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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hartfeat Saint Louis with a k A Holiday bringing you
the pulse of the city.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
What's subsist boy Doctor to b J the DJ Holiday
And today on the show, we're going to take time,
uh to introduce you to a person, a person that
is a servant, a person that wants to make sure
that people are on the right track and will accept
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you even if you're on the wrong track. And I
know a lot of you guys are going how can
somebody accept you if you're on the wrong track.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Well, anyway, this person is a pastor.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And no, we're not going to have church this morning,
but we might dip a little bit into the church
and we're gonna have a good time. We're gonna be
talking with Benita Quinn Uh. She has three books that
she's she has written and all the way from Farmington, Missouri,
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believe it or not, Formington. How you doing today?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I'm doing wonderful and thank you so much for having
me BJ Doctor b J.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
The DJA.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
But you live one of the doctors out there.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Doctor doctor Square.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You know what, I don't know if I would like
the doctor Square. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Doctor doctor, doctor doctor, because when they say square is
like walking around going, hey, how you doing it?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Doctor? You sound like you're a square doctor?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Doctor? Doctor? How you doing today? You good?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
I'm doing wonderful.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Okay. So let's dig into your life a little bit.
All right. Uh, you're from Formington, Missouri.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
From Anniston, Alabama. There's where you were born, born and raised?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Yes, okay, living in Pharon.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So we have this thing called the Saint Louis question.
But being that you're not from Saint Louis, I still
got I asked the question. All right, it's the same
little question because anybody come to my studio and I
find out where you were born.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I just got to know what high school? Did you
go to?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Anniston High School?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Okay? Now home of the Bulldogs, the home of the Bulldog? Okay,
So is it Anniston?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Aniston?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes, Aniston, Okay, got it? Okay, So I'm and it's
from Alabama, Yes, Alabama, okay, about an hour and.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
A half from Atlanta, Georgia, and our from Birmingham, about
an hour and a half from Tuscaloosa, roll tide country.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
So is this a town or is it a city?
Speaker 5 (02:42):
City?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
City? And so is it like a kind of like
a big city or small city, small city.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So when you walk out of your house and you
go twenty blocks away, you still you know that person
my first name.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Yes, more than likely they know the Fosters.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
But I'll tell you what this is, gonna tell the
whole story. How many high schools were in the town?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
One?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So you lived in a town not a city.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
No, it was more than one, you're right, Oh, yes,
it was one in Addison.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Then we had Oxford, then we had sax and.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So okay, all right, okay, I mean I'm just saying
that when you have one high school in a you
know place, we say that's a town.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yes, but it was a city. It was more than
one high school. It was just one to me because
we were no one.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yes, okay, yes, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So did you do any sports?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I did not. I was a color guard in the
band that did all the sports.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So did you do any college?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I did college?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yes, at jack State, which is about forty five minutes
from my home hometown, Jacksonville State University. Were there first
met my husband, the army spouse. Thing went around the world.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Okay, where did you travel to?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
We went to Japan, We went to Hawaii, went to
North Carolina. We went to California, just several places, and
I really loved them all, but number one was Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Hawaii, Hawaiian. You know what, it's on my bucket list
to go to Hawaiian.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Listen, you need to go to Hawaii, go to well,
any any of the islands other than the Big Island.
The Big Island is more of a there's really nothing there.
It's where the active volcanoes are, so they can't really
put anything there, and so it's the quiet, more sacred land.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
But Oahu, you love Hawaihu.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
You love Miami. I mean, excuse me, not Miami. You
would love Maui very very nice. I'm telling you. The postcards,
the pictures do not do it justice.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Really, you would love Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Well, I only want to go for one reason.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And I just I want to fly to Hawaii. That
was the show I used to watch every week, and
you know I'm really telling my age, But anyway, it
was called Hawaii five O.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And all I want to do.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I just want to fly to Hawaii and then I
can leave everything else I don't even really care about.
