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I Will Not Die | S3E2 · Jess Ask

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  Hey, it's your girl, jess. You've just entered a safe space for
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  Kingdom entrepreneurs and creatives to decompress, have fun, and yeah, you've guessed
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  it a safe place to just ask. Before we get into it, be
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  feedback and questions so we can keep the conversation going. Now, let's get
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  into this week's episode. Yeah, I always ask that me because we just
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  we just just go, just go, just go. Yeah. Is that
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  how we start the conversation? I mean, y'all depth for one, de's
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  a regular confe Say what the what we talking about? Nothing? What our
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  what the season? What the season? That's all I want to know.
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  So what does this season called? Just? Oh? Fam We did not
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  say that. That's all right, we're here now, but we hear so
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  season three, just do it, just do it, just do just do
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  last Oh oh yeah, so season three, just do it? So the
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  Holy Spirit always gives me something to focus on, right, and season three
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  is just that, just do it? What does that mean? I don't
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  know. I don't know how else to say it, but the words.
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  Just do it. Just whatever you're thinking about, whatever you're focus on,
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  whatever has been keeping you up at night, y'all when when things are supposed
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  to get done and it's it's keeping you up, listen, just do it,
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  Just do it. Oh David Dave shan't said something. I'm gonna find
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  it. He said, Oh, this is what he said. He made
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  us right now, these words. He says, I won't die. So
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  for those of you that don't know who, I'm fern too. If you
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  know who Sleep is for Suckers, or the Morning meet Up or the seven
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  figure podcast Social Proof, this is this is the man bout you know behind
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  that UH that those branding, that branding, those those opportunities, I would
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  say. And he was in He was talking about his experience at UH at
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  the podcast summit. He was basically talking about, you know, him going
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  from being a server and all that good stuff, and he made this coming.
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  He was like, I need y'all to write this now. And it
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  was like, okay. He was like, y'all just waiting. He said,
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  the time is now. The time is now. He was like,
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  you're you're not gonna die. Put down on your paper and say, I
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  won't die. I won't die. You might, you might experience some different
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  things or whatever and some different hard shootes. But life is hard. But
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  the Man of God said, right now, I won't die. Just just
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  right now, I won't I won't die. And sometimes we can think about
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  obviously we just getting right into it, you know what I'm saying. If
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  y'all don't know who I am, I am Jessica S. Smith. I
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  am a podcaster. I also create a space on this platform for creative Kingdom
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  creators and entrepreneurs to have fun. Deacon pressed and you know, let's let's
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  get real on here, okay, And so sorry if I didn't introduce myself,
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  but at this point, if you know me, you know, if
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  you don't go back and listen to these other episodes, because you get to
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  know me really well on this, on this, on this, up on
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  this podcast. But day he was like, Bro, life is hard.
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  Okay. Decisions, whatever decision that you decided to make. If you decide
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  to go work for somebody, that's gonna be hard. If you decide to
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  be a full time entrepreneur, that's gonna be hard. If you decide to
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  go you know, make certain investments. That's gonna be hard because there's a
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  learning curve to everything that we do. There's there is a learning curve to
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  everything that we do, and so I think his point was is that sometimes
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  we don't watch this, we don't really have a good excuse for why we're
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  not doing it in the first place. We really don't have a good excuse
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  for why we're not just doing it in the first place. And so if
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  you keep on building up your excuses, watch this. I'm even it's like
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  building building up your house upon saying versus a solid foundation. It's a scripture
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  about this, Yes, what finance scripts real quick? Building your building your
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  belief system, or you're doing based upon your feelings, because what feelings us
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  emotions. I think I've said this before. What feelings and emotions emotions are
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  supposed to be. They are indicators, right, They're indicators of what's going
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  on. They're also I would say they're they're indicators or I discern it.
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  They intensify our ability to be able to discern uh, certain things in our
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  lives. And so sometimes what I love what he said is that if you're
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  not dead, you should be doing right. Those are my that's my interpretation,
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  just because you're not going to die by continuously doing this podcast, just
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  because you're not gonna die by exposing yourself to the world that you assist kingdom
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  leaders to feel the gap between the ministry and then the marketplace for them to
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  expose them. Seller, let you're not gonna die trying to do that,
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  you're not gonna die, getting a No, you're not going to die,
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  you will, you won't die. When you do die, you will die
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  miserable. One thing I'm learning in school is, oh, there's this human
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  development class, right. One of the things I learned was that at the
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  elderly stages, those elderly stages, you you learn your basically, there's a
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  reflective stage. So whether I appreciate it or did everything I could do,
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  possibly do and live my life to the fullest, are you reflected on them?
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  Are you gonna be able to reflect on that positive or you're gonna be
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  Oh, I wish I would have. I hear a lot of wish you
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  would us And I really don't want to be that type of person. I
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  really don't want to be the type of person that's sixties plus years old talking
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  about I wish I would have. And even if you all my platform right
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  now and you are sixty plus years old, I am going to decree in
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  the clare of your life that you shall not wish, but you shall hope.
