Live Unconquered, with Adam Davis (Ep. 232)

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Welcome to A Word in Season with Doug Stringer and friends. We share good news

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and godly wisdom to empower you to be salt in light in every season of life. As

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a former law enforcement officer, Adam Davis brings a unique perspective to

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resilience and adversity. Join Adam and host Doug Stringer as they share how

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surrendering to Jesus can lead to an unconquered and abundant life. After the

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episode, consider leaving a review and follow us on your favorite streaming

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with a gift at somebody cares dot o R G. Now let's join our host Doug Stringer.

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I'm really excited today to have Adam Davis with us. We've gotten to know each

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other the last couple of years quite a bit. Of course, I've knew of him. One of

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the publishers that I've been working with has been so gracious with us. And

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many of you have been the beneficiaries of that as we've gotten quite a few of

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the behind the badge devotions for law enforcement that Adam Davis had

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put together along with other devotions for first responders and military. Some

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amazing resources. And I'll share some of those in a bit. Adam is the author

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of the popular behind the badge law enforcement devotionals and other

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devotionals for first responders and military personnel. He is an acclaimed

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author, speaker and leader in the field of wellness, faith based trauma, healing

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and leadership development. His story of overcoming complex trauma himself and

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personal challenges has been widely praised by major media outlets such as

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entrepreneur magazine, Fox news, Huffington post, police one dot com, law

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enforcement today and many others. In fact, he's been on so many different

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networks. He's been on the blaze radio network, Rick and Bubba show. He's been

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on the 700 club family life today. The Glenn Beck program team never quit

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podcasts with Marcus Luttrell and many others. Of course, Marcus and Morgan

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Luttrell are right up the road from us here. And in fact, I did the forward to

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Bo Walsh's book and Bo was the Navy SEAL that recruited Marcus and Morgan

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Luttrell. So we have a lot of mutual friends as well. But Adam is not only an

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acclaimed author and speaker, he has the authenticity of a desire to see

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people's lives healed, especially in the area of first responders and law

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enforcement. But so many others have been the beneficiary of his message and

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ministry, as well as a person who has a passion and love for God. Adam, I wanted

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you to share a little bit about your story, your journey. Of course, we know

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you because of these behind the badge, law enforcement devotions that go like

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hotcakes everywhere I go across the country. I've seen people who aren't even

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believers in the Lord. They look at this, the feel of it feels like it's law

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enforcement, they peruse it, and they begin to read it because it really

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helps them to begin to start their shift by reading their devotion for the day.

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And then you've done one also with Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman on

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spiritual conduct 30 missions for victorious warfare. Amazing resource that

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people are loving. And of course, here's one that I found that a lot of law

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enforcement really love and military called bulletproof marriage. Oh, yeah. And

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that's a 90 day devotional that you did. Another one we used in, they went quite

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well during the fires in Maui. A lot of the first responders in law enforcement

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really loved these prayers and promises for first responders. And so we were able

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to get those out there as well. We become one of your biggest distributors and

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fans.

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I'm so grateful.

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It's such a tool. But Adam, tell us a little bit about your story. First of

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all, you were in law enforcement. How'd you get involved in doing what you're

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doing now?

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I look at hard facts and hard numbers. And to this point, I can tell you that at

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a bare minimum, not counting avenues like interviews like this podcast, TV,

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radio, speaking engagements, just through book sales alone, we've had the

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privilege and honor to touch more than 170,000 lives since May of 2018. And the

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majority of those being first responders and military. But my story didn't start

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there. It started as a little boy whose parents divorced. I was around five

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years old. I'm going to make this really fast. So just roll with me. And they left

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me with an older male neighbor, made sure I was fed, got to watch the good

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cartoons, loony tunes. I always like to say that was a good cartoon. And then

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one day he put a VHS tape into a VCR. It was pornography. And so that was my

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first encounter experience exposure, whatever you want to call it, to

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pornography. And it wasn't long after that, he began to do things to me that we

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were seeing on this TV screen. And I have vivid memories of those things. It

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doesn't affect me emotionally, mentally, spiritually, like it used to, because he

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has healed me. It took a long time to get to that point. But that lasted for a

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while. It wasn't just a one and done experience. Again, it would happen about

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10 years later. My mother remarried, she were married a Pentecostal preacher. So

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I always jokingly say in my in my live events when I'm blessed to do that, it

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felt like we were going to church 12 or 13 days a week, because we were there all

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the time. And I learned a lot. But there was a leader in the church, she was

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married in her 30s with children. And so I was left with her for her to babysit

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me. And so she would go from leading worship in the church to making me

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strawberry daiquiris with Bacardi. And then it turned into a sexual

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relationship. And there was so much manipulation and deception and grooming

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that went into that. And it's taken me decades to unravel all that. And to see

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where all that was taking place. And then that would end when I was about 16

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years old. And I got married at 18. And this past Saturday, the 16th of September,

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we celebrated 23 years together. And to God be the glory for that. So I got

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married, our first child will come along in early 2004. And I recognized that

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there was something really off inside of me, like I had this deep, deep longing

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to be a good father. And I wanted to be a good father to my children or to my

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son at the time. But there was something off and what it was, and I didn't know

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it at the time was it was unforgiveness. It was really a lot of hate for all the

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people that had hurt me and allowed that to take place. So I began the journey

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of forgiveness then. What I found was between the time I got married at 18,

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until I got into law enforcement, I was very unstable and unsettled because I

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was seeking fulfillment a lot of different things. So I got into law

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enforcement 2009, served in night shift patrol, day shift patrol, traffic

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homicide, criminal investigations, was trained as a hostage negotiator, work

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criminal intelligence was an intelligence liaison and analyst.

