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Todd Lollar from Mobilize Ministries joins Zach this week to talk about the principles of his new book: "Weak is the New Strong". They discuss the power of passing it on, the Lord's replenishment when you operate out of your weaknesses, and how sharing your weaknesses with other can help them experience the Lord.
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Todd Lollar from Mobilize Ministries joins Zach this week to talk about the principles of his new book: Weak is the New Strong. They discuss the power of passing it on, the Lord's replenishment when you operate out of your weaknesses, and how sharing your weaknesses with other can help them experience the Lord.
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Weak is the New Strong: God's Perfect Power in You
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Speaker 2:What up, Mentor? Zach Garza here. Hey, just got off the podcast with Todd Lawlor. He just released a book called Weak is the New Strong, and we talked about it on the You Can Mentor podcast. It's so good.
Speaker 2:He talked about the power of passing it on. He talked about whenever you give to your mentee, whenever you operate out of your weakness, the The lord comes in and he replenishes you and he creates a safe environment, and there's just so much stuff. He talks about mentoring in a community and how sharing your weaknesses with others can actually spur others on to experience the lord and to get involved. Vulnerability begets vulnerability. And then lastly, we talked about words of encouragement.
Speaker 2:How encouraging words can insert courage into you as you mentor. It's a great podcast. Check it out. Share it with a friend. Todd's the man.
Speaker 2:Todd has cerebral palsy, but that doesn't keep him from preaching the gospel. It's fantastic. Check out our podcast. Share it. Rate it.
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Speaker 3:Hey, Zachary.
Speaker 2:Hey, Todd. How are you doing today?
Speaker 3:It is ready to put a voice to your page, brother. I am very blessed. How are you doing?
Speaker 2:Man, I'm doing well today. It's it's been a good day. Things are great over here in Dallas, Texas, and I'm excited to talk about your book, man.
Speaker 3:Oh, my man, bro. I'm starting to talk about your relationship to you, bro. I I think Mint's tutorial is key to driving life. Yeah. Awesome.
Speaker 2:Hey. Tell me how you're familiar with Upper Room Dallas and Abilene Christian. I, see that we have those connections.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So my longest roommate, I ever had was after I got my master's in bible at at the. I mean, a great guy named Michael Miller. With the traveling Christian, they said that I did we were roommates in the DMV. He was the longest roommate I've ever had.
Speaker 3:And he said, Todd, we the it's a quote because the holy spirit introduced us to to a lot of the same stuff, and they keep in the realm that we both have never been exposed to before. So we both grew the spirit, and and then he would circle the spirit into Ty, said, hey. I'm going to try church. And then years later, that church is the multi campus upper room.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I would say that the upper room has had quite a bit of success. If you guys have heard any of their stuff on iTunes or their album with Maverick City Worship, I mean, they're they're kinda blowing up right now. It's awesome.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. I sure do enjoy speaking there every till I do back from from here in Hollywood. Michael is with the pool. So I really enjoy going back to encouraging that could really be
Speaker 2:Man, Todd, that's awesome. Hey. Well, why don't you just tell the people at home, and why don't you just tell me? Because the 2 of us don't know each other super well. Just kind of a tad bit about you and your family and what you're up to out in California.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Just kinda introduce yourself to us.
Speaker 3:Well, hey, Mia. I am hanging out here at a couple of stuff by Hollywood right now. Just enjoying a couple of jokes, but this is where I meet with actors, directors, producers who, who are going to know Jesus, and mobilize them to thrive in their missional life, sharing Jesus on set and off set. And and so we think that Hollywood does have a worldwide so we want to invest in these industry professionals or mentor, but, like, you you do. And you just see the give them a guy experience.
Speaker 3:So yeah. Right. Now, I'm I'm I'm at a shop where I meet with a lot of very interesting industry professionals. Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. And you're married and have a couple kids. Is that right?
Speaker 3:Yeah. So my wife is named Marissa. We've been married for 7 days, 7 days, 7 days, and I have wonderful years, and we have a son named Oliver who is 6 and and a, daughter named, who is 3, and we have a a son named Henry who is 6 months old.
Speaker 2:So you guys are pretty busy.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yes. So you are I think being a being a mom is one of the most impacting ministry there. Yes. Yes.
