Remain in God | Why Self-Reliance is Self-Sabotage

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Well, hey, everyone, you're listening to the Curt Landry podcast, where we're going to

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help you discover your kingdom destiny.

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My name is Darrell and sitting right beside me, it's his show.

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It's Rabbi Curt Landry himself.

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And in this episode, we're talking all about identity and how to actually use knowing where

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you gain your identity to help accomplish your goals.

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But as always, before we jump into this episode, Rabbi, how was the weekend?

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How's the family doing?

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How are you doing?

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Listen, this was a great weekend.

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Quite a shift because we were spent a week down in Florida and then to come home to Oklahoma

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to really bad weather starting to come in and of course, a sterning winter here.

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But the good side of that is there's something personally for me to be able to come home,

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have the fireplace going, puts me in a mode to start cooking food.

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My family loves that side of it.

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So it's a good weekend, but it's also a weekend where I'm really focusing on, it's January,

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it's New Year's.

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And one of the things that I actually have in my program of goals to grow 2024, one of

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the things that bothers me when I read it was that only 8% of the people after February

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are either doing their goals or their year-end planning.

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And that really bothers me.

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And I thought, what can I do to be able to help people to not be trapped by being all

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excited, writing new goals, New Year's resolutions, but then how can I help them to facilitate

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actually changing their mindset to be able to go into accomplishing what they desire

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to accomplish?

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And that really comes down to an identity issue.

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Yeah.

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So, you throw out the percentage there for, I mean, it's kind of sad as humans in Falling

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Creation that in the second month of the year, we fall off that quick.

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Why do you think that it's just so easy for us to do that?

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Boy, I could just...

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Now, listen, I could write a book on this, but I'll just...

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A brief history.

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Okay, I come out of the corporate world.

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I'm corporately trained in behavioral sciences.

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And what happens with that is like self-improvement things, okay?

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What happens is you have to constantly be reinforcing the self-improvement.

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So then I get saved.

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But when I get saved, I realize now we actually have a power of the Holy Spirit and the Word

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of God to bring transformation.

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So what I have found is if you take practical time, task, and activity management where

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you're making good use of your practical times and you have goals, say, I have to do this.

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And I always say, underestimate your goals.

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So many people say, I'm going to do five or six things in one day.

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Listen, just do two or three.

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And then, you know what?

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If you get them done, go for the four and the fifth and you'll feel good.

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But if you have like five or seven and then you only get like six and then you feel bad.

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So a lot of this is managing your emotions.

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But what I have found is, and I can give you an example here a little bit, but if you'll

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take your goal of what you're accomplishing to do, write it out and then put scripture

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to it and then actually pray and start memorizing the scripture that actually reinforces the

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change you want to make, it becomes supernatural.

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And I think that's the difference between me, let's say, than a Tony Robbins or somebody

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that's doing that type of behavioral change.

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Listen, all that positive motivation, Norman Vincent Peale, all that stuff does get results

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to a degree.

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But if you will take practical habits and patterns and then put scripture to it to where

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the two actually are working together, the results, you won't have 8% of the people.

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It's going to up the percentage.

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And I hope people will listen to this podcast and listen to us because this is an opportunity

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for them to really, once you start becoming knowing that you can accomplish whatever God

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puts in front of you and you actually believe it, it changes your self perspective.

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Curtlandry.com forward slash goals 2024.

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You can get your free download, free PDF.

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This is basically what we're really getting into, Rabbi, is your goals to grow for 2024.

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Before we really take this conversation off into what we're going to be talking about

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in identity and figuring out who you are and how you understanding what your identity is,

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is going to help you really accomplish those goals this year for you.

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Let's talk about this podcast, right?

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It's a little bit different type of medium that you've really done before.

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I mean, you've had a podcast for years, but it's a little bit different flow, like the

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style.

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What are you wanting the listeners who jump on board, subscribe to this podcast, and most

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likely watch you on Tuesday nights and Friday nights during Shabbat?

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What's that one little piece of value of saying, hey, subscribe to this podcast?

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Here's the biggest request that I get and the biggest request that I can't fulfill.

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I mean, I just can't do it.

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People will say, I would just like to sit down and talk to you and basically pick your

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brain about this or that.

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With the responsibilities that I have with what I do and my family, I don't have time

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for that.

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You work with me and you know-

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Pretty busy.

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Yeah, because most people my age are slowing down and I'm actually going to be busier the

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next 10 years, not less busy.

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To answer your question is there's nothing more valuable than experience.

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What happens is I've had a lot of experience and I want to be able to impart that experience

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like to you and Morgan.

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I want you to take that experience on to the babies.

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That's really my heart.

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My heart is, listen, I had some really good influencers in my life at key points and I

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want to be able to give back.

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This is one of the ways this podcast is, so to say, let's sit down and have lunch together

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without the food.

