[0:00]Let me give you a bit of a reality check here. The reality is that you are ungrateful. God answers your prayers, God saves you from hard times, hard seasons. God has saved you from the punishment of your sin. And no matter what God does in your life, maybe you get a little grateful, but eventually you start complaining about whatever's next again and grow ungrateful again. God answers all these prayers and you're already on to the next thing about, God, but I don't have this, and I don't have that, I don't have this, and you just grow more ungrateful. So welcome to the House of Jacob podcast, where in this house we serve the Lord. I'm your host Braxton. And this is episode number eight in our overcomer series where each week we have been talking about how to overcome a certain sin or struggle in our walk with God. We've talked about a lot of things so far, pride, shame, insecurity, all these things, and this week we're going to talk about ungratefulness and complaining because I would argue they are kind of one in the same thing. The Bible says in I believe Luke chapter 6, Jesus says that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Out of the abundance of your heart, your mouth speaks. So really, when we go to complain to God about, oh God, I still don't have this and and you're just complaining about things, it's really just a reflection of the ungratefulness in your heart. Um, so I would actually argue that complaining and ungratefulness are pretty much the same thing. They're always together. When you're complaining, you're always ungrateful, and when you're ungrateful, you tend to complain. Um, now we're going to do something a little bit unconventional here on the podcast. We spend a lot of time in New Testament on this podcast, a lot of time in Paul's letters and stuff like that. We're going to go a little unconventional today. We're going to do Old Testament today. And just to double down, we're going to do the Book of Numbers. Um, if you have a Bible with you, turn to Numbers 21: 4-9. Um, Numbers 21 says, um, from Mount Horeb they set out by the way to to the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom, and the people became impatient on the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses, saying, why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water and we loathe this worthless food. Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people so that many people of Israel died. And the people came to Moses and said, we have sinned for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord that he may take away the serpents from us. So Moses prayed for the people, and the Lord said to Moses, make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and whoever is bitten when he sees it, shall live. So Moses made a bronze serpent, set it on a pole, and if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and would live. So let me give you some context here. The Israelites had just gotten brought out of Egypt. They they were no longer in slavery. The Exodus has happened and they are in the wilderness right now. And basically they start complaining and they get impatient and they speak against God, it says. So they grow impatient and what they do is they speak against God because of their impatience. They complain, they grumble, and because of this it angers the Lord, and he sends serpents to bite people and some of the people died, stuff. It's it's God's judgment and wrath falling on these people for their complaining. And they ask, they they go to Moses and they say, I'm so sorry, we've sinned for we have spoken against the Lord, we've spoken against you. Pray to the Lord, please for us. And Moses does and the Lord tells them to make this this staff with a bronze serpent on it so that anyone who looks at it would live. Now, really, this is just a reflection of Jesus's work on the cross. Anyone who looks at the cross will now live. Um, anyone who's been bitten by the serpent when we look to Jesus on the cross, Jesus Jesus is that. Um, but more than anything, here's the reality. Something I don't think a lot of people talk about in the church today is that complaining angers God. It angers God when we complain. Now, given, we we are not Israelites. Jesus has come. We have grace. Thank you, Lord. I I really, I read this story in Numbers 21, it just reminds me of God's grace that in Christ, I don't have to like, this is what I deserve because I do this. Like, I have had times that I grew impatient or I went through a hard time and I spoke against the Lord. And I and I was angry and I complained and I and I said things in prayer that I shouldn't have said or whatever it is, and this is what I deserved, but Jesus has already taken that for us. So really, it's just a reminder of God's grace, but here's a here's what I want to get through to you. They were just brought out of Egypt, slavery, and the and what they're doing is they start speaking against God. They are brought out of slavery and they start complaining. So, and more than anything, they were speaking against God shamelessly. They just straight up, they they just spoke against God and they spoke against Moses. They had no shame in doing it. They just did it. They just spoke against God. But here's the here's the reality. Why were they complaining? That's my question. Why were they complaining? I would say that they were complaining because they lacked gratitude and appreciation for being brought out of slavery. It was really a reflection of their heart. They didn't appreciate the fact that they literally been brought out of slavery, so they complained. That's why they