0038WC - Warriors in Fellowship - War Council

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Chapters

• 1:06 Introduction to War Council
• 8:44 The Seven Battlefields
• 13:07 Defining the Christian Warrior
• 19:52 Battle of Fellowship
• 32:47 Language as Heart Indicator
• 45:03 Finding True Christian Friends
• 52:09 The Forging Challenge Explained

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:27

All right, welcome to the War Council Christian Fellowship show where we discuss all things Christian walk, check, check, check. Let's go ahead and get it. Oh man, what's going on here? Okay, wow, that was crazy. I had it open on multiple screens. I promise I'll get better. I'm just having to do some extra things with the Patreon page and blah, blah, blah, blah and all that.

Speaker 1: 0:55

But anyways, welcome to the War Council, the Christian Fellowship Show, where we come together to fight on seven battlefields. One we come to fight for a deliberate relationship with our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ, through studying the Bible and through prayer. Two we deliberately pursue a relationship, a loving relationship and a servant relationship with our family, meaning that we are the sacrificial servant to them. It's our job as Christian warriors to die to self to all Christians, but particularly us, as we die to self, to serve our families right and to pour the love of Christ into them. Three fitness we are to be the best vessels of the Holy Spirit and we should be able to defend ourselves and others right. So again, you don't have to win a best body contest. You better be able to hit, you better be able to shoot and you better be able to move right. So, again, you don't have to win a best body contest. You better be able to hit, you better be able to shoot and you better be able to move. You don't have to run a marathon, but you should be able to do all that stuff to move Four fundamentals. This is your skill set. We fight to have a sharp skill set and to acquire knowledge that makes us a useful asset to ourselves, our families and our community. All right, what you'll find is that if you're the guy that people come to to solve problems, well, when life's biggest problems come, they're going to wash up on your doorstep. That means you're going to point them to Jesus, right, okay.

Speaker 1: 2:28

And then there is five finances. This is a tough one for all of us, myself included. This is, you know, during this economy and during COVID and all this other stuff, the hits that we all took to battle back from the adversity of, you know, of debt and to let's see here, let's hopefully this is somebody saying they can hear us, lauren, can you hear me? I hope so. I hope I sound good and there's no sound effects or crickets or anything else, but, um, you know, basically, finances is using your war chest for his kingdom, not yours, avoiding the pitfall of debt and the addiction of materialism. Then you have fellowship, and this is. You know. We have family, and family is important, but we need Christian brothers and sisters to rally around us and to be a part of our godly body. Right, the body of Christ. If it's just your family, you're really not doing it right. Okay, great, lauren says it sounds good, I'm going to put up. All right, here's a notice scrolling on the bottom. You know ways you can support us on Patreon and you can donate to our church.

Speaker 1: 3:53

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Speaker 1: 4:27

We are three days into to our warrior challenge, or into the forging challenge, and I'm really proud of some people who are doing it. Um, they're doing a bang up job. I want to mention paul joe, my wife lauren. I think you guys are absolutely crushing it. Um, there's some others who are slightly off. They're not putting enough detail in there and they're just quitting on themselves on a lot of things and we got to try to tweak that and fix that or else we won't get changed. Just logging that you suck just lets you know that you suck, but you already know you suck, all right. So we gotta figure out a way to make that hurt enough and you know, if that's the group calling you out for your own benefit to say, hey, you need to do something. You know like, look at your day the day before, three days before, a week before, a month before, and try to make time to invest in at least three of those things. Right, tony, as we were just talking about finances or, sorry, fellowship, having those godly fellowship, uh, relationships and forming your war councils.

Speaker 1: 5:35

All right, war council is the one of the most important things you can have, um, on this christian warrior journey, and that is trusted christian brothers of your man and sisters of your girl that you can go to with struggles, trials, trials, victories. And keep you. Watch your back, watch your six, as we say, and make sure that you don't take binge-watching Netflix shows, facebook, things that are pulling you further from God. Games, things, movies, porn, relationships, whatever is pulling you either away from God or is substituting for your wife or husband, get rid of it, okay. And being a man of your word, right. So that is the seven battlefields. You find that your life pretty much fits in every one, in the every one of those, and you know there might be slight deviations and some might even share categories. That is, um, where your life fits and, and each one of those is a battle. There is an easy way out. That is always the bad way out, okay, and we really have to avoid that with everything we have.

