I Met The Holy Spirit and He Completely Changed Me | Steve Weatherford

Steve Weatherford, Super Bowl Champion turned Kingdom warrior, opens up about the darkest night of his life—the night he won it all and felt more empty than ever, from addiction to painkillers, s*icidal thoughts, and a broken identity, to a radical encounter with The Holy Spirit that changed everything. 

This episode isn’t just a testimony; it’s a spiritual awakening for every man stuck in a mission-driven life instead of a purpose-driven one. Steve shares the moment God found him in the darkest place, how childhood trauma and religious confusion planted lies that nearly destroyed him, and what happened when he surrendered completely to Jesus. If you’ve ever felt “not enough,” this is your wake-up call. 

This is the most vulnerable, powerful, and life-changing conversation you’ll hear all year. It's time to walk in full authority. It's time to go from distracted to activated. 

👊 Men will cry. Chains will break. Legacies will shift.

Chapters:
00:00 - Winning the Super Bowl... and Feeling Empty  
01:00 - Addicted, Depressed, and Hiding from the World  
02:00 - A Pastor Calls Me Out by Name  
05:00 - Everything I Achieved Still Left Me Broken  
07:00 - Signing a Multi-Million Dollar Deal While Suicidal  
09:00 - The Church Moment That Changed Everything  
11:00 - Prophesied Over After 15 Years Away from God  
13:00 - The Power Team: My First Encounter with Radical Faith  
16:00 - S*xual Abuse and the Seeds of Shame  
21:00 - P*rn, Escape, and the Silent Spiral  
26:00 - The Hamster Wheel of Success That Never Satisfies  
33:00 - A Lightning Bolt from the Holy Spirit  
36:00 - My Son Gets Saved—Same Age, Same Pastor  
39:00 - The Dangerous Prayer That Changed My Life  
47:00 - Living On Purpose, Not Just on Mission  

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Transcript

00:00:00:00 - 00:00:20:10
Unknown
Looking back on it was probably the most depressing night of my life. The night I won the Super Bowl, getting back to my hotel room had the greatest game of my life and the biggest game of my life. And I feel this wave of depression come over me because I don't feel any different. I was actually renting an Airbnb garage paying $79 per night.

00:00:20:10 - 00:00:41:23
Unknown
So my wife was at home with our five kids and I was in at an Airbnb. Suicidal. Looking at my life on paper, it looked great. Why am I so empty? What more do I need to do in order for this? Like elephant to get off of my chest? I'm addicted to pain pills, closet watching porn. 3 or 4 times per week.

00:00:41:23 - 00:01:01:23
Unknown
It's part of, like, my coping mechanism. Like my way of going to sleep. Just very dysfunctional. The pastor walks out 30 seconds into what he's saying. He stops. He goes, hey you. I don't know you, but God wants you to know that you've been gone for a really long time, that God sees what's broken in, and he wants you to know that he's going to heal it.

00:01:01:23 - 00:01:19:26
Unknown
And he just continues to go on and on. I didn't realize it at the time that I was being touched by the Holy Ghost. I'm like, you don't know who I am, but you changed my life. Steve Weatherford is an NFL Super Bowl champion and big time in the men's movement. He focuses on transforming men and activating men.

00:01:19:27 - 00:01:40:09
Unknown
In this episode, he shares his life story that will leave you feeling inspired and ready to conquer the world. He gets real and very raw. Let's dive in. Steve, welcome to the show. I'm excited to be here. Man, I've, I feel like you and I have been friends for a while. I feel like this is long overdue.

00:01:40:14 - 00:02:01:02
Unknown
Plus, we live like, 35 minutes from each other, and you know it for everybody. Listen to this. I've invited Skyler to come be with me about a dozen times. Yeah, you know it. He is so dedicated, and I'm not even mad at him. Like, he's so dedicated to the mission and to serving the men that he's already serving.

00:02:01:04 - 00:02:21:17
Unknown
That, like, I get it, sometimes you don't have that much time for, like, friends, you know? So I'm glad that we're actually getting to do a two for one. We got a little bit of time to catch up, pray together beforehand. Yeah, and now we're getting an opportunity to record a conversation that I believe will impact men. It will change families.

00:02:21:18 - 00:02:40:18
Unknown
I believe that it can break strongholds if men are open to it. And because God's a God of order, I believe that men that are listening to this, if they give the Holy Spirit permission, the Holy Spirit will change things in their life and everything will be different. But I'm excited to be your man, I love you, I love the work that you do.

00:02:40:20 - 00:03:08:08
Unknown
And I love the man that I've gotten to, to to learn about behind the scenes. Because you and I both know, there's a lot of people in the transformational space that are very good at speaking and very good at memorizing or telling people about the theory, but maybe they've never let the theory actually get planted in them enough to change them.

00:03:08:15 - 00:03:34:17
Unknown
And there's a lot of theoretical teachers out there that are good at teaching people how to live, but they're not actually good at living it themselves. And then there's very few that I believe that are transformational, that have let the work that they're teaching change their own life before they go into teaching other people. So I've got to experience enough of your marriage and enough of the man that you are that I can say that you're a real one man.

00:03:34:17 - 00:03:49:00
Unknown
So I'm excited for our friendship. We haven't gotten to spend that much time together, but I guess if I've got to do podcasts in order to spend time with them that this guy wins. Part two. Come on. Oh man. Dude, I love I'm just giving you a hard time. But I'm also serious I appreciate I want Morgan with me.

00:03:49:00 - 00:04:14:12
Unknown
Please. I'm. I'm I'm Andy. We're both on, very similar paths impacting people. You're doing, I mean, this is the type of guy that he gets here, so he's a type of guy that will wherever he goes, he wants to leave a mark in a positive way. Like he wants to bless whoever he is with. So first thing he does at this podcast, before we get started, he brought a couple guys and then they prayed over me for about five, seven minutes straight.

00:04:14:12 - 00:04:30:03
Unknown
So before before he came here, right. I asked him to be here before he came here. Like before we dove in. Like his intention was to leave a blessing and to bless it. And so I just want to say, do I? I see that, and and you've prayed multiple times actually, each time we've met, over me.

00:04:30:03 - 00:04:48:13
Unknown
So I see your heart to to to spread God's kingdom. Not by talking about it, by by doing it, by being it. So you are, your spirit driven man. And, you definitely inspire me to live, live in the spirit more, you somewhere around you. I'm sure you do that with everyone around you. Yeah. I think thanks for saying that.

