Kingdom Pursuits - Boot Camp & Bibles

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This is the Truth Network kingdom pursuits here from ordinary people instilled with an extraordinary passion together we explore the stories of men and women who take what they love and let God turn their passion into the kingdom pursuits now live from the truth.

Your host Robbie Gilmore how funds today on kingdom pursuits.

I have guests that are in poster children take your patch and use it to build the kingdom so excited to have with me really to folks have been with me many times that we got there and coming. He's been more than with Mayor many times we've we've done live together for a while. 11 years you have that memory is better than mine but is with the messenger and a radio show, which I'm sure you've heard many times and we got this boot camp coming up July 16 through the 19th and were hoping that with our time here today, we can entice you to go on adventure that will literally if the sum is a Robbie what kind of adventure would you send Jan that would change my life radically. If you've not been to one. And even if you bend one because I never know until they were the same that would radically change your life in your walk with God in a good way in a way that would you know just really make you do well yeah the key thing about this is number one were not a bunch of guys who came up with a really cool program and want you to come listen to this program that we've created. Number one, number two, this has changed the lives of more men thin and women and children than anything I've ever known of in the kingdom and I was a full-time minister for the better part of 20 years.

This changed my walk with God. All of my relationships are better way better, deeper, more intimate. My relationship with Jesus being the first of those relationships.

That's way deeper and way better, more intimate conversational.

If you listen to Robbie very often you know that Robbie has a conversational intimacy with God.

He talks to God and God talks to him pretty regularly and we developed that help people develop that at these boot camps but just think about this.

What is it that's not been working for you in your life and it doesn't really matter what it is but whatever it is that's where we kinda start and and that's the cool thing about a boot camp is it's extremely individual in nature. Whatever you're working on whatever you're trying to get healing from freedom from or go deeper in whatever your going through with Jesus right now. That's where a boot camp starts and takes you from there into a much deeper, more intimate conversation with God. And speaking of freedom.

My next guest is Kathleen score with CLI present alliance we've had her on here a few times. This is they've got a lot going on with their ministry, but essentially CLI present alliance is a prison ministry making disciples behind bars could have you back. Kathleen and the thing I I I got from your previous visits. I know our are listeners would like to hear more as the phenomenal freedom that's available. As these inmates begin to study the word and have these resources that shall provide their behind bars. You all are talking about God really really are able to cry a lot a lot of time.

Thank the Lord that were incarcerated for a ball, growling proper so many of us are in prisons. We have we have no idea, but since it's kingdom pursuits. We have to do a little right speaking of prison is not complete this speaking are present in and Kathleen.

How did Mr. nuclear's escape from prick venture one about that, yourself. You got it. He came through the cell wall analogy and you may not know this but it's because prison walls were never built to scale an idea. I do have a very dear friend is been in trade for 13 years and he will tell you that his favorite punctuation mark is it.

You know I heart that marks the end of the sentence and this one never got to the CLI table for resources consist was a short fortuneteller who escaped from prison. She was in fact small, medium and large planning care so last but not least because I just thought I can't print this for myself the end of this list is really I find as you for a chocoholic right Mars Milky Way Snickers Hershey's Kitcat there all prison bars the same cell at the end of their way. You know all that hilarity that I know you can hardly hold it back right this minute we I do have to get to our actual riddle so riddle who was the first prisoner in the God who is the first prisoner in the Bible, which was partially because his clothing was a pigment of his father's magic was the first prisoner in the Bible, which was partially because his clothing was a pigment of his father's imagination. If you know that can call us at 866-34-TRUTH 878845 reach deep into the pursuits. I actually have something you have a free hundred $99 value boot camp. This could be for you all are. If you're late… You got a boyfriend, a son, something that you want to come hundred $99 value. All you have to do is tell who was the first prisoner of the Bible which was partially because his clothes was a pigment of his father's imagination, 866-348-7884 866-34-TRUTH Darren thank you for let me punish you today.

You know, we call that today that's the first riddle and I think that I've actually kinda almost thought I had the answer to in a while so I don't want to give it away want somebody to win some of those wonderful prizes prize closet in the prize closet used to be a fault, but we took the lock off prize closet could be the prayer closet as well and so so what we are actually writing it up: he and Lorraine is Kathleen. We actually have great news to announce today that we are our I really network that really helped request our Bible Bible that ground learn about God's word where I court thank you Robbie help me find out my now 35,000 just as God is Kathleen and more than we exceedingly abundantly.

