Living Inside Out with John Peek
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We take Marco Rubio’s Munich Security Conference warning and translate it into a personal framework for leadership, discipline, and renewal at home. We connect geopolitics to faith, family boundaries, and real training so we stop coasting and start rebuilding what matters.
• tying national leadership to family leadership and fatherhood
• why shared purpose beats shared comfort
• teaching firearms fundamentals in Spanish and what it reveals about preparation
• the “dangerous delusion” of assuming the fight is over
• five outsourcing traps that hollow out identity and discipline
• a simple reset plan: name it, own it, build it
• negotiating conflict with justice, sustainability, and clean conscience
• training spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically for real pressure
Welcome Guest And Big Theme
SPEAKER_05Welcome to the Living Inside Out Radio Show with John Peake.
SPEAKER_03Welcome back to Living Inside Out Radio. I'm your host, John Peak. I have my special guest today. It's going to be David Cisneros, a pastor at Townwood Church, a gifted multi-instrumental musician, as well as a great student, one of my best here at Defend Fit. He ended up teaching today, in fact, in Spanish, which is a real treat.
Munich Speech As Personal Mirror
SPEAKER_03So today, our focus of the show is going to be talking about the Munich Security Conference with Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking to Europe about the West, the alliance, and what he called a dangerous delusion after World War II. And I'm going to kind of translate that into something personal. You know, if you don't guard what's inside, you will lose what you built on the outside. And so Rubio's argument in Munich is basically the West won big battles, then got lulled into complacency, outsourcing strength, identity, and sovereignty, and now needs renewal. Living inside out, translation, any man, family, or nation that outsources its core responsibility eventually pays for that. So, David, when you hear that kind of verbiage, you know, power of living in the truth that Marco Rubio was was giving us at the Munich Security Conference, and then you think about your own life and the leadership you've had when you've been in, like, for example, your dad is a really uh excellent leader. He's a senior pastor of Townwood Church. I've been under his leadership, and I know hundreds and hundreds of men and women are as well. And when you think about that leadership, like I think about Senator Marco Rubio, the leadership he's providing today. Do you see a correlation to leadership now nationally and internationally and as well as all the way back to the family unit?
SPEAKER_00I would have to say yes, absolutely. And by the way, thank you for having me on the show. It's it's awesome. Also good to be on the show. Um, yeah, absolutely, man. I mean, I've seen highlights and I've could closely correlate certain virtues and attributes of being a pastor's kid myself, growing up in the church, being under dad's uh mentorship, just like you know, a lot of sons and fathers out there. But to to better bring to your point, you know, it takes it takes a lot of discernment, wisdom, and guidance to really pinpoint on things that he said. For example, one thing I have here on my phone, one thing that he said was urging these nations to abandon the guilt and the shame of their past. We all have a past, right? Every nation has a past, every nation has probably at one point or another done something corrupt. There's no such thing as a perfect nation. But he urged him, saying, Look, man, abandon that regarding their history, secure their borders, and fight against civilizational erasure. I mean, that's a big deal, man. It takes a lot of guts and character to say something like that. Most importantly, to better answer your point or bring to your point the discernment to say that and identify that, right? It's okay to watch over your house. It's okay to watch over your borders. It's funny, you know, when we think of heaven, we compare heaven and hell. I mean, look, heaven has borders, man, right? Not everybody can get into heaven. And you and I know very well as ministers the the what we need in order to again get access to the kingdom of heaven. And there's only one way, it's through Christ Jesus, the Son of God, right? But if that were the case, you know, anybody could probably get in heaven, and that's just not the case. So there's borders in heaven that there's nothing wrong with having borders with your own nation. But bringing coming back to your point, the fact of the leadership and the discernment from Marco Rubio was is is astounding. He's had a good father in his life. You can tell he's had good leadership, he's had good discipline. I can honestly say, and and I I brag about my parents, right? I brag about my dad. Uh, I admire my dad. Is he perfect? By any means, no way. But he is somebody that I look up to me growing up. And I'm still at 45 years old, man, a father of three, with a beautiful wife at home. I'm still learning how to be a dad, right? I'm still learning how to discipline my kids. I'm still making a lot of mistakes. But I can attest to the fact that the leadership in somebody is because they had a good solid background. Most of the time, I'm not there are cases out there where somebody has come from a broken home, but you know, we serve a God of restoration. We serve a guide who comes in and says, okay, maybe your your your biological father wasn't in a picture. I'm gonna be your father. That's a heavily DNA, right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's good. That's real powerful, David. You know, Rubio uh opens by calling the US Europe relationship an historic reliance, alliance, an historic h alliance. When I