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Speaker: Welcome to the Saved by Grace podcast, bringing you stories of hope, restoration, and God's faithful love.
Speaker: I'm your host, Sylvia Fuentes.
Speaker: Hi, and welcome to Saved by Grace.
Speaker: I'm your host, Sylvia Fuentes.
Speaker: And today I have a really special guest.
Speaker: His name is Mike McBride.
Speaker: Mike is going to share his amazing testimony and journey of faith as he takes us through growing up, Mike,
Speaker: his years as an athlete to wrestling alligators and having his God moment.
Speaker: Mike, welcome to Saved by Grace.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: Thank you for having me.
Speaker: So, Mike, as I said, you know, you're going to take us on your journey, what it was growing up.
Speaker: Mike, Mike, you grew up in a Christian home.
Speaker: Yeah, my father was a deacon in a Baptist church and I don't remember not going to church.
Speaker: We were in, I mean, when I say we went to church, we went to church because I was in the Christian school, which was at church.
Speaker: And so we went Monday through Friday to school at church.
Speaker: Then we went Sunday twice a day.
Speaker: We went Wednesday nights.
Speaker: A youth group was Friday nights.
Speaker: And there was a visitation Monday night.
Speaker: So we were really involved in the church.
Speaker: And my mom was raised in the same church.
Speaker: So she has been a member there for over 70 years.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah, so...
Speaker: So you grew up knowing the Lord and you said early on.
Speaker: Yeah, my dad led me to the Lord.
Speaker: And, you know, I accepted Jesus as my savior when I was about six years old.
Speaker: And so I always I've always had that, you know, faith and that knowledge.
Speaker: And I often wondered what it would feel like not to have that knowledge of where you go when you die, you know.
Speaker: So I hear, you know, you've shared that you were an all-star athlete.
Speaker: Well, yeah, that's probably, I wouldn't have probably said All-Star, but I was a good athlete.
Speaker: When my dad, my dad actually founded the Christian school I went to.
Speaker: And when he started the school, he worked in the public school system as an athletic director.
Speaker: So when he started the Christian school, he said that he opened it with the intention one day that it would be big enough to have organized sports.
Speaker: and he played college football and I always wanted to play football, you know, and he was a wrestling coach.
Speaker: And so we could do that on the weekends during the summer and I started wrestling when I was like six.
Speaker: And so when I hit eighth grade, I finally, he said to me, he said,
Speaker: Do you want to go to the public school so you can play sports?
Speaker: And I said, yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker: And eighth grade, I was probably six foot 220.
Speaker: And I walked into the eighth grade line to get a physical, and they said, the coach's office is that way.
Speaker: And I said, no, I'm playing.
Speaker: And they said, what?
Speaker: And they said, we're going to win a lot of games.
Speaker: And so that was how it started.
Speaker: I wasn't an exceptional athlete as far as skills go.
Speaker: I was strong.
Speaker: I was big.
Speaker: I was fairly fast for my size.
Speaker: But I had this, I think, something that God gave me, but I had this will inside of me that I would work harder than anybody, you know, in practice just to be that, to be good.
Speaker: And so going through middle school and high school, high school I was a first-team All-State football player,
Speaker: at Atlanta Lakes High School, and I played in the Florida Shrine Bowl, which was an all-star game.
Speaker: I went to four national tournaments for wrestling, and in 2019, I was inducted into the Hall of Fame for high school.
Speaker: Then, when I got out of high school, I went off to North Greenville College.
Speaker: And the reason I went there is because
Speaker: I thought, well, I got recruited by everybody.
Speaker: Florida State, Miami, Florida, they all sent me letters, but I was playing offensive tackle and I was only 6'1", and they wanted you to be 6'4".
Speaker: And they told me, you have a spot on the team, you don't have any scholarship money.
Speaker: And I said, well, North Greenville College was the number one school junior college in the nation for sending players
Speaker: to Division I schools.
Speaker: So that's why I went there.
Speaker: And it just happened to be Baptist.
Speaker: We had chapel twice a week and everything like that.
Speaker: So it was a good transition not to get lost in the things of the world.
Speaker: You know, having chapel twice a week and stuff like that.
Speaker: And I
Speaker: Ended up, I walked on.
Speaker: I would, the coaches put me at fifth string, so there were four guys ahead of me when we walked into camp.
