The Eric Metaxas Show - Ken Fish On His Recent Time in Australia and the Upcoming Nashville Conference 'Illumination'

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

Ken Fish shares stories on his recent time in Australia and the upcoming Nashville conference 'illumination' October 8-11. Register at https://kingdomillumination.org/?utm_...

Welcome to the Eric Metaxis show. Did you ever see the movie The Blobs starring Steve McQueen? The blood-curdling threat of The Blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his scene because The Blob was supposed to eat him. But he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest.

Eric the Texas! Hey there, folks. You've joined us at that time of the week where I do a new segment on this program. Every week we do one of these is called Everything You Always Want to Know About God, but we're afraid to ask. I wrote a book 20 years ago called Everything You Always Want to Know About God, but we're afraid to ask. It's just fun Q&A questions about God.

I wrote a sequel called Everything Else You Always Want to Know About God, I'm afraid to ask. And then I wrote a third book, which makes it a trilogy. And that third book was called Everything Always Want to Know About God, but we're afraid to ask the Jesus edition. So every week we're going to be doing a segment like this one where I read some stuff or comments on some stuff from the book. Just a lot of fun material. So last week we were talking about the existence of God.

Can you prove God exists? And I ended by saying that I think you can in many ways, but the most compelling argument for the existence of God, which I actually wrote about in one of my recent books called Is Atheism? them dead has to do with what's called fine tuning or the design of of the universe where you look at things and you say this couldn't have just happened. It looks like there had to be a designer. And the one that I want to start with today or the example of that, which I find very compelling,

has to do with the sizes of the sun and the moon and their distances from Earth. Grace Payne, you're my interlocutor in these segments. So can I start with that? I've just got it right here. Please, yeah. Okay. So this is about the sizes of the sun of the moon and their distances from Earth. And this might sound a little bit odd.

So hang with me. Okay. All right. So first of all, we've got to establish some stuff. As everyone must agree, the sun is about 93 million miles from the Earth. Grace, will you agree with that? I will. Thank you.

Then you're falling into my trap. Okay. Would you agree that the moon is about 240,000 miles from the Earth? About so. Okay. All right. So anybody can get these figures and do the math themselves. But what these two figures lead to, as your calculator will show,

is that the distance from us here on Earth to the sun, is almost exactly 400 times the distance from us here on Earth to the moon. Are you with me so far? I'm with you. Okay. All right. So this is where it gets weird. And when I discovered this, like when I wrote the book,

everything I always wanted to know about God, I'm afraid to ask, I think it was like I was using a Britannica. I was actually like looking this up in the pages of an encyclopedia. And I found that, you know, the distance from Earth to the Sun, as I just said, 93 million miles, great. Distance from the Earth to the Moon, about 240,000 miles, great. Okay, you divide one into the other and you're like, oh, so the sun is almost exactly 400 times farther away from us than is the Moon. Great.

Okay, then this is where it gets very weird. the diameter of the sun is almost exactly 400 times the diameter of the moon. And what does this mean to us? Okay, so if people are tracking, distance from the earth to the sun is about 400 times that of the distance from the earth to the moon. But the diameter of the sun is almost exactly 400 times the diameter of the moon, which means that when you look at the sun and the moon from the vantage point of Earth, they look exactly the same size.

Now, you've really got to think about this to understand how loony this is. Like what are the odds that, you know, one of these things is 400 times farther away than the other? But it just happens also to be almost exactly 400 times bigger than the other, which means from our point of view, they look exactly the same size. So I'm thinking, okay, if God were designing a planet, you know, it would be kind of nice, just for symmetry and beauty to get the sun and the moon, you know, to look exactly the same size, even though they're millions of miles apart and gigantically different in size from each other. So the whole thing is at least very interesting, but it's actually much more astonishing when you look at the moons of other planets in our solar system because none of them comes close.

close to what I have just said. It's so crazy. I mean, just to give you an example, our moon is about 1,500 miles across. The moons of Mars are 9 and 17 miles across. They're like a couple of glorified boulders, basically. It's weird that they're even called moons. You could also realize how weird it is that we have one moon

and one sun, and they look exactly the same size, all these other planets either have no moons or most of them have many, many, many moons. Jupiter has, I don't know, you know, officially 12, but there are many more. Our planet has this mind-boggling, once in a solar system, super symmetry, one moon and one sun, that to us look precisely the same size. It really is a bit odd. Well, yeah, that's what I keep saying. It's at least odd.

