Latest / DA CREW Podcast / BELIEVE IN THE JOURNEY 6-8-25 HOST TRIVEDA HARRIS
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- 0:02Speaker 1: The morning, good morning, good morning. M hm m m m.
- 0:38Speaker 1: It was a known body trying to sound body. Come
- 0:46Speaker 1: on in, Come on in, come on in. Don't own
- 0:49Speaker 1: the rights to the music playing in the background, only
- 0:51Speaker 1: for my entertainment persons. Mmm hmmmmmmmm. Getting ready to go live.
- 1:17Speaker 1: Getting ready to go live on TikTok, substack, Facebook, YouTube,
- 1:31Speaker 1: and Twitch. Getting ready to go live for morning motivation,
- 1:36Speaker 1: Morning Devotional, Day fourteen, y'all Day fourteen or thirty one
- 1:43Speaker 1: a's getting ready to go live, sus on. Good morning,
- 1:58Speaker 1: good morning, good morning, good morning, good morn morning, good morning,
- 2:00Speaker 1: good morning everyone. Day fourteen, Day fourteen, thirty one days.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Beyond sight, beyond sight, beyond sight, y'all, beyond sight. We
- 2:13Speaker 1: are Day fourteen, Day fourteen. The music playing in the
- 2:15Speaker 1: background is for my entertainment purposes. I do not own
- 2:19Speaker 1: the rights. I do not own the rights. After this
- 2:21Speaker 1: song finished, we're gonna go ahead and start the devotion.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Y'all we are Day fourteen, Day fourteen, Day fourteen. Hope
- 2:30Speaker 1: you guys have been encouraged. Hope you guys have been
- 2:33Speaker 1: gaining some traction. Hope you guys have been encouraged. Hope
- 2:38Speaker 1: you have been gaining some traction. Today it's gonna be
- 2:42Speaker 1: a day of reflection. Today's gonna be a day of reflection,
- 2:47Speaker 1: a day of reflection, a day of reflection on what
- 2:52Speaker 1: we have went over All throughout this week we have
- 3:01Speaker 1: been doing. We're day fourteen. So throughout last week we shared.
- 3:09Speaker 1: This week was focused on overcoming doubt. We have been
- 3:13Speaker 1: talking about overcoming doubt, stretching our faith. So the very
- 3:17Speaker 1: first day we started out with James one and six.
- 3:22Speaker 1: He said, but let him act in faith with no doubting.
- 3:26Speaker 1: For the one who doubts, it's like a wave of
- 3:29Speaker 1: the sea that is driven and tossed by the winds.
- 3:34Speaker 1: Day two scripture was Mark eleven in twenty three. He said, truly,
- 3:39Speaker 1: I say to you, whosoever say to the mountain be
- 3:44Speaker 1: taking up thrown in the sea, and does not doubt
- 3:47Speaker 1: in his heart, but believe what he says will come
- 3:51Speaker 1: to pass. It will be done for him. Day three
- 3:59Speaker 1: this week the scripture was Matthews fourteen and thirty one.
- 4:04Speaker 1: It says Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took
- 4:08Speaker 1: hold of him, saying to him, oh, you little faith,
- 4:12Speaker 1: why did you doubt me? Day four was Psalms forty
- 4:28Speaker 1: six and ten, it says, be still and know that
- 4:31Speaker 1: I am God. Day five of this week, well tewod
- 4:38Speaker 1: Corinthians four and eighteen, it says, as we look not
- 4:42Speaker 1: to the things that are seen, but to the things
- 4:45Speaker 1: that are unseen, y'all. In day six of this week,
- 4:52Speaker 1: which was yesterday, Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven, it says,
- 4:56Speaker 1: for I know the plans that I have for you,
- 4:59Speaker 1: declares the Lord, or plans for welfare and not for evil,
- 5:04Speaker 1: to give you a future and a hope. In today's scripture,
- 5:10Speaker 1: it's going to be James one versus two to eight.
- 5:15Speaker 1: And I have to get my Bible. I have to
- 5:18Speaker 1: get my Bible, real book, ye out cause I did
- 5:20Speaker 1: not print it out. Let me show you how to
- 5:25Speaker 1: give God ideas, because y'all, I just opened my Bible
- 5:27Speaker 1: up and just open it right up to where I
- 5:30Speaker 1: need it to be, just on a different just on
- 5:34Speaker 1: a different hold on God is good. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
- 5:43Speaker 1: yes yes yes yes, oh yes. I need to keep
- 5:46Speaker 1: you some light so I can see so I can
- 5:48Speaker 1: read this to you, guys. So it's gonna be coming
- 5:51Speaker 1: out of James. It's gonna be Chapter one verses two
- 6:03Speaker 1: through eighteen. I mean, I'm sorry verses two through eight.
