Elevate Your Day : Jan 9, 2024

Elevate Your Day with Andi and Brian Hale

First of all, we're gonna start off with the buzz.
The buzz is kind of a recap of what we've got going on
at Hale Multimedia.
So we're gonna go over kind of what we've done website-wise,
what's coming up, our Expos,
and some projects that we did internally.
So you ready to go over that?
Yes.
All right, welcome to the studio, Miss Andy.
Hello.
All right, so what do you have going on at Hail Multimedia?
Well, I'm helping Helberg and Ness a little more,
getting things tweaked.
We also are working on our Expos websites,
getting those ready,
because those are coming up in March and April.
Right, which stuff falls and in Kansas.
Right.
Two different Expos.
Where else?
That was all.
And we're planning on working on digging deeper TV.
Oh, well, that's what I'm doing.
I was asking you what you're doing.
Well, I was working.
You were working on a lot of it with it.
No, but weren't you working on another project?
I saw something else.
Wasn't there something else?
You're teaching.
I was doing all work.
Teaching a high school class.
Yes.
Well, you know, that's a great thing.
Yes. Well, you know, that's a big part of our life.
It's teaching our children.
Yes.
And it's a high school level now, so what were you studying?
I was working on the forensics worksheets.
Ah, forensics.
So you're in the forensics class now.
My favorite program, one of my very favorite programs.
They're senior high school science.
Nice.
That's a good choice.
So who chose that curriculum?
I did.
Nice.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
Well, they were interested in it too.
Yeah, it was.
And they kind of watched us watch the CSX shows.
Yeah, and bones.
Yeah, and all those.
All those.
Yeah.
So that's what we've been doing.
All right.
Well, I think it's about, oh, yes.
You mentioned digging deeper.
So we've got to tell people that all of those rumble videos are
rumbled videos.
And I say rumble videos because there are videos, are episodes,
documentaries, music videos that we had on several different channels on rumble
are now moved into our own server network right there on digging deeper TV.com.
That's digging deeper TV.com.
Go there to the on demand section.
You're in for a treat now.
Yes, search for faith matters and you can find all of our faith.
Mm hmm.
The podcast.
And then we can also see all the other truths, all the true man's matrixes,
healthy living segments, the lives.
They're all in there as well as other documentaries like watch the water and
backs, pandemic, other absolute proof.
Yeah.
Lots of different band and sensor videos.
Right.
Go to the new website there at digging deeper TV.com.
So that's what I was working on most of the day.
And kids, the whole family, everybody pitched in getting that database
transfer.
Check it out, please.
Digging deeper TV.
So I think it's about time for our devotional, right?
It sure is.
It's called the bridge.
The bridge.
We're doing this again today, just like yesterday.
This is day two with Xavier Cornnejo.
And this is today's topic is actually move your feet.
Ah, very good.
So we're talking about taking that step forward.
Is that what we did?
We touched on that yesterday?
That's kind of what we ended with yesterday.
Yeah.
Taking that step forward, like Tom said in one of his songs, it's like so many
people just are running in place.
They're not moving forward.
Yep.
That's forward.
Let's take a look at what we have here.
The gates of Jericho were tightly shut because the people were afraid of the
Israelites.
No one was allowed to go in or out.
But the Lord said to Joshua, I have given you Jericho, its king, and all its
strong warriors.
You and your fighting men should march around the town once a day for seven
days, for six days.
Seven priests will walk ahead of the ark, each carrying a ram's horn.
On the seventh day, you are to march around the ten town seven times with
the priest blowing the horns.
When you hear the priest give one long blast on the ram's horns, all have
all the people shout as loud as they can.
Then the walls of the town will collapse and the people can charge
straight into the town.
It's hard to believe.
It's hard to read.
Yeah.
March around, march around, yell about and then boom.
Yeah.
Right.
So, and then keep going.
So, Joshua called together the priest and said, take up the ark of the
Lord's Covenant and assigned seven priests to walk in front of each
carrying a ram's horn.
Then he gave the orders to the people.
March around the town and the armed men will lead the way in front of the
ark of the Lord.
After Joshua spoke to the people, the seven priests with the ram's horns
started marching in the presence of the Lord, blowing the horns as they
marched.
And the ark of the Lord's Covenant followed the high hand.
Some of the armed men marched in front of the priest with the horns
and some behind the ark, with the priest continually blowing the horns.
