In every, like, analyst that's around the world, it's like, we'll say in the beginning, like,

Ukraine won't last for three days. Well, guess what? God showed up. Yeah, they're going to last more than three days. Oh, they're not going to last through the winter because it's going to be so cold. They're not going to have electricity. Well, God showed up. He had the warmest winter. it's been in the last 100 years.

It's just like every phase, you know, it's a death sentence for Ukraine, but not the case.

Guy still has his hand on Ukraine.

Guys still use. winter it's been in the last 100 years. It seems like every phase, you know, it's a death sentence for

Ukraine, but not the case. God still has his hand on Ukraine. God is still using Ukraine. God is still here.

Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo and inspired. Inspired, if you're new to us,

is all about meeting different friends of mine from all sorts of different walks of life.

You've got beautiful or crazy or encouraging or gut-wrenching stories that point to Jesus,

that inspire faith. We are relentlessly bombarded by negativity and bad news and fear in the press.

And we need to sort of check out of that and check into positive voices that are going to stir us in our faith.

And I've got no doubt at all that you're going to be stirred this week by Christian Hickey. Welcome, Christian.

Hey, Simon. Thanks for having me. Yeah, it's great time. So Christian is under a sheet right now

in front of his computer in Keefe. He is the founder and CEO of AAA Authority.

He has spent 15 years of active services as a Marine, Green Beret, Special Operations, Special

Forces and also 14 years of being involved as a law enforcement officer.

So there's loads of stuff on unpack, but he's taken his family, his wife and three kids and

she's also pregnant with a fourth right now to Ukraine to be involved in really front-end

nitty gritty stuff in a very dangerous environment.

So there's, it's interesting, Chrissy, because there's lots of stuff that, you know,

I can relate to in terms of going to a dangerous area, being with family, counting the

cost, people thinking you're a complete nut job, risking your loved ones. So maybe we'll get to that in due course. But let's just go back in terms of the link. Brian, who's a dear friend Brian Kleger, who's one of my trustees, who's been out with me, loads in Burundi. He's just been with recently on the front lines in Ukraine and he said wow this is amazing you've got to get

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