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Jun 26, 2023Liked by Donny Mac

Graham Hello

From my heart to your heart

Out of all your podcasts, this one is the most powerful... "Divine Guidance as our Compass ".

You have divinely started Season II of your podcasts...

Yesterday I got emotional in several parts, listening to the reports of your guests.

I am very sensitive to the subject, because, like Jesse, I have a negative feeling in relation to my father, I thought I had forgiven him, for abandoning me when I was a child and teenager, but yesterday I felt a little bit of resentment in my heart... It's like an emptiness, a void forming in me...

After seeing and listening to you, I gained strength and now I am determined to fill this void in my heart.

Thank you Graham for the amazing podcast, and for bringing such powerful guests in the faith... And also why not say... Fun.

I loved every bit of the conversation, and I also really enjoyed seeing you so well and happy.

Thank you, Donny Mac and Jesse Hutch, you are blessed men who have brought us strength and determination.

I send you a thousand stars of light πŸ’₯

And much love ❀️❀️

Infinite blessings πŸ™

IndiaFreitas πŸ’™ πŸ‡§πŸ‡· ☘️ CheersπŸ₯‚

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Jun 26, 2023Liked by Donny Mac

So incredibly grateful to all of you gentlemen for sharing your gifts, your faith, your journeys and your hearts with the world. We are so blessed and fortunate to have the opportunity to hear these types of conversations and utilize parts that resonate with each of us to grow, expand and follow the guidance and faith we find to live a fulfilling and inspired life. Thank you all again, much appreciated πŸ™πŸ»β™₯️

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Great podcast Graham! Great to speak with you, Donny, and Jesse! If anything, it may have helped motivate me even more. It’s all about listening to God’s guidance as He speaks in many ways! Taking that leap of faith can be a little frightening, but it also brings about a great peacefulness! Thanks again Graham for an amazing podcast! All the best to you in your travels! Cheers!

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Jun 29, 2023Liked by Donny Mac

I listened to the story about his friend was going to kill himself and he happened to call that night and it changed his mind and his life. I had a similar thing happen with me. I was asleep at night and I heard God telling me I need to get up and write something. I picked up a pen and paper and just started writing, not even thinking about what I was writing but just hearing what to write. I wrote a poem about suicide. My niece happened to be a cutter and she tried to kill herself the day before that, luckily she survived. I gave her that poem after she regained consciousness and when she read that poem it changed her life. She stopped cutting and she's alive and healthy still to this day! If I wouldn't have gotten up that night, and not wrote that poem, I don't know if she would still be here today or she would have tried to kill herself again and succeeded. I thank God for waking me up that night and giving her that poem. I actually put that poem in a book I wrote and I heard from two other people that said that poem also changed the lives of their loved ones.

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wonderful. Thank you for sharing

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Jun 25, 2023Liked by Donny Mac

Powerful. Well done. Thank you for sharing πŸ₯°

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Jul 6, 2023Liked by Donny Mac

To all three of you, I am so thankful that I got back to finish listening to this conversation. Since my Mom passed away last year, I've been dealing with some lingering feelings of guilt where that is concerned and have had a hard time reconnecting to God and listening for his guidance. The beauty of my faith in Jesus Christ is that I know that His love is always with me, even when I am not "in touch". He is carrying me through my lack of "tuning in" to Him.

I've been struggling to get back to my daily devotional reading although one time when I did, I heard a very powerful message. I seem to need to be in a specific state of mind to hear God clearly and the struggle is getting my mind calm enough to be in that frame of mind or openness. In the past, reading the bible and concentrating on what it is trying to say, reading a devotional and looking for what God is trying to tell me in it and praying about it have been primarily when I hear his Guidance the most but sometimes it has come out of the blue as well. Here are a few examples...

Just listening to this conversation was a sign to me that God was "tugging at my sleeve" which prompted me to put the video on pause and pray about making a call I have been avoiding. After asking for God to help me with the conversation and before I could talk myself out of it, I picked up the phone and made the call to my very busy Stepson (father of our Grandchildren) because I needed to break the ice after not talking in a long time and since there was a family incident I was worried could be affecting our relationship with him. It ended up being "perfect timing" where he was waiting for an electrician to show up on his jobsite so he had time to talk. The funny thing was, neither of us spoke of the incident but our conversation was like it always is when we do talk which is easy, comfortable, delightful and lots of give and take catching up with the latest happenings and trying to figure out a time for a visit which is always a challenge. After that I thanked Jesus for helping me and finished listening to your podcast.

