The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Blake Koteita And Jason Stuhlmiller Joined Nate Kibler Live On "The White Mountain Ministries Show!"

Episode Date: November 5, 2024

Blake Koteita of Harvest Table and Jason Stuhlmiller of Table 61 joined Nate Kibler live on The White Mountain Ministries Show! The White Mountain Ministries Show airs live Tuesday from 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. Watch and listen to The White Mountain Ministries Show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Fountain, Amazon Music, Audible and iLoveCVille.com. “The White Mountain Ministries Show” is presented by Opening Doors Real Estate.

Welcome to the White Mountain Ministry Show. I am your host, Nate Kibler. I thank you for watching, for listening, for praying, and for being a part of what the Lord is going to do through this show today. Hey, this ain't church, y'all. It is all about the kingdom of God. I'm excited for my brothers in Christ that are live and set with us today, Mr. Blake Cotita and Jason Stumiller, they are

joining us live from the Shenandoah Valley. We're going to get with them in just a moment. But hey, today is election day. It's a big day for our country. So continue to intercede, continue to pray, continue to take responsibility and accountability because what we do in the body of Christ, it does. I got to get my microphone adjusted here, but go out and vote guys, go out and vote and still love people, still honor people, still whatever happens tomorrow, just remember we are going to be okay because Jesus Christ is still King. So bless you. I thank you for watching the show today. I also want to thank our sponsor and partner in Opening Doors Real Estate. Go check out Melanie Morris.

They're down by the Dunkin' Donuts, their new brokerage that is right on the corner of Albemarle and Ruckersville. And check her out to buy and sell your house. She is amazing and she loves the Lord. All right. So Judah, can you get these guys on the screen, Jason and Blake, and they look nervous as they should be. All right. You guys are on. Say hello, fellas. Hello. What's up? Great to be with you guys. Yeah. Thanks for having us, Nate. Love you guys.

Honored. So this is being titled The Bro Show. If you don't know that, because y'all are my brothers, we have history together. That's right. We've been out on the streets together. We've been in foreign lands together, blessing people, sharing the gospel. We've done events together on both sides of the mountain. We've had tough times together.

We've discipled over people together. We've done a lot together, honestly, in only a really short amount of time. And so you guys are our kingdom connections of the day. And, you know, when we met, it's interesting because Jason and I, even though he doesn't remember me, I do remember him. We met way back in college. I won't even say what that is, but technically we met over 20 years ago. How about that? And then when Brian Hume came, a mutual friend came to speak at your home church in Harrisonburg, we came to see Brian and that's where we met. And Blake, you were also there that day and that's where our relationship really began. Yeah. The rest was history.

Yeah, and since that time, like I said, we've gone to Costa Rica together and done a lot of amazing things, and we'll continue to. But these guys are doing great things for the kingdom of God in the Shenandoah Valley. And why don't you guys just tell everybody listening a little bit about yourself. Jason, we'll start with you. Yeah. Well, first off, I want to say after that first interaction of you coming to our house, and Brian was there. Triplets.

Triplets. As well. Yeah, triplets as well. Yeah, we brought the whole family that day. I think they got into my son's gun cabinet. I went up to Nate, and I was like, hey, Nate, would you begin to pray? And if you feel led, just share over whoever the Lord's putting on your heart. And he's like, oh, man.

He's like, for sure. He's like, I didn't know how to operate or how to move in that without stepping on toes. And so that was one of our first interactions in the new time. But it was cool. And I definitely instantly felt a connection in moving forward, so it's been good. We had a lot of mutual friends. Yeah. Both, you know, you worked for the FCA for many years.

My earthly father was on the board of the FCA for many years, so a lot of connections there. For sure. Yeah. Yeah, so the Lord's doing a lot over in the Valley. We're actually next Monday, 11-11, we're going to be celebrating one year of an event that we did, 11-11, at Bridgewater College, where there was just a crazy outpouring of the Lord. The Holy Spirit showed up, spontaneous worship for hours. The young people just flocked, and man, we've kind of been riding that wave for this past year,

and so it's been a beautiful thing to see what the Lord's doing in the valley. 11-11 is a special day for me as well because that's the day that I was baptized. The second time I was baptized went two days after I was delivered. And really, when I say when I was 13, I accepted Jesus as my Savior. But when I was 37, I gave my life to Jesus. That's good, yeah. And so, yeah. But Blake, tell us about you, young man. Yeah. Me and Jason, we run together. We I came to the Valley in 2010 or nine. I had a radical encounter with the Lord in California and the Lord asked me to move to Virginia. So I moved to

Virginia. Yeah, COVID hit and we were, you know, just being led by the Lord in our hearts. And we felt the Lord just wanted to do something different, do something new. And so we just just started to, you know, doing fellowship in the home by ourselves. And then we ran into Jason and Crystal Stuhlmiller, and we started doing home fellowship together, home church together. And we really ran from calling it church. We ran from any form of leadership or anything like that. The same church, y'all. Huh? The same church. The know the church y'all huh the saint church the saint church y'all and so yeah the lord just moved out his way and so we're still doing it

today we've grown and most importantly the people have grown yeah for sure and uh have uh just leaps and bounds in the lord and the spirit and uh so uh, so, yeah. Well, you know, we like to ask some of the tougher things on this show and it's important. Um, you know, I know that you guys both come from different backgrounds as far as your, you know, also with your walk with the Lord and Jason, you are someone who, if I understand correctly, you've been walking with the Lord for a long time, but maybe not necessarily walking in the kingdom for a long time. And you came out of some more religious type things. And we talk about this a lot on the show because, you know, this is not about religion. This is not about doing church. This is about intimate relationship with Jesus

Christ and really walking in the kingdom of God. So maybe you could talk a little bit about that transition. I just feel like these are good stories that are important for people to hear. Yeah, definitely. I was definitely one of those kids they call a drug baby where my parents drug me to church. And it was, yeah, it was Catholic church at that point. And, gosh, I can, my dad was in the military and we traveled all around the U.S. and Germany. And I can remember my dad making me be an altar boy for a German priest while we were in Germany and me not even knowing what I was doing. You know, my dad walking me through some coaching, guiding things.

