When Faith Moves Mountains: Diane Brask’s Miraculous Story of Global Impact

Kristin Kurtz welcomes back Diane Brask of Global Seed Planters to share an Ephesians 3:20 testimony of God’s faithfulness. From deep roots on a Wisconsin farm to wings spanning the nations, Diane has spent decades reaching unreached people groups through discipleship, leadership training, and practical missions. She shares a powerful update on a recent season marked by 66,000 salvations, key staff transitions, and a miraculous recovery from a serious back injury. Listeners will be stirred to believe God for the impossible, stay faithful through transitions, and live with a renewed sense of purpose in their own Kingdom assignments.

Diane's Contact Info:

Website, sign up for newsletter and prayer list - globalseedplanters.org

Email - info@globalseedplanters.org

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Chapters

• 0:16 Welcome to Hope Unlocked Podcast
• 1:30 Diane's Ministry: Global Seed Planters
• 6:44 Losing Key Staff and Seeking God
• 12:28 From Mountaintop to Valley: Diane's Accident
• 22:53 God's Unexpected Provision Through Injury
• 32:08 The Revival Beginning Across America
• 44:17 Exponential Kingdom Impact Through Seeds
• 58:56 Final Encouragement and Prayer

Transcript

SPEAKER_04: 0:16

Welcome to the Hope Unlock Podcast. I'm your host, Kristen Kurtz, and I'm also the founder of New Wings Coaching. I help and empower wild-hearted and adventurous women of faith feeling caged and stuck, unlock their true purpose and potential, break free from limitations, and thrive with confidence, courage, and hope. If you're curious to learn more about coaching with me, head to NewWinksCoaching.net and be sure to explore the show notes for ways to connect with me further. Get ready to dive in as we uncover empowering keys and insights in this episode. So tune in and let's unlock hope together. Welcome to the Hope Unlocked podcast. I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host. I pray this episode is like a holy IV of hope for your soul. Please help me welcome my dear friend Diane Brass to the show. I'm so happy to have her back again. She actually was on previously on episode 100. If you want to go back and listen in, you'll probably want to after you hear her story today. But I did ask her if she'd be open to coming on again to share with all of you because she has walked through quite a bit this last year and has such a testimony that I know will bring hope to many. So, Diane, for those of the listeners who haven't heard your story, could you just tell us a little bit about yourself?

SPEAKER_00: 1:28

Sure. Thank you, Kristen, and thank you for the privilege of being on again. I really enjoyed it. I don't know the exact date, but I think it was sometime last year. It was I was on with you and just loved being with you on Hope Unlocked. Yes. My great-grandparent, grandpa, and grandma immigrated from Sweden in the 1870s and homesteaded here. And so um I have deep, deep roots, but God has given me long wings too. So while I'm rooted here, I have traveled all over the world. I've been in about 50 countries, Kristen. And the more I've traveled, the more laser focused I've become.

SPEAKER_04: 2:35

Yes. Well, I love I love what you said, like deep roots. And you said something about the wings. Yeah, long, strong wings. Long and strong wings. And we both have a connection with eagles. So that makes a lot of sense. Um, tell us tell us a little bit about your ministry. Um, for those who didn't hear um your story last time you came on.

SPEAKER_00: 2:57

Um the ministry is called Global Feed Planters. Um, it makes it sound a little bit like uh we're farmers, and we do do farming, but it's kind of a clever name because we don't want it to be blatantly sounding like some Christian organization, which is that is 100% who we are. But we plant all kinds of things. Yes, we plant seeds, but we also plant Bible schools, we plant orphanages, we plant clinics, we plant God's word, we plant solar players, we plant um clinics. So we plant a variety of things, but it's all focused, every bit of it, on bringing the love of Jesus in word and deed. We say we're a little bit like our favorite thing in kindergarten: show and tell. We want to show the love of God to the ends of the earth, but we also want to tell people about the love of God to the ends of the earth. So our exclusive exclusive focus is ends of the earth.

SPEAKER_04: 4:07

Yes. And how long has the ministry been around?

SPEAKER_00: 4:11

Well, I've been doing this. So I was 20 years, I'm gonna give roughly 20 years of my life right after graduating from Bethel University in St. Paul, I did 20 years of youth ministry. It's where I learned everything about evangelism, discipleship, and even that's when we began short-term missions. Following that 20-year stint in 2001, I began a missions focus. And so from my first trip, 2001, I went with a friend um to ends of the earth kind of thing. We went uh to unreached people groups, and we spent the first month in India and um literally went to remote villages that had never seen a white person in any form. So that's when I started, you might say, Global seed planters, but we didn't have that name then. We weren't we were under another ministry, we were under their wing, and that ministry was called International Ministerial Fellowship. And they're a 501c3 or a covering for a variety of miss uh ministries that need that kind of covering. So these were, you might say, my 501c3 until 2014, 2015, somewhere in there, where I incorporated what I was doing and called it global seed planters.

SPEAKER_04: 5:49

Yeah, so beautiful. And I, if you guys have heard my story with um even the podcast here, the Lord called it a seed cast. So I feel like I'm on a different, I'm on mission, but in a different way to reach the nations. And I loved when I heard about even your ministry name, I was like, I need to know her. Exactly. I'm not going over like foot be, you know, feet on the ground, boots on the ground, but it's going through the airwaves through sharing, you know, your stories and other stories. Um, I would love to hear, you know, again. So those of you who didn't hear the fullness of Diane's story, please go back and listen to episode 100. But I want to just kind of fast forward to um I interviewed you in November and November of 2024. And I would love for you to share a little bit of what's happened over this last year since we last had you on. Wow.

