July 6, 2023 • 33 mins
Ever felt drained, yet compelled to keep pushing on, only to realize that you've been neglecting the person who needs your love and care the most - YOU? That's what happened to me. I found myself needing a break, a pause, and in that space, I discovered the healing power of rest and self-care. I'm here to share this journey with you, and why it's vital to focus on what's within our control rather than what's not, which often leads to unnecessary stress and worry.
Now imagine handing over your worries to a higher power and then, well, just resting. Sounds too simple, right? It's not. I want to share with you the transformative power of prayer, trust, and the mantra "Give it to God and rest." In the face of struggles, it's all about finding joy, peace, and understanding that it's okay to not be okay. We'll discuss ways to combat depression and anxiety, and how to find value within ourselves without the influence of social media. Remember, it's your journey, and it's perfectly okay to rest and recharge. Connect with me on my website and across all major platforms as we continue this enlightening journey together.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, hey, hey, it's your girl.
Autumn CEO and owner of Litty,known as Lord.
I thank you.
Hey, thank you for tuning in.
I pray the words that come outof my mouth be a blessing to you
and more waste than one.
I wanted to jump on here reallyquick and just kick it for a
(00:26):
minute.
I have been down for a littlebit over a week now Had to
really just sit down and justrest.
Was that something that I amused to?
or is it something that I'mused to?
(00:47):
Absolutely not.
You know, i keep going andgoing and going and I had to
rest And I had to disconnect,which disconnecting, unplugging,
trying to reset my mind, to notthink and really just focus on
(01:18):
recovering and just gettingbetter and putting my attention
on me, which is something that Inormally don't do.
Well, and it was different.
It's been different To thepoint that it feels foreign.
(01:38):
It does.
It feels foreign, it'suncomfortable, and I found
myself reliving the moment thatI got ill and it ended up just
being me and God, and that'swhere I am again.
(02:00):
Not to that extent, but thefeeling of just being alone was
there again.
Sometimes in life we have to getto the point that we understand
(02:20):
that we are important, that, inspite of whatever right, it all
has to work in our favor.
Because, whether it's good,whether it's bad, even if it's
bad and I'm saying that it hasto work in our favor what if God
(02:40):
was protecting us fromsomething That we couldn't see,
that we didn't know was coming,but we felt Deep down that this
is for me, i need this, i gottahave this, and God was saying no
.
How many times have weexperienced that?
I can just about guaranteedI've experienced that so many
(03:03):
times over the course of my lifeAnd excuse me again if my voice
is raspy, if it's.
You hear the wind blowing.
I'm looking, actually, at myplant, liddy.
I call her Liddy and she isabsolutely Beautiful.
I Find peace in that.
(03:25):
Now I've learned to adapt tothings that Give me peace, and
it's simple things, and that'sthe one of them.
Look, i didn't got sidetrackedalready, but anyway, i Want to
go back to just talking aboutresting and really resting.
(03:47):
I I found myself lately alsoBeing not numb to things, but
just taking a different approachon life, taking a different
look, having a differentperspective.
(04:08):
Should I be upset about this?
Absolutely not.
Does it affect me?
right now it may, but thenagain it may not.
Is it something that my control, that I can fix in this very
moment?
Maybe, maybe not.
There you go, there's a sirenstold y'all to hear just life in
(04:30):
my background, and that's okaybecause I'm still alive.
So I Try to be as open andtransparent when I'm talking,
anyway, because guess what, nomatter what you try to fix, life
is still happening, stillhappening.
(04:51):
But back to what I was saying,just knowing that even if God
made all of this in six days andon that seventh he rested, even
God Ticked out my wrist and Ihave not done so.
(05:16):
I literally find something todo all the time, whether it's
cleaning and cleaning again andwashing and doing something
moving not necessarily hangingout, because it's different out
(05:37):
here, but I just find somethingto do and I think over these
last few days, when I thoughtabout it, that is exactly why I
work so much, because it'ssomething to do, it's something
to take my mind off of the dayto day, it's something to free
me from myself.
Is that good?
(05:59):
Absolutely not.
It's not because the momentthat I start to dream about work
, or I seem to can't focusunless I have my work phone, or
it's just not healthy, it's notright.
So I now have to do thingsdifferent, right?
