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

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of setting It's Straight on the Way
with Miss Greg. Hollylujah. It's Monday.

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It's the first Monday of the month. We've got new topics, new

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shows, new everything. Hello to
my fabulous co hosts. How are you

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all doing great? Oh okay,
that was a big pause. How can

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I beat that? How can I
outdo that? Let's pray. Father,

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We just thank you, we praise
you, We give you glory for you

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alonea worthy to be praised. Lord. We love you so much. We

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just love you so much, and
just thank you, just thank you for

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everything. Every step, every heartbeat, every breath that we take. We

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don't even have enough words in the
dictionary or in any language to praise you,

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but we're gonna do our best to
give you everything that we got now.

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As always, Papa God, this
is your opportunity. We are your

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people, we're your children. We're
getting behind the cross. You speak to

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your people unlike ever before. In
Jesus' name, we pray. Amen and

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amen and amen and amen. Well, I am glad, Thank you all

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for being on tonight. We're gonna
cover a lot, so bear with us.

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Okay, here we go. We're
honoring you know this. It's May.

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So you know we're gonna pull out
all of some things, not all,

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but most of the thematic events or
awareness or topics that we just want

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to, you know, make sure
you are aware. And so we've got

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National Date of Prayer and I think
this already went by, but we're gonna

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talk about that. Then there's our
Mental Health Awareness Month. There's loyalty,

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you know, awareness just being loyal, And of course we have Mother's Day

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coming up, and there are a
few there are many more awarenesses and observations

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that people have invented that's out there, so you can pick and choose what

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you like, but I want to. I feel well the Lord has placed

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the my heart because of some interesting
news. It's just came to my attention

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my daughter. I'm not sure it
was on her Instagram earlier today saw where

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there's a senator or a political person
out there that's already putting in a petition

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to ban Bibles. Now I'm not
sure where they're banning them from, and

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all that good stuff. If you've
been following any type of any person that

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has the prophetic gift, you have
heard to be on the lookout that the

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day will come that the Bibles will
would be banned or burned or not allowed.

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And then some of your third world
countries that's already happening where they cannot

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have Bibles. And I know that
we have. We've been able to,

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you know, download an app and
get a Bible and you know, and

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go from there. And we've got
some luxury. But however, if we

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ever encounter a tornado or hurricane where
our power is out, you won't have

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access to that, Okay, I
mean unless you beat on your phone and

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then you got to go to your
car and charge your phone. If you

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lose electricity, So then later on, just happened to be following one of

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the prophetic folks that I follow and
and he came on today to say that

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God has told him to go ahead
and start the sound the alarm that Bibles

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are going to be banned. So
I'm not sure they have them in so

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tells still, Okay, hey,
an, I says, how you doing.

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Welcome, Yes, and we're hoping
that they will continue to do that,

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but on the safe to be on
the best side and the safest side.

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I would like to encourage you all
to go get you a hard Bible.

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Now. I know that there are
some that will be like I was

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many years ago. I refused.
I was like, I'm not going to

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read a Bible. Well, I
got my wires crossed up. I kept

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saying, reading, reading, reading, And the Bible does not tell us

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to read it. It tells us
to study it. So you have to

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study it. You have your pen, your pad, and you go for

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it, and you're going to write
down revelations. The Bible never tells us

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to commit it to memory. You
don't memorize anything, but hope eventually you

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at least can discern or figure out
the difference between Bibles. That are in

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the Old Testament versus bibles that are
in the New Testament. Some of those

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names could be gred. We were
up north in April and we read from

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the one in the hotel. Amen. Amen. Well again. So for

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those of you who are a little
hesitant about, you know, going to

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the Christian bookstore, do not get
your Bibles from Walmart. Okay, do

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not, because they they they're missing
some they're missing some words out there.

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Don't go to the dollar store either. Go to a Christian bookstore and take

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your time because there's a whole lot
of variety out there. Colors. Get

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your name in great great they made
great graduation and birthday and Christmas gifts,

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by the way. But go and
first, I would if you if you

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feel like you're going to be intimidated
by, you know, with the Bible

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itself, with a Bible itself,
I would like to suggest that you get

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a youth Bible first. Get a
youth Bible. It's it's it's it's just

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it's a little thick because it's got
to include everything in there. But it's

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readable, it's it's paluable. You
you you know, it's an easy read.

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It makes you feel a little bit
better, and then when you're ready,

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continue with that Bible. But get
your you know, an adult based

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Bible. You can get a study
Bible. You can get this all types

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out there, but I would like
to encourage that you get a Bible.

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Have a hard Bible available. Hey, misterve, we are getting our mom

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the big print copy for Mother's Day. See. I can't make this stuff

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up. I can't make this stuff
up. Thank you, thank you,

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and welcome. But you need a
Bible. You need a Bible because you

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need to study it so that you
would know what's real, what's really being

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real, what is the word of
God versus what's not. Now here's a

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little work assignment. I want you
between now and next week to google twenty

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say scriptures that are not or biblical
sayings that are not scripture. Okay,

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biblical sayings that are not scriptures.
You should find about twenty nine of them.

