June 16, 2025

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Good evening, good evening, and welcome, Welcome, welcome, welcome, Thank

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you for taking out time to join us this evening

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here at setting it straight with Ms Gray.

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and now we have a fabulous audience that's gonna be

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here with us tonight. But before we go any further,

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we're gonna ask Pastor Miguel to lead us in prayer.

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Friendly Father, we are so thankful and grateful for this

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day that you have blessed us with. We thank you

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for the strength and the energy that you have given

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us for this day, and still you're giving us the

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strength to hear what you have to say. Lord, This

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show is yours, This is not our show. We are

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a representation of the Kingdom. And as we speak, Lord,

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are these are your words that are being spoken. May

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every conversation be blessed with grace, mercy and love. May

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our words sedify and help those who are seeking answers

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You have provided for us to deliver your message. Lord Jesus,

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we submit ourselves to you. We surrender who we are.

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We crucify ourselves onto the cross, because it is You

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that lives in us, not us live. And Lord, we

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turn this time over to you. Speak to us, Speak

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to those who are hearing you, and those who are

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listening for the first time. May the words that are

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used and spoken today much their lives that hear you

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directly because we are your best for Jesus, we turn

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this time over to you, and we pray all this

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in the mighty name our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Amen, Thank you, sir, Thank you sir. Giving God praise

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and and we're we're continuing to give God praise. It's

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just he's just so awesome. He's so awesome. But I

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want to say, Pastor, how how has the week been

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for you.

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Week has been amazing. God has really revealed so many

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things in so many different ways that in a paper

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that I wrote for school, he spoke to me and

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revealed his love for not only me, everyone that we

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we we need to stop stop taking it for granted.

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Amen.

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As much as stuff that's going around all it is,

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it's noise. If we take time and listen to what

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God has to say, you will hear and you will

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see how much He loves us and how much he

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wants to bless us, just a matter of us opening

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up our hearts.

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Amen. Amen, and yes, I concur with you. This morning.

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I was, I had just read an article. I don't

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know why I looked it up the other day, but

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you know I didn't. I forgot that AI does a

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lot of talking now on Google. That's the first conversation

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or response you get is usually from the AI. And

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I was, I was concerned because I saw I wanted

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to look up the use of the char tooth brush

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that has charcoal charcoal bristled toothbrush, and of course here

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I read it. Hey there, hey mickey, thank anesthesia and

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for the compliment to pass through there, thank you. And

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I was like I want. I looked it up years

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ago because I heard about using you know, the charcoal

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based toothbrush, and I thought, okay, so I got into

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it because it's you know, it'supposed to really clean and

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stuff like that. And as I've shared with you all before,

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but my teeth are dull or discolored because as a child,

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I used to chew adult vitamins. We didn't have adult

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vitamins back in my day as a child when I

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was a child, so my discoloration is very different. And

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I've confused all of my dentists, even when I've gone

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for dental studies and I used to participate in them

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a couple of times a year and they give you

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a free toothbrush and all I got inflows, but they've

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always bring out their mock teeth and look and said,

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your discoloration don't match any of this because it's either

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nicotine tar or drinking excessive drinking, smoking coffee, tea, you

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know that type of thing. And I said no, but

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I'll keep telling you how my teeth became discolored. So anyway,

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but I like to keep this coloration as is. I

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don't want to get worse. And I think I shared

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with you all that a few months back, I went

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to the dentist and I asked what there were two

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spots on my front teeth and she said, oh, that's

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weakening enamel. I said, oh, my god, weakening enamel. Oh geez,

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what is it? I mean, I drink with a straw.

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As you all see, I have straws in all my cups.

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I have all kind of straws. I have extended straws

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and everything else. Because it's just for my convenience. It's

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just for my convenience. So anyway, I'm reading this art,

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you know, I'm looking up looking it up, and AI, oh,

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it's horrible. Charcoal is rough and and and and it's

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you know, just not good for the teeth, and you know,

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it's abrasive and all this. I said, I think, And

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I didn't think then, and I was like, oh my god,

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what am I supposed to do? Not brush my teeth?

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What kind of toothbrush cut should I use? And I

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know that a lot of times you see the uh,

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the small you know, as far as texture of a

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tooth brush medium, you know, they don't have the other

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ones any anymore. You know, there's more heavy duty Judier

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made it for a word, so it's more smaller medium,

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that's what you get. So and I'm like, oh my god,

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I can't believe that. So and so this morning I

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get up and I'm I'm I'm getting on my routine

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because I had some errands that have some medical errands

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today and so I'm getting I'm looking at the tooth person.

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I said, well, now I got to go to CBS

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and go get me some tooth brushes. Shop at CBS

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because I have a great coupon opportunity and they paid

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me the shop, so you know. Anyway, and as I'm like,

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I got to use this one because I don't have.

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Everything I have is charcoal. So here I am brushing

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my teeth. And the Lord said, remember I made everything.

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Remember I've been crying all day. Remember I made everything.

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I allowed things to be made. You have forgotten hard

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to find a good toothbrush. Thank you, misty, thank you.

