S2:E4 II Timothy & Testimony Tuesdays with Lyrik ft Dell Jordan

NEW SEASON...  S2:E4 II Timothy & Testimony Tuesdays with Lyrik ft Dell Jordan

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Welcome to Tewod, Timothy and TestimonyTuesdays. Quick. 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 for y'all doing out their Facebook,
Instagram, YouTube, whatever platform youare listening and tuned into it with
us on today. I'm so excitedto be with you guys on today,
another wonderful Tuesday. I hope youguys have had a wonderful evening on today.
I know if you're in Texas,we have been having some storms.

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So I just thank God for hisprotection, even though you know, we
had a lot of damage at myhome, a lot of property damage,
defense was destroyed and things like that. But thank God that he has kept
us and we alive. And that'sreally all that really matters. And so
I'm excited about tonight's show. Listen, come on in, come on in,

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know that we are on for SecodTimothy and Testimony Tuesday's with your Girl.
It's your Girl. Lyric I'm soexcited about this show. Today is a
special show with a very special guest. My mother is gonna be on today,
and so I'm just so excited aboutit. So let's go ahead and

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jump right on into this show fortonight. As you come in, make
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dot com. That's c h Ur C h l A d y C
A r e s dot com,Church Ladycares dot com. All right,
so you guys go over there.Evangelist Latanabeard is an amazing Hi. Hi,
MICHAELA. McKay. She's an amazingall right, it's amazing advantage.
It is amazing woman of God,and she is a genuine and sincere with

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her relationship for Christ, what she'sdoing for Christ. Hey, he sis,
thank you so much for tuning in. I'm so glad you guys were
able to tune in on today.So we're gonna go ahead and jump right
into this word because I don't wantto waste a lot of time because I'm
excited about my getting my special guestsin here on today. So today we're
gonna be coming from Ephesians the Bookof Ephesians Ephesians six, Ephesians, Chapter

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six, verses one through three.If HE'SI in six verses one through three,
all right, and so it said, it reads, I'm so sorry,
children, obey your parents in theLord, for this is right.
Honor your father and mother, whichis the first commandment, with a promise

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it that it may go well withyou and that you may enjoy long life
on the earth. All right,let's take a word of prayer before we
jump into this Bible study. Definitely, Father, Lord, we just thank
you for for another day. Thatwas a promise to us. God.
God, we just thank you forbeing New York. God, but thank
you for keeping us in the midstof all of these storms and things are
going on. God. With beingwithout power, God, we asked you

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you would just restore the power ofGod and keep your head to protection around
us as we continue to go outthrough this week with all the storms that
are coming. God, we justthank you for your protection and your provision.
Right now, in the name ofJesus God, I just pray a
special blessing over any all of thefamilies and the households that were affected by
these storms. God that she wouldjust be with them. God, comfort
them, give them peace, makea way out of no way. God

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be able to if they have insuranceand the things they need, God to
be able to recover from this thisweather that we've been having on today.
God, God asked that you wouldjust be with me on tonight. God,
as we talk about this word,God, give me the wards and
the wisdom to say. God,God, bless my special guests on today.
God, and just let it justbe a blessing to the listeners and
the hearers, everybody that's tuned inwith us on today. We asked all

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these things of your name, ThankGod. Amen. Amen. All right,
all right, so let's jump intothis word. You guys. Hey,
Hey Lisa, I'm so glad youcould join us. I hope that
your electricity is back on. HeyMelanie, I miss you so much.
I hope you guys are doing wellout there in Atlanta. We're having some

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terrible, terrible weather out here inTexas. Tornadoes are just touching down everywhere.
We've been having so many tornado watches, tornado warnings. I was woke
out up this morning at six amby tornado sirens, and so you know,
I spent half my morning hiding inthe closet, and so we're just

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grateful that God has kept us.We came out and the fence was down,
and trees are down everywhere, andlight poles it down, and like
I said, the electricity is out. I know it's still down for a
lot of people. And so Ijust thank God that we were able to
come over to my brother's house andwe'll be able to continue to do this
life. So I'm grateful to theGod provides somewhere that I could go to

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be able to still come on tonightand have this Bible study. Okay,
so we're coming out of Ephesians chaptersix, verses one through three. We're
talking about children obeying their parents andhonoring your father and your mother, which
is, like I said, theFirst commandment with a promise. There is
a difference between obeying and honoring.Okay. So it says to obey means

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to do as one is told to. You're told to do something, you're
being obedient, then you're executing whatyou were instructed to do. All right.
To honor means to love and respect. Okay, So to honor your
parents means to love and respect.That word respect can be used as a
noun or a verb, but herewe're using it as a verb, meaning
to show regard for someone's abilities andworth, to value their feelings and their

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views even if you don't agree withthem. All right, So just respecting
somebody's abilities and the worth for whothey are, and and respecting what they
say, what they believe, evenif you do not agree with them.
I feel like there is a lackof respect these days, just with this
this generation. You know, whenI was growing up, we respect was

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the man that we were taught respect. You respected your elders, whether you
knew them or you did it.I respected elders. It could be a
stranger, it could be a churchmember, a family member, it didn't
matter. But we were taught torespect elders, you know, to respect
our elders. And so I feellike that's something that's lacking into And today,
do you guys agree with that?What do you guys think as far