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Somewhere in that journey, when I had felt like I going in, I felt like man,

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I've got this, I'm reading my Bible, I'm going to church, you know, I'm checking

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the boxes. And I was checking boxes, but the things that I saw and dealt with in

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law enforcement alone, for some are bad enough. But what it did was just

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amplify the brokenness that already existed. So I started drinking, drinking

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was a great way for me at the time in my mind to numb what hurt. And until the

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point where I just became emotionally numb in general, and seared conscious, I

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like to say that I was a good cop. I was probably really hard and really, really

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tough. If you saw me then and knew me then, you probably wouldn't even like me

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now because of who I was. And I was unfaithful to my wife. I was a drunkard,

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alcoholic, had a bad case of victim mentality. And I got to the place one

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day, I came home and took off my gear and sat down in a recliner stared at a blank

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TV. And my wife and I ended up having an argument. I wound up leaving, stayed in

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a portable office building. And on a Sunday morning, when everybody was gone

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to church, and I was living in my little portable building, got my uniform on and

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got in my patrol car, and went to work and pulled my car into a parking lot of

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an old abandoned gas station, pulled out my sidearm with every intention of

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ending my life. What nobody knew until that point was the number of times I had

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thought about doing that. Because I was tired of hurting, I was tired of pain.

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And fear and guilt and shame had had such a strong hold on me from a young age. And

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so I'd heard sermons. But I needed somebody to tell me how to be set free.

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Somebody to show me that there was a better way a way of healing and a way of

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restoration, instead of pretending this junk didn't exist. You know, I don't care

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about religion, I don't want your religion. Give me Jesus, because Jesus set me

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free. Whenever I called out to God in the patrol car, and I was a very angry, hate

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filled person. And I called out to God in a patrol car. And I said, I don't know

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where you are. I don't know if you can hear me. But if you have a plan or a

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purpose for my life, you can have it. Otherwise, I am done. And it was just

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that matter of fact, it was probably a lot louder than that. But it was that

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matter of fact, Doug, I have tried since 2015. I have written blogs, op eds, books,

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and a number of things that have never been published, roughly six and a half

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million words in about eight years. I have tried to convey the peace that I

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felt in a car that day, and I will never be able to adequately convey what this

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piece feels like you have to experience it for yourself. And when I called on the

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name of God, he met me in a patrol car. I have been in church services where the

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power of God was so real. But he met me right where I was that day. And he

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redeemed me he began a process of healing and restoration. Now I had some

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things I had to do. I had to take accountability and own up to what I had

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done and God restored my marriage. But then he called me to do something a

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little different. And so here we are, I left law enforcement the fall of 2015

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were nine books later, more than 170,000 lives touched that I can count. And I

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can't even count that high. It's just because people tell me that on paper

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from the publishers. I'm so grateful for these opportunities that I have a way to

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to give my Father in heaven glory to bring him honor and hopefully continue to

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to touch other lives with the testimony to give me through the gift he's blessed

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me with.

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That's awesome, Adam. So I've watched some of your interactions and as you've

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been doing quite a few interviews across the country, and you're in New York and

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other places and you know, it seems like you and your wife are doing well. I'm

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sure she's happy to have a new man.

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Yes.

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And now how many kids do you have?

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We have three. Yeah, my oldest son now works with me full time. And so he helps

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in every work that we're doing. And then my daughter or our daughter is she's a

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senior getting ready to graduate next year and looking at going off to college,

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which Lord help me strengthen me, give me wisdom. And then my youngest son, 14

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years old, he's a hard working great he is a sheepdog. He's got a sheepdog spirit

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about him. And he loves to he is a protector by nature. So I'm trying to

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nurture that spirit in him and nurture the each of them differently. But, you

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know, and I still I don't want you to think about for a moment that I have it

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all together that I'm perfect or I've got it figured out. I have to surrender

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every single day to Jesus. I have to surrender to him every day. But our

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marriage is by far a billion times better than what it was then. And I have

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grown a lot in wisdom because of my experiences. And I'm blessed because I

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have a God that saw fit to fight for me and that I was worth healing and so

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three children, 23 years together and October 1 marks eight years doing this

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full time. So you wrote and published something called unconquered. And it's a

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book. In fact, we just ordered a case of those ourselves because I want to get

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those in the hands of some law enforcement. We have a friend who's a

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psychologist and has a counseling center. I had been in the military. It was a

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part of 9-11 helping a lot of the PTSD and trauma for first responders in New

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York City. And we just quoted him recently because they have over 1800

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people on a waiting list for counseling just through their center. And that just

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goes to show the incredible need, especially when you're talking about

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military and first responders, law enforcement. It's hard to find people you

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can trust. And I would say that's probably true for a lot of pastors too. So tell

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us a little bit about your interactions there because obviously your devotions

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have opened up a lot of opportunity for you to have one-on-one confidential

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conversations with military and law enforcement. Tell us a little bit about

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what you're seeing out there because if we're seeing just in one of our

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relationships has over 1800 people on a waiting list for counseling, I can only

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imagine what's happening, especially with the culture that we're living in today.