00:04:48:13 - 00:05:07:14
Unknown
It was the Holy Spirit that changed things for me. I like I grew up in church. I grew up in the religion and the tradition of it. But it was through prayer. It was through prayer that changed everything for me. And when I had, like my radical encounter with God scholar, like how different was that for a moment to let that go down?

00:05:07:16 - 00:05:43:05
Unknown
Oh, well, I have my watch. Because I injured my arm. I think today's what, the 17th? Yeah, 17th, I believe so it was almost exactly seven months. So it was about six months and 30 days ago that I had a radical encounter with God in the desert in 2018. It was April 18th. And it was after a ten year NFL career that was filled with, I mean, everything that you would want.

00:05:43:05 - 00:06:07:14
Unknown
You know, I was a Super Bowl champion, broke a Super Bowl record in that game, had an NFL single season record for most punts inside the 20 yard line, multimillion dollar contract. Was voted the fittest man in the NFL twice. And I was always looking to achieve myself to worthiness. I remember the night that I won the Super Bowl.

00:06:07:16 - 00:06:29:28
Unknown
Looking back on it was probably the most depressing night of my life because I think we all, in our mind, have created this scenario that once I arrive at this place or get this thing like, everything's going to be all right, like I'm going to feel different, things are going to shift. And, and I was able to get to that place.

00:06:30:00 - 00:06:51:25
Unknown
And I remember the night I won the Super Bowl, getting back to my hotel room and looking down at Indianapolis, Indiana, and just seeing an ocean of people like Mardi Gras just high fiving and hugging in the streets. They're having the time of their life and then I noticed, Skyler, they don't even have an on Giants jerseys. They're just happy to be at a place where something great happened.

00:06:51:27 - 00:07:16:25
Unknown
And I'm 17 floors up. I had the greatest game of my life and the biggest game of my life, and I and I feel this wave of depression come over me because I don't feel any different. And I'm thinking about all the early mornings, all the late nights, all the sacrificing. For this moment. And it was bigger and it was better than I thought it was going to be.

00:07:16:25 - 00:07:44:16
Unknown
And I don't feel any different. And then, almost like a panic came over me because I thought to myself, well, what more do I need to do in order for this, like elephant to get off of my chest? And it was in that it was the night that I won the Super Bowl, that I realized there was nothing inside of pro sports that was going to fill the hole that was in my chest, because I realized the hold it was in my chest could only be filled by God.

00:07:44:19 - 00:08:06:16
Unknown
But I didn't know, I didn't I didn't know how to change it. And so I ended up continuing to play in the NFL. About two weeks after that game, I signed a five year contract for several million dollars. And, I played three years of that contra act of that five year contract and then retired out of nowhere.

00:08:06:18 - 00:08:29:15
Unknown
And my, my wife, my dad, my coaches, my mentor, my friends were like, dude, what are you doing? You're walking away from X amount of dollars per year. It's only six months of work. Steve, you're a punter. What are you doing? And I just I just knew if I continued to do that, I would be sacrificing more of my life.

00:08:29:18 - 00:08:54:18
Unknown
And I knew exactly what it was going to give me. It's kind of like continuing to to do the same thing, but expecting it to give you back something. And I didn't realize at the time I was broken. I didn't realize at the time how much I was carrying around that didn't belong to me. And so after I retired, we moved to San Diego and my marriage is definitely falling apart at this point.

00:08:54:20 - 00:09:27:09
Unknown
I'm addicted to pain pills because of an injury that I had. Closet watching porn 3 or 4 times per week. It's part of like my coping mechanism. Like my way of going to sleep, just very dysfunctional and when we got out to San Diego, I had a friend that invited me to church, and, And I remember when we got invited to that church, I was actually renting an Airbnb garage, paying $79 per night.

00:09:27:09 - 00:09:53:14
Unknown
So my wife was at home with our five kids, and I was in at an Airbnb, suicidal, you know, just like looking at my life on paper, it looked great. Why am I so empty? And I remember meeting my wife, showing up at that church ten minutes late because I wanted to avoid the greeters. You know, those really overly joyful people outside of church like, hey, how are you?

00:09:53:19 - 00:10:14:04
Unknown
Yeah, because, Skyler, if I would have encountered them and they would have been, hey, how are you? I would have told them. I was thinking about killing myself last night. So then I walk into the church and I remember walking in, then the church. At the time it was called C3 San Diego. Now it's called awaken. And I remember walking to this church of about 400 people.

00:10:14:05 - 00:10:29:22
Unknown
I walk in and like. It is just like an energy in the room. And I look around and there are people that look like you and me with their hands raised up, like singing out loud to the worship songs. I'm like, well, this is different. I'm used to like, you got to wear khakis, you got to tuck your shirt in very proper.

00:10:29:24 - 00:10:52:05
Unknown
And this is like a rock concert. And so I walk up to the left corner and find the darkest place that I can find. And I sit down and my wife leaves an open seat in between us. That's how our that's how we were. It was not good. And the pastor walks out and he starts talking and, maybe 30s into what he's saying.

00:10:52:05 - 00:11:14:29
Unknown
He stops. He looks up into the left corner. He goes, hey, you and I'm. And I look behind me and there's nothing behind me but the wall. And he goes, yeah, you with the big arms as I go. He's talking to me. And he goes, I don't know you, but God wants you to know that you've been gone for a really long time.

00:11:15:01 - 00:11:34:10
Unknown
That God sees what's broken in you, and he wants you to know that he's going to heal it. And he just continues to go on and on for like a minute straight about me. And everything that he's saying is like, how did he know I haven't been to church in 15 years? And so he's like, I didn't know at the time, but he's prophesying over me.

00:11:34:10 - 00:11:59:23
Unknown
And God had given him word of knowledge for me. So I'm like trying to go into this church to find God. And I've sat in the darkest place that I could find, and I was sitting there for five minutes before the spot, like, swept up into the left corner as this guy's prophesying over me. So then after that happens, I'm I'm freaking out.

00:11:59:25 - 00:12:23:06
Unknown
And the pastor gives the message. I don't remember what he talked about. And I remember as soon as the worship music started, I, I left because I didn't want anybody to come up to me. I thought maybe people recognize me. I was just, like, overly insecure. I go and I get in the car with my wife and, and I look at her, I go.

00:12:23:09 - 00:12:45:22
Unknown
I feel like that guy was either really, really good or he was hearing from God. And so about I, that I decided that I'm going to go back to this church. And about two months later that I had a men's conference, and I went to that men's conference, and that's when I had the radical encounter with God. So I'll pause in the story, because I know that that was a lot.