So just a lot of what I call religion, you know, just a tradition of this is how it needs to be done, this is what it looks like. And that happened all the way through high school until I kind of figured out for myself, like, yeah, this is not the way I want to do it. And I basically rebelled, pulled away. You know, my parents transitioned to a different church, and their requirement for me was to go to a church.

So I chose the Catholic church because it was 50 minutes long, and nobody was going to get in my stuff. So through that process, you know, I just— So your parents' requirement for you was that you go to church? Yes. And that was in high school? That was in high school, yeah. Yeah.

And, yeah, just, you know, ended up finding myself in some tough situations, bad decisions, hurt a lot of people. And through that, in my college years, the journey of chasing a professional baseball career. I started at one college. We actually met at a party at JMU, and that's where I remember meeting you. Yeah. I think you look a little bit different now. Thank you, Lord, for seeing us, for who you created us to be and not who we were in that moment yeah that's right but chased the dream of uh college baseball and

pro baseball and ended up at at uh eastern mennonite university as my third school it took me six years to finish the the normal four-year track and had uh some kids um at a wedlock in that process and there was a, you know, my wife. God didn't send you to hell for that, did he? He didn't, no. I'm still here. But, man, you know, part of my story, a big part of it comes through my wife's transition

where she was just radically encountered by the presence of the Lord. We were living together, had multiple kids, and trying to do life, and it just wasn't working. God wasn't at the center. And there took this place of surrender from me. I had to surrender my heart. And from there, life has been way different.

The joy of the Lord has filled us. And obviously, yeah, we've walked through a whole lot of stuff. Everything's been easy since then, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. We're super easy, right? Marriage is easy. History is easy. Chances super easy right yeah but no marriage is easy it just becomes easy yeah right yeah for sure but yeah it um the the lord has it's so funny like man i think the lord in my life specifically moves in seasons and um you know they're they're five to

seven sevenyear seasons where he just will burden my heart for something, and then there will be a shift. And, you know, a couple, three years ago. How old are you, dude? That's a lot of seasons. Yeah. Now the real ones.

You guys aren't nervous. The real ones are starting to come out a lot. We'll just say Nate's older than me, so that's. No, Nate is not older than me. You guys went to school together. Aren't you 44? I'm 44. Yeah, I'm not. Oh, you guys went to school together aren't you 44? I'm 44 yeah I'm not

oh you're not 44? no I'm not I'm going to reveal my age sorry that I did that yeah I will he's 43 Jason is older he's 43

he will turn 44 when? when's your birthday? tomorrow? December December what? December 2nd that's why the Romans 12.2 sticks in my heart.

Do not conform to the patterns of this world. Be transformed through the renewing of your mind. That's good. The day I was born. So anyways, we'll get off track. But like I said, we are friends, we are boys, and we're going to have fun. But about stepping out of religion into the kingdom, just a brief description. What does walking in the kingdom look like versus just doing church? Yeah, I think directly what I think of is an obedience to what the Lord is saying.

Well, yeah, in me, I got stuck up into the process of just doing it, doing what I was told, doing what I thought was right. And man, when something inside of me was awakened to, man, there's this relationship with Jesus. Like I can hear his voice. He speaks to me. It's shifted everything. And yeah, so, you know, daily, my heart and my goal is to be obedient to what the Lord's saying. And that's where I find, I find myself walking in. And we talk about kingdom. The process of church has obviously evolved and morphed over the years. And, man, I just want to create a space, right? Create a space for the Lord. I can remember in 2020 listening to a podcast from Michael Miller at Upper Room Church down in Dallas, Texas. And he dropped this phrase called ministering to the

heart of the Lord, ministering to God. And it wrecked me. You know, 10 years of vocational ministry, I had always learned receive from the Lord and give to people. It was programmatic. It was ministry to people. And what I learned is all we have to do is create space, create space for him to show up. Yes, he chooses to use us. He doesn't have to, but he chooses to. But if we create space, he's the one that impacts hearts. So that's what walking in the kingdom is really about.

And I bet you have a lot more joy and a lot more freedom than you once did. The joy of the Lord is our strength, and it is not a gospel of bondage. It's a gospel of freedom. And I think i told one of you guys this recently i was delivering a message and you know i started dancing and i was just happy it was the joy of the lord it wasn't me trying to be a show put on a show or anything

like that and i actually saw something in in the audience start manifesting on something and it's because they're lacking joy yeah and and. And you see the joy. But that's what the Lord desires for us, to be able to walk free and walk in joy. So cool. Yeah. Did you dance like David? I don't know how I danced. Hopefully not.

But I did something. Did your clothes fall off? Thankfully not. So Blake, tell us. I know you have a much different background. And I don't even know if you grew up. I don't even think that you necessarily grew up a believer, right? Yeah, I grew up in the church, yeah. You did. Yeah, I grew up in the church. My grandfather traveled the world, planted churches, was considered a prophet, prophesied over people.

And I didn't understand it, and I believed in the Lord. I believed in Jesus. I believe He was real. But my life, I never met the Lord for myself. You didn't live a life that looked like Jesus. No, I went on everyone else's faith. So,

yeah, I had an amazing childhood. I would say I grew up as a boy doing all the things and I enjoyed my life. The home life was broken. I didn't see Christianity modeled too well in my home um amazing parents

i love both my parents greatly um but i i ended up choosing a life of of drug addiction and partying and and um i explains a lot yeah i'm messing with you, dude. Love you. Yeah, I might be a little off sometimes. Silly. But, so yeah, I grew up just, you know, kind of went left for a long time with hurt and pain. And I didn't know who I was, but I found fulfillment in all the things that I shouldn't. And it was fleeting fulfillment, really. And I really did. I enjoyed partying. I enjoyed doing drugs that I shouldn't. And it was fleeting fulfillment, really. And I really did. I enjoyed partying.

I enjoyed doing drugs. I enjoyed drinking. I enjoyed going to parties. But it was fleeting. And I always was left empty. But one day I was at home. I was burning a CD on LimeWire back in 2000. I don't remember what it was.

I remember the name. I can't say it. We had Napster back then. Okay, fair enough. Yeah, Napster was kind of on the end as LimeWire was coming out. And I was making a CD where I came across worship music.