I just want to step on the land and then
walk up to somebody and look at somebody I know
and say book them dan On. That's all I want
to do, and I can get back on the plane,
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I get a flying bag, i'd be done.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Okay, I just want to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I just want to walk up to somebody from Hawaii,
I don't know them, have somebody with me and go
book them down.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Okay, if that'll do it for you?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So you just so you decided to write some books? Yes, okay?
And what was it that made you say, you know what,
I need to write a book. You know what I mean,
because you just don't just get up and just write
a book. Now, It's got to be something that says
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I got to write a book.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Well, first of all, it was prophesied before I even
thought about writing a book that I would write a book,
and that just then thought about it.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
So I just flipped it on out of my head.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
And I had spoke a sermon on no More bondage.
And after the message, my husband looked at me and said,
that's your book. And so when he said that, he said,
first of all, you have part two. And I did
have a part two, but he didn't know, but I
guess he did, and then he said, that's your book.
And so I had been trying to write and I
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just would come up with nothing. And then he said,
you take that. That is your book. You're passionate about it.
You know everything, the intricacies of how you came about
that message and what God said to you and what
made you passionate about it. And he says, start writing it.
And I did and it Actually I hate to said
because people think it's it takes so much to write
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a book. But I know I'm a writer. I've made
a's on this is this is my thinking.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I made a's on all my papers all the way
through college. I followed the same you know structure, and
they always hit. So I know I'm a good writer.
So I just started writing and I finished the book
within three months. Really, yes, and that's a powerful book.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
No More Bondage.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
It really hit and touches the heart of people going
through different types of bondage that they really Some people
didn't didn't even realize they were in bundage until they
started reading that book.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, so I heard you say that you did a
sermon and this is where the book comes.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
From, right, So I take it that you are. You
are a pastor. Yes, yes, I got to ask.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
This question because, you know, because I get confused because
some people say, I'm pastor, I'm reverend, I'm an evangelist,
I'm bishop.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So how do you have people to you know, address me?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, most of them address me as co pastor because
our pastor with my husband, you know, my spouse, and
that's it.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, so you go about pastor, No.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I go by co pastor or Lady Quinn. I don't
go by pastor because he's the pastor and I just
don't want that, you know, you don't.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Want to be like competition.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Now, let me ask this question, because he's a pastor
and you are pastor, right, is there like that little
competition or who knows the scriptures the most?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Never?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I know he does, and I don't have a problem
with saying that. That that's kind of like his that's
his thing for almost day one of our marriage. He
is passionate about studying the word.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Okay, got it? Well, you know I know I'm not.
But anyway, let's talk about the bondage. Okay, what type
of bondage do you talk about in the book?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Okay, so what God had me to hone in on
was three different types. The bondage of being in bondage
to people, pleasing people, never being enough for people, the world,
the things, the systems that make you jump through hoops
that you feel like you need to jump through. Also,
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the second one was being in bondage to life's weights,
the circumstances, issues, the heavy things that weigh you down
that you have to deal with life in general, issues
coming at you, ccumstances coming at you. How do you
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deal with those circumstances. So that was the second part.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
And then the.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Third part is being in bondage to unforgiveness.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
And I say that loud.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I want to be clear that being in bundanced to
that is literally being imprisoned to unforgiveness.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Okay, and so many people hide that.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
All right, son, We're gonna dive a little bit deeper.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Because uh, I heard you say, you know, the bond
just to people, bonders to situations, and you know, the
bonders to unforgiveness, unforgiveness and stuff like that. Give me
an example of each, you know what I mean? Because
when we talk about you know, bondage to people and
not being able to be enough for people. Is that
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something that people just say to themselves or is it
that people are saying they're not good enough? Or is
that one saying to themselves, I'm not good enough? Or
is it that the bondage you know, because some people
will say, well, that wasn't good enough.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Right, and then so is it that?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Is it people that you in bondage with or is
it that you in bondage with yourself because you just
think you're just not good enough.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
It could be both, you know, sometimes, especially like with
a people pleaser, and we don't like to say that
we don't really feel like that's what you know, we're
dealing with. But I'm telling you so many people are
dealing with trying to jump through hoops to satisfy someone,
satisfy a group of people, satisfy some something, maybe some
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inner thing, and if you fail at any part, you
may be in bonded to yourself saying, like you said,
I'm not good enough. I just can't do it. I've
tried this, or just people in general, it's never enough.
