Chad Prather: Rock Bottom Rebound | Life Today

April 15, 2026 | 27:29

The author of “Born For Meaning” shares what he learned about purpose and calling through his times of pain and loss.

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Chad prather: so we think of pain and suffering
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As being a curse, it's not, it's a blessing.
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We are taking our suffering for granted.
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God uses suffering.
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Jesus became that mature sacrifice, if you will, that
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Perfect sacrifice through what he suffered.
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We look at suffering as being something
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That we rebuke the devil for.
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It's not, pain is a gift.
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You put your hand on a hot stove,
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Pain tells you to remove the hand.
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That's a gift.
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Announcer: nothing is wasted with god, including our pain,
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Next on "life today."
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Randy robison: welcome to life today, i'm randy robison,
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Blynda lane joins me.
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Blynda lane: happy to be here, hi, randy.
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Randy: it's great to see you, great to see you.
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Chad prather's joining us again.
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Blynda: i know, i'm so excited to continue the conversation.
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"born for meaning" is the book.
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Welcome, chad.
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Chad prather: thank you, thanks for having me back.
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Randy: yeah, i gotta say, by the way, if anybody, you guys missed
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The other program with chad, go to lifetoday.org.
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You can see all the programs there, but we're back to talk
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About the book.
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It's a funny book about grief in some ways.
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Chad: i often say it's not a book i ever thought i would be
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Writing, a book about brokenness and grief and tragedy and
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Trauma, and i say all of those, because everybody's been through
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Hurt, everybody's been through something, they're carrying
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Around some level of grief.
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Last year for me was a very hard one.
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Our dear friend charlie kirk, as we know, was killed.
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The same day my niece passed away unexpectedly at 38, my aunt
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Died, and then my mother passed away, so i was going through a
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Lot of things.
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And then in the middle of all of it, going through a very lonely
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Time of god isolating me and working on me personally on some
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Past regrets and hurts, and out of that "born for meaning" was
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Born, and i thought here i am.
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I am now five or six chapters into writing a book about pain.
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The emails that i've gotten from that book, there are people who
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Have said we can't keep a book because we keep giving them
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Away, and so i know that it was something that was supposed to
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Happen, and it's been a blessing.
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Randy: i saw a shift, also, i will say in your podcast.
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Anybody that knows you online, you know, whether you're sitting
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On the truck or doing the show on your set or the radio, all
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The great things you've done, and then all of a sudden you're
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Doing a prayer and a devotional, and that i think is sort of the
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Fruit of what god's done inside your life, am i right?
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Chad: yeah, it's so funny to--it's a little humbling.
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It's a lot humbling.
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People will send me messages and will say we like this
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Chad prather.
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Like, the last guy was a little crude, he was a little crass, he
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Was a little--he could be offensive, and i did that on
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Purpose because of the nature of the world in which we live,
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Coming out of the entertainment world, the political world, the
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Entertainment, you know, the comedy world, there's some
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Things that if you search far enough back on the internet, you
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Don't have to go that far back.
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You're like, wait a minute, is this the guy that was just on
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The "life today" show?
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Hang on a second.
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But the lord did a powerful work in me and said, "listen, i made
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A lot of investments in you as a young man, i'm ready to make
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Some withdrawals out of you.
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You've messed around long enough, you've drifted
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Long enough."
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The lord gave me this platform on social media with these
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Millions of followers tuned in, and i had no idea that he was
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Building all of that to do this.
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And so i was praying last year, and i felt impressed to--i
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Would do my devotional, i'll sit in my studio, my podcast studio,
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And i'll do my devotions in the morning, and i felt impressed.
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I said i should go live on all of my platforms and just do 10
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Minutes, 15 minutes, and i started doing it, and people
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Started really loving it.
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They were like, we don't know who this guy is, we don't know
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Who you are, but we like this version of you.
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And so then there were some platforms who came to me and
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Said could you do that for an hour?