think about you know, friendships and uh the relationship with our parents, relationship with our brothers and sisters, you know, that's an alliance as well. And we have to be very careful who we make alliances with, but we also know they're not going to be perfect, right? So, you know, remembering back, like you're doing, you're thinking back about your father's leadership and now you're a father, you know, it's interesting to see that as Marco Rubio goes back to the early days of the 1960s, you know, with the Berlin Wall. And they were having these conferences back then, this Munich Munich security conference. Absolutely. So they had the Berlin Wall era, they had the Cuban Missiles Crisis, they had uh when the stakes were existential, like life-changing. His point, the alliance didn't just unite against something, it united for something. And that shared purpose helped rebuild a continent and defeat Soviet communism. So today we were doing something that I feel like had alliance with
Shared Purpose From Home To Nation
SPEAKER_03that, and we were doing a shared purpose. So when we were training today in our church security team on firearm training, we had some new people join us that are on our security team. And so I was taking care of the business side, and I had you already and your brother were both teaching in Spanish because that's their first language, the new students, and you guys were doing this shared alliance of we're building men, we're changing lives, right? We're impacting the community, we're really providing protection for the whole congregation. And that's a very special calling to be, you know, church security, uh, just like it is a very special calling to be a father, a husband, um, you know, pastor, certainly, and even a music minister, right? Yeah. And I know you really feel that way too. You know, you prepare well for your calling as a music minister, really amazing playing on the guitar and directing traffic on the song structure and knowing when people are coming in and changing from verse to chorus to bridge to repeat to let's bring the dynamic down. And oh, they're gonna pray now, let's let's bring it down soft, okay? And you're directing traffic microscopically, and that happened today on the mat. You know, very specific direction and intention to handle that firearm and fix jams and be accurate and you know, get the gun out, don't get the gun out, move your body this. And so Rubio was trying to do that on the international stage. We were doing that here on the local stage, right? And there's such a big bandwidth of these decision makings. And so when I think about how people get to Marco Rubio's position, directing traffic on the international stage, it really starts at home, and we've discussed that a lot. It starts at home. But the manifestation of that what you're capable of doing now, as opposed to seven years ago when you first when we first met and you started
Teaching Firearms Fundamentals In Spanish
SPEAKER_03training. Yes, sir. Tell a little bit about what you explained today when you're teaching in Spanish and what that experience was like on the firearm training side.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so it was a trip. It's it's it's certainly something that I'm not used to. I'm used to the English verbiage, right, which is what you taught us. But I will say a couple of weeks ago, I I told myself, hey, what if, what if we could take this and get the Latin community, the Spanish only speaking community, what if we could get them trained up? What if we can, this doesn't just have to not that it does, I'm just saying it doesn't have to stay with the English only speaking people. I'm sure it gets out there and I'm sure the already community is doing it, but that I know of uh on on the very limited experience that I have. So the challenge I started challenging myself and I started looking up, okay, holster in in Spanish, what's the proper exact bullet name in Spanish, right? A bullet, a nine millimeter round or 45 ACP, whatever three way, two, two, three, you name it, right? Um, I started taking and watching several, and then the crazy funny thing about it is depending on cultures, some cultures might call it a different thing. So ah, that's another barrier. What am I gonna choose? The way the Mexicans say it, what the Colombians say it, the way that you know what I mean? The way the Cuban say it. Yeah, it's one of those things where that was a certain certainly a challenge, but it wasn't anything a hurdle that I went able to get over. I found myself being able to find the right verbiage for the guys that we were training, and it was it flowed nice. They understood everything, thank God. And they did well. I mean, for the first time, they did better than me when I first showed up, right? I you you saw me seven years ago. It was pretty bad. But um I will say, as long as they put in the work, just like every, every everybody, you know, you you gotta go home and put in the work. You gotta you can explain it to me. I might be able to do it really well once or twice, but that just doesn't mean that we have it, right? It doesn't mean that you're gonna dominate it. You might have it in theory, you might understand in theory, but today was certainly something where we were managing and covering a lot of things, even though it was a fundamentals class. It was basic fundamentals and principles, but yet me as teaching the class, wow, it's like it. I learned a whole lot because as a teacher, you said this before, when you teach, you still learn. And that happened today. I learned that the principles are so astoundingly important that even I, that I've been at this seven years, you've been at this for many more than that. But even I have to respect the fact that the fundamentals are still very important principles that we can't stray away from.
