Dr. David Spoon emphasizes the importance of prayer and community support in this episode, inviting listeners to share their prayer requests and engage in meaningful spiritual reflections. He highlights that everyone listening is part of a collective group of "prayer warriors," ready to uplift one another through prayer. The episode features a heartfelt call with a listener named John, who seeks prayer for his daughter recovering from a heart attack, showcasing the show's commitment to real-life concerns and compassionate responses. Additionally, Dr. Spoon discusses the significance of servant leadership and the need for strong, selfless leaders within communities, drawing parallels to biblical teachings. The overarching theme is about fostering connection, faith, and hope amid life's challenges, encouraging listeners to participate actively in their spiritual journeys.

The episode unfolds with Dr. David Spoon's signature charisma, where he seamlessly combines humor and heartfelt discussions about faith. The lively atmosphere is set as Spoon invites listeners to share their prayer needs, making it clear how integral community support is in the Christian journey. He identifies the audience as 'prayer warriors', effectively empowering them to feel involved in the process of collective prayer that fosters hope and healing. This approach not only emphasizes the importance of prayer but also highlights the show's mission to create an inclusive environment where everyone is encouraged to participate in the spiritual dialogue.

As the episode progresses, Spoon delicately navigates a profound moment when he prays for a caller whose daughter has recently suffered a heart attack. This segment showcases Spoon's deep empathy and spiritual insight, as he articulates a prayer filled with scriptural wisdom and sincere concern. His words resonate with the audience, illustrating how faith can provide comfort during life's most challenging moments. The discussion serves as a reminder of the real struggles faced by many and the strength that can be drawn from community and prayerful support. Listeners are left with a sense of connection, knowing they are not alone in their trials.

Furthermore, Spoon transitions into a reflective discussion on leadership, particularly from the teachings found in the Book of Titus. He stresses the necessity for servant leaders within the church, emphasizing that true leadership involves selflessness and a commitment to serving others. This part of the episode encourages listeners to consider their own influence in various aspects of life while reinforcing the biblical principle that leadership is about uplifting those around us. Spoon's engaging style and insightful commentary make this episode both an enjoyable and enriching experience, leaving listeners with practical takeaways about faith, community, and the essence of true leadership.

Takeaways:

• Dr. David Spoon emphasizes the power of communal prayer and encourages listeners to share their requests.
• The importance of servant leadership is highlighted, stressing leaders must prioritize serving others.
• Spoon reflects on the stress of modern life, offering biblical peace as a remedy.
• Listeners are reminded of the significance of veterans and the sacrifices they made for freedom.
• The podcast discusses the ongoing need for spiritual growth and the setting of priorities in faith.
• David Spoon encourages sharing both prayer requests and praise reports to uplift one another.

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The review of the goofiness, which proves Jesus is coming back sooner than you think.

And we hope before this introduction is over, life lessons for our faith that we can actually use probably won't.

If we sit on our blessed assurance that's not a good idea.

Humor that will force you to think, why does this guy have a radio show?

Because they wouldn't let me be a park ranger at Jellystone Park.

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Get ready for one of the more bizarre experiences on live radio.

Here is the key to the show.

We don't know what we're doing.

We have no idea what's going to happen, and we don't care.

But for the next few minutes, I want to talk faith with you.

So here we go.

We're asking questions about living life as a Christian, that thing.

And this is the question we ask.

And because we have phones that work, hallelujah.

We are offering up to you.

What can our prayer warriors pray for you about?

Now, when you were thinking prayer warriors, you're thinking, there are people all over the studio that are just on their hands and knees in the corners of the buildings praying.

And it's like, wrong.

The people that listen to this show, the people that participate, the people that are listening, even if they don't call in, if they don't text in, if they don't email in, they are the prayer warriors.

In fact, you are the prayer warriors.

And so we're asking, hey, what can we all pray for you about.

That's what we're trying to do.

How can we help you by connecting in the power of prayer.

What can we do to be a blessing by praying for you?

It's a pretty straightforward question.

If you need prayer, we are here.

If you have, by the way, an opinion, a comment, a thought or a question.

Now, we don't want that to die of loneliness.

All you gotta do get ready is reach out and give us a call.

Hallelujah.

Talking of Jammin Jacob is like heading into the week with great faith and expectation.

