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FOURCY Radio. Well, good evening, good evening, and welcome to another

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exciting place of dialogue and safety and
conversation, especially after a big holiday.

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Good evening, Good evening, and
welcome to another segment of setting it Straight

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with Missus Gray and her fabulous co
hosts. I tray tray from all the

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way. How are you wonderful?
How was everybody today? I'm well,

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I'm well and pastor how are you
doing? Are you doing? I'm doing

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doing real well? Had me going
there, Miss Gray? Good job?

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Amen. Well, anyway, let's
praise Father God. We just thank you,

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and we praise you, we give
you glory, for you alone are

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worthy to be praised. We thank
you, Father God, for your love,

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your saving, grace and your mercy. Lord. Please, there's so

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many people that have passed away in
the last two weeks since we were last

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on the air, and there are
people right now and to the sound of

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my voice, that are transitioning.
Father God, please be with the family.

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Please be with everybody. Please,
this is Please Lord, help them

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to take heed to the sign and
the time and the hour that we are

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in right now that there's no weapon
formed against us that shall prosper, but

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the weapons shall form. Father God, we just thank you and we praise

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you for the understanding and the discernment
and the wisdom and the knowledge, your

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mercy, your grace, your peace, your faithfulness, your unforgiveness, your

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forgetfulness, and your love for us. You're enduring love. Now be with

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us tonight. This is your show, your son and daughters. We love

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you, We praise you, We
listen to you. Have your way,

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set your captives free. We're gonna
get behind the cross and let you take

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the lead. In Jesus name,
we pray, Amen and amen and amen.

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Yes, it's been uh, it's
been a horrowing. We can uh

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just received the call. Actually actually
believes he is on our way home.

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But uh they you know, people
are actively transitioning, they're they're leaving,

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and people are making way for them
to do and families are trying to understand

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and wrap their heads around things.
So this is a let's talk session tonight,

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y'all. This you know, uh, we need to hear. We

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were really concerned about our viewers,
and uh, God laid it on all

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our hearts actually simultaneously. Uh we
we really didn't plan it, but we

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always play, you know, get
together and we talk about the next show

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and the topics, and we all
we all three just chimed in and said

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at the same time, we need
to talk to our listeners and make sure

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that they're okay. So I don't
know who will be joining us tonight,

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but we'll definitely, you know,
stop and acknowledge them. But I just

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want to say that I just listed
here in Florida, this is hurricane no

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sales tax, hurricane items and supplies
here in Florida. From the first through

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the fourteenth, I've been encouraging people
who I have, people who are on

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my pages from other states, go
and ask your counting if you're if the

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same thing is going on with you
all you need to go and you need

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to know, you need to be
practicing your drills. You need to realize

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are you in a flood zone.
If you are, do you know where

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you should evacuate to. Don't wait
till the last minute, because people are

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people are leaving this earth, and
people are not prepared for it in any

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way shape or form, insurance wise. People are going there three or four

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go fund me accounts trying to raise
enough money just to try to bury or

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have a conversation with a funeral not
even trying to bury them. Yet.

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You got to walk in there with
set money already in place, not a

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promise give me two weeks. No
so. But going back to the hurricane

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list, you know, doing inventory, You should have been doing an inventory

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in March April. Are you do
you need new do you need batteries?

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Do you need new batteries? Do
you need flashlights? Do you you know

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what? Do you need? You
need camping material? You know whatever?

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Right now, there's no sales tax
on that stuff here in uh Orlando,

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here in Florida. I tried something
with some walkie talkies UH in my cart

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or Amazon, and I had to
go through four people that still capful saying,

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well, we don't understand, but
you don't understand. I just need

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to know if you're going to honor
the no sales tax. Are clearly an

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item that is deemed hurricane you know, supplier equipment, and they could I

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just hung up on them, So
I said, that's okay. I'll go

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to an in person store to go
get what I need, getting your waters,

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getting your you know, stocking up
on the non perishables. But check

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the dates. You know. It's
just things that we need folks to be

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prepared. And a lot of times
people are not prepared, and we don't

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know what's going to happen, and
you don't know the day of the hour,

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and we keep telling you, keep
reciting that, and then yet you

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know, things creep up on you. Several stores restaurants have closed since we

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last spoke here, and there's some
more of us getting ready to close.

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I don't know where the employees are
going to find work, you know,

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And and the traffic is getting was
there's more road rage. People are angry

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and they're speeding and driving on the
sidewalk along the edge of the road to

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get by to get to some place
I don't know. I don't know.

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We got to be safe and careful
that you know, you got to,

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you just got to. I don't
know. We already told you that the

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it is here, and we don't
know on what side it's gonna hit.