So we have J and we have Keith when we come back to stay on working here about prison situation was the first prisoner in the Bible, but most of all we need you state is not a prisoner but we would like to welcome back to where we hear how God takes your passion and build the kingdom again today. We are so blessed to have with us during the radio show and ready for Coming up July 18 through the 19th.

It's your in the maxillary and Davie County and then we also have with us Kathleen score with CLI present alliance and what meet things. I got going on there so we got so much common. Your way with them.

But first off, we got a couple winners.

It looks like a couple callers anyway on our riddle today but before I take JI want to test Keith is also on the line. The stay with us because you know we have opened up the kingdom pursuits prize closet and found out there's two in there if we need you know it we could get a couple of boot camp attendees here. If we play it right so we got J is in Charlotte. He was the first update your on kingdom pursuits good morning like you know that's a man that's well-prepared okay I know my book to a different answer so that we can save the other answer but if you need to boot camp will talk after the show will figure out okay all be locked and no when always my listeners are smarter than me I'm that's just brilliant. You are absolutely J that allow while he was very much a prisoner yeah I was a phenomenal answer. J was a prisoner in a lot of different senses and you know I spent a lot of time a couple weeks ago on his wife. He was a prisoner little salt bag. I'm sorry I didn't say that I say that I was we did that come out okay sorry sorry he was a pillar in our community.

If you knew this but I was really studying sodium and salt and all that stuff but do you know if you takes regular old sodium, and you put it in water, it catches the water and fire salt which is sodium chloride, but if you just take sodium if you Google that on YouTube or whatever and you say show me sodium and stumpy put in water when you put sodium and water. It catches it on fire and so the fact that lots wife you know this is a chemical fascinating like wait a minute, maybe brimstone is actually sodium is when sodium touches water completely.

I mean really, so J you know what we I love your answer. You are absolutely right about lot and you know he understands brimstone way better than me. At this point, did you know that Kathleen about sodium she was a real fine if you want some fun. I did this with my granddaughter unsolicited justice YouTube this sodium and water and while here's this guy and he's got a bunch of sodium and he's thrown in the water and his company and we can see it catches on fire. It blows up.

I mean this guy is quite it's about a 15 minute deal of interest. Playing with sodium in the water. I think I've seen people throw sodium in the toilet and it explodes the toilet yes oh well there you go. Well, J we are hoping to see you at the book I put you on hold so we can get your information.

Thank you buddy okay thank you all right, we got Keith is in High Point, North Carolina Keith you're on kingdom pursuits good morning good morning. I don't have the right one that you are I see, here's the part that makes you write on another level. Okay because Joseph's father you know he was the one with the pigment of imagination. You know I'm saying coat of many colors.

You know lot. He was poor dressed but Joe so he ended up like oh my goodness yeah blessed with faith.

You know to believe God's going to come through in the spine of all that in and and all that stuff. That's just awesome. So Joseph was a prisoner to fashion your growing into this Darren another couple years and I just know someday I'll be able to host the kingdom % all right Keith I hope you can come to boot camp. I would love to see you. I've never met you in person though.

Would be able to write about what all the winter mop that would be great. We will do that we will your show all you corny jokes plan guard all thank you Keith, I appreciate about you going on corn. I've done that before you maybe next week know.

Thank you God bless wow I didn't know I get a chance to tell my sodium story today, but that's really cool stuff man. You go you to bat and you'll see that wow you know, there may be more involved in the fire and brimstone stuff that when you think about it. Darren, the fact the Mammon in Hebrew means water and it also is the Messiah and the fact that one of the trials that obviously happened in Revelation is fire and water. I mean I'm getting the brimstone thing is like in other may be something here chemically that I don't know yeah I the it's so interesting to see how more more we learn about science the more we learn about these things, the more we also learn about God and who is the author of science. Write the author of so many different things every thing and so as we learn those things then it just makes God even more awesome.

