August 25, 2025 • 43 mins
manners, civil behavior, respect, acts of kindness
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Speaker 2 (01:18):
We're good evening, good evening, good evening, and welcome to
another fabulous night of dialogue and conversation and knowledge and education.
Welcome to another segment of setting it Straight with Miss Gray.
I have fabulous co hosts on here. You're gonna hear
some things. We got a great topic tonight, got some
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great updates for you and all that jazz. So just
stay tuned. But let us take it to the throne room,
to the feet of Jesus Lord. We just love you
so so much, and we thank you so so much
for allowing us just to wake up every day up
until today, up until today, we got to had a
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chance to make this day to be the most awesome time.
Buy new things, completing deadlines, making new associates, getting new
tasks and projects, just regaining our strength, just allowing us
to take another breath, another exhil and we just thank
you so much. We're always going to be careful to
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give you all the praise and glory forever for the
rest of our days. That's the least we can do.
That's the least we can do. So let's get behind
the cross. Let's let you do what you do best,
setting captives free, delivering people left and right, showing them
that you will make a way out of nowhere. We
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love you so much. All this and more we ask
in Jesus' name, We pray, ain't men, and ain't men,
and ain't men? So God, is you just? I just
can't I if I stop to praise you for just
Tuesday of last week. Can every day be that good day? Yes,
every day could be that good day. But you've got
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the purpose it. You've got the purpose it. You've got
to say, Oh, I woke up this morning, I've got
a new opportunity here. I can deadline some things, I
can complete some task I can make a new list.
I could do. I could start a new chapter, a
new book. Rather because we keep adding chapters. Some of
y'all got volumes. This big, bigger than a telephone book,
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and you just keep adding. But no, it's somewhere along
the way you should have started a new book of
your life, experiences and everything. So before we go any further,
Hello pastor welcome back. How are you? How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I'm doing that is so true. Yes, off, And I'm
wearing a shirt that someone very special gave to me.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Very good. And you wear well, blue does look good
on you, sir, Blue really does look good on you.
You're much amen. Amen. Well, we're just glad to see
I know Trey Head was in there come in the
private chat, but hopefully she'll come back and join us.
I hope things are well. I want to give a
shout out to two businesses. One is my veterinarian they
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you know, they just really blessed me today. We had
to do a little unscheduled to visit. They fitted us
in and the first thing one of the texts said
to me was, we just enjoy Jazz. We love her.
She's one of the most well behaved German shepherds that
we have. So yes, we want to get her in,
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we want to keep her healthy, but we always love
to see her. And she's you know, she she listened
to commands and things like that. And then when they
I also included a nail trim and they trimmed her
and said how was she because there was other dogs
in there and they were just barking, yelping, and she
they said, she just laid down. We have the ability
to write the pages of our story. Yeah, Mickey's your story.
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It's your story. If you read any of my books,
it's my story. It's my version, it's my testimony. Yeah,
but it includes other people. So I give them, you know,
their rightful praise, but it's my story, you know. And
so getting back to the bat, they just like, you know,
she is well behaved, she she's good. Just we've probably
got some allergies going on here. So I'm very protective
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of my little baby and I want her to be
the best that she can be. I don't want her
in pain. I don't want her suffering and things like that.
So they that just really did my heart good because
there's some other things going on and I needed to
hear that to then I told, you know, I put
my hand on my heart and said thank you. I
needed to hear that today. Love the fir babies. That's
Anastasia and that was great. And then of course the
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dog training company itself, Perfection is here in the Orlando area.
We've got folks coming from Daytona, Deltona, you know, cities
surrounding cities to be to participate in this like seven months,
seven to nine month training program. It's really serious and
they do the job. We could walk away way today.
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We can walk away today. I've got my prayers have
been answered already because I've got the BA I've got
the the the dictionary, the wording, i got the training
commands down, I've got surplus, I got you know, uh equipment.
I got the hardware to make help my baby be
the best that she can be. So we can walk away.
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I don't need the bells and other bells and whistles
that do come along with it. I didn't get into
it for that. I got into to train her so
no matter where God sends me, I could bring her
along with me and I know that she will behave
and she's she's there, she's there and you know, I'm
just so thankful and that she's healthy, wealthier and wise. Amen.
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I'm still gonna try to talk to some of my
sheriff deputies and see if I can, you know, get
her on the payroll over there. And uh, just she's
she's used to be a suited up, so uh I
get her best to see how that goes. But anyway,
so I wonder again care Vets and also Perfection, and
they're getting ready to gear up for a whole new
training class starting in mid September. So give them, you know,
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give them a shout if you're interested, if you're nearby
and you have a little dog. And that's one thing
the technician at the Vets said. She goes, I don't
understand especially any dog, really, she said, but these dogs
are the train The owners are not trying to train them,
just basics. You know, they're jumping all around and everything else,
and they're all over the place and you know, we
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can't control them. And I was like, really, yeah, she said,
And now that you've told us the Jazz is in training,
she was already good, you know, but she's really received
the difference in her So I'm just thankful for that
and when you got good people around you know, that's
carrying and everything. It's really good and it's so funny.
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But tonight our topic is on you know, civility, and
hang on just a second and we get back to that.
So I can said exactly, you know, and stability. I'm
gonna go over that, but I also it's gonna lead
me into something else as well, So be patient. It's
National Civility Month acts and that means acts of respect
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and good manners and consideration all the year long. So
that's where we're going with this because we're gonna need to.
We're gonna need to. There are things that life is
getting ready to roll out. We've got one of the lead.
The more you bring them around people, the more they
get used to used to the people they get. Wait,
the more you bring them out around people, the more
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used to people they get. Correct. That is correct, especially
if you have a house dog. If you have a
house dog, you got to get them out in public
so the day can be able to She's not worried,
she's fine with people. It's other dogs and she don't
forget stuff. There was a dog. There was a dog
owner who stepped on her tail from another group. She
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don't forget that, and so any time she's seeing this
person coming close, she's reacting. And I think I shared
with you early on. I did not know. My baby
boy looked this up that when he was doing his
research on German shepherds that she's her type. Her breathe
full blooded one hundred one thousand percent is known as
an aggressive greeter. An aggressive greet So, yeah, she jumps
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up on you, so of course you're gonna shrink away.
But she's really hotails waggon, you know, and she's she's
she's looking at you, but she's she's got an issue
with other dogs she you know, so they're training her.
Other dogs have to come around me. And that was
kind of cute. And Jaz was like, yeah, yeah, I
see him and I'm looking at mine. Mind you all right,
you know, But it's it's I'm learning a lot. We've
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got a plethora of information ranging from critters that crawl
on them to their K nine teeth and all that
kind of stuff. It's not just somebody you know you
got to meet once a week or whatever. Hey, tray tray,
tray tra. I'm just giving a shout out to two vendors,
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two of my merchants to my character part of my
family team and my bet and Perfections a training company.
So just doing that. But yeah, tonight we're talking about civility,
how you need to be acting. We just had an
incident over the weekend in a controversial neighborhood. On top
of that with the deputy shot the person, the homeowner
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that was calling for help. Civility. I don't understand that one.
I never will understand it. We've got death all around us,
we got shootings. I don't think it was a fatal shooting,
but you know, I think we needed we got to
go back to some basics. Now, you got to go
back to the training board and understand. But let me
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tell you what civility means. It's the act of showing
regard for others by being polite, like the civility you
showed in speaking kindly to someone who has hurt your feelings.
Civility comes from blacklist, meaning relating to public life, befitting
a citizen. In other words, being friendly and nice to everybody.
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And that is a hard one. That's hard, especially when
somebody has hurt you, when somebody has stepped on your foot.
Somebody takes their shopping cart and roll over your foot
when they accidentally bump you, or somebody in you know where,
a car accident situation, when your feelings are hurt. Your
feelings are hurt and it's hard to bounce back. I
know some great people who are good at that and like,
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oh no, But I also know some people say, oh no,
it's okay, and then they talk about your body at
the next Christmas gathering. Other things. You remember a little bit,
did we tell you not to bring that stream Beingcastle North?