00:12:45:22 - 00:13:08:03
Unknown
But no, it's so good. Keep cruising. So you go see you go to this men's event, this men's, arena type event. And what what what happened there. So this is powerful. So I guess to, to give context, I grew up in a, like, a very religious home. I grew up in Baton Rouge, and we went to a church where you had to wear khakis.

00:13:08:03 - 00:13:28:18
Unknown
You had to tuck your shirt in. If you talk during service, you got smacked in the back of the head. We had the hymnals. It was very official. You've met me like, that's not my style. Yeah. You know, like, one of the ways they like. I think you think of me as like, man, this guy's just, like, full of the Holy Ghost, which is the truth.

00:13:28:21 - 00:13:54:14
Unknown
But I went to a church that was talked about Jesus and talked about God, but we because I think they didn't understand or they were scared of the Holy Ghost. They didn't really like, include him as much. And so it was very religious place. And when I was 11, I said I wanted nothing to do with my church, and it was a church of about like 50 or 75 people.

00:13:54:17 - 00:14:16:20
Unknown
And, when I was 11, I got invited to go to the power team. I don't know if anybody like listening or watching. This is knows what the power team is, but, it was a group of about 7 to 9 guys that looked like the characters in the WWF and I didn't say the WWE, I said the WWF.

00:14:16:20 - 00:14:35:15
Unknown
So if you're Skyler and I is H the Hulk Hogan era, they were dudes and they would go from city to city and they would rent out churches and and auditoriums and they would put on the most incredible feats of strength. And then they would show your testimony in the gospel of Jesus, and they would give people an opportunity to receive Jesus.

00:14:35:18 - 00:15:04:15
Unknown
And they came to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1994, and I got invited in. So my dad brought me and I remember walking in Skyler. I walked in and there was freaking fire on the stage and stacks of bricks seven feet tall and baseball bats and iron bars and chains in handcuffs. I remember walking in and looking at my dad, and I'm like, because at Mike, at my church, you couldn't even wear a tank tops, you know what I mean?

00:15:04:15 - 00:15:27:09
Unknown
It was official. And so we walk into this church and I'm seeing all these things that are not allowed at my church. I look back at my dad, I'm like, is this allowed here? Because I had no exposure to any other church other than my own up until 11 years old. And I walk in and all of a sudden it's a more contemporary church with a bunch of stuff on the stage that aren't even allowed in my church.

00:15:27:14 - 00:15:42:01
Unknown
And my dad said, well, here it is, go ahead and go up to the front. I said, well, can I go up to the front? He said, yeah, go ahead. So I'm front row, 11 years old at my chin is on the stage, Skyler, and I'm like, totally drinking this in and there for an hour and a half.

00:15:42:01 - 00:16:02:17
Unknown
I am completely blown away. I mean, there was no YouTube back then, so think about it. For me, I'd never seen a pro athlete, never seen a pro wrestler, and my parents didn't let me watch WWF and I'd never been to a pro game. So these are the biggest men that I have ever seen doing the most extraordinary things that I have ever seen.

00:16:02:23 - 00:16:32:26
Unknown
These men were radical and I was like, wait a minute, these dudes are radical, but they they follow the same Jesus as my dad and his friends at church. This looks different. I uninterested in this. And so as they went on, their frickin take in their head in bashing bricks, I mean, it's unbelievable. Maybe we can throw up some B-roll on my, on this so people know, like, what I'm talking about.

00:16:32:29 - 00:16:57:28
Unknown
Like Nathan. Yeah. As Nathan pops that up for us so you guys can have a visual. Just imagine 1994 pre YouTube and getting to see this front row. Skyler I'm freaking blown away okay. And then the main guy walks out and, he says okay, I'm gonna put a pair of handcuffs on, and you put some money as a Baton Rouge police officer, come up and put some on.

00:16:57:28 - 00:17:19:00
Unknown
I'm front row. I can hear the chains. And then he has another guy who says, this is not enough for my God. And he brings in another Baton Rouge police officer up and puts two pairs of handcuffs on. And he says, these chains represent the bondage that the enemy has on you. But tonight these chains can break and only Jesus can do it.

00:17:19:02 - 00:17:37:19
Unknown
And he counts down from 10 to 1, and he breaks them. And I remember as the chains are flying over my head, I'm like, I want what he's got. And he was like, if you if you feel like you don't fit in. And I'm like, oh my God, that's me. He's like, if you feel this way and like everything he's saying, like, oh my God, he's talking to me.

00:17:37:22 - 00:17:57:24
Unknown
He's like, today's the day and today's the day that you're going to give your life to Jesus. I'm like, that's me. He goes, all right, I'm going to count to three. Put your hand up. If you're giving your life to Jesus. And I threw both of my hands up, gave my life to Jesus. And for the next six months, you did not have to tell me to read my Bible.

00:17:57:27 - 00:18:16:22
Unknown
You did not have to tell me to pray. I belong to God. Like it was unbelievable. I remember when I went home from that event, not only did I make this, like, incredible, like life changing decision. Like I'm going to give my life to Jesus, but I also what that group did and the main guy's name was Keith Graff.

00:18:16:22 - 00:18:37:00
Unknown
That main guy did for me was he gave me a picture of possibility. I had never seen a man of God that was radical. I had never seen a man of God that was aggressive, kind and gentle at the same time. I had never seen a man of God that, like, would cry one minute and then break handcuffs the next.

00:18:37:02 - 00:18:59:03
Unknown
I was like, it was. It was foreign to me, but it was so attractive because I love WWF. But like, I want to follow Jesus because, like, I feel like it's the way I feel like God is real and I feel like Jesus is his son. But like all the people that follow him are like, that I had been exposed to.

00:18:59:03 - 00:19:18:11
Unknown
And then I saw these radical, this group of radical men of God. And everywhere they went there were gather a gathering of people and everyone else would want to live like them and follow Christ. It was so attractive to me. And so I remember coming back from that event, not only did I start reading my Bible and praying because I like, I feel like I belong to God.

00:19:18:18 - 00:19:43:22
Unknown
Like I remember on Sundays was would be when we would get the thickest newspapers. And I remember getting the newspapers and a lot of the ads would be in the Sunday paper. I remember getting those and standing in front of my mirror and like, ripping them in half in Jesus name, because in the in the show they would take phone books, like Baton Rouge, phone books that were like 3 or 4in thick and they would rip them in half and then be like a be blown away.

