"Bounce Back & Confessions of a Worship Leader with Chris Aldajuste" S4 Ep15

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Welcome to Keep It 100 podcast with Sean and Christa Smith.

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Well hey in this episode we are going to have an incredible interview a little bit later

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but we want to start off and let you guys know this week in a couple days.

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Oh my gosh three days.

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Three days.

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We are going to have the healing and deliverance masterclass and this thing has been so long

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in preparation.

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It's been in our hearts to do this for a multiplicity of reasons but probably one of the biggest

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reasons and we've talked about this is we're seeing an uptick in deliverance.

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You know and we really recognize this is going to be a key gathering to train and equip the

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body of Christ to train and equip believers on not only how to walk in freedom for themselves

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but how to lead people through both healing and deliverance and we're really passionate

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about people being equipped and trained and confidently knowing who they are in Christ

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and really walking what it is in freedom and helping bring freedom to other people's

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lives.

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This is so true because Jesus over and over again in the gospels he first declared that

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he gave his disciples his followers authority to heal the sick and to cast out devils and

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you think he's given us such an authority but yet so often it seems like it's not the

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norm in the modern North American church.

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You know maybe it is in the church of Africa maybe it is in the church of South America

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but if Jesus is and I looked at statistics one third of Jesus ministry boo was casting

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out devils like 60 some odd percent of it was healing so that leaves just like like

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single digits where maybe he fed the multitudes he stopped the storm you know and obviously

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raising the dead as part of healing so so much of his ministry was healing and deliverance

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and yet it seems like it's such a rarity in our churches today.

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You know I think there's been an increase in real uptick of deliverance because we are

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seeing a greater authority in the body of Christ at this hour.

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I think kind of all that shallow waters that people were content with in previous seasons

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of the church we really are in a new era we're in a new time where people have cut out the

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nonsense they've cut off cut out kind of the pump and circumstance kind of all the flash

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and all the shiny stuff and they really just are desperate there's a fresh desperation which

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has increased a greater authority.

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When people get desperate they're going after a genuine move of God a genuine counter people

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are throwing stuff and I think deliverance has have also increased because people are

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getting more honest and they're more desperate and they're willing to actually say this is

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what's actually going on this is what I need help with and I feel like you actually said

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this baby you felt like you got some revelation as to why we weren't seeing deliverance is

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in North America and that's because the demonic was kind of stealth and there was enough power

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behind the pulpit right and we have seen such an increase of the power I feel like in the

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even from people ministering that it really has caused the demonic to surface we've seen

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that in our local church we've seen that in our gatherings we've seen that as we've traveled

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and it's been really beautiful that there's just a sovereignty of the demonic cannot stay

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hidden because the power and the presence of God literally causes it to come out.

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I think it's to your point I think in modern North American church and not to be negative

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just observation here is that I think we've gotten good at referring out when people have

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struggles like we'll we'll firm out to Christian counselors we're firm which we believe in

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that is the place for that we'll refer them out hey you need to see a specialist in this

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area hey you need to go and I think we have gotten better at referring out but we've gotten

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worse at casting out I think there's certain things and instead of referring people out

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I think we need to just begin to believe God lay hands and pray and ask God to show up

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and show off in a way that he's given us authority and you guys I just want to throw this pitch

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out there if you're not able to come and be in person with us at the healing and deliverance

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masterclass we have a little phrase if you can't go live go live stream you go to www

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www.SeanandChristasmith.com right now you can sign up and get our entire healing and deliverance

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masterclass live stream to you wherever you're at whatever nation you're at you can get it

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live streaming so you could be a part of this equipping and we'll we'll take a little bit

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more about that even a little bit later but I just want to continue you and I are also

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instructors we've got we'll be teaching at this session is what I mean by that we have

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Joanne Moody who she's incredible she's gonna be talking about healing praying for the sick

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and just how to operate in that gift of healing and at the same time what do you do when because

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you were talking to her today what do you do when you pray someone and they don't get

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healed I love that that's what she's gonna be hitting on I'm super excited she's really

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gonna help people with a walk away a takeaway prayer model for physical healing but then

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there are those times where you go through the whole model you pray for the person they

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don't get healed and what do you do when you hit those walls she's gonna give really practical

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takeaways on what to do and I love that because I'm not give me all the like tools of my tool

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belt that I can get and Jeremy Nelson he's just he is really gifted in the area of deliverance

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as well so is Joanne we're just in there both can literally teach about the other subject

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but we're having them focus on these specific topics and we've asked Jeremy to focus on

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deliverance and what I love is he too is gonna share some really powerful testimonies and

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stories and then give again the people the practical how to's on how to lead people through

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deliverance yes and I got a chance to talk to him one of his sessions he's gonna deal

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with generational curses and generational bondages that pass down sometimes you know

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we were talking some people have certain weaknesses in the character or predispositions towards

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certain iniquities not knowing that in a sense it was a giant that was not defeated in the

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previous generation and all of a sudden that go live comes to the new generation and then

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the next one he's gonna talk about I think something very much more common than we want

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to really admit because I think we've become so rationalistic and we become in a sense

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so cerebral that we forget the spirit realm is very real and so he's gonna talk about

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divination in the sense of witchcraft and how that comes against people and then other

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particular spirits that people are fighting that come to intimidate folks today and how

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to get folks free and we both know just how important that is and I'm super excited that

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you and I are also instructors so hey want you share with some of our listeners what

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it is that God has put on your heart that you're gonna share yeah I'm really gonna be

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talking about how to tear down strongholds I'm really passionate about helping people

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get to a place of mental and emotional freedom and healing and I think it's because of my

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own personal journey I walked through some years where I really battled I'm so different

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things emotionally and mentally and I'll be sharing that at the master class and I felt

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like the Lord led me through a season where I experienced partial freedom but it was a

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whole process and a journey where till I walked into full freedom and I'm actually gonna share

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the tools and the revelation the resources that really helped me walk in that in my own

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life and now I'm able to pray that through a lot of people and it's actually quite simple

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but they're just practical how to's of how not to partner with things how what doors

