As you enter 2026, there is one thing you know: Your life will be busy, and that busyness is an unavoidable reality. So how do you remain spiritually alive? It is a definite challenge, and on this podcast today, I am going to tell you how to be spiritually alive.

Happy 2026! I am so excited today you are joining us on this 75th Podcast Episode. I do hope you had a meaningful Christmas season, and I am looking forward to the year ahead. We had our family here with us for some time and enjoyed it thoroughly. Jeana and I celebrated our 49th Wedding Anniversary on December 31. So we are praying and trusting God for the days ahead.

As you enter 2026, there is one thing you know: Your life will be busy, and that busyness is an unavoidable reality. So, how do you live spiritually alive? It is a definite challenge, and on this podcast today, I am going to tell you how to be spiritually alive. We would do well to stop idolizing busyness

I believe in the power of prayer. Prayer shapes my mindset, my attitude, and my will to conform to God’s Providential and Sovereign will for my life. I have discovered there is only one way to be spiritually alive in the busyness of your life. Are you ready to hear this? Listen closely...

This week’s podcast is helpful, but also challenging. On this final podcast episode I am releasing in 2025, I want to point your attention to the coming year, 2026. Before we get into this final episode, I am recording in 2025, I want to share a few quick updates with you:

Merry Christmas from Jeana and me to you and your family. I hope these final days of 2025 are fantastic, and the celebration of Christmas will be special. For many of you who have lost a loved one in 2025, we are praying for you as you face this first Christmas without that loved one in your family being with you in person. May God’s grace and peace be with all of you.

God has been so good to me in 2025, with the release of my newest book, entitled The Supernatural Power of Prayer and Fasting. I have conducted over 40 interviews or podcasts with various people since the release of this book. God is using it extensively. You can order it on Amazon to help you begin the new year with God in a way you've never experienced before. I received a dynamic testimony just this past week from a pastor in Virginia about the impact this book has had on his life, including the salvation of one of his children. There is Supernatural Power when you Pray and Fast. Order a copy today. If you want to order by the case, contact us here and we can help you accomplish this. There are forty books in each case so those who are sharing it with Bible Study groups or churches, this may help you do it more effectively.

God has opened up so many doors preaching God’s Word throughout the nation and even in Athens, Greece, this past August, at a large global missions conference with over 80 nations present. Hundreds were there, and it was powerful. God is at work in our country and world.

I was born on November 11, 1955. Do the math. I just turned 70. On December 6, 2025, less than one month after my 70th birthday, I ran and completed the St. Jude Memphis Marathon. This was the first marathon that I ever ran. For those who might not know, a marathon is a long-distance running race measuring exactly 26.2 miles. Yes, you heard that right: 26.2 miles.

To everyone involved with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital who cares for children with cancer and shows compassion to their families, thank you for everything you do—including your vision, preparation, and execution of this huge event for thousands of people.

I never saw myself as competing against others in this marathon. If I were competing, it would be against myself and my personal desire: I want to run a marathon.

When I was a high school athlete, I was a sprinter, not a long-distance runner. I never liked running long distances. But over forty years ago, I began running. Back then, three miles would have been my big goal. Even then, my goal was not speed, but endurance. Twenty years ago, I started running three to five miles a day, and periodically, I would run seven miles. Most likely, I have run 5 days a week for all these years. Then, over the past five years, beginning in the pandemic, I began lengthening these runs on many days. It was then that I started thinking: “One day, I may run a marathon.”

In 2024, I began asking God to help me be healthy enough to run a marathon. In 2025, I started praying, “Lord, this year, help me to run a marathon.” Then, it became more specific and essential to me, and I began praying, “Lord, I want to run this marathon for Your honor as a testimony of Your power through me all the way through the finish line of 26.2 miles. Please Lord, do this miracle through me, and may people come to Jesus because of it. For Your Kingdom and to God’s glory, I pray that this miracle be done! I stand upon these words: “For nothing is impossible with God!” Luke 1:37