- 6:08Speaker 1: I can't even see the Hey, y'all, I'm sorry. So again,
- 6:11Speaker 1: that's James one, starting with verse number two, and we're
- 6:18Speaker 1: gonna read down to the eighth verse, y'all. I don't
- 6:27Speaker 1: use this Bible a lot, and my pages are starting
- 6:30Speaker 1: to fall out. I had to tryna keep my pages
- 6:33Speaker 1: from falling out alout the saying. It's all over the place.
- 6:42Speaker 1: I can say this one has been very used, and
- 6:49Speaker 1: y'all see it, y'all be like, you need another Bible,
- 6:51Speaker 1: but I got another one, but this one has been
- 6:53Speaker 1: very used, y'all. And and my pages was coming out
- 6:56Speaker 1: and they was falling out. So I had to secure
- 6:58Speaker 1: my pages before I come here. And I apologize again.
- 7:02Speaker 1: And just let me know that it's just being used, y'all,
- 7:04Speaker 1: just being used again. It's gonna come from James. Chapter one,
- 7:09Speaker 1: Verses two through eight. It says, my brethren counted all
- 7:12Speaker 1: joy when ye fall into the divers temptation, knowing this
- 7:19Speaker 1: that trying of your faith work is patient, but let
- 7:23Speaker 1: patients have your perfect work, and that yea may be
- 7:28Speaker 1: perfect and entire, wanting nothing if any of you lack wisdom.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Let him ask of God that giveth to all men
- 7:39Speaker 1: liberally and unbradiedly. Not in it shall be given him.
- 7:47Speaker 1: But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he
- 7:51Speaker 1: that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven
- 7:55Speaker 1: with the wind and toss. For let him not that
- 8:00Speaker 1: man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.
- 8:07Speaker 1: A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
- 8:11Speaker 1: I have read James Chapter one, verses two through eight.
- 8:16Speaker 1: May God bless the reading and hearing of His word,
- 8:19Speaker 1: And like I always, may we not just be peers
- 8:22Speaker 1: of the word, but may we also be doers of
- 8:25Speaker 1: the word. May we be doers of the word. As
- 8:29Speaker 1: we reflect back over this week, as we reflect back
- 8:32Speaker 1: over what God has been doing throughout this week, throughout
- 8:37Speaker 1: these fourteen days. If you go back and just reflect,
- 8:42Speaker 1: and even just read the back of the book, y'all,
- 8:44Speaker 1: this book is definitely focused on stretching your faith, building
- 8:49Speaker 1: your faith, and pushing you outside of your box, seeing
- 8:55Speaker 1: just a little and then diving a little deeper into
- 8:58Speaker 1: the Word and applying it. Because oftentime, y'all, we read scripture,
- 9:02Speaker 1: and a lot of us got a lot of scripture.
- 9:04Speaker 1: We know a lot of scripture. We read a lot
- 9:06Speaker 1: of scripture, but most of the time we don't apply
- 9:09Speaker 1: it to our lives. We have to apply it to
- 9:11Speaker 1: our life so that we can see it manifest, so
- 9:13Speaker 1: that we can see it come life, so that we
- 9:15Speaker 1: can see it working in our life. So again, we
- 9:20Speaker 1: have seen throughout this week through scripture that we can't
- 9:28Speaker 1: doubt God, that we have to trust Him no matter
- 9:31Speaker 1: what it looked like. Y'all, this is something that we
- 9:35Speaker 1: are continually here. So knowing that we continually hear this
- 9:39Speaker 1: in the word, know that it's true. Know that his
- 9:43Speaker 1: word is not going to return to him void. And y'all,
- 9:47Speaker 1: if we be still and just listen now, he's gonna
- 9:51Speaker 1: lead God in direct us. He will never fail us.
- 9:54Speaker 1: He will never ever fail us. He said, he said
- 9:59Speaker 1: he will not leave nor for sake to us, y'all.
