Josh Harmony / Professional Skateboarder

the ryan reese show from southern california this is the ryan reese show post your questions using ryan reese on his instagram twitter or facebook are you ready [Music] i got one of my good friends josh harmony back in studio aloha how long has it been since you've been in studio um probably four years maybe five two that's crazy i don't know time flies it seems like it seriously was just last year when we were posted up there yeah but then you moved and stuff yep wow yeah well man it's uh i'm stoked to have you back dude got a lot of skaters uh listening to the show i was just at etni's skatepark yesterday right talking to some uh some young kids that were that were christians and i was like yeah man i'm gonna check out the show i have josh harmony on on the show science mountain different guys brian sumner yeah yeah um just a good way just to to speak into their lives because obviously you know with the music and skate culture just like the whole like subculture um where the where the current of the world and life is where kind of where we reside um it's crazy out there yeah you know you got all this uh new age stuff coming in you have uh you know the occult and it it comes in a like a light format with like wicca it's huge i can't tell you how many girls i know that are into wicca it's like white magic they worship the earth but we know it's all uh demonic then you have all that different religions um just infiltrating and then you have social media and movies and everything just infiltrating the minds and i believe that we as adults and as youth are getting uh brainwashed and learning from what's not even real and i love having you in on the show because you very in touch with culture you are a pro skater um you're a musician you're an artist i mean what what else are you doing did you write a book yet i'd love to write a book one day but i don't know if i i don't know we'll see yeah hey who knows but yeah that's pretty much it those three things right yes so far skating and music and art has kind of been my main focus i also surf a lot but that's just more for me i mean but i that's like one of my favorite things in the world kind of checks all the boxes of you know what i mean it's like a it's a spiritual experience for me at least on a good day yeah yeah no dude there's nothing like being out there in the in the water we've surfed a couple times together yeah uh just being out there dude in nature and the elements of the sun the water and all that it's just uh there's nothing like that yeah it's crazy though because when you kind of have a bad attitude and you get out there it like can turn into the worst experience especially if people keep snaking your waves yeah or you can't catch or you have a time limit like if you don't have to be anywhere later you're like you're like i don't even care go ahead but when you've got to be somewhere in like an hour and you've made it up in your head that you need at least like five waves before you leave like that's when you get in trouble that's that's the one thing i don't like about surfing i know is that the whole process you have to make sure that the wind's right right you got to make sure that the the right there's a swell right then you got the water temperature right and then the amount of people yeah that are out there and then with the swell depends how many waves are coming in right per hour consistent or hour yeah how consistent it is right those are the things that bum you out so it can either be a blessing or a cursing oh yeah yeah you just got to keep the expectations low and remember that you're seeing dolphins maybe and like pelicans going by it's like it's amazing when your head's in the right place yeah seriously but you know what i really do like is that new like kelly slater wave yeah i've never done any of that stuff yet but i i look forward to getting in one you know brian jennings yeah dude he's doing a trip to like the texas wave pool oh no way yeah soon it's like coming up wow you need to connect with him all right i mean i'm i'm like recovering from a rotator cuff right now which i'm i'm i just started skating again i did i tore my meniscus i hurt my back and then i tore my rotator cuff all in like three or four years from skating uh two two of them for skating and then the rotator cuff was from just moving boxes just being old dad old guy old dad horrible but now i just started skating again and now i'm like in the process that's trying to surf again but dude i want to go to those wave pools yeah dude it looks so fun that looks insane so yeah we'll connect but i hope those things just manufacture or just produce all across the united states yeah i don't see i don't see why they wouldn't that's like there's like a there's a different there's different types of ones there's one that's called like uh i don't know surf lakes or something it's like a plunger i've seen that it's in australia yeah they're from australia but then they have like the the bottom of the ground underneath like they they put at different heights and different like slopes so that the waves break differently so you can have like potentially different types of waves breaking all around that is dope yeah that is dope i didn't know that yeah so depending on the depth of the the sand or whatever surface texture right so they could have like a log one or like a barrel one dude it dude it's going down yeah our kids are gonna see some amazing it is we should be investing in those companies because they're probably crazy they're they are they they will do all the you know all these people from the midwest and just canada central states like an indoor place where they have like huge like mall of america that's what i'm saying in the morning or whatever people go i mean there's the late night guys go session waves at like 12 at night or whatever right it could go crazy anyway that's a whole nother conversation kelly slater where you at on the show well dude i wanted to bring you back um i want to bring you back because you recently you went through this uh just crazy uh new journey you uh let's how do i uh how would i say this so you were on fire for god you were abiding in christ you were doing your thing and then there was a turn of events that happened where you decided to move um back east let's let's talk about that um well i got one of my sponsors couldn't pay me anymore and so i was like chopping my head off and like with health insurance and like i was our house like i couldn't afford it anymore so i kind of got put in this position where i was getting squeezed with no way out yeah and i should like in hindsight i probably should have just waited on the lord a little longer than i did but simultaneously as i lost that income i got a job in marketing um in minneapolis and so i was looking at it as sort of like a you know as an education and getting like a you know yeah getting my