You thought we were joking. No, nobody's gonna eat that,
you know, you know, you gotta listen to those things.
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Somebody looking at you. But when that scirt. I like
the way you dressed, but I don't understand it ain't
that old. You know. I've been able to get away
with some stuff. I have trade laugh, laugh, trade to
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go think, oh lord, don't let me have to get
on a plane. Get on the next plane. But you
know people do that, people like you know, you know,
and we're not being nice to one another. Now, Oh
oh no, come back, trade, please come back there you are,
that's all okay, But you know, okay, you know I
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just you know, it's being kind and right now. If
we have ever needed to be kind and respectful of
one another, despite our differences, despite my opinions, despite your
opinion onions, despite my faith preferences, despite your faith preferences,
if we ever needed it, we need it now. We
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need it now. And there's a lot more going on,
and just around the corner. September is next week. It
starts Monday. We're in a whole new month. We've got
some celebrations, some holidays that we need to we're gonna acknowledge,
and everything else that needs to roll out for the
remaining of this year is getting ready to roll PI
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Mens flying by, Yes, ma'am, Anna Stasia it is. It's
not waiting for nobody. And how productive are you? What
are you doing with the time that you have every
minute of the day. I you know we're gonna I'm
gonna jump around a little bit, so hosts, you know,
please be patient with me this weekend. Well, last month
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I went to storage and went to pay my bill.
That's the only day I have because I'm storing these
books that I received from a publishing company because I
can't get them to Africa, like we've been doing, and
all of a sudden they went up like thirty dollars
and I'm like, wait, no, what what what? And they're like, yeah,
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you know, And I said, no, I've never been in
this environment before with storage. It's been years, but I
don't recall it jumping month and month like that. They said, well, yeah,
that's what we do. I said, oh, I said, that's
why everybody's back. The line was backed up. People were
coming in and out getting their stuff and close of
those units. So I said, okay, God, this was something
I didn't really look forward to doing. And I'm like, okay, Lord,
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do I bring them to the house or do I
take them to my office building. If I take them
to my office building, I got to cut the air
condition on and let it run because the books cannot
be in a heated situation environment. And I'm going back
and forth. So then I said, you know what, that's it.
I got to get to this because I have it
until before the twenty sixth of this month. To get
it done. I'm I got to pay that high fee
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again and I don't have the money to do that.
So I got my son, and I mean I had
to push myself to do this, even though I know
it has to be done. And I said, well, Lord,
what door do He said, donate them to your good will?
I said, okay, he said, just split them up between
Salvation Army and Goodwill. I've got a good will will
right around the corner. Literally. So I went and we
got the first batch of books. Well, I thought it
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was twelve boxes. It really looked like twelve boxes, but
it ended up being thirty boxes. I don't know how
I missed, but it looked like the way we stacked it,
it was just twelve boxes, and it was thirty boxes.
And I went, I took the firs. We got to
jump on giving. We have. We made it, donated twice
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and have more coming. Amen. Okay, nice? Nice? And so
I went and got a nice young lady at the
place and I was like, so do you all accept
children's books? Was the first thing, and she said, yes, ma'am,
we do. I said, now, explain where I got them
from and everything. And I said, I've got several boxes,
and I didn't count how many books were in each box,
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and so she I said, but they've got a censor
on it. But then so I looked at it. It's
just a bar code. And I was able to take
the bar code off, and I'm like, God, if I
got to go through these boxes the books and take
this sent the bar code off, oh my god, I'm
gonna be here all day. And I just peeled it
off and God said, no, take it. Let her know.
So she said, well, let me take it to my supervisor.
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I said, my manager. I said, okay, great. So she
takes it and she comes back. She goes, we'll take them.
I said, huh, she goes, we'll take them and we'll
take care of the bar code. I said, okay. So
we my sons started any little buggy thing, and I'm like, this,
this is what you got? You think this gun because
I don't know. So we opened up a box and
I counted how many books were in this particular box,
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and it was seventy five books in one box. So
we're trying to keep up with it. We dropped off
the first night seventeen boxes. Then we dropped off another
seventeen boxes, and then the last were nineteen boxes, seventy
five books each kind of told thirty nine hundred books.
Our local well just got. And the young lady was
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so kind. She was so sweet, I said, she goes, Yeah,
I've got a coworker that wants she always come by
and she asked she come down, and she said, do
you have any more children's books? I said, oh, just
tell her back of car up. Now. You ain't even
got to put several of those boxes out. I don't
know what she did them for. And this is what's
going to get you, I said, got me. The Lord
had already told me when by the time I was
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making my second trip back, the plants a seed for
her and I said, I don't know what. I don't
know what made her think. I was going to give
her cash, but she said I can't accept cash. She said,
but if you have a book you could put it in.
That is a big donation. Miss Yes. And I was
able to go to the front and nobody was in
there at that break. I called it one hundred them. No,
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we closed in the unit. It's done. Ain't nothing in them,
you know. They're like, oh, okay, we got you, got
checked this out. Okay, we got you. I can hear it,
make it all this, we got you. It's already done.
I said, okay, thank you so much. So the young
lady said to me, She said, but I can't you know,
I can't accept cash. I said, oh, my problem. And
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then she said, well, if you got a book, and
I think she was trying to be she was being funny, right,
but if you got a book, you know you want
to put something in there, you know. I said, oh, boy,
do I have a book? And I just loaded up
some of my new books in my little travel by
the bag and I planted to see and I asked her,
I said, the Lord wants me to ask you what
bill needs to be paid today? Wow? And she said,
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you that this is good? Make you laud she said
my storage bill.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I was.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And so I said, do you know how much of this?
She goes, No, I don't. She said. I said, would
you mind calling them? She goes, we yeah, they're across
the street. And I'm like, okay, well could you call
them and just to get a you know, God already
told me what to give. So I was already getting
my book out and I was just doing a little
autograph and she came back. She said, was it's my
husband's name and they won't give it to me on
the phone. But the guy said, you could give them
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a call and he'll tell you. Okay, you ain't gonna
tell them. I didn't even try to pursue that. I said,
you ain't gonna tell that's the wife, but you're gonna
tell me. So But anyway, I said, never mind. You know, God, God,
that's fine. Don't worry about it. God's got this. Trust
me handing her my book we made Once we made
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the last drop off, which was nineteen boxes of books,
and she said wow, and another coworker came out because
they couldn't believe it. So they were helping, you know,
they just pushed the card in and stuff. So anyway,
I said, you all to do whatever you need to.
These books are, you know, pretty outdated, but these are
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the second This is the original copies, second copy of
all the originals of this from this publisher company. They
have the originals in their vault even though they've gone digital.
But this is, you know, and I hope it will
help somebody. She's, oh, it's gonna help, you know, So
I don't know how that's gonna look. I was tickled,
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I was blessed, I was thankful, but the fact that
here I am trying to empty out storage and she
needed to pay a storage bill. And I was like,
you know, cause first I was just gonna treat everybody
to lunch or whatever. And I said, now, I ain't
got done for that. Guy said no, just give her
the seed. And I said, yes, sir, and so seed offering.
That's how that works. God tells you what to do,
You do it. You don't want the hots coming back,
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You don't wonder what, you don't want to nothing, You
just and next thing I know, I think I've shared
with you or I belonged to two grant clearinghouses for grants,
and it was so funny. Over the weekend after this happened,
I get an email saying, you know, you have about
six thousand matches of grants that we qualify for six thousand.
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I said, oh, okay, I need to do some homework
and let me look into that. So, you know, but
being nice, and she was smiling, and she was just
so she was just so nice and you know, very
just shy, and and I prayed that minister to her.
I didn't have to go in there with, you know,
with a big old Bible and a big old cross
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on and all that. Of course I had my you know,
my my bracelets. But you know I didn't go, oh
the Lord tell me no, no, no, it don't it.
