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https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Impossible-Possible-impossible-possible/dp/B0FKY5G49D
This book will be sharing of many miracles that Jesus preformed in the places He sent me to preach.
People being saved and finding Jesus for the first time in their life. Healings that defy all odds of not being a true healing from our Lord. Deliverance from evil influences. I traveled with the Happy Hunters for many years. The things we did were so amazing. I made my home in Berlin, Germany for 4 years and traveled to many of the countries around Germany. Those stories are included in these pages. I have many more to share also. This book is full of life and how hard it was before Jesus and how wonderful it became after Him. It is not a unique story but one that touches a simple family trying to make it after a divorce and abuse. I am hoping it helps and encourages you too! It changed my life!
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1:19 Speaker 01 or review of any kind. Today's featured author comes to us from books to life marketing.co.uk with expert publishing to strategic marketing. They help authors reach their audience and maximize their book's success. Today amazing lady joining us on the show. We're going to be talking about her amazing book and some of the insights that she has into it. The book is entitled Turning Impossible to Possible by Myrna Petzke. We're going to get into with her and find out her details and she is a Christian author whose writing is deeply rooted in her personal faith journey and her desire to encourage others to experiences.
1:59 Speaker 01 She was born in North Dakota as the youngest of five children who grew up in a devout Jehovah's Witness family. She remained in that faith until she married at age 18 and later experienced a significant spiritual transformation when she was saved at 39. Since then she's lived in various places and experienced different seasons of life, which has all contributed to a walk with the Lord. She's lived in Mesa, Arizona since 1996 where she is a fellow of the Fountain of Faith Fellowship. She is the author of several books that we'll get into and tease out here as we go. Her books are written with the intention of sharing her faith and life experiences with others to encourage readers who might be facing their own challenges. Welcome to the show Myrna, how are you?
2:43 Speaker 02 I am fine. How are you?
2:46 Speaker 01 I am doing excellent. And give us any dot coms. Where do you want people to find out more about you and where they and what's going on on the internet?
2:57 Speaker 02 Right now they could do my email, which is T I N O M M S 123 and I will have a website pretty soon, which will be Myrna's Bookshelf.com.
3:10 Speaker 01 There we go. Now I just realized we were going to profile this one book that we were talking about, but I noticed they gave us another book. Always give praise to the Lord that you've written. Do we, do we want to do the book that we've been talking about that we let off the show with?
3:24 Speaker 02 The Turning Impossible is the one I want to talk about.
3:27 Speaker 01 All right. Sounds good then.
3:29 Speaker 02 I have all, I have all of them here, but.
3:32 Speaker 01 How many books do you have?
3:33 Speaker 02 Five.
3:34 Speaker 01 Five. Congratulations. Very prolific. Give us a 30,000 overview. What's inside this book?
3:39 Speaker 02 It tells a story. Basically it's my testimony. Started out young divorced, had kids, couldn't make a living, couldn't do anything. It was really hard. And I worked two jobs. My kids were in babysitting the whole time. And my ex did not pay any child support or anything. So we really had, we really struggled a little bit older. And one thing turned to another and we, we stuck together and we made it through. And there was a lot of abuse. My ex beat me a lot. And he did a lot of bad things that he shouldn't
4:19 Speaker 02 have done, but no longer he's gone. Anyway, it was a real hard experience for all of us. I've got three children.
4:29 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah.
4:30 Speaker 02 And all of them were, they were caught in the middle of parents that didn't have it together. It was really hard for them and for me.
4:40 Speaker 01 Yes.
4:41 Speaker 02 And they were, my oldest boys had jobs and they would give me part of their check to pay bills because I didn't have enough money to even buy groceries a lot of times. But then I met, at our neighbors were having a little party in their backyard and they were teasing me and you need to find out who Jesus Christ is. And I, I'm not, I don't believe in that kind of stuff. And I said, I'll try it, see what happens. So I said the prayer and within two months, my life was totally changed and it was no longer
5:25 Speaker 02 a struggle. It was everything I was learning, what the Bible says about God and about what he does and about Jesus. And I just, I learned so much and I read the Bible every day. And then I met Charles and Francis Hunter. They were known as the Happy Hunters.
