April 16, 2024 • 24 mins
Have you ever stood amidst life's crossroads, weighed down by the ghosts of your past, and wondered if there's a path that leads to peace and fulfillment? Join me, Shaniqua, as I guide you through the spiritual wilderness—a place where embracing the ebb and flow of our personal evolution is not just a choice, but a calling. We'll traverse the landscapes of change and renewal, exploring how to let go of what no longer serves us to step into the light of God's divine plan. This is more than a conversation; it's an invitation to a transformative journey where your faith will be the compass that navigates you through the trials and triumphs of life's seasons.
This episode is a reservoir of solace and strength for those grappling with the shadows of childhood traumas, abandonment, or self-doubt. Together, we'll acknowledge the necessity of shedding old skins to grow anew, and I'll shed light on the pivotal role inner work plays in catapulting us toward our highest potential. Remember, your worthiness is non-negotiable, and your journey toward love, support, and authenticity starts with a single step—often the one you're most hesitant to take. So, let's embrace our true selves and embark on this week with hearts wide open, secure in the knowledge that with every forward stride we're touched by grace and inching closer to greatness.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Free Concepts Unmasked, where we
motivate, educate and elevate.
I am your host, shaniqua.
Thank you, guys, so very muchfor tuning in, listening,
supporting, just.
Thank you, thank you forsharing.
I'm so grateful to you.
So listen, guys.
I want to talk to you, butbefore, of course, I begin, I
(00:23):
want to start off with prayer.
God, I thank you, father God,for everything that you've done,
everything you're doing.
God, I ask for a freshanointing over my life, god.
I ask, father God, that youpour a fresh anointing over our
listeners.
Continue to bless them, god.
Move in such a way, father God,that they know it's you, god.
(00:44):
Continue, father God, to blessme.
Help me, father God, to be ableto speak the words that you
want me to speak to your people,some encouraging words on today
, because Lord knows that theyneed it.
God, oh God.
I thank you, father God, foryour mercy, your grace, your
forgiveness and, most of all, Ithank you for your love.
(01:05):
God, I ask that you touch ourpeople, open their hearts, open
their minds to be able toreceive whatever it is that you
have for them, god, that theysubmit, surrender to the process
.
God, we thank you, father God,to be able to breathe, breath on
today, that somebody didn'twake up.
But we woke up.
Today, god, we have anotherchance at life to be able not
(01:29):
only to exist, but to be able tolive.
Oh God, we thank you, father,god, for all things.
In Jesus name, we pray amen,amen, guys, I am just so
grateful, so grateful.
I just am reflecting at thistime, having a reflection of
(01:54):
what it is that not only I wantfor my life, but what God has in
store for me.
It's so many times that we letlife pass us by, we don't
understand our journey, we don'tunderstand what it is that God
(02:15):
has us doing in certain seasonsof our lives.
I call them seasons becausethere's reasons for the seasons,
just like when winter, spring,summer, fall.
They all have somethingdifferent.
That happens, whether in thespring, as they say, april
(02:37):
showers brings May flowers, inthe wintertime it's cold, it may
snow and sleet.
In the fall the wind is blowingreally hard that it blows off
the leaves and takes all theleaves off the tree, and the
(03:02):
tree then develops and growsback at a certain season.
So I really feel like God isdoing something within us where
sometimes he has to remove allthe leaves and then be able to
give us our leaves back.
(03:25):
Many times we are in thewilderness and we don't
understand how we got there.
But if we can think back and beaccountable and reflect on what
got us to this point, I knowfor sure for me that there were
(03:47):
times that I needed to grow.
God was trying to grow mebecause I was stagnant in
relationships or just stagnantin general, just stuck in that
same mental behavior.
And it's a transformation ofthe mind that God is trying to
(04:10):
do.
He's trying to take us toanother level.
A lot of times we don'tunderstand where God has taken
us and we don't want to move, wedon't want to change because we
don't like change.
We get comfortable, we getcomplacent, we start this
routine in life and when, ifanything, disrupts that routine,
then we feel off balance, wefeel inadequate or we feel
(04:40):
stressed and our anxiety peaksand we don't really understand
the process because we don'tknow where God has taken us.
