Latest / Jess Ask / Living a Life of Abundance: The Art of Contentment | Featuring Byanca Miller | S3E5
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- 0:06Hey, it's your girl, jess You've just entered a safe space for Kingdom
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- 0:35and questions so we can keep the conversation going. Now, let's get into
- 0:41this week's episode. Yo, what's up? What's up? What are we
- 0:48back for another session of the Round? Another? You know one, two,
- 0:53three, five, six, seven eight in my bank account? You
- 0:56feel me? Listen, I've been in delirae. You've been enjoying it.
- 1:00Season. Man, it's been good. It's been. It's been unique.
- 1:03It's been it's been five your thigh, your five to the year. Okay,
- 1:07I just want to say first before you get into it, is I'm
- 1:10proud of you, Jessica. Don't do that. I'm just saying for like
- 1:14like going like you could stop. But you could have told me no.
- 1:18You could have very well said no. And you know what I'm saying,
- 1:21But you didn't. What glory to God? You didn't because you trust what
- 1:25God got even though you don't in your mind think you trust what it is,
- 1:29but you trust something that's going on. So I'm I'm proud of you.
- 1:32Thank you, Thank you, get you get you a purpose partner that's
- 1:36gonna pour it list because the woman of God, like really, I gotta
- 1:41I gotta give it back to you though, because because of you, like
- 1:45your obedience, and I know it's probably nerve wrecking y'all. I'm not a
- 1:48difficult person to deal with, but sometimes I can be like I'm so firm
- 1:52sometimes what my mind sometimes, but she came to me, and when she
- 1:57came to me, it was like lit. But before we get all emotional
- 2:00or whatever, listen, if you don't know where you are, you just
- 2:04landed in the space a safe space for Kingdom entrepreneurs and creatives to decompress,
- 2:10learn and have fun. Y'all. I am Jessica S. Smith and I
- 2:15know y'all look like when y'all gonna acknowledge? When are you going to acknowledge
- 2:19the woman to your left my right? Listen, y'all don't understand who this
- 2:23is. I know you not ready. I'm probably not ready. I'm hold
- 2:27on to my seat. I should have we should have put Sea, we
- 2:30should have put Desiree. They're not ready. B uncle, list Miller,
- 2:38y'all give around? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Bonca, I'm an
- 2:46listen. I don't know if I can do justice of your introduction. So
- 2:52I'm going to allow you to introduce yourself to the community. Reintroduce yourself to
- 2:59your community. And we're finn talk, baby, We're fa talk. That's
- 3:01who we're gonna do now, is talk, because that's what I can do.
- 3:07I really don't have no special introduction. My name is Bianca. I
- 3:10am I just love God man. I love him and I'm submitted to him.
- 3:16I'm committed to him. I'm on a journey with him, and yeah,
- 3:21I'm ready to I want to do whatever he wants me to do however
- 3:24he wants me to do it, and I'm just excited to be here.
- 3:28First of all, okay, pauls, let's just put a pausing in this
- 3:31moment. Okay, Jessica, First of all, jes Okay, I mean
- 3:37we haven't known each other long literally litter. I mean, we're just gonna
- 3:44be honest. I mean, we're gonna be saved. We're gonna be honest,
- 3:46a small amount of time but very big. Has been so impactful.
- 3:50I've been watching a podcast. I think it's super dope. She's very encouraging.
- 3:54I mean, I just love her and I don't know upbreak Jessica Day.
- 4:00Yes, get to your feet, sat, stand to your feet,
- 4:06all right, listen, and she's amazing. I'm excited to be here.
- 4:10I'm grateful that you invited me, Like I don't. This ain't normal for
- 4:14me. I don't be on podcasts and conversations. So I'm grateful listen.
- 4:20And that's part of the word because Banca like you it sis like like like
- 4:26Beanca said, like I haven't known her but for two seconds. But the
- 4:31thing about kingdom relationship and kingdom gatherings, you can point them out like it's
- 4:38just something about certain people that get you interested even more about what God is
- 4:47doing. And so you, Bianca, you have that it You have that
- 4:57because we can shout up to the church, shout out eighteen hundred John Rogers
- 5:05drive, get way and Birmingham it ain't been by that. You got to
- 5:13come by, got to come because your your service, Beyod, you need
- 5:15some more because some most of y'all are supposed to be serving or normally service
- 5:19is certain. If you don't go to church, you need somebody somewhere you
- 5:23can just go and just you know, it's a shameless plugs shameless listen,
- 5:28listen because we like, we likes the PG and the PC powerful, humble.
- 5:33Look girl, I literally told PG this morning, I said, it
- 5:39starts with the head, it does. It starts with the head. And
- 5:43the thing about our pastor is that what they embody and their expectations and their
- 5:49standard for themselves has set the standard for the church. So even even last
- 5:57week when we were talking about me and house on the floor, Yeah,
- 6:00we're not gonna get into the store, but I was gonna flow. Okay.
- 6:03So for people that people that don't understand, because I understand Christian communities
- 6:09are a little different, look a little different, nobody like that. But
- 6:19in our community what we believe. You know, sometimes it gets a little
- 6:24ugly to get a little good okay, And it got a little ugly for
- 6:28me and I ended up on the floor crying well and good, good,
- 6:32good, good good. After that moment, the response of the people,
- 6:39not my pastors, the response of the people were to cover me. Wow,
- 6:44how about that that happens because we have good pastors. That's right.
- 6:48If you don't have good pastors that produce an atmosphere and set a tone and
- 6:55an expectations that we cover each other. It don't take me, It don't
- 6:59take him, It takes you. We like that's the expectation. But they
- 7:03don't have to have a tone like, oh, this is what we're gonna
- 7:05do now. They already imbuy it, don't You don't have to explain it.
- 7:10You don't even really have to teach it. In reality, you just
- 7:14be it sometime. If we could just be sometime, If we could just
- 7:17be, I learned that the hard way. But if you could just be
- 7:20the fruit, the fruit, the fruit will be, will will produce itself.
- 7:24Sometimes I think leaders have the heart to do stuff, but they are
- 7:31tainted by the decisions of the community. They want to please. One thing
- 7:36about PG and PC don't care nothing about it. They said, what we
- 7:41didn't do is comes from Tennessee to play with y'all because I'm not here for
- 7:46you. I'm not here on my own accort. Sometimes she just said that
- 7:49last week I didn't even want to be here. Pull up, were trying
- 7:55to pull up on the U said she was trying to she was trying to
- 8:01get them the back of the bus Greyhound American. Ready. I could be
- 8:09ready at you forty five. Y'all want to be here at that time.
- 8:13Listen, shout out to our family, our pasts, Christ Geno Poster,
- 8:20Kareem Gardner, We love you guys. So we can't listen, y'all unashamed.
- 8:26I don't care if y'all. If y'all stopped by, now that's y'all
- 8:28meet. If y'all stopped listening by, now that's y'all mess listen, but
- 8:31girl, back back to you woman. Guys. So I just even in
- 8:37Kingdom conversations or king atmospheres, one of the things that I've learned, and
- 8:39even with Desiree, like I met Desiree, we met a push nation,
- 8:46and I mean I knew who she was. I mean she took our head
- 8:50shots. Coach gifted us one year with head shots, and I knew who
- 8:54she was. I helped her to the car that day, and I remember,
- 8:56I remember that moment. It's interesting it's at moments I remember, but
- 9:01that was a moment that I just helped her to the car and we were
- 9:03carrying her tools. The tools y'all, y'all, Forna get free right now,
- 9:07the tools that she would soon use for just a Jesus, how about
- 9:11them? How about like that? That blows my mind? Head. So
- 9:16when kingdom connections happen, time is not a factor. Yeah, I'm gonna
- 9:22say that again. Wow, When kingdom connections happen, time is not a
- 9:26factor. So listen, that's so good. Listen. And then you help
- 9:31the person who was a vendor in a sense, like she came to service
- 9:37you all. And typically, you know, somebody come service you, you
- 9:41don't assist them to their car. But that was that was a moment that
- 9:45needed to happen. They had to. They had to because it was an
- 9:46introduction to what we know. What else is so incredible? So of course
- 9:50I seen you at church before I before I joined, or yeah, before
- 9:56I praise God, before I joined. And then I seen you again in
- 10:01Atlanta, you did? I seen you at wy Do. I always miss
- 10:09a name, Juck k Lynn, that's the woman of God. I was
- 10:15like Jaquelin or Kaylen what I don't know? What else is it? What
- 10:18it is Jacquelin Carr. We mess up names, you know, But I
- 10:24seen you there, and this is this is beautiful, right because sometimes the
- 10:28Saints be be doing stuff and you know, I gotta find a nice way
- 10:31to say things. So we was in the restroom and you were with your
- 10:33coach, and you really could have just been like, oh, you know,
- 10:37I don't really know her like that, because I don't think we had
- 10:39a conversation. Didn't know. And I just saw you at church and I
- 10:45was at that time, I was I would come to service and I was
- 10:46out one no one, no Liley, gag in and out. And so
- 10:50you saw me in the restroom and introduced me like she knew me. She
- 10:54introduced me to her coach like she really knew me, and I was like,
- 10:58wow, how about it. Yeah, it was like shit, go
- 11:00to my church. And it was like you was really excited. And you
- 11:03know, for me, because of just my past with confidence and all of
- 11:07that kind of stuff. In my head this is said, oh, I'm
- 11:11sorry, this is sad. In my head, people automatically don't like me
- 11:16at first. Wow, automatically don't don't receive me at first, you know,
- 11:22because I've been dalp there with bullying and just all of that kind of
- 11:24stuff. So in my head, I need to show you who I am
- 11:28before you can love me or like me. And the fact that and I
- 11:31told somebody is I was like everybody in my head, don't like. We
- 11:37had a conversation with PC and PG and our very first zoom conversation because I
- 11:41passed one on one. But that's need to hear there. Just drop that
- 11:48we did a one on one and they was just saying all the stuff that
- 11:52they saw in me from a distance. Now mind you, when I came
- 11:54there, I was in the I was in the season, and girl in
- 11:58a in a were just gonna leave it there period. Don't ask her about
- 12:03to see Maybe maybe that time when I'm ready to talk about it. But
- 12:11but yeah, we were. We were they say all this stuff they saw
- 12:16in me and the season where I felt like I didn't have all that they
- 12:20said, you know, and I'm just like, God, really, you
- 12:22allow people to see the see you even without saying anything. I don't even
- 12:28I never had to say anything to you. And just that conversation in the
- 12:31bathroom, I was like, Wow, God, okay, okay, I
- 12:37people like me, people see me, you know, people hear you,
- 12:41and that was amazing. I don't think I ever shared that with you by
- 12:43not tell it to a friend of mins, Like when I told her about
- 12:46want to tell my best friend about the podcast, I was like, I
- 12:50just assumed she didn't even know me, or you thought I was like,
- 12:52And then she introduced me in the bathroom and then we talked a couple of
- 12:54times in I'm on podcast. And the way you ripped let me just say
- 12:58this real quick, the way you ripped that Inson at that conference, Oh
- 13:03lord my god. I said, oh wow, Yeah, she's a she's
- 13:07a serious matter. And so it's just been amazing when you connected to people
- 13:11who are just amazing. It's serious about God and love them and yeah,
- 13:16So it's interest in what you're saying because I can relate to what you're saying
- 13:20so much so that the power and understanding that everybody is not equipped to receive
- 13:31you the way the world receives each other. And so I'm coming into understanding
- 13:39that. So I'm gonna say this about you. I don't even remember the
- 13:46bathroom situation. Wow, that's that's interesting. I don't even remember that.
- 13:50But I do remember seeing you and getting and actually being excited to see you
- 13:58because I've come from a place where no one was excited to see me,
- 14:09No one was excited to see me. My sister and I actually had a
- 14:13conversation not too long ago about about how our childhood it had some painful moments
- 14:26for the simple fact on my end, she was the one that was liked
- 14:31by our peers. I was liked to buy leadership, but leadership like me
- 14:37because that was literally a prophetic act of understanding that I would be in leadership
- 14:43and I would have close proximity to my leadership. And so looking up hindsight,
- 14:50yeah that was easy. But as a child, as an adolescent,
- 14:54that wasn't. That wasn't the and all be all. That wasn't understanding.