5:46 Speaker 01 Oh.
5:47 Speaker 02 And I just barely met them and ended up traveling with them.
5:51 Speaker 01 That must've been fun.
5:52 Speaker 02 We went to, I went to different cities in the States and put on seminars to teach people how to heal the sick. And then I ended up in Sweden with Charles preaching there. And after that one, they just ended up sending me all over. So I ended up moving to Europe. I lived over there for four years and did nothing but different seminars and preaching and sharing the gospel with every place that would have me that asked me to come in. And that was the, the really good part of my life is being there. I loved it. I loved every
6:34 Speaker 02 single minute of it. And there were a lot of people saved and I made a lot of friends that I still have, by the way.
6:41 Speaker 01 That's wonderful.
6:42 Speaker 02 Yeah, it was really good.
6:44 Speaker 01 Yeah. When, when did you set about writing this book and what was like an aha moment where you're like, I'm going to focus on this impossible, turning impossible to possible?
6:55 Speaker 02 I was in church one Sunday and four different people said, Myrna, when are you going to write a book? And they just wouldn't leave me alone. So I went home and I sat down at the computer and I started writing this book. And within 12 days, it was written, completed, and it was published a couple of months later. And since then it's just been, I haven't had a really strong outlet to, to sell it and pass it on, but I've given away so many copies and there's been a lot of feedback on it. People have liked it and you know, people have been saved because of it.
7:36 Speaker 01 Who would you say the book is targeted to? What demographic and maybe what are, what are people looking for to resolve challenges with it?
7:44 Speaker 02 Everything in the book glorifies Jesus as our Lord and Savior. And it doesn't really matter how old you are. You need him, whether you're young or old or whatever you are. And people of all different ages have read the book through my church. They've gotten the copies of it. And a lot of people have been saved because of it. And whether they're young or old, Jesus is there. He wants all of us to be saved and be with him so that we're with him forever. And so that was the goal of writing it. And that still is the goal of getting it out there so that more people can read it.
8:24 Speaker 01 And what do you hope people come away with when they read the book?
8:27 Speaker 02 That they really truly understand that there is a God that loves them and he's not out to punish them. He's out there to love on them and help them. And all he wants is there, there's still, he wants them to ask him to save them. And he, he saves them and things start to change. And I'm just like with me, I was, before I was saved, before I accepted him, I was kind of a party girl. I did things that I shouldn't have been doing.
9:04 Speaker 01 Uh oh.
9:05 Speaker 02 And.
9:06 Speaker 01 Did you find that maybe that influenced your, maybe some of the husbands you married over the years and had the issues with?
9:12 Speaker 02 I only married once. I only married once.
9:14 Speaker 01 Okay.
9:15 Speaker 02 But yeah, I did a lot of other things.
9:16 Speaker 01 Yeah.
9:17 Speaker 02 Anyway, once I was saved and then I learned that stuff was awful, that I shouldn't do that. I stopped doing it when I got saved. But it took about two months or so before I did because other people thought I was crazy, that I totally completely lost my mind because I wasn't out partying with them anymore.
9:37 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah. It's hard to lose the partying crowd.
9:39 Speaker 02 Yeah.
9:40 Speaker 01 Yeah. Cause they don't want to be alone. Misery loves company. And sometimes the people up to bad stuff that isn't good for them. They like others to go along so they feel better about it. Yeah. You, you write the book. What was the hardest part about writing this book?
9:56 Speaker 02 I can honestly say there was nothing hard about it. I sat down at the computer when I got home that night and I started typing. And I have been joking with people that as I typed, that the Holy Spirit was sitting on my shoulder, whispering in my ear and telling me what to say. And I, that sounds really crazy, but that's exactly the way that it felt. That he was talking to me while I was typing. Because I couldn't, I could, I'm a fast typist, yes, but I wasn't that fast. Like I could write the whole thing in 12 days.
10:31 Speaker 01 Hey God, slow down a little bit, man. I'm trying to get all this down.
10:37 Speaker 02 That's the way it was.
10:38 Speaker 01 Yeah, I know what's going on in heaven, but you're moving too fast. Slow down, take a break there, buddy. Just breathe. Yeah, the, that's interesting. You've written five books. I guess you've gotten pretty good at it and most are all five of the books about your same journeys and stories?
