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Always Be Ready
00:02:24
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| You need to be prepared. | |
| Are you a prepper? | |
| Oh, call yourself a prepper. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I wrote a book about it. | |
| Yes. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah, big time. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So you believe in practical prepping as far as food and all of that? | |
| What people don't understand, especially with Christians, is that God mandates it. | |
| He tells us to do this. | |
| It says, always be ready to share the hope in meekness and fear. | |
| Always means always, always is in good times, always is in bad times, always. | |
| And if we are not always ready, then how do we share the hope? | |
| And by being prepared, by having food on hand, by having these things on hand, it's less of a distraction now that the enemy can use against us. | |
| And now I have that freedom because I'm not burdened with, oh, wow, what are my kids going to eat? | |
| Right. | |
| Or whatever. | |
| And I can now share the hope. | |
| Exactly. | |
| And people will listen about Jesus. | |
| We've said it a million times on this broadcast, but I know for a decade I worked in the inner city, went down, and that's how I ended up adopting our kids and all of that by meeting them in the inner city. | |
| But you know what? | |
| We would always go down and feed them first. | |
| Give those little babies, give those little tummies some food, and then we would teach them Bible stories and teach them about Jesus. | |
| And then they would want us to meet their moms, typically. | |
| Usually dads weren't around, but typically moms. | |
| And the next thing you know, you know, 20 years later, Jim and Lori Baker adopt five Mexican kids and they were from the inner city. | |
| But that's how it happens. | |
| And so that is so real because you have to be practical with the food. | |
| That's why we have all these amazing food offers for you. | |
| I know, Jim, you were going to go to one earlier, but we have these individual buckets now that we have available, like the Fiesta bucket, probably Mondo's favorite. | |
| I keep thinking about the people who never started. | |
| That made you. | |
| Just do something. | |
| Just do something to get started. | |
| I know, Ray, were you, was your family preppers? | |
| How did you get that naturally? | |
| Well, my mother is a depression era child. | |
| And because of that, I learned a lot of that. | |
| And then I was in the military. | |
| I was in special operations and learned a lot of stuff there. | |
| And then I just, the Loma Prieta earthquake also had a lot of effect on me. | |
| Other events like Rita and Katrina had effects on me. | |
| So it's all these things combined has created this preparedness mindset. | |
| And I live it. | |