Scripture And Daily SKO Invite

Chris Grainger 1:05

Welcome to the Land Within Us, a podcast serving Christian men who are hungry to be the leaders God intends you to be. I'm your host, Chris Granger. Let's jump in. All right, guys. Meet episode time. Let's get into it. Okay. All right. Scripture week this week is Ecclesiastes chapter 3, verse 11. We talked about this one in the spiritual kickoff podcast, but hey, we're going to work over this verse one more time. It says he has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart without the possibility that mankind will find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end. And so I took some time, unpacked that verse for you in the spiritual kickoff podcast. Hopefully, gave you some things that you'll be encouraged by along the way. Okay. And again, we do the spiritual kickoff Monday through Friday at the Lion Within Us. It's called the Daily SKO. So SKO, get it spiritual kickoff. So look, it's all free for you, fellas. The LionWithin.us. Go sign up for the daily SKO. You can watch the morning. Every morning when I go live, I share God's word. I teach from it. Guys get a lot of encouragement from it. Sometimes I get fired up. Sometimes I'm a little bit too fired up. Uh, but that's okay. We're just you're trying to uh to walk with guys. And then if you can't make it live, don't worry about it. We put the videos there, we don't post them anywhere else. That's a great place where you can just check that and hopefully be encouraged by it. And then also we have a prayer request space where we would love to pray for you. Let us know how we can pray for you. And every Monday we have a prayer meeting. So we invite you into that prayer meeting. It's open to everybody. And if you're in the continental U.S., we have a free gift. We just want to put it in the mail, send your way, just to be a blessing to you. Okay. So the lionwithin.us, click on the daily spiritual kickoff or daily SKO and jump right in. All right.

Patience Is A Trust Issue

Chris Grainger 2:41

So look, this one, fellas, is gonna be a this is not an easy one for me to write to when I wrote it. It's definitely not an easy one for me to record, but here we go. We won't talk about I'm just a guy without patience. But lots of guys are like, nope. They clicked on to the next podcast. I get it, bro. I get it. Because patience doesn't come naturally, it just doesn't, and particularly for guys, uh, we want progress, we want results, and and and oh yeah, we want it right now. I mean now, yesterday, right? And whether we're waiting on God or family or or or life itself, and patience, man, when it creeps in, it robs us of our peace. And usually when I started thinking about this one, patience isn't a time issue, patience is a trust issue. And because when we lose patience, what we're really telling God is like, look, I don't trust your timing. But in those waiting seasons, what if they're not punishments but preparation? Okay. And this is for every guy out there who is completely tired of waiting and ready to grow. So we're gonna dive into it. We're gonna look at a couple of days of this plan I wrote for the Bible app, and hopefully you'll be encouraged by it. And look, we'll have a little bit of fun along the way. How about that? Okay, so look, we're at the gate, we're gonna look at the control trap.

The Control Trap In Real Life

Chris Grainger 3:52

And in Proverbs 19, verse 21 tells us many are the plans, many are the plans of a person's heart, but it's the Lord's purpose that prevails. Okay, and I can't help but chuckle. Man, I swear. When people ask to pray for patience, I just thought laughing. Because it happens uh all the time. In fact, it happened in my family when we did a devotion in the morning. I laughed at it and I was like, Oh, be careful here. And because we did a lesson, the lesson was on Cain and Abel, and the focus was on how Cain acted rashly in choosing to kill his brother, right? And that led us down a rapid trail that ended up on my family's side, and they want to pray for patience, right? And I couldn't help but grin. And and this caught their attention, and they were and they wanted to know, like, all right, daddy, well, why are you smiling? And I told them, I said, look, fell uh ladies, because it was my girls, my little boys there too. I said, when you ask God for patience, what he's gonna give you is plenty of opportunities to practice it. Okay, I wasn't trying to discourage their prayer, but I couldn't find an argument against their desire either. You know, I just I get it. And if I'm honest, patience is something that I've always felt God, when he was putting all Chris together, he just forgot to add that when he when he when he was making me up. Yeah, I'm just kidding. But like, hey, maybe he gave me two doses of sarcasm and a touch of stubbornness and somehow left out that elusions, uh, the elusive patience gene, right? So maybe that's what happened. I don't know. That's my wife, she'll probably be like, Amen. And I've been avoiding praying for patience for a lot of my life. Uh, and it's not that I dislike patience itself, but uh I knew uh really that the lessons that come with it usually involve situations that are beyond my control. And maybe as I started thinking about this, that's the heart of the problem. It's not so much a patience problem that I feared, but ultimately the loss of control. And and I had a crash course uh in both, you know, fearing and loss and losing control uh last year, in July of last year, matter of fact.

