June 22, 2025 • 51 mins
Learn how to apply the fundamental truths of God's Word in your day-to-day life. Topics range from faith, fear, guns, makeup, and everything in between.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, Good morning, good evening, good afternoon. I am your
host a Dolla shuttles Worth and you are watching or
listening to the Dollar's Shuttlesworth podcast, and I am so
incredibly happy that you are here with me. Is my guest.
She's special in so many ways. Megali Mygali, me Gali
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mean Galia me Gali. Okay, Olivia, shut it anyway, your
hair looks great. Did you go see Ange today? I did,
looks like that same. I knew that curling like the
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curling iron look a mile away. It's like she's got
the artist touch. You know what I'm saying. It's like
the zing zing She's fantastic. Three Strand salons. Go check
her out. Okay. So we are just talking about a
whole bunch of things today. But one of the things
that I really want to hone in on is you
can't be serious. You're already coming off the gate like
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I can't I can't help it, can help it. Why
are you always I can't help like I can't help it?
You you can't be serious. In the words of Daddy
dig you you you you can't be serious because honestly,
I'm like I'm touching the screen as though it is touched.
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I'm literally like, why is this not responding to my touch?
Because it's not my iPad, it's a freaking computer. Okay.
So anyways, it's like, you can't be serious and let
me tell you a heart of love because you know
you don't need me to tell you how much I
love you and how much I care about you, and
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that you're mabou thing and that we're like this, you
and me. I'm not talking about how talking about you,
you and me, And so I don't say things to
be like like like a catchy phrase. You know what
I'm saying. I'm saying this. If if I could sit
down with you and we could just talk about what
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really is happening in your life, I would say, hey,
you can't be serious. You can't be serious. You might
you must not be serious. And and most of the
time it all falls under this, these kinds of scenarios.
Whether it's financial mm hmmm, whether it's physical, you're you're
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unsatisfied about your appearance, your health, financial speaks for itself.
You're just not satisfied. You keep hitting the same walls,
and it seems like you're just siddenly always struggling, and
you're like, ah, you know, maybe it's problems in your
your home, with your children, with your marriage, maybe it's
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a problem with you and your identity. And you're like, man, like,
I'm just not happy mentally, and there's just like so
many avenues, but it all kind of comes up in
this one little pocket. It all just trickles down to
this one little pocket. And that one little pocket is
you can't be serious. You cannot be serious. And this
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is the thing. Like people want the manifestation, people want
the breakthrough, people want the miracles, people want the signs
and the wonders, and they want, you know, deliverance and
all of these things. But they're not willing to put
in the work that is required. They're not willing to
put in what's required. I know this isn't working. Is
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this stream deck opening? Is it working? This might be
a new thing, And this is the problem. This is
the problem. When it comes to your constant hitting of
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that wall, there just doesn't seem to be a breakthrough.
And let me tell you, in order for you to
break through, there needs to be a punch. There needs
to be a continuation of you hitting that thing, hitting
that thing, hitting that thing until it is obliterated, until
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it breaks forth. Can I tell you a story. I'm
gonna do it anyway. Put on. There's a lot of
things up here, OKIK. So when I was under attack
in my body, and this probably was a little bit
before COVID hit because we were in the Bridgeville office,
and uh, my body, there was things that were happening.
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And this was shortly before I got pregnant, and so
it was it was an attack in my mind. It
was an attack in my body, like I could sense.
I was just full of anxiety and full of fear
for God knows what reason. And uh, I just felt
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like I was under attack. So I sat down at
that little, tiny white table in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, and I
looked over because Pastor Kofi was there, and I looked
at him and I said, I need you to pray
and I need you to believe God with me to
get over this funk. And He's like, I just feel
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like an idiot that I'm like back in this place,
you know, because at that time, I'd seen breakthrough, I'd
seen the miracles. I've been doing things that God, you know,
call me to do, and all of a sudden, it
seemed like it just came back and it was like compounded.
And so I was like, and I don't know how
to move about this, and he said, and I was like,
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and I'm certainly not going to be a hypocrite and
start talking about, you know, my deliverance and joy and
freedom and healing when I don't feel like that's happening
in my own body. To him, I said that to him,
And so I said, how can I preach on these
things when I'm undergoing the very thing that I'm speaking on.
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I feel like an idiot, to be honest with you.
And he said, it's not sin to preach on the
message of truth. That's what's going to get you the deliverance.
And so he's that it's not hypocritical to believe God
for something while you're still in that situation. Yeah, you know.
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And he's like, that's actually what faith is. And he said,
and what you have to understand is you don't have
to believe for something that's already in your possession. And
he looked at me and he said, you already have
the freedom. And he was like, speaking to my spirit,
you already have the strength to knock that enemy down.
You've already done it, so you can do it again.
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And that like ministered to me, and he's like, you know,
see this slab of drywall here. I said, what was
to happen if I just continue to punch that slab continually,
just NonStop? You know, at some point the pressure of
my fist going into that drywall is going to cause
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a crumbling, a breaking down of sorts. And he says,
and that's what most people deal with. The devil is
not patient, and he doesn't stick with something very long.
He's not steadfast like we are called to be, and
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so he gives up. He gives up and quits, you know.
And he's like, so if you position yourself to outlast him,
you will win. And that scripture came up is don't
don't give up, don't don't quit while doing good? What
is that scripture? Max? I forget? Do not be weary,
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don't be weary. And that's how I felt. I felt tired.
I felt like I've been fighting for so long, felt tired.
Don't want to fight you doing anything at the time exactly.
That's how you know, yo, honestly though, like just perspective,
I know, really wasn't much going on. There really wasn't.
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There really was. In my head there was I was like, oh,
I got this, and I got that, and I've got
this thing to take care of, and then we've got
traveling in this and bla blah blah blah. And now
what I'm doing in compared to what you know, I
feel more rejuvenated, more youthful now doing what I'm doing
the most I've ever done, because I'm I'm doing it right.
I'm not in my head. My perspective has changed. But
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he said that, and he's like, you know, if I
was to continue to punch this wall, eventually there's gonna
gonna be a breakdown of this wall. Eventually, I'm going
to have a hole in that wall in the same
place that I punched. I punched. And so he's like,
if you don't give up and quit, you will see
the breakthrough. But it's it's it's climbing over that Oh
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this is so hard. It's that mindset that this is
so hard right now, And that's what it felt like.
I felt like my life was hard, My circumstances are hard,
and I am constantly fighting for the breakthrough. And now
this is compounded, and I got to fight again, and
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I don't know if I've got the fight in me.
And so he just positioned me, just repositioned, you know,
give me a little bout. Balance said, No, you already
have it. You just don't realize it yet. But your
job is to keep at it. And your job is
to be steadfast in that fight of faith and not
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give up when things get hard. And so there's certain
things that happen in our lives that maybe we didn't
ask for, or outside circumstances, you know, that make life
more difficult.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I don't know, you know, I don't know. But what
do we do in those instances? You know? Do we
give up and quit because it's hard? And the answer
to that is, oh, no, hell no, hell no, hell no,
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what the hell is wrong with you? Quit?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
You're gonna go this far and quit? No, ma'am, No, No,
We've come too far for you to give up.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Now. I can't have you give up. I can't have
you give up, not today, not ever, sir, ma'am. I can't.
I can't. Let's not go there, Let's not go let's
not have our minds go there. But the fact is okay,
And so I gave you this little sad story just
to sauce you up. Now I'm gonna go in for
the jugular chang because ultimately my problem was I wanted
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to give up because it started getting hard and I
didn't want to have to fight and I wouldn't have
to wanna like continue to pray and just you know,
believe God that everything's gonna be okay. No, I actually
wanted to feel that kind of a way. I wanted
to feel salty. You did, Yeah, I did, you did. Indeed,
I wanted to feel overwhelmed, you know, because I felt overwhelmed,
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like legit, like I wasn't choosing anything. I feel over
I'm going to live in this little world's called overwhelm
right here, this little world right here. I want to
live right here, and that's what I did. I want
to live right here with a pity party where life
is hard, you know. And I could give you sob
stories and I could tell you why I can live here,
why I belong here, But truthfully, that's not going to work.
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When I'm thinking about what I want to produce in
this world. That ain't it. That ain't it. It's not
gonna take me where I want to go. You're complaining
your sad story. Your inability to pick up and go
is not going to accomplish Jack Diddley squat. It's just
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not high Lady Slim. Oh, yes, you're right, So you're right.
You can't be serious. That's that's the title. You can't
be you can't be serious because if you really want breakthrough,
it took me having to let go of my feels
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and come into alignment with the word of God. Yeah,
do you know what I'm saying? But I just don't.
I don't. It's really not difficult. It's just a mental
hurdle that most people just are triggered by true or
not true. Very everything is totally it's it's here a
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Hondau persento right, So it's like and then people negate
the importance of words and write words proceed right feelings.