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as the way the youth respects eldersthese days come on and time in say
talk talk back to me. Youknow, I need you guys to interact
with me. But you know,like when we were younger, you didn't
do certain things in front of adults. But now these kids that do anything,
they they cuss like sailors right infront of you. They'll cuss you
out, you know, they evenas a as an educator. You know,

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I've been cussed out a few times. Hey, Hapley, thank you
for tuning. Then, cousin,we're talking about honoring our mother and our
fathers on today. And so justthe way that kids are just so freely
disrespectful to adults, to everyone.And so I remember when I was growing

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up, if you did something disrespectfulof the people would get on to you,
the adult weed onto you being ableto tell your parents, and then
when you get home, then yougotta get it when you even when you
get home. But it seems likenow andadays, parents don't even want to
say anything to their kids. Youknow. The parents will will disrespect you
for talking to their children about beingdisrespectful, you know. And kids are

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observing this, and they're seeing this, They're seeing their parents be disrespectful and
then the parents wondering why the kidsare disrespecting them. But that's what's being
modeled in front of them. Soif you're if you're your kids are seeing
you just be disrespectful, you guaranteethat they are going to be disrespectful as
well. And so, and aswe're looking at this word of God,

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the first what it says. Thefirst thing says, children, obey your
parents in the Lord. For thisis right. God has commanded the children
to obey their parents in the Lord. Okay, God has given parents responsibility.
Right, He's placed the children inthe care of the parent. So
the parent has a responsibility and theauthority to make decisions that are regarding concerning

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their care, how the kids arecared for their welfare and the proper development
of the child. And so Iput that these things and tell things such
as providing basic needs shelter, food, clothing, water, things like that.
So providing your basic needs, protectingthem from harm, providing safety and

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supervision and control, making sure thattheir medical needs are met, making sure
the educational needs. These are theresponsibilities that parents have. The God has
placed the children in your care foryou to take care of them. And
so if a person is doing allthese things, they definitely deserve your respects.
If your parents are taking care ofyou, providing for you, provide

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make sure that you have a safehome, make sure you have clothes on
your back, shoes on your feet, espasically nice clothes and shoes, like
most of you, are making surethat you have something to eat, especially
the highest groceries. Are they doingall these things? They deserve your respect.
Parents deserve your respect. Okay.But even if your parents are not
doing these things right, even ifyour parents are drug addicts or alcoholics,

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are you know, just disrespectful orwhatever, the Bible doesn't give stipulation for
you to show respect because they aredeserve respect, right. The Bible has
commanded for us to give respect.It is one of the ten commandments you
must in Exodus. If we lookover in Exodus twenty and twelve, if

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it's like an Exodus twenty and twelve, it says, let me see,
don't get rid sorry, honor thyfather and mother, okay, that you
may have long life in the landthat the Lord your God has given you.
So even over in Exodus as acommand, God gave it to us

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as one of the ten commandments,that you have to honor them. So
there's no no, there's no ifthey if they do these things, then
I must know. The command isthat you honor them regardless of their behavior.
Regardless of what they're doing. Itis your responsibility to honor your mother
and father. Okay, and so, but obedience is a different thing.

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Okay, So it says when itsays obey your parents in the Lord,
the God is not commanding you tobe disobedient to him by obeying your parents.
Your parents are asking you to dosomething that's against God and God's will.
God's word, then you're not obligatedto disobey God. Okay. So
honoring and obedience is two different things. Obedience doing is doing what you're told.

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Honoring is love and respect. Hey, Vernon, Hey, thanks cousin
for joining in. I'm so gladyou get tune in on tonight. We're
talking about honoring your mother and yourfather. So we're making sure that if
your parents are Hey Brailyn, thankyou for tuning in. So glad that

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you could make it. If yourparents are telling you to do some anything
that would be contrary to God's word, then you are not obligated to obey
your parents, and that then youobey God. Okay, you obey what
God has instructed you to do.But as far as honoring them, showing
them respects, that means not cussingthem out, belittling them, you know,

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those different things. Then that's whatGod has called us honor, to
love and honor, Okay, Andso you are still commanded to honor regardless
of what type of parent you have, what type of care they have given
you. You are required to loveand honor them no matter what parents.

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It is important that you take careof your responsibilities to the best of your
ability for the children that God haveplaced in your life. That is your
responsibility to do that. And alsoeven in the way that you live your
life, it's important because it affectsyour children. Children learn their values,

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their morals, and their priorities byobserving how their parents act or react.
Every day. Your kids are learningsomething from you every day, even if
you don't realize it. They're watchinghow your actions, They're watching how you
interact with other people. They're watchinghow you respect and show respect to other
people. They learn that it's learnedbehavior, and so it's important that you

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are conscious of that with your children. And so you want to exhibit the
morals and values that you want themto hold to. Right, it's important
for us to as a parent ifyou're exhibiting deep reverence for and dependence on
God. Your children will often holdthose same values and attitudes toward God that

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they've seen you exhibit. So youwant to let them see your your reverence
for God right. You want tolet them see you spending time in the
presence of God. You want tolet them see you reading the Word.
You want to let your kids seeyou doing these things because that's what they're
gonna know is important to you,and then it will will transfer as being

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important values for them as well.You want to teach them right living by
giving worship and making sure that itis important to place on that in your
family. And remember, when wetalk about worship, we're not talking about
just lifting your hands and singing worshipsongs that is a former worship. We
We're talking about worshiping God in spiritand truth, which is in your lifestyle.