Don't take all of that. If you don't look like
a child of God, then you have to go back
to the threshing floor. You don't have. Jesus never defied
himself unless somebody pushed them, like and you know, hey, Peter,
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who you say I am? Matthew? Who y'all y'all been
whirling with me for a minute. Who do you say
I am?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
You you're well? Okay, I see. If I was a disciple,
I'll be like, okay, he going with the trick questions. Now,
if we go to have pop quiz, what was it?
I couldn't have been a disciple. I've been like uh
uh uh. But they said you are, this is who
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you are. And many people still wanted to say, oh,
you belong to John, or you belong to Paul or
you you know, even the demons the spirits say you
know Paul, Jesus, I know Paul, I know, But who
y'all talking to the disciples? So dark can identify light
and you don't have to say a word, but you
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have to be living this out. I'm gonna pause right here.
Let my faithful too over here, you know, come on
in and chime in what's on your mind about civility
and whatever's on your mind, and then I'm gonna pick
it back up.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Go well, I one of the things that you kind
of touched on, Ms. Gray, and I really think that
that's something that we've we've kind of gotten away from it,
and that is what what does it take be nice?
You know, we we seemed to know when I'm gonna
find us, but we're we don't know when we've offended
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somebody else. And it's a matter of trying to determine
who's going to be the right one, who is in,
who is in the who has all the rights, and
determining who does And it really kind of makes you
wonder when when did this really all start to happen?
When when did we become uh the experts of determining
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who is being disrespectful and who's being respectful. It's it's
something that uh, even as as the dad raising my
two sons, you know, it was always like, well he
disrespected me, and I'm like, well, what does respect have
to do with it? No, we have to be kind
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towards one another. A lot easier said than done. How
how hard is it to be respectful? In my Bible studies?
I kind of confess that last Tuesday kind of lost
it with a customer service. And I got back from
my trip from Missouri and I was trying to organize
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my trip to Europe for next year, and I was
going to use a particular credit card and it said
that I only had forty five dollars available credit. So
naturally I go into a panic because I'm like, wait
a minute, this card has a whole lot more to it. Well,
come to find out, I went to make the reservations.
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When I submitted the reservation request, it came back and
told me that the systems were down. Well I'm to
find out that I did that four times. Well, naturally,
you don't think about it. Then when I called the
bank and I said, hey, did you lower my credit
limit because it says that I've got forty five dollars
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available credit, they told me no, mister lamerena, you you've
got four holds pulling thirteen thousand dollars. I was like,
excuse me. So they told me that I need to
call the cruise company, and I called the crew company
and they wanted to play ping pong, and they said, well,
you need to call your financial company. And then I
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went back and called the cruise company and went back
to the financial company until I got a hold of
a cruise person and I was just absolutely it's because
nobody really wanted to listen. Nobody wanted to understand what
was going on. They were too busy quoting protocols. Nobody
really wanted to take the time to explain it till
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I got a gentleman from England Customer Service and he,
when after I canceled the card, said well, in the future,
you don't really want to cancel it because of the hole.
All you have to do is call us and tell
us that you don't authorize it in the hole will
drop off the next day. But two hours went by,
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two hours of my life went by, and all it
took was one person with the right information that would
have diffused the whole thing. So times we need to
step back, to step back and say, Okay, I'm losing
my cool. I don't want to lose my cool with
the other person. Can I be different. It's not their fault.
They're just telling telling me what they've been trained to do.
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Nobody really wants to listen, and I'm finding out that
that is, uh seems to be the biggest challenge because
everybody hears, but they don't listen. And and that's where
it really begins, because if you're hearing something, you may
hear something and take it out of context and all
of a sudden like, well what do you mean by that?
And and all of a sudden the defense goes up.
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Person are like, hey, calm down, I didn't mean it,
you know, and then before you know, it goes into
a full blown thing. So and and that's why, that's
why we really have to, as James thought, be quick
to listen, slow to anger, and and and that that
that is so true because we have two ears in
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one mouth, so we be listening twice as much and
talking less. And that's why we need to really focus
on what's it gonna take for me to be different
from the other people. No one wants to take the
time to help correct you, missy. You thank you, mickey.
And that's that's that's just how it looks. And you know,
and and and also that falls under the acts of respect.
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You're respecting the other person, Hesus said, new commandment. I
give you love, love your neighbor as I have loved you.
That way, the world will know you are my disciples.
But if we're confessing to be disciples, and we need
to be the example Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Amen, Amen, Trey. I mean it's it's so true.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
I passed this piggyback, and I'll say it all the
time that people here and don't listen. Listening takes a
lot more attention. That's a good point, Charles, thank you.
It's you know, just listening and I'm trying to. Just recently,
there was almost talking to one of my friends that
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issue that she had at work, and it was something
she was trying to help with her staff, and so
one part was an HR issue, the other part was
a finance issue, and so they were going back and forth,
now you do this, you do that, but end up
falling back on her who's neither finance nor HR. And
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so it's like, wait a minute now, and neither one
was willing to bend to assist. Now falls on somebody
that's not qualified in either one of those areas, and
so you know, that's disheartening. You know, what do you
do in a situation like that? And so but people
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they I don't know this. I don't know if it's
the client, I don't know what it is. But I
see a lot of belittling and.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
No or little.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Regard for other people's feelings or how they're going to
affect that. It's a lot, and it's coming from places
where it should not, you know, it should not come.
And so I try to be what I want the
change I want to see, you know, being cordial to people,
greeting them. You know, you never know what type of
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day someone's having. But that be littling and name calling.
And I don't like it. I really don't like it.
And I don't know where we got that from. I
don't know where it's coming from or how we got
to the point where we're doing that. Now, this is
what we're doing. And so when you're trying to raise
children who see grown folks acting like this, what do
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you say to them It's okay to do this.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Oh, it's all right.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Because you're this, or it's all right because you're that
little little doesn't hurt anybody, you know it. And it
trickles into to the places of worship, but it trickles
into places where you work you know, school it tricks
and so you have now you know, you might have
start creating these things that oh whatever, long as I
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get what I have to say off my desk, I
don't care who it effects. And that is so so
so sad, it really is.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
So Yeah, we got to it, Like I said, I
think again, twenty twenty didn't people didn't learn some valuable
lessons from twenty twenty where you could not go anywhere,
you had to deal with the people in your house,
just that, not even go outside to deal with your neighbors.
You had to deal with the folks you lived with.
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But you know, no matter how much we show people
how we would like to be treated, not everyone gets
it where they don't want to Mickey, I was getting
ready to go there because life now, life is has
been tough for these past five years, and it's getting
ready to jump and leap again with all this new creation,
all this new technology. Folks go to work, the door
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is locked, pink slippers on the door, nobody's talking to anybody.
One day you're open, the next day you're not. One
day you're in a relationship, the next moment you're not.
And then you're you know, you're you're using devices to
to try to numb the situation instead of trying to
figure out, Okay, what can I do? And for believers,
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we will we'll try to still try to figure out, Okay,
I gotta do this, I gotta do that. I gotta
and then I no, I have to stop and say,
you know what, God, I can't do it. It was
something today my mind said you should do this, and
I said, no, I don't want to. I want God
to do it because he gets a better result. I
can't even pray it out. I want him to do it. No,
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I don't want to talking about flesh. My flesh is
sitting there telling me what I should do. No, I
don't want to, don't need to, because God has already
showed me He's gonna take care of all of this
and more. And that's why I really want our viewers,
our ordinance to really make you know, continue to make
the decision and continue to fight those of you who
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are fighting to hang on to believe in God, Jesus
in the Holy Spirit. I need you to continue to
do that because all it takes is one hurricane. All
it takes is one earthquake, All it takes is one
mass catastrophe and we can shut down any minute, and
then what do we do. We've got food being recalled,
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products being recalled, and it's not going to get better.
We're still in a society that likes to point fingers.
But you know you got three pointing back at you.
