Jan. 26, 2026

National Financial Wellness Month

National Financial Wellness Month

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Well, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening. It's

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time to get this party started. Allelujah. Let's take it

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to the throne room, Father God, we just thank you today.

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Yes, God, we know that we are people are experiencing

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some weird things, some unfortunate things right now, Father God,

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but we're gonna still give you glory and praise because

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we've lived to see another day. There were a few

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that did not make it, Lord, and I pray that

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they knew you. I pray that they made it into

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heaven if that was their destination. Lord, I just thank

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you for your saving, grace and your mercy, receiving the

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news of health reports and results, and I mean just

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blowing my mind. I thank you, Father God, when the

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devil is stopped in his tracks and he can't form

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or harm his people, Your people, Lord, your people. I

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thank you God for the victory that we're receiving, the

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victory despite how the world is looking, despite the sounds

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and the conversations. Lord, despite what's lacking, not on the shelves,

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you are still blessing unlike ever before.

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We give you glory and praise, and we are.

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Honored to be able to sit at your feet tonight

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and hear what thus says the Lord. We glorify you,

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Father God, and we thank you now. Father, as always

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we get behind the cross. Do what you do, do

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what you do. Set your people free tonight, set us

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all free tonight. We know the word. We know what

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your word says and does. And I heard today the

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word works when you work the word. The word works

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when you work the word.

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You got to know it. We thank you, We give

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you praise.

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Now what we're gonna lean in and hear what thus

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says the Lord.

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All this is we ask in Jesus.

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Name, amen, and ain'tmen, and ain'tmen, my God, my god,

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my god, So Trey, go start with you, because you're

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a little further distant.

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Go let we go start with you. Pauls up there. Amen, Amen,

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thank you, thank you, the station, thank you, Mickey, y'all.

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Come on in, come on in, come on in, come

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on in, just come on. As you were saying, Trey,

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I'm sorry.

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Old and snow. We had snow.

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There is snow.

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Oh my god, sweet snow. Whoa.

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Okay, it's pretty, but you know it's inconvenient sometimes, but well, inconvenient, convenient,

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but it's okay.

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It's God's work, so I'll take it.

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Amen. Amen, Well make sure you stay warm. You dress

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in layers.

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I don't know, for some reason, I'm not into my

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coats and jackets anymore.

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I don't know when that kind of that left me.

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So I just, you know, did a mad dash to

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Amazon and got some turtlenecks, which is so nice. I

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think it's still kind of sleek and professional. And I

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have my you know, my little colored things here and

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I can wear, you know, a nice turtleneck with it,

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and you know, I'm warm, I'm good, you know, and

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you know, I think we're in our our fifties here

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and I mean, let me just jump a check here

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real quick.

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Yeah, we're at fifty.

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Seven right now, but it's gonna drop, I think to

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the thirties. I think sometime tonight. So but yeah, you know,

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God bless all of you. All, y'all stay safe, you

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use wisdom. Don't be going out to gets the news,

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get the newspaper and you don't have nothing on. And

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you don't think mister snow or mister Cole, mister freeze,

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mister Chili is not gonna find you. So they'll be

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playing crazy now. And you know, put your socks on.

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If you're in the house, you know, do what you

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have to do, and be prayerful and praying for your

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neighbors and everything else, and especially if you know your neighbors,

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check on them.

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It's time to check in. It's time to show.

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That you are a great neighbor, all right, and check

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on family that's way up north or way out there somewhere.

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Let's check on our Belicia ms Kay shared earlier today

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that about thirteen people have passed away. I'm not sure

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where they are. I hadn't been watching the news too

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much this last few days. I've enjoyed being quiet I've

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just enjoyed. I never thought. And boy, God had a

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chat with me over the weekend. He said, you know

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you've talked snow here in North Louisiana. Okay, missy, all right,

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just just you know, do what you need to do,

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Do what you need to do, and go out if

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you need to go out if you don't. You know,

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Miss Tray and I were talking earlier about the black

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ice thing and stuff, so she taught me some things

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about that, so please be careful, please. But I was,

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you know, just enjoying being right. And the Lord said

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to me, well, you know, since you were fourteen, you've

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been working. You know, you've been talking for a living.

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Your internships.

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If you're going to college working twenty three dollars and

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all that, you can work all your jobs acting voiceovers.

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I never thought that during this season of my life

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I would enjoy because unless amen, amen, Amen.

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What you don't have, you don't have it. Right now,

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they do what you've got.

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Blood everything, and cook everything, house form, place form, and

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use wisdom, use wisdom.

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This is a great time. If you're not.

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Working remotely, it's a great time to blot your work.

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Get on it, get on up in it, get on

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up in it, start studying it, taking notes. You're looking

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for scriptures, all that application. We're going to talk about finance.

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This is January's National Financial Wellness Month, so I think

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it's appropriate as we're ending January. You know, you gotta

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be taking a look at your money now, taking a

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look at something.

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So we're gonna go with that in a minute. But

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just you know, come on now.

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Yeah, God was talking to me about some thing, people

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and things.

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And let miss Kay and I went some old we

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were going.

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I rode with her to run an errand the other

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early afternoon and we were sitting in the We went

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the grass and food. So I'm sitting in the car

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watching people. Have y'all ever watched people dumb people watching?

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I mean you just sit and you just watch people

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and you can look on their faces. And it was

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all ages, and you could you could tell, like this

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one guy got out of his car, set Oh he's lonely.

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He's lonely, And sure enough if he went in ordered

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this fool came back out.

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Gonna lean on the post on the building and talk

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to every female that came by.

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You have to say something to every female.

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I said, Yeah, he lonely and desperate, and you know,

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and I'm looking at some people, you know, people piled

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up in a car. I remember those days we all

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get in the car. You know, you go in one place.

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You'd have no money, but you want to ride.

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Oh you right, y'all ride with you.

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It brought back some memories. But I was just watching

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people in my heart, you know, just got sad because

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they're running in to do something. They're just running over

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here to do something in there, race it through the

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parking lot, like they gotta get out, they gotta go.

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And I'm watching people on the road. They gotta get

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over here, and they gotta get over there. And I'm like,

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where are you going when you get there?

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Is it gonna matter?

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Is it gonna make a difference? People just trying to

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run over you. And then I learned something. I was

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listening to one of the profits that I follow. Prophet

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is Tiffany Montgomery, and she talked about you gotta you know,

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she said, you know, she she always she has a

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met Ain't Charles, not a good state of mind to

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be in. It is not good you, right, Charles, because

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you'll do some things that you least you know, that

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you don't want to do, and sometimes you can't dial

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it back.