Broken Ankle And Learning Surrender

Chris Grainger 6:01

And what happened, I had an accident that led me to that landed me in the ER with a broken ankle and surgery and plates and screws and recoveries and staph infections and more surgeries and and more, you know, the swelling just would never go down. It just wouldn't on this, on this, on this ankle. And in October of that year, I found myself back in the office. And and the her the surgeon said some words, she may or may not have dropped the F-bomb in the office, but that's just you know, that's just part of it. She's like, look, you gotta go to the hospital right now. We need to do surgery tonight. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute now. Well, are you serious? She's like, Yep, I'm serious. Like, you got a staph infection. She was right, I had an immersive staph infection, and every all the hardware had to come out. And I took two surgeries, it took four days, and then I just had to do what? I had to wait. I had to wait. I had to just wait in that quiet hospital room for chest results and treatment plans and pick lines and all that stuff. And God was showing me something. He was showing me that surrender and control doesn't mean giving up. He didn't want me to give up in that hospital room. He wanted me to trust him. And I had to release control to others. And man, it was hard. This is not easy. But it was in that surrender that I found something pretty that's really surprised me. This peace. This peace. I knew the situation was serious, for sure. But I knew God had orchestrated every detail to place me exactly where I needed to be. And the care to people that He had prepared beforehand. And the longer I walk with Christ, the more I see this truth. The moments that test my patience the most are often the ones that grow my faith the deepest. Please hear that. So I'm not sure, you know, what my daughters will experience as they pray for patients. I don't know. I really hope it doesn't land them in a hospital like it did their old dad. But I do know this whatever opportunities God gives them to grow, if they lean into them fully, into him fully as well, they're gonna come out stronger on the other side. And that's worth getting fired up about. You know, about many are the plans of a person's heart, but the Lord's purpose that's what's gonna prevail. So maybe start thinking today, like, where in your life do you struggle to give up that control? I get it, man. It's not an easy thing to think about, but it's definitely a useful exercise. All right, guys, we'll take our first break and we'll be right back.

Resource Spotlights For Growth

Chris Grainger 8:49

If you're like me, you don't need another book just sitting around collecting dust. What I enjoy is something to help guide me when my feet hit the ground in the mornings. And that is why we put together Unleashing the Lion Within. It has honest stories, scripture you can apply, and simple steps to help you lead at home, at work, and everywhere in between. So if you've been feeling stuck or scattered lately, you may find this resource encouraging. Read a few pages. Take one step and watch what God does with your obedience. Hey, and if reading's tough for you right now, no problem. The book is also available in audible version. So you can listen on the go. So if this sounds interesting, check out the lionwithin.us slash book or search for unleashing the lion within directly on Amazon. So there's no pressure here, just a resource that many guys are finding helpful. So grab the format that fits and take your next step. Okay, fellas, let's let's keep

