July 16, 2025 • 33 mins
Are you ready for a true comeback story? In Episode 52 of FaithfulFin Talk, host Juantrell Lovette shares how grace can revive your spirit, your purpose, and your legacy—even when you’re starting from ground zero.
This episode dives deep into Ephesians 2, exploring what it means to be “made alive”—not just spiritually, but emotionally, mentally, and financially. Juantrell opens up about her own rock-bottom moments, the breakthrough that only grace can bring, and how we are each God’s masterpiece, not a mistake.
Key Topics:
• The real meaning of “made alive”
• Turning mess into a message
• Why you don’t have to hustle for healing
• Breaking cycles of poverty—in soul and in legacy
• How to step into your comeback season
Whether you’re on day one or starting over for the seventh time, this episode is for you.
Tune in for encouragement, real talk, and actionable steps for living a life of purpose and faith.
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FaithfulFin Talk (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 take
off, ready to take off, ah,someday, someday.
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I know I'm moving in the rightway.
Oh, one day.
I keep praying I keep praying.
Juantrell Lovette (00:39):
Hey y'all, welcome to faithful fin
Juantrell ,Lovette, , and thisis episode 52.
You guys, I am, for some reason, nervous today, I don't know
why.
Like all week, I've beennervous.
Pairing up for this episodeJust been kind of out of my
comfort zone and I really,really, really did not want to
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do this episode, but somethingkept telling me to push for it.
So we're going to go into it.
If you are taking notes, if youare new here, I like to welcome
you to the best podcast youever going to come across.
Again, we are Faithful Fin Talk.
If you are new here and you'venever been here, you might want
to check out some episodesbefore to see how this thing
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goes.
If you are not new here, I liketo welcome you back to the
community, back to our thirdepisode since resurrecting this
thing and, like I said, I'vebeen nervous, I've been not
wanting to do this, but I showedup today and I showed up ready,
ready to tackle today's episode, not just for you guys, but for
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more like myself, to pushmyself to go forward.
So, if you are taking notes, ifyou have your Bibles and you
want to take notes, that is morethan welcome.
Our title for today is MadeAlive, grace Over Ground Zero,
kind of like steeping in fromepisode 50 and 51, continuing on
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with the grace topic becausethat's something that I've been
having to give myself over andover and over again is the grace
to do this, the grace to bemyself, to be authentically me,
the grace to come into a spacethat's unfamiliar, to not look
outside of myself, to not lookinto other people, to not look
into other people, to not lookinto social media, and so what a
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great title.
Made Alive, grace Over GroundZero.
Our scripture focus for thisepisode is Ephesians.
I've been in and out of thebook of Ephesians.
If you do not know, the Biblehas 66 books and I like to dive
into certain books depending onwhere I am in life.
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Even though the whole Bible issuper vital, I don't like to
take away and just go scripturefrom scripture.
So I like to study the entirechapter and, like I said, if
you're taking notes and you wantto make notes of these things,
we are in chapter two.
This is real stories, realscripture and real growth.
You guys don't even know howmuch this means to me.
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Watching you guys see me makethese videos is not like I'm
scared or I'm not ready for this, it's just sometimes I don't
want people to see me, I don'twant people to go that far into
my life.
And so putting myself out therereally doing these episodes,
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that ain't nothing but God.
Y'all really Building thiscommunity, building Faithful Fan
Talk, business, lavette, legacy, and everything that stands
behind this, that ain't nothingbut God.
So what you guys see is just arepresentation of how I'm
letting God use me.
It's nothing nice.
Nothing may look I mean, it maylook pretty, but it's nothing
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nice.
Every time when I have to gointo my prayer closet, when I
have to go into my one-on-onetime with God and have to talk
to him about what I don't wantto do, what I do want to do and
make sure that my plans alignwith his plans, it's not easy.
So again, I'm your host,wontrella Vette, and our
scripture, our chapter for today, is Ephesians 2.
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Okay, so, um, I'm still feelingthe afterglow of episode 51 and
episode 50.
Episode 50 was the resurrectionepisode where I came back.
Episode 51 just kind of brushedoff from there where we talked
about Galatians, and Galatianskind of woke me up.
Even just dive into the book ofGalatians you kind of want to
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see what God is talking to youabout and not take somebody else
representation for what theywant to put God on you for.
And this is why it's so vitalthat I tell my community whoever
listened to this podcast thathow it's very important and
essential for you to dive intothe Bible for your relationship
with God.
All of us will have a differentwalk, all of us will have a
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different talk, all of us willhave a different saying from God
, but we all have a creator wholove us very, very much.
So Galatians three woke me upsome things in us.
But today we're walking inEphesians two and it's about
being made alive, not justspiritually, not emotionally,
not just mentally, financially,generationally, emotionally, not
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just mentally, financially,generationally, but everything
Like.
The truth is, I wasn't alwaysalive.
I know a lot of people who arenot even alive today, who's
walking like a walking dead.
I used to be like a walkingdead and that was one of the
shows that used to come on TVand it had a few seasons and I
remember when that show came outI wasn't really a big fan,
because I'm like, why would theybroadcast a show called like
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the Walking Dead?
Well, you'll be surprised howmany people walk around dead
today, not living, justbasically surviving, and they're
like thriving to try to dosomething, but they can't make
note of it.
So I was one of those persons.
I wasn't always alive.
I was breathing, but I wasn'tbuilding.
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Building for me didn't comeuntil after the fact when I
started living and started totry to even find my purpose.
So existing, but not thriving.
Ephesians 2 reminds us that ournew life doesn't start with
effort.
It starts with grace.
Grace, grace, grace, grace,grace.
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I'm going to say that probablyfive episodes in on the way back
here, because grace has beensomething that's just been
opening a door for me time aftertime after time, something to
focus on in Ephesians.
If you're taking notes inEphesians two scriptures, one
through five this is in a newliving translation in LT version
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.
It says once you were deadbecause of your disobedience and
many sins.
I'm a sinner, you're a sinner,we all sins.
I don't know how many peoplecan go without being a sinner,
but it's not natural.
It's not normal.
I think everybody was born intosin, but that's my opinion.
I don't know.
But God is so rich in mercy, heloved us so much that, even
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though we were dead because ofour sins, he gave us life when
he raised Christ from the dead.
I was dead.
I was dead eight years ago,before I started my spiritual
journey.