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But I think what we're talking about people, listen, I don't think that I have it going

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on or I just know what works for me.

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I think the testimony of our life is good enough that people can say, well, like I tell

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people don't follow anybody that's not where you want to go.

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If they're not where you want to go, then you need to go find some other podcasts.

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Is that kind of like don't take money advice from broke people?

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Yeah.

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It's just-

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Diving into a little bit more, I mean, obviously, that's something I really want to bring in

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to this show is that people kind of know where your heart is for this because you've done

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content and media and live TV for years and years.

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When I came to you with this idea of the podcast and was kind of pitching around the team,

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I wanted a more laid back opportunity for you to really just kind of tell it how it

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is and just have a really easy conversation.

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I know it's my hope and I think it's your hope and the rest of the team that when people

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sit back and listen to this show, that they can kind of get to know you and learn from

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you in a more relaxed, relatable setting than, hey, I got a live notification trigger and

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so I need to jump on and try to see what Rabbi's got going on YouTube right now.

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I hope this media is the type of format where people feel comfortable and confident enough

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to maybe listen to an episode twice if it really helped them.

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Yeah, I do.

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Listen, just to be transparent, what happens is, listen, I'm very blessed to have a studio

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at my house.

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The reason it's kind of random is I'm a Holy Spirit guy and Christy will know it.

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All of a sudden she says, like, you start pacing and you get this weird look on your

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eyes.

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Christy says my eyes change and what happens is what I say is I said, listen, there's something

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bubbling up within me and so what I try to do is I try to go into my space in that office,

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which is a safe space for me and I basically just put the fire hose on and let it fly and

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this isn't that.

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This is like, let's just have a very practical kind of a dial down conversation so they can,

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listen, I'm not in that mode all the time.

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This is who I am sitting here.

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This is what I do.

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And you can ask me anything you want.

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And one of the things, I'll tell you, one of the strengths that the Lord's blessed me

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with is if I don't know something, that's why I can do live television and I'm like

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people see, I remember I went to Daystar and there was a bunch of stuff going on and it

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was, and someone came up and they said, Rabbi, would you pray?

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You seem so calm.

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And that was the comment and I said, well, I didn't realize I seemed so calm.

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And they said, why are you so calm?

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I said, because it's not my show.

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I said, all these people, there's 14 people running around.

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Those are your employees.

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This is not mine.

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I'm just here.

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All you're going to do is ask me questions.

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I'm either going to say, yes, I know, or no, I don't.

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And so, and so I think when people, you know, that's, I want it to be, listen, if you ask

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me a question and I don't have the answer, I can say, I'll think about it.

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We'll do it in the next episode.

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I just want to be able to really impart to people and help them and building trust in

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the ministry.

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Listen, we're not perfect, but we do have, if you're going to follow us, if you look

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at the track record, the ministry is very successful and the other side of it is, and

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I give all the credit to the Lord and my wife, but we're very blessed to have a godly family.

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Our children are active in the Lord, our grandchildren.

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We have, we're blessed with tremendous amount of godly friends.

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I mean, you know, some of our friends and I don't like the name dropping thing, but

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we have really solid friends and we've had them for a long time.

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I mean, if you look at Pastor Tim and Sandy, they've been with us 24 years.

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How many people do you know that actually co-pastor a church and have the same pastor

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24 years?

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I don't know anyone.

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So, so we're very blessed.

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And so what happens is if I can impart little behavioral choices and things that, that would

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help people, we're debt free.

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The ministry is debt free.

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I'm debt free.

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I mean, so like actually what we preach is, I mean, it works.

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We live it.

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Yeah, we live it.

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And so I'm just trying to be able to, if I would like everyone to be able to get there

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and if they can, if what we're sharing on the podcast helps them, I'm, I'm that really,

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that's what, that's the reward for me is that someone's blessed by it.

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Email your questions to podcast at curtlandry.com.

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We'll thumb through them each week as you bring those questions.

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Just make sure that you put in the title on the subject line.

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Hey, this is for the Curt Landry podcast.

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Say hey, say whatever you want to Rabbi.

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We'll, we'll get it in front of them so we can take some of those questions and, and,

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and help you on your spiritual journey in 2024.

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So Rabbi, let's, let's jump back to what we're talking about in this episode about identity

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and figuring that out and how that relates to your goals.

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And so I, I guess the first question really to get us going is, is how difficult, and

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this is a big question, but how difficult initially when you sit down to start a year,

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right?

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Or you start anything new, but you know, I want you to go much deeper in this from like

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a spiritual personal side of it.

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How difficult is it to one, identify your identity, right?

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And two, how do you activate that?

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Because I feel like you got to start there before we start talking about goals and about

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different things that you want to accomplish in your life.

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Yeah, Darrell, that's a great question.

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So if you go in my goals to grow by on page 11, it says your personal strategy for his

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kingdom.

