The Difference with Matt & Kendal Hagee - "How to Hear the Voice of God"

today on the difference Matt and I sit down with the one and only Tadashi as he shares his story find out how you can learn to hear God's voice and discover his calling in your life you're watching the [Music] difference welcome to the difference joining us today is artist musician and public speaker Tadashi he's a rapper podcast host and founding member of Reach Records 116 movement moreover he's a husband and a father we are delighted to have him on the program welcome Tadashi tadashi's great to see you so good to see you guys thank you for having me onow Texans glad to have you back in San Antonio yes listen it's always good to be back home in Texas so did you always know that you wanted to be in music or how did you start this as a child no no no no I was I was a born bred Texan through and through so football was what I wanted to do like my entire life I tell everybody my family are military educators are both most of them were Army a lot of them became teachers or they were just went straight into education and uh even though that's the case my first gift that I remember getting was a football it was it was put on me early in life you're going to play football uh so I played Junior High High School uh I went to Baylor and uh played football there walked on to the team and I was like this is going to be my life um but after getting injured in college from playing football music was kind of the thing that consoled me it was like okay I'm just going to make mess around and make music for fun because this is taking my mind off the things that I really want but can't have and it kind of became the next passion if you will people hear football was my life and and I think sometimes they don't understand how much of a false identity that can be W you know because I I I have a 17-year-old son okay and he's right in the middle of it and you're like you know even at its most elaborate and and extravagant outcome you know Tom Brady no longer plays football no longer does and he's got a life that he's going to live after football yes now what now what and when you invest so much of yourself into something like that you come to a point where you say well what is my identity who am I very much and even in this case you know music but also back to your name Tadashi yes you know I mean there's a purpose being on Friday night Saturday Sunday whatever night of the week you're playing on right what does the name Tadashi mean yeah okay good question good question I get this question a lot so this is good uh so my name Tadashi is actually my real name it's my birth name uh it's the name that my mom gave me and it means faithful right or true it's a Japanese word okay uh I am not Japanese at all mama said this is you surprised like Mom but I my mom M my dad they were all military and I think that might have been where they heard the name so uh they fell in love with it and so I honestly think God had a plan that's what I tell people I'm like God had a plan cuz that's literally what I feel like my life has been is to fight to be a person that's faithful righteous and Tru it's kind of that Jeremiah 15 kind of thing before I formed you in the womb I knew you I knew you that's it that's it and even gave you not only a name that had an ordained purpose to it but a unique thing that would distinguish you very much so very much so you stand out a lot when your name is Tadashi kindergarten kids are mean when they can't say I was like I used to be like Lord I wish my name was David please help me Mike why couldn't I be Mike like forever it took forever for me to fall in love with my name but now I love it well Heggy's kind of got that same thing to it because nobody knows how they're like he G HJ yeah i' just wait till they got to the hes and I'd be like it's my turn you got to let it be known Y and then ghee like butter when the substitute comes in I know to just get ready to help so when when you realized football was over right and music is something that you're kind of using to cope with the void you know it's filling the vacuum it is at what point did you go I might be able to do something with this the very nature of playing a sport and wanting to be excellent at it demands a level of commitment to it but at a young age commitment looks like identity it's it's hard to differentiate between the two I'm so committed to this thing that I have to make it who I am in order for it to really matter and I did that early on in my life and I was like okay football is everything to me so I am football this is who I am what am I what am I separate from it no clue but I never want to think that way because that may hinder my progress to getting to my goal of what I really want so ultimately it became a part of my identity like you said fast forward a few years I'm living in Dallas and I'm on staff at a church and one of the guys that led me to the Lord was very instrument instrumental in like getting me to do music uhuh he said why don't you start writing this stuff down and we'll see what it sounds like so I did I started doing that and um years ago even at Baylor he convinced me to do it and from there my spiritual father kept saying man you should keep doing it keep doing it keep doing it I ended up going to Dallas and that's when I connected with friends uh lrae tripley sh baraca a ton of other people and eventually k and we all started doing music together and um what what impacted us the most being College college students who wanted to share the gospel Romans 1:16 says for I am unashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation for all who would believe First to the Jew then to the Gentile that verse as a young adult in college was it galvanized our our mission to go out and be unashamed and we wanted to preach that message to Christians and share the gospel and the good news of Christ with non-believers and let it be known this is a good thing this is good news we are going to be unashamed of this good news and out of that honest that campus ministry came us doing music and then eventually doing the whole label and 116 movement for those of you who would like to find out more about Tadashi I want to encourage you to take a look at this music video I'm good [Music] ain't stressing ain't stressing now feeling real good