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DA CREW PODCASTSEASON 1_ EPISODE #42 HOST LISA HOPKINS _(SHOW #7)) · DA CREW Podcast

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  Bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo bo Bie. Welcome
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  to Expecurve Reactions with Lisa Hopkins, where we explore our ability to overcome our
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  trouble. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Duck Crewe Podcast twenty twenty
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  three. I am Lisa Hopkins with Triggered Reactions Conquered and today my special guest
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  is Jessa Popcorn Weaver. First, I want to go ahead and do my
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  prayer and then I'll be reading a scripture and then we will go forward with
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  meeting our amazing wonderful guests for today. Father God, in the name of
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  Jesus Lord, we come before you today. Thank you for this opportunity to
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  spend time with you and to let your holy spirit reign supreme. I thank
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  you so much for this podcast on this day, this episode number forty two.
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  Father God, I just asked that you would bless everybody that's represented here,
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  bless every family, and meet every need according to your riches in glory.
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  I thank you for this time, and I appreciate you so much for
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  dropping the opportunity in my spirit for the podcast today. My scripture will be
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  coming from Matthew twenty five and I will be reading Versus thirty five through forty.
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  For I was hungry, and ye gave me meat. I was thirsty,
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  and ye gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me
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  in naked, and ye clothed me. I was sick and you visited me.
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  I was in prison, and you came to me to visit. Then
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  shall the rights just answered him and say, Lord, when I when saw
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  ye thee hungry and fed thee, or thirsty and gave you drink? When
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  saw ye the strangers and took thee in or neked and clothe thee? Or
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  when did we see you sick or in prison and came to visit you?
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  And the King shall answer and say, when you've done it unto the least
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  of them, you have done it unto me. At this time I would
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  like to introduce to others and present to some of you, Miss Jessa Popcorn
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  Weaver. Oh, hello, it's good to be here. Thank you for
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  having me. Good afternoon, Miss Jessica, it is a pleasure to have
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  you here. On Triggered Reactions Conquered with Lisa Hopkins. Today, our topic
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  is a cheerful giver. I would like to welcome Miss Jessica Weaver. Her
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  nickname is Popcorn and you'll find out more about that later on. The scripture
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  that I read was Jessica all over. The Lord has dropped a wonderful,
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  wonderful thing down in her spirit, and I'm gonna allow her to tell you
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  who she is, where she lives, and whatever else you would like to
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  share before I go into our interview. Yes, my name is Jessa Weaver
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  and I have a nonprofit foundation which is called Jessa in Time, and I
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  assist and serve the less fortunate and homeless community and I provide them with hygiene
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  products, clothing of Pampers, baby wipes, shoes and sleeping bags. Whatever
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  that I can assist with, I shall, and I love to do it
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  well. I thank God for your nonprofit organization, and I do pray that
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  the Lord will step in in a mighty way and meet every need for every
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  person that you come in contact with. I also pray that God will do
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  some funding for you and you will have all the money that you need where
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  you won't have to go into your money and somebody will give you a grant
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  and you can go from there. So I thank God for your nonprofit,
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  and I thank you for being on the show. I would like to say
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  this, The name of my podcast is Trigger React has Conquered. So I
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  know that down through the down, through the years, something may have happened
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  to trigger you to want to start this nonprofit organization. Um. I remember
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  we had a conversation in regards to your grandmother. Yes, so I,
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  um, I used to assist my grandmother when I was a young girl with
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  serving her client. She had a boarding care home and and they so they
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  lived there and she would serve them breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And
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  she was up at five in the morning getney going. So that just inspired
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  me and I just followed her footsteps. Well, I I truly thank God
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  for your grandmother, imputing that in your spirit. A lot of times we
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  have people that take after people in their family for the negative. But this
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  is a take down from your family for the negative. So we won't call
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  this, yeah, for the positive. We won't call this a generational curse,
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  but we will call this a generational blessing because it's gonna bless people down
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  the line. Yes, now, I know you had an incident with your
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  daughter. Yeah, can you tell us a little bit about that. Yeah,
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  so I have. My second child was john Nessa and she passed coming
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  up on nine years ago. And after her passing, it was like it
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  was nothing that I can live for. It seemed like I didn't have anything
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  to live for and I couldn't get out the bed. I couldn't do anything.