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We don't know who, what,
when where, We don't know. But

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now we got whether we got to
contend with, which is totally unexpected.

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Yet last night the meteorologists was like, well, there may be some rain

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today. Maybe Wait a minute,
wait a minute. You have charged the

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citizens of Orange County all this money
to have the state of the art Doppler

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and all these other meteorologic you're gonna
equipment to be able to, you know,

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sound the alarm, and you can't
tell me if may rain tomorrow today

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And it didn't. But they weren't
even sure. And I understand earthquake he

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Hawaii or part of Hawaii over the
weekend. You know, it's just little

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things like that. So guys,
you all come on in and chime in

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and say say some things. And
I'm gonna I'm gonna go to go SILD

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for a minute. Oh hey,
cut You see strange they can't tell us

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what the weather's going to do.
Amen. Amen. Well, I have

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to agree with you, Miss Gray. You definitely touched on on some key

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points. And the first point that
you brought up, and I think is

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very important, is that this show
is really about the listeners today and really

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opening up the line of communications so
we can be able to hear what the

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listeners are thinking about. What are
some of their concerns. Why, you

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know, what kind of questions do
they have that they're kind of needing a

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little guidance on. I just read
this morning that a volcano actually erupted in

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Hawaii that hasn't erupted since nineteen seventy
four. So these are those birthing pangs

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that Matthew twenty four talked about that
we have to be ready for. We

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also have to be diligent with what
the Lord has given us. If the

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Lord has given us a house,
given us an apartment, given us automobile,

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we have to be good stewards of
those gifts that the Lord has given

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us. And part of that also
is that when He blesses us with life,

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what do we do with this life
to prepare in the event that something

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does come up? How do we
respond? The nice thing about hurricanes is

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that they give you enough warnings to
kind of pay attention. But a tornado

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doesn't give you warning. It shows
up. And if you're not hunkered down

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when you see dark clouds and hearing
thunderstorms, the tornadoes are are ruthless.

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They do not give you enough time
to prepare, like hurricane. So this

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is that time of year where you
really have to be, as I like

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to say, have your head on
a swivel because you just really don't understand

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what's what's going on? Wow,
And there you go. That's that's that.

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Those are some tough signs, some
tough times too, because you go

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through that and now you have not
only do you have to recover from what

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happened, now you also have to
recover emotionally of what transpired. So really

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really a lot of a lot of
things that we have to be aware of

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right now. So what I was
going to chime in on, as well

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as preparing for the hurricane, just
finding out making sure you have flood insurance.

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That's whether if your car gets flooded
out, does is it going to

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be paid for? If your house? You know, just just try to

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find out some of those things and
also taking pictures of your valuables and your

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home for insurance purposes and zip lock
bagging or bagging up protecting things that are

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important documents, so security cards,
birth certificates, you know, things of

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that nature, so you can have
them, you know, because sometimes in

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the heat of you're not thinking about
what you know, what you're going to

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do next, and coolers and and
things of that nature, and and maybe

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your list of resources in preparation of
where you can go and get some of

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these things. And somehow, you
know, they have some very clever ideas

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even feeling ut the bath to filling
up the washer with ice so that you

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can kind of preserve things, you
know, charcoal maybe later on, you

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know, down the road, because
if your stuff goes bad the power goes

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out, at least you can grill
some of the food so it won't go

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to waste. But just just you
know, being mindful of having important numbers

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back up, you know, things
of that nature. Yeah, planning is

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not gonna hurt, can you all
hear me? Yes? Okay, yeah,

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planning, you got the I mean
the planning time. It's kind of

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past. You need to be doing
this month's back. But you know,

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I know, you're doing life and
life is doing you and everything else.

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And I know that the least thing
you're thinking about is well, last year

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we and I heard this many years
in a row, Well last year we

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didn't. You know, it didn't
bothers. I'm gonna stay right here here

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in Florida, on the on the
for the little areas and homes that are

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on the beachlines. Those folks have
been there forever. They're used to erosion

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and everything else. And all of
a sudden, you know, between tornadoes

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and hurricanes, I mean and bad
weather, just nasty weather and strong winds,

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it took out the whole sad thing. It just took a where they

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can't even repair their house. You
could see underneath the house and everything.

