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Unknown (00:00):
So as you are what you do I know that the the wisdom
that is pushed for us assemantics, especially in the
faith space, and I have somebrothers who are going to
disagree with this statement.
And we've had theseconversations. And I think
(00:21):
initially I agree with them, andI don't agree anymore. They
would say that you're not whatyou do, what you do is not who
you are. I think that they mean,well, when they say that, I
think that what they're whatthey're referring to is that
(00:43):
like, you are not youroccupation, you are not your
title, you are more than that.
God has meant more for you thanthat. The truth of the matter
is, you are the decisions thatyou make. And the decisions that
you make are what you are doing.
What you do defines who you are.
(01:07):
And that's how people interactwith you. Even to suggest that
you should just be you're ahuman being that you should just
be be is an action word. Whatare you being? What does that
mean? And I don't think that'smy brother's, who am I am
(01:32):
currently disagreeing with on apodcast. And they don't have a
chance to retort this, it's oneof the advantages of having a
podcast is being able to talkand nobody talks back to you is
that being while an action word,can be a space where like, you
(01:57):
can take your foot off the gas.
And maybe I'm unsettled, maybemy, my faith is not where it
needs to be. And I'm willing toaccept that. I'm willing to take
on the chin, that maybe I don'thave enough faith, but I'm sick
of waiting. I believe that Godhas given me everything I need
(02:22):
to go get and become everythingthat he's caused me to be. And
I'm not waiting on Him. God iswaiting on me. And that's just
what I believe. Right? Why isthis important right now? I'll
tell you. Because I'll be 35. Ina year, I'll be 34 this year,
(02:50):
next year, I'll be 35. And whyis 35 important to me, because I
work in the civic engagementspace. And when they talk about
young people, they talk aboutpeople from what age to what age
18 to 35. So next year, Godwilling, if I see that birthday,
(03:12):
I, I will be officially out ofthe young people category. I'm
no longer a young adult by theirmetrics, which means that
there's some things that I needto have together, that I should
be pushing towards. That doesn'tmean that I should stop
(03:32):
dreaming. Although I thought fora little bit that that meant
that I was going to have to stopdreaming, that doesn't mean I'm
going to have to stop dreaming.
What it does mean is that I'mgoing to have to put some feet
behind it. That I'm going tohave to take the experience that
God has given me and allow me tosurvive and not lose my mind.
(03:54):
It's given me the experiencethat I need to execute. To start
that thing I have a very goodunderstanding of who I am, where
I am, what I'm capable of. AndI'm I'm ready to put it in
action. Right like I'm going forFull Tilt, no apologies. I'm not
(04:16):
waiting for nothing. Who what Ihave done has has cultivated the
WHO that I am the choices thatI've made in life. Have me where
I am. Right and so like I don'tnecessarily believe that like
(04:39):
God charts your path. You haveto choose to walk it. God charts
a path. You have to choose towalk it and you decide whether
you have shoes on or boots on orsandals on you decide that
and he never said that the roadwas going to be easy. There is a
road Are you going to walk in? Ihave given you everything that
(05:02):
you need to walk this path? Areyou going to walk it? Are you
going to build the things that Itold you to build? Are you going
to sustain the things that Itold you to sustain? Are you
going to grow in the places thatI have equipped you to grow in?
What are you going to do? Andmaybe it's just me, but a fire
was lit under me recently thatwas just like, bro, like, what
(05:26):
are we waiting on? Why aren't webuilding I got everything that I
need. All of the intellectuallike, I got it. All of the
relationships, I got it like,they don't, they don't escape
me, who have whose permissionand my waiting on. When God
(05:48):
breathed the breath of life whenI cried as a baby, and I believe
this to my core, hear me,podcast. So I said, society,
listen to what I'm about to tellyou. When you breathe your first
breath, it was all thepermission, you need it to go be
(06:12):
great. As soon as he gave youthe breath, that was the
permission that you needed togo. You're not waiting on
anything else. As soon as hebreathed the breath of life and
you, you cried in the doctors,as soon as soon as that
happened. That was all thepermission you need. So go. You,
(06:38):
he put everything in you. Andthis is, here's here's a here's
an understanding, that will tripyou out, right? You were born
with all the skin, you need it.
Think about that for just asecond. I wait. skin is the
largest organ you have. And youwere given all that you will
(06:59):
have when you were born, willwill dead say and die will the
cells regenerate. All of that isvery true. But the organ itself,
you were given all you needed asa baby. And you grew into what
it was going to be shaped up as,but you didn't need any
(07:21):
permission to grow. You just didit. So as soon as you were born,
he gave you permission. So go.
And maybe I'm just talking tome. Because I'm the one who's
lived my life for last 30 plusyears at this point. From one
(07:45):
thing to another, making surethat everybody else was okay.
Not really focused on me makingdecisions about my life based on
what I think other people need.
Based on what I think that theythink about me, based on what I
thought it meant to be a brotheror a husband, or a pastor or a
friend. What did you need me tobe? That's what I was doing. And
(08:10):
that's how I lived my life. Ibuilt my life around needing
permission to exist. And so Iwent into survival mode. And I
finally woke up out of survivalmode. And now I'm trying to
figure out who I am. What do Ilike? What am I supposed to be
(08:35):
doing? That's a dangerous placeto be at 33. So I'm telling you,
wherever you are in your life,if you're looking for
permission, you're looking forsomebody to tell you it's time
to go. Here. Listen to thepodcast. It's time to go. Do
what you feel like you're calledto do. Do everything you think
(08:56):
you're big enough to do and ifisn't wrong, you'll be
corrected. It'll be fine. You'lllive so I got to say about that.
