June 23, 2025

Intl Widows Day: Actions & Responsibilities

Intl Widows Day: Actions & Responsibilities

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Good evening, good evening, good evening, and welcome to another

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night of fellowship and conversation and information and knowledge. To

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another segment of setting it Straight with Missus Gray and

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her fabulous co hosts. Hey, co hosts, how you doing.

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I'm digging your hair.

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I'll talk about that in a minute, But Trey, would

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you mind leading us in prayer tonight?

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I sure don't.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for another show tonight, which is

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your show. Please help us to help others that are

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going through something that just don't know where to turn.

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I pray that you build on a fence.

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I had you protection for them that are going through

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things financially, spiritually, emotionally those who might be experiencing grief

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and loss, and we pray for those persons or having

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any father please continue to watch over us as you

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do and guide us to have a great show tonight.

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He's prayer asking your name.

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Amen, Amen and amen, thank you so much. Yes, my hair,

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My daughter came over because she she came back and

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I came over. But she between classes and stuff. Then

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she and the boyfriend go out for their dates and

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they have their mini date and so I said, he

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came over and I said, well, you gotta finish taking

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my hair. I had the halo braid. And she's like, okay,

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I like to I have to give her heads up.

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You know that she's got to do that. That I'm

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expecting that. But I sat here and I got it

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out myself, and I got up to here because the

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halo braids, they brush your hair, you know, your hair's

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all over here and they do one braid around. So

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I was I didn't want my hair to follow my face.

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And I'm like, oh my god. So anyway, long story short,

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I asked the boyfriend. She brought the boyfriend and I said,

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I need you to take my hair. Can you help

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me take the rest of my hair down? And she's like, mo,

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I said, I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to him.

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He's a licensed barber.

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Now, wow, he can do her.

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You know, how are you doing? Take a break out?

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And I know you're so nervous and she said, oh,

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my mom's tender headed. I was like another heavy hander anyway,

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so I said, yeah, just give me a little part,

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a little sweep here there, and we'll go from there. So, yes,

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this is my hair, guys, this is what I look

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like in the fifth grade, sixth fifth grade. It's no

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sixth grade picture my mom the moment that was picture

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day and she broke afro comb on my hair trying

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to comb it out, and ness when she said, I

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got to put a perm in your hair and that

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was my years of perm ness and uh seventh, my

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hair has been natural for seven years now, so I've

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always had a permitute. So this is this is natural.

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And you know, we got similar hair, so I know

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he's probably saying, you know, see where you get it from.

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But you need to let your hair breast a little bit,

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and you know, because of the braiding and stuff like that,

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and all like this stuff. But it's gonna be hot,

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and I know i'll have this probably in a ponytail

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tomorrow when I get out, because but I want to

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see how long I'm gonna let it go. It's really down.

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So God is good.

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Wow blowing, that's right, and I have to bring it up.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you. God is good. Guys,

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you know, and in this scripture that we are a

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man's glory and our hair is our glory. That's scripture.

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So you want to always take care of your hair

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to the best of your ability and because it's a

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part of you and God regards it and as a scripture.

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But and it's also scriptures on how to take care

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of the widow. And we'll talk about that a little bit.

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But I wanted to give a shout out to some

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special people. It's about twelve of them, and I didn't

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know where they all lived until I got this special

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package in the mail and I've got it on all

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my social media because I could not believe that I

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knew about maybe five of them. I disgusted, but I

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didn't know about the other seven. And you know, to

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come together and to make a plan to gift someone

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and to be on one accord and you do your part,

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I do my part and you're in several different states

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has just made this get my gifts. Our scarfs are

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kind of overwhelming for me because once I asked our engineer, AKA,

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if we didn't if we didn't have her, we wouldn't

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be nowhere. We wouldn't be nowhere Miss Rebel, and I asked, well,

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what states is everybody? And I was not sure about Charles,

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but I knew like the cluster, you know, the main

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folks were, you know, in the Mississippi, you know, Louisiana

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kind of area, so I thought, and she gave me

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all these I was like, what Tennis, what what? Oh, Georgia,

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what Colorado and stuff? So it was thank you all

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so much from the bottom of my heart. Made my kid,

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you know, I think, you know, with Belicia and Donald

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are like wow, it just it's spoke for itself. And

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thank you for everybody that knitted, everybody that was on

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the planning committee, everybody that got all the supplies together,

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everybody that handled it until it arrived in my po box.