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So it's you know, it doesn't
hurt. The family was not really ready

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to pay the higher flood insurant,
yes, but with the golf ball size

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sized hall hail, it's pushing them
towards getting it. Oh wow, Hi

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in Nesta, thank you. Wow. Yeah. And then high costs inflation

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everywhere. You know, you can't
go and get decent and you gotta you

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know, grocery, I mean,
you know you better go when you can

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go, get by one, get
one really free, not half off,

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you know, and stuff like that. So I don't know. Guys,

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we have to stay prayer for we
have to trust in God, we have

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to stay watchful. We're going to
do our best, but we want to

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hear from you all. Are you
all okay out there? I'm talking Country

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see misty on this says yea,
And I'm sorry I'm mispronouncing your name,

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but this is for you all tonight. We just want you to talk to

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us and make sure we don't have
to give us go to deep but you

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know, just give us a thumbs
up or hey, we're hanging in there,

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we're okay, or hey, I
was wondering, you know, what

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would you do in a case like
this, or you know, so please

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feel free to you know, we're
trying to We're going to try to read

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anything that's in there that comes up
so best we can so far. Okay,

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Country, See I understand, Well, you do it and you make

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it work. You make it work, You make it work, and then

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you course correct when you see things
are not going the way that it should.

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That's gonna produce a decent outcome.
Decent not perfect, because there's no

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such thing as a perfect outcome,
but a decent one that we can all

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live with. And if it's not
gonna go that way, you need the

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course correct. I just turned told
someone, a colleague of mine, I

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think it was over the weekend.
You know, he kept over talking me,

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anyone to hear anything I was saying. I was like, you know

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what, your turnaround time stinks,
and there was silence. It stinks.

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I'm done. And he's like,
wow, he said, I'm listening now.

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I'm listening now. I'm not here
to guide you wrong. I'm not

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here to run up you. I'm
not I went through those days. I'm

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not here to compete. I'm not
here. I'm not here for that.

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I'm here to help people as best
as I can with wisdom and knowledge and

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experience. And we are as transparent
as we can get. I don't know

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what more we can do. We're
praying for you all. We just want

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everything to be okay, hey,
because the world as we know it is

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not it's going to get better anytime
soon. Pastor well, one of the

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things is as you are explaining the
situation with your colleague and always uh coming

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back not listening. One of the
things that we really really have to understand

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is and and that is that we
are here to support one another. Uh,

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sometimes we're preparing for ourselves. But
maybe we need to kind of look

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at down the road. Is my
neighbor who I see with a walker?

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What do they need? Do you
see somebody with a with a logo on

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their on their license plate that they
they're they they're on a wheelchair? Let's

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see bug? Drug problem? Did
I read that right? Or a bad

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drug problem? Is that drug problem? I think is a type a big

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big okay, yep, yep,
the eyes right next to the you so

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okay, you know that's that's that's
a that's a really that's a good question.

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And thank you, Mickey, We
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That's a that's one of those tough
questions that people are are going to find

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solutions to try to address their problems, but people are not realizing that when

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they come down from from their high
or when when when things start to level

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off, that problem still exists.
And unfortunately, this is where we have

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to be supportive and and and really
help them get through those times when they're

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they're looking for the dependents to help
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the source. Uh, it's interesting
that the drug problem was brought up,

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and I agree with you country Ce
that that's that's that's a big part right

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there. That and my wife and
I've talked about that this morning, that

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you really can't help people who don't
want to help themselves, and and and

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and it also comes down to praying, because if if we're praying over someone

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but that person doesn't want to take
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All we're doing is just praying in
vain. So we really have to

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really work on the fact that it's
somebody's reaching out for that kind of help.

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How serious are they? I mean, I this is the right show

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setting it straight. You know,
I smoke, I drank, I did

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drugs, I did all I did
the Big three and it got to a

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point where I almost died because I
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the train tracks in New York.
And that kind of woke me up,

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and I said, time for me
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Well, yep, that's true too. But again, if they're reaching out

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to you, this is where you
have to be able to walk with them,

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not be judgmental, not be a
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You should just be walking with them, supporting them, encouraging them,

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letting them know what should be a
better option than spending all that money and

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getting high. And I'll turn it
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I mean, and you everything you
all have said, don't give up on

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them, but you but what them? But what you're saying, you know

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you watch yourself. Yes, everything
that has been said is on point.

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However, you have to know if
they're really wanting the help. Do they

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really want or they're there draining you, pulling on your resources, pulling on

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you. There's a young lady at
employee at a big retail store and I

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happen to go in and the lord
just interrupted a conversation and I kept saying,

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I see dollar size, I see
money. Who's waiting on your paycheck?

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And she began to cry. I
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who it is. I don't care
who it is you and not take care

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of yourself and somebody else. And
I don't know her backstory. They don't

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think it is a problem, correct. And I was just telling one of

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my kids that if you don't think
if the person don't think that they have

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a problem. Let's start right there. If they don't think it's a problem,

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and they're just trying to, you
know, get to your good grace

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and make you help it go.
H If I go to trade, I

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know she'll help me pay my rent
this month. You've been helping her for

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the last three months. Nothing has
changed. She don't have a job.

