Standing Strong in the Storm: Cultivating Resilience In Times Of Trouble

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Everyone has to handle challenging things in life, but few have ever had to handle as many

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hopeless challenges as my guest today on The Strang Report. Hello everyone, I'm Stephen Strang.

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When I met my guest, Greg Davis, and was given his book, Standing Strong in the Storm, I saw how God

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had helped him to respond to the nightmares in his life, receive a word from God to stand on,

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and to grow strong, overcoming adversity. For example, his first child was born with five

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heart birth defects, and he almost died. His wife also almost died from an autoimmune disease.

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Then the couple adopted a baby from China. Within a month, they found that the baby had brain cancer

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that almost killed her. This was followed by years of surgeries. Then Pastor Greg himself

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had a massive heart attack, followed by two brain aneurysms, and also almost died. But even with all

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these health problems that almost killed each member of his family, God brought them through

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every storm with a miraculous victory, and today everyone is healthy. But in the process, he learned

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lessons that will encourage you on how God can bring you through too. Today we'll hear the

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incredible testimony of Pastor Greg Davis of Memphis, Tennessee, and we will learn how each of us

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can have even greater impact on the other side of whatever storms we're going through. Stay tuned.

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Greg Davis, I appreciate you being on my podcast. You have an amazing story, and I think that you've

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learned some lessons that can apply to any of us. So why don't we start right at the top,

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the most important things that people can get. What did you learn from all this adversity that

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you went through? What can people who are watching learn? And then we'll kind of drill down and get

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into more details, but what is God showing you that you can share with my audience today?

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Okay, sure. I would love to be an encouragement. You know, as my family has faced over a dozen

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life-threatening health issues, and one of the main things you were asking about a lesson,

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one of the things that we learned was that when crisis hits and you're at death's door with a

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family member, which I have been over and over and over again, but God brought every one of us

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through it miraculously victory and gave us great health. He's a miraculous God. So anyway,

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but what he did show me, one of the lessons was instead of focusing all the way in only on the

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crisis of the moment, he showed me when my daughter was diagnosed with brain cancer,

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that I had to zoom back out and look at the big picture of what was still in the reality of my

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life. And when I did that, instead of just focusing on my daughter's, you know, diagnosis for brain

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cancer, which I couldn't believe because we had just adopted her 30 days before that from China.

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And so when I looked at the big picture, instead of just worrying about her, I saw how that God

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brought my son incredibly through three open heart surgeries by the time he was eight years old,

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because he had a lot of heart defects. He wasn't supposed to live. God brought my wife through an

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autoimmune disease that almost killed her and her doctors told her she wasn't going to live. And so

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when I looked at the big picture, instead of only focusing on the crisis of the moment, I saw the

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healing of God, the blessing of God, the provision of God, how God brought us through all other

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situations through that at that point. And it built my faith up to remember that if God brought us

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through all that, he can absolutely bring us through this. And he did because my daughter

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also was incredibly healed and brought through her situation. So you have learned how to walk this

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through. How can somebody who's watching learn from your experience on how they can embrace and

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grow through the adversity that they're experiencing, whether it's health adversity like you did,

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whether it's a marital problem, whether it's financial situation. What do you say? Because I

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know you minister in churches all over the country. What do you tell people that really helps them in

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their own walk? Well, again, what we it's kind of related to what I just said, our focus tends to be

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on the crisis or the adversity. But if you look at the story, and that's actually a part of very

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much in my book is drill down into this story where Jesus came walking on the water on the stormy

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seas to his disciples in the middle of their storm. And when when that God used that passage of

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scripture to teach me so many lessons of how to navigate the storms of life. And so one of the

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main things to that God showed me is that, for instance, when Jesus walked out on the stormy

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seas, and, and they thought he was a ghost and everything. And they said, No, I'm not, you know,

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he said, I am. And so he, so he said, I, you know, he said, It is me, don't worry. And Peter said,

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Well, if it is you, can I step out and come towards you? And Jesus said, Come. So when Peter stepped

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out of the boat, he began to walk towards Jesus. And I believe that he was walking, obviously,

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he was walking on the water. But I also believe that he was walking on the word that Jesus said,

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that Jesus gave to him because Jesus gave him, he gave him permission to step out in faith. And he

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basically said, Yes, come. And so Peter was walking on the water, but he was also walking on the word

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that Christ gave him. And through all of our storms, we have always sought, Lord, what is your word

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that we have to walk on in this crisis. And so when Peter was keeping his focus on Christ,

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Jesus was giving him supernatural traction. You can't describe walking on water in any other way.