I thought I was living.
I thought that life, you know,had it good for me.
I thought like I was living mybest life and things just kept
happening back to back, to backto back to back.
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And I remember just one day Ijust didn't feel alive.
I felt like what was my purposehere?
Didn't have a mom, didn't havea real dad in my life, I was
depending more on my brother'sdad.
My grandmother passed away,didn't have anybody to look
after me, literally grew upsurviving the foster system,
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juvenile hall, jail, all ofthese things.
And then, to top it off, I havekids on my own, not wanting to
raise my kids by myself becauseI didn't have a family structure
, a family to look after me.
So, dealt with my baby dad'sside, dealt with my daughter's
family's side, dealt witheverybody's side, and at that
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whole time I was dead.
I was like a walking dead.
I was not happy, I was notexperiencing my joy, I wasn't
doing anything and, um, Iremember, like wanting to get in
a relationship with Christ orwanting to get in a relationship
with God, not even just so muchin a relationship with Christ,
cause I was kind of nervous andscared from coming into that
walk, um, but I remember havingthat feeling of grace over my
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life like dang, look at all ofthis that I'm going through and
God is still providing for me,he's still providing people
around to help me, he's stillproviding for me to make sure
that I work, just all kinds ofthings.
And that made me realize thathe loved us so much, no matter
who we are, what we do, where wecome from, like his love is so
rich, no matter who we are, whatwe do, where we come from, like
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his love is so rich that youdon't find that love anywhere
else.
And it was even hard to evenidentify and understand it
because I couldn't even findthat love inside of myself and I
needed to pour that love intomy kids but I didn't know what
it looked like because I didn'tcome from it, don't, didn't
understand it, didn't have anyfamiliar ties to it.
I was literally like a walkingdead.
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So Ephesians two, you know.
Scriptures one through five Godis so rich in mercy.
He loved us so much that, eventhough we were dead because of
our sins, he gave us life.
When he raised Christ from thedead, that's a whole nother
story, because I didn't evenunderstand what does it mean to
raise Christ from the dead, howhe died, this and this and that?
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But it is only by God's gracethat you have been saved, that
I've been saved, and so as I gointo a rabbit hole, deep dive
into my Bible study history andyou know the functionality of
what it means to study the Bibleand get close to God.
You go through so many loopholesand you try to stay away from
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looking like or sounding likeeverybody else.
So I'm constantly asking Godwell, what do your grace look
like?
Am I moving in the right grace?
Am I doing the right thing?
Am I saying the right thing?
Am I surrounding myself withthe right people?
You know and I'm like am Istill a walking dead or am I
living in my purpose?
When I get up and I come and Ido these episodes, I think
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that's me living in my purpose.
When I overthink too much and Istay away from trying to do
what God tell me to do, I thinkthat's when I'm like walking in
my sin because I'm too focusedon.
What do I look like?
What do people see me as?
Or am I doing the right thing?
And God, be like, just look tome and come to me.
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That's the grace that I giveyou.
Like, you're safe.
I gave you that opportunity.
Now come get this blessingright.
So the real meaning of madealive took me to like it took me
down a loop, because I'm likewhat does it mean?
What does it mean to be madealive?
What does that look like?
Like are we alive because we'rebreathing?
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No, you can literally besitting next to me, walking next
to me, being next to me, andyour whole mental can be dead.
You can be literally a walkingdead.
So let's unpack what made alivereally mean.
Paul in the story is talking topeople who had messed up people
like me, maybe, people like youand he's saying you weren't just
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tired, you were dead.
But then God in his lovebrought you back, and not just
back to, okay, back to purpose,because grace doesn't just clean
you up, it revives you.
Pause that for a minute.
You Pause that for a minute.
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Paul is talking to people whohave messed up.
I don't know if you ever messedup.
But I messed up all the timeand I'm always, always feeling
guilty when I mess up.
So when I'm hearing, okay, well,god loved us so much that he
gave us the opportunity to comeback to life, what does that
look like?
To be made alive again, backinto the purpose?
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And I constantly tell myselfwell, if you're going to do
something and you're going towork, then I hope that you're
working for God.
And no, probably God didn'ttell you to work for him, but he
did create you to be amasterpiece and we'll get into
that.
But grace puts purpose backinto your bones and that's why
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this episode I'm still talkingabout grace is because I'm
trying to make myself and otherpeople understand that the grace
puts purpose back into ourbones.
I am sitting here in studioShout out to Chris, shout out to
Taylor behind the scenes, who'sreally like helping me bring
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this to life, and anybody thatI'm connected with, anybody that
comes into connection with me.
They're really helping bringthis vision to life, this vision
that I get with God, and I'mlike all right, god, what do you
want me to do?
What do you want me to say?
How do you want me to structurethis episode, because I really
don't have a clue what's goingon.
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I'm not dead, I'm alive.
But I really need your graceand understanding to push me
through.
So grace puts purpose in yourbones.
It brings peace into your mess.
It calls legacy out of placesthat used to be broken.
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I don't come from a structuredfamily.
I don't come from riches,wealth or anything.
I come from a mama who's ondrugs and her drug is PCP, shrm.
That is like dead people fluid.
Ok, I don't have a dad, didn'thave one.
My stepdad stepped in for me asa two time felon, doing the
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best that he can.
I was already a part of theworld, like I'm already a sinner
.
I was already born intoinequity.
I was born into poverty.
I was born into the worst right.
So I'm at rock bottom.
How do you go from rock bottomto the top that people say I
meet you at the top or I see youat the top, which is
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everlasting?
It keeps going.
But how did I get from rockbottom to even being at this mid
place?
Now, you know, I remember when Ilook successful right now I'm a
little bit successful but Iremember when I looked
successful but I wasn'tsuccessful.
I felt spiritually lifeless.
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I didn't know what to do,didn't have a clue, and
everybody around me they like,oh you look good, you listen,
it's not like baby, I am movingoff of pure strength and faith,
you know.
So at that point, like at onepoint, I didn't have success.
I really didn't Bad credit, nomoney in my bank, shoot, I was
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like getting prepaid cards, youknow, no bank cards, no business
edict, no, nothing.
Like I really come from povertyand so I want somebody to see
me tune into this podcast, hearthis podcast and be like that
girl that I'm looking at, that.
I'm listening to Wontra Lovett.
She was at rock bottom before.
She didn't have anything.