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to open what doors to shut and really how to tear down a stronghold take thoughts captive

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and walk in the freedom that is our inheritance so I'm really excited about that so I feel

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like mine's really fundamental I'm really a foundational teaching really for every believer

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so I'm just excited because it brought so much freedom to my life and I think we're

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always excited to share something that has been impactful for you you know and I'm gonna

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have two sessions the first session I'm gonna talk about kind of the spiritual authority

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a set of foundation as to how and why we can believe that healing and deliverance should

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flow freely from us as believers and then my second one I'm gonna literally take you

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if you will into a deliverance session and share with you exactly how to deal with someone

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getting free and how to deal if there's demonic resistance so it's gonna be very practical

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and I think it will fit in and when I was thinking about the whole aspect of authority

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proper relationship with God means you exercise authority in one sense God has done everything

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he's going to do in terms of the devil the Bible says he's put Satan underneath our

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feet so if the enemies held in check and God is sovereign obviously there are areas that

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that God does hold the devil in check but it's up to his body his representatives on

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earth to rebuke him to drive him back to resist him fact the Bible tells us submit to God

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resist the devil he will flee doesn't just say submit to God he will flee there's an

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aspect of resistance and I was thinking about just a couple things that I would I feel will

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help people and and just some nuggets I just I even want to share with our listeners right

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now and here's the deal you have authority regardless of how you feel I think there were

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times coming up that I kind of felt if I went to a fiery service and man I entered in the

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worship and whoever preached released a faith I felt something I could walk from that meeting

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and their their instances of that where I took on a guy named Vincent who lived next door

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to me after a service but then maybe sometimes that feeling isn't there and come out of a

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fiery service and you need to understand that just like regardless of whether or not I feel

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married I am married and by the way I love being married to anyone listening should know

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I love this I love this woman in front of me but I'm married whether I feel like it or

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not so here's the thing you have authority based on a covenant whether you feel like

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it or not and here's the thing when two people that have authority or come against each other

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or maybe I should say like this when one with authority confronts another with authority

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the one with the greater backing has the upper hand and you have to understand you have all

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of heaven heaven backing you the enemy his powers derive it's limited in fact it's borrowed

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it's stolen like Adam and Eve were given authority and then obviously they give it to the enemy

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but Jesus came took it back and he says all authorities have been given to me now you

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go and so I think that's important the other thing is I feel like Jesus in you should never

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shrivel before the devil because Christ never shriveled before the enemy he met Satan mono

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a mano in Luke chapter four in the wilderness he did not back down and Jesus in you should

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never shrivel before the enemy I've got all these different thoughts but ultimately here's

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one when I tell people our authority is not just based on what Jesus did to the devil

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but what he did for us so if you come or you tune in and you watch I'm going to share with

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you what Jesus did for you so you know your authority is not just that he took captivity

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kept if he triumphed over the devil but he did something for you and if you know what

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he did for you you will never walk in a lack of authority and you will never let the enemy

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get a foothold on you in fact you will keep them underneath this your feet that's so good

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I'm excited to hear your sessions I literally I'm so excited to hear everyone's sessions

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because I ever I forever want to be a student so I'm just looking so forward to being trained

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to quit myself because I always think there's more we can learn there's more we can grow

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and so again get your seat whether it's virtual or in person we will see you July 2028 and

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29th here in the bay okay with that being said we're diving into a powerful conversation

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with literally one of Sean and I's favorite people Chris Alderjuice the first time I met

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him and hugged him I was like I love this guy is one of the best hearts you guys are

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going to be a part of a really intimate vulnerable conversation between him and Sean he's a passionate

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anointed worship leader he has such a beautiful heart for Jesus he's been through such a journey

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and come out so sweet before the Lord he's just an amazing man of God and he's married

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to our beloved LTV just she's family to us and she works with us on our team and so just

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get ready for this powerful conversation because it's just power packed with truce revelation

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and it's going to pull you deeper into your intimacy with Jesus.

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Hey keep it 100 tried I am so excited for you guys right now man we got my boy Chris

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in the room Chris Alderjuice and man he's a mighty man of God Chris what's up what's

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up man I am so excited to be here it's like surreal but you know your family so it's

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just a normal conversation that people get to see.

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I love that man hey we had a time the other day listeners we decided that we were going

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to have like a team fun day because we all run together with momentum and revival our

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momentum meetings if you guys are aware of that and then all the different master classes

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different conferences and Chris is very intricately involved in that so we went out to Napa man

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we got on bikes we rode like 20 miles dude.

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It was crazy like I was like trying to keep up with Sean and Chris they were leading the

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pack but we did it we weren't the ugly duckling all the way in the back we was with the fan

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we kept it going.

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We got a chance to see how the other side of the economic scale live man houses was crazy

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man.

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It was cool how we were all prophetically picking our homes our future homes mansions in Napa

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Valley ain't nothing like it.

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Nothing like it man with beautiful views it was beautiful day we ate at this incredible

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farm stand.

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Farm stand.

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It was incredible you told us about these pork chops with spicy jalapeno grits.

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Oh my goodness it was so good so good.

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You guys I love Chris for so many reasons and number one he is he's Gen Z to the bone

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in so many respects but he's almost like if you think of generations in terms of wisdom

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he's like a builder generation you know as a Tom Brokaw called that the greatest generation

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and so I just love the wisdom so we're going to jump right in this Chris one of the things

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we like to do here keeping 100 is we like to find out people's origin stories so tell

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us Chris at what point and how did the Holy Spirit make Jesus real to you.

