Independence and Freedom Defined

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Radio. Well, good evening,
Good evening, and welcome to another segment

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of Setting it Straight with Miss Gray, along with the most fabulous co hosts

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in all of the last and the
most awesome engineer behind the scenes. But

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I'm gonna ask us, see how
everybody's doing, and then we're gonna go

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into prayer. Talk to us.
What's happening on your in tray? Tray?

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How's the weather up there? Hot? And it's not bad. It's

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a little cooler today, little wind, but it's been hot last couple of

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days and rain, gotcha, gotcha? Pastor? How is it over there?

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She said? Cooler? So I
just broke the tenth commandment coveting.

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I want cooler weather. I'm doing
well, doing well over here. Amen.

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Well, let's pray, Father God. We love you so much.

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We thank you for everything that you
provided us with, that you're providing us

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with right now, and that you
will provide us with on tomorrow. We

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love you so much. We're so
thankful. Jesus, Thank you for healing

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at the sound of a silent prayer. Holy Ghost, Thank you for guiding

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and comforting when we don't even know
what to ask for and how to ask

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for it. You interceed for us
on every level, at every whim,

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on every seat, during every season. No matter what, Lord, this

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is your show. This is your
time to talk to your people. We

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would do what you tell us to
do. I'm a little a little weary

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tonight, and I'll share later.
However, I know that you have the

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answers for us all, and you
will continue to guide us and lead us,

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love us, have us, give
us mercy, give us grace,

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give us favor. As we increase
our faith in you, we get behind

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the cross. This is your show
tonight. We are your people. You

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do what you do best. In
Jesus' name, we pray, Amen and

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Amen. I was listening to one
of the prophets that I follow, and

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he came on at a different time. He came in with a almost a

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panic to deliver the word today,
and most of the word was warnings and

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instruction. And the other day,
my daughter and I were out for a

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mother daughter day at one of our
biggest malls here, and I just sat

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as she went into the stores to
get some things, and I just watched

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the people. I just watched the
people. People were so much in a

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hurry. There are people who shopping
around, didn't buy anything. There are

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people fussing at their kids, or
couples fussing at each other, in them

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all, in them all, as
if we weren't even there. And I'm

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watching them, and I'm like,
God, if they only knew, if

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they only knew, was what was
really, what was lurking around the corner

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was about to happen even the more
if they only knew, would it be

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different? With their speed, with
their their rushingness, that that that anxiety,

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that that that that that eagerness to
get to the to wherever they were

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going, because I really don't know
where they were going in such a hurry.

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And and one like they almost Actually, you know, I had to

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stop because as you I mean most
of you know, you know, I

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don't have told so I teet her. You can't bump me, and I

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recover quickly. You can't, really, you know, you shouldn't touch me

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because I teet her and my daughter
is so much on alert, and but

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I was watching the people, and
the lady didn't even realize that she she

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tapped me enough that could have made
me fall because she was just such a

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hurry. And I'm like, when
you get where you're going, is it

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gonna be enough? Is it gonna
fulfill whatever this was today that day?

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Is it gonna make you happier?
And it's so funny, you know,

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God, you know, I know
this is to my co hosts. I

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know when we come together once a
month and we talk about, you know

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what, the topics and we're listening
for the Lord to direct us, we

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really I don't know about you guys, but I know better now. But

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I know that every time we do
come up with these topics, they're on

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point for God. And it's for
a reason because based on some of the

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prophetic word I've heard so far,
understanding what freedom is is going to become

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even more crucial now than ever before. And what I'm learning, I learned

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this during my therapy days being a
therapist, independent family and individual, family

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individual and family practitioner. It's important
that you know if you're talking to an

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audience or if you're talking to another
person, you need to know their definition

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for life or of life. Now
we're gonna go around, We're gonna talk

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about what freedom means to us.
I hope our listeners come on tonight,

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our regulars and our knew, our
new bees as well, because these next

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few Monday Nights is gonna be interactive. We want to hear from you,

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but we need to You need to
understand what h know and feel confident within

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yourself. What does words mean to
you? Because we got the harvest coming

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in, we got the folks coming
in off the street, we got the

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people coming and they're gonna they're going
to inquire, They're going to say something.