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That's the last count I encountered.
Okay, one of my favorites.

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And then we're gonna move on.
Was I always told my students, you

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know, what was it? Oh
gosh to eat? Oh gosh, what

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was it? What was it?
No? Not that one. I'll thank

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you. I'm sorry, guys,
I'll come back with it. But that

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was one I was always saying to
my students. But it was a Shakespeare

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line. I didn't realize it.
It was an act three, uh,

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seeing three of a Shakespeare's play where
the father was talking to the son and

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someone was going off and and all
that good stuff. I cannot believe.

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I cannot pull it up in my
mind because that was always on my mind

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because I was always saying it sounded
biblical. It sounds that biblical. You

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know. Here's another one. You're
so heavily minded, you're not earthly good.

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You know, earthly good sounds biblical. There's several scriptures that kind of

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when you find it, you can
put it all together. But there's no

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one scripture that says that. So
you know, to dine on self be

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true, Thank you Lord, To
dine on self. Don't that sound biblical?

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Don't that sound deep? That's something
Jeremiah would say, That's something all

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was. To thine own self be
true. No Shakespeare a father telling his

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son, Okay, you could go
on out there now, but be true

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to yourself. Don't fool yourself.
Don't say I didn't tell you. But

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I'm gonna let you go. So
that's your homework. Just google biblical sayings

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that are not scriptures. Trust me, you're gonna be surprised what pops up.

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But Google will be your best friend, all right. So and talking

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about this, you know, Loyalty
Day and the National Day of Prayer,

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let's go there, go to that
one. I know many people recognize that,

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acknowledge that, and that was very
good because at least we got one

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day out of a few other days
holidays that Christian people, Christian minded people

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are at least taking out time during
their during their day to pray. So

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we I would pray that we had
a corporate gathering, whether it was in

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your home, whether it was on
your A few of your coworkers got together,

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however, but for most of us, praying is daily. Pray is

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clock sometimes until you get used to
it and commit yourself to it. It's

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written down in the calendar. Manually, I need to pray fifteen minutes every

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day. I'm gonna pray at this
time every day. I'm gonna pray.

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When I go to my car,
I'm gonna pray. You know, prayer

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has to be a lifestyle. Prayer
has to be a lifestyle. It can't

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be just oh yeah, you know
what. I forgot to pray because I'm

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telling you you will forget. You'll
forget daily. I'm sitting in my house.

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Do you know the attack I went
under today? I was talking to

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somebody. Next thing I know,
my ear closes up and I get my

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ear stuff and I go run it
too. My daughter, I said,

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you need to help me because I
can't hear this ear and said I put

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a cute. I was cleaning with
a Q tip. You know I'm supposed

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to do that. All of a
sudden, it seemed like I pushed something

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in my ear and I didn't,
and I'm like, okay, devil,

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okay, okay, I got you
now. My daughter later on prayed a

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name appeared. I said, oh
okay, thank you God for revealing that.

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Not a problem, because ideal with
spiritual warfare, normally it's outside my

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house, not inside my house.
But my ear just popped, maybe less

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than an hour ago, popped over. So all this time I'm sitting here

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like can I hear well? God, Jesus, I need some help.

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So prayer has to become a lifestyle, period, and there's no better day

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than today to start and pray what's
on your heart, pray what's on your

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mind, and God gave us the
revelation a few programs back. People always

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ask the question, how long do
you pray about something? How often do

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you keep praying about it? How
well? God finally gave the answer.

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You keep praying until you believe He's
going to honor the prayer. He's going

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to answer the prayer. Now,
don't get true and may be unlike you

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could ever expect, So I don't
tell God now, Lord, I need

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I want to be prosperous. So
Father, God, right now, if

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you can make sure that this job
pays me. No no no no no

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no God, if it's your will, your will be done in my life.

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If it's your will. But I
am one who gives seed, and

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I know you quickly give it right
back to me because we can't beat you.

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Give it. Lord, you deal
with me. Help me to see

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how you see people. Help me
to love my enemy. And I'm gonna

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talk about that another time, but
that was a big one for me,

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to love the enemy. Now this
is prayer and pray until you believe God

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is going to do something. He's
going to answer your prayer. He hears

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everything. He hears everything everybody,
even our enemies. He's listening. He's

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listening. He's not like Judge Judy, who has her team that's mapped out

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all over the world and they monitor
small court cases. Because she called,

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she'll write your letter and say,
hey, I understand you're suing this person

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in small planes. Would you like
to come on the show? It's real.

