EP 48 Aarons Final Episode

Join us on today's episode as Aaron comes out of tragedy bad choices and defeat to have a real relationship with the living God.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:06

Hi! Welcome to Battleground Believers. Back in the studio. Aaron's back with us. Matt's back with us. Randy on the keys making us look oh so beautiful. Again, we want to uh say uh welcome and we're so thankful that you're part of our uh part of our audience. We appreciate you guys. Just like, share, subscribe really helps the ministry. Want to be a ministry, not just uh not just something to entertain. We want to we want to change lives and and uh uh enhance the kingdom of God. So again, our tagline is telling his story through your story. And so far we've you've been telling your story, and you've pretty much talked about the dark side, right? The the the bad decisions, um bad habits, and the things that happened to you that kind of led you uh to a moment uh that we're looking forward to where we hear, hey, all that stuff I went through drove me to my knees and I met Jesus Christ. But when we left on the last episode, your friends had come and picked you up and forcibly Intervention. Intervention forcibly got you uh um not locked up, uh admitted uh behavioral health and parfee, right? And so when we left, that's that's exactly where we were, and so we're gonna pick up right there, and what we're looking forward to hearing uh through your story is we saw the dark, Jesus, and then the light. And so we're we're looking forward to as we go forward hearing how everything that bad was the redemptive power of Jesus Christ, so that anybody that's going through any type of thing like you went through can see, hey, even when he was in his deepest, darkest pits, God was still there, he just didn't know it and brought me out. So without further ado, Aaron, let you take over again and I'll stay quiet again.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

Thanks, Brad. Um, yeah, so unfortunately we're not quite all the way there yet. Um so I'm in Well, I call it jail, right? It's mental health lockup, and you can't get out. Um, and you can't go anywhere. And so I'm back to being a scared little teenage boy, even though I'm 40 years old. And we're not gonna belabor the point, but I stayed there for about 80 hours on a 48-hour hold because I got in on a Friday.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

And sort of one of the things that was not a blessing was that they had a phone on the hallway wall that you could use to call out to friends and family if you chose to do so. And I chose to do so. And I said a lot of horrible things to my wife. Um, I was still manic mental distress for the most part. I was still way, I was in complete despair, anger, rage, the whole gamut of emotions, right? Um and so I got I used the phone to get myself into even more trouble that way. And um, I will say, one of the blessings um that I received while I was there is an old friend who's actually a doctor who had um been around to help guide me and get me to the right place when I needed help from a doctor last year in 2022. He came in, he brought me some clean clothes, and spent a few minutes with me. And that was that was awesome. That was awesome. That was very big of him to do. Um and so one of the things, like, my wife came to pick me up, you know. I had I had been on the phone, you gotta come pick me up, gotta come pick me up on the day, the fifth day, or whatever it was, fourth. And we get in the van, and I tell her to pull over so that I can smoke a cigarette after I'd after I'd come out. Well, she started crying. Right? Because I was still the same manic, self-indulgent asshole that I had been four days ago, for the most part. I was still thinking that I was all that, that they had done this to me, and who are they to do this to, you know, that kind of a thing. And so very shortly thereafter, this is early November now, my wife started using the word divorce for the first time in our lives. And because of that mental and emotional state I was in, I'm like, oh yeah, this is a good idea, let's do that. And um because I thought, I don't know, like, she didn't want to allow me to be doing the things I wanted. I guess is probably the way that I'd say it. It's not exactly right, but it's close, right? She she was holding me back because I was this amazing thing and and all of that. So still self-indulgence, right? And um so what happened is I'm I'm still in real estate, so I I started showing her houses, and we we looked at houses for her and the girls up in Auburn, Indiana, because uh the girls were gonna start going to school up there at Lakewood Park, and we found a place. Um, and um, so knowing what I know now, the Lord was in this part, even though I didn't know it at the time. We ended up across the street from a pastor who I didn't know for a time, but who's uh he's actually working with me on discipleship training now. And this wonderful family next door to him, uh, who are girls basically lived at their house. They have girls their age, they play, it's wonderful, wonderful family. And you'll actually hear uh towards the end of this video or this testimony that we ended up going to the church that they go to because of that relationship. And it's not ironic, but I'll say, ironically enough, the new pastor who recently joined that church has also moved in directly next door, family with girls our age, pastor who used to pastor the church, new pastor right next door to him who is now pastoring the church.

