Though He Fall | Scott Mitchell

What happens when the prayer you prayed in desperation becomes the moment God answers — in a way you never expected?

“Though He Fall”   Scott Mitchell  has a journey through surrender, loss, and a ministry he did not see coming. Find out how an evening out with friends lead to a fall, paralysis, and a ministry that no one could have designed but God!

Pastor Scott Mitchell was a Bible college student who had surrendered to the call of ministry, only to find himself sliding into backsliding, ego, and spiritual emptiness. In a desperate midnight prayer, he laid everything on the altar — even his legs. Three nights later, he fell off a cliff in the dark mountains of Tennessee, broke his spine, and woke up paralyzed from the chest down.

But instead of despair, Scott found joy.

In this powerful episode of the More Than Conquerors podcast, host Lou Lepore sits down with Pastor Scott Mitchell — author, church planter, keynote speaker, and 45-year veteran of life in a wheelchair — to talk about calling, rebellion, brokenness, restoration, and the relentless faithfulness of God. Scott's story will challenge you to stop running from your breaking point and trust the One who orders every step.

In this episode:

• How a Christian upbringing planted seeds that never fully died
• The three goals Scott had in Bible college (one of them wasn't God)
• The prayer that cost him everything — and gave him more than he could imagine
• What a doctor's blunt "no" taught him about acceptance and grace
• How God used a wheelchair to open doors to MLB teams, NFL franchises, and churches across the country
• Why not all dreams die — and what to do when yours does

"Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand." — Psalm 37:24

Connect with Pastor Scott Mitchell:

• Website & Blog: pasturescott.org
• Email: pasturescottgmail.com
• Book — Though He Fall: Available on Amazon

Connect with Lou Lepore & More Than Conquerors:

• Email: morethanconquerorspodcast837@gmail.com 
• Website: https://morethanconquerorspodcast.buzzsprout.com