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  Watch this. The difference between a wish and a hope is having God
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  as wishful thinking. You can't really do anything with wishful thinking. I told
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  you that he's gonna say what he gonna say. I told you gonna say
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  because this is not what I was gonna talk about. It ain't When you
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  have wishful thinking, you're not putting God in something. And watch this,
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  hope. It is Hebrews eleven one where it says faith is the substance of
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  things hope for. And so to have faith, I need hope, right,
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  I need to hope on things. Hope is a good thing. I'm
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  hope. I am hoping for for God to come through on this. I
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  am hoping that I am a TV a TV host, or have my own
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  show up what now, I am hoping for things that I never even think
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  think though that I would imagine, just because I put myself in the right
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  atmospheres. Right, And so when we when we go from wishing to hoping,
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  We don't lie dormant on our dreams, y'all. This is good to
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  me. When we go from wishing to hoping, we don't lie. We
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  don't lie dormant on our dreams. And what does lie dormant on your dreams
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  look like? What does lie dormant on your dreams? Of? It looks
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  like consistently thinking about things that you don't act upon. M that's a ray.
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  That's good. Hope, wishing, wishing, and dreaming. It's just
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  like, Okay, I'm just gonna allow it to be in the state of
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  imagination y'all. I am freeing myself right now. It's staying there. I
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  am okay with staying in an imaginary place right But Hoping is saying, hey,
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  I'm trying to pull watch this. I'm trying to pull down that wish
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  and make it and make it, make it plain to people. So therefore
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  my faith has been seen. Watch this. It's the evidence of things.
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  Let's go to this. Let's go to the scripture. Let's go to the
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  scripture real quick, because one thing, y'all gonna be obviously gonna get on
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  my get on the pod on just ass that's ray. But they're gonna get
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  the word the word. But that's that's that's so good, just because the
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  hope like hoping, like you said, it's like you're envisioning a thing like
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  I'm hoping it. But when you put faith on it, faith is the
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  action. Faith is the action that starts to start you into alignment with it.
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  Come into hope ignites the faith. Oka, mh So I need hope
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  for my faith. So if I'm not hoping for if I'm not hoping for
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  anything, what do I need faith for? What do I need faithful without
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  hope? All right? So that means that watch this, my hope creates
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  the desire for faith. So if I'm not hoping on something, if I'm
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  not hoping about something, and I hope this is making sense how how I'm
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  seeing it in my mind, Hope leads me to faith. Faith leads me
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  to discipline. Oh Jesus, y'all, I'm gonna say that again because that
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  was the first time it was for me. Discipline for y'all. Hope leads
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  me to faith. Faith leads me to discipline. Break it down. So
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  I'm hoping. I see this thing and it's not tangible yet, right,
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  so I have to have the belief, because that's what faith is. It's
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  believing in action. It's belief in action. Faith is belief in action.
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  And so I'm hoping I've seen this thing. I grab onto the hope.
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  I put the hope in my faith. I'm starting to believe the thing.
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  Now my belief has to be discipline enough to go through the process to see
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  what is, what was, what was evidence unseen? I got your's example
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  right here, Jess, So give it to me. Last year, I
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  was driving and I saw a vision. I saw my my town home.
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  I saw it empty. I'm say empty. I was like, okay,
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  Lord, so this is that? Is that? Am I clearing it out
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  to get new stuff? Or am I moving xy? This was last year.
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  So fast forward. Here we are June. My neighbors put their town
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  home on the market, and I had literally been thinking since the market has
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  been kind of you know, it's been going up up a couple of years
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  ago. When they moved in, I was like, Oh, this may
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  be a good time to sell. Problem was, I ain't hannahere to go.
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  I was like, cause I knew I wasn't necessarily trying to reinjer the
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  market right right away. And so they put their house on the market at
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  a pretty decent price. I said, okay, lord, what were you
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  doing? What's up? I don't hand no where to go. I didn't
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  hand no where to go. And he literally had started dropping stuff in my
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  spirit, holy spirits started dropping stuff in my spirit. I had two He
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  gave me two options. I had two options. I ain't just had one
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  option. I had two options that I get to choose. Right. So
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  the hope was, I'm like, okay, they're so for X, Y
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  and Z. I'm hoping that if I put my mind on the market,
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  I can come out with a pretty decent return to right. So I'm like,
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  okay, so he's giving me two options. Okay, so I just
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  I chose to go stay one my friend, one of my friends for me,
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  for me to stay in our home, and I said, bet say
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  list cool, all right, So now I got somewhere to go. So
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  now it's like okay. From there, I started talking to my friend.
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  He gives me. He gives me one of my friends to use as an
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  agent. So I started having conversations with her and she's like, you know,
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  it's so interesting because when when I started talking about selling, you know,
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  there was some reservation there from a couple of people that that I had
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  had conversations with, but they all was like, but I know you and
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  I know this is not something that you was just doing out on a whim,
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  right, I know you've you've you've been talking to X, Y and
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  Z. I'm like, okay, bet right, Okay, So we start
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  this process, so put it on the market. And my story their story
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  was they put the first day they put theirs on the market, they had
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  eight offers the first day they hit the market. Well that wasn't my that
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  wasn't necessarily my story, right, So I'm like, okay, you know
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  he's gonna end of me. Yeah, you think you're gonna sell for that?