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Thank you so much. I'm going to ury. I'm looking

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forward to cool a little coolness. In the for all

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in the winter months, because I will be sporting that,

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Yes I will. And when people say, well, where'd you

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get it? Oh, this was a gift for my viewers,

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our viewers on the podcast. You wouldn't know about it

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because you don't even look at the podcast. You don't

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even listen to the butt. We come back and we

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come back about you could just roll and if you

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don't talk to yourself to tell yourself to dial it down,

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you know you can get cured away, you know so.

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But thank you all God, bless each and every one

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of you are now that I know there's some additional

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folk out there. You're in our prayers as long as

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I say you're in our prayers. It's been a week.

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It's been a week. Uh so much anger. O. Things

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can get out of out of control so quickly over

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a statement over somebody expressing themselves. And there's so many

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people in the world. I don't think based on some

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of these comments, I'm seeing there's a lot of people

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who are in a space that where they can't express

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themselves and if they didn't have YouTube or Facebook, they

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probably would spontaneously combust. And we have a right, you

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have a right to your feelings. But when you say

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that you profess Jesus Christ, not just going to church.

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But when you say that you're a believer, you need

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to kind of sound a little different because you're always

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working on yourself. You're always working on your flesh. You're

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always taming that thing and telling it, okay, stay down, now,

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stay down, Let's do this. Let me think this out,

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and I have to read something to you all. It

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was so funny. It was funny to me. But as

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I told you all that, my thing is, oh, I

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don't want to I have a whole different view of

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the tariffs and stuff and in regards back pay to

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the America, to the United States, and I say, just

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don't inflate me. So that was my prayer. That's my prayer.

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I know, if there's inflation going on that supposedly is

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going to go on or whatever, I get it. And

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of course with the anger, with the opinions and the commentary,

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that's just gonna trigger it and edge it on you

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calling people names, you know, and stuff like that because

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you don't like the way they're doing stuff. And I yeah, okay, however,

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you need to express yourself. But I'm talking to praying folk,

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because I told you my prayer is don't inflate me,

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and I just read it before we came on that

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amid this is what the federation, the federal the fads

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now let me get the right name. Oh god did I? Well? Anyway,

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those who the federal government, the Federal Reserve, there we

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go that determines inflation, has said amid the teriff turmoil, Uh,

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they're really thinking about reducing the interest rates because they

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said that we don't even know if it's gonna with

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this tariffs, when it's gonna when we're gonna start seeing

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that spill out, and also if it's going to have

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maybe a little to no effect to where we would

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have to raise rates. And the see the head of

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the Federal Board of Governor female said that they should

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be they should consider cutting it as key interest rates

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as soon as the next meeting, which is in what

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next month. I'm just reading what's in black and white.

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Well last month they last week they announced that they

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kept the interest rates the same because there was no need. So, uh,

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this is where it created a big hoopla in regards

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to if if everything is starting to reveal that the

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the inflation rates should be loosening its grip, that the

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federal reserves should be able to reflect that. However, you know,

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there there's there's some thing that's not being revealed that

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that it's it's it's eying us down to where we

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are and and to me and and and this is

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just me. And then you know someone is making money.

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They don't want to the grip that cash cow is

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still giving milk, and they do not want to do

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anything because they are they're benefiting from it.

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Yeah, but and that's in the world. Go ahead, I'm saying, I've.

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Got news for you. I got news for you. There's

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someone much greater. You're gonna have to answer. No, I'm

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just gonna leave it.

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Oh yeah, as a matter of fact, I'm gonna take

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it another a little step, a little step deeper. You

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don't you won't sleep until you're revealed and exposed. You

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won't sleep until it's revealed and exposed. I still go

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back to my prayer, don't inflate me now. My god

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daughter lovingly text me this morning, my oldest one, and

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she said, hey, it's already you know, with what's going

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on with these wars, they the Iran is already cutting

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off the gas and the oil, so you better go

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fill up. So I go to my wah wah, my

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trusted gas station, and it was less than it was

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last week. Gas was two ninety nine. I filled up

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because I needed to anyway, And I'm gonna let everybody

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know on the show. Keep your ear out for that. Now,

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keep your ear out. Now, we've had plenty, We've had

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a few years, even with a Democrat president in between,

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to be drilling in the United States. So you should

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have found some oil things here in the United States.

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If the Bush family made their you know, their tree

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is off of it. Certainly, Certainly there's there's oil somewhere

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in the United States. So you've had time to drill.

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So they now if you didn't do it, that's But

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my gas was two ninety nine this morning. It's after

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mid morning, and we're watching it toil Belicia, I said.