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Still got the letter, But I
was not gonna make that kind of

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debut because the gentleman that I would
have been suing that I did sue to

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sue was a former pastor. And
Orlando may be big, but Orlando is

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small when it comes to churches and
stuff. People know folks names. But

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I prayed about it and God said, now you don't want to do that.

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Here it is years later, I'm
in the hospital, come out of

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the coma, and the Lord said, forgive the debt. God said,

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forgive the debt. And all you
do is text him, tell him not

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to call you, not to respond. It's over. It's done. Just

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you mention it again. I tore
up the court papers. Just recently,

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in the last few months, I
was in the garage. Happened to be

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just going through some stuff. I
said, Oh this s yeah, and

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he probably want to know how she's
tearing I just tore up. I'm tearing

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it up, tore up the court
papers because God told me a long time

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ago to give the debt and He
has blessed me a thousand times over for

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what that man owed me. But
getting back to Judge Judy, she has

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her team and they're monitoring all the
sport small court you know, court cases,

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claims and stuff five thousand dollars under
and she'll give you a call.

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She thinks it's it's entertaining and it's
worthy, you know, because I did.

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He's a pastor, you know,
and so But anyway, God sees

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and hears, and the beautiful thing
he already knows, he already knows,

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was getting ready to jump. He's
looking at us to say, okay,

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are you gonna listen to me?
And studying his word, I got a

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chance to know and learn more than
anybody could preach or teach me. And

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I'm so glad that I took out. And it just ended up four years

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in a row. I went through
the Bible in a year, reading one

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book in Genesis, one book in
songs. One I mean one chapter in

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the Proverbs, one chapter in the
New Testament starting in Matthew. I did

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it the old fashioned way. Now, if you get the one Year Bible,

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there's a one year Bible, and
you follow it, you're good.

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The Daily Word little booklets they have
it in there where you can read the

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Word in the year. I did
the old fashioned way, and don't regret

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it. Don't regret it. So
I just wanted to be obedient because God

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said I needed to bring that up
tonight, the last thing. And then

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I want everybody to come on,
guys, y'all, y'all jump in.

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If anybody is in need of prayer. You have my number down below,

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or reach out to us on Facebook
or YouTube. You don't have to put

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everything down, but get us your
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We need to open up the channels
of prayer because God said, not everybody

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has somebody praying for them. So
we will be obedient, all right,

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pastor come on, now, I
know you you you want to add something

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in here, So come on,
come on. Can you can you tell

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I'm chomping at the bed here.
I'm just going to say that. I'm

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not going to say that chumping the
people are like, okay, okay,

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go, I'm mute. One of
the things that you said, Miss Gray,

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is absolutely essential, and that is
you have to have a Bible.

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Now I don't have a Bible.
I've got eleven and I got another one

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coming. So it's it's not because
it's not because I want to hoard the

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Bibles. It's just that the Bibles, depending on the versions, are going

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to give you different words. That
changes everything, and it gives you,

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It gives you a whole new perspective
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or what Luke is writing to Theophilis, or to what Mark is teaching the

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Romans, and and and that's why
it's so important to understand. But what's

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so important also is and I want
to kind of read real quickly first John

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two twenty seven, and I'm going
to use the King James version, the

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new King James version, and that
is that. But the anointing which you

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have received from him, meaning Jesus
abides in you, and you do not

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need that anyone teach you. See
here the door is opening up for you

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to have that relationship with Jesus.
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begins with prayer. Prayer is having
a fellowship where you're having a direct line

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to speaking with God. And here
is where everything begins to unfold. So

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this way you get the bite sized
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walk the journey and have confidence in
your walk. And in regards to prayer,

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my wife and I pray every morning. The alarm goes off at seven

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o'clock and at seven oh one we're
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we're on our knees is we are
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But I also want to read a
real quick verse that we close out

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our prayer, and that's from Galatians
to twenty where it says I have been

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crucified with Christ. It is no
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in me. When you die daily, this is where you allow Christ to

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start directing your path, making the
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taking yourself out of the equation.
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where we say, you know what, Jesus, I got this, And

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this is where it begins to unravel. And this is where you look up

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and you're like, why did you
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it. You wanted to take control. So because I'm not going to force

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myself on you, I will let
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And this is where we really have. This is why prayer is so

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essential. And miss Gray, you
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I probably owe you about five hundred
dollars in royalties because every opportunity I have,

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I always say it. And that
is do you know that the enemy

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works seven days a week, twenty
four hours a day, and we're going

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to go to church for two hours
a day to ward off the enemy for

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the remainder of the week. I'm
sorry, I'm not a mathematical equation,

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but the odds are on the enemy's
side, and we're going to put two

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hours against the rest of the week
against the enemy. It doesn't work.