SPEAKER_00: 6:44

I know a lot, a lot, right? I know. Well, first of all, I went through some of the most difficult times of my ministry life. Very confusing, very hard. Um, I'm not one that struggles with depression or discouragement. I'm pretty up most of the time.

SPEAKER_02: 7:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 7:06

Um, last year was very productive. We busted our butts, we left nothing, nothing on the field. We just went for it. And we saw more happen all over the world than ever. Uh, altogether, we saw about 66,000 people give their lives to the Lord.

SPEAKER_02: 7:27

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00: 7:28

So, not too long after our podcast, Kristen. Um, my key person resigned. My right-hand person that's our director of operations. I'm a face for the ministry, I'm the voice for the ministry, I'm the CEO, but I'm not the one doing the work in the weeds that keeps everything. I'm not in operations. I lost my operations person. And December is not a good time to lose someone like that because year-end is always very intense. Yeah, um, the majority of our funding comes in in January. It's really so we have to stay with our, you know, nose to the ground and our boots to the ground right through the end of the year. We're not done until midnight on December 31st.

SPEAKER_02: 8:27

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00: 8:28

So I lose her and I start spiraling. I'm already uh kind of burnt out by that time every year because I that last quarter, I go hard. So, oh what does that look like? I'm just curious. It looks like it's steady, it's day and night, it's traveling, it's connecting, it's speaking, it's writing, writing letters, it's fundraising, it's you know, I have to raise all the money for all my staff and for everything we do. So it's not lightweight. Last year um I we raised$750,000.

SPEAKER_02: 9:12

Wow.

SPEAKER_00: 9:12

That doesn't happen without a lot of effort.

SPEAKER_02: 9:16

Yeah. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00: 9:17

So now I come and I've lost my operations person. So I go in January. I every year I do this. About the first week of the year, I go whole up and I fast and I don't fast. I take that back. I seek the Lord with all my heart. I take I do two things. I review the year that was, I go through all the appointments, everything that we did, track everything, um, kind of do the numbers on everything. So every partnership, every outreach event, every Bible distributed, every solar player, every travel engagement, I go through all of that with the Lord.

SPEAKER_03: 9:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 10:00

And I ask myself hard questions like, was this a fruitful event or project? Would I do it again? Um, did I sense the Lord's favor and blessing on it? So I just really go over the whole year and I'm kind of like a farmer. You know, farmers they measure their harvest. Farmers still just say, Oh, it was a great year. Then a farmer will ask them, Well, how many bushels to the acre did you get? Um, how many tons of milk did you ship out? Um, how many uh pounds of this did you get? So it's always, they don't just sit at the coffee shop and say, Oh man, my year was great. They ask each other those kinds of questions. What about the results?

SPEAKER_03: 10:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 10:47

And so those are the questions I ask myself. Then the other thing I do is, Lord, speak to me about this year. So in January, when I walked into my annual place, I said, Wow, Lord, I really need to be with you this year. And I need some. I'm feeling burnt out, discouraged, frustrated, like I don't have any gas in the tank to start the year, and I need a new staff person.

SPEAKER_02: 11:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 11:23

So what I need from you, Lord, is a verse. I need you to say to me what is on your heart that is crystal clear. I need a verse that's my anchor as I start this year. And immediately the Holy Spirit responds, your verse for the year is now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that you can ask, think, or even imagine by his mighty power that is at work within you. Wow, I just sat back and I said, Now that's a verse, Lord, I can enter the year in.

SPEAKER_03: 12:02

Yes.

SPEAKER_00: 12:02

So even though I'm really feeling low, you're saying to me, watch out, look out. I'm gonna do exceedingly abundantly.

SPEAKER_03: 12:14

Yes.

SPEAKER_00: 12:15

I mean, you don't hear that expression, it just pretty much means I'm gonna blow your mind, Diane. Yes, you ain't seen nothing yet. Amen.

SPEAKER_04: 12:26

And so that's what Ephesians 3.20, right? Ephesians 3.20. Ephesians 3.20.

SPEAKER_00: 12:31

Yes, powerful. Oh, I just say instead of exceedingly abundantly, now unto him who is able to blow your mind.

SPEAKER_04: 12:40

Yeah, say that again. Somebody needs to hear that.

SPEAKER_00: 12:43

Like I now, God, no matter how we're feeling, yes, our uh, because if we're if I was gonna base going into this year on my feelings, I would have been crawling lower than a snake.

SPEAKER_04: 12:55

Diane, I understand.

SPEAKER_00: 12:57

So that's how I started the year, and that verse from the Lord literally flipped my mood in a moment, in a moment. So I have nobody in mind for this new position, yeah, and I need her quickly. Um, within two days, I met her. I did not know her, and in two days, I had a I had a conference call with my board that night and with my advisory council. And it was one of the best board council meetings I've ever had. And I spilled my guts. I didn't hold anything back, I didn't try to pretend I was a woman, hear me roar. Yeah, I just said, you guys, I'm doing awful. I'm about as low as I've ever been, and I need you, I need you to stand with me, and I need God to intervene. And we need a director of operations soon.

SPEAKER_04: 14:41

Yeah. Can I ask you a little bit about that? You know, you you vulnerably came to the meeting and shared exactly where you were at. Did you had you had that type of vulnerability previously where you you did do something like that in the past? Because I know for somebody who's like quote unquote in charge or you know, running things, it can be hard for somebody. And maybe somebody who's listening in today just hasn't ever given themselves permission to be vulnerable like that before. So, like going into it and then kind of going out of it, and after you shared, like what was coming for you.