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  And blah blah blah blah. Ain't nobody gonna want you know, he
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  come out, you know the little pill sees. But I literally said,
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  Lord, I trust your plan. I've already seen it. You've already showed
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  it to me empty I know it's so. And I literally said, now
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  I have to go through the process. And that's exactly what it has been.
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  It has definitely been a process, but I have been able to stand
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  on I already know that it's sold, right, and so here we are
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  so good today is so the original closing date was August the fourteenth. You
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  know, I don't know if anybody's ever sold a home or bought a home,
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  but you know there's things that come up, pop up lending this,
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  you need this, you need that, And so they pushed the date back
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  to August twenty eighth. So yesterday, at the top of the day,
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  we still hadn't heard nothing about closing. Until yesterday afternoon my agent sent me
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  a message that the that the lenders had already had approved the buyer's loan.
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  So we'll be closing on Monday, the twenty eighth at four o'clock. Right,
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  So if I, if I didn't have the hope of a thing and
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  then start and put the action behind it, which is igniting my faith.
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  Oh lord, I know that it's sold, then we wouldn't end up to
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  where now I know it's sold, like it's it's already sold. But now
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  we were right here and seeing this thing comes to fruition. Like I remember
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  walking through the house. It's empty now and I was like, this is
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  what this is what I saw. Listen, this is what I thow.
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  That's what you had to that's what you had to say. Because faith produces
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  evidence. Come on, when I have faith, whatever you got faith about,
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  it produces evidence. I always bring this up like on my Mental Monday's
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  platform. If you haven't checked it out, you need to go on Facebook
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  find Jessica Jessica as Smith and it's under If you put hello Jessica it Smith,
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  it'll go right to the platform that I do Mental Mondays every every Monday,
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  nine pm Central Standard time. Y'all we just talked about this, Yes,
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  we literally just talked about this. Ten thousand dollars. I'm turning thirty.
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  The Lord was like, you're gonna give I said, okay, now,
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  mind you, I'm I'm naturally a giver. But that was that was
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  a stretch. Okay, that was different. So I said, okay,
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  guy. He was like, this is what you're gonna do for your birthday?
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  And I mean I'm driving, I'm driving. He said, this was
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  you gonna do for your birthday. You're going to create an atmosphere on that
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  party, right, and you're gonna raise money for the Love Lady Center.
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  I said a bit, You're gonna raise ten thousand dollars. I said,
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  what that couldn't be the lot. Hold up, wait a minute, what
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  what I was so hesitating? Now? I that was two thousand. That
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  was two twenty one, twenty twenty one when I when I got the word,
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  I got it in the summertime. And so I'm sitting on this word
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  for about about two or three months, and I well, I told my
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  event planner, shout out to eight w's event planning. I'm I'm I'm undershaded
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  about my come on, baby, a w S event planning. Okay,
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  I'll send out the link. I told her she's done literally every event that
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  I have I've had. I told her, I was like, this is
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  what the Lord teld me. And at this point she knows when I say
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  the Lord tell me something. She just got to start looking for stuff,
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  right, I said, this is what I'm this is what the Lord told
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  me. I don't know what this looked like. I don't know how we're
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  gonna do this, but this is what I heard. Right. So I
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  told her that and didn't even move on it. But if I had not
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  planted that seed, she wanted to challenge me. When she did, to
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  say, what you I thought you said you were gonna do this. I
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  thought the Lord told you you gotta have the right people to come on to
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  remind you of the faith, seeds that you you that have been planning this
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  good, remind the garden, that garden that you've been planning and putting seeds
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  that something about. Sometimes it's good a lot of times that people know.
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  Always some tomatoes over there, it's the cucumbers over there, it's the roads
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  bushed over there is whatever you got in your garden. The faith, my
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  God who's reminding you to do the work to make the thing grow, come
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  on right, And so I share it with her, the vision or the
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  what the Lord had told me. Y'all. People looked at me like I
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  was crazy. People kept telling me, uh, you're gonna do this in
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  three months, because at that time I announced it in November for January.
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  So this is November two thy twenty one for jay an event for January in
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  two thousand twenty two. November, y'all, Now, let's paint this picture.
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  November in December heavy holiday months. You got Thanksgiving right, and you
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  got Christmas, and you got New Years. That's what most of the traveling.
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  So you got people traveling, you have, you have people giving gilts.
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  People want to eat. People donate, people given to that right and
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  I'm asking for And this was the strategy behind it. I asked for one
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  hundred, one hundred people to commit to one hundred dollars, and I would
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  get to ten thousand dollars. I had people donate more, I had people
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  donate less. But my strategy. Watch this. Faith don't. Faith without
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  works is what dead. Faith without knowing strategy, you will be. You
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  will be blaming God for something you didn't strategize about. You gotta not only
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  have faith, but God's wisdom and intelligence. Watch this. That's why Solomon
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  was so powerful was because he said, Hey, I seen what you did
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  for my father, but what I'm not my father and I'm not his mind,
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  but do off the relationship. Hey, I just need your intelligence.