And for some reason, I downloaded some songs from this worship. Because you remember LimeWire would give you a list of just anything. I'm sure some people remember. I don't remember. Well, you type in something and it would give you tons of random stuff. You're a little bit younger than us, Blake.

We'll give you some credit, okay? Okay, yeah, that's right. I am a couple years. And so anyways, I downloaded worship music and I came across this song. I played it and within 20 seconds, every word that the girl said, it was like a key went into my heart and unlocked this treasure chest. And I felt the Holy Spirit come into the room, and I just, I wept and wept and wept profusely. And for years, I would, one of the things I would always tell myself was, man, you can't cry. Like, you're so hard-hearted, like, you can't even shed a tear.

And I wanted to cry. Like, there were certain things that needed to have tears behind it, and I couldn't have a tear. That's all it was. I didn't cry for 20 years until the day I was delivered. Yeah. And so, man, when I met the Lord, I knew. Tough guys, aren't we? Yeah.

You look at these boys. They look tough, don't they? Yeah. I had to shave and put a nice shirt on today because these boys are stylish and they're tough and they're cool in the world. But they love the Lord. So, yeah. You had an encounter with the living God and it changed your life. Yep.

He changed your life. Yep. The Holy Spirit led me through that experience. I did not have anyone in the room telling me what was happening. By the Spirit, I knew I needed to ask the Lord to forgive me. I was extremely sorry for the life that I was living because I had met a clean, holy, pure, living God, literally. And it just made me want to live like him. It made me want to give my life to him.

So I just repented. I said, sorry, Lord, I'm ready to live for you. And that's where things started for me was in that moment. And I went out to the party that night, and I was like, man, we were having a bonfire, and I'm looking at the fire. And I just remember, like, I could have stared at the fire for a million years. I felt so good with God. I was just bricked. You had like your burning bush moment, it sounds like.

Yeah, and so I mean I was so. Amazing how God will talk to us through the fire. Yeah. And so my buddies were trying to get me to do drugs, and I was like, man, I'm done. I'm done. I didn't tell anyone my experience or encounter. I really didn't know how to share that.

I just was like, I'm done. Well, for about three months, I asked the Lord, Lord, what do you want me to do? Like, I'm still in my friend group and I still have like, I'm still sinning, but now I can't enjoy it anymore. I literally had no more enjoyment. You know, the Bible says, taste and see that the Lord is good. And it's like the world completely lost its flavor. So all the things I was doing, I had no taste for anymore. Corey Stone just wrote in and said, my journey started with music about him too that led me to seeking him. And now I cry more tears of joy than I ever had before. Come on. Yeah. You know, sound with God, there's vibrations and sounds. And when God created the

universe, he spoke over the waters and the vibration created. And it was life. It was living. And when we are operating in the realm of the kingdom by the spirit of the Lord, when we speak, when we release sounds through instruments or when we preach or whatever it is, there is a frequency that causes demons to flee. There is a sound that causes people to receive a tender heart because it breaks the stony heart and it allows the river of God to begin to flow so anyways yeah

I ended up getting a call from my grandma three months later and she said hey we want to surprise granddad for his 70th birthday we want you to come to Virginia we'll fly you there and I heard the Holy Spirit in my belly say that's where you're moving so I packed everything and went to Virginia so now I'm happily married three three kids, amazing wife, Belinda Cotita.

We got a lot of people watching today. Thank you guys for watching. Please share the show, guys. This is how it's being watched all over the world. These guys I know are going to bless many people today. So you guys, if there's all about it, if there's anything that I ever hear come out of Jason Stuhlmiller's mouth more than just about anything, it's one word, it's four letters. We both grew up as athletes. And what word do you think I'm talking about, Jason? One word, it's four letters. Yeah, and it's a good, healthy word.

Hello? Team. Oh, team. Team, yeah. Jason's always talking about team. So you guys are building teams. You're discipling people in the Valley. But I know that you're really actually doing things

to transform and impact the community in the Shenandoah Valley. So talk to us about team and what that looks like for you guys. Yeah. Man, I think I'll start off. Every New Year, it's part of mine and Crystal's goal to find ourselves worshiping in the new year. And for the past few years, the Lord has always kind of given me an instruction or a word for the year. And two years ago, the Lord challenged me with, Jason, I haven't called you to build ministry.

I've called you to build people. And it shifted. You know, I was transitioning from the fellowship of christian athletes to what the lord has had to start and walk in and um you know you know barb shaw says the best we every every day we have to get better at dying you know and and as that that comes down to the systems yeah die fast die as fast as you can the systems that we learn if you don't it's just gonna hurt yeah it hurts worse right because it's gonna happen so yeah the the the lord i i saw a vision um around that time and it was it was it was two different visions in one and i saw a parking lot and i saw a line of people

and one one line was walking in single file behind one person. And the Lord said, what is the breadth that they are covering in that? And I was like, okay, the width of one person. And then he showed me a line of people with arms linked walking across that same parking lot. And he asked what the breadth of what their coverage was. And it was, you know, it was endless. And the Lord just started to download in my heart, like, man, this is how Jesus discipled. He discipled his ones to create teams and to go into all the world to preach the gospel, right? And somehow along the way, we've kind of found ourselves following people or getting behind the one line thing of I can't do ministry.

I have to serve this man's ministry. I have to work to get to this place until I'm ready to be launched. And, yeah, I don't miss it. We're really missing it when we think that, too, by the way. Okay, good. No, I firmly believe that. I believe that we're called to raise up people, right? A lot of us call it sons and daughters, right? Mothers and fathers

produce sons and daughters. And as we raise up people and we send them out, we don't raise them up to stay. I don't raise people up to have a building full of people. No, it's to raise people up to send them to their destiny. What is the Lord calling you to do? And yeah, so that's kind of what team has looked like for us for the past three years. We've been able to partner and start this group. It's a discipleship group called Encountership. I want to say what you were saying too. Even Jesus, even though he was fully God, he was still fully man.

