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Preparing for Life's Challenges
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| You believe in survival? | |
| Why did you become a survivalist? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, first of all, the Word of God is clear that we are to take care of our families. | |
| And part of taking care of our families, of course, is providing for their protection needs, their survival needs, particularly in survivalist scenarios. | |
| Again, I try to help people who are a little freaked out by this survivalist talk by just speaking about everyday life. | |
| You know, when we're talking about preparing and storing food, preparing and storing clothing and various things that we need, that's the way our forefathers lived in this nation not too long ago. | |
| And so it's not something that we, I mean, we're really the first generation, historical generation, to have the luxury of just going down to a supermarket or, you know, to a mall. | |
| And I mean, for the longest, people didn't have that kind of life. | |
| So now when we hear people talk about, look, you need to kind of prepare for tough times, people freak out. | |
| And I say, look, listen, you need to be prepared at least for the basic stuff of life. | |
| I live on the Gulf Coast. | |
| We're always inundated with tornadoes or hurricanes and stores are closed, power's out for days, and you have to shelter in place. | |
| Sometimes people's homes, the roof comes in, or there's other damage, and people are in dire straits. | |
| And neighbors wind up helping neighbors, churches. | |
| Our church has done this many times. | |
| So, Pastor Jim, yes, I am a prepper, if you will. | |
| And that's why I wrote this book. | |
| I believe it's our God-given responsibility to be able to take care of ourselves, take care of our families. | |
| And if we're prepared to do that, Pastor Jim, and here's one of the foundations of my book. | |
| If we are prepared, if we are foundationally prepared, then when disaster strikes, notice I didn't say if. | |
| Not every home's going to experience disaster, but in your lifetime, there will be disastrous situations. | |
| And if we are prepared, then we can minister to others. | |
| That's exactly what we're doing. | |
| See, that's the key. | |
| That's the key. | |
| We can ministering to other people. | |
| But if we're not prepared, if we're scrounging around trying to feed ourselves or clothe ourselves or defend ourselves from people who are godless and are out to get what you have, then we can't. | |
| We're not able to take care of ourselves, much less the people around us. | |
| Exactly. | |
| And so that's one of the things I stress in the book. | |
| Here's how you prepare. | |
| Here's how you take care of yourself. | |
| And don't forget about those around you in the meantime. | |
| And you know what I love too? | |
| We just had Perry Stone with us, and he used, we love Perry. | |
| We love you, Perry Stone. | |
| You're amazing. | |
| He used on right where you're sitting this scripture, and it's at the beginning of your book. | |
| It's right here in the cover of your book. | |
| It says right here, Proverbs 22, 3, the prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. | |
| That's it. | |
| That's it. | |
| And that's just a rule of life. | |