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Law enforcement and first responders. I wrote Unconquered because I know what

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it's like to sit with and what we call sit with your demons in the middle of

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the night. When you're sitting there with your face buried in your hands, your

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ring in your hands, you're restless, you can't sleep, your body's responding to

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different experiences and encounters in ways that you really don't understand.

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I've been there. I wrote Unconquered because I know so many people feel

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church pews every Sunday and they listen to worship, they listen to good messages

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and they still feel defeated. They're not going to tell you that, but they feel

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defeated. Goliath was a giant of his day. The giant of our day is chaos. It is

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trauma and I'm here to lock arms with my brothers and sisters who are called to

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do the same work and we're here to destroy that giant. We're not backing

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down. I began to write Behind the Badge because I wanted to deliver bread and

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cheese to my brothers on the battlefield. When he called me to do something

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different, which I have missed that work ever since I left, I loved them. I loved

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them dearly. I love my brothers and sisters in law enforcement and that's why

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I created this to give it to them because I remember where I was and I was

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looking for something that was written from somebody that had been in my boots,

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somebody that had felt what I had felt, who had had some of the same thoughts I

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had thought, who felt dirty when you had to fight someone because you're not

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supposed to talk a certain way or do certain things. I learned the

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unconditional love of a father in law enforcement of my heavenly father. I

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already knew the unconditional love of my earthly father, but the unconditional

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love of a heavenly father, I discovered it in law enforcement. I remember a

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number of times when I would be in a situation and I would just be done and I

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would feel so filthy because of what I had to deal with and he was like,

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there's nothing you can do to change my love for you. There's nothing you can do

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to change my love for you. So that was one of the reasons why I wrote Behind

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the Badge. Who is going to speak up for us in this hour? And I felt called to do

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it and God has blessed the response to that call and he's blessed it

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tremendously. But when I wrote Unconquered, I wanted people to have a

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practical application of looking at God's word, looking at my testimony,

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looking at their own stories and seeing they can overcome anything. They can beat

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it. You don't have to be victim to it. But I also think that there's a lot of

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times where we get our focus so tuned in on the pain that is in our lives that

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we exalt it to a place of it being an idol, of it being a God, a little G,

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because we talk about that more than we talk about the healer. We talk about

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that more than we talk about the deliverer. For me, it meant to give honor

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to the one who set me free. And so this is my testimony. God's word says that

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we overcome the enemy by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. And

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so Unconquered is my way of punching the enemy square in the mouth and letting

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him know he's tried to kill me, but my Father has sustained me and he makes

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sure that my feet will not slip at any turn. So I'm here to not only share my

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testimony, but I put the Unconquered code together so that other people who

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have these secret pains or who may go through things in the future, that they

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know that there's a better way. Jesus said that the enemy comes to kill,

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steal, and destroy, but I've come that you might have life and life more

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abundantly. We can never have that abundant life if we're trying to carry

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the baggage of pain of yesterday. Trauma, pain, abuse, it doesn't matter. My heart

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aches that you had to go through that, but so does your Heavenly Father. His

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heart is compassionate towards you and he's loving and his kindness is what

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draws us back to him. And he wants to set you free from that so you can walk

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out your fullness of purpose and see what the life to the fullest looks like.

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And so that's one of the reasons why I wrote it. I was thinking about even how in

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one of your devotions for one of the days in your 365 day behind the badge

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devotional, this one, Peace in the Raging Storm, says, while we know God is with us

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in all we do, he expects us to use our faith. And you go on to use an example of

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a king and you talk about how that king, when he was outnumbered, and that was

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often outnumbered, never outsmarted, there was a prophet in 2 Kings, chapter 6,

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verse 16, and it says he recognized he was not alone. So you give these tidbits

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of encouragement before they go on shift that doesn't just help them for that

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shift, but probably helps them for their everyday life. And then of course your

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bulletproof marriage, it helps so many dealing with the conflicts and

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challenges in marriage because of the pressures they live under every day.

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I wrote Behind the Badge and I have been criticized by a religious crowd

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because it's not deep, it's not expositional or, you know, I'm not diving

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deep into scripture, but I wrote it in a way that was very strategic. I wrote

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this for cops and this is not me saying that law enforcement officers are not

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smart or they can't read, not at all. I know number one, that they're busy. And

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I know number two, that most of us have a very short attention span when it comes

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to stuff like this. So I wanted to whet your appetite to long for the things of

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God. A lot of times our appetite is filled with the things that are

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convenient. And so I wrote Behind the Badge in a very brief way. You can read

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it in about 78 seconds. And I had a trooper from a state who I was talking to

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and sort of mentor and I said, hey, have you read Behind the Badge yet? He was

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like, oh man, I just, I hadn't had time. I've just been so busy. I'm like,

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really? You're so busy that you can't spend a few minutes with God. And he was

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like, man, you just don't understand. I said, do you have one minute like right

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now? And he was like, yeah. I said, pull out your timer on your phone. And so I

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literally read it and I said, all right. And I wasn't saying he said 78 seconds.

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I said, you're telling me that you advocate for wellness and you can't spend

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78 seconds getting your heart prepared for the day. And he accepted the

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challenge from that day forward. So I think that we have to look at what are we

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hungry for? What are we hungry for? A lot of times in law enforcement, we're so

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busy with dealing with the work that we're called to do that we don't even

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have time to stop and think, what is my spiritual appetite? So I wanted to

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create something that would lead them down that road. And now I'm working on

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some other projects that hopefully will give them a little bit more meat and

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we'll see where God takes that.

