I make the best
pancakes in the North woods.
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Hm, hm. I have never had
a worse pancake in my life.
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It's so terrible.
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Good. Just the way I like them
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I am going to the top.
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I'm excited.
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There are obstacles.
It's tough. You got to dig in.
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You gotta push
through the barriers.
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Yeah, it's worth it.
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My wife and I, I
just don't understand her.
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Sure I don't have time anymore.
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Where would I get the time?
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She doesn't understand.
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I get house
payments, I get car payments,
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I got old college
debts, I get credit cards.
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I have got one of the finest
homes in the entire county.
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Filled it with
elaborate furnishings.
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We have got a fancy
beautiful brand new car.
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Complaining.
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Complaining that I don't
talk with her like I used to.
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I just want to make her
happy, and make me happy.
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We don't
communicate like we used to.
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We don't enjoy each other.
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How can I? I mean I'm
making it in the world.
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She ought to be proud
of me. What's with her?
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I just don't get her. I
just don't understand her.
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Kids are getting on my nerves.
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Why don't they do
what I ask them to do?
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Yeah, I should
take some more time
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to talk with them
and play with them.
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Can you imagine?
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They want me to play 'trucky'
with them in the sandbox.
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They want me to take out
time to play in a sandbox?
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They don't know I
am an important person?
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I got to get on with life. I
am near the summit of my career.
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The kids have to wait.
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Life is tough you know.
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This is crazy.
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I thought I'd be
happy. I'm miserable.
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There's got to be a better way.
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That was me.
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I was at the end of my
rope. Have you ever been there?
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Have you ever been
out on the limb? I have.
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Sometimes it seems like
were just out of control,
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sometimes it feels
like we're just gonna crash.
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It was one endless treadmill.
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Have you been on it? I was.
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I start out a day
running like this,
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by noon I was going full speed
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by the evening when I went home,
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it was full
exhaustion all the way out.
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I was stressed, I
was pushed, exhausted.
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I fell all out with my wife,
and then on my own children,
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but now I have a
better way of life.
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So what happened? I downsized.
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I went from the largest
home that I've ever owned and
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40 park like acres,
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to the smallest
home I've ever owned.
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I left all those vehicles behind
and I went down to one vehicle.
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I've simplified my life.
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I brought my life down
to the irreducible minimum.
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I slowed down.
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I learnt to how
to say NO gracefully.
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I reprioritized my entire life
and something wonderful happened
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Friends, I found time.
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Time to think.
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Time to reflect.
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I didn't know I was in trouble.
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I was in charge.
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I made the decisions.
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I decided what I wanted
to do, what I want to think,
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what I want to see,
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I decide what I
want to accomplish.
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I came the greatest
decision in my entire life.
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Letting God be in
charge of Jim Hohnberger.
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Entirely, completely,
let Him have all of me.
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I learnt how to walk with God,
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I am still learning
how to walk with God,
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throughout my
entire day, all day long.
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He transformed my life,
it is transforming my life.
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It has revitalized my marriage,
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I've got the greatest
marriage in America at the day.
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It has reconnected my family,
we are a real family now.
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You don't see families
anymore. We are tight today.
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This has happened
when I had my children
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but my boys are grown, and
have their own families now.
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We formed a family unit
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that is almost
unseen in today's society.
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It is simple, very simple.
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In the beginning God,
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He was, He is, He's
always present with you
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and with me.
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I made God's word
my blueprint for life.
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And His Spirit my guide
throughout my entire day.
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God's Spirit is still
moving upon man's heart today.
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Just the same as in
Genesis where God spoken it was,
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God can speak,
and you can hear Him,
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you can sense
His presence with Him
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and He will guide you.
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It is nothing audible.
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But He speaks to
the quiet recesses
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of your mind, your
heart your conscience.
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You can't hide from God.
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You can't run from God.
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He is always there
and present for you.
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Let me illustrate.
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God is real.
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He is always with you.
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He never leaves you,
he never forsakes you.
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He wants to be your
helper, wherever you are.
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I want to talk to
you about an episode
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that I had in my life
a number of years ago.
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I was cutting
firewood by myself,
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and came into an area that was..
I was sitting up on a bench.
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It was about 25 feet in the air,
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and a beautiful
large tree had fallen
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in a storm and wedges
between a couple of trees.
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And was arched
like a bow and arrow,
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and was just waiting for someone
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to come and
release all that energy.
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And that someone was me.
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God is always with
you brothers and sisters.
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He never leaves, He
doesn't forsake you.
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When I was there and
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and I was cutting through
that tree with my chainsaw,
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I was going through little
rounds of wood just like I have
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here 16 inches of rounds
of wood, my trailer was right
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behind me. and I would
just kick that round of wood
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down off that cliff and
rolled down to the trailer.