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I texted her, I said, you are you full of

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the tank full? She said no. I said, okay, Well

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just watch it. Tell me how much it is. So

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she went to seven eleven, so she'll tell me later

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how much hers is.

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But it didn't hike.

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Here in central Florida, they went down with it.

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We even saw it as low here in where I'm

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where I live in Bribard County, it was as low

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as to sixty nine what to sixty nine? Wow out

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touch on that about the gas and they're tightening. I

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read that by them doing that affecting twenty percent the

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production of the world. So the other countries that do

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not have resources that are found here the affected than

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we are. And to answer your question, miss gray of

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in regards to that, someone should have drilled and found something.

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and it needs to have the production level that it

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had at one point time, so they can be able

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to start being dependent on our energy instead of the

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energy that was being brought in from overseas. So it's

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just a matter of replenishing the inventory. And that was

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where we were. The energy from the overseas was starting

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to shrink while the production was starting to come up.

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the benefit of it because of the lower gas prices.

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So if I can just chime in on something real

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quick with all of this noise, and I sent the

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message to my students who attend the services. And I'm like,

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don't listen to the noise because in Matthew twenty four,

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verses forty two through forty five, Jesus makes it very clear,

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be alert, be alert. You have studied the Bible and

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you've read it, and you understand it. All this has

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happened because there's something greater that's going to be revealed.

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And it's just a matter for us to to to

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place our trust in God and and and here, and

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I'm gonna I'm gonna, you know, a little nugget here.

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God's already written the book. He's already written the story. Yeah,

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he already. It's already done. Okay, focus on Christ, just

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focus on Jesus. Let it all play out, because in

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the end you will see why we had to go

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through what we had to go through. Then want our trust.

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With our trust on God, we will receive from a crown.

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That's what it's all about.

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And and there's just to take you know, tag along

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with you. I always ask the question, how many of

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you if you knew that you had to train a judas,

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how many of you would do it? Now? Knowing the

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back back end at all. We're not having another resurrection,

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We're not having another crucifixion. But if you knew you

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had to train a Judas, and some of you have

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had to train a Judas because they took your job,

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you were demoted and you had to train the person

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was in your coming into your position, how many of

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you would knowingly train a Judas. My whole point around

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that question is Jesus knew that Judas had to go

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do what he had to do. I said this last week.

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I believe, or we wouldn't be here. This story would

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have ended. The Bible would have ended a long time ago.

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go to nothing. Probably we don't even know. We don't

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even know. So yes, don't get don't take everything you

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hear on Fox News or CNN or MSBC whatever, okay,

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and and Forbes magazine and and and breads and all that. No, no, no, listen,

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but ask for wisdom. Like my cousin Solomon did. He

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inherited everything that his daddy had. He goes and it

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wasn't until the evening after he had what prayed and

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he left the offering. And I want to talk to

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you all about how y'all look at money, because I

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believe that this is something. Well, the people I know

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that's in debt, that is way below the poverty line,

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their view of money is really different. And we'll talk

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about that another time. We don't have time tonight, but

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I want to put that out. The way you view money,

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it's very key to how you spend, how you saved,

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how you work just to pay your bills versus working

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to leave that legacy and inheritance to your children's children.

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That's a whole you know, it's a whole thing. We'll

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talk about that. You still have to watch and pray,

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and again you need, like Pastor said, you got to

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study your word. We're not making this up. We didn't

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go to a conference and hear this from someone. We

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have studied the Bible itself and studied means. To have

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your pen and pad ready, and your pencil whatever your

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writing utensil is, and your highlighters. If you come to

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my house, I've got cups of pens and highlighters and

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sharpies all over the place because I never know when

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I'm gonna grab a word. I see a word or

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hear a word, and I want to get those scriptures

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down because I can't remember everything, not trying to. You

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have to study the word. And like I said last week,

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it's more than we're beyond. It's application time. And now

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it's like now when we get the final realm of lifestyle.

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First you teach, you get taught. You be the student.

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You learn, you read, you study, You meditate on his

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word day and night. You watch and pray, you fast

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and pray. You enter his course of thanksgiving and praise.

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You give up your first fruit. You're tithe, you're offering.

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It all runs simultaneous. Then after a while, after you

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become that student of the word, then you move into

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it's application time. You to put into practice what you've learned,

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what you've studied. And I think now this in this

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end piece, this last piece, this last leg, this last trek,

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even if it's for a thousand more years, it's all

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about lifestyle. Now, it's lifestyle. It's not about what you know.

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And you know what title you have. And and even

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though I'm a highly educated young lady, education has this

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place in my life. But I'm a student. I'm a

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child of the King. That's more important than me. He

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gives me my strength, his word strengthens me. Amen. And

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now it's here. I told you, I've been telling you.

