S1:E11 II Timothy & Testimony Tuesdays with Lyrik ft Carolyn Traylor

S1:EP11  II Timothy & Testimony Tuesdays with Lyrik welcomes renowned gospel singer, Carolyn Traylor

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Welcome to Second Timothy and Testimony Tuesdays. But Lyric, we are glad that
you are tuned in today. Besure to tell a friend it's time for
Second Timothy and Testimony Tuesdays, andit's time for some inspiration for your soul.

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What's up? What's up? What'sup? Facebook, Instagram, YouTube,
Apple podcast, Spotify. Wherever you'relittle tune in and listening. I
sure want to thank you, tellyou I appreciate you for tuning in to
TAKEO Timothy and Testimony Tuesdays with Lyric. You know who it is. It's
your girl, Lyric. How y'alldoing on tonight on this wonderful Tuesday night,

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Please please give me a shout out. Let me know if you are
tuned in so I can shout youout and say hello as we get into
our Bible study lesson tonight. Myfriend Mike exciting guess we have on tonight.
I'm just so excited about tonight's episode. So come on in, Come
on in and tag, like,share, subscribe. Let somebody know that

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you're in the house. The rLS life. That's my classmate. Who
is I can't see who that is? That is that Rachel hey class mate,
I don't know who that is.Tell you how to put your real
names. I can know who youwho it is? Hey, Marion,
you doing Thank you for tuning in. I'm not see what Mike, which
one of my classmates that is listen. I love the support. I didn't

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know if y'all was going tune in. I show appreciate y'all. Y'all,
these are my classmates that are tuningin. Uh, just so glad.
You know, we have a veryclose class I told you guys on last
week about the passing of one ofour classmates, and so we just I
just love the way they're all comingtogether. Hey, Rachel, I thought
that's why the picture so small.You know, I can't really see it,

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but I thought that's who it was. Rachel. So glad to have
you in. Rachel. Tell Abrahamto make sure he's sitting by it tuned
in too, and Tricia all right? All right, thank y'all so much.
I appreciate y'all for coming in.Somebody else just said, hey,
I missed it. Hey januaryy howyou doing this? Thank you for tuning
in. I appreciate y'all tuning intonight. Hey, bro, I see

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you my brother running's on, y'alltag share like tell the people come on
in. Hey dd hey sis,thank you for coming in. Listen tonight's
episode. You know, I knowyou're gonna support and I appreciate it.
I appreciate it. Tonight's episode issponsored by Rudebaker Productions. Rutebag Productions was

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founded in two thousand and one byMary and Jacobs Burks. It is a
production company that puts emphasis on relationshipand Christian principles of fellowship. Rudebaker Productions
primary goal is to spread the Gospelof Jesus Christ through the arts, mentorship,
and community building centered on love.Listen, if you've ever been a

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part of Rudebaker Productions, you alreadyknow what type of family atmosphere it is.
She does a lot with the communityand the kids with the drama for
the summer. So if you havea kid that is interested in acting,
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wonderful She does plays with those childrenof musical productions and so it's just

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a wonderful experience for them if theyhave an interest in acting or all of
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it in your calendar is April sixth. I will be in town on April
six so we're gonna be I'm inthat play along with my special guests for

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tonight, Carolyn Traylor, she isin that play. And so April sixth,
it's gonna be a New Way ofLife Church in Dallas, Texas.
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please come and join us if youcan, and get your tickets at Rudebaga
Productions dot com. Hey mama,I see you. Thank you for tuning
in, so listen. Thanks sis, thank you so remember this, y'all
gonna make me. Y'all gonna y'alljust making my heart feel so good to
see y'all coming on in here.Thank you so much. Hey, ma

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Sis, thank you so much.I'm trying to get like you. Hey
Nika, Hey, Hi, thanky'all for tuning in. So uh Yes,
Drummer for the Summer is so funfor the kids. They love it.
And there's kids from all ages.I think, uh ain't Marian,
if you will come in on hereand tell us what's the youngest age you
work with? I think about fouror five all the way to eighteen.

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She does the productions with Kause.Hey, Regina, thank you for tuning
in. I can count on you. You been here every week. Hey
cousin, I see Shaye, thankyou for tuning in. All right,
So remember last week I told youthat that lesson was gonna carry over into
this week. So we're still talkingabout the same topic. We're still talking
about forgiveness. Hey Grady, howyou doing four to eighteen? All right?

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See, she is a real one. It's like a real person to
work with four year olds when you'retalking about acting and singing, and so
she works with four all the wayto eighteen. She is gifted. God
has gifted her. She's anointed andappointed. And if you want your kids
to go to the next level,if they have any interest in being,
like I said, an actor oractress, please please hip her up them

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and bring your kids out for dramafor the summer, and you get to
drop them off for hours free babysitting. That's what it is. So get
with drama for the plummer, justso you can get you some free babysitting.
All right, So I'm gonna doa quick recap about what we talked
about last week, and then they'regonna carry on into the lesson for today.
Today, we're gonna be coming fromthe scripture of Romans twelve. We're

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coming from verse seventeen all the wayto verse twenty one is what I'm gonna
be reading. Okay, So we'regonna go with Romans twelve, verse seventeen
through twenty one. Remember I amreading from the NIV version. Okay,
So those of you who might haveKing James or whatever version of the Bible

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you have, this is the NIVversion that I am reading. All right,
here we go. It say donot repay anyone evil for evil.
Be careful to do what is rightin the eyes of everybody. If it
is possible, as far as itdepends on you, live at peace with
everyone. Do not take revenge,my friends, but leave room for God's

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wrath. For it is written itis mine to avenge. I will repay,
says the Lord. On the contrary, if your enemy is hungry,
feed him. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In
doing this, you will heep burningcoals on his head. Do not be

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overcome by evil, but overcome evilwith good. Good. Let's go for
a moment a prayer. Do havinga Father, Lord, we just thank
you for another day that wasn't promiseto us. God, God, I
thank you for all the people thatare gathered here on this evening. God,
for the people that are gonna watchit in the replay. God,
God, I ask it you.Just let this word be a blessing.
God. Let it touch somebody's heart. Let it change their lives. Lord,

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Let it break change and set peoplefree. God, the people that
are bound with unforgiveness. God,let it prick their hearts and create a
change their God, for them tohave transformation. God. For you,
God, God, we thank youfor being who you all. God.
We know that you are the authorand the finish of our faith. God.
We know that we were already predestinedbefore we were formed in the woman.
So we just thank you for yourdivine hand that is on our lives.

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God. God, we thank youfor the good and the bad,
God, everything that you're doing,because we know that all things work together
for our good. God. God, I asked that you would just continue
to bless everyone that is under theside of my voice. God. Let
your blood cover them. God,protect them as they travel to and fro
as they go in and they're doingwhatever they're doing. God, God,
I ask that you would just meetevery need that needs to be met.

