The Christian Car Guy - Play With God Today

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This is the Truth Network CFX guard don't just run around and drive them with you when you get good enough plug right into the will radio show the holiness of playing cars today on the Christian card I show yes I said the holiness of playing cars so I can assure you, your father. He delights in the gifts that he gives you and watching you play and watching you enjoy them. So when I was a young man, my brother and I one Christmas eve or listening we we lived in the basement of this particular house and we heard my great and my father had apparently gotten a slot car race set for Christmas and my father and my grandfather were up half the night playing this thing and so we had a pretty good idea when we woke, but clearly they are having so much fun. Some I my brother and I got one of those Aurora Ray said that metal never ever forget. But you know I don't remember the movie the 24 hour LeMans with Steve McQueen but my brother and I went to see that movie and we decided that we were to have the 24 our of Lemans race slot car style so we stayed up 24 hours. We play this thing. Those cars back then the little ones that they had that look like the Porsche 911. That was the blue and the orange that was when I had my brother was in the far he lost.

Obviously the lead lights on and then we are up all night. You know my parents would come in and bring us food but how much my father delighted in watching us play cars so the idea again is the holiness of playing cards today were to get to a lot of that is another story I heard this on the podcast this week on one of my favorite podcasts is the and sons podcast from Brandsmart and the two sons were interviewing Dan Allender and Dan Allender. You may know is just like a world-class Christian counselor like in my view, one of the best it's out there. He is a college like in Washington or Seattle. Somewhere we teach people. Just a phenomenal counselor.

So one of the boys asked to meet about you know struggles during the covered thing and how sometimes you just within your own family and how when things can get on your nerves that seem like the smallest thing it's a little bitty thing, but that's what gets on your nerves and that's what drives you to do crazy behavior and Dan says now this is the counselor himself. So I'm listening this guy so authentic it's a little hilarious because all I know exactly what you're saying.

Let me tell you what happened so I was going to go get groceries. My wife and I are both old and elderly.

So were not elderly but their cove you know susceptible and so they had been all hunkered down in May.

He was to finally go out and get groceries, but I told my wife now when I come back when you see the car drive up, make sure you unlock the door so I don't have to touch the door handle, so have to clean it now so I can go right in and bring the groceries in Indy.

You can kinda see this set him up. There's can be trouble in River city so naturally I can so relate to this. The census like some I would do it to me so he he comes to the door course is not unlocked, so he knocks on the door course.

No answer. He knocks on the door eventually ends up like me many times, putting down the groceries grabbing the key.

Unlocking the door going in there when he walks in he doesn't take three steps and there his his wife sitting on the couch and she is on a zoom call with all these friends from elementary school, so he says you know I couldn't just go you know renegade on her with all of her friends right there so I waited until the zoom call was over and then I gave her everything that was on my mind. You know, I told her all the evils of Calvin and how she's put out for you know this could cause the material in sheet he said I just raged, but then immediately I knew that man I just really messed up and I knew that I was going to need to apologize, but I just wasn't up to the right and I was just too upset so I decided to go so I could say I would like the sound like me is that I decided to go soak and I spoke for about an hour and I was to go upstairs and get something I hadn't decided to deal with that.

I knew I would apologize but I didn't know when exactly. That would be and he said on my way upstairs. My wife had hidden in the alcove and she pops out at me like blue, I know you're not ready to deal with this right now but I just want to know ahead of time. I love you and III completely accept your apology whenever you decide to give it to me and what Dan said was, and I think this is so true. This is so true that that is the playfulness of God. And when he forgives you, it's just like that he's going to jump out at you go, but tell you how much he loved and in and how much it's perfectly okay that it has to do with play so this is the obvious topic that God's been working on me with the cool thing is we get to do a Christian card I theater plan is progress. Three.

At the end of the show. Now when you listen to this. You will note that I have got a special thing. At the very end where the these people are the voice actors in this case that sent me their lines have a tendency to play with me they'll send me little things in the recording when they send me their lines. I'm not sure where Jesse lives. I think he lives in Pennsylvania.

Brian lives in Los Angeles and so on getting these lines from wherever. And here come these old notes so I just to show you how people play when they're having fun you'll hear in the end of the episode. The claim is progress.

Chapter 3 I gave you those outtakes so you could hear how people play specifically.

Have you ever put it together that actors play a part or musicians play music ever thought about that God kinda just open up my heart to this idea so I'm alleging a little secret, so she don't don't don't tell anybody, especially don't tell a Pharisee are said to be sad to see because they will lose their mind so here's the secret choice say in solace and he did hear me play and rejoice and laugh in Hebrew, or all three. The same word. What yes it's true. Strong's number eight 7832 you go look it up. It's a Christian card I got, Shoji.