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  I need your wisdom, and I can I can gather whatever I need to
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  gather. I know you're gonna take care of me. I know you're gonna
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  provide for me. But I just need your thoughts. Listen, faith without
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  the thoughts of the Lord, the plan will not happen. It won't.
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  So we gotta walk this thing out. But we have to be also be
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  strategic. So a part of the marketing strategy was one hundred dollars for a
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  hundred people, with one hundred dollars US to ten thousand. Ye right,
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  So three months go down. It's januine, it's probably a week before my
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  birthday. It's actually if I'm if I'm not, if I'm not mistaken,
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  Okay. So the party was like on a June, on a Saturday.
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  So it was January twenty second. My birthday is on the twenty gifts.
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  So make sure y'all marcat calling, because I want all the gifts, all
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  all of them. All give me, give me what's mine. So I
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  had an interview with Fred Davenport. I pray to God he can come on
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  the podcast. I pray to God he can come on the podcast. But
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  that's a that's a whole nothering nugget. I had an interview with Fred Davenport.
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  He I asked him with the leading of the Holy Spirit, but also
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  my sister pushed me to do it, to be on his platform to promote
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  the event. Didn't know what to look for, didn't he he told me,
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  asked me was I available that now? Night? Davenport is an hour
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  was an hour and a half half away from me. I asked him,
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  I say, can we do it virtually because I'm not gonna be able to
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  make it long story short at the time that we did the interview, because
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  he aired it that night. So at the time that we did the interview,
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  I wasn't even halfway to the point. I think I had three thousand
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  dollars. I was grateful for that, right, I think we had gotten
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  to three thousand dollars three or four thousand. This is three weeks before the
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  end. This is the days before days. This is days days. So
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  my interview with Davenport was on the nineteen. I'll never get it because of
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  the day before my birthday because he said, oh, her birthday is tomorrow.
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  My interview with Davenport was on the nineteen. My birthday is on the
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  twentieth. When he when he released that interview, it was something that I
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  could share. So now I have proof of the of the faith, y'all.
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  I'm not just talking. Oh they said, oh this girl serious?
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  Really, this girl took it to the news outlet, this took this girl
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  took it to these platforms. Yeah, I did. It's that moment literally
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  shifted and I don't know what why I'm here but I'm gonna say this,
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  don't be afraid of what will be exposed on like different like news. At
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  point, we sometimes we beat the news down, y'all. This platform is
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  for us to the kingdom, entrepreneur is for us to all we gotta do
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  like listen, these people are literally looking for stories every day. The stories
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  of the news are about people that are doing everyday life period and if and
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  if it doesn't make sense for them to do it at the time, cool
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  except the those. But guess what, we have our own platforms. We
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  got YouTube, we got Facebook Live, we got Instagram lives. Use the
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  platform and get the get what's seated out because guess what, people can't back
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  you, and they don't see you working for your own faith. They don't,
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  they not feel back. You lay in dormant as as Dave said,
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  I am not dead. And so because I'm not dead, I have to
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  I have to respond as a living being. I have to respond as I
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  am alive. What do lively people do? They just do it and just
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  do it. They just do it, y'all. And so back to your
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  point about you said something that was so powerful. You said that the vision
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  that you had, you kept it the reason why hope is right here.
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  It's so that we can remember. Sometimes hope looks like a dream. Hope
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  looks like a prophetic word for those that understand that, hope looks like a
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  pouring into Hope looks like, Okay, this is not shaking me right now,
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  this is stirring me. Every time I think about it, I get
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  excited, but also get fearful of what if? What if it don't happen.
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  That's your hope. If you're fearful of something not happening, you need
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  to lean on that hope. And you say, Okay, I got to
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  have I have to be in a position where this thing gets done. I
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  have to. So what you said does a ray is that you went back
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  to what God told you the first time. This is where we miss it.
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  We miss it at the point where and it y'all forgive me because I'm
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  getting a little preacher. It's because there's ray changed the mics on me,
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  and it's one of these some money, some money, Mike. It's annoyed.
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  I look like I'm in somebody pool pick. So blame does a ray
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  for the Martin Luther King Junior speech that y'all getting because it looks like the
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  mic that he he preached it to burn me him, you know, sixteenth
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  Baptist church. Mike, it looked like, well that my church might.
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  But listen, it's Mike, and it's Mike. Y'all can hear me clearly.
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  But the problem is, you guys, is that we missed the opportunity
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  to say, God, but this is what you showed me, So any
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  any like I think I shared this before David Emotier is stands on success and
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  failure having coming together. Yes, that that happens. I was successful at
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  the event. We didn't only just raise ten thousand dollars, we raised ten
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  thousand and five. We were able to send a check for ten thousand and
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  ten to ten thousand, five hundred off the fact of I did not,
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  Oh, I did not come off the stance and what God said the first
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  time, the people closest to me said, are you sure? Are you
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  sure that you're gonna be able to do this? This is what I heard.
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  And my explanation was, this is what I heard the Lord saying.
