His Story | Bobby Conner | Joni Table Talk | Joni Lamb

well how much difference can one life make and what's possible when we follow God's will for our lives today we'll introduce you to a man who was nearly aborted and battled with depression for many years but a miraculous event marked his life for greater things and when he surrendered to it God took him on a journey that would change countless lives but before we get to that incredible story join me around the table is my daughter Rachel lamb Brown how are you I'm doing good and I'm so excited about our guest today because he's one of the most amazing storytellers I've ever heard and his story is so powerful I never get tired of hearing what God does in people's lives like some people you know may know I just enjoy hearing it I never get tired of it so encouraging yeah Kendra Kelly Dean are you ready I'm ready I already just kind of prepping for this show one of the my friends was laughing at me as I was reading the notes because she said I was reading my phone going and she just said what do you like I'm prepping for the show so it's gonna be a good one what you're about to hear and you just sit back Wow God is so good and he's so detailed he is that's what I love about I love that Rebekah lamb wife how are you I'm putting lamb in both of your names are you still seeing that or a bit Rachel and brown Rebekah lamb why your dad weighs the lamb of little lamb God's pasture I am I don't know how are you I'm great and this is gonna be good oh my goodness I love anything perfect my kids my kids would say I'm pumped more welcome thank you thanks for having us so good to have you here it's kind of like a thorn among them much of roses here well we're excited that you're here well this imagine having the deck stacked against you before you even born that was the case for Bobbie tragic circumstances nearly ended his life before it ever began but the hand of God had already touched his life and it would mark him for living a supernaturally empowered life so let's go back into the Bible does say that I knew you and your mother's wounds yeah and we do believe that life begins at conception yes there's no question in the Bible that John the Baptist recognized when the Son of God walked into the earth because they said he leaped within his mother's belly so let's hear your story you're when you're in your mother's womb okay yeah this is 1943 my dad he was 37 years old he heavy equipment operator and he would work up and down the roads in America and he started sleeping with strange women caught a venereal disease travel if his spine got in his brain he's dying a lunatic in an insane asylum here in Texas now this is 1943 my mother already has two children my brother was born crippled and my sister two years older myself was healthy so the doctors consult with my mother and say the baby inside your belly is afflicted the same disease killing his father so my mother's desperate see she wasn't trying to be mean or vindictive so she was just trying to do a mercy killing and she was scared she was all no money no to not have a husband in 1943 that that was a big deal yeah so she takes a coat hanger turns it into a hook opens are will inserts a coat hanger into her womb so help me God the hand of Jesus push me aside and kept her from extracting my life out I told my wife about that just before my mother ever told me and my wife said Bobby nobody could ever know what happened to him when there's a fetus not told her man John the Baptist dude no you said you actually the Lord showed that about how his hand came in and protected you I mean but your mother had not told you that story but at the point she came to one of our conferences in a Civic Center and saw the power of God and saw all the things that was happening and it just just undone her because she thought about how near she came to ending our life but see she wouldn't try to be cruel but isn't that something when she came to try to tell me I loved her said Oh mom already know about all that oh so that's so neat one story you tell that was really powerful is how the Lord began to speak to you even as a child and you said you you even said you you were dirt poor oh we were poor we support we couldn't pay attention really honestly my my mother would take in Washington our needs to get money and the farmers would give her feed sacks and she'd wash them to make clothes out of it and had no shoes for a feed it was it was horrible this is a sand hills of East Texas and but a mother was she did all that she could to provide for us but uh pretty well you know and so what tell us about the the Lord speaking to you about the pony oh yeah I was out in the yard about 4 maybe 5 years old could have been a little bit older and I'm walking out in the yard and a voice spoke to me a strong voice and the voice said don't get on the pony it was so strong and so electrifying it froze me to the ground I just I couldn't move my feet I wanted to run hide and it said to me again don't get on the pony and when I could run I ran in I ran all the way through the hall ran into the bedroom for my me and my brothers beds were and I jumped in my bed and pull the covers over my head my brother's laying over there and he said what's wrong with you and I and I'm still under cover that's good don't get over the pony and he said what pony I said I don't know just don't get on the pony and so a few days later my mother puts our clothes in a little box ties it at real nice and me and my brother get in the car in my uncle's car and he's gonna we're going on a trip now we didn't know anything about the trip we just was excited to get to go so they