foot in the door and like in like a proper like a proper job like give that life a try which i like but just not in the contest context of like really long winters and stuff like it was you know well this is this is the thing that a lot of people don't understand too with pro you know skaters or athletes or you know whatever you're in or or musicians that are that are doing a bunch of you know that are blown up and then also there comes a day when maybe albums aren't selling or sure or you you get older oh dude everything that i feel like to like doesn't pay money it only does it has like a it has a time limit on it as far as like the marketing worth of it you know what i mean so you've gotta like once you take the transition out of that you have to really look at what you have to offer to make ends meet for your family or for you know what i mean to keep on top of things so like so this is pretty my motive is like my motive was right you know what i mean like looking out for my family and like doing you know what i mean like i would i'd do anything for my family you know what i mean i just didn't i just kind of put making ends meet for my family in front of god and like god let me do that and let me get confused until i realized until he showed me you know that i was really putting my efforts first in front of him which is like the classic thing it's like i've been raised in the church like i know better than that yeah but wait until it happens to you you know to me this is so common it's so gnarly because there's it's kind of like when you have kids too like people tell you all the time like dude watch it when you have kids it's so hard and you're like how hard can it be really yeah you know what i mean but then you have kids of your own and then it's like all of a sudden your wife and i you're you aren't going on dates with your wife as much and then you're changing poopy diapers you're cleaning up barf off the ground and all this stuff and it's like it hits you in the face and you're like holy crap like i've got a lot of responsibility you know what i mean and there's nothing in the world that can prepare you for when the rubber meets the road and your like life decisions like hit you in the face whether that's like doing the right thing and being a family man or like you know what i mean any direction you take like the responsibilities come you know no this is a i think this story is so relatable because you're praying to god you're losing income you have a house you have your car you have your food for your wife you got diapers you have all these bills and you're like you have to make that decision like paychecks just cut right right and now you're like what am i going to do and this this door that opens just like this in a month like boom like yeah like yeah yeah and but then this door opens which could be very confusing because you could think well god maybe you're opening this door for me yeah like the timing was crazy yeah it was yeah but it in a way it was kind of like it felt it felt like it was of the lord yeah in a way did you have peace at all or like i don't know what i had i thought i think i was too like i think i was so having a hard time with keeping up with the bills and up with the like and other people that don't know my story like i have arthritis in my hips so i have like a fake i have a metal cap on my right hip and then i've had stem cell injections on my left i've had a knee surgery so like going through those things and and raising a family and you know dealing with injuries like on tour and like managing pain and like all that stuff is so exhausting like people don't understand like it's how demanding it actually is like it is it is the greatest job if you can get it you know what i mean like don't get me wrong it's amazing to be able to like sleep in as long as you want or like make your schedule any way that you want it but when the when the rubber meets the road and you have to perform like it's on like you get if you go on a tour and like thrashers paying for photographers to come and all this stuff is on you to make to make the trip worthwhile you better get up and bat you know what i mean and when you're when you're blown out and you're hurting like it's it's gnarly and and it's it's crazy because there's no handbook and then all you see on on instagram and stuff is how like you know jake phelps is let's go to the end and we're you know like as long as we're skating like it's like you know like that's all there is like hell ride and like i love and respect those guys so much like don't get me wrong i'm not hating yeah but it's like that's not life-giving to people that are like going to the doctor and the doctor is like you're gonna be in a wheelchair for the rest of your life you know what i mean like hearing those kind of things and like trying to balance like okay like how much is this worth how much is this lifestyle worth you know what i mean because there's a price tag on it every time and and we don't normally see what it's going to take just like we were talking about how you can't like when you when you decide to have a kid or a kid happens to you because you made you know you you did the deed now you got to do the time like it's hear that boys over there the re when it comes when it comes in when the responsibility comes in it's hardcore and there's nothing that can prepare you you don't know it's like you can't you gotta cross the bridge when you get there so i wanna i wanna point the listeners to uh go to our app and watch the first show that josh did and he goes more in detail of all that because that's a very gnarly story of all the stuff that you've been through you already see you already went through some very dark times in your life with your your hip and your knee and all that stuff and all the replacement and that actually produced some pretty banging music worship music and albums that are all on spotify i'm sure and apple josh harmony music you can check it all out really good stuff that produced amazing albums but now here you are you're you're running into another storm yeah paychecks cut job opens up you're like okay i can get my education i can work and and uh working uh some kind of a corporate world because i got you got to pay ends yeah totally relatable and understandable right so what happened what was it it was in minneapolis okay yeah and i i did that job for like almost two years like a year and a half two years and i just noticed that i just wasn't i wasn't feeling right you know like it was really hard like every you know they say the stressors major stressors in life or like the you know getting married and having a kid changing location like uh a new career all these things i had like all these things happening to me simultaneously and then at the same time to all the stuff that i had of like okay my identity is like because i got sponsored for skating when i was in high school identity