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So how can you put on the
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that's why it's so essential, so
essential. I read that there are pastors

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out there, and I'll close out
with this, there are two thousand pastors

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that resign every month. And I
learned this four years ago. And when

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I read this, I'm like,
Lord, really, and I'm becoming to

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be a pastor. But it turns
out that they only prayed less than less

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than fifteen minutes a day a pastor, and he's supposed to if we remember

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what Christ told Peter, feed my
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Feed my lamp, sheep, feed
the sheep. How can you do that

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only on less than fifteen minutes of
prayer. It doesn't work. So this

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National Day of Prayer, I will
admit, yes, it's nice, it's

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one day, but recognizing Christ one
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I have to thank him every day, and whatever challenges i'm faced,

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I'm going to do it in the
name of Christ. And whoever I can

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help, I'm going to do it
in the name of Christ because it's not

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about me. It's about our Savior, who loved us long before we even

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were in our mother's room, and
we're not gonna give him time. I

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think the prayer needs to be Lord, help my belief so I can honor

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and glorify your name anyone else.
Tray Lee, come on in. We're

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gonna still. We're gonna talk about
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Now it's all rolled up into one
go for it. I'll say, coming

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from a young individual, I have
to learn over time to you know,

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making my everyday living. Like now, I pray twenty four to seven.

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It don't matter if I'm in class, doing something, baking out on the

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road. I'm praying for everybody and
anybody you know, And it's just very

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important, like you said, for
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to be part of your lifestyle and
it comes naturally. It's not like it's

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hard to do. So you could
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I'm saying, anything you're going through, your family's going through, for you

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to be productive, to just anything. So I just want to, you

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know, piggyback on you mom as
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part of your everyday living and it
feels good to do so, Like I

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know, God wakes me up at
four to five every morning to pray or

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read my word and I do either
or because you don't, I'll be tired,

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my flesh be fighting me. But
I know I have to do it

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and get it done. So yeah, well how do you follow all that?

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So anyhow so what I say,
yeah, prayer is very important and

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especially you know things people are going
through stuff. They're not thinking, they're

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impulsive, they're driving erradically. You
know, they're doing things. They're harming

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folks, they're burglarizing. It's a
whole pleasoray of things. And folks are

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leaving away from here, you know. So in the past months, I've

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known the three persons that you know, close to my family have passed away.

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So it was like a funeral each
week. So in a minister at

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this last one was saying, he
said, you know, death does not

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know age. You know, you
were thinking that it will go the older

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you are or the closer you are
to leave in here, but it's not

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the case. People are leaving here
early, some people are not. Some

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children are not making it out the
womb alive, you know. So you

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have to always be prayerful. And
I always say sometimes I don't. I

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can't find the words or eloquently put
things that the way I want to put

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them to God. To what I
would do is just silently say it's just

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God, know my heart, you
know what I'm trying to say. I

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just can't put it in the words
that that's in my head right now.

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And I think he listens, and
you know, I'm pretty sure he does,

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and so it's not as intimidating to
try to find the way, you

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know, how to phrase different things
with what you're going through. And so

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you know, every day is a
test, but at the end of the

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day, it's a testimony that you
made it to the end of the day.

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And so I'm very thankful that God
has done, you know, some

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work on me and some work with
me and my family and loved ones,

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friends, and so I always look
to him to as as as a means

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of support. I just need to
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him handle it, because I think
sometimes I try to guide it, but

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I have to realize I can't do
that, you know, just let him

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take the helm and right now and
this point of my life is just a

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faith really a faith walk, faith
journey, just just going and let Him

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leave me to where it is,
you know, I need to be at

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this point. So and a sray. If I may just piggyback what you're

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what you just said. I I
think that point that you said that you

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just speak, you just speak your
heart. That should be essential. Just

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have a conversation with God. He
doesn't want the formalities. He just wants

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to talk to you. He just
wants to listen to what you have to

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say. And it doesn't have to
be so eloquently put. If you're upset,

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guess what, talk to God.
He'll take it. He's got some

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pretty broad shoulders, and if you
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He'll bring that peace Philippians four seven, A piece beyond all understanding,

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and that right there, when you
get it all out and you feel his

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peace, you're like, wow,
so very well put, Trey, I

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completely agree. Talk to God as
he is right next to you. He'll

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understand what you're saying. Yeah.
I sometimes I'd be like, God,

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really you want me to do what
now? I just know that my turnaround

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time is much quicker, and I'd
be like, oh, you know.

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Nevertheless, like Jesus said in the
garden, he was there, he was

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like, oh, if you can
remove this, just remember what Jesus said.

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He said, if you could remove
this bitter cup from me. But

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nevertheless, I don't think he breathed. He didn't take a breath, he

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didn't pause, they didn't put a
period. He nevertheless, you will be

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done because I know I got to
finish this one. I got to finish

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this, and so those of us
who have been on the journey and we've

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got that revelation and we understand a
little bit more. Yeah, yeah,

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okay, I gotta go a little
further. He brought me back from the

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death from death twice. Yes,
I got to finish this, whatever it

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may be. And it could be
me getting straight, me loving my enemies

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and here they come, family included. You don't know how many phone calls

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and text messages I received just in
the last forty eight hours. Please pray

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about this? Can you pray about
this? I'm about to lose it.