It at least makes you think. Like, that's so bizarre because we get perfect eclipses, perfect eclipses. Because, I mean, well, anybody gets that. The moon and the earth have to fit precisely over each other for total eclipses to occur. But they do happen almost as though it were planned for our bodies. benefit. So I just, I really love that. That's, that's only one example of what I'm talking about. But it was the first time that I thought, if you're honest, you have to say, that is so weird. How come I've never heard that before? And most people have never heard this before. I never

heard it before. I don't even know how I stumbled on it in 2005 when I was writing the book. I thought, this just doesn't make any sense. If you're a student of astronomy, you know, at all, and you know the sizes of different moons and planets and stuff. You just think, what are the odds that our single moon would be exactly the same size as the sun from our point of view so that they fit over each other as perfectly as they do? So I think, you know, that is really compelling to me. And I think, again, does it prove that God exists? I just want to say that I just want to give people something to think about. And so there are a lot of examples of this in my book, Is Atheism Dead?

This segment that we're doing here each week is based on my book. Everything always wants to know about God, but we're afraid to ask. Before we go today, I want to remind you of our friends at the Herzog Foundation. If anybody listening to this program today is interested in homeschooling, or you've thought about it. You don't know whether you can do it. You're interested in getting your kids out of public schools because you understand that what they're learning there

is not what you would want to teach them. Maybe you're interested in Christ-centered K-12 education. Our friends at the Herzog Foundation are there to help you. They're not asking for anything from you. They want to help you. Herzog Foundation.com is their website. Herzog is H-E-R-Z-O-G. Herzog.

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Now, you travel incessantly. You just got back from Australia? Yeah, I was there for just about a month. and I visited four cities or four metropolitan regions. Let's see, we went to, we started in Melbourne, but we weren't just in Melbourne. We went to another fairly large city in the state of Victoria called Bendigo, and we were in one of the suburbs of Melbourne as well, out in the hills. Then we went over to Adelaide, which is also in the southern part of the country, and we were there for several days. we went to Perth for a week, and then we ended in Brisbane.

Was it cold in Adelaide? It was cold in both Melbourne and Adelaide. Unusually cold, actually. Now, let me get this straight. They're in the Southern Hemisphere. Yes. So they're currently having winter. Yes.

So how cold was it in Adelaide? I mean, when, you know, roughly. I think one morning it was four degrees Celsius, which would be about 40 degrees. compared to New York on a cold, blustery day, maybe that's not too bad. But the homes are not as well insulated as they are in the United States. And the Australian government has things that they do to discourage energy usage, including surtaxes and things. And as a result, many times whether they're hotels or homes or just buildings that we might be meeting in, a lot of times you really want to have a long-sleevee shirt and a sweater on, even if it's 40 or 45 degrees.

I will keep that in mind in case I get whisked to the Southern Hemisphere, which I don't anticipate, but anything can happen. Anything could happen. You, well, I'm glad you're back in the Northern Hemisphere. Welcome back, by the way. We've missed you. And you, I just want to, people, I mean, I've had you on this program so many times over the years. And I know that a lot of people have been introduced to, I don't know, the fact that healing is for today, prophecy is for today, all that crazy stuff is for today through my conversations with you.

And I have that effect on people. I don't, well, I'm really glad about that. And I want to say that you have an event coming. Give us the details that you're in October, you're going to be doing another conference. This is the third one, I guess the third annual. That's right. It's a third, it's the third in a series. This one is called Illumination, and it will be held in Brentwood, Tennessee, which is a suburb of Nashville.

And the dates are October 8 to 11. We'll be at Bethel World Outreach Church. And for those who would like to sign up in advance and get a discount, the website is kingdomillumination.org. Kingdomillumination.org. Right. as you might suppose without the kingdom on the front, that word illumination is highly sought after as a domain. I can only imagine.

You know, in the 18th century, they would often, for celebrations, they would do these things they called illuminations. Are you aware of this? I'm not. No. Tell me about that. It's, I've done, because I'm writing the book on the American Revolution, this keeps coming up that when there was a huge event, they would have illuminations.

And illuminations was, I mean, you think of the technology of the late 18th century. You know, what did they have? They had candles, basically, and they had fireworks. But the candles, they would light, with candles, they would light up things that were, you know, they would use like oiled cloth, and they would do big illustrations or things,

and they would light it from behind with candles. And so they always called it illuminations, but it was a big thing in the 18th century, and I just find it. It's just sort of charming because, you know, we don't have that anymore, but we do have your conference, Illuminations.