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God, and fix everything that isbroken. God, straighten every crookeet path
In Jesus name, we pray andask all things thank God. Amen.
Amen. All right, So we'regonna jump right in here. So last
week I'm just quickly recapped those pointsfrom last week. So last week we
talked about help. Your health isaffected by your inability to forgive. So
we know that harboring unforgiveness leads tohealth issues. Okay, we know that

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we are all in need of forgivenessright, all of us. There's no
person that doesn't need to be forgivenfor something. We've all done something that
we need forgiveness for all. Right, we looked at the story of Joseph
and all that he endured, right, and we talked about that. The
extends pretty much the extent of thetestimon I mean of the Bible study last
week, because so much happened toJoseph. He endured so much it reminded

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me a little bit of the movieor it's a book as well, lemited
Sniggets. It's a series of unfortunateevents, you know, And it seems
like that's what was happening in Joseph. He just had a series of unfortunate
events. It was one thing outeverything was happening. When it seemed like
he started coping in the situation hewas in and elevating boom, something else
happened and he had another situation wetalked about also in Romans eight twenty eight.

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And we know that all things worktogether for the good of those who
love the Lord and called according tohis purpose. And so we know that
no matter what trials we are facing, no matter what things we are going
through, those things work together forour good, right, So we have
to make sure that we are doingthings the right way so that they can
work out for our good. Becausewhen we started getting upset angry and we

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take vengeance into our own hands,now we've changed the whole scenario. We've
changed how it's gonna play out.Because who does vengeance belong to? Vengeance
belongs to the Lord, all right, And so we know that there is
a purpose in everything that we gothrough. There is a purpose in everything
that we go through. So whenwe're going through it, we have to

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already know that as we're going throughit. Right, when you go on
through trials or tribulations, or whenpeople have wronged you, they've hurt you,
they've mishandled you, all those things, you have to keep in mind
that there is a purpose for this. There's a purpose in the pain,
as we said last week. Andso we don't we don't get bitter,
all right, we get better,right, don't get better when people hurt

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you and people cause you, likeI said, they mishandle you, you,
you get better. Don't get better. You have to go through it
to learn what you're supposed to learn. There is always a lesson in everything
that happens, doesn't matter what itis. If somebody hurts you, somebody
mistreats you, there's a lesson thatyou could they could be learned that,
Hey, to beat us. Lookat you tune in end a little earlier

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to day. I appreciate that.Come on in here, girl. So
this is a good lesson. Listen. I forgiveness, because we have to
forgive. And so there is alesson that you can learn in the hurt
and the pain. What it mightbe if you told somebody's thumbing and you
told don't tell nobody, and thenthey go and then and run their mouth

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and you hear back through the grapevineif they told somebody, if you if
you trust that person, that cancause a hurt. But what is the
lesson? Don't tell them nothing else? You know? Hey, hey Shane,
thank you for tuning in. Iappreciate you, cuz, but you
learn you learn from that how tohandle it, how to deal with people
right, and so that doesn't meanyou have to mistreat them, but you

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can learn. Okay, now Iknow what to expect from you, and
so I can move differently when itcomes to dealing with you. And so
we learn the lesson through the hurting, the pain. We grow. You're
supposed to grow, so you growhowever, you're supposed to grow from it
so that you can go where you'resupposed to go. Amen. So that's
those are the kids that we haveto keep in mind. When we get

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hurt, somebody mistreats us, wethink about, Okay, this is what
they've done. But what is thelesson in this? What can I learn
from this? How can I growmyself from this situation so that I can
go where God has me for meto go? Right? Where was Joseph
going? Joseph was going to thepalace, from the pit to the palace.

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But think about it, if hewouldn't have been the man of God
that he was, that's right.Forgiveness is a requirement. You better come
over here. It's a requirement,that's right. And so if you if
you allow that confestering you in yourharboring that unforgiveness, all you're gonna do
is hurt yourself. Right, becausesometimes you learn to put people in the

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people in the create space in yourlife. That's right, that's right.
Sometimes God allows you to see whopeople are and then you know how to
handle them from the way that theyhave have treated you. I remember one
time one of my one of myI called them my best friend at the
time. Uh you, she dida thing. I couldn't believe it,

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you know. I was like,wow, like if you did then,
if if you was really my bestfriend, you would did me like this,
you know. But the funny thingabout it is God had already showed
me that she was gonna do melike that, and I told her about
it. It probably it was monthsand months before it happened, and I
had a dream and I say,hey, I had this dream that this
happened. And in the dream,I said, if it was really my

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best friend, you wouldn't do melike that. And then months later she
was like, I would never.I would never. And months later it
came to pass. But I wasable to forgive her because first of all,
God had already shown me, youknow, So I knew that there
was purpose in it because God wasalready preparing me. But what I know
is I read the Bible every daypretty much, and I've been reading it

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for a long time. And I'mnot a Bible scholar, but I've never
seen anywhere in the Bible where Godinstructs us to put our trust in a
human being, as anybody seems yougot. Anybody knows a scripture that they
co a reference where God has toldus to trust man, to trust a
human being. Anybody know any scripts? Because I might be wrong, but
I've never come across that. Ifyou heard one, put a note in

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nerve and let me know. Yeah, I've seen the scripture where where God
said you use your trust man,because we supposed to put our trust in
who who's supposed to put our trustin? Type it in there and tell
me. I know y'all know thatanswer? Who are supposed to put your
trusted Come on, now, y'allget them think them fingers are typing?

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Who do you put your trust in? Who should we put trust in?
Very good? Thank you ain't married. We have to put our trust in
God. God is thank you right? So that's right. That is the
only person that we can really trust. Now that doesn't mean that you can't
trust anybody, But I'm letting youknow that God has never instructed us in
this word to put our trust ina man. In no human being,

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not even your mama or your daddy, your sister, your brother, and
God has never instructed us to putour trust in people. We put our
trust in God. Right, that'sright, thank you, Okay, y'all,
y'all was coming and I was justa little too quick for everybody start
coming in. That's right. Sowe put our trust in the Lord,
and he will do what he said. He's gonna do what he say he's
gonna do. Let's go over Deuteronomythirty two and thirty five. He said,

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it is mine to avenge. Iwill repay in due time. Their
foot will slip, their day ofdisaster is near, and their doom rushes
up on them. Right. Godsaid it is his job being just is
mine if y'all got kids, becauseI ain't got no kids, but those

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of y'all have kids. You know, when they get in that mind stage,
when they get back back one twoyears old, it's a less like
that's the only thing they say.The truth is if we if we withhold
forgiveness, God will do the samething. That's right, and that's what
we talked about last week. Youso right. Why can't thank you that

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because you got this nng he Angelina, You are so right. If we
withhold forgiveness, then we cannot beforgiven. And that is that listen,
ain't nobody worth you not being ableto be forgiven. And so when when
little kids say mine, that meansthat they believe that belongs to them.

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It's theirs, it ain't yours.And so God has told us that vengeance
is mine, so that means thatit don't belong to us. We don't
have the right or the responsibility torepay, right, we don't have that.
We don't have the authority to repayanybody back for how they mistreated us.