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Man so you know growing up my family is from Haiti and so they immigrated here and I was

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fortunate enough to be born here in the States but being from Florida my family went to this

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very small hasten church in Broward County Florida shout out to the 954 people and for

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me it was strange right because I'm gonna I'm a first generation born American in my

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family but we're going to this hasten church and they would speak French and Creole and

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I always remember loving the music but and falling asleep when they were preaching the

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word mostly because I didn't speak French so I didn't understand all that they were

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saying but I could connect with the music with the rhythms and sing the songs because

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I could read a Creole which is kind of like a derivative of French to some degree but

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the French language was just too hard for me at the time and so you know that was my

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journey until I was about 13 14 and then I started working with my dad overnight because

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that was my excuse to not go to church on Sunday morning my dad being the good daddy

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that he was worked three or four jobs my whole life Wow and I was able to help him with the

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overnight one because his other job as a bartender wouldn't end early enough so I could get there

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at 11 and meet him and he'll meet me at like three o'clock in the morning and we were just

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throwing newspapers around the neighborhood that's what it was from 13 till about I graduated

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high school and bro you're getting up at three o'clock in the morning dude yeah you're you

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are hustling and grinding grinding man he's trying to help my dad and and so I stopped

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going to church because I couldn't go to church I was up so late and so I would just sleep

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in and it's crazy because after I graduated high school my mom being the good mom that

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she was was just sick of her son sleeping in on Sundays and that was one of the points

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of contention with my family and so she fought for my Sunday mornings back and made me attend

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this small little AG church in my neighborhood and it's American church and my life was forever

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changed what that's where I found my best friend I found community I got saved oddly

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enough which is probably another story for another day I actually was serving volunteering

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as a worship leader even before I had my own personal relationship with Jesus but the friendships

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I've made I'm still close to those people till this day and that was the moment that

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changed my life forever wow forever I will never forget it was Easter in 2009 I sang

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this song it basically the song is called a hiding place yes and I didn't realize what

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I was singing and then as I'm singing it I'm just sensing the presence of God and literally

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the Lord used ministry to minister to me and I'm forever grateful but I'd say that's you

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know that's the beginning for me and change my life man that's so problem and obviously

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to go from a service where you weren't really understanding the word you know obviously that

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was a big part of it but yet although you didn't understand you know there was a familiarity

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you know I'm sure the spirit of God was there so when you got to the point where you could

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start understanding yeah start connecting seeing other people sound like there were more people

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your age that you could connect with exact and then what was it kind of like a point

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in the word where man the word began to convict you was a point where you just felt the love

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of God was it a point just in worship where your heart began to connect was it kind of

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a an amalgamation of all of them yeah was it for you I'd say I mean the first moment

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that I could remember I got invited to attend the youth group and so I did and I remember

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this worship leader singing the song from the inside out by no song yeah and it wrecked

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me and I you know I I tend to think that worship music is a sermon with music to it that's

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how I like to look at it and the words that really really just just touched my heart was

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a thousand times I failed still your mercy remained and still I stumbled again but I'm

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caught in your grace everlasting your light will shine when all else fades never ending

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your glory goes beyond all fame and for me being in high school those four years were

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the best four years of my adolescence like I know most people are like oh I hated high

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school I was one of the rare people that loved it I found myself you know I was just super

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confident I was into sports and into music I was just kind of all over the place and

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I had a good time but all my friends went away to college so I felt like a piece of me was

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gone I was the only one that stayed back and at the same time my mom's like no you're

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gonna go to church and the Lord filled that void with his love with his acceptance and

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then also brought in some really really good solid people who've been doing the church thing

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much longer than I at the time to kind of walk alongside of me and to encourage me and be

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an extension of his love and his grace and his kindness and just that community man and

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we all served together like it just was amazing and it's exactly what I needed in that time.

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Hey man so you came up obviously Gen Z man you came up in the entire T of your come up

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was the digital age oh you had access to social media all that stuff you guys are the first

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generation so in high school man with all the preparations because you're at a public

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high school you know right?

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So you're at a public high school but you're standing for God the pulls and everything

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how did you navigate that whole peer pressure social media social conformity, sway spirit

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of the world versus walking right before God?

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I actually didn't do a good job at this at first.

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I love your honesty.

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Honestly I was struggling I thought I had to live a double life I thought okay because

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a lot of the people that I went to school with didn't go to church with me it was kind

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of easy yeah and so like I kind of had two different lives until a friend from this church

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youth group that I was a part of told me hey yo like you can't be living a double life

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like you can't be up here leading worship and then on the back end just doing whatever

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you want.

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Now I was always like you know I was always a life of the party but I just never by the

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grace of God I never like even dabbled with drugs or alcohol that just wasn't my thing

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I'm growing up in a pretty affluent area a lot of I experienced a lot of like drunk driving

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deaths with some of my friends in high school so that kind of just deterred me from even

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wanting to play with that but I was still at all the parties I was still there just never

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really participated but then I realized when I had this conversation with that person like

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oh man like the same Jesus who died gave everything for me I'm only giving him a piece of me.

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So I instantly made the decision like hey okay I'm not gonna do this anymore and I just

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was sold out ever since.

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That is amazing man you know let me ask you this Chris how did you recognize that worship

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gift those of you there listening Chris is an amazing worship leader and when I say worship

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leader some people they're good at the worship they're not good at the leading or some people

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are good at the leading not as strong in the worship Chris is equally strong his bicep

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and tricep in the air in a boat popping when it comes to worship and leading others into

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worship and leading teams how'd you recognize that worship gift on your life bro.

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Well first sensei we call Sean sensei man you're so kind thank you that is super super

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kind you know so at the same church my mom you know everyone you know if you have a

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good relationship with your mom you know that moms tend to see you as like a six year old

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or an eight year old they have this one memory of you no matter how old you get that's the

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only way they see you and when I was a kid she had put us in this little kids choir and

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so we used to sing with them do all these like Kirk Franklin hits that's kind of was

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the beginning yeah I didn't really quite understand it was just fun and I had to do it my mom

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made me do it but fast forward I started attending this church and I remember I had shoulder

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surgery so my arm was in a sling and I just was like just you know kind of set my mom's

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making me wake up early and go to this church I don't know anybody here I'd rather go work

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with my dad and whatever the case may be but she calls over the singer pastor now my mom

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is the quietest shy it's like she won't do that but she felt like yo I need the attention

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the senior pastor calls him over and says hey my son sings make him join the choir this

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is what she says and I'm like oh my gosh what are you doing and so the guys like yo we have

