Hey, Dutch Sheets here, and I'm very, very excited to talk to you today with a dear friend of mine.

You're going to really enjoy this podcast.

I did mention to you on my last podcast that I would be doing some more of these regarding

our nation's history and heritage and why that's important and the fact that we are not

all bad as a country and why we need to love our country, why we need to believe in

this nation and God's purpose for this nation.

My love for America is not a nationalistic pride, at least at its foundation and where it began.

My love for this nation was given to me by God and a visitation I received from him.

So I'm excited to you about talking about that today.

I have a friend with me, as I said, a young man, young to me, not so young anymore.

He's actually in his low early 40s, but we have walked together for a good while, I think probably 20 years at least.

And the Lord obviously brought him into my life for destiny purposes. He and I have more than just

a casual friendship. We have a love for this nation

and assignments for this nation, which have made it obvious why God brought us together. We

have purposes that are similar. And we love one another. We love each other's family

very much. I knew this man before he had a family. And so actually several years ago,

the Lord brought us together through a prophetic word.

We had already known each other, but this prophetic occurrence took things to an entirely new level because a friend of ours prophesied that we were to go on a prayer assignment together.

And I won't go into all that because we could literally spend a whole hour talking about that.

But we, after we prayed about this word, we realized we came to believe it really was a word from God. And so altogether, we spent about two and a half weeks

traveling the Northeast with our friend Will Ford and just praying in different parts of the nation

that had significant historical significance, sometimes two

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