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I used to have that real bad. Those of you do know me,
like you you you mishandled me.And what my favorite statement, Oh
I show you better, I tellyou. They said that real quick,
oh I show you better, Itell you. And that was my mentality,
right, It was like, ohyou didn't. You didn't mishandle me.
So now I got to I haveto do something so that you have

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to pay for how you've treated me. That used to be my mind saying.
And thank God for setting me freeand opening my eyes so that I
could see that I was hindering myself, because when you start doing that,
you're really entering into a demonic territory. That's a demonic realm of and you're
and you're opening up for the devilto have a foothold to come in and
rehavoc in your life. When youharbor unforgiveness, you allow the enemy to

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come in and manipulate your mind rightcause all kind of confusion. It's a
way for him to come in andreally miss up your life when you're harboring
that unforgiveness. God has called usto do right when they do wrong.
All right, Tricia, that's whatI'm talking about. I'm glad that you
tune in. I'm glad that youfeel that it's an on time word.

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It is. If, then it'sfor me as well, right because we
have to learn this and so,uh, when we look at our scripture
that we're reading for today, itsays, so we already got past the
vengit's mind. So we're supposed tobe living at peace with everyone, okay.
And it says on the contrary,if your enemy is hungry, feed

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them. If he is thirsty,give them something to drink. So what
does that say God? When peoplemistreat us, God still want us to
treat them well. So can youthink of it? Think about that the
last person you was mad at,and and you know you was cussing them
out of your head or I laughed. You know, some of us got

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a cussing ministry, you know.So if you was mad either, but
think about what God said. Wouldyou in that anger, would you be
able to give them something to eat? They're hungry, give them something to
drink. But that's what God isrequiring us to do, even when they're
doing wrong. God is requiring usto do right. Forgiveness is not always

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easy, but it is very itis necessary. That's right, that's right.
You have to forgive, and soGod wants us to look for opportunities
to do good right with I'm challengingeverybody that's listening, if you're catching the
replay, if you're on here rightnow, whatever, I'm challenging you that
when some think about you, itmight be somebody right now, you can

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you can think of like, Iain't forget him. I need to forgive
that person, right, And soif there is I would I want to
challenge you to look for an opportunityto do something good for that person.
You might not be able to feedthem or drink it, give them something
to drink. They might not havethat need. But I want you,
I challenge you to look for opportunityto do good to that person that you

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need to forgive, to show love, to be kind, you be the
godly person in the situation. Right. Everybody would say what would Jesus do?
Well? What would he do?And I know we're not Jesus,
but we're supposed to be what we'remade in this image. Were supposed to
be walking like Jesus, striving tobe like Christ, to live Christ like

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Hey, Brailen, Hey, hey, thank you for joining us. So
I want you to think about that. That's my challenge, that's my charge
to everybody that's listening. Who doyou need to get it right with?
Who do you need to forgive andquit harboring that unforgiveness? Think of who
it is it might be most people, and then think of some way that

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you can do good and to them, even if just calling and say hello,
say I'm sorrel, or say Iforgive you or whatever it is.
But what is a way that youcan do good? Because it's just if
we are harboring unforgiveness in our hearts, it will definitely allow the devil to
take advantage of us, right,it will allow the devil to take advantage

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of us to some people right nowwalking around depressed and sad and beard stressed
out because of unforgiveness. You holdingon to something that somebody has done when
you have to give it to theLord. Right, and if you got
all those Bible studies where God hasavenged his people, even right here in

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the scripture, it says, indoing this, when you do good to
people who do you wrong. Indoing this, you will heap burning coals
on his head. And I'm notsaying that we want to be you know
that you gotta have the right hearton the right spirit when you do things,
so you know we ain't just weain't doing good. I'm gonna eat
his food because yeah, you getacting coals up, eat them, leap.

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I'm put the coals on top ofyour head. That is not the
right spirit, he says, Hey, DELSI thank you so much for tuning
in. That is not the rightspirit. Try to always forgive quickly.
That's right, that's right, andit's healthy. That is healthy. Whoever
has hurt you, I promise youit is not worth letting the devil come

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in and and rehavo in your life. I promise you it's not. And
think about who you offer, evenin yourself, when you've wronged somebody.
Right, we've all done something uhthat was wrong. We've hurt somebody,
We've mistreated somebody in some type ofway, we've done something that we needed

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forgiveness from. Then we ain't gonnatalk about the sinings, all the sins
that we committed that we have toget uh forgiveness. We have to ask
Jesus to forgive us for And soyou think about that. If you're not
heyy d D, thank you fortuning in. If you are not extending
forgiveness, and then you look forJesus to forgive you, that ain't how

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it works. That's not how itworks. And Jelena told us it is
a required meant what is a requirement. There's a whole bunch of teachers on
here right now when they can takesomething that is a requirement. He Puster
Walker forgive us our debts as weforgive. That's the word. That's the

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word. And I know that sometimesyou really be so hurt by people when
they let you down. But nobody'sperfect. Nobody's perfect. Forgiveness is a
must right and put yourself in thoseshoes. You know. People make mistakes,
people mess up. Some people justyou know, have bad intentions.

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But even within that, God hascalled us to do good. What does
he say? He said, donot become, do not be overcome by
evil, but overcome evil. Howdo we overcome evil? Even if it's
hard, it listens for those ofus, don't hear that have had to

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forgive? To be it is hard. It is especially the closer that they
are to you, the harder thatit is. Whenma used to call her
best friend miss treated me. Thatwas a hard hurt. It took me
months. God, God has toreally really work with me and work on
me for me to experience healing fromthat. Then one of my favorite family

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members mistreated me. I was like, oh, I'm done with you.
But God has to showed me like, no, that is not what I
require of you. And so thenI have to forgive. And even though
our relationship hasn't gotten back to whereit is, we have restored our relationship,

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and you you don't have to alwaysrestore. God gives us wisdom and
discernment, you know, and sometimesyou just forgive me and you keep on
going. You don't have to restoreevery relationship, but you do have to
make it right. You do haveto make it right, and you do
have to forgive. Now if theydon't forgive you for something that you've done,
and that that ain't got nothing dowith you, but what is in

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your heart. If you're the personthat has forgiveness in your heart, then
you have to get that right,okay, And so that is what I
want to encourage you. Next week, we're gonna talk about forgiveness again,
but we're gonna talk about dealing withforgiving yourself right. And so that's gonna
be our lesson next week is forgivingyourself. And so just know that in

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this life, we're gonna have trialsand tribulations. We're gonna have people that
mishandle us and deal with us wrong. But God has called us to a
standard and that is to treat everybodyright, do right, be sure to
do right in the eyes of everyone. And so let that be our lesson

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on tonight. If listen, youknow, the devil gonna gonna teest you
and temperature, so be on thelookout because something might become real soon.
Somebody gonna rub me the wrong way, and you remember to do good.
Do good, treat people the waythat God has instructed us to treat them.
I'm gonna end with this scripture onemore time. Roman's twelfth seventeenth to

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twenty one. Do not repay anyoneevil for evil. Let it go.
It's not your job, it's Gott'sjob. Be careful to do what is
right in the eyes of everybody,so you know you're in the eyes of
your best friend. It might beright like, oh yeah, we funn't
get up, but we have todo what's right in the eyes of everybody.