crisis so my identity was in as a skater and who i was obviously my identity was in christ i know who i am in christ but like i still am a human i can't i don't just walk around all day like you know what i mean like you have to work like you have to do life and so it's like sometimes those those real things and they're all connected to the spiritual but sometimes those things catch up and like it's real you know like bill's got to get paid and like and so yeah you know it was tempting because it's like okay well we can have a house there for so much cheaper and and it was nice we had a nice house we were super set up but i just was depressed you know like i just i was i remember just after a while i just thought like man i'd rather live by live in a shack by the beach and try to figure it out like some other way like then have all this like this is like it's like the responsibility and all the like you know what i mean i like kind of bit into the apple of the american dream so to speak and like it was kind of it kind of didn't taste so good after a while or it didn't feel good after i ate it because it was like those aren't the things that god made me to be so i'm trying to right now you're talking to a person that's in a season where you're fit you're trying to fit a round ball in a square peg right right square peg in a round hole or whatever it's like not it's like it doesn't fit and so now that i've had that experience you're talking to a guy that's like coming out of the other end of that which cost me a lot like we sold our place like we're renting a place in costa mesa just a tiny place and i've never been happier like i have so much hope and i trust in lore with my finances right now and like everything i put my hand to but you're talking to somebody that's that's figuring out how to fit the puzzle piece into who i am as you know a person who's from california and loves california and is trying to make it work and it's like that's takes sacrifice too but the the being around the skating industry and being around surfing and things are so essential to me that like it's like i'm willing to make sacrifices for yeah yeah yeah because now i know like what i was missing do you know what i mean yo one dude one i understand exactly what you're talking about so when you move there you're in this element and what happened with the creative juices were they flowing were you were you still able to produce art and stuff like that music or was it just kind of a that stuff was maybe minimal and you were just kind of that stuff what would you get into because i mean i remember you were talking about like the hard winners you started reading a lot like what was the whole mentality because here you are you're going as a believer but then there was like a shift what were those things what were the things that kind of like that started kind of just pulling you away because i think this is important a lot of people um could be walking with god but then there's a turn of events that could happen in their life it could be anything right and then there's a slow like pulling away that the enemy likes to do right what what was that process well i mean i first off like i'm a firm believer and like he who began a good work in you is faithful to complete it until the day of christ jesus it's not to say that our decisions don't make a difference they do it's just like what does eternity look like at the end of it once you get there right like because that's the part that we play in this thing after we get saved you know it's like what we build on that foundation whether it's wood hair straw if it's a better material i was always raised and it's proven true in my life as my dad always taught me you need these three things to make the table of your faith stand properly other otherwise it'll get rattling you need prayer you need time in the word and you need fellowship with other believers and when i moved out there i really the fellowship with other believers took such a hit that like the prayer started taking a hit and then like the taking the bible seriously kind of takes a hit too um it's not to say that it can't exist without those things it's just like when you have a lack of those things in your life then you make yourself more vulnerable for attack you start each your spiritual walk starts to uh get hungry and and and starts to get weak and uh it's that's why it's essentially keep those three things like consistent in your life if anybody's listening and you feel low like just look for those things but i think for me well for me going into that and i've always struggled with is the problem of evil like i really like it's really hard sometimes when you when you fly in the face of like if you ever if you ever work with organizations that deal with like sex trafficking or things like that those were the things that that would kind of spin me out which like it takes a lot of it takes a lot of uh understanding patience and and knowing that like you're not god and god is god but there is a tendency at least within me to look at things as broken as they are and kind of not not blame god but go like dude like you're gonna let that happen kind of a thing which is some real talk as a christian like that's real talk and like i like it's it's the free will like that's the key but the free will also comes with it comes with a bunch of chaos and a bunch of pain you know and jesus is going to wipe away the tears of everyone's eyes in heaven and all the all that stuff but when you're hurting and you're suffering you feel confusion the evil starts to outshine the grace when you don't when you're not walking with other believers or reading the bible or praying like it's just easy for um the evil to kind of seep in and i i remember i would read ravi zacharias you've been on this this for a while for a thing yeah everything's been constant in my life like it's a it's not this is what i knew when you got there just surfaced yeah and i i really like appreciate thomas you know what i mean like the downing thomas yeah no yeah downing thomas cause it's like there's there's like uh you know but that's the flesh and like to me like what i've what i've realized to this whole thing is like i don't get it i still don't get it yeah but that's what that's why the holy spirit is so important because he is able to meet us in the spiritual and show us things that we otherwise can't see and it's like a it's like a door being open to peace you know like the bible teaches that that he gives us the peace that passes understanding and without without the holy spirit and the fellowship with with the lord and that like there's no i wouldn't be a christian i wouldn't believe you know what i mean like i because it's all too no matter what way you look at it it's crazy if you don't believe if you believe that all this happened on its own it's so crazy but if you also believe that god made it and that like god is good