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I'm going to go back to those critics out there because literally every page is

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riddled with scripture and prayer. You'll love this story. There was a national

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organization that we were working with and they had asked if I could help them

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get some behind the badges for quite a few of their state troopers in their

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state. And so we did. And he went through a lieutenant. It also oversaw a lot of

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the recruits and also the graduates at the state troopers there in that

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country. And he sent me the message. I don't consider myself a religious person,

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but reading through the devotion, I realized all of my recruits and all of my

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new graduates can really use this. He wasn't going to admit he needed it, but

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obviously he had to peruse it to approve it. And he wanted one for all of his

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graduates. And so I'm thinking, in fact, another deputy sheriff friend of mine,

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who was doing things with police and clergy, he was with the sheriff of his

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county and also with the chief deputy as well. He was taking out some of the

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behind the badge and boat proof marriage and some of the other ones that we had

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given him. And all of a sudden these people came over and they were actually

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part of the SISM after a death of a deputy sheriff. And this one officer came

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over and started taking pictures of the behind the badge and the first response.

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I know what you're talking about. And he goes, I'm going to, I got to get this

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picture. He goes, I just met with Adam Buckeys in Texas. So he was all excited

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that he saw the actual devotions after meeting with you. Yeah. And I've got a

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lot of law enforcement officers all over the country, but Texas is very rich with

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people who, men and women who have followed my work from the beginning. And I

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am so grateful. And he's one of those that, that, that trooper is one of them.

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And I'm so grateful for every one of you and for you and your whole team and for

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everybody else that saw fit to put these hands, put these books in the hands of

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men and women who serve in law enforcement. You know, I may never know the

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magnitude of one step of obedience, but I'm so grateful for the potential. And

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so thank you for what you're doing and thank you for having, you know, giving me

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the opportunity to share my heart a little bit and, and for sharing those

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resources. I'm speechless. I really am. I don't know. I don't know how to respond

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to that except thank you. You know, with all the national attention about the

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U S border last year, we actually did a day to, to appreciate border patrol and

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law enforcement and first responders. And, and we gave out a couple of hundred of

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your, of each of them behind the badge, as well as the other ones every day,

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first responders, law enforcement, military, they go through internal and

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external stresses. And there is a battle going on all the time on the inside and

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marriages are affected and it's exasperated with all the tension, the

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political jockeying going on in the border. And yet they're trying to do

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their job. Amazing. How many of them really gravitated to your devotions and

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thought, wow, people really care about us because in the midst of a culture where

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they feel like they've been kicked under the bus, they've been kicked out, you

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know, kicked to the curb. And yet there is an element of people they know really

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do care about them, pray for them, support them, do days like we did to help them

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at the same time, getting resources that they can relate to in their hands. So

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thank you, Adam, for I'm sure a few years ago, you didn't think and even realize

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where it was going to go. And the synergy of what's taking place, just one

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devotion, the people that care, who give those devotions out, who spend time with

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them. I think it's far larger than we maybe even know on paper.

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I believe you're correct. I've always been challenged. I challenge myself. I

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don't want to embellish my story. I don't want to embellish the numbers. I also

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don't want to give you graphic details. I share what I can and I don't want to

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embellish the numbers. So I go with a conservative number. And I had a chaplain

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from Texas tell me, he said, you know, that's probably closer to about a million

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people that you've reached for God's kingdom. And so he started breaking down

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for every book that's sold and an average of three people read it. And then, you

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know, I don't know. I'm grateful for the opportunity and I've been blessed to go

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and speak to NYPD this year and speak for LAPD, LA County Sheriff, LA County Fire,

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LA Fire, Columbus, Ohio, and a lot of places in between. I'll be heading to

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Little Rock, Arkansas next week here coming up and then Kansas City, Missouri,

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Birmingham, Alabama. God has blown open doors for me all over the country. And

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I'm very grateful for that. I can't say that enough. And I'm taking this message

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called Live Unconquered to law enforcement. I've been in business

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organizations, churches, and it's all for His glory. And so it's a very unique

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opportunity that we're in to see the amount of adversity that we face on a lot

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of different fronts as a country, but then what's going on just beneath the

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surface as we begin to feel it rumble beneath our feet. And that is the

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presence of a living God beginning to move across this country in a way that I

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don't believe we've seen in our generation. I think we may have an idea. We

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may think we've seen it, but we've never seen what we're about to see happen in

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our country. You may call it revival. Some may call it something else. But God

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is doing something that seeds have been planted for years underneath the surface.

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And we can plant the seed, but He's responsible for the harvest. And harvest

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time is coming. I promise you, I feel it down in the bones of my, like in my soul

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and the depths of my soul. God is getting ready to do something. And I hope that

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stirs hope in your hearts as well. Amen. I know you're sensing it deep in your

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spirit about God's moving, but how do you see things right now in the context of

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the culture we're in and so many first responders that are needed more than

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ever, how do you see the church's role in helping to bring some of healing and

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hope and becoming alongside to serve our first responders? You know, what I see

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going on right now is that enemy that hates men and women who put on a uniform.

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I know that sounds maybe a little odd, okay, but he hates what you stand for.

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And he hates God's children, period. Because I mean, think about it this way.

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I was just on an interview with Rick and Bubba from Rick and Bubba show, and Rick

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Burgess was sharing with me this story, and I'm going to hack it up horribly.