The Weight Of Waiting Seasons

Chris Grainger 9:56

going. Now, I'm just a guy without patience. Now let's talk about the weight of the waiting, okay? Psalm 27, verse 14 says, wait for the Lord. Be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. So you get that twice. You get to hear that that command twice. And sometimes the hardest part of patience is what? It's just the waiting, man. It's just waiting. And and most of us as guys, we can probably recognize this to be true. And one of the worst feelings in the world is watching everyone and everything around us move forward while you feel stuck. And I get it. And as my first marriage failed, I entered a season of life that weighed heavy on me with every passing day. It just did. I still have my responsibilities as a father for sure. I had two little toddlers running around 24-7, and there was plenty of activity for sure. But my mind would drift. It would. And it would drift quite often to that painful thought that, man, you're gonna be alone forever. And I remember that season of life. I don't like to dwell on it, but I remember it. And how those first weekends when my daughter would visit their mother, and they would usually go like on a Friday evening to a Sunday on Sunday afternoon. And the house would go from laughing and giggles and frozen on repeat. Man, let it go, Elsa, let it go. But yeah, I can't. I'm just joking, but seriously, it went from all that to silence. And I'd sit there in the stillness and I would count the minutes until my little girls came home so life could feel quote unquote normal again. That was a rough season, a lot of guys. I'm not I'm not even gonna sit here and try to pretend and the least that was very challenging. But I will tell you this, over time, I discovered something pretty pretty powerful. It was in the silence and in the waiting and even in the hurt, okay, that God was shaping me the most. He was teaching me firsthand how to wait on him. And it's how it's really wild how when life gets quiet, the enemy turns up the volume. He just does. His playlist is loud, fellas. He he loves to whisper lies. He would whisper lies to me that my girls wouldn't come back, and I was a failure as a father, and that no woman would ever love me, and all the over and over and over and over. And I I was tempted to just to just jump ahead when I was thinking about this and and share with you how God did move and he brought my wife, Rebecca, to my life. But instead of doing that, let's stay right here where Psalm 2714 tells us. He says, wait for the Lord. So when I look back on that time of life, that season of life, I can see right now how he was shaping my heart and strengthening me in unique ways in that season. He was preparing me to receive his blessings in his time. Because if I had tried to force, you know, or act on my own, I would have likely missed what he was planning for me altogether. And there's no sugar coating yet. I'm not trying to gloss this over to waiting sucked. It feels hard. It stretched me in uncomfortable ways. But maybe that's what you need to hear. I don't know. While you're being called to wait, it feels like God is silent. But that's usually when he's working the most, man. He's just working it. And what if we stop viewing that waiting as a heavy weight and started seeing it as a divine opportunity? And that was the moment. That's the moment where he's going to strengthen us the most. He's going to build us courage within us to withstand the enemy's attacks. Because we have to remember this: that patience is not passive. It's active faith. It's active faith. And it's trusting that even when you can't see movement, God is still working behind the scenes, man. So if you're in the middle of a long wait right now, take heart. Because delay doesn't mean denial. It doesn't. His time is not off. He's not ignoring you. He's investing in you. And our job isn't to force the door open, it's to stay faithful until that moment he tells us to move, guys. So maybe think about this. What season of waiting are you currently in right now? And how has, and as you're in it, how does God shape you through seasons of stillness and waiting before? Because usually that you know looking back is very helpful for moving forward, okay? All right, guys. Take our next break, we'll be right back.

Simple Guide To Pray Together

Chris Grainger 15:03

If there's one habit that can change your home, it's this when a husband prays with his wife, not because it's a magic formula, but because it recenters your marriage under God's authority and care. And let's be honest, a lot of guys want to do it, but most don't know how to start without it feeling awkward. Maybe you tried it before and it felt forced. Or maybe you've never tried it because you don't even know what to say. Or maybe you're thinking, man, I'm not a pastor, I'm just a guy. And that's why we created this guide. It's our how to pray with your wife. Simple guide. It's biblical, it's practical, and it's designed to help you start praying with your wife in a way that actually feels natural. So it's a five-section guide and it gives you a simple framework to get started. Okay, it makes sure everything is grounded in scripture and it also has a powerful PDF that you can pull up whenever you need, especially when things get off, because they're gonna get off. That's normal. So this is all about reclaiming your marriage and reclaiming the spiritual leadership reigns of your home. Because praying with your wife is one of the strongest ways to fight for unity, to build trust, and to write the ship when life starts to pull you off a course. So if you're ready, get access today at the lionwithin.us slash guides. That's the lionwithin.usguides. And start unleashing the lion within at home by leading your marriage through prayer. Well, let's keep digging into it around this idea of I'm just a guy without patience.