SPEAKER_01 6:43

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

And so that's kind of how that ended up going down. But back to the situation. So around Christmas of 2023, um, you know, I was angry. Obvious reasons, right? I thought that I deserved something, I thought that my family was getting in the way. Obviously, grossly incorrect about all these things. So it was right around Christmas I started to to get the urge to just have them go, move into the other house and be gone, be out.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

And um then you can do what you want to do.

SPEAKER_00 7:19

Pretty much. Yeah. And so I basically told them. I basically I basically pushed them out. I basically told them to go. And I didn't basically, but I said, I don't want you here. I told them that. And probably right out there with the worst thing I'll ever do, because I can remember the look on my daughter's faces, and um I yelled. I mean, I I went raised my voice, like, get out! I that's what happened in Christmas of 2023, and so they did. They moved out a few days earlier than they had wanted to. And so there I was, you know, the great Aaron Rep Logel. There I was with my dog and a big house all to myself, and a bottle of liquor if I wanted, right? And um tissues, I think. Oh, I'll be alright. I'll be alright, brother. Yeah. Okay. And that lasted, oh god, not even two weeks. Probably until I started to realize what had happened. Didn't last for didn't didn't take very long. And you know, by that time it was it was too late for I had done so much damage to the relationship with my family that it it it may not be possible to repair. And in fact, by all human rights, it it shouldn't be. I had I had done so much damage that by all rights I deserved to never see them again. I I would say. And so the girls were able to um get into the school. That that went pretty well. You know, my wife still had her job, they had their little place, they had the cat. I kept the dog. Um and even though I didn't feel it necessarily at the time, I believe during this time in early 2024, there were times where I was crying out to God. Um I was angry at God, right? Why have you done this to me, kind of a thing. Um for the early, early part, I was a pretty big mess. Like I had started to get back onto the medication that we mentioned earlier, that lithium, that's really important for uh people that are bipolar one. And I was on some other stuff trying to figure out what would work best, and I was in such a state of like sloth and just depression and non-function, like I could barely make myself a sandwich for lunch. I would sleep in till 10 a.m. probably. I would literally sit on the couch and watch TV like all day. That's all I did. And that went on for at least a couple months. Um yeah, exactly. And you know, of course I started reaching back out to my wife and saying, honey, I'm so sorry, you know, I I I don't know I don't know why I did those things. I don't I don't understand. I obviously want you back, you know. Well, she's not really receptive to that at this time for obvious reasons. And so she let me see her for lunch on the days that she worked Southwest, because I still live Southwest, and so we would sit in the car for a few minutes, and she'd let me talk, and I'd cry, and I'd beg and the whole thing. And there were some times where I was able to see the girls um during this time, and you know, I I was just a complete, a complete mess. But by the grace of God, somehow, I I don't really understand what it was or or when or I mean I started to realize I I needed I thought well I needed, right? I needed my family back. And so I did start to try to drink less, and I did start to drink less.

SPEAKER_01 12:05

Um were you reaching out to God during this time at all? Did did prayer enter into this? Were you praying or were you reading your Bible? Or was there anything along those lines?

SPEAKER_00 12:16

There was there was some crying out to God, there was some prayers, I think, but there wasn't much like focus on anything. I couldn't do much. Um the Catholic Shepherd friend I mentioned, I remember during this time, he was around. He was he was kind of that person in my life that I know I didn't mention a lot in episode three, but he was always just around when I needed someone. He was always just there right when I needed it. And so during this time I can remember, I can remember a specific time he came over and um he came to the house, he cooked hamburgers while I drank beer. And um fed me that night. And he was just he was just that sacrifice he was just a guy who put me before him. A friend, a good friend. And um, and okay, so it was probably mid-2024. Um I had my wife had finally said, you know, okay, we can start counseling. So we started marital counseling, and it was around this time that uh I had started to one of the things that she did allow me to do, my wife, is she would speak to me on the phone for about an hour before bedtime. So we would talk in the evenings. And there were times where I would have had a few beers while before we talked or during or whatever, and I would say I would be cranky and selfish and a little bit like not nice. And obviously, the person on the other end's not really receptive to that kind of thing. And um we had probably been through a couple meetings with the counselor, um, and I finally, again, by the grace of God, I don't know exactly when. Well, I know exactly when. I don't know exactly how, but I made the decision. I gotta I gotta quit drinking. I gotta quit drinking. Um you know, I probably talked to her about it some, and honey, do I have to do this in order to maybe get back together, like bring our family back together? Well, in speaking with her, right, she just cares that she has a loving husband who can have some self-control and take care of his wife and children. That doesn't seem like too much to ask, but I knew. I just somehow knew that in order to be that guy, I was gonna have to quit because, well, we're gonna hear, or maybe I've already stated I'm I'm an alcoholic, right? So I can't drink one beer, and eventually I'm gonna want to drink 20 beer or 10 or whatever it is until I'm drunk. And then probably want some more. But so June 1st of 2024, since then I haven't had a drink. Um the the pathway to us getting back together was a lot of visits in Auburn, so I'd drive all the way up to Auburn. We continued counseling. And look, I've already said it, but I'm gonna say it again. The grace that my wife extended to me by by taking me back after all, like after all of this. Well, it's just not possible. It's just not humanly possible.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

