Nov. 26, 2024

It's Thanksgiving; Where & How

It's Thanksgiving; Where & How

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Well, good evening, good evening, good evening, and welcome. Welcome

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to the last Monday in November, the last Monday in November.

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We're gonna give God praise tonight. We're gonna just it's

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just I'm just so excited. I'm so excited to hello

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to my fabulous co hosts.

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Okay, there we go, Hello, tray evening.

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Let's pray Father God. We just thank you, thank you,

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thank you. Thank you for making ways out of no way.

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Thank you for showing up and showing out. Thank you

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for loving us unconditionally. Thank you for giving us peace

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that passes all understanding. Thank you for being our father.

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None of us shall we want. Thank you for walking

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us beside green pastors and restoring our soul. Thank you

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for everything, Father God. As I said to you the

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other day, if you don't bless me anymore, if you

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don't say anymore to me, Lord, I'm satisfied. I don't

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know how much better is going to get, but I

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do know I'm gonna stick around and find out and

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run this race. Now, this is your show, tonight, your conversation.

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We're your people. We're gonna get behind the cross and

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we're gonna wait with expectation to hear what you have

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to say to us tonight. We love you so much.

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I mean you've forever giving you all the praise, glory

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and honor and Jesus' name. We pray, Amen, ain't men

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and Amen. Well, Hello to everybody. Thank you, thank you,

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thank you for tuning in, thank you for watching, thank

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you for uploading, thank you for downloading, thank you for sharing,

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thank you for thumbs up. Whatever you're doing, we know

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that you're watching it.

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Thank you.

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We pray. We know that it's reaching you. It's reaching

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one person, and that's all. That's the goal. That's the goal.

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Let's reach one person. Let's change one person's mind. That's

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what we're all about, and we're so thankful to God.

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We've got testimony upon testimony upon testimony will blow your mind.

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But before we get into our topic tonight, I've got

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to give them basic not basic, A major, major shoutouts

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to the Orlando Moving Company, Drug Shot and pro Shred Orlando.

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Those people have made my life, me and my family's

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life with ease. You tell them. You call these people

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Orlando Moving Company. I've used them several times in the

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last few weeks, last few days. Everybody's been top nine

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handling our stuff with care, helping us to move. Then

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I had to call junk Shot to get the junk. Now,

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I'm gonna tell y'all something. When we tell you the

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clean house, spring cleaning, fall cleaning, summer cleaning. You need

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to clean house because you don't know when God's gonna

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bless you. You don't know if God's waiting for you

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to really take a look at your treasures versus your junk,

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and whether or not he come he's gonna be able

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to bless you off of what you piled up. Call

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you know, I'm not calling anybody hoarders. I've seen the movie.

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I don't like to watch the reality show and it

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looks real nasty, but you need to be cleaning out stuff,

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cleaning up stuff. I mean, I found things I didn't

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even know I had. I found things I didn't even

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know I had. Okay, so don't do this. Don't wait

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until it's like God's like, okay, up, go it's time

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for you to go, and you're like, oh, I gotta go.

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And we got to pack it up. I got the discard,

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thank god, Juncture a junk shot came through as always,

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and they've added a new feature if you want to

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donate to some place, they'll take it with you, take

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it for you. Because I had some things I wanted

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to I didn't want to put it on the jump out,

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and I said, do you all do anything about you know,

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because Salvation Army and Goodwill have become very finicky since

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twenty twenty, you can't just donate anything to them anymore.

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So I was like, they were like, what would you like,

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I say, donating to I said, I don't know anybody

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that would take furniture, anybody that would take paintings, any

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place that will take this, you know, slightly use this

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many things. I threw away and then such good ideas.

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Thank you. Think you can't catch you see?

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You know?

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Yeah, and then I had to call pro Shred Orlando

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because normally our sheriff department and our police department quarterly

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off of that event to shred your stuff. Well, the

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next up was the police department, but Milton hit so

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they postponed it.

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They didn't come back out with a new day. I'm

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sitting here, I'm looking at it.

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I said, okay, so I said, let me just look

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and I googled and God said there called him. It's

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pro shred. This guy came out, even though he went

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past the house while we were waving cock. We gave

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it the rogue adjudges. But my daughter limped down to

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them because she was having some trouble problems with her knee.

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Thank gosh, what she just came from the emergency room. There's

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a spring, but they're fine, they're wrapping it. Thank you Jesus.