- 10:01Speaker 1: He left us the comforter. I mean he left he
- 10:05Speaker 1: left something with us. He left the Holy Spirit. And
- 10:09Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit's job is to lead God in direct us.
- 10:12Speaker 1: See a lot of us when we praying, we are
- 10:16Speaker 1: praying to the wrong. We're praying wrong because we're praying
- 10:20Speaker 1: and asking God when God has already given us instruction.
- 10:23Speaker 1: He's told us, you know, how to pray and how
- 10:27Speaker 1: to acts. You know we're supposed to We're not even
- 10:29Speaker 1: supposed to be praying to God for things. God is
- 10:32Speaker 1: out he's doing is watching over us. He left the
- 10:35Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to lead God and direct us. We should
- 10:39Speaker 1: be addressing the Holy Spirit. We should be asking the
- 10:42Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to lead God in direct us. Anything that
- 10:45Speaker 1: we lack, we should be asking the Holy Spirit for
- 10:49Speaker 1: if you lack wisdom, acts, the Holy Spirit would show you.
- 10:54Speaker 1: I'm telling you if you act, y'all, I'm telling you.
- 10:57Speaker 1: Our apostles shared a testimony yesterday on the Prayer Call,
- 11:04Speaker 1: and she was saying how it was pouring down rain
- 11:07Speaker 1: and she was out on the West coast and she
- 11:10Speaker 1: was sharing with us how it was pouring down raining
- 11:13Speaker 1: and how she just wanted it to be clear and
- 11:16Speaker 1: sunny when she got up in the air and she
- 11:18Speaker 1: said she just stood up in the hotel room and
- 11:20Speaker 1: stood in the window and just begin to just ask
- 11:24Speaker 1: God to let it be sunny, to let it know
- 11:27Speaker 1: rain be coming down when they go up, and she said,
- 11:33Speaker 1: up until them getting to the airport, she said it
- 11:35Speaker 1: was raining, but got red when they got ready to
- 11:39Speaker 1: take off. When they got ready to go up, she said,
- 11:41Speaker 1: the sun was shining so bright and shine the sun
- 11:44Speaker 1: shine all the way from the West coast all the
- 11:47Speaker 1: way to Atlanta. And that was just an example, just
- 11:52Speaker 1: an example of you being able to speak and asking God,
- 11:57Speaker 1: applying his word, giving him his word back, and watching
- 12:00Speaker 1: him move, watching him do what he said he would do.
- 12:04Speaker 1: Now his word is not gonna return to him board
- 12:07Speaker 1: and he is that man that he's gonna watch over
- 12:10Speaker 1: and towards, perform and perfect it in our lives. Just
- 12:13Speaker 1: because it don't come when we want it to come
- 12:16Speaker 1: don't mean that it's not gonna come. We gotta be patient,
- 12:19Speaker 1: and we gotta hold on. We gotta be still and
- 12:22Speaker 1: know that he is God and that he is yet moving,
- 12:25Speaker 1: because the evidence is those things that we hope for
- 12:29Speaker 1: that we don't see. And we gotta know that he
- 12:33Speaker 1: is who he said he will be, and if he's
- 12:35Speaker 1: done it for you before, know that he'll do it again.
- 12:38Speaker 1: He has no respect of a person. I'm reminded that
- 12:42Speaker 1: he raised me up off my bed of affliction. I
- 12:44Speaker 1: shot point black range with a solid our shotgun. I
- 12:46Speaker 1: shouldn't be here, but God he saw fit for me
- 12:50Speaker 1: to wake up. He could have left me lying on
- 12:53Speaker 1: that bed. He could have left me dead in my sin.
- 12:56Speaker 1: But he saw fit to raise me up. On May seventh,
- 12:59Speaker 1: two thousand and fourteen. He saw fit to raise me up,
- 13:02Speaker 1: to give me another chance. And I said, I will
- 13:05Speaker 1: not sit down on his goodness. I will not sit
- 13:07Speaker 1: down on those things that he's done for me. That
- 13:09Speaker 1: I would share his goodness regardless. And he gave me
- 13:11Speaker 1: an outlet. I said, I didn't want to stand up
- 13:13Speaker 1: in a pool pit. I didn't want to preach. I
- 13:15Speaker 1: didn't want to do that. But God gave me an outlet.
- 13:18Speaker 1: He gave me books. Now I've published over one hundred
- 13:21Speaker 1: and thirty something publications, magazines, journals, planners, calendars, anithologies, you
- 13:29Speaker 1: name it, I have it out. You can go google me.