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Like, we would love to feature you if you could do it for
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An hour.
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And i said you want me to teach the bible for an hour, five days
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A week early in the morning?
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I said yes, i'll do it.
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And what that podcast, if you want to call it that, that
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"before the noise" show turned into something, and now we have
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Several hundred thousand people that are watching live every
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Day, and it's an amazing blessing for me, because i tell
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People i say these are my devotions, you're just sitting
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In with me, and when i say you, i really do mean me, so.
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Blynda: well, you mentioned in the last show that you were a
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Preacher, so you know, you can tap back into that a little bit.
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Chad: i could, and i've always been a note taker, and i had
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Some very influential men who did invest in my life.
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My pastor and spiritual father in georgia, wade trimmer, dudley
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Hall, our mutual friend, your father invested in me, and many
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Other names that we could name who personally invested in
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My life.
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I was very blessed.
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I took it for granted.
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I didn't realize the--just the stature of men that i had access
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To, and now they're an amazing resource in what we're doing
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Now, because i said, okay, how do i do this?
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So we started doing what a lot of pastors do, and i'm not
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Anybody's pastor but just started working expositorily
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Through the scripture.
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And we did--we started with the book of john.
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Everybody starts with the book of john.
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Randy: it's great.
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Chad: so we went verse by verse through the book of john over a
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Period of months, and then we got into, i think we got into
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The book of acts.
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We went all the way through the book of acts, and then we went
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Through ephesians, and we're doing hebrews now.
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I don't know.
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You know, hebrews is not light reading.
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The book of hebrews--
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Randy: a lot of background.
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Chad: just yesterday i did hebrews chapter 7 talking about
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The order of melchizedek, and i'm talking to 21st century
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People on youtube who are going to, what is this guy on?
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Like, melchizedek, what are we-- a high priest in the order of
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The, you know, this king of salem and the king of peace, and
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What are we talking about?
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Offerings of blood and sacrifice, and somehow the
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Lord's been gracious enough to use all of these things, and i
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Try to put a little hint of humor on it when i can, but i
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Don't know that everybody thinks of melchizedek as being a
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Funny guy.
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Blynda: but it makes it relatable, and so that's good.
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Okay, so i was reading that you said if you've experienced loss
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Of any kind, it takes a version of yourself that existed, and
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You're left to rebuild with what is left.
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How did you find that to be true and rebuild that in your
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Identity in christ?
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Chad: so we think of pain and suffering as being a curse.
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It's not, it's a blessing.
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We are taking our suffering for granted.
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God uses suffering.
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Jesus, he learned obedience and perfection, he became that
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Mature sacrifice, if you will, that perfect sacrifice through
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What he suffered.
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We look at suffering as being something
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That we rebuke the devil for.
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It's not, pain is a gift.
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You put your hand on a hot stove,
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Pain tells you to remove the hand.
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That's a gift.
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There's certain things that are in us right now that god has no
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Intention of taking to heaven.
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He's going to get rid of those things.
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That process of sanctification is not fun.
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Again, back in hebrews, when he talks about the father
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Disciplining his children, he says the peaceable fruit of
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Righteousness that's yielded through that discipline, the
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Father disciplines those he loves.
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That word in the greek, gumnazo, we get gymnasium from that, and
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The greeks, of course, the olympics, these athletes, they
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Glorified the human body.
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They trained naked so the coach could see and look and say, well
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That's a flabby spot, we gotta work on that.
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And so they were, you know, laid bare before the coach.
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Well, the father in the same way is using life to chisel some
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Things off of us, and so we're losing versions of ourselves
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That in many ways we're holding on to.
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That suffering when we embrace it, when we understand what
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Pain's doing in us, that it really is a gift that god's
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Using that to force us into situations that we would not go
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To voluntarily.
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That's why james says count it joy when you walk into various
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Kinds of trials, it's sort of that coat of many colors
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Of trials.