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Just get off of it for a minute. And he

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came back. He said, oh, it won't. I said, well, sir,

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you know, the truck is really blocking and the neighbor

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across the street they're parked this way. He's parked this

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way and I'm like, there's no room for cars to

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get but they made they got through and he said, oh,

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it won't take long. He took our forty foot garbage bags,

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dumped it in his little cam thing, dumped another one,

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rented the truck.

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Barah came back up the trip.

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I said, that wasn't even two minutes. It was done.

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He was gone, paid him. It was reasonable to me

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because it took that. It took that off of my shoulders,

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because what am I to do. I don't have people

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moving stuff. I don't have a moving truck. Amen. So

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I told I'm giving y'all shout outs because I'm a

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lawyer and when you treat me and my family, well,

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I will let you know. And we got this platform.

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Any co host can do that, even rebel, you could

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do that. Give shoutouts on here because we have to

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let people know how much we are grateful and we're thankful.

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So we're done. Now we have to do is go

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sweep up, and I'm leaving the key and the garage

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door opener and saying, see y'all, I wouldn't want to

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be no. See, yeah, it's been seven years. It's time

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to go. It's time to go.

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Interesting number of seven years.

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Ah, I said, you've conquered the neighborhood, now go, now go.

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And the things we put out on the grass, Oh no, oh,

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I can't even tell you about that. The things we

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just put out there. I mean my shoes, I mean

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just stopped shoe boxes. People actually stopped, just took it,

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just took it. The laws are clean, and they're clean

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into less than twenty four hours. It's amazing to me.

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A gentleman stopped by and he said, you know you

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have any more things, any more good things in there?

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And I said, no, this is all jump. He said okay.

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He said, well you've been putting out some good stuff.

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I said, well, okay, thank you, but I need to

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vent for a minute, and then we're gonna Pastor's gonna

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take over with the show. I don't understand why people

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take godly people for granted. I don't know why people

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are not scared of God, especially when they know your faith,

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they know your walk, they know what you've been through.

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And that's one of those questions. I think I'm gonna

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stop asking it after tonight, because that would probably be

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a question I should ask at the gate. But I'm

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not gonna be concerned about that. I just want to

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see the three people have been wanting to talk to

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for a minute. But I don't understand why people don't

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fear God. They treat you any kind of way. People

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owe me money. Let me just be wrong here, very

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transparent people owe me money. Some have promisory notes, some

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just I'm taking your word and we got, you know,

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a chat and texting chat when you can say two

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things to me which I cannot stand one I've text

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you and you tell me a day later. Oh, I

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didn't see your message to me. That makes no sense

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to me. This weekend, we watched I watched people get

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out of home, go in and out of home depot

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and everybody young, old, every ethnic group, every age group,

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short people, tall people, white people, skinny people, everybody, new mothers,

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brand new mothers, eight children, and okay, everybody carries their

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phone in their hand. Everybody. Now, there's a gadget where

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you can click on your belt, you can click it

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on your skirt, you could click it. You could click

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it on the outside of your purse if you want to.

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This pocket's in your handbag for your cell phone. Everybody,

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I watched in and out, in and out carry their

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phone you could. Was it easy to leave after seven years, Yes, Anastasia.

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This time of year people are more, it seems. Oh yeah,

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oh yeah. They're not being picky at all. They ain't

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being picky at all. I was trying to dust the

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stuff off. I was let me clean it up. Oh Jesus,

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So it didn't matter what they gonna think about. It's

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a little dusty, Okay, I don't care. I was like, okay,

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I don't understand that, because that's more insulting to me.

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I would rather you tell me the truth. Text it

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to me. You don't have to talk to me. You

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don't have to look at me in my face, because

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my God already knows what you're doing and what you're

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going to do. He's just waiting to see if you're

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gonna really play it out because he already knows what's

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going on up here, so he's waiting to see what's

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coming out here or what your behavior is gonna be.

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But you rather just, you know, turn your back to me.

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I want to say this, and I'm not talking to

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anybody on this platform because of the people who are

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doing this. They're not watching this. They don't look at

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the show. They don't support us that way. I don't

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care what you feel or how you feel about me.