- 13:32Speaker 1: Angela Thomas Smith, Queen of Collaborations. You'll see everything that
- 13:35Speaker 1: I've done only through God, only because I said I
- 13:40Speaker 1: would trust him, only because I believed in his word.
- 13:45Speaker 1: I could have gave up because in twoenty twelve when
- 13:49Speaker 1: he said he had a plan for me, when he
- 13:52Speaker 1: told when he spoke that in my spirit said, I
- 13:55Speaker 1: didn't drop you out of this guy. I strategically placed
- 13:58Speaker 1: you there, Jeremiah eleven, go read it. And I did,
- 14:03Speaker 1: and y'all, that thing has been ringing in my spirit
- 14:05Speaker 1: ever since. And then when I was going through the
- 14:07Speaker 1: enemy would tell me if God had a plan for you,
- 14:11Speaker 1: if he was gonna prosper you, why did you go
- 14:14Speaker 1: through the mess of violence? Why are your experiencing all
- 14:19Speaker 1: of this? The enemy would try to deter me from
- 14:22Speaker 1: what I know God has called me to. But I
- 14:25Speaker 1: had to get up out of my mess. I had say, Okay,
- 14:30Speaker 1: I want better, I want to do better. I want
- 14:32Speaker 1: something different. And that's what I did. And when I
- 14:36Speaker 1: began to move and when I begin to step out
- 14:38Speaker 1: on faith, and when I believe, God began to move
- 14:42Speaker 1: in my life. But you gotta believe, you gotta trust him.
- 14:46Speaker 1: You got to give it to him, and you have
- 14:48Speaker 1: to move out of the way. See oftentimes we'll give
- 14:51Speaker 1: it to him, but then we come back and we
- 14:53Speaker 1: pick it up and we want to well get it
- 14:55Speaker 1: back again. That's not trusting him. That's not trust and
- 15:00Speaker 1: believing in his word. He wants you to put your
- 15:03Speaker 1: whole heart into him, he said, seeking first the Kingdom
- 15:06Speaker 1: of Heaven, and all things shall be added. He didn't
- 15:08Speaker 1: say some things. He said all things. But see, the
- 15:13Speaker 1: first time something goes wrong or something comes up, we
- 15:17Speaker 1: lose faith, We lose trust. But he wants us to
- 15:22Speaker 1: hold on. He want us to be patient. He wants
- 15:24Speaker 1: us to be still and to know that he is God, y'all.
- 15:28Speaker 1: He is never changing, He's always on time, and he's
- 15:34Speaker 1: always looking out for the interests of his children. God,
- 15:41Speaker 1: it's not a coincident. It's not an accident. It's not
- 15:43Speaker 1: a hamper stance that you are here. God allowed you
- 15:47Speaker 1: to cross this page, allowed you to cross this path
- 15:50Speaker 1: for a reason. Don't know what it is, but soon
- 15:54Speaker 1: he will reveal it. So whatever it is, just act
- 15:58Speaker 1: upon it. Because He don't allow people to come in
- 16:01Speaker 1: your past, across your past for no reason. There's always
- 16:04Speaker 1: a reason why he brings connections, why he make connections,
- 16:08Speaker 1: why he allow people to cross your path. So we
- 16:10Speaker 1: have to figure out what it is, what that season
- 16:14Speaker 1: in our life that that person can help us with
- 16:16Speaker 1: or supposed to be be inputting. We see, we have
- 16:20Speaker 1: to find that place and then we have to we
- 16:23Speaker 1: have to ask him to show us us. And that's
- 16:28Speaker 1: all about being self aware. See, in order for us
- 16:33Speaker 1: to be able to shift. And y'all, that is something
- 16:36Speaker 1: that I that I that I teach on my Monday
- 16:39Speaker 1: morning motivational class at nine am every Monday. I come
- 16:44Speaker 1: live right here on social media and I share. For
- 16:48Speaker 1: the last five years, I have been sharing about purpose
- 16:54Speaker 1: and about power and you knowing you have your power.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Now that we know all of these things. For the
- 17:00Speaker 1: last five years, we've been sharing these things, we've been
- 17:02Speaker 1: in putting, these things we've been pouring in. Now it's
- 17:05Speaker 1: time for us to shift because there are people. There
- 17:08Speaker 1: are people that are dependent on us. They're people that
- 17:11Speaker 1: are counting on us to make it so that they
- 17:13Speaker 1: can come out of what they're going through, so that
- 17:15Speaker 1: they can make it to know that there's someone, there's
- 17:25Speaker 1: someone looking up to you. There's someone depending on you
- 17:29Speaker 1: to survive. So it's survivor season. It's time for you
- 17:34Speaker 1: to shift. It's time for you to walk into that
- 17:36Speaker 1: that he's called you to. So how do you shift?