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She comes from nothing.
She faced the child system likefoster system.
I faced juvenile hall.
I faced grown up jails I'mtalking county.
I almost went to prison forlike years for a full on fed
case.
I faced so many negative thingsthat that could have brought me
like down and could have mademe stay walking dead.
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But it's something about God'sgrace, something about God's
grace that really amplified mylife to be where I am today.
And this crazy thing is thatI'm just I'm just beginning like
this is just the beginning.
This is not even a niche of thebeginning of what God has
prepared for me.
So I was giving, pouring,walking, giving to people,
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smiling in people's face, doingall this stuff and I was still
empty Yep, still empty.
Imagine trying to pour intopeople from an empty cup.
Imagine that you're constantlytrying to fill your cup with all
of these things and and all ofthese life choices and all of
this wealth and all this stuff,just so that you can pour into
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other people and you end upempty.
That's a lot of us.
That's a lot of us today.
That's a lot of us walkingaround dead today, making money
but losing moments.
That was.
There were so many moments thatI missed on trying to connect
with family and trying toconnect with certain things,
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because I was too busy trying tomake money, making money that I
couldn't even keep because ithad to go back out, because I'm
constantly pouring into otherthings and pouring into people,
into other things and pouringinto people.
Does that sound familiar?
Because that was my life, butit was the grace that gave me
space to start over.
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Starting over was scary for me.
To go from ground zero to glorywhat, what does that even look
like?
Ground zero to glory, likeGround zero to glory, starting
over, taking everything that Ithought I knew, place it into
God's hands and then telling GodI don't have a clue on what's
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going on.
I don't know what's going on,so I surrender my thoughts to
you, I surrender my life to you,I surrender my past to you, I
surrender my future to you.
I surrender everything that Ihave to you because you know and
I don't.
And since you know, I ratherget with you because I don't got
it figured out, but you doRight.
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So it was the grace that gaveme space to start over from
going to ground zero to glory.
And here's something that Iwrote down in that season I'm
not rebuilding from scratch, I'mrebuilding from experience.
Grace is the blueprint, and themoment I stopped pretending and
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started to let God revive thereal me, that's when everything
changed.
That's why I'm sitting here instudio, that's why I'm
connecting with people, becauseI stopped pretending, I stopped
being somebody that I was not.
I'm talking, I don't know.
This could sound familiar topeople.
When you, when you meet peopleor when you go out, you know you
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give them a fake name.
Somebody's meeting you.
They like hi, how you doing?
I want to buy you something.
What your name?
My little fake name, was Amber.
Okay, amber, who is Amber?
How can God give me what JuanTrill needs if I'm going around
pretending to be Amber?
It's not gonna work like so.
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Ephesians 2, verse 8 through 10.
And just when I thought I wastoo far gone, god's word
reminded me of this.
God saved you by his grace whenyou believed, and you can't
take credit for this because itis a gift from God.
Now, that's a word by itself.
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Ok, how many people want totake credit for God's grace?
He already gave it to us.
He already gave us grace.
He gave it to me, he gave it toyou, he gave it to everybody.
But do you know that you haveGod's grace?
I didn't know that.
I didn't know I have God'sgrace.
I didn't even know what God'sgrace looked like.
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I was walking around, guilty,upset, mad, like why did you put
me in this life, god?
Why did I have to be born intothis family?
They so ghetto, they so ratchet, they ain't got no money, they
don't do nothing.
Like I was pissed that I wasborn into the family that I was
born into, but at the same time,I love the family that I was
born into, because they know howto come together, they know how
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to laugh and how to joke, youknow.
But we had no grace beingextended to everybody or anyone,
no grace Like.
So I had to find that and I hadto find that in God and I had to
get with God to know that God'sgrace was available for me.
And I had to study it and I hadto understand and I had to ask
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God what does that grace looklike?
Because this preacher is sayinggrace, look like this.
And this person is saying grace, look like this.
No, god's grace is everlastingand it's a gift that nobody can
take from you.
Okay, for we are God'smasterpiece.
He has created us anew inChrist Jesus so we can do the
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good things he planned for uslong ago.
That word masterpiece, I am amasterpiece, you are a
masterpiece.
But I didn't know like I was amasterpiece, because how many of
us have been made to feel likea mistake?
I felt like I was a mistake.
I'm like my mama, 15, my daddy,26.
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The math ain't mathin', themath ain't mathin'.
I'm the only girl.
My mom had me 1986.
I'm the only girl.
She had me with a man that was26 years old.
You do the math I never met mydad.
Maybe he was too afraid to comearound because it was child
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molestation, I don't know.
But I grew up feeling like I wasa mistake, not that people
didn't show me love or I wasn'tsurrounded by it, but just my
whole position in life beingborn to a mother that was 15,
who could not raise kids, whostill wanted to go outside,
having a father who was reallyolder, who was never around.
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My grandmother, she was like amadam, so she kind of had like a
big house of a bunch of people.
She had her boyfriend, herhusband, her baby, daddy, like
everybody's staying there,aunties, uncles, because my
granny has seven kids.
So it was a lot of us in thatone place and surrounded by
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roaches, rats, I mean, you nameit.
I grew up in Watts, I'm fromCompton, and I didn't think like
I didn't think I would be inthis position today, right.
So when I look back and I'mlike, was I a mistake?
Because why am I here?
What am I doing?
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It was not until I had my ownkids and I realized, you know,
dang, god's grace, because,having my kids, I'm a stand-up
mother, I'm going to show up formy kids, no matter what,
despite the situations orwhatever the case may be, and my
kids being born into familiesthat have fathers, that's God's
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grace.
So that was the first like Ithink that I could see, like,
okay, okay, god's hand is on me,I must not be too much of a
mistake.
But going through abuse with myson's father, you would think
like, this is not the life thatI asked for.
I want to actually have afamily, so why am I going to
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have a baby and then go throughabuse?
Right, you don't want that.
You don't want your kids to seethat.
So that's the situation that Ididn't stay around from.
I never took my son from hisfather, but that situation I
couldn't stay in because Ididn't want my son to think that
it was okay for his mother tosee that.
At that point I'm still thinkingam I a mistake?
Because why did I have to getthis type of situation?
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Do I have to stay in asituation like this just so I
can provide for my son?
And God's like no, I'm going toextend more grace to you,
you're going to be just fine.