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And I go to the next section,
I kicked that piece down
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and I go to the next section
and kick that piece down,
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When I got to the piece,
that was being held by that tree
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a still small voice said to me:
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Jim go the other
side of the tree.
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I thought for a while,
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I don't want to go to
the other side of the tree.
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I mean I like
this, it's working.
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No, I am not going to.
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That's the problem
with Jim Hohnberger.
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Jim Hohnberger is in charge.
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He knows what's best.
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My human
reasoning was in charge.
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But I had come with that
point with my walk with God,
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to understand that God whispers
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in the still small
recesses of our conscience.
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Nothing you can
hear, it's not audible.
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But quietly you've
had the experience.
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Maybe you haven't recognized
that God is speaking to you.
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but it is God speaking to you.
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I thought to
myself, no I don't want to.
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I walked back and I
started cutting again.
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And again that
impression came to my mind.
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Nothing that you hear just
the quiet recesses of your mind.
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And I said, Lord is that you.
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And Lord says, yes Jim, go
to the other side of the tree.
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Now, the problem that I have
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is that I'd like
to run my own show.
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There's a bumper
sticker out here.
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I saw when I was in
Greenville Tennessee.
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And I dislike
this bumper sticker.
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The bumper sticker
reads: God is my copilot.
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I hate that bumper sticker.
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I mean I hate
that bumper sticker.
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It's against everything
I stand for now in my life.
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That used to be Jim
Hohnberger, that not longer is.
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Why do I dislike
that bumper sticker?
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It's because if
God is the copilot,
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would you tell
me who the pilot is?
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Me.
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When I'm the pilot I put God
over in the copilot position,
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I have a problem.
I'm headed for trouble.
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When I was out
cutting that wood,
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God was there with me.
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He loves us.
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Doesn't matter how
big the sinner you are,
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how many sins you've committed,
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doesn't matter how many
things you've done wrong,
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you can't exclude God's
love and His presence from you.
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He is there for you always.
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The holy word says
00:20:12.99\00:20:16.01
"Thy ears shall hear a
word behind you, saying
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This is the way, walk in it.
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When you turn to the left
or you turn to the right. "
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What it's saying is
God is there with you.
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I recognized that and I said,
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Lord, yes I go to the
other side of the tree,
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so I moved to the
other side of the tree,
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finished my cut and
soon as I finished the cut,
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that tree flung out,
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and all that energy that
has been held on that tree
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was released.
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And as I stood
and watched that tree
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I could see what
would have happened to me.
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I could feel the tree
having hit me about knee level
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me flying over the 25 foot cliff
with the chainsaw in my hand
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landing on my back
and who knows, doing what,
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breaking my neck, or whatever
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then I would have ended
up in a hospital and said:
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Lord where were you?
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God is with you.
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He wants to save you
from all your problems.
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He wants to guide you.
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We are told in His word,
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that we are saved by
grace, through faith,
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and not by
yourself, it's a gift of God.
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I never understood
what that meant before.
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I didn't
understand that Jim Hohnberger
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needed to be saved every moment,
of every hour, of every day.
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In fact I needed to be saved
every time I opened my mouth.
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And God is there,
His grace comes in.
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I was once told that
grace is unmerited favor.
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But that's the beginning maybe.
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His grace is His
unmerited presence with us.
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He stands by our
side all day long,
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taps us on the shoulder and says
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Jim go to the
other side of the tree.
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That's His grace, it's His
presence with me throughout
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my day, all day long.
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Wanting to guide
me, to direct me.
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To give me
wisdom, to empower me.
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To save me from myself.
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And when we learn
00:22:27.63\00:22:28.60
how to understand
how God walks with us
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how He taps us on the
shoulder then we can respond Him
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through faith.
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Faith is not just a
belief in God's word.
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The devils believe in tremble.
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It's more than
just believe in the word
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or going to a church,
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or believe in a theology.
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Faith, real saving
faith accepts God's word
00:22:53.30\00:22:59.04
as a blueprint for your life.
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It then surrenders its
choice, my choice, my decision
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that God gave me that and
made me a free moral agent
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to choose Him or not choose Him
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any hour of the day.
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Faith surrenders that
choice that God is giving me,
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to do what He suggests,
rather what my human reason
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wants to do.
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And not only
surrenders that choice to God,
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but depends upon God, for
the action that is to follow.
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And it works by love.
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I don't do this
to merit anything.
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I do this because I know that
God knows what's best for me.
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I love Him because
what He has done for me.
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When I was cutting the wood,
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He needed to save me.
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I was headed for trouble.
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Don't you want that kind of God?
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I want that kind of God.
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Who would ever
reject that kind of God?
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In His grace was
there, His presence was there.
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Whispering in my
ears, tap me on the shoulder
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speaking to my
conscience and say
00:24:02.73\00:24:06.07
Jim go to the
other side of the tree.