SPEAKER_03Right. Awesome, awesome.
Dangerous Delusion And Stopping Training
SPEAKER_03Well, that's a great segue into pivoting to what we're gonna talk about next. So then Marco Rubio, he pivots and he says, after that victory, the the West fell into a dangerous delusion. The idea that we've reached this end of history that liberal democracy would spread automatically, you know, that trade would replace nationhood, and borders wouldn't matter. Now here's the Living Inside Out translation. When you assume the war is over, you stop training. When you stop training, you become soft in places you used to be sharp. And when pressure hits, what pressure? Temptation, fear, some crisis. So you discover what you neglected. So uh from a 7M mindset, scripture never teaches the end of history before the king returns. It teaches vigilance, watch, stand fast, be sober-minded. You know, but let's put that into the 7M framework ministry. Do I still have conviction or am I coasting on yesterday's victories? Marriage. Did I stop pursuing because I assumed love would just work? Mentoring. Am I building the next generation or consuming content and calling it leadership? Media. Who is shaping my worldviews daily? Martial arts and muscle. Am I training or just talking about training and money? Am I stewarding or drifting? So let's we have a shared purpose versus a shared comfort. Rubio's first theme is shared purpose. The alliance was built on it. And that's a word for all of us. Comfort is not a foundation, purpose is a foundation. A practical prompt for us to think about right now, write one sentence. Our house stands for what? You fill in the blank. If you can't fill in that blank, everything else becomes negotiable. Every decline starts inside a quiet decision to coast. So here's today today's actions. Pick one training lane you've neglected. Let me say that again. Pick one training lane you've neglected. Spiritual discipline, health discipline, family discipline, financial discipline, and schedule one concrete step in the in the next twenty-four hours. Today, David teaching in Spanish was picking a training lane, being able to reach out to the huge Latin American community that's all around us, especially in Texas, and embracing that, building them up, helping them recognize the freedoms we have in America we're paid for with a price, to respect that, to integrate and become part of our communities, is totally opposite of what's happening in the Muslim communities where they don't want to integrate into our com our society. They don't even want to follow our own laws. They want to create Sharia law. They want to have communities that completely pull away and stay away from the infidels, the non-Muslim believers. While Christianity does just the opposite. We want to help people to understand the truth of the Word of God and become uh, as Kirk uh Charlie Kirk said, let's make heaven crowded. Let's bring people into the fold through our faith. And so we need to really understand what that means on every level, spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical. Otherwise, we're really not honoring all that God's given us as Americans. But we have to also understand some people will not adopt our way of thinking. And I think it's a big mistake for people in the West to think that the people around the world in various places are going to think like we do. Americans need to travel more, they need to really experience what's out there so they can live in the truth that some people will not adopt our values, so we need to be ready to protect those values, whatever that looks like. So when we come back, we're gonna deal with Rupio's sharpest section, what he claims the West paid for its mistakes, and I'm going to translate that into personal responsibility. Where have you outsourced your strength? Stay with us, we'll be right back with more from Living Inside Out Radio.