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And the question is this, what do I need, and this kind of answers your question, what

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do I need to shift my mind away from so I can seek first the kingdom of God?

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So what is it that I need to shift my mind?

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Now, I, you know, a lot of times, listen, this is one of the struggles I've had inside,

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let's say the Christian world, is the Christian world and the business world, and I'm in both

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worlds, but the Christian world sometimes has a little bit of difficulty with the mind

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stuff.

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So if you start going into any kind of mind transformation or mind development, then it's

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like, oh my gosh, this is witchcraft, this is this and that.

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And I'll just tell you right now, it's not.

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Let me put you into a situation, okay?

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You work for a guy for 40 years, the guy is the greatest leader, everybody likes him.

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And then all of a sudden, suddenly he dies.

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And he dies when the goal, the goal for the whole company for all these years was to go

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to this place called the promised land.

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Right before you get to the promised land, the boss, Moses, is gone.

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And so now, what's the first thing the Spirit of God says to this young Joshua?

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He says, as I was with Moses, so I am with you.

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And so he says, well, that's great.

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How do I ask now?

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Now I am Joshua CEO, I'm not Joshua, the vice president, I'm CEO.

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How do I get that mind set?

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And what does he say to him?

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He says, meditate, which is a mental, meditate on the word of God, right?

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Day and night, that you might be of great success.

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So the first thing you have to do is you have to make a decision.

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And this is a choice, it's just a choice.

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You need to say to the Lord, and you can do it right now.

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And you can say, Lord, I want your mind and your influence because the scripture says,

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let this mind be in you, that's in Christ Jesus.

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You have to let it.

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That's what I'm saying.

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And ask the Lord to give you his mind for your life.

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Lord, what did you create me for?

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You have to start the process of asking.

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And Darrell, what will happen is if you'll ask, then what's going to happen is you're

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going to start reading stuff in scripture and devotionals, you're going to maybe even

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hear a podcast like this.

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And all of a sudden, you're going to go, oh my gosh, this is what he's got in mind for

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me.

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And what happens is dream goals will start to come.

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And what you're going to find out is your dream goals and your passion are connected

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to the gifts that God has put in you, the nine spiritual gifts, whatever.

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Let's say you have five of the nine.

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It doesn't make any difference.

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But it starts in shifting your mind to say, I want God's will for my life, not mine, where

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there's actually a surrender, like, okay, I'm going to quit striving and I want to do

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what God has created me for.

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Curtlandry.com forward slash grow 2024.

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That's how you're going to get your free goals to grow download.

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That's what we're going by.

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So Rabbi, you've kind of broken down that first layer.

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So let's pull back another one.

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Okay, let's go to what's the next thing.

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So I figured out identity purpose a little bit.

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I got a lot of things that I actually want to accomplish.

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how to get over the hump.

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So what's that next layer of identity and goals?

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Okay, so let's break it down into so that you can understand, people understand.

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Let's break it down to either there's people who tried to start their own business or have

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no people who have entrepreneurially started businesses and failed.

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And so I'm going to give you my 40 plus years experience in business.

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Here's the thing is you get the mind of the Lord, okay, Lord, you have me to do this business.

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Okay, and I'm just using that example, then you have to have your heart.

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Your heart has to be in it, because there has to be passion, because passion is that

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hidden energy that actually causes you to succeed.

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But then you have to have practical goals of how am I going to have time, task and activity.

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But I'm going to give you the mystery.

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The mystery to success is you have to have the character, the value system and the integrity

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spiritually to be able to drink from the Lord's blessing cup.

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And we'll be right back.

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It's a new year and a new you.

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Have you ever wondered how to stay consistent with growing spiritually, but also winning

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and achieving your goals you have for yourself this year?

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I'll help answer questions like where do I start?

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How do I walk in the spirit?

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Or how do I do spiritual warfare?

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Meaning that Matthew 633 positions us for success in this year ahead.

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That seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all other things will

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be added on to us.

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The fruit of the Spirit is evident in His covenant.

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Know this, that if you can establish His covenant in your heart and in your mind, you will be

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successful this coming year.

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So get your free download for Goals to Grow 2024 by visiting curtlandry.com forward slash

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grow 2024 or visit the show notes in this episode.

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And now back to the show.

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I'm going to say it again.

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You have to have the behavior, the values and the character.

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So if you go to like Romans 12 verses 9 through 21, and I'm not going to read all of it, but

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it says, let love be without hypocrisy, abhor what is evil and cling to what is good.

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So and it goes down all the way down to 21 and it says, do not be overcome by evil, but

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overcome evil with good.

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So here's the key is if you want the Lord to bless your, I'm just using an example,

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your business or whatever your assignment is, then you have to choose to say, I'm not

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only going to have the mind and the heart and the attitude and the plan for God, but

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I'm actually going to stay within the behavioral boundaries of saying, you know what?