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But think about why the enemy attacks God's children so much, because the father

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kicked him out, him and all of his angels, right, kicked him out of heaven.

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And so what's the only way that he can get back to attack his kids and woe on

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him when God gets ready to fight back and when he does fight back for you in

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your life. And so what you see going on is what do law enforcement officers stand

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for? Order. They restore order. They stand for enforcing the law. It may not be

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laws we agree with or lack, but they do their job. Restore order and uphold and

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enforce the law. So what does the enemy do? He is all about the definition of

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evil is chaos. It brings chaos. And so you see chaos all through our country.

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see it in all these different places, even within the church in some places.

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There's chaos. That is the presence of the enemy. So the law enforcement

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officer's job is to come in and restore order. So this is something happening on

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the natural in the physical that we see that's been going on in a spiritual

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warfare area, I believe, for a very long time. It hasn't just started. It hasn't

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just begun. For me, I believe the church has a responsibility to make a place

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to make sure that they are ministering, intentionally ministering to those who

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serve our communities. I firmly believe that as the church, we will be held

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responsible and held accountable for how we treat those who serve us. And to say

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that, well, they have a security team and that's their small group, that's a

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cop-out. We have to be willing to say, how do we speak to these men and women

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in a way that will pierce their hearts with the gospel? How can we get related?

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How can we relate to them? How can we build relationships with them? We do a

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phenomenal job feeding the homeless. We do a phenomenal job taking care of the

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shut-ins and the orphans. We do a phenomenal job of going into the jails

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and into the prisons and ministry. But what about the men and women who serve

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our communities? Let me tell you something. If you want to know the

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definition of love, look at Jesus on the cross. That's love. But a modern-day

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example of that love is men and women who get up every single shift and they

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put on a uniform and they go serve a community where people have already said,

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I hate you. I don't want you. I don't want to see you succeed. I don't love you.

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We don't want anything good to ever happen to you. That is love. How do we get

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behind that? How do we get behind that? And so that's been one of the things

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that's been a heavy burden on my heart is how can we partner with churches and

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say, we're going to take this burden off of you? How can we lock arms with you?

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We're not here to compete with you. We're not here to build my kingdom. I'm here

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to build the kingdom of my father. This is not about my name. What can we do?

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How can we lock arms with you to minister to these men and women? That's the most

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important thing right now. Because let me tell you, the church is not going to be

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able to go into some parts of every community. All right? These men and women

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who get up every day and put on a uniform and respond to calls can become an

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extended arm. They can become the hands and feet of a loving father. They can

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become the hands and feet. Who would you rather have respond to you on your

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worst day? I know I wouldn't have wanted my cynical self showing up. I was a good

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cop, but compassion I lacked. I want somebody who's going to demonstrate

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love and compassion to me if I need help. I mean, I want you to do your job,

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but I want people to go out into these places and build relationships to get to

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know people in the community and be a light, be the hands and feet of Jesus.

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And so we exponentially increase the reach of the church. That is American

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missionaries, like exponentially increased. And we've gotten to take care

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of our country, and this is a great way to do it. So many others that are dealing

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with the issues of facades that people have to put on because they're under

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attack so much. They put on a compensatory facade. They're compensating

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on the outside for the hurt or the challenges on the inside. But these are

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human beings. These are fathers. These are mothers. These are husbands and wives.

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These are people that live in our communities who happen to put on a uniform

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every day and make a decision to go out and put themselves in harm's way for the

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sake of bringing law and order. You kind of talked about the spiritual combat. In

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fact, you wrote a devotion with Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman on spiritual

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combat. There is a spiritual context to what's going on in helping our first

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responders and those who put on a uniform understand that they're not alone.

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those that work in peer support and different law enforcement around the

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country, when they have one individual in that community or like in Port

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Richey, one individual, a pastor or a chaplain who's got the blessing of their

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pastor to come and serve, not trying to usurp but to come serve, it opens up so

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much opportunity because now they found someone they can trust. It's an issue of

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finding people they can trust. Pastors and chaplains and those that are serving

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in that capacity, when you make yourselves available and that trust part

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comes, it opens up so many other opportunities. There's not enough people.

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They want help. They want people to come alongside. I've been around to the

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hardest people in military or law enforcement and at first they're kind of

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resistant. They put that facade up. When they see you consistently there, that

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you're available, you don't want anything from them, the next thing you know, they

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begin to open up in private and they begin to share their hearts and personal

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lives and ask for prayer. I think that's a great opportunity. It works hand in

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glove to have the church community working with law enforcement and saying,

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look, we're not compromising. If there's a lack of character, we need to deal with

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it. But at the end of the day, that you're not our enemy, we're here to work

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together because we care about the community. We need to bring law and order.

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You talked about that because anarchy in 2 Thessalonians 2 and lawlessness comes

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from the lawless one, the enemy, the devil. Of course, there's so much anarchy

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hitting place today because to unleash this lawlessness, it has to also unravel

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those who are supposed to keep the truth and the law in order. We have to come

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alongside those who are professing the gospel truth. We need to come alongside

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those who are assigned to bring law and order and civility in our communities.