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She's out there on the street,
whatever she's doing. She can't keep a

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job. You know, why do
you keep giving her the fish? Why

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do you keep giving her fish instead
of teaching her how to fish? And

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tough love is just that. Tough
love is like, you know what.

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We've been at this for a minute. We've been at this for a minute,

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and on your side, nothing has
changed. On my side, I

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almost miss paying my bill. My
light bill lights about to go off because

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I'm helping you. You don't think
you have a problem. So what we

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have to do gently is steer them
and give them the resources, give them

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the name, the phone numbers of
the facilities, and say I have to

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back away now. I love you
with the love of the Lord, but

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that doesn't mean I'm supposed to be
a doormat that doesn't mean. I mean,

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I've heard the stories just in the
last three days. One situation,

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the daughter has been one of the
daughter of four children have been taking care

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of the mother for the past fifteen
years. Her husband has retired. She's

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looking to her brothers and saying,
okay, y'all got the help here.

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Then she gets into an accident.
All kinds of nurses are coming in the

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house taking care of her mother and
her and she telling her brothers we okay,

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mom's got to go into a facility. I can't do no more.

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I can't do my husband has retired. We've done this for the past fifteen

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years. I'm retired. I and
Mom. I'm sorry. Mom's like,

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well, no, this is my
house. I don't want to go.

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Well, guess what. In Germany, if the homeowner don't want to leave

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their house, they don't have to
leave, and the family's gonna have to

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figure it out. In Germany,
you can't if she don't want to leave,

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you can't make her go. So
now they're up against the law.

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But she's also looking at her brothers
like, what are y'all going to do?

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I can't do this anymore, and
you have to put your foot down.

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I've been there, done that with
my mom. So somebody what drug

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up. It's somebody who's who mismanages
money. I know people who just meant

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the person, don't didn't ask or
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So I knew what I was getting
into. Okay, they know I don't

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do anything like that, and I
don't condone their activities. Thank you,

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miss Mickey. Okay, that's a
good start right there. I don't want

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I just don't know what to do. Pray for them and let them go.

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They'll find their way, they'll land, some kind of way, they'll

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land, and that's all we can
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But if they you don't, we
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Lord, I hope you know them, because there are times Jesus will

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say I don't know you, and
then I wait till you get to heaven

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and say that, or wait till
you get you know, on your final

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destination. Then I could. I
just want you all to take care of

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yourselves. Just take care of Yourselvescuse
me, no that I was gonna just

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jump in and just just add to
what you were saying, Miss Gray.

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That's a good thing. That they
confided in you and let them know that

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this is what they're going through.
But one thing, if you just want

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to take the extra step, ask
them what kind of drug they're using or

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drugs that they're using. And then
also you can, if you're trying to

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really help them or want you can
research where they're in a in A meetings

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at AA meetings and give them a
list of that and they and just offer

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if you want to say, if
you're serious about I will meet you at

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the NA meeting. Try not to
take them because then they'll dependent on you

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see how bad they want it.
And then that way, let me see

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what if family keeps asking for money, they keep coming up, show up,

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but they had the money. No, I mean if they have money

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for cigarettes, they should have money
for everything else. Then now you're starting

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to help somebody else's have it that's
not your own. And so my thing

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is you you have to know when
to draw the line because it can drain

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you. Just like miss Leisha said, it can drain you. And so

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unless you have an abundance of resources
yourself, and like I said, it

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could be bled drive by somebody that
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That's a problem. When they say
they don't have a problem, that's the

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first feue right there. But you
can't do any more for them that they

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want to do for themselves, and
try not to, you know, be

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praying for all of them, but
you have to know your boundaries and what

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you will and will not do.
I wouldn't start off giving money, that's

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one thing. And I would also
be careful because temptation is there, especially

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if they're asking for cigarettes. The
next thing you know it is the stealing

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and the lion. So it's a
whole lot of stuff that goes along with

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drug and alcohol abuse when they're trying
to get the fix, And so just

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be careful with that. You know. I'm not saying don't be a friends.

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Say look, I'm caring about you, and here's something I'm trying to

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help you. But this is what
I can do for you, or because

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you've been doing it for a minute, say you know what, I can't

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help you anymore. I cannot help
you anymore. And I can't say I'm

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sorry about that because we've been at
this for a long time and you've been

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saying the same thing over and over
each and every time. I'm not really

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helping you by giving to you.
I've had to tell some people recently,

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I cannot loan you anything, even
though you're paying stuff back, and faithfully,

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this is it. I'm not the
tear, I'm not the ticket.

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You've got the course, correct.
You've got to do something different many times,

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you know. Right now, I
just I'm gonna be honest with you.

