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LIVE EVERY 4TH SUNDAY & 2ND FRIDAY 8PM EST (FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE & TWITCH) B.A.D.D.2BUSINESS 4-27-25 · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: All right, Hey, I'm on. I'm on. Sorry for the
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Speaker 1: late connection.
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Speaker 2: We had some bad weather out here in our city,
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Speaker 2: so you have some connection problems. But we're here. Glad
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Speaker 2: you could join me. I am shining your host. Welcome
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Speaker 2: to another episode of Bad to Business. I want to
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Speaker 2: give y'all a second to come in. I got a
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Speaker 2: good message for y'all today, so I'm going to give
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Speaker 2: some people a second to sign in. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if y'all got bad connection too, so let me get
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Speaker 2: myself all the ways together.
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Speaker 1: A lot of stuff to talk about. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: not really scripted today.
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Speaker 2: Like I told y'all in my last episode, I was
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Speaker 2: trying to be so on point that I was kind of.
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Speaker 1: Dull, and I don't want to do that.
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Speaker 2: I want to be more of who I am. So
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Speaker 2: today it's not really scripted. As you can see, I
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Speaker 2: got my bondet on today. It's been a beautiful Sunday.
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Speaker 2: I got some things done. I hope you'all was able
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Speaker 2: to get some things done. Me and the fam was
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Speaker 2: able to do some much needed work around the house.
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Speaker 2: So so today I didn't, you know, do too much
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Speaker 2: as far as me goes, as far as even the.
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Speaker 1: Message goes today.
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Speaker 2: I kind of just asked God to say, Lord, you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm chilling today and I really don't. You know, I
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Speaker 2: don't have a guest today. I don't really have a
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Speaker 2: set topic. I got some things I want to talk about,
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Speaker 2: but nothing in a direct direction. So, you know, I
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Speaker 2: asked the Lord, what will he want to talk about today?
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Speaker 2: And he's like, you know what, daughter, I'm glad you asked.
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Speaker 2: He was quick with his topic, and God wanted me
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Speaker 2: today to talk about open and closed doors. He's like,
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Speaker 2: you know, trying to you know a little bit about that,
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Speaker 2: don't you. I'm like, okay, You're gonna.
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Speaker 1: Use me today.
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Speaker 2: That's fine because I did ask him, and you know,
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Speaker 2: I guess he gonna make this a testimony day because
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Speaker 2: I definitely know about some open and closed doors. So
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Speaker 2: I just kind of want to share something with y'all today.
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Speaker 2: I hope you can take it into your week. Not
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Speaker 2: trying to get y'all to start a revolution next week.
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Speaker 2: You know, we want to start these post Sundays, is
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Speaker 2: what I call them. I no longer claim mondays too much.
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Speaker 2: You know, it sound too too droning, like the word
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Speaker 2: itself makes us feel like we don't want to do nothing,
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Speaker 2: So so me and the family we work on on
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Speaker 2: post Sundays. So not trying to get y'all too routed
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Speaker 2: up and start a revolution. I got some some things
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Speaker 2: about politics I kind of want y'all to know about
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Speaker 2: because I learned some things, and when I learn them,
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Speaker 2: I want to share them. But today is about opening
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Speaker 2: closed doors. One thing I wanna just note, and I
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Speaker 2: noted this when I wrote it down, and so I
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Speaker 2: don't wanna forget this part. One thing about open c
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Speaker 2: and closed doors is I heard a uh a rhyme
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Speaker 2: by J Cole that said or verse that said, the
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Speaker 2: good news is you went a long way.
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Speaker 1: The bad news is you went the wrong way.
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Speaker 2: We ain't got that kind of time to waste anymore,
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Speaker 2: so we definitely wanna go a long way the right way.
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Speaker 2: So I wanna talk to y'all a little bit about
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Speaker 2: open and closed doors and what we asked God for
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Speaker 2: versus what we try to make happen, two totally different things.
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Speaker 1: Of course, right.
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Speaker 2: One of the things I was reminded of when I
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Speaker 2: asked God, okay, we wanna talk about opening closed doors.
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Speaker 2: Of course, I have my own testimony but let's talk
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Speaker 2: about it. Let's not just talk about me. You know,
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Speaker 2: I don't wanna be the only example. We all have examples,
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Speaker 2: So I don't wanna just talk about me.
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Speaker 1: What can we talk about?
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Speaker 2: And again, a testimony is probably the best example, because
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Speaker 2: I can tell you more about experience than I could
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Speaker 2: tell you you know about yours.
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Speaker 1: I can tell you more about mine than I can
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Speaker 1: tell you about yours.
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Speaker 2: So one of the stories I was reminded of is
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Speaker 2: my story of when I went back to Cali back
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Speaker 2: in twenty about twenty fourteen. Well before then, I had
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Speaker 2: a job opportunity. My job sent me to Cali for
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Speaker 2: some training, some hazmat training. A coworker of mine knew
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Speaker 2: that coworker of mine knew that I had family in Cali.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, excuse me, And she was like, I mean,
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Speaker 2: if you want to go ahead and do acause I
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Speaker 2: don't want to take the training, that way, you can
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Speaker 2: take the train. Intee, your family kill two birds with
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Speaker 2: one stone. I was like, back I go. So I went.
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Speaker 2: And one of the people that I wanted to see,
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Speaker 2: of course I always want to see, was my grandmother.
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Speaker 2: I do say, was my late and great grandmother love
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Speaker 2: her to death to the next life, I should say.
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Speaker 2: So I went and did my training, and after the
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Speaker 2: training each day I was there for about four or
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Speaker 2: five days. After the training, each day, my grandmother would
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Speaker 2: come and pick me up and go have lunch or something,
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Speaker 2: or sometimes I just go back to the hotel. But
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Speaker 2: long story short, one of the days she took me
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Speaker 2: to her house, and her home was not in the
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Speaker 2: best condition. My grandmother has been struggled with weight as
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Speaker 2: well as disabilities, so I know that she's not able
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Speaker 2: to do a whole lot. But long story short, the
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Speaker 2: condition looked like a Hordor situation and it was very
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Speaker 2: nerve wracking to me. This is also a house I
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Speaker 2: grew up in. Of course, I had been gone for
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Speaker 2: some years, you know, grew up, lived my life, moved
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Speaker 2: to another state, all those things. Always kept in touch
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Speaker 2: with my grandmother, but never really just been to her house.
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Speaker 2: Even when I traveled to La I would come by,
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Speaker 2: she'd be out on the porch and we visit and
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Speaker 2: stuff like that. So never really gave it a second thought.
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Speaker 2: So she takes me to her house. The situation is.
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Speaker 1: Really bad, I mean really bad.
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Speaker 2: My nerves are on edge, and I'm questioning, we got
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Speaker 2: family out here, how could they let this situation get
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Speaker 2: so bad? And she basically tells me that she really
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Speaker 2: didn't have any help. So here I go. Immediately, in
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Speaker 2: my mind, this is something that I have to do
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Speaker 2: something about. This is my grandmother and person that's taking
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Speaker 2: care of me when I couldn't take care of myself.