Thank you, David.

Happy Monday.

Happy Monday.

The phones are working again.

Monday.

We always like that.

We're just gonna double check to make sure they're working.

I'm just gonna look right at Jacob while he picks the phone up and looks at me.

Do they in fact wait?

He's on the phone.

So I guess they're working.

Bottom line to that whole process is simply this.

We had the phones out for a couple days.

That's okay.

You think, well, that stuff is that irritating.

It's frustrating.

There's so many things in life that are irritating and frustrating.

Take a deep breath.

Jesus is coming soon.

That's all you gotta know.

Jesus is coming soon.

What else do you need?

Jesus is coming soon.

Hallelujah.

Right?

All right, so the bottom line there is you can call us because the phone does work.

You can also text and we encourage that.

We think that's awesome.

A little slower for those that need it.

There you go.

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You can call us, you can text us, you can email us.

Now, I do gotta let Jacob know that if you are getting calls, they are not showing up on my little board this time.

So you will have to wave your hand to tell me if there's a phone call.

Okay?

So I don't know if There is one or is one?

You tell me.

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Phone call.

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Is there a phone call?

There is.

See?

See, that's why I'm bringing that up to you, because I'm not seeing it here.

Well, let's do this.

Let's have the first person send them on through.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

Hello, this is John.

Hi, John.

How are you?

Hey, I'm great.

Say, I wanted to request prayer for my daughter who had a heart attack last week.

Oh, my goodness, John.

Oh, my.

How.

What's her.

What's her current condition?

Is she in ER where she right now?

She had some stents put in her area, upper area, heart area.

And she's at home and doing well.

But of course, her blood flow is only about 30% right now.

All right, we should pray for that right now, John.

So I'm going to pray for your daughter.

Is that good?

You ready?

Yes.

Let's do it.

Let's do it.

Father, we come before you right now.

We thank you for John.

We thank you for any father who's got that going on, Lord, I already know as a dad and as a granddad, it's just tough.

And then if it's tough for us, Lord, and you look at us and sometimes you weep for us, Lord, we see that in your word, and so we are just lifting up.

John, first of all, we're thankful that his daughter is with us.

We are just praising your name for keeping her.

But, Lord, she needs work.

She needs touch.

She needs the touch of the Holy Spirit that comes through the redeeming work of Jesus Christ.

She needs her body and her whole mechanism to work.

And we are asking you to bring her blood flow up and increase her and strengthen her and bring healing into her and let her know and John know, hey, this is by the hand of God.

Not just regular, but in a expedient fashion.

Lord, bring your healing power into her life.

Cover her, cast out any spirit of fear and discouragement that's come, and bring in a great sense of hope and comfort that come from you because you are the God of hope and the God of comfort.

Bless this family and keep them in the palm of your hand.

We pray in Jesus name.

Amen and amen.

Thank you very much.

You are welcome, my brother.

God bless you and keep us posted and we will keep praying.

Okay.

All right.

Bye.

Bye.

All right.

So that's what we do.

We pray for one another.

Why?

Well, that's pretty simple.

The Scriptures are clear that we're supposed to carry one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians, chapter 6, verse 2.

And that's a big deal because when you care for one another and carry one another, you're doing what Jesus said.

What were the commandments?

Everybody's like, oh, the two commandments.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind, and love your neighbor as you love yourself.

Okay?

But Jesus said, I have a new commandment for you.

Love one another as I have loved you.

That's a whole nother level in regards to loving people.

And so we need to love people the way that the Lord has designed us to do that.

So that's what we do.

Sort of start off with some prayer.

We're going to be praying for a few other people in a little bit.

But if you've got something you need prayer for, you got a situation.

It's not just health.

It can be finances, it could be situation, it could be relationship oriented.

It doesn't matter.

Because God helps everybody in everything.

He's not going to help you sin, you know, don't be silly.

But he's going to help you bring comfort, bring deliverance, bring peace.

And that's what we need.

And so we're just encouraging you.

Look, whether you want to call us, whether you want to text us.

Some people like the texting.

Do it, that's fine.

I get it.

It's right here in front of me.

Some people like the email right in front of me.

I got it, I got it going on.

And we will pray.

Or if you've got something else, it doesn't have to be just prayer requests.