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rehearsal on Wednesday you should come me being me I tend to be a little bit of a yes

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man and I didn't want to embarrass my mom so I just was like okay I'll go and so I decided

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to ghost this is crazy right literally the next day that Monday I'm leaving to ghost hungry

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so I was gonna go get breakfast I get into a car accident right in front of the church

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oh wow like I hit this car this car hit me head on collision both cars total loss like

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so the church was right outside of my neighborhood and I hit like we hit each other right in

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front of the church I get out the car I go see if that other person's okay that person

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ends up being one of the youth group members that attends this church and she was kind

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of like the princess of the house you know those church people that's like everybody

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loves her everyone she's a part of everyone's family this was her and I'm like oh my gosh

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and no one knows me from a can of paint and so okay that whole thing happens and you know

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the cops do what they do and you know we figure all that stuff out and I still decided to

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go to this rehearsal and I go there and the choir director is asking hey does anyone

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need prayer requests and the choir member goes oh you know pray for this person this

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girl and you know somebody you know hit them in a car accident was kind of like talking

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bad a little bit not knowing that I was in the room and so I kind of like interrupted

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and was like oh that that was me I don't know why I did that and I know this is a long answer

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to a very short question um but that was the beginning of me serving in worship this was

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literally the beginning of me serving in worship and um from there I just had the confidence

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I don't even know like where it came from to just stick it out and I did and then from

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that the youth pastor needed a young person to lead youth worship for youth Sunday which

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was a big thing where they allowed the youth group to lead worship on Sunday morning take

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over the Sunday morning service and I was the youngest person in the choir he's like

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he took me out to coffee um at Starbucks and was like hey I need you to lead worship for

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my youth group on youth Sunday I didn't even really know what that meant but I just said

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okay I can help out I have time I'm free and um so I remember talking to some of the the

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other students who are involved like hey I'm thinking about doing this song it was Days

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of Elijah and back then that was considered an old song I was only around the adults the

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Sunday morning adults and that's when he gave me um a Hillsong United CD and was like listen

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to this pig songs from this we're young this is what we do and I was like okay this is

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my peer like we're probably like a year between age so but I was just always with the adults

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I didn't know um anything else and that Sunday morning lo and behold we did some younger songs

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and I led worship and that was literally beginning I remember I was so bold that I did this altar

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call what yes I called the whole congregation to the front and worship was supposed to be

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15 minutes this was at least 45 minutes no one gave me the real like instructions I just

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was free I was bold I went for it had charisma and it was during that service where I accepted

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the Lord Savior as as Lord Jesus as my savior wow that was my whole altar call I was like

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hey everyone needs to come up here and pray for someone else I actually have this video

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on YouTube which is hilarious and I just called everyone up and if you don't have a relationship

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with Jesus now's your chance and I didn't realize I was talking to myself man bro and I was

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weeping and I was crying and that was the beginning that was the beginning moment where

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I started realizing I think this is what I want to do for the rest of my life wow this

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is eerily similar there was during a UK revival back in the day there was this preacher and

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he was preaching and so obviously he had made a commitment he said yes to the call of God

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but he must not have been worried needed to be with the Lord he preached a message and

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while he was preaching the message he came under conviction and got saved under his

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whole own message and revival broke out and so I just think man what an incredible way

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that you both discovered your worship gift but at the same time God made himself like

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supremely real to you and that was just that's that's amazing now Chris because I know you

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and I know your story you know our stories is what happens when you do life together

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and I'm blessed to do it you had a wilderness chapter inside of you know how you have different

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chapters in your life and if God I think it was if you've listened to keep you 100 any

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amount of time you've heard me quote the AW does your quote that before God uses a man

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greatly he must first crush him deeply and although we don't like that it's so that

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God can get our character in a place where our character can platform our gifts because

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if your character isn't ready when you start putting on the weight of people recognizing

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you it it usually is a self sabotage wrong way forward kind of situation but you went

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through a witness experience and the thing that I love for our leaders our listeners

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to hear the several different components but I don't know if I ever know a dude that was

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in revival kind of maybe at a certain point because of their own space and place kind

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of burned out in it and then God seriously revived at a whole other level you know usually

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that doesn't happen but anyway tell us your wilderness experience man man so you know

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I was attending this great church in Fort Lauderdale amazing church this was where I

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learned so much about not my like not only myself but ministry worship revival like we

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had a revival that was supposed to be like three days ended up being like nine weeks

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or something crazy like that and I was young I had to be like 24 I was really really really

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young and just zealous and excited to serve and what I missed was I didn't know how to

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personally sustain the amount that I was giving and I look back now and of course like in

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the time like I wanted to blame everything else right I wanted to blame leadership I

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wanted to blame this I wanted to blame that I wanted to blame my friends I wanted to blame

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sort coming you name it I blamed it when I look back I realized the key was for me to

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be able to sustain pouring out I didn't have a consistent pouring in in my own personal

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life and God was there God was available his presence was always willing to meet but instead

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of going back to him I just went to lay down I went to the spirit love of lethargy see

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if I'm making that word up but just vegging and watching TV and just hanging out I didn't

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do enough reflecting I didn't do enough of man this is what God did instead I just was

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so focused on the physical toll I was so focused on the price that I never even set out to

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pay I didn't even know I needed to pay but I paid it and didn't get the replenishment

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from the source and and honestly like that's one of my it's a regret but at the same time

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I'm thankful for it because it's helped bridge that gap of where I'm at now yes I needed

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that season to now be able to sustain any kind of move of God whether that's corporately

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or personally it just doesn't matter at the end of the day I don't want to move if he's

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not in it it's not just in the public sense it's in my private life yes more than anything

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and so I just remember man serving and I remember me and my friends used to have conversations

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like cuz you know we would serve together and you know we've seen people laid out in

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healing testimonies and you know this lump disappeared or this this preacher evangelist

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lays hands on someone and they just fall out I remember being on the platform going yeah

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that stuff will never happen to me my mentality is why would anybody want to lay hands on