- 14:58And so we dealt something with even things that I have to catch now with
- 15:01my self esteem, with my security, and so your embraced of I might
- 15:05not even know your name, but I know that you family. You give
- 15:07what I'm saying, Like I don't understand. I don't understand. So me
- 15:11even being at this church, like it's so different, I've never I talked
- 15:13to. There's a rail about all the time. I don't know if I
- 15:18really knew or understand understand how to be pastor or what pastors do because for
- 15:24one, I'm a pKa myself, so you always got that sight of understanding
- 15:30and looking at well, are you pastoring or are you daddy in right now?
- 15:35Like I don't understand, and it's starting to merge, and you're confusing
- 15:37me and you me being frustrated with you is making me frustrated with God.
- 15:41Like y'all both y'all get on my nerves right now. But I did that
- 15:46for so long, and then the pastors that I've had, I will just
- 15:50keep it generalized and say I didn't have that prosimity or that relationship, and
- 15:56they didn't have the understanding of who I am and probably where I'm going.
- 16:03The mantle to carry a weight like me, you have to say, I
- 16:07have to say that bowler, it's different. Soec, I'm starting to understand
- 16:14that people can only manage what they can manage. The capacity level is different.
- 16:22And so what we do and what the enemy does is he tries to
- 16:25make us internalize something as an inadequate thing when it's really it is what it
- 16:32is. It's like literally Season two is all about it is what it is.
- 16:36Sometimes us we as believers have to learn her to accept it is what
- 16:41it is, it ain't what it ain't, and it's gonna be what it's
- 16:44gonna be. I got a friend that says that, and I used to
- 16:47get so frustrated when I heard that, but then I start settling and then
- 16:51like, you know, it is what it is, it's not what it's
- 16:53not, and it's gonna be what it's gonna be. Like I can't make
- 16:57you have the oil or the capacity for me, and what you don't understand
- 17:06is not my problem. Yeah, yeah, and knowing that being okay with
- 17:11and I really hope that leaders get to this point. I was talking to
- 17:14a friend of mine, he's my classmate who has a church, and he
- 17:18was he said something and is very well he said something to this point.
- 17:22But pastors and leaders being okay when knowing that this person has graduated from what
- 17:27I can handle and being okay with that that it's not a place of like
- 17:32you're not good enough or I don't I'm bad, because I think that's a
- 17:36way for God to keep it all about him. That's so good. If
- 17:40I if I less you, if I make you feel like you can do
- 17:44everything for this person, then what do they need what I need them to
- 17:49now? Be able to say I trust God enough to know that it's time
- 17:52for me to shift because God has something else for me. And I think
- 17:56if pastors and I don't feel bad because when you talk about pastors, you
- 18:00talking about a shepherd's heart. So for them it's about this is my child,
- 18:04you know, and that and that's what parents go through. And so
- 18:07I don't think it's not a judgment statement, but I think it's a freeing
- 18:11statement if leaders get to the point and be like, hey, I that's
- 18:15it, and I love you and I support you, and where you're going.
- 18:21I push where you're going. I'm my previous pastor to don't now,
- 18:26don't don't don't think I'm just hot church hopping around here, okay, because
- 18:30but two churches before where I'm at now that that partical pastor I left,
- 18:37And come to find out, once I left, he had reached out to
- 18:40my my then pastor and had a conversation about me, girl, you know,
- 18:45and share with him, share with him who I was, and and
- 18:51and and and sent me with blessings, Yes, sent me with blessings.
- 18:55And I just I was like, first of all, I didn't know when
- 18:56he told me. I was like really you did. He was like I
- 19:00told him, you know, and and sent me with love. And I'm
- 19:03still very much connected to him today. You know, love him the pieces,
- 19:06honor him. I mean, it is what it is, and and
- 19:11I love him. There's nothing that that church lax. It just wasn't.
- 19:15At that point, Bianca was for what she needed next, and I was
- 19:18kind of sharing with Desbray before we came up, before we started about some
- 19:22stuff I had been uttering to God, not even really understanding what I was
- 19:27uttering to him what I was. It was just like it just started kind
- 19:30of coming out of me, and before I knew it, I was in
- 19:33a house that was responding to that. Just that mere conversation. It wasn't
- 19:38nothing deep, It wasn't nothing. I don't know, I really didn't.
- 19:41It wasn't nothing extra, you know. I just was like, where are
- 19:45these where are these things? You know? Where's the supernatural? Where is
- 19:48speaking in tongues? Where is the prophetic? Because I was born Pentecostal,
- 19:52but I warned pingecost and spent a lot of time non denominational. So at
- 19:56a point there came a point in me was like I kind of need what
- 20:02I was what I was what was putting me as a child, and I
- 20:04just I didn't know that. I didn't really have comprehension for it until later
- 20:07on in life when it happened. So God just knew, He knew it
- 20:11was all just kind of aligning in itself, and God moved me. So
- 20:15I just I think leaders should be okay with that and love people. Don't
- 20:18don't make them feel bad for your church and shifting when God is calling them
- 20:23something, because that's what we can do, like we can get so caught
- 20:26up in our flesh, and they didn't take it personal. Let me just
- 20:29say this, everybody's not a five hundred fifty thousand, forty thousand trust membership.
- 20:36Take your tea and run with you and go, like, settle in
- 20:38the teen that you got, now, settle in a faithful few that you
- 20:41got. Now managed that now? Like, and what why are we on
- 20:45your You're not you aren't called to be a mega church? Yeah, yeah,
- 20:51I'm sorry. You are not called to be a mega church. Yeah,
- 20:53and be okay with that and be okay with that. And I think
- 20:56there there are leaders and I think this is why it's so important. When
- 21:02we were talking about earlier off off rip that leadership with no healing, it's
- 21:08slavery. That is good leadership with no healing, it's becomes slavery. And
- 21:18so now it's like, I'm your master type. I can't let you go
- 21:22because I still need you in the field. That's good. And so what
- 21:27the reality is they don't belong to you, know from you? I don't
- 21:30even belong to my parents. And I came from there? How about that?
- 21:34Like? Literally? Literally that was Abraham? Right? Was it Abraham
- 21:41who took their son to the Now I know y'all know the word of God
- 21:47because we ain't gonna cut it out. I think it was. I think
- 21:52it was Abraham about the sacrifice, because it wasn't it was a Ram in
- 22:02the bush. We always like Abraham Abram both named coming, but even he
- 22:07realizing understood that Isaac's Isaac did not belong to him? Right? He was
- 22:15it Hannah that said, Lord, if you give me a son? And
- 22:19that right? So literally she had to give up her first child and she
- 22:26was blessed with more, but still had to take care of a child that
- 22:29she didn't get to see. That she didn't get to see it like that,
- 22:32I don't when I said when the lawyer as you don't belong man,
- 22:36belong to this world. It means everything everything. Watch just my parents even
- 22:41have an assignment just to minimal birth me. So even when I understand,
- 22:45even if we were adopted, and I understand that they completed the assignment,
- 22:49the assignment, it's not I'm gonna be raised regardless. Listen, girl,
- 22:55let me tell you something. I love. I am a I believe in
- 22:59that, I really do. But sometimes what concerns me is the way that
- 23:03we we help people walk through things, especially those that are believers. Because
- 23:08I understand, especially when you talk about in licensing and all that you do
- 23:12have to be careful with things. But I wish that we we did therapy
- 23:17in the hole, in the totality kind of way, because it's or and
- 23:21just dealing with the whole, the whole story, because in reality that that
- 23:25is really all your parents were here for. Moses was given to a whole.
- 23:30Listen, So I don't I think that when you and I think it
- 23:33will help us deal with rejection better, it will help us understand abandonment better
- 23:38if we start understanding what really your parents' purpose in reality was to bring you
- 23:44to and not abort you, and then understanding that whatever however your life played
- 23:52out, all things work together. So understanding that if this was my even
- 23:56dealing with my my, my, my journey with my father and all of
- 24:00all of that, one of the things that helped me to heal was understanding
- 24:03that, no, this was my journey. He was just a part of
- 24:08it. He was a part of the story. If God really want I
- 24:11always feel like if God really wanted to it to not happen, he could
- 24:15have, he could have intercepted. So let me let me let me stop
- 24:18you right there. Okay, woman, the guy, I'm gonna stretch you.
- 24:21Okay, stretch me. Okay, if you don't want this, just
- 24:25say no. But you're telling me knowing from the folk. Okay, so
- 24:29you you brushed, you brushed by your father. Okay, give us more
- 24:33details of what that looks like. Because freedom comes into testimony. Yeah,
- 24:37yeah, yeah, I'm definitely free. Indeed, pray Scott. I can
- 24:41tell you the story and and and it's it's really not that complicated. So
- 24:45of course we're from I'm from New Jersey. Yeah, I'm from New Jersey.
- 24:48And when we were when I was eleven around that time, a lot
- 24:53of my family was relocating. We were going from New Jersey. Uh,
- 24:56most of us was trying to go to Virginia, and so of course cost
- 25:00the living whatever, So that's where we're going. And my dad he liked
- 25:04Alabama. We hated it here, Pray Scott and we hated here, but
- 25:11we because me and my sister would come here in the summertime, so it
- 25:14wasn't completely foreign to us, but we would come in the summertime. That
- 25:17whole narrative coming to spend time with your grandmother. So that's what we did.
- 25:19And so yeah, she had us for the summertime. And so he
- 25:26LoVa man, I mean a giant, but anyway, we need to hear
- 25:30her there. So he wanted to come to Alabama, and we were not
- 25:33wanting to come, Me and my mom, my sister, we didn't want
- 25:37to come. And so of course I don't know all the technicalities behind him
- 25:41and my mom's relationship per se, but I can only speak from my experience,
- 25:47you know. So we're getting in the car packing up to head down.
- 25:52But let me back up. The plan was this is where the where
- 25:55the rejection piece comes in. The plan was he was coming here with us,
- 26:00but he was coming later, or he was going to be traveling back
- 26:03and forth, because I had an uncle that was doing that when my family
- 26:04moved to Virginia. He was traveling back and forth from New Jersey to Virginia.
- 26:08And my dad had us to believe he was gonna be doing the same
- 26:11thing, coming from Alabama to New Jersey, back and forth, because he
- 26:15didn't want to leave his job yet. So we get here and I just
- 26:21remember riding being just so angry and so frustrated and mad, you know,
- 26:27And what was weird? Even though I had in my mind he was coming.
- 26:30I don't still don't understand why I was so angry. I think it's
- 26:33just because I didn't like it here. Ultimately, when we got here,
- 26:36he told us he didn't want the marriage anymore and he didn't want to be
- 26:38one mom anymore. Yeah, and so that was a that's where trauma started.
- 26:44I didn't know. I didn't really know. That's where trauma started,
- 26:48being in a place that I didn't I like. And so, you know,
- 26:51wrote we rolled it out. We did what we did. And so
- 26:53when I was going through my healing journey intentionally back in twenty eighteen, intentional,
- 27:00that's a whole word. Yeah, intentionally making the steps to heal,
- 27:03cause I wanted that. And so when I went on that journey. I
- 27:07remember one time I was praying and I remember the Lord saying, tell your
- 27:11mom that she wanted to take y'all back. She questioned, should she take
- 27:18y'all? Just take y'all back home? And she said, he said no,
- 27:22this was a part of your journey. And I remember calling her Never.
- 27:26I never thought about that in all of my years we came here on
- 27:29one. I never considered, well, why my mom won't just take her
- 27:32back, take us back? Never? And when I said that to her,
- 27:34she said, you don't know how accurate that is. She said,
- 27:37I have called your aunts and just different ones like should I just come back?
- 27:41Should I just come back? It it just got a little the situation
- 27:44had got a little messy. But ultimately it was a part of my journey.
- 27:48It was what I had to do. I I mean, yeah,
- 27:52it's just a part of the story and it was just it and it helped
- 27:55me. It helped me with my relationship with God. It helped me say
- 27:57that my dad did what he was supposed to do as a natural father.