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I'm not making this up. But God said, no, I

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made everything. And remember who you were talking to, who

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responded to you artificial intelligence? Of course coal charcoal would

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be abrasive because that thing is thinking that you start.

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You're talking about a piece of charcoal and you're brushing

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your teeth with it. That's it. All I can do

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is do this in the mirror, like you have so

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much mercy for me, You have so much mercy for us.

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You waited until I turned twenty one and a half.

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You waited on me, You waited, and yet you still

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and you hear me talking, You hear me. Oh my god,

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I'm getting ready to panic because I'm getting distracted all

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because of what AI said about charcoal toothbrush. Most Yeah,

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it makes most of your brush soft. Yeah, most places

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make you want to brush soft, right, And I get it.

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So I was like, oh my god. So because I'm thinking,

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you know, with my charcoal toothbrush bristles, I did this

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to myself. I weakened my enamel. You weakened enamel? Well, yeah,

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I did it. I'm like, oh my god, you keep forgetting.

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And guy said, I made, don't forget. Don't forget. I

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made everything. Don't forget that. There's nothing that gets by me.

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And I always remember the devil will turn everything I've

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made into dungle into boo boo because he's a copycatter.

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And I'm like, he said, all you want to do,

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you could continue brush with your charcoal. Just get the small,

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get the less, get the soft, get the soft, thinking

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that small they get the soft, soft and medium, get

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the soft next time if that's gonna make you feel better.

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But you continue brushing with your your charcoal, you're fine.

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So then after that, I walk out, and you know,

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I've told you all I do my uh oh thanks,

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no bow bit, No, okay, sorry about that. So I'm

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I'm going to my word. You know, I'm reading my word.

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Every morning. I get a verse and I recited one

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hundred times, and I got my clicker, and I'm clicking,

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you know, one hundred times. And this was the word

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I got this more. It came from Psalms chapter one,

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verse eight. The Lord shall preserve thy going in. They're

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going out, and they're coming in from this time fourth

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and forevermore. And me just let me say it again

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without some bumps here, Luke chapter Psalms, chapter verse eight.

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The Lord shall preserve that going out and thy coming

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in from this time forth and even forever more. He's

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gonna preserve me. So I know y'all sitting there and say, well, okay,

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why is this such a big deal. I'm glad you're

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thinking that, because I'm gonna tell you. I had to

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go look up preserve. Let's look up preserved. The word preserved.

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Here we go. First definition is a transition transisitive transisitive

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verb to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction. Preservation,

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to preserve means to protect is written in caps protect.

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Second definition to keep alive, intact or free from decay,

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Free from decay, big word maintain in caps. Third one

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to keep or save from decomposition, from decompting, and of

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course the can to pickle. Similarly prepare for future use.

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For definition to keep up and reserve for personal or

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special use. He said, I'm gonna keep you. I will

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preserve you. You're coming in, and you're going out. You're

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going out, You're coming in furthermore from now and even forevermore,

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but this time and forevermore, for this time and forevermore.

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If I go to the right church, if I give

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the right, if I get I've become a pastor, even

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though I wasn't called to become a pas No, I'll

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preserve you. I'll keep you. Let's go a little further.

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I went, and I had to go to the thesaurus.

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The synonym for preserve is diligently preserving the ancient statue

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for future generations to enjoy. That's English. That's the English

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miriam toking, or just chew it and swish it around

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for fifteen minutes, spit it in the trash. Okay, got you?

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Thank you. Another synonym conserve, keep up, maintain, save. So

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here's some related words. See if any of these kind

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of strike you. Service, support, sustain, manage, defend, guard, shield,

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here we go, cure, fix, heal, and the rest rebuild, reconstruct, rehabilitate, rejuvenate, restore.

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I preserve you, I will protect you, I will guide you,

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I'll preserve. The Lord shall preserve that going out and

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I coming in from this time forth and even for evermore.

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The song says, who wouldn't serve a god like this?

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I'm slightly go ahead.

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I was going to say, as you were reading that,

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I was looking at the different versions of that psalm,

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and you did touch on a lot of them. But

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I think that there's one synonym that you used along

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with keep that is very powerful, and it's coming from

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the New American Standard Bible nineteen ninety five version, and

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it's the Lord will guard you're going out, you're coming in.

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That to me is a very powerful word, to let you,

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let you the reader know what you mean to God.

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This Yeah, he said, I got you. And again go

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back just a few seconds, a few minutes before that,

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I'm in the bathroom struggling with the charcoal toothbrush medium

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and he's reminding me I made everything. Don't you get

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distracted over this what AI says, Remember who's talking to you,

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Remember who's providing feedback. Look at how Google has put

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AI on this pedestal. We can't even go to real

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Google or former Google. We gotta get AI. We got

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to get the artificial definition on Glory. We got to

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get what's not real. But even though they want to

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make this big deal about artificial intelligence, somebody human still

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had defeated the information. It's not sitting there. Even though

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a musk is saying now that he's his whatever he

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called it, his super robot is human. Now got a

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human brain? Where to get it from? Who's missing? Who's

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missing in your state? And they can't find it? Who's

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been found headless? Where where you get the human brain from?

