June 16, 2025 • 43 mins
generations, legacy, respect, resources
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Speaker 2 (01:18):
Good evening, good evening, and welcome, Welcome, welcome, welcome, Thank
you for taking out time to join us this evening
here at setting it straight with Ms Gray.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I have fabulous co hosts, we got an awesome engineer,
and now we have a fabulous audience that's gonna be
here with us tonight. But before we go any further,
we're gonna ask Pastor Miguel to lead us in prayer.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Friendly Father, we are so thankful and grateful for this
day that you have blessed us with. We thank you
for the strength and the energy that you have given
us for this day, and still you're giving us the
strength to hear what you have to say. Lord, This
show is yours, This is not our show. We are
a representation of the Kingdom. And as we speak, Lord,
(02:06):
are these are your words that are being spoken. May
every conversation be blessed with grace, mercy and love. May
our words sedify and help those who are seeking answers
You have provided for us to deliver your message. Lord Jesus,
we submit ourselves to you. We surrender who we are.
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We crucify ourselves onto the cross, because it is You
that lives in us, not us live. And Lord, we
turn this time over to you. Speak to us, Speak
to those who are hearing you, and those who are
listening for the first time. May the words that are
used and spoken today much their lives that hear you
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directly because we are your best for Jesus, we turn
this time over to you, and we pray all this
in the mighty name our Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Amen, Thank you, sir, Thank you sir. Giving God praise
and and we're we're continuing to give God praise. It's
just he's just so awesome. He's so awesome. But I
want to say, Pastor, how how has the week been
for you.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Week has been amazing. God has really revealed so many
things in so many different ways that in a paper
that I wrote for school, he spoke to me and
revealed his love for not only me, everyone that we
we we need to stop stop taking it for granted.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
As much as stuff that's going around all it is,
it's noise. If we take time and listen to what
God has to say, you will hear and you will
see how much He loves us and how much he
wants to bless us, just a matter of us opening
up our hearts.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Amen. Amen, and yes, I concur with you. This morning.
I was, I had just read an article. I don't
know why I looked it up the other day, but
you know I didn't. I forgot that AI does a
lot of talking now on Google. That's the first conversation
or response you get is usually from the AI. And
(04:22):
I was, I was concerned because I saw I wanted
to look up the use of the char tooth brush
that has charcoal charcoal bristled toothbrush, and of course here
I read it. Hey there, hey mickey, thank anesthesia and
for the compliment to pass through there, thank you. And
(04:43):
I was like I want. I looked it up years
ago because I heard about using you know, the charcoal
based toothbrush, and I thought, okay, so I got into
it because it's you know, it'supposed to really clean and
stuff like that. And as I've shared with you all before,
but my teeth are dull or discolored because as a child,
I used to chew adult vitamins. We didn't have adult
(05:03):
vitamins back in my day as a child when I
was a child, so my discoloration is very different. And
I've confused all of my dentists, even when I've gone
for dental studies and I used to participate in them
a couple of times a year and they give you
a free toothbrush and all I got inflows, but they've
always bring out their mock teeth and look and said,
(05:24):
your discoloration don't match any of this because it's either
nicotine tar or drinking excessive drinking, smoking coffee, tea, you
know that type of thing. And I said no, but
I'll keep telling you how my teeth became discolored. So anyway,
but I like to keep this coloration as is. I
don't want to get worse. And I think I shared
(05:44):
with you all that a few months back, I went
to the dentist and I asked what there were two
spots on my front teeth and she said, oh, that's
weakening enamel. I said, oh, my god, weakening enamel. Oh geez,
what is it? I mean, I drink with a straw.
As you all see, I have straws in all my cups.
I have all kind of straws. I have extended straws
and everything else. Because it's just for my convenience. It's
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just for my convenience. So anyway, I'm reading this art,
you know, I'm looking up looking it up, and AI, oh,
it's horrible. Charcoal is rough and and and and it's
you know, just not good for the teeth, and you know,
it's abrasive and all this. I said, I think, And
I didn't think then, and I was like, oh my god,
what am I supposed to do? Not brush my teeth?
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What kind of toothbrush cut should I use? And I
know that a lot of times you see the uh,
the small you know, as far as texture of a
tooth brush medium, you know, they don't have the other
ones any anymore. You know, there's more heavy duty Judier
made it for a word, so it's more smaller medium,
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that's what you get. So and I'm like, oh my god,
I can't believe that. So and so this morning I
get up and I'm I'm I'm getting on my routine
because I had some errands that have some medical errands
today and so I'm getting I'm looking at the tooth person.
I said, well, now I got to go to CBS
and go get me some tooth brushes. Shop at CBS
because I have a great coupon opportunity and they paid
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me the shop, so you know. Anyway, and as I'm like,
I got to use this one because I don't have.
