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INSPIRATIONAL MOMENTS WITH PROPHETESS T · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This one is for minutes to Harma Thomas, a voice
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  Speaker 1: of hope, a woman of God, four years strong on
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  Speaker 1: the Crew podcast network.
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  Speaker 2: A true warrior and survivor, still standing and giving God glory.
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  Speaker 3: She's been through the valley, but did in stay.
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  Speaker 4: God gave a strength to rise.
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  Speaker 3: He's David.
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  Speaker 4: Tis may have fallen, but joy came through.
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  Speaker 1: Now she tells the world thing and she's not.
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  Speaker 3: A word of the weary soul.
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  Speaker 1: A preer for hearts and knee made hope, doogies and pain.
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  Speaker 1: She found her song now she helps him body people,
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  Speaker 1: holding on walking in purpose of it.
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  Speaker 3: By grace, God's like shining on her face every time
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  Speaker 3: testing Valentine crime. God turned it.
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  Speaker 2: Around right all the time.
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  Speaker 3: She's alive. She's a survivor, still a joy down in
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  Speaker 3: her song, She's me. She's a love learning everybody know
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  Speaker 3: God is behave God his fave. He will never let
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  Speaker 3: you go. Minister Alma, keep a shine. Let that holy
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  Speaker 3: ghost hole though. I'm a Thomas Street standing from giving hope.
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  Speaker 4: When nice view alone, I say Father, when stones all in,
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  Speaker 4: reminding God's people they can live again. On the mic,
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  Speaker 4: she brings.
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  Speaker 1: Inspiration, faith, healing and motivation four years on the Crew,
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  Speaker 1: still pressing through sharing.
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  Speaker 4: God's alone and all she do.
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  Speaker 3: He has a command. Left your busy, get survived. God
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  Speaker 3: can't get to the mid die.
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  Speaker 5: Now you're walking in new light.
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  Speaker 3: Beside He's at the pain. Joy in the morning, powering.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus stands.
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  Speaker 5: She still standing, standing, she still prays, still, she still speaking,
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  Speaker 5: she still believe, Still the leader.
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  Speaker 4: Worry, alarm and for woman, a.
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  Speaker 3: Girl, woman of God, faithful son and shows him by.
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  Speaker 4: To see him.
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  Speaker 3: She's a wife, she's a survivors. Still not too down
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  Speaker 3: in her soul. Guy's Abel, Guy's Abel. He will Dave.
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  Speaker 4: Let you go as she will shine your turn the
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  Speaker 4: CRUs God restores. Let's speak. Good evening, Good evening, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: good evening, and welcome to the Crew podcast. And I
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  Speaker 4: am your host of inspirational Moments with profits T Minister
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  Speaker 4: Alma Thomas. And this is your first time here. Welcome,
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  Speaker 4: and if you've been here before, welcome, welcome, come back.
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  Speaker 4: I am glad to see you on this evening. As
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  Speaker 4: we start every show, we started with prayer. The Word
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  Speaker 4: of God says, and everything give things. Dear Heavenly Father,
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  Speaker 4: we thank you for this platform. On tonight We thank
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  Speaker 4: you for the visionary Queen Angela. Continue to innundate her.
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  Speaker 4: We're creative ideas and thoughts and messages. Continue to cover
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  Speaker 4: her with the blood of the Most High. Ah. Thank
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  Speaker 4: you for every member of the crew podcast. You know
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  Speaker 4: the things that they have need of God to touch
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  Speaker 4: them in a special way, Give them their needs, give
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  Speaker 4: them their desires and the name of Jesus. Now we
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  Speaker 4: commend this show show to your hands. Have your way
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  Speaker 4: in this episode. God be sent to someone who needs
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  Speaker 4: it tonight, someone who might be just starting their journey
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  Speaker 4: of grief. God comfort their hearts on tonight. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 4: I do pray and I quote for this week a man,
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  Speaker 4: there will come a day, I promise you when the
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  Speaker 4: thoughts of your loved one brings a smile to your
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  Speaker 4: lips before it brings a tear to your eye. By
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  Speaker 4: for ex President former President Joe Biden Grief. We are
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  Speaker 4: starting a series on grief and going through each of
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  Speaker 4: the stages of grief one by one. Understanding stage one denial.