10:52 Speaker 02 Some of them have, or they've all got a little bit of the testimony in it, but basically it's just different lessons from the Bible with scriptures and that kind of thing. And it isn't any one thing in any of them. It's got, like I said, a little bit of my testimony in most of them. But this one, the first one has the full thing. After I got saved and after I moved to Europe, I was, that was my life for four years.
11:23 Speaker 01 You went to Europe too?
11:24 Speaker 02 Yeah, I lived over there for four years doing nothing but praying for people and preaching and going to different churches and.
11:33 Speaker 01 Kind of like a missionary maybe position?
11:37 Speaker 02 Yeah, that's about what it was really.
11:39 Speaker 01 Now, does your perspective on the subject changed with writing the book? Does, did it help you with your perspectives or maybe it enhanced your faith?
11:49 Speaker 02 I think it made me stronger than what I had been because it was so, it was so exciting to see and to hear what people had to say when they read the book. And I've got one friend that she grabbed a whole, she's taken, I don't know how many of them, and just passed them out to friends so they could read this. And it's been received really well by my friends, by my church, by everybody that knows me really. And it's been the most, a very enjoyable time. And I've just gotten too old to be out there moving around in different countries now. So I stay at home.
12:34 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah, that, that travel isn't what it used to be too, that's for sure. It used to be fun to fly and do stuff and man, everything after 2001, just with the TSA, oh Jesus.
12:47 Speaker 02 I know.
12:48 Speaker 01 The, the lines, it wouldn't be so bad if there wouldn't be lines. I don't understand why we pay all this money. We, we have lines, but maybe that's a function of governments, natural. But if they would get you through fast, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. But when you pull up and half the TSA guys are just standing around talking to each other and looking at these huge lines, you're just like.
13:08 Speaker 02 Yeah, I know.
13:10 Speaker 01 BS, maybe you can talk to God about fixing that or something, maybe he can.
13:15 Speaker 02 I think I may have already.
13:16 Speaker 01 Somebody in the do of their job or something.
13:18 Speaker 02 My daughter, the son-in-law have taken me on a long trip every single birthday since I was 50 years old. They've taken me to a different country. So we've done a lot of traveling and about three years ago, we were in London.
13:35 Speaker 01 Oh, really?
13:35 Speaker 02 Yeah, really.
13:37 Speaker 01 That must've been fun.
13:38 Speaker 02 Oh, I loved it. It was really nice. I really had a good time.
13:41 Speaker 01 Did you get to see the Big Ben?
13:43 Speaker 02 No.
13:43 Speaker 01 Ah, yeah.
13:45 Speaker 02 I think we did just about everything you could do in London. The big wheel, we just did everything.
13:53 Speaker 01 Oh yeah, I forgot there's that big wheel thing. Yeah, with the, it's got the two, they have one in Vegas now.
13:58 Speaker 02 Yeah.
13:59 Speaker 01 I forget what they call it, big tubes. In fact, I've been in them. Yeah, I've been in them. Yeah, they're, I've been in the one in, in Vegas. And yeah, they're kind of cool to ride.
14:07 Speaker 02 Yeah, they are.
14:08 Speaker 01 Kind of feels like you're up in a little room, gliding around the.
14:12 Speaker 02 Yeah.
14:13 Speaker 01 The turn still there if you would. Pretty wild, pretty wild stuff. Is there any future books coming out?
14:20 Speaker 02 I've got one on my mind. I haven't started it yet, but it's just all coming together. I, I had prayer three, four months ago, four, three and a half months ago. I have had COPD really bad.
14:36 Speaker 01 Ah, I know that fun.
14:38 Speaker 02 I was on oxygen and the whole thing. And I had prayer and I was healed in church.
14:43 Speaker 01 Wow.
14:43 Speaker 02 And I'm walking out that healing. It still isn't completely finished, but the Lord said that he'd healed me and that there was bandages that had to come off. Now there was inside wounds still in there that had to be healed before it was completely well.
15:00 Speaker 01 Yeah.
