Strang Report Update

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Hello everyone, I'm Stephen Strang and welcome to this episode of the Strang Report podcast.

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Done a little bit different today from a brand new location and I'll be explaining exactly

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why I'm in this unfinished office.

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And I'm also going to talk about Dennis Prager, about Dr. Steve Turley, about the Iowa Caucus.

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I even had an article in Publishers Weekly which is kind of the trade journal for the

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publishing industry that I'm going to comment on.

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So you want to stay tuned to this little impromptu podcast.

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And let me start by saying that the day I'm recording this to play on Tuesday, we moved.

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Actually we moved the last two days and if you know anything about us, our headquarters

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are in the Orlando, Florida area in a suburb, a fast growing suburb called Lake Mary.

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And we moved up here in 1989.

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There was almost nothing up here.

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All the roads were two lane roads, I mean literally, and we've seen the area explode.

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And there was a reason for us to sell our headquarter building and we moved out this

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week.

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And there's a story behind it.

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And our studio, we're going to have a very, very nice studio, but it's not set up.

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My office is not set up.

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And I'm set up enough.

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I've been able to do some regular office work, have some meetings and so forth.

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But John, can you swing the camera and just show that I have boxes everywhere?

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And I don't have anything on the wall.

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I did put my Israeli flag and the American flag up so everything looks nice.

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We have pictures sitting all around the edge.

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We will later on figure out where to do everything.

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But we're up and running and there's a, everyone seems so excited.

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The fact that we got this building is an absolute miracle.

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And this is a story I have not told.

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But we knew that we needed a new place.

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We saw this building.

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We made an offer.

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We found out that they had made a verbal agreement, no contract, a verbal agreement with someone

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just a few days before.

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And you know, there's no need for me to go into the whole story, but they went ahead

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and signed a contract.

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They said a closing.

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We started looking everywhere else.

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We could find nothing, nothing.

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And my wife said to me one day after we'd been out looking at some property that absolutely

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wasn't even close, you know, what are we going to do?

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And I said, you know, I really want that property at 1150 Greenwood in Lake Mary.

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And we thought it was a dead deal.

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And we called up and found out that they hadn't closed even though it was, I don't know, I

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would have to count on my fingers, but three or four months at least.

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The whole process was very dragged out.

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And we were surprised they hadn't closed.

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They had a closing the following week.

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The closing came and went.

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The people did not have the money.

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It was extended.

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The closing came and went.

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The people didn't come up with the money.

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They did it a third time.

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And the seller had a policy that they would extend closing twice, but not three times.

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And during this time, of course, we were praying.

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And in the natural, I'm just being totally honest, in the natural, it looked impossible.

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And this is one time when we just believed those things that being not as though they

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were, we just prayed and we just believed that this was the building for us.

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We bought it from the power company and the power company spared no expense.

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This thing could take a direct hit with a bomb and survive.

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I'm speaking in hyperbole a little bit.

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It has a full generator, a full building generator.

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They left a whole lot of equipment.

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It was a real blessing and it's just perfect for our needs.

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Now we had to do some remodeling, add some offices, move some walls around, but it's

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just perfect for our need.

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We even have two acres for future development.

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So we're taking this as a real new beginning.

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And it's been fun.

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The remodeling took longer than we hoped.

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We hope to move in before the first of the year.

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And here it is the middle of January and we're just getting in.

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But we are excited and we are going to have a meeting room where we're going to be able

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to have meetings for leaders in the body of Christ like we've had over the years, but

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we did not have access to a meeting spot the last few years and we kind of got away from

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that.

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We're going to start doing that kind of thing.

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Our podcast studio is going to be, shall I say, state of the art, not knowing exactly

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the definition of state in the art, but for us it'll be state of the art and we'll really

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be able to up our game.

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In fact, my own podcast is growing.

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I've been doing them live at Tuesdays and Thursdays and building a following.

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But we're going to be changing.

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I'm thinking of changing, of having a live podcast maybe once a week.

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I've been approached by a couple of television networks to put my podcast on as a regular

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30-minute program.

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We may look at that as new platforms.

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But also, I've been fascinated by some of the new things that are happening in media

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in terms of a subscription plan.

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One of the podcasts I look at is called Turley Talks.

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Dr. Steve Turley has actually been a guest on The Strang Report.

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I interviewed him about one of his books and he's very strong, conservative spokesman.

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He, in spite of everything you see in the media, he believes that the trends are that

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the whole world is moving toward the right.

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He cites things like the election in Argentina recently, some of the things that are happening

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in Europe and so on.

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He believes very strongly that Donald Trump is going to be elected.

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Just a few days ago, the Iowa caucus was held and he ran away with it.

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He didn't even win the Iowa caucus in 2016.

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Ted Cruz did.