It could be a praise report maybe of something taking place.

And you're like, the Lord did this for me this weekend.

And you're just like, I just am blessed.

Share it.

That will encourage other people.

It will honor the Lord and it will strengthen it in your own life.

Maybe you got a scripture, something's on your mind and heart.

Now that we're through the election, of course, we're not through anything.

Most people know that.

But the bottom line is we can pull back a please, please, by all means, pull back a little.

And then just take a deeper breath.

Still recognizing Daniel 2, 21, God sets up one and puts down another.

It's up to the Lord.

Everybody thinks it's us voting.

Sure it is.

Yeah.

God's going to let the most powerful person.

Yeah, sure.

Anyway, I'll just leave that there and my encouragement to you is simply this.

You can be a praise reporter, prayer request.

We are not against politics.

We are for you drawing closer to the Lord.

Why?

Because if you draw closer to the Lord, you'll have a better life, no matter what's going on around you.

You, period.

End of story.

Nothing else to be said.

And so we feel that's very important.

We are going to take this moment, though, to give a big hallelujah and thank you for all of our veterans.

No way that's going to get missed.

Veterans Day and the people that have served in the armed forces have been willing to lay down their lives for the sake of friends, people they don't even know, for the sake of their country, willing to give up a part of themselves.

Some people.

That's what Memorial Day is for, those that actually did give up their lives.

But everybody and anybody and Veterans Day who served in the armed forces, we have a big fat thank you so very much to give you.

And we cannot give you enough of a clap offering.

I really like what our church.

So Noah and I attended a church he hadn't been to, this one that I checked out.

We went to the church and they did something really, really cool.

I mean, really cool.

And that is they did an extended clap thing where you know how they say thank you and everybody, it was just great.

The people clapped for minutes and minutes, long time.

And it was us, our way of telling them thank you.

And if you are a veteran in any way, shape or form, we say from the depth of our heart.

Thank you at every level.

Thank you for what you've done.

We bless you.

In fact, let's pray, Father, we just thank you and praise you for all these people that have offered their lives up, put their lives on the line, put themselves in situations.

They didn't even know what they might even be in, but they did it willingly to sacrifice of themselves.

These are our veterans, Lord.

These are our people for this nation that have done that.

And we ask you to bless them and that they would know the appreciation, the actual appreciation that people have for them.

We ask you to pour a blessing into their lives.

Not just this day, but this is the day we acknowledge and we thank you for having these people sent into our universe, our worlds.

Thank you for their love and for their commitment.

We ask you to bless them in Jesus name.

Amen.

And amen.

Okay, so I am pretty happy that the phones are working if you guys haven't figured that out.

I also want to give props to our very own Jam and Jacob.

We got through in Another chapter today.

Got in a little bit early.

We are about 47% done on the book already, which has only been four, what, four or five sessions?

Like five or four.

Not that many, right?

I think we've done four.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we're already almost halfway done.

Yeah.

And last time this took us three and a half months.

This time it'll take us a month.

And it's like, that's a substantially big difference.

So very, very thankful.

I'll give you all that information.

Fourth coming, and so on and so forth.

The other thing, I do want to make sure everybody knows and we will be praying for other people later.

So don't think we're done praying or anything, but we're going to get into our teaching.

We're in Titus.

There's some cool stuff I want to get to, but I do want to encourage people and will encourage you all week long.

So I'm just going to tell you that up ahead of time.

And we've got that need hammering in on us.

So if the Lord puts it on your heart, please give.

That's always important.

I hate asking you, but I hate not obeying the Lord more.

And if you give, we appreciate it.

If you can't give, but just pray for us.

People try to guilt people.

I don't want anybody to give one cent out of you give because the Lord puts it on your heart.

I want it to be a providence situation.

And if you're one of those people that's like, I wish I could give.

We just don't have the money.

God bless you.

Keep praying for us.

That's what we need.

Prayer will get her done.

Okay, cool.

Titus, probably not breaking today.

I could just tell you that right now.

Titus, we are in chapter one.

We are at verse four, Titus.

Paul says in verse four to Titus, my true son, in the common faith, grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

The reason I left you in Crete was to set right what was left undone.

And as I directed you to appoint elders in every town.

So we started in Titus.

This is our third jump back into the Book of Titus.