- 17:39Speaker 1: How do you move? How do you walk into that
- 17:41Speaker 1: that he's called you to? So how do you do that? First,
- 17:45Speaker 1: you got to come self aware of yourself. You got
- 17:50Speaker 1: to be willing to heal. How do you heal you.
- 17:54Speaker 1: Stop allowing hindrance to cause you to have an ego,
- 17:58Speaker 1: which causes you to have at it to which causes
- 18:01Speaker 1: you not to operate in love. If you want to heal,
- 18:06Speaker 1: stop allowing hinderance to distract you. Stop moving with an
- 18:12Speaker 1: ego because you have an attitude. Love covers a multitude
- 18:17Speaker 1: of sind love draws. Love is action. So I challenge you.
- 18:24Speaker 1: I challenge you to allow yourself to heal, Allow yourself
- 18:28Speaker 1: to move past whatever is hindering you, whatever is stopping you,
- 18:32Speaker 1: whatever's keeping you in bondage. Allow your to heal on today.
- 18:37Speaker 1: Because once you allow yourself to heal, then now you
- 18:42Speaker 1: can start being intentional about those things that you know
- 18:45Speaker 1: He's called you to, because it's not a coincidence. It's
- 18:48Speaker 1: not an accident. That's something that you're supposed to be
- 18:51Speaker 1: doing for the kingdom. All of us. We didn't get
- 18:55Speaker 1: dropped out of the sky. Just like every finger on
- 18:58Speaker 1: my hand has a fun function. It's supposed to be
- 19:01Speaker 1: doing something. It has its own function. It aligns to
- 19:04Speaker 1: make my hand my hands, and then my hands has
- 19:07Speaker 1: a function. It connects to my arms to make my arm.
- 19:13Speaker 1: It connects to my wrist to make my arm my arm. So, y'all,
- 19:17Speaker 1: everything has a function, everything has its place, and we
- 19:21Speaker 1: have to find out what our place is in the
- 19:23Speaker 1: kingdom and what are those things that we can bring
- 19:26Speaker 1: to the kingdom to help the kingdom grow. Because we
- 19:31Speaker 1: are disciples, whether we want to accept it or not,
- 19:34Speaker 1: and that there are things that we're supposed to be
- 19:36Speaker 1: doing that there are people that we're supposed to be leading. Everybody,
- 19:40Speaker 1: every single person. You may not lead millions and hundreds
- 19:44Speaker 1: and thousands, you may only have a group of ten,
- 19:47Speaker 1: but everybody has someone that they're supposed to be in
- 19:49Speaker 1: charge over because we're supposed to be leaders, we're supposed
- 19:53Speaker 1: to be disciples. So know that, and as you begin
- 19:56Speaker 1: to be intentional about those things, stay focused, stay focused,
- 20:02Speaker 1: keep your mind stayed on him so that you don't
- 20:05Speaker 1: get distracted. Because along the way, you're gonna have choices
- 20:08Speaker 1: that you're gonna have to make, and you're gonna have
- 20:11Speaker 1: to make sure that you're making the right choice, because
- 20:13Speaker 1: he give us free will to make any choice that
- 20:16Speaker 1: we want to make, but we want to make sure
- 20:19Speaker 1: that we're making the right choices, the choices that align
- 20:22Speaker 1: with those things that He's called us to so that
- 20:24Speaker 1: we can grow, so that we can take our place
- 20:27Speaker 1: in the key, so that we can make a difference.
- 20:31Speaker 1: So I challenge you guys, be intentional and stay focused
- 20:37Speaker 1: so that you can transform to that next level, so
- 20:43Speaker 1: that you can be elevated, so that you can lead
- 20:46Speaker 1: those that you are supposed to lead. Because see how
- 20:50Speaker 1: we are the change that we desire to see in
- 20:53Speaker 1: this world. If we want change, it has to start
- 20:57Speaker 1: with us. And as we beginning to change, then those
- 21:01Speaker 1: around us, our family, our friends, they will begin to change.