When Impatience Turns Into Anger

Chris Grainger 16:40

Now we're up to anger. What about when anger takes over? Now, James tells us in chapter one, verse 19 and 20, and everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger. Okay, that's a that's a very good uh verse because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires, period. And it's been my experience that impatience and anger, they're like close cousins, man. They just are. And which whenever one shows up first, the other one's gonna be that pretty soon after to follow. And and I I remember you know a great example of this uh was when I saw it firsthand, my little three-year-old boy. And he wants to help with chores on the farm, right? And if you've ever been around toddlers, you know what I'm talking about. You understand, you understand. Because you understand that their help usually is not helpful, but I love them. And take uh take muck and stalls, for instance. So we got horses, means we have stalls, which means we have a lot of horse poop, okay? And if we got a lot of horse poop, means you gotta get horse poop out of the stall because it's not healthy for horse for horses to stand in their poop all the time, and it's just it just brings a lot of bad stuff. So you gotta clean the stalls every day. So he sees me regularly with a pitchfork in my hand, and instantly he's thinking, I want to be like dad. I want to be like I want to be just like him. And within seconds, man, he's got his little pitchfork, and it's going, he's going to town. And he's scooping it up. And I'm gonna tell you right now, I I I I'm not saying this just because he's my boy, he's getting to be pretty doggone good right now. But when he started, he wasn't. And even usually it's even funny. Lots of times I wear a rucksack just to wear a ruck when I'm out there working in the barn just to give extra work, just an extra workout. You know, I'm out there feeding horses for an hour or so. Why not get a little extra burn? So I've noticed uh recently that what I do when I have that on, he's going, he goes and gets his little book packed, which has got a line on it because he's awesome. And uh he'll put that on while he's muck installed. So it's really cool how that works. And what but when it first started, like he got the scooping part down, it was the lifting, lifting it up and getting into the wheelbarrow part that was tricky for him. And since he was so small, he would he would try to hoist that pitchfork that was full of muck, you know, up to a height that was just more than his little arms handle. And what happened? Well, usually half of what he was trying to throw into the wheelbarrow dumps right back onto the floor or in the stall in the middle of the hall or whatever, wherever it was. And what did that mean for me? That meant double work. Just did. Not only did I had to clean up the stall, but now I had to clear up what he's dropped behind, right? That just and then all the extra pine shaves and everything that inevitably he brings that he that he would do with that. And usually, sadly, uh that was often a point when my frustration would start rising and my tone would start shifting. And when that happens, I would see a change in him pretty quickly. His his posture would change, his shoulders would slump, his smile would fade away, and the light in his his eyes would just disappear. Because in that moment, my impatience with his learning was turning into anger. And I hate it, man. I hate even admitting it, but you guys listen to your lines, I'm just gonna be real with you. And and I I also share it because I know I'm not the only one who's been there. Because when I get so focused on the task at hand that anything slows me when stuff that like gets in my way, it feels like an obstacle. And I forget what matters most. In that moment was the heart beside me, man. It wasn't the work in front of me, it was the heart beside me. And the last thing I want is for my son to think his dead doesn't value his effort. Yeah, that's exactly the experience that he was having, that he was seeing firsthand when my impatience started to take over. You see how that works? It's very interesting. And it strikes me when I reflect on the words of James, uh, of how he added in that verse, slow to anger alongside quick to listen and slow to speak. Because the first two go together, man, that's like peanut butter dilly time right there, bro. It just does. Quick to quick to listen, slow to speak. So why did he add anger? I think the Holy Spirit was crystal clear with James in that moment. Because if he had left that part out and just told us to be quick to listen and slow to speak, we may have missed the deeper truth. And it's I think it's this for me. When I act out of my own anger, rather than in God's righteousness, I'm outside of his will. That's it. And when I let anger drive, I'm no longer reflecting the heart of Christ within me. That it's really that simple. And just as impatience and anger are first cousins, if we believe that, then guess what? Love and anger are complete strangers. One cannot exist with the other. And every time I let anger take over, I trade the opportunity to build up to build up for the impulse to tear it down. So if you find yourself in a situation where anger rises, look man, it's gonna happen. It may happen today. And particularly, you don't listen to this podcast, it probably will happen today. Take a purposeful pause, breathe. And remember that the your tone that comes next might be shaping someone's heart more than you words, than your words ever could. I mean, I had to learn this from my little boy. Because the truth is this, guys, righteousness is never born out of rage. It's revealed through restraint. And when we choose patience over anger, we create space for God to show up, to soften our heart, and remind everyone involved, including us, that love always wins and anger never can. So start thinking about maybe what triggers your anger when things don't happen you know fast enough for you. Okay. Or how can you pause before you start reacting so you can so that you respond with patience more more naturally. Alright guys, we're gonna take our last break, we'll be right back.

