August 3, 2024 • 47 mins
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Ever felt like you're constantly facing setbacks and roadblocks? What if God's timing is the missing piece in your journey to homeownership?
On this episode of Solid Saturdays, host Tiffany opens up about her life-changing experience of buying her first home, a process filled with trials, faith, and divine miracles.
Tiffany's journey encapsulates the grinding reality of home buying, illuminated by faith and perseverance. She shares raw and personal stories of dealing with uncooperative agents, shifting between realtors, and the emotional toll of rejected offers. Yet, through it all, divine guidance and a supportive community kept her hope alive.
Tiffany recounts a pivotal moment inspired by a prophecy and the encouragement of a new, faith-driven realtor that reignited her dreams. Listen to learn how embracing change led to unexpected blessings, including a perfect house in a new area that exceeded every desire she had.
Prepare to be moved by an incredible tale of divine intervention and the power of stepping out of your comfort zone. You'll gain insights into overcoming financial struggles, repairing credit, and navigating the often frustrating real estate market, all while holding onto God's unwavering promises. Tiffany's heartfelt testimony will inspire you to trust in God's timing and appreciate the daily blessings He bestows.
Tune in to discover the importance of aligning with God's plan, finding strength in like-minded individuals, and pushing through discouragement with unwavering belief.
This episode is a powerful reminder that God's promises never falter, and sometimes, we must leap into the unknown to receive His greatest gifts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we're back .
So, god, you do it, do it.
Jesus, here comes the testimony.
Hey y'all, welcome to SolidSaturdays, where we take a
moment just to have a casualconversation that flows from the
heart of God.
Listen y'all, I get it.
It's Saturday, it's the weekend, and you may be in your bed,
you may be running errands oreven preparing to spend time
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with your loved ones, but sinceyou are listening, I want you to
sit at the edge of your seatand prepare to be inspired.
Are y'all ready?
All right, then let's go aheadand dive in.
Hey y'all, and welcome to SolidSaturday's Prayer and
Inspiration Podcast.
I am Tiffany and I'm your host,and it is a pleasure, it is my
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honor to be here to just have acasual conversation with y'all.
Listen y'all, I'm so excitedabout today's topic.
We're gonna dive right in,because this topic may take a
little time to get into, but Ipromise you, if you stay
throughout the whole episode,you are going to be blessed from
it, and I just wanna thank youall for listening, those who
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have listened over the years andthose that are currently
listening.
It's not taken for granted thatyou guys choose to listen to
this podcast.
Thank you guys so much.
But I got to be honest withy'all.
I took a little break due to mybook release and my book tour.
And listen y'all, your girlbought a house.
You hear me, your girl bought ahouse and I still can't believe
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it.
But we're here and God'spromises are still true and I
just love when his promises cometo pass on our lives.
The journey to buying this homewas absolutely wild, do y'all
hear me?
It was wild.
It was ups and downs, butlisten, we are here and we are
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able to stand in a place where Ican tell you that God's word is
true and he will always comethrough.
So today we're going to talk alittle bit about God coming
through for us.
God coming through because Ithink that we're living in a
time where it's becoming harderand harder to see, through the
chaos, god honoring his word.
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But the Bible tells us thathe's not a man that he should
lie, nor the son of man that hewill repent, but everything that
he said, everything that hepromised us, if it came out of
his mouth, it's going to come topass.
So you got to choose to renewyour vision or to shift your
vision so that, even through thechaos and all the spiraling
whirlwinds, that you still havethat belief that God is going to
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come through for you.
So we're going to talk a littlebit about God coming through
and just how this all came about.
As far as the topic, one of mymore common sayings when people
make a big move or accomplishsomething is come through.
That's what I say, and anybodythat knows me or have had
conversation with me, you knowthere's something that you will
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probably hear come through, andwhat this means in other words
is that's what I'm talking about.
Or maybe you're giving someonea high five or something like
that, but one of my words iscome through.
But how many times have we saidthat to God?
If you think about it, he comesthrough for us on a daily basis
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.
But do we recognize that on adaily basis?
How God comes through for us?
Right, but God deserves a comethrough daily.
He deserves that.
Or, however you offer yourpraise to God, he deserves it
daily, because daily he comesthrough for us.
I told y'all I bought a houseand since we overcome by the
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blood of the lamb and the wordof our testimony, I'm going to
share this testimony with youabout how God came through.
So for a few years now I'vebeen working on little things in
preparation for buying a home,and this came about when I
realized how much I spent inrent over the years and at the
end of it all, I still had noownership Y'all I'm talking
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about.
I was spending over 100K overthe years and I still didn't own
it.
My name wasn't on it, so itwasn't an investment.
It was me literally payingsomebody to live in their place.
Now, to stay in my comfort zoneof my apartment, I asked my
landlord several times because Iwas renting privately.
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I asked him several times well,a couple of times if he was
willing to sell the condo to mebecause the neighborhood was
familiar and it was home for myson and I, and he said no.
And, like I said, I think Iasked them twice over a span of
two years.
And that second time that Iasked him, I knew that it was
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time for me to own.
So, over like a year or so, Ibegan raising, or working on
raising, my credit score,because I'm going to tell y'all
it was suffering, and y'all knowa part of my testimony where I
tell you that I've been throughtwo divorces and within the
first divorce, I experienced twoevictions and one car
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repossession.
Actually, that wasn't even thedivorce.
That was during the marriagethat I had two evictions and one
car repossession.
Since that divorce, I haven'thad anything.
But while in the marriage.
That's what I experienced.
But while in the marriage,that's what I experienced.
So it hit my credit really,really hard.
Now, although those things wereyears prior to me seeking a
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home and trying to repair mycredit, it still had an effect
on my credit, so I had to.
In addition to repairing mycredit, I also had to break like
my spending habits and myspending behaviors, because I
lived in the world ofcompetition and this was before
social media was even big, likeit is now but I lived in
competition with people, so ifthey had it, I felt like I had
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to have it or something closethat reflected it, because I was
thinking that what I haddefined who I was, and this is
something that many people stillstruggle with.
But I want you to break thattoday, because you will find
yourself in debt Because listen,y'all, I know it probably
better than most because Ibought when it was unnecessary.
Some people still do that, butI don't do that.
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No more.
Praise God, the Lord hasdelivered me from that.
But when I bought when it wasunnecessary just because the
next person had it, wasn't evena place of me being encouraged
by what they had in theirtestimony.
It was purely competition.
I'm a very competitive personin everything.
So I bought when it wasunnecessary and that put me in
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debt.
It wasn't wise and it put me indebt.
I was still immature, so don'tjudge me.
So there were things andbehaviors that I had to break
before I began this homeownership journey.
Then, when I was ready, I beganto declare that I was going to
be a homeowner, because that wassomething to break my thinking
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from the past to where I wantedto go right.
So I'm going to tell y'allsomething.
This was really big for mebecause, as a single mother, the
apartment that I was living init wasn't the best apartment.
It wasn't even something that Iwas used to.
I was used to living in niceplaces, but it wasn't the nicest
place.
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It was in a nice community,which sold me because I wanted
to be in a gated community.
I wanted to be in a communitythat was safe and where that
apartment was placed.
It presented those things.
But it wasn't the nicestapartment.
It had a stove and arefrigerator that was probably
from the eighties or ninetiesand the refrigerator made noises
, so much so that when I hadpeople over or if I was
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recording a podcast do y'allhear me?
Because I was still in myapartment when I started this
podcast, but I had to turn myrefrigerator off because the
noise would be disturbing topeople.
But me and my son, we got usedto the noise, so we just left it
on when nobody was over or Iwasn't recording anything or
going live on a live stream.
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So the refrigerator made noisesin the bathrooms, were old and
rusty.
But do you know what I did?
In the midst of all that?
I honored the place that Godblessed me with.
Yes, I said God blessed me with.
He blessed me with it becauseat the time that I moved into
that apartment, it was ablessing.
Why?
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Because one thing was no oneelse was taking me because I was
still having those evictionsand repossessions on my credit
report.
So no one else was taking me,and not only because of the
credit report, but I also hadlittle to no income.
So what I was asking for wasn'twhat landlords wanted to hear.
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So, before I officially got theapartment, while they were
still reviewing my applicationand all the other things they
needed to do, I drove up to thatapartment almost daily and I
sat in front of it in my car andI prayed because the Lord knew
what I needed at that time and Iwas willing to put in the work
that it needed because it neededa lot of work, but I believe
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that it would be our home forthat season.
And even as I reflect back, Iremember when we were about to
leave the showing of theapartment and my son, who was
six or seven at the time, hesaid to me we were in the
bathroom of the apartmentactually and he said to me he
said, mama, this is our home.
Listen, y'all, this is touchingme.
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He said, mama, this is our home.
I was in such a fragile placeback then.
Um, I was actually, um,actually in the middle of a
separation of my second marriage.
We weren't divorced yet, but wewere separated.
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So I was going throughdisappointment, heartbreak, and
it was a total change.
And just to reflect back onthat moment and what I was
feeling, it touched me.
It touched me.
So, yeah, my son.
He said, mama, this is our home.
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And so when I got the place, Ihonored the place.
When God blessed me with theplace, I honored the place
because I knew that God gave itto me.
So, listen, y'all, I kept itclean and I made it home.