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And how do you preserve it? How did you preserve it?

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How did you what you kept it on ice? You do,

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like you know when they're transferring human organs and stuff

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like that. I mean, I don't know if you all

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have ever seen that. But my first, my first, my

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first husband, who's my excess with you know, he had

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they had a heart transplant. The helicopter with four people

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on it had to go get it, preserve it, put

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it in this this this styrofoam carrying thing with all

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read lettering and stickers all over it, and only one

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person could carry it off the helicopter. I watched this

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and they could only and the timing of transferring that

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the moment they come off that they've got to have

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that patient prep ready and under adesthesia. They got to

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be ready to go. And there was another patient ahead

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of my of mister Lewis, and I said, no, we'll, we'll.

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I have time to be sitting up here. You know.

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I came to visit out of respect. You know. He's

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my oldest son's father. So he's in my town having

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this art transplant. Okay, I hope you realize God has

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changed now, He's got to change your heart. He's got

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to give you another heart. You don't you still don't

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want to give him praise on that one. You're still

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not checking yourself, judging yourself. God has given you a

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new heart. But he was second in line the moment

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I'm sitting there praying, I'm just I wasn't even praying.

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I was just talking out lot. I said, I don't

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have all night for this. What we do with heard

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the helicopter. Nurses came in quickly, mister Lewis. Unfortunately, well

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fortunately you're up. Does the other patient struck up fever?

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him up with a fever. You're next. Let's go. I said, okay,

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I'll see you in the morning. I laughed. And he

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received the heart of a twenty six year old who

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was in a motorcycle accident earlier that day, and he

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was an organ doner. So here's a sixty plus year

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old man walking around with a twenty six year old heart.

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And I told him when he came back out of recovery,

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I said, if you don't get the pitch, if you

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don't get God's point, now, I don't even know what

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to say about you. God will preserve you. I will

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keep you no matter what's going on right now, and

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the world is done. Here we go Bible in action.

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You want to see the Bible, it's in action. Just

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stick your head out, watch the news. It's an action. Now.

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Some of this prayer won't even touch it because it's

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got the role itself out. I've asked you all before.

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was probably you know, really going over some conversation with

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him as he was trying to play as a young person.

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But he's got he had business. And then the parents,

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you know, Mary and Joseph lost him and he's in

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the synagogue teaching at twelve. I'm sure he knew. I'm

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gonna have to train some people. I'm gonna have to teach.

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I'm gonna have to pray for some people that's not

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gonna believe this. They're not gonna be the best folks.

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They're not gonna be the higher my these they're not

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gonna be. I'm a man, I'm I'm I see I okay. Lord,

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God said, no, you're gonna have to go in a

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cave sometime and get some people. You're gonna have to

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touch people with deadly diseases. That are supposed to be contaminated.

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You're not supposed to touch him. You're gonna have to

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be talking to a woman that's been with about five

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or six minute. They ready to stolen her. You're gonna

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have to talk to the Samaritan woman by the well.

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What year was that? Did you get the name of

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the donor? Uh? No?

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No?

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And that was oh god, well over ten ten years ago,

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twelve years ago. But you know, can you train Judas

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a Judas? You know he's your enemy. You know he's

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got to complete some things he's got to go do.

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Can you train a Judas knowingly? Because Jesus knew what

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was coming? And guess what, had he not trained Judas?

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Had Judas said you know what in front of the

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soldiers and whoever he was was hiring him. You know what,

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I don't want to do this. No, because Jesus I've

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seen him heal some people. I'm gonna step out. You

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get somebody else to do the dirt, you know, you

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get somebody else. None of the disciples gonna text this.

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Where will we be? It's all part of the history

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and nobody knows what that is. Nobody knows really what

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that means. Sorry, guys, nobody knows what that means. We

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don't know what's meant to happen and what's being triggered

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by the devil. We don't have that. We know what

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we've studied in the word. We know what conflict. We

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know rumors of wars and wars and and and and

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you know people parents are turning against each other and

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things like that. So we know that because we've studied it.

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We just don't know what it's gonna look like. Hey, Trey,

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it's okay, it's all good. You push it through. We

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don't mind. We're not minding distractions tonight. And we're gonna

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talk about our topic too. We're gonna get to that.

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But and I'm gonna circle back back to it. But

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all we can all I can say is just be encouraged.

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Just be encouraged. I know that there's some happy stuff coming.

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God is getting ready to just pour out blessings. Revival

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is getting ready to happen even the more. And it's

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going to probably happen in smaller sections. It's not going

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to be at the big stadiums, as some people may

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be thinking this, cause it's not gonna be at the

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megachurches because the people are laughing at megachurches right now.

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Most of them. People are not going to the megachurches anymore.

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They're smaller churches popping up, but they're coming up with

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different agendas. So you gotta be very careful who you're

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listening to. That's why it's important even more to study

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your words.

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I can jump in on that one real quick. Sure,

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I heard something today that shook me. The teacher said

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I can handle a fake profit. What I can't handle

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the fake A teacher that's misinforming people.