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Lou Lepore: Welcome back to the More Than Conquerors podcast, where today's test is tomorrow's testimony. I'm your host, Lou Lepore, and today we're honored to have Pastor Scott Mitchell with us. Scott is the author of Though He Fall, available on Amazon. His story is one of calling, rebellion, brokenness, restoration, and the incredible faithfulness of our God.
Lou Lepore: Scott has spent several decades serving in ministry, planting churches, discipling young men, traveling as a keynote speaker to various conferences, and sharing the hope of Christ through circumstances that would have crushed many people. Pastor Scott is a resident of Clearwater, Florida, with his wife, Sandy.
Lou Lepore: And Pastor Scott, thank you so much for joining us today.
Scott Mitchell: Oh, Lou, thank you. What an honor it is to be here. I'm looking forward to this conversation.
Lou Lepore: As I am as well. I wanna get this out of the way. Rumor has it that we are on the phone here; I'm in the Philadelphia area as a Phillies fan; they told me you're a Braves fan.
Scott Mitchell: Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm not a bandwagon fan. I've been, I've been a fan of theirs through all the lows and the highs. Fortunately, this year is okay, but your Phillies are coming on strong. But yes, I, I'm guilty. I'm an Atlanta Braves fan.
Lou Lepore: Being in Clearwater, Florida, of course that's where the Phillies train in the spring. Mm-hmm. So you get a chance to see our Phillies perhaps even more than I do. Yeah. But we will put aside the NL East Division. Please. And we will focus on the Lord Jesus Christ today. Amen. And again, thank you for being here. So you and Sandy been married for how long?
Scott Mitchell: August 20th will be 43 years. Ooh. And, uh, it's such a beautiful thing to imagine how, how long this beautiful lady's been married to me. I definitely married up, brother.
Lou Lepore: Understood. I, as I did as well. It is, it works out good for us that way, doesn't it?
Scott Mitchell: Yes, it does.
Lou Lepore: Yes, sir. One of the things God gave you that you shared with me earlier was a beautiful Christian home that you were able to grow up in. "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it," Proverbs 22:6. And that's exactly what you had. Why don't you share that with us?
Scott Mitchell: Thank you. It's an excellent place to start with my story. I, I'm so grateful that God put me in a home with a mother and a father who, that home, Christ was the center of everything. Christ was very real to both my mom and dad. We were at church many times through the week; Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night. Part of the bus ministry. My dad sang in the choir. You know, I can still remember coming down in the mornings and seeing my dad with his head bowed over the breakfast table with a Bible open. This was built into my DNA, a love for the Word of God, for prayer, and for making Jesus the center of everything.
Scott Mitchell: And God also gave me two wonderful sisters. Mom and dad are both with Jesus now, but, uh, my two sisters are older than me, Susan and Karen. They're probably two of the finest Christians I've ever known. What a home to grow up into as the baby of the family, to have all of this spiritual emphasis placed there that I could grow into it.
Lou Lepore: Amen. Well, I know that forgiveness must be practiced in your home because for you to share that your siblings are some of the finest Christians that you know, I know how I treated my siblings as the younger brother, and I can say that it was a little short of Jesus. But moving through your Christian home, and that is where you felt a calling into ministry start to develop. What happened there?
Scott Mitchell: There was something on a Sunday morning leaving church, I just felt like something was missing. I was 13 years old. Growing up in the church, I was happy to be a part of the church atmosphere, but when I was 13, it hit me that, do I really know Jesus? And so, uh, long story short, I brought it up at the dinner table and asked my dad if he would pray with me and get the matter settled.
Scott Mitchell: And we knelt at a couch in our, uh, family room, and my dad was beside me kneeling. I just knew I was lost and I needed Jesus, even though I'd been in church all those years. I got to pray with my dad and ask Jesus into my life, and, uh, it changed everything. And about a year or so later, I wasn't quite 15, I felt the call that the Lord didn't just wanna save me, He wanted to use me, and He called me into preaching ministry.
Scott Mitchell: Hmm. And I surrendered to that. Yeah, through my high school years, it was all prep work for that goal in mind to be a preacher someday. I assumed I wanted to be a youth evangelist or something. I had never registered to be a pastor, but I just knew I wanted to preach. And, uh, the Lord sent me to a, a Bible college, the former Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, and, uh, that's where I really learned to hone the craft of preaching.
Lou Lepore: Well, that's amazing story and God's faithfulness in your life and wanting to be used. You shared at Tennessee Temple University that you found yourself not necessarily sliding away from Jesus, but maybe a little bit lukewarm, just kinda going through the motions. I would think, and many of our listeners might think, that once you surrender for ministry, all of a sudden you are like this holy roller and nothing but good times ahead of you. Yeah. What happened while you were in college?