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  Speaker 4: Denial is often the first response to the loss of
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  Speaker 4: a loved one, a relationship, a job, a body part,
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  Speaker 4: anything that you are grieving over. The first stage is denial.
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  Speaker 4: You will deny that this is happening. I don't believe
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  Speaker 4: that this is happening. I don't believe that I'm burying
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  Speaker 4: this person. I don't believe that my long lasting relationship
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  Speaker 4: is over. I don't believe that he just walked away.
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  Speaker 4: Whether the loss involves the death of a loved one,
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  Speaker 4: a divorce, a serious illness, the loss of a job,
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  Speaker 4: or another major life change, denial acts as a temporary
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  Speaker 4: emotional buffer. It helps the mind absorb painful information gradually
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  Speaker 4: rather than all at once. Denial is not necessarily refusing
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  Speaker 4: to believe that a loss has occurred. More often, it
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  Speaker 4: is struggling to fully grasp the impact of the loss.
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  Speaker 4: A person may intelligence know what happened, but not yet
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  Speaker 4: emotionally accepted. I remember when my son passed away, and
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  Speaker 4: for weeks I was saying, I don't believe this is happening.
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  Speaker 4: I don't believe that. Rather than seeing my son graduate
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  Speaker 4: from college, I'm planning a funeral. He's not gonna be
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  Speaker 4: here anymore, his room is empty, and knowing intelligently that
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  Speaker 4: he was no longer here, but somehow denying that I
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  Speaker 4: was going through that as a matter of fact as
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  Speaker 4: a way of coping with somebody dear to me that
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  Speaker 4: passed away. But I only saw them a few times
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  Speaker 4: a year. I had my mind convinced that they're not dead,
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  Speaker 4: they just away. And when I finally accepted the fact
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  Speaker 4: that they were dead and not just at their home
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  Speaker 4: waiting for their annual visits, it then I was able
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  Speaker 4: to emotionally accept the fact that they were going. Some
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  Speaker 4: common signs that you are in denial, feeling numb or
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  Speaker 4: emotionally detached, acting as though nothing has changed, avoid discussions
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  Speaker 4: about the loss. I know in the beginning, I couldn't
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  Speaker 4: even mention my son's name. I couldn't look at any
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  Speaker 4: of his pictures. Keep once acceptively busy to avoid thinking
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  Speaker 4: about the loss. And that's one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 4: I had an indefinite leave because it was my child.
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  Speaker 4: But a couple of days after the funeral, I went
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  Speaker 4: back to work. I couldn't just sit home and have
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  Speaker 4: to think. But working with kids, you can't spend the
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  Speaker 4: whole day being sad. You can't spend the whole day crying.
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  Speaker 4: They would do something to make you, at least for
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  Speaker 4: a moment, forget what you're going through. So I went
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  Speaker 4: right back to work. Excuuse me, rememberaby memorizing the significance
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  Speaker 4: of the laws expecting the deceased person to walk through
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  Speaker 4: the door. You know how many times did I looked
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  Speaker 4: towards the door, hoping that he was gonna walk through
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  Speaker 4: it when I had to move out of my house,
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  Speaker 4: Because every time I walked past his room, his final
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  Speaker 4: hours played over and over in my head. It was
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  Speaker 4: like it was on repeat and I couldn't turn it off.
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  Speaker 4: It just kept playing, feeling as if the situation is
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  Speaker 4: unreal or dream like when you lost some one. How
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  Speaker 4: many of us have thought this must be a dream,
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  Speaker 4: This can't be happening. I must be in a dream.
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  Speaker 4: Let me wake up out of this nightmare. But the
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  Speaker 4: next day, when you wake up, there's still your reality
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  Speaker 4: that they're not here. What is the purpose of denial?
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  Speaker 4: Denial serves a protective function. God designed the human mind
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  Speaker 4: with the ability to process overwhelming experience in stages. Denial
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  Speaker 4: allows a gredium person to face reality and manageable portion.
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  Speaker 4: Think of denial as a shock azorba. It cushions the
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  Speaker 4: immediate impact of the loss and tell the person is
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  Speaker 4: strong enough to accept the loss. Or the process their
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  Speaker 4: deep feelings, and some people. First we have to understand
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  Speaker 4: that there are five stages of grief, but you don't
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  Speaker 4: go through the five stages straight in a line. And
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  Speaker 4: then you finally at acceptance and your life goes on.