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Speaker 2: She don't raise generations after generations, she's been there. This
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Speaker 2: got to be my mission. This is definitely for me, Grandma,
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Speaker 2: I'm coming to help you. I hate that this ever
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Speaker 2: even happened to you.
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Speaker 1: I don't like it.
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Speaker 2: So I made the decision that I was going to
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Speaker 2: go back to California and help her. I had a
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Speaker 2: great job at the time, getting ready to be promoted.
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Speaker 2: Family was solid together, but I made the decision that
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Speaker 2: I needed to help my grandmother. I also had a
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Speaker 2: job at the time. I was working with the airport,
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Speaker 2: so I could transfer, you know, from Atlanta Airport to
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Speaker 2: la Airport at the time, so airport to airport.
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Speaker 1: Great again.
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Speaker 2: I made the decision and against you know, my coworkers advisement,
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Speaker 2: against my job's advisement. They like slick sabotaged, like they
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Speaker 2: kind of told the job to not really hire me.
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Speaker 1: It's like the second time I've been in a position
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Speaker 1: like that.
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Speaker 2: But the great thing about God is, as Romans eight
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Speaker 2: twenty eight tells us, you know, I'm sorry, that's not
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Speaker 2: what I wanted to tell y'all. Well, the great thing
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Speaker 2: about God, what I did want to tell you, is
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Speaker 2: that he opens doors that no man can shut, and
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Speaker 2: he shuts doors that no man can open.
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Speaker 1: So that's a great thing.
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Speaker 2: That's another note about this opening closed your message I'm
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Speaker 2: trying to give y'all. So even though my job tried
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Speaker 2: to slick sabotage me, I was still able to go.
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Speaker 1: So I made the decision.
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Speaker 2: I had a coworker that was telling me, shann't I've
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Speaker 2: been in the situation like that, trying to help my
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Speaker 2: family save the house. Pazibliseiah, this ain't something you want
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Speaker 2: to do. You don't know me, you don't know my grandmother,
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Speaker 2: you don't know the situation. This is not your business
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Speaker 2: type thing. But thank you for the advice. Real close
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Speaker 2: friend of mine. So I didn't really take the advice offensively,
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Speaker 2: but I just know you know different situations definitely, so
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Speaker 2: I assumed. But nevertheless I made the decision to go,
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Speaker 2: got my job to do the transfer, uprooted, my family
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Speaker 2: went with my daughter's father, my kids, we're finna go.
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Speaker 2: We get on the road. Whatever don't fit in my
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Speaker 2: car can't go. That's how determined I was to go.
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Speaker 2: Even told my job, I wish you, you know, would
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Speaker 2: help me out and help me feed my kids when
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Speaker 2: I get there, But I'm going with or without you,
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Speaker 2: And they made the decision to do that. So that's
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Speaker 2: how determined I was to go. My prayer to God, Lord,
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Speaker 2: let the doors that I need to be open be
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Speaker 2: open when I get there. I need this to go smoothly,
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Speaker 2: Make it a smooth transition, you know, everything that I
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Speaker 2: need to go on, you know, just just let it.
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Speaker 2: Let the doors be open, is what I ask. One
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Speaker 2: thing we gotta be careful for is what we ask for.
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Speaker 2: A lot of times we ask for what we want,
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Speaker 2: not what God.
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Speaker 1: Wants for us.
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Speaker 2: And for those who honestly love the Lord like we
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Speaker 2: gotta remember he is our father, and just like any
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Speaker 2: of us parents, you know, if our children are doing
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Speaker 2: well or whatever, even against our advisement, we might assist
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Speaker 2: in what they're already planning to do to try to
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Speaker 2: help them and it don't be so hard on them.
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Speaker 2: So side note, I believe that's what God did. He
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Speaker 2: did open some doors. It was a smooth transition. We
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Speaker 2: had a lot of obstacles and some things to go through.
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Speaker 2: That's a whole other testimony. But I got there.
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Speaker 1: And against family's approval.
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Speaker 2: So when I got there, there really wasn't any family
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Speaker 2: that supported, you know, the move. Didn't come and see
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Speaker 2: my kids, stuff like that. Like I said, some rough patches.
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Speaker 2: But I believe that this was my mission, so I
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Speaker 2: didn't need anybody really on my team. It was my
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Speaker 2: mission to help my grandmother as much as she's helped
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Speaker 2: me and done. This is what I'm supposed to do.
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Speaker 2: That's what I'm supposed to do. God didn't open the
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Speaker 2: doors that I asked to be open. And even though
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Speaker 2: just about every door that was opened was a struggle
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Speaker 2: on the other side, I prayed for the open doors
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Speaker 2: and that's what I got. So I believed this was
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Speaker 2: my mission.
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Speaker 1: This is what I was supposed to do.
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Speaker 2: And because the doors were open, and you know, even
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Speaker 2: though it was like two steps forward, three steps back,
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Speaker 2: I just believed that this was a part of the journey.
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Speaker 2: This was a part of the struggle. Don't get wearied,
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Speaker 2: don't get tired. This is what you're supposed to do,
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Speaker 2: especially when God puts you on a journey. When God
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Speaker 2: puts you on a journey. So this struggling and stuff,
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Speaker 2: this was supposed to happen, even though every door is open.
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Speaker 2: I get a high moment, I get a low moment,
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Speaker 2: and the low moments.
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Speaker 1: Pretty much dragged me.
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Speaker 2: But I'm so appreciative of the high moments that you know,
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Speaker 2: I disregard the low moments. Disregard them. Not the best
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Speaker 2: thing to do. Don't disregard, especially when you're praying for discernment.
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Speaker 2: Don't disregard those low times, those things that just don't
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Speaker 2: fit right with your spirit. Talk to some people in
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Speaker 2: my circle, some coworker, some friends, family, and it seems like,
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Speaker 2: you know, we ask for those red flags and then
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Speaker 2: we go right past them. When they pop up, we're like, oh, okay,
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Speaker 2: that might just be another obstacle, right, But we believe
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Speaker 2: that if we're if we just keep going wasting energy, really,
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Speaker 2: but if we just keep going, that it's gonna work out.
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Speaker 1: All things work together for those who love the Lord.
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Speaker 1: There we go.
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Speaker 2: Romans eight twenty eight. All things work together for those
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Speaker 2: who love the Lord. But let's let's remember that verse
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Speaker 2: also has the comma. We always like to put a
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Speaker 2: period where God puts a comma. Tend to put a
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Speaker 2: comma where God puts a period too open and closed doors.
