June 21, 2025 • 42 mins
Hailing from a small Hawaiian fishing village to become a powerful State Senator, Samantha DeCorte shares her extraordinary journey from trauma to triumph! She's now the 1st Native Hawaiian woman senator representing West O'ahu. Her faith changed curses into blessings & resurrected a dead marriage to be a blessed home with faithful sons.
How can this impossible miracle happen? "Get connected to a Holy Spirit-filled, Bible-believing church. Don't let the enemy isolate you with lies – when we stay under spiritual covering, we find the strength to fulfill God's purpose for our lives." ~ Sen. Sam DeCorte (2025)
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Aloha.
Welcome back to Aloha Alive.
Today I have the great pleasureof having another Hamahine.
This is a mana hine, it's akoahine.
All some great words here wesay in Hawaii for a powerful
woman of God.
This is Senator SamanthaDeCourt.
Sam is my sister and I heardyou speak.
We were on a panel a few weeksago.
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I heard your life story likeI'd never heard it in my life.
I didn't know a third of thatand I have voted for you for
years, well, since 2022.
And you just won in 2024.
Now, who are you?
Where are you from?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Where are you grad?
Where are you grad?
Oh man, you know, there's somuch to unpack because God has
done so many great things in mylife.
I mean where to begin right.
But you know, I'm so thankfulthat I went through the life
circumstances that I did.
You know, born and raised onBig Island, miloli'i.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Miloli'i girl.
That is a small fishing villagestill in operation on the Big
Island.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yes, absolutely, and you know, I grew up in a family
where culture was very muchtaught to us.
We were rooted, we grew up onthe ocean.
My family were fishermen,hunters, all those kinds hunters
, all those kinds.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I seen pictures of you in the back of the truck
yeah, scaling fish, cleaning thefish, and I was like not
senator.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah well , we were the ones that would
wait on the shore for rampa tocome with the boat.
I'll go to come with the boat.
We would clean the fish, allthat kind of stuff, so yeah you
never went on the boat, but wewere there waiting to do the, to
do the real work which is clean, that's the hard work.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So that's you, miloli girl, big island, and who's you
give a shout out to yourhusband.
I love your husband, I have thebest husband.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Okay, this year december we would have made 28
years.
Wow, okay, I say together,right?
Yeah, because you know, I thinkevery day counts.
Yes, ma'am, and I want to makesure that every day is counted.
Good for you.
Yeah, so we met when we were inhigh school.
I was 16.
He was 17.
And you know, god had ordainedfor us to be together.
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I think that that was early on,earlier than God had ordained.
But you know, we met.
We started a family very young.
I got pregnant in high schooland you know how we just have to
learn those lessons on our own.
We just care for the life of us, take our parents' advice and
listen to good counsel.
We're like no, we know better,we get hothead got to learn the
hard way, but we still learned,is the point.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Now, tommy, a good man of God, and you have three
sons.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Now I have three boys Jordan, who is 26, 9-1, 22, and
Elijah is 20.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Girl, you did start early because you don't look
like you're 26 yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Good job mom and almighty men of God that love
the Lord, come on, raise them upin the way they should go.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yes, and I love that about you, sam, because you
always speak, you always taketime for the keiki and you speak
to the parents.
You know we were standing insign waving for you this last
election season and I want totalk to that a little bit,
because you had two electionseasons.
This is a brand fresh newlegislator leader, the very
first native Hawaiian womansenator for the West Side, which
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is District 22.
I'm like what First one.
Nonetheless, you took timeduring the last sign waving to
actually go up to each and everyone of the youth.
These are people in high school, right In Kumu Piper's class,
and you took the time to go tothese Nana Kuli, keki and Aloha
each of them, you're so good atit, yeah.
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And aloha, each of them, you'reso good at it, yeah.
But that's because you came up,I believe, with a compassion and
a passion for children, havingbeen a child who went through a
hard time and I want to getright through to that because,
as a miloli, small fishinghawaiian village, you were a
hawaiian girl, little hawaiiangirl, who is now a majorly
powerful wahine senator.
How did you go from a girlexperiencing some severe
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childhood trauma, which youshared a couple of weeks ago.
I was in shock.
Yeah, can you tell us aboutgrowing up that way and how you
came to the woman you are today?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, and let's go there because, you know, I think
it's so important to get themessage out of the adversity and
the things that we face andthen the moment that we have to,
like really surrender it all tothe Lord.
And so, growing up in a veryabusive household.
You know, my parents divorcedwhen I was about four years old
and really my whole life allI've really known is, you know,
abandonment, rejection, not tomention I was around a strong
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influence of drugs and alcoholand it was just so toxic, right.
But when you don't know anybetter, you think that that's
life and that's how it is andyou just kind of go on making
certain decisions that aren'tthe best.
But then what ended uphappening is, eventually I kind
of took on a kind of like avictim mentality, where I was
using the pain and theabandonment and the difficulties
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and I was using it tomanipulate the people around me,
the things around me, to getwhat I wanted.
So, as example, manipulate thepeople around me, the things
around me, to get what I wanted.
So, as example, when my dadended up giving his life to the
Lord when I was 12 years old andso praise God and I'm so
thankful for my dad I mean hereally had to love me back to
life, because by the time Ifound out, you know all of the
elements that I was faced within life I had built up such a
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resentment and such a hatetowards him for leaving me and
abandoning me, and so because ofthat and I blamed a lot of my
trauma on him because he wasnever there you were supposed to
be there to protect me and youweren't there and so, because of
that, I ended up, you know,really harboring those difficult
feelings.
And when he did really give hislife to the Lord, he came after
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me and he tried to love me withthe love of God and I said no,
absolutely not, you don'tdeserve it, you have to earn it.
And when I found him trying toearn it, I use that as a means
to not just manipulate him butto make him feel really guilty
about being the dad that hedidn't know how to be at the
time.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Thank you for saying that, so many of us putting
these huge expectations onparents who themselves were not
parented?
Yeah, and they're finding theway themselves, which is not to
excuse a lot of things thathappen, but thank you for
acknowledging.
Yeah, and so you had that cometo jesus moment in your
realization about dad.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yes, and so a funny story is that you know, and I I
moved everywhere.
You know, I was living with mygrandma, my aunties, my mom, my
dad.
They're like, you're a like, oh, they're like, go live with
your mother, go live with yourgrandma, go live with your
auntie, go live in foster home.
I mean, there were so manyareas of unstable lifestyle that
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I had to live at such a youngage so I never really had like a
strong structure Right.
And so through that, you know,I end up trying to validate
myself, whether it be with mywho's my husband now, at the
time.
But you know, I felt he waskind of like a man figure and he
was going to fill the void thatmy dad wasn't able to fill and
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because of that I ended upputting a lot of responsibility
on him.
Now, remember, I'm 16.
He's 17 years old.
What does he know about himself, let alone trying to help
somebody who's really beenneglected and just like
abandoned.
So it was really rough.
The first, I would say, 15years of our lives was really
tough.
But so funny story, when I wouldgo to live with my dad and you
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know he didn't have TV, hedidn't have none of that.
I mean, he was a sanctifiedChristian.
He was really about it.
I was like, so what?
That you don't even drinknothing anymore?
And he was like no, babe, likeyou know, we just living for God
, and you know, this is where Ilearned about generational
curses.
And he ended up paying me toread the Bible.
Oh wow, he said.
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He said, and I'm over here, I'mlike let's do this Right.
And so he's over there.
He said I'll give you $1 forone chapter, one chapter that
you read.
And I was like, well, how longis a chapter?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You know I don't like to read.
She a smart business girl.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yes, yes, and, and.
But I read it and that was sown.
Now I was using it for my ownselfish reasons, but my dad was
trying to impart the word intome.
Yes, and it worked.
It took some time, the seed wassown, sure, but later on, when
I really was at a crossroadswith my family, with my husband
I mean, we're really at thebottom here yeah, and it's like
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the only thing that I rememberedwas my dad saying go to God.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Wow, Go to God.
So simple, Go to God, yeah, andyou're right, because the word
of the Lord is seed and it saysin God's word, the Bible, that
the word shall go forth and itwill not return void.
In other words, if I'm writingthat check or modern terminology
if I'm dropping that PayPal,that Venmo, it is going to come
back with extra.
It's going to, and that's whatit did for you.
The word of the Lord when youwent to God.
Go to God came back strong,yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, and I remembered that and when that
moment came, I knew to go to theLord and so, yep.
So, you know, I ended upvisiting a few churches.
You know I ended up finding thechurch that God had
orchestrated for me to find Ihave amazing pastors pastors
Arden, kuna, sepulveda, word ofLife Christian Center.
I mean, they really took me inand they, they were my mama and
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my papi and I was so thankfulfor their love that, you know,
here I am.
I not only came from a brokenhome, but now my home itself is
broken.
Yes, and I don't even know howto pick up the pieces, because I
don't know what a healthyhousehold looks like.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Right, you shared when we were together a couple
of Saturdays ago.
You said you couldn't go to thebathroom because there were
people doing drugs in yourbathroom when you were living
with your mom.
Yeah, I mean, you couldn't gohome because you were Manuia
girl, going from home to home,to home.
So how do you build a home foryour husband, yourself and your
boys when you've never had ahome?
Home was never home.
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It was never a safe place.
It was a place of hurt anddestruction.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, and not only that, but I had two younger
brothers also.
So here I am, I'm older sisterand I'm mom too.
I mean, the drugs was so bad inmy house like how I had shared
earlier, you know, we had onebathroom in the house and half
the time people were doing drugs, so we can't go to the bathroom
.
So most of the time my parentswould just give me money to go
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take my brothers to Fun Factory,go take them to the store, go
take them to get icy, go takethem to the park, go take them
everywhere.
So here I am, at such a youngage I have to walk my brothers
to school and I'm being late nowmyself.