So when David was dancing before the Lord as he remember when the ark was coming in and he was dancing. As I got all upset at him because he was dancing and says he was playing. That's the word in Psalms 104, when the Leviathan is out there in the water. He is playing or in Proverbs 831 wisdom is playing before God when it is actually God is making the world he is playing all by the way, go see how many times a use word for rejoice, or how many times I use the word for laugh.

So when you look inside the word is just what this absolutely thing that if you really thought about a little kid out there playing is that not holy. I may look at it. Think about God watching those kids play. So when you look at the word in Hebrew the first letters ahead which which means life excusing the first letter is a chin chin which means sort of firelight passion.

The second word is ahead which means life in the third word is actually billed the letter for holiness to cook so what playing is holy. Oh, absolutely. It's only when you think about children's laughter there play. What are they doing that rejoicing in the gift that the father gave him when we were playing in that all that time we were rejoicing in our fathers gift. I mean this is a phenomenal thing when you begin. When I got up this morning and I took a picture of what I meant to post.

You could see where God had clearly played with his orange paintbrush this morning on the sunrise. I mean it was like unbelievable and he just had a blast. So when artists are doing their thing. You know they are playing when when the clinic ceases to be a worker and occupation that begins to be play that's rejoicing and so think about what Paul said play in the Lord. I said, and again I say play or play on the Christian card I show what's your play story working here in 866-34-TRUTH 87884 from a smart day do the billing team members tonight. Having in the area and because of the separation of church and caring caring caring think is happening because you feel that in order to keep friendships.

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I just didn't come to you because I was afraid you tell me not to do it. Isn't that like a lot of people who won't turn to Scripture for answers. Many say they trust the Bible and believe it is the word of God that if they open its pages and read it. They fear their lives might change.

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Listen to Janet. Never today online Janet Mefford, Dr. holiness playing day cargo so that holy well I understand that wow if you really begin to get inside this wordplay as I have you met your God just cannot start open my mind. Oh my goodness when somebody is really a fantastic artist at some point in time they quit painting and they start playing when somebody is a wonderful guitarist at some point in time they quit strumming the strings and they start playing and just think how God feels about that, like Eric little you know insurance of fire. I can feel God's pleasure. When did that happen for you.

You know why was it. Maybe it was when your little kid in your plan slot cars or maybe you're working on restoring a car and also the began playing you know I think they tell a story well before it say but the story I want you to call. I want your story, 866-348-7884 866-34-TRUTH 87884 that wordplay/rejoice/laugh is all very Christian card. I.com as well as the Christian card I theater our podcast on subsurface out late.

They tell a story. Actually, Morgan Snyder with Ransom Hart also tells a story about one time he went and visited this older man and when he got there he was on his riding lawnmower and he was looking at what he was doing and it made no absolute sense that he was riding all over his yard, but there was no sense to the pattern and in our. Obviously when he gets the guy comes up. He goes will I see after mowing the lawn, exactly what are you doing and he said I'm planning. I mean how cool is that when you think about that that when we take our work and we we figure out a way to delighted. I mean, let's look at it you know what little kid would love to get on that tractor and start making circles. You know my father left us this powerboat up the 16 foot Bayliner and we had a 13-year-old friend of a friend that came around but is first time you ever got on the boat last Saturday and strike put my arm. I'm amazed at how would you like to drive all my soul. You talk about watching a kids love to play and can you imagine just imagine with me does he go straight does anybody any little kid grab the steering wheel and they go straight now. I don't think they're all over the place trying to get the feel of what that is, of course you know it could be done safely, but nonetheless don't think Todd just sits there and goes blue and when he sees somebody rejoicing in the gifts that he is given so you know, one of my and in fact I just started borrowing earlier last night when I start to think through this.

My father, I guess it's in the Delmore line that we love to laugh. We love to play with my father when we we bought this house in Albuquerque and he wanted to lay a brick courtyard and there was this big courtyard. But he wanted to do the brickwork himself because my father disliked it to do that kind of thing. It was a car dealer, but he like to lay brick so we get all these bricks out there. If you've ever done that you put out the sand in your and your laying brick after breaking and and I love to work my dad out that you had to work with your dad to end and were out there and what he was chewing gum. Any and all never ever this story there stuck in my heart because he pulls the gum out of his mouth.