That's right. And even Jesus, when he walked with God, is omnipresent. But when Jesus was here as a man, he could not be everywhere at one time. Right. That's why he sent the disciples out two by two by two by two. Yeah. Right. Because he couldn't be everywhere at once. So he raised up the disciples, just as you said, he didn't raise them up to stay with him. He raised them up to send them out. That's right. To take over territories for the kingdom of God. Everywhere those disciples went, they were taking over territory for the kingdom of God. Everywhere those disciples went, they were taking over territory for the kingdom of God. And that's what we're called to do today.

That's right. That's good. Anything on that, Blake? Yeah, I mean, for us, we have done the same with each other, and God's called us to do the same thing within the realm of just what we're doing. And Belinda and I, we both own a couple of businesses and, and through, through our business, like we've, we've really also have seen that as a discipleship.

The Harvest Table in Bridgewater, Virginia. Check it out. I gave you a free plug today. Thanks man. Free. Grammy's ice cream date in Virginia. Oh, there you go. Tag them all. No, but, uh, you know, that's the, that's the thing for me. You know, that's, that's an assignment from the Lord. Like I was never looking for business. I was never looking for that. I was always looking for him. And my greatest joy in life was, it was to know the Lord. You know, John 17 says that eternal life is to know him. And so from that place, man, He just began to do things. It gets talked

about on every show, John 17, so thank you for being the one to say it today. It's usually me. Well, he said John 17 earlier. That'd be one of his go-to passages. John 14. The Holy Spirit in there a lot, but the Holy Spirit will teach you all things. I almost said that earlier because you got delivered, you had an encounter

with the Lord, and I believe the Holy Spirit started to become your teacher. That's right. Sorry, keep going. John 17. I can bring it back. The most important thing he taught me I'll just say this was when I encountered the Lord, I didn't know the word.

I couldn't even understand it when I would read it. I began to ask grandpa how do you where should I read how should I read the word he said start in the gospels well first of all I asked the Lord reveal the word to me Lord

and I started in the gospels and it was like a light switch went off everything I was reading was like it was already inside my belly because the spirit was confirming so I was learning Him by the Word. When I came across a passage that said, when you pray, go in your room and shut the door.

And so I was like, everything I was reading in the Bible felt like Jesus was speaking to me. So I shut the Bible. At this season of my life, I was 21. My dad had a full-time job. I didn't work. I would go into my room, and I would shut the door behind me, and I would pray.

And I would get on my hands and knees and I'd cross my hands and I'd get on the end of my bed because I thought that's how you were supposed to pray. And I'd be just begin to pray and I would start to connect with the Lord. And then all of a sudden the Holy Spirit would fill my room and I'd begin to weep and I would begin to cry and I would begin to find life in the face of Jesus. I will add to that that often times there are people watching the show who don't really know how to pray or who God is or where he is

we think we are just out there praying to the heavens like he is right here. The best way to learn how to pray is to do it. That's right. That's one of the ways that we teach people in the place of prayer is that you host a prayer meeting and just give people an opportunity to pray. And then the Holy Spirit comes on them and they realize, I need the Holy Spirit to pray.

Exactly. And I always say if more men, if more tough guys, I mean, we're like in our flesh like jocks, right? Right. Well, at least us. Former athlete. Well, Blake's the one of the only guys I've ever met that still finds a way to go to the gym on a mission trip.

That's true. Had a great gym. We won't talk about the bridge. There you go. We can go there. The Lord set me free that day. That was beautiful. Only because Nate was terrifying me no i'm just kidding y'all are distracting me what was i getting at you gotta be led by the lord remember

you gotta get off your agenda and just let flow right now there we go he's always been on me about the agenda tough guys tough guys that you know we think that prayer is soft even like so many christ, like, we'll go to church and we'll read the Bible, but like, we don't really pray. Right. I mean, it's amazing. If more men knew the power in prayer, we would be doing it. And we are three, not to toot our horns, but we are examples of that. Our life every day filled and lived by and through prayer.

And it's amazing the things that you see happen when you have a life of prayer. I mean, yeah, to me, the number one takeaway for my life would be carve your life out. Yeah, for sure. Center your life around prayer and getting in the Word. Because that's where you meet the King. That's where you meet the one who is life, the way, the truth, and the life. We want to shift the culture. We have to pray.

Absolutely. I mean, we were talking about talking about today some people you guys were there and it's like if we think that we don't have the the power of the ecclesia to change elections to shift things that the enemy wants planned we're we are being deceived that's good this morning was beautiful by the way oh yeah guys we've been rolling just for anybody who doesn't know we've seen people getting delivered today we've had seen other men we've prayed for been crying and being set free of stuff and it's that was like before noon real men cry yes real men do cry that's what i said i had not cried for 20 years when the lord touched me i cried for two days two days i mean all the lies you know we're told from the time we're young as as athletes right and maybe it's military like real men don't cry.

That's a lie. But there are seasons you don't cry. I will say that. Yeah. I mean, I'm not like boohooing all the time. Right. Yeah. Anyways, we're going to shift.

So we're going to talk about discipleship some because I know we've already been talking about discipleship some. But, you know, you guys have, you know, I believe a very important calling because you're stewarding young people that are really hungry for the Lord. And that is not, I've been able to play, I think, a special role in that where I get to come over and bless people and pray and speak and do events. But you guys are stewarding that on a daily basis, which is a blessing and an honor, but that is hard work. Like discipleship is tough. So I don't know what direction you guys want to go with that to talk about. Nowhere to hide, right? What did you say?

There's nowhere to hide. Literally, yeah. At that point. I feel like, man, maybe three years ago. Y'all really poured out, and I give you a lot of props and credit and honor for that. And your wives, too. Grace of God, yeah. Yeah, three years ago, I was processing the Lord.

What does discipleship look like? And as I studied it, I saw a lot of programs, I saw a lot of curriculums. And as I began to study the life of Jesus, what I saw is he invited people into his life, into his space. And he actually brought himself down, right? As the man, the God child, right? The Lord in flesh, he brought himself down and began to walk with his disciples. It's at the lowest place. Yeah. And I've often said, like, man, we have to invite people into our life. Like, what happens when we play church or when we play the

game is everybody sees the best side. They see the the best hour of my week and what does it look like for me and my wife to have an argument and to recover and people watch that right they have to watch the good the bad and the ugly and see it because we still have to be glorifying the lord and it even talks about what that looks like to walk with the lord right because we think that it's you, sometimes our culture has taught us that we're only living for the Lord or as we're living for the Lord, it's for show. But no, it matters what we're doing in secret as well. The enemy does not want us connected. And if we talk about eternal life,

eternal life is to know Jesus Christ, it matters that we also have intimate relationships with each other. That's right. I mean, you know, one of the most powerful things that the Lord gave us as a set of lenses is he said, you'll know them by the fruits, you know? So anyone we do life with and bump shoulders with, like, and that goes across the board for all people, like your fruit speaks.

