I Only Had a 1% Chance to Live | Randy Adams

Randy Adams survival story, face reconstruction, trauma, military PTSD, faith in God, depression, and purpose.

 Army veteran Randy Adams nearly died—then God gave him a new mission. In this powerful Rise Up Kings podcast, Randy shares his near-death trauma, coma survival, and miraculous reconstructive journey. 

After being brutally attacked and left for de@d his battle wasn’t just physical—it was spiritual. Skylar Lewis dives into Randy’s darkest moments, his healing process, and how God turned his pain into purpose.
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Transcript

00;00;01;13 - 00;00;23;27
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I spent the next five weeks at a call out of Dyer, and I'm there on that day. It's only like 88 to 99% fatality rate. So I don't really like the 1 or 2% of people that survived. But am I, as a fan of Aster assays, somebody who faced the world again? I'm looking at somebody that they need to hide, so they're all sad because it's a whole world that we like.

00;00;24;00 - 00;00;45;14
Unknown
That's the whole dating thing of my bad. This time I was like, I can't go outside like this pale, faceless purple house. Basically gurgling air. And that's like, she's like, oh, Jesus, I should call. About the only thing I can remember is going in and out of consciousness. I knew I was dying. When we believe our life is destined to be a certain way, and then God allows for something else to happen.

00;00;45;14 - 00;01;02;23
Unknown
It gets us to question, what is this all for? Can I even handle this other path? I couldn't help but think to myself, is there cloth on the stage? I'll say her name on the jumbotron. You know, the big screen. That definitely would have that. And that's what I feel robbed of. Do you believe everything works out for your good?

00;01;02;24 - 00;01;25;07
Unknown
In this episode, we have Randy Adams, who has inspired millions of people through his story. He's gone through one of the most difficult things a human being can go through, and he shares the real and the raw side of all of this. He's a sergeant in the military, an incredible human being loves Jesus. He's on a mission to go share his story and help people live a life that glorifies God.

00;01;25;09 - 00;01;48;12
Unknown
You have, extensive career, right? In the Army. 18 years. And I'm sure there was a lot of challenging times inside of that. You were deployed three different times. And one of the most pivotal points in your life was what happened, few years ago. Before, years ago. So let's let's talk about that. So you got you got jumped by a couple guys.

00;01;48;14 - 00;02;31;08
Unknown
Yeah. So what happened? Well, if you don't that I kind of want to get some backstory first. I kind of want to frame. I love a package. Right? Yep. Skyler, give us some background. So you got this career right with. So consider illustrious. Like, everything is going great. You come in a military, you go to all the special schools, your air assault, your retail master, your fries, which is like SAS road and search and extraction system, I guess flies, which is vessel 30s and search and extraction systems.

00;02;31;08 - 00;03;00;24
Unknown
Your go to, you know, just all of these, these, these high level military schools, you're a pathfinder. Your first and last last out. You're best up. You're good. Achievement awards. Commendation awards. And you deploy it, and you just you just rocking in, and then you get recognized by all of these senior leaders, high level officers. You shake hands with the throws it at, just you fast track it.

00;03;00;26 - 00;03;32;07
Unknown
You know, I'm a sergeant first class at ten years. And I get to this. Like you say, pivotal place in life where it's like I come down, orders all along. It is, you know, they call it the first Security Force Assistance Brigade. We did a hasty deployment to Afghanistan or whatnot, so I called back. I got this on my resume.

00;03;32;07 - 00;03;55;10
Unknown
They. Now it's a big deal. All this agility I've got over there to do so. The are time. And I'll definitely got to end up being a first sergeant over there. I'll definitely got to get my dime in. You know I'll definitely got to make a there's like no question about it given by record up to this point.

00;03;55;12 - 00;04;40;26
Unknown
So I go home on leave for Christmas like most of the soldiers do, see family, see friends, you'll see your kids and things like that. About before I go on this long. Oh, call this outside the continental US. Tour of duty and, you know, well, up there I go to visit, you know, France is well, and it's just it's a lot safer night where I'm visiting friends and family and, table like the grand old stuff out there.

00;04;40;28 - 00;05;11;27
Unknown
You know, the revenue side, you know, people are, drink, you know, the star. Take it at it. You know, just it's festive time of year, right? At the they arises out of that and, you know, it ties. It's a rebuttals that just butted heads and, you know, arguing it, you know, it's like, hey, I'll get to remove myself from this situation because the at this stage in our life, I know I have a lot to lose right?

00;05;12;04 - 00;05;27;03
Unknown
Yep. Right. So upset. I make my way to the door, this apartment that I. That. Right. These guys lock the door.

00;05;27;05 - 00;05;48;10
Unknown
And I'm like, hey, outside it outside a get out of here. Oh, I got up good. You got it. I'll just try to get out of here. As I try to, like, you know, push my way past and just go towards the door because until they're like, you're not going to lock the door. Tell me I can't go nowhere right?

00;05;48;12 - 00;06;23;23
Unknown
It's try to go towards the door. I feel just a a blood strike across my face. Oh, it just felt like something sharp punctured into my jaw and just ripped across, and it just everything just kind of stirring, and it just went dark. I just hit the floor, and I hear, like, a lot of footsteps and just commotion.

00;06;23;23 - 00;06;47;11
Unknown
I can't. It was so loud. Ring at it like it was just. Everything was just. I couldn't see, you know? And I felt like blood filling up about, like, around my face. Couldn't really get conscious enough to really tell what was going on. I was an alert. I just, you know, how you could kind of this baffle you just felt like.

00;06;47;11 - 00;07;22;25
Unknown
Whoa, whoa, oh, look like table running or something, and, you feel like kicks and all types of things going on around you. And, finally, you know, it stopped rigor, but I just recall, like, just crawling right out the door, like Covid two. And, I wiped our face with my shirt, like, wiped blood out my eyes, and, I actually called a, ambulance.

00;07;22;28 - 00;07;57;20
Unknown
They came and got me. I. This ambulance, took me to a hospital where, They took for just pretty much gave me, like, painkillers. They claimed the, you know, like a loss for me with my face and also gave me painkillers and things like that. This one scares with my head to see if I had any, you know, doc at the halls or whatever.

00;07;57;22 - 00;08;38;24
Unknown
And, you know, the they left me there for a certain amount of hours, but the problem with this is while I was there, my head began to increase in size, like the swelling and the discoloration that they just started to increase level up. And this medical training facility, which I won't name here for obviously obvious reasons, but nephew gets called to pick me up from this hospital, like, okay, he's good.

00;08;38;26 - 00;09;03;07
Unknown
He calls it get me or discharge and takes me back to my mom's house. My mom is looking. Once I get back there, there are some other things, you know, we we rolled around, like to to pick up prescriptions and stuff like that to take up like, painkillers and things like that. So certainly we could find and the area we were stopping at CVS and Walgreens and things like that.