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God's gonna put you through a little bit of everything, and
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You're gonna--it's gonna come from angles you never would have
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Suspected, but you're not gonna put yourself into that, so god
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Does it for us.
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Thanks, god.
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And so that's where we are, and through all of that, we suffer,
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And we go through grief, and we go through trauma and tragedy,
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And we hold on to it to the point where we've talked about
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This in a prior episode where people are actually
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Manufacturing victimhood and oppression and their own trials
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And tribulations.
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They're actually giving themselves spiritual hernias
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From carrying weights that god never intended for them
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To carry.
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And so i learned through hitting rock bottom a few times in life,
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Stepping on enough landmines that you realize, okay, god,
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I'm a poor chooser.
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Like, i'm really not good.
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I love to see the end from the beginning.
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If you just show me, if you turn the lights on so i could see all
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The steps, that'd be great.
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But he puts about like, you know, on your cell phone, that
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Little light, and he said, "no, i'll show you the next step,
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I'll show you the next step, and it's probably not gonna be
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A perfect step, but i'm gonna keep showing you the next step."
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And as a poor chooser, i say, okay, god, i'm gonna let you
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Make the choices for me.
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And that's hard, because we're not good with the sovereignty
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Of god.
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We don't like that.
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I like tangible things i can put my hands on.
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Randy: are you a little bit of a control freak?
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Is that--yeah?
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Chad: i'm an a-type personality, you know?
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I like to know the end from the beginning, and it's something i
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Can sink my teeth into, something i can tangibly feel.
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And so, god really launched me in the last two years.
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He launched me into this deep, deep season of just trust me.
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It's not gonna look like what you've known, just trust me.
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And i've got some dear, dear friends and just great voices
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For the lord, and they hear the lord, they're praying for me,
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And they'll send me a text message.
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They say something's coming.
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I was like could you put some flesh on that?
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And they say something's coming, just it's coming.
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And i go i don't know what that means, i don't know what that
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Looks like, it could be martyrdom, who knows?
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We could go that route, but again, as long as god's
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Glorified in it, that's what's satisfying me.
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And when i hit that moment where, as i've told you guys,
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The lord kind of walked through the living room and confronted
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Me on some things a few years ago.
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I said, lord, i don't wanna repeat those mistakes.
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I don't wanna repeat that.
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That's the thing about suffering.
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He'll let you keep going through it.
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You know, the children of israel, it was the unbelief that
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Kept them out.
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They kept--they get to the promised land, and they look
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Across the creek, and they go, yeah, it's beautiful,
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Beautiful land.
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I mean, there's--god says, well, go get it.
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And he's, oh, there's giants over there.
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And god's like, well, it's yours, go get it.
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And they're like, well, it's a good land, it looks great, milk
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And honey, it looks fantastic, but gotta be subdued, and god
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Said, well, you can do that, just go get it, and they're
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Like, ah, and god says, okay, just take another lap, and
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That's what they did, and that's what we're doing with our life
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As well.
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Randy: so i wanna hit a couple things, because there's some
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Really great content, in "born for meaning," which is
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Available, by the way, wherever you get books if you wanna pick
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It up, but you talk about happiness, and you've got--i'm
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Not even gonna attempt this one, but what do you say about--
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Chad: so the difference between happiness and joy, and obviously
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Joy is a fruit of the spirit, but we tend to pursue happiness.
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Happiness is circumstantial.
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So as i've said, happiness, if your happenings happen to happen
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Happily, you'll be happy, and if your happenings happen to happen
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Unhappily, you'll be unhappy.
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Randy: exactly.
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Chad: and so we're unhappy.
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We're unhappy, because if you're looking at your happenings,
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They're gonna happen unhappily.
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And so we think that that is either the lord's displeasure
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With us or we've taken the wrong route or pursuing the wrong path
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Or destiny, and really, just-- it's easy to say let's get our
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Eyes off the circumstances, but the circumstances aren't great.
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I had someone who came to me, you know, an internet troll who
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Said so what does jesus think about america bombing iran?
