March 24, 2025 • 45 mins
earth, campaign, historical awareness
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Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, good evening, good evening, good evening.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Hey, welcome to another Monday evening, fabulous and transparent dialogue about.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Issues that are going on in the world today. Hello,
Pastor Miguel, How are you, sir? If I'm living, I'm sorry.
Go ahead, sir, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I'm living.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Okay, okay, I'm living.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Shows up. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hey, Hey, let's pray. Father God, We just love you
so much. We were forever giving you the praise and
the glory and the honor as you are old, as
we could the only thing we could do. And again
I will say, until I take my next last breath,
there are not enough words in the dictionary to give
you praise. So I'm glad that you allow us to
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display our honor and our love for you, and our
actions and our behaviors and words to others. As long
as we're giving you honor and the praise. Lord, I
thank you, I thank you for this week. It has
been profound. It's been beyond my imagination. It's beyond what
I could ever hope for. And you got the glory.
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But you don't let that stand right there. You always
pay us, pay it forward, you pay us back, you
pay you give you seed, You make every cricket place straight.
Just because you are gone. We love you so much.
Now tonight is always we get behind the cross. This
is your podcast, this is your fifty minutes. We are
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your children, we are your servants. You do what you
do best, and that's healed and set the captives free
and the mighty matchless name of Jesus, Amen and amen
me haw he haw. Well, God is good. I'm telling you.
How's everybody been? How's your week been? Let me start
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there first. Okay, I don't like this, Claire, Well, okay, listen,
last week, trade, last last since last Tuesday, how things
have been good? Actually good, very good.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Amen, Okay, I'll take it. And pastor, when I was
coming on, you were talking to the rebels. So how
your weekend was you care? Can you repeat it just
a little bit of that for us? Sure.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
My daughter turns thirty and I had a we had
We celebrated a couple's forty third wedding anniversary yesterday and
that uh, we renewed their they kind of renewed their vowels.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
On third, which was very very unique. So and then
next Monday it'll be celebrating number So so good times,
good times.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Amen. Amen. That was that's good to hear. And that's
this week. Last Thursday, my daughter and I traveled to
my hometown of Palm Beach County. Had been there for
seven years, and she was watching me all the time
she drove. We ended up having to drive my car,
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which I was fine with because these rental fees are
just ridiculous. And now hurts don't accept cash. Of course,
they don't accept debit cards, bank cards. It's got to
be a.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Full on.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Charge card. And I don't have charge cards, so it's
even better. I finally put my car on the road.
She did excellent with gas and all that good stuff.
So ah, and the closer we got to Palm Beach,
I there was butterflies. There were butterflies. I asked, God, Now,
I don't want to see anybody that you never scheduled
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me to see. And if no one knew we were coming,
no one the three I had three assignments and all
three had no two people to see face to face.
If I could find that one of them and the
other was just a text and to reach out and
to let them know how much their ministry impacted me
and look at me now in that order, and everybody
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was extremely shocked. I did find someone, a former coworker
of mine that worked at forty fifth Street Mental Health,
and that just I couldn't believe. I mean, it was
just JR. Thickl and helped me to locate her and
surprise shocked the heck out of her. And we met
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for a little early dinner and after she got off work.
And I didn't know she was that much older than me.
I did not know. I'm sitting there like what. It's
funny when you're in the mix of people and your
coworkers and stuff unless you come out and identify how
old you are you know what you've been through? Whatever
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you don't know, you don't know and so, and this
is going to tie into our topic tonight. Another plan
was we needed to strategically go to the Sawgrass Mall
down to Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale, and we did and that
was a trip and a half and it's worth it.
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One thing I'm like to say to people, I know
that you all, you get behind the wheel of your car,
you've got a thousand things on your mind, and you're
on the interstate or you're on the turnpike and you're
just acting like you're playing chess with your car and
you just slowed down a minute. I know most of
y'all were headed up this way, you know, to go
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to Disney and all that. But like I said, Disney,
it's not in Orlando. It's in Consimbi, And I know
you're gonna get it. If you've never been, you're gonna
be in You're gonna get upset because you got the
hotel in Orlando, but you got to drive over to
considme enjoy yourself, and you got to drive back in
our traffic. I'm only asking can you please slow down,
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just slow down, because you take that physical driving energy
and you bring it into the malls or the grocery
stores or the parking lots, and you're just I mean,
little kids almost got knocked over. I almost got knocked over.
Just I mean, you gotta slow down. Guys. If you're
gonna be late, you're late, let someone know you're late.
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You're on the road, you're on your way, but don't
try to kill everybody in front of you. And you
stopping on someone's rear end at the last minute and stuff.
But we don't need that. The accidents. We saw the accidents,
and so can you please just slow down? But just
then you'll get to where you're going. It's not going
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anywhere unless it's a food truck, unless it's mobile, and
then you missed it just trying to catch up with
them in the next spot. But you don't need to
be running me over. Another thing, I heard conversations in
the mall especially, I didn't need to hear. I didn't
need to hear that you're trying to get your child back.
I didn't need to hear that somebody took the money
out the bank account. I didn't need to hear the
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well that by the last day was right. I didn't
need to hear that. But they brought the phones. All
the phones. Everybody's on the phone. Everybody's on the phone.
People carrying their phones. Women got purses, they got backpacks,
but they're carrying their phones like you're gonna miss something,
Like you're gonna miss something, and I mean you and
then you're trying to, you know, push your way through
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and you're trying to look at I mean, we're trying
to just look at the marquis of the of the
board so we can see where we're going, because we
were just looking for three stores. We really was. We
weren't trying to walk around the whole Salt Grass Mill
mall an outlet. And they did a great day. They
just as a little commercial. They've got vendors, who vendors
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in the middle of this thing, so that was kind
of neat. I said, that's how, you know, supporting the
area of vendors was kind of cool to see. And
now all this time since I've been home, I've been
only wearing Crocs. Crocs is the best shoe for me,
is to you know, and I already shared with you.
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I gave away with eighty pairs of shoes, and I've
got a couple of pairs of sneakers, but they're just orthopedic,
and they just they're ugly. Let me just go there.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
They're ugly.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Not that everybody needs to look at my sneaker wear,
but they're ugly. And so I was sitting at a
spot waiting Felicia went on to look for the store
we were looking for. So I said, well, go ahead,
and you go ahead. I'm just gonna have a seat.
And I'm sitting there and I happened to look up
at an angle and there was Sacks Fifth Avenue store,
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and I'm like, oh my god, one was I don't
even think I've ever been in Sacks because when it
was in the Palm Beach mall back home, you know,
I never went in there because I'm like, there's no
way I can afford anything. I don't even I can't
even afford to go in there. I you know, I
go in there, I'm won't, you know. So I was like,
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you know, Jesus, wow, you know, but I looked, I said,
and a calmness came over me, and the Lord, you know,
the Holy Spirit was talking to me and said, you know,
you need to go in there. I said, what I
need to go in? I said, okay, why not. So
as I was I was looking for police, I could
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see her coming towards me. So I stood up and
I met her kind of halfway, and I motioned my
head to the store, and so she just cut right
over and we walked in. And as I'm walking in,
the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, you have
proven that there is no box. When people say to
think oside the box, you've told, you told the real deal.
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You said there's no box. You've been looking for it.
You're not looking for it anymore. But I need you
now to get out of your head because you have
shoes in here. I said, I have shoes in here.
He said, yeah, enjoy. So we walk in and you know,
of course people are judging him up on golf on
that one. So I'm walking in. We went straight to
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the back. I said, well, let's go to the clearance
because again, you know it's got a billion. You know
you're gonna pay one thousand dollars worth shoe and someone
on Clarence's probably seven hundred and so I was very wrong.
Everything in the store was sixty to seventy percent on
sixty to seventy percent. And I don't look at prices,
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so I'm looking at what I want, but what I want.
So we went to my shoe size, and again, even
though you don't have toes, you still have to get
the shoe size that you were kind of living with
and born with because your frame up, your body detected,
or your foot with and all that. Even though you're
missing toes, you still have to get your regular sized shoe.
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I try to size nine. Why that don't work. It's
the weirdest thing. But God is so also we are
fearfully and wonderfully made in Him. So I'm looking Belize.