So it's like, you don't get the good feeling until
you check your mouth. So what's interesting and what's so
bizarre about any kind of hurdle is that the difficulty
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is really only in your mind. And if you are
experiencing difficulty, it's safe to say that you have a
weak mind. I didn't want to say it. I didn't
want to say it. Damn right, you're scared. I don't
want to say it. But ultimately that's what that's that's
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she said it. I didn't. So if you're gonna send
any hate mail, send it to megalas at a dollar
Shuttlesworth podcast dot com and then recognize that's not even
an email. But listen, this is the thing people want.
But see, see, this is this is the thing Max.
People say they want something, but their actions prove. I know,
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I talk to you about them to be different. Every
day people say they want a happy marriage, but you
don't want a happy marriage. I'm not healthier options at McDonald's.
It's not gonna happen. You want the the number one,
you just say the big Mac. What's a secret sauce.
The reality is vanilla male number one. Every single time.
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You ain't gonna get the salad Drew. No, you're not,
you're not. You're Remember the salads that would come in
a cup. Those were by though I actually love those salads,
they were kind of soggy sometimes though. You know what
I'm saying. But you know what, and let me tell
you it's I think about this a lot of times.
The most miserable people are the ones that say something
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different than what they are doing. Those two worlds. When
those two worlds collide and connect, when you do exactly
what you say you're gonna do, that's the that's the power.
That's the meaning of happiness. That's the power. There lies
the power is when that lines up. Because you can't
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be serious. I don't believe that you're serious about wanting
a healthier marriage when you're not putting in the effort.
You can't be serious. You can't be serious. I don't
believe that you want your children to be raised in
the fear and admonition of the Lord when they go
missing from children's church for eight weeks. You can't be serious.
I don't think that you really want to live healthy
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because you have been at Wendy's every single day this
week with the baconator in hand. You can't be serious.
You can't be serious. You can't be serious, can't be serious.
You can't be serious. You can't be serious about really
wanting to be a man or woman of God and
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live holy and righteous when you don't even go to church,
you don't even read the word. You can't be serious.
I remember get upset when I would go, like in
high school, we would like evangelize all the time, and
we would get like eleven twelve new students all the
time to come into church and stuff like that. And
there was this a couple of guys that we would
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try to like witness to and girls. And it was
interesting how every single time it stuck with me still
to this day, I'm thinking about it. But I would say, hey,
how's it going, and they would say stuff like I
haven't I haven't been smoking weed. I haven't smoked in
like six weeks. And you knew that they were. They
had like they were high, you know what I'm saying.
They were just they had just recently got high. But
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I remember that look and that he was trying to
convince me that he was. He hadn't gotten high, and
so he was like it was like, this is the
person that I strive to be. I'm trying. Migaw's like,
I'm trying to be that person. Just look like understand
like he was. He was so dishonest and yet he
wanted me to believe that he was like this version
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of himself that he wasn't. And how many of us
do that every single day, every single day, every single
those days are long gone for me. I'm done China.
If I if I know that I'm not going to
put in the effort, I'm not gonna be I'm not
gonna agree to it without a doubt. I won't and
I'm not. Also, you know what I'm not gonna do
is complain about it. I'm not going to complain about
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a really difficult marriage if I'm not putting up put
in the effort, if I'm not doing what's required as
a wife, you know I can't. I'm I'm not also
gonna complain about it, exactly right. So I just wish
that most people would kind of dissect that. I feel
like we talk about this every single time we're on
the podcast, but it's worth repeating and it's worth bringing
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this kind of into the light because you can't be
serious about what you really want when there's no effort
and there's no work. That was part of the reason
why I started my fitness training, which we're doubling down
on soon, because you know what's happening, and I remember
able I complained. I was like, man, I can't I
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don't fit into any of my clothes, and I was
just like so frustrated and ables like, when are you
going to stop talking about it? And when are you
going to actually start doing it? And I remember being like,
this is part of the reason why I'm so miserable
is because I know that I'm to do this thing
and I'm not doing it and I know better. It's like,
you know better, you know better? He is? That was rambo,
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but not bad. I was like, who's that that law?
We all does that? You? So anyway, you got to
make those voices line up. I'm telling you that's the
the beginning of real happiness is when you do exactly
what you say you gon't do. And that's that is
where it's once you make up your mind, do you
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know what I'm saying, Once you make up your mind
on a situation that you know what, why I wish
more people would just kind of like dissect that and realize,
wait a minute, why what are the avenues in my
life that are leading me to a place of misery?
Is it something that I can fix? You know what?
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Nine times out of ten it is something that you
can fix, yes, you know, And so why not start there?
And then here's the second thing you should ought to do.
After you dissect those avenues into misery and come to
the realization that it is something that I can fix.
How about all control over? Yeah, how about now taking
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initiative to rectify that situation?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And And this is the thing. It doesn't have to
be a big ordeal. It could just start with you
walking ten minutes a day, fifteen minutes a day after
every man. I promise you, this is the way the
Holy Spirit works. It's the steps of the righteous. Again,
we say it all the time, steps of the righteous.
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It's not the leaps, it's not the jumps. In fact,
Pastor Jonathan said, only Satan says, hey, Jesus leap off
of this, didn't he? Not a So the reality is
is that the Holy Spirit will give you an instruction.
And it's again nine times out of ten, it's going
to be just one little step. It's going to say
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be like this, ready, ready for the sample. I'm ready apologize.
I don't like that one anything else that's not true
that sucks, and it does. It is that elementary. It
is that because really, if you start ignoring those and
then you want you can't graduate into the bid. That's
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not how life works. How life works, it's just not
You don't have to do the little, the little, tiny,
you know, unassuming things that nobody sees. And then those
are the things that compound. Those are the things that
will radically change your life. But you don't want to
little things. You don't want to do it because you
don't feel like it. So what do you want? Oh, okay,
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you can't say that. You can't say that. That's a
really bad word. Mags. You realize that, no, she doesn't.
It's just like, no, it is. It's a little bit
harsher than that. What I want you to see is
the definition of misery. Do you want to hear it?
It's powerful, yes, great unhappiness, extreme pain of body or mind. Boom. Okay.
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Misery is as really the fruit of vice reigning in
the heart hot as tears are the produce of tears,
I'm sorry, as tears are the produce of tears sewn
into the field. So say it one more time. Misery
is as really the vice reigning in the heart as
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tears are the produce of tears sewn in the field.
So when we're talking about let's let's see that Ooh,
that's like. That's leading me loaded too, that's loaded. Mmm.
Kind of seed? What can I soil? Are we dealing
with a dallas? This is it? Matthew thirteen twenty four.
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What is it? What's the soil it? I'm going to
read it in the New King's James version. This is
one of the cares of the world. Another parable he
put forth to them, saying, the Kingdom of Heaven is
like a man who sows good seed in his field.
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tears
among the wheats, and went his way. But when the
grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tears
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also appeared. So the servant of the owner came and
said to him, sir, do you not sow good seeds
in your field? How then does this have tears? He
said to them, an enemy has done this. The servant
said to him, do you want us then to go
and gather them up? But he said no. Let's while
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you gather the tears up, you also uproot the wheat
with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. And
at the time of the harvest, I will say to
the reaper, first gather together to tears and bind them
in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into
my barn. Amen. That's interesting that it would. It would
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liken the misery aspect to the tears being sown, because
really you've got to recognize the enemies sent to destroy you.
And at times the enemy is not what you think
it is. The enemy isn't a demon like a goblin demon.
You know, we're getting ready to go into October and
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Halloween and most people are looking at demons and oh
like ghosts and goblins and all that kind of stuff.
But the enemy to greatness is this. It's these mindsets
that will absolutely cripple production in your life. And so
if you allow yourself to permeate, I won't say PerMIATE,
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if you allow your your minds to marinade, in in
in bitterness, in complaining. I was just we're coming out
with the series in our children's church about their character
building things. And if you don't know, we have the
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Mighty Series, which is a book for children in regards
to God's Word. But we're doing we're launching all kinds
of things shortly. But with this we have our Revival Today,
Kid Revival Today, Mighty kids, and we do lessons based
on character building and all that kind of stuff, which
you can find on YouTube for free. And one of
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the things that we're talking about in the month of
October is these character building things. And if we can
impart these things into our children, by the time they're
our age, they don't have to put up with this
kind of nonsense, because it's very important what you think about. Complaining, whining,
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being lazy, all of these things. You gotta put away,
all of those child the childish meant mindsets. I'm I'm
I'm hurt, I'm tired. I can't do that. It is
it's all. You can see the immaturity from a mile away.
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Yet you want and know and this is the thing,
as Donald Trump would say with his hands, this is
the thing. Then they get. Then they start hating on
people who are activating it the right way, and they're
constantly complaining, and they're constantly criticizing, and they're constantly comparing
themselves to other people, and instead of it being ammunition
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to really go after the things that the Lord has
promised in his word, they actually the guns turn to
them in pro cuckoo and the it's just like they're
they're they're they're destroying themselves in the process. It's awful.