The powerful message I heard on the day I was searching for a sign in my devotional was "How dare you, HOW DARE YOU!!!...I kept hearing those three words in my mind, over and over again even though they were not words in my devotional reading. But I had been praying for Gods help...help to relieve and resolve the guilty feelings I was having surrounding the circumstances of my Mom's last week and how I handled things. It hit me powerfully and quickly that "HOW DARE YOU" was God's way of saying to me, how dare you believe you were the one in control during the time I was preparing to bring your Mom home to me, your role in it was insignificant to what I was orchestrating and in many ways part of MY plan. I won't lie and say that the guilt doesn't resurface once in awhile but I now think of this guidance from God along with it every time and it does make me remember how we try to make ourselves more important than we really are when God is at work...and I do believe that when he is preparing to bring us home to His Glory, God is more present and loving to us than we could ever even imagine.

It was actually during the time of my fathers death that I, as an adult, recommitted myself to my Christian faith and Jesus for the first time since the seeds were planted in childhood. My father was such a quiet faithful man and the week leading up to his death was an unbelievable faith building experience. He was not afraid to die and in fact could not wait for God to bring him home. He chose going to be with God over having surgery to fix what was going on in his body at 93 year old. At the time I was separated from my husband and was at the lowest point in my life emotionally. A friend from high school who I knew well at the time but hadn't stayed in contact with reached out to me after hearing about my Dad. Over the next two months she would occasionally send me a text asking how I was doing (God tugging at my sleeve). It turned out we both attended a mini reunion of classmates while people where home for the holidays and knowing she and her husband were "born again christians" (what I used to call them), I went over to them and burst into tears and told them I needed to talk with them. A couple of weeks later they had me over for dinner and after I said to them, "what if my husband can't change"? They told me that no one could change my husband's heart, only God could (which removed the pressure I felt to make it happen and I lost the bitterness I was holding onto with those few simple words). They started praying over me and during that prayer I felt compelled to lift my head up and I felt something come down and wash over me. It's hard to explain but I had confirmation that is was God fully and completely accepting me into his kingdom and the Holy Spirit entering my heart more completely because I was euphoric and I mean unbelievably EUPHORIC for several weeks after, happier than I had ever felt in all my life leading up to that time. At their encouragement I started a bible study, my husband and I went to separate therapists, we started going to church together and got back together one year later and are still married 13 years later going on 28 years together.

Your conversation helped to bring me back to remembering how this works and that those "tugs to my sleeve" or promptings are not to be ignored but acted on in that very moment or soon after. The descriptions of your "magic paintings" are similar to mine where the feeling is of unimaginable grandeur or euphoria or significance but also narrowed to a pin-point reflection point representing how he touches each of us in such personal ways. In fact it just now reminded me of a DVD I saw several years ago by Louie Giglio called "Indescribable". Here we are in this very moment being "led" or guided by our Father in Heaven. It is truly amazing what you gentlemen have brought forward to those of us either searching for or have needed to be reminded of how truly amazing it is to be in God's presence and in a relationship with our higher power. Thank you so much for your time, Karen

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Beautiful Karen. thank you so much for sharing.

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Jun 29, 2023Liked by Donny Mac

Yes, it's like a voice when God talks to you but you don't hear it. It's more like a feeling that becomes a thought. It's like you just know and you have to listen.

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Jun 29, 2023Liked by Donny Mac

I have so many God stories! God has used me and worked through me for years! Sometimes, yes, it can be hard because you don't want to do some things. You have to tell people things that you don't want to that are hard to say sometimes. But I always appreciate that he's still continues to use me!

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Jun 29, 2023Liked by Donny Mac

Having a relationship with God brings peace of mind and heart. You will still have hard times and sorrows, because life has ups and downs. The difference is, when you have a relationship with God, you can still feel peace and joy because you know God's with you and will help you get through whatever it is and everything will be okay in the end. God gives strength, courage, and hope!

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Jun 29, 2023Liked by Donny Mac

In my opinion, the way to explain God's love for you is like if you had been really stressed out and your body is all tight and you've gone and had a complete body massage and then sat in a whirlpool right after you get out and your body just feels like jello, and you are so relaxed and so at peace. That's what God's love feels like for you!