I jumped through that hoop and that wasn't good enough.
I jumped through that hoop and that wasn't good enough.
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So you know, it could be both. It could be
either or you know, it's a cording on you know,
that particular person.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
All right, so you wrote another book as well.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yes, did it take you forty days, forty nine and
three years to write that one.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
This one took a little bit over a year.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Okay, alright?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
This the second one is You've got what it takes.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
And that book is about God's original intent for your life.
Every individual God has an intent. God has his purpose
that he created each individual for, and He has planted gifts,
you know, gift things or you know, talent skills, those
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things God has planted inside of us that we may
pursue those things, that we may pull those things, use
him to pull those things, and he may pull those
things out of us to help mankind what we were.
We were put here to help mankind, not to help
just me. Sometimes helping just me will get me in
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a place where I can help other people. You see
what I'm saying, because I really need to work on
me first. Sometimes people do that backwards. But yes, the
God's original intent for your life is in you. You know,
people want to live out their dreams. They you know, destiny, purpose,
it is all in you.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
All right, So I know, and I say something just
a little different. I always tell people like me, my
purpose is being on the radio. You know, that's that's
the gift. I have the gift of being on the radio, this,
that and the other. Right, But I always come up
and it was until this thing and I had to
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I recognized. And now I might be wrong for saying
it because I'm not a pastor, you know, I'm just me.
But I always say there's an assignment that is attached
to it that you have to know what that specific
assignment is for what God has had for you to do,
had intended with your life. Am I saying that right?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
You're saying it the exact same thing that I just
said a different way.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I just want to point o'h go get I was
just wondering, you know, I told you, I told say
before the you know, before the interview, I told him
I was saved. But I'm still a little ratchet. He's
still working on me. Because I got this other side
of me. It comes out. So all right, let's talk about, uh,
the third book, because you wrote three books, and how
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long did it take you to write this, and please
don't say more than a year.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
This one, this book did take.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
It took about five years.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Anyway, No, no, no, no, this one I kept quitting
on because I had life circumstances that, you know, this
last book, I just almost said, you know, I did
say I'm not going to do it. My my mother passed,
you know. I started the book and then and when
my mother passed and I see everything happened, and then
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I came back to it. I was like, God, just
forget it, you know. But it took God to prompt
me again to you know, finish this book. And this
third one is the name of it is God will
make never happen.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Okay, now now tell me about God will make never
happen already What what do you mean by he will
make never happen?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I mean, okay, those things that people will say that
will never happen or people have never seen happen before God,
there's nothing impossible with him, you know. If he wants
it to happen, boom, it's gonna happen. And he's already
made never happen. He's already part of the red seat,
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he's already raised people from the dead. He's already you know,
healed bodies. You know, he's already done things that man
can't do, man won't even I'd like to know the
man that attempted, or has ever attempted, to part the
Red Sea.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
So okay, so let me ask you this question. You
say God will never.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Will make never happen, God will well.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Will make never happen. Did I say that God will
make never happen?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
What was it in your life that you feel like
God may never happen?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Oh? My gosh, where do I start? What an absolutely.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
All the testimonies I could give you.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Give me one.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I mean, because that you know, typically there's one thing
that God may never happen in your life.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, you was you know when people came up to
you and said, well, you know what I mean, what
was it in your life that God may never happen?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Well, I had issue was with my thyroid, so I
had to have my thyroid removed. And one particular thing,
you know, I could go on and on. But the
doctor who was who was my surgeon that was getting
ready to do the surgery, he came in and he said, hey,
I just want to make sure you're on top of
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what we're getting ready to do next. Just basic questions,
I answered him. And then he said, would you mind
if I prayed with you?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Now?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
What was the first thing that come to your mind
that never happened?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
And he was very sincere, and I said yes, and
he prayed.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
And it wasn't a you know, hell Mary this and