So now I have like truancycourt every single you know time
a month.
I have to go to Saturday school, you know, and those kinds of
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things.
And so you know I had to reallylearn at a very young age to
just really, you know, take careof my brothers.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And what's the age difference?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
uh, eight years old, and how old were they?
And 10, so I was still.
Oh yeah, they were inelementary.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I was in uh intermediate so just a few years
different, and I think we'respeaking a right now rhema word,
which is a revelation of godright now word, because we have
so many keiki in our state nowin elementary schools.
I visit them quite often withchoose al Aloha program, where
they are going to truancy courtor they're being taken to court
by their counselors, by theadministration of the school,
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because of lateness.
Tardiness because the parentson the west side, which you
represent, district 22, aredriving to work early in the
morning.
So the older kids and let's sayit's a two years older, so
maybe it's an 11 year old with anine and a seven year old has
to get the kids up, get themready and take them to school,
and that's just part of some ofthe trauma and what we deal with
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in the reality of Hawaii.
But then you come into a churchhome Thank you to Pastor Art,
pastor Kuna where they help tolove you in what I I esteem as
we draw a straight line.
In a world that keeps goingcrooked and crazy, in this world
where everything is just flyingapart and the destroyers
working to make everything chaos, crazy, I'm going to draw a
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straight line that, when I sayyes, my yes is a yes, my no is a
no.
And that's where we see asenator today who is a Senator
Wahine, mothering the nextgeneration.
Is that what happened for you?
Yeah, senator.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Wahine, mothering the next generation.
Is that what happened for you?
Yeah, and you know.
That's why I feel so connectedto the next generation, because
if I had someone in my life thatjust showed me an example of
something other than what I wasseeing at the time, I was never
shown that example, so I didn'tknow anything else but chaos,
abuse, you know, toxicity,neglect, all those kinds of
things.
So I'm thinking that's normal,right.
So then, when I finallysurrender my life to the Lord
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and I surround myself withindividuals that are really, you
know, being the priestly familythat God has called them to be,
I'm like oh, what is this?
You know, like you know how totreat my husband right, how to
submit to the male right Submit.
How do I walk in love?
How do I?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
speak promises on my children's life when those
promises may or may not havebeen spoken down on me.
You know it's funny as we'retalking and you said you had
such a toxic place and we're nothere to throw stones at our
parents or grandparents.
I mean, these things aretransgenerational, as you just
said.
But I was looking on yourwebsite I saw a family portrait
of yours and, interestinglyenough, you know you have all
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three generations, from the Kikito the Makua to the
grandparents, and I think it wasone of the adults even had a
beer can in there.
Yeah, that was my grandma.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
She had the Budweiser with a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Okay, but a cigarette .
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I knew that was a picture that we took right after
church.
That was actually the church inbehind us.
So my grandma's a smokycigarette, drinking her beer.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Which preaches to us as Kiki, because it would happen
right after.
Even during that, the men wereback digging the emu at my house
yeah, tongan digging umu andthey were all drinking already
right as they're digging, whilewe're at church, where the word
was being spoken by my grandpa.
So there's a lot of conflictingmessages.
I don't know how to build asafe home because I've never
seen it in my life, but throughthe grace of god, it was done
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for you.
Another you know I showed youthat snapshot another one that I
remember was sitting in youroffice a few weeks ago, because
we get together and I go and Idrop, lay and I pray with our
senator and behind me on thescreen was pastor art
prophesying over you.
Can you speak to, becausethere's so much goodness in
speaking life?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, and you know me , when I grab onto something, I
grab on Like I'm all in.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You're a pit bull girl.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, I'm not like half in.
Oh, let me just try to say I'mlike listen, I'm not in you are
locked and loaded we got to dothis, and so when I gave my life
to, I felt the love of God.
I knew that there was somethingthere.
I surrendered it all.
I decided that I was going tobe under the mentorship of the
covering of Pastors Art in Kona,and I was obedient to that call
and because of that I was ableto really just be a disciple,
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you know, and to just sit underthe covering of my pastors and
just trust them and allow themto help guide my life you know
how old were you.
I was 27 years old, still young, still very young and you
clamped on, I did.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I will share something.
Another pastor, alan Cardines,was here earlier filming and he
said the one great, one of thegreat things about Sister Sam,
senator Sam, she's so teachable,she's a wonderful disciple.
And so you said you're all in,you're hardcore, and they had a
great disciple.
So speak into that, becausewhen I saw that video of him
prophesying and almost 10 yearsto the day, you fulfilled the
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prophecy.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I mean, that was such a moment, right, because when
you get prophesied over, youthink in your mind you know what
that's for, right.
And I'm like, yes, I knowexactly what he's talking about,
it's for this moment.
And then seasons pass and it'slike I don't know, I guess
that's not it.
And then you know you're tryingto seek it.
But one thing that I made sureis to secure and protect that
word that God had prophesiedover me.
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Wow, so I would never lose sightof it, I would go back and I
would watch it at least a coupletimes a year, because you know
how, when you're in the church,the devil wants to get you out
of the church.
Yeah, so he's going to bringoffense, he's going to bring up
division, he's going to bring itall, yes, everything.
I've heard it all in the book.
I've even seen some casualtiesof the church and I said, no,
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god has a word for me, and thatprophecy has not been fulfilled
yet.
And until that prophecy isfulfilled, lord, I don't know
what it is, you know what it is,I don't know when, but I'm
going to stay committed becausethis is where you called me to
be.
And so because of that, yeah, Istayed very faithful and you
know how it is.
You know the ministry can be alittle political at times, but I
kept my eyes on um, on the goaland, whatever it was, on the
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call of God that was prophesiedover you.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I saw this video and now get this.
I'm sitting in her office withthe Senator in the state house
and behind me you had to grab acall by someone.
It was very important, so wejust stopped for a second.
I look back and I see the dateon this is 10 years prior.
He's prophesying You're goingto be a leader in government and
I'm looking at this.
You know young girl in herjeans.
You know you're at church.
You can see.
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You're just starstruck by theLord's prophecy over you.
But what I love about thisfamily and listen with ears to
hear and eyes to see is that younot only protected your peace,
which I often hear from PastorsSepulveda, but you also
protected the promise of God,the flame, the fire that you
were running, that the flamenever went out.
You looked at it twice a year.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
you said minimum, then I get there you know, come
in to just lose sight of whatGod has called right, because
you know it's like you get born,you know you're born again, you
fall in love with Jesus.
You hear these scriptures thatare just so like, sound, are so
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great, sounding like, as example, you know, as for me, my house,
we will serve the Lord, right,yeah, sure, 2415, that we all
grab on to yes.
And then you know, after awhile, it's like, hey, the
husband doesn't come to church.
Okay, kids don't want to wakeup.
And it's like, oh, whathappened, lord, I thought you
had, you know, this call on myfamily.
And it's like, but it's just soin the persistency of ourselves
, right?
So in my walk with the Lord, Irealized and I think that this
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is important for you know,everybody to grab on to is
really, it really is not aboutus, it's what about God, it's
what about it's about what Godis trying to do in our lives.
And you know, pastor Kunareally instilled that in us.
you, know, it's not about you.
It's about what God wants to dothrough you.
And there are people on theother side of your obedience and
and and I carry all of thosefundamentals now into where I'm
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at politically because whenyou're faced with natural
circumstances and everythingaround you just does not seem
like it's going to work out,yeah, and you have all
opposition coming against you.
It's not even just a naturalaspect of like oh, I don't know
if this is going to work, butyou literally have people
attacking you.
Wow, People you don't know thatyou've never met Right Holding
up banners and signs on you with, like, just lies upon lies.
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You really have to dig deep andremember the prophecy, Remember
the call of God on your life,not just on me, but on the next
generation.
And so this is where theblessing is.
It really is about how you aregoing to raise the next
generation.
And so for me, that's wherethat prophecy really came to
life.
You know, is when God hadcalled me to this political
field, and I remember the calland through all oppositions
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facing all the giants you couldever imagine mountains like you
could never even, you know, butit was really.
I knew God had something for me.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Protect the promise and protect your peace Now, and
I want to speak a blessing onyou because, as I shared that
snapshot of your family portraitwith grandma holding the beer
with a cigarette, and then Ishared the video that I watched,
with Pastor Art prophesyingover you, and you held on to
that Another picture that I haveseen was watching you on
opening day of the state Senatethis year.
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This was your second run in2024.
In 2022, you lost by 40 votes.
In 2024.
In 2022, you lost by 40 votes.
This time you won against aheavily favored opponent
democrat as a republican.
You won by a healthy margin.
And as I sat there so proudly inthe state senate gallery
looking at our girl and Ithought to myself this girl is
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scrapped spiritually,emotionally, mentally I mean
physically holding up thosesigns.
And you, we see this and I'm soproud to see you sitting there
and to see you acknowledge youare sitting with Tommy and your
kids, your husband, right, andnot only blessing to the next
generation and hopefully thethird generation.
But then I go upstairs to droplay on you and there's your dad,
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the guy who was the deadbeatdad, the deserter dad that God
redeemed and became a deservingdad and became a priestly family
, and he stood right next to you.
Was there a scripture versethat sustained you?
Because I love that you reversethe curse.
As we often say, we're going tobring the blessing and not just
so that, as for me, in my house, we will serve the Lord and we
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will be blessed.
You quoted Joshua, but not justfor you and your kids and your
husband, but you sent it back upto your parents and to your
grandparents.
Was there a scripture verse youheld on to other than Joshua?
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I mean it really was learning about the generational
curses and breaking thatgenerational curse.
Because what my dad had to comeagainst in order to break those
generational curses I don'teven know what that internal
fight looks like, but to knowthat he had to come after his
daughter, who was blaming him,rejecting him, everything that
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you could think of, and he wouldtry to just love me back to
life, and I just wouldn't lethim in and he never gave up on
me, hallelujah.