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Adam, what are some of the things that you see or challenges right now in helping

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with our first responders? I think there's a lot of confusion between

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separation or freedom of religion and freedom from religion. We have the

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freedom to go out and share the gospel. And there is an increasing amount of

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confusion among the fact that we have the freedom to go out and share the

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gospel. So I've packaged a talk in a way that I could go into a government

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agency and I can give training and it's not a sermon, which I don't really give

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sermons, but I can go in and I can give training and then I can say, if you want

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to learn more about what it means to live unconquered, come see me afterwards

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101 and happy to do that. And that's been an incredible response to that. But I

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think some of the biggest challenges that we face are competitiveness within

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the kingdom, competitiveness among various ministries and organizations. I

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refuse to compete with my brothers and sisters who are alongside trying to do

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the work of my father. I'm here to advance the kingdom of God. I'm here to

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make sure that my name is on the most wanted list on the walls of hell. And I

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am here to make sure that every man and woman knows that I think everybody

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knows the sin in their life. Even if they pretend they don't, they know the

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sin in their life. They know that there is an eternal damnation, there's an

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eternal hell, but they need to know that there's a heavenly father who's not

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waiting with his hand on a red button to beat them up when they've messed up.

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There is a love and a mercy and a grace available for you. And it is his loving

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kindness that causes to repentance. And I'm not saying to shy away from a

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message and a call to the altar, but I think that we have to come together and

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say, what are these essentials that we're going to come together on? What are the

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absolute fundamentals that we agree on that we can unite together on and lock

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arms in line shoulder to shoulder with that we can advance for the kingdom of

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God together with? There is so much division among the body of Christ in our

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country today. There's division not only in politics, not only at any other level,

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but also within the body. And I think that this is a call that we come back, we

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repent first of all, we do what we've got to do to find healing in the body so

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that we can advance. We will never live unconquered if we can't surrender to the

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one who came to redeem us and set us free. And that's something that we can't

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just do one time in a beautiful church service. It's something we have to do

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every single day, every breath, every moment. And we have to look at what do we

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have to do? What is my job as a part of the body? How can I be obedient to the

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Father today so that I could advance the kingdom of God in what I'm supposed to

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do, where I'm planted? And that's what I feel like one of the greatest

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challenges is, how do we overcome the attacks of the enemy? How do we overcome

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the confusion that he's trying to stir among us? How do we defeat the division?

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Unity is beautiful. We need more unity. We need to fight for each other, not like

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cannibalizing ourselves from within. That's not only an issue within corporate

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cultures or even law enforcement culture, that's an issue within the body of

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Christ within churches across the country. And so how do we fix that? And

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it's get back to a place where our hearts are not hardened against the Father,

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where the hearts are tender towards him and they're softened towards him, and

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where we again are grieved because of the things that grieve his heart, and

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where we no longer try to debate theology with each other, but we see his

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word, we see what we're going to agree on, and we're going to fight together to

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advance and lift up the name of Jesus and point people to him. In 2019, I sat

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down with a group in Nashville, Tennessee that offered me seven figures if I

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would remove the name of Jesus, remove any mention of Scripture, remove the

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mention of God from any of my work. In my 20s, I was bankrupt twice. When my

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wife was pregnant with her third child, I was unemployed. I'd been fired from a

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job. I wasn't in law enforcement yet, and she couldn't work because of

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pregnancy complications. In my 20s, before our third child came along, I

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cut grass, I washed cars, I scooped horse stalls, I cleaned horses, I did

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whatever I had to do. God met every single need we had. I am not in a

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position or willing or desire to. I do not have a price. Let me promise you

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this. If you have a price to sell out, the enemy knows that price, and he's

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going to send somebody with a check to meet that price. If you have a price, you

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are a sellout. And this is a season we don't need cowards to call themselves

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Christians, because cowards will not inherit the kingdom of God. This is a

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season for the courageous to rise up. If you've been wounded, then let the

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heavenly healer touch you in the depths of your souls. Let him touch you and let

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him heal you. This is a season for the men and women who have called on the

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name of Jesus for decades to now arm themselves with the word of God, be

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filled with the spirit, and to advance for the kingdom against darkness. This

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is a season for the cowards to sit on the sidelines or repent and be

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courageous and take action. This is not a season for the meek. This is not a

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season for the cowards. This is a time for us to take up our armor and fight

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back against the evil in the world. And how do we do that? We don't fight the

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same way the world fights. We don't fight with the same weapons the world

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fights with. We battle not against flesh and blood, but against

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principalities and powers in high places. And so we have to understand the

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battle we're up against and then pray and seek God and ask him, what action

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would you have me take? So I feel like the greatest battle that we face is

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division among the body. You are also a spokesman for Reboot Recovery First

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Responders, which is a nonprofit that focuses on providing faith-based trauma

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healing for first responders and service members. So trust gives access

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into people's lives. So once trust is built, and you've been giving a

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tangible expression of the gospel, you know, it's not one thing that we

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propagate in a way that overtakes people, but we want to be a tangible

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expression of Christ by serving. And as we serve, trust is built and it gives

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access. Access to be able to share from our hearts and it helps to change minds

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when they begin to see that we're not just a bunch of hypocrites. Really, the

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original Greek word for hypocrite was the ancient word that came for play

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actor, stage actor. So it's a person who pretends to be something. And so we

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don't want to pretend to be something. We want to give a tangible expression of

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Christ's love to the community as we serve. Then there is a trust that's built

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that gives access to conversations and access to people's hearts and minds to

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be able to share what is it about us. They want to know what is it about you

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that wants to serve as a spokesman for Reboot Recovery for First Responders.

