentals, and fundamentals is your skillset. So what I'm doing is I'm constantly if I'm in the car, I'm listening to audio books growing my skills set, whether it's listening to prepper books or learning a new skill or trying to become better at my job or better as a pastor or better Christian understanding the Bible. There's so much stuff out there. I'm either on Audible or a podcast or YouTube, constantly trying to learn, and you should be too trying to learn and you should be too. Your skill set, which is fundamentals, is what makes you valuable. It makes you valuable to your family, your community, yourself and others is your skill set.

Speaker 1: 12:45

So, adding to that, and last is finances, and that's trying to earn more than we spend, trying not to get caught up and get out of debt because God knows we're in it and avoid worldliness materialism. So Trevor Coconut said let's see if I can get my. Where is my cursor? There we go. That's like modified paleo that I used to love Whole foods God made and we're good. Yep, that's what we're doing.

Speaker 1: 13:25

Um, you know again, um, just trying, like you know, doing meats in the morning, meats in the afternoon, meats in the evening, but sometimes throwing a salad in there. I don't really enjoy a lot of salads, but sometimes it breaks it up. Um, occasional fruit, you know, there's a book called superfoods and you know, getting the berries and some of the superfoods that are out there and rotating them through is great pistachios and nuts and all those other things I love as well. So that's basically what I'm doing. So you're cutting out your bread, your carbs, your, your deliberate carbs, which are your breads, your potatoes, your rice, your starches, all that stuff, all the good stuff that everyone likes, right? So that's the challenge.

Speaker 1: 14:10

And what we do is you go to our Facebook group, to our Facebook page, and you follow us. Yeah, exactly, I know, whole food is an actual food, not the store. God made it, we got it, yep, um, something that doesn't have 4,000 ingredients that you can't pronounce, right? Just whole food. So, anyways, um, so, anyways, um, you go to christ forge church and you go to the facebook group, you go to the, you're on the group and then you go to groups and then you'll see christ forge, um, you know, christ Forge Christian Discipleship Training and you join that, you click on it, you join it, and that's where we do the accountability group.

Speaker 1: 15:27

And let me see, I'll pull up the link and I'll drop it in there, see if we can do that. Oh geez Because I. Oh geez because I, because I just dumped a bunch of my using an ancient computer, um so, um, I come, my, uh, my camera was acting a little jumpy, so I thought maybe it might be, you know, memory issues or something like that. And uh, and it was. Let's see here. Here we go. All right, I'm going to check my notifications on another device. You're going to love this.

Speaker 1: 16:16

Freaking hackers have made life miserable trying to do anything. Okay, so I'm waiting for approval. Check to your notification. Your to your windows pc, or your? All right? Well, I'm here and I'm trying to log in. Brother, come on, help me out here. Anyways, I'll find the link. Lauren, if you could drop the link from the group into the chat, that would be great, and then I can move on. But it's so good to see Brandy, cheerful, coconut, troy, bob, et cetera, et cetera, all here. So welcome, welcome, welcome. Let me see Just what. Just want to paint in the butt. Do a text code. There we go.

Speaker 1: 17:32

All right, so trust this device. That was just ridiculous, wow, okay. Groups Share Copy link. Okay, share copy link. Okay, so I just put the link out, um, in chat on restream and that's that's basically the group. So you join the group, um, the instructions are on there, um, the oath is on there, and then you know we post every day and with the date, and you just put the what you did on that date there, okay, it's doesn't have you know. So you're gonna see some people on day, like seven or eight other people on day, one or two or three, it doesn't matter, we're all in the same place, um but um, but it it. You'll see that it is alive and that people are doing it and that we can learn from each other, and that's the main point of it Okay.

Speaker 1: 18:47

Um, getting in there, getting the accountability group, seeing other people going through it, seeing what resources they're using, what they're reading, you know what workouts they're doing, what relationships they're repairing and being there for them and seeing where they're struggling and where they're not all right. That's what this is all about. So, again, awesome right Now. It used to be and this might be new if you missed a day, you had to start over. I don't like that, because bad things happen all the time and people are on the road all the time and people are doing stuff. So if you miss a day, you just have to double that many days. So let's say you miss one day, Well, then you're going to have to do 92 days. All right, that's instead of 90 days. Okay, If you miss two days, then you then you have to do 94 days to complete the challenge. All right, that's how we do it. All right, I think if you do that, it's a lot easier. And, um and again, the goal is to keep you in the group, not discourage you from continuing on. So that's how we'll do.