that prayer.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
No, it was like God got my mind, got my hand,
got the nurses, got the antesthesiologist.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
He was really sincere about that.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
That's just one thing I can go on in my life,
you know, about the things that that God had done,
you know, I mean countless things that people he you know,
that's where he works in the in the impossible for
man realm. You know, he puts super against our We
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can do natural things. It may be hard for us,
but God does the supernatural. You know.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
He's that extra you know, in extraordinary.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
So that's what I mean by He'll make those things
that people say that or that has never happened, they've
never seen happen before.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
God would make happen. He can make happen.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Okay, so let's go back to the bond this book. Okay,
What do you want people to walk away with when
they read this book? What is it that you want
them to get out of this book when they read it?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Freedom, recognition that either all three they're dealing with, or
at least one that they're dealing with and understand. And
whom the sun sets free is free indeed. And you
know Jesus didn't go through everything that he went through
for us to accept bondage. There's this thing I talk
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about in the book. It's called functioning bondage. And so
many of us are functioning functioning in bondage. You're still functioning,
you're still going about life, but you're bound to circumstances,
you're bound to people's opinion, or you're bound to unforgiveness.
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And that's not freedom.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
All right, Now, you got what it takes. What do
you want people to walk away from that book?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I want them to do some introspections, and you know,
go internally and figure out who am I? And ask
the only entity in this universe that knows, and that's God.
And just you know you talked about earlier. You know,
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you were meant to be on radio. But I look
at that as a broader I look broader, Yes, on radio,
but to reach people, you can't you know, touch and
reach beyond your reach. You're reaching people, and so you
look at it as be on radio. But I saw deeper.
I saw touch people, you know, excite people, get people,
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you know, feeling better in the morning or or you know,
feeling better in the afternoons and things like that. So
that book, I really want people to to turn inward
and see that you try to find out what is
it about me? What has God given me? And all
of my books one are loaded with scripture and my
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own personal experiences.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Got it all right, So you know what the next
question is, you got a third.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
You might as well just go ahead and just say
what do you want people to walk away from this
book with.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
I want people to realize that their dreams can come true,
that they can live that life, that they they they
can reach those places and those things that people will
look at them and say that'll never happen for you.
That can happen. That's I've never seen that happen before.
You know, to push beyond those statements, to push beyond
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the the strongholds that try to hold people in a
box of you can only go this far and do
this amount of things.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Okay, all right, well where can people get the book?
Where can people find you? You know what I mean?
Where can they get all the books? And how can
they look you up? Co Pastor?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
All of my books?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
First of all, you can go to Benita Quinn Books
on Facebook. You can also and you can with that
particular site you can get my book autographed by me
and some special oil that I made myself that I'll
send off.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Secondly, they can go to Amazon.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
It won't be a in autographed book, but all of
the books are there.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
So those two places, those.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Two places social media. You know, how can they find
you on social media?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Banita Quinn Books.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Banita Quinn Books. All right, well.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
B O N I t A q U I n
in books.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Okay, all right well, Co Pastor Anita Quinn, thank you
so much for coming in the studio. I appreciate it.
Great to meet you and much success with you with
your books. And I know you guys have a church.
You have a couple of churches. One to Formerton and
where's the other one.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
The other one is in Saint Robert and it is
Manifest Destiny Ministries. And the second one is a Christian
Life Church in Farmington.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
So if people want to get information on your community outreach,
because I know, uh, you know you're having a church,
you do a lot of community outreach and they need
help or whatever. How can they find get that if
you get information to receive some community outreach from.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
You, they can find both of those churches Manna, m
A N n A, Dashfest Destiny Ministries on Facebook and
also Christian Life Church as well.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
All Right, well, thank you so much for coming in
the studio.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
This has been another edition of Heartbeat Saint Louis with
dj Aka bj Holiday bringing you the pulse of the city.