It makes him more interesting and so to to look at those things and be able to put it together one you know with the other. Who knows. I'm guessing we'll get the formulas there probably written down in that like the Museum of Bible history in heaven will find out what brimstone really is cooling and so that's a neat thing and what you which you've done through your own testimony. Kathleen is provided this opportunity for prisoners to get in on this ultimate discovery you know of who is God, and who am I in his image and his likeness know that, stuff that you guys are doing through these resources and you got some stories that I would love to hear some of the conversions that you that you know about got really got to have really turned back… Why now and when they finally start following their live got turned around that you can't help but wonder Paul well but only got like white and maybe back when someone like that crime burner like well you know the glory of God. The radical joy at the radical change that they yeah all live our family happy people when they got there I get more like I got I wear that God's word only. There are Spent some cool way to go to CLI please Sigma links.

If you kingdom pursuits as well as a course to Boot Camp. You can see there you know how you can pray for them, continue to support them in all the you know what they're doing with prisoners there, but you know when she would talk about that light me I Darren you remember as well as I do, to boot camps go maybe three boot camps go you know Corey came in and he was sitting at the table with us tonight. First night of boot camp, and even a quick angry young was about 2728 big guy ballplayer when you like to have a before and after picture of Cory where he was that first night a big can when he was coming out of water baptism on Sunday mornings. The nominal phenomenal change that the Holy Spirit does in a very short period of time. Never, ever, ever forget. We got some other stories.

We got one.

Nonetheless, God is good, so we got those as well as Kathleen. Welcome back to where we hear how God thinks your passion and uses it to build the kingdom today were so blessed to have with us during and with a master and running radio show in the camp coming up or salmon Andy Harold and the whole team. Jim Jim and Jim. Jim and Jim Rodney Rodney, I was what a group got you jetting on Tyler yeah God has assembled for this boot camp coming up July 16 through the 19th. So those of us who been dying to get out and do some yes to be fishing yes to be a lot of things but the covenant of silence for you to meet with God is just like my covenant silence comes right after the explosions right sodium to throw the hell you might have to know that might be bad for the fish might not be good. However, you could create your own explosion in the water, we've you know we had we had guys come to the boot camp that wouldn't have considered themselves Christians many times many times we've we've had guys that came just because they things weren't working in their life and they heard enough from listening to sore reading a book while the heart by John Eldridge or others listening or reading Sam's Bible verse of the day daily for years and years and years that he put out and just being intrigued and coming and literally would not have considered themselves sons of God. Children of God. Christians and by the time they left they did and we had everything from pastors to parolees literally in the same camp we had young men come to walked around with their head hung low, scared to death because they were literally just hiding from the world. Scared that they would be exposed for being a loser, a failure afraid they might be what it is that they had been told they were in. So one of those guys was Josh who came to Boot Camp years ago was just kind of a wife of a character.

When you first met him very quiet, very unassuming reply very polite very nice young man and had been somewhat abused by father and didn't have a great relationship with his father at all, but through a couple of different boot camps that he came to he got his heart back got his life back and restored that relationship with his father. Can I speak and I was there yeah but I think that happened was the Holy Spirit put it on Darren's heart.

We do a talk all the new name. Talk where you know we help people listen for God to tone the night and this particular night, which is a biblical principle comes from Revelation, God's going to give you a white stone with your name on it written that only you and he no. So let's talk now started told him that we need to hold the guys rather than send them to the covenant silence which we normally would do. After talk to just go out there for an hour and get with God and listen and and this is kind of anything to do in the dark, listen to, but that night the Holy Spirit told Darren you need to stay and asked those who want to be prayed over to pray over you know yeah we just asked the men I just felt like God was saying there some guys here that really need you guys to pray over them. For me being me being God. And so I told the guys. Yeah, that's what we want to do and so we said, you know it's time for a covenant of silence. However, if you want to hang out here in the in the room for little bit. If you feel like somebody you know needs to pray over you.

Your you'd like somebody to pray over you just sit there. You don't have to tell us what you want to be prayed about. We don't want to know. We want God to tell us, and so will just come pray over you and Josh sat there for a few minutes and the reason he sat there was not because he wanted to be prayed over in his mind. He was sitting there because he had been crying over the last couple minutes of the talk and he didn't want a group of grown men to see him with tears in his eyes and so he put his hood up over his head held his head down and was just sitting there thinking are. I don't think I need to be prayed over, but I'll sneak out before somebody comes in price over me. Well poor Josh. He was the first person I saw and I just felt like God was single pray over that young man I didn't even know his name and I put my hand on him and I began to pray over him and I think eventually you came over and began to pray over him as well. Robbie and the things that God gave us to pray over him were miraculous to say the least, and it began to break through some pain that he had had growing up, abused Miss miss labeled as a loser as a weak person as a follower of others rather than a leader of others and God basically gave us the words to say know that that's not true. If you and we again we didn't know them from Adam didn't know his story knew nothing about them. But before the night was over.