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The way that you're living is theway that you show worship to True
true worship to God is in theway that we live our lives, you
know. And so it's so important. I see kids these days that some
kids are raising themselves, you know, but I think his disrespect their parents

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cut their parents out. You knowwhat I'm saying like wow. But it
starts with the parent, right,It starts with you in the home and
what you're enforcing and reinforcing with yourchildren. And so that's what I want.
I want to be an encouragement ontoday for children and for parents.
Children. Obey your parents where they'renot telling you anything that's against the world

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of God makes you. You're obedient. I know it says I remember when
I was young and say, well, disobedient child shortened your days. That
thing's scared. It scared me.So I tried to be obedient in every
aspect, just because I didn't wantmy days to be short. Every time
I every time I did something againstwhat my mom and dad told me to
do, I will always say,oh that's another day. I have lost
another day. And so you know, it kind of kept me on the

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straight and narrow because I was countingmy days, the days that I was
losing. I didn't want to losemy days, and so I tried to
be very obedient. But I justthink it's so important that we get back
to the basics that as parents,we start instilling these values and these morals
into our children at a young age. Those children are observing you from the

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time they come at the world.They're observing and they're learning those behaviors.
They're looking at what you're doing andhow you're acting and how you're responding,
and they learn those things from us. And so it's good for us to
be conscious of that and be mindfulas we are living this life that what
we do will reflect our kids willwill reflect that. Okay, And so

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you as an educator, you seeit every all the time. You know,
I can tell you know what kidsget in trouble at home, where
kids have discipline at home. Youcan tell because we say something to them
like don I need to make aphone call? Then they get right,
you know, there's a reaction.But when you have kids that you know,
you say, don't they phone byhome, and they're like, I
don't call them. You know,they try to hear you. They sell

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phone, I call it for you. You know, it's like, oh
lord, now you know you knowthat there's something, uh something different about
that, you know, So uh, I am listen. We're gonna go
ahead and get ready to bring youmy special guests so we can have the
time that we need uh on todayto really uh just enjoy my special guests

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on her special day. So myspecial guests for today is down George,
no other than my mother listen.Today is her birthday, turn sixty years
old. Dale Jordan is a nativeof Terrell, Texas. She is the
proud mother of four beautiful children,two girls and two boys, and I

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am the oldest. She is along standing number thirty plus years of the
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devouted Christian devoting her life to livinga life that is pleasing to Jesus.
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twenty four. We'll see you there, all right, alright, alright,
y'all, look at what it is. It's my mama and my oldest brother
Ronnie. Great. Hello there.How y'all doing today? Oh we're doing

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fine. We're doing fine, good, good good, I say, everybody
representing that God is good. Youknow it? All right. Stephanie Wings
Jones is honest. She said,happy birthday down, Thank you so much,
Stephanie, thank you all right.Tanya is als She said, hello,
hello, all right, all right, so birthday girl. How does

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it feel to be big six zero. Oh it feels like fifty nine.
No difference, no difference. Yougot feeling different. That's good, that's
good. That's good. Well,we are so excited to be on here
with you. This is just sucha blessing. And so you guys know

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it's second Timothy and testimony Tuesdays,and so we talked a little bit in
the Bible about honoring your parents,respecting them, and also being obedient.
You know, I like I alreadyknow I was your most obedient child,
right, yes, yes, ofcourse, because that's because I was capting

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them days. You didn't know Iwas ktingdam days, did I sure didn't.
But I'm glad Lord now yeah,sure have to said, happy blessed
birthday down, thank you, thankyou so much, thank you. But
yeah, so I so I didmy best to be obedient. Uh,
but you know, we have liveda wonderful life, so we just want

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to you know, the Lord hasdone so much, He's been so good
that I know you have so manydifferent testimonies you can get, so just
go ahead and jump right on inand we have a good time on tonight.
Yes, so, like you said, I do have a lot of
testimony living sixty years, I've beenthrough some experiences and I have plenty of
testimony. I am a living testimy. But I'm gonna tell you I did

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pick up testimony that I was gonnashare with y'all on to h this evening,
and I wanted to give some encouragementto anybody who has lost the loved
one, who may be grieving losta parent, of husband, daughter,
sister, brother, or whatever.I just wanted to encourage the heart that

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God is always there and He alwayswill bring you through whatever you're going through.
That God is able, he willbring you out. Amen. Amen.
So I wanted to tell give thistest on money about in two thousand
and one when I lost my husband. Okay, I lost my husband to

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gun violence, and it was oneof the hardest trials in my life.
And what made it even more tragicis that three years before that I had
lost both of my parents in acar accident, and so I hadn't gotten
over that. I was still ina you know, grieving even more so

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about my mother, and then thishappened and unexpected, and it left me
with four children to raise, Okay, and my oldest child was seventeen and
my youngest was nine, and Itell you it was. There was some
nights I cried almost all night long, and I remember I was asking the

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Lord. I said, Lord,why do you take my husband? I
remember asking God that, And thespirit of the Lord spoke to me and
said, I just loaned them toyou. He wasn't George anyway. That's
what the spirit of the Lord toldme, said, I loaned him to
you, and said, all soulsare mine. So the senature surely die.