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I just got some lab my lab
work back, and you know,

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yeah, you think you could just
you know, you play with your you

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know you can play with your life. You know. I don't know what

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was in my mind to just go
ham on the sweet tea and pepsi.

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So I got the lab work back, and the doctors are saying, you're

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a diabetic. Done, you're a
diabetic. So now we've got to put

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you on. We're gonna try o
zipic. I'm all my help with heaven.

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But how can you have the money
for milk? But you don't have

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money for cigarettes? But how do
you don't have the money because they made

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their choice. They make their choices. You got to understand they may they

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aren't asking them a secret, but
my feelings all right, if you can

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buy cigarettes in not milk, you
need to change your priorities exactly, and

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misty, if they're not changing their
priorities, then they don't think they have

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a problem. And number two,
they already think that they already know who

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they can go to, who's gonna
bail them out. And that has to

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stop. Or and I'm saying this
lovingly, you can't complain about it.

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We can't ask a question about it
anymore. And I've said that lately to

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people. If you don't make God
has giving you some directions. He's giving

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you some ways out if you choose, and you have a choice. We

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always have a choice. All of
everybody has a choice on this world.

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In this world, you can choose, you know what. That's nice what

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you guys are saying. But I've
got to help you don't understand this.

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I've got the help that person then
find then we don't talk about it anymore

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because you've made your what your choice? I stopped. I got tired of

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and just in the last twenty four
hours, I can't go to Jesus and

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say heal me. When I'm drinking
the sweet tea? What am I doing?

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What am I doing? And I'm
just being real with you, this

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is sweet tea and and and Pepsi's
about to take me out of here again.

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But I'm not taking the met forman. I'm not taking the old ZIMPI.

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There are clear situations as bad,
negative side effects and all that kind

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of stuff. I don't need nothing
to teeter me over. So what do

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I have to do? Cut it
out? Go dry? So I got

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green tea bags and I have my
daughter, put honey in a picture,

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stir it up. That's what I'm
drinking until I can wean myself. At

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least it's honey and green tea.
And I'm telling you, I'm looking and

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God's like you know now when you
go out if you want to have a

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sweet tea, you know I no, no, I gotta go cold for

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a minute. I got to go
so dry. Well, I have to

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be what honest with myself. I'm
expecting to live a long time. If

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I'm gonna do that and live in
a healthy way, then I have to

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stop things now because I've got a
doctor that's on my tail telling me,

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no, this is what you are, this is what you're gonna have to

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take, and this is what you're
gonna have to do. And now you

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got to come and continue to see
us every three months. I don't want

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to see you every three months.
All my other testifying, but the acl

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that blood sugar got me. So
I have to be honest with myself and

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do what do I want? Do
I want to spend my time being dilapidated?

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Do I want people to continue to
stare at me because of how I

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look? Do I want I'm losing
the weight? Thank you Jesus, you

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know, but I need to continue. I did, Okay, I didn't

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see that. I didn't give them
money this week. I need to try

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to get two birthday presents this week. And I would have taken from others

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to help them. I have to
work to earn money. I have showed

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them places hiring. They would they
should work too, right, Yes,

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that's not me, No, that's
what Most people are working to pay their

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bills. And if you want something, you've got to continue to work for

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it. Go ahead, go ahead, No, no, no, But

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I was saying that, what was
I going to say? You're actually helping

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them when they when you say no, it's making it better that then when

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you say no, it's actually helping
them. Try to figure it out.

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Because if you keep saying yes,
it's it's hindering their progress and they're not

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going to make any changes because they
don't have to work hard to do what

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they need to do. I'm sorry, there you go. And and what

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I was going to say, and
the Lord revealed this to me over the

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weekend, and that is, don't
confuse compassion with sympathy. God is compassionate,

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not sympathetic. And and this is
where we really have to understand that

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God cares for us and loves us, and it's compassionate for us, but

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he's not sympathetic because that's how the
enemy attacks us. And see, this

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is what it is. Because once
they once they've got once they've got the

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hook in the water. Now they
got you for ten dollars and then oh

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well things got a little tougher.
Any fifteen and at the thing's a little

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tough, and now it's twenty and
now they're working on Oh well, you

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helped me out before, how come
you can't help me on now? Now

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they're working on sympathy. That's that's
a dangerous line across because then now another

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thing starts to work in you,
and that's called obligation. And miss miss

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and miss Trace said it perfectly.
God says no to us a lot.

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Yep, you can only do so
much. But see here's the thing.