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I don't care because ILL straight to God. He's he's

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my protector. He is the judge, he's the lawyer, he's

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the executioner. He's the teacher, he's a guidance counselor. He

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is my everything. You need to fear him, not me,

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because I told my God daughter today, I don't have

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a heaven or a hell. I don't owe any of

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those properties. I can tell you how to go to

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either one, but I don't own it. So cut it off.

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The world is ending. You're gonna need the favor of

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God for every aspect of every walk of life until

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you take your last breath. Cut it out, because he

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will defend me. He will, And if you've known me

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for over ten twelve years, I'm gonna be doing going

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love his mercury retrograde. Letting go, Yes, And I'm telling you,

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you feel so relieved. The only thing let me go

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back down the station for a minute, the only thing

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that I had to. I teared up about my parents'

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studio of a console stereo. I'm talking about it. Was

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older than me. I've carried it to this point for

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twenty three years that i've lived here. Only I've had

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it for all of my life, so that's fifty four.

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I've had it all my life. A leen In didn't

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have a TV in it, and TV not that one.

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Not that one.

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Only radio and that had the little pocket for the albums.

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And because I've been watching pond Stars, I figured I'd

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get to Las Vegas and try to get some of

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Andy Andy, Lawrence Welke and Andy Williams, some of those

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that was one of my mother's favorites, believe it or not.

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So I still had some of those albums, believe it

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or not.

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I have albums, okay, and I you know, I had

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to have the junk sharp people take it because I

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have no room for it. And so of course it

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brings back flooded memories of me being in the living

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room and I'm you know, that's my testimony. It's part

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of my testimony.

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I said, and I just read in Shape magazine that

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if you go and put oxygen to the brace, so

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you get to move around a little bit, exercise a

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little bit, your memory and help your memory. I went

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out to the living room and I cut I was

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dassing to the Jackson five, you know, particularly like that

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was part of the group and the Silvers and cooling

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the gang, and I had all the songs and I'm

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just going and I did for an hour and about no,

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by forty five minutes of an hour, I was going,

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I'm busted a little sweat. I said, Okay, I know

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it's oxygen up there now, because I'm sweating. I went

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back and nothing, couldn't retain anything, and I bust out

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crimes and Jesus, if you're real, okay, you please help

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me talk about me. All know my testimony. So anyway,

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but yeah, I teared up a little bit because it's

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got memories and it's.

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it go because I had no room for it. And

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it doesn't it was brown, that old fashion.

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But George, I hope you kept those albums there you go, George.

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I got I got them. I got them. I got

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a whole pile of them. I said, oh no, they're

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coming with me. They come with me. I'm gonna get

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to Las Vegas to the pawn Star show and I'm

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on the show trying to see how much my albums

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are worth. So but anyway, but other than that stage,

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I was fine. I you know, it was it's time

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when God tells you and he's speaking to you, and

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he said, I need you to go down. You need

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to go. Not take your time moving, but I need

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you to go now. And everything fell into place. Everything

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fell into place, so and all the kids are here now.

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I didn't know what she was going through, but dogs

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go through anxiety. I did not realize that. She realized

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BJ wasn't coming to you know, he was supposed to

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be getting off at seven in the morning and feeding

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her and taking her outside and stuff, and that was

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not happening. And it's like, okay, it's just you two here,

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where's everybody else? And I could tell and she goes.

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then we took her to the vet and the vet said,

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did you anything new happened? I said, well, we moved

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part of us did, And she said that's she's she's anxious,

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and sure enough, she's been happy. She goes and smells everybody,

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She detects everybody's room, and she gives us the okay,

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we're good. So the other thing is people need to

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be very careful of how you treat God's free bottom line,

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we need to be careful, and they need to be

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careful treating you any kind of way. You can no

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longer let people mistreat you, talk to you any kind

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of way. You're God's child. You're God's child. He chose you.

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I don't feel sorry for any of them anymore because

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you made yourself my enemy. But guess what, God already

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knew what you were gonna do. He's just watching us

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to play this out. He already knew, so cut it out,

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cut it out. I went through some of these last

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couple of days and I said, God, oh all right almost.

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I don't talk about going to Heaven much. I don't

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talk about that because I know I'm going. But when

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it gets to the point where I'm like, okay, you

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know what this next round, I'm gone. I don't want

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to come back because this is these These people are

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Google for Coco Puffs and I'm insulting the Coco Puffs Cereal. Okay,

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stop it. I'd rather you tell me the truth. Hey,

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I don't have it. I have it in two weeks.