And then I have another kid andI get more grace.
And my daughter's father.
He's perfect, he's great, he'sa great guy and his family's
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great, but we just I wasn'tready.
I don't come from love, I don'tcome from a loving family, I
don't come from a structuredfamily.
So to identify that, I'mconstantly leaning on God.
Like what is it?
Am I a mistake?
Is this wrong?
Do I not deserve what I see thepeople have like marriage and
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stuff?
Cause I'm not.
I wasn't a marriage girly.
I didn't talk marriage, Iwasn't like, oh, I need to get
married.
Like my whole family probablyhas husbands, like all of my
cousins and stuff they all havehusbands and stuff like that.
And going through this journeydidn't make me want to be a
marriage girly.
That's not what it is.
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But to be a Proverbs 31 womanis something different and we'll
talk about that on anotherepisode.
But just seeing my situationsand seeing how God extended his
grace time after time after timeand it's not extending his
grace, it's just available.
So for me to have to open myeyes or open my heart or open my
mind to see God's grace, it'slike that's something that you
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have to initiate, you have tostep into, you have to initiate,
you have to step into.
So, knowing that I'm not amistake, that it says you're
made as God's masterpiece.
You're not a mistake, you're amasterpiece.
I'm like what, what does thatlook like?
And God's like a walking,breathing, rebuilding testimony
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from dead places to destiny.
So if you're listening and youfeel numb and you've been doing
all the right things and youstill don't feel alive, well,
let me remind you this grace.
This grace thing is real and youdon't have to fake your joy.
I did for years.
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I faked being happy.
I faked, you know, being happyabout situations and things.
I had no joy, I was walkingaround dead.
And eight years ago, when Istarted my spiritual journey, it
wasn't because you know theworld put God on you.
It's not because of that.
I've always been a God girl.
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But I'm a natural born sinner.
Like I sin, naturally because Iwas born into the world that
belongs to the devil.
Like, let's keep it real, thisis the devil's world, this is
his playground.
But God being the creator ofboth good and evil, god puts
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he's the father and mother ofgood and evil.
So, even though we're bornsinners, we have that
opportunity and the option, asour natural human selves, to get
with God.
Baby, I didn't know.
I didn't know that the rewardwould be me rebuilding from
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experience instead of fromscratch.
And that's why, for me, Ishould be here and I should be
creating this platform even whenI don't have it figured out,
even though I don't know what todo, is because I rely on God so
much and I don't have toperform for peace anymore.
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Like I'm there, you don't haveto hustle for healing, because
it's a gift and you already haveaccess.
You know, I didn't know that,but now you know because I
didn't know that.
So trying to clean yourself upbefore you return to God is like
trying to wash your car in anthunderstorm.
It doesn't work.
You end up getting wet and morewet and frustrated than when
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you even started.
It's not going to.
It's not going to be up to yourbar Right.
God's not waiting for you to bepolished.
I may look clean here on camera, but trust me, I'm a sinner.
I don't stray away from that.
But knowing that I'm a sinner,I'm able to check myself, I'm
able to be condemned by the HolySpirit or, when I can't figure
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something out or I don't havesomething in my mind or I don't
know, I'm able to go to Godwithout feeling guilty.
I'm able to go to God and belike I don't know what this is
all about.
I don't know what the situationis going to look like.
I don't know if I'm going to beable to provide for this or
make this.
I don't know if I'm going to beable to pay this bill or
whatever the case.
I don't feel guilty going toGod anymore.
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I don't know if somebody feelnumb or feel guilty and I don't
know why I'm saying this rightnow but I don't feel guilty
going to God about anything,anything.
And I go to God before anythingis because I don't know, I
don't got it figured out.
So he's not waiting for you tobe polished, he's waiting for
you to surrender.
So, before we go into legacy, hecan pause and he will show you.
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Well, this is legacy and thisis what I want you to have.
But You're not going to have alegacy if you're scared to build
from experiences, if you thinkthat you have to build from
scratch when you don't even knowwhat tomorrow can bring.
You're crazy, like you're crazy.
So I'm telling myself that girl, all this experience that you
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got, that's your testimony.
Somebody needs to see andsomebody needs to hear that it's
by the grace of God that youare made alive, that you don't
have to live in your sin, youdon't have to be guilty about it
, you don't have to be guiltyabout going to God.
So I'm going to pause and we'rejust going to say a prayer.
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God, thank you for calling usmasterpieces, even when we feel
messy.
Thank you for your grace thatreaches into the cracks of our
souls and plant purpose there.
It's huge.
It's huge for anybody fightinganything or a battle or anything
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like that.
So I talk a lot about legacy nowis because that's something
where I'm coming from, becauseI've seen what poverty feels
like.
I know what poverty looks like,not just financial poverty, but
so poverty like so povertywhere it's like you're dead in
the inside.
I've seen families that inheritfear instead of faith my family
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.
But there's one thing that Ilearned from Ephesians 2.
When God revives you, hedoesn't just give you a new life
, he gives you a new lineage.
Right, and so Levet legacy isabout that lineage.
I don't come from legacy, butlegacy is going to come from me,
isaac and Peyton is going toinherit a legacy, something that
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I don't come from.
So we don't just rise, werebuild.
We don't just believe, webecome Right.
So it's very important that youknow.
If these episodes are for youand you're like I don't know
what to do or I'm dropping gems,I'm dropping scriptures, I'm
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dropping notes that you guys cantake, that you guys can notate,
that you guys can understand,and you have to do your own work
.
You have to do your own study,you have to go into relationship
with God.
Let's not talk religion, let'sscratch religion, because you
can be from anywhere in theworld.
You can be from any backgroundin the world.
You can praise whatever God youpraise.
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Baby, I don't have no judgment,but it's very vital for you to
walk in relationship with God ona daily.
There is not a day for the pasteight years that I don't get up
and I connect with God, becauseI really don't know.
I really don't have it figuredout and I don't even want to
have it figured out.
To be honest, it's too muchpressure to know what tomorrow
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bring.
I might try to change the day.
If God give me a glimpse ofwhat I could do.
I will literally try to switchsome things up right.
So to stay connected with us,and if this episode shook
something in you, you know.
Don't let it just stop here.
Subscribe to Faithful Fin Talk,join the email list.
Share with somebody who needs aresurrection, who needs an
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understanding, who needs acommunity in their life.
This community is built forjust that.