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the person that's singing the songs behind them that's how I saw it and I look back now

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and I feel like the Lord has shifted that in my life it's no longer I'm doing a service

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versus I'm a part of Lou and it's it's it's night and day and man those those years were

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tough they were challenging but it gave me the grit the stamina the energy and I didn't

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know it then but I am so grateful for that time and so after those years I you know I

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left that church didn't really know what was next didn't know what God had for me and I

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don't even know if I really cared to be honest I knew I loved God I knew I believed in God

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but the ministry part I kind of was like I don't know about that I don't know about revivals

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everyone wants a revival right I'm like if that's what it felt like I don't want anything

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to do with that right but you know the Lord took me I like to call it a cave before I

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could be in the kingdom I had to learn how to be in the cave where there was nothing

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there where I was almost in hiding and that's what New Mexico was for me and man the Lord

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began a healing that I didn't even know I needed wow and honestly spending time with

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you and Christa is really what helped that healing even come to completion and I didn't

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even know I needed that wow and yeah the wilderness is is necessary man and so in that time in

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season and a couple thousand one thought you know I was thinking about how you were saying

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that you had all this output but you didn't recognize oh man you know if I have all this

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output there's got to be input you know I got to get watered if I'm going to be watered

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in other people I was thinking about this time when all of a sudden I dramatically increased

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my athletic output you know I think I'm taking mixed martial arts class I had another class

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and then I added another degree of cardio activity and I was doing all this stuff but

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I was drinking the same water levels as I was before all of a sudden man for a good while

411
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,880
I had this tremendous pain in my back and it was like debilitating like it was hard

412
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to get in the car get out it got to the point where literally I was not quite bedridden

413
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but I couldn't be bedridden and so I remember going to the doctor and the doctor says are

414
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:53,040
you a big time coffee drinker I go no they go you're severely dehydrated I go what and

415
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:57,320
they go yeah and I'm thinking I drank the same water level water amount that I've always

416
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,600
drunk but now what I didn't make the connection with that level of exertion going to another

417
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:06,600
level my water and I think in life a lot of people they're so busy watering others they're

418
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not getting watered themselves and that really puts you in a vulnerable situation and unfortunately

419
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:16,160
I think we've seen vessels make bad decisions because of that now in this season I'm going

420
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:21,720
to get back to you Chris in this season when you had transitioned from the east coast to

421
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:27,880
a little bit more towards the west southwestern portion of the United States I know that there

422
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was something that happened that was a part of your wilderness chapter left you kind of

423
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,400
reeling for a moment and you it was one of those times I think looking at respect it

424
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:42,200
was God testing your characters how you would deal with disappointment at that level tell

425
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:47,640
us about that if you're cool with that yeah so after I was at this church and for a lot

426
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:52,560
of after I resigned I moved to New Mexico which don't ask it's you know New Mexico and if

427
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:59,320
you're from New Mexico we love you I spent some time there in a small a small city on

428
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:05,360
the east side of New Mexico and within six weeks of me being at this church now I only

429
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,280
accepted this job because there was already a worship pastor there so they wouldn't have

430
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:15,240
been this like full on responsibility my job was a worship pastor but I was more brought

431
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:19,760
there to help develop and train which is easy like I love that I love seeing you know younger

432
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,640
people growing their gifts and volunteers growing their gifts and so I was really the job but

433
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:30,480
then within six weeks there was an indiscretion from upper leadership which for me I didn't

434
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:35,840
I wasn't there long enough to have like a deep emotional connection right but all of my co-workers

435
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:41,040
were wow all of my ministry partners were all of the volunteers were all of the church

436
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:45,320
were this this guy planned to this church and was the only senior pastor for 40 years

437
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:51,440
oh my and what's so beautiful he had a great ministry it was amazing like from day one

438
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:56,520
he was baptizing people in every service thousands tens of thousands of people were baptized

439
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:02,040
in this church was crazy the city the town was only about I think four thousand people

440
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:08,080
I church was about two thousand people it was incredible incredible and it's at the peak

441
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:14,200
of its existence and then there was this this huge indiscretion that really hurt a lot of

442
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:19,800
people wow and I remember being in that meeting and that was the first time where it became

443
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:25,200
clear why the Lord had me there I'm thinking I accepted this job to run away from something

444
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:32,320
but God led me there to run to something and it gave me a chance in my own hurt in my own

445
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:39,120
burnout and my own exhaustion and my own confusion and my own despair weariness you know all the

446
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:45,520
adjectives the Lord used me to help bring hope and healing to a whole people through

447
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:52,800
worship it was incredible what happened and there's some great people in this town and

448
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:59,720
amazing amazing people who took me in treated me like family but they were hurting they were

449
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:06,000
hurting and the worship pastor at the time resigned so it was my job it was only Chris

450
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:11,960
now my goodness to figure out okay how do we worship through this storm how do we worship

451
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:16,920
through this storm and these people have never even like seen anything like that if you know

452
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:23,280
anything about small town living they're very disconnected to city suburbia like where I'm

453
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:29,360
from I heard of moral failures too many times right but these people never really seen or

454
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:34,960
heard or ever thought it would be this close and I remember we had found everything out on a

455
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Friday and we actually had a service that night wow and I had to lead worship the same service

456
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,360
that they were gonna let the congregation know all this stuff and that's when the Lord just

457
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:48,160
showed me like they're gonna make it through this through worship they're keeping their eyes

458
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:53,720
fixed on Jesus on the cross on the love of God and from that he will keep them he will protect

459
00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:59,960
them he will grow them show them love and I was there for 11 months and man like the ministry

460
00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:05,120
grew it flourished in fact that we the church merged with another church a very prominent

461
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:11,640
church wow huge like 20,000 member church oh yeah it was crazy it was a lot of different

462
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:17,240
things that happened but I remember around December the new senior pastor over this 20,000

463
00:36:17,240 --> 00:36:22,960
member church met with met with me and with our pastors and he looked at me and said Chris I did

464
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:28,360
not expect growth in this season I came in here to sustain wow so the fact that there was growth