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  And sometimes we miss it, and we we discredit the faith that we have,
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  and we discredit what we're seeing. Watch this, we discredit the hope
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  based upon somebody else ability to hope, y'all. This is so free,
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  and we cannot base our hope on their their abilities to hope, because watch
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  is, everybody don't have the same grace. Everybody doesn't have saved grace.
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  The reason why God knew that I would be able to was a good candidate,
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  thank you all the spirit was a good candidate to be postured to lead
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  an act such as this as raising that money. And guess what, y'all,
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  ten thousand dollars an't even that much. And I'm saying that now,
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  but before I'm like, oh my gosh, that's just a ten thousand dollars
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  was a million, like almost trying to make raise a million in three months.
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  People make that in a day, y'all. Get your mind blown.
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  People literally make that type of money in a day's time. And so if
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  the same God can create this atmosphere for them, the same God can create
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  the atmosphere for me. Right, And so what we have to do is
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  be mindful of where our hope is being exposed. We have to nurture the
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  hope so well, because richter is the hope is driving the faith, and
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  then the faith produces the faith. The faith produces the discipline. And so
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  we were we're nurturing our hope with the right things. The discipline is coming,
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  the discipline of posting. Come on posting your sixty second real it's it's
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  there. You ain't worried about Oh I need to be be dolled up and
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  booted up and have my nails done. Baby, Look at my hand,
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  not these feet done. Okay, the toes is pretty. The toes are
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  hit baby, Yes, listen, them toes gonna be done if nothing else
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  gonna be done. But the hands, I use my hands a lot of
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  it. Words. So anyway, that's a whole other story. But you
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  we get so caught up and us looking at us having this. Remember we
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  talked about this before, us having a perfect camera, us having a perfect
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  mic. Yeah, I don't care about it. This this my church mike.
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  It's gonna get I'm gonna give it what it needs. Yeah, and
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  my lyon because it's not about the mic. It's about you showing up.
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  Watch this for God first, and then yourself. Because what is hope unfulfilled?
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  What is it? What is hope unfulfilled? What is hope unfulfilled?
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  The walking dead. M h Hope get oh almost I almost felt my shun.
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  Don't come on. Hope gets me up in the morning. Hope,
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  Hope helps me process my day, even if when I'm getting knocked down on
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  every side about my character, about y'all, y'all, y'all hold it.
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  Huh, I had a breathe. Oh I got a booker. What we
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  thank you? Oh that's a bump. Oh, this is that hills probably
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  Yeah, I gotta record this. The Woman of God just stopped recording because
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  she thought I had a book in my nose. It was it was a
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  long hair. It's a great hair, and it's great Jesus, it's great.
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  But shout out to there's a ray stopping stopping to make sure that your
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  girl was straight already. I don't even what you said. I hope you
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  get you up in the morning. Yep, did you. I'm just winna
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  snitch. Okay, i'mpen a snitch. I'm about to snitch cause Okay,
• 29:27
  y'all, this is a hard switch, and it's not hard because we're Finn
• 29:33
  finished talking about Hope. The Woman of God, there's a ray loved me
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  so much I did. I literally just told the people that I I could
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  be by nails. Weren't done nothing, but I told none. This lady
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  stops the recording to tell me I got a book in my nose, which
• 29:51
  really was a gray hair. Listen, get you some friends that ain't gonna
• 29:59
  be get yourself. This lady, I literally just decreed in the clare over
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  y'all. Y'all, y'all don't need to do it, and you go stop
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  the caramel. I think you got a book in your nose. I appreciate
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  that, but you did it with the bugger. I did it with the
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  booger, but it was really the great. It's y'all. We're not gonna
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  get into this, but I'm getting older. And they said that your body
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  started changing and stuff after thirty. I ain't believe it, but my god,
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  today it started doing some things like growing gray hairs and your nose.
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  You know, i'd be looking out for you. I appreciate that. You're
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  welcome, But back to hope, Hope, oh hope, y'all. We
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  have to feed our hope with the writing nutrition nutrients. Right, what does
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  that look like for Kingdom entrepreneurs? We got to it is not an option
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  to feed yourself with the word, it's not an option. The other day,
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  I was listening to That's what You Do by Refresh featuring Naomi Rain and
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  y'all, if y'all haven't heard that song, we'll probably link that song to
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  this. If y'all have heard that song, man, it's simple, so
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  good. It's for you. Always keep your word. That's what you do,
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  that's what you do. And it's basically talking about how we God has
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  done things before, He's he's allowed us to experience the promise that we're here
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  now. So the next promise that we're looking towards, why are we doubting
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  it? Because it's the same God, different promise, right, And so
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  I'm sitting there and the Lord, I wake up with that song in my
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  head and I hadn't really been familiar with it for real, but always said,
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  go back to that song. And he made me play it over and
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  over and over again, over and over and over again. Y'all, who
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  I am about to get real? He made me play it over and over
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  again. Didn't know that at that point that day, I knew my dad
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  wouldn't been feeling well at this At this point, my dad has been diagnosed
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  with cancer, right, and so this this infusion that they got him doing
• 32:30
  or whatever has made his body kind of like altar. So I get an
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  awareness call or text that he's in the hospital or an er a whatnot.
