September 24, 2024 • 53 mins
Imagine the joy and excitement of welcoming your sixth grandchild into the world. That’s exactly what we're celebrating in this heartfelt episode, where we explore the remarkable bond between grandparents and their grandchildren. You'll hear touching personal anecdotes, reflections on Proverbs 17:6, and even a humorous Spanish quote about the never-ending journey of parenthood. We also invite listeners to share their own cherished memories and insights, making this episode an interactive and deeply personal experience for all.
In this episode, we delve into the spiritual legacy grandparents leave behind, underscoring the pivotal role their prayers, wisdom, and love play in shaping our lives. We feature moving stories about the profound impact of a grandparent's faith and guidance, even during life’s challenging decisions. A special guest caller reminds us of the spiritual vitality grandparents embody, encouraging us to honor and appreciate their influence. Listener questions on disciplining step-grandkids and introducing faith to them are thoughtfully addressed, emphasizing communication and prayer as key components.
As we wrap up, we focus on the importance of passing down legacies and traditions, whether they be faith-based or rooted in work ethic and family values. Through real-life examples, we illustrate how grandparents reinforce positive teachings and traditions, shaping the values of younger generations. The episode closes on a light-hearted note, acknowledging the inevitability of retirement topics as we age, but always circling back to the profound and lasting influence of grandparents on our lives.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So you are.
Live for Jesus.
This is a text-in call-inprogram, so let's go ahead, joey
.
Let's give them the phonenumber 786-313-3155,
786-313-3155.
And today's topic isgrandparenting.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It was inspired by you.
Oh yeah, in part.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So yes, yesterday was a special day.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Uh, grandbaby number six came into the world so, yeah
, so very excited um and justyou said, the influence that
grandparents can have, theinfluence that grandparents have
and you could talk about thatas a grandparent, but I can
remember my grandparents, youknow.
So it's not that onlygrandparents are going to call
today we hope but whether you'rea student or maybe you're a
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parent listening or an adult,and you can remember way, way
back your relationship with yourgrandparents and just the
influence and the impactgrandparents can have.
And I know one of my weaknessesis sometimes not getting to the
question or not making thequestion clear.
So I guess that would be thequestion right what is the
influence that grandparentscould have, whether you're a
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grandparent talking or calling,or whether you remember the
influence your grandparents hadon you?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
right.
So, uh, I do have a bible verse.
It's in um proverbs, 17 verse 6.
It says grandchildren are thecrown of old men and the glory
of sons is their fathers.
So, um, grandchildren areamazing.
I know you don't know that yet.
I don't uh, firsthand, joey,but grandkids are amazing.
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You love your kids so much.
You can't imagine loving theiroffspring as much, but it is
amazing what the Lord pours intoyour heart as you have them, as
you see them, as you watch themgrow.
It's just a great thing.
So fun, amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I see my kids with their grandparents and it's just
.
It's.
One thing that's interesting isthe I don't know how this
happens.
Maybe it's a secret you can'tshare, but they almost treat
them more special or like in asense of like a fine china, like
, oh, they're careful, but alsothey give them more.
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They kind of spoil them more atthe same time.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So that's really interesting to see.
You know, my parents and myin-laws, they're they're like so
careful and oh, you know, andwe got it.
And because this is not ourkids technically, but at the
same time, oh yeah, you know,have more candy or have toys or
whatever, and it's like how doyou do both?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
of those things.
It's funny, so fun.
So, my best friends, this isthis is a funny quote my best
friend's mom used to say it'snine minutes in Spanish, it's
better, so I'll say it inSpanish, then I'll translate it.
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So I'll just I'll translatethat it's nine months of illness
and then a lifetime of recovery.
So when you're a parent, itnever ends, right?
You're always a parent.
And now you know I'm a littlebit of a math girl.
So now, exponentially, thatbecomes the case, right, when
you have grandparents.
Then when you havegrandchildren and you're a
grandparent, it's just, it'sjust multiplied repeatedly.
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You know that.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And you don't have the nine months of sickness part
.
You don't thank.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
God, I think it's time for more music right about
now.
Joey, I hate to cut off thissong because I really love it,
(04:03):
but there's only one thingbetter there's only one thing
better, and that is that wewould have people call in.
So let me go ahead and give youthat number one more time.
I want you to call in and justgive us your insight on the
influence of grandparents.
So the number is 786-313-3115.
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We are anxiously awaiting tohear from you, the caller.
All right, you're the one thatmakes this call special, so I
have someone on hold.
Joey, you want to take this one?
Sure, all righty.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Good morning You're.
Live for Jesus.
Where are you calling us from?
Good morning From Tamiami.
Great to hear from Tamiami.
I know you started off in thesouthern area of the city, but
what do you have to share withus about the influence of
grandparents?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I want to know when we're going to talk about the
influence of an aunt, but thatcould be.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Hey, I like that, I like that.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Oh, tia so exciting.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well listen, if we do this program in another, I
don't know.
Uh, I don't want to put anumber and get in trouble, but
one day, one day, you might bepart of this program yo, that's
true.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Oh, my goodness.
So, um, it's funny that youshould mention that far away
future dream that parents haveof being a godly grandparent.
Um, because I remember both ofmy grandmas so fondly.
Um, one of them is kind of my,my twin.
Uh, there have been momentswhere I've I've um seen pictures
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of her and it's just so uncannythe similarities in our, our
physical features, um, so that'smy paternal grandma and my
maternal grandma.
My mom's mom was very feistyand lots of fun and I got to
think I got some of that fromher as well and they're just
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both so special to me.
And when I think of theinfluence of both sets of my
grandparents, and when I thinkof the influence of both sets of
my grandparents, their prayers,both sides, have been such an
influence, not just in my lifebut in the life of my siblings,
in the life of my parents, and Iknow a lot of the spiritual
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fruit in my life and in myfamily's life as a result of the
Lord just answering theirprayers, even on this side of
eternity, even though they're inglory, that the Lord is still
honoring their prayers.
And so I just wanted toencourage any grandparents out
there that maybe their grandkidsare not walking with the Lord,
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or maybe their grandkids arejust in a dry season.
You know they're facing a forkin the road and they have a big
decision and you know worryingand caring and wanting the best
for them to continue praying,because the Lord is faithful.
He's faithful to hear thoseprayers as you cry out on behalf
of your grandkids.
And a really sweet thing too,even joking about the genetics,
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is when I found out at a youngage that my grandma right my
twin, that she was a teacher andthat she helped lead a school
and again, it's just so, so good, this was the paternal or the
maternal.
Paternal, paternal.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Paternal, yeah.
And again the joke is like oh,the influence of a grandparent.
If it wasn't for them Iwouldn't be alive, right?
Speaker 8 (07:36):
And just all of that.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
But because of my grandpa's obedience to the Lord,
I can honestly say you knowthat we're alive because he was
heeding the Lord's wisdom whenhe told them hey, you need to
get out of this country.
The way that the government isgoing is not godly.
It's not going to be good foryou.
And because of his immediateobedience, his life.
He wasn't imprisoned and whoknows, who knows the consequence
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of that disobedience theconsequence of that disobedience
.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So that's amazing, alicia, and I had the privilege
of knowing your grandma.
Yeah, and you know I wouldwatch her with her grandkids and
her great grandkids.
And you know, one word thatcomes to mind when I think of
her is she was the biggestcheerleader for every one of you
.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
He, he really was.
And she was such a good balanceof that because she would just
say it like it is, that shemeant it, because she did not
hold back when she saw somethingshe didn't agree with and I
loved yeah, yeah amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, this has already gotten off to a
beautiful start this morning.
Both of you really appreciateyour call.
My sister and and uh all thatiliana's doing this morning.
We have somebody else on theline.
Do you have any final commentor thought?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
uh, before we let you go, uh, no, just to remember
those of us that, um, well,those of you, the, the listeners
that still have yourgrandparents around to
appreciate them.
Give them a call, ask themabout their story.
Um, help them with theirtechnology, be patient with them
um and just just cherish that.
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Just cherish that because this,this fleeting thing we call life
is, is just that.
So you don't want to have anyregrets.
I know I don't have any regrets.
I was able to spend a lot oftime with my grandparents and
it's not too late.
The Lord can put someone inyour life that's a little bit
older, that you can encourageand minister to.
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That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Thank you.
I'm going to come back to thatbecause that's huge.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Thank you, god bless you.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
God bless.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We have somebody else on the line.
If you're going to call thenumber 786-313-3115, we do have
a text also.
We'll get to that in a bit.
But you're live on God's WayRadio.
Where are you calling us from?
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Good morning.
I'm calling from RichmondHeights, but right now Coral
Springs.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Good morning, Coral Springs.
From Richmond Heights Relocatedto Coral Springs temporarily.
How are you this?
Speaker 8 (10:08):
morning I am wonderful.
I heard Joey said.
I don't know what he alwayssaid when he said, but this
morning he said you are alivefor Jesus.
And how he said it.
I heard the Spirit of the Lordin his voice when he said we are
not dead, we are alive forJesus.
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So, whatever state you're instate of mind, state of
conscience, state of body, stateof the world you are alive, and
do grandmothers, grandparents,parents, neighbors, whatever
your position is in the world.
If you are a true believer ofthe Lord, you have accepted him
as your Lord and Savior.
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You are alive.
We have more power in us thanthe electricity that runs
through the earth.
We have more power in us thanthat sun that rises every
morning.
We have more power because weare alive for Jesus.
He kicked me off on that one.
He kicked out of me on that one.
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I heard the Holy Spirit in hisvoice.
I hear it a lot, but thismorning you are alive for Jesus.
He rose grand.
So that's my spiel on it.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
That's awesome, that's awesome.
So just a quick question Do youhave any particular insight on
what?
Yes, being alive as agrandparent is a big influence,
because there's so much that wecan do right, especially in the
spiritual realm.
But any one thing that you canthink of just to encourage other
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listeners?
Speaker 8 (11:48):
Yes, Practically speaking yes, definitely
speaking as grandparents Some ofus did bad with our children.
You know we got it together,but eventually we got it
together eventually because we,you know we did what we're
supposed to do in the spirit ofGod.
However, when the little onesare around us, we shouldn't be
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acting like we are saved.
We should be acting like we'regoing to do the right thing.
We should be acting.
The act is over.
We should be.
The Bible says be ye holy as Iam holy.
So if you are a grandparent,you should be a grandparent unto
God, because we're talking toChristians and if there's
anybody that's listening not yethas given their life to the
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Lord.
