Man Cave Edition - Praise Thanks

0:02 So when it comes to trusting God, that means believing in his reliability, believing in his word, believing in his ability to solve all our problems, to go before us, to go behind us, to go all around us. The Bible says that God cannot lie. That he always keeps his promises that he loves each and every one of them Jeremiah 29 11 for I know the plans And the thoughts that I had for you says the Lord plans for peace and well being and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope.

0:49 Guys, that is a promise from God himself. Rejoice. And to man 360 starts in three, two, one. You've tuned into man to man 360, the show for men by men dealing with all subjects. The twist here is we come from a biblical worldview to encourage and empower men to make it in life through the power of Jesus Christ.

1:31 Chopping it up, chopping it up, chopping it up, talking about everything you're talking about. Sometimes it's cool and sometimes it's heated. This is Man to Man 360. Hey, welcome to a brand new episode of man to man 360. And of course I am your host, Daryl Anderson, and I have a brand new episode this week. And as you know, this is our man cave week. So this past weekend we had the man cave men's fellowship. And of course I like to Bring those recordings to the man to man 360 podcast and play those for you.

2:15 I think they're pretty cool. And I think that's something that you can pull from and encourage you guys out there. So this is another month. And this one, because we were coming out of Thanksgiving and going into The holidays last year we did this before and I want to bring it back sort of almost like an annual type of thing. So where we, the guys just do testimonies and, and give God praise and honor about for what he's done throughout the year in their lives. And this was just a great opportunity for guys to do that publicly in the big fellowship, but also in the smaller groups. And that type of thing. So this is a great opportunity. I love this part of the year and, and, and this particular fellowship.

2:58 And I want you guys to hear this. So this is going to be, I believe the name of this one is praise and Thanksgiving or praise and thanks. And so that's what we're going to jump right in. I got three of the guys, though, they're going to be speaking and encouraging out of the word and just some exhortation. So they're going to do a couple of small, well, actually three short messages in this episode. So you're going to hear from James Mormon, Jesus Vega, and Paul Sutcliffe. These are my core guys, my staff guys in the, in the man cave. And so great guys, you're going to get a chance to hear from them and hopefully there'll be an encouragement to you all listening, especially as we go into the holiday season, especially going to the darkest time of the year, which is sometimes the most depressing time of the year.

3:46 Regardless of where you are in the country. And so we wanted to always be uplifting at this time and hope that this is going to be an uplift, uplifting show as a result. So here it goes now, before going in any further, as usual, go to man, demand three 60. com that's man, the number two man, three 60. com and there's where you can subscribe to the show. You won't have to chase the show once you subscribe, then it'll pop up in your phone. Every time we have a new episode and you can go from there, you can also share that show and even let us know what you think about the show. So listen, without any further ado again, this is the man cave edition of praise and thanks.

4:28 Here it goes. Hey, good evening, everybody. Good evening, guys. How you guys doing? Good. How was Friday? How was tonight? You guys had a good Friday? All right, you guys ready for the man cave? Okay. So, so, so tonight you guys know the theme tonight, right? It's Thanksgiving and praise. Thanksgiving and praise. So last year we did probably have it as an annual thing where we want to thank God for the year. So last year with, you know, whatever, however, God bless you throughout the year.

5:08 Hey, we want to use tonight as that night. They were thinking God for what he's done for you this year. Amen. So I'm going to say this and I don't mean to say this to scare anybody, but the reality is well, let me speak for myself. I'm not promised to see 2025. That's the facts. That's the facts, right? Amen? And I'm healthy. I'm healthy as a horse, right? At least that's what the numbers say. Right? Don't know what the truck that I'm crossing the street will say. I don't know, right? But at the end of the day, I can't promise you that. So I gotta give God praise on this side. One of the things, and this is just, I don't know, I don't know, maybe it's just me, but Remember when the Oscars, I don't watch those shows anymore, I haven't watched those shows in like 10 years, but when I used to watch those shows, like the Oscars and the Grammys and what not, Every year they would have that sobering part where they would show all the people who had passed, right?