SPEAKER_00: 15:17

Um because I'm not typically down or feeling helpless or feeling, you know, that kind of no, I don't, but when I need to, I always do. I don't have a problem with pretending that I'm someone that I'm not. Um, that though was a different kind of definitely a different kind of sharing, but I needed to, and I knew that. And they responded accordingly. I've never had a board meeting where I felt like everyone was 100% in because they also knew how much um our previous operations person had meant to me and the ministry, and so uh they knew her well. And so um they just leaned into the moment. Um, they said, Diane, you need to be asking everyone because none of us had anyone in mind. Oh wow, and they said, you need to be asking everyone, who do you know that I need to know? Who do you know? I thought that was a really who do you know that I need to know? That is such a good question, and so that question led to me meeting somebody that I did not know two days later, who ended up being the person we hired. Oh wow, by the end of the month, we had her now. So that was exceedingly abundantly beyond what we could ask, think, or imagine. Boom, God drops her in our lap. Then um a couple months later, uh our administrator who works with this person, she also resigned and she worked closely with the director of operations. So she resigns. Now we need another person. Now get a load of this. Five years ago, a woman from Seattle calls me and says, I have to interview a CEO of a nonprofit for one of my classes in college. And I got your name from a mutual friend. Um, she and her husband are donors of yours, and she said, Oh, you need to call this Diane Brask. So I did this interview for her like five years ago, and I just saw it as a, you know, throw the dog a bone kind of a thing. Um, meet her need to fulfill her college assignment and one and done, right? Well, after that, she has called me two, three times a year saying, you have an opening. Do you have an opening? Do you have an opening? And you know, I don't really give her the time of day. I always just say, nope, there's nothing here. No, we don't have an opening or the money to hire anybody else. And so, you know, we can chat a little, but I I pretty much would um throw her off. You know, I I just I didn't I didn't even give her the time of day. Well then this this like March she calls again. Yeah, do you have an opening? And I said, Wow, you are as persistent as a tick on a dog. You just you just do not take no for an answer, and so maybe I should give you the time of day today. Maybe we should talk a little. I said, we do have an opening actually, and so we talked for about 10 minutes, and I said, No, you're not the person we're looking for. Um, but maybe you're the person we're looking for for something else. So we talked some more, yeah, and she's amazing, and so she ended up getting her master's in international community development. Oh, wow. I mean, hello. And then um, also, in she's really gifted besides a call of God on her life, besides missions, besides all this stuff that we need, she's also really good at quantitative and qualitative analysis. In other words, you know, knowing how to come up with the numbers to prove to your donors that what you're doing is making a significant impact in the world.

SPEAKER_04: 20:04

That's amazing.

SPEAKER_00: 20:05

So as of last week, Kristen, she's full-time with global seed planters.

SPEAKER_04: 20:11

I feel like clapping and jumping upside up and down.

SPEAKER_00: 20:15

You can do that. I've I'll tell you what, I felt like clapping and jumping. We flew her out here a couple weeks ago so that she could meet the whole staff and meet our board chairman, and we could really kind of get a better feel for each other. And then she went home and spent a week uh talking to mentors and advisors and her husband and really thinking it through and came back with the phone call saying, Yes, I'm excited to say yes. Oh my gosh. Wow. So, so, but I skipped the part. So after all this exciting stuff going on, kind of the beginning of the year.

SPEAKER_02: 20:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 20:56

Oh, the most exciting thing, and this was really exceedingly abundantly, yeah, I get invited to be a guest on a podcast in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Podcast is called A Stronger Faith. So you have to audition to be on this, and their whole team listens to your audition, which is about 12, 15 minutes long, and then they decide if they want you to be a guest or not. So they said, Yeah, come on down. So I part flew and part drove. Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a long way from Grantsburg, Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_03: 21:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_00: 21:40

So I got down there, was on this podcast, and to be really honest with you, Kristen, I didn't know how I felt about it. The guy was a little bit um devil's advocate or an interrogator. It wasn't an easy one, it was kind of hard. And I didn't know exactly where he was coming from. In the end, I liked the the product that they produced. I love the podcast that they did because they did, I think the podcast recorded was about four hours. Seriously, yeah, four hours, and they added it down to just under three.

SPEAKER_03: 22:18

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_00: 22:18

So still very long, right? But very engaging and very captivating. Um, that was that was uh filmed or recorded on April 7th. Okay. On May 11th, I fell down the stairs and almost killed myself. I fell down 15 flight of stairs at the farm and broke my back. Um, I broke seven vertebrae, two ribs, and my sternum. And surgery resulted in about a 10, 12-inch incision, two inches deep, my back being fused with rods on both sides of my spinal column, 10 screws screwing me back together, and 50 staples. To say it's been painful is uh beyond anything that I can describe. It's really been an indescribable summer. So I'm laying at the bottom of the stairs and saying to the Lord, how does this fit into the verse you gave me? Right, right. Like you're gonna do exceedingly abundantly above what I could think, ask, or imagine. Yeah, this would fit, but where are we going with this?

SPEAKER_04: 23:50

Like so you're actually laying at the bottom of the stairs.

SPEAKER_00: 23:52

Like I'm laying at the bottom of the stairs.

SPEAKER_04: 23:54

Surely after this happens, and you're asking this question. Like, were you in a lot of pain at this point?

SPEAKER_00: 23:58

Like, could you No, to be honest with you, I was surprised that I had as much damage as I did. I think the grace of God was all over me that day because I was home alone. I was home alone from five in the morning until seven at night.