And so I want you to see Matthew six thirty three,
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but seek, aim at, and strive after. See, seeking isn't
just going to church every now and again and hoping
that you have the attention span to retain the message
that's coming forth from Prester Jonathan or whoever's up there. Yeah,
that's not seeking. When we talk about seek, hunt each
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says hunt eagerly, Hunt eagerly. I am no longer just
like seeking. I'm just here. Just that you are zeroed in,
you're striving after that. That takes effort to go after
something with straining. I am straining to receive something because
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I am so sick of my current condition. And to me,
there's nothing more repulsive than somebody who just complains about life.
And to the Lord too, he hates complainers. It's awful.
So what do we do? We strive after all his
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kingdom and his righteousness, his way of doing and being right,
and then all things taken together will be given you. Besides,
that's a crazy transition. All things will we added unto you,
All things shall be added unto you. But see, this
is the thing. Most people they don't want to do it.
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It's just not serious enough. You can't be serious. I'm
part of this group and it's a it's a business thing, right,
And he says, I've seen you, guys, I troll you.
I've got a crew of people watching you. And he's like,
and out of all of the people that are in
this group, and there's a lot, he's like, six percent
of you guys do what I say? Six Absolutely? I'm shocked.
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Is that high? Shocked? And he says it's interesting. He's like,
because I'm not in. He's like, if you're not gonna
apply the rules to this group, have you been doing it? Yes?
You are one part of the sixth Oh and I
just started the group. Oh okay, this is just me
coming in on this. But you are part of the
six correct, You're not gonna be caught sleeping. No, But
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I you know, there's a lot of things. There's a
lot of things that you got. What is it? What
is it? Tell me? Like two one of the homework
assignments is of contact everybody that follows you. Oh, do
you know what I'm saying? Okay, So so I'm like,
you know what, but you know I'm I'm attacking everyone. Yes, dramatic,
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I know, but he says it's it's worth its weight,
so anyway what I'm saying. He also said, I am
not I am not somebody that's going to And this
is what I'm trying to drive through my mentorship programing
here because y'all can take this information. Most of you
listen to it because of some crazy mags is gonna say,
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I'm curious, you know, but like it goes in one
ear and out the other, like nothing changes because you
don't really desire it. You desire to live your own life.
So I don't care what you say and what kind
of complaint you have. If you're not actively pursuing to
fix it, then you'd like where you're at all. You
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can't tell me any different. And that's why that's anyway, Yeah,
that's why I You know, the older we get, the
more we see things for what they are. So the
boo who stories just don't fit I. And this is
what I felt. I was telling somebody the other day,
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I feel like my my my heart has grown hard,
and I was like, lord, no, it's just that's me,
like all it going. But that's what it is because
I see, like put the boohoo aside, I see right
through that nonsense, and I say, whatever, Really, at the
root of it, you're lazy. At the root of it,
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you're okay with being Can we get the oil, the
anointing oil right now? Where is it the anointing will?
Because you're helping us. Thank you? Do you know what
I mean? Like when you're a complaint when you have
But here's the thing people don't even I think that
that's part of the solution to this is being mindful
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of what you've allowed in your mind and what you've
allowed to speak out and the things that you have
coddled for years and years and years. I'm unhappy because
of this. I'm too fat. Why I mean, people keep
looking back. I'm nothing there. Do something do so that's
gonna help you with the future. Do something different, do
something something different and let me let me tell you
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that about this you're upset about that, and let me
tell you. I mean, like you know, let's just stop
while we're ahead. Let me tell you the four things
that I'm trying to train this next generation because some
of you guys are so hardheaded that it's going to
bypass you. That's something that I've already learned, you know
what I'm saying. Oh so it's like why And that's
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why I really do believe that our focus, my focus,
a big chunk of of what I do and teach
is geared to children. Yes, because at that age you
can get them there, that's it. So but then after
a while it's you grow callous, You grow callous, you
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just the and and when I say upset, it's like
it's cemented. There's you had a time to move up
out of the situation, but because you didn't, it is
now cemented. And so you try to take your feet
out of that cement. It's now it's gonna take and
now it's gonna And this is the thing. Why wait
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till there's chaos, Why wait till there's crisis, Why wait
till there's tears? Why wait when you can you can
check your soil now in that right, And that's it,
And that's what, that's what. Really I've got four points
when it comes to character building that I'm emphasizing on
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with the children. The first one is quit lying, quit lying,
quit lying, you know, but more importantly, most we say,
we say lying to yourself that this is a basic thing.
And I haven't really heard any preaching online, do you
know what I'm saying? But like you lie about situations
all the time. When your husband says everything all right,
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you say, Okay, I'm fine. You're not fine. And you're
not aiding and solving the problem. You're avoiding it. You're
sweeping it under the rug. And then all of a sudden,
fifteen years of doing that, the volcano erupts. Oh help us,
and now you're cemented in there because you refuse to
be honest the second one, or be honest with yourself
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about so many other things. Okay, oh well, my knee
hurts and I haven't gotten healed because of that, and
I'm just wondering why the Lord won't heal my knee.
You're overweight, You're two hundred pounds overweight, Cindy, Oh my god,
that was specific. Sinny, No, like that was enough enough
with the nonsen honest with yourself, Be honest yourself. The
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reason why your knee hurts is because you are you are.
You ate yourself into a scooter. That's it, she said
it you ate yourself into a scooter. You can undo that.
You can't do it. I was walking out, I was
driving to Angie's, and there was there was a mother
and daughter, and they looked like the exact same human being,
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both equally overweight. One of them was injured, the mother
you could tell, was injured, and then the daughter, which
was like a teenager, was equally overweight. They literally looked
like a copy and paste and it crushed my heart.
I was like, here's this this mother who should be
full of life, who should be having fun with her
teenage daughter, and her teenage daughter is in the middle
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of a school day having to take her mother to
the walk in clinic to help her with her whatever
her ailing leg. It looked like she was like wobbling
and hopping. That's not that's not the life. That's not
living life life. You're not you. We could do better,
you could do better. I can do better. I know,
I definitely can do better, you know, And it's just
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coming to that reality that like you're lazy and that's okay,
let's let's get over it. But the more you can
call a spade of spade, the better you the more
honest you are with you're going to solve, the more
of the problem you're going to solve. So you are
living in freedom because really truth brings about freedom. So
you're living in bondage because you're not real about the situation.
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I wish you could just be real about it, talk
about it, expose it, be vulnerable. That's what love does.
And it shows that you're vulnerable and you're ready to
expose and bear all. That's what I mean. Here's the
thing when you have nothing. You know, when Jesus said
the Satan has nothing inside me, he can't come after it,
he has nothing in me. It's like that's part of
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the nicety of being clear and concise and transparent and
being true to yourself. It's like, okay, you know you
can see things for what they really are because it's
just like I'm not playing games. And if you can
learn that now, don't lie. Don't complain. That's another one.
Don't lie, don't complain. That's your mood swings. Check your
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mood swings. I brought canaan Abel up in this piece.
What was the last one? Don't lie, don't complain. Oh,
and don't be lazy. All of those things are like
a core thing that and I'm seeing it in like
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grown men and women like if we can fight this
now when you're this age, and we can like instill
in you the spirit of excellence and truth, we're going high. Johnny.
You should give you a little on how to how
to overcome each one. Let's start first with don't lie.
Don't lie, literally, don't So it's funny because I isolating
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something that you've been lying about, and then speak the
truth about that something that you've been lying to yourself about.
It automatically it's shed light, shed light to that bib
bur rating. And again it's the little things, right, it's
the little. If you can't if you can't do it
in the little, how are you expected to do it
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in the big? You can't know. It's like it wasn't
work with the little, You're gonna do with the big
without a doubt. That's all. So, if you're not going
to be truthful to your own self, how do you
want a marriage to thrive? How do you want to
be excellent in your home and in your business? If
you're taking corners, you're being lazy. You don't carry a
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spirit of excellence. These are all things that we got
to reflect on, dissect and say, you know what I
could do better? I could do more. I can take
this a little bit more seriously because I'm not yeah
so quick playing games. But I as I was telling
little Johnny the Puppet, you know, because John Formby does it,
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and we're just we never have anything scripted. I just say, hey,
this is where I'm taking it. Go flow, you know whatever.
He's so good, and so I said, but just so
you know, I am bringing Anonius, Annius and Spire right
in there. And he goes, oh my god. So he's saying, like,
you know, one of his school friends lied and now
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he's asking him to cover it up with a lie,
you know. Yeah. And so I was like, let me
tell you a little story. And then he goes, oh, man,
so they got in a lot of trouble and I
was like hmmm, and he goes, did they get paddled?
He's to like going AND's like, did they get grounded?
And I was like, no, he dropped dead, you know.
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And he's like, I don't want to die. I never lie.
