The WOFOYO Podcast
The WOFOYO Podcast
Spiritual EDC: Your Everyday Walk with God (Part 1)
We explore the concept of Spiritual EDC (Everyday Carry) and how to apply tactical preparedness principles to your spiritual life. Just as you wouldn't leave home without essential physical items, we discuss the spiritual tools and practices that deserve the same level of commitment.
• The tactical community's concept of EDC and how it applies to spiritual disciplines
• Physical EDC items like portable Bibles, notepads, and pens for capturing spiritual insights
• Starting each day with the Lord's Prayer and personalizing Ephesians 6 to put on spiritual armor
• The importance of daily gratitude and forgiveness as spiritual practices
• Pleading the blood of Jesus and inviting the Holy Spirit's presence as spiritual protection
• Finding what works for your personal spiritual EDC routine
• The value of both digital and analog spiritual tools in today's world
• Speaking in tongues as a way to let the Holy Spirit pray through you
• Remembering to approach work and interactions with kindness and grace
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Hey everybody, this is C-Dub. We recorded these next upcoming two episodes on September 9th 2025. There's been a lot that's changed since then and in some of these the mood is light because we're having fun. But, boy, there's nothing like a day to make your paradigm shift. So, that being said, I want to encourage you, as you listen, to stay prayed up, trust in the Lord, but also be prepared. Wofo Yo podcast with C-Dub and Bones. You know you got to have a good time with the Lord. Part of that good time is laughing at the stupid things you did and yet somehow, god's grace, just got you through it. Yes and amen. We had mentioned this several weeks ago. Bones had mentioned the idea. I thought it was a great idea and had a little bit of prep work to do before we got into this one at least on my part, had to do some thinking and been talking about vacation and all that. So Bones mentioned about three of the full episodes ago that we need to talk about a spiritual EDC spiritual, everyday carry. Spiritual EDC spiritual, everyday carry.
Speaker 1:For those of you that aren't familiar with the term everyday carry, a lot of people use it in reference to a firearm. It's my everyday carry firearm. It's not limited to that at all. Your EDC are things that you're going to carry with you Basically anytime you leave the house or go somewhere. You're going to have some everyday carry. Different things would be pocket knife, leatherman firearms, concealed carry firearms would be one. Phone, wallet keys is about the most basic everyday carrier for most people. So the things you do every day.
Speaker 1:And then some people get a little bit more involved because they will carry different things. They have an everyday carrier for the truck or car. First aid kit would be a prime example. Road flares, there you go. First aid kit would be a prime example. Road flares, there you go. Just different things that you would want to have A little bit of extra money stashed somewhere just in case you got an emergency. Let's say you forget your billfold. You still need some gas. Have enough money in your vehicle stashed in a place where somebody ain't going to find it, where you go to gas up oh crap, I forgot my billfold. Now you don't need it. You go in and pay cash.
Speaker 2:The whole idea kind of came from. Well, the EDC kind of stemmed from the tactical community, the shooters, the preppers, the folks who kind of have a tactical mindset. It was not a bad idea. I like folks like that and, to be honest, that mindset is kind of where we come from. A lot of times when we look at God's Word and applying God's concepts, principles and stuff like that to our lives, a lot of what we read in the Bible speaks to us on a tactical platform, a tactical mindset.
Speaker 2:We've said in other podcasts, we've said this for many years, I've said this for many years that most of the times, a lot of times, we see that veterans seem to pick up pretty easily on one kingdom concept. Yeah, and a lot of it has to do with that particular way of thinking. So I just had the idea of EDC and it does stand for everyday carry and it can mean for a lot of folks you know a firearm or whatever, but I like to think of it as your essentials for daily carry. And it can mean for a lot of folks you know a firearm or whatever, but I like to think of it as your essentials for daily carry. You know, um, what do you leave in the house with every day some things that you will turn the car around and come back and get.