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Outsourcing Traps And Renewal Habits
SPEAKER_03Welcome back to Living Inside Out Radio. I'm your host, John Peake, and we've been talking about Marcos uh Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference, which was quite amazing. So we're going to walk through Rubio's cost list, the cost of trade, sovereignty, defense, energy, borders, and the fear it created, and then convert each of these into more of a personal responsibility, discipleship, uh, discipline lesson. So this is where the speech turns into a warning. Rubio argues the West embraced free and unfettered trade while competitors protected theirs, contributing to deindustrialization and supply chain dependence. He says sovereignty got outsourced to institu uh international institutions, you know, while some nations expanded welfare states and underinvested in defense. He also attacks Western energy choices and said borderless thinking produced mass migration pressures and social cohesion problems. Then he frames it as a renewal project. America will pursue renewal and restoration and prefers to do it with Europe, but says it's prepared to do it alone if necessary. So the living inside out translation, really, we have like five outsourcing traps. Now, whether you agree or disagree with Rubio's politics, the underlying pattern is timeless. Here's five outsourcing traps in our personal life, outsourcing our identity. You let culture define who you are instead of Christ. It's calling and convictions. You outsource discipline. You expect motivation to carry what only habits can sustain. And we see that a lot in the self-help community. People go see all kinds of speakers to be motivated. While really it's about discipline and creating good habits. That's where you get elevated transformation. Outsourcing our protection. You ignore preparedness spiritually, physically, and financially until crisis teaches you. I have a lot of people that come to me now at DefendFit to train proactively. They see they've neglected their health, their personal protection, and they see that law enforcement is too far away, too long in duration to get there to rescue them, many times not showing up at all, depending on where you live. Outsourcing thought life. You let fear dominate, fear of the future, fear of conflict, fear of discomfort. By listening to all kinds of social media, going from one quick thought to the next, many people can't even focus on one thing for ten minutes anymore. We're outsourcing responsibility. That's number five. You blame systems or people or the past while your daily choices drift. Wow. Listen, we can manage the decline or we can go for renewal. There's a line in the speech that jumped out to me. Rubio says, America has no interest in being polite or orderly take caretakers of the West manage decline. Again, put politics aside, what's the inner lesson? Manage decline is when you know it's wrong, but you keep it comfortable. Renewal is when you confront what's wrong and rebuild with humility and courage. I see this every day that I teach on the mat, which is most days actually. And last night we had a big epiphany as we're using our uh range walls. In other words, we have walls that we can move around and create a structure, like doorways, walls to go around, operating within boundaries, and then we have to deal with some type of situation. Maybe it's a verbal escalation, maybe it's a physical confrontation, maybe there's hands-on, maybe there's a firearm required because there's an active shooter or a threat of an active shooter. And so I see that a lot where people are willing to live in the truth of what their capabilities are, many times before you even prove to them that they don't know what they're doing, because they're so pliable. So many of my customers are just like real readily admitting, yeah, I really don't have a clue what to do. And so there's another group of customers that come in sometimes, especially positions of responsibility, leadership, where they don't want to admit that they're not sure what to do or don't know what to do, or actually are continually doing the wrong thing until you show them there's failure involved. And you put them through scenarios and clearly they fail, and now they're confronted with, wow, I didn't realize just how much I don't really know, and my perspective is off. And so, you know, not willing to train spiritually, mental emotion, physically is gonna leave you short. It's gonna leave you short for your family, for your jobs, it's gonna leave you short, first of all, in just who you are with your identity. And it's so important, man, to take those baby steps to start that process and just simply attempt to live in the truth. I know it's not easy to do many times in certain categories of living in the truth, but oftentimes we live well below the truth. We can do much better and do a lot more than we think we can. And then on the other side, oftentimes we we don't want to admit that we need help or we need to elevate up in our thinking and understanding in some