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I don't know what's happening. I'm
just everything's out of control, and I'm

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like, okay, Lord, father, you know, one by one,

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one by one, Lord, you
know, you know, Lord, I

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got and some people can take the
correction, because sometimes he would have me

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call him out and say, well
you know now, yeah, and how

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I get out of it by saying, just hear my heart. But I'm

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going there. You're not gonna like
this. Hopefully you'll pray pray for me

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in the morning. So that's your
hint. If I have to say something

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like that to you, You're not
gonna like it. You're not gonna see

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this coming, Tray. I want
to say to you, the Lord is

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telling me to tell you he is
so proud of you. He hears your

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heart. He's been hearing your heart
a long time, especially for your clients,

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because you've you've you've come up against
some tough stuff. You've had some

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life altering moments dealing with clients and
trying to advocate. God said, tell

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her to take the load off.
I got it. I know exactly where

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you're at, I know why you're
there. And I had and guess what

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guy said, he's leading in.
He I just see if he's leaning in.

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I put you there, Ah,
I put you there, Jesus,

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but we're gonna have church. My
God, my God. That's what I

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think people were. You look at
your situation, you look at your relationships,

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you look at your child, you
look at your fight, and you're

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like God, oh, and God's
say, yeah, what's your point?

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What's your point? I got a
supervisor. I was there a year and

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a half. He comes in my
office. He calls me out, let

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me see your files, and he's
asking all my other coworkers when you see

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yourself in five years I was already
for that, you know, because I

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want to be a trainer for the
organization. I don't want to be the

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grant writer anymore. I want to
be the trader. And I was waiting

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for it, but he said,
let me see your files. See my

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files. Sure enough, I procrastinated
because I've been in case management for thirty

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some years and oh my god,
that's all we did was do progress knows

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now here I am in the grant
writing world. I've got to monitor the

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programs that we've given this money to. I've got the document what they're doing

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document. So I got a little
lazy. Let me just call it out.

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I'm very transparent. And they sent
this man to me, and he

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had the audacity to put me on
probation with a weekly meeting. He went

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into the computer in his office and
put schedule himself on Fridays at nine o'clock

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for six months. Oh, I
could feel the tears getting ready to roll

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up. He made me sign this
paper and stuff and that I'm on probation

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for the next six months. And
I wrote all over the paper, I

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do not agree with this. I
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I don't know what his problem is
I vote. You know, I

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wrote all over the paper before I
signed it. He said, I'll see

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you Friday, and he got in
my office. I closed my door and

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I cried. I cried, and
all of a sudden, I said God,

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and God say, yeah, let's
get to work. I was to

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get to work. No, I'm
gonna bring my box in. I'm gonna

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get all my stuff off my bookcase. I don't need this job anymore.

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I've been here a year and a
half. I'm good. And God's like,

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are you finished, Let's get to
work. Get to work. Huh?

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All right? And I had to
get to work. Couldn't even release

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a letter to an agency without his
proof reading. It. Really tried to

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rip at the at my character.
I don't know if y'all have ever had

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that, when they've ripped at your
character. But guess what I didn't by

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December. This is November. By
December, God directed me to a workshop

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to go to. They had to
pay for it. It was about fifteen

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hundred dollars. Change my life,
changed my life. I came back in

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and the end of December, early
January, he said, you know,

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we don't have to meet it anymore. I said, oh, yes,

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00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:52.199
we do. We got it and
write it. We're on the caunidar.

409
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:53.639
He said, well, you've come
to my office on Fridays at nine.

410
00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:57.719
I won't be there. I said, oh, so you're really feeling yourself

411
00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:00.320
now, right right then, they're
gonna try to make all the other forty

412
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:08.559
eight coworkers go to that workshop.
And they couldn't find it, couldn't find

413
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:14.280
it. I gave them another year
or so and I retired. I said,

414
00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:19.039
I'm out. But there are times
and you got to own it.

415
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:22.599
That's one thing on this faith walk. One of my t shirts said,

416
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:27.199
this faith walk, faith walk.
These end times ain't easy, ain't for

417
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:32.400
the week, but their time when
God has to correct you and check you.

418
00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:36.719
You're not gonna like it because you
don't think he's said it. You

419
00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:40.719
know exactly what you're getting ready to
do to you take an extended lunch period.