Speaker 2:Uh, those are some things that uh, I've kind of went through my life and over the past few months and kind of took inventory and said what are some things that I can pare down, what are some things that I've been carrying around for years that I don't really need. And for me the wallet was a big thing. I noticed every time I would get into my truck I'd take my wallet out of my pocket and stick it in the door and then when I get out of my truck I'd take it out of my door and stick it in my pocket. I don't sit on my wallet. It hurts my back. I've got back problems anyway and any good doctor or chiropractor or whatever will tell you for men, sitting on your wallet is not a good thing.
Speaker 1:Sciatic nerve out the rear end for me.
Speaker 2:It will trigger that sciatic nerve pain For men. The wallet is our purse, it's where information and everything. So next thing you know, you've got a wallet that's two, three inches thick and it just gets out of control. So anyway, long story short, I kind of took inventory and said, man, I wonder if I can clean this up a little bit. And I did.
Speaker 2:I got rid of the old leather wallet that I've had for probably 10, 15 years now and got me a I guess you call it a smart wallet or whatever RFID, yeah, one of those RFID wallets that protects your cards and your information and stuff like that. So I was able to pare down some things that way. It has a tracker in it. So if I lose it you know I'm getting older, I forget things If I lose it, I can find it, just things like that. So now I've got a little, a little thing, little wallet that's probably less than a half inch thick and I carry it in my front pocket, uh, when I need it, uh, and it uh has what I need. I realized that any credit cards that I might want to have, uh, in case of an emergency, there am. I have a wallet. You know, they're digital. Yeah, they're digital, so I don't need the plastic, just things like that.
Speaker 2:And as I was going through that kind of mindset, I said how does this apply to our spiritual life? Because I think I can take this a little bit further than just paring down my wallet. You know, is there some baggage that I'm carrying around spiritually? Is there some things? Do I have some stuff tucked away spiritually that I've been carrying around for years and I ain't looked at in a while and I really don't need to carry it around now. I can do without. So that's kind of that was the concept of it. So there's some things that I said well, maybe, maybe, uh, maybe we can talk about, uh, some spiritual, everyday carry, tie that into some, some physical, everyday carry, some things that we don't leave the house without or would turn the car around to go get. Uh. So here we are, why not?
Speaker 1:number one for me is a portable Bible. It's getting the word for yourself. I mean, guys, it ain't going to get much easier than that. I have a portable Bible. I have one in my truck. That's full Bible.
Speaker 1:I've also been known to carry just like a little Psalms you know New Testament Psalms, proverbs, and one of the good things about that is you mentioned how you start carrying things different physically. I carry that. I'm doing a pair of this, other one real quick and I'm going to just go back and forth. But these things, the three ultimate things that I really don't leave, have me a Bible and also have me a pen and pad. For those of you looking little thing like that, because in the physical thing I've got I got spoiled and used to cargo pockets, love cargo pockets.
Speaker 1:Now I can slip that that a pen, put it right down that little spiral spine of that notebook and I can write down groceries. I can write down all this other stuff. When the Lord starts talking to you, a lot of the things you hear discussed on woe foe, yo started by writing down what the Lord was putting on my heart and lessons. He was opening up in the word writing that little notebook. So I carry those two. That being said, I also have a fuller, like a legal pad at home on my nightstand and I also have a bigger study Bible with all the bells and whistles, but when you're doing EDC it's stripped down, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was a. I'm in the same boat. I've always got my phone on me Everywhere I go. I've got my phone and in my phone I've got, of course, I've got the Bible. I've got got the digital format of the Bible. I've also got a Strong's Concordance on my phone. I've got Webster's Dictionary on my phone. I have all the tools that I need right there at my fingertips. But I also like analog. Digital is great, but I also love the analog feel and the backup, because my phone is not always charged up like I like it to be. It's usually 50% or better most of the time. But there have been some times where I've been caught and my phone is.