and yet the world is so chaotic like that's really hard to reconcile too but it does it does become reconciled in the truth of the gospel and like the god redeeming us through christ and and those things that are hard to reconcile like the like why does god allow bad things it is is in god's justice and he will bring justice and there's no better person in all of existence than jesus who lived and lived as a human and knows what it's like you know like the saying like you shouldn't judge a man unless you walked a mile in his shoes and like as you get older that saying like it starts to take on new meaning when you when you go through physical pain and for christ and what he did for us on the cross like his suffering is so valuable to his understanding too in his experience not that he lacks understanding but his experience as a human is so valuable and so to me it's like i have to have the holy spirit to believe to understand because otherwise i would just you know and that's why it's like you have to know him enough to know to trust him in what you don't and that's the whole that's the whole thing with christianity is that's how god proves he's real by believing what he did on the cross and in the gospel then he sends his holy spirit and he fills you and you encounter him right and that's that's and that's a miracle in itself just to even believe the foolishness of the cross that jesus christ came under rescue mission every eternity to die right on the cross for the sins of the world right that he would die and raise from the dead and by just by believing in him you will have that gift of faith and he will send the holy spirit yeah and that's just it's that that's a miracle in itself yeah but then once you get that belief system and god gives you the holy spirit then that's what josh is talking about about how he'll start revealing this these truths to you yeah and you start looking at the things of the world my wife's the same way she's just like why how come all these good people are getting cancer why are all these good all these things happening human trafficking why is all these things all these good all these good people that are serving you and just innocent people right she's on that same and people get rocked and it's it's hard yeah but it's also like i mean that's like that's why that's what gives everything value though that's what's so crazy is that that's part of the spectrum of color you know what i mean like you have the dark colors that show you know what i mean like deep emotion you have light colors that show like bright and hope and it's like the same thing with the the picture of this experience that's life that you know it gets painted with those dark there's parts of it that are dark for everyone no one escapes it if you've had a free ride so far like it's coming like i hate to break it too but it's do you know what i mean and and that's what those are the things that are the things that are tough that kind of make things valuable in christ do you know what i mean yeah and and make you appreciate because when you reach the end of your rope and you got nowhere to go and then you actually call on jesus name for sure for real he meets you like and it's like not until you get to that place that it becomes real you know and he shows up he never he's never late and that sounds cliche but seriously he never shows up late it might be at the 11th hour right uh but he'll he'll show up but those those storms that you go to those are the things that make us the those those spiritual giants in a sense they they bring character to your life and um through those stories i mean here we are on a radio show right talking about this story that we're just getting started with um and there's going to be so many people that are going to actually relate to this and uh at the end of the story it's going to bring them hope yeah and endurance for where they're at right now yeah so well where you were saying like how did you get sidelined so yeah so to speak like i'm sorry i went on that time no no it's all good um i i got sidelined pretty easily by being isolated but then also i was trying because i couldn't because i felt so distant from god like i started feeling you know that absence of the holy spirit and like feeling that absence of that and so so wait i was there there was no prayer no more reading no more people hanging out with uh what was that called um fellowship fellowship and then the last so that was his prayer fellowship in isolation and time in the word yeah isolation became the result of not fellowship yeah yeah not having fellowship and so being in that place like i really i looked to a lot of philosophy and and i tried to i did so weird too to talk about it because i just feel like such a turd because before i i'd experienced so much of god's grace and so much of like miracles you know what i mean and seeing things um but when you're in that place and there's confusion and the enemy comes in and you let the enemy in because you kind of like you start agreeing with or you pull from things to try to make sense of it all um you you kind of give dominion over to the enemy in a way and all of a sudden like you start seeing the same power of god so to speak in other stuff and working for other people you know maybe like in the occultic side of things and and it's confusing because a lot of it appears to be light but it's really actually the enemy himself and and uh and so it can be easy to try to explain away things that happened to you that were of god when you're not feeling near god at all you know what i mean it it seems so what's the work of the enemy he likes he likes to deceive he brings confusion yeah that's like the thing like dude it's so crazy like when i experience like spiritual warfare and stuff like it's that confusion just comes in like it just makes everything seem more complicated than it has to be do you know what i mean and it's so oh it's so annoying and that's why it's so important as believers to make sure we're in prayer and like in the word because it makes such a difference what's that one scripture says bring all your uh thoughts captive to christ because if not you just let it run and you just see what the enemy you know you start reading stuff and you don't bring those thoughts to christ right you know that's how the enemy gets your mind right the enemy just wants your mind right because you know i always use that illustration like you could have some crazy gnarly ufc guy or like a spartan right you have this strong guy that could like rip people's heads off right but if you get his mind oh you guys are done right and that's all the enemy he just wants your mind yeah doesn't matter how physically strong you are are you that he just wants your mind right yeah because that's how he can bring you down yeah easy you cripples you exactly so did you get in the um so you're reading philosophy books did you get any like uh occult