Faith-Full Expectation

WEBVTT100:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.040Do you know that duds like excitedright? He seems like he's always an200:00:03.120 --> 00:00:07.150expectation bouncing. We have pouncing aroundnow. I know like we don't want300:00:07.150 --> 00:00:10.550to fake it and put it on, but we have to remind ourselves that400:00:10.710 --> 00:00:16.910we serve a faithful God. IAm Yours, I am yours, I500:00:17.230 --> 00:00:22.899am yours, and me Lord,I am yours, I am yours.600:00:23.379 --> 00:00:28.460I'm welcome to the Gospel centered prolife podcast, a podcast design to equip,700:00:29.179 --> 00:00:33.460encourage and challenge you in pro lifeministry, and always with a focus800:00:33.539 --> 00:00:42.250on the Gospel. Stay tuned.I felt show passish, touch your heart.900:00:44.649 --> 00:00:51.799Use Me. Welcome back to theGospel centered pro life podcast. Appreciate1000:00:51.880 --> 00:00:56.759you guys joining us and we wouldappreciate that you guys share this podcast with1100:00:56.840 --> 00:01:00.280other folks. Shoot it out and, I don't know, an email or1200:01:02.320 --> 00:01:06.670put it on your social media orsomething, or you can get folks to1300:01:06.750 --> 00:01:08.069listen to this podcast. We thinkthat this episode is going to be a1400:01:08.150 --> 00:01:11.989real encouragement. Do you guys?It's been an encouragement to us just what1500:01:11.109 --> 00:01:15.230we're going to be talking about anda challenge for you guys, for two1600:01:15.269 --> 00:01:22.099thousand and twenty two, to reallybe in faith full expectation. We're going1700:01:22.099 --> 00:01:25.260to talk about that a little bitmore as we go through this podcast.1800:01:26.099 --> 00:01:29.459But yeah, we want to bean encouragement to you guys and we want1900:01:29.459 --> 00:01:32.780to just challenge you guys to stepout in faith, to believe God,2000:01:33.689 --> 00:01:38.290to do miraculous things, to dothe impossible. Listen this ministry. For2100:01:38.489 --> 00:01:42.010us to see baby saved at anabortion clinic from MOMS who are walking in2200:01:42.290 --> 00:01:46.890about to kill her child and tosee them to a hundred eighty under,2300:01:47.010 --> 00:01:51.000a hundred eighty degree, turn andchoose life is a miraculous thing. This2400:01:51.280 --> 00:01:57.640ministry is a miraculous ministry and asbelievers in Jesus, we serve a miraculous2500:01:57.680 --> 00:02:01.109God and we should be an expectationthat God's going to do miraculous stuff.2600:02:01.109 --> 00:02:07.909A man, Amen. That wasbeautifully said. I Love I love this2700:02:07.189 --> 00:02:12.789topic. I love it. Sothe way it came up was that we2800:02:12.990 --> 00:02:19.180have encouraged our national missionaries, Yep, to be faith full, with a2900:02:19.259 --> 00:02:23.939full, yeah, full of faithexpectation. Right, faithful expectation. And3000:02:23.060 --> 00:02:28.819as I was pondering that, itoccurred to me that I get asked all3100:02:28.900 --> 00:02:31.810the time, how can you beout there with so many babies dying,3200:02:32.289 --> 00:02:37.810how can you be out there fornine years now? And this is why,3300:02:38.610 --> 00:02:43.689this is why I expect God todo miracles. Yeah, like you3400:02:43.689 --> 00:02:46.759said, not just a baby beingsaved, even that they stop for us3500:02:47.240 --> 00:02:53.520at all, take information from totalstrangers. Yeah, in that moment of3600:02:53.599 --> 00:02:57.439crisis, is a miracle. It'spretty much a miraculous thing that we get3700:02:57.479 --> 00:03:00.469to be a part of. Itreally is. It really is an and3800:03:00.789 --> 00:03:06.469so I think it helps anyone contemplatingbeing out, well, really in all3900:03:06.509 --> 00:03:12.069of life, but especially in adifficult ministry, as you're approaching being out4000:03:12.270 --> 00:03:20.099on a cold sidewalk where you're goingto be taunted, ridiculed, probably threatened4100:03:20.219 --> 00:03:23.699for three hours. Yeah, Fohalf people yelling at you. Yeah,4200:03:23.819 --> 00:03:25.419there's going to be a lot ofagreement at yes, they're driving by,4300:03:25.819 --> 00:03:30.969there's going to be you know,you are going to face intense adversity for4400:03:30.129 --> 00:03:36.050you to have in your heart.But God is faithful. Yeah, and4500:03:36.530 --> 00:03:39.770I expect him to show up andyou're going to look for him. You4600:03:39.930 --> 00:03:43.520look for him, I think,in a different way. You look for4700:03:43.639 --> 00:03:50.360him in everything, in what othersmight describe as the mundane things that happen.4800:03:50.639 --> 00:03:54.159Yeah, yeah, or a pastor. This is a couple of weeks4900:03:54.199 --> 00:03:58.509ago or so. I can't rememberexactly who said this, but they were.5000:03:58.669 --> 00:04:02.030They were talking about not having ane or spirit. You know what5100:04:02.150 --> 00:04:04.310they or you know? I suredo. Oh, yeah, one of5200:04:04.349 --> 00:04:09.830my favorite one meader donkey, righton the food. Oh, it's just5300:04:09.990 --> 00:04:14.219going to be another bad day,right, it's the worst day because I'm5400:04:14.300 --> 00:04:16.339in this day and always has arain cloud over his head and all this5500:04:16.379 --> 00:04:20.100stuff is like every day is theworst day. And this pastor was talking5600:04:20.139 --> 00:04:25.970about not talking about not having anear spirit, rejecting the EOR spirit right,5700:04:26.370 --> 00:04:30.250of always is bad and the worstday ever. But really have a5800:04:30.050 --> 00:04:33.050I mean he didn't say this,but I'm thinking like a tigger spirit.5900:04:33.889 --> 00:04:36.730That let's cheesy on that. Youknow that dudes like excited, right.6000:04:36.930 --> 00:04:42.240He seems like he's always an expectationbouncing. We have pouncing around