The episode emphasizes that it is perfectly acceptable to ask God for success in our endeavors, as demonstrated through the story of Abraham's servant seeking a wife for Isaac. This servant's prayer highlights the importance of seeking success not for selfish gain, but as a means to fulfill the promises made to others, particularly Abraham. David Spoon discusses the balance between asking for personal success and ensuring that such requests align with God's will and serve a greater purpose. He stresses that prayer should come with the right motives, focusing on how our requests can benefit others rather than just ourselves. The episode also touches on the significance of maintaining a good reputation and the ripple effect of God's blessings in our lives, encouraging listeners to engage actively with their faith through prayer and reflection.

Takeaways:

• It's important to document the blessings in our lives through a personal journal.
• Asking God for success in our endeavors is not only acceptable but encouraged.
• Understanding the difference between selfish motives and genuine requests in prayer is crucial.
• The ripple effect of God's blessings can impact those connected to us significantly.
• Maintaining a good reputation is more valuable than having great riches or wealth.
• Prayer during difficult times can help us gain patience, wisdom, and strength.

The discussion takes a deeper dive into the theme of divine communication, exploring how individuals often misinterpret God’s messages, expecting grand gestures when they may come in subtle, everyday forms. David Spoon invites listeners to engage more actively in their spiritual lives, suggesting that they keep a 'Jesus journal' to track God's blessings and interactions in their lives. This practice serves not only as a personal reminder of God’s faithfulness but also as a source of encouragement during challenging times. Spoon stresses the importance of recognizing and documenting the small victories and divine nudges that can easily be overlooked in the bustle of life.

Moreover, the episode delves into the mechanics of prayer, particularly the idea of asking God for success. Spoon argues that seeking success is not inherently selfish; rather, it is about the intentions behind those requests. Drawing from biblical narratives, he illustrates that when we ask for success, it should be with the desire to serve others and glorify God, not merely for personal gain. This perspective shifts the conversation from a transactional view of prayer to a relational one, emphasizing that prayer should foster a deeper connection with God and align our desires with His will. The episode culminates with Spoon encouraging listeners to be bold in their prayers while maintaining a heart aligned with God’s purposes, reinforcing the idea that God not only hears our prayers but is also intimately involved in our lives.

And now for something completely different.

Here's what's coming up this hour on today's experience.

It's fantastic, phenomenal, always fun, usually somewhat fascinating Friday as we head into the weekend, not being afraid even if the earth gives way or the mountains fall into the seas, because our help comes from the Lord.

Now, before I do this introduction, I have to say this.

We just did a 20 minutes straight rant on God speaking and people misunderstanding God's voice and thinking it thundered.

And what was the fill right after that?

But the one that I talked about years ago about God speaking and people thinking that it thundered.

If you did not hear the first 30 minutes of this show, I am telling you now, you should get the podcast when it gets up there and listen to it because God is talking to us.

Think about that.

The Lord is speaking to you and I cannot miss it.

If you weren't listening to this radio show, you might.

You just wouldn't get.

This was just incredible what just happened just now.

The very fill affirming what was just taught.

Come on, folks, you can't make this stuff up.

Get it?

All right, now to today or the rest of the lesson for today.

Our first topic, which I tried to teach.

I tried to teach all three of these messages before and never got to them.

So I took all three and put them together.

So now I'm really interested to see what the Lord will do.

The first topic is the Jesus journal.

Okay?

Again, if you want to use that name for a product, you can just do that and contribute 10% to the ministry.

That would be fine.

It's all yours.

The Jesus Journal is a record of all the blessings Jesus has bestowed upon our lives.

Regardless of how long you've been a Christian, you could start your Jesus journal today.

It may not contain the past 50 years, but it could document either the next 50 years or the next 50 moments that God talks with you, or even just the next five years, months, weeks, doesn't matter.

It will serve as a reminder of God's faithfulness.

How important is that?

Next, the following.

Devotion dd devotional diamond of the day from doctor Dave is it's okay to ask, so what does that mean?

There are times when we face a situation, a circumstance, or a crossroad that definitely requires confirmation, direction, understanding and success.

There is nothing wrong and everything right with asking God to help us in this.

The mistake lies in trying to use these blessings and successes for selfish purposes.

And finally, if you've ever watched sports on television, which many of you have, you remember the simplicity of the international soccer crew.

The ball, the nets, the low scores.

But when a team scores, the announcers are famous for their elongated cry of go.

How do soccer teams keep playing until they score?

Especially because of the low scores.

They keep their eye on the prize, understanding the difference between winning and losing.

Do we keep our eye on the prize?

It might surprise you to learn that sometimes it's beneficial to keep our eye on the stick.

Two David Spoons life has been an experience.

While growing up in a jewish family, he made a wrong turn towards drug abuse.

Then David Spoon found Jesus Christ and his life completely changed.

The more he studied the gospel, the more he wanted to share his experiences with others.

After 35 years of ministry, David discovered a new path of service.

He joined KaAM and this radio program began.

You're about to hear the David Spoon experience.

Welcome to the David Spoon experience.

Local, national and heavenly talk.

Here's what else we're looking at during the show.