Do not shout.
Do not even talk.
Joshua commanded not a single word from any of you until I tell you to
shout.
Then shout.
So, the ark of the Lord was carried around the town once a day and then
everyone returned to spend the night in the camp.
Joshua got up early in the next morning and the priest again carried
the ark of the Lord.
The seven priests with the ram's horns marched in front of the ark of the
Lord, blowing their horns.
Again, the armed men marched in front of the priest with the horns
and behind the ark of the Lord.
All this time the priests were blowing their horns.
On the second day they again marched around the town once and returned to
the camp.
They followed this pattern for six days.
On the seventh day, the Israelites got up, at dawn, and marched around
the town as they had done before.
But this time they went around the town seven times.
The seventh time around as the priests shouted the long glass on their
horns, Joshua commanded the people, shout, where the Lord is giving you
the town.
Jericho and everything in it must be completely destroyed as an
offering to the Lord.
Only Ray had the prostitute and the others in her house will be
spared, for she protected our spies.
Do not take any of the things set apart for destruction or yourselves
will be completely destroyed, and you will bring your trouble onto the
camp of Israel.
Everything made in silver, gold, bronze, or iron is sacred to the
Lord and must be brought into his treasury.
When the people heard the sound of the ram's horn, they shouted as
loud as they could, and the walls, Jericho, collapsed.
The Israelites charged straight into town and captured it.
They completely destroyed everything with their swords.
Men, women, young and old, cattle, sheep, goats, and dog keeps.
Meanwhile, Joshua said to the two spies, keep her promise, go to
the prostitute's house and bring her out, along with her family.
The men who had been spies went in and brought Ray had out.
Her father, mother, brothers, and all her relatives who were
with her.
They moved her whole family to a safe place near the camp of Israel.
Then the Israelites burned the town and everything in it.
Only the things made from silver, gold, bronze, or iron were kept
for the treasury of the Lord's house.
So Joshua spared Ray have the prostitute and her relatives who
were with her in the house.
Because she had hidden the spies, Joshua sent to Jericho's, and
she lived among the Israelites to this day.
Joshua, 6, 1, 3, 25.
I was wondering if you were just going to read the whole story?
It was pretty close.
That was a story or the actual scripture.
So that's actually was the...
It was from the new living testament.
So it does sound a little more story-like.
So that's why I chose that version.
Joshua, 6, 1, 3, 25.
There are people who can point us in the direction of the bridge,
but we are the ones who need to move our feet.
So the title, the bridge.
We need to have people in our life that can do that.
You need to have people you can ask for advice when you don't
know how to advance or how to embrace the strategy to expand.
We all meet someone we can ask for directions.
Someone who can teach us how to win.
In Joshua's story, it's God who gives him the winning strategy.
Mm-hmm.
And it says, in James 3 17,
But the wisdom from above is first of all pure.
It is also peace loving, gentle at all times,
and willing to yield to others.
It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds.
It shows no favoritism and is always sincere, James 3 17.
No matter what your walk in life is or what your beliefs are,
if your dreams are important and you don't know which way to go,
you can always speak to God.
Take a few minutes and ask him for wisdom for the road ahead,
so you can reach your dreams someday.
In James 1 5, it says,
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God who gives generously
to all finding fault.
Without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
Those words are comforting.
The strategy that led Joshua to triumph was a very unusual one.
Attack a city protected by walls.
Ooh.
Sunzoo, one of the greatest strategists who ever lived, says the following.
Maintaining an army is expensive.
A host of 100,000 men can cost 1,000 ounces of silver a day
for provisions like food, chariots, spears, arrows, armor, and oxen.
Prolonged warfare can exhaust the resources of any state,
leaving it weak and vulnerable.
Hence, aim for a quick and decisive victory.
Not prolonged campaigns.
Avoid besieging walled cities because they usually take months of preparations
and many impatient generals will squander than the unemployment attacks.
Do you think maybe our leaders of this day just don't read that anymore?
Yeah, they don't get anything anymore.
Most of them keep.
However, Joshua didn't take months of preparation.
It only took him seven days to conquer that city
because when God is in the equation, there is no goal you cannot reach,
no dream you cannot fulfill, no ocean you cannot navigate,
no mountain you cannot climb, and no battle you cannot win.
When the wisdom of God is present, everything is different
and nothing is impossible.
To win, you need all the wisdom you can accumulate.