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So when you before you act,ask yourself, where's my pastor?
If my pastor was looking at mewhen I do this. Sometimes people feel
like if the relationship is not restored, forgiveness didn't take place, and that
is that is that isn't true.That is definitely not true. Okay,
you can forgive somebody and you ain'teven have You ain't even have to tell
them that you forgave right. Youain't got gonna say, oh I forgive

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you for what do? I learnedthat later because when I was getting stronger
in the Lord and seeking God,I went on this forgiveness rampage and now
when God showed me me. WhenGod showed me me, and I like,
oh, And I had a listof people that I was like,
oh, I got it. Igotta make sure I get it right.
And so I thought I had tocall all these people and tell them like

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I forgive you, I forgive you. And so I was calling, hey,
thank you for tune and in Iwas calling all these people, and
it was so funny because it wasabout three or four people that was like,
girl, I ain't thought nothing aboutyou. I ain't thought nothing about
that. I was not offended,like you know, but I thought,
you know, perhaps, And soI was trying to get it right with

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everybody. Everybody can think of thatI might offend it. I was calling
like, oh, please forgive me. You know if you feel like I've
done you wrong. Most of thosepeople didn't even feel like I hadn't done
anything to them. They wouldn't eventhink about me. But I want to
get it right. But I learnedlater that you don't even have to do
that. You ain't gotta call toeverybody confessed, and you forgiveness is to
work with them, right. Andso when you like I said last week,

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when you know you have forgiven,when you see that person and you
don't feel no kind of way,and they don't. We don't bring up
no kind of feelings inside of youwhen you think about what they've done to
you. It doesn't trigger anything youdon't have. You don't feel pain or
anger about it. Forgiveness is amusk, that's right. And we said,
that's a musk. It's a requirementyou have to forgive and so and

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you know it's a process. Itcould be a process. That doesn't mean
you're gonna forgive overnight, right,but you can start asking God to help
you forgive. If there's somebody thatjust wronged you and you're you and you're
struggling with forgiving him, start prayingabout it and say, Lord, help
me, help me to forgive thisperson, and he will do it.

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The Bible says if you ask,if you ask his name, he will
do it. And so you askGod, Lord, take this out of
my heart, help me to forgivethis person, Help me to love this
person, and he will do thatfor you. All right, all right,
So listen, we're gonna move intoour special guest segment, and I
hope y'all and joyed that word.I hope it's encourge here. You remember

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what I said, Go find somebodyand do good. If you know it's
somebody that you have to forgive,you need to forgive to try to figure
out a way that you can dosomething good, to show Christ to that
person, show them some love,to do good to them. Okay,
our special guest on tonight is myspecial friend. I love her to death.
Carolyn Traylor. Carolyn Traylor, betterknown as the Texas Powerhouse, is

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no stranger to the gospel music community. With a successful career spanning over twenty
years, Carolyn has lent her soulsteering vocals to many recording projects, and
she shared platforms with several leading gospelrecording greats such as doctor Bobbie Jones,
Albertina Walker, Paul Porter, WillieNeil Johnson, the Gospel Keynotes, the

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Canton Spirituals, do Arthor Nordwood,Pastor Marvin Sap, Vicki Whiners, and
Kurt Franklin, and on and onand on the list goes. Carolyn Traylor
continues to move her audience with heartwarmingperformances of her most notable songs, Can't
Nobody be God being God. Andthere's a story behind my praise. And
I remember the story behind my praisewent viral because I can't remember the young

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lady who did it, but shedid it on Sunday's Best, Uh,
and that was Carolyn Trailers song.She did it and she told it up.
But these songs have become anthems ofinspiration to many, and to this
day they continue to bring hope tothe masses that God never fails. Y'all.
Welcome to the stage. My friendCarolyn Trailer alway from Greenville. Text,

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how how you doing it. I'mblessed. I'm blessed. I'm so
glad that you joined me on tonight. My God, we got a thing.
Listen, I came in on theright time. Sa Angela, Angela
Hill say that's my friend. She'sfrom Memphis, Tennessee. Okay, yeah,

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yeah, the house. Well listen, I'm so glad to have you
on tonight. And I know you'regonna have an awesome word of inspiration because
that's what you do. You inspired. So I'm not gonna bought along your
time. You go ahead, jumpright on in there, let's inspire these
people. Look at him. I'mjust so excited that I came in when

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you were talking about the Easter wordforgiveness. That's what it's that's we're in
that season. That's what it's allabout. That's what Jesus meant when he
said, it's finished. Everything Ineeded to do, I did it.
It's over. So you ain't gotto worry about all those old sins.

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You ain't got to worry about allthat. And if he can forgive us,
then we certainly can forgive others.Right, That's right. Yeah,
And I just I don't know.I came in on that and that just
inspired me. I love I justlove God. I love the model prayer
our father, how he starts itout right there with me. You can't
pray for yourself without praying for yourenemy. That's right, you're saying,

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I that's got it. So thatso that word forgiveness, it goes such
a long way, and everybody isinclusive in that that Sometimes it feels like
you can't forgive a person, Butwhen you think about how he forgave us,
oh my god, you can't thinkof yourself no better. That's what
you know when you start thinking aboutit, and you just saying, even

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though they hurt me. Who amI? Right? Who am I?
You do? And you stay along time on that? To God?
What is it that it just seemslike I'm but what what in the world?
How many times did he forgive you? Over and over and over again?
And thank God? And you knowwhat, Lyric I think about sometimes
I think about that polaroid camera,you know, Polaro. You drop too

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young for the polaroid camera. Youwould take a picture and then you pull
it off and then you got toshake you do you know how many of
us that has been hidden and sohappy that God didn't bring it, that
God didn't do it. But whatwe were, what we were in,

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is in a development stage. Andso that's what we forget about our development
statement. We were just developing tobe who we are now. So we
have to be God have to shakeus something. Don't play? Don't okay?
Okay, I love it, Ilove it, but I mean,

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but you know, we got tobe so careful. And that's why I
love talking to you, uh,And I love talking to young musicians and
young ministers because we cannot be sohard on them that we forget how many
times He forgave us. You know, it may not be the exact thing

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that they went through, but it'ssomething. It's something, it's something,
and I just dare to say,neither one is greater than the other.
So that's right. There, yougo, there, you none is greater
than the other. It's not,it's not, it's not. I'm I'm
just having it. I'm having agood time already. And I just stepped
in the room. I love stufflike that. I'm so proud of you,

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Thank you. Thank you took abig step when you moved to Atlanta
and started and kept your ministry goingthere and and I hear it's going great
where you you you know, andI'm so just proud of you. Thank
you. I tell you this allthe time. I wish I knew what
you knew at your age. Itell you that, I tell you that,

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I do it because because it justseems like you really captured the captured
it early. And I really wasspending that time doing a lot of things
that I need to be doing,not you know, partying or whatever.
And I spent that time those yearsbecause I thought I had a lot lot

(35:57):
more time, and however I did, but it would have been so much
more useful you know, because Iwas no more and I would And you
know what, it's so funny thatyou say that, because I feel the
same way when I see young peoplelike Kiera Hicks, you know, with
people like that that are there arejust I mean on fire for the Lord,

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you know. And you know,twenty three, twenty four years old,
I'm saying, but if I wasdropping it lower somebody club, I
wasn't thinking about. I was thinkingabout I was professing love the Lord.
And now now you know, I'ma Christian, but I wasn't living worth
two cents, you know. Andyeah, go ahead, go ahead.