Speaker 1: 19:58

Now. Let's go ahead and let's get into the Bible here and when, our second, second battle, I'm going to go ahead and put on my, my readers. All right, I have, just because I am reading a proverb every day. When I read my, my Bible, I do an old Testament, a new Testament, um, a proverb and finish on a Psalm. And the Proverbs are just crushing me because they are so heavy with wisdom, so heavy with wisdom, and they're so hard to follow. And they shouldn't be. But here is one like so here, 18.1.

Speaker 1: 20:41

Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire. He breaks out against all sound judgment. Now that isolate can also mean mean divisiveness, right, that word reclusive or divisive, right. And again, that's the truth. You know you are selfish, You're not doing what God commanded you to do. When you're isolating yourself, right. And the devil wants you there. Trust me, he wants you there alone. And isolated.

Speaker 1: 21:12

Two, a fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. This is the person who doesn't like to listen to anyone else and just wants to tell you what they think. All the time. You're telling them what you did and they can't wait. They're not even hearing what you did, they just want to tell you what they did. That type of one-way street.

Speaker 1: 21:37

When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and when dishonor comes disgrace. The words of a man's mouth are deep waters. A fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice. A fool's lips walk into a fight and his mouth invites a beating. A fool's mouth is his ruin and his lips are a snare to his soul. How many times have we run our mouths and have we said stuff that have made our life absolute hell? Then again, verse 8,. The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels they go down into the inner parts of the body. That's how much we love gossip.

Speaker 1: 22:43

Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him. Who destroys Basically, speaking out against laziness. There, the name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous man runs into it and is safe, Whereas a rich man's wealth is his strong city and like a high wall in his imagination is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination Before destruction. A man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor. If one gives an answer before he hears, he is at folly and shame. A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear An intelligent heart acquires knowledge and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before the great. The one who states his case first seems right until the other comes and examines him Basically, making sure you get both sides of the story there.

Speaker 1: 24:02

The lot, drawing lots, puts an end to quarrels and decides between powerful contenders. A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle. The fruit of a man's mouth. His stomach is satisfied. He is satisfied by the yield of his lips. And to further clarify that death and life are the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruits. Are you speaking life into people or are you speaking death?

Speaker 1: 24:45

That is one of the hardest challenges out there. He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly. And a man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Speaker 1: 25:18

So the Bible is constantly warning us about our tongues and what we say and what we do, and I spoke about this multiple times and I've now been putting out shorts on this how easy it is, particularly when you come from a family history of negativity and tearing each other down. How quickly we fall into that, and that's something that I'm constantly having to fight. I'm trying to speak a lifting words and empowering words. I'm not perfect, but I think I'm getting way better. The Proverbs man there's a reason why there's 31. You're supposed to read them every day and just meditate on them and apply them to your life, and none of them are like secret, but, man, are they hard? It's so hard to keep your tongue in check, particularly online in this world, this Twitter world, where we zing each other all the time. So we'll now begin the third battle, which is our fellowship time, and we can start our strength and honor. So let's do that. So we got Lauren Strength and honor.

Speaker 2: 26:51

Strength can start our strength and honor. So let's do that. So we got Lauren.

Speaker 1: 26:55

Lindsey Troy. Brandy.

Speaker 1: 27:13

That's who I've seen in chat so far. Anybody else, sound off and we'll hit you up with the strength and honor and we will toast you. It's important, I think. You know our Lord's Supper is a toast Feast and a toast, and we're all spread out around the world so much. Supper is a toast Feast and a toast and we're all spread out around the world. So much that toast can really. You know, it's not as good as sitting across the table, but it can bridge the distance, I think.

Speaker 1: 27:47

So the things I wanted to talk about tonight is you know how to start prepping? Or some people are asking and I had one of our listeners ask for that and then one I threw in there which is how to start reading the Bible, particularly if you're new to it, and we've already talked about the crucible. But if anybody's having challenges or any thoughts on that, I'd be happy to reflect on that. But let's start with the Bible. How do you start reading the Bible? So many people, myself included, have tried to. You know, until I read through the Bible the whole way, attempted it many times before and then fell away because I attempted to go from page one all the way to the back, and that's a gut check, man, and if you're doing it sometimes, most of the times you don't retain most of it because you're not chewing it. You're basically in this quest to just run your eyes over every word of this magic. You know holy scripture to the end and you think it's going to fix you by reading it, and what happens is you need to understand what you're reading Now. God, through the Holy Spirit, can reveal things to you in that, but there is a much more effective way of reading it, and that's deliberately so. The first thing you need to do is you need to find a translation that is trustworthy and readable, and I have about 20 Bibles in the house, various translations from various scholars in study format, and the one that I have found to be the most accurate, in my opinion, and the most balanced, is the English Standard Version Study Bible. I compare study notes within that from the various scholars that help put that together versus, say, rc Sproul's or John MacArthur's or Chuck Smith's or whoever the ESV mops the floor with them. Man, it's not even close. I know there are some people out there who like King James and the new King James, and I don't have a problem with either of those in particular. But King James can be very hard to understand if you're not versed in Old English, and I would not say it's the most accurate bible, as some claim either. Um translation.