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You can't dial it back, and you have to.

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Live with it, sit in it, and and say, Okay,

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this is what I've done and I have to live

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with it.

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But I don't want you all to do like I

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used to do. I wasn't a bad person. I had

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to do crazier things.

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But I figured, Okay, I got myself into this financial situation.

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You know, I've got a paycheck that's not in make it.

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The ends are not meeting, you know, and it's like,

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oh my God, what am I gonna do?

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And then I didn't take it to God. I was like,

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I got myself into it, so I'm not I can't

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take this to God. I can't. But I'm here to tell.

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You as a living witness that that's who you need

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to take it to. Before you go into the long shark,

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before you start trying to borrow money, you know, you

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take it to the Lord in prayer, because guess what,

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before you even knew that you were going to have

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this situation, he already knows and he's got your answer.

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Now.

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Sometimes we have to sit in it. Sometimes we have

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to walk it through don't go around it, don't try

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to go over it, don't try to dig your way

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out from No, no, no, Okay, I'm sitting here, I'm

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looking at this and you can put money in there,

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you can put the thing in the sentence. But I've

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got I chose this and okay, I got the relationships. Okay,

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I got to ride this out because I don't have

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a choice right now. But you do have one little choice.

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Take it to our father, which aren't in heaven, who

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has many names.

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He goes.

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He'll answer you, and he's just waiting for you to

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give it to him because he already know an answer

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to it.

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Just ride it out for a minute. I'm right here

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with you.

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Weapons were made form, fiery darts will be sent off,

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but you're gonna be Okay, I got you. But you

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do have to learn a lesson or two, and that's

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reaping what you've sown. Sometimes it's harsh, and sometimes he'll

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tap you. There are times I.

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Know, oh, oh, I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna get tapped.

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But Lord, please don't slow up the blessings. I repent

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right now in the name of Jesus. Repenting it will

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always be your saving grace. It'll make the crookeet rose straight,

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the cricket paths straight.

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But you gotta say you're sorry. You got to own it.

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You got to own it.

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I think that's where AA got their initial start or

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inspiration from.

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You know, the first thing.

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I've seen people in support groups and on on movies

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and stuff like that, and they'll say, Hi, my name

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is John and I'm an alcoholic, and everybody says hi John.

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That's the first thing you gotta admitted.

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I'm not good with money. I wasn't good with money.

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And I've shared this over the three years going on

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for that we've been on here. You know, always have

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a choice. Not making a choice is a choice.

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True, not owning it.

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There you go, not making a choice, that's your true

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You choose to do that, okay, and that's okay. Do you,

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but don't be looking around for people to feel sorry

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for you. Don't be looking like, oh what am I

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supposed to do? You know, I mean people, you know,

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oh my god, come on now.

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But I've told you the story.

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My parents were serious, you know, members and cardholders, and

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that was the thing they had convinced me to do.

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You know, when you gave you were able to get

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you that serious charge card. And we had Western the

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Hotto in the day versus which is Firestone today, you know.

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And they had to get because we had used cars.

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So that's the thing we did have, mister Mutt, the

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neighborhood mechanic. But you know, you always had a Bonti

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five place to go, and that was the thing to do.

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And because of my mom's Alzheimer's, I almost lost our family,

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We almost lost the family home. So I had to

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filed Chapter thirteen bankruptcy and Sears was in as a

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part of that program. And they, I mean, their representative

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was nasty, and I've already shared that. The bankruptcy judge

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had to put him in his place and told them,

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I'm not going to say nothing else to you. You

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won't be invited to these meetings.

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You leave her alone, and you'ren't going to insult her

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in my court. Nasty. Never thought I'd get out from

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under that.

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But at the end I got reimbursed from the bankruptcy

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court itself, from the bank that was trying to file

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the foreclosure.

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I got like three major checks. I was like, what

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is this? Stay you the hit?

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Now years later, the Lord did tell me. We were

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just talking one day, he said, you know you didn't

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you didn't. You weren't supposed to take that hit. And

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I'm like, God, what are you talking about?

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What are you talking about? When you father bankruptcy? I said,

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but I patick. I'm trying to do the only thing

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my parents had to leave, have to for mess as

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something to.

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Leave me was the house, so I thought. And my

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friend whose brother's an attorney, she got him involved and

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their father on that Friday, father in time, because the

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bank was going to put me out, put us out

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that weekend, me and and my new husband no, yeah,

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and my baby, the oldest and got it. You know,

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you look back and when you have these quiet times,

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it's just like a film. It just it would just

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roll and you're like, what, you were there all the time.

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He's right here, He's right here all the time. He's

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just waiting patiently. The song said, you were there all

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the time, waiting patiently in line, waiting patiently in line

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for you.

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To just say, Lord, I need you. I give up,

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I give up, I surrender. I surrendered to you because

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I don't you know what and now I could take you.

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I don't want to do it. I don't want to

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make a decision on my own.

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I don't want to do it. His way is always better.

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And yes it's odd. Sometimes you're like, you want me

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to do what?

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Now? I know better run to do it, hasten to

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do it.

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The scripture say he hastens to bless you. And it's hard,

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I know, especially, And like I said, I've lived paycheck

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to paycheck. I've lived where there was no paycheck. I've

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lived where I've had overdrafts.

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I've lived it.

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I've had to go to the park. So I've told

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you about going to the payday loan place. People knew

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me by name and because I was so friendly make

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him laugh. They just you know, I had favor there.

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You know, did you always have religion in this connection

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with God or did it come in time? Well, okay,

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on the stage of thank you for that, I don't.

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I'm not religious. I was raised a Baptist, I went

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to a Southern Baptist college.

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I went to Catholic school most of my life. But

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religion was not is not, was not my thing. Now.

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Of course, being in those different environments, you know, where

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we had to read the Bible and you had to.

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Get tested on it and things like that. You had

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to go to Sunday School.

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It built a nice foundation, but it wasn't until I

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was twenty two years old studying for my two psych exams,

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and I sat on the floor. There was nobody to call.

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These are my psychic exam, these are this is my major.

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I had to not just pass it. I had to

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get a's.

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I got to get hundreds on my finals. Those are

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my main that's my major.

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And I already failed statistics and I took it that

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summer and got a C just because I was determined.

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That's what the professor said. He said, You're the most

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determined person I have ever met. Sorry, guys, had my

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thing up here and okay, here we go and I

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got to see and I sat on that floor and

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I began to cry because none of that word that,

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none of the none of none, nothing was sticking, nothing

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was coming back, nothing that was being recalled.