drive hours and hours away from Murchison Texas up past Dumas and there's some looks like you're driving into a ranch but anyway they drive he drives a car away into the ranch and they stopped the car and a lady opens the door and she's standing there with two little ponies and she said get on the ponies and me and my brother scooty as far as we could have other side of the car and started screaming no no we're not getting on the pony see that's how they would carry the children away from their parents they put him a little pony and ride ride him away while the parents drove away like an orc yeah yeah if is an orphanage it was a boy's home and so my mother began to scream no I can't do it turn the car around so she turned they turned the car around and brought us back home but say I was maybe six at the very most so that was just a moment of such great despair for her that she was making the decision to put y'all or she didn't know how she actually thought that would be the best thing for us she felt well I my brother was crippled didn't have money for the doctor bills and they were saying that I would have this disease so she was doing what she thought would be the best for us but God's got a plan maybe I just as clear as the bell when I was six years old and I tell about this in my book and I pushed my friend off the swing she was annoying me and her mother comes out because she runs in crying and just begins to talk to me and asked me did I do it and I lied and said no I didn't do it and then she brought God into the picture and she said well you know there's there's someone that sees everything that we do and I mean I saw the all-seeing eye of God on my heart and as a six-year-old I was genuinely sorry and it's probably the best thing that could have it was the best thing it has stayed with me all my life and that's when that reverential fear came in a good way that I realized that there was someone who was watching my life and I didn't want to hurt him because of what he had done for me and that's when I got saved he told me she knows she told me okay so take us on through life and you started kind of going Here I am I have this prophetic anointing on me from a mother's womb yeah and we're just having a time there in East Texas and eight years old I'm eight years old when this happens I go down in my grandfather's storm cellar and he made back then they made alcohol they made moonshine and they made liquor so I found this jug of liquor and I'm 8 years old and I drink it and the moment I drink it a demon comes into me tries to kill me till 1968 the first time I drank liquor a demon came into me and tried to kill me I had a gift from God I know anything everybody's going to say before they say it I could tell if a car was gonna blow the horns if granny was gonna drop a set of dishes I'd know what was going to happen but what happened so I found this I'll call that I'm eight years old snooping around the storm cellar and I find n drinking the demon came into me I could run down the highway and I'd fall he would just just carried the skin off my arms but I was intoxicated and I could fantasize for being anybody I wanted to be when I was intoxicated I wasn't a little poor boy that lived down the road and see that's what the devil used and a boy I took everything the devil put in front of me I mean listen got into drugs got into selling drugs running drugs crazy crazy miss here's what they said about me my folks my uncles in them they said he'll be dead or in the penitentiary time he's 21 so I tried to live down to their expectations horrible in and out of jail I'm it's the way were you an alcoholic dope I'd break in the hospitals now I'd break in the hospitals get a second peel shake them up like this and take a handful of them to see what happen eight and I didn't get delivered to the fall of 1968 now what scares theologians is this I got the gift in my mother's womb I had a gift of prophetic anointing all those years I didn't get converted to the fall of 68 but all those years I had a gift and so but so the gifts of the callings of God are without repentance so my mother my mother and my sister my brother used to tie me in bed with bed sheets in bed sheets and bathed me off the alcohol and water ice train you know I begged my brother to shoot me in the head because of the drugs and stuff but anyway you have depression during this no I've just dis crazy just wild and crazy I do anything I'm down in Houston and running drugs for a gang you know and into everything I'm supposed to I'm supposed to shoot a man in the head throw him in the river and I'm sitting there you know in a big house of a drug dealers house and somebody supposed to come for the money or the drugs and neither's there I got a pistol in back and I'm sitting there now this is how what I'm when I used to go to church with my mother when I was little I'd lay my head in her lap and in the Baptist Church there Murchison they had a big old clock ticking on the wall like this and I'm sitting there this not that a man supposed to come and I'm going to shoot him twice in the head and throw him in the trunk of a car and put him in a river but so I'm sitting there and down it in this big swanky house down at the end of the hall guess what sticking a clock and for a moment in that fog of drugs and demons I thought oh if I could go back to being that little boy letting my mother's lap you know but I wasn't the guy knocks on the door and this is this as a move of God let me tell you this guy I go to the door I've got open the door and there it stands the guy but he looked just like my best friend's dad and you can't shoot your best friend's