420
00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:45.599
Come on now, you leave it
early for work? Come on now,

421
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:49.639
come on, you cheating on the
you know you added somebody else's child

422
00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:52.760
on your taxes. Come on now, but you said you're a child like

423
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:58.280
God. Come on, we have
to just set this straight. You don't

424
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:01.199
know how to manage money, so
no you're not gonna hold onto your possessions

425
00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:07.599
if you don't know how to manage
money. You cannot become a millionaire if

426
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.519
you don't know how to manage money, because you'll be giving it away,

427
00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:19.199
you'll be spending it on stuff or
whatever the case may be. Steve Harvey,

428
00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:22.159
mom, you know, God bless
her. And I'm sure y'all heard

429
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:25.599
the story he was getting Maddy.
He was coming up and making his money

430
00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:29.280
in He said, Mama, a
few weeks, I'm gonna be able to

431
00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:30.960
buy my car, brand new car. She said, well that's nice,

432
00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:34.800
son, But where you're gonna put
it? Well, said Amy, thank

433
00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:37.159
your country, hey country. She
said, well you gonna put it?

434
00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:40.760
And he would just walk away,
like what you talking about. He did

435
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:45.280
this for weeks, for weeks,
just so happy. Mama. You know

436
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:47.400
I got you know, I almost, Mama almost got all the money.

437
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:50.840
And she said that's a nice son, But where are you gonna put it?

438
00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:52.360
So he said, why do you
say that? What are you talking

439
00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:55.960
about? She said, well,
you got a car in the car court

440
00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:01.920
up on stilts, and and the
rust and everything else is on the carport.

441
00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:05.000
I just want to know where you're
gonna put a brand new car.

442
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:10.719
He said, oh my god,
okay, okay, and he went out,

443
00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:15.880
cleaned up everything, drove the brand
new car, had somebody to come

444
00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:20.480
get this junk car, junked it
for parts, cleaned off the you know,

445
00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:23.760
he got this stuff to clean off
the concrete. And he came.

446
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:27.239
He said, man, I got
my brand new car. She said,

447
00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:29.480
well, last, nice son.
At least you had a place to put

448
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:39.239
it. At least you had a
place to put it. So loyalty,

449
00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:45.840
become loyal to God. Become loyal, because that's the best thing you could

450
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:50.719
do for yourself, to be honest
with you. Loyalty. I know,

451
00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:55.000
I'm a loyal customer. I'm a
loyal I'm loyal and I it was a

452
00:37:55.039 --> 00:38:00.519
hard lesson to learn that not everybody
would be like me. I could not

453
00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:04.320
understand it. I said, what
peven not thinking? What? Oh?

454
00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:08.280
They don't think like me. Oh, and God be like, Okay,

455
00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:13.119
she'll get it after a while.
And by the way, I didn't make

456
00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:17.079
two of you. I didn't make
two of you. I said, oh,

457
00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:22.360
oh, well that makes sense,
so I'll think only wasn't thinking like

458
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:30.920
I'm thinking. But loyalty, we've
got Mother's Day coming up, and unfortunately,

459
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:36.719
I'm meeting young women in particular who
are not who have not had a

460
00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:43.360
good relationship with their mothers. I
can't understand that one, but I kind

461
00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:46.199
of get it. I was adopted
at birth. My parents loved me,

462
00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:52.960
wanted me. I've met my biological
folks. Some accepted me, some couldn't,

463
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:55.199
didn't know what quite how to take
me. And so that was,

464
00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:59.320
you know, that was that.
I went through that and everything I forgiven,

465
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:04.840
everybody, loved everybody. Most of
them are gone now. So I

466
00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:08.400
get that maybe that you know,
you're not settled within you. I don't

467
00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:12.119
know. I can't speak for the
mothers out there. I can't speak for

468
00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:16.679
them, but there's some young girls
and young men that are going through because

469
00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:22.840
they don't have a good relationship with
that parent. And when I say parent,

470
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:27.119
that's the person who's DNA you possess. They may not have been a

471
00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:30.119
good father, they may not have
good may not have been a good mom

472
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:32.960
in your eyes, and I'm sorry
for that. I'm going to take this

473
00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:38.679
time to apologize for the millions of
people who have had babies and just didn't

474
00:39:38.719 --> 00:39:44.880
know how to take care of them. They did what they thought they could

475
00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:47.800
or should do. Maybe I don't
know. I can't get in their heads.

476
00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:52.480
I can't speak for them. I
am proud. God has blessed me

477
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:54.559
with a daughter, and she just
happened to look like me, and that's

478
00:39:54.599 --> 00:40:00.320
the really funny part. And she's
got the extroverted personality the way to get

479
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:02.559
that from. So yeah, we
butt heads because we're both Leo's And all

480
00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:05.559
I can do is just look at
her. If you look back, every

481
00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:14.079
like, and we keep it moving. But it's a work. It's work.

482
00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:16.280
And then after your children get a
certain age, you're not mommy and

483
00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:22.000
daddy. You're the steward over their
lives. You're just staying back and see

484
00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:27.800
if you are you applying what you
know? Are you applying what I've taught

485
00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:30.800
you? And I've said to my
three, I taught you everything I know,

486
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:36.800
and I'm talking about more spiritual things. I taught you everything I know.

