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How to Steward Your Yes to God | with Desiree Danielle | EP114 · Jess Ask

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Speaker 1: Yo, it's your girl, Jessica Smith, and you already know
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Speaker 1: that you've entered the safe space for influencers to decompress,
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Speaker 1: have fun and just ask God for another day? Do
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Speaker 1: you already know what it is? And then you know
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Speaker 1: it's about to get real, So be sure to show
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Speaker 1: your girl the love and like coming subscribe God.
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Speaker 2: For another day. Hey, hey, I know we could be
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Speaker 2: another way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: say down, you have to flee. In the name of Gez,
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Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, we have I'm glad to
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Speaker 1: singing today. Yeah, yeah, we had when we had mister
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Speaker 1: mister Rick here, who was gonna say, you know, brother,
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Speaker 1: I was not gonna say, I ain't gonna do it.
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Speaker 3: But there is one song will always say, doesn't doesn't right?
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Speaker 1: What Why we always do this? Why you got a
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Speaker 1: black shirt? All? Like me? This was not playing by
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Speaker 1: the way she always listened, y'all. I'm trying to tell
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Speaker 1: you have best friends, right, and like they really get
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Speaker 1: into being the best friend and like they try to
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Speaker 1: just like you. I just don't understand told her to
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Speaker 1: show up in a black T shirt today? My my suitcase.
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Speaker 3: My suitcase, and to be honest, I can't fit my clothes.
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Speaker 3: I am limited on what what I could do.
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Speaker 1: Well, listen, we made a decision today that we was
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Speaker 1: gonna do something different. Come on, we did make that decision. Decision?
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Speaker 1: Should we make it a community decision? So we decided.
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Speaker 1: So I had to go out. I was sharing with
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Speaker 1: her that I had to go to my storage this
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Speaker 1: week and get my juicer. So you don't know, I'm
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Speaker 1: in middle transition. I transition from one place to another
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Speaker 1: to another, to another to another. So now the place
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Speaker 1: that I'm in, I didn't necessarily have to bring a
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Speaker 1: lot of things. But one of the things that I
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Speaker 1: had in my storage was my juicer. And I actually
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Speaker 1: loved juicing. Right So, because you know, I've been battling
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Speaker 1: some some things internally and skin and you know, just
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Speaker 1: health and things like that, the Holy Spear had been
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Speaker 1: leading me back to some moments where I was the healthiest,
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Speaker 1: which is when I was really focused on like not
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Speaker 1: necessarily like dieting, but just making better health choices, and
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Speaker 1: like juicing. I love juicing. So when I got my
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Speaker 1: juicer out of storage, and so I'm gonna be at
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Speaker 1: least for two weeks, I know, more like trying to detox. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so you know, really some juicing, juicing, you know, eating
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Speaker 1: fruits and vegetables and just really lean protein. Yeah. I'm
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Speaker 1: in the same with you, like recently this week. And
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Speaker 1: it's interesting that Lord dealing with both of us at
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Speaker 1: the same time on the same thing, like this's a's wild.
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Speaker 1: So recently I was on Instagram and I saw I
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Speaker 1: can't think of her name right now, but she she
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Speaker 1: sells makeup. She has my own makeup company. She is
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Speaker 1: a comedian, she sings, she's in the gospel community. She's
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Speaker 1: on actually she's one of her character is on. She
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Speaker 1: always had a one with a cigarette. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all know who I'm talking about.
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Speaker 1: Y'all just go and put in the comments because it's
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Speaker 1: just stop. I'm struggling with the name right now. But
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Speaker 1: I admire her journey because she you know, her background
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Speaker 1: is that she's widowed and you know, walk through that
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Speaker 1: journey and all that stuff like that. But she had
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Speaker 1: gotten big, like she was big, and she said that
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Speaker 1: she juiced for thirty days. She had juiced for thirty days,
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Speaker 1: she said, I did no weight loss, you know, weight
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Speaker 1: loss surgery, no pills or anything like that. And I
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Speaker 1: think when people hear that, I don't think she was
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Speaker 1: saying it, and it's like a jab at people, but
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Speaker 1: something that she was proud of because she didn't use
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Speaker 1: what everybody else is able to use, like she did
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Speaker 1: it herself. I think it's disciplined. It's real much so
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Speaker 1: disciplined to say, you juiced for thirty days and that's
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Speaker 1: all you did, ma'am. Kudos. I wish as the day too.
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Speaker 1: I need me something something, baby, hear me? So some
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Speaker 1: shrump okay, so I need something something. When she said
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Speaker 1: that she did that for thirty days and started seeing
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Speaker 1: the results like that, and of course she knows she's
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Speaker 1: in the gym, she's always working out. She doesn't use
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Speaker 1: excuses or whatnot. I looked at that, and then also
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Speaker 1: talking to coach D and coach JD. Coach JD has
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Speaker 1: been said, I looked at him last night. I was like,
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Speaker 1: have you been looking wait? And she was he was like, actually, yes,
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Speaker 1: he's I'm just trying to make sure that i'm my
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Speaker 1: battalion as I get over my batalism changed. Whatever people
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Speaker 1: have been telling me the same thing. Cause when I
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Speaker 1: when I lost weight, I lost I was fine time
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Speaker 1: y'all could go basically see what uh videos where I
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Speaker 1: wasn't as chunky as like as I am now, but
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Speaker 1: her hard I roll, No, baby, Okay, I'm not as
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Speaker 1: chunky as I used to be back in the day. Okay,
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Speaker 1: but I ain't. I'm you know, m the waistline they
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Speaker 1: you know how to say the waistline snatched? Mm mm
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Speaker 1: oh that my waistline?
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Speaker 3: Do this, okay, right over the my pants. I'm I'm
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Speaker 3: sitting right now with my my top.
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Speaker 1: But because.
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Speaker 3: These paints, ain't it okay what I'm saying, like we're
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Speaker 3: on the same scene.
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Speaker 1: And then also there's this TikTok trend called the Tiffany plate.
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Speaker 1: Uh shout out to Tiffany she I think she's the
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Speaker 1: white cheek or whatever. And the reason why she came
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Speaker 1: on my page because she was saying that TikTok was
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Speaker 1: saying that her content wasn't original. M And so after
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Speaker 1: I seen that everybody's been doing what they call the
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Speaker 1: Tiffany plates. And it's like different vegetables that are around
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Speaker 1: the plate. So you got Celery carries. She just has
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Speaker 1: weird stuff that I want to thought about it, and
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Speaker 1: then she puts it in college cheese and mustard. Yeah, mustard.