And it took probably about agood 15, maybe 20 years.
I mean, it was so bad, don, Iwouldn't even let my kids see
him.
I was like, no, I don't needyou abandoning them, like how
you abandoned me.
I mean just the lies that thedevil was continuing to play
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over and over in my head.
And once I really encounteredthe love of God, I realized that
it wasn't him, it was me and itwas really my ability to take
ownership of how I was going toutilize that circumstance which
I had to.
Okay, well, speaking of ascripture which plays over and
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over in my mind, is what thedevil meant for evil, god will
use for good, you will redeem itfor good.
And that's really what it is.
He was trying to take me and mygeneration down off of a seed
that was sown in a circumstanceof my father that didn't even
know any better at the time.
But I was willing to hold on tothat bad boy and then just use
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it to self-gain whatever I couldin whatever area, because then
people start feeling bad for youoh, poor thing.
Okay, well, let her go.
She had a rough childhood Right.
Her parents were divorced.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Her parents were abused, right yeah.
And how long does that last?
Because the wages of sin or thepaycheck is real short-term
yeah, to be real honest, it'sshort-term, and that you get
little bit gains, but you havean eternity of suffering.
That's what the devil promisesus, right yeah.
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But when we're with God, itmight be a short term pain for a
long term gain.
Right, that Christ leads us outof that.
And you did that because I'mgoing to fight the battles.
I heard a great quote latelythat said if I don't fight these
battles, I'm leaving it for mychildren.
And you said to yourself,senator Decourt, I am not going
to let my kids fight these samebattles I fought as a child, so
I will stand up and defend forthem.
And you're now reversing thecurse and bringing
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transgenerational blessings, notcurses.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You're an amazing woman Go ahead.
Well, I mean, that was soimportant is because, you know,
I grew up seeing things that achild should never see, enduring
things that a child shouldnever endure.
And when I had the opportunityto open my heart to the Lord,
you know, I didn't feel worthyenough.
You know, because the sins thatI had committed, I knew what I
was doing.
I deserve hell.
However, my children don't.
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They deserve to see anotheroption, another way.
I didn't get a chance to seethat, so it was important for me
to be able to show them, youknow, and it was because of that
that I was able to really, youknow, just persevere in this
walk, because, you know, becauseof the love of God and because
he can truly change the heart ofa man, amen.
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You know.
I, you know, and, and mychildren, they have never and
they will never come home andsee, you know, dad beating mom
or mom drunk, falling off thecouch.
They got to carry her into thebedroom like.
They will never know any ofthat.
All they will know is how topress in by faith.
All they will know is when youknow you speak the name of Jesus
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, even demons, even demons willhave to bow.
Even demons will have to bow.
So, knowing their authority,knowing who they are in Christ
and knowing how to use the wordof God to their advantage to
fulfill God purpose is reallyhow I'm imparting this example
into my children Is that we'refighting for something greater,
not just these temporarysatisfactions, but a long-term
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legacy, and that's what this isall about.
In this time of you know, goodversus evil, you know the enemy
is trying to confuse who we arein Christ, confuse our identity,
tell us that the word isn'tworking.
Oh look, it's been, you know,so many years and your husband
is still not coming to church.
I literally Dawn for 10 years.
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Would save a seat for myhusband next to me in church.
Lay done for 10 years.
Would save a seat for myhusband next to me in church,
lay hands on that bad boy andjust believe God that he was
going to fill it.
10 years it took me.
Can you imagine waiting 10years?
No, most most people think youknow I was gonna get a different
husband already.
Yeah, you know, but I knew.
I knew that God had a call onmy family and because of that,
in this season that we're in ingovernment I mean my husband was
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the backbone of my campaign hewas there when we were sign
waving.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
He's setting up the tour.
He's got okay, we got to getthe signs.
He's building things.
I'm like who is this guy?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
she better be married to him he's sure doing a lot
here and I mean, gosh, I wish hehad brothers so I can like
share, but thank you, yeah.
So so, seeing how the deviltried to really uh, bring
separation in my marriagebecause I don't know if I shared
this with you, um, but tommyand I had actually gotten
divorced, um, in 2006.
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So listen to this, right, talkabout a comeback testimony,
right?
So here we are, kids, raisingkids, okay, 16 and 17 years old.
We get married at 20 and 21.
We get divorced in when we were26 years old.
And then that's when I found theLord, and then that's when I
was just so desperate and brokenI was just willing to do
anything, give up everybody.
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God said get rid of yourfriends.
Boom, pow, like, okay, stophanging out with the cousins,
sorry, no, can anymore.
Sorry, no, can you know?
And then it really was.
In that moment, uh, I went aftermy husband and I said I said
you know?
I said god, well, he was myex-husband, right, and divorce.
And then it was during a time,in a moment, that I was at the
altar and god says I want, I'mgoing to restore your marriage.
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And I said there's no marriage,right, like I mean, there was
really no marriage.
Like Tommy hated me, he blamedme for everything rightfully so,
but it was like you're talkingabout I mean, really trying to
do a turnaround here but I wasso like.
I was so like driven by whatGod could do, and so I continued
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to go after Tommy three years,okay, okay, and then we got
remarried.
So we got remarried in 2010.
And this is where God is sogood, because Samantha Decord.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I had no idea that God literally resurrected a dead
marriage and the man hated you.
Different relationships inevery thing.
For three years you pursueafter a man you fired.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yes, and Amanda did not want anything to do with me.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I am covered in God bumps right now.
This ain't no chicken skin,because we are not created in
the image of a chicken.
Yeah, we are created in theimage of God, and when the
spirit of God rolls in, we standup.
That's shocking.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I had no idea.
But do you see, now, fastforward to the season that we're
in now, if it had not been forTommy, there would not be a
success in this campaign.
Thank you, lord, because I'mtelling you he brought elements
to this campaign that nobodyelse was weighing in on on my
team, the people, theconsultants that I had, I mean
everybody.
Tommy bought such an anointing.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
He was a spiritual backbone, he was a spiritual
spine, the head, the head, thecaptain, the quarterback.
He would run the ball.
I'm like this man is a one man.
She had better be married tothis man because really he was
knocking himself out cold foryou.
And then I found out, no, thatis, that's Tommy Decor.
I'm like, okay, we're all goodnow, cause otherwise I was like
this guy's a huge crush, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, so, but do you see, like how god had a call not
just for me, but for my husband, for my family?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
everybody had to play a part and all falling into
alignment and in order, becausegod is a god of order.
So powerful are the boys, yoursons, allowed to see dad?
Because I saw dad.
I saw him on opening day, ohyes yes.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
So you know, it really wasn't until I
surrendered that pain, because Iwas holding on to it, because
it was an advantage for me forsure.
So it was a security for me tosay that, well, if you leave me
again, I never really expectedyou to stay anyway.
So in order for me to give thatup, I had to trust God.
Okay, god, no matter what, yougot me, you got my kids, so I.
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It wasn't more than a few yearsafter that that, you know, I
just really had to surrendereverything to God, even if that
meant I would be rejected, Iwould be left, I would be
abandoned, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
God got me, okay.
So you are speaking a right nowRamo word again.
I just feel like I'm gettingbaptized and baptized.
I'm just going to stay under atthis point.
We're just going to keepswimming.
But many of you might behearing this and thinking the
same, because I was a child ofdivorce, a lot of similar
childhood trauma.
I'm not saying same same, it'sjust that I see you on that side
in the trenches and I've knownthose trenches right.
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But maybe what we can say topeople who are watching and
relating to this is that and Idid the same same thing.
How do I play my parentsagainst each other?
How do I manipulate this?
Because I'm the, I'm the babyboss, I'm the kid boss, um, but
it goes nowhere.
And you were able to heal thatand say I'm committed to you,
dad, even if you abandon meagain, because that's aloha yeah
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aloha is unconditional,sacrificial love.
That says, no matter what, Ilove you the same.
I'm not walking out on thisside of the table, I'm sticking
it out with you.
Is that what it was?
Because, sam, I think you'respeaking a right now word, even
to me.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Well, what it is is do we fully trust God or not?
And that's what it comes downto, because if you're hanging on
to pain from childhood or thepast, then you're really not
trusting God, because then we'rereally not walking in the fruit
of the Spirit that God had setup.
For us.
To be able to be long-suffering, you've got to be patient, you
have to endure, you have to loveat all times, you know, and for
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me, love was a scary word.
You know.
The world has manipulated theword love.
That's good, and they say thatoh well, if you love me, you
have to do this for me.
Yeah, love came with conditionsfrom the world boom.
And god was so unconditional inhis love, you know, and when he
told me in his word, as youwere in your sin, yeah, yet I
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still died for you and I stillloved you is I you?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
And so that was important to me, because he
didn't love me when I got it alltogether.
He loved me in the middle of mymess and that, if anything,
deserved commitment on my end Ifyou're going to love me in the
worst time of my life, wheneverybody has left me.
I was left, I was abandoned, Iwas feeling sorry for myself and
God stepped in and he said youknow what I made you that way.
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That's good, and I'm taking youthrough that season because I
have a greater purpose for youand it was because I was able to
navigate through that pain andstill walk in the blessing of
God, still be able to pray formy family and my marriage and my
children.
Yes Is now fast forward.
Here we are today and I'm stillable to carry on that same
spirit because I know the callof God.
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So I'm sorry, fear,intimidation, you have no place
in my life, because we have anend goal here and the victory is
Jesus on earth, heaven here,and everybody will be able to
make that decision on whetherthey want to receive Jesus or
not.
But just to know here thatthere's more to us, there's more
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to this life than just thecircumstances that we're dealt
and you know the community thatI represent.
You know Waianae is a veryimpoverished community.
