June 28, 2025 • 28 mins
After a two-year hiatus, Juantrell Lovette returns to FaithfulFin Talk with renewed purpose, sharing her journey through suffering, perseverance, and real faith inspired by Romans 5.
This episode explores how life's trials became a path to growth, character, and hope. Juantrell opens up about the painful realities behind her transformation — from losing her brother on her daughter's birthday celebration to navigating her mother's addiction, shifting from club work to real estate, and building a legacy of faith beyond poverty.
Through it all, Romans 5 reminds us that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance builds character, and character leads to hope.
If you've ever felt benched, buried, or broken — know this: Your story isn't over.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Breaking the chain, feeling the gain.
Now I'm rising.
Open the gate, never too late,no hiding Wings open wide,
trusting my God ready to takeoff, ready to take off.
Ah, someday, I know I'm movingin the right way.
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Oh, one day.
I keep praying, I keep praying.
Hi.
Welcome to faithful fin talk.
I cannot believe I am.
It's been a really long time.
I know you guys probably waswondering what was going on with
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her, what is she doing?
It's been two years, and soepisode 50 is literally a marker
for me.
I've been gone for two years,not because I wanted to leave
the podcast, but because I knewthat God has something bigger
and better for me.
And to be here today, to be oncamera, to be in front of the
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camera, it just means so much tome.
So I'm so excited and I'mreally happy to be back, and I
hope you guys are happy to hearmy voice, and not only that,
just to see my face, I can kindof put the face to the voice now
.
So welcome to the new and thenew show, faithful Fentalk.
It was before Blessed to be Us,and before that it was let's
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Discuss Our Feelings, and thatjust lets you know the journey
that I've been on in these what?
Five years?
Because when I first startedit's probably longer than that.
When I first started, in full2019, it was a journey that I
was not expecting.
So to be here today recordingvisuals, that ain't nothing but
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God y'all.
So today's episode is episode50.
The title of today's episode isthe Return, and we are going to
dig into Romans 5.
Not like before, but this isgoing to be something different.
This is real stories, this isreal scripture and this is real
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growth.
For me to be here today,sitting in front of a camera,
talking back on mic, this issomething that's new for me.
It's big for me and I didn'teven think that I would be here
today, but because God hasallowed me to persevere through
the pain and endure such I meanwhat I went through a lot with
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my mom I posted, with my brotherpassing away and I had to bury
him, and even with this podcast,transitioning from the club
going into real estate.
It was a bunch and it was a lot, and I'm just so happy to be
here.
So this is real stories, thisis my story, this is my
testimony.
This is how I'm able to allowGod to use me, and so I created
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this platform, which hasconstantly changed and evolved
over time, but today it iscalled Faithful Fin Talk,
because I had to be faithful notonly in my finances, but I have
to be faithful and also withthe talking that I do to myself
and to others.
So real stories, real scripture, real growth Welcome.
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If you guys are new here, Ireally do like to welcome you
guys to the best podcast thatyou guys are going to ever come
across.
My name is Juantra LeVette, I amthe host, and this is my return
, not just to the mic but to amission.
It's been more than a minute.
Like I said, it's been what?
Two years I've been gone anddidn't even think that I would
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make it back the way that I am,but I knew my vision would be
bigger than what I wanted, andreaching out to certain people
to help put this into visualcontext is not the easiest,
because you can't trusteverybody.
So even finding a space where Ifeel comfortable, where I can
record and just be myself thattook a lot of time and
dedication as well.
Where I can record and just bemyself that took a lot of time
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and dedication as well, and I'mso happy to be here.
So shout out to the personthat's helping me even behind
camera, chris.
So shout out to him.
Shout out to my stylist,Michelle she got me right for
today.
And shout out to myself forjust even showing up and being
here today.
And a big, huge shout out toGod for allowing me to be here.
And that's something big andhuge for me.
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But sometimes, you know, godputs you in a pause not to
punish you, not to punish youwhatsoever, but to prepare you,
but prepare you for the missionthat he has aligned for you.
This episode isn't just aboutstarting over.
It's about returning to whatnever left my faith, my purpose,
my growth.
It's like a resurrection insome type of way but in no type
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of way of what Jesus did, butjust in a way, and of human
forms.
Like you guys, I'm still alive,I'm still here and I still have
a voice.
And this time my voice is moreimpactful because there's so
many things that I want to dofor the community, for people,
just people that I come incontact with, and I know that if
I align myself with God, withmy relationship, then I know
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those things will also align too.
So it's been a minute, it'sbeen a journey.
I had to go through some things, a lot of things, but now I
know that the pause was verymuch purposeful.
I'm super happy to be back, tobe back on Mike, because I feel
like this is my family.
This is where I wanted to firststart my business and enlighten
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my business.
Before I even talk about realestate, before I even mention
anything about the club, I knewthat being able to express
myself to other people, to showpeople like, hey, I come from a
situation that doesn't glitterin gold and I'm not here on my
own understanding, but because Igot in relationship with God,
that is the reason why I'm heretoday and that's why I have a
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voice today.
And so, yeah, this podcast isjust about that faith, is just
about that faith, finance andrelationship with God, and I'm
happy to just be able to now bein a space where I can boldly
express and talk about mytestimony.