dad past so I invited this drug addict and there's a whole drug ER and he so his fingers are just purple with nicotine and he's sitting right there and I'm just I'm in a mess you know and so I didn't do what I supposed to do that I was supposed to take this guy out and he leaned over and hit me in the jaw not hard just punch him in the jaw like that and here's what he said to me said what are you doing in a life like this he said you don't want to end up like me he said why don't you go home and just like a lot came on why don't I go home so I left Houston Texas went back to the sand hills of East Texas up there in Murchison that's where my brother and my sister tie me in bed and bathed me off the alcohol and boy those it was awful it was awful and finally one morning I woke up and I was hungry after several weeks of being yeah after several weeks of being restrained I woke up most hungry and I'll never forget it in a thousand years I've recovered and my mother is ironing my blue jeans and she's crying there's my mother and she's ironing my blue jeans I'm gonna go to town and big old tears were running down my mother's face following the ironing board and goats when the iron ran out crusty and she's crying I said mom why are you crying and she said please don't go to town and I popped her on the arm it's all mom don't worry about me I've kicked this I've kicked this I go to Athens Texas I'm not there 15 minutes till I'm back behind the B&B cafe messed up the next time I see my mother she's walking up the jail still say steps to the bars and she's on outside I'm in the inside and she said to me with the most hopeless look can't you ever quit that's what she said and I said no no I can't that's exactly what I that's one and this during that time I meet Carol and my wife and she was totally different than me just as far opposite as you could be and uh she used to she loved me before she ever met me she'd seen me in town and go home and cry about me and so we got married and oh man you talk about something it was awful she's a good good girl and all I knew was violence you know I just didn't so anyway when she got pregnant having had our little boy and so uh one waste a night I carried her to church her my little boy let him out at church at a Baptist Church around 4:30 or 5:00 in the afternoon never intending to see him again I'm drilling a car deep into the Kickapoo Creek bottom reached in the front seat of the car pull out a double-barrel shotgun crack it open put two shells in and snapped it shut ran the gun up in the roof of my mouth and for these people that don't believe in demons here's what happened the moment the gun went on mouth the whole car filled with demons it got as cold as a refrigerator and the demons were screaming good good now I took the gun I started shaking like a leaf and I wasn't afraid of anybody then I took the gun out of my mouth and I was shaking I fit in the backseat it's about 10 or 11 o'clock at night man and I Drive back to the church first babies Church Murchison Texas the pastor at that time was a big old long headed German named Paul Mouse I used to see him in the stores not shove him in cursing and he'd look at me with big blue eyes and he'd say I love you and I knew him in it but I was full of rage okay I'm sitting in the car out there under a tree at the First Baptist Church in Murchison late Wednesday night 11:30 at night something like that and here's what I said I said Jesus if you could would you change my life Wham just like that my whole world went from pale gray to vivid color I get out of the car and I walk to the church pulled the back door the church open here's what I say most of the people had gone I see an old-fashioned mourners bench I seen brother now they're praying I see my wife praying my little son kneeling and praying I see Ronnie and sharing custom to a Christian couple and they were praying and here's what I hear I hear in praat crying at all God whatever it takes save Bobby see if they hadn't been praying for me I'd be in hell instead of a storm and here's what happened to me I step in there and I run down there and I fell on the preachers neck and I cried like a baby I mean like a baby then I let him go and I pulled up my wife and this is and took her to me like this and this is the first time I ever in my whole life you know what it meant to love out of a pure heart and that night the Lord said I'm gonna send you around the whole world with the gospel and I said to him bat chance that means no way but I wore out stacks of passports I've been preaching 50 years this day you talk about something I didn't deserve a single thing except hail so it was that was just instant instant amazing I wanted what an incredible testimony and I mean some of you are thinking wow and you've given up on somebody in your family after you heard this today keep praying I'm telling you God is moving and he can send people and cause circumstances to happen in their life is you don't even know anything about so you don't give up on that loved one I'm praying for okay so let's talk about we've moved 50 years forward to what God is saying for this year okay what has he been showing you okay and it just anything that you could I want to this will be the year the Lord reveals himself to his people in the most lovely way and I'm telling you Psalms 27 verse 4 says one thing I've desired I want to see the Lord in his beauty and so he's he's going to reveal himself to us in His Majesty like we've not seen before it'll show us that we really didn't get an hour another opportunity to give him the devotion to his name and so let me just show you a few of the things that that