We're a very, very pridefulcommunity and if there's one
thing that I resonate withWaianae is they are resilient
man.
Those people will give up fornothing.
You ain't going to tell themRide, or die.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
they ride and die, and then they get back on and
ride again and die again, butthey're fighters, right.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
So they come out of the ashes, you know, and they
just come from nowhere.
And now we're working with kidsin our community that are, on a
global scale, proposingprojects on how to be more
self-sustainable, how to reducelandfill waste.
I mean, you're talking aboutchildren.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
kids we're talking about kids here, high school
kids from Nanakuli High School,scrappa's Union, affecting so
many other high schools withthat.
I love them.
Those are our Kiki, but that'shuge.
Now let me just um recap.
And then I know you got to getback to the state capitol.
Senator, I'm so appreciative ofour time.
Thank you for carving it outliterally.
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But here's what you just saidand what was ministering to me
in the right now.
Truly it was.
Is I, because of trauma andI'll own this right now on
camera with you I becamecommitted to uncommitment as
soon as I find out that badthing about you, because we're
all human and I will find outthat bad thing, I'm bouncing,
I'm out bye.
And so the Lord was sayingthrough what you just said right
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, that you stuck it out withyour dad, and then you stuck it
out with Tommy, you're stickingit out with your kids that no
matter what I'm here, I'm theride or die, and that God who
loved us even in our sin, right.
And then 1 John 4, 8 is anothergreat scripture that comes to
heart.
It says perfect love casts outfear.
But too much of what we see inour ohana, especially in the
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hard sides of, let's say,wai'anae or Miloli'i or maybe
parts of Hilo, maybe whereyou're from is that the devil
knows that love is the gold, sohe covers that gold with this
black smut of fear and so that achild like yourself, a trauma
child, or trauma child like me,we only see love as something
that always hurt us, the peoplewho are supposed to love us, our
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moms and our dads, other peoplein our lives that either they
sexually abused us or they soldus out, they tricked us out, all
those bad things.
Now it's black smut on a goldthing called love, and when we
grow up, love is no longer good,it's something bad.
And what we're here to saytoday and what I see in you,
hamahine Wahine, senator, whocomes from this tiny little
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Hawaiian girl from a tiny littlevillage with a lot of trauma
trauma is that God can removethat black smut and make give us
golden lives of abundance.
He really can.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, you know, and before he actually can put that
smut over and this is somethingthat, you know, I also want to
bring to the table is that hehas to separate us, right, you
from from, from whether it beour pastors, whether it be our
wife, our husband, our parents,whatever is, because once he can
isolate you, then he can reallystart deceiving you.
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Yes, and that's why I feel it'sso important.
You know, even till this day,I'm very connected with my
church.
I stay under the covering of mypastors, because we are in a
spiritual warfare, Thank you.
And if I don't have thespiritual covering.
I'm going to be vulnerable tothe enemy.
You're going to make it, yeah,and so this is why this season
in our lives are so strategic,so it's so important to get
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connected to a Holy Spiritchurch.
That's good, an anointed church.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
And a Bible reading.
Believing church right, theHoly Spirit and the Bible Pair
those up.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Thank you, yes, and because that's why the enemy,
you know, as soon as he candivide us, then he can start
manipulating us, which is whathe tries to do all the time.
Oh, you don't want to go tothat church, you know they talk
too much about the tithe.
Oh, they're asking you tovolunteer again, Don't they know
you have work?
And oh, prayer at 5 am is tooearly, don't they know you got
to sleep, right?
I mean, it's one thought afteranother and we've got to kill
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those things immediately,because it's the same kind of
deceptive lies with our husbandsoh, look, he came home late
again today.
Look, he's not even cutting thegrass.
Oh, da-da-da, oh, he's gettingcomfortable, and you know all
those kinds of things.
One lie in there.
There is no compartmentalizingthe way that the enemy wants to
deceive us.
A lie is a lie is a lie.
So if he can convince you toget away from your pastors, away
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from your church, with one lie,he'll use the same spirit to
get you away from your husband,away from your job, away from
your kids.
I'll let them go.
They just have to be themselvesand learn the hard way.
Like are you crazy, right?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
like are you crazy, right?
No, I'm not leaving my childrenfor the devil to come have
playground with them.
Yeah, I love what you're saying, but he says don't let one lie
in.
Yes, and I've often said thatif the devil gets a toe hold, if
he gets a foothold is when theBible says, then he's going to
have a strong hold and once hegets a strong hold he's going to
take the choke hold.
Yeah, he will wipe you out.
The devil has never, ever takena knee.
You know, back in the day infootball it used to be if
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somebody's down, everyone takesa knee, which was kind of to
take a breath, give thembreathing room, but it was also
to say a prayer for that personwho's down.
Devil don't take a knee to saya prayer.
He comes up when you're down onthe field to take the kill shot
.
So I love that you don't allowone lie in, because that spirit
of divorce is done in Jesus nameby the blood of the lamb.
It's done.
And what I also want toencourage and add on to, because
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you're already getting thetriple scoop banana split today
with Senator Sam, you're gettingthe full, huge thing, the
buffet, because God sets a feastbefore us in the presence of
our enemy.
She got you the buffet.
I don't put the cherry on thebuffet is this is that not only
did you stick it out with yourpastors and come under their
discipling, and you ate it fullcore.
We know these things, but weare blessed when we do them.
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You do them.
You're a good disciple.
But I will add, not only didyou get their covering
spiritually, but you also wentout and got other spiritual
battle.
Wahine, you came to me, youhumbled yourself with tears in
your eyes, senator, if I may beso bold and so transparent.
You came with tears in youreyes and said, sis, please pray
for me.
I'm here in this square building.
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You fought to be there.
But what you realize is, onceyou're there, it's kind of like
paddling canoe.
We got to the end, but we'renot done.
Now the battle begins right.
You landed woohoo, lays all thegreen bottles seven up.
Also, we drink, not all theother green bottles, but we do
that, we celebrate.
But now was the fight and yougot yourself extra protection,
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spiritual detail.
Speak into that if you will,and we'll bring this in for a
landing.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah, and you know, that's why it's so important,
because different seasons right,god brings different people,
you know, and so it's soimportant to be sensitive and
discerning to the Holy Spirit onwho those people are.
I love it.
And so, you know, you came inat the right time.
And you know, at this point I'mlike I'm like I'm crying out to
God, I'm like, god, you got tohelp me.
Yes, because I'm getting soconsumed in my thoughts I'm
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starting to overthink, you know,and it's starting to become
very unhealthy for me, and I'mlike I don't know what to do,
you know, because your firsttime is my first time, you know,
and so, anyway, you know.
So, so, in that I was startingto feel very insecure, like,
okay, god, can I really do this?
What does this look like?
You know?
I mean it was almost to thepoint of like gosh, am I making
it worse by being here Because Idon't know what to do, and am I
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hurting my community?
You know, like, lord, you gottahelp me, I need guidance, you
know.
And so, like when I say God putyou here at the right time, I
mean literally like withinseconds.
Right, boom, here comes sis,she's coming in and she does
this very often.
She brings us a beautifuloverthrow, lay.
I'll tell them about the storylater, um, but you know, um, I
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was just so thankful for youalso being sensitive to the Holy
Spirit, because when I was inthat thought, I pulled you in, I
closed the door, you did, and Ijust was brought to tears and I
shared with you.
I said, listen, like I'm feelingso insecure, I don't know if I
can do this.
I don't want to make thingsworse.
What am I doing?
You know, yeah, and you, youdid exactly what I knew you were
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going to do is you fired upthat conquering spirit that God
has given me to conquer divorce,to conquer abuse, to conquer
addiction, to conquer all that.
I felt that boldness again, yes, and you just fired that up for
me and you're like come on,let's go.
We got this, you know, andthat's what I need.
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I needed the word of God, Ineeded a sister to link in and
lock in with me, to be able tobring me to the place of okay,
the battle is here and thebattle is now, and so you are
the chosen warrior for thatbattle and I don't want to hear
the lies that you are going tomake it worse, or?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
I hear the lies, but these are the themes.
Right, it was lies.
I had to rebuke her, firstthing, and then bless her.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
I was like I don't want to hear those lies.
But I pulled Don in and I waslike listen, I got to tell you
what's going on Becausesomething has to happen.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
This stuff got to go a goal.
But there's goodness in thatand, as we end, because I want
to get you to your next meetingfaithfully, I know your office
manager and she's from YNI so Ijust make sure I keep my YNI
people happy.
But the goodness in that wasyou let yourself have that
moment.
I believe strongly and goinghonestly before the Lord,
because David was honest beforethe Lord and then the Lord
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picked him back up and set himforward and said you're going to
take Goliath today with yourknees knocking, but you will
take that giant, because courageis fear.
That has said its prayers and,all through the word of God, he
raised up the least likely tosucceed, the least likely to get
it, and would say hi, generalGideon, faithful man of God,
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mighty, valiant warrior.
Oh me hiding down here in thisdark little cell threshing
because I'm in fear.
So, samantha, I thank you forwhat you're doing in the state
capitol.
I thank you for fighting forthe people of Hawaii, for the
many people out there who arewatching this, who can't travel
to Baratania Street, to thecapitol, to thank you.
I know you even mentioned andwe'll have you back if that's
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okay but you mentioned peoplewho hate you?
Who come against you?
Even people in the building.
Surprise, surprise, but youkeep working it out and walking
it out, because the prophecy andthe promise of the Most High
God has always come to pass, ithas never failed and you are his
victory in the making and forthe taking.
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So thank you to SenatorSamantha Decourt, District 22,
but fighting for all of theislands of Hawaii, including the
ninth island of Las Vegas, the10th island of Alaska.
She fighting for all thisislands, all the aina.
We're going to have her back,don't you worry.