Lessons for surviving living and prevailing politics, entertainment and current events.

Personal revelations, spiritual observations.

My life's insanities.

Oy, they so much more.

Now remember, it's not professional radio.

And just to verify it's not professional radio, we will talk to the shepherd of professional radio.

How about that?

Our very own Jammin Jacob.

Jammin Jacob.

Is this the David Smoon experience?

Professional radio?

Hello, everyone.

It is the shepherd here.

And no, it is not professional radio.

David.

Like that one.

That's a good one.

It really goes with the motif of the show, you know, it's just really right in there.

That's right.

This is not professional radio.

It's hardly radio.

Two strings, two cans.

I mean, in a string.

See, I couldn't even get that joke right.

That's how bad I am.

Here's the bottom line.

The bottom line is if you want to reach out to us, you can.

Here's what you can do.

You can email us.

Totally cool.

I get emails during the show.

Works really, really, really does work.

Davidhe mustincrease.org dot I get some emails I can't repeat on the air.

That's besides the point.

David mustincrease.org dot I also get texts and you can text us live during the show.

All right now.

Why?

Why would you do it?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Well, you can share a testimony, a praise report.

We love it.

It's great to do it.

It honors God.

It blesses other people.

It's totally awesome to hear.

You can share a prayer request.

It could be something that's on your heart.

You need to have prayer for.

We need prayer for this.

This thing is not working the way we need it to.

Or I don't understand it or I want to get more in sync with the Lord about it.

It could be something that you want to share, something the Lord's put on your heart.

Sergio just called in and asked the most simplistic, you know, I'm noticing this conversation between God and the people and between that and the opening question, right.

And between what we were sharing and what Eric shared with us.

And then the fill, we had 30 minutes where the Lord was going.

I am speaking just by sharing what was on his heart.

Maybe you got that going on.

Who knows?

We'll just see what the Lord does.

Maybe you got an answer to Bible trivia.

I don't know.

Let's see if you can do this one.

What man in the Bible was called the son of encouragement?

Acts, chapter four, verse 36.

Acts, chapter four, verse 36.

What man in the Bible was called the son of encouragement or actually the son of consolation.

That will also be good.

But the son of encouragement acts chapter four, verse 36.

Acts chapter four, verse 36.

Two things to tell you.

Number one, we do understand they're still a little static.

It's getting a lot better than it was the previous week.

But you just got to bear with it because we cannot control what they do on the mountains.

It's very difficult to explain there.

So we're definitely working on that.

Number two, and one of the things that somebody texted in and I want to respond to it, it's really, really, really important to understand that when the Lord does speak to you, this is something that just really popped on my heart.

Some of us will go, could that actually be the Lord?

And the difference between that and Abraham is that Abraham heard it and believed that's the difference.

See, he heard the voice of God and believed it.

He mixed it with faith.

Isn't that amazing?

Anyway.

All right, so which man in the Bible is called the son of encouragement or the son of consolation?

That would work, too.

Acts, chapter four and verse 36.

Who is that?

If you think you know, you can reach out to us.

In the meantime, we will do our DNA because we love DNA.

I love DNA.

D stands for draw closer to the Lord daily.

Okay, now, again, great scientific studies have been done at every major university in the entire world to determine that the word daily means every day.

Okay, cool.

Draw closer to the Lord daily.

D n.

Never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

Never be ashamed of what Jesus had to say, ever.

Ever.

I was just reading in my devotions today, second Peter, chapter three.

Peter is writing about Paul, and he says, our brother Paul, who writes things which some things are hard to be understood.

I don't know if you folks have read that or not in two.

Peter, chapter three.

But it's Peter going, Paul, man, he's kind of, he's up there.

That's Peter says, I don't understand it all, but I know it's the Lord.

And people take it and twist it and ruin it, and they make it, you know, go for their own things.

But even Peter, the apostle who wrote two epistles and helped establish the church with Jesus, think about this.

He didn't even get it all, but he was never ashamed when he was restored.

He was ashamed for a little bit prior, but then he got restored and kind of hung tight.

Right?

Okay, well, then he also got rebuked for kind of pulling away from the gentiles, but that's a separate issue.

Okay, so what I'm trying to explain to you is simply this.

Never be ashamed of what Jesus had to say.

You don't want to have to be restored.

Do you have Luke 926?

If you're ashamed of me and my words, I'll be ashamed of you when I come in glory with the father.

And then a, always be ready.

To serve.

To serve.

Just ready, right.

If the Lord was coming back in the next 24 hours, what would you do to be more ready, not just for him, but to be used by him?

Well, here's a brilliant idea.

Do that now and every day, whatever that is you would do, do that.

D draw closer to the Lord daily and never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

A.

Always be ready to serve.

Our trivia question, pretty straightforward, easy.

What man in the Bible was called the son of encouragement?

Acts, chapter four, verse 36.

If you think you know the answer.

Dedede to open up doctor David devotional diamonds of the day.

Exodus chapter 17, verse 14 says this.

Then the Lord said to Moses, write an account of this victory so that it will be remembered.

Tell Joshua that I will completely destroy the amalekites.

What this is coming on the.

And it's ironic because our third teach today is gonna be the beginning part of the story.