It's kind of like when we'reblindfolded and somebody's
trying to walk you.
You know, while you'reblindfolded and they're leading
you and you don't know whereyou're going and you're scared.
You might, you know step, youknow the wrong way or miss a
(05:04):
step or you don't know what'sahead, but just know that God is
leading you.
And oftentimes it does feellike we're blindfolded, but
that's okay.
God has a plan and as long ashe has a plan, we know it's
going to be all right.
We've seen dark times before.
(05:25):
We've seen and been throughtrials and tribulations.
We've been through hurt anddisappointment, but somehow God
will bring you through.
You've gotten through it.
You don't even realizesometimes how you got through
those hard times.
When you look back over yourlife, you could just, you know,
(05:47):
shake your head and be like Lord.
What was I thinking about whenI was doing these things?
You know what type of frame ofmind was I in?
And a lot of times we don't evenrealize that our childhood
traumas and things that we'vebeen through early in life has
(06:07):
molded us into this person.
And sometimes it's good becausewe have that survival instinct
that kicks in and it's good forthat season.
It's good for that season.
(06:28):
But when he tries to elevateyou then to the next season and
he's elevating us we don'treally, you know, we feel
blinded again, like, oh Lord,where are you taking me now?
You know what I mean.
Like I was doing good, you knowNow, you know I lost my job, or
my marriage is not working out,or my relationships aren't
working and I just feel likethings just aren't the same.
And if you think about it,things aren't supposed to stay
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the same.
We can't stay the same If wewant to walk into our future and
what God has destined for us.
We can't stay the same y'all.
We have to be able to give intothe process of what God is
doing in our lives, even if weknow or don't know what's going
(07:15):
on.
We just have to just go with it, rock with it.
You know, we know that on theother side it's going to be
better, but sometimes God has tobreak us down to rebuild us.
Oftentimes we go through so muchin life and we end up growing a
(07:36):
thick skin.
We end up putting this guard up, this guard over our hearts
becoming cold, not havingempathy or understanding or
compassion for others, becausewe just feel like, you know,
people weren't there for me, orpeople have, you know, treated
(07:58):
us bad, or you know how it is,guys, people don't treat us like
we treat them.
We go all out.
We love people, we get up forthem, we take care of people
Better than we do ourselves.
But God is trying to show us inthis season, right now, that it
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ain't about them people, it'sabout you and his relationship
with you.
It's so important to have arelationship with God.
I'm not talking about religion,I'm not talking about sitting
in church and filling up seats.
I'm talking about having a truerelationship with God where any
(08:45):
move that you make under thatcovenant that you made with God
is just like a marriage.
Basically.
Now I'm talking about a healthymarriage.
Okay, but it's like a healthymarriage where when you make
that commitment to God that youdon't do anything without
consulting God In marriageswe're supposed to consult each
(09:09):
other and be partners and listenand understand and walk as a
unit together.
Same thing with God.
Having that relationship andhave that covenant, we're
supposed we're committed to Godand when we make that commitment
to God, we don't move unlessGod says move.
(09:31):
We pray to him and we seekanswers.
Then we move, but oftentimes weget impulsive and we move too
fast, too quickly withoutconsulting with God.
And then when we find ourselvesin some messes, then we want to
then consult with God and prayto God to get you out of that
(09:53):
situation that you didn't evenpray about in the first place
and you saw red flags and hetried to show you signs but you
ignored the signs.
And then we get angry with Godin those moments that we put
ourselves in, we did it ourflesh, and oftentimes our spirit
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is fighting our flesh, becausethe flesh needs to die in order
for the spirit to live withinside of us.
But the flesh is used to thechaos.
The flesh is used to, you know,just unstableness.
The flesh is used to doing whatit want to do when it want to
do it, no matter theconsequences.
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You know, a lot of times we gothrough life just out of
feelings and emotions, and it'sokay to have feelings, it's okay
to have emotions.