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Speaker 1: I know I probably say that. Yeah, you know, A
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Speaker 1: I ain't gonna catch that. So I'm saying, mustard, mustard.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna let it. Like the yellow stuff like ketch
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Speaker 1: us and mustard.
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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, come on, man, come on, but you
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Speaker 3: know what I'm talking about yard yeah a r D. Right,
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Speaker 3: Like I know, there's certain words I just cannot I'll
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Speaker 3: try so hard.
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Speaker 1: The yellow stuff that go with ketch up. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: her Okay. So it's in the middle and you dip
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Speaker 1: the you gotta get yourself together, Okay. So you dip
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Speaker 1: the vegetables, and I think you don't do the dip
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Speaker 1: the fruit in there because you have strawberries. Get yourself together.
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Speaker 1: It's not that bad. Is that that bad? Okay? So
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Speaker 1: she has strawberries and grapes and stuff like that. I
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Speaker 1: don't think they did with mud. I don't think they
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Speaker 1: dip that in the middle, but I think they, yeah,
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Speaker 1: they just that's how to play. I'm gonna send you
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Speaker 1: a video, but it's y'all go look at it on
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Speaker 1: TikTok and if you're not following me on TikTok be
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Speaker 1: Jessicas Smith some worm with you. Okay, but I love you.
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Speaker 1: That's all say they love But yeah, Tiffany, she made
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Speaker 1: a plate and so a lot of people, a lot
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Speaker 1: of women to me exact, have leaned into her plate.
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Speaker 1: And so I was like, well, maybe that's that can
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Speaker 1: be a fun way that I can enjoy because she
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Speaker 1: tries different she has different things on there, but it's
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Speaker 1: still called a Tiffany plate, And so I was gonna
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Speaker 1: lean into that. Juicing. I'm still learning. I really get
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Speaker 1: stressed out with new things sometimes, like with food and
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Speaker 1: I'm trying different stuff. If it's not cooked, like I
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Speaker 1: can get out there and figure something out different seasons.
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Speaker 1: But this juicing thing, I would love to get into that.
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Speaker 1: My mom is really good it with like health health things.
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Speaker 1: So she'll say when I tell you that lady she
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Speaker 1: is she know everything, like from like my mom my
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Speaker 1: Pam has been trying to persuade her to like have
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Speaker 1: her own business regarding like health and not necessarily health
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Speaker 1: and fitness, but because like herb herbal type of things,
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Speaker 1: or because she'll she'll be calling O herbs and I'll
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Speaker 1: be like, Mom, that's that are Where are you? Where
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Speaker 1: are you? She is she is traumatized right now, y'all
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Speaker 1: because a fraud thought that it was gonna kiss so
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Speaker 1: today and you become a human. And she was like, no,
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Speaker 1: I'm not having it. I love that. I love that though.
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Speaker 1: I think the main thing though that keeps ringing, is
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Speaker 1: just your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I remember Pastor a
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Speaker 1: saying one time, like, you're not necessarily doing this fitness thing,
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Speaker 1: you know, for like the now, but you're really doing
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Speaker 1: it so that your purpose doesn't outlive you. You know
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Speaker 1: how many purposes or how many people have left here
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Speaker 1: and still have it was full of purpose just because
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Speaker 1: of you know, some decisions that we could have made
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Speaker 1: a little bit better, like eating. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: Especially if you really look at your family history, like
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Speaker 1: my mom. If I look at my mama's side, my
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Speaker 1: mama has had two male heart attacks. I had an
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Speaker 1: aunt that has a pacemaker. I have an uncle that
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Speaker 1: has had several times had to go and get stints
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Speaker 1: put in. My grandfather when he was alive, he had
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Speaker 1: two heart attacks. And my grandmother had a mouthstroke a
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Speaker 1: long time ago, right on my daddy's side, high blood pressure,
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Speaker 1: all these things, you know what I'm saying. So not
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Speaker 1: saying that we can't change that, but you have to
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Speaker 1: make a decision to change that if you want to
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Speaker 1: change that. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. So just
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Speaker 1: being as I'm you know, approaching forty soon, approached with
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Speaker 1: a heart of gosh. You know, the body just doesn't
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Speaker 1: do what it used to do. It doesn't you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like I don't eat and it's sometimes
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Speaker 1: it's not that I eat horribly, is that sometimes I
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Speaker 1: don't eat enough, and so my metabolism is flowing down.
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Speaker 1: And so just being mindful of, you know, eating good,
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Speaker 1: giving it good things to fuel off of, and eating
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Speaker 1: more a little bit more often for me, You know
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Speaker 1: what I was, I was a lot of things just
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Speaker 1: came up while you were talking. The Lord always just
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Speaker 1: tell us where we're gonna go, because let me tell
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Speaker 1: you how this conversation was not supposed to be this,
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Speaker 1: but I feel the whole legos Okay, okay, I was
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Speaker 1: thinking about I was thinking about the reason why I've
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Speaker 1: struggled eating will and for one. For one, I would
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Speaker 1: say that I was in a season. There was a
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Speaker 1: season where I was always fasting, like I was always
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Speaker 1: when I say always, because you remember you was riding
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Speaker 1: along with shout out to that dog gone coach d
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Speaker 1: fun bit when I tell you we was fast and
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Speaker 1: fast thing, okay, And it did teach me to fast
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Speaker 1: alone by myself. But we was fasting so much as
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Speaker 1: a community that my body adapted to not needing the food,
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Speaker 1: you know, just like I just got used to not
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Speaker 1: eating and it wasn't a bad thing. It was just
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Speaker 1: like I wasn't as dependent. Yeah on food. Excuse me, Oh,
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Speaker 1: take a little water, a little water ya polict for
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Speaker 1: was sick because that was a little identification. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: so we were fasting so much. And then also I
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Speaker 1: had just kind of got off the hiatus of working out, Like,
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Speaker 1: so I was working out, I was not fasting as
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Speaker 1: much then. But then when I stopped working out, that's
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Speaker 1: when the whole fast thing started. And then so I
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Speaker 1: was skincy. I didn't realize how skincy I got, but
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Speaker 1: I got skinzy, okay. But I think I fell in
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Speaker 1: love with that version because I had never been that
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Speaker 1: small in my life. I'd never been so that small
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Speaker 1: in my life. And even now as I'm bringing it up,
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Speaker 1: the Lord said, I coveted that version of me, and
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Speaker 1: let's just talk. Let's just talk about it. I was
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Speaker 1: coveting that version of me, so being healthy and I
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Speaker 1: love shout out to ANTIQUI. Uh huh, Yeah, I got
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Speaker 1: it wrong last time. I got it right, but I
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Speaker 1: got it right this time. But she has been a
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Speaker 1: very much so a big avid for because you know,
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Speaker 1: she's big on heart disease and diabetes, taking care of yourself.
