All-In: Every Day is Day One

Hey, my friend, this is Jim Smith in Wallace, Nebraska. I'm all ready for All In August. Let's get started.

Hello, this is Marnie from the Columbia River Gorge, and I'm all in.

Hey, this is Carol. I'm from Portage, Michigan, and I'm all in.

Hey, this is Chuck. Hey, good morning, and have a great day, and I'm in.

This is Sharon from Wyoming and I'm All In.

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Hey, are you ready to change your life? If the answer is yes, there's only one rule.

You have to change your mind first. And my friend, there's a place where the neuroscience of how your mind works smashes together with

faith and everything starts to make sense.

That place is called self brain surgery. You can learn it, and it will help you become healthier, feel better, and be happier.

And the good news is, you can start today.

Thanks, Lisa. Hey, so glad to have you listening today. I'm Dr. Lee Warren, and I live in Nebraska in the United States of America with my incredible

wife Lisa, my father-in-law Tata, and the super pups Harvey and Louis.

I'm a neurosurgeon and an author, and I'm here to help you harness neuroscience, the

power of your brain, faith, the power of your spirit, and good old common sense to help

you lead a healthier, better, happier life.

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Good morning friend. We are all in for August. Tata and I are sitting here having some coffee and,

I'm going to share a quick thought with you this morning. It's August 13th and if you didn't jump

in yet with all in August or even if you did, I want you to just acknowledge in your mind that

there's always a jump off point. There's always a time when you say, you know what, the way it's

been, it can't be anymore. And that's why Mark Batterson in the book All In talks about committing

such a way that if you're going to go on a journey, you pack your stuff in a coffin. You don't take a

suitcase. You're not coming back. Cortez, when he reached the new world, he knew.

That the only way for his guys to conquer was to burn the boats, like there's no going back. And so I want you to just think about that for a second. I

got a little story to share with you for just a moment to just explain how Lisa

and I made the journey from Alabama where we had a private practice in our business and where we raised our kids and all that. And we had a journey from,

from Alabama to Wyoming, when we decided to go all in.

God called us to do something new, and it was a big moment for us,

and we decided to go all in.

And I'll just tell you a little bit about how that played out.

But first, I want to acknowledge that I'm getting messages from people all over the world.

We've got about 60 or 65 so far of people who just, like we just played for you,

people who are all in.

And some of those people are sharing that, hey, this is a hard month for me.

This is a hard time. going through something difficult. And you can get out on the prayer wall,

wlemd.com slash prayer, and you can see there's a lot of people that are going through a lot.

And what I wanna share with you is that when you are going through a really hard thing,

your enemy, your resistance will tell you that you should just quit, you should just give up.

There's no going forward, that this particular thing that you're going through is harder than can be navigated,

harder than can be managed, and you can't find a path forward.

And that's why I wanna remind you that one of our two verses for this month is Proverbs 3.

Five and six, trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.

In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will make your path straight.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.

In all your ways, acknowledge him and he will make your path straight.

Listen, there is a path forward. I can promise you there is.

Tata has lost two children and a wife. I've lost a child. Lots of people have had big loss

and they're like big hard things.

The last two years of the world, three years, have shown us that we can go through hard things

and there is always a path back to hope.

And the path is to let God show you what it means to go all in with Him.

And so I wanna share with you just a few more of these testimonials

of people who are acknowledging that August,

this time that they're going through right now, is a hard time, but they still wanna go in

because they know that's the way to go forward. Here we go.

Hello, Dr. Lee, this is Vern from Casper. This is a very struggling time in my life, and God has been giving me pieces to help

me.

And there's no doubt that being all in for this month of August is another piece.

So yes, count me all in and thank you.

I am all in. This is Renee Marble. August is a very hard month for me.

This is the month I lost my husband and I know that he is with God and I am so thankful

to thank you for always being there and passing on the good news.

My name is Sherry Barnes, and I am from Fort Worth, Texas, and I'm ready to be all in.

I lost my son to a brain tumor.

He was 40 years old and just had a hard time getting back to where I was before, just my

faith and everything. So I'm ready to start this. Thank you.

There's people who are going through hard things, but they recognize that it just can't

go on the way it has been.

And Lisa and I did that. We lost Mitch August 20th of 2013, and we were running our own business.

We were raising our youngest daughter, Kaylin, was still in the house with us.

We had four other children besides Mitch that we had responsibility for and a lot going on.

And I want to tell you what happened is the house where we had raised him became this

place where he used to be everywhere and now he was nowhere and it over time it

just it felt almost impossible to be there and to not be there and I know Dale and Joe Margaret said the same thing about this house that we bought

from them their son BJ had a brain tumor and he was here as he was getting sicker

and in the process of losing the battle to glioblastoma he it was too hard for

them to be here after he was gone and it was too hard for them not to be here it

It took them years to sell the house even though they weren't living in it.

And we just struggled with that. We struggled with the sameness of how it used to be

and the differentness of how it was now.

And it was hard. And I just wanna acknowledge to you that there's a path forward.

And for us, it came down to this.

We had to learn how to see and acknowledge that two things can be true at the same time.

And we had a very profound example of it because we buried Mitch.

So Mitch died on a Tuesday.

We buried him on a Friday, August 23rd, 2013, and on that same day,

our first granddaughter, Scarlet, was born.