But when you allow your feelingsand emotions to override the
spirit of God that's directingyou, your intuition, your
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discernment, if that overtakesyour flesh, overtakes all of
that, then you moving in flesh,not the spirit, and then we want
to get mad with everybody elseand upset with everybody else,
like they did something to us.
But we will put ourselves inthose very situations that we
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get hurt.
We put ourselves in those verysituations that we know that's
toxic, that we know better.
We know better God shows us,but we still do it anyway.
And then we mad with everybodyelse, we mad with the world, we
mad with God.
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The person we should be madwith is ourselves, and not even
then, even when we mad withourselves or say you know, like
dang, I know I shouldn't havedid that, I feel foolish, I feel
stupid.
No, take it as a lesson learned.
My grandmama used to say youlive and you learn.
Baby, you live and you learn.
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If you live in this world longenough, you're going to learn
some things.
So take it as a lesson learned.
Don't be so hard on yourself,don't beat yourself up, but stop
taking it out on everybody elsefor the very decisions that you
made, the choices that you madeknowing where it was going to
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lead you in the first place.
And then, when you findyourself there in that pit, in
the darkness, in the drama andthe turmoil and the hell that
you feel like you're in whenyou're going through it, we put
ourselves in that very situation.
We don't consult with God.
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We just do what we want to doand think it's going to work out
the way we want it to work out.
That's not life.
Life is going to be able to.
It's going to only work for youwhen you work for it.
And when I say that, it meansthat you have to listen, you
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have to be at peace, you have tosit still.
You can't be always on the go,moving too quickly and too fast,
because if you're talking toomuch, you can't listen.
God gave us one mouth and twoears to listen more.
Talk less, listen more, becauseif you're talking all the time,
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how can you listen?
Listen, how can you listen toGod and what he's speaking to
you?
You too busy trying to getthrough the day and God is
trying to show you somethingwithin your day.
God is trying to teach yousomething and you too busy
trying to get through the dayand get through the week and get
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through the until Friday, theweekend, so you can party it up
and do what you want to do.
But just ask yourself, how muchtime do you take with God and
speaking with God and consultingwith God?
You consult with everybody else,people that can't even help you
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with your problems.
We dump on people our problemsand we talk about the same
things all the time, until apoint sometimes people don't
even want to listen.
They don't even answer thephone no more because you're
still going through the samecycle.
It's doing the same things youwas doing 10 years ago and you
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expect change doing the samethings.
There's no results unless youchange.
You have to change.
You have to change your thought, your thoughts.
You have to change your way ofthinking, how you do things, how
you move, how you operate.
You've got to change who yourfriends are.
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You have to really dig deepwithin, doing the inner work,
figuring out how did I get here?
How did I get to this place?
What can I do differently nexttime to not be back in this same
situation that I find myself in?
Often we don't listen enough.
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We just keep going, and I knowa lot of times we're raised and
taught to keep going.
No matter what happens in ourlives, no matter what tragedies
happen, we just keep going.
But sometimes you got to juststop, stop, take heed and listen
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to what God is trying to showyou or tell you.
If you keep going through thesame things and you've been
going through the same thingsall your life then, baby, you
need to take time with you andGod Work on you.
Do some soul searching.
A lot of times we work off ofabandonment issues from
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childhood or neglect issues andnot feeling like we're enough
and not feeling like we'reworthy, and we sabotage
relationships.
Because if it's too good to betrue, then we feel like you know
there's something wrong withthis picture.
When somebody treats you goodand you're not used to being
treated good, you push it away.
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You push people away, the verypeople that want to love on you
and don't want nothing in return.
You'll think they're weird orstranger.
They want something from you.
Not everybody wants somethingfrom you.
Some people just want to loveon you.
But without God you can'tdistinguish the two.
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And the enemy will try to talkyou out of things.
He wants you to have fear.
He wants to talk you out ofthings.
He wants you to have fear.
He wants to hold you back fromyour purpose and sometimes we
give in to that devil, we givein to the enemy.
A lot of times we are our ownenemy because we don't allow God
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to move us, because of fear,afraid of what may happen.