He said south it's someday is a number put this gum under this brick, and someday when the archaeologists come through and find this, you know excavation of this of this ancient Albuquerque house looking to find the gum living in us a look at this strange adhesive that they use back so naturally, my my father he was. He was playing and you know those are the things that he would get us a great toy for Christmas. It was just always said he would be playing with it long before we did so how about yours 866-34-TRUTH 87884 866-34-TRUTH we got Jan Dyer's in Montréal, Jan, you're in a Christian card as sugar morning Jan, I am wonderful, wonderful, I make anxious to hear your story. The whole story that when I went to Carol Leanne Came after that. Maybe that's a string like this I've seen. It's like huge fast roller coaster right I you hang down below it.

It's not like up on top of the like any ride he'd never done story. I won't need to ride when it not because I've been going on with migraine with me that day. I've been thinking about that I'm gonna rate my goal that are helping you get on everything now listen to Brad Hickey to tenant that no and the bathroom was just right often grown a lot that night will work ;-) so I have to get all went they would let me go to another car didn't have to be on to ours and talk about the right you are. Jan I know you felt God's pleasure when he was doing that, and the calling of their story. 866-34-TRUTH 87884 866-34-TRUTH Jan thank you so much. You made my day without one that's implanted on their you're listening to the truth and TruthNetwork.com. This is just a thought with Ravi Zacharias how God has inspired the songwriter from the box from the sustainers and the sons of the handles and the Wesleys on the Watts slave trader John Newton.

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Is that word and can you imagine church like you were so excited to go to church that you get to go be with their kids and go out and play like when you're a kid you get to go be with your friends and you get to just rejoice and have fun and saying, and all those things with the faith of a child you know that's kind of no doubt what God has in mind and so many different ways that we would love your story along those lines, 866-348-7884's member calling sure your story will have this last segment to do it so because we get Christian card at the end of last segment. So you've got to call in now you know 866-34-TRUTH 87884 and I need to mention before you get too caught up that coming on today at 1 o'clock on the Truth Network if it was the Truth Network urine here. The cure with Amy combo and she is to have a retired police sergeant on today so that should be pretty impactful to live so you can call in and view your ideas on the current situation. But here's mine. God wants us to play well together how much coke.

How cool is it when when your kids love each other and you see them playing together just like absolutely delighting in each other. That's the picture, however, that works.

I don't know but that's what that's I know that's what the father wants to get Sarah is in Port Orchard, Washington. I love Sarah I get there again a Sarah good morning different word rejoice and play an annual happening here. Everybody knows around the country but you don't like my granddaughter might find out that anyway she had struggling for a long time with leukemia been in the hot little down thing going on and anyway it debuted for when she would like. We felt down and my daughter was there it was just fell down and then Thursday. Take care from the hospital here and go take Terry and take her into Seattle to the cancer care alliance and you know what happened.

I parallel and it made me sound strange in the middle of all the every joy she will my daughter to the ambulance took her medically and fully equipped to everything and that they can take care alliance in the world and mind either told me later that I didn't realize you can't quite well.

God growled and become captured and filled situation in Florida and and I have a wonderful government on charge. Now that love the Lord and called on the Lord and and and and I know that there is good cast and all the training for inaction and we pray for the mansion and I realized that here. The parallel in my granddaughter surrounded now by that no world can't take care alliance in Israel but felt it.

I might, and I praising the Lord sent a number of years now and just to the very beginning of the discussion everybody could hear the last thing Sarah is the last thing that you know Sarah is she has that lab that is that is her rejoicing right in the midst of all the stuff but just knowing that the fathers can handle this and what's your granddaughter's name so we can all be praying for Eric… Pray for right now. Sarah Lord Jesus, thank you for Sarah and that laugh and I'm betting that Eric and Scott. The same lacks in the same joy in here so we pray right now that you would not only help the best in the world but you're even a better best that you would heal her and and take these rogue cells and help them get in line with her body in in the way you originally designed it in the way you originally designed all our selves to play well together.

Help us to do that in Seattle and help us to do it throughout the country and I thank you much for my friend Sarah and for her calling in the in Jesus name I pray, amen. Well I got Diane Sarah. I got to get to her.

But thank you, thank you for calling in today as always and I is nice to know how we can pray for Erica. Thank you, Sarah. God bless you and all right we have Diana's in Raleigh, Diane, you're in a car crash of the morning good morning to you, look at, they went out like it did and got to get my memory when I was in my parents work on and you could be my new dad, you know, if you want to think you got me for a good dad). I thought the world can question my own thing later on: I can't go a lot of time and in a day. I would think I gave me to gain clearly called the cremation game. My family and I like it Atlanta game and invited to conduct any game like that ketamine currently PR lantern and I cry until he got down to the very core of what kind of downy line game called the game.