Thank you again for joining usfor Aloha Alive with this feisty
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Aloha Wahine.
Senator Samantha Decord.
Aloha.
Welcome back to Aloha Alive.
Today I have the great pleasureof having another Hamahine.
This is a mana hine, it's akoahine.
All some great words here wesay in Hawaii for a powerful
woman of God.
This is Senator SamanthaDeCourt.
Sam is my sister and I heardyou speak.
We were on a panel a few weeksago.
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I heard your life story likeI'd never heard it in my life.
I didn't know a third of thatand I have voted for you for
years, well, since 2022.
And you just won in 2024.
Now, who are you?
Where are you from?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Where are you grad?
Where are you grad?
Oh man, you know, there's somuch to unpack because God has
done so many great things in mylife.
I mean where to begin right.
But you know, I'm so thankfulthat I went through the life
circumstances that I did.
You know, born and raised onBig Island, miloli'i.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Miloli'i girl.
That is a small fishing villagestill in operation on the Big
Island.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yes, absolutely, and you know, I grew up in a family
where culture was very muchtaught to us.
We were rooted, we grew up onthe ocean.
My family were fishermen,hunters, all those kinds hunters
, all those kinds.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I seen pictures of you in the back of the truck
yeah, scaling fish, cleaning thefish, and I was like not
senator.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah well , we were the ones that would
wait on the shore for rampa tocome with the boat.
I'll go to come with the boat.
We would clean the fish, allthat kind of stuff, so yeah you
never went on the boat, but wewere there waiting to do the, to
do the real work which is clean, that's the hard work.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So that's you, miloli girl, big island, and who's you
give a shout out to yourhusband.
I love your husband, I have thebest husband.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Okay, this year december we would have made 28
years.
Wow, okay, I say together,right?
Yeah, because you know, I thinkevery day counts.
Yes, ma'am, and I want to makesure that every day is counted.
Good for you.
Yeah, so we met when we were inhigh school.
I was 16.
He was 17.
And you know, god had ordainedfor us to be together.
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I think that that was early on,earlier than God had ordained.
But you know, we met.
We started a family very young.
I got pregnant in high schooland you know how we just have to
learn those lessons on our own.
We just care for the life of us, take our parents' advice and
listen to good counsel.
We're like no, we know better,we get hothead got to learn the
hard way, but we still learned,is the point.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Now, tommy, a good man of God, and you have three
sons.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Now I have three boys Jordan, who is 26, 9-1, 22, and
Elijah is 20.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Girl, you did start early because you don't look
like you're 26 yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Good job mom and almighty men of God that love
the Lord, come on, raise them upin the way they should go.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yes, and I love that about you, sam, because you
always speak, you always taketime for the keiki and you speak
to the parents.
You know we were standing insign waving for you this last
election season and I want totalk to that a little bit,
because you had two electionseasons.
This is a brand fresh newlegislator leader, the very
first native Hawaiian womansenator for the West Side, which
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is District 22.
I'm like what First one.
Nonetheless, you took timeduring the last sign waving to
actually go up to each and everyone of the youth.
These are people in high school, right In Kumu Piper's class,
and you took the time to go tothese Nana Kuli, keki and Aloha
each of them, you're so good atit, yeah.
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And aloha, each of them, you'reso good at it, yeah.
But that's because you came up,I believe, with a compassion and
a passion for children, havingbeen a child who went through a
hard time and I want to getright through to that because,
as a miloli, small fishinghawaiian village, you were a
hawaiian girl, little hawaiiangirl, who is now a majorly
powerful wahine senator.
How did you go from a girlexperiencing some severe
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childhood trauma, which youshared a couple of weeks ago.
I was in shock.
Yeah, can you tell us aboutgrowing up that way and how you
came to the woman you are today?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, and let's go there because, you know, I think
it's so important to get themessage out of the adversity and
the things that we face andthen the moment that we have to,
like really surrender it all tothe Lord.
And so, growing up in a veryabusive household.
You know, my parents divorcedwhen I was about four years old
and really my whole life allI've really known is, you know,
abandonment, rejection, not tomention I was around a strong
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influence of drugs and alcoholand it was just so toxic, right.
But when you don't know anybetter, you think that that's
life and that's how it is andyou just kind of go on making
certain decisions that aren'tthe best.
But then what ended uphappening is, eventually I kind
of took on a kind of like avictim mentality, where I was
using the pain and theabandonment and the difficulties
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and I was using it tomanipulate the people around me,
the things around me, to getwhat I wanted.
So, as example, manipulate thepeople around me, the things
around me, to get what I wanted.
So, as example, when my dadended up giving his life to the
Lord when I was 12 years old andso praise God and I'm so
thankful for my dad I mean hereally had to love me back to
life, because by the time Ifound out, you know all of the
elements that I was faced within life I had built up such a
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resentment and such a hatetowards him for leaving me and
abandoning me, and so because ofthat and I blamed a lot of my
trauma on him because he wasnever there you were supposed to
be there to protect me and youweren't there and so, because of
that, I ended up, you know,really harboring those difficult
feelings.
And when he did really give hislife to the Lord, he came after
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me and he tried to love me withthe love of God and I said no,
absolutely not, you don'tdeserve it, you have to earn it.
And when I found him trying toearn it, I use that as a means
to not just manipulate him butto make him feel really guilty
about being the dad that hedidn't know how to be at the
time.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Thank you for saying that, so many of us putting
these huge expectations onparents who themselves were not
parented?
Yeah, and they're finding theway themselves, which is not to
excuse a lot of things thathappen, but thank you for
acknowledging.
Yeah, and so you had that cometo jesus moment in your
realization about dad.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yes, and so a funny story is that you know, and I I
moved everywhere.
You know, I was living with mygrandma, my aunties, my mom, my
dad.
They're like, you're a like, oh, they're like, go live with
your mother, go live with yourgrandma, go live with your
auntie, go live in foster home.
I mean, there were so manyareas of unstable lifestyle that
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I had to live at such a youngage so I never really had like a
strong structure Right.
And so through that, you know,I end up trying to validate
myself, whether it be with mywho's my husband now, at the
time.
But you know, I felt he waskind of like a man figure and he
was going to fill the void thatmy dad wasn't able to fill and
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because of that I ended upputting a lot of responsibility
on him.
Now, remember, I'm 16.
He's 17 years old.
What does he know about himself, let alone trying to help
somebody who's really beenneglected and just like
abandoned.
So it was really rough.
The first, I would say, 15years of our lives was really
tough.
But so funny story, when I wouldgo to live with my dad and you
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know he didn't have TV, hedidn't have none of that.
I mean, he was a sanctifiedChristian.
He was really about it.
I was like, so what?
That you don't even drinknothing anymore?
And he was like no, babe, likeyou know, we just living for God
, and you know, this is where Ilearned about generational
curses.
And he ended up paying me toread the Bible.
Oh wow, he said.
(07:43):
He said, and I'm over here, I'mlike let's do this Right.
And so he's over there.
He said I'll give you $1 forone chapter, one chapter that
you read.
And I was like, well, how longis a chapter?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You know I don't like to read.
She a smart business girl.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yes, yes, and, and.
But I read it and that was sown.
Now I was using it for my ownselfish reasons, but my dad was
trying to impart the word intome.
Yes, and it worked.
It took some time, the seed wassown, sure, but later on, when
I really was at a crossroadswith my family, with my husband
I mean, we're really at thebottom here yeah, and it's like
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the only thing that I rememberedwas my dad saying go to God.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Wow, Go to God.
So simple, Go to God, yeah, andyou're right, because the word
of the Lord is seed and it saysin God's word, the Bible, that
the word shall go forth and itwill not return void.
In other words, if I'm writingthat check or modern terminology
if I'm dropping that PayPal,that Venmo, it is going to come
back with extra.
It's going to, and that's whatit did for you.
The word of the Lord when youwent to God.
Go to God came back strong,yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, and I remembered that and when that
moment came, I knew to go to theLord and so, yep.
So, you know, I ended upvisiting a few churches.
You know I ended up finding thechurch that God had
orchestrated for me to find Ihave amazing pastors pastors
Arden, kuna, sepulveda, word ofLife Christian Center.
I mean, they really took me inand they, they were my mama and
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my papi and I was so thankfulfor their love that, you know,
here I am.
I not only came from a brokenhome, but now my home itself is
broken.
Yes, and I don't even know howto pick up the pieces, because I
don't know what a healthyhousehold looks like.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Right, you shared when we were together a couple
of Saturdays ago.
You said you couldn't go to thebathroom because there were
people doing drugs in yourbathroom when you were living
with your mom.
Yeah, I mean, you couldn't gohome because you were Manuia
girl, going from home to home,to home.
So how do you build a home foryour husband, yourself and your
boys when you've never had ahome?
Home was never home.
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It was never a safe place.
It was a place of hurt anddestruction.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, and not only that, but I had two younger
brothers also.
So here I am, I'm older sisterand I'm mom too.
I mean, the drugs was so bad inmy house like how I had shared
earlier, you know, we had onebathroom in the house and half
the time people were doing drugs, so we can't go to the bathroom
.
So most of the time my parentswould just give me money to go
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take my brothers to Fun Factory,go take them to the store, go
take them to get icy, go takethem to the park, go take them
everywhere.
So here I am, at such a youngage I have to walk my brothers
to school and I'm being late nowmyself.
So now I have like truancycourt every single you know time
a month.
I have to go to Saturday school, you know, and those kinds of
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things.
And so you know I had to reallylearn at a very young age to
just really, you know, take careof my brothers.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And what's the age difference?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
uh, eight years old, and how old were they?
And 10, so I was still.
Oh yeah, they were inelementary.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I was in uh intermediate so just a few years
different, and I think we'respeaking a right now rhema word,
which is a revelation of godright now word, because we have
so many keiki in our state nowin elementary schools.