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One person says to me, oh, well all other things

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are finished. Then you know when other things are finished

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you Tomorrow's my promise to us. You the one told

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me God told you to give it to me, and

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I look up regards they blaming you again. He said, yeah,

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but this time I'll take it from here. I surrendered,

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And let me tell you, going on a fast lots

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is revealed not only within yourself but for everybody around you, everybody.

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I'm about to end it on Friday, but oh, I

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don't know how much boy's gonna be revealed. But when God,

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I text the last person and God said, just tell

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them in the tech, I'll take it from here. I

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didn't even feel sorry for him. Didn't because I give

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out of the goodness of my heart. I check with

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God first. If he okays it, or if he says no,

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it's done, it's done. So thank you all for listening

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and letting me vent let you. That's that ten percent

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human I'm telling it. Sometimes it's hard to dial it back,

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but I don't want to be I don't want it

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to be erupting. I don't want to be boiling lava

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underneath that because if somebody tags on me again, it

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comes things are gonna come out. If to hurt your feelings,

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And all I can do is look at yourself. I'm

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I'm I said, ooh. I can't even say I'm sorry

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because that's what I was feeling. But it's comforting when

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God could tell you I'll take it from here for me,

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because I know what that means, and he's telling me,

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don't you worry about this. In my favorite scripture songs

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eighty one and six, I'll remove your shoulder from.

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The burden, and for your hands from the pots passed

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to take it away.

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Well, it's kind of interesting that I was prepared for

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this day.

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And yesterday I had the privilege of delivering the message

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that the Lord put in my heart.

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As a matter of fact, that I received a phone

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call last Wednesday and I was asked to speak at

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a church on Sunday yesterday. So I had to prepare

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in a matter of three days. And I have to

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tell you, for three days, I did not sleep. When

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you're doing the work with the Lord, you don't sleep

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because you don't want to miss anything that the Holy

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Spirit has to say.

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But you know, we're approaching the thing Thanksgiving holiday, and

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I basically wrote it.

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a sermon and I had, as I mentioned in our

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pre show, that the title of the sermon was thankful

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for everything, and when we say thankful for everything, we're

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kind of leaving a gap.

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And the Holy Spirit revealed that to me, and the

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Holy Spirit said, if you're on this earth, no matter

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what transfires on this earth, we must be thankful. So

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the Holy Spirit led me to change the title and say,

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I need to be thankful in everything, and Country Sea,

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I agree with you. You say you don't feel people

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are being thankful, and you're absolutely right. And to me,

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it all boils down to what people know. And that's

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why the Bible gives us many different examples of what

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we should be thankful for. And one of those things

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that I wrote is that in the Old Testament.

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The thanksgiving is closely tied to to bless and in Hebrew,

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thanks or thinking is tied into what the.

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Old Testament was talking about. In a New Testament, thanksgiving

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is tied to the concept of grace, now when I

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say grace. One thing that I have thought from what

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I've learned, is that when we receive a blessing, the

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blessing's not for us. We seem to think that the

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blessings for us, But the blessing comes when you give,

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and that's the act of the blessing. And I in

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the message, I wrote down that praising God is the

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activity of God's creatures in honoring God. The example I

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use is everything that we see that grows, trees, grass, flowers,

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it grows upward, like when we raise our hands to

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thank God. That's the creation thanking God, honoring God. So

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what about potatoes, what about carrots that grow in the ground, Well,

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the tops of those vegetables have flowers that go up

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and praising God. And this is where we have to

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understand that thanksgiving is an expression of gratitude of God.

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But we also have to be understanding we have to

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look at this through a kingdom pair of eyes. When

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we're thankful in everything, we have to be thankful for

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the good, the bad, and the ugly. If you look

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at the history books of how thanksgiving came about. According

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to Abraham Lincoln, and I've got the quote here that

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the American people should take some time for gratitude. When

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he stated this, America was in the middle of civil war.

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This is why we have to understand we must be

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thankful in everything. In Psalms ninety five, verses one and two,

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David writes, Oh, come, let us sing to the Lord.

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Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of ourself. Let

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us come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let us shout

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joyfully to him with Psalms. You know, it's very easy

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to praise God when things are going well, everything is

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going smooth, we no issues. Very easy to praise God

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for what happens when you're faced with a challenge or

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better said, we all go through seasons. If you look

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at the Book of Ecclesiastes, chapter three, there's a season

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for everything, and yeah, the earth goes through four seasons,

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but we go through over twenty eight of them. And

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what we have to understand is that when we go

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through these seasons, it's not because God is punishing us.