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Donald Trump went on, of course, and got the nomination.

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I actually subscribed to Steve Turley's Insider Club.

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It's been very interesting.

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He takes questions.

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It's a whole lot more inside baseball kind of thing.

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There are a lot of things that are happening in the body of Christ that I am not willing

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to put out there in public.

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I want to be positive.

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I want to be full of faith.

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There are some problems that I'm going to touch on a couple of them in this podcast.

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If we had a paywall, so to speak, and kind of a member's only, I think it would be easier

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to discuss these things in the same way that we would discuss it in closed-door meetings.

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I'll tell you the Iowa caucus, for example.

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I have some friends in Iowa who are Christian leaders, strong Christian leaders.

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Because Iowa is the first in the nation, caucus and the evangelical vote is strong in Iowa

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and it has been influential.

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For example, it was very clear that in 2016 it was evangelical vote for Ted Cruz that

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caused him to win.

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A couple of these leaders, and I'm not willing to name names, at least not in this setting,

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but they were totally against Trump.

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I know these people well enough to text them and say, hey, what's going on?

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Basically, in my opinion at least, they felt snubbed.

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They're almost being ferrissaecal, citing every single little thing that Trump, it's

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mostly stuff that Trump didn't do.

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One of the things he said was, Trump did nothing to stop the BLM riots.

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Well, that's debatable.

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When you compare what's happening in our culture with it going more and more left, more and

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more corruption, where they're trying to put their political opponent in jail, et cetera,

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and I'll talk more about this later.

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We don't have the luxury of nitpicking.

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We just don't.

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The Bible says he who's without sin casts a first stone.

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I'm just very concerned that Christian leaders become very ferrissaecal and different candidates,

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in this case, Trump, don't meet their standard.

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They're against them.

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The Pharisees were against Jesus.

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They found something that Jesus did wrong.

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His disciples fed themselves on the Sabbath against the law, even though Jesus answered

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and said that there were exceptions in the law that you could work on the Sabbath.

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I don't mean to get into that reading through the Bible this year and starting in Matthew

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and just read that in the last day or two, but I'm just concerned that Christian leaders

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get themselves out on a limb and nobody takes them seriously.

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On the other hand, you have some of these prophets that have prophesied that Trump

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would win.

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Listen, I know almost better than anyone, because I wrote this book, God and Donald Trump, that

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was a bestseller.

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The president held it up at the World Economic Forum, which is, you know, this was several

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years ago, of course, but it's going on right now in Europe.

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The book is about the prophecies, because I felt there was an untold story about the

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prophecies that he'd be elected.

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You know, I have been attacked almost not at all.

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In fact, I'm going to say not at all.

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Very carefully researched.

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People can think that we're a bunch of loony tunes believing that God speaks today, but

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in terms of the prophets, and one of the problems with prophecy, which I go into this book and

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some of the other books I've written, including Spirit-led Living in an Upside Down World,

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I have a couple chapters on prophecy.

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Part of it is that sometimes it's hard after the fact to identify that it was prophesied

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and that it actually came true.

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Sometimes it's a little bit general or it's a little bit mysterious in the way it's

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worded, but with Donald Trump, it was very, very clear early, long before he ever, you

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know, what do you say, announced that he might run for president.

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And the thing is that some of these people, Kim Clement is the one that I write about

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in the book.

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And by the way, with the political season warming up, I pulled this out and I'm rereading

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my own book.

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And it's amazing to me how much of this is still valid today when I'm talking about the

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spiritual things.

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And I'm going to talk about it and do some podcast on it and do some media because people

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are interested.

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People need to know the spiritual dimension.

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And you know, there are a lot of podcasts out there.

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There are a lot of good podcasts.

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There are a lot of conservative podcasts.

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There are a lot of Christian podcasts.

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But you know, the conservatives, like Steve Turley's podcast, for example, or Dennis Prager,

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he's very conservative.

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Listen, I agree with most what they say, but they don't really deal with the spiritual aspect.

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It is a spiritual thing that is the real world.

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Now we all see the natural world.

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We live in the natural world.

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We're aware of the natural world.

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There are many humans who think that there's nothing beyond the natural world, but there's

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a spiritual world that is as real as the natural world, even though we can't see it.

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And there are a few word pictures I could use.

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The internet is one I like.

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We all know what the internet is and what it does.

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You know, we use it every day.

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I mean cell phones and everything else.

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But none of us can explain the internet in the same way we can't explain God.

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We can't see the internet.

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We can only see the results of the internet.

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There are a lot of things that you can say electricity as an example, gravity.

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You can't see gravity.

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How do you prove gravity?

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You can only see that it exists as a law of science.

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And what I think that I bring as a Christian journalist, listen, I've been a Christian

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other than a couple of rebellious years where I was kind of fighting the call of God, but

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I never turned my back on God.

