We don't enter competitions.

Competitions are a waste of time, risk, energy, fees, cost.

But this one, we felt something different.

People are comfortable with the concept of prayer.

They are much less comfortable with the concept of answered prayer.

So contrary to our normal wisdom, we decided to enter the competition.

I prayed and instantaneously, literally instantaneously, what popped into my head was

one million bricks, which is going to be on the surface of the monument, representing one million

arts of prayers.

I prayed in that moment of, Lord, what do I do with this?

Inspiration struck and I basically cut out a piece of card, twisted it into this Moby's strip,

and I knew instantly I a piece of card, twisted it into this Moby's strip, and I knew, instantly, I had something very special.

Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilber with Inspired. Great to be back for another fantastic

week of encouragement of hearing great stories. You know, I think we've all heard enough

for being relentlessly bombarded by negativity in the press. So many people are anxious and depressed and cynical. I mean, that's the direct outworking. If you're stuck on the 24-7 news cycle, let's get off it and let's hear, let's hear great stories that just astir our faith. And I got no doubt this week, you're going to be super encouraged because we've got with us the wonderful Paul Bulkeley. Welcome Welcome Paul. Hi there, good to be with you.

Nice to join you, Simon. Yeah, really looking forward to this. So Paul's best mate at university

when he was studying to be an architect was another pool who is now my CEO and one of the biggest

encouragements in my life. And that pool, Paul Tilbury, after his first year, he had

a collapsed lung, which meant that he didn't carry on. And I'm sure, you know, I totally gutted at

the time. But isn't it interesting how in all things God works for good and all these decades

later, now he is absolutely, he's a world changer with me and having a fantastic impact in Central Africa.

I only say that because it's just interesting,

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