Live with Ryan Ries - Life's biggest issues and gifts from God

this is live with Ryan Reese call now 180 day five sixty four sixty one seventy three or post your questions using the hashtag live Brian Reese on his Instagram Twitter or Facebook that's right we want to hear your calls tonight Shawn and I are live in the studio on this beautiful Saturday night it is cold actually I'm wearing a sweatshirt I'll see how long I can I get hot real quick so I might have to take it off but right now I feel very cozy cozy how cold do you think it is out there um that's probably like low 60s maybe get into the 50s right now East Coasters we are freezing over here hey dude inside dump and snow oh yeah Philadelphia all over the place yup I saw something I think it in Boston there was like flooding yeah it's getting wild over there man so hopefully you're in Southern California the big thing is the this flu epidemic man everyone's sick right now how far has it spread you know I don't know but it I know it's all over the plane so here two strains of it it's the head cold and then there's the stomach flu I mean on staff we probably had 15 people that were sick last week Malinda sick Melinda 6-9 her kids are sick and I'm praying for them but um wash your hands you know don't be spreading germs man because this it hasn't been really bad did you know when we were in the NICU with them with our babies they said that a sign that said wash our hands because your cell phone carries two points something million germs I better move my phone away well most of the most of our instagramming is done in the bathroom you know oh yeah liking checking things Facebook's you know the whole thing yeah so you wonder what those germs come from yeah it's always always like this you know starting off the new year I don't know about you but um and as g17 came to a close you know some people say 17 was a hard year I I had some hard moments for sure but now in 2018 hopefully this would be a great year I know for you guys for the whosoever's and everything that God's been doing the high school tours are kicking up multiple things that are taking place right now um speaking again a lot of things taking place right now and you're like but we both know like we were talking about this before we went live is like dude how important it is is to be able to get a loan to get refreshed because there are a lot of distractions a lot of times on the show we talk about distractions and social media and all these different things that we do have that we do use but like with their high school theme of kill the noise it's important in our lives it is so important David Arroyo the guy that works with us he um he was at the agenda tradeshow this last week and we're actually a couple days ago yeah and we saw one of our old friends runs another company and you know David was telling me I'm an so we're doing high school tours and this and that and you know these kids are doing you know just dealing with this depression anxiety and suicide and all these all these things are conjuring up from from from the devices and all this know and all this you know he didn't say noise but all this stuff and this guy's not a believer he looks at David he goes yeah he's all it's all that noise and David's like that's funny you said that because our tours are called kill the noise and it is it's all it's all this noise that gets you so distracted and you know it's telling you earlier today I just walked in from Joshua Tree my you know I have my office at home it's Saturday I was gonna stay home and study and get you know get ready for the radio show and just kind of dig in but I could be distracted in my office yeah you know my computer's they're just my family I mean just there's so many just different variables that could happen so I just woke up man I just felt led to like head to the desert you know you know when you read about Jesus when he wanted to get alone you know he went to the wilderness he went to the desert to to pray and fast and I just I don't know I looked the way I look at the Bible it's like there's so many stories in there that tell us of what these people went through and what they did and for me I I I look at the Bible like it's an inerrant Word of God it's 100% truth from Genesis to revelations the DNA Jesus Christ and I want to I want to live my life the way things went down in the Bible so I I actually live out a lot of stuff and things a lot of things do happen to me that are in the Bible so I said I'm going to the desert so I just got up literally grab some water and got my car and listen to Chuck Smith through Ezekiel on the way there got out of my car and turned my device cuz I you know when you get to Joshua it's beautiful there so I was like I want to leave my device here but I'm like I'll go airplane mode because I want to take some pics cuz it's so amazing yeah so I literally just pulled off to the road and like there was no one around anywhere for miles and I just started walking to the desert I just saw this pile of rocks it's this like Mountain it's hill and I just headed towards that and I've set up on these rocks for climb just and I was telling you this kind of sketchy climbing these rocks all the pictures I don't know how we used to do it on LSD honestly or you can bounce here our bones weren't as brittle back then Jesus or stone I mean how did we do it back then don't know now I'm sober broad daylight we used to do it at night broad daylight and I'm climbing this hill and thank God you weren't vans because you know vans have this this really nice grippy soul for me boarding so dude those things are gripping on those rocks at my slip-ons I wish I wore high tops though because they got those like prickly things that go into your socks so get some vans get some high tops get some water get your fast on get your prayer on and just walk into the middle of the desert and hang out there and in the middle so you're out there for like a couple hours today I was out there yeah the whole process was about a seven-hour process cuz it takes a couple hours two and a half hours to get there and then you know I was there for a couple of hours and it could two and a half hour drive back but um yeah just sat up there kill the noise literally killed the noise and I didn't have an agenda I guess I'd only Genda I had was like I want to hear God's voice yeah so basically I just went up there and I you know it's kind of weird when you're just like you get out of your car you're by yourself and then you're kind of like you kind of feel weird cuz like you're like you know from the city to