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I said, well, i can tell you this.
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He very actively cares about the affairs of man, but ultimately,
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The nations are under his authority, and he's controlling
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Things, again, with his sovereignty.
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And people look at the headlines, they look at the
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Chaos of our world, they see the protesters in the street, they
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See the confusion, this lack of a meta narrative or a big story
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That's out there, and people are really lost, and they're trying
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To find some kind of foundational thing.
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That's why you see videos now of these young kids, and they're
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Crying in their car, and they're posting it on social media, and
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You're like what's wrong with these kids?
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Why didn't their parents beat 'em?
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You know, like what's going on here?
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I mean, yeah, you know, i'm happy god spanked--i mean my
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Dad spanked me.
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God spanked me a few times, too, but yeah, it's like, you know,
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What's going on in our world?
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And i look at it, and i go, people have just--they're not
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Holding on to anything of any substance, and we've not offered
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Them anything of any substance.
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And so, if you keep floating through the world waiting on the
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World to happen to you, it's not gonna be happy, not gonna
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Be happy.
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Blynda: or if you keep waiting even for the validation from
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The world.
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Chad: it's never gonna give it to you.
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Blynda: it's never going to give it.
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You're never going to be satisfied.
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Chad: and the validation it gives you is going to be false.
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It's going to put a false identity on you.
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So, one of the biggest messages that i like to put out there is
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We used to receive an identity from our history or our lineage
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Or our our name, now we're out creating identities.
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And so not only are we losing these identities that god's
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Trying to chisel off of us, we're trying to hold on to.
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I wrote another book called "am i crazy?"
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The answer to that is yes.
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And in the intro to that book, i said social media has given us
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Two problems, people on social media think that they're
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Experts, and they think they're famous, and they're neither one,
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But yet they come from--because they've got this big platform
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That they didn't earn, and they want to talk like
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They're experts.
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I mean, we've been experts on every geopolitical thing that's
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Happened in the last ten years.
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We know more about--and everybody's an expert.
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Next week we'll be experts on something else.
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And that in and of itself is feeding into a false identity
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That is going to lead you to destruction.
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Eventually that frustration is going to find its fruit, and
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That's not going to be a happy place.
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Randy: so when you identified as, you know, the guy everybody
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Knew with the cowboy hat, you know, and the guy that had
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Sponsors and the guy that was writing a sitcom in hollywood,
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Were you happy?
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Chad: i was not.
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I was fascinated by it.
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I was--the way that you look at something shiny and you go,
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Well, that's cool to look at.
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Let's turn it and look at the light through it this way.
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You know, i'm sitting there going--i'm having breakfast one
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Morning at the four seasons, and i look over and there's tom
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Cruise, and there's tom hanks, and there's john cena, and i'm
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Looking around, i'm like, and i'm sitting in the middle of
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Having this meeting with all these different guys, and i go i
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Don't want this.
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Like, this is not me.
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I don't want this world.
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This is not my world.
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And they're like, oh, you know, they're rolling out the
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Red carpet.
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I said there's something in there that's very empty,
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Something very fruitless.
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They wanted me to move to california, and i was like under
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No circumstances.
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I have not seen that pillar of fire by night, no way.
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Randy: so, now that you're doing devotionals and praying with
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People online, are you happy?
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Chad: the thing that makes me happy is not the spiritual
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Activity of it, although it is the highlight of my day to be
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Able to do it.
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I enjoy doing it because the lord speaks to me as i hope he's
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Speaking through me.
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The joy that i have is the response.
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That's the thing.
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I'm seeing men, men are sending me messages through our "before
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The noise" website.
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They're sending me emails, they come directly to me, and they're
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Finding the lord, they're finding their marriage, they're
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Finding their fatherhood, they're finding forgiveness.
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One of the big things that we talk about in "born for meaning"
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Is this idea of unforgiveness, and that is one of the biggest
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Things that feeds the grief that we live in, and the trauma is
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Not letting go of that dead thing in your life.