So, whether you're on a day oneor starting over for the
seventh time, this is yourcomeback season.
This is my comeback season.
This is Faithful Fin Talk.
Thank you for walking with me,thank you for growing with me,
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thank you for praying with me.
Welcome back to the newFaithful Fin Talk.
Until next time, you guys, thisis real stories, real
scriptures, real growth offready to take off.
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Ah, someday I know I'm moving in the right way
oh, one day I keep praying, Ikeep praying.
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 take
off, ready to take off, ah,someday, someday.
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I know I'm moving in the rightway.
Oh, one day.
I keep praying I keep praying.
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Hey y'all, welcome to faithful fin
Juantrell ,Lovette, , and thisis episode 52.
You guys, I am, for some reason, nervous today, I don't know
why.
Like all week, I've beennervous.
Pairing up for this episodeJust been kind of out of my
comfort zone and I really,really, really did not want to
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do this episode, but somethingkept telling me to push for it.
So we're going to go into it.
If you are taking notes, if youare new here, I like to welcome
you to the best podcast youever going to come across.
Again, we are Faithful Fin Talk.
If you are new here and you'venever been here, you might want
to check out some episodesbefore to see how this thing
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goes.
If you are not new here, I liketo welcome you back to the
community, back to our thirdepisode since resurrecting this
thing and, like I said, I'vebeen nervous, I've been not
wanting to do this, but I showedup today and I showed up ready,
ready to tackle today's episode, not just for you guys, but for
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more like myself, to pushmyself to go forward.
So, if you are taking notes, ifyou have your Bibles and you
want to take notes, that is morethan welcome.
Our title for today is MadeAlive, grace Over Ground Zero,
kind of like steeping in fromepisode 50 and 51, continuing on
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with the grace topic becausethat's something that I've been
having to give myself over andover and over again is the grace
to do this, the grace to bemyself, to be authentically me,
the grace to come into a spacethat's unfamiliar, to not look
outside of myself, to not lookinto other people, to not look
into other people, to not lookinto social media, and so what a
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great title.
Made Alive, grace Over GroundZero.
Our scripture focus for thisepisode is Ephesians.
I've been in and out of thebook of Ephesians.
If you do not know, the Biblehas 66 books and I like to dive
into certain books depending onwhere I am in life.
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Even though the whole Bible issuper vital, I don't like to
take away and just go scripturefrom scripture.
So I like to study the entirechapter and, like I said, if
you're taking notes and you wantto make notes of these things,
we are in chapter two.
This is real stories, realscripture and real growth.
You guys don't even know howmuch this means to me.
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Watching you guys see me makethese videos is not like I'm
scared or I'm not ready for this, it's just sometimes I don't
want people to see me, I don'twant people to go that far into
my life.
And so putting myself out therereally doing these episodes,
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that ain't nothing but God.
Y'all really Building thiscommunity, building Faithful Fan
Talk, business, lavette, legacy, and everything that stands
behind this, that ain't nothingbut God.
So what you guys see is just arepresentation of how I'm
letting God use me.
It's nothing nice.
Nothing may look I mean, it maylook pretty, but it's nothing
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nice.
Every time when I have to gointo my prayer closet, when I
have to go into my one-on-onetime with God and have to talk
to him about what I don't wantto do, what I do want to do and
make sure that my plans alignwith his plans, it's not easy.
So again, I'm your host,wontrella Vette, and our
scripture, our chapter for today, is Ephesians 2.
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Okay, so, um, I'm still feelingthe afterglow of episode 51 and
episode 50.
Episode 50 was the resurrectionepisode where I came back.
Episode 51 just kind of brushedoff from there where we talked
about Galatians, and Galatianskind of woke me up.
Even just dive into the book ofGalatians you kind of want to
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see what God is talking to youabout and not take somebody else
representation for what theywant to put God on you for.
And this is why it's so vitalthat I tell my community whoever
listened to this podcast thathow it's very important and
essential for you to dive intothe Bible for your relationship
with God.
All of us will have a differentwalk, all of us will have a
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different talk, all of us willhave a different saying from God
, but we all have a creator wholove us very, very much.
So Galatians three woke me upsome things in us.
But today we're walking inEphesians two and it's about
being made alive, not justspiritually, not emotionally,
not just mentally, financially,generationally, emotionally, not
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just mentally, financially,generationally, but everything
Like.
The truth is, I wasn't alwaysalive.
I know a lot of people who arenot even alive today, who's
walking like a walking dead.
I used to be like a walkingdead and that was one of the
shows that used to come on TVand it had a few seasons and I
remember when that show came outI wasn't really a big fan,
because I'm like, why would theybroadcast a show called like
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the Walking Dead?
Well, you'll be surprised howmany people walk around dead
today, not living, justbasically surviving, and they're
like thriving to try to dosomething, but they can't make
note of it.
So I was one of those persons.
I wasn't always alive.
I was breathing, but I wasn'tbuilding.
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Building for me didn't comeuntil after the fact when I
started living and started totry to even find my purpose.
So existing, but not thriving.
Ephesians 2 reminds us that ournew life doesn't start with
effort.
It starts with grace.
Grace, grace, grace, grace,grace.
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I'm going to say that probablyfive episodes in on the way back
here, because grace has beensomething that's just been
opening a door for me time aftertime after time, something to
focus on in Ephesians.
If you're taking notes inEphesians two scriptures, one
through five this is in a newliving translation in LT version
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.
It says once you were deadbecause of your disobedience and
many sins.
I'm a sinner, you're a sinner,we all sins.
I don't know how many peoplecan go without being a sinner,
but it's not natural.
It's not normal.
I think everybody was born intosin, but that's my opinion.
I don't know.
But God is so rich in mercy, heloved us so much that, even
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though we were dead because ofour sins, he gave us life when
he raised Christ from the dead.
I was dead.
I was dead eight years ago,before I started my spiritual
journey.
I thought I was living.
I thought that life, you know,had it good for me.
I thought like I was living mybest life and things just kept
happening back to back, to backto back to back.
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And I remember just one day Ijust didn't feel alive.
I felt like what was my purposehere?
Didn't have a mom, didn't havea real dad in my life, I was
depending more on my brother'sdad.
My grandmother passed away,didn't have anybody to look
after me, literally grew upsurviving the foster system,
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juvenile hall, jail, all ofthese things.