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  Speaker 4: You fuctuate between the stages. I found myself functuating between
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  Speaker 4: the last stage acceptance. Though you know he's going this
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  Speaker 4: is God's plan, is nothing I can do about it,
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  Speaker 4: And the next day I would wake up and denial again.
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  Speaker 4: I must be in a dream. This can't be happening,
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  Speaker 4: so it doesn't go on the line. And that's one
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  Speaker 4: thing that I learned in therapy is that grief doesn't
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  Speaker 4: come with an expiration date.
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  Speaker 1: That is.
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  Speaker 4: No way to determine which way you're gonna go, what
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  Speaker 4: stages you're gonna be in, what you're gonna act react
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  Speaker 4: to it. There's no set hand. But yes, there's books
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  Speaker 4: on how to deal with grief, there's books on what
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  Speaker 4: is grief, but your own grief is personal. Each person
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  Speaker 4: doesn't go through it the same way. I might not
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  Speaker 4: go through my grief the same way that you do.
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  Speaker 4: Like I have a friend who lost her daughter and
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  Speaker 4: her way of dealing with grief is she goes to
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  Speaker 4: the cemetery every single day they have They still have
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  Speaker 4: birthday parties for her, and that's how they deal with
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  Speaker 4: their grief. I have not went back to the cemetery
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  Speaker 4: since my son has been buried. My family really goes
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  Speaker 4: and put flowers on it. But the reality is I
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  Speaker 4: just don't want to see him like that. I know
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  Speaker 4: that his body is not there, that he's in Heaven.
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  Speaker 4: Rejoice him and with God, and if he had a
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  Speaker 4: chance to come back, he wouldn't come back. While denial
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  Speaker 4: is normal and healthy for a season, remaining in denial
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  Speaker 4: for a tended period of time can interfere with you're healing.
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  Speaker 4: Emotional numbness persists, persists, difficult experienced joy or sadness, increase
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  Speaker 4: anxiety and depression, unresolved grief. Behavior of effects refusing to
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  Speaker 4: talk about the loss, avoiding people, places, or memories connected
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  Speaker 4: to the laws, a sessive work, entertainment, or other distractions,
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  Speaker 4: difficult making necessary life adjustments. The spiritual effects. You feel
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  Speaker 4: distant from God, you avoid prayer or worship. You questioned
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  Speaker 4: God's goodness. Without processing these questions, you become spiritually stagnant.
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  Speaker 4: Your relationship be begged you withdraw from family and friends.
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  Speaker 4: And I know that while I was going through the denial,
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't associate with my friends because we had a
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  Speaker 4: friend group and we all had one or two children
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  Speaker 4: each and we did everything together. We did everything with
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  Speaker 4: our children. So now they're going places and they're going
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  Speaker 4: with their child or children, and I didn't have a child,
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  Speaker 4: so I felt like I wasn't a part of it.
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  Speaker 4: I felt like a third will, so in the beginning
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't go anywhere with them. Isolation increased conflict with
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  Speaker 4: loved ones who are grieving differently. While grave, when grief
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  Speaker 4: remains unresolved, it became become what counselors call complicate complicated
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  Speaker 4: grief with a person struggles to move forward and remains
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  Speaker 4: emotionally trapped by the loss. Tools for navigating the denial
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  Speaker 4: stage one, you have to acknowledge a knowledge reality gradually
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  Speaker 4: allow yourself to speak honestly about the loss. Example, my
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  Speaker 4: spouse has died, my child has died. I lost my job,
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  Speaker 4: I had a stroke, and I lost the right side
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  Speaker 4: of my body. This relationship has ended. Naming the loss
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  Speaker 4: is an important step towards healing. To journal your thoughts.
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  Speaker 4: Writing can help bring hidden emotions to the surface. That's
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  Speaker 4: how I first became a writer. That I started writing
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  Speaker 4: the book from the waiting room to the recovery room.
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  Speaker 4: When the doctor came out into the waiting room and said,
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  Speaker 4: we did all we could do, he didn't make it.