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I'm good at getting angry.

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I'd like to get that guy lied.

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They cheated.

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They stole from me.

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If you're going to go into business, all that's going to happen and whether the business is

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in the church or out of the church, there's lying, cheater, stealers everywhere.

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But what you're going to say is, okay, when it happens, how do I respond?

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And if you read Romans 12 and example nine through 21, then what happens is you're going

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to have to respond with forgiveness and then let the vengeance be the Lord's and then you

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have to move on.

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So you have to forgive.

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Since you've been with us, we had a situation with betrayal and a betrayal thing came and

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you watched it.

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You know, we could have gone into taking it into our own hands or we could forgive, keep

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our hearts right and move on.

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And you can see we have recovered from a pretty sizable.

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Pretty well.

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Yeah.

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I mean, but see, we followed these principles, but see, these principles were in my heart

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since the nineties.

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And so what happened is it's like, so, but listen, did I have thoughts when that was

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going down?

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Yeah, I had thoughts.

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I'm just a man.

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I'm just a person.

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Well, I did.

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I get mad, angry.

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Yes.

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But the choice is here's what happens is if you think about it, okay, let's, let's just

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imagine right here on this table.

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Let's say I have seed, I have golden seed and each one of those golden seeds are going

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to be watered and, and they're going to grow.

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And so what happens is let's say there's a hundred golden seeds in front of you.

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Now if I choose to get angry and I want to be vengeful, I'm going to get them.

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I'm going to get, I'm going to call, you know, you know, I've got an attorney and you know,

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I can call my attorney and we're going to get after them.

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So what that is, if you do that, you've got the hundred seeds on here.

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That anger outburst of that Satan kind of, so this not, it's just an example.

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Satan comes as the accuser of the brethren says, all right, give me 25 of those seeds

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right now.

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Because what happens is the sin of that anger takes it.

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It doesn't hurt the person I'm upset with.

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What it does is it steals my blessing.

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So when it says in the Galatians of the fruit of the spirit, self-control, if I choose,

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listen, I feel the anger.

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I want to engage in the anger.

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I want to have, and you're trained here.

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I want to have that 18% moment.

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See that 18% moment is determined.

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If you don't have an 18% moment is because you choose self-control.

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And what happens in the spirit is you, you, you maintain the 25.

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And to be honest with you, my experience has been if the Lord, if I have a hundred golden

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seeds on the table, if I make a good choice, many times the Lord will just dump another

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50 golden seeds on me and just say, what the heck you did so good.

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Here's the blessing.

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I'm serious.

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It's just like, it just, I'm telling you, it works like this.

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And then, and, but you'll never see me.

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I won't defend myself.

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I'm not fighting against people.

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And listen, you work here.

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We get, I get accused of everything.

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I mean, I'm so blessed that some opposition in Israel, we made it to the front page, not

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the front page, but anyway, to the Jerusalem post my whole life.

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Listen, I'm a Jewish guy, a humanitarian aid.

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And I've always wanted to be in the Jerusalem post, but I finally made it.

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But how did I make it by some, you know, mean people in Israel that don't like it because

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we're outperforming them.

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And it says, Curt Landry ministries were right there in the first, we had the word count

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and blah, blah, blah.

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They actually accused us of everything.

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It was like my mother came from heaven and said, and look what Curtis is doing.

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They dispelled it out.

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Only it was hateful.

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I'm sitting over there.

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I read it.

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I'm there.

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I'm going, I looked at Christie and I said, we made it.

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We're in the Jerusalem post.

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It's a blessing.

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Yeah, it is a blessing.

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I'm serious.

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I'm so excited about it.

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But see, that's because if you'll do the 12, you know, this attitude, you build it over

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years.

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And what you realize is your attitude and your behavior when bad things happen are going

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to determine your future.

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All right.

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So let's say that people listening have downloaded their free guide, right?

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And they're working through it.

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And like, let's say it's a couple months from now, okay, or people last year in the 2023

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version of this download and they figure out identity, right?

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They figure out their goals from things that they want to accomplish.

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I mean, this might be too simple of a question, but I mean, it's something that I think about

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is that when you pray and accomplish things, how difficult is it sometimes to maybe slow

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down to where you can actually recognize that you've achieved the goal?

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Oh, man, you're asking the wrong guy for this.

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Yeah, no, this, yeah, you'd have to ask Christy or something.

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Yeah, I'm not good at this.

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Okay, so I actually, and this is hard.

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I'm not trying to separate myself from the people, but I know who I am, my identity.

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I'm a voice.

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My purpose is to be that voice for Israel, and I know it's going to cost me everything.

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Okay, so I made that decision like in 92.

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So what happens is what I do, I would do even if I didn't get paid to do it.

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I'm blessed.

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I live on a golf course and I have a lake in the back.

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And so my friends come and they say, well, do you play golf?

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I say, no.