now,6100:04:42.240 --> 00:04:44.199I know, like we don't wantto fake it and put it on,6200:04:44.680 --> 00:04:49.879but we have to remind ourselves thatwe serve a faithful God and so kind6300:04:49.920 --> 00:04:54.910of backtrack just a little bit.This faithful expectation. Where did that come6400:04:54.990 --> 00:04:58.629from? So, as Love LifeStaff, we were seeking the Lord at6500:04:58.670 --> 00:05:00.430the end of the last year,just trying to get a theme for this6600:05:00.589 --> 00:05:04.949year, something that can encourage us, something that can help help focus our6700:05:04.990 --> 00:05:08.459vision on what God has for us. Like we know what the vision of6800:05:08.500 --> 00:05:12.220Love Life Is. Unite, mobilizethe church to create a culture of love6900:05:12.259 --> 00:05:14.980and life. That resulted into abortionin the orphan crisis. That's like.7000:05:15.180 --> 00:05:17.019That's like the mission that God hasgiven us, the vision uniting, the7100:05:17.139 --> 00:05:20.850mobilizing the church. But for thisyear in particular, like what in the7200:05:20.930 --> 00:05:26.930scope of that, what are somethings that we can really laser focus and7300:05:27.050 --> 00:05:29.810help us really laser focus in onwhat God has given us as far as7400:05:29.810 --> 00:05:34.839a mission, and it is faithfulexpectation, to be faithful in what God7500:05:34.920 --> 00:05:38.879has called us to you know theword faithful, that's one word right.7600:05:39.360 --> 00:05:43.959We's broken it up into kind ofa hyphenated word, faith full expectation,7700:05:44.839 --> 00:05:47.399for good reason, because we wantto be faithful doing what God's called us7800:05:47.399 --> 00:05:51.029to do day in and day out, the mundane stuff. Being faithful in7900:05:51.110 --> 00:05:57.230that really that's that's where faithfulness isreally proven. Is the Monday nine every8000:05:57.230 --> 00:05:59.949day, doing the stuff that youknow you ought to do, whether you8100:05:59.990 --> 00:06:00.949feel like it or not, doingthat stuff. So you want to be8200:06:00.990 --> 00:06:03.540faithful in that stuff, showing upto the sidewalk. If we are a8300:06:03.620 --> 00:06:08.220volunteer or if we're a missionary andour job is to be out there on8400:06:08.300 --> 00:06:11.139the sidewalk, we've committed to certaindays. We need to be faithful,8500:06:11.180 --> 00:06:14.819whether we feel like it or not, be faithful, right, but also8600:06:15.060 --> 00:06:17.730be full of faith. So whenwe are faith when we show up out8700:06:17.730 --> 00:06:24.089there, let's be full of faithand expectation, expecting God to do some8800:06:24.730 --> 00:06:29.730miraculous stuff. Right. We wecan show up in this area of ministry8900:06:29.730 --> 00:06:31.730a lot of times to the sidewalkand expect the devil to do some stuff,9000:06:31.879 --> 00:06:35.680and reality is like, the devil'sdoing some stuff, whether we expect9100:06:35.720 --> 00:06:39.240it or not. Right, devilis going to be doing sprice out yeah,9200:06:39.360 --> 00:06:41.600but that shouldn't be our focus.That should not be our focus,9300:06:41.680 --> 00:06:45.000right, because you can, youcan focus on what the devil is doing9400:06:46.079 --> 00:06:50.509and really get sidetracked, really getderailed, really get disillusioned and just being9500:06:50.670 --> 00:06:56.629anger and being that ere spirit.Right, because the devil's always trying to9600:06:56.709 --> 00:07:00.350destroy lives. He's doing that inmass inside of these abortion clinics, destroying9700:07:00.350 --> 00:07:02.579the lives of babies and women andmen and all of that. So he's9800:07:02.620 --> 00:07:05.019doing what he's going to do.But let's let's shift our focus off what9900:07:05.139 --> 00:07:10.379the devil's doing and focus on whatGod is doing it and be an expectation10000:07:10.540 --> 00:07:14.100what God is going to do.Yeah, let's be an expectation and we10100:07:14.899 --> 00:07:17.810pray some bold prayers. Like God, I pray that women would run out10200:07:17.810 --> 00:07:23.050of that abortion clinic. And doesthat always happen? It doesn't always happen,10300:07:23.449 --> 00:07:25.889but it has happened. I meanhave literally seen it with my own10400:07:25.930 --> 00:07:30.480eyes. A young lady. Wewere up in southern California. We're praying10500:07:30.519 --> 00:07:32.800that. I had a group ofpastors out praying and just prayed an expectation.10600:07:32.959 --> 00:07:36.000It really felt like, you know, this powerful time of prayer after10700:07:36.079 --> 00:07:39.079that time of prayer, and wewere praying. God, I pray that10800:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.879women run out of that place.Thirty minutes later, this young lady comes10900:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.910literally running out of the place rightshe saw her baby on the ultrasound,11000:07:46.029 --> 00:07:49.750got a glimpse of her her baby, ten week baby's foot on the ultrasound.11100:07:49.790 --> 00:07:55.230And what we found out was actuallythe abortionist told her you don't want11200:07:55.230 --> 00:07:57.990to do this, you probably should. You probably should should not be here.11300:07:58.189 --> 00:08:01.579It really this is abortions. Sothat's pretty amazed. That's a bad11400:08:01.620 --> 00:08:07.139alone. Is a miracle of yeah, yeah, we've heard other miraculous stuff11500:08:07.180 --> 00:08:09.540like that. I mean you thinkthese people, they get paid to murder11600:08:09.620 --> 00:08:13.970children day after, day after day, these abortionists, he's abortion workers,11700:08:13.009 --> 00:08:16.649the ultrasound text and all that stuff, like day after day they're responsible for,11800:08:18.290 --> 00:08:22.009you know, across the nation,literally thousands of babies dying. And11900:08:22.009 --> 00:08:26.129yet for some reason, from timeto time we'll hear stories of abortionist convincing12000:08:26.529 --> 00:08:30.000women not to have the abortion.We've heard it here at Latrobe, the12100:08:30.079 --> 00:08:33.279ultrasound tech saying hey, you don'twant to do this, go and talk12200:08:33.320 --> 00:08:35.399to these people out there. Thisis the same person that like cusses us12300:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.360going into the door when they gointo their job. You know, they're12400:08:39.600 --> 00:08:41.509cussing us out one minute, nextminute they're telling somebody to come out and12500:08:41.629 --> 00:08:46.789talk to us. Like, howdoes that happen except for God doing miraculous12600:08:46.950 --> 00:08:50.590things? Right, right, right, yeah, yeah, and so that's12700:08:50.629 --> 00:08:54.549kind of the theme, being expectation. God has done some stuff in the12800:08:54.590 --> 00:08:58.700past that's miraculous. God's going tokeep doing stuff like cheer some some other12900:08:58.779 --> 00:09:01.659cool storage. One story, okay, and then you want to talk about13000:09:01.659 --> 00:09:07.139I'm just I'm an expectation, exactingall Daniel. In another story from Southern13100:09:07.179 --> 00:09:11.090California, there was a guy whoworks a security team. So they don't13200:09:11.090 --> 00:09:13.169really have a lot of proboard peopleout there, but they do have some13300:09:13.250 --> 00:09:18.929pretty nasty security guards. So theyplant parent who hires these security firms to13400:09:18.090 --> 00:09:24.600do security for them. Yeah,and this one security guard ultimately, and13500:09:24.639 --> 00:09:28.200I don't know how this all happened, but ultimately he quit with that security13600:09:28.240 --> 00:09:35.320firm or got fired or something,ended up being with the same security firm13700:09:35.799 --> 00:09:39.269that does security for the Church ofthe majority of the people that go out13800:09:39.269 --> 00:09:41.870to that abortion centers. So nowhe's doing security for that church. Here13900:09:41.909 --> 00:09:45.750in the Gospel Week in and weekout, he sees the people that he14000:09:45.789 --> 00:09:48.309used to oppose and of course heknows that they're people that love Jesus and14100:09:48.389 --> 00:09:52.590he gets to see their interactions witheach other in church and just these are14200:09:52.750 --> 00:09:54.940genuine people and so I'm trusting andbelieving that guy is going to come to14300:09:54.980 --> 00:09:58.019the Lord if he hasn't already.So stuff like that. A guy works14400:09:58.019 --> 00:10:01.740at the abortion clinic next week becausehe got fired or whatever. He's working14500:10:01.820 --> 00:10:05.620out the church from the people whogo out to the abortion clinic to minister14600:10:05.740 --> 00:10:09.649there. That's that's that's amazing,that's miraculous, right. God so often14700:10:09.690 --> 00:10:13.850works that way. Yeah, well, when when you you had talked with14800:10:15.210 --> 00:10:18.649our missionary group about fearful expectation andthat was safe thing, faithful, I'm14900:10:18.690 --> 00:10:26.000sorry, not's Weirdiful, faithful expectdictation and and I think it was the15000:10:26.120 --> 00:10:31.559very next day that I was really, of course, focused on that theme15100:10:31.240 --> 00:10:39.110and it was really a miraculous day. But it wasn't really I mean from15200:10:39.629 --> 00:10:43.149any any other human perspective, lookingat the day, it might have been15300:10:43.190 --> 00:10:46.789a disappointing day. Yeah, therewas one baby saved, but it wasn't15400:10:46.789 --> 00:10:50.940a confirmed save. But anyway,as I was as I was thinking about15500:10:50.940 --> 00:10:56.820that day, that day and andfaithful expectation, I started to list the15600:10:56.100 --> 00:11:03.059things that made that day for mea day of rejoicing and seeing God everywhere15700:11:03.100 --> 00:11:09.169I looked and and kind of triedto think about how to categorize what happened15800:11:09.210 --> 00:11:13.090during that day. So one ofthe first things that I thought of is15900:11:13.289 --> 00:11:18.960that if you can rejoice in thepositives, no matter how small. Yeah,16000:11:20.080 --> 00:11:24.200rejoice in the positives. That startsto shift you from an Eoor to16100:11:24.279 --> 00:11:26.440a tigger right away, right.Ye, you joy seeing, rejoice in16200:11:26.519 --> 00:11:31.120the small things. The first thingis covid is rampant in our nation,16300:11:31.240 --> 00:11:35.509but in our ranks we've had,we've seen a lot of COVID. Yeah,16400:11:35.710 --> 00:11:39.990I mean all over the really.I know of so many people who16500:11:39.990 --> 00:11:46.029have covid right now and it hasreally devastated our volunteer pool. Yeah,16600:11:46.230 --> 00:11:48.620because I they're faithful and careful notto come and in fact, others when16700:11:48.659 --> 00:11:54.340they're when they have covid. Sowe just have had really small teams,16800:11:54.940 --> 00:12:01.529two or three tops. Yeah,four weeks now, and that is usually16900:12:01.610 --> 00:12:03.529not enough. Few did. There'snot enough people for you to leave to17000:12:03.570 --> 00:12:07.370go to the bathroom if you needto go the bathroom. There's not enough17100:12:07.370 --> 00:12:11.129people to go on the RV ifsome mom wants to look at her baby.17200:12:11.490 --> 00:12:16.399So, but instead of looking ata gosh, there's only two people17300:12:16.480 --> 00:12:22.559here. Today, we said,praise God, there's two people, yeah,17400:12:22.879 --> 00:12:26.559here to day. It changed everything. You change everything to think of17500:12:28.399 --> 00:12:31.750this is good to people who showedup. There are two people willing to17600:12:31.789 --> 00:12:35.990stee more gather in my name.There I am