6:01 And it was always interesting to me on, it seems like, maybe that's just the way it felt like, but it always seemed like, like the month of December would come in and it was like, okay, oh man, we got so many people that have to die before the end of the year. Let's just bump them all in right now, right? And you would get a lot of people, and you would watch on and be like, oh my God, he just died, oh my God, he died too. And it seemed like they all just Press them in before the end of the year. Like, wow! Man! So, I think that, I don't know if there's anything to that. But one thing I do know is that, when I see that kind of thing, it always reminds me, man, as rich and famous as those guys are too, Man, ain't nothing guaranteed. Not that I needed them to know that, but nothing's guaranteed.

6:44 So I just want to thank God for this side, just in case we don't make it over there. God's going to get the glory on this side. Amen. And we just want to give God some praise. Why? Because I also believe this. Praise is the launch pad into next year. If I can praise God for what he did this year, if I can, if I can thank him for what he, for the little things and the big things he's done this year, man, I'm expecting something for next year. And so I need my year to start right. Kramer. I need my year to start right. Because when 2025 comes in, I don't want guys to say, well, man, you didn't even honor me in the things I did for you last year. Amen. I want to be able to say, Hey, you know, you, you, you respected the little things.

7:27 And so now let me open up some big things for you. Amen. That's why praise and Thanksgiving is super, super important tonight and this year and this month. So guys, whatever it is, don't, don't forget about comparing yourself to anybody. If you think. That there's a testimony that you have and it's just a it's a five second testimony Or it's maybe it's a two minute said don't let it be at six minutes But if it's a two three minute testimony testify of it. Thank God for what he's done for you whether it be in your health whether it be in your your your your your your your marriage or your Relationships or in your body or in your money or in the time that you spent with God or in the revelations that God has given you All those things are blessings that you're going to be able to use later.

8:20 And you're going to be a blessing to somebody else by telling that testimony because somebody, I didn't know you was going through that, man. Well, well, I got to testify now because now I know I'm not the only one. I thought I was the only one suffering that. And, but God brought me through. No, no. It was not just you, me too. That's the opportunity guys. Amen. We're going into the darkest part of the year. Let's give God some praise because we don't know what else somebody's going through. So let's encourage them with the praise and the thanksgiving tonight. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Tonight's the night. This is the last man cave of 2024. Amen. Y'all ready to praise God? No, no, seriously. Are y'all ready to praise God?

9:01 I mean like with hands clapping, with singing, with jumping and praising. How many of y'all ready to praise God? How many of y'all ready for the man cave? Well, then welcome to the man cave. I was telling the guys in our meeting earlier today and I think actually on Wednesday too, I think it was. That I think I had some kind of cold or something on, on, on Monday. I, I, we had a dinner here for leaders and what not and when I left here, I told my wife, I said, man, I'm feeling sort of achy, like in the joints of the world, like, like everywhere, right? Sort of like when you get like a flu or something like that, I'm like, ah, this ain't good. I might have to call in. I don't know. And so long story short, I took some some, some NyQuil and, and knocked me out and then I went to work and I couldn't shake this thing the whole day, man.

9:43 I mean, after waking up, still couldn't shake it. Cause the achiness went away, but now the grogginess of the medicine actually had me messed up. And so anyway, long story short, as I was thinking about that and whatnot and just what we go through, there's a phrase that I know a lot of us say, and I know some of you have said this. I'm, I'm going here only because I want you to be thinking differently because I'm going to be, we're going to be sharing more of this next year, not this year. But when you go through something, stop saying, you ready? It's because we're getting older.

10:24 It's because I'm getting older. It's because I'm getting older. Ah, well, but you know, we're getting a little older. Ah, it's because we're getting a little older. That's not true. Because God designed the body to live for over 900, 000 of years. You weren't even supposed to die. Well, you know, because of sin. Okay then, we have to live, our body shouldn't be breaking down at 40, 50, 60, 70. Amen? It's not because you're getting older. Rebuke that thought right now. Because you getting older is a good thing. Somebody say a good thing. I was talking to my wife about this.

11:05 I was talking to my wife. She said, well, you know, because I said, no. I said, because if that's the case, then the other alternative is Don't get older. Die young. And I don't want to die young. I want to live out my days. I want to be like Caleb. He said, man, I'm 80 years old, man. I'm just as sure now as when I was in my thirties and forties. Stop saying it. I'm going to say this real quick and I'm gonna get out of the way. The reason a lot of our problems happen. I'm speaking about myself. I'll be dealing with this more next year though, because we'll be dealing with some health issues, not necessarily in here, but in separate breakouts. If you live 20 years doing a thing the wrong way, you are now eating the fruit of doing something 20 years the wrong way.