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Speaker 2: But it's all according to those who are called to
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Speaker 2: His purpose. Again, let me remind y'all that at the
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Speaker 2: beginning of my story, after seeing my grandmother and the
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Speaker 2: conditions and all those things, I made the decision. I
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Speaker 2: made the decision to go. This comes up later because
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Speaker 2: as I'm going through all this cha cha this, two
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Speaker 2: step forward, three steps back. As I'm doing all these
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Speaker 2: cha cha moves, I got tired of dancing. Got tired
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Speaker 2: of dancing, and I wanted to know when could I
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Speaker 2: sit down I feed her, But there were no chairs.
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Speaker 2: And that's when I started to question my purpose. I
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Speaker 2: had a wise woman that is still in my life
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Speaker 2: asked me, and I was talking to her about it.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't understand why I get good and
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Speaker 2: I get bad, and I get good and I get bad.
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Speaker 1: Don't understand I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. I'm helping.
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Speaker 2: I never had so much strife helping people. In my life,
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Speaker 2: I've been able to help people. I've been able to
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Speaker 2: step in and do certain things. This time I wasn't
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Speaker 2: able to do that, or at least when I did,
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Speaker 2: it was hell to tell the captain.
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Speaker 1: As somebody used to say.
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Speaker 2: So I talked to her about it, and one of
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Speaker 2: the things that she asked me was, well, did you
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Speaker 2: ask God if it was okay for you to come.
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Speaker 1: And do the things that you're doing? And I was like, well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, I asked him if he could just opened
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Speaker 1: the doors, and you know, and then he opened the door.
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Speaker 1: I got the I got.
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Speaker 2: The the transfer, I did all those things. I was
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Speaker 2: able to sell the things before I left. And she said, okay,
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Speaker 2: But what I asked you was, did you ask God
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Speaker 2: was it okay for you to come? Was it okay
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Speaker 2: for you to do those things for people? And I
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Speaker 2: had to sit and think about it, and she waited
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Speaker 2: and I thought about it, and the answer was no.
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Speaker 2: What I asked God was for him to open the doors,
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Speaker 2: make it a smooth transition. I had things happen to
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Speaker 2: me and it was weird because what I thought was
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Speaker 2: I'm going back to Cali. You know, as long as
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Speaker 2: God opens the doors for my job, you know my money,
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Speaker 2: make sure I got a place to stay. I know me,
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Speaker 2: I'm finna hustle, bustle this Cali, this home. I already
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Speaker 2: know what I'm finna do. I'm finisah shaking bait. That's
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Speaker 2: what I'm gonna do. Uh No, not really. I have
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Speaker 2: to remember I had been gone for about a decade,
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Speaker 2: and one thing about Cali is it does shake and
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Speaker 2: back with and without you, with and without you. It
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Speaker 2: moves fast. There were freeways built, you know, communities built.
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Speaker 2: People moved. I moved in some of the same areas
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Speaker 2: I used to live in, and commutes I used to take,
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Speaker 2: and it was hell. A commute I used to have
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Speaker 2: in forty five minutes took me four hours. I cried
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Speaker 2: on the way to work every morning till I had
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Speaker 2: to quit. So salute to all my Cali folks. Y'all,
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Speaker 2: y'all do it, y'all do what you can do. But
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Speaker 2: the point was I didn't ask God. So what I
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Speaker 2: realized was he loved me so much that he opened
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Speaker 2: the door.
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Speaker 1: He opened doors that I.
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Speaker 2: Asked, but at the least to say he did it
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Speaker 2: to show me that that's not what I wanted. The
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Speaker 2: stumbling blocks I did have before I went in a
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Speaker 2: and he really didn't stop me. I think even if anything,
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Speaker 2: he might have asked, asked me, excuse me, asked me,
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Speaker 2: Am I sure, if this is what I want to do.
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Speaker 2: I was sure. I didn't believe in the doubt at
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Speaker 2: that time. No, this is my grandma. This was going on.
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Speaker 2: I'm seeing that she could basically die in one of
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Speaker 2: the worst conditions. I'm going back to Cali was my
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Speaker 2: decision mine, and I went through struggles that I never
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Speaker 2: thought I would in life, let alone going back home. Right,
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Speaker 2: this is what I'm supposed to be doing, though, So
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Speaker 2: how could I be going through these type of struggles
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Speaker 2: and I'm trying to help him? Hi lo, hi low.
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Speaker 2: This is what I'm supposed to be doing. That's me
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Speaker 2: saying that according to my goal, not his purpose. I
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Speaker 2: developed something while going through all these different transitions.
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Speaker 1: All they was smooth transitions too.
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Speaker 2: I went through a whole lot of different transitions. The
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Speaker 2: one was I slipped into a transition of depression. And
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Speaker 2: it was funny because I remember telling God, I never
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Speaker 2: thought that a life that you've created at your hands
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Speaker 2: at your breath. Could ever hold a place so dark?
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Speaker 2: But we hold that place that's dark. He holds the light.
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Speaker 2: The adversary holds the dark place.
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Speaker 1: You choose.
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Speaker 2: You want to see the lighter, you want to see
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Speaker 2: the darkness. Well, at the time, I was seeing nothing
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Speaker 2: but darkness. It was just bad stuff going on, and
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Speaker 2: needless to say, everything well, the depression came from everything
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Speaker 2: I attempted to do did not succeed. It did not succeed.
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Speaker 2: The weapons that were formed against me did not succeed either.
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Speaker 2: You know, I stayed prayed up. But the goals that
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Speaker 2: I intended for myself, you know, God didn't even laugh
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Speaker 2: at the plans I had.
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Speaker 1: God didn't laugh at you know.
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Speaker 2: I think he already saw that it was gonna take
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Speaker 2: me to a dark place to not be able to succeed.
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Speaker 2: So I went into a dark place. My family pretty much,
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Speaker 2: I ain't gonna say, fell apart, but we separated. We're
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Speaker 2: in a whole nother state at this point. We separated.
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Speaker 2: Things weren't great, so we separated.
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Speaker 1: There.
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Speaker 2: Of course, I parted ways with the job. I had
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Speaker 2: a new job and lost that job because the commute
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Speaker 2: was bad. The place I was staying, I, you know,
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Speaker 2: hurt my shoulder had to have surgery, so I ended
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Speaker 2: up being off of another job that I was able
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Speaker 2: to get. The place I was staying was willing to
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Speaker 2: work with me, but now I'm on unemployment. It was
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Speaker 2: just really stuff I never experienced, and it left me
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Speaker 2: back with that. But you didn't ask God. You didn't
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Speaker 2: ask God. And I believe that if I would have
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Speaker 2: asked God, he would have stopped me from taking initiative
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Speaker 2: in somebody else's life.
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Speaker 1: We can't do that. We didn't create their life. We
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Speaker 1: can't control it.
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Speaker 2: Now when I say take initiative in somebody else's life,
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Speaker 2: that goes beyond see a need, feeling need.
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Speaker 1: Not talking about that.
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about you know, you see somebody who may
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Speaker 2: need some help, and you dive in. You put on
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Speaker 2: that cake that you you know, your super suit frozene
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Speaker 2: and excuse me and stuff. You put on your supersuit
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Speaker 2: and you're finna go save the day because that's maybe
19:50
Speaker 2: something you're used to doing, going to jump and help.
