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Ray Kirkland

Ray Kirkland

Dr. Raymond "Ray" Kirkland, pastor at New Hope Rising church in Flagstaff, Arizona and guest on the Soul Shaker Podcast

Sep 7, 2026

4:03
And I just, I really wanted to kind of just walk through your journey you know how you came to faith um what life was like in the beginning how you got into ministry and all that can you kind of talk sure talk
4:15
about sure i was um like many children raised in church my entire life but sadly i can't say the church was alive it was kind of a dead church and we really didn't have much going on in those churches um And so in my teenage years, I slipped away from God and got involved in drugs, some pretty heavy drugs.
4:34
And later on in life, I was actually probably going to die from the drugs.
4:42
And God just touched me.
4:44
A guy came over to visit, an evangelist that was in town, and the pastor of a new church in town came to visit my mother's house.
4:52
I was laying there.
4:53
And they prayed on me, and God instantaneously touched me and lifted me up.

9 MINS LATER

14:04
Yeah.

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