Speaker 1: 30:56

Now, there are times when I go and I'm like man, that didn't make sense to me when I read it. And I will go and I will have to look at other versions, and that's where it's great to have the internet and you can just pull up Psalm 18. Okay, now we'd like to show you something here. I'm going to pull this up so you guys can see this. I want to show you the vast difference between versions of what you're reading. So I'm going to move these over so you can see this.

Speaker 1: 31:52

So let's just go down to the last two verses, or the last, let's say 20 through 24. From the fruit of a man's mouth, his stomach is satisfied. He is satisfied by the yield of his lips. Actually, yeah, that's what we'll do. We'll just look at 24. We'll make it simple, okay, so 24.

Speaker 1: 32:13

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. That is the ESV. Well, let's now look at, let's go to NIV or Legacy Standard. We'll go to Legacy, which is one of my other go-tos, and you'll see a man of too many friends comes to ruin, but there's a friend who sticks close to the road. That's relatively the same thing.

Speaker 1: 32:41

Right Now you go to NIV, the new international version, and one who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin. But there's a friend who sticks close to the brother Okay, and you're like huh, that doesn't really necessarily mean the same thing. And then you go to the king's let's see the new king jams version. A man who has friends must himself be friendly. What? But there's a friend who sticks closer than a brother, okay, and you know, because you keep going. And then you can go to some of the softer ones. You go to like the message, which is the furthest thing from the real Bible verse. But it's like friends come and go, but a true friend sticks by you like family, you know. So you know, particularly in these bullet points and proverbs your, your, your, your version matters.

Speaker 1: 34:01

And looking at trusted resources and being able to say okay matters and looking at trusted resources and being able to say okay. This wasn't clear to me. And then you look at various resources. Then you know like okay, and then what? Well, I recommend you get a study Bible like the English standard version that I have, which is it's really thick, because it's not only the Bible, but they took experts in every book of the Bible and they had them write down and explain things that are in there. So when you have a question, you can look down and see that that you join that.

Speaker 1: 34:46

You find someone who's done a reading through the Bible, whether it be like you know we did, I don't know. Well, I mean, I did all the Gospels, I did all the way through Leviticus. You know where, every day I did it and it's still on the internet, it's out there on this channel, but you find someone who goes through the Bible and explains it to you. Now, there are people out there way better than me doing this. There are some guys, particularly from like Calvary or whatever, where they spend an hour unpacking one you know, either one or sometimes half of a verse, and I think that's fantastic and I think that's a good way to go through it. That is going to take you a long time, you know. Now I recommend you read from and again, this is going to be challenging, but you read from Genesis through Deuteronomy.

Speaker 1: 35:50

Okay, so you're talking about Genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers and then Deuteronomy, and then go read, then turn to the New Testament and do you know. And then go read, then turn to the New Testament and do you know, from the start on Matthew, and go all the way through the back and then pick it back up. The reason why you need to do that is it gives you all the context on why Jesus had to do what he had to do. Okay, if you just pick up the New Testament, you read the New Testament, you don't have any of the backdrop, you don't have any of the understanding of it. Now, there's a lot of things in the Old Testament and they're all important, but when you're a new baby Christian, you need to understand the setting, what happened and why, and then why Jesus had to do what he did, and then what Jesus did and what we're supposed to do, and that's all the New Testament. And then go back and then you'll be reading the Bible from cover to cover for the rest of your life. That is the most that you'll have the highest success rate and you'll get the most out of the Bible. In my opinion, doing that Right, you're going to get the most out of the Bible, in my opinion, doing that Right. So, again, genesis through Deuteronomy and then Matthew, all the way through Revelation, and then pick it up you know, I think it's John after that, you know and then go through that again and I think you'll have a lot of success with that.