11:57 If I've been eating things that cause inflammation in my body, and inflammation was developing my body for 20 years, then after 20 years, I'm like, wow, that's because I'm getting older. No, it's because you've been doing something the wrong way for 20 years. Just like if you've been doing something right with your body. You would say, wow, okay, man, I'm doing little things here and there, but praise God. Why? Because you've been doing certain things right for 20 years. So you're eating the fruit of that. It's not because of age. It's because of what you've been doing with the time. If you spent time in God's word for 20 years, you're going to eat the fruit of that. If you neglected God's word for 20 years, you're going to eat the fruit of that.

12:40 Are y'all still with me? If you did your money right for 20 years, you're going to eat the fruit of that. If you split it all up, you're going to eat the fruit of that for 20 years. Has nothing to do with age. Y'all still with me? Y'all still with me? Has nothing to do with it. So I wanted us to change our mindset on that, because in other words, it's never too late to do the right thing, and I can switch my life around just like that. Man, I've been so abusive to my wife verbally. Oh my God. She's gonna walk away. She probably would because she's been doing that, you've been doing that for the last 10, 20, 15 years. But I can switch it. I can, I can change my tongue on how I speak to my wife, how I speak to my kids, how I speak to my boss, how I show up late all the time, how I, how I, how I treat ministry, how I treat church, and I show up when I get there.

13:28 You've been doing that for 20 years and nobody respects you and that's why you never get promoted. Oh, got real quiet again. Sorry. Amen. But if I switch it, if I switch it, you've never been plugged in. You've never been plugged up, you've never been accountable to anybody, and you're wondering why certain things don't happen a certain way, and you're jealous when you, when you see certain guys prospering in certain areas, or they get promoted in certain areas. Guys, that's about to change. We're gonna, we're gonna help every last guy in here, including everybody in here, go to the next level and prosper in those areas, whether it be in health, whether it be in spiritual things, whether it be in ministry, whether it be in my relationships, my family, and guess what?

14:11 Don't, don't throw away the friends! Don't throw away the friend. Jesus spent three and a half years with friends. So what you do with your time is going to be real crucial to the next thing. Yeah, but I got to work. Everybody got to work. Stop that lie. Everybody in here got to work. Everybody got to go to sleep. Everybody got to eat. Stop. We all got to do the same thing. Nobody's different. But what are you doing with your time? That's the next level. Somebody say victory. The theme 2025 that's been really been pressing on my heart for the last several weeks was victory. We're gonna be walking in victory, guys. Amen? We're gonna be walking in victory.

14:51 And guys, so let's look forward to next year. Let's thank God for tonight and for this year. But let's give God some praise. Where's Reed? Reed, come on up here. Reid has an awesome testimony to share. And I want him, because he raised his hand to share, and I want him to share this tonight with you guys right now. Alright, I've had a rough year this year, and started with I got an infection in my ear, and so I went to the emergency, or the, the urgent care. They put me on antibiotics, and I figured, okay, it's gonna take, a while to several days for it to cure up, but it didn't, it got worse. So I ended up in the emergency room and it's a good thing I showed up there that day because they said they found an abscess in my brain.

15:36 So long story short, they got the drills I'll drill all in my brain and remove the abscess, put me on antibiotics. Okay. I'm healing. They sent me home maybe a week and a half, two weeks later, all of a sudden I'm getting even sicker now. Okay. There was some reaction with the antibiotics. So I'm back in the emergency room again and they had to figure out what was going out with my antibiotics. So I, I ended up approximately six weeks of shooting antibiotics in my arm. They gave me a, what they call a pick line. So I had a little spot where I take the antibiotics and, and, and inject it into my arm and it would get into my system.

16:18 Finally I heal from that. Praise God. You know, I never lost any doubt. Everybody in this, this group here and the entire church family was praying for me. I'm, I'm the poster child for how good that prayer works, you know. So, August 1st, I'm at the church. I put the bulletins together. You know, I do that work every week just to make sure. It's a Thursday. Man Cave's gonna start. I'm all psyched up to go to Man Cave. I pull out of onto Lake Ave. I'm heading south towards the 7 Eleven. I, I didn't even get to the 7 Eleven. Some guy come across the lane that was going north.

