Episode 44 | Finding Family

What does it really mean to belong?

In this powerful and honest conversation, Stephen Hogue sits down with Pastor Gabe Asif, lead pastor of The Well Church, to talk about church planting, spiritual family, and the tension between love and truth in today’s culture.

Just over a year into launching The Well Church, Pastor Gabe shares incredible stories of growth, transformation, and the real challenges that come with leading people. Together, they unpack what it looks like to build a church that feels like family—where people can belong before they believe, yet are still called into the life-changing truth of the Gospel.

This episode dives deep into:

• The power of spiritual family and why the Church must feel like home
• Reaching both physical and spiritual orphans with the love of Christ
• Balancing grace and truth in a culture redefining love
• Healing from church hurt and rebuilding trust in authentic community
• Living on mission—not as consumers, but as contributors in God’s Kingdom
• Navigating the tension of ministry, marriage, and family life

You’ll also hear a heartfelt prayer from Pastor Gabe for those feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, or unsure of where they belong—and a reminder that God is still calling people into purpose, identity, and family.

If you’ve ever felt like an outsider… if you’ve wrestled with faith, family, or calling… this conversation is for you.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

The church though should be a family. Uh well what are people looking for if you think about it? I mean they're looking for a place to belong.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Welcome to the One Family Podcast, where we desire to engage, empower, equip, and support families to do what God is helpful. Because when the family first, come to do what God is.

SPEAKER_01 0:35

My name is Stephen Hogue. I have a very good friend, Pastor Gabe Steef, and he is with us today. Glad you're joining us. Absolutely. Uh you were with us a while back, and I'm glad that you're back and just want to touch base with you. Uh the One Family Podcast is here to help families flourish. That's really what we desire. We believe that when the family flourishes, the community flourishes. When the family's healed, the community is healed. Starts with mom and dad, and then the children, and then raising those children to love the Lord and live for the Lord and serve the Lord. So our guest here today is uh Pastor Gabe, and you have um planted a church. Yep. How long has it been now? Uh a year and four months. So not even two years. So a year and four months that you moved uh about what, 60 miles away or so, give or take, in Orlando here to the Daytona area. Give us a little bit of a synopsis of planting and how it's going now. Yeah. And I know that's uh it's a challenging question, but tell us how it's going.

SPEAKER_02 1:34

You know, it's been incredible. Um we um planted January 2025. Uh, we've seen God move incredibly. Um, we just celebrated our second Easter, and so we had over 550 independents on on Sunday morning um between our two services. And it's just incredible. You know, lives changed and and lives are being transformed. And um, it's all beautiful, it's all incredible. We're so thankful God called us here. Uh, it's also all a grind.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

I was gonna say you have to deal with people. Yeah, I heard a guy say if it wasn't for the people, I'd have a great church. Yeah, uh, but you do deal with people, you deal with their issues. How's that feel?

SPEAKER_02 2:15

You know, I I understand the heart of the comment, but without the people, there is no church. That's great. You know what I mean? And so if we're not for the people, with the people, and I and I know that's not the intent of like when when when people say that, but I our people are wonderful, man. Like we're people, we're it's beautiful, we're human, right? Like, man, and and and we have to love them. And you know, something that that's really been kind of like, you know, especially just going to Holy Week, right? I mean, Jesus is looking at Peter, right? And is like, do you love me? And if you love me, then tend to my sheep. If you love me, love my my sheep. If you love me, care for my sheep. You know what I mean? Like, and so if we really say we love him, then we we should be going the distance to love his people, right? And so that's right. Um, man, we we've just fallen in love with the city. We've fallen in love with his people, and we've got people from all walks of life. Our church is multicultural, multi-generational. Um, uh, you know, the uh you've got people from all different tax brackets showing up, and everybody's finding Jesus, and everybody needs Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 3:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