like nothingness to like I'm walking by myself especially now especially the way your life is or so many things that are going at you know fast speed all the time I'm sure it was pretty great it was kind of weird though at first cuz I'm just like I'm walking in the middle of the desert and I don't know what's gonna happen but I'm getting to hear God's voice so I walked out there and I kept walking and walking and after I did my tourist taking my pictures as a tourist huh and the new iPhone 10 you know getting some bomb shots I just started walking and trying to find what part I could climb to get to the highest point in the mountain and then I did and I found this place where I could just sit and I just sat there and i was just looking and i just these verses just started coming to me about you know you know you'll know God's handiwork if through his creation and you'll discover who God is through his creation and I was just looking at the desert seed and like it's like dirt with like these these Joshua trees that are so you have the dirt that dirt and the rocks are brownish different brownish colors and then you have this like Joshua tree that's like green and then you go up to the rocks and then the rocks sky the mountain line hits the blue skies with the white clouds and then the orange Sun and as you look at it you're just like I'm an artist like I know the design I know to work colors together and you look at the landscape and you're like dude just the color just the color combinations the way it's all laid out design right it's amazing to the hidys it's a matte yeah it's a masterpiece and then that led me just what looking at God's creation because I'm like how am I gonna get in this whole zone with God right I just start looking at creation and then as I was looking at creation I started worshipping and I'm gone dude this is this is nothing this is just one part of the world but you are so big and you are in all these details and then that just led me to start talking to God and just confessing my sins realizing I'm just a dirty dirty sinner saved by grace you know and I just realized I just want to get closer to God's heart I want to be filled with this holy spirit I want to live that life that he created me for this is 2018 and you just when you're there by yourself and you have nothing around you've no distractions and you just have God's creation and God in the sky and God around you you just start confessing stuff and just start coming to that realization like man I I just want all of you yeah everything that you have for me I want to be a better husband I want to be a better father I want to be a better man I want to be a better Christian I want to be a better pastor I want to be a better just everything you know and and it's interesting because when you have this time to actually sit around with no distractions and you know you could think oh I could just go to my house my prayer closet or my room or drive on my car you're still distracted you got to get out of your element and I would suggest to everyone listening get out of your element and and I don't know where you live in the United States or we live in the world but like go to where there's nothing just your eye but no agenda and just go to somewhere where there's nothing around and just walk out find a place and and sit and just wait and and I've realized during that process as i sat there then I would like to sing some songs some worship songs and then I would say some prayers and then I would just sit be quiet and just listen and then God you know started tugging on my heart and speaking to me and you know he he I asked him five questions and he answered three of them and it's true you know draw near to God and He will draw near to you seek seek what does that one seeking seek Him and you will find him yeah and just all the scripture a does come true but you have to you have to act you have to seek His will you have to seek Him and you will find him the Bible says that but we get so caught up in just busyness even when we think even when we think that we're disconnected we're still distracted ya know and I think that you know as we talk about this stuff a lot right we talk about distractions and as we're talking about them and we see it's like common in our society we say ourselves men we struggle with this stuff I get distracted sometimes I find myself dealing with so many details of multiple different things that it could be overwhelming I got to catch myself sometimes sometimes your sir getting stressed out sometimes you start carrying a burden that you shouldn't be trying to carry and it's important to be able to tune out all the distractions so you can hear the voice of God for me you know and raising children and all the business of life there's people out there there are single moms that are out there and this is what's really hard or stay-at-home moms it's hard to get that alone time my hat my a stay-at-home moms are I bow down yeah you guys are amazing yeah okay because it's so hard to to UM not have distractions and you know they're not distractions as far as your children for sure but how important it is is to hear the voice of God and to be at rest to be at peace you know if you're tuning in right now this is live with Ryan Reese and we're just kind of chopping it up right now just talking about the importance of getting away getting a loan you know Ryan was talking about driving out to Joshua Tree today and we're gonna be taking your calls throughout the show but we are going to be talking about various things and if you have a phone call you have a question something you want to share how this show impacts you or maybe something down this lane or what we're gonna be talking about tonight or whatever call insurer Blake five six four six one seven three triple eight five six four six one seven three you know you started saying Ryan right now about going in 2018 man I want to be a better man I want to be a better husband better a pastor teacher whatever God's called me to do I found I found myself with that same prayer as well you know last night I was telling him before we came on the show taught Friday night W live over at Calvary Chapel Golan Springs and we just started the book of first John which I haven't taught for a long time and the book of first John is legit it's like taking you to the next love of your walk with gone and the way John writes is so simple as you go through first John it tells you that there's a purpose for what they were he wrote it and we covered the first one last night these things we write you that your joy