in the midstactly, exactly,17700:12:37.590 --> 00:12:39.669you know, don't despise the dayof small things. Yeah, is17800:12:39.909 --> 00:12:43.909is kind of that that I remembera time that out here at Latrobe,17900:12:43.070 --> 00:12:46.940there was not even two people thatcould be out there on it. Well,18000:12:46.980 --> 00:12:50.379this was a Thursday, I believethe right yeah, it Thursday or18100:12:50.419 --> 00:12:54.700Friday. Yeah. Yeah, soI remember back in the day I first18200:12:54.740 --> 00:12:58.179started, it was only Saturdays thatwe had people out there and we'd prayed18300:12:58.259 --> 00:13:01.490for people to be out there everyday of the week and just never happened18400:13:01.809 --> 00:13:05.769until yeah, God made it happenright, right, and so just rejoicing18500:13:05.850 --> 00:13:09.889that there's anybody out there. Yeah, yeah, can add it from a18600:13:09.570 --> 00:13:15.399positive perspective. Yeah, fateful expectation. Yeah, perspective. Sometimes I think18700:13:15.480 --> 00:13:20.200we can put our eyes so firmlyon our goal, on the mission,18800:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.759that we lose the side of God'sschools. Yeah, and God's mission out18900:13:24.759 --> 00:13:30.870there. And that was the secondthing that I thought of is expect the19000:13:30.950 --> 00:13:37.549unexpected. In a way, lookfor the unexpected opportunities as you're out there.19100:13:37.629 --> 00:13:39.470You know, our mission on thesidewalk is we are we want babies19200:13:39.509 --> 00:13:43.100to be saved. Yeah, wewant to glorify God, but we want19300:13:43.100 --> 00:13:46.820to be able to promote life andmostly and seeing baby saved, because they're19400:13:46.860 --> 00:13:50.419the ones whose lives are on theline. But in, in, in19500:13:50.659 --> 00:13:54.769this little thing that happened in Uberdriver stopped and she didn't know it was19600:13:54.809 --> 00:13:58.649an abortion center. She took ourinformation, she was horrified that it was19700:13:58.690 --> 00:14:03.690an abortion center and she said,I'm going to take take this information,19800:14:03.730 --> 00:14:07.210I'm going to give it. Yes, someone who maybe is thinking about an19900:14:07.210 --> 00:14:11.240abortion. Yeah, a little thing, yeah, not a big thing,20000:14:11.679 --> 00:14:16.919but praise God it is. Thatmaybe God's mission for us being at that20100:14:16.240 --> 00:14:22.919moment, right then, was exactlywhere that Uber I mean, we did20200:14:22.080 --> 00:14:26.190podcast months ago about an uber driverthat got a piece of literature who ended20300:14:26.230 --> 00:14:30.950up resulting in it was two momsthat chose life. Yep, and one20400:14:31.029 --> 00:14:33.389of those moms are both of thosemoms that I remember them, gave their20500:14:33.429 --> 00:14:35.789lives to Jesus. It's like wow, so we got to think in the20600:14:35.870 --> 00:14:39.740terms of sewing seed and watering seat, and that's what you did. You20700:14:39.860 --> 00:14:43.100sowed seed and, Gosh, I'man expectation that we're going to hear back20800:14:43.100 --> 00:14:46.220from that Uber driver or maybe whenwe stand before the Lord, we're going20900:14:46.220 --> 00:14:50.899to find out this was a babythat was saved because that Uber driver took21000:14:50.940 --> 00:14:54.169that piece of liturgy you gave them, handed them to a handed it to21100:14:54.210 --> 00:14:58.570a young lady. Yeah, possiblygot a not a call, but got21200:14:58.690 --> 00:15:01.529a ding on their phone to goand pick somebody up, to take them21300:15:01.570 --> 00:15:05.769to thirty two, twenty lit robedrive and right, you wouldn't pick that21400:15:05.809 --> 00:15:07.399person up? Instead, share theGospel with him? Who knows? You21500:15:07.519 --> 00:15:11.399know, you planted to see.They didn't know it was an abortion clinic.21600:15:11.480 --> 00:15:13.639Now they know. So now theycan run with that and they've got21700:15:13.679 --> 00:15:16.399some information. Yeah, and beable to help plant seeds as well.21800:15:16.759 --> 00:15:20.629And they're just an uber driver.Yeah, are quotes, just auber driver,21900:15:20.750 --> 00:15:24.549but I told that story to thatUber driver and I said that Uber22000:15:24.590 --> 00:15:28.029driver, the last one that Igave Litt I don't know if it was22100:15:28.070 --> 00:15:33.029the last one, but that Igave literature to, had the result was22200:15:33.429 --> 00:15:37.259two babies being saved and two livesbeing committed to the Lord. Yeah,22300:15:37.340 --> 00:15:39.820that could be what happens with youand and that Uber driver kind of like22400:15:41.779 --> 00:15:48.620set up tall and I think itchanged his perspective on I I could save22500:15:48.659 --> 00:15:52.090a life today, and it waslike now his mission had to had become22600:15:52.529 --> 00:15:56.210part of God's mission out. Yeah, so the next thing you have here,22700:15:56.570 --> 00:16:02.370which I think is we talked aboutexpectation, is expect the vine encounters.22800:16:02.409 --> 00:16:07.200Yeah, and believe that all encountersare divine, I guess, and22900:16:07.440 --> 00:16:11.879they are right are. And soyou share in this article a little story23000:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.320about somebody who came out to theabortion center. They were there at the23100:16:15.399 --> 00:16:19.710pond looking for ducks. SHERE's anabortion clinic, there's a pond not far23200:16:19.870 --> 00:16:25.830from that abortion clinic and for whateverreason she decided to go to that pond23300:16:25.870 --> 00:16:27.110at that time while you were there. So share a little bit of that23400:16:27.190 --> 00:16:30.750story. Well. So, soI approach every car if they pull over,23500:16:32.070 --> 00:16:36.139because I can't tell immediately if theirmom