For those that don't know, we're doing eight different books on this show.

We do, you know, pretty much we do a lot of expository, plus we do topical.

Plus we do expository and topical.

We teach it from all different ranges because that's kind of like how we operate for Those that are new to the show.

I'm a Baptistal.

It'll just help you.

I have a Baptist ordination and a Pentecostal ordination.

I have a Baptist doctorate and I have a Pentecostal master's.

And I was born and raised Jewish.

And I just love Jesus.

And that's what we should all be doing.

So Titus 1:4.

He's writing to another one of his young proteges.

He tells Titus he's the Son in the common faith.

Now, that means either Paul was involved in the initial or the ongoing process of Titus salvation.

At some point, Paul entered the picture.

It could have been that he brought him in.

It could have been that he's training him as a spiritual father in any way, shape or form.

That's okay, as always.

And in all of Paul's letters, he starts off with grace and peace to be given to the recipients of the letters.

And here's a big thing about grace and peace that people don't seem to realize.

And in many ways you can say it's the shalom of the day, right?

Shalom is hello, goodbye, and peace be unto you.

Peace be unto you, period.

Peace be unto you in arriving, peace be unto you when you depart.

And one of the reasons that these kind of greetings is actually more important than you think is simply this.

The world operates in being stressed out.

It's not new.

It's a 21st century phenomena.

No, it's not.

It's a thousands and thousands and thousands of years ago phenomena that in the world, because of the enemy, because of the world, because of people that are choosing to live by the power of sin and being influenced by sin and by Satan and people operating in their flesh because of these things.

There's a lot of stress.

In fact, one of the reasons that people look forward to the second coming of Jesus Christ, and let's be honest about it, is guess what?

We're done.

And you think we're done with what?

It doesn't say that.

We're done doing anything.

We're done with the fear.

We're done with the doubt.

We're done with the stress.

We're done with the anxiety.

We're done with the frustration.

We're done with the darkness.

So Paul, just like, look, man, we just want to make sure you catch this grace and peace from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

And just so you can know this phrase grace and peace, this is not a positional grace and peace.

This is a functional, practical grace and peace.

And what do I mean by that?

It Means that this grace and this peace are not talking about you being saved.

They're talking about God granting you grace and peace as you are walking this planet because you are already a part of his kingdom.

And you're going to have.

You have peace with God through the redeeming work of Jesus Christ.

And you had grace, which initiated the opportunity for you to get saved, because it's a gift from God.

But these are situationals, and there is grace and there is peace for your circumstance, not just for your position with the Lord, but with the practical sense.

There is peace for you from God.

How about that?

You got a situation that's kind of getting a little overwhelming, kind of getting past you.

I got that going on right now.

I already told you, we got financial things.

I am focusing on the Lord.

I wasn't even going to share it.

And I just felt like the Lord was like, that's not right.

Don't do that.

So it's like, okay.

And so then I get in that.

But then I have to remember and operate and keep my eyes focused on the Lord and remember that in my circumstance, there is grace, which is unmerited favor.

He's gonna get me out of it.

I won't deserve it.

And there is peace.

And the thing I love about peace the most, by the way, very closely connected to the word Noah, whose name was rest.

But here's the thing I love the most about peace, and that is it makes the winds and the waves die down between my left and right ear.

How about that?

Isn't that amazing?

A calm.

I was just reading in the book today, because that's the book, the faith that pleases God that we're putting on audio, how that Jesus, the disciples were in the boat and the boat was getting hammered by wind and by waves when Jesus got in the boat with them.

This is after the Peter walking the water thing.

But when Jesus got into the boat, the Bible says that the winds died down, the waves stopped.

When Jesus gets in your boat, man, it's over.

Calm and peace.

Take it easy.

Take a deep breath.

The king of the universe is here.

Isn't that cool?

I mean, that's cool.

Come on.

So then Paul says this, verse five, the reason I left you in Crete was to set right what was left undone.

And as I directed you to appoint elders in every town.

So verse five gives us the reason for the writing.

Paul's right.

He's got a purpose.

He's not like, going on board.

I'm just going to write, I left you in Crete to set right what was left undone.

This has nothing to do with the cross, so don't get weird.

This has to do with stuff that's got to still be done.