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That would seem to be an important factor of getting with people who are

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desperate, but also needed to find people they can trust to give access to

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know how to minister to them. How did you get involved with that with Reboot

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Recovery First Responders? It's really strange. It was a man and woman, a

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husband and wife team that came across my work several years ago, and they

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reached out to the co-founder and co-founders of Reboot Recovery and said,

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y'all need to partner with Adam to help get the word out about what you're

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doing for First Responders. And so last year I went on a tour with them to I

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think five city tour. I forget even which cities it was. And I got to go out

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and kind of share a little bit about my testimony and the message that I've been

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given for this time and speaking to the hearts of First Responders. And I'll

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tell you this, I know that it's not very common to hear, especially men, to get

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up and share about some of the things that I talk about very openly, but I do

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it for a very strategic reason, and that is because it tears down walls. And

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that testimony has torn down a lot of walls of people who are sitting in a live

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audience so that whenever I do present my message that he's given me to share in

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a very unique way, that their hearts are prepared for that. For me, working

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alongside other organizations like Reboot Recovery or now my own nonprofit,

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the Live Unconquered Foundation, has positioned me to be able to reach a lot

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more people. So I go out and I just tell people, hey, if you're looking to start

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a small group in your community for First Responders, they have this

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phenomenal resource, and I believe in what they're doing. And I think you need

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to probably check into what they've got going on, see how you can use it in your

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community. But I know First Responders, law enforcement officers have busy

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schedules. If they're not at work, they're in court. If they're not in court,

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they're at home. And if they're not at home, they're in training. So they're

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doing one of those four things most of the time. And so how can we find a way to

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fit into their busy schedules to be significant enough so they want to

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invest their time and energy into their eternal hope and to replacing what is

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wounded and what is broken with healing? And it's just getting their attention

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through that and creating a place where someone who has been through that or

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been through similar situations picks this up, picks the torch up and says, I'll

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lead the way. And, you know, Evan and Jenny and their entire team have done a

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phenomenal job reaching combat vets. They got a general trauma group now. They've

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got the First Responder training that they do, and it's incredibly powerful. I

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know that it's not as prevalent as they'd like it to be yet, but it's growing

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rapidly. And so I'm very grateful for that relationship and for the work that

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they're doing, for the opportunity to share about it here.

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One of our advisors for our ministry is a retired Major General Army, and they've

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got a few hundred acres now up in Virginia helping with special military

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who've gone through PTSD, et cetera. I was on the board of the PTSD Foundation

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of America, and we see the things that you're doing and so many others are

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doing that it's so overwhelming because I think it just compounds, or at least

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it exposes the compounded need of the amount of PTSD that First Responders,

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law enforcement, military carry every day. It's not something you just, you

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know, you just take off every day like a uniform. You're carrying what you see,

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and there has to be an outlet. And I think more and more realizing that we

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have to have a way to express or a place to, as an outlet. I saw a guy at the gym

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the other day and his back of his big hoodie said, the gym is my psych ward.

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And I get that we need to find an outlet, don't we? And so with the increase of

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ministries like yourselves and others and the need for like even the peer support

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and these other things that are going on and chaplaincies and ministries that are

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working together to serve law enforcement and military, it just shows how the

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compounded need is there of this exasperated situation of internal

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conflict, external stressors, and they have to carry that every day. How do you

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see organizations that are working together as in a greater way? Does the

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need get to be greater? Or do you think that we're at a place now where we can

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empower the organizations that are already there? Or do you see there's more

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of a need for people to get engaged? I feel like we're just seeing the tip of the

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iceberg of the need. Five years ago, I was ringing a bell and as were many

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others, I'm not the only one, but I was ringing a bell that this is going to be

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a major issue if we don't address it properly. There's a lot of people doing a

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lot of really good things. There's a lot of therapists that are doing phenomenal

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work. A lot of counselors that are doing phenomenal work and I praise God for

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them because God used a trauma therapist to work in my life back in 2021. First

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time I'd ever talked to a therapist in my entire life and so I'm grateful for

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them. But I also believe that if I come to you and I deliver principles and

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lessons and teachings, that is good. That's good. I mean it's needed. I think a

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lot of times we want to pretend that the power of God is something that we

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experience only on Sunday. I come to you unashamedly, uncompromisingly, unwilling

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to compromise the name of Jesus because when I called on him at the end of my

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rope ready to end my life, nobody else showed up for me. It was him. And so I

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think you need to know what you believe, what you're willing to fight for, and

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how can we come together as organizations. The church plays a major, a

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critical role in this day and time, in this hour. And this is a call to rise up

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and be a part of this. So how can we find cohesiveness among different

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organizations, different belief systems? How can we find unity among all these

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different things? Because the need is not going away. Though the numbers in law

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enforcement may have dwindled and a remnant remains, there is a phenomenal

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need among all first responders. And so how are we going to do that? I believe

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that you know what you stand for, have your convictions, be unwilling to

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compromise those convictions, and operate in a way that you bring both truth and

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grace to the table at the same time. And how do we bring truth and grace to the

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table at the same time? My pastor said it very well. He said a lot of times we

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believe that we will bring truth to the table, that grace is not invited. And

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that's when we have issues where we can't have conversations, but there's just

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confrontation. And so we want to bring truth and grace to the table at the same

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time. And if we want to see people healed and we want to see people that are

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restored, we want to see people empowered to continue to walk in their purpose,

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and then the calling that God has put on their life, especially as first

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responders, I believe we have to look at how do we lock arms together? How do we

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do this together? What does that look like? We can't look at other

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organizations and compete with anybody else. We have to focus on the task at

