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You Were Born to Win, in God! | Bobby Williams | Ignite Kingdom Talk S6E48
August 11, 2025 · 42 min
Even if you’ve lost everything, God hasn’t lost you. Bobby’s message from the 2025 Ignite Kingdom Conference is a reminder: You were born to win in Jesus!
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In this video 0:00 Born to Win: A Journey of Faith and Triumph
Born to Win: A Journey of Faith and Triumph 0:01 Welcome. This is Ignite Kingdom Talk. Make the marketplace the miracle place. Welcome to Ignite Kingdom Talk, where faith filled business leaders come to0:13 grow, connect, and make the the marketplace the miracle place. Recorded live at the 20 25 Ignite Kingdom Conference. This episode's guest is Bobby Williams, a kingdom entrepreneur and faith igniter who helps leaders grow0:25 spiritually while advancing practically as the host of Encouraging Moments with Bobby Williams. Find more encouragement and inspiration from Bobby at encouraging moments dot com or on your favorite podcast platform.0:37 If this resonates with you, you're not alone. Ignite is a growing network of Christian business leaders walking together in faith, accountability, and kingdom impact. Learn more and take your next step at0:49 ignite cv dot com. Ignite Kingdom Talk is made possible through the generous support of our Ignite Partner Access members, a subscription based community offering Christ centered accountability, encouragement, and1:01 growth through small groups. And now, in the name of Jesus, may your faith be ignited afresh and anew.1:09 Can you guys please help me welcome to the stage Bobby Williams?1:23 I've just been given 2 hours to speak. Thank you, Jesus. I'm so proud. No. Only 30 minutes. I'm not gonna bore you like that. Well, my name is Bobby Williams. I'm so proud to be here in Iowa,1:35 and, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful place, and I've never been here before. Heard a lot of great stories, met a lot of great people, and so just very proud to be here. I wanna tell you
1:47 today that you were born to win in Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that every person that was born was born to win in Jesus Christ. Every person
1:59 was born to win. And I want to share that with you, but before we start, let me pray. Dear heavenly father, anything that comes out of my heart and out of my lips, let it be glorifying
2:10 and edifying to you, father, and inspirational and encouraging to this audience. In Jesus' name, amen. Well, I am a hybrid. Eric talked about hybrids. I
2:22 own a marketing company called a 3 marketing. I've been in business 25 years, and I'm blessed to be able to work with some of the greatest companies in America. Some of the great companies we work with,
2:35 Mercedes Benz coach Nick Saban, his group, Dream Motor Group, we handle him and we were picked back in 20 17 to handle his dealerships. And it's an amazing honor to handle his
2:47 stuff. Old Charlie's called me a few years ago, and, they had really had a tough time. I don't know if you know that chain, but they had a really hard time during COVID. They didn't they
2:58 didn't, really develop into a good COVID restaurant. Everybody had to come in, and there was no drive through. And they called us, and we were able to grow them 30 percent. And, so that's another
3:10 highlight. Another highlight in my career was back in 2008, I had a company come to me and said, Bobby, we want you to get Betty White of the Golden Girls to be
3:22 our spokesperson for, a watch. It was called Safe Watch. And I said, well, listen. You know, Betty White's gonna be hard to get because she's she has only done 1 commercial her whole
3:34 life. And listen, name and hide who her her people are, like her agent and everything, is very hard to get. Now I'm in Nashville, Tennessee, and I've got all the country music stars there at my
3:46 fingertips. I said, could we get Barbara Mandrell? No. Could we get this 1? No. And they said, you know, please, let's get this 1. I said, okay. So I go in my office and I get on my knees and my my
3:58 staff hears me, dear heavenly father, I need Betty White of the Golden Girls. Father, would you please help me sign her to a deal for this company? And so it
4:09 started a conversation with us for about 4 months, and lo and behold, we were called to meet with her in Brentwood, California. I flew out
4:21 there, and there was no way that I might not be the 1 to, to produce the commercial. I was going to sign her, but I wanted to produce her commercial. I was
4:33 really wanting to do that. That was something I wanted to do. And so I met with Betty and her agent, and after she met me and saw that the work we had done over the years, she said, Bobby, it looks like you're gonna
4:44 produce the commercial for Betty White across the nation. And that was some of the highlights for my company that I just am so thankful and grateful that God gave me that. But I
4:56 wanna start back last night, about 3 in the morning, God wakes me up and I haven't slept from 3 in the morning till now. I've still not gone to sleep. And all of this was about a
5:08 story that I'm gonna try to tell you, but it's it's an amazing story. It's a story of tragedy, but it's also a story of triumph and why I know that you're born to win.