17:00 I'm going south. Crash right into the front of my car and Grace of God, I, I'm, I'm alive. I mean, I took a hard hit. My, my vehicle got pushed back into a tree. So the back end got smashed in, the front end got smashed in. The, the airbags went off and somehow I managed to get out of that vehicle only with a broken collarbone. So, I mean, that, that was just a miracle. I had surgery. I'm recovering from that. I can't, my arm is still a little, you know, I can't do like, but it's, it's working, you know, I know God is healing me and it's, it's just going to take time.

17:44 One other time I had, because of that infection in my ear, I had to go back and they did what they call a mastoidectomy. There's a little bone in the back of your ear that, They wanted their check out and make sure everything was fine with that. So they went in and they, they healed that and, and I'm all good. So I'm on the healing process and I have this whole family, this group here, everybody to, to thank for that. Plus God, obviously. All right, guys. So tonight, I've got a couple of surprises for you, First up, I've got, Brother James is going to be actually speaking for a few minutes, about five minutes, whatever.

18:28 And just encouraging you guys, I ask the guys, if there's a word that you have for the guys, it can be whatever you want. Um, You know, share that with the guys and this is going to be your encouragement to take you out of 2024 and into 2025. So um, everybody is, let's give it up for James Mormon. We'll pick up from there right after this. The man cave is developed around, we call it the five pillars.

19:11 There's praise and worship, where we sing a song or two, and really just invite the presence of God in, get the guys singing and clapping and whatever, and really make a push on getting guys into the music. Because typically guys like to avoid praise, or lifting of hands, or singing and that type of stuff, so we really put a focus on that. And then we go right in from that into prayer, you know, intercession prayer. We ask guys if there's certain things that they want us to pray for, to agree with them in prayer for and we make sure to focus it on them. Sometimes guys will say, Hey, yes, and I got this neighbor, can you pray for them? And we're like, no, no, no. We want to know what is it that you need prayer for? Because, because you're the neighbor, that's your job to pray for your neighbor.

19:52 From there, we actually. going to the competition part. Now that's the exciting part of the man cave. It just creates that competitive piece, makes it exciting, but it gets that testosterone bubbling up and everything else. And there's a reason to that really too. I've been doing men's ministry now for almost 30 years. A lot of times men don't really have those men focused things at churches. So in some cases, To guys, it can feel a little feminine or emasculating in some cases. And because of that, we want to make sure that there's a masculine feel to men's fellowship. It's both fun. It's inviting. It's also used as a fish bait to get guys out. The other reason that we do competition is so we can create two teams.

20:33 And in creating two teams, we create a camaraderie between those guys. They stay on those teams for the duration. You don't go from second Friday to second Friday. No, you're contacting guys in between guys, able to reach out. Guys are able to, Hey man, I'm really dealing with this thing. I'm struggling with this thing. So they can reach out to somebody. We go from the competition part and then we go into the work. We go into scripture. We do some teaching and then we make. Breakout into breakout groups, the breakout groups allows guys to be able to answer some things or share their thoughts on those same tough topics that was just preached a few minutes ago. The word is a two headed sword. It cuts open things. It exposes us to ourselves, at least.

21:15 To what's really happening on the inside or the things we've been trying to cover up and hide. And then we break from there and then we, we eat. That's a great time to be able to dive in and just really see how guys are doing. Pastors and churches don't have a men's ministry. You're missing out on the opportunity to be a man. Free that man from that thing he's been trapped in that that stronghold has been in his life In's ministry allows him to be free vulnerable and then free Raise the Lord brothers So they're all asked us to pick a scripture and guys I find it amazing how much you can get out of one Verse the Lord is my strength and my impenetrable shield my heart trusts You With unwavering confidence in him, and I am helped therefore my heart Greatly rejoices and with my song.

22:58 I shall thank him and praise him Guys, I'm gonna start with strength God is the source of our strength not only This physical strength this strength God breathed life into our lungs when we were born. God himself breathed life into each and every one of us. God wakes us up every single day so we can provide for our families. We can watch over our kids. We can watch our communities. God is the source of that strength. He is my shield.