- 28:03But ultimately my I'm supposed to be relying on you, you know, and
- 28:06I know parents who had who raised their children in a way where they give
- 28:10them to God. Like I watched certain things like in my head Jaquelin Carr,
- 28:15I feel like her parents literally literally be like was like, no,
- 28:18this is Gods child and we're gonna on maneuver her that way. I mean,
- 28:22there's no way she could have went through to regular school and and and
- 28:26having to be, you know, really giving back to God. So I'm
- 28:30learning that, I'm learning that we're we're y'all don't belive nobody belongs to nobody.
- 28:34Listen. Yeah, first of all, I want to say thank you
- 28:36for sharing that, like it's so beautiful, but we get to learn here
- 28:41just saying it's the podcast. Wow, if you haven't hit this, subscribe
- 28:45butding or like wouldn't coming, I don't know why you haven't by now because
- 28:48this is good listen. So my my interest is I know where you I
- 28:52have an idea. Let me not say I know I have an ideal where
- 28:56you are with God right now? But what what when you did and understanding
- 29:00you didn't have that understanding of Father. I do understand that because of the
- 29:04natural and because we have flesh and it's more tangible than understanding the spirit.
- 29:08How did that affect the relationship with your father and your viewing or your father
- 29:14for him making that decision, How did it affect your relationship with God at
- 29:18that time? Majorly, there was no there was no real trust in God,
- 29:22like because I was raised in church, I knew him, but there
- 29:26was no relationship with him, and feeling like you you abandoned you, like
- 29:33you let this happen. You know, we hate this place. Not only
- 29:36do we not only do we hate it, but we experienced life here.
- 29:40There was things I probably and that's why I said, I think it's all
- 29:42a part of the journey. There was things I would probably never tapped into
- 29:47had I still been at home in my church family, you know, around
- 29:51my church, my natural my real blood family that was church. You know,
- 29:56I'm saved. My grandmother was the copastor of the church. My dad's
- 30:00mom was the copaccor the church that I was raised, and my dad was
- 30:03a minister. My mom like we just that's where I played time out.
- 30:07Pause. You just said a key thing. Hold up, it's like gonna
- 30:11play. You said your dad was a minister. So let's let's talk about
- 30:14that. Okay. So your dad as a minister has rejected you. Yeah
- 30:22yeah, yeah, how about that, and has not rejected you, but
- 30:26rejected his family and said this is not what I want to do anymore.
- 30:30And so in my mind you hear her. Look now, it's one thing
- 30:34that you know if it was like, okay, God is telling me the
- 30:37shift, A God is telling it. A God is saying that. But
- 30:38I ain't heard you say it got at all. So minister, your first
- 30:44ministry is then this ain't dog and daddy out. You know what I'm saying.
- 30:47This is really dissecting the moment, And it's like, dad, minister,
- 30:56what is supposed to happen and what I like supposed to look like?
- 31:00You just do this to your first ministry, Like if you really try to
- 31:06dissect that and understand me, sure this is this is probably some unused language
- 31:11that you are unconsciously digesting as a child, like you a whole child.
- 31:19And I've never well, I'm gonna say this, likely the rejection that I've
- 31:29experienced for my father has not been exited my life. It's been being repositioned
- 31:34on where I was supposed to be anyway. But that's all. That's another
- 31:37podcast from child. That's a that's another podcast. I won't have my daddy
- 31:41on, y'all. He don't know that yet, but but I think it's
- 31:45so interesting in what you're saying because even how that that that adds another layer
- 31:52to not only this is my dad leaving, but this is a man that
- 31:56is identified as a minister of the kingdom, Like God, how do we
- 32:00set that up? So let's let's let's let's let's bring it back for it.
- 32:04So now you deliver, now you free, now you heal, and
- 32:07now you hold. So there's a word that like just kept coming up during
- 32:14this week while I was thinking about our time together, and it's the word
- 32:17content, my God, when I see you and to understanding I have of
- 32:22you, it seems like, let's let's start with this, y'all. Y'all
- 32:28might not know what this is, but she's an innecessor like for my church,
- 32:32she's the she's the leader of the innocessors. And if you don't know
- 32:38really understand what that is. What it is is that you hear the word
- 32:43prayer, right, so you can pray. There's one thing like pray.
- 32:46You can pray the Lord's prayer, our Father with y'all. But it's another
- 32:52thing. Like the word intercede is really to become in a gap, to
- 32:57to come to get to fill, to like get in between. Right,
- 33:01So literally intercessors get in between what the spirit is saying to deliver it to
- 33:07what is happening here in the atmosphere. Their atmosphere changers they like they say
- 33:13atmospheres, they change atmospheres like they go into another level of prayer. And
- 33:17so this young lady, be young Jesus my God, the truth. Listen.
- 33:23It ain't nothing like when I say it's slippery, call me the migos,
- 33:28okay, because it's slippery. Okay, it's all it okay. And
- 33:34so let's can we When you think about that word in your life and how
- 33:37it's attached to your life, what does that mean? What that look like
- 33:42like? Because that's the word that I have for you. I kept thinking
- 33:45about you when I that contentment. Yeah ah man, shoot when you said
- 33:51when you text it to me, I was like, whoa story of my
- 33:52life? Contentment for me is something I is a journey because I wasn't always
- 33:59you know, I didn't know how to be content and my mom would often
- 34:02say. She would quote the scripture and as Paul said, I learned to
- 34:07be content in all things. That's what she uh said to me, and
- 34:12I was reading over it today. It's a Philippians. But I want to
- 34:14go back to when you're talking about intercession in prayer. I didn't know ultimately
- 34:21what I was gonna do specifically in life. I didn't know I had I'm
- 34:24a contentment. I am a I was a starter and a stopper. And
- 34:30I'm saying I was because I'm I'm declaring something different. I was a starter
- 34:34and a stopper. I was do this it ain't working. I'm gonna do
- 34:37that. I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do I mean, I done
- 34:37tried everything. I was gonna be a I was gonna run it. I
- 34:40was gonna on the daycare. I was gonna do a planning company. I
- 34:45mean all of that because I didn't know how to just be okay with where
- 34:49I was in that part of the journey. So going back to prayer a
- 34:52little bit. A part of my story is my my mom could not have
- 34:54children. What she couldn't Yeah, she could not have children. And I
- 35:00love I love my I love how I came here, I don't. I
- 35:04did not get it till I got older, trying to find myself when I
- 35:07learned identity. God really revealed this to me. And this was before I
- 35:13was intentional about healing. But anyway, backing up, she could not have
- 35:15kids, and because we went to a Pentecostal church, they prayed for over
- 35:22that womb. They prayed, They prayed, they prayed, I mean fasting
- 35:25praying. The mother's boy prayed. My grandmother, both of my grandmothers prayed.
- 35:31One was one one of my grandmother's or my dad. My dad's mama
- 35:36was the co pastor at the time, and then my grandmother on my mom's
- 35:38side was just She didn't have a title, but she was power. She
- 35:44was power. But let's need it appreached baby because she didn't care. A
- 35:47matter of fact, let me just say that she was a servant. That
- 35:51part she was a servant. She is the reason why I don't care what
- 35:53your pastor do. It don't move me. She taught us that that passage
- 36:00a man first, he's a human first, and so she put that in
- 36:02me. So she had to plug. And that's my girl. Loved the
- 36:06pieces anyway, Russell soul. But they prayed me here. They prayed me
- 36:09here. Prayer now, and that's what God show. He told me,
- 36:15prayers what got you here. Prayers is gonna be what keep you here.
- 36:16I didn't know that. I didn't really understand that. And I asked my
- 36:21mom, you know, questions about my journey when I was a child,
- 36:23in different things and so so many different things, and so back till to
- 36:29your point about prayer. I understand it now and as to who I am
- 36:35and what I'm supposed to do. But initially I did not know what I
- 36:38was doing. I was trying everything, trying to figure out everything. And
- 36:43I think it became from that moment when I decided to just heal and hear
- 36:49and hear God and see and allow him to deal with me. My my
- 36:52true identity started coming, you know, to the top, and so understanding
- 36:57how God has aught. Even when you talked about my dad, my dad's
- 37:01situation, I don't really know the minister piece. I never considered that.
- 37:07I never thought about that. I don't really know how much of it was
- 37:09I that I thought about God. I just was just going, just trying
- 37:15to survive, trying to fill a void, trying to be better, just
- 37:19trying to live, trying to get it. And I think for a long
- 37:22time I've been in survival mode, not just in money, but in life,
- 37:25in just trying to survive, like kill, kill, a place I'm
- 37:30feeling, you know, I'm feeling this, I'm feeling that, and just
- 37:34trying to ease that pain. You know. Thank God I didn't struggle with
- 37:37addiction, because in reality, I was addicted to just trying to number pain
- 37:40that I did not know existed. Girl. So that came through relationships,
- 37:45men, business, career, just everything, just trying to feel something and
- 37:52that safety piece with God. Finding that place with him is what helped me
- 37:55with being content. You. I hope I answered the question the girl.
- 38:01Okay, b B, listen, you just said a mouth fool Jesus.
- 38:12That's right. Before I go in. You found the description. Go ahead
- 38:15read and you gotta read what power. Okay. So we're in Philippians four,
- 38:23okay, and that particular verse is eleven, but I'm gonna read up
- 38:30just to tinks you got to you got you. You gotta really start at
- 38:32full you really gotta start God. We're gonna go to Philippians four and four.
- 38:42And this is the n L T version. Okay, that's the one.
- 38:45Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again.
- 38:49Rejoice. Let everyone see that you are considerate in all you do. Remember
- 38:54the Lord is coming soon. Don't worry about anything, and instead pray about
- 39:01everything. Tell God what you need and thank him for all he has done.
- 39:07Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds everything we can understand.
- 39:13His peace will guard your hearts your mind as you live in Christ. His
- 39:19peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ. And now,
- 39:23dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what
- 39:29is true and honorable and right and pure and lovely and admirable. Think about
- 39:35things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Keep putting into practice all you
- 39:40learned and received from me. Everything you heard from me and saw me doing.
- 39:45The God of Peace will be with you. How I praise the Lord
- 39:51that you are concerned about me Again. I know you have always been concerned
- 39:58for me, but you don't have to. You don't have the chance to
- 40:00help me. Is that what I say? But you didn't have the chance
- 40:06that I was like, wait a minute, but you didn't have the chance
- 40:08to help me, not that I was ever in need. For I have
- 40:14learned how to be content with everything I have. I know how to live
- 40:19on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in
- 40:24every every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with
- 40:30plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me
- 40:36strength. Even so, you have done well to share with me in my
- 40:42present difficulty. So before we before we tap and hold up. So this
- 40:47morning it came up in prayer during morning prayer, and my Daddy read from
- 40:54the NIV, and I gotta do it. I gotta do it, not
- 40:58from four. But let's see, I'm gonna start at ten. Verse ten,
- 41:04it says, I rejoice greatly in the Lord that at last you renew
- 41:08your concern from me. Indeed you were concerned, but you had no opportunity
- 41:14to show it, My God. I am not saying this because I am
- 41:17in need, my God, for I have learned to be content, may
- 41:23be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need,
- 41:30and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the
- 41:35secret of being content in any and every situation, whether wellfed or hurry,
- 41:44whether living in plenty or in want, I can do all things through Him
- 41:50who gives me strength, y'all man. So this is what I heard when
- 41:59my dad in this scripture. So you you mean to tell me, for
- 42:06one, contentment is a learned attribute that it don't just calm it, just
- 42:15don't because this is so good. The fact that you brought up the fact
- 42:17that you were numb, being numb and being content, Yeah, that's not
- 42:24that's but the enemy will try to confuse us with that and saying we're numb.
- 42:30No. Like, No, I'm content, but I still got hope.
