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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #82_HOST LATONYA M LITTLEJOHN _(SHOW #7)) · DA CREW Podcast

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evening. Welcome to show number seven for delay but not deny the podcast.
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Also UM show number eighty two for the Crew podcast. UM. I'm glad
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to have you all here with me tonight. UM tonight, well we will
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have another good show for you. I have Miss Teresa's slife here with me,
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and before we get started, I would like to read a verse for
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you, as I always do, UM and Tonight's Proverbs three five and six,
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Trusting the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not until your own
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understanding in all your ways acknowledge him, and He shall direct your path.
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So, with all of that being said, I want to introduce you to
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Miss Teresa Stith. Miss Teresa, are you there? I am here evening
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evening, good evening. How are you? I am there you I'm doing
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great. I have no complaints. That's awesome. Before we jump into any
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questions or you know, anything like that, I want to read a little
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bit of your bio and it just states my name is Teresa Stith and I
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am an author of faith. I live to make other people better by building
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them up in faith. My love and compassion for others drives me to motivate
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and inspire them in such a way that it will ultimately move them into divine
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fellowship, in a divine relationship with our Lord. Regardless of their right now
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experiences, I am prepared and equipped to help them find solutions to their problems
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in the Word of God and discover in themselves the power and confidence that they
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need to achieve and walk in victory. That is awesome, awesome, awesome.
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So I was reading that you're the evational speaker. I can't hear me.
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I can hear here, I think so, I'm a motivational speaker.
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I like to inspire people. That's what I live for. Okay, what
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type of topics do you share with the people you're speaking to? Well?
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As stated in my Bow. I am an author of faith, and so
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faith is my passion because you know, especially living in a time like we're
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living in today, you need faith. It's no way that you can deal
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with the pressures of life and all that's going on in the world without faith.
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You know, you have to put your faith in something. And I
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remember my pastor used to tell us all the time, if you don't stand
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for Jesus, then you will fall for anything, you know. So I
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I just like today inspire build people up, you know, because like I
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said, sometimes the pressures of life will drive you to a place that you
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just don't have hope, you know. And so my job is as an
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author of faith, is to help you discover that there is a purpose and
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a plan for your life and then to equip you and teach you how you
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can get there. And basically you do that by transformed, being transformed by
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the renewing of your mind and not looking at situations and circumstances the way that
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you used to look at So that's what I look tools. Okay, what
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tools do you offer for someone that is trying to get on the right path
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that have you know, may have fallen by the wayside. And they're they're
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trying to pick themselves to get back right where they need to be. Well,
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like I said, the first thing that you have to do, because
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I remember that commercial a mind is a terrible thing the ways, So the
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first two that I use is trying to transform their thinking because when people are
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setting their ways or they start to think a certain way, then, you
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know, and when I come in, it's not easy to tear down those
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walls that they build, you know, in their life. And that's where
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a faith come in because you have to be able to speak to a person's
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heart. And I know firsthand all about that because my first book talks about
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a faith that works, and I share how even in that book that I
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didn't have faith. Now, I know that the Bible says that, you
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know, we all have a measure, but at that time in my life,
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I don't think I knew I had that, you know. So everything
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in my life was not consistent with what faith should have been in my life.
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And so you know, my life was completely opposite of what God was
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saying that it could be. But I had a pastor, you know,
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and I shared this testimony so many times that I had a pastor that despite
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where I was physically or despite where I was in the natural, he continued
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to come and he continued to speak faith to me. And we know that
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the Bible says that faith coming by hearing and hearing by the world of God.