You've already quit before youstarted.
You got to at least try, and ifyou fail, then you just
backtrack and say, okay, whatcan I do differently next time?
What could I have donedifferently.
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So sometimes we put ourselvesin these messes, we put
ourselves in these situations.
But we got to consult with Godfirst.
We got to put him first.
We got a.
Sometimes we got to throw awaythe drinking, throw away the
cigarettes, throw away the weed,throw away the things that
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enable us even heck the coffee.
Some people say I can't start myday without my coffee.
Well, how about?
You can't start your daywithout God, without prayer?
Heck, you can't start your daywithout you, just you.
And I know things are hectic,but at the end of the day it's
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okay to drink, it's okay to docertain things.
You know what I mean, as longas we don't over indulge, we
don't abuse it, where, if wedon't have that coffee or we
don't have that drink or wedon't have peace in all
circumstances, peace, peace ofmind.
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Let me tell you guys, if y'alldon't know or ain't never been
through nothing, peace of mind,honey, I don't want to let
nobody steal my peace.
Okay, I protect my peace at allcosts.
You are not going to disturb mylife.
You ain't going to disturb mypeace at all costs.
You are not going to disturb mylife.
You ain't going to disturb mypeace.
I'm not going to allow it, anda lot of times we allow people
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to come in and disturb our peace.
We allow certain treatmentsbecause we don't feel like we're
deserving.
But I'm here to tell you thatyou are deserving, you are
worthy, you are enough, you areof value, you are capable.
There's nothing that you can'tdo if you don't put your mind to
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.
I'm telling, if you put yourmind to it, to whatever it is
that you want to do, you can doall things through Christ.
I believe that we're allcapable.
We all have gifts that God hasgiven us.
We're able to do things, but wedisable ourselves.
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We disable ourselves because wedon't think that we're worthy
of having certain things or acertain life, or having a
certain marriage or whatever itis for you.
You may think you're not worthyof having a certain job and you
give up before you even continue.
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You just quit because it getstoo hard, it's too difficult.
Nothing in life is easy.
You're going to have to work atit.
You're going to have to do thework.
Nothing ain't going to justdrop in your lap and be like
here I am.
That job ain't going to drop inyour lap.
That husband or wife ain'tgoing to just drop in your lap.
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The children ain't going tojust start acting right.
You have to be that leader.
It starts with you.
So on that note, I'm going toleave you here with.
It starts with you having arelationship with yourself and
having a relationship with God.
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Going within and figuring itout there.
Going within and figuring itout.
There's nothing wrong withfiguring it out.
Nobody's perfect.
Nobody expects you to beperfect, but be the perfection
that you need for yourself.
Be the better version ofyourself.
Be better each day, whatever youfelt like.
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You messed up yesterday.
Make it right today.
Make peace with yourself.
Make peace with your demons.
Make peace with all of what thedevil is trying to bring
against you.
Make peace with that.
Make peace with your past.
You Make peace with that.
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Make peace with your past.
Don't keep allowing the thingsor people that hurt us in the
past to still have power overyou now.
Let that stuff go, because ifyou don't let it go, then you
won't be able to walk into thefuture, into your purpose that
God has set up for you.
You're delaying time and, asyou know, we don't have that
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much time, so stop takingadvantage and taking life for
granted and time for granted.
Some people didn't make it asfar as you have, and that means
something.
So if God woke you up today,then that means that he has
something for you.
He has more for you to do inthis world before you go home to
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glory.
So again, with that being said,god bless you all.
I ask that God shows youyourself, that God shows you
yourself, shows you what he'strying to do in your life, and
that you listen, even if youhave to disconnect from some of
the people that's around you.
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If you got negative peoplearound you that's always
naysayers oh how you going to dothat?
You can't do that.
If you got those type of peoplein your life, cut them loose.
It's okay to be by yourself.
You need to be by yourself fora minute to be able to reflect,
figure out where you really wantto go in life.
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Do you want to keep doing thesame things you've been doing
for the last five and ten years,or twenty years, or do you want
change?