00:19:43:27 - 00:20:03:20
Unknown
And then I would take like, hey, I got in trouble because I'd be taken like the the iron clothes hangers and binding them over my head in the mirror in Jesus name. I was so impacted. I remember going to garage sales after that and like bartering like, hey, if nobody buys this like these dumbbells or these, remember, like with the springs.

00:20:03:23 - 00:20:19:19
Unknown
Oh yeah. The like, if nobody buys this, can I come back at the end of the garage? So could I have this. You know what I mean. And I would collect all these things to train my body because I saw a picture of possibility. So I needed to share that in order to kind of share context for this men's conference.

00:20:19:19 - 00:20:47:03
Unknown
So one other thing that I should mention is about six months after, I had this rattle radical encounter with these mighty men of God, and I gave my life to Jesus. I was in seventh grade, and I had a teacher that took a special interest in me, and really helped me, and was probably the first man in my life that every single time I saw him, he had something great to tell me about myself.

00:20:47:06 - 00:21:09:03
Unknown
Because if you haven't noticed, in the people listening to this or watching this, I have what the doctors like to call ADHD. Like, I don't claim that that's what they call it. I just have a special brain and it's not necessarily celebrated in school. So I, I really had like a really tough time sitting still following the rules.

00:21:09:05 - 00:21:28:10
Unknown
And and so elementary school was very difficult, you know, and they thought maybe the best solution for Steve, because he can't be quiet during class is to put him on the wall during recess. How does it make sense for somebody that can't sit still, that when it's time to go run around, you make him stand on the wall, you know?

00:21:28:13 - 00:21:46:02
Unknown
So I digress, but my childhood was very difficult. And then in seventh grade was the first time I felt like I had a teacher that was like the way that I was built. He celebrated it and he was like, man, you know, you do such a great job here. And hey, I like how you did your hair today, Steve.

00:21:46:02 - 00:22:05:19
Unknown
It's awesome. Amen. I can tell that you've been exercising and your legs look strong. Always had something nice to say. And then one day he asked me to stay after class. And the next thing that I know, he's unbuckling my pants. My pants are hitting the floor. I'm panicking and I blackout. And the next thing that I know, it must have been 2 or 3 minutes later, I'm.

00:22:05:19 - 00:22:39:01
Unknown
I'm pulling my pants up. My heart's beating out of my chest. And, like, I've been supremely violated. And I was so ashamed. I remember calling my dad and telling him that my teacher did something to me that made me feel really uncomfortable, because I was so ashamed. I couldn't tell him how far that it went. And and so I had questions that came up for me because just six months before that, like this guy that's like, my hero is telling me I belong to God.

00:22:39:01 - 00:22:56:20
Unknown
He's got great and mighty plans for me. He's never going to leave me, he's never going to forsake me. And six months later, I have a grown man that I trusted that did things to me that no man should ever do to a little boy, should never do to anybody. And and so I've got questions like, well, if God is real, is he good?

00:22:56:22 - 00:23:20:17
Unknown
And. If he's supposed to have good plans for my life, does did I do something wrong that I'm being punished for? And then the last question that I had that really scared me is like, dad, since this happened, does this make me gay? And I'm like, I'm not asking those questions. So you have these questions about your identity that you don't get answered.

00:23:20:20 - 00:23:38:21
Unknown
And so you just package them up and you put them in the basement of your life. And then, oh, the enemy knew what he was doing. Just about two months after that, somebody gave me a VHS, VHS tape, and it was porn. And now and now I've got a porn tape. And you know what? When I watch it, I like it.

00:23:38:23 - 00:24:00:28
Unknown
It's exciting. I almost feel like the rest of my problems in the world just go away. These fireworks are going off in my brain of excite. And then you learn how to masturbate, and then you put the two together and you're like, wow. Then this is almost kind of like an escape from life. So that's that's context for really living a life, Skyler.

00:24:00:28 - 00:24:20:12
Unknown
And that's why the Super Bowl night was like, is dark for me is what it was. I think maybe at the beginning of the show, people were like, did you want the super? Why are you so depressed? Why was so depressed? Because something was shifted and broken in my identity that didn't get repaired by a father voice when I was a kid.

00:24:20:20 - 00:24:59:14
Unknown
And so I looked for everything in the world to make me enough. I began to pursue and overcome women, to prove to myself and to other people I'm not gay. I'm not gay. Look at all the women that I've been with. And then it comes to sports where I'm going to achieve my way to being worthy. If I'm the best on the team, if I'm the MVP, if I get the scholarship, if I'm all American, if I make it to the pros, if I can play for sports in high school, if I can play two in college, if I can go to the pros and then I believe that men that are listening to

00:24:59:14 - 00:25:25:25
Unknown
us can connect with achieving things and being like, I don't feel any different. And then being like, well, well, maybe, maybe it's not $1 million, maybe it's $3 million. Then you get this ring like was not $3 million. It's it's probably ten. And then two homes. And I feel like that scenario plays out in nearly every man's life.

00:25:25:27 - 00:25:54:20
Unknown
Who's on a mission? And I was on a mission. But God's not calling us to live a mission driven life. He's calling us to live a purpose driven life. And and it wasn't until I checked a lot of those boxes that I realized those those missions will never fulfill us. Those are like me. Setting another goal is almost like me creating another hamster will for myself.

00:25:54:22 - 00:26:26:17
Unknown
Even though $10 million or a Super Bowl or being on the cover of Muscle and Fitness, whatever it is, even though, like some of them are shinier than the others, still a hamster wheel. And so we're creating these golden plated hamster wheels for myself. And I realized after I had this encounter with God that I'm about to describe to you in the desert when I had this encounter, it gave me eyes to see the different areas of my life that I was taking, my time, my talents, and my treasures.

00:26:26:20 - 00:26:47:20
Unknown
And I was on a hamster wheel and I was going nowhere. And the enemy loved it, because the enemy doesn't. He doesn't need to destroy us if he can distract us. And I was distracted. He tried to destroy me. I didn't kill myself. And now he wanted to just distract me. Because if he can distract me, I'm not taking territory away from him.

00:26:47:23 - 00:27:05:18
Unknown
But he'll. He'll let me get all the success in the world that I want, as long as I'm not saving souls. Oh yeah. Steve I'll let you get all of the money, all of the businesses, all of the clout, all of the followers, all, all of that.

00:27:05:21 - 00:27:29:02
Unknown
But I, I can't have you sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. I can't have you sharing testing when I can't have you praying for people. So if you want another couple million dollars, I got that for you. Just stay distracted. I would say that's most men of God, right? Most God men that love Jesus are distracted. And a lot of the guys that come through rock, they're in that space right there in that same exact space.