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My part is to
recognize His presence with me,
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nothing audible, nothing visual.
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Just recognize
the still, small voice
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and then surrender
my ability to decide
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my being the pilot and put
myself in the copilots position
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allow God in the
pilot position, and say
00:24:28.27\00:24:30.65
Yes Lord, and go to
the other side of the tree.
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That's faith.
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That's a faith that works.
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So we are saved by
grace, through faith
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and not by yourself,
this is a gift it says.
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What do you mean it's a gift?
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All of us receive
gifts at Christmas time.
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What would you think of me
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if someone that loved me gave
me a lovely gift in a nice box,
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with a beautiful bow on the top
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and I take that gift
and stick it up in a closet
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and let it set there.
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Does that gift do me
any good? Not at the least.
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For a gift to be
valuable you have to open it.
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We are told, that
this is a gift of God.
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To open it is our choice.
00:25:18.54\00:25:20.50
I can choose to go with
this gift, that God has given me
00:25:20.54\00:25:25.52
which is His
presence to empower me
00:25:25.55\00:25:27.20
and guide me and direct me
00:25:27.23\00:25:29.23
and give me wisdom or
I can reject the gift.
00:25:29.27\00:25:32.33
I choose to open that gift
00:25:32.36\00:25:34.96
every day, every
moment throughout a day,
00:25:35.00\00:25:37.46
as often as God brings it to me.
00:25:37.49\00:25:39.92
And guess what?
00:25:39.95\00:25:41.19
My life is better.
00:25:41.22\00:25:43.51
Is much better when
God runs it and guides it
00:25:43.55\00:25:46.44
than when I do.
00:25:46.47\00:25:48.30
One of the areas of my
life that is so much better
00:25:48.34\00:25:52.44
is my marriage.
00:25:52.47\00:25:54.13
When I've learned how to
open that gift of His grace
00:25:54.17\00:25:57.10
walking with God
throughout the day recognizing
00:25:57.13\00:25:59.02
His presence listening
for His still small voice,
00:25:59.06\00:26:03.23
He has absolutely,
utterly revitalized my marriage.
00:26:03.26\00:26:07.07
That's wonderful.
00:26:07.10\00:26:08.79
Let me tell you about it.
00:26:08.82\00:26:10.61
Let me tell you how it works,
00:26:10.65\00:26:12.86
so it can work for you.
00:26:12.89\00:26:14.61
When you become familiar
with the principles and His word
00:26:31.45\00:26:32.42
and you understand the
manner which it speaks to you
00:26:32.43\00:26:37.51
personally through
your heart and conscience,
00:26:37.54\00:26:39.11
life gets
exciting things change.
00:26:39.15\00:26:41.09
Let me tell you how it
revitalized my marriage.
00:26:41.13\00:26:44.54
You like it.
00:26:44.57\00:26:45.65
You know, I no
longer love my wife.
00:27:07.64\00:27:08.61
When I first dated
her I loved my wife.
00:27:08.62\00:27:11.21
Then after a while we got busier
00:27:11.24\00:27:14.37
I started treating
her like a convenience.
00:27:14.41\00:27:17.82
Sad to say sometimes, I am
not happy to say it either,
00:27:17.86\00:27:21.39
I treated her like dirt.
00:27:21.42\00:27:22.76
But you know when I
discovered how to walk with God,
00:27:22.80\00:27:26.78
how to live by His principles
00:27:26.81\00:27:29.79
and how to listen to His Spirit,
00:27:29.83\00:27:32.78
guide me through the day,
00:27:32.81\00:27:34.28
now I am in love with my wife.
00:27:34.32\00:27:38.27
She is my queen.
00:27:38.30\00:27:39.90
And it isn't complicated,
brothers and sisters.
00:27:39.94\00:27:44.77
It is beautiful.
00:27:44.80\00:27:46.24
It's wonderful.
00:27:46.27\00:27:47.64
Let me share with you
how can change any marriage.
00:27:47.68\00:27:52.75
How can change any
relationship no matter what.
00:27:52.78\00:27:55.24
I was in the garage one
day, and I was sharpening my
00:27:55.28\00:28:01.57
chainsaw, put in some gas and
oil into, getting it all fixed
00:28:01.60\00:28:04.46
up and got my hands
all dirty and grimed.
00:28:04.49\00:28:07.05
I was having a
wonderful day with the Lord,
00:28:07.15\00:28:09.15
I walked into the back
of our log cabin, and I'm in
00:28:09.19\00:28:14.87
the bathroom, about
eleven a clock, during the day
00:28:14.90\00:28:16.75
and bent over the sink,
and I've got the water running
00:28:16.78\00:28:21.27
And I've got my
hands all full of suds,
00:28:21.30\00:28:23.54
and my wife comes walking
into the bathroom doorway
00:28:23.57\00:28:28.18
she's a bright amiable lady and
she looks at me and she says:
00:28:28.21\00:28:33.25
What are you doing dear?