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I'm enjoying it. And it's likeyou you missed so many blessings, Like
there's so many things I could havebeen so much further ahead I could God
could have done so, I couldhave done so much for God. Not
even about what God could have donefor me. I could have done so
much us for God. I wastoo busy trying to do it, do
what I wanted to do. Youknow, I'm forty years old. I

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feel like that that's on. Youknow, I don't feel young that young.
I don't feel old, but itdon't feel that young. You know,
you don't know that you are youngand know that and if that's a
if that's a burden on you likethat, then you know, I would
love for some of those young peoplebecause I mean, they got it really
good, but they could learn fromyou as well well. God, So

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therefore I would just love for,you know, different conferences. That's what
I'm saying. You know, weme and you, we needed a lot
of different conferences and mean different conferences, and and that's and that's sometimes what
I feel like I don't get atthe conferences, is that that meeting together,
the meeting of the mind, comerider. You know, I think
when when I leave, I feellike sometimes sometimes you get a great conference,

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but sometimes you leave as if you'remissing something. And I think that
something is us not really being ableto share because when somebody is on the
stage, they're doing all the talkingand and the people in the audiences don't
get a chance. We're just listening. Yeah, we're just listening. So
so anyway, said hey Carolyn JanetGreen, that's my friend through that that's

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a preaching somebody and as are singingsomebody both in Memphis. Okay, okay,
yeah, you know you got friendsall over the world because they traveling
all over the world. So Iknow, uh, I know you got
you know, because we're real friends. For rid. Yeah, well we
had a lot of different conversations.So but I want tonight. I know

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there was an opportunity of a timein your ministry that you kind of,
like you said, you felt kindof defeated, like you want to give
up, like you didn't want tokeep going. The two of you should
put a comfort together. It wouldbe so powerful. Come over here.
That's it. That's what's so funnybecause I was getting ready to say a
minute ago. So when you putyour conference together lyrics, make sure you

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put that in there where people areable to talk and say what They put
more time into that, you know, rather than rushing to the next thing.
And that's just confirmation from God becauseI have so many different comforence ideas
I've written now over the past tenyears, and I know God gonna bring
it to past whenever it's the timingis right. But that is definitely something

(39:28):
that I've already been playing. Igot in my phone, I got lists
with names of who going to whatcomference. Well speaks why yes, yes,
because I think it's you know theconferences that I want to have are
not even music based, but it'sabout life. You know, domestic violence,
you know, homosexuality, you knowthings that people need deliverance and healing

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from. And that's what I believeGod has really gifted and called me too,
is deliverance. You know. Iknow every oh she be rapping and
oh she, but I know thatI believe God has given me a deliverance
ministry, you know. And sothank you for speaking that you and ain't
marian uh. I appreciate that that'sthis confirmation that that is. And then,
but everybody don't know your story,which I think you need to say

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more at the part of the storywhere you are a school teacher and that
is how you talked to your kidsby rapping to them. And then that
is and you started rapping, andthen when you saw it was catching on
with the students, you became agospel rapper. That's just so that that's
just so amazing to me, evenfor the first time I heard you tell

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that test That's just amazing to me. And I think the world needs to
hear you because really, and Itell you that, I mean, it's
a it's a gospel rap. Iwas like, come on, I'm too
old and I ain't gonna really enjoythat, and what, oh God is
good. I'm just ripping. Imean, I mean, I ain't nobody,
but I be all up in myshoulders. So yeah, yeah,

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So it is for everybody because itis thinking I'm not gonna like I'm not
gonna like that and I need toget out of here or whatever. You
know, you saw. I cameto the midnight you came to the and
you know, got is so goodand it just does my heart so good
because you know, it makes youfeel bad, like, oh man,
we're on a midnight concert. Ain'tnobody coming to this midnight concert. But

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to look out there and see you, and to see the Gloria Cooks and
her husband, and to see thepastor off in them, and to know,
you know, they look at mesaying wait on you, wait on
you. It just makes you feelso good to have that support because I
know all y'all bedtime at six o'clock. You gotta know it. And in
fact, what we're not telling youif we went home and took a napp

(41:52):
at six o'clock, Laury take anap, I say, you make sure
you gonna get your nappy, becauseI don't know I'm gona make it.
I said you you gonna get yournap in. I'm gonna be looking for
you. But I should appreciate it. I know that God has great things
in store for the both of us. Have you ever thought about doing comedy

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being comedian? Ah, that istoo funny, that's funny. And I
know Angie is too tickled on thistake of me and can get on the
phone sometimes, and that's who thecommediy and she's really a comedian. Her
her comedian stage name is Sister KeepIt Real, Sister Keeping. She is

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funny and so yeah, so wejust be cracking each other up and j
and jet it just be too tickledand so yeah. So uh no,
but my family, we just makejokes out of anything, you know,
nothing was too morbid or too seriousbecause that's how we handled it. And

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to the point where some people likenow every thing is not funny. And
I and I different, you know, I mean, you you got to
sometimes, you know, to makeit, Yeah, to make make it
whatever, make it make you youknow, you be able to get through
it, you know, And souh yeah, and so that was when
you go through as many deaths asI went through, thirteen deaths, real
close to one another. And uhhere, in the last two or three

(43:20):
four years, five of my closestfriends passed away. You barely have a
sense of him. Yeah, areyou gonna you can end up in your
hometown in Terrell State Houseite you rightabout that? You're right about that.
I had somebody said something up,we put that, put that the coming
back up. It says we haveto be creative in how we draw our

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youth in. So God gave youthe gift of wrapping his word and encouraging
others in that way. Keep going, You're doing. Great job to God.
Be the thank you classmate. Thatis right, That is right.
God truly gave me the gift.Yes, the world is to hear her.
Thank you, Angela. It's allGod. I ain't gonna take no
credit for people. Ask myself,how don't you guys want to be a
raping your whole life? I waslike, maybe I just discovered that I

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can rap that something about want tobe my whole life. I just discovered
that I got several classmates out here. They tell you they ain't never heard
me rap that ain't. That's notsomething that I was pursuing, but like
you said, I was. Istarted doing it in the classroom. I
was invited to a church to speak, and I thought, Hey, all

(44:27):
my students, a lot of mystudents gonna be here. I'm gonna write
a rap by Jesus. And thatthing took off. Getting the game was
that you are going worldwide, comeon speaking, ain't married. And I
appreciate that. I know God,whatever God has listen. And that's why
I tell people all the time wehave to be sensitive to the spirit.
Yes, right, because I don't. I don't. I don't listen to
rap music. You know. Itry to support other Christian rap artists sometimes,

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but I'm not a big rap person, you know. I just I
like I like, I like praiseand I like to you know, something
to move my spirit. I liketo do what the lawd say. Do
you know what I mean? That'swhat moved me. And you you know
he'll step in on time. Thatthat kind of stuff that moves me.