19:53
Speaker 1: I went and put on my super suit, but.
19:58
Speaker 2: I didn't ask for permission for purpose, even I didn't
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Speaker 2: even ask for purpose in doing it. My purpose, my idea,
20:08
Speaker 2: my decision was to help my grandmother get get this house.
20:11
Speaker 1: Back and everything.
20:12
Speaker 2: And you know, needless to say, like I said, with
20:14
Speaker 2: all the changes I went through, my grandmother still lost
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Speaker 2: her house.
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Speaker 1: I had to move out of it first.
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Speaker 2: One thing I can say about God is, you know,
20:23
Speaker 2: even when we are disobedient, you know, before the comma,
20:28
Speaker 2: all things still work together. For those who love the Lord,
20:31
Speaker 2: they will they will not go the way that maybe
20:35
Speaker 2: you hoped. And most times He wills things on your
20:39
Speaker 2: heart so that you'll want those things and then he
20:41
Speaker 2: makes those manifest But it just won't go like that
20:44
Speaker 2: if you don't do it according to the call of
20:48
Speaker 2: His purpose. So you know, the comma fits in, but
20:52
Speaker 2: it is what it is. So don't take a initiative
20:56
Speaker 2: in other people's lives. Don't try to save the day
20:58
Speaker 2: and you know, create these plans and manifest what can
21:04
Speaker 2: happen for their lives if you jump in and save
21:06
Speaker 2: the day. Let me do this, and let me do that.
21:08
Speaker 2: And if I do this and then try to go
21:10
Speaker 2: this way, God lasted your plans for your life. I
21:17
Speaker 2: can only imagine how he feels when you're trying to
21:19
Speaker 2: plan out somebody else's if it ain't your children who
21:23
Speaker 2: he's really given you control of, and that's only for
21:26
Speaker 2: a little while, and that's the control to lead them
21:29
Speaker 2: back to him so that he can control them from
21:32
Speaker 2: there then on, give them common sense, give them the
21:35
Speaker 2: way that they should go, so that they'll never come
21:38
Speaker 2: from it. And that's one thing I admired about my grandmother.
21:41
Speaker 2: I was reciting John three sixteen at three years old,
21:45
Speaker 2: for God, who love the world that he gave is
21:47
Speaker 2: only the godden Son, that whoever believed in him shall
21:49
Speaker 2: not perish, but have everlasting life from the time I
21:52
Speaker 2: hit her door, so again, this got to be for
21:56
Speaker 2: me to help her, save her, and it just wasn't
21:59
Speaker 2: for me. I went into depression because I attempted to
22:03
Speaker 2: do a lot of things that weren't for me to do,
22:09
Speaker 2: and it hurt and it dismantled me.
22:15
Speaker 1: It did.
22:16
Speaker 2: The friendships I had, they wasn't as solid anymore. The
22:19
Speaker 2: connections I had, they wasn't connecting. You know. Again, I
22:23
Speaker 2: had to realize, you know, you've been gone doing your
22:25
Speaker 2: life what you think everybody else been doing. Yeah, y'all
22:28
Speaker 2: connect on social media's but you know everybody got their
22:33
Speaker 2: own life. This is why you ask God for purpose
22:36
Speaker 2: and follow what he says to do, because you have
22:38
Speaker 2: no idea what's going on almost a decade ahead of you,
22:44
Speaker 2: after you whatever it is. So back to the topic,
22:53
Speaker 2: not taking the initiative in somebody's life. Like I said,
22:55
Speaker 2: just trying to manifest. This is what you can do.
22:57
Speaker 2: This is what we can do. Try to do this,
22:59
Speaker 2: do that. Let somebody tell you what they need. Even
23:03
Speaker 2: if you see a need, some people will come and
23:05
Speaker 2: talk to you. And like my mom used to say,
23:06
Speaker 2: sometimes people just need a sounding board. They don't really
23:10
Speaker 2: want your opinion. They may need to ask for it.
23:13
Speaker 2: There are some people that get insecure and say some
23:15
Speaker 2: things like well, I thought you would ask me, well
23:19
Speaker 2: I told you about so and so, and then you
23:20
Speaker 2: didn't say nothing. All right, You know what, I can't
23:23
Speaker 2: be in nobody else's mind this year, since my birthday,
23:25
Speaker 2: my New Year. I you know, it's one thing that
23:28
Speaker 2: empathize with somebody, you know, put yourself in their shoes.
23:32
Speaker 2: It's another thing to take their shoes from. I'm tired
23:37
Speaker 2: of wearing somebody else's shoes and you know, even to
23:41
Speaker 2: the point where I'm trying to.
23:44
Speaker 1: Wear them in for them. That's not what I do.
23:47
Speaker 2: I got my own shoes to feel, plenty of them,
23:51
Speaker 2: half of them are still having one. Let me learn
23:55
Speaker 2: and walk in those shoes and you know, feel those shoes,
24:01
Speaker 2: feel fee l those shoes before I try to feel
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Speaker 2: somebody else's. So I want to tell y'all today. You know,
24:13
Speaker 2: one of the messages I got today is really focus
24:16
Speaker 2: on these open and closed doors. When they close, they
24:19
Speaker 2: close for a reason. If you really trust God, then
24:21
Speaker 2: you know that he's the one that can open and
24:23
Speaker 2: shut them. If they're shut, they're shut for a reason.
24:27
Speaker 2: And if you are huffing and puffing and trying to
24:30
Speaker 2: blow these doors down, I mean you almost you know,
24:36
Speaker 2: trespassing even doors in your life that are locked. And
24:40
Speaker 2: it's crazy to me. We'll walk through doors that say
24:42
Speaker 2: keep closed or try to break those down, but we
24:47
Speaker 2: are hesitanting, cautious of the ones that say enter here.
24:51
Speaker 2: Do you trust God or you don't. Either you're gonna
24:54
Speaker 2: trust them or you're gonna walk away. There is no
24:56
Speaker 2: trickery with God. There is discernment. God and me and
25:01
Speaker 2: my family pray on that every morning. I need to
25:03
Speaker 2: know what to give my energy to and what not
25:05
Speaker 2: to because I'm quick to probably give my energy to
25:10
Speaker 2: the wrong stuff because I'm feeling some type of way
25:13
Speaker 2: about whatever.
25:16
Speaker 1: I got feelings. We all got them, but I'm quick.
25:21
Speaker 1: I can go from zero to one hundred. When I
25:24
Speaker 1: feel need be.
25:25
Speaker 2: I go to God a lot and say discernment, Lord,
25:28
Speaker 2: God tell me a lot of times a day. I'm
25:31
Speaker 2: gonna say more than twice. Now I'm gonna need you
25:34
Speaker 2: to back up off of that. I'm gonna need you
25:35
Speaker 2: to not go there. There's certain times that there's you know,
25:38
Speaker 2: there is a rebuttal in my business. Like I've said before,
25:41
Speaker 2: I work in transportation, important exports.
