Everything changes the day you realize no one else will take responsibility for your life.

It’s a sobering moment—but also a defining one. Because while the responsibility is yours, you were never meant to carry it without God’s strength and covering.

Listen as former Navy SEAL and Hollywood Stuntman, Jeff Bramstedt joins host Doug Stringer for candid conversation about ownership, resilience, and leadership forged through adversity. Drawing from battlefield-earned perspective, personal experience, and biblical truth, they explore the turning point when a man chooses to lead himself first—anchored in faith and committed to excellence.

You’ll be challenged to confront fear, embrace discipline, and recognize that what is developed in private determines your impact in public. Through authentic stories and Scripture-centered insight, Doug and Jeff reveal how God uses hardship to refine character, sharpen vision, and prepare His people for greater influence.

It's a call to stop drifting and start leading—with courage, conviction, and confidence in the One who has called you. You are chosen. You are equipped. And you are never alone.

Doug shared this message at New Life Church in Houston, reminding us how, with God by our side, we can get through it all!

Listen now and learn how resilience—God’s way—can restore, rebuild, and renew lives.

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Description: Prayer isn’t meant to be an event—it’s a lifestyle that connects heaven and earth. Rooted in Scripture and anchored in God’s promises, listen as National Day of Prayer president Kathy Branzell and host Doug Stringer call believers to refocus their hearts, listen more deeply, and make intimacy with God their greatest pursuit.

• Be reminded that God is the author of our faith and the finisher of His glory story in us.
• As we humble ourselves, pray, and live in obedience, He strengthens, restores, and uses our lives to reflect His light among the nations.

Let your prayers become powerful conversations that glorify God and transform the world around you.

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