about life been a blessing a blessing now learn these things through the pain and The Strife when you move when you move on when you climb those had to climb there's a mountain in the way every time but I oh good good to get me caught up I'm good and I ain't never going back cuz I'm good yeah I'm good yeah I'm good and if they want it they can get it I'm good tell them man I'm coming with it I'm good and if they think that I'm quitted I'm good I'm good I'm good I'm good I'm good I'm good I'm [Music] good keep it pushing I ain't moving back learn my lesson I'm done with all that new ways call for better days wipe out but you got to learn to ride the wave I've had my whole change over a phone call what can happen we really don't know all that matters is that you don't keep pushing on and on I'm good $2 in my pocket I'm good they trying to get me caught up I'm good and I ain't never going back cuz I'm good yeah I'm good yeah I'm good and if they want it they can get it I'm good tell them I'm coming with it I'm good and if they think I'm quit it I'm good I'm I get you got to keep your head up don't you give up up not be a quitter quitter it's good all good made it through things I never I they never thought I could but now I know I know I'm good2 in my pocket I'm good trying to get me CAU up I'm good and I ain't never going back cuz I'm good yeah I'm good yeah I'm good and if they want it they can get it I'm good tell them man I'm coming with it I'm good and if they think that I'm quit it I'm good I'm good I'm good [Music] I'm I'm I'm the story continues when we [Music] return who defines your family are you allowing the world and our modern society to dictate your actions and beliefs to benefit from God's promises towards you or your loved ones you need to seek the Lord first in all things this month for your gift of any amount we will send you Pastor Matt's brand new album faith family and friends for your generous gift of $150 or more we will also send you the faith family and friends custom mug adorned with a guitar handle and a matching throw we will also include Pastor Matt's book response able Pastor John's proclamations releasing the power of God's word and a cross bookmark filled with scripture promises I pray that you are encouraged to keep Jesus first continue to tend to the needs of your family and pursue God with all of your heart to receive these special gifts today please visit jhm.org [Music] family welcome back to the difference Kendall and I have been joined by our guest and friend Tadashi something that you mentioned just before we went to the break you had a spiritual father yes that was encouraging you yes to do what you do mhm how important was that as a young believer um it was very important I don't I don't know if I can stress very enough all caps on very like very important that I had someone in my life like that encouraging me toward the things of God um a friend of mine said he I say A friend of mine it's actually the same person he communicated to me he said often times when you are in this world you're you're floating in the ocean of this world and it's easy to drift if you're not giving direction to your life it's easy to drift and this world's natural current is to make you drift toward the things of Darkness the things of evil so you have to be putting in effort to move away from those things to get closer to God he was doing things like getting me to do music having me write songs about God like that was his way of making me paddle towards something of Distinction in that from one generation to the next Romans 1:16 you can't get any more foundational than that I am not ashamed to the gospel you know Paul was saying that in the first century yes young people are saying that in this Century but it takes one generation to the next to continually encourage hey if that's what you're not ashamed of shine that's it you know shine in the gift and the talent that you've got so that it can be used for God's glory amen Psalm 145 is a Psalm I read every time before I go on stage and it says in that one generation will Herald to the next it will it will shout to the Next Generation your goodness oh God and that is what motivates me when I get on stage I want that in my mind on my spirit I want that word in me to know I am heralding forth the good news of the Gospel to another generation who has not heard it yeah and in a way that's the Lord speaking to you through his written word yes but one of the things that you share on is is how individuals can know that God is speak speaking to them in their life how do you define that one of the things that I believe is clear in scripture is that God was always willing to use individuals and he was always willing to engage you directly based on what you were involved in so I found myself trying to be sensitive to the words of people who love me and I trust to come into my life and and speak a word and then I also recognize there is a if I'm attuned to it enough enough there is a particular pattern God has always engaged Me by in my life for me personally it's always been a genuine deep conviction over something I I am aware when I'm drifting because of the conviction that just shows up by the power of the spirit the Holy Spirit don't play I'm like okay Lord I I Feel You Lord time to time to break this friendship off or time to stop hanging with this group or okay you know what lord it's it's no TV today I'm going to just get in word cuz I feel what is happening by the power of the spirit so I'm moving on but being it's being sensitive enough to pay attention to the the means by which God will engage you for some it's dreams for some for some it's U God is gracious enough to always send a rama word like right in the moment when you need it but for me I knew it was conviction you one of the things I struggled with when I was a kid coming up in churches you hear somebody say the Lord has spoken to me and I'm waiting for Charlton hon to you know be like God said you know and and and and then you know in in reading the story of of young Samuel in in the temple yes you know he hears the voice of God and twice goes to the wrong guy goes to the wrong guy he goes to Eli and he's like hey did you call me and the reason that he went to the wrong guy is because he didn't know what God's voice sounded like right and then it clicked in my