You don't even need to see how messed up you can be and how good you can be. You know, it's about your fruit and the way you walk with the Lord. Thank you for sharing that part of the verse. Everybody always wants to talk about beware of false prophets. You will know them by their fruit. That's right. Yeah. We forget the second part of the verse. Yeah. But I think a big part of discipleship boils down to this other four-letter word called love. And, you know, John 13, 34. That's the best four-letter word, by the way. Yeah.

Jesus gave us a new commandment in John 13, 34 and 35, and he said, Love how I've loved you, and by this love people will know who you follow. And, man, as, like, in discipleship, that's what it looks like. It looks like loving well. It looks like going out of our way. And in this season, we've been able to walk with a group of younger people, older people as well, but just to create space to love well, you know, like discipleship, in my opinion, is all about equipping and giving opportunity, doing life. It's hungry people, actually. And I think one of the cool things that we've been able to discover is community discipleship,

where community is discipling community. And it's not a one-man show. It's not the one person bringing the word or the law every single time. But there's space for each person to take a step. But it is biblical for that as well. It's open to have a full you know

I didn't want to shut it. Yeah, so I mean God gave gifts to the church, right? Some to be apostles prophets evangelists teachers I believe that's Ephesians 4 yeah it's been the

scripture of the year okay it's kingdom I'm telling you in the body it's been like the scripture of the year well it's God's

it's God's government that's how he rules and reigns in the earth it's through his people and so you gotta have leaders you gotta have specific people in place but it's to raise up

more. And let's not put God in a box and let's not put His people in a box. Well, I don't want to, you know, so many times, you know, we're in such a building of the church season and so many people, as soon as you start saying things about the church, people get hurt or they get offended. And I'm not

necessarily worried about people getting offended because that's all Jesus did. But I think that the way we've done things for a long time may have gotten top-heavy. I think that God's structure is God's structure. And His structure is good. It's governmental. That's how God does things. He does things with structure and order.

It's all throughout the Bible. And so the way that order is done necessarily isn't always done the right way. So I think we're in a season of the restoration of the church. We're in the season of restoration of what a true pastor is. We're in the season of what an evangelist is. But we're all called to walk. We're called to embody them all. Jesus embodied embodied them all. Yes. You know, if you go to a region, the evangelist lives in you, the apostle lives in you. Yeah. And there's seasons, there's seasons that God will bring other, those out in you more than other seasons. I had seasons that was more evangelistic everywhere I went. I was sharing the gospel, praying for everything that walked.

And then I went into seasons of just teaching. It's amazing what the Lord will teach you as soon as, like I said, you start to put yourself in a box. Because there was a period of years where everybody was calling me an evangelist. I'm like, all right, well, I guess I'm the evangelist in the fivefold. And then the Lord's like, not that we ever put that aside. Now you're a talk show host. He shifts into a new season and calls you to do things you would never even think that's right now you're a talk show host now i'm a talk show host for the kingdom of god it's a beautiful same call different

assignment yeah exactly so you know we we talk about this and we are connecting regions you guys live in a different region you're in the shenandoah valley i'm in central virginia but there's a interlap that is that is is really happening and that was a big part of bridge the gap uh by the way i'll go ahead and give a plug for bridge the gap because and i talked to you guys about this i'm like i'm not going to do it again just because it was amazing this year like yeah we wanted to be because that's what the lord's calling us to do and people were asking about and it, and then the Lord put it on our heart. But we will have Bridge the Gap again, January 18, 2025. So we're excited about that. But the Lord called us to do that, to connect the regions.

He showed me one time, we were building a house. I was looking at the mountains. He said, so many people see these mountains as a barrier. He said, it's not a barrier, it's a bridge. And the Lord is using us to connect both sides of these mountains so maybe jason you can talk some on what you see even just specifically in the shenandoah valley that the lord is doing to transform that region yeah i really feel like what the the heart of the lord and obviously this is just for the the community of christianity in general but but specifically in the Shenandoah Valley, it's a Psalm 133 unity.

And the Lord is, he's linking arms with multiple different ministers and ministries to come together and realize like, hey, it's not the Table 61 show. It's not the Harvest Table show. It's not the White Mountain ministry show. Like he's calling people to come together to put their agendas aside for kingdom purposes. And it looks like the product is always the same, right?

It's, hey, we want to reach souls. We want to help people grow. We want people to be able to walk into the fullness of who they are. But it's walking together and what that looks like. And that Psalm 133 unity, man, it's something that we have to fight and contend for. Yeah, so, I mean, thinking of multiple ministries in the Valley that we've just been able to just say, hey, you know, we're going to come together and we're going to focus on praying and welcoming in the presence of the Lord in the city.

And as we do, His presence shifts things. It changes atmospheres. And we've done an event for years called Open Heaven. I never forget, by the way, I'm going to interrupt you. I never forget the time that we were doing the encountership, and the Lord was teaching you new things, and you had your script. I had my plan.

I was ready. It was hard for you, but it was beautiful because you were just like, Holy Spirit, just have your way. And it's so beautiful because we all, most of us have that point where we have to get to that place. That's right.

We just have to relinquish and let the holy spirit lead yeah that's good yield yeah i've had many of those moments yeah i mean it doesn't yeah i mean i get what you're saying but it was this powerful to see that you you were the shift it was going to holy spirit you're leading right yeah yeah so you mentioned the word bridge and you know really when a couple years ago when we started we we really felt like what the Lord was doing was building a bridge from the local church to the local community. And there's a need. There for a long time ago, maybe four years ago before we launched ministry,

I was like, all right, well, I found the right way. I found the way that we're supposed to do church. And the Lord started to lovingly rebuke me. And like, well, there's one wrong way to do it, and it's to not do it. There has to be so many different expressions because the way that the Lord chooses to engage with all of his people is different. There's not one right way. We miss that a lot because sometimes we say, well, this is what God's doing.