25:44
Speaker 1: There's a lot of time for rebuttal.
25:46
Speaker 2: There's a times where I'm wrong and I don't like
25:48
Speaker 2: the way people coming at me about being wrong. There's
25:50
Speaker 2: other times that other people are wrong and I'm ready
25:53
Speaker 2: to come at them about being wrong. Sometimes you just
25:57
Speaker 2: know that those extra words and I one thing I
25:59
Speaker 2: tell my friends in my family remember sometimes extra words
26:02
Speaker 2: equal extra emotions. There's some conversations I don't want to
26:06
Speaker 2: continue to have if somebody decides that even in my validity,
26:11
Speaker 2: I've said something that offends them.
26:13
Speaker 1: Now Here they come back. I don't want to do that.
26:16
Speaker 2: If I'm right, and I said, especially in an email
26:19
Speaker 2: on black and white, and there's people copyed in, that's
26:21
Speaker 2: enough for me.
26:22
Speaker 1: It's enough for me.
26:24
Speaker 2: I don't have to say, well furthermore, look forward to this,
26:28
Speaker 2: do this moving forward. I don't even need to do that.
26:31
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, look forward to you know your
26:35
Speaker 2: update on the mistake, and.
26:38
Speaker 1: Keep it moving.
26:40
Speaker 2: I don't have the energy to stop somewhere that I'm
26:44
Speaker 2: probably not even supposed to be stopped there, go and
26:48
Speaker 2: kick down that door.
26:49
Speaker 1: So watch for them closed doors, those ones that say
26:53
Speaker 1: enter here. I mean they turn the knobs, turn.
26:59
Speaker 2: And if you're going to go ahead and huff and
27:00
Speaker 2: puff and kick those doors down that are hard to
27:02
Speaker 2: open that God had closed, then don't be so disappointed
27:08
Speaker 2: by what's so disappointing on the other side. Because you've
27:11
Speaker 2: invested time and energy, maybe some money, maybe some love.
27:17
Speaker 1: You've invested.
27:18
Speaker 2: You invested all that in something that didn't come out
27:21
Speaker 2: to something else or something you had expected. Ask God
27:27
Speaker 2: before you continue to walk down that hallway with all
27:30
Speaker 2: these doors.
27:35
Speaker 1: He's a good guide. It's a good light. He's a
27:38
Speaker 1: good guiding light.
27:41
Speaker 2: And we got to remember to make God our first choice,
27:43
Speaker 2: not our last option. He is that he's He's going
27:52
Speaker 2: to help in ways that we couldn't see. If we
27:56
Speaker 2: keep trying to help people and play God, then they
27:58
Speaker 2: build the dependency on us, not on him. So we
28:01
Speaker 2: definitely want to pray first. Usually, if somebody comes to
28:05
Speaker 2: me about anything, even advice, I'm like, did you pray
28:09
Speaker 2: about it first? Now I might even get an opinion
28:12
Speaker 2: because now I done prayed, I might come back and say,
28:15
Speaker 2: you know, this is what I pray for you. Not
28:18
Speaker 2: that your prayers didn't get heard, but I pray for you,
28:20
Speaker 2: and I might have an opinion or something that opens
28:22
Speaker 2: yours bring you know, a diverse discussion to the table,
28:28
Speaker 2: but more, and so I'm praying for that person's discernment.
28:30
Speaker 2: Don't let them waste time, money, energy, love things We
28:35
Speaker 2: don't have time to waste. We should be treating our
28:38
Speaker 2: energy like money. We don't have money to waste. Count
28:42
Speaker 2: every dollar, every cent. Some of us are careless with money, well,
28:48
Speaker 2: and you're gonna be careless with your time too. Learn
28:51
Speaker 2: to spend more time with God.
28:53
Speaker 1: Definitely.
28:56
Speaker 2: I was talking to one of my coworkers the other
28:58
Speaker 2: day and and I've had this conversation with my sister
29:02
Speaker 2: as well that one of the reasons why we might
29:05
Speaker 2: not ask God is because we know he might say no.
29:09
Speaker 2: He might say no to something that we want to
29:12
Speaker 2: Excuse me, that's my chicken. I told you I'm chilling
29:16
Speaker 2: today doing my Sunday thing. But he might say no.
29:22
Speaker 2: He might say no to something that we want so badly.
29:25
Speaker 2: So what we do is we try to like, not
29:27
Speaker 2: ask him, but let's just see if it works out. Yeah,
29:33
Speaker 2: how did that work out for you? It's always a struggle,
29:37
Speaker 2: and then we want to ask God. After we try something,
29:39
Speaker 2: He's like, now you want me to clean up the mess.
29:42
Speaker 2: One thing I learned about God too, though, is when
29:43
Speaker 2: we ask him to take over something that we've already
29:46
Speaker 2: started growing in that mess we've already planned, he gonna
29:51
Speaker 2: go ahead and uproot it. He don't just hack off
29:54
Speaker 2: the surface and think that, okay, well it's just dead
29:57
Speaker 2: on the front, these dead leaves and just he's not pruney.
30:01
Speaker 1: He gonna uproot.
30:02
Speaker 2: If you started it, you planted a bad seed. So
30:07
Speaker 2: now he got to uproot it, replant it, water it
30:11
Speaker 2: the way he need to. And you better wanna you
30:15
Speaker 2: want him to be your green thumb. Okay, you want
30:17
Speaker 2: him to be your farmer, your planter, your everything, because
30:21
Speaker 2: your hands is probably you know, tainted a little bit,
30:26
Speaker 2: because they still got the desires of your flesh. You
30:30
Speaker 2: want to plant chocolate and you know, chicken and stuff
30:34
Speaker 2: like that, and he's planning fruit. You know, he's planning
30:39
Speaker 2: the things that nourish us. And one of the verses
30:45
Speaker 2: he gives you the desires of your heart. And one
30:47
Speaker 2: of the things I liked I learned in Bible study
30:49
Speaker 2: is he'll put some things on your heart that he
30:52
Speaker 2: wants you to desire, so he can go ahead and
30:54
Speaker 2: make it manifest. I mean, his will is gonna be done.
30:56
Speaker 2: But there's some things that he knows that you want,
30:58
Speaker 2: now they'll come. I have some things that I've wanted
31:01
Speaker 2: in life that didn't come for years, and I was
31:04
Speaker 2: so happy when I got it. It was cheaper, you know,
31:06
Speaker 2: everybody didn't have it. One thing I can't stand as fads.
31:09
Speaker 2: Everybody didn't have it, from cars to clothes to kids.
31:17
Speaker 2: I had it when everybody didn't. So I can wait
31:21
Speaker 2: on God. There's a song that says, even in the
31:24
Speaker 2: midst of my waiting, I still get blessings every day.