Didn't even realize that.

That's just for me.

And from the Lord.

Thank you, Jesus.

But here's what this.

Here's what it says, right?

The Lord said that.

Who said this?

The Lord said this.

Who said it?

The Lord.

You think we should listen?

I think so.

Write an account.

Write an account, you mean.

Right.

Well, I gotta be like this major writer kind of person.

No, but there are things the Lord does in your life that you can spend 60 seconds on jotting down in a bullet point.

God answered this prayer about this finances.

God answered my prayer for health.

God answered the prayer for our church.

God answered the prayer for one of the people on the radio fellowship.

God gave me victory over this situation.

God delivered me from this incident.

I was spared on the road when it could have been really bad.

God saved me.

In 60 seconds, you can be writing an account.

And he says, write an account of this victory.

Why?

Well, first of all, of the victory, because when you're doing this in the Lord, you prevail.

And if you look at scripture, there are so many accounts of God delivering his people.

That's a part of what scripture is.

No, what you're writing down is not going to be like holy writ, but it'll be important to you.

And the Lord tells you why so that it will be remembered.

Why?

Because we forget.

Don't.

Don't even.

I've been a christian long enough to do this with anybody, anywhere, in any room, ever.

We forget.

We often do.

What have you done for me lately?

We don't say it that way, but once God delivers us, we get into the next situation and we push what happened behind us and then we go, I know, but what about this?

I know, but what about this?

That is in fact saying to God, what have you done for me lately?

Do you see what I'm saying?

God will answer the prayer, yay, victory.

And then you have this next thing come up and you're like, oh, how are you going to get me out of this mess?

See, that's literally forgetting what just happened.

So I encourage everybody to write a Jesus journal.

That's right.

Call it whatever you want.

I call it mine little by little.

And I've been doing it for five years.

I should have been doing it for 45 years.

I've been doing it for the last five years.

I have over 100 pages.

I'm not kidding.

It's amazing.

Try it.

Then the Lord said to Moses, write an account of this victory so it will be remembered.

How cool is that?

It's pretty cool.

I mean, come on.

It's just like, wow.

And again, no, it's not holy rip, but it's what the Lord's doing in your life.

And then sometimes if you're feeling bluesy, you can go, hey, look at all this.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

There's a lot that the Lord does for us every day, isn't there?

Okay, we do have so many.

Are they ready to answer a trivia question?

Then?

Let's send them on through.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

David.

Hi.

This John.

Hi, John.

How are you, brother?

Oh, I'm okay.

How are you doing, brother?

I'm doing pretty good.

I'm just.

I was just kind of blown away by our 1st 30 minutes because I didn't expect it to go kind of like synced by the Lord.

I was like, wow, okay, great.

Sometimes I'm just doing this show and I'm just along for the ride.

That's kind of how I feel sometimes.

Carries you through?

Yeah, he carries me literally.

It's like the Holy Spirit just carrying those authors.

Like the Holy Spirit just carrying me through.

Now here you go.

I'm going to help you out, Dave.

Like, thank you, Lord.

Right.

Let me set it up for you, and then we can answer a trivia question.

Then you can tell us how you're doing from that point and see if there's anything we can pray for you.

But let's do the trivia question first.

Which man in the Bible is called the son of encouragement?

Barnabas.

That is correct.

Amanda, sir, one of my favorite people, and it's impossible for people to understand.

So Barnabas and Apollos were just these two extraordinary guys.

And Barnabas was like the encouragement guy.

I mean, he's the guy that brought Paul in.

Even when Paul.

Everybody's going, don't touch that guy.

He's toxic.

Don't touch that guy.

And Barnabas is the one that brought him in and made him okay.

And then afterwards, when Mark kind of messed up, who was Barnabas relative?

His cousin.

Ultimately, Barnabas ministry prevailed, because at the end of Paul's ministry, Paul said, bring Mark with me.

He's profitable.

So what a guy, man.

He's just bringing people in.

Love it.

Love that guy.

You kind of remind me of him.

Oh, that's very sweet.

That's very sweet.

I wish I had the money to send you on that one.

That's sweet of you to say, let me tell you guys.

Well, it's true.

We get the wrong really answer, you still okay with it?

That's classic.

That's all right, you know?

Yeah.

What about a guy, though?

I mean, I just like to get it.

Hey, this dude, this dude's the guy of encouragement, okay.

Hang around that guy.

I want to be around him.

Listen, my wife's calling in on the other caller id.

I better let you go.

But real quickly on that storm, the hurricane Milton headed toward Tampa.

It took us south or level turn instead of heading right into Tampa where our son and family lives, and just kind of bypassed them so they didn't lose as much as some of the people over there.

So that was answer to prayer.

Quick one.

So they're doing better?

Are they doing okay?

Yeah, yeah, they're fine.

They just got a heavy rain.

They said, wow.

I mean, there, he had a roof put in a year or two ago, and it was like a, what could withstand 110 miles an hour winds, one of those hurricane roofs, and it stayed on.

Wow.

Wow.

Praise the lord.

Tampa Bay Rays, Tampa Stadium.

You know, the baseball stadium was torn off.