Speaker 1: 7:15

You know, the whole forging challenge is a 91-day accountability challenge that we talked about last week in depth. I went through the instructions, so we're not going to do that Tonight. I would like to talk about some successes, but I'd also want to drill down into some of the topics and, in this warrior lifestyle, what it means to be a Christian warrior. Okay, everybody wants to be a warrior. They call himself prayer warrior. Comes up this to come of that.

Speaker 1: 7:45

A warrior is a title that almost has become meaningless because so many people call themselves that. Who aren't it? Okay, um, warrior, comes a great risk to yourself? Okay, it you take a beating. Being the warrior, you risk all being a warrior. Okay, if there's no risk, you're not a warrior. Okay, that's, that's just the aim of the game. Okay, you can be a warrior in training, right. But if there's no risk to you, you're not a warrior. Um, that's, that's. That's part of it. This Christian warrior aspect is dying to self in essence, right, and it is putting yourself second at great cost for the benefit of others.

Speaker 1: 8:35

Okay, now, very often and you know, today I was on the phone with a strong Christian brother, a man of faith who's had faith longer than I ever did, than I've had faith, who's had faith longer than I ever did, and that I've had and I've been walking it out longer than I have and just happened to reconnect, after 30 years, somebody from my first buds class and, um, you know, we, we talked I mean I don't know for hours and hours, and hours. I don't know, I don't know how long we talked, it was was at least two hours, I'd have to say. And that was Christian fellowship, right, that was him pouring into me, me pouring into him, talking about stuff that we're passionate about, right. So let's go out of order today, let's not go into faith and faith and let's go into just fellowship. What does the fellowship battle look like and what should we be getting from it?

Speaker 1: 9:45

A fellowship is going to be one of the hardest ones you do for some people because you're introverts. You suck at making friends because either you were burned and you're wounded and you don't do it, or you're lazy and you've got other priorities hey, brandy, good to see you or you've got other priorities and you really need to acquire more fellowship in your life. It is necessary. You, we, are all parts of one body. Body is Christ. Some of us are eyes, some of us are ears, some of us are fists, some of us are mouths, some of us are feet, some of us are hearts, some of us are lungs all parts of the body. You can't cut off a piece of a body and separate it, or else it will rot and it will die, and that is where the enemy wants you. It has to be connected to the body, thrive, and that is what we are required to do.

Speaker 1: 10:49

But I'll tell you, as a guy who typically makes friends very easy outside of the Christian world, making real friends in the Christian world can be extremely challenging. Okay, it can be extremely challenging because and we recommend this as well is our standards for friendship should be very high in the Christian community. What do I mean by that? Well, you got to ask yourself some standards that you're going to have. Okay, one, you're going to call someone a friend and you're going to be investing them a friend. Are they pulling you towards God or away from God?

Speaker 1: 11:26

I have had to cut away from some fun guys who were too dark, who were fake Christians in my opinion, christian light, at least manipulators, even though they were fun because they were so darn dark and they would let their masks slip occasionally. They were never mean to me or anything like that, but I could see that they were chameleons and you don't ever want to be around a chameleon. You don't ever want to be somebody who can put masks on all the place. That's just, um, it's bad juju, you never know what you're getting with. Okay, that's. Don't want to be around that, okay.

Speaker 1: 12:08

The next thing you want to ask yourself is can I trust this person around my family? Now, there are people that I am friendly with that I don't know if I can trust them in my family, but I'm not bringing my family around them and I'm not going to leave my family with them. And then there are those where, yes, I can trust them around my family, meaning if something comes up. You know I have no problem with someone watching my kids, which is that list goes from here to here. Right, so, friendly here. Okay, trust around my kids while I'm there here. Okay, because some people, some people you know I can hang out, but every other word is a custom word out of their mouth and I'm not having that filth around my kids, okay. So then we now it's like who do I trust with my kids when I'm not around? And it's like it gets really small. And then you want to know what's even smaller is can I trust my kids with your kids? Okay, that gets infinitesimally small. Okay, because, yes, you may be a Christian and you may be all right and you're not going to do anything to harm my kids. Let's say, you suck at discipling and you haven't passed on your identity to your kids and your kids are little monsters who are going to introduce crap and garbage and you know all the things in the world that we work so hard to keep away from our kids until they're ready for it.