I give you permission to show me whatever it is that you would like me about my aunt Carol and I would just get quiet in my car was really good and Chris sometime tonight with Mike and want to play anymore like at school one day and I really got on that were really misbehaving and they like that you treat the way you and I had you not to correct yes but you must take the plant that well I Diane okay and time can't be taken a walk and I can't I walk look at the lead.

Now I'm like one of the little kids that do a quick look and think I pay really nice good look again with County.

The character of each of the lead on the blessed and I didn't like people think they're all but yet law may have all intricate detail and beautiful like a great idea.

I can't stand that we got to go. I'm never going to ever forget your new provision gave her exactly, that's fine.

That's my idea of rejoicing always and again I say play. So we got your listening to the truth and TruthNetwork.com do going team members tonight, having in the area and because of the separation coming to church, caring, caring think is happening because you feel that in order to keep friendships and I know a lot too well. Usually two sides to every story. Anyway to situation me my attorney to do contact so I can't spell. I know this is not healing for me to be your friend later said thank you and we have text back and forth in time to get together soon care well is it Karen's website wisdom of the wounded.com for additional resources on how to care well. Join us here each week for a call to the nation with pastor Carter Conlon brought to you from Times Square church in New York City. You cannot defeat the voice of God. You cannot return to the right is a grave after three days that boys can never be silent. Make this your place to be.

Each week, for a powerful message from God's word with pastor Carter, called to the nation hi I'm John Erickson totter is a quadriplegic. It's frustrating to have other people dress me being paralyzed. I don't have the ability to put on my own close sometimes I wish I could pull on my own sweater or code subtly came across Isaiah 61 where it says my soul rejoices in my God, for he has clothed me with garments of innovation made me righteousness friend when it comes to the righteousness of God. There is absolutely no way I can dress ourselves.

God does not try to clothe the nation of the Bible will end up looking like filthy rags and so now I gained a whole new appreciation for not being able to get myself me today and praising the Lord for salvation.

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I can better conceive that with my with my tongue yet to our desire is to know I read my book. Do you think that the words of your first year's guarantee for it with me. I cannot lie well there isn't kingdom to be inhabited and nasty life to be given us, that we may inhabit that kingdom forever crowns that would make us shine like the sun to have been well this will be normal cry that is the place will wipe tears from our eyes shall be the Seraphim's creatures, dazzle your eyes so you shall thousand and 10,000 that have gone before us that police. None of them a full nothing in holy everyone walking and standing in his presence. Acceptance forever shall keep that we shall see, the holy, that we shall see, by the world cotton pieces into flames of beasts around all that place they will all be well and clothed with immortality as with the content where the rubber I cannot go as fast as I by reason of this luggage that is on my rack on my dream. And just as they drew near to a very minor slew or mega mud was in the midst of the plane and they being slips the name of their time being previously began to sink so you will begin his monthly lighting is way higher on that side of the was next to his own house way he went and valiant saw him no more an incident for the next exciting now here's any dipstick and ramie radiator to review today's episode previous pliable thought in my life.

One you would think you would like my long way will not. So, as promised, I wanted to give you an example of how amazingly gifted voice artist of Christian car guy theater play with me at times. Of course, they never knew that I was using this in the show today, but I thought you might enjoy the little notes that they give me is there giving me their lines. At times, but also just an example of the many talents that they have will start off with Brian habit which you can find all his bio information in Christian car guy.com and the cast and crew page and you can see all about these guys but Brian was the voice of pliable in today's episode as well as Randy radiator explained a lot of different roles including Eustis and many others. Should don that you'll hear in this little soundbite today and then the message he sent me this week so you were on school property. While it was close for the day's Christmas meal for the hot blog sleep. I so sleepy want me to pay Robbie. I just realized as a recording I could send you a little high. Every once in a while on the recordings pretty smart.

Anyway, hope you're well. All in Los Angeles is fine. Next up is Jesse Corti who just from the elector in this week's episode. He was the voice of valiant buddy also played new R/Lazarus and Fernando fuel injector. So here's a few examples of bad along with the way he was playing with me when he sent me his lines this week, we ask you to help Pastor Jack and his family help his son John, to be delivered in my little could cheat agreement to gather men for Dale Becky went to change in the fine for parts get up to seek quality Christian car guy theater 2 to 3 readings on each line. I'm hoping you can see it with me here these phenomenal professional actors. They are donating this kind of completely and giving it to us as a gift to God and the lighting and playing in the gifting of the father has again you can find all this information, all the past episodes you know all these Christian car guy theater is all absolutely free Christian car guy.com all the podcast about all absolutely free car guy.com.

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