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You know, Karen Render Clark,Karly Caesar like those are the things.
And so when God gives me thesesongs, I mean he just I just
be writing them. You know,he'll give them him just like I just
write them. Right, People,how many songs you got, I think
I have like fifty two songs.I think got written fifty two songs.
Fifty two songs. I have fivealbums. And it's like God just gives

(45:36):
it, gives gifts and I justbe writing, you know, but it's
gone. It's like I can't takeany credit for it because it's not a
skill that I developed or your talentthat I know I got better over the
past ten years, of course,but you know, people tell my time
like, I ain't thank you forgetting no bad. I think that was
you that you told me that yousaid you were getting no better. Yeah,

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I did. I did, Yeah, because when I heard you a
few years ago, uh it wasbefore COVID and I heard you and it
was like that was so amazing.And then I heard you at the Texas
Gospel of Wards a couple of monthsago, and it was like, man,
yeah, because you know it's adifference and that, you know,

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and somebody just singing and somebody Godallowing you to be able to command the
stage. You know, you knowthat. So when you when you have
that, you know you know thatyou have kind of you know, got
you know, I mean, Ihate to say you got it. I
say this thing about what is it? But you know what I'm saying.
Yeah, annoying that's what it is. Yeah, kind yeah, it kind

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of creeps in there, doesn't yourannoyingting? That's right, ain't Mary.
It's growth. I've had a lotof growth, any help that I lost
fifty pounds, you know, itmade me easy. Okay, Okay,
so you're gonna start meddling right inthe middle of the whole and in the
middle of the podcast. Now wesaid nothing about what and here you come.

(47:05):
You did and you kept it.You kept it off, so you
know we're talking about that. Yeah, and you kept it off and so
yeah, yeah, the way youwill move on stage, it is something
that you have to do. Andit has to be part of the discussion.
Yeah, it has to be partof the discussion. And then okay,
since we're pulling ourselves now, JanetGreen sells this product for that,
but anyway, that's a whole otherstuff. Yeah. So yeah, but

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it has to be part of thetotals. That's exact. And you know
what, it's Christians, especially asartists. We have to not we have
to be able to have some toughskin because you're gonna have to have a
constructive criticism is a necessity, andI had to when I got with my
record label. I know everybody thescene because everybody like you show change after

(47:52):
you got them. They have.They poured a lot into me. They've
taught me a lot, And atfirst it was hard taking that constructive criticism
because you know, you remember whenI used to get on stage back before
I signed with them. I usedto wear a god good T shirt.
Yeah I want me some jeans onand some timblings, and I thought I

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was rocking the house, you know, and they was like, oh,
that ain't gonna fly. That ain'tgonna work. They were like, when
you step in the room, peopleshould know that you're the artists, right,
okay, and that change. Andwhen they said I was like,
and then and now you see everytime you see me, Yeah, yeah,

(48:34):
when I stepped in the room,I try to make sure that I'm
standing out from just from the spectators, right, But it's hard to do
that. It takes God because everybody, classmate, I love you, I'm
so proud of you. Keep doingGod's work. I need to drop off.
All right, thank you, hey, thank you for coming. I
appreciate you so much. And y'allcan always tune in and it's on Apple
podcasts anywhere you listen to the podcasts, you can hear that anytime. But

(48:58):
you know that kind of you know, they said, it was kind of
like dang, like you know,like they are criticizing the way I dress,
you know, the way I look, you know. And I remember
when one of them said to me, these are my board members, you
know. They said, you canpick up some weight you need. You
need to get that weight off ofyou, you know, And so these
are things that could hurt your feelingsif you take it the wrong way.

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But what is that. Okay,they're trying to help take me to the
next level, but it can hurtyour ministry if you don't do it.
And that's what I have learned.And we'll talk about that one day because
that's what I really have learned.It really, it really does. It
does. That's why I said itshould be a part of the whole conversation
because I've had to suffer from that. Yeah, I had to suffer from

(49:43):
it. And so anyway, I'mI'm better, and God, God be
the glory. I'm better. Jointhe gym. All know, I'm so
of you. I'm so proud ofyou. So just try and just just
y'all pray for me. Everybody,coul continue to pray for me. And
if you see me with a hotdog, don't ask for no, no,

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but just pray for me. Okay, if we see you what a
hot dog, don't ask for nofor none of it, but no,
but no. But really, ittakes and and and that's why I say
some of those things you wish ithad taken you this long because you had
friends they were saying whatever. Youknow that you know you need to that.

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But because we're not tough skinned,it's hard for us to take it.
But it should be a time thatwe're saying that's That's one of the
reasons I never used to read thecomments when I would sing never and you
you were very seldomly hear see mepost myself. And that's why I don't
have a whole lot of pictures.You're never going to see me posting pictures

(50:51):
of me and and but I wantto get back to a place where I
can. But I just and Theonly way I usually post is like a
person that I'm going to a program, like I'm going to your auntie next
uh an April, right, that'sright, Yes, I am. I'm
going to her. I'll be I'llbe there for the play. And if

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she says I need you to postit on your Facebook, I post it
on my Facebook because people have askedme to. But as far as me
posting it on my Facebook, no, But I'm getting back to that.
You know, I got some goodfootage of you in my phone from you
know, some some recordings that thatthat uh, because you know you be

(51:36):
tearing it up. I know you'regonna get my guests a few seconds of
something ready in and out of season. You have to be ready. You
can jump with all you can't jumpwith all that weight. Ask me how
I know. Let's just keep itreal. She said, you can't jump

(51:58):
with all that way. I'm tryingto tell you needs be having. Ain't
you feeling in your need? Youcan? You're like me, you mean,
like goodnight everyone, And then whenyou walk up this stage, you
go, Lord Jesus, please,what in the world you know that's what
you do? And then but youget to you you're on your way back
to the room and you're looking fora huddle house. So it's really you

(52:19):
know, I'm really serious, andso you have to you have to be
serious. But if God, ifyou can trust him. I had to.
I've said this forever, but Ididn't really just take it like I
should. I'm out here singing andtelling people who God is and what he
can do. Yeah, but ifI don't believe that He could help me

(52:40):
lose weight. Now, I doknow that there are people that has sicknesses
where it causes them to gain SoI'm not saying that everybody that's overweight want
to be overweight, right, youknow, I'm not saying that. I'm
not saying everybody that is overweight overeats. It overeats. That's not what I'm

(53:00):
saying, because it's some people thathave thyroid conditions. Some people have things
that that it causes there to uhto gain weight. You know. However,
I don't think I'm one of them, but but there are there are
people. I put that out thereso y'all can think I'm talking about me,
but anyway, but so therefore,yeah, it's all the work.

(53:22):
Yeah, it's it's it's a work. It's work. I'm marry you said,
Jenny Green, what you got,everybody, don't lose weight. Give
us some of that what you got. My mama said, sing a little
of your new song. Oh that'swhat d oh, that's what she thought
about dancing in the pit. That'ssong that I'm trying to trying to bry

(53:44):
Uh, convince you to let mewrap on even if we have to do
a remix. I want to rapon it. When you were thinking I
can just feel it out, itwas just it was it. I was
like, oh, I can flowon that. I like that when you
got yeah, that that that youjust talking about the same song. So

(54:04):
my mamma says ing about the song, and Delicia said somethingbout so I think
they want to hear a little bitof that dancing in the pit. If
you're not, if you're not readyfor dancing in the pit, you can
give us something mail no, no, I mean, but it's just it's
just four lines. So it's justfour lines. I mean, it's it's
a it's a song that I'm beingthat's being developed right now. But it's
just four lines. And that's thebeauty about being a singer. Y'all can

(54:30):
just sing for line, you cansay for lines, but whole song.
And yes, a lot of people, a lot of people do that,
but a lot of people do that. But because it's being developed, then
it's kind of I'm not going toput it out there right now, but
it's one that I have, uh. I have cop headed, capy written

(54:51):
and everything like that, and it'smy one that in the morning, I
just want Jesus, you are welcomein this place, not just now,
but I need you always. Lord, I need to feed your amizing grace.