00:28:33.28\00:28:34.91
And just now is the struggle.
00:28:34.95\00:28:39.42
Will I live by principle,
will I allow God's word
00:28:39.46\00:28:43.73
to speak to my
ear at that point?
00:28:43.76\00:28:45.74
Will I allow the
Holy Spirit to guide me?
00:28:45.78\00:28:48.78
Or will I let my
flesh come up? My old way.
00:28:48.81\00:28:51.26
You should know
something about me.
00:28:51.30\00:28:53.72
I am a full blooded German.
00:28:53.75\00:28:55.82
My mother was
Wothgrab, my father Hohnberger.
00:28:55.86\00:28:59.92
Full German.
00:28:59.95\00:29:01.90
There is a Hitler that
lays inside Jim Hohnberger.
00:29:01.94\00:29:05.73
And God wants to
bring a Luther out of me.
00:29:05.76\00:29:09.52
Develop a Luther in me.
00:29:09.55\00:29:11.17
And now I have a choice.
00:29:11.21\00:29:12.76
I understand what
God's principle says,
00:29:12.80\00:29:15.28
and the Holy Spirit is
speaking into my ears right now,
00:29:15.32\00:29:18.63
if we take a look
in the Old Testament,
00:29:18.66\00:29:20.54
it has a statement that says:
00:29:20.57\00:29:23.31
"Thy ear shall hear a
word behind thee saying
00:29:23.35\00:29:26.59
This is the way, walk in it.
00:29:26.62\00:29:29.36
When you turn to the left,
when you turn to the right. "
00:29:29.40\00:29:32.25
And right now I've
got Hitler speaking to me
00:29:32.28\00:29:34.56
and I've got
Luther speaking to me.
00:29:34.59\00:29:36.79
But the Bible says
00:29:36.82\00:29:39.82
choose for yourself
this day whom you will serve.
00:29:39.86\00:29:42.82
And so as I am bent over
and I'm washing my hands,
00:29:42.85\00:29:45.78
my wife says this
lovely statements,
00:29:45.81\00:29:47.79
what are you doing dear,
00:29:47.82\00:29:48.79
The Lord is
speaking into my ears saying,
00:29:48.80\00:29:52.32
Treat her gently Jim.
00:29:52.35\00:29:55.02
And I pause for a moment.
00:29:55.05\00:29:57.65
all those goes on
in just a split second,
00:29:57.69\00:30:01.30
But I've
determined by every word
00:30:01.33\00:30:04.40
that proceeded out
of the mouth of God,
00:30:04.43\00:30:05.48
and allow His Spirit
to guide me every day.
00:30:05.52\00:30:08.22
And His principles were
there, and His Spirit was there.
00:30:08.26\00:30:12.55
God made me a free moral agent.
00:30:12.58\00:30:15.30
And empowers me by His
grace to choose the right thing.
00:30:15.34\00:30:20.00
And so I looked up
from washing my hands,
00:30:20.03\00:30:22.25
and I said:
"washing my hands dear",
00:30:22.28\00:30:25.56
and she says:
00:30:25.59\00:30:27.30
I just wanted to know
how your day was going?
00:30:27.34\00:30:30.36
You'll notice something.
00:30:30.39\00:30:32.44
Our wives are different than us.
00:30:32.48\00:30:35.07
In fact I married Sally because
00:30:35.11\00:30:37.67
she was different than me.
00:30:37.70\00:30:39.09
She looked different than
me, she smell different than me,
00:30:39.13\00:30:42.95
she thought different than me.
00:30:42.98\00:30:44.60
I liked that.
00:30:44.63\00:30:45.97
But for some reason
after we got married,
00:30:46.01\00:30:48.92
I wanted her to
think just like me
00:30:48.95\00:30:51.89
talk just like me
and reason just like me.
00:30:51.93\00:30:54.29
And it was a new day
when I came to understand
00:30:54.33\00:30:57.13
that she never
will, and it's ok.
00:30:57.16\00:31:01.73
And I can turn every
thought and every word
00:31:01.76\00:31:05.82
over to the Lordship
of Jesus Christ in my day,
00:31:05.86\00:31:09.91
that's walking with God.
00:31:09.94\00:31:11.63
Now what's
happening in your life.
00:31:11.67\00:31:14.84
Maybe you are not
German, maybe you are Spanish,
00:31:14.88\00:31:17.48
and you got a Castro on you.
00:31:17.51\00:31:18.87
Maybe you are
over the middle eastern
00:31:18.91\00:31:21.17
and you have a
Saddam Hussein in you.
00:31:21.21\00:31:23.44
or an Osama bin Laden,
00:31:23.47\00:31:25.21
doesn't matter the nationality.
00:31:25.25\00:31:27.67
I pick on my nationality.