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Mm hmm.

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That's dangerous because that person can affect the person's conviction,

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and that's dangerous.

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And affect future generations of just that one person, that

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one person sitting and listening to this misinformation, going home

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and discussing it at dinner, discussing it at the next

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family picnic or the reunion, and impacting generations. They're like,

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what what did he say? Well, that's right now. That's

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a little fella out there. That's all I want. That's

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the only credit I'm giving. He's probably we listen here

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because we know we hear the truth here. Oh, Anastasia,

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hear the truth. I got you. I got you, Thank you, sweetie.

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But a little fello out there saying, prophet to prophesize

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old news now and what was another thing he's saying,

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speaking on speaking in tongues is old Now. You don't

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have to do that, hey, l the k Yeah, who

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told me? Can you give me scripture? When you miss

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quote stuff? When you put your little idea? See this

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is where That's why when I talk about my books,

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so when you I'm sure when pastor the rice is this.

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These are our thoughts, this is what God has given us.

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We back it up with scripture. It's not so much

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we're looking for you to agree to it, but we're

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just letting you know. Here's some information, here's a pondering thought.

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Here.

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My book we've been worried too, is about I'm the

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practitioner becomes the patient. It's what I went through. Is

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my journal, It's my thought, It's my conversations with God

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that He's allowed me to release. It's not the tell

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all end all you know. Ooh. I want you to

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see God's glory. I want you to see when a practitioner,

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a professional person, a social worker, a therapist, a teacher,

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a woman of the gospel and a warrior. Ah, I

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want you to see what we even go through, and

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how I had to fight to stay here, not to

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come back because I didn't even know I had died twice.

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So that's what that's. So don't take these books and

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oh my god, did you read it? You know, Pastor's

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gonna be writing a book. He don't know it yet,

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but he's gonna be writing one and and and you

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know he kind of know, but he don't really know,

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but he kind of know. He's embraced it. He's at

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the point of embracing it now. He knows it's in

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the hopper. I know that one day I have to

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write a book. Trey's gonna be writing a manual on

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community resourcing when there's nothing else left. She didn't know that.

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That's why she's looking like that. She didn't know that news.

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This is what God does. Over half the people I've

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seen over a thousand people who were court ordered for classes,

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anger management and post control. That's for peopleho's stealing HIV classes,

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parenting classes, and at least forty of them, forty percent

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have walked out with a toititle of a book, a

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new career, going back to school, and had no idea.

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I don't know these people until they walk in my office,

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until they joined me on zoom. This last plan I

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had this young man going through girlfriend. I'm just do

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turn baby, Mama, turn on him and he's he was

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trying to hold it, but he had He said, oh,

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I believe in Jesus. I do believe in Jesus. I

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hope he's not left me. I said, no, son, he

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won't leave you. He won't leave you. Just cry out

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to him. You have your moment right now, let's do it.

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That's what that's what we're ready for. That's the harvest.

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That's the chosen. Who don't know that chosen. He didn't

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think he was worthy. He's a young fellow, but he

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was wide open and soaking up everything like a spoint.

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Can a living be made writing? Well, yeah, it depends

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you know your job, you know, it depends on what

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you would have if you allowed God to use you. Yes,

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because I'm at a point I don't have my book.

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My books never have to go on the New York bestseller.

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The fact that somebody could read my book and say,

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you know this this I couldn't stop reading it and

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it changed their life. That was the one or one

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that was it if I reached that one and nailed it.

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And now I got people. I got twenty copies, complimentary

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copy Folks not only say hey, I want one, but

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they sent money. That's never happened in the time that

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I've been writing books. That's never happened. I just sent

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off a few, and they're saying, give me two because

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I want to give this to somebody else. I ain't

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read it yet. He didn't read my other ones.

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I just want to expound a little bit, and and

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I can't. I'm sorry. I can't say who said I

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can't remember who said it.

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Can you make a living at writing? But if you

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look at it, and I know we're talking about writing

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books or novel or manuscript, but writing.

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Has led to people making songs.

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Writing has led to people making plays and movies, you know,

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things that come to that. So you know, writing can

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can kind of lead you to making a living.

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That depends on how you do it. You know, sometimes you.

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Just think you're sharing a story, but look how many

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songs that are out there, people sharing their personal stories,

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and they've have become it and not knowingly, you know,

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I was just writing about my life, you know, or

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making a movie. I was just writing about some people

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I knew, you know, characters that are in comedy or movies.

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People just writing about people that they knew. So yeah,

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and writing, you know, it could be a way of

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expressing yourself.

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Poetry, you know, that could be you definitely can make

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a living at it, you know, but.

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I wouldn't.

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Unless you, you know, I would have something to back

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it up right now, and then.

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Then is what she's trying to nicely say, not at first,

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I'm sorry, Trey also be a coping skift. You know.

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People writing is a way of releasing and so you

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know that that's a way of looking at things too.

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So yeah, that's why journaling is very popular, because you

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write down what's on your mind and then you go back.