stuff at all reading um not so much like a little bit more like three friends and stuff yeah how'd that go down i said a friend i had a couple friends a guy that i was working with was like pretty into like astrology tarot cards astrology type stuff and then same with another buddy i was playing music with and so was he reading tarot cards stuff to you all right josh we're going to be going to break right now for two minutes for all you guys that are listening go to the whosoever's app download it it's free has all the past radio shows you could catch josh's story from uh man four years ago yes get that and much more and then don't forget that we're gonna be doing a men's conference at the anaheim convention center it's going to be with franklin graham jeff johnson john randall myself and jack hibbs and many more the date is going to be saturday november 9th at 8 am to 4pm come one come on peace more of the ryan reese show coming up post your questions at ryan reese on his instagram twitter and or facebook [Music] we do and the physical has an effect on the spiritual world and when you say yes to something in the physical and you align your life up to it in the physical whether it's getting your palm read or or a tarot card reading or a you know believing in astrology like that stuff it seems harmless but it's so damaging and it like it will put you in danger in the spiritual world and bring confusion and destruction into your world you know and you think that and the reason that you're going to those things is because you're looking for insight and you're looking for insight into the spirit or into the future and that insight is coming from a place of darkness and say you know what i mean and those pla that that place of darkness can maybe bring quote good things into your existence but it's all just a set up to bring you down in the end exactly and it's super it's it's crazy because it's you see it everywhere now like even when we were kids like it was there like ouija boards and stuff were there but it always was looked at as like something spooky yes or like something dark and now it's like it's so it's so in your face and it's so tangible and palatable for people that are just like innocent whatever regular family is called ouija that the ouija board spiked in sales when that came out right and then all that dominion and darkness went out that's like that's the enemy planting seeds what's that called the american horror story uh i don't know if you've ever seen a teacher for that dude and there's there's shows on disney that are so gnarly like i i was i don't we don't have cable at our house but we when i was doing the us open or helping out with the us open i got to stay in like a super nice hotel right on the beach which was amazing thank you vance but i stay in that hotel i'm like dude there was a there was a show on there that was so it was so occultic like and i know it because i've seen it yeah and i know what they're teaching but i'm just like oh my gosh it's like hidden in plain sight yeah yeah there was this one show that came in they were they're flipping through on netflix i think it was called uh oh i don't even know the name of it but it was some some girl some little cartoon but they had all these witches and stuff in it yeah i can't even think of the name i'm like dude get that thing out of here don't i don't want any of that garbage because it opens it opens doors any of that any of that stuff you guys want to know more in depth about opening doors to the to the spirit realm look go to the app and down look up stephen banchez oh yeah he does a he's an ex-new age uh guru guy that had like 250 000 people visiting his website a day uh he he has all kinds of stories of of opening the doorways to all the occult stuff it could be from statues to like like buddhas it could be any of that stuff he even says causes confusion just because the bible says those are idols made to demons right so you have these idols in your house you might think oh because you go to urban outfitters you're like oh they got a little cool buddha i'm gonna put that in my bedroom right you just allowed a demon into your house pretty much dude yeah because they have they have dominion over that stuff and somehow the symbology like it's connected it's hard for us to make sense because it's like okay the enemy when he wants to he wants to use you and lose you you know when you're young and you've got influence and stuff like he'll he'll definitely sign you up but when he's done with you he's going to leave you in the ditch you know no what dude it's hardcore there is just to be clear listeners there is power behind all that stuff there's power in the ouija boards the tarot cards the crystals people are getting into now it's just all repackaged the new age astrology re just just reading astrology and agreeing with it right you open those those that that doorway you're agreeing with it right um pentagrams all that stuff there is power in ephesians 6 it talks about it yeah we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world in spiritual wickedness in high places there it is and so that places they have high places they have power and that's what's crazy is like you bring something into your physical house and you think like oh like this is this is cool um but in the spirit because it's connected to the spirit world you agree with it it's in these higher dimensions they have authority and access into your into your world when you when you line yourself up with the authority of the enemy you might be go man i'm giving my life to god i'm walking with them but i just i can't i feel confusion i don't have peace there's all these things that are going on well i would i would challenge you go in your house pray to the regular god say holy jesus have the holy spirit reveal to me what's in my house that shouldn't be here and as you start looking around like i used to have this sick painting of jimi hendrix it was it was like a white canvas and it was done in like chalk and it was just he had the big old afro but he had a big old joint out of his mouth but dude i just love hendrix and the whole vibe and this thing just looked amazing in my house when i first got saved right and i remember just doing the same prayer going god whatever doesn't honor you in my house tell me and i remember grabbing that that painting and i just took the thing and threw it in the trash and that cost me a pretty penny to get but i was like god i want you i want you and my life 100 i don't want anything to distract me or pull me away and then you start realizing you have supernatural films in your house you could have like you know harry potter films or any of these things these are all doorways that you allow this stuff to having a harry potter one or or um it's as funny as that sound i can tell you real stories of those harry potter there was a girl that was in the harry potter she's from germany