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Prayed to Be the Appendix
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| You started out in the book talking about your visit here to the Jim Baker show. | |
| And maybe you can tell that story a little bit and talk about the backlash that you got after your video was put on Skywatch. | |
| Yeah, it was actually the clip that you showed in the trailer that it was right following that. | |
| That was that day I received two standing ovations on the Jim Baker show. | |
| It blew me away. | |
| I wasn't expecting any of that. | |
| I hadn't planned for any of that. | |
| I came home and I was so humbled by the experience because I was telling my parents and my, you know, my people that I work with at Skywatch that this was just like, I couldn't have possibly done that if I had practiced it. | |
| It wasn't me. | |
| On stage, it just wasn't me. | |
| And I was just telling Mark this in the green room a few minutes ago, that was not me. | |
| It just wasn't. | |
| The only thing I can say is that the Holy Spirit took over. | |
| Yes, he did. | |
| And then when I left the stage, I became me again, and I watched it later because I didn't even really remember what had happened that day. | |
| I remembered there was this big, and then like two hours later, I'm like, what did I even say? | |
| So when I finally had a link and I was able to kind of go back and watch what had been said that day, I went back and I watched what I said and I went, nope, I'm not claiming that. | |
| That was not me. | |
| God took over. | |
| Now the knowledge I had put up in my head was there, but the way it came out, you're either called or you're stunted in your growth, but you're never not called by God. | |
| If you are a Christian and you have the Holy Spirit living in you, there is no, I think I might be called into ministry. | |
| I might not be caught. | |
| You're called. | |
| And it's just a matter of being obedient, no matter what, in fear, in discomfort. | |
| It's a matter of saying, it doesn't matter how I feel. | |
| Take the book of Jonah. | |
| God says, go preach to Nineveh. | |
| And he gets on a boat to Tarshish and goes the opposite direction. | |
| When he's done and he's been puked up by the fish, God doesn't say, okay, we'll take a few days off and go see how you feel, drink some fig juice, put your feet up. | |
| And when you're feeling spiritual again, you call me and I'll send you on the next thing. | |
| That's not what happens. | |
| He gets puked up and God says, Jonah, go to preach to Nineveh. | |
| God's directive doesn't change. | |
| And when that hit me, I was like, God, you are clearly, and there's a long testimony. | |
| It is in the Handmaiden Conspiracy. | |
| But the testimony was so, I don't mean to overuse the word, but it was so radical in my life, I could not have caused it. | |
| I didn't ask for it. | |
| I asked for the opposite. | |
| It's all here, but I'll tell you real quickly. | |
| My testimony in a nutshell, because this is really, really, really truncating it and pushing it down, was that I really wanted to be called into a backroom where I could be anonymous. | |
| My dad was well known on the West Coast. | |
| It wasn't fun. | |
| Everywhere he went, somebody had to stop him and ask his opinion about something. | |
| Just all the attention. | |
| This is the opposite of where I wanted to be. | |
| Wow. | |
| And I prayed, God, here am I. Send Aaron. | |
| Over and over and over again. | |
| I want to be used by you. | |
| Now find me a backroom and an anonymous place where I don't have to be a voice for anything, please. | |
| This is the opposite of what I wanted. | |
| The rest of my testimony and the supernatural events that led to me finally saying, here am I, God, send me, is all in the book in two places in the book. | |
| I mentioned it briefly in the intro, and then I really nail it later, but I explain how I was stuck feeling like I don't want to do these things. | |
| I have to either decide that I'm going to do them without my own comfort or I have to just be stunted forever. | |
| But I am called. | |
| Now, what is my calling? | |
| There's no question that my calling is to take the information that God makes most important to me, the thing that's driving my spirit nearly to the point of obsession, that I have to get that word out there. | |
| That's what my calling is. | |
| Now, I prayed and prayed and prayed, Lord, let me be the appendix. | |
| You know how everybody is a certain body part? | |
| I prayed, let me be the appendix. | |
| And the reason I picked the appendix is because of two things. | |
| Number one, nobody knows what it does. | |
| It's this mysterious thing that floats around, right? | |
| I don't even know what it's for. | |
| That's true. | |
| The other reason is because if it bursts, if I have in my own finite flesh, the body continues to function. | |
| Yes. | |
| It wasn't until I had prayed for years and years, Lord, let me be the appendix, that he finally decided to show me what the appendix actually does. | |
| The appendix is an immunity booster to the body. | |
| And there's all this science coming out about it now. | |
| It's actually extremely vital organ. | |
| But it was considered vestigial and unimportant for so long, nobody actually knew what the appendix really did. | |
| So I prayed to be the appendix. | |
| And then the science caught up with my prayer and said, the body of Christ needs immunization. | |
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Understanding What the Bible Means
00:00:34
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| It needs to have an immunity booster. | |
| It needs proper. | |
| It needs proper interpretation of scripture. | |
| Because the body of Christ, the greatest medicine of the body of Christ, is properly interpreted scripture. | |
| Anyone can read the Bible, and anyone can quote the Bible. | |
| But understanding what the Bible says is not the same as understanding what the Bible means. | |
| And understanding what the Bible means means that you have to know the culture, the history, the background. | |