Speaker: By the second week, I was second string, and by the second game, I was starting.
Speaker: And at the end of the game,
Speaker: My freshman year, we had to go to an award ceremony in the chapel, and it was an academic award ceremony.
Speaker: And so the football team was all sitting in there kind of snoozing and sleeping and stuff, and I was nodding off, and the guy on the left of me elbows me, and he said, hey, he said, that old man on the stage just called your name for an award.
Speaker: And I said, no, he didn't.
Speaker: I knew who it was.
Speaker: It was my calculus teacher, Dr. Cook.
Speaker: And so my buddy on my right, I trusted more.
Speaker: So I said, Greg, did he call my name?
Speaker: And he said, yeah.
Speaker: So I went up and received an academic award.
Speaker: It was the Alvin Garrett Memorial Scholarship for the most outstanding math and science student in the freshman class.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: So all these things are gifts from God.
Speaker: It's nothing, you know.
Speaker: I can say I worked, but God gave me the will to work, the ability to work.
Speaker: So, you know, I have these things that are like credentials, awards and everything, but
Speaker: I owe that all God.
Speaker: You know, it wasn't like it was God working through me.
Speaker: Funny story about the academic award is like two weeks later, my head football or an assistant coach comes to my locker as I'm getting dressed and I have my pads on and he says, Coach Beard wants to see you.
Speaker: And I said,
Speaker: Well, four.
Speaker: And I said, he's the head coach.
Speaker: I'm an offensive lineman.
Speaker: He never talks to me, you know.
Speaker: And he said, I don't know if he wants to see you.
Speaker: I said, and my buddy says, what'd you do?
Speaker: I said, I didn't do nothing.
Speaker: So I went to Coach Beard's office and had my pads on and stuff.
Speaker: And I said, you want to see me, coach?
Speaker: And he says, yeah.
Speaker: He said, the dean of the college wants to speak to you.
Speaker: I said, really?
Speaker: He said, yeah, what did you do?
Speaker: I said, I didn't do nothing, you know.
Speaker: I didn't do anything wrong.
Speaker: I didn't do anything, you know.
Speaker: So, he goes, put your street clothes on and go see him.
Speaker: I said, all right.
Speaker: So, I went up there and see him.
Speaker: And he was a...
Speaker: I knocked on the door that opened up, there was a secretary there.
Speaker: And I said, I'm here to see Dr. Epstein.
Speaker: And she says, I know Mike.
Speaker: She says, have a seat.
Speaker: And she called him on the phone and he said, just give him a few minutes.
Speaker: And I must have been sitting there looking nervous because she looked over at me and she said, Mike, don't worry, you're not in trouble.
Speaker: And I said, oh, that's good.
Speaker: So he brought me in his office and he sat me down and he said, Mike, I just want to congratulate you.
Speaker: You're the first student in 120 years, the history of the college.
Speaker: to win an academic award as a student athlete.
Speaker: And I said, that's a shame.
Speaker: And he said, that's what I said too.
Speaker: And he told me how he got through college on a
Speaker: partial baseball, partial academic scholarship.
Speaker: So we talked for a while and then I looked at my watch and he said, listen, if you don't want to go back out to practice, you can hang out here for the last half hour of practice and tell Good Spirit you were talking to me.
Speaker: I said, okay.
Speaker: So
Speaker: So after that, North Greenville decided to become North Greenville University and go to a four-year school my sophomore year.
Speaker: So our head coach...
Speaker: didn't want his players to go to another school.
Speaker: So when West Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, when they all came to look at all of us, he would say, you don't want Mike, he's lazy.
Speaker: You don't want that, you know, there was about three of us that were getting recruited and we all, we got all those coaches that were interested in us suddenly weren't interested in us.
Speaker: So,
Speaker: I left and went to UCF and I played football there for, I was there for a semester.
Speaker: I only played football for probably about a month.
Speaker: I played with Dante Culpepper, but when I was over there, I tore my shoulder up and decided I was done with football and athletics and I was just gonna go to school.
Speaker: you know, that God had given me enough upstairs to, you know, to get through school and do something else with my life, you know.
Speaker: So I came back to USF and I was sitting around with a buddy of mine and USF announced they were going to have that open tryout and it was invitation only.