Speaker 1: 13:41

Right now, language is a battle for me, brandy, and we can talk about that here, and it's a great time to pivot to that. So, you know, one of the guys in our board is asking to get rid of cursing foul language, and I am a guy who one you're going to find out as a pastor. You know, I'm probably the worst pastor in America. Okay, you know outside of, like people who are phony and not in doing this to get rich and all this stuff I'm just probably terrible at my job because you know all these pastors up on stage and I'm being a little facetious right now They've got everything figured out and their lives are perfect and mine is definitely not. And let me tell you something I am not perfect Language.

Speaker 1: 14:26

For me, there have been seasons where it's been really easy not to swear me. There have been seasons where it's been really easy not to swear. I am in a season now where, when I get angry, I will drop a single cuss word Um, and I'm ashamed of it and I I've gotten into that habit again and it came back and I didn't have it before, but I don't use it as it used to use it as every other word. It's like a filler and it showed a lack of language diversity and the lack of intellect to compose, you know, complex statements without having to put a filler of a of a four letter word in there. And now when I hear it and I hear my friends from back in the neighborhood who use that all the time as their every second, third, fourth, fifth word, it's exhausting listening to them and just makes me feel sorry for him. Right, makes me feel sorry for him. So I struggle with bad language. Lauren does not.

Speaker 1: 15:36

That girl, maybe it's because she doesn't talk all that much. Lauren's a borderline mute. Sometimes I try to ask her on the conversation list Lauren is the writer. Was that the conversation list? Born as the writer? Right, was that? I thought she? I thought she was in the other room commenting. I can hear her on the other side of the wall. She's probably getting myself in trouble, but you know she doesn't have that problem and it's because she is a deliberate thinker before she talks. And I'm still a counter puncher.

Speaker 1: 16:12

I get stung by life and I want to lash out at it and I got away for a lot of decades and decades and I mean there was a time, like in my late teens maybe early, I would say late teens, probably, maybe, maybe even 20 when I would hit things when I would get mad, and that was pretty stupid, because you just hurt yourself and break stuff. I got away from that and then language became that you are cursing, and there is a point to that. Bible says that our tongue and our mouths speak life or death. When you're cursing, you are not speaking life. Tell you something that's coming from your heart. Yes, I love working from home because of this. Not calling to you, the kids are being loud. Yes, Lauren is very smart with language and, as always, my wife is elevating my behavior instead of she is someone helping elevate me, pulling me towards heaven, instead of other people who would be pulling me down to hell. So language is a good sign of the condition of heart, of someone's heart as well.

Speaker 1: 18:52

If you're talking to someone and every other word under their mouth is a cuss, or they cuss all the time, that shows an angry soul, which is not a fruit of the Spirit. Joy is a fruit of the Spirit. So what are we saying? They don't have fruits of the Spirit? They're not Christian? They're not. Are they saved? Are they real or are they just fooling themselves? Right, if you're running around bitter and angry all the time, why You're going to heaven. You've got a job to do here. Stop sucking at it and let's go right, and that is what we're called to do.

Speaker 1: 19:35

So again, looking at the state of someone's mouth will tell you how far they are. It is one measure, not all. Okay, let me just say that not all, but it is a measure of how close to someone is in their walk with God. Let me tell you, if they're walking shoulder to shoulder with God, they're not going to be dropping the F-bomb all the time. Right, god wouldn't tolerate that in his presence. So they're far away. Not that he can hear everything, but you understand what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 20:07

So sorry, if you hear the kids screaming, I can hear them. I don't know if you guys can, but it sounds like they're playing, or Gus is fussing and I'm about to try to put on headsets to not hear it because it's so darn distracting. But, um, I'll try and get better, working on my public speaking with being heckled. But they're not heckling me, they're just kids on other sides of these walls making ridiculous noises like they're dying and they're just playing. What do kids actually shift from? What? Every sound sounds like they're in trouble to joy right Now. Joy and screaming and everything else sound the same and it all sounds like I'm in trouble, right? So, um, lauren, if you can help out with that, I would really appreciate it. Thank you so much.