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  I couldn't do anything, and so I just prayed and prayed, and
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  I started saying why why me? And God came to me and said why
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  not. You were just babysitting for me and I wanted my daughter back,
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  and by me being a childcare provider and in home care provider, I understand
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  what it is to have to give a child or a person back to their
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  rightful owners. So I started praying and asking God what can I do to
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  assist in him to make me feel hold because it was like I was just
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  lost. That was a part of me. And so he put in my
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  heart to serve the community that I was in and and I never stopped.
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  I just kept going and that made me hold. Every time I go out,
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  I think my life is bad or it's a struggle, but when you
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  go out and you see these people that don't have and they don't know where
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  the next meal is coming from, or they don't have shoes then, and
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  I want to keep assisted. I love to do it a man. Okay,
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  now, you serve a lot of less fortunate and homeless people. Have
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  you ever been homeless yourself? Yes, several times. And I tell my
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  kids and people around me that homelessness hurts simply because you be aching. Your
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  heart hurts for somewhere to be, Your hand hurt from carrying bags, your
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  feet hurt from walking so much, and it's just it's just really unfortunate,
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  the struggle that it is being homeless with no one to assist you, and
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  no one that you can kind of talk to a lean on. And so,
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  yeah, I've experienced it several times. Well, I thank God that
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  you have gotten yourself out of a homeless situation. You've been there, you
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  know what it's like. And I am so g eightfold just to know that
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  you are willing to make homelessness better for someone. Yes, I would like
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  for you to share with our listeners about being able to help a sad man
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  that you saw not too long ago. Yeah. So I had a giveaway
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  two weeks ago and I was out and I didn't have no assistance, and
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  I wanted to not go. The enemy was trying to say, you don't
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  have to go. There's no one, you know, you don't have to
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  do it, and you don't have no health, and you know, just
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  just wait till next week. And so I said, no, I'm going
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  out and I just got to get out here and I'm gonna do whatever I
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  can. And so I had prepared the meals already and I went out.
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  And I usually go for the crowds, but at this point, God kind
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  of had me look to the left and there was a man sitting there and
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  he had his head hanging down and he was just kind of fumbling around and
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  he was sitting there. So I turned around and went and drove up on
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  him and I said, excuse me, sir, would you like a meal?
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  Would you like a dinner? And he said, oh Lord, thank
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  you. How did you know? I was just praying for some I'm so
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  hungry. And I said, here you going. I gave him two plates
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  because money. He really appreciated it. Yeah, that's why I thank God
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  for that. Uh. It really uh it makes my heart go pity pat
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  when I get these people of smiles from the people's faces yes. And that's
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  why I told the people that you are a cheerful giver. Everything that the
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  Word of God says about being a cheerful giver, it's you. I thank
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  God for your spirit, for the love that you have for other people.
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  And I want you to know that God as well pleased with that. Thank
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  you, he man. So can you tell us the age groups? How
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  you separate your age groups? What do you do? So? First,
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  I do M zero. Well, usually when I go out for the children,
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  I do zero to twelve years and sometimes fourteen years. But you know,
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  they're not as small as they used to be at fourteen, so I
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  put them in in a category of the young adults. So but I go
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  for the zero to twelve years and then I go and I serve me and
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  in women, any you know, all ages. But I separate the sizes
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  and then um, everyone gets a meal, even if it's not the day
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  for them to be served. It doesn't matter who I give the meals to.
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  But I I really focus on the children if I'm going out for the
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  children, and the adults if I'm going out for the adults, but everyone
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  can eat. Oh praise God. So do you have anybody that goes out
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  there with you to help assist you. Yes. So I have my daughter,
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  um Chantay, she goes with me pretty often, and my grandchildren loved
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  to go. So they're my my camera crew. And so they help me
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  prepare the meals and so I do six months hot meals and six months sack
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  lunches. So I'm always prepared the food with love and love because I love
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  to do it, and and and so they assist me, my grandkids,
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  my daughter, and then my dad is my president. And I have another
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  daughter, Carlotta, who does my social media. And then I have a
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  director that she kind of assists me with with putting in for grants if I'm
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  you know, I'm trying to get grants and things like that. So yeah,
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  those are those are the few people that I have. Okay, Well,
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  we thank God for for your people being able and willing and capable and
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  glad to give you a helping hand. We thank God for the camera crew,
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  the designer crew, and just everybody that you have, and each and
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  every one of them will be blessed. You tell them that, Miss Lisa
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  Hopkins thanks them for their willingness to step out and help. Thank you.
