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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #118_HOST MINISTER ALMA THOMAS · DA CREW Podcast

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  Only begandant son who shall have shall beliefs. Wow yeah actually hello, Hello,
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  good evening and welcome to the Crew podcast page the Live Again broadcast where
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  I am your host, Minister Alma Thomas, and we're gonna start this podcast
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  as we start every week with prayer. It says in the Bible and all
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  things give things. So, dear Heavenly Father and the presless, matchless name
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  of your son Jesus, we thank you. We thank you for waking us
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  up this morning. We thank you for us being in our right mind.
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  We thank you for everything that you have done for us. We ask that
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  you bind up any techful difficulties that we might have. And the precious name
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  of Jesus, we pray the prayer of Jabads that you may enlarge our territory
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  and keep us from evil and the name of Jesus. We prayed that to
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  give us dominion of the territory that you have given us reinover, have your
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  way, have your way, have your perfect well, and everything that we
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  do a man and a man and a man. And and welcome again to
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  the Live Again podcast. And I'm your host, Minister Alma Thomas. And
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  I know a lot of you are wondering why I'm coming to you from a
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  bed. Maybe you think on your six hundred pound life, but now I
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  suffered a stroke two years ago. And how many people know that you can't
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  put your destiny on stop or pause and tell everything is all right? That
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  when God has called you for a purpose and a reason, that no manner
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  what happens, what kind of situation or circumstance you find yourself in, you
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  have to soar over these obstacles. You have to be like the ego.
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  The ego will soar above all his circumstances in order to be victorious. So
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  even though I'm in this hospital bed, I still give God glory. I
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  still give God praise. And I want to excuse me. I want to
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  empower my listeners to know that whatever obstacles you faith that the best excuse is
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  no excuse that you still have purpose. You have to accept your life as
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  it is now and give God for the things the things, thanks for the
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  things that you can still accomplish. I'm still writing books, I'm still preaching
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  the word of God. I'm still inspiring people to be the best today can,
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  to live their best life. Ever, don't give in to what's happening
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  in your life. Don't listen to the enemy telling you that your life is
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  over. I know that the enemy will speak to you. You will have
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  a pity party, and the enemy will tell you that your life is over.
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  You might as well throw in the towel. Say I know, because
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  many times doing this ordeal, I tried to throw the towel in, but
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  God kept throwing the towel back and telling me don't give up, don't give
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  in, and don't give out, that I have a greater blessing for you
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  on the other side. Count it all joy. When you go through trials
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  and tribulations where you are in the valley, count it all joy. Continue
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  to look to the hill from which cometh your help. All your help comes
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  from the Lord. And today we are going to be talking to Lakia Barnett
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  about the tears the purpose my logue. And I became acquainted with Lapia when
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  she was looking for people to tell their stories and a monologue form on her
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  platform. And I had never performed a monologue before, but it was something
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  I wanted to do, another way that I could share my testimony, share
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  what I've been through. So we had the monologue and I had written a
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  monologue as that goes like this, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy birthday.
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  Baby. Oh. I remember the day so vividly. It was her
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  first birthday in heaven. And what mother wouldn't want to be with their child
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  on their birthday is the heavenly quiet singing Happy birthday. Are the heavenly chefs
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  making you a very special birthday? Cake? Oh? I don't know,
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  but I want to celebrate your first birthday so and heaven. So I went
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  to the kitchen and I took a bottle of pills and I poured them into
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  my hand and I said, hold on a little while, baby, Mommy's
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  coming before your birthday is over. And then I heard yeah, I still
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  quiet voice say if you do it, you'll never see him again. And
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  I put the pills back in the bottle, and God allowed me to see
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  when my family and friends would have went through if my mission had been accomplished,
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  because I just took two of the pills and I went to sleep,
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  and my family tried to wake me up, and they called to me and
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  I didn't answer, and my little sister, she ran from the room and
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  waited for my mother, because no one wants to find that picks us the
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  dead on what would have been their first nephew's first birthday. And heaven,
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  oh no, as they came and they called me, called me and called
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  me, and finally I woke up, and they said, we thought you
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  had done it. We thought you had finally went to be with your son
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  and I and I told him I wanted to. I really wanted to sing
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  Happy Birthday to my baby one more time. But God told me I wasn't
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  ready and that I would never see him again. And that's where my tears
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  turned into a purpose. So that was my first monologue that I did when
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  I was recalling when I all most committed suicide. I had the pills in
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  my hand and I was ready. I thought I was ready to go,
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  but God wasn't ready for me yet. I hadn't completed my mission on Earth,
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  yet he still had a plan and he had a purpose for my life.