(06:23):
And that's what I was saying asfar as the perspective of
things.
And how do I deal with thissituation?
how do I handle this?
do I say something now?
or, you know, even if I do saysomething, lord, give me the
right words to say right,because I really don't have time
(06:44):
to babysit, make up a new wayof telling you really how I feel
.
I just say it.
I've been asked several timeslately are you really okay?
Is something else going on?
And I'm like, yeah, i'm fine.
What's wrong?
Well, you just so calm and youjust guess what?
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most of the things that wereally get upset about are
things that are uncontrollable.
What is an uncontrollable?
something that we cannot fix inthat very moment?
It doesn't mean that it won'tget fixed, excuse me.
It just means that in that verymoment, we can't fix it.
(07:29):
So why am I taking my time andenergy to stress over something
that I do not have control over?
Does that make sense?
Okay, we all do it, but whatI'm doing is focusing on the
controllables.
I'm focusing on that I can showup in the very moment that I
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can be present, that I can stilllook outside, that I can still
look over at Lydia and she justthat's pretty as ever.
I can look at my wind chime, mybird flying around, i can hear
the chimes, i can see the leavesblowing.
I can control that right,because I can see it.
(08:15):
Now I can do all of thosethings.
My question today is why do weput so much energy and effort
into everything or everyone elseOur jobs, our kids, our friends
(08:37):
, our relationships, anythingthat we're tied to?
we literally will put 150% intoit.
But when it comes to us and letme not just say us, let me talk
about me when it comes to me, irealize I short myself a lot.
(09:00):
I short myself and I don't knowif it's out of the fear of the
unknown.
I don't know if it's out ofjust not knowing if it's worth
it.
Am I looking at what I feelthat it takes to establish
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something?
Because I'm definitely notlooking at it, how God looks at
it or perceives it, because heliterally tells us over and over
again faith without works isdead.
So I won't step out on faith onsome things because I'm already
(09:47):
doubting that.
I don't have enough to do it,and that's not what's up.
It's not, it's not.
So I'm learning to give it toGod and rest.
Oh, don't that sound good?
Give it to God and rest.
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Y'all already know I'm going toget y'all a few nuggets and
then I'm going to break somestuff down.
Philippians 4 through 4, 5 and 7through 7, or whatever Do not
be anxious about anything, butin everything, by prayer and
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supplication, with Thanksgiving,let your requests be known to
God And experience the peace ofGod, which surpasses all
understanding that will alsoguard your heart.
(10:53):
Supplication to act humbly.
That means that, lord, i'mcoming to you as humble as I can
be.
God, i can't do it no more.
I cannot fix this.
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I am tired, i cannot do itanymore.
God, take this.
I don't.
You know what I've tried.
I've tried, and not that youasked me to try, lord.
I tried, and it still didn'twork.
In my faith, lord, here you go.
Right, i'm not going to take mynap because I need to sleep,
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because I need to get up and Ineed to work.
I need to do whatever it isthat you need to do.
Lord, you take it, though,because I don't have the energy
anymore, nor the fighting me, tocontinue to try to fix this
thing, and I say this thingbecause it could be many
different things Right.
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So I'm, i'm humbly asking, andthat's without being arrogant or
prideful Giving something toGod is placing your trust Now
verbs 3, 4, 3, 7.
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Giving God your day, lord, whenyou get up in the morning, lord,
i thank you for this day.
Whatever it is that you wouldhave me to do in this day, god,
let you be seen, not me.
God, i'm giving you my mindthis morning because I don't
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know.
I don't know, i don't know how,i don't know if I don't know
when it's going to work.
God, take my mind, you controlmy mind, you guide my thoughts,
lord, because I don't know.
I thought I did, but I reallydon't know.
Lord, i thank you.
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Romans 12 and 12 and 2, andGenesis 2, 2 through 3.
It all refers to giving Godsomething and then we're going
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to rest Because y'all have.
God took him.
If he knew I got to sit downand rest.
I'm trying to understand what'swrong with me.
What's wrong with my self care,what's wrong with me just
taking a minute to step back andbreathe, to not be anxious, to
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have anxiety, to be worried allthe time.
This is overrated at this point.
Worrying all the time, do youknow, it takes more energy to
worry, it takes more energy tobe mad, it takes more energy to
argue, it takes more energy tofight, it takes more energy to
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be messy than it just to say,lord, i thank you.