This is a road of being notacting yeah we have to be all
the time, not when we get on thephone and all of a sudden we
forget and then thegrandchildren here are saying
all manner of things that weshould be at this point.
We should be everything Godcalled us to be Love that.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Love that Because we are an example.
Right, we are an example andkids know Kids can see through
stuff right.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
So, yes, their discernment, yeah, their
discernment is very keen, untilit comes to them, then they get
dull.
But when it comes to everybodyelse, they pinpoint precision.
Yes, they finish them in mymotor company.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Thank you for that.
I love that.
We are live for Jesus, so true,so true.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Yes yes, y'all have a great day.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Thank you so much.
You too, enjoy your day today.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Thank you for your call.
Oh yeah, and keep us in prayerwith my goddaughter.
She's delivering today.
Oh, exciting, that's why I'm inCoral Springs.
Yes, that's why I'm in CoralSprings.
Okay, she's delivering today,so we should have a great bundle
of joy in a few hours.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh awesome.
Can we pray right now, Is thatokay?
Oh, yes, ma'am, let's pray.
Father, in the name of Jesus,Lord, we bring to you Carol's
goddaughter Father and this babythat is about to be born.
Lord, we pray for every singleperson involved, that you would
be with them, that you wouldbring that baby safely through,
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that you would be honored andglorified.
Lord, may everything go well.
Healthy baby, healthy mama.
Lord, may this be a joyous dayIn Jesus' name, amen, Amen.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
Love you all.
All right Same here God bless.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Bye-bye.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
We have another call.
I believe we right Same here.
God bless, Bye-bye we haveanother call?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I believe we do.
We do so.
Good morning.
You are live for Jesus.
This morning it's so good tohear when are you calling from?
Speaker 8 (14:36):
I am calling from the Sweetwater area.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh, good morning Sweetwater.
So tell us, what do you thinkof the influence of grandparents
?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
So I've been listening for a couple minutes
now, just about from the startof the program, and I've been
trying to get myself to callwithout crying.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'm so glad you called, I'm so glad.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And it's okay if you cry.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
And it's okay, because I've already cried twice
, it's okay if you cry, and it'sokay, because I've already
cried twice.
Yeah, you know, celebrating thelife of your sixth grandchild.
What a blessing right.
Thank you, but thinking of mygrandparents and so much goes
into that.
Both of my grandfathers passedaway when I was young, but my
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grandmothers are such a vitalpart of my life and especially
my maternal, maternalgrandmother.
Yeah, she's the reason I'm aneducator and a big part of the
reason why I am the man that Iam today.
She helped raise us when myfather passed away, right.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Such a strong woman, such a warrior, amazing.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Yeah, and you know we celebrated her 90th birthday
this year Wow, and to see her inher late years just fall in
love with Jesus and his word,yeah, it brought me so much joy.
It's amazing.
(16:27):
I just wanted to call to seethat.
Yeah, grandparents are amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I got to ask a question because you know Eliana
and even George on the phone.
I mean, you guys know when youpray and you kind of take a step
forward.
You know, hey, god, you knowwe're going to gonna do this
topic.
You can't imagine all theconnections, you know.
Maybe other people plan thatgood, but not me, how I?
This whole time I'm thinking ofgrandparents praying for their
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grandkids, but what about kidspraying for their grandparents,
right, george?
Could you elaborate on that?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah, you know my grandmother.
She was raised Catholic herentire life and really knowing
of God and, I think, knowing Godas well, but really religious
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in terms of her prayer life andyou know the churches she
attended and whatnot.
But in her later years I havenow seen that it's really turned
into a relationship and Iprayed for that for so many
years as a youth and a youngadult that my grandmother would
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not only know of God but knowGod.
Right.
And I could say without a shadowof a doubt that I know that she
knows God and has arelationship with Him, and that
brings me so much joy.
That's awesome, that is amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
What a great call.
That's awesome, that is amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
What a great call.
I want to thank you for takingthe time to call and getting
past the I don't want to call,but I have to call Because your
input this morning is invaluable.
Son, who just understands theimportance of that wisdom and
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that example your grandmotherwas to you is amazing.
It's amazing.
I just want to thank you somuch for calling this morning.
Do you want to send us off witha prayer?
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Yeah, I would love that.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Awesome, god, thank you so much that, in whatever
season of life we're in, whetherthat's being a grandparent or a
grandson or a granddaughter oranywhere in between, god, that
the role that you've given us,lord, we could live it onto you.
And, lord, we pray, god, thatwe would represent you well in
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whatever that role is.
Lord, god, we ask that youwould have your perfect way in
every one of us.
Thank you for the top of thismorning, lord.
Thank you for the people thathave influenced our lives and
God.
Thank you, lord, that we couldreturn the favor, praying for
them.
Lord lifting them up andthanking you, God, for them in
our lives.
So thank you for the programthis morning.
Continue to just do our workand do it.
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In Jesus' name, I pray.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Amen, amen.
Thank you for calling, george.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Bless you bro, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
All righty, a little more music now.
Are we ready?
Joey, sounds good.
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You are my friend and you aremy brother, even though you are
a king.
I love you more than any other,so much more than any other.
So you are listening to God'sWay Radio this morning, 104.7 FM
W-A-Y-G-L-P.
This is the program Live forJesus.
It's a call-in program and,joey, I don't see any callers on
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the line.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Not yet.
We do have a text, though, ohwe do.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, we got to get to that one.
How do we do this?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I have.
We can get on the computer, butI'll read it from here.
Uh, first, if it pops up, herewe go live radio.
So this is an interesting one.
So it says what aboutdisciplining step grandkids?
What about sharing the gospelwith step grandkids of
non-believing parents?
I can speak to the the first one.
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Um, I can speak to the firstone a little bit in the sense
that, you know, as parents, wetook the initiative to share
with the grandparents.
Hey, this is what we're okaywith, this is what we're not
okay with, discipline-wise, youknow.
Hey, you know, here's someideas.
You know you could do thistimeout, or you could do this,
or we tell the kids before wesend them off.
Hey, you know, if you break anyof these rules, you're going to
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get consequences when we pickyou up.
You know, when you come home,and you know I imagine that
could be hard for a grandparent,especially step grandparent,
blended family and all that.
But maybe, maybe you could askand this is now a question I'm
kind of posing to Ileana hey,what do I do in this situation?
What would you like me to do inthis situation?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Right, I think conversation is really important
and understanding, especiallywith blended families, right, I
think?
As if it's your own parent oryour own child.
They know you, they know yourheart, they know your motives,
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you know, and so nothing isgoing to be misconstrued.
So I think communication is key.
Nothing is going to bemisconstrued.
So I think communication is key.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I think it's important, especially in blended
families, to have thoseconversations before the subject
comes up, before the situationcomes up, yeah.
And then the second one sharingthe gospel with step grandkids
of non-believing parents.
I would think it's likeanything else Pray, be bold,
right.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I think that we can share the gospel in so many ways
.
And it's like anything elsepray, be bold, right, I think?
I think that you know, we canshare the gospel in so many ways
, um, and, and it's not always,yes, it it's, it's gonna be
speaking, but it's so many timesthrough example, through
praying, if someone, if, if, ifthe child falls down and hurts
themselves, you can pray forthem.
They can ask.
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There's so many ways that you,if you know the Lord, you're
going to be speaking of the Lord, just in natural conversation
anyway.
So, there's so many ways we canshare the love of Jesus with
little ones, and they're usuallyso open, you know.
So, I think, if, if, if there'san antagonistic um, if the
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parents have trouble with it,then you have to tread lightly,
but use wisdom.
The Lord gives us wisdom.
All we have to do is ask.
So I think prayer and listeningto the Holy Spirit, being led
by the Holy Spirit, is reallyimportant.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Amen.
We got another text here,ileana.
It says good morning, greatprogram.
I'm at work and supposed to beworking, not crying with these
amazing calls.
Love you guys.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
That's so funny.
Yeah, if you just tuned in it'sbeen an amazing program.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Ileana, I don't want to take the blessing from you of
the ID and the reset, and Iknow it's one of the fun parts
here.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, but we do want you to call, so I am going to
give you the number 786-313-3115.
You don't have to be agrandparent to call to give us
the influence of grandparents.
You can be a grandson ordaughter, you can be a parent,
you could be you know, know achild.
Tell us how your grandparentsyeah, that'll be amazing right
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if a student um, so, joey, I wasreading an article.
When you get to, when you getto, my age, your news feed tends
to talk a lot about retirement.
I don't know why, but it does,and so I have I.
I was a grandparent for thefirst time when I was 45, which
is pretty young to be a grandma,but I'm getting up there, and
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so one of the articles I readrecently was how the boomer
generation is starting to passand so we're getting ready
economically for the greatestwealth transfer that the us has
ever known uh, the, the wealthof the boomer is ready to be
inherited by millennials, etc.
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And and when I saw that Ithought to myself what?
What you know?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
okay, great lord have mercy, but what about the real
inheritance?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
not the inheritance of the 401k of of the investment
of the house, of the property.
But what about the legaciesthat are going to be transferred
?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
And.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I just wanted to, you know, have the listeners think
about that.
You know it's amazing.
What inheritance can you leaveyour children, your
grandchildren?
That is eternal, because reallyeverything here is going to
burn, it's all going to go andit's really just nothingness.
Uh, the true riches, the trueinheritance are we.
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You know, because they'retalking.
The article talked aboutpreparing for that transfer.
But are we preparing, are wepreparing for the transfer of
the wealth of wisdom, of faith?
That's the greatest inheritance.
I mean, our first caller thismorning inherited riches upon
riches from her grandparents whoprayed for her, who left her a
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legacy.
And so are we preparing, asbelievers, to leave an
inheritance to our children andto our grandchildren?
So just a question.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I think that's some music time.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
You say don't be afraid To trust where you will
lead and walk always with youand I'll not hear the thunder.
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You say just have faith Toreach out and take your hand and
walk always with you.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I want to keep the momentum.
I want to get another call ortext.
We've had such great calls ortexts.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
786-313-3115 the influence of grandparents so you
are listening to life for jesusand and so let's talk about
what we, what we left off withjoey what do you think we can be
doing to prepare thatinheritance, to prepare that
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transfer of such riches that wehave in the Lord?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
You know, everybody has a unique story.
You know, and it's funny, I wasjust thinking about it between
pretty much Sunday and thismorning and just thinking about
my grandparents.