31:26
Speaker 2: Sister almost said it one day one of the podcast hosts,
31:30
Speaker 2: I love you to death to new life. Let me
31:34
Speaker 2: get my words together, she said, I'm struggling, but I'm
31:37
Speaker 2: still winning. If that's not the champion mentality that we
31:43
Speaker 2: need to be having, that'll keep you from getting weary,
31:45
Speaker 2: for sure. So you might be struggling, but are you
31:49
Speaker 2: still winning? I mean, I'm struggling, but as you can see,
31:51
Speaker 2: I still got lights. I'm eating heard my oven. It's
31:56
Speaker 2: got my chicken in it. You know, I'm finding better
32:01
Speaker 2: ways to budget. You know, we got some things going
32:03
Speaker 2: on in the world, but we're doing good. We're doing
32:09
Speaker 2: good every day. You know, you wake up and you
32:13
Speaker 2: able to do something something is not a day to.
32:17
Speaker 1: Complain, you know.
32:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's pretty much the message I wanted to
32:25
Speaker 2: give to y'all from God that he put that on
32:29
Speaker 2: my heart today. And I had to testimony about opening
32:31
Speaker 2: closed doors and taking initiative in other people's lives and
32:35
Speaker 2: what it cost me, and you know, I thought I
32:38
Speaker 2: was doing the right thing. And you got to know
32:40
Speaker 2: when to stop and give it to God. You got
32:42
Speaker 2: to know when to give it to God.
32:43
Speaker 1: From the jump.
32:44
Speaker 2: God said, if you have two shirts, you give your
32:46
Speaker 2: neighbor one. I don't really, you know, don't don't get
32:52
Speaker 2: me wrong. Don't get me wrong. But this is where
32:55
Speaker 2: we ask God, Well, I have a shirt. I have one,
33:01
Speaker 2: and Lord, I'll give it off my back. You better
33:05
Speaker 2: ask him first, because the word says, if you have to,
33:09
Speaker 2: you've your neighbor one. Now, if you feel like you
33:13
Speaker 2: love that neighbor that much that you'll give them the
33:16
Speaker 2: shirt off your back so that you have nothing, then
33:19
Speaker 2: you might want to ask God is he gonna cover
33:21
Speaker 2: you on the back end if you do it your way?
33:27
Speaker 2: God covered me on the back end. But it was,
33:29
Speaker 2: like I said, one of the worst struggles of my
33:31
Speaker 2: life and I'll never go through it again.
33:33
Speaker 1: So now I ask God, should I do this? Should
33:36
Speaker 1: I do that?
33:37
Speaker 2: There are times I jump a little ahead. I still
33:40
Speaker 2: have that empathy factor, but and I get my handslapped. Look,
33:46
Speaker 2: I'm gonna deliver this message. I get my handslaps.
33:49
Speaker 1: I do.
33:50
Speaker 2: But the handslap is a reminder I don't have to
33:55
Speaker 2: step back. I'm not stepping back anymore. Walking with God,
34:00
Speaker 2: and I'm holding his hand. And when I go to
34:03
Speaker 2: pull away and do it my way and walk my
34:06
Speaker 2: way it. Depending on what it is, I might get
34:08
Speaker 2: a hand tap, sometimes he might let go. Some things
34:11
Speaker 2: I tell people or sometimes I tell people that God
34:13
Speaker 2: doesn't punish the worst punishment. He gives us to be
34:16
Speaker 2: hands off, and we want God to be hands on
34:18
Speaker 2: right all the time. So if he gets hands off,
34:22
Speaker 2: we're punished.
34:23
Speaker 1: That hurts.
34:25
Speaker 2: He ain't got his hands on our situation. So walk
34:29
Speaker 2: with God. Talk with God. Ask God, you know, is
34:32
Speaker 2: it something to do? And if you feel like well,
34:34
Speaker 2: I don't want to ask God because he might say no,
34:37
Speaker 2: I mean think again, think of him like your father.
34:40
Speaker 1: Same thing I tell my kids.
34:41
Speaker 2: If you know I'm going to say no and you
34:44
Speaker 2: still do it, that's like a deeper punishment like that,
34:47
Speaker 2: that's that's a deep disobedience.
34:52
Speaker 1: That's not even I.
34:53
Speaker 2: Said no and you wanted to try it, You thought
34:56
Speaker 2: it and still did it. You ain't even let the
34:58
Speaker 2: situation play out to see if I was gonna say yes.
35:02
Speaker 2: So again, I just wanted to share with y'all tonight
35:06
Speaker 2: about that open and closed doors. Pay attention to them.
35:09
Speaker 2: If it's a struggle to open it, you know, just
35:12
Speaker 2: walk away. Even if it's something that you want to open.
35:16
Speaker 2: You've been trying to get it. You might even try
35:18
Speaker 2: to gymy it. It don't work, all right, walk away.
35:23
Speaker 2: Now even with that, here comes your discernment. You go
35:27
Speaker 2: to walk down that hall and all of a sudden,
35:29
Speaker 2: that door that was so hard to open, all of
35:32
Speaker 2: a sudden pops open, creegs, it's little self open, gives
35:37
Speaker 2: you a little light in air. Come on, need y'all
35:41
Speaker 2: to be smarter than that. Now that door was closed,
35:45
Speaker 2: it was hard for me to open. I was sitting there, going, God,
35:49
Speaker 2: let this door open, and it wouldn't open. But now
35:54
Speaker 2: that I done passed it and said, you know what,
35:55
Speaker 2: I'm over I'm over opening that door.
35:57
Speaker 1: I'm over it.
35:59
Speaker 2: Maybe that just wasn't for me. Again, there's no trickery
36:02
Speaker 2: with God, so it's not like he just wanted to
36:05
Speaker 2: see if he was gonna be okay. Though those times
36:10
Speaker 2: are different. I mean again, I can't tell you what
36:12
Speaker 2: levels they go with tears they're in that comes with
36:15
Speaker 2: prayer time, discernment, relationship with God.
36:19
Speaker 1: You gotta get it if you want it, because it's there.
36:21
Speaker 1: Tap in on those.
36:26
Speaker 2: On another note, yes, definitely tap in with God because
36:30
Speaker 2: like I said, I work with important export. I see
36:37
Speaker 2: what's going on. I'm pretty sure y'all have. If you haven't,
36:39
Speaker 2: then that means you just haven't been ordering nothing. If
36:41
Speaker 2: you're taking a stam, more power to you. But if
36:44
Speaker 2: you have looked at the taxes that were paying some
36:46
Speaker 2: things were ordering online, your taxes are half of what
36:51
Speaker 2: you know you sometimes the item is I'm noticing different
36:56
Speaker 2: tariffs and stuff. And I'm bringing this up because God.
37:01
Speaker 1: Is our source.