Hartfeat Saint Louis with a k A Holiday bringing you
the pulse of the city.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
What's subsist boy Doctor to b J the DJ Holiday
And today on the show, we're going to take time,
uh to introduce you to a person, a person that
is a servant, a person that wants to make sure
that people are on the right track and will accept
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you even if you're on the wrong track. And I
know a lot of you guys are going how can
somebody accept you if you're on the wrong track.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Well, anyway, this person is a pastor.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And no, we're not going to have church this morning,
but we might dip a little bit into the church
and we're gonna have a good time. We're gonna be
talking with Benita Quinn Uh. She has three books that
she's she has written and all the way from Farmington, Missouri,
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believe it or not, Formington. How you doing today?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
I'm doing wonderful and thank you so much for having
me BJ Doctor b J.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
The DJA.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
But you live one of the doctors out there.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Doctor doctor Square.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You know what, I don't know if I would like
the doctor Square. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Doctor doctor, doctor doctor, because when they say square is
like walking around going, hey, how you doing it?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Doctor? You sound like you're a square doctor?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Doctor? Doctor? How you doing today? You good?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
I'm doing wonderful.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Okay. So let's dig into your life a little bit.
All right. Uh, you're from Formington, Missouri.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
From Anniston, Alabama. There's where you were born, born and raised?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Yes, okay, living in Pharon.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So we have this thing called the Saint Louis question.
But being that you're not from Saint Louis, I still
got I asked the question. All right, it's the same
little question because anybody come to my studio and I
find out where you were born.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I just got to know what high school? Did you
go to?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Anniston High School?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Okay? Now home of the Bulldogs, the home of the Bulldog? Okay,
So is it Anniston?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Aniston?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes, Aniston, Okay, got it? Okay, So I'm and it's
from Alabama, Yes, Alabama, okay, about an hour and.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
A half from Atlanta, Georgia, and our from Birmingham, about
an hour and a half from Tuscaloosa, roll tide country.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
So is this a town or is it a city?
Speaker 5 (02:42):
City?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
City? And so is it like a kind of like
a big city or small city, small city.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So when you walk out of your house and you
go twenty blocks away, you still you know that person
my first name.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Yes, more than likely they know the Fosters.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
But I'll tell you what this is, gonna tell the
whole story. How many high schools were in the town?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
One?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So you lived in a town not a city.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
No, it was more than one, you're right, Oh, yes,
it was one in Addison.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Then we had Oxford, then we had sax and.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So okay, all right, okay, I mean I'm just saying
that when you have one high school in a you
know place, we say that's a town.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yes, but it was a city. It was more than
one high school. It was just one to me because
we were no one.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yes, okay, yes, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So did you do any sports?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I did not. I was a color guard in the
band that did all the sports.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So did you do any college?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I did college?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yes, at jack State, which is about forty five minutes
from my home hometown, Jacksonville State University. Were there first
met my husband, the army spouse. Thing went around the world.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Okay, where did you travel to?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
We went to Japan, We went to Hawaii, went to
North Carolina. We went to California, just several places, and
I really loved them all, but number one was Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Hawaii, Hawaiian. You know what, it's on my bucket list
to go to Hawaiian.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Listen, you need to go to Hawaii, go to well,
any any of the islands other than the Big Island.
The Big Island is more of a there's really nothing there.
It's where the active volcanoes are, so they can't really
put anything there, and so it's the quiet, more sacred land.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
But Oahu, you love Hawaihu.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
You love Miami. I mean, excuse me, not Miami. You
would love Maui very very nice. I'm telling you. The postcards,
the pictures do not do it justice.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Really, you would love Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Well, I only want to go for one reason.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And I just I want to fly to Hawaii. That
was the show I used to watch every week, and
you know I'm really telling my age, But anyway, it
was called Hawaii five O.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And all I want to do.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I just want to fly to Hawaii and then I
can leave everything else I don't even really care about.
I just want to step on the land and then
walk up to somebody and look at somebody I know
and say book them dan On. That's all I want
to do, and I can get back on the plane,
(05:33):
I get a flying bag, i'd be done.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Okay, I just want to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I just want to walk up to somebody from Hawaii,
I don't know them, have somebody with me and go
book them down.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Okay, if that'll do it for you?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So you just so you decided to write some books? Yes, okay?