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They have answer, they have questions
and they need answers. So we

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need to make sure we are what
the old folks used to say, surefooted,

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which means you're locked. They loaded
your feet your your feet are planted

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firmly in your beliefs before you release
them to other people, you gotta believe

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it. I talked to a couple
of people through the last few days,

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and I know they couldn't believe what
they were saying for themselves because it just

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sounded so what, who are you
fooling here? So we want to talk

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about tonight. You know, this
is freedom, This is July. Is

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hosts the fourth of July, and
that's Independence Day. And you know,

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we got all the flags out,
We've got the red, white, and

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blue going, We've got the you
know, every store has all kinds of

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paraphernalia and gifts and trinkets and everything
else. You can have a whole holiday

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table. Your whole house could be
converted in one day to celebrate the fourth

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of July. And we're getting I
got three emails from AKC and the two

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other dog Dog email dog company saying, you know, be careful with the

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dog. Oh sorry, guys,
be careful with a dog, you know,

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with the firecrackers and all that kind
of stuff. And you know,

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I mean a whole I mean whole
litany of what to do and how to

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do and everything, and and but
behind closed doors, we've got people making

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decisions that's hitting the news today here
in Florida. I think our governor has

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historically inserted two hundred new laws.
He did this last year, two hundred

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new laws. I think it's another
two hundred this year. Supreme Court justice

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just did something and America's not looking
like it used to. So we're not

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going to talk about independence as regards
America. We need to talk about it

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as it regards to you. And
I'm gonna let my co hosts, you

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know, come on in and say
some things, say what's on their heart,

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and I'll come up the rear.
I'll bring up the rear. But

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and if any of you guys,
any my listeners are out there, pop

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in, Well, we're talking about
independence and we want to define what independence

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mean to you today. What does
independence being free free from? What?

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Free from who? If that's pertinent, if that pertains to your definition of

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freedom. So, guys, I'm
gonna go silent and I'm gonna let y'all

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fight it out. Well, it's
interesting, it's interesting you bring up this

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topic because I just pleaded a two
week fast, and I kid you not

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on my desk a a rock,
it's Goliath must fall and here it reminds

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me my giants have to fall,
and as you can see, it's fear,

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rejection, and anger, and these
are my giants they faced. But

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what's so I have to say,
what's so amazing and and that that's the

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only word I can come up with, is that in my in my prayer,

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holy Spirit revealed to me that these
items don't have life. I put

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life into it, because when I
put life into it, then they become

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my strongholds and then I'm locked,
I'm in bondage. What the spirit Holy

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Spirit revealed to me is y'all stop
focusing on these focus on Christ, because

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when you focus on Christ, then
Christ fights the battles of my strongholds.

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So if we're looking for independence,
I am free from fear, I am

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free from rejection, and still working
on the anger thing. But I know

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that I'm free because the price has
been paid. So the question that I

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ask of our audience is what is
it that has you shackles? What has

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you handcuffed thinking that they have the
power over you? Because if you walk

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with Christ, you have been given
authority to overcome them, overcome them whatever

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your strongholds are. But what's important
to understand is if you don't serve life

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to them, then they don't live. What I mean by giving life to

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them is you're giving them your attention. You're giving them your focus, You're

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giving them your time, You're giving
them your worry, You're giving them life.

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But if you shift your focus and
you put it on Jesus Christ,

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and Jesus Christ will fight the battle
because you are more focused on him on

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the strongholds. Wow, how do
I follow that? Oh, Pastor?

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You put that so eloquently. I
like that. So sitting here thinking to

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you know, fear is it is
one thing that wanting independence from you know,

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anticipating. Are you saying we feed
the emotion and give a power?

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Yes, country, see that that's
what what is. That's exactly what we're

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saying. And so sometimes I've been
better at it of trying to let go

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and let God. You know,
in this walk of faith that I'm taking,

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I've always been, you know,
always believe in God, always was

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spiritual, always you know, knew
there of its existence in Jesus Christ.

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But you know, and I was
involved in church, you know, heavily

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pretty much, but now it was
a it's a different season. I still

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have that belief, but the faith
is there, and so having more time

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to focus on what's important to me, and you know, just kind of

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getting back to a new norm.
You know, I love, I have

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people that worry eat cel space.
Yes, okay, Charles, Okay,

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great. So I try not to
feed into it. And I think one

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thing now that is and I'm not
sure if it's independence from it or freedom

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from it, especially in this climate. When I see how people treat each

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other, it frustrates the heck out
of me, and I try not to

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give it a lot of energy.
But I have to be concerned because this

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is a world we have to live
in, you know, you know,

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walking down and trying to figure out, you know, how people not necessarily

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feel about me per se, but
what do I present? You know,

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how do we treat others? That's
disheartening to see some of the things that

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are going on and to hear how
people are treated and mistreated. And as

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a person who in the human services
feel social work, Alicia likes to say,

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you know, I'm about people,
and I just I just don't like

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the way I see people treating others
and people say what would Jesus do?