things. We think, oh, I got this, man, no problem. And I see that in varying degrees in all All cultures, race, belief systems, genders, age, you know, it crosses all these thoughts cross all boundaries because you know why? We are all just human beings. We all bleed red and we all have struggle with similar problems, many times over wrappling uh wrapping, overlapping similarities. And you see it when you do anything new and you're struggling through that learning process. We have a lot of similarities, and we should embrace that. So let's take a kind of a three-step step reset. So, first of all, name it. Where am I declining? Spiritually, physically, relationally, financially. And then the second step, own it. What part is my responsibility? And then the third step is build it. What is one habit I will practice daily for 30 days? There's a famous book out there, 21 Days Makes a Habit. And you know, it's really important for us to put the right amount of time doing the right things for the right reasons and figure out how we can schedule that into our daily life. I know it's not easy. I've been doing this for 41 years, teaching and training. And oftentimes along the way, my my coworkers would be like, Man, how do you do that schedule? Coming to work 18 hours a day, you got a family, you're going and teaching or training. I mean, how do you keep up? You know, it starts with your habits, fundamentally having your spiritual life in the right order, getting training, getting mentoring, understand what your belief system means, have depth, how to explain why you believe what you believe. And then create a habit with your physical aspect, and that starts in the mind. Plan your food, plan the times you eat. How do I build a schedule where I can eat the same great food at the same times of the day? And it's harder for some people than others. You know, sometimes you have a schedule that fluctuates. Sometimes many of us have very disciplined schedules and we do certain things at certain times of the day. Those are much easier schedules to build your eating habits, your habit to, okay, now it's time to go back to work. Now it's time to take a break. Now it's time to go back to work. And you can cycle that throughout the day and you can start to put things in the right order much easier when you have a disciplined schedule. Whatever it takes to do that, you have to figure it out. It's important to figure it out because without your spiritual discipline, without your mental emotional discipline, you'll have no physical discipline. And so the physical act of going and doing and being and thinking and you know creating these habits that transform, they they keep giving back in so many ways. So many ways as you know, a son or daughter, as a mother or father or a friend, you know, in the workforce, in our culture, in traffic, you know, that stuff, all those deficiencies will come out, even especially when you're driving and stressed out in traffic, or stressed out by some type of crisis, or a medical condition hits you all of a sudden, or the loss of a loved one, or a change in your relationship status, man, all that plays big into how you're handling your everyday life. And listen, when there's a crisis and you haven't been preparing spiritually, mental emotionally, and physically, you are so much more susceptible to being impacted in a terrible, terrible way. I can remember when I was in my early 20s, I mean 21, and I got I had a relationship break, and you know, I was so devastated because as a young man, I put myself into a position where I was really more codependent, not even realizing it. Of course, I think I have it all, you know, going my way. And so when that broke, you know, I was devastated. And so it I got physically, my mind made me physically ill so much so that I had to go into the hospital and run all kinds of tests because I was having all kinds of symptoms that were manifesting through emotions. And after the third day of testing, I finally realized, I think the Lord was speaking to me, even though in those early years I wasn't following him. But I think I really felt that this real mental jolt that said, You are making yourself sick through the emotional thinking, what I call stinking thinking, you know, just but the emotions are real. And, you know, I made a decision and I just said, you know what? I'm done. I'm done thinking like that. I am finished with this type of thinking, and I'm gonna move on. And so I told I called my doctor and told him what was going on uh in my personal life that I believe was causing this. And he says, because he had told me we can find nothing wrong with you, you know. And so I told him that, and he goes, Well, no wonder, no wonder you're feeling this way, and you're feeling all these things, yeah, absolutely, your brain can dictate how your body feels. And so I got out, I moved past that, I started the discipline journey of working up physically first. I started training, getting healthy, eating better, getting more rest. That really opened my mind and cleared my mind in a way I could think better. And