He's looking with me, and I'm like, ooh, and look,
I saw this shoe. Now, the one thing I used
to wear a lot of loafer like shoes, you know,
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the little to no heel, and they just had a
nice tassel on the top or something like that. So
that's the type of shoe I used to wear. Here's
this off white tasseled shoe. And I looked at BELIZI
I was like ten medium because they had to get
my w in there. And so she I'm holding onto
the shelf to try on the shoe, and I have
to That's the second thing. I have to make sure
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I can put the shoe on myself at home and
be about my day. Plus I drive on my right foot.
I don't drive with a shoe. I will drive one
of my little, my little sock like shoe singing gadget.
And because I just feel comfortable and normally when I didn't,
you know, when I had my feet my toes, I
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drove barefoot with that right foot, I just just did.
So now I just put on a little soft little
shoe singing and so I got a few of those here,
and I have one always in the car. So but
I'm putting on this shoe, so I have to be
able if I'm getting in and out of the car,
I take that one off and I'll put on my
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crock and then I'd be about my business. Or I
put on my sneaker and I'll be about my business.
So I have to take a little time and you know,
make sure I'm focused and everything else. But i'd have
to be able to put the shoe on by myself,
even though Belisia was helping me and stuff. But I
have to be able to maneuver. So I did, and
it was, Oh, it's a cute shoe, it's leather, it's
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got you know. I'm like, yeah, because this is going
to force me to come out of wearing my my
yoga type pants and a T shirt because I know
where God is getting ready to lead me. I am
going to be on government ground. I'm going to be
in the town hall this weekend. I'm I'm part of this,
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one of the speakers at a pop up shop, so
I gotta be I want to with that exception. With
the exception of that, I will go in a croc
and you know, I mean one of my T shirts.
But but normally, if I'm going and I'm speaking, and
well all you I'm gonna be leading prayer at a
church event coming up next month, so I want to
be able to look decent. I'm not wearing pants, you know,
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I'm not wearing my yoga pants into anything, you know,
because you know, just becauds. I want to look professional,
business like, that's all. And I need to have the
right shoe and outfit to make me look appropriate because
they are already going to be staring and I don't
need give you any more to look at. So we
got the one pair, and this lady came by and
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she said, now this is not the clearance And I said, so,
what's sixty to seventy? She said, they'll adjust it when
you get to the register. I said, okay, thank you.
So I'm looking and said you're not finished. She keep looking,
ended up being able to fit into two additional pairs
of shoes that are regular, that are normal, And I
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walked out there paying under two hundred dollars for those shoes,
for three pairs of shoes out of sex. It happened.
And I'm like, and I'm looking at Policei're like, oh,
and she understood. She said, I get it, man, I said,
people won't understand the little things. You don't understand. You
may think you know what I'm going through. You may
think you can identify, oh five, if it was me, No,
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you cannot, because everybody's different. There was a young lady
in them, all by herself, in her wheelchair, self propelled chair,
and if she was going to the stores and she wanted,
she was wheeling in and wheeling out, and I was like,
and she was walking and she was going. Just as
much as I said, okay, more power to you. I
got you. I got you because we have to come
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out of our heads. We got to come out of
your comfort zone. I've been left mind. God is my conference, though,
So you have to you got to, you know, make
those decisions to move forward and to keep moving because
if you stop, you'll get stuck and you will stay there,
and then your subconscious is waiting on the ugly is
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waiting to release. The bad is waiting to release and
make your body start aching and oh my god, I'm
love and I'm like, oh my god, okay, and Beliicia,
it was just I mean, she was so tuned into me.
I couldn't, you know, trying to hide it, you know,
like Okay, I'm gonna have to sit down again. You know,
because we walked this thing. We walk this mall. Even
though we were looking for three stores. We had to
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go find them. But we did that, and then we
went Sunday evening. Sunday afternoon, we went in Palm Beach
County where we used to be. The Palm Beach Mall
is now an outlet and they were the ones that
kind of started that years ago. They turned them all
into an outlet. So once again they have vendors there
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right in the middle as you're walking through, which I said, yeah,
that's kind of cool, and you know, patronizing the local businesses.
So they had the juices and everything. But anyway, so
I'm going in and I looked at this one story
we were getting ready to leave, and I said, ooh,
they said a comfort shoes. Comfort shoes is what it's called.
So I gotta go in here. I gotta go see
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what they're talking about. Older gentleman. He was trying. He
was looking, and I didn't want him to see, you know,
my foot with throw toe. So I'm trying to wait
for him to like bring me my boxes so I
could try all some stuff and go. I walked out
with two pairs, two pairs, three pairs of shoes from there,
all parents, and he gave me his employee discounts. But
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the biggest treat was Belisia said, I'm going to go
ahead and I'm going to get to get the car
and so I could pull around and get you. I said, okay,
So I had to take my time and go and
and a lot of times I just pull over, I
just lean over, you know, stop, and because people were
right behind me, they were right on my on my
my heel. If I went back, I would have hit
somebody with my head in their mouth. That's how close
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people were. And so I sometimes I would just you know,
walk to the side and stop. And she said, ma'm
may just take your time. I said, oh, I got it.
I got it. So just as I'm coming out, getting
ready to sit in the chair and wait for her
to pull around, I'm every woman came on. I think
it was somebody else because there was a slower version
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in the beginning. It was real slow, and it was
just so just And so when I sat down, said,
and I'm singing in public on this bench, look like this,
and everybody coming off that parking lot was dancing with
me because I'm like, every room it's all in me.
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And I was here and everybody's like yeah, Lia, like
what are you doing? And everybody man, they were like yeah.
I said, if you can't, you cannot move to that song.
You cannot not move to that song. You can't. You
was written in you. It was written as the slower version.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
I think she sings it. She sings it too, and
she has shota she said, Shaka Khan. Later on, it's
just her work too.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Okay, but it was ship. I mean, it played and
I'm sitting you cannot move to that. And everybody I saw,
they were like, oh.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
One little young girl, she would look at the press
coming in that parking lot. I said, come on, now,
come on now, you gotta smile. You getting ready to stop?
And she said yeah, and she just I said, come now,
I left some stuff in there for y'all, just letting
you know. And they just people and they laughed and
it was like wow, and they realized, No, I wasn't
homeless because the one people turned around and police it
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was pulling up in by cheap Cherokee. No, I'm a homeless,
thank you. But anyway, let's get to let me circle listen.
That's first. It was just, you know, my whole thing
is when you do what God tells you to do
in the order that he tells you. You don't be
like Jonah, you don't be like Paul. No, I'll get
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to that. Oh no, I'm not going over there. Oh
I can't do that. Why don't people don't listen to you?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Why?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I said, okay, yeah, well you just you gotta way
of waiting for you. You got a snake in the
fire wood, waiting on you come on and and and
at the same time, we did, you know, rent a car, rental,
rented a path sub But like I said, it was
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you know, it was a no goal because and we
already had the car packed because I didn't want to
come home with the rental and the new neighbors could
see that I'm getting ready to leave or whatever, so
and I would have to pull out cars and pull
that car, you know, and all that kind of stuff.
Thank God for a garage, but we already have packed
the car, so all we had to do is just say, okay,
let's make sure we gas up, were out, and we
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got on the road. And so it hurts. People say, well,
it's gonna take about ten days for you to be
reimbursed the deposit that you put down. I said, oh no,
it won't. And I walked. I said, have a good day.
By Saturday, I was already being reimbursed. It was in process.
So you know, you know, don't don't come cut off
my blessing. So let's go to talking about the Earth,
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because I think it's a great segue because the Earth
is now exploding. The Earth is doing what it needs
to do to revive itself, to clean itself off, clean
itself up, and to make room for either death or life.
So we got Earth Hour, and supposedly all of y'all
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supposed to switch off your lights from eight thirty pm
to nine to thirty pm to celebrate Earth Hour twenty
twenty five. It's a symbolic and powerful movement aimed at
raising awareness about climate change, biodiversity loss, and the importance
of sustainability. And I wanted to had I been able
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to use my computer. I'm not sure if I can
pull up a Bible here on this thing, but I
was ready to discuss how how God looks at the
Earth and how He has already ordained it. Let me
see if I can find something here. Guys, just give
me a half a second. Call, give me a second.