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So because he consistently came and spoke faith to me, then it ultimately
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began to give me hope. And so even though I was at a place
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where I wanted to take my life, now I'm beginning to look at things
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differently because I'm believing what he said even though I can't see it yet,
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Because that's what phaith is. It's the substance of things, hope for the
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evidence of things not seen, because the Bible says if you see it,
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then why are you hoping for it? So, even though I couldn't physically
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speak it, you know, my hope was that what he was saying,
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you know what's true. And so you know, because I wondered, why
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do he keep coming, you know, speaking faith to me. He know
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that I'm at a place where I want to take my life because nothing in
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my life is working. And we know that we have an adversary, the
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devil, who the Bible says, you know, he comes to steal,
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kill, and destroy it. So while I'm already in a place, and
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he comes and he adds on to where I'm already at. And that's what
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I mean when I talk about the pressures of life, because we in this
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day and time, you had to know who voice you're listening to, right
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because if you're hearing it anything that's not consistent with what the words says,
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then you know that's not God that's talking to you. So then you have
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a choice at time. You can pour down the strong holes and you can
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believe what God said, or you can sit there and continue to feed on
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the lies that the enemy is telling you. And I did a broadcast last
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night and the hashtag was don't believe the lie. And I think that's why
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a lot of us find ourselves, and that we find ourselves because we have
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believed a lie somewhere. And so then what we need to do I heard
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someone say, is that we need to take the pain that we've experienced in
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life, we need to reflect on it, and then we need to move
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forward from it. Dealing with depression, what are some of the things that
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led you to feeling like you wanted to take your life? Hey, Well,
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like I said, I was at a place in my life. First
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of all, you know, the Bible tells us that, you know,
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before we was even in our mother's wound, that the Father knew us.
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You know, he protesting us. You know. But because we live so
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long and Sadus kingdom, you know, when we come over into God's kingdom,
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we have to be taught how to live over here, because we were
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subject acts of Satan's kingdom. So when we become subjects of God's kingdom,
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we have to be taught how to live. So some of those things came
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because, like I said, I was a subject and Satis kingdom, and
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his voice at that pulgular time in my life was louder than what God's wars
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was, And so it was so easy for me to believe the lines that
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he told because when I looked at my life, my life looked like what
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he said. And so that made it so easy to believe, like I
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said, until I had someone to come and start preaching faith to me and
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start telling me what God said about my life, because up until that point,
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I didn't know what God said about my life. I didn't know that
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I was fearfully and wonderfully made. I didn't know that he had had called
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me and predestined me, and and he had a purpose and a plan for
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my life because he was trying to give me a hope in a future.
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And so once I discovered all those things again, once I was transformed by
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the renewing of my mind, then I began to take those steps. And
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Step is my number fourth book. Did anybody wanted to gonna pick it up?
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I began to take the steps that was needed, and let me tell
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you, and stepping was not easy, especially where I was. It was
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a process even to stepping, because in stepping, I understood that something had
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to die in order for me to live. Absolutely, I hope I answered
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your question, Yes, ma'am, you did. So you're an author as
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well. How many books have you written? I have written eight. I
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self published eight books so far, and I'm actually about to release number nine.
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I have a total of fifteen books. And you can find him on
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Amazon, you can find him on my website, you can contact me directly.
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You can find him in most of the major bookstores. Okay, and
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I have them here if you all want to take a look at him.
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I have them right here. Sure, we would love to see them.
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Okay, this is my first book. It is a faith that works,
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and this is the one that I'm telling you. This is my baby.
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It's still my best seller. This is my second book. It's the real
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purpose behind the head and it's saying the broken leading the broken. My third
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book is Lived like you know, and that's embracing our freedom in Christ.
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And that's just saying that when God frees you for something, it's up to
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you to maintain your freedom. And then this is number four and it's stepped
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and that's the day that I told myself that enough is enough. And then
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we have number five here and it's Love Songs to God for my husband,
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and it's when you are single and waiting. And what I want to reiterate
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about this book is even though I'm saying love Songs to God for my husband,
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it's for single men and it's even for married couples because God don't leave
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nobody out right right right six, I have the road that leads to freedom.
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And Beth talks about finishing strong because regardless of what your past may have
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been, right you got the Finnish strong. There's a road that needs to
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feel them right. And then number seven my Press to Praise, and it
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talks about you having the power because again, regardless of what your situations and
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circumstances is, God don't change. So you still got the offer unto him,
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the fruit of your lips. Regardless of what you're going through, He's
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still God and he's still good. Right. So then we have number eight
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and number eight is advancing the Kingdom of God with nothing but a soul because
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when you know the word right, when you know the word, then anything
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is possible to you as long as you have God on your side. Right.
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And those are all my titles. And the book that I'm about to
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release is From Distraction to Destruction to Deliverance. But God was in the middle
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of it. And what I share in that book is I talk a little
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bit about, you know, my bit with domestic violence and some other things
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that I went through because I had the concept of love all wrong. It
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was so twisted because we can just it loved confused with lust and all of
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these other things. And when God tells you, when God tells you not
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to go into a relationship with somebody, then whether you're doing what God says
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because of what your flesh wants, because you want to satisfy the flesh.