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I couldn't. I couldn't. I know, I can't do this.

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This is a.

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Thursday exams on a Friday, two of them back to

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back with the same professor, same professor, and I had

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to say, God Jesus, I know my situation is nowhere

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near what I heard from people. And I was around

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older people a lot. I stag in the old I

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was the only eighteen year old in the older folks

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choir because I like them better. The kids were just

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let me get the old day seniors. And they used

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to tell me you. I said, well they you know,

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we get this testimony one time and everybody telling about low.

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I lost my car and I lost my spouse and

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I lost this I lost. I got up there and

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I'm like, oh god, well I was about to fail

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two of my psychology exams. They looking at me, like what,

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And the lady behind me came up behind me. She said, well,

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she lived long with us, she gonna go through it.

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No you what? What? So you're cursing me? Now? That

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was detrimental to me.

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For anybody who's ever been in school and you had

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to take a test and your GPA, your grade depended

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on you not just passing.

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You had to get a hundred. And Jesus answered me,

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and I made a deal with him.

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I said, if you bless me, if you help me

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to pass both of these exams, get hundreds on them,

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I'll run and I'll never look back.

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And I've been running ever since. So it grew over time, Anastasia.

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But it was personal relationship.

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It wasn't hosted, it wasn't housed under religion.

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I know people who say I'm a Baptist, I'm a

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dia Baptist. I'm like, going, okay, I'll wait for you.

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I'm coming to your funeral because I'm gonna see how

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they bury Baptist people versus everybody else. They used to

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look at me like what I said, Yeah, cause you

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say you're gonna die Baptists.

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I don't know what that means. So no, it wasn't

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religious religion.

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If you look uprough definition of religion, it means to

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adhere to a denomination.

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So people who say.

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Oh, I'm Catholic or I was raised this, that's religion,

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and you're religious because you're counting on the Catholic way

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of the Baptist way of things, or the Lutheran way

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of things, or the Methodists or the Episcopalian way of things.

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You know, so you know, that's the difference between them

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being a spiritual servant of God. And now, of course

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the New Age people that have taken the word spiritual

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and their spiritualists and all this kind of stuff, and

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they believe in crystals and all that, all that, not

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that stuff, but all those things.

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Now I believe in.

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God Jesus in the Holy Spirit in that order, and

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I fear God Jesus in the Holy Spirit, and now

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I long to do whatever he would tell me to do.

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Right now.

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I've been in a space. And Miss Kate knows this

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because she said, well, min just do what you want

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to do. And I'm like, I had to realize and

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just say, you know what, I've done everything I've ever

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could imagine doing. So I guess I just need to

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sit tight except for a podcast or.

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Two, you know.

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And I'm it's really a strange place because it's like

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even though despite I don't have the limbs and I

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don't have the endurance yet you know, it's like I said,

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I feel like I feel a little guilty because and

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then when I want to talk or to a person,

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everybody's puss And I was feeling bad about that that

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I was thinking that way.

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Does that make sense?

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Everybody's you know, everybody's got things they got to do,

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or they're married, you know, and I'm a single person.

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I you know, I don't I ain't. I ain't gonna

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be three's a crowd. I ain't.

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No, I'm not doing that, you know, And I know that,

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you know those who are married, this is your day off,

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you spending it with your spouse. I'm not gonna call

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and interrupt that. So I'm like, So Jazz gets a

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lot of the conversation. You know, she just be looking

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at me like, okay, let me just She's like, let

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me just lay and face you and let me just

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let you know. You got my under I have no

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idea what you're talking about, but I'm just gonna look

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at you and come over and lick you, and come

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over and wag my tail and back up into you.

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She does this, and when I'm sitting up in my chair,

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she backs up to the chair so she's leaning on

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my leg. She's got to feel you, you know, and stuff.

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So she gets a lot of the conversation.

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I just got discerned with something.

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Okay, yes, she'll be four in May. She had like

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a puppy too.

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What you gonna say, trained No, I mean, I just

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got I just thought of something. But you know, I

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wanted to kind of go back when you were talking

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about you don't have the limbs and you don't have

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you know, you know, single and stuff.

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But I thought of something, Leasia.

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Uh oh your money.

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Your mind is so great. I'm telling you, I'm going there.

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I have to go there.

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Your your mind, well, it's it's not it's not to

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kind of make you embarrassed, but I just want to

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put it out there because it is. My thing.

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Is your your mind and your.

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Thought process and your discernment and your belief of God

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is is more than any limb. And I see you

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pull people out of stuff, you know, through your walk,

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through your your work and things that you do. But

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I thought about it too when you said jazz gets

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most of your conversation.

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You know people do.

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They do pages with their animals, and I just came

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up with something.

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I'm just gonna put out the journals of.

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Jazz or me and jazz, and you can document your

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walk and your your daily movement with you and jazz.

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I just have to put it. I'm sorry, you.

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Ain't sorry, you ain't sorry. I'm saying you're sorry, you

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ain't sorry. We quickly say that, oh, we're sorry.

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I don't want to put you I like I'm putting it.

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I'm putting you out there.

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But but that's what came to me, and and and

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I thought about sharing because there are so many people

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who probably feel like you do.

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And you know, I.

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Know people are struggling with stuff to come up with whatever,

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and there are so many people that, you know, I

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can't think it's hat hungry, angry, lonely entire.

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And there's so many people under that. And sometimes you.

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Might be hungry and not angry, lonely and tired, and

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sometimes you might be the other ones and not that,

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and sometimes you might not be at all.

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But people are going through so much right now.

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And you know, whether it's spiritual or financially, emotionally, you know,

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physically all of that stuff right now, and on top

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of weather, on top of weather, on top of you know,

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issues with loved ones and and and deaths, and right

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now this flu and pneumonia is rapid.

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I don't know about down there, but up here it is.

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Well, I even here with that, you know they're going

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away from here, and so it's enough to put you

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in a frenzy. And sometimes when you let your mind

473
00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:40.559
wander and stray and not focus on on what God

474
00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:42.440
has to you, and I know it's hard when you're

475
00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:45.559
going through something, sometimes you don't want to have that

476
00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:48.400
that talk with God. But that's I'm going to say,

477
00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:52.039
that's when you have it, because I'm telling you you know,

478
00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:55.240
I've always, like I said, I've always believed in God.

479
00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:56.279
I knew there was a God.