(55:13):
Jesus, you are welcome. Jesus, you are welcome. Jesus,
you are welcome in this place.Stop by, hear Lord, Oh here,
I needing need Lord this time.I don't want to feel Lord.

(55:35):
I need you near me. Lord, stop by here, Lord, I
need you near me. Lord.Jesus you are welcome. I really mean
at this time, Jesus you arewelcome. Jesus you are welcome. I've

(55:59):
said so, and the time forJesus welcome. Jesus, you are welcome
this place, in this place.Hold okay, I need you less,
please you. I need in myheart. Oh, never to depart alone

(56:31):
in my heart in my mon,law, Jesus, you are welcome.
I've said so many times for Jesuswelcome. Jeez, you are welcome in

(56:53):
this place. Please hallelujah, gotit? Oh please, please God,
hallelu your God, You're welcome.Mm hmm you sits all the way mm

(57:15):
hm oh God. And that's andthat's the song that you're getting ready to
release. Yeah, it's gonna bethat one release too. I'm gonna release
that one and all and that dancingthen up here this time, this time,

(57:40):
I be dancing. You just frozeup. They didn't even get to
hear that one. I think,I think you know with kind you're right

(58:00):
and all of that. God right, God said not you, because they
didn't even get. All we gotwas dancing, and then we couldn't even
here. It was. It wasmessing up the Lord. Okay, that's
how it works. Okay, that'sfine, that's mine. That's right.

(58:22):
The reason why I do songs likethat sometimes own things like this. And
I had to remember because you havea date on it. Yeah, that's
right. And if anybody come behindme on that date, that's right.
That's right. That's pull it upto now. And I think I got

(58:47):
I got another date on my phone. I think I recorded you saying it.
Uh it takes his gospel too,okay, okay, okay, well
yeah that's good. That's good.That's why I found it. I found
out that's good to do it youand are you when you're doing a song
send it to somebody email? Yeah? Yeah, yep. Well it's called

(59:07):
it poor man copyright. Yeah,that's poor man copyright. They don't they
don't. They don't really acknowledge ita lot in court anymore. But it
do the because it's electronic you knowproof, Yeah, electronic proof. They
will use the date. Yeah,that's awesome. That's awesome. Listen,

(59:28):
you have encouraged you almost you.I was took up to the church,
honey, because I know said,she's slid out of her chair, and
I was over here fighting back mytears, and my sister was had her
hands thrown up on the on thelittle emojis then asking all to come into
our heart. That was so powerful. I can't wait. When do you
do? You don't have a dropdate. Do you have a release date?

(59:49):
Don't have a release date? Youknow that? Yeah, I don't
have a real I mean because thatis so powerful. Just even just like
you said to start your morning outfor every morning, you know, you're
welcome here. And because he's welcomehere, we have to treat him like
he's welcome here, like like hasan unwanted house, unwanted house guests that's

(01:00:10):
a good time. Yeah, wehave to treat like he's welcome here.
And then you know, you know, you have a guest that's welcome.
Leary tell her to put the playon her Facebook page. Miamis that put
the play on your Facebook? Theplay? She said, put the play
on your Facebook page? Okay,well i'll see you see the tire.
Yeah, send me the flyer andI'll put it on my Facebook page.

(01:00:31):
And uh and and let me justsay this when we're talking about things that's
coming up right, and that wesaid things. Well, I got a
call today and and this this Iwas in this just setting and a friend
of mine did a movie. Idon't know if you've seen, uh this

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movie on which on what is calledstep Dad, step Dad. Yeah.
Well, anyway, they wrote anothermovie called twelve the Guy from Love.
Both the bartender, Ted Lane andall of them were in it. So
he's like one of my little nephews. So when he was doing the movie

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in Dallas, he asked, couldsome people just come and sit in the
audience. So when I came,I just came just to support him,
sit in the audience. And thenthe preacher in the movie was getting ready
to say a few lines, buthe couldn't get his little part kind of
together. He knew it, butit just you know, you just need
some and Sean, Sean, juststay lines of a song. And I

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did. And after I did it, the producer called me up and say,
what do you want? Do youmind put that in the movie?
Wow? I said no, Wedid all the kind of stuff to you
know, and it comes out onApril second on Fandango with Fandango. Yeah,
he just commentated, told me thatthat's what I'm saying. I was
just looking at I mean, Iwas just looking at a movie the other

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night. I was looking at amovie with Jamie Fox and the bird Burial,
Burial. It's amazing. It's anamazing it's amazing movie because if you
know the movie about the the lawyerWillie Gary, then you would know how
significant he is to history. Andso he did that movie, and I

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was thinking, as as Lee asLee Andrew was her song was being played,
and I was like, oh man, God, what a great feeling,
you know, Yeah, to hearyour music in a movie. And
that's all that has always been likea dream and a couple of times it's
been done, but the movies hadnever like moved forward. Right, Yeah,

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because Stepdad is doing so well onthe other thing, then this is
coming out April second. Okay,who knew as I go, But I'm
just saying, you're the first,uh to get that amazing that I am
letting that out to April second asecond. Listen, and I know what

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it feels like. You said thatfeeling because I have one of my songs
in the movie. It's called theGolden Voices. What is I look at
the Golden Voices. Okay, googleit, Google it the Golden Voice.
I know it comes on preer Flix, but I'm sure you probably can see
other places. But I know thatmovie is being watched because when I get
my weekly notifications for from Apple,it has so many shazams. It always

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it has seventeen saxams this week,and it have eleven sxams. And I'm
saying they're examining that song from thatmovie. They try to what and it
just makes you feel so good thatyou can't believe it. It's like,
because you know this, you havea movie, that's some songs in movies,
But for somebody to get their phonein Saxam that they caught their ear,

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they say, I want who isthis? What is this right?
And there they trying to find it. It just does my heart so good.
I said, look at God likehe's not many doors. Oh my
God. And then that's what Iwant to tell the older saints. It's
never too late now, I mean, and I'm so glad that Janet and
Angela own her because those the twoof my closest friends. And they tell

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me, been telling me this foryears, and it's never too late,
never to late. But you know, when you don't want to hear it,
like you started to say a whileago that there was a time I
really wanted to quit. And sowhen you don't want to hear that,
you know, because I'm ready toquit. I don't want to listen.
I don't want to answer the telephone. I don't want to open up the
door. I don't want to getup out of the bed. I don't
want to do none of that becauseit just looks like everybody else is succeeded.