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It was supernatural traction that the Lord was giving to Peter. But when Peter got distracted,

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and looked at the storms around him, when he took his eyes and his focus off of Christ,

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when he fell to distraction, he lost his traction. And that's exactly what the devil wants to try to

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get every one of us to do. He wants us to take our eyes off of Christ and only focus on our storm.

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And if we do that, we can lose the supernatural traction that the Lord will give us to navigate

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through the storms of life. And so I've always encouraged people since this happened,

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don't take your eyes off of Christ. If you fall to distraction, you will lose your traction.

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And so that's what happened to Peter. That's good preaching. But, you know, I could make the point

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that there are a lot of preachers that could have said what you just said, who never experienced

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what you experienced. Also, your story, one of the things that attracted me when I first

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came across this book, Standing Strong in the Storm, was how you came through all these things,

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you know, that we've already kind of outlined. Things that most, a very, very, very tiny percentage

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of the population will ever have that many bad things happen. But you also came through Victorious,

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which is also kind of unusual, because a lot of people that are dealing with these things,

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their child has brain cancer and the child dies, or they have some kind of disease and their loved

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one dies. And how do they stand strong in that? And also, I want to find out how you, Greg Davis,

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learned to stand strong, because this was not just one crisis. This spanned several decades. Yes.

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And you had to pastor during that whole time and on and on and on. How did you learn, and it was

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more than just sort of figuring out the word picture, having to do attraction, walking on

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the water, as beautiful as that is, how did your story, how does it relate to people who are watching?

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Well, actually, it, you know, I use the example of Peter walking on the water. But what he what,

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what I learned was, and what we had to do was keep our focus on the Lord, and not let our emotions

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distract us on the crisis. And so that's a very practical thing of what we did, we kept our focus

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on the Lord, saying, Lord, I know that you are able to bring us through this. And I know that you know

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more than we know about why this is happening. But but so that was one of the main things. The

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reason why I mentioned that was because keeping your focus on the Lord is is very, very important

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to navigate, you know, through times of incredible adversity in life. So and then, you know, and just

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basically trusting Him and saying, Lord, I don't understand it. I don't understand it, but I trust

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you. We're looking at it with 2020 hindsight, but I know that there had to be attacks of your emotions,

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your mind. Yes, you had to be uncertain. How did you deal with those things as you were going through

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it? Well, there was, you know, it's kind of like there were ups and downs, I mean, because we're

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talking about a 30 year season of storms, you know, with with over a dozen life threatening health

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issues. And so there were times when, you know, when I was struggling really bad. But there were,

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you know, there were other times when when I was very, you know, very focused. But basically, just

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my own just reading the Word and studying the Word and personal devotions and trying to stay

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healthy spiritually is a major important practical thing that you have to do. Because if you know,

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if you get unhealthy spirit, if you get spiritually unhealthy, then that can really mess up your

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ability to navigate through, you know, the storms of life. And so one of my biggest passions is,

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just digging treasure out of the Word of God. There is so much treasure in the scriptures that

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that most people just kind of skim over and don't really see. And, you know, and I am a Hebrew and

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Greek geek. You know, I want to try to look underneath the English and see what the actual

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original meanings of certain words were. And so but God, we always one of the things about this

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word that I said, Peter had, you know, as he walked on the word, when we would be beginning

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with the first storm, which was the day my son was born, we began to ask, Lord, what are you saying?