465
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:34,600
in the worship ministry we went from like like I don't know like maybe 15 volunteers to I can't

466
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:40,400
even tell you it was a substantial amount like it was crazy how many people the Lord brought wow

467
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:47,240
for such a time as this and he was just an awe man but you know we were just so fixed on Jesus so

468
00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:52,360
enamored with what God wanted to do and in that that brought so much healing to me bro I think I'm

469
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:57,240
gonna underscore something you said Chris I think it's so profound I think disappointment which let's

470
00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:02,040
just get real we're all gonna have disappointment we're all gonna face problems we're all gonna be

471
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:07,400
hit with setbacks things we didn't see coming and it seems like just observation looking at people

472
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:12,480
watching people live their lives out in the kingdom Christians church going people it takes out a lot

473
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:17,320
of people yeah but what I think it is is that disappointment that pain that situation and you

474
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:22,600
said if you brows it's an elevator now elevator obviously the word is elevate yeah right the

475
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:27,400
purpose of elevators you're trying to go to the next highest floor but I think the pain the problem

476
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:31,680
it's an elevator but you choose whether that arrow is going up or going down that's right you go to

477
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:36,000
the elevator I push up you're funny because a lot of elevators you get in always like to get on a

478
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:40,440
top floor so you get in a lot of the voice activated they go going down they'll say when you

479
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:46,960
get an elevator and I corrected I go I may be going down but I'm really going on because I think

480
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:53,040
what you did you made the choice you could have went in a major I'm hurt I'm burned out hashtag

481
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:58,120
church hurt movement deconstruct there's a whole path you could have went down but you said you

482
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:02,680
pressed into Jesus and it's like you push the elevator so I just believe that there are people

483
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,720
listening right now you're facing something right now I just want to challenge you don't push the

484
00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:11,960
downward arrow on the elevator push the upward arrow I would say this don't waste your trials

485
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:17,440
don't waste your setbacks your disappointment it's an opportunity the Bible says you know when it

486
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:22,160
speaks of Jesus that we may know him the power is resurrection everybody's down with that but then

487
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:26,360
it says the fellowship of his sufferings few people are down with that and that's how you get

488
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:31,320
to know him and so I love that in you so kind of to finish off that chapter obviously you're now

489
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:36,800
married you're here in California so how did the next transition go where you got out here with us

490
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:44,440
so when I was leaving New Mexico I was out of place where I was done with ministry and the New

491
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:51,440
Mexico season to your point Sean really brought me back to my Genesis with the Lord I had nothing

492
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:56,000
else I didn't have the community my strong community in Florida that I built for years and

493
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,160
years I didn't have that I had a good community but I had just met them it was only 11 months

494
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:05,600
right so I didn't have my family I was in the middle of nowhere wow there wasn't many people

495
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:11,040
that looked like me honestly like right I was just I had nothing I was literally in the desert

496
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:17,600
literally literally and the Lord brought me back to him that's all I had and it was a very up and

497
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:22,960
down season with him but I he was there and I had a lot of time in isolation which if you know my

498
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:27,200
personality that's just not what I do I don't ever like I want to do stuff with people all the

499
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:32,480
time and but I had a lot of time in isolation and when I left that season we did so many great

500
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:36,720
things they didn't have to rehire my position which I thought was that's always a goal when

501
00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:42,240
you're in ministry like replace yourself and it was just beautiful by the grace of God but I just

502
00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:48,240
was done with ministry I was done with politics in the church I was done with you know not having

503
00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:54,880
a space to be freely Chris yes I always felt like I had to pull back in certain situations or had to

504
00:39:54,880 --> 00:40:01,520
play the part or play the role to be respected or to be taken seriously I just felt like you know

505
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:07,680
what in this next season I'm I'd rather go and help a church for like a week and leave be kind of

506
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:13,040
consulting consult like I thought that just was the next season and so I'm a good friend of mine

507
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:19,440
Andy was already here in California and earlier a few months earlier you know he and I were joking

508
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:23,840
around he's like man like dude man you got a lot going on here you should leave and come to California

509
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:28,400
and I'm like nah man but you know put feelers out there I'll never say no to an interview like I'll

510
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:34,560
never say no to a potential open door I don't know what God wants to do but at that time like

511
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:40,480
new life wasn't looking for anybody and so I was like okay cool um no biggie and so I finally was

512
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:47,840
home and flew out here and interviewed and twice and I was just not interested I was like yo I don't

513
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:53,440
want to be in a church anymore like I just you know I found myself in a weird way I loved God but

514
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:59,360
hated the church hated the institution of the church I'm a huge people person right I love the church

515
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:05,120
people yeah yeah yeah and I hated the church building yeah yeah no I tried you know so I just wasn't

516
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:10,160
about that and um I remember I got the phone call and they're like hey it's been a week what are you

517
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:17,040
gonna do and I kid you not I promise you I said no I said no but somehow some way God turned that

518
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:23,600
into a yes um and I didn't even fight it because I just knew in my heart from praying and fasting

519
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:28,560
and thinking and talking to close friends and singing wise counsel I just knew this is where I

520
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:33,840
needed to be but the thing that made me the most nervous is I didn't know why because everything

521
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:39,520
that was being offered here was not what I wanted but this is where I was supposed to be wow I take

522
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:47,120
the move move out here and get established here and lo and behold what's so funny is um the second

523
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:54,320
day that I moved here I met Lillian wow who's my wife come on bro and oddly enough is that same week

524
00:41:54,320 --> 00:42:00,160
she moved back from Buffalo so backstory uh special shout out to my wife she's amazing y'all yeah she

525
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:04,960
is amazing she was working for Starbucks was at Buffalo supposed to be six weeks ended up being

526
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:11,280
like seven or eight months and somehow some way the day that the week I moved here she moved back

527
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:15,760
from Buffalo wow and wasn't planned she didn't know it was just kind of like hey the assignment's

528
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:22,080
done come back and so we met my second day uh through a mutual friend and we hung out and you

529
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:26,160
know we kind of got into a little bit of a argument me represent I was saying the east coast is better