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God is preparing us for the next level. When you're

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facing these challenges, how do you expect to grow If

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you don't improve yourself to the next level? How can

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you improve if the challenge, if the season you're going through,

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you don't overcome it. Many people stay stuck in where

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they are because they listen to the devil. And the

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devil is a liar when he tells you that you

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can't do this because you don't have the skills, you

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don't have the ability, And that's a lie. God didn't

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put you on this earth just to go through the motions. No,

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God puts you on this earth with a purpose, not

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your purpose, his purpose. This is where we all Yes,

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miss Gray.

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Can I just interject here that what has tickled me

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the most in my journey is I'll talk to you

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in a minute, because she's got the Okay, Okay, it's good.

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What's tickled me the most is that which I desired

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in was what he already planted in me. So the

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closer I got to him, he was just peeling that layer.

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He's just taking that blinder, that scale of my eyes.

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I'm like, oh my goodness, I am going from a

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predominantly black elementary school to predominate white elementary school. And

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I'm the loudest person. So they always named me the

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captain because I was the loudest. And here it is

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years later, I'm on a podcast. I'm an actress. I

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have to get the motivation. So don't be surprised. If

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you love to put color, you could go and just

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you look at a room and they're like this, this

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looks so dray. You need a splash. This is a

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splash back. Where do you think that came from? And

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you went to nobody's school. Look at your babies. I

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tell new moms, watch the baby's gonna tell you. My

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baby boy took the pots and paths. I was rabbling

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on what does he do today? As it is both

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it's not his full time job, but he makes beats.

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The theme of this show. He made it. That's his music.

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We got the copyright. So I just want just don't

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be surprised, because I mean, I know you walk around.

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Oh I love this, Oh I love this. Oh I'm

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good at this. Where do you think it came from?

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He said, what I knew you before your mother's womb

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knew you. Thank you, sir.

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And that's and and here's here's here's the part. Here's

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the part in Colossians chapter four versus two. And I'm

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just going to go to two and three continue earnestly

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in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving meanwhile praying

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also for us. And just to let you know, this

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is the apostle Paul and Silas. And then it'll tell

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you where they are when he says that God would

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open the door to us for the word to speak

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the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains.

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This is the apostle Paul providing the Gospel, providing the

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Word of life. And the man is in jail. And

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here is the part where we have to understand that

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Paul is in a physical jail. But we sometimes put

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our selves into jail. Now what do I mean by them?

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Sometimes when we are praying and we don't get an

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answer from God, we then step in and we start

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making this decisions that we have no authority to make.

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Let me give you an example. There was a time

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where my season was so bad. I said to myself,

460
00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:23.359
need something to distract me. So do I begin smoking

461
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:31.000
again or do I begin drinking? Is that the most

462
00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:37.160
foolish thing that you can hear? I was going to

463
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:42.200
let me pick the lesser up to evils. Come on, now, really,

464
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:50.799
how foolish was I? But we have to understand we're

465
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gonna be facing these challenges, these seasons of life. And

466
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like I said earlier, we're going we are getting prepared

467
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to get to the next level. So when we were

468
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in school and we were taking tests, how often did

469
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the teacher just blurt out the answer? They didn't, They

470
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were silent. This is where you got to see how

471
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far you grew, how much you've learned. When Jesus is silent,

472
00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:41.119
it's because it's your turn to take the test to

473
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move up to the next level. This is why Jesus

474
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is silent. He wants to see how much you've learned,

475
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how much you've grown. And these are the opportunities we

476
00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:01.880
need to say. Okay, Lord, you're allowing this to happen.

477
00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:06.480
What do I need to learn from this? How can

478
00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:16.559
I glorify you in this body as I overcome this season.

479
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You're You're not here just to pass the time. So

480
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this is why we have to understand we just can't

481
00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:40.880
go to God in the middle of the emergency. We

482
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have to prepare. We have to have an intimate relationship

483
00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:58.039
with Christ. Absolutely.

484
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See, well, people tell when they are in need rather

485
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than in good time.

486
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That's correct, that that's correct. But here's the thing. As

487
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I was saying, I have an incredible relationship with my wife.