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And so it's hard to let go of resentment and bitterness.
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And as the writer of hebrews, again, says, it's that--it's
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Gonna spring up, and it's gonna poison a lot of people.
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It defiles a lot of people, that root of bitterness.
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But getting the fruit that comes out of that and seeing something
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That when there was a pastoral title in front of my name or a
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Shingle outside of an office at a church, the fruit coming out
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Of this, us just being real about, hey, it's okay to be
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Broken, it's okay to hurt, it's okay to be traumatized, it's not
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Okay to keep carrying it around in victimhood and navel
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Gazing, right?
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Feeling sorry for ourselves, but at the end of the day it's okay
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To be real, it's okay to be broken, and god can use that.
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And if anyone, anyone's listening to this program and
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They think, oh, i'm too far gone, and god, i can't
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Come back.
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I've been too far gone from failure, and i've been too far
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Gone with success.
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And as rudyard kipling says, you can take triumph and disaster
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And teach--and treat those two impostors just the same.
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They really are, and i've been-- i've lived out both of them.
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I've been broken by success, i've been broken by failure, but
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The lord is gracious to keep bringing us back in spite
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Of ourselves.
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Randy: wow, there's the meaning.
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Chad: yeah.
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Randy: yeah, that you're born for.
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Randy: i love it, oh, wow, okay.
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Some of you are really relating to this right now.
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Obviously, chad's book it might be a great resource for you.
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Pick it up wherever you get books, but if you want someone
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To just get on the phone and talk, pray, whatever, we've got
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People that are standing by that would love to do that, that will
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Graciously say, yeah, come back, don't worry about the success
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That you think you have or the failure that you're feeling, as
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Chad talks about.
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Just come on back to the father, come on back to that meaning
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That you were born for.
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And like chad says, it's expressing god's love to other
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People and reaping those spiritual rewards, laying up
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Those treasures in heaven.
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So, again, if you want someone to just to pray with you right
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Now, please call.
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We have another opportunity where we are laying up treasure
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In heaven.
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It is expressing god's love in word and in deed.
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And this is a pretty specific deed, and there are a lot of
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Great partners that are waiting right now over in africa who are
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Blessing children with free surgeries for things that
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Radically change their lives.
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Take a look at this, and i want you to consider being a part of
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This beautiful outreach of god's love.
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John yeatts: i had the privilege of visiting one of the hospitals
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Of our medical mission partners in africa.
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While there, i met some of their staff who were making
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Their rounds.
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A meaningful time for me was being with some of the families
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And their children who were recovering from surgery.
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Each and every day their medical staff see children who are born
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With serious physical conditions.
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Many have never been able to walk normally because of having
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Club feet or windswept legs or bowed legs.
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Other conditions they see range from cleft lip, cleft palate,
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Childhood injuries that impact bone growth and
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Physical appearances.
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If not corrected in time, these children are destined to lead a
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Life of misery and suffering, but that's where these gifted
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Surgeons step in in a very unique way.
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Joseph theuri: and that's why even as medical people, we
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Really have to depend on him.
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We have to pray for them who are the patients.
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Pray for them when we are doing the operations.
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Just because we know that we are just the hands of someone who is
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Actually doing the work.
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You're just doing that small part, and then god does
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The rest.
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John: it is wonderful seeing children walk and run and play
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With smiles and laughter in ways they never could before.
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I invite you to join us in supporting life's medical
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Missions outreach with your prayers, your love, and your
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Financial support so that even more children can experience
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Healing, hope, and lasting change.
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Randy: when you are generous to the poor, you lend, you partner
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With god.
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Will you partner with us as we partner with god?
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I hope you will, do it today, do it now.
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Of reach.
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Randy: we're wrapping up this campaign on the air, so i really
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Want to hear from you.
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This is last week you'll see it, so please, if you can do
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Whatever you can do, be a part of this beautiful outreach.