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  Speaker 4: And I began journaling my thoughts in that book and
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  Speaker 4: just writing, writing, writing, writing, And I'm finally at the
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  Speaker 4: stage where I'm going to write another the book specifically
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  Speaker 4: on my grief and how I navigated through my grief,
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  Speaker 4: how it still appears now and then. But I'm not stagnant.
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  Speaker 4: I can talk about my son, I can laugh at
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  Speaker 4: his memories, that it doesn't hurt anymore, to look at
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  Speaker 4: his pictures, or talk about the funny things that he
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  Speaker 4: said and did. Questions to journal when you're a journal
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  Speaker 4: and you're right, what happened? How has my life changed?
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  Speaker 4: What emotions am I avoiding? What do I fear most?
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  Speaker 4: Right now? Three? Share your story. Talk with trusted friends,
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  Speaker 4: family members, pastors, or counselors. Every time you tell your story,
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  Speaker 4: your mind processes the reality of the loss more completely.
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  Speaker 4: Read and meditate on scripture. God's word provides comfort and perspective.
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  Speaker 4: Some helpful scriptures that you can write down Psalms thirty four,
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  Speaker 4: Psalms forty two, Psalms forty six, Isaiah forty one and ten,
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  Speaker 4: Matthew five and four, John fourteen one to three, Romans eight,
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  Speaker 4: twenty eight to twenty nine five. Retain retain healthy routines.
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  Speaker 4: Grief can make life more chaotic. Simple routines help create stability.
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  Speaker 4: Eat new trice his meals, get enough sleep, exercise regilarly,
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  Speaker 4: attend church, maintain your social connection, pray honestly. God is
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  Speaker 4: not intimidated by your grief. The Lord didn't take God
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  Speaker 4: by surprise. It might have took you by surprise, but
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  Speaker 4: God already knew, like David in the Psalms, Express your
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  Speaker 4: true feelings. If you feel confused, say God, I'm confused.
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  Speaker 4: If you're sad, say God, I'm sad. If you're angry,
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  Speaker 4: say God, I'm angry. If you're scared, say God, I'm scared.
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  Speaker 4: If you doubt, say God, I doubt. God welcomes your honesty.
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  Speaker 4: Seek professional help if needed. And this is one of
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  Speaker 4: the most important stages because in the African American community
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  Speaker 4: and church, mental health is considered taboo that if you
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  Speaker 4: love God hard enough, if you pray hard enough, that
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  Speaker 4: you'll get over it. But sometimes you need to talk
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  Speaker 4: to somebody that's equipped. We're dealing with grief, and they
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  Speaker 4: know what you're going through and how to navigate you
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  Speaker 4: through this loss. They're a biblical example the Disciples after
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  Speaker 4: the Crucifixion. Following Jesus' death, the Disciples experience shock and confusion.
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  Speaker 4: They hear in fear and struggle to understand what had happened.
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  Speaker 4: Even though Jesus had foretold his death and resurrection, they
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  Speaker 4: found it difficult to accept reality. When Jesus appeared to them,
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  Speaker 4: he patiently helped them move from disbelief to faith. This
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  Speaker 4: reminds us that God meets us in our confusion and
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  Speaker 4: gently leads us towards healing and understanding. God knows what
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  Speaker 4: we're going through. God knows what we feel, the grief,
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  Speaker 4: the sadness. God understands, and he just wants us to
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  Speaker 4: come to him and be honest with him and tell
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  Speaker 4: him how you're feeling. Only for a night, but joy
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  Speaker 4: is gonna come in the morning. So denial is the
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  Speaker 4: first stage of grief. For the next four weeks, we
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  Speaker 4: are going to be discussing the stages of grief, and
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  Speaker 4: all of this leads to my introduction of my coaching program,
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  Speaker 4: my SIDTI Grief coaching program that I am going to
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  Speaker 4: be launching in September to help people deal with their grief.
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  Speaker 4: As you know my life story and I've shared it
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  Speaker 4: with you many many times before that I lost my son.
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  Speaker 4: I went through a fire, so I know about losing
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  Speaker 4: a house, losing your comfortability. I went through a divorce,
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  Speaker 4: so I can tell you about losing a relationship and
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  Speaker 4: going through the emotions and the emotions of dealing with
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  Speaker 4: an ending relationship, one that you thought was gonna last forever,
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  Speaker 4: but forever it wasn't meant to last forever. And having
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  Speaker 4: a major stroke and losing the right side of my body.