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  And there's a there's a fear that I had not addressed yet about regarding my
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  dad's diagnosed. And so now so now I am in a place where Okay,
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  I've been listening to this song about promises all day, all day,
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  right, and I'm gonna tell y'all, this is the host. I'm listening
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  to this, this song about for you always keep your word, because that's
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  what you do. He just does that, my God, he just does
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  that. So I'm listening to this song, y'all. And now it's come
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  up to where I have to believe on the promise of God, to where
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  the Lord told me that my father was gonna be healed, that it was
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  gonna be an act of a miraculous sign of his divine power. That's what
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  the Lord told me. Now now you're telling me that my dad still still
• 33:40
  is not healed in the natural, and now we're about to go to the
• 33:45
  hospital. Now this is irritating me. This is watch this, this is
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  frustrating my belief system. This is frustrating the faith that I chose to put
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  deposit. And but now I gotta go back to that hope because the hope
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  is what God told me the first time. The hope was me believing what
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  God told me the first time, what He told me the first time,
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  that my dad is gonna be healed, that he's healed, that he is
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  healed, that he's healed. Yeah, he's gonna be a miraculous sign God.
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  And like the things and the promises that God has told me about this
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  have have been really challenging because it hadn't happened yet. And I was like,
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  but God, everybody else get these type of reports. They go to
• 34:35
  the doctor. One day, they go to the doctor, they see it
• 34:37
  too many next time they don't see it. What it is it about my
• 34:39
  day that you're gonna string him along? Like I'm having new type of conversations.
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  I'm challenged God, But this is watch this, this is still feeding
• 34:45
  my hope because I am going back to the person that gave me the hope
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  in the first place. YO, give God his word back because you can't
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  God, you cannot lie on you. You you always keep your word.
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  Why Because you honor yourself that much. You honor yourself that much, soul
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  that you you've given this word that you want me to believe. And so
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  sometimes see this is a word that I'm still holding on to, y'all.
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  Yeah, the woman that God got her house, So I did you know?
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  And this is facts about the song that I was listening to. That's
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  what you do, refresh Naomi Naomi rain. The same God that told me
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  to do and perform an act and lead an act upon raising funds in three
• 35:37
  months. That really, my community really didn't believe that could happen. They
• 35:44
  didn't believe that could happen. Some of them didn't even agree that I gave
• 35:46
  it to who I gave it to. I'm I'm around all these datas,
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  okay, But the Lord said, the same God that gave me that promise
• 35:57
  and gave me those instructions. It's the same God that gave me the promising
• 36:00
  God, the promise of instructions of my father. So how do I get
• 36:06
  to justify doubting God? Now? How do I justify doubting the word of
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  the Lord, Because now it's personal, that's a ray m hmm, y'all.
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  We can't justify that o't. The circumstances have changed, yes, but
• 36:49
  the decision I'm believing has to remain because who I'm believing in hasn't changed.
• 36:58
  He's consistent. And so the reason why I feel like some of us don't
• 37:05
  just do it on certain things is because there's things that we believe, and
• 37:07
  I'm one there's things that we believe God for because it's easier because we're not
• 37:15
  as attached to that thing. But the closer it gets to our heart,
• 37:20
  see, I would have been okay with not making a ten thousand dollars for
• 37:23
  Love Lady Center, just how the simple faith is like, or at least
• 37:27
  people will say. People will be able to say that I tried, but
• 37:30
  that's not what HA been in the real relation of what God said. So
• 37:34
  God, because I said, kept saying, God told me this. God
• 37:37
  told me this. God he had to prove himself to himself. He did
• 37:40
  so Therefore I don't say I didn't care about the Love Lady Center. Love
• 37:45
  him. Still got relationship with him after that after that encounter. But because
• 37:51
  my father is so close to my heart, sometimes we want to control the
• 37:55
  how when God has already given us the results of what's gonna happen, and
• 38:00
  so we just don't do it. Let's let's bring it to entrepreneur and creativity
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  step. We just don't go after it because certain things are closer to us,
• 38:10
  right then then trying out there other things. Right, And so I
• 38:17
  won't use that example right now, I won't use this example. So what
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  do I What do I mean by that? It's easy for me to believe
• 38:27
  there's a ray. It's easy for me to promote you and to push your
• 38:31
  business and to say, oh, that's a ray. You should do this,
• 38:34
  you should do this and help you and actually invest in all of this.
• 38:38
  But when it's on my end, oh, it's personal. It's personal.