00:31:27.70\00:31:29.28
would you pick
on your nationality.
00:31:29.32\00:31:31.34
That's really not a nationality,
00:31:31.37\00:31:32.73
it's our inherent
flesh we are born with.
00:31:32.77\00:31:36.30
And God has come to
teach us to walk above that.
00:31:36.34\00:31:39.62
All of us can.
00:31:39.65\00:31:41.19
I want you to pause
with me just for a moment.
00:31:41.23\00:31:44.33
What if I
would've chosen the flesh?
00:31:45.34\00:31:47.81
How different the whole
scenario would have been.
00:31:47.85\00:31:50.71
Let's go back and
remember I was washing my hands,
00:31:50.74\00:31:53.57
I was bent over the sink,
00:31:53.60\00:31:56.48
and the water was running,
00:31:56.51\00:31:59.32
my lovely wife comes
in the doorway and says:
00:31:59.36\00:32:02.86
What are you doing dear?
00:32:02.89\00:32:03.86
And right at that moment
the flesh was speaking to me
00:32:03.87\00:32:07.82
that Hitler was
saying: "Let her have it"
00:32:07.85\00:32:09.94
so what would have happened
if I would have lifted my head
00:32:09.98\00:32:13.38
and said:
00:32:13.41\00:32:15.60
That's a stupid question, can't
you see I'm washing my hands?
00:32:15.64\00:32:19.96
What do you think the
response of my wife would be?
00:32:19.99\00:32:26.07
Her confidence would've dropped,
Sadness would've come in her
00:32:26.11\00:32:31.96
face That is a stupid question.
Why do you ask me such things?
00:32:32.06\00:32:35.66
Can't you see
I'm washing my hands?
00:32:35.69\00:32:38.34
I was just wondering
how your day was going?
00:32:38.38\00:32:43.96
She'd been hurt,
she'd been wounded.
00:32:43.99\00:32:46.84
And with dropped shoulders,
and a lowered confidence
00:32:46.88\00:32:52.00
she would have walked away.
00:32:52.03\00:32:53.46
Her day is ruined. Which
one do you want to choose?
00:32:53.50\00:32:58.06
Do you want your relationships
when you're married,
00:32:58.10\00:33:01.94
or single.
00:33:01.97\00:33:03.06
How do you want
your relationships to go?
00:33:03.09\00:33:05.59
Do you want God
to revitalize them?
00:33:05.63\00:33:08.08
He can when you learn how
to turn a real life to Him
00:33:08.12\00:33:13.85
and walk with Him
throughout your entire day.
00:33:13.88\00:33:16.52
It's wonderful.
00:33:16.55\00:33:18.08
Simply wonderful.
00:33:18.11\00:33:20.89
I've come to understanding that
life either revolves around me,
00:34:34.51\00:34:42.36
or revolves around God.
00:34:42.39\00:34:44.76
Which one is it?
00:34:44.79\00:34:46.25
Let me
illustrate to you if I can.
00:34:46.28\00:34:49.02
You know when I was in the
world and a way I was raise too,
00:34:49.05\00:34:52.98
I did what I wanted to do, I
became what I wanted to become
00:34:53.02\00:34:58.25
and I made all my own decisions,
00:34:58.28\00:35:00.66
life revolved around me.
00:35:00.69\00:35:03.05
But put in this circle
here, this rock represents me.
00:35:03.09\00:35:09.57
I did what I wanted to do.
00:35:09.60\00:35:12.45
If what employment I wanted I
decided, that was my employment.
00:35:12.49\00:35:17.13
What kind of social life
I wanted, hey whatever goes.
00:35:17.16\00:35:23.83
If I want to go out drinking,
or dancing, or hunting,
00:35:23.86\00:35:27.86
or fishing, or
whatever, skiing I just do it,
00:35:27.90\00:35:31.87
I don't consult anybody.
00:35:31.90\00:35:32.96
I make my decisions and I do it.
00:35:33.00\00:35:35.18
That represents my recreation.
00:35:35.21\00:35:38.00
My education maybe is over here.
00:35:38.04\00:35:40.78
The expectations of
others are over here,
00:35:40.82\00:35:44.90
you put anything in
this circle that you want.
00:35:44.94\00:35:49.36
Maybe let's say, this
larger rock represents God.
00:35:49.40\00:35:53.79
I was told who God
was in my early years,
00:35:53.82\00:35:57.07
He was there, he was on
the outside of the circle.
00:35:57.11\00:36:01.54
That's God, maybe
this is the Church
00:36:05.05\00:36:06.35
you can put anything in
your circle that you want.
00:36:06.39\00:36:08.83
Everything that I wanted
do I filter through to me.
00:36:11.33\00:36:14.82
I was a final source.
00:36:14.85\00:36:16.54
I was in charge.