487
00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:42.639
I'm praying, but I'm in the
background. God is listening for your

488
00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:45.760
voice. I know we got just
a few more minutes. I want everybody

489
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:50.639
else to come on in here and
say something again. But you have to

490
00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:59.000
forgive. You have to forgive.
You cannot carry on what happened yesterday.

491
00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:04.199
You can't keep carry it into your
tomorrow. You can't. You'll get stuck,

492
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:14.960
and you'll stay stuck emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially, forgive them.

493
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:19.119
Yes. True. So I you
know, saying on that note because

494
00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:22.360
you know, I I was very
fortunate to have you know, a good

495
00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:27.199
relationship with you know, both of
my parents, but I do know of

496
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:32.039
people that that don't. And so, like you, you have to let

497
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:37.400
go because it burdens you. You
know, you're holding onto that. And

498
00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:43.599
so here I go with that mental
health piece. You know, find a

499
00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:49.039
therapist or to talk to so that
you can release, so they can release

500
00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:54.960
that that that pressure that you know, that frustration that you know, things

501
00:41:54.960 --> 00:42:00.119
that are you know, maybe subconsciously
holding them back, because you can pass

502
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:05.440
on that same energy if you're having
if you have children yourself, you can

503
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:09.360
pass on that same energy. So
you don't want to carry anything extra than

504
00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:14.119
you have to. And I understand
that, you know, people have lived

505
00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:19.079
traumatic lives, you know, and
trauma has been passed on from parents.

506
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:22.639
I get it. And so that's
where that therapy comes in, where you

507
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:29.360
can actually address it and process it. And a therapist can help you figure

508
00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:31.119
it out, you know what's going
to be better, but you don't want

509
00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:37.239
to hold on to something like that
that has an impact on you, that

510
00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:40.679
can affect your mental health, your
physical health, your emotional health, your

511
00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:45.679
you know all, you know,
your whole well being, and people don't

512
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:50.639
realize that that. You know,
you subconsciously you can think about things or

513
00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:53.119
not think about them, but they're
affecting you and they come up, you

514
00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:55.840
know, they steadily come up.
So you know, I just want to

515
00:42:55.880 --> 00:43:00.559
push that piece, especially with this
being mental health awareness mind. You know,

516
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:06.119
if therapy is needed, you know, see therapy, some guidance.

517
00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:08.159
You know, it's good to talk
to friends, it's good sometimes talk to

518
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:15.800
family, you know, even to
faith based but find somebody that has that

519
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:20.159
expertise in that to help you get
through that. And generally, I think

520
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:23.000
we talked about get your journal,
write it down, get your tape recorder.

521
00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:27.280
If you don't want to write it, just write something down, get

522
00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:31.320
your scribble board or sketch pad,
draw it out. Just just go ahead

523
00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:35.880
and scribble. Get it out of
you some way, shape or form,

524
00:43:35.960 --> 00:43:37.800
because you don't want to take take
that on, you know, high blood

525
00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:42.440
pressure, stroke or a heart attack, it's not worth it, you know,

526
00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:45.519
life is too short. Thank you
for bringing up the medical piece,

527
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:49.320
the health, the physical health.
I look at people. I don't even

528
00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:52.679
know how I got my first heard
yet. I don't know that I'm finding

529
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:54.679
out that it could have been from
the birth of my first son, you

530
00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:59.119
know, because your body goes through
trauma. Even though it knows how to

531
00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:02.199
expand, it knows how to start
fuddling, fuddling nutrients to the womb.

532
00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:07.199
I don't know how all that works. But I've carried around a tumor a

533
00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:09.239
hernia that I didn't even know I
had until I was in a car accident

534
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:12.360
and it took an X ray and
they said, oh, by the way,

535
00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:14.519
you've got a hia a hernia.
I said, I gotta what.

536
00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:16.280
I don't eat spicy food. I'm
not a drinker and know all that kind

537
00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:21.119
of stuff. So you know,
now I've got one that protrudes because of

538
00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:23.480
the surgery. I've got a surgical
herding in now, you know. But

539
00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:28.960
I look at women and they've got
these stomachs, and I'm like, they

540
00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:32.960
can't all be drinking people, you
know. You know, I don't think

541
00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:38.679
they even realized that this could be
true a health issue and you don't even

542
00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:43.840
know it. You've got blood pressure
issues, high blood pressure, low blood

543
00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:49.199
pressure, thyroid, all the old
ones. Uh, the old disorders are

544
00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:54.079
coming back now. Scabies is coming
back, Typhoid is coming in the States,

545
00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:58.800
you know. I mean, it's
this stuff has been laying low and

546
00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:05.719
everything else. But but your mental
health that's subconscious is a wicked, wicked

547
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:10.360
device up there because it holds onto
everything and when you least expect that,

548
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:15.000
it starts to seep out as a
seapout. That's why your flesh is not

549
00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:21.199
your friend. Your mind is not
your friend. And that's why the Bible

550
00:45:21.239 --> 00:45:27.719
says that Holy Spirit wars daily and
your flesh wars daily. Because in your

551
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:30.360
mind, you want, okay,
I'm gonna go do I'm gonna go to

552
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:34.280
this payday loan once and for all, I gotta get a loan, and

553
00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:36.840
and and they go through all that, and they ask you all information.