Scott Mitchell: You would think that would be the case, Lou. But I... And I'll be honest with you, I started off well. Reminds me of the verse in Galatians, "You started off well. What got you off track?" But, uh, you know, one of the easiest places to backslide is in Bible college.
Scott Mitchell: Lou, I had three goals when I went away to college. The first goal was I, I wanted to be a preacher. I wanted to study the Word of God. I wanted to learn how to preach and communicate the Word. But the other one was I wanted to date all the pretty girls on campus. The third goal was to be the student body president.
Scott Mitchell: So I hit the ground running as a freshman in college, and I mean, I literally was campaigning. I wanted to learn everybody's name because I was just like, "I need your vote to be student body president someday."
Lou Lepore: Hmm.
Scott Mitchell: And so that was my whole thing. It wasn't to study. But I, I didn't wanna make a 4.0. I just wanted to be popular. And of course, that fed into my ego, and that fed into the flesh. And I just started letting things slide. I stopped reading the Word of God, I stopped praying, and I was really sliding. Yeah, I, I would say that it was full-on, uh, backsliddeness, Lou. I, I don't wanna mince those words. It's a dark part of my story, but it does have a much better ending, and we don't have to leave it there, praise God.
Lou Lepore: Understood. Well, Psalm 51:17 tells us that, "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart." There was a night when you prayed a life-changing prayer to get back on track. Tell us about it.
Scott Mitchell: Yes. As much as I don't wanna focus on any part of the dark chapter of my story, this is the part that I just wanna quickly move into. There's so much to share around it, but I was miserable. There's pleasure in sin for a season, but only for a season. It backfires. It always, always, always backfires, especially when you're a child of God. You can't live in sin and enjoy it. So the Lord just started meeting me and convicting me and breaking me and, and I felt so ashamed.
Scott Mitchell: I didn't wanna live that way anymore. I, I started praying, "Get me off of this rollercoaster I'm on, this ride I don't wanna be a part of. Whatever you've gotta do, please break me. Just break me. I'm miserable. I've made a sham of my testimony. I'm ashamed of it all. Please, if you can still find it in your heart to use me, please, Lord, whatever it takes."
Scott Mitchell: And there was one night, it was a Tuesday night, September 29th, 1981, and I was in my dorm room on the third floor of Phillips Dorm on the campus, and my roommates were asleep, and I was just down on my face in the carpet, and I was crying out to Jesus, and I was making my life a burnt offering unto the Lord.
Scott Mitchell: I said, "Lord, I give it all up. I give up everything. Whatever You have to do to break me and make me the man you desire me to be. I'll pay the price. And Lou, I specifically said, "If you want me to be in an accident and lose the use of my legs for the rest of my life, I'm laying my legs on the altar." Mm. And I wiped the tears from my eyes and the snot from my nose, and I stood up.
Scott Mitchell: And I gotta tell you, there is a time when you really pray and your heart and soul are in that prayer and you feel God hears. Well, that night I believe God heard me, and I never had to pray those exact words again. God heard me that night in my dormitory.
Lou Lepore: You say God heard you. Yes, he did. And it would just so happen that a few nights later you got your answer. Mm-hmm. Would you share with us what happened that evening?
Scott Mitchell: Three nights later, October 2nd, 1981, Friday night, on an outing with some friends from college. And we were all in that upper-class mode, starting to take matters serious about life. "Hey, we're getting ready to graduate. What's beyond this?" And so we weren't up there in the mountains north of Chattanooga for any tomfoolery or anything like that.
Scott Mitchell: It was a time of great and sweet fellowship. The atmosphere was charged. There was something that was just different about this night altogether. And in the hours that we were there, it started getting very late, and it was dark. And some of us were just kind of hiking along some trails, and we didn't have any flashlights.
Scott Mitchell: I can't paint the picture of darkness enough. I'm in a group of about six at this time, and I'm running point, just proud of myself 'cause somehow I've kept us on some semblance of a trail. But then I lost the trail. And I turned to the people behind me and I said, "I don't know where to go." And I kinda held my hand up in front of my face, probably about six, eight inches away.
Scott Mitchell: And this is the last thing I remember saying, "I can't see my hand." Well, within moments of that, I took a drop off the edge of a cliff, about a 20-foot drop. I landed on my back on a rock, and I mean, my spine broke, many other bones in my body broke, one lung was punctured, and I was probably out for about 15 minutes because my friends knew something happened to me, and they were listening very carefully.