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Let's see if I get fine here. But okay, you
know it's can do better, Thank you, laurd See, you
have to always pitot at times, you have to pivot. Okay,
just a couple of scriptures. Okay, I'm gonna go over there.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Of course, in the beginning Genesis chapter one and one.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and go So
what the earth he stepped up and said, let that be,
and he took his time those first six days. We
just need to make sure we don't miss a step
in the instructures. Thank you missing I did my homework
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at a stage. Jo, okay, go for it, go for it.
My five happy things I wrote down are reading, helping,
making things, writing, and looking at treats. Now, when you
say writing, are you talking about a motorcycle or horse?
H Yeah, she says she likes writing. Are you talking
about a motorcycle or a horse? Come on, we can
see you in a car.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Car.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You like riding in a car with somebody else driving,
like a show, you know, with somebody driving, or you
like to drive. Okay, she'll get back to us there,
But okay, was very good. First of all, give her
hand clap. She did her homework. Yeah, yes, others driving okay, yeah, okay,
all right then all right, so then we have to
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configure and make sure we get that, you know, you
get people driving and if you're going to go on
long trips or things like that, or you're gonna go
do some retail therapy. I loved it. My daughter took it.
She said, I can drive, Mom, I said, okay, okay,
but I'm here if you need me to, I could.
I could drive too. This is my hometown. You know,
the streets ain't changed that much. Whatever. I said, okay,
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leave it alone and coming home. She's no, I got it, mam.
I said, well, look the last hour, let me let
me take it because we'll be close to like, you know,
I won't get confused everything. No, I'll be all right.
But I know you're here. So yeah, I like that.
I appreciated it. It was nice, you know, but thank you, Anathasia.
I'm gonna get back to you and ask you what
more did you learn about yourself while you had to really,
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you know, and I know you took time to to
iron that out and make sure what that was. So
I'm going to get back with you. But let me
go to songs ninety five and four and those in
whose hands are the depths of the earth. The peaks
of the mountains are his also, So I presume the writer.
I can't have a mask thing here. But that was
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Psalms ninety five and four and Exodus twenty and eleven.
For six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth,
the sea, and all of that is in them and
rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed on
the sabbnth day and made it holy, and for several
other scriptures. But I want to click over here because
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scriptures on the earth groaning, the earth groaning, because I
think that's the stage we're in right now. Let's see
Romans eight and twenty two says the whole creation has
been groaning together and the pains of childbirth until the
present time. Until the present time. Let's see if I
got another one here? They got some more here. Do
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you still talk about Romans? Then they said something in
John fourteen. Let me see what that says. I'm sorry, guys,
that my computer is just I quit on me on
the last minute or so. But I got my Bible.
Fella just right over there, he'll be ready to go
John fourteen. See, they got the whole scripture here. Okay,
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let me see.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
When John fourteen one says, don't let your hearts be troubled.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
There we go. Okay, you believe me, God believe in me. Also.
In mean, sorry, guys, my father's house has many rooms.
If it was not so, would I have told you
that I'm going there to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come back and take you to be with me.
You also will be where I am. You know the way,
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the place where I'm going. Okay, well that didn't I'm
gonna go back. But what I love to do is
be able to see how this equates to its biblically,
because I'm not concerned about commentary or what man thinks.
I want to be able to see how what's the
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scripture saying about this? Amen? And so now, Pastor Miguel,
please come on in, and you know, I'm sure you
have something to add to this, so please don't hesitate.
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Well, it's interesting that you bring up John. I'm sorry
that you bring up Genesis chapter one, verse one, where
it says that the Lord created the heavens and the Earth.
And if you really study your Bible, what about the
other planets, what about the stars? What about.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Sun?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
People don't understand that the earth was created first everything
else on day four, So really goes to show you
that there was a plan was put in the motion
when God spoke the existence of the earth in the
first verse. That's why it's called a uni verse. It's
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one verse establishes really establishes the the the importance of
understanding that God doesn't do anything on a whim. God
doesn't do anything of Let's try this kind of.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
A deal, right right.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
And I heard something that really impacted me. I'm still
kind of digesting it because when I heard it, I
was just like, Wow, that was super super deep, and
it went this way that God's already created it all
and has ordained it all. Now it's in motion. Yet
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the end, I was just like, that's even too deep
for me that I had to kind of step back
and saying wow. So this goes to show you God's omnipotence,
the presence and omniscients that everything that's going on right
now doesn't catch God off. He already knows Amen.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Check out Romans eight and twenty one. That the creation
itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption
and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children
of God. That creation itself will be set free. Nothing
was meant to last forever. Look at the ice for
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the polar bears. It's all of us. It has been
dissolving and they're having to move from blockage, blocks of
ice and the penguins and I'm, you know, trying to
find a new home. But there's nothing that we could
do to put the ice back. It's dissolving on its own.
Got a time, It's got a time. And I know
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people who had had issues with dying and all, I
don't want to die, and I know it's scary, but
if you are already accomplishing that which God is to do,
and trust me when I say this, guys, you don't
know the end all of it. You don't know the
end all. You may be a pastor, now, okay, you
finally made it to be in a pastor, yeah, but
there's more to that. You may not be the pastor
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of a physical church. You're gonna be a pastor of
the Shepherd of People. And your congregations. Your congregation is
out there in the world or they're on Zoom, they're digital.
You're gonna only reach them through digital because they're everywhere.
And you know my life story already. I had no idea.
Never said I wanted to have twins, never said I
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wanted to be an author, never said I wanted to
be a college professor. I always wanted all I want
to do is get back to the stage. And I've
been able to retire from that gainfully. Look at what
I'm doing now. So if you don't do anything, look
take it. Take an example from the earth, because now
every other day something is on fire, burning away. They
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cannot contain it. It takes days, it takes people, it
takes exhaustion. Today we were driving by as we were
still home and we were here, and all of a sudden,
I guess the firemen are testing the water, the fire hydrants,
so water is gushing out on both sides of the road.
They're checking things, but you need to be checking pipes
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that you all laid thirty years ago. People throwing trash
out there when they're going down. There's little gutter things
on the side of the road. And that's the reason
why we got, you know, water building up and and
and and puddles and stuff like that when it rains
an old day. Now we got rainy season. All of
a sudden, I heard of Mediorologian just talking about that. Yes,
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it's be you know, and Toabori's it was raining this
afternoon when they're doing the five o'clock nembles. We came
in with a dark cloud. Mother nature is gonna do
what it's doing. It's gonna do what it needs to
do to cleanse itself. It's gonna do what it needs
to do to say, you know what, I'm a dead tree.
I'm dead. There's nothing, there's no fruit, there's nothing here,
and it dies. And you got these insects that come
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from nowhere that likes that stuff, and they're all over
your yard or you got you know, fro mingos or cranes.
You know, these white birds. I don't know what they are,
what they're called, and they're eating through your grass and everything.
And I'm like, wait a minute, I mean I heard
of them and stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
You know, those are ibises. There's a hoo's a who
those are called ibises. They got the long, long.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yes beak, the okay, well they need the ibis owns
to somewhere else and go I was the island or something.
You you know, there's nothing with my grass. Stop doing that, Lida.
Then my dogs see you doing it. She thinks she's
supposed to do it, but she thinks she's willing them,
you know. But you know, so okay, here we go
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Romans eight and twenty. Of course, before the creation was
subjected to fertility, not willingly, but because of Him who
subjected it. In Hope Revelations twenty one, Oh my God,
this one. Then I saw a new heaven and a
new earth for the first heaven and the first earth
had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Go ahead, faster, Second Peter, three, verses ten and twelve.
I'll let you read that one.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
No, you read it because I can't get there fast enough. Go,
he said, Second Peter, you're gonna still say it though.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Okay, Chapter three, verses ten through twelve. But the day
of the Lord will come like a thief. Heavens will
disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire,
the earth, everything in it will be laid there. Any
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people don't understand that, as I mentioned earlier, this has
been all ordained when God said, let let me create
the heavens and the earth. Oh, this has been planned.