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Speaker 1: She had to do the o zip I think it
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Speaker 1: was ozific shot she's doing. I had to do all
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Speaker 1: that and she was a big girl. She was a
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Speaker 1: big woman and now she's like really skinny. What she
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Speaker 1: made the ops. She made that choice to be healthy
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Speaker 1: because of what was going on internally eternally when I
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Speaker 1: first started working out, or when I started working out,
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Speaker 1: I did it because I had self image issues. So
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Speaker 1: it's like, you don't really maintain something without the right why.
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Speaker 1: And so the reason why the Lord can say, are
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Speaker 1: you covering that version of you because people were saying, oh,
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Speaker 1: you look good. I can wear certain things and get
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Speaker 1: away with it because I looked like a skinny I
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Speaker 1: was a little I was really I got really skinny,
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Speaker 1: and looking at pictures it makes me very much so
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Speaker 1: self conscious of what I am dealing with now. Right,
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Speaker 1: So now I'm trying to find a balance of girl,
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Speaker 1: you can't fit like these clothes, with the skinny clothes.
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Speaker 1: And I've always had hips and a butt or whatever
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff like that. But the clothes that
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Speaker 1: I'm feeding now were the same clothes I was feeding
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Speaker 1: fit pretty good well when I was, you know, a
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Speaker 1: little bit smaller, and so when I was reaching, like
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Speaker 1: recently this this year, when I saw that dog one thing, say,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety six pounds, I freaked out. I
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Speaker 1: completely freaked out. But even us discussing this is like
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Speaker 1: my why hasn't been right? Like my why has been?
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Speaker 1: Oh I want to fit in my clothes, Oh I
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Speaker 1: want to be cute all because I've always I've always, y'all,
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Speaker 1: I've always had a issue with my weight. I had
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Speaker 1: an issue with my weight, and it's always fluctuated. I
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Speaker 1: can I can remember member a specific former former aunt,
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Speaker 1: and y'all can see I still got attitude about it.
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Speaker 1: I ain't a lie y'all, it's a certain things in
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Speaker 1: my childhood. I still gotta let go and let God.
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Speaker 1: But she was just so mean, like she was just mean,
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Speaker 1: y'all gotta y'all gotta watch or we have to watch
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Speaker 1: what we say to kids, because you just don't know,
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Speaker 1: it's a same those same words that you use as
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Speaker 1: a kids, you're just feeding them as an adult. And
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Speaker 1: so one of the things that she just would always
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Speaker 1: bring up was my weight. And I'm like, girl, you
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Speaker 1: act like you cute. Now, that's not the same version
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Speaker 1: of me. That's not don't go around saying that. You know, like, girl,
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Speaker 1: you act like you that in a bag of chips.
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Speaker 1: But she was smaller, like she was kiddy. And but
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Speaker 1: every time she would see me like, oh, Jessica, you
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Speaker 1: need a little bigger. Oh Jessica, you losing weight, or
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Speaker 1: oh Jessica, I can pull in my guve you pulling
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Speaker 1: me one more time? Like it would frustrate me so bad,
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Speaker 1: but also it put it rooted in me that I
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Speaker 1: wasn't good enough, if my much wasn't intach. But if
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Speaker 1: we really learn the Biblical principles of healthy lifestyle living,
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Speaker 1: it does not just include the fitness but sometimes we
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Speaker 1: also we got other people on the other side of
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Speaker 1: the spectrum that don't include fitness at all. And you
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Speaker 1: can't make it through a prayer because you breathing hard
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Speaker 1: or let me not say this because people think I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about the woman of God. But you can't. You can't,
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Speaker 1: you can't maneuver properly or effectively as you might want
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Speaker 1: to because your health is not intact. So there's a
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Speaker 1: balance between those two things. Yeah, I think when whether
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Speaker 1: the Lord has really really has me specifically right now
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Speaker 1: and he keeps bringing up stewardship right yeah, and if
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Speaker 1: we really understand that we own nothing, like we don't
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Speaker 1: even own our bodies. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: And a part of good storeship is starting everything that
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Speaker 1: He's give into us, you know, whether it's material things,
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Speaker 1: whether it's your home, your car, whether it's your your spouse,
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Speaker 1: whether it's your children, whether it's the job that he
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Speaker 1: that he has you as what as well as our bodies.
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Speaker 1: And so I think for me going into this year,
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Speaker 1: I knew it was gonna be more about my choices
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Speaker 1: and my in the decision to be more disciplined in
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Speaker 1: certain areas, and I and I definitely have struggled in
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Speaker 1: some spaces where I've intentionally try to be disciplined, and
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Speaker 1: so it's just bringing up things, and it's really just
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Speaker 1: him showing me the areas that need to be worked on.
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Speaker 1: But it's like, how are you storting your temple? You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? Like, you want to do all
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Speaker 1: these things you want to you want a husband, you
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Speaker 1: want kids, you know, you want to be a multi millionaire.
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Speaker 1: You want these businesses X, Y and Z. But how
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Speaker 1: are you going to manage those if you can't even
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Speaker 1: manage yourself correct?
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 1: So a lot of a lot of us try to
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Speaker 1: when we make things to do you like holier than
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Speaker 1: our type stuff, we'll say, oh, we're just gonna pray
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Speaker 1: our way through it. The Lord gave you practical wisdom.
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Speaker 1: Not it ain't. You ain't even got to go to
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit about it. The doctors just told you
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Speaker 1: got high blood pressure. I really feel like this episode
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Speaker 1: is for somebody. The doctor just told you got high
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Speaker 1: blood pressure. The doctor told you about you know, this cancer.
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Speaker 1: That the things that we can really because I won't
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Speaker 1: even say, let me take that cancer back. Because some
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Speaker 1: of that stuff it's a riditary. Some of My daddy
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Speaker 1: was the healthiest man. I promise you he worked out
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Speaker 1: all the time. If I show you pictures, I'm surprised
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Speaker 1: that he got cancer, but ran through our bloodline. Like
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Speaker 1: just some of the stuff for raritary, some stuff that
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Speaker 1: we eaten, right, And that's why people these vegans are
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Speaker 1: so big, because vegan is mostly you know, well, I
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Speaker 1: won't say raw because some people are raw vegans. Some
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Speaker 1: of this vegan from some people could they foods us.