And then, to top it off, I havekids on my own, not wanting to
raise my kids by myself becauseI didn't have a family structure
, a family to look after me.
So, dealt with my baby dad'sside, dealt with my daughter's
family's side, dealt witheverybody's side, and at that
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whole time I was dead.
I was like a walking dead.
I was not happy, I was notexperiencing my joy, I wasn't
doing anything and, um, Iremember, like wanting to get in
a relationship with Christ orwanting to get in a relationship
with God, not even just so muchin a relationship with Christ,
cause I was kind of nervous andscared from coming into that
walk, um, but I remember havingthat feeling of grace over my
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life like dang, look at all ofthis that I'm going through and
God is still providing for me,he's still providing people
around to help me, he's stillproviding for me to make sure
that I work, just all kinds ofthings.
And that made me realize thathe loved us so much, no matter
who we are, what we do, where wecome from, like his love is so
rich, no matter who we are, whatwe do, where we come from, like
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his love is so rich that youdon't find that love anywhere
else.
And it was even hard to evenidentify and understand it
because I couldn't even findthat love inside of myself and I
needed to pour that love intomy kids but I didn't know what
it looked like because I didn'tcome from it, don't, didn't
understand it, didn't have anyfamiliar ties to it.
I was literally like a walkingdead.
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So Ephesians two, you know.
Scriptures one through five Godis so rich in mercy.
He loved us so much that, eventhough we were dead because of
our sins, he gave us life.
When he raised Christ from thedead, that's a whole nother
story, because I didn't evenunderstand what does it mean to
raise Christ from the dead, howhe died, this and this and that?
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But it is only by God's gracethat you have been saved, that
I've been saved, and so as I gointo a rabbit hole, deep dive
into my Bible study history andyou know the functionality of
what it means to study the Bibleand get close to God.
You go through so many loopholesand you try to stay away from
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looking like or sounding likeeverybody else.
So I'm constantly asking Godwell, what do your grace look
like?
Am I moving in the right grace?
Am I doing the right thing?
Am I saying the right thing?
Am I surrounding myself withthe right people?
You know and I'm like am Istill a walking dead or am I
living in my purpose?
When I get up and I come and Ido these episodes, I think
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that's me living in my purpose.
When I overthink too much and Istay away from trying to do
what God tell me to do, I thinkthat's when I'm like walking in
my sin because I'm too focusedon.
What do I look like?
What do people see me as?
Or am I doing the right thing?
And God, be like, just look tome and come to me.
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That's the grace that I giveyou.
Like, you're safe.
I gave you that opportunity.
Now come get this blessingright.
So the real meaning of madealive took me to like it took me
down a loop, because I'm likewhat does it mean?
What does it mean to be madealive?
What does that look like?
Like are we alive because we'rebreathing?
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No, you can literally besitting next to me, walking next
to me, being next to me, andyour whole mental can be dead.
You can be literally a walkingdead.
So let's unpack what made alivereally mean.
Paul in the story is talking topeople who had messed up people
like me, maybe, people like youand he's saying you weren't just
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tired, you were dead.
But then God in his lovebrought you back, and not just
back to, okay, back to purpose,because grace doesn't just clean
you up, it revives you.
Pause that for a minute.
You Pause that for a minute.
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Paul is talking to people whohave messed up.
I don't know if you ever messedup.
But I messed up all the timeand I'm always, always feeling
guilty when I mess up.
So when I'm hearing, okay, well,god loved us so much that he
gave us the opportunity to comeback to life, what does that
look like?
To be made alive again, backinto the purpose?
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And I constantly tell myselfwell, if you're going to do
something and you're going towork, then I hope that you're
working for God.
And no, probably God didn'ttell you to work for him, but he
did create you to be amasterpiece and we'll get into
that.
But grace puts purpose backinto your bones and that's why
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this episode I'm still talkingabout grace is because I'm
trying to make myself and otherpeople understand that the grace
puts purpose back into ourbones.
I am sitting here in studioShout out to Chris, shout out to
Taylor behind the scenes, who'sreally like helping me bring
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this to life, and anybody thatI'm connected with, anybody that
comes into connection with me.
They're really helping bringthis vision to life, this vision
that I get with God, and I'mlike all right, god, what do you
want me to do?
What do you want me to say?
How do you want me to structurethis episode, because I really
don't have a clue what's goingon.
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I'm not dead, I'm alive.
But I really need your graceand understanding to push me
through.
So grace puts purpose in yourbones.
It brings peace into your mess.
It calls legacy out of placesthat used to be broken.
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I don't come from a structuredfamily.
I don't come from riches,wealth or anything.
I come from a mama who's ondrugs and her drug is PCP, shrm.
That is like dead people fluid.
Ok, I don't have a dad, didn'thave one.
My stepdad stepped in for me asa two time felon, doing the
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best that he can.
I was already a part of theworld, like I'm already a sinner
.
I was already born intoinequity.
I was born into poverty.
I was born into the worst right.
So I'm at rock bottom.
How do you go from rock bottomto the top that people say I
meet you at the top or I see youat the top, which is
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everlasting?
It keeps going.
But how did I get from rockbottom to even being at this mid
place?
Now, you know, I remember when Ilook successful right now I'm a
little bit successful but Iremember when I looked
successful but I wasn'tsuccessful.
I felt spiritually lifeless.
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I didn't know what to do,didn't have a clue, and
everybody around me they like,oh you look good, you listen,
it's not like baby, I am movingoff of pure strength and faith,
you know.
So at that point, like at onepoint, I didn't have success.
I really didn't Bad credit, nomoney in my bank, shoot, I was
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like getting prepaid cards, youknow, no bank cards, no business
edict, no, nothing.
Like I really come from povertyand so I want somebody to see
me tune into this podcast, hearthis podcast and be like that
girl that I'm looking at, that.
I'm listening to Wontra Lovett.
She was at rock bottom before.
She didn't have anything.
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She comes from nothing.
She faced the child system likefoster system.
I faced juvenile hall.
I faced grown up jails I'mtalking county.
I almost went to prison forlike years for a full on fed
case.
I faced so many negative thingsthat that could have brought me
like down and could have mademe stay walking dead.
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But it's something about God'sgrace, something about God's
grace that really amplified mylife to be where I am today.
And this crazy thing is thatI'm just I'm just beginning like
this is just the beginning.