Bible App Plans For Men

Chris Grainger 23:03

If you've ever opened the Bible and had the thought, where do I even start? Brother, you're not alone. I've had those moments all too often. And I found that having a guide was helpful. And that's why we created the I'm Just a Guide series on the Bible app. They're short, they're honest, and they help you read scripture and walk it out. And these plans speak to the real stuff that we're wrestling with as men, like marriage, anxiety, loneliness, shame, pornography, and so much more. Now do this all without pretending or piling on a bunch of self-help nonsense. And lots of guys are using them in their small groups, and they're helping to spark honest conversations and take simple next steps in their discipleship journey. So if that sounds helpful, check them out at thelionwithin.us slash U version. So that's Y-O-U-V-E-R-S-I-O-N. Or just open up your Bible app and search for the Lion Within Us. And it's my hope that these reflections will encourage you in just a few minutes and help you walk with Him all day long.

Humility That Reshapes Patience

Chris Grainger 24:19

Guys, I thought we would end this podcast on the thought of the humility of patience. And in Philippians 2, it tells us do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather than humility, value others above yourselves. Wonderful verse. Love it. And I really started thinking about that verse. And for me, a large part of my career, I worked in sales and in business development. It was pretty fun. And I loved what I did. And I found it at times frustrating when working with people who had a particular style of presentation. And I used to call it, I don't know what you guys call it, I called it feature and benefit puking. That's just what I called it. It's definitely not the prettiest term. But hang with me, hopefully you'll pick up what I'm putting down. And then their approach was built on, you know, was built differently than mine. Mine was built on service. You know, I really wanted to learn everything I could about the customers' challenges, where they were. I asked a lot of clarifying questions. I feel I it usually with a sales call, me, felt more like a doctor's appointment than anything because I was just trying to understand and identify the solutions that will make a difference for them. Because I wanted to get down to the root cause, not the symptoms. They are indicators, but they're not, but I wanted to understand the root cause and really make every moment of my time with them valuable. Okay. And that meant quite often that I would not showcase every flashy bell and whistle of the product line or the offering that we had. Because if it didn't add value to their situation, then guess what? I just put it on the shelf. I just put it on the shelf. And I did this more than once. And I left a meeting one time with a coworker, and they said they were like, hey, why didn't you tell them about that, man? You missed the opportunity. You should have showed them. What do you, what do you, what you, Chris? You've done this before. And usually, nine times out of ten, the PO would come before the day was done, right? Because I knew it was important to the customer. But then I've also been on sales calls because I was in sales management for a long time as well. Test your patience. And there were people, there were salespeople who took different approaches. So in their minds, they already had the answer to every problem the customer would ever face. And rather than asking questions or learning about the customer's needs, they filled every meeting or reviewing every feature and every benefit and every bell and every whistle. Really, what they're trying to do, they were trying to prove their own worth and their own greatness. And the customers would just smile and