00:36:16.57\00:36:17.85
And I didn't know it better
so I'm not doubting that...
00:36:17.89\00:36:21.16
That's the way I came up.
00:36:21.19\00:36:23.21
But I came to a point
in my life that this circle
00:36:23.25\00:36:28.44
and all the things in it's
peripheral weren't working for
00:36:28.48\00:36:31.58
me I got very stressed,
very pushed very frustrated.
00:36:31.61\00:36:36.29
I came to the point of
understanding in this process
00:36:36.32\00:36:41.32
that I had to take
me out of the circle
00:36:41.35\00:36:46.11
and put God in the circle.
00:36:46.14\00:36:52.13
Now every decision that
I made from that point on
00:36:52.16\00:36:56.88
and I still make I
filter through God.
00:36:56.91\00:36:59.89
I'm no longer in charge.
00:36:59.92\00:37:02.09
It's because His
wisdom is far reaching,
00:37:02.12\00:37:05.67
I can see in the future.
00:37:05.70\00:37:07.69
He knows everything I don't.
00:37:07.73\00:37:09.69
Now my circle has
changed and let me tell you,
00:37:09.72\00:37:14.39
I'm much happier.
00:37:14.42\00:37:15.62
I thought I'd be
miserable if I can't decide the
00:37:15.66\00:37:18.11
kind of recreation, or
sports, or what I was gonna do
00:37:18.15\00:37:23.24
with the
expectations of the others
00:37:23.34\00:37:24.44
all my social life, or
what I did at the church
00:37:24.47\00:37:27.22
or just me.
00:37:27.25\00:37:28.67
Whatever I wanted to do,
what TV program I want to watch,
00:37:28.71\00:37:33.85
I thought I'll be miserable, but
that's the plan of the devil.
00:37:33.88\00:37:38.99
Let me tell you.
00:37:39.02\00:37:40.11
I'm the happiest man of
the world, because I'm free.
00:37:40.14\00:37:43.79
I'm free, because I know
that God knows everything
00:37:43.82\00:37:47.46
and now I filter absolutely
everything through God.
00:37:47.50\00:37:51.11
Some people's circles,
they have God out here,
00:37:51.14\00:37:55.27
and they recognize God
maybe they go to church
00:37:55.31\00:37:59.41
one hour a week maybe twice
00:37:59.44\00:38:01.17
and "me" is in the middle
but something happens to them
00:38:01.21\00:38:06.42
my father calls
this foxhole Christians.
00:38:06.45\00:38:11.41
My father was in World War
II he landed on Normandy beach,
00:38:11.45\00:38:15.14
and my father told me a story.
00:38:15.17\00:38:17.92
He says: Son I want to tell you.
00:38:17.96\00:38:21.00
There is no atheist in foxholes.
00:38:21.03\00:38:24.04
What do I mean son?
00:38:24.07\00:38:25.62
You know when the big
guns are shooting at the ships
00:38:25.66\00:38:30.94
and you come ashore,
you know you need God.
00:38:30.97\00:38:35.03
Everything else, your
whole peripheral is gone
00:38:35.07\00:38:39.06
you need God when
you go in that foxhole
00:38:39.10\00:38:43.35
and shrapnel is flying
they're shooting at you
00:38:43.38\00:38:45.70
the big guns are going off,
00:38:45.80\00:38:47.10
there is no
retreat. You need God.
00:38:47.13\00:38:49.36
And lot of
people come to the point
00:38:49.40\00:38:52.62
of getting into a foxhole.
00:38:52.65\00:38:55.13
And that foxhole
might represent your health,
00:38:55.16\00:38:58.09
it might represent
a financial crisis,
00:38:58.13\00:39:01.01
it might represent a separation,
divorce in your marriage,
00:39:01.05\00:39:05.81
or friends betraying you,
or your business gone sour
00:39:05.84\00:39:09.78
or some
expectation is not delivered.
00:39:09.81\00:39:12.35
And temporally it's switches
00:39:12.38\00:39:15.24
and you put God
back in the centre here.
00:39:15.28\00:39:17.77
But as soon the crisis is over
00:39:17.80\00:39:21.08
God has acted on your
behalf on the sidelines.
00:39:21.12\00:39:24.90
You start thinking,
00:39:24.93\00:39:28.71
Maybe I acted rashly and
you put back God out here,
00:39:28.75\00:39:32.13
and guess who
ends up in the centre.
00:39:32.16\00:39:35.55
Well, I don't want to be a
foxhole follower after God.
00:39:35.59\00:39:42.04
I want to make a
permanent switch.
00:39:42.07\00:39:43.66
I did that twenty years ago.
00:39:43.69\00:39:46.97
And today my life is wonderful.
00:39:47.00\00:39:50.25
My wife is my queen.
00:39:50.28\00:39:52.34
We are in love again.