I prayed over it and I prayedin it.
I fixed it up and it was homeand I was grateful.
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You know, there were somepeople that came over and they
would ask me.
They were like Tiffany, why areyou here?
And I was there because it wasa blessing to me and my son.
We had our own, we had our ownspace and it was something that
we both were happy with.
We had to make some adjustments, but we were happy.
We had our own at that time,although we weren't owning it,
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y'all, but it was our own spaceand it was needed.
So, truth be told, when I beganlooking for a home in May of
last year 2023, I wasn't lookingfor anything extravagant,
because I was okay with fixingit up if I needed to.
I just wanted the price to beright and for it to still be in
my area of comfort, theneighborhood that I knew, the
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neighborhood that my son knew.
My mind was also still in thatplace of just having enough
rather than receiving more thanenough from God.
So I saw one home which beganmy journey, and this realtor
that I met in that home.
She was so sweet.
She asked me all the questionsif I was pre-approved for a loan
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and how much I could put downon the home, et cetera.
You know all those things.
And I didn't have thatinformation because in my mind,
although I wanted a home, I wasjust looking.
I was just looking for a home.
But that encounter with her, itsparked something much deeper
for me in my journey.
So when I went home to myapartment, I just started
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browsing places, trying toimagine myself in a home,
because I wasn't there yet.
Y'all, I wasn't there yet.
Mentally, but also practically,the odds were against me.
But I practiced believing and Iprepared myself along the way
for this journey.
And one day I was scrollingthrough Facebook and this was
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probably a few weeks later and asister friend of mine who is a
lender, she made a post to allfuture homeowners.
I still have the post saved,but she made a post to all
future homeowners and I cameacross it and she was offering a
down payment assistance programand this was June 13, 2023.
I got the receipts, y'all.
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So that caught my attention andit sparked my faith even more
because, truth be told, I wasstill kind of counting myself
out of being able to own a home.
And this was based on oldconversations that I had with
other realtors and lenders.
And it turns out that thoserealtors and lenders, they just
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weren't my people, they weren'tfor me.
So I talked to my sister friendand turned out that I didn't
qualify for the down paymentassistance program and I didn't
qualify for any other financialassistance program.
But she still encouraged me toapply to become pre-approved for
a loan.
So, shaking in my boots, Iapplied and, to my surprise, I
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was pre-approved Like y'all.
I could have cried in thatmoment.
I had a golden ticket to gettinga home and this was the first
time that getting a home.
It seemed realistic andpossible for me, because it's
one thing for things to seempossible for you, because we're
Christians, we're believers, sowe know that all things are
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possible for God to do.
There's nothing that he cannotdo.
But the moment that thingsbecome realistic listen y'all
everything changes, everythingchanges.
So it didn't matter how crazythe market was at that time, I
wasn't phased at all.
After that, I knew that I was inthe right timing.
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I knew that I was in the veinof God and that I would be
getting my home within a year,within 12 months.
Now I wanted my home by the endof 2023.
And when that didn't pan out, Ibecame discouraged.
But you can't put a timelineand your own stipulations on
God's perfected will for yourlife.
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I'm going to say that one moretime because somebody needs to
hear it, because a lot of timeswe try to put our own
stipulations, which shapes ourown expectations on God's
perfected will for our lives.
But you got to come to realizethat God's perfected will for
you, it was carved out beforetime began.
So you cannot put your owntimeline and your stipulations
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on God's perfected will for yourlife.
So with that golden ticket, thesearch really began and I was so
excited.
You know you become so excitedat the beginning of the search
for your home, but you don'trealize that you're literally
searching for your home.
So you're not.
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If you're serious about it,you're not just gonna take the
first home that you come across,because there are certain
things.
Since you're investing in ahome.
There are certain things thatyou want for your home.
So it can be a long orprolonged process and you don't
realize that at first, but I wasexcited nonetheless.
And through the process, myfirst realtor.
She had a tragedy in her familyso she took a break, which kind
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of led me to crossing pathswith my second realtor.
I was still searching onlinefor different homes that were
within the community that I wasliving in, and so I found this
other home that was in thecommunity and it was an open
house.
Within that open house, thatrealtor was there and we
connected and she became mysecond realtor.
And through my second realtor,I found another home that was in
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the area that I was living inat that time and although it
wasn't what I really wanted, Ihad vision for it.
I had vision to build upon it.
I was still in the mindset thatyou know I could still fix
things up, I could do it, andyou know I've done it before, so
I can do it again.
Listen, I wanted that homebecause it was in the area.
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So I put in an offer and theseller's agent of that home they
denied my offer immediately.
I was crushed y'all, but at thesame time I wasn't giving up.
So I kept driving by the homebecause I really believed that
that home was mine.
I was driving in theneighborhood praying.
I was all in y'all.
And one of those days, when Idrove by the seller, the owner
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of the home, he was outsidebecause he was still doing like
renovations and work on the home.
So I passed by, just declaringthat that home was my home, and
then the Lord said turn aroundand go back and talk to him.
Now I was like, okay, jesus,now I'm new to this whole home
buying process.
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What do you say to the seller,the owner of that home?
But it goes back to theauthority, the power that we
have as sons of God.
So I really didn't haveanything to fear, but I was
intimidated.
So anyway, hesitantly, I turnedaround and I didn't know what I
was going to say or what I wasgoing to do.
I was just being obedient.
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So I met the owner of the homeoutside and I introduced myself
and my son and I let him knowthat were some things that the
home wouldn't come with, such assome key appliances, aka the
washer and dryer and some otherappliances that he said he
wasn't leaving in the home.
But y'all listen, I was sold onthe home and I convinced them
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of that.
So it didn't stop me or itdidn't discourage me what the
home didn't have, because Iwanted the home and I was sure
that those appliances would comefrom somewhere that God would
eventually provide.
And if he didn't provide, thenI knew people nearby and I'm
like you know, maybe I can usetheir washer dryer until I can
get my own.
You know, I was.
I was making up these differentsituations or scenarios that
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would make things work until Iwas able to work on that part of
the home.
So I told him that I put myoffer in and that it was denied,
and he looked surprised.
He was like well, what did yousay?
Your name was again, and I toldhim and he said I never
received your offer.
And then he began to tell methat he was unhappy with his
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agent and all these things, andso eventually he instructed me
to put my offer in again andthat he'll see what he can do.
So I went to my agent and shewanted me to move past this
property and look at somethingnew.
But I told her that I wanted toput in another offer.
So we did, and we got deniedagain, rejected again.
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So it was apparent that myoffers weren't getting to the
owner, that his agent wasblocking it, like specifically
blocking it.
And you know what we do asChristians.
We're like, you know, that'sthe devil, and it really was,
because, like, why would youblock my offer?
Like all the offers should begetting to him so that he can
make that decision.
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So, anyway, my realtor, shewent back and forth with the
seller's agent for a little.
Then the property went undercontract.
Needless to say, I wasdevastated but y'all listen, I
was determined, I didn't stopbelieving.
I eventually talked to mypastor about it and she shared
that my story that I was sharingwith her.
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It sounded like another womanthat is known on social media.
So she shared that my storythat I was sharing with her.
It sounded like another womanthat is known on social media.
So she shared this woman'stestimony with me and it ignited
my faith once again.
Y'all, it's important who youhave in your corner when you are
believing God for somethingthat is big or that will
literally shift your life fromone position to another.
Pay attention to who's in yourcorner, because it matters.
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So she shared the testimony andit ignited my faith again and I
actually went on Instagram andI screenshotted that testimony
of that woman and I reflectedback to her testimony, often In
the midst of all this, like thehome was still under contract,
but in the midst of it, one daythe Lord woke me up.
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Of course he woke me up.
Upon waking up, the Lord spoketo me.
He said I want you to go byU-Haul and get some boxes.
And I said okay, lord, I'mgoing to go back later in the
day.
He's like no, I want you to goright now.
So I got up, got dressed and Iwent to U-Haul to get my boxes
so that I can start packing,because that was one of the
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things that was also in thewoman's testimony that she was
packing even before her offerwas accepted, because that was
her act of faith.
When I got my boxes, I met aguy in the line as I was waiting
to check out, but this guy wasliterally sent by God.
He was talking to another guyin the line and while he was
talking to that guy, I went upand paid for my boxes and I
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began loading them in the car.
On my last trip to my car, I metthe same guy that I saw on the
line.
I met him in the parking lot onhis way out and I greeted him
because I just like to you know,greet people, it's courteous,
you know people don't do that,no more, but I did it.
I greeted him and then he saidto me he said can I pray with
you?
And knowing the conversationthat he had with the guy in the
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line, I said you know, I waslike sure, because I don't let
everybody pray for me.
I got to know who you believein and I got to know that you
believe in him.
Real, real good, like we got tobe on the same team but
experiencing that conversationin the line, I already knew like
okay, this guy is seasoned andwe believe the same thing.
So I said sure, while he waspraying, he began to prophesy
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over me about my home y'all andhow God positioned me to walk
into financial abundance, and heprophesied some other things.
I mean, we stayed in thatparking lot for at least 30
minutes.
It was so powerful and it waswhat I needed to keep believing
God that this was my time In themidst of facing rejection.
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This is what God sent to me tolet me know that this was still
my time.