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  So on that day, it is when I gave myself permission to live
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  again, because prior to that I was afraid to live and afraid to die.
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  I was like, how can I be laughing when my son said?
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  How can I be having fun when my son is said? And I had
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  wanted to move to a new location because I thought that moving with take away
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  to pain, but it only intensified because I was like, I can't leave
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  him here or by himself sleeping in that cold, cold grave. So I
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  stayed and I realized that it's okay not to be okay, that it doesn't
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  matter what position or what title you hold, that you're human first, and
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  you're gonna go to your human emotions. Because even Jesus's wet when his friend
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  Lazarus was dead and he knew that he was gonna raise his lads, or
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  his father was gonna raise Lazarus again, but still in that moment, he
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  felt a human pain of losing someone. So when we say, well,
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  he doesn't know, he doesn't care about what we go through. He cares
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  about everything that we go through because every pain that we feel, He feels
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  it too. So I'm very very excited about what God is doing in this
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  season. I'm very very excited and grateful for the things that God is doing
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  in my life that I refuse to give up. I refuse to give in,
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  I refuse to give out that no matter what comes my way. Yeah,
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  sometimes I say I wish that I was able to walk, but in
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  God's own time, And we gotta wait on God. And while we're waiting,
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  we have to be faithful. While we're waiting. We have to work.
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  While we are waiting, we have to work. We can't concentrate and
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  focus on what's wrong. We gotta think about the solution is so much bigger
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  that after this, after this, after I've gone through this trial, after
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  I've gone through this journey, and I see myself as as job that God
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  pick me out for this journey. He knew that I was gonna hold on
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  to my integrity, He knew that I was gonna continue to fight for him
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  and continue to say for God, I'll live and for God I'll die.
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  That you could take away any title, any position, just don't take the
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  spirit of God awake from me. So I'm excited about this journey that I'm
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  on. I'm excited about what God is doing in the lives of his people.
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  That we all have a destiny, that we have to expect the great
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  you get out of life what you expect. If you expect to have a
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  bad day, you're gonna have a bad day. But if you expect to
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  expect that your ladder is gonna be greater than your former, that will despise
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  small beginnings. Because even this podcast is a walk of faith. You sometimes
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  you think, Oh, I think people are thinking, why is that woman
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  always in her bed? Who is this woman? Who is this woman?
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  And I tell him that you can't stop me from living. That if you
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  don't want to live again, don't hinder me, because life it's not over.
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  There's stills still so much life, and me so much destiny and me.
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  I thank God for all the gifts and talents that He has given me
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  and that I can still use them. Many people that are in my position
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  that suffering strokes as bad as I did, their cognitive skills have never came
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  back. Their speech still skills had never came back. So that's something to
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  give God praise for that he didn't take my cognitive skills, he didn't take
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  my speech skills. That I can still do what I like best, and
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  that's talk and motivate me. It reminds me of when a Joseph's brothers have
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  put him in a pit, and you know, many times and the engine
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  days the pit was full of water. But the pit, the pit that
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  God had chosen for Joseph, had no water in it. So when his
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  brothers put him into the pit, they couldn't drown him. Glory be to
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  God. So times sometime you will find yourself in a pit, either a
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  pit that you put yourself in, or a pit that somebody else put you
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  put you in, or just a pitfall of life, and you can't give
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  up when you find yourselfs And this these pits, I'm reminded of a story
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  of a donkey, and you probably know this story. But there was an
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  old old donkey and the farmer was taking his donkey out for a walk,
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  and the donkey fell into a well, and the old farmers said, well,
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  he's old anyway, we might as well. I might as well bury
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  him and let him die. Uhha. And so the old farmer thought that
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  he started to throw dirt into the pit, through dirt into the pit.
