Hey friends, welcome to the Victor Marks podcast with Victor Marks, founder of all things possible ministries.

Welcome to the show where we bring you real conversations facing life's hard truths, stories of

redemption, and the latest from the front lines. Whether you're on the road, getting your day started,

or finally settling in. We've got an exciting new episode plan for you. So let's dive into today's

show. Over the next couple weeks, we're excited to share with you powerful messages from guest

speakers and teachers live at the KMG conference speaking biblical truth, confidence,

and leadership into men striving to show up boldly for the call on their lives. Be encouraged and challenged by each of these great communicators to strive to live a life like Christ.

Here is today's message.

Well, good morning. There's nothing like being in a room full of dudes on a high protein diet.

What a joy. So thank you for having me. I'm not really sure I'm

qualified to be up here when I looked at the list of real men that are up here. I don't know

if I can compete with a general or Daryl Strawberry or some of these other guys. I'm a pastor

in all truth. I really am very humbled to be here and thank you for giving me time to speak.

Frank, when you were talking about what it means to be a warrior, I remember a word I heard once

from a colonel, and he said that in a fight, when there's 100 people fighting, of those hundred, there are 20 that shouldn't even be

there. They're not trained. They're not ready to be in that fight. There's 70 that are basically

just targets. There's 10, or there's nine rather, that are real soldiers, and then there's one that's a warrior.

And as you're talking, I start to think about the idea sort of mythically of what this

warrior means for men, I think a big part of it means to be in a way better than the rest,

to go 100%, to be the 1% in a good way.

The 1% of man, that's the world's best husband, the world's best father, the world's best disciple.

And those don't sound like humbling things to say, but those should be true goals that we

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