37:01
Speaker 2: Right, He's not a resource. He's not something we use
37:06
Speaker 2: for other people or something like that. You know, he
37:08
Speaker 2: doesn't he uses people, right, he uses things. So God
37:14
Speaker 2: is our source. Tap into him, let him provide what
37:17
Speaker 2: you need, what you need, because one thing I'll say
37:22
Speaker 2: about the president and his people is they can't do
37:28
Speaker 2: everything they set out to do. But they are doing
37:31
Speaker 2: some things and it's causing some stuff. And you know,
37:35
Speaker 2: I'm continually continually asking people that voted for him, that
37:41
Speaker 2: are for him, what has he done for you lately? Now,
37:46
Speaker 2: if hiring these tariffs and all that is going to
37:49
Speaker 2: promote the jobs and promote within do all those things,
37:52
Speaker 2: then of course it's a waiting game.
37:53
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to wait. Then we're gonna talk about well.
37:55
Speaker 2: It's only his first year, it's only well, we know
37:58
Speaker 2: he's done a lot in his first months. But a
38:01
Speaker 2: lot of the good things that we're learning about him
38:03
Speaker 2: is he can't just speak it, and it's so like
38:05
Speaker 2: he got it don't work like that. One thing I
38:08
Speaker 2: can say that he taught us was that he can't
38:11
Speaker 2: just speak it in it. So I do believe, like
38:15
Speaker 2: I told y'all before, I still stand strong and we
38:17
Speaker 2: the people, and when there's something that's not right, I'm
38:20
Speaker 2: glad we do have some people in position that.
38:23
Speaker 1: Say, I mean, that just ain't right. It just don't
38:25
Speaker 1: sound right.
38:25
Speaker 2: We're gonna put it on the back burner, or we
38:27
Speaker 2: just gonna veto it all together.
38:28
Speaker 1: He just cannot speak it.
38:30
Speaker 2: So, but there are some things of concern, like tariffs
38:33
Speaker 2: going up, and I had a meeting with.
38:38
Speaker 1: Some people to talk about it.
38:41
Speaker 2: And one of the things that came up that I
38:44
Speaker 2: thought was funny but not funny, is so I work
38:48
Speaker 2: in import export and air freight, and see freight totally different.
38:51
Speaker 2: You want your stuff in three days or you want
38:53
Speaker 2: it in seven to two weeks. Seven days to two weeks,
38:56
Speaker 2: the prices are going to be different normally us the
39:01
Speaker 2: consumers may not see it on the end, but you
39:04
Speaker 2: know the distributors will see it like that. So it
39:08
Speaker 2: got brought up that there's some different pricing going on
39:11
Speaker 2: and different terar if ratings in that, and it said
39:13
Speaker 2: that a lot of people would like to go move
39:16
Speaker 2: their stuff ocean because it's cheaper. There are a lot
39:19
Speaker 2: of people were saying we can put certain things on
39:21
Speaker 2: the back burner, things that are needed for emergencies, cars,
39:23
Speaker 2: stuff like that. They'll go ahead and pay that, but
39:26
Speaker 2: for the most part, now they're gonna send it ocean. Well,
39:30
Speaker 2: you know, just like any common dictator, you find out
39:34
Speaker 2: where the people are resourcing outsourcing and you try to
39:38
Speaker 2: control that as well. So fun fact was that he
39:42
Speaker 2: wanted to tax it so bad and put tariffs on
39:45
Speaker 2: things so bad that he's willing to research and find
39:49
Speaker 2: out where the ocean liner was made. Well, if the
39:54
Speaker 2: ocean liner was made in certain areas, that's what I'm
39:57
Speaker 2: gonna tax the ocean liner itself.
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Speaker 1: So he's found another way.
40:03
Speaker 2: Again, there's certain things he can do, certain things he
40:05
Speaker 2: can't do, and that's there's more to come on that.
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Speaker 1: I Just like I said, fun.
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Speaker 2: Fact with y'all or with that for y'all is that
40:15
Speaker 2: he's he's finding ways to do still what may not
40:20
Speaker 2: be lawful, to make his word bond and it could
40:26
Speaker 2: or could not be at the price of us. So
40:27
Speaker 2: you want to stay tapped in, but you wanna be
40:31
Speaker 2: stay connected with God because no matter what he does,
40:34
Speaker 2: you'll be okay if you connected with God. And some
40:36
Speaker 2: things he'll tell you is coming again, you know, up
40:38
Speaker 2: on the curve. He'll close the doors, he'll open some doors,
40:40
Speaker 2: he'll put on your heart. Start saving some money, start listening,
40:44
Speaker 2: start doing what you're supposed to do. So, yeah, that
40:47
Speaker 2: was a fun fact and more to come about that.
40:49
Speaker 2: Like I said, I'm not trying to start y'all off
40:51
Speaker 2: on a bad week. I really want y'all to just
40:54
Speaker 2: pay it's attention to what's going on, open and closed
40:58
Speaker 2: door stuff like that. It was another thing I wanted
41:03
Speaker 2: to say while we're talking about how the presidency is
41:05
Speaker 2: doing what they want to do. Another funny fact, fun fact,
41:11
Speaker 2: funny fact, not really funny is I read that they
41:18
Speaker 2: will be lowering the GPA of teachers to fill the
41:24
Speaker 2: void that they have of teachers. So you're going to
41:30
Speaker 2: lower the GPA of educators who are educating our children
41:35
Speaker 2: to fill the need instead of just hiring the pay
41:38
Speaker 2: or I'm sorry, raising the pay and the salaries of
41:41
Speaker 2: the actual educators who took the education, who took the
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Speaker 2: psychological classes, who took all these things that are necessary
41:48
Speaker 2: for you to teach my child how to function in
41:50
Speaker 2: the world. Now you're going to lower the GPA.
41:53
Speaker 1: And it's funny.
41:53
Speaker 2: I had to talk with one of my daughter's teachers
41:56
Speaker 2: or yeah, last week and I told her about it.
42:00
Speaker 2: And her first question when I said they're going to
42:02
Speaker 2: be wrong and the GPA was to what, And I said,
42:07
Speaker 2: I don't think it matters. I mean, whatever it is
42:10
Speaker 2: that the GPAs are holding right now that has you
42:12
Speaker 2: required to be a teacher, or has the requirement for
42:14
Speaker 2: you to be that teacher, that's what you need to have.
42:17
Speaker 2: That's the psychological levels you need to have, all those things.
42:20
Speaker 2: We should be doing that. But I knew something was
42:22
Speaker 2: going to write when, like I told y'all before, they
42:24
Speaker 2: have now hiring signs on the outside of the Thang schools.
42:28
Speaker 2: What do you mean I just feel in an application
42:30
Speaker 2: and come get an a interview right on the spot.
42:35
Speaker 2: And if I got a nice smile and a good personality,
42:38
Speaker 2: then I'm almost assuing for the job. Can I work
42:45
Speaker 2: proficiently in outlook so I can read the curriculum, print
42:48
Speaker 2: out some papers, give it to the students. Can I
42:51
Speaker 2: understand it as much as they do. I don't like
42:54
Speaker 2: that my daughter can graduate at a higher GPA than
42:57
Speaker 2: her teacher.
42:59
Speaker 1: That's a little concis.