Speaker 2:I've got a small Bible, usually within arm's reach, either in my truck, in a pocket. I've been able to find some really small Old Testament and New Testament Bibles that are about the size of my cell phone and so they pack around pretty nicely the size of my cell phone, and so they pack around pretty nicely. But I always like to have. I like to have. If I'm using digital, I like to have an analog backup whenever I'm doing something. So my phone, because it has my Bible, my concordance and my dictionary and all that stuff in it.
Speaker 2:I'm the kind of person that if the idea strikes me or if I get the thought, I'm going to look it up right now. Yeah, and I want to have it right now, because 10 minutes from now I won't remember it. Yep, it will slip my mind. And so if that means if I'm sitting somewhere and I'm waiting on someone, I'm waiting to pick my grandson up after school, or I'm picking my wife up after work and I'm sitting there not really doing a whole lot, and I get that wild thought or I get that notion I can look up in the concordance and figure out or find out what this particular word means in the Bible. That just popped into my mind. Different things like that. So I do like to have a pen and paper. I don't have it on hand like you do, because I still use I use Microsoft OneNote a lot, my phone, but still I like the analog backup, simply because sometimes I just don't feel like fooling with trying to fumble through the files and all that stuff to get to where I want to get.
Speaker 1:When I'm driving, and you and I are alike in that sometimes the Lord will really start talking to us while we're engaged in something else, and a good old drive in the country especially, is just a great time for that to happen. However, you're just not going to start writing while you're driving and so on. Apple, they have like a little on Apple. The iPhone has little Apple notes that you can little mem Apple they hit the iPhone has a little Apple notes that you can um, little memos, uh, voice memos, speak into it.
Speaker 1:It's really for some reason, and everybody is different I flow a lot better with a pen and pad. It's like it's not that big of a disconnect between the Lord, what the Lord is saying, and what my mouth is saying. You know it flows a lot smoother with my pen. If I try and say it, then it's almost like what the Lord is saying to me is going faster than what my mouth can say, and I know that I write slower, but yet it doesn't seem like. Yet with a pen and pad, and again, everybody's different. I would also go back to habakkuk 2 2, which was one of those things people say you're taking it out of context.
Speaker 1:It works for me I'm not saying it works for you. All you theologians might be taken out of context, but there's a phrase he's talking about invasion, but the Lord tells Habakkuk make the vision plain, write it down on tablets that he may run that reads it. They're talking about plain. The idea is, if it's written down when it's at its appropriate time, you can take action.
Speaker 2:When it's at its appropriate time, you can take action. I'm very similar in that when I speak it, if I use the Apple Notes and I speak it, there is a disconnect there. It's like drinking from a fire hose a lot of times. But when you write it down with an ink pen or something like that, it's like putting a regulator on it, like putting a regulator on a water hose or something. It slows everything down. It makes you think a little bit more. It makes you listen a little bit more. For me it does anyway, and it does slow the thought process down and makes me pay attention a little bit more. It is a little bit easier for me Now. I imagine there's some that can dictate and flow right on out there with some Apple notes. You know more power to them, but I can probably get a few notes down. But I'd rather go ahead and write it if I could. Oh, a big thing for me, and I had a high-speed come apart a few days ago because of this. My Apple earbuds or ear pro are very, very big. I don't like leaving the house without them. I like to have the ability to listen to my phone calls privately. For me that's a major pet peeve when someone in the vehicle is on FaceTime and I can hear their phone call. I don't like that. That's a distraction to me. Listen to your own phone call. I don't want to hear it. And, to be respectful, I do the same with my own phone calls. Yeah, I put those things on private and I listen to them myself. I like to hear my own music. I like to hear all those things to myself. One of the biggest things I use my ear pro for is to tune people out. Yes, the noise reduction or the noise cancellation on them is unparalleled. Um, I can be in a noisy environment, um, and I feel myself starting to get overwhelmed, uh, get a little sensory overload because there's too many people around, too much noise going on. I can't see everything, I can't hear everything that I can put those in and it it brings peace. Yeah, uh, brings. Also. It helps my, uh, my tinnitus or tinnitus. It helps quieten, helps quieten the cicadas in my ears, uh, so that's a, it's a welcome break.