Speaker 1: 37:23

Also, get a study Bible. Get at least a study Bible. And then have your internet when you're reading and if you come across something you're like man, that sounded like gobbledygook I don't know what that means. Check out a couple other versions, see if there's a theme that sticks the same, and then find a good person who's gone through the Bible chapter by chapter and listen to them. Do expositional teaching on it, which is how I recommend you do the Bible with prayer, okay, praying on it. And if you do that, the studies are if you read the Bible once a week, nothing changes in your life. Twice a week, not much changes in your life. Three times a week, very little changes in your life. Four times a week is the minimum of four times a week and everything starts changing, okay. So reading the Bible four days a week, if you do it, seven here and watch your here and watch your life change. Watch your life change. So that's how I recommend you guys read the Bible.

Speaker 1: 38:36

If you have something that you disagree with or you find that's more effective, go ahead and hit me in the comments Also, at this time, I really need you guys to do this because we are trying to do this right. I need you to like this. I need you then to comment three words on there. I don't care what they are One, two, three, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, space H, I, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, space, q, rs. I don't care. Three words on there, of course, share it if you want to share it, but for the algorithm's sake, comments are King, all right, so please do that. Liking it starts it, but really commenting on it really makes the difference. Okay, so comment on it. Thank you, thank you, thank you, all right.

Speaker 1: 39:29

So prepping, starting on prepping, you know where to start. You know, I've got a lot of friends who live in cities and they're like what do I do? And I'm like you got to move out of the city, pretending you're a prepper in the city. Um is, you know, there's not much you can do and there's a lot you can do. But you know your whole prepping is going to be about getting bugging out, getting out, because it's impossible to live in a city. When a city collapses, there's just too many hungry people. It's too easy to burn everything down once services collapse and you may have guns, but there's not enough of you. It's far too easy to burn people out.

Speaker 1: 40:22

So if you have to live in a city and you want to start prepping, you got to find a destination that's dry, that is very rural, away from the population, not too close to a major city that you can get to. Okay, as we just saw in LA, when there's an emergency, if you're not the first ones out, you're not getting out because there's going to be gridlock. Traffic is the problem. That's why we don't live in big cities. Real preppers don't live in big cities. They don't. You can fool yourself all you want, but you're going to live in a thunderdome. It's going to be rough. If you take this serious, you'll see every prepper lives out somewhere or close to you know, rural, and then they may even have another bounce further. Place further off, that is even more isolated, because people are the problem Right, or the place further off, that is even more isolated, because people are the problem.

Speaker 1: 41:29

Now, if you live in a city, how can you start prepping? The first thing you need to do if you're going to prep is buy a gun. You need to get a gun. Depending on your budget, you need to have a gun that's to protect everything else that you're going to buy. You need a high-capacity firearm, whether it be. If you're only going to buy one thing, then I would make it a Glock 19 that you can carry. Something like that that you can carry every day if you had to, even though it's a little large and it's high capacity. You can use it as a home defense gun. It's not the best at everything, but that's a good workhorse for you. You're going to buy two guns. Buy that and then buy an AR-15. Okay, if you're going to buy three, then you can start going into your smaller guns here lock 26s and your smaller sigs, etc. And then you need to buy as much ammo as you can. Start with 1,000 rounds and then go from there.

Speaker 1: 42:53

The next thing you need to do after you buy a firearm to protect what you have, you need to get 90 days of food in your house 90 days of food that you can take with you. This is like the freeze-dried stuff. This is the stuff that you can take with you on the go. Realize that all that freeze-dried stuff that you're talking about and all that stuff requires water. Your mountain houses and all your other things. They require you to boil water to add to it. So now you're going to need a filter, something that's going to be able to filter water. I recommend you get a Berkey. So you got one gun, two guns, three guns right, you don't need all three. If you're only got enough for one, get the Glock 19,. Like I said something similar Get your 90 days of food. You have to start with 60,. Start with 60. Get yourself a water filter like a Berkey, and that's your starting point.

Speaker 1: 44:09

Then you're going to look at your vehicle. If you don't have a four-wheel drive vehicle, what are you doing? Get a four-wheel drive vehicle. No, all-wheel drive does not count.