may be full and I was able to expound upon that because man I don't want to be bummed out I don't want to be like discouraged all the time and there's a lot of people that can get so beaten down by the circumstances of life that allow it starts hurting your heart because circumstances are you facing start to get so tough God desires us to have joy and I gave the people a few things I'm like you know what rips off your joy I'll give you three things or a buffy joy number one living in sin allowing compromising your life before you know it you're condemned you feel guilty you feel shameful you you just feel like you're in this grind to not being in the word obviously because you're taking in information all day long whether it's going to be the Word of God or whether it's going to be music television radio your employees your employer and it's just there's noise it's just all of this information is coming into your mind and if you don't have God's Word cleansing you and washing your mind and putting things in perspective that is what's shaping your emotions in your mind and everything by the things that you're facing and the other thing kind of right there with the word what brings lack of joy Like a Prayer not having this alone time with God not praying not that perspective that's what's so important when it comes to prayer because it realizes like man God's for me I found myself the other day saying like I don't want to be in a rut I don't want to get myself in a rut lord you know flip my schedule get me doing things that it's out of my comfort zones like you have and so many times in my life because I started thinking about what God's done in my life and the ministry that I've been able to be a part of and just having this looking back over the last 13 years of my life and the Lord just reminded me like today actually I'm a miracle I'm a miracle God saved my life supernaturally what am I gonna do about it how am I going to fulfill this calling because it's easy to get distracted from your purpose and goal in life because you're just dealing with the day in and day out circumstances in life so I'm glad you were able to kind of get alone today okay and I know that a lot of people we were talking about this you know there's multiple either news stations or radio co-hosts that talked about social media and stuff that they do or just distractions of life and how it's affecting people it's not just on talking here on this radio show so many people are impacted by distractions 100% 100% what you were saying about uh knowing our purpose in life and all that mm-hmm I was listening to Chuck today and he was talking about you know we were going through Ezekiel and he was talking about how you know the nation of Israel they were they were they were the branch into the mind and their whole job was to produce fruit the nation made the fig tree and he says the whole the whole our whole job our whole purpose here on this earth is to produce fruit its produce fruit if not what happens it gets cut off and thrown into the fire right our whole purpose while we're here on earth as a Christian believer is to produce fruit huh and what is talking spiritually mm-hmm fruit is basically the fruits of the Holy Spirit it's the relationship with God as God pours out his spirit living water into our lives we grow spiritually in him and we produce fruit good deeds and as God speaks to us because we have the Holy Spirit in us and we have God's Spirit in us we do his will in life and it's helping others and just being an amazing I mean how do I say this um it's a it's a better way to talk about producing fruit what am I like well I mean producing fruit is like all the your breaking it down it's the good things that come out of your life that's what fruit is you know it's watered it should produce something and God want wants our lines to be beneficial for for yes for example like fruit is like if I'm a husband or a father because I have the holy I'm trying to think of practical yeah words so like basically as I have the Holy Spirit in me that God's Spirit in me dwelling in me he produces that love in my life and that self-control the gifts of the Holy Spirit which allow me to be that father I'm supposed to be or that husband I'm supposed to be or that employee I'm supposed to be or even like that he fans those desires and those gifts that we have in our life that that that were a jock or play sports or produce music or you know whatever this is it's that's the work of the Holy Spirit in our life and that through that relationship with God as we reach up is what we give out that's what produces fruit in our life that's what God said is our whole job here on this earth is to produce fruit and it's only through a relationship with Jesus Christ because when you don't have a relationship with Jesus Christ and you're following your body appetites your flesh desires and you're not producing that fruit of the Spirit you're doing all those things but with anger with bitterness with rage with unforgiveness with lying cheating shadiness drunkard sleeping around I mean all you're doing you're gonna do all that stuff but you're not gonna produce fruit yeah you're gonna produce dead you know death basically into all these things around you is it an amazing so when we talk about distractions and we're talking about 2018 but you know Satan's always use distractions he's always use distractions go through the Bible the Old Testament children and visual you brought it up a little bit ago it's like they got distracted by what others are doing by compromises that were there and God warned them only because this these things are gonna take your heart away from God you're not gonna have peace and I'm gonna have joy you're gonna go after these things you'll get your money you'll get your relationships or whatever it is but if it's not centered upon my will for your life you'll never be happy you'll never have joy that has never changed and you know there are so many people that try to throw themselves into various things like we just said it a little bit ago man oh it's awesome if you're called to be an athlete it's awesome if you're an artist or musician or whatever but when you understand your calling of God and you're one of those things you find the the best part of life so you have your gifts talents that God's giving you and then you have your call yep and they merge together yep when you fight when you're in tune with God your you you're lined with both of them and that's that's the sweet spot that's the sweets because you're do what you love yep cuz you're right in that