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We've been saying it's here, that it that's coming. It's here. Now.

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We don't know what we don't We didn't know what

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was gonna look like. We didn't know it was gonna

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get in going to Hollywood and revealing exposed over there,

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and we didn't know it was gonna expose human trafficking

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and all this cop We didn't know what it was

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gonna look like, but we knew that it was coming.

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That it is here because every arena is affected. Every

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arena is affected, education, business, small business, church, Every arena

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known to man is now affected. And it's just peeling

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that banana or cutting that onion, or peeling that onion

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because we don't know what the next layer is gonna

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look like. But it's here. And there's no rumor of

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war Russia and Ukraine, Iran in Israel. There's no room.

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That's not a rumor that's real. But we've heard forever

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rumors of wars or I heard Turkey was gonna go

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after sweeping. I heard that, you know, this was you know,

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and Denmark is going out to Switzerland in it but

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it was just it never came in the thing. I know,

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I've really over exaggerated those two those countries, but for

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the most part, there was rumors. Nothing came to pack

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and there are wars now and we're here. So, like

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I said, everybody to each his own, I'm not here

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to criticize nobody at this time. I am not here.

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Well you know if it was me, uh uh, I

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don't even have that as a part of my vocabulary.

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I know what I need to be praying about. And

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guess what, that which I have prayed about is come

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to pass. I'm seeing results. I'm seeing resolution. I'm seeing

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conversations between people who don't want to talk to each other.

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I'm just watching. I'm telling defective prayers, effective prayers, praying

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strategically and specifically. And I told you what I prayed about.

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You can go after terriffs. Sorry, y'all, y'all, y'all lost,

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y'all borrow a lot of money from us over the

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billion years we've been in existance. But don't inflate me.

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Don't inflate me. And there's some there's that, there's there's

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there's money out there that's been found. Okay, I want

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my five thousand dollars. That's the number floating around. I

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want my five thousand dollars. And also our governor was

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talking about you know that homestad money again, I want

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my thousand dollars by December, because the Bible says, what

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you have not because you don't ask, you have not

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because you asked nothing. Our head pastor, you're chomping, And

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I'm then I'm going to get into widowhood and stuff,

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the elderly and stuff.

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Go for it. I just want take what you just said.

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And and this is what I mean by this show.

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Actually it's run by God. You go to Second Thessalonians,

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chapter two, verse three says and I'm going to read

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the New Living translation. So this way it's a whole

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lot easier to digest it. What was the chapter chapter two? Okay,

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and it says, don't be fooled by what they say.

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You just said, don't listen to the media, right, okay,

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for the day will not come and this is the

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coming of Christ until there's a great rebellion against God

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and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the one who

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brings destructions. So this is why, this is why we

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have to understand not to panic because all of this

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has to happen first, and we're and we're we're guiding you,

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we're preparing you. And it's so funny, you know. And

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and I'll close out with this. I wrote a paper

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exactly what you just said.

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Of course you did.

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That student, what you just said, and and.

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The title is personal disciple making. Here's a paper. It

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was a sermon I had to write for my school.

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And exactly what you just said is what I put

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in here. So I'm telling you, folks, this is a

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spirit driven show and I'm gonna bring out the street

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out of me. We don't play. I'll just leave it

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at that.

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Amen, you see that you saw that trade, right, you

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saw he had to justice up that. We don't. We

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don't play. We don't We're not making this up. We

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don't want you to be hurt. And more importantly, we

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don't want you to be surprised. We don't want you

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to be surprised. And for some reason, Amen, hey Elda

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k that's Tennessee is in the house. We don't want

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you to be surprised. We don't want you to say, well,

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uh uh okay, like okay, God, what do I do next?

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What's my next? For the kingdom? I dare you to

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ask it, what's my next? But if you're studying your word,

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you'll know you have to pray without ceasing. You got

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to study your word to show your self approved, to

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rightly divide the truth. It's a whole sentence there. It's

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not just study and show your self approved. What proved

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to do what nobody would ask me. It's the rest

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of the verse. So you could rightly divide the truth?

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Amen?

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Amen, you know. And and the Devi was such a duplicator,

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he's such a rep he can't he can't think of

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nothing on his own. None of things that says Satan

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fell from was dismissed, thrown out of heaven. He he

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has never been able to make up something on his own.