480
00:22:56.359 --> 00:22:59.200
But the walk is different from me now where I'm

481
00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:02.640
really trust in God, trying to listen to God, trying

482
00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:06.119
to read his word where I honestly I was not

483
00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:11.559
doing that before. And so wherever you are, just start

484
00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:14.200
with the prayer God. I don't have it all. I

485
00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:17.200
don't know it all. I need you to come. I

486
00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:20.000
need you to come and help and show me because

487
00:23:20.039 --> 00:23:22.039
I want to do right. I want to be right

488
00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:24.400
when I leave this earth, I want to be with you.

489
00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:27.799
And so those are some of the conversations. But when

490
00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:29.359
I see that there are a.

491
00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:29.880
Lot of stuff.

492
00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:32.599
There's a lot of stuff, and even me being transparent,

493
00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:36.640
this is not my time of year, cold snow.

494
00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:37.960
It's stifling.

495
00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:40.359
And but the thing that I have to turn it

496
00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:43.319
around that this is God's work and so I try

497
00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:45.319
not to take it there. But I have to really

498
00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:49.079
push push myself to get out of that gloom because

499
00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:51.839
it gets darker with Gus getting now is getting lighter,

500
00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:53.720
and so I'm looking forward to that.

501
00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:55.599
But also in my mind, where can I do, what

502
00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:56.319
can I plan?

503
00:23:56.839 --> 00:23:58.680
What can I have something to kind of look forward

504
00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:01.000
to the next day, because you have peop they don't

505
00:24:01.039 --> 00:24:03.960
have anything to look forward to, and it starts with

506
00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:07.640
your mind that it starts with the mindset. And I

507
00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:11.759
just want to encourage people. It looks bad, it could

508
00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:15.319
look bad right now, but trust and believe, trust on God,

509
00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:18.440
pray to God. And I've learned that it doesn't have

510
00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:20.759
to be the most eloquent thing, just taught have a

511
00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:23.960
conversation with Him, because that's where I am. Sometimes I

512
00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:26.240
can thank a prayer brother than I can speak it out.

513
00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:29.279
But I also Lord, just help me because right now

514
00:24:29.640 --> 00:24:30.839
I don't know what to do.

515
00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:35.079
Is okay? Amen? Thank you for that. Thank you.

516
00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:39.400
It's nobody but God, and and you know, just it's

517
00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:42.240
to fight. You know, I'm on a couple of support group. Well,

518
00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:45.400
I'm on a board, a new board. I'm a new

519
00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:49.759
board member for my brothers and sisters up in Canada.

520
00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:53.480
And it's fun and when we're talking it's like, you know,

521
00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:54.440
we sell.

522
00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:55.400
I mean, that's a group.

523
00:24:55.599 --> 00:25:00.640
This group that we really celebrate our ahabs moment, and

524
00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:02.680
I've never been in an environment like that. You know,

525
00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:04.720
you go and tell somebody, oh, I had a great weekend.

526
00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:06.319
I did this to that and they're like, oh, that's right,

527
00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:09.119
you know. But you know, in this group, you can say.

528
00:25:09.680 --> 00:25:11.640
I was just telling them I put my ear rings on.

529
00:25:13.079 --> 00:25:14.200
All I have to do is put it in. I

530
00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:15.759
was like, oh my god, because I usually wait for

531
00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:17.720
one of the kids to just kind of accidentally come

532
00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:19.559
out and said, oh, can you help me with my earrings?

533
00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:22.039
And I was like, oh my god. They're like yeah,

534
00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:24.119
and they were clapping for me. They were like yeah,

535
00:25:24.359 --> 00:25:26.680
you know. And I said, people don't understand. We will

536
00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:30.039
always have new normals. We will always have our house

537
00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:33.039
and we will always celebrate them. And you know, but

538
00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:36.039
like this weekend, what is that was our hard moment?

539
00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:39.680
Like ah hah, oh man, wait a minute, like the

540
00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:41.599
day that the other day, I said, all I have

541
00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:43.440
to do is just put my ear rings on, and.

542
00:25:43.519 --> 00:25:44.279
I could do this.

543
00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:46.920
So I kept feeling around for the whole I got

544
00:25:46.920 --> 00:25:48.640
this one in. I was like, yes, not now, this

545
00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:51.359
is gonna be a little okay. And I kept feeling

546
00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:53.559
around for the whole. I got disappointed. I said, oh man,

547
00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:57.200
I got I got to do this. And I finally

548
00:25:57.240 --> 00:26:00.720
got it there and I was like, I'm just screaming

549
00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:03.160
at the house. I'm like, yes, I did it on

550
00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:05.079
my own. The other day I had to go for

551
00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:06.799
a test and they say, you can't wear the jewely,

552
00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:07.480
do you?

553
00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:08.640
Boy? I didn't know.

554
00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:11.359
I was really pickled because I was like, I can't

555
00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:14.559
put I couldn't put my second whole ering. I couldn't

556
00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:16.599
wear my little bracelet with my cross on it.

557
00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:19.039
I couldn't. It was enough. I couldn't put on the

558
00:26:19.079 --> 00:26:21.119
owner and you couldn't put no perfume. And I'm like,

559
00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:22.119
it's one of those stands.

560
00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:25.839
And I'm like, m but if I take ear rings

561
00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:28.400
in the car, look, I ain't going anywhere, you know what.

562
00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:30.880
So I took my hair like this. I said, nobody

563
00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:34.559
will know. They won't be able to tell. They won't

564
00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:38.079
be able to tell. But I felt naked without my

565
00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:41.400
jewelry because at least I have that, you know so,

566
00:26:42.039 --> 00:26:42.640
But God.

567
00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:45.279
Bless you, trade thank you because you have walked with me.

568
00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:50.480
You you you knew me back when and and it

569
00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:54.599
makes my heart just flutter when somebody says, you ain't changed,

570
00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:59.480
I'm still the same you ever changed, And I'm like, yeah,

571
00:26:59.640 --> 00:27:01.480
you know, because but I had to come it had

572
00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:04.039
to come back. And I got that realization in the

573
00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:07.240
hospital when I'm like, I'm crying every night in the hospital.

574
00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:09.640
During the day, I'm crying, I'm telling people I don't

575
00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:12.400
want any service today, please, I'm just not there. And

576
00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:15.319
I'm like I'm looking at my advantage, all their hands

577
00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:16.200
and my.

578
00:27:16.119 --> 00:27:18.200
Feet, and I'm like, oh God, what am I to do?

579
00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:18.880
What am I to do?

580
00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:21.799
And the Lord said, okay, you finished. I'm like yeah,

581
00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:23.960
and he said, I need you to get in that chair.

582
00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:26.359
When pt and Ot helps you to that chair and

583
00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:29.319
you do some exercise, you stay in that chair fifteen

584
00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:30.400
minutes later.