So just a side note, y'all, Iwent live on IG that day just to
recap that encounter that I hadwith that man.
So if you want to view it, youcan just go on my IG and check
it out.
The link is inside of thisdescription.
So I took that prophecy and Iwent home and I started packing.
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In the midst of all that, Ikept on driving by the house
daily and I kept on declaringand calling it in.
And I picked up another streamof income in the midst of all of
this that's going on and thatwas to help me with funding the
home.
And in the midst of that, theLord was still having me give to
others, serve others, ministerto others and listen.
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Y'all financially give toothers, and these were not just
small gifts, these were hundredsof dollars of gifts.
But even in the midst of that,I followed God.
I was obedient.
Also, I went to a conferencewith my pastor and another young
lady and the speaker of thatconference.
He began to testify about hisjourney of becoming a homeowner.
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Now, he wasn't even talkingabout this, but the Lord segued
that into his message.
God is so good, y'all, heorchestrated all this.
So he started talking about hisjourney of becoming a is so
good, y'all, he orchestrated allthis.
So he started talking about hisjourney of becoming a homeowner
.
Randomly, y'all.
And in the midst of himtestifying, he began to prophesy
that God was changing the zipcode for some of us in the room,
that we would have to let go ofwhat we knew and embrace where
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God was taking us.
Listen y'all, that word hit meso hard in my belly, it hit me
in my spirit.
So I received that wordimmediately and so I continued
driving by the home every day,in the midst of receiving that
word that God was changing myzip code, and I continued
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packing.
And listen y'all, my son and I,we began living out of boxes
and we lived out of boxes formonths.
Months, not weeks, not days.
Months.
My living room seemed likechaos because it was filled with
boxes, packed and unpacked.
And eventually that contractthat the house was under it fell
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through and I got to tell y'all, I rejoiced, I rejoiced, I
rejoiced and I put in anotheroffer, this time that agent, the
seller's agent.
He ignored my offer andeventually, my realtor, she
stopped believing for that homebecause the agent was just
stubborn he, he was denyingevery offer that we put in.
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So in November I had to dropsomething off to one of my
brothers and I told him that Iwas in the process of buying a
home and he said that he had aguy for me that was a realtor
and he said, like listen, sis,he's going to get you in a home
and it may be the home that youwere believing for or maybe
something better, but he's goingto get you in that home.
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And he also told me that thisrealtor was a believer and he
was a pastor.
So he knew how to fight in bothrounds.
He knew how to fight here onEarth with other agents and he
knew how to fight in the spiritLike it's a double whammy.
I loved it.
I reached out to the guy and letme tell y'all everything I
expected.
He did that and more.
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He fought for that home, hefought for it, he fought for it
and he even created a team thatwas fighting for it with me.
And that was the thing that Iloved and it increased my trust
in the realtor.
Because the other realtor Ifelt like I was fighting alone.
But this guy.
He led this fight and I justhad to be present and fight in
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the spirit.
So I love that.
And let me just tell y'all, ify'all looking for a home, find a
realtor that you can trust anda realtor that is on the same
page as you, because it wouldtake so much of the stress of
home buying, searching for ahome.
It would take that off of youand listen, you need that weight
off of you when you go throughthis process.
So he fought for it and Januarycame and he was still fighting
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for it.
We still believe in God for it.
It went under contract but wewere still believing and
fighting for it.
But I began to declare inJanuary of this year that I
would buy and move into my homethis year.
Then, a few weeks later, thehome that I was believing God
for it sold.
After declaring that the homesold.
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And actually the Lord preparedme for that moment because I was
still driving by the home everyday, praying and believing.
And this particular morning,when I drove by or was about to
drive by, the Lord said you'regoing to see a pod in the
driveway of that home.
Then he said the home sold.
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And, sure enough.
When I turned on that streetwhere the home was, there was a
pod in the driveway and then Ichecked online and I saw that
the home sold.
I think I lost hope at thatmoment because I was having
issues on my job with leadershipand God was telling me to make
a big move.
That didn't make sense at thetime.
Everything that was happening,it just seemed to be crumbling
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for me at that time.
But in the midst of that, Iwould go on Facebook and I would
see random posts that showedkeys to a home and had the
caption that said declare it,you are getting a home this year
.
These were posts from peoplethat I wasn't following.
They weren't following me, theywere not friends of friends,
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they were not my friends, butthese were posts that would
appear on my timeline that saiddeclare it, you are getting a
home this year.
And I would see a couple ofthese posts daily.
And y'all this is not bycoincidence and you can say that
it was the algorithm, it was AI, whatever.
Say what you want, but Ibelieve that these were little
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reminders from God that wouldremind me of my declaration that
I made at the beginning of theyear that I was going to get my
home this year.
Just because my situationchanged doesn't mean that God's
promise for me changed.
And let me just speak that toy'all that are believing God for
something big.
Just because your situationchanged, your situation may be
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in chaos.
It doesn't mean that what Godhas said about you or what he
has promised you, it doesn'tmean that that changed at all.
God's word is true.
Man doesn't have the power tostop what God had ordained.
But I got to be honest withy'all.
I was tired.
I was tired of rejection and Iwas tired from travailing for
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this home and God wouldliterally tell me to do things
like praise me now for what youare believing me for, and that
would keep me in a mindset andposture for how God was planning
to come through, for hisdaughter to come through for me.
I had to be obedient y'all.
So in the midst of beingdrained and in the midst of
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being tired spiritually andburnt out from my job, I obeyed
God.
You cannot let your emotionsand the effects of the outside
world you cannot let thatdetermine or change the
trajectory of how you respond toGod's instruction.
You still got to obey.
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We still have theresponsibility to obey.
Obedience is required for Godto come through for you.
Do y'all hear me?
On top of that, in my moment ofweakness, I pulled on people who
would strengthen me because Iwas done.
I was done.
I didn't have anything left inme.
And let me just encourage y'allright here, because a lot of
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times when we get to the pointwhere we're done, we don't have
anything left in us.
Sometimes we just give up, wesubmit or succumb to what we're
feeling.
But in those moments when youare believing God for something
big, it is not a sign orwhatever you want to call it for
you to give up.
Instead, it's a sign for you todo what the Bible tells us to
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do.
It says let the strong bear theinfirmities of the weak.
And it also says iron sharpensiron.
So in those moments ofweaknesses, in those moments
when you are fragile, choose toreach out to people, choose to
reach out to your community.
Like I said, who's in yourcorner matters.
You can't reach out to somebodythat's negative or somebody
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that hasn't been where you'retrying to go.
You need somebody that hasexperience with God in the place
that you're trying to go.
Now let me tell y'all theexperience with God may not look
like what you are going through, it may not be identical, but
they just need to haveexperience to say like, okay,
god did it for me and it doesn'tlook exactly the way that is
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happening for you, but becausehe did it for me, I know that he
can do it for you too.
And that is the reason for thispodcast episode is that I know
that God can do it for you too.
So y'all keep on listening.
So anyway, I was tired, I wasfragile, I was done.
But on Valentine's day of thisyear, I text my realtor with the
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zip codes of my preference,which was my comfort zone and my
realtor, he texts me back andsaid hi, this is the exact text
message.
He said hi, got it.
He said I'm not sure if you'reopen to Wellington or not, but
there is one hitting the marketthis week.
Now, listen y'all.
I was about to text back realquick and decline immediately.
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Then Holy Spirit stopped me andhe reminded me of the word that
I received months prior that myzip code would change.
Do you see how God orchestratedall this?
Do you see how God orchestratedall this?
So hesitantly I text him backand I said, it's a little far,
but I'm open to the possibility.
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That's all God needed.
All God needed was for me to beopen to the possibility.
Can I tell y'all, be open tothe possibility.
It's gonna take you out of yourcomfort zone, but be open to
the possibility, because thatpossibility may be the exact
place that God wants to performa miracle in your life.
So the next day he sent me apicture of the home and I can't
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even front y'all.
It was beautiful.
It was beautiful.
I fell in love with it.
The location wasn't what I hadin mind, but I loved the house
and as far as the location goes,it wasn't that it was a bad
location.
It was far from a bad location.
It's actually a very goodlocation.
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It's safe and it's a placewhere some people long to live.
It's a good location.
But it wasn't what I had inmind because it was just far
from everything that I've knownand grown accustomed to.
But in the face of all that, weset up a time to view the home
during the open house.
So me and my son, we get thereand it is absolutely beautiful.
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Like the picture was beautiful,but everything was beautiful
and you could tell that theowners took pride in their home
and that God paid attention toevery detail that I wanted right
, because this home is alsoright by the lake and I wanted,
like my desire was, to be by thewater.
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It had all that I wanted andmore every little detail,
including the roads that lead upto the home, driving up to this
home, and it was a corner unit.
I mean, it was just.
It just seemed so perfect.
And so, at the open house, I metthe owner's agent and she
talked to my son and I the wholetime we were there.
There were other people whowere there, but she talked to my
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son and I the whole time andwhen we were about to leave, she
stopped what she was doing toshake my hand and she told me.
She looked me in the eye andshe told me.
She said hopefully, in 30 daysI'll be handing you these keys
Once again.
Y'all that ignited my faith.
As we were leaving, my realtorsaid he said what do you want to
do?