How does it mean that we have to live our
lives and be merry and let and just live our
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life like like I mean, the la Veda loca. But
what we need to do is we we take care
of what we got. But we have to and I
want to be very very sensitive here, and that is
and I don't want to scare anyone, and I don't
want to make anybody worried or anything like that. But
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only way, the only way that thin will go away
if the Earth gets wiped out, and I mean.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Why completely like a Noah, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
And just absolutely be removed from the galaxy, because that's
the only way thin is completely gone. Just to the
firse you read in Revelations where we have a new Jerusalem,
a new Earth. That's what we have to be prepared
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for because it has to happen. Instead of asking God,
why is this happening, put a plan in place. This
is what's got to happen, and it's fits happening. That
means that it's getting closer.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
For perfection came in and Colossians one in sixteen. I'm
gonna end it on this and then we're going to
get back to Anathasia. For by Him all things were
created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether
thrones or dominions, or rulers or authorities, all things were
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created through Him and for him. There's a scripture that
said God said I made it good and even for
myself that beholds three weeks. Course, right there, we go
into that one. But all things and that's what I
want you to give, you don't get anything else. We
were made in his image. We all have a time clock.
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We all have a time clock the b nigga on
your habits, your lifestyle. You could usher it in a
little quicker, or you could delay it a little longer.
But there's a day. There will come a day, and
we'll leave it at that. And the pastor, I appreciate
you saying you don't want to scare anybody. And the
profits now the real ones are you know they if
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we don't want to scare you. But this is scripture,
This is real. This has been written as it is written,
and all things were created through Him and for him.
It's written. There's no we can't God it's back, we
can't erase it. It's written, and it's gonna play itself out.
The question we all need to ask you, well you
all need to ask yourself, is where am I gonna be?
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Where am I in this? Because I got to be
able to trust you. Just like you have a supervisor
at your jobs, and at least at some point in
your work history that you went through your ninety days.
They're watching you. They say, Okay, she looks like she's
got the concept, so okay, looks like she can fit
in here. But they're still watching you. You don't be
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creative yet, not those first ninety days, not one hundred
and twenty days. You don't be creative yet. You know
you could do this a little faster, but you slow
your rope because they need to know that they could
trust you with your caseload, They could trust you with
your clientele. God needs and all you need to do
right now is be totally dependent on him, leaning on him,
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and and and and getting that and Anastasia, and I'm
gonna go to you and and I don't, I don't
if I can understand. I'm just gonna say this. I
have married people on zoom. I'm a nerder notary as well.
I could. I can notarize the document. You just get
it in somebody, get into somebody's backyard and we can
call it a day. Okay. That that that and I
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you know, there we go, so and the stage, are
you still with me with us? Brother? Still there? Okay?
Well if not, she'll hear it. Thank you again for
being obedient and see. That's all you need to do
is make that step. All you need to do is say,
you know what, I'm gonna trust it. Let me write
down what really makes me happy. Now I'm gonna go
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about and see how I can combine these things. How
can I get to this? How can I do this?
Maybe you could ask one of your good friends, Hey,
you know what, every Saturday I'm here, she's like, okay
out here. Maybe you could ask one of their friends, Hey,
can we just go, you know, drive by the botanical garden.
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I know, every city got to have a potatical garden
or the aviary, you know. But you but it needs
to be someplace, not that you could get there in
fifteen minutes. It's going to take you forty five minutes
to get there and coming back and have lunch there.
But that person has to drive. Now you got to
give them some gas money. Now fair, But do that
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for yourself, just to take a casual drive out somewhere
where you normally would not go. There are places here
in Orlando I don't I'm never I have not visited yet.
There are places in Palm Beach County that I had
not visited. But what do I like. And that's one
thing I had to talk with my daughter. You know,
I said, I don't know, Shi gon Mama, you got
to find something that you want to do. I said,
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that says it. Ministry is all me. Whatever I need
to do he needs me to do, I'm going to
do it. I don't know, I have not I don't
know which way to explore that. What would I like
to do?
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Well?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
I like, I get talk, I got a podcast. I've
written my fourth book. I'm hoping there's only one more.
And that's my all the arguphing because it's being transparent,
you wide open, and you know mostly 'all know all
my stories, so you know what's next for me. And lastly,
we worked out even though we walked so much this weekend.
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We went to the gym inside the whole time and
left my sneakers the ugly one. Well, I got a
cute pair from Amazon, but anyway, but they were Tae
Kwondo type seekers. Anyway, I left them at home. And
so it's just like I said, no, I got socks,
I'll get on the bike. And I got on the
bike and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said,
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now you're about you you want to be about adventure.
Make the adventure you and exercising. You already know what
to do. We took our little two Marican and Ginger
little shots. We took those with us. You know, whatever
it's gonna take to get me really healthy, whatever's gonna take.
So that's my new adventure, and you won't need to
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think about your new adventure. I know you're gonna do
the same. I know where I can find Pastor. I
know you know. I don't know if he's got a
full case sloth tomorrow he got to do. I know
where to find him, know because I know Monday through
Friday he's working. He may take on Friday. From Monday
through Thursday, I know he's on the clock somewhere. Whether
it's on the phone is a set. I know what
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Trey is. Trey is doing case management. I know what
she is. I better not try to find her from
eight o'clock eight thirty, you know, before four o'clock. I
better not. I just better text say, ain't you know
my mind? Good called me after you get off for work.
What brand of too March Ginger do you suggest for us? Missy?
I just whatever's really healthy that you got you gotta have.
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You're gonna have to crush it up yourself, all right.
I wouldn't do the crush. I know. We've got a
store here by a healthful, holistic store, and they have
the powder already crunched up with My daughter prefers putting it,
grinding it up herself. So that's that's what I put
it together on some pineapple juice and you good to go.
I'm good to go. You know, you gotta be healthy.
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Whatever's gonna take healthy is my thing. Is my kick
now is being healthy. That's my biggest concern right now.
And going back to that health that I was, you
know at a few years ago after I came off
of being you know, on the thank you for sharing
this with us all the thing, humistic for coming on
and sacrificing. And I want to pray this before we go.
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Anybody else want to add anything here? And I just
want to say a quick prayer before we go. I
want to seal this up, you know.
Speaker 6 (42:15):
But you know, just the wellness part too, you know
it just yeah, it's a lot. So you got to
take care of your mind too. You know, you got
to take care of your mind because that's part of
it and that affects everything.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Amen. Amen, If you've got a cluttered room, you got
a cluttered mind, you got a clutter garage, you got
a cluttered mind. There's no way you see it straight,
there's no way. You're not forgetting small things. So clean
it up, clean it out. People could use your stuff
and maybe jump to use a treasure to somebody else. Lord,
we just thank you, We love you so much. Thank
you for just allowing us. And you know us, each
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of us so well. You know what we need, and
you know how to send the message clear. You will
wait on us, and I know you're hoping that we
will do the right thing and just pivot, just pivot
and now get bogged down with the who what when? Well, no,
we now we got it. You created us in your image,
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You created this earth in your image. You created the
earth for yourself, You created good and even for yourself.
All we have to do is line up and walk
it out with you. We thank you, We give you praise.
Keep everybody safe this week, for the rest of these
these months that's to come. Please and give us a
heads up. Continue to give us that heads up about
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what nature's on Nature's mind and what Nature's next move
would be, we love you and we praise you in
Jesus name. Amen. I'm right. I think that's us. I'm
cursed with a cluttered mind right now. Hey Mickey, well,
we're gonna rebuke that right now in the name of
Jesus first of all. But I understand what you said.
So you've got to sit. Your homework is going to
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be what's clutter in your mind? What is on your
mind so much that you can't see the forest for
the What is it? What is it? Who is it?
And go back to the serenity prayer. I'm not gonna
repeat it, but go find the serenity prayer and put
yourself in there. Change what you can, strength to understand,
wisdom to know the difference, because there's some things you
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could stop and you could change it. You could do it.
Look at us. We got loads of testimony, volumes of
it where we had to pivot, where we had to say,
you know what, that's it. I've a glory to God.
I've had enough. I've had enough, and only I can
change this. So I have to put you out of
my life. I got to get you out of my head.
I got to take the power back from you, and
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I'm cursing and rebuking all the generational curses of my family.