488
00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:21.159
It's not because I was seeking it. It's because God

489
00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:25.480
put it in me. But the only way he puts

490
00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:28.360
it in me is if I have a relationship, a

491
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one on one with Christ. Because when He gives me

492
00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:40.119
that love, I turn around and I give it to

493
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my wife. This is why I'm thankful for the woman

494
00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:52.840
that He puts aside me during this part of my journey,

495
00:35:53.920 --> 00:36:01.480
because I'm not letting the challenges take over me. Last week,

496
00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:03.920
I told were my wife and I are doing this

497
00:36:04.039 --> 00:36:10.800
devotional and it's a powerful devotional. And I and and

498
00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:13.679
and the Lord led me. The Lord spoke to me

499
00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:26.039
and he said, Miguel, you're approaching life incorrectly. Incorrectly. Yes,

500
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you're my child. I've got your back. The enemy hates me,

501
00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:43.880
so you know he's going to attack you to discredit you.

502
00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:49.760
So be ready for it. And the only way you're

503
00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:53.480
going to be ready for it is being is through

504
00:36:53.679 --> 00:37:00.199
my word. So now my approach in life is Okay,

505
00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:05.440
where's the attack coming, What direction is the attack coming?

506
00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:08.079
Because you want to know what Whatever you want to

507
00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:12.719
give me is minuscule compared to my God.

508
00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:20.159
My God is bigger, My God is stronger, My God

509
00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:28.480
is wiser, So why do I have to take control?

510
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:37.000
When He created me, he knows my problems, he knows

511
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:41.400
what people He's going to be putting in my path

512
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:46.800
to overcome that issue. But then I get in the

513
00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:54.239
way because I'm trying to think for God. Boy, it's

514
00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:58.320
that a mistake. You go to Isaiah and you read

515
00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:06.480
it very clearly. Your way are not my ways. The

516
00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:11.960
way you think, it's not the way I think. So

517
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:16.880
how do we overcome the constant pressures of this fallen world?

518
00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:23.320
And it's the attitude of persistence and perseverance in priv

519
00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:29.639
before it happens, during the time it's happening, and after

520
00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:33.639
it's happening. You're thanking God before the problem. You're thanking

521
00:38:33.679 --> 00:38:36.119
God during the problem. And you're going to say, thank

522
00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:38.760
you Jesus for getting me out of this problem.

523
00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:47.559
Yes, Lord, teach teacher, because what you're doing is you're thinking, Jesus, now.

524
00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:55.239
You're in control. I don't want it anymore. I don't

525
00:38:55.280 --> 00:39:00.159
want it anymore because when you're wanting to be in control, oh,

526
00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:01.079
you're telling.

527
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:07.760
God on God. And that's a mistake. That's the mistake.

528
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:13.000
Do you want to know why that's a mistake? And

529
00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:20.760
I hope you got your seat. Thoughts on God created you?

530
00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:26.679
You didn't create you, And I'm gonna go deeper on

531
00:39:26.719 --> 00:39:31.199
that because when God created you, he didn't say, miss Gray,

532
00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:37.320
what kind of personality do you want? Hey, Trey, what

533
00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:41.760
do you think? What do you think would work for you?

534
00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:42.119
No?

535
00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:56.679
He designed each one individually for his purpose. This is

536
00:39:56.719 --> 00:40:02.559
the stuff that we have to say, Wait a minute,

537
00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:06.400
something out of this is going to happen and God's

538
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:11.719
going to get the glory. So how do I move

539
00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:20.519
to the next level? And it's real simple, silence and

540
00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:25.719
be guided. The Bible was written to guide us, to

541
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help us understand the characteristics of God. And the reason

542
00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:38.840
why he wants us to know his characteristics is this.

543
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God is love. You're going through a challenge. It's not

544
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because God is angry at you. He loves you so

545
00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:56.119
much that He wants you to overcome that challenge so

546
00:40:56.159 --> 00:41:00.480
you can move to the next level when you're as

547
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:03.960
enough parent, I can't tell you how many times I've

548
00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:07.559
had to correct my children. It wasn't because I hated

549
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:18.079
my children, because I love them. Solomon and Proverbs wrote,

550
00:41:18.440 --> 00:41:28.519
spare the rod, hate the child. That's a profound verse

551
00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:33.639
because you just don't let your kids do something that's

552
00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:36.239
gonna hurt them. No, they want to do it, you

553
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:40.559
know better. You're taking over the situation saying no, I

554
00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:47.239
don't want you to get hurt. And this is where

555
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we have to understand that when things are bad, it's

556
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because there's a lesson behind it. God doesn't do things

557
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:06.960
happen heartedly. No, he does it completely fully to perfection.