Yeah, I saw that.

Or something like that.

Yeah, I saw that.

They did okay.

Yeah, I'm glad they did okay.

Praise the Lord for that and his kindness and protection.

Phenomenal.

I did see that the stadium, I did see it was all ripped up except for two little sections like, wow.

Yeah.

And man had actually taken me to that stadium for a ballgame years ago.

Wow.

Wow.

Nice and air conditioned.

Now it's not going to be so much, but anyway, hopefully they'll get it repaired.

Yeah, that's, that's kind of surreal, though, when you see it and you go, I've been there.

I mean, that's.

It's kind of a bizarre moment because you're like, I've sat there, I've been there, and, wow, look at that thing now.

It's like, incredible.

Yeah.

You know, that's wild.

Wild.

Wild, wild.

Well, John, we love you, brother, and we pray for you often.

And if there's anything you need, in particular, you don't hesitate, but we'll keep praying for you and your family to be safe and everybody to be doing better and stronger and, and keep blessed and keep consistent in the Lord.

Yeah.

Thanks, David.

You got.

All right, talk to you later.

All right.

God bless you.

Bye bye.

Wow.

That's it.

He's mentioning that.

It's just, it just made me think of something that I completely forgot about.

I'll just tell you this.

And, I mean, you know, the towers, when they went down and so on and so forth in New York, and I had been in the towers, like at the top.

At.

It's called.

I think it's called top central.

No, I can't think of the name of it.

But they had a restaurant up there and I had eaten there, like two years before the towers went down.

It's just like, so bizarre to think of it in those terms.

Anyway.

Well, praise the Lord that his family is safe.

Praise the Lord that the Lord does great things.

Those are the kind of things to write down.

Get it?

All right, we'll take a break and then come back.

You're listening to the David Spoon experience right here on Kam, 770, the truth station here in Texas.

Shortbreak.

We'll be back.

Who is David Spoon?

I have no idea.

People have asked me about the David Spoon experience.

They wanted to know what I thought of him.

Like any person searching for answers, I have wondered about him.

He was born and raised jewish and after intense drug use, became a Christian.

He's married to his best friend Noelle, has three children, six grandchildren, and a dog named Bert.

He has three separate ordinations from three different denominations and is a summa cum laude for his BA degree in ministry and leadership, as well as a master's degree of theological studies and has his doctorate of strategic christian ministry.

He has a weird sense of humor and talks a lot.

If people are seeking wisdom and insight from the great teachers around the world, would they go to David?

No, I don't think so.

And those big ears really don't help him.

But would they enjoy his perspective on life, culture, politics, food, sports, local and national news?

I don't know.

I guess people will have to listen to find out.

What is the David spoon experience?

You get into the word of God and something's going to happen that will blow your mind.

Ready?

The law of the Lord is perfect.

Psalm 119 seven says, able to restore the, the soul.

And I've been in, I've been doing this for a long time, and in my 42 and a half years of devotions and in my diligent devotion time, I kind of separate that between the two.

I cannot tell you.

It must be thousands of times where my attitude has been.

And then I went into the word of God and I came out different.

It wasn't anything that I did as much as God speaking into me what he knows about his creation.

And so I'm asking you, I'm pleading with you, even if you've been a Christian for 50 years, for 60 years, nay, for 70 years, like the apostle John was on the island of Patmos, be in the word of God.

It is alive and it will give life and impart life to you through God's spirit.

People come and they read the word of God and they say, well, I get nothing out of it.

Well, they don't mix it with faith and the word of God.

The promises of God not mixed with faith are useless because you have to be engaged with God and know he's going to speak.

People are like, well, that's a, that's a lot of requirement for me to get in there and read the word of God.

You want me actually to believe that God's going to speak to me?

Yes, because he will.

And if you don't, you won't hear him.

So when you open up that book, take 30 seconds more than you ever have before and say, just in this moment, just at this time, tune me in, Lord, help me to hear what you have to say.

Speak to me and let your word breathe life in and to me.

Welcome back to the David spoon experience.

Thank you for joining us here at KAAM, 770 the truth station here in Texas.

That's Kamen 770 the truth station here in Texas.

We're yet another fill supports what we've been teaching on the show.

I don't know what's going on.

I'm just sitting behind a desk.

I'm just moving papers around.

I'm not doing anything, really.

Just let the Lord do whatever he's going to do.

All right, folks, here you go.

Here's your next.

This is just one of those great, great things that happened.

Here's your next trivia question.

Okay, now I want to make this a little, a little, not easier, but I want you to be able to get this.

So this next verse is in Philippians.

You have to tell me which chapter.

In which chapter in the book of Philippians written by Paul, does he say, by the Holy Spirit, your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus?

Basically, that's the NIv in case you're like, well, I have this version.

Okay, well, you can still probably figure it out.

And in what chapter does Paul write?

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus.

It's either chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, or chapter four.

If you think you know.

Now, I know it's a little tougher, but see, one of the things that's important is for us to know where things are in the Bible, not to just go, that's in the Bible somewhere.

In fact, I've had conversations where somebody has actually said to me, that's in the Bible.

And because I know it decent, not greater than.