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Do you have a boat?

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No.

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It's just I like the space.

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It's where the Lord put me and it's a good investment property and I love living there.

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But I don't do any of the things.

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What do I do?

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I sit in my office and I do teaching like this because that's what I love to do.

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First of all, I'm fairly good at teaching and preaching and ministering.

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I stink at golf and when I fish, I always like pull the, I jerk the line and I'm too

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slow.

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So it's like, why would I want to do something I'm bad at when I'm actually learning?

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I look at ministry and communication like a doctor.

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I'm in practice and I hope that the last message I preach will be my best.

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It's a constant growing.

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But the point is my passion is I love to do it.

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But the question is this, why do I love to do it?

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Because God has blessed me.

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Just people don't realize, but listen, there's no logical reason for me to be sitting here.

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I know God did it.

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So those who have been given much, the Lord requires much.

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So we just got done taking care of 500 orphans in Nairobi, Kenya.

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And so I did a little interview with them on the Zoom.

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And of course they always ask, well, why are you doing this?

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Well, that was me.

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I was an orphan.

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So a lot of people have an orphan spirit.

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What I mean by that is you may not be a physical orphan, but spiritually, you don't really

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feel connected with God.

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You don't feel blessed.

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You're in debt.

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You're battling.

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You're fighting.

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The reason I'm doing this podcast is if I can encourage you to take baby steps, crawl,

466
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:49,880
walk, run into adopting biblical principles and values and govern your life by seeking

467
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,440
first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all other things come on you.

468
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:57,920
If I can encourage you just today, take that one step.

469
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,160
Don't worry about tomorrow.

470
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:06,800
Don't do not, and this is what I spoke to the orphan children.

471
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:12,360
You do not let your past dictate your future.

472
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:13,360
So what?

473
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:14,920
You're an orphan.

474
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,600
I was an orphan.

475
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,360
I'm not anymore.

476
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:22,200
I'm a king's kid, and that's what I want people to do.

477
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,480
I want their identity and their purpose to be at peace.

478
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:30,840
I want to give away in the Spirit what the Lord has blessed me with because that's a

479
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,520
natural cycle of the love.

480
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,640
The love of the Father is this.

481
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:41,860
I was reading a Reinhard Bonnke, tremendous evangelist in Africa and all over the world,

482
00:30:41,860 --> 00:30:45,560
but one of the things he said, and it was so wise, is this.

483
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:52,680
He said, the Lord is not going to send you finance until you need it.

484
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:59,340
But the thing is, biblically, you're not going to put a demand on the courts of heaven for

485
00:30:59,340 --> 00:31:02,440
finance until you start doing what God asks you to do.

486
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,720
So there always has to be that faith step.

487
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,200
So you take the step first, because a lot of times people wait and say, well, I'll pray,

488
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,920
and then when I get this money, I'll do this.

489
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:12,200
I've heard that a long time.

490
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:13,200
It's never worked for me.

491
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:14,520
What happens with me is I've always...

492
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:15,680
It hasn't worked, has it?

493
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,160
No, no, I just have to...

494
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,200
You see what we do here.

495
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,520
We just do it.

496
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,680
And so, you have to take that step.

497
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:30,520
So if you can get into a place where you know that God loves you, He's not trying to hurt

498
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:35,200
you, every good and perfect gift comes from above, you're His child, you're His child

499
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,440
because He chose you, not because how good you are.

500
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:44,120
I'm not talking about having good Christian behavior because you're to be accepted.

501
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,040
I'm talking about having good Christian behavior to protect your dreams, your goals, and your

502
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,280
desires, because sin is death.

503
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:56,000
And so, what happens is if every time you sin, then you're gonna have to fight and try

504
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,540
to correct the situations that came because of the sin.

505
00:32:00,540 --> 00:32:05,320
So it's just better like what I talked about with the golden seeds.

506
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:11,880
If you can control yourself and not do the stupid stuff, you have less cleanup.

507
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,560
I guess more of a personal question, maybe...

508
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:15,560
I don't know.

509
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:20,480
I mean, like maybe it's not, or maybe you've never even thought about it, but can you think

510
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:28,720
back to maybe like that first moment or that first part of your life when you're back in

511
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,120
ministry, you've started House of David, right?

512
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,160
And you started Curt Landry Ministries.

513
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:41,760
And can you remember the first time maybe you got that call or that connection or...

514
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:48,840
You got a thumbs up that it was successful, that a project for orphans in Israel was a

515
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:49,840
success.

516
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:57,480
Can you remember the story or the emotion of like from a personal identity to a goal

517
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,800
setting to achieving?

518
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,040
Can you remember that time?

519
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,120
Well, oh yeah, it's very distinct.

520
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:10,740
We were in our girl's safe house in Jerusalem.

521
00:33:10,740 --> 00:33:16,020
And so we were there with Christy and I, and we had some friends with us.