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Speaker 1: A lot of its goals is in depth, but they're saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm not doing this process meat anymore. I'm not doing
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Speaker 1: this because it's chemicals that are going in and throughout
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Speaker 1: our bodies. Lord, I hear you, but my gud, but
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Speaker 1: even still, just even with that, when I first found
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Speaker 1: out in twenty seventeen I had fibroids, I went down
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Speaker 1: this whole healthy journey of like I was plant based, right,
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Speaker 1: but what I soon found out, right, I was plant based,
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Speaker 1: but I was still leaning on But they call it
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Speaker 1: vegan dunk food in a sense, you know, so like hey, yeah,
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Speaker 1: fries is not meat though, right, but they still French
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Speaker 1: fries or like a lot of package things that are
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Speaker 1: in the stores that are plant based and meat things.
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Speaker 1: How do you think they're how do you think they're
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Speaker 1: still held together? Yeah, it's still it still has to
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Speaker 1: be some type of processing in there. So, you know.
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Speaker 1: So I've seen healthy, not like health healthy, but like
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Speaker 1: size healthy vegan people, because there's also vegan junk food too,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I think it's more
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Speaker 1: so just about the choices that you decide to make,
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Speaker 1: whether you're gonna be meat eating or plant based vegan
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Speaker 1: or whatever, because that's I don't seen some You just
20:22
Speaker 1: seen some what you know, you know, you gotta be
20:26
Speaker 1: careful with the words. Sometimes you've seen some. Listen, y'all,
20:34
Speaker 1: I've learned that biting a bullet does not get to
20:37
Speaker 1: make the point. Sometimes I don't seen some fat vegan
20:39
Speaker 1: people too. Yeah, some bigger, heavier vegan people, yes, but
20:43
Speaker 1: also big, being big does not always mean that you're
20:47
Speaker 1: not eating right. And what I understand, so that's not
20:50
Speaker 1: a jail. This is a saying that maybe we shouldn't
20:56
Speaker 1: assume that we'll lose weight because to be honest, to be,
21:00
Speaker 1: they're skinny, unhealthy people too. We automatically assume a size
21:04
Speaker 1: means healthy or unhealthy. I know some very healthy, beautiful
21:09
Speaker 1: big sisters. You know what I'm saying. They working out,
21:11
Speaker 1: but they're just the makeup of their body. It's just
21:16
Speaker 1: what it is. I don't want to say they got
21:18
Speaker 1: big bones, but probably got big bones. And you got
21:19
Speaker 1: big bones, you gotta have some of the carried and bones, right.
21:22
Speaker 1: But also I've seen very small, skinny people who are
21:26
Speaker 1: still struggling with you know, diabetes and health things, because
21:31
Speaker 1: they're still things internally that we have to make sure
21:33
Speaker 1: that we're focusing on. Yeah, what I was gonna say is,
21:37
Speaker 1: and I was listening, I was trying to I'm showing
21:39
Speaker 1: you what I'm I'm looking at right now because you
21:41
Speaker 1: you probably read faster than me. Yeah, I asked Steve. Okay,
21:47
Speaker 1: So what I was saying was what came to my
21:49
Speaker 1: mind was that Miss tab she became vegan because in
21:55
Speaker 1: the first week or so that she realized that she
21:58
Speaker 1: wasn't eating processed meats. You can choose one from them,
22:03
Speaker 1: and she wasn't eating processed meats. It helped her with
22:07
Speaker 1: the migraine that she was experienced on the headache, all
22:10
Speaker 1: the pains that she was experiencing. And so if you
22:13
Speaker 1: look back at her pictures, and she's never necessarily she's
22:18
Speaker 1: never been a big girl. She's pretty much maintained her weight,
22:21
Speaker 1: but she feels better like she it's no way, it's
22:26
Speaker 1: no way. And it sounds like we're finna go vegan,
22:29
Speaker 1: but I'm not. I'm not fully committed to that. I'm
22:33
Speaker 1: just saying I'm telling somebody. This ain't that. I'm just
22:39
Speaker 1: telling you the case. Whatever the Lord say though, whatever
22:42
Speaker 1: the Lord's like. But my god, but she even in
22:48
Speaker 1: like supporting her when we were in Birmingham. When she
22:52
Speaker 1: was in Birmingham, me and my sister went on fast
22:54
Speaker 1: Choad of the Kendle and we ate vegan food, like
22:56
Speaker 1: we just strictly ate vegan food. And I can't lie.
22:59
Speaker 1: I feel great. I feel good, you know. I think
23:03
Speaker 1: it's one of the things that we do is one
23:05
Speaker 1: of the things I struggle with is going all in
23:08
Speaker 1: with something like I don't grace myself for the process.
23:11
Speaker 1: This is so good. So with anything you can, you
23:15
Speaker 1: can kind of wean yourself in without thinking that, Oh
23:19
Speaker 1: my gosh, X Y and Z and I think that,
23:22
Speaker 1: and maybe I should expound on what I mean by
23:24
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh s y Z. I think giving yourself
23:27
Speaker 1: a grace to go through the process or the decision
23:31
Speaker 1: that you made allows you to stick with it longer
23:34
Speaker 1: because you will quit because it's too hard. But you're
23:37
Speaker 1: not I'm not on the same level as Mistab. So
23:40
Speaker 1: if I wanted to be vegan, I can be inspired
23:42
Speaker 1: by Mistab, but I wouldn't be able to I'm not
23:47
Speaker 1: not the person I am. I think I have to
23:49
Speaker 1: be eased into just being fully committed. So maybe trying
23:53
Speaker 1: one day of just veganism, like have one day of veganism,
23:57
Speaker 1: or I'm just gonna do fish. I'm gonna just take
24:00
Speaker 1: the rest of the meat out. I'll do fish and
24:01
Speaker 1: behavior on the protein because you can't you're supposed to.
24:04
Speaker 1: I've told that you don't supposed to have a lot
24:06
Speaker 1: of fish period in your diet. So it's like, Okay,
24:10
Speaker 1: I have to find a way to navigate the to
24:13
Speaker 1: the goal I want to get to. And sometimes we
24:14
Speaker 1: just go, oh, we're just gonna cut this out now.