5:20 You're absolutely unequivocally born to win in Jesus, like Jasmine and so many have already talked about. But in the Garden of Eden, it was the perfect relationship.
5:32 You remember what I'm talking about everybody? The perfect relationship with Adam and Eve and God. It was perfect. There was no death. Remember when the time clock starts, now Methuselah, the
5:44 oldest person in the world, was like 900 and some years. And now the clock is down to this. Now we're trying to fight to live it all be a hundred years old. Right? And what happens
5:56 is is that relationship was broken between man and woman and God in that Garden of Eden. Everybody knows the story. Right? You know what I'm talking about? And and so
6:08 I believe with my heart that every person was born to win, but they were born to win in Jesus Christ. You know, today I look out and I see such terribleness that's out in the public.
6:20 You can see the sadness in people's eyes. You can see the evil in people's eyes, can you not? See these people that go off and shoot children and all the things in the schools.
6:32 This is because the relationship has been broken between man and Christ. That's the problem. And so Jesus is the answer, and
6:43 you win always even when tragedy strikes. When I was 34 years old, I ran a big dealership. My parents had 2 big dealerships, a Ford and Lincoln Mercury store,
6:56 and business was great. We had about 420000000 dollars worth of gross sales a year, and we had 200 people, And I was 34 years old. Well, I get a
7:07 frantic call from my mother at home, and it's my dad. He's had a heart attack. He's 61, and he dies at his house just from 1 day. The
7:19 problem that we had, we were great in business, and by the way, my beautiful wife right here, Donald Donald Williams, 40 years. Will you give her a plug?
7:34 So my dad dies. We've got almost 1500 cars on 2 lots. And in the background, although we are a great business, we ran our business on the ethics,
7:46 and morals and values and customer satisfaction and excellence, and we were doing great because we were treating people right. And if you bought a car from us and you didn't like it, we'd give you
7:58 all your money back included including the taxes. My dad taught me that. And so at 34, I drive home, and there my dad is on on a gurney, and I
8:10 take him to they take him to the hospital, and I kiss him goodbye. That day, I became in charge of that Lincoln Mercury store and my brother of the Ford Lincoln Mercury store. He was younger than
8:21 me, but we had a problem in our family. I was a deacon, a Sunday school teacher. We had been dedicated Christians,
8:34 but I had 2 brothers that were on alcohol and drugs in my family. Can anybody relate with me? Help me out. They were out of control.
8:46 And by the way, I wasn't dead. For the first time, I was fearful. I had been so strong of faith like I am now. But now I'm very fearful because I know what they're
8:58 doing in the background of this business, and it's not good. And by the way, I love them. I love these people. I love them. So I got down on my
9:10 knees in my prayer room back in 19 96. I'll never forget. Now I cry a little bit more than Eric. But I got down on my face and I
9:21 cried out. I said, you've got to help me. You've got to help me. I've got a man in
9:33 a casket, I've got 1 in the drug rehab center, and I've got another 1 headed towards the drug rehab center, and I'm 34. And this business
9:45 deserves the best. The customers deserve the best. The employees deserve the best. God, what if I can't make the money to make this go? Everybody
9:57 will lose everything they had. I cried out and a wave of the Holy Spirit hit me. And I
10:08 came downstairs out of that prayer room, and I said to Donna, I said, I've just been speaking in tongues, and I don't even know what it is. And she said, you know, I'm Baptist.
10:21 I said, well, hallelujah, thank you, Jesus. I've got the Holy Spirit, and I am empowered to do this job. Remember I
10:33 told you you were born to win. I was born to win. I wasn't born to lose and have all this problem, but I was faced with problems. And I know because if I took your life, there would be
10:45 a motion picture of problems, trouble. Oh, it's easy when when you're on the mountaintop. It's simple. But when you're in the valley,
10:58 you cry out to God, and he is a God that will save you. And I'm talking to somebody today, here today, right now. I'm telling you that God will save you from the the depths of hell.