Speaker: And he said, I bet you 20 bucks you can't make that team.
Speaker: And I said, oh, I've walked on the two college football teams already.
Speaker: I think I could do three.
Speaker: So I went and talked to Coach Leavitt, and I went to the tryout they had, and there was only a couple of us that he kept, and I was like the only one that made the team.
Speaker: But people tell me, I say I played football at USF on the first team, and they were like, oh, I was at that game.
Speaker: What people don't realize is we didn't have any games.
Speaker: We just had scrimmages around the area for that first year.
Speaker: And so I coming in to my would have been my fifth year of college.
Speaker: Coach Levitt and I discussed it and he said he was unable, and I believe him, that he was unable to give a full scholarship to me because I only had one year and it didn't really count for anything.
Speaker: So we parted ways and after that I went to college
Speaker: My major was education.
Speaker: So I had an opportunity to teach Atlanta Lakes High School, ninth grade and, well it's ninth and tenth grade, but it was all math.
Speaker: General math, algebra, pre-algebra, and I think I had one algebra two class.
Speaker: But it was, I went in to teaching with the
Speaker: passion of it is my responsibility for these kids to leave this classroom
Speaker: with more knowledge than they came in here with.
Speaker: And I went from that attitude at the beginning of the year to let's try to keep them in their seats all class.
Speaker: And so... You mean 9th and 10th?
Speaker: Yeah, right?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But...
Speaker: Yes, only lasted one year and then I had a buddy of mine and I was doing odds and ends jobs.
Speaker: I was working in a bakery and Doing other things and he said to me he said hey What are you doing this weekend?
Speaker: I said I don't have any plans and he said I need you to drive a truck to St.
Speaker: Louis for me.
Speaker: It's a pickup truck and I said okay, I'm not
Speaker: I'm not doing anything against the law.
Speaker: He said, no, no, no, it's all legal.
Speaker: I just need your whole five alligators up there.
Speaker: And I said, well, do I have to handle them?
Speaker: And he said, no, I'll get them loaded up for you.
Speaker: So I...
Speaker: Loaded them in the back of my truck and drove to St.
Speaker: Louis six flags over St.
Speaker: Louis and I watched him do alligator shows and it was amazing to me it was like It was
Speaker: I always enjoyed wrestling because I started that when I was six.
Speaker: But it was like wrestling a beast.
Speaker: And if you messed up, you could really get hurt.
Speaker: But me sitting in the audience watching him do it, and he's one of my best friends, watching him do it, I said to myself, you can do that.
Speaker: And so I went down out there to the show, and I said, I wanted to do that.
Speaker: He said, do you?
Speaker: He said, it'll take me three years to train you.
Speaker: And first of all, we had an emcee, and then we had a handler, which is the guy that caught the gator.
Speaker: So he said, first of all, you've got to learn the script, which was like 20 pages of having to memorize it.
Speaker: And that was pretty tough to do.
Speaker: And then you got in front of 5,000 people, sometimes more, and had to do the script.
Speaker: And the emcee was really the one who kind of set the tone of the show.
Speaker: It wasn't the alligator wrestler.
Speaker: You kind of were following the lead of the emcee.
Speaker: So I went on to do that for several years.
Speaker: And in that time is when I got away from God.
Speaker: Now, don't get me wrong.
Speaker: I never did an alligator show without praying.
Speaker: You know, I always prayed.
Speaker: I want to stop.
Speaker: I'm just thinking, first of all, I would never have gotten in that pickup with those alligators.
Speaker: But I can't imagine anybody, even a non-believer, would pray before wrestling an alligator, I think.
Speaker: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker: You want all the help you can get.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: So, yeah, lead us to that moment where you realized that you were coming away from the Lord.
Speaker: I realized that I just... I don't like to turn my back on God, but that's kind of what I did.
Speaker: I was... I had been raised...
Speaker: in church and in christian school and i never really saw what the world had to offer and thought in my humble mind that there was something out there and i chased it and i could never find we traveled the countries we went out to bars we went you know and it was kind of like
Speaker: You know, I tell people, I said, you know, it's like being famous because we were on the news in every city.
Speaker: We're on billboards.
Speaker: We went into one town and look up, and there's my picture on a billboard, you know.
Speaker: And so we went everywhere.
Speaker: People knew who we were.