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I give you a few days, don't look at it,

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and then I'll tell you in the third day, pick

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it back up and read it again. Look what you

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were thinking three days ago, and then we go on

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from there. Yeah, I mean poetry, you know, you write tray,

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I yeah, one thousand percent correct, just writing down your ideas,

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trying to get your thoughts out of your head onto

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onto paper. So you know, I pick it up as

457
00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:54.559
a second stream of income, you know, because and people

458
00:25:54.599 --> 00:25:56.599
if somebody asked me to day, so where are these?

459
00:25:57.160 --> 00:25:59.400
Can I get this off out of my car in

460
00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:02.039
the back of the car, because I'm eliminating the middleman.

461
00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:07.240
I appreciate my publisher, but no, I appreciate being on Amazon.

462
00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:10.160
I'm on Amazon. It's on an e book print right now,

463
00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:14.240
as an e book formulation. There. I appreciate all that.

464
00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:16.799
But I got them. I got him here and I'm

465
00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:18.960
gonna get the rest when they hit the market on

466
00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:21.519
July seventh. You can pre order right now. You can

467
00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:24.279
go to Amazon, but you won't get my autograph. You

468
00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:28.480
won't get a personal message from me. So if you

469
00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:37.240
you've called me, you know, yes, sir, call me. You

470
00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.640
got a drink some water after that, But he said, yeah,

471
00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:44.359
I'll pick up, I'll pick up, go ahead past. What

472
00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:45.319
were you gonna.

473
00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:48.359
Say, Oh no, I was. I was just going, you know,

474
00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:50.319
the autograph and all that.

475
00:26:50.519 --> 00:26:56.839
Yeah, I got amen, And I probably have, yeah, a

476
00:26:56.920 --> 00:26:59.480
book signing for that one, you know, probably maybe in

477
00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:02.359
the month of all or something. But you know, just

478
00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:05.920
going back to the scripture, and I got to come

479
00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:09.880
back to doing some shout outs. In a minute, Luke.

480
00:27:09.960 --> 00:27:12.599
I mean, I'm sorry, I keep saying Luke Chapter one,

481
00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:16.680
Psalms one twenty one. Yeah, something's in Luke. I gotta

482
00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:19.440
go look for it, because, okay, Luke five, I'm seeing

483
00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:25.079
Luke the number five, Psalms Chapter one, twenty one, Verse eight,

484
00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:26.920
Elda K. I was just sharing that this was my

485
00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:30.000
word this morning, my verse this morning. The Lord shall

486
00:27:30.119 --> 00:27:34.440
preserve I going out and I coming in from this

487
00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:38.240
time forth and even forever more. I don't know who

488
00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:40.880
wouldn't serve a god. I'm a parent, and I'm not

489
00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:43.960
gonna preserve the kids. I've taught them everything I know.

490
00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:47.079
I've taught them everything I know. You don't get it. Yes,

491
00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:49.720
your choice. I guess what God had to check me.

492
00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:53.000
He said, you know their decisions don't reflect you. He said,

493
00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:55.559
We're beyond that. I said, thank you, Lord, because I

494
00:27:55.599 --> 00:27:58.279
know some parents are laden with this guilt. Now, these

495
00:27:58.319 --> 00:28:01.160
are parents who didn't do right when the child first

496
00:28:01.240 --> 00:28:03.400
came into the world, and I heard it. I know

497
00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:06.119
the stories back and forth. And now you've got a

498
00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:09.480
fifty year old child that you're still being committed to.

499
00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:11.599
You still got to pray their bills, you still got

500
00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:13.720
to do this and all that kind of stuff, and

501
00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:16.559
because you feeling guilty because you weren't the right parent

502
00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:19.519
when they were younger, and they're holding you hostage to that.

503
00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:23.680
I've had that in sessions. I know some spiritually, some

504
00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:26.640
faith oriented folks that's gone through that, And when even

505
00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:28.279
when you call it out, they still don't want to

506
00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:31.240
hear it. They can't. They know that guilt is so

507
00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:35.240
heavy and God can't bless you. Then you step out

508
00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:37.680
third party. I'm taking a look at you and what

509
00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:40.240
you keep calling me for prayer for, and I'm like, well,

510
00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:45.160
it's your wall, it's your concrete, it's your divider between

511
00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:47.359
you and God. I can't pray you out of that.

512
00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:51.400
You got to accept responsibility. My brother, who is married

513
00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:54.720
to his husband in Germany, said to me out of

514
00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:57.680
the blue one day years ago, I know in God's

515
00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:00.559
eyes I put Thomas before him and I know I

516
00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:03.160
have to pay for that. That's on my record. I

517
00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:05.079
love somethings one to any one. Thank you. Ld k.

518
00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:10.559
Tennessee is in the house. Who you know And I'm

519
00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:13.680
telling you, I don't know, I can't. There's nothing more

520
00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:18.119
we can say. I just please, just and you'll find

521
00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:21.720
yourself that was just burning in you. Pastor when you

522
00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:24.200
were a little boy, did you ever thought that you

523
00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:25.319
were going to be a pastor?

524
00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:27.319
Absolutely not.