one of our friends though the harry potter one would fly across her house all the paintings would be thrown off of her her ceiling then her daughter which is nine years old they woke up in the middle night she was crying and she said she saw this huge black shadow of like harry potter figures with hoods over their neck inside a room not letting her out of the door like this stuff's real like they're that the girl that wrote all that harry potter for stuff or harry potter stuff she i guess her testimonies that she heard a voice that gave her the whole script of the the the the um the shows right it's all it's all magic right and but it's all packaged you know that's a good decay oh yeah i mean you go to you go to universal studios now they'll teach you how to do a wand how to cast a spell like me and my wife were cruising around there we saw it we're like these people are just showing people how to open the door right and you know if thing if the thing someone's in their house and they do the one thing and a little thing moves it's a demon that moves it well now the doorway is open right so who knows what right so anyway this is a whole nother show but but that's good to talk about that stuff because people should and it it sometimes sounds like a little over the top to people that haven't experienced anything in the spirit but when you realize that we're in a war yeah that's when you know those things really actually should be taken seriously it's it's for real the bible addresses it what would they say it was an act uh like a revival came to the city they got all their books their witchcraft books and all that stuff and what they do they put it together and they burn it yeah it's in the bible yeah dude go burn all that stuff oh let me tell you one last little story so that same german girl so i told her to clean house they cleaned house she says supernatural stuff was still happening in their house i said you got to ask god there has to be something else in your house well she what she ended up realizing two weeks later after she got rid of all the horror films because she was she was an atheist hated god hated christians used to spit on him throw rocks at him fight him yeah yeah uh punk rock girl from the 80s the whole thing and now all this stuff's happening she gets rid of all that stuff music and everything wow and then she's like stuff's still happening i go there's something still in your house yeah she didn't realize though in her house she had a book that hitler wrote that was passed down from generation to generation from her grandpa to her father to her wow so she's like but it's a collector's item i'm like dude hitler was powered by the devil do you know what he did you know i go get that book oh crazy burn it throw it away just burn it yeah dude she got rid of it supernatural stuff stopped boom yeah that was the final doorway right that's what's crazy like all those rune symbols and stuff the nazis used and everything it's so powerful it's like ancient you know like druid gods and anyway oh druid oh from like the uh viking stuff yeah well the druids are more like more like on the english and british isles but okay the scando all those guys it's all the same stuff it's like it's all witchcraft repackaged if you watch the vikings they used to do a human sacrifice mushrooms same with the aztecs and the you know south americans it's all the same well dude i even read on the the the nile the the lily on the nile that's that's also where they get dmt from too right remember the egyptians they were onto the afterlife and all that stuff they were eating the dmt and that's where witchcraft even came from was from egypt and it's it's the empowerment i mean that's like that's like the whole babylon you know what i mean exactly it's people using the spirit world to gain insight so that they can you know it's basically the it's the it's in the bible too and jesus was tempted by satan in the wilderness like he said you know it's like satan has things to offer people you know he can he can sign people up and and do amazing things through them write amazing songs like make amazing movies do all these things and give you it all but what does it profit a man if you gain the whole world and yet lose his soul it's like it's it's not even worth it end of the day it doesn't matter i mean it does matter actually at the end of the day it does matter because it's either you choose life or death hell or heaven right the bible's clear that's why it doesn't matter to get rid of stuff like that like that whether it was mind calm for whatever book it was like that stuff in your house is not good unless of course you're studying like i i mean i have like a mormon bible in my house i'm not a mormon but i have it for reference and like stuff like that but to learn how to prayerfully learning is different than you know i want to be like so i would say this too on that whole thing yes there's there's people that want to study certain subjects right um but there's also you got to be careful because make sure you're called listeners make sure you're called if you want to study make sure you're you're called to this because as you start studying certain things right doors things can start happening like i started getting really big into like studying more like dark like witchcraft and a lot of that stuff yeah and then i found myself going you know what i need to spend more time going into the bible stuff right then because i want to know i want to know enough of everything so if i could to combat it because there's a lot of people that say they serve satan or falsely and there are real people and then there's not right but um i definitely like had to pull i did enough research but then i kind of pulled back for a little bit because i didn't want to go too deep because i'm like i don't want supernatural things start happening in my house i mean you know you start messing with the devil yeah he'll say what's up yeah he'll then be popping up for sure but i just say that for the listener so don't if you're not rooted and grounded don't start studying some other religion because he'll be there to deceive you right all right we got like 16 minutes left we got to get to the end of the story i know okay we go forever here uh so okay so here you are you're reading stuff you're getting um you're getting deceived basically now there was a couple a couple different things that happened you went to a lunch and some girl gave you a word oh yeah let's kind of run through that to the end okay well i quit my job and then i i was doing music and art solely there but just enduring winter and all this stuff and i had a couple part-time things i was pursuing at the time and i get a call from a buddy of mine in new zealand that i had done ministry stuff with before and her name's melody she's super rad and she like she called me and she was like hey like the lord told me you're supposed to come out here