00;09;03;09 - 00;09;30;24
Unknown
Now, see, that line also built up a vehicle that while this is happening now, get a passenger seat of my nephew's, car at this time, not knowing what's going on. Like, I've just set up this like they're in an all to alter reality. When I go back to my old self, mobile is like Saul's, all right? Like you still don't look well.

00;09;30;26 - 00;09;55;16
Unknown
Like, I don't think they should have discharged you. So she's just like, you know, just, lay right here. I'll make you some tea. You know? You got any medicine or whatever I had, like, some Tylenol and, you know, just so some painkillers. And that's all I had. So she let me rest while I was asleep at my mom's house.

00;09;55;16 - 00;10;23;22
Unknown
And this is where I, I try not to get emotional about talk about it. It'll help me get to my role. Because I gotta roll with Obama's health as she, helped me get there, and, she said, Bob, this is my test. The lady, she says she came it checked on the middle of the night because she heard, like.

00;10;23;24 - 00;11;20;13
Unknown
And it's theory. Like she couldn't sleep. Something the host theory was saying. Go check on your side. Go check on your boy. And when she came in there to check on the. She said my head was even more swollen. But faceless purple. Like, I was basically gurgling air who was like, oh, And so she's like, oh, Jesus, I should call about, oh, so another set of, EMS calls to Mobile health keep it, I'm not really too aware of any of this, cause the only thing I can remember is guy edited out of consciousness was inside of waking up, and the paramedics standing up out of the bed, and I knew

00;11;20;13 - 00;12;04;22
Unknown
I was dying because I defecated and urinated all over the place that I want everything to start to come out of me. Had they transferred me to a better hospital? I'll just say that when I got there, they were, you know, straight. And he hooked me up to the chaise. Just poking and prodding at every hole I got, you know, just a just, vault that do dusty because, obviously it was it was life or death at that point, I was exterior under housing.

00;12;04;25 - 00;12;36;07
Unknown
I don't I don't like, like I'll say, like I told you would just call it edit out of consciousness. The last thing I remember hearing him say is we got 15 minutes. Well, before I completely blacked out. I'll just run over here. I don't say we got full tank. That is. It was dark. And from that point on us that the next.

00;12;36;09 - 00;13;08;03
Unknown
But five weeks had a coma and induced a come induced coma. Yeah, well, that's when this new journey began. What? I woke up from color, man. What? Your mom sounds like a blessing. Yeah. So tell me. So that was. That was why. I'm sorry. Those. She saved my life. Yeah. And it's not that the ifl that there and she knows that.

00;13;08;05 - 00;13;22;28
Unknown
What else is there? She knows that if she did, if the if the Holy Spirit didn't put it on her heart to check on me out of dire. And I'm there on that day, you know. Yeah, but what a lot of mother love, man. It's, They want to let us out, right? Yeah. So then what happened then?

00;13;22;28 - 00;13;45;18
Unknown
So then you. So you're in this hospital. They put you in an induced coma. You're. You wake up and you said this whole new journey began. So. So what happened? So while I was in a, while I was in a coma, you know, I was supposed to cut, you know, test the side of this is that, lost sister.

00;13;45;20 - 00;14;12;05
Unknown
Well, what ended up happening is the cut that was on our face was affected. It had become affected. The first hospital didn't do what they were supposed to do as far as use it. And I the antibiotics, I flush. And last sister properly, so got blood, got infected, so lost all that, set it. And that's why I'm swirling out there.

00;14;12;07 - 00;14;37;25
Unknown
Discolored. I had discoloration there. Now square started to have necrosis. You know, it started necrotic square like like you see here all my hair. This is like all over my body though. My scale was dark. It was hard of wood. You could do this a lot. Are you could do that on my leg. Well so that calls that turned into multiple organ failure.

00;14;37;28 - 00;15;01;07
Unknown
Once the system go septic, everything started to shut down on the side of the plate where they were gonna cut my chest open because my heart stuck. Flat layer. These are all things that will take a place. While I was in a culvert, they would still find all of these lifesaving measures. So I actually have a lot of thanks for that.

00;15;01;07 - 00;15;31;12
Unknown
That second hospital that I was at, because I think they sustainably I can't speak to every single thing I was done allows them to come. But I feel like they, they, they did a good job as far as sustaining the and keep the knee from transitioning from, but yeah, they, you know, I'm just grateful to God, man, because my heart couldn't take it out of my chest.

00;15;31;14 - 00;16;01;03
Unknown
They could've amputated me. I could have lost. I could have been a quadruple duty, cut my arms and my legs was all septic. It's a condition called partier or fullness. I have to write that out. It? Yeah. It's up to you. You are a forebears school and, and and as and it's only like 98. It's a, it's a like a 98 to 99% fatality rate.

00;16;01;03 - 00;16;28;05
Unknown
Wow. Wow. So I don't really I like to 1 or 2% of people that survive. Well. And then so, so when I came out of that call, well yeah, you know, keep them out of the call of the for I wake up, you know, I went in to call Chicago, I wake up, there's like, you know, the roll is blurry.

00;16;28;05 - 00;16;47;22
Unknown
I couldn't really see, you know, my eyes had, surgically, you know, I had skin graft, and that was down my eyes and stuff like that while I was in a coma. Just all over. I'll say this in the Florida flat. I so what they did, they had to remove different areas of your face. Yeah, yeah.

00;16;47;26 - 00;17;10;24
Unknown
Because it because of the necrosis. Like the scab all over again. The dies, the scared that. Well, it was dead. They couldn't use it. It was not it was not used for the job that it asked that that that is so this is no joke, girl. Well this is no joke. I would wish it all. Our worst enemy, like, they could use it.

00;17;10;24 - 00;17;32;10
Unknown
It was. It wasn't useful. So they have to take care of this leg and put it on our face, because I needed laugh tissue. I need a landscaper. So they graft it to scare Trump. They took a donor site from this on the left there and put it on our cheeks. Here on my neck. You could still kind of see that.

00;17;32;13 - 00;17;53;22
Unknown
But what you see here on my neck is what the rest of our face look like. Okay. Here. Okay. That's, you know, that's that's what they have to do. Yeah. In order to preserve our face. And for the time they had to, they decided what they were going to do with other reconstructive losses. What were you feeling at that moment?

00;17;53;22 - 00;18;17;09
Unknown
So you're laying there in bed, maybe let's let's assume a week, two weeks go by, right? You're still recovering. What's going, what's your automatic thought pattern that started to show up? I'm curious on that. We do what we do a lot of work around, thought patterns. Right? And so was it. Was it like a why me or was it, a gratefulness that you survived or what came up initially for you?