• 38:43
  It's my name that's on the line. But God told you to do
• 38:47
  it, and it's your name on the line. Oh, I don't I
• 38:52
  don't like being seen on the camera. I don't like maneuvering. Now I've
• 38:58
  gotten to a point I'm confida. But with Desiraate being on this side of
• 39:00
  the camera and me being on this side, just fully operating in excellence,
• 39:05
  right, I had to get to a point of that. Right. But
• 39:08
  now, because she's focused on what she's focused on and what God is ordained
• 39:14
  for her and just ask I can go to I can go to podcast something,
• 39:19
  and I can go and I can commit to doing weekly podcast now and
• 39:24
  I can. You know what I'm saying, just being able to have faithful
• 39:29
  enough to believe God has already equipped you enough to get things done. But
• 39:32
  we are we're so afraid to expose ourselves as a mustard seed. M watched
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  this, you know, it's gosh. There's a scripture that talks about if
• 39:45
  you have a faith, faith in size of a mustard seed, you can
• 39:51
  say to you can speak to the mountain and it shall be moved. You
• 39:55
  can speak to the mountain with the faith. I don't know if you have
• 39:59
  been ever seen a mustard seed. It's little, it's so small. I
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  went I intentionally went to Walmart and got a canister mustard seeds because I ain't
• 40:09
  never seen what they look like. And I put one in my hand.
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  You can't and you can't even feel it. It was so little. It's
• 40:17
  like you know it's there, but it ain't big enough to say to do
• 40:22
  nothing. But obviously it is, because the Lord say, if you have
• 40:28
  faith just as size is that you can speak to the mountain and it shall
• 40:34
  be moved. And so we can't pick and choose, Thank you, Holy
• 40:47
  Spirit, where to use the tool, the tool of faith. We can't
• 40:57
  pick and choose. Oh, this is close to my heart. So I
• 41:00
  need to control this matter more than God. That's Matthew seventeen and twenty three.
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  It's and this is in the CEB translation. Because you have little faith,
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  he said, I assure you that if you have faith the size of
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  a mustarted you could say to this mountain, go from here to there,
• 41:20
  and it will go. There will be nothing you can't do. You said,
• 41:27
  that's Christians stander Bible. Let me give him an old NLT baby if
• 41:30
  you want some. That's a Common English CEB. Is the Common English Bible.
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  Listen, let me tell you something. If you really needed a ratchet
• 41:37
  version of the Bible, go to the NLT version. Okay, it's blessed
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  every every part of my room. Say you don't have enough faith. If
• 41:44
  you just told him you don't have enough faith, Jesus told them, I
• 41:47
  tell you the truth. If you had faith, even outside as small as
• 41:52
  a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, move from here to
• 41:58
  there, and it would move. Nothing would be impossible. So to put
• 42:06
  a pin in it, because I got to end on that scripture, because
• 42:08
  when when when he says it's gonna have to move from here to there,
• 42:14
  and your here to there is determined to buy yourself your direction, your direction,
• 42:19
  He says, you can do that. This is Jesus words, and
• 42:22
  it says nothing would be impossible. There's not. That means that my father's
• 42:28
  healing isn't impossible. That but means us being the billionaires that was decreeding clared
• 42:32
  over us a couple of months ago. It's not impossible. We just have
• 42:37
  to go from the here and the there, right, and it takes Jesus,
• 42:42
  it takes the Lord to get us from here to there. Yeah.
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  The difference is the T. And I say the T is the cross,
• 42:51
  right, what does it representation across salvation? A second chance? Right?
• 42:59
  Sometimes we give up on ourselves when we have we have chance out, the
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  chance out, the chance to try to get it right right. That's the
• 43:06
  difference between here and there, the trying. As the church folks said,
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  the blood, the blood, the blood, all right, And so I
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  end with this we season three is just do it, just do it.
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  The faith, the faith, the size of a much of seed. Lord,
• 43:30
  I hear you, I hear you. Hold on. We gotta go
• 43:36
  to Hebrews and then we're gonna end this one Hebrews, my God, Hebrew
• 43:45
  where you at? Eleven? Yo? You you got it before me.
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  You got it? Go ahead. This is also the NLT who Hebrews one?
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  No, Hebrews one here? Yeah, he was an eleven point you
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  go ahead. It says faith shows the reality of what we hope for.
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  It is the evidence of things we cannot see. Now, I'm gonna give
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  y'all a good King James version because that that good old King James versions just
• 44:20
  hit different when on this scripture it says, now, faith is the substance
• 44:24
  of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Uh now faith?
• 44:31
  Now faith? U pastor top Mike Todd has a a a a sermon
• 44:38
  on now faith because you know he's into the crazy faith, right that.
• 44:44
  Now faith that means that it's it's present, the present faith, the present,
• 44:49
  the present decision of moving forward, the present decision of just doing it
• 44:55
  is the substance of the things hope for, right, the evidence of things
• 45:01
  not seeing. And so y'all, I hope you guys that's the way.
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  Did you enjoy this coming? Oh? This was good? Let me let
• 45:07
  me tell you when you when you when you understand the assignment is you're you're
• 45:16
  a kingdom entrepreneur, which means as a king, as kingdom entrepreneurs, as
• 45:22
  kingdom citizens, we have to be open to allow Holy Spirit to flow because
• 45:30
  at the end of the day, he he he the GPS, he the
• 45:32
  guide, he got the blueprint, he he knows you know what I'm saying.