I don't want to die. I was like, listen, but
you know what what I should have said is there
is a part of you that dies when you lie. Yeah,
there's this this this fake, this false reality that you
live in that is causing you to live a life
of defeat and death, and it's that's not the life
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for you. So just be real, you know, just just
be real with yourself. What see? And this is the thing.
If you can't come up with a solution, then you
don't really want it. If if you can sit down
and say, I'm happy, I'm unhappy about my work flow,
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I'm unhappy with my marriage, I'm unhappy with what I'm
what I'm doing. I think that most people, let's dispect
that some more. I don't know why they're miserable. What
is it? They always think that it's something some outside
force that's making them miserable. Oh, my mass doesn't see
what I'm doing, So I'm I'm upset. You're helping us.
And this is the reason why. It's because my husband
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doesn't show me appreciation. It's because I'm not married. It's
because I don't have children, It's because I don't have
a house, it's because I don't want And then when
they have a house, and then when they have kids,
there's so when they have a miserable they're still they're
still miserable still because it's it's it's a spiritual thing.
But you got to get alone with the holy ghosts,
just you and him, and you have to say, show
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me perfect my heart, purify right spirit within me, that's right,
clean out my heart. Let me tell you, one hundred
percent of the times you're going to get an answer
that you never thought was the source of it. True, true,
it's just like, okay, you know what, bring it back down.
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But if that there's an action to it, every time,
it's going to be an It's like it's going to
you didn't give is required back in two thousand and six.
Something is required, Something is required, And let me tell
you you can't if you want change, if you want happiness,
and you are going through the same old, same old,
year after year after year, and then you continue to
do the same things over and over again. It's insane, lunacy.
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You're you're a lunatic, and take that because we love
you so much. But somebody has to tell you that
your looney tunes, Honda. That's the reason why I can
say that you've been there on Hondo because it's like,
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that's a definition of inseniting doing the same thing over
and over again and then expecting a different result. That's
not that's not a lifetime. That's why. The more that
you can perfect being uncomfortable and taking on things that
challenge you, the more that's the growth process. Yes, that's
what it looks like to grow. Not being comfortable. You're
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not comfortable. You better be shaking in your boots, shaking
in your boots, because there has to be something that
pushes you in order to grow. And if you're not,
then you're losing. You're dying. You you're dying if you're
not learning, if you're not continually building something, there is
a rot. You are literally dying. You are slowly you
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quit learning, you quit challenging yourself. You know, one of
the things about muscle building is you got to do
new things muscle confusion so that it continues to build.
At you, Dallas, I know, thank you you. But all
of that stuff comes with discipline that comes with much
use of that muscle. Yeah, so it just doesn't come
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and I think people in their delusion feel like I'm
not there because it comes so easy. It didn't come easy.
This wasn't easy for us. No, this was hillaciously awkward.
I wish we had a clip of the very first
time I had to introduce myself and how many takes
it took. How about remember when pastor Pastor Johnathan, pastor
Max had us record just scripture, you know, scripture for
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like some montage that he later created or whatever about
youth group, and all we were tasked to do was
read a scripture. Couldn't do it? Could it do? I not?
Yea of one one one second of the stuff that
we were audishing out. It was so bad, so cringe,
so cringe. So yeah, no you do. And then eventually
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you get comfortable with that, and then you need more
than That's it to make you uncomfortable in order to continue.
When you have that loser mindset, you're looking at other
people and saying that comes an easy thing, must be
nice when you it's like, no, they put in the effort,
they put in the work, they put in the discipline,
and now they have a return of investment. You have nothing,
and now you get nothing. Do you know what? It's
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It's just really that simple. And so but get down
to it. And that's your homework assignment as we close
up today, is what are the three things that you
are not happy about in your life? And how can
you fix them. And if the answer is I don't
have an answer, then you're not. You can't be serious.
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Ah that's great. You can't be serious out great the
change that's great. Can't be serious. So by so continue
to be miserable and continue to push people away, because
that's what's gonna happen. Misery will attract you to other
miserable person, but it'll also uh push you away from
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good quality people, no doubt. People that are effective are
not gonna want to be around somebody that's complaining and
whining and miserable. No way. I know. I know that,
No way, no way. I know that face. Everybody here
knows that face. You see someone who's miserable, and that's it.
I'm running I can. I will avoid you at all costs,
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same I will. You know what I would do? I
would I would start doing the breakdance. If I see
somebody coming towards me, I will break dance and roll
up the other way. I don't care how drastic and
how dramatic it might be. If I know that you're
gonna damp in my mood, I will drop down, do
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the worm all the way in my car. Whoop, I'm
getting away from this person because I ain't got time.
I will boom boom boom all the way to my
car because I protect that, I protect myself. I got
enough negativity going in here. Don't need it from out here.
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Walp on you. Anyways, They're not looking for a solution,
they don't. They just want they want to blow off
some steam, say a louder for the people in the bad.
That's it. They're not trying to get a they're not
trying to get any They don't care. So if you
don't care, I don't care. Believe me alone. I'm trying
to live my best life out here. Okay, we're trying
to put in a good healthy work and uh listen.
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The other day we started pilates, talking about doing challenging
things and things that maybe I got a little bit
too comfortable in my workout games, so I tried pilates.
This was literally one of the just the worst days
of my life, and it really was. Then the lady
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next to me starts she must have had Greek food.
I smelled feta, I smell well, all sorts of things.
Let me tell you something. When I was doing my
other workout, I never had once this problem, not what
And I went into Pilate's now three times and each
time somebody's burping, somebody's farting. I'm not playing. I think
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it might be you because I've been and I'm nothing,
and I'm like, I wonder why. It's just like I
don't get it. I don't get it. Is that your story? Yeah?
I mean? And also the workout wasn't very challenging. All
the girls were like, oh, this is so hard, Okay,
I'm just gonna go and and internh, I think I'm
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gonna start doing class. You are absolutely full of crap,
because after that first one you were yeah. Two days later,
I was like, I sneezed and I thought I saw Jesus.
But then gual But it was like, so Guale, that
was it, you know. And then I really tried. I
really tried live. No, you didn't. It's just not for me.
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I don't. I think I'll try it for like a
solid month. I think you should try it for that.
That would be the the the less. You know, they
were doing triceeps and they're like for more challenging work.
I tried all of the challenges. No, you haven't done
it right. It's because your form is terrible. How about
that you couldn't have getten gotten up better than In fact,
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she actually tapped me and said you can have excellent form. No,
I don't think she did so. She said she told
me that too. Said, no, she didn't tell you that.
And listen, don't lie to yourself. You gotta do this,
and it's not this like you're used to. It's it's this.
I'm used to heavyweights. I'm used to doing triceep workouts
with a twenty five pound I'm not used to doing
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little straps, elastic bands. Oh, get out or get over yourself, mags,
elastic bands, whatever. And in a year's time, problem Olivia
come up here looking like wonder woman. Then then you
can the complain. Keep complaining. We're gonna see. What I'm
saying is that I tried something new, and I'm going
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to continue to try something new until I'm wowed. No,
We're going to continue on this pilates class until it's
like a straight up no, because right now you can't
just make up your mind. I literally said I was
going to try a new instructor and then I would
make up my mind. Try you should try two more
instructures and then and then come to that conclusion. But
until then, I think that that's not right. I think
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that's your an easy way out, so boring, Matthew. It's
like the worst. You wouldn't even be able to do
it anyway to do it because anyone with a pulse
could do it. That's not true. What is this right here?
This hurts so bad? Shouldiers trap trap? Thank you Father,
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in the name of Jesus, I pray that you would
come vict mcallis and she just writes it off way
too easily, And I don't think that's right. Okay, you
can't use somebody, pastor, Pastor Sallie. Will you do CrossFit
with me? Maybe we could try. I'm gonna come against it.
If I tried pilates, then you gotta try some confusion.
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There's a finger I want to give you, but I'm
not going to do it because you've got to try
hard things. You're talking your audience about trying hard things.
But now the spirit of confusion, I break it off
of the people that are around me because we shall
do no such things. I got a hundred things I'm
gonna do. CrossFit ain't one of them. In Jesus' name.
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But Lord, I thank you that this would allarge. We're
going to get in the lives and don't try and
praying he hears you know my heart. So Father, in
the name of Jesus, I pray that this would come alive.
And every person, the the the complaining, the laziness, expose
it all, anything that you can't work with, Father, just
like the scripture says, search your heart and and make
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it clean. Everything that's unproductive, everything that would you know,
increase the tears in our life. Expose all that nonsense
in Jesus' name. Speak to your people, speak to me,
speak to us to do it the right way in
Jesus name. And all God's people said, Amen. Amen. If
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you want to be a part of the mentorship program,
visit us at Revival Today dot com and just go
to RTC register. I don't know, just find it. I
love you so much. Have a great day.
Hi, Good morning, good evening, good afternoon. I am your
host a Dolla shuttles Worth and you are watching or
listening to the Dollar's Shuttlesworth podcast, and I am so
incredibly happy that you are here with me. Is my guest.