And um, yeah, I mean, it's a great it's been it's been beautiful. So uh, you know, we our ministry is called One Family. We believe in uh the family being whole, right? Well, the church is a family. Yeah. I find that your community, your church, in some cases can be closer than even your own biological family for different reasons, sometimes mostly distance, right? If you have family uh different places around the country, you're not always with them. Um I I'm really blessed to have um my parents and Sandra's family very, very close to us in proximity. That's wonderful, it's a blessing, but that's not always the case. The church, though, should be a family. Uh well, what are people looking for if you think about it? I mean, they're looking for a place to belong. Um, speak to that for a moment about people coming in. And I deal a lot with um orphans in the physical sense, but I also see orphans in the spiritual sense. So there's some spiritual orphans wandering, not knowing their role or their place in the family of God, their identity in the family of God. What does that do when somebody comes to church and really finds a family? Yeah, yeah, that's wonderful. And how do we even set that tone for churches?

SPEAKER_02 4:36

That's that that's wonderful. I would say two things. One, anybody who's walking in life, even though they may have both parents but don't know Jesus, they are spiritual orphans. Correct, right? And so, um, and then and then there are literal people who are coming, you know. I and I was raised by a single mom. Yeah, and it was the church that um allowed me to to to uh gain access um to incredible men of God in my life and that influenced me and really uh fathered me. Um one of those, my my my my youth pastor growing up, who actually now attends our church and is on our team and volunteers with us as well. My youth pastor growing up, you know, for over a decade, right? Wow. Um, and now now, you know, uh when we launched, he was like, I'm I'm gonna be there. I'm I'm showing up on a support for launch day, and then ended up staying, you know, him and his whole family, you know, and um, you know, so I think that speaks to the beauty of the community, you know, um that there that that the church uh allows um the the spur the the spiritual adoption, I I guess we can call it, right? I mean, you know, people are coming from all walks of life, you know, they need spiritual moms, they need big brothers, they need sisters, they need friends, they need community, they just need somebody to talk to, somebody to grab coffee with. I am so proud of our church. I'm so proud of the people, you know, what God is doing in our ministry, and it's not just our church, and I know God is doing incredible things in Volusia County and in many churches in the city here, you know. But for me to just personally be leading this thing and be a part of this, man. Um we just have a thing of like we want people to feel like they belong before they they even have to believe, like before they even figure out their theology, right? Yeah. Um, that that people will at least know they're loved and they're welcomed, and they can be cared for. And we're presenting the gospel. We're not we're unapologetic about the gospel of Jesus. You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven without Jesus in your heart, right? Right. And following him. But you could enter the front doors of our church without knowing Jesus. Right. And feel loved and accepted. Feel loved and accepted.

SPEAKER_01 6:46

Yeah, that's wonderful. Um there are, you know, think about a kid who joins a gang, you know, young. Um that it's a family for the for him, even though it's an it's not a healthy family. Uh the the the transgender movement, and somebody doesn't feel like they fit in, and then they get accepted into that movement. A lot of times they don't feel that acceptance at church. Yeah, right. And if their lifestyle is contrary to the word, yeah, uh, you gotta love them, yeah. But you don't don't love them. Uh well, you love them, but you love them enough to tell them the truth. Absolutely. So, churches, there are churches that are quote, all accepting. We accept all. And and we should accept all. Yeah. But there is this, well, we accept your lifestyle, even though it's against God's word. So you can stay here and stay the way you are. So I think true love really is saying, you know, I love you enough to see that there's something greater in you than where you're at. And that doesn't mean just uh same sex or transgender. I mean somebody just is living in the world, comes to church, and needs to have something covered. I remember when I I grew up in church, but I remember sitting in the alt uh in the um sitting in the uh chairs of youth group, and we had a large youth group, and and I actually was on the worship team. So I was I was like in the ministry. I was it was I was so fake. I was so far from God. And I in in the pastor, I'd been going there for several couple years, and the pastor did a first-time salvation message. I have you never accepted Christ, and it was like somebody grabbed my shirt and pulled me to the altar, and his drummer is supposed to, during the altar call, go to the drums and play. Yeah, I went to the front for first-time salvation. Wow. And he's looking at me like what? You know, and it was drawing me, yeah, it wasn't allowing me to stay where I was. Um, and and so the acceptance, speak to the balance of accepting someone, but then saying, Hey, look, this is what God has for you.