That's why I'm so glad that God pivoted me a
while back, even before this happened to me. And to
be at a problem solver. When I go to a meeting,
or if I go to a town hall event, not
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to be why do they do what? No, not to
be the judge and executioner, but come in. I'm a
problem solver. We know what the problems are. So where
we go? Which table shall I sit at? I need
the folks who are here the for soution who are
solution focused, because I don't need to I know, I
don't need to rehear this. I've heard it already. Now
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Here is a possible solution if you're open to it.
Now we're circling, we're coming out of that. They're not
able to have those meetings anymore because we got folks
in high positions or making other decisions and behaving unruly
that we've elected into office, so they're not looking for
the community to come with a resolution anymore. Now, this
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is what we're gonna do. We're going to tell you
how to do this. Oh okay, oh okay. And that's
where that anger. There was a guy I'm trying to
get to I'm driving with my older son and my
dog to the vet and I wasn't going fast enough
for him. And he was in a white pickup truck
just right on me. If I had opened up my
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hatch in the back, it would have scraped his hood,
that's how close he was. And then he was doing
all like that, and you know, I said, yeah, he's
probably been vaping or he's under the influence of something literally,
And then he cuts out real quick and it gets
behind this tanker and he couldn't go nowhere with play
with him, play with the tanker that can let the
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ooze out in a minute. And he had to ride
with him to his next destination driving behind it. And
so I look at it and I said, you know,
not everybody need to be you know, And I was
talking about I know, my son hears it all the
time for me. I mean, people don't need to be
under the influence anything. You're trying to make stuff legal.
It doesn't make people. I know it's in your mind
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that it calms you down. If I get a drink,
if I have a smoke, if I have a drag
whatever that is, or if I take that, if I
pop this pills gonna make me. No, it's gonna make
you not be in charge of yourself. It's gonna cause
you to be hearing something different. I may be saying, oh,
I'm so sorry, Oh I got in front of you.
You may hear something different because you're under the influence
or something else, and you're ready to jump on me,
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you're ready to retaliate. All I'm saying is the profits
have aligned folks who have the gift of prophecy. God
has confirmed he's telling his people hold on. Just don't
lose your faith in me. Don't let me go. But
my Bible, my word has to fulfill itself. And I
need y'all, the eight of y'all, the twelve of y'all
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faithful out there to promise us that you will hold
on to God unlike ever before. Because between now Monday
the twenty fifth and September first, a lot could happen,
and I need you all to stay firm and steady
because we will be on next Monday, it's Labor Day.
We'll come back at you second Monday in the month
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to talk it through. I feel that the program, the
podcast is going to take a shift. We're going to
make it a turn now. So we're here to listen.
We're here to pray for you. Don't be surprised what
God has in store, but a shift has happened. Change
is on the horizon. I don't have to know what
it is. I know when God speaks, and I'm just
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ready because I know He's got some great things in
store for his people. But you got to be careful.
You got to be listening, willing to listen. We will
be here for certain Thank you, y'all. You better be,
You better be and continue to tighten up. I know
you all have been praying for us, You're praying for
each other. I need you, we need you to tighten
(36:14):
that up. We sure we'll be here, thank you in
the station. We need you to tighten that up even
more to where it's not just oh, I thought about
Pastor on, let me pray for him. No, like I'm
going I'm paying, I'm praying for Pastor, I'm paying for
the co hosts on Tuesday, and I'm not gonna stop
until God tells me you're finished. That's the type of
prayer we're talking, checking your prayer point list, making sure
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you got those prayers lined up and ready, studying your word. Ever,
the more i get so tickled because I'm doing my
one scripture and then I'm seeing all these other scriptures,
I'm like, oh my god, we got I got to
write it off my calendar for the next time. You know,
I mean, my boys like okay, I say yes. I'm
just so excited. I'm literally doing this. I'm just so
exciting this word I found ten I thought, I know,
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I talked about this before the three years we've been
on I found ten scriptures on how God views the widow.
And I went through something this weekend thinking about my
sister that that was also adopted, that I was raised with,
that I'm not talked to since twenty seventeen and hearts
and minds every day, Thank you, Missy. Every day y'all
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are with us. Thank you, Micky. And I thought about
my biological mother, who I've not heard from or spoken
to and well over a year, she can't even use
a phone to say, hey, happy birthday. And I'm not
forgotten because my older brother who's deceased, his birthday's August third.
My birthday is August second. So I'm driving from the
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store and I'm just crying, and I'm like, why am
I crying? But even the best of us have the
moments where you think nobody cares, and then you ask
what did I do to deserve us? And as I
was getting home closer to the house, the voice of
the Lord said to me, because you love me, Because
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you love me. They denied my son. They deny me,
no matter how much they grace a church and they
show up with every time the door is open. They
denied my son, so they've denied you. And I could
just feel him just holding me, and I sat in
my garage for a minute til I got myself together
because I got feelings too. They're relatives I don't talk to.
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What have I done to you? And again, guys like this,
he said, you love me, and I love you. And
I looked at God, I looked up into heaven in
the sky and I say, You're all I need. You're
all that I want. And if the day opens, if
it's your will and they find my number, please help me, Lord,
help me to let them see you and not me.
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And we're talking about civility tonight. My behavior, my actions,
my words, my thought, my behavior, Let them see you. God,
that's all I got. So it's good to be able
to lay down your burden. It's good because you never
know when it's gonna try to come and trip you up.
You never know your subconscious I've told y'all it's one
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of your worst enemies. That's touching. Sorry, they don't see
what they're missing. Oh, Missyve, don't make me cry. Thank you,
love you, thank you so much. But I just want
you to see we go through hours. You know, Pastor
shed earlier customer service. You know I got him. I
got him. He's better than me because I'm like, let
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me speak to you well, because y'all ain't listening to me,
I don't know what your Oh. I would have had
a whole sermon for him. You know, I would have
hung up and discussed. I'm quitting these people. You know,
I'm I'm subscribing. That's what I'm doing. But you know,
hold on, stay focused, run this race. Let's run, and
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it's a race. And then times you you have to
tap out, get some water, throw some water over your face,
get some nourishment, even rest, even rest. And I said,
go ahead, we got it. We'll take this next shift.
You get some rest. He loves you all and he's
just he just want you to trust him. Praying, Hey,
O the K praying and I yes, amen, got to
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do it all right, guys, y'all, y'all close us out.
We got three minutes. I'm gonna be quiet. I'm gonna
truy well, I'm.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Gonna say, man and let let let let pass to
take it on.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
You know, I don't know where I could. I don't
know where I could.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
You know, y'all got it.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Well, I just appreciate everyone.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
But we appreciate you, Trey. We you know, we appreciate
you and miss Grace. So one thing that h and
I'll just time in here. Instead of your words remonstrating
who you are, let your actions speak for you. You say
you are kind, demonstrate your kind, Say you're merciful, say
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you're you know, demonstrate you're merciful. If you if you
claim that you're under you that you are you're caring
that your actions went straight? You're caring. It's that's that's
what it really boils down to. You know. I I
heard a message praying and listening with the Holy Spirit
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of guidance. Amen, I heard I heard a.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
That's another and I'm sorry another elder. That's another Tennessee
and thank you Jane.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
I heard a sermon where if we have bought into
the promise, have we bought into what God promised? That's
that's a that was a very powerful message that was delivered.
Because if we say we're Christians and we say we
we we believe in God, So do you do? Did
you really buy into the promise that God gave us
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that he would never leave us? Do you buy buy
in the fact that He will never forsake you? Many
times have we forsaken God? But He was always there.
Let your actions speak. Words are cheap shin last rever
because people will always say, I remember when so and
so did this, when so and so said this? Where
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you get to reveal who you believe, who you trust,
who you have sacrificed for me?
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Well, happy Labor Day, we have another month amongst us.