Speaker 1: 21:02

Um, so condition of mouth, condition of tongue will tell you where these people are, that you are getting ready. Um will tell you if they are in the proper mindset or in the proper space or the proper time in their walk to really be in your war council, right? The other thing is look at their life. If their life is a mess, you don't want someone whose life is a mess in your war council, all right, other than they've made a lot of mistakes and they haven't learned from them. Or maybe they're making new mistakes and they've got a lot of wisdom from the mistakes they've made in the past. Who knows? But I really don't recommend that.

Speaker 1: 21:46

Typically, you want to find someone who's been a Christian longer than you, or at least you, or is a deep, deep Christian, who spends time in the word, who walks it out, who has integrity, who is doing the best they can trying to apply this amazing, miraculous book, the word of God, to their life. They're not just reading this and saying, oh well, that's nice to their life. They're not just reading this and saying, oh well, that's nice. You know, those are just nice stories that I'm supposed to like figure out. They're not commands, they're not you know whatever. They're just nice to know things, right? No, that is the word of God and we are to apply it to our life and treat it as commands from him, right, and so, you know, those are some things that we need to look for, but they also have to be available.

Speaker 1: 22:47

A friend that you can talk to every six months, not a good war council member, not a good friend. You know, you got friends who get too busy and don't have time for you. Let me tell you something If you're important to busy and don't have time for you, let me tell you something If you're important to someone, they'll make time for you. I have people, when they call me, no matter what I'm doing, I drop what I'm doing, you know, and I make time for them. It's because they're important. If they don't make time for you, no matter what they freaking say, okay, you're not important to them, you're not, you're just not Okay. So, if they make time for you, they're important. You're important to them. All right, and I'm not saying they're going to be ready for you in the drop of a hat, but if they really want to talk to you and you're calling them and you're doing stuff, they'll set a date and time If they're really that busy or when. Hey, I can talk to you at this time and it's important to me that I talk to you because I see you reaching out to me. I know you need me and you know and I want to hear your voice. Brother, right, boom, done.

Speaker 1: 23:48

Okay, um, spent a lot of time chasing friends and it gets old and to not get chased back some point. You know, um, you just just got to move on and find somebody who's going to give you the time. That's what it comes down to, um, you know I, there are seasons and what we find out in all of our life. If you think of all your different friend groups that you've gone through, when you've had passions, you had your football friends and your hockey friends and you had your this church friends or this hobby friends, or when we lived on the street and they were neighbors, those friends. And then there was the dog park friends and there was the gym friends and all this stuff, and that slowly they all kind of went their own way. Because why they?

Speaker 1: 24:39

Everyone eventually has their own families and their families become more demanding. And the time disposable time that you have, which is not disposable time that you have available to invest in non-family drinks and you will figure out really quickly who you're willing to invest in. If you're not willing to invest in anyone, then you're not going to have any fellowship and that's not the way of it. You definitely don't want that. Okay, you definitely don't want that and don't want that. Okay, you definitely don't want that. And, um, it's a lonely place. No, all of my best friends live far away. They're the best of my friend groups that we just talked about. All those little ones, my seal team guys and my police friends and people from this town and Charlottesville and my Christian friend over here and this guy up here in Maine and that guy over there in Texas and this guy over there.

Speaker 1: 25:53

And it's a lot of work maintaining that connection. It's a lot of work maintaining that connection. It's a lot of work, but it's worth it. What you'll find out is for people that will take a bullet for you and people that will drop everything and come running when you're in need and people that will be there for the day-to-day of your life. What's important to you, what's important to them. You'll be there for them. Those are more precious than gold. More precious than gold.

Speaker 1: 26:38

As I sit here, I'm looking up on the sit here, I'm looking up on the wall here and I've got my buds class up and this is all the guys that I graduated buds with that, supposed to be tighter than brothers and everything else with it, and a lot of them are no longer alive. Some of them are share of them, some of them their share of them. And then I don't talk to any of those guys. Now, some of them might be Christians now, some of them might have been Christians then in Hyden, and I was not very friendly to Christians. I like all those guys. I love all those guys because I'm a Christian. I like most of them, 99% of them, even the guy that I'm staring at right now that I do not like. I still stood up for him in a bar because somebody was accusing him of something that he did not do. I wasn't right. That he did not do, that wasn't right. You know, I look around and I see other pictures around of friends and stuff that I still don't, I don't really talk to, haven't spoken to in years.