right place with God and then yeah they just they just work together these comes when you align your will with God's will for your life that's it and when you're living in sin following sins sin if you want to know what sin is sin is everything that will destroy you mm-hmm anything that's in your life that will call sin is basically anything that's in your life that will destroy you is what sin is basically yeah and you shouldn't be do it anyway I mean it just it just destroys life well that's I like that whole beginning the show we're gonna go and take this call from Reese from Irvine how you doing tonight Reese oh I'm here I am last week was a unbelievable week two of my daughters friends died a drug related yeah two of them in the same week one of them jumped off the five freeway into traffic and he was killed and then a few days later another one OD did and his parents home from heroin I guess it was something where it was laced with white China China white or something I don't know yeah but this isn't this is an Irvine California yeah in Irvine yeah right not too far from where you guys are yeah and we just have a lot of a lot of kids on on on drugs here and um there's there's Christian kids involved and that's what really hurts the most I mean our prodigal are out there and and you know they'll share the pipe but they won't share the gospel and it's just a really happiness it's not ever hard and tomorrow but the memorial service is is going on and and by all means I don't want to disrespect you know the family and whatnot they're they're Muslims but I don't see anything wrong with you know going rogue Jesus was he was outspoken and and I'm all into life you know as the kids are walking out of the venue like handing out whosoever Flyers to your next event or something and I just I'm just really like like um you know turn over every stone I can think of and I know it's such short notice but I'm willing and and I go to harvest and I'm gonna speak to Adam he's in charge of the youth group they're at Gregg Laurie's Church and I'm gonna ask him if he can like bring out some of the teams and maybe they can help hand out you your guys's flyers after the memorial the memorial is tomorrow from like four to six in Irvine off of baked I can give them either the address okay perfect yeah we actually we're doing an event on january 20 I'm speaking tomorrow night up at a shine in Diamond Bar which would be awesome to get him there but we don't have a flyer for that it's only a digital flyer on social media but we are I think we do have printed flyers do we have printed flyers Remmy yeah we have printed flyers of Remmy he's gonna be coming town his story up at our church the Jama bar on the 21st he's the he's a Navy SEAL number one and then number two he's in the new Transformers movie so it's been cool cuz he's had kind of a he's had a draw with with the youth and then he's able to share his story and give them the gospel so maybe we could even get you some fliers for that funeral tomorrow yeah Flyers pictures whatever whatever yeah yes we will get you get you dialed in I'm gonna go and put you on a hold and I'm gonna have Ivan get your information for some reason if you gets hung up on please call back and let's get your information we'll get you down then let me pray for for that whole situation Lord we lift up all those families in the name of Jesus we ask Holy Spirit that you will that you will work tomorrow in that funeral you will find a way to come in and work and as the teams go down their lure that doors will open with the students and that the gospel will be proclaimed and people can get saved Lord because you're the only way you're the way you're the truth you're the life Lord and they need to have an encounter with the Living God and not these drugs and I pray for protocols that you'll bring it all home in your timing and keep them safe while they're out there in the name of Jesus amen one more thing I wanna ask you if there's any way I just I just thought you know I'm just one person here but if there's any way that you can let other youth groups know drought Calgary or any other church that that might be listening you know what can I just go ahead and mention where the services sure and and just like have just like this massive turnout for this little guy and go ahead let's go ahead cuz we're gonna be going to a break in a couple seconds here so go ahead and give us that address words that we could turn this Gore into glory um okay it's Saturday Jen I'm sorry Sunday January 7 tomorrow from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. it's even seen a cultural educational foundation and the addresses even seen as he is an Edward de CIN a cultural center America's 1 1 5 5 6 0 rock-filled common spelling roc-roc k fi eld field ok let's do this because it's it's that's here I'm gonna put you on hold I'm gonna give you the phone to Ivan and then you give us all the information and then I'll come back on the air and repeat it cuz it's kind of long ok ok Thank You Reese appreciate that yeah it gets a little bit just long as you can't can't really get that information here if you're tuning in right now we're gonna be going to break in just a couple minutes but we just want to get give out the number again triple 8 5 6 4 six one seven three triple eight five six four six one seven three as researchers talking about right now a horrible two young kids overdoses and what we're seeing this man we're seeing the epidemic opiates is an epidemic in our nation our heroine is on the rise once again prescription pills on the the rinds again there's a lot of people are hurting so our prayers are with the family what we're praying that God would just you're working all of those that will we'll be there as well I know that in South Orange County that it's the highest rate of overdoses under 18 mmm great I'm gonna go ahead and look those up those numbers up before we come back from the break but yes I remember like every year it was it was growing by like 60 but it's it's definitely over 300 like I think the last time I checked it was like 300 and change Wow under that's under 18 of the ones that OD yeah and it's crazy yeah and younger and younger we've seen this before you know before we go to break I just want to give a couple of some information a number one to kill the noise tour is on Ryan's going to multiple schools I think there's what like 30 coming up in the next few weeks or so we have 33 events this month that's with that's with kill the noise and a couple wake-ups in there so it's going down eat get a hold of us we're