24:17
Speaker 1: To y'all that can do that, bravo, I'm gonna give
24:21
Speaker 1: you a handclap today. But I'm not. I'm a real
24:25
Speaker 1: good job I'm not heard. I'm not heard. So which
24:29
Speaker 1: one of them scrip? So? First Corinthians six nineteen and twenty.
24:35
Speaker 1: This is the NIV version. Do you know that your
24:38
Speaker 1: bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you,
24:41
Speaker 1: He liveing here in the inside, whom you have received
24:45
Speaker 1: from God. You are not your own. You were bought
24:49
Speaker 1: at a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies. Honor
24:54
Speaker 1: God with your body. The commentary, Our bodies are sacred,
24:58
Speaker 1: and taking care of them is a fum of honoring God.
25:01
Speaker 1: This includes regular exercise, proper nutrition, and rest. Now that's
25:06
Speaker 1: one exercise, proper nutrition and rest. Rest. That's a real thing.
25:12
Speaker 1: That no, it's that is a real thing. So when
25:16
Speaker 1: we think about because people throw out this word honored
25:19
Speaker 1: right old, I like to give out definition. What does
25:24
Speaker 1: honor mean? And First Corinthians, Hold on, y'all, we're talking
25:35
Speaker 1: to Steve. You we're talking to Steve. Steve, I Bible
25:38
Speaker 1: said the buddy he is. If you still didn't know
25:43
Speaker 1: he that's that's chatt Yeah, but it's a biblical it's
25:47
Speaker 1: a biblical version of of it. Okay, So this is
25:52
Speaker 1: this is what Steve is saying. I'm gonna let you
25:54
Speaker 1: read because you know, I don't like reading it. But
25:57
Speaker 1: I feel like because even with I was told recently
26:00
Speaker 1: that I should honor my mother and my father, but
26:02
Speaker 1: honor the honor word is different from me now because
26:06
Speaker 1: honor growing up ment do everything that they say, but
26:10
Speaker 1: they could be wrong, like your parents can be wrong,
26:14
Speaker 1: and I'm not. There's not a jab to any parents.
26:16
Speaker 1: I'm just saying like, I'm going to respect you as
26:19
Speaker 1: God has ordained me to respect you. But before anything else,
26:24
Speaker 1: before all else, God, God comes before. And so I
26:27
Speaker 1: think the honor word gets thrown out so easily that
26:31
Speaker 1: we don't really understand what it means. And so okay,
26:35
Speaker 1: so Steven said, now check this because he culture. You
26:40
Speaker 1: know he culture, you know he black because he was.
26:44
Speaker 1: That's a way He's gonna put the link in the
26:46
Speaker 1: description for you guys, so you can know. He was
26:50
Speaker 1: created by a creator that I follow on social media.
26:53
Speaker 1: I connected with her because she was in a photography.
26:56
Speaker 1: She's a multi talented creative and and so she's no,
27:00
Speaker 1: I'm kind of stepping into this space where she's honoring
27:02
Speaker 1: God with her gifts, creative gifts, and so she uh
27:05
Speaker 1: uh created Stephen as a Bible study tool. You know
27:10
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So she black and Stephen Stephen Black.
27:15
Speaker 1: So don't be thrown off some of the some of
27:18
Speaker 1: the cultural language like sis and check it out, you know,
27:21
Speaker 1: things like that. But everything he always ties everything back
27:24
Speaker 1: to scripture, right, So check this out. The word honor
27:29
Speaker 1: or glorify in this context, it's a great word. I'm
27:33
Speaker 1: gonna pronounce. It literally means to show high respect, to
27:38
Speaker 1: lift up, to magnify. But we're not just talking about
27:41
Speaker 1: saying thank you with our mouths. We're talking lifestyle energy. Okay,
27:45
Speaker 1: imagine your body is like a luxury airbnb that God's
27:50
Speaker 1: spirit lives in. That's like a like a like a dwelling,
27:53
Speaker 1: a luxury a luxury airbnb. Okay, you wouldn't trash it, right,
27:59
Speaker 1: You clean it, you maintain it, you make sure everything's
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Speaker 1: functional and fresh. That's the vibe Paul is talking about
28:09
Speaker 1: in this in this scripture when he says to honor
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Speaker 1: God with your bodies, he's meaning take care of your
28:13
Speaker 1: physical health, your sleep, eating right, moving your body. Avoid
28:19
Speaker 1: what defiles your temple that could be caused bisexual sin,
28:24
Speaker 1: substance abuse, laziness, whatever, breaks down the house. Right, use
28:29
Speaker 1: your body for good, serve people, love well, be active
28:32
Speaker 1: in your purpose. Why though Paul drops this that reminder,
28:37
Speaker 1: you were bought at a price. That price Jesus's life,
28:41
Speaker 1: the cross wasn't cheap. So now that you belong to him,
28:45
Speaker 1: the way you treat your body should reflect gratitude and
28:48
Speaker 1: ownership to the king, the king of kings. Okay, this
28:52
Speaker 1: isn't about guilt, it's about honor. Right. So, even as
28:57
Speaker 1: I was reading that, it just made me think, how
28:59
Speaker 1: well sometimes we take care of other people's things. So
29:01
Speaker 1: like like if you go to a if you if
29:04
Speaker 1: you you know, have integrity, you go to a hotel.
29:06
Speaker 1: Even if you go to an airbnb, that airbnb host
29:09
Speaker 1: probably has rules. Hey you know, so don't do this,
29:13
Speaker 1: or put you when you get done, take the trash out,
29:15
Speaker 1: put your towels here, And we do those things because
29:18
Speaker 1: we want to honor the rules of the house.
29:20
Speaker 3: Yeah.
29:20
Speaker 1: Right, So that's kind of the same thing. And he's
29:21
Speaker 1: saying here is hey, you've been given this body. It's
29:25
Speaker 1: like a luxury Airbnb. There's certain things, certain rules that
29:28
Speaker 1: he's kind of given us.
29:29
Speaker 3: One.