and blah blah blah and i was just like and i told her straight i was like i am struggling so hard like i don't know if you could even call me a christian right now like i don't like i have you know me and god are not doing good right now and and i i was just honest with her because i don't want to like go on a ministry trip in the state i was in and she was just like no like god told me like you're supposed to come and i was like all right well i'll go but i'm not i'll just skate and keep it simple and like don't i'm not gonna share anything and like i'll do art and she's like okay good like got like god told like she was very clear that like the lord told her to get me there so i went and like it was really cool and like that whole time this was actually this was this was after i moved back to california and so i told her i was like i'm moving back to california i don't know what's going to happen but you know if i'm still living there and i don't have anything on my schedule then we'll make it happen i'll go out and so she calls me and she's like can you still come and i was like yeah i can and so i went and so i was in i was in new zealand um with drop deep and they you know they do like festival events and they do like skate park events like sort of similar to like the stuff that you do and stuff with whosoever's and uh yeah drop deep is what it's called they're super cool and so i ended up doing the whole trip which was rad and then we had lunch with this with this little old lady who was amazing and she like we were talking i was just having this conversation she just like stops me in the middle of it and says like have you ever done like tarot cards or like that you know have you ever been into astrology or anything and i was just like yeah um of course like whatever at the time was just like i didn't think it was a big deal and then uh and by the way when you're walking with god that's a huge deal so you could see how far you drifted oh yeah oh yeah no i wasn't i wasn't in a good place yeah and uh and but i was i was me i mean it wasn't like i don't know i don't want to make it sound like i was this rotten human i just wasn't i wasn't i didn't understand why god allowed this stuff to happen and in turn i just backed away from all that and then like some of that other stuff like comes in and then it's the confusion yeah and you're just like you know what like i'm not like you basically walk around in a place you just almost deny the spirit do you know what i mean the spiritual world like i just don't like it's so confusing to try to make sense of it all that i'm just going to not think about it do you know what i mean that was the state i was in like i was exhausted yeah do you know what i mean just exhausted and and all that exhaustion was keeping me from coming back to god but i was in a place where i was just like all right lord like if you want to rock me like let's go well you're in new zealand now i was in new zealand then yeah so you're still open yeah i was still open but not open to a degree yeah and and so she was just like i just feel like the lord is telling me i'm supposed to pray for you i think there's some demonic stuff in your life and i was just like you know what if there is like what can it hurt you know like let's pray yeah and so we left the lunch place and went into the car and like i'm just sitting there with this little old lady and she just starts praying for me and she like tells me to announce you know tarot cards and denounce astrology and all the stuff in the occult we went through it and i just denounced it and i was just like i just pray against that in jesus name i bind it for myself and all the stuff she had me go through all these gnarly prayer and it like and in my heart i was like i'm not gonna feel anything if i don't feel it i'm not going to try to like make this experience something when it's not going to be in in my head and then just out of nowhere it just hit me like the lord just entered that car and just i couldn't even like try to not cry it was like a lot water that's just coming out of my eyes you know what i mean yes and i wasn't like crying it's just like water was coming off yeah i was like and i remember thinking to myself like what the heck is happening right now and it was so powerful and i just remember feeling so guilty and i said i was just like lord i'm so sorry you know and then i remember just his peace and him him being there and her just telling me like just receive it and i just remember just receiving that peace and all the things i didn't understand all the things that i had problems with didn't matter anymore because of his spirit and it's like if you haven't experienced that you need to get that you know because that all the other stuff isn't going to make sense it's not promised for like we you know the bible says even paul who wrote most of the new testament said that we see through a mirror and it's like disfigured so to speak like so to speak like you don't see it as it truly is because you're a three-dimensional human being that's a spiritual a broken spiritual being that god needs to bring restoration to and and all all the bible stuff and all the things when you're not believing you don't have the spirit it just it is nonsense you know like the cross of christ is foolishness to those who are perishing but those who are being saved those who do have the encounter with christ you're like it's real it's like we smell in a room when it's happening to you it's real like when it when it when he comes and and shows up there's no other power no other spiritual being that is greater than the holy spirit's power in a in a believer's life in this physical plane and when the when and you could tangibly encount you because people go well i don't i'm a religious well you're not going to get that in any other religion you will literally encounter his presence right and that's and that's how you know that's how you know god's real yeah because you would actually tangibly encounter his presence and that's what's so tough is because it's like you sit here and talk about it and people that are anti-god or have you know what not open to this it just seems subjective yeah but all the other stuff you're believing you're putting your trust in it you know what i mean like people that say like oh there's no god and all the stuff it's just like all the things that we try to piece together people that don't believe in god like you're trying to make sense of it when you're putting your faith in that it all happened on its own you know what i mean where it takes way less faith to actually believe that god is real and that he is the person responsible for our brains and our eyes and our our ability to hear and feel and have conversation and you know what i mean it's like that stuff doesn't happen on its own and yet it's so easy to fall into it and i know it firsthand and like i'm glad that i went through it