Listen, there is much about the where there's a lot undone regarding our sharing of the cross.

And there's a lot undone thus far as becoming more and more like Christ.

As 2nd Corinthians 3:18 says, Glory by glory, there's still stuff to do.

And if it was true then, it's true now.

And so he's like, look, you got to get these things, to put these things in order, please.

We got to get this stuff together.

And by participating in this, by the way, it's our turn to do our part to demonstrate our love and commitment to the Lord.

God saved you through Jesus Christ, put the Holy Spirit inside you.

Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.

Are you not just thankful for that, but that proof that you are thankful, that is your willingness to be, you know, make me more like Jesus, help me to be a sharer, a person who can share, do whatever I can to help others, whether I'm just praying for them, talking to himself, sending a text, email, whatever.

And it's all part of our demonstration of our love of saying thank you to the Lord that we are responsive to the Lord and work for his kingdom to be advanced.

I love this country, but it is not the kingdom of God.

I'm a stranger and an alien on this planet.

I'm looking for a city whose builder and maker is God.

That's what we gotta be doing.

So he says, I left you in Crete to set things right.

Because there's a lot of stuff in Crete that wasn't going great.

And Crete was kind of a tough place, a little bit, let's say a little darker than maybe Beverly Hills kind of thing.

Get it?

And then to set right what was left undone.

And as I directed you to appoint elders in every town.

And so they needed elders, leadership.

And in countries and in, let me say it this way, in cities.

Forget that.

In neighborhoods, in cities, in counties, in states, in countries, in continents, we need leaders.

And what we really want are leaders who are not so self absorbed that they are the center of anything.

That's just the worst kind of leader.

What we want, our servant leaders.

You gotta love John Maxwell making his one statement.

If you hear the fill where he goes, people rise and people fall, depending on the leadership.

Oh, it's so true.

It's true.

And what we're getting into is this next thing.

This is the Third, remember we had one Timothy, second Timothy and Titus.

These are the three pastoral epistles all written by Paul two to Timothy one to Titus.

And he's going to get into the qualifications.

We're going to do it again and again.

I just say this because the modern church has not done a good job in this.

The situation that was in Titus was entirely with Titus and in Crete was entirely different than the situation that Timothy had.

Titus had less to work with, fewer people and a lot more darkness in their communities.

So Paul gives a little bit different script.

And here's the key to understand that in the situations God alters that per circumstance people are like, well, we just tried to find a pastor or we tried to find an elder in our church.

We use first Timothy, two Timothy and Titus.

That's funny because one Timothy, two Timothy and Titus didn't use that.

I just thought I'd bring that up because Titus was a different circumstance.

You use what's applicable to your circumstance and that's what the Lord gives us, that broad sense.

And so he's encouraged to appoint elders.

And like I said, we'll get into elder qualification probably next week.

But it should be noted that leaders are an important part of things.

And I want to say this about leadership because we have good leadership, we have bad leadership.

We have people that are willing to serve and people that want to only be served.

We have self aggrandizers and people that use their leadership positions to gain personally.

And it was King David who said that in his writings he realized that the Lord had made him king for the sake of his people.

The difference between a good leader and a bad leader is right there.

If you recognize you're in a leadership position, it is for the sake of others, not yourself.

If you are a leadership, you have leadership in your home, with your family, at your job, you are there as a servant first.

And if not, then you're not doing what you are supposed to do that God appointed you to do.

And I mean in every capacity leaders need to have a servant's heart, a care for the people and they need to have a sensitivity to God.

You have to love these things because they're just the truth.

And I don't care.

Some leaders are good, some are bad.

Not every person in every one group is bad.

I mean that's just ridiculous.

Some people do a decent job, that's fine.

But it's all about the Lord and the people of the Lord.

And so even you, if you influence somebody in any capacity, that makes you a leader in some Situation.

You're a leader.

Hey, here it is.

Do it as a servant.

Servant leadership is Christ leadership.

He who wants to be greatest among you will be servant of all.

Okay, I guess it's not about the titles.

I guess it's not about the trophies.

I guess it's about using tools to help the people and to honor God.

What a brilliant idea that is.

Yeah, that's why it's thousands of years old.

Sorry.

Okay.

All right, folks, we will stop there and take our break.

You've been listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on KAM 770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

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