They've all passed away now andthey weren't Christians in the
sense of I'll say this much forall of them.
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There's at least a questionmark there, and I don't know my
parents could be listening, theyknew them better and everything
they passed when I was younger,but there's at least a question
mark there.
I don't know for certain.
They weren't living out thatfaith, living out that faith.
So I don't have quite thelegacy or quite the inheritance
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that some of the callers havecalled about, and so I wonder
what would it have been like andwhat would that have been like?
But there are other things thatare passed on work ethic and
I'll say this very carefully,but I've spoken about this with
my mom before there's also somewhat not to do's.
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Yeah.
You know, and you look at yourfamily and you say you know, and
you know, I don't.
I don't believe theologicallyin generational curse per se,
but I do see, and I'd like yourtake on this.
You know, I do see the factthat things are passed on,
things are taught.
You know, things are caughtjust in a relational sense and
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in an environmental sense Ourenvironment will affect us, our
upbringing, the home.
And so looking at the what notto do things and looking back
and saying you know what, I seethis going on in my family for
more than one generation and Iwant to be the one to break that
, you know, as something thatyou could look at as a
grandchild.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Right, absolutely, absolutely.
And what about just otherthings that can be passed on,
like family recipes?
Yeah, you know Well, I have onethat I be passed on like family
recipes yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Well, I have one that I'm holding on to.
That's a pretty cool story.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Traditions, traditions you know how you
celebrate a holiday or what youdo for a birthday or Christmas
mornings.
Traditions are so important, soimportant to pass them on and
to have that, have that legacyas a family right.
But hey, we do have a call onhold, so let's go ahead and get
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to this call real quick.
Good morning, you are live forJesus.
Where are you calling us fromthis morning?
Speaker 12 (29:39):
Good morning.
I'm calling from the beautifulcity of West Miami.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
There you go.
Good morning Chris.
How are you today?
Speaker 12 (29:45):
I'm well.
How are you today?
I'm well, how are you?
How's it?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
going Everything okay .
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Doing.
Okay, she's driving.
Well, yeah, they call it that.
Speaker 9 (29:58):
She's flying the spaceship Yikes.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
That's awesome.
Speaker 12 (30:04):
So what can you tell us about the influence of
grandparents?
You know, um, my, uh, I likeyou, joey, are very similar.
I don't, I don't havenecessarily that, that legacy,
that, um, you know mygrandparents, at least on my
mom's side.
You know I came from cuba, veryhard working, that, that
incredible work ethic and thenmy grandparents from my dad's
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side.
My grandfather passed away whenI was very young and then my
grandmother.
She passed away when I was inthe fourth, I don't know fifth,
grade, so I didn't get all ofthat much time with them to see
that legacy.
But you know, I have seen thatlegacy in my wife's family.
I've seen Abu, who's stillaround, who is the
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great-grandmother of my kids,and Abu's legacy and her passing
that down.
And she's still kicking man,she's still there, she's all
there, she still moves around,walks, has fun, amazing, she's
out to offers and all that, andso I mean it's awesome to see it
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.
And then you know what happenedin her family with her, her mom
, who's the grandmother of mykids, her mom was first one that
got saved right tricked intoand touched everybody on her
side of the family.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
So I I don't, yeah, I didn't see it on my side of the
family, so I, I, I don't.
Speaker 12 (31:25):
Yeah, I didn't see it on my side necessarily.
You know, my parents instilledin me a lot of things, but about
you know, as far as biblicallygoes, the best thing they did
was put me in a Christian school.
That I will tell you.
They put me in a Christianschool.
My mom had the the knowledgeenough even though she wasn't at
the time necessarily saved uh,to put me in a Christian school,
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and I thank God for that everyday, because that foundation was
vital.
When I finally did actually getsaved, all those things just
flooded my brain and came back.
It was like a tidal wave, wow.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
All those planted seeds right.
Speaker 12 (32:04):
Yeah, oh, they all started sprouting at one.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That's amazing.
Speaker 12 (32:08):
And I remember, I remember, I remember feeling
that, and, and you know, and nowbeing a dad thinking about
maybe God, you know, but God'sLord, being a grandfather one
day.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Grandfather or rapture.
Speaker 12 (32:24):
Rapture, tvd, tvd or rapture, uh yes, rap, just tbd,
tbd.
I think so much about the world, and I'm world, of your job as
any.
I'm sure you've heard this andI'm sure you could say a lot
about this.
But, um, you know that ideathat I don't know grandma and
grandpa are there to spoil thekids and to go opposite of what
mom and dad say, and that's justthat.
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Couldn't be further from thetruth.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
That is a trend, yeah .
Speaker 12 (32:54):
It is a super trend and at least what I see as a
grandparent is I need to back up.
What would be my son or mydaughter, I need to reinforce,
and what would be my son or mydaughter, I need to reinforce
and not paint them.
Oh, you know how your mom getswhen you do that.
No, hey, this is the rule andwe need to follow it.
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Having that mentality, you know, it's so important, it's so
subtle the world is oh, yougotta be a good grandparent.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
That's not being a good grandparent you know, even
my take on this is like, evenwith the you know, the silly
things like the treats and thegetting to have extra stuff, I
wish I could do that.
I I love seeing my kids enjoysweets on stuff, but you got,
you know, you got to make surethey don't, you know, get into a
sugar coma.
So so you, you kind of knowthat's going to happen at
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grandparents' house.
It's part of the grand plan,you know.
And even there is like, yeah,we like our kids, you know.
So it's even that silly part ofit is not really going against
the parents, it's.
You know.
There's kind of that unspokenrule like yeah, you know, come
on.
Yeah, grandma, give him anextra cookie, you know.
Speaker 8 (34:01):
It's awesome.
Speaker 12 (34:03):
Yeah, but we have to be careful, so I don't know.
I'm sure Ileana has plenty tosay.
I'll stop talking to them, yesthat's why.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That's why she's here , part of it.
Thank you, bro, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Chris, god bless, god bless.
Yeah, definitely, I think thatyou know there is a place for a
little spoiling, yes, but,grandparents, we have to
understand that we are parentsand that we are on the same team
because we want the same bestfor those kids so good to hear
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from you, we can't we can't, uh,we can't undermine right oh,
that, that's the word.
No undermining so I it's funnybecause you were both talking
about your grandparents.
My grandmother grandmother wasthe one that brought me up.
She was the one at home.
My mother worked a ton and shemy mother was a little bit of an
absent mother, but mygrandmother definitely made up
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for that and she was not abeliever.
She was Joey.
She was four foot 10.
And weighed 85 pounds, soakingwet.
But the feistiest, mostincredible human being wisdom
beyond work ethic like youwouldn't believe.
She was an amazing, strongwoman and and I can remember her
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always, even though my mom was,I didn't realize my mom was not
a great mom until I was anadult and a mom myself, because
she never undermined my mom.
So that's really important.
It's really important.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Incredible.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
All righty, so we have another call.
Let's go ahead and see who iscalling.
Good morning, you are live forJesus this morning.
Where are you calling from?
You are live for Jesus thismorning when?
Speaker 8 (35:46):
are you calling from Miami?
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 11 (35:51):
Good morning what do you want to share with us about
the influence of grandparents?
Well, my mom was an absent momand my grandmother and my
great-grandmother lived togetherand raised me most of the time.
Grandma was a PentecostalChristian and my
great-grandmother was Catholic,so that was really interesting
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to have them both living in thesame house.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (36:16):
Every other Sunday I would go to a Pentecostal
church and the following Sundaya Catholic church, and then back
and forth, until great-grandmawasn't able to go any longer due
to her age.
So my grandmother was a cancersurvivor and she credited her
recovery to Jesus and let metell you, she spoke about the
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Lord all the time, took thechurch with her and she went as
often as she could.
That particular church hadservices on Tuesday night,
thursday night, friday night,sunday morning and Sunday night.
Wow.
So we went to every one and itwas mandatory, so I had no
choice.
But you know what I love herfor it and it was great, it was
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great.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
I got to ask a follow-up question because and
again, we don't have time thismorning to get into the whole
details of it.
But and please correct me ifI'm wrong, my brother, but you
strayed away from the Lord in aseason of your life and came
back to the Lord.
Would you say that some of that, or all of that, how much of
that, do you attribute tograndma and that kind?
Speaker 11 (37:29):
of upbringing.
A lot of it, all of it,probably because of you know,
I've witnessed and I've seenthings and grandma's told me
things, but you know, as a a kid, you just don't take it
seriously you know, you justhear it and you nod, nod, nod.
But then when you go and youthink back, you're like man.
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You know, she gave me the answerto the test a long time ago and
and we just never listened andand you know it's it's it's sad
in a way, because you know youfeel like you wasted time.
You wasted the time on thingsthat were not of the Lord.
You wasted time on buildingyour relationship with God.
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You know, it's just, it's sad,but I am grateful that I'm here
today, grateful for mygrandmother and my great-grand.
You know, they're wonderfulladies, they did a great job and
I'm just so blessed.
And I'm blessed that today Iknow where I'm supposed to be.
Amen.
What a great perspective.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
What a great influence, right, what a great
influence.
You know, he said a lot of itand then he corrected himself.
He said, no, I owe all of itall of it to them.
He corrected himself.
He said no, I owe all of it,all of it to them because, yeah,
they, they, they gave you thatupbringing and they showed you
that the Lord was, uh, was apriority and um, and now you,
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you, like you said, you had theanswers to the test the whole
time.
Sometimes we have to fail a fewtests before we realize the
right way to go.
So I'm so excited for your call, I'm so thankful that you had
that godly grandma, that godlygreat grandma.
What a legacy.
Speaker 11 (39:16):
And, prayerfully, when you are a grandfather, one
day you will have that, thoseriches to pass on to your kids
and grandkids amen well, thelast thing I want to say I want
to shout out to my wife because,uh, she was on the road and she
was listening to godway radio.
I was doing some tours here andI was not on the radio.
(39:39):
And she's like, honey, yougotta get on the radio.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
So thank you, honey, for letting me know that's
awesome, yes thank.
Speaker 11 (39:44):
So thank you, honey, for letting me know.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That's awesome.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you for letting him know.
God bless you guys.
Have a wonderful rest of yourday.
Thank you for calling.
Speaker 11 (39:55):
Thank you, god bless you.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Bye-bye.
You are listening to Live forJesus.
It is already 747.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
How did?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
that happen, joey, it's almost done.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
And I got stuff.