SPEAKER_02 8:45

Yeah, you know, I was just talking to a mom just this week, and potentially of loving her children, and she's fairly new in her faith and her walk with the Lord. And so there's been a lot of transformation and moving into healthiness, and it's that tension that we have of we want to love our children, and sometimes we think by uh not being quick to correct or allow them to just live in their way and just accept them because we don't want to push them away. And and my question was, well, is it real love if we never correct? Correct. Like if if my if I know my my children are doing wrong and I never correct them and I never discipline them and I never tell them the truth, and I sit down and explain like what is right and what is wrong, and there are consequences when we do wrong. If I don't explain that to my children, do I truly love? Is that is that true love, right? And so, you know, I think I, you know, and I and and and I think that's the tension, you know, of you know, people have tried to redefine love and culture, and that love is all accepting, that love is like all encompassing of well, I accept you as you are, how you are, you don't ever have to change. And the truth of the matter is is that uh uh uh you know love is defined through Christ. The love is defined, you know, there is an expectation that there should be a healthiness, there should be balance, and and and we should be following in scripture. The Bible says God is love, but he chastises those he loves. He's absolutely correct, you know, and and he and we are correct, you know what I mean? And so, you know, like Jesus loved Peter, right? Peter says he loves Jesus, and yet there's a moment where Jesus looks at Peter and says, get thou behind me saying and right, he calls him sin, right? Because Peter's like in the the foolishness, you know what I mean? He's losing sight of the mission and purpose and the calling and the belonging. And yeah, and so like there's this whole thing, you know, I'm not running around calling my children Satan, but I'm I'm also bringing them in, you know. And I've never done that, yeah. You know, there there has to be correction and healthiness. And man, we have people who have attended our church. I mean, you know, we're baptizing, yeah. Baptism is for people who are ready to repent, yeah, who are ready to walk this life out in Jesus. And you have people who come from different walks of life, they may be uh um uh, you know, in the LGBTQ uh uh, you know, world. They they they may be uh walking in addiction. And the whole thing is like we're not expecting perfection, yeah, but we are the the whole thing to follow Jesus, we have to repent. We have to acknowledge that what we're doing is sin, and we have to be willing to make the steps to change our life after this.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

Which it's should start a process. It's like you go to the airport and you step on that little thing, you know, that little motorized sidewalk. Absolutely. And it's not super fast, you're not ripping through, but you're moving. Yeah, and get on there and start moving forward. Steps of the righteous are ordered. So day by day, you can look back in the year, yeah, like you said, and they're oh my gosh, I have grown. Now I have more to grow. And when you mentioned um love, there's a hard side of love and there's the soft side of love. There's this nurturing, you know, I love you, you're special, God's gonna take care of you, you know. And there's some you need to get up and make your bed and better hurry up, or you're you know, or whatever. Um, my uh my wife came by me. Uh, this is a little while ago. She walked by and she just tapped my belly, and she's like, uh, hmm, you know, you need to be exercising. And now at first, it you offense wants to rise up, but then she goes like this you gotta be around for your great camp grandkids. Now, that could be offensive to some people. You're basically kind of saying, I need to go lose some weight, yeah. And you're tapping my belly, and I didn't like that, right? But you know what she said after that? She said, I love you, yeah, and that's why I want you to be around. Well, you and me both, man.