We also have video walls, of which there will be two. Oh, video walls. Close enough. That's very close. Kingdomillumination. kingdom illumination.org is the website. Kingdomillumination.org is the website. And you said it's October 8th through 11th in Brentwood, Tennessee. Okay. So Ken, whenever I talk to you, I know that there are a

lot of folks who listen to the program who, you know, they don't, they don't believe miracles are for today. And part of the reason for that, let's be clear, because it's happened to me, you pray and pray and pray and nothing happens. And I think you say, well, I guess God can do anything, but doesn't seem that he's doing what I'm asking him to do. I don't see miraculous healings. When you do see these things, it builds your faith. But you do understand why a lot of people are disinclined to take this seriously, because in their experience, it just, it doesn't exist. Yeah, well, I have my third daughter. She'll be in September. She was born in a very, very, I hate the word trauma.

It's grossly overused, significantly and grossly overused in today's society. But she did have a very traumatic birth. They used forcips to get her out. She had the cord wrapped three times around her neck. She was cyanotic. She had a broken collarbone. We didn't know if she was actually going to make it. And there was brain damage to her.

as a result of all of the complications of her birth. She'll be 21 in September, and she is still not a normal child, or nearly, well, she's an adult legally, but we have legal custody of her, but she's nearly a 21-year-old, and we won't be celebrating with alcohol when she turns 21. So we've prayed for years for her healing, and so when people say they've prayed for a long time and they've seen no breakthrough, I know what that feels like. but let me tell you a story about my daughter, Carissa. It's not a recent story, but it's nevertheless a miraculous story,

which shows how God can intervene at any point he wants to intervene. When she was eight years old, she was still not potty trained because of her processing problems. And I went to a church where I'd been invited to speak, and the pastor was introducing me to the crowd. And in the middle of introducing me, he literally switched out of the introductory remark, excuse me switched out of the introductory remarks pointed at me and he said and by the way he had a son at that age or at that time who was also eight years old who also had not potty trained but a week before he had done so one week before and so he pointed at me in the middle of the introduction

and he said can fish thus sayeth the lord as the as a man in prison within two weeks as a man in prison would count the days, the Lord will visit your daughter with the same grace with which he just visited my son, thus saith the Lord. And then he switched right back into the introduction that he was giving. So it was just this interesting ellipsis, and it was over in a few moments. So that began a timer, and how would a person in prison count two weeks? Fourteen days. So we started a countdown. down. And there's more to it, but I'm just getting to the nub of this. Anyway, on day 13, my daughter Carissa was watching television. We had a care provider. She wasn't actually watching TV. She was watching a video on the TV screen. But anyway, she got up, walked into our downstairs bathroom,

pulled down her own pants, went to the toilet, wiped herself, threw her diaper in the trash, and asked for underwear, and she's never gone back to wearing a diaper. Now, God intervened miraculously on that one piece of the healing that she needs, and we've seen further progress on another major category, but it's been a progressive healing. And then the third area of need is her speech, which is still, I would say, quite underdeveloped. And so we watch wait and hope, and I know the frustration that people may feel when they say they don't believe it because they've never seen it. We're living in that tension of, on the one hand, God visited us in our own home.

He knows where she lives. And on the other hand, she's still not fully healed. Well, that is so beautifully and well put. I'm very grateful to you for sharing that story, that personal story. Because that kind of sums things up, doesn't it? When I think about my own faith, I think to myself, there are many things that I've prayed for that don't come to pass. there are some things that are of significant concern to me now, where I'm not getting the answers from the Lord that I would want.

I'm not seeing anything. And you think, what's going on? But, but I know that in the years I've been working with walking with the Lord, I have seen miraculous things. I have seen over and over and over miraculous things. The Lord has spoken to me in visions that have come to pass. So when you have the experience of seeing God move miraculously, you were just sharing, you know, most people think, what?

That's not happening in my Presbyterian church or whatever it is, that the pastor could hear prophetically from God, declare it. Yep. I mean, most people listening to this program, they don't go to churches where this kind of stuff happens. Right. The pastor declares something, and you go, what the heck was that? And then it actually happens.