She was a believer though, right? Like like she went to church and like prayed.

SPEAKER_00 16:19

She knows the Lord, yeah. Yeah, okay. So I'm gonna say it one more time. It's not humanly possible. I there's no way I should be back with my family, but somehow, again, by the grace of God that she extended, I am.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

The Bible says the grace that surpasses all understanding.

SPEAKER_00 16:43

So well, it surpasses my understanding for sure, I can tell you that. And so here it is again, fall 2024. And now I'm moving out of our big, big house, four-bedroom, full basement, the whole thing, into this tiny little single-level, three-bedroom, very tiny, two-batroom house in Auburn, Indiana, with a big dog, a cat, two kids, and two adults. A third the size of our our single family home in Southwest. And wow. So I had gotten a job, so back to that real quick. I had gotten a full-time engineering job again with the same company I left in 2021, as it were.

SPEAKER_01 17:37

Is that the one that you got the the bad news?

SPEAKER_00 17:41

It's it's the one I transferred to when the airborne radios divested from Raytheon to BAE, and then I started working um on the commercial side. I was a product test engineer for uh jet engine control systems, so sort of like assembly engineering through the manufacturing floor, like stamp off the operations to make sure that it's good to go, figure out what's wrong, and write instructions how to fix it. So it was like kind of a process, like look at this one, okay, figure it out, next one. And it was physical work too, because I had to pick up these big boxes of electronics and it was loud manufacturing floor, so it was a tough environment, but um, but yeah, so I'd been working good salary, um, good full-time job, and you know, I think that um having that stability was something that my wife wanted to see as well. Like, are you stable enough mentally and emotionally to go back to work? Can you do that? And so I was showing that I could. And um, and so um, you know, things were things were pretty okay. Like my daughters were still, you know, obviously a little bit traumatized by some of the things that had happened, you know, obviously, um, with me being not super mentally and emotionally stable at all times, but they were starting to come around and know that daddy's, you know, a little bit different now. Daddy's got it under control, he's on his medication, you know, all these things. So, fast forward to March 2025, and my Catholic Shepherd friend sends me a text. Um, hey, there's a men's retreat uh coming up in Auburn, right down the street from where you live. It's at the church there, it's the third week of March, you go for a weekend, doesn't cost you anything. Um, it's a really good thing. Highly encourage you to go. I'm like, oh, okay, okay. And um, a couple days later, he pushes me again, sends me this text like, Aaron, God is calling, like, go to this retreat. And I'm like, oh, that's kind of serious, like, bro, you know, kind of a thing. So I start talking to my wife about it, and you know, um, she kind of encouraged me a little bit, and I was like, okay, well, so here's what I did. I said what I would consider to be a somewhat selfish prayer to God, and I said, if you send me an eagle to or from on my path to or from work on I-69, um I will know that you want me at this men's retreat. And I thought I was really safe too, because this is a stretch of the interstate in springtime when there's not really many eagles around at all, because they're only around in the winter unless they're nesting pears. And I've lived in this area for about seven years up to this point, never seen one on that stretch. Okay. Wednesday after work before the retreat, I'm driving home and I look up and there's a huge bald eagle soaring right overhead. And I'm like, okay, yep. So I make the call, I send the text, I get signed up for this retreat, I go to the retreat, and you give up a weekend, and it's the basic overview of what happens there is food, fun, faith, fellowship, and prayer, and just being real with real men. And pretty sure it was the first day, about halfway through, maybe it was the second day. There's two days. Anyway, at some point during the retreat, the Holy Spirit hit me like a sack of bricks and almost knocked me out of my chair. And I knew that everything was gonna change. Um I knew that I was gonna be, I was gonna need to get my Story out. I knew that that was going to be part of the healing process. And the Christ renews is Christ renews his parish. That's what the men's retreat is called. It actually has that sort of idea built into it. And so over the next six months from March 2025 until September, I was preparing to uh preparing for the next retreat as the as the group of men who sort of put it on for the next group. They they meet, they fellowship, they study Bible, they talk about Christ and and learn more about him. And we prepare for six months, like three hours every Sunday, um, until the retreat comes. And so I had the personal opportunity at the September 2025 retreat to share my testimony. And so this is sort of in the March 2025 one. This is part of what I knew I had to do. Well, during that span of time, the six months between March and September, um, I started to pray a lot more. I started to go into the church and pray. I started to filter out some of those bad habits and activities that I have been focusing time on, and some of them were still there for a time, and I didn't know it at the time, but I began writing a book. I began writing down ideas and taking notes and and eventually, sort of I think June, July, August, I actually started putting the story, the material of the book together. And when I got to the retreat um in September, one of the things that was a huge blessing, and I could talk about this for an hour, I know we don't have that, but my family came, and before my testimony, my whole family, especially important for my daughters, they laid their hands on me and they prayed, and my father prayed over me for the Holy Spirit to come before I gave my testimony, and I'm not a public speaker at all, you have to understand. I used to be, before this time, I'd be nervous, frantic, um, not collected. I'd have a hard time doing what we're doing right now, even. And so uh during that prayer, I really did feel the moving of the Holy Spirit again. And it was just a beautiful thing. I got up to the podium, room full of men, you know, and the delivery went smooth as silk. Um prayer and song at the end, and I even I had been one of the things I'd been doing up until the retreat was going into that room in the church and praying that my story would benefit someone during the delivery. And there were multiple guys there who came up to me afterward and said, you know, that really meant a lot to me. I've been through similar things, and I'd hearing your story helped me a lot, so that was another huge blessing. Well, so now we're getting close to, you know, a complete rebirth in Christ, what I'll call that moment where I experienced my spiritual awakening finally, and for real. Like, I was an old person today, but I'm a new person tomorrow. So the book got completed about a month after the retreat. Um I got it onto Amazon. Um, I got it into it's it's actually now in print, and so this is um we're in March 2026, so this is like November time frame of 2025.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