complained. They lacked complete gratitude. So I want to ask you a question. The reason I love Old Testament is because a lot of Old Testament stories, a lot of New Testament is writings, but a lot of Old Testament is stories. They're things that have happened that Paul says in First Corinthians 10, which we're going to get to later, was an example for us. So when we look at these Old Testament stories, there's something we can learn today. When we look at these, we're like, man, I shouldn't complain when I'm going through a hard time. Like, there's another passage, I believe, in Numbers chapter 11 at the beginning, if you want to read it. This happens a lot in the Book of Numbers. Let me say that, where the Israelites go complain and, um, it angers God. And it happens, I believe, in Numbers 11, it says they started complaining about the misfortunes, the the things that had been happening to them, they started complaining about it. And you read that and you're like, I do that. Like, when I go through unfortunate things in my life, when something's unfortunate and money's tied or health is off or breakups are happening or I'm in depression, whatever it is, we we tend to complain. That's what we do. We do what the Israelites did. So I want to ask you, what is your Egypt? Because I'll tell you mine. When I was three years old, my parents went on a date and they left me with my aunt. My aunt was inside doing laundry and I was playing in her backyard. I was three years old, keep in mind. They had a pond in their backyard that I had fallen into and nobody knew. Nobody knew I was in the pond drowning. I was three years old, I couldn't swim, and my aunt heard a voice. I have it tattooed on my rib. She heard a voice, say in quotes, the night is calm, but it is still a place for tragedy, check your pond. She ignored it, I believe, if I remember the story correctly, and then heard it again and came out and saw me drowning, did CPR, that's the only reason I'm alive today. That's my Egypt. You want to know my Egypt again? Last August, I'm talking like six months ago, type August. Last August, I was hospitalized with a blood clot in my brain. And they I had received no treatment yet because they wanted to make sure where it was and how they wanted to treat it and they went to go do an MRI and the Lord came to me in an MRI machine. And I got healed overnight. And that blood clot was just short of my brain stem, which from what I know is what's responsible for your consciousness. That's my Egypt. God has literally saved me from death twice. That's my Egypt. So when I sit here and I complain, I'm trying to say that my Egypt because I want it to be applicable and practical for you, but when I say my Egypt, I'm saying this because God has literally saved me from death. I have no right to complain about anything. I should be so grateful for the fact that I'm alive today because I could have died at three years old. And these videos that you're watching that some of y'all, they impact you so much, would have never happened. Given, God can use anybody, and he would have used somebody somebody else to impact you, but my point is, I wouldn't be here to do what I'm doing right now. Whether it be these videos or say I start Bible school in March, is what I'm doing. I'm starting at Moody Bible Institute in March is the plan. All these things, I wouldn't be able to do these things if that blood clot was fully occlusive and I died with it, or I drowned in that pond. That's my Egypt. And I I want you to say this, your Egypt may not be some crazy miracle, near death experience. Man, I've had other Egypts, man. I've had I've had the craziest mental health issues that I've ever had, November of 2023. And the Lord healed me in a field while I was in prayer, like on the spot. And I have not dealt with mental health since. I have other thing, I have had breakups, I've had drug use and all these things. God has brought me out of other Egypts. I want you to hear this Egypt. I don't want you to be like, well, I didn't almost die at three years old. Yeah, but you've gone through other things and God brought you out of them. That's the reality. You might not have pushed death, but you God's brought you out of things. So you have an Egypt. You have a time that you you were you were lost, you were broken, you were on the brink of death for me. Like whatever it is, and God helped you. Or more than anything for the Israelites, it was slavery. Guess what? We've been in slavery to sin and Jesus helped us. That's Romans chapter six. We are no longer slaves to sin, but slaves to righteousness. That's Romans chapter six. So Egypt is actually more applicable. It is applicable to every single one of you guys watching these videos, Christians, you have you were slaves to sin. That is your Egypt. Sin was your Egypt, and God brought you out of it through Jesus Christ. We have no reason to complain. This is what Paul says about this. This is what Paul says about Numbers 21 actually. He says, First Corinthians 10: 9-11. We must not put Christ to the test as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents. Nor grumble, or in other words, complain as some of them did and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction on whom the end of ages has come. Here's what Paul says here. We shouldn't put Christ to the test because that's what they did and serpents came and they bit them. And we shouldn't grumble, we shouldn't complain because that's that's what they did and the destroyer destroyed them. And he says, these things happened as an example and they were written for our instruction. So when we read Numbers 21, this is