SPEAKER_02 12:44

Maybe we should get that gym membership. Let's do it, man. We can't take our 10,000 steps a day.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

And I was thinking about that. I talked to a pastor yesterday about uh, that's another topic. Um, wholeness is spirit, soul, and body, and I don't want to deal with the body part uh in uh in the working out part. But anyway, she's saying it because she loves me. Yeah, I have to call my kids out because I love them, and I think it needs to be balanced. The Bible says that children are arrows in the hands of a warrior. Look at an arrow. Yeah, what is the the arrowhead sharp, piercing? Yeah, what's the um the end of it? It's feathers, it's soft, and it brings balance, right? And so there is a soft side and there is a hard side uh to love, and that's very important. I want to um you speak, um and we may have even talked about this last time you were here, but I just feel it again. When somebody comes to your church, um maybe they're skeptical. Um we had a recent um awesome experience. So we work one family is uh we train local churches uh to get involved in the mission field of foster care. And so in foster care, child welfare, there there is a state agency, uh, an organization that heads up all the foster care placement. So they have tons of case workers. These people are dealing with the investigations or dealing with the kids that have been abused, all the terrible situations that are going on. These these people are in the trenches. And uh we went to their agency, the local foster care agency, a couple of days ago. And uh there was about 80 of them there. And then we brought food, we brought drinks, and we just honored them and loved on them and thanked them. And uh we're connecting them to our local churches. So our churches are helping um these caseworkers find the items that are needed for families so they can keep their kids and not lose their kids if it's neglect related and or if it's poverty related neglect. So our churches are helping them. Well, many of them have said things like, I used to go to church, but I don't anymore. But I can't believe how your churches are helping us. Like they're really blown away by that. And a lot of them have church hurt, and when they come into your church, are they skeptical? They you they see the smile on your face. I mean, every church we should be kind and friendly. Customer service nowadays is pretty much gone, right? In most places. But when it comes to kindness and love, uh, we should be, they should have that from the time they drive on the property, right? From the parking lot attendant to the to the greeters to whoever. You you should uh be uh loving on those people. Do they are they skeptical of it? Does it take them a while to trust you? Is some of that church hurt going, is this guy on the stage talking to me, is he for real? It takes time. Yeah, I what do you find?

SPEAKER_02 15:40

You know, I personally find if if there is some of that, they they don't they don't either they don't come back or they don't verbalize it. Um I would say I I feel like 99.9% of people that walk into the wall church, they're like, man, this felt authentic from the very moment. They can tell. And um, you know, our core values are heart, honor, positivity. Our mission is simple love, love people, change the world. Um and we really stick to that. And so when people come in, the mission is we're loving God, we're gonna love you, and let's and let's change the city, let's change this world. And and and we always talk about the mission. We and there's a sense of it. We partner with you guys in Care Portal. Yeah, and so you know, recently as we've been able to step up and even do more as a church plan, it's like, man, like thank you for your generosity, thank you for your work. And we've got people who are new to our church who are joining this care portal team, you know, our our foster family team who are resourcing items. And these are people who were not even in our church maybe a year ago, you know, and they're stepping up. And maybe they've come out of a background of church hurt, but they've come and they've seen an authentic church. They really love Jesus. And we're not just walking, you know, I say this, you know, almost weekly. We're not here to talk the talk. We're walking, we have to walk the walk. And and we do that. The purest form of religion is to love the widow and the orphan, live a life free from uh live a life free from the corruption of the world, right? Like that is our our heartbeat, right? And we know that it's not just widows and orphans, uh, you know, it's it's our neighbor, it's hurting, it's the hurting people, it's the broken people. Yeah it's the you know, it's those who who are dejected, right? Like we are, you know, and our church is stepping up and we talk about it weekly, you know. Um, we talk about what what God is doing, and we're not just talking about it, we're actually doing it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 17:39