So not too long ago.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

Right, three or four months ago. And something that happened uh that I want to share that I find interesting is um I mentioned that we got into a new church because of our old neighbors. Um we have since moved from that little house. But um the girls had continued going to this church, and finally we're like, hey mom and dad, we why won't you take us here? Like let's let's start going here. So the first Sunday, our whole family is in that church. We get to the sermon time, and the preacher opens the Bible at the start of his sermon, and he goes directly to 1 Corinthians chapter 3, verses 4 through 11. And you're thinking, why is that important? Well, the prophecy that was spoken over my life approximately 25 years ago was exactly that scripture where Paul talks about, um, as a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation, someone else is building upon it, but no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. So it's literally the prophecy spoken over me by a pastor 25 years ago. The preacher's there in church Sunday morning, he opens the Bible, he goes right there, so I'm like, tears on the floor, I'm melting. It's my prophecy, honey. And she's like, Okay, alright. And so I'm bottling the whole sermon, and the young woman in front of us hands me a thing of tissues. I'm crying so hard. And uh, and so and so yeah, I just I I receive that that piece of information as a thank you, Lord. And um, and so there've been a few other things like that that have happened in the past few months. Um another thing after the book that the Lord put on my heart is um it's a men's ministry. Um and that sort of came with that sort of calling came with the process of finishing the book. And actually this very past week the the men's ministry, it's called Where Eagles Rare Ministries, that's been born officially um as of a few days ago.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

That's you that's your ministry?

SPEAKER_00 28:50

It's the Lord's ministry, but I'm helping build it, yes.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

Well, we'll try to promote that throughout our our as you give us materials and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 28:57

We'll well in fact I did bring you a copy of the book I wanted to share with you guys today. You can touch it too. Oh, thank you. So the so the book is called The Master Builder's Guide, um mentioning the the 1 Corinthians chapter 3. Um And it is available on Amazon.

SPEAKER_01 29:17

It is There's an insignia he wrote in here.

SPEAKER_00 29:20

Yeah, there's a message in there. Um it is available. Um I have it in print, but I'm not gonna charge any man who wants to read the book and and talk more about it and get involved with the ministry. So it's free will donation if you want a copy of the book. But there it is.