585
00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:32.039
Change can be good at times.

586
00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:34.480
Change could be good all the time, Mickey, depending on

587
00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:36.720
how you look at it. And we're gonna talk about money.

588
00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:41.160
How you look at money, because the Bible says the love.

589
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:43.799
Of money is the root of all evil. When you

590
00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:46.759
love money, you will do anything to get it.

591
00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:50.680
You will lie, you will steal, you will course, you

592
00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:54.319
will go and stead and try to convince other people.

593
00:27:54.359 --> 00:27:56.640
Oh I need I need some help right now. I'll

594
00:27:56.640 --> 00:27:58.319
pay you back, and you know you're not gonna pay

595
00:27:58.319 --> 00:28:00.680
me back. I was telling saying something earlier to Don.

596
00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:04.160
I was watching one of the Judge shows. And here's

597
00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:07.680
this brother in law like pretending like, oh, I didn't

598
00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:08.599
buy it, borrow anything.

599
00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:09.400
He said, no, you did.

600
00:28:09.599 --> 00:28:12.440
You borrowed three thousand dollars from me, and you said

601
00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:14.200
you're paying it. And you kept giving me excuse me,

602
00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:16.359
And I told I tell my kids, and I said

603
00:28:16.359 --> 00:28:19.400
to Don again, don't you ever loan nobody no money?

604
00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:23.279
Because a key here is that for somebody who asked

605
00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:27.880
to borrow money, how's their spending pattern, how's their view

606
00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:30.160
on money? And twenty twenty should have taught us. And

607
00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:32.079
I say this all the time, and I'll say it again,

608
00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:36.400
twenty twenty people were totally ticked off when the landlords

609
00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:39.079
got their stimulus money. They got the back rent from

610
00:28:39.079 --> 00:28:41.960
people and everything else. Well, guess what in twenty nineteen

611
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:45.559
and in twenty seventeen and in twenty ten, you as

612
00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.559
a resident, how you you you were You were neglecting

613
00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:51.440
paying your rent on time then and you were working

614
00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:54.000
in the world was not in a crisis. So a

615
00:28:54.119 --> 00:28:56.039
landlord had to sit there and say, you know what,

616
00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:58.319
this is great, I got all the back paid, but.

617
00:28:58.759 --> 00:29:02.519
Your habit, your behavior has a change, and.

618
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:05.400
We're not gonna have stimulus rounds anymore. And I got

619
00:29:05.400 --> 00:29:07.440
to go back to you making up excuses.

620
00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:10.359
Ben frankly said, never a lender or borrow.

621
00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:12.960
B and I'm gonna say about the lender, even though

622
00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:14.400
God makes us lenders.

623
00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:17.359
I have not enjoyed that, and I won't be doing

624
00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:20.039
it anymore. I'm just waiting for everybody paying me.

625
00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:24.119
Back because the mentality money does separate a friend.

626
00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:26.119
Money does, and.

627
00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:28.880
I wish, you know if I had it, you know,

628
00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:31.440
but if you're but I'm gonna teach you about money.

629
00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:34.240
When I worked at Children's Services Counsel, which is one

630
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:38.480
of the leading UH funding resources for children and families

631
00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:41.599
back in my hometown, I hate you know, we gave out,

632
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:45.000
we awarded programs their moneys for the year. But I

633
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:48.119
had to let my team, my my my organizations that

634
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:51.400
I oversaw. We're not gonna keep giving you this money

635
00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:54.279
because you come after year after year and you you know,

636
00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:55.880
you just know the right thing to say, and we

637
00:29:55.960 --> 00:29:58.359
do need the service, but we're not gonna keep We

638
00:29:58.400 --> 00:30:00.000
need to teach you how to fish. So we brought

639
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:03.519
in all kinds of trainers and everything how to manage

640
00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:05.839
your money, so you can tell your clients how to

641
00:30:05.880 --> 00:30:06.759
manage your money.

642
00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:08.839
So it's never good. It's a good feeling.

643
00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:11.160
Now. If you want to help people, that's fine with you,

644
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:13.000
but don't put it as money. No, I'm giving this

645
00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:15.039
to you here. You don't owe me, and I'm not

646
00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:17.079
looking at you don't no, But I'm a pay no

647
00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:20.799
because sometimes that don't happen, and you just if you,

648
00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:22.640
I just wouldn't do it.

649
00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:25.359
I wouldn't do it because they gonna come back. They're

650
00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:26.160
gonna come back.

651
00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:28.960
One of the Linders, she you know, always called me

652
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:30.880
her angel, and then I had to tell her the

653
00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:32.960
next time she came through. God said let her know

654
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:35.519
this the last time, and I said it very respectfully

655
00:30:35.559 --> 00:30:38.079
and everything. Boy, you talk about somebody turning on me.

656
00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:42.200
And you still owe me. I didn't tell you. It

657
00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:45.799
was my idea. God told me to tell you. Another

658
00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:48.359
person owe me money paying me when they get ready.

659
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:50.400
I paid a late fee. So don't worry. You ain't

660
00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:52.640
got nothing to say. You got it, you ain't got

661
00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:54.720
I know what that person is saying. Ms.

662
00:30:54.799 --> 00:30:57.079
Gray's not hurting well, you think I went through this

663
00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:00.640
for you so and the words have been frankly, don't

664
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:03.240
be you know, don't get caught up in that and

665
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:05.960
talk about some things. Anybody wanted to miscady or anything.

666
00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:08.599
Anybody want to jump in here. I'm gonna talk about

667
00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:10.079
financial wellness months.

668
00:31:09.880 --> 00:31:12.039
And then we got we got a nice little surprise

669
00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:13.799
for y'all, like the end towards the end. So I'm

670
00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:17.039
got to watch my time. Anybody want to add to that? Yes,

671
00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:21.200
keep going okay, this case, I can keep going okay. Well.

672
00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:25.599
January is natural National Financial Wellness Month. Wellness month a

673
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:30.680
dedicated time to assess, reset, and improve your personal financial habits,

674
00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:35.799
goals and strategies position after the holiday season. This time

675
00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:42.759
encourages individuals to build sustainable habits, reduce financial stresses, and

676
00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:46.000
establish long term stability. Now you probably say it's great,

677
00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:48.640
you know what, I'm working the same job. I'm still

678
00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:52.039
not the ends and not meeting well this, Okay, I did.

679
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:56.160
I would encourage you like the widow with Elijah and

680
00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:58.079
she said I don't have enough. I only have one

681
00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:01.759
enough oil to make my me and my son a cake.