I mean, there's many people that know it a thousand times better than me, but I know it decently.

And so somebody said, well, that's in the Bible.

I just go, where's the address?

That's my line.

Where's the address?

And they're like, I don't know.

It's like, that's.

See?

There's no authority.

There's nothing there.

And then I tell them, no, that's not in the Bible.

And it's just like, you know, well, cleanliness is next to godliness.

It says so in the Bible.

No, it doesn't.

Thank you.

So that's my point, is just like, you gotta know.

Get it?

All right, all right.

So the question is, in what chapter?

Which chapter does Paul out of?

Philippians.

Philippians.

There's chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, chapter four.

Which chapter does he say?

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus, which, by the way, some of us could really use.

Really?

Listen to that.

All right, somebody is ready to answer a trivia question.

Let's send them on through.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

Hey, David, it's Jay.

How are you?

I'm doing pretty good, Jay.

How are you doing?

Oh, I'm financially not as good, but physically, I'm feeling a little better today, for whatever reason, but I'll take it.

Okay.

Take it.

Praise it to the Lord.

Right?

Yeah, right, though.

But it's.

Right.

Getting a little better in this area.

Gotta appreciate that.

Right?

Still working on the financial, which we'll pray over you for, which we believe for.

So.

I know, I know.

It's, like, frustrating.

Funny that this is the trivia question today, because both of my daughters.

I made them when they were about eight and nine years old, memorized Philippians two, five through ten, where Paul does tell about the attitude of Christ and that our attitude is to be the same as his.

That is correct.

So you got it.

Philippians chapter two.

And you taught him verse five.

Is that opening verse right there.

And it's amazing, though, because it's like we're supposed to like it's attitude.

So there's this whole teaching on the be attitudes, and that's a great teaching by one of these preachers that says, these are the attitudes that we should be.

These should be our attitudes.

That's why they're attitudes.

Exactly.

And it's like, what is like, you gotta have the attitude Jesus has.

It's like, what?

Well, and I've got to say, the.

The part that touches me the most about that verse or those verses is the part where he says, and make my joy complete.

Yes.

I mean, what.

What do I need to have the most complete joy that I possibly, we could have?

And that is to make your attitude, that is Christ Jesus.

That's excellent, excellent, excellent sharing.

That's really, really a good job, and people should really take heed to.

In fact, you should really listen to what Jay just said about that.

If you're looking for that completeness of that joy, you want to get all the way over, not just dipping your toe in, but getting all the way in the pool, so to speak, is have the same attitude that Jesus had that's going to get you in the water all the way.

And I'll tell you, you and I, you know, about me, to validate the fact that I've had some decent trials in my life, but to go through trials in life and then still have the attitude of Christ not only brings blessings in your life, but it also shows others that if you can hold that attitude and you can be that joyous, then so can they.

And it gives them hope, and it gives them the reason to look up and reason to do what you were saying while ago, getting their Bible purposefully, you know, not just, well, I'm going to read a chapter today, so, because I have to, you know, but to actually get in there and look for the Holy Spirit and find him and find Christ and find the Lord that created everything.

Amen.

Amen.

That's great, Jay.

I mean, you do great, man.

You do have a great ministry.

You just don't know it, but you have a great ministry.

Well, I love you very much.

And I just thought it was.

I thought it was my turn to answer a trivia question.

Since you picked that one out.

It was one of the ones.

It was like, okay, girls, who's ready to do Philippians two?

And, you know, Russell, Russell, Russell.

How to find them under their bed?

You know, it's like, come on, if you can say it, we'll go get ice cream.

You know, that's exactly the wrong way to motivate people.

Oh, we've been doing that for years.

Right?

You like McDonald's?

Clean your.

You like McDonald's, clean your room.

Anyway, there you go.

Yeah.

Well, let me pray over you on the financial.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

Let's do it.

Father, we come before you right now, and I thank you for my brother.

And, Lord, the first thing I pray for my brother is that he would know deep in his spirit, deep in his heart, he's loved.

And it's.

Lord, it's so hard to absorb that because we're at a distance and we do the show and we're the here and there.

But, Lord, it's the same thing that you had written in your word.

Paul said, I'm there with you in spirit.

And so we ask you to let Jane know that.

And that, Lord, we ask you for his finances, for his situation.

It's not bigger than you.

And we're asking you to manifest your generosity, your graciousness, and that you would pull him up out of the mire and put his feet upon a rock, a new song in his mouth, and bless him, and he will testify to the graciousness that has come his way.

Give him that opportunity, open up the windows of heaven, bless him, and let it change the way his life has been, and let him be able to declare it is because of the Lord.

We ask that blessing upon him and that ministry upon him, and we pray that in Jesus name, amen and amen.

Thank you so much, dear brother.

And know that I keep praying for you and your ministry and its growth, and more than its growth, that it touch, literally touch more and more people every day.

Amen.

No matter how that happens.

Amen.

Excellent.

That's excellent.

I want you to keep praying that that's a perfect thing because we want to do that.

Love you, Dave.

All right, God bless you, brother.

Love a great weekend.

You, too.

Bye bye bye.

All right, we will take our break here.