And so you so people want to be a part of something that has a purpose. Absolutely. It's funny. I'll watch the news and I'll see like some of these people rioting in the streets and they'll go and interview them and say, Why are you here? And they can't hardly even explain what they're there fighting. They're just mad about something. Yeah, but people just want to be a part of something, I want to be doing something. So when you're when your church is outside the four walls and has a mission, and somebody can come in, feel loved, be discipled, grow, and then get involved, right? Be a part of something that means a lot. So as we close here in a minute, um, especially those, I mean, this is for all families, but especially those in ministry that are watching, how do you balance what you're doing? You've got the vision of the church, you've got um you're carrying a lot of that in a sense. Uh, of course, you have a team, and I don't think you should carry it all yourself, but there is a sense of responsibility, yeah, uh, whether it's the finances, whether it's um making sure that you are stewarding your staff, growing um your facilities. You're still using a school that you meet in. Uh and we're believing for a building for you, by the way. You have all of that that kind of is eating you up all the time. You have three children, you have a beautiful wife and three children. With one on the way. You have one on the way. So we're breaking news right now. I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. Our fourth, our fourth is zoo, May 27th. Oh my goodness. Well, you're on your way then, actually, to catching up to me. I have 10, so you're getting closer. You're almost halfway there. Uh you might rebuke that. I don't know, but uh four. So praise the Lord. So you have one on the way. Um you uh you always hear, okay, God first, then your family, yeah, then your ministry. Yeah. Uh I don't know about you, and I love my family, but I I do get consumed with the vision because the vision I have is really, really big. It's like God gives you almost. I I went into this year with the theme believing for the unbelievable. Yeah. The vision that I have is in the multiple millions of what's needed to buy to do it, right? Uh and so it eats you up. How do you come home? What do you do? Because ministry is your life. I mean, how do you can you turn it off? What do you do? How do you balance it?

SPEAKER_02 19:53

Well, you know, and I and I think I'm still trying to figure all that out, right? A year and four months in. I mean, me too. There were some tensions. Even yesterday, you know, um, we were sitting in a restaurant and you know, we're we're we're across from each other. And so, you know, and I'm a transparent person, so I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like I haven't figured out when I know that there's things that I just even need to ask for forgiveness for, even today. Yeah, but my wife is sitting in front of me, I'm getting three text messages from three different people, yeah. One, you know, and and like serious stuff. I don't know. Like I'm just reading it in the seconds from apart, and I'm just I'm sitting, I just sat down with my family at chilies, yeah, and I'm like, and my wife is like, hey, what do you want to eat? And the waitress is there, and I'm just like, Yeah, I I'm good. And I, you know, and it was like, I probably didn't say it as nice, but I was just mentally because no, people have no idea, right? They don't know where you're at, what you're doing. They're in their own world, they're going through their own situation. Yeah, so I, you know, I need to I feel I woke up this morning convicted of like, man, I did ask my wife for forgiveness because I, you know, I should have done better during dinner. Like, man, I probably embarrassed her in front of the waitress. And that's the transparency of life. I don't have it all figured out. You're trying to manage. I get it. Also, not our job to manage everybody's emergency. Only Jesus can do that. That's true. But as a pastor, right? And so I think that's the tension. It is. Um, I used to live that way, God, family, ministry, and it was almost like three separate boxes. Uh, Stephen, I really have just put them all in one. Yeah. I don't have the capacity that, okay, is this the God box? Is this the church box? Is this the family box? I need God and my family and ministry all working together, like that triple braided cord almost, right? Like exactly right. I need them. It's always on. It's always, it's always God, it's always family at the same time, and church is happening at the same time. Yeah. My kids are helping me plant this church. They're up with me at seven in the morning, they're on campus. Yeah, we're serving the Lord together. You know what I mean? Yeah. I can be in the middle of a family moment and I'm needing to pray my my mind and my heart, and I'm and I'm getting a text message six months. Minutes later, we don't there's not a box, you know. And I used to live that way, you know. Well, this is the God thing, and God's first, and then family comes second. No, it's like it's all happening first. It all it all takes first place, you know what I mean? God's first place, my family's first place. Um, there are some sacred things, margin, of course. We talk about margin, healthy rhythms. Um, you know, there are people who wanted me to meet with them tonight. I said, I can't be there, it's Friday, it's movie night with my family. There you go. We're gonna get pizza, we're gonna get movies for you, you know. And there's some it's important meetings, and there's some big things happening in the city that I want to be part of. They, you know, but I'm I'm like, hey, you know, and so luckily we're able to make room and we're gonna meet earlier or in in the you know, in the evening or later in the afternoon, right? So I can get home on time and yeah, have family and dinner. That's sacred to me. And you can say no. Yeah, I can say to say no to oh, right? I can say another time, say no to ministry moments. Yeah, sure, because I'm I need to say yes to family because family's also ministry, and I want my kids to see me present. I I try to slow my kids down four to five times a night. I I I talk about this a lot. The the new currency in our home since we've church planted, uh somehow it's become piggybacks. And so every night, my my daughters, you know, dad, you know, it's piggyback time, you know. And if they had if they crushed the day, if they had an amazing day, sometimes they get two to three piggybacks, even so. You know what I mean? Wow, dad's back is it's starting to it's starting to hurt, you know. But but but but that's to currency, you know, and sometimes they don't even want to go to bed until I'm there and daddy, we won't show piggy backs. Or if I had the late night meeting next morning, daddy. I know I didn't get my piggyback last night, and so I owe them two piggy backs. So I, you know, that's kind of like the the the the the the thing in our house now. It's like the currency. It's like I've got to be home to give these kids the piggy backs.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