530
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:30,720
than the west coast um and she wasn't too fond of that and so but that was the beginning of our

531
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:36,640
friendship wow and then that friday that so that's tuesday so then three days later that friday I

532
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:42,960
have my first event at new life a worship leader um jasmine was sick and so I had to I was just there

533
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:48,560
by myself with angelo um and I don't know I don't know anything I don't know anyone's name but I'm

534
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:53,360
supposed to lead worship with these volunteers for this event and that's why I first met Christa wow

535
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:57,920
and I will never forget that exchange like I think we we shook hands because they introduced and

536
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:02,800
they're like yeah this our new worship pastor and I just felt like I knew her in the weirdest way I

537
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:07,520
had never met Christa before right but I was like yo why do I feel like I know this person I couldn't

538
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:14,240
put my finger on it and then we flowed that service and it was amazing it was easy it was great it was

539
00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:19,280
effortless I just kind of was like oh yeah I just know what she's about but in a way I kind of was

540
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:23,840
like it was a little cynical I was like okay I get what these revivalists are about and then and then

541
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:29,680
I think probably that Monday you and Christa spoke to the staff yes and remember so that was like and

542
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:33,600
so I just did it because I was trying to give everyone a break I'm the new guy so I did a little

543
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:38,720
uh piano uh worship I remember that that's where I met you and Christa and you guys are flowing

544
00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:44,720
prophetically and I just was doing what I do like and it just felt like we've been doing this for a

545
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:49,920
million years yes and it was just seamless and then I remember I think it was probably a few weeks

546
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:55,280
after that that's when you and you and Christa met with me to talk about helping with prophetic

547
00:43:55,280 --> 00:44:00,800
master class and the momentum conference yes it was just those those two things at the time right

548
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:08,160
a little I had no clue that it was going to be this lifelong relationship that I needed so desperately

549
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:16,080
wow I did not I my wife was here mentors were here and you and Christa my healing was here wow

550
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:21,280
this community my like my cousin actually moved to California I have close friends in Morgan Hill

551
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:26,800
the community I'm finding at this church and new life and being able to build and pour in here

552
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:32,160
like the exceedingly abundantly above I could ever even ask and I didn't even ask for it I stopped

553
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:38,240
asking I was over it I love how God works oh my goodness man and the relationship I dude I can

554
00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:45,760
go on and on like I am so blessed I am so so blessed by that yes bro and then how God always takes

555
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:51,280
it amen I'm gonna throw in a two-part question uh you those who are listening all of our momentum

556
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:56,000
events which we do monthly meetings in Oakland California we do a major conference once a year

557
00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:00,480
momentum conference and then we do kind of a momentum various masterclass it'd be prophetic

558
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:05,840
masterclass healing and deliverance masterclass two full question Chris one what part do you feel

559
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:11,040
worship will play in the next move and then two uh what do you expect from these momentums and I

560
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:16,160
know it's a two-part question but what what part because you you're you're leading worship at all

561
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:21,120
of our events you're putting together teams you're working with different people and honestly people

562
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:25,920
seriously you're so gifted and the way you follow Holy Spirit is amazing so again back to the question

563
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:29,680
what part do you feel worship will play in this next move and what do you expect if there's a

564
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:36,000
momentum masterclass I think worship is going to play such a significant role in this next move

565
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:41,600
because I believe worship is everything it's not just a song it's not just a musician it's not just

566
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:47,120
a talented singer it's how we live our lives on the daily basis come on bro worship is what tells

567
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:52,160
you to hey god loves you to that person in the supermarket or hey I want to I want to pay for

568
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:57,600
that card behind me in the drive-thru or hey let me let me get you a coffee yes I think worship

569
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:04,160
leads us in every area of our lives it encourages it blesses the Lord it gives him the glory that

570
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:10,720
he deserves and worship postures us in a place of realizing all that I have is yours god everything

571
00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:16,240
that I have I'm a big proponent I tell people this all the time I don't lead worship because I

572
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:21,440
like music I enjoy music but music's not really a passion for me my passion has always been people

573
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:28,800
and worship is a tool or music is a tool that the Lord has used to lead me to people that's always

574
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:36,000
been my thing since day one and I wish I could say like man like music's everything to me but

575
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:40,720
music is just a tool to bring people closer to the Lord and I think in this next move and these

576
00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:46,640
momentum moves I've seen how worship has totally just shifted the atmosphere when when and at least

577
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:52,080
in definitely the momentum nights like I've seen where we push and press and encourage and just

578
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:58,880
like lead the people 100% they go for it yes sir and we've seen what happens like oh my gosh there's

579
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:04,480
no greater sound than when I hear God's people singing without a worship leader on their own wow

580
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:09,520
it just feels like heaven yes and I believe that's going to be so significant because I believe people

581
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:13,840
are going to be leading worship in their homes people are going to be lighthouses in their own

582
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:18,160
community and in that like just like the upper room like we're going to have thousands of upper

583
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:22,720
room experiences in different neighborhoods where people are going to have so many neighbors and

584
00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:27,040
so and so's come over from out of nowhere they won't even know what to do with them and I think

585
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:32,160
it's going to be contagious I think it's going to affect every church every congregation I think

586
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:36,880
worship is the key when I I'm reminded of the story and it's funny I've been talking about the

587
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:41,760
story a lot and maybe it was for this conversation Sean um but it's the story of the golden calf and

588
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:46,560
if you remember in Exodus I think it's Exodus 32 uh Moses goes to be with the Lord and the people

589
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:52,000
are left behind with Aaron right um Aaron who's a strategist but was also people pleasing yeah um

590
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:56,480
great speaker um decided man that people are complaining like hey we want we want to build

591
00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:01,360
an altar or build a statue build an idol um to worship the Lord uh because we you know Moses

592
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:05,120
gets to worship how come we can't you know the Israelites were no for complaining this was normal

593
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:11,200
for them um Aaron being wise decided okay won't you guys melt the gold um and I think it's um your