Scott Mitchell: "Where's Scott?" We-- They're reaching out into emptiness. No flashlights, remember. And then they started hearing some rustling and then moaning, and they judged the distance. They could actually hear me writhing down there in the, in the leaves of autumn. But before they could get to me, I was in and out of consciousness, but one of the moments of consciousness, Lou, I'm realizing that I'm laying on the ground.
Scott Mitchell: I'm very confused at first, and I try to raise my body and nothing moved. It was like I was completely pinned to the ground. My eyes were raised skyward, and there was just a dazzling of, of just enough moonlight coming through, and it's like everything came together in a moment. I'm injured. I'm badly injured.
Scott Mitchell: I don't know how serious it is, but I can't get up. My legs won't work. What is going on? And then in that moment, I remembered praying three nights earlier, "Lord, you can have my legs if that's the price I need to pay to be your man." Wow. And I just, I kid you not, I was chomping on a piece of gum, and I remember smiling and thanking the Lord for hearing me.
Scott Mitchell: And I said, on the bottom of that cliff, broken, I didn't know if I was gonna live or what, but I said, "Lord, you heard me, and it's gonna be different from here on in." Oh, the joy that flooded my soul. In those moments to know that God was with me in the bottom of that cliff.
Lou Lepore: Brother Scott, I don't mean to chuckle, but not being able to move at the bottom of the cliff in, in immense amount of pain, I think Isaiah 55:8 where he says, "My thoughts are not your thoughts and my ways are not your ways," sayeth the Lord. Mm-hmm. That is definitely not my thoughts or my ways. Um, filled with joy? I think I'd be filled with pain and question and somebody help. The reality of the situation was that you received the peace that passes all understanding, and it sounds like you were completely aligned with God in the trial early on, and so we're having the conversation here today, so obviously this wasn't a life or death situation. There may have been some uh, things to pay attention to, for sure. But you did make it out, so you got eventually to the hospital. What was the reality of your injury?
Scott Mitchell: Well, I was in a couple of hospitals that night, but the one I wound up in where I was diagnosed was in, uh, Chattanooga and, uh, at Erlanger Hospital. The doctor there diagnosed the whole situation, and, um, he, you know, he said, "He's permanently paralyzed, and I don't know if he's gonna make it through the night. If I can get him to Dr. Herndon-Murray in Atlanta..." Now, this is in Chattanooga, a two-hour drive. He said, "If we can get him there, then he has a, a good shot at making it, but he is permanently paralyzed. More than likely, he'll never walk again." But, um, that was the diagnosis, and praise God, I was taken in an, in an ambulance. I made it to Atlanta, and, uh, I came face to face with a doctor named Herndon Murray, and he's the guy that took my case and, uh, started the work of putting me back together again.
Lou Lepore: You had an interesting conversation. You asked him flat out, "Will I ever walk again?" And maybe not the best bedside manner, but he looked at you in the face and said, "No." And you said it may have been heartless, but it was exactly what you needed to hear. Why was that?
Scott Mitchell: I needed that wake-up call. Remember, I'm just 21 years old, so I've got a lot of maturing to do, and this is new to me, this, this injury. Sure. But I had assumed that, okay, the Lord, you took my legs. All right. I proved to you I was serious. You know, a few days go by. I'm not able to wiggle a toe. I'm not able to scratch an itch. Um, there's, there's no feeling. It's just all dead zone from chest down. And so I said, "Okay, Lord, anytime you're ready to heal me I'm good with it.
Scott Mitchell: I've gone a week without use of my legs. I think I've proved to you enough that my prayer was serious, and you got me. I'm yours. And then another few days went by, and, uh, on his rounds, Dr. Murray was kind of like, if there's no news to report, he would kinda come in on his, his penny loafers in the room and, and say, "Hey, you doing okay? Um, you know, no change?" And then he would just turn on his heels and go out. But there was one day I said, "I'm gonna catch him before he wheels around and leaves this room, and I'm gonna ask him point blank." And I did. And his response to me was so clear-cut. "No, Scott, there are different kinds of paralysis.
Scott Mitchell: You have a complete injured paraplegic, meaning you have zero sensation, and you will never walk again." That was difficult for my young twenty-one-year-old ears to hear, but it really was used by God to guide me into the life I've now known for, well, it'll be forty-five years in October, um, just to accept this as my new normal. This is who I am. This is what I have to battle. And, and I, I'm wired this way. If you give me the information, I can do something with that. But if there's a question, then I'm gonna wonder, and that's true of all of us. But if you tell me that this is the case, this is all the information, then I got it, and I can make adjustments.
Scott Mitchell: And this whole life of disability has just been making adjustments. The easiest thing to cope with is not being able to walk. It's all the other things that go with it, the constant need for adjusting. But, uh, the Lord was gracious, and, and I'm thankful that, uh, Dr. Murray told me that definitive no that day.