We'll talk about that another time. We love you. See
you next week, same time, same station, USU
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Speaker 2 (01:18):
Well, good evening, good evening, good evening.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Hey, welcome to another Monday evening, fabulous and transparent dialogue about.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Issues that are going on in the world today. Hello,
Pastor Miguel, How are you, sir? If I'm living, I'm sorry.
Go ahead, sir, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I'm living.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Okay, okay, I'm living.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Shows up. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hey, Hey, let's pray. Father God, We just love you
so much. We were forever giving you the praise and
the glory and the honor as you are old, as
we could the only thing we could do. And again
I will say, until I take my next last breath,
there are not enough words in the dictionary to give
you praise. So I'm glad that you allow us to
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display our honor and our love for you, and our
actions and our behaviors and words to others. As long
as we're giving you honor and the praise. Lord, I
thank you, I thank you for this week. It has
been profound. It's been beyond my imagination. It's beyond what
I could ever hope for. And you got the glory.
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But you don't let that stand right there. You always
pay us, pay it forward, you pay us back, you
pay you give you seed, You make every cricket place straight.
Just because you are gone. We love you so much.
Now tonight is always we get behind the cross. This
is your podcast, this is your fifty minutes. We are
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your children, we are your servants. You do what you
do best, and that's healed and set the captives free
and the mighty matchless name of Jesus, Amen and amen
me haw he haw. Well, God is good. I'm telling you.
How's everybody been? How's your week been? Let me start
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there first. Okay, I don't like this, Claire, Well, okay, listen,
last week, trade, last last since last Tuesday, how things
have been good? Actually good, very good.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Amen, Okay, I'll take it. And pastor, when I was
coming on, you were talking to the rebels. So how
your weekend was you care? Can you repeat it just
a little bit of that for us? Sure.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
My daughter turns thirty and I had a we had
We celebrated a couple's forty third wedding anniversary yesterday and
that uh, we renewed their they kind of renewed their vowels.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
On third, which was very very unique. So and then
next Monday it'll be celebrating number So so good times,
good times.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Amen. Amen. That was that's good to hear. And that's
this week. Last Thursday, my daughter and I traveled to
my hometown of Palm Beach County. Had been there for
seven years, and she was watching me all the time
she drove. We ended up having to drive my car,
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which I was fine with because these rental fees are
just ridiculous. And now hurts don't accept cash. Of course,
they don't accept debit cards, bank cards. It's got to
be a.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Full on.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Charge card. And I don't have charge cards, so it's
even better. I finally put my car on the road.
She did excellent with gas and all that good stuff.
So ah, and the closer we got to Palm Beach,
I there was butterflies. There were butterflies. I asked, God, Now,
I don't want to see anybody that you never scheduled
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me to see. And if no one knew we were coming,
no one the three I had three assignments and all
three had no two people to see face to face.
If I could find that one of them and the
other was just a text and to reach out and
to let them know how much their ministry impacted me
and look at me now in that order, and everybody
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was extremely shocked. I did find someone, a former coworker
of mine that worked at forty fifth Street Mental Health,
and that just I couldn't believe. I mean, it was
just JR. Thickl and helped me to locate her and
surprise shocked the heck out of her. And we met
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for a little early dinner and after she got off work.
And I didn't know she was that much older than me.
I did not know. I'm sitting there like what. It's
funny when you're in the mix of people and your
coworkers and stuff unless you come out and identify how
old you are you know what you've been through? Whatever
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you don't know, you don't know and so, and this
is going to tie into our topic tonight. Another plan
was we needed to strategically go to the Sawgrass Mall
down to Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale, and we did and that
was a trip and a half and it's worth it.
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One thing I'm like to say to people, I know
that you all, you get behind the wheel of your car,
you've got a thousand things on your mind, and you're
on the interstate or you're on the turnpike and you're
just acting like you're playing chess with your car and
you just slowed down a minute. I know most of
y'all were headed up this way, you know, to go
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to Disney and all that. But like I said, Disney,
it's not in Orlando. It's in Consimbi, And I know
you're gonna get it. If you've never been, you're gonna
be in You're gonna get upset because you got the
hotel in Orlando, but you got to drive over to
considme enjoy yourself, and you got to drive back in
our traffic. I'm only asking can you please slow down,
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just slow down, because you take that physical driving energy
and you bring it into the malls or the grocery
stores or the parking lots, and you're just I mean,
little kids almost got knocked over. I almost got knocked over.
Just I mean, you gotta slow down. Guys. If you're
gonna be late, you're late, let someone know you're late.
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You're on the road, you're on your way, but don't
try to kill everybody in front of you. And you
stopping on someone's rear end at the last minute and stuff.
But we don't need that. The accidents. We saw the accidents,
and so can you please just slow down? But just
then you'll get to where you're going. It's not going
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anywhere unless it's a food truck, unless it's mobile, and
then you missed it just trying to catch up with
them in the next spot. But you don't need to
be running me over. Another thing, I heard conversations in
the mall especially, I didn't need to hear. I didn't
need to hear that you're trying to get your child back.
I didn't need to hear that somebody took the money
out the bank account. I didn't need to hear the
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well that by the last day was right. I didn't
need to hear that. But they brought the phones. All
the phones. Everybody's on the phone. Everybody's on the phone.
People carrying their phones. Women got purses, they got backpacks,
but they're carrying their phones like you're gonna miss something,
Like you're gonna miss something, and I mean you and
then you're trying to, you know, push your way through
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and you're trying to look at I mean, we're trying
to just look at the marquis of the of the
board so we can see where we're going, because we
were just looking for three stores. We really was. We
weren't trying to walk around the whole Salt Grass Mill
mall an outlet. And they did a great day. They
just as a little commercial. They've got vendors, who vendors
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in the middle of this thing, so that was kind
of neat. I said, that's how, you know, supporting the
area of vendors was kind of cool to see. And
now all this time since I've been home, I've been
only wearing Crocs. Crocs is the best shoe for me,
is to you know, and I already shared with you.
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I gave away with eighty pairs of shoes, and I've
got a couple of pairs of sneakers, but they're just orthopedic,
and they just they're ugly. Let me just go there.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
They're ugly.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Not that everybody needs to look at my sneaker wear,
but they're ugly. And so I was sitting at a
spot waiting Felicia went on to look for the store
we were looking for. So I said, well, go ahead,
and you go ahead. I'm just gonna have a seat.
And I'm sitting there and I happened to look up
at an angle and there was Sacks Fifth Avenue store,
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and I'm like, oh my god, one was I don't
even think I've ever been in Sacks because when it
was in the Palm Beach mall back home, you know,
I never went in there because I'm like, there's no
way I can afford anything. I don't even I can't
even afford to go in there. I you know, I
go in there, I'm won't, you know. So I was like,
(10:18):
you know, Jesus, wow, you know, but I looked, I said,
and a calmness came over me, and the Lord, you know,
the Holy Spirit was talking to me and said, you know,
you need to go in there. I said, what I
need to go in? I said, okay, why not. So
as I was I was looking for police, I could
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see her coming towards me. So I stood up and
I met her kind of halfway, and I motioned my
head to the store, and so she just cut right
over and we walked in. And as I'm walking in,
the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, you have
proven that there is no box. When people say to
think oside the box, you've told, you told the real deal.
(11:01):
You said there's no box. You've been looking for it.
You're not looking for it anymore. But I need you
now to get out of your head because you have
shoes in here. I said, I have shoes in here.
He said, yeah, enjoy. So we walk in and you know,
of course people are judging him up on golf on
that one. So I'm walking in. We went straight to
(11:23):
the back. I said, well, let's go to the clearance
because again, you know it's got a billion. You know
you're gonna pay one thousand dollars worth shoe and someone
on Clarence's probably seven hundred and so I was very wrong.
Everything in the store was sixty to seventy percent on
sixty to seventy percent. And I don't look at prices,
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so I'm looking at what I want, but what I want.
So we went to my shoe size, and again, even
though you don't have toes, you still have to get
the shoe size that you were kind of living with
and born with because your frame up, your body detected,
or your foot with and all that. Even though you're
missing toes, you still have to get your regular sized shoe.
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I try to size nine. Why that don't work. It's
the weirdest thing. But God is so also we are
fearfully and wonderfully made in Him. So I'm looking Belize.