- 42:35I'm content, but I still like no matter it says, no matter
- 42:38the circumstance, no matter what it's looking like, no matter how it's dressed
- 42:42up on the outside. Me right now, yeh meiod, Okay, I'm
- 42:49good. I'm good, and I ain't mad about where I'm at because I
- 42:53know that it's temporary. Right. Also, the second thing I see is
- 42:58that contentment leads to the revelation of God's strength. So now when I'm content,
- 43:07God can show how powerful. Yeah, how about that. I didn't
- 43:12even get that part of better preach people that you know be coming. She
- 43:19probably gonna watch this and be like call me and takes me. Let the
- 43:28word know you come from. But really like when it says I can do
- 43:34all things through Christ, who strengthens me, it comes after the understanding that
- 43:37I'm content where I am. That's the problem with us. We say,
- 43:44oh, I can do all three through christis stood to me. But what
- 43:46comes before that and what comes after that? That's what I want us to
- 43:50understand. When we're studying the Word of God, especially as kingdom entrepreneurs and
- 43:53creatives, we don't get the full picture because we don't and involve ourselves with
- 43:59your full revelation of what the chapter is bringing. Why can I do all
- 44:04things? Because you gotta ask the what, the who, what, when
- 44:07where. That's when they teach you in school. That's grade school level.
- 44:10So if I can apply that that before that tells me why I can do
- 44:17all things through Christ Who's strengthens me. My strength comes with mine where I'm
- 44:22content. Now, one thing we get confused by unca is that there's a
- 44:29difference between contentment watch it and settlement. Yep, yep, there's a difference
- 44:39between contentment. Let's talk about that and settlement, And I heard the Lord
- 44:45spay, let her tell the difference. Oh, I'm gonna let you tell
- 44:49the difference. We're gonna tagtain this thing. I feel. I do feel
- 44:53the blow. I ain't gonna lie. I feel the gloring. Now it's
- 44:57good. Now, what to your point about not getting a full picture most
- 45:00of these verses? I know, why did I not know they were together?
- 45:05I don't know that and have read them and don't understand why didn't know
- 45:08they So every my I'm trying to practice learning addresses to scriptures where they at
- 45:15right. So I set my alarm every day. Huh. I like how
- 45:19you put that address? I got that from Pastor Brandon clad He's a dope.
- 45:22It's really dope. But anyway, uh, But so every day I
- 45:28set my alarm at a certain time to quote a scripture. And right now
- 45:30I've been quoting Philippians for six through seven. And you know, I'm just
- 45:34trying to learn address. Good, I'm trying to learn addresses. Come on,
- 45:38So I got to quote that place because my phone's gonna re gonna quote.
- 45:42The alarm is gonna say what the scripture is, and I just had
- 45:44to quote it. So that's good. Yeah, I'm working on that.
- 45:47So the alarm goes off and it has the scripture eight o'clock every day,
- 45:52eight in the morning. And I was gonna say, Filippius for sixties.
- 45:54So you just quote it and then I quote it that that's that's good.
- 45:58That's good material be ringing at at work, and that's another way you can
- 46:07keep your mind on things above. But that's good. I'm gonna pass whach
- 46:14so but so Philippians for it's talking about don't worry about any y'all. Let
- 46:21me tell y'all what just have him. We in the middle of Philippians foreign
- 46:25Saiven and the Woman of God is explaining and the camera you see, I'm
- 46:30not gonna point it because I'm not gonna hold it up because it got a
- 46:32brand on them and I'm not gonna be scripted the brand. But literally the
- 46:37camera says something that desiated producer has never seen and she worked with this camera
- 46:43all the time, like it says something he never says. For this when
- 46:47when things are interrupted, it doesn't mean to stop. It doesn't always mean
- 46:53stop. I think I feel like that's a word for somebody like don't stop
- 46:59because things have been interrupted. There's a there's a just like there's an assignment
- 47:02for you to go, there's assignment for somebody to try to stop. Mm
- 47:07hmm, Like how about that. This is a tool that we use to
- 47:09try to produce. But what God is doing right now and the dog on
- 47:14thing is warm like never we've never had this problem, So I know somebody's
- 47:19gonna be free off this. My God, I received that, So God,
- 47:22I'm gonna yield the floor back to you. On the part of the
- 47:24conversation that you were talking about for lipyings for and said, yeah, yeah,
- 47:29and how it proceeds contentment, It said that scripture says, don't worry
- 47:31about anything, but instead pray about everything. That's whoa wait, you gotta
- 47:37say that again. Yeah, yeah, don't worry about anything, instead pray
- 47:43about everything, And that's proceed proceeds contentment. M you really do gotta sit
- 47:50with that for a second. Oh my gosh, because if you and me
- 47:54me choosing scriptures to so I can learn the addresses, it's things I'm really
- 47:59trying to I'm trying to become and I am trying to pray about everything because
- 48:05what I realize is when I pray about everything not work because I can be
- 48:08a word reward that that was something I struggle with and learning to pray about
- 48:15it really when you do it intentionally, like sometimes I think as people who've
- 48:21been raised in church, church, we just be doing stuff sometimes because we
- 48:23just it's it's tradition, it's habits what we know. But when you stop
- 48:28for a minute, as I was telling the Innecessus the other day, like
- 48:30when we were talking about faith, I stopped for a minute and let my
- 48:34mind catch up to what I'm about to do, because we need to be
- 48:37in sync real quick. That's so good. I need to be in sync
- 48:38God. God walked me through that thing last year. That's the whole story
- 48:42for another day. But being not being worried about so when things have come
- 48:45up recently, some stuff came up and I'm like, Okay, hold on
- 48:50it, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna echo fool. I'm not gonna I'm
- 48:52not gonna flip out and go off. I'm not. I'm not because I
- 48:57was about to make a call, and so because there were times I didn't,
- 49:01I had to go back and apologize. So I'm learning to not to
- 49:05worry and pray when you pray. It makes you aware of number one who
- 49:10you're talking to, okay, because he has the power to do exactly what
- 49:15you're what you're in need of. If he said he's gonna supply all your
- 49:17needs according to your riches in glory, if you're most of the time when
- 49:21we're not content in something, typically it's because it's something we feel like we
- 49:23need. But if he gonna supply it, then you need to pray about
- 49:27it and wait on him. There's the wait part. So contendment it requires
- 49:30you to wait too, And that's the part one. Don't want to don't
- 49:34we really want to wait? I know I had a struggle with waiting.
- 49:37But but but because that part that I saw that when I was preparing for
- 49:43today, I was like, wow, like you said, don't worry mind
- 49:46you, this is Paul talking. This is Paul. And so we we
- 49:51already know his journey, you know, and if you don't, you know
- 49:52he was he was definitely crucifying the Christians. He was killing him, killing
- 49:57them off. He was definitely not like Jesus dead period. Literally yeah,
- 50:05for real, And so just look, just watching Paul's journey is incredible.
- 50:08But but yeah, just thinking about how that don't worry part is before and
- 50:15to pray about it, meaning you don't do contendent alone. You don't.
- 50:21You don't do it alone. You got to say that one more times.
- 50:31You don't do contentment alone. You don't do it alone because why because God
- 50:36is with you, if you pray about it, if you pray about it,
- 50:38if you if you don't worry, because you got to not worry first
- 50:44and then pray about it, ask Him for everything, because remember Paul said,
- 50:47I learned to be content in everything, right, So don't worry about
- 50:52nothing, pray about everything. You know what's coming to my head the song
- 51:00his bald mark was like, don't worry. Yeah thing, yeah, ever
- 51:04little thing, it's gonna be alright. Yeah, that is anointed. Yeah,
- 51:09if he had to be in the word of because literally he went high,
- 51:15he was hot and the third third come on, he was he was
- 51:21high in the third heaven. But whatever, but that literally just came to
- 51:29my mind as you were talking. It literally said, don't worry about a
- 51:32thing because because everything The cause of me not worrying is because I understand that
- 51:37everything will be but that comes through prayer, prayer. So the formula we
- 51:44got to get back to the formula to So now you're telling me me,
- 51:47uncle, when I pray, I am content and because I'm content, I
- 51:55experiencing the strength of the Lord. Yeah, that's the form Yeah, that's
- 52:00the formula of the chapter Philippians, chapter four, yeah four through where we
- 52:06live. Can I tell you what the what is the medicine to depression?
- 52:12It's the formulas. A lot of times we depressed because we're not content and
- 52:16we worrying. A lot of times we we we were struggling in our mind
- 52:22because we who told you told Okay, just got critsed. I'm telling you
- 52:31when I when I learned that part, oh depression, I don't really deal
- 52:36with that like I used to. I really don't. And I'm gonna be
- 52:38confident in that my God. Sad days, bad days, we all got
- 52:43them, sure, but I'm not. I'm not depressed. I just don't
- 52:46deal with it no more because I am. But this is something let me
- 52:50also say this. I don't want you to feel like those that are watching
- 52:52don't feel like it's something you should just have. It is something that you
- 52:58have to practice every day. Being walking in the journey with God. Is
- 53:04it is so intentional. You cannot. And I think for me a part
- 53:07of that came because I felt like I should just know this stuff and I
- 53:13should just be able to do wait, because some of us in the Kingdom
- 53:16make people feel like they should know something. Yeah, that's why when we
- 53:21stopped. When we start, I never want to assume that anybody watching it
- 53:25at the same time is on the same level. If you might not know
- 53:29the Book of Moses, you might not understand that Abraham, you might not
- 53:31know you might not even understand Adam and Eve. That is not a detriment.
- 53:36It's not because at the end of the day, you gonna know God,
- 53:38You're gonna reveal to you with what you need to know at the time
- 53:44that you need to know understanding I can listen. I'm gonna tell y'all,
- 53:46I can't stand no believe it, baby, I don't care because this is
- 53:50my platform. You got a problem with what I'm saying, Chop it up
- 53:52with your mom, don't drop it up with me. Okay, take take
- 53:54it over with him somebody else. Now, don't come for me what you
- 53:58want to do. I cannot stand believers to expect out of them where they
- 54:05are just because they're there. That's good. Be able to come back down
- 54:09like you you you you were at the same point, like you were ignorant
- 54:15to it. How about that the reason why you got revelation was out of
- 54:17relationship because it was it was legality. And even these theological, theological people
- 54:24that can say all these big words that don't nobody understand that you ain't helping
- 54:28nobody but yourself. But you're not helping nobody but yourself. So go ahead,
- 54:31take the nugget, take the rebuke or whatever you want to look at
- 54:35it, and go get some practicality about your message. It is what it
- 54:39is. I don't care. Maybe you need to be talking to people on
- 54:43your level, maybe you be talking to the professors and the doctors. But
- 54:45you're trying to bring this stuff to babes who are still on milk. Listen.
- 54:52But then, babes, it's time to get off the milk. Now,
- 54:54time where you eat some solid food. Man, we ain't gonna stay
- 54:58on milk all day. We're not gonna ignore the fact that you need the
- 55:01mature But what I will say is sometimes we gotta make sure that we under
- 55:07were using a correct language, because not necessarily we're babing or making people stay
- 55:13where they are. But we meet, We're a call to meet people where
- 55:15they are. We are because it came from that level, we'll be able
- 55:17to speak to the speak to that level. And so that's just a nuggeting
- 55:21plug. Let me let me go here for a second. So beautiful girl,
- 55:27give me fine. She's talking about she nervely to she is slippery.
- 55:31I'm slad to sit here real quick about miss Bianca. So I just met
- 55:36her at the top of the month September. Was it the top of the
- 55:40month. Oh, you know, that's about right, right, And I'm
- 55:45very observant when I'm in atmospheres, right, So I go to the church.
- 55:50I visited the church a couple of times with Jessica. In this particular
- 55:53Sunday, it was supposed to be a panel. It was opposed to be
- 56:00in a panel, and Holy Spear did will Holy Spear be doing right?
- 56:04But what I even in that environment, what I paid attention to was I
- 56:07watched you walk up to PC and you whisper something in her ear right,
- 56:14and then you know they was doing Ever then she then says that, uh
- 56:20huh. Then she says, you know, and the Bianca has a word
- 56:23from the Lord right. So to me, I was like, oh no,
- 56:28first I recognized the order, right, you know what I'm saying.