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  And each time he threw dirt in the pit, the donkey pushed it under
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  his feet and stopped on it until finally he the farmer thought he had put
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  enough dirt to bury the donkey. But that old donkey, huh, he
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  has something in him, huh that he put that dirt under his feet and
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  he came walking out of that well. Hallelujah. So sometimes people will put
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  dirt on you, but they don't know that you're seed. You're not gonna
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  die, but you just gonna reproduce. Uh, and the name of Jesus.
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  So I'm so excited about this phase in my life. Once again,
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  I thank God for the true podcasts and my true podcast family because when there's
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  limitations, I don't say that I give in to no excuses, but when
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  they're limitations and things that you find yourself in to do the Crewe podcast,
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  it's like a family. They encourage you, they inspire you, they empower
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  you to keep moving, to keep going even if you're taking small steps.
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  The famous person once said that if you can't run, then walk. You
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  can't walk, Ben cruel, But just don't ever stop moving and We're gonna
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  go to a brief commercial break and I'll be back after the break is over.
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  Well, I guess the break is over and I'm back. Then,
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  just tell you about some of my upcoming projects. I'm scheduled to appear on
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  the various podcasts where I would be sharing my story. I'm finishing up my
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  book Surviving a Stroke and Living through Park Avenue, where I talk about what's
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  really going on in the health fille, what's really going on, what I
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  elderly and I want to see, even though I'm at home and I'm no
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  longer in that situation. I want to be a voice for the ones that
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  can't speak for themselves. I want to bring attention to what's going on and
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  the nursing homes and everybody is given a blind eye, even the Attorney General
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  and the Department of Health. These places that are supposed to make sure that
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  the health is safety of the elderly are being protected. But in these kind
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  of places, your rights are not being protected. I know because I was
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  neglected and abused by another patient and I could speak, I could talk.
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  I could tell my family and friends what was happening, and they could call
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  and make complaints. But you know, in the end, they wanted to
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  label me a troublemaker. They wanted instead of addressing the concerns. How can
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  you have a hospital full of elderly patients and you cut the water off and
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  don't provide any whites and under dead of winter you have to be washed up
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  with cold water, and when the water does come back on, it's brown.
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  It looks like the water in Flint, Michigan. But that's charging you
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  thousands and thousands of dollars a month to stay there. They're feeding you food
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  that I wouldn't feed to my little doggy. And still they're allowed to go
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  on. Still they're giving five stars. Still they look the other way when
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  they're understaffed and underpaid and the purse. The people that suffer the most are
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  the elderly. The patients are the ones who suffer through this neglect, who
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  suffer through doing not being able to speak for themselves, not understanding what's really
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  going on around them. So I want to be a voice. So I'm
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  coming out with my book and I'm gonna be selling some stroke or one awareness
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  t shirts to bring people's awareness to what's going on with stroke victims and patients.
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  And sometimes and the care givers they get tired and they get weary and
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  they want to give up. So we want to encourage the ones that are
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  nurturing and really taking care of the patient. We want to encourage them to
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  keep on because your reward is not gonna be here on earth, but your
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  reward is gonna be in heaven. And if you don't die young, you
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  have to get old, and you want somebody to take good care of you
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  when you get old, your mother, your grandparents, whatever whoever you have
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  in your life. And then this time, I just want to give a
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  shout out to my kid, give my twenty one year old daughter who takes
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  excellent care of her mom. And she's a student and she makes sure that
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  I am well taking care of And I don't take that for granted because many
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  children her age would be trying to get their life on, they would want
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  to be lit. But she cares about her mother and she will be rewarded
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  for the things that she does for me. There's blessings upon blessings being stored
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  up in heaven for her. So I'm grateful, grateful that even in that,
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  even in that that God kid for me, that you know, once
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  I came home that I was able to flourish and be able to do the
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  things that God has for me. That sometimes you look at your situation and
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  you look at what you're going through, and sometimes you'll have a pity party.
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  I know because I had many pity parties where I invited depression and anxiety
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  and panic and tacks and all these things. Was invited to my party.