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That's what the spirits spoke to meand said so. And when the
spirits spoke to me and told methat, you know, I got quiet.
I got peace. I got peacewith it because I know that all
souls do belong to the Lord.And even though there are our husbands,
our children, and all souls belongedto the Lord, and we just are

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also we belonged to the Lord.But during that time, my money was
very short. I was working asa custodian at the State hospital and now
only had one income coming in.I didn't know how, you know,
how really I was gonna make it. Because when it's two people, you
can always bounce back on the otherone. You know, it's both of

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us got to make sure this happened, and you know, and so it
was only one and here I amwith four children. One is in high
school, senior in high school,getting ready to graduate, and how am
I gonna put her to college throughcollege? And there was a lot of
burdens that you know, in troublesand uh, responsibilities and things that were

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on me at that point, andso I was I started to think about
my children and how that my husbandhad left so unexpectedly, and then we
were in our thirties and we weren'treally established, you know, and and
I started thinking about the finances.I said, boy, if something happened

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to me, what would my kidsdo? I started thinking more on that
term. I said, they're notgonna have nothing. My kids ain't gonna
have anything it something happens to me. And so I started thinking more on
that, on that end of things, and I got did I said,
you know, I'm gonna buy ahouse. I said, if something happened
to me, at least or they'llroof over their head, or whoever will
take them in will be able tosell the house and have money and they'll

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have some type of finances. That'swhere I was at at that point,
and so I was praying about itand everything, and then the Lord blessed
me. I went out and Iwas looking for locks and all this kind
of stuff. And every time Iwould find a lot and check on it,
it would be like seven thousand andeight thousand, you know, and
all this I can. Mind you, I'm working as a plustodian. You

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don't make very much money, okay, yeah, eight thousand dollars. And
so I was I prayed about it, and Lord blessed me to get almost
an acre of land for what wasit, thirty five hundred thirty five hundred
dollars. That's a blessing, likea still I'm talking about like a steal.
And then even after I did that, I went to the bank and

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I thought, you know, oh, collateral, this is collateral. You
know, you got the land.It's it's easier to get the house built.
You know. I'm and I wentto the bank and I tell you
what they say, give your creditis not good enough. There is another
starting block for me. And I'msitting there and I'm praying and everything and

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relying on God. You know,I had to lean on the Lord a
lot, and uh, I hadto put my trust in him, and
it helped to build my faith evenmore so. But I had to keep
faith in God, and so Ifasted. I was faster than praying and
I fast. Now, Lord,I was asking God help me, and

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Lord help me. I don't havenobody, but you help me. Lord
showed me how to do this,what way to go, and and give
me favor. And I remember oneevening I came home from work and I
got we had at that time abig yellow phone book beside Winston Ball phone
book. So I, uh,I phone book, and I open it

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up. You know, I'm looking. I'm talking about I was. That's
my suffer was on this getting thishouse. And and so I over time
I opened it up. It fellthe first page. When it fell right
over to the page, he saidsafe or Mark mortgages. And the spirit
of Law spoke to me and saidcall them. And that's who I called.

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And do you know that's who builtmy house. They didn't the house.
The Lord blessed me to get thehouse. And I tell you,
and then if that wasn't enough,I went to work one morning because I
go in early, and it waslike six some in the morning. I
was cleaning. I'm at work,and you this is not like you know,

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just like I'm saying that, I'msaying, for thirty years for no
half. I had a thirty yearhouse look mortgage with no fixed martgage,
thirty years and I'm saying I won'tpay no. I said, you said
the tame along a thousand hears belongedto you. And I was talking to

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the Lord just like i'm talking toyou right now here. I was talking
to the Lord just like that.I said, you said kill one thousand
and he'll belonged to you. Andthen I said, I'm saying you said
that. That's what you said,Lord, And I said, I don't
want to pay no thirty years forno house. And I tell you God
blessed me to play pay the houseoff in seven years, seventy years years.

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And when I went to Chase Bankand I got that deed, that
man put that deed in my hand, the spirit of Lord brought it right
back to my memory. Because Ihadn't even thought about it, nor after.
I hadn't talking Lord about that,you know, I wasn't thinking about
just going on years past. Butwhen he put that deed in my hand,
the spirit brought it back to mymind. Remember what you asked the
Lord. It came right back tomy mind, just like that about when

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I told the Lord I didn't wantto pay thirty years. And I am
so grateful to God for what hehas done. And you know, He's
brought me through all type of situations. And even when I didn't deserve it,
the Lord brought me through. Heturned everything around, He turned it
and turned it and made it formy good. He worked it for my

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good, and I thank God forthat. He is able. If you
are struggling, if it's the lossof a loved one, he will comfort
your heart. He'll give you comfort. And you know, and I remember
a time going through this. Now, it takes time to get over,
especially a spouse, when you losea spouse and you're grieving, and I

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remember getting so tired. You know, every holiday, every any kind of
day where my husband played a majorpart, where he would I was getting
things together. He was one ofthose people always call all the family of
getting barbecue. He'd be the mainone do it, okay. And so

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every time one of them holidays,pamba uh, about two weeks before that
day, I could I'm talking aboutI could clock it like clockwork. I
started getting I started feeling so downand all my spirits just go down.
And I just like a into adepression type of thing every time, breathing,
no sad every day, and andit went on on a month after

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month, year after year, andI got so sick of it. It
was something that I it was likeit was uncontrollable, I controlling, and
so I kind of said it waslike PM is like when you you having
you know your cycles and things,how you get that old agitated feeling and
it's not something you're just trying todo. It's just a mood that you

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go into. It was like that. It just gold come on me,
and I was like, you know, and I got so tired and sick
and tired of I said, Lord, I am tired of feeling like this.
Take this thing from me. Ihad to ask the Lord, and
I would pray, and I prayand it leads and I will be at
peace, and then it'll be gonefor a while and then it'll come back.