Speaker 1: 27:52

Right, this, maintaining fellowship, it's more than coffee and donuts getting fat in some church room. It's the lowest form fellowship. Fellowship's me coming alongside you and me making your life better and you making my life better. It's saying, through thick and thin, rain or shine, I will be there because you are my Christian brother and my Christian sister, and that's what we do Now. You got to figure out this fellowship game and in this world of life, are you a giver or are you a taker? When you go into a relationship, are you looking to extract from it or are you looking to invest in it? Are you looking to help someone or are you looking to be helped? Are you looking to help someone or are you looking to be helped? You're going to be helped regardless, because in fellowship you're going to be helped.

Speaker 1: 29:04

But far too many people enter into relationships and this is the wicked flesh. This is the manipulators and the narcissist among us. This is the people who are in constant crisis, who can't get their act together and they're always needing Something from someone. They're the life suckers and you must avoid the life sucker. And if you're a life sucker, there's scales. Life sucking, okay, and what I mean by Life sucking you suck the life out of people Until they're empty and then you move on to the next person. Those people Are never wanted to be around. People don't want them around.

Speaker 1: 29:50

The life givers in the room, people who are positive, the people that brighten the room, the people that, just by you being there, everyone is happier that's the person you want to be, that brighten the room. The people that, just by you being there, everyone is happier that's the person you want to be. That's the person you want to be. They're there. Everyone's safer. They're there. Someone gets hurt. You can help them. They're there with patience, kindness, compassion, above all truth. Okay, above all truth.

Speaker 1: 30:29

Now, there are times where I really suck at being a friend too, just like everyone else. But far too many men and even more women, struggle in the friend department because they won't leave their own house, they won't leave their own comfort zone. They expect the world to show up like a parade at their door begging to be their friend. Expect the world to show up like a parade at their door begging to be their friend. You don't go to church. You're not going to have Christian friends Unless you are doing some other activity with them that Christian might want to be a part of, like homesteading or boating, canoeing, hiking, shooting the gym, rolling and grappling or boxing or whatever.

Speaker 1: 31:39

Some of us have been very spoiled by by military. By the military, because in the military your friends and your brothers become your family, because you are removed from your family and put in isolation in places where all you have are those brothers. You're put under very adverse conditions and you save each other's lives. Do all these things and it becomes something that is very hard to replicate in the civilian world, outside of maybe some first responders, in the civilian world, outside of maybe Some first responders. But I'm here to tell you that it is possible. You just have to do hard things together. You have to stop being so busy, which means you have to get rid of a lot of your entertainment, because that's what makes you busy Spend all your time on your entertainment and you don't do the things you should do. When's the last time you did something godly with a friend, like outside of work, outside of hey, let's sit down and do a Bible study during our lunch? When's the last time you and a friend did something that was pleasing to the Lord, which could be a hike, which could be. Come on over and we'll make your fence this week and then next week we'll work on my fence or my deck, because my deck is run down and you need a fence or, like the Amish, crush it in this.

Speaker 1: 33:30

Yeah, social media and light, stupid friendships are Stupid is the wrong way. Social media and very surface-level friendships become a poor replacement for real fellowship. Now, that's Brandy was saying that. I'll put that up on the screen, so you know what I'm talking about. Now people will settle for 2,000 surface-level friends when what they really need is pretty good ones, pretty good ones that are there to look at them in the morning having coffee, knowing that, hey, matter how cool you sound on the phone, I can tell something wrong with you. I can see you haven't slept in days. I can see you haven't slept in days. I can see your eyes are red. I can see you falling off the wagon. I can see someone's hit you.

Speaker 1: 34:47

I don't know these things from social media. Everyone's got filters on and all this stuff don't even see him and I see him in person and you're just like how? That's not even you. There are some girls that I see on social media. You're looking at me like, wow, okay, that's a cute girl. Then you see her and she's as round as she is tall and like her face is super like bloated out to here and you're just like what filter do you have to do to make that something else? No, you need real people in your life.

Speaker 1: 35:39

This program and what we do online. For those of us who have never met each other, it can be a tourniquet, it can even be gravy on your mashed potatoes, but it can't be your steak. We all need to make it a massive priority to get more godly Christian men and women around us. I'm not a woman so I have a hard time Getting into that, but with feminism and the anti Christian marriage Culture of our world today, it's even harder for them To find women that aren't going to. Let me demonstrate. You know Lauren and I were having disagreements and struggles and whatnot, just like everyone else looking at her, and she didn't really have anyone to talk to. She has a friend now that she goes to, and too many women are so quick to husband bash and to advise in horrible ways, and it might be the same way, too.

