Baseball and the Bible
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Baseball and the Bible
Down but not out
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In this powerful exploration of perseverance and faith, we journey through one of baseball's most improbable comebacks to discover profound spiritual truths about never giving up. The 2004 Boston Red Sox faced elimination, down three games to none against their rivals, when a single stolen base ignited a historic rally that would break an 86-year championship drought. This moment becomes our window into understanding 2 Chronicles 15:7, which reminds us that when we remain strong and refuse to give up, our work will be rewarded. The devotion challenges us to examine areas where we're putting in effort but not seeing results, whether in athletics, relationships, or spiritual growth. Just as the Red Sox won their championship pitch by pitch rather than in one dramatic swing, our breakthroughs rarely come in single moments. The key insight here is that God never promises quick wins, but He does promise that our perseverance matters. When we stay connected to Him during the grind, seeking His strength when results don't match expectations, we position ourselves for the breakthrough that may be just around the corner. This message calls us to double down spiritually during tough times, trusting that no effort goes unnoticed in God's economy.
Welcome back to another episode of Baseball in the Bible. I am Riker Dodson here with my father, Ryan Dodson, and we're back for another episode. Glad to be here. What about you?
SPEAKER_02Glad to be here. We're here. How are things?
SPEAKER_00Things are going good. Things are going good. Just got out of school.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_00Wrapped that up.
SPEAKER_02That was summer break is here.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Out of elementary school.
SPEAKER_00In the middle school.
SPEAKER_02In the middle school.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_02So summer is here, which means a lot of downtime and a lot of baseball time and good time of year. So let's get into it. Let's get into it. What do you want to start with? I will just say this too. We're coming off. This is the first time we've been back since we released the couple Parker Bird episodes. So just if you got a chance to watch those, uh I'm sure that they were impactful for you. But if you know, if you haven't, go back and check them out and then just share them because I think his testimony is just uh incredible. Incredible and inspiring for people to hear. So I'm thankful to him again one last time for making the time to join us for two episodes. And so um, but since we were with him, uh some things have changed a little bit, you know, in current events and baseball-wise. So we're just going to try to get up to date on standings and players of the week and all that kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_01All right.
SPEAKER_02All right. Let's do it. So uh we'll just work our way around the league, see who's who's doing good. I'll start in the American League. Actually, we'll start in the National League. Um, and we'll start right there in the Central. Um, as of right now, things could change today. Hopefully by the end of the end of tonight, the Cardinals will be in first place, is what I'm hoping for. But right now, uh the Brewers are a half a game up on the Cards and the Cubs in the Central. Still the only division in baseball where everybody's at least 500. Um Cubs, then the Reds and the Pirates, everybody all within five games right there. So still really good division. Cards are playing the Pirates uh currently this week. Yeah. Um and so good division race there in the East. The Braves are still rolling. Uh, I think they're with the Rays as far as the best record in baseball. Uh, eight and a half up over Philly, but Philly has rebounded since we started the season early. Yeah. They made the the manager change, went to Don Mattingley. Not that it was Rob Thompson's fault, but sometimes that's just a good kick in the butt for the team to rally, especially a team with a bunch of talent like they have. And so they're back to 500 now, 25 and 25. Okay. Uh so still eight and a half out, but heading more in the direction that was predicted and expected.
SPEAKER_00Um, which means dad's World Series picks are technically alive.
