In the 200th episode of the No Doubt, No Fear, Only Believe podcast, host Greg Ryan celebrates reaching the milestone and announces major changes to the show’s format and future ministry. He explains that the daily podcast will shift to three episodes per week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) to allow deeper engagement and to accommodate new initiatives. Greg unveils a forthcoming 90‑day intensive community focused on “planting the Word of God,” describing it as three incorruptible seeds he will help listeners nurture. Throughout the episode he reiterates three core biblical truths: (1) believers are God’s favorite, illustrated by Psalm 139’s depiction of God’s intimate knowledge and pursuit of each person; (2) God is not angry because sin has been fully paid for on the cross, and salvation is accessed by faith; (3) believers are one day closer to Christ’s return, with Greg speculating that the rapture may align with the Feast of Trumpets and urging listeners to stay watchful. He shares personal reflections on his relentless pursuit of God, acknowledges his imperfections, and offers a heartfelt prayer for listeners, thanking God and the Holy Spirit for guidance. The episode ends with gratitude for the audience and anticipation of future episodes.
Welcome to episode 200. Praise God, I made it 200 episodes in, and I want to start this episode like I do every other episode.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Spending time in the Word of God is the best way to spend time with God. Welcome to No Doubt, No Fear, Only Believe podcast, where we will encourage, inspire, and empower you to live your best life in Christ. Here's Greg.
Welcome to episode 200. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, I have made it 200 strong, and I want to remind you of the word that I started this year with, and I'm still on that word: relentless. And I have been relentless in my pursuit of following after God and digging into his word and then giving it to you. I just feel like that God so strongly put this on me, and I can't honestly tell you other than I was challenged to do this. And when I was challenged, I just said, without counting the cost, I said, yeah, I can do 30 episodes. So here we are, 170 episodes after the 30 I committed to do. And I'm telling you, I'm going strong. I am ready to keep this thing going. We are going to make some changes. I want to make an announcement here that I am no longer going to be doing this every single day, this daily podcasting. I've got so many other things in the fire. God has opened so many other doors that I am going to start doing— I'm thinking it's going to be 3 episodes a week, and that's going to be okay because It's a lot. If you haven't determined to just go all in, it is a lot to ask somebody to come every day and listen to a podcast. And I see why most people are falling off, and I see why most people just can't dig into the Word of God. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna keep coming here probably Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I'm gonna stay relentless on this thing, but I'm gonna open up some different avenues for people that really want to dig into this thing. I'm gonna just lock arms with the people that really want to be a part of getting deep into the Word of God and just being held accountable and just grow in grace and truth. And I am going to commit— I think another commitment I'm going to make in 2021 is I'm going to open up that community that I've talked about. I've got a teaching that I'm going to do. I'm going to do a 90-day intensive on planting the Word of God. It's going to be 3 major incorruptible seed that I am going to help you plant. And myself, I've planted these seeds, but I'm going to replant them or re-tend to them and maybe dig some weeds out and then maybe water this seed down a little bit and let it grow. But I'm excited about it, and I really honestly— this has been a passion project, and these 200 episodes, I do them daily. I am the only one here doing these things. I am recording these episodes, I am editing these episodes, I am getting them up, and I am getting on the line. So it is a big-time deal for me, and to add anything else to my plate, it's just too much. So I've asked God if I could just pull back a little bit, that I'm gonna go to probably 3 days a week, and I'm still praying about it. I think it's gonna be Monday, Wednesday, and Friday because I've looked at my stats and I'm seeing people fall off after a while. In the world we're living in, it's It's hard to keep people's attention that long, and if you haven't gone all in and if you're not a fanatic, you're gonna kinda come and go and you're not gonna be able to be dialed in and stay up. And I don't expect it because this is my deal, this isn't your deal, and I am here to help you. This is my free gift to the body of Christ. This is me just trying to encourage, empower, and inspire you. And I wanna remind you when I started that there were 3 truths. That I wanted to tell you and make sure that you knew as you were listening to this. And I wanna remind you that the first truth is that you are God's favorite. If God had a refrigerator in heaven, your picture would be all over it. And I don't know if I've ever told you, but Psalm 139 illustrates this perfectly. If you read Psalm 139 out loud for about a week or two, there is no way that you're not going to see God as just running after you and pursuing you. And this was David pouring out his heart. And when the Bible says that David was a man after God's own heart, he messed up. Heck, I've messed up. You know, I'd like to say that it's not daily, but I'm sure when we get to heaven that God's going to say, look, you messed up this day and this day, and it's going to be pretty much every day. So this was David being a mess up but after running after God's heart. And this is how David saw God, and he said, O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways, for there is not a word on my tongue but behold, O Lord, you know it all. Together. You have hedged me behind and before, and have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot contain it. Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend into heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me. And your right hand shall hold me. If I say, surely the darkness shall fall on me, even the night shall be light about me. Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike to you. And I'm gonna stop there because I have superior reading skills, but I wanna encourage you, Psalm 139, read that and just continue to think about you are God's favorite. If God had a refrigerator in heaven, your picture would be all over it. And God is not mad. The second thing is God is not mad at you. He put every sin, every sin, past, present, and future sin on Jesus at the cross. Jesus said, "It is finished." He was buried in the grave with all that sin, and he rose again the third day leaving all that sin in the ground. Sin is no longer the issue. God got mad at sin. He had to have an answer to sin, and the answer was put it all on his Son. Sin is done. Sin has been paid. It's paid in full for every person on this earth. I don't care if you give God the finger. I don't care if you never acknowledge Jesus as Lord. Your sin has been paid for. The key is by faith appropriating that payment to your account, and that's what salvation is all about. And God is not angry. In fact, God is trying to get you into the kingdom of God. He knows how bad hell is. He don't want any of his children to go there, but you have been given free will. You can freely decide whether you listen to this yahoo on a podcast, whether you read the word of God, whether you accept accept what Jesus did for you, that is your deal. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. And that's what I'm telling you. I'm not here to save you. I mean, I can't even straighten up my own life perfectly, so I'm not here to try to save you. I am here to proclaim the mighty name of Jesus and the Word of God, and that's my only goal here. My goal is to get you into the Bible, to get you to the same place where I was, and to just get you in the body of Christ. That is the only thing, and it's not me that's going to do it. It's the Holy Spirit who I follow after daily, and he is the one that's going to save you, not me. And so I would ask you, I would ask Father God, if you have never accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, I would ask Father God to start drawing you and that you would just dig into his word, that you would read Romans, that you would read the Gospel of John, that you would just be quickened in your spirit to see that you need God as a Savior. And God is good. God is not mad. In fact, he loves you. You are his favorite. And so the third thing that I want you to understand and know as you listen to this podcast is that we are one day closer to Jesus' return today than we were yesterday. This world is going to hell in a handcart. It is spiraling out of control. I don't know when Jesus is going to return. It says we'll not know the day or the time. I do believe, and I've done a podcast on the rapture of the church, I don't even know the number, I'll link to it, but it is— I think it's going to happen during the Feast of the Trumpets. I don't know which feast and I don't know which day, it's not specifically. There's 100 trumpet blasts in that Feast of the Trumpets, and Paul says, and I want to say it was Thessalonians, I'll link to it, but it says at the last trumpet. So they they blow the trumpet 99 times, 9 sets of 11. I was told not to do math in public, but the priest blows this shofar 11 times, and then he does that for 9 sets of that shofar. He blows it, and then on the last, the 100th blow, he holds out a lot longer trumpet blast. And I believe, I, you know, the, the Bible says that we're not going to know the time or the day But I think that his children are well aware that he's coming back. And I just want to encourage you, be a little bit more watchful during the Feast of Trumpets every year when it comes up. I just want to put that in the back of your mind to just know that he is coming back. And I just want to thank you if you have been with me during this journey. I have just got to say thank you, and I've got to thank God. God, I thank you for putting this on me. Holy Spirit, I thank you for never leaving me. Nor forsaking me. I am so excited to be a part of your family. And God, I pray that anyone listening to this would be encouraged, empowered, and inspired to take another look at you and at your word. God, it— I am imperfect, and I talk about being imperfect, make— taking imperfect actions as I follow after a perfect example. God, I thank you for all of that. I thank you that you have called me out. Lord, many are called, few are chosen, and I— you have called me out and you have chosen me by name, and I thank you for that. And I thank you for what you've put in front of me. You said you'd be a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path, and I see the lamp and I see the light that I'm supposed to go. And I pray that you would open the door that no man can shut. And Lord, close some doors that no one can open. And Lord, help me to understand exactly the next steps that I need to take. But I'm walking forward, Lord, and as, as I go, I pray that you would just steer me. And the person listening to this episode, I pray that you would continue to lead and guide and direct them. God, we thank you for everything you've done in our lives. We thank you for the salvation message. We thank you for sending your Son We thank you for raising him up the third day and sending your Holy Spirit. And we thank you that he is never going to leave us nor forsake us. And we are so happy to be a part of your kingdom and your family. God, we thank you, we love you. We ask it all in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, thank you for being a part of this 200th episode, and I look forward to visiting with you on the next episode.
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