meant to instruct you to not complain. This is meant to instruct you to not speak against God. This is meant to instruct you to, um, be grateful and not put the Lord to the test. Um, so, but that's what the Israelites did. The Israelites are an example for us. So here's the question, what do we do? What do we do? And I would say the answer that Paul actually gives us in a separate letter is in First Thessalonians 5: 16-18. Famous passage, most of you might even know it by heart. Um, as do I, but it says, rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Let me break that down for you again. Rejoice always, pray pray without ceasing and give thanks in every in all circumstances. Because this is God's will for you. So what's God's will for you? To rejoice, to pray, and give thanks. That's what we do. So when we say, what do we do? If we've been brought out of Egypt and we don't want to complain anymore, what what's our instruction? What do we get from First Corinthians 10 and Numbers 21 and First Thessalonians 5? What is what is our response? What do we do? Our response is to rejoice, to pray, and give thanks. We are called to rejoice always, always rejoice in every circumstance. We're called to pray without ceasing in everything and we are called to give thanks. Now, the Greek for rejoice really just means be glad, be glad, be happy, rejoice. And the Greek for give thanks really just means to to give thanks or to be thankful. And that's what we're talking about in this week's episode. We're talking about overcoming ungratefulness. We're talking about overcoming complaining. How do we do it? Gratefulness, gratitude, thankfulness. So what do we do? We are thankful in all circumstances. Why? Because this is God's will for us. God's will is that we are always glad, always praying and always thankful in everything, in every circumstance. Let me tell you something. I want to show you the difference between feeling thankful versus giving thanks because there is a difference. Because you're going to hear that and you're going to be like, what, give thanks in all circumstances? What about when I don't feel thankful and I'm doing it and it just feels empty? That's the point. Let me say this. You may not always feel grateful in your walk with God. You might not always feel thankful, even though you are called, First Thessalonians 5, to give thanks in all circumstances. But let me say this, give thanks when you don't feel thankful and I can promise you're going to you're going to start to feel thankful as you start to give thanks. I think of this analogy. We all know that love is not an love is not a feeling. Love is an action. First Corinthians 13: 4-8 and a lot of other passages show us this. Love is not a feeling, it is an action. Love is love is shown, not felt. But love can certainly be felt as a feeling. When does that happen? Let me give you an analogy. You're in a relationship. You might not always feel in love with this person. Anyone who's been in a long-term relationship knows what that that's like. They they know what it's like to not always feel like you're super in love with someone. Anyone does. But let me say this, when you start to act like you love them. You might not always feel in love, but when you go buy them a letter, when you go write them a letter, you buy them flowers, you take them on a date. When you do that, you're going to start to feel in love with them because you're doing it. It's the same with giving thanks. You might not always feel thankful. You might not always feel like giving God thanks, but when you do it, I can promise you're going to feel it. You I promise you, let me challenge you to something. Every one of you watching this. I challenge you at the end of this episode, put down your phone, set a 10-minute timer and get on your knees on the floor or lay on your face or whatever I don't care what you do. Spend 10 minutes in prayer doing nothing but giving thanks. There is absolutely no reason you should run out of things to give thanks for in 10 minutes. There's the breath in your lungs. There's the food you've ate today. There's the water you've drank today. There's the friends you have. There's there's your salvation. There's the Holy Spirit and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. There's what Jesus did for you. There bro, I could go on forever. You should not run out of things to give thanks for in 10 minutes. Keep going everything, everything you can think of, even if it's stupid. Even if it's like, thank you Lord for, um, my blanket. Like, it's like it feels stupid, but man, there are people who don't have that and they're cold out on the streets. So let me tell y'all what I do. I do this thing every couple every a few nights a week where I go to what I call prayer field. I have this place where most nights I go to this place and I go spend time at prayer in prayer pretty late at night where it's quiet, there's no cars driving, no one's awake. Um, and I'll go to this place and here's what I'll do. Um, I'll go to this place and I I often go to my prayer field when I'm going through something or when something is bugging me or when I'm stressed or I'm having a hard time with something or whatever it is. Um, or I'm wrestling with something and I go to this prayer field. I'll tell you what, when I'm wrestling with something or I'm stressed or heartbroken or whatever it is, I don't feel like giving thanks. That's the last thing I want to do, but guess what I do? Every prayer, and this doesn't just happen at my prayer field, but it happens in my day-to-day prayers. Every prayer I start with thanks. Because Paul says in Philippians 