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Or And I know everybody doesn't believe
in Jesus Christ or God well or their

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being. But I want to say, whatever you believe in, if you're

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saying that you have a belief and
it's a religious belief, whatever that religion

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is, some of the things that
I see people do. I said,

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really, is what kind of religion
is that? Where you're mistreating others,

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where you're saying hurtful things, where
you're not wanting to recognize the impact that

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what you're saying and doing is hurting
someone else. And I always harp on

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this because this is a concern of
mine, and I'm very concerned about what

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I'm seeing from the top, from
the top, you know, from our

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leadership. So I have to use
that rock and just kind of let that

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be my golia and just not worry
so much about that, not to give

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it so and just be more prayerful, I think, being more more conscientious

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in my walk, more dedicated in
my walk of faith, and just pray

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to Him that that he shows people
the way, you know that we don't

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have to do this. And there
was a point to it that I had

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some anxiety going on. It's still
a little bit I don't like crossing bridges.

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I try to do everything to avoid
it. It's it's just something right

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now I have not overcome and exploring
new territories, like driving the new territories.

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That that's my personal fear slash anxiety
because I don't want to come across

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a bridge and get to it and
say, oh my gosh, how am

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I going to cross this thing?
But I know one day I will.

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I'm not sure it's going to be
the highest bridge, but just you know,

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maybe one bridge at a time and
cross it and see how that does.

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And but that's that's the two most
things I think that that are plague

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in me right now. In this
on my faith journey, I've had to

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learn the important and I think it's
because of my therapeutic background, because I

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would listen to my clients and the
things over the years, and I've been

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a therapist for over thirty years.
First, you have to identify what plagues

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you. You need to identify what
keeps you awaken. Now, you need

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to identify what could take you from
zero to one hundred. You got to

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identify it. That's the first that's
the first step. Even in your faith

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walk, you got to identify,
Okay, what are my challenges for me.

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Over time, as I studied my
Bible, I prayed, I sang

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songs unto the Lord, and I
stopped kind of listening of depending on my

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leaders to preach me happy. I
began to come to church already happy because

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I would take time prior to going
and study my word, have my little

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praise time, you know, and
began to apply things myself that I had

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learned over the years. I was
told what to do, but most of

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the time we didn't do it,
or we did it when we were told

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to do it. So you got
to identify your challenges, what just what

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just gets you, and that also
will drive your prayer points as well.

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But then you need to purpose yourself. And it is true that you once

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you get to the bottom, once
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be, you have no choice but
to look up. And when you're looking

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up, you're like, you know
what, you can't help, but look

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back and you're like, I don't
like that back there. I don't like

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from whence I came. That's the
only reason why I don't like the word

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resilience in my field, because in
my field, there's like, you know,

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for you to bounce back well,
I don't want you to bounce back.

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I need you to bounce better.
If you go to bounce, go

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this way, not back to where
you were. That's just my definition.

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That's my interpretation, and that's what
works for me. Okay. I know

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I've got a thousand social workers colleagues
out there that would tell me different,

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because everybody likes the word resilient or
you're so resilient. No, I have

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no if I go back, if
I stayed back there, if I go

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back there, I don't know who
I would be. I have bounced better.

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I'm going forward and I can't keep
looking back. So you have to

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purpose what direction you really want to
go into. And it's not a it's

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not a family meeting. It's not
a you know, getting in the prayer

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line. It's not a it's really
sitting down and looking at yourself and saying,

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you know what, either I like
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I got problems, but who don't. And there are people who live that

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way. There are people again who
will tell you, oh, I don't

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watch the news and news is so
bad, Well you need to kind of

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wash the news because you got we
got some submarines in Florida water there some

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folks in Jacksonville didn't know about and
I'm like, how could you not know

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that? And then then they get
funny and they said, well you take

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care of yourself. Well, no, I have no real water in Orlando.

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It's an all man made so I
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be concerned. But I am concerned
that. But you've got in that water

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over there, and y'all not talking
about it in church, y'all not praying

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about it, you're not fasting over
it. I have a little problem.