29:29
Speaker 1: I think the main thing's gotta love him with all
29:31
Speaker 1: your heart, all your mind. Also love each other, but
29:34
Speaker 1: also you want to honor the temple that that that
29:36
Speaker 1: he's giving you to house him in. You wouldn't throw trash,
29:40
Speaker 1: you know, just randomly, and in an airbnb, you wouldn't
29:43
Speaker 1: leave it there. If you would, then what do you
29:44
Speaker 1: think the consequences would be? Yeah, you're gonna be charged
29:46
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah, if you defile, if you loud music,
29:49
Speaker 1: if you go any if you go against any of
29:51
Speaker 1: the rules that they place in the house, they're gonna
29:52
Speaker 1: charge you for that. They gonna truck. That's so good
29:58
Speaker 1: that you are speaking very well. I also love how
30:01
Speaker 1: he said how you brought up there there's rules in
30:05
Speaker 1: the airbnb. And when we say hey we're gonna work out, Hey,
30:08
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're not gonna eat this, we're gonna change
30:11
Speaker 1: our diets, we're gonna do this, you're making a rule
30:14
Speaker 1: for your body. And if you disobey the rule, there
30:18
Speaker 1: should be consequences and will be consequences when you don't
30:23
Speaker 1: obey the rules that you set for your temple. And
30:26
Speaker 1: so I love how Steve just broke that down because
30:31
Speaker 1: what's frustrating is continuously hearing about continuously hearing your body
30:41
Speaker 1: is a temple. Your body is a temple. And I
30:43
Speaker 1: don't know about you, that's right, But when I was
30:44
Speaker 1: growing up in church or whatever, the body is a
30:46
Speaker 1: temple only resulted when you was trying to have save six, like,
30:51
Speaker 1: and it's so much more like he said, like, Okay,
30:54
Speaker 1: don't overindulge in alcohol, don't be out here strung out
30:57
Speaker 1: on drugs, don't do this, don't do that. And we
31:00
Speaker 1: can take a little deeper, not even just those physical things,
31:03
Speaker 1: but also and what do you what are you speaking
31:05
Speaker 1: to yourself? That's good? Like what are you thinking about yourself?
31:07
Speaker 1: What are you thinking about this temple that God has
31:09
Speaker 1: given us, he has gifted us with? You know what
31:11
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Are you Are you thinking about the things
31:13
Speaker 1: that He's already said about you? You know what I'm saying,
31:16
Speaker 1: those matter too on how you Stewart Stewart the temple.
31:18
Speaker 1: And I just think like you said, like, because I
31:20
Speaker 1: grew up Baptists, and most of the time when they
31:22
Speaker 1: were talking about the temple, it was like, don't have
31:24
Speaker 1: six so you don't go to hell. Yeah, and it's
31:26
Speaker 1: so much more to God. I think we put so
31:29
Speaker 1: much emphasis on not having sex as a as a
31:32
Speaker 1: church community, that we don't really understand that what we
31:38
Speaker 1: don't give people the bigger idea of God's importance of
31:42
Speaker 1: everything like and so I think even saying with the
31:46
Speaker 1: bodies of temple, I'm setting my rules, I'm setting my
31:48
Speaker 1: boundaries up for to be because what's the goal here?
31:53
Speaker 1: The goal is for God saying I need you to
31:55
Speaker 1: be stable. I need you to be healthy enough for
31:58
Speaker 1: the assignment that you want to complete. It's not even
32:02
Speaker 1: just that God wants you complete it, because after the relationship,
32:05
Speaker 1: after the relationship, you love God, and then the word
32:07
Speaker 1: it says, if you love me, you obey my command.
32:09
Speaker 1: So obey obeying God's command is a result of your
32:12
Speaker 1: love for him. And so I need to love not
32:15
Speaker 1: only just him, but I need to love myself enough
32:17
Speaker 1: to say, you know what, God, I'm not gonna be
32:18
Speaker 1: able to go around, flying around, do all this stuff.
32:21
Speaker 1: It's all Germans stuff like that. I'm doing everything outside
32:24
Speaker 1: of trying to protect my body, my mind, my soul.
32:27
Speaker 1: And now I'm out here tainted because I didn't take
32:31
Speaker 1: care of me like I didn't take care of my temple.
32:34
Speaker 1: I go back to that breathing. You know, I don't
32:37
Speaker 1: know if this is healthy or not, and the law,
32:46
Speaker 1: I don't know how healthy that is. When we think
32:49
Speaker 1: about the context of physical fitness, there's no reason and
32:54
Speaker 1: that just hurts. Yes, there's no reason why I should
32:58
Speaker 1: be doing that because somebody had to not be healthy.
33:03
Speaker 1: And then we train, we train people's ears to say,
33:05
Speaker 1: oh I need to do that to be a preacher
33:07
Speaker 1: and all that stuff like that. No, when I hear that,
33:10
Speaker 1: I think that they are in loss of breath, like
33:14
Speaker 1: there is no blood being flown properly to the heart,
33:18
Speaker 1: like they probably could use oxygen tank correct a little
33:21
Speaker 1: assistance to help them breathe. And you worn out afterwards, Yeah,
33:25
Speaker 1: being tired and mentally or whatever. You know, it's draining
33:29
Speaker 1: or whatever doing ministry work. I won't say it's draining.
33:31
Speaker 1: Maybe that's not the word word, but as far it's
33:34
Speaker 1: very taxing to the body when you're doing it. Like
33:37
Speaker 1: when you're in there, I know, trust Kumanda boostering, trust me.
33:46
Speaker 1: We know, okay, because when we turn these lights off
33:49
Speaker 1: into cameras, lights and stuff, listen, we go back to church.
33:53
Speaker 1: We even have moments in random spaces where ministry work
33:56
Speaker 1: is done where prayer and and and and and and
34:00
Speaker 1: and the uplifting of the kingdom it is done, and
34:03
Speaker 1: that and that wears on the body because you're putting
34:06
Speaker 1: all of you in there, and so you could be
34:09
Speaker 1: spiritually sound all you want to, but after you know,
34:14
Speaker 1: if you walking back and forth and doing, you just
34:16
Speaker 1: got to think about the practicality of the work that
34:20
Speaker 1: you are doing. And that we have to think about
34:22
Speaker 1: the practicality of the work we are doing so that
34:25
Speaker 1: we can be prepared. We say God, I want more, God,
34:28
Speaker 1: increase my capacity. But you won't lose the weight to
34:31
Speaker 1: increase the capacity. It's not even just about losing the weight.