And what was it that made you say, you know what,
I need to write a book. You know what I mean,
because you just don't just get up and just write
a book. Now, It's got to be something that says
(06:12):
I got to write a book.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Well, first of all, it was prophesied before I even
thought about writing a book that I would write a book,
and that just then thought about it.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
So I just flipped it on out of my head.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
And I had spoke a sermon on no More bondage.
And after the message, my husband looked at me and said,
that's your book. And so when he said that, he said,
first of all, you have part two. And I did
have a part two, but he didn't know, but I
guess he did, and then he said, that's your book.
And so I had been trying to write and I
(06:51):
just would come up with nothing. And then he said,
you take that. That is your book. You're passionate about it.
You know everything, the intricacies of how you came about
that message and what God said to you and what
made you passionate about it. And he says, start writing it.
And I did and it Actually I hate to said
because people think it's it takes so much to write
(07:13):
a book. But I know I'm a writer. I've made
a's on this is this is my thinking.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Now.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I made a's on all my papers all the way
through college. I followed the same you know structure, and
they always hit. So I know I'm a good writer.
So I just started writing and I finished the book
within three months. Really, yes, and that's a powerful book.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
No More Bondage.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
It really hit and touches the heart of people going
through different types of bondage that they really Some people
didn't didn't even realize they were in bundage until they
started reading that book.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, so I heard you say that you did a
sermon and this is where the book comes.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
From, right, So I take it that you are. You
are a pastor. Yes, yes, I got to ask.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
This question because, you know, because I get confused because
some people say, I'm pastor, I'm reverend, I'm an evangelist,
I'm bishop.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So how do you have people to you know, address me?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah, most of them address me as co pastor because
our pastor with my husband, you know, my spouse, and
that's it.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, so you go about pastor, No.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I go by co pastor or Lady Quinn. I don't
go by pastor because he's the pastor and I just
don't want that, you know, you don't.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Want to be like competition.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Now, let me ask this question, because he's a pastor
and you are pastor, right, is there like that little
competition or who knows the scriptures the most?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Never?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I know he does, and I don't have a problem
with saying that. That that's kind of like his that's
his thing for almost day one of our marriage. He
is passionate about studying the word.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Okay, got it? Well, you know I know I'm not.
But anyway, let's talk about the bondage. Okay, what type
of bondage do you talk about in the book?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Okay, so what God had me to hone in on
was three different types. The bondage of being in bondage
to people, pleasing people, never being enough for people, the world,
the things, the systems that make you jump through hoops
that you feel like you need to jump through. Also,
(09:39):
the second one was being in bondage to life's weights,
the circumstances, issues, the heavy things that weigh you down
that you have to deal with life in general, issues
coming at you, ccumstances coming at you. How do you
(10:01):
deal with those circumstances. So that was the second part.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
And then the.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Third part is being in bondage to unforgiveness.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
And I say that loud.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I want to be clear that being in bundanced to
that is literally being imprisoned to unforgiveness.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Okay, and so many people hide that.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
All right, son, We're gonna dive a little bit deeper.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Because uh, I heard you say, you know, the bond
just to people, bonders to situations, and you know, the
bonders to unforgiveness, unforgiveness and stuff like that. Give me
an example of each, you know what I mean? Because
when we talk about you know, bondage to people and
not being able to be enough for people. Is that
(10:48):
something that people just say to themselves or is it
that people are saying they're not good enough? Or is
that one saying to themselves, I'm not good enough? Or
is it that the bondage you know, because some people
will say, well, that wasn't good enough.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Right, and then so is it that?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Is it people that you in bondage with or is
it that you in bondage with yourself because you just
think you're just not good enough.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
It could be both, you know, sometimes, especially like with
a people pleaser, and we don't like to say that
we don't really feel like that's what you know, we're
dealing with. But I'm telling you so many people are
dealing with trying to jump through hoops to satisfy someone,
satisfy a group of people, satisfy some something, maybe some
(11:33):
inner thing, and if you fail at any part, you
may be in bonded to yourself saying, like you said,
I'm not good enough. I just can't do it. I've
tried this, or just people in general, it's never enough.