This is not for me to say Godtold me to tell you anything,
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because God doesn't tell me totell you anything, but he tells
me to showcase who I am so thatpeople can see who he is or who
she is.
However you identify your God,I'm in no judgment whatsoever.
So this episode is very specialfor me.
It's not just number 50,because you would say, why did
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she come back after so long?
But it's a marker oftransformation, trust and a
whole new beginning.
So in this season of my life,I've been tested, I've been
stretched, but more thananything, I've been realigned.
My prayers have been louder.
They've been more, should I say, scattered in ways of where I'm
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scattered, in ways of where I'masking for guidance, I'm asking
for more understanding.
I'm going into that space whereI need to understand this love
that's now filled inside of meand how can I give it back.
So I'm realigning myself withpurposeful, meaning things like
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family and myself and finances,and that's really this journey.
It has been about coming from apoverty mindset into a rich
kingdom of riches, like wealth,you know and I'm not just
talking money, I'm talkingwealth and knowledge of having
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that relationship with God,getting with the creator,
digging out that dirt andfilling it up with gold.
It's like it's been such areward for me.
So if you've been rocking withme, if you've been rocking with
this podcast, I want to thankyou.
I want to thank you for yourpatience and I also want to
thank you for your prayers.
Thank you, I want to thank youfor your patience and I also
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want to thank you for yourprayers.
Faithful Fin Talk is officiallyback and we're going deeper and
it's just.
It's just not about finances orBible study.
It's combining both Bible study, finance, testimony, legacy,
healing, building, scripture.
It's all of that Because if youhave been following me or been
paying attention to the podcastof any episodes before which you
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can go back and listen to anyepisode, you will see that it's
been a journey.
When I first started from let'sDiscuss Our Feelings to Blessed
to Be as, and now it's FaithfulFin Talk, you ask what is this?
What is this all about?
What does she got going on?
You know what is this.
What is this all about?
What does she got going on?
You know what is she doing.
And at first, when I firststarted, it became something
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like a vent, like I needed tovent, and then, when God got me
more into relationship with him,then I started to learn about
what Jesus Christ did, and thenI started to dig more into the
stories of the Bible and I justfelt it being super relatable,
not just for me, but foreverybody in this entire world,
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and so I started to dig deeperinto my relationship.
I started to dig deeper into myrelationship with others,
because everybody played a partinto my path and my journey and
where God has taken me.
So to be here today or to be onmic today is surreal.
It's like what?
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Like God, are you serious?
And I could always hear Godsaying like, yeah, I'm serious,
I prepared you for this.
It's time and even thoughyou're scared, I equipped you
for this.
So if you're ready, like, let'sdo it.
And that's why you guys aretuning in and you guys got this
fresh new episode today, becauseI'm back, and not just back
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with a testimony, but back withresources that can help and
guide and, you know, just getyou involved into having a
relationship with God.
Because if you look at me, I amfar from perfect.
I don't care what you see theglitz, the glam.
I know it looks beautiful, butI do not look like what I've
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been through.
I've been through so much andlistening to any episode in the
past, you will see.
You can see the growth, you cansee the times when I didn't
even know what to say, honestly,and just going through the
relations of the Bible.
Just reading the stories reallywas impactful for me.
I still dive in them today.
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I still go hard into the Biblestories and also not just trying
to put the Bible on people, butI'm so much talking about how
God has just been using me andbeen showing up in my life, and
not just that, but justintroducing me into Jesus Christ
.
And that's where Romans 5 comein, because Romans 5 was the
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episode that is supposed to kickoff episode 50.
So, not like before, we're notgoing to go scripture from
scripture, we're going to justdo an overview of Romans five so
I can show you guys how theBible is aligned in with my
testimony.
So let's talk Romans five andone of the scriptures that carry
me.
We also glory in sufferingsbecause we know that suffering
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produces perseverance,perseverance, character,
character and hope.
Ok, let's just talkperseverance, suffering.
Let's talk suffering andperseverance.
When I introduced to socialmedia my mom and I was asking
for prayers for her drugaddiction, it caught me by
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surprise how viral that videowent, because so many people was
relatable to somebody sufferingfrom drug abuse.
Whether it's mom, dad, aunt,brother, it doesn't matter.
I think people forget that itdoesn't matter what background
you come from, people stillsuffer from the diseases of the
world and my mom just sohappened to be one of those
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person that I showcase to theworld and I was very vulnerable
in that time when I put her onsocial media and I'm like, hey,
like this is my mom, I just needprayers.
And surprisingly, the entireworld opened up and sent so many
prayers and that really broughtme back, because that was kind
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of like in the beginning, when Istarted to walk with God.
I was probably like two, threeyears in.
And to do that on such a hugeplatform with so many people
that can judge and, you know,voice their opinion, I didn't
know what to expect.
But to see so many people reachout in prayer, it just brought
so much light into how I knewthat God was showing up in my
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life, because I really dislikedmy mom and if anybody is going
through a relationship or asituation when they have to
suffer because somebody else,like your parent or family
member, they put you into avulnerable situation, you really
don't understand how topersevere that.
You don't understand how to getthrough one hoop to go through
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the next and I had to do that.
So when I brought that tosocial media.
It was super huge for me and itwas one of those things where I
felt very good because peoplewere sending prayers out to me.