00:39:52.38\00:39:54.37
My family is together
this time, it's a real family.
00:39:54.41\00:39:57.94
You either gonna be
courageous or foolish.
00:40:01.85\00:40:04.82
It takes courage to
give everything to God.
00:40:04.86\00:40:07.76
Your life, your hopes,
your plans, your aspirations,
00:40:07.80\00:40:12.68
to follow as God leads,
to make His will your own.
00:40:12.71\00:40:17.80
But all it takes is
foolishness to go the way alone.
00:40:17.83\00:40:22.91
I know what you are thinking.
00:40:37.39\00:40:38.51
There is something in your life
that you're wrestling with it.
00:40:38.55\00:40:43.58
You just can't trust God with
00:40:43.61\00:40:44.59
you just can't seam
to give over to Him.
00:40:44.63\00:40:47.14
I was in the same position.
00:40:47.17\00:40:48.55
Let me share with you
what God shared with me.
00:40:48.59\00:40:51.78
He came to me and says:
00:40:51.81\00:40:53.17
Jim you are just like a man
00:40:53.20\00:40:56.00
That's got an old
1949 beat up pickup truck
00:40:56.04\00:40:58.81
all rusted out, barely runs,
smokes when it goes on the road.
00:40:58.84\00:41:03.71
I want to give you a
brand new Toyota Land Cruiser.
00:41:03.75\00:41:07.75
And you are looking at
what you have to give up,
00:41:07.79\00:41:11.76
instead of looking at
what you're going to receive.
00:41:11.79\00:41:14.70
Jim get your eyes off
what you're giving up,
00:41:14.74\00:41:17.58
and get your eyes on that
which I want to give to you.
00:41:17.62\00:41:21.18
Put your eyes higher.
00:41:21.21\00:41:22.84
Focus to what
God's gonna bring to you.
00:41:22.88\00:41:25.62
That's the key.
00:41:25.65\00:41:27.15
Many people wonder weather
this will work for them or not,
00:43:17.55\00:43:19.94
They also wonder how
soon it will work for them.
00:43:19.97\00:43:22.33
The answer to
that is, as soon as you
00:43:22.36\00:43:26.28
begin to respond to
the still small voice
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to the Holly
Spirit speaking to you.
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God's there right
now speaking to you.
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Would you respond to Him?
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I was at a weekend seminar,
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I stood up in the
front of the church,
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and a lovely
elderly lady comes up to me.
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Johanna was her
name, 79 years old.
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She comes up next
to me, and she says:
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Mr. Hohnberger, Mr. Hohnberger!
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I gonna tell you
something. I am so excited.
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Johanna what is it?
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Mr. Hohnberger, I was leaving to
come to this meting this morning
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and my husband
wasn't gonna come.
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When I got to the door I
heard the Lord say to me:
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Johanna how don't you
kiss your husband goodbye?
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I stopped right there and said:
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I would not hug and
kiss my husband goodbye.
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He hasn't hugged and
kissed me in five years,
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he needs to be the pursuer.
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Not me, that is
his responsibility.
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Than she says: I remember that
you've said during the weekend
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that is very simple.
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All I have to do
is say yes to God,
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and no to self.
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And she says I contemplated
a bit and I said yes to God and
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no to self. I walked over I
looked at my husband and I said
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Honey can I hug you
and kiss you goodbye?
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He got very quiet and
got a tear in his eyes,
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he looked at me and he said:
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I didn't think
you love me anymore.
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I didn't think you want to hug
and kiss me anymore, Johanna.
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We wept, we cried,
we hugged, we kissed.
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We made a definite determination
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right then and there that.
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We would listen to that still
small voice and follow him.
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And it changed their
marriage. At 79 and 83.
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If that couple at that age
can have their marriage changed
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that quickly the very weekend,
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as soon as they responded
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so can you.
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It's just that simple.
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Wonderful, glorious, beautiful.
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Wonderful.
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I like this. This is good.
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This is good.
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A typical question
that I get from people
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Do I have to move to a far
away place like to mountains
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to find this deeper
experience and walk with God?
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The answer is very simple.
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Where you are God is.
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God can reach
you wherever you are.
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Weather you are in New York,
or in Northern part of Main.
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Weather you are in Chicago,
or the cornfields of Iowa.
00:51:07.83\00:51:11.91
Weather you're in Denver
or the deserts of Arizona.
00:51:11.94\00:51:16.46
Weather you're in Miami
or the mountains of Montana,
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God is there, is there for you.
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Where you are God is.
00:51:22.78\00:51:25.79
God will find you.
00:51:25.82\00:51:28.23
He will speak to you.
00:51:28.27\00:51:30.61
You don't have to
move in some distant place.
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You just have to be
available to Him now.
00:51:33.52\00:51:37.49
You have to be willing
to follow whatever He brings
00:51:40.07\00:51:42.71
to your conscience.