She's special in so many ways. Megali Mygali, me Gali
(00:29):
mean Galia me Gali. Okay, Olivia, shut it anyway, your
hair looks great. Did you go see Ange today? I did,
looks like that same. I knew that curling like the
(00:50):
curling iron look a mile away. It's like she's got
the artist touch. You know what I'm saying. It's like
the zing zing She's fantastic. Three Strand salons. Go check
her out. Okay. So we are just talking about a
whole bunch of things today. But one of the things
that I really want to hone in on is you
can't be serious. You're already coming off the gate like
(01:14):
I can't I can't help it, can help it. Why
are you always I can't help like I can't help it?
You you can't be serious. In the words of Daddy
dig you you you you can't be serious because honestly,
I'm like I'm touching the screen as though it is touched.
(01:40):
I'm literally like, why is this not responding to my touch?
Because it's not my iPad, it's a freaking computer. Okay.
So anyways, it's like, you can't be serious and let
me tell you a heart of love because you know
you don't need me to tell you how much I
love you and how much I care about you, and
(02:02):
that you're mabou thing and that we're like this, you
and me. I'm not talking about how talking about you,
you and me, And so I don't say things to
be like like like a catchy phrase. You know what
I'm saying. I'm saying this. If if I could sit
down with you and we could just talk about what
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really is happening in your life, I would say, hey,
you can't be serious. You can't be serious. You might
you must not be serious. And and most of the
time it all falls under this, these kinds of scenarios.
Whether it's financial mm hmmm, whether it's physical, you're you're
(02:46):
unsatisfied about your appearance, your health, financial speaks for itself.
You're just not satisfied. You keep hitting the same walls,
and it seems like you're just siddenly always struggling, and
you're like, ah, you know, maybe it's problems in your
your home, with your children, with your marriage, maybe it's
(03:13):
a problem with you and your identity. And you're like, man, like,
I'm just not happy mentally, and there's just like so
many avenues, but it all kind of comes up in
this one little pocket. It all just trickles down to
this one little pocket. And that one little pocket is
you can't be serious. You cannot be serious. And this
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is the thing. Like people want the manifestation, people want
the breakthrough, people want the miracles, people want the signs
and the wonders, and they want, you know, deliverance and
all of these things. But they're not willing to put
in the work that is required. They're not willing to
put in what's required. I know this isn't working. Is
(04:07):
this stream deck opening? Is it working? This might be
a new thing, And this is the problem. This is
the problem. When it comes to your constant hitting of
(04:32):
that wall, there just doesn't seem to be a breakthrough.
And let me tell you, in order for you to
break through, there needs to be a punch. There needs
to be a continuation of you hitting that thing, hitting
that thing, hitting that thing until it is obliterated, until
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it breaks forth. Can I tell you a story. I'm
gonna do it anyway. Put on. There's a lot of
things up here, OKIK. So when I was under attack
in my body, and this probably was a little bit
before COVID hit because we were in the Bridgeville office,
and uh, my body, there was things that were happening.
(05:20):
And this was shortly before I got pregnant, and so
it was it was an attack in my mind. It
was an attack in my body, like I could sense.
I was just full of anxiety and full of fear
for God knows what reason. And uh, I just felt
(05:41):
like I was under attack. So I sat down at
that little, tiny white table in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, and I
looked over because Pastor Kofi was there, and I looked
at him and I said, I need you to pray
and I need you to believe God with me to
get over this funk. And He's like, I just feel
(06:05):
like an idiot that I'm like back in this place,
you know, because at that time, I'd seen breakthrough, I'd
seen the miracles. I've been doing things that God, you know,
call me to do, and all of a sudden, it
seemed like it just came back and it was like compounded.
And so I was like, and I don't know how
to move about this, and he said, and I was like,
(06:27):
and I'm certainly not going to be a hypocrite and
start talking about, you know, my deliverance and joy and
freedom and healing when I don't feel like that's happening
in my own body. To him, I said that to him,
And so I said, how can I preach on these
things when I'm undergoing the very thing that I'm speaking on.
(06:49):
I feel like an idiot, to be honest with you.
And he said, it's not sin to preach on the
message of truth. That's what's going to get you the deliverance.
And so he's that it's not hypocritical to believe God
for something while you're still in that situation. Yeah, you know.
(07:10):
And he's like, that's actually what faith is. And he said,
and what you have to understand is you don't have
to believe for something that's already in your possession. And
he looked at me and he said, you already have
the freedom. And he was like, speaking to my spirit,
you already have the strength to knock that enemy down.
You've already done it, so you can do it again.
(07:32):
And that like ministered to me, and he's like, you know,
see this slab of drywall here. I said, what was
to happen if I just continue to punch that slab continually,
just NonStop? You know, at some point the pressure of
my fist going into that drywall is going to cause
(07:55):
a crumbling, a breaking down of sorts. And he says,
and that's what most people deal with. The devil is
not patient, and he doesn't stick with something very long.
He's not steadfast like we are called to be, and
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so he gives up. He gives up and quits, you know.
And he's like, so if you position yourself to outlast him,
you will win. And that scripture came up is don't
don't give up, don't don't quit while doing good? What
is that scripture? Max? I forget? Do not be weary,
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don't be weary. And that's how I felt. I felt tired.
I felt like I've been fighting for so long, felt tired.
Don't want to fight you doing anything at the time exactly.
That's how you know, yo, honestly though, like just perspective,
I know, really wasn't much going on. There really wasn't.
(09:04):
There really was. In my head there was I was like, oh,
I got this, and I got that, and I've got
this thing to take care of, and then we've got
traveling in this and bla blah blah blah. And now
what I'm doing in compared to what you know, I
feel more rejuvenated, more youthful now doing what I'm doing
the most I've ever done, because I'm I'm doing it right.
I'm not in my head. My perspective has changed. But
(09:28):
he said that, and he's like, you know, if I
was to continue to punch this wall, eventually there's gonna
gonna be a breakdown of this wall. Eventually, I'm going
to have a hole in that wall in the same
place that I punched. I punched. And so he's like,
if you don't give up and quit, you will see
the breakthrough. But it's it's it's climbing over that Oh
(09:51):
this is so hard. It's that mindset that this is
so hard right now, And that's what it felt like.
I felt like my life was hard, My circumstances are hard,
and I am constantly fighting for the breakthrough. And now
this is compounded, and I got to fight again, and
(10:12):
I don't know if I've got the fight in me.
And so he just positioned me, just repositioned, you know,
give me a little bout. Balance said, No, you already
have it. You just don't realize it yet. But your
job is to keep at it. And your job is
to be steadfast in that fight of faith and not
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give up when things get hard. And so there's certain
things that happen in our lives that maybe we didn't
ask for, or outside circumstances, you know, that make life
more difficult.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I don't know, you know, I don't know. But what
do we do in those instances? You know? Do we
give up and quit because it's hard? And the answer
to that is, oh, no, hell no, hell no, hell no,
(11:11):
what the hell is wrong with you? Quit?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
You're gonna go this far and quit? No, ma'am, No, No,
We've come too far for you to give up.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Now. I can't have you give up. I can't have
you give up, not today, not ever, sir, ma'am. I can't.
I can't. Let's not go there, Let's not go let's
not have our minds go there. But the fact is okay,
And so I gave you this little sad story just
to sauce you up. Now I'm gonna go in for
the jugular chang because ultimately my problem was I wanted
(11:57):
to give up because it started getting hard and I
didn't want to have to fight and I wouldn't have
to wanna like continue to pray and just you know,
believe God that everything's gonna be okay. No, I actually
wanted to feel that kind of a way. I wanted
to feel salty. You did, Yeah, I did, you did. Indeed,
I wanted to feel overwhelmed, you know, because I felt overwhelmed,
(12:20):
like legit, like I wasn't choosing anything. I feel over
I'm going to live in this little world's called overwhelm
right here, this little world right here. I want to
live right here, and that's what I did. I want
to live right here with a pity party where life
is hard, you know. And I could give you sob
stories and I could tell you why I can live here,
why I belong here, But truthfully, that's not going to work.
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When I'm thinking about what I want to produce in
this world. That ain't it. That ain't it. It's not
gonna take me where I want to go. You're complaining
your sad story. Your inability to pick up and go
is not going to accomplish Jack Diddley squat. It's just
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not high Lady Slim. Oh, yes, you're right, So you're right.
You can't be serious. That's that's the title. You can't
be you can't be serious because if you really want breakthrough,
it took me having to let go of my feels
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and come into alignment with the word of God. Yeah,
do you know what I'm saying? But I just don't.
I don't. It's really not difficult. It's just a mental
hurdle that most people just are triggered by true or
not true. Very everything is totally it's it's here a
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Hondau persento right, So it's like and then people negate
the importance of words and write words proceed right feelings.