He's looking with me, and I'm like, ooh, and look,
I saw this shoe. Now, the one thing I used
to wear a lot of loafer like shoes, you know,
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the little to no heel, and they just had a
nice tassel on the top or something like that. So
that's the type of shoe I used to wear. Here's
this off white tasseled shoe. And I looked at BELIZI
I was like ten medium because they had to get
my w in there. And so she I'm holding onto
the shelf to try on the shoe, and I have
to That's the second thing. I have to make sure
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I can put the shoe on myself at home and
be about my day. Plus I drive on my right foot.
I don't drive with a shoe. I will drive one
of my little, my little sock like shoe singing gadget.
And because I just feel comfortable and normally when I didn't,
you know, when I had my feet my toes, I
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drove barefoot with that right foot, I just just did.
So now I just put on a little soft little
shoe singing and so I got a few of those here,
and I have one always in the car. So but
I'm putting on this shoe, so I have to be
able if I'm getting in and out of the car,
I take that one off and I'll put on my
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crock and then I'd be about my business. Or I
put on my sneaker and I'll be about my business.
So I have to take a little time and you know,
make sure I'm focused and everything else. But i'd have
to be able to put the shoe on by myself,
even though Belisia was helping me and stuff. But I
have to be able to maneuver. So I did, and
it was, Oh, it's a cute shoe, it's leather, it's
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got you know. I'm like, yeah, because this is going
to force me to come out of wearing my my
yoga type pants and a T shirt because I know
where God is getting ready to lead me. I am
going to be on government ground. I'm going to be
in the town hall this weekend. I'm I'm part of this,
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one of the speakers at a pop up shop, so
I gotta be I want to with that exception. With
the exception of that, I will go in a croc
and you know, I mean one of my T shirts.
But but normally, if I'm going and I'm speaking, and
well all you I'm gonna be leading prayer at a
church event coming up next month, so I want to
be able to look decent. I'm not wearing pants, you know,
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I'm not wearing my yoga pants into anything, you know,
because you know, just becauds. I want to look professional,
business like, that's all. And I need to have the
right shoe and outfit to make me look appropriate because
they are already going to be staring and I don't
need give you any more to look at. So we
got the one pair, and this lady came by and
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she said, now this is not the clearance And I said, so,
what's sixty to seventy? She said, they'll adjust it when
you get to the register. I said, okay, thank you.
So I'm looking and said you're not finished. She keep looking,
ended up being able to fit into two additional pairs
of shoes that are regular, that are normal, And I
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walked out there paying under two hundred dollars for those shoes,
for three pairs of shoes out of sex. It happened.
And I'm like, and I'm looking at Policei're like, oh,
and she understood. She said, I get it, man, I said,
people won't understand the little things. You don't understand. You
may think you know what I'm going through. You may
think you can identify, oh five, if it was me, No,
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you cannot, because everybody's different. There was a young lady
in them, all by herself, in her wheelchair, self propelled chair,
and if she was going to the stores and she wanted,
she was wheeling in and wheeling out, and I was like,
and she was walking and she was going. Just as
much as I said, okay, more power to you. I
got you. I got you because we have to come
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out of our heads. We got to come out of
your comfort zone. I've been left mind. God is my conference, though,
So you have to you got to, you know, make
those decisions to move forward and to keep moving because
if you stop, you'll get stuck and you will stay there,
and then your subconscious is waiting on the ugly is
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waiting to release. The bad is waiting to release and
make your body start aching and oh my god, I'm
love and I'm like, oh my god, okay, and Beliicia,
it was just I mean, she was so tuned into me.
I couldn't, you know, trying to hide it, you know,
like Okay, I'm gonna have to sit down again. You know,
because we walked this thing. We walk this mall. Even
though we were looking for three stores. We had to
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go find them. But we did that, and then we
went Sunday evening. Sunday afternoon, we went in Palm Beach
County where we used to be. The Palm Beach Mall
is now an outlet and they were the ones that
kind of started that years ago. They turned them all
into an outlet. So once again they have vendors there
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right in the middle as you're walking through, which I said, yeah,
that's kind of cool, and you know, patronizing the local businesses.
So they had the juices and everything. But anyway, so
I'm going in and I looked at this one story
we were getting ready to leave, and I said, ooh,
they said a comfort shoes. Comfort shoes is what it's called.
So I gotta go in here. I gotta go see
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what they're talking about. Older gentleman. He was trying. He
was looking, and I didn't want him to see, you know,
my foot with throw toe. So I'm trying to wait
for him to like bring me my boxes so I
could try all some stuff and go. I walked out
with two pairs, two pairs, three pairs of shoes from there,
all parents, and he gave me his employee discounts. But
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the biggest treat was Belisia said, I'm going to go
ahead and I'm going to get to get the car
and so I could pull around and get you. I said, okay,
So I had to take my time and go and
and a lot of times I just pull over, I
just lean over, you know, stop, and because people were
right behind me, they were right on my on my
my heel. If I went back, I would have hit
somebody with my head in their mouth. That's how close
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people were. And so I sometimes I would just you know,
walk to the side and stop. And she said, ma'm
may just take your time. I said, oh, I got it.
I got it. So just as I'm coming out, getting
ready to sit in the chair and wait for her
to pull around, I'm every woman came on. I think
it was somebody else because there was a slower version
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in the beginning. It was real slow, and it was
just so just And so when I sat down, said,
and I'm singing in public on this bench, look like this,
and everybody coming off that parking lot was dancing with
me because I'm like, every room it's all in me.
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And I was here and everybody's like yeah, Lia, like
what are you doing? And everybody man, they were like yeah.
I said, if you can't, you cannot move to that song.
You cannot not move to that song. You can't. You
was written in you. It was written as the slower version.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
I think she sings it. She sings it too, and
she has shota she said, Shaka Khan. Later on, it's
just her work too.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Okay, but it was ship. I mean, it played and
I'm sitting you cannot move to that. And everybody I saw,
they were like, oh.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
One little young girl, she would look at the press
coming in that parking lot. I said, come on, now,
come on now, you gotta smile. You getting ready to stop?
And she said yeah, and she just I said, come now,
I left some stuff in there for y'all, just letting
you know. And they just people and they laughed and
it was like wow, and they realized, No, I wasn't
homeless because the one people turned around and police it
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was pulling up in by cheap Cherokee. No, I'm a homeless,
thank you. But anyway, let's get to let me circle listen.
That's first. It was just, you know, my whole thing
is when you do what God tells you to do
in the order that he tells you. You don't be
like Jonah, you don't be like Paul. No, I'll get
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to that. Oh no, I'm not going over there. Oh
I can't do that. Why don't people don't listen to you?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Why?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I said, okay, yeah, well you just you gotta way
of waiting for you. You got a snake in the
fire wood, waiting on you come on and and and
at the same time, we did, you know, rent a car, rental,
rented a path sub But like I said, it was
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you know, it was a no goal because and we
already had the car packed because I didn't want to
come home with the rental and the new neighbors could
see that I'm getting ready to leave or whatever, so
and I would have to pull out cars and pull
that car, you know, and all that kind of stuff.
Thank God for a garage, but we already have packed
the car, so all we had to do is just say, okay,
let's make sure we gas up, were out, and we
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got on the road. And so it hurts. People say, well,
it's gonna take about ten days for you to be
reimbursed the deposit that you put down. I said, oh no,
it won't. And I walked. I said, have a good day.
By Saturday, I was already being reimbursed. It was in process.
So you know, you know, don't don't come cut off
my blessing. So let's go to talking about the Earth,
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because I think it's a great segue because the Earth
is now exploding. The Earth is doing what it needs
to do to revive itself, to clean itself off, clean
itself up, and to make room for either death or life.
So we got Earth Hour, and supposedly all of y'all
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supposed to switch off your lights from eight thirty pm
to nine to thirty pm to celebrate Earth Hour twenty
twenty five. It's a symbolic and powerful movement aimed at
raising awareness about climate change, biodiversity loss, and the importance
of sustainability. And I wanted to had I been able
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to use my computer. I'm not sure if I can
pull up a Bible here on this thing, but I
was ready to discuss how how God looks at the
Earth and how He has already ordained it. Let me
see if I can find something here. Guys, just give
me a half a second. Call, give me a second.