00;18;17;10 - 00;18;46;26
Unknown
Yeah. So the initial that initial thought. Yeah. I just want to, it's why I hit that. I want to say that like, I always that tough. Like, the Army really pulled me to a lot over the for this answer that took place. Like, it takes a lot to date me, honestly. Like, like. I got two fights there.

00;18;46;28 - 00;19;14;05
Unknown
You know, it's like we're either you're born with that or learned that in your childhood. Or was that developed in the Army? Well, like it was developed over the time. I think it was just trial after trial. What about one of our favorite verses and a Bible that I like to try to when I, when I think about my life, what I, what I put it all into the set of.

00;19;14;07 - 00;19;37;25
Unknown
And this verse is really about perspective and is, is James one two, two, four. Yep. That's my life verse. Matt. Right there is, you know what I'm saying? Can I count it all joy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Count it all joy when you go through various trials. Yeah. Because the testing of your faith produces endurance. So count it all.

00;19;37;25 - 00;20;10;23
Unknown
Joy is the perspective. And then the, the testing of your faith to do, endurance test the spiritual endurance. So the things that you go through creates that and you and, but the, the, the thing is you got to go through it. Yeah. And that's what a lot of people don't hear all the time. They, they get caught up that these moments and these episodes that they go through our life and they don't understand that.

00;20;10;26 - 00;20;39;13
Unknown
Like if you just survive, if you just get to the other side of it, your spirit becomes that much stronger. And certain and things that you encounter after that, like you deal with them with a different level of resiliency. And Ani we got this thing, we got this program called last two resiliency training. What they teach us.

00;20;39;15 - 00;21;06;06
Unknown
One of the things that they teach is called one of the sayings is called the the test or about the egg. You dropped the ten low. Yep. 12 back. You drop a crack. Master resiliency resiliency training. Yeah. Is it basically them just inflicting a tremendous amount of pain. And to get you to get through it.

00;21;06;08 - 00;21;25;00
Unknown
Congratulations. You're you're certified. Yeah. You can handle the pain. So they'll tell you there's about eight in your last day. Do they actually do mindset work around that. Like oh I love it. That's a lot of what Rucka is right. Rise of Kings. It's so hardcore. Mindset perspective shift to build resiliency. Because as kids where do we learn that.

00;21;25;04 - 00;21;45;04
Unknown
Yeah right. We don't. We right. My mom right. If I was her, she's going to run to me and save me. Right. So like where where did I go to learn resiliency? What what program, what class, what part of life? And sometimes there's a lot of kids that that's why we, I believe, have a softer generation is they're just they didn't learn resiliency.

00;21;45;04 - 00;22;04;19
Unknown
And so we, we we we miss that. And so it needs to be developed. And it's developed like like the the military is one of the best places to develop resiliency. All right. But a lot of not a lot of people not everyone can go to the military. So where else you go build lifelong resiliency. So I love it because I was a I wasn't always like that.

00;22;04;19 - 00;22;25;07
Unknown
Yeah. Like I remember I was there was a point a time in my life as a teenager, I was totally against ever joining the military is because of my grandfather's military background. Like he actually put the boot in my back. What tackle that was, that was a little troublemaker. Yeah, yeah, I school. Yeah, I have that prodigal season.

00;22;25;10 - 00;22;47;17
Unknown
Yep. Yeah, I like I remember I got in trouble one time, I guess standard, he was talking to me that night in the living room. I remember he was standing over me, and he was scolding me. He was, he was he was chess. And the that he's just like, I raise you like this. I don't know.

00;22;47;17 - 00;23;08;11
Unknown
I don't know what is called control. Like, I, I don't, I don't know, I don't know what to what you're doin out here. And he was like, but I'm not like a mad out of you. He looked my dad was. He was like, I'm like a mad out of you. Sure enough, sure enough, he made sure that I ended up that.

00;23;08;11 - 00;23;31;26
Unknown
Look at what I was 70. About junior high school. Because I couldn't say like if I, if I didn't have his house to live, like I would have their whole cause during that time in my life, my mom was a present. Although he wasn't present, he was all I had. What about your dad wasn't father. Yeah. He wasn't real.

00;23;32;03 - 00;23;59;27
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of who I grew up without. My father. Margaret. My grandfather was my father, but he was kind of like a weekend that. Yeah. The statistic is in 1961 five only 5% of children were born. Outside of, of a married household. Yeah. It's only 5%. So 95% were born in marriage.

00;24;00;06 - 00;24;27;25
Unknown
Yeah. And they did it. They did that in, it was about five, six years ago. And 40% of children are now born outside of a married household. So 40% live with one parent or or none of their biological parents. It's it's gone. It's gone real bad. It's very it's declined. A tremendous amount. What and so it's interesting.

00;24;27;25 - 00;24;50;24
Unknown
So the Army kind of and your, your, your grandfather was the, was the voice of, kind of masculinity and manhood for you. Probably. And if he was in the military is probably a pretty intense version of that, right? Yeah. Because he is he is noted background as Korean War and. Yeah. So yeah. No. Yes. Yeah, yeah.

00;24;50;27 - 00;25;11;20
Unknown
So then they, they to have body armor. Yeah. Why he. Yeah. Oh he's where he's you know. Yeah. If you got here, you got here. There was no, you know, no Teflon like no to, you know. No, no. Okay. Man. And what so you're so resiliency. So going back to resiliency, which I believe is really critical and, right.

00;25;11;20 - 00;25;29;15
Unknown
The Bible is a great. All right, good. Yeah. No. Yeah. The the Bible teaches like it teaches us how to be how to be resilient. So those verses and and multiple other verses. Right. So then you've got you built some resiliency. So going back to that initial thought. So what were you what were you processing as you're laying there in bed.

00;25;29;17 - 00;25;43;10
Unknown
Probably like just you're I don't know what what were you thinking? You know, a lot of people would believe this, but, had a very negative asset.

00;25;43;12 - 00;25;49;11
Unknown
That's because,

00;25;49;13 - 00;26;15;19
Unknown
It was something I'd never seen before as something that I never thought would be possible. That, something that you would never think could happen to you. You know, we live our lives with such pride. That's what we mean. Yeah, we we live proud lifestyle, like, we grow. We always think this can't happen to this, or that's never going to happen to me.

00;26;15;19 - 00;26;36;23
Unknown
Or we watch stuff sometimes or you're like, oh, that's crazy. You know, I'll, I'll never go to that. You know, through a lot of times we take that because we're locked in on whatever our timeline is or our goals or our dreams. You see what I'm saying there? Like, I'll say it, a lot of our I things.

00;26;36;24 - 00;27;14;05
Unknown
I'll part this because that's a very powerful way to live. When it's not our timeline, it's not our planet is not our fate. We don't determine this. Like as God slayer is God's timeline is what he has in store for us. We are not living. We're living according to his word. All right, so. My mindset at that time was, used to look at this way.