it's a big thing to have your food and your sleep so your mind can think more clearly and you can get perspective. And then I had some great coworkers I talked with, which was transformational. Having great people around you was such a such a critical thing. I had two Christian brothers that worked with me and I saw them role modeling good behavior. I had another uh guy that worked with me that mentored me on my job, and so they could see the struggle and they reached out and with just that brotherly love, man, that we have in a work community oftentimes. I was just very fortunate to be in the right place and have this brother Kevin and David and Don. And man, you know, what a change and benefit it is to be surrounded by those kind of good people. And then you actually work on becoming more like that, becoming a good person by getting your act together, spiritually, mental emotionally, physically, and financially, so that you can help others do the same thing and you can recognize those how the daily habits you do every day impact the world around you. So much so that for when you're put into positions like Marco Rubio was, that you can really transform lives. You can speak truth, you can do it humbly, very strong without being arrogant, and you're gonna receive the reception you have is what I'm saying. The reception you have from your words are gonna be much well more taken. They're gonna take them in and in a in a bigger way that can affect change, right? Because, you know, the words that we speak, oftentimes people are taking them in when you don't even realize what an impact you're making in their life just yet. Down the line, if you're around them enough and they have an openness to it, both their words and your words will impact you with each other. And that's why you have to be careful with your boundaries, relational boundaries. You have to have relationship intelligence and create the boundaries that are built from having a strong identity and who you are and what you believe and what you stand for. And they come out of habits. They come out of habits of putting good information in, good spiritual information in, good intelligence, uh, from everything from reading great books to experiencing life yourself, and you have stories to tell. You have other people that tell stories uh that of their experiences, and having that shared relationship is so rich that it can help you to live a long, happy life, or it can greatly reduce your quality of life as well as your length of life. So it's important to recognize these things and live in the truth so that you too can elevate all that's around you, the way you live, the discipline you either do or don't have is gonna impact your generations. So in this next segment, uh Rubio gets questions about Ukraine, negotiations with Ukraine and China, and we're gonna apply that to how to negotiate conflict in your own life without surrendering your convictions. Powerful, powerful stuff. So stay with us, don't go away, we'll be right back with more of Living Inside Out.
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SPEAKER_03Welcome
Negotiating Conflict Without Surrender
SPEAKER_03back to Living Inside Out Radio. I'm your host, John Peake, and we are going to continue our discussion on the geopolitics and how we can take a microscopic look on just the individual, even down to our home. So we're going to talk about Ukraine and China negotiations and even the Iran negotiations. We're going to apply that to how to negotiate conflict in our own life without surrendering your convictions. So we're going to talk about diplomacy, ending wars without losing your soul. The goal around us using Rubio's QA on the Ukraine and China to teach negotiation boundaries and peacemaking without being naive. You know, this is where Munich becomes a mirror for your own home. We're referring to the Munich Security Conference that's been going on since the 60s. So with Ukraine, a negotiated settlement, just and sustainable. So during this QA with Rubio, the moder the moderator raises the fear that Russia is playing for time, same thing Iran's doing, and not serious about compromise. Rubio's answer, he says the issues have been narrowed to the hardest questions, and the U.S. will keep walking toward ending the war in Ukraine. He says a negotiated settlement is desirable if it's just and sustainable. Now, the Living Inside Out translation is peace without justice is just a pause before the next blow. Peace without sustainability is a deal you'll definitely regret. In your marriage and your business and your family conflicts, don't accept a settlement that requires you to lie, abandon truth, or reward destructive behavior. Now, this happens all the time in probably every single person you know or and have known. And perhaps you've too have had to create such strong boundaries. You're living in the truth of what's going on, this relationship between you, and you refuse to allow that to be a detrimental effect to you. Maybe somebody's protected themselves from you. Maybe you're protecting yourself from others. And