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God can do a lot for us, and he'll say no for what is

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not according to his will. When
we start putting our will before God,

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God's just going to look at you, like, really, you're asking me

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for that. That's not part of
my plan. And this is where he's

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just. He's just. And a
great example of that was in the book

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of Genesis where Abraham did something against
what God's plan was and God didn't speak

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to him for ten years. Ten
years. Was God being mean? No,

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God was being just. You didn't
follow the direction, and this is

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the end result. So the key
to that is we have to be accountable

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and we are to hold people accountable
because that's what our role is. And

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that's how And it all really stemmed
back from Genesis four when Can't killed Abel

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and when God said whereas able?
He's like, I'm not my brother's keeper,

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and he was laying he was pushing
the blame on somebody else when he

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was the one accountable. So it's
you're doing you know, that's that's a

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great question. But I'm going to
ask the question to you the way God

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talks to you is the relationship you
have with him, because when you have

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a relationship with God, he's going
to reveal to you the path. And

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it's not and I'm gonna say this
very delicately, God is not a Genian

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about it. You can't pray to
God and saying God, if you do

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this for me, I'll put more
money on in the offering plate, I'll

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start, I won't drink anymore.
God doesn't. That's that emotion thing.

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God does not do emotions because God
can't tell a lie, and and and

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and and God doesn't. He's compassionate, but he doesn't base his decision on

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his emotion. He bases it on
his plan. So if you develop a

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relationship, just like you have a
relationship here, when you develop a relationship

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and you're in His word and you're
studying and you're part of a church body

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that's teaching you the word, trust
me, the Lord will speak to you

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and he'll say I wouldn't do that. And when he says that, now

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you know he's speaking to you and
putting you on the right pase, Kenny,

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you have to continue, Okay,
go ahead, try so, go

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ahead, Miss Gray, and all
I was gonna say is. And it's

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got to be a continual thing.
Like with any relationship, you you you

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look forward to to talk it to
that person again. You look forward to

441
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checking in with that person or going
out with that person. You look forward

442
00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:30.039
to building that relationship. You join
a club, you look forward to the

443
00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:34.800
next meeting. You look forward to
see what kind of activities we're going to

444
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do, what we're gonna do,
you know, you look forward to,

445
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:42.119
you know, getting to know new
people. That's the same way with God.

446
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He just wants our time. He
just wants our time, and you

447
00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:51.519
have to and and and it's not
a hard walk. I don't know why

448
00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:55.679
people are pushing back on him.
I don't get it. I don't know

449
00:36:55.719 --> 00:37:00.000
what the fear is. I don't
know what you take to take some joy

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00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:02.840
it's going to be taken out of
it or I don't know. But it's

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funny. A pastor, you mentioned
about obedience and obligation. I'm coming up

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with a series call obedience no obligation
versus obedience because I'm running into a lot

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of people who are constantly calling me
for prayer. But you are doing things

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out of obligation, not out of
obedience. To God. You're obligated to

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that person because that's my uncle.
You're obligated to that personal. Well,

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that's my dad, you know.
And I know he's been an alcoholic for

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thirty years, and I know we
know his tricks, we know he lies

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all the time. But that's my
father, Okay, And I know you

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have to accept that you've made your
choice because he's your father. You're gonna

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help him. Well, you can't
complain about it. You just got to

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be there and continue to do what
you're doing. You have to make a

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choice. You have to make a
choice. Go ahead, Trey, Well,

463
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I was just gonna add to and
just being transparent. So Pator,

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Miguel and Ms. Gray are father
along in the faith journey than I am.

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I'm trying to get there. But
let me let me explain some of

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the things that I have been doing. It's reading Proverbs Uh in the morning

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and Psalms at night and so in
one each day. And so I find

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myself drawing closer even in my walk
things that I'm not doing as much of

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what I shouldn't be doing. So
just being more mindful and then lining up

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with people who are in the faith
to try to get guidance and so their

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times sometimes I'm not sure. I've
called Ms Gray said how do I know?

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And she has given me nuggets about
that, and so I'm just taking

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that in stride as well, and
sometimes reading when certain things come upon my

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spirit or anxiety, fear, frustration. You know, there there are places

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in the Bible that you can go
a different, different scriptures that you can

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go to to reference that, and
I find that helpful as well. And

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just you know, being still being
quiet, sometimes limiting the distractions that you

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have, the things that you're in
taking into your mind or into your spirit.

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00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:21.199
The music. You know, I
like my music, but I've kind

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of toned it down a little bit. News, I've kind of toned that

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00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:28.440
down a little bit. So I'm
watching what I'm taking in and trying to

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00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:31.280
be more in tune to where he
would have me a lead, and also

483
00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:37.000
being in trusting trusting him and he
shows you what he's capable of doing.

