I'm standing in front of this huge painting, the return of the

protocol, and I'm standing and I'm looking at the painting.

And God says to me at that moment, Tim, you need to be the father to your father.

He is the prodigal and you need him to know that I love him in the words of Brendan Manning

for who he is and not who he should be.

And he needs to learn to do the same. Welcome everybody. This is

Simon Gilbert with inspired. It's great to be back with you. I've got another fantastic guest for you.

For those of you that are new to inspired, it's just about telling great stories about encouraging

each other and it's so much bad news out there. Inspiring stories of faith of overcoming,

of triumphing through, yeah, various

stuff that life throws at us. And today I'm very excited to have with us, Tim Sissarich. Welcome, Tim.

Hey, thanks so much for having me. It's great to be with you. It is great to have you. So Tim is

a Kiwi, a New Zealand. He's living in Australia right now. He is the country director for

Wattoto. Wetoto works with vulnerable women and children in Uganda and South Sudan. And,

well, our connection is through my dad and Derek Prince Ministries. And he listened to your

stories. He wrote to me and said, Simon just kept him on his fascinating story.

So I'm just really looking forward to hear it.

And let's just, yeah, let's go for it, Tim.

So let's go right back to your roots, your family background.

Go for it.

You know, actually, it's really important.

When I think about the way in which God tells the story of the Bible,

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