I'll never forget my son was probably eight or nine, and I was a children's pastor, but the church is really big. We had uh 400 to 500 kids on a Sunday, zero to twelve. So we had staff, we had volunteers, tons of them. So I was overseeing a lot, very driven, uh, a lot of events. And I never forget um my son one day goes, uh, are you gonna be gone again? Uh, are you gonna be gone again tonight at church, Dad? Are you gonna be home with us? Are you gonna be gone again? And uh it was a season where we were rebuilding the set and I was gone every night working to try to get it knocked out by a certain time. Are you gonna be gone again tonight? Are you gonna be home? And that was actually the beginning of the catalyst of of us transitioning into uh the season we're in now because I was just gone so much. And at the time I had eight kids and my wife was carrying a lot, and I'm at, you know, I'm hired to go work at this church. Yeah, it's what they're asking me to do. What am I supposed to say? No, they're paying me. So it was a tough tension, and I found myself almost even um defaulting to the church because I was good at it. Yeah, I I could work hard, I'd get affirmation, I'd get paid for it. Yeah. Families hard. Yeah, you know, so sometimes I found myself uh escaping almost a little bit to be no, I gotta go to church, I gotta work. This is my and sometimes you can work so much and be a good worker that you it actually you allow it to pull you away and you make an excuse. You've got to show into your family as well. And so when we step down, you know, we've been home ever since and we stay home with the kids and homeschool and so on, and um, which has its own challenges. But I want you to pray and I want you to encourage um again, those who maybe have been hurt by church, maybe those who are in ministry, managing ministry and family, or or even I'm kind of throwing a lot on you, but even those who um feel outside of the family of God, they need to come back and they need to get back involved. Um if you think about the the things that keep people carry and they bring in when they come to the church, a lot of times you will hear or whether we whether we say this out loud or not, we try to provide something at our church for people. Okay. At our church, we have kids' ministry, at our church we have youth ministry at our church. We do this and then we do that. Well, the early church, they didn't go to church for just what they could get. They went to literally give and lay down their life, they sold properties, right? They sold everything they gave up. And so I don't want church to look like a restaurant. I like this restaurant because there's good service, there's good food, there they're um the the the prices are good. And if they if the waitress is rude and they raise the prices, I'll just go to the next uh restaurant. It's not a restaurant. Now we should offer excellence and we should provide ministries to help people grow. But I when people come to church, it's not just about does this church fit the perfect mold that I need for me. Uh what do they have for me? How about what do I have for God when I attend that church? And I see that happening in your church where people are buying in to being a part of what's happening. So 5600 on an Easter Sunday, praise God, and it the best is yet to come for you guys as you mobilize and come together. So, kind of all the things that we discussed today, uh there's all kinds of people watching. Um, and there's even somebody watching, you're in your car and you've never really been to church since you were little, and it's uh intimidating. It is to come into on a Sunday morning. But once you come in once, I know to your church, and it should be as every church, uh, you should be family once you come back. You should feel like family from the moment you step in. But speak to those who um feel like outsiders, and then also speak to those who are managing uh life and family and ministry, and then close us in prayer. Will you do that?