Speaker 2:Last week, oh man, I left one at work. I usually pop my left earbud in at work and so I'm sitting there. I took it out of my ear and put it in my jacket pocket for some reason. And I took my jacket off and went home and I'm sitting in my recliner and I go to pull my earbuds out and I noticed one of them was gone. I was like, oh Lord, where's this earbud at? And I looked around and I couldn't find it.
Speaker 2:And all I could think about I was trying to retrace my steps to figure out where I'd last put this earbud in my ear, and I couldn't remember if it was at work or if I had had it in my ear at home.
Speaker 2:And if I had it in my ear at home I'd probably set it down and the cat was probably playing with it, you know, patting it around on the floor or something. If that's the case, I probably wouldn't find it. Our cat likes rubbery, squishy stuff like rubber bands and things like that. So anyway, I got a little whisper in my ear to just look at the Find my app on my phone. I was like there's no way it'll tell me where one's at. And it sure did. It showed me where both of them One was at work and one was at home, and so, anyway, I'm thankful for that feature, because that brought me some peace, because I did not want to go the entire weekend not having both of my earbuds. It's a crutch for me in some ways, I think, but that's one of those things that I will turn my car around to come back and get is those earbuds to pop in my ears, because you never know when I'm going to need some peace.
Speaker 1:I start my day almost every day, usually shower time. Prayer is part of my spiritual EDC, but I'm very spontaneous in prayer at times and I will pray prayers that are in the Bible, maybe personalize them a little bit for myself, but there's three I pray right off the bat. This is how I start my morning Lord's Prayer Only one Jesus told us to pray, that one behooves us to pray that Every day. Now I don't do it in a whole bunch of repetition necessarily, like you know, like they're teaching Catholicism, and where you say this many and then that many. No, but I begin that day with that prayer and next thing, right after it, I have a personalized version of Ephesians 6 reminding me I need to put on the whole armor of God, reminding me that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, rulers, darkness, this world and spiritual weakness in high places. Just that right alone makes me aware of what I'm dealing with, makes me aware of what the resistance is most of the time. And then I personally have my loins girt about with truth, you know, put on the breastplate of righteousness. Personally, have my feet shod with the preparation of gospel. Peace on the breastplate of righteousness. Personally, have my feet shy with the preparation of gospel peace.
Speaker 1:Take the shield of faith. Above all, put on the helm of salvation. Take the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, and I'm not machine gunning it, I'm sincere when I say it, but it gets me in a proper mindset. But it gets me in a proper mindset. I literally believe that spiritually, those things are popping into effect. And then the first three things I always say, other than maybe creating me a clean heart, renewing the right spirit within me, cast me not away from your presence, take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I'll start with that, but the one I always finish with before I really get into prayer, or if I have something to do, I don't start doing nothing. 95% plus of my days I'll do nothing without saying Lord's Prayer, without personalizing Ephesians 6. And then the other one that I do is Psalm 63. Hunger and thirst for righteousness of the Lord, to see the Lord Whenever it's dry. You're going to be like water in a dry and thirsty land where no water is. And then the other thing that psalm, when I pray it it reminds me of you're going to have those that speak against you. You're going to have those that are adversarial. But if you're trusting in the Lord, the Lord makes it right. The Lord fights your battles and you win.
Speaker 2:I work in public service, so I like to remind myself that, in all things, do them as if you're doing them unto the Lord. That makes it a little bit easier to help somebody. It makes it a little bit easier to serve somebody. It makes it a little bit easier to do something for somebody. When you reminded yourself that, hey, I'm not doing this for necessarily a person, I'm doing this for the Lord, because this is the Lord's work, this is what he is, this is what he's brought me here to do.