4: 6-7, to not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and petition with Thanksgiving, make your request known to God. So I come in Thanksgiving first. Here's what I do. I go to my prayer field. Say I'm going through something, right? I go to my prayer field and I give thanks. I say, God, I just want to come to you and sit in your presence and sort some things out with you, but first, I want to give thanks. God, I thank you for the breath of my lungs. Thank you for another day on this earth. I thank you for the food I ate today. I thank you. And I literally just give thanks. Even if it's 30 seconds or it's five minutes. Then I repent. And I come to God, and I say, God, I repent of anything I've done today, any words I've said today that are, um, displeasing to you, or any thoughts I've thought in meditations on my heart or any actions I've done today that are displeasing, and I just come in repentance and then I make my request known to God. So, the reason I'm preaching on ungratefulness this week. This is the last thing we're going to talk about before we pray and close out. I was leaving work the other day.
[15:52]my server job. And I was leaving work. I saw a homeless lady. Let me emphasize. The weather here in Texas the last couple weeks has been crazy bipolar. Like, Texas is having like hormonal issues right now or something. Like, it it literally I'm not kidding, will be 80 degrees. First of all, it's it's February, but it'll be 80 degrees and the next day, I'm not kidding, it will drop 40 degrees. Like no joke. It's like, I'm not talking bipolar like it drops 10 degrees. I'm talking like Texas having mood swings. Man, it's 20, 28 degrees outside at this time. This is literally just the other day. And I saw this lady, she has a big shopping cart of stuff, grocery cart, all the stuff I guess she has since she's homeless and she's just pushing it and the wind, man, let me tell you, it's it's like 30 degrees and the wind is like 20 miles an hour and I feel horrible. I'm like, oh my gosh, I loop around and I'm not saying any of this to boast. I promise. I actually didn't get really to help her at all. So I'm not saying all this to like, seem so holy or whatever. Y'all know my heart posture. I'm telling a story about complaining here.
[16:56]I turn around, come to this lady. I'm like, hey, do you need any help, like pushing your card or you know, like, can I get you food, like what do you need help with? And she was like, I'm totally good like, she was like, she basically needed gas money. She's actually moving in with her brother right now. She's finally off the streets. She's not on the street a long time is what she told me and she's moving in with her brother. Um, I I believe is what she said. She needed gas money. I don't really remember why. I just know she needed gas money. I don't carry cash. I just happened to have cash on me.
[17:26]And, um, I, she starts telling me her story. She starts telling me what she goes through on the streets and let me say this. I'm not going to go super in detail. There are things she told me that she goes through being homeless that I can't talk about on YouTube because they will take this video down. Like, I'm not kidding. Like, I'm not kidding. And I literally I left, she didn't need help. So I just prayed with her and I left. I went home and I fell on my face in my bedroom and I started crying. Because I was just like, God, I I literally fell in repentance and I fell in prayer for her and I just wept over her and I just prayed for her. But I fell in repentance because I've been very ungrateful lately and it brought to mind. I was like, man, I have it so good right now. I have it so I am so blessed right now. And it was very humbling for me. I mean, I had it. And it just rocked me. I just like, I I was just moved. I was like, man, this lady and let me tell you, let me backtrack. This lady has faith. Like she believes in Jesus. Like no joke. She we talked about her faith and I was like, man, so because she was saying she was going to go to church tomorrow. And I was like, hold on, you've kept your faith being out on the streets for a long time? And she was like, oh yeah, like he's I'm not kidding this lady is so happy. She's like, yeah, he's he's always sending his children to help me. I'm like, or he's always sending people to help me. Like, there's always people out here helping me and I'm like, oh, so like, God's like always sending his children to you. And she's like, all the time, I always got people praying for me and bringing me food and. And I was just moved. I was like, I wish I could do more. Like, I couldn't, like, she didn't want, honestly, she didn't want my help. I asked. I was like, man, I have fresh socks in my car. I have food in my car. I have all this like, what can I do? And bro, she she did not want my help. She was fine. Like, she was like, no, I'm just going over here and there's the homeless shelter open and I promise you, sweetie, I'm good. And she's really sweet, but she kept her faith in that and she's not complaining. She literally did not complain to me. I'm not kidding. She told me her story and she was just like, yeah, I'll be good. And I'm like, man, like, if I've ever seen First Thessalonians 5: 16-18 in a person, it's that lady. And the reason I tell this to you isn't to be like, oh man, yeah, I'm always with homeless people or whatever. I'm so virtuous. Like that's that's not at all what this is. Y'all know me. That's that's not who I am. Um, and if you're new here, that that's not who I am. But I'm telling you this because this lady has been on the streets here around Dallas, Texas. And