Give yourself a chance to win.
Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding.
For wisdom is more profitable than silver, and her wages are better than gold.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies, nothing you desire can compare with her.
She offers you long life in her right hand, in riches and honor in her left.
She will guide you down the rightful paths, all her ways are satisfying.
Wisdom is a tree of life to those who embrace her.
Happy are those who hold her tightly. Proverbs 3, 13 through 18.
Wisdom is all about wisdom.
Let's pray.
Dear Lord, thank you for the wisdom of Joshua and the patience
and the understanding of how to follow directions to a tea.
Lord, give us that patience and wisdom to follow your directions
as specifically and honorably as Joshua did.
And with the Manders as they took care of the covenant.
Lord, we love you and we thank you for this lesson today.
Jesus name me, amen.
Wow, okay, so we're talking about this day in history now, January 9th,
and today is 2024, but there are some other things going on.
We go all the way back to 1768 and we have the first modern circus opening in London.
You know, the name Philip asked me, probably, considered the father of the modern circus
pioneered the idea of performing a questry instance in a circus ring rather than in a straight line.
Circus had the dual advantage of allowing the audience to keep the writer in sight
and allowing the writer to take advantage of the centrifugal force to maintain their balance
while performing tricks on horseback.
Now, Ashley was also the first to have acrobats, jugglers and clowns
entertaining the crowd during breaks between trick-writing acts.
Brilliant guy.
Circus was so successful that he toured Ireland and France
and was mentioned a number of famous works of fiction,
including Jane Austen's novel Emma and Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boss.
Interesting.
Oh, 1793 was the first hot air balloon flight in the United States.
Oh, cool.
Yeah, you know, speaking of hot air balloons, the Nationals are held in Scott's Bluff, Nebraska.
Yeah, yes.
Did you turn our music off? Did it just end?
No.
Oh, okay. We can just play a little, little low music there for us.
All right.
And what else happened?
What happened on January 9th?
Let's see.
Well, you know, Apple launched iTunes, revolutionizing how people consume music that was in 2001.
And then in 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, the actual iPhone.
So iTunes, because there was the iPod and all the high quality music.
All right.
Some other things.
Before that, oh, yeah, the Lakers streak in 72.
That's okay.
And I talked about the first modern circus already, you know.
And then Columbus sees mermaids. What's this?
In 1493, Columbus mistake.
They manatees for mermaids. He thought he saw mermaids.
Okay.
Also, Richard Nixon was born on this day in history in 1913.
And farther back than that, in 1887, record snow and cold decimates cattle herds.
And then they go back in the 19th century, 1887.
Selvester Stallone starts filming Rocky in 1976.
Oh, yeah. He starts filming Rocky.
And then you know what happened after that.
A series of movies. One after the other after the other.
He all went to most of them, I'm thinking.
But there was also the Hillside Stranglers.
In 1984, one of them was finally sentenced to life in prison.
Wow.
Now, in 1952, President Truman warns of the Cold War.
Which did end up happening?
Yep.
But there's a lot of things that happened on this day in history.
But what is today's national days?
Well, today is national law enforcement appreciation day.
That is the most important welcome on the list right there.
Yeah.
Tuesday, January 9th, 2024, national law enforcement appreciation day.
Looks like they're also celebrating the first balloon launch because it's also national
moon ascension day.
Very good.
Very good.
Good.
And do you like to write poems?
You know what I mean?
A lot of lyricists and music musicians write poems because those are lyrics to songs.
But if you like to write poetry, today is poetry at work day.
Oh, you can just be a good reciter.
Anything, yeah.
Just have some fun, write something down.
Yes.
Or you could just share silly poem with your friends.
It's also national word nerd day.
Word nerd, I think I was saying something to you earlier, but let's not go there.
How about national static electricity day?
Ooh, that blanket I had on earlier.
Oh, it sure was really fun.
And we always have to have a food.
Let's have a coffee, huh?
Well, it's definitely national apricot day.
I mean, that sounds alright.
Okay, that's a nice fruit.
Apricots are you pretty fresh?
Yep.
And some sort of casserole made here too, right?
Cassoulai?
Yeah.
It's a casserole.
It looks like a casserole, I don't know.
Alright, we're going to just say that's what it is today on January 9th, 2024.
We hope that we were able to elevate your day.
Thanks again for listening.
I'm Brian.
And I'm Andi.
May God bless.

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