11:10 Yes. And he can change somebody. He can take a drug addict, and he can take them and set them free. And so what happened was God gave
11:22 me 7 years of jubilee at that Lincoln Mercury store. I ran it alone. Nobody was with me. My mom was depressed. My brothers were running around,
11:35 spending money like crazy, and I loved them so much. But I wasn't dead, so I couldn't control them. I could control what I was doing in managing the problem I had
11:47 with this situation. Well, finally, 7 years into this thing, we had been very profitable. God had blessed us. Thank you, Jesus. Every year we made about a million and a
11:59 half dollars, and things were great. And then 1 day, I woke up. My brother had come out of rehab for the 3 third time. He had convinced my mother that
12:11 if she would take me and step me aside because I had gotten too religious in the business, is what they thought. My relationship with Jesus Christ was too strong. I had
12:23 Isaiah 41 behind my desk. We had prayer time at the dealership. We let our people off on Wednesday nights to go to church. We closed on
12:35 Sundays. But that doesn't mean that you're not gonna go through trouble. And trouble came into my door and they said, we're gonna we're
12:46 gonna have you move aside, and we're gonna put Doug, and I love my brother, in your position. Because he convinced my mother that that the
12:58 humanistic side of way, that we can make more money, and I can make you a whole lot richer than Bobby Ken. And so that day I left after 13
13:10 awards, 13 100 champions of the best of the best Lincoln Mercuries. After 7 profitable years, after 7 years of working with people that were
13:22 wayward in life, trying to hold it together. And in the middle of the night, about 11 30 at night, Donna and I thank you, Jesus, for my wife.
13:34 We got all my trophies, and all the trophies God had given me. We put them in a truck, and I went home. And I thought for
13:46 sure that at 450000000 dollars of sales, they're gonna call me back 1 day. My name was on the building, Bob Williams Lincoln Larktree. I was Bob Williams Junior. Surely, God,
13:58 I've been living for you. This can't be the truth. I've been serving you.
14:11 Please don't crash my dad's business. I went to my brother-in-law, the minister, 40 years minister. I said, what do you think about this? He said, the dealership is going down. The Holy Spirit has
14:23 left the building. I said, it can't. There's Christians there. He said, they've cut off the head. The Holy Spirit is gone. The the dealership is going to crash. It
14:35 took 5 years. I was in a 1 man office. I started a 3 marketing 25 years ago. That's why I can talk about this today. By
14:47 the way, I learned a lot of things along the way. I learned about forgiveness. You know, I love my brother Doug so much. You know, the 1 that took my job.
15:00 He's my best friend now. You know that? 17 years, no alcohol, no drugs. Thank you, Jesus. Holy God. He brings people out
15:11 of halfway houses and into halfway houses. He brings them out of alcohol and drugs. I've been to meetings to help him. We've helped each other. Out of all of the brokenness that came out of
15:23 it, we stayed in relationship with my family. And, of course, we sold Donna and I sold I sold my house. I sold my condo in Florida.
15:36 We had to use all of our savings. I went back to Belmont University, got my degree. I was 41 by that time when this all happened and 2 children. And
15:48 God was blessing me. He was leading me to open up a new business. Remember I was born to win, and you are too. And it doesn't matter what tragedy has
16:00 struck you, you can overcome with the power of the name of Jesus. I'm telling you the truth today. And so in that place, I
16:12 prayed. I said, God, would you give me my house back, please? Would you please give me my car back? Now, when you talk about a car guy, you would imagine after 21 years in the automotive
16:23 business, I love cars now. I bought a truck 1 time, a Lincoln truck, you know, those are so beautiful. I said, honey, to Donna, I said, listen. I love this truck so much. This
16:35 might be the first time I don't sleep with you unless you want to sleep in the truck with me, because I might sleep in this truck overnight. I love this car so much. So I said, God, would you
16:47 give me back? I was in the shower, and I was praying, and I felt like, what was the greatest thing I was able to do through the Lord at the dealership? What was I good at? And it was selling things. It was
16:59 marketing. It was advertising. It was promoting. It was loving people. It was it was sharing the spirit of God. It was sharing. So I said, let's start a 3 marketing. I went into the business with just
17:11 me in a little office. 1 of my friends called me. He said, I heard what happened. My pastor was astounded. He he said, I've never seen such faith with something that's happened to somebody. I said, well, it's all Jesus
17:22 because I can't do it. I said, but let me just say this to you. I said, I'm in a 1 man office and I see my dealership burning, not physically burning, but I saw what was happening, what was about to happen. I saw it.