own life where I was like Lord have you spoken to me and I don't know what you sound like you know I mean I know what my dad sounds like crowded if he walked in here right now be like he's over there you know because I can feel it you know and so I had to learn how to develop those spiritual senses to be like okay God's speaking to me and if he's speaking to me in the positive yeah I know it's him because it's the last thing that I would naturally do yes very much so that's a great way to say when when I hear somebody say hey we should do this and all a sudden I'm like yeah we should I'm like wait what that ain't me that is it exactly cuz Matt doesn't want to do that Matt wants to do the opposite of that so I'm like all right that must be a God thing or if it's on that conviction side for me it's like almost like an illness hits my stomach you know I mean it's like if you eat bad food and you're like I don't feel good and and there's no reason for me not to feel good but it's just like God saying hey you feel that that's going to be you spiritually if you don't get away from this come on break this down pastor Matt come on break this down that's that's what I'm talking about with conviction that that listen you just hit the nail on the head brother that's awesome if I can piggy back off of that and add one thing for me personally and maybe other people are like this there was such a low view of myself in life at some point I didn't believe God wanted to speak to me so like Samuel I'm like well clearly you're you're talking to Eli he's the man why would you ever talk to L me who am I who am I that you would ever want to talk with me and so often times we have to start recognizing no I'm your child too you do speak to the people who lead the flock but I'm your child too it's that godfidence thing yes godfidence yeah man that's it when we come back we're going to discuss how God can take all of the fragments and pieces of your life The Good the Bad and the Ugly and use it for his purpose to shape your life and give his Kingdom Glory you're watching the difference we're with Tadashi we'll be back in just a moment I'm so grateful that I chose differently I'm so happy that I chose you I get to see you become the person God intended you to be I'm grateful for sanctuary of Hope For Preparing Me for guiding me most importantly sanctuary of Hope is my safe place it's where I can lay my baby's head down and know that God has a Shield of protection over us thank you heggy Ministry Legacy partners because of you my baby has a chance because of you I had the option to choose life there has never been a better time to share the love of Christ with a mother and a child then right now when you partner with heggy Ministries your legacy impacts lives and transforms a nation call today or go to jhm.org partner yeah man that's it you know so whenever you walk through life and circumstances and situations uh you know one of the things that happened to you recently is is you took a real misstep what happened yeah manoo um so last year on tour uh we were in the last City for the tour uh Orlando Florida and uh it was the tour with the label so all nine of us are out and backstage this is The Big Show this is The Big Show and this was the big finale we all go out together and so it's pitch black behind stage I'm walking trying to navigate my way and you know we've we've done 30 other shows so I kind of know the the layout but you got hard cases you got wires you got it's a mine field and it's a Minefield and so I I trip over a wire my foot hits a case my other foot hits the base of the iron pipe or Pole holding the screen up no I fall and I think oh I'll catch myself so I put my hands out to catch myself but football players know how to fall cuz we know how to fall yeah we know how to roll we know how to roll I know how to get around it I'm like I'll be okay and so when I fell and put my hands out I did not realize the pole for the screen was right in front of me so I I face first into the pole I hit my forehead and then that like you know almost made me lose Consciousness I hit the ground right at which point you're wishing you had right I wish oh my Lord I want to go out and then I go down to the ground but I don't land on the floor I my face lands on the base of the pole that holds the screen so now I have hit my forehead and my eye um I lacerated my forehead lacerated my eye I ended up getting rushed to the emergency room uh nine stitches under my eye 12 stitches in my forehead now tell me we stopped the song oh no that the show kept going yeah the show kept going now this is the worst part I tried to run on stage but I couldn't see myself I didn't know that I was I was cut and bleeding I didn't know and so they were like no no no and they get me backstage ice everything and there was a moment where I really was I I said out loud I was like guys just let me go to sleep please just let me go to sleep they're like no stay up stay up stay up ambulance comes I go to the hospital the doctor he stitches me up and it was so it was so cool cuz the doctor uh a older African guy uh was was a Christian and he said man I usually don't send people home but you're going home with the spirit so you'll be okay and I felt like that was a blessing on my life I was like thank you man so I leave and I go home and I find out later I have a really really good friend of mine he he works for the Hawks he's one of their head medical and athletic trainers and he came over and he walked me through concussion protocol and he was like you have a severe concussion so for 14 weeks I could not leave my house wow I was in my basement stuck I could not leave I could not drive I tried to drive early I had vertigo I couldn't move now one thing that I didn't know with concussions your brain will often times shut down minor functions to handle major functions I didn't know this I didn't know hearing was a minor function in relation to other functions I thought it was pretty important I thought it was pretty important but for three days I lost my hearing and I was like God am I this way for like it was so terrifying but those were the moments where I was literally by myself where I all the like I hear it all the time you never know God is all you need until he's all you have he literally was all I had in that basement by myself no one was coming