You can have this day, sir.
And yes, i did say, sir, youcan have it.
I don't want it, but what I dowant, god, is for you to give me
a peace that surpasses myunderstanding.
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Give me something that I willnever, ever forget.
Give me something that isreassuring.
Give me something to show methat it's only you that
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continues to bring me out, dayover day, week over week, minute
by minute, second by second.
Lord, i thank you.
(15:32):
I didn't know what to do,because I've been in this place
And I'm looking over.
On my desk, i have this plaquethat says only God can turn a
mess into a message.
And, lord, i thank you becauseyou've basically saved me and
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spared me for some true messes,and for that I'm humbly, i'm
grateful and I humbly, i'mhumble and grateful, thankful
Honor.
And the crazy thing is thaty'all, he asked us to give it to
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him.
He asked us.
We refuse.
We do refuse.
There's a way to do everything.
It is.
I'm sitting here and I'mlooking now and all of a sudden
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it just rained and it's rightoutside.
And God, you do all of that.
You continue to show us thatit's only you.
Even when it's crazy, we stillgot to know that.
We know that.
We know God is you.
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Lord, i thank you for thestrength to keep pushing.
I'm learning now how to fightdepression, and when I say fight
it, i'm learning how to notsink back into it so quick.
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I know somebody saying how shedoing that.
She ain't doing that for real.
Oh, but I am.
Every negative I'm turning intoa positive.
Every time I want to sit down,i get up.
Every time I don't feel likedoing something that I know I
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need to do, i do it, and whatI'm learning is it's the little
things that it only takes asecond.
It's as simple as washing thedishes before I go to bed.
It's as simple of when I get upand I make my bed up and I come
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home and I want to get in mybed.
It's something now aboutpulling those sheets back and I
can get in a made up bed.
It's something again aboutfinding your peace, finding
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things that sustain yourhappiness, even if it's for a
moment.
Tough times don't last always.
Joy does come in the morning,and sometimes it's not that next
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morning, but you better knowit's coming In this time y'all.
It ain't nobody else to reallyencourage.
People are different,sisterships are different,
relationships are different.
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People are just evolving intowhomever they see fit, and it
doesn't make it any better thatsocial media allows us to be
whoever we want to be.
I looked on something today andit was a young lady.
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She was pouring out her heartand she was just saying that on
this day 10 years ago orsomething like that, she went
through a divorce, her businesswent down.
It was all these differentthings And it was just one
person that jumps up and says soyou get on here to tell all of
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your business like somebody,really like what, like why, if
it, if it doesn't apply, let itfly.
Because what that did was showme it showed so many other
people, that you, we, are notthe only ones going through, we
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are not the only ones.
That's going in the grocerystores right now and saying,
lord, we're real, because I onlygot five things and I have paid
$100.
I got five things, lord, wheream I supposed to get this money
from?
Lord?
It is so real.
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It is so real that everyone isreally trying to make it And
some of us are doing the bestthat we can.
Doesn't get lonely?
Absolutely It can.
Do you ever wonder why?
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Absolutely.
Do you ever wonder what if?
Yep, but why does the why haveto be of something that you
don't have?
Why can't the why be?
Why don't I get up and try it?
Why don't I just get up and putmy best foot forward and try it
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?
What if it turned out to be inmy favor?
What if it turned out to be agreat thing?
What if this one podcast blewup so crazy that Liddy changed
forever?
What if I can only know that ifI get on the mic right?
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I can only know that if I keepupdating my website, if I keep
posting, if I keep being theauthentic me, lord, i thank you
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In this very moment.
I just need anybody that'slistening.
Don't give up, please don't giveup.
We are fighting battles thatare not ours.
It is the Lord's, it's not ours.
He asks give it to me and Iwill give you rest.
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Give it to him.
Give it.
Give it to him, hear Lord,write it down and say you can
have this, that and the other.
I don't care how messy yourlife is right now, i don't care
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how many bills, i don't care ifyou buy yourself.
I don't care if thatrelationship ain't working.
I don't care if you are happyat your job.
I don't care, because I knowwhat God can do, because he's
done it for me over and over andover again.
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I know that he will do it foryou.
You'll do it for you too.