I still want to share Ileana,but you're driving the spaceship
, You're driving.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
All righty, so I just need some callers.
So 786-313-3115.
Give us a call, send a text,let us know what you think, come
and do a new thing.
Speaker 7 (40:21):
When I haven't seen the answer to my prayer.
But I still believe there's amiracle to spare.
You've got plans for me.
You've got plans for me Greaterthan my wildest dreams,
(40:46):
stronger than the enemy.
You've got plans for me Greaterthan my wildest dreams Stronger
than the enemy.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
You've got plans for me, hey, leanna man.
Again, I could not haveimagined how it was going to go
this morning.
Better than I imagined, truly.
So we're talking about theinfluence of grandparents and
again, we didn't have to belaborthe point too much that you,
you don't have to be agrandparent to call.
Right, you can think of yourgrandparents or, as a parent,
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you know your grandparents ifthey're passed away, but even
how, your parents interactingwith, with their grandkids, all
that, just anyone that wouldwant to call, uh, or text and
share about the influence ofgrandparents.
But I just had some things hereand it's tough because you, you
want to hear the calls and thetexts and then you have all the
things you want to share and Idon't know how you guys do this,
you and Pastor Ez and Chris,I'm still learning from all of
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you.
But, um, uh, you know one thingthat I was mentioning, talking
about the inheritance and thethings you, you pick up from
them.
First of all, I want to givejust a shout out.
Somebody texted and theyrepeated that verse that you
read earlier on in the programProverbs 17, verse 6.
Grandchildren are the crown ofold men and the glory of
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children is their father.
But you know, one of the thingsthat I think I inherited, that
I didn't even realize Iinherited, was a love for taking
in other kids and fosteringadoption.
I found out later in my life, Ithink it was in my adult life I
found out that my grandfather onmy dad's side was adopted from
Mexico into the United States.
Oh wow.
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So I think the story goes thathis parents died and he had
cousins in the United States andthey took him in, and so it was
within the family, but my birthname, if that wouldn't have
transpired, would have beenQuintana, but he was adopted by
Alcalaz.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Wow, look at that.
So you didn't even know thatwas a thing.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
And it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
You got plans for me.
Oh yeah, you got plans for me.
It is 7.49 and we have a call.
Joey, let's go ahead and takethis one.
Good morning, you are live forJesus.
Can you tell us where you'recalling from?
Speaker 10 (43:00):
South Miami.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Hi South Miami, Good morning.
So tell us what you think onthe topic the influence of
grandparents.
Speaker 8 (43:09):
So tell us what you think on the topic.
Speaker 10 (43:10):
The influence of grandparents.
So I had a real, realinteresting experience with that
one.
I didn't really havegrandparents growing up, but one
thing that I did learn, 30years old now my whole life I've
always looked for thatgrandparent figure and it's
bringing me around a lot ofinteresting people in my life
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and people who've been able tohelp me in certain situations.
Uh, and I think it's been areal big push because since I
didn't have that, just alwayslooking for that kind of stuff
uh made me feel good.
You know, there was people outthere in the world that even
though I didn't have it, theywere still willing to push it
forward, you know.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
That's amazing.
So you were looking for anolder person to pour into you,
an older person with wisdom,maybe for advice and stuff like
that.
Is that what you mean?
Speaker 10 (43:58):
Yeah, correct.
And another thing too is likejust, I've always had that
respect for older people.
You know that everybody alwayshas that stigma, like oh, just
so, you know, just, my grandmaDon't mind them.
Or my grandpa, but for me itwas like you know what does he
have to say?
Yes, it was like us at once.
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You know, they had dreams, theywere kids, they had their
experiences.
So that's how people are made,you know, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
That's wisdom, man, that's wisdom.
Speaker 10 (44:33):
Actually hold on.
I love hearing this.
You're actually pulling up tome right now.
Hey, ricky here, say hi.
This is like a radio station.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Hello, Mr Ricky.
This is God's Way Radio.
We just want to thank you for.
Speaker 10 (44:49):
They were asking about grandparents.
We want to thank you for beinga grandparent to this young man.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Sir, if I may ask, put you on the spot.
How old are you?
Speaker 11 (44:57):
I'm 61.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
61.
And what have you been able toshare with this young man?
Speaker 10 (45:04):
Excuse me, I'm sorry , I can't hear you.
Speaker 12 (45:10):
What have you been able to share with this young
man from your years andexperience?
A better life a good life.
Good.
Better living.
A better understanding.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Better understanding man.
That's awesome, guys.
We have more calls coming in,but this was so great, so
grateful.
We hope to hear from both ofyou again soon, okay, amen.
Speaker 10 (45:29):
It's a pleasure.
You have a great day, man.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Thank you so much, you too God bless you.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Wow, what a cool phone call.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
What a cool call.
I wonder if he was a first-timecaller.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
I wonder, I wonder I was going to ask, but hopefully
he'll call again.
All Good morning you are.
Live for Jesus.
Can you tell us where you'recalling from?
From Kendall, good morning,kendall, good morning.
Speaker 6 (45:58):
Tell us about grandparenting, grandparents and
the influence of thosegrandparents.
Well, I mean, I've had, likeyou know, off and on my whole
story is like whatever butsomething that I learned from
one set of my grandparents.
It's not really a godly thingbut it does help my godly
marriage.
So they were very united Like.
My grandfather apparentlylooked at my grandma in Cuba
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when she was like 13 walkingdown the street.
He said you see that girl outthere, I'm going to marry her.
Wow, he did Look at that andthey were together through, like
you know, all the communismcoming over here the whole nine
yards.
And when we got married theywere really, really excited and
that was beautiful because youknow, I got married very quickly
to my husband and I justremember, like looking at their
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marriage and seeing they werelike two little birds together
all the time, they'd make allthe decisions together and it
was just like it was reallybeautiful.
And early on in our marriagethey would take us out to eat
and they would tell us likeremember, like you guys together
, you guys together, you guystogether.
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
What wisdom right I?
Speaker 6 (47:03):
do remember that.
Yeah, you know, I do rememberthat.
And then my other grandmother,when she was getting Alzheimer's
, she was very, very, very, veryCatholic, very, very Catholic.
All I remember of her was justlike the love of Virgin Mary.
It was like my whole life.
But as she got older and intothis Alzheimer's she would talk
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more about Jesus and when Iwould spend time with her we
would just talk about Jesus andthe heart of Jesus and I just
remember like pouring that intoher and it was interesting
because I was younger.
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You know I'm her grandchild butI just remember like really,
really, really making it myfocus to somehow reach in her
brain like the love of Jesus,right, and I learned from her a
lot of things.
I always tell everybody I lovedgrowing up a Roman Catholic
because it was like a lot of Ilearned the fear of God.
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I learned the healthy fear ofGod.
Like I learned reverence.
I learned you know how to justlike really approach the throne
with.
You know a lot of respect.
There's so much there.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
You know it reminds me of, I had a tia, my mom's
aunt, so like a great aunt, whoshe listened to two or three
masses a day on the radio.
And I love what you said aboutthe influence of grandparents.
How that's old school thinkingwhat is it?
If it's broke, you fix it, youdon't throw it away, which is so
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new school, my sister, we havesomebody else on the line.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
God bless you.
Thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 9 (48:52):
God bless you.
Thank you so much for calling,god bless.
We go to the next phone call.
Where are you calling us fromtoday?
Speaker 1 (48:59):
Oh hi, I'm on my way to South Miami Heights right now
.
Good morning, south MiamiHeights, it's so great to hear
your voice.
Speaker 9 (49:04):
So tell me, fellow grandma, the influence of
grandparents.
Well, I just had to call.
I mean, the Lord just put it onmy heart I am, I'm a grandma,
yeah, but I'm calling about mygrandma because, um, even though
my grandmother's passed away,uh, years and years ago, she was
for me like a harbor of safetyand my mom had gone through a
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divorce when I was very young.
I was like, I guess, two yearsold when my parents divorced and
from that time, because my momhad to go to work, my mom, my
grandmother, basically raised me.
I mean, I really I lived in mygrandmother's house.
I really did not go home to mymom, she just kept me, but it,
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it, she set um boundaries, sheset routines for me, um, she
pretty much made me who I am.
You know the discipline in mylife, the, the, my character, my
a lot of.
In fact, after seven, when Icame to the United States, I
lived with my mom and many timesmy mom would tell me whose
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daughter are you?
You're nothing like me and I wasthinking I guess I'm like Nima
with my grandmother, you know,because she just set a quiet,
orderly lifestyle of wake up, goto school, do your homework,
just those simple things, but soneeded because the, you know,
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divorce can cause chaos in achild's life.
So I just encouragegrandparents out there, if you
are raising your grandchildren,the Lord has put you there to be
their safe harbor.
So I just encourage you, youknow, do the best you can,
that's beautiful, that's sobeautiful.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Thank you so much for calling this morning and I love
those fond memories that youhave of like living at her house
.
Speaker 2 (51:07):
It was like that was your house, very similar to what
you were sharing very similar.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
My parents divorced when I was two, except that my
grandmother lived with with withus, um, uh, but yeah, and, and
she was, yeah, just like youmore my mom than my mom was yeah
, so yeah it's, it's, uh, it'svery similar, very similar, just
that day-to-day influence.
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And you know how kids spelllove, don't you?
T-i-m-e.
Yeah.
You know it's giving them time.
So often, you know, you hearthat, oh, it's about quality
time and yeah, it's fun to gofly a kite at the park one day
and get a good picture for yoursocial media, but but having
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quantity of time with them onthe daily, like you said, you
know you get home from school,you put on your play clothes,
you do your homework, you, youhave a disciplined life.
That that's where the influencehappens, and so I appreciate
your call so much.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
And I could say that this is one of the best
grandmothers ever.
Speaker 1 (52:13):
Ever, ever, I know.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
I know she's top tier .
Speaker 1 (52:16):
She is.
She is my goals, goals rightthere.
Love you, mima.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Thank you so?
Speaker 1 (52:23):
much for calling God bless.
Have a beautiful day All righty, you too.
Speaker 8 (52:28):
You too.
God bless you.
It is 7.59.
We have seconds left.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
I got to read this Bible verse and I'll let you
close the program because witheverything, with anything in
life, there's going to be aBible verse for it, and you know
this.
But I got to read this one whenI call to remembrance the
genuine faith that is in you,which first dwelt in your
grandmother, lewis, and in yourmother, eunice, and I am
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persuaded is in you also.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
You know that guy Timothy from the Bible.