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Let's see if I get fine here. But okay, you
know it's can do better, Thank you, laurd See, you
have to always pitot at times, you have to pivot. Okay,
just a couple of scriptures. Okay, I'm gonna go over there.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Of course, in the beginning Genesis chapter one and one.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and go So
what the earth he stepped up and said, let that be,
and he took his time those first six days. We
just need to make sure we don't miss a step
in the instructures. Thank you missing I did my homework
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at a stage. Jo, okay, go for it, go for it.
My five happy things I wrote down are reading, helping,
making things, writing, and looking at treats. Now, when you
say writing, are you talking about a motorcycle or horse?
H Yeah, she says she likes writing. Are you talking
about a motorcycle or a horse? Come on, we can
see you in a car.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Car.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You like riding in a car with somebody else driving,
like a show, you know, with somebody driving, or you
like to drive. Okay, she'll get back to us there,
But okay, was very good. First of all, give her
hand clap. She did her homework. Yeah, yes, others driving okay, yeah, okay,
all right then all right, so then we have to
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configure and make sure we get that, you know, you
get people driving and if you're going to go on
long trips or things like that, or you're gonna go
do some retail therapy. I loved it. My daughter took it.
She said, I can drive, Mom, I said, okay, okay,
but I'm here if you need me to, I could.
I could drive too. This is my hometown. You know,
the streets ain't changed that much. Whatever. I said, okay,
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leave it alone and coming home. She's no, I got it, mam.
I said, well, look the last hour, let me let
me take it because we'll be close to like, you know,
I won't get confused everything. No, I'll be all right.
But I know you're here. So yeah, I like that.
I appreciated it. It was nice, you know, but thank you, Anathasia.
I'm gonna get back to you and ask you what
more did you learn about yourself while you had to really,
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you know, and I know you took time to to
iron that out and make sure what that was. So
I'm going to get back with you. But let me
go to songs ninety five and four and those in
whose hands are the depths of the earth. The peaks
of the mountains are his also, So I presume the writer.
I can't have a mask thing here. But that was
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Psalms ninety five and four and Exodus twenty and eleven.
For six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth,
the sea, and all of that is in them and
rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed on
the sabbnth day and made it holy, and for several
other scriptures. But I want to click over here because
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scriptures on the earth groaning, the earth groaning, because I
think that's the stage we're in right now. Let's see
Romans eight and twenty two says the whole creation has
been groaning together and the pains of childbirth until the
present time. Until the present time. Let's see if I
got another one here? They got some more here. Do
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you still talk about Romans? Then they said something in
John fourteen. Let me see what that says. I'm sorry, guys,
that my computer is just I quit on me on
the last minute or so. But I got my Bible.
Fella just right over there, he'll be ready to go
John fourteen. See, they got the whole scripture here. Okay,
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let me see.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
When John fourteen one says, don't let your hearts be troubled.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
There we go. Okay, you believe me, God believe in me. Also.
In mean, sorry, guys, my father's house has many rooms.
If it was not so, would I have told you
that I'm going there to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come back and take you to be with me.
You also will be where I am. You know the way,
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the place where I'm going. Okay, well that didn't I'm
gonna go back. But what I love to do is
be able to see how this equates to its biblically,
because I'm not concerned about commentary or what man thinks.
I want to be able to see how what's the
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scripture saying about this? Amen? And so now, Pastor Miguel,
please come on in, and you know, I'm sure you
have something to add to this, so please don't hesitate.
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Well, it's interesting that you bring up John. I'm sorry
that you bring up Genesis chapter one, verse one, where
it says that the Lord created the heavens and the Earth.
And if you really study your Bible, what about the
other planets, what about the stars? What about.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Sun?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
People don't understand that the earth was created first everything
else on day four, So really goes to show you
that there was a plan was put in the motion
when God spoke the existence of the earth in the
first verse. That's why it's called a uni verse. It's
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one verse establishes really establishes the the the importance of
understanding that God doesn't do anything on a whim. God
doesn't do anything of Let's try this kind of.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
A deal, right right.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
And I heard something that really impacted me. I'm still
kind of digesting it because when I heard it, I
was just like, Wow, that was super super deep, and
it went this way that God's already created it all
and has ordained it all. Now it's in motion. Yet
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the end, I was just like, that's even too deep
for me that I had to kind of step back
and saying wow. So this goes to show you God's omnipotence,
the presence and omniscients that everything that's going on right
now doesn't catch God off. He already knows Amen.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Check out Romans eight and twenty one. That the creation
itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption
and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children
of God. That creation itself will be set free. Nothing
was meant to last forever. Look at the ice for
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the polar bears. It's all of us. It has been
dissolving and they're having to move from blockage, blocks of
ice and the penguins and I'm, you know, trying to
find a new home. But there's nothing that we could
do to put the ice back. It's dissolving on its own.
Got a time, It's got a time. And I know
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people who had had issues with dying and all, I
don't want to die, and I know it's scary, but
if you are already accomplishing that which God is to do,
and trust me when I say this, guys, you don't
know the end all of it. You don't know the
end all. You may be a pastor, now, okay, you
finally made it to be in a pastor, yeah, but
there's more to that. You may not be the pastor
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of a physical church. You're gonna be a pastor of
the Shepherd of People. And your congregations. Your congregation is
out there in the world or they're on Zoom, they're digital.
You're gonna only reach them through digital because they're everywhere.
And you know my life story already. I had no idea.
Never said I wanted to have twins, never said I
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wanted to be an author, never said I wanted to
be a college professor. I always wanted all I want
to do is get back to the stage. And I've
been able to retire from that gainfully. Look at what
I'm doing now. So if you don't do anything, look
take it. Take an example from the earth, because now
every other day something is on fire, burning away. They
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cannot contain it. It takes days, it takes people, it
takes exhaustion. Today we were driving by as we were
still home and we were here, and all of a sudden,
I guess the firemen are testing the water, the fire hydrants,
so water is gushing out on both sides of the road.
They're checking things, but you need to be checking pipes
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that you all laid thirty years ago. People throwing trash
out there when they're going down. There's little gutter things
on the side of the road. And that's the reason
why we got, you know, water building up and and
and and puddles and stuff like that when it rains
an old day. Now we got rainy season. All of
a sudden, I heard of Mediorologian just talking about that. Yes,
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it's be you know, and Toabori's it was raining this
afternoon when they're doing the five o'clock nembles. We came
in with a dark cloud. Mother nature is gonna do
what it's doing. It's gonna do what it needs to
do to cleanse itself. It's gonna do what it needs
to do to say, you know what, I'm a dead tree.
I'm dead. There's nothing, there's no fruit, there's nothing here,
and it dies. And you got these insects that come
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from nowhere that likes that stuff, and they're all over
your yard or you got you know, fro mingos or cranes.
You know, these white birds. I don't know what they are,
what they're called, and they're eating through your grass and everything.
And I'm like, wait a minute, I mean I heard
of them and stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
You know, those are ibises. There's a hoo's a who
those are called ibises. They got the long, long.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yes beak, the okay, well they need the ibis owns
to somewhere else and go I was the island or something.
You you know, there's nothing with my grass. Stop doing that, Lida.
Then my dogs see you doing it. She thinks she's
supposed to do it, but she thinks she's willing them,
you know. But you know, so okay, here we go
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Romans eight and twenty. Of course, before the creation was
subjected to fertility, not willingly, but because of Him who
subjected it. In Hope Revelations twenty one, Oh my God,
this one. Then I saw a new heaven and a
new earth for the first heaven and the first earth
had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Go ahead, faster, Second Peter, three, verses ten and twelve.
I'll let you read that one.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
No, you read it because I can't get there fast enough. Go,
he said, Second Peter, you're gonna still say it though.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Okay, Chapter three, verses ten through twelve. But the day
of the Lord will come like a thief. Heavens will
disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire,
the earth, everything in it will be laid there. Any
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people don't understand that, as I mentioned earlier, this has
been all ordained when God said, let let me create
the heavens and the earth. Oh, this has been planned.