and she was an older woman.23600:16:36.220 --> 00:16:37.379I knew as soon as I approach. I said, Oh, you're23700:16:37.419 --> 00:16:40.620not here for an abortion and shesaid, Oh, no, no,23800:16:40.980 --> 00:16:42.980I although. She said, butI am pro choice. Okay, said,23900:16:44.019 --> 00:16:48.049but I'm here to look for ducksand I had just noticed on that24000:16:48.250 --> 00:16:52.009pond just a couple days ago thatthere was a hooded merganser. Now,24100:16:52.129 --> 00:16:56.649for you people that don't know,ducks this is exciting. Hooded mergansers are24200:16:56.690 --> 00:17:00.450not common, I don't think,in our area and you don't usually see24300:17:00.490 --> 00:17:03.840them on a little pond, butit was clearly a hooded merganser. I24400:17:03.919 --> 00:17:06.400went home and looked it up afterI saw it. So I told this24500:17:06.519 --> 00:17:10.480lady, you would not believe whatI saw. What lives on this pond24600:17:10.640 --> 00:17:12.880is a hooded Bergancer. Well,she knew what they were because she's a24700:17:12.960 --> 00:17:18.390duck watcher. So she's all excited. So we are bonding over ducks and24800:17:18.190 --> 00:17:22.349we're talking about the ducks, butI was not going to let that comment24900:17:22.589 --> 00:17:27.950about being pro choice go on challenge. Yeah, so from ducks we talked25000:17:27.990 --> 00:17:33.700about I talked about how I knewbecause my daughter was an artist and we25100:17:33.779 --> 00:17:37.299used to paint. Hoo Did mergansersaid, oh, for the for the25200:17:37.380 --> 00:17:41.019Federal Duck Stamp Contest, one ofthe odds. I said yes. She25300:17:41.660 --> 00:17:45.529said, well, I used totoo. I used to faint ducks for25400:17:45.650 --> 00:17:48.289this duck contest. She did yourdaughter ever win? and Said No,25500:17:49.009 --> 00:17:53.089she got first place in her agecategory, but she never once and was25600:17:53.250 --> 00:17:56.730placed on a stamp. And Anyway, so we're we're sharing. And then25700:17:57.089 --> 00:18:02.720I was able to shift the conversationto a discussion of God and the Gospel.25800:18:02.799 --> 00:18:07.559And she comes from Catholic roots andshe was she had been turned off25900:18:07.640 --> 00:18:12.829to God because what she saw asthe hypocrisy in the Catholic Church and and26000:18:14.150 --> 00:18:21.589was concerned about the works versus faithissue. Yeah, and so I was26100:18:21.710 --> 00:18:25.029able to talk with her and sharethe truth of the Gospel, gave her26200:18:25.069 --> 00:18:27.539a Gospel tract, which she wasvery willing to take because we had now26300:18:27.700 --> 00:18:34.700shared this common interest about ducks,and she thanked me as I had to26400:18:34.819 --> 00:18:40.819leave then and get back to mywork, but she thanked me and and26500:18:41.180 --> 00:18:47.569she said that she recognized this asa divine encounter. Yeah, well,26600:18:47.569 --> 00:18:52.809which was really I mean again,what were the chances? And where will26700:18:52.890 --> 00:18:56.480that encounter lead? I don't know. She's got a gospel tract. It26800:18:56.480 --> 00:19:00.759might have been a soul that nowcomes to the Lord, all because of26900:19:00.880 --> 00:19:03.079ducks. Yeah, yeah, andmy only question about the duck that you're27000:19:03.119 --> 00:19:07.319talking about is, does it tastegood? That is exactly what the RV27100:19:07.440 --> 00:19:11.549driver said, who happens to behunter, and I told him pretty sure,27200:19:11.549 --> 00:19:17.230told them you shot that right.Oh, I forgot. The best27300:19:17.230 --> 00:19:21.349part of the store wree okay,as we're finishing up, and she said27400:19:21.390 --> 00:19:23.460she felt that, oh wait,that's why she felt it was a divine27500:19:23.460 --> 00:19:27.900encounter. As we're finishing up andI'm starting to move away, guess what27600:19:29.059 --> 00:19:33.539I saw swimming across the pond.The Blah Blah Blah Blah, did look27700:19:33.660 --> 00:19:36.819answer and I said I stopped herin the middle of a God discussion and27800:19:36.900 --> 00:19:41.250said Look, look, look,it's the hooded merganser. And she was27900:19:41.450 --> 00:19:48.450in thhralled. Any duck watcher wouldbe. Okay, and and that at28000:19:48.490 --> 00:19:52.049that point she said, not onlyhave you raised some questions I'm really going28100:19:52.089 --> 00:19:55.759to think about, but I gotto see the hooded MERC answer. This28200:19:55.960 --> 00:19:59.640was and if I hadn't talked withyou about God, I would have missed28300:20:00.079 --> 00:20:06.039the hooded mercancer. Yeah, soexpect the unexpected and every every encounter is28400:20:06.160 --> 00:20:14.430divine. Don't be discouraged. Don'tlet the opposition discourage you. Yeah,28500:20:14.990 --> 00:20:18.990and that is an easy thing todo because, especially here in Charlotte,28600:20:19.950 --> 00:20:23.019if you guys have watched any ofour videos or any of our stuff,28700:20:23.700 --> 00:20:27.019you've heard us even talk about onthe podcast, we have some pretty pretty28800:20:27.019 --> 00:20:30.940venomous probortion. Opposition out here.Yeah, but even, you know,28900:20:32.059 --> 00:20:36.289cross the nation were places where theydon't have like a consistent pro abortion opposition.29000:20:36.369 --> 00:20:38.089There can still be people that comefrom Tom to Tom. I know29100:20:38.210 --> 00:20:42.529I was up in Washington state withour team there a couple of months ago29200:20:44.410 --> 00:20:48.529and they don't have really any probows, poor probortion opposition. They have29300:20:48.609 --> 00:20:51.480people that come by and flip themoff and yell him, yell at him29400:20:51.480 --> 00:20:56.039and stuff like that. But thisday this young lady came and she decided29500:20:56.039 --> 00:20:57.680to get her piece of poster boardand