Speaker 3:She gets to mentor 3 humans every single day. So I think that is pretty pretty pretty worthwhile.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Most definitely. Yeah. I me and my wife have, a 6 year old, a 4 year old, and a 2 year old. And, you know, tell me
Speaker 3:Cool, bro. What? Wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Like, one saying that that we have around here is relationships change lives. Right? And, I mean, we mentor kids from hard places, kids who have experienced hardships. And I just feel so fortunate that we're able to kinda give our kids, I mean, my my own personal kids.
Speaker 2:We're able to give them a mom and a dad. We're able to kinda provide a safe environment for them and yeah. But, like, moms mentor. Moms mentor their kids each and every day.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I share with people that in your your mission your mission life, you have 4 spheres of influence. 1 is first is your family, and then your friends, and then your coworkers and strangers that we meet every single day, but we have to keep them in that order that our family that is your first that is your first and what most important ministry. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Most definitely. Yeah. I mean, one saying that we have is you can't give what you don't have. And and so I mean, like, you have to fill yourself up so you can pour out to your family. You can pour out to your friends, your coworkers, and then you your strangers, your mentees, just people that you meet.
Speaker 2:Hey, Todd. Right.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I read your book, Weak is the New Strong. And, man, just let me tell you, it this thing blessed me like crazy. And so I am just gonna read the back of it, and then we're gonna talk about your book, and we're gonna kinda get into it. Okay? Sure.
Speaker 2:So so what if your weaknesses are actually your greatest strengths? With cerebral palsy binding him to a wheelchair and slowing his speech, Todd has never had the option of hiding his weakness. Escape impossible. Weak is the new strong is an invitation to journey through Todd's touching stories and dynamic biblical explorations of God's view of weakness, and to discover how your greatest weakness can be transformed by God's strength.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Man, so, Todd, why don't you just tell us why you decided to write a book and what kind of your heart behind it was?
Speaker 3:What? You know, I I wrote the book because I think that that culture and even the church, we we do whatever it takes to hide or compensate for our weaknesses. So the therefore, people do do not discover who they really are. I mean, who you are is is your in your strength, but more than that, who you are is meant to be in Christ Jesus. And so it's so I wrote the the the this it changed my life where I went dead dead dead in 1997.
Speaker 3:I was, 26, and I'm going to show my age now. I was in a coffee shop having a to time. I was doing a city ministry that summer with my speech and being in a wheelchair. I just got that. I was in over my head.
Speaker 3:I never saw my weaknesses as much as I did at that point, but I can't feel over my head in my weaknesses my whole whole life until then. And then the Lord led me to 2nd Corinthians 129 where Paul dealt with his own weakness. And and the Lord responded to him, my grace. My unmentioned favor is all you need for my power is made perfect or displayed through your weaknesses. And right there, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:I felt the presence of God. I always feel tears as a lord. Thank you for your power. Thank you for your power that flows through my weaknesses. And I'm able to help others to, like, speak to my calls, and you think maybe we'll try to do.
Speaker 3:We do it with every witness that the every doing deals with it because if you want your power to display, do this, then praise your holy name. Ever since at that point, my wife has not been inspired or despite my weakness. But it's because it's been because of God's amazing power going to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. For sure. And I can't imagine how how hard that would be to be trying to do inner city ministry with, you know, a bunch of people who you don't know. And I'm sure that that enemy lies to you a ton. Right?
Speaker 3:Right. Right.
Speaker 2:But to focus on who God says you are and to focus on who the Lord is and what he's doing through you, I mean, man, Todd, that that takes some faith. That takes some steadfastness. That takes some true belief that, I mean,
Speaker 3:I just think it's awesome. Well, he he is brilliant that several way. I was in relationships that I've never been in before. Like, I never had a mentor in my old life until that transforming summer. And that summer, I had 2 or 3 mid mentors invested in my my my life.
Speaker 3:They they in, they out. So I directly connect that revelation to how God used me towards and my my own life. So I had a real high value for well one investing in people's life. In fact, to this day, I'm I've been in ministry for 25 years, and most of that ministry has not been bad for ministry, but has been well one investing in people's lives. So that's why I'm so thankful for what you do.
Speaker 3:And I I would like to hear how, like like, when did you know that you had to start this?