SPEAKER_02Still alive. Still alive. Washington, Miami, and the Mets, who are still in last place, but even the Mets have started to turn things around a little bit, playing a little bit better with a lot of talent, so we'll see what happens there. Uh in the West, got a nice race there between the Dodgers and the Padres. Dodgers are currently a half a game up. They're playing in the series right now. So uh we'll see how that series unfolds. Diamondbacks a little bit above 500, playing good. Giants and the Rockies. Um, in the American League, you have uh Tampa Bay Rays. Again, that's what they're 33 and 15. The Braves are 33 and 16 as of right now today. Uh so they're right there with the best record in baseball. Uh their three and a half games up on the Yankees. Uh you had the Blue Jays, the Red Sox, and the Orioles. My three playoff teams from the American League East bringing up the rear. Um it's it's yeah, I mean, there's been some signs of progress for all of them, and then they take like two steps forward, one step back. So we'll see what happens there. In the Central, the Guardians are playing well, 28-22, first place. And then the White Sox, who nobody saw this coming, but they're a game over 500, right there in the race, two and a half games back, uh, playing really well. Yeah. Um, and so we'll see if that can continue. You got the twins, then the kind of the favorites, the Tigers and the Royals, both there, uh, still bringing up the rear. And then in the West, the A's uh at 500, 24 and 24 are in first place, a half a game up on the Rangers, uh, and a game and a half up on the Mariners. So that division is still very much up for grabs. Uh the Astros and the Angels are technically not too far off, but they're both, I mean, having pretty rough years. So um looks like you know, Mariners A's, Rangers, so you can come out of that. Um, but that's it right now. That's your little look updated standings as of today when we're recording this, and um as will always happen when we record these midweek, by the time it airs on Sunday, things might be drastically different from a sweep or something that we didn't didn't foresee coming. Yeah, so we'll see. But uh McCardinals pleasantly surprising. And the more this goes on, the more I'm starting to believe we have shot they're gonna they're gonna actually be in this and hang around. This you know, these youngsters are having some fun and playing good ball. And uh want to address a little phenomenon if you haven't heard about the tarps off crew, it's starting to sweep sweep uh baseball. Um, and so Google it if you haven't heard about it. But it started you know a week or so ago, last week when we're recording this, but it was uh um just uh it was actually a group from Stephen F. Austin, the college here in Texas was there for a tournament, and they started just at a game in in right field. They all took off their shirts and they're spinning them around, and uh it kind of caught momentum, and people from around the stadium started coming and joining, and before you knew it, they had a whole section of guys off, young and old out there with shirts off, swinging their shirts around, uh doing some fun chants. It felt like uh kind of like a world baseball classic game when we talked about with like the DRs of just that just that yeah, it was fun, fun watching it, and it really kind of lit a fire playing the Royals at the time. It kind of lit a fire under them. They had a nice comeback that Friday night. Uh they got invited into the clubhouse. Yeah, yeah, they got luxury. Uh Ali Marmal, the manager, bought tickets for that whole section so anybody could come and sit in that section over that weekend. Uh, and and now the cards have kind of dedicated that that whole section to tarps off. So if you want to come, that's that's gonna be known as like the rowdy section where you're gonna come. And no matter where your tickets are, you can come join that section and go crazy. So when we go to a game this year, we might have to go tarps off and go up there. Go join. But it's but it is it is catching on. Like I saw even at Tampa, there was happening, so you're starting to see other pockets of uh base, which is awesome. I hope it does take off. I hope other other stadiums pick up on it because it's just that whole WBC um you know Caribbean baseball style where it's just fun and energetic. I love it, and I think it would be good because the the cool thing about when you're watching those uh highlights and you're just looking at it, most I mean, obviously the Stephen F. Austin players are all college-age kids, but you look in there, it's it's all yeah, young guys. And for for baseball, that's great, it's important that that they can somehow reach you know your audience, and and something like that could help do it, you know. It's not the guirling their shit. It's not the end all be all. Yeah, I mean it's that eventually that's gonna kind of die off, but um but things like that can help to generate some some much needed buzz uh for the sport, especially in your your demographic. So a little shout out to the tarps off guys, and um look forward to joining them and later this summer when we come up there for a game. So that's one thing that's happened. Uh the other update for uh oh, just got an ups update. Uh Spencer Horwitz just hit a home run. So Pirates are leading the Cardinals 1-0 in the top of the second inning.
SPEAKER_00Sorry, we're watching, we're again doing this on Wednesday. So he's essentially catching me up with the game. Yes.