It was his grandma that startedit.
It was.
That is amazing.
Thank you, joey, for thatreminder.
Thank you guys for listening.
You are listening to Live forJesus so that you can live for
Jesus.
So join us tomorrow again.
Pastor Raz will be back righthere.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
With a special guest.
I hear.
Speaker 1 (53:13):
Okay, with a special guest right here on God's Way
Radio.
So you are.
Live for Jesus.
This is a text-in call-inprogram, so let's go ahead, joey
.
Let's give them the phonenumber 786-313-3155,
786-313-3155.
And today's topic isgrandparenting.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It was inspired by you.
Oh yeah, in part.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So yes, yesterday was a special day.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Uh, grandbaby number six came into the world so, yeah
, so very excited um and justyou said, the influence that
grandparents can have, theinfluence that grandparents have
and you could talk about thatas a grandparent, but I can
remember my grandparents, youknow.
So it's not that onlygrandparents are going to call
today we hope but whether you'rea student or maybe you're a
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parent listening or an adult,and you can remember way, way
back your relationship with yourgrandparents and just the
influence and the impactgrandparents can have.
And I know one of my weaknessesis sometimes not getting to the
question or not making thequestion clear.
So I guess that would be thequestion right what is the
influence that grandparentscould have, whether you're a
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grandparent talking or calling,or whether you remember the
influence your grandparents hadon you?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
right.
So, uh, I do have a bible verse.
It's in um proverbs, 17 verse 6.
It says grandchildren are thecrown of old men and the glory
of sons is their fathers.
So, um, grandchildren areamazing.
I know you don't know that yet.
I don't uh, firsthand, joey,but grandkids are amazing.
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You love your kids so much.
You can't imagine loving theiroffspring as much, but it is
amazing what the Lord pours intoyour heart as you have them, as
you see them, as you watch themgrow.
It's just a great thing.
So fun, amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I see my kids with their grandparents and it's just
.
It's.
One thing that's interesting isthe I don't know how this
happens.
Maybe it's a secret you can'tshare, but they almost treat
them more special or like in asense of like a fine china, like
, oh, they're careful, but alsothey give them more.
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They kind of spoil them more atthe same time.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
So that's really interesting to see.
You know, my parents and myin-laws, they're they're like so
careful and oh, you know, andwe got it.
And because this is not ourkids technically, but at the
same time, oh yeah, you know,have more candy or have toys or
whatever, and it's like how doyou do both?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
of those things.
It's funny, so fun.
So, my best friends, this isthis is a funny quote my best
friend's mom used to say it'snine minutes in Spanish, it's
better, so I'll say it inSpanish, then I'll translate it.
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So I'll just I'll translatethat it's nine months of illness
and then a lifetime of recovery.
So when you're a parent, itnever ends, right?
You're always a parent.
And now you know I'm a littlebit of a math girl.
So now, exponentially, thatbecomes the case, right, when
you have grandparents.
Then when you havegrandchildren and you're a
grandparent, it's just, it'sjust multiplied repeatedly.
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You know that.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And you don't have the nine months of sickness part
.
You don't thank.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
God, I think it's time for more music right about
now.
Joey, I hate to cut off thissong because I really love it,
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but there's only one thingbetter there's only one thing
better, and that is that wewould have people call in.
So let me go ahead and give youthat number one more time.
I want you to call in and justgive us your insight on the
influence of grandparents.
So the number is 786-313-3115.
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We are anxiously awaiting tohear from you, the caller.
All right, you're the one thatmakes this call special, so I
have someone on hold.
Joey, you want to take this one?
Sure, all righty.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Good morning You're.
Live for Jesus.
Where are you calling us from?
Good morning From Tamiami.
Great to hear from Tamiami.
I know you started off in thesouthern area of the city, but
what do you have to share withus about the influence of
grandparents?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I want to know when we're going to talk about the
influence of an aunt, but thatcould be.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Hey, I like that, I like that.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Oh, tia so exciting.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well listen, if we do this program in another, I
don't know.
Uh, I don't want to put anumber and get in trouble, but
one day, one day, you might bepart of this program yo, that's
true.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Oh, my goodness.
So, um, it's funny that youshould mention that far away
future dream that parents haveof being a godly grandparent.
Um, because I remember both ofmy grandmas so fondly.
Um, one of them is kind of my,my twin.
Uh, there have been momentswhere I've I've um seen pictures
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of her and it's just so uncannythe similarities in our, our
physical features, um, so that'smy paternal grandma and my
maternal grandma.
My mom's mom was very feistyand lots of fun and I got to
think I got some of that fromher as well and they're just
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both so special to me.
And when I think of theinfluence of both sets of my
grandparents, and when I thinkof the influence of both sets of
my grandparents, their prayers,both sides, have been such an
influence, not just in my lifebut in the life of my siblings,
in the life of my parents, and Iknow a lot of the spiritual
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fruit in my life and in myfamily's life as a result of the
Lord just answering theirprayers, even on this side of
eternity, even though they're inglory, that the Lord is still
honoring their prayers.
And so I just wanted toencourage any grandparents out
there that maybe their grandkidsare not walking with the Lord,
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or maybe their grandkids arejust in a dry season.
You know they're facing a forkin the road and they have a big
decision and you know worryingand caring and wanting the best
for them to continue praying,because the Lord is faithful.
He's faithful to hear thoseprayers as you cry out on behalf
of your grandkids.
And a really sweet thing too,even joking about the genetics,
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is when I found out at a youngage that my grandma right my
twin, that she was a teacher andthat she helped lead a school
and again, it's just so, so good, this was the paternal or the
maternal.
Paternal, paternal.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Paternal, yeah.
And again the joke is like oh,the influence of a grandparent.
If it wasn't for them Iwouldn't be alive, right?
Speaker 8 (07:36):
And just all of that.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
But because of my grandpa's obedience to the Lord,
I can honestly say you knowthat we're alive because he was
heeding the Lord's wisdom whenhe told them hey, you need to
get out of this country.
The way that the government isgoing is not godly.
It's not going to be good foryou.
And because of his immediateobedience, his life.
He wasn't imprisoned and whoknows, who knows the consequence
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of that disobedience theconsequence of that disobedience
.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So that's amazing, alicia, and I had the privilege
of knowing your grandma.
Yeah, and you know I wouldwatch her with her grandkids and
her great grandkids.
And you know, one word thatcomes to mind when I think of
her is she was the biggestcheerleader for every one of you
.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
He, he really was.
And she was such a good balanceof that because she would just
say it like it is, that shemeant it, because she did not
hold back when she saw somethingshe didn't agree with and I
loved yeah, yeah amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, this has already gotten off to a
beautiful start this morning.
Both of you really appreciateyour call.
My sister and and uh all thatiliana's doing this morning.
We have somebody else on theline.
Do you have any final commentor thought?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
uh, before we let you go, uh, no, just to remember
those of us that, um, well,those of you, the, the listeners
that still have yourgrandparents around to
appreciate them.
Give them a call, ask themabout their story.
Um, help them with theirtechnology, be patient with them
um and just just cherish that.
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Just cherish that because this,this fleeting thing we call life
is, is just that.
So you don't want to have anyregrets.
I know I don't have any regrets.
I was able to spend a lot oftime with my grandparents and
it's not too late.
The Lord can put someone inyour life that's a little bit
older, that you can encourageand minister to.
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That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Thank you.
I'm going to come back to thatbecause that's huge.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Thank you, god bless you.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
God bless.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We have somebody else on the line.
If you're going to call thenumber 786-313-3115, we do have
a text also.
We'll get to that in a bit.
But you're live on God's WayRadio.
Where are you calling us from?
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Good morning.
I'm calling from RichmondHeights, but right now Coral
Springs.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Good morning, Coral Springs.
From Richmond Heights Relocatedto Coral Springs temporarily.
How are you this?
Speaker 8 (10:08):
morning I am wonderful.
I heard Joey said.
I don't know what he alwayssaid when he said, but this
morning he said you are alivefor Jesus.
And how he said it.
I heard the Spirit of the Lordin his voice when he said we are
not dead, we are alive forJesus.
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So, whatever state you're instate of mind, state of
conscience, state of body, stateof the world you are alive, and
do grandmothers, grandparents,parents, neighbors, whatever
your position is in the world.
If you are a true believer ofthe Lord, you have accepted him
as your Lord and Savior.
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You are alive.
We have more power in us thanthe electricity that runs
through the earth.
We have more power in us thanthat sun that rises every
morning.
We have more power because weare alive for Jesus.
He kicked me off on that one.
He kicked out of me on that one.
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I heard the Holy Spirit in hisvoice.
I hear it a lot, but thismorning you are alive for Jesus.
He rose grand.
So that's my spiel on it.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
That's awesome, that's awesome.
So just a quick question Do youhave any particular insight on
what?
Yes, being alive as agrandparent is a big influence,
because there's so much that wecan do right, especially in the
spiritual realm.
But any one thing that you canthink of just to encourage other
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listeners?
Speaker 8 (11:48):
Yes, Practically speaking yes, definitely
speaking as grandparents Some ofus did bad with our children.
You know we got it together,but eventually we got it
together eventually because we,you know we did what we're
supposed to do in the spirit ofGod.
However, when the little onesare around us, we shouldn't be
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acting like we are saved.
We should be acting like we'regoing to do the right thing.
We should be acting.
The act is over.
We should be.
The Bible says be ye holy as Iam holy.
So if you are a grandparent,you should be a grandparent unto
God, because we're talking toChristians and if there's
anybody that's listening not yethas given their life to the
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Lord.
This is a road of being notacting yeah we have to be all
the time, not when we get on thephone and all of a sudden we
forget and then thegrandchildren here are saying
all manner of things that weshould be at this point.
We should be everything Godcalled us to be Love that.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Love that Because we are an example.
Right, we are an example andkids know Kids can see through
stuff right.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
So, yes, their discernment, yeah, their
discernment is very keen, untilit comes to them, then they get
dull.
But when it comes to everybodyelse, they pinpoint precision.
Yes, they finish them in mymotor company.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Thank you for that.
I love that.
We are live for Jesus, so true,so true.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
Yes yes, y'all have a great day.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Thank you so much.
You too, enjoy your day today.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Thank you for your call.
Oh yeah, and keep us in prayerwith my goddaughter.
She's delivering today.
Oh, exciting, that's why I'm inCoral Springs.