going to the high schools were in front of these students and we're giving them the gospel the more schools we can go to the more kids we can get in front of the more kids are gonna find the gospel the less Odie's you know and that's where it works yep you can go at info at the whosoever's comm and email your request for your school to wake up tour as well you can go to info at Ryan riess comm and will further whosoever's every tomorrow but let's talk about tomorrow that's for the break I've determined tomorrow night at shine January 7 6 p.m. at Carey Chapel golden Springs Ryan Reese is back he's gonna be speaking right you know it's been a lot of stuff going on with him he's been traveling all over the place and now excited to be back this Sunday night at 6 o'clock it's weird cuz you're like Ryan Reese is back he's gonna start speaking again but yet I just spoke 38 times in the last three months yeah so I feel like I've never left but I will be in Diamond Bar and I'm gonna have to actually get to tell my testimony which I haven't told my testimony in a long time in Diamond Bar right but it's not about me just getting saved it's over the last nine years of all the crazy amazing things that have been happening yeah so come down bring friends and family it's gonna go down it's gonna be sick and I got the worship band from Calvary Chapel Crenshaw yep it's gonna be sick sick yeah another thing chill will mention this a lot in the next couple weeks is Remy who was on here a while ago is gonna be there at the January 21st we're going to break right now we've back in two minutes peace more live with Ryan race coming up 180 days five six 460 173 or post your questions using the hashtag live Ryan riess on his Instagram Twitter or Facebook I think I speak for the entire administration when I say [Music] now back to live with Ryan Ruiz [Music] heck and yes I forgot to google the statistics but I know it's a lot yeah and it sucks so we got to keep you know we got to keep these kids in prayer because all that noise out there man it's just it's just distractions and it's just getting people on the right are off the right track it's um but then again we know that God is moving at the same time and we know that he's um he's revealing himself so that's the deal I'm gonna go ahead and take this call now from Scott what up Scott what's your question tonight hey um I just want to say about you know when he came in lifelines last night I mean that I don't know I mean to me I and the word that jumps out is a revival you know man you were there last night yeah and just seeing things no shifted Tilton and John's gonna I mean I I mean I can't explain what jobs go into it's I'm almost quieter you know I mean God's being Johnson Lou big client that's going slow dude that's awesome you know anything yes well just so the listeners could find out what's going on last night I spoke I saw Newport Beach posted lifelines and they bring in basically people from guys and girls all ages it's fitting pretty young not like 18 young but like from 32 21 issue and are they bring in bus loads of people from different treatment centers and they're not Christians yeah and they bring them all in and into one room and they're I don't know there had to be at least a couple hundred people there last night I mean the whole room was full yeah and yeah I got to go over there and tell my story and then just like dude it was just like this bummer all these people got saved it was just awesome yeah God got you know what Scott that's just the presence of God God is becae by his spirit he draws people so as we as believers as we seek his will we read we pray and we ask God to man fests his spirit in our life that's just the result of just following them and and just so you know I'm not um I'm a sinner saved by grace and I'm just following him and seen whatever he wants to do in my life too so he could use my life for his for his glory so we all we all have access to you know to the Holy Spirit so it's awesome man thanks thanks a lot for calling Scott appreciate it love you brother take it easy yeah I see you spoke to before right yes I go there once a year inside this time and it's like what is it um it's a rehab center it's I know it's a it's actually it's the crossing Church off of the 55 freeway going down to Newport Beach and then it's they have like not the main sanctuary but the side they have another area and they pack in a couple hundred people in there and they have people come from all over the place and yeah that's awesome so I just go tell my story once a year so it's sick man you know the harvest is ripe to like yeah people are hungry for the real thing yeah you know I was telling my wife last night I was like I was in there and I was just looking at all these people and like when you're looking at these this group of people it just looks like like our friends yeah the center yeah yeah when you are these centers you're not you feel at home a little bit you feel like you can connect I just even like the looks of people I mean you got the girl purple hair you got you got the hip hop's you got like the guy that looks like to rap the rapper I mean you know I mean it's a diverse it's not like your it does you sound like you're like crackhead Bob from you know did the corner of the street right there was one there but I'm saying it's like the when you look at these people when you're just looking just my heart goes out with you these are my friends I basically looked at the Chronicle I was there yep that was me I'm just nine years ahead of them right now yeah like I will I could have very easily been in that ya know and a lot of people are caught up and there are so many distractions right marijuana just got legalized here in the state of California opiates heroin once again in the night of America major so many people are sedated we talked about this earlier prescription pills people all ages - it's not just young kids it's older kids it's those going through their 30s in their 40s and then kind of going back to the different stuff for watching marriages get destroyed we talk about it so often pornography destroying so many people's minds and hearts as well and so there is epidemic in multiple areas and so many people have so many distractions God's the only one that can wrench you rest and grant you peace man because all of these things man they're fading they're fading they're not lasting it's temporary so many people are all they all they care about is happiness and happiness is predicated upon circumstances if everything is going good you're happy when things change