It wasn't one of those thingswhere I felt bad or I felt
guilty, but it was another partof me where I remember my family
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judging me so hard for puttingmy mom on social media and other
people was praising me for thelove that I carry for her and
still to this day I carry thatsame love for her.
But it's been hard and it's beensomething that I had to suffer
through, not just in silence,but I had to suffer through in
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my character, because I'm also amom and being a mom that's
coming from a broken mom or abroken situation.
You really don't understand howto maneuver that or try to be
the best of that, and that'swhere God came in and that's
where my relationship with Godcome in, because the mom that I
am today is nothing like the momthat I come from, and to be
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able to have my mom in my lifetoday, that's nothing but God.
So, just going over Romans 5,reading it, really understanding
how faith, you know, is reallypersevered through the suffering
that we do have to carry on.
Everybody has to suffer in life.
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Nobody is ineligible for suffer, like nobody's not equipped to
suffer.
We all have to suffer some waythrough life.
But being able to get throughthat, going over that, it really
does produce character.
And that's why I'm here today,so in character and hope, just
hoping that my mom see the light, see the best of her, and
hoping that I become a bettermom for my kids and just a
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better person overall for thepeople that I'm connected to.
That's where that verse reallyhits me.
So that verse, just it is justnot a Bible verse, it's, it's
been real word for me.
Roman five reminds us thatwe've been made right with God
through faith and because ofthat we can now stand in grace,
not guilt.
And for a long time I wasfeeling guilty.
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What if I'm not a good daughter?
What if I'm not a good mom?
What if I'm not a good sister?
What if I'm not a good friend?
You know?
And God had to constantly showme over and over and work with
me over and over throughpeople's lives and through my
own lives, and to reconstruct meand realign me with his purpose
and his plan for me, and that'swhy this episode is so vital
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for me and that's why it's veryimportant for me to voice what
Romans 5 speak into me.
Now I advise everybody, you all,to go into your Bible.
Please read your Bibles, orread whatever it is that you
need to get more aligned withyour spiritual connector.
And I say the creator of allthings, because creator, the
creator, created all things,heaven and earth, good and bad,
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evil, good, all things.
And so to walk with yourcreator is really understanding
where your faith lies.
My faith today is way strongerthan my faith was when I first
started, and what's so crazyabout it is that my faith is
still growing and I still havetime to go.
So I don't feel guilty where I'mat.
I don't feel guilty working ina club.
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I don't feel guiltytransitioning my life.
I don't feel guilty when Idon't have time for people.
I really don't feel guilty atall, because there is grace when
you stand in your suffering.
That builds character and hope.
So we can rejoice in the trials, not because we like pain,
because nobody likes the pain,but because the pain has purpose
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.
Then that's why we can rejoicein where we stand with God.
So suffering producesperseverance, perseverance
builds character and baby, yourcharacter is currency in the
kingdom.
We're talking currency in thekingdom not financially, because
to be able to stand with yourcharacter in the kingdom and
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stand boldly it takes a lot ofequipped, built character that
God has to install in you.
When you have to be arounddemonic people, be around hurt
spirits, be around mad people,haters or anything like that
Like it takes a lot.
And to be able to have thatcurrency in that kingdom we'll
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talk more about that later.
And so that was just real lifefor me going through the changes
, stepping away from the podcastfor so long, having to embrace
where I am in life, thetransition that I was going
through, motherhood for me offinancially stabilizing myself,
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taking myself from poverty to Iwouldn't even say wealth yet,
but poverty to legacy, buildingsuch a platform, that's way
bigger than me.
That my vision just it's smallcompared to I know what God
could provide.
That's also been huge.
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And it's been compared to Iknow what God could provide.
That's also been huge.
And it's been something thatI've been just walking in my
pain with and me hand in handwith God is like okay, when
you're, when you say I'm ready,then I'll be ready and whatever
you have for me to dish out, Ican dish that out.
So there's a lot of things thatI've been working in the
background with my business, butI had to put this first.
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This podcast had to come first.
My testimony has to come first.
My walk with God has to comefirst.
It's because I put God CEO ofmy entire life, I put God CEO of
my business, I put God CEO ofmy parenthood in everything that
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I have to go through.
So if God is CEO of my entirelife, then I must first put God
first, and that's why I'm heretoday.
So there was nights where Icried out.
There was nights where I didn'twant to be encountered with
anybody.
There was nights where I justdidn't want to talk to people.
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There was times where I wentaway.
There was days when I showed upand I smiled, when I was
spiritually just drained.
I had nothing to give, but,yeah, I still had to show up,
you know.
So I was tired, also moving inthe strength that God was
providing to me so much, so much, and so that when I even had to
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bury my brother and everybodyhas experienced that, when you
well, I don't know if everybodyhas, but if you are somebody who
has to experience to have tobury someone, that's a lot.
I didn't know that I would haveto take on the role of burying
my brother.
Getting that phone call August29th 2021, the same day that I
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planned my daughter's birthdayparty huge birthday party, big
bus for the entire family to goto California to celebrate my
daughter's birthday is the sameday I got a phone call that my
brother was shot in the head andhe was, he was dying, he was
dead.
And to have to go through that,to have to endure that, I was
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just like this, this can be real.
I got what is up and it was allin the midst.
Things was just happening backto back to back to back and I
would get more and some more ofmy testimony.