That business that you want todo, everything that I've ever
started I didn't have nobodyhelp me.
I jumped out here, i researchedand I did it myself.
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I played with this retarded Icall it retarded, retarded Mike
every day because I'm like everytime I get on the mic I'm like
which feature, which?
What do I do?
How do I make it sound right?
I don't even know what this isgoing to sound right?
I got Alexa playing on theother side.
I got the wind blowing.
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I got the fan blowing.
I got so many different things.
We didn't heard a little bit ofeverything.
But I want to always beauthentic.
I don't want to hide behindlife.
So many times we butter thingsup.
So many times we want to makeit pretty, we want to make it
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seem good.
Listen, the one thing I'm notdoing and I love shoes I'm not
going to let my feet hurt.
So if that's going to make meattract or get attention or do
something that you're going towant me, with my slides on, i
might bust out some heels, acouple.
But please know this, baby, i'mnot, my feet are not going to
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hurt.
There's certain things I'm justnot going to do, and what I'm
not going to do is sit up hereand try to update and change the
vocals and add a little bit ofthis, because, number one, i
don't even know how.
So that's number one.
Number two, being you lookingat the person that you look at
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in the mirror every day, it'swho you are, it's who God made
you to be.
The outside doesn't define whoyour inside, who your insides
reflect.
What does your heart look like?
What do you?
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what do you feel that you aredoing to make you feel good?
not waiting for someone else tomake you feel good?
Today I wanted some Supermanice cream.
I got on up out of my bed atfour or something and I walked
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with my headphones on and I waslistening to my music and I was.
I was laughing because I likeBeyonce's music but I wasn't
like a huge fan of where I couldsing every word and all of that
.
But let me tell you something,that that, that they're blue.
What is it?
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blue, Ivy or blue?
Let me tell you something I sawthat baby get on that stage
that first time and she, she goton there just to move and I'm
like Oh, baby, you got thisbecause you better than me, and
I watched her every single timeget better and better and better
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and better.
So what we need to do is investin ourselves to get better,
better and better, and we leavehere.
We ain't taking none of thiswith us, none of it.
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I'm not going to have to lookat this mic, no more.
I'm not going to have to lookat these two computers in front
of my face and cell phones and,and I'm not going to have to
worry about none of that.
It'll be all left behind.
But why I'm here?
what am I doing with it?
Are you utilizing the resourcesand the tools that you have to
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just try?
It's discouraging y'all.
It is discouraging sometimesjust to watch everybody make it
in in in you, sitting here,saying, okay, what am I supposed
to do?
I've even reached out to somepeople and I'm like, okay, they
don't respond.
But I but, but God, i thinkthis is top.
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And then I just said you knowwhat?
Let me just keep showing up.
Let me keep showing up.
Just as this breeze is blowingon me, i feel like it's God
breathing just fresh air, justbreathing something new on me.
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I pray that, wherever you arenow, that God would just breathe
something fresh and new on you.
It was a few, a long time I wascrying tears of sadness and just
being confused and not reallyunderstanding what was happening
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to me.
And now, if I shed a tear, i'mshedding a tear of joy because I
know God's gonna do it.
I know that.
I know that.
I know that God is going to doit.
Try it again, go and try itagain.
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And I'm telling myself this Icall myself gonna make this 15,
maybe 10 or 15 minutes, and it'snow 30 minutes and whoever
probably is listening is likewhen is she gonna stop?
But I'm encouraging somebody tostand with me.
Try it again, try it, don'tgive up, push, push until
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something happens.
God won't fail us.
He won't.
The fact that we are still herein the land of the living after
everything we've justexperienced over the last three
years.
He has purpose.
It's something more for us thanwe can ever imagine.
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This is our time, this is mytime.
So I challenge you tonight togive it to God and rest.
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I'm gonna say it again Give itto God and rest.
Whatever it is, he can handleit and he asks for it And he can
fix it.
He can change it, he can updateit, he can open a door, he can
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shut a door, he can give us avision, he can give us provision
, he can get those bills paid,he can give you that new job.
He can retire you.
Lord, i thank you.
Lord.
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I thank you not only just formyself, but for whoever is
listening to the sound of myvoice And although it's feeling
like it's about to go out again,i am not going to be much
longer.
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We are too blessed to bestressed.