484
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And so just still trusting, you
know, waking you up every day,

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that's trusting because he's allowed you.
You're there for something and trying to make

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the best of it. Is it
easy to take the walk? No,

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it's not. I can't say it
is. But if you just take some

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due diligence and be more conscientious of
what you're doing and getting into the word

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and learn trying to learn more other
words, and tying yourself into a church.

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Now right now, I'm just going
on the church online. Sometimes I'll

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catch something online or different things and
I'll listen to that and you'll be surprised.

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Even something like that will help make
the change. But align itself with

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people that are taking a walk too, you know, not saying to exclude

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00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:24.639
anybody else, but if this is
what you want to hear more from God,

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people pouring into you, what what
you need to do in order to

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00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:31.719
hear from God and know when he's
talking Because I'm still I'm still learning.

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I'm really still learning. So I
just wanted people who are not where they

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think they need to be where I
am, so they don't feel so intimidated

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to trust and move forward. Amen, and go ahead. I was going

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to throw out a number. Oh, you're very welcome, Mickey, You're

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very welcome. What I was going
to throw out is take the number one

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hundred and sixty eight. That's twenty
four hours time seven. That's one hundred

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and sixty eight hours in a whole
week. Okay, Now, if we

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were to eat for two hours,
would those two hours last a whole week?

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We would? We would starve.
We would, we would, we

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00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:31.920
would, We would take angry to
a whole new level. And this is

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00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:38.880
sometimes how we approach God. Oh
I'll go to church two hours so it

508
00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:45.079
can last me the whole week.
It really doesn't make sense. It would

509
00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:47.840
be like you having a meal on
Sunday and the next meal is going to

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00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:53.159
be next Sunday. It doesn't work
that way. You have to feed yourself

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little by little so you can get
through the week. And this is the

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approach we should have. If you
only have fifteen minutes and you've got fifteen

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00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:12.360
minutes reading Proverbs, wow, that
is huge because then you start shifting,

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Oh okay, I really don't need
to do this. I want to spend

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more time with Proverbs. Now you're
at twenty minutes, and then before you

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00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:22.920
know, you're at twenty five minutes. But you're you started out at fifteen.

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And that's really how it works.
So you don't really have to have

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00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:32.400
a full buffet to say I'm going
to work with the Lord. The Lord

519
00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:37.800
understands the Lord understands, but if
he sees that you're making the effort,

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trust me, he will answer.
Amen. I know. I remember I've

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shared this story online before. I
was at a primitive Baptist church and the

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00:42:49.719 --> 00:42:53.079
difference between a Primitive Baptist and a
regular Baptist that they've deleted washing feet on

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the first Sunday along with communion anyway, and I love love reprehendily. I

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mean, he give me my out
of his pocket. I was in my

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twenties. But he just said,
hey, you go go get you some

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00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:05.920
lunch. And he had a list, so he said, well, get

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00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:07.119
you some lunch, you know,
and stuff. I loved him. But

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one Sunday I walked out. The
foyer is very long and the stairs are

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very long on the outside, and
I kept saying, that don't sound right,

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00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:20.840
that don't sound right what he just
said. I loved it. I

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00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:22.480
said that don't sound right. I
wasn't judging anybody in mind, I'm not.

532
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:25.159
I wasn't even in my Bible.
That's the last thing I ever wanted

533
00:43:25.159 --> 00:43:30.920
to read and study was the Bible. You know how intimidating that is?

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00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:34.400
Oh my god. No, when
I had the ones that had the vis

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00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:37.480
and the Bibles and the Cantest and
all that. It freaked me out.

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00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:39.239
I don't want to. I've been
in school all my life. I've been

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00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:43.119
reading books, even though they were
upside down. At age three, but

538
00:43:43.199 --> 00:43:46.039
I was reading books. And since
then I don't read at the Bible.

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00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:53.920
But I had no choice. I
eventually had to read the Bible. I

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00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:59.840
had to study it. My first
year I did not read Revelations too scare

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because everybody will scare me. Oh, it's in Revelations then times, what's

542
00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:06.400
gonna happen? Oh, and the
dragon and this and that? Also the

543
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:08.280
dragon. I said, oh,
I'm not reading that. Last year,

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00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:14.079
I'm not reading revelations. MM so
I read the first year I studied the

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Bible. And that's one thing about
studying. And then you meditate on his

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word. Nowhere does it say you
are to memorize the scriptures. So get

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00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:27.639
that out of your mind. Have
you? Only you have your favorite scriptures

548
00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:30.280
because you've heard it, you went
and found it, you probably wrote it

549
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:34.679
down, you probably highlighted it in
your Bible, and you learned it.