make up a sign. I forget29600:20:57.720 --> 00:21:02.279what it said on it, somethingabout us being bigots or something like that,29700:21:03.000 --> 00:21:06.829and held the sign about there.That happens from time to time.29800:21:06.829 --> 00:21:08.430You're going to have opposition, you'regoing to have people decide they're going to29900:21:08.549 --> 00:21:12.829voice their opinion against you or whatever, and it can be discouraging because at30000:21:12.829 --> 00:21:17.470the end of the day, allof you guys are listening, you're just30100:21:17.829 --> 00:21:22.140people that love people and love Jesus. You love Jesus and because of that30200:21:22.940 --> 00:21:27.500he loves people. You love peopleand people come and they cuts you out30300:21:27.539 --> 00:21:32.779and they have all these misconceptions aboutwho you are. We're, in reality,30400:21:32.859 --> 00:21:33.890like none of that stuff's true aboutyou, right. You're not a30500:21:33.970 --> 00:21:37.650bigot, you're not hateful, you'renot condemning these women or whatever. You're30600:21:37.650 --> 00:21:41.529not trying to control their bodies oranything like that. You're just a person30700:21:41.569 --> 00:21:45.650that loves Jesus, that loves people, and so those false accusations can really30800:21:45.690 --> 00:21:49.799be heavy and they can really weighheavy on your mind and in your heart.30900:21:51.119 --> 00:21:55.799It can take your eyes off ofand they can discourage expectation and discourage31000:21:55.799 --> 00:21:59.279you. And one of those itwent on this particular day. One of31100:21:59.359 --> 00:22:04.430them was terrible, one of theproportion people blowing his horn into our face31200:22:04.710 --> 00:22:11.549and screaming at us and it veryangry and confrontational and I just ignored him,31300:22:11.589 --> 00:22:15.099as I always tried to do,not not get distracted. But later31400:22:15.180 --> 00:22:18.980in the day, I don't know, I felt the Holy Spirit kind of31500:22:19.019 --> 00:22:22.980tug at me. And he's marriedto someone I really like. She's also31600:22:23.059 --> 00:22:26.339out there, but I really dolike her. I pray for her.31700:22:26.380 --> 00:22:32.049Yeah, and and I told himjust it popped out of my mouth,31800:22:32.130 --> 00:22:37.329you know, your wife is sosweet. I really like her, and31900:22:37.529 --> 00:22:41.049he said she really is. That'swhat attracted her to me. And he32000:22:41.329 --> 00:22:48.839started this very civil discussion about hiswife, how they met. She was32100:22:48.920 --> 00:22:52.720the first person, he said,who recognized his or the only person that32200:22:52.920 --> 00:23:00.029recognized his potential, which gave methe opportunity to launch into a god discussion32300:23:00.069 --> 00:23:04.069when I said she is great,but she's not the only one that recognizes32400:23:04.109 --> 00:23:11.230your potential. The God who createdyou seize your potential and created you for32500:23:11.549 --> 00:23:15.140great things. And he had saidhis wife had saved him, and I32600:23:15.220 --> 00:23:18.500said, and your wife can't saveyou, sweet as she is, it's32700:23:18.579 --> 00:23:23.460God who saves. He ended uplistening to me without a word for about32800:23:23.460 --> 00:23:29.690a half an hour. I sharedthe Gospel. So what began as very32900:23:29.769 --> 00:23:33.089discouraging opposition became one of the highlightsof the day. I had the opportunity33000:23:33.130 --> 00:23:38.289to share the gospel with someone whohad not listened to it before, at33100:23:38.329 --> 00:23:42.240least certainly not not from me.Yeah, that's good. So, yeah,33200:23:42.240 --> 00:23:48.200yeah, and viewing that now,we do talk about prioritizing who we33300:23:48.359 --> 00:23:52.039talked to. We always discourage,don't get distracted with pro abortion people,33400:23:52.720 --> 00:23:56.470but they are still people, yeah, that God would save if they would33500:23:56.470 --> 00:24:00.750turn to him. God has alove toward them and, when given opportunity,33600:24:00.829 --> 00:24:03.390as long as it's not going todistract us from while we're there.33700:24:03.670 --> 00:24:08.029We should minister to them, sharethe Gospel with them. I think it's33800:24:08.069 --> 00:24:11.180in we should be intentional. It'simportant for us to be intentional about sharing33900:24:11.259 --> 00:24:15.900what the Bible says, not toget some lengthy conversation about things that don't34000:24:15.940 --> 00:24:19.700matter, but really get into theGospel and get into a Gospel conversation.34100:24:21.299 --> 00:24:23.890God Open that door for you.Be Praying for God to open those doors.34200:24:23.930 --> 00:24:27.890Maybe there's security guard that gives yousome problems when you're out there on34300:24:27.930 --> 00:24:33.210the sidewalk and you know you youdon't want to get distracted with them and34400:24:33.329 --> 00:24:37.009get in some kind of heated argument. Just stay away from getting into heated34500:24:37.089 --> 00:24:41.240arguments back and forth with pro abortionpeople's security guards or anybody at the abortion34600:24:41.519 --> 00:24:45.119he just don't do that. It'snot helpful. But be praying for God34700:24:45.160 --> 00:24:48.279to open up doors for you tobe able to have a civil, oneonone34800:24:48.319 --> 00:24:52.789conversation where you can plainly lay outthe Gospel, plainly lay out your convictions34900:24:52.869 --> 00:24:56.269as a believer in Jesus. Godcan open those doors. YEA, and35000:24:56.349 --> 00:24:59.910be an expectation that he's going todo it and he's going to use that35100:24:59.990 --> 00:25:03.309conversation to draw them to himself.Yeah, and what you said about prayer,35200:25:03.349 --> 00:25:07.099I don't think I actually put anythat here in this article that I35300:25:07.180 --> 00:25:14.700wrote, but