Speaker 2:Yeah. For sure. So I so I just kinda my testimony, Todd, is I I grew up in a home where it was kinda just me and my mom. My parents split up whenever I was about 12 or 13, and I just kinda grew up with a contentious relationship with my dad. I I grew up not believing that I belonged, not feeling loved, not feeling accepted.
Speaker 2:And and I just kinda started making some pretty poor choices. As I look back, it's all because I just wanted to be loved. Right? I just wanted attention. I just wanted acceptance.
Speaker 2:I just wanted affirmation. And I was searching for that in all all of the wrong places. But I had an opportunity to go to college, and it was there that a professor, a guy named Bob Strader, started to pour into
Speaker 3:Bob there. Bob is a great man guy. Yes. I know him and his son. So yeah.
Speaker 3:I will, I will be here that name.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So so Bob just started to invest into me. You know? He started to spend time with me. He started to just be with me.
Speaker 2:As I look back, I don't think Bob would say that he quote, unquote mentored me, but but he just spent time with me. And that that was exactly what I needed. And from hanging out with Bob, you know, more is caught than taught. And I just caught how to be a man of God. I I caught how to carry myself.
Speaker 2:He infused me with with confidence and, self esteem. And, ultimately, that is what put me on on a path towards salvation. And so just I am who I am today because of men investing into my life, men discipling me, men mentoring me. And Yes. I I wanna do the same thing for
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:As many kids as I can. Right?
Speaker 3:Yes. I I I I sitting in home, and you said, Bob just met with you. Yeah. And that is so powerful. I think that there are many reasons why we needed to talk today.
Speaker 3:It's a new job. The the way that our ministry started, Mobilize ministries is the Lord, Shelby, Luke 8 1, Luke 91, and Luke 21. And Luke 81 really describes what you just said that Bob did with you. Luke 81 is that beautiful picture of Jesus being with being with, quote, being with the disciples. And and that just simply quote, being with quote.
Speaker 3:I mean, that is a powerful thing to be able to to say to someone, and that's what Jesus did with the 12 disciples that made Christianity go all over the world. And that's why you're saved. This one. I I would say because god, like, Jesus, he's been spending time being with since someone.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So so especially now, it's like time's our most important resource.
Speaker 2:Right? Like, time is the most important thing we have, and yet, I believe that's what the enemy's coming after. Like, he is trying to distract us with Yes. Every I mean, with he's trying to take up our time with political divisions and social media, and we're always in such a hurry. We're always so busy.
Speaker 2:There's so much to do, and there's so little time that the easiest thing to go is being with people, is sitting down and making time just to do this. But the last time I checked, it's relationships that change lives. It's it's me it's it's meeting with people. It's this one on one discipleship. And every single person listening, me and you included, we're here following Jesus Christ because of a person.
Speaker 3:Yes. Right? Yes. You all remember what I mean, even if you read a Facebook post that that might be insightful. We've already remember that for, like, 1 or 2 days.
Speaker 3:But we will remember for every time someone actually sitting down with you to listen to your heart, to your passions, to they're asking good questions to
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:Help you find your life purpose. That's why it's going to make a little legacy when when the work calls me home. We we hear that I won't be remembered by whatever happened on social media, but we'll be remembered by the investment that we have. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And and that's that's a part of your book that I just love, Todd. Like, you you would talk about passing on the power. Right? And you talk about how Paul kinda passed on the power to Timothy.
Speaker 2:Paul passed on the power to the many witnesses. And then those many witnesses passed passed on the power to trustworthy people. And it's I mean, you've got Jesus. Jesus invested in the 12 people, and that changed the world. Right?
Speaker 2:And that Yes. Is still being felt today as as we continue to make disciples, as we continue to build relationships, as we continue to mentor. And it's great. I mean, it it is just
Speaker 3:I yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You are it should blow your mind that the holy spirit put books in the bible from 1 person to 1 person.
Speaker 3:From Paul Timothy. That's how much God values whirlwind touring. And and and and and Paul spoke so powerful identity into Timothy. He said, hey, Timothy. You do do have a spirit of fear, but one of love and power and a sound mind.