34:34
Speaker 1: It's being healthy enough to withstand the assignment. We can't
34:39
Speaker 1: even withstand the assignment because we're not eating healthy. And
34:42
Speaker 1: so I'm listen, we talked about ourselves at the beginning
34:47
Speaker 1: of this. Indeed, we talked about us. Okay, and I
34:52
Speaker 1: know I've done it before, but this time it has
34:55
Speaker 1: to be different because I'm older. Right when I first
34:57
Speaker 1: lost weight the first time intentionally, I was my twin
35:00
Speaker 1: and he still, Oh, girl, I was fine. I was Oh,
35:05
Speaker 1: I was fine. I was fine. Girl. Shout out to Marcus.
35:09
Speaker 1: I miss Marcus. And the reason why I miss Marcus
35:11
Speaker 1: is because Marcus did something for me that I struggled
35:17
Speaker 1: doing for myself, and that was just challenging myself to
35:19
Speaker 1: be physically fit. I just couldn't do it. And we
35:22
Speaker 1: just built a relationship to where, uh, he's so passionate
35:27
Speaker 1: about fitness that he made me passionate about fitness. Like
35:31
Speaker 1: it was contagious. It was like, why would you do
35:33
Speaker 1: this to yourself? And he had never he never experienced
35:37
Speaker 1: being big he was he ended up being a bodybuilder
35:40
Speaker 1: for a while or whatever. Maybe we could maybe we
35:42
Speaker 1: can invite Marcus here is one day. Well, we'll see,
35:46
Speaker 1: But he was a bodybuilding builder. He he was a
35:53
Speaker 1: little scrawny, little song. I don't know, I don't know
35:55
Speaker 1: how to say it. But when he tells his testimony
35:57
Speaker 1: on his on his page, like he talks about how
36:00
Speaker 1: he did he was in trouble a lot or whatever.
36:03
Speaker 1: So fitness changed his life for the better in totality, right,
36:07
Speaker 1: And so more recently he's tapped into doing like, you know,
36:11
Speaker 1: more calming exercises. And I'm proud of him, but I
36:18
Speaker 1: also see like how much he impacted me and like
36:21
Speaker 1: being in his atmosphere made me want to be healthier.
36:25
Speaker 1: It wasn't about losing the pounds. He was never the
36:28
Speaker 1: one that's like, Okay, get on the scale. He wasn't
36:30
Speaker 1: promoting it. He wasn't like that. He was like, I
36:33
Speaker 1: can see I can see what you're doing. I can
36:34
Speaker 1: see this. Even Crystal, now she's not huge on hey,
36:38
Speaker 1: go get on the scale. She's like, nah, you might
36:40
Speaker 1: get to do that once a month. You might, but
36:42
Speaker 1: I don't need you to go doing it all the time.
36:44
Speaker 1: And I've trained myself not to look at the scale
36:47
Speaker 1: because that number does not as matter as much as
36:50
Speaker 1: what I'm seeing, the results and how I'm feeling. I
36:53
Speaker 1: want you to not only feel better, I want to
36:55
Speaker 1: be better. I know certain things running my family, like
36:57
Speaker 1: we said earlier, but we have to make a decision
37:01
Speaker 1: and get in a space where we'll do it together.
37:03
Speaker 1: So that's all right. Yeah, you remember earlier I said, Okay, Lord,
37:08
Speaker 1: I hear you. Yep. We can't talk about it and
37:13
Speaker 1: not be about it. So this is this is our
37:17
Speaker 1: on the spot situation. But it will be clearer. I
37:19
Speaker 1: don't know what you about to say. Listen, it's gonna
37:22
Speaker 1: be clearer in the in the description of this, scared say,
37:29
Speaker 1: I ain't scared, but my God, the responsibility of what's
37:34
Speaker 1: about to happen. So instead of just talking about it,
37:39
Speaker 1: we're gonna be about it. And I hear your Holy
37:41
Speaker 1: Spirit the First Corinthians six six sixteen through nineteen? Was
37:46
Speaker 1: it nineteen twenty? First Corinthians six, nineteen and twenty? Okay,
37:52
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the foundational focus for the for the
37:56
Speaker 1: thirty days that we're gonna put in. So I heard
37:59
Speaker 1: the Lord say that we're gonna we're gonna commit to
38:04
Speaker 1: doing better with our our bodies. So that means our
38:10
Speaker 1: eating habits right now for me personally. And I'm gonna
38:14
Speaker 1: see if this is this is everybody, but I'm seeing vegetables,
38:18
Speaker 1: the veganism. I'm thinking this is what I'm thinking. But
38:22
Speaker 1: it's gonna be confirmed in the description. Okay, because by
38:25
Speaker 1: the time we do this, we're gonna be all on
38:28
Speaker 1: one accord and we'll meet, we'll meet and have time
38:32
Speaker 1: together with prayer. I'm committed to that. We'll pray together,
38:36
Speaker 1: we'll do check ins, right and so. But well, we'll
38:41
Speaker 1: focus on what we're intaking and digest and making sure
38:45
Speaker 1: that we get thirty minutes of activity per day, so
38:48
Speaker 1: whether it's walking, whether it's exercise, and whether it's stretching,
38:53
Speaker 1: whatever that may be per day for thirty days. I
38:57
Speaker 1: know I heard the Lord on thirty days, like thirty
38:59
Speaker 1: straight days, thirty straight day consecutive. I ain't no back
39:03
Speaker 1: to bed by the bed a full month, and I will.
39:07
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this, but also nervous because our community
39:11
Speaker 1: has grown, so I think people actually gonna gonna join
39:15
Speaker 1: us on this. I used to have a focused room
39:17
Speaker 1: and we were praying consistently Monday through Friday. And maybe
39:21
Speaker 1: that that might look different because I know people schedule whatever,
39:24
Speaker 1: and linking up may look different. But the food and
39:27
Speaker 1: the exercise thirty days straight, and we're gonna do this together.