because i feel like my faith is so much stronger and i have this new grace that i'm walking in with the lord and it's awesome it's great to be in the side of it but it's it's i feel for people that don't know jesus because it's where do you go like now that i'm walking with the lord and i feel fear or i feel so crazy like i go to the lord and like there's peace there yeah and there's joy and there and it's like dude this life is so it's so hectic you know like it makes sense that people kill themselves you know what i mean like it's so it's so rotten and without the love and grace of christ like it's just we got nothing and i don't know how i sometimes like wonder how people even do it yeah great or good in that and we can actually count it all joy i mean the bible tells us to count counter all joy when we face various trials not just because of our our our character that's being built in us but to that um he's got bigger greater spiritual things like he wants to grow us up and sometimes like some of the other stuff has to fall away and sometimes he frees us up you know what i mean like things that we're clinging to so tightly whether it's a career as a skater or you know what i mean whatever it is when you cling so tightly that you find your joy that's your source of joy like sometimes he'll strip those things away or take them away so that you find your joy in him and then he brings a restoration which is what i'm sort of going through right now you know what i mean it's like he prunes us sometimes because he wants us to grow and he wants us to bear more fruit and and with that said i was just thought about this i thought about this is that sometimes he wants to strip things out of your life because he has something way better and better i know i guarantee you because he always wants to keep upgrading you i know and that's like well it's the same thing like if you're like a car you gotta strip it down it looks lousy for a little while but then when you put it back together after you've like fixed it up you know and and even more so in the in the context of like a living plant you know when when its roots get stronger and it's you know stocks get stronger it can produce better you know and provide more shade and be you know a better living uh organism or being toward the lord you know yes it's a it's a blessing and a curse because it's like you know it's like no pain no gain and any like but that's in anything it's like anything that's worth doing it's hard anything that's worth doing is hard and and ta and sometimes takes time man like that's like i feel like lately the thing i've been dealing with is patience because it's like i want to see fruition you know what i mean i've got hopes and dreams and i i i'm believing but it's like it's hard to wait especially as a skater i know i know but that's that's good that's the hardest part is just waiting it's perfect i i had this one quote on my phone um god could get more done in 20 minutes than you can get done in your whole lifetime i know i just wrote that down because i've heard a study about something like that and i wrote it down just to save it my phone because it's true it's like we could try so hard to get all the stuff done but all it takes is him just opening the door and that could just that moment could just shift the whole course of your life oh yeah forever right but it's waiting and that's everyone no one wants to wait because you like right now i even find myself in a situation where i got so much like i have so many ideas of stuff because i've been doing music festivals my whole life and all these other events and i have these ideas that i want to do but right now i'm just like i feel like god's tugging me to start doing those again but i have to wait because i have this fire and passion to do it but there has to be resources that have to come in right so i'm just waiting for the day that someone goes hey ryan god's been telling me you know show me uh to come talk to you about doing a music festival or something oh yeah and then when that happens i'm gonna be like i already have the whole idea this is the plan i've been waiting for you you know what i mean yeah oh yeah but that's how it works even with like and thank god and it's crazy because god is like preparing like a multitude of people to receive of that planning like way on the outskirts of the whole thing which is so cool and everyone the bands and the djs and the skaters and everyone that's gonna be a part of this that's the other thing too like he has to get all them ready for this moment yeah so when i give him the call and say hey we're gonna do a real outreach and this is gonna be like everyone that's me there's gonna be non-christians if we're not marketing to any churches this is all be mainstream come on let's do this and all their hearts have to be ready to receive to go to to come in unity you know dude and that the way things are now to you i just feel like people people i just encourage people that are listening to just share their faith with their friends and family you know and just and love on people because this world is so it's so crazy and confusing and like the you know i was just reading this morning that you know it's like if we do ministry or we do this or that it's like we can just be claying symbols unless we have love you know it's like i don't know that's why like all these shootings and like horrible things that are happening like honestly that's the result of the lack of love in our society and and and lack of love um and grace toward people you know it's crazy because the shooters keep saying things like i'm so angry or whatever and it's like man how do you combat that with love you know and there's no greater love than the love that christ gave for us on the cross you know like giving your life for your friends is is the highest you know and well dude thanks for being on the show i was gonna say any last words but you just did that so perfect cheers all right i'll be talking to you guys next saturday night don't forget to go to the whosource.com or actually download the app you could uh get the free radio shows it's like three three years of past shows uh we're doing the kill the noise high school tour book us right now we're booking hawaii uh where are we going um columbia chile ecuador and um we're working on australia hong kong and then united states as always and we're really trying to hit california this year um we're we're number one for the most liberal state so i think we need to really focus on on hitting california so we could change the the culture i love you guys and i'll talk to you guys next week peace [Music] this has been the ryan reese show to connect and find out more about ryan click on ryan reese.com check us out next saturday for the ryan reece show

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Length: 58min 4sec (3484 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 20 2021