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And then I pray and it'll leaveand then it come back. I
had to pray and keep it kepton. I said, Lord, move
this thing because I knew it wasnothing I could do. I loved my
husband, but I couldn't bring himback. I couldn't bring him back,
and it was nothing I could doabout it. And I wanted the Lord
move this thing from me. Ikeep going into this thing, and the
Lord moved and I was so grateful. You look, because that is that's

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it can be a very ri Itcan drain you. You know, it
can really drain your life, yourhear after you're in that type of depression
and grieving and grieving and grieving.And so God moved that and I and
it did take time. I willsay, oh, you know, time

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change things. It takes time forit to get better and easier for you.
But God is able and he didbring me through it. And I'm
grateful to the Lord. And Ihave no other praise to anyone but God,
because I know it was God thatbrought me through it. Amen or
Amen. Thankful for that man,because I think because because you and my
dad'll y'all got together in tenth grade, right, well, yeah, tenth

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grade, yeah it was. Itwas tenth grade. And I married my
high school sweetheart, that's right,and four children married seventeen years, that's
right, seventeen years. Sure,was seventeen years and so and so we
know that you practically grew up withhim. So that is definitely going to

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be a very hard loss. Andso, like you said, you were
experiencing that till you cried out toGod and said, Lord, take this.
And so that could be encouraged tosome people. They might not even
ever thought about asking God to takethat from them. You know, some
people may be grieving the love ofa loss of loved one and they just
think, this is just something I'mgonna always have to deal with. This
is just something that my mama alwayshave to cope with. But I'm so

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glad that you shared that message sothey can give hope to someone that if
you're dealing with that, you know, every time a season comes around,
or a holiday or a birthday,if you're dealing year after year, month
after month with that, you canask God to take that from you and
He will honor that. Yes,He is more than able to do it.
He can do anything but phil That'sright, that's right. I do

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anything but Phail, And I'm sograteful. But God, and I can
tell you if you lean and dependon God, if you put your trust
in Him, in your faith andbelieve that He can do anything. You
know, I would tell by coworkersand they're working stuff and tell them they've

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been saying God. You know,they'll put a limit on God. And
I tell him, oh, no, take the limits off. Course.
God can do anything. And Itell him, I believe he can do
anything. And I do. Ibelieve God can do anything because He's in
control. He made us, hemade this world, he made everything in
the earth, and he and ifhe's able to control our breath, every

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breath that we breathe, the verynext one that we getting ready to breathe.
Now, if he can control that, he can do anything. And
to think of it in that aspecthe is, He's able to do it.
And he and it's nothing for himto take that away. He can
move that sadness. He can movethe depression. Man move it. And
and uh, if you just havefaith in God and believe that, Amen

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able to do it. Amen.Amen. So on today's Bible study,
I was talking about honoring and obeyingyour parents, and so you you have
four children. On here I wasalso speaking to not only the children in
the aspect of obeying and honoring,but also in the parents, in the

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way that you raise your children,you know. And then you see here
you have four byproducts. All ofyour children are saved. We are all
in church, you know. Andso what what would you like to say
as far as that to encourage theparents, And then we're gonna hear from
my brother on his assidate of beingraised by godly, god fearing woman.

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Amen, I would say to keepthem in church and bring them up in
the way of the Lord. Now, even when you take children to church,
you still have to pray. It'smuch praying. You have to pray,
and and it's God's grace and mercythat keep you and them and to
help you to raise them in theright way. And pray and ask God

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to show you and help you toraise them the way He wants you to
raise them. And so in doingthat you can't fail in that. You
do your best and God to dothe rest. Okay, come on,
do your God to do the Godto do the rest. He knows.
God knows, He knows the heartof every man, woman, boy and
girl. He knows you. Andif you're doing your best, God knows

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that too. Yeah, that's right, that's right, man, all right,
big bro running Green was up,was up. So thank you so
much between her with Mama for herspecial days. Yeah yeah, So what
so what would you like to say? What? What? What would you
say? Maybe it's one of thebiggest impacts that you feel being raised by

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mom has had on your life.Oh man, I know, one of
the biggest, the biggest starts.But uh, she then had a great
uh. Oh man, it's beenGod, God giving me God and showing
me God it and not only tellingme about it because she told me about
it at a period age and uh, but showing me when she lived.
I've seen herm go through a lot. I've seen her go through a lot

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of different trials and tripulations and thingsthat would have driven people crazy and and
maybe people at the fool. ButI've seen us stay with the Lord with
all of that with my own eyes. So that did so much to me
and showed me who God really was. He's I've seen her what Guy did
for when she how she came outof that, out of the test and
the trials. But I want tosay Kiki wasn't lying when she said she

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was an obedient child. She wasobedient child. She was more obeting than
the average. She did not likeconsequences. He did not like consequences.
She's gonna stay out of trouble,but not so like me. How was
opposite the end of that stick?You know? Growing up? Man,
I I was another head. Iwas a number head. I just remind

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me of my son. I'm gettingall that back now, but yeah,
man, I just wanted to say, uh, I'm trying to start where
when you said one of the biggestimpacts she had on me, I don't
she don't even know this what I'mabout to tell you. Yeah, I've
never told her this. Uh,and it's just been a big impact.