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He can't because he got he what. He was there

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with the word. He was there when they made the word,

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they talked the word, They spoke the word before the

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scribes even came along to document the word. So all

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he knows what he's been, what what heart? That's only no,

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my God, that came fresh from heaven. Come on now,

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so those of you and I know it's not my

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faithful fe but whoever will see this later on and

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go back and accidentally fall in this because it's eeheart,

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or or because it's on I Tunes or whatever, and

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you fall and you're captivated. What they gonna say next, Well,

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I'm talking to you. That's that's what I'm talking to you.

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Who you want to follow? You know yourself. You want

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to come up with your own things like you don't

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think nobody will see through you. You're not a threat

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to us. You don't bother us. You wasted your time

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because you don't think. My God, who sits I looks low,

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don't even already know what you're gonna do. We don't

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know what you're gonna do until you do it. But

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God already knows what's in your heart, and he's waiting

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to see if once it goes from the heart to

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hear what okay, what they're gonna do? Because the next

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thing is coming out your mouth, your behavior, Cut it out,

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cut it out. You're not full of humps, now, pastor,

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because pastors are pastor, pastors pray for everybody. Those of

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us who represent the other category, the other jobs, goodbye, goodbye.

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So let the door hit you because we don't have time. Now.

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Now it's time. And the beautiful thing is that blessings

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are coming. Blessed God is getting ready to pour. I

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was at the story the other day and I just

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felt that the Holy Spirit just felt I said, ooh,

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what you getting ready to do? You getting ready? You

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get ready to bless our socks off? You think you've

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been blessed?

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You don't.

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You don't even know. You don't even know He's getting

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ready to do it. And I want to gently segue

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into our topic tonight because it's International Widows Month and

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I just want you to know because many people have

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disregard when I became a widow.

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I don't know what that was.

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I don't people are like, oh, you know, for a minute,

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gave me some cards, sent me some money, brought some

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00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:08.160
food over for the kids, you know, for the us

458
00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:10.119
to eat. Then all of a sudden it just stopped.

459
00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:12.720
And I'm still I'm like, okay, So most people you

460
00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:15.240
know Orlando don't really know me, as well as some

461
00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:17.920
folks from my hometown. But I'm what you call a

462
00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:21.839
delayed reaction person. I can hear the news, I can

463
00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:25.960
make the arrangements and things like that. It's after everything's over,

464
00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:29.319
after everybody's gone, after the kitchen is clean, that's when

465
00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:32.279
you need to come find me. So, but the folks

466
00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:36.000
up here in Orlando wouldn't know that. So everything you know.

467
00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:37.839
And then I had one person to say, yeah, okay,

468
00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:40.359
you know you've been a widow. And I'm like, what

469
00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:43.759
are you gonna say next? Because I've got fourteen verses.

470
00:27:44.359 --> 00:27:47.480
God is the father of the fatherless and the defender

471
00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:52.200
of the widows. That's one out of fourteen scriptures concerning

472
00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:55.119
the widow. And it's always coupled with the widow and

473
00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:58.839
the orphan. It's always coupled that. Those two are those

474
00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:04.680
two populations, widows and orphaned children, motherless fatherless children are

475
00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:08.440
always coupled together. And God said, don't don't get this twisted.

476
00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:11.039
I need you to take care of them. So, younger people,

477
00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:14.000
if you know of some folks, go blow their lawn,

478
00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:16.599
go knock on the door. Do you need some grocery?

479
00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:21.240
Because our lives change and we don't know how to pivot.

480
00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:26.039
Depending on how long the person who passed on was

481
00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:30.000
suffering was ill. My mom was ill for eight years.

482
00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:33.519
And I watched deterioration. I watched it. It took her.

483
00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:37.839
Alzheimers just took her personality, took her mind. She didn't

484
00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:42.519
even know my name for four years until God intervened.

485
00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:44.640
And I know you all know the story. I'm gonna

486
00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:46.559
say it real fast, just as a reminder because I

487
00:28:46.599 --> 00:28:49.319
got some newbies on here. I got a calls in church,

488
00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:51.519
thank god, the nursing homes right next door to the church.

489
00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:54.319
I got. Somebody beated me. The nursing home beaped me.

490
00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:56.640
I went to the payphone in the lobby. They said,

491
00:28:56.680 --> 00:29:00.480
your mom's balls are backing up. We're sitting into the hospital. Okay.