nod, mm-hmm. Yep, I can get it. Yep. But it was obvious. They checked out, man. I've seen I've been in meetings where the customers were checked out well before the presentation ended. And what frustrated me the most wasn't really their approach to selling, which it was kind of frustrating. To me, more what more importantly was their uh the selfish ambition that was driving behind it. Because it was thought, it was pride and full on display. And it was ugly, man. It was ugly. And the image stuck with me for years because it shaped with me, shaped really how I view relationships professionally and personally. And taking the time to ask questions, to listen, and truly care about someone else's perspective is rare these days. And when we do it, we're not we're communicating through our actions that we value them more than ourselves. And that's a powerful expression of humility. And people have mentioned this to me about a podcast and how how I podcast differently than other podcasters. Many podcasters step all over their guests. They just do. They want to insert their point, they want to get to what they're important to them. And while I try to navigate a conversation that's going to be useful and beneficial to you as a listener, I ultimately, with every podcast guest that I have on, no matter if it's a guest for a Wednesday episode or a member spotlight, my goal is to honor, just honor the guest, period. And sometimes that just means the best thing Chris can do is shut up, just be still and just let these guys talk. So I again sometimes when it comes to this idea of patience, you know, talking about from a work standpoint, it's one thing. But for me, it's hard to do this and to live it out with the people that are closest to me. Maybe you felt that too, you know, because think about this. You see your family every day. You know you see them at meals and at week on the weekends and in the hallway. I mean, all these different areas, you see your family. And you sometimes you may think there's nothing new that you can learn about them. But seeing someone and valuing them above ourselves, that's two different things. And it's very interesting how much Jesus shows us about this and how patient he was with his disciples. I just laugh about it when I think about how patient Jesus was. I mean, he didn't talk about someone who could have just smacked them. He didn't. I mean, he spent time with them every day. These guys doubted Jesus. They argued among themselves, and they quite often, more than once, missed the very lessons he was trying to teach them. Yeah, what did Jesus do? He just stayed calm. He engaged him directly. And he asked questions, even if you already knew the answer to. And it makes me wonder, why did James, or not James, Jesus, why did Jesus ask questions he already knew the answers to? Maybe it's something as simple as this. When you see someone ask a question with genuine humility, you're you're saying I value your thoughts. That's it. I value your thoughts. I see you. I really want to care about your perspective. And maybe for us, that's the person that's the invitation, is to let humility shape our patience, to slow down long enough to see others through the lens of service instead of the self. The one who never demanded to be heard, but always made time to listen, to love, and to lead with grace. And because when humility and patience, I'm sorry, but when humility meets patience, that's I'd rather say that, pride loses its footing, man. It just does. And Christ's character takes its place. So maybe think about how have how often do you listen to understand instead of listening to respond? That's a challenging one. Straight up, it's challenging. And if patience has been a struggle for you, I really pray and hope that this podcast, again, it's about 30 minutes long, maybe.