682
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:04.960
And that was like cornbread, like a muffin and then

683
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:07.720
we're gonna die. And he said, no, give me, make

684
00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:09.200
me the cake, give it to me.

685
00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:10.359
We're gonna pray.

686
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:12.839
God will, God will provide. He didn't even say we're

687
00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:15.240
gonna pray. He said, God will provide. And he said,

688
00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:15.960
where's your oil?

689
00:32:16.039 --> 00:32:19.079
Back? Where's the container? Some of you don't have the container.

690
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:22.000
Some of you can't even go past Friday, the thirty,

691
00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:23.359
the fifteenth of the thirty.

692
00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:27.079
First, No, where's the where's where? Where you? Where do you.

693
00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:30.440
Keep the oilmy? Where do you keep the oil? And

694
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:33.200
he blessed it, and she had enough back she couldn't.

695
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:36.279
She had to borrow or oil containers from her neighbors

696
00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:38.519
because the oil was just overflow. I don't know where

697
00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:40.880
it was coming from. It doesn't say that because it wasn't.

698
00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:43.599
It didn't matter. It's the fact that she was. It

699
00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:45.960
was flowing over and she can do whatever and she

700
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:49.480
and her son would live. He said, just trust trust God.

701
00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:53.319
So hear me talk about sustainable habits. You got to

702
00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:54.720
reduce your financial stress.

703
00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:57.440
How do you do that? Well? I did it.

704
00:32:57.559 --> 00:32:59.720
I would call my creditors and say, you know what,

705
00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:02.160
I don't have it this month. I am not gonna

706
00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:05.400
have it even with my next paycheck. And to my surprise,

707
00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:07.519
either they would like my car payment. They would say,

708
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:09.359
you know what, we'll take the payment and put it

709
00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:10.119
on the back end.

710
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:11.880
Now, at that time it was relief.

711
00:33:11.960 --> 00:33:15.119
It felt good, but the interest also goes on that

712
00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:15.880
back end too.

713
00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:18.200
Or the creditor would say, you know what, missus Gray,

714
00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:20.640
you've been with us a long time. You know what,

715
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:22.359
we're gonna credit you.

716
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:25.680
Just your your your your service and and and your

717
00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:28.480
your loyalty, so you will see you next month.

718
00:33:28.839 --> 00:33:29.400
You don't know.

719
00:33:29.480 --> 00:33:31.920
I used to be afraid to call the creditors because

720
00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:34.400
my parents made me afraid to call the care editors.

721
00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:37.400
The insurance man used to come to the house every Monday.

722
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:39.160
We knew that that was what we had to pay

723
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:41.319
the insurance. And my mother said, well, tell her we're

724
00:33:41.319 --> 00:33:41.599
not here.

725
00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:43.119
And I'm a kiddy.

726
00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:47.119
So the Johnie sees that, Hey, hey, mister Casadiao, we'll

727
00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:49.240
I'll tell you fellow, I said. My mom said, we're

728
00:33:49.279 --> 00:33:51.759
not here. I say it just like that. She said,

729
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:54.240
tell we're not here. Mama said, we're not here. He said,

730
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:56.519
we'll tell I see it next week. I said, okay, Mommy.

731
00:33:56.880 --> 00:34:01.200
He said, he'll sit you next week right now. She's like,

732
00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:03.279
you just run your mouth.

733
00:34:03.319 --> 00:34:05.839
I said, but you teach me, and I think.

734
00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:08.400
And at that time I was starting. I was in

735
00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:11.039
private school, so I was raised. You know, my mom

736
00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:13.039
and dad. You know, they were never in slavery, but

737
00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:16.039
they had their great greates in slavery and stuff. So

738
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:20.440
theirview towards Caucasian people towards white people.

739
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:21.360
Was very different.

740
00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:24.639
Even though they worked for white people, but they feared them.

741
00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:27.199
So I remember having a conversation with my mom. I

742
00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:29.360
was sixteen, seventeen years old. I said, no, I was

743
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:32.960
in maybe elementary, no middle school. I said, mine, you

744
00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:34.960
gotta you can't. You can't be talking.

745
00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:36.079
You don't. And I'm like, Mama.

746
00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:39.599
Those people bleed red blood like we do. They scared us.

747
00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:42.280
I said, what are you talking about? I said, I

748
00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:45.119
go to school with them. So my whole mindset changed,

749
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:47.679
and I you know, and and I got, you know,

750
00:34:47.960 --> 00:34:50.920
just getting in that way and the way school raised me,

751
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.039
to be honest with you, they played an important role.

752
00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:56.840
Those nuns and priests played an important role in my

753
00:34:56.920 --> 00:34:58.239
life to my self esteem.

754
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.000
And we're not gonna go there, but let me read.

755
00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:05.800
Some here It focuses on creating actionable plans, such as budgeting,

756
00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:09.679
reducing that and increasing savings. Last week, I told you

757
00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:13.800
I was at the bank's banking service and they're.

758
00:35:13.639 --> 00:35:15.920
Talking about all these stocks, you know, talk with one

759
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:17.559
of my advisors. We can tell you about stop. But

760
00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:20.000
that then the little bitty line I had to lead

761
00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:23.039
in and read it, talk about what we're We're not responsible.

762
00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:27.079
There's no insurance, ensure opportunities here that we you know,

763
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:28.840
we we can tell you where to go, but we

764
00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:29.800
have nothing else to do with it.

765
00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:31.880
I'm like, wait a minute, what wait, wait, so you're

766
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:34.360
gonna leave me to the wolves? Are you gonna leave

767
00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:34.800
me there?

768
00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:37.440
You can't ensure me, you can't back, we can't support me,

769
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:41.599
but savings. The next time you all go into your bank, look.

770
00:35:41.440 --> 00:35:43.800
At the marquee, the scrolling marquee.

771
00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:49.199
They talk about CDs, they talk about other monetary options,

772
00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:51.719
and sometimes they have sales. And what they'll say, if

773
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:56.559
you get fifteen months, twelve month, fifteen month, eighteen months CD,

774
00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.079
you could earn with interest this amount read it.

775
00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:01.559
Just look at it.

776
00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:04.599
And of course any loans and stuff like that for property,

777
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:05.480
all that kind of stuff.

778
00:36:05.519 --> 00:36:06.360
But look at it.

779
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:08.920
That's another money stream right there, because you have to

780
00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:11.599
put that money in that account and you cannot get

781
00:36:11.639 --> 00:36:14.840
it for that amount of time, So it makes it

782
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:17.159
a little like your money. Make sure if you have a

783
00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:20.800
savings account, make sure it's an interest yielding account. I

784
00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:24.400
don't care if it's one percent annually, one percent one

785
00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:25.079
time of year.