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What am I doing wrong or whatever? But the whole thing, you
know, but it's it's never toonever too late. So that's why I
just want to tell the old andlet me I'm gonna sell something to the
young people. And you encourage theold others the season things, and I
encourage the young people. Let metell you this is something I think is
it's been very y for me.You cannot have selfish ambition right if you

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if you really have your your heartposture is right, and you're really doing
what you're doing for the Lord,uh, you ain't got to worry about
nothing else, you know. Iused to find myself being so discouraged,
like you were saying, like whenit seemed like everybody and it's not an
accounts of what you're saying, butI just remember seeing like they invite people,

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they invite these people here, andthey invite that people there, and
it's like, you know, theydon't nobody support me, don't nobody book
me, you know, And that'swhat I feel like, you know,
even with friends and family, likey'all don't share my stuff, y'all don't
support me, you know, andGod has to deal with me and say,
what does that matter? What whatmeans if nobody supports you, if
you're doing it for me, ifyou're doing it for the kid, whoever?

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Because I fed out times, Ican just get back. I can
get one soul, you know.I won't get way more than that.
I want to get millions. Butyou know, I said, if I
get one soul, you know,But then as I say, if I
just I'm doing it, I wantto get one soul. But then I'm
mad because people ain't following me,and people ain't sharing my stuff, and
people like pat me on my back. We have to check myself. Yes,

(01:06:05):
thank people saying that to me inthe interrupt, But I had to
check myself because I was saying,you're selling out for likes. Yeah,
you're you're selling out for followers.And I had to I had to really
say, Lord, I'm sorry,mm hmm. I'm just discouraged, you
know, being discouraged because you feellike you, Oh I should be my

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ain't Mary? And she got onme good. She she gave me a
good talking to. Uh, toldme about myself because I had got to
a point where I was like,I'm better than her. You know,
I'm talking about I'm talking about otherpeople doing the same ministry I'm knowing,
and I'm saying my Auntie was likelike, you know, she had to

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tell me, like, don't saythat. I'm saying yeah, And then
it made me think about it andwas like, oh, you know because
I was like that, like youcan't even saying that. She's but I
better than that. Why do youpay to get up there and do that?
They could have gave me that money, you know, I was so

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good. He said, somebody totell you when you're wrong. You need
to have those type of people toget you know that we're being together in
New Orleans, right, Yes,we're gonna be together in New Orleans.
Like hey wait wait yeah, yes, yes, I talked to them the
other day. Ye they're excited aboutyou. I'm so excited about there,
and I just love that. Youknow, they did me my stuff in

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the man. They want to knowall my what I like and what I
need. I said, Oh,this is what I'm talking about somebody you
know. Man, you know,I was like, yeah, it's kind
one of that stuff, you know, like time when people are kind.

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It's nice. It's it's so nice. It is nice. I say all
the times, people don't have tobe nice, so we have to.
And that's what I tell you.That's what I'm going back to what I
tell the younger people now now thatnow I've told the seasons saying, I
tell the younger people, if thosepeople will give you a love offering,
they are worth a chord, anenvelope and a stamp. You can send

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a thank you card back. Itall together is probably two dollars. If
those people thought enough for you towrite you a check or give you and
give you an honor rail risk,please send a thank you card back in
the mail. I ain't never seenno thank you card. But you know

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what, let me tell you anotherhidden thing that's in there when you send
a thank you card. I alwaystook a business card. And because let
me tell you, when they belooking all through their drawers and the next
year and stuff, and they tryingto find a staple, and they said,
what I was thinking about her theother day, but I can't think
of her number. Open it up. You got my number right in there.
So it's always it's just things thatpeople know that you don't know.

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That's why everybody has to get togetherand share. Yeah, the kind of
the things that, yeah, thatthat has helped us. Never thank you,
card I said thank you when theygave me the check, thank you,
but I have never seen a thankyou called. I'm gonna have to.
I'm gonna have to start doing it. Thank you so much for that,

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and I believe that will go along way with people. That will
mean a lot to Hey, Marysays, even though God have blessed and
annoying that your ministry, you stillhave to listen to people and do business
the right way. You're anointing.God will open the door, but doing
business right will keep you in thedoor. You got to come on here
and preat you hard. Come on, come on now, that's a whole

(01:09:43):
word listen. So I hate toget off of this phone. We should
have we should have cut a Biblestudy a little short and brought you in.
Uh sooner. We're gonna have toget you on for season two.
I'm already booked up for season two. We have to get you for season
three, the longer, the nextYes, yes, I'm gonna make sure
a little different set up. Godhas blessed me. When I started this

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podcast, I didn't really know howit was gonna go and where the people's
gonna come from. But do youknow I am booked completely for season two,
already in season one anymore. That'show God is so good. But
even if you're on here, Janet, and and what's keeping it real?
Queen? What's her name? Andjust sudden, what's a comedy name?

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Miskeep it real, keep it real, keep it really. Yes, you
guys are interested in coming and beinga part of this podcast, please please
send me a message because I'm bookingfor season three. I'm gonna book it
all the way up, running up. I appreciate everybody who is tuned in
and for staying in here and andyou know, commenting and just you know,

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enjoying the conversation. I'm going toask them when they give me my
check, I'm going to ask forthe thank you money and stamp. Sister,
Keep it real, keep it real? Depend should it depend on what
the love offering is? Because whattime I went to a church for a

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love offering all the way to louisyneI had to drive, and you got
you got more loved and you gotmore love than offering. I went.
I went all the way to Louisiana, and I was thinking, you know,
at least I'm gonna get my gasmoney. But since they knew I
was a teacher, when the servicewas over, they gave me a little
gift bag and it had like alittle notepad to do list, some pens.

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And it wasn't no dollars, noteven one, not one, not
even one dollar. I'm I driveback to text. That was too long
of a ryan, wasn't it.Girl? This girl? Let me tell
you something. This man told meone time that he got five dollars and
five sweet potatoes. So I don'tknow what five dollars sweet potato, five

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sweet potatoes. He said he preachedfive nights, so that was one dollar
potatoes every night. But they gavepotato every night, every night. Yeah.
So I'm just saying sometimes when peopledon't think that's why when I hear
a lot of horror stories about howpeople you know, with you know,
adamant about getting their money, andyou you see the bad part of what

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they did, but you don't knowthe story leading up to that. You
know, now not to not tosay that it was it was good?
Yeah, that they acted like that, because that's never good. But I'm
just saying, you never know howmany five dollars and five sweet potatoes they
got five dollars potatoes. Listen,I think I would appreciate five sweet potatoes

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more than that dollar. Tree ofgood good goodie, mad I said.
Now they wrong, I know,but it's all right. God is good.
He always blessed. Man. Iam done with y'all. Okay,
the people done with us, andmy producer is kind of really dumb with
us because we went way over ourtime. So we're gonna pray and get

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out of here. Carolyn. Wouldyou like to pray us out, aren't
you will? Okay? Thank youso much, Thank you so much for
everything. God, Thank you forthis Young Lady's podcast. God, continue
to bless us, continue to giveher favor, give an influence, God
everything that she needs to do,whatever she needs to do, and bless
it like never before. In thename of Jesus, Amen a mad and

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blessings continue to you. I loveyou. Thank you so much for the
opportunities that you have made way forme. I appreciated your kind God,
which ever one of us make itout the way Big don't get done right
on. Thank y'all so much fortuning in with us. Y'all have a
blessed night. We'll see you backhere next week, same time. Thank

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