you're bummed out like if you have a lot of money you're banking out you're happy like I could do whatever I want I can go do dinner but when you're broke as a joke your happiness is gone because it's predicated upon circumstances but joy man joy comes from God's Spirit man it's like perspective like God's in control of my life I was I would if I was to die today I would be in God's presence like God's using my life and whatever challenges I'm facing right now I believe God wants me to go through these challenges so whatever they are I'm gonna make a thrill and so I think we need to be encouraged we need to be able to have be clear and focused see the Bible talks about being sober minded and it's not just talking about drugs and alcohol it's just being focused clear no distractions so you could hear God's voice kind of like what we kicked off the show today if you're tuning in tonight this is live with Ryan Reese we do have a few minutes right about 15 minutes left to be able to take your phone calls super late five six four six one seven three triple eight five six four six one seven three and at the end of the break we were talking that Ryan's going to be at Carey Chapel Golden Springs tomorrow night six o'clock sharing his story his testimony maybe some of you guys have heard maybe you have a friend or a family member that you want to hear the story make sure you guys come out tonight we're going to be hanging out and being night bring your friends that never heard the gospel or that are scared to go to church that would be dope mm-hmm all right we'll see you there for show we're gonna go and take this call if we got James calling in from Upland what's up James you're listening love around reason I got Shawn McKeon in the studio what's cracking hey man are you doing good hey well I just had a question I'm trying to keep this response because I'm good I'm valuable but we're all age of 13 I started turning my life to the Lord and everything and I had some happen to my life to where I turned away and I thought I was gonna do everything my own way mm-hmm and I was sleeping with chicks you know I was drinking a lot of alcohol and I so I got really depressed I found this girl I was living in love with and everything and I got I got this a really bad oppression feeling so I decided to turn my life to the Lord and I told her pretty much you know if we're gonna do this together if not I'm gonna have to break up with you you know and so she'd open with me and ask the Lord as if this was a relationship I was supposed to be in let it be known and everything so all these things started happening people were talking about that haven't spoke to me in a while so reaching out to me again from my old church and everything we ended up getting married through circumstances the Lord showed me and everything and as I'm trying to dive in more I have a really bad spiritual bad I'm going through I killed the noise I thought listening to the music I stopped drinking I stopped doing my social medias and everything but I feel like I'm lacking something like I read my Bible I pray I go to my church all the time I play John's on the worship team but I just feel like I'm lacking something like I don't have this in me and I find myself how long has this been going on we're like window so when you get married how long ago last September September okay cool have you ever been filled with the Holy Spirit have you ever had someone I've ever had someone like like lay their hands on you and pray that you'll be filled with the Holy Spirit like the baptism not recently that's actually what I was gonna ask you about because I've been listening to you almost every day while I work I would do it I would do that because there check it out this is how it works so you give your life to Jesus you confess that you're a sinner you I'm coming you knife you have that spirit in you and then there's that talks about in the Bible when Jesus says that you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you there's the upon experience and there's a lot of times that people all Christians they have the Holy Spirit in them because they've confessed her sins and they've received them but we need that power we need that upon experience I would just go to the some guys at your church your pastor whoever they're the olders and just say hey I want to be filled with the Holy Spirit I need that power for service that Jesus talks about in acts 1:8 and just have them lay their hands on you like it says in James lay their hands on you anoint you with oil and just pray that you will be filled and then stay in the word and keep having that relationship with God talk to God and say you know you ask him personally to God fill me fill me daily every day when I wake up I'm like God fill me with your Holy Spirit give me a fresh outpouring of your Holy Ghost today and that's that's what that's where it comes you need that power for for service for your walk what do you got anything to add to this no is the same thing you know when it comes to a walk with God there's a lot of things that take place there's peaks and valleys in your life there's those times of like you say you're in the word you're you're allowing God to speak to you but a lot of times in life waiting is important sometimes we jump to the jump the gun so much sometimes we get moved by our emotions sometimes our emotions you can get the best of us and we get bummed out sometimes we're really stoked sometimes understanding that God wants to speak to you and then also there's times of silence and a long time in times of silence it strengthens your faith and it's gonna prepare you for what he has for you in the future so I I what I always say is like you guys say simple now get yourself so caught up so much we want to analyze everything and try to break down everything out break down everything and make sure that all these details are you know lying out but God desires us to come after him and follow him daily and each day he will give you the stat he'll lead you in the direction that he desires for you when you just simply listen to his voice yes life is a journey James every day is not amazing some days you wake up like I'm over this right now you know you're not as in like I want to commit suicide but like just kind of over things today but it's a walk of faith like like Sean said it's a walk of faith and sometimes uh you know sometimes you feel God's presence heavily at times and then sometimes feels like he's not around but we know by the scriptures that he's always around and I just were just walking out our faith you know so