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And if you can't do something today, but you're planning on
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Being a part of this outreach, give us a call, let us know,
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We'd love to hear from you.
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I've been blessed, this has been great, two great programs.
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Blynda: two great programs, but i feel like i could keep
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Asking questions.
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And so if i have questions, i know the audience has
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Questions too.
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So if they want the book to get all of their questions answered,
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Where can they go to get the book?
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Chad: chadprather.com, you can find everything, even the things
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You're not looking for, it's over there.
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And to get directly to the book, you can go
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To bornformeaning.com.
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Randy: excellent, i know i'm hoping a lot of people will join
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With you in the morning for the prayer, the devotional that
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You're doing online.
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I think it's great that you're doing it.
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Chad: i love doing it.
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Randy: and i appreciate you spending time with us.
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Chad: thank you for having me.
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Randy: absolutely, appreciate you guys spending time with us.
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If you missed the other program with chad, lifetoday.org.
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Come back, we'll see you again next time.
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James: you've written this i'd say out of an extended journey
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That's allowed you to see some things, witness some things,
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Feel and experience some things that have kind of taken you in a
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Direction that's real important.
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So, tell us about "all things new."
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John eldredge: we've spent a lot of our ministry years healing
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People at the level of their heart.
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We went after men's hearts, then we went after women's hearts in
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"captivating" with my wife, stacy.
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And we do conferences, here in the u.s., around the world.
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It's all around healing, woundedness, brokenness.
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Isaiah 61, "i've come to heal the brokenness in humanity and i
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Want to set you free."
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But after you spend a lot of time deep in people's stories,
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You really have to speak to the loss.
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Because some things in this life just aren't recovered.
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So, i was reading through the gospels.
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I was in matthew chapter 19.
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And peter asked jesus a pretty straightforward question.
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He says, "look, this has cost us quite a bit to follow you.
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What's in it for us?
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Like, what will there be for us?"
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And jesus, he doesn't rebuke the question.
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He smiles and he says, "oh, i tell you the truth.
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At the renewal of all things, when the son of man sits on his
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Glorious throne, you," and then he gets very particular, "who
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Have lost relationships, loved ones."
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He even names houses and lands, careers, all your dreams, all
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Those things you had to let go of.
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It will specifically be restored to you in addition to, he says,
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Eternal life.
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Now, most people think that whatever the next chapter of the
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Story is, it's this vague thing in heaven, right?
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It's harps, halos, or it's the eternal church service in the
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Sky, right?
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We all just we all go up to heaven and we sing forever,
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Right?
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James: but like you point out, if it's like church services,
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Most people, they don't wanna go.
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John: they don't wanna go.
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But the the key to the human heart is this.
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C.s. lewis says, "you can only hope for what you desire."
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And so if it's vague, if it's a little creepy religious, it does
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Not bring hope, no matter how much you try and, you know,
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Breathe into it.
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And when jesus promises the restoration of all things.
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You know, so i'm flipping through the scriptures.
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Peter picks up the theme in acts.
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In acts chapter 3 he says, "jesus must remain in heaven
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Until the time comes for god to restore everything."
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And then the whole thing swells to a crescendo in revelation,
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Right?
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End of the book, chapter 21, he who is seated on the throne
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Says, "i am making everything new."
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He does not say, "i'm making all new things," right?
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He restores the earth.
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He restores our lives.
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There is nothing that can be taken from you that god will not
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Personally and intimately restore.
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And this is the hope that hebrews calls
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The anchor of the soul.
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This is the hope of the christian life, that you--it was
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What the early church--they couldn't understand the courage
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Of the early church.
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And they said, "what are you gonna do?
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Kill us? like, we don't die.
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You can't--there's nothing you can take away from me that god
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Is not going to restore, so have at it," right?
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It threw the world, right, because these people had a grasp
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On the coming kingdom.
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Chad Prather: Rock Bottom Rebound | Life Today

April 15, 2026 | 27:29

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