It's just I do not look likewhat I've been through and I
don't know who needs to hearthis because when I started
walking with God, I was damaged,like broken, damaged, damaged
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goods.
I was no good.
I didn't have a purpose, didn'teven care for a purpose.
I'm just like.
I was like so confused.
I was hurt and hurt people,hurt people.
And so when I started to walkwith God and started to confess
and surrender and do all of that.
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It.
It became surreal for me Likethings hit the fan, because they
shit hit the fan for real andstarted to unravel, started to
break down, started to rebuildall kinds of things.
And you can listen to pastepisodes to know how far I've
came.
I'm just saying for this, forme to even be here today
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recording episode 50, is justsurreal for me.
It's like, yeah, I can'tbelieve how far I came and I
thank God for that.
So, having to bury a loved one,having to see my mom, you know,
really face the fact that, dang,she's really messed up and
she's to the streets, having tobe that only girl in my family,
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in my immediate family, that cansustain my brothers or my
brothers that I could look up to, this is huge for me, you know.
So for me, through it all, goddid not waste anything when it
came to me.
He didn't.
None of this is a waste for memy going to juvenile hall, my
foster care systems, brokenfamilies, poverties, all of that
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.
And today I still stand and Irise.
This is like a realresurrection of feeling like I
was dead and I was alive, didn'tknow where to do or where to go
, what purpose to move.
So I'm in the middle of my realestate transition and that's
been huge for me.
I have my license here inCalifornia, nevada.
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But even transitioning to realestate from the club is not like
what people think.
You know what I'm saying.
You know when you watch sellingOC or selling Tampa and all
that like you want that, butthat's just not what it is.
And I battle with God a lottransitioning and God tells me
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all the time that I have youexactly where you should be, and
so God has been speaking louderthan ever to me.
The club pays my bills thanever to me.
The club pays my bills, but itdefinitely drains my soul and
comfort delays my calling.
So I'm stuck with having to beobedient.
Obedience will stretch you,especially when fear still pays
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more, and that's where Romans 5come in.
I've been deep in the Bible andI didn't even know what to talk
about, really to express myselfor how authentic I should be
when it comes to expressingmyself.
But it's all working out and Ireally hope that people can see
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me for me, not just of howbeautiful I am, but more so in
the inside and what God has donefor me and I pray that God
allows me to touch and connectwith other people.
That needs us, like me, mypodcast, my business, anybody or
anything that's connected to me, anything that's connected to
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me.
So Romans 5 reminds me thathope doesn't disappoint, because
God's love has been poured intoour hearts through the Holy
Spirit.
So, even in silence, god isstill speaking.
Even in stillness, he is stillworking.
I've been silent.
I haven't been podcasting.
I've been away.
I've recorded an episode beforethat I never posted, but I've
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literally been silenced.
I've been in my prayer corner,I've been in my prayer closet,
I've been in my car, I've beenin my shower.
I've been crying out.
I've been still.
I've been moving.
I've been faithful, I've beensaving.
I've been doing so much, butI've been quiet.
I have not mentioned anything,even today's episode.
I didn't broadcast.
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I didn't say, hey, I'm going togo record an episode today.
I didn't involve anybody.
I was complete silence in thistransition, in this prompt, in
this decision making right now.
I've been silent and God hasstill been working.
He's still been working in mylife.
He's still been working in mylife.
He's still been working aroundme.
He still has been working withmy mom.
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He's been working with her.
He's been working with her.
He's been working with me inour relationship too, because
it's not easy when you come fromthat type of situation.
It's not glitz and go.
You don't just wake up happy tohave a mom like that.
You don't wake up in that.
You have to also fight throughfeelings and pain and suffering.
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You still have to go throughthat.
So I still have to go throughthat.
So this episode isn't justcontent, it's confirmation that
I'm not who I was when I started, not even the middle of the
journey.
I'm not going back to where Istarted spiritually, just
connected on a higher plane, ona higher rim.
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I'm literally somebody elseLike you cannot touch me unless
you go through God, and that'ssomething that's been very happy
for me to feel is because Iknow how I stand and I know
where I stand in my faith and Iknow that, even in my faith
today, that it's gettingstronger and stronger the more
that I stay connected to God,like it's been a big, big, big
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step for me.
So I'm stepping forward withmore faith and more fire and
more focus.
And so to anyone's listeningwho feel like they've been
benched, buried or broken, thisis your sign you are still in
the story.
You are not behind.
You are being refined.
I was refined, you're beingrefined.
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So when God brings you back,it's never to where you were,
it's always to what's next, andso I really thank you guys for
walking with me, thank you forgrowing with me, and I like to
welcome everybody back toFaithful Fin Talk.
This is real stories, realscripture and real growth.
I'm your host until next time,juantra LeVette, and please
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I'm not for everybody.
I'm not for everybody.
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This message is for everybody.
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Fin Talk.
Until next time.
You guys, I'm your host,montrelle LeVette.
Bye you, and this is FaithfulFin Talk.
Until next time.
You guys, I'm your host,antrella Vette.
Bye, breaking the chain.
Feeling the game, now, I'mrising open the gate, never too
late, no hiding wings open wide,trusting my God.
Ready to take off, ready totake off Someday.
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I know I'm moving in the rightway.
One day.