Josh's life had changed and within he wrote us a letter later telling us how this whole thing transpired rocked our world rock his world. His brothers whirled, his parents world restored the relationship that he didn't have with his parents and then within a few months of that, tragically, accidentally got shot and killed. He and his brother were cleaning shotguns and one was loaded and he was sitting in front of his brother and and it went off and it shot him in the chest and killed him and Robbie and Sam and I had the pleasure of going to his funeral and speaking with his parents and when his parents met us all three of us.

They cried and hugged us and they thanked us and said you you don't know the power of what you guys did by choosing to do these boot camps in will make any money on these boot camps. We spend money on these big cancer comes out of all of our pockets and they thanked us for doing that because it changed their lives.

Not just Josh's but all of their lives. Right in the and the beauty was God put Josh in a place where he would listen and it was God that you know clearly you know we had a chance to watch them show off as you so often get to do. Kathleen if you got a story long as I still, it was Kathleen. We met yes yes that not all that really struggle.

I think that one pretty badly going to quite a call to let came into print that started learning about the father of Carlisle Bible… That really came out of our current ally about God.

I'm going to piggyback on that that the Bible but the Bible study. We want to go got he thought that the Bible study that that what her goal in life shall not try kind of kind, like J going to stop you there. Find out what happened with this young lady. When we come back to pursuits will be right back with more stories from CLI prison alliance and messenger.com to find out all about. Pray for him and welcome back to your passion and then uses it to build the kingdom. They were so blessed to have with us Kathleen was CLI prison alliance and parent mass country radio coming up July 16-19, Thursday through Sunday. Kathleen's to finish up her story minute, which I'm very excited to hear about, but I was just there during the break I was thinking you know I've had this guest on several times was his name came to my mind, but you know me, I don't remember next. But anyway he deals with gangs and any talks about the kingdom of gangs and what what they do is they bring the same culture kingdom culture of love and acceptance and sense of purpose right. Only their bringing it in order to corrupt its members and in you know everybody loves acceptance. Everybody loves no attention everybody wants to feel like they have a purpose and all those kind of things, whether they're in prison and they can take part in these CLI prison Bible studies, which I think it just amazing and big begin to form their own little band of brothers) and the sisters right got this. I heard the story of the young lady going ensuring love with different members of these other ladies are feeling love and acceptance from this person that's been change that spark. Kathleen talked about that was in the eyes of the spark of God was now in the heart of this lady so carefully, we don't know what happened. All current Bible that that got that we got there that whatever the Bible there. For example, we have meant that 99 heard about a guy well dark brown every guy really really well there is just beautiful. I saw the time I need to mention this.

Well, as I think about what this ladies do what he just did. You can imagine if you got that, spark of God's love and you brought it back to your family and you brought it back to your work things available either through Bible study church but us us us certainly in the boot camp and and so while what what resources God has given us to be able to find that spark. You can go to kingdom pursuits and find that the master journey radio boot camp and were talking about her CLI prison alliance also want to highlight the fact that Amy combos the cure is coming on at 1 o'clock. All my goodness she has got this retired colonel is going to speak on the subject of a length of the protest. So if you want to speak out. This is a live show folks will be out at 1 o'clock. I know a lot of you have a lot of that you want to express will.

Here's your chance.

Amy is going to do the show is 1 o'clock is live the number if you have heard before is 866-34-TRUTH 87884 Amy would love to hear your view. You know what you're struggling with on this, but again we got this. She has discussed this Army Col. that's can be there helping her and so that'll be on today on the Truth Network at 1 o'clock. You don't want to miss that. And Kathleen as we go into this season, will you not come to give you the last word.

How would you have people pray Mauer.

How would you have them support you well allotted to cry when I like the Bible, we only hear all that we only think Bible more Bible that time I my receipt see that link you there.

Thanks for being with me, as a matter fact here right now.

Thanks. Followed by master journey. What a cool show with Morgan Snyder, you would need a list coming up as well. If I put Morgan's