522
00:33:16,020 --> 00:33:18,480
And it was our first time in the girl's safe house.

523
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,960
So this would have been probably maybe eight or 10 years ago.

524
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:32,560
And one of the girls was there and she basically just said, and it was so real, but it was

525
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,780
what was coming out of her.

526
00:33:34,780 --> 00:33:37,400
And I can still see her face right now.

527
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:49,080
She said, if it wasn't for this Bridge to Independence program, I would have been dead.

528
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:50,620
And she didn't have to say it.

529
00:33:50,620 --> 00:33:56,120
We knew that she would have taken her own life because what was happening, what was

530
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,980
so horrible in her life.

531
00:33:59,980 --> 00:34:03,960
And the way the Bridge to Independence works is at 18, they come out of the El Adim, our

532
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,720
children's program.

533
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:10,620
And the reason we started years ago, Bridge to Independence, is because from 19 to 24,

534
00:34:10,620 --> 00:34:15,440
we realized that's when you need the most parenting and making those choices.

535
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:21,240
And so what she was saying, I can still see her, just beautiful young lady, really tiny.

536
00:34:21,240 --> 00:34:22,400
I called her Mighty Mouse.

537
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:23,820
She was a Mighty Mouse.

538
00:34:23,820 --> 00:34:25,280
She's very successful now.

539
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:26,780
She's a businesswoman.

540
00:34:26,780 --> 00:34:29,080
She's killing it.

541
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:33,300
But she was probably about 18 at this time, 19-ish, somewhere.

542
00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:35,400
She was just new into the program.

543
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:41,680
And basically what she said, if you didn't provide this, I was going to take my life.

544
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:47,440
I thought, wow, that's why we do this.

545
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,440
That's different, isn't it?

546
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:50,440
Yeah.

547
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:54,240
Well, we had some of the elders from House of David with us.

548
00:34:54,240 --> 00:34:57,720
And literally, I can see some of their faces.

549
00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:06,640
And even one of the men that was with us is their family has foster kids and bring kids

550
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:12,400
in their house, kind of like you and Morgan, that have that heart too.

551
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,680
And they just broke when she said it.

552
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,960
It was like, OK.

553
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:18,880
And the thing that was great about it, no cameras.

554
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,240
This is back in the day when they wouldn't allow us to go in the house and film like

555
00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:23,880
we did when you were there.

556
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:31,440
But that kind of cemented it for me where I realized, OK, our ministry, our lives, and

557
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,960
what we're doing is successful and it's making a difference.

558
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:36,140
And it's not about numbers.

559
00:35:36,140 --> 00:35:39,560
It's not about how much money we raised.

560
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:47,480
This one girl, to hear that, it was like it was worth it.

561
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:55,040
I guess as we get close to wrapping up this episode, I guess really two questions.

562
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,920
The second one's pretty easy to kind of transition us out.

563
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:05,680
But the first one, just to kind of wrap up that emotion and that transition point in

564
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:10,880
your personal life and within the ministry, kind of what people know, Curl Andrew Ministries

565
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:20,200
now, did that moment, did that feeling, that emotion, that accomplishment in identity to

566
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:28,480
goals to getting a successful thumbs up right on something that you went out to go do, how

567
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:36,360
did that pivot and move your calling in the direction that it is now?

568
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:42,080
I mean, being able to recognize that win and that goal.

569
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:48,280
Well, one of the things I've observed is that you really go through four seasons.

570
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:49,560
Maybe some people go through more.

571
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:56,080
But my observation is there's four seasons that you go in your identity.

572
00:36:56,080 --> 00:37:03,120
And it really comes from a birthing to a service to a maturing and then an impartation.

573
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:04,960
And so I'm in the impartation stage.

574
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,160
That's why I'm sitting here.

575
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:13,360
So when you're in the impartation stage and you're older, and I'm a baby boomer, so you're

576
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:18,480
in that stage, what happens is we had a real encounter.

577
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:30,020
We were in a very secret military base this last time we were in Israel during the war.

578
00:37:30,020 --> 00:37:33,000
And no civilians are supposed to be there.

579
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:39,800
And they invited us in and we had 250 young soldiers that were there.

580
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,800
We barbecued and fixed dinner for them.

581
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,260
Anyway, we're all in the dining hall there.

582
00:37:46,260 --> 00:37:51,000
And as we're in the dining hall, I didn't say nothing.

583
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,000
I was just there.

584
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:56,180
They said, would you share with us?

585
00:37:56,180 --> 00:38:07,040
And so here's all these different Israeli men and women, some full time, some reserves.

586
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:11,920
So if there's a reserve, like one of the guys they went dinner across from me was a doctor.

587
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,600
Another one was a lawyer, but they're in the reserves.

588
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:19,640
But they asked, see, this was the thing is they, since I'm in the fourth season, they

589
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:20,640
sense it.