• 45:37
  And so before we started, we saying, oh, what we're gonna
• 45:38
  what we're gonna talk about? You know, we're trying to figures just like
• 45:42
  he's just gonna flow the Holy Spirit, and he does exactly that. And
• 45:45
  I think that's the That's the one thing that I really enjoy about being on
• 45:51
  this side is just witnessing you step into that because at the end of it,
• 45:59
  it's not you. And when we realize that it's not us, you
• 46:01
  know, we can we can stand in the confidence of who it is and
• 46:05
  that's the spirit of God that's in us. So I just look, I've
• 46:07
  I've enjoyed this conversation because a couple of times I was like, dang,
• 46:09
  she talking to me. Yeah, she's talking to me, talking to me.
• 46:17
  Things hit when they hit because you talked about how you know, like,
• 46:22
  what is it that's keeping you from going after those things? And it
• 46:27
  is fear? And I'm like, well, if I understand it ain't.
• 46:30
  If God has given me a certain thing, that means He's already laid the
• 46:34
  blueprint forward and all I literally got to do is keep keep the vision ahead
• 46:38
  and go through the process until I see it, until I see it to
• 46:43
  fruition. Yeah, it's going back to what he said. Yeah, like,
• 46:45
  even when you have doubt, what what if? And if you wrong?
• 46:47
  God, guess what. God's grace is sufficient and he was still he
• 46:52
  was still you back on the path. God's grace is so sufficient to where
• 46:58
  if your intention, if you have the right heart posture, God's gonna be
• 47:04
  like, you know what, I didn't even say that, but I'm still
• 47:12
  using my good though. Why's this? The belief was so so anointed,
• 47:17
  so pure that I have to respond that I have to respond. And so
• 47:22
  even if even if you're roll, even if you you like, oh God,
• 47:28
  God didn't say that, but you have pure intentions, God's gonna redirect
• 47:30
  you, but He's gonna cover you, and he's gonna grace you for what
• 47:34
  we really meant. Yes, He's gonna grace you for what you really meant.
• 47:37
  So y'all, Okay, I try to do this, but I feel
• 47:42
  led to pray on that. Let's go. So, Father, we thank
• 47:45
  you. We thank you for for the ability to have the faith, for
• 47:52
  the for the for hope, Oh My God, for discipline. God,
• 47:58
  we thank you, Oh God, for every person on the sound of my
• 48:00
  voice, that we're coming into agreement. What you said the first time,
• 48:05
  that the first time was the stamp of approval for you, my goodness.
• 48:08
  So you can't give up on yourself, God. You can't. You can't
• 48:12
  denounce your word. You can't lie on you God. And so we thank
• 48:15
  you that you you can't be be this or that you are what you are.
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  And so God, we thank you for just doing and allowing us to
• 48:22
  just be able to do through you. Oh God, we thank you for
• 48:27
  the strength and the tenacity to be able to live, outlive the lies,
• 48:31
  outlive what even what we think our inabilities are. God, because it says
• 48:36
  your grace is sufficient. And God, you said that if we have faith,
• 48:39
  just the size of a mustange that mountain must move from here to there.
• 48:44
  And so God, I bless the here to there, for each every
• 48:46
  one a person, and under the sound of my voice, I bless the
• 48:51
  here to there, that that transition with you, that transition to the greatness,
• 48:54
  that transition to the promises that you already deemed worthy for them. Oh
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  God, I thank you that they will not only be able to oversee or
• 49:02
  overlook a thing, God, that they would be able to expose themselves and
• 49:07
  reap the harvest and be able to benefit off that thing. No longer will
• 49:13
  we live in a generation hallelujah. No longer will we live in a generation
• 49:16
  where we say, woe it's me, and woe, I wish I could
• 49:20
  have, I wish I would have. But God, we will live and
• 49:22
  breathe who and be in a part of the process of your promises. Oh
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  God, For even in Psalms nine, the one for It, you decreed
• 49:31
  and declare that your promises are our armor and protection. And so God,
• 49:36
  we will lieve in the create declare that we are not only protected our position
• 49:43
  for the promise, but we are protected in positioned by the promise. And
• 49:47
  so God, from this day, for we choose to have faith, we
• 49:52
  choose to have faith to just do my God, because we are enough.
• 49:59
  I just dare you to say, you're wherever you are in your car,
• 50:01
  and if you're watching this on YouTube, say I am enough. I am
• 50:05
  enough. I am enough for the promise to be fulfilled. I am enough
• 50:07
  to walk this thing out. I am enough because God deemed me as such.
• 50:13
  I am enough. And so God, we honor you, We glorify
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  you. From this day forward. We honor you with just doing my goodness.
• 50:23
  We honor you with just doing. Lord, we love you. Allow
• 50:28
  every decision that it's made from this day forward to be made through you.
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  Forward you and buy you in Jesus name. Amen, Amen. I love
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  you, guys. I love you guys. Remember we here every week every
• 50:42
  Thursday. Come on here. Let's everyone everyone, So we thank you.
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  Thank you for sharing this out, Thank you for subscribing. Remember life could
• 50:53
  be much more simple if you just ask. See you next week. Hey,
• 51:01
  y'all, thank you for listening to jess Ask. If you enjoyed this
• 51:06
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• 51:15
  at the Jessica and Smith on all platforms again. I'm your girl, Jess
• 51:21
  until next time.