Speaker 3:And you know what? The debt changed his life. So so I I to to talk about passing on the power because we are all weak. And so weakness is the conduit. Like I said earlier that guy has chosen to, make his power known.
Speaker 3:There's, 2 ways that the guy makes his power known. 1 is through healing, but we we didn't think about that the most. But but I have a weakness. And since it's so cool because every time I invest in this someone, I my faith feels because I'm remembering how much God's power is in my own life. In fact, I I think the we we went describes this well.
Speaker 3:The active is showing your faith so that you will know every good thing that you have in Christ Jesus. So the more we go after to mentor someone, hey. Be ready for God to bless you. Right?
Speaker 2:Man, I have never thought about that before. It's be active in sharing your faith so that you will know, like, it it it is to our benefit to pour out. It is to our benefit to invest because you're remembering what God has done. You're remembering his goodness. Like, that's why I was talking to someone this past week, and he was just asking me.
Speaker 2:He's like, Zach, tell me tell me how you fill yourself with faith to be able to do the things that you do. And I said, hey. Look. I and this sounds silly, but I go on walks every morning and out loud, I declare God's goodness over my life. I declare scripture because it just helps me remember.
Speaker 3:Right? Yes. Yes.
Speaker 2:And so it's like Yes. Yeah. Like, I
Speaker 3:Yeah. I I show the it's great. Yeah. So And let's do all that even more. So so so the words that we just read, that's basically saying that mentoring is a spiritual discipline.
Speaker 3:Because when we mentor, we ourselves draw near to the Lord. Hey. Hey. Think about this. Paul also talks about how how, faith comes by hearing.
Speaker 3:Right? So when you're someone and you're hearing yourself declare faith, I mean, it's like a it's like a a wonderful cycle. You you declare you hear yourself declare faith, and then that hearing feels your faith. And so yeah. And that happens the most powerful in
Speaker 2:ment mentoring. Hey, Todd. So, man, all of that's so good. I haven't ever heard I haven't ever thought about that. Faith comes from hearing, and every time that you pro proclaim the gospel, you're just filling yourself up.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. Hey. One one thing that I wanna make sure that we hit on, because
Speaker 3:Sure.
Speaker 2:I just thought it was so good. You you talk about community. And I know for me as a mentor, it is so easy to kinda run this mentoring race in isolation. Kinda, I'm all alone. I have to figure out how to build a relationship with this kid.
Speaker 2:I gotta figure out how to have a job and have a wife and have a kids while doing all this, and it's I feel isolated, but but you say that there's power in sharing your struggles with community. Do you think that you can kinda speak on that and and just kinda what led you to that thought?
Speaker 3:My hey. One new thought that I just, when you said that is we always think that we're messaging someone. Or sharing Christ with with someone as a solo act. But the fact is in the Bible, the church helped each other share Christ with his his someone. And so we I've got to get out of this lone ranger mentality.
Speaker 3:And and and, yeah, that that's what I what you you do is you're helping people to to really say they know what his previous to us. He wasn't like everyone think that we are wrong, that we are moving. And and and he wants to keep us eyes of nature, but god, he wants us to thrive in community. And I think one of the best kind of is us helping each other invest. But, hey.
Speaker 3:Sometimes we have to let ourselves be weak. Right? Even when we are mentoring, I think the most impact in client mentoring is when the mentor we let ourselves be weak. And let me give you an example. When Jesus when when the and his friends, they need the only way for the the to be healed was to come face to face with with Jesus.
Speaker 3:But he was inside in that closet house because because everyone would wanted to hear his teaching. And so the prodigal and his friends were outside. And the only way for him to get to Jesus is to let his friends carry him up to the roof and lower him in. But just think about this. He want to declare how to let himself be weaker.
Speaker 3:Well, but the other accept, hey. I want to let him help me to Jesus. But in doing that, he kind of mentored me. Right? Like, he's the one that got them the closest they've ever been to Jesus by letting himself be weak.
Speaker 3:And so this something special about letting yourself be weak and mentor among to really Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I've never thought about that before. It's the guy who is being lowered down, he never would have been lowered down if he didn't ask for help. He never would have been lowered down if he didn't be okay with his weakness. But in that in that humility, I would say, it really impacted his 4 friends, and it got them closer to Jesus. And it's, like, there's so much power in being vulnerable.