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And I just really never had to. I don't know how the particular time
that I want I will tell sharedthe story with her, But I said
I want to share it with hertoday. I was let me come on.
I wanted to be a little support. I don't know how much support
being, but I'm so glad becauseI'm my mama's boy. My mama's boy
I love, and I'm be hereon her day. When you said she
she's gonna be on the testimony,I was like, yeah, man,

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growing up, everybody knows me.My cousin, Oh, my grandma could
tell you some stories. All mypeoples will tell you. I was a
little overhead. Look, I getinto a little trouble if you ain't got
your eyes on me always. Theteacher was always calling, the principals was
calling, and they was trying tosend me home. And I got in
went to alternative school two years ina row in middle Wait wait, wait,

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wait, bro, bro. I'mnot to interrupt your story, but
I think this is important, vitalto your story that they know you weren't
always getting in trouble when Daddy wasa lie. This is after Daddy died,
so they need to know that context. So okay, yes, yes,
I've always been another head. Butafter my daddy passed. It wasn't
intentionally that I was old. Ididn't just playing on, you know,

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going and being cutting up and acta little more. But especially looking back,
I could see how I was actingup, even even even a little
more. I was, and ithad to be because of the past of
my father or maybe the way Ifelt. But uh, you know,
one day I got it. Iremember this particular day that I got in
some trouble and my grandmother, BobbyGreen, she came and got me from

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school. And this was soon.This was close after my father passed,
you know, maybe two months orsomething like that. I can't remember the
exact timeframe, but soon after hepassed, my grandmother came and got me
from school. After I had hadbeen in some trouble and because my mama
couldn't come get me. She hadbeen come to get me every day.

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And I probably, I probably wasmaybe getting getting in trouble on her job.
I ain't no telling I was shewas. She was going through things
with me. And when my grandmamagot me home, she looked at me,
and I know she wanted to tearmy tailor. And she said to
me, so, you never knowwhen you talk when you're talking to young
kids. You never I was reallygonna stick or how they're gonna take or
think about stuff. But she saidsomething that was stuck with me. I

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had just lost my father, andshe said, boy, your mama going
through all this and now every dayshe gotta come get you from the school.
You gonna kill your mama, Yougonna care your mama. Boy,
they hit me, They hit mepretty hard. I thought about it,
and I was like, man,now that's gonna be last thing I do.

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I don't wanna care my mama.I went to the to my room,
then back and where my room wasat, and I remember praying to
the Lord and I was real serious, and I got real serious. And
that was my first conversation that Ihad with the Lord that I was before
then. I never was trying toget in trouble, but I wasn't trying

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not to get in trouble. AndI told the Lord to help me to
stay out of trouble so that Idon't killed my mom. Mhmm. And
so from that, all I wasreally trying to do is stay out of
trouble and nothing guy to have aOh my bad, I didn't. I
left this part out. I leftthis part out, okay. When my

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grandmother told me that Mary, didyou gonna kill your mama? I went
to my room and I was out, and before I was praying, I
had to praise chick. I wasjust feeling really bad. But my mama
came home, she got off fromwork, she got off, she finally
got off, she came on homeand when she got home, she went
to her room and she she wascrying because I'm pretty sure because of me

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and my father. But normally mymama gonna come in down and she gonna
see what what went on and shebut when she came home, she went
to her room and I heard hertalking to the Lord, and I knew
that I was hurting. And that'swhen I prayed. That's when I prayed
and had to talk with the Lord, and I was was asked, I

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asked where his her? And soby me doing that, the Law gave
me strength. He gave me strengthat fourteen years old, stopped getting in
trouble. I mean like it waslike night and day. I didn't get
in there and go to that.I didn't get no more refrayers, or
no going to the principal office,no alternative schools. Actually actually that same
right, though it wasn't. Itwasn't long after a couple of weeks of

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maybe a month, I ended up, for some reason getting tested into a
higher level in classes. I gottreated different, I started acting different,
and my relationship grew with the Law, not only just to staut of trouble
at school. Then I knew hewas there for me and he could give
me strength to do things that Icouldn't do myself. So my relationship with

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the lawd grew from that situation.So I want to be in Caresul till
the mothers out there because my mama, she gave plenty of conversations with me,
long conversations. She even gave meall kind of timeouts and punishments all
kind of way. But uh,she stayed on me for a long time,

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a long time. So mothers,don't give up. Keep praying because
you never know which which lesson withif it's gonna be the long speech,
if it's gonna be either punishment,or if it's gonna God, it's gonna
send somebody else to say something tothat child that finally gets his attention.
But if you keep praying it,don't give up on that baby, they
will turn around. The Lord todo it, he said, train them
up and the way they go,and that's it. So my mother,

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she definitely was not for me,has always been there for me, and
she been there last year, thisyear, last week, and she prayed
for me today. When that stormcame, I was in the closet and
I called and I told her,Mama, sounded like the tornado out of
time. She said, Okay,baby, she gotta starts. So she's
been. Now she's spraying. Keeppraying for men and the Lord that will
do things that you can't even do. Amen, Amen, And you know

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what I can. And I'm awitness to that. And you know,
I know, bro, because Iwas going to college. Before I left
to go to college, I knewwho you were. And when I came
home to visit from college, Icould not believe the transformation. I could
not believe it. And I said, well, the first time I seen