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The David Spoon experience teaching time I don't know how we're going to do the breaks, Gabriel, so I'll just look at me.

I'll let you know.

I mean, this is the best I can tell you because I'm going to teach you something that I hope I.

There's no way I can teach this.

I can't teach the worth, I can't teach the value.

But I'm going to do my best to share with you my heart in this process.

As american people, as people who live in America, we have been granted the right to pursue happiness.

And I want to make sure you understand what this means.

We have a preamble to United States Declaration of independence.

And the preamble to the declaration says, we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Now, I do want to point out, it does not say life, liberty and the provisions of or for happiness.

In other words, the rights that we have.

And the preamble is that we get to pursue happiness, not that it's provided for us by the government.

So that's kind of an important point for people to recognize.

It would be nice if they quit trying to quote a, quit trying to quote our founding fathers and then say they're entitled to something because of that provision.

Because it never says that if Jesus was, oh, welcome back to the David spoon experience.

Thank you for joining us here at KAM 770 the truth station here in Texas.

There's k double amen 770 the truth station here in Texas.

We're yet another show goes wherever it wants to go.

All right, here you go.

This is a more challenging trivia question, but I think you guys will be able to get it.

I'm confident.

Anyway.

Here we go.

Ready?

Proverbs 22 suggests what is more desirable than great riches?

Proverbs 22 says, something is more desirable than great riches.

What is that?

What is that thing that is more desirable?

If you think you know.

You can send an email David mustincrease.org dot now I am going to send you up to the website.

I haven't done that yet all day.

Thank you.

And I can tell you all the stuff.

The most important things are the books up there are free if you want one and they have a price to them.

But if you can't afford it, we will get it for you, no questions asked.

Okay, so there's five different books.

If you want it, you just send an email.

We'll get it taken care of.

Or you can actually do it right on the website and just send us a contact.

You can also have a prayer request plus a praise report.

Lots and lots and lots of stuff on there, plus links to fun stuff all over the place and a place to give, because giving is exceedingly important.

And because of this, the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything to which you put your hands.

So if you give, you give it unto the Lord.

It's completely between you and the Lord.

We will do our best as stewards, but it is fully in the hands of the Lord and you, and he promises to make that blessing back to you.

That's really for those that have never really tried to give, give it a shot.

I think you'll be amazed at what the Lord opens up for you, but we will not give you a Lamborghini, a whistle or a doughnut.

You will get a receipt at the end of the year for a tax deductible donation.

That's it.

Nothing else from us.

The rest of it's in the Lord's hands.

So check all the stuff out on the website.

He mustincrease.org prayer request he must increase.org dot praise report.

He mustincrease.org dot looking to give to this ministry.

He mustincrease.org dot confused by what's happening right now.

He mustincrease.org hemustincrease.org I don't feel like swimming right now.

I'm not going in the water.

It's getting pretty close where it'll be too cold to swim.

Yeah, we're getting to winter.

The order is close enough, especially after hearing that.

All right, we do have somebody on the line.

Let's go ahead and send them on through.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

Hey, doctor David, it's Will Rogers.

Hello, Will Rogers.

How are you, brother?

I'm doing so wonderful.

I can't stand it.

And I hope you're better.

I'm doing great.

And hearing your voice is such a blessing.

I'm not kidding.

It's just great to hear your voice on the radio.

What a blessing to hear from you.

Love it.

Love it.

All right, let me set you up.

And then when we're done, you tell me what's happening, how things that are going on.

Ready?

Okay.

All right.

Proverbs 22 suggests it's more desirable than great riches.

What is that thing that's more desirable?

Well, I think since the whole book is about wisdom, that's what it is.

Okay.

And that's an excellent guess.

But let me ask you this.

Let me ask you this.

What else that has to do with how people think of you, like, kind of like your rep.

What is it that there's more desirable than great riches?

Character.

Yes.

And that leaves people to believe that you have a good reputation.

That is right, sir.

A good name.

A good reputation.

That's right.

So it's a good, primarily, it's a good name and it's a good reputation.

And what the Lord's saying is, you know, having that is just better.

Having a good bank of people who think you got the right heart.

That's better than having a good bank that has zeros.

That's what he's saying.

And it's so true.

It's like you're a perfect example of that in that sense, that you have an excellent reputation, you're an excellent influence, and it's like that's worth more than money.

See that?

That's what it's all about.

How about that?

How are you doing?

How are things going?

Everything we can pray for you on.

I know we got you covered, but if there's anything, you let us know.

We're here for you.

Basically, no change, just continuing dealing with the aftermath of the.

Do you need wisdom in it or just patience?

More patience, probably.

All right, let me pray over you a little.

A little bit controlling my eating better for health purposes.

Okay.

Okay.

I got you on that one.

I got you on that.

Let me.

Let me pray for you.

Okay?

Yes, sir.

All right, father, we come before you right now, and I lift up will to you.

And I, Lord, I ask you to bless him.

I do.

I ask you just to bless him.

Everybody in this audience just.

We really appreciate him.

And, lord, first and foremost, he knows he needs a little patience.

And, Lord, I've been in that situation, and, Lord, I had no patience, and you know that.

