If you waited to vote until election day, that's great. Plan for an all-day affair. Get in line and stay in line. Outlast the other side. This is it.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Global Group. We started this podcast a little over a year ago, and the whole point of it was there's a lot of anxiety in our political world. And every day or so I wanted to talk about how there's nothing new under the sun, and we can work through this anxiety so that we can think clearer and act smarter, wiser. That's the whole point of the podcast. And now here we are,

the day before the election. This is it, peak of anxiety, maybe? Let's talk for a second if Kamala wins. Hold on, Slater, that's not helping my anxiety. I happened to read this morning, Judges 6. The people of Israel, this is 6-1, the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. And the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years. There will be lots of after-action reports if Kamala wins. How did she pull it off? What happened? Why?

But not enough people will be talking about the Lord's judgment against us is why Kamala wins. I don't think she'll win but if she does that will be why. You may be a Christian or no Christian who is not going to vote this year. I want to play this clip of Charlie Kirk on a college

campus. I don't understand how you can be Christian and still support Trump. I just see him he's he's a liar he cheats he supports dictators like Putin, Kim Jong-un. I mean, as a Christian, I think that...

Are you a Christian?

Yeah. I just think that as a Christian, a person should try to always do the right thing. Which one is closer to biblical principles, the Democrat platform or the Republican platform?

I think Democrats do a better job representing godly values.

Hold on.

Wait, wait, hold on. The Democrats do a better job representing godly values? Let me ask you, outside of their convention in Chicago, they had an abortion truck? Is that a godly value?

So neither side is perfect.

Hold on, hold on, I want to make sure. Joe Biden changed Easter to the Transgender Day of Awareness, did you know that? How is that a godly value? Yeah. Kamala Harris wants no restrictions on abortion in every state across the country. She believes that minors should be able to be medically mutilated. There are 320,000 kids that are missing in sex traffic in this country, borders are wide open, we have two wars.

How is any of that stuff godly values? You asked how we could support Trump, because you're actually not voting for Trump or Harris. You're voting for 5,000 people that will better fit your worldview.

The last point is the most important. People are so caught up on voting for Trump or Kamala. You're not really voting for either. Actually, you're technically not at all. You're voting for the electors of those people. But even when they go into office, you're voting for a worldview.

You're voting for a worldview that then puts in place a system that operates in DC. The system is what runs committee hearings and bills and the military and international negotiations, stuff like that. It's a worldview that puts in place a system. So if you're all, someone, or you know, is caught up with, oh, Trump is so mean. First of all, I want him to be mean to President Putin and Xi in Russia and China. I want someone who's going to be mean to them and protect America.

But you're voting for a worldview. And it's okay to vote against another worldview, too, that is evil. This argument's been an argument for a long time, the lesser of two evils. That's not an argument. Like, yeah, you vote for the lesser of two evils.

Like, I can't vote for the lesser of two evils. Why not? Like you would definitely vote for the lesser. I don't understand that. Like, why is that an argument to not vote? Vote for the lesser of two if there's two evils, and you have to pick one, you should pick the lesser of the two. Right? So that's just some last second thoughts as we go into the big

day tomorrow. Let's turn anxiety into excitement. Anxiety is never good. Be anxious for nothing. Keep repeating that over and over to yourself. Be anxious for nothing. Jesus has overcome the world and he can control the outcome of this election too.

But when you overcome the world, what does that mean? It means a lot of different things, but part of it is anxiety. John 14, 27 says, Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you. He wants you to have peace. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

And of course, Philippians 4, I recorded the other day, and peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Peace, peace, peace. Now, I don't want this to come across like I'm planning for a convoluted victory, but I do think it's worth preparing for the worst. Any time you get anxious in the next 24 hours, 48 hours, think, I'm not anxious, I'm excited, and then focus on Jesus and how he overcame the world and how everything is under his control.

And worst case scenario, if our country needs some judgment for turning away from God as profoundly as we have, and so be it. We can find peace in that as well. But it is the day before the election as I record this. We can still do our part.

I wanna play here our opening segment we did on the radio today, a little SiriusXM free of charge. My final call to action. People of course ask me who's gonna win. Like I know, I have no idea, I don't know.