554
00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:38.679
They give you five hundred dollars,
but you gotta pay five fifty to pay

555
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:45.719
it back in two weeks, So
you already in the negative. You go

556
00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:50.039
in and put you further behind.
But when you do get your paycheck in

557
00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:52.800
two weeks, you gotta pay that. And then you know you have to

558
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:57.119
decide, Wait a minute, there's
got to be a better way, and

559
00:45:57.159 --> 00:46:00.559
there are some money management opportunities.
You just got to discipline yourself. You've

560
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:02.960
got to say, you know what, I don't like this anymore. That's

561
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:07.920
another piece too, I don't like
this. I don't like being like this

562
00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:10.519
anymore. I can't even work it
out. I can't call it enough.

563
00:46:10.599 --> 00:46:14.599
Jurry. I'm not making the money, so let me go get the job.

564
00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:16.880
Trying to stay away from those payday
loans. Oh done, country,

565
00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:21.519
See I don't close up some of
them, thank you Jesus. Yeah,

566
00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:24.360
they they loans, Am Scott.
But there's a reason why they are developed,

567
00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:30.480
there's a reason why they exist,
and they pride themselves on it because

568
00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:37.079
they do exactly what's what the world
has called them to do. So Lee,

569
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:44.559
you got something. And then I
want to say, to start off

570
00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:49.400
with realizing what the issue is internally
within yourself and where it may have came

571
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:53.239
from, what can cause it to
abhor And when you figure that out,

572
00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:58.800
you know, give it up to
God because it only prolongs your blessings as

573
00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:02.519
well as in delay you in life
period when you're just stuck in that mental

574
00:47:02.519 --> 00:47:07.239
state or whatever trauma you know you've
gone through and everything. You know,

575
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:12.119
eventually you have to let those things
go in order to move forward in life.

576
00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:15.719
And I feel like it's a big
delay on people mentally, like they're

577
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:17.719
scared, they're hesitant because they don't
believe they could do it, and stuff

578
00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:22.960
like that without forgiving those people or
whatever things happened in their past. So

579
00:47:23.239 --> 00:47:29.679
I feel like the first thing again
is realizing what the issue is within yourself.

580
00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:37.840
Yeah, well, I'll just make
mind quick. And that is I

581
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:44.239
think Pelicia really touched on it,
and that is delay. Delay is a

582
00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:50.480
spirit, and the spirit of delay
is going to make you stagnant, make

583
00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:54.760
you afraid, make you hold back, question yourself, doubt yourself, and

584
00:47:54.920 --> 00:48:00.159
when you have the solution in front
of you, instead of you resolving,

585
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:05.039
you're just going to take it with
you wherever you go. And that in

586
00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:07.960
itself, just as you said,
Felicia, that that we got to address

587
00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:14.159
it. And if you look in
Ephesians four, beginning at six, verse

588
00:48:14.199 --> 00:48:17.559
six, I'm sorry, verse seven, it talks about the gifts that were

589
00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:25.960
given and we have to address the
characteristics that delay those spirits to blossom and

590
00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:31.599
help us grow. And that's why
we have to really understand that this is

591
00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:37.119
something that you know, we we
surround ourselves as a unified body of Christ

592
00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:42.559
so we can address those issues.
And when they think that it's the truth,

593
00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:50.519
camouflage and lie or and it sounds
biblical. That's where you have people

594
00:48:50.559 --> 00:49:00.880
that really want to help you.
It is so much goal pretty. That's

595
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:05.880
that He came for us. He
came for us. He came. That

596
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:08.639
was a liar, that that was
a liar. Yeah, laid on it.

597
00:49:09.119 --> 00:49:14.599
God can handle it. And he's
got the answer. He's got the

598
00:49:14.639 --> 00:49:17.760
problems. He walks on the problem. You. I'm telling you, will

599
00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:23.400
you start? I'm telling you you
won't stop, and I would. I'm

600
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:28.599
gonna challenge you. Let it all
out on him the next three days.

601
00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:31.920
Just lay everything out, whatever comes
to your mind, lay it all out

602
00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:37.239
before him, say God, here
it is. I don't want it anymore.

603
00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:40.639
And that's our time. We're gonna
pick this up next week, same

604
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:44.599
time, same station. We're praying
for each and every one of you,

605
00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:47.360
guys, y'all be blessed. Now
take care, don't forget your homework.

606
00:49:49.039 --> 00:50:15.480
Bye bye s