558
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But what about the ugly that I mentioned? Thanksgiving can

559
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be ugly. My wife and I beginning from Thanksgiving Thanksgiving,

560
00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:30.360
her father passed away in December twenty second, my mother

561
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:34.480
passed away. January first, my father passed away, and on

562
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January sixth, my mother passed away. I can't tell you

563
00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:43.079
I'm not a big fan of the holidays because everything

564
00:42:43.119 --> 00:42:49.320
that transpired. But it's okay because I'm not in control.

565
00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:52.440
I am thankful that they were in my life and

566
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:58.280
got me to where I am. So I have to.

567
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Give God the glory for allowing me to be in

568
00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:09.159
their lives and as well them being in my life.

569
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And I'm gonna end it with this. We all have

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to understand and going back to Ecclesiastes, there's to everything

571
00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:28.519
there is a season. This is Ecclesiastes three, verses one

572
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and two. To everything, there's a season, a time for

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00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:41.000
every purpose under heaven. Okay, please keep that in mind,

574
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because improverb Ecclesiastes too, it says a time to be

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born and a time to die. So death really should

576
00:43:56.760 --> 00:44:03.039
not surprise us because it's going on happen. But here's

577
00:44:03.079 --> 00:44:06.880
the part that I really want us to understand. If

578
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:14.719
you go to Romans eight twenty eight, and we know

579
00:44:16.639 --> 00:44:23.880
that all things, okay, not some things, not things every

580
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:31.559
other day, No, all things work together. To those who

581
00:44:31.639 --> 00:44:39.559
love God, by you, loving God, by you, loving God,

582
00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:46.280
He's gonna take all of those painful, hurtful, bad situations,

583
00:44:46.679 --> 00:44:54.679
and he's gonna turn it for good, not ours, not ours,

584
00:44:56.400 --> 00:45:05.960
his good to those whose who are called according Here's

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00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:14.719
what is his purpose, his purpose? Not Amen.

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So we have to be thankful in everything and not

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00:45:21.239 --> 00:45:26.360
for everything, because this is how we grow, and in

588
00:45:26.639 --> 00:45:30.559
our as we grow, we're being prepared for heaven.

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Then Amen. And now we have the challenge out there,

590
00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:42.960
and a few folks that I shared this with that

591
00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:49.000
we were doing have also joined us. Out of Tennessee, Knoxville,

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00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:55.960
a church that I mentor they're taking on blessing two

593
00:45:56.000 --> 00:46:01.119
people each this week. All I was just talking about

594
00:46:01.199 --> 00:46:06.599
was the show and my fabulous viewers, and they were like, Oh,

595
00:46:06.599 --> 00:46:08.880
we want a party that can we can we participate

596
00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:09.159
in that?

597
00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:09.800
Sure?

598
00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:13.480
And I'm wondering. Then God took me the Psalms chapter

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00:46:13.559 --> 00:46:19.320
forty one. Blessed is he that considereth the poor. The

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00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:25.000
Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord

601
00:46:25.079 --> 00:46:29.239
will preserve him and keep him alive. And he should

602
00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:31.000
be blessed upon the earth.

603
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And thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of

604
00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:42.440
his enemies. So everywhere God has a little just like

605
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:47.119
Pastor just said that he has. You know, God, he's

606
00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:49.280
just not going to just do stuff will and nilly,

607
00:46:49.400 --> 00:46:51.199
and it's okay to ask God.

608
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:54.159
A lot of people struggle with that. I don't want

609
00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:55.880
to ask him for anything. I don't want to.

610
00:46:55.880 --> 00:46:57.679
And I used to be like, well, I don't want

611
00:46:57.679 --> 00:46:59.079
to ask God to get me out of the.

612
00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:01.679
Trouble that I kind of got myself into. I talked

613
00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:05.280
myself into. I said too much. But that's what he's

614
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:11.800
waiting on. That's me, try me and see it. And

615
00:47:11.840 --> 00:47:15.519
now I'm at a point in my life, y'all I

616
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:19.360
don't decide nothing. I don't give it another thought. I said,

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00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:21.639
what you want me to do with that? Sometimes gods

618
00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:30.239
that don't bring that to me, what just like they're

619
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:32.400
going to be so blessed when they don't they do it?