All right family
So as you are what you do I know that the the wisdom
that is pushed for us assemantics, especially in the
faith space, and I have somebrothers who are going to
disagree with this statement.
And we've had theseconversations. And I think
(00:21):
initially I agree with them, andI don't agree anymore. They
would say that you're not whatyou do, what you do is not who
you are. I think that they mean,well, when they say that, I
think that what they're whatthey're referring to is that
(00:43):
like, you are not youroccupation, you are not your
title, you are more than that.
God has meant more for you thanthat. The truth of the matter
is, you are the decisions thatyou make. And the decisions that
you make are what you are doing.
What you do defines who you are.
(01:07):
And that's how people interactwith you. Even to suggest that
you should just be you're ahuman being that you should just
be be is an action word. Whatare you being? What does that
mean? And I don't think that'smy brother's, who am I am
(01:32):
currently disagreeing with on apodcast. And they don't have a
chance to retort this, it's oneof the advantages of having a
podcast is being able to talkand nobody talks back to you is
that being while an action word,can be a space where like, you
(01:57):
can take your foot off the gas.
And maybe I'm unsettled, maybemy, my faith is not where it
needs to be. And I'm willing toaccept that. I'm willing to take
on the chin, that maybe I don'thave enough faith, but I'm sick
of waiting. I believe that Godhas given me everything I need
(02:22):
to go get and become everythingthat he's caused me to be. And
I'm not waiting on Him. God iswaiting on me. And that's just
what I believe. Right? Why isthis important right now? I'll
tell you. Because I'll be 35. Ina year, I'll be 34 this year,
(02:50):
next year, I'll be 35. And whyis 35 important to me, because I
work in the civic engagementspace. And when they talk about
young people, they talk aboutpeople from what age to what age
18 to 35. So next year, Godwilling, if I see that birthday,
(03:12):
I, I will be officially out ofthe young people category. I'm
no longer a young adult by theirmetrics, which means that
there's some things that I needto have together, that I should
be pushing towards. That doesn'tmean that I should stop
(03:32):
dreaming. Although I thought fora little bit that that meant
that I was going to have to stopdreaming, that doesn't mean I'm
going to have to stop dreaming.
What it does mean is that I'mgoing to have to put some feet
behind it. That I'm going tohave to take the experience that
God has given me and allow me tosurvive and not lose my mind.
(03:54):
It's given me the experiencethat I need to execute. To start
that thing I have a very goodunderstanding of who I am, where
I am, what I'm capable of. AndI'm I'm ready to put it in
action. Right like I'm going forFull Tilt, no apologies. I'm not
(04:16):
waiting for nothing. Who what Ihave done has has cultivated the
WHO that I am the choices thatI've made in life. Have me where
I am. Right and so like I don'tnecessarily believe that like
(04:39):
God charts your path. You haveto choose to walk it. God charts
a path. You have to choose towalk it and you decide whether
you have shoes on or boots on orsandals on you decide that
and he never said that the roadwas going to be easy. There is a
road Are you going to walk in? Ihave given you everything that
(05:02):
you need to walk this path? Areyou going to walk it? Are you
going to build the things that Itold you to build? Are you going
to sustain the things that Itold you to sustain? Are you
going to grow in the places thatI have equipped you to grow in?
What are you going to do? Andmaybe it's just me, but a fire
was lit under me recently thatwas just like, bro, like, what
(05:26):
are we waiting on? Why aren't webuilding I got everything that I
need. All of the intellectuallike, I got it. All of the
relationships, I got it like,they don't, they don't escape
me, who have whose permissionand my waiting on. When God
(05:48):
breathed the breath of life whenI cried as a baby, and I believe
this to my core, hear me,podcast. So I said, society,
listen to what I'm about to tellyou. When you breathe your first
breath, it was all thepermission, you need it to go be
(06:12):
great. As soon as he gave youthe breath, that was the
permission that you needed togo. You're not waiting on
anything else. As soon as hebreathed the breath of life and
you, you cried in the doctors,as soon as soon as that
happened. That was all thepermission you need. So go. You,
(06:38):
he put everything in you. Andthis is, here's here's a here's
an understanding, that will tripyou out, right? You were born
with all the skin, you need it.
Think about that for just asecond. I wait. skin is the
largest organ you have. And youwere given all that you will
(06:59):
have when you were born, willwill dead say and die will the
cells regenerate. All of that isvery true. But the organ itself,
you were given all you needed asa baby. And you grew into what
it was going to be shaped up as,but you didn't need any
(07:21):
permission to grow. You just didit. So as soon as you were born,
he gave you permission. So go.
And maybe I'm just talking tome. Because I'm the one who's
lived my life for last 30 plusyears at this point. From one
(07:45):
thing to another, making surethat everybody else was okay.
Not really focused on me makingdecisions about my life based on
what I think other people need.
Based on what I think that theythink about me, based on what I
thought it meant to be a brotheror a husband, or a pastor or a
friend. What did you need me tobe? That's what I was doing. And
(08:10):
that's how I lived my life. Ibuilt my life around needing
permission to exist. And so Iwent into survival mode. And I
finally woke up out of survivalmode. And now I'm trying to
figure out who I am. What do Ilike? What am I supposed to be
(08:35):
doing? That's a dangerous placeto be at 33. So I'm telling you,
wherever you are in your life,if you're looking for
permission, you're looking forsomebody to tell you it's time
to go. Here. Listen to thepodcast. It's time to go. Do
what you feel like you're calledto do. Do everything you think
(08:56):
you're big enough to do and ifisn't wrong, you'll be
corrected. It'll be fine. You'lllive so I got to say about that.
All right family
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