Speaker 2:There's so much power in being weak. Yes. There's so much power in asking for help. And it doesn't just impact you, it impacts those around you. Because Wow.
Speaker 2:Man, Todd, that's huge. Because so so often, I'm sitting there in my church small group, and I'm sharing about some of my mentoring struggles. Maybe I, hoped that my mentee would make good grades and he failed. Maybe I hoped that he wouldn't party and, you know, he was making some bad choices. But in sharing my my weakness, other people start to open up about their kids.
Speaker 2:Other people start to open up about disappointments that they've had. And it's just, like, authenticity starts authenticity, vulnerability begets vulnerability, and we're able to pray for each other. We're we're able to relate to each other in just a totally new way.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Let me share with you a very humbling example. I drive a Jeep Grand Cherokee. And and so why you know, I I throw my wheelchair in the back, and then I walk around the car. And so if you didn't know my situation, so we won't walk here by the car.
Speaker 3:You might think I've had one too many drinks here or So Starbucks are to grocery store. You can bet you if if someone sees me getting my wheelchair out of my car, I would be, I mean, there's a 99% chance that this person will ask me, hey. Do you need help? Oh my goodness. You I'm happy that you didn't know me early on, DFT.
Speaker 3:I I said, tell her I was pretty sarcastic. Like, wow. Yeah. I did I get to this point. I get to this door.
Speaker 3:What what what what would I even do? How would I get inside if you did not ask me if I wanna help? No. Thank you. I can do it myself.
Speaker 3:In fact, I used to be so prideful that, I would say no. Thank you as the other person was saying, would you like? I would I wanna say, no. Thank you before they even finish their sentences. And then the Lord kinda did some work on my heart.
Speaker 3:Show me show me, a lot of pride. And and just so many so it's a difficult truth about what I've got transfers just for my my heart, but by letting people help me. And then I was gosh. The voice started using this in my ministry. I started saying, yes, please.
Speaker 3:And then what would happen was I would start a gospel conversation to while they were helping me get out of my to In fact, one time, of of well, one time this guy named Brandon, it was him, and we became friends outside of Starbucks just because I I say yes. I shared Christ with him. He started meeting with me every week to be a mentor or a disciple. And this all came about because because I said, sir, yes, please. Thank you.
Speaker 3:Will you help me get my wheelchair out?
Speaker 2:That's awesome. That's awesome. My Yeah. So my mentor, his name's Steve Allen, and he's in Colorado Springs, and he has ALS. Right?
Speaker 2:And,
Speaker 3:What is that? What what is that?
Speaker 2:ALS is a it's a disease. I mean, he he can't move from his neck down. So
Speaker 3:Oh, wow. Wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So he's he's totally paralyzed. And but he has, you know, he has a wheelchair, and he's able to go to the gym, like, couple times a week. And and one of his favorite things to do in the gym is to go into the sauna. And in the sauna.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'll get a phone call for sure every month. Hey, Zach. I just met this guy in the sauna. I just Hey, cool. I just got to pray for this guy.
Speaker 2:I and it's like Amen. Every time that someone asks him for help, every time that someone, asks if they could serve him, he uses that as a as an opportunity to share about Jesus. And
Speaker 3:Amen. I mean, that's
Speaker 2:that's powerful. So so
Speaker 3:Amen. Remember, why I tell your mentor that he's inspired me to work out. I need to work out more. So thank you
Speaker 2:for being here. Tell him that.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Very good.
Speaker 2:Hey, Todd. So so I guys, I'm serious when I say this. This book, I loved it. It was so good. And we're just focusing just in on a couple a couple of different chapters.
Speaker 2:But, 1, I mean, I love the passing the power one to 1. I loved how being weak can actually create more opportunities for the Lord to move. I loved about how being weak in community can really propel your ministry. But the last thing that I wanna talk about, which this is at the end of the book, but I think this kinda impacted me the most, Todd. It's how power the power of words of encouragement, and how they can shift a mindset.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Do you think that you could just kinda tell us some more about that?
Speaker 3:Well, would either give life to people or they speak death. And we got to make the choice that we are to speak word right to people. It it look cool that in John 11, Jesus is called the the word. And the word. And it's so cool how in the bible, the spoken word is a different Greek word than the written word.