525
00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:30.240
Did you ever think you'd be working for an insurance

526
00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:31.799
Let me ask that, did you want to be an

527
00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:32.680
insurance agent?

528
00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:37.960
I'll tell you what. It was sixteen when I said

529
00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:41.680
I'm going to work for a restaurant because everybody's got

530
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:45.599
to eat. I was a manager for different restaurant concepts

531
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:50.920
for twenty five years. Yeah, every time I would change

532
00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:53.799
to a different concept. Within the first year, I got

533
00:29:53.839 --> 00:30:00.279
bored when I realized I was being prepared for some thing,

534
00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:06.920
know for what? And insurance gets into my path helping people.

535
00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:09.440
I'm talking to people and then all of a sudden,

536
00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:11.839
I meet this young lady by the name of Gina

537
00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:17.799
who was once my client, and before I knew it,

538
00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:21.400
I was marrying her. And because of my wife, she goes, so,

539
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:25.319
when are you enrolling in school? And that's when I

540
00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:30.319
took my path to being a pastor. So, no, you

541
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:33.400
just don't know what you're being prepared for.

542
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:36.519
You really don't, So we can't. So that's for those

543
00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:39.400
in the audience, you know, especially those folks you know

544
00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:43.279
up north there. You really don't know. All I wanted

545
00:30:43.279 --> 00:30:45.000
to do was get back to the stage. That's the

546
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:47.519
only thing I dream I could ever remember, even saying

547
00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:50.000
out loud, I wanted to this. I love singing and

548
00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:53.799
entertaining people and acting. I loved it. Had no idea

549
00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:59.279
that years later I'll be a cameo actor doing voiceovers

550
00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:03.559
all the side. But my main thing was case management,

551
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:08.000
being in the trenches with clients who who were hopeless,

552
00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:11.319
who had no voice, and I was loud enough for everybody.

553
00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:14.480
And then I never wanted to be a private therapist,

554
00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:17.759
never because I thought they were you know, just you're

555
00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:20.640
you're you're not doing your people well, you're you're cheating

556
00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:22.319
on the clients. You don't want to be in the trenches,

557
00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:24.400
so you want to be behind the little ivory tower

558
00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:26.440
in your little office with your look ouch and you're

559
00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:30.200
matching chairs. And wasn't. It wasn't until I got here

560
00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:33.759
in Orlando twenty four years now that got open that door.

561
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:36.559
But I'm a resource person. I can hear you talking

562
00:31:36.599 --> 00:31:38.319
and I say, well, you know, I don't mean to interrupt,

563
00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:41.079
but I hear that you're saying this, and that try

564
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:44.200
this really Yeah, try that. I had to remind one

565
00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:47.319
of my former students just having some family issues. I said,

566
00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:49.680
go back to class. What did I teach you as

567
00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:51.960
a case manager? Put you You can't put your sister

568
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:53.720
hat on, you can't put your mother hat on. You

569
00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:56.160
put your case management hat on, and you're going to

570
00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:58.680
talk differently. You don't tell folks, oh, she don't have

571
00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:00.839
a place to live. She'd been living with you. And

572
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:03.519
if she's gonna watch this. You know I'm saying this

573
00:32:03.559 --> 00:32:06.480
out of love. But what did I teach you case management?

574
00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:09.079
One on one? One? Thing? You don't say you can

575
00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:11.319
let the powers be. I don't know where she's gonna live.

576
00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:15.599
I do know her check follows her, so he'd about money.

577
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:18.240
So I want to take a little brief pause here

578
00:32:18.359 --> 00:32:20.720
to give some shout outs to some folks who've just

579
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:23.319
been helping us along the way. And guys, you know

580
00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:25.640
you all need my host co hosts. You all need

581
00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:27.960
to be doing this too. Just write some notes to yourself,

582
00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:30.279
some people that you want to give a shout out to, whoever,

583
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:33.200
all companies or even if CVS treated you well in

584
00:32:33.240 --> 00:32:36.599
your local CVS neighborhood, you can give them a shout out.

585
00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:40.000
But the Kevin Gray, I've mentioned him before. He's a

586
00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:42.839
gentleman out of Canada. Uh. He has a Limb Loss

587
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:47.240
Connection virtual support group every other Sunday. He's doing great

588
00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:52.119
things and just having allowing this, you know, allowing us

589
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.160
those who have suffered limb loss or limbed difference to

590
00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:58.880
have opportunity just to talk about this story and and

591
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:01.759
and even if this still having some issues or whatever,

592
00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:03.599
he allows that. So I want to give Kevin a

593
00:33:03.640 --> 00:33:05.559
shout out. Even though his last name is Great, we

594
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:07.839
are not related, Okay, I just want to let you know.

595
00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:11.599
And of course clutch Maid who has successfully made our

596
00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:16.359
prototype handbag. I am very proud of that. Yes, ma'am.

597
00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:18.759
I'm getting ready. Now we're going into talking about what

598
00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:20.559
how many are we gonna make and how much we're

599
00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:24.119
gonna charge. So I'm looking forward to that that. I'm

600
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:27.880
excited again. See, I always wanted to have a daughter.