This is not even a niche of thebeginning of what God has
prepared for me.
So I was giving, pouring,walking, giving to people,
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smiling in people's face, doingall this stuff and I was still
empty Yep, still empty.
Imagine trying to pour intopeople from an empty cup.
Imagine that you're constantlytrying to fill your cup with all
of these things and and all ofthese life choices and all of
this wealth and all this stuff,just so that you can pour into
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other people and you end upempty.
That's a lot of us.
That's a lot of us today.
That's a lot of us walkingaround dead today, making money
but losing moments.
That was.
There were so many moments thatI missed on trying to connect
with family and trying toconnect with certain things,
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because I was too busy trying tomake money, making money that I
couldn't even keep because ithad to go back out, because I'm
constantly pouring into otherthings and pouring into people,
into other things and pouringinto people.
Does that sound familiar?
Because that was my life, butit was the grace that gave me
space to start over.
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Starting over was scary for me.
To go from ground zero to glorywhat, what does that even look
like?
Ground zero to glory, likeGround zero to glory, starting
over, taking everything that Ithought I knew, place it into
God's hands and then telling GodI don't have a clue on what's
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going on.
I don't know what's going on,so I surrender my thoughts to
you, I surrender my life to you,I surrender my past to you, I
surrender my future to you.
I surrender everything that Ihave to you because you know and
I don't.
And since you know, I ratherget with you because I don't got
it figured out, but you doRight.
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So it was the grace that gaveme space to start over from
going to ground zero to glory.
And here's something that Iwrote down in that season I'm
not rebuilding from scratch, I'mrebuilding from experience.
Grace is the blueprint, and themoment I stopped pretending and
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started to let God revive thereal me, that's when everything
changed.
That's why I'm sitting here instudio, that's why I'm
connecting with people, becauseI stopped pretending, I stopped
being somebody that I was not.
I'm talking, I don't know.
This could sound familiar topeople.
When you, when you meet peopleor when you go out, you know you
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give them a fake name.
Somebody's meeting you.
They like hi, how you doing?
I want to buy you something.
What your name?
My little fake name, was Amber.
Okay, amber, who is Amber?
How can God give me what JuanTrill needs if I'm going around
pretending to be Amber?
It's not gonna work like so.
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Ephesians 2, verse 8 through 10.
And just when I thought I wastoo far gone, god's word
reminded me of this.
God saved you by his grace whenyou believed, and you can't
take credit for this because itis a gift from God.
Now, that's a word by itself.
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Ok, how many people want totake credit for God's grace?
He already gave it to us.
He already gave us grace.
He gave it to me, he gave it toyou, he gave it to everybody.
But do you know that you haveGod's grace?
I didn't know that.
I didn't know I have God'sgrace.
I didn't even know what God'sgrace looked like.
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I was walking around, guilty,upset, mad, like why did you put
me in this life, god?
Why did I have to be born intothis family?
They so ghetto, they so ratchet, they ain't got no money, they
don't do nothing.
Like I was pissed that I wasborn into the family that I was
born into, but at the same time,I love the family that I was
born into, because they know howto come together, they know how
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to laugh and how to joke, youknow.
But we had no grace beingextended to everybody or anyone,
no grace Like.
So I had to find that and I hadto find that in God and I had to
get with God to know that God'sgrace was available for me.
And I had to study it and I hadto understand and I had to ask
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God what does that grace looklike?
Because this preacher is sayinggrace, look like this.
And this person is saying grace, look like this.
No, god's grace is everlastingand it's a gift that nobody can
take from you.
Okay, for we are God'smasterpiece.
He has created us anew inChrist Jesus so we can do the
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good things he planned for uslong ago.
That word masterpiece, I am amasterpiece, you are a
masterpiece.
But I didn't know like I was amasterpiece, because how many of
us have been made to feel likea mistake?
I felt like I was a mistake.
I'm like my mama, 15, my daddy,26.
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The math ain't mathin', themath ain't mathin'.
I'm the only girl.
My mom had me 1986.
I'm the only girl.
She had me with a man that was26 years old.
You do the math I never met mydad.
Maybe he was too afraid to comearound because it was child
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molestation, I don't know.
But I grew up feeling like I wasa mistake, not that people
didn't show me love or I wasn'tsurrounded by it, but just my
whole position in life beingborn to a mother that was 15,
who could not raise kids, whostill wanted to go outside,
having a father who was reallyolder, who was never around.
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My grandmother, she was like amadam, so she kind of had like a
big house of a bunch of people.
She had her boyfriend, herhusband, her baby, daddy, like
everybody's staying there,aunties, uncles, because my
granny has seven kids.
So it was a lot of us in thatone place and surrounded by
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roaches, rats, I mean, you nameit.
I grew up in Watts, I'm fromCompton, and I didn't think like
I didn't think I would be inthis position today, right.
So when I look back and I'mlike, was I a mistake?
Because why am I here?
What am I doing?
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It was not until I had my ownkids and I realized, you know,
dang, god's grace, because,having my kids, I'm a stand-up
mother, I'm going to show up formy kids, no matter what,
despite the situations orwhatever the case may be, and my
kids being born into familiesthat have fathers, that's God's
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grace.
So that was the first like Ithink that I could see, like,
okay, okay, god's hand is on me,I must not be too much of a
mistake.
But going through abuse with myson's father, you would think
like, this is not the life thatI asked for.
I want to actually have afamily, so why am I going to
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have a baby and then go throughabuse?
Right, you don't want that.
You don't want your kids to seethat.
So that's the situation that Ididn't stay around from.
I never took my son from hisfather, but that situation I
couldn't stay in because Ididn't want my son to think that
it was okay for his mother tosee that.
At that point I'm still thinkingam I a mistake?
Because why did I have to getthis type of situation?
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Do I have to stay in asituation like this just so I
can provide for my son?
And God's like no, I'm going toextend more grace to you,
you're going to be just fine.
And then I have another kid andI get more grace.
And my daughter's father.
He's perfect, he's great, he'sa great guy and his family's
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great, but we just I wasn'tready.
I don't come from love, I don'tcome from a loving family, I
don't come from a structuredfamily.
So to identify that, I'mconstantly leaning on God.
Like what is it?
Am I a mistake?
Is this wrong?
Do I not deserve what I see thepeople have like marriage and
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stuff?
Cause I'm not.
I wasn't a marriage girly.