Speaker 2:I like to remind myself that this is not necessarily Scripture, but I think the concept is rooted and I've said this a bunch of times, I think here on the show Given the opportunity to be right or to be kind, choose kindness. I don't have to win the argument, I already know the argument's won Be kind, treat everyone with kindness. And then I like to remind myself also about grace and what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount about grace and mercy. Blessed are the merciful, so those cause, they shall receive mercy. Um, those, those concepts there uh, make some of the things that I do at work a little bit, a little bit tolerable, a little more tolerable.
Speaker 2:Um, when you, when you understand that, uh, grace begets grace. Uh, the more grace you give, the more grace you get. If you're not getting any grace, it might be because you're not giving any grace. Take a look at that Before you open your mouth. Smile, soft answer turns away wrath. Those things like that can de-escalate a situation a whole lot easier than logic can. If those things can help me to start my day on a positive note, then I'm better for it.
Speaker 1:To piggyback off. That wasn't necessarily in this order, but there's two things I always make sure to do and this is spread out especially the early part of the day. Some of it's a little bit more as the day progresses, but they go hand in hand and that is thanks and gratitude. Having that attitude and forgiveness which kind of goes along with with grace. I'll always start off with things I'm I'm given thanks for.
Speaker 1:Uh, thanks and gratitude help you to recognize God's blessings and if you're recognizing them, it helps you also to be more aware and be able to take advantage of the blessings and opportunities he has provided. And the one thing about forgiveness is I've been kind of meditating on this and have a little bit longer drive home than usual this week the thing about forgiveness we had talked earlier about forgiving and forgetting, and Jesus never said forget. One of the reasons forgiveness is not forgetting is that it reminds you of what you're victorious over in Jesus Christ, because if you can forgive, it reminds you that something happened, but also your ability to forgive lets you know that that's been defeated on the cross.
Speaker 2:There's something to be said when you've come to a point, a point of forgiveness, and you can still remember what was forgiven and no longer want to treat that person with any ill will. Yeah, that that is. I'm telling you that's. That's miraculous. Whether it's something small in your life or something huge, something big, it's just as miraculous, because by human nature, because of the sin nature, we don't come across that naturally. Our sin nature wants to be vengeful. Our sin nature wants to get our pound of flesh, for whatever it is, no matter how big or how small, it wants to bring back up the hurt. It does. It does, it wants to rehearse the hurt. And look at a lot of your modern psychology. It's really what a lot of modern psychology is doing is rehearsing the hurt, without necessarily pointing to a way to heal, because the only way to come to healing is to come to the cross, amen.
Speaker 2:Another thing that I carry on the physical side a pocket knife. I carry a pocket knife every day. You never know when you're going to need to cut a piece of cake. You always need a pocket knife. I always have someone ask me hey, do you have a pocket knife? My response is always you don't All men should have a pocket knife on them. You should have a way to cut something. It's a matter of survival.
Speaker 1:You just never know I have a knife in my truck, decent, decent size pocket knife if I'm actually going out and about. Uh, not to be too fancy, but I carry a leatherman. Got a pocket knife in it when I was doing the vacation thing, doing all the hiking. Damn sure that you have your Leatherman or your pocket knife. You can just do a couple other things with that comes in handy.
Speaker 2:I have been my wife's hero more times than I can count because I had a pocket knife. My pocket knife has cut open more Amazon boxes than I care to mention. So little things like that for me, man. They they make big dividends and pay off in big dividends just for having a little pocket knife. So when the wife says, hey, you have your pocket knife, and I always, I always tell her you know, you don't, cause she's got a knife too, she's, she's got a big ass knife. I ain't gonna lie, but she don't carry it. Um, she actually gave it to me a couple weeks ago. I carry it to my, to my truck now. But anyway, pocket knife, something to something to open amazon boxes with.