SPEAKER_01 29:38

Nice. Congratulations. Yeah, it's uh I noticed eagles, like when you were talking about it, uh, I thought you were gonna quote the scripture where it says uh on wings of eagles or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

Oh yeah, Isaiah 40 is the like founding scripture for the ministry. So it's Isaiah 40, 28 through 31. You'll see it in there.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

Well, uh we as we we say we want to partner with other people, right? Like we have a ministry that we want to do, but uh we had a guy in here and he's got a ministry up in Elkhart and we promote through that, promote him through that, and we'd be more willing to to to uh promote what's go whatever you got going on with your stuff through our social medias. Um and me? Oh, the book. Randy's giving us direction. It's a little behind the scenes that nobody's gonna see. Actually, everybody's gonna see. Can you see it? I feel like a young van of white.

SPEAKER_00 30:38

Yeah, it's it's it's a discipleship manual of sorts. The title is Ten Tenets for Building a Life That Lasts. And um Yeah, I'm happy to talk more about it.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

And um Yeah, we'll uh yeah, and uh um actually I'm gonna take a photo of that and I'm gonna push it through uh our our TikTok. Um wonderful to to promote that too. So uh thank you so much for a signed copy. There's two of us, I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

I have a digital copy. Well, do you? Yeah, he's gonna be.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

You can't sign a digital copy.

SPEAKER_00 31:10

If are we about to wrap up this episode?

SPEAKER_01 31:12

Yeah, yeah, we're I would I figure we'd just let this go a little bit longer than than normal so that we're not interrupting and then coming back for 10 minutes of stuff. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:20

So you can finish about what you want. So so I would like to say a few things then. Um in those past in the past three to four months since I had that spiritual awakening, uh there's a series of things. You you start to it still hurts when circumstances arise in your life that are serious. You know, your family gets sick, you face judgment from man, or those kinds of really, really difficult bad day at work life situations. Well, as you as you grow in your relationship with Christ, which I believe I'm doing, trying every day, right, you start to understand that he's God, but I'm not. And he is in control and he can take care of it. And if I surrender my life to him, and I listen to what the Holy Spirit in my heart, Jesus in my heart, through the Holy Spirit, through me, is saying, I have a different lens. I can see everything the world, my family, my friends, my job. I start to understand what my priorities are, and I start to ask the Lord how I can serve my family, how I can be his light at work, how I can love my daughters the way that they need it, not what my personal agenda or personal need is. And so there is actually one thing that happened, I'm not gonna go into details, but it was like a really rough day. And I got with my counselor and he suggested, well, hey, you know, I would I would think that a good idea might be to reflect on Matthew chapter 11, verses 28 through 30, the the scripture where Jesus says, Come to me and rest, you who are weary. My yoke is easy, my burden is light. So I fasted for like two and a half days, complete fast, just coffee and water. And I I didn't make it three full days, I almost fell over. But during that time, I was able to focus on the Lord and listen to that scripture and think about it a lot. And one of the things that happened to me during that time of fasting that I love to report is I was sitting at my desk and a bald eagle flies right across the property behind us. And um it's like, thank you, Lord, you know? And and my wife is starting to see the new me, and she's she's starting to believe it, and that just means so much to me. I asked her about it the other, I think last night or the night before. And she said, Well, I asked her like how would you describe it? And she said, Well, you're awakened in the truth now. And I just I'm so grateful to God that I that he saw fit to give me the grace he gave, to continue breathing his air into my lungs and to allow me to serve him. That's what I'm grateful for. That's all I can do because I mean you you heard the story, it's pretty much I mean, it's in the book too, actually, in great in greater detail, but because of the grace I've received, all I can do is serve him with every breath from here on out. And I think I think what I'd kind of like to say in conclusion is you know, as a little boy, um I'd be in church, I'd stand up, and we sing hymns at the end, and probably a hundred times we sang Amazing Grace. Probably a hundred times. And I'm sure there were plenty of times. I'm like Amazing Grace. Okay, yeah, how sweet the sound. Yeah, okay, that's interesting. Are we gonna get lunch now?

SPEAKER_01 35:36

Yeah. Football game's on in 20 minutes, let's go.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

And there was a time, in fact, this might have been the time, this might have been the song that was on the radio when I had my awakening. Now that I come to think of it. I think probably was. I was in the car, I know that. And Amazing Grace comes on, and it just hit me, and I'm like, oh. I'm like, okay, now I understand. Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, now I'm found. I was blind, but now I see. And you know, I just I just want to say that if if you're out there and you're curious about Jesus, or you don't know him well, or you're you're interested in getting closer, don't delay. Don't wait two minutes. Make the call to your pastor, call your best friend, call your dad, whoever it is that you trust, go to them and start talking about it because he alone can save and he is standing at the door waiting for you.