I keep praying, I keep praying,I keep praying, I keep praying.
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I can't call you.
I can't call you.
Breaking the chain, feeling the gain.
Now I'm rising.
Open the gate, never too late,no hiding Wings open wide,
trusting my God ready to takeoff, ready to take off.
Ah, someday, I know I'm movingin the right way.
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Oh, one day.
I keep praying, I keep praying.
Hi.
Welcome to faithful fin talk.
I cannot believe I am.
It's been a really long time.
I know you guys probably waswondering what was going on with
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her, what is she doing?
It's been two years, and soepisode 50 is literally a marker
for me.
I've been gone for two years,not because I wanted to leave
the podcast, but because I knewthat God has something bigger
and better for me.
And to be here today, to be oncamera, to be in front of the
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camera, it just means so much tome.
So I'm so excited and I'mreally happy to be back, and I
hope you guys are happy to hearmy voice, and not only that,
just to see my face, I can kindof put the face to the voice now
.
So welcome to the new and thenew show, faithful Fentalk.
It was before Blessed to be Us,and before that it was let's
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Discuss Our Feelings, and thatjust lets you know the journey
that I've been on in these what?
Five years?
Because when I first startedit's probably longer than that.
When I first started, in full2019, it was a journey that I
was not expecting.
So to be here today recordingvisuals, that ain't nothing but
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God y'all.
So today's episode is episode50.
The title of today's episode isthe Return, and we are going to
dig into Romans 5.
Not like before, but this isgoing to be something different.
This is real stories, this isreal scripture and this is real
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growth.
For me to be here today,sitting in front of a camera,
talking back on mic, this issomething that's new for me.
It's big for me and I didn'teven think that I would be here
today, but because God hasallowed me to persevere through
the pain and endure such I meanwhat I went through a lot with
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my mom I posted, with my brotherpassing away and I had to bury
him, and even with this podcast,transitioning from the club
going into real estate.
It was a bunch and it was a lot, and I'm just so happy to be
here.
So this is real stories, thisis my story, this is my
testimony.
This is how I'm able to allowGod to use me, and so I created
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this platform, which hasconstantly changed and evolved
over time, but today it iscalled Faithful Fin Talk,
because I had to be faithful notonly in my finances, but I have
to be faithful and also withthe talking that I do to myself
and to others.
So real stories, real scripture, real growth Welcome.
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If you guys are new here, Ireally do like to welcome you
guys to the best podcast thatyou guys are going to ever come
across.
My name is Juantra LeVette, I amthe host, and this is my return
, not just to the mic but to amission.
It's been more than a minute.
Like I said, it's been what?
Two years I've been gone anddidn't even think that I would
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make it back the way that I am,but I knew my vision would be
bigger than what I wanted, andreaching out to certain people
to help put this into visualcontext is not the easiest,
because you can't trusteverybody.
So even finding a space where Ifeel comfortable, where I can
record and just be myself thattook a lot of time and
dedication as well.
Where I can record and just bemyself that took a lot of time
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and dedication as well, and I'mso happy to be here.
So shout out to the personthat's helping me even behind
camera, chris.
So shout out to him.
Shout out to my stylist,Michelle she got me right for
today.
And shout out to myself forjust even showing up and being
here today.
And a big, huge shout out toGod for allowing me to be here.
And that's something big andhuge for me.
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But sometimes, you know, godputs you in a pause not to
punish you, not to punish youwhatsoever, but to prepare you,
but prepare you for the missionthat he has aligned for you.
This episode isn't just aboutstarting over.
It's about returning to whatnever left my faith, my purpose,
my growth.
It's like a resurrection insome type of way but in no type
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of way of what Jesus did, butjust in a way, and of human
forms.
Like you guys, I'm still alive,I'm still here and I still have
a voice.
And this time my voice is moreimpactful because there's so
many things that I want to dofor the community, for people,
just people that I come incontact with, and I know that if
I align myself with God, withmy relationship, then I know
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those things will also align too.
So it's been a minute, it'sbeen a journey.
I had to go through some things, a lot of things, but now I
know that the pause was verymuch purposeful.
I'm super happy to be back, tobe back on Mike, because I feel
like this is my family.
This is where I wanted to firststart my business and enlighten
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my business.
Before I even talk about realestate, before I even mention
anything about the club, I knewthat being able to express
myself to other people, to showpeople like, hey, I come from a
situation that doesn't glitterin gold and I'm not here on my
own understanding, but because Igot in relationship with God,
that is the reason why I'm heretoday and that's why I have a
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voice today.
And so, yeah, this podcast isjust about that faith, is just
about that faith, finance andrelationship with God, and I'm
happy to just be able to now bein a space where I can boldly
express and talk about mytestimony.
This is not for me to say Godtold me to tell you anything,
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because God doesn't tell me totell you anything, but he tells
me to showcase who I am so thatpeople can see who he is or who
she is.
However you identify your God,I'm in no judgment whatsoever.
So this episode is very specialfor me.
It's not just number 50,because you would say, why did
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she come back after so long?
But it's a marker oftransformation, trust and a
whole new beginning.
So in this season of my life,I've been tested, I've been
stretched, but more thananything, I've been realigned.
My prayers have been louder.
They've been more, should I say, scattered in ways of where I'm
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scattered, in ways of where I'masking for guidance, I'm asking
for more understanding.