- 56:31You was like, Okay, hear you, Lord, let me let me
- 56:35go, let me go, let me go say something. But the fact,
- 56:39like you be discounting yourself though, because obviously your leaders trust you enough
- 56:45to release you know, to release that word over the over the people that
- 56:50they are responsible for. Stuart right. So I just was like, man,
- 56:54that is so like I'd be watching still, you know what I'm saying,
- 56:57But I just paid attention to that. I was like, why did
- 56:59this just so beautiful for? Because you know, sometimes we just don't we
- 57:02don't understand the fullness of what we carry sometimes and confidence in that. But
- 57:09the fact that your your your pastors trust you in that vein she says a
- 57:15lot the beautiful thing. But what you just said is just proved that from
- 57:19when they trust themselves because and trust first of all, trust God, but
- 57:22trust themselves. And so I've been I've been experienced leaders where they they give
- 57:28you a leadership role and they say you're so great, but when it's time
- 57:32to execute and trust their greatness because God has given it to you and not
- 57:36them. Oh it's not good enough. So it was beautiful to even see
- 57:39the whole relationship unfolding. It maybe when you when you went in, we're
- 57:44not gonna talk about it, hey, so listen. So I'm just gonna
- 57:46tell you what happened, because because you know she here, you know she
- 57:50clearly we can see all it. But I just like my first experience,
- 57:52I just like it was overwhelming. It was like, I don't know.
- 57:55So she so what she said was the Lord had had you know, pretty
- 57:59much said there was anointing four, intercessory, a deeper level of prayer.
- 58:02She called the people up. You know, she prayed. You know,
- 58:05I thought only about two or three was coming. Okay, no, the
- 58:09church, the whole church. I saw listen, thinking about your face right
- 58:14now. It was like I did. She was okay. It was like
- 58:22and she went and she prayed, she laid hands. I went, I
- 58:24went down. I went down, and then I just remember like getting up
- 58:31and looking around and it was almost like I'm gonna say, like I'm gonna
- 58:35say a war zone because it was like everybody was just out. I was
- 58:37like, dang, that was quick. Was on the floor. It was
- 58:44the way. Why did the Lord have me pray for the pastor? I
- 58:46was like, let me it was to me and Stacey shout out to my
- 58:52girls. Love, I love. And Stacey was discussing it after church,
- 58:59no on on, and she was like, but it's the way that she
- 59:02stopped prophesying for somebody came back and started talking to you and saying your four
- 59:12thirty. I hit the boom. Friends, y'all we can so if y'all
- 59:19really stay after church, you can get the coming comical party. What just
- 59:23happened because we be laughing at We're like, God, you say after after
- 59:30and we could laugh about it because you said prophacy to somebody and you you
- 59:37just got know me, I just got off the floor. What else do
- 59:39you want to say? To be woman that gout? But yeah, that's
- 59:44that was a beautiful, a beautiful moment for you. But going back to
- 59:49the part of contentment versus settlement, because I don't want to leave that.
- 59:52Yes, sorry about that. Yes, no, it's fine. What you
- 59:57baby? We flow because here listen, really trying real hard to go up
- 1:00:05in the town. I really listen. Contentment. Let me start with settlement.
- 1:00:19So settlement, no, no, no, almost always contentment. So
- 1:00:22contentment says I understand where I am, but I also understand where I shall
- 1:00:30be. Yes. Yes, settlement says I was told where I would be,
- 1:00:37but I don't believe it because where I am. And so when we
- 1:00:42understand that the only thing that we should do, because settlement says that I
- 1:00:46will anchor myself here, that means that I will not move right. So
- 1:00:52I've had I made relationship and covenant with the area that was only supposed to
- 1:00:58be a season. Yeah. So when Paul says I've been through everything,
- 1:01:02whether I'm good or bad, I'm content because watch this I'm praying, which
- 1:01:08has gotten me a settlement. So now settlements with God allows me to be
- 1:01:16content in the moments that He allows me to experience. And so when we
- 1:01:22we as believers, have to be understand that what it looks like to be
- 1:01:28settled and anchored in God, that allows us to be content. But oftentimes
- 1:01:34what the enemy does is he allows us to be settled with our seasons and
- 1:01:40content with God. We can shoot, we say Okay, God, this
- 1:01:45ain't working, or you can do whatever you want to do. I don't
- 1:01:46you know, I'm here, but I'm not here anyway. That's contentment with
- 1:01:51God. When we should be settled in a place that's unmovable, shakeable,
- 1:01:57always anxiety, that's good. We have to change our appetite for the settlement.
- 1:02:02Yeah, that's so good. The only thing I should be settled in
- 1:02:06is the word of God. The only thing I should be unbreakable is the
- 1:02:08word of God. Seasons changed, but God doesn't. He does. And
- 1:02:14so my contentment is not saying that I am I am okay even okay with
- 1:02:20being here, like I'm happy being in this place. That's not saying happenings
- 1:02:23in peace we try to be like being in peace is that we're happy.
- 1:02:29Right. That means that I can. I can be here because I know
- 1:02:34that I got an exit, right, I got I have an exit and
- 1:02:37I don't even need no exit plan because the plan is for me to just
- 1:02:40go. Yah. If my steps are already ordered, I feel I feel
- 1:02:44God. If my steps are already ordered, then I don't need an exit
- 1:02:47plan. I just need to walk with the planner. Yeah, I just
- 1:02:51need to water and the planner. How do I do that? I pray.
- 1:02:55Prayer is communication were talking about this before. Prayer is communicating with God,
- 1:03:01God having God having dialect and and some and whatever language and experience because
- 1:03:07the language that they use, ju biuncle, we might have some similarities have
- 1:03:12God because we kind of you know. But Bob Keisha Corey, whoever,
- 1:03:19whoever right here, the dialect and the and the and the and the and
- 1:03:22the language that God uses with will use it with me. He might not
- 1:03:27use with you. And so you have to open yourself up and do relationship
- 1:03:30so you can understand how the plan is set up for you. That's how
- 1:03:34you understand the ordinances of yours. And so now, because I'm anchored in
- 1:03:43the God of the of the universe, the God of creation, the God
- 1:03:46of of of everything, right, I can be okay with what happens around
- 1:03:52because that part don't move me. Only God does. You're preaching woman,
- 1:03:57God because you listen. It was such a good revelation because we treat God
- 1:04:05like and I'm guilty of it, so I'm not being judge at all.
- 1:04:11We treat God. When you were understanding the word contentment, and I'm like,
- 1:04:14oh, yeah, I'm content with God. That means God, you
- 1:04:15work for me. Right now, that means God, you work for me.
- 1:04:20Currently, No, I'm settled in God. You are always no matter
- 1:04:25if I'm good or bad. That's what Paul is saying, no matter good
- 1:04:27or bad. I understand my relationship with God so much soul that things that
- 1:04:32happen around me don't affect me. And then because they don't affect me,
- 1:04:38you get to see the strength of the Lord. Yes, you know that's
- 1:04:41powerful. So contentment, when my mom used to say it to me.
- 1:04:45In my head, contentment was a bad thing, like it was like just
- 1:04:49just be like, just be okay, and I'm like, I said,
- 1:04:53I don't want to settle right that part. So that's how I understood it
- 1:04:57at first, until I learned that contentment is really trusting God. It is
- 1:05:03a place of trust if you don't worry, if you're gonna choose to pray.
- 1:05:08This is why I have to learn. If you're gonna choose to pray,
- 1:05:11you got to pray and say, okay, but I'm gonna trust you
- 1:05:14God, like this is what I need and I'm going to trust you.
- 1:05:16The problem is, it don't happen when we think it should happen. It
- 1:05:20don't happen how we think it should happen. And when we were talking earlier
- 1:05:25about it about that word, trying to trying to figure out, trying to
- 1:05:30measure God as to what you know, what that word said, and not
- 1:05:32waiting on God to bring the whole manifestation or being open to that whole thing,
- 1:05:36to that whole process. And so we limit God and then we start
- 1:05:40getting a disappointment because in reality we did not trust Him. And so if
- 1:05:45you're not gonna worry and if you're gonna pray and contentment requires trust God to
- 1:05:50trust to, there's no way. And so for me, my life and
- 1:05:57my journey is a puzzle because I got this piece in this season. I
- 1:06:00got that piece in this season when God was walking walking me through faith started
- 1:06:03about last year when He was walking me through faith, not just biblically.
- 1:06:08I know, I know the scripture, I understand faith. But then I
- 1:06:11had to he no, I need you to walk this thing out. So
- 1:06:14he started with me with small things for instance. This is how he started
- 1:06:16with me. It's gonna sound real crazy, but I'm a practical person.
- 1:06:20It has to be well, I need some steps, right. So last
- 1:06:26year I was working at Well I still work at Bath the Body Works part
- 1:06:28time, and I started there for the holiday season. I lived in some
- 1:06:30apartments and if you know anything about apartment complaxts, you could come home.
- 1:06:33Ain't no parking spot depending on how later gets in that you want and you
- 1:06:38want to get it's trifling, but go ahead, y'all gotta do better.
- 1:06:42Party complais. Y'all just gotta do better houses. We got to do it
- 1:06:47with a garage. Lord do it for me, okay. So I would
- 1:06:54get off of late because it was my part time job, and I would
- 1:06:56get off and the lord said, I want you to ask me for a
- 1:06:59parking spot when you get home from when you get home, and so,
- 1:07:01like I shared with the intercessis, I didn't just say, Lord blessed me
- 1:07:04with a park spot when I get home. I stopped because I was because
- 1:07:06he really made me do this. Get your mind right before you ask me.
- 1:07:11Come into awareness that I can do this. It's a parking spot.
- 1:07:15It sounds real simple, right, It sounds like a parking spot. It
- 1:07:18wasn't I need a miracle for healing. No, I just simply need a
- 1:07:21parking spot because I'm tied and I don't want to walk a long ways and
- 1:07:25it be stray cats and I don't like them, So I need anyway,
- 1:07:32so I would have to get my I would I would take a moment literally
- 1:07:36like no, a real pause before I start my car, or even while
- 1:07:40I'm at the red light, and get my mind together and say, okay,
- 1:07:43we're about to ask this of God, and say, God, I
- 1:07:46am asking you for a parking spot. I'm telling y'all, he walk me
- 1:07:48on this journey, and I literally maybe twice I would come home and there
- 1:07:54was no parking spot, not just up parking spot, but by my door,
- 1:07:58parking spot, by my steps, and even down to the times it
- 1:08:01didn't that was training ground. So you're gonna be unsettled in who I am
- 1:08:09because there was no parking spot. Is your settlement really in me? Are
- 1:08:12you settled to your point that I am God? Or if there's no parking
- 1:08:15spot, you're gonna be like, well is he? So sometimes in our
- 1:08:21journey with him, there's times that he has to say no because I need
- 1:08:27to check your settlement. I need to know that you are settled that I
- 1:08:31am God, and I will do exactly what I said. So when you're
- 1:08:36in your waiting and when you're content, it's gonna feel like God, le
- 1:08:43Lord, are you hearing me? Are you coming? When? Are you
- 1:08:47coming? When? But when you say I'm content in all things? And
- 1:08:53it's just so important for our generation, y'all, because they pushed so many
- 1:08:57narratives. Got to have a business, gotta go at the school, gotta
- 1:09:00gotta do this, gotta do that. I need to be doing this,
- 1:09:02I need to be doing that, and we're not really helping people journey through
- 1:09:08and process through and learn that. There's times of waiting. There's times that
- 1:09:12you just you gotta wait. I don't like the word either, Let's be
- 1:09:15clear. I don't always like it myself. But because I'm settled in Him,
- 1:09:23and because I know he has not seen the enemy really tried to trick
- 1:09:25me. I had to repent to God recently this week. The it was
- 1:09:32sometimes people can get confused, like we just up in the third heaven all
- 1:09:35the time. We deal with stuff down here. Yeah, and I'll be
- 1:09:39repenting your driving in the car. I'm so sorry, guy. I shouldn't
- 1:09:45have said that. I shouldn't did that. The enemy would have you believe
- 1:09:47in that God ain't with you, he don't love you, he ain't heard
- 1:09:51you. When stuff don't happen the way you think it should. And I
- 1:09:57was in a state of straight up disappointment with God. I disapoint it at
- 1:10:01a season that I had been in. And I even was angry, right,
- 1:10:06I was so angry with God. Right, and then when I got
- 1:10:10to this states place that I'm in now, last three months, let's be
- 1:10:15cleai, Okay, last three months, so that with God and repent,
- 1:10:20He healed me from the anger, repented or whatever. But I would share
- 1:10:24with people that's what I had to repent about, be transparent, right,
- 1:10:27this is why I repent. I would say to people in a really pure
- 1:10:30place, it's okay to be angry with God, right, not necessarily.