17:35 I said, God, please help me. I'd pray every day. God, please help me. So I was in my prayer room, and I said, Lord Jesus, am I gonna be successful at a 3 marketing? And I heard a yes. Now I said, now Lord, is that just
17:47 me wishing that I was gonna be successful? No. It's me. I'm telling you, yes, you're gonna be successful. I said, Lord, am I gonna be successful? Yes. You're gonna be successful. I came out, told Donna. She said, well,
17:58 good. We're down to an orange chair, a smaller house. We have a car with a hundred thousand miles on it now, and you're not Mr. Lincoln anymore. Do you think you need to go back in the car business? I said, well, I had
18:10 a great job. If he wanted me to be in the car business, I would have been in the car business. I had my office. I had 2 dealerships. I said, so I feel I'm led in a 3 marketing. And she said,
18:22 well, good. I'm going with you all the way. She went back and got a job. We got a job. The house I live in today, this is why I'm trying to tell you, you're born to win in Jesus, looks over the
18:34 roof of the house that I left. Do you understand? Whoo. I'm gonna testify to you today about the good and great
18:45 works of Jesus Christ. And so when a 3 opened, I did the small. I just, you know, I everybody's looking at me. Aren't you the car
18:57 dealer on TV? I mean, what are you doing in my office trying to advertise for me? I said, yes. I'm changing my career. I had to change my story. I couldn't tell everybody that story. This is the first time I've told
19:09 that story to anybody. But because I love you and I love God, I wanted you to hear a story of tragedy into triumph. And, of course,
19:21 25 years later, it's easy from this vantage point to say, thank you, Jesus, because now I look back at all the great things God has done with our company, and we're the tool.
19:33 We meet visionaries that are CEOs and CFOs, and we work together with them, and that we're the tool they use to get to where they need to go. Amen.
19:45 We have a bank, a volunteer bank. In 20 15, we started with them. They had 5 locations. They were a 500000000 dollar company, and the president
19:57 liked me, and he trusted me, and he trusted my word and what I told him. And that bank today is a 1300000000.0 dollar bank, thank you, Jesus,
20:09 in 15 locations. Everywhere we've gone, God has blessed the way. We've walked with the Lord. We never turned our back. Now I will be honest with you. When all of this happened to
20:21 me, I thought, maybe we need to move to Florida and things will get better. Have you ever thought about that kind of crazy stuff? Have you ever thought about just leaving?
20:33 It doesn't work. You just take all your baggage with you. You know what I mean? Get down to Florida and you go, this is a terrible place. It's as bad as my place.
20:45 Well, God was working on me. And now that all this has happened, I know why this happened to me. Because I was supposed to help other great business owners, but also I was supposed to be a
20:57 hybrid, and that's my Encouraging Moments right over there. Encouraging Moments with Bobby Williams. I've been in a hundred million television homes. I've been on 700 Club with Pat
21:09 Robertson with my 1 minute Encouraging Moments. I've written 2 books that God has given me. I'd love for you to have a copy. If you don't want a copy, maybe give it to someone else. My story is in
21:21 that book, The Source. And I got to tell you today that you were born to win. And so I'm gonna give you the steps really quick
21:33 on how you can win. The first thing is that you have to know that Jesus Christ said in John 10 10, the
21:45 thief comes not to not to has come not to accept to steal and kill and destroy. That's what the devil has come to. But I have come to give them life and give it more abundantly.