I didn't talk marriage, Iwasn't like, oh, I need to get
married.
Like my whole family probablyhas husbands, like all of my
cousins and stuff they all havehusbands and stuff like that.
And going through this journeydidn't make me want to be a
marriage girly.
That's not what it is.
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But to be a Proverbs 31 womanis something different and we'll
talk about that on anotherepisode.
But just seeing my situationsand seeing how God extended his
grace time after time after timeand it's not extending his
grace, it's just available.
So for me to have to open myeyes or open my heart or open my
mind to see God's grace, it'slike that's something that you
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have to initiate, you have tostep into, you have to initiate,
you have to step into.
So, knowing that I'm not amistake, that it says you're
made as God's masterpiece.
You're not a mistake, you're amasterpiece.
I'm like what, what does thatlook like?
And God's like a walking,breathing, rebuilding testimony
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from dead places to destiny.
So if you're listening and youfeel numb and you've been doing
all the right things and youstill don't feel alive, well,
let me remind you this grace.
This grace thing is real and youdon't have to fake your joy.
I did for years.
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I faked being happy.
I faked, you know, being happyabout situations and things.
I had no joy, I was walkingaround dead.
And eight years ago, when Istarted my spiritual journey, it
wasn't because you know theworld put God on you.
It's not because of that.
I've always been a God girl.
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But I'm a natural born sinner.
Like I sin, naturally because Iwas born into the world that
belongs to the devil.
Like, let's keep it real, thisis the devil's world, this is
his playground.
But God being the creator ofboth good and evil, god puts
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he's the father and mother ofgood and evil.
So, even though we're bornsinners, we have that
opportunity and the option, asour natural human selves, to get
with God.
Baby, I didn't know.
I didn't know that the rewardwould be me rebuilding from
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experience instead of fromscratch.
And that's why, for me, Ishould be here and I should be
creating this platform even whenI don't have it figured out,
even though I don't know what todo, is because I rely on God so
much and I don't have toperform for peace anymore.
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Like I'm there, you don't haveto hustle for healing, because
it's a gift and you already haveaccess.
You know, I didn't know that,but now you know because I
didn't know that.
So trying to clean yourself upbefore you return to God is like
trying to wash your car in anthunderstorm.
It doesn't work.
You end up getting wet and morewet and frustrated than when
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you even started.
It's not going to.
It's not going to be up to yourbar Right.
God's not waiting for you to bepolished.
I may look clean here on camera, but trust me, I'm a sinner.
I don't stray away from that.
But knowing that I'm a sinner,I'm able to check myself, I'm
able to be condemned by the HolySpirit or, when I can't figure
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something out or I don't havesomething in my mind or I don't
know, I'm able to go to Godwithout feeling guilty.
I'm able to go to God and belike I don't know what this is
all about.
I don't know what the situationis going to look like.
I don't know if I'm going to beable to provide for this or
make this.
I don't know if I'm going to beable to pay this bill or
whatever the case.
I don't feel guilty going toGod anymore.
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I don't know if somebody feelnumb or feel guilty and I don't
know why I'm saying this rightnow but I don't feel guilty
going to God about anything,anything.
And I go to God before anythingis because I don't know, I
don't got it figured out.
So he's not waiting for you tobe polished, he's waiting for
you to surrender.
So, before we go into legacy, hecan pause and he will show you.
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Well, this is legacy and thisis what I want you to have.
But You're not going to have alegacy if you're scared to build
from experiences, if you thinkthat you have to build from
scratch when you don't even knowwhat tomorrow can bring.
You're crazy, like you're crazy.
So I'm telling myself that girl, all this experience that you
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got, that's your testimony.
Somebody needs to see andsomebody needs to hear that it's
by the grace of God that youare made alive, that you don't
have to live in your sin, youdon't have to be guilty about it
, you don't have to be guiltyabout going to God.
So I'm going to pause and we'rejust going to say a prayer.
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God, thank you for calling usmasterpieces, even when we feel
messy.
Thank you for your grace thatreaches into the cracks of our
souls and plant purpose there.
It's huge.
It's huge for anybody fightinganything or a battle or anything
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like that.
So I talk a lot about legacy nowis because that's something
where I'm coming from, becauseI've seen what poverty feels
like.
I know what poverty looks like,not just financial poverty, but
so poverty like so povertywhere it's like you're dead in
the inside.
I've seen families that inheritfear instead of faith my family
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.
But there's one thing that Ilearned from Ephesians 2.
When God revives you, hedoesn't just give you a new life
, he gives you a new lineage.
Right, and so Levet legacy isabout that lineage.
I don't come from legacy, butlegacy is going to come from me,
isaac and Peyton is going toinherit a legacy, something that
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I don't come from.
So we don't just rise, werebuild.
We don't just believe, webecome Right.
So it's very important that youknow.
If these episodes are for youand you're like I don't know
what to do or I'm dropping gems,I'm dropping scriptures, I'm
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dropping notes that you guys cantake, that you guys can notate,
that you guys can understand,and you have to do your own work
.
You have to do your own study,you have to go into relationship
with God.
Let's not talk religion, let'sscratch religion, because you
can be from anywhere in theworld.
You can be from any backgroundin the world.
You can praise whatever God youpraise.
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Baby, I don't have no judgment,but it's very vital for you to
walk in relationship with God ona daily.
There is not a day for the pasteight years that I don't get up
and I connect with God, becauseI really don't know.
I really don't have it figuredout and I don't even want to
have it figured out.
To be honest, it's too muchpressure to know what tomorrow
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bring.
I might try to change the day.
If God give me a glimpse ofwhat I could do.
I will literally try to switchsome things up right.
So to stay connected with us,and if this episode shook
something in you, you know.
Don't let it just stop here.
Subscribe to Faithful Fin Talk,join the email list.
Share with somebody who needs aresurrection, who needs an
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understanding, who needs acommunity in their life.
This community is built forjust that.
So, whether you're on a day oneor starting over for the
seventh time, this is yourcomeback season.
This is my comeback season.
This is Faithful Fin Talk.
Thank you for walking with me,thank you for growing with me,
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thank you for praying with me.
Welcome back to the newFaithful Fin Talk.
Until next time, you guys, thisis real stories, real
scriptures, real growth offready to take off.
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Ah, someday I know I'm moving in the right way
oh, one day I keep praying, Ikeep praying.
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