One person can never replace another person, one person can never assuage all the pain

and everything that you feel from the loss of another person, but God showed us, both of us

could see it clearly, that even in the darkest moment of your life, there's always still some

light to be found. Sometimes it's just a little crack in the door that you can see way ahead of

you on the path, but there's always still some light if you're willing to open your eyes and say,

hey, this thing that I'm going through is hard, but it's not going to be the end of me because

God still has a plan. He promised me He has a plan and a purpose for my life.

And so this event that I've gone through, even though my feelings are telling me

that it's impossible, it can't be impossible because I still have a reason why I'm still here drawing breath. And God says He plans the exact times and

places where people are, live and move and have our being. So the fact is, friend,

whatever you're going through, you'll come to a point in time when you have to

make a decision. Am I going to close my eyes and sit in the darkness? Or am I,

going to go all in in the belief that I can still find light again somehow, that

two things can be true, that things can be impossible, but God says they can be

possible at the same time that Jesus says in this world it will be hard for

you in John 16 33, but in John 10 10 he says I came here for the very purpose

that you might have life and have it abundantly. So Lisa and I after two years.

Of going through that, after two years of being in the darkness and recognizing

at the same time that there was still light every time we saw Scarlet,

and every time we saw our other kids.

It was dark and it was light at the same time. We had to say, we trust you God.

And God started calling us. He was calling us to something new.

And we ultimately found out that what he was calling us to was to just go all in, sell our practice, sell our house,

move to Wyoming and start a new life.

Where Mitch had never been, so it was hard in Alabama because he was everywhere.

It was hard in Wyoming because he was nowhere.

But we were being called to something new and we were being called to go all in.

You don't get to come back from selling your practice and selling your house, there's no going back from that.

So we had to go forward and that's what the path that led us all the way down here so many years later,

to sitting on the riverbank in North Platte, Nebraska talking to you was this decision that we made

to commit to going all in.

And I'm gonna tell you the truth, the morning we backed out of our driveway,

November of 2015, we backed out of our driveway in Auburn and turned on the radio and literally as we were driving out of our driveway, this song

came on from Matthew West.

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It's day one friend. It's August 2nd, but it's day one. When you decide today's the day.

Listen to it.

I've got to be willing to fight for the light. I've got to be willing to strive for it.

I'm gonna commit my ways to Him and He's gonna make me a path. He promised you.

He'll make you a path. If it seems like the oceans in front of you, He'll part the waters.

If it seems like that the deserts there, He'll give you some streams of living water.

He's promised. He will make a way where there is no way. So I'm just giving you some encouragement here on this morning that's been truncated

by my gone call duties because I got to get to the hospital.

I just want to share with you that you have to make a decision.

It's not, it doesn't happen by accident. You don't just wake up one day and all of a sudden it feels better and you decide to

get up and move on with your life. It doesn't happen that way.

You have to fight for it. You have to be willing to make a decision that quantum physics is a real thing.

What's quantum physics?

Quantum physics is the study of the tiny things, the sub-atomic particles in the universe.

And what we learn from studying quantum physics, I've told you this a million times before,

what we've learned is in the quantum world, things don't behave like you expect them to.

Down to weird little facts like an electron in the quantum world can be in two places at the same time.

And that's the kind of God we have. We have the kind of God who says we can have a hard world and an abundant world at the

same time.

The kind of God that says it's not possible, but it is possible.

And that's what you have to get to.

If you're gonna go all in with your life, and if you're gonna fight through the resistance

and be able to find the path forward that he promises us in our verse for the month,

then you have to be willing to say like we did.

We're burying our son, and it's the worst possible moment in our life.

August 23rd, 2013. And in the very same moment, a thousand miles away in a hospital in San Antonio,

where our daughter Katie's giving birth to this beautiful, incredible, new part of our family,

Scarlet, and so every time I see Scarlet.

For the rest of my life, I get to see the blessing that God gave us, that there is still light available.

There's still light in the world, even in the darkest moments.

So friend, I'm just telling you, today, make your decision, it's day one,

but it can be day one for you, and the fact is, the truth is,

every day has to be day one, because you always have to start today.

That's why I always say it, The good news is, friend, you can start today, right?

You can't change your life until you change your mind. You have to decide that no matter how it feels,

you're going to believe that the light is still out there.

You're gonna believe that he'll show you the path forward. You're gonna believe that he can get you to the place

where it doesn't solve the problem.

It doesn't solve the problem, because for me the problem solved would have been Mitch isn't dead,

and that doesn't happen.

So he doesn't always solve the problem, but it gives you a path to find the light through the problem.

With the problem, and, instead of but, I wish this hadn't happened, or I had this, but that happened,

it can instead be and, I lost my son, and I have this incredible new granddaughter. It can be and.

And the path to and is to say, this is day one, I'm packing my coffin, I'm going all in,

I'm going to press through and fight for those promises, and he's going to show me the path forward.

He's going to show me the path forward. Let's have Tommy Walker sing. Go ahead, Tommy.

Music.

Okay, friend, it's day one. It's time to get going. It's time to get after it. It's time to go all-in,

It's time to change our minds so we can change our lives and even if the path seems impossibly dark

We're gonna make a decision today,

But we know there's still light out there somewhere and we know that if we seek him and trust him and press forward with all

Our heart he's gonna give us the instead of the butt He's gonna give us the head instead of the tail and he's gonna show us the light again,

And the good news is friend you can change your mind and you can change your life and you can start today

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God bless you, friend. Have a great day.