594
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:15,120
children's earrings melt the gold and then I'm we're going to make a statue lo and behold they

595
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:21,280
turn into a golden calf what's so interesting about this story um is when I went to Israel our

596
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:28,640
tour guide told it from a Jewish Israeli perspective which is different from an American Christian

597
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:34,880
perspective he shared how back in those times it was customary for people to be polytheistic

598
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:40,560
whereas in today's culture we're very monotheistic right like God is the only God right whereas back

599
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:44,960
then it was like okay we do believe in the sun god we do believe in this god but we just believe

600
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:51,200
that Jehovah is higher oh right this is how he he shared it and what's interesting is all the other

601
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:56,560
gods for them to come and be in a place you had to build something for them to sit on and that

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something oftentimes was like a golden statue a cow or or or altar altar whatever and so basically

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the people were complaining with normal custom customs like if God is with is with Moses then

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for him to be with us we need to build something for him to come right we need to build something so

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we can worship him and what and it's so funny when you read throughout all of Exodus which is one

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of my favorite books is the number one message that I feel that God was trying to get to is to the

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Israelites of that time and I think that message is still here to the to this day is I am with you

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no matter what so that the the splitting of the that the the Red Sea wasn't enough the cloud by day

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fire by night wasn't enough the mass the plagues to get you out of that wasn't enough crazy all

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these signs that manna come from heaven wasn't enough yet you wanted another thing for to be

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proven that I am with you yet this whole time I've been trying to get you to see that I am with you

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right now yesterday and tomorrow I feel like in today's world that that seems to be the message

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that the Lord is trying to get to his people is not only am I here not only did I send Jesus not

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only is a Holy Spirit available every single day so good but you don't have to have it at a church

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and what I love about the momentum nights is we see people from all different churches yeah

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all different walks of life come together get poured into get filled to go yes to go it doesn't

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stay yes go into your cities go into your neighborhoods go into your churches and and

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pour out and come back and get refilled yes and so anyways I just say all that to say I think worship

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is is a big key component when we see it um how God intended it and that's it's everything in our

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lives and I look forward to these next momentum nights because I believe God just has so much more

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yes this last one we saw so much so many healing testimonies we saw so many people filled with the

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Holy Spirit yes we saw people just laid out laid out in the best way possible just just just basking

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in the glory and in the love of God there was a peace in that room facts oh my goodness like it

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was just oh it just I was in awe and it's so cool like from my standpoint as a person leading worship

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people are often like man like are you tired are you exhausted and I think my healing journey has

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led me to a place to not only learn how to go back to the source to get refilled but in these

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momentum nights I am getting filled literally as I'm pouring out crazy and I've never experienced

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that before that's crazy like I leave feeling like I got hit by a truck but super energized like

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wanting more like like we can keep going and keep going and so you do too hey listen and I'm just

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excited for more of these nights to come because I think God is just gonna show us more of heaven

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and I think you nailed something bro and I love how you brought in that passage in Exodus that

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that altar for them was kind of a statement of God we want you to be with us and yet to connect

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what you're saying Psalms 22 3 the Lord inhabits the praises of his people that are our praise I

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believe that prayer connects us to the heart of God but worship connects us to the presence of the

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Lord tabernacle dwelling in our midst and so that's so important Chris man what you shared is so

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profound I mean like yo dude you're deep you're as likable as they come I literally can't say I

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know a guy more likable I mean you're on the Mount Rushmore in my life of likable guys like anybody

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has a problem with you has a problem hey how can our listeners stay in contact with you man and

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just follow what you're doing and keep up with you yeah I'm mostly on Instagram you could find me

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it's Chris Alda justy or Alda juiced I'm sure you'll find the spelling somewhere but yeah I'm

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mostly on there Facebook same thing I love connecting with people so I love to meet new

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people hear your stories and just connect and just see what God does through new relationships and

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so Sean thank you so much for even like having me on here I am so appreciated of you you and

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Chris tell you guys have changed my life forever man and I'm just excited like if you could come out

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to Momentum Nights or PMC master classes healing and deliverance anything you need to be there

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like it'll change your life and I'm not just saying that because I'm a part I kid you not even if I

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wasn't leading worship I'll be sitting in the front row without question Chris is going to be

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leading worship along with the team at our next master class and you do not want to miss it we'll

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give you information obviously you can go to our website and find it Chris dude thanks so much for

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hopping on the keep it 100 podcast bro we love you we love your wife we call our LTV y'all it's

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Lily but LTV Lily of the Valley so all right we love you man I mean come on I love him I love

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what he shared that was such a good conversation oh it was amazing Chris his ability to be honest

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yes forthright yes funny 100 authentic himself but he loves the Lord with all his heart that was

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gold there were so many nuggets just the kind of thing that you learn from people's lives I always

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feel like our lives will be a classroom to a generation good or bad as to what to do or what

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not to do and he shared with us some things to do and I think that's so powerful you know and I love

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it when we allow our lives to be unpacked to be you're like you're saying a classroom for other

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people to learn from and I just love Chris I love his vulnerability I love his transparency

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and he always is going to point you back to Jesus and isn't that the way we should always

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respond through every lesson every path walked in our lives we're pointing back to Jesus and Chris

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does that so beautifully keep 100 tribe I hope you just so enjoyed this conversation is so rich

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and there's anything really just to walk away thinking is that worship just simply isn't a song

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at the beginning of a service or when your favorite tune comes on or what you have on your

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apple play playlist worship literally is our lifestyle it's the way we live our life and

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worshipers a true worshipers obviously worship and spirit and in truth and the whole understanding

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is that when you're a worshipper worship is warfare worship is the thing that can bring the

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presence of God so quickly that when you feel like you're in a situation where the enemy is

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trying to get at you and the enemy is trying to hit you get strongholds in your mind or maybe you

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need to worship God in the midst of your battling with an affliction or you feel an area in your

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life where you need freedom as you begin to worship it's so important and we're super pumped that

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we're going to have Chris several days from now also leading worship at our healing and

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deliverance masterclass and if you're not going to be there live you can go live stream thanks so

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