SPEAKER_02Mid-podcast. Um, players of the week for last week uh in the American League was Angel Martinez and in the National League, Gavin Sheets. So the 24-year-old Martinez went seven for 19 at the plate with four home runs. He plays for the Guardians, by the way, and seven RBIs, including a go-ahead two-run shot Saturday against the Reds to help Cleveland go five and one on the week. A switch hitter riding a six-game hit streak. Martinez is now up to an uh 822 OPS with nine homers and his second extended stint in the majors. Martinez posted just 11 long balls in 139 games in 2025. He's already the third guardian to be named AL Player of the Week this year, joining Chase Delauder uh earlier in March, and then Jose Ramirez week of April 18th, uh, which is pretty that's pretty awesome. Uh for the National League again, it was Sheets. Uh Sheets made late game history last week, becoming the first player in MLB history to hit three go-ahead, three-run, ninth inning home runs in a single season. Wow. And he did so before May's halfway point. He propelled San Diego to an improbable win over the Brewers on Wednesday when he took Milwaukee closer Abner Yuribe deep with two outs in the ninth. Sheets then followed that with a three-run homer against weekend against the Mariners, including a pair of dingers on Sunday. In total, the 30-year-old went 10 for 16 last week with four homers and eight RBIs. Pretty great week. He raised the season batting average 262 by 53 points and his OPS 896 by whopping 206 points. Sheets is the first Padre to be named NL Player of the Week since Tatis Jr. in April 2025. And we don't have the the highlight here, but Julio Rodriguez uh made a his was the play of the week. Um you'll have to go look that up, but he made another uh home run robbing catch against the Padres. Um and so pretty awesome catch. His no-fly zone for Julio Rodriguez continues to be a thing out there in center field in Seattle. Uh so go check that out. So those are your players and play of the week. Again, the hottest teams in baseball right now, the best teams in baseball appear to be at this moment, Braves, Rays, kind of clicking, uh doing it differently, but both successfully right now. Um so approaching the end of May, usually you know, Memorial Day or maybe even flag day, middle of June. That's you by then you kind of know what you are. Um, and so that's when teams start deciding are we gonna be buyers, are we gonna be sellers at the trade deadline in July? So it's crazy that we're already talking that, but you're you're approaching that time of year. So the next couple next couple weeks are crucial for teams like the Red Sox, uh, Blue Jays, Phillies, teams that you know, the Mets, teams with high expectations. If things aren't turned around by then, then you might see some of these this high-end talent being traded off preparing for the future. So that's our little trip around the league. All right. Um want to get into our devotion?
SPEAKER_00All right.
SPEAKER_02We'll set the stage before you read it.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so can I set the stage? Yeah, you can set the stage. So um when I was deciding our stadium for this week, um, I'll go ahead and spoil it. It's uh Fenway. So my dad took that a step further, and we're doing a Red Sox devotional. And on top of that, we just said, screw it, put Red Sox jerseys all on the wall as well. Correct. So it's a Red Sox episode. Sorry, Yankees, we do have a baby.
SPEAKER_02Well, you have Babe Ruth here. Babe Ruth, but we're it's not a Red Sox episode, we're not going that crazy, but it's Red Sox themed for sure. Um, and we're gonna there's a devotion in our book here about the 2004 Red Sox Rikers gonna read a little bit about that. But we have some key players here from that team Johnny Damon, number 18, Pedro Martinez, number 45, um Babe Ruth just kind of writing the ship here, and then over here in the corner, Dustin Pedroya, number 15. Um and so got some some key key figures on this great 2014. We're gonna read that devotion uh and dive into that a little bit, all right? So read it to us, Rekord.
SPEAKER_00All right, down but not out. The verse is 2 Chronicles 15, 7. But as but as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded. In 2004, the Boston Red Sox were one game away from elimination in the American League Championship Series. ALCS. They had lost the first three games of the series to the New York Yankees. No MLB team had ever come back from a 0-2-3 deficit in the best of seven playoff series. Then, in the ninth inning of Game 4, Boston made a move no one would forget. With a runner-on first in their season slipping away, Boston sent in Dave Roberts to pinch run. He was fast. And everyone in the stadium knew he had been sent to steal. Roberts took his lead, broke for second base, and slid in just ahead of the tag. Safe. That's only base, supercharged, a historic rally no one saw coming. Boston tied the game, then won a thriller and extra innings with a walk-off homer from their go-to slugger, David Ortiz. Just like that, their season was still alive. From there, the Red Sox didn't lose again. They won three three more straight to finish off the Yankees and swept the Cardinals and then swept the Cardinals team loaded with the Hall of Fame talent in the load of in the World Series. Oh my gosh, I'm sorry. After 86 years without a championship, Boston finally broke the curse. It's still considered to be the greatest postseason comeback in baseball history. And it didn't happen in one swing. It happened pitch by pitch as the Red Sox refused to stop fighting. You might be in your and you might be in a fight of your own. You're logging extra time in the cage, but your swing isn't improving. Or maybe the struggle runs deeper. It could be some family tension or pressure from school. Sometimes it feels like you're doing everything right, but the breakthrough has still hasn't come. It can make you wonder if your effort even matters. That's when we need to remember, 2 Chronicles 15 and 7. God never promises us quick wins, but he does promise that our perseverance will be rewarded. Keep walking with God and trust that he sees your effort. Even when the results don't match your expectations, breakthroughs rarely come in a single moment. And then, so that's the actual devotion. At the end of each of these, there's a dugout reflection. Usually we don't read them, but I liked this week's, so I'm gonna read it. What's something that you've been working hard on that you haven't seen results from yet? Keep pushing toward your goal and stay connected with God while you do. When it gets tough, seek his strength and guidance and double down spiritually.