Speaker: And, you know, and it was kind of like,
Speaker: not as much God and more of what the world has to offer.
Speaker: And that lasted even when I got out of the alligator shows.
Speaker: Oh, I did get bit.
Speaker: And in my fifth show, I got 28 staples in this arm right here.
Speaker: And I got an ambulance ride.
Speaker: I called my mom.
Speaker: I was in Harlingen, Texas.
Speaker: And I called her and she said, what happened?
Speaker: I said, no, I'm all right.
Speaker: I just got a little bite.
Speaker: Just had a bad day at work today.
Speaker: I'm going to get stitched up.
Speaker: And they ended up putting 28 staples in it.
Speaker: And there was about like 15 nurses in the ER.
Speaker: And the doctor said to me, son, I'm sorry.
Speaker: There's so many nurses here.
Speaker: I can chase some of them out of here, but none of them have ever seen an alligator bite.
Speaker: I said, no, that's fine, Doc.
Speaker: I'm used to being in front of a crowd anyhow.
Speaker: So they can go ahead and stay, and we'll get it patched up.
Speaker: So I went on to do it for a number of years after that.
Speaker: Yeah, that was the only time, the only show I. So Mike, now you're realizing that you're kind of, you know, distancing yourself from God.
Speaker: What brings you to that place where you notice that and you say what to yourself?
Speaker: I think what really brought me there, because I kind of got, you know, you had 40 years old and you're kind of,
Speaker: That's the end of the rope for alligator wrestling.
Speaker: You're not as fast and you can't move your reaction.
Speaker: You're just not what you were when you're 25.
Speaker: And we all came to the realization that we can't do this forever.
Speaker: So I got out, focused on catering, kept doing that, still never got back to God.
Speaker: And
Speaker: When I turned 45, two days after that, I had a massive stroke.
Speaker: I was in probably the best shape of my life.
Speaker: I was training in the gym all the time.
Speaker: And it put me in the hospital.
Speaker: And I was unable to move the right side of my body and unable to speak.
Speaker: And I just cried the entire night, the first night I was in there.
Speaker: I cried because I realized then how much I was going to need God moving forward.
Speaker: And I realized how much that I had gotten away from him.
Speaker: And that should have never happened in the first place, but it did.
Speaker: And so I knew that I had to get back to him first.
Speaker: If I...
Speaker: Because if I didn't do that, I wasn't gonna get right physically, heal my body if I didn't have my heart right with God.
Speaker: So,
Speaker: The doctor came in the first night and told me I might never walk again and I might never be able to use my arm again.
Speaker: And he didn't know about my speech.
Speaker: And I don't like hospitals.
Speaker: And I was like, get me out of here.
Speaker: So I ended up walking out with a walker on the third day.
Speaker: And here we are again at that point that's inside of you that made me a good athlete.
Speaker: It's something that God gave me, and it's a will.
Speaker: And, you know, I prayed, you know, that God would heal me.
Speaker: And somebody once told me in college, pray as though everything is entirely up to God and work as though it's entirely up to you.
Speaker: And that's what I did.
Speaker: I went to physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and
Speaker: went to all three of them one time.
Speaker: And I said, you guys won't push me as hard as I will.
Speaker: I went and got a gym membership and started going twice a day and training myself and walking on the treadmill.
Speaker: And then I built up to a jog and started, you know, really spending about six hours a day doing physical therapy and, you know, trying to talk and,
Speaker: I had some printout sheets to work on from that.
Speaker: But that was the changing point.
Speaker: It took me having a stroke to realize that I was away from God.
Speaker: How far away from God I was.
Speaker: The girl I was dating at the time,
Speaker: she was also raised in the same church I was, and she had gotten away from God too.
Speaker: And at the time of the stroke, I sat her down and I said, listen, we have to change.
Speaker: Now, I said, we've got to get back to God.
Speaker: And I know God's in their heart.
Speaker: And so she changed with me.
Speaker: And then we got married.
Speaker: But anyways, to...
Speaker: They found out what caused the stroke was a bad aortic valve.
Speaker: So I went through a couple heart catheters and they, my Sunday school teacher was also my cardiologist.
Speaker: So it was great because I knew this man was going to tell me everything that's truthful.
Speaker: He said, I don't want you to get a cow or a pig valve because those flash valves only last around 15 years and you're young.