00:27:29:07 - 00:27:47:14
Unknown
I'm sure a lot of the guys that you work with initially, right, they have this mission that they're on to go create, go build. And it's really a distraction from the most important mission, the purpose of why all Christians are here, which is the Great Commission. And so, yeah, I love a man. So he had you distracted. Okay.

00:27:47:17 - 00:28:14:26
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah. And I would agree with you, man. It's, Oh, we'll put it back in the story, and then we'll kind of discuss it and pull it apart here in a minute. So I shared everything that I shared. So you would have context for me retiring from the NFL, moving out to California, going to that church, having that that pastor prophesy over me.

00:28:14:29 - 00:28:38:19
Unknown
And then I ended up at the men's conference that this church hosts. So I shared everything with you. So, you know, all of the baggage, all of the self-hatred, the self condemnation, all of the burdens of addiction that I'm carrying around pills at this point, now that I'm retired from the NFL, now I'm full time entrepreneur in the fitness space, taking Adderall.

00:28:38:19 - 00:29:04:02
Unknown
And I'm I'm taking way too much of it. So now I'm working probably ten hours per day, seven days per week, because I started a supplement company. I did that for for two years. It's really, really hard. And I got a got a mentor, a business coach, and I did everything that he told me to do, and I hit every financial goal and marker in the one year of mentorship that I had with him.

00:29:04:08 - 00:29:30:03
Unknown
And then when in December rolled around of 2017, right before I had that radical encounter with God, I was so my adrenal fatigue was so high, my depression was so high, my addiction was so high that I was stuck in bed from like December 7th to December 11th, stuck in bed, didn't get out of bed. All I did was like eat pills and smoke weed.

00:29:30:05 - 00:29:53:22
Unknown
At the time I have five kids, but but I had worked myself into addiction. But in my mind I'm like, I'm doing it for my family, right? I'm like, I'm making the sacrifice. Doing what? For your family? Like driving yourself deep into addiction and isolation and depression. So your marriage falls apart and you guys have to just split it down.

00:29:53:22 - 00:30:15:00
Unknown
The middle. Is that what you're working for? Steve? And so I'm so thankful that in in the darkness of that, I got invited to this men's conference. And one of the things I didn't mention was when, my oldest that's 17 now, when I won the Super Bowl, he was four. I remember pulling him out of the bleachers and him saying to me, dad, we did it.

00:30:15:00 - 00:30:32:09
Unknown
We won the Super Bowl. When I get older, I want to be a pro just like you. I remember like it was yesterday. And so when he said that, I feel like something shifted in me. And I said, well, okay, well, I need to replicate my childhood for him. And so nothing that he did was ever good enough.

00:30:32:12 - 00:30:51:24
Unknown
I pushed him, I pressed him, I was hard on him. I woke him up early. We stayed up late. All the things that I did as a child, I put him through. And I had, like, an old school Clint Eastwood dad that didn't sit me on his lap, rub my back and tell me I'm a good boy.

00:30:51:24 - 00:31:10:13
Unknown
He's a good dad. But he was not affectionate. He was not intimate with me. And so I was not that way with him. So you fast forward until the this men's conference that we went to, I got special permission for my son to come and he was 11 years old at the time. So we go to this men's conference that changed my life.

00:31:10:13 - 00:31:32:15
Unknown
And the first thing that they gave us, Skyler, when we get out to the desert in San Diego, was a bird and board, and it was a two by four that had two holes on it and a string. They gave one of my son, they gave one to me, and they gave us a Sharpie, and they said, I want you guys to go separately, sit alone, and I want you to write down everything on this bird and board that you brought into the desert that you want God to take away.

00:31:32:18 - 00:32:09:13
Unknown
And so, I mean, just a few weeks before I went there, I was suicidal. And so, like, when I went to the desert sky, I was at the end of myself. And so I remember sitting down and just writing addiction, porn, pills, self-hate, hatred, self-condemnation lust. Am I gay now? Because I had attraction to men, but because I never had that answered as a little boy and it was tormenting me.

00:32:09:16 - 00:32:41:11
Unknown
Panic attacks, PTSD, I just, I tattooed this thing. All of my shame, all of my guilt. All of the women that I took advantage of, and that I put it on my back. And then we. There were 2000 men in the desert at this event in 2018. So the events called Emerge. And I remember walking into the circus tent and that same like energy that I felt the first time I walked into that church with everybody's hands raised up.

00:32:41:11 - 00:33:01:16
Unknown
I felt it, and it was intense. And so I go and I sit down with my friend Nick Unsworth and my son ace, and we sit down in the announce the first speaker, and he walks out and I don't recognize his name, but he's a big pastor, older guy and white head of hair, and he grabs a microphone and he speaks into the microphone.

00:33:01:16 - 00:33:20:26
Unknown
And as soon as he speaks into the microphone, I felt like I got hit by a lightning bolt. And I'm like. And then my face started getting really warm, and then my chest started getting hot and I felt like I was like, starting to like, like be weightless. And I started to, like, feel like I was floating out of my chair.

00:33:20:26 - 00:33:40:08
Unknown
So I'm like, grabbing the sides of my chair. Skyler. And I'm like, I can't hear the words that he's saying. It just sounds like, wow, wow, wow. And I look at my son to see if it's like happening to him, and he's just sitting here like this, and then look at my friend Nick Unsworth, and he's like picking his nose.

00:33:40:08 - 00:34:01:15
Unknown
I'm like, okay, it's only me. Yeah. And so I sit there for minutes and it just gets more and more intense, but I can't hear any words. It's like I'm in the bottom of a swimming pool of jello and somebody has a megaphone and they're trying to talk to me. It's just like vibrations. And so I look over at my friend Nick, I'm like, what's this guy's name?

00:34:01:17 - 00:34:24:08
Unknown
And he says he bumbles around with the program. He says, Keith Kraft. So I Google it. I don't recognize name, I Google it. And the third image that pops up is a picture of this dude 25 years earlier with a mullet breaking bricks in Jesus name. I'm like, that's the guy from when I was 11. And so he continues to preach his message, but I still can't hear anything.

00:34:24:08 - 00:34:44:24
Unknown
My mind is now, my mind is spinning and my body is like having this like, like visceral reaction to an energy. So he gets there. I didn't realize it at the time, dude. I was being touched by the Holy, Holy Ghost. And, and what I was experiencing was unconditional love, peace and joy at the same time. And I, I didn't know what it was.