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I'm looking at you like, okay, and I get it. The news

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is where we're at right now.
My daughter was asking, oh, we're

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looking into something, and she goes, why they have to be that way?

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I said, bad apples foil the
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Oh it wasn't that way. But
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you know, paying not you know, they signed me signing up the contract

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the least, and then they just
walk out on it. So yeah,

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they got to tighten it up a
little bit. They got to see are

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you gonna stick around? Because they
don't have discernment. They're not picking you

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up in the spirit. They don't
have that gift. It's a business and

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that's all they can see. That's
all they can see. So again identifying

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what it is. You know what, I'm tired of this. I'm sick

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and tired of this. And I've
shared this with you all before, even

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when I was married to a truck
driver who made six figures. I better

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not touch that money unless he gives
me permission to do so. So I

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would take my little gold jewelry.
I only had two pieces of gold that

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would fourteen carrot, and I would
go to the pay ain't own place so

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I can have twenty dollars in my
pocket, in my wallet. And here

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I am studying my word, I'm
praying, I'm fasting. I'm here Mary

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from God, hearing from Jesus,
watching miracles. And I walked into the

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payday loan place to repay them.
So I was an extra fifty dollars of

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what you borrow. And I stood
at the door and there was no customers

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in there, and the young lady
said, hey, how you doing.

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I said, I can't do this
anymore, and she said, what what,

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what's wrong? Just coming? I'll
close you out and you could come

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back the next day, you're suppoed
to wait three days to come back.

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I had favor with the payday loan
place because I paid my bill. Why

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did he treat you like that?
Well, because well he's got issues.

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We'll talk about that at another time
because you see, but uh yeah,

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he had issues. Bless us hard. I got my twins out of it.

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I'm good. I suffered inside of
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But the young lady was like what
I said, No, I can't

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serve you and serve him. I'm
a phony. I can't do this anymore.

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So I made my payment. I
said you could close me out.

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She goes, no, I'm gonna
leave you. I said, no,

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we will never see each other again. I want to thank you for being

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kind, thank you for being you
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But I can't do this anymore and
say that I serve God. I got

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to trust it, and I got
to I have no choice. I gotta

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trust it. And when I walked
out, I'm walking out with tears and

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I'm like, I can't depend on
nobody or anybody God. And I'm standing

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outside the business and if you were
around me, you would have heard me

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audibly say Lord, I repent.
I'm so sorry. Now you know it

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takes thirty days to acquire a have
it, it takes thirty days to get

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rid of one. This has been
a lifestyle, and this has been most

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of my adult life, not depending
on you one thousand percain. So I'm

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gonna need your help and I'm gonna
need you to be really patient with me.

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Show me the way, show me
the way. So you have to

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purpose that thing and make some determination. Now I've talked about this before,

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and the Lord gave me this little
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And what I tell people to do
is write the word saved on a piece

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of paper, okay, because everybody
remembers when they got saved, even though

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you'd be backslid and it don't even
matter. You remember that day. Some

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people remember what they were wearing,
they know what church it was, they

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know the date they ripped it down
in their Bible. You know when you

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got saved. And then what I
want you to do is draw an errow

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to the right and write the words
set free, getting delivered, getting this

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weight up off of me. Certain
things I need to be delivered. I

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need to be set free from we're
talking about freedom now. You know.

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Are you an emotional eater when you
get depressed and that's when you go for

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the fried foods? Are you a
person dealing with anxiety? You never called

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it that because you don't want to
bring me, you don't want to talk

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about it. But do you get
anxious with certain things and trade? Thank

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you for sharing that about the bridge
situation. Do you get anxious? You

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know? Do you get depressed?
I've been depressed. I've been depressed.

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I can tell you how many times
in my whole life I've been depressed.

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But I've been depressed. And it
took me studying my Bible and seeing what

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power and authority and in my case, that God loved me. He loves

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me, He chose me, and
he knew me before my biological mother and

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biological father knew I was coming.
He knew me. He knows the very

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hairs on my head. I mean
that has to mean something to you.

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Maybe you've not been Maybe you're not
adopted. I've been. I was adopted.

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Maybe you've not been rejected. I've
been rejected. Maybe you've not You've

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not gone, You're not gone through
the intensity. I'm not thank God,

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Praise God. I'm not been molested. My innocence was not taken from me.