Based on my gut, and based on data, like party registration, I think Trump wins by a lot I don't know I thought it was a name who's the guy in Alabama the Senate more Rob Moore what's the guy's name the guy wrote it on a horse or whatever I've been wrong a lot so I don't know my gut

whatever but there's people on the left they could be psyops they could just be just hoping and way off to I don't know they think Kamala's gonna crush it tomorrow so it all comes down to who shows up it all comes down to who shows up and that's why today right now opening segment I want to talk about the pilgrims I am grateful for the pilgrims Slater why on earth the day before election day are you going to waste time talking about the pilgrims? No, no, this is my final pitch. This is my

final pitch. If you voted early, awesome, great, well done. If you wanted to wait to vote tomorrow, because tomorrow's the big day and that's what you've always done and it's election day and that's great. Awesome. No excuses. That's fantastic. You want to vote on election day? There are no excuses.

You left it to the final day. It's all good. There is no Wednesday voting. There is no, well, I went to vote, but the line was way longer than I thought. So I didn't. But I really want Trump to win, so that's enough. Like, no, that's not a thing. Really wanting something means nothing. And do not for one second, I have zero patience, today or tomorrow, for anyone saying you're not gonna vote because you think they'll cheat.

That is such a loser attitude, it is not allowed. If you do not vote because you think they will cheat, you just guaranteed them victory, so thanks for nothing. So put that out of your head for two days. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. If you waited to vote until tomorrow.

Again, I find your dedication to tradition admirable. Prepare for an eight-hour day. Prepare for an eight-hour day. Just what we've seen out of Bucks County, Pennsylvania and a bunch of swing states, and heck, even here in Tennessee, I voted early last Monday at three o'clock in the afternoon in a super red area and the line was over 30 minutes. I was like what? So like there's a huge turnout in

Franklin Tennessee. So prepare if you're if you're any anywhere but certainly if you're in any swing state prepare for hours and hours and hours of standing. Bring a chair, bring food, bring water, I'm not kidding, prepare for the worst. Prepare for a voting day like you've never seen before. Pretend it's a tailgate. You're not, it's not even voting day. But as my friend said about Neyland Stadium, I asked about the University of Tennessee Stadium and the seats. He's like, oh they're horribly uncomfortable bleachers and they pack

and it's really uncomfortable, but it's war. So he said, if you go to Neyland Stadium, it's war. You're not there for comfort, you're there for war. It's battle. And same thing when you vote.

It'll be like no other time you've ever voted.

I think, if I look back at all the times I've ever voted in my life, five minutes max. I don't think I've ever waited longer than five minutes. That will not be the case tomorrow. You cannot vote on your lunch break. You cannot take 15 minutes like I got a meeting at 1230 and this one should wrap up at 1145 but then it ends up wrapping up at 12 so you're

like I'll go real quick by the time I get there I'll have like 15 minutes. No, no, no, no, no, no, not a thing tomorrow.

This is voting.

And tomorrow is not a thing that you can knock out at the end of the day. You're like, okay, work ends at six. Can we get over there at 6 45 polls close at 7 30 or eight. I think I, I hate maybe because I don't know, but I can like get it. No, nope. There is no, I should be fine. That is not a thing this year.

Prepare for an eight hour day, an eight hour line and act accordingly. You with me? And I'm saying this because Bernie Moreno, I run for Senate in Ohio, he told us a week or so ago that 20% of Republicans who say they're going to vote on Election Day don't. 20% of Republicans who say they're going to vote on Election Day don't. And some of that's out of laziness or just whatever.

But there's also really good excuses too. There's plenty of good excuses. I want none of those excuses tomorrow. No excuses. Because I guarantee you, you want to know what's going to happen? You want my prediction?

If 20% of Republicans don't show up tomorrow, we lose. That is a fact. At this stage, it's just like sports radio. Who's going to win the big game tomorrow? Who's going to win the Super Bowl? Who's going to win the, you know, it's always like the, like, well, it's whoever shows up.

Like, that's it. So if your football team is playing this weekend and you're trying to figure out who's going to win, I guarantee you if the quarterback doesn't show up, you're going to lose. If 20% of Republicans don't show up, we're going to lose. All right, here's my final pitch.

I love the pilgrims.

I don't think they get nearly enough focus. I don't think they're nearly enough a part of our culture. I know we're coming up on Thanksgiving, so maybe like your kids will dress up in a funny hat with the buckle on it, whatever. But like the fact that our pilgrims have been

denigrated to just merely people with funny hats, we would be a totally different country. First of all, we'd be a totally different country if instead of pilgrims being Puritans from England by way of Holland, they were people from Saudi Arabia. Let's just think about that as an alternative history.

If our founding grandfathers were from China or Egypt or Spain, but they weren't. They were Christian Puritans from England and I thank God for that.