23:39 Guys, when I think of shield, I think of like a medieval knight with a big giant shield with arrows in it. Guys, those arrows are imminent death that God has put between us in death and God is that shield. Oh Lord. Trust. Trust is a firm belief in the reliability, the truth, the ability, the strength, the Of someone or something guys, we trust in God almighty. So when it comes to trusting God, that means believing in his reliability, believing in his word, believing in his ability to solve all our problems, to go before us, to go behind us, to go all around those guys.

24:36 The Bible says that God cannot lie. that he always keeps his promises that he loves each and every one of us. Jeremiah 29, 11 for I know the plans and the thoughts that I have for you says the Lord plans for peace and wellbeing and not for disaster to give you a future and a hope guys, that is a promise from God himself. Oh, rejoice. The definition of rejoice is to feel or show great joy or delight.

25:25 I will rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. Guys, we get to rejoice every single day for everything that he's done for us, guys. We got a lot to be thankful for. And now, Jesus. Give the Lord a round of applause, man. Seriously, man.

26:06 Uh, Uh, I'm gonna, I'm Gonna be talking about, we were talking about Thanksgiving praising the Lord, right? I'm going to go into Daniel 6, 10, Daniel 6, 10. Now, when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows were open towards Jerusalem. And three times a day, he got down in his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his Lord, just as he had done before. Three times a day, he gave thanks to the Lord.

26:46 He prayed, thanking the Lord. He didn't pray, Oh God, I need this. Oh God, I need that. I didn't no, deliver me from, no. He gave thanks to the Lord, as he had done before. That means, That no matter what circumstances were ahead of him and no matter what other circumstances Were before him he remembers who delivered him from all those situations. Amen This man was getting ready to go and face some lions. Amen And he said thank you lord for what you have done in my life.

27:26 So we as Fleshly living beings, right? Sometimes, we go through some good times, and we go through some bad times. And I guarantee you, most of us, if not all of us, have had some valleys this 2024. Only one, Dad. Only one, Ed. I guess everybody here is perfect. Huh? I guess everybody here, right? Oh, no, they looking, oh, looking good. But guess what? Even if you didn't go in 2024 and 2025, there's gonna be some valleys. Amen? In fact, like Pastor says, guess what? As soon as you leave out of here, right? You may face a valley. My brother just talked about that in his testimony.

28:10 He was here doing God's work. And as soon as he left out of here, he was getting ready to go to the retreat. Amen. That was the weekend of the retreat, the day that he was going to go to the retreat, stopped in his tracks. There's that valley. And sometimes what happens with us, because we all live in our emotions and our fleshly self, we tend to forget. Am I speaking to somebody? We tend to forget all the good things that the Lord has brought us from all the things that the Lord has brought us from first Thessalonians.

28:51 Writes it up really really beautiful fives first Thessalonians 5 16 to 18 says rejoice always pray continually giving thanks in all Circumstances he's saying some he's saying here then this circumstance. No, he said all circumstances for his but this is God's will and For you in Christ Jesus. This year has been hectic for myself.

29:32 And I'll give you the testimony, and I've shared it before. God has put some things in our, that challenged us in a way with our child, with our son, that we had to pull him out of school, we were doing homeschooling, all that stuff. And my wife, we had to pull, I had to pull her from work so she could homeschool. So for the first time in 22 years, in 22 years that we've been together, we went to a one income household. One income household. That is a struggle for somebody, for a couple that have been working and working and working together, making the financials needs at the home to go to a one income household. It is tough, but, but God, but God, but God, but God was able to sustain us throughout the whole process in that time.

30:25 Amen. Was it hard? Absolutely. Yes. In fact, for the retreat, I was, I almost thought I wasn't going to be able to go, not because of the finance aspect of it, but because of work work through some challenges as well. Who gets challenges at work? All of us do. If you have a job, you know, you go through a lot of challenges at work. We were short staff. I needed to be there. I'm a manager that the expectation that is required of me, right. To be there. And I said, finally, I say, you know what? Let it be your will. I am telling you when we're talking about peace and having a peace in your heart, in your mind, that the Lord gives you what I'm listening brothers.