Okay, well, this is what God's doing through you. This is what God's doing through you. But he might be doing something completely different through me. And there's purpose and specific intent. I think we miss that a lot. And we need to honor when we see God doing that in someone else rather than thinking that we need to somehow get them to, you know, when God's doing something like that.

It would be scary to have Blake Cotita as a talk show host. I'll leave that to you, my man. We're having fun. Thank you guys for watching. I see Crystal Stumeler. Thank you. Tana. What's up, Crystal?

Tana. Jennifer Horst. Jennifer. Pat Reed. Joe. Joe Hoy. Joe. Yes, Blake.

Joe, where you been, man? We have people I see watching from Costa Rica. Shane Lilly's watching. Did I already say Shane? Costa Rica, my people, our people. Yes, our people. We are bit already, and I had it on my heart, but I didn't know if I should go there. But I do feel like the Lord wants us to go there because this is real talk. And, you know, I'm going to be going to Costa Rica, back to Costa Rica tomorrow. And the Lord called us on the first Costa Rica trip. The three of us went together. That's right. The Lord gave me the vision, but there were specific reasons why you two were both supposed to go on that trip. Do you agree with that?

Yeah, 100%. I mean, the Lord showed that, right? So, you know, we talk about honor and we talk about religion versus kingdom. You know, in the kingdom of God, there is no offense in the kingdom of God. Circumstances don't dictate who you are. You see the love in people. You don't, you know, see the, the, I mean, even if we do see the flaws, we have to see people the way that God sees them. But here's the thing when you are connected and I know you guys see this and it happens with leaders all the time. When you are connected specifically by God to do kingdom purposes, the enemy does try to come in and break it up. And, you know, before we went, we're not going to get into too many details about this, but before we went on our trip, the Lord tried to, excuse me, the enemy tried to divide us. Right. And he came in strong.

And, you know, he knows, the enemy knows our weaknesses and he attacked weaknesses to try to make us have problems with each other. And for a momentary time, it worked. And, you know, we got into a pretty heated discussion before we went on the trip. And I don't know that I've ever told you this before, Jason. I know that I told Blake, but I remember, I mean, I was this close to calling you and saying, I don't think you're supposed to come on this trip. But I called Sean Hurley instead, my mentor, and I knew that he would be led by the Holy Spirit and he wouldn't have his flesh because there was part of my flesh. And you know, you were dealing with your flesh too. And he said, Nate, he said, that's crazy. You called me. He said, I was just

sitting on my treadmill thinking about you. I said, really? I told him what was happening. I think he was going to say, yeah, they probably shouldn't go on the trip. He said, Nate, he said, these men have to go on this trip. And it's because we were all meant to go. And there were things that the Lord needed to teach us about ourselves and things that still had to die. Our ego, our insecurities, our reputation, all that stuff, it had to go. And I know you went through some battles where you almost didn't go either. But you know what? We were there.

We went and whatever was going on, on we squashed it we were united we saw signs and wonders and miracles we got there one of the first i feel holy spirit all over right now one of the first things that uh yeti said to us she said there was a prophecy given 20 years ago that said you guys would be here yeah that's crazy she gave you a dream the lord gave you a dream he gave you the seeds to plant we were all supposed to go there together and we came out of that with more respect for each other more love and we may not agree with everything all the time but we honor each other and and this is for the kingdom that's right and somebody needs to hear that that's good that's really good i don't know if you guys want to touch on that, but I had to let that go. Yeah.

I had to let that out. No. I think that's part of doing life. That's, you know, as we walk in a relationship, we're not going to always agree. You need to disciple Nate before we went. Yeah. We had to set him straight, right? I'm not even going to go there. I said you needed to disciple Nate.

Oh, I need to. Okay. Yeah. But no, it's part of growth. part of growth because bottom line is man iron sharpens iron and when we give people permission to speak into our life then uh then we're willing to receive the enemy is after our vessel just as much as god is and the war for kingdom advancement is so huge. It's real. Yeah, and we don't see that because we're too filled with this earth to know.

Yeah, the emotions of man, emotions of fallen man. That's right. That's right. That's right. And, you know, walking through the fire is what purges and purifies. That's right. So if you're not going through hell to get to heaven, you know, you're not, you're probably not going. It's not an easy walk. I always tell people, like, I feel like we should feel good about our relationship with God. But as far as what we're being called to do, we should probably feel a little uncomfortable.

That's right. If we don't, there's a good chance we're not doing exactly what we're supposed to be doing. Well, right before Jesus left, he said, I'm going to send the comforter to you. Someone's coming after me. And that was like the first thing he said was, I'm sending the comforter to you. And so if we're not uncomfortable, what's the need for the comforter? Right. You know?

Yeah. I'm glad you came on the trip, Jason. Yeah. I love you at it. You need it. And I believe we'll be going back other places together. And you know what? We're definitely stronger for it.

Yeah. Oh, for sure. You know, it's funny. Crystal and I, a couple years ago, went on a revival tour with Brian Hume and a crew up in Hagerstown, Maryland area. And we retraced the steps of Francis Asbury and William Otterbein and William Getting and Christian Newcomber. Is that the Asbury revival? It wasn't. St. Asbury, though?

Well, it was Francis Asbury is the one that it's all named after, like the building in the school. But man, this group was kind of just processing and discerning and studying all the past revivals, from the Toronto outpouring to Azusa Street to the Great Awakenings to Brownsville. And what has lacked in the sustaining of these revivals? And so what this group came up with was the fact that too much emphasis was put on, Lord, move. Lord, we're waiting for you to do some work. And relationship was neglected.