Speaker 1: 44:35

If you live in a city, figure out where you're going, because when stuff goes bad, you can't stay in a city. Stuff goes bad, you can't stay in a city, and when you live in a city, you have no fudge room. You got to get out of Dodge when you get your first warning. If you wait, you won't get out, depending on how bad it is. It's going to take people usually two to three days to figure out that stuff has collapsed or things are bad. From moment you know minute one of the emergency, you're going to start making as much distance and getting out of the cities as fast as you can from that moment, before the carjackings, and people realize that it's life or death, and they're going to try to take everything from you because it's either their family dies or your family dies one and that's that's how hardcore it is. That's how it's want to be walking distance to where you're planning on going, because the cities eventually will empty out and people will start walking on the walk, 10, 20 miles a day, heading out, heading to the hills, heading wherever, and they're going to be trying to. They're going to be desperate, going to be desperate. Read the book one second after, and then one year after the final day and then five years later. The first two books in that are absolutely horrifying, but it's a good wake-up call.

Speaker 1: 47:01

Now, if you've got a window, you can go. Buy a five-gallon bucket, put some dirt in it, put some potatoes in it and you can grow unlimited potatoes out of a five-gallon jug. Okay, with a window you can do that. Everyone should at least do that to start. You want to be a super gardener? That's what all you need to do Potatoes great, because they're a starch. All this low carb crap goes out the window. In a prepper situation, you want as many calories as you can get. The only advantage I have being a fat guy right now is that everyone else is going to be starving. Skinny people will be starving in the first 30-60 days and I will be fine. That's why, when I guest speak, I say I'm prepping 60 days and I will be fine.

Speaker 1: 48:02

That's why, when I guest speak, I say I'm prepping Look at all the ripped people and they'll be like you got nothing on, you got no food, you don't have any preps on you, man. So I think you know we'll leave it at that. I'm going to start with the weapons that I told you about, weapons that I told you about Food, water, vehicle. Go from there. Then comes your medicine. It comes like your medicine, first aid kits, go bags, all those other things, but let's just start with that, all right. So let's hear about how your triple coincidence that's great. I'd love to hear how your forging is going.

Speaker 1: 49:08

Mine's been a struggle. It's been a struggle, but it's because I've been on the road and been busy and had a lot of stuff going on lauren out of town, blah, blah, blah, kids gone, you know, just had a lot of stuff going on. Lauren out of town, blah, blah, blah, kids gone, you know just, it has been the most chaotic two weeks to do this imaginable, with the most non-optimal setup. But if I can do it, you can do it, and if I can do it, you can do it. And the you know the 9-8 challenge has already worked and it's magic, it's blessings and the word more. No, I'm going to be held accountable. I didn't get it done, didn't get my reading done. What am I doing, late at night, sitting up reading my Bible. How awesome is that? Instead of just messing around or looking at news or playing a game or whatever, I'm doing it because I've got to do it, because I'm doing it for Christ, and I told you guys I'd do it. And you guys are telling me you'd do it. So that's how it works. That's how it works. You know.

Speaker 1: 50:35

The working out part has been the challenging one for me because I've been on the road and and let me tell you something, after doing eight, nine hours on the road, my knees are smoked. I just had a knee replacement and that is tough. So cheerful coconut said, put it up on the screen Struggle, sickness, being past, school stuff, crazy work schedule, et cetera. But we're glad we're doing it again. It's the only way that I've found to hold my life together and to actually make progress as a Christian. Honestly, I'm glad you're doing it too, but it's the only way that I've found to steadily make gains in my faith and with my walk. So Lauren said two days back but it's going well so far, not hitting all the categories daily, but faith has been getting going better for me this time around, and faith is the most important one.

Speaker 1: 51:30

If all you did for 90 days was the faith portion, you were going to be way better off than you were before, because you weren't doing everything else before and you weren't doing faith. So don't beat yourself up. Don't beat yourself up over it. Faith, family, fitness, fundamental finances Now, fundamentals and finances don't have to be a new thing every day. Say, this week, I'm working on budgeting this next two weeks or whatever. And if you're doing that, you're honestly doing it. Do it if, um, fundamentals, if you're reading a book, great, you know. But faith and the fitness and the family, keep putting that in there. And if you don't post it on the day and you still did it that doesn't mean you have to do twice. It just means that you were late posting it. I mean, I understand things happen. This isn't like some rigid whatever that you have to post it by 11 59 on that day or else whatever. Just post what you did not police. Yeah, lauren's got an unfair advantage. She does farm fit with a 35 pound weight on her back every day, which is the baby. But that's all I'm going to do today. I'm going to pray us out. Um, unless you guys got some things there, I get a check. I know Lauren was posting.