590
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,480
It's kind of like what this podcast is.

591
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,460
They said, would you share something with us?

592
00:38:25,460 --> 00:38:28,240
And this is what I shared.

593
00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:34,680
I said, you need to understand that the world hates you.

594
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:39,000
We're Jews and that's never going to change.

595
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,600
Anti-Semitism, we battle it, but it's never going away.

596
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,780
When your God's chosen, the enemy hates you.

597
00:38:46,780 --> 00:38:50,880
And if I could impart that to the church, because Jesus told us that they were going

598
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,200
to hate us, whether we're Jew or Gentile, because of Him.

599
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,920
When you walk in the truth and you carry the Holy Spirit, the darkness hates you.

600
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,940
So anyway, these soldiers are there and they're not saved.

601
00:39:00,940 --> 00:39:03,160
These are some of religious, some not.

602
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:04,580
They're all over the place.

603
00:39:04,580 --> 00:39:07,760
But what I told them, I said, you need to realize that the world hates you.

604
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,580
And you think, no, this is a great speech.

605
00:39:10,580 --> 00:39:14,680
And I said, and the reason the world hates you is because God loves you.

606
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:20,000
And I said, you're like no other military or first responders.

607
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,820
You're like nobody else in the world.

608
00:39:21,820 --> 00:39:26,260
You're not like the soldiers in the US or the armies in Europe.

609
00:39:26,260 --> 00:39:27,480
You are the IDF.

610
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,560
You are the men and women of God.

611
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,280
And what you've been called to do is you're the watchman on the wall.

612
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,440
In Hebrew, you're the nozzanim.

613
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:42,620
You are the watchmen who are actually performing, protecting, and building Bible prophecy according

614
00:39:42,620 --> 00:39:44,400
to the Bible.

615
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:49,320
You're not only performing it and protecting it, but you're the Nehemiah.

616
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,780
You're actually rebuilding the wall.

617
00:39:51,780 --> 00:39:54,440
And God has empowered you to do that.

618
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,800
And don't listen to what, and I just told them, I said, don't listen to it.

619
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,080
I went through different networks.

620
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,980
It doesn't matter what the woke media says about you.

621
00:40:02,980 --> 00:40:07,880
I'm coming to tell you that there is a remnant and those who love the God of Abraham, Isaac,

622
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,980
and Jacob, and those who have been grafted in through Jesus Christ, they love you.

623
00:40:11,980 --> 00:40:12,980
They support you.

624
00:40:12,980 --> 00:40:20,760
They pray for you, and they understand that your identity is that you are modern day warriors

625
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:26,200
like King David protecting God's integrity because God is not a man.

626
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,280
He should lie.

627
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:35,720
They literally, Darrell, 250 of them stood to their feet and started screaming, just

628
00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:38,800
yeah, yeah, like that.

629
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,540
And then they got done and they said, could we bless you?

630
00:40:41,540 --> 00:40:46,880
And then one of the ones, this like a rabbi guy, he comes up and he prays the Aaronic

631
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:52,160
ben Ediction over me, you know, the Echacharimai, and he asked me, he says, do you know what

632
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:53,160
that is?

633
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,340
I said, yes, I know what that is.

634
00:40:55,340 --> 00:41:04,680
And it was so awesome to see that I spoke into, you're not, it's okay that you're hated.

635
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,160
This is your job.

636
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:07,720
You're God's chosen people.

637
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:12,360
Now listen, this whole speech probably took 10 minutes and it changed their lives and

638
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:13,640
they just loved it.

639
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:17,200
And so that's what this season of time is for me.

640
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:22,680
And if you're going to follow us on this podcast, I'm in that season of, I want to impart to

641
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:29,840
you your identity because I know this, your identity changes over time with Christ.

642
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,200
It always improves.

643
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:37,260
But if you know who you are in him, it's Christ in you that's your hope and glory.

644
00:41:37,260 --> 00:41:41,340
If you know that you can do all things through him because he gives you strength.

645
00:41:41,340 --> 00:41:44,880
If you know that he gives you wealth because he's trying to establish his covenant promise

646
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:53,100
with you and his desire is that you prosper and he adds no sorrow to it.

647
00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:54,360
That's your father.

648
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,520
That's what I want to impart to them.

649
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:57,520
Life is not easy.

650
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:03,200
My life's not easy and it's not perfect, but it's a good life.

651
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:09,360
Okay, man.

652
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:15,440
So just touching real quick before we get out of here is that moment when everybody

653
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:22,040
was going nuts and just cheering, you know, I mean like, what was that like for you?

654
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:26,520
I mean, obviously you, you, you gave me a little bit of reaction of what other people

655
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:34,840
had, but you know, like when you say that and, and you, you just break it down biblically

656
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:40,400
on how, you know, the enemy is going to hate God's people, right?