492
00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:02.759
Went to the pastor, said I need you to pray

493
00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:05.519
my mom. Is you know open next door, and to

494
00:29:05.559 --> 00:29:07.519
send her to the hospital. He prayed real quick. I

495
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:09.640
was out of there, and I wore red and black

496
00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:12.920
that day, red and black that day. Went to the

497
00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:15.559
nursing home. I walked straight through. I never check in

498
00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:17.960
or get a backage. I just walked straight through, went

499
00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:20.000
to the first count, and then as I opened up

500
00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:22.039
the main doors, all of these folks in the wheelchairs

501
00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:24.160
and then were gnarling and drooling and everything else, said

502
00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:28.000
get the behind me, Satan, and they parted. So I

503
00:29:28.039 --> 00:29:30.000
went to the desk, and I said, I'm here from

504
00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:32.119
my mom, and you know, give him the name. And

505
00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:34.599
they're like, oh, she's in the cafeteria. And I looked

506
00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:36.920
at him and said, y'ah, so stupid. You just I

507
00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:38.759
guess I just got a call that she's going to

508
00:29:38.839 --> 00:29:41.799
the hospital. Things are backing up in her but you

509
00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:44.960
took her to the cafeteria by this time. My mother

510
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:48.119
cannot sit up straight in a wheelchair, so she's posed

511
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:50.720
if she's sitting up, if she's in a wheelchair, if

512
00:29:50.759 --> 00:29:53.759
she's out of her bed, then she's posed to the wheelchair,

513
00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:58.079
meaning that she's tied to the wheelchair. And I'm already okay,

514
00:29:58.119 --> 00:30:00.119
I got tired to fight. This is it. I got

515
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:02.039
to get my mom. Make sure my mom's go into heaven.

516
00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:05.279
Long story short, go in there. Everybody's in there, the

517
00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:08.160
aids are feeding the patients. I can't see my mom.

518
00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:10.799
My mom is as dark as my hair. Still can't

519
00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:13.359
see her. And I stood up and I said, Lord,

520
00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:16.920
you promised me. As my dad fell dead in my

521
00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:20.400
arms and my mother called his name out, I looked up.

522
00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:22.799
I said, God, you gotta help me make sure she

523
00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:26.079
makes it in. They got to be together, just because

524
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:28.880
they took care of me. You promised me, and I

525
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:30.839
did this and I looked down and she was right

526
00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:32.519
in front of me. Puse it to the chair.

527
00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:33.480
She was murmuring.

528
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:36.759
At that point, bcoma and cataracts had covered her eyes.

529
00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:39.359
And I'm looking and there was an aid at the table,

530
00:30:39.799 --> 00:30:42.200
and I said, mommy, and she I said, God, you

531
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:45.160
promised me. I got to get her to you. This

532
00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:48.400
is who I am. I gotta get my mother to you.

533
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:51.799
And all of a sudden, I push up window and

534
00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:54.759
I can see the blue sky and a window went up.

535
00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:57.160
When the window went up, she sat straight up in

536
00:30:57.200 --> 00:30:59.440
the chair and I looked at her and there was

537
00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:02.880
no fin over her eye. And I said, mommy. She

538
00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:06.359
said yes, Lisa, Hey. I said, okay. I said, mommy,

539
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:08.279
I need you to repeat after me. And I let

540
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:11.799
her through a sinner's repentance prayer. There's all kinds. Whatever

541
00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:14.039
God told me to say, I said it. She repeated

542
00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:16.079
after me. I said, Mommy, you're going to be in pain.

543
00:31:16.359 --> 00:31:18.720
And you can't call Daddy's name. You can't call Aunt

544
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:21.519
Mary's name. Her sister Alice named her sister, her brother

545
00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:24.160
uncle Fred and uncle sammy uncle, saying you can't call

546
00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:26.400
none of the names. She said, okay. I said, no,

547
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:29.480
I need you to call on Jesus. I need you

548
00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:32.200
to call on Jesus. I said, can you say Jesus?

549
00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:35.119
She said Jesus. I said, no, say Jesus. She said Jesus.

550
00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:38.559
I said, okay, who I said, Mommy, you didn't know

551
00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:40.480
I had a little boy. I had a son. She goes,

552
00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:42.200
you did. I said, yeah, I can't bring him in.

553
00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:44.440
These too many demons in here. She said, yeah, I

554
00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:46.480
don't want you to bring him in. All of a sudden,

555
00:31:46.519 --> 00:31:48.680
the windows start to go down. I could see the

556
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:51.000
window and the window would go down, and then she

557
00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:54.039
was going down. She was going back, just going back,

558
00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:58.240
and I started to cry. Then I said, Jesus, get her, please,

559
00:31:58.279 --> 00:32:01.599
get her, just be waiting on her. She's please for

560
00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:04.400
what they've done for me. It gave me their best.