15:00 Speaker 02 And I have not had to wear oxygen for almost four months now.
15:06 Speaker 01 Oh, that's wonderful.
15:08 Speaker 02 I know, I love it. I can hardly wait until that's finished. So then there, there probably will be a book when that's done.
15:15 Speaker 01 All right, that sounds good. And then I think you're having a website made that people will be able to follow you on. Let us know when that comes out and what we'll do is we'll put that into the post on the Chris Fox Show so people can follow you there. And, and let's talk about some of the other books you have and tease them out as well. What, what's your favorite out of the five, if it isn't this one?
15:36 Speaker 02 That one is the favorite. The second one is maybe, Do You Know God Loves You?
15:42 Speaker 01 Tell us a little.
15:42 Speaker 02 I like that one a lot.
15:44 Speaker 01 What was, what went into that?
15:48 Speaker 02 It's scriptures and verses and there's a chapter on condemnation. And it gives scriptures to back up what it means and what it's for and, and what you can do to not have it anymore, to get rid of it. It's just different like destiny and God's timing, prosperity, just different things like that. With scriptures to back it all up. And basically all of the books are like that. All five of them have. They're all back, they're filled with scriptures. So if anybody needs to check something out in their Bible, all they gotta do is look in here and there's them. There's a whole bunch of them in there.
16:29 Speaker 02 Oh, and the four words in the books were all written by friends from church, including my pastor on the very first one. And he gave me a glowing report on it and it was really, it's the first time that I'd had that done and it was so exciting.
16:47 Speaker 01 Oh wow, so you got a good review there?
16:49 Speaker 02 Yeah, very good.
16:51 Speaker 01 What's one of the other books, what's one of the other books we should plug as well?
16:55 Speaker 02 Always give praise to the Lord.
16:57 Speaker 01 What is that about?
16:59 Speaker 02 Basically the same thing as the other one, just different scriptures and different subjects and different testimonies of what I did. I forgot all about my testimonies.
17:07 Speaker 01 Yeah.
17:08 Speaker 02 When I was in Europe and did all the traveling, I went to different countries and I preached all over about where I was. And some of these places were, one of them was in Czechoslovakia.
17:26 Speaker 02 And I was doing a whole three-day seminar there. And that country has a lot of witches and a lot of gypsies and a lot of people that don't believe in God.
17:40 Speaker 01 Oh.
17:41 Speaker 02 And they would come the first few days of the thing. And then on the last day was the day that they knew that if they were there, they would have prayer. So when we got to the building that morning, they were all the way around the building. Everybody just standing around waiting for it to open. And when we got in, I saw these people coming in and I thought, oh Lord, what am I going to do with this? And one lady was, she was a gypsy and she had artificial flowers that she planted in her cheek. So it looked like they were growing out of her cheek.
18:20 Speaker 01 Oh wow.
18:20 Speaker 02 There was another guy that had, his eyeballs were hanging down outside of his eye. They were hanging down like this because his parents had brought him to a witch doctor when he was little, and that's what happened as a result of it. And one lady was, she had a goiter, just, it was huge, it was hanging.
18:43 Speaker 01 Really?
18:44 Speaker 02 And anyway, they all, I told them, they wanted to have prayer. And I said, I'll pray for you, but you have to accept Jesus as your Savior before I do. So all of these people stood up and they prayed. And get me now, this is the first time that I was at a great big thing like this by myself.
19:04 Speaker 01 Yeah.
19:05 Speaker 02 And I just said, Lord, what am I going to do? I don't know what to do next. And he said, just pray for him. So I thought, okay. So I took my hand and I went like this and I just spread it across. And all of the people in the room fell on the floor. I didn't touch them. You know, I don't know if you've ever seen anything that Benny Hinn does or people like that. They have done that and the people just go out. And anyway, the guy with the eyeballs, they were back in his head when he stood up. The lady with the goiter, the goiter was gone. She laid on the floor for four hours. So when she got up, it was gone. And things like that happened in how many countries? 17, 18 countries I was in, doing that in different places.
19:50 Speaker 01 Wow.
19:50 Speaker 02 So that was the.
19:54 Speaker 02 The end of the book, it was so good. It was just so exciting to know that all of that stuff happened and they're all recorded.