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Jun 29, 2023Liked by Donny Mac

I also have had experiences with God more than once where I felt like he was telling me something. One of my most profound experiences was when I woke up at night I felt like he was telling me something and I have a recording of it to this day. I heard God telling me to remember "Tuesday June 29th. 2:48." That year June 29th did not land on a Tuesday. It wasn't until 2 years later that June 29th landed on a Tuesday. It was 2021 exactly at 2:48 I received a message. I have to say it was quite amazing to have been told this by God 2 years earlier and have it happen 2 years later at the exact date and time!

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Jun 29, 2023Liked by Donny Mac

I've been listening to the podcast about faith and healing and prayer. I would like to share something with you about my own experience. About 3 and 1/2 years ago I begin experiencing pain in one of my shoulders and then the other. Not long afterwards, I started to experience pain in my right knee. I found out that I was developing arthritis in both of my shoulders and also in my right knee. I began getting shots in my right knee for the pain. Within about a year and a half, I begin to also have pain in my back and also my left knee. Between the pain in my knees and my back, I was starting to have a hard time walking and sometimes had to use a cane and could not go very far. I had scheduled an appointment to get a shot in my left knee and also about 3 days before that, I had a scan done for my back because I could barely move at this time because of the pain. They did the scan and then 3 days later I went in to get my knee shot and I joked with my doctor that normally getting the knee shot hurts because of how big the needle is and the liquid that goes in it that burns. But today I told her I don't think I'll even feel it because my back hurts so much worse! I explained to her that I had a scan done three days earlier but still had not heard back about the results of what they found. So after I had my knee shot done she said we can look at the scan and she can let me know what she finds. She showed me the scan and explained that I had two slipped discs and then also to my vertebrae had begun developing severe arthritis that was debilitating. She said for the slipped discs they could try therapy and if that doesn't help over time I would need surgery. As for the arthritis in my vertebrae she said I could get a shot to help with the pain but there's nothing they could do to stop it that over time it would start to deteriorate my spine. She helped me to set up an appointment for the following Tuesday to get a shot in my back for the pain. This was on a Friday so on Sunday I went to church and after church services my pastor always offers that if anyone needs prayers to come up afterwards. So I decided to go up to him and got in line while my mom went out of the sanctuary into the hallway. As I got up to him, he laid his hands on me and anointed me with oil and said a prayer over me and I walked away. As I walked away, I suddenly realized I could bend down with no pain. I could twist my back around without pain and I could raise my arms above my head without pain! My pain was completely gone! I literally ran out of the sanctuary crying and waving my arms above my head telling everyone that I had been healed! Everyone saw me walk in that day hunched over and in pain walking very slowly because I couldn't move very much. And now, they saw me jumping up and down and waving my arms above my head and crying! It was very exciting and miraculous! I wanted to share my story to let you know miracles really can happen!

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Jun 27, 2023Liked by Donny Mac

I love all your podcast, but this has been my favorite! It was very uplifting and inspiring!! I love all the talk about GOD,JESUS, and THE HOLY SPIRIT! I am a very strong believer in all three! I think LOVE and FAITH are two of the most important feelings in this old world! Graham, you talk a lot about those two things, and I appreciate that very much and I have a lot of respect for you! Keep on doing these great podcast! We need them especially the things going on in this world! Thank you, you are a very SPECIAL young MAN!!! πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™πŸ₯°

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Thank You Graham! This podcast was POWERFUL! The 2 gentlemen, Jesse and Donny Mac were so inspiring. I could tell you couldn't get enough. Just knowing there is a barn in Tennessee in the middle of a field and men go there to express whats on their heart or someone elses heart is so comforting. It gives me hope that maybe the world is changing for the better with God there to lead them. All of your podcasts are exceptional but this one was AWESOME.!! I loved Kerrys comments also. May we all listen! Blessings on you all!!

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This podcast was so inspirational in multiple ways. What was most impactful to me was how this conversation was respectful, emotional, practical, personal, heartfelt, spiritual and, most importantly, provided guidance to all no matter where we are on our own journey in life. Thank you Graham, Jesse and Donny for this gift.

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Best podcast I’ve heard.

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