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Sometimes we found ourselves out there, and I promised you that I escaped that
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situation with my life, and not everybody does. So I'm telling you how
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to get free in that bull. Okay, I know that you were in
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law enforcement. What was your role in law enforcement? Yes, I work
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for the Department of Corrections. I started off actually in nineteen ninety seven as
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a food service supervisor and so then in two thousand and two, the state
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food service contract ended, and so we was pretty much forced to go into
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security. And I say, four, but you know, God always has
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a plan, right, and so you know, I went over into security
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because I didn't want to do security, you know, but my first lady
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at the time told me that the Lord said, don't make him have to
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put a bit and bridle in your mouth like they do the horses that make
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you go the way that he wants you to go. And so I had
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to humble myself and step into that role even though I didn't want to.
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And the reason why I didn't want to is because again I was already broken.
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And that's why I talk about my number two books, The Broken leading
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the broken, but I kept being put into positions of leadership, and so
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I was able to go up through the ranks all the way from corrections officer,
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took corrections, captain, and then I did subject matter specialist, dialogue,
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coach, and general instructor. I love training. I love training and
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teaching people. Being a female, I've had a be a good career.
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So being a female in law emmanum, what challenges did you face? Well,
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there were a lot of challenges. There were challenges, you know,
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with the female officers because you know sometimes when you you know, come across
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a female who may be confident, you know, a female who was strong,
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and you know, then females, you know, have a tendency you
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know, to not like that. You know, I don't know what it
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is. It's about it us when we see another confident. But it wasn't
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so much me. I think it was just something in them that needed to
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be resolved. So it wasn't that they didn't like to me. It was
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just something about me that wasn't resonating with something in them. And we know
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about these spirits, so I'm gonna leave it right there. And so you
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know, I had those challenges you know, listen, I had those challenges,
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and then I had, you know, challenges, you know, dealing
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with some of the male population and the male offenders, you know, because
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some men don't like taking instructions from a woman, you know. So I
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faced those challenges, and you know, and then I had challenges with the
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people who supervised me, you know, because you know, sometimes people think
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you want their spot, but you actually just want to learn what your role
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is, you know. So it was so many different things. And then
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you had the young people, you know, the young offenders, you know,
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and you know, you think that, Okay, I have kids,
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you know, but now I'm in here surrounded by all these other people's children,
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you know, and you just look at that and you're like, Okay,
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you know, how would I treat them if these were my children,
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you know, I would want somebody to treat them the same way that I'm
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treating these people, you know. And so you know, it was really
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I don't have anything negative to say about my career because you know, it
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was a platform to me. It was a platform you know that I com
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minister to those young kids who didn't have parents, you know, I com
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minister to those who may have grown up at foster care who may have been
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you know, sexually assaulted or mentally challenged or you know, and I didn't
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treat anybody differently. I treated everybody the same. I don't care what color
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you are or none of that. Everybody was treated the same and they respected
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me. That's awesome. I know that you were nominated for the twenty twenty
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two ach I Magazine Award. Can you tell me more about that where?
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I don't know who nominated me first of all, but it was such an
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honor, you know, when I got the nomination, you know, I
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went, you know, it was so really good. You know, I
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got to see some other excellent black women you know, have been doing you
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know, amazing things out in the community. You know, I got to
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see them, you know, get their rewards, and you know, it
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was just an honor to be in the building, you know, because you
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had this little country there are always there here from Virginia, you know,
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just moved to Tennessee. I had never experienced anything on that level. So
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even though I didn't get an award, I really was winning right because I
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hadn't never been in that space before. So I want right and sometimes you
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don't have to win the actual award. It's just being in that atmosphere and
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knowing what you bring to the table is winning within itself exactly Latanian. That's
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what I want people to remember, because you don't have to be on somebody's
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else's level to be winning, you know, because we all win right there
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where we are, you know, because like I said, and trying to
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discover what my purpose was and life. Do you know what the Lord told
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me, He said, you're already doing the thing that I called you to
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do. So I was winning and I didn't even know it because of what
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I was putting in those other people's hearts, because I was changing to helping
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them to change the way that they thought, because I was motivating them.