to visit there was nobody coming around checkin it was just me in the basement and I'm like okay God I I whatever you want me to know this is the time I'm here for I can't imagine well you know they say a picture's worth a thousand words we got some video to kind of help people see and understand more the scope of what you've been through so let's take a look at this video you got [Music] it the shock of being hit that way reminded me of when I played football but the impact of this hit was way worse than being hit on a football field this hurts like crazy [Music] um I have a friend of mine is a doctor medical dude and he was like man your hearing and your peripheral vision is is really diminished and now you stay in a place of fight or flight mode because you can't really make sense of the world around you and you feel like man I got to protect myself or be on guard therapy for me like it was not something I wanted to do I had people in my life who I trusted who saw the blind spots that's the only reason I went movement in and of itself like it really does bring about health like you think about a pond that just sits stagnant and doesn't move you have bugs and bacteria things begin to fester and like it's not good to drink it's not good to be in at all parasites come in but water that's moving like a river flowing that water is good to drink you can actually be in that water and be safe movement matters in a in a big way wow I mean how you walk through that and then come out the other side knowing god you're not through with me yeah out of that birth in me this care for myself like never before because you're fragile I didn't know how fragile we were yeah and and you know I mean your your childhood being involved as you were in sports toughness toughness are are you hurt or you just injured be tough you know just be strong push push push push push and now you go through something where you find out man is as grass and and and the Wind Blows the grass away yes very much so very much so one of the things that I've learned in recent years you know coming out of covid and a number of other things is what I consider to be the everyday power of God you know as Believers trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understand we know how to do that when we need a miracle yes we know how to do that when the doctor's diagnosis is you got 6 months we know how to do that when it's panic mode that's where we throw up our hands and say God you got this I can't handle it yes but what do you do every day what do you do Monday through Friday when I got this yeah you know yeah and God's like I don't want you to have it on your own I want to have it with you come on and Trust on my power because I'm going to do something today that you might not have planned for yeah you know and that's where you learn that everyday power and how to follow it instead of just say come along with me God you're saying God where are we going today yeah that is where sitting there injured not knowing what tomorrow was going to hold or bring there is this moment where I'm like okay okay God you got to take it every day but I also recognized if I'm not walking in the purpose and call God's put on my life then I'm not doing the thing where dependence on him is needed if I'm just doing what I do I just do what I do I'm like well I can do that God I don't need that but if I'm intentionally pursuing and walking in the purpose he put on my life even if I'm just trying to figure out what that is it takes a level of dependence like never before so I was there going I know what you said about my life God I believe this is the purpose you have for me so I'm trusting you in that I'm I'm not letting go of that hope I'm not letting go of that trust so that was where the wrestle was finding its Victory so to speak I was seeing Victory come from that yes through the struggle I still knew the promise was real the truth was real the purpose is real and from there now daily dependence is needed because I'm walking in the purpose not my own perogative I'm like no I'm I'm moving forward in what you said God so you said go I'm going and there's a level of belief and trust that comes with that now because it's not by my power or my might but that that went back not just with music to the common things that we take for granted just being able to walk up the stairs I'm like what a privilege my kids so my my youngest is eight and he runs to when this happened he was seven he runs to me every day and jumps for me to catch him and I couldn't do it so every time he does it now I'm like what a privilege like this is it man come on run and he's you know he's I have all boys so they're all trying to take me to the ground and so he's running and like jumping but he's trying to take me down yeah catch him while you can exactly run you over run me over and I'm like okay Lord but it's a privilege I'm like I can catch you now I can stand up and hold you my early on in the accident um my oldest who was uh 12 at the time he was about to turn 13 he was literally helping me stand so I could walk to the restroom and I and like literally he would stand there and hold my arm up so I could brush my teeth and I'm just like man this hurts I can't do it it's the it's the daily typical things that we do that we somehow take for granted when God is like no that you need to see that as something to be grateful for so I'm not taking anything for granted even drinking cold water it hurt so I I'm on here like oh yes oh I I taking anything for granted man nothing for granted so well one of my favorite Psalms let everything that ha breath praise the Lord recognize that every time you inhale and exhale that's a gift from God what you do with it is your gift for him Tadashi thank you so much for sharing your gift with us today and bringing your talents to this program I want to encourage those of you who are watching if you'd like to find out more about Tadashi you can do so by looking them up anywhere that music and media are streamed uh go online find out how you can connect with some of the shows that he's going to be doing maybe in your area or encourage other people that you know to go out and check out one of his programs God bless you and thank you for being a part of the difference today

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Fri May 10 2024