00;27;14;08 - 00;27;48;26
Unknown
But then when the bandages came off. And I, as I say the master, I say somebody that can never face the world again. I'm looking at somebody that. They need to hide. So their whole sanity because it's a it's a cruel world that we live in. I know what social media is like. I know what it's like to I know, I know people t I know people troll, you know, and that's all.

00;27;48;26 - 00;27;56;28
Unknown
That's the whole dating thing. And my bad, during this time I was like, okay, I go outside like this.

00;27;57;00 - 00;28;35;11
Unknown
You know, in a way it was kind of this kind of thing. When you think about you, you, you're so used to seeing your handsome features and they're and then something tragic happens and you don't see that anymore. And now you feel like you don't belong in a world because you have to self and of yourself is I got these pretty eyes, these nice teeth or this defined jawline or whatever, you know, like this geometrically perfect head, you know, like you just you just start to look at all of these things.

00;28;35;11 - 00;29;08;22
Unknown
And I would start, you know, and it's like it's a very prideful, vain way like to, to to be in that moment. And it took me a long time, then in the darkness of a hospital, because every night is there's a Disney at. And I said, dark girl, that is my thoughts. It's a very difficult place to live.

00;29;08;25 - 00;29;50;07
Unknown
So face it all along. That's it. Never got to look like that again. You're you're you're you're old self. You call self. So I was that and, I was also the, the Lord let me. That's it. A blank How could you let this happen. I don't think I was doing that then the world where I deserve this.

00;29;50;10 - 00;30;02;29
Unknown
Sure. I'm not the battle other. I'm not perfect by far. I'm not the, the best believer out loud. The best follower of Christ.

00;30;03;01 - 00;30;09;29
Unknown
But did I have to go through this that I had to experience.

00;30;10;01 - 00;30;36;13
Unknown
It got me to, you know, it got me to a point where I. I actually. Looked at my life, my past. Every day. I started looking at my entire timeline like, how much sinning was I doing it? How wrong was I? Because obviously this is a thought right?

00;30;36;15 - 00;30;45;29
Unknown
I feel punished. On top of feeling punished, I felt what?

00;30;46;01 - 00;30;51;18
Unknown
And sometimes to this day, I still feel wronged.

00;30;51;20 - 00;31;06;26
Unknown
Because my career. I'm thinking about that as well. While I'm at it. South little Owls are first class U.S. Army I did that, it's here ten years.

00;31;06;28 - 00;31;34;20
Unknown
There's no nothing literally that could stop me from making it to the highs, ranks of singer enlisted military personnel. There was nothing that will stop me from like this hour later, just yesterday, I was at the same major, academy graduation and saw bliss. And although I was at a crawl.

00;31;34;23 - 00;32;08;05
Unknown
Congrats, congrats and cheer for a lot of our peers. I'll say cross our stage. Some of the people that cross essays I came up with, though, another two ranks above me. I personally, I did even further. I couldn't help but think to myself, is there a cross on the stage and I'll see her name on a jumbotron? You know, the big screen is, you know, last Asada Jane Doe, John Doe.

00;32;08;06 - 00;32;39;20
Unknown
That's the sergeant. I would just like. I couldn't help but thank that definitely would have been a. And that's what I feel robbed of. Because this single like isolated incident set me back years. Because I've spent the last couple years of my life.

00;32;39;22 - 00;32;57;12
Unknown
Dealing with medical issues and and out of hospitals. I'm not able to do my job. They're removed from my actual job that I had specialized in for 13 straight years for it all, to the.

00;32;57;14 - 00;33;10;04
Unknown
Because I can't do that job anymore and they want to out me. They won't promote this because I'm not doing about working. And that occupational specialty.

00;33;10;07 - 00;33;44;12
Unknown
And then what was the, I could even imagine, by the way, that level of shift. Right. Because you had your vision, you had your life vision built out. I'm going to go I'm going to hit the highest ranks. Life's going to be this way. And then what incident should. Yeah, completely shifted it this way, right? Yeah. So when we're on a mission, when we believe our life is destined to be a certain way, and then God allows for something else to happen, it gets us to question, like what?

00;33;44;12 - 00;34;06;12
Unknown
What what what what is this all for? Can I even handle this other path? And so now you're up, now you're on this, now you're on this path. Right? Which is a totally different path, though, than what you were looking for. So we're I'm curious, like, as you've been processing through this now.

00;34;06;14 - 00;34;26;06
Unknown
What's coming up for you? What's coming up for you right now? What are you feeling? If we can get real? I appreciate your vulnerability, by the way. Yeah. You know, and I, I never need to just the the darker, ground, but it's reality. Yeah, yeah, the truth is transparency. Is there some dark places of denial?

00;34;26;09 - 00;35;05;09
Unknown
I got to sugarcoat anything. Yeah. I'm not going to to. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you on it and tell you that I haven't dealt with depression. Yeah, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that the talks have taken my life, have flew across my mind. Yeah. You know, I'm I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I wanted to hide all I got to tell you that there were times where I wanted to completely shut down social media, because it was overwhelming being viral can really be a gift and a curse.

00;35;05;11 - 00;35;35;04
Unknown
Yep. It could be a double edged for. Oh yeah, it's like because you have gone viral now you're you're yeah, you're like, I got all this attention. Yeah, the whole world is watching. But then you lose your father. See, because everybody's like more, more. We want more of you. Like, tell us more like you can't start posting. You start to become your social media.

00;35;35;07 - 00;36;05;04
Unknown
Your personality. So what was it about the central. Yeah. Yep. And a lot of like as long as there is you know they will suffer from that. Because you're tired. Identity gets wrapped around you're hundreds of thousands or millions of followers. As I'm, as I'm listening to me and I'm just we had a guy that came through our event recently and he was, struggling with suicide at a pretty high level, like pretty, pretty significant.

00;36;05;08 - 00;36;28;16
Unknown
And he had some challenges in his life. Some pretty deep, pretty some some good, some God sized challenges, you could say. And, and due to it was, it was quite profound. He got clarity like that. God was allowing him to go through those things and have allowed him to go through those things because God had a purpose for him.

00;36;28;16 - 00;36;49;13
Unknown
Yeah, like a clear purpose. And so as I'm, as I'm as I'm listening to you and I see that God, God has a major purpose for your life. And it's very unique. Right? He threw you off, you got thrown off. And I'm sure this is part of the conclusion you came to. He threw you off your you're what you wanted, you know, like, this is my path, right?

00;36;49;13 - 00;37;04;10
Unknown
This is where I'm going with a tight grip on, like I'm going to do this no matter what. And he's like, he allowed, he allowed, he didn't. I don't believe he created this, but he allowed it to happen. And now Romans 828, where God will work out everything for the good of those that love him, who've been called according to his purpose.