Do you want a new change, abetter change?
Ask yourself that, say what isit that I want to do with my
life?
Moving forward, do you want tostay on this path that I'm on
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right now, or do I want tochange the course?
Or do I want to change thecourse?
Take a detour today to get backon the right path that God has
already set up and aligned foryou.
I love you, god loves you.
Enjoy your day, enjoy your week, be blessed and come back next
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week with free concepts.
Unmask, unmask.
Take the mask off and be you.
It's okay to be you, babies.
God bless you.
Have a great one.
Welcome to Free Concepts Unmasked, where we
motivate, educate and elevate.
I am your host, shaniqua.
Thank you, guys, so very muchfor tuning in, listening,
supporting, just.
Thank you, thank you forsharing.
I'm so grateful to you.
So listen, guys.
I want to talk to you, butbefore, of course, I begin, I
(00:23):
want to start off with prayer.
God, I thank you, father God,for everything that you've done,
everything you're doing.
God, I ask for a freshanointing over my life, god.
I ask, father God, that youpour a fresh anointing over our
listeners.
Continue to bless them, god.
Move in such a way, father God,that they know it's you, god.
(00:44):
Continue, father God, to blessme.
Help me, father God, to be ableto speak the words that you
want me to speak to your people,some encouraging words on today
, because Lord knows that theyneed it.
God, oh God.
I thank you, father God, foryour mercy, your grace, your
forgiveness and, most of all, Ithank you for your love.
(01:05):
God, I ask that you touch ourpeople, open their hearts, open
their minds to be able toreceive whatever it is that you
have for them, god, that theysubmit, surrender to the process
.
God, we thank you, father God,to be able to breathe, breath on
today, that somebody didn'twake up.
But we woke up.
Today, god, we have anotherchance at life to be able not
(01:29):
only to exist, but to be able tolive.
Oh God, we thank you, father,god, for all things.
In Jesus name, we pray amen,amen, guys, I am just so
grateful, so grateful.
I just am reflecting at thistime, having a reflection of
(01:54):
what it is that not only I wantfor my life, but what God has in
store for me.
It's so many times that we letlife pass us by, we don't
understand our journey, we don'tunderstand what it is that God
(02:15):
has us doing in certain seasonsof our lives.
I call them seasons becausethere's reasons for the seasons,
just like when winter, spring,summer, fall.
They all have somethingdifferent.
That happens, whether in thespring, as they say, april
(02:37):
showers brings May flowers, inthe wintertime it's cold, it may
snow and sleet.
In the fall the wind is blowingreally hard that it blows off
the leaves and takes all theleaves off the tree, and the
(03:02):
tree then develops and growsback at a certain season.
So I really feel like God isdoing something within us where
sometimes he has to remove allthe leaves and then be able to
give us our leaves back.
(03:25):
Many times we are in thewilderness and we don't
understand how we got there.
But if we can think back and beaccountable and reflect on what
got us to this point, I knowfor sure for me that there were
(03:47):
times that I needed to grow.
God was trying to grow mebecause I was stagnant in
relationships or just stagnantin general, just stuck in that
same mental behavior.
And it's a transformation ofthe mind that God is trying to
(04:10):
do.
He's trying to take us toanother level.
A lot of times we don'tunderstand where God has taken
us and we don't want to move, wedon't want to change because we
don't like change.
We get comfortable, we getcomplacent, we start this
routine in life and when, ifanything, disrupts that routine,
then we feel off balance, wefeel inadequate or we feel
(04:40):
stressed and our anxiety peaksand we don't really understand
the process because we don'tknow where God has taken us.
It's kind of like when we'reblindfolded and somebody's
trying to walk you.
You know, while you'reblindfolded and they're leading
you and you don't know whereyou're going and you're scared.
You might, you know step, youknow the wrong way or miss a
(05:04):
step or you don't know what'sahead, but just know that God is
leading you.
And oftentimes it does feellike we're blindfolded, but
that's okay.
God has a plan and as long ashe has a plan, we know it's
going to be all right.