And I told him I said let'sjust put in an offer Because,
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although I love the house, Ifell in love with the house.
I love the area where it was at.
I was okay if I was rejectedbecause rejection would have
kept me in my place of comfort.
That's a word.
Some of y'all are okay withbeing rejected because rejection
keeps you in your place ofcomfort, but now it's time for
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you to come out of your comfort,and I feel that so strongly
because there's so many peoplethat are just comfortable with
where they're at.
But God is saying now is thetime for you to come out of your
comfort.
Stop being rejected, stoplooking for rejection so you can
stay where you're at.
He has more for you.
So as we got in the car, my sonsaid mama, this is our home.
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I didn't realize it then, and Ididn't even realize it until
this moment that both timeswhere we were in moments of
transition, my son spoke thatthis was our home and, as a
matter of fact, the other homethat I was believing God for, he
never spoke that.
My son actually told me he'slike mama, I don't like the home
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, I just don't like it.
You know that other home that Iwas believing God for.
But when we stepped inside thishome, he said this is our home.
And I don't even think it hadanything to do with, like, how
put together it was Because,remember, with that apartment
where everything seemed like amess and it was.
He said that that was our homeat that time too.
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So my son is a prophet, just sothat y'all know.
But he said that.
So the next day my realtorsubmitted the offer.
Then, another thing, let meback up.
If your children have, if theyhave, a call on their life,
nurture that call, because Goddoes everything well and you
never know how their call isorchestrated to keep you on the
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right track of believing God.
If God could use a donkey, ifhe can use all these other
things in the Bible, whycouldn't he use a child like he
did in the Bible?
He used children in the Bible.
Why couldn't he use a child topush you closer and closer to
your promised place in God?
Just think about that.
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Nurture the gift on yourchildren.
So the next day my realtorsubmitted the offer and within
24 hours my realtor submittedthe offer.
And within 24 hours I got acall from him and I remember I
was laying in my bed, I wasabout to go to sleep, because I
go to sleep early y'all, not somuch nowadays, but back then.
So I was in the bed and he madesome little talk.
He made a little small talk andthen he said well, it looks
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like we're buying a home.
And y'all, I was quiet becauseI was slightly distracted, so it
didn't register until severalseconds later.
Then I sat up straight in thebed and I was like wait what?
And he laughed and said theyaccepted your offer, we're
buying a home.
And I said you are kidding me,because I didn't expect it.
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If I couldn't get this littlehome right down the street from
me, how could I get a home thatis in one of the richest places
in the county and it exceeded myexpectation.
How could this home be mine?
I was like oh my goodness.
And we rejoiced while we wereon the phone.
And then he said I'm going toallow you to just embrace it and
then we'll talk tomorrow.
So we hung up and I ended uptelling my son and my son
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exclaimed let's go.
That was his thing.
He's like let's go.
And I couldn't believe it,y'all.
And from that day, everythingmoved so quickly.
A few days later, doubt crept inbecause of the situation with
my job.
I felt like I had to cancel thecontract.
So I was talking to God aboutit and he told me to call my
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pastor and y'all I was sitting.
I can remember the places I wasin these conversations.
I was sitting, I parked in thepublic's parking lot that wasn't
far from my apartment and I wastalking to my pastor and I told
her everything and she listenedand then I said I think I have
to cancel the contract.
And I'm like I battle with thisin my mind because I'm like God
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, why would you bring me thisfar?
Why would you bring me herejust so that I can cancel it?
Why would you have all thisexcitement Like why would
everything work out right nowand I have to cancel it?
It just didn't seem right.
And I heard the strength in hervoice and she said the devil is
a liar.
And she began to awaken me bytelling me that, among other
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things, she told me, but shetold me that God would take care
of me and she reminded me thatI had history with God.
Like it wasn't even her tellingme of her testimony of buying a
home, because I knew of hertestimony, but she reminded me
of my own experience with Godand how I had history with him
and that hit a little differenty'all.
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And so she reminded me of thatand how he carried me or took
care of me while I was living inthe apartment, the place that I
was in now, like he carried meor took care of me while I was
living in the apartment, theplace that I was in now.
He carried me through all ofthat.
She was like so why wouldn'tGod take care of you in this new
place?
And then she also gave me agame plan, which I love because
she also gives the spiritualwith the practical.
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So I followed it and Icontinued to pray and I
continued to pack.
All through this process andthrough the journey of closing
the closing costs, it increasedby 5K and then it increased by
10K.
It was crazy, y'all.
So I then text my realtor and Iwas straight up with him I'm
like I don't know how this isgoing to work because I don't
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have that much money for closingcosts.
I don't have anything close toit.
And he bounced back, clappedback, whatever you want to say,
and he said let's take a look atour options first and then
let's travel that path.
And then he said it's going towork.
It matters who's in your corner, y'all Okay.
So I began selling some thingsin my home and I booked some
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book signings for my new bookand, on top of that, I prayed.
And so the owners ended upgiving me a $12,000 credit
towards my closing costs and Ireceived a $5,000 gift on top of
that.
I got to the closing day and wevisited the home it was the
realtor, myself and my son andwe visited the home for the
final walkthroughtor myself andmy son and we visited the home
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for the final walkthrough and myrealtor and I sat at the table
that was also gifted to me bythe owners of this home, and we
sat at the table and we prayed,we prayed, and when we prayed,
we left the home and we enteredthe title office to close.
And y'all listen, not only wasthat appointment for closing it
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was less than 45 minutes, lessthan 45 minutes but I also ended
up having more than enough forthe closing costs.
Listen, y'all, god providedmore than enough and I closed in
less than 30 days.
Okay, in less than 30 days, Iclosed on my home.
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God came through y'all, and notonly that, he also came through
on my job.
God is amazing.
Everything changed in thatmoment.
My life.
30 days prior, my life was inchaos.
It was in so much chaos I wasso stressed that I had headaches
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.
I was literally feeling sickevery day because of the chaos
that I was in.
And 30 days later I didn't know, but God was going to shift my
life, where I would walk into mypromised place and also have
peace on my job.
God is so good and y'all, likeI said, I'm sharing this because
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if he came through for me, hewill come through for you too.
Do what it takes to keepbelieving what God spoke to you
and over you and make thechanges needed and surround
yourself with people who will beable to be strength when you
need that strength, when you areweak.
Don't wallow in your weakness.
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Get somebody to pull you up outof that and, as you surround
yourself with those people, alsoembrace the discomfort, embrace
where God is taking you, andobey God always, no matter how
crazy it may seem, and I'm goingto tell y'all this God is true
and he will come through for you.
Let's pray, father.
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We thank you, we honor you, god, for the many blessings that
you have given us, god.
We thank you, god, for thepivotal places that you have
even placed your people in thistime, in this season.
We thank you for all that youhave placed in our hands and
you've entrusted us with God,and we thank you, god, for even
where you are taking us, god,individually and as a body of
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Christ, right now, in the nameof Jesus, I pray for strength
for those that are listening tothis podcast episode and I pray
God right now, the blood ofJesus over them, god.
I pray that you remove everydistraction from them, god, that
would trip them up during thisprocess or the journey that you
have them on.
Father.
I pray that they would bereminded of your goodness,
father, that they would bereminded of your promises, that
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they would be reminded of theexperiences that they have had
with you, god, and that theywill be reminded that you will
never fail them, god, but youwill always come through.
So, father, in the name ofJesus, I pray, god, that they
will be strengthened right nowin Jesus' name.
Strengthen them, father, and Ipray that you will bring peace
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to their situation right now.
In the name of Jesus, father,you are a faithful God, so we
put all our trust in you, and Idecree and declare over the
lives of everyone who islistening right now that they
shall see your goodness in theland of the living.
I pray that you wouldilluminate every lie of the
enemy right now, in the name ofJesus, and that they would adopt
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your truth, father, in Jesus'name, and that your truth would
light the way, father, that theywould trust you with every step
, that they would trust you withevery decision, that they would
seek first your kingdom and allits righteousness, and that
everything else will be addedunto us.
Father, thank you for theaddition, the multiplication
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that is being added right now inour lives and in your kingdom.
Father, in the name of Jesus,we thank you for this moment and
we thank you for the strengththat is coming upon them even
now, and this is sealed in Jesusname.
We pray Amen.
Listen, y'all, keep believing.
God is going to come throughfor you.
God is going to come throughand when he does, make sure that
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you give him the glory, say God, come through, I give you the
glory.
Thank you, lord.
And even in the midst of theprocess, in the midst of the
process, in the midst of theprocess, remember, I was
praising through the process, Iwas making declarations through
the process and, believe it ornot y'all.
This is the condensed versionof the process.
This was over several monthsand there were things literally
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every day that God was tellingme to do.
Don't ignore the voice of God,because it's the little things
that is going to bring youthrough and you're able to see
the hand of God over your life.
Y'all, be encouraged.
You're about to cross over ontosomething new.
You're about to cross thatthreshold.
Keep believing God to comethrough.
Listen y'all.
I hope you were blessed.
I hope you were blessed and Iwant to encourage you guys to be
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on the lookout for new episodescoming in this season, season
six, we're going to beempowering the man, because six
is the number of the man and,although we don't like to talk
about the number six, it's there.