SPEAKER_01 37:01

Amen. I don't know. I don't think we could have said it any better. Really, that's the whole idea, the concept behind what we're trying to do here is to show people, you know, just because you're making bad decisions or you're going down a bad road, that you're lost, that you can be found and you're seen, and that one day your eyes will be open to the truth. So thank you so much for for sharing your your testimony and being open about things. You know, some people are worried because they they want to portray themselves as together all the time. And and the reality is I don't think anybody's together all the time. I mean, when you I was talking to a guy today and you read the Bible, there's train wrecks all over. He never picked a guy that like went to church, did it right the whole time. He always picked guys that that you know were involved in adultery, or you know, Samson was a womanizer, you know, all the even um uh Father Abraham, right? He lied, you know, at one point like, no, this is my my sister. King David. Yeah, King David. I mean, there's all kinds of tragedy and and stupidity and bad choices, but with the power of God, not that we want to continue to make bad choices, but he can come in, intervene, and and change our life, but not just not just save us so we're in heaven, but change us because now you you have your marriage restored, a relationship with your daughters, uh, and you're you're you're a functioning person, right? Yeah, the things that I dealt with, and I'm moving past those things, and I'm a functioning adult, and I have a great relationship with my wife and my kids. And and you probably have the same thing. Randy probably has the same thing. So anybody in the audience probably has a moment where they look at things and say, Man, I really blew that. I can't believe I did that. But the the grace and mercy that is shown us. There's a story where the the uh Jesus sends the disciples out and they're they're like, Hey, we're casting out demons and we're doing this and we're healing people. God, it's amazing! And and Jesus said, What you need to be, what you need to boast in is your names written down in the Lamb's book of life. Not all the stuff you were able to do. And so that amazing grace is is is beyond words. So thank you so much. Thank you for the book. Uh I'll fight you for it. It's a signed copy. I don't have to fight for it. Oh, you got a digital copy. You're you're in your 30s.

SPEAKER_00 39:15

I know the author, I can probably get another one.

SPEAKER_01 39:18

Uh where can they buy your book?

SPEAKER_00 39:21

So um The Where Eagles Rare Ministries has a website. It's where eaglesrare.org. Um, and you can submit a form there requesting to talk to me about getting a copy, physical print, or you can just click the link and go download it from Amazon. And in fact, something that I forgot to mention is within the next week or two, hopefully, I'm gonna have the first section of the book out on audio on the YouTube channel, and that'll be no charge.

unknown 39:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 39:52

So that'll be out soon.

SPEAKER_01 39:54

I'm not very good at it, but uh we met a guy named Mike, who's a tech guy, and we're gonna start working with him and see if he'll start uh editing some stuff, and maybe he can add some of that stuff in there. Do you have a Facebook page?

SPEAKER_00 40:08

We'll have one. Okay. We'll have one.

SPEAKER_01 40:10

When you do let us know and we'll we'll connect uh the Facebook page to uh like Battleground Believers Facebook page to yours and share that stuff.

SPEAKER_00 40:19

Sounds good.

SPEAKER_01 40:20

We we want to we want to be a blessing and we want to be a uh a partner, right? With with what's going on in people's ministries. So yeah, we do. And uh I think it'd be great if uh you know we talked to uh Keith Pascalone last week, and uh by the time this comes out, his his stuff have been long gone, but uh partnering with him anyway we can to support his ministry now. We're uh e we're eagles rare. Huh?

SPEAKER_00 40:45

We're eagles rare.

SPEAKER_01 40:46

I got it right. We're eagles rare. We're gonna partner with your ministry and try to boost that. So again, thank you so much for uh for coming in. Any last words from either one? Because we're getting ready to this went a little long, but that's okay. Uh I felt like the spirit was here and we needed to let it let it kind of kind of keep going. Any last no one last you have anything? Your man, a few words.

SPEAKER_00 41:08

When they when I say them, they matter. When they say them.

SPEAKER_01 41:11

Yeah! Thank you so much to Randy Barr and the two bar blues studio. Man, I am knowing that. And uh thank you to you, the audience. We appreciate you. And remember, um, we got battleground believers at gmail.com. If if you have nothing else and you feel like you're in the pits and you have nobody to talk to, email us. We'd be more than willing to reach out and uh uh tell you about our Lord and Jesus Christ that we we serve every day. Again, um all that call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Battleground believers out.