she is keeping her faith. She is trying to get to church with her brother. And I'm like so moved, man. She she has a couple kids and. Man, and I'm really praying that I'll run into her again and I can help her out, but. Um, man, I was just so moved and I shared this with y'all because I came home and I just wept and I was like, I am so ungrateful. There there is so much that I do not thank God for. That if that lady had or someone else had, they would be weeping over. I mean, there are some homeless people that you will give them a fresh pair of socks and they will weep over a fresh pair of socks because their socks get wet and gross and. Like, I I do I can't think of one time I've ever thanked God for for socks. Like, I mean, I do now. Thank you, Lord. But, um, my point is, man, is there are things that you have that other people would literally kill people for. I'm I'm not There's no exaggerated exaggeration in what I say there. There are people who would literally fight other people to have what you have and you're complaining about what you don't have yet, or what God hasn't done yet, or how God hasn't moved for you. And I know it's hard. I know sometimes it it feels justified to you. You're like, man, I've been praying for a job for six months. Man, I've I've, trust me, I've been there. Like, um, like this podcast equipment that you're all watching this on, I literally like did not have a job when I funded this. Like, I had to save the little income I was making on Tik Tok, because I don't let me emphasize, like people in my position, we don't really make money. Like, just being so for real with y'all. Like, and I had to put every like all the money I had in this filming setup. And this is a pretty not crazy filming setup. And I'm just saying it, man. There are things you have, man, that. I'm so moved by this message that people would kill for, bro, that you don't thank God for. I can't remember like thanking God for the camera that you all are watching this on. I mean, I thank God for this podcast and what God is doing on it, but. I've never thanked God for this mic or Topo Chico. Thank you Lord for Topo Chico. Amen. Can I get an amen? Um, for Topo Chico. I don't really my lips are just dry. That's why. Um, because it's so cold, but man, I just that's what I want to leave you with. I know it's hard, and I know sometimes you go through things and it's like, man, I just wish I had a job. Like I didn't have a job when I was at school in Oklahoma. That's why I funded this. Like I didn't have work. I I didn't have friends. I I had very little friends for a long time and then eventually my community got better and stuff. I went through a really rough time there. I've had a lot of other times that were rough. I get it. I know what it's like to feel like it's necessary to complain and feel like, man, it's justified. Like, you're telling me I can't complain, but you got no clue. Man, I don't, but you got no clue what I've been through either, bro. And I'll tell you, God doesn't make exceptions in the Book of Numbers. These people didn't have food, they didn't have water and they spoke against the Lord and it angered him. And we don't talk about that. We don't talk about complaining, angering God. But that's what I want to leave you with, man. I know it's hard and I but you got to be grateful. You got to force yourself to be grateful. Paul does not say give thanks in all circumstances or he doesn't say, give thanks when you have a job. Hey, give thanks when finances are good. Hey, give thanks when you're not stressed. Hey, give thanks on the mountains, not in the valleys though. Because that's what we do. I think about this picture of we're in the valleys and that's this is how I used to be as a Christian before I got saved, is those were the times that I saw God. I wouldn't pray for two years. I'd go through a hard time. Guess what? I would start praying then. Guess what? When I got out the hard time, guess what I would do? I would stop praying. We don't get we don't thank God on the mountaintops. We don't even thank God in the valleys. We just complain that we're in them. But you know what the Bible says? James 1: 2-4. Watch, I'm I'm just quote it for you. It says, count it all joy, my brothers, when you go through trials of many kinds, for you, you know that your trials produce steadfastness and steadfastness at its full effect makes a man perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. What does he say? Count it all joy when you go through trials of many kinds. If I'm not wrong, and I might be wrong. I'm not great with historical context. I'm 90% sure James was writing about persecution and people being killed for being Christians. And he tells them to count it joy. You know what the apostles did? I believe it's Acts chapter five. It might be four, but Peter and John, I believe, is who it was. They got pulled in by the religious leaders and they got beat. They got beat with rods. And you know what they did? Or maybe it was John and someone else. You know what they did? They went home to the other disciples. And it says at the very end of that chapter. I don't remember what chapter it is. It's early in Acts. It says that they they rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer for the name, for Jesus's name. They didn't complain that they got beat. They didn't say, God, I'm serving you and I'm doing this and you're letting me get beat. They said, oh my gosh, God counts me worthy to suffer for his son. And I know we're not suffering like that. Maybe some of you are. I don't know where I know there's countries where things aren't legal and Christians are