43:00
Speaker 2: So, like I told the teachers before, this is where
43:02
Speaker 2: I start to make the decisions. As you know most
43:05
Speaker 2: parents do. Do I want my kids to go to
43:07
Speaker 2: this school that school? What is it gonna cost me?
43:10
Speaker 2: Things like that, But watch out for that. These schools
43:14
Speaker 2: that are you know, they got bus buses schedules all
43:18
Speaker 2: over the place. They can't find bus drivers. My daughter's
43:21
Speaker 2: bus is late every day and you can see where
43:22
Speaker 2: they switched it. They had to use this bus that LUs.
43:26
Speaker 2: Are you going to lower the driving requirements or the
43:29
Speaker 2: driving records to fill bus drivers because I'm I don't
43:32
Speaker 2: want Jimmy that had even one DUI driving my daughter.
43:40
Speaker 1: My preference. I just don't want it.
43:43
Speaker 2: Because you're trying to just feel the space. So again,
43:46
Speaker 2: there's there's other things that we got to be concerned about.
43:50
Speaker 2: Education wise, we still have kids that are in school.
43:53
Speaker 2: I heard some things about, you know, Trump doing this
43:56
Speaker 2: shortening the work week and all this other stuff. When
43:59
Speaker 2: it comes to people flash, I believe it when I
44:02
Speaker 2: see it. God is the only thing that I can
44:04
Speaker 2: believe in. I don't have to see because even if
44:06
Speaker 2: it came to believing is or seeing his believing, I've
44:09
Speaker 2: seen enough of what God can do that didn't none
44:11
Speaker 2: of y'all know about, and he made me believe. So
44:16
Speaker 2: when it comes to Trump, seeing is believing. So like
44:19
Speaker 2: I said, one thing that he is showing me that
44:22
Speaker 2: made me feel good about his presidency that it's not
44:24
Speaker 2: up to the president to just say it is so
44:29
Speaker 2: you can't do it like that. One thing Obama said was,
44:31
Speaker 2: I mean I have a boss too. Y'all keep putting
44:33
Speaker 2: stuff on me. I have a boss too. So I'm
44:36
Speaker 2: seeing that and that that did good for me. That
44:39
Speaker 2: show that we the people still have some type of
44:42
Speaker 2: say because we still have some type of balance with
44:45
Speaker 2: some people who are not letting some stuff go. So
44:48
Speaker 2: stand on that hold to that start to speak about
44:51
Speaker 2: stuff that's not wrong. There's some parents that just ain't involved.
44:54
Speaker 2: There's some people that's just not involved, and they are
44:57
Speaker 2: the biggest complainers. Well, that's because you didn't know what
44:59
Speaker 2: was going on, and when it hit the fan, now
45:01
Speaker 2: you're mad about it. Even if you knew about it
45:04
Speaker 2: and it hit the fan, at least you knew it
45:05
Speaker 2: was coming. It might have been a little more prepared.
45:09
Speaker 2: Go back into discernment and listening to what's going on.
45:13
Speaker 2: Even though I watch the news and I hear what's
45:15
Speaker 2: going on, I see what's going on at work, I
45:17
Speaker 2: still go God, you saw it cool. As long as
45:20
Speaker 2: you saw, you hear everything you see every struggle. I'm
45:24
Speaker 2: just to follow him, not him, follow me, not me,
45:27
Speaker 2: make the plans for other people's lives, and take initiative
45:31
Speaker 2: and kick open doors. Nah, if you don't have a
45:37
Speaker 2: plan because you got with God, I really don't know
45:40
Speaker 2: what to tell you. I gotta be careful where I
45:46
Speaker 2: get involved in things that don't really evolve me. God
45:50
Speaker 2: ain't gonna have me involved where I'm not gonna evolve.
45:54
Speaker 2: So I want you all to take that with you.
45:59
Speaker 2: Run a little over tonight. But I had a message
46:01
Speaker 2: and I really want y'all to get that. So I
46:04
Speaker 2: got some good things coming up. I got a guest
46:07
Speaker 2: on my next show, and uh, I think it's gonna
46:12
Speaker 2: be a maybe a two to three part series. It's
46:14
Speaker 2: gonna be really good. The topic is gonna be therapy.
46:18
Speaker 2: Let me just give y'all that little nugget should I
46:23
Speaker 2: or should I not?
46:24
Speaker 1: Type of thing? You know what could it or could
46:26
Speaker 1: I could it not do?
46:27
Speaker 2: For me? And I'm getting a lot of different perspectives
46:29
Speaker 2: on it, a whole lot of diverse discussions on it.
46:32
Speaker 2: So I definitely want to bring all of it to business.
46:35
Speaker 2: So I'll be doing something like that. I'll be posting
46:39
Speaker 2: some things. God, let me make sure I never get
46:41
Speaker 2: off of a show without telling Queen Angela, you know
46:45
Speaker 2: much props to you, much love to you. You're always
46:47
Speaker 2: doing something, man, she got so much going on. I
46:50
Speaker 2: can't keep up. She's got events coming up. You connected
46:52
Speaker 2: with this woman. You're gonna be doing a whole lot
46:54
Speaker 2: of things too. She's New York, Chicago, you got a
46:57
Speaker 2: thing coming up in South Carolina. Like I'm just getting
47:00
Speaker 2: ready to just have to repost. I can't even really
47:02
Speaker 2: tell y'all about it. She's done so much. One thing
47:05
Speaker 2: I'm learning about her is she's very well connected and
47:08
Speaker 2: whatever she can't do or can do, she's still passing
47:11
Speaker 2: it on. I got a great opportunity coming up for
47:15
Speaker 2: an interview for an LA magazine, and that was really cool.
47:18
Speaker 2: Never imagined it in my life. Reaching out to me
47:22
Speaker 2: because of her. So I know people who connect with
47:25
Speaker 2: her that they end up writing a book, it's getting published,
47:28
Speaker 2: they're doing a book signing, they're having some type of
47:30
Speaker 2: celebration all from her name, even just her name rings bells,
47:35
Speaker 2: which lets me know that she's been ten toes down
47:38
Speaker 2: and everything she does and kept her word because everything
47:41
Speaker 2: she said would happen has happened. So much love to you,
47:44
Speaker 2: miss Angela. I didn't really get to talk about the
47:46
Speaker 2: one hundred authors movement. Yeah, y'all, y'all doing great. Y'all
47:50
Speaker 2: doing big things. So I'm so excited about that. I'm
47:53
Speaker 2: so excited and honor to even be a part of that,
47:56
Speaker 2: being able to show up. I was in a book, y'all.
47:58
Speaker 2: I didn't really get to tell y'all about that. Like
48:00
Speaker 2: I said, been going through a lot with air season.
48:02
Speaker 2: My company's doing different things and I'm finna get into
48:06
Speaker 2: all that, so y'all stay tuned. Thank y'all for joining me.
48:11
Speaker 2: We'll see what comes up next, all right, thank you,
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Speaker 2: bad to business.