It is okay to not be okay.
Just don't stay there.
And only God can turn a messinto a message.
And in closing, i will say giveit to God, y'all, and rest
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Litty Lord.
I thank you.
You all know you can find me onall the major platforms.
I am trying to figure out thisYouTube thing so I can start to
upload my podcast to that aswell.
My website is wwwlittylccom.
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That's wwwlittlylccom.
Be blessed y'all.
Give it to God and rest LittyAbbao.
Hey, hey, hey, it's your girl.
Autumn CEO and owner of Litty,known as Lord.
I thank you.
Hey, thank you for tuning in.
I pray the words that come outof my mouth be a blessing to you
and more waste than one.
I wanted to jump on here reallyquick and just kick it for a
(00:26):
minute.
I have been down for a littlebit over a week now Had to
really just sit down and justrest.
Was that something that I amused to?
or is it something that I'mused to?
(00:47):
Absolutely not.
You know, i keep going andgoing and going and I had to
rest And I had to disconnect,which disconnecting, unplugging,
trying to reset my mind, to notthink and really just focus on
(01:18):
recovering and just gettingbetter and putting my attention
on me, which is something that Inormally don't do.
Well, and it was different.
It's been different To thepoint that it feels foreign.
(01:38):
It does.
It feels foreign, it'suncomfortable, and I found
myself reliving the moment thatI got ill and it ended up just
being me and God, and that'swhere I am again.
(02:00):
Not to that extent, but thefeeling of just being alone was
there again.
Sometimes in life we have to getto the point that we understand
(02:20):
that we are important, that, inspite of whatever right, it all
has to work in our favor.
Because, whether it's good,whether it's bad, even if it's
bad and I'm saying that it hasto work in our favor what if God
(02:40):
was protecting us fromsomething That we couldn't see,
that we didn't know was coming,but we felt Deep down that this
is for me, i need this, i gottahave this, and God was saying no
.
How many times have weexperienced that?
I can just about guaranteedI've experienced that so many
(03:03):
times over the course of my lifeAnd excuse me again if my voice
is raspy, if it's.
You hear the wind blowing.
I'm looking, actually, at myplant, liddy.
I call her Liddy and she isabsolutely Beautiful.
I Find peace in that.
(03:25):
Now I've learned to adapt tothings that Give me peace, and
it's simple things, and that'sthe one of them.
Look, i didn't got sidetrackedalready, but anyway, i Want to
go back to just talking aboutresting and really resting.
(03:47):
I I found myself lately alsoBeing not numb to things, but
just taking a different approachon life, taking a different
look, having a differentperspective.
(04:08):
Should I be upset about this?
Absolutely not.
Does it affect me?
right now it may, but thenagain it may not.
Is it something that my control, that I can fix in this very
moment?
Maybe, maybe not.
There you go, there's a sirenstold y'all to hear just life in
(04:30):
my background, and that's okaybecause I'm still alive.
So I Try to be as open andtransparent when I'm talking,
anyway, because guess what, nomatter what you try to fix, life
is still happening, stillhappening.
(04:51):
But back to what I was saying,just knowing that even if God
made all of this in six days andon that seventh he rested, even
God Ticked out my wrist and Ihave not done so.
(05:16):
I literally find something todo all the time, whether it's
cleaning and cleaning again andwashing and doing something
moving not necessarily hangingout, because it's different out
(05:37):
here, but I just find somethingto do and I think over these
last few days, when I thoughtabout it, that is exactly why I
work so much, because it'ssomething to do, it's something
to take my mind off of the dayto day, it's something to free
me from myself.
Is that good?
(05:59):
Absolutely not.
It's not because the momentthat I start to dream about work
, or I seem to can't focusunless I have my work phone, or
it's just not healthy, it's notright.
So I now have to do thingsdifferent, right?
(06:23):
And that's what I was saying asfar as the perspective of
things.
And how do I deal with thissituation?
how do I handle this?
do I say something now?
or, you know, even if I do saysomething, lord, give me the
right words to say right,because I really don't have time
(06:44):
to babysit, make up a new wayof telling you really how I feel
.
I just say it.
I've been asked several timeslately are you really okay?
Is something else going on?
And I'm like, yeah, i'm fine.
What's wrong?
Well, you just so calm and youjust guess what?