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  Speaker 4: So I can tell you about losing a body part,
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  Speaker 4: the use of a body part, and how to embrace
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  Speaker 4: the things that you can still do and accept the
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  Speaker 4: things that you can That's all a part of grief
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  Speaker 4: that you thank God for the things that you can
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  Speaker 4: still do. I think God, then I can still use
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  Speaker 4: my voice. I thank God that I can still tell
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  Speaker 4: about His goodness of Some people don't want to hear
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  Speaker 4: me talk about the goodness of God because of the
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  Speaker 4: condition that I'm in. But I think what is the
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  Speaker 4: best time to talk about your faith and your trust
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  Speaker 4: in God is when you're going through It's easy to
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  Speaker 4: say I love God when you're not going through grief.
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  Speaker 4: I love God. When your money is right, I thank
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  Speaker 4: you Jesus, when your kids are acting right. It's easy
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  Speaker 4: to talk about the goodness of God. Then, But what
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  Speaker 4: about when you're laying on your back? What about when
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  Speaker 4: you can't still do the things that you used to do?
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  Speaker 4: Could you still give God glory? Then? Can you still
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  Speaker 4: love God? Praise you? See? I chose to worryship God
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  Speaker 4: in whatever condition that I am, and I chose to
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  Speaker 4: worship God. Hallelujah, Glory be to God. Don't give up
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  Speaker 4: hallelujah just because you going through a low, say man,
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  Speaker 4: just because life isn't looking the way that you planned it, hallelujah,
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  Speaker 4: just because grief has been in every season of your
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  Speaker 4: life so far, don't give up hallelujah because God still
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  Speaker 4: has a plan and a purpose for your life. God
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  Speaker 4: had a purpose for my grief. I couldn't be able
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  Speaker 4: to tell you that you could survive the depth of
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  Speaker 4: a child that you can stand in a cemetery and
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  Speaker 4: see them lower his body into the ground and not
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  Speaker 4: go crazy. That you can lose a house and be
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  Speaker 4: homeless for a while and don't stay stuck there but
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  Speaker 4: rise up. Ah, that you can still have a relationship
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  Speaker 4: that you think for was forever. And you end up saying,
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  Speaker 4: who did I marry? Glory be to God. Everybody putting
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  Speaker 4: their fingers saying, I think you thought you was a
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  Speaker 4: woman of God if you was discerning, how did this
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  Speaker 4: happen to you? But that many people know that the
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  Speaker 4: enemy will give you what you want in a package,
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  Speaker 4: and when you accept that package, you find out that
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't from God, but it was from the enemy.
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  Speaker 4: Glory be to God. And then how do you accept
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  Speaker 4: losing a part of your body? Ah, hallelujah and laying
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  Speaker 4: in the bed for four years, but then God raising
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  Speaker 4: you up. There was a fear that you had and
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  Speaker 4: that God delivered you from that fear. Glory be to God.
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  Speaker 4: And you was able to attend your daughter's graduation and
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  Speaker 4: her graduation party. Ah, thank you Jesus. And you was
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  Speaker 4: able to give God glory and give God thanks. And
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  Speaker 4: every season on my life, choose to worship God. Now
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  Speaker 4: he lives in our praises. He inhabits our praise and
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  Speaker 4: no matter what were going through, what stage of grief
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  Speaker 4: that we're in, Oh, God said he'll never leave us,
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  Speaker 4: So he'll never forsake because and God is not a
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  Speaker 4: man that he should lie, nor the son of man
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  Speaker 4: that he showed me pen. But every word that feceeded
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  Speaker 4: out of the mouth of God is an accomplished where
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  Speaker 4: it was set. And God has spoken over my life.
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  Speaker 4: And I choose to serve God. I don't care what
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  Speaker 4: people think. Oh, look at her laying on that bed
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  Speaker 4: talking about how good God is. Yeah, God is still
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  Speaker 4: good because he sustained me in my wilderness. Glory be
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  Speaker 4: to God. Even though the children of Israel walked around
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  Speaker 4: that mountain for forty years, God sustained them while they
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  Speaker 4: were in the wilderness. Ah, he fed them, he gave
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  Speaker 4: him water, he gave him light, he gave him fire.