786
00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:27.960
That's thirty cents you didn't have. And leave the savings.

787
00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:31.000
You shouldn't really touch to keep whatever you got over there,

788
00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:33.360
leave it over there, Let it grow, Let it grow.

789
00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:35.880
I went to Zaxby's the other thing, to get lunched,

790
00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:38.239
and they have a little thing on the drive for

791
00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:42.519
therough saying about they're rounding up if it deals with money.

792
00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:45.440
If it's one cent three cents, you know they'll round

793
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:46.960
it up, so you have to pay that.

794
00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:47.360
Well.

795
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:50.400
I got to the window. My order was nineteen dollars

796
00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:51.079
and three cent.

797
00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:52.360
I said, oh, I have to three cent.

798
00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:54.320
The girl said, come man, we don't take pennies anymore,

799
00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:57.119
and I had to laugh. I said, well, you need

800
00:36:57.159 --> 00:36:59.360
to take that sign down because you got my hopes up.

801
00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:01.000
I could, but I can give.

802
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:03.079
You exactly No, we don't even take pitties anymore, so

803
00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:06.079
now we don't eat merchants, are not taking the pitties anymore?

804
00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:08.760
Are they knocking off the feet? You should have knocked

805
00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:10.360
off the three cent she did.

806
00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:13.039
It was nineteen dollars. And I guess what I did.

807
00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:16.519
Lord, thank you for my three dollar increase, three cent increase,

808
00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:19.800
because I thank you for everything, Thank you for everything,

809
00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:20.360
Thank you.

810
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:23.880
But I got a whole little change first, and I

811
00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:24.440
got enough.

812
00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:27.519
I went went to the Christian bookstore yesterday and I

813
00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:29.480
just the Lord told me, you know, the kind of

814
00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:31.159
and I gave some tens and she said, oh, we

815
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:34.159
need the tens. We really don't go on the twenties,

816
00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:36.079
but we could really use the tens. And I'm like, well, hey,

817
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:37.800
let me know because I got them. No.

818
00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:40.599
So this is where we're at right now. Now.

819
00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:42.880
The world is dictating to us how we spend and

820
00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:45.639
what we spend things on. I heard folks in Tennessee

821
00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:50.119
was going to the grocery store last week and stuff

822
00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:52.719
was out, food was out, the shelves were bare because

823
00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:54.559
people were getting ready for what's coming up this.

824
00:37:54.599 --> 00:37:57.719
Week, saving, saving, okay, And they.

825
00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:00.239
Talked about and they focused on some key area is

826
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:05.039
like budgeting and financial assessment goal setting emergency fund creation.

827
00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:08.199
Some banks have the Christmas fund. I think it starts

828
00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:10.840
in January where you can just put you know, twenty

829
00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:13.800
five dollars in this fun and by Christmas. By November

830
00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:16.079
you can go ahead and withdraw and that's what you spend.

831
00:38:16.159 --> 00:38:19.840
You use it by your Christmas gifts. There's there's things

832
00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:23.800
you know, automation, setting up automatic payments and savings to

833
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:26.119
do so O reduce to stress and retirement planning.

834
00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:27.000
And another thing.

835
00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:31.039
Cash is key once again because don't focus these credit

836
00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:34.960
card things. You're charging that extra three percent. These merchants

837
00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:37.000
are not taking on the three percent and losing it.

838
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:38.559
On their end. They're charging you.

839
00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:40.800
So if you use your I used to take the

840
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:43.800
jazz for grooming and I paid cash. Oh and it

841
00:38:43.800 --> 00:38:46.440
will knock off a few dollars because I did not

842
00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:50.400
use a car, a bank car. So anyway, it's never

843
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:53.119
too late to start. But you need to take a view,

844
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:58.519
do subscripture research, money to eat and sewing. And the

845
00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:01.480
farmer gave to his servants, you know, season went away

846
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:03.280
and saw what it came back to see what they did.

847
00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:08.199
Get the report to do some biblical research. O money okay,

848
00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:09.119
and if you want me.

849
00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:11.039
To talk some more about some money management stuff. I

850
00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:11.559
can do that.

851
00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:15.280
We got two more, you know, we got Wow, this

852
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:17.519
is the last Monday in this month, Jesus, I can't

853
00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:17.920
believe it.

854
00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:19.800
February next week.

855
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.000
So if you all have any idea, if you have

856
00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:24.519
any ideas, for those of you who are all my

857
00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:28.760
the Setting It Straight page on Facebook, put your ideas

858
00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:31.119
in the comments. I read all of that trade also

859
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:33.159
reads those. Put your comments in there.

860
00:39:33.159 --> 00:39:35.360
What you would like us to talk about these next

861
00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:39.320
few mondays? Okay, all right, now is a surprise.

862
00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:43.559
Well you already kind of know about it, but you

863
00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:46.360
know ms Kay has come up with her own starting

864
00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:50.440
her handbag line, continuing with her handbag line, and we

865
00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:52.639
would like to now show it to you because they're

866
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:54.719
here and we need to sell them. No, I'm just

867
00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:56.920
gonna we want to, you know, make sure people start

868
00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:01.400
getting old. I will read the first customer your mind. Yes,

869
00:40:01.480 --> 00:40:04.159
and so it's you would do the honors of sure.

870
00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:07.159
Why we've got just a few minutes left and you

871
00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:10.599
are interested in one, you have to call me. I

872
00:40:10.760 --> 00:40:14.559
want inbox me on Facebook and you talk about over

873
00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:16.880
the phone. I'm not telling everybody here. We go there

874
00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:19.800
it is, she got her initials. There are things going

875
00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:21.800
with the business is. Yeah, we're gonna talk about that

876
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:24.920
because now we get she's gonna do a whole you know,

877
00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:26.920
marketing thing and all that. But I said, no, I

878
00:40:26.960 --> 00:40:28.679
got to start showing this to some of y'all because

879
00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:33.119
I know y'all.

880
00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:34.039
Right, les here, Well, you can't really see it, but

881
00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:37.039
it's a girl with an afro because that's my logo.

882
00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:39.840
It's a former picture of mine and the plaid on

883
00:40:39.840 --> 00:40:41.559
the inside and that's the stuff.

884
00:40:41.559 --> 00:40:44.000
He has two straps as well.

885
00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:48.360
And also the material. It's russ free, it's waterproof. Wait

886
00:40:48.440 --> 00:40:51.400
let me show you. Oh okay, she's gonna show you

887
00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:51.760
some more.