I visit them quite often withchoose al Aloha program, where
they are going to truancy courtor they're being taken to court
by their counselors, by theadministration of the school,
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because of lateness.
Tardiness because the parentson the west side, which you
represent, district 22, aredriving to work early in the
morning.
So the older kids and let's sayit's a two years older, so
maybe it's an 11 year old with anine and a seven year old has
to get the kids up, get themready and take them to school,
and that's just part of some ofthe trauma and what we deal with
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in the reality of Hawaii.
But then you come into a churchhome Thank you to Pastor Art,
pastor Kuna where they help tolove you in what I I esteem as
we draw a straight line.
In a world that keeps goingcrooked and crazy, in this world
where everything is just flyingapart and the destroyers
working to make everything chaos, crazy, I'm going to draw a
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straight line that, when I sayyes, my yes is a yes, my no is a
no.
And that's where we see asenator today who is a Senator
Wahine, mothering the nextgeneration.
Is that what happened for you?
Yeah, senator.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Wahine, mothering the next generation.
Is that what happened for you?
Yeah, and you know.
That's why I feel so connectedto the next generation, because
if I had someone in my life thatjust showed me an example of
something other than what I wasseeing at the time, I was never
shown that example, so I didn'tknow anything else but chaos,
abuse, you know, toxicity,neglect, all those kinds of
things.
So I'm thinking that's normal,right.
So then, when I finallysurrender my life to the Lord
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and I surround myself withindividuals that are really, you
know, being the priestly familythat God has called them to be,
I'm like oh, what is this?
You know, like you know how totreat my husband right, how to
submit to the male right Submit.
How do I walk in love?
How do I?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
speak promises on my children's life when those
promises may or may not havebeen spoken down on me.
You know it's funny as we'retalking and you said you had
such a toxic place and we're nothere to throw stones at our
parents or grandparents.
I mean, these things aretransgenerational, as you just
said.
But I was looking on yourwebsite I saw a family portrait
of yours and, interestinglyenough, you know you have all
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three generations, from the Kikito the Makua to the
grandparents, and I think it wasone of the adults even had a
beer can in there.
Yeah, that was my grandma.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
She had the Budweiser with a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Okay, but a cigarette .
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I knew that was a picture that we took right after
church.
That was actually the church inbehind us.
So my grandma's a smokycigarette, drinking her beer.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Which preaches to us as Kiki, because it would happen
right after.
Even during that, the men wereback digging the emu at my house
yeah, tongan digging umu andthey were all drinking already
right as they're digging, whilewe're at church, where the word
was being spoken by my grandpa.
So there's a lot of conflictingmessages.
I don't know how to build asafe home because I've never
seen it in my life, but throughthe grace of god, it was done
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for you.
Another you know I showed youthat snapshot another one that I
remember was sitting in youroffice a few weeks ago, because
we get together and I go and Idrop, lay and I pray with our
senator and behind me on thescreen was pastor art
prophesying over you.
Can you speak to, becausethere's so much goodness in
speaking life?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, and you know me , when I grab onto something, I
grab on Like I'm all in.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You're a pit bull girl.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, I'm not like half in.
Oh, let me just try to say I'mlike listen, I'm not in you are
locked and loaded we got to dothis, and so when I gave my life
to, I felt the love of God.
I knew that there was somethingthere.
I surrendered it all.
I decided that I was going tobe under the mentorship of the
covering of Pastors Art in Kona,and I was obedient to that call
and because of that I was ableto really just be a disciple,
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you know, and to just sit underthe covering of my pastors and
just trust them and allow themto help guide my life you know
how old were you.
I was 27 years old, still young, still very young and you
clamped on, I did.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I will share something.
Another pastor, alan Cardines,was here earlier filming and he
said the one great, one of thegreat things about Sister Sam,
senator Sam, she's so teachable,she's a wonderful disciple.
And so you said you're all in,you're hardcore, and they had a
great disciple.
So speak into that, becausewhen I saw that video of him
prophesying and almost 10 yearsto the day, you fulfilled the
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prophecy.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I mean, that was such a moment, right, because when
you get prophesied over, youthink in your mind you know what
that's for, right.
And I'm like, yes, I knowexactly what he's talking about,
it's for this moment.
And then seasons pass and it'slike I don't know, I guess
that's not it.
And then you know you're tryingto seek it.
But one thing that I made sureis to secure and protect that
word that God had prophesiedover me.
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Wow, so I would never lose sightof it, I would go back and I
would watch it at least a coupletimes a year, because you know
how, when you're in the church,the devil wants to get you out
of the church.
Yeah, so he's going to bringoffense, he's going to bring up
division, he's going to bring itall, yes, everything.
I've heard it all in the book.
I've even seen some casualtiesof the church and I said, no,
(15:56):
god has a word for me, and thatprophecy has not been fulfilled
yet.
And until that prophecy isfulfilled, lord, I don't know
what it is, you know what it is,I don't know when, but I'm
going to stay committed becausethis is where you called me to
be.
And so because of that, yeah, Istayed very faithful and you
know how it is.
You know the ministry can be alittle political at times, but I
kept my eyes on um, on the goaland, whatever it was, on the
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call of God that was prophesiedover you.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I saw this video and now get this.
I'm sitting in her office withthe Senator in the state house
and behind me you had to grab acall by someone.
It was very important, so wejust stopped for a second.
I look back and I see the dateon this is 10 years prior.
He's prophesying You're goingto be a leader in government and
I'm looking at this.
You know young girl in herjeans.
You know you're at church.
You can see.
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You're just starstruck by theLord's prophecy over you.
But what I love about thisfamily and listen with ears to
hear and eyes to see is that younot only protected your peace,
which I often hear from PastorsSepulveda, but you also
protected the promise of God,the flame, the fire that you
were running, that the flamenever went out.
You looked at it twice a year.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
you said minimum, then I get there you know, come
in to just lose sight of whatGod has called right, because
you know it's like you get born,you know you're born again, you
fall in love with Jesus.
You hear these scriptures thatare just so like, sound, are so
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great, sounding like, as example, you know, as for me, my house,
we will serve the Lord, right,yeah, sure, 2415, that we all
grab on to yes.
And then you know, after awhile, it's like, hey, the
husband doesn't come to church.
Okay, kids don't want to wakeup.
And it's like, oh, whathappened, lord, I thought you
had, you know, this call on myfamily.
And it's like, but it's just soin the persistency of ourselves
, right?
So in my walk with the Lord, Irealized and I think that this
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is important for you know,everybody to grab on to is
really, it really is not aboutus, it's what about God, it's
what about it's about what Godis trying to do in our lives.
And you know, pastor Kunareally instilled that in us.
you, know, it's not about you.
It's about what God wants to dothrough you.
And there are people on theother side of your obedience and
and and I carry all of thosefundamentals now into where I'm
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at politically because whenyou're faced with natural
circumstances and everythingaround you just does not seem
like it's going to work out,yeah, and you have all
opposition coming against you.
It's not even just a naturalaspect of like oh, I don't know
if this is going to work, butyou literally have people
attacking you.
Wow, People you don't know thatyou've never met Right Holding
up banners and signs on you with, like, just lies upon lies.
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You really have to dig deep andremember the prophecy, Remember
the call of God on your life,not just on me, but on the next
generation.
And so this is where theblessing is.
It really is about how you aregoing to raise the next
generation.
And so for me, that's wherethat prophecy really came to
life.
You know, is when God hadcalled me to this political
field, and I remember the calland through all oppositions
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facing all the giants you couldever imagine mountains like you
could never even, you know, butit was really.
I knew God had something for me.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Protect the promise and protect your peace Now, and
I want to speak a blessing onyou because, as I shared that
snapshot of your family portraitwith grandma holding the beer
with a cigarette, and then Ishared the video that I watched,
with Pastor Art prophesyingover you, and you held on to
that Another picture that I haveseen was watching you on
opening day of the state Senatethis year.
(19:27):
This was your second run in2024.
In 2022, you lost by 40 votes.
In 2024.
In 2022, you lost by 40 votes.
This time you won against aheavily favored opponent
democrat as a republican.
You won by a healthy margin.
And as I sat there so proudly inthe state senate gallery
looking at our girl and Ithought to myself this girl is
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scrapped spiritually,emotionally, mentally I mean
physically holding up thosesigns.
And you, we see this and I'm soproud to see you sitting there
and to see you acknowledge youare sitting with Tommy and your
kids, your husband, right, andnot only blessing to the next
generation and hopefully thethird generation.
But then I go upstairs to droplay on you and there's your dad,
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the guy who was the deadbeatdad, the deserter dad that God
redeemed and became a deservingdad and became a priestly family
, and he stood right next to you.
Was there a scripture versethat sustained you?
Because I love that you reversethe curse.
As we often say, we're going tobring the blessing and not just
so that, as for me, in my house, we will serve the Lord and we
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will be blessed.
You quoted Joshua, but not justfor you and your kids and your
husband, but you sent it back upto your parents and to your
grandparents.
Was there a scripture verse youheld on to other than Joshua?
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
I mean it really was learning about the generational
curses and breaking thatgenerational curse.
Because what my dad had to comeagainst in order to break those
generational curses I don'teven know what that internal
fight looks like, but to knowthat he had to come after his
daughter, who was blaming him,rejecting him, everything that
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you could think of, and he wouldtry to just love me back to
life, and I just wouldn't lethim in and he never gave up on
me, hallelujah.
And it took probably about agood 15, maybe 20 years.
I mean, it was so bad, don, Iwouldn't even let my kids see
him.
I was like, no, I don't needyou abandoning them, like how
you abandoned me.
I mean just the lies that thedevil was continuing to play
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over and over in my head.
And once I really encounteredthe love of God, I realized that
it wasn't him, it was me and itwas really my ability to take
ownership of how I was going toutilize that circumstance which
I had to.