SPEAKER_03: 24:13

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00: 24:14

After this fall.

unknown: 24:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 24:17

And the Lord told me that he was right there with me. Not to worry, he was there. So, and he really was, because when the ambulance finally came at seven at night, because somebody came and called, um, they were gonna, you know, really strap me down and put me on the gurney and put this straight jacket on my neck. And I told them, you know, I I'm not hurt.

SPEAKER_04: 24:41

Really? You said that?

SPEAKER_00: 24:43

Yes, I said I don't need any strait jacket on my neck, which I didn't. I mean, I've always been able to uh move my neck freely, but um I get to Grantsburg and they x-ray me and they said, We're rushing you down to North Memorial in the cities right now. So all that to say, yeah, I have had a summer of slow, painful recovery. My surgeon told me because of the extent of my injuries and the extent of the surgery, I will not be recovered for one year. And so I'm looking at next May. So how is this gonna play out in terms of ministry for the summer? Well, keep in mind now, right? God had God had that podcast done, God knew what he was doing all the time because God knows everything. And so while I was laying flat on my back, going through therapy, in excruciating pain, not even at home, in a transition place, God has the podcast go live on June 16th. Wow. Timing, timing, exactly. Only in God's sovereignty and in his providence would and his omniscience would he be able to pull that off exceedingly abundantly, beyond now. Who would pick falling and breaking your back as a beyond your imagination? But this was this was God's plan, as strange as it sounds, because as of like about today, that podcast has been viewed by 60,000 people in 42 states and in 26 nations. So I have traveled all over the United States and around the world while lying flat on my back. You talk about the brilliance of God, it would not have been the way that I would have chosen in my wildest imagination to do ministry this summer.

SPEAKER_02: 27:12

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00: 27:13

But I was able quite literally to travel and speak around the whole United States and around the world. Now, not just that, Kristen, there was no fundraising about this podcast. I was just doing like I'm doing here. I'm just sharing about the ministry. And people were literally sending in money to GSP, global seed planters, from around the world. Amen. And so I thought that there was a good chance the ministry was gonna shut down this year because I can't do anything to raise money, and I'm the only one that does that. Yes, right. So I thought, okay, not gonna be able to pay salaries. Oh me of little faith, right? Right, and God is just like, hey, I got this. When you're when you're weak, I'm strong. You're not the one in charge of this ministry. I am. You're not the word doesn't say you will supply all the ministry's needs, it says I will. Wow, my God shall supply all of your needs. So that's on me. That's not on you. Now you just watch me take care of you and take care of the ministry. Yeah, and then not only not only has the ministry, we came out of the summer with the most money come in that we've ever had come in in the summer months. They're lean. Summer's not a good time for money. And um, most ministries and churches will tell you that they're choking in the summer because people are spending their money having fun, which is completely understandable, especially if you live in some of the northern states where summer's like two, three months long, right? So, yeah, God has been remarkably good. And while I've been at home, haven't been on a plane at all since Tuscaloosa. Um, so God has just I've had visions of being able to, our farm is old. I live on an old farm, it's over a hundred years old. And so it's got a lot of stuff that needs to be done. Yeah, people, Kristen, were so great this summer. Um, the whole farm has had a facelift. Um buildings have been renewed. Restore buildings that should have had a bulldozer and a match are now completely renewed. The farm looks really great. It looks it looks renewed, and that's what I feel like God is saying. I'm making all things new. Yes.

SPEAKER_04: 30:09

Wow, not great. Seriously, like, and that's like 2 Corinthians 5 17, right? My the right address? I think I'm not sure. Yeah, but like this renewal. Um, I I would love to ask. So for all these years, you've been, you know, kind of operating, doing ministry where you're the face, you've been boots on the ground, you know, fundraising, you've seen this this new way. That the Lord has stepped in, you know, during a time of you needing to do it a different way. But do you sense that this is like an a new way that could even be, I don't know, I'm just thinking of other people in ministry who, you know, maybe have operated in this way where they've kind of done, you know, fundraising or or what have you. One way I I talked to somebody recently and he said that they're really struggling financially with their ministry. So I actually invited him on the podcast so he could get the word out. Do you do you sense that there's a a new way that the Lord's really wanting to do that?

SPEAKER_00: 31:13

Well, he's definitely he's he's definitely doing that with us. I can't speak for everyone. I was on a um a financial or fundraising training class yesterday. And it was the same old, same old stuff. Okay, you know, some new information, but for the most part, the same, all the contacting that you need to be doing, and the emailing you need to be doing, and the phone calling you need to be doing. There was really nothing new for me under the sun. I assure you that there was not a single mention of if you want to raise funds, um, be involved in a traumatic injury, right? Um, almost kill yourself, and then God will take over. I think the message for me is no, it's not about plug and play, it's about trust my Holy Spirit. And which, by the way, it would be amiss if I was not to say, look, you talk about renewing or a new way or whatever. Look what's happening in the world. Yes. I have never in my lifetime, other than way back in the it's 50 years since we've seen a move of God like this in America. Back in the late 60s, early 70s, during the Jesus people movement, when the Holy Spirit visited a nation and then a bit in the world, too. Um, I have cried out literally to God. I have prayed, asking the Lord to do it again. Lord, we've heard of your fame, we stand in all of your deeds in our day. Do it again. Please do it again. And, you know, started praying that a long time ago. And then have been wondering, where are you, Lord? How come we haven't seen revival for 50 years? And then, you know, pretty much I went back to there's a guy named Evan Roberts that's famous in the Welsh Revival. One guy that with a youth group of 17 kids, one night in Loghar, Wales, yeah, he shared what the Lord had been doing in his life in college, and it sparked a revival that touched the world. And now this last Sunday we saw Charlie Kirk's memorial service, and again, one guy whose passion for God and zeal for God's glory and for people to know Jesus touched the world by Monday. They're saying that 100 million people all over the world had live streamed or had streamed that funeral. Then I hear from his wife that oh, excuse me, I don't every once in a while I get a stab of pain from my back.