You all be safe. We love you dearly. We take
care and see you next in two weeks, same time,
same station, Get it and not be
Speaker 4 (42:39):
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Speaker 2 (01:18):
We're good evening, good evening, good evening, and welcome to
another fabulous night of dialogue and conversation and knowledge and education.
Welcome to another segment of setting it Straight with Miss Gray.
I have fabulous co hosts on here. You're gonna hear
some things. We got a great topic tonight, got some
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great updates for you and all that jazz. So just
stay tuned. But let us take it to the throne room,
to the feet of Jesus Lord. We just love you
so so much, and we thank you so so much
for allowing us just to wake up every day up
until today, up until today, we got to had a
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chance to make this day to be the most awesome time.
Buy new things, completing deadlines, making new associates, getting new
tasks and projects, just regaining our strength, just allowing us
to take another breath, another exhil and we just thank
you so much. We're always going to be careful to
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give you all the praise and glory forever for the
rest of our days. That's the least we can do.
That's the least we can do. So let's get behind
the cross. Let's let you do what you do best,
setting captives free, delivering people left and right, showing them
that you will make a way out of nowhere. We
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love you so much. All this and more we ask
in Jesus' name, We pray, ain't men, and ain't men,
and ain't men? So God, is you just? I just
can't I if I stop to praise you for just
Tuesday of last week. Can every day be that good day? Yes,
every day could be that good day. But you've got
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the purpose it. You've got the purpose it. You've got
to say, Oh, I woke up this morning, I've got
a new opportunity here. I can deadline some things, I
can complete some task I can make a new list.
I could do. I could start a new chapter, a
new book. Rather because we keep adding chapters. Some of
y'all got volumes. This big, bigger than a telephone book,
(03:26):
and you just keep adding. But no, it's somewhere along
the way you should have started a new book of
your life, experiences and everything. So before we go any further,
Hello pastor welcome back. How are you? How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I'm doing that is so true. Yes, off, And I'm
wearing a shirt that someone very special gave to me.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Very good. And you wear well, blue does look good
on you, sir, Blue really does look good on you.
You're much amen. Amen. Well, we're just glad to see
I know Trey Head was in there come in the
private chat, but hopefully she'll come back and join us.
I hope things are well. I want to give a
shout out to two businesses. One is my veterinarian they
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you know, they just really blessed me today. We had
to do a little unscheduled to visit. They fitted us
in and the first thing one of the texts said
to me was, we just enjoy Jazz. We love her.
She's one of the most well behaved German shepherds that
we have. So yes, we want to get her in,
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we want to keep her healthy, but we always love
to see her. And she's you know, she she listened
to commands and things like that. And then when they
I also included a nail trim and they trimmed her
and said how was she because there was other dogs
in there and they were just barking, yelping, and she
they said, she just laid down. We have the ability
to write the pages of our story. Yeah, Mickey's your story.
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It's your story. If you read any of my books,
it's my story. It's my version, it's my testimony. Yeah,
but it includes other people. So I give them, you know,
their rightful praise, but it's my story, you know. And
so getting back to the bat, they just like, you know,
she is well behaved, she she's good. Just we've probably
got some allergies going on here. So I'm very protective
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of my little baby and I want her to be
the best that she can be. I don't want her
in pain. I don't want her suffering and things like that.
So they that just really did my heart good because
there's some other things going on and I needed to
hear that to then I told, you know, I put
my hand on my heart and said thank you. I
needed to hear that today. Love the fir babies. That's
Anastasia and that was great. And then of course the
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dog training company itself, Perfection is here in the Orlando area.
We've got folks coming from Daytona, Deltona, you know, cities
surrounding cities to be to participate in this like seven months,
seven to nine month training program. It's really serious and
they do the job. We could walk away way today.
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We can walk away today. I've got my prayers have
been answered already because I've got the BA I've got
the the the dictionary, the wording, i got the training
commands down, I've got surplus, I got you know, uh equipment.
I got the hardware to make help my baby be
the best that she can be. So we can walk away.
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I don't need the bells and other bells and whistles
that do come along with it. I didn't get into
it for that. I got into to train her so
no matter where God sends me, I could bring her
along with me and I know that she will behave
and she's she's there, she's there and you know, I'm
just so thankful and that she's healthy, wealthier and wise. Amen.
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I'm still gonna try to talk to some of my
sheriff deputies and see if I can, you know, get
her on the payroll over there. And uh, just she's
she's used to be a suited up, so uh I
get her best to see how that goes. But anyway,
so I wonder again care Vets and also Perfection, and
they're getting ready to gear up for a whole new
training class starting in mid September. So give them, you know,
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give them a shout if you're interested, if you're nearby
and you have a little dog. And that's one thing
the technician at the Vets said. She goes, I don't
understand especially any dog, really, she said, but these dogs
are the train The owners are not trying to train them,
just basics. You know, they're jumping all around and everything else,
and they're all over the place and you know, we
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can't control them. And I was like, really, yeah, she said,
And now that you've told us the Jazz is in training,
she was already good, you know, but she's really received
the difference in her So I'm just thankful for that
and when you got good people around you know, that's
carrying and everything. It's really good and it's so funny.
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But tonight our topic is on you know, civility, and
hang on just a second and we get back to that.
So I can said exactly, you know, and stability. I'm
gonna go over that, but I also it's gonna lead
me into something else as well, So be patient. It's
National Civility Month acts and that means acts of respect
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and good manners and consideration all the year long. So
that's where we're going with this because we're gonna need to.
We're gonna need to. There are things that life is
getting ready to roll out. We've got one of the lead.
The more you bring them around people, the more they
get used to used to the people they get. Wait,
the more you bring them out around people, the more
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used to people they get. Correct. That is correct, especially
if you have a house dog. If you have a
house dog, you got to get them out in public
so the day can be able to She's not worried,
she's fine with people. It's other dogs and she don't
forget stuff. There was a dog. There was a dog
owner who stepped on her tail from another group. She
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don't forget that, and so any time she's seeing this
person coming close, she's reacting. And I think I shared
with you early on. I did not know. My baby
boy looked this up that when he was doing his
research on German shepherds that she's her type. Her breathe
full blooded one hundred one thousand percent is known as
an aggressive greeter. An aggressive greet So, yeah, she jumps
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up on you, so of course you're gonna shrink away.
But she's really hotails waggon, you know, and she's she's
she's looking at you, but she's she's got an issue
with other dogs she you know, so they're training her.
Other dogs have to come around me. And that was
kind of cute. And Jaz was like, yeah, yeah, I
see him and I'm looking at mine. Mind you all right,
you know, But it's it's I'm learning a lot. We've
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got a plethora of information ranging from critters that crawl
on them to their K nine teeth and all that
kind of stuff. It's not just somebody you know you
got to meet once a week or whatever. Hey, tray tray,
tray tra. I'm just giving a shout out to two vendors,
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two of my merchants to my character part of my
family team and my bet and Perfections a training company.
So just doing that. But yeah, tonight we're talking about civility,
how you need to be acting. We just had an
incident over the weekend in a controversial neighborhood. On top
of that with the deputy shot the person, the homeowner
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that was calling for help. Civility. I don't understand that one.
I never will understand it. We've got death all around us,
we got shootings. I don't think it was a fatal shooting,
but you know, I think we needed we got to
go back to some basics. Now, you got to go
back to the training board and understand. But let me
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tell you what civility means. It's the act of showing
regard for others by being polite, like the civility you
showed in speaking kindly to someone who has hurt your feelings.
Civility comes from blacklist, meaning relating to public life, befitting
a citizen. In other words, being friendly and nice to everybody.
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And that is a hard one. That's hard, especially when
somebody has hurt you, when somebody has stepped on your foot.
Somebody takes their shopping cart and roll over your foot
when they accidentally bump you, or somebody in you know where,
a car accident situation, when your feelings are hurt. Your
feelings are hurt and it's hard to bounce back. I
know some great people who are good at that and like,
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oh no, But I also know some people say, oh no,
it's okay, and then they talk about your body at
the next Christmas gathering. Other things. You remember a little bit,
did we tell you not to bring that stream Beingcastle North?