Speaker 1:Hmm two things. I know I keep doing these in pairs, but it seemed like they go hand in hand, and a lot of times when I'm applying them spiritually or stepping into this spiritually, or however you want to say it, they're usually twofold. And don't blame me, blame the Bible, because that's the way they're listed in the Bible. So, immediately in the Bible, so immediately, especially after giving thanks and making sure I'm forgiven and forgiving so I can be forgiven, I'll tell you I'm forgiven, I forgive so I can take advantage of the forgiveness that's provided. It would be a better way to say that, man, I plead the blood of Jesus over me. And then there's others, there's people, there are situations that I plead the blood of Jesus over, and I will even go into depth, depending on time allowance.
Speaker 1:Sometimes this will happen on the way to work. Well, you've got a 50-minute window on my drive. Now, day off, man, we can get really in-depth. The thing is, once you're at work, do I do this at work? Yeah, however, you got to realize that when you're at work, you're at work to work. So if work says, hey, you need to be involved in this because this is an emergency situation and this needs addressing, yeah, I'm not getting as involved, it's just a time constraint.
Speaker 1:That being said, days off it gets more in-depth and I'll tell the Lord. Lord, plea your blood, lord Jesus, over this situation. This person and your blood does this, lord, and I'm not commanding the blood to do, but, lord, I plead over this because I know your blood does this. And so, over this situation, what I'm wanting it to do, I know it can solve the problem or whatever issue it is, or improve the situation, if nothing's necessarily wrong, but it can improve the situation in this manner. And then the next thing that goes right along with it is I know it's there, I know he's there along with the blood man, the power of the Holy Spirit, and that takes some different forms with me, one of the ways, man, I'm raising my hands before I get to doing my regular thing, even if it's just for a moment.
Speaker 1:But the power of the Holy Spirit, you want that anointing on you, you want the Holy Spirit's presence in you to be detectable, you want it to be noticeable and you don't want that presence to feel like it's not there. That's a bad feeling when you feel like you got your ass, you know, flapping in the wind because you feel unprepared. There is no sweeter presence to accompany you in everything that you got to do in the day, in the week, in the month, in the year up ahead, for whatever tasks the Lord has sent you got to do in the day, in the week, in the month, in the year up ahead, for whatever task the Lord has sent you out to do. The presence of the Holy Spirit there's a reason he's called the Comforter man is so assuring.
Speaker 2:These are great ways to bring your thoughts captive. Yeah, you know, and it's a way of bringing your thoughts captive and reminding yourself that you know God is in charge and he's in control and whatever, whatever's going to happen is going to happen because it's his will and because he has ordained it. So taking, yeah, taking a moment to plead the blood and remind ourselves the power of the Holy Spirit is a good way to bring our thoughts into captivity and keep our minds from running wild with all kinds of notion and craziness, Because the enemy will do that. The enemy knows when you're anointed and the enemy will try to mess with your head a little bit. So, yeah, it's always good to plead the blood.
Speaker 1:One of the other things I do talk about, and everybody's different. So just because C-Dub does this, don't mean you all out there in podcast land have to do it. If you do, great, and if you don't, that's fine too. One of the things that it's a gift that I use to make sure that I'm operating in the holy spirit is speaking in tongues yeah praying in tongues, because the other thing about oc, dub, c-dub can have some wrong ideas.
Speaker 1:I can get it wrong. I tell you what ain't getting it wrong. The holy spirit praying you, what ain't getting it wrong. The Holy Spirit praying through me ain't getting it wrong. And so it's really just a good way for me and my ego to get out of the way and say Lord, take over, right.
Speaker 2:Very good, very good.
Speaker 1:Everybody be encouraged. The list is a little bit longer than this. Tune in next week and we will tell you more about Spiritual EDC. You can always check us out at wofoyoorg or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, spotify or Audible, or check us out on YouTube. Remember folks, if you're going to grow, you've got to wofoyo. Get in the Word for yourself.