Okay, well, speaking of ascripture which plays over and
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over in my mind, is what thedevil meant for evil, god will
use for good, you will redeem itfor good.
And that's really what it is.
He was trying to take me and mygeneration down off of a seed
that was sown in a circumstanceof my father that didn't even
know any better at the time.
But I was willing to hold on tothat bad boy and then just use
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it to self-gain whatever I couldin whatever area, because then
people start feeling bad for youoh, poor thing.
Okay, well, let her go.
She had a rough childhood Right.
Her parents were divorced.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Her parents were abused, right yeah.
And how long does that last?
Because the wages of sin or thepaycheck is real short-term
yeah, to be real honest, it'sshort-term, and that you get
little bit gains, but you havean eternity of suffering.
That's what the devil promisesus, right yeah.
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But when we're with God, itmight be a short term pain for a
long term gain.
Right, that Christ leads us outof that.
And you did that because I'mgoing to fight the battles.
I heard a great quote latelythat said if I don't fight these
battles, I'm leaving it for mychildren.
And you said to yourself,senator Decourt, I am not going
to let my kids fight these samebattles I fought as a child, so
I will stand up and defend forthem.
And you're now reversing thecurse and bringing
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transgenerational blessings, notcurses.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You're an amazing woman Go ahead.
Well, I mean, that was soimportant is because, you know,
I grew up seeing things that achild should never see, enduring
things that a child shouldnever endure.
And when I had the opportunityto open my heart to the Lord,
you know, I didn't feel worthyenough.
You know, because the sins thatI had committed, I knew what I
was doing.
I deserve hell.
However, my children don't.
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They deserve to see anotheroption, another way.
I didn't get a chance to seethat, so it was important for me
to be able to show them, youknow, and it was because of that
that I was able to really, youknow, just persevere in this
walk, because, you know, becauseof the love of God and because
he can truly change the heart ofa man, amen.
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You know.
I, you know, and, and mychildren, they have never and
they will never come home andsee, you know, dad beating mom
or mom drunk, falling off thecouch.
They got to carry her into thebedroom like.
They will never know any ofthat.
All they will know is how topress in by faith.
All they will know is when youknow you speak the name of Jesus
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, even demons, even demons willhave to bow.
Even demons will have to bow.
So, knowing their authority,knowing who they are in Christ
and knowing how to use the wordof God to their advantage to
fulfill God purpose is reallyhow I'm imparting this example
into my children Is that we'refighting for something greater,
not just these temporarysatisfactions, but a long-term
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legacy, and that's what this isall about.
In this time of you know, goodversus evil, you know the enemy
is trying to confuse who we arein Christ, confuse our identity,
tell us that the word isn'tworking.
Oh look, it's been, you know,so many years and your husband
is still not coming to church.
I literally Dawn for 10 years.
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Would save a seat for myhusband next to me in church.
Lay done for 10 years.
Would save a seat for myhusband next to me in church,
lay hands on that bad boy andjust believe God that he was
going to fill it.
10 years it took me.
Can you imagine waiting 10years?
No, most most people think youknow I was gonna get a different
husband already.
Yeah, you know, but I knew.
I knew that God had a call onmy family and because of that,
in this season that we're in ingovernment I mean my husband was
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the backbone of my campaign hewas there when we were sign
waving.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
He's setting up the tour.
He's got okay, we got to getthe signs.
He's building things.
I'm like who is this guy?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
she better be married to him he's sure doing a lot
here and I mean, gosh, I wish hehad brothers so I can like
share, but thank you, yeah.
So so, seeing how the deviltried to really uh, bring
separation in my marriagebecause I don't know if I shared
this with you, um, but tommyand I had actually gotten
divorced, um, in 2006.
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So listen to this, right, talkabout a comeback testimony,
right?
So here we are, kids, raisingkids, okay, 16 and 17 years old.
We get married at 20 and 21.
We get divorced in when we were26 years old.
And then that's when I found theLord, and then that's when I
was just so desperate and brokenI was just willing to do
anything, give up everybody.
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God said get rid of yourfriends.
Boom, pow, like, okay, stophanging out with the cousins,
sorry, no, can anymore.
Sorry, no, can you know?
And then it really was.
In that moment, uh, I went aftermy husband and I said I said
you know?
I said god, well, he was myex-husband, right, and divorce.
And then it was during a time,in a moment, that I was at the
altar and god says I want, I'mgoing to restore your marriage.
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And I said there's no marriage,right, like I mean, there was
really no marriage.
Like Tommy hated me, he blamedme for everything rightfully so,
but it was like you're talkingabout I mean, really trying to
do a turnaround here but I wasso like.
I was so like driven by whatGod could do, and so I continued
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to go after Tommy three years,okay, okay, and then we got
remarried.
So we got remarried in 2010.
And this is where God is sogood, because Samantha Decord.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I had no idea that God literally resurrected a dead
marriage and the man hated you.
Different relationships inevery thing.
For three years you pursueafter a man you fired.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yes, and Amanda did not want anything to do with me.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I am covered in God bumps right now.
This ain't no chicken skin,because we are not created in
the image of a chicken.
Yeah, we are created in theimage of God, and when the
spirit of God rolls in, we standup.
That's shocking.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I had no idea.
But do you see, now, fastforward to the season that we're
in now, if it had not been forTommy, there would not be a
success in this campaign.
Thank you, lord, because I'mtelling you he brought elements
to this campaign that nobodyelse was weighing in on on my
team, the people, theconsultants that I had, I mean
everybody.
Tommy bought such an anointing.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
He was a spiritual backbone, he was a spiritual
spine, the head, the head, thecaptain, the quarterback.
He would run the ball.
I'm like this man is a one man.
She had better be married tothis man because really he was
knocking himself out cold foryou.
And then I found out, no, thatis, that's Tommy Decor.
I'm like, okay, we're all goodnow, cause otherwise I was like
this guy's a huge crush, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, so, but do you see, like how god had a call not
just for me, but for my husband, for my family?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
everybody had to play a part and all falling into
alignment and in order, becausegod is a god of order.
So powerful are the boys, yoursons, allowed to see dad?
Because I saw dad.
I saw him on opening day, ohyes yes.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
So you know, it really wasn't until I
surrendered that pain, because Iwas holding on to it, because
it was an advantage for me forsure.
So it was a security for me tosay that, well, if you leave me
again, I never really expectedyou to stay anyway.
So in order for me to give thatup, I had to trust God.
Okay, god, no matter what, yougot me, you got my kids, so I.
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It wasn't more than a few yearsafter that that, you know, I
just really had to surrendereverything to God, even if that
meant I would be rejected, Iwould be left, I would be
abandoned, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
God got me, okay.
So you are speaking a right nowRamo word again.
I just feel like I'm gettingbaptized and baptized.
I'm just going to stay under atthis point.
We're just going to keepswimming.
But many of you might behearing this and thinking the
same, because I was a child ofdivorce, a lot of similar
childhood trauma.
I'm not saying same same, it'sjust that I see you on that side
in the trenches and I've knownthose trenches right.
(29:26):
But maybe what we can say topeople who are watching and
relating to this is that and Idid the same same thing.
How do I play my parentsagainst each other?
How do I manipulate this?
Because I'm the, I'm the babyboss, I'm the kid boss, um, but
it goes nowhere.
And you were able to heal thatand say I'm committed to you,
dad, even if you abandon meagain, because that's aloha yeah
(29:47):
aloha is unconditional,sacrificial love.
That says, no matter what, Ilove you the same.
I'm not walking out on thisside of the table, I'm sticking
it out with you.
Is that what it was?
Because, sam, I think you'respeaking a right now word, even
to me.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Well, what it is is do we fully trust God or not?
And that's what it comes downto, because if you're hanging on
to pain from childhood or thepast, then you're really not
trusting God, because then we'rereally not walking in the fruit
of the Spirit that God had setup.
For us.
To be able to be long-suffering, you've got to be patient, you
have to endure, you have to loveat all times, you know, and for
(30:25):
me, love was a scary word.
You know.
The world has manipulated theword love.
That's good, and they say thatoh well, if you love me, you
have to do this for me.
Yeah, love came with conditionsfrom the world boom.
And god was so unconditional inhis love, you know, and when he
told me in his word, as youwere in your sin, yeah, yet I
(30:49):
still died for you and I stillloved you is I you?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
And so that was important to me, because he
didn't love me when I got it alltogether.
He loved me in the middle of mymess and that, if anything,
deserved commitment on my end Ifyou're going to love me in the
worst time of my life, wheneverybody has left me.
I was left, I was abandoned, Iwas feeling sorry for myself and
God stepped in and he said youknow what I made you that way.
(31:16):
That's good, and I'm taking youthrough that season because I
have a greater purpose for youand it was because I was able to
navigate through that pain andstill walk in the blessing of
God, still be able to pray formy family and my marriage and my
children.
Yes Is now fast forward.
Here we are today and I'm stillable to carry on that same
spirit because I know the callof God.
(31:36):
So I'm sorry, fear,intimidation, you have no place
in my life, because we have anend goal here and the victory is
Jesus on earth, heaven here,and everybody will be able to
make that decision on whetherthey want to receive Jesus or
not.
But just to know here thatthere's more to us, there's more
(31:57):
to this life than just thecircumstances that we're dealt
and you know the community thatI represent.
You know Waianae is a veryimpoverished community.
We're a very, very pridefulcommunity and if there's one
thing that I resonate withWaianae is they are resilient
man.
Those people will give up fornothing.
You ain't going to tell themRide, or die.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
they ride and die, and then they get back on and
ride again and die again, butthey're fighters, right.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
So they come out of the ashes, you know, and they
just come from nowhere.
And now we're working with kidsin our community that are, on a
global scale, proposingprojects on how to be more
self-sustainable, how to reducelandfill waste.