00:34:44:27 - 00:35:02:03
Unknown
So I run around the side of the tent and after he gets done preaching, I'm like throwing people out of the way. And I get up to the hem of the wrap. I'm like, Pastor Keith, you don't know who I am. But you changed my life in 1994 when you are in the power team. And I just I told him the story and I was like, man, you you changed my life.

00:35:02:03 - 00:35:22:08
Unknown
You gave me a picture of possible. And I just wanted to thank you. So I'm walking back to my seat and I still got this burden board on my back. And I had three revelations about God that, like, I was so desperately needed. I knew in that moment, Skyler, that God was real. I knew in that moment, because of what I was feeling.

00:35:22:08 - 00:35:39:03
Unknown
I knew the guy was good, and I knew that God was operating outside of time for the moment that I was in right then. So I, like stumbled back to my seat and I feel like I'm walking on pillows, man. I'm like, hi. And I find my friend Nick, and I'm about to tell him the story of like, who this guy is.

00:35:39:05 - 00:35:59:04
Unknown
And then I realize I lost my 11 year old son and all of this, like, excitement. And I was about to panic. And my friend that goes, oh, chill out, man, look at the front there. And I looked at the front of the altar, my son standing there like this, giving his life to Jesus. And the crazy thing is, I was 11.

00:35:59:06 - 00:36:20:16
Unknown
My son was 11, and it was the same pastor. Wow. So like my mind is like blah. And plus I'm having like this. I didn't realize it at the time. This is an encounter with God. And the next day they had this big bonfire and every person goes up to the front of the line and they they pray with another person.

00:36:20:16 - 00:36:43:22
Unknown
In Scripture it says, if any two of you touch anything on earth, our father in heaven will do it. And so, because I knew that God was real and I knew that he was good, I was ready to pray a dangerous prayer. And it's a prayer I want to pray, if you would, at the end of this, because I remember when I was 11, I like, repented of my sins.

00:36:43:22 - 00:37:06:00
Unknown
I confess Jesus as Lord. I invited him into my heart and it was more of like, I want to belong to God because I don't belong to anything and I don't want to go to hell. That was why I made that decision. But when I recommitted my life to Christ when I was 36 years old, it was because I experience everything that the world had to offer.

00:37:06:02 - 00:37:34:15
Unknown
And I was empty. Man. It's almost kind of like Sherlock Holmes. The way Sherlock Holmes solves mysteries is the process of elimination. And that's how I arrived at Christ. I arrived at Christ because sex didn't fill my cup, money didn't fill my cup. Being famous didn't fill my cup like achieving, didn't fill my cup. And it wasn't until I had enough of the world that I was like, okay, God, I'm at the end of myself.

00:37:34:17 - 00:38:01:18
Unknown
Like, you gotta show up. And this, this men's conference was I think it was like, if I wouldn't have encountered God, there, I might not be alive. You know, I never really thought about it. I was definitely, like, headed down a really dark place. So, like, the goodness of God. Scholar. It's so real. So it's not hard for me to, like, show up in a studio.

00:38:01:18 - 00:38:29:26
Unknown
And the first thing I want to do is I want people to encounter God. I want them to experience his goodness. I want them to experience the Holy Spirit. I want to experience like unconditional love, because I got to do that, like, all in one moment. And it was at like, it's probably like my last shot. So I believe for people, when you get to the end of who you are in, you're ready to surrender.

00:38:29:26 - 00:38:54:03
Unknown
God will meet you there. And God met me in that desert April 18th, 2018. And I prayed a dangerous prayer. I said, God, I repent of my sins, which means like not just that. I'm sorry. Like I repent of my sins. I turn away from who I used to be. I confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. He died on the cross for my sins.

00:38:54:09 - 00:39:17:21
Unknown
I invite him into my heart. But this is where I feel like the prayer got much more dangerous. After that is after I invited him into my heart and I repented of my sin. I received this full authority and I feel like that's what most men don't walk and they don't walk in the authority of Jesus, we we stop at the forgiveness part.

00:39:17:21 - 00:39:43:16
Unknown
We're like Jesus, forgive us. And honestly, most of us, we we feel so undeserving of being forgiven, I certainly did, I felt so undeserving of being forgiven. Then I was like, okay, just give me the forgiveness and like, thank you. But Jesus actually made that sacrifice because he wants us to move in power and authority. He wants signs, miracles and wonders to happen because we belong to him and that we he would get all of the glory.

00:39:43:21 - 00:40:05:29
Unknown
And so I prayed a dangerous prayer that God wouldn't just forgive me, but that he would heal me and that he would. He would let me walk in his full authority. And so when I came home from that event, I absolutely believe that the Holy Spirit took some impulses in some pain and some tormenting thoughts. And like I used to wake up sweating, a lot of those things were just arrested.

00:40:05:29 - 00:40:26:11
Unknown
They were completely taken away. And there were some things that like, I had to retrain my brain, you know, there were some things that were difficult, but they weren't as difficult as they were before. I wasn't sure whether or not God was real, you know? So I came home from that event and I made a covenant promise with God.

00:40:26:13 - 00:40:43:01
Unknown
I said, God, I know that you're real. I know that you're good. And what I'm going to do over the next year is I'm going to give myself completely to you. I'm getting a mentor. I'm going to do exactly what he says. I'm going to read my Bible. I'm going to say my prayers, but I'm not going to be like ritualistic about it.

00:40:43:06 - 00:41:09:19
Unknown
I'm doing it because I want to know you more. And if you can heal my mind and you can heal my heart over this next year, I will give you everything that I have for the rest of my life. And and I remember taking, like, drastic measures, man. Like I stopped watching even rated-r movies. I didn't want anything that would even trigger any lustful thoughts.

00:41:09:25 - 00:41:26:29
Unknown
I only listened to worship music for a full freaking year. Still, to this day, like 90% of the music I listen to is worship music. Just because going all in on that and saying, like, as an athlete, like an athlete, if you want to go to the Olympics and it's two years from now, it's not that much time.

00:41:27:01 - 00:42:02:05
Unknown
Every single thing that you eat, every rep, every every nap, every carbohydrate, every, every, glutamine pill that you everything matters. Everything matters. And I did that for a year. I'm like, I know what that dedication, that obsession looks like. I did it in pro sports. So then, like, what would it look like, Steve, if you gave that same obsession and focus to Jesus for one year and you said, Jesus, I'm going to give myself completely to you and whatever you say I should do with my life, I'm going to do it.