he said to us that it's going to happen here we go one thing he's going to do over and over and over during the before the Day of Atonement I'd be walking around and corns with all quarters most Immortals and new pennies I could be sitting at my desk they'd fall I'd be walking the airport they'd fall I'd be standing out the yard they'd fall over and over and over and finally me being so prophetic I said Lord what are you saying he said I want you to stand before the body of Christ and say to them change is in the air change see that's the coins were falling out there then he said announce to the body of Christ that their spiritual tomorrow won't look like they're today and so he said he won't here's what he said overcoming spiritual stagnation changes in their four days before the atonement here and then he said I master my people changes in their the fresh wind is blowing the fresh wind will change I can't - I can the fresh wind that's coming will change your question mark into an exclamation point aren't you glad and we're going to learn more about what our destiny is and we've known for a long time we're gonna walk with gold aim and true purpose we're not gonna be Andrew around Ephesians 5:14 then eight things says don't meander around foolishly know the plan and plot of God for your life and God's gonna help us to be able to catch his strategies much easier than we've been catching them we're gonna he's gonna release for us James 1:5 James 1:5 said if any of us need wisdom let him ask God the giving God he'll give it to us here's what God said he said tell the body of Christ knowledge without wisdom is worthless Avra knowledge with wisdom is priceless now you can get knowledge by googling but you get wisdom one source God but anyway so changes in there he said I'm gonna release such an anointing I'll turn timidness into boldness and he said I'll turn confident I'll give them confidence and courage and it's Joshua 1:9 be bold and brave very courageous go do what you're commissioned to do because you're not going by yourself the Lord's going with you what a day to win souls but anyway here's a whole bunch of stuff that he's going to do tomorrow one thing I really like I said it's the dawning of a new neigh they tell the saints of God to be encouraged because your spirit or more will look vastly the difference then different than your today he said you don't allow the pains of the past to keep you from embracing the victories of the future some people can't get over the past but the past is gone it's gone and if you confess your wrongdoings God puts it as far as the East is from the West never to remember it again we're supposed to forget things that are people keep putting it back in front of you or they remind other people of their sin right God don't like that if it ever got you've confessed if it ever comes back to the devil brought it yeah because he guys forgot about it he's throwing it and to see if his forget them list he's putting as far as easties I'm talking fast again but anyway here's what we got to do we got to keep our focus on God I say have 26 verse 3 listen what it said you will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind both with this inflammations and it's character is stayed on you because he commits himself to you leans on you and hopes confidently in you we've got to keep our focus on God Jesus said it this way looking out at the chaos on the world will it says men's hearts failing them for the things they see coming upon the earth but if you look higher we have confidence and courage now I'm telling you there is chaos in the world and there's all kind of calamities but I believe God is going to raise his people to take charge I believe we're gonna be able to start binding and loosing we're gonna start operating in the office of a senior representative sent out with authority that's what he said he said that if we'll follow him in the 2nd Corinthians 5:20 now are we ambassadors for Christ and ordered a bastard or means a senior representatives sent out with authority and so the church is gonna rise up and say that the devil no you have no right to do this Matthew 18:18 says whatever heaven says is illegal you and I can stand on this earth and declared to be illegal yeah remember jesus said all powers are given unto me in heaven and earth and then he said we're his representatives so we have all power in heaven and in earth and so the church is going to come out of this this I I call it self-imposed amnesia not knowing who we are not knowing where we are and we're going to really understand our identity more than ever not even realizing what's going on in the world they're a deception yes I don't I don't know how people would get so embroiled in this politics till they forget biblical principles and here's what here's what I tell the body of Christ God's gonna straighten this thing out from the church house not the white house yeah see it's our responsibility here's a verse nobody like nobody much likes it I hear it is 100 it's they liked the first part every times 115 verse 14 15 may the Lord increase you more and more you and your entire family may you be blessed of the God that made the heavens and the earth but some 115 verse 16 says the heavens of heavens that belongs to God but this earth is your responsibility God's going to hold us as Christians responsible for what's happening not Washington DC not Democrats not Republicans but the people of God so we're gonna have to stand up and get involved yeah so what about these things because you're I know so many others have said 2019 like you said change special things happening a special delivery of things