21:57 God wants you to have an abundant life. He wants you first to be saved and surrendered to him and born again. And this is where it all starts. This is where the
22:09 revolution starts in your life. And if you've got a loved 1 today, oh, I'm praying, if you've got a loved 1, brother or sister or mom or dad, and they don't know Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior,
22:21 I wanna pray with you like Eric did today. That at the end, I'm gonna pray for them to be saved because my brother Doug got saved. He became part of my Sunday
22:33 school class. We totally forgave each other. We weren't gonna lose our family over a dollar bill. Every Sunday we go to church now. My mom
22:46 and my wife Donna, my son, his girlfriend, and my brother, we sit down together, and we go to eat lunch with each other. After
22:57 all that's happened, we've totally forgiven each other. But that doesn't change what happened, but it does change our feelings towards 1 another forgiveness.
23:10 So you're born to win, and Jesus said that I've come to give them life and give them more abundantly. For John 3 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should
23:21 not perish, but have everlasting life. And so with the knowledge that I have a heavenly home, look, don't feel sorry for me if I check out today. I'm good.
23:33 Okay? I'm not ready to go yet, but I'm good. And you have a place in heaven. But the second thing that you have to have, not
23:44 only do you have to be born again, but you have to realize in this lifetime that Jesus Christ is the answer. Am I speaking to you today? Jesus
23:56 Christ is more important than your bottom line, although your bottom line gives you the ability to have an open bread basket to give to people and to give to ministry and to help people. And God wants to see you, but
24:08 that's the icing on the cake. Jesus is the cake. Amen. Jesus is the cake, and that's where you get the cake from is with the Lord.
24:20 Jesus said, do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I told I would have told you, I am going to prepare a place for you, and
24:32 if I go, I will prepare a place for you. I will come back and take you to be with me, that you may also be where I am. So that that ends the war that's between me and God
24:44 because I've surrendered everything. By the way, surrender all things to God. My next point is fulfilling your destiny with Jesus. Now I believe this to be a fact, and
24:56 I I haven't heard this much, but God's given this to me. God gave you a DNA, and many of you have such wonderful talents. You all have great talents you were born with. In fact, I
25:07 remember the talents like Eric was talking about, talents and and being a worker, and getting things done. And you have those, but until you ignite those with
25:19 your spiritual gifts and the Holy Spirit, they are not going to be blessed as much until you do that. Amen. Do you understand that? And see, this is where
25:31 people are so worried about what they have, and they're so worried about how many leather seats they sit in. And the pagans, Jesus said that the pagans chase after all those
25:43 things in in Matthew 6. But he said, seek the kingdom of God first and his righteousness, and all these things will be given unto you. Someone in
25:55 here needs to know that you can go from tragedy to winning again. Amen? You have to change your story. You have to change your story.
26:08 Now I call it the mully grubs. I could go around and feel sorry for myself for this and that, but I don't. And people accuse me of smiling all the time, and I do, and
26:20 it's because I've got the love of Jesus in my heart. I've got the Lord in my heart. Don't you get excited about just having that fountain of the Lord in your heart.
26:34 He wants you to take the DNA that he gave you at birth and ignite it with his spirit, his holy spirit, so it can be used for His glory and
26:45 His honor. You know, I come from a really humble position. When you have had everything taken away from you and then everything given back to
26:57 you, you know who is in charge. Amen. Amen. I talked with a fine young lady right there in the middle. I'm trying to praise her out right here. This fine young lady, the Jesus
27:09 pin on. Love you much. And I met her, and she she is amazing. She's starting a new business, and I told her, you're gonna be successful because you have Jesus
27:21 Christ. When you have the Lord with you, you can make mistakes, and he'll forgive you. He'll help you. He'll lead you. He'll guide you. He'll take you to the next level.
27:34 I remember what I I had been taught. Proverbs 16 3, commit your plan unto the Lord, and he will make you a success.
27:46 Write it down. Write down the vision of what you want. Write down the vision. So taking these listen to this in second Corinthians. There are different gifts kinds of gifts,
27:58 but the same spirit distributes to them. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone, it is the same God at work.
28:09 And so now to each 1, the manifestation of the spirit is given for the common good of everybody in that church and everybody in the world. We're ambassadors of Jesus Christ. We have
28:21 it made. He has given us the power to come out and to help people. I get up every day thinking about 1 thing, I swear.