00:42:02:07 - 00:42:21:00
Unknown
And over in this next year, if you can change my mind and heal my heart, I'll give you everything that I have and so that's why every time you see me, I'll show up the same way I'll always be on fire. I'll always be on purpose. Because I'm going to fulfill my covenant promise to Jesus. Because he changed me in that year.

00:42:21:05 - 00:42:41:08
Unknown
Like he changed me. He he changed my appetite. You know, it says, Psalms 37 forces delight yourself in the in the Lord. And he'll he'll give you the desires of your heart. So the trick in that is, is like when I read that verse six years ago, I'd be like, oh, well, like if I delight myself in God, he'll give me what I want.

00:42:41:11 - 00:43:04:08
Unknown
But the trick is God doesn't tell you is like as you delight yourself in the Lord, he changes the desires of your heart to be more like his and like as God gets what he wants, you're going to get what you want. Like to me. And I feel like that's happened so much for me that like, nothing but nothing makes me happier than like seeing someone come to Christ.

00:43:04:10 - 00:43:25:15
Unknown
You know, nothing makes me happier than praying for someone. Like, my favorite thing is praying for someone like we prayed for you. And then when they open their eyes and they like, they forget where they're at. You know, that they were with God. You know, when they're. Did they forget where they're at? I know that they had an encounter with God.

00:43:25:15 - 00:43:47:08
Unknown
And to me, bringing someone to Christ and then helping someone encounter him for the first time. What's better? What could be better? They're going to live for eternity in the glory of the Lord. Because you are on purpose. Because you said, you know what? Let me stand in the gap and just ask some questions. Let me take an interest in this person.

00:43:47:11 - 00:44:11:02
Unknown
I mean, there's two things that God wants us to be really good at loving him and loving his kids. And I feel like for me, I had it. I had it backwards, man. The like the enemy had me so distracted. It was. I don't know if you've ever you probably haven't seen this painting, but there's this painting called The Allegory of Long Spoons and it's a portrait.

00:44:11:07 - 00:44:36:18
Unknown
And inside the portrait there's a picture of heaven, and there's a picture of hell. The circumstances and both places are the same. It's like a Thanksgiving table full of food, with 12 people sitting around it, and they all have really long spoons. But if you look at how everybody's emaciated, anorexic and gray and depressed and they're all trying to get the food and feed themselves, but they're only getting the crumbs and the drops into their mouth.

00:44:36:18 - 00:45:08:23
Unknown
And you look at heaven and everybody's fat and happy and joyful because they're taking their spoons and they're feeding the people across the table from. And they're getting to enjoy everything that the table has to offer because they're they're taking what they have in. They're feeding other people with it. And I realized in that moment I was taking my time, my talents and my treasures, and I was feeding myself, and I was spiritually bankrupt, millionaire by the world's standards, but spiritually bankrupt.

00:45:08:25 - 00:45:27:27
Unknown
And that, like that painting gave me new eyes to see how to repurpose myself. Zig Ziglar said, help enough people get what it is that they want, and you're going to get what it is that you want. And I feel like, man, does that ring true? So, I'll pause there. I'm sure that you have a question or two.

00:45:27:27 - 00:45:32:27
Unknown
Yeah. I love,

00:45:33:00 - 00:45:54:15
Unknown
That story has me, speechless, bro. That's powerful. And I other goodness. God, there's, Yeah, there's guys listening to this man that are convicted right now that are feeling, that are feeling good. Praise the Lord. Feel in the spirit that are feeling, feeling some chains, maybe broken off, feeling some chains that are maybe still there. So I'd love, we're going to need to do a part two on this.

00:45:54:15 - 00:46:22:00
Unknown
I'd love it to. Yeah, I was hoping it would be good enough that you'd want to spend more time with me. I want to, yeah, I want to close out and cap this podcast with the prayer, because I feel like there's some power right now showing up and in a big way. Yeah. And I would hate to walk away and move in the tactics and how to be a better man and right masculinity and all the fun conversations that we could have and how to how to disciple and how to like, we're going to have some great stuff.

00:46:22:00 - 00:46:47:03
Unknown
But yeah, I could come in here and I could talk mindset. Yeah, I could talk million dollar visualization. I could talk peak performance. I could talk abs, I could talk arms. We could talk real estate. But that would be me and you helping men put a Band-Aid on a gun show. Meaningless compared to this conversation. Yeah. And I feel like for me, men, I had a lot of, like, what I just described to you.

00:46:47:10 - 00:47:08:21
Unknown
But it wasn't until I got really clear on my identity. Like, my identity was so much in what I did. And it became who I was. That if you ask me, Steve, who are you? I would, I'm a Super Bowl champion. I'm a father, I'm a husband. I would just name off to you the things that that I do.

00:47:08:23 - 00:47:34:05
Unknown
But once God gave me eyes to see, I realized that my life is not about the doing. It's about the being right. And now my focus is about being a man of integrity, honor and accountability. Being a man who's the same man no matter if there's a thousand that are watching him or zero watching him. And that was something that was not the case seven years ago.

00:47:34:07 - 00:47:58:27
Unknown
Like because I was so insecure, I would change who I was depending on who I was around. And I know that men can connect with that because we all have a deep sense of wanting to be enough. And I think because of the circumstances, I didn't feel like I was enough as a kid. And so I went out into the world as a man to try to earn being enough.

00:47:58:27 - 00:48:28:00
Unknown
And I just know that men connect with that and know that men connect with feeling like they're not enough because they haven't done enough. And for me, for God to give me new eyes to see, it's I'm no longer working for victory. I'm working from victory like I'm sanctified in the blood. I'm playing with house money. God chose me, you know, like, now that I've realized that I'm more than enough.

00:48:28:02 - 00:48:53:12
Unknown
It's so easy for me to come into your life and, like, put wind in your cells and, like, I no longer compete with any man like I exist to complete men, not to compete with them. I don't live to compare to other men. I lift, I lift them higher, and boy, that's different. My whole life was about besting another man.

00:48:53:20 - 00:49:14:03
Unknown
And now my life is about making the best of another man. It's different, but, man, it feels good. So this other analogy. And then we'll pray this analogy of, this pastor was doing a video. I wish I would have remembered who said this because I want to give them credit, but it was not from me. He said.

00:49:14:03 - 00:49:43:02
Unknown
Plum trees aren't supposed to eat plums. Apple trees aren't supposed to eat apples. Orange trees aren't supposed to eat oranges. The fruit that your life produces are for the people that are passing by. And I was like, who? I was eating the fruit that I produced, and I was sick. And now I've realized the fruit that I produces for other people, and it's given a new purpose for life.