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But you know, to be rejected
by people who say on one end

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they love you, but yet they
mistreat you, they talk to you,

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they talk at you. That you
know. I mean. So everybody's trauma,

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everybody's hurt hits them differently. It
hits them differently, and it projects

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and it predicts, and it moves
and it makes you. It determines your

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next steps. That termins the people
in your life. It's a whole big

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circle. It's a whole big circle. Because now I go back and said,

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why did I even let I don't
even why did I even like this

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person? And she just took over
my life and she's supposed to be a

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classmate. But I go back for
punishment. I go back for why I

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go back, Well, she didn't
want reject me. She accepted me,

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or so I thought, just a
classmate. I go clear across town to

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go pick her up to come back
on my side of town to go to

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the ball, so we could just
go somewhere just friends, or so I

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thought. So the next thing under
set free. I have people to make

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little bullets. Now okay, under
the words set free, you got to

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stop thinking what do you want?
What is it that you want to be

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set free from? Why do we
do so much for others and the stage?

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Hey, because we were raised that
way. We think that's the right

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way to do things. We don't
realize that people are taking We don't realize

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other folks have motive. Other people
do not have our best interests in mind,

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so we don't know that. And
and again it could be again,

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Like for me, you know,
I don't want to be rejected, so

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I'll take you mistreating me. I'll
take the maltreatment. Why do we see

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that? Why when do we see
that they're using us? Well, when

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you realize you're not getting nothing back
from it, you are not growing,

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you're not getting better. I'm happy
I've said to people, Oh I wrote

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my first book. Oh if that's
what you want to do? What,

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well, okay, okay, I
graduated, I got my master's degree.

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Oh okay, Well, you know
we kind of knew you. You know,

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you talk your way into things,
so we figured you no, can

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you just say that's nice? Can
you say why did you went to school?

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You didn't even ask for a dog
for books? Or you knew I

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was going to school. So yeah, we sit back and we take it

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and we take it. And if
it's in the family, oh, you

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really take it. You really take
it because that's my aunt and I can't

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disrespect her. No, you're the
disrespector. But you don't let her talk

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to you. Any Have y'all seen
any of the Harry Potter series there this

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one where he's living with the uncle, was aunt and the and the husband

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and the oversized kid cousin, and
they let him stay in the basement type

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of thing. But under the stairs
and this and the auntie they just showed

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her. The other day, the
aunt, the sister of the of the

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dad of the uncle, comes over
and she he she starts talking about Harry's

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sister under the stairs, thank you
cut you see? And she started talking

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about, yeah, you know,
it's probably probably the wife though did you

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know she probably had a drinking problem. Now, Harry's supposed to be quiet,

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You're supposed to be unseen, even
though you're the servant, you're the

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houseboy. And he couldn't take it
anymore. Don't you talk about my parents?

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My parents were not alcoholics. How
dare you? They're like oh,

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listen to the orphan where they died
and left you. I mean, we

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got nasty people out there, nasty
people out there. When Jesus says,

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and I don't know if many of
you know this, but my heart kind

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of went out to the one of
the new Disciples. When Jesus was ministry

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in the book a Loup, they
had to lower a man through the ceiling

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because it was so crowded. It
was in somebody's house. And the newest

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Disciple comes to Jesus, your mother
and your brother outside. What does Jesus

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say, who is my mother?
Who is my brother? Except that what

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they do the will of my father. If you've got people talking about you,

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if you got people gossiping about you, if you've got people who cannot

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be happy for you and they happy
to be in the family, and then

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guess what, Jesus don't know them. Let's just go there. Let be

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real. Jesus don't know. I
got relatives that in the grave that never

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had a nice thing to say to
me, could never compliment me on anything,

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never helped me with college, nothing. So that's why I said,

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nobody dead or alive, I owe
nobody. I owe nobody because of whatever

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their issues are. I don't care
you're jealous. I don't know what you're

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you're living. I'm living a life
that you think of living. I don't

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know and don't care. Do you
know that the world is coming to an

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end? And I don't know about
y'all. But I got work to do.

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Still died twice. He brought me
back. I got work to do,

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getting ready to start working on the
fourth book this month. It will

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be ready and set go by August. I got things I gotta do.