You thought we were joking. No, nobody's gonna eat that,
you know, you know, you gotta listen to those things.
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Somebody looking at you. But when that scirt. I like
the way you dressed, but I don't understand it ain't
that old. You know. I've been able to get away
with some stuff. I have trade laugh, laugh, trade to
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go think, oh lord, don't let me have to get
on a plane. Get on the next plane. But you
know people do that, people like you know, you know,
and we're not being nice to one another. Now, Oh
oh no, come back, trade, please come back there you are,
that's all okay, But you know, okay, you know I
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just you know, it's being kind and right now. If
we have ever needed to be kind and respectful of
one another, despite our differences, despite my opinions, despite your
opinion onions, despite my faith preferences, despite your faith preferences,
if we ever needed it, we need it now. We
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need it now. And there's a lot more going on,
and just around the corner. September is next week. It
starts Monday. We're in a whole new month. We've got
some celebrations, some holidays that we need to we're gonna acknowledge,
and everything else that needs to roll out for the
remaining of this year is getting ready to roll PI
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Mens flying by, Yes, ma'am, Anna Stasia it is. It's
not waiting for nobody. And how productive are you? What
are you doing with the time that you have every
minute of the day. I you know we're gonna I'm
gonna jump around a little bit, so hosts, you know,
please be patient with me this weekend. Well, last month
(13:56):
I went to storage and went to pay my bill.
That's the only day I have because I'm storing these
books that I received from a publishing company because I
can't get them to Africa, like we've been doing, and
all of a sudden they went up like thirty dollars
and I'm like, wait, no, what what what? And they're like, yeah,
(14:17):
you know, And I said, no, I've never been in
this environment before with storage. It's been years, but I
don't recall it jumping month and month like that. They said, well, yeah,
that's what we do. I said, oh, I said, that's
why everybody's back. The line was backed up. People were
coming in and out getting their stuff and close of
those units. So I said, okay, God, this was something
I didn't really look forward to doing. And I'm like, okay, Lord,
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do I bring them to the house or do I
take them to my office building. If I take them
to my office building, I got to cut the air
condition on and let it run because the books cannot
be in a heated situation environment. And I'm going back
and forth. So then I said, you know what, that's it.
I got to get to this because I have it
until before the twenty sixth of this month. To get
it done. I'm I got to pay that high fee
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again and I don't have the money to do that.
So I got my son, and I mean I had
to push myself to do this, even though I know
it has to be done. And I said, well, Lord,
what door do He said, donate them to your good will?
I said, okay, he said, just split them up between
Salvation Army and Goodwill. I've got a good will will
right around the corner. Literally. So I went and we
got the first batch of books. Well, I thought it
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was twelve boxes. It really looked like twelve boxes, but
it ended up being thirty boxes. I don't know how
I missed, but it looked like the way we stacked it,
it was just twelve boxes, and it was thirty boxes.
And I went, I took the firs. We got to
jump on giving. We have. We made it, donated twice
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and have more coming. Amen. Okay, nice? Nice? And so
I went and got a nice young lady at the
place and I was like, so do you all accept
children's books? Was the first thing, and she said, yes, ma'am,
we do. I said, now, explain where I got them
from and everything. And I said, I've got several boxes,
and I didn't count how many books were in each box,
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and so she I said, but they've got a censor
on it. But then so I looked at it. It's
just a bar code. And I was able to take
the bar code off, and I'm like, God, if I
got to go through these boxes the books and take
this sent the bar code off, oh my god, I'm
gonna be here all day. And I just peeled it
off and God said, no, take it. Let her know.
So she said, well, let me take it to my supervisor.
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I said, my manager. I said, okay, great. So she
takes it and she comes back. She goes, we'll take them.
I said, huh, she goes, we'll take them and we'll
take care of the bar code. I said, okay. So
we my sons started any little buggy thing, and I'm like, this,
this is what you got? You think this gun because
I don't know. So we opened up a box and
I counted how many books were in this particular box,
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and it was seventy five books in one box. So
we're trying to keep up with it. We dropped off
the first night seventeen boxes. Then we dropped off another
seventeen boxes, and then the last were nineteen boxes, seventy
five books each kind of told thirty nine hundred books.
Our local well just got. And the young lady was
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so kind. She was so sweet, I said, she goes, Yeah,
I've got a coworker that wants she always come by
and she asked she come down, and she said, do
you have any more children's books? I said, oh, just
tell her back of car up. Now. You ain't even
got to put several of those boxes out. I don't
know what she did them for. And this is what's
going to get you, I said, got me. The Lord
had already told me when by the time I was
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making my second trip back, the plants a seed for
her and I said, I don't know what. I don't
know what made her think. I was going to give
her cash, but she said I can't accept cash. She said,
but if you have a book you could put it in.
That is a big donation. Miss Yes. And I was
able to go to the front and nobody was in
there at that break. I called it one hundred them. No,
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we closed in the unit. It's done. Ain't nothing in them,
you know. They're like, oh, okay, we got you, got
checked this out. Okay, we got you. I can hear it,
make it all this, we got you. It's already done.
I said, okay, thank you so much. So the young
lady said to me, She said, but I can't you know,
I can't accept cash. I said, oh, my problem. And
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then she said, well, if you got a book, and
I think she was trying to be she was being funny, right,
but if you got a book, you know you want
to put something in there, you know. I said, oh, boy,
do I have a book? And I just loaded up
some of my new books in my little travel by
the bag and I planted to see and I asked her,
I said, the Lord wants me to ask you what
bill needs to be paid today? Wow? And she said,
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you that this is good? Make you laud she said
my storage bill.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I was.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And so I said, do you know how much of this?
She goes, No, I don't. She said. I said, would
you mind calling them? She goes, we yeah, they're across
the street. And I'm like, okay, well could you call
them and just to get a you know, God already
told me what to give. So I was already getting
my book out and I was just doing a little
autograph and she came back. She said, was it's my
husband's name and they won't give it to me on
the phone. But the guy said, you could give them
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a call and he'll tell you. Okay, you ain't gonna
tell them. I didn't even try to pursue that. I said,
you ain't gonna tell that's the wife, but you're gonna
tell me. So But anyway, I said, never mind. You know, God, God,
that's fine. Don't worry about it. God's got this. Trust
me handing her my book we made Once we made
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the last drop off, which was nineteen boxes of books,
and she said wow, and another coworker came out because
they couldn't believe it. So they were helping, you know,
they just pushed the card in and stuff. So anyway,
I said, you all to do whatever you need to.
These books are, you know, pretty outdated, but these are
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the second This is the original copies, second copy of
all the originals of this from this publisher company. They
have the originals in their vault even though they've gone digital.
But this is, you know, and I hope it will
help somebody. She's, oh, it's gonna help, you know, So
I don't know how that's gonna look. I was tickled,
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I was blessed, I was thankful, but the fact that
here I am trying to empty out storage and she
needed to pay a storage bill. And I was like,
you know, cause first I was just gonna treat everybody
to lunch or whatever. And I said, now, I ain't
got done for that. Guy said no, just give her
the seed. And I said, yes, sir, and so seed offering.
That's how that works. God tells you what to do,
You do it. You don't want the hots coming back,
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You don't wonder what, you don't want to nothing, You
just and next thing I know, I think I've shared
with you or I belonged to two grant clearinghouses for grants,
and it was so funny. Over the weekend after this happened,
I get an email saying, you know, you have about
six thousand matches of grants that we qualify for six thousand.
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I said, oh, okay, I need to do some homework
and let me look into that. So, you know, but
being nice, and she was smiling, and she was just
so she was just so nice and you know, very
just shy, and and I prayed that minister to her.
I didn't have to go in there with, you know,
with a big old Bible and a big old cross
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on and all that. Of course I had my you know,
my my bracelets. But you know I didn't go, oh
the Lord tell me no, no, no, it don't it.
