Freelance Ambassador | Richard Meryon
Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud
Great Lakes Outreach
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Still turbo-charged at 72, former Royal Navy Chief Engineer Richard talks of serving God around the world in multiple contexts, and is not remotely interested in slowing down!
Contact Richard at richard[@]meryon.net
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| 0:00.0 | And the system was just not working properly and none of us could work out what was wrong. |
| 0:10.0 | And I went down the engine room and I went down below the floor plates and I put my hands on this bit of equipment |
| 0:15.0 | and I pray you over it and said, Lord, I think the problem's here, isn't it? |
| 0:19.0 | The Lord said, yes, he said, if you take the the cover plate off here you'll find there's some blockage |
| 0:24.6 | so I go back up the machinery control from my say to the chiefs |
| 0:28.6 | that's the problem go down no no no so I said just go down take off the cover plate and see if it's blocked |
| 0:34.6 | and they did and it it was, praise God. Welcome, everybody. |
| 0:41.5 | This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. Great to you back for another week of encouragement and stirring |
| 0:45.9 | our faith, basically, if you're new to inspired. I am sick to death of the 24-7 news cycle, |
| 0:51.2 | where we're just bombarded relentlessly by negativity and stuff that introduces |
| 0:55.7 | fear and cynicism and pessimism and depression. So we want to come against that. That's why |
| 1:00.7 | it's so beautiful seeing the impact of this and how people are sharing it with their mates. |
| 1:05.2 | You get to meet a number of my mates from all sorts of different walks of life to hear how God is a work in and through |
| 1:12.2 | them and yeah, you'll leave in an hour's time, hopefully even more encouraged in your journey |
| 1:17.2 | with Jesus. So that's it by means of intro. Listen, we've got with us this week, Richard Merriam. |
| 1:22.4 | Welcome, Richard. |
| 1:23.4 | Hey, good morning, Simon. Great to have you. So when I first, I moved to Bath almost five years ago now, |
| 1:29.3 | and I knew I needed some older, wiser people in my life. And I've got two guys that I walk with semi-regular bases. One is Nigel Ring. He's in his 80s, and he's a legend. And Richard is the other one. Richard is the fastest walker in Bath. He makes me swear, and it's |
| 1:46.3 | hard to keep up with him. He's 72 years old, 72 years young, and he's still tobo-charged. He is, |
| 1:53.3 | I think, I saw on a website where you're giving some talks, Richard, you described yourself now |
| 1:57.4 | as freelance for the Lord. I love that. Totally free to go anywhere, do anything |
| 2:01.2 | with Roslyn, for example, this year going to southern Africa to several countries, doing great |
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