And also, if we focus more on the pilgrims,

and maybe we're more of an identity, more of a cultural marker today, we would be a different people. There's no question about that. If our kids really learned about the pilgrims in school, and if we really learned about what the people

on the Mayflower had to experience to come to America, and what they saw as a holy mission, if we had that same mentality today, we would be a different country. The academic left has downplayed the pilgrims and their search for religious freedom as a part of their mission to take God out of our founding and therefore God out of our

culture today. But it's the most important reason why they left England. James I, the king, was putting Puritans in prison, or worse. So they fled for a promised land. They truly viewed themselves as if it was Moses parting the Red Sea, crossing the Atlantic to start a new nation. And crossing this new nation was awful, and I promise you I'm going to bring it back to

the election in two minutes. It was awful. I cannot fathom the misery of it. They started on two ships, but one of them, the Speedwell, broke down, so they had to all stuff on one, the Mayflower. So you had two ships' worth of people on one ship.

cramped, damp, disgusting, storms knocking over the chamber pot where they all slept. Constant storms. Then they finally get there two months later. Two months! No Netflix! Two months?

What's the longest airplane ride you've ever been on? Infinitely more comfortable than what they were putting up with on the Mayflower. They finally get there, they're like, oh, yeah, look land. It's winter So they got to stay on the boat for five more months and that's when half of everyone died Frozen to death starve to death under the deck freezing five foot tall ceilings can't stand up nothing to do Nothing to do but sit there

against e sick Dying you ever been cold before Since you ever been cold? How cold? How cold? What's the coldest you've ever been? The kids the other day brought, we have a, our favorite blanket is on the couch downstairs, it's a great blanket, we got it at Costco like 10 years ago, it's a great blanket, and the kids brought it upstairs. I don't like

to think about it. It was a terrible like 10 minutes. Because the temperature was like two or three degrees colder than my liking and no blanket to get comfy in. Now imagine Die, you're so cold. And half the people around you are dying, a slow, miserable death of starvation and freezing. All of this, so that maybe you can make it

to when it warms up, and you can hop off the boat, and then go chop down trees so you can build a house. That's like insane, it's crazy.

They thought they were going to Virginia,

they ended up in Massachusetts, there's no food, these Indians are going to kill us, everyone's dying, we don't know how to farm this land, there's no animals to use these plows that we brought over, we brought over these plows so we could find a cow or horse, and there are none, so now we're going to have to plow the land by hand? Insane. Let me quote this from William Bradford, he was the leader of the guys on the Mayflower,

men and women being thus past the vast ocean and a sea of troubles before in their preparation they had now no friends to welcome them nor ends to entertain or refresh their weather-beaten bodies no houses or much less towns to repair to seek for sucker to like comfort and for the season it was winter and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

Dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search of unknown coasts. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men. And what multitudes there might be of them they knew not." We don't know what's in there. So we're going to cultivate this little piece of land here and what's inside that forest? I don't know. But whatever it is wants to kill us. What could now sustain them but the Spirit

of God and His grace? I think about the pilgrims and the reason I bring up the pilgrims and the misery of everything they had to go through to get here to found this country is because all I ask you to do is stand in line and stay in line. One of the pastors of these pilgrims, John Robinson was his name, when they decided to make their journey, called for a day of fasting and humiliation, humbling yourself to God. And he preached from Ezra 821, and there, at the river, I proclaim to fast, that we

might humble ourselves before our God and seek of him a right way for us and for our children and for all our substance. Why is Ezra an important part? Quick background. The Jews were taken captive by Babylon and they were captive for something like 70 years and Ezra was able to convince the king to send the Jews back to Jerusalem to rebuild their temple and he let them. But Ezra didn't ask for any protection from the king on their travels back to Jerusalem because he told the king that God's favor was with them

and God would protect them. So that's kind of a bad look. If he's like, oh no, you have to let us go because God will protect us on the journey. Oh, by the way, can we also have a bunch of your military to protect us?

Like, that doesn't work. So Ezra was praying, proclaiming a fast, humbling ourselves, himself, before God to protect him and the children on their journey. And it's the same thing our pilgrims did. And as horrible as it was,

have you ever been on a boat for a long time? Like, I don't love boats. People are like, you wanna go on a boat, like on a lake? I'm like, eh, like how long? You know what I mean, like half a day? There's no, because you can't get out.