So, in the midst of this sixthseason, we are going to empower
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the man so that the man can walkin the strength and their
identity that God has calledthem to be, and I got some
guests that are coming up, y'allthat I just want y'all to be
ready for.
Okay, be ready, because you'reabout to be empowered and this
is just the season that we'regoing to the next level.
Accept the next level, becauseit's here, it's now, it's what
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we're doing.
So thank y'all so much againfor joining, and it is my prayer
that you were inspired and thatyou received that wonderful
prayer, that powerful prayerthat went forth, that
strengthening prayer that wentforth, and because we serve such
a faithful, a wonderful, a goodGod, you know, that gives me
confidence that you did so.
You know what that means.
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I have no doubt that you willsurely have a solid Saturday.
See you all next time.
All right, we're back .
So, god, you do it, do it.
Jesus, here comes the testimony.
Hey y'all, welcome to SolidSaturdays, where we take a
moment just to have a casualconversation that flows from the
heart of God.
Listen y'all, I get it.
It's Saturday, it's the weekend, and you may be in your bed,
you may be running errands oreven preparing to spend time
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with your loved ones, but sinceyou are listening, I want you to
sit at the edge of your seatand prepare to be inspired.
Are y'all ready?
All right, then let's go aheadand dive in.
Hey y'all, and welcome to SolidSaturday's Prayer and
Inspiration Podcast.
I am Tiffany and I'm your host,and it is a pleasure, it is my
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honor to be here to just have acasual conversation with y'all.
Listen y'all, I'm so excitedabout today's topic.
We're gonna dive right in,because this topic may take a
little time to get into, but Ipromise you, if you stay
throughout the whole episode,you are going to be blessed from
it, and I just wanna thank youall for listening, those who
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have listened over the years andthose that are currently
listening.
It's not taken for granted thatyou guys choose to listen to
this podcast.
Thank you guys so much.
But I got to be honest withy'all.
I took a little break due to mybook release and my book tour.
And listen y'all, your girlbought a house.
You hear me, your girl bought ahouse and I still can't believe
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it.
But we're here and God'spromises are still true and I
just love when his promises cometo pass on our lives.
The journey to buying this homewas absolutely wild, do y'all
hear me?
It was wild.
It was ups and downs, butlisten, we are here and we are
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able to stand in a place where Ican tell you that God's word is
true and he will always comethrough.
So today we're going to talk alittle bit about God coming
through for us.
God coming through because Ithink that we're living in a
time where it's becoming harderand harder to see, through the
chaos, god honoring his word.
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But the Bible tells us thathe's not a man that he should
lie, nor the son of man that hewill repent, but everything that
he said, everything that hepromised us, if it came out of
his mouth, it's going to come topass.
So you got to choose to renewyour vision or to shift your
vision so that, even through thechaos and all the spiraling
whirlwinds, that you still havethat belief that God is going to
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come through for you.
So we're going to talk a littlebit about God coming through
and just how this all came about.
As far as the topic, one of mymore common sayings when people
make a big move or accomplishsomething is come through.
That's what I say, and anybodythat knows me or have had
conversation with me, you knowthere's something that you will
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probably hear come through, andwhat this means in other words
is that's what I'm talking about.
Or maybe you're giving someonea high five or something like
that, but one of my words iscome through.
But how many times have we saidthat to God?
If you think about it, he comesthrough for us on a daily basis
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.
But do we recognize that on adaily basis?
How God comes through for us?
Right, but God deserves a comethrough daily.
He deserves that.
Or, however you offer yourpraise to God, he deserves it
daily, because daily he comesthrough for us.
I told y'all I bought a houseand since we overcome by the
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blood of the lamb and the wordof our testimony, I'm going to
share this testimony with youabout how God came through.
So for a few years now I'vebeen working on little things in
preparation for buying a home,and this came about when I
realized how much I spent inrent over the years and at the
end of it all, I still had noownership Y'all I'm talking
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about.
I was spending over 100K overthe years and I still didn't own
it.
My name wasn't on it, so itwasn't an investment.
It was me literally payingsomebody to live in their place.
Now, to stay in my comfort zoneof my apartment, I asked my
landlord several times because Iwas renting privately.
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I asked him several times well,a couple of times if he was
willing to sell the condo to mebecause the neighborhood was
familiar and it was home for myson and I, and he said no.
And, like I said, I think Iasked them twice over a span of
two years.
And that second time that Iasked him, I knew that it was
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time for me to own.
So, over like a year or so, Ibegan raising, or working on
raising, my credit score,because I'm going to tell y'all
it was suffering, and y'all knowa part of my testimony where I
tell you that I've been throughtwo divorces and within the
first divorce, I experienced twoevictions and one car
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repossession.
Actually, that wasn't even thedivorce.
That was during the marriagethat I had two evictions and one
car repossession.
Since that divorce, I haven'thad anything.
But while in the marriage.
That's what I experienced.
But while in the marriage,that's what I experienced.
So it hit my credit really,really hard.
Now, although those things wereyears prior to me seeking a
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home and trying to repair mycredit, it still had an effect
on my credit, so I had to.
In addition to repairing mycredit, I also had to break like
my spending habits and myspending behaviors, because I
lived in the world ofcompetition and this was before
social media was even big, likeit is now but I lived in
competition with people, so ifthey had it, I felt like I had
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to have it or something closethat reflected it, because I was
thinking that what I haddefined who I was, and this is
something that many people stillstruggle with.
But I want you to break thattoday, because you will find
yourself in debt Because listen,y'all, I know it probably
better than most because Ibought when it was unnecessary.
Some people still do that, butI don't do that.
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No more.
Praise God, the Lord hasdelivered me from that.
But when I bought when it wasunnecessary just because the
next person had it, wasn't evena place of me being encouraged
by what they had in theirtestimony.
It was purely competition.
I'm a very competitive personin everything.
So I bought when it wasunnecessary and that put me in
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debt.
It wasn't wise and it put me indebt.
I was still immature, so don'tjudge me.
So there were things andbehaviors that I had to break
before I began this homeownership journey.
Then, when I was ready, I beganto declare that I was going to
be a homeowner, because that wassomething to break my thinking
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from the past to where I wantedto go right.
So I'm going to tell y'allsomething.
This was really big for mebecause, as a single mother, the
apartment that I was living init wasn't the best apartment.
It wasn't even something that Iwas used to.
I was used to living in niceplaces, but it wasn't the nicest
place.
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It was in a nice community,which sold me because I wanted
to be in a gated community.
I wanted to be in a communitythat was safe and where that
apartment was placed.
It presented those things.
But it wasn't the nicestapartment.
It had a stove and arefrigerator that was probably
from the eighties or ninetiesand the refrigerator made noises
, so much so that when I hadpeople over or if I was
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recording a podcast do y'allhear me?
Because I was still in myapartment when I started this
podcast, but I had to turn myrefrigerator off because the
noise would be disturbing topeople.
But me and my son, we got usedto the noise, so we just left it
on when nobody was over or Iwasn't recording anything or
going live on a live stream.
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So the refrigerator made noisesin the bathrooms, were old and
rusty.
But do you know what I did?
In the midst of all that?
I honored the place that Godblessed me with.
Yes, I said God blessed me with.
He blessed me with it becauseat the time that I moved into
that apartment, it was ablessing.
Why?
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Because one thing was no oneelse was taking me because I was
still having those evictionsand repossessions on my credit
report.
So no one else was taking me,and not only because of the
credit report, but I also hadlittle to no income.
So what I was asking for wasn'twhat landlords wanted to hear.
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So, before I officially got theapartment, while they were
still reviewing my applicationand all the other things they
needed to do, I drove up to thatapartment almost daily and I
sat in front of it in my car andI prayed because the Lord knew
what I needed at that time and Iwas willing to put in the work
that it needed because it neededa lot of work, but I believe
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that it would be our home forthat season.
And even as I reflect back, Iremember when we were about to
leave the showing of theapartment and my son, who was
six or seven at the time, hesaid to me we were in the
bathroom of the apartmentactually and he said to me he
said, mama, this is our home.
Listen, y'all, this is touchingme.
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He said, mama, this is our home.
I was in such a fragile placeback then.
Um, I was actually, um,actually in the middle of a
separation of my second marriage.
We weren't divorced yet, but wewere separated.
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So I was going throughdisappointment, heartbreak, and
it was a total change.
And just to reflect back onthat moment and what I was
feeling, it touched me.
It touched me.
So, yeah, my son.
He said, mama, this is our home.
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And so when I got the place, Ihonored the place.
When God blessed me with theplace, I honored the place
because I knew that God gave itto me.
So, listen, y'all, I kept itclean and I made it home.
I prayed over it and I prayedin it.
I fixed it up and it was homeand I was grateful.
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You know, there were somepeople that came over and they
would ask me.
They were like Tiffany, why areyou here?
And I was there because it wasa blessing to me and my son.
We had our own, we had our ownspace and it was something that
we both were happy with.
We had to make some adjustments, but we were happy.
We had our own at that time,although we weren't owning it,
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y'all, but it was our own spaceand it was needed.
So, truth be told, when I beganlooking for a home in May of
last year 2023, I wasn't lookingfor anything extravagant,
because I was okay with fixingit up if I needed to.
I just wanted the price to beright and for it to still be in
my area of comfort, theneighborhood that I knew, the
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neighborhood that my son knew.