31:12 I'm telling you, I chat now. I will only hope that you guys can feel that peace. I was stressed out for like two weeks, man. Do I go, do I not go? Can I go? Can I not go? And I was walking, literally, I was walking in the shop and literally in my mind, I said, Lord, you got this man. You got this. You got this. You have brought us from this, all this, this whole year to the month of August. You have not failed us. You have not forsake us. You have provided for us. Why am I stressing over something? I can just come back on Monday and say, you know what it is what it is.

31:58 It is what it is. If I come to a mess, I come to a mess, but I'm going to put you first, Lord. The place didn't burn down. The place is still there. The place is still existing. And then what happens? I get a promotion and my job about a month later, my wife now gets a promotion. She gets a new job. My son is now in school and is doing better than what he was doing a year ago in the year before. Amen. Do we still go through those troubles and times?

32:38 Absolutely guys. Listen, the devil's going to keep coming. He's going to keep coming. He's going to keep coming 2025. He's going to keep coming. You live out of here. He's going to keep coming, but you know what? Be thankful to the Lord for what he has done for you. Why he has brought you from, especially this year. Because all things, guess what, are subject to change. All things are subject to change. So if you're still going through it today, tomorrow is a new day. Amen? After we leave out of here, it will be a new day, my brothers. All right? So be encouraged, be thankful to the he has done for you this year.

33:20 And look forward. Don't look back. Don't look backwards. Amen. I picked up a verse from Isaiah and it's Isaiah nine two. And I want to give you a little background. At this time in history, Israel has turned its back on God. It's about to be devoured. Judah has decided to Too bad, God.

34:01 They've pretty much said no. But God has a remnant. They're gonna stay. And follow. This verse is given 800 years before Jesus comes. Anybody been outside in the dark where there's no light? And you can't see your hand in front of your face? Who's done that? Yeah. I want you to think about that darkness and how that feels. And this is what the verse says. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light.

34:47 They that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined. 800 years in the future. That light is the living Lord Jesus Christ, who came to die for you, for me, and he, that's what they saw, that light coming, that hope, evangelist, I met an evangelist and it hits me every day when I think about the message of Christ. Evangelists tell us, this one evangelist, he died shortly after telling me this.

35:28 You should never ever leave someone you know, who does not know Jesus, without asking them, Where is your hope? So this year, I challenge you. This coming year coming. We're being thankful. We're praising God. We can now go forward and ask people, where is your hope? Let's hear it. Where is your hope? Where is ours? Everybody, let's say it together. Jesus. Thank you. I also want to share something real quick with you guys.

36:17 This, it just so happens. That about two weeks, when did we have this, the ordination service? That was what, two Sundays ago? Last Sunday in November. Last Sunday in November, about two weeks ago, right? So, that Saturday, I'm not making this up, that Saturday, out the blue, and I don't believe anything is coincidental, I believe God puts people on your heart. And I was thinking about this brother, just out the blue, I said, wow, okay. Don't know why you put him on my heart, don't know. We have the ordination service. We're all up front and whatnot and just, you know, meet and greet and the people and everything else. And the person I was thinking about walks up to me and just gives me this huge hug. Chadwick.

36:59 I was thinking about Chadwick. The thing that's interesting about that whole situation, you guys know we do the man cave here, right? Men's ministry. I've been doing men's ministry since 1995. And in the nineties, we used to do a lot of street ministry. We used to do teen challenge and whatnot. And there was somebody, there was a brother who is, his dad owned a restaurant. And then he started, he opened up a restaurant and he would open up the restaurant so that we can do street ministry. It was a Jamaican restaurant and we would, we would, we would do a little teaching and preaching in the restaurant. We'd do some things on the street and then he would just open up a buffet and feed and provide the food for us.

37:40 That was Chadwick. Hold the thought, hold the thought. I didn't do that for the, I didn't do that for the applause. I did it for this reason. What you see today as Man Cave was sort of launched in the Jamaican restaurant. Who are you sewing into? Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Who are you sewing into? We was ministering to five people and excited. Oh my God, five people showed up. Oh, but despised, not the small beginnings.