pray for those opportunitiesto arisees. Is Part of being faithfully35400:25:14.700 --> 00:25:18.740expectant. Yeah, you've prayed forit. Now wait and watch and and35500:25:18.019 --> 00:25:22.450see how he's going to answer it. It might not be exactly as you35600:25:22.569 --> 00:25:25.609prayed, but he will answer itin one way or another. Yeah,35700:25:25.970 --> 00:25:30.329but you know, like you said, our goal is our mission, our35800:25:30.369 --> 00:25:34.009reason we're out there is to hopefullysave the lives of these babies. We35900:25:34.130 --> 00:25:38.480don't of course God does, butwhere the instrument he uses? And one36000:25:38.519 --> 00:25:45.680of the things that I thought thatgives faithful expectation is having an optimistic outlook36100:25:47.039 --> 00:25:51.589on events. And what I meantby that was there are oftentimes, and36200:25:51.789 --> 00:25:55.390everyone in ministry knows that, thereare people. Some sidewalk teams will call36300:25:55.430 --> 00:26:00.509them turnaways. Yeah, others willcall them saves. There are mom who36400:26:00.630 --> 00:26:04.619left, who didn't abort. Yeah, and there are some people who are36500:26:04.819 --> 00:26:11.099very, I guess, sticklers aboutif they don't have a confirmed save,36600:26:11.299 --> 00:26:14.779the MOM has said I chose life, then they don't think of it as36700:26:14.819 --> 00:26:19.170a save to baby. Yeah,I'm a little bit more lenient. Okay,36800:26:19.690 --> 00:26:23.690and the reason, I think,does have to do with faithful expectation.36900:26:23.769 --> 00:26:26.730Yeah, I know God send usthere to do that. I know37000:26:26.849 --> 00:26:33.640that's our mission and if I seea lot of indications that this mom probably37100:26:33.759 --> 00:26:37.799chose life, there are lots ofclues. Yeah, we've gone into that37200:26:37.920 --> 00:26:41.920in other podcast. I won't gointo them now, but if there's enough37300:26:41.039 --> 00:26:45.400of those, I'm going to tellmy team. I think that was a37400:26:45.599 --> 00:26:48.269safe and I'm going to, Iguess, count it as a save because37500:26:49.190 --> 00:26:56.910it is such an encouragement, yeah, to us who have been weathering some37600:26:56.150 --> 00:27:02.099pretty rough hours in most cases outthere. Yeah, so I don't think.37700:27:02.099 --> 00:27:07.220I don't think we should be grudgingwith the opportunity to be optimistic.37800:27:07.299 --> 00:27:12.220Yeah, without I'm not saying lie, I'm not saying fudge facts, but37900:27:12.339 --> 00:27:15.849I am saying have an optimistic outlook. If God has sent you there to38000:27:15.930 --> 00:27:21.049do that mission, he's going tomake that mission happen. Yeah, absolutely.38100:27:21.130 --> 00:27:22.970Yeah, I mean I think wecould, and we probably do a38200:27:23.009 --> 00:27:26.170whole podcast about this. As faras numbers and how account that we didn't38300:27:26.210 --> 00:27:30.799report. Did do one. Yeah, yeah, but you know, we38400:27:30.960 --> 00:27:34.599have a kind of unique scenario hereat La Trobe abortion clinic in that it38500:27:34.799 --> 00:27:38.039is just an abortion clinic. Right. They're not doing other things. They're38600:27:38.039 --> 00:27:44.549not doing plant parent whood does doother things besides abortion, hormone therapy and38700:27:44.789 --> 00:27:48.309things like that, right. We'vealready talked about that some on other podcast38800:27:48.430 --> 00:27:52.430as well. At the La Trobeabortion center, we know because we've talked38900:27:52.509 --> 00:27:57.069to many abortion workers that have workedinside of that place for years and of39000:27:57.190 --> 00:28:00.059course, just by their own admission, they're an abortion clinic. That's all39100:28:00.099 --> 00:28:04.460they do. And we've also overthe years been able to kind of put39200:28:04.539 --> 00:28:07.819pieces together. Right, yeah,we can tell if this is happening.39300:28:07.859 --> 00:28:11.779We know when the abortionist gets there. So white possibly they leave before the39400:28:11.779 --> 00:28:17.130abortion it's gets there. They didn'thave an abortion, and so if there's39500:28:17.130 --> 00:28:21.210other indicators and other clues, wekind of put those together. I'm confident39600:28:21.329 --> 00:28:23.130to say it was a baby saved, and the reason why is because we've39700:28:23.130 --> 00:28:27.680had so many that have come backover the years that have told us just39800:28:27.839 --> 00:28:32.359drove back to the troube abortion centerjust to find us. This has happened39900:28:32.960 --> 00:28:36.720several times where they tell us Iwas here and I chose life. So40000:28:36.880 --> 00:28:40.359we can be confident. God's doingstuff behind the scenes and at the end40100:28:40.359 --> 00:28:41.430of the day, we're not tryingto put a notch on our belt,40200:28:41.670 --> 00:28:45.390but we do want to be optimistic, we do want to be an expectation.40300:28:45.549 --> 00:28:49.829God's doing something. Babies are beingsaved and what we're doing we're doing40400:28:49.910 --> 00:28:52.950in faith. But God graciously letsus see the fruit. Now the vast40500:28:52.990 --> 00:28:56.460majority of the babies are saved,or, you know, mom stops and40600:28:56.539 --> 00:28:59.779tells us she chose life, orthey go on the mobile unit. We're40700:28:59.779 --> 00:29:02.299able to minister more in depth toit. But we need to be an40800:29:02.339 --> 00:29:07.460expectation. Yeah, and and don'tbe afraid through that expectation. If you40900:29:07.579 --> 00:29:11.089have some solid indicators of that momchose life, then don't be afraid to41000:29:11.130 --> 00:29:15.529say it. I'm confident that younglady chose life. Right, right.41100:29:15.049 --> 00:29:19.569It's a good mentality to have athing it is and the results are often41200:29:19.650 --> 