Speaker: He said, I want you to get an artificial valve, which means you're going to be on blood thinners and stuff the rest of your life.
Speaker: And so, but he said, I want to put it off as long as we can.
Speaker: because medicine changes every day.
Speaker: And so he said, in a year, something better may come along.
Speaker: So we waited.
Speaker: And I went to the Keys for lobster season, diving about two years after the stroke.
Speaker: And I had this real bad chest pain.
Speaker: And I said, I'm not, I'm done.
Speaker: And so when I got back, I went to him.
Speaker: He did another heart cath and he said, it's time.
Speaker: And so I went in for what was supposed to be minimally invasive open heart surgery.
Speaker: And they were supposed to cut me on the side and go in between the ribs.
Speaker: Well, I was split wide open when I woke up.
Speaker: And they sent me home after about a week and I started swelling, you know, and I was just swelling, swelling, swelling.
Speaker: And my wife, being a cardiac nurse, she said, we're going to the walk-in ER.
Speaker: And we went down there and they did x-rays and MRIs and everything.
Speaker: And they said, if there's a problem, we will call you.
Speaker: And so...
Speaker: They called at like four in the morning.
Speaker: Actually, my surgeon called at four in the morning.
Speaker: He said, get Mike in here now.
Speaker: He's, we got issues.
Speaker: He's bleeding internally.
Speaker: So she rushed me to the hospital.
Speaker: They cut me open again.
Speaker: apparently didn't fix it either because I kept bleeding internally and That's when I was laying in the bed with a breathing tube in and I supposed to be unconscious I think and the doctor came in and told the nurse that he has about a five percent chance to live and That's when I said to myself.
Speaker: I said you don't know my god if he wants me here.
Speaker: He'll be here and
Speaker: But it went on, a few days went on before they did the surgery.
Speaker: And I finally, I gave up.
Speaker: I just asked God to take me home.
Speaker: I was tired of fighting.
Speaker: For the first time in my life, I had that will that God had given me.
Speaker: And I just felt like I didn't have it anymore.
Speaker: I was done.
Speaker: And so I asked God to give everybody that loved me peace.
Speaker: and to take me home.
Speaker: And I went in for the third surgery, and by then my liver shut down, my kidneys shut down, I was on dialysis.
Speaker: And the next thing I know, I'm in recovery again.
Speaker: I'm back in the CV ICU unit.
Speaker: And I had this nurse, and I don't claim to have ever met angels,
Speaker: I'm sure I will one day, but I felt like she, she was the charge nurse and she told everybody else, you take care of everybody else.
Speaker: I'm going to take care of Mike.
Speaker: And she stayed with me the whole time.
Speaker: And even when she, she got my COVID test back and she says, well, I got to tell you, we got your COVID test back and it came back positive.
Speaker: You have COVID.
Speaker: I said, what does that mean?
Speaker: She said, it doesn't really mean nothing for you.
Speaker: You're going to die of a lot of other things first.
Speaker: And then had a grin on her face, and I started laughing.
Speaker: And, you know, it was...
Speaker: I needed that.
Speaker: You know, I needed that sense of humor, you know, going through that time.
Speaker: So I started healing and then they put me in a COVID unit and it was like a five star hotel.
Speaker: It was 10 foot ceilings, wood floors, 65 inch TV.
Speaker: I was watching the Bucks games, you know, and yeah.
Speaker: But they wouldn't let me out because it was a COVID unit and kept me for 16 days.
Speaker: I was in that room for 16 days.
Speaker: And finally, I was got a hold of my surgeon's office.
Speaker: And I said, I need to see him.
Speaker: I need to see him soon.
Speaker: And so he came over and I said, Doc, I need to get out of here.
Speaker: I need to get out of this hospital so I can start to heal.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And I had a drain tube.
Speaker: It was wrapped around my heart.
Speaker: And he said, I don't send anybody home with drain tubes normally.
Speaker: But since your wife is a cardiac nurse and I know what you mean, I'll discharge you today.
Speaker: And I wanted to hug the man, you know, because I just, I was sick of hospitals.
Speaker: So,
Speaker: One thing I just want to mention, we're kind of like running on time here, but your multi-system shutdown, your liver, your kidneys, those are signs that everything, you know, your body and the liver and the kidneys are filter systems for our body.