I jumped through that hoop and that wasn't good enough.
I jumped through that hoop and that wasn't good enough.
(11:55):
So you know, it could be both. It could be
either or you know, it's a cording on you know,
that particular person.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
All right, so you wrote another book as well.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yes, did it take you forty days, forty nine and
three years to write that one.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
This one took a little bit over a year.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Okay, alright?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
This the second one is You've got what it takes.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
And that book is about God's original intent for your life.
Every individual God has an intent. God has his purpose
that he created each individual for, and He has planted gifts,
you know, gift things or you know, talent skills, those
(12:41):
things God has planted inside of us that we may
pursue those things, that we may pull those things, use
him to pull those things, and he may pull those
things out of us to help mankind what we were.
We were put here to help mankind, not to help
just me. Sometimes helping just me will get me in
(13:03):
a place where I can help other people. You see
what I'm saying, because I really need to work on
me first. Sometimes people do that backwards. But yes, the
God's original intent for your life is in you. You know,
people want to live out their dreams. They you know, destiny, purpose,
it is all in you.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
All right, So I know, and I say something just
a little different. I always tell people like me, my
purpose is being on the radio. You know, that's that's
the gift. I have the gift of being on the radio, this,
that and the other. Right, But I always come up
and it was until this thing and I had to
(13:45):
I recognized. And now I might be wrong for saying
it because I'm not a pastor, you know, I'm just me.
But I always say there's an assignment that is attached
to it that you have to know what that specific
assignment is for what God has had for you to do,
had intended with your life. Am I saying that right?
Speaker 4 (14:06):
You're saying it the exact same thing that I just
said a different way.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I just want to point o'h go get I was
just wondering, you know, I told you, I told say
before the you know, before the interview, I told him
I was saved. But I'm still a little ratchet. He's
still working on me. Because I got this other side
of me. It comes out. So all right, let's talk about, uh,
the third book, because you wrote three books, and how
(14:34):
long did it take you to write this, and please
don't say more than a year.
Speaker 5 (14:37):
This one, this book did take.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
It took about five years.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Anyway, No, no, no, no, this one I kept quitting
on because I had life circumstances that, you know, this
last book, I just almost said, you know, I did
say I'm not going to do it. My my mother passed,
you know. I started the book and then and when
my mother passed and I see everything happened, and then
(15:04):
I came back to it. I was like, God, just
forget it, you know. But it took God to prompt
me again to you know, finish this book. And this
third one is the name of it is God will
make never happen.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Okay, now now tell me about God will make never
happen already What what do you mean by he will
make never happen?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I mean, okay, those things that people will say that
will never happen or people have never seen happen before God,
there's nothing impossible with him, you know. If he wants
it to happen, boom, it's gonna happen. And he's already
made never happen. He's already part of the red seat,
(15:50):
he's already raised people from the dead. He's already you know,
healed bodies. You know, he's already done things that man
can't do, man won't even I'd like to know the
man that attempted, or has ever attempted, to part the
Red Sea.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
So okay, so let me ask you this question. You
say God will never.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Will make never happen, God will well.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Will make never happen. Did I say that God will
make never happen?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
What was it in your life that you feel like
God may never happen?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Oh? My gosh, where do I start? What an absolutely.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
All the testimonies I could give you.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Give me one.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I mean, because that you know, typically there's one thing
that God may never happen in your life.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Well, you was you know when people came up to
you and said, well, you know what I mean, what
was it in your life that God may never happen?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Well, I had issue was with my thyroid, so I
had to have my thyroid removed. And one particular thing,
you know, I could go on and on. But the
doctor who was who was my surgeon that was getting
ready to do the surgery, he came in and he said, hey,
I just want to make sure you're on top of
(17:18):
what we're getting ready to do next. Just basic questions,
I answered him. And then he said, would you mind
if I prayed with you?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Now?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
What was the first thing that come to your mind
that never happened?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
And he was very sincere, and I said yes, and
he prayed.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
And it wasn't a you know, hell Mary this and