being persecuted, but a lot of my audience is America. I don't know what your sufferings are. All I know is you're called to count all joy, you're called to rejoice and be glad. You're called to pray without ceasing. That literally means in Greek to pray continually and it doesn't mean 24 hours a day, 24/7, 365, but and you're called to give thanks in every circumstance. Not on the mountains. Not on the not just on the mountains when it's good. You're called to give thanks in the valleys. You're called to count it all joy when you go through many trials. Stop looking at your bad seasons and complaining about where God has you. Start looking at your good seasons and being grateful for where God brought you out of. Let us pray. Lord, I thank you for this message so much. I thank you for all the things that I haven't thanked you for. I know there's not enough words and time on earth for me to thank you for everything you've done and have and will do for me and all the other people here. Um, but Lord, I thank you for the equipment to film this podcast. I thank you for the ability to upload this. I thank you for, um, water and food and housing and my family. I thank you for everything, God. We thank you for the hard seasons, Lord. Um, I thank you for our hard seasons. I thank you for what we go through. I thank you for the rough times and the sufferings. I thank you for the lows and the highs, the mountains and the valleys. God, I pray over every single person that will watch this video on any platform, God. I pray that you would bless and keep him, make your face shine upon him, be gracious unto him, turn your face toward him and give him peace. God, I pray you help him to stop complaining, stop being ungrateful and start being grateful with a heart that gives thanks instead of complaints. Ooh, that was a bar. Thank you, Lord.
[28:04]Um, Lord, I thank you for this week's episode, um, and what you're doing in this overcomer series. I pray you would continue to move in this series and that your hand would be on it. I am not the leader of this. I'm not even the leader of this podcast. We are talking your scripture with the help of your Holy Spirit here. So God, I pray your hand would be on this podcast and this overcomer series. We pray that. I pray you guys join me in prayer on this. That you would continue to move in the overcomer series that this series would help people break off things that they have been struggling with their whole life. That they'd break off things that they've been struggling with years or months. God, would you just use this series for your glory and for your purposes? Um, in Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen. I got some quick announcements for y'all. First of all, my buddy made this, um, embroidered Jesus's Lord hoodie. His name is Andrew. Um, this is so nice. It is so soft and I don't like talk about the clothes I wear on here very often. Um, but if you want one, they're 50% off I think right now. Um, and they're available at Godly dot shop. G d l y dot shop. Um, and, uh, yeah, they're super awesome if you want to get one. Also, um, I think I'm thinking about moving my upload upload times to Mondays. Um, it just works best for me, um, because Sundays, I am starting to get really packed. So I normally film my episodes on Thursdays. Those are days that that's a day that I don't work all day. Um, but, um, that's been busy sometimes. I make plans on Thursdays sometimes and I haven't been able to film, so I've been having to film them on Sundays. So if y'all been seeing me upload episodes like Sunday nights, um, or even Mondays, that's why. So I'm thinking about moving my upload times to like Monday nights. I don't know. Let me know what y'all think. I know that y'all don't really care. Y'all just like the videos. Um, do I have any other announcements? Bro, I don't have any personal announcements. Y'all for the for for the gym homies here. Boys and ladies and gents, your boy has been bulking and it's been awesome. I just want to let you all know that this bulk has been great. Your boy, I lost some weight because of a relationship I was in a couple months ago. It wasn't her fault. I just got so focused on that that I like completely lost care for my nutrition and, um, my my time in the gym. I like stopped going to the gym as much. I stopped eating as much as I was supposed to be eating and stuff. It wasn't her fault at all. I was literally just idolizing the relationship. Um, I'm not saying it's her fault. I promise. Um, but I'm up. I I start bulking again like 183 pounds. And I'm like, 190 right now. So that's fire. And, uh, I start Bible school next month, which I'm so excited about. So excited to, um, start learning even more than I than I am right now. So, um, yeah, I love you guys. I'll see y'all next Sunday or Monday. I got no clue. Just keep a lookout. Um, oh, we just hit 80k today actually at the time, it's Monday. So, I'm I'm literally going to upload this in like four hours. Um, we just hit 80k, which is so huge. Thank you guys for watching. That's like two stadiums, three stadiums of freaking people. So, thank you guys for watching. 20,000 more to go to 100k, which is so crazy. Um, let's get there. And if you're listening on Spotify, um, drop a rating. I would appreciate that so much. If you would drop a rating on the podcast on the podcast, um, I don't really remember how to do it. I hope you all figure it out. I'm sorry. I don't really know how. Um, but if you want to drop a rating, that'd be super helpful, but, um, I love you guys. God bless you guys and I'll see you all next week for whatever we're talking about. God bless.