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  But you know who wasn't there. Jesus wasn't there. He said, I'm
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  not gonna come to no pity party because I have more in store for you,
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  my daughter. I have more for you. Just keep holding on that
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  when you feel like you're about to break, reach beyond that break and continue
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  to hold on, continue to do what I called you to do. Don't
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  let me come and catch you with your work undone, because at night,
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  no man can work. So while you're on this journey, you have to
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  follow God's gps, let him lead you and guide you, and your focus
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  would be on the right things. Your focus would be on God and the
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  things that you can do, the positive change that you can bring to the
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  world. We have to be the change that we want to see. It's
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  just like if you're making a cake, and every time you make that cake,
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  it doesn't rise because you don't put the rise and agent in the cake.
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  And each time you expect the cake to come out nice and fluffy,
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  but each time it comes out flat as a pancake. And you continue to
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  leave out that one ingredient and you continue to get the same results. But
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  if you want different results, you have to change your mindset. Are changing
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  your mindset will change your life once you get your mindset together, Because how
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  many people know that the battle begins in your mind that if you can win
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  that battle against yourself, that battle that tells you you can't do it,
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  that battle that tells you you might as well give up, it's all over
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  for you. If you could win that battle, then you can win the
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  war. And I got said before, I thank God for the people who
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  listen in, who catch the replay. Share. If you know someone who
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  has a dream and they let that dream die, if they let that dream
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  die, wake it up, Wake up that dream, Tell him that they
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  can live again, that despite all that they've been through, they don't have
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  to give up. They can live again. And whatever God has promised you
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  in this season, excuse me in this season. God is gonna fulfill all
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  his promises because the end is near and he's not a man that he should
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  lie. So whatever he had promised you in your life, if he promised
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  you that there's a book still left in you, write that book. If
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  he promised you that there's a new song you're gonna sing, write that song.
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  If he promised you your new dream house, then I dare you to
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  start looking for furniture for that house. If he promised you a new car
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  by the air fresh, just have faith and the things that you cannot see,
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  you don't have to have faith, but things that you can see.
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  But when your money is act getting funny, when you laying on a hospital
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  bed, huh, and you know that God has promised you that you're gonna
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  walk again, you gotta hold on to that faith. You gotta hold on
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  to the faith the size of a mustard seed. Don't let go. God
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  has something better and store for you. Thank you, Thank you for being
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  with me tonight as we just share inspirational moments, moments to inspire you not
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  to give up, to keep going until you get to the prize. Because
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  the race isn't to the fastest one, but the race is to the one
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  that the doors to the end. We remember that story about the tortoise and
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  the hair. The hair was running so quick he was sure that he was
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  gonna win. Matter of fact, he got so confident that he got up
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  by a tree and took himself a little nap. And while he was sleeping,
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  the tortoise was tipping along, tipping along. Huh, And then finally
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  huh. He saw the finished line up ahead. And the tortoise woke up
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  and saw that the tort that the hair woke up and saw that the tortoise
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  was in front of him that he and he thought, oh, well,
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  I'm fast, I'll get there to the finish line first. But the tortoise
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  was slow and study, and he got to the finish line first, and
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  he won. No one expected him to win. He was the underdog,
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  but the underdog had victory. It's just like in the chess game. When
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  you play in chess, you move, and then your opponent moves. But
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  then when you make that one final move, you yelled checked me. Well,
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  Jesus is in the game now and he's yelling checked me for you.
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  So have a wonderful, wonderful the last night enjoy the West the rest of
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  your winning Wednesday, and I will see you on the twentieth. Well,
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  my guests will be the entrepreneur, the book club President Letitia Lane. So
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  thank you, thank you, thank you for all sitting with me on tonight
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  as I share moments of inspirations with you with the Live Again podcast where we
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  have the best, best production team and all the world HTA Enterprises. So
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  the podcasts and business. We all have stories that we want to share.
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  And if you want to share your story, get with Queen Angela and find
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  out how you can be a host with the Crew podcast where we're really a
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  family. God bless you, and good Night podcast show with your host Emma
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  Thomas. For God so loved the world that it gave his only begotten son,
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  that who's your ever shall believe, shall not perish. But however, let's tea