So it's like, you don't get the good feeling until
you check your mouth. So what's interesting and what's so
bizarre about any kind of hurdle is that the difficulty
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is really only in your mind. And if you are
experiencing difficulty, it's safe to say that you have a
weak mind. I didn't want to say it. I didn't
want to say it. Damn right, you're scared. I don't
want to say it. But ultimately that's what that's that's
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she said it. I didn't. So if you're gonna send
any hate mail, send it to megalas at a dollar
Shuttlesworth podcast dot com and then recognize that's not even
an email. But listen, this is the thing people want.
But see, see, this is this is the thing Max.
People say they want something, but their actions prove. I know,
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I talk to you about them to be different. Every
day people say they want a happy marriage, but you
don't want a happy marriage. I'm not healthier options at McDonald's.
It's not gonna happen. You want the the number one,
you just say the big Mac. What's a secret sauce.
The reality is vanilla male number one. Every single time.
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You ain't gonna get the salad Drew. No, you're not,
you're not. You're Remember the salads that would come in
a cup. Those were by though I actually love those salads,
they were kind of soggy sometimes though. You know what
I'm saying. But you know what, and let me tell
you it's I think about this a lot of times.
The most miserable people are the ones that say something
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different than what they are doing. Those two worlds. When
those two worlds collide and connect, when you do exactly
what you say you're gonna do, that's the that's the power.
That's the meaning of happiness. That's the power. There lies
the power is when that lines up. Because you can't
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be serious. I don't believe that you're serious about wanting
a healthier marriage when you're not putting in the effort.
You can't be serious. You can't be serious. I don't
believe that you want your children to be raised in
the fear and admonition of the Lord when they go
missing from children's church for eight weeks. You can't be serious.
I don't think that you really want to live healthy
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because you have been at Wendy's every single day this
week with the baconator in hand. You can't be serious.
You can't be serious. You can't be serious, can't be serious.
You can't be serious. You can't be serious about really
wanting to be a man or woman of God and
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live holy and righteous when you don't even go to church,
you don't even read the word. You can't be serious.
I remember get upset when I would go, like in
high school, we would like evangelize all the time, and
we would get like eleven twelve new students all the
time to come into church and stuff like that. And
there was this a couple of guys that we would
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try to like witness to and girls. And it was
interesting how every single time it stuck with me still
to this day, I'm thinking about it. But I would say, hey,
how's it going, and they would say stuff like I
haven't I haven't been smoking weed. I haven't smoked in
like six weeks. And you knew that they were. They
had like they were high, you know what I'm saying.
They were just they had just recently got high. But
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I remember that look and that he was trying to
convince me that he was. He hadn't gotten high, and
so he was like it was like, this is the
person that I strive to be. I'm trying. Migaw's like,
I'm trying to be that person. Just look like understand
like he was. He was so dishonest and yet he
wanted me to believe that he was like this version
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of himself that he wasn't. And how many of us
do that every single day, every single day, every single
those days are long gone for me. I'm done China.
If I if I know that I'm not going to
put in the effort, I'm not gonna be I'm not
gonna agree to it without a doubt. I won't and
I'm not. Also, you know what I'm not gonna do
is complain about it. I'm not going to complain about
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a really difficult marriage if I'm not putting up put
in the effort, if I'm not doing what's required as
a wife, you know I can't. I'm I'm not also
gonna complain about it, exactly right. So I just wish
that most people would kind of dissect that. I feel
like we talk about this every single time we're on
the podcast, but it's worth repeating and it's worth bringing
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this kind of into the light because you can't be
serious about what you really want when there's no effort
and there's no work. That was part of the reason
why I started my fitness training, which we're doubling down
on soon, because you know what's happening, and I remember
able I complained. I was like, man, I can't I
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don't fit into any of my clothes, and I was
just like so frustrated and ables like, when are you
going to stop talking about it? And when are you
going to actually start doing it? And I remember being like,
this is part of the reason why I'm so miserable
is because I know that I'm to do this thing
and I'm not doing it and I know better. It's like,
you know better, you know better? He is? That was rambo,
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but not bad. I was like, who's that that law?
We all does that? You? So anyway, you got to
make those voices line up. I'm telling you that's the
the beginning of real happiness is when you do exactly
what you say you gon't do. And that's that is
where it's once you make up your mind, do you
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know what I'm saying, Once you make up your mind
on a situation that you know what, why I wish
more people would just kind of like dissect that and realize,
wait a minute, why what are the avenues in my
life that are leading me to a place of misery?
Is it something that I can fix? You know what?
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Nine times out of ten it is something that you
can fix, yes, you know, And so why not start there?
And then here's the second thing you should ought to do.
After you dissect those avenues into misery and come to
the realization that it is something that I can fix.
How about all control over? Yeah, how about now taking
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initiative to rectify that situation?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And And this is the thing. It doesn't have to
be a big ordeal. It could just start with you
walking ten minutes a day, fifteen minutes a day after
every man. I promise you, this is the way the
Holy Spirit works. It's the steps of the righteous. Again,
we say it all the time, steps of the righteous.
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It's not the leaps, it's not the jumps. In fact,
Pastor Jonathan said, only Satan says, hey, Jesus leap off
of this, didn't he? Not a So the reality is
is that the Holy Spirit will give you an instruction.
And it's again nine times out of ten, it's going
to be just one little step. It's going to say
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be like this, ready, ready for the sample. I'm ready apologize.
I don't like that one anything else that's not true
that sucks, and it does. It is that elementary. It
is that because really, if you start ignoring those and
then you want you can't graduate into the bid. That's
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not how life works. How life works, it's just not
You don't have to do the little, the little, tiny,
you know, unassuming things that nobody sees. And then those
are the things that compound. Those are the things that
will radically change your life. But you don't want to
little things. You don't want to do it because you
don't feel like it. So what do you want? Oh, okay,
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you can't say that. You can't say that. That's a
really bad word. Mags. You realize that, no, she doesn't.
It's just like, no, it is. It's a little bit
harsher than that. What I want you to see is
the definition of misery. Do you want to hear it?
It's powerful, yes, great unhappiness, extreme pain of body or mind. Boom. Okay.
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Misery is as really the fruit of vice reigning in
the heart hot as tears are the produce of tears,
I'm sorry, as tears are the produce of tears sewn
into the field. So say it one more time. Misery
is as really the vice reigning in the heart as
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tears are the produce of tears sewn in the field.
So when we're talking about let's let's see that Ooh,
that's like. That's leading me loaded too, that's loaded. Mmm.
Kind of seed? What can I soil? Are we dealing
with a dallas? This is it? Matthew thirteen twenty four.
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What is it? What's the soil it? I'm going to
read it in the New King's James version. This is
one of the cares of the world. Another parable he
put forth to them, saying, the Kingdom of Heaven is
like a man who sows good seed in his field.
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tears
among the wheats, and went his way. But when the
grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tears
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also appeared. So the servant of the owner came and
said to him, sir, do you not sow good seeds
in your field? How then does this have tears? He
said to them, an enemy has done this. The servant
said to him, do you want us then to go
and gather them up? But he said no. Let's while
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you gather the tears up, you also uproot the wheat
with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. And
at the time of the harvest, I will say to
the reaper, first gather together to tears and bind them
in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into
my barn. Amen. That's interesting that it would. It would
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liken the misery aspect to the tears being sown, because
really you've got to recognize the enemies sent to destroy you.
And at times the enemy is not what you think
it is. The enemy isn't a demon like a goblin demon.
You know, we're getting ready to go into October and
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Halloween and most people are looking at demons and oh
like ghosts and goblins and all that kind of stuff.
But the enemy to greatness is this. It's these mindsets
that will absolutely cripple production in your life. And so
if you allow yourself to permeate, I won't say PerMIATE,
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if you allow your your minds to marinade, in in
in bitterness, in complaining. I was just we're coming out
with the series in our children's church about their character
building things. And if you don't know, we have the
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Mighty Series, which is a book for children in regards
to God's Word. But we're doing we're launching all kinds
of things shortly. But with this we have our Revival Today,
Kid Revival Today, Mighty kids, and we do lessons based
on character building and all that kind of stuff, which
you can find on YouTube for free. And one of
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the things that we're talking about in the month of
October is these character building things. And if we can
impart these things into our children, by the time they're
our age, they don't have to put up with this
kind of nonsense, because it's very important what you think about. Complaining, whining,
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being lazy, all of these things. You gotta put away,
all of those child the childish meant mindsets. I'm I'm
I'm hurt, I'm tired. I can't do that. It is
it's all. You can see the immaturity from a mile away.
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Yet you want and know and this is the thing,
as Donald Trump would say with his hands, this is
the thing. Then they get. Then they start hating on
people who are activating it the right way, and they're
constantly complaining, and they're constantly criticizing, and they're constantly comparing
themselves to other people, and instead of it being ammunition
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to really go after the things that the Lord has
promised in his word, they actually the guns turn to
them in pro cuckoo and the it's just like they're
they're they're they're destroying themselves in the process. It's awful.