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What is your word for us to walk on this storm? And this was way back before iPads, or smartphones,

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or screens everywhere. And so when the Lord would give us a scripture that we felt like he was giving

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us to walk through a particular storm, we would write it down on sticky notes, and stick it on

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the mirror in the bathroom, and put it on the refrigerator, and put it on the dash of the car,

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so that wherever we looked, we would be reminded of the scripture that the Lord told us was going

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to empower us to navigate the storm. And every time it did, every single time it did. And so

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people need to stay focused on their relationship with the Lord. And don't just skim the word every

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once in a while, be a passionate student of the Word of God, and it will transform everything in

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your life, including your ability to navigate storms that no one else thought you would make

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it through. Was there a turning point, or were there several turning points during this 30-year

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period? Because I know at some point, it seemed probably like things were getting worse, worse,

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and worse. But when did things start turning around for you? And also before the podcast is over,

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I want you to give us the good testimony, because there's good news that comes out of this,

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of victory, because I think that will encourage people. Yes, absolutely. It is encouraging to see

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incredible victories that you know are supernatural. But well, actually, there wasn't,

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again, what I mentioned was there was a turning point. Probably one of the main turning points was

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actually when my daughter was diagnosed with brain cancer. And then that's when we learned to stop

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focusing only on the crisis and to look at the big picture. But that was a turning point in that.

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We'd been doing the walking through the word thing. But just that was a major lesson. That's

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one reason why I share it so much, because it was a major lesson for us. But that was actually in

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we adopted her at the end of March in 2001, two weeks after her first birthday. She was an orphan

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in China. And then on April the 26th, she was diagnosed with brain cancer. And then on April

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27, she had a 12 hour emergency brain surgery and almost died that day. But that was kind of the

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turning point of helping us learn how to always be grateful and to essentially look at every day,

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make a list of gratitude. What do I have to be grateful for? What has God done in my life that

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I should be grateful for? And if you start making those lists, I also encourage everybody to be a

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journaler. I've been keeping the devotional journals since 1988. It was really helpful when

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you write things down, it helps you remember them. But doing that and that basically cultivating an

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attitude of gratitude really is a very practical help when you're in wonderful times or when you're

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navigating a storm. And then where is your daughter now and also your son? Because I know that

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things turned out well. Yes. Yeah, his first heart surgery was when he was seven days old.

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At six open heart surgeries by the time he was 17 years old, in about another month, they didn't

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think he was going to live in the ambulance to get him to the children's hospital on his birthday.

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They didn't know if he's going to live at all. He's about to turn 32 years old. And he's,

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you know, he's, he lives, he still lives in South Haven. And he's, most of his life, other than a

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few little, you know, other than the spots where there's something going wrong, most of his life,

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God has blessed him with such incredible health that he's been able to play sports.

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And they thought he would never be able to do that. And he's about to turn 32 years old.

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And my daughter, who they said, they didn't think she was going to live. She had less than 15%

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chance of living and no chance really of regular life. They thought, but she is now 24 years old,

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finished three years of college. They thought she'd never learned how to talk or even walk.

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But she is so blessed and she does live, she does still live with us here right now,

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you know, at 24. But, but again, you know, God brought her through the situation so amazingly.

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It actually St. Jude, which she was a patient there for over a year. St. Jude was so amazed,

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even her doctors at St. Jude were literally amazed at how well she got through the situation.

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How well she got through that cancer based on the supersized tumor that she had in her brain.

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And I literally can remember one day that we were walking in the halls at St. Jude and her

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doctor stopped us in the halls and leaned down and just, he was talking to her, but he was really

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talking to us. He said, how in the world are you doing so well? Said that to her when she was one

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year old and my son was nine at that point. And he answered the question. Colton said,

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we pray and God is supernatural. We pray and God touches her.

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You know, but we literally, even the, they used her in 2006 as one of the main faces across the

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country of St. Jude. Marlo Thomas had my daughter at six years old and me as guests with her on

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Larry King Live in November of 2006 to promote the Thanksgiving campaign because they were even

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amazed at how she overcame all of what they thought was going to happen to her.

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Why did you write this book and how can people get it? Well, actually, on a vacation one day,

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I was outside our RV and I was reading this scripture, actually that I had mentioned earlier,

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that this my devotions that morning. I already knew that, you know, I mean, we'd been through a lot

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of adversity. This was back in 2019 and I still kind of struggled sometimes knowing, Lord, why did

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you allow this while we were pastoring the church all these years? And that morning I was reading

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second Corinthians chapter one and this verse chapter three, chapter verse three says, praise

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God and the father of Lord Jesus, of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of compassion and the God

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of all comfort who comforts us in all of our troubles so that we can comfort those in any

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trouble around us with the comfort that we have received from God. And so the Lord showed me that

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morning the reason he allowed our family to go through all of those storms of adversity and

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life-threatening health issues was to train us of how to navigate adversity so that we could

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encourage other people and share the same lessons and the comfort that God gave us. And that was why

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that morning on my vacation I went in the RV, pulled out my laptop and started writing that book.