28:33 Who can I bless today? How can I bless someone today? How can I be of service to the Lord Jesus Christ? How can I be
28:45 an encouraging word to that person at McDonald's? What does this man at this age, a white guy, have to do with someone from Mexico
28:58 that's giving me a burger? Jesus Christ, the love of God. Seriously, what I'm telling you, when I go into a place, I always try to find out
29:09 about the people that are in there. I've tried to come around and talk to some of you, introduce myself. It's not about me, it's about thee. Amen? And so fulfilling your destiny, you
29:21 have to realize that once you surrender everything, and this is what I'm saying to you, surrender your business to the Lord Jesus Christ. Surrender your relationship with
29:33 your wife or your spouse with Jesus Christ. Drench your life with prayer. Be sure to go to church. Be
29:45 sure to attend Bible study. Be sure to be in the Word of God. These are not just things, and you've heard all those things all your life maybe, but you have to do them.
29:57 Right? The word of God is the light is life to the believer. Place God's word in your heart, live by the word, and confess its truth. I wanna tell you a story
30:09 about 19 99. I was called by the Billy Graham Association. We had our stores still, and I was in charge. And they said, Bobby, would you mind giving cars to all the dignitaries?
30:21 That was Johnny Cash and all the people that were coming to sing, Ricky Skaggs and so many of those people. And I said, yes. We would love to. So they came down, and I became part of Billy Graham's team.
30:33 And we prayed for months before the revival started, and we wanted revival in Nashville. This was the last time that Billy Graham was gonna come to Nashville or almost anywhere. He was this was Billy
30:45 Graham's time. And I went into a prayer meeting with Billy Graham with about 200 pastors, and I'm telling you, they were all in their knees. And I tell you what, I felt my knees.
30:58 And I said, God, I understand this is what it's all about. You give us these businesses so that we can create situations where your word can be raised
31:10 up like a banner so that more people can follow Jesus Christ, and so that more people can win again. Amen? You know, when you're in Jesus, you don't
31:22 have a confused mind. You don't think that if you're a man that you're a girl, or you're a girl and you're a man. You don't think that. I'm just telling you. I'm being honest with you today.
31:35 I'm telling you the facts. You're not gonna go and fall into drug abuse and all this stuff if if you're not hurting so bad in your heart. When you become whole in
31:46 Jesus, you want to live for Him, and Him only. And don't let sin live into your life. This is another point that I have.
31:59 The power of the Holy Spirit guiding, directing, teaching Jesus promised the Holy Spirit to the believers. You know, in the old testament, they couldn't live up to those 10 commandments. We can't live up to those 10
32:09 commandments today. But through the power of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God, we can walk without falling into sin. And if we do without,
32:21 trying to do it, all we do is confess our sins. He's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins. We should be very careful at how we walk in this world
32:34 because there is death in that. Listen to what it says, for the wages of sin is what? Death. Now you may not die, but you're gonna go through a lot
32:46 of trouble. Amen? So I say really watch for yourself. My sixth point is the winning power. There's winning power in the name of Jesus. So going back to the story of
32:58 Billy Graham, I'm in the section. They gave me a big job. I was up in the section where it was 95 degrees out at the Titan Stadium, an outdoor amphitheater, you know, the Titan Stadium.
33:10 And I have a bald head, and it's 95 degrees out, guys. And it's hot out there. I should have had a hat. But I noticed there was a young man up in the stands,
33:22 and he was with his parents. And, they had 2 kinds of ushers there, the ushers for the Titan Stadium, and they were pretty nice. But we were being ushers for Billy Graham, praying for people and different things.
33:34 And they had a bulletin, and the kids it was a Saturday night, and the kids were folding these and throwing them down to try to see if they could hit the field. And the ushers got very upset about
33:45 that. And they were worried that somebody get poke in the eye. So they looked up and they called, and they accused a little boy, a 13 year old boy, of doing this. They were gonna escort his parents and him out of the
33:57 stadium and not allow them in. And I intervene. The Lord said, stop that. He didn't do it. And I saw him because I was standing, I was looking up, and he hadn't done it.