Don't take all of that. If you don't look like
a child of God, then you have to go back
to the threshing floor. You don't have. Jesus never defied
himself unless somebody pushed them, like and you know, hey, Peter,
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who you say I am? Matthew? Who y'all y'all been
whirling with me for a minute. Who do you say
I am?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
You you're well? Okay, I see. If I was a disciple,
I'll be like, okay, he going with the trick questions. Now,
if we go to have pop quiz, what was it?
I couldn't have been a disciple. I've been like uh
uh uh. But they said you are, this is who
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you are. And many people still wanted to say, oh,
you belong to John, or you belong to Paul or
you you know, even the demons the spirits say you
know Paul, Jesus, I know Paul, I know, But who
y'all talking to the disciples? So dark can identify light
and you don't have to say a word, but you
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have to be living this out. I'm gonna pause right here.
Let my faithful too over here, you know, come on
in and chime in what's on your mind about civility
and whatever's on your mind, and then I'm gonna pick
it back up.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Go well, I one of the things that you kind
of touched on, Ms. Gray, and I really think that
that's something that we've we've kind of gotten away from it,
and that is what what does it take be nice?
You know, we we seemed to know when I'm gonna
find us, but we're we don't know when we've offended
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somebody else. And it's a matter of trying to determine
who's going to be the right one, who is in,
who is in the who has all the rights, and
determining who does And it really kind of makes you
wonder when when did this really all start to happen?
When when did we become uh the experts of determining
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who is being disrespectful and who's being respectful. It's it's
something that uh, even as as the dad raising my
two sons, you know, it was always like, well he
disrespected me, and I'm like, well, what does respect have
to do with it? No, we have to be kind
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towards one another. A lot easier said than done. How
how hard is it to be respectful? In my Bible studies?
I kind of confess that last Tuesday kind of lost
it with a customer service. And I got back from
my trip from Missouri and I was trying to organize
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my trip to Europe for next year, and I was
going to use a particular credit card and it said
that I only had forty five dollars available credit. So
naturally I go into a panic because I'm like, wait
a minute, this card has a whole lot more to it. Well,
come to find out, I went to make the reservations.
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When I submitted the reservation request, it came back and
told me that the systems were down. Well I'm to
find out that I did that four times. Well, naturally,
you don't think about it. Then when I called the
bank and I said, hey, did you lower my credit
limit because it says that I've got forty five dollars
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available credit, they told me no, mister lamerena, you you've
got four holds pulling thirteen thousand dollars. I was like,
excuse me. So they told me that I need to
call the cruise company, and I called the crew company
and they wanted to play ping pong, and they said, well,
you need to call your financial company. And then I
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went back and called the cruise company and went back
to the financial company until I got a hold of
a cruise person and I was just absolutely it's because
nobody really wanted to listen. Nobody wanted to understand what
was going on. They were too busy quoting protocols. Nobody
really wanted to take the time to explain it till
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I got a gentleman from England Customer Service and he,
when after I canceled the card, said well, in the future,
you don't really want to cancel it because of the hole.
All you have to do is call us and tell
us that you don't authorize it in the hole will
drop off the next day. But two hours went by,
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two hours of my life went by, and all it
took was one person with the right information that would
have diffused the whole thing. So times we need to
step back, to step back and say, Okay, I'm losing
my cool. I don't want to lose my cool with
the other person. Can I be different. It's not their fault.
They're just telling telling me what they've been trained to do.
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Nobody really wants to listen, and I'm finding out that
that is, uh seems to be the biggest challenge because
everybody hears, but they don't listen. And and that's where
it really begins, because if you're hearing something, you may
hear something and take it out of context and all
of a sudden like, well what do you mean by that?
And and all of a sudden the defense goes up.
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Person are like, hey, calm down, I didn't mean it,
you know, and then before you know, it goes into
a full blown thing. So and and that's why, that's
why we really have to, as James thought, be quick
to listen, slow to anger, and and and that that
that is so true because we have two ears in
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one mouth, so we be listening twice as much and
talking less. And that's why we need to really focus
on what's it gonna take for me to be different
from the other people. No one wants to take the
time to help correct you, missy. You thank you, mickey.
And that's that's that's just how it looks. And you know,
and and and also that falls under the acts of respect.
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You're respecting the other person, Hesus said, new commandment. I
give you love, love your neighbor as I have loved you.
That way, the world will know you are my disciples.
But if we're confessing to be disciples, and we need
to be the example Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Amen, Amen, Trey. I mean it's it's so true.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
I passed this piggyback, and I'll say it all the
time that people here and don't listen. Listening takes a
lot more attention. That's a good point, Charles, thank you.
It's you know, just listening and I'm trying to. Just recently,
there was almost talking to one of my friends that
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issue that she had at work, and it was something
she was trying to help with her staff, and so
one part was an HR issue, the other part was
a finance issue, and so they were going back and forth,
now you do this, you do that, but end up
falling back on her who's neither finance nor HR. And
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so it's like, wait a minute now, and neither one
was willing to bend to assist. Now falls on somebody
that's not qualified in either one of those areas, and
so you know, that's disheartening. You know, what do you
do in a situation like that? And so but people
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they I don't know this. I don't know if it's
the client, I don't know what it is. But I
see a lot of belittling and.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
No or little.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Regard for other people's feelings or how they're going to
affect that. It's a lot, and it's coming from places
where it should not, you know, it should not come.
And so I try to be what I want the
change I want to see, you know, being cordial to people,
greeting them. You know, you never know what type of
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day someone's having. But that be littling and name calling.
And I don't like it. I really don't like it.
And I don't know where we got that from. I
don't know where it's coming from or how we got
to the point where we're doing that. Now, this is
what we're doing. And so when you're trying to raise
children who see grown folks acting like this, what do
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you say to them It's okay to do this.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Oh, it's all right.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Because you're this, or it's all right because you're that
little little doesn't hurt anybody, you know it. And it
trickles into to the places of worship, but it trickles
into places where you work you know, school it tricks
and so you have now you know, you might have
start creating these things that oh whatever, long as I
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get what I have to say off my desk, I
don't care who it effects. And that is so so
so sad, it really is.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
So Yeah, we got to it, Like I said, I
think again, twenty twenty didn't people didn't learn some valuable
lessons from twenty twenty where you could not go anywhere,
you had to deal with the people in your house,
just that, not even go outside to deal with your neighbors.
You had to deal with the folks you lived with.
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But you know, no matter how much we show people
how we would like to be treated, not everyone gets
it where they don't want to Mickey, I was getting
ready to go there because life now, life is has
been tough for these past five years, and it's getting
ready to jump and leap again with all this new creation,
all this new technology. Folks go to work, the door
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is locked, pink slippers on the door, nobody's talking to anybody.
One day you're open, the next day you're not. One
day you're in a relationship, the next moment you're not.
And then you're you know, you're you're using devices to
to try to numb the situation instead of trying to
figure out, Okay, what can I do? And for believers,
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we will we'll try to still try to figure out, Okay,
I gotta do this, I gotta do that. I gotta
and then I no, I have to stop and say,
you know what, God, I can't do it. It was
something today my mind said you should do this, and
I said, no, I don't want to. I want God
to do it because he gets a better result. I
can't even pray it out. I want him to do it. No,
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I don't want to talking about flesh. My flesh is
sitting there telling me what I should do. No, I
don't want to, don't need to, because God has already
showed me He's gonna take care of all of this
and more. And that's why I really want our viewers,
our ordinance to really make you know, continue to make
the decision and continue to fight those of you who
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are fighting to hang on to believe in God, Jesus
in the Holy Spirit. I need you to continue to
do that because all it takes is one hurricane. All
it takes is one earthquake, All it takes is one
mass catastrophe and we can shut down any minute, and
then what do we do. We've got food being recalled,
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products being recalled, and it's not going to get better.
We're still in a society that likes to point fingers.
But you know you got three pointing back at you.