38:21 He was feeding us. He had the, he had the whole, they had the, he had a staff coming in and they was feeding us all. We was eating jerk and everything, man. It was good food. But this is back when it was like nothing. And we was doing street ministry. Gosh, who are you sowing into? I thank God for this man. And it was out the blue. That I thought about him on that Saturday, and then he showed up that Sunday. And I told my guy, I put my guy, I put James and Jesus, I think it was, Hey, you gotta meet this guy. You probably don't, I don't know. But I said, this is huge to me. Maybe not to y'all, but to me. Why? Because I remember in the nineties, when we was ministering to guys on Oh man, it was, it was back then it was Genesee Street and in different places.

39:06 And I think the restaurant was the one on St. Paul. Was that the one? On St. Paul. And we would do street ministry and all that kind of cool stuff. But there was somebody who was pouring into it even at that time by serving the food and giving us a space. Who are you pouring into? Who are you pouring into guys? The guys you're pouring into, this is the theme of where I'm going next in a few minutes. The guy you're pouring into, the young men that you're pouring into might be the guy that's running the next man cave 20 years from now. Is the pastor of some church 20 years from now? Is the bishop of something 20 something years from now? Who are you pouring into? I believe God rewards men like him for being givers into ministry back then when nobody even gave the care.

39:53 Amen. Who are you pouring into? Who are you connected to? As long as he's alive, I will do whatever he needs. I, whatever that man needs. Not that he needs anything, but if he does, I'm there. Oh, you got some needs. I better be careful what you put out there, right? But that, but that's my guy. You can't say nothing about him. That's my guy. Because I remember. He blessed us. I was nothing. I'm still nothing. But when I was really, really nothing, he blessed me. Amen. Now let's give God a praise for that. I appreciate you, bro. I appreciate you. I appreciate you.

40:33 I appreciate him. And I love that guy. Amen. We're going to get ready to break off. And what we're going to do is a little different tonight. We're If you still, if some guys still have a quick testimony you want to share, do it in the breakouts. But what I want to do in the breakouts tonight is something a little different. We talked about this for a while and I want to sort of start it tonight. I don't have to get all super deep about it, but we are starting official, and I'll explain more about this later, accountability partners. Now accountability partners is basically you know, me and Todd, we're accountability partners, right? Or me and Mark are kind of, and to some degree me and Mark are kind of booth party, because he's like, Hey, good morning. Like he does, he sends us good morning, everyone.

41:15 Oh, okay. Mark. Yeah. Good morning. And so we check up on each other. Right. Pretty much daily, I think by at least six, seven days a week. Right. And so with that, when we're going through something, Then that's instant. He has instant access to me now because there's a yeah, but I'm going sort of going through this thing And so I text him through and then sometimes when I get off work as okay Well, listen, let me call you soon to get our work. We pray about it. We'll talk about it. That's instant access Why that's an accountability partner. I don't need to do that with all I can't I can't afford to do that with too many people But it was a few people you can do that I'm accountable to him, he's accountable to me. If I have something I can put, I can do that with him. Even though I have other people, but you get the point. Amen? We want to sort of talk about that tonight and see, one, who you can be accountable to, or who you might want to be, or that I'm available for an accountability partner.

42:07 But we're also doing that, and there's going to be a little bit more how should I say, requirement on this next part, but at least let, we want to sort of know if you're available. Because I know there's already some guys that raised their hands on this. We're also talking about our man up guys. So those guys 11 to 18. Who wants to be a condom for at least one young man? All you might do is maybe text once a week or whatever. Now there's some more requirements and we'll explain that later. Because we just can't throw kids to men. I'm just going to be honest with you. So we, we need to at least make sure that you, you're solid, you're good, and you know, you're trustworthy. That's all. Amen? Amen? Um, And so, but, but if you identify with, with that, either you, you want accountability, you want to be able to have an accountability partner, etc, etc, and the guys will explain that further.

42:53 We're gonna talk about that and sort of mark, and sort of partner guys up. Amen? Also, in that circle right there, if there's a quick testimony, That's a good time to share it. Amen. And then we're going to come right back in just a few after that. Amen. This episode of Man to Man 360 is a wrap, but you can check us out next week, wherever you get your podcast and listen on demand to earlier or exclusive content. Visit us at man to man 360. com. That's man. The number two. Man 360. com This is an Ambassador Media Group production.