just keep plugging in but I would have your elders at the church pray for you that you'll be filled with the Holy Spirit because things change when you get that when you get that fresh filling of the Holy Spirit things change that's where you have that power for service and Jesus himself he got baptized by John the Baptist the sky split and the Holy Spirit descended on him like a dove and he was filled with the Holy Spirit and then immediately after that and Marcus says he was led by the spirit or driven by the spirit you see what the Spirit does it leads you it drives you it fills you empowers you that's the importance of the Holy Ghost in a Christian walk we love you man thanks a lot for calling in James appreciate you all right thank you around then I hid once again this is live with Ryan Reese if you're tuning in right now you want to call in triple eight five six four six one seven three triple eight five six four six one seven three I know there was a phone call and it might be the one coming through again right now but she was talking about can God heal from from sicknesses and stuff like that and God healed her from her sickness yeah heals and sickness to get them through and the answer obviously is yes you know why do we why are we sink you know some people say you know false teachers will be saying well because you have no faith that's why you're still sick were they at when they have the flu yeah where they also you know you just look at the Bible itself if he's if you go over that rationale then you say what Paul had no faith Paul was sick Paul had a lot of issues in his life but he realized that the things that were weak in his life actually allowed God to speak to him and that he was strong he says my grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness there are things that we all battle with I I've shared my heart before like I with migraines I batter with major stomach issues things that I wish I didn't have it makes life more difficult and so I've kind of given it up I've done all the different probiotics have done medication I've done multiple things that I've gone through in life but I've come to realize at least at this point in my life then God is allowing me to go through these things it's a place a weakness where I always have to trust him I got a praying every time I teach I pray before I come on this radio show because you don't know if I'm gonna have a bad bout with my stomach or with my eye height my mind my mind my hand so sickness says God can use for the glory of God as you just submit to him but doesn't mean that life is not tough sometimes I know people that I'm very closer they have kidney diseases there are obviously so many cancers and epidemic and nobody who would want to choose to go through cancer and I've seen some people's lions as they go through major issues like then they get closer to God their life is able to speak to others like that this person has kept their faith even through trial and testing like that so God can use our sicknesses for his glory mm-hmm yes well said well said we're gonna go ahead and grab this last number out one more time triple eight five six four six one seven three triple eight five six four six one seven three I'm in studio with Sean McCain my name is Ryan Reese and we have we still have some more time to take some calls so calling triple eight five six four six one seven three as the calls are coming in right now let me just remind you once again of the kill the noise tour Ryan is going to be speaking multiple high schools over 30 high schools that they're going to be hitting speaking engagements high schools and wake up tour if you want a book tour who's whoever is coming to your high school or middle school go to info at the whosoever's comm for the wake up tour of rain going out to speak wherever he you you wanted where the church our different venue you can go to info at the Ryan riess comm well the door open we're going to the East Coast - we got some video actually we're on the stations out there in New Hampshire we're going out there to New Hampshire I don't know like about a month we're going to Philly we're going to New York we're going to Miami gonna be hitting the East Coast so I know we're on a lot of the stations out there so that's gonna be sick to you but we'll give you guys more information about that later all right here we go let's take Denise from Beaumont Denise oh they're not ready man these guys are typing over here too long we see your phone calls that they're starting to come in it's gonna take this she says how do you know when God is speaking to you in what in regards to a relationship into regards to relationship I'd like to hear what she has to say thing just opened his phone line up there we go Denise how you doing tonight good good to hear from you we have a few minutes so we want to get to your call what's your question I think rain lately I've been in a relationship for about 11 years and you know I I know I'm in I haven't married him yet and we have a house and a baby and I've had intentions to marry him but every time I I want to get married you know something just goes terribly wrong between us and I'm at the point where you know I know I feel guilty and I wanted so closer to God and I want to marry him him but I'm not sure if he's the one God wants me to marry that's a tough that's a yeah is a tough one you know Denise when it comes to major decisions like who you're gonna spend the rest of your life with in marriage you have to have peace and if you are consistently getting like these warning signs you got it you got to take be mindful of them obviously never rush to feel like you need to make that decision right now you've got to have that peace man that surpasses understanding you know you want the Lord to back it up to his word he can count you can confirm it through different things but also you want to see that one of the biggest downfalls that people try to do is like they want to force a relationship to work so much they're like oh well she'll change once we get married or change once I get me that's like that's not the case who that person is before you yes I mean we change we mature and stuff but there's a lot of issues that all of us things I have a question is he a believer does he believe in Christ or does he have a relationship does he walk with God no he's not sovereign and he believes in God and we've been raised in the church but he's really drifted away yes you got that going on and I mean it's the Bible I mean a relationship where the he doesn't want God yeah and you're not walking with God