SPEAKER_03: 34:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 34:24

Um I hear from his wife that Charlie's goal was 20,000 chapters in high schools and colleges. As of this morning, 120,000. Oh my gosh, it's okay. 120,000 requests from all over the world have come in. And I just heard beginning of this week that the request had bounced all the way up to 60,000. Well, now it's been doubling like every two days.

SPEAKER_04: 35:02

Yeah, because at the memorial, I feel like they had said that it was what 35,000 or maybe it was just hundred, hundred.

SPEAKER_00: 35:09

It was a hundred thousand. No, no, thirty five hundred. Wow. And then and then it's it's just it's exponential. Go back to the verse again from the beginning of the year, exceedingly, exceedingly abundantly. Let me blow your mind because I'm gonna do more than you could think, ask, or even dare to imagine. In your wildest dreams, if we could interview Charlie Kirk right now from heaven, he would say, In my wildest dreams, I never imagined anything like this would happen, maybe until he lived to be 90 years old or something. But in you know, a few days from his death. I mean, he was killed on September 10th. Right.

SPEAKER_04: 35:56

We're only 15 days later here.

SPEAKER_00: 35:58

Yeah, and and here it is, 120,000, Kristen.

unknown: 36:04

Wow.

SPEAKER_00: 36:05

I really do believe that this is going to be the fuel starter, the firebrand for revival, perhaps even the last great outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In the last days, it says in Acts, I will pour out my spirit on your sons and your daughters. Here we are talking on hope unlocked right now. And as we speak, the Holy Spirit is doing just that. You talk about hastening the day of the Lord's return. May I suggest this would be hastening? And that only this generation, when that was written, when Luke wrote that book of Acts back there not long after Jesus' ascension, ah, there was no social media back then.

SPEAKER_03: 37:00

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00: 37:01

And now we have all these ways, and this generation of any generation ever knows how to hasten the day. They just they just can't shut up right now. And it's not all about Charlie Kirk, and it's not about conservatism, and it's not about all that. This is primarily about Jesus. Charlie's last trips, he was going around the world speaking like John the Baptist. Repent. He was speaking a message of repentance. Repent and get right with the Lord.

SPEAKER_02: 37:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 37:40

Well, and he was last in, wasn't it, uh, Korea prior South Korea? Yep. Yep. And like that's caused an uprising there, from what I understand. Um, just in you know, his assassination and this martyr, he's a martyr. He truly is. And I I don't know, like, even when I was watching the the memorial on on Sunday, I just kept hearing my spirit like, don't miss it, don't miss it. And we're seeing this everything. I mean, you could even, I'm just gonna go here. Like, I could tell somebody that the sky is blue, and they'd be like, No, it's black.

SPEAKER_00: 38:17

Yeah, but no matter what the devil tries now, it's too late. He he he overplayed his hand like he did with Jesus. Oh, he was so excited, I'm gonna kill this sucker. And then before he knows it, Jesus has risen, and he must have been saying, Oh, shoot. Now what have I done? Um, same thing with Charlie. You thought you were gonna silence his voice. You didn't silence his voice, you magnified it, you amplified it. You yeah, and so people are gonna try to throw up anything they can now, but it's too late. It's too late. The Holy Spirit is out ahead of them, and no matter what people try to do, there's nothing that they can do to stifle God's plan that everyone will hear about Jesus. You know, and this is the interesting thing too, Kristen. I have been to the ends of the earth. I've been to places, no roads, no water, no running water, no toilets, no electricity. But you know what there is in the middle of nowhere? Cell phone. And I have not been to a single village in the world, and I've been to a lot of them where there's not at least one smartphone.

SPEAKER_04: 39:36

I've been thinking about that a lot.

SPEAKER_00: 39:37

Can you if you want to reach the entire world, just do it through a cell phone? Isn't that interesting? It really is. There, there's that beyond what you could think, ask, or imagine.

SPEAKER_03: 39:50

Right.

SPEAKER_00: 39:50

And just think you could literally reach and disciple. You just pack everybody into a mud hut and listen to that one podcast or that one um viewing on their on a the one smartphone in the village. And then tomorrow when the sun rises, they lay that little six-inch by six-inch solar panel on the roof and plug in that smartphone and charge it up again so they can watch that night. So it's it's amazing the ability now to reach the ends of the earth without having to personally go there.

SPEAKER_04: 40:28

So I'm I'm kind of curious, and you might have the answer to this question, or you might even be supplying the phones, but how are they getting phones? Oh, every country has them. You just got to get into two like families in a village, you know. Like, is that how it works? Can you tell us a little bit more?

SPEAKER_00: 40:44

Like, how does that they'd have to get somebody because those small villages will not have a phone store. They have to get into a city. Somebody has to get into a city where they can buy, but because of even crops and stuff, um agricultural societies will have them because they want to know what are the current market prices today, if I can get my corn in or I can get my rice in, you know, and so um really phones are running the world.

SPEAKER_02: 41:19

Wow, wow.

SPEAKER_04: 41:20

So I mean just think like you they say 100 million people watched the memorial, but uh it's probably like how many different times over that? 20 times that wouldn't you say?