Next Steps And Ministry Support

Chris Grainger 31:09

Hopefully, this has been an encouragement to at least know that you're not alone. God isn't disappointed in your frustration. Okay, He's inviting you to trust Him more deeply. And every time you choose to wait well, you're growing stronger as a man He's designed you to be. So that's my prayer for you. And look, if you like this and you want to do this like this whole plan yourself with others, go to the Bible app. Open up the Bible app, search for I'm Just a Guy Without Patience, start it. It's a five-day plan. If you start day one, for instance, and you go for day one, there's the little quiz. If you do the little quiz, what are they do? It will put you into an email and you'll get an email every day that walks with you through the five-day plan. So, and by the way, that's the way for most of our plans. There's a quiz on the front of our plans, and you do the quiz, like a Christian leader assessment we have, when you finish that, that enrolls you into the to the the the five-day plan to the emails that walk with you through the plan. So hopefully you'll be encouraged by that, okay? So, I mean, think about that, and then ultimately think about where in your life are you struggling to trust God's timing right now. And we all have these areas in our life, like none of it, none of it's perfect, but hopefully you've learned some things through this podcast or some of the resources that have been useful and will help you in this season of life. Other than that, guys, the linewithin.us is where you find all our resources. We'd love for you to connect with us over there. The Daily SK, which I've already mentioned, the Lion's Den, put in an application for the leadership mastermind. All those are great ways to get connected with us right there at thelinewithin.us. I mentioned a Bible app as well. Open up the Bible app, uh, search for the Lion Within Us. Follow the page on the Bible app as well, and you have can be connected and you'll be updated every time a plan comes out, you'll you'll get notified. You'll be the first one to know, hey, this plan just drop for the line within us, and you may be encouraged by it. Other than that, fellas, we could definitely use your support. We have uh our ministry up and going, so we're looking for monthly donors and supporters of the line within us. So if you listen to the podcast at this length and you've made it, you can you're actually hearing the words I'm saying right now, you're all in. I mean, you're all in on the line. Help us out. I would simply ask, just help us out. No matter how small or how big, it could be five bucks, ten bucks, a hundred bucks, a thousand bucks, five thousand bucks tomorrow, whatever that you can fit or you feel like the spirit is leading you to help support our ministry would be greatly appreciated because we're doing the hard work. We picked a hard vertical. Go chasing Christian men. That's not easy. And we're building a lot, we've already built a lot, and we are continuing to build a lot of resources in the future to help men in their discipleship journey. So look, we need your help in doing it. We're 100% volunteer right now, and that's great for a hobby. But to really lean in to do this, we need some full-time focus and we need your help. So, the lionwithin.us, you'll find ways to support us right there. You can do the lionwithin.us slash pursuit if you want to look at that. The pursuit of one more is what we call a lot of the things we're doing. And we would love for you to come alongside and be a partner with this. And you're like, Chris, man, there's I just can't do it right now. Look, go to go to that page and pray for us. So what we do, we put out a quarterly prayer request of here's where where God has moved over the last quarter. Here's where He's we feel like He's asking us to do next. And here are some personal items that I just would covet your prayers over. Lots of times there are things around my wife or my children or just our farm, whatever it may be. But I just invite you into it. I mean, doing this work, it's not easy because spiritual warfare is real, and we need your prayers straight up. Not even gonna try to pretend we can do this on our own. So the lionwithin.us is where you find all that stuff at. Okay, guys. All right. Well, that's it. Get after it. Come back next time. Our front for our Friday episode is gonna be a little bit different this week, uh, but I think it's one that you're gonna like. Definitely was excited to record it. I love the guests, and I think it's gonna be an encouragement to you as do as we move forward with Alliance. So, anyway, guys, get after it. Have a good day. Thanks for hanging out. Give us a rating review, that stuff helps. Share the episode out with other people, and other than that, just keep on leashing the Lion Within.

New Support Group For Husbands

Chris Grainger 35:29

Let's just say it out loud. Marriage is one of the greatest gifts that God can give a man, and one of the most consistent places where we can feel unsure of what we're doing. Even the strongest marriages have moments where you look at your wife and you think, you know what? I love you. I'm so committed to you. But right now, I have no idea what I should do next. And that's why we launched something new inside the lion within us community. It's our very first support group. And it's for husbands, and we're calling it committed and occasionally confused. This isn't just a place for men in crisis. So if you're there, hey, you're welcome. This is for any man who refuses to coast and wants to take his marriage from good to great. So inside, you'll find an active chat and a feed, an honest conversation, and brotherhood that says, hey, you're not alone. We've been there. Unless we bring this to God and grow. And we're also doing a monthly couples night where your wife is invited because we're not letting the world set the agenda for our homes. Now, if you want access to this support group, it's very simple. Go to thelionwithin.us and join the Lions Dan. Okay, that's the LionWithin.us. Start your 30-day free trial of the Lions Dan community, and boom, you have instant access to the committed and occasionally confused support group. We'll see you inside the den.