(07:07):
most of the things that wereally get upset about are
things that are uncontrollable.
What is an uncontrollable?
something that we cannot fix inthat very moment?
It doesn't mean that it won'tget fixed, excuse me.
It just means that in that verymoment, we can't fix it.
(07:29):
So why am I taking my time andenergy to stress over something
that I do not have control over?
Does that make sense?
Okay, we all do it, but whatI'm doing is focusing on the
controllables.
I'm focusing on that I can showup in the very moment that I
(07:52):
can be present, that I can stilllook outside, that I can still
look over at Lydia and she justthat's pretty as ever.
I can look at my wind chime, mybird flying around, i can hear
the chimes, i can see the leavesblowing.
I can control that right,because I can see it.
(08:15):
Now I can do all of thosethings.
My question today is why do weput so much energy and effort
into everything or everyone elseOur jobs, our kids, our friends
(08:37):
, our relationships, anythingthat we're tied to?
we literally will put 150% intoit.
But when it comes to us and letme not just say us, let me talk
about me when it comes to me, irealize I short myself a lot.
(09:00):
I short myself and I don't knowif it's out of the fear of the
unknown.
I don't know if it's out ofjust not knowing if it's worth
it.
Am I looking at what I feelthat it takes to establish
(09:27):
something?
Because I'm definitely notlooking at it, how God looks at
it or perceives it, because heliterally tells us over and over
again faith without works isdead.
So I won't step out on faith onsome things because I'm already
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doubting that.
I don't have enough to do it,and that's not what's up.
It's not, it's not.
So I'm learning to give it toGod and rest.
Oh, don't that sound good?
Give it to God and rest.
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Y'all already know I'm going toget y'all a few nuggets and
then I'm going to break somestuff down.
Philippians 4 through 4, 5 and 7through 7, or whatever Do not
be anxious about anything, butin everything, by prayer and
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supplication, with Thanksgiving,let your requests be known to
God And experience the peace ofGod, which surpasses all
understanding that will alsoguard your heart.
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Supplication to act humbly.
That means that, lord, i'mcoming to you as humble as I can
be.
God, i can't do it no more.
I cannot fix this.
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I am tired, i cannot do itanymore.
God, take this.
I don't.
You know what I've tried.
I've tried, and not that youasked me to try, lord.
I tried, and it still didn'twork.
In my faith, lord, here you go.
Right, i'm not going to take mynap because I need to sleep,
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because I need to get up and Ineed to work.
I need to do whatever it isthat you need to do.
Lord, you take it, though,because I don't have the energy
anymore, nor the fighting me, tocontinue to try to fix this
thing, and I say this thingbecause it could be many
different things Right.
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So I'm, i'm humbly asking, andthat's without being arrogant or
prideful Giving something toGod is placing your trust Now
verbs 3, 4, 3, 7.
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Giving God your day, lord, whenyou get up in the morning, lord,
i thank you for this day.
Whatever it is that you wouldhave me to do in this day, god,
let you be seen, not me.
God, i'm giving you my mindthis morning because I don't
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know.
I don't know, i don't know how,i don't know if I don't know
when it's going to work.
God, take my mind, you controlmy mind, you guide my thoughts,
lord, because I don't know.
I thought I did, but I reallydon't know.
Lord, i thank you.
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Romans 12 and 12 and 2, andGenesis 2, 2 through 3.
It all refers to giving Godsomething and then we're going
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to rest Because y'all have.
God took him.
If he knew I got to sit downand rest.
I'm trying to understand what'swrong with me.
What's wrong with my self care,what's wrong with me just
taking a minute to step back andbreathe, to not be anxious, to
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have anxiety, to be worried allthe time.
This is overrated at this point.
Worrying all the time, do youknow, it takes more energy to
worry, it takes more energy tobe mad, it takes more energy to
argue, it takes more energy tofight, it takes more energy to
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be messy than it just to say,lord, i thank you.
You can have this day, sir.
And yes, i did say, sir, youcan have it.
I don't want it, but what I dowant, god, is for you to give me
a peace that surpasses myunderstanding.
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Give me something that I willnever, ever forget.
Give me something that isreassuring.
Give me something to show methat it's only you that
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continues to bring me out, dayover day, week over week, minute
by minute, second by second.