My mind was also still in thatplace of just having enough
rather than receiving more thanenough from God.
So I saw one home which beganmy journey, and this realtor
that I met in that home.
She was so sweet.
She asked me all the questionsif I was pre-approved for a loan
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and how much I could put downon the home, et cetera.
You know all those things.
And I didn't have thatinformation because in my mind,
although I wanted a home, I wasjust looking.
I was just looking for a home.
But that encounter with her, itsparked something much deeper
for me in my journey.
So when I went home to myapartment, I just started
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browsing places, trying toimagine myself in a home,
because I wasn't there yet.
Y'all, I wasn't there yet.
Mentally, but also practically,the odds were against me.
But I practiced believing and Iprepared myself along the way
for this journey.
And one day I was scrollingthrough Facebook and this was
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probably a few weeks later and asister friend of mine who is a
lender, she made a post to allfuture homeowners.
I still have the post saved,but she made a post to all
future homeowners and I cameacross it and she was offering a
down payment assistance programand this was June 13, 2023.
I got the receipts, y'all.
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So that caught my attention andit sparked my faith even more
because, truth be told, I wasstill kind of counting myself
out of being able to own a home.
And this was based on oldconversations that I had with
other realtors and lenders.
And it turns out that thoserealtors and lenders, they just
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weren't my people, they weren'tfor me.
So I talked to my sister friendand turned out that I didn't
qualify for the down paymentassistance program and I didn't
qualify for any other financialassistance program.
But she still encouraged me toapply to become pre-approved for
a loan.
So, shaking in my boots, Iapplied and, to my surprise, I
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was pre-approved Like y'all.
I could have cried in thatmoment.
I had a golden ticket to gettinga home and this was the first
time that getting a home.
It seemed realistic andpossible for me, because it's
one thing for things to seempossible for you, because we're
Christians, we're believers, sowe know that all things are
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possible for God to do.
There's nothing that he cannotdo.
But the moment that thingsbecome realistic listen y'all
everything changes, everythingchanges.
So it didn't matter how crazythe market was at that time, I
wasn't phased at all.
After that, I knew that I was inthe right timing.
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I knew that I was in the veinof God and that I would be
getting my home within a year,within 12 months.
Now I wanted my home by the endof 2023.
And when that didn't pan out, Ibecame discouraged.
But you can't put a timelineand your own stipulations on
God's perfected will for yourlife.
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I'm going to say that one moretime because somebody needs to
hear it, because a lot of timeswe try to put our own
stipulations, which shapes ourown expectations on God's
perfected will for our lives.
But you got to come to realizethat God's perfected will for
you, it was carved out beforetime began.
So you cannot put your owntimeline and your stipulations
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on God's perfected will for yourlife.
So with that golden ticket, thesearch really began and I was so
excited.
You know you become so excitedat the beginning of the search
for your home, but you don'trealize that you're literally
searching for your home.
So you're not.
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If you're serious about it,you're not just gonna take the
first home that you come across,because there are certain
things.
Since you're investing in ahome.
There are certain things thatyou want for your home.
So it can be a long orprolonged process and you don't
realize that at first, but I wasexcited nonetheless.
And through the process, myfirst realtor.
She had a tragedy in her familyso she took a break, which kind
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of led me to crossing pathswith my second realtor.
I was still searching onlinefor different homes that were
within the community that I wasliving in, and so I found this
other home that was in thecommunity and it was an open
house.
Within that open house, thatrealtor was there and we
connected and she became mysecond realtor.
And through my second realtor,I found another home that was in
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the area that I was living inat that time and although it
wasn't what I really wanted, Ihad vision for it.
I had vision to build upon it.
I was still in the mindset thatyou know I could still fix
things up, I could do it, andyou know I've done it before, so
I can do it again.
Listen, I wanted that homebecause it was in the area.
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So I put in an offer and theseller's agent of that home they
denied my offer immediately.
I was crushed y'all, but at thesame time I wasn't giving up.
So I kept driving by the homebecause I really believed that
that home was mine.
I was driving in theneighborhood praying.
I was all in y'all.
And one of those days, when Idrove by the seller, the owner
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of the home, he was outsidebecause he was still doing like
renovations and work on the home.
So I passed by, just declaringthat that home was my home, and
then the Lord said turn aroundand go back and talk to him.
Now I was like, okay, jesus,now I'm new to this whole home
buying process.
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What do you say to the seller,the owner of that home?
But it goes back to theauthority, the power that we
have as sons of God.
So I really didn't haveanything to fear, but I was
intimidated.
So anyway, hesitantly, I turnedaround and I didn't know what I
was going to say or what I wasgoing to do.
I was just being obedient.
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So I met the owner of the homeoutside and I introduced myself
and my son and I let him knowthat were some things that the
home wouldn't come with, such assome key appliances, aka the
washer and dryer and some otherappliances that he said he
wasn't leaving in the home.
But y'all listen, I was sold onthe home and I convinced them
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of that.
So it didn't stop me or itdidn't discourage me what the
home didn't have, because Iwanted the home and I was sure
that those appliances would comefrom somewhere that God would
eventually provide.
And if he didn't provide, thenI knew people nearby and I'm
like you know, maybe I can usetheir washer dryer until I can
get my own.
You know, I was.
I was making up these differentsituations or scenarios that
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would make things work until Iwas able to work on that part of
the home.
So I told him that I put myoffer in and that it was denied,
and he looked surprised.
He was like well, what did yousay?
Your name was again, and I toldhim and he said I never
received your offer.
And then he began to tell methat he was unhappy with his
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agent and all these things, andso eventually he instructed me
to put my offer in again andthat he'll see what he can do.
So I went to my agent and shewanted me to move past this
property and look at somethingnew.
But I told her that I wanted toput in another offer.
So we did, and we got deniedagain, rejected again.
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So it was apparent that myoffers weren't getting to the
owner, that his agent wasblocking it, like specifically
blocking it.
And you know what we do asChristians.
We're like, you know, that'sthe devil, and it really was,
because, like, why would youblock my offer?
Like all the offers should begetting to him so that he can
make that decision.
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So, anyway, my realtor, shewent back and forth with the
seller's agent for a little.
Then the property went undercontract.
Needless to say, I wasdevastated but y'all listen, I
was determined, I didn't stopbelieving.
I eventually talked to mypastor about it and she shared
that my story that I was sharingwith her.
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It sounded like another womanthat is known on social media.
So she shared that my storythat I was sharing with her.
It sounded like another womanthat is known on social media.
So she shared this woman'stestimony with me and it ignited
my faith once again.
Y'all, it's important who youhave in your corner when you are
believing God for somethingthat is big or that will
literally shift your life fromone position to another.
Pay attention to who's in yourcorner, because it matters.
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So she shared the testimony andit ignited my faith again and I
actually went on Instagram andI screenshotted that testimony
of that woman and I reflectedback to her testimony, often In
the midst of all this, like thehome was still under contract,
but in the midst of it, one daythe Lord woke me up.
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Of course he woke me up.
Upon waking up, the Lord spoketo me.
He said I want you to go byU-Haul and get some boxes.
And I said okay, lord, I'mgoing to go back later in the
day.
He's like no, I want you to goright now.
So I got up, got dressed and Iwent to U-Haul to get my boxes
so that I can start packing,because that was one of the
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things that was also in thewoman's testimony that she was
packing even before her offerwas accepted, because that was
her act of faith.
When I got my boxes, I met aguy in the line as I was waiting
to check out, but this guy wasliterally sent by God.
He was talking to another guyin the line and while he was
talking to that guy, I went upand paid for my boxes and I
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began loading them in the car.
On my last trip to my car, I metthe same guy that I saw on the
line.
I met him in the parking lot onhis way out and I greeted him
because I just like to you know,greet people, it's courteous,
you know people don't do that,no more, but I did it.
I greeted him and then he saidto me he said can I pray with
you?
And knowing the conversationthat he had with the guy in the
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line, I said you know, I waslike sure, because I don't let
everybody pray for me.
I got to know who you believein and I got to know that you
believe in him.
Real, real good, like we got tobe on the same team but
experiencing that conversationin the line, I already knew like
okay, this guy is seasoned andwe believe the same thing.
So I said sure, while he waspraying, he began to prophesy
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over me about my home y'all andhow God positioned me to walk
into financial abundance, and heprophesied some other things.
I mean, we stayed in thatparking lot for at least 30
minutes.
It was so powerful and it waswhat I needed to keep believing
God that this was my time In themidst of facing rejection.
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This is what God sent to me tolet me know that this was still
my time.
So just a side note, y'all, Iwent live on IG that day just to
recap that encounter that I hadwith that man.
So if you want to view it, youcan just go on my IG and check
it out.
The link is inside of thisdescription.
So I took that prophecy and Iwent home and I started packing.
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In the midst of all that, Ikept on driving by the house
daily and I kept on declaringand calling it in.
And I picked up another streamof income in the midst of all of
this that's going on and thatwas to help me with funding the
home.
And in the midst of that, theLord was still having me give to
others, serve others, ministerto others and listen.
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Y'all financially give toothers, and these were not just
small gifts, these were hundredsof dollars of gifts.
But even in the midst of that,I followed God.
I was obedient.