And so I'm praying that you would help him do better than I did and enable him and give him the wisdom that goes along with that patience.

And also, Lord, he needs some help in the discipline arena.

He really needs help to do a better job in some elements.

Motivate him.

Your word in Colossians 129 talks about you giving us the energy for these things.

Give him the energy that comes from you to accomplish the task.

He needs to.

To take better care of himself, but also them.

The power of your spirit to operate in a greater sense of patience, peace, persistence and wisdom.

We ask your blessing on him for this weekend and for his life, and we thank you for him.

And we pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and savior.

Amen.

And amen.

Amen.

Amen, my brother.

That's great to hear.

You have a blessed day, sir.

All right, you too, my brother.

God bless you.

Bye bye bye.

Great to hear from Will.

All right.

There's so much I want to do and so much I don't have time to do.

So let's do this.

You know, I had these four teachings.

I'm only going to get to like one more, so in lieu of that, I would like to.

We haven't done a joke or history.

What are you thinking?

Either way?

Let's do history.

All right, we're going to do history.

All right, let's do history.

And then we're going to get into the.

The teaching part.

This.

Get one of two teachings in, but it'll be a good one.

Let's do history.

All right.

For those that don't know.

Tonight at sundown is the beginning of Yom Kippur.

It goes for a little while.

Here's something to know.

If you have any jewish friends, you don't say, oh, Mary, yom Kippur.

Okay?

Because this is the day of atonement.

And so what you pray for is a peaceful.

Or you give them a gesture saying, peaceful Yom Kippur.

Or something.

That's a shalom yom Kippur.

Like a peaceful, a gracious Yom Kippur.

This is the day of atonement that Israel as a nation, from the Old Testament point of view, the day where the priest goes into the very presence of the most high God dealing with the sins of the people.

Of course, we have a great high priest who has done that for us.

Hebrews chapter ten, verses 19 through 24.

But the idea is to understand that it's a most reflective time.

And so at least, and I will say this, because some nations don't do this, at least as a group and as a nation in large, they acknowledge their sin, which is the right step in the right direction.

So keep aware of that.

Starts at sundown today.

Also, today is national sausage Pizza day.

I don't know how you can go around with it.

I don't think it's actually possible to go wrong with it.

I don't think.

I see no possibility of going wrong with that.

Unless you get a frozen pizza and you don't cook it, then that would be wrong.

Okay.

That's about.

That's all I can come up with.

What do you think?

Is that, like, right?

Yeah, yeah, that sounds about right.

It.

Okay.

Sausage on a pizza, like you said, as long if it's frozen, then no, but anything else?

If it's cooked, I'm eating it.

If it's cooked, it's great if you're eating it.

Frozen therapy.

Last couple things to say on this today.

So 105 years ago today.

Listen to this.

The first airline in flight meal.

How about that?

105 years ago.

It's just, here's a most people that listen to our show, almost everybody listen to our show.

You are not as old as airline food.

Wow.

I wonder what the people's reaction was to when that first happened.

They were thinking, wow, fancy.

I'm eating on a plane.

Yeah.

Now you're like, I'll sneak on.

I'll sneak on a burger.

Okay.

1983.

Listen to this.

The last hand cranked telephone call.

The last hand crank telephone.

Magneto telephone calls.

I don't know how they know that, but it just seems weird to me.

I don't know.

Yeah.

How would they know that?

I don't know.

There's some things you see?

And you go, okay.

Anyway.

All right, see, this is me crumpling up the history.

See, there you go.

There you go.

Hey, we've got the sausage thing out of it.

All right, we're just going to do this one.

I just want to teach this one.

Just bear with me.

And it's not perfect, and none of it's perfect.

And we do the best we can before the Lord.

Do your best.

Pray that it's blessed.

Let Jesus take care of the rest.

Stop trying to control it afterwards, especially people like me.

Knock it off.

Here's the title of this one.

It's okay to ask.

Okay, we're going to end with this one.

So I got to say this literally to Rosalind.

Go, I can't do it.

I don't have time to do that teaching.

Okay.

Genesis 24, ten through twelve.

Okay, got about ten minutes.

Let's get to this.

The servant who was in charge of Abraham's property took ten of his master's camels and went to the city where Nahor had lived in northern Mesopotamia.

When he arrived, he made the camels kneel down at the well outside the city.

It was late afternoon, the time when women came out to get water.

He prayed, lord God of my master, Abraham, give me success and keep your promise to my master.

So the background is, most people know that Abraham had given his servant.

The servant was likely Eliezer.

Eliezer was likely him.

We get that from Genesis 15 two.

Because he was the chief servant, he was tasked regardless to find a wife for Isaac amongst Abraham's relatives.

Okay.

Not an easy task.

I think we should recognize.

Hey, that's kind of a toughie right there.

And so we need to understand that he's in this situation and he's like, okay, I'm gonna.

I know.

And he already knows.

God has been faithful to Abraham, right?

And how does he know that God has been faithful to Abraham?

Isaac was there.

Isaac was born.

He was finding a wife for Isaac.

Hey, Sarah wasn't supposed to have children, but God did a miracle for Abraham.

That miracle that Abraham had engaged with had fallout.