Speaker: You know, so there in itself, there's a miracle, you know, so you're asking him like, hey, I my resolve is done, but he's providing miracle after miracle because just the fact that your aortic valve wasn't in place correctly is a grand miracle.
Speaker: So we see he's the healer.
Speaker: He's a miracle worker.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker: I think of one thing as you're sharing your story in Proverbs.
Speaker: I believe it's Proverbs.
Speaker: It says, train a child up in the way he should go.
Speaker: And when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And obviously the story of the prodigal son, Mike.
Speaker: Mike, before we end, you have a very important ministry that has come.
Speaker: you know, God has laid this on your heart, which is the five loaves, two fish.
Speaker: Can you share with our listeners about that?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: In fact, that was just about what I was going to get into.
Speaker: So when I got home and started to heal and started to recover, I started getting closer to God, reading my Bible and everything.
Speaker: And I said, this life is no longer mine.
Speaker: This is your life.
Speaker: I gave it up in the hospital.
Speaker: What would you have me do?
Speaker: And it just so happened that we had family friends, good family friends that lost
Speaker: women in their lives separately it was two separate families but both the families came from means you know they had money and so my father came to me and he said I will pay for the food if you cook it so we did dinners for the funerals for the memorial services and
Speaker: And both men came up to me and said, how much do I owe you?
Speaker: And I said, you don't owe me nothing.
Speaker: It's been paid.
Speaker: And they said, come on now, I know it costs something.
Speaker: And each one of these men could have probably bought my company.
Speaker: But I said, no, it's paid.
Speaker: And in a way, that's what Jesus did for us.
Speaker: You know, he said, how do I get to heaven?
Speaker: You can't.
Speaker: Your debt has already been paid, you know.
Speaker: So that feeling in my heart that I got from telling them, it led me to start Five Loaves and Two Fish.
Speaker: And I wanted to get out there and reach people.
Speaker: First of all, with food, people that were hungry, that didn't know where the next meal was coming from.
Speaker: And second of all, reach them with God.
Speaker: Because that's, you know, more important than food.
Speaker: You know, I'd rather have God than food.
Speaker: So five loaves and two fish, you'd say, feeds them physically and feeds them spiritually.
Speaker: It does.
Speaker: That's our mission statement.
Speaker: Feed them physically and feed them spiritually.
Speaker: So anyone who wants to connect with you, learn more about five loaves and two fish, how can they do that?
Speaker: They can do that by going to fiveloaves-twofish.org.
Speaker: And it's the number five and the number two.
Speaker: Fiveloaves-twofish.org.
Speaker: We are fairly new, but we're going to eventually get to a place where we will need volunteers.
Speaker: What I'm asking for from people right now is prayer and prayer.
Speaker: as far as guidance, that we stay in God's will.
Speaker: And then down the road, we're going to need volunteers, and we're going to need donations.
Speaker: And you can do all of that on the website.
Speaker: You can sign up to volunteer.
Speaker: But most of all, prayer is what we need right now.
Speaker: Amen.
Speaker: Well, you definitely have our prayers here at Saved by Grace.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: Mike, I want to thank you for sharing your amazing testimony.
Speaker: We see God's love, his redemption, his restoration, his healing power.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I went to the Lord seeking a passage in scripture for you, and this is what he impressed upon my heart.
Speaker: It's Proverbs 19, 21.
Speaker: Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Amen.
Speaker: He always does prevail.
Speaker: Yeah, he does.
Speaker: And we know that his plans and his thoughts are always way better than ours.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And beyond ours.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Amen.
Speaker: So, Mike, would you mind closing us out in a prayer?
Speaker: Not at all.
Speaker: Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, for all that you have done for us, Lord.
Speaker: Thank you for giving me the chance to sit here with Sylvia and share your story that you have done through me.
Speaker: And Lord, I just ask that, you know, if there's somebody out there that doesn't know you, that they will reach out and get to know you.
Speaker: If there's somebody that's gotten away from you,
Speaker: that you're always there to take them back.
Speaker: Thank you for all you've done for us.
Speaker: We ask all this in your name.
Speaker: Amen.
Speaker: Amen.
Speaker: That's been another episode of Saved by Grace.
Speaker: I thank you all for tuning in.
Speaker: Till next time.
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