Also, I went to a conferencewith my pastor and another young
lady and the speaker of thatconference.
He began to testify about hisjourney of becoming a homeowner.
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Now, he wasn't even talkingabout this, but the Lord segued
that into his message.
God is so good, y'all, heorchestrated all this.
So he started talking about hisjourney of becoming a is so
good, y'all, he orchestrated allthis.
So he started talking about hisjourney of becoming a homeowner
.
Randomly, y'all.
And in the midst of himtestifying, he began to prophesy
that God was changing the zipcode for some of us in the room,
that we would have to let go ofwhat we knew and embrace where
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God was taking us.
Listen y'all, that word hit meso hard in my belly, it hit me
in my spirit.
So I received that wordimmediately and so I continued
driving by the home every day,in the midst of receiving that
word that God was changing myzip code, and I continued
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packing.
And listen y'all, my son and I,we began living out of boxes
and we lived out of boxes formonths.
Months, not weeks, not days.
Months.
My living room seemed likechaos because it was filled with
boxes, packed and unpacked.
And eventually that contractthat the house was under it fell
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through and I got to tell y'all, I rejoiced, I rejoiced, I
rejoiced and I put in anotheroffer, this time that agent, the
seller's agent.
He ignored my offer andeventually, my realtor, she
stopped believing for that homebecause the agent was just
stubborn he, he was denyingevery offer that we put in.
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So in November I had to dropsomething off to one of my
brothers and I told him that Iwas in the process of buying a
home and he said that he had aguy for me that was a realtor
and he said, like listen, sis,he's going to get you in a home
and it may be the home that youwere believing for or maybe
something better, but he's goingto get you in that home.
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And he also told me that thisrealtor was a believer and he
was a pastor.
So he knew how to fight in bothrounds.
He knew how to fight here onEarth with other agents and he
knew how to fight in the spiritLike it's a double whammy.
I loved it.
I reached out to the guy and letme tell y'all everything I
expected.
He did that and more.
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He fought for that home, hefought for it, he fought for it
and he even created a team thatwas fighting for it with me.
And that was the thing that Iloved and it increased my trust
in the realtor.
Because the other realtor Ifelt like I was fighting alone.
But this guy.
He led this fight and I justhad to be present and fight in
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the spirit.
So I love that.
And let me just tell y'all, ify'all looking for a home, find a
realtor that you can trust anda realtor that is on the same
page as you, because it wouldtake so much of the stress of
home buying, searching for ahome.
It would take that off of youand listen, you need that weight
off of you when you go throughthis process.
So he fought for it and Januarycame and he was still fighting
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for it.
We still believe in God for it.
It went under contract but wewere still believing and
fighting for it.
But I began to declare inJanuary of this year that I
would buy and move into my homethis year.
Then, a few weeks later, thehome that I was believing God
for it sold.
After declaring that the homesold.
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And actually the Lord preparedme for that moment because I was
still driving by the home everyday, praying and believing.
And this particular morning,when I drove by or was about to
drive by, the Lord said you'regoing to see a pod in the
driveway of that home.
Then he said the home sold.
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And, sure enough.
When I turned on that streetwhere the home was, there was a
pod in the driveway and then Ichecked online and I saw that
the home sold.
I think I lost hope at thatmoment because I was having
issues on my job with leadershipand God was telling me to make
a big move.
That didn't make sense at thetime.
Everything that was happening,it just seemed to be crumbling
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for me at that time.
But in the midst of that, Iwould go on Facebook and I would
see random posts that showedkeys to a home and had the
caption that said declare it,you are getting a home this year
.
These were posts from peoplethat I wasn't following.
They weren't following me, theywere not friends of friends,
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they were not my friends, butthese were posts that would
appear on my timeline that saiddeclare it, you are getting a
home this year.
And I would see a couple ofthese posts daily.
And y'all this is not bycoincidence and you can say that
it was the algorithm, it was AI, whatever.
Say what you want, but Ibelieve that these were little
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reminders from God that wouldremind me of my declaration that
I made at the beginning of theyear that I was going to get my
home this year.
Just because my situationchanged doesn't mean that God's
promise for me changed.
And let me just speak that toy'all that are believing God for
something big.
Just because your situationchanged, your situation may be
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in chaos.
It doesn't mean that what Godhas said about you or what he
has promised you, it doesn'tmean that that changed at all.
God's word is true.
Man doesn't have the power tostop what God had ordained.
But I got to be honest withy'all.
I was tired.
I was tired of rejection and Iwas tired from travailing for
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this home and God wouldliterally tell me to do things
like praise me now for what youare believing me for, and that
would keep me in a mindset andposture for how God was planning
to come through, for hisdaughter to come through for me.
I had to be obedient y'all.
So in the midst of beingdrained and in the midst of
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being tired spiritually andburnt out from my job, I obeyed
God.
You cannot let your emotionsand the effects of the outside
world you cannot let thatdetermine or change the
trajectory of how you respond toGod's instruction.
You still got to obey.
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We still have theresponsibility to obey.
Obedience is required for Godto come through for you.
Do y'all hear me?
On top of that, in my moment ofweakness, I pulled on people who
would strengthen me because Iwas done.
I was done.
I didn't have anything left inme.
And let me just encourage y'allright here, because a lot of
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times when we get to the pointwhere we're done, we don't have
anything left in us.
Sometimes we just give up, wesubmit or succumb to what we're
feeling.
But in those moments when youare believing God for something
big, it is not a sign orwhatever you want to call it for
you to give up.
Instead, it's a sign for you todo what the Bible tells us to
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do.
It says let the strong bear theinfirmities of the weak.
And it also says iron sharpensiron.
So in those moments ofweaknesses, in those moments
when you are fragile, choose toreach out to people, choose to
reach out to your community.
Like I said, who's in yourcorner matters.
You can't reach out to somebodythat's negative or somebody
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that hasn't been where you'retrying to go.
You need somebody that hasexperience with God in the place
that you're trying to go.
Now let me tell y'all theexperience with God may not look
like what you are going through, it may not be identical, but
they just need to haveexperience to say like, okay,
god did it for me and it doesn'tlook exactly the way that is
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happening for you, but becausehe did it for me, I know that he
can do it for you too.
And that is the reason for thispodcast episode is that I know
that God can do it for you too.
So y'all keep on listening.
So anyway, I was tired, I wasfragile, I was done.
But on Valentine's day of thisyear, I text my realtor with the
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zip codes of my preference,which was my comfort zone and my
realtor, he texts me back andsaid hi, this is the exact text
message.
He said hi, got it.
He said I'm not sure if you'reopen to Wellington or not, but
there is one hitting the marketthis week.
Now, listen y'all.
I was about to text back realquick and decline immediately.
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Then Holy Spirit stopped me andhe reminded me of the word that
I received months prior that myzip code would change.
Do you see how God orchestratedall this?
Do you see how God orchestratedall this?
So hesitantly I text him backand I said, it's a little far,
but I'm open to the possibility.
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That's all God needed.
All God needed was for me to beopen to the possibility.
Can I tell y'all, be open tothe possibility.
It's gonna take you out of yourcomfort zone, but be open to
the possibility, because thatpossibility may be the exact
place that God wants to performa miracle in your life.
So the next day he sent me apicture of the home and I can't
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even front y'all.
It was beautiful.
It was beautiful.
I fell in love with it.
The location wasn't what I hadin mind, but I loved the house
and as far as the location goes,it wasn't that it was a bad
location.
It was far from a bad location.
It's actually a very goodlocation.
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It's safe and it's a placewhere some people long to live.
It's a good location.
But it wasn't what I had inmind because it was just far
from everything that I've knownand grown accustomed to.
But in the face of all that, weset up a time to view the home
during the open house.
So me and my son, we get thereand it is absolutely beautiful.
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Like the picture was beautiful,but everything was beautiful
and you could tell that theowners took pride in their home
and that God paid attention toevery detail that I wanted right
, because this home is alsoright by the lake and I wanted,
like my desire was, to be by thewater.
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It had all that I wanted andmore every little detail,
including the roads that lead upto the home, driving up to this
home, and it was a corner unit.
I mean, it was just.
It just seemed so perfect.
And so, at the open house, I metthe owner's agent and she
talked to my son and I the wholetime we were there.
There were other people whowere there, but she talked to my
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son and I the whole time andwhen we were about to leave, she
stopped what she was doing toshake my hand and she told me.
She looked me in the eye andshe told me.
She said hopefully, in 30 daysI'll be handing you these keys
Once again.
Y'all that ignited my faith.
As we were leaving, my realtorsaid he said what do you want to
do?
And I told him I said let'sjust put in an offer Because,
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although I love the house, Ifell in love with the house.
I love the area where it was at.
I was okay if I was rejectedbecause rejection would have
kept me in my place of comfort.
That's a word.
Some of y'all are okay withbeing rejected because rejection
keeps you in your place ofcomfort, but now it's time for
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you to come out of your comfort,and I feel that so strongly
because there's so many peoplethat are just comfortable with
where they're at.
But God is saying now is thetime for you to come out of your
comfort.
Stop being rejected, stoplooking for rejection so you can
stay where you're at.
He has more for you.
So as we got in the car, my sonsaid mama, this is our home.