And I love to talk about this because it's the ripple effect.

It's throw a rock in the water, what happens?

It hits the water, but what happens?

There's ripples that go in all different directions.

Well, this miracle that took place for Abraham and for Sarah had a ripple effect.

And this guy who's the servant of Abraham, was a witness to that miracle.

He didn't participate in the miracle, but he was connected to it because he was connected to Abraham.

When God does something phenomenal in your life, it has an impact on people who are connected to you, but not if you keep it a secret.

Right.

Okay, that makes sense.

So his task given by Abraham was to find a wife for Isaac.

So he goes to where he was supposed to go, where Abraham's clan was.

He goes to where Nahor had lived in northern Mesopotamia.

He arrives, has the camels kind of chill.

It's late in the afternoon.

Women are bringing water out, and he prays, lord, give me success.

So I want to say something about this, because this can be abused and abused by going too far and abused by going too short.

So too long and too short.

Some people think you shouldn't ask God for success.

That's dumb.

Let me give you the theological response to that.

That's dumb.

It's just dumb.

It's like, of course you can ask God.

Of course it's okay to ask.

But that doesn't mean every time you ask, God will always give you success.

There will be times where he will and times where he won't.

There's times where he wants to do it his way and times where the way that the person wants to do it works in the plan of God.

Great.

But it's not a sin to ask, and that's really the core of what I'm trying to teach.

So he said he prayed, Lord, God of my master, Abraham, notice that he.

He's going to God through the Abraham connection, which I think is fascinating.

Give me success today, and if you give me success, you'll be keeping your promise to my master, to his mission.

He was looking to succeed.

Have you ever done something?

You're doing an endeavor, you're doing anything work related, family related, whatever.

It's not wrong to say, lord, give me success.

This is not, like a bad thing, and I want to get away from that.

People think, well, that's, you know, that's.

Name it and claim it.

No, it's not.

It's asking God for success.

But you also do the exact same thing.

Jesus, did you surrender it?

You say, lord, give me success.

He didn't say, I demand success.

Let's name it and claim it.

That doesn't work.

You say to the Lord, grant me success.

But you recognize it has to be God that gives it to you.

Now I want to make sure you understand why I'm not going to go into the story, the rest of that story.

What I want you to understand is it's okay to ask.

Not all prayer is proper.

What?

You can't say that.

This is a christian radio station.

Not all prayer is proper.

Here's what James four one three says.

What causes conflicts and quarrels among you?

Do they not come from the passions that war within you?

You crave what you do not have, you kill, you covet and you are unable to attain it.

You quarrel and fight.

You do not have because you do not ask.

And when you do ask, you do not receive because you ask with the wrong motives that you may squander it on your pleasures.

Not all prayer is proper.

Sometimes when people pray, and James wasn't writing to non christians, that's absurd.

And any person who teaches who says that is just left the reservation, just off the reservation.

He's like, look, the problem is that we engage with God and there's times where we want things and we want them, but not because they're good for us, not because they're in a way to honor the kingdom, but we want them so that it will be pleasurable for us.

And so it's not that it's wrong to ask for success, but if we're asking for success simply so that we can always be the beneficiary, the one that always prospers and is always blessed and doesn't matter what happens to anybody else, then we're totally missing it.

If the Lord blesses you and then you in turn can bless others, perfect.

But if the Lord blesses you and you keep it for yourself, completely imperfect.

So when you pray, do it with the right motives, the right attitude, not that you could squander it on your pleasures, but that you can give genuine honor to God.

And people need to separate this, because when we ask for something that we're trying to consume on our pleasures, we're just being selfish.

And that's not the way the kingdom is.

So this servant is asking for success and even makes it clear, I want you to give me success and you keep your promise to my master.

In other words, he's asking for success on the behalf of Abraham.

See that?

That spirit right there, that one, we want that we want that thing because that spirit is the attitude that saying, hey, I want this to be successful, but I want it to be successful for my master, this person that you are so closely connected to.

And it will bless them.

You see that that spirit, that it, that we want that.

I want that.

So it's great to ask God.

It's okay to ask any time.

The warning here is not to ask for self consumption alone.

It's not that you can't participate.

But remember, those that are first will be last and those that are last shall be first.

So it's one thing to be a recipient of an answer to prayer, but it's a whole other level of Jesus to make sure you're last in line over that.

Maybe our prayers should be geared towards whatever benefits us.

We are well aware that we are first stewards of the kingdom of God.

And maybe it's sharing it and maybe it's sharing the testimony of it.

I don't know.

All I'm trying to say to you is that some prayer is not proper.

Especially prayer that is so focused on ourselves that we're missing being a blessing to others.

I think when we pray a prayer and we're genuine and we're asking for success and it's genuinely for the benefit of others, it's a whole different spirit of prayer.

That's what the Lord wants us to have.

The Jesus part of us, the holy spirit part of us in prayer.

Okay.

Okay.

All right, folks, you have been listening to the David Spoon experience right here on KAam, 770, the truth station here in Texas taking a 72 and one two hour break.

Then we'll come back.

More insanity with spoonanity talk to you.

Then I will lay me down in peace and sleep for you.

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