657
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:49,920
It's, it's pretty simple, you know, is it, um, was it, what did it feel like when you're

658
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:57,040
in that moment of, of confirmation of preaching something that is very simple and it should

659
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,600
be understood, but, but it's not.

660
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:05,880
And, and, and having that moment with these, with these people that it was life-changing

661
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:12,760
for them, that for, for them to hear the message broken down so simple, that gave them so much

662
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,040
encouragement, what was that like for you personally?

663
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:21,080
And like, what was the feeling in your body as it was going on, if you can remember?

664
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:28,480
Well biblically, uh, I, I can't say where I was located, but there, um, I'll just say

665
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:36,280
this, this area is where Joshua actually came in and took the promised land, the actual

666
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,920
area.

667
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:47,040
And I literally felt like Joshua rallying the troops saying, you know what, we can take

668
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:48,040
this land.

669
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,400
I mean, that's, that's how I felt.

670
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:55,920
And of course I look over and you know, there's my wife and she knows where we're standing

671
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,920
and the location and the time and the soldiers.

672
00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:03,080
And of course she's such a nana and a mama to them.

673
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,040
You know, she's hugging all of them.

674
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:10,000
But while I'm actually get up speaking, she is literally sitting over there, travailing,

675
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:11,440
shaking, crying.

676
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:17,080
One of the soldiers goes over and puts his arm around her and she's just broken because

677
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:25,760
spiritually she goes, oh my gosh, we're preparing Israel to be able to take where we're at this

678
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,580
land and these soldiers.

679
00:44:28,580 --> 00:44:32,280
And literally when we got done speaking to them, this was late at night, they literally

680
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,560
went out on night patrols and do what they do.

681
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,800
So I mean, it was like, it was surreal.

682
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,640
I felt, it felt biblical.

683
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:45,480
I mean, listen, it changed us.

684
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:49,320
Our, you know, people have asked me and I'll switch gears about identity.

685
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:50,320
Okay.

686
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,920
You have one identity, but then you can have an experience.

687
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:57,660
So what happened with Christie and I, and I don't recommend, we're called to do this,

688
00:44:57,660 --> 00:45:06,320
but when we went down to the South and we went to the different kibbutzins that have

689
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:16,680
been attacked and ravaged, it changed us.

690
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,680
You can't unsee it.

691
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:20,000
You can't unsmell it.

692
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,440
You can't hear it.

693
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,520
You can't unfeel it.

694
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,440
But you asked the Lord, why?

695
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:30,280
I said, Lord, why did you bring us down here to see this?

696
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:36,240
And the Lord said, you can't fight what you can't see.

697
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You need to see.

698
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:41,160
And so the scripture when John 10, 10, which I've quoted for years, and it says, and Jesus

699
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:46,920
came to bring life, life more abundantly, but Satan has come to kill, steal and destroy.

700
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:52,440
That's that my identity with what Satan does to kill, steal and destroy.

701
00:45:52,440 --> 00:46:02,080
I never understood it until I was at kibbutzgavar and I was standing in the middle of probably

702
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:15,200
the most monstrous human behavior on earth and interviewing people who survived it.

703
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:19,080
But you can't fight the enemy unless you know the enemy.

704
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:23,240
And you can't fight the enemy unless you know who you are.

705
00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:30,520
See, the thing is, to the listeners, you're going to have some wars, nothing like that,

706
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,520
hopefully, but you're going to have to face some things.

707
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:38,640
And what happens is you need to realize that mightier the he that's in you.

708
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,320
He called you.

709
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,880
He knew this war was coming on October 7th.

710
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,800
He knows what you're facing, let's say on May the 21st, whatever.

711
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:49,760
He knows that.

712
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:55,180
And here's the key is if he knows the storms are coming and if you'll take the simple instruction

713
00:46:55,180 --> 00:46:59,960
and build your house, your spiritual life upon the rock and not the sand, when the storm

714
00:46:59,960 --> 00:47:05,880
comes, he knows you may suffer some damage, but your house will still be standing and

715
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,440
you'll finish and you'll finish well.

716
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:15,380
Well if you made it to the deep end of this episode, we sure really appreciate you sticking

717
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with us.

718
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Again, you can get your free download by going to curtlandry.com forward slash goals 2024.

719
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:29,320
Also if you have questions, you want to put a statement in or you just want to say, hey,

720
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you can send us an email at podcast at curtlandry.com.

721
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:36,560
Again, that's podcast at curtlandry.com.

722
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:41,680
Every single link, everything that we've talked about, of course, we'll link it in the description

723
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of this episode.

724
00:47:43,240 --> 00:47:46,240
Well, Rabbi, it was a pleasure.

725
00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:51,880
Next time we come back out, we're talking about dreams and about achieving your goals.

726
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But until then, it was fun and I hope you have a good one.

727
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:57,400
All right.

728
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Thanks for watching.