Lou Lepore: 2 Corinthians 12:9 says, "My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness." So you're right, God did give grace. He does to all of us. But how did he continue to use you as not only finishing college, but then calling into ministry?
Scott Mitchell: Well, being in college, a lot of the friends, uh, that were on campus, their dad was a pastor or they're from these churches all over the country, and they, they would just write home or call home and just say, "Hey, Dad," or, uh, "Talk to our pastor. We need to have this guy come to our church and share his story. It's incredible. The, the whole campus is abuzz with what God has done in Scott's life. It's like this campus wide revival is breaking out, and it's all because of what God has done through this young man. And, and we know him and he's just a regular guy, but he's got a story to tell."
Scott Mitchell: So I'd go to classes all through the week, but then I was always somewhere preaching and speaking and sharing my story on weekends. And, and then that just led, after graduation, to some of these pastors saying, "Okay, you came and gave us your story. Can you put together some sermons and, uh, preach a revival for us?" And, and then that led to many other open doors of a lot of youth events and retreats, and then, uh, professional athletes. I had opportunities to share with, uh, many Major League Baseball teams and a couple of football teams in the NFL. And I've never lacked for opportunities to share my story. Case in point, here with you on your wonderful podcast.
Lou Lepore: Well, amen. It sounds like God had a plan all along, which we know he always does. And I found it interesting, Psalm 37:23-24 are your life verses. Would you share those verses and then explain to us why they're so important?
Scott Mitchell: This is one of my absolute favorite parts of my testimony. The Lord's Word, it's so real and living. And Psalm 37:23-24 reads, "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand." Those verses describe my life now to a T. I have fallen, but I've never, ever, ever been abandoned. Every step of the way, the Lord has rescued me. You know, the, the many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all, the Word of God says.
Lou Lepore: Amen.
Scott Mitchell: And so this text, and I even uh, the title of the book I wrote, Though He Fall, comes directly lifted from that verse. It's so real to me. I'm reminded of it every day of my life because I quote that verse as a promise with the Lord. Thank you, Lord. You've never abandoned me. You've always held onto me. I've stumbled, but I've never completely fallen to the point where I'm out of reach of you. Praise the Lord.
Lou Lepore: One of those steps that God ordered for you was to be a senior pastor in Atlanta. You planted a church, is that correct?
Scott Mitchell: Absolutely, yeah. I, uh, traveled after graduation. My wife and I did a lot of traveling for about 10 years, but the, the nature of that ministry, though wonderful, and I wouldn't trade it for anything, it was like you never could be with one group of people over a long stretch of time and watch the Word of God develop in their hearts. And so I just started getting this burden to, uh, to start a church. I didn't know it was gonna be the Atlanta area. I felt like we were gonna be in Portland, Oregon for whatever reason that was. But in a conversation with a pastor friend, he said, "Scott, you know, if I was gonna start a church, I would start it right here in Atlanta, right here in your backyard."
Scott Mitchell: And the Lord used his counsel to really speak to my heart, and so in 1992 we launched out with a core group of people and started the West Metro Bible Church west of Atlanta, and then that church eventually merged in with a Baptist church in the community. We formed the New River Community Church there. And, uh, so for 17 years, the Lord used me as a disabled man pastoring the flock. And I remember in 2009 when it was time for me to step aside and hand the reins over to a friend of mine, I gave my last sermon, and I said, "You know, 17 years ago, I came here to set the woods on fire and change Douglasville.
Scott Mitchell: 17 years later, I sit before you and I can honestly say these 17 years have changed me," and I think that was God's process all along.
Lou Lepore: Brother, I gotta be honest, I'm sitting here a little convicted. You know, with godliness plus contentment is great gain, and that is a lesson that God has to teach me over and over and over again. Yeah. And your story just exudes that, and I appreciate you giving me encouragement, and I appreciate that iron sharpens iron. That brings me to the verse Galatians 6:9, "Let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not." And that's exactly what you and your wife were doing as you are senior pastor and senior pastor's wife of that church in Atlanta. Mm-hmm. But what do you want people to know about handling God's calling when it gets hard?
Scott Mitchell: I've answered this question phrased in different ways many times through the years, and I, I can say three things that just pop off on the top of my head. First off, in my weakness, He is strong. And, and at the end of the day, that's what I want more than anything. I, I don't want people to look and say, "Wow, look at Scott. Wow, what a story. But listen to his delivery." None of that. I want Christ to be magnified, and He is magnified in our weakness. I understand what Paul meant when he said in 2 Corinthians 12, "I boast in my weakness." I boast in it, and I am, because in my weakness, Christ is strong.