Lord, i thank you.
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I didn't know what to do,because I've been in this place
And I'm looking over.
On my desk, i have this plaquethat says only God can turn a
mess into a message.
And, lord, i thank you becauseyou've basically saved me and
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spared me for some true messes,and for that I'm humbly, i'm
grateful and I humbly, i'mhumble and grateful, thankful
Honor.
And the crazy thing is thaty'all, he asked us to give it to
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him.
He asked us.
We refuse.
We do refuse.
There's a way to do everything.
It is.
I'm sitting here and I'mlooking now and all of a sudden
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it just rained and it's rightoutside.
And God, you do all of that.
You continue to show us thatit's only you.
Even when it's crazy, we stillgot to know that.
We know that.
We know God is you.
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Lord, i thank you for thestrength to keep pushing.
I'm learning now how to fightdepression, and when I say fight
it, i'm learning how to notsink back into it so quick.
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I know somebody saying how shedoing that.
She ain't doing that for real.
Oh, but I am.
Every negative I'm turning intoa positive.
Every time I want to sit down,i get up.
Every time I don't feel likedoing something that I know I
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need to do, i do it, and whatI'm learning is it's the little
things that it only takes asecond.
It's as simple as washing thedishes before I go to bed.
It's as simple of when I get upand I make my bed up and I come
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home and I want to get in mybed.
It's something now aboutpulling those sheets back and I
can get in a made up bed.
It's something again aboutfinding your peace, finding
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things that sustain yourhappiness, even if it's for a
moment.
Tough times don't last always.
Joy does come in the morning,and sometimes it's not that next
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morning, but you better knowit's coming In this time y'all.
It ain't nobody else to reallyencourage.
People are different,sisterships are different,
relationships are different.
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People are just evolving intowhomever they see fit, and it
doesn't make it any better thatsocial media allows us to be
whoever we want to be.
I looked on something today andit was a young lady.
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She was pouring out her heartand she was just saying that on
this day 10 years ago orsomething like that, she went
through a divorce, her businesswent down.
It was all these differentthings And it was just one
person that jumps up and says soyou get on here to tell all of
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your business like somebody,really like what, like why, if
it, if it doesn't apply, let itfly.
Because what that did was showme it showed so many other
people, that you, we, are notthe only ones going through, we
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are not the only ones.
That's going in the grocerystores right now and saying,
lord, we're real, because I onlygot five things and I have paid
$100.
I got five things, lord, wheream I supposed to get this money
from?
Lord?
It is so real.
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It is so real that everyone isreally trying to make it And
some of us are doing the bestthat we can.
Doesn't get lonely?
Absolutely It can.
Do you ever wonder why?
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Absolutely.
Do you ever wonder what if?
Yep, but why does the why haveto be of something that you
don't have?
Why can't the why be?
Why don't I get up and try it?
Why don't I just get up and putmy best foot forward and try it
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?
What if it turned out to be inmy favor?
What if it turned out to be agreat thing?
What if this one podcast blewup so crazy that Liddy changed
forever?
What if I can only know that ifI get on the mic right?
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I can only know that if I keepupdating my website, if I keep
posting, if I keep being theauthentic me, lord, i thank you
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In this very moment.
I just need anybody that'slistening.
Don't give up, please don't giveup.
We are fighting battles thatare not ours.
It is the Lord's, it's not ours.
He asks give it to me and Iwill give you rest.
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Give it to him.
Give it.
Give it to him, hear Lord,write it down and say you can
have this, that and the other.
I don't care how messy yourlife is right now, i don't care
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how many bills, i don't care ifyou buy yourself.
I don't care if thatrelationship ain't working.
I don't care if you are happyat your job.
I don't care, because I knowwhat God can do, because he's
done it for me over and over andover again.
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I know that he will do it foryou.
You'll do it for you too.
That business that you want todo, everything that I've ever
started I didn't have nobodyhelp me.
I jumped out here, i researchedand I did it myself.
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I played with this retarded Icall it retarded, retarded Mike
every day because I'm like everytime I get on the mic I'm like
which feature, which?
What do I do?
How do I make it sound right?
I don't even know what this isgoing to sound right?
I got Alexa playing on theother side.
I got the wind blowing.
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I got the fan blowing.
I got so many different things.