561
00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:07.960
They didn't have much, but I didn't know it, and

562
00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:11.279
you promised me. And she went down. I said, Mommy,

563
00:32:11.319 --> 00:32:13.240
I love you. She said, I love you too, and

564
00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:15.799
then she went back to her position. The aide was

565
00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:18.559
sitting there and she just had to school. She was

566
00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:21.079
just I said, you need to feed him, you miss,

567
00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:24.680
cause she's like, and I walked out. My mom went

568
00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:27.000
to the hospital. I gave me another week with her,

569
00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:31.279
but I know she went to heaven because he promised me.

570
00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:35.240
He promised me. I gave my life to him for

571
00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:37.960
them for the rest of their years, just so they

572
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:41.440
can make it in so. I have a deep love

573
00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:44.200
and respect for my elderly, and that's what most of

574
00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:48.359
my nonprofit work that I do and will resume doing.

575
00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:52.119
You're to honor your elderly. I know, I know this

576
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:53.920
has been history. I know some of you are not

577
00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:57.240
talking to your people. I know I know this family drama.

578
00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:01.640
I know been there, done that, and your point and

579
00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:04.799
your point, no trade took care of both her parents.

580
00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:07.519
We don't even think about it. Oh, I'm sacrificing my life.

581
00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:10.039
The devil is a liar. You to honor them, you

582
00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:12.440
don't have to roll out the red carpet. You don't

583
00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:14.160
have to go and take them a bottle of wine

584
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:17.680
every time you see them. No, that's not honor. That's

585
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:21.359
not honor. The honor is okay, what do you need? Well,

586
00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:24.039
you can't live with me because of our history, but

587
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:26.640
I'll find you a place to live if you're hungry.

588
00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:30.319
Let me know God, wherever my parents are, wherever my

589
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:32.720
mother is, wherever my father is that left me all

590
00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:36.039
those years ago, that left me as an orphan, wherever

591
00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:38.839
they may be. If you have given your life to Christ,

592
00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:42.480
you are forgiving people left and right. You're forgiving people

593
00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:45.039
left and right. I don't I know the dirt.

594
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:45.759
I know it.

595
00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:48.799
I'm a social work. I've heard it all. There's no

596
00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:51.759
new story out there. And if you've got adult children

597
00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:55.759
living with you, everybody needs to be paying their peace

598
00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:57.799
now at this point, they probably can't go out there

599
00:33:57.960 --> 00:33:59.680
and get an apartment or whatever. I don't care how

600
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:03.920
they keep saying that it is, but everybody needs to

601
00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:06.359
be paying their bills in your house, if they eat,

602
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:08.480
they need to be a part of the grocery. You

603
00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:10.639
need to cut this out. How did you raise your child?

604
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:12.519
I'll go ahead and to take a minute.

605
00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:16.199
You know, we only do what we can do, you know,

606
00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:21.400
as caregivers. But I think, Wisha, I know you took

607
00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:24.280
care of your parents, you know, And I know that

608
00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:27.440
dare in heaven. So they were children of guard and

609
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.280
so are you and you're you're you're passing that on

610
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:34.400
to your children. And I know that and it's you know,

611
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:39.239
caregiving or or or being a caregiver is not easy

612
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:41.800
at all, the day to day struggle.

613
00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:45.000
Each person handles it a little differently.

614
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:49.119
And but we always want the best for our loved one,

615
00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:53.760
you know, we always want the best. And so knowing

616
00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:56.000
that you know you've done all you could before they

617
00:34:56.199 --> 00:34:59.199
left here, can rest easy. You know, honor their mother

618
00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:01.880
and their father, and your days will be long. And

619
00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:04.199
I saying it right, and your days will be long.

620
00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:07.639
And so I know a lot of us have some.

621
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:11.440
Longevity because of the honor of our parents, mother, father,

622
00:35:11.880 --> 00:35:17.400
or you know, grandparent or whoever you know taken care of.

623
00:35:18.920 --> 00:35:22.400
But it's you know, sometimes it's bittersweet, you know, strugglers

624
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:25.440
still there, missing them, miss the times. But you know,

625
00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:26.840
as long as you got them in your heart, you

626
00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:30.000
know they're okay. Because right now, the way these times are,

627
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:33.639
I don't I wouldn't have want my parents.

628
00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:35.360
It's too much.