SPEAKER_00: 41:33

Oh, I wouldn't be I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_04: 41:38

So I would love you to, you know, because you watched all of it, I did too. Um and like you said, in your time, you've never seen anything like this back in the Jesus Revolution, you know, Jesus people revolution time. How old were you at that time?

SPEAKER_00: 41:55

I was uh a sophomore.

SPEAKER_04: 41:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_00: 41:57

So you were 73. I was a sophomore in 73. You remember, and and I was I was at some of the events. The biggest event of that time was called Explo 72, and it was an event held in Dallas, Texas, with 100,000 high school and college students there. And it was when Jesus People Movement, when modern day Christian music was birthed.

SPEAKER_04: 42:24

Okay, wow, and you're seeing now we're seeing so the turning point USA chapters that are opening are opening where?

SPEAKER_00: 42:35

In high school and college campuses across America. That's the target.

SPEAKER_04: 42:40

Parallel to who you were seeing coming to these events.

SPEAKER_00: 42:43

You know, it's all you look back to Jesus. They believe that most of the disciples were teenagers. When God look at Mary, he chooses a 14-year-old. Look at uh David when he slays Goliath, he's like 16. Look at the guys in the lion's den. God has always chosen young people when he's wanted to do something big because young people just believe he can, right? They're not jaded yet, they hadn't haven't had enough negative experiences to kind of go, yeah, right. Young people want to change the world till they have enough experiences to go, I don't think I'll be able to. But God believes in teenagers. I mean, who would choose a junior high girl to be the mother of your son, raising the most important baby in the world? And you choose a 14-year-old? Are you kidding me? Right. Yeah, yeah, it confounds the wise, right? Right, right. And so, yeah, I I find it interesting. I think it's in the book of Daniel that says that in the last days, knowledge will greatly increase. And so here we are, you know, no cell phones, no transportation, nothing back in Jesus' time. Yet, even though there was nothing to help prop up the message or spread the message, Jesus changed the world through a group of young people without any mode of transportation other than their feet, without any computers and any cell phones, the message still spread globally. And here we are talking on Hope Unlocked podcasts that will have technology to help spread it. So now we have the Holy Spirit, we have technology that can spread everything in a nanosecond and be available to the world of eight plus billion people can hear this message within 24 hours once it goes live. It's incredible. You talk about being able to hasten the day of the Lord's return. This is where we're at. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 45:05

What would you what would you say to those who because I I really like when I heard of what happened with Charlie Kirk, um, he really was kind of a voice in the background for me, bolstering me back, you know, especially during the COVID days when I was needing to speak up about some things. Um, you know, I I I at first I didn't believe it. I was like, no, no, I don't, I don't think so. And then all of a sudden I just felt this fire like coursing through my veins. Like I felt back in 2020. And I feel like we're kind of in this phase two of um many things, but what would you say to people? Because I, you know, I'm really I love helping women to get out there and do what the Lord has called them to do because too many are sitting on the bench. And second of all, I love to help women use their voice and roar. What would you say to these women, especially? And and I know some women some men listen in. Did you feel that that fire come like it almost an emboldened phase?

SPEAKER_03: 46:17

Like phase two.

SPEAKER_00: 46:18

It hasn't died out, it's neither burning, and you know what I think it's gonna be. I believe yeah, it's interesting. It wasn't, you know, it could have been both Charlie and Erica killed in a car crash. They could have taken them both out, like Diana and and her boyfriend. No, Erica is left, yes, why? Because I believe Erica is the one the the torch is being handed off to her, and she is the modern day Esther of our day. I really I believed it as soon as it happened. The lady has it all gone for her. She's got class, she's got beauty, she's got brains, she's athletic, she knows how to run companies. I mean, the woman is absolutely a needle in a haystack of women. Forget about you know, these young girls looking up to whoever, yeah, uh Taylor Swift, um, you know, Hillary Clinton, whatever, they're the View women, whoopi Goldberg. They've got they've got Erica now to be a model, an example. Oh, and top of everything else I mentioned, Miss Arizona. I mean, she's won beauty pageants. I think actually, when Trump was the one who owned it. Anyway, I find it remarkable that she's now stepping in with the mantle of leadership on her shoulders. And I think literally she was born for a time such as this.

SPEAKER_04: 47:58

Amen.

SPEAKER_00: 47:59

And so those women and girls that we're mutually concerned about, we don't have to worry about them at all, Kristen, because for the first time in their lives, they have an example of a woman they can follow.

SPEAKER_04: 48:15

Yeah, and she she stands for family values, she stands like she's she's taking a stand, truly.

SPEAKER_00: 48:22

She's conservative, and she's conservative in all those views, and as Charlie said, more conservative than me.

SPEAKER_04: 48:29

Wow, he he said that. Wow.

SPEAKER_00: 48:31

Yep, yep, that she's more conservative than him. I find it interesting that while they both spoke up about needing to stay home and raise your kids, that's not what she's gonna be be doing. She's gonna be running a nonprofit.

SPEAKER_04: 48:46

Yeah. How how do you like how do you think I'm not saying that you would tell her what to do, but you know, maybe for those who are being called to again, like I'm I'm just seeing this resurgence in me is like, come on, get off the bench and like helping women go do the thing. How can how can there be, you know, balance is I feel like balance is kind of unattainable. How how can people juggle, you know, a ministry calling, a business calling, um, having children, families? Like, have you seen it done well before? Without burnout.

SPEAKER_00: 49:23

Uh I don't know that I can answer the question right away. Maybe not that young. Okay. Um, because she's in she's in her mid-30s. She's like four or five years older than Charlie.

SPEAKER_04: 49:38

Yeah, I think she's like that.