I'm going into that space whereI need to understand this love
that's now filled inside of meand how can I give it back.
So I'm realigning myself withpurposeful, meaning things like
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family and myself and finances,and that's really this journey.
It has been about coming from apoverty mindset into a rich
kingdom of riches, like wealth,you know and I'm not just
talking money, I'm talkingwealth and knowledge of having
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that relationship with God,getting with the creator,
digging out that dirt andfilling it up with gold.
It's like it's been such areward for me.
So if you've been rocking withme, if you've been rocking with
this podcast, I want to thankyou.
I want to thank you for yourpatience and I also want to
thank you for your prayers.
Thank you, I want to thank youfor your patience and I also
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want to thank you for yourprayers.
Faithful Fin Talk is officiallyback and we're going deeper and
it's just.
It's just not about finances orBible study.
It's combining both Bible study, finance, testimony, legacy,
healing, building, scripture.
It's all of that Because if youhave been following me or been
paying attention to the podcastof any episodes before which you
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can go back and listen to anyepisode, you will see that it's
been a journey.
When I first started from let'sDiscuss Our Feelings to Blessed
to Be as, and now it's FaithfulFin Talk, you ask what is this?
What is this all about?
What does she got going on?
You know what is this.
What is this all about?
What does she got going on?
You know what is she doing.
And at first, when I firststarted, it became something
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like a vent, like I needed tovent, and then, when God got me
more into relationship with him,then I started to learn about
what Jesus Christ did, and thenI started to dig more into the
stories of the Bible and I justfelt it being super relatable,
not just for me, but foreverybody in this entire world,
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and so I started to dig deeperinto my relationship.
I started to dig deeper into myrelationship with others,
because everybody played a partinto my path and my journey and
where God has taken me.
So to be here today or to be onmic today is surreal.
It's like what?
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Like God, are you serious?
And I could always hear Godsaying like, yeah, I'm serious,
I prepared you for this.
It's time and even thoughyou're scared, I equipped you
for this.
So if you're ready, like, let'sdo it.
And that's why you guys aretuning in and you guys got this
fresh new episode today, becauseI'm back, and not just back
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with a testimony, but back withresources that can help and
guide and, you know, just getyou involved into having a
relationship with God.
Because if you look at me, I amfar from perfect.
I don't care what you see theglitz, the glam.
I know it looks beautiful, butI do not look like what I've
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been through.
I've been through so much andlistening to any episode in the
past, you will see.
You can see the growth, you cansee the times when I didn't
even know what to say, honestly,and just going through the
relations of the Bible.
Just reading the stories reallywas impactful for me.
I still dive in them today.
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I still go hard into the Biblestories and also not just trying
to put the Bible on people, butI'm so much talking about how
God has just been using me andbeen showing up in my life, and
not just that, but justintroducing me into Jesus Christ
.
And that's where Romans 5 comein, because Romans 5 was the
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episode that is supposed to kickoff episode 50.
So, not like before, we're notgoing to go scripture from
scripture, we're going to justdo an overview of Romans five so
I can show you guys how theBible is aligned in with my
testimony.
So let's talk Romans five andone of the scriptures that carry
me.
We also glory in sufferingsbecause we know that suffering
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produces perseverance,perseverance, character,
character and hope.
Ok, let's just talkperseverance, suffering.
Let's talk suffering andperseverance.
When I introduced to socialmedia my mom and I was asking
for prayers for her drugaddiction, it caught me by
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surprise how viral that videowent, because so many people was
relatable to somebody sufferingfrom drug abuse.
Whether it's mom, dad, aunt,brother, it doesn't matter.
I think people forget that itdoesn't matter what background
you come from, people stillsuffer from the diseases of the
world and my mom just sohappened to be one of those
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person that I showcase to theworld and I was very vulnerable
in that time when I put her onsocial media and I'm like, hey,
like this is my mom, I just needprayers.
And surprisingly, the entireworld opened up and sent so many
prayers and that really broughtme back, because that was kind
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of like in the beginning, when Istarted to walk with God.
I was probably like two, threeyears in.
And to do that on such a hugeplatform with so many people
that can judge and, you know,voice their opinion, I didn't
know what to expect.
But to see so many people reachout in prayer, it just brought
so much light into how I knewthat God was showing up in my
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life, because I really dislikedmy mom and if anybody is going
through a relationship or asituation when they have to
suffer because somebody else,like your parent or family
member, they put you into avulnerable situation, you really
don't understand how topersevere that.
You don't understand how to getthrough one hoop to go through
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the next and I had to do that.
So when I brought that tosocial media.
It was super huge for me and itwas one of those things where I
felt very good because peoplewere sending prayers out to me.
It wasn't one of those thingswhere I felt bad or I felt
guilty, but it was another partof me where I remember my family
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judging me so hard for puttingmy mom on social media and other
people was praising me for thelove that I carry for her and
still to this day I carry thatsame love for her.
But it's been hard and it's beensomething that I had to suffer
through, not just in silence,but I had to suffer through in
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my character, because I'm also amom and being a mom that's
coming from a broken mom or abroken situation.
You really don't understand howto maneuver that or try to be
the best of that, and that'swhere God came in and that's
where my relationship with Godcome in, because the mom that I
am today is nothing like the momthat I come from, and to be
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able to have my mom in my lifetoday, that's nothing but God.