Yes, that's why I'm in CoralSprings.
Okay, she's delivering today,so we should have a great bundle
of joy in a few hours.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh awesome.
Can we pray right now, Is thatokay?
Oh, yes, ma'am, let's pray.
Father, in the name of Jesus,Lord, we bring to you Carol's
goddaughter Father and this babythat is about to be born.
Lord, we pray for every singleperson involved, that you would
be with them, that you wouldbring that baby safely through,
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that you would be honored andglorified.
Lord, may everything go well.
Healthy baby, healthy mama.
Lord, may this be a joyous dayIn Jesus' name, amen, Amen.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
Love you all.
All right Same here God bless.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Bye-bye.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
We have another call.
I believe we right Same here.
God bless, Bye-bye we haveanother call?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I believe we do.
We do so.
Good morning.
You are live for Jesus.
This morning it's so good tohear when are you calling from?
Speaker 8 (14:36):
I am calling from the Sweetwater area.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh, good morning Sweetwater.
So tell us, what do you thinkof the influence of grandparents
?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
So I've been listening for a couple minutes
now, just about from the startof the program, and I've been
trying to get myself to callwithout crying.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'm so glad you called, I'm so glad.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And it's okay if you cry.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
And it's okay, because I've already cried twice
, it's okay if you cry, and it'sokay, because I've already
cried twice.
Yeah, you know, celebrating thelife of your sixth grandchild.
What a blessing right.
Thank you, but thinking of mygrandparents and so much goes
into that.
Both of my grandfathers passedaway when I was young, but my
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grandmothers are such a vitalpart of my life and especially
my maternal, maternalgrandmother.
Yeah, she's the reason I'm aneducator and a big part of the
reason why I am the man that Iam today.
She helped raise us when myfather passed away, right.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Such a strong woman, such a warrior, amazing.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Yeah, and you know we celebrated her 90th birthday
this year Wow, and to see her inher late years just fall in
love with Jesus and his word,yeah, it brought me so much joy.
It's amazing.
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I just wanted to call to seethat.
Yeah, grandparents are amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I got to ask a question because you know Eliana
and even George on the phone.
I mean, you guys know when youpray and you kind of take a step
forward.
You know, hey, god, you knowwe're going to gonna do this
topic.
You can't imagine all theconnections, you know.
Maybe other people plan thatgood, but not me, how I?
This whole time I'm thinking ofgrandparents praying for their
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grandkids, but what about kidspraying for their grandparents,
right, george?
Could you elaborate on that?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah, you know my grandmother.
She was raised Catholic herentire life and really knowing
of God and, I think, knowing Godas well, but really religious
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in terms of her prayer life andyou know the churches she
attended and whatnot.
But in her later years I havenow seen that it's really turned
into a relationship and Iprayed for that for so many
years as a youth and a youngadult that my grandmother would
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not only know of God but knowGod.
Right.
And I could say without a shadowof a doubt that I know that she
knows God and has arelationship with Him, and that
brings me so much joy.
That's awesome, that is amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
What a great call.
That's awesome, that is amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
What a great call.
I want to thank you for takingthe time to call and getting
past the I don't want to call,but I have to call Because your
input this morning is invaluable.
Son, who just understands theimportance of that wisdom and
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that example your grandmotherwas to you is amazing.
It's amazing.
I just want to thank you somuch for calling this morning.
Do you want to send us off witha prayer?
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Yeah, I would love that.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Awesome, god, thank you so much that, in whatever
season of life we're in, whetherthat's being a grandparent or a
grandson or a granddaughter oranywhere in between, god, that
the role that you've given us,lord, we could live it onto you.
And, lord, we pray, god, thatwe would represent you well in
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whatever that role is.
Lord, god, we ask that youwould have your perfect way in
every one of us.
Thank you for the top of thismorning, lord.
Thank you for the people thathave influenced our lives and
God.
Thank you, lord, that we couldreturn the favor, praying for
them.
Lord lifting them up andthanking you, God, for them in
our lives.
So thank you for the programthis morning.
Continue to just do our workand do it.
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In Jesus' name, I pray.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Amen, amen.
Thank you for calling, george.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Bless you bro, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
All righty, a little more music now.
Are we ready?
Joey, sounds good.
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You are my friend and you aremy brother, even though you are
a king.
I love you more than any other,so much more than any other.
So you are listening to God'sWay Radio this morning, 104.7 FM
W-A-Y-G-L-P.
This is the program Live forJesus.
It's a call-in program and,joey, I don't see any callers on
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the line.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Not yet.
We do have a text, though, ohwe do.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, we got to get to that one.
How do we do this?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I have.
We can get on the computer, butI'll read it from here.
Uh, first, if it pops up, herewe go live radio.
So this is an interesting one.
So it says what aboutdisciplining step grandkids?
What about sharing the gospelwith step grandkids of
non-believing parents?
I can speak to the the first one.
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Um, I can speak to the firstone a little bit in the sense
that, you know, as parents, wetook the initiative to share
with the grandparents.
Hey, this is what we're okaywith, this is what we're not
okay with, discipline-wise, youknow.
Hey, you know, here's someideas.
You know you could do thistimeout, or you could do this,
or we tell the kids before wesend them off.
Hey, you know, if you break anyof these rules, you're going to
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get consequences when we pickyou up.
You know, when you come home,and you know I imagine that
could be hard for a grandparent,especially step grandparent,
blended family and all that.
But maybe, maybe you could askand this is now a question I'm
kind of posing to Ileana hey,what do I do in this situation?
What would you like me to do inthis situation?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Right, I think conversation is really important
and understanding, especiallywith blended families, right, I
think?
As if it's your own parent oryour own child.
They know you, they know yourheart, they know your motives,
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you know, and so nothing isgoing to be misconstrued.
So I think communication is key.
Nothing is going to bemisconstrued.
So I think communication is key.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I think it's important, especially in blended
families, to have thoseconversations before the subject
comes up, before the situationcomes up, yeah.
And then the second one sharingthe gospel with step grandkids
of non-believing parents.
I would think it's likeanything else Pray, be bold,
right.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I think that we can share the gospel in so many ways
.
And it's like anything elsepray, be bold, right, I think?
I think that you know, we canshare the gospel in so many ways
, um, and, and it's not always,yes, it it's, it's gonna be
speaking, but it's so many timesthrough example, through
praying, if someone, if, if, ifthe child falls down and hurts
themselves, you can pray forthem.
They can ask.
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There's so many ways that you,if you know the Lord, you're
going to be speaking of the Lord, just in natural conversation
anyway.
So, there's so many ways we canshare the love of Jesus with
little ones, and they're usuallyso open, you know.
So, I think, if, if, if there'san antagonistic um, if the
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parents have trouble with it,then you have to tread lightly,
but use wisdom.
The Lord gives us wisdom.
All we have to do is ask.
So I think prayer and listeningto the Holy Spirit, being led
by the Holy Spirit, is reallyimportant.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Amen.
We got another text here,ileana.
It says good morning, greatprogram.
I'm at work and supposed to beworking, not crying with these
amazing calls.
Love you guys.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
That's so funny.
Yeah, if you just tuned in it'sbeen an amazing program.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Ileana, I don't want to take the blessing from you of
the ID and the reset, and Iknow it's one of the fun parts
here.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, but we do want you to call, so I am going to
give you the number 786-313-3115.
You don't have to be agrandparent to call to give us
the influence of grandparents.
You can be a grandson ordaughter, you can be a parent,
you could be you know, know achild.
Tell us how your grandparentsyeah, that'll be amazing right
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if a student um, so, joey, I wasreading an article.
When you get to, when you getto, my age, your news feed tends
to talk a lot about retirement.
I don't know why, but it does,and so I have I.
I was a grandparent for thefirst time when I was 45, which
is pretty young to be a grandma,but I'm getting up there, and
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so one of the articles I readrecently was how the boomer
generation is starting to passand so we're getting ready
economically for the greatestwealth transfer that the us has
ever known uh, the, the wealthof the boomer is ready to be
inherited by millennials, etc.
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And and when I saw that Ithought to myself what?
What you know?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
okay, great lord have mercy, but what about the real
inheritance?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
not the inheritance of the 401k of of the investment
of the house, of the property.
But what about the legaciesthat are going to be transferred
?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
And.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I just wanted to, you know, have the listeners think
about that.
You know it's amazing.
What inheritance can you leaveyour children, your
grandchildren?
That is eternal, because reallyeverything here is going to
burn, it's all going to go andit's really just nothingness.
Uh, the true riches, the trueinheritance are we.
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You know, because they'retalking.
The article talked aboutpreparing for that transfer.
But are we preparing, are wepreparing for the transfer of
the wealth of wisdom, of faith?
That's the greatest inheritance.
I mean, our first caller thismorning inherited riches upon
riches from her grandparents whoprayed for her, who left her a
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legacy.
And so are we preparing, asbelievers, to leave an
inheritance to our children andto our grandchildren?
So just a question.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I think that's some music time.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
You say don't be afraid To trust where you will
lead and walk always with youand I'll not hear the thunder.
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You say just have faith Toreach out and take your hand and
walk always with you.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I want to keep the momentum.
I want to get another call ortext.
We've had such great calls ortexts.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
786-313-3115 the influence of grandparents so you
are listening to life for jesusand and so let's talk about
what we, what we left off withjoey what do you think we can be
doing to prepare thatinheritance, to prepare that
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transfer of such riches that wehave in the Lord?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
You know, everybody has a unique story.
You know, and it's funny, I wasjust thinking about it between
pretty much Sunday and thismorning and just thinking about
my grandparents.
They've all passed away now andthey weren't Christians in the
sense of I'll say this much forall of them.
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There's at least a questionmark there, and I don't know my
parents could be listening, theyknew them better and everything
they passed when I was younger,but there's at least a question
mark there.
I don't know for certain.
They weren't living out thatfaith, living out that faith.
So I don't have quite thelegacy or quite the inheritance
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that some of the callers havecalled about, and so I wonder
what would it have been like andwhat would that have been like?
But there are other things thatare passed on work ethic and
I'll say this very carefully,but I've spoken about this with
my mom before there's also somewhat not to do's.
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Yeah.
You know, and you look at yourfamily and you say you know, and
you know, I don't.
I don't believe theologicallyin generational curse per se,
but I do see, and I'd like yourtake on this.
You know, I do see the factthat things are passed on,
things are taught.