Like you're stuck. When you're on the boat, you're stuck. And I don't love boats. I did a half day fishing trip in San Diego once. It's like, mm, I mean, I threw up the whole time but what's long as you've been on but one guy got swept overboard on the Mayflower during a

storm so man how brutal that is but it didn't matter as the pastor said they knew they were pilgrims and looked not much on those things but lifted up their eyes to the heavens their dearest country and quieted their spirits I think of how miserable and horrible it was for the pilgrims, and all I ask for you to do is stand in line and vote." When they got on land, Bradford said of his fellow pilgrims, they fell upon their knees

and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth. When you vote tomorrow, is there voting today? Is anyone voting today? I don't know. Every state's different, right?

I think today's more like a staging day for a lot of places. So when you vote tomorrow, you get your little sticker. Actually, don't do it before. As you're standing in line tomorrow, and it's on hour four, and you've never stood in line for more than seven minutes in your life and the longest you've ever stood in line is like Disney World but at least there was a roller coaster at the end of it and there's no there's no like fun

thing at the end of this while you're standing a line think of the pilgrims think of them landing on land for the first time on their knees praising God let's do the same let's praise God that we can live in a country where you can vote and where you did your part.

I'll end with a story from like a hundred years ago. His name was Samuel Elliot Morrison. He said the pilgrims, a simple people, inspired by an ardent faith in God, a dauntless courage in danger, a boundless resourcefulness in the face of difficulty. This is why I think we'd be a better people, we'd be a different people, a better people if we really, really actually taught the pilgrims.

And not just taught the pilgrims, like felt connected to the pilgrims. Like these were our people. These are our founding grandfathers. If we really, truly, deeply were connected to the pilgrims, we'd be a different people. A boundless resourcefulness in the face of difficulties. An impregnable fortitude and adversity.

Thus they have in some measure become the spiritual ancestors of all Americans. All I ask you to do is stand in line and vote. But no, it's going to take way longer to vote than it's ever taken you before. That's my call to action. That's my message. That's all I've been thinking about the last few days.

Channel the pilgrims. Channel the pilgrims. If they can do what they did, we can vote.

The anxiety is reaching a peak, but...it's still not at the climax. We will, in the days to come, be bombarded with deceit and lies like never before. We must take this as a call to return to God's word more than ever.

Hello. Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. It is Friday before the election. It's here. It's interesting, my instinct says instead of leaning heavier towards the voting part, to lean more into the scripture part, to lean more into the eternal truths in the midst of this moment. Maybe it's because you can get the election part anywhere. Turn on the TV, every text you get, there's elections everywhere.

So let me give you this message today instead. Because you know what to do too. You know who to vote for and to get your friends to vote. You got it all. And we will cross the bridge of shenanigans when... that sounds like something out of Pilgrim's Progress. The bridge of shenanigans. Ah yes, the bridge of shenanigans leading into the land of voter fraud where we will encounter the judges of bias and the media of lamestream. We will cross the bridge of shenanigans when we get

there. There's plenty in the Bible about deceit and lying. Right now I want to speak to anxiety. First of all, some classics. Luke 12. Which of you, by being anxious, can add a single hour to his span of life? Which one of us, by being anxious, can add one vote to the final tabulations? The winner of the election is not whose supporters were most anxious in the days before.

Anxiety does nothing. Philippians 4, another classic. Just give another classic. It's always good. Be anxious for nothing unless it's a pivotal election. No.

For nothing. But in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Classics.

This, I feel, is a worthy message today. Hebrews 2.18, He Himself has gone through suffering and testing. Jesus was tempted, but He never sinned. Being tempted is not a sin. Being tempted to sin is not sinful. It is the committing of the sin that is sinful. Do not yield to the temptation, but being tempted, that's not the sin. Any anxiety you feel right now, I just want it to bring you closer to Jesus. I want it to bring you closer to God and closer to the Bible. Go back to the trustworthy sayings from our episode the other day. Every single day, no matter what happens

from now until Election Day this weekend, or what happens on Election Day, or the days after, it's going to be crazy. Whatever it is though, I wanted to bring all of us closer to God and closer to the truth. There's me so much chaos so much unknown so many lies We need to be the opposite of that. We have to go back to the truth. God is in charge Jesus understands we are helpless compared to them. So just turn to them always

Do what you can within the election of course and force. And when doing so, and right after, and forevermore, turn right to Jesus. In my experience, it's the only way for the anxiety to wash away. You want something to celebrate? Psalm 84, the Lord will give grace and glory. If you find yourself getting off the path of righteousness, if anxiety is taking you out, it's not where

God wants you to be. God does not want you to be anxious. So if you find yourself getting off the path of righteousness, just go back to the truth of God's Word. It's gonna be a wild next week. I'm super grateful we can do it together. One of the most important parts of my day is just taking time for myself to sit here in front of the Bible and read a little bit and refocus in the middle of the day here on what really matters. Let's always go back to God's Word.