maybe there's a little bit of both that going that on going on, and who's living in the truth and who's living with delusion? And I think that's a very good question to ask because the first place we should all look is in the mirror. What am I doing to foster the conflict or the resolution of this conflict? Have I done something I need to apologize for? Or is somebody just being a victim and creating drama and creating more of than what there was there and taking things out of context for their own selfish desires so they can live with themselves and blaming everything on somebody else or some circumstance, anything but taking responsibility for their own actions. So, you know, these are destructive, this is a very destructive behavior, and it can be detrimental to everybody uh in your life because these kind of trickle-down effects take place when we allow ourselves to be abused, when we're not living in the truth of our own actions, when we allow things to fester up and we're not dealing with them honestly. You know, there's a personal diplomacy framework, you know, how to negotiate like a disciple, for example. So we have to be wise, not naive. Some people negotiate in good faith, others negotiate for leverage, especially a narcissist, especially people that look at themselves as always being a victim. It's always about their desires. They can't take themselves out of their own perspective to see the truth and generously actually listen. They're constantly thinking about what they're gonna say and not even listening to the other side. And so that's not negotiating. So we have to define just and sustainable for your each situation, right? What does repentance look like? What does accountability look like? And what does safety look like? We can hold boundaries without hatred, and we can allow others to hold boundaries without hatred, even if those boundaries are unjust and coming from a place of they're living in a lie, but they want that boundary. Hey, respect that boundary. Pray for them, reach out to them when it's you're able, even if you don't hear a response. Sometimes planting that seed of, you know what, I'm not gonna treat you bad, even though you're treating me bad. There's a scripture in the Bible that talks about it's like putting hot coals on somebody's head when you treat them nice, even though they're treating you poorly. And that's a weird thing to come to grips for that terminology, that parable, that that analogy. And so what it really means is you're causing confusion. They don't understand how you can act nice when they're not being nice. And so the boundary may be so you don't manifest, you know, more drama, more conflict, and it could lead you to feel hatred for them. So hold boundaries without hatred. You can be calm and firm at the same time. Keep your conscience clean. Don't win the argument and lose your own soul. So I'm sure you've heard that you know you don't want to win the battle and lose the war. And so that's really there's always a battle going on in our mind. There's a spiritual battle going on all around us. There's a battle for nations and states, there's a battle for city municipalities, there's a battle in your home oftentimes. And so you have to stand in the truth and be able to see things for what they are, but also have the strong boundaries without hatred, keep your conscience clean, understanding that it's okay to win an argument, but don't lose your soul in the process. You know, as far as China, there's a geopolitical malpractice that's to not talk about it, to not deal with it. When Rubio gets asked a question about China and in the interaction between the leaders, you know, Trump and China's leaders in the summit, he says it would be geopolitical malpractice not to talk. But he also says national interests often won't align, and diplomacy is negotiating conflict of interests peacefully when it's possible. So, you know, when you're talking to somebody, communicating with somebody that you have a conflict with, to communicate is not in and of itself compromise. Talking is not surrender, but agreement must not come at the expense of your core interests, your in other words, your values, truth, and the safety of those you're responsible for. I've had complex conflict running uh my Defenfit business tree. I like to think of it as a business tree. It's part business, part ministry, but it's always about in character, integrity, making the right decision for the bigger picture, not just my interests, but the interests of people on the mat. So I've had to ask people to leave that were unsafe or compromising integrity, you know, people being inappropriate uh with their behavior, and uh, you know, you can't redirect them. So the boundaries have to be so strong that they can't even come here anymore. Sometimes I've offered private training for them, sometimes I've altered offered uh other solutions, but most of the time those people aren't willing to work it out. So you you can't have any negotiated diplomacy with somebody that refuses to make a a change or even engage in the conversation.
