Ray Hayes Part 7

Today on John Dash and Friends, John sits down with his friend Ray Hayes—a young voice with remarkable wisdom and genuine kindness. In this heartfelt conversation, Ray shares powerful life lessons that challenge, uplift, and inspire. More than just a talk, this episode is a meaningful moment you won’t forget. Tune in and let it speak to you.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

And in my spirit I hear why? It's a stupid question. And then my spirit I hear why again. And then the sp in the spirit I hear he's not sent you a Father's Day card. He's not mowed the yard. He's not a straight A student, a starting quarterback. He's pooped and eated and kept you awake. It's 2 30 in the morning. You gotta get up at 5 30 and go to work. He's the reason for that. And you would die for him. Why? And I remember saying it out loud. He's my son. And the Holy Spirit went boom. Ray, you're trying to earn a position that can only be received.

SPEAKER_00 0:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 0:39

And that changed, that changed that would I say glory to glory, but that was probably the the pivot, like you told those hinge points. Yeah. Where I was like, whoa, I have been working so hard to get the love of the Father, and all I really need to do is receive sonship. And uh it was a hinge point that changed my relationship. Continued the conversation, which I we continue that conversation until we step out of this body, but but that was a big hinge point for me.

SPEAKER_00 1:06

Yeah, I studied one time uh for over a year on nothing but the God the Father. Nothing but the God, no other subject, nothing else in the Bible. Just God the Father. Yeah. And I really researched the relationship between a father and a son, or a father and a daughter, or just a father. Yeah, the father. Okay. Now I know some people have rotten fathers, and it's hard for them to figure that. But as me, I had a good father, and uh and I've been a good father to my kids. And I think about how little, as rotten as I am, I think about how little that my kids have to do to please me.

SPEAKER_01 1:40

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

And I think about it, and it's really something when I think about there's and how little they have to ask for. Because I'm constantly looking and thinking. I think, hey, what what can I do? And you know, Janice's always making me stop. You know what I mean? And then at points I have to try to make her because she'll say, Why and then you know my kids will walk in the house and they'll they'll why like that. Well, here, your dad will just give that to you. And I said, I was wearing that jacket. You know what I mean? And I'm thinking that we're like that with those our children. Yeah. And and I look at it and I'm fascinated. Uh and so I begin to think about how little my children again have to ask for. Uh, you know, uh Janice, like I said, she's always trying to say Colson got into wrestling one time, my son did. The WWE style. Oh, okay. Broke every table we had, lights over top of him, fluorescent lights, and typed off every ladder. So I so signed him up for a camp. You know, he went and bouncing off the ropes, and I said, Well, now let's do this. We're gonna do it. Let me buy a ring. We're gonna do this big style we didn't. So he so he finally got his mom to decide and said, Could you stop dad? Yeah, you know what I mean? Because anything he wanted to do, yeah, I wanted to get in with him. And help. And I thought, gosh, and I'm a little rotten and real rough around the edges. And I thought, if I'm like that and God is really as cool as we say He is, how much more is He looking for me every day, trying to see what He can do for me. Yeah. And I thought that's really something to find fascinated me. Then I began to think of how you can get on my good side as just an earthly father. You can say something about me, but when you brag on my children, and you say, Man, I seen your kid the other day, and he kicked that bucket and it went plumb over the fence. Man, that's my boy, okay? So I began to think about that. So the more we brag on what God loves, and uh we think that's a self when we tell God how good we are, but no, but when we begin to start telling what's wrong with people, when we start bragging on them and start lifting them up, because that's what God loves. Yeah, absolutely. And then I find myself repositioning myself with God in my life. I found myself to where I didn't have to pray and get out a list every day like I was talking to Santa Claus. Right. That God looked for it every morning. What can I do for you? Yeah. What can I things that behind the scene. And I found this that when I asked God, when God I didn't have to pray, but when God was moving for me, he was moving for ten other people up to this point where I was. Yeah. And he was moving all these situations he was bringing together. Yeah.