- 21:06Speaker 1: And as they begin to change, y'all, it ripples out,
- 21:09Speaker 1: It ripples out into our community, and then it ripples
- 21:13Speaker 1: out on further and then it begins to make a
- 21:16Speaker 1: global change. But when we all begin to work on ourselves,
- 21:21Speaker 1: that's when we can have a better world. We can't
- 21:25Speaker 1: depend on man the government to do nothing. It starts
- 21:31Speaker 1: with us individually. And when we individually work on being
- 21:36Speaker 1: the best version of ourselves, then we will begin to
- 21:40Speaker 1: see change in this world. But it's not gonna it's
- 21:45Speaker 1: not It's not up to the government, it is not
- 21:49Speaker 1: up to the leaders. It's up to us individually to
- 21:57Speaker 1: make a sound, conscious decision that we want to be
- 22:03Speaker 1: the best versions of ourselves so that we can do
- 22:06Speaker 1: what we're supposed to do for the kingdom. It's bigger
- 22:09Speaker 1: than material things. It's bigger than those things that we
- 22:13Speaker 1: can't take with us, because a lot of the stuff
- 22:15Speaker 1: that a lot of people are striving for and going
- 22:17Speaker 1: for are things that you cannot take with you. And
- 22:22Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's not going to
- 22:23Speaker 1: make a difference. But it's those things that we have
- 22:26Speaker 1: done for Him, those things that we have done for Christ,
- 22:29Speaker 1: those things that we have done for the Kingdom are
- 22:32Speaker 1: the things that's going to matter. Those are the things
- 22:36Speaker 1: that's going to matter. So before I go today, y'all
- 22:42Speaker 1: know that I'm a poet and I want to read
- 22:46Speaker 1: a couple of poems as well. This is coming out
- 22:50Speaker 1: of my birthday anthology. I did this book with twenty
- 22:55Speaker 1: other poets, and I want to share two poems out
- 22:59Speaker 1: of this book that hopefully will encourage you on your journeys.
- 23:05Speaker 1: And these are gonna be coming from They're gonna be
- 23:09Speaker 1: coming from two of the poets within the book. One
- 23:16Speaker 1: is gonna be coming from our poet of the Year
- 23:20Speaker 1: and her name is Marcinemore. So your picture of her
- 23:25Speaker 1: Marsine Moore. She's our poet of the Year and her
- 23:33Speaker 1: poem is entitled Why I Mean. It says I almost
- 23:41Speaker 1: lost my life that day. Faces memories of people I
- 23:45Speaker 1: love flash before my eyes, A moment time seen to freeze.
- 23:51Speaker 1: I realized it was for me. I didn't have time
- 23:55Speaker 1: to say goodbye, and then, unseen but felt, a steady
- 24:00Speaker 1: hand lifted my back to solid land. God's grace saved me.
- 24:07Speaker 1: I heard him softly in my ear. You are still here.
- 24:11Speaker 1: There's no more to hear. A second chance, a gift
- 24:16Speaker 1: so pure, my life spared, yet renewed, my path redirected.
- 24:24Speaker 1: Grace I learned is mercy giving undeserved, a gift that heals.
- 24:31Speaker 1: But mostly importantly, I learned grace is an art of
- 24:37Speaker 1: letting go, of finding peace. When I didn't know I
- 24:43Speaker 1: almost lost my life, I asked why I Mean? Because
- 24:48Speaker 1: grace was the gift I needed most. To understand mercy undeserving.
- 24:56Speaker 1: It had to be me. That's that peace. And it's
- 25:00Speaker 1: called Why Me? And it was written by Marsine Moore.
- 25:05Speaker 1: And this is a picture of Martine Moore. Y'all can
- 25:08Speaker 1: follow her on social media. She is on social media
- 25:11Speaker 1: she's all most all social media sites as Marcine and more.
- 25:18Speaker 1: Gonna share another one, and this one is by Ramero
- 25:27Speaker 1: h Milagros Ramero, and the title of this poem is
- 25:32Speaker 1: called but God's Grace, Lord, thank you for your grace.