Scott Mitchell: Christ is magnified. The second thing I would say is that God is unbelievably faithful. He is so faithful, and we have a promise from Psalms chapter 34. "The Lord is near to the brokenhearted. He saves those who are crushed in spirit." Oh, I wanna be near Jesus, and if it takes my brokenness and my weakness to experience that, I'm good with that. Paul said in Philippians 3:10, "That I may know Him in His power, but also in the fellowship of His sufferings." And so, you know, in my weakness, He is strong. God is unbelievably near and faithful to those who are hurting. And the third thing I would say would be it's all worth it, every bit of it. God doesn't waste any of it.
Scott Mitchell: It's all for His glory. I'm a veteran of disability and brokenness. There's many more things in my story than just this wheelchair, and I can tell you with all sincerity and honesty of heart, knowing that God hears me say these words, "Lou, it's not easy. It doesn't make me do cartwheels some days." But it's worth it.
Lou Lepore: Amen. Well, as you had mentioned, there are challenges along the way. I would imagine, brother, that there were parts of maybe some dreams that you and your wife had that died along the way for various reasons. Sure. But what do you want our listeners to know about watching your dreams die?
Scott Mitchell: Well, you know, Sandy and I together had the biggest dream of having children. I'm not able to have children because of my disability, so the Lord allowed us the pleasure and joy and honor of adopting a, a one-day-old little boy that we named Graham, and we had him for 24 years. Unfortunately, it was a tragic death, and so Sandy's and my dream of having children and then grandchildren and all of that is gone.
Scott Mitchell: The Lord has reminded us again and again that He has given us children. You could never replace your own child, of course, but He's brought us a multitude of spiritual kids. Between Sandy and me, we probably have 15 to 20 or more kids that call us, check on us, that we've invested into. These are people who have come to us for spiritual direction and encouragement. Some of them have named their children after us. Uh, I know of one case where someone has named their son Graham Scott. We've had that kind of an impact on many young people that we call our kids. But I, I guess I would want your listeners to know that, yeah, our dreams die, doors close. These things happen.
Scott Mitchell: We're crushed. We grieve. But hear these words, not all dreams die because we failed. I would have them hear, you know, not all dreams die, or our dreams aren't dying because God failed, but sometimes dreams have to die because they were the wrong dreams. You know, I desire my life to go this way or that way. If I just did this or so and so or made this much money, I'll be happy. Those are the wrong dreams. But then sometimes dreams look like they die, but they're really transitioning into another dream. Elizabeth Elliott lost her beloved husband, Jim Elliott, in Ecuador as a martyr, and she wondered, "Should I carry on the ministry or should I go back to the States?"
Scott Mitchell: And there was a verse of scripture that she just heard the Lord say in Isaiah 49:4, "I have labored in vain. I've spent my strength for nothing and futility." That sounds like dreams that have died. "Yet my vindication is with the Lord, and my reward is with my God." I'm telling you, things may not turn out like you planned or hoped or dreamed, but God is turning those dreams, even those broken dreams. He's taking all those tears you've cried. He says it in His Word. He's very much aware of the tears that we cry. He keeps them in a bottle of remembrance. We serve a God who transforms the worst things into things that bring Him glory. And in that scripture, again, it's just a strong reminder that my vindication is with the Lord, and my reward is with my God.
Scott Mitchell: That's the best dream of all. The day is coming when we will be able to see Jesus face to face and spend eternity feasting with him and enjoying him forever.
Lou Lepore: That's right. If we have Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we will see him face to face, and he promises to wipe every tear from our eye. Would you share with our listeners one more time where they can get your book, and also, would you share your email?
Scott Mitchell: Absolutely. Well, the book is called Though He Fall, and, uh, it can be found on the Amazon website. My name, of course, is Scott Mitchell, Though He Fall. And I do have a website. You can read my blog. I write, not frequently, but somewhat regularly, pasturescott.org. And I better spell that because it's not Pastor Scott, it's Pasture Scott, P-A-S-T-U-R-E dot O-R-G. That's the website. And my email is pasturescott, same word, P-A-S-T-U-R-E-S-C-O-T-T @gmail.com. And I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to pray for you or hear your story.
Lou Lepore: Pastor Scott, we appreciate you so much being on the podcast. Amen. Thankful to know you, brother. Likewise. Thankful to have the encouragement that you provided today, and we look forward to catching up with you soon.
Scott Mitchell: This has been another episode of the More Than Conquerors podcast, where today's test is tomorrow's testimony. I'm your host, Lou Lepore, and we'll catch you next time. God bless.