{"podcast":{"title":"RTTBROS","slug":"rttbros-107316","podcast_index_feed_id":107316,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/127be410/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/RTTBROS","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded/3001092/3001092-1652304774197-5e20feeb09c77.jpg","author":"Gene Kissinger","episode_count":1985,"summary":"We need to redeem the time as the passage in Ephesians 5 states BECAUSE the days are evil. It is vital as believers that we learn to discern. We need to acquire wisdom so we can walk in truth. Wisdom is word based and God given. We learn it from the word of God and ultimately from the God who gave us the Word. My brother Norman and I are going to be setting up a ministry and under this ministry umbrella we will establish a YouTube channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGuqrDZ3ku7C78qrb4eOyQ Tik-Tok short form video here tiktok.com/@genekissinger_rttbros https://linktr.ee/rttbros","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T02:18:11.359324+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rttbros-107316"},"episode":{"title":"The Praying Governor #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #AMERICA250 #NATION250","slug":"the-praying-governor-rttbros-nightlight-america250-nation250","published_at":"2026-06-03T12:13:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rttbros-107316/the-praying-governor-rttbros-nightlight-america250-nation250","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rttbros-107316","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/RTTBROS/episodes/The-Praying-Governor-RTTBROS-NIGHTLIGHT-AMERICA250-NATION250-e3k9g2u","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/127be410/podcast/play/120946206/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-3%2F425429590-44100-2-5e3e16eedbb0c.mp3","summary":"The Praying Governor #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #AMERICA250 #NATION250 "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep." — Psalm 107:23-24 THE STORY William Bradford kept a journal for thirty years. He began it in the bitter winter of 1620 and wrote through the decades of struggle, loss, harvest, and hope that followed. Of Plymouth Plantation is not a political record. It is a testimony. Bradford wrote as a man who was absolutely certain that God was present in every moment, the devastating ones as much as the triumphant ones, and he wanted the generations that followed to know it. He recorded the deaths with grief, but never with despair. He recorded the harvests with gratitude, never with pride. When the colony struggled, he pointed to their failures of faith. When they flourished, he pointed to the mercy of God. There was no separation in Bradford's mind between the sacred and the secular, the spiritual and the political. All of it belonged to God. In one of the journal's most striking passages, Bradford described the first sight of Cape Cod, a wild, howling shore with winter coming, and asked what had sustained them. His answer was simple: the Spirit of God and His grace. He governed Plymouth Colony for thirty years. He never stopped praying. He never stopped pointing to God. THE REFLECTION There is a kind of leadership the world rarely produces anymore, the kind that refuses to take credit for what only God could have done. Bradford was not a perfect man, and Plymouth was not a perfect colony. There were conflicts, failures, and compromises. But Bradford never stopped asking the foundational question: What is God doing here, and how do we align ourselves with it? That questi…","meta_description":"The Praying Governor #RTTBROS #NIGHTLIGHT #AMERICA250 #NATION250 \"They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":177,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rttbros-107316/episodes/the-praying-governor-rttbros-nightlight-america250-nation250/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rttbros-107316/the-praying-governor-rttbros-nightlight-america250-nation250.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}