So, just going over Romans 5,reading it, really understanding
how faith, you know, is reallypersevered through the suffering
that we do have to carry on.
Everybody has to suffer in life.
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Nobody is ineligible for suffer, like nobody's not equipped to
suffer.
We all have to suffer some waythrough life.
But being able to get throughthat, going over that, it really
does produce character.
And that's why I'm here today,so in character and hope, just
hoping that my mom see the light, see the best of her, and
hoping that I become a bettermom for my kids and just a
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better person overall for thepeople that I'm connected to.
That's where that verse reallyhits me.
So that verse, just it is justnot a Bible verse, it's, it's
been real word for me.
Roman five reminds us thatwe've been made right with God
through faith and because ofthat we can now stand in grace,
not guilt.
And for a long time I wasfeeling guilty.
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What if I'm not a good daughter?
What if I'm not a good mom?
What if I'm not a good sister?
What if I'm not a good friend?
You know?
And God had to constantly showme over and over and work with
me over and over throughpeople's lives and through my
own lives, and to reconstruct meand realign me with his purpose
and his plan for me, and that'swhy this episode is so vital
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for me and that's why it's veryimportant for me to voice what
Romans 5 speak into me.
Now I advise everybody, you all,to go into your Bible.
Please read your Bibles, orread whatever it is that you
need to get more aligned withyour spiritual connector.
And I say the creator of allthings, because creator, the
creator, created all things,heaven and earth, good and bad,
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evil, good, all things.
And so to walk with yourcreator is really understanding
where your faith lies.
My faith today is way strongerthan my faith was when I first
started, and what's so crazyabout it is that my faith is
still growing and I still havetime to go.
So I don't feel guilty where I'mat.
I don't feel guilty working ina club.
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I don't feel guiltytransitioning my life.
I don't feel guilty when Idon't have time for people.
I really don't feel guilty atall, because there is grace when
you stand in your suffering.
That builds character and hope.
So we can rejoice in the trials, not because we like pain,
because nobody likes the pain,but because the pain has purpose
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.
Then that's why we can rejoicein where we stand with God.
So suffering producesperseverance, perseverance
builds character and baby, yourcharacter is currency in the
kingdom.
We're talking currency in thekingdom not financially, because
to be able to stand with yourcharacter in the kingdom and
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stand boldly it takes a lot ofequipped, built character that
God has to install in you.
When you have to be arounddemonic people, be around hurt
spirits, be around mad people,haters or anything like that
Like it takes a lot.
And to be able to have thatcurrency in that kingdom we'll
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talk more about that later.
And so that was just real lifefor me going through the changes
, stepping away from the podcastfor so long, having to embrace
where I am in life, thetransition that I was going
through, motherhood for me offinancially stabilizing myself,
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taking myself from poverty to Iwouldn't even say wealth yet,
but poverty to legacy, buildingsuch a platform, that's way
bigger than me.
That my vision just it's smallcompared to I know what God
could provide.
That's also been huge.
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And it's been compared to Iknow what God could provide.
That's also been huge.
And it's been something thatI've been just walking in my
pain with and me hand in handwith God is like okay, when
you're, when you say I'm ready,then I'll be ready and whatever
you have for me to dish out, Ican dish that out.
So there's a lot of things thatI've been working in the
background with my business, butI had to put this first.
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This podcast had to come first.
My testimony has to come first.
My walk with God has to comefirst.
It's because I put God CEO ofmy entire life, I put God CEO of
my business, I put God CEO ofmy parenthood in everything that
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I have to go through.
So if God is CEO of my entirelife, then I must first put God
first, and that's why I'm heretoday.
So there was nights where Icried out.
There was nights where I didn'twant to be encountered with
anybody.
There was nights where I justdidn't want to talk to people.
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There was times where I wentaway.
There was days when I showed upand I smiled, when I was
spiritually just drained.
I had nothing to give, but,yeah, I still had to show up,
you know.
So I was tired, also moving inthe strength that God was
providing to me so much, so much, and so that when I even had to
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bury my brother and everybodyhas experienced that, when you
well, I don't know if everybodyhas, but if you are somebody who
has to experience to have tobury someone, that's a lot.
I didn't know that I would haveto take on the role of burying
my brother.
Getting that phone call August29th 2021, the same day that I
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planned my daughter's birthdayparty huge birthday party, big
bus for the entire family to goto California to celebrate my
daughter's birthday is the sameday I got a phone call that my
brother was shot in the head andhe was, he was dying, he was
dead.
And to have to go through that,to have to endure that, I was
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just like this, this can be real.
I got what is up and it was allin the midst.
Things was just happening backto back to back to back and I
would get more and some more ofmy testimony.
It's just I do not look likewhat I've been through and I
don't know who needs to hearthis because when I started
walking with God, I was damaged,like broken, damaged, damaged
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goods.
I was no good.
I didn't have a purpose, didn'teven care for a purpose.
I'm just like.
I was like so confused.
I was hurt and hurt people,hurt people.
And so when I started to walkwith God and started to confess
and surrender and do all of that.
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It.
It became surreal for me Likethings hit the fan, because they
shit hit the fan for real andstarted to unravel, started to
break down, started to rebuildall kinds of things.
