Welcome to the Conversations That Matter podcast. It's a weekend edition. We are live now. And I hope it stays that way. If you're watching, please pray. This is probably the last podcast I'm going to do on this particular computer. In the last week and a half, two weeks, I've had very unexpected things happen. My computer just kind of fizzled out and it keeps freezing up on me.

So I'm hoping, I'm taking a risk here that it's going to work through the podcast.

But then my wife's car had all these issues and I'm trying to think what else we had.

Oh, man, a much of electric stuff went wrong at my house and I had to have an electrician come out and do some work, and it's just been one of those seasons where everything just seems to fail,

and it's all expensive stuff. But the Lord has gotten us through. And I want to say,

testimony of the Lord's grace, I have always seen in my own life, God provide, even when I don't know how it's going to work. And

the last six years especially, I've been, for the most part, I would say living on faith because

I'm relying on mostly you in the audience. If you are someone who supports this podcast, i don't it's not like the line of work i

was in before doing repair work and also uh drawing a paycheck from a university that's more stable

uh and the lord's taught me a lot through this and so I'm very thankful for that. But the last two weeks was

one of those like, oh, it's going to be tight. What's going to happen? I hope something else doesn't

break. And I got to check in the mail this morning. I was not expecting. And anyway, it's just a

reminder to me that God is good. He provides for his children. And it, it seems like that faith is bolstered, the more you

experience those things. But even with that, you can be like Peter on the waves, right? It's like,

you remember the last two, three, maybe 10 times the Lord provided. And then it's like,

but will he do it again? And then he does. And I really have no business critiquing the children of Israel in the wilderness

because that same spirit, I think, is in me to some extent.

And I hear other people saying the same thing.

I think everyone has this to an extent a growing, a sanctifying kind of,

hopefully walk with the Lord that makes you grow in faith over time, but it's never perfect,

right, until we actually see Christ face to face. So anyway, I wasn't planning on starting the show like that, but I figured I'd let you know

in case I freeze.

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