601
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:30.720
I've always wanted to have a son, and I wanted

602
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:33.799
to have a daughter. And I had no idea this

603
00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:37.359
little thing will follow you prompt me into becoming a

604
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:40.359
sales an entrepreneur. I ain't have no idea. I just

605
00:33:40.359 --> 00:33:42.119
wrote the book. I just wrote the book, I ain't

606
00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:44.519
trying to sell it to anyone. And next thing, I know,

607
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:46.400
she's like, and you know, we started going to the

608
00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:48.880
pop up shops and stuff, and she opening up this

609
00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:52.519
whole new world to me. I mean, I could teach entrepreneur,

610
00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:54.960
I could teach how to be a leader. But you

611
00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:57.400
got okay, I got a little thing here. Oh god,

612
00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:00.640
it's already got five minutes, ten minutes. All right, guys.

613
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:05.160
But like I said, your leaders are born. And if

614
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:07.079
I'm teaching you and all of a sudden you realize

615
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:10.320
you're a leader. You already had the DNA inside. It

616
00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:13.639
just had to be prouded, had to be knock, not

617
00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:17.199
who's there leadership? Yeah, but I thought, nobody don't want

618
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:19.840
me to talk. That's why. That's why when people tell

619
00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:22.039
you don't say nothing, you don't need to say anything,

620
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:24.320
because you know, you just keep talking. I've been told

621
00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:27.360
that all my life. And look at me. I'm a

622
00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:33.559
podcast host. I've been a teacher on the college level.

623
00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:35.760
Come on, now, I didn't make this up. All right.

624
00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:38.400
I want to go back to because I want to

625
00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:44.199
talk about our elderly. This is World Elder Abuse Month Awareness.

626
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:47.960
They the reason I believe. This is me. I believe

627
00:34:47.960 --> 00:34:51.519
the reason why funding has been taken in certain arenas

628
00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:54.559
is because it was it was, it was abused. It

629
00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:57.239
didn't go to the populations that it needed to go to.

630
00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:00.760
And that's just me. Nobody even heard let me say this,

631
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:03.480
But I'm saying this because I'm talking from the inside out,

632
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.079
because I know resources are out there and the right people,

633
00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:09.719
the Donald trot and the hopeless folks, the folks who

634
00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:12.360
have no voice, they're the ones who didn't have not

635
00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:15.239
received the services. And now we've got we still got

636
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:18.559
tarps on houses. We still have the blue tarps, and

637
00:35:18.599 --> 00:35:21.119
they're not supposed to be there. Once the hurricane is

638
00:35:21.159 --> 00:35:23.159
done and you've been found eligible to get the tarp

639
00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:25.239
off your house, it's supposed to be removed because the

640
00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:28.480
repairs follow up. But look where we're at now, Okay,

641
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:32.199
and now people has kind of been not dissolved but

642
00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:36.239
put on a burner and they're going through investigation and audit.

643
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:42.119
I upset, not really, they got houses with blue tarps

644
00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:45.320
still on them. I got apartment buildings with blue tarps

645
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:49.400
on them. Y'all say something, Just pray for me.

646
00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:55.519
Well, I guess you're a tough back to follow. That's

647
00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:59.360
what sure, Yeah, I mean it.

648
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:05.000
It is unfortunate. You know, the elderly are one of

649
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:05.880
the most.

650
00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:11.280
Vulnerable populations, if not the most vulnerable, you know, just

651
00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:16.480
looking at the resources people evilness, I mean, taking advantage

652
00:36:16.519 --> 00:36:21.880
of people who can't defend for themselves or maybe not

653
00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:24.960
even make the right decisions. Are very trusting of folks,

654
00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:27.880
and I just that is just one thing that gets

655
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:30.519
under my skin, you know, when you take advantage of

656
00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:35.480
people that really need the help and assistance and support.

657
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:40.840
And sometimes we tend to think as a whole that

658
00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:43.719
because a person is elderly, that we need to just

659
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:46.760
go ahead and just let them wither away and go somewhere,

660
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:51.519
and that's really the time of their life that they

661
00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:56.719
should be wonder years, you know, the best quality of life.

662
00:36:56.800 --> 00:36:59.159
And sometimes people are oh they need to just go

663
00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:02.679
sit down. No, sometimes they You have a lot of

664
00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:06.599
people who are older or older got more life than

665
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:07.159
some folks.

666
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:07.400
You know.

667
00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:09.519
I can tell you that some people that can walk

668
00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:12.800
circles around me, ninety some years old can walk circles

669
00:37:12.840 --> 00:37:16.320
around me. But I think it's just society as a

670
00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:20.440
whole does not pay attention, you know, They should not

671
00:37:20.760 --> 00:37:27.519
have to go without food, shelter, clothing, insurance.

672
00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:31.360
They should be taken care of. They really should be.

673
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:32.440
And it's just.

674
00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:35.599
Unfortunate that that people take advantage of them. And I

675
00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:38.800
hate to I'd hate to be the one that doing

676
00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:40.440
that and have to meet my maker.