This, ladies and gentlemen, you think Ken is making this up? He's not making this up. This happened and let it be an encouragement to you and to me. We'll be right back talking to my friend Ken Fish. I'm back talking to my friend Ken Fish. Ken, I want to talk to you about anything you want to talk about, but I want to remind folks that you have a conference coming up October 8th through 11th in the Nashville area, Brentwood. It is called Illumination. and the website is kingdom illumination.org, kingdom illumination.org. Well, I'm happy to talk about anything

you want to talk about, things that have been going on. You just mentioned you were in Australia for a month, but what you just shared about your sweet daughter, Carissa, whom I've had the privilege to meet, she and you and your wife, Beth, you know, you struggle. But what you just shared, I think really this has been my challenge. There's an example. I wrote a book, of course, you know about called Miracles. And in that book,

there is the story of a friend who has been paralyzed for many years. But when she was first paralyzed, there was an outrageous miracle of God that prevented her from dying.

and the miracle was really a miracle. It's not like, well, maybe it was a miracle. No, no, no, no. This was an absolute miracle of God that prevented her from dying. So the Lord miraculously saved her life, but has not prevented her all these years from being seriously paralyzed. And so I think this is the conundrum and that we do live in this tension. And I think it's appropriate for us to talk about it because I think there are a lot of people that have a very sloppy view about miracles. Like, oh, God answers every prayer. God answers it. Like, you know, well, it's not so simple, folks. This doesn't mean that God doesn't answer prayer. But saying that he answers every prayer or you demand the healing and like he said it in his word and that's that, that's really no different than saying,

well, God doesn't heal today. It's a little bit more complicated. And I think we have to have the humility to try to live with the mystery and with the complexity. It's, it's a little bit more complicated. It's, It's, which is not easy, but I think it's sometimes simply what God requires of us. You know, there's a term that was popular in the Middle Ages and coming into the Enlightenment, Deus X Machina, which means God from a machine. I think there is often a tendency among humans of all stripes. I mean, it doesn't matter what color you are, doesn't matter what language you speak, doesn't matter what continent you live on.

that you want to turn God into some kind of a divine slot machine or some sort of a divine vending machine. You know, you put the coin in, do people use coins anymore? You approach with your Apple pay or your Samsung pay and you, you know, you tap it on the pad on the machine and, you know, you get whatever it is that you wanted to buy a package of cookies or a Snickers bar and it comes out. God doesn't work that way. God's relational. And with that, there are certain things that define. relationships. If you violate the terms of a relationship, usually those relationships break down. Anyone who's ever had a friendship that's gone sideways or a marriage that's broken down,

maybe even ended in a divorce, you know how that can occur and you can think about the steps of breakdown. I think many times with respect to prayer, not in every case because we could break this into a lengthy teaching, actually, but in many cases, is, you know, God has preconditions to answer our prayers. And sometimes we don't even know what they are. And that's because we're not that familiar with his word. So that might be a reason we don't get our prayers answered. Other times, we have damage in our lives.

And damage can come through things that we ourselves have done to ourselves. It's self-inflicted damage. We call the word sin theologically. A lot of people react viscerally against that term. So I'm really trying not to use it, but that is what I'm describing when I talk about self-inflicted damage. But, you know, there's other times people sin against us. They wrong us. Maybe we've been the victims of verbal abuse or physical violence.

Maybe in the home, maybe we got mugged on the street. We could go on and on. Sexual violence would be another example of this or sexual assault. So any of these kinds of things, and there would be others beyond what I've named, any of these kinds of things create damage to us as well. Now, it's not self-inflicted damage, but it's still damage. And if that damage isn't resolved, and we generally do that through a combination of forgiveness prayer, inner healing prayer, sometimes deliverance from evil spirits. but if that isn't cleared, then the answer that we're seeking, it might not actually occur. And many times people say, well, God can do anything. He's sovereign. Why doesn't he just do it?

Well, that's the same kind of logic that says, if God wants to convert the heathen, he will do so himself, which was something stated directly to Adoniram Judson, who was a great missionary in Burma in the 1800s. He was candidating to be a missionary and he was stood down by one of the elders in his church with that exact statement. Well, God generally doesn't convert the heathen, as we used to call them, the unsaved, on his own. He uses human agents. Why doesn't he just do it on his own? I don't have an answer to that because he chooses not to. He wants partners.

He wants people who will co-labor with him, follow his word, obey him, and go to other nations to proclaim the gospel there or increasingly in America to proclaim the gospel among the unsaved who live among us, including the many who maybe formerly were Christian, who have turned away from the Lord and walked away from the faith. So God needs partners. And so when we think about people who aren't getting their prayers answered, I think it's more, I don't want to say complex, because that makes it sound like it's difficult. But I think it's more nuanced than just a simple, I prayed God didn't answer, so now I'm angry with God. Ken Fish and I will be back in a moment. Stay tuned.