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And the reason was to share not just our story, most 85% of the book is not just a memoir,

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it's powerful biblical lessons and principles that God taught us that helped us navigate

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incredible amount of storms in life. And we wanted to be used of God to bless as many people as we

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possibly can because that makes it make a lot more sense of what we had to go through to get trained.

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And so that was the reason that we wrote the book. And we have had a lot of people talk about the

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fact that it really changed their perspective on all the crisis they'd gone through. I've had several

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people tell me that their depression went away. I've actually had a person tell me that it saved

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their life because they were so depressed they were planning suicide, but the message in the book

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changed their life and saved their life. But it's not because the message of the book, it's not just

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the most of it is deep drill downs into powerful scriptures that God used to help us. And so I can't

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I can't take credit. It's God's word. Well that's exciting and I know that you

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travel the country and minister in a lot of churches. If someone was interested in having

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you at their church or if they wanted more information about your ministry, how would they

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contact you? Okay, well they could they could go to my website, which is real simple. It's

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gregdavisonline.com. And so on the website, there's actually several devotional blogs

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on there. Some of them are actually award-winning and Christian writer conferences. But then also

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there's a place where they could buy my book on there, but it's also available on Amazon,

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on the websites of Barnes and Noble, Books of Million, and all that stuff. And also on my

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website, there is a page where that they could request to book me to speak

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at their church or at a conference or something like that. And so all that's available.

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And there's also a little promo thing for my YouTube channel where I do some teaching of a lot

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of the devotions that are on my website. As we wrap up this short podcast, I want to give you

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the last word and then I'll be back with a closing thought about my podcast. Well, I don't know if you

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wanted me to share the good news. We've already talked about some of it. God brought

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through, brought my son through six open heart surgeries by the time he was 17 and a bunch of

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other heart cath procedures. And then my wife almost died from autoimmune disease and brought

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her through that. She's alive. My daughter almost died from brain cancer. She's alive. I had a

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massive heart attack in November of 2021 and almost died twice that night. And three months

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after that, I was diagnosed with two brain aneurysms. But every one of our doctors,

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including my cardiologist and my neurologist, have been stunned at how God brought us through.

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The cardiologist said, we can't find any damage to your heart whatsoever. And I said, that's because

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the great physician protected me from having any heart damage whatsoever from a massive heart

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attack. And so basically, we just want to give the glory to God. I mean, I want people to know and

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understand, I didn't earn this. I didn't bring myself through this. I mean, it's just the

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glory of God is his ability when we keep our focus on him. And when we dig into his word and say,

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Lord, give me a word to walk on through storms of life, when we do these things, he can do

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beyond what anybody can ever imagine. And I can't, but he can. And so we want our lives

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to give the glory to God.

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Do you ever feel discouraged? Do you need hope? The world is so upside down that even if you believe

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there's power in the Holy Spirit, sometimes you need to be reminded that greater is he that is

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within us than he is in the world. My new book, Spirit-Led Living in an Upside Down World,

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was written to give you hope, to remind you of things you know, to explain spiritual truths

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that you didn't understand or maybe have forgotten. I draw on my decades of covering the worldwide

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move of the Holy Spirit to give you examples and stories of great men and women of God,

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from Jack Hayford to Catherine Kuhlman and many others explaining spiritual gifts and telling

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stories of victory in the face of trials and temptations. I wrote this book for you and I

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want you to read it. It's easy to read with lots of practical stories to help you. It is not a

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theological treatise on the Holy Spirit. In a way, it's a self-help book looking at the spiritual

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

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and the power to rebuke the spiritual attacks in your life and boldness to stand for God

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when the cancel culture wants you to sit down and shut up, then my book, Spirit-Led Living in an

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Upside Down World, is for you. You can find the book wherever Christian books are sold,

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including Amazon.com or MyCharismaShop.com. Remember, the Holy Spirit is here to help us now

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and for all the days ahead, no matter how upside down the world gets. Enjoy the book and God bless

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you.