SPEAKER_02 27:56

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, well, you said it was a whole separate podcast. And we do, we do really especially American Christianity, there's a lot of consumerism and a lot of spectating, and we really actually encourage against that. We're not here to be consumers. We are we are here to give God the best offering, the best worship, the best sacrifice of our life. Who are we to dictate what we do with our life when he's given us the life in our breath, in our in our lungs? He's given us the breath in our lungs, right? And then he loved the world that he gave, so are we gonna give? We're not spectating. Yeah, we are we are muted to participate in the word, but anyway, let's pray. Amen. Father, we just love you. Jesus, we thank you. Lord, thank you for what you're doing. Lord, through one family, thank you, God, for the means, the technology, God, that people can connect and Lord, just hear these interactions in these moments. And God, I just pray, Lord, that your word will not fall on deaf ears, that anyone who hears this, whatever they're walking through, whether it was relevant to what we talked about or not, Holy Spirit, that you would move in their life, that you would, Lord, soften people's hearts, Lord, that the transforming of our life first happens through the renewing of our minds. And so, God, I pray that minds will be renewed, thoughts, Lord, uh, Lord, just be renewed unto you, Lord, hearts will be healed, Father. Those that are far from you will come to know you, Lord. I pray that those with eyes, God, that you would open the eyes of the blind, that even spiritual blindness, Lord, uh, God, that that that people would hear this and have eyes to see, ears to hear, and move from a place of just spectating to a place of participation, God, that they would get involved in your house. God, that your spirit would just illuminate the path in front of them, that they will no longer go through life without purpose, without identity. God, I pray for every person uh that that's listening or watching this, every pastor, every leader, every every mom or dad, every business owner, whoever, God, Lord, I just pray for healthy rhythms. Uh, just just God, that that we can put make the main things the main things in our life. And uh, God, that we could just find healthiness in you, that we can find our contentment in you and who you are, Christ. And God, we just thank you, Lord. And I just pray a blessing over every person that sees this or hears this in the days to come in Jesus' name.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

Amen. Thanks, man. There's a great phrase I heard from a pastor who says, Don't let anything matter more than what matters most. And what matters most in family and church and work, everything is uh the Bible says, Seek me and find me, and you will seek me and you will find me when you seek me with all your heart. Seek the Lord, pursue the Lord. Uh just try to encounter him and then he'll take care of everything else. And so thank you for joining us, man. I appreciate it. Such a pleasure. Yeah, it's awesome to have you. You're awesome. Uh, go to onefamilyfl.com today to see what we do. God has called us to be a bridge to connect the local church to child welfare, and a lot of great things are happening. We also have a summer camp coming up for foster kids called Royal Family Kids Camp. You can get involved in that. Uh always needing people to stand with us and partner with us financially. You can give a monthly reoccurring gift or a one-time gift uh for millions of dollars. Would that sound good? Come on, man. I'm still waiting for you and believing, brother. We're we're believing for it's coming. So we thank you for partnering with us and praying for us. Um, sign up for our newsletter as well. Again, go to onefamilyfl.com today. Thanks for joining us. God bless. Come on,