629
00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:38.039
And I'm so very sorry for a lot of the

630
00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:42.320
children or young people that have to experience what's going

631
00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:47.639
on right now, or have experienced the education system. It

632
00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:49.920
was different when I was coming up. We learned a

633
00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:54.559
whole lot of things, not just educational stuff related to

634
00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:58.079
you know, math or English. We learned how to treat

635
00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:04.800
other people, We learn lifelong. Just my heart is heavy

636
00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:09.280
for people trying to navigate life right now, especially if

637
00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:09.840
they're young.

638
00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:13.760
And so that's what I have to say right now.

639
00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:17.480
I sent a thank you to the guidance counselor from

640
00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:22.519
the from Donald and the Twins Elementary School, and she said, no,

641
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:26.239
I thank you because they were raised with assured an

642
00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:30.000
assured foundation. I had no problems with your children and

643
00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:32.840
they were so mannerable, so I need to be thanking you.

644
00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:35.559
She said that. To sit that to me today, I said, God,

645
00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:38.320
bless you if I got to give you your flowers.

646
00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:41.599
But yeah, and I'd like to just just throw out

647
00:36:41.639 --> 00:36:45.280
there too, if anyone is you know, has any issues

648
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:49.719
or want to no resources, or just want some kind

649
00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:55.840
of moral support, if they are airgiver currently or have

650
00:36:56.159 --> 00:37:02.280
lost someone, you know, I can say, reach out, you know,

651
00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:04.559
reach out to us, because I think we tried to

652
00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:08.360
be as transparent and genuine as possible and about the

653
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:09.880
grace of God there go.

654
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:15.719
Ay, I have to just simply say that we, you know,

655
00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:19.679
for for a long period of time, I when I

656
00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:22.559
was born, my mom was forty two years old, and

657
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:27.880
I know that wasn't It was a handful and my

658
00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:32.159
mom did her best. And that's something that we all

659
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:36.719
have to understand that not you know, sometimes even my

660
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:40.719
dad did the best he could, even though he had

661
00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:43.760
his issues. But the bottom line is they did the

662
00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:47.960
best they could. Me being for a time I was

663
00:37:48.039 --> 00:37:51.039
a single dad and I did the best I could,

664
00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:57.400
and even though I struggled. They kids don't. The kids

665
00:37:57.480 --> 00:38:02.320
today don't look at it at the older folks as

666
00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:05.880
people who care or or wise or people that have

667
00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:10.199
gone through some things. Some kids feel that they have

668
00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:13.840
all the answers. And if my question is, if you

669
00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:16.719
have all the answers, then why did God need us

670
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:18.960
to bring you into the world. You know that that's

671
00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:22.599
just something that we have to take it to consideration.

672
00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:27.840
The bottom line is that, you know, God utilized us

673
00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:29.880
to be the parents, and God.

674
00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:32.199
Help me and my daughter. I can see the work

675
00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:35.719
God is in my son is But God, Amen, l K,

676
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:37.800
thank you Amen. You know what.

677
00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:42.280
My mother passed of Alzheimer's. My sister is going through

678
00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:44.800
Alzheimer's now, and my sister is.

679
00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:46.800
Eighty eighty eight, and.

680
00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:52.679
He knows my older brother and everybody else. I don't

681
00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:57.360
exist in her life, but I understand what the sickness

682
00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:00.400
is and that's something that we have to be able

683
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:05.400
to help others who are struggling, and that way we

684
00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.920
can be able to be a support. And we're not

685
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:12.320
trying to be a hindrance. We're being a support and

686
00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:16.199
that's what's what's key. And you know, you may think

687
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:19.280
you know, but we've we we ran into the wall

688
00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:23.159
four or five times to know. So we're giving them

689
00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:28.400
some good advice and kind of close out. For Timothy

690
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:33.079
five to three, does take care of any widow who

691
00:39:33.199 --> 00:39:37.079
has no one else care for her. It's that's instructions

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from the Apostle Paul. And we have to understand the Bible,

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God's word, and the Apostle Paul was the mouthpiece and

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he had ascribe right now what he told to say.

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So it didn't say take care of any particular widow. No,

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take care of all widow. And that's that's what we

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we as representation of the Kingdom. How we help others

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is a representation of Kingdom of Christ. That's how we

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have to walk.

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We walk with the.

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Authority given to us representation of the Kingdom. That's how

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they the world will know who are is this life

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a then.

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So thank you all out there in viewership land. We

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appreciate you. We feel your hearts and everything else, and

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you know our hearts as well. We love you with

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the love of God. We thank you so much for tonight.

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But that's it, and we got one more Monday in

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the month of June. Can you believe that one more Monday? Anyway? Anyway,

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y'all be blessed and be watchful, be listening for God's

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direction that night. We love you, Papa,