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  Yes, now do you have any type of fundraisers that you do. Yes,
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  So that's how I got my nickname popcorn because I sell popcorn and I
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  have seven different flavors. So I go out and sell popcorn, and I
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  do fundraisers by selling T shirts with my logo on it, and and I
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  go all over and so people that that don't really know me, they know
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  when I'm coming with the popcorn, and so they say, hey, pop
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  when I see them on the street after you know, I'm just going I'm
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  in the bank or I'm at the park, and they say, aren't you
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  popcorn? So I developed the nickname popcorn. Ay man, that's awesome,
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  that's cute. Yes, So tell other people what types what flavors of popcorn
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  you have. So I have, um, kettle corn, vanilla, chocolate,
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  caramel, white, cheddar, yellow cheddar, cheddar, butter, and
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  um. Sometimes there's a sausa Susa. Sounds good. Yes. So if
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  anybody looking would like to get some of that popcorn from you, how do
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  they do that? Well? You can. I have a YouTube channel and
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  I have a Facebook, so you know, usually you can reach out to
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  me on my jess in time. Um, I have Jessen time dot Org
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  and I have Jessa in Time m YouTube channel, so if you leave a
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  message, UM, I would surely get to you. Okay, Um,
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  I believe you said something about a couple of stores that may be assisting as
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  well. Yes, so why Walmart sponsors me? They have sponsored me for
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  a couple of years, and also Smart and Final sponsors me. So I'm
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  looking to get more assistance through other agencies, but it just hasn't hasn't happened
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  yet. Okay, Well, we pray that the Lord will act speedily yea
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  and get you those funds that you need and have more people that will be
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  willing to support what you are doing. Truly, truly, if I had
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  a store, I would be one of your supporters. Thank you. Hey,
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  what is that I see in there? What is that in your background?
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  Let me see what you got back there? What is that? So
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  that's my banner that I when I go out and serve at times, if
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  I'm gonna be stationary, I put my Jessa in Time banner up. And
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  that's also my logo. Oh praise the Lord. Can you explain what that
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  picture is there in the middle. So that's a picture of me and I'm
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  holding um a platter of food, excuse me, bless you. And also
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  I have a clothing then I'm holding clothing saying the Lord abuse you in the
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  name of Jesus, because I go out take the time, I go out
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  and um and give out clothing things. Oh, I apologize. So that's
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  what that poster is, That's what that banner is. It just shows that
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  I'm always willing to serve and I'm always having something in the hand to give.
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  Amen. Did you ever give out paper and pencils and stuff for when
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  school starts back? Yes? So I give our backpacks and I fill them
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  with with the stationary that's needed for school. Okay. Um. The thing
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  that you do, we couldn't call it anything but love. Yes, And
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  I'm very grateful for that because the scripture that I read it said that God
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  was actually thanking the people for clothing him when he needs clothes, and giving
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  him water or something to drink when he was thirsty, or giving him clothes
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  when he was naked. And the people said, well, when did we
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  do that, Lord, We don't remember doing that. And God said,
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  he said, when you've done it until the least of them, you have
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  done it. Unto me, Now that is the truth. That is the
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  truth and undefiled word of God. That was God speaking to them, letting
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  them know that He was well pleased with them looking out for other people and
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  putting them second instead of putting their own self first. I want you to
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  know that God is well pleased with what you are doing. Sometimes it may
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  seem like you're putting so much out for other people and maybe not getting anything
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  back. But that's okay, because when your time comes, God is going
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  to overflow. He's going to give you the desires of your heart. You're
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  going to think about all the promises that God has uh mentioned in the Word
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  of God. You're gonna see that his word will not come back, boyd,
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  And He's just gonna pour out the windows, pour out a blessing that
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  you will not have room to receive, as well as pour pouring out his
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  love, his kindness, his mercy. And I know that he's doing that
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  already. But He is going to give you that life that is more abundant,
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  more abundant than what you can ever think of, dream of, or
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  ask that to you in the name of Jesus. So, if you had
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  a message that you would like to share with the listening audience, what would
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  it be. Well, my message is when you see people that's less fortunate,
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  because everybody's not homeless, so that's why I target the less fortunate as
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  well. And some people don't like to be called homeless, but then some
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  people are they have a place, but they don't have food, or they
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  have food but they don't have a place. So if my message if you
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  see someone that's in need and you can assist with anything, even if there's
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  a dollar, a burger, a jacket, old shoes, they do a
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  lot of them do appreciate it, and they don't know where their next meal
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  is going to come from, but they don't know that someone is thinking that
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  they may be in need. So if you if you are willing to assist,
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  because we don't have a lot of assistance out here in the world.