SPEAKER_02So why did you want to read that?
SPEAKER_00Uh just because there's you know, it's just kind of a reminder that no matter how much you think you're done, no matter how much you think that no matter how much you do, it's just worth nothing. When you seek God you are reminded that he never let your effort go to waste. So it's just a reminder that A to seek God, even when you are putting in work, to seek God in everything you do. And uh B just uh just to remind you that like no matter how no matter the little results you haven't seen yet, just keep putting in the work something will eventually you're not gonna get worse from putting in work. So keep putting in work.
SPEAKER_02There you go.
SPEAKER_00That's our devotion for the week.
SPEAKER_02Alright. We're gonna highlight one of the key players you mentioned there in that in that World Series, and again, um it was an improbable World Series, uh A, because uh I mean the Yankees that was in the middle of their middle, it was toward the end of their their dynasty, where they had won uh in '96, '98, '99, 2000. Um, they were in it in 2001, and in 03, just a just a great run there. And they were, I mean, those first three games were just kind of like it wasn't even close. It looked like this was uh definitely gonna be a sweep. The Cardinals were uh in the National League. I'm watching it, paying attention to who the Cardinals are gonna play, because the Cardinals got there, and that was the first time that they had been there since you know '87. So it was awesome. I was so excited the Cards were in there in 2004, thinking you're gonna play the Yankees. Um, and then that play happened, and I will say too, I'll say this to the end of time. I do think the Cardinals had a better team. Although they, you know, they they had this guy, which was a you know Pedro Martinez, which is you know one of the best pitchers of all time. But I still think the Cards had a better team. But once the Red Sox came back, I don't it didn't matter who you rolled out there in the World Series, what team you rolled out there, nobody was beating them. Once I mean the momentum from coming back from there was so real that it didn't matter, you could have rolled the the great Yankees teams of all time out there, and and nope, they weren't gonna lose because the Red Sox were that you know on fire at that point. So um it was an unbelievable moment. Again, you in that deal, they brought in Dave Roberts. So I was gonna read a little bit about his season because even then he wasn't in his career, we're gonna learn about a little bit about him, his playing career. Um, but he was only in Boston. He came during the trade deadline of that year. We just mentioned the trade deadline, so he was picked up from the Dodgers uh on July 31st of that year. Uh played in 45 games, batted 256 with seven stolen bases. He wasn't even on the roster for the World Series after they won that series and they played the cards. He wasn't even on the roster for that, but he was there for that moment. Kevin Millar gets the walk. They bring in Dave or Rivera's on the mound. Mo was pitching. So they bring in Dave Roberts, and like the book said, everybody knew the reason he was in was to steal the base, you know, and get to second so that a hit could tie the game. Uh and he did. And again, the rest they say is history, but uh it was one of those, you know, people call it the steal of the the century, you know, be just because it got him on such a rally. Got him on such a rally that they ended up winning the World Series, and again, that did break the curse of the Bambino because that was they had been 86 years since Babe Ruth had been uh sold, traded to the Yankees. Um and they had never had won hadn't won the World Series since then. Uh and eighty six years later it happened. And so that still, if that you know, obviously