We didn't heard a little bit ofeverything.
But I want to always beauthentic.
I don't want to hide behindlife.
So many times we butter thingsup.
So many times we want to makeit pretty, we want to make it
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seem good.
Listen, the one thing I'm notdoing and I love shoes I'm not
going to let my feet hurt.
So if that's going to make meattract or get attention or do
something that you're going towant me, with my slides on, i
might bust out some heels, acouple.
But please know this, baby, i'mnot, my feet are not going to
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hurt.
There's certain things I'm justnot going to do, and what I'm
not going to do is sit up hereand try to update and change the
vocals and add a little bit ofthis, because, number one, i
don't even know how.
So that's number one.
Number two, being you lookingat the person that you look at
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in the mirror every day, it'swho you are, it's who God made
you to be.
The outside doesn't define whoyour inside, who your insides
reflect.
What does your heart look like?
What do you?
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what do you feel that you aredoing to make you feel good?
not waiting for someone else tomake you feel good?
Today I wanted some Supermanice cream.
I got on up out of my bed atfour or something and I walked
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with my headphones on and I waslistening to my music and I was.
I was laughing because I likeBeyonce's music but I wasn't
like a huge fan of where I couldsing every word and all of that
.
But let me tell you something,that that, that they're blue.
What is it?
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blue, Ivy or blue?
Let me tell you something I sawthat baby get on that stage
that first time and she, she goton there just to move and I'm
like Oh, baby, you got thisbecause you better than me, and
I watched her every single timeget better and better and better
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and better.
So what we need to do is investin ourselves to get better,
better and better, and we leavehere.
We ain't taking none of thiswith us, none of it.
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I'm not going to have to lookat this mic, no more.
I'm not going to have to lookat these two computers in front
of my face and cell phones and,and I'm not going to have to
worry about none of that.
It'll be all left behind.
But why I'm here?
what am I doing with it?
Are you utilizing the resourcesand the tools that you have to
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just try?
It's discouraging y'all.
It is discouraging sometimesjust to watch everybody make it
in in in you, sitting here,saying, okay, what am I supposed
to do?
I've even reached out to somepeople and I'm like, okay, they
don't respond.
But I but, but God, i thinkthis is top.
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And then I just said you knowwhat?
Let me just keep showing up.
Let me keep showing up.
Just as this breeze is blowingon me, i feel like it's God
breathing just fresh air, justbreathing something new on me.
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I pray that, wherever you arenow, that God would just breathe
something fresh and new on you.
It was a few, a long time I wascrying tears of sadness and just
being confused and not reallyunderstanding what was happening
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to me.
And now, if I shed a tear, i'mshedding a tear of joy because I
know God's gonna do it.
I know that.
I know that.
I know that God is going to doit.
Try it again, go and try itagain.
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And I'm telling myself this Icall myself gonna make this 15,
maybe 10 or 15 minutes, and it'snow 30 minutes and whoever
probably is listening is likewhen is she gonna stop?
But I'm encouraging somebody tostand with me.
Try it again, try it, don'tgive up, push, push until
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something happens.
God won't fail us.
He won't.
The fact that we are still herein the land of the living after
everything we've justexperienced over the last three
years.
He has purpose.
It's something more for us thanwe can ever imagine.
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This is our time, this is mytime.
So I challenge you tonight togive it to God and rest.
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I'm gonna say it again Give itto God and rest.
Whatever it is, he can handleit and he asks for it And he can
fix it.
He can change it, he can updateit, he can open a door, he can
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shut a door, he can give us avision, he can give us provision
, he can get those bills paid,he can give you that new job.
He can retire you.
Lord, i thank you.
Lord.
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I thank you not only just formyself, but for whoever is
listening to the sound of myvoice And although it's feeling
like it's about to go out again,i am not going to be much
longer.
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We are too blessed to bestressed.
It is okay to not be okay.
Just don't stay there.
And only God can turn a messinto a message.
And in closing, i will say giveit to God, y'all, and rest
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Litty Lord.
I thank you.
You all know you can find me onall the major platforms.
I am trying to figure out thisYouTube thing so I can start to
upload my podcast to that aswell.
My website is wwwlittylccom.
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That's wwwlittlylccom.
Be blessed y'all.
Give it to God and rest LittyAbbao.
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