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I'm gonna take it to this time. Okay, I digress, let me

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come back. Okay, going back
to the set free bullets. What do

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you need to be set free from? Well, my thing was rejection,

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the spirit of rejection. My thing
was balancing my check book. Back in

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the day, my parents didn't teach
me how to do that, really being

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really loving someone. I didn't know
what love love was. I loved my

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parents because they adopted me, They
accepted me, they wanted me. So

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no matter what my love was set
for Willa Lee and queenye Victoria, Okay,

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I loved them because they what wanted
me. Now I have biological relatives.

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Now that it's like they'll refer to, well, you know that's your

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mama. No, no, no, no, no, no, let's

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get that right. Because a mother
takes care, a mother loves, a

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father does a father is there?
Other people weren't there, And it's okay

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because I'm so glad. I'm so
glad that God had a whole different route

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from me because I don't know who
I would be. I could tell you

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one thing. I wouldn't be on
a podcast. Probably wouldn't be living in

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Orlando, still in Palm Beach County, thank God, because I ate My

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journey encountered priests and nuns in the
Catholic realm, and they hid me under

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their arm. They were just like, well, this girl could sing and

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she could act, so she's gonna
do it. We got medals because of

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her. Fine, however we did
it. I was their favorite. They

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didn't what reject me. I didn't
reject me, so I listed. I

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think I ended up with about five
things, including spirit of rejection and what

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you do. What I did was
I would go find scriptures. I would

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pray about these things that I need
to be set free from. And normally,

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what will happen After a while,
You'll start crossing off the list.

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Our pastor's got a rock over there
with his three things on it. Okay,

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my list ended up with one.
Now what you're gonna do? Go

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back up to the top way it
says, save arrow, set free,

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then another arrow, and you're gonna
write the word deliverance, because deliverance is

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ongoing. Until you take your last
breath, you will never be one thousand

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percent delivered from everything. It will
not happen. It's not spiritually sounded.

413
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It's not scientific either, because once
you get healed, once the blood pressure

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gets what you call what they call
it kind of take catered and taken care

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of. Now you got verse sitis. Then you get arthritis. You know,

416
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you know, but when you went
in because of the high blood pressure,

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well we got that under control now, but now we got birth.

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Sighted is in your right arm because
you used to play softball and baseball and

419
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nobody told you to all that thing
down for the rest of your life because

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that was your instrument, that was
your tool. Just like last week,

421
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my voice was gone on because I
used my voice. I still use my

422
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voice, so I gotta take care
of it all right, So deliver it?

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What is that? What what do
you mean country. See, I

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think is over sighteds. It's like
an arthritis in the shoulders, usually in

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your ligaments, and usually the older
folks get it. I don't know if

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it's I'm sure to sure it's still
around, but they probably call it something

427
00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:54.360
else. It's probably just labeling authortis
just to say something. But it's called

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birth citis. My mother had it
because she was a housekeeper and she iron

429
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clothes and did the laundry for her
folks, and so you know, yes,

430
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thank you, Okay, Yeah,
so she got it in her left

431
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shoulder out of nowhere. She was
an athlete, but she used the iron,

432
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she picked up things. She's a
little person, but she had verseited.

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So yeah, so under deliverance,
I had to move set free over

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I mean a spirit of rejection over
because I'm not gonna be set free in

435
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it because guess what it rounds out
to be a different situation. I got

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the biological folks, I got the
folks that adopted me. Okay, I'm

437
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:34.320
not rejected. Then all of a
sudden we got somebody. You're in a

438
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relationship, he rejects you. Your
husband rejections all of a sudden, Then

439
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you know your neighbors are rejected.
You don't even know it, And I'm

440
00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:44.199
like, why y'all, you don't
even know me and you're judging me.

441
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So it'll come in different arenas,
it'll come through different people until you get

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a hold of it. By Pastor
Miguel said earlier, and you crush it,

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there will be one left in the
deliverance column. And what you have

444
00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:07.480
to do with that is you got
to make sure it becomes an experience.

445
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See. I could talk about adoption
now, I could talk about rejection and

446
00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:16.559
not cry. Once upon a time
I couldn't do that without bursting into tears.

447
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:24.639
But I've conquered it enough that it
don't control me. I control it.