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I admit I did ask a few questions and I was kind of not really knowing how God was leading

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me.

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And there's no question that I'm 100% for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, that the church

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is important and we need to be helping to set the tone, not as a theocracy, of course

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not.

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But we need to be getting people to be in the church, to be disciple, to have godly values,

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and then they vote that at the ballot box and we get the leaders that we deserve based

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on how we vote.

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We have rights.

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Listen, we are a special interest group.

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We have as much right, I think in some ways more right than other special interest groups,

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particularly because godly Christians were founders of our country.

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They weren't all godly, of course, but many of the founding fathers acted and believed

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because they were strong Christians and believed that God had a special place for this new

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country that had gotten freedom from Britain.

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And I could go all through it and maybe as we go on, I will deal with this in the same

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way that Dennis Prager does.

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I really love his fireside chats.

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I wish that I could kind of figure out a way to do that kind of thing too.

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But I'm going to start dealing with this.

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I'm going to start dealing with current events from a spiritual point of view and also to

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challenge some of the Christian leaders that are either too timid and listen, there's some

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really good spiritual leaders, but I don't want to judge them, but they appear to be sensitive

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about cancel culture.

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They don't want to lose their YouTube channel and they don't want to lose this and they

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don't want to lose donors.

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And to some extent, I'm going to call them out in love, of course, this is a spiritual

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principle, but there's also people that are just weird.

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I mean, some of these people that have jumped on the Trump bandwagon, there are a couple

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of prophets, well, let me backtrack a minute.

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Kim Clement very clearly said that God was going to raise somebody up.

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He didn't name Trump directly, but he used language like the Trump card and different

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things like that.

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And it's very clear in hindsight, you can watch him go put Kim Clement, Trump on Google

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search on YouTube, and you'll find you can watch.

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There are two in particular that I quote in the book, you'll find both of them.

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They've had well over a million views.

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He said that this man was going to be elected twice.

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So there are an awful lot of people, including me, who felt that that meant that he was going

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to win the election.

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And when it didn't happen in 2020, there are a lot of people that came out of the woodwork

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to attack the prophecies.

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It's interesting, those same people said nothing, nothing, nada.

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They just kind of kept their mouth shut when I documented the 216.

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I personally believe that Trump will be in for two terms.

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I just do.

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But the prophecy did not say two terms in a row.

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And it's interesting that publishers weekly, which I've been reading my whole career because,

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as I referred to earlier, it's kind of the trade magazine, we use the term Bible, lower

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case B, for the publishing industry.

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And for some reason, they decided to do an article on me.

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And especially, it was probably because of the success of Jonathan Cahn and his latest

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book, The Josiah Manifesto.

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In fact, when they interviewed me, I seriously thought they were interviewing me for an article

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about Jonathan Cahn.

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Instead, the comments about Jonathan Cahn were an article about me.

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And they mentioned my books.

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They mentioned the Trump thing.

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They mentioned what I just said about two terms in a row.

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Interesting to me, the New York Times and Rolling Stone have both written about me.

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They were not positive, but they also were probably as positive as they could be considering

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who they are and who I am.

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Rolling Stone tried to make it sound like I backed Ron DeSantis, and I'm a big, big

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fan of Ron DeSantis.

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He's my governor.

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And I have said a couple of positive things about him, as I am right now.

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But I did not endorse him.

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I've endorsed no one.

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I'm waiting until later to announce who I'm going to endorse.

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And I want to be strategic.

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I think that the Christian community, the charismatic community, which is where I have

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influence, which numbers, you know, I probably ought to do some research and see what the

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numbers are.

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I have in my mind that somewhere between 20 and 40 million, this would be all of the

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members of the Pentecostal denominations, and there are a lot of them.

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The Assemblies of God, for example, has grown 17 years in a row.

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I mean, what denomination has grown 17 years in a row?

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The independent charismatic churches, every single town has at least one big charismatic

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church and a whole lot of little ones.

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And then you've got the Roman Catholics.

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They're not as high profile, but they're out there in little prayer groups everywhere.

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And then you've got a whole lot of people that are in other denominations, but they've

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been touched by the Holy Spirit in some way.

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They would believe that the gifts are for today.

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They buy books like this, for example.

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You know, in fact, it's hard sometimes to know how to do it.

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Listen, if anyone has a heart after God and loves prayer and intercession, if they believe

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in spiritual warfare because the Bible says we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but

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against principalities and powers, listen, there are people.

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We need to lock arms.

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We don't want to compromise and we certainly don't want to have weird theology, but we've

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people we have got to start working together.

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And I'm going to use the platform that God has given me and the mega, megaphone as big

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or small, the God has given me to try to make a difference.

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And I want you to make a difference.