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I didn't realize it then, and Ididn't even realize it until
this moment that both timeswhere we were in moments of
transition, my son spoke thatthis was our home and, as a
matter of fact, the other homethat I was believing God for, he
never spoke that.
My son actually told me he'slike mama, I don't like the home
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, I just don't like it.
You know that other home that Iwas believing God for.
But when we stepped inside thishome, he said this is our home.
And I don't even think it hadanything to do with, like, how
put together it was Because,remember, with that apartment
where everything seemed like amess and it was.
He said that that was our homeat that time too.
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So my son is a prophet, just sothat y'all know.
But he said that.
So the next day my realtorsubmitted the offer.
Then, another thing, let meback up.
If your children have, if theyhave, a call on their life,
nurture that call, because Goddoes everything well and you
never know how their call isorchestrated to keep you on the
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right track of believing God.
If God could use a donkey, ifhe can use all these other
things in the Bible, whycouldn't he use a child like he
did in the Bible?
He used children in the Bible.
Why couldn't he use a child topush you closer and closer to
your promised place in God?
Just think about that.
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Nurture the gift on yourchildren.
So the next day my realtorsubmitted the offer and within
24 hours my realtor submittedthe offer.
And within 24 hours I got acall from him and I remember I
was laying in my bed, I wasabout to go to sleep, because I
go to sleep early y'all, not somuch nowadays, but back then.
So I was in the bed and he madesome little talk.
He made a little small talk andthen he said well, it looks
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like we're buying a home.
And y'all, I was quiet becauseI was slightly distracted, so it
didn't register until severalseconds later.
Then I sat up straight in thebed and I was like wait what?
And he laughed and said theyaccepted your offer, we're
buying a home.
And I said you are kidding me,because I didn't expect it.
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If I couldn't get this littlehome right down the street from
me, how could I get a home thatis in one of the richest places
in the county and it exceeded myexpectation.
How could this home be mine?
I was like oh my goodness.
And we rejoiced while we wereon the phone.
And then he said I'm going toallow you to just embrace it and
then we'll talk tomorrow.
So we hung up and I ended uptelling my son and my son
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exclaimed let's go.
That was his thing.
He's like let's go.
And I couldn't believe it,y'all.
And from that day, everythingmoved so quickly.
A few days later, doubt crept inbecause of the situation with
my job.
I felt like I had to cancel thecontract.
So I was talking to God aboutit and he told me to call my
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pastor and y'all I was sitting.
I can remember the places I wasin these conversations.
I was sitting, I parked in thepublic's parking lot that wasn't
far from my apartment and I wastalking to my pastor and I told
her everything and she listenedand then I said I think I have
to cancel the contract.
And I'm like I battle with thisin my mind because I'm like God
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, why would you bring me thisfar?
Why would you bring me herejust so that I can cancel it?
Why would you have all thisexcitement Like why would
everything work out right nowand I have to cancel it?
It just didn't seem right.
And I heard the strength in hervoice and she said the devil is
a liar.
And she began to awaken me bytelling me that, among other
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things, she told me, but shetold me that God would take care
of me and she reminded me thatI had history with God.
Like it wasn't even her tellingme of her testimony of buying a
home, because I knew of hertestimony, but she reminded me
of my own experience with Godand how I had history with him
and that hit a little differenty'all.
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And so she reminded me of thatand how he carried me or took
care of me while I was living inthe apartment, the place that I
was in now, like he carried meor took care of me while I was
living in the apartment, theplace that I was in now.
He carried me through all ofthat.
She was like so why wouldn'tGod take care of you in this new
place?
And then she also gave me agame plan, which I love because
she also gives the spiritualwith the practical.
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So I followed it and Icontinued to pray and I
continued to pack.
All through this process andthrough the journey of closing
the closing costs, it increasedby 5K and then it increased by
10K.
It was crazy, y'all.
So I then text my realtor and Iwas straight up with him I'm
like I don't know how this isgoing to work because I don't
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have that much money for closingcosts.
I don't have anything close toit.
And he bounced back, clappedback, whatever you want to say,
and he said let's take a look atour options first and then
let's travel that path.
And then he said it's going towork.
It matters who's in your corner, y'all Okay.
So I began selling some thingsin my home and I booked some
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book signings for my new bookand, on top of that, I prayed.
And so the owners ended upgiving me a $12,000 credit
towards my closing costs and Ireceived a $5,000 gift on top of
that.
I got to the closing day and wevisited the home it was the
realtor, myself and my son andwe visited the home for the
final walkthroughtor myself andmy son and we visited the home
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for the final walkthrough and myrealtor and I sat at the table
that was also gifted to me bythe owners of this home, and we
sat at the table and we prayed,we prayed, and when we prayed,
we left the home and we enteredthe title office to close.
And y'all listen, not only wasthat appointment for closing it
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was less than 45 minutes, lessthan 45 minutes but I also ended
up having more than enough forthe closing costs.
Listen, y'all, god providedmore than enough and I closed in
less than 30 days.
Okay, in less than 30 days, Iclosed on my home.
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God came through y'all, and notonly that, he also came through
on my job.
God is amazing.
Everything changed in thatmoment.
My life.
30 days prior, my life was inchaos.
It was in so much chaos I wasso stressed that I had headaches
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.
I was literally feeling sickevery day because of the chaos
that I was in.
And 30 days later I didn't know, but God was going to shift my
life, where I would walk into mypromised place and also have
peace on my job.
God is so good and y'all, likeI said, I'm sharing this because
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if he came through for me, hewill come through for you too.
Do what it takes to keepbelieving what God spoke to you
and over you and make thechanges needed and surround
yourself with people who will beable to be strength when you
need that strength, when you areweak.
Don't wallow in your weakness.
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Get somebody to pull you up outof that and, as you surround
yourself with those people, alsoembrace the discomfort, embrace
where God is taking you, andobey God always, no matter how
crazy it may seem, and I'm goingto tell y'all this God is true
and he will come through for you.
Let's pray, father.
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We thank you, we honor you, god, for the many blessings that
you have given us, god.
We thank you, god, for thepivotal places that you have
even placed your people in thistime, in this season.
We thank you for all that youhave placed in our hands and
you've entrusted us with God,and we thank you, god, for even
where you are taking us, god,individually and as a body of
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Christ, right now, in the nameof Jesus, I pray for strength
for those that are listening tothis podcast episode and I pray
God right now, the blood ofJesus over them, god.
I pray that you remove everydistraction from them, god, that
would trip them up during thisprocess or the journey that you
have them on.
Father.
I pray that they would bereminded of your goodness,
father, that they would bereminded of your promises, that
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they would be reminded of theexperiences that they have had
with you, god, and that theywill be reminded that you will
never fail them, god, but youwill always come through.
So, father, in the name ofJesus, I pray, god, that they
will be strengthened right nowin Jesus' name.
Strengthen them, father, and Ipray that you will bring peace
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to their situation right now.
In the name of Jesus, father,you are a faithful God, so we
put all our trust in you, and Idecree and declare over the
lives of everyone who islistening right now that they
shall see your goodness in theland of the living.
I pray that you wouldilluminate every lie of the
enemy right now, in the name ofJesus, and that they would adopt
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your truth, father, in Jesus'name, and that your truth would
light the way, father, that theywould trust you with every step
, that they would trust you withevery decision, that they would
seek first your kingdom and allits righteousness, and that
everything else will be addedunto us.
Father, thank you for theaddition, the multiplication
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that is being added right now inour lives and in your kingdom.
Father, in the name of Jesus,we thank you for this moment and
we thank you for the strengththat is coming upon them even
now, and this is sealed in Jesusname.
We pray Amen.
Listen, y'all, keep believing.
God is going to come throughfor you.
God is going to come throughand when he does, make sure that
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you give him the glory, say God, come through, I give you the
glory.
Thank you, lord.
And even in the midst of theprocess, in the midst of the
process, in the midst of theprocess, remember, I was
praising through the process, Iwas making declarations through
the process and, believe it ornot y'all.
This is the condensed versionof the process.
This was over several monthsand there were things literally
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every day that God was tellingme to do.
Don't ignore the voice of God,because it's the little things
that is going to bring youthrough and you're able to see
the hand of God over your life.
Y'all, be encouraged.
You're about to cross over ontosomething new.
You're about to cross thatthreshold.
Keep believing God to comethrough.
Listen y'all.
I hope you were blessed.
I hope you were blessed and Iwant to encourage you guys to be
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on the lookout for new episodescoming in this season, season
six, we're going to beempowering the man, because six
is the number of the man and,although we don't like to talk
about the number six, it's there.
So, in the midst of this sixthseason, we are going to empower
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the man so that the man can walkin the strength and their
identity that God has calledthem to be, and I got some
guests that are coming up, y'allthat I just want y'all to be
ready for.
Okay, be ready, because you'reabout to be empowered and this
is just the season that we'regoing to the next level.
Accept the next level, becauseit's here, it's now, it's what
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we're doing.
So thank y'all so much againfor joining, and it is my prayer
that you were inspired and thatyou received that wonderful
prayer, that powerful prayerthat went forth, that
strengthening prayer that wentforth, and because we serve such
a faithful, a wonderful, a goodGod, you know, that gives me
confidence that you did so.
You know what that means.
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I have no doubt that you willsurely have a solid Saturday.
See you all next time.
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