And you can listen to pastepisodes to know how far I've
came.
I'm just saying for this, forme to even be here today
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recording episode 50, is justsurreal for me.
It's like, yeah, I can'tbelieve how far I came and I
thank God for that.
So, having to bury a loved one,having to see my mom, you know,
really face the fact that, dang,she's really messed up and
she's to the streets, having tobe that only girl in my family,
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in my immediate family, that cansustain my brothers or my
brothers that I could look up to, this is huge for me, you know.
So for me, through it all, goddid not waste anything when it
came to me.
He didn't.
None of this is a waste for memy going to juvenile hall, my
foster care systems, brokenfamilies, poverties, all of that
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.
And today I still stand and Irise.
This is like a realresurrection of feeling like I
was dead and I was alive, didn'tknow where to do or where to go
, what purpose to move.
So I'm in the middle of my realestate transition and that's
been huge for me.
I have my license here inCalifornia, nevada.
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But even transitioning to realestate from the club is not like
what people think.
You know what I'm saying.
You know when you watch sellingOC or selling Tampa and all
that like you want that, butthat's just not what it is.
And I battle with God a lottransitioning and God tells me
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all the time that I have youexactly where you should be, and
so God has been speaking louderthan ever to me.
The club pays my bills thanever to me.
The club pays my bills, but itdefinitely drains my soul and
comfort delays my calling.
So I'm stuck with having to beobedient.
Obedience will stretch you,especially when fear still pays
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more, and that's where Romans 5come in.
I've been deep in the Bible andI didn't even know what to talk
about, really to express myselfor how authentic I should be
when it comes to expressingmyself.
But it's all working out and Ireally hope that people can see
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me for me, not just of howbeautiful I am, but more so in
the inside and what God has donefor me and I pray that God
allows me to touch and connectwith other people.
That needs us, like me, mypodcast, my business, anybody or
anything that's connected to me, anything that's connected to
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me.
So Romans 5 reminds me thathope doesn't disappoint, because
God's love has been poured intoour hearts through the Holy
Spirit.
So, even in silence, god isstill speaking.
Even in stillness, he is stillworking.
I've been silent.
I haven't been podcasting.
I've been away.
I've recorded an episode beforethat I never posted, but I've
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literally been silenced.
I've been in my prayer corner,I've been in my prayer closet,
I've been in my car, I've beenin my shower.
I've been crying out.
I've been still.
I've been moving.
I've been faithful, I've beensaving.
I've been doing so much, butI've been quiet.
I have not mentioned anything,even today's episode.
I didn't broadcast.
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I didn't say, hey, I'm going togo record an episode today.
I didn't involve anybody.
I was complete silence in thistransition, in this prompt, in
this decision making right now.
I've been silent and God hasstill been working.
He's still been working in mylife.
He's still been working in mylife.
He's still been working aroundme.
He still has been working withmy mom.
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He's been working with her.
He's been working with her.
He's been working with me inour relationship too, because
it's not easy when you come fromthat type of situation.
It's not glitz and go.
You don't just wake up happy tohave a mom like that.
You don't wake up in that.
You have to also fight throughfeelings and pain and suffering.
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You still have to go throughthat.
So I still have to go throughthat.
So this episode isn't justcontent, it's confirmation that
I'm not who I was when I started, not even the middle of the
journey.
I'm not going back to where Istarted spiritually, just
connected on a higher plane, ona higher rim.
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I'm literally somebody elseLike you cannot touch me unless
you go through God, and that'ssomething that's been very happy
for me to feel is because Iknow how I stand and I know
where I stand in my faith and Iknow that, even in my faith
today, that it's gettingstronger and stronger the more
that I stay connected to God,like it's been a big, big, big
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step for me.
So I'm stepping forward withmore faith and more fire and
more focus.
And so to anyone's listeningwho feel like they've been
benched, buried or broken, thisis your sign you are still in
the story.
You are not behind.
You are being refined.
I was refined, you're beingrefined.
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So when God brings you back,it's never to where you were,
it's always to what's next, andso I really thank you guys for
walking with me, thank you forgrowing with me, and I like to
welcome everybody back toFaithful Fin Talk.
This is real stories, realscripture and real growth.
I'm your host until next time,juantra LeVette, and please
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So just keep in mind andsubscribe to the website.
You guys don't want to misswhat we have in store.
I have so many gifts to giveout to my community, and my
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community consists of the peoplethat subscribe.
I'm not for everybody.
I'm not for everybody.
I'm not for everybody.
I'm not for everybody, but ifyou feel like this message is
relatable and you feel like thismessage can touch somebody else
, then please feel free to sendit to anybody you may know your
sister, your mom, your dad, youraunt, your uncle.
This message is for everybody.
I am for you, this podcast isfor you, and this is Faithful
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Fin Talk.
Until next time.
You guys, I'm your host,montrelle LeVette.
Bye you, and this is FaithfulFin Talk.
Until next time.
You guys, I'm your host,antrella Vette.
Bye, breaking the chain.
Feeling the game, now, I'mrising open the gate, never too
late, no hiding wings open wide,trusting my God.
Ready to take off, ready totake off Someday.
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I know I'm moving in the rightway.
One day.
I keep praying, I keep praying,I keep praying, I keep praying.
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I can't call you.
I can't call you.
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