677
00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:41.800
I'd hate to do that.

678
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:46.679
Men, amen, and they have wisdom. My advisory counsel for

679
00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:49.320
my nonprofit are made up of people at least over

680
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:52.360
seventy plus years old. And all I'm doing is this time,

681
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:53.239
what do you think about this?

682
00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:53.519
Well?

683
00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:56.079
Know, you know what you and I'm listening. And I

684
00:37:56.159 --> 00:37:58.119
did that as a child when I would go see

685
00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:00.519
my grandmother once a year, I said on the porch.

686
00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:02.960
My cousins will tell you no, she sat on the porch.

687
00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:05.559
She didn't come in play with us, or when she

688
00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:07.559
talked about things. One lady said, well, what were you

689
00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:10.280
my one of my cousins and I have older cousins

690
00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:14.360
like they were like seventy and ninety. That's that's the generation. Yeah,

691
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:18.440
they were seventy and ninety. And one cousin married this

692
00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:20.639
woman and we were out there and we were talking,

693
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and all my cousins are listening to me and they're like,

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you know, sitting on the bench that my dad made

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in naw And so I came in to get some

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water and she said, can I ask you? What were

697
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you talking about? Also, oh, the movie Friday the thirteenth,

698
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She said what I said, yeah, a Friday at thirteen.

699
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She's like, oh, because I have never seen she said,

700
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I'm a teacher and I've never had students sit at

701
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the edge of their seat listening to somebody. I said, oh,

702
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then I have a cousin, my favorite cousin that I

703
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looked just like, this is Jacksonville. That's a nurse. She said, Well, Lisa,

704
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when I told her about my first book, she said,

705
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I wasn't surprised. I knew you were going to do

706
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something with you talking and stuff you're teaching. I'm not

707
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surprised you teach it on a college you a professor.

708
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I was a surprise. I said, Oh, okay, you know,

709
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but my seniors, I'm gonna work for them. I'm gonna

710
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do whatever they need to. We're gonna probably do some

711
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outreach this year for them, whether it's at a independent

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retirement community or whether it's at an assistant living facility

713
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or hey, guys, my avid listeners out there, the five

714
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of y'all, six of y'all, let me know in your town,

715
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if you've got an assistant living or a convalescent facility

716
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that needs some assistance, let us know. Okay, let us know.

717
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We can adopt them and we'll spearhead. You know, you

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be the team league. Yes, you'll lead this. You're gonna

719
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lead us. Yes, because some of y'all need to come home.

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Stop hiding behind the wings the shadows. You lead it

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by making a phone call asking the facility do you

722
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have any need? Do your residents have any needs? You know,

723
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do they have people, you know, family to come and

724
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visit them and things like that, and get back to

725
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us on that. All right. I don't know what is

726
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getting ready to do. He just I'm hearing this for

727
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the first time. As you're hearing it, all right, Pastor

728
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you're sitting there, you know, stroking your beer. Come on,

729
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bring up, bring it up, bring it up, whatever is

730
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on your mind. What's on your mind? Oh guys?

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Now, well, right now, I know that there's someone out

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there who's praying and trying to get answers from God,

733
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and the Holy Spirit led me to Ephesians Chapter one,

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verse three, and it says, blessed be the God and

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Father of our Lord Christ, who has blessed us with

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every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. I

737
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don't know who needs to hear this, but the answer is,

738
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blessing is yours. You just have to believe. Take it.

739
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It's for you.

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Everybody, reach out, Go ahead, sir, sorry, stop.

741
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Stop stop questioning the Lord.

742
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I want everybody put their hands up. As he's talking.

743
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Put your hands up, both of them, both your hands.

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Put your hands up. Yes, yours.

745
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Take it, got your name on it. Take it. Stop

746
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questioning it. Take it now. You're fighting, but you're supposed

747
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to fight because the devil doesn't want you to have

748
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that blessing, because the devil's a liar. Whoever is praying

749
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for it. The answer is it's yours.

750
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And you believe it. You believe it. Remember the revelation

751
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God gave real quick. He said, you know, people asked

752
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how long do you pray about a thing? And the

753
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Lord said, let them know. They keep praying it to

754
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you believe I'm going to do it. You keep praying

755
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until you believe that God's going to do it. I

756
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don't repeat prayers anymore on some things I don't even

757
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pray about. I was like, you know, I was wondering,

758
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what would it look like if this is next thing?

759
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I know, I got an email coming, got a request coming,

760
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I got a text coming. All I'm just thinking out

761
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out and don't be looking for no box. No box exists.

762
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That's your education, that's how you were raised. If you're

763
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in military and things like that, you raise a certain way. Yeah, amen,

764
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thank you, Thank you, pastor. That's what we're doing doing.

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We don't hold up the Holy Spirit. Let him do

766
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what he does best. Set the captives free. That's it

767
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for us. That's our time. You stay blessed, you stay focused,

768
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keep your hands up. If you put your hands up,

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then you need to be expecting a blessing in the

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next twenty four hours or less. In Jesus' name, we pray.

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See you next time, same station, same time, Night night

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Pass