And so I want you to see Matthew six thirty three,
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but seek, aim at, and strive after. See, seeking isn't
just going to church every now and again and hoping
that you have the attention span to retain the message
that's coming forth from Prester Jonathan or whoever's up there. Yeah,
that's not seeking. When we talk about seek, hunt each
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says hunt eagerly, Hunt eagerly. I am no longer just
like seeking. I'm just here. Just that you are zeroed in,
you're striving after that. That takes effort to go after
something with straining. I am straining to receive something because
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I am so sick of my current condition. And to me,
there's nothing more repulsive than somebody who just complains about life.
And to the Lord too, he hates complainers. It's awful.
So what do we do? We strive after all his
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kingdom and his righteousness, his way of doing and being right,
and then all things taken together will be given you. Besides,
that's a crazy transition. All things will we added unto you,
All things shall be added unto you. But see, this
is the thing. Most people they don't want to do it.
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It's just not serious enough. You can't be serious. I'm
part of this group and it's a it's a business thing, right,
And he says, I've seen you, guys, I troll you.
I've got a crew of people watching you. And he's like,
and out of all of the people that are in
this group, and there's a lot, he's like, six percent
of you guys do what I say? Six Absolutely? I'm shocked.
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Is that high? Shocked? And he says it's interesting. He's like,
because I'm not in. He's like, if you're not gonna
apply the rules to this group, have you been doing it? Yes?
You are one part of the sixth Oh and I
just started the group. Oh okay, this is just me
coming in on this. But you are part of the
six correct, You're not gonna be caught sleeping. No, But
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I you know, there's a lot of things. There's a
lot of things that you got. What is it? What
is it? Tell me? Like two one of the homework
assignments is of contact everybody that follows you. Oh, do
you know what I'm saying? Okay, So so I'm like,
you know what, but you know I'm I'm attacking everyone. Yes, dramatic,
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I know, but he says it's it's worth its weight,
so anyway what I'm saying. He also said, I am
not I am not somebody that's going to And this
is what I'm trying to drive through my mentorship programing
here because y'all can take this information. Most of you
listen to it because of some crazy mags is gonna say,
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I'm curious, you know, but like it goes in one
ear and out the other, like nothing changes because you
don't really desire it. You desire to live your own life.
So I don't care what you say and what kind
of complaint you have. If you're not actively pursuing to
fix it, then you'd like where you're at all. You
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can't tell me any different. And that's why that's anyway, Yeah,
that's why I You know, the older we get, the
more we see things for what they are. So the
boo who stories just don't fit I. And this is
what I felt. I was telling somebody the other day,
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I feel like my my my heart has grown hard,
and I was like, lord, no, it's just that's me,
like all it going. But that's what it is because
I see, like put the boohoo aside, I see right
through that nonsense, and I say, whatever, Really, at the
root of it, you're lazy. At the root of it,
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you're okay with being Can we get the oil, the
anointing oil right now? Where is it the anointing will?
Because you're helping us. Thank you? Do you know what
I mean? Like when you're a complaint when you have
But here's the thing people don't even I think that
that's part of the solution to this is being mindful
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of what you've allowed in your mind and what you've
allowed to speak out and the things that you have
coddled for years and years and years. I'm unhappy because
of this. I'm too fat. Why I mean, people keep
looking back. I'm nothing there. Do something do so that's
gonna help you with the future. Do something different, do
something something different and let me let me tell you
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that about this you're upset about that, and let me
tell you. I mean, like you know, let's just stop
while we're ahead. Let me tell you the four things
that I'm trying to train this next generation because some
of you guys are so hardheaded that it's going to
bypass you. That's something that I've already learned, you know
what I'm saying. Oh so it's like why And that's
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why I really do believe that our focus, my focus,
a big chunk of of what I do and teach
is geared to children. Yes, because at that age you
can get them there, that's it. So but then after
a while it's you grow callous, You grow callous, you
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just the and and when I say upset, it's like
it's cemented. There's you had a time to move up
out of the situation, but because you didn't, it is
now cemented. And so you try to take your feet
out of that cement. It's now it's gonna take and
now it's gonna And this is the thing. Why wait
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till there's chaos, Why wait till there's crisis, Why wait
till there's tears? Why wait when you can you can
check your soil now in that right, And that's it,
And that's what, that's what. Really I've got four points
when it comes to character building that I'm emphasizing on
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with the children. The first one is quit lying, quit lying,
quit lying, you know, but more importantly, most we say,
we say lying to yourself that this is a basic thing.
And I haven't really heard any preaching online, do you
know what I'm saying? But like you lie about situations
all the time. When your husband says everything all right,
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you say, Okay, I'm fine. You're not fine. And you're
not aiding and solving the problem. You're avoiding it. You're
sweeping it under the rug. And then all of a sudden,
fifteen years of doing that, the volcano erupts. Oh help us,
and now you're cemented in there because you refuse to
be honest the second one, or be honest with yourself
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about so many other things. Okay, oh well, my knee
hurts and I haven't gotten healed because of that, and
I'm just wondering why the Lord won't heal my knee.
You're overweight, You're two hundred pounds overweight, Cindy, Oh my god,
that was specific. Sinny, No, like that was enough enough
with the nonsen honest with yourself, Be honest yourself. The
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reason why your knee hurts is because you are you are.
You ate yourself into a scooter. That's it, she said
it you ate yourself into a scooter. You can undo that.
You can't do it. I was walking out, I was
driving to Angie's, and there was there was a mother
and daughter, and they looked like the exact same human being,
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both equally overweight. One of them was injured, the mother
you could tell, was injured, and then the daughter, which
was like a teenager, was equally overweight. They literally looked
like a copy and paste and it crushed my heart.
I was like, here's this this mother who should be
full of life, who should be having fun with her
teenage daughter, and her teenage daughter is in the middle
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of a school day having to take her mother to
the walk in clinic to help her with her whatever
her ailing leg. It looked like she was like wobbling
and hopping. That's not that's not the life. That's not
living life life. You're not you. We could do better,
you could do better. I can do better. I know,
I definitely can do better, you know, And it's just
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coming to that reality that like you're lazy and that's okay,
let's let's get over it. But the more you can
call a spade of spade, the better you the more
honest you are with you're going to solve, the more
of the problem you're going to solve. So you are
living in freedom because really truth brings about freedom. So
you're living in bondage because you're not real about the situation.
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I wish you could just be real about it, talk
about it, expose it, be vulnerable. That's what love does.
And it shows that you're vulnerable and you're ready to
expose and bear all. That's what I mean. Here's the
thing when you have nothing. You know, when Jesus said
the Satan has nothing inside me, he can't come after it,
he has nothing in me. It's like that's part of
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the nicety of being clear and concise and transparent and
being true to yourself. It's like, okay, you know you
can see things for what they really are because it's
just like I'm not playing games. And if you can
learn that now, don't lie. Don't complain. That's another one.
Don't lie, don't complain. That's your mood swings. Check your
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mood swings. I brought canaan Abel up in this piece.
What was the last one? Don't lie, don't complain. Oh,
and don't be lazy. All of those things are like
a core thing that and I'm seeing it in like
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grown men and women like if we can fight this
now when you're this age, and we can like instill
in you the spirit of excellence and truth, we're going high. Johnny.
You should give you a little on how to how
to overcome each one. Let's start first with don't lie.
Don't lie, literally, don't So it's funny because I isolating
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something that you've been lying about, and then speak the
truth about that something that you've been lying to yourself about.
It automatically it's shed light, shed light to that bib
bur rating. And again it's the little things, right, it's
the little. If you can't if you can't do it
in the little, how are you expected to do it
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in the big? You can't know. It's like it wasn't
work with the little, You're gonna do with the big
without a doubt. That's all. So, if you're not going
to be truthful to your own self, how do you
want a marriage to thrive? How do you want to
be excellent in your home and in your business? If
you're taking corners, you're being lazy. You don't carry a
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spirit of excellence. These are all things that we got
to reflect on, dissect and say, you know what I
could do better? I could do more. I can take
this a little bit more seriously because I'm not yeah
so quick playing games. But I as I was telling
little Johnny the Puppet, you know, because John Formby does it,
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and we're just we never have anything scripted. I just say, hey,
this is where I'm taking it. Go flow, you know whatever.
He's so good, and so I said, but just so
you know, I am bringing Anonius, Annius and Spire right
in there. And he goes, oh my god. So he's saying, like,
you know, one of his school friends lied and now
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he's asking him to cover it up with a lie,
you know. Yeah. And so I was like, let me
tell you a little story. And then he goes, oh, man,
so they got in a lot of trouble and I
was like hmmm, and he goes, did they get paddled?
He's to like going AND's like, did they get grounded?
And I was like, no, he dropped dead, you know.
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And he's like, I don't want to die. I never lie.