We've seen dark times before.
(05:25):
We've seen and been throughtrials and tribulations.
We've been through hurt anddisappointment, but somehow God
will bring you through.
You've gotten through it.
You don't even realizesometimes how you got through
those hard times.
When you look back over yourlife, you could just, you know,
(05:47):
shake your head and be like Lord.
What was I thinking about whenI was doing these things?
You know what type of frame ofmind was I in?
And a lot of times we don't evenrealize that our childhood
traumas and things that we'vebeen through early in life has
(06:07):
molded us into this person.
And sometimes it's good becausewe have that survival instinct
that kicks in and it's good forthat season.
It's good for that season.
(06:28):
But when he tries to elevateyou then to the next season and
he's elevating us we don'treally, you know, we feel
blinded again, like, oh Lord,where are you taking me now?
You know what I mean.
Like I was doing good, you knowNow, you know I lost my job, or
my marriage is not working out,or my relationships aren't
working and I just feel likethings just aren't the same.
And if you think about it,things aren't supposed to stay
(06:53):
the same.
We can't stay the same If wewant to walk into our future and
what God has destined for us.
We can't stay the same y'all.
We have to be able to give intothe process of what God is
doing in our lives, even if weknow or don't know what's going
(07:15):
on.
We just have to just go with it, rock with it.
You know, we know that on theother side it's going to be
better, but sometimes God has tobreak us down to rebuild us.
Oftentimes we go through so muchin life and we end up growing a
(07:36):
thick skin.
We end up putting this guard up, this guard over our hearts
becoming cold, not havingempathy or understanding or
compassion for others, becausewe just feel like, you know,
people weren't there for me, orpeople have, you know, treated
(07:58):
us bad, or you know how it is,guys, people don't treat us like
we treat them.
We go all out.
We love people, we get up forthem, we take care of people
Better than we do ourselves.
But God is trying to show us inthis season, right now, that it
(08:22):
ain't about them people, it'sabout you and his relationship
with you.
It's so important to have arelationship with God.
I'm not talking about religion,I'm not talking about sitting
in church and filling up seats.
I'm talking about having a truerelationship with God where any
(08:45):
move that you make under thatcovenant that you made with God
is just like a marriage.
Basically.
Now I'm talking about a healthymarriage.
Okay, but it's like a healthymarriage where when you make
that commitment to God that youdon't do anything without
consulting God In marriageswe're supposed to consult each
(09:09):
other and be partners and listenand understand and walk as a
unit together.
Same thing with God.
Having that relationship andhave that covenant, we're
supposed we're committed to Godand when we make that commitment
to God, we don't move unlessGod says move.
(09:31):
We pray to him and we seekanswers.
Then we move, but oftentimes weget impulsive and we move too
fast, too quickly withoutconsulting with God.
And then when we find ourselvesin some messes, then we want to
then consult with God and prayto God to get you out of that
(09:53):
situation that you didn't evenpray about in the first place
and you saw red flags and hetried to show you signs but you
ignored the signs.
And then we get angry with Godin those moments that we put
ourselves in, we did it ourflesh, and oftentimes our spirit
(10:13):
is fighting our flesh, becausethe flesh needs to die in order
for the spirit to live withinside of us.
But the flesh is used to thechaos.
The flesh is used to, you know,just unstableness.
The flesh is used to doing whatit want to do when it want to
do it, no matter theconsequences.
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You know, a lot of times we gothrough life just out of
feelings and emotions, and it'sokay to have feelings, it's okay
to have emotions.
But when you allow your feelingsand emotions to override the
spirit of God that's directingyou, your intuition, your
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discernment, if that overtakesyour flesh, overtakes all of
that, then you moving in flesh,not the spirit, and then we want
to get mad with everybody elseand upset with everybody else,
like they did something to us.
But we will put ourselves inthose very situations that we
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get hurt.
We put ourselves in those verysituations that we know that's
toxic, that we know better.
We know better God shows us,but we still do it anyway.
And then we mad with everybodyelse, we mad with the world, we
mad with God.