- 1:10:34So the what guy had to convict me about recently was it's a feeling,
- 1:10:40you know, of disappointment. But you shouldn't just be walking around with anger
- 1:10:44at me, you know. And so I had to walk through, Yeah,
- 1:10:46I had to walk through repentance. But because God is so amazed I
- 1:10:49love him, I just I love him so much, He's not gonna just
- 1:10:51say don't be angry. He's gonna give you understanding and clarity as to where
- 1:10:56you were. And the enemy tricked me and made me feel like God was
- 1:11:00disappointed me. But in reality, I was in a waiting season. I
- 1:11:02was in a holding season, and I misinterpreted my season and contentment. Well,
- 1:11:10have you misinterpreting your season? And I really feel this for somebody.
- 1:11:14You feel it for me, Okay, I really feel this because honestly,
- 1:11:21you're in a place now of having to be content, and that's just what
- 1:11:26God wants to get you. I just told this to somebody. I said,
- 1:11:29if you don't accept the time that you're in right now, you're gonna
- 1:11:31make it longer and harder. Just be content where you at you have to.
- 1:11:38Honestly, the season might go faster if you just trust him where you
- 1:11:43are. And I'm three years behind that. I wish I would have did
- 1:11:46it then, and then maybe one of the last three years maybe it would
- 1:11:49have. But maybe my three years would have been full of depression and sorrow
- 1:11:55and rejection and just being up on myself. Had I really just accepted the
- 1:12:00season I was in, which was just a resting season, I didn't know
- 1:12:02that. I thought God just I said, you're took his pair away from
- 1:12:06me. That But that also has to do with when you said knowing who
- 1:12:12you are and identity because when we have identity crass, when we have identity
- 1:12:16crasses, because babe, we can talk about me. I identify myself as
- 1:12:20a doer, like I don't know how to be my God, you said,
- 1:12:28just be earlier. The Woman of God is wearing or just b shirt
- 1:12:31shout out to coach d I love it to want to buy it. We're
- 1:12:34gonna have to link that shirt. But I'm ooh, I feel so you
- 1:12:45guys, y'all know, when I get transparent, it's getting really here.
- 1:12:48And so when you and this don't have anything that you do with Church's life.
- 1:12:56So you can be you can be atheist, you can be a Buddhist,
- 1:12:59whatever you you can be whatever you want to be. But when you
- 1:13:02operate, at the end of the day, the design of the Lord was
- 1:13:05for your your mother to birth you into a place and nurture the identity that
- 1:13:14your father affirmed. And when you don't understand or receive the affirmation of the
- 1:13:25father, it's nothing that is properly nurtured. So even your mother, yeah,
- 1:13:32even your mother, you know, discredit to single moms at all,
- 1:13:38even the mother confirm something that wasn't affirm. And so now I'm walking on
- 1:13:48guesses instead of confirmation. I'm walking as a question mark versus an exclamation point.
- 1:13:57And so when we understand the importance of identity, we we can allow
- 1:14:06God to ask us to risk without feeling disqualified. Yeah, man, that's
- 1:14:13good. We can allow God to say, take a break, I want
- 1:14:18to fill you up in this season and getting back to the place where God
- 1:14:27is saying, hey, it's now, it's time to go. Yeah,
- 1:14:30because when you go, when God tell you to go, listen, listen,
- 1:14:34no stopping, listen the gas plan right now, because god goal is
- 1:14:43a go, go, go go. You're gonna weigh yourself out on your
- 1:14:46own goal. But a God go is a go go listen. But when
- 1:14:50he says risks, because he's trying to replenish you is here. But being
- 1:14:56an identity crisis would allow you to say, well, God, you don't
- 1:14:58want to use it. I'm not enough God, I must have done something.
- 1:15:01I was made. I need to fall and watch this. Not knowing
- 1:15:05identity, understand our identity in Christ leads us back into the sinful places,
- 1:15:17ya geese. It leads us back into sinful places, those dark places where
- 1:15:27we were like, you know what, God, if you're not gonna use
- 1:15:29me. I'm gonna be used by something else. I gotta be used,
- 1:15:31did it? I gotta be I gotta feel wanted. The only way I
- 1:15:36feel wanted and desired is being used and accepted in what looks like appreciation,
- 1:15:46but it's really manipulation. What it what it looks like love, but it's
- 1:15:51really love. It looks like value is really pimped. Wow. And so
- 1:16:02now I got to reconstruct my understanding so powerful of my identity because when I
- 1:16:09know who I am, I understand the assignment of my resting season. That's
- 1:16:14powerful. That's I think. Everything always goes back to identity. Yeah,
- 1:16:19everything always goes back. That is why we are in the crisis that we
- 1:16:25are in now in the earth, is because there is an attack on identity.
- 1:16:28And when you know who the heck you are and who the heck you
- 1:16:30are, she said, hey, heck you are certain things. Just you
- 1:16:34just be like it came out of me Sunday when I was doing transition,
- 1:16:41I said, I know who I am now because I didn't. Man,
- 1:16:45girl, I did it. And when when you are stripped from your father,
- 1:16:47as you said, I remember learning that that fathers give affirmation and they
- 1:16:53I mean, they also give identity and they speak to that. That's why
- 1:16:56when I went on my heeling Jersey, I went intentional about asking certain questions
- 1:17:00because I knew my father and we have a relationship. I talked to him
- 1:17:02all the time, great relationship. I talked to him. I'm very close
- 1:17:05to that my father's side of the family. But there was other questions that
- 1:17:09I needed to know that I probably would have already known had he been in
- 1:17:13the house. So I had to ask certain questions to make sense of who
- 1:17:17I was, to get to bring out certain identity pieces. But I do
- 1:17:21believe to the point of identity. I think one of the biggest reasons why
- 1:17:26it's in attacks because because I do believe. See they go that scripture,
- 1:17:30girl go ahead. We don't talk about it, girl, don't, don't,
- 1:17:36don't don't. We're not reason why it's that prayer about everything. Tell
- 1:17:42God what you need, Thank for all He's done. Here's his peace,
- 1:17:45his peaceful guard your heart and mind as you live in Christ Jesus. Because
- 1:17:51I wasn't really hoping in one go go I was like, surely will be
- 1:17:54done by eight and and so, but mine to God. But but honestly,
- 1:18:02I really thought. But really I think that part of the reason why
- 1:18:06I feel like God hasn't He intercepts obviously the situation. But I think that
- 1:18:13the whole point is that you we can always go back to Him. Yeah.
- 1:18:16And I think if you're if you're not in a in a space of
- 1:18:20if you're in a healing journey and it don't bring you back to God,
- 1:18:25I question, if you're really on a healing journey, it shows alway he
- 1:18:30is the healer. There is no I don't I don't care what nobody said.
- 1:18:34He is the healer. Not your medicine, not your therapist, not
- 1:18:40your psychiatrist. He is the healer. And if it does not bring you
- 1:18:44back to him, I question if you have experienced total healing. Girl,
- 1:18:47So identity with healing my person who dealt with low self esteem and confidence.
- 1:18:54And I mean, I ain't gonna go there, but it is it is
- 1:18:57a thing for me, confidence and low self esteem or whatever and so and
- 1:19:01I believe now the old, the more mature I get, it's my place
- 1:19:04for humility. I know why. I know, I know my bloodline.
- 1:19:11So for me, I'm okay with that. Keep me with a little insecurities
- 1:19:15because I shall not be that you said, there will be no other guy
- 1:19:17before you, and it won't be Beyonca. So if this is what we
- 1:19:20got to do to keep Beyonca humble, let's I didn't want to say it.
- 1:19:25I didn't want to say I didn't want to touch on that. But
- 1:19:28that throwing, that's what it's real in these I think that's a my fleshed
- 1:19:32watch it. Just keep ball him, listen, listen. I think that's
- 1:19:40why when people say they see certain things in me, I genuinely I'm not.
- 1:19:45When I said glory to God, I know what it's like to not
- 1:19:49have his hand and be trying to operate, and I'm I'm like, oh
- 1:19:56my, because that ain't that. Yeah, So for me, I'm okay
- 1:20:05with that, and I'm okay with not. I don't. I am not
- 1:20:09lying to you. I don't see how what people when when when past the
- 1:20:13seat, past the Korean and PG were saying the stuff that they said they
- 1:20:16did, I don't see it. I really don't. And I'm okay with
- 1:20:19that because honestly, me flowing and the things that God allows me to do,
- 1:20:25it is it is only the Holy Spirit if he took his hand off
- 1:20:30me. I don't know if the words will come out of my mouth properly.
- 1:20:32I ain't lying to you. I have to relate. I'm not.
- 1:20:35This ain't churchy jargon. I really have to rely on him. I'm not
- 1:20:39the smartest. I'm I'm not. I'm not the most intelligent. I graduated
- 1:20:45high school. Thank you, Laudie. Okay, thank you Lord, grateful
- 1:20:50that you got me through. Literally, I am, I'm not the smartest.
- 1:20:56I there was a time reading the Bible was tough because my reading apprehension
- 1:21:00was an issue. Get out of my store. Being transparent girl. Reading
- 1:21:04comprehension was an issue. Right now, if you give me a Harry Potter
- 1:21:08novn, I'm like, I don't know what I just read the first two
- 1:21:09pages. But you can get this back. But when he gives me something
- 1:21:12to read, I comprehend it because I need the Holy Spirit. He is
- 1:21:16not your help of just to speaking tongues. I feel the glory. He
- 1:21:19is not your helper just to speaking tongues and lay hands. He really helped
- 1:21:25me make day to day decisions every single day. Should I make a writer?
- 1:21:29Should I make a left at dislike because it could be accident. No,
- 1:21:33lie, right now, there's a street I could go this, I
- 1:21:35can go two ways to go home. It's one street that the last few
- 1:21:39weeks, I'm like, I don't know why you won't let me go down
- 1:21:41the street. But we're gonna go on turn up here. I don't know
- 1:21:44why. I'm just gonna trust them, right, I'm just gonna trust him.
- 1:21:46So I don't know where I went with that, but I'm telling you,
- 1:21:49like I know that that that that place is a is a is a
- 1:21:54place of humility from me and so my my situation, my my my journey
- 1:21:58with my father was its necessary. Woo, come on, it was necessary.
- 1:22:03It also separate, girl, get real, don't Also, I could
- 1:22:09have stayed at a church that was full of religion outside apart from that,
- 1:22:14I learned relationship, not religion. That's there's a difference, y'all. Like
- 1:22:19there is a difference. So I always tell my uh my story as far
- 1:22:26as like the way I've changed church churches because I grew up in a church.
- 1:22:30Shout out to the seeing me church. I really love them and appreciate
- 1:22:32them because that's why I learned about God. So we a lot of times
- 1:22:39sometimes in our generation because we appreciate understanding relationship with God. It's more feasible
- 1:22:44to us because of social media, So we're understanding. It's more it's more
- 1:22:47tangible, yes, now because of what we get to experience. Sure everybody
- 1:22:51doesn't get to experience that's right, whatever. And so when we're breaking the
- 1:22:55mold and we're learning and we're elevating, we can't discredit where we learned God
- 1:22:59that the first time? Can I can? I can I jump? I
- 1:23:01needed? I do need to say that because I agree with you on that,
- 1:23:04and I'm very cautious about that, and I'm cautious about people destroying what
- 1:23:10was done because there was there was something too that was saying again, I
- 1:23:14believe, I believe that God has a plan for everything that kept that generation.