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it, you know, it wasweird. You know, I was like,
my brother act different, you know. And then when I came back
the next time, you had joinedthe Voices of Devotion. You were singing
with that gospel group, and Icould just see the spirit of God in
you, and you just were different. Your demeanor was different, the way

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you were just so different. AndI couldn't believe it. I was like,
Wow, my brother got saved,Like the Lord changed my brother life.
And it was just so amazing becauseyou were so young. You know,
you see a lot of times whenGod changed people's eyes when they grown,
but you know, you were fifteenyears old, you know, and
it was just amazing. To meto see God move like that, because
to me it was a major youknow, cause you my brother, so

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you know whatever you're going to mama, what you know, But for me,
I felt like you was a littleterror, like, oh my god,
this a little you know, spawnof Satan. That bad. But
just the difference when I came,you know, it was like, oh
my god, he and then I, you know, our relationship changed,

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you know, you the relationship.Jay said, thank you for the woman,
but but yeah, it was itwas amazing. So I didn't you
know, I didn't know that storythat you did that and that you prayed
and God changed. I didn't knowwhy. I just knew that somehow you
got saved and you were different.That's all I knew. But I thank

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God that that that he allowed thatuh to happen, Mama, huh.
So you know, we know it'susually they say you're Jacob, you could
sing, even though my last nameis Jacobs and I can't sing. But
when I have a guest on here, you know, we usually ask him

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to give a little something. Soyou you know, you're my mama,
are you. I'm one of yourkids that didn't get the gift. But
but that's because I'm a rapper.God, God, he didn't want all
us to be sayingle you know,and so he said, now you y'all
I wanted to be able to sing. He said, no, you're a

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rapper, So I stay in mylane. But I was wondering, Mama
and bro, if you want toyou know, uh, if y'all want
to do it, or if y'allwant if y'all want to both just sing
a little two seconds or something's whatevery'all want to do. But if you
want to bless the audience, goahead and bless the audience with a couple
of notes before we get ready towrap up here on your birthday, If

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any one shut as us tell mylife story for what boy reason? That
maybe? All right? All right, he's been heather between every line,

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pain and glory. Oh she isthe best thing that happen Jesus is best
that ever. Jesus is the bestthing that ever happen to me. All

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right, yay, alright, alright. My friend Melany from Atlanta said,
Hi, Mom, I needed this, thank you my father's death. Her
father was a pastor, a bigpastor in Atlanta, and she is a

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She was a young girl, andso I'm so glad we were able to
bless her. What you want togive a little to yeah? Man,
After Mama saying like that, Iwant to saying a little bit, do
you mind about alight? I ain'ttrying to take no time, but I
want to say I got on myheart. I want to say happy birthday

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to you, Happy birthday, Happybirthday. Then mom, hapy birthday to

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to you. Alright, now,go mama, it's the birthday. Go
mama, it is the birthday.Have a birthday. Happy, had the
birthday, Happy, happy birthday.If we want to present you with all
of our love and all of thelove you deserve. If we want a

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bless you know, oh yo,smeth Field day, we get out your
grand children. We got another bunkcake. We got the blue bear ice cream,
the blue bell, we got theblue bell. Oh wait a minute,
holy hill. Oh it's a bunkcake. You know, my favorite nothing

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bunk cake. Even more so thanthat bam my money money money monay'll let
out mama, mama. Let outyour brand babies. Let him see baby,

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come on brand babies. Give meWow. That's okay, this is

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so wonderful. Thank you all,so much. Yes, ma'am, we
love you so much. You meanso much to us. See Rome said,
oh, happy birthday, Miss DaleJacobs Jordan, Oh, thank you.
Deer Chassidy said, oh. ReginaHarvey said happy happy birthday, beautiful,

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thank you, thank you, thankyou everyone. Melanie said, Okay,
happy birthday. Tell you all right, it looks sixty years and going
strong strong, yahteen years and goand strong. And God has been good
to you. You don't look likeyou're sixty. I know, and I

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know, and then sometimes I don'tget around like I'm six. But then
other times, you know, tellthem how you got that school and them
kids in basketball? You be playingbasketball. Hey, I'm getting it.
I did it. Yeah, withthem babies. I try to look I
tried to anyway, you try to. Ain't like I got that, you

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know. Yeah, yeah, yoube beating them grand babies in basketball and
then all those things, and soit's just such a blessing. Mama.
I'm so glad that you tuned inout you were able to come on here
with me tonight for your special day. You know, I know that you
you know, you lost your parentsin a car accident, you lost your
husband, But God blessed you withfour beautiful children and with five beautiful grandchildren.

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And he is just a good,good God. And we are grateful
to be able to be raised byYeah. God, I am who I
am because you are my mother andthe grace of God. And I tell
my friends all the time, Inever you know. You know, people

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parents have their parents, you know. And I'm not saying that my parents
my mom is perfect, because we'renone is perfect but the father, that's
right. But I tell people allthe time, all my whole life growing
up, I never seen my mamadude sin, you know. I never
seen you sing. I can't remembera time that I say, oh my
mama. I saw my mama sinning. I never saw your drink. I

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never saw your smoke. I neverseen you go out to anywhere but Cheri's
working home. I never saw youmistreat anybody. I never seen you mistreat
people, even people that deserve tobe mistreated. You never mistreated them.
I've never seen you. I givehear you cussed one time, but it
was like a one of them loveafter you said it like something that it