if he's thrown out, um it's a whole different story. So And the Cardinals probably win the 2004 World Series. But they didn't they did it. And so a little bit about Dave Roberts. I think if you're a current baseball fan, then you know Dave Roberts, the manager, uh, as he's the manager now of the Dodgers, but he was a player, and that was in for all of you know his baseball career, that's what he's from a player's standpoint. That moment stealing that base is what he's most known for. Um born May 31st, 1972. Nickname is Doc David Ray Roberts. Um played for five MLB teams over a 10-year career and then coached for the Padres before being named the Dodgers manager in 2016. Um he batted left through left, made his MLB debut August 7th, 1999 for the Cleveland Indians, and his last appearance was September 27th, 2008 for the San Francisco Giants. Career batting average of 266, 23 career home runs, 213 career runs batted in, 243 stolen bases. Um he has a managerial record with his time with the Dodgers of 966 and 589, a 0.621 winning percentage. Uh played for the Indians again from 99 to 2001, the Dodgers 2002 to 2004 for half of that four season because in the middle he was traded to the Red Sox in 2004. Then he played for the Padres 05 and 06, Giants 07 and 08, manager for the Padres in 2015, Dodgers 2016 to current. He's a four-time World Series champion, three of which as a manager for the Dodgers, 2020, 24, 25, and then a one, you know, one the one title as a player in 2004 with the Red Sox. Uh NL manager of the year in 2016. So uh he'll be in the Hall of Fame probably at this record as he keeps going as a manager. Yeah. Um but again, one of those things that you know, a lot of times, you not always, but they're most of the time your great managers were guys that weren't superstars in the league. You know, they may have played, they were good enough to get there, they understand the grind, they understand everything it takes to be a big leader. But you know, most of your great again, Joe Tory was a great player, great manager, but very often most of the time it's guys like Dave Roberts who have you know 10 years in the in Major League Baseball is awesome. Awesome. You're obviously, you know, but it but he wasn't a Hall of Famer as a player, uh, but he's turned into a great manager learning how to handle all of the expectations and all of the talent. While they do, while they are loaded, there's teams in all kinds of sports that you can see where um not everybody can manage the talent well, and he's obviously done a great job at that. So true, true, but anyway, we're not talking about the Dodgers, we're talking about the 2004 Boston Red Sox and the steal of the century, and one of those crazy historic moments. Well, comebacks, most historic comeback of all time, but that moment, you know, bringing them in to steal that base. And even then, you know, Ortiz hits the home run and it's exciting, but you're still like, I mean, it's three to one. No way they're gonna win four in a row. Uh, and they did, and then again, Johnny Damon played a big part in that, and so did Pedro Martinez. So came back and won it, and they were unstoppable.
SPEAKER_00After.
SPEAKER_02After, yeah. They were I mean, it was they were unstoppable in that World Series. And uh again, of the Cardinals run in those 2000s, that may have been the most talented team they had, and it still it didn't matter. They won other World Series, but that one they didn't because of the the momentum from that from that series and that stolen base. So um those games that we've talked about, some of those games, that that moment, uh that game four moment with him still in the base happened at one of the most, if not the most, historic stadium in Major League Baseball. And that happened in Fenway Park. And so Riker's gonna read a little bit about the great Fenway.