888
00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:56.159
But yes, we only have an unlimited amount and we're

889
00:40:56.159 --> 00:40:57.519
calling it then limited edition.

890
00:40:58.199 --> 00:41:00.760
So have this one.

891
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:05.639
And it's detachable as well. Wow, put mine like this

892
00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:06.199
because it's.

893
00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:11.239
My bus proof, rust proof when you walk in the rain.

894
00:41:11.719 --> 00:41:15.480
Okay, what's the color? What's the color? Is a pig red?

895
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:17.400
Is you're alright?

896
00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:19.719
This is my favorite color?

897
00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:20.039
Really?

898
00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:23.079
Yep, we got our initials there and all that. That

899
00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:25.239
is like, thank you mistery Yes it is. God is

900
00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:28.960
good and it stands up by itself. It stands up.

901
00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:30.760
You can put it on the table instead of trying

902
00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:32.519
to put your purse on the floor. You can put

903
00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:34.679
a little table next to you when you're at that meeting.

904
00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:36.360
You can put it on the seat next to you

905
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:39.199
at the church, okay, and it will not flip over.

906
00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:40.840
It stands by itself.

907
00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:45.440
It's very nice in that pockets as well. Oh short againly, yeah,

908
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:48.519
see the pockets there. We got y'all covered, got yourself

909
00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:50.159
as well.

910
00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:51.199
And it's very deep.

911
00:41:51.960 --> 00:41:54.239
Yep, we won't get lost in there, I promise. Well,

912
00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:56.960
you could get lost right anyway.

913
00:41:57.280 --> 00:41:59.599
But it's really nice. And it's her first, you know,

914
00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:02.320
it's hers. This is the first batch. We're going this

915
00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:04.280
big on. So this is what I'm gonna say. This

916
00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:05.119
is the first release.

917
00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:08.440
So if you're interested, please inbox me or called me

918
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:11.159
directly and we will talk about everything.

919
00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:12.800
Okay, so thank you.

920
00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:15.280
Talk about financial I mean, you know, we had to

921
00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:17.480
talk about we had the budget. We had to okay,

922
00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:19.360
we had to take it into consideration with all this

923
00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:21.920
costs and everything, and that's what the Lord. And then

924
00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:23.880
of course we prayed and during the time we were

925
00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:26.880
fasting over for other things, God dropped the price.

926
00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:28.599
You know told us what the you know, what the

927
00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:30.079
price would be, and I'm like, okay.

928
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:34.079
Lord, done, I didn't even blame done, Amen and amen.

929
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.159
So, uh, it's going to be a message.

930
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:41.039
Can you do a show about running a business? Yeah, misty,

931
00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:43.679
why don't we do that next Monday? How to run

932
00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:44.280
a business?

933
00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:44.719
Now?

934
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:47.639
Do you want it for profit or nonprofit? Because that's

935
00:42:47.639 --> 00:42:50.400
going to be two different segments. So let me know

936
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:52.760
if you want a nonprofit? Are you talking about beautiful

937
00:42:52.760 --> 00:43:00.000
person red? Hey your sister, ah, thank you, thank you?

938
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:00.440
Yes see.

939
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:02.119
I know you're getting ready to do the income texts

940
00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:09.000
after the twenty six tomorrow, right, tomorrow's twenty six. Oh

941
00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:12.559
we do y'all gonna start following the income taxes seven? Okay,

942
00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:16.119
so y'all can okay, I know you're gonna get some refunds,

943
00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:19.679
but keep that keep us in mind from business concept

944
00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:23.760
to launch okay, So from planning and development to launching it. Okay,

945
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:26.559
we can do that. Do that next week. We'll put

946
00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:29.719
that up definitely. So that's a for profit business you

947
00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:32.639
were talking about, Okay, let's talk yeah, let's talk for profit.

948
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:33.159
Yeah.

949
00:43:33.159 --> 00:43:35.360
I was just talking to one of my spiritual daughters

950
00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:38.639
the other day and she told somebody who was running

951
00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:44.079
gave a donation of clothes for her project, and she said,

952
00:43:44.119 --> 00:43:46.519
I you know, my spiritual mother told me some things

953
00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:47.480
that I did it.

954
00:43:47.519 --> 00:43:49.280
She goes, you know what that is? Smart?

955
00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:51.639
Yeah, we had to learn that along the way. So

956
00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:54.719
she's starting out already knowing stuff. And then the Lord

957
00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:57.639
had me to text her some other ideas to be.

958
00:43:57.599 --> 00:43:58.159
Looking out for.

959
00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:00.679
You know what thing I'm gonna tell you first missed it.

960
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:03.880
Get your notebook with pockets in it. Get your spiral

961
00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:06.159
notebook with pockets in it. Because you're gonna get an

962
00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:09.480
occupational license, you're gonna have paperwork and stuff, receive some

963
00:44:09.519 --> 00:44:11.679
stuff that you're doing. You want to be able to

964
00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:14.360
put that in one spot and get to it in

965
00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:16.519
that notebook. I'm gonna give you a little hint right now.

966
00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:18.280
Oh we only got one minute, but I'll give you

967
00:44:18.280 --> 00:44:20.719
a little hint. Put down your mission statement. Even though

968
00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:23.480
it's a for profit business, why are you doing this

969
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:26.480
and what makes you different? So go with the who, what, when, where,

970
00:44:26.519 --> 00:44:28.519
and how. We'll talk about that some more. But at

971
00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:30.760
least you could get a jump on it and start that.

972
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:32.760
But that's what you you know, that's what we're gonna

973
00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:35.480
talk about, who, what, whin wear, and how you could

974
00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:37.719
do another show on nonprofit as well, and the difference

975
00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:39.599
between okay, and that'll be the following money.

976
00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:44.360
So we're done. We got our monkey shows. Yes for

977
00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:45.280
a nonprofit.

978
00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:47.760
You know it's a lot, but if you do it

979
00:44:47.840 --> 00:44:50.320
right and you write down the steps, you'll fall right

980
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:50.760
in line.

981
00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:53.599
You'll fall right in line. But you know we love you.

982
00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:55.559
I just want to say we love you all so much,

983
00:44:55.920 --> 00:44:58.920
and we're so thankful for you all, and that you're

984
00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:01.119
committed and that you love. But please be praying for

985
00:45:01.159 --> 00:45:06.159
each other, Pray for our country, our nation under God, indivisible,

986
00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:10.320
with liberty and justice for all, With liberty and justice

987
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:11.440
for all, let's get it.

988
00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:15.239
We'll see you next week. Save to your safe station shine.

989
00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:18.440
Next night, nine

990
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Is infect