34:09 And so when they got down, the little boy was crying. The Lord said, go and get him a coke. So I took him back, got him a coke behind the wall. And the Lord said, pray for
34:21 them, and send him back up in there. I said, okay. So I got them, and it was very tearful. He was crying. I was hugging him and talking to his parents. And we just bowed our heads, and we
34:33 prayed for him. And at the end of the service, I saw him walk down to the call of God, and he got saved that night. This 13 year old boy was saved
34:45 that night. He was saved, and his parents came to me, and I couldn't even hardly I was overwhelmed with the feeling. And he said,
34:57 I'm a pastor of a church here in Nashville. My son has never accepted Christ. Thank you for praying for us today, and keeping my son in this situation. See, that's what I'm trying to say to you
35:09 today. Whatever your thoughts are, wherever you're headed, whatever you're doing in life, it's more important what you're thinking about the Lord than it is important about
35:21 yourself. And examples of other prayer that we had, here recently, Donna's sister had cancer, and the first diagnosis was
35:33 4 weeks to live. We took it very seriously. And so far, she's lived 6 months, and she is cancer free. Amen.
35:46 Cancer free. Still praying for her. We prayed for our pastor's son, like I said at Billy Graham's crusade. We prayed for, I prayed on the street of
35:57 Nashville. I was down in Nashville, walking the streets of Nashville, talking to people on encouraging moments. And I met a wife and a husband, and the wife was
36:09 sold out and wanted to talk to me. The husband didn't want anything to do with me. And I loved him, and I prayed for him. And I shared the gospel, and he became a Christian right on
36:21 the street of Nashville. Right on the street of Nashville, he became Christian right on the street of Nashville. And now they're both gonna go to heaven. Amen? I prayed for a family that called me and they
36:33 said, we had a problem in our family. My husband died and gave the 1 child a lot down in Nashville, a lot. It was a piece of land, and gave the other girl 250000
36:45 dollars She was happy with it at the time, but when the property sold for 1500000.0 dollars to the other daughter, she was not happy. And they broke up over this.
36:57 And I prayed over that family, and now they're back together again. They had their first Thanksgiving together. And, that was a big 1. We had 1 last story I'm going to tell you
37:09 on this prayer chain. I had a my brother-in-law was a minister, and he had a small Baptist church up in Oak Grove near Springfield, Tennessee.
37:21 And he called me frantic 1 day, and he said, Bobby, you gotta pray. He said, a little girl has fallen into the pool. And they have life flighted her to the hospital. Mike said,
37:33 Bobby, I don't want this on my watch. He said, this is my flock. I can't have this happen. We came to the church, and we all prayed just right down in front. We just
37:45 prayed. The next morning, that child woke up and said, can I have some pizza? It was a miracle from God. It was a miracle from God.
37:58 And I'll tell you what, we were so excited about that. So anytime and what I do is I prayer journal. I put things down in written form. I'll I'll pray over pray for things, and
38:09 I'll write them down. And the reason I do is I can go back in 2019 99, 2006, 2014, and I can see the hand of God here, and I can
38:21 see the hand of God there, and I can see the hand of God here, and my faith just goes to the top again. So my real message today for you is,
38:44 meeting with Ford Motor Company at the Renaissance Center downtown Detroit. Long table. It was about, I'm telling you, it was half as long as this room right here. And William Clay Ford was there,
38:56 and all these people were there. And the Lord says to me, you need to pray before you eat. And I said, oh, this is really this is not right. I mean, I I need to get cars from these people, and they're gonna they're
39:08 not gonna they're not gonna like me. Lord, please no. He said, no. I want you to pray and ask and stand up if you could pray before you eat lunch. This is at the top of a 60 story
39:20 building. I'm with the top people that control the future of whether I get cars or not and everything. And I know this doesn't sound like a big deal to you, but have you ever been in a room of non believers? Do you know
39:31 what I'm talking about? I said, okay. I'm gonna do it. So I stand up. It's like EF Hutton, if you remember that old commercial. Could we pray before
39:43 we eat? And I didn't I didn't man me, Pam's yet. I said, Lord Jesus, thank you for this great Ford Motor Company. I said, Lord, thank you for this food we're about to receive in your name.
39:55 Thank you for each man or woman at this table. Bless them, Father. In Jesus name, amen. So after the meeting was over, I had about 5 or 6 people come up to meShow more
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