I'm talking to Ken Fish, my friend, Ken Fish. Can you have such a simple name. It's not like people can misspell Fish. Thank you. Thank you very much for having a simple name, Ken Fish. Now, Ken Fish, you were going to share something, and I think I cut you off or we were just going to, you were going to talk about something, and I don't remember what it was. You will. So last year, our conference had a different name. to it, and that was ignition. And one of the speakers last year was on the platform. And he's known

for his Signs and Wonders Ministry, and he also is quite prophetic. He got up on the platform. And I don't remember if it was at the end of his message or the beginning. But what I do remember is my wife and I were sitting in the front row. And our granddaughter had been born just shortly before. And like my own daughter, Carissa, our granddaughter had had a distressed birth. And she went into the, I can't remember what they call it, but hypothermic treatment for children that have distress in birth. This is kind of standard fair stuff nowadays. They cool the body down to 94 degrees and they hold them there on a cool pad. They give them medication to, comfort them. Anyway, she had this spot of brain damage, and it was confirmed with an MRI. And this

speaker, he didn't know anything about any of this at all. But he got up on the platform, and he said, there's somebody here, and you either have a child or a grandchild, and there's brain damage right here, and he put his hand here above his right ear. And that's exactly where our granddaughter's brain damage was. And again, we have an MRI confirming it. And he said, I'm going to pray. I believe this baby is going to be okay. Well, no one in the room responded. So I turned to Beth, and I said, he's talking about us. And so we stood up, and we were only a couple steps from the stage because we were in the front row.

And he prayed over us, and he prayed over our granddaughter, her name's Sala. And that was that. Well, just about six weeks ago, Sala went in for an overall neurological evaluation motor skills. and there was some concern what this would result in. And that zone of the brain controls motor control, speech, all of those kinds of things. And her report came back. She is at the high end of normal. Now, did she even need that prayer?

I don't know because she was a baby and she's in the developmental process. But it was very encouraging to us that we had received this word of knowledge that he had given. about this condition. It was the exact part of the brain. He didn't have the name of the child, but no one else in the room responded. And the last medical assessment she's had is that she is at the high end of normal functioning, and we will have a new MRI on her in a matter of a few weeks, certainly by the time illumination comes. I expect to see, but don't yet know for sure, that they will find no brain damage there. So we see. see even at this conference that we're going to be hosting, we see very powerful prophetic words.

I could tell you a number of words that people received last year that have come to pass. Some of them deal with healing. Some of them deal with family situations that needed resolution. Some of them dealt with directions that people were going to go, whether in ministry or professionally, whatever it is. So there were a number of prophetic words that were given. There were a number of dramatic and miraculous healings. including one person who'd had a very long-term sciatic condition and could hardly walk and was

instantaneously healed without anyone even laying hands on them. They were just called out and boom, they got healed. So we try to create a context at our conferences where the Lord can move as he will, and we have speakers who are attuned to him in order that these kinds of things can go on. Well, you know, this brings up a standard question. People often say, like, well, I don't need to go to church. I can just pray wherever I am. Or I can talk to God in the woods. I don't need to go to church.

Similarly, I think people could say, like, well, why do I need to go to a conference? Why can't God heal me now? I pray, whatever. And that's a legitimate question, or at least it's legitimate in the sense that I want to ask it of you. What is it, you suppose? and this is not to gin up your conference. It's just the reality of it. Why is it when you came to his vineyard here in Bethel, Connecticut, stuff happens?

What do you suppose that is, Ken? I mean, do you think it's because God has a particular anointing on your life and when you go places and you bring people who are similarly anointed because you brought a number of team members that something happens there that ordinarily wouldn't happen? And what do you suppose? Well, it may be something of the ministry I've been given. And so, you know, the Lord provides gifting and anointing commensurate to the ministry.