I don't want to die. I was like, listen, but
you know what what I should have said is there
is a part of you that dies when you lie. Yeah,
there's this this this fake, this false reality that you
live in that is causing you to live a life
of defeat and death, and it's that's not the life
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for you. So just be real, you know, just just
be real with yourself. What see? And this is the thing.
If you can't come up with a solution, then you
don't really want it. If if you can sit down
and say, I'm happy, I'm unhappy about my work flow,
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I'm unhappy with my marriage, I'm unhappy with what I'm
what I'm doing. I think that most people, let's dispect
that some more. I don't know why they're miserable. What
is it? They always think that it's something some outside
force that's making them miserable. Oh, my mass doesn't see
what I'm doing, So I'm I'm upset. You're helping us.
And this is the reason why. It's because my husband
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doesn't show me appreciation. It's because I'm not married. It's
because I don't have children, It's because I don't have
a house, it's because I don't want And then when
they have a house, and then when they have kids,
there's so when they have a miserable they're still they're
still miserable still because it's it's it's a spiritual thing.
But you got to get alone with the holy ghosts,
just you and him, and you have to say, show
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me perfect my heart, purify right spirit within me, that's right,
clean out my heart. Let me tell you, one hundred
percent of the times you're going to get an answer
that you never thought was the source of it. True, true,
it's just like, okay, you know what, bring it back down.
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But if that there's an action to it, every time,
it's going to be an It's like it's going to
you didn't give is required back in two thousand and six.
Something is required, Something is required, And let me tell
you you can't if you want change, if you want happiness,
and you are going through the same old, same old,
year after year after year, and then you continue to
do the same things over and over again. It's insane, lunacy.
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You're you're a lunatic, and take that because we love
you so much. But somebody has to tell you that
your looney tunes, Honda. That's the reason why I can
say that you've been there on Hondo because it's like,
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that's a definition of inseniting doing the same thing over
and over again and then expecting a different result. That's
not that's not a lifetime. That's why. The more that
you can perfect being uncomfortable and taking on things that
challenge you, the more that's the growth process. Yes, that's
what it looks like to grow. Not being comfortable. You're
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not comfortable. You better be shaking in your boots, shaking
in your boots, because there has to be something that
pushes you in order to grow. And if you're not,
then you're losing. You're dying. You you're dying if you're
not learning, if you're not continually building something, there is
a rot. You are literally dying. You are slowly you
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quit learning, you quit challenging yourself. You know, one of
the things about muscle building is you got to do
new things muscle confusion so that it continues to build.
At you, Dallas, I know, thank you you. But all
of that stuff comes with discipline that comes with much
use of that muscle. Yeah, so it just doesn't come
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and I think people in their delusion feel like I'm
not there because it comes so easy. It didn't come easy.
This wasn't easy for us. No, this was hillaciously awkward.
I wish we had a clip of the very first
time I had to introduce myself and how many takes
it took. How about remember when pastor Pastor Johnathan, pastor
Max had us record just scripture, you know, scripture for
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like some montage that he later created or whatever about
youth group, and all we were tasked to do was
read a scripture. Couldn't do it? Could it do? I not?
Yea of one one one second of the stuff that
we were audishing out. It was so bad, so cringe,
so cringe. So yeah, no you do. And then eventually
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you get comfortable with that, and then you need more
than That's it to make you uncomfortable in order to continue.
When you have that loser mindset, you're looking at other
people and saying that comes an easy thing, must be
nice when you it's like, no, they put in the effort,
they put in the work, they put in the discipline,
and now they have a return of investment. You have nothing,
and now you get nothing. Do you know what? It's
(44:27):
It's just really that simple. And so but get down
to it. And that's your homework assignment as we close
up today, is what are the three things that you
are not happy about in your life? And how can
you fix them. And if the answer is I don't
have an answer, then you're not. You can't be serious.
(44:48):
Ah that's great. You can't be serious out great the
change that's great. Can't be serious. So by so continue
to be miserable and continue to push people away, because
that's what's gonna happen. Misery will attract you to other
miserable person, but it'll also uh push you away from
(45:09):
good quality people, no doubt. People that are effective are
not gonna want to be around somebody that's complaining and
whining and miserable. No way. I know. I know that,
No way, no way. I know that face. Everybody here
knows that face. You see someone who's miserable, and that's it.
I'm running I can. I will avoid you at all costs,
(45:29):
same I will. You know what I would do? I
would I would start doing the breakdance. If I see
somebody coming towards me, I will break dance and roll
up the other way. I don't care how drastic and
how dramatic it might be. If I know that you're
gonna damp in my mood, I will drop down, do
(45:50):
the worm all the way in my car. Whoop, I'm
getting away from this person because I ain't got time.
I will boom boom boom all the way to my
car because I protect that, I protect myself. I got
enough negativity going in here. Don't need it from out here.
(46:10):
Walp on you. Anyways, They're not looking for a solution,
they don't. They just want they want to blow off
some steam, say a louder for the people in the bad.
That's it. They're not trying to get a they're not
trying to get any They don't care. So if you
don't care, I don't care. Believe me alone. I'm trying
to live my best life out here. Okay, we're trying
to put in a good healthy work and uh listen.
(46:34):
The other day we started pilates, talking about doing challenging
things and things that maybe I got a little bit
too comfortable in my workout games, so I tried pilates.
This was literally one of the just the worst days
of my life, and it really was. Then the lady
(46:55):
next to me starts she must have had Greek food.
I smelled feta, I smell well, all sorts of things.
Let me tell you something. When I was doing my
other workout, I never had once this problem, not what
And I went into Pilate's now three times and each
time somebody's burping, somebody's farting. I'm not playing. I think
(47:20):
it might be you because I've been and I'm nothing,
and I'm like, I wonder why. It's just like I
don't get it. I don't get it. Is that your story? Yeah?
I mean? And also the workout wasn't very challenging. All
the girls were like, oh, this is so hard, Okay,
I'm just gonna go and and internh, I think I'm
(47:41):
gonna start doing class. You are absolutely full of crap,
because after that first one you were yeah. Two days later,
I was like, I sneezed and I thought I saw Jesus.
But then gual But it was like, so Guale, that
was it, you know. And then I really tried. I
really tried live. No, you didn't. It's just not for me.
(48:04):
I don't. I think I'll try it for like a
solid month. I think you should try it for that.
That would be the the the less. You know, they
were doing triceeps and they're like for more challenging work.
I tried all of the challenges. No, you haven't done
it right. It's because your form is terrible. How about
that you couldn't have getten gotten up better than In fact,
(48:25):
she actually tapped me and said you can have excellent form. No,
I don't think she did so. She said she told
me that too. Said, no, she didn't tell you that.
And listen, don't lie to yourself. You gotta do this,
and it's not this like you're used to. It's it's this.
I'm used to heavyweights. I'm used to doing triceep workouts
with a twenty five pound I'm not used to doing
(48:46):
little straps, elastic bands. Oh, get out or get over yourself, mags,
elastic bands, whatever. And in a year's time, problem Olivia
come up here looking like wonder woman. Then then you
can the complain. Keep complaining. We're gonna see. What I'm
saying is that I tried something new, and I'm going
(49:06):
to continue to try something new until I'm wowed. No,
We're going to continue on this pilates class until it's
like a straight up no, because right now you can't
just make up your mind. I literally said I was
going to try a new instructor and then I would
make up my mind. Try you should try two more
instructures and then and then come to that conclusion. But
until then, I think that that's not right. I think
(49:28):
that's your an easy way out, so boring, Matthew. It's
like the worst. You wouldn't even be able to do
it anyway to do it because anyone with a pulse
could do it. That's not true. What is this right here?
This hurts so bad? Shouldiers trap trap? Thank you Father,
(49:53):
in the name of Jesus, I pray that you would
come vict mcallis and she just writes it off way
too easily, And I don't think that's right. Okay, you
can't use somebody, pastor, Pastor Sallie. Will you do CrossFit
with me? Maybe we could try. I'm gonna come against it.
If I tried pilates, then you gotta try some confusion.
(50:17):
There's a finger I want to give you, but I'm
not going to do it because you've got to try
hard things. You're talking your audience about trying hard things.
But now the spirit of confusion, I break it off
of the people that are around me because we shall
do no such things. I got a hundred things I'm
gonna do. CrossFit ain't one of them. In Jesus' name.
(50:39):
But Lord, I thank you that this would allarge. We're
going to get in the lives and don't try and
praying he hears you know my heart. So Father, in
the name of Jesus, I pray that this would come alive.
And every person, the the the complaining, the laziness, expose
it all, anything that you can't work with, Father, just
like the scripture says, search your heart and and make
(51:00):
it clean. Everything that's unproductive, everything that would you know,
increase the tears in our life. Expose all that nonsense
in Jesus' name. Speak to your people, speak to me,
speak to us to do it the right way in
Jesus name. And all God's people said, Amen. Amen. If
(51:22):
you want to be a part of the mentorship program,
visit us at Revival Today dot com and just go
to RTC register. I don't know, just find it. I
love you so much. Have a great day.
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