How does it mean that we have to live our
lives and be merry and let and just live our
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life like like I mean, the la Veda loca. But
what we need to do is we we take care
of what we got. But we have to and I
want to be very very sensitive here, and that is
and I don't want to scare anyone, and I don't
want to make anybody worried or anything like that. But
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only way, the only way that thin will go away
if the Earth gets wiped out, and I mean.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Why completely like a Noah, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
And just absolutely be removed from the galaxy, because that's
the only way thin is completely gone. Just to the
firse you read in Revelations where we have a new Jerusalem,
a new Earth. That's what we have to be prepared
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for because it has to happen. Instead of asking God,
why is this happening, put a plan in place. This
is what's got to happen, and it's fits happening. That
means that it's getting closer.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
For perfection came in and Colossians one in sixteen. I'm
gonna end it on this and then we're going to
get back to Anathasia. For by Him all things were
created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether
thrones or dominions, or rulers or authorities, all things were
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created through Him and for him. There's a scripture that
said God said I made it good and even for
myself that beholds three weeks. Course, right there, we go
into that one. But all things and that's what I
want you to give, you don't get anything else. We
were made in his image. We all have a time clock.
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We all have a time clock the b nigga on
your habits, your lifestyle. You could usher it in a
little quicker, or you could delay it a little longer.
But there's a day. There will come a day, and
we'll leave it at that. And the pastor, I appreciate
you saying you don't want to scare anybody. And the
profits now the real ones are you know they if
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we don't want to scare you. But this is scripture,
This is real. This has been written as it is written,
and all things were created through Him and for him.
It's written. There's no we can't God it's back, we
can't erase it. It's written, and it's gonna play itself out.
The question we all need to ask you, well you
all need to ask yourself, is where am I gonna be?
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Where am I in this? Because I got to be
able to trust you. Just like you have a supervisor
at your jobs, and at least at some point in
your work history that you went through your ninety days.
They're watching you. They say, Okay, she looks like she's
got the concept, so okay, looks like she can fit
in here. But they're still watching you. You don't be
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creative yet, not those first ninety days, not one hundred
and twenty days. You don't be creative yet. You know
you could do this a little faster, but you slow
your rope because they need to know that they could
trust you with your caseload, They could trust you with
your clientele. God needs and all you need to do
right now is be totally dependent on him, leaning on him,
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and and and and getting that and Anastasia, and I'm
gonna go to you and and I don't, I don't
if I can understand. I'm just gonna say this. I
have married people on zoom. I'm a nerder notary as well.
I could. I can notarize the document. You just get
it in somebody, get into somebody's backyard and we can
call it a day. Okay. That that that and I
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you know, there we go, so and the stage, are
you still with me with us? Brother? Still there? Okay?
Well if not, she'll hear it. Thank you again for
being obedient and see. That's all you need to do
is make that step. All you need to do is say,
you know what, I'm gonna trust it. Let me write
down what really makes me happy. Now I'm gonna go
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about and see how I can combine these things. How
can I get to this? How can I do this?
Maybe you could ask one of your good friends, Hey,
you know what, every Saturday I'm here, she's like, okay
out here. Maybe you could ask one of their friends, Hey,
can we just go, you know, drive by the botanical garden.
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I know, every city got to have a potatical garden
or the aviary, you know. But you but it needs
to be someplace, not that you could get there in
fifteen minutes. It's going to take you forty five minutes
to get there and coming back and have lunch there.
But that person has to drive. Now you got to
give them some gas money. Now fair, But do that
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for yourself, just to take a casual drive out somewhere
where you normally would not go. There are places here
in Orlando I don't I'm never I have not visited yet.
There are places in Palm Beach County that I had
not visited. But what do I like. And that's one
thing I had to talk with my daughter. You know,
I said, I don't know, Shi gon Mama, you got
to find something that you want to do. I said,
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that says it. Ministry is all me. Whatever I need
to do he needs me to do, I'm going to
do it. I don't know, I have not I don't
know which way to explore that. What would I like
to do?
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Well?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
I like, I get talk, I got a podcast. I've
written my fourth book. I'm hoping there's only one more.
And that's my all the arguphing because it's being transparent,
you wide open, and you know mostly 'all know all
my stories, so you know what's next for me. And lastly,
we worked out even though we walked so much this weekend.
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We went to the gym inside the whole time and
left my sneakers the ugly one. Well, I got a
cute pair from Amazon, but anyway, but they were Tae
Kwondo type seekers. Anyway, I left them at home. And
so it's just like I said, no, I got socks,
I'll get on the bike. And I got on the
bike and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said,
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now you're about you you want to be about adventure.
Make the adventure you and exercising. You already know what
to do. We took our little two Marican and Ginger
little shots. We took those with us. You know, whatever
it's gonna take to get me really healthy, whatever's gonna take.
So that's my new adventure, and you won't need to
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think about your new adventure. I know you're gonna do
the same. I know where I can find Pastor. I
know you know. I don't know if he's got a
full case sloth tomorrow he got to do. I know
where to find him, know because I know Monday through
Friday he's working. He may take on Friday. From Monday
through Thursday, I know he's on the clock somewhere. Whether
it's on the phone is a set. I know what
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Trey is. Trey is doing case management. I know what
she is. I better not try to find her from
eight o'clock eight thirty, you know, before four o'clock. I
better not. I just better text say, ain't you know
my mind? Good called me after you get off for work.
What brand of too March Ginger do you suggest for us? Missy?
I just whatever's really healthy that you got you gotta have.
(41:23):
You're gonna have to crush it up yourself, all right.
I wouldn't do the crush. I know. We've got a
store here by a healthful, holistic store, and they have
the powder already crunched up with My daughter prefers putting it,
grinding it up herself. So that's that's what I put
it together on some pineapple juice and you good to go.
I'm good to go. You know, you gotta be healthy.
(41:43):
Whatever's gonna take healthy is my thing. Is my kick
now is being healthy. That's my biggest concern right now.
And going back to that health that I was, you
know at a few years ago after I came off
of being you know, on the thank you for sharing
this with us all the thing, humistic for coming on
and sacrificing. And I want to pray this before we go.
(42:04):
Anybody else want to add anything here? And I just
want to say a quick prayer before we go. I
want to seal this up, you know.
Speaker 6 (42:15):
But you know, just the wellness part too, you know
it just yeah, it's a lot. So you got to
take care of your mind too. You know, you got
to take care of your mind because that's part of
it and that affects everything.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Amen. Amen, If you've got a cluttered room, you got
a cluttered mind, you got a clutter garage, you got
a cluttered mind. There's no way you see it straight,
there's no way. You're not forgetting small things. So clean
it up, clean it out. People could use your stuff
and maybe jump to use a treasure to somebody else. Lord,
we just thank you, We love you so much. Thank
you for just allowing us. And you know us, each
(42:49):
of us so well. You know what we need, and
you know how to send the message clear. You will
wait on us, and I know you're hoping that we
will do the right thing and just pivot, just pivot
and now get bogged down with the who what when? Well, no,
we now we got it. You created us in your image,
(43:13):
You created this earth in your image. You created the
earth for yourself, You created good and even for yourself.
All we have to do is line up and walk
it out with you. We thank you, We give you praise.
Keep everybody safe this week, for the rest of these
these months that's to come. Please and give us a
heads up. Continue to give us that heads up about
(43:33):
what nature's on Nature's mind and what Nature's next move
would be, we love you and we praise you in
Jesus name. Amen. I'm right. I think that's us. I'm
cursed with a cluttered mind right now. Hey Mickey, well,
we're gonna rebuke that right now in the name of
Jesus first of all. But I understand what you said.
So you've got to sit. Your homework is going to
(43:54):
be what's clutter in your mind? What is on your
mind so much that you can't see the forest for
the What is it? What is it? Who is it?
And go back to the serenity prayer. I'm not gonna
repeat it, but go find the serenity prayer and put
yourself in there. Change what you can, strength to understand,
wisdom to know the difference, because there's some things you
(44:15):
could stop and you could change it. You could do it.
Look at us. We got loads of testimony, volumes of
it where we had to pivot, where we had to say,
you know what, that's it. I've a glory to God.
I've had enough. I've had enough, and only I can
change this. So I have to put you out of
my life. I got to get you out of my head.
I got to take the power back from you, and
(44:37):
I'm cursing and rebuking all the generational curses of my family.
We'll talk about that another time. We love you. See
you next week, same time, same station, USU
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