00;37;04;10 - 00;37;27;18
Unknown
So then it's like, all right. Oh, game on, Lord, I trust you. I can't explain it. I probably didn't want it. Well, I definitely didn't want it. And I trust you. So there's going to be some incredible good that's going to come from this. And dude, I believe we're just on the beginning journeys of an insane impact because, your mess becomes your message, right?

00;37;27;24 - 00;37;48;03
Unknown
Your message becomes your message. And so the. And I did it. I did a talk on the semi event. Event. I launched a brand new event called Life by Design. How do you build this incredible life by design? Yeah, yeah, we went really deep, epic five days. And part of the deal was we went back through people's life stories and we read, we read, we read perspective eyes.

00;37;48;03 - 00;38;10;14
Unknown
We we redid their life story. The what was the one incident that you would say completely shifted your entire life? And then we we sat with that story and we saw God's perspective and a new perspective around it. Right. And what happened was, is the greater the demon, the greater the evil, the better the story and the better the hero, the better.

00;38;10;14 - 00;38;42;25
Unknown
So, the, the a week a week struggle leads to a week hero. But a hard, deep, dark struggle leads to the most epic, amazing, powerful heroes. And so God's setting you up to be this. He wants you on a platform to be this hero where you can go, speak and love now and go, go, go make a huge impact in people's lives like I where you have something you right, you've had some challenges that most people haven't survived from.

00;38;42;28 - 00;39;01;28
Unknown
So and then you have the physical, you have the stuff to show it. So now it's like, all right, Lord, bring it all, baby. Like what? What is, what am I supposed to go? How do I go? Use this for the good and people are going to listen to you more than they would listen to other people. You have a unique you have a unique platform now where you can get people's attention.

00;39;02;01 - 00;39;19;17
Unknown
And so it's like, okay, well, Lord wasn't my initial plan, but use me now, go use me to go impact the world. And do I believe you're going to be used bigger than most other human beings possibly could ever dream about being used by God? And that's what I always heard it like. That's that's what a that's a revelation.

00;39;19;17 - 00;39;45;24
Unknown
I came through the hospital, I had a few people close to me that, you know, I was on a phone at a hospital that that that tight overlay that, you know, put scripture and like that scripture on the day that I was telling you that I was dealing with. It's hard a little thing is I was dealing with slides that that depression and ideation and things like that.

00;39;45;26 - 00;40;21;16
Unknown
The anxiety, the fear, you know, is this a couple plays I want to make about that is that like, I got to a point where I felt like, you know what? I'd be doing God a disservice if I did use this test as a testimony. Don't waste that pain. Right. Another thing that happens is you get a different appreciation for time from time is everything.

00;40;21;19 - 00;40;53;08
Unknown
I no longer play with time at the same. Like I think a lot of us, we, we feel like we have a lot of time life cells like is long. When you look at statistics for example the average lifespan of the male is say 72 years. When you're young, you're like, I got 72 years. I got plenty of time to do everything I want to do.

00;40;53;11 - 00;41;31;11
Unknown
Until you run into the accident like I had until. It almost gets cut short. Then you have a newfound appreciation for your time. You wake up differently, you're wired differently because you know, at any moment it can. And just like that, and so that is something that, that, that, that testing of the faith to do, saying that that's something that happened while I was in a hospital bed in six months that I sat in a hospital.

00;41;31;14 - 00;41;52;02
Unknown
That's something that happened the moment my feet touch ground alpha double doors outside those doors, I was wired differently. I like it, it's go time, but it's not go time because I'm on my timeline. It's not go time because I have because it's just a little things that I want to accomplish. Our life is go time for God.

00;41;52;04 - 00;42;17;18
Unknown
A higher because. Yep. You start looking at it like that. This is another opportunity he gave me. To praise his name. To glorify his name. To get our glory, to live my life for him to do it the right way.

00;42;17;20 - 00;42;40;01
Unknown
Because again, I'd be lying if I told you I was doing that prior to this incident. I was just living. What do you call they call lukewarm Christians. Oh, yeah. Like I believe that God. But, you know, you're not necessarily that convicted about everything to do it, you know, but when something like this happens, when you actually experience God, you actually see God.

00;42;40;04 - 00;43;00;16
Unknown
And in your tragedy and your trauma, your trials, well, you actually have that that encounter with the Holy Spirit. And you actually have to deal with like real spiritual warfare night in and night out. Well, you have to pray it also, you.

00;43;00;18 - 00;43;11;28
Unknown
Well, you have to drive those demons away from you because they're put there sowing seeds in your mind. They're creating strongholds.

00;43;12;01 - 00;43;34;02
Unknown
Like sometimes we don't know that we have strongholds until you try to get rid of. Yeah, it's good. Yep. How do you like. Okay. I don't want to be the first one all over the keys latching onto you. Or I don't want to use this as a lifestyle law to to try to, you know, mask it or try to, numb the pain or anything like that, but that you can't let go of it.

00;43;34;04 - 00;43;57;24
Unknown
It keeps coming back every time. Every time the sun goes down, you jump right back into the bikes like the stronghold is is right back on you until you have to pray those type of things off of you, that type of spiritual warfare, you will never the like. You'll never appreciate. I feel like you just you'll never get it.

00;43;57;26 - 00;44;17;13
Unknown
What's your what is your what's your vision now. Right. So now you it's been how long since that happened. January of 2020 1st January of 2020. Let's. It's been about a little over four years. Yeah. Since that's happened and you've been on, a journey of making an impact as a senior. Videos. Right. Your followings grown millions of followers.

00;44;17;13 - 00;44;38;22
Unknown
Yeah. I mean, the different platforms, like, God's giving you a platform, man, and it's it's it's accelerating. So where do you see yourself now? So what's. So you walked out of that hospital, you have a renewed fire to live for God, right? And that didn't mean the path was going to be easy. Says because you get excited about living for God, right?

00;44;38;22 - 00;45;05;14
Unknown
Honest. Because you all fire, right? It does not make it easy. The path is not clear. You know. So now you're like, all right, game on. Right. So what's, what is your vision? So what? Where do you see yourself? Now. So. It's funny, I was, this this just happened that less than 24 hours ago.

00;45;05;17 - 00;45;39;02
Unknown
So that's it. Like the number of followers I had, it's like you got a million followers. For some reason, that number doesn't move me. Like it's a blessing. Don't get me wrong, I'm forever grateful. I never thought I would see that many people, Andrew. That Randy's like. I never considered myself particularly, like, talented or gifted in any area like I don't, you know, besides just tenacity.

00;45;39;07 - 00;46;05;20
Unknown
Yeah. Like, I knew I was. I was great at door military stuff, you know, that, but, but I'm grateful. But I just always had one mission in mind, which is what God told me. I always I never forget what God said in a. I see the number. Like, I could say 1 million. I could say 10 million.