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You have people that wanted to give up, you know, take their life.
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They may have been on their last leg. So I, even though
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I was broken in that place, I didn't have time to look at what
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I was dealing with and what I was going through. And what I discovered
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was as I poured out and took them, I was actually free in myself.
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So I was winning and didn't know it. Yeah, you know,
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I often struggle with trying to figure out what my purpose is, you know,
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being a young lady born with a disability, adopted, you know,
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and I went through a whole lot of different things growing up in life.
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I became a teenage mom, you know, and you just you get to
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a place where depression does creep in and it sometimes takes over. But then
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you got to stop and think, you know who, who you belong to,
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and and all of that brings you back to where you need to be.
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I started this podcast to give people a space of you know, from
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different walks of life, to be able to share their stories encourage other people.
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And you know, maybe that's my purpose is to you know, lay
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the foundation for other people to come in, come on and you know,
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share their stories. Right, and let me share with you because you know,
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those everything that you mentioned, those are some of the lies that the
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enemy tells us. You know that you have a disability, so it's not
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so much, but that's not what God said, you know. And that's
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what I teach people that it's so easy. You know, when the enemy
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comes and he whispering these things that you like, you say, if you're
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someone who don't know God, you know, and the enemy is whispering these
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things to you. You know, it's hard for you to be able to
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fight without your weapons, because we know that the Word says that the weapons
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of our warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty through God to the pulling
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down of strongholds. So if you don't have a relationship with the Lord,
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then it's hard for you to battle that strong. You to battle what you
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don't know and what you don't understand. So you're a subject to giving in
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under the pressure. And I promise you that even with Christ in my life,
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the enemy has come and and he's tried to put so much pressure on
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me that if I didn't know the Word, then I would have collapsed under
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that pressure. But the flip side of that is that I didn't understand that
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God had a calling on my life, and I didn't understand that the period
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that I was going through in my life was actually a stretching period because God
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was stretching my faith because He was taking me to another level. But had
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I not been in Christ, I wouldn't have understood that and I probably would
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have given up under pressure. No, that's the difference in having a relationship
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with the Lord, and that's why it's so imperative for me being a now
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evangelist elect, you know, to find these people you know, and let
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these people know listen, don't listen to the lies. Don't believe the lies
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that the enemy is telling you. Because you're well able to go out there
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and conquer any land that you want to. You know, you got to
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write these things down. The Bible says, right, division and make it
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plain. What is it that wright? Write it down on a piece of
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paper, put it somewhere where you can see it, and then start moving
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your feet. You don't have to have all this money, you don't have
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to have all this education. All you need to have is a willing mind.
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And the Bible declares that if you are willing and obedient, then you
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can eat the fat o the land. So you don't need to have all
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this stuff. It's a willing mind, yes, ma'am. Well, you
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know you've taught me a lot tonight. Um, just being so humble and
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your spirit is so beautiful, and I know that you are reaching the masses.
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They hear you, and what you're teaching needs to be taught, and
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so for that I say thank you. Where you know, we just give
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God all the glory over here, because you know, I tell people all
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the time, you know, when they see you sitting in the seat,
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they don't understand what it took for me to get here. I had to
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suffer. You know, there's a cost to discipleship. You know. It's
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easy for people to look at you and oh, she's doing good, but
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you just do not know. You know, I was at a place in
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my life where I wanted to take my life, you know, because things
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was not working in my life. I was traumatized, I was damaged.
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I was in two relationships where both of the men that I was involved with
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left the relationship while we was well. They didn't even leave the relationship while
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I was in relationship with them. Both of them went and married other people.
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So I had to endure all the pain and trauma of all these things.
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And people look at you, you know, and they think that you
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just arrived, you know, And that's why I understand more, you know
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how you know, I was taught to never want to be in somebody else
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shoes because you don't know where they had to walk, you know, just
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just being God made you to be, you know, become who God says
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that you are and walking walking what God gave you. And that's why God
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tells us not to covet that which is our brothers. You know, ask
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God, Lord, what's the purpose that you have for my life? And
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let that be sufficient enough for me, because I don't need what to read
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Sugat because I don't know what she had to go through to get it right.