39:32
Speaker 1: We're gonna hold each other accountable. We're gonna talk about
39:34
Speaker 1: our good days, bad days, and maybe I can bring
39:36
Speaker 1: some friends to teach us, you know, about healthy lifestyle
39:40
Speaker 1: living and easier ways to we can bring Freed back
39:44
Speaker 1: and just ask her to, you know, speak to our
39:47
Speaker 1: community and just say, hey, girl, you know, this is
39:49
Speaker 1: what you should do. This is a basic exercise that
39:51
Speaker 1: can help you out if you want her services cool
39:54
Speaker 1: or even Crystal. You know, we have access. We have
39:57
Speaker 1: access to so many people that were not utilized, and
40:00
Speaker 1: so the donuts, the Debbie, the Debbie, I'm sorry, we're
40:04
Speaker 1: gonna to break up for thirty days. One thing I
40:06
Speaker 1: did just here is uh, documentation is important, yes, so
40:12
Speaker 1: you know each day being able to document you know
40:15
Speaker 1: what you're intaking, like your what physical activity you did,
40:18
Speaker 1: as well as how you're feeling, like whether that's good
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Speaker 1: or bad, whether it's hey, I ain't feeling it today,
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Speaker 1: but hey we're gonna get it in, or you know
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Speaker 1: what today was it actually good day. I think those
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Speaker 1: things are important so that you have records to be
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Speaker 1: able to kind of look back at your journey and
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Speaker 1: not to be like, oh I messed up X, Y
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Speaker 1: and Z. But I think it's Uh, I love looking
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Speaker 1: back at my my journals and things like that that
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Speaker 1: I've just kind of it helps me to see where
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Speaker 1: God has brought me from, yeah, or brought me to,
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Speaker 1: you know at that point. So as you're talking, that's
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Speaker 1: what I heard, like, definitely making sure that we are
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Speaker 1: and whatever the way that looks like, whether that's physical
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Speaker 1: through like an actual written journal or you just use
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Speaker 1: notes or keeps or whatever on your phone, but definitely
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Speaker 1: keeping up with those days. You had a lot of
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Speaker 1: coming uh cunt and creators. So the video documentation is
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Speaker 1: great too because everything is content, everything is so does
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Speaker 1: A ray and I are gonna do video documentation. What yeah,
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Speaker 1: you've been fuscinating me about being on social media or whatever.
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Speaker 1: We gotta show people that, like, we're together on this
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Speaker 1: and we're together. So I would love for y'all to
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Speaker 1: video documentation. What's what's the hashag gonna be? Well, we'll
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Speaker 1: put it in description. We'll put it in a description.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna this. This is how the Lord deals with me.
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Speaker 3: Jesus, she she can't think when I say it, just drops.
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Speaker 1: I'm saying it out like and the fact that is
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Speaker 1: being recorded. I gotta do it. We have to do
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Speaker 1: it right. And so this is a part about yes six, Yes,
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Speaker 1: three sixty five initiatives. We haven't done anything as a
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Speaker 1: community yet and this will be our this will be
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Speaker 1: our thing. So get ready, get ready. If you're in,
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Speaker 1: I need for you to put I'm in in the comments.
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Speaker 1: No I'm joking, but I'm for real, Like I know
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Speaker 1: when things keep repeating themselves, like I'm burying to Okay,
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Speaker 1: I know one of the ways that the Lord is
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Speaker 1: speaking to me when things continue to when the same things,
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Speaker 1: patterns continue to come up. So the fact that I
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Speaker 1: keep hearing stewardship your temple, you know, even like what
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Speaker 1: are you eating? Those kind of things makes me know
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Speaker 1: that that's on his mind and his heart right now,
42:28
Speaker 1: like making sure that his people are a if. Hey,
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Speaker 1: if we're asking the floodgates to open up, baby, like,
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Speaker 1: how we gonna manage that, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: So I'm excited about it, even though I'm like, oh, Lord,
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Speaker 1: you're going to give me the strength, you know, But
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Speaker 1: I'm very excited about it because if I can, you know,
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Speaker 1: commit to everybody else, surely I could commit to myself. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: most definitely. And we deserved it. We deserve our best seals.
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Speaker 1: We deserve to experience our best seals first. And so
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Speaker 1: this is all. This is not a punishment thing, This
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Speaker 1: is not a judgment things. The fluctuation of the fact
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Speaker 1: on me, okay, but we have to be in tune
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Speaker 1: and ready spiritually, physically, and emotionally for what's to come,
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Speaker 1: what we've been asking for. I remember, we're gonna we
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Speaker 1: getting ready to wrap it up. But it just it
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Speaker 1: just makes sense now. Like one Sunday, uh, my pastor
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Speaker 1: pastor as shout out to Faith Fami Destiny the Purpose Church,
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Speaker 1: she called everybody up that had businesses, okay, and of
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Speaker 1: course it'd be so it'd be the funniest thing, like
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Speaker 1: everybody again like boom boom, boom boom. She geld it
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Speaker 1: me and it'd be like it'd be simple, but it'd
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Speaker 1: be like I'm like, dang, it's it. And she pretty
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Speaker 1: much was like, prepare what you've asked God for? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, and that and that can be and that's
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Speaker 1: in different spaces, but that's literally what this is. It's
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Speaker 1: literally preparing, preparing what we've asked him for. And we
43:52
Speaker 1: can't be mad, right if we've asked him for something
43:56
Speaker 1: and we get it and then we drop it because
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Speaker 1: we weren't good towards in those in those seasons preparation,
44:02
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I'm very excited a
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Speaker 1: little nerves about it, but I'm excited because baby, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna have me on the crop top. So if y'all
44:09
Speaker 1: see me outside, don't say nothing, because I earned that
44:13
Speaker 1: just like just like coming and subscribed. But no, what
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Speaker 1: I hear the Lord say is if you feel feel
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Speaker 1: convicted in this moment, and I won't say even convicted
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Speaker 1: to a bad word, but if you if you feel
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Speaker 1: the need to do this with us, this is going
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Speaker 1: to change your life. This is going to give you
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Speaker 1: the energy that you've needed. I'm sensing somebody it has
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Speaker 1: a migraine. You made it this far, you should just
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Speaker 1: go ahead and tap in and say yes. I think
44:42
Speaker 1: it's bigger some some some people might not even find that, Oh,
44:45
Speaker 1: I'm just need to do this for the my health.
44:47
Speaker 1: I need to do this for community. Because you're in
44:49
Speaker 1: the season where you felt lonely, you felt felt like
44:52
Speaker 1: you need a change, you need something to alter your mindset,
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Speaker 1: and I'm giving We're giving you an opportunity to join
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Speaker 1: our community, to just community, the safe space to where
45:02
Speaker 1: we're gonna figure this thing out together because we don't
45:05
Speaker 1: have all the answers, but we know who does and
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Speaker 1: so we're gonna trust God through this process. This is
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Speaker 1: gonna be interesting, it's gonna be fun, it's gonna be interactive,
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Speaker 1: and I can't wait to hear the testimonies after this,
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Speaker 1: even not just our own. But you guys like y'all
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Speaker 1: really taking this this space to another level and giving
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Speaker 2: Thank God for one another day. Hey, hey, I know
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Speaker 2: we could be another way. Hey, pray thank God for
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