By the way, there are other gifts and things that could be given to people who have different types of ministries from what I function in. But these are the kinds of gifts that I routinely am around and function in. But I think there's another factor in play, and it's often forgotten. In the book of Hebrews, it says, let us not forsill. the gathering of ourselves together. Now, that book was written in the first century. So already in the first century, in the earliest years after Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, people were apparently abandoning going to church. And since it's called the book of Hebrews, presumably they were Jewish Christians. But anyway, the writer to the Hebrews, we don't know who it was. I mean,

there's a lot of speculation. But anyway, this writer said, let us not. forsake the gathering of ourselves together. I think many times Christians say, I don't need to go to church. Well, actually, you do need to go to church because if you don't go to church, you're actually disobeying God. And here's what I know happens. When you are gathered together in the assemblage of the saints, and there is a faith environment. Now, let me be clear here. I know there are many churches that don't have much faith. They're dry. Not much has happened in a long time. Oftentimes, the preaching is boring. Maybe the theology is defective and doesn't really even anticipate that God is a living being. And, you know, the scripture says anyone who comes to him must believe that

he exists and he rewards those who seek him. So people are like, well, I'm not even sure if God's real. Sometimes the preachers are saying this depending on what denomination they're in and where they've had their theological training. So that's not the environment I'm talking about. I'm talking about an environment where people come. They're infatuated with or fascinated with the Lord. The worship is rich. There is an environment of faith. And people expect God to do something. They may not know what to something. Yes. Well, we want to hold you over for another segment. I want to remind people you have a conference coming up in October. People can find it at kingdom illumination.org. Kingdom illumination.

that's in the national area, October 8 through 11th at the Bethel World Outreach Church. Ken Fish and I will be back in a moment. Stay tuned. Welcome back talking to my friend Ken Fish. You can find him at Orbis, Orbis, Ministries. So Ken, you were in Australia. Anything you want to share from your month in Australia? Yeah, so we did 16 series of meetings in various churches and with various ministries while we were out there. I mentioned early in the show that we were in four cities or metropolitan areas. In one of those, in Perth, we had one night that instead of doing a kind of a conventional, you know, preach and now pray, we set it up more along the lines of what today are called

healing rooms, where people came specifically to receive prayer. And we had 54 people who came for prayer that night. I broke the team down into six teams. and then I kind of floated among them and gave some coaching, intervened in a few of the prayer encounters in order to accelerate what was going on. But you know out of 54 people who came from ministry, 52 were healed. Now the other two, I can't explain what happened there. We only had 15 minutes with every person. So that's a pretty short interval of time.

As you know, Eric, because you've been around me, sometimes I take considerably longer with people. But that's all we had. so that's all we gave. And out of 54 people, 52 were healed, each received 15 minutes of prayer. I think that's an astounding testimony to God's willingness and graciousness with respect to intervening in our worlds. I think anybody who comes to illumination should expect that they're going to encounter God in a dramatic way as well. I can't say it'll be a healing. It might be a prophetic word. It might be some sort of something that happens that gives them focus for their life. My own cousin came last year, and her entire life was completely redirected by what happened to her there. And I actually was not involved in it at all other than the fact that I was leading the conference.

Well, I mean, again, one of the reasons that I want to have you on the show is because I want people to be exposed to this kind of ministry and to understand folks that most of what we're getting in our churches is really not. Enough. God wants us to hear from him, to experience words of knowledge. I mean, it's something mind-blowing when someone you don't know is prophesying over you and you know that God has to be saying this because there's no way this person could know what they're saying, you know, unless there's something. What could happen with your own pastor when I was at your church. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When we were up at his vineyard, there was some prophecy over Carrie Baldess. And she, it was, it was unbelievable to me because I know her story, how she has been through hell. And the woman who was prophesying didn't know any of this stuff.

And, you know, with specific, it was just, it's powerful. And I think folks that, you know, we're going to go to a, we're done here. But I just want to say this is, this really does deepen your faith. and so if you can find a place to, you know, to be open to this. Now, I know, Ken, there are a lot of people that they're put off by this. It's just not, you know, it makes them uncomfortable. But if you're really desperate to hear from God, if you want to know God is real, well, you know, sometimes you have to go places that you wouldn't normally go.

And that's just the way it is. Well, Ken, we've got 30 seconds, anything you need to share. Otherwise, I'm just going to give your website again. Yeah, I'm going to say this. you know, all of the things that we've talked about today, whether it's what happened at your church in Bethel, Connecticut, whether it happened in Australia, whether it happened with my granddaughter, my daughter, whatever. Any and all of this, what it says very simply is that the God we see in the Bible is still alive and well. He still loves people. He still wants to intervene in their lives

in a beneficial way, and you should reach out and try to connect with him. Amen, amen, amen. Can fish, my friend. Thank you so much. Good to be back with you, Eric. Thank you.