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That's right, And you know that that was something that I used to
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struggle with, being born with spina bifita UM being told that I wouldn't walk
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and you know, live the life that um most people do. I often
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would ask, you know, why me, Why why did that have to
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happen to me? Why why can't I, you know, live this life
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like other people? But then you know I had stopped and think, or
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why not me? I'm put in this position right now. I do believe
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to lead the way for somebody else that may be going through something similar or
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you know, not knowing how to deal with a disability, whether it be
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the same one I have or whatever, you know, what have you.
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But I do know that God doesn't put more on you than you can bear.
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I'm a witness exactly. But you know what else, Latanya, what
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amazes me. Is they learning how to find joy in what you're doing,
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because that's whatever it is for you to do. When you find a joy
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in that thing, then it's taken off the stuff to become effective because you
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enjoy it. Now do you think if you didn't enjoy it, you probably
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wouldn't even beginning people up here, you know, because people need to know
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that what just like I'm teaching, people have to be able to look at
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my life and see that faith is working in order for it to be believable
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for them. You know, So when you can enjoy your German regardless of
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where you are on it, when you can enjoy that place, because I
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like to teach people that how you wait, it's just as important as waiting.
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You know, you don't want to be sitting somewhere awaiting with your little
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stuck out like you're mad at quieting. And you know you got to grow
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through you know, because it's something in you that needs to be perfected before
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he can move you to the next place. And I call it a process
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of conditioning. And sometimes in the process of conditioning, God lose people because
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they can't handle the heat, you know, because they don't want to let
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the flesh die because they want to keep feeding it and feeding it and feeding
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it. And then you're wondering why it's so hard for you to come out
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of that thing because you won't put put the acts to the root and kill
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it. Yes, ma'am, Yes, yes, I have truly, truly,
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truly enjoy having you here tonight. Um. Is there anything that you
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would like to leave with the people? Um? How can they find you
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if they want to reach out to you? Um to be against on their
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show? If they want to purchase the book? How how can they get
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in touch with them? Okay? What? They can find my books on
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Amazon or either most of the major bookstores on my website, which is a
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faith at works dot com, or either they can contact me at a faith
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that works at outlook dot com for business purposes, or if you know me
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directly, you can just shoot me an inbox or contact me on my page.
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But what I will want to leave because I never want to leave out
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of here without opening up the invitation to anyone who don't know the Lord.
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If you do not know him, right man, you do not know him
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and you want him to r personal lord and savior over your life, then
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please go to Romans chapter ten, verse nine and ten. And the Bible
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declares that if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ, and
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believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, then you
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share be saved. And I promise you a relationship with the Lord is one
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that you would never regret. I heard somebody's something that song said, Jesus
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is the best thing that said what happened to me? And I promise a
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life with Christ. A lot of people don't come to the Lord because they
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think that this life is so boring, or they think that they're gonna be
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missing something. But I promise you. The Bible says that there is a
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way that seems right unto a man, but he said the end thereof are
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the ways of death. But then Jesus comes and he tells you what the
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way it is. He said, I am the way, the truth and
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the life and the old man come unto the Father. But by me.
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So I urge you all. If you don't have a personal relationship with the
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Lord, you want to make haste and get one that's right. That's right.
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Well again, I would like to thank you, thank you so much
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for coming on the show tonight. UM, thank you. You're such a
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powerful woman. UM. I'm speechless and in awe of your many works,
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and I know that God will continue to order your steps, and I do
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believe that, Um, these books are going to exceed what you could ever
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imagine, and so I look forward to grabbing a few copies myself. And
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UM, I would love to have you to come back, of course,
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anytime, any time, and we can tell about whatever you want to talk
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about, because even though I write faith, basically, I promise you I'm
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very knowledgeable of other subjects, like I have a book coming out. Is
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what I really would like to talk about, because one of my books that
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I'm working on talks about when children grieve, you know, because sometimes you
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don't understand children's behavior, and we don't understand why why they're breathing, you
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know, and oftentimes it's because they've been left on, you know, to
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themselves, you know, and they don't understand grief, you know. And
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then if they have parents you know, who don't understand, you know,
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then it's hard for them, you know, to be able to know,
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you know, and so they behave, they miss behave you know, and
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they act out, and sometimes the parents might be like, what's wrong with
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you or why you're acting out? And you know, and sometimes we want
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to punish the child when the child already and hurt, you know, and
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trying to ask right for us what they're going through or what they're dealing with,
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or we don't I don't know what my appen happened. But you go
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out of child maybe feeling some kind of way, but it may be some
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psychological things that's going on on the inside and the child is crying out to
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you. So sometimes as parents we need to do more open in our ears
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and closing our mouths when it comes to these children, right, because these
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children out here are suffering and nobody is able to discern what's going on with
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them. And that's why you have so many suicides and all this stuff going
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on, because they don't have an outlet. Right. I just lost my
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godson on Saturday, UM to gun violence. UM. I don't know the
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whole situation. All I know is that he just graduated WIT at high school.