that prayer.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
No, it was like God got my mind, got my hand,
got the nurses, got the antesthesiologist.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
He was really sincere about that.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
That's just one thing I can go on in my life,
you know, about the things that that God had done,
you know, I mean countless things that people he you know,
that's where he works in the in the impossible for
man realm. You know, he puts super against our We
(18:14):
can do natural things. It may be hard for us,
but God does the supernatural. You know.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
He's that extra you know, in extraordinary.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
So that's what I mean by He'll make those things
that people say that or that has never happened, they've
never seen happen before.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
God would make happen. He can make happen.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Okay, so let's go back to the bond this book. Okay,
What do you want people to walk away with when
they read this book? What is it that you want
them to get out of this book when they read it?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Freedom, recognition that either all three they're dealing with, or
at least one that they're dealing with and understand. And
whom the sun sets free is free indeed. And you
know Jesus didn't go through everything that he went through
for us to accept bondage. There's this thing I talk
(19:13):
about in the book. It's called functioning bondage. And so
many of us are functioning functioning in bondage. You're still functioning,
you're still going about life, but you're bound to circumstances,
you're bound to people's opinion, or you're bound to unforgiveness.
(19:34):
And that's not freedom.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
All right, Now, you got what it takes. What do
you want people to walk away from that book?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I want them to do some introspections, and you know,
go internally and figure out who am I? And ask
the only entity in this universe that knows, and that's God.
And just you know you talked about earlier. You know,
(20:07):
you were meant to be on radio. But I look
at that as a broader I look broader, Yes, on radio,
but to reach people, you can't you know, touch and
reach beyond your reach. You're reaching people, and so you
look at it as be on radio. But I saw deeper.
I saw touch people, you know, excite people, get people,
(20:30):
you know, feeling better in the morning or or you know,
feeling better in the afternoons and things like that. So
that book, I really want people to to turn inward
and see that you try to find out what is
it about me? What has God given me? And all
of my books one are loaded with scripture and my
(20:53):
own personal experiences.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Got it all right, So you know what the next
question is, you got a third.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
You might as well just go ahead and just say
what do you want people to walk away from this
book with.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
I want people to realize that their dreams can come true,
that they can live that life, that they they they
can reach those places and those things that people will
look at them and say that'll never happen for you.
That can happen. That's I've never seen that happen before.
You know, to push beyond those statements, to push beyond
(21:30):
the the strongholds that try to hold people in a
box of you can only go this far and do
this amount of things.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Okay, all right, well where can people get the book?
Where can people find you? You know what I mean?
Where can they get all the books? And how can
they look you up? Co Pastor?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
All of my books?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
First of all, you can go to Benita Quinn Books
on Facebook. You can also and you can with that
particular site you can get my book autographed by me
and some special oil that I made myself that I'll
send off.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Secondly, they can go to Amazon.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
It won't be a in autographed book, but all of
the books are there.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
So those two places, those.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Two places social media. You know, how can they find
you on social media?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Banita Quinn Books.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Banita Quinn Books. All right, well.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
B O N I t A q U I n
in books.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Okay, all right well, Co Pastor Anita Quinn, thank you
so much for coming in the studio. I appreciate it.
Great to meet you and much success with you with
your books. And I know you guys have a church.
You have a couple of churches. One to Formerton and
where's the other one.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
The other one is in Saint Robert and it is
Manifest Destiny Ministries. And the second one is a Christian
Life Church in Farmington.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
So if people want to get information on your community outreach,
because I know, uh, you know you're having a church,
you do a lot of community outreach and they need
help or whatever. How can they find get that if
you get information to receive some community outreach from.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
You, they can find both of those churches Manna, m
A N n A, Dashfest Destiny Ministries on Facebook and
also Christian Life Church as well.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
All Right, well, thank you so much for coming in
the studio.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
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