Speaker 3:So so and the spoken word gives life to people. So this is certain people but that word encourage. Every time someone has given me a word of encouragement, it makes me live a life that's in I n space courage. Encouraging words makes you live a courageous life. And that's what we need.
Speaker 3:We need more courageous people of the Lord. We've been displaying God's kingdom on Earth as a as a heaven. Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. We someone once told me to encourage someone is to open up their chest and to insert courage. Yeah. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 2:And I love that. And I love that.
Speaker 3:Hey. It's okay. I'm good. It's okay.
Speaker 2:Hey, man. Take it. Take it. I I call that holy spirit stealing. Right?
Speaker 2:Just like Yes. All of us are on the same team. It's good. It's your job.
Speaker 3:The first time that I the first time that I spoke at a I spoke at the campus community at o u. I did my first, like, talk. My first show talk. And back then, I said that once I started now. And I said that every single word of that talk, I just feel like a failure.
Speaker 3:I went home, and what was cool is the holy spirit knew what he was doing. I I was reading the the the the Bible to for you. And then I I I read about when when the Lord told Moses, he spoke to commit to Moses' life. Hey. I want you to speak for me and free my people.
Speaker 3:And Moses is like, hey. I don't have a good speech. I I cannot speak. I I can't speak. And then the Lord gave it to Moses, and Moses spoke for the Lord.
Speaker 3:And that changed my whole life. I am so sorry. Speaking of 100, and now I have a spoken of thousands of people. But the then next week, a guy in the village, mentioning Brad. He said, Todd, you have a gift of speaking.
Speaker 3:I'm a because he infused courage in my life because he said that after the divisional that I stuttered every single word. And so but since he, Brad, and my friend, took took the time and encouraged me. I mean, I have spoken in front of thousands of people. No. Just because Brad, take the time to encourage me.
Speaker 3:And I
Speaker 2:think that that's so cool, Todd. It's like you never know what you're gonna say that's gonna change someone's life. Yeah. And so, I mean, I can I can remember in my in my late twenties when someone told me I was smart? It was the first time anyone had ever told me that I was smart.
Speaker 2:And I still re remember that. And it did something to me. Right. And I started with that mindset shift. Right?
Speaker 2:Like I thought that I was dumb, and then someone told me I was smart. And I said to myself, well, if he thinks I'm smart, may then maybe I am. Right? And
Speaker 3:Well, why did did just love that how you sticking that gift, and you started a a known podcast. And brother, your ministry is so necessary to be able to because this culture is so segregated. And so I was so thankful that you that you've received those encouraging words. And now you are you are equipping inspiring people to step up and then be meant towards the diversity of people's lives. So thank you so much.
Speaker 2:For sure, Todd. Thank you so much for your time, guys. Go pick up his book. It's called Weak is the new strong by Todd Lawler. I don't think I said this, but Todd Todd's the founder and executive director of Mobilize Ministries.
Speaker 2:It's the ministry to mobilize missional living and expand the good news of Jesus and his kingdom among existing spheres of influence. Go check them out, www.mobilize ministries.com or on Twitter and Instagram at toddlawler, l o l l a r, and on Facebook at Mobilize Ministries. Todd, can you just say a little prayer for us? Can you say a prayer for mentoring for me and for this podcast, please?
Speaker 3:Sure. Lord, we have. And will the Lord we are thankful for every weakness that we have, Lord, because we declare them as conduits for your power to flow through in Jesus' name. And, Lord, thank you that we get to pass on the power, Lord, help us to not be consumers, but to be investors, Lord. Yes, Lord.
Speaker 3:Day, God, I I just thank you for this ministry. God, I pray in Jesus name that that I thank you, Jesus, that how that was as a pivotal, 1000000 people will be in to the relationship, Lord. And really bless it impacts the world just like Jesus did with the disciple. Just like Paul did with Timothy. And then just like someone did with with us.
Speaker 3:But Yeah. Yeah. It's the it's the Jesus' amazing name we pray. Amen.
Speaker 2:Amen. Thank you, Todd.
Speaker 3:Hey, guys. Feeling. Thank you, brother.
Speaker 2:Hey. Thanks so much for tuning in. If you guys, didn't catch one thing, let it be this. You can mentor.