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He was a football player. He was headed to Benedict College in the
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fall, and his life got cut cut short at eighteen years old. And
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you know, we we as black people, we got to come together and
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figure out a way to get these people to put these guns down. Um,
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you know, there's nothing wrong with a good old fashioned fight. You
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win something, you lose some, but you live and so you know,
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you know, it's just it's gotten too far with the guns and we got
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to find a way to eliminate all of that. And you know one thing
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that I shared before we get off, because I know we have to go
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and Latonia. That's why it's so very important to have a prayer life,
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you know, because we have to remember that behind these people, because God
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said, we don't wrestle against flesh and blood. So it's not the person,
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it's the spirit behind the person that makes these people do these things.
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But when you have somebody that can intercede, listen, that's a powerful thing
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to be able to intercede on these people, behalf because they don't know no
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better. They're doing with what the enemy. Remember, their subjects of Satan
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Kingdom, so they're under his rule, they're under his authority, so they're
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liable to do anything. We shouldn't even be surprised with the things that we're
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seeing out here in the world anymore. Because they're motivated by those spirits out
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here. So but you got to have the body of Christ. I'm looking
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at them because I'm like, where are you? My pastor said, God
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still trying to save? To save folks? What are we doing? We
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act like we Dolan's laws. If God sent you to a place, then
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why aren't you opening up your mouth and speaking against the stuff that you see
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out here in these cities and towns and these neighborhoods. Why aren't you praying
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for these children and the LGBTQ, and and you know, even for the
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body of Christ. Every time we hear somebody to say something that we don't
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agree with, we ready to throw the whole person away. Whatever happened to
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come together, you know, and teaching them and having a conversation. And
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that's what's wrong with the world. Everybody know everything, and don't nobody want
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to have a conversation about what we need to do to fix what's broken?
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Right. Well, mister Esa, I would be humbled if you would pray
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us out tonight. Okay, Father, in the name of Jesus, we
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come before your presence, Lord, just giving you the things and praise God
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for giving us this platform. Father, in the name of Jesus, that
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we can come and lift up the name of Jesus, because you is what
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is all about. God. We pray in the name of Jesus Father,
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that you would give us the strength, the mind, and the ability God
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to be able to pray, Father, for the loss, to be able
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to pray for the body of Christ, to be able to pray for the
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president and the leaders in our nation. God, in the name of Jesus,
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Father, you have sent us out here with a sword, which is
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the word of God. Lord, help us to get back to basics.
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In the name of Jesus Father. Our pray in Jesus name, that anyone
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who watches this broadcast, Father, in the name of Jesus, that you
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inspire your then father to have a personal relationship with you. In the name
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of Jesus, Father, we just give you the glory, they're honor and
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the praise. We thank you for all the provision that you make for us
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on a daily basis. We thank you for watching over our families our homes.
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Father. We thank you for our jobs. Father, and we're still
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waiting for Job's. Father, Then give us the faith that we need to
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believe you. God, because we trust that you already know what things we're
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staying in need of. We just bless your name on tonight and we thank
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you for all that you have done, for all that you're doing, and
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all that you're gonna do. These and many other blessings were asking Jesus name,
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and we pray with thanksgiving. A man, hey man, thank you
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so so much. Thank you again for being with me tonight. I would
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love to have you back. I will be reaching out to you soon,
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UM, and I would like to invite everybody back UM on July twenty eighth,
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eight p m to join me for my next show. And as I
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always like to say, UM, you may be delayed, but what God
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has for you will never be denied unto you. So I think I thank
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you all again for watching tonight. UM. Everybody has a blessed night every
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second Monday and for Friday of each MONTHY, you don't want to miss