Speaker 1: 53:26

I was up for like um, like 36, 38 hours straight, so I tried to get some um. So I had to see some people trying to join the forging right now. I got Nick Davey Go ahead and I'll prove him. And then I got George Coggins All right, you guys are in. So welcome to the forge, get on there, see where it's at.

Speaker 1: 54:01

Um, I don't know, lawrence, you can tell me if you post it today or not, or I'll get it in there again. I just was crushed after yesterday I was, you know, it was a nine hour drive there, got in late, did a five hour, you know, lecture, training, training, and then nine hours back with no sleep the night before. So, um, it was, it was a, it was a, it was a, it was a challenging time. We'll just say I think I went on my last stop I bought four black rifle coffee, 300 milligram coffee drinks and wolfed them all down. So I did like 1200 milligrams. I chugged the first 600. So I did two, sipped the third and then finished the fourth before I got home. So I'm surprised my heart didn't explode.

Speaker 1: 54:57

But, um, good stuff either way. So I'm going to go ahead and pray us out. I'm going to go post today, cause I thought Lauren did, but she did not. And, uh, you'll see the date. It'll just say one, 1825, and you'll see us all start entering our stuff in there. Hey, joseph, good to see you, brother.

Speaker 2: 55:17

Strength and honor. Strength and honor, strength and honor. Hey, joseph, good to see you brother.

Speaker 1: 55:27

Well, I needed I'll tell you that it was iced coffee or chilled coffee from the thing but I needed those 1200 milligrams of caffeine to get home. I'll tell you that right now. So let's go ahead and let's pray this out, wrap it up, call it a home. I'll tell you that right now, let's go ahead and let's pray this out, wrap it up, call it a night, and I'll see you at church tomorrow. I'm still going to write my sermon, but that's how crazy this has been.

Speaker 1: 55:46

Heavenly Father, lord, I thank you. I thank you for this group. I thank you for everyone who's joined me in locking shields around each other to do the 90-Day Forging challenge, but I thank you also with people here who do aren't in the challenge. You are just here starting their journey and they're trying to decide if whether they want to commit all the way or not. But they are welcome to be here. They can jump when they want to jump, or the.

Speaker 1: 56:19

You put this group on my heart to rally like-minded men and women who weren't victims, who were shield men and shield women, shield maidens, warriors, one and all wanting to fight for their family, fight for their community, fight for their faith. That's what we're here to do, lord. We're not like others who are just going to sit there and say I'm a prayer warrior no, no, no, no. We do prayer warrior stuff. Yes, we pray, but we also prepare for the kinetic. We trust in you, lord, we do not test you. And, yes, we know our enemies are the powers and principalities and we understand that they are puppets, those puppets, the evil people of this world that we have to protect our families and communities against. So, lord, I pray a prayer of motivation, discernment, strength and peace, strength and peace. Everyone out there who's listening right now wants to join us on this 90-day crucible challenge, or forging challenge. I've got to get used to that. That is going to commit to one another, hold each other accountable, pick each other up when we fall, pray for one another.

Speaker 1: 57:58

But I pray for everyone in the challenge right now, wherever they're weak, lord, meet them there, show up their faith, make them hungry for the word and get alone with you. Lord, bring people, their loved ones, to them. Set appointments, lord, so they can pour into people, heal broken relationships, lead people to the Lord or multiply their time and show them where they can get their fitness in. Broaden their minds so they learn and acquire, sharpen their skill, set their fundamentals, bless them financially, give them discernment to cut away all the waste in their lives and to make each dollar count and multiply it. I pray that, I ask that.

Speaker 1: 59:05

I pray a prayer of protection and peace for this fellowship, the persecuted church, for our troops overseas, our first responders at home and our veterans of yesteryear for the whole world that we don't go into World War III. For our president-elect, donald Trump, all of our patriots in office who will be fighting for our freedom and for you, lord. And I pray that America would humble herself, turn from her sin, hit her knees and seek your face, that you would see her, heal her so that we could once again be one nation under God, indivisible liberty and justice for all. I call this fellowship to attention to put on the full armor of God, strap on the shield of faith, to pick up the sword of the Spirit, boldly step forward to join the shield wall, locking shields to the left and right as we march forward, to take ground for your kingdom, for your glory forever.

Speaker 1: 1:00:08

In Jesus' name we pray, amen. God bless you all. I will see you tomorrow at church. It'll be about 11.15 and 11.20 when we're done with worship, so that's when we'll be throwing a live. God bless you, love you guys. See you then, bye.