And the bottom line is we need each other. We need each other in this walk. The Lord chooses to use each one of us in each other's lives. That's right. He can do whatever He wants, and He can shift things, and He can move things in our hearts. But sometimes He chooses to use each other's lives that's right he can do whatever he wants and he can he can shift things and he can move things in our hearts but sometimes he chooses to use each other that's right so good

amen um i do feel on my heart to talk about costa rica a little bit i was getting ready to say you want to talk about because we only have about 10 minutes left and I think that that would be good to touch on. So wow. Blake, why don't you talk about your heart about Costa Rica after being in Costa Rica, after what the Lord is doing in Costa Rica. I think you guys have plans to go back. I feel like the Lord has shown me that we're going to be going back or that I can speak for me that I will at least be going back multiple times a year. It's a beautiful country, beautiful people, great food, and the Lord is doing some special things there. So talk about Costa Rica. Yeah, I mean, man, leading up to the trip, I always felt like I would go to nations at some point and didn't know what all that looked like.

I felt like I had it in my heart. But at the same time, I just felt like, Lord, whatever you want to do, I'm okay with being here. I'm okay with, you know, there's plenty to do, you know, where I'm at. And so anyways, when we got connected, I think the timing of the Lord and everything was so spot on. But like just the kairos, the speed of things from that time was, was for me, was, I feel like destiny. Um, cause I had had dreams leading up to, I mean, within the last five years leading up to the trip that I didn't know involved Costa Rica until we, you know, touched, touched

down on the, on the, on the region. And, um, yeah. Um, so God moved powerfully i mean i the just the moments that we were able to have in the different churches and talk about the drug center we talked about the drug center yeah so the drug center was that was interesting we drove for what an hour and a half two hours before we even found it i did not think we were going to find it the transportation is a lot different in costa rica and the whole time on our way there we're thankful we didn't rent a car because we realized we probably wouldn't

have made it there alive we ubered in this little five what a blessing that young man was. Yeah, for sure. Oh, dude. And, yeah, so we get into, like, a neighborhood that looked like a ghetto. It looked like somewhere I grew up in California in Los Angeles, just like a, you know, messed up neighborhood. And we're looking for this rehabilitation center. And the whole time I'm thinking we're going to find, like, this four-story building, you know, place. It's a dude's house. Yeah, and next thing you know, we come up to this giant, like, sliding door, and they're like, we're here. And we're like, oh, snap.

All right, so we get out. There's like one-legged dogs walking around. One-legged. It just was weird. It was very weird. I think three-legged is what you meant to say. Three-legged. One-legged dog hopping around. Why think three-legged is what you meant to say. Three-legged. One-legged dog hopping around.

Why not one-legged? I'm sure they're there, but I just don't remember the one-legged dog. Yeah, maybe it was three. And so, yeah, they slide open this giant door, and it's this – it looked like a garden, but in Costa Rica – It's a compound. It's a compound. Which you would never know existed, a compound. He must have owned, I don't know, the majority of the neighborhood. But you have all these homes shoulder to shoulder, and you get to one, and then the whole inside is like his territory.

And these are guys that are hardcore addicts, drug lords in Costa Rica that are ready for, for sobriety, but, but doing it with no medication. I mean, they are coming off cold Turkey and they needed the Lord. They needed power. They needed fire. They needed to know that they are loved, that they are seen that through everything that they had done, that they still had a destiny and a purpose for their life. Right. They definitely didn't need a pat on the back they needed an encounter with the living god and to see some of these guys you know drug lords that are being touched by god and seeing that they can still be forgiven that they are forgiven you know people that were repenting and and seeing i remember one person that we prayed for uh you know i like to to ask people afterwards what they saw. There was this one guy who had done a, he basically saw, he repented.

And he saw like, you know how like when you take a picture, like the old Kodak cameras, and it's like, you see the pictures fly by, you know, like different images. That's what he saw in the spirit was all these really quick images of all the things he had done wrong in his life. And then he felt forgiveness and peace. And these are the ways that the Lord was touching people there. We saw one person that basically went, and they were what the Lord, gosh, the world would call mentally handicapped. I mean, that guy was walking around like Kaiser Soce from the usual suspects with his head down and sliding. I'm just trying to give people a visual of what it looked like.

He was drooling. Yeah, I mean, we prayed over him, and we get a message two weeks later from this guy. Thanking. He got set free of a spirit of rejection from when he was a child. The Lord set him free of this stuff. And so, I mean, we saw, I mean, this is what the things that the Lord will do, guys. And when you step out of your comfort zone, when you go to these places, I remember, you know, when we went to Hannah's, I remember thinking, Lord, you were the only one who knows that this place exists.

Like it felt like the other side of the world, you know, when you're going up there in the dark, it's like, nobody knows that this place exists, but God still loves those people. And he will send you there to share the gospel. Yeah. that's good. Anything on that, Jason? Yeah, I mean, just what the Lord did in the different locations, I think one of the most impactful places for me was the orphanage. And, man, the way they had that orphanage set up was unique to anything that I've seen. They basically were trying to duplicate family. They had houses and moms and dads

for those houses and put ten kids in a house with a mom and dad. Yeah, like, you know, I don't necessarily know exactly what an orphanage looks like in these days because I don't think we have we don't have them here, but the fact of the matter is that's not what they look like. And, yeah,

so it was definitely impactful to see what the Lord is doing even in a space like that. It's cool. And, look, I am going to make a call to action. Judah, can you put the links up on the screen? So we will be going back, guys. And I'm just going to go ahead and say anybody that watches the show in the next 24 hours, anything that gets donated to the White Mountain Ministries will be going to the drug center to help these guys. I mean, they need mattresses for their beds. They just, I mean, they're running out of mattresses.

They need help. It'll go to different ministries and people that we're going to bless in Costa Rica, and that money goes a lot longer in some of those further in those nations than it does here. So if Judah has the link on the screen, I would encourage you. I can promise you that it will be going to on fertile soil and the people will be blessed. So I believe the Venmo easiest ways is at white Mountain Ministries. And then the PayPal is whitemountainministeratgmail.com. So thank you. We thank you guys for listening and watching. Please share the show.