SPEAKER_00: 49:40

Yeah, that's what I thought too, like 36. But you know what? It all goes back to calling and being set apart by the Holy Spirit. Because again, we have to throw the weight of the responsibility on God who does the calling. God knows that she's got a three-year-old and a one-year-old. God knows she's just lost her husband. And so um, where God calls, He provides. And so um, I'm sure that God and her staff are gonna be wrestling with this on a regular basis and continually, you know, seeking to try to juggle it and be faithful in all the responsibilities that, yeah, especially Erica, she's gonna have a lot. A lot, a lot on her plate. But yeah, you could hear when she spoke that it was God that was filling her mouth. Like, open your mouth and I will fill it, says the Lord. When you're up in front of the world two days after your husband has just died, you should be a bubbling, a bumbling idiot with not being able to do a thing except ball. Right. And instead, she's able to address the world. And if you think that you stopped, you've only ignited a fire in me that is never gonna be put out. Yeah, like you're gonna regret that you did this because now his voice will just be louder, right?

SPEAKER_04: 51:18

It's it's set off like this inferno wildfire, and I and I know that there's a lot of people that are catching it. They're like, Yes, I'm I'm grabbing my torch and running with it. And then we've got other people on the other side that are like um it's just so interesting, you know. But we've got other people on the other side, it's like we have to stay focused.

SPEAKER_00: 51:40

I think that the other side has been remarkably quiet because they know there's not much they can say. This is a tsunami. That's like saying, I'm gonna say something about the tsunami that's coming my way. Well, go ahead and try to say something about the tsunami, but you ain't stopping the tsunami. Yeah, yeah, it's big and it's ugly, but it's it's coming your way. And and that's you know, I think the liberal, the wokes, the whatever you want to call, um, they're seeing a tidal wave. It's not just a tidal wave, they're seeing hurricane-size storms, tsunamis. That that's the Holy Spirit is saying, good luck. Because if you think you can stop me, look at how fast I have spread this around the world.

SPEAKER_03: 52:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 52:35

I mean, they don't they don't have a plan to stop this, right?

SPEAKER_04: 52:39

Exactly. And and then what what's beautiful is um, you know, everybody gets an opportunity to choose. Like you can either jump ship from, you know, you're seeing the tsunami coming, you can jump ship off like the the enemy lie ship, or you can come on board with us. Right with Jesus, right? I mean, because this is like we talked about earlier, just some of the things that you've experienced in your ministry, like you you couldn't even, you couldn't make this up. You you can't make this up. It's it's beyond something we could even conjure up. Exactly. Unfortunately, we've you know, we we've unfortunately lost, you know, a man, but through is it uh Matthew 12, 23, like a seed has to die, right? Right. And um, you know, unfortunately this happened to him, but what we're seeing through just like with Jesus, like he he died. And I'm not saying Charlie is Jesus by any means, right? But goodness, just yeah, there's there's such a fire in me, and I can't keep it contained.

SPEAKER_00: 53:51

You know, as I sit here right now at the farm and look out my window, I'm looking at a cornfield about to be harvested. So every single stalk that has at least two big cobs on it was planted with one kernel of corn. Now there's two cobs with row after row after row of kernels of corn, and bushels and bushels and tons of tons and tons of corn that all came from individual kernels. That's what's happening in the world right now. God, God is a ridiculous multiplier. He takes one and turns it into countless. Yes, and um He's got He's got his harvesters too, all over the world, yeah, and multiplying hourly as we speak, too. Like it's just it's nothing short of miraculous what God has done, is doing, and will do. I really do believe we are looking right now at the end times last day's harvest. How long this last day's harvest lasts, that we don't know. But the Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. One thing he's committed to is he will not return till every tribe and tongue and people group from the world has someone present around the throne who is a believer and a worshiper of Jesus. And we're closer to that every hour of today. Yes, and that's what excites me. You know, it's a weird verse, isn't it? That we can hasten the day of the Lord's return. That's by cooperating with the Holy Spirit to get her done. Get her done, get her done. I just love you. That's what I'm yeah, I'm leaning into that now. Get her done.

SPEAKER_04: 56:04

Get her done. Amen. Well, I would love you'll have to come on again because I know that you'll have more stories like in the next six months to a year. Um, I would love for you to just share how can the listeners like, what do you need? What does Diane need? What does the ministry need right now? Um, I know financial donations are always you know beneficial. Um, and if that's the case, where can they donate to global seed planters, first of all? And then what else do you need?

SPEAKER_00: 56:33

Well, I would say our number one need, it's not material, not financial, it's spiritual. The number one need we need is prayer. And you can tell by what I've shared about my accident. Another need that we have very seriously is protection. Um, we've been under a lot of attack because of the nature of our ministry, because we're focused on those who have never heard, we're focused on the ends of the earth, we're focused on Buddhists and Hindus and Muslims. The attack from Satan is intense. Uh, I have one of my other workers that's going in for pretty serious surgery very soon. So pray for our protection. Yeah. Um, also, we need prayer for wisdom. This is not about if you think you can run your ministry by your good, your good intelligence or your research or your your brilliant mind. No, you can't. Yeah, um, ministry is not the same as other businesses. Ministry is about speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. We need to be hearing from the Lord.

unknown: 57:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 57:51

Now, I'd be remiss if I didn't say we also need miraculous funding because we know we now have the research in place to know where the least reached people are. We have we have 200 indigenous missionaries in their own least reached nations that we support. Um, and we could support more if we had more money. I mean, it does take, it takes the Holy Spirit, number one, but then it he does work through people.