00;46;05;22 - 00;46;38;05
Unknown
But I don't let that put a tail. Oh not what God tell you. He's here to spread the word to continue to do to the, to the obedient to, to continue to the obedient. And I have to be. An to me that obedience is in a song. Speaking I also thought a time all I had was just like my clothing.

00;46;38;07 - 00;47;03;12
Unknown
It was just rise up clothing and that's all I was doi it's a good name, by the way. I hope it's in there. Is indeed it. So it. I was like, so great. Then he fell back and was like, well, yeah. I was like, but the Holy Spirit came to the had a dream and I kept having these reoccurring dreams.

00;47;03;14 - 00;47;40;13
Unknown
God said bigger. And that was a message. God said bigger. I was bigger than that. Just sell it. T shirts. I said, you have a you have a message for the world. Like he brought you to up to go speak, go speak. Because like, again, I wasn't a great public speaker. Like I'm not a great orator. Like I'm not like a person who was very camera friendly, you know, up until now.

00;47;40;16 - 00;47;57;25
Unknown
Yeah. Like, honestly, like, is to this day, you're stepping into a man. I gave it to this day, if I set up my cell phone, it's like I got a coach myself. Like I gotta breathe, I got okay, I love to hit record. I was, you know, I'm about to share. How about the hit share? Yeah. You know, so it's like I still have to work up.

00;47;57;26 - 00;48;20;08
Unknown
Yeah, I still get up. I told, I told Matt, I was like, I'm working. I'm working out some nerve coming up here. That's great. Well, I love it. You know, so but you know what's cool about that obedience part? But the obedience part is, is, is knowing that you have kind of responsable bility. So you have to speak.

00;48;20;08 - 00;48;43;22
Unknown
And that's why I want to gear, like, I'm changing lanes and to public speaking. I want that tire brand to be about. And I want to color these podcasts. I want to go to the school, the basketball games. I want to go at, travel, speak to the world. You know, it's a form of evangelizing as well. Because the world needs to know, you know, how good God is.

00;48;43;24 - 00;49;19;17
Unknown
Yeah. Even when they've gone through dark times. Yeah. God is still good. I would say that's the number one reason people walk away from God is when they've dealt with some kind of crisis. The main it's the main time they walk away is when they have some sort of crisis. And so your story of using your crisis as a way to glorify God more and showing that there's hope and there can still be joy and there can be peace, I think is a profound story that millions of Christians or people that have walked away from the faith and people that don't, don't have never had the faith, they can see that and go, oh, I

00;49;19;17 - 00;49;41;28
Unknown
want that. Yeah, that guy can go through that level of darkness, right? Six months in the hospital working through all these things. New identity, new everything, everything shifting. Then if he can do that, then I can go through this challenge with, depression or this alcohol or, beating alcohol. Right. Or the struggle with any kind of addiction or whatever challenge that they are feel like is overtaking them.

00;49;42;01 - 00;50;20;17
Unknown
You provide the inspiration and say, okay, maybe I can do it. You know what I mean? So that do that story by itself is, is amazing and needed. Yeah. The, the I like to say let the cutting the gap. Let the cutting the gap because there's a lot of things of this world such as materialism for example there people have a lot of idols that they don't realize is getting in the way of them saying God is like a god.

00;50;20;20 - 00;50;26;00
Unknown
It could be the material is on, it could be.

00;50;26;03 - 00;50;56;29
Unknown
It could be your social media. It could be your career. It could be the church. You go to. Like, all of these things could become like idols that are, in a way, because you're you're you're both, you know, and you, you put it off above. God, you're making those things your focus more that God and there's got to be a time where he starts to cut.

00;50;57;01 - 00;51;19;20
Unknown
Because God wants to the saint. He wants his glory. He wants you to see how he's he wants. He's going to start cutting away until you see how, we call that the refining process. We have an effect on the refinery, right? Like a diamond, Like a diamond. Like a diamond or like iron. Getting getting refined. I mean, it's the refinery process.

00;51;19;20 - 00;51;44;21
Unknown
So there's a verse, Proverbs 2717. Right. As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. So the the sharpening process, I guess what it does, it leaves a shroud on the ground, right? It leaves metal on the ground. So when you're getting sharpened, you are literally losing part of you to get it sharpened. And so a lot of people that, you know, it's meant to be painful.

00;51;44;24 - 00;52;01;04
Unknown
And so if we want to level up and be a weapon for the kingdom, like, man, we got to be willing to step in the fire. We got to be willing to have some other brothers challenge us and call us up. And that's yeah, it's going to hurt. We're going to lose a little bit of ourselves. However, we are to help the trial by fire.

00;52;01;11 - 00;52;30;24
Unknown
And it's not easy. The walk isn't easy. It's gotta hurt. You gotta die to yourself every day because the devil doesn't start tempting you first. Peter five eight. He's got a key. Roar like a lion. Just roll it about. Looking for something to devour. Yeah, I read a book called and his book Changed My life is called Don't Give the Devil a Seat at Your table.

00;52;30;26 - 00;52;51;26
Unknown
And at that table, it should just be two chairs. You and Jesus that a devil have got a could tell you to roll around a table, look at them, pull up the chair and enjoy the same things that you're having with the Lord. But you gotta deny access to it.

00;52;51;28 - 00;53;14;16
Unknown
And that's what makes the. That's what makes this all difficult. That's what makes it painful. All right. Is that he never starts to the devil stop pulling out the seat like, hey, man, it looks like you get an extra chicken right there. You got some size, got some great beans and stuff like that, but partake and, you know, people fall victim to it every day.

00;53;14;18 - 00;53;42;01
Unknown
I got you I got enough to stare. Yep. A little bit won't hurt. A little bit of the devil won't hurt. Oh yes it will. You just created a lie. You just created a new stronghold. That is said the Lord of these. That's, that's, that's about to show up. Yep. So what is as we start to as we start to wrap up, I'd love to hear, what you were sharing with me regarding, the skin graft that they put on.

00;53;42;01 - 00;54;01;15
Unknown
Right. Was this so interesting? So, okay. So you're when did you get that on, by the way, this was actually this past March. Okay. March 18th. So this is about three, three months ago ish. Oh, four weeks ago. Yeah. Okay. So then they put this on and you said it was like, kind of like the flap. So.

00;54;01;15 - 00;54;42;00
Unknown
Right. And then and it's actually it's from your leg. Yeah. It's from your leg. Your right leg. Your left leg. This was on the right leg. Right leg. Yeah. Okay. And then it's actually. So it's. What is it doing? So what's the what's the plan with that? Okay. So I had two options. I could have gone either a transplant route, which is to get a face transplant, which would the basically using a donor of someone who was extract that, taking the skin and tissues of their face and putting it on my kind of like some face off type, so.