You know, things are caughtjust in a relational sense and
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in an environmental sense Ourenvironment will affect us, our
upbringing, the home.
And so looking at the what notto do things and looking back
and saying you know what, I seethis going on in my family for
more than one generation and Iwant to be the one to break that
, you know, as something thatyou could look at as a
grandchild.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Right, absolutely, absolutely.
And what about just otherthings that can be passed on,
like family recipes?
Yeah, you know Well, I have onethat I be passed on like family
recipes yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Well, I have one that I'm holding on to.
That's a pretty cool story.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Traditions, traditions you know how you
celebrate a holiday or what youdo for a birthday or Christmas
mornings.
Traditions are so important, soimportant to pass them on and
to have that, have that legacyas a family right.
But hey, we do have a call onhold, so let's go ahead and get
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to this call real quick.
Good morning, you are live forJesus.
Where are you calling us fromthis morning?
Speaker 12 (29:39):
Good morning.
I'm calling from the beautifulcity of West Miami.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
There you go.
Good morning Chris.
How are you today?
Speaker 12 (29:45):
I'm well.
How are you today?
I'm well, how are you?
How's it?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
going Everything okay .
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Doing.
Okay, she's driving.
Well, yeah, they call it that.
Speaker 9 (29:58):
She's flying the spaceship Yikes.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
That's awesome.
Speaker 12 (30:04):
So what can you tell us about the influence of
grandparents?
You know, um, my, uh, I likeyou, joey, are very similar.
I don't, I don't havenecessarily that, that legacy,
that, um, you know mygrandparents, at least on my
mom's side.
You know I came from cuba, veryhard working, that, that
incredible work ethic and thenmy grandparents from my dad's
(30:25):
side.
My grandfather passed away whenI was very young and then my
grandmother.
She passed away when I was inthe fourth, I don't know fifth,
grade, so I didn't get all ofthat much time with them to see
that legacy.
But you know, I have seen thatlegacy in my wife's family.
I've seen Abu, who's stillaround, who is the
(30:46):
great-grandmother of my kids,and Abu's legacy and her passing
that down.
And she's still kicking man,she's still there, she's all
there, she still moves around,walks, has fun, amazing, she's
out to offers and all that, andso I mean it's awesome to see it
(31:09):
.
And then you know what happenedin her family with her, her mom
, who's the grandmother of mykids, her mom was first one that
got saved right tricked intoand touched everybody on her
side of the family.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
So I I don't, yeah, I didn't see it on my side of the
family, so I, I, I don't.
Speaker 12 (31:25):
Yeah, I didn't see it on my side necessarily.
You know, my parents instilledin me a lot of things, but about
you know, as far as biblicallygoes, the best thing they did
was put me in a Christian school.
That I will tell you.
They put me in a Christianschool.
My mom had the the knowledgeenough even though she wasn't at
the time necessarily saved uh,to put me in a Christian school,
(31:47):
and I thank God for that everyday, because that foundation was
vital.
When I finally did actually getsaved, all those things just
flooded my brain and came back.
It was like a tidal wave, wow.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
All those planted seeds right.
Speaker 12 (32:04):
Yeah, oh, they all started sprouting at one.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That's amazing.
Speaker 12 (32:08):
And I remember, I remember, I remember feeling
that, and, and you know, and nowbeing a dad thinking about
maybe God, you know, but God'sLord, being a grandfather one
day.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Grandfather or rapture.
Speaker 12 (32:24):
Rapture, tvd, tvd or rapture, uh yes, rap, just tbd,
tbd.
I think so much about the world, and I'm world, of your job as
any.
I'm sure you've heard this andI'm sure you could say a lot
about this.
But, um, you know that ideathat I don't know grandma and
grandpa are there to spoil thekids and to go opposite of what
mom and dad say, and that's justthat.
(32:48):
Couldn't be further from thetruth.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
That is a trend, yeah .
Speaker 12 (32:54):
It is a super trend and at least what I see as a
grandparent is I need to back up.
What would be my son or mydaughter, I need to reinforce,
and what would be my son or mydaughter, I need to reinforce
and not paint them.
Oh, you know how your mom getswhen you do that.
No, hey, this is the rule andwe need to follow it.
(33:15):
Having that mentality, you know, it's so important, it's so
subtle the world is oh, yougotta be a good grandparent.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
That's not being a good grandparent you know, even
my take on this is like, evenwith the you know, the silly
things like the treats and thegetting to have extra stuff, I
wish I could do that.
I I love seeing my kids enjoysweets on stuff, but you got,
you know, you got to make surethey don't, you know, get into a
sugar coma.
So so you, you kind of knowthat's going to happen at
(33:44):
grandparents' house.
It's part of the grand plan,you know.
And even there is like, yeah,we like our kids, you know.
So it's even that silly part ofit is not really going against
the parents, it's.
You know.
There's kind of that unspokenrule like yeah, you know, come
on.
Yeah, grandma, give him anextra cookie, you know.
Speaker 8 (34:01):
It's awesome.
Speaker 12 (34:03):
Yeah, but we have to be careful, so I don't know.
I'm sure Ileana has plenty tosay.
I'll stop talking to them, yesthat's why.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That's why she's here , part of it.
Thank you, bro, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Chris, god bless, god bless.
Yeah, definitely, I think thatyou know there is a place for a
little spoiling, yes, but,grandparents, we have to
understand that we are parentsand that we are on the same team
because we want the same bestfor those kids so good to hear
(34:32):
from you, we can't we can't, uh,we can't undermine right oh,
that, that's the word.
No undermining so I it's funnybecause you were both talking
about your grandparents.
My grandmother grandmother wasthe one that brought me up.
She was the one at home.
My mother worked a ton and shemy mother was a little bit of an
absent mother, but mygrandmother definitely made up
(34:56):
for that and she was not abeliever.
She was Joey.
She was four foot 10.
And weighed 85 pounds, soakingwet.
But the feistiest, mostincredible human being wisdom
beyond work ethic like youwouldn't believe.
She was an amazing, strongwoman and and I can remember her
(35:21):
always, even though my mom was,I didn't realize my mom was not
a great mom until I was anadult and a mom myself, because
she never undermined my mom.
So that's really important.
It's really important.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Incredible.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
All righty, so we have another call.
Let's go ahead and see who iscalling.
Good morning, you are live forJesus this morning.
Where are you calling from?
You are live for Jesus thismorning when?
Speaker 8 (35:46):
are you calling from Miami?
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 11 (35:51):
Good morning what do you want to share with us about
the influence of grandparents?
Well, my mom was an absent momand my grandmother and my
great-grandmother lived togetherand raised me most of the time.
Grandma was a PentecostalChristian and my
great-grandmother was Catholic,so that was really interesting
(36:13):
to have them both living in thesame house.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (36:16):
Every other Sunday I would go to a Pentecostal
church and the following Sundaya Catholic church, and then back
and forth, until great-grandmawasn't able to go any longer due
to her age.
So my grandmother was a cancersurvivor and she credited her
recovery to Jesus and let metell you, she spoke about the
(36:41):
Lord all the time, took thechurch with her and she went as
often as she could.
That particular church hadservices on Tuesday night,
thursday night, friday night,sunday morning and Sunday night.
Wow.
So we went to every one and itwas mandatory, so I had no
choice.
But you know what I love herfor it and it was great, it was
(37:05):
great.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
I got to ask a follow-up question because and
again, we don't have time thismorning to get into the whole
details of it.
But and please correct me ifI'm wrong, my brother, but you
strayed away from the Lord in aseason of your life and came
back to the Lord.
Would you say that some of that, or all of that, how much of
that, do you attribute tograndma and that kind?
Speaker 11 (37:29):
of upbringing.
A lot of it, all of it,probably because of you know,
I've witnessed and I've seenthings and grandma's told me
things, but you know, as a a kid, you just don't take it
seriously you know, you justhear it and you nod, nod, nod.
But then when you go and youthink back, you're like man.
(37:53):
You know, she gave me the answerto the test a long time ago and
and we just never listened andand you know it's it's it's sad
in a way, because you know youfeel like you wasted time.
You wasted the time on thingsthat were not of the Lord.
You wasted time on buildingyour relationship with God.
(38:14):
You know, it's just, it's sad,but I am grateful that I'm here
today, grateful for mygrandmother and my great-grand.
You know, they're wonderfulladies, they did a great job and
I'm just so blessed.
And I'm blessed that today Iknow where I'm supposed to be.
Amen.
What a great perspective.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
What a great influence, right, what a great
influence.
You know, he said a lot of itand then he corrected himself.
He said, no, I owe all of itall of it to them.
He corrected himself.
He said no, I owe all of it,all of it to them because, yeah,
they, they, they gave you thatupbringing and they showed you
that the Lord was, uh, was apriority and um, and now you,
(38:56):
you, like you said, you had theanswers to the test the whole
time.
Sometimes we have to fail a fewtests before we realize the
right way to go.
So I'm so excited for your call, I'm so thankful that you had
that godly grandma, that godlygreat grandma.
What a legacy.
Speaker 11 (39:16):
And, prayerfully, when you are a grandfather, one
day you will have that, thoseriches to pass on to your kids
and grandkids amen well, thelast thing I want to say I want
to shout out to my wife because,uh, she was on the road and she
was listening to godway radio.
I was doing some tours here andI was not on the radio.
(39:39):
And she's like, honey, yougotta get on the radio.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
So thank you, honey, for letting me know that's
awesome, yes thank.
Speaker 11 (39:44):
So thank you, honey, for letting me know.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That's awesome.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you for letting him know.
God bless you guys.
Have a wonderful rest of yourday.
Thank you for calling.
Speaker 11 (39:55):
Thank you, god bless you.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Bye-bye.
You are listening to Live forJesus.
It is already 747.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
How did?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
that happen, joey, it's almost done.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
And I got stuff.
I still want to share Ileana,but you're driving the spaceship
, You're driving.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
All righty, so I just need some callers.
So 786-313-3115.
Give us a call, send a text,let us know what you think, come
and do a new thing.
Speaker 7 (40:21):
When I haven't seen the answer to my prayer.
But I still believe there's amiracle to spare.
You've got plans for me.
You've got plans for me Greaterthan my wildest dreams,
(40:46):
stronger than the enemy.
You've got plans for me Greaterthan my wildest dreams Stronger
than the enemy.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
You've got plans for me, hey, leanna man.
Again, I could not haveimagined how it was going to go
this morning.
Better than I imagined, truly.