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The person we should be madwith is ourselves, and not even
then, even when we mad withourselves or say you know, like
dang, I know I shouldn't havedid that, I feel foolish, I feel
stupid.
No, take it as a lesson learned.
My grandmama used to say youlive and you learn.
Baby, you live and you learn.
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If you live in this world longenough, you're going to learn
some things.
So take it as a lesson learned.
Don't be so hard on yourself,don't beat yourself up, but stop
taking it out on everybody elsefor the very decisions that you
made, the choices that you madeknowing where it was going to
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lead you in the first place.
And then, when you findyourself there in that pit, in
the darkness, in the drama andthe turmoil and the hell that
you feel like you're in whenyou're going through it, we put
ourselves in that very situation.
We don't consult with God.
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We just do what we want to doand think it's going to work out
the way we want it to work out.
That's not life.
Life is going to be able to.
It's going to only work for youwhen you work for it.
And when I say that, it meansthat you have to listen, you
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have to be at peace, you have tosit still.
You can't be always on the go,moving too quickly and too fast,
because if you're talking toomuch, you can't listen.
God gave us one mouth and twoears to listen more.
Talk less, listen more, becauseif you're talking all the time,
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how can you listen?
Listen, how can you listen toGod and what he's speaking to
you?
You too busy trying to getthrough the day and God is
trying to show you somethingwithin your day.
God is trying to teach yousomething and you too busy
trying to get through the dayand get through the week and get
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through the until Friday, theweekend, so you can party it up
and do what you want to do.
But just ask yourself, how muchtime do you take with God and
speaking with God and consultingwith God?
You consult with everybody else,people that can't even help you
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with your problems.
We dump on people our problemsand we talk about the same
things all the time, until apoint sometimes people don't
even want to listen.
They don't even answer thephone no more because you're
still going through the samecycle.
It's doing the same things youwas doing 10 years ago and you
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expect change doing the samethings.
There's no results unless youchange.
You have to change.
You have to change your thought, your thoughts.
You have to change your way ofthinking, how you do things, how
you move, how you operate.
You've got to change who yourfriends are.
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You have to really dig deepwithin, doing the inner work,
figuring out how did I get here?
How did I get to this place?
What can I do differently nexttime to not be back in this same
situation that I find myself in?
Often we don't listen enough.
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We just keep going, and I knowa lot of times we're raised and
taught to keep going.
No matter what happens in ourlives, no matter what tragedies
happen, we just keep going.
But sometimes you got to juststop, stop, take heed and listen
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to what God is trying to showyou or tell you.
If you keep going through thesame things and you've been
going through the same thingsall your life then, baby, you
need to take time with you andGod Work on you.
Do some soul searching.
A lot of times we work off ofabandonment issues from
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childhood or neglect issues andnot feeling like we're enough
and not feeling like we'reworthy, and we sabotage
relationships.
Because if it's too good to betrue, then we feel like you know
there's something wrong withthis picture.
When somebody treats you goodand you're not used to being
treated good, you push it away.
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You push people away, the verypeople that want to love on you
and don't want nothing in return.
You'll think they're weird orstranger.
They want something from you.
Not everybody wants somethingfrom you.
Some people just want to loveon you.
But without God you can'tdistinguish the two.
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And the enemy will try to talkyou out of things.
He wants you to have fear.
He wants to talk you out ofthings.
He wants you to have fear.
He wants to hold you back fromyour purpose and sometimes we
give in to that devil, we givein to the enemy.
A lot of times we are our ownenemy because we don't allow God
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to move us, because of fear,afraid of what may happen.
You've already quit before youstarted.
You got to at least try, and ifyou fail, then you just
backtrack and say, okay, whatcan I do differently next time?
What could I have donedifferently.
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So sometimes we put ourselvesin these messes, we put
ourselves in these situations.
But we got to consult with Godfirst.
We got to put him first.
We got a.
Sometimes we got to throw awaythe drinking, throw away the
cigarettes, throw away the weed,throw away the things that
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enable us even heck the coffee.
Some people say I can't start myday without my coffee.