20:00 Speaker 01 Wow.
20:01 Speaker 02 One lady, or not one lady, several of them, we were in a, in one of the Hitler's buildings and it had the sloths on the outside even.
20:14 Speaker 01 Oh, really? Still?
20:15 Speaker 02 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:17 Speaker 01 Was it a historical place or something?
20:19 Speaker 02 It just had never been taken down, I guess, because there were several of them all over there.
20:25 Speaker 01 Oh, wow.
20:26 Speaker 02 Different countries, but they were.
20:28 Speaker 01 I know in some countries it's banned, the symbol is banned.
20:32 Speaker 02 Yeah, I think in Poland and East Germany, it was so, it was so sad because they had nothing. There was absolutely nothing left. The war had just destroyed everything.
20:43 Speaker 01 Yeah.
20:44 Speaker 02 And they were just kind of coming back into reality. But I was on the stage preaching and all of a sudden, somebody behind me started screaming and I couldn't figure out what on earth was going on. And I turned around and it was one of the guys in the orchestra. And he held us like this and in German, he says, I can hear, I can hear, I can hear. It was just screaming and he could, his, God restored his vision. I mean, his hearing. And I didn't, I didn't touch him. God touched him completely. So it's things like that
21:26 Speaker 02 that the first book is about, the different ministries and the different places that he sent me and just some great, wonderful, I met so many good people and I couldn't speak any of the languages, but I had interpreters at every place I went that I'm still in contact with, by the way, on some of them. And so I've had a really good life. I wouldn't give it up for anything.
21:51 Speaker 01 Hmm. That is wonderful. So as we round out, give people a final pitch out to order up the book and get involved with everything you do in there and your email or dot com, whichever you want to put out.
22:03 Speaker 02 Okay, let's do the email first because the, like I said, the other one isn't ready yet, but the email is T I N O M M S one, two, three at Cox dot net. And you can get me anytime there. And when the website comes out, it will be Myrna'sBookshelf.com. And that should be, it should be out really soon, I think, I hope.
22:32 Speaker 01 Yeah.
22:33 Speaker 02 And once that's out, then I'll be able to be reached anytime of the day or night, whatever. And I don't know exactly how it will work selling or shipping, getting the materials to whoever buys it. I had to do some experience and some checking on that and on the shipping and all of that thing. But I did sell on, I was the number one seller on eBay for a long time. In fact, I was sold on there for 27 years.
23:10 Speaker 01 Oh, wow.
23:11 Speaker 02 I just retired last week, a year ago, year and a half ago.
23:14 Speaker 01 Oh, wow.
23:15 Speaker 02 Yeah.
23:16 Speaker 01 We're getting some input from Charles Weatherly on the comments there. Sounds interesting. Really enjoying this conversation. I appreciate hearing an author speak about faith, purpose, and the role of God, complaints, shaping how we live and serve others. Thank you for sharing your perspective.
23:29 Speaker 02 Thank you.
23:30 Speaker 01 Reaching some people out there. So as we wrap up the show, thank you very much for being on the show. We really appreciate it, Myrna.
23:35 Speaker 02 I'm glad to be here. I'm glad it worked out this time since it didn't before.
23:42 Speaker 01 Yeah, those, those technical speakers and microphones and getting the settings right, it's always a challenge. Thank you.
23:48 Speaker 02 When you reach 85, it's kind of hard to keep up with all the new stuff that's going on. I just reached 85.
23:53 Speaker 01 Wow.
23:54 Speaker 02 Come on.
23:55 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's these computers and technical, sometimes even if you know what's going on, sometimes they just don't work and you're just like, what the hell is going on? So turning impossible to possible. Jesus looked at them and said, with a man, this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible. That's quoted by Matthew, but is the title of the book. So be sure to search for it on Amazon, wherever fine books are sold. It'll be Chris that we link on the Chris Voss Show. Thanks, my friends, for tuning in. Go to Goodreads.com, Forchess Chris Voss, LinkedIn.com, Forchess Chris Voss, YouTube.com, Forchess Chris Voss, and all those crazy places on the internet. Be good to each other. Stay safe. We'll see you guys next time.
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