These guys are bringing awesome stuff or seeing what's happening in the region and around the world and with the youth, the youth. I don't know if you guys, before I'm going to ask, always end the show with a specific question, but anything that you guys want to share, maybe just about the youth of the young people that are watching the show, want to come to a place where, you know, Holy Spirit is moving,

where people are being discipled, where they can fellowship with other, let's just call it like minded people that are tired of religion. Because these young people, they are hungry for more. They're hungry. They call it spirituality. People are searching in all the wrong places but they're hungry for the spirit of god and so maybe you can you know just even on the nights that you guys have stuff going on if you want to invite people over they're hungry for that yeah yeah send it over jj so yeah monday nights we uh we gather and we just go after what the Lord wants to do. You know, our heart is to create a culture of prayer, but we first learn to minister to Him. And what that looks like is experiencing the authentic presence of the Lord.

That's right. The manifest presence. It talks about in John 14, 21. You know, Jesus chose to reveal himself to the people that loved him and followed his commandments. And so that's what we ask for, for Jesus to reveal himself on a weekly basis. Yeah, so good. So, look, you guys have prophetic voices, and I know you hear strongly from the Lord. So I almost always end the shows with this. If you have anything on your heart,

because I think both of you guys may even be the first time you've been to the downtown region, right? I've been here, but not, I don't know. There's been some time, right? We catered at something here. Anything that you have on your heart for the region or for the white mountain ministry show? Yeah.

I feel like I had a little word of knowledge a little bit ago. That's okay to share? Yeah. I think it's for somebody. For somebody watching right now? Yeah, for somebody. Maybe that's going to watch. I mean, there's one person watching right now, I think.

No, there's a lot more than that watching. Oh, okay. I don't know what you're watching. Oh, maybe my only friend. I only have one friend watching. That's have one friend watching. You can probably only see who's watching directly from your page. Gotcha. Okay. There's quite a few people watching, so if you have a word,

feel free to send it, and we'll see if somebody responds. Yeah, so I saw a leg in the spirit, and I saw the leg shaking profusely, but I saw the inside. I saw a leg in the spirit and I saw the leg shaking like profusely. But I saw the inside. I saw like a bone structure and it was like down toward the ankle shin area.

It looked like there was like serious irritation and there was like a like a shaking, like needing to shake this. I don't know if it was a numbness or a burning or an irritation around the ankle, shin area. I'm just going to ask you, if you are watching right now and that is you, I see a lot of people have been jumping on, jumping off. If that is you and you have the boldness to let us know that's you, please comment because it will probably take about, sometimes it takes 20, 30 seconds after a comment is released for me to see it. But release some comments if that's you.

But keep going. Yeah, so I just want to, I'm just going to declare healing right now over you. I bind the enemy, every unclean spirit that is sent to torture your life. This generational curse right now, I break it off you in the mighty name of Jesus, and I say be healed. Brand new right now. I just see it leaving your leg. Holy Spirit, fire.

In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Yeah, that imitation fire, that burning you're feeling in your leg, that's a mockery fire. I speak the fire of God over you right now. In Jesus' name. Wow.

That's good. Yeah, Nate, last night at the table we had a strike the ground moment. So 2 Kings 13 specifically verse 18 I mean chapter 13, 18 Elijah tells the king to strike the ground and each end with an arrow and every time that he struck the ground there would be a victory that he would win. And he only struck the ground three times. And I saw you with this ministry, with this opportunity, striking the ground and in victory, just proclaiming.

I think even this opportunity with White Mountain Ministries is kind of like where we're sitting right now. It maybe wasn't even on the thought process last year at this time. No, definitely not. And, man, there's breakthrough. There's breakthrough that you, your family, are going to walk into, but then also that as you're obedient to the Lord that others are going to experience just because of your obedience. You know, a lot of times our obedience unlocks the opportunity for other people to have breakthrough. And so, yeah, in this season, I don't know if this is for Costa Rica or this is for this show and this ministry in general, but striking the ground for the victory that the Lord's proclaimed.

Thank you, sir. I appreciate that. So good. Thank you, man. We're going to get off the show in about two minutes. Y'all have anything else on your heart that you want to share to the people listening, the people watching? Yeah, I just felt to share this over the churches of Charlottesville. And I felt like there is a fresh wind coming on your church in this city. And so I just want to prophesy to the winds of God coming upon your church.

And I believe the Lord is saying, set yourself and make yourself ready for this fresh wind that's coming upon the body. We want change, but the change happens through us. It says that God doesn't do anything until he reveals it to his prophets first. We are the change, church. We are the change. And so I believe across the nations, but I feel that for Charlottesville, there's a fresh wind coming upon the church, a fresh hunger to know the Lord, a fresh hunger to encounter the Lord and a fresh hunger to let the Lord have his way and that we

would stop having our way in the church. So father, I just thank you right now for the body of Christ in the city of Charlottesville, Lord. And I thank you for this wind, God, that's coming upon the church right now, a fresh wind that's coming upon the church, shaking things up, bringing in the city of Charlottesville, Lord. And I thank you for this wind, God, that's coming upon the church right now. A fresh wind that's coming upon the church, shaking things up, bringing in the power of God, bringing the healing, Lord, mindsets being renewed, Lord, pastors being transformed and set free on another level.

We're continually being freed until you come back, Jesus. So I speak life, freedom, and Lord, we just thank you right now for the transformation of the city of Charlottesville starting first in the church. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. You good? I'm good. All right.

Bless you guys. Love y'all. We had fun. I think we had a good time without giving each other too hard of a time, right? It was good. Thanks for having us, man. Yeah. But we thank you guys for listening,

for watching, for praying. Please pray if it's on your heart to pray for our Costa Rica trip. Just for safety and protection for the people of Costa Rica. And I know that God has been preparing the way, but many are going to be touched. And just consider the sowing into the ministry

because that will also bless people. I want to thank our sponsor once again with Melanie Morris and Opening Doors Real Estate. And thank these guys for being on the show. We're honored to have you. And thank you for all that you're doing for the kingdom of God. And go out and vote. And also, really quickly, we're going to shift to next week's show. We have an apostle, Kola Emiola, who is going to be with us from Nigeria live. Okay.

And so complete shift. We've never had anyone on actually from Africa, so I'm very excited. Met him in Culpeper earlier this year, and he is full of fire. And so we are excited for Kola. So bless you guys. I speak life and love and healing over your minds and your bodies in the name of Jesus. And so we are excited for Cola. So bless you guys. I speak life and love and healing over your minds and your bodies in the name of Jesus. Have a good week and God bless. Thank you.