etc but here in 2019 we've also seen that the New York governor passing legislation the Virginia governor passing legislation against the unborn child which again is there and dear to your heart yeah here's here's the deal in 2017 according to all these people that crunch the numbers they say America spend what three hundred and six billion dollars three hundred and six billion dollars in 2017 on fires floods and calamities you ask insurance company what that is they're say it's an act of God so you'd have to deduce from that America's under judgment you can't spend almost a billion dollars a day on calamities and not be under judgment so people say well okay preacher what what judgment you think we're under Isaiah 5:20 Isaiah 5:20 says woe unto the nation finds it easy to call good evil and evil good if we're not there I'd like to know who is yeah I'll tell you when people can vote to abort almost birth term babies that's evil yeah that's evil I don't care what side of the fence you're on that's murder and I'm telling you what God's going to judge us he's already judging us but we keep that you watch you New York girl had to pay I mean that New York will have to pay for that we can't continue to go against the way word in the will of God without there being recompense to it you want us to get honest here okay is your program not mine but I'm God's family I'm gonna show you what's wrong with America and here you want to see it okay here it is if we spend almost a billion dollars a day on calamity there's got to be a reason for that and I'm gonna show it to you right straight from the Bible what I believe is the reason for the calamity we're having here in America security is I'm reading out of first Timothy chapter 2 verse verse 1 first Timothy 2 first one first of all then admonish and urge that petitions prayers and intercessions and Thanksgiving be offered on behalf of all men verse 2 for kings and all who are in positions of authority or high responsibilities why that outwardly we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life and inwardly a peaceable one in all godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way for such praying is good and right and is pleasing and acceptable to God our Father wait a minute who what man holds the most position most high position of authority America Donald Trump you've never seen anybody in our lifetime under more word curses than Donald Trump and see that's the reason we're under this curse you that's why we're not living a quiet look at it for kings and all who are in positions of authority of high responsibilities that outwardly that outwardly we may pass a a what a quiet and undisturbed life Wow so we can't be spending a billion dollars a day and there's the reason and you'd be surprised how many believers are getting caught up in talking down the president we're obligated I don't care if you Democrat Republican what every corner you're absolutely ordered by God to pray for them yes and that's what we got to do and here's one thing I think we ought to do I think more to begin to send the president words of encouragement instead all this blasphemous definitely hear over them the I'll tell you what I think I think the modern-day media should be tried for treason I looked at Webster's definition of treason an attempted overthrow of setting government if the modern day media is not guilty of that tell me who is now here's what we've got to do guys we're gonna have to take a stand and I'd suggest you get a car to thank you card and write it out dear mr. president and seek God and find a verse a verse of encouragement and send it to them I'm telling you can you imagine the word curses he's under yeah but CNO the Bible says there's power in your words the power of what death and life is in your tongues but I like what it says it says there's those that speak and there speakings like the slashing the sword but there's those that speak in their words are like apples of gold and settings of silver Wow well we are out of time remember that God has so much more for you he wants to empower you through his spirit and bring you peace and overwhelming joy so open your heart to him and He will bless you beyond measure also I think it's so important for those of you watching no matter what political party please pray for our leadership pray for those that are in places of leadership in your state pray for them to have the wisdom of God so important right now do you understand that's what we're called to do and if you're watching today and you want to pray to receive the Holy Spirit or maybe you'd like someone to pray for healing and restore joy in your life that's why that number is on the screen that toll-free number is available 24 hours a day seven days a week we have prayer partners that are standing by ready to pray for you you can also go to destroy calm and click on prayer we pray over all the prayer requests that come in today's star I want to thank Bobby Connor for joining us at the table I hope you've enjoyed hearing from him be sure to pick up a copy of the latest release of shepherds rod that's what he was reading from and for more about his ministry you can visit him online at Bobby Kahn org as always you can share your thoughts about today's program by leaving us a comment on Facebook Instagram or Twitter we love hearing how God has touched your life through this program thank you so much for watching being couraged today and keep praying for that loved one we'll see you next time bye bye for today [Music] this has been a day star television production [Music]

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Published: Fri Jul 05 2019