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  Speaker 4: Glory be to God, even their shoes in wax. Oh, hallelujahs.
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  Speaker 4: So even in my wilderness, God is taking care of me,
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  Speaker 4: even through my seasons of grief. I didn't let go
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  Speaker 4: of God's hand. Hallelujah. I will forever, look to the
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  Speaker 4: hills from when it's coming. My help, all of my
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  Speaker 4: help comes from God. I understand that there's a season
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  Speaker 4: to everything, and I thank God that I didn't die
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  Speaker 4: in my will and my winter season because spring is
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  Speaker 4: coming after a while. And when spring comes, everything is renewed,
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  Speaker 4: everything is refreshed. And the name of Jesus, how ah,
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  Speaker 4: my spring is coming. Glory be to God. My season
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  Speaker 4: of grief, hallelujah, is almost over. I'm stepping into my destiny.
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  Speaker 4: And if you're in the stages of grief, you're going
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  Speaker 4: through some unpleasant circumstances. Some unpleasant situations. Don't allow the
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  Speaker 4: naysayers to say God doesn't love you. How can you
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  Speaker 4: talk about the goodness of God when X, Y, and
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  Speaker 4: Z is happening to you. That's when you need to
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  Speaker 4: praise God in advance, Praise God in front of the door. Huh.
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  Speaker 4: Praise God in your grief seeds, and hallelujah, huh. Because
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  Speaker 4: if you sow into the right ground, now you gonna
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  Speaker 4: reap after your season of drought is over. Huh, you
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  Speaker 4: can shout glory, Hallelujah, hallelujah, my season, My season of
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  Speaker 4: grief is over. And I thank God that I went
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  Speaker 4: through what I went through, because my grief wasn't for me,
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  Speaker 4: but it was to tell somebody that's on the brink
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  Speaker 4: of giving up, that's on the brink of letting go,
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  Speaker 4: that can't see the darkness at the end of the tunnel,
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  Speaker 4: going through this all alone, and they feel like nobody
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  Speaker 4: else is going through it. Huh ah. But I went
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  Speaker 4: through what I went through to tell you you can
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  Speaker 4: make it. Uh, you can make it, hallelujah, Glory Be
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  Speaker 4: to God. Matter of fact, you gotta make it, huh,
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  Speaker 4: because somebody's on the other side waiting for you. Huh,
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  Speaker 4: Just like there was someone under on the other side
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  Speaker 4: waiting for me to say, come through, come through, come through.
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  Speaker 4: We need you on the other side. Hallelujah. And I
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  Speaker 4: came through. I came through. Hallelujah. Glory be to God,
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  Speaker 4: Glory be to God. I'm just so grateful on tonight, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: If you got your arms, and you got your legs
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  Speaker 4: and you got your voice, ah, you ought to be
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  Speaker 4: grateful too. Don't make no excuses why you can't do
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  Speaker 4: why you can't do this, and you can't do that, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: Even in my grief. Hallelujah. Ah. In two weeks, I'm
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  Speaker 4: graduating from Bible School with my doctorate and ministry, graduating
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  Speaker 4: as a salutatorian of the class, hallelujah. Right from my
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  Speaker 4: place of grief, Right from the place where the enemy
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  Speaker 4: told me it was all over, Right from the place
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  Speaker 4: where the enemy said you'll never teach again. I'm teaching
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  Speaker 4: a bachelor's class at Bible School. I'm teaching a Alma
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  Speaker 4: Barra class. I'm teaching Bible study at my personal church.
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  Speaker 1: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: So you can't tell me what God can do. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: God will take the ordinary hah ah and do extraordinary
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  Speaker 4: things with it. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Didna they say it saying,
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  Speaker 4: look at this little black, fat girl from Mississippi. She's
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  Speaker 4: going through so much grief. She's not gonna be able
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  Speaker 4: to make it. Huh. You see, my assassination was on
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  Speaker 4: this time, and now the enemy wanted to stop me. Ah.