- 1:23:18Thank you. You don't know in reality what God was shielding them from
- 1:23:23exactly. And then you also have to understand where that come from. If
- 1:23:26we're gonna talk about slavery, you know, so understand I don't. I
- 1:23:29don't dishonor them. I don't. There's pieces of that that you need to
- 1:23:32take. I have a problem with you going and dogging out what it was
- 1:23:39and there's nothing you could take from that, that would mean God ain't read
- 1:23:43in churches that you were hurt from. Exactly, there's something I was.
- 1:23:46The reason why I was at the church was not because I was about to
- 1:23:49stay, but because I needed to learn and take in. But the church
- 1:23:53heard happened because of the flitt But what happened in the spirit was necessary for
- 1:23:56my elevations. At the end of the day, God want to put me
- 1:23:58there if it wasn't a lesson to be learned. So we have to understand
- 1:24:01that there's levels. Just each level that I encountered required a new church.
- 1:24:09Why it required a new community because I had maxed out at that community at
- 1:24:15that level. And so I appreciate, you know, learning you know God
- 1:24:21at that level, learning who God is. But then there's religious stuff that's
- 1:24:28attached to it. Right, and so when when the problem of the lack
- 1:24:33of conversion and a lack of understanding where this this time means because the timing
- 1:24:39of God is real, because like you said, that's what they needed.
- 1:24:42But this generation needs relationship, meaning for relationship, the feaning for understanding because
- 1:24:48they're seeing everybody that's all you see on social media, relationship relationship with its
- 1:24:53friends, whether it's money, whether it's with with a loved one, like
- 1:24:57whatever is, it's centered around relationship. And so if we as a body
- 1:25:00of Christ don't really understand how to promote relationship, we die. That section
- 1:25:09of the religious part makes the church die because you're you're stuck in so much
- 1:25:15tradition that there's no room for relationship to intercede for what is needed for the
- 1:25:19now. And so we have to appreciate where we are. First of all,
- 1:25:25you make me feel real oily with the conversation. I think you because
- 1:25:28I feel like I feel like anointed right now, like I feel like,
- 1:25:32listen, let me just blame it on blaming on an atmosphere like that,
- 1:25:36because here, but when we understand like the levels of of like you say,
- 1:25:45all things work right, there's a reason. There's things that I just
- 1:25:48love and I will not let go of my seeing me. There's things that
- 1:25:53I actually learned relationship at the worship Center, shout out to Bishop Van Moody,
- 1:25:59like I learn I didn't know. I didn't know you could have a
- 1:26:01relationship with God. I thought it was hey do this, As I said,
- 1:26:05I'm even struggling with this now, I'm even struggling with this now because
- 1:26:12I'm like, God, I did this because I was told to, not
- 1:26:15because I had the heart. So now I'm struggling with Okay, God,
- 1:26:21the reason why I revisit certain areas is because my heart hasn't accepted who I
- 1:26:28am, because I'm just the doer that goes back to him. I'm just
- 1:26:32I'm breaking the door spirit. It's okay for me to execute, but to
- 1:26:36act like I just like, okay, Well, I'm only good enough when
- 1:26:40I do and if I don't do what you want me to do, then
- 1:26:44I'm not accepted. I'm not value. But you said something that was so
- 1:26:46powerful earlier, and I'm not going to skip this because I feel like a
- 1:26:50man is going to listen to this and need to understand why it's important for
- 1:26:54him to be healed. It's important because you carry the responsibility of legacy and
- 1:27:03identifying where your next generation will go. That's right, and so literally,
- 1:27:11when you are one not present, when you are not present, that affects
- 1:27:17that that calling, that assignment. But also when you are unhealed, Yeah,
- 1:27:25you could be present. My fa. I love my dad. I
- 1:27:28have a great father. I'm wonderful father. My father is a pastor,
- 1:27:32my baby, my father, so my my dad, My dad is soly.
- 1:27:36My dad is soly, it's beyond me. Like I didn't realize how
- 1:27:42oly my father was until until I got older. But I do remember that
- 1:27:50it was areas that he was unhealed. Sure they did not allow him to
- 1:27:56execute his fatherly. Understand this being a father and a mother is and so
- 1:28:03because everybody don't get to do it, listen, girl, say as PC
- 1:28:09says, say for the people in the bike said for the people in the
- 1:28:14bike. Okay, it's a mantle. And so when you don't understand the
- 1:28:18mental because you your distortion of who you are as about the man, then
- 1:28:25it breaks the the necessity of generational upbringing because we were never identified so man,
- 1:28:40black, white, Puerto Rican Chinese. I almost went to mister Yello.
- 1:28:46Yeah, I thought that's where you was. Lyric we say just be
- 1:28:53just but I'm gonna say, just be healed. Listen, so true first
- 1:28:58of all, just be let me not act like I've been. Just be.
- 1:29:00That was a I remember getting prophetic words from people, different people,
- 1:29:05no connection, at different times telling me to just be and I was just
- 1:29:10like, I don't care what you mean what you mean being content and who
- 1:29:16I am. I want I want to touch on that part because when you
- 1:29:20heal and it brings you back to God, he will also, as you
- 1:29:26said about your father, help you to see the person that hurt you.
- 1:29:30It really will. Me and my dad have an amazing relationship from a distance.
- 1:29:35He's all the way up north. I'm in Delaware, I'm here.
- 1:29:38We have an amazing relationship. But it came from me understanding God's showing me
- 1:29:43who he is and what he what possibly was his issues or circumstances or what
- 1:29:48he was, and understanding they were human because we do have to separate our
- 1:29:55parents from their role and being a human, just as you have have to
- 1:30:00do the same for your pastors and your teachers, every person that leads you.
- 1:30:03Though they are you're a leader, they are still human having a same
- 1:30:10the same walking journey with God, the same one. We just expect perfection.
- 1:30:15Okay, I can understand, I can understand why. But in reality,
- 1:30:19when you heal, that's what I'm talking about healing, because you cannot
- 1:30:21tell me that you heal and there's no place in you that God has revealed
- 1:30:28to you, even correction about how you saw your problem. There's no way,
- 1:30:33it's no possible way. Why because healing allows grace your mouth watch because
- 1:30:45I love. Don't don't get me started on grace, because what is grace?
- 1:30:48The undeserved, the undeserved. We don't deserve it, not at all.
- 1:30:53And when you know, another kid helped me with my father, I
- 1:30:57knew how ragged I was, And I said, God, had you let
- 1:31:01me have a child as young as they did? If you don't speak,
- 1:31:06if you let me stop yelling, if you do not speak, woman of
- 1:31:12God. But that's how my mom. Huh when I realized because my listen,
- 1:31:17I think I talked to it, talk about it before me and my
- 1:31:19mama strained relationship. Yeah, it wasn't until I understood that she was a
- 1:31:28woman first. First, that she was a woman first with a history,
- 1:31:33with a history, but also an anointing. Now I'm annoying. I'm I'm
- 1:31:42growing up frustrated with a woman with an anointing that's trying to maneuver through these
- 1:31:46worldly the first evening that we learned tod I'm trying to maneuver through these worldly
- 1:31:53experiencing. I'm mad at her. But now I'm the woman with annoying with
- 1:31:58the anointing, trying to maneuver through the worldly experience, taking a turn down
- 1:32:02another street becaus real and then a lot of times, most of our parents,
- 1:32:06especially those of us who were raising church, were raised in religion.
- 1:32:11So you're trying to navigate. First of all, our parents married at nineteen,
- 1:32:15girl, I was a foul at nineteen. I wanted to be mad.
- 1:32:20Thank you Jesus, girl who God I married? Oh, it was
- 1:32:30just a moment for just a moment to think, thank you Jesus God.
- 1:32:33I thank you, thank you God, thank you for that. No,
- 1:32:36for that No, But he said, because it was one. It was
- 1:32:42you asked me for too much. It was a fool. I was really
- 1:32:45not. Only that might be girl talk. Yeah, say that you're mighty
- 1:32:50God. So it could have went another way. Uh huhd. But God,
- 1:32:58So you navigate being nineteen young, fresh out your mom house, my
- 1:33:02mom fresh out my mom house, marrying a man because we're in reality in
- 1:33:06nineteen you don't know who you are. They don't know, and so they're
- 1:33:12trying to navigate all that build a family serving minutes because they both very annointed
- 1:33:16people. My dad passes the church and now they are hot. My dad
- 1:33:21and my mama. Well, now I'm loud, okay. I'm just loud
- 1:33:25by nature. My dad felt we loud people we loud, okay. So
- 1:33:28I tell people all the time, don't think your prayer ain't powerful because you
- 1:33:30loud, because you ain't loud. I'm talking loud right now. I'm just
- 1:33:33a loud Everything about me is loud walking I was loud. I'm not loud,
- 1:33:36So don't make that they power ain't ain't got no do a tones.
- 1:33:41But my parents are very There are some prayer warriors literally like they can pray,
- 1:33:46pray, they pray, so it didin't just fall out the sky for
- 1:33:48me is what I came from. And so understanding them being annointed to your
- 1:33:55peace because I never thought about that because people be really hard on believe.
- 1:34:00But it's hard when you're trying to navigate an annoyance and a mantle and exist
- 1:34:05and existing life in the world and all these things that are going on.
- 1:34:10And I never really talk about that because you you can't really share that with
- 1:34:14people who don't get it or who know who don't understand that. And it's
- 1:34:16not a it's not a better than you. First of all, I don't
- 1:34:19care what. I don't understand the walk of a police officer. I don't
- 1:34:24understand the mayor, I don't understand the government. They need mayor friends who
- 1:34:29know what they're talking about. You. One of my my previous pastor twice.
- 1:34:32But first of all, Pastor Mike, love him the pieces. He
- 1:34:35said something, you can't vent down. You have to vent up. You
- 1:34:39do. You can't vent down the people who don't get you. Okay,
- 1:34:42so you have to vent up so you don't so talking to people who get
- 1:34:45that is my point in saying that. So yeah, So trying them trying
- 1:34:50to navigate being annoying to trying to navigate being a parent and a husband and
- 1:34:56a wife and a servant. And my parents served in ministry. Me serving
- 1:35:00the ministry ain't nothing new. That's just what I was taught watching them do
- 1:35:03it. They did their whole life, both of my parents. Groups to
- 1:35:05my mom coaching my dad from acosta and so that and so just trying to
- 1:35:10navigate that whole thing and be a man, help me to give him grace.
- 1:35:14It helped me to heal. And you know what's interesting, it just
- 1:35:16helped me to free your dead of certain understandings from the first see we always
- 1:35:23and this is a very good If you made it to this part, you're
- 1:35:27you're gonna you're gonna be blazed out. Yes. Yeah, So in the
- 1:35:30beginning, we look at your father and we hear he left. Yeah,
- 1:35:35and that's what normally, let's say, one hundred people see. But then
- 1:35:40as we keep developing, the store end up hearing that you are let's say
- 1:35:46eighty to ninety people hear that you're heal from all that is cute, Okay,
- 1:35:49so we're gonna dismiss that. Then fifty you get to hear that how
- 1:35:55the process went, yeah, but only ten get to hear the fact of
- 1:35:59why you at able to heal. Because the connection is when I put myself
- 1:36:03in the place when I was nineteen, yeah, I knew I didn't have
- 1:36:06it together at all. So now my daddy did made a sacrifice that God
- 1:36:13didn't necessarily probably tell him he had to make, but he did it.
- 1:36:16But he did it because of his expectation of himself. Now I got a
- 1:36:21new understanding of your father because put it. And this is so we as
- 1:36:27people have to give our our parents, our leaders, or whoever grace.