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00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:38.039
You didn't memorize it. You learned
it. And after a while, if

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you keep meditating on something And that's
why I love the Book of Proverbs because

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it's thirty one chapters. Today is
the third. You can read Proverbs three

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00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:52.239
and pick it right on up and
continue to continue to study it over and

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over and over. I keep going
back to between reading and studying because reading

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is not in the Bible. I
don't want to, you know, throw

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anybody off. So I'll say reading, but you're studying that. You've got

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to pad, you got a pen, and you're like, okay, all

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00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:09.199
right, wow, Proverbs on Proverbs
three, Oh my god, verse eight

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00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:14.679
really really struck to me. So
you write down verse eight. Then at

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some other time you'll go back and
look at verse eight, you know,

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and and that's how you that's how
you learn your scriptures. Actually, that's

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how I learned where the book,
the chapters of the books, the books

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were in the difference between the Old
Testament and the New Testament. So you

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00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:34.559
know, it's just trying, you
know, scientifically, Science tells us if

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you know better, you will do
better. Education tells us if you know

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better, you're gonna do better.
You're not gonna want to do that if

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00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:49.559
you really are sincere about things.
So we're hoping that we're you know,

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helping you. And we're gonna have
some more talks like that, you know,

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00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:54.599
from now on, because we need
to check in with you all.

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00:45:57.119 --> 00:45:59.760
We want to make sure you've got
the right people around you and you're in

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00:45:59.800 --> 00:46:04.719
You're in a circle, and that
can exclude friends and I mean family.

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00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:08.719
It's not about blood relations. It's
about who is there to enhance me,

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Who is there to motivate me?
Who around me? And motivation is I

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00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:16.559
could call Pastor and say, you
know, don't want to run this buyer.

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God told me I could call you, I'm gonna run this byer.

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He's not gonna tell me what he
thinks I want to hear. He's gonna

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he's he's listening for God instruction as
well, and whatever God tells him.

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00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:37.360
He said, well, miss Gray, all I can well a God need

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00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:44.079
the Lord saying and boom, and
I'm like, okay, I'll take it,

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because you know what, that's right? Why am I running? Why

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am I? You know? Lord? Right now, in the name of

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00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:53.039
Jesus, the fire truck went by
with his siren, and please, Father

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00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:57.159
God be with the family and be
with that person. In Jesus' name,

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00:46:57.719 --> 00:47:02.159
So doing things more create your prayer
point list. That's another little exercise that

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00:47:02.199 --> 00:47:06.039
you all can do. What are
some things that you need to be praying

586
00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:09.039
about consistently that bothers you? A
prayer point list is all that. What's

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that that bothers you? Mine is
suicide on the college campus and the influencers.

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We want to thank you for listening
out for us to appreciate it.

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00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.119
Thank you. Cut you see,
you know what are your pre you know,

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00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:27.800
ordained marriages. I pray for ordained
marriages. I'm not getting married again,

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00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:30.960
but I pray for ordained marriages because
I know the fight. I know

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00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:37.000
it's tough. Sometimes relationships are hard. So those are some of my cyber

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00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:40.760
hacking. I can't stand the catfishing. I can't stand it. So that's

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on my prayer prayer point list.
Okay, So start with the Book of

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Proverbs, guys, start there.
Go to Salve Psalms. You've got one

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hundred and fifty chapters. Okay,
and you can just take your time with

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00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:58.960
that, but again, study it. Study it. Say now, Lord

598
00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:02.599
open up and I I remember asking
God, Lord, can you please open

599
00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:08.519
up my eyes as you did the
scribes that dictated your word. Let the

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00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:15.199
words leap off the page so I
can see and hear what you're trying to

601
00:48:15.239 --> 00:48:22.599
teach me and believe it or not, it happened. So you want to

602
00:48:22.639 --> 00:48:27.679
get to a point where you trust
God and God alone. It's not overnight,

603
00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:30.599
Trey said earlier. You know I'm
trying. You know, hey,

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we are all a work in progress. We are all a work in progress.

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00:48:35.599 --> 00:48:37.760
We are all a work in progress. I don't care what our titles

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00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:42.039
are. I don't care what our
experience has been. I don't care.

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00:48:42.400 --> 00:48:47.719
We are all a working We all
can fall short, we all stumble sometimes.

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00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:51.920
But I just know I need to
get up real fast because I can't

609
00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:54.119
stay in the valley too long.
I can't stay down there too long.

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So I know I got to get
up and say, Okay, God,

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brush me off. What's next?
Plus next? Because we don't have the

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time. Thank you for doing this
show. I love you, Missy,

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thank you, We love you well. Anyway, that's our time. We're

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gonna see you next week, same
time, same Stationine, We'll be praying

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for you tonight night