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In fact, one of the things I like about Steve Turley is he talks to his, his listeners and

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podcasters and boy, he posts a lot of stuff because I, you know, I subscribe and I get

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it.

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And he talks about how they're almost a part of a revolution and it's a conservative revolution.

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Listen, what we do, you know, life is but a vapor.

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The natural world is but a vapor.

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God has plans and purposes far beyond what we understand, which publishers weekly quoted.

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I must say that they quoted it pretty accurately.

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And it was interesting to me to reflect on what I said to him and to read it in print.

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In fact, you could probably go online and put in publishers weekly and Steven Strang

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and it should pop up.

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It was just a few days ago.

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In fact, they, the staff just sent it to me today, which is probably why I'm mentioning

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it.

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You know, I'm in the media.

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I've had articles before.

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I don't, I take them with a grain of salt and even the positive ones.

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I told one of my authors one time who was all concerned about media coverage that they

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build you up to tear you down.

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The first article is usually positive and the next one is where they blast us.

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And the thing is that when you're standing for the word of God, when you believe that

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sin is sin, when you believe that there's an afterlife, when you believe that God rules

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all things.

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You're against the minority.

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You're against the people that want to say anything goes, that this woke agenda is the

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right agenda, that the government should do more and more and more.

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You're against all that kind of stuff.

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And the other side, they, they're coming after us one by one by one and they try to take

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out the big ones with cancel culture and then everybody else is, is intimidated.

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Back, the Bible says God has not given us a spirit of fear, which can also be translated

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intimidation.

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God has not given us a spirit of intimidation, but of power, love and a sound mind.

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And I know that right now somebody who's watching and listening needed that word.

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You're being intimidated by something in your own life and you need to quote that scripture.

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We can quote the word of God.

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We have to quote the word of God.

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We have to believe the word of God.

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We've got to act on the word of God.

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And even though I'm not a theologian, I'm not a preacher.

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I've never been a pastor.

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I believe what I'm saying with my whole heart and I'm trying to communicate it in my podcast.

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So thank you for tuning in.

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Thank you for listening for my little, I was going to call it a tirade.

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It wasn't a tirade, was it?

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I just feel strongly.

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I, I, I need, I guess they call these rants, but it was, it was a Christian rant.

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I said, okay, to have a Christian rant.

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Leave me your comments.

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If you haven't subscribed, hit subscribe, hit that little bell so that you're notified

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Tell me what you think about a subscription.

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We may have some private zoom calls like a town hall.

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I'm trying, I'm trying to connect with you.

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And I decided that while we're in transition without having a studio right here at my desk

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in my office that has no windows in it, I mean, it has windows.

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It has no pictures on the wall that you would enjoy this little update of what's been happening

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in my life.

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So tune in again.

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We're still doing it every Tuesday and Thursday, 4pm Eastern time.

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Share this with others.

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And listen, help me get up an army.

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We need an army, especially as we're getting into this election season, especially as things

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are getting weirder and weirder.

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I'm going to start commenting more on things that are in the news, things that are happening

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in the body of Christ.

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Like I said, I'll probably do the more inside baseball things.

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I'm learning things about what's going on at the International House of Prayer in Kansas

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City.

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I'm hesitant to talk about it publicly because that whole thing is still shaking out.

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But there's some very serious spiritual issues that we must deal with.

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And that's why I do the STRANG report is so that I can deal with them.

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Thank you for watching.

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Tune in again on the Christmas Podcast Network.

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God bless you.

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Welcome back.

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Do you ever feel discouraged?

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Do you need hope?

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The world is so upside down that even if you believe there's power in the Holy Spirit,

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sometimes you need to be reminded that greater is He that is within us than He is in the

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world.

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My new book, Spirit-led Living in an Upside Down World, was written to give you hope,

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to remind you of things you know, to explain spiritual truths that you didn't understand

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or maybe have forgotten.

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I draw in my decades of covering the worldwide move of the Holy Spirit to give you examples

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and stories of great men and women of God from Jack Hafer to Catherine Coleman and many

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others explaining spiritual gifts and telling stories of victory in the face of trials and

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temptations.

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I wrote this book for you and I want you to read it.

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It's easy to read with lots of practical stories to help you.

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It is not a theological treatise on the Holy Spirit.

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In a way, it's a self-help book looking at the spiritual side of life.

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So if you long for more of God and to experience the power of the Holy Spirit and the power

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to rebuke the spiritual attacks in your life and boldness to stand for God, when the cancel

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culture wants you to sit down and shut up, then my book, Spirit-led Living in an Upside

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Down World, is for you.

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You can find the book wherever Christian books are sold, including Amazon.com or My CharismaShop.com.

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Remember, the Holy Spirit is here to help us now and for all the days ahead, no matter

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how upside down the world gets.

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Enjoy the book and God bless you.