And these next few days and weeks are going to be wonderful opportunities to do just that. MikeSlater.Locals.com. Transcript commercial free on the website MikeSlater.Locals.com.

Today we engage in a two-fold thought experiment. It is essential we really think this through, before it's too late.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. I want to go on a little thought experiment today, just a few days away from the election, five days away from the election, isn't that amazing? We're going to do this on the radio show tomorrow as well, but I want to do a twofold thought experiment here. The thought experiment is, what if Kamala wins?

Now hold on, that was too vague. You went into a million different places and that's fine. I wasn't specific enough. I don't want to think about cheating in the election. That's not for this conversation. And I don't mean what if Kamala wins as in like what will our country become in a hundred years or what will the next four years look like or even what the next week will look like after the election with the chaos that ensues, etc.

I don't mean that. I mean literally the night, the night of. Imagine the election results coming in and Rachel Maddow celebrating and all the rest and then they're so happy that Kamala is the next president of the United States. Imagine that right now. Now notice how you feel.

I think this is an important exercise because I want you to take that feeling and turn it into action. Because you don't like what you're feeling right now, do you? Good. We can avoid that from happening. She hasn't won yet, and there are still things you can do to make sure she doesn't win, so that that feeling you have never comes to fruition.

You with me? So it's important to feel, to imagine what that feeling will be next week, to motivate us to do the things now so that never happens. Let's back it up a second. What's your anxiety level right now with the election? Assuming you're a Trump supporter, I think your anxiety is proportional to how much you

think Trump's going to win or not. I think he'll win, so my anxiety is lower. My wife thinks they'll cheat and get away with it, so her anxiety is higher. I think they'll cheat too, but we'll see. It's hard to keep the anxiety down right now when we have such little time left, but I think one way to decrease anxiety in general, not just go exercise, although that's

good too, but find something that is in your control and act on that. So if you're anxious about something, usually it's because it's out of your control, what is there something that is in your control that you can use that nervous energy on for good? If you're anxious doing nothing and stewing in your anxiety, that's not going to help. So let's take whatever anxiety you have

and then in the thought experiment, whatever sadness or anger or whatever you feel, let's turn that into action. That's my call. TrumpForce47.com is the website if you want to engage in the Trump campaign or whatever your local office is

in whatever way. I was reading Psalm 95 this morning and it says, Oh come, let us sing to the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving. Let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise.

For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth, the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it. And his hands formed the dry land. Oh come let us worship a bow down Let us kneel before the Lord our maker for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand

Can you sing that praise no matter who wins next week? So this is thought experiment number two My goal is to be so connected with God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I can mourn, if Kamala wins, I can mourn, even if Trump wins, we still have a broken country, a lot of work to be done. So no matter what happens, I can mourn over the brokenness of the world and also know that my salvation is found in our Creator and it's rock solid.

I love Psalm 104. He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the service of man, That he may bring forth food from the earth, And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face shine, Bread which strengthens man's heart. The trees of the Lord are full of sap, The cedars of Lebanon which he planted, Where the birds make their nests, The stork has her home in the fir trees,

The high hills are for the wild goats, The cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers. The point is God provides in every way. He has created everything and He provides. Titus 2 Ecclesiastes yesterday we were talking about how God makes the the rivers flow into the ocean but the ocean isn't full. So God found out a way to, made a way, for the ocean water to turn into clouds then rain on the land so that we can have food or we can have water and grow food and God made it all work out perfectly.

God provides for us. God provides in every way and always will. The Israelites went through worse. Take good comfort in that as well. And the Psalm ends with this. I will sing to the Lord as long as I live.

I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. May my meditation be sweet to Him. I will be glad in the Lord. It's not, I will sing to the Lord as long as my candidate wins. Or I will sing praise to my God while I'm happy. No, no, it's as long as I live and while I have my being.

And I pray that our meditations, even throughout this time of anxiety, can be sweet to Him. So the thought experiment's twofold. On the radio, I'm just going to keep it to the first one. Let's imagine Kamala winning, being pretty partisan in this podcast. Let's imagine Kamala winning, feel bad about that, and then turn that feeling into action to prevent the feeling from ever happening at all.

And the action has to be now, by the way, not next weekend. There is no next weekend. It's this weekend only. This is it. And then twofold for us. feel bad and then not have that rock your faith one bit. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript commercial free. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.