448
00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:29.000
Yes, I mentioned you, spirit
of rejection. I see you,

449
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spirit of rejection. I rebuke you
in the name of Jesus. You are

450
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not for me. I will go
to war on you, and I will

451
00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:38.960
win because I know scripture. You
don't. Oh yeah, you should hear

452
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me. When I'm going, I'm
going. And that's what you have to

453
00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:50.679
come to, that determination, that
purpose, that purpose. Never thought that

454
00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:53.920
I would be a therapist and ended
up having a private practice in the end

455
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and speaking and a minister. Never
chaplain. Never never thought of that,

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And that's who I am today.
That's who I am today. Clients like,

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oh, you know what, I
need to make an appointment for a

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court order class. Okay, so
I'm doing my little thing, putting you

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on my calendar. Oh, by
the way, they text me three days

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later. Oh I found somebody else
a great scratch at everybody off. I

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got a free day. I'm going
to the movies. That's you know,

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that's how you do it. I
got a free day. Yes, Lord,

463
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.719
thank you. You know what I
needed, didn't you? Because you

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do. I wanted to go see
that boot, So thank you. I

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got a free day. Now.
Anyway, anybody else we got five minutes,

466
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got well ten minutes. I'm sorry
about that, but anybody else just

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come on here. But I hope
that helped save set free and deliverance,

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make your points, get your little
bullets. What is it that I need

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00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:57.679
to be set free from a lot
of time? My times, my clients

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weren't ready to let go of that
second life, that third layer of protection.

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They weren't ready to let it go. They like it. It grew

472
00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:13.480
on you talk about giving the emotions
arms and legs power. It grew on

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them. It's okay, I don't
have to do I don't have them,

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Mary say. Teresa made her own
decision to live the life that she did.

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But they said when she died and
the family finally got into all of

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her money, she was over.
She was a millionaire. But Mother Teresa

477
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was like, no, I'm here
to serve. I'm here to love the

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loved. We make our decisions,
and when you do that, you hold

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onto it, and then there are
times you don't need things anymore. Another

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little thing I do when it's getting
so heavy on me. I mean,

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because yes it does, believe it
or not. Because people call me for

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00:42:05.199 --> 00:42:07.320
prayer. They call them, you
know, especially when I was a therapist,

483
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of hearing all those issues, hearing
those problems, looking at my prayer

484
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points, all this kind of stuff. So there comes the time that I

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say, Lord, I get quiet, and I said, I give back

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to you everything that I am.
My being a mother, my being a

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teacher, my being a podcast host, my being an actor, my being

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a voice actor, my being an
author, my being a college professor,

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my being a social worker, everything
that I am, I being a chaplain,

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my being this that new everything I
am, My being an aunt my

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being a god. I think I
heard everything. Can you recap the instructions

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if possible? Yes, Missy,
I will, and I give it back

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to God. And then I say, Lord, new season. It's on

494
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you. What do I need this
season? And you could give it back

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to me in the order that you
desire. What I said, Missy,

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was to write down the words saved, make an arrow, and write down

497
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the words set free. Yes,
please, just in case I missed anything,

498
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Okay, all right, and then
set free. And then you have

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00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:15.800
these bullets of what you feel you
need to be set free from people,

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relatives, whatever it is. My
inability to say no, my thinking that

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00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:29.079
everything is your is a crisis according
to them. It's not a crisis according

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00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:32.239
to me, but it gets me
to react. My loaning money that I

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00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:37.599
don't have and know that you'll never
get back. Write them all down,

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00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:45.280
and then you go and find scriptures
concerning the topics of those money. The

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love of money is the root of
all legal We know you don't love money,

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00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:53.719
but put that scripture down. You
know, depending on other people,

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depending on people to make me feel
self worth. I don't know who that

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00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:09.159
one was for, because that's how
we were raised ironically, whatever that is.

509
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Listen, find your scriptures and study
those scriptures, whether it's daily,

510
00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:20.320
weekly for me in the beginning,
was an urgency as an urgency for me,

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So I studied those scriptures every single
day. I asked out time to

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just do that, whether it was
on my lunch break or before I left

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for work. Yeah, go ahead, just just just because maybe this might

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be helpful for someone when you're saying
study, what do you mean what should

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when they're studying the Bible, studying
scriptures? What are they actually doing out

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00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:51.079
a repetitive or what are they writing
down? What are they writing down?

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00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:55.079
I would get a nice journal,
a nice notebook. I had stinto pads

518
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and back in the day, and
when I studied the Bible four years in

519
00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:02.840
the I had four sets of slide
pests. I think I got them mixed

520
00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:07.280
up. What are we writing in
the same list? Oh? Just the

521
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date in time? Thank you,
Charles, the day and time that you

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got saved, that you accepted the
Lord. You can remember that day.