00;54;42;03 - 00;55;05;21
Unknown
Yeah. Right. But the the issue with that was it's just like getting an organ from it's just like getting a kidney there. A kidney recipient, you know, you get you're going to have to take a needle situation, anti-rejection medication, and, you know, I just don't want to put my body through that type of has it?

00;55;05;23 - 00;55;27;10
Unknown
It would have wreaked havoc all out of your system to wreak havoc on, on the August, to the taking that many pills a day. We're talking 18 pills a day. That and I, I mean that in the morning and night at night, and I just. I didn't want to do that. They couldn't really tell me how they would affect my life expectancy.

00;55;27;13 - 00;55;50;03
Unknown
You know, there was a potential for re transplantation, you know, dialysis and things like that, and I don't I'm not even 65, you know, they couldn't really tell me if I would live past 35 because they didn't have any studies with anyone who was as young as I was. How do you receive the transplant? 3838? Yes. Yeah.

00;55;50;05 - 00;56;17;04
Unknown
Who received the transplant that year and live past 35. So I was like, okay, that's off the table. So I decided to go with the conventional reconstruction route, which, you know, everything and totally gets to stay as normal as it is. You know, you would just basically use, donor sites only. I would basically be my own, you know, transplant.

00;56;17;04 - 00;56;42;22
Unknown
I'd be, like, old or, you know, reconstruction from our old buddy. Sorry to, the. So there's a donor site and as a graph site. So I have one on my inner thigh, and I want to, out of there. The grass side is kind of like, bouncing through layers. It's it's it's deeper. And I just scan the like this, like, tissue with some nerves.

00;56;42;25 - 00;57;04;16
Unknown
You know, it got like, a vein and an artery and they take the donor site, which is like a skin thickness, and put that on top of the donor site. Is so complicated to say. If you want, you can look it up. This called alt flap. Okay. If you want to Google it is is so allowed to go to it.

00;57;04;18 - 00;57;46;06
Unknown
And then I take the graph and I place to here and it covers all of the exposed area where the necrotic scan was, inside of this slab, there's a, there a vein is, as they call it, artery. And there's lymphatic systems growing around it. There's there's a feeling like I could actually feel sensation. And here when I do this and as of this, slowly fill up more and more sensation as I've gone through this recovery process is a total of 12 weeks.

00;57;46;08 - 00;58;09;27
Unknown
So the flap to heal, I feels so now it's a lot softer. And I can manipulate it or I go after this next surgery on June 18th, they're actually going to manipulate it by, starting to form a lip and kind of building a base for my nose. And contouring. Wow. How things like that, they're going to start.

00;58;10;00 - 00;58;35;22
Unknown
They're basically going to start shaving it down. Okay. Yeah. Molding and shape going to lift, you know. Wow. So it's it's going to be in phases. Yep. You know, steps and stages. And this is phase two that I'm going into. So this is phase one. This is the most critical piece was installing a flat. Now it's molding a flat you know, contour.

00;58;35;22 - 00;59;08;20
Unknown
Right. It you know, shaving a Dell, creating that good base. And then phase three, they'll more than likely do a another donor site because they'll have to do a rotation. Also, the forehead, they call it like a rotation flap or something like that. Drop that down over this area to kind of create the bridge of the nose so their knees or tissue is will correlate, probably from a forearm.

00;59;08;22 - 00;59;32;28
Unknown
That'll help to finish building a nose and phase three. So I'm looking at maybe another two surgeries okay. Yeah. Okay. Got it to the three. You know, this is it. Yeah. Is it. What do you call for these these reconstructive procedures? It's really over when you say it is okay, when you feel like you're satisfied with the results.

00;59;32;28 - 00;59;56;00
Unknown
Because is it's a two, you tap out, you know, okay. I don't like the way this edge of my lip looks, so I don't like the way this is contour, you know? Let's go on an a nice again so we can stretch this a little more that way that you know. Yeah. So what would you so as again, as we worked to close out, what would you say your message to the world is.

00;59;56;00 - 01;00;18;00
Unknown
Right. So you've gone through we've gone through a lot in your life. What would you what is your message to the world? That's tough. I got so many a long winded, do you want to close out? My message is always going to be that local. Yeah, it's always going to be word, because the word is what got me through everything.

01;00;18;03 - 01;00;56;13
Unknown
So I'm just going to I'm going to do this. So Psalm 4610. These do I know that out in the Lord. That right there was just a powerful statement all together. Is there still with do something that I feel like we have to do in times of warfare. At times when your mind is battle is supper, you have to experience the presence of God.

01;00;56;15 - 01;01;15;24
Unknown
You have to. You have to distill, I know, to herald in order to get that relationship. Fasting, renewal and cutting off all external distractions. Cut the TV off, target TV off. You know, like cut the cell phone off.

01;01;15;26 - 01;01;47;08
Unknown
Daddy, and tap in on the word star. Rita and. When you know the Lord. Like when you. When your strength. When you know that that should be the the source of your strength. Well, you know that that should be the the reason why you shouldn't worry. Because he's got it under control. The reason why you shouldn't feel anxiety, the reason why you shouldn't feel any of these like, claims there.

01;01;47;08 - 01;01;56;27
Unknown
It's all you. When you know the Lord, then you know those those days don't come from him.

01;01;57;00 - 01;02;36;01
Unknown
These are commands. And the Bible says, do not worry. Yeah. Do not be discouraged. Like do not anxious like these are commands from God. These are the words of God. So if we're obedient, then then this little man, he's called. That's right. We were daily saints, right? Desolate obedience is so the opposite of obedience is this obedience, which is a sad.

01;02;36;03 - 01;03;04;04
Unknown
So if God is sad, do not worry. If God is sad, do not be anxious. If God is sad, the you know, the courageous, the strong, the and you're doing the opposite of that, then you did this obedient. You're sitting. And that's why you should not lay it on your own. I of the laying on the word so many.

01;03;04;06 - 01;03;27;01
Unknown
Things that we battle with, like so many symptoms that we have. There's a remedy and a word. Yeah. If we just open a book. Yep. We'll find answers to certain things like therapy, school. Bro, going to counseling is cool, bro. If you if you if you're an alcoholic you go to AA field drug addict could go to rehabilitation.

01;03;27;02 - 01;04;03;27
Unknown
Told God that's cool like we should. God created therapists. We can use them to. I've been in therapy. I've been a counselor. I'm an advocate for it. Go. Learn coping skills and tactics that helped you deal with what's going on with you. Do the homework, the practical exercises. But even when I went through that, even when I went to Catholic, even when I went to therapy, nothing helped me more than a word.

01;04;04;00 - 01;04;32;03
Unknown
Nothing got me out of the dark. Places. Until I got to the word desolate. Deliberately. Yeah. Those those counselors and, like, counselor adapted something to help me cope. It helped me get through the day. Yeah. You know, don't just grab you medication and, you know, like, I ended up doing that stuff. So I think they. And that we'll just have this conversation like, I don't take, you know, like you don't need that stuff.