620
00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:36.519
And I know it changed me. Oh country, see, Oh

621
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:39.360
God bless you, God bless you here too. It made

622
00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:43.800
a difference in me. Amen. Amen, because we do what

623
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:48.280
we sacrificed. We took no thought of ourselves. We just

624
00:47:48.320 --> 00:47:50.239
put up. We say, hey, we want to do God,

625
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:52.079
what you want us to do? This? This is your world.

626
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:55.079
I know the devil says thinks the old stuff, But

627
00:47:55.239 --> 00:47:59.599
we're your people. We're listening for you where you at.

628
00:48:02.360 --> 00:48:05.199
And people are gonna be blessed this week, even more so,

629
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:10.199
even more so. That's only said. You all decided. We

630
00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:16.679
just blessed two people. However that's gonna look. However, that's

631
00:48:16.679 --> 00:48:19.440
gonna look. Tray and get up in here. We only

632
00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:22.960
got a couple of minutes, but come on up here. Well,

633
00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:23.760
I'm gonna.

634
00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:26.800
Say this quick because I had it and you two,

635
00:48:26.840 --> 00:48:29.559
I tell you dynamic, but I wanted to kind of

636
00:48:29.880 --> 00:48:33.519
say something in regarding to you, Ms Gray when you

637
00:48:33.599 --> 00:48:38.880
talked about people testing God's children, and I've heard it

638
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:41.880
so many times because you know, I have a friend

639
00:48:41.920 --> 00:48:44.440
that she's been walking in faith for a long time.

640
00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:47.639
You know, she's a child of God, and people would

641
00:48:47.679 --> 00:48:51.239
try her, you know, and when we were working together,

642
00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:54.639
people would cuss her, and so she wasn't a cuss her.

643
00:48:55.280 --> 00:48:57.440
And I think what they were trying to do is

644
00:48:57.519 --> 00:48:59.679
find there it is. I knew you weren't like you

645
00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:02.320
said that you were because they called it religious. I

646
00:49:02.360 --> 00:49:05.800
knew it was something. And they were always finding something

647
00:49:05.880 --> 00:49:11.000
to tie into a person who believe a believer and

648
00:49:11.039 --> 00:49:13.760
they said, this person's supposed to be in the church,

649
00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:17.159
or really changed when you help another person. Yes, it

650
00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:20.599
does in the stage, so looking for things to like

651
00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:22.000
the other.

652
00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:22.119
Shoe to drop.

653
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Let me see if you who you say you are,

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and let me see if your God is who he

655
00:49:26.079 --> 00:49:29.679
says he is. And so, and I think that's the test.

656
00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:33.079
Pastor you said something about test. That's the test because

657
00:49:33.079 --> 00:49:35.039
people will try you. They're going to try that flesh,

658
00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:37.320
like you were saying, Miss Gray, the ten percent of

659
00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:39.559
your flesh, I think I got.

660
00:49:39.480 --> 00:49:41.119
A little more flesh out there.

661
00:49:41.400 --> 00:49:43.920
I'm working on me, but I'm getting there.

662
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:47.599
I am getting there because I want to do better.

663
00:49:47.719 --> 00:49:49.920
I want to do God's purpose and be in his

664
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:52.800
word and follow what he's saying and so and I've

665
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:56.880
also learned one thing these past few months. Be anxious

666
00:49:56.880 --> 00:50:00.360
for nothing. You mean, be anxious for nothing. And so

667
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:03.960
I've learned that. And I'm living in God is great.

668
00:50:04.039 --> 00:50:06.840
I praise him do the good, the bad, and the ugly.

669
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And I tell you he's showing up and showing out.

670
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And I'm just encouragement to other people just stay in it,

671
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:18.960
just stay in it and come on the show and listen.

672
00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:20.880
And I'm learning from his great and I'm learning from

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00:50:20.920 --> 00:50:24.760
Pastor and I'm walking in faith. Really, I'm walking in faith.

674
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And I have this testimony. One day it's gonna come out.

675
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So I'm waiting. I'm putting it together, all right. So guys,

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that's our time. Get to the assignment, do your homework.

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We will see you next Monday, same time, same station.

678
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Happy things.

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I want to get the confetti to come down with

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something