00:29:23.440not immediate. We are planting seedssometime in on that same day, and41300:29:23.519 --> 00:29:27.480this was the final point on thatwonderful day where I was trying to pin41400:29:27.640 --> 00:29:33.799down what made me faithfully expectant.The I got a text from my mom41500:29:33.960 --> 00:29:38.990that I had counseled five years agoand she was text five years ago.41600:29:40.150 --> 00:29:42.150She had been, I matter,when she came to a board. Yeah,41700:29:42.390 --> 00:29:48.190and the text today said that shethe text on that day, and41800:29:48.230 --> 00:29:52.259you're talking about in this that isright on that day, because all these41900:29:52.299 --> 00:29:55.940things happened on the same day thatI just talked about. But on that42000:29:56.059 --> 00:30:00.859day she texted and and told meshe was pregnant again and she wanted to42100:30:00.980 --> 00:30:07.329come to our ministry get the helpthat she knew she could get from us42200:30:07.450 --> 00:30:10.450and come and see your baby onthe mobile ultrasound unit. And that to42300:30:10.569 --> 00:30:15.289me was just such an encouragement thatinstead, that's the whole mission of of42400:30:17.089 --> 00:30:21.720love life, is that instead ofrunning to the abortion center, the women42500:30:21.759 --> 00:30:25.160will run to the church. Andthat's what she did. Yeah, so42600:30:25.680 --> 00:30:30.960praise God and and it reminded methat the more that we look for God42700:30:32.519 --> 00:30:36.549and expect his miracles, the morewe will see them, because they are42800:30:36.549 --> 00:30:41.549always there. Yeah, he isalways working. Yeah, yeah, expectation42900:30:41.549 --> 00:30:45.990is a posture of our heart,and expectation, in light of who God43000:30:47.109 --> 00:30:49.900is, is a posture of ourheart toward God, knowing what he has43100:30:49.980 --> 00:30:55.859promised. Right. And so howare we going to be in faithful expectation43200:30:56.019 --> 00:30:59.420before the Lord will? First ofall, we need to see who this43300:30:59.579 --> 00:31:03.740God is that we serve and weneed to have our eyes constantly focused on43400:31:03.980 --> 00:31:07.049him. And so for this yearI would encourage you, guys, and43500:31:07.089 --> 00:31:11.650I think probably everybody that's listening.This is already a regular part of your43600:31:11.690 --> 00:31:15.130life, rigor regular rhythm to yourlife. But if it's not, it43700:31:15.289 --> 00:31:18.680needs to be where. You needto be in the word of God.43800:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.880You need to see, because theBible says faith comes by hearing and hearing43900:31:22.000 --> 00:31:25.480by the word of God. Youneed to have the word of God in44000:31:25.599 --> 00:31:27.640your heart, have it in yourmind, have it on your tongue so44100:31:27.720 --> 00:31:32.720that you're proclaiming the truth of God'sword, because God's Word is in contrast44200:31:32.839 --> 00:31:36.150a lot of the fear and,especially in this day and age right the44300:31:36.269 --> 00:31:41.230fear mongering that's out there, faithlessness, doubt, dread, all of that44400:31:41.390 --> 00:31:45.670stuff that has permeated the atmosphere ofour nation. All of that stuff is44500:31:45.829 --> 00:31:49.539contradicted by the word of God.We can have faith in this God,44600:31:49.700 --> 00:31:52.380we can be an expectation. Iknow there's a heaviness, there's like a44700:31:52.460 --> 00:31:57.019political heaviness. People are under itthinking that because a Democrats are in power,44800:31:57.940 --> 00:32:01.049all of this and all of that. But let's just forget that garbage44900:32:01.049 --> 00:32:05.490and let's be an expectation, becausewe know who our God is. What45000:32:05.569 --> 00:32:07.089does it say in Daniel, inthe the Prophet Daniel? At the end45100:32:07.089 --> 00:32:13.289it says those that know their Godwill do great exploits. Know God,45200:32:13.329 --> 00:32:15.490and if you know God, ifyou know the god of the Bible,45300:32:15.650 --> 00:32:19.240the God who made the heavens inthe earth, the God who raised Jesus45400:32:19.319 --> 00:32:22.880Christ from the dead and whose spiritlives and you, if you know him,45500:32:22.519 --> 00:32:27.279you have every reason to be fullof faith and an expectation of what45600:32:27.440 --> 00:32:30.430he's going to do, even atthese places of darkness and these places of45700:32:30.549 --> 00:32:35.950death. And so be encouraged bythis. Spread this spread this. Listen,45800:32:36.109 --> 00:32:40.509faith can be like a good disease. He's right, maybe definitely contagious.45900:32:40.589 --> 00:32:45.700Be Contagious. Optimism is contagious andin the conversely, so is pessimism.46000:32:45.819 --> 00:32:51.539So you be optimistic, faithfully expectantand you will just you'll see it46100:32:51.700 --> 00:32:55.059blossom around you. Absolutely yeah,and you have every reason to be in46200:32:55.259 --> 00:33:02.569faithful expectation because you serve a faithfulGod. Amen. Yeah, so hope46300:33:02.609 --> 00:33:06.609this was an encouragement to you guys. Again, we hope that you'll share46400:33:06.650 --> 00:33:07.529this. If you want to reachout to me. Maybe you have some46500:33:07.569 --> 00:33:12.730questions, ofthing to add, maybesomething, a story to tell that encourage46600:33:12.809 --> 00:33:15.680you along these lines. Reach outto me, Daniel Love Life Dot Org.46700:33:15.799 --> 00:33:17.359You reach out to Vicki, Vickyat Love Life Dot Org. We'd46800:33:17.400 --> 00:33:21.160love to hear from you, guys, but until next time, God,46900:33:21.240 --> 00:33:34.150bless God, bless you all ourlove for love. Give me our love47000:33:34.430 --> 00:33:45.819for gratitude. I know it willcost me my love. Nothing's too precious47100:33:46.140 --> 00:33:47.500in some you