00:51:42.74\00:51:44.07
My boys love camping.
00:53:24.51\00:53:26.01
Any kind of camping.
00:53:26.04\00:53:27.47
Backpacking, canoe
camping, driving camping
00:53:27.51\00:53:30.93
Their favorite part of camping
is the campfire at night.
00:53:30.97\00:53:35.36
They'll get logs and come
around and get themselves sticks
00:53:35.40\00:53:39.76
like this. Rearrange
the fire as all boys do.
00:53:39.79\00:53:42.39
And they'll look at
their father and say:
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Father tell us a story when
you are grown up, not our age.
00:53:44.99\00:53:48.76
They love stories, I
couldn't tell them enough.
00:53:48.80\00:53:52.54
I'd like to tell
you a story tonight.
00:53:52.57\00:53:53.96
Story that my father
told me, about an icehouse.
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This takes me back in the
50's when I was a young boy.
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I was driving in
town with my father
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we were gonna buy a
couple a blocks of ice.
00:54:03.85\00:54:05.92
We had an icebox in our house.
00:54:05.95\00:54:09.11
It took two blocks
of ice to keep it cool
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for the entire week.
00:54:11.26\00:54:12.44
We were going in town once
a week and buy those blocks of
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ice. And as we were
driving in my father said to me:
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Son you know
grandfather didn't buy his ice.
00:54:19.16\00:54:22.00
Grandfather would wait
till it got real cold in winter
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He'd go up to the lake and
carve up this blocks of ice
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haul them to their home site
and there they had an icehouse.
00:54:28.83\00:54:32.72
The icehouse was
usually set into a little bank,
00:54:32.75\00:54:36.61
and had a big
thick door no windows.
00:54:36.64\00:54:40.71
They'd go into the icehouse
and there is two things in it.
00:54:40.75\00:54:44.16
The blocks of ice and sawdust.
00:54:44.19\00:54:46.88
They put one block of ice
on top of other block of ice
00:54:46.92\00:54:50.90
and they freeze together.
00:54:50.93\00:54:52.37
So they covered the
ice blocks with sawdust.
00:54:52.41\00:54:56.02
My grandfather was
in the icehouse one day
00:54:56.06\00:54:59.60
and when he came out he noticed
he'd lost his pocket watch.
00:54:59.64\00:55:02.61
In those days they didn't
have wrist watches like we do.
00:55:02.65\00:55:05.59
They had pocket watches
with a little chain on them.
00:55:05.62\00:55:12.32
When he came out of the
icehouse and he noticed that
00:55:12.36\00:55:14.89
he went back and looked
all over in the icehouse,
00:55:14.92\00:55:18.83
but he couldn't find it.
00:55:18.86\00:55:19.91
He came out the
neighbor man was there,
00:55:19.95\00:55:22.29
and he was telling him about it
00:55:22.32\00:55:24.24
and both of them
went back in the icehouse
00:55:24.28\00:55:26.60
and searched
franticly with no avail.
00:55:26.63\00:55:29.68
They came outside and
they were sitting outside
00:55:29.72\00:55:32.85
talking about it, and a neighbor
who had overheard them talking
00:55:32.88\00:55:36.62
he slipped in the icehouse,
few minutes later he comes out
00:55:36.65\00:55:40.26
stood in front of my grandfather
with his pocket watch.
00:55:40.29\00:55:43.87
How did you find it?
00:55:43.90\00:55:46.60
When I was in the
icehouse I closed the door,
00:55:46.64\00:55:51.74
and then I laid
down and I listened.
00:55:51.77\00:55:59.02
You see friends the
watch is always ticking.
00:56:03.32\00:56:06.09
God is there for you.
00:56:06.12\00:56:10.11
You can sense the still
small voice speaking to you.
00:56:10.15\00:56:13.52
And if you respond
He will empower you.
00:56:13.55\00:56:17.11
He'll revitalize your marriage,
He will reconnect your family.
00:56:17.14\00:56:21.50
Because God is there for you.
00:56:21.53\00:56:25.50
Greetings. I would
like to encourage you,
00:57:33.67\00:57:36.74
if Living on the Edge has
touched your heart if you would
00:57:36.78\00:57:40.64
like to have a closer walk with
your God read the book "Escape
00:57:40.68\00:57:44.51
to God" it will take trough our
00:57:45.21\00:57:46.80
journey. We're moving lives
from draining distractions.
00:57:46.84\00:57:49.65
And teach you to cultivate
an intimate relationship
00:57:49.69\00:57:53.40
with your Creator,
regardless of your circumstances
00:57:53.44\00:57:57.12
no matter where you
live, "Escape to God" will
00:57:57.15\00:58:00.64
connect you with a God
that is loving and caring and
00:58:00.68\00:58:04.25
is there for you.
00:58:04.29\00:58:05.26