I mean, you're talking aboutchildren.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
kids we're talking about kids here, high school
kids from Nanakuli High School,scrappa's Union, affecting so
many other high schools withthat.
I love them.
Those are our Kiki, but that'shuge.
Now let me just um recap.
And then I know you got to getback to the state capitol.
Senator, I'm so appreciative ofour time.
Thank you for carving it outliterally.
(33:02):
But here's what you just saidand what was ministering to me
in the right now.
Truly it was.
Is I, because of trauma andI'll own this right now on
camera with you I becamecommitted to uncommitment as
soon as I find out that badthing about you, because we're
all human and I will find outthat bad thing, I'm bouncing,
I'm out bye.
And so the Lord was sayingthrough what you just said right
(33:24):
, that you stuck it out withyour dad, and then you stuck it
out with Tommy, you're stickingit out with your kids that no
matter what I'm here, I'm theride or die, and that God who
loved us even in our sin, right.
And then 1 John 4, 8 is anothergreat scripture that comes to
heart.
It says perfect love casts outfear.
But too much of what we see inour ohana, especially in the
(33:47):
hard sides of, let's say,wai'anae or Miloli'i or maybe
parts of Hilo, maybe whereyou're from is that the devil
knows that love is the gold, sohe covers that gold with this
black smut of fear and so that achild like yourself, a trauma
child, or trauma child like me,we only see love as something
that always hurt us, the peoplewho are supposed to love us, our
(34:09):
moms and our dads, other peoplein our lives that either they
sexually abused us or they soldus out, they tricked us out, all
those bad things.
Now it's black smut on a goldthing called love, and when we
grow up, love is no longer good,it's something bad.
And what we're here to saytoday and what I see in you,
hamahine Wahine, senator, whocomes from this tiny little
(34:31):
Hawaiian girl from a tiny littlevillage with a lot of trauma
trauma is that God can removethat black smut and make give us
golden lives of abundance.
He really can.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, you know, and before he actually can put that
smut over and this is somethingthat, you know, I also want to
bring to the table is that hehas to separate us, right, you
from from, from whether it beour pastors, whether it be our
wife, our husband, our parents,whatever is, because once he can
isolate you, then he can reallystart deceiving you.
(35:02):
Yes, and that's why I feel it'sso important.
You know, even till this day,I'm very connected with my
church.
I stay under the covering of mypastors, because we are in a
spiritual warfare, Thank you.
And if I don't have thespiritual covering.
I'm going to be vulnerable tothe enemy.
You're going to make it, yeah,and so this is why this season
in our lives are so strategic,so it's so important to get
(35:26):
connected to a Holy Spiritchurch.
That's good, an anointed church.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
And a Bible reading.
Believing church right, theHoly Spirit and the Bible Pair
those up.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Thank you, yes, and because that's why the enemy,
you know, as soon as he candivide us, then he can start
manipulating us, which is whathe tries to do all the time.
Oh, you don't want to go tothat church, you know they talk
too much about the tithe.
Oh, they're asking you tovolunteer again, Don't they know
you have work?
And oh, prayer at 5 am is tooearly, don't they know you got
to sleep, right?
I mean, it's one thought afteranother and we've got to kill
(35:59):
those things immediately,because it's the same kind of
deceptive lies with our husbandsoh, look, he came home late
again today.
Look, he's not even cutting thegrass.
Oh, da-da-da, oh, he's gettingcomfortable, and you know all
those kinds of things.
One lie in there.
There is no compartmentalizingthe way that the enemy wants to
deceive us.
A lie is a lie is a lie.
So if he can convince you toget away from your pastors, away
(36:22):
from your church, with one lie,he'll use the same spirit to
get you away from your husband,away from your job, away from
your kids.
I'll let them go.
They just have to be themselvesand learn the hard way.
Like are you crazy, right?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
like are you crazy, right?
No, I'm not leaving my childrenfor the devil to come have
playground with them.
Yeah, I love what you're saying, but he says don't let one lie
in.
Yes, and I've often said thatif the devil gets a toe hold, if
he gets a foothold is when theBible says, then he's going to
have a strong hold and once hegets a strong hold he's going to
take the choke hold.
Yeah, he will wipe you out.
The devil has never, ever takena knee.
You know, back in the day infootball it used to be if
(36:57):
somebody's down, everyone takesa knee, which was kind of to
take a breath, give thembreathing room, but it was also
to say a prayer for that personwho's down.
Devil don't take a knee to saya prayer.
He comes up when you're down onthe field to take the kill shot
.
So I love that you don't allowone lie in, because that spirit
of divorce is done in Jesus nameby the blood of the lamb.
It's done.
And what I also want toencourage and add on to, because
(37:19):
you're already getting thetriple scoop banana split today
with Senator Sam, you're gettingthe full, huge thing, the
buffet, because God sets a feastbefore us in the presence of
our enemy.
She got you the buffet.
I don't put the cherry on thebuffet is this is that not only
did you stick it out with yourpastors and come under their
discipling, and you ate it fullcore.
We know these things, but weare blessed when we do them.
(37:42):
You do them.
You're a good disciple.
But I will add, not only didyou get their covering
spiritually, but you also wentout and got other spiritual
battle.
Wahine, you came to me, youhumbled yourself with tears in
your eyes, senator, if I may beso bold and so transparent.
You came with tears in youreyes and said, sis, please pray
for me.
I'm here in this square building.
(38:02):
You fought to be there.
But what you realize is, onceyou're there, it's kind of like
paddling canoe.
We got to the end, but we'renot done.
Now the battle begins right.
You landed woohoo, lays all thegreen bottles seven up.
Also, we drink, not all theother green bottles, but we do
that, we celebrate.
But now was the fight and yougot yourself extra protection,
(38:24):
spiritual detail.
Speak into that if you will,and we'll bring this in for a
landing.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah, and you know, that's why it's so important,
because different seasons right,god brings different people,
you know, and so it's soimportant to be sensitive and
discerning to the Holy Spirit onwho those people are.
I love it.
And so, you know, you came inat the right time.
And you know, at this point I'mlike I'm like I'm crying out to
God, I'm like, god, you got tohelp me.
Yes, because I'm getting soconsumed in my thoughts I'm
(38:51):
starting to overthink, you know,and it's starting to become
very unhealthy for me, and I'mlike I don't know what to do,
you know, because your firsttime is my first time, you know,
and so, anyway, you know.
So, so, in that I was startingto feel very insecure, like,
okay, god, can I really do this?
What does this look like?
You know?
I mean it was almost to thepoint of like gosh, am I making
it worse by being here Because Idon't know what to do, and am I
(39:13):
hurting my community?
You know, like, lord, you gottahelp me, I need guidance, you
know.
And so, like when I say God putyou here at the right time, I
mean literally like withinseconds.
Right, boom, here comes sis,she's coming in and she does
this very often.
She brings us a beautifuloverthrow, lay.
I'll tell them about the storylater, um, but you know, um, I
(39:36):
was just so thankful for youalso being sensitive to the Holy
Spirit, because when I was inthat thought, I pulled you in, I
closed the door, you did, and Ijust was brought to tears and I
shared with you.
I said, listen, like I'm feelingso insecure, I don't know if I
can do this.
I don't want to make thingsworse.
What am I doing?
You know, yeah, and you, youdid exactly what I knew you were
(40:00):
going to do is you fired upthat conquering spirit that God
has given me to conquer divorce,to conquer abuse, to conquer
addiction, to conquer all that.
I felt that boldness again, yes, and you just fired that up for
me and you're like come on,let's go.
We got this, you know, andthat's what I need.
(40:21):
I needed the word of God, Ineeded a sister to link in and
lock in with me, to be able tobring me to the place of okay,
the battle is here and thebattle is now, and so you are
the chosen warrior for thatbattle and I don't want to hear
the lies that you are going tomake it worse, or?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
I hear the lies, but these are the themes.
Right, it was lies.
I had to rebuke her, firstthing, and then bless her.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
I was like I don't want to hear those lies.
But I pulled Don in and I waslike listen, I got to tell you
what's going on Becausesomething has to happen.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
This stuff got to go a goal.
But there's goodness in thatand, as we end, because I want
to get you to your next meetingfaithfully, I know your office
manager and she's from YNI so Ijust make sure I keep my YNI
people happy.
But the goodness in that wasyou let yourself have that
moment.
I believe strongly and goinghonestly before the Lord,
because David was honest beforethe Lord and then the Lord
(41:11):
picked him back up and set himforward and said you're going to
take Goliath today with yourknees knocking, but you will
take that giant, because courageis fear.
That has said its prayers and,all through the word of God, he
raised up the least likely tosucceed, the least likely to get
it, and would say hi, generalGideon, faithful man of God,
(41:33):
mighty, valiant warrior.
Oh me hiding down here in thisdark little cell threshing
because I'm in fear.
So, samantha, I thank you forwhat you're doing in the state
capitol.
I thank you for fighting forthe people of Hawaii, for the
many people out there who arewatching this, who can't travel
to Baratania Street, to thecapitol, to thank you.
I know you even mentioned andwe'll have you back if that's
(41:55):
okay but you mentioned peoplewho hate you?
Who come against you?
Even people in the building.
Surprise, surprise, but youkeep working it out and walking
it out, because the prophecy andthe promise of the Most High
God has always come to pass, ithas never failed and you are his
victory in the making and forthe taking.
(42:15):
So thank you to SenatorSamantha Decourt, District 22,
but fighting for all of theislands of Hawaii, including the
ninth island of Las Vegas, the10th island of Alaska.
She fighting for all thisislands, all the aina.
We're going to have her back,don't you worry.
Thank you again for joining usfor Aloha Alive with this feisty
(42:36):
Aloha Wahine.
Senator Samantha Decord.
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