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hand. What is the job that we have been given to us right now in front of us,

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and what are we going to do with that? And focus on your job. Focus on what

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you've been called to do and stay in your lane and do what you've been called

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to do. And that's what I've been trying to do. You know, there used to be a time

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where I said, I want to see one of my books become a New York Times number one

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bestseller. I want to have 20 books on the market before I hang up writing. And

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I'll tell you today that my heart has been shifted tremendously over the past

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several months. And my heart now is I want to just be obedient to my father. If

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he calls me to write 20 more books, then so be it. If he calls me to sit down

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and be quiet, then so be it. That's going to be hard to do, but I'll do it. If he

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calls me to become a supporter, I'll be a supporter. Whatever he wants me to do,

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I want to do that because I would rather be obedient than anything else. So how

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do we look at what we've been given to do for this season and do it to the best

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of our ability and be obedient to him? That's what I think we need to do. And I

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think when organizations come together and do that, because there's a lot of

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people out there doing great work, phenomenal work, a lot more than there

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were even five years ago, and it's going to continue to grow. So it can become

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very noisy and very cluttered. How do we stay focused and stay professional? How

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do we remain operating in the love of a living father? How do we do that? We stay

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focused on what he's called us to do. Worry about the next step. Focus on the

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next step. Don't worry about it. Focus on the next step that he's called you to

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take and don't worry about all the stuff going on around you. That's right. Adam,

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as you pray for law enforcement and for those who serve alongside to undergird

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and encourage law enforcement and first responders, tell people how they can get

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ahold of you as well to find out more about Living Unconquered. You can email

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me. I invite you to reach out to me, adam at live unconquered dot org. I would

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love to hear from you. You can visit my website, live unconquered dot org or the

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adamdavis dot com. I'd love to connect with you outside of this. Books are

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anywhere you can buy a book, I'm sure. I know they're on Amazon and margin

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levels. So very grateful for this opportunity, Doug. Thank you so much. This

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blesses me more than more than I can express. I want you to pray for those who

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serve and partner with and bring encouragement to law enforcement and pray

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for first responders. Absolutely. Heavenly Father, I come to you today and I thank

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you first and foremost for your son Jesus. I thank you for what he did on the

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cross and for the blood that he shed for me. Thank you that you have given us

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everything that we need to overcome the evil in this world. Thank you for your

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word, Father. Your word is a lamp unto our feet, it's a light unto our path, it

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gives us correction, it gives us life, it gives us encouragement. Thank you for

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your Holy Spirit, which gives us revelation of your word, your comforter,

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the comforter that abides within us. Thank you for the power, for the

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infilling, so that we can overcome all things in this life. Thank you for that.

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Today I thank you also, Father, for my friends Doug and his team at Somebody

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Cares and everybody that's represented on this call, every law enforcement

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officer, every leader, every first responder. God, thank you for every person

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who has answered the call to serve in their community. And I ask today that you

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would stir in their hearts and their souls encouragement, that you would move

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in them, that you would strengthen their minds and their bodies and their

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spirits, that you would move in their homes and their families, that you would

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touch their marriages, that you would touch their children, that you would make

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sure that every practical, tangible need is met. Because I know so many are

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struggling right now, God, and I ask that you move in a way that meets those

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needs. But most of all, God, I pray that you draw their hearts close to you.

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Because if our bellies are full and our souls are empty, we have lost it all. And

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I pray that you draw their hearts to you, God, that you minister to them right

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where they are. If it's in the middle of day shift or in the middle of night

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shift, if it's on a call, that you give them guidance around dark corners, that

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you let them know that you are with them. And just like you did me, remind them

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that there's nothing they can do to change your love for them. I know you're

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no respecter of persons, and I pray that you give them the same peace that you've

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blessed me with. And I pray that you embrace them with the arms of love that

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you've wrapped around me right where they are. My greatest desire is that men

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and women come to know your son Jesus and the peace and the love and the

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healing that he brings and the fruits of that relationship. And I ask that you

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bring men and women who serve in our communities to you, that you draw them to

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you. And I pray for those who have been called to support and to minister to

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first responders across our country. And I ask that you strengthen them. I know

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that it's a battle. And I know there's times when it can be discouraging, and I

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know it can be hard. Even our pastors, Father, I pray that you stir in their

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hearts a fresh hunger for you. Awaken, awaken, awaken every pastor, every

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church across this country so that there's no longer somberness among us,

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but there's celebration, there's joy, there's excitement among us because of

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the things you're doing. We will celebrate and praise you in advance

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because of what you're doing. And I thank you, Father, that the enemy is defeated.

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Satan, you are on notice. You have no authority over our cops. You have no

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authority over our deputies. You have no authority over our first responders of

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any kind. You have no authority over our pastors. You have no authority over the

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men and women who have answered the call to serve first responders. You are

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defeated. You are defeated, and the blood of Jesus is the line in the sand, and

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you can't touch him. And I ask that you move in a way, Heavenly Father, so that

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the enemy is bound, that he is defeated, that he's reminded of his defeat. God, I

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thank you today for victory in the hearts and lives of men and women across

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this country. Would you start at whichever end you see fit, the east, the

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west, the north, or the south, and sweep this country with the love that you've

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shown me, with the peace that you've shown me, that you bind the hands of the

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enemy, and that you cause us to be victorious for your kingdom in the name

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of your son, Jesus. We thank you for it. We bless you for it in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Amen. Amen.