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You could be my first baptism Lord, whatever that is. Most people can

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remember that day. So you can
say saved. And if you want to

525
00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:22.679
put something under there, you can
you can put the date, the time,

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00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:25.760
where you were, what city were
you in, who was at the

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00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:30.440
christening, how did that happen?
Whatever you can remember under that, and

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then you go to say free.
But going back to studying, you have

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to study the Bible. Says to
study to show yourself approved, not read

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the Bible. And I know that's
a thin line. That's a thin line.

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But when you study, remember all
of you all have gone to school,

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all of us, we've all gone
to elementary school and we had to

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00:45:51.039 --> 00:45:57.760
study for what the tests. Especially
we had a teacher that did surprise quizites,

534
00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:02.400
pop quizzes. So you have to
always read and study, take notes.

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00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:07.199
I've never memorized the Bible, but
I know chapter the difference between Old

536
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:14.440
Testament books and do Testament books because
I studied my word. Now today,

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00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:16.840
guys, just as a sidebar,
there is a Bible out there, the

538
00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:21.639
one Year Bible at your Christian bookstore. Don't go to Walmart and get it

539
00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:25.679
because they missing chapters. Go up
Christian bookstore and don't order it from Amazon.

540
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:29.880
I've checked that one out. They
missed it some chapters. They described

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00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:34.599
the Red Sea a whole different way. Anyway, go at a Christian bookstore.

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00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:37.119
I know it's overwhelming, but go
in there and ask for the one

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00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:39.199
year Bible. It'll take you through
the Bible because it's gonna take you a

544
00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:45.519
year. It will take you a
year. And that's when I say study.

545
00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:47.519
I mean I've got the pen.
I had my highlighters, I had

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00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:51.599
the different color pens. That's how
I studied as a student. And I

547
00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:57.519
took that right into that room as
well. Okay, so, and this

548
00:46:57.679 --> 00:46:59.800
is only for the people who say, you know what, I'm fed up.

549
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:02.320
I'm not getting anywhere. I'm not
seeing the light at the end of

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00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:06.159
the tunnel. Here. This it's
like I'm repeating the same thing. And

551
00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:10.480
remember the little little rat, the
little mouse on the spin wheel, which

552
00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:15.119
I still can't understand today. How
it gets on there knowing that it's not

553
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:19.320
going anywhere. It's not saying,
you know what, I need some exercise.

554
00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:22.239
I just had some carrots, So
let me go and get on my

555
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:29.320
wheel. And how does he get
off? When does it decide to throw

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itself off? I do the color
pistols too. There you go, bistie,

557
00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:37.880
there you go. And then along
the way you'll start seeing scriptures and

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00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:43.360
studying those scriptures that they mean something
to you. That's the second step of

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00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:47.119
the righteous meditate on his word day
and night. How can you meditate when

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00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:57.639
you didn't study? How can you
meditate? All right, go ahead,

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00:47:57.719 --> 00:48:00.880
y'all close it out now. I'm
just gonna just what you said about the

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wheel, thinking about the hamster on
the wheel, and I just was thinking

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00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:08.960
maybe because the cages are not that
big, and so that's a way for

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00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:14.119
them to burn out energy. They
can't run far, and so getting on

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00:48:14.199 --> 00:48:20.079
the wheel allows them to kind of
get that movement and stuff out in order

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00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:22.559
for them to I guess I don't
know how to get off, but I'm

567
00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:25.440
thinking that's probably what it is.
Because it's so small, the area is

568
00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:29.400
so tight, they don't have a
lot of movement, and so that gives

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00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:32.159
them an opportunity to burn off some
energy. And maybe that's what some of

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00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:36.880
us are feeling, that we're just
spinning a wheel trying to burn off energy

571
00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:42.079
because things seem like they're closing in. And what you have to do is

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00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:45.480
make a determination. I don't want
to live like this anymore. I want

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to see what God has for me. I'm gonna run on and see what

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00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:52.960
the end is going to be next
week, we'll pick it back up because

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we're gonna be real flexible this month, so we need to hear from you.

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So it's our time as you will. Please have a safe Fourth of

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July. Do something that you've never
done before. Do something you've never done.

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We'll see you next week, same
time, same station. Y'all be

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blessed. Bye bye bye, bat
night