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was like a startling and you didn'tmean to do it. And I remember
I was like eleven years old,and I can remember praying for you,
and I was like, Lord,forgive my mother. First he know not
what she did. She but butin my eyes, in my eyes,

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you couldn't have known what you knowin my like I know, I know,
I scause you can't forgive my motherno doubt what she do never never
you know and and uh And inmy whole life growing up, that was
just the example. Everything was Jesus. This is a Jesus house, this

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is a Jesus radio, this isa Jesus call. Everything was Jesus.
I remember my first started driving andI would change the radio station when I
was driving by myself, and youwould get in the car and to be
on there. And I remember youtold me, you said, if you

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take can't listen to Jesus while you'redriving my car, you ain't driving.
Don't change my radio station ever againthe last time to drive this car,
you know, and never do.And I knew that you meant that if
I if you ever get that caragain and you catch it, it is
not on Jesus music, I wouldnever be able to drive again. And

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so it stopped me from changing theradio. I get in it's like always
just got to suffer to this,you know, Gord, you know,
because you were listening to ninety fourpoint nine. So it was out of
that. Uh a big, bighouse with lots and lots of room.
You remember that house. I knowwhat's house? Yeah, you know.

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My friends would get in and belike, what you listening to? This
is my mama music? Like yourMoMA not in here? Yeah, but
we have to listen to my mamamusic. But it's just such a blessing,
it really is. When you're young, you don't really that, you
know. When I was young,there was some times where I really despised

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my upbringing. Like I hated thatI couldn't go nowhere. All my friends
go to the party. I can'tgo to the party. All my friends
go to the movies. I can'tgo to the movies. I really hated
it. But but protect you becauseyou did the best that I could.
And I look, I was tryingto protect you. If I'm not there,
I don't want my children over therebecause I can't see what it's going

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on. It was more of someof that. A lot of it was
that too, you know, Uh, maybe a little overprotective, but still
you know, thank you so muchwith the Jesus. You know, some
people may say, oh, itdon't take all that, but it do
take all that for me. NowI don't know what to take for you,
but it do take all that forme to help me to even stay

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on the right track. And sometimeseven when I still slip and get off,
I get back on. I repentand turn and get back there.
And I need to, you know, I needed that. I needed that
discipline for me, you know,because everybody ain't the same and I need
did it for me for who Iam, you know, Yeah, So
it took all that for me.It took all that for me. It's

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still sometimes I may not be,like I said, I'm not the perfect
person, and I don't claim tobe. But I know one thing.
I know the Lord, and Ican call him anytime. I call him
right now, come on, comeon here, and right now, I
know guardy here and I know he'llanswer prayer. How about that. I
know you will amen, Amen,yea. And because you instilled that in

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me, I know it too.When guess what he's gonna answer, that's
right, he will answer. Yeah. And you taught us all our life,
holiness. You know, I thinka lot of people don't teach that,
but you taught us holiness just thatand that's so important. And so
we just thank you, We loveyou. Were just so glad that you

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are still here with us. Sowe love you. Know that we we
know that I we all got togo someday. But we thank and bless
God that he is allowed you tobe here for sixty years. Will bless
God that he allowed you to birththe four of us and to raise us,
to rear us in the fear ofthe Lord, train us up in
the way that we should go,and we have not departed from you.

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We thank you so much. Dobro or Mama the one of y'all want
to pray us out or you wantme y'all want me to pray y'all,
it don't matter. Just we're gonnalet you do it. That will let
me do it? Yes, Okay, you broke? You agree with that?
Broke? Yeah? Okay, okay, all right, well listen,
Thank y'all again, Thank everybody thattuned in with us on tonight for the

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special birthday episode celebrating my mother andparents out there, Make sure that you
are raising your kids up in thefear of the Lord, train them up
in the way they should go.When they're older, they will not depart
from it. You do your bestand Jesus will do the rest. And
men, Love, We just thankyou for a decision that we have had

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on to night. God, wethank you for the testimony that we shared.
God, we asked that you wouldjust let it be a blessing to
whoever needed. And God, wethank you for everybody that was tuned in
with us on tonight. God,just pray for the children. Lord,
Jesus. God, just touch theheart. God, touch the mind.
Touch these parents. Lord, helpthem give them a mindset to raise their
children in the fear of the Lord. God, to help to train them

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up in the way that they shouldgo. God, give them a mind
to want to read your word,God, to want to know who you
are, got to want to getcloser to You. God. We know
that we're living in some troubled timesright now. God, we don't know
tomorrow. It's not promised to anyof us. God, so we're just
asking that you would just draw usto you. God, give us a
closer walk with you. God,just touch our hearts and our minds,

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transform our lives. God said forus to be renewed by the transforming of
our mind. God, so we'rejust asking that you continue to do that
great work within us. God,continue to lead us and guide us and
the way that you would have usto go. God. God, we
love you as that you would justkeep your hedge of protection around us as
these storms roll in tonight and therest of this week got God, we
asked you you would just put ahedge of protection around us. God,

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don't let any damage that's that's justnot able to be mended. God happened
God on tonight. God, wejust asked you just keep your arms around
and we love you. We thankyou. Thank you for this time together
to commune with my family and myfriends, everybody that's tuning them and Jesus,
and we pray and ask you all. Thank you. Amen. We

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love your God. And until nextTuesday, we'll be right here again.
See you again. God. Blessyou all. Okay, God, bless
you. That's picking set aside justour much please you, And I'm telling

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