That's why I'm so glad that God pivoted me a
while back, even before this happened to me. And to
be at a problem solver. When I go to a meeting,
or if I go to a town hall event, not
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to be why do they do what? No, not to
be the judge and executioner, but come in. I'm a
problem solver. We know what the problems are. So where
we go? Which table shall I sit at? I need
the folks who are here the for soution who are
solution focused, because I don't need to I know, I
don't need to rehear this. I've heard it already. Now
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Here is a possible solution if you're open to it.
Now we're circling, we're coming out of that. They're not
able to have those meetings anymore because we got folks
in high positions or making other decisions and behaving unruly
that we've elected into office, so they're not looking for
the community to come with a resolution anymore. Now, this
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is what we're gonna do. We're going to tell you
how to do this. Oh okay, oh okay. And that's
where that anger. There was a guy I'm trying to
get to I'm driving with my older son and my
dog to the vet and I wasn't going fast enough
for him. And he was in a white pickup truck
just right on me. If I had opened up my
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hatch in the back, it would have scraped his hood,
that's how close he was. And then he was doing
all like that, and you know, I said, yeah, he's
probably been vaping or he's under the influence of something literally,
And then he cuts out real quick and it gets
behind this tanker and he couldn't go nowhere with play
with him, play with the tanker that can let the
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ooze out in a minute. And he had to ride
with him to his next destination driving behind it. And
so I look at it and I said, you know,
not everybody need to be you know, And I was
talking about I know, my son hears it all the
time for me. I mean, people don't need to be
under the influence anything. You're trying to make stuff legal.
It doesn't make people. I know it's in your mind
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that it calms you down. If I get a drink,
if I have a smoke, if I have a drag
whatever that is, or if I take that, if I
pop this pills gonna make me. No, it's gonna make
you not be in charge of yourself. It's gonna cause
you to be hearing something different. I may be saying, oh,
I'm so sorry, Oh I got in front of you.
You may hear something different because you're under the influence
or something else, and you're ready to jump on me,
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you're ready to retaliate. All I'm saying is the profits
have aligned folks who have the gift of prophecy. God
has confirmed he's telling his people hold on. Just don't
lose your faith in me. Don't let me go. But
my Bible, my word has to fulfill itself. And I
need y'all, the eight of y'all, the twelve of y'all
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faithful out there to promise us that you will hold
on to God unlike ever before. Because between now Monday
the twenty fifth and September first, a lot could happen,
and I need you all to stay firm and steady
because we will be on next Monday, it's Labor Day.
We'll come back at you second Monday in the month
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to talk it through. I feel that the program, the
podcast is going to take a shift. We're going to
make it a turn now. So we're here to listen.
We're here to pray for you. Don't be surprised what
God has in store, but a shift has happened. Change
is on the horizon. I don't have to know what
it is. I know when God speaks, and I'm just
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ready because I know He's got some great things in
store for his people. But you got to be careful.
You got to be listening, willing to listen. We will
be here for certain Thank you, y'all. You better be,
You better be and continue to tighten up. I know
you all have been praying for us, You're praying for
each other. I need you, we need you to tighten
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that up. We sure we'll be here, thank you in
the station. We need you to tighten that up even
more to where it's not just oh, I thought about
Pastor on, let me pray for him. No, like I'm
going I'm paying, I'm praying for Pastor, I'm paying for
the co hosts on Tuesday, and I'm not gonna stop
until God tells me you're finished. That's the type of
prayer we're talking, checking your prayer point list, making sure
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you got those prayers lined up and ready, studying your word. Ever,
the more i get so tickled because I'm doing my
one scripture and then I'm seeing all these other scriptures,
I'm like, oh my god, we got I got to
write it off my calendar for the next time. You know,
I mean, my boys like okay, I say yes. I'm
just so excited. I'm literally doing this. I'm just so
exciting this word I found ten I thought, I know,
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I talked about this before the three years we've been
on I found ten scriptures on how God views the widow.
And I went through something this weekend thinking about my
sister that that was also adopted, that I was raised with,
that I'm not talked to since twenty seventeen and hearts
and minds every day, Thank you, Missy. Every day y'all
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are with us. Thank you, Micky. And I thought about
my biological mother, who I've not heard from or spoken
to and well over a year, she can't even use
a phone to say, hey, happy birthday. And I'm not
forgotten because my older brother who's deceased, his birthday's August third.
My birthday is August second. So I'm driving from the
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store and I'm just crying, and I'm like, why am
I crying? But even the best of us have the
moments where you think nobody cares, and then you ask
what did I do to deserve us? And as I
was getting home closer to the house, the voice of
the Lord said to me, because you love me, Because
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you love me. They denied my son. They deny me,
no matter how much they grace a church and they
show up with every time the door is open. They
denied my son, so they've denied you. And I could
just feel him just holding me, and I sat in
my garage for a minute til I got myself together
because I got feelings too. They're relatives I don't talk to.
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What have I done to you? And again, guys like this,
he said, you love me, and I love you. And
I looked at God, I looked up into heaven in
the sky and I say, You're all I need. You're
all that I want. And if the day opens, if
it's your will and they find my number, please help me, Lord,
help me to let them see you and not me.
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And we're talking about civility tonight. My behavior, my actions,
my words, my thought, my behavior, Let them see you. God,
that's all I got. So it's good to be able
to lay down your burden. It's good because you never
know when it's gonna try to come and trip you up.
You never know your subconscious I've told y'all it's one
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of your worst enemies. That's touching. Sorry, they don't see
what they're missing. Oh, Missyve, don't make me cry. Thank you,
love you, thank you so much. But I just want
you to see we go through hours. You know, Pastor
shed earlier customer service. You know I got him. I
got him. He's better than me because I'm like, let
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me speak to you well, because y'all ain't listening to me,
I don't know what your Oh. I would have had
a whole sermon for him. You know, I would have
hung up and discussed. I'm quitting these people. You know,
I'm I'm subscribing. That's what I'm doing. But you know,
hold on, stay focused, run this race. Let's run, and
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it's a race. And then times you you have to
tap out, get some water, throw some water over your face,
get some nourishment, even rest, even rest. And I said,
go ahead, we got it. We'll take this next shift.
You get some rest. He loves you all and he's
just he just want you to trust him. Praying, Hey,
O the K praying and I yes, amen, got to
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do it all right, guys, y'all, y'all close us out.
We got three minutes. I'm gonna be quiet. I'm gonna
truy well, I'm.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Gonna say, man and let let let let pass to
take it on.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
You know, I don't know where I could. I don't
know where I could.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
You know, y'all got it.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Well, I just appreciate everyone.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
But we appreciate you, Trey. We you know, we appreciate
you and miss Grace. So one thing that h and
I'll just time in here. Instead of your words remonstrating
who you are, let your actions speak for you. You say
you are kind, demonstrate your kind, Say you're merciful, say
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you're you know, demonstrate you're merciful. If you if you
claim that you're under you that you are you're caring
that your actions went straight? You're caring. It's that's that's
what it really boils down to. You know. I I
heard a message praying and listening with the Holy Spirit
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of guidance. Amen, I heard I heard a.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
That's another and I'm sorry another elder. That's another Tennessee
and thank you Jane.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
I heard a sermon where if we have bought into
the promise, have we bought into what God promised? That's
that's a that was a very powerful message that was delivered.
Because if we say we're Christians and we say we
we we believe in God, So do you do? Did
you really buy into the promise that God gave us
(41:55):
that he would never leave us? Do you buy buy
in the fact that He will never forsake you? Many
times have we forsaken God? But He was always there.
Let your actions speak. Words are cheap shin last rever
because people will always say, I remember when so and
so did this, when so and so said this? Where
(42:18):
you get to reveal who you believe, who you trust,
who you have sacrificed for me?
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Well, happy Labor Day, we have another month amongst us.
You all be safe. We love you dearly. We take
care and see you next in two weeks, same time,
same station, Get it and not be
Speaker 4 (42:39):
Saves a pass a PA
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