SPEAKER_00It's me this time.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Usually it's dad, but it's me. All right. Uh Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. It made its MLB season debut in 1912. The first Red Sox home run was hit by Hugh Bradley. The capacity is thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty-five. The surface is grass, and the roof type is open. And no place on earth is the purity of the game and the fans' honest experience of it as powerful as in Boston's Fenway Park. Dating back over well, a hundred years. The Legendary Park has hosted the 1912 World Series, Babe Ruth's first big league game, and the immortal feats of Ted Williams. Boston's deep Boston's deeply knowledgeable fans, between bites of a Fenway frank, will tell you about the team's legacy, the famed Green Monster, which Carlton Fisk which Carlton Fisk slayed in the 1975 World Series, stands like a national monument in left field. Fenway Park is located in Bla in Back Bay, which is among Boston's most hallowed academic and artistic neighborhoods. Inside of the park's slightly is is inside of the park's stately brick interior facade. There's green, real green, baseball green, monster green. After two significant fires, Fenway underwent a major reconstruction in 1934 that saw it become close to what fans visit today. Up, up and up went a massive 37-foot wall, which is intentionally constructed of tin and supported by railroad tires. Its distance from home plate has always been questioned, and various measurements have never agreed. More apparent were the unpredictable bounces that confounded many left fielders. As balls ricocheted off the walls, colorful ads that promoted gem razor blades and life buoy soap. The Green Row monster remains an the unpredictable signature trademark of Fenway and perhaps all baseball. Until 2002, the 23-foot-high net flapped above Fenway's monumental wall. However, in a landmark move beginning in April 12th, 2003, the space above the Green Monster was converted to accommodate the 269 bar stool seats and more than a hundred standing room spots. The new seating section was a smash hit and continues to be one of the most coveted fan locales in all of sports. An oddity for sure, Pesky's pole can be found in Fenway's right field corner, named for the Red Sox shortstop Johnny Pesky. The foul pole stands at a very batter-friendly distance from home plate, a mere 302 feet. Over the years, fans and players alike have inscribed messages on the pole that remain to this day. Fenway, so named because of its location in a Boston marsh called the Fens, opened on April 20th, 1912. It was yet another you it was yet another jewel in baseball's classic football park era. And that day, the Sox defeated the New York Highlanders in 11 innings, seven to six. The park originally featured a deeply, a deeply set single-deck grandstand and bleachers that accommodated twenty-seven thousand patrons. Representation. Sorry for my reading. Despite that despite the fact that the Sox won yet another title in 1918, attendance at Fenway slumped. And owner Harry Frazi responded by holding a sale of his best talent. Most shockingly, Ruth, sending his franchise into a decades-long tailspin that's often called the curse of the bambino. Frustrated friend frustrated fans avoided Fenway through the 1920s, and serious talks about the Red Sox vacating the ballpark to become tenants of the National League neighbors much larger Bravesfield were held. Despite Yahoo's best efforts, the Red Sox could not shake the curse of the Bambino. Through the three pennant-winning teams, 1946, 1967, and 1975, played but lost in the World Series while Yaquie was alive. It was not until 2004 that the Red Sox were able to exercise some demons by staging their near impossible comeback, winning four straight games after being down three games to none in the rival Yankees to the rival Yankees to win the ALCS. They went on to finish the deal by sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series. The Red Sox have since won the World Series in 2007, 2013, and 2018. And then that's it. So you made it through.
SPEAKER_02Job well done. There you go. It's one of those parks. It is one of the most historic ones, obviously, Wrigley Yankee Stadium. But even that, I mean, the new Yankee Stadium, while it has some of the same kind of features as the old one, it's still not as historic. And you know, Finway is just when you go there, you just feel like you're going, you're just taking a step back in time, which is just a it's a great feeling. Um and so we did have the me and your mom went there uh actually the year you were born, uh you were your mom was pregnant with you when we went to Finway. So you were in your mom's belly when we went there, but uh um yeah, but uh we did watch a game there, took the tour there, got to go up on the Green Monster where all those seats are that they were talking about. And uh it's just a it's an awesome place. It's one of if you're a baseball fan and you want to see stadiums, that's a bucket list, must-see type stadium. So at some point I need to get you get you out there to see it. So just the whole atmosphere that they talk about, just that that I mean that's just how baseball should be. When you're down there, it's just you you feel like you're in, you know, for baseball, you know, in the baseball world, it's kind of sacred ground, you feel like, you know. So um, so it's just a cool, cool place, uh, great stadium, a lot of history there. I wish some of the you know, again, you mentioned they won in 2004, they won 2007. That was against the Rockies. 2013 was again against the Cardinals, so they got two on us. Um, and then uh 2018 was against the Dodgers, but um yeah, Chris uh great great stadium, great story. The story of the Red Sox 2004, you're never out, basically. Keep fighting, as you said earlier, even if you're not seeing results. So anything else? No, no, okay.
SPEAKER_00I think that wraps up this episode.
SPEAKER_02All right. Well, pray for us.
SPEAKER_00All right. Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you for another podcast, Lord. Uh I just pray that anybody watching this that feels like their effort is going to nothing, Lord, I just pray that you would remind them that you are always with them, Lord. And I pray that you would just remind anybody that no effort goes uh unnoticed, Lord. Uh I just pray that if no one if someone in the audience uh just has not fully uh committed their lives to you, Lord, I just pray that they would do that today. Uh in Jesus' name, amen.
SPEAKER_02Amen. All right. Thank you guys. We'll see you on the next one.