Speaker 1: 37:19

You're hanging out with a bunch of womanizers. They're going to tell you to go cheat. What are you doing hanging out with womanizers? The nature of a Christian relationship is I sacrifice myself, you and everything, your friendships. You're sacrificing your time that you would do something that would be you know, other than what you're doing. Spend time with them. You're giving them your attention, giving them your brain power. You're giving them your loyalty. You're giving them your silence. You're giving them your love. Right, so enter into those relationships with caution, but you must find them.

Speaker 1: 38:22

Many of my friends, many of you who watch the show, live behind what I would call enemy lines In blue states, where Christian conservatives, in your biblical worldview, would not be welcome, and finding friends is even harder. And finding friends is even harder and I want to say yes, that is true, but there are churches. They stand out and Christians, you know, are not shy. In A lot of times, most places, they tip their hand. Your Glock sticker on your car, your crusader shield on there, your Christian warrior mission sticker, your A lot of misinformed Christians. Vote blue.

Speaker 1: 39:38

Brandy said yes, there is a massive misinformed LGBTQ plus supporting sin, supporting faux compassion, christians out there that are totally misled. I've got a beloved uncle who's turned homosexual late in his life to be with a trans thing. Because it was easier finding a woman, he goes to a church where it's endorsed. Where it's endorsed, that church is literally leading him to hell. Yeah, you can pick your favorite sin and find a church that'll support it. Not a real church, not a biblical church, man-made thing, you know. So fellowship, so fellowship, you need it Always.

Speaker 1: 41:01

Keep an eye out For a guy who's different, guy who stands out, the guy who glows with Christ. Guy who does the right thing, the guy who solves problems. Become friends with that guy. Christ, the guy who does the right thing, the guy who solves problems. Become friends with that guy. If he's not around, you be that guy.

Speaker 1: 41:27

The other thing it doesn't sound harsh, but there is something that you have to understand If you hang out with people who are skipping along the bottom and only hang out with people skipping along the bottom because you want to help people skipping along the bottom, you're going to be skipping along the bottom with them your whole life. It's okay to have people that you reach down and pull up, but you get enough of them pulling you down. You're going to be skipping along the ball and you don't want that. You've got to provide for your family. You find yourself sinking your heart and soul into a relationship and it's not bearing fruit. Cut away, cut away. Cut away May come back to it. They may repent and turn back and invest back in you.

Speaker 1: 42:26

But this godly relationship thing has been one of the most challenging things out there. You know I've got maybe 10, 12 guys that I know that would go to war with me tomorrow if I needed it. Finding them where you're at Well, that's yes, that depends where you're at and how much time you spend around people, as we all have gone and we're more isolated in this work from home environment. Where people do not, you don't have the opportunity to meet other godly people. That's part of it as well, which is why we need to get out and engage. We go and do things together. Hard things, hard things. So I think I'm going to wrap that up tonight.

Speaker 1: 43:47

I just wanted to talk about family tonight. I'm going to go ahead and pull up patreon here, just so you guys can see what this looks like and do a quick recap what how you join this, because you can join this challenge at any time. Okay, anytime, and I want to look at her. All right, let me see if I can share this and let's see if I can do this, right? Okay, you come on here, you go go to Patreon, you type in Christian Warrior Mission. It's right there, christian Warrior Mission. And then you come in here and you join. Right now it's free to join.

Speaker 1: 44:46

Took a vote today and the lowest it'll let me set it, I believe, is $5. And I think we're going to put a $5 barrier to entry to keep spammers and ill-doers out of the group. Only people who are invested in the group, who want to do hard things together, who want to grow together, who want to form fellowship bonds with one another. Will you know, that's something that we vote for Form fellowship bonds with one another. That's something that we vote for. So if $5 is too much to you to join, let me know and we'll see if we can find a sponsor for you or something. All right, so you come in here. You see how it says home up here at the top. Go to collections. Okay, here is the instructions. 91 day forging challenging forging challenge guide. You click on this and it's got my testimony on who I am instructions on how to do the forge.