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  Speaker 4: But glory be to God. Hah. When God has a
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  Speaker 4: dang you to be great, can no devil in hell
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  Speaker 4: stop you? Oh, Glory be to God. So in conclusion,
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  Speaker 4: glory be to God. I'm trying to let this thing
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  Speaker 4: go hallelujah, hallelujah. But somebody, somebody on tonight is at
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  Speaker 4: the break of the end. God. They don't feel like
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  Speaker 4: they can go on. They feel like they've been through
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  Speaker 4: so much, so much. Hallelujah that they all alone. God. Ah,
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  Speaker 4: but you love them God. No matter what you go through,
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  Speaker 4: her God is there. He was always there. Hallelujah. Glory
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  Speaker 4: be to God. But in conclusion, hallelujah. Denial, it's not
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  Speaker 4: a destination, it is a doorway. It protects us temporarily
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  Speaker 4: and while we gather the strength to face painful realities.
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  Speaker 4: Healing begins when you allow God his word and supported
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  Speaker 4: people to help us move from denial towards acceptance and hope.
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  Speaker 4: As Jesus said, bless it are those who mourn, for
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  Speaker 4: they shall be comforted. Matthew five and four. Dear Heavenly
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  Speaker 4: Father and the precious name of your son Jesus. Once again, God,
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  Speaker 4: we thank you for this platform. God. Let this platform
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  Speaker 4: God soothe those that are going through those agreements that
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  Speaker 4: are agreement God, and they can't see no way out. God,
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  Speaker 4: let this platform speak to their heart. God give them
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  Speaker 4: strength to go on one more day. In the name
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  Speaker 4: of Jesus, because your word says that we've been only
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  Speaker 4: indoors for a day fortnight, but joy is going to
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  Speaker 4: come in the morning. We thank you for this platform.
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  Speaker 4: We thank you for the visionary Queen Angela. We thank
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  Speaker 4: you for the heart that you have given her for people.
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  Speaker 4: We thank you that she pushes people to their potential
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  Speaker 4: and don't allow them to give up. We thank you
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  Speaker 4: for those divas of the airways and their families. God,
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  Speaker 4: you search their heart God and see what their deepest
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  Speaker 4: desires are God and granted to them. And God that
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  Speaker 4: anyone who don't know you tonight that's going through grief,
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  Speaker 4: that are in denial, they can get to know you
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  Speaker 4: on tonight. All they have to do is accept Jesus
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  Speaker 4: as their personal savior, find a Bible, believe in church
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  Speaker 4: which they can learn more of You, and they can
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  Speaker 4: see the manifestations of Your promises and their life. They
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  Speaker 4: can see that You can see them through each stage
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  Speaker 4: of grief, and they will come out victorious. We are overcomers,
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  Speaker 4: be overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the
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  Speaker 4: word of our testimony. In the name of Jesus and
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  Speaker 4: those who know you already. God, there's nothing you have
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  Speaker 4: to go through alone. God will never leave you or
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  Speaker 4: he'll never forsake you. He'll be with you until the
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  Speaker 4: end of time. In the name of Jesus, we do pray.
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  Speaker 4: We pray for each and every family. You pray for
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  Speaker 4: the government, you pray for the spiritual churches and the leaders.
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  Speaker 4: In the name of Jesus. Amen and Amen and amen.
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  Speaker 4: And this is Minister Alma Thomas, soon to be doctor
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  Speaker 4: Alma Thomas. And I will be back on the first
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  Speaker 4: Wednesday in July with the second stage of grief, and
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  Speaker 4: as I said earlier in September, I will be starting
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  Speaker 4: my Grief and Resilient coaching program, so stay tuned for that.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: If you know someone who's going through grief, whether they
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: lost a loved one, a relationship, a body part, whatever
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  Speaker 4: they're going through, share this episode with the subscribe to
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  Speaker 4: my channel and comment I thank you for being here
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  Speaker 4: on tonight. Good night and God bless I love you
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  Speaker 4: and this is not a thing you can do about it.
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  Speaker 4: Good night, Come on, put your hands together.
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  Speaker 1: This one is for minutes to Harbor Thomas, a voice
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  Speaker 1: of Hope, a woman of God, four.
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  Speaker 4: Years strong on the prow podcast Network.
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  Speaker 2: A true lawyor and survivor, still standing and giving God glory.
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  Speaker 4: She's been through the valley, but did in stay.
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  Speaker 1: God gave us strain to rise.
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  Speaker 4: Dave Chiers may have fallen, but