01;04;32;03 - 01;04;41;10
Unknown
Like what you truly delivered. Delivered. Yeah. Well, you truly experience that experience. God.

01;04;41;13 - 01;04;56;26
Unknown
You don't turn like you don't need stuff that just helped you sustain. You don't need like, practical exercises. You don't need coping skills like, oh, let me like be three, 5432 diaphragm breather.

01;04;56;28 - 01;05;25;18
Unknown
Oh and the book. Constantly. All who are burdened and weary and I will give you rest. And you know, like Matthew 1128, like I've recited 30 million times and it's gotten me through our other recite that that do you know the some of those things that they teach at their, their counselor, stuff like that. Like, like I said, those sustain you, but God's word will deliver you.

01;05;25;24 - 01;05;45;29
Unknown
Yeah. It's good. Yeah. That's that's the problem with kind of new age personal development is they've, they have some good tools, but then they strip out God, yeah, out of it. It's all about your own personal power. It's all about your own, techniques that you can use to feel more peace or to feel a little more joy temporarily.

01;05;46;01 - 01;06;05;09
Unknown
However, like God's the source, like he is the source. He is the tree of life that we stay, we want to stay connected to where we want to be connected to the we want to be connected to the vine versus looking for all these other vines to go get support from. Yeah. So yeah, I love it, I love it.

01;06;05;09 - 01;06;23;19
Unknown
So you're what resonated with me is is this like, rely on the word. Rely on the word. So the oh, the the word got me through, right. The word got me through. That was the thing that got you through. So that's that hits home. Instead of looking for all these other things to to to get you through, hit the rely.

01;06;23;19 - 01;06;39;08
Unknown
Rely on the word, spend time in God's word and make that build a habit out of that. And that's been something that's been true for me, like my daily time in the word like that has been the thing that keeps me grounded. And when I start to fall off, I notice temptation creep in. I notice sin start to creep in.

01;06;39;08 - 01;06;59;27
Unknown
I notice fear start to creep in is these things that remove my fruit, the fruit of the spirits. They start to creep in. Yeah. You tried everything else? Yeah. Now try. Jesus. Yeah. This girl, the shy bro. Just just give me the shot. Yep. Like, just just give it a shot. You tried everything else. Nothing in the world hasn't been working.

01;07;00;02 - 01;07;21;16
Unknown
Yeah, and there's so many people that have shared that testimony with me, like, bro, I'll tell you everything else. I'll try to drink. I tried smoking weed. I tried the pills that, that that they're to subscribe me that like a tried different religions, you know, like they they try Buddha they'll not you know. And I'm not here to bash nobody else at the table.

01;07;21;19 - 01;07;40;01
Unknown
It is what it is that the word is the word. Yeah. Jesus said he is the way, the truth and the life. And it's so that it's where we get our life, right? Yeah. It says that's our life for if math. It's the blood, man. Yeah, yeah. Our on our wristbands is powered by God, right. So where we get to?

01;07;40;01 - 01;08;02;03
Unknown
This is how I read it as a source of love. Our it's our it is our source of power. Everything else is counterfeit. Man, I feel like you're just getting started as far as the journey that God has you on, I'm very excited to see what God does, inside of your life and through you and through your story and through your journey.

01;08;02;06 - 01;08;18;20
Unknown
Yeah. And honored that you were were down to fly out here and spend time with us. And, again, I feel like I'm glad to have you on the podcast because I know what a year you're going to. You're going to be hard to, hard to reach. That'll be, I guess. Isn't that some part of the program I to do?

01;08;18;20 - 01;08;40;00
Unknown
There's no way to. There's no way you can fly to. You're going to be. You have so many, inquiries and people wanting you to to share with them your story that, that you will you're going to be challenging to get it to get Ahold of. And I hope that I hope that happens. I hope and and I know what's cool, man, as you've gone through such a challenge that I know through that journey, you'll stay grounded and you'll stay.

01;08;40;02 - 01;09;02;10
Unknown
You'll not allow pride to take over as your if you don't make social media followers your top aim there, then you could make, salvations or expanding the kingdom. Your top aim and that's and that's the that's the that's what I'm geared towards is extending the kingdom. Like, what good is having a million followers if they're not following God?

01;09;02;10 - 01;09;29;12
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Everybody that's following you are supporters. I also remember that as well. I could have a million followers. I have half a million haters. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, yeah. It's true. So yeah, I always I always look at it that way, but I'm humble. Yeah. I know humility is, is is also close to godliness.

01;09;29;12 - 01;10;00;02
Unknown
It is, you know. So I will never forget that. Like this. You have to be humble. You have to. Because like I said earlier and a second, everything can be stripped. If you're not, if you're not humble. Yeah. If you don't humble yourself before God agreed. So where Randy where can people find you. You can find me on Instagram at Rams underscore rise up till the time being Randy Adams I'll cover up some weird algorithms.

01;10;00;05 - 01;10;24;28
Unknown
I'm also on TikTok. Rise up rad. And, those are the main two ways, to reach me, for any bookings for speaking. And that is the Rise Up llc@gmail.com. And that link is also at my bio. There's a book and link as well as out there. Great. What a. And your clothing line. Yeah. Rise of clothing.

01;10;25;00 - 01;10;50;00
Unknown
Yeah, it does look our RISC is an acronym which stands for Remember to Aspire for one every day. Beautiful. Yeah. Love it love it. Now I appreciate you again for, for your heart, for your, desire to expand the kingdom. We're in the same place. We're on the same word. We have the same mission. And I look forward to eventually.

01;10;50;00 - 01;11;05;01
Unknown
Man, as you get through these surgeries, coming to one of our events. I know a lot of the guys listen to the Rise Up podcast. They're going to be badgering you to, get to an event because they know how impactful it is. Pretty pretty epic. It's it's it's what? Yeah. Nothing like it on the planet. So whatever the timing is, right?

01;11;05;01 - 01;11;32;12
Unknown
It's on me. I'd love to have you there. Oh, I'm going to leave there like I'm committed to it. I'm dedicated to it out there. One of the reasons I'm here is because I've been following it. I've been watching a movement. And, this is Christian. This is this kingdom that get together and like, the the the crucible, like video, like I, I was, I was a guy who likes to do like Spartan Race, Tough Mudder type stuff like that.

01;11;32;12 - 01;11;55;06
Unknown
Obstacle courses. So I like and it's you know we're building together and growing together experiencing God together awakening together. So I'm like I gotta get I got to get in on it. I gotta get in on that. I love this organization and I like your name. Yeah, that's a good name. So all right man, thank. They come with a hammer.

01;11;55;09 - 01;11;56;17
Unknown
Yeah, it's a blessing.