SPEAKER_03: 58:26

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00: 58:27

And they need to be supported. Um, and so man, if we had a million dollars, which we don't, but not yet, it would be easy for us to distribute a million dollars.

SPEAKER_01: 58:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 58:38

And now when we have this new gal that does, you know, number crunching and making sure about the impact and all that stuff, it's even better. So prayer, protection, wisdom, and finances. You know, somebody that's looking, it'd be a fool if they knew they could get 10% on their investments and they kept investing in what they were getting, four to five. Why do that if you know you can get 10? But in kingdom investment, I can promise you um the equivalent of harvesting the corn. You can invest one kernel and get a hundred times more, a thousand times more. Invest in the kingdom. Um, not just any Christian organization, any more than any financial fund. Invest in one where you're getting great ROI return on your investment.

SPEAKER_04: 59:37

Yes, or like return on impact, even too.

SPEAKER_00: 59:41

Right, right. So last year our ROI was extraordinarily high.

SPEAKER_02: 59:46

Was it?

SPEAKER_00: 59:47

Wow, 66,000 people giving their lives to the Lord from this little ministry. It's huge, it's huge, it's huge. So I can say without any boasting or anything, invest in global seed planters. God will give you a great ROI.

SPEAKER_04: 1:00:08

Yes. And I I just want to kind of follow up with that because several years ago, you know, the Lord was just showing me like, do things for the one, right? And and in the world's math, that doesn't always make sense, right? But he was showing me, like, you know, math that we learned in school, one times one in the world is just one. But in the kingdom, one times one is exponential. Yeah. So even donating, if you have a dollar, like it it's exponential. At least that's the way I see it. Would you agree?

SPEAKER_00: 1:00:39

I would. I know this. You can, with an investment of$3, we can print and distribute a Bible in a Hindu, Buddhist, or Muslim country in their native tongue. And from that one Bible, it's like one corn kernel or one kernel of wheat. It just somebody sitting in their mud hut with their family and their neighbors, and they find John 3:16. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life. Wow, all of a sudden you've got a whole hut full of people praying and giving their lives to Jesus because the Holy Spirit opened up their eyes through a three dollar investment.

SPEAKER_02: 1:01:32

Amen.

SPEAKER_00: 1:01:33

Yeah, it's incredible.

SPEAKER_04: 1:01:35

But beyond the Ephesians 3.20.

SPEAKER_00: 1:01:39

That's right. Amen. Well exceedingly beyond. So we should probably end for today or we could go on forever.

SPEAKER_04: 1:01:46

I know. Well, what is your um website? So we can verbalize it, but I'll also put it in the show notes as well.

SPEAKER_00: 1:01:52

Globalseedplanters.org. Okay. And you can give online there. It'll also give you the information where you could send a check to our P.O. box. Um, but yeah, for this is probably a younger crowd. If not, they can have somebody help them online or send a check to Global Seed Planters, P.O. Box 107, Sandstone, Minnesota. I believe the zip is 55072, not positive on the zip.

SPEAKER_04: 1:02:28

We'll put that in the show notes. So if you guys want to just verify the address before sending out your check, that would be amazing.

SPEAKER_00: 1:02:34

And the best way to give two would be the greatest need, because then your money will go to whatever has the greatest need or the greatest ROI return on your investment.

SPEAKER_04: 1:02:45

Yes. Amen. Thank you so much. Um I would love to just ask you one more question. So, as you know, I I do this for the one, and I would just love for you to think of that one woman or man who's listening in today. Obviously, there's more that are listening, but do you have any words of encouragement or or wisdom that you feel led to speak over them? And then would you pray us out today?

SPEAKER_00: 1:03:08

Sure. Let me pause a moment and ask the Lord. I would just say believe. Believe, silence your doubt, your skepticism. Turn off the noise on that. Open your eyes to see that the Holy Spirit is moving in an unprecedented way in the world. And just simply say yes to him. Or say like Thomas, Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief. Or get rid of my unbelief, right? Lord, I believe. And then do what Samuel did. Samuel wasn't sure what was going on back in his day. And he didn't know that the Lord was trying to speak to him. So he went and talked to Eli and he said, When you hear a voice, just say, speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. That's what I'd say to your one that's out there. Speak, Lord. At least I'm trying to listen, right? And and then move out in faith, like you did just genuinely hear from him.

SPEAKER_02: 1:04:38

So good.

SPEAKER_00: 1:04:39

So, Father, we come to you at the end of this podcast, and very humbled by the unique and creative ways that you do exceedingly abundantly. That you are a God who loves to blow our minds and do far beyond, not just do what we're capable of thinking or asking or imagining, but far above and beyond, you want to blow our minds. So we invite you to do that with every listener. Blow their mind. And um surprise them with what you're capable of doing. And thank you, Lord, that you are making all things new. Thank you that we can anticipate new days ahead. The old, forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. See, I'm doing a new thing. Do you not perceive it? So we thank you that the winds of revival are blowing and that you are doing new things.

SPEAKER_04: 1:05:56

Yes.

SPEAKER_00: 1:05:58

We're grateful in Jesus' name. Amen.

SPEAKER_04: 1:06:01

Amen. Well, I wanted to before I end, I wanted to make sure I like edit what I said. I said Matthew 12.24, but it's actually John 12.24. It's truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. So I just wanted to edit my address of where I told you guys in the Bible earlier. So it's John 12.24. Um, but Diane, thank you so much for coming back on today. I'm going to close with hope and locked anchoring verse, which is May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. And that's Romans 15, 13. So thank you again, Diane, for always being a brave voice who's setting so many free. I can't wait to have you on again. I'll be back with another episode next week.