Speaker 1: 45:48

This was an hour-long show where I dove into that and how to do the forging. And then here is just it written in In words. There's a seven battles, there's the oath, there's the reporting and scoring. Here's an example. There is a request, guidelines and just everything to do To show you that. And then here is what it looks like every day when report, you copy and paste this template Okay, these things here and then you write in your own thing.

Speaker 1: 46:27

I did this for faith, I did this for family, I did this for fitness. I did this for fundamentals finances, fellowship, fidelity. Now here's something I want you guys to do, which some people are not learning this, no matter how many times I say it or try to explain it. So every day, your faith should be a different thing. Every day, your family should be a different thing. Every day, your fitness should be a different thing, meaning that you're doing, even if you're running. Let's say you ran three miles every day and that was your thing. Fine, it would be the same thing, right? But still put it in there. You're doing something daily here for those three things. Every day you're doing faith, family and fitness and it can be a scheduled day of rest or a day of rest that you had to do because you were just too smoked. Okay, just as long as you're not taking more rest days than you need to, All right, that's good.

Speaker 1: 47:23

Then you come your fundamentals finances, fellowship and fidelity. These four are something you work on all week. Now you should do a little bit every day, but you don't have to do them every day. It's did you get done what you said you were going to do? And if you get it done for that week, right, when you get it done, it's seven to seven for the whole week. So you don't have to clean weapons every day. You could clean them all on over two days and you're done for the week and change out your batteries, which is what I put in there.

Speaker 1: 47:59

Finances you might be so squared away that you got your accounts done on day one. You're set for finances for the week. Fellowship you might have gone out. You know, I don't think you never have enough of that, but you might have already got all your war council members called and you're done All right, which is? These are just examples that I put up. So, again, you're not really doing seven things every day. Right, you could, but you're really doing three things every day, plus some combination of fundamentals finances, fellowship and fidelity, as long as those tasks that we set out on Sunday to go forward get done, okay. So I hope that's clear. I hope that's crystal clear, because I know people have been struggling um some of those things.

Speaker 1: 49:02

And here's the other thing the more in depth you put here in these categories Now these ones is this just an example the more detail you put in here, the better it is for you. Right, and there may be days when you get done and you're like man, I was so busy this day. Are there things that I did that can fit into these categories and you can put them in there? That's one way you can do it, but that's not the best way to do it. Best way is to deliberately set things to do, say you're going to do them and then accomplish them. Then you strategically chose what you were going to do, you set out to do them and you put out the willpower and you won the fight against yourself and the world stopping you from doing it, and that builds momentum. Okay, that builds momentum.

Speaker 1: 49:52

The other thing is you got to keep up with your scores. You know. So on day one, when you start this you could start this right now today You'd have one to 91, okay, if you did something, if you did nothing, it'd be zero of 91. Then tomorrow, if you did it, it'd be two of 91. And then if you did something on the third day, it'd be three of 91. And let's skip, say you missed fourth day, it would still be three of 91. You didn't get the fourth day and day four right. You can't make that point up, okay? So at the end of 91 days, if you're sitting there with all 91, your whole life is going to be smoking and amazing and you're going to be so much closer and more surrendered to the Lord and further along in your journey than you ever were if you got on there and you got five Right.

Speaker 1: 50:43

So you know, we've already had people fall out after a day. It was too hard. We had people show up and said they were going to do it and didn't do it. We had people show up that said they were going to do it and didn't do it. That's how weak sauce Christianity is today. Okay, so let's pull up our pants, let's strap on our armor and let's go to work, all right, so I'm going to pray this out, dear Heavenly Father. Lord, I thank you for everyone who joined here tonight, for everyone who's investing in one another, everyone who's going to pray this out.

Speaker 1: 51:15

Heavenly Father, lord, I thank you for everyone who joined here tonight, for everyone who's investing in one another, everyone who's going to war for one another. Lord, bring brothers and sisters of fellowship. Bring poor council members into our life. Lord, show us where we're going wrong in forging those relationships. Lord, help us to be brave, discerning, to go out to find other sheepdogs, to find other protectors. Stay away from the wolves and sheep. Lord, we need strong shield brothers and shield maidens to lock our shields with you. Made them, lord. We know they're out there. Guide us to them. We pray this in Jesus' name Amen. All right, everyone. God bless you. I'll see you bright and early in the morning.