- 25:39Speaker 1: One day it would lead me to see your face
- 25:42Speaker 1: when darkness and pain enroach me. Your grace helped me safe. Indeed,
- 25:48Speaker 1: you dress me with your mercy and grace. You hide
- 25:51Speaker 1: me in sacred place. My body rebel. But science is
- 25:58Speaker 1: limited on what I I can give, but your love,
- 26:02Speaker 1: mercy and grace, I still live, living beyond expected days.
- 26:08Speaker 1: You only you, and only you have the last say.
- 26:14Speaker 1: By God's grace I live. And that's that peace. And
- 26:18Speaker 1: that's by Melogros Rameros. And only if you knew her journey,
- 26:24Speaker 1: If you knew her journey, I tell you, if you
- 26:27Speaker 1: knew her journey. So, y'all, I just wanted to encourage
- 26:32Speaker 1: you guys on this morning, just wanted to reflect. Today
- 26:35Speaker 1: was a reflection we shared James One, verses two through eight,
- 26:45Speaker 1: and we just basically are just focusing on faith, trusting
- 26:50Speaker 1: and not doubting, and standing on his word. So I
- 26:54Speaker 1: hope that some of you guys have been encouraged on
- 26:58Speaker 1: this morning. I hope you have been this fired to
- 27:00Speaker 1: stay on this journey, to know that no matter what
- 27:03Speaker 1: it looks like, God is always moving on our behalf.
- 27:07Speaker 1: He's always in the background, orchestratened whatever it is that
- 27:11Speaker 1: we need. All you have to do is stay in
- 27:14Speaker 1: the line. Stay in a line with his word, and
- 27:17Speaker 1: if you're not sure, seek out his word. Y'all. We
- 27:21Speaker 1: can't keep wanting to get withdraws if we're not putting
- 27:25Speaker 1: nothing in. So you got to go and you got
- 27:27Speaker 1: to search out this word. Go read his word, and
- 27:30Speaker 1: then if you still don't understand, ask him ask him
- 27:33Speaker 1: for wisdom. He said, if you ask, he'll give it.
- 27:38Speaker 1: But you got to ask. You gotta ask, and you
- 27:40Speaker 1: gotta seek. So I hope that you guys are encouraged
- 27:43Speaker 1: him today. I hope that your day is blessed beyond
- 27:46Speaker 1: what you can see in the natural. Learn to speak
- 27:48Speaker 1: his word, learn to give him his word back, and
- 27:51Speaker 1: watch what he do in your life. I tell y'all
- 27:53Speaker 1: truly have been blessed by just being able to come
- 27:56Speaker 1: on and to be able to share. Because the enemy
- 28:00Speaker 1: not want me doing these things. The enemy did not
- 28:02Speaker 1: even want me here but God, and all I can
- 28:05Speaker 1: say is but God. And I pray that God continue
- 28:08Speaker 1: to bless you guys. I pray that your day is
- 28:10Speaker 1: blessed beyond what you can see in the natural, and
- 28:13Speaker 1: that somebody that you come in contact today will see
- 28:16Speaker 1: Him through you. Y'all be blessed. Know that I love y'all,
- 28:22Speaker 1: and I thank y'all for joining me and supporting us
- 28:25Speaker 1: over here. And if you want to grab the book,
- 28:27Speaker 1: it is beyond sight and it's on all platforms where
- 28:32Speaker 1: you can purchase books. Again, if you want to purchase
- 28:35Speaker 1: any of my books, you can just go to Angela
- 28:38Speaker 1: Thomas smithbooks dot com. Again, that's Angela Thomas smithbooks dot
- 28:44Speaker 1: com and you can purchase a book. You can see
- 28:48Speaker 1: all of the books that's up there. Now, all of
- 28:50Speaker 1: my books are not up there. Some of them does
- 28:53Speaker 1: not have an ISBN number. So the magazines. The magazines,
- 29:00Speaker 1: some of them do not have I SBN numbers. They
- 29:02Speaker 1: only have I s B. They only have a the
- 29:04Speaker 1: A S I N number if it is a digital
- 29:08Speaker 1: So some of them you still have to go to
- 29:10Speaker 1: the actual site where we purchase, where we publish the
- 29:14Speaker 1: magazine that which is blurb dot com, but all of
- 29:17Speaker 1: the ones that are an E and all of the
- 29:20Speaker 1: books are listed on the website, and y'all, we are
- 29:24Speaker 1: updating it and making sure that we get all of
- 29:27Speaker 1: them up there. Everything has to be done manually, so
- 29:30Speaker 1: sometimes it take a little while, but we are constantly
- 29:32Speaker 1: updating and trying to get everything's in place. So if
- 29:35Speaker 1: you guys want to check out any of my books,
- 29:38Speaker 1: you can go over to Angela Thomas Smith books dot com. Again,
- 29:45Speaker 1: that's Angela Thomas smithbooks dot com and that's my entire
- 29:50Speaker 1: name with books dot com, and you can see a
- 29:55Speaker 1: list of all of my books. You can see some
- 29:58Speaker 1: of the activities that we have coming up up, you
- 30:02Speaker 1: can stay connected. You can check out some of the
- 30:06Speaker 1: podcasts information that's over there, all types of different stuff.