- 1:36:33We gotta give them grace, because what the enemy wants us to do is
- 1:36:38it's I am a bloodline breaker. If y'all don't know this, I've said
- 1:36:42this multiple times. I know that that's part of my mental I'm called to
- 1:36:45that. And so what the enemy does is because the ministry starts at the
- 1:36:50home, he wants to break the home because that breaks the church at automatically,
- 1:36:55that automagmatically discredits the church. Yes, and so when I bring the
- 1:37:00home and I break the father down, the head, when I when I
- 1:37:03when I break the head now and I make him overwhelm, I make him
- 1:37:10depress, I make him feel like he's not enough. He's so caught up
- 1:37:14in himself that he's not able to execute out of the anointing that God has
- 1:37:18all or named him to be. And I'm not even talking about like this
- 1:37:23hyper spiritual anointing. What I'm saying, what you are naturally born to do,
- 1:37:28what your natural capabilities are. Because every man is capable of being a
- 1:37:33father. However, the choice to discredit or walk away from the ordinances of
- 1:37:40God breaks that. I believe, and if we affirm our men, I
- 1:37:46just I don't know why I'm on the men. So hard right now,
- 1:37:48But I really feel like we do a disservice to our men. For me,
- 1:37:53I want to just speak to you. I want to speak to your
- 1:37:56heart. You deserve your best self before any for for giving yourself to any
- 1:38:00woman, before giving yourself to any job, before giving yourself to anything outside
- 1:38:05of your relationship with God. God actually created you first and did relationship with
- 1:38:11you first. He did. He He said, Hey, I want to
- 1:38:14make this atmosphere, and I want you to identify what it is in this
- 1:38:18atmosphere. And so I want to reposition you on where you came out of
- 1:38:23my God Jesus I'm calling you for and to the position where you've always been.
- 1:38:28All yes, in the name of Jesus. So we just got up.
- 1:38:33I decreed, declared. There's some healed men. I believe that,
- 1:38:38And I believe that men he Adam named, he had him to name,
- 1:38:44name the name, he told him to name the animal. He did.
- 1:38:46And so that's why you you have that authority. That's why men have that
- 1:38:50that that the authority that that place of the kingship of their house. And
- 1:38:56it's it's important that that you drew that you drew that out. And I'm
- 1:39:00I believe some here men gonna come from this. I do. Listen,
- 1:39:02we're gonna have to have you bike, okay, yeah, yeah, because
- 1:39:06we done went like it's so easy to talk to you. It's so easy
- 1:39:12to talk to you, and I hope you guys listen, listen. One
- 1:39:15thing I want to do before the last thing we're gonna do is I'm gonna
- 1:39:19ask you to pray. I saw that and I want to be obedient.
- 1:39:24You can't ask in a sense of the come and not pray like that.
- 1:39:27That's so however you want to flow with its part of conversation, whatever God
- 1:39:30allows you to do. Just pray. But for that, I want to
- 1:39:39say thank you, thank you for saying yes, thank you for coming to
- 1:39:45just as that you are. Definitely you gotta be a repeat, because baby,
- 1:39:47because we got some more. I don't. I don't feel like that
- 1:39:51that is it's gonna be enough. But I want you to pray. But
- 1:39:56before you pray, because I don't want to listen. I don't need this
- 1:40:01camera. Talking about the batteries is going to change this out my right now.
- 1:40:09M m m yep, that's fine, mm wisdom. I was like,
- 1:40:17yeah, we don't we're just gonna go on because what we're not about
- 1:40:21to do. Oh Jesus my God, I feel it. Please don't go,
- 1:40:35don't think about that. Listen, ain't his legs. Let's go.
- 1:40:47So I want you to pray, But before you pray, I would like
- 1:40:56for you to allow allow people the opportunity to connet with you, because what
- 1:41:00you don't realize is I say we create a safe space for Kingdom entrepreneurs and
- 1:41:08creatives. And obviously there is a level, that a new level that you're
- 1:41:12about to walk into Bianca, where God is saying what you didn't identify as
- 1:41:17I have already called you to be. That's part of your just be anointing
- 1:41:23like and so you can only speak to an audience who you are called to
- 1:41:28because you embody a portion of that right and so I want you to really
- 1:41:32just meditate on that. I just felt so drawn to you when you know,
- 1:41:39we were having a conversation and I was like, man, you see
- 1:41:42you even see stuff that's I'm like, man, you are so anointed and
- 1:41:45so powerful, and sometimes we think that anointing is only for the church.
- 1:41:50But I called forth your creativity. I called forth your entree entrepreneur mindset and
- 1:42:00everything. I'm just gonna say this part. Everything was coming to alignment,
- 1:42:04an agreement with what has already been predestined for you. And so I'm excited
- 1:42:11for what's about to happen, what's already happening because this desireate. I think
- 1:42:16we can agree on this. This is only the beginning. This is only
- 1:42:19the beginning. So before you lead us, lead us out, shall tell
- 1:42:26the folks how they can connect with you. I mean, I just got
- 1:42:30regular Facebook and Instagram. So on Facebook and bea Miller, be why they
- 1:42:35spell it out for the unique a n C A Miller And on Instagram,
- 1:42:41I'm b J Miller, B dot J Miller And that's what I meant.
- 1:42:45Nothing but my life ain't no nothing special extra going on. But yeah,
- 1:42:48it's the oil on there. Though you ain't got TikTok. I do,
- 1:42:54but I don't know the name. I just be like create. I just
- 1:42:58did like two tiktoks before, and we didn't want for my I think it
- 1:43:01might be the same thing because I think that it might be b J Miller.
- 1:43:05See how she did it. I know she's business. Yeah, we
- 1:43:10do what my family we do have a cleaning business. But yeah, okay,
- 1:43:13I didn't plug it. Yeah, what's the what's the cleaning business rooms
- 1:43:15and rags? It is? We're also on Instagram. Okay, if you
- 1:43:19need y'all know some of your house is dirty, y'all need y'all some of
- 1:43:24y'all businesses, be free, go ahead, let the lights off. The
- 1:43:31professionals do it like you ain't got time for yourself, and let the professionals
- 1:43:38do. Listen. Yeah, I think my TikTok is. I think it
- 1:43:43is b J. Miller. I think it's right. I think it is.
- 1:43:45So listen when she pray, y'all that that's the end. So it
- 1:43:49ain't no benediction for me. Remember, in all things, if life could
- 1:43:55be much more simple when you just ask, y'all like the cute slogan,
- 1:43:58But what's most most important is what about the praise? So all hearts real
- 1:44:02churchart. Father, We thank you so much God for this day. We
- 1:44:10thank you for this opportunity. God, this was a chiros moment. We
- 1:44:13thank you for this moment in time. You allow time to stop for just
- 1:44:16a moment to cause people to understand and hear you through this through our stories.
- 1:44:21We thank you Lord that transparency God, calls people to see you God,
- 1:44:26and so Father, I thank you that even in this moment, those
- 1:44:30that heard the heard this testimony, even with father wounds and mother wounds,
- 1:44:33and even pastor wounds and church wounds. Father, I thank you that in
- 1:44:38this moment that they saw you and God, that they heard that it is
- 1:44:42you that they need for the healing. Not just the doctor, not just
- 1:44:45a therapist, but Father, they need you for to complete the healing.
- 1:44:48And I even believe that there are some people that feels like I've been going
- 1:44:51to therapy, I've been taking this medication and nothing is working. But I
- 1:44:56thank you God that apart from you, we can do nothing. That is
- 1:44:58what your word says. And so Father, I pray that even in this
- 1:45:01moment that Father chasing after you would beginning to be imparted into the lives of
- 1:45:06those that are watching. Even in this moment, Father, I pray now,
- 1:45:11God, that you will put a thirst in them. God, as
- 1:45:14a deer panted for the water, so does our soul long long for you.
- 1:45:18I pray God that even in this moment, that they did not hear
- 1:45:21our word, just hear our testimony, just to hear it, but a
- 1:45:25longing and a thirst. Yes, God was placed on the inside of them.
- 1:45:29Father, I pray now in Jesus name, that we are hidden behind
- 1:45:32the cross, but our stories reveal you. God. I pray now,
- 1:45:36God, that the spirit of depression begin to break off of us, because
- 1:45:41we choose to be content in all things, that we choose to trust You.
- 1:45:45Lord. I pray Father, that even as we are on these journey,
- 1:45:48everyone is on a different type of journey. And so God, I
- 1:45:51pray Hallelujah, that we won't discredit our journey. God, that our journey
- 1:45:57may not match the other person. It may not look like somebody at the
- 1:46:00church, and may not look like even those of us sitting here, But
- 1:46:02that God, our journeys were uniquely for our design. They were created for
- 1:46:08our experience. Yes, God, they were created for our history. And
- 1:46:12so Father, I pray now in Jesus' name, freedom, hit this phone,
- 1:46:15hit this lamb in the name of Jesus made the person He condumnab hosan
- 1:46:20Daya made the person. How glory to Jesus feel freedom? Yes, Lord,
- 1:46:25as they are watching this, no shame, no guilt. Even fathers
- 1:46:29and mothers who may feel that they drop their children, there is no condemnation.
- 1:46:33Glory to God to those that are in Christ, Jesus, let grace,
- 1:46:38hey, glory hit this line. There is no condemnation to pastors who
- 1:46:42haven't feel like they drop people and made mistake. There is no condemnation.
- 1:46:46I declaring Jesus' name that you feel the healing power of God even as you
- 1:46:51watch this made the healing annoying to Hey, Glory to God hit your rumor
- 1:46:57life never before, and begin to snatch you out of the In the mighty
- 1:47:00name of Devil, you have no authority over the minds of God's people.
- 1:47:04I command freedom to their mind. In the name, you shall chase after
- 1:47:09God freely. In the name of Jesus. You shall know that you are
- 1:47:13a son and a daughter. You've been bought with the high price. Yes,
- 1:47:16Lord, he said, I sent my only begotten son. He laid
- 1:47:19his life down for you. I don't care how many people you slept with.
- 1:47:24I don't care how many bad decisions you make. I don't care if
- 1:47:27you left your whole family. I declare in Jesus' name that freedom belongs to
- 1:47:31you. You are not an orphan. Yes, Lord, you are not
- 1:47:34rejected. I don't care what days hold you. You are not abandoned by
- 1:47:39the power of the living God. You are a son, and you are
- 1:47:43ad and we command now. And Jesus has your mind back. Yes,
- 1:47:47yes, take the mind backer under the Holy Ghost. We take your mind
- 1:47:51back of under the fire of God. In the name of Jesus. You
- 1:47:55are a blood bought son and artist can right now and what you are doing
- 1:48:00and where you are, I thank you. Now I'm talking about the worst
- 1:48:04thing you could be doing right now. I don't care what it is and
- 1:48:09where it is. You'll belong to God in the name of Jesus, and
- 1:48:14your story is valuable. And he said that we overcome by the blood of
- 1:48:18the Lamb and by the world of our testimony. So I don't care how
- 1:48:21dark and how dirty and how nasty your story is. You can overcome.
- 1:48:27And there's somebody that will reap from your story. In the name of Jesus,
- 1:48:30Father, I thank you that you are blessing this podcast. You are
- 1:48:33blessing, Yes, you are blessing Desert Rae. I thank you for a
- 1:48:38double portion of the anointance to rest upon this and I pray, Father,
- 1:48:42in Jesus' name, that these podcasts will fall into the hands of the right
- 1:48:46people. Yes, God, we want viral, Yes we want the world
- 1:48:49to see. But let it fall into the right hands that will cause freedom.
- 1:48:55Every single episode. Now, God bless them that this podcast never want
- 1:49:00for anything, It never left everything. It's already met every bill, Glory
- 1:49:04to God, is already paid in the name of Jesus. And before I
- 1:49:09take anything from it, I will add more faith to it that God,
- 1:49:12you will do it, and you will do it now. And the God.
- 1:49:15We love you, Oh my God, we love you. We love
- 1:49:18you because you brought us out to It's no ability of our own. It's
- 1:49:23yours and your alone, yours alone. We love you, God, We
- 1:49:27honor you, We worship you Jesus with everything that we are and everything that
- 1:49:30we have in Jesus name Jesus. Hallelujah. Hey man, Hey man,
- 1:49:35Glory to God, hallelujah, Praise God, hallelujah. Thank you Jesus,
- 1:49:42hallelujah. Hey y'all, thank you for listening to just ask. If you
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