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  People say that what they will do and what they're gonna do, but it's
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  got to be consistent and you got to really be willing to do it and
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  tendue to do it because it's people out there that need to us. Everybody's
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  not on an attic or addicted or or you know, did just fall on
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  hard times, and some are mental ills, so they just need a little
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  love is sometimes amen, So it sounds like love and it is love,
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  yes, But or what would you tell the people that love looks like?
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  To me, love looks like giving and sharing unconditionally is not what what people
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  do or what they look like. It's just what you feel like in the
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  insight and what you're willing to share. Sometimes it's just high or how you
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  doing, or Jesus loves you. It don't have to be a lot,
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  and you be surprised the minimum that you can share with a person that's just
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  in need, even if it's conversation, and it can make their whole day,
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  their whole life change a man the better. Thank you. Now,
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  I've asked many questions, but I'm sure by talking to you, I'm sure
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  that you have something that you would like to share that you haven't shared already.
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  Well, basically, I would like for my my grandchildren to carry on
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  my legacy and to be able to do more research and understand the needs of
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  people, even if there aren't homeless, because lots of friends that I have,
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  some of them aren't homeless. I have a couple of friends home because
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  I know some people personally out there, and so I can just assist them
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  with what I can, you know, and I just want them to continue
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  to assist people in need of some companions, some love, you know,
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  a prayer, and just to be kind to kind to people because being unkind
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  and it's just it's it's harsh, and some people are really harsh to one
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  another. We can be really cruel to each other. And I don't I
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  don't condone that I saw. I want my grandkids just to carry the legacy
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  and continue to support and share and give from the heart. Ay Man,
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  I thank you, thank you, thank you so much for being here on
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  Triggered Reactions Conquered. You are on episode number forty two. The podcast is
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  amazing. We are an amazing group of young women and a man that have
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  come together to be a voice for those who may not have a voice.
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  And you have actually left your contribution to Trigger I mean to Trigger Reactions Conquered
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  with Lisa Hopkins as well as the crew podcast. I would like to thank
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  you so so much willingness for your willingness to come and share this very intricate
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  portion of your life. And prayerfully somebody is listening and they will have the
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  opportunity to reach out and just give up their heart and to be grateful in
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  doing so, and hopefully some lessons have been learned. Maybe we've pricked somebody's
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  heart in their mind and maybe they could remember a time when somebody needed something
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  from them and they were not unable, but they were not willing. Yes,
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  so maybe somebody listening will remember that next time somebody needs something from you
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  and you have it, to just go ahead and give it. And God
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  will truly bless you for your willingness to share what He has freely given to
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  you. Thank you, to you, you, and you especially my wonderful,
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  amazing guest, Miss Jessa Popcorn Weaver. It has been a pleasure to
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  be here with you on Triggered Reactions Conquered with Lisa Hopkins, and we will
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  talk soon. May God bless you, and to our listeners, thank you
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  for tuning in today on Triggered Reactions with Conquers with Lisa Hopkins and do come
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  need your support to come out and hear what we have to say. We
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  are the voice for those who may not have a voice. Thank you,
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