- 30:12Speaker 1: If you're someone that wants to publish but don't know
- 30:15Speaker 1: where to start, there's a publishing guide over there, a
- 30:18Speaker 1: ninety day Publishing with Queen Angela how to self publish.
- 30:22Speaker 1: It is a guide that you can get off of
- 30:25Speaker 1: Walmart dot com or you can purchase it right there
- 30:27Speaker 1: on that website, but it's also on Walmart dot com,
- 30:30Speaker 1: and y'all, it walks you through the process of becoming
- 30:33Speaker 1: a published author in ninety days if that's what you
- 30:36Speaker 1: desire you to do, and of course, if you want
- 30:38Speaker 1: me to coach you, I coach anybody starting at five
- 30:42Speaker 1: twenty five, and that I walk you through the process.
- 30:45Speaker 1: So it's not like I'm going to publish your book.
- 30:47Speaker 1: I walk you through the self publishing process. So the
- 30:50Speaker 1: next time that you want to publish a book, you
- 30:53Speaker 1: don't have to ask nobody. You know how to publish
- 30:55Speaker 1: it yourself. I believe in that if you teach a
- 30:58Speaker 1: child how to fish, they'll never go home. So I'm
- 31:01Speaker 1: out here trying to make sure that those that I
- 31:05Speaker 1: come in contact with that want to know how to publish,
- 31:08Speaker 1: that they know how to publish and know that it
- 31:10Speaker 1: is not as hard as a lot of people have
- 31:12Speaker 1: made it. Were killing those myths, we slashing those myths
- 31:16Speaker 1: that you got to be this, and you got to
- 31:18Speaker 1: be that, and you got to be this to be
- 31:19Speaker 1: a published author. You don't have to be nothing. You
- 31:21Speaker 1: just have to have a story and willing to put
- 31:24Speaker 1: it out there and so on to help you get
- 31:26Speaker 1: it out there if you don't know what to do.
- 31:27Speaker 1: And I'm that person, I'm that person. So if you
- 31:30Speaker 1: need assistance with getting that book out there, if an
- 31:36Speaker 1: idea for a book and you don't know where to start,
- 31:38Speaker 1: but you have an idea, I'm over here to help you. Again.
- 31:42Speaker 1: My services started at five twenty five, and that is
- 31:45Speaker 1: to start. Of course, I don't do book covers. I
- 31:50Speaker 1: don't do the editing, but I do have people that
- 31:52Speaker 1: do both of those. So if you want to work
- 31:55Speaker 1: with me, I'm here to work with you. And if
- 31:57Speaker 1: you want to cut out all of that those feeds this, y'all,
- 32:00Speaker 1: you can go right over there to Walmart dot com
- 32:02Speaker 1: and grab that book for eighteen dollars and you can
- 32:05Speaker 1: walk yourself through the process. I made it simple. I
- 32:09Speaker 1: made it so nobody can say there's no way, Yeah,
- 32:14Speaker 1: there's a way, there's a way. And the book has
- 32:16Speaker 1: been selling, y'all. It has been selling. And I have
- 32:19Speaker 1: had people to tell me thank you for putting this
- 32:22Speaker 1: out here because you have saved me thousands. So, y'all,
- 32:27Speaker 1: if you don't want me to help you, gone over
- 32:29Speaker 1: to Walmart dot com and grab that book for eighteen
- 32:32Speaker 1: dollars and become a published author within ninety days. I
- 32:36Speaker 1: got your covered, y'all. I got you. I told you,
- 32:38Speaker 1: I got you. Well, thank you for joining me this morning.
- 32:42Speaker 1: I hope you guys