00:49:43:02 - 00:50:12:14
Unknown
Now I'm off mission and I'm on purpose. So I'm ready to pray that prayer. Let me have your hand. And so for any man or woman that's listening to this right now, and you're realizing, dude, I'm actually just really lukewarm, I want to talk to two people. I believe that there's a there's a man that's listening to this right now that you realize, like, Jesus has been an accessory for you and he hasn't been the main focus.

00:50:12:17 - 00:50:32:15
Unknown
And you're realizing that, like, you're on mission and you need to get on purpose. And and so today is going to be the day that you're going to pray a prayer that I prayed where you rededicate your life and you ask the Holy Spirit to fill you and to guide you, and you finally accept the full authority of Jesus.

00:50:32:18 - 00:50:55:17
Unknown
And that's you saying, Holy Spirit, I'm giving you permission because God's a God of order, right? And he wants to be invited in. One thing that I had never received was the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit wants to be invited, and he wants to be given permission. And so the first group of men that are going to rededicate their lives that are realized, and I'm lukewarm and I'm on mission, but I want to be on purpose.

00:50:55:19 - 00:51:19:03
Unknown
We're going to pray the same prayer somebody that's read or that's giving their life to Jesus for the first time. But when you rededicate your life, you're going to receive the full authority of Jesus, that he would activate you and signs miracles and wonders and that's like, my favorite thing to do is I shared it with you earlier is like, lead somebody into a relationship with Jesus, and we're about to do that.

00:51:19:06 - 00:51:41:25
Unknown
Or help someone get activated. Right? And like when I was saying, like, man, I love praying with somebody and them open their eyes and then forgetting where they are. That's because they encountered God. Like, I believe that even on a podcast that you can close your eyes because I've done it, you can close your eyes and you can pray this prayer out loud.

00:51:42:00 - 00:52:04:09
Unknown
And I believe that the Holy Spirit will touch you, that he will deliver you if you need deliverance. Right? If it's addiction, if you're like, if you're really connecting with some of the things that I told you that I was sharing with, like it was really I mean, I didn't mention gambling, you know, I didn't mention pretty much anything that makes fireworks go off in your brain.

00:52:04:09 - 00:52:27:14
Unknown
That would give you a brief break from what you're being tormented with. That's what I struggled with. So I'm going to I'm going to tell the people that are listening to this right now, Skyler, to repeat after me. And so I'm just going to have you repeat after me. All right. So if you're realizing that today's the day and you've never given your life to Jesus, it's very simple, right?

00:52:27:14 - 00:52:56:18
Unknown
It's about you repenting of your sins and saying, like, God, I'm sorry, and I'm turning away from that. And then the second part is you confessing with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, that he defeated the grave, and inviting him into your heart to be your Lord and to be your Savior. And then the third part of the prayer is when we're going to ask the Holy Spirit to fill you, that you would receive the full authority of Jesus.

00:52:56:18 - 00:53:16:06
Unknown
So, Skyler, I'm excited to do this with you, man. Men's lives are about to get changed in Jesus's name. Repeat this after me. God, I want more of you and less of me. Good. Skyler. God, I want more of you and less of me. I repent of my sins. I repent of my sins and the mistakes that I've made and the mistakes that I made.

00:53:16:13 - 00:53:34:23
Unknown
I turn away from who I used to be. I turn away from who I used to be. And I confess Jesus Christ as Lord, and I confess Jesus Christ as Lord. That is the perfect Son of God, that is the perfect Son of God, that he died on the cross for my sins, that he died on the cross for my sins, that he defeated the grave, that he defeated the grave.

00:53:34:23 - 00:53:56:26
Unknown
Jesus, I invite you into my heart. Jesus, I invite you into my heart to be my Lord and my Savior, to be my Lord and my Savior. And I give you permission, Holy Spirit, and I give you permission. Holy spirit, to fill me with your love, to fill me with your love, with your peace, with your peace, with your joy, with your joy.

00:53:56:29 - 00:54:16:15
Unknown
Right now I receive the full authority of Jesus Christ. Right now, I receive the full authority of Jesus Christ that I would be activated for signs, miracles, and wonders that I would be activated for signs, miracles and wonders. I belong to Jesus. I belong to Jesus, and it's in his name I pray, and it's is his name I pray.

00:54:16:15 - 00:54:37:23
Unknown
Amen, Amen. So anybody that prayed that prayer for the first time, I feel I feel God right now. Yeah. You feel good? Yeah. What if was that, anybody that prayed that prayer? Their name? There's an angel that's in heaven that's holding a book that's called the Lamb's Book of Life, and their name is being written in that book in Jesus's blood.

00:54:37:23 - 00:54:55:22
Unknown
And the exciting part is, is like our body's going to expire, like this meat suit that God gave me. It's going to expire one day, and my spirit's going to go up into a heavenly place, and I'm going to see my name written in the Lamb's Book of life. But we don't go into heaven right away. This is like, really kind of like where I want to call men up at the end of praying.

00:54:55:22 - 00:55:10:01
Unknown
That prayer is once you see your name in the Lamb's Book of Life, you're actually going to have a meeting in the throne room with God. You're going to sit on what's called the beam a seat. Maybe we'll talk about this in part two. You're going to sit on the Bema Seat, and God's going to pass judgment on you.

00:55:10:02 - 00:55:27:28
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He's going to bring it says in Scripture that he's going to bring your time, talents, and treasures into the throne room for review. And there will be an all consuming fire, and the only thing that will remain will be Kingdom. So my Super Bowl, trophies, money, all these different things of the world are going to be burned up.

00:55:27:28 - 00:55:49:02
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The only thing that's going to be remaining is Kingdom aka the souls that were saved, the faith that I have and operated. And those are the only two things that are going to remain is faith and souls. And so what you and I, now that we belong to Jesus, what you and I want to focus on is like, how can we bring your kingdom?

00:55:49:02 - 00:56:15:23
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Because we desire for God to look down upon us and say, well done, good and faithful servant. He's not going to say, hey, great job, really charismatic evangelist and entrepreneur. He's not gonna say that he's going to want. Is that Steve? Were you good? Were you faithful? Not consistent. Were you faithful? And were you a servant? And so, I mean, Jesus said, he said the he came to serve, you know.

00:56:15:23 - 00:56:33:14
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And so my heart posture is a I want to come to serve. And so I'm thankful that I have friends that feel the same way that I do. Man, it's been fun sitting down. Thank you for letting me share testimony. I believe the kingdom of God got advance to the hundred percent. Appreciate you man. Until next time, number two.