Okay, Alan, you've got something on your mind.

What, what are we doing?

Do you remember in the first Karate Kid movie where this boy is being trained and the sage is having him do the most

wild things like wax his car paint the fence and it's like there's no interpretation, and so the karate kid starts to get a little irritated and lose hope until he realizes later in the movie, these are the exact moves. I've been in training for something

that I didn't even realize and that is a great picture of how my life has been lately, I feel like I have been in training. God's somehow trying to initiate me, but until I understand what it means, it's easy to get taken out, feel irritated, just think life is hard.

So you're going to tell some stories and then we're going to riff on that.

And I'll show you some karate moves.

Great, whacks on, wax off.

All right, here we go. Let's pray. Great, wax on, wax off.

All right, here we go.

Let's pray.

Jesus, we consecrate our studio to you.

We consecrate today's recording. We consecrate our hearts, consecrate our minds, we consecrate our lives to you.

Jesus come and fill today, come and fill this recording, take us to those things that our people need.

Take us to those very things our listeners need. We pray that your spirit would guide and

shepherd and direct this. Open their hearts, open ours, open our ears, all of us, to what you're saying to us today.

And so we bring the kingdom of God here now and the authority of Christ, over the studio, over our recording, over the day, in

Jesus, name. Amen. Well, friends, welcome to the Ransom-Tar Podcast.

Wanted you to just hear a little bit of the studio chat this morning in our prayer so that you could kind of

dial in and hear where we're headed and pray with us into that. But before we jump in, I want

to remind us of kind of the conviction of the direction of the

Ransomed Hart podcast, and it goes like this.

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