I mean that's just a recipe for disaster because like Sean says people don't change only thing that changes someone is is is the is the Holy Spirit and if you guys aren't in unity with that and just yeah none more chaos you should come down and get some marriage counseling with Sean if you're free cover chapel diamond bar sometime okay yeah any time it's all you know it's obviously it's free just come down just give him a call book him because this is obviously a bigger conversation then the time that we have on this show at the moment but um you know what's up the Holy Spirit speaking to you know what you got to do clearly he's leading you in a direction and the number one direction is to come back to him and to get that right relationship with God and he'll show you what path to take obviously the Word of God will direct you but definitely come down and meet up with Sean whenever you're available all right let's see we're gonna go and grab this last call for Maria and Irvine hi hey you do know what we got a few minutes left so what is your question tonight my question is regarding how I talk to my brother he when he was in his teens he started drinking and he started smoking pause then he went on to cocaine and he doesn't do that anymore but when I talk to and he does drink still I believe he became an alcoholic and when I talked to him he goes into spiritual things and seeing people that are dead and people going through him and all manner stuff and I've tried to talk to him about who Jesus is and he does yeah yeah Jesus has me I know who he is I see the Lord's Prayer all the time and I just can't get through it you know I don't know I sometimes I feel like he's being demon-possessed and sometimes I think he's being demon harassed and I just I'm like I don't know what to do anymore I would agree I mean any of those things are options for sure I mean when you and you're opening yourself through for through drugs and alcohol or any of that kind of stuff you open the doorways to the supernatural realm and any of those things can be happening with him the only problem is I mean you have to pray I mean I would personally if you would ask me right now I have like a minute left I would say start praying and fasting start prayer and standing the gap because clearly he is not coherent I guess and you're gonna in it's a spiritual battle obviously so I would pray fast and stand in the gap and say God you know I'm understanding the gap and Lord opened the doorway so there could be clarity and that he can receive Jesus Christ that's the bottom line when it comes down to because if I were to tell you go you could take him to AAA or you know though they're gonna say does he want to quit he's gonna say no they're gonna say well we don't want it so I would start prayer and fasting and then pray that God will open the door for for that conversation it happened that he will receive Jesus Christ okay okay I love you thank you and thanks Maria all right we're gonna take this last one because we got a couple minutes left Oh before we take this last call tomorrow night at shine Calvary Chapel Diamond Bar I will be speaking come one come all I'm gonna be telling my testimony it's gonna be a story of coming from the darkness to the lights and what God is doing in these times and if you're not local you can watch it live West Coast time six o'clock at Calvary GS org all right now George in downey what's your question hey what's up brothers real quick yeah just had a quick question regarding tongues yeah is it some is that something for you know today or is that something that was just a day of Pentecost and then and that experience back then I believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit that they're all alive and well yeah they are for today 100% now just because you don't speak in tongues doesn't mean you're not saved everyone gets different gifts of the Holy Spirit I speak in tongues Sean does not speak in tongues yep he has different gifts I have different gifts everyone has different gifts that's just the way it works but yes if you have the gift of tongues the gift of tongues are for today okay thank you George love you brother all right so thank you guys all for tuning in yes so tomorrow night Shyne calvary chapel diamond bar 6 p.m. I'll be telling my story and then I have one of my good friends coming which was on this radio show he'll be coming January 21st to Calvary Chapel Diamond Bar Remi Analects I think is now they pronounce the name E's it's close he's and he's a Navy SEAL or he was a Navy SEAL and now he's actually an actor in Hollywood he's in the new Transformers movie but his story we're gonna be talking about how he found God when he was in the Navy SEALs and him growing up he was an he grew up in Brooklyn and the whole thing I mean this dude it has a sick story you notice I found out I found out he actually teaches the Bible too yeah so we're gonna to get him back out to come to come preach really cool another time and then if you want to find out more about what we do here or more content just go to my website Ryan - Reese comm we have all - at least two years of past radio shows talking about all different subjects they're all there for free you could also find the shine studies the gospel John's up there you gave me get connected to the whosoever's movement we got product when you buy the product it funds our high school tours which last year we did 15 high schools this year we have 56 high schools booked at the Mon amazing so I'm hoping that we can get at least another four or five or six or maybe even just get up to 60 this year that would be sick yep so continue to praying you know a lot of things were talked about on this show today obviously our hearts go out to the families that are dealing with the loss of their loved ones do the suicide drugs and alcohol man it's an epidemic and our prayers are for you obviously me and Ryan come from that background so we have a lot of compassion for you acknowledging you have a problem acknowledging and need help and know that you can't do it in yourself you need Christ to reveal himself to you this night he will change and transform your life it's not some a method that we know but it's a truth that I believe is able to change and transform any life that is out there we love you guys we'll be back next week peace this has been live with Ryan race to connect or find out more about riot click on Ryan - Reese comm check us out 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Length: 58min 1sec (3481 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 12 2018