Train Spirit Mind Body Then Close
SPEAKER_03So there's three takeaways from the Munich Security Conference. Complacency is expensive. In other words, the bill always arrives. Think about the bill of all the illegal immigration that came into the United States, into Germany, into Italy, into France, in the UK, in Ireland. There's I mean, Sweden, I mean, there's conflict all over the world because of unsecured borders and this woke left-leaning mentality that we have to let everybody into our country. No, we don't. I don't leave my door open at night for anybody to just come in my house. I don't even leave it unlocked. And I will secure my doors with use of force if necessary if somebody were to enter my home illegally, unwelcomed. You know, renewal is a choice. You build from the inside out. The third takeaway is peace must be just and sustainable. Don't call it peace if it plants seeds for the next war. It's so important for us to wrap our head around these dynamics. And oftentimes when we train spiritually, we start getting all kinds of wisdom and discernment that we wouldn't have had otherwise. In other words, reading the Word of God, reading a chapter a day of Proverbs, writing down some of the scriptures that spoke to you. Memorize those scriptures so you have them as a reference constantly playing in your mind throughout the day as you memorize it, because when you need it most, if it's not memorized, if you don't have spiritual tools memorized, they they won't come to you in a time of crisis. The mind's not capable of going after things that aren't securely into our mental state under pressure, they will fall apart. So training spiritually, learning the word of God, memorizing the word of God, applying it often, speaking to the Lord often during the day as you go about your day, listening to worship music, praising God, giving thanks for all the things you have to be thankful for. Even in the tough times, make a list of the things you'll thank for, and you'll be surprised at how it changes your perspective during that crisis. When you're treated poorly, think of all the things that have happened where you haven't treat been treated poorly, or perhaps where you've treated somebody poorly. Right? It really helps you to change your perspective and give forgiveness. That doesn't mean you forget, but you can certainly give forgiveness and then move forward not in a naive way, but with good boundaries. Think of training mentally emotionally so that you're prepared when tough times come. You don't really know where you're at until somebody treats you with disrespect and then you see how you react. Do you react with control? Maybe grace and mercy, maybe a strong boundary in a way that doesn't make them the bad guy during the situation, but changes the tone, establishes your boundaries for respect. Sometimes you have to speak more clearly and pointedly. Sometimes you have to raise your voice, sometimes you have to get people's attention that says that, hey, this is unacceptable behavior. Sometimes you do have to uh be so prepared mentally and emotionally that you're willing to sacrifice that relationship because you're not willing to be abused mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or physically. It's important to have these goals, these uh mental focus and understanding and clarity about what it is that you'll accept in one step and how you train for that with a spirit, mind, and body approach. You know, physically is another area that strengthens you your mental capacity and uh oftentimes gives you a spiritual perspective because you see your vulnerability. You see that you know, life is precious, man. And you it could end any day for any of us. But the most dangerous place we put ourselves every day is in traffic in our cars. Going places opens up dangerous situations potentially. Makes us more vulnerable. Large crowds. I mean, you can't even go to the grocery store without large crowds a lot of times. And certainly restaurants and movie theaters, churches. Uh, we're under attack on all fronts. In the conflict with Iran, they say there's over 17,000 possible terrorists in our country due to our open borders that could manifest if we had hold the line against Iran's nuclear ambitions, against their long range missiles, and against their feeding proxies that create terrorism all over the world. So our physical ability to protect ourselves is necessary. Our ability to use our body and hand to hand combat, improvised weapons, pepper spray, knives, firearms. sticks. So it's so important that uh you train in all these areas and we can help you at Defend Fit. We can help you train physically, get you mental understanding of what we're doing and why we're doing them. Have you understand, you know, the levels of force that are appropriate for different situations and how to control your mind. Put you under gradual increasing stress physically and then intellectually as well so you can manifest neutralizing threats and um possibly changing the outcome of a situation not just for you but for the general public and maybe for your family maybe for complete strangers. Not that you know we need to have a hero complex but certainly we would like to make sure that we can protect our way of life and our you know the the life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that our Constitution gives us and the people have died for these rights. So don't forget to support the things you believe in, train in them, establish your identity strong, support Patriot Talk Radio 920 a m. Look us up on Spotify and Apple Podcasts with Living Inside Out with John Peake. Support the show pass it around if you enjoyed it we're looking for sponsors as well we need advertisers. We want to support the show to sit down the radio and can keep bringing you good content. Come train with us at DefendFit look us up on the on the net or in Webster Texas 17317 El Caminho Real you can reach me at 7132525836. Come train up level up God bless and have a great day let us lead us out with a prayer. Father give us clarity where we've drifted courage where we've feared and discipline where we've been passive restore what's been neglected. Teach us to pursue peace with wisdom and to rebuild our homes with truth.
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