The doctor sets me, he said, right, so the next two weeks, we're going to try and save your leg.

And I said, well, you've done the surgery now.

What do you mean trying to save my leg?

They said, you could actually lose your leg from this.

So you can imagine when you've gone from basically one of the physically most capable people in the country, if not in the world, to crippled in bed, scared, just because I've got big muscles

and stuff, he can get taken away like that.

Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbeau with Inspired. Great to be back for another fantastic

week of encouragement and hearing stirring testimony. Listen, if you're new to us, I think we're all

just fed up of the relentless bombardment on the media that we get of negativity in the press,

just bad news, just all it does is makes us more anxious, more depressed, more cynical, more downcast.

And what we need is to hear great stories of what is going on in the world through

different contacts and friends of mine across the globe. This week I've got no doubt you're

going to be inspired because we've got with us the wonderful Phil Roberts. Hello Simon,

thank you for having me on board. Hopefully it's a nice uplifting story. There's there's

peaks and there's plenty of troughs but with with God's plan, as always, the troughs

come out. That's a bit where you build strength and is often the bits that are really important

to your growth. That's right. That's right. Well, listen, in terms of context, I was preaching a few

weeks ago at City Church

Sheffield and met Phil there through our mutual friend Tom Lee. Phil is the owner of the station

gym and his partner in crime who's now, I think, just moved on from it, is Tom. Tom's just

been out with me in Burundu. You had a fantastic time. He's a great geyser. And so Phil runs a gym, but his context was that he was England's strongest

man in 2017 and has a glittering career with, but as he says, loads of highs and lows. And

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