Well, how about?
You can't start your daywithout God, without prayer?
Heck, you can't start your daywithout you, just you.
And I know things are hectic,but at the end of the day it's
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okay to drink, it's okay to docertain things.
You know what I mean, as longas we don't over indulge, we
don't abuse it, where, if wedon't have that coffee or we
don't have that drink or wedon't have peace in all
circumstances, peace, peace ofmind.
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Let me tell you guys, if y'alldon't know or ain't never been
through nothing, peace of mind,honey, I don't want to let
nobody steal my peace.
Okay, I protect my peace at allcosts.
You are not going to disturb mylife.
You ain't going to disturb mypeace at all costs.
You are not going to disturb mylife.
You ain't going to disturb mypeace.
I'm not going to allow it, anda lot of times we allow people
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to come in and disturb our peace.
We allow certain treatmentsbecause we don't feel like we're
deserving.
But I'm here to tell you thatyou are deserving, you are
worthy, you are enough, you areof value, you are capable.
There's nothing that you can'tdo if you don't put your mind to
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.
I'm telling, if you put yourmind to it, to whatever it is
that you want to do, you can doall things through Christ.
I believe that we're allcapable.
We all have gifts that God hasgiven us.
We're able to do things, but wedisable ourselves.
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We disable ourselves because wedon't think that we're worthy
of having certain things or acertain life, or having a
certain marriage or whatever itis for you.
You may think you're not worthyof having a certain job and you
give up before you even continue.
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You just quit because it getstoo hard, it's too difficult.
Nothing in life is easy.
You're going to have to work atit.
You're going to have to do thework.
Nothing ain't going to justdrop in your lap and be like
here I am.
That job ain't going to drop inyour lap.
That husband or wife ain'tgoing to just drop in your lap.
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The children ain't going tojust start acting right.
You have to be that leader.
It starts with you.
So on that note, I'm going toleave you here with.
It starts with you having arelationship with yourself and
having a relationship with God.
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Going within and figuring itout there.
Going within and figuring itout.
There's nothing wrong withfiguring it out.
Nobody's perfect.
Nobody expects you to beperfect, but be the perfection
that you need for yourself.
Be the better version ofyourself.
Be better each day, whatever youfelt like.
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You messed up yesterday.
Make it right today.
Make peace with yourself.
Make peace with your demons.
Make peace with all of what thedevil is trying to bring
against you.
Make peace with that.
Make peace with your past.
You Make peace with that.
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Make peace with your past.
Don't keep allowing the thingsor people that hurt us in the
past to still have power overyou now.
Let that stuff go, because ifyou don't let it go, then you
won't be able to walk into thefuture, into your purpose that
God has set up for you.
You're delaying time and, asyou know, we don't have that
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much time, so stop takingadvantage and taking life for
granted and time for granted.
Some people didn't make it asfar as you have, and that means
something.
So if God woke you up today,then that means that he has
something for you.
He has more for you to do inthis world before you go home to
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glory.
So again, with that being said,god bless you all.
I ask that God shows youyourself, that God shows you
yourself, shows you what he'strying to do in your life, and
that you listen, even if youhave to disconnect from some of
the people that's around you.
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If you got negative peoplearound you that's always
naysayers oh how you going to dothat?
You can't do that.
If you got those type of peoplein your life, cut them loose.
It's okay to be by yourself.
You need to be by yourself fora minute to be able to reflect,
figure out where you really wantto go in life.
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Do you want to keep doing thesame things you've been doing
for the last five and ten years,or twenty years, or do you want
change?
Do you want a new change, abetter change?
Ask yourself that, say what isit that I want to do with my
life?
Moving forward, do you want tostay on this path that I'm on
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right now, or do I want tochange the course?
Or do I want to change thecourse?
Take a detour today to get backon the right path that God has
already set up and aligned foryou.
I love you, god loves you.
Enjoy your day, enjoy your week, be blessed and come back next
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week with free concepts.
Unmask, unmask.
Take the mask off and be you.
It's okay to be you, babies.
God bless you.
Have a great one.
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