So we're talking about theinfluence of grandparents and
again, we didn't have to belaborthe point too much that you,
you don't have to be agrandparent to call.
Right, you can think of yourgrandparents or, as a parent,
(41:15):
you know your grandparents ifthey're passed away, but even
how, your parents interactingwith, with their grandkids, all
that, just anyone that wouldwant to call, uh, or text and
share about the influence ofgrandparents.
But I just had some things hereand it's tough because you, you
want to hear the calls and thetexts and then you have all the
things you want to share and Idon't know how you guys do this,
you and Pastor Ez and Chris,I'm still learning from all of
(41:37):
you.
But, um, uh, you know one thingthat I was mentioning, talking
about the inheritance and thethings you, you pick up from
them.
First of all, I want to givejust a shout out.
Somebody texted and theyrepeated that verse that you
read earlier on in the programProverbs 17, verse 6.
Grandchildren are the crown ofold men and the glory of
(41:57):
children is their father.
But you know, one of the thingsthat I think I inherited, that
I didn't even realize Iinherited, was a love for taking
in other kids and fosteringadoption.
I found out later in my life, Ithink it was in my adult life I
found out that my grandfather onmy dad's side was adopted from
Mexico into the United States.
Oh wow.
(42:18):
So I think the story goes thathis parents died and he had
cousins in the United States andthey took him in, and so it was
within the family, but my birthname, if that wouldn't have
transpired, would have beenQuintana, but he was adopted by
Alcalaz.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Wow, look at that.
So you didn't even know thatwas a thing.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
And it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
You got plans for me.
Oh yeah, you got plans for me.
It is 7.49 and we have a call.
Joey, let's go ahead and takethis one.
Good morning, you are live forJesus.
Can you tell us where you'recalling from?
Speaker 10 (43:00):
South Miami.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Hi South Miami, Good morning.
So tell us what you think onthe topic the influence of
grandparents.
Speaker 8 (43:09):
So tell us what you think on the topic.
Speaker 10 (43:10):
The influence of grandparents.
So I had a real, realinteresting experience with that
one.
I didn't really havegrandparents growing up, but one
thing that I did learn, 30years old now my whole life I've
always looked for thatgrandparent figure and it's
bringing me around a lot ofinteresting people in my life
(43:31):
and people who've been able tohelp me in certain situations.
Uh, and I think it's been areal big push because since I
didn't have that, just alwayslooking for that kind of stuff
uh made me feel good.
You know, there was people outthere in the world that even
though I didn't have it, theywere still willing to push it
forward, you know.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
That's amazing.
So you were looking for anolder person to pour into you,
an older person with wisdom,maybe for advice and stuff like
that.
Is that what you mean?
Speaker 10 (43:58):
Yeah, correct.
And another thing too is likejust, I've always had that
respect for older people.
You know that everybody alwayshas that stigma, like oh, just
so, you know, just, my grandmaDon't mind them.
Or my grandpa, but for me itwas like you know what does he
have to say?
Yes, it was like us at once.
(44:21):
You know, they had dreams, theywere kids, they had their
experiences.
So that's how people are made,you know, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
That's wisdom, man, that's wisdom.
Speaker 10 (44:33):
Actually hold on.
I love hearing this.
You're actually pulling up tome right now.
Hey, ricky here, say hi.
This is like a radio station.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Hello, Mr Ricky.
This is God's Way Radio.
We just want to thank you for.
Speaker 10 (44:49):
They were asking about grandparents.
We want to thank you for beinga grandparent to this young man.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Sir, if I may ask, put you on the spot.
How old are you?
Speaker 11 (44:57):
I'm 61.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
61.
And what have you been able toshare with this young man?
Speaker 10 (45:04):
Excuse me, I'm sorry , I can't hear you.
Speaker 12 (45:10):
What have you been able to share with this young
man from your years andexperience?
A better life a good life.
Good.
Better living.
A better understanding.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Better understanding man.
That's awesome, guys.
We have more calls coming in,but this was so great, so
grateful.
We hope to hear from both ofyou again soon, okay, amen.
Speaker 10 (45:29):
It's a pleasure.
You have a great day, man.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Thank you so much, you too God bless you.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Wow, what a cool phone call.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
What a cool call.
I wonder if he was a first-timecaller.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
I wonder, I wonder I was going to ask, but hopefully
he'll call again.
All Good morning you are.
Live for Jesus.
Can you tell us where you'recalling from?
From Kendall, good morning,kendall, good morning.
Speaker 6 (45:58):
Tell us about grandparenting, grandparents and
the influence of thosegrandparents.
Well, I mean, I've had, likeyou know, off and on my whole
story is like whatever butsomething that I learned from
one set of my grandparents.
It's not really a godly thingbut it does help my godly
marriage.
So they were very united Like.
My grandfather apparentlylooked at my grandma in Cuba
(46:22):
when she was like 13 walkingdown the street.
He said you see that girl outthere, I'm going to marry her.
Wow, he did Look at that andthey were together through, like
you know, all the communismcoming over here the whole nine
yards.
And when we got married theywere really, really excited and
that was beautiful because youknow, I got married very quickly
to my husband and I justremember, like looking at their
(46:43):
marriage and seeing they werelike two little birds together
all the time, they'd make allthe decisions together and it
was just like it was reallybeautiful.
And early on in our marriagethey would take us out to eat
and they would tell us likeremember, like you guys together
, you guys together, you guystogether.
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
What wisdom right I?
Speaker 6 (47:03):
do remember that.
Yeah, you know, I do rememberthat.
And then my other grandmother,when she was getting Alzheimer's
, she was very, very, very, veryCatholic, very, very Catholic.
All I remember of her was justlike the love of Virgin Mary.
It was like my whole life.
But as she got older and intothis Alzheimer's she would talk
(47:25):
more about Jesus and when Iwould spend time with her we
would just talk about Jesus andthe heart of Jesus and I just
remember like pouring that intoher and it was interesting
because I was younger.
(47:45):
You know I'm her grandchild butI just remember like really,
really, really making it myfocus to somehow reach in her
brain like the love of Jesus,right, and I learned from her a
lot of things.
I always tell everybody I lovedgrowing up a Roman Catholic
because it was like a lot of Ilearned the fear of God.
(48:10):
I learned the healthy fear ofGod.
Like I learned reverence.
I learned you know how to justlike really approach the throne
with.
You know a lot of respect.
There's so much there.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
You know it reminds me of, I had a tia, my mom's
aunt, so like a great aunt, whoshe listened to two or three
masses a day on the radio.
And I love what you said aboutthe influence of grandparents.
How that's old school thinkingwhat is it?
If it's broke, you fix it, youdon't throw it away, which is so
(48:43):
new school, my sister, we havesomebody else on the line.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
God bless you.
Thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 9 (48:52):
God bless you.
Thank you so much for calling,god bless.
We go to the next phone call.
Where are you calling us fromtoday?
Speaker 1 (48:59):
Oh hi, I'm on my way to South Miami Heights right now
.
Good morning, south MiamiHeights, it's so great to hear
your voice.
Speaker 9 (49:04):
So tell me, fellow grandma, the influence of
grandparents.
Well, I just had to call.
I mean, the Lord just put it onmy heart I am, I'm a grandma,
yeah, but I'm calling about mygrandma because, um, even though
my grandmother's passed away,uh, years and years ago, she was
for me like a harbor of safetyand my mom had gone through a
(49:29):
divorce when I was very young.
I was like, I guess, two yearsold when my parents divorced and
from that time, because my momhad to go to work, my mom, my
grandmother, basically raised me.
I mean, I really I lived in mygrandmother's house.
I really did not go home to mymom, she just kept me, but it,
(49:50):
it, she set um boundaries, sheset routines for me, um, she
pretty much made me who I am.
You know the discipline in mylife, the, the, my character, my
a lot of.
In fact, after seven, when Icame to the United States, I
lived with my mom and many timesmy mom would tell me whose
(50:13):
daughter are you?
You're nothing like me and I wasthinking I guess I'm like Nima
with my grandmother, you know,because she just set a quiet,
orderly lifestyle of wake up, goto school, do your homework,
just those simple things, but soneeded because the, you know,
(50:38):
divorce can cause chaos in achild's life.
So I just encouragegrandparents out there, if you
are raising your grandchildren,the Lord has put you there to be
their safe harbor.
So I just encourage you, youknow, do the best you can,
that's beautiful, that's sobeautiful.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Thank you so much for calling this morning and I love
those fond memories that youhave of like living at her house
.
Speaker 2 (51:07):
It was like that was your house, very similar to what
you were sharing very similar.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
My parents divorced when I was two, except that my
grandmother lived with with withus, um, uh, but yeah, and, and
she was, yeah, just like youmore my mom than my mom was yeah
, so yeah it's, it's, uh, it'svery similar, very similar, just
that day-to-day influence.
(51:31):
And you know how kids spelllove, don't you?
T-i-m-e.
Yeah.
You know it's giving them time.
So often, you know, you hearthat, oh, it's about quality
time and yeah, it's fun to gofly a kite at the park one day
and get a good picture for yoursocial media, but but having
(51:54):
quantity of time with them onthe daily, like you said, you
know you get home from school,you put on your play clothes,
you do your homework, you, youhave a disciplined life.
That that's where the influencehappens, and so I appreciate
your call so much.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
And I could say that this is one of the best
grandmothers ever.
Speaker 1 (52:13):
Ever, ever, I know.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
I know she's top tier .
Speaker 1 (52:16):
She is.
She is my goals, goals rightthere.
Love you, mima.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Thank you so?
Speaker 1 (52:23):
much for calling God bless.
Have a beautiful day All righty, you too.
Speaker 8 (52:28):
You too.
God bless you.
It is 7.59.
We have seconds left.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
I got to read this Bible verse and I'll let you
close the program because witheverything, with anything in
life, there's going to be aBible verse for it, and you know
this.
But I got to read this one whenI call to remembrance the
genuine faith that is in you,which first dwelt in your
grandmother, lewis, and in yourmother, eunice, and I am
(52:56):
persuaded is in you also.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
You know that guy Timothy from the Bible.
It was his grandma that startedit.
It was.
That is amazing.
Thank you, joey, for thatreminder.
Thank you guys for listening.
You are listening to Live forJesus so that you can live for
Jesus.
So join us tomorrow again.
Pastor Raz will be back righthere.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
With a special guest.
I hear.
Speaker 1 (53:13):
Okay, with a special guest right here on God's Way
Radio.
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