Everything I have is charcoal. So here I am brushing
my teeth. And the Lord said, remember I made everything.
Remember I've been crying all day. Remember I made everything.
I allowed things to be made. You have forgotten hard
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to find a good toothbrush. Thank you, misty, thank you.
I'm not making this up. But God said, no, I
made everything. And remember who you were talking to, who
responded to you artificial intelligence? Of course coal charcoal would
be abrasive because that thing is thinking that you start.
You're talking about a piece of charcoal and you're brushing
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your teeth with it. That's it. All I can do
is do this in the mirror, like you have so
much mercy for me, You have so much mercy for us.
You waited until I turned twenty one and a half.
You waited on me, You waited, and yet you still
and you hear me talking, You hear me. Oh my god,
(08:13):
I'm getting ready to panic because I'm getting distracted all
because of what AI said about charcoal toothbrush. Most Yeah,
it makes most of your brush soft. Yeah, most places
make you want to brush soft, right, And I get it.
So I was like, oh my god. So because I'm thinking,
you know, with my charcoal toothbrush bristles, I did this
to myself. I weakened my enamel. You weakened enamel? Well, yeah,
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I did it. I'm like, oh my god, you keep forgetting.
And guy said, I made, don't forget. Don't forget. I
made everything. Don't forget that. There's nothing that gets by me.
And I always remember the devil will turn everything I've
made into dungle into boo boo because he's a copycatter.
And I'm like, he said, all you want to do,
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you could continue brush with your charcoal. Just get the small,
get the less, get the soft, get the soft, thinking
that small they get the soft, soft and medium, get
the soft next time if that's gonna make you feel better.
But you continue brushing with your your charcoal, you're fine.
So then after that, I walk out, and you know,
I've told you all I do my uh oh thanks,
(09:20):
no bow bit, No, okay, sorry about that. So I'm
I'm going to my word. You know, I'm reading my word.
Every morning. I get a verse and I recited one
hundred times, and I got my clicker, and I'm clicking,
you know, one hundred times. And this was the word
I got this more. It came from Psalms chapter one,
verse eight. The Lord shall preserve thy going in. They're
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going out, and they're coming in from this time fourth
and forevermore. And me just let me say it again
without some bumps here, Luke chapter Psalms, chapter verse eight.
The Lord shall preserve that going out and thy coming
in from this time forth and even forever more. He's
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gonna preserve me. So I know y'all sitting there and say, well, okay,
why is this such a big deal. I'm glad you're
thinking that, because I'm gonna tell you. I had to
go look up preserve. Let's look up preserved. The word preserved.
Here we go. First definition is a transition transisitive transisitive
verb to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction. Preservation,
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to preserve means to protect is written in caps protect.
Second definition to keep alive, intact or free from decay,
Free from decay, big word maintain in caps. Third one
to keep or save from decomposition, from decompting, and of
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course the can to pickle. Similarly prepare for future use.
For definition to keep up and reserve for personal or
special use. He said, I'm gonna keep you. I will
preserve you. You're coming in, and you're going out. You're
going out, You're coming in furthermore from now and even forevermore,
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but this time and forevermore, for this time and forevermore.
If I go to the right church, if I give
the right, if I get I've become a pastor, even
though I wasn't called to become a pas No, I'll
preserve you. I'll keep you. Let's go a little further.
I went, and I had to go to the thesaurus.
The synonym for preserve is diligently preserving the ancient statue
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for future generations to enjoy. That's English. That's the English
miriam toking, or just chew it and swish it around
for fifteen minutes, spit it in the trash. Okay, got you?
Thank you. Another synonym conserve, keep up, maintain, save. So
here's some related words. See if any of these kind
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of strike you. Service, support, sustain, manage, defend, guard, shield,
here we go, cure, fix, heal, and the rest rebuild, reconstruct, rehabilitate, rejuvenate, restore.
I preserve you, I will protect you, I will guide you,
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I'll preserve. The Lord shall preserve that going out and
I coming in from this time forth and even for evermore.
The song says, who wouldn't serve a god like this?
I'm slightly go ahead.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I was going to say, as you were reading that,
I was looking at the different versions of that psalm,
and you did touch on a lot of them. But
I think that there's one synonym that you used along
with keep that is very powerful, and it's coming from
the New American Standard Bible nineteen ninety five version, and
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it's the Lord will guard you're going out, you're coming in.
That to me is a very powerful word, to let you,
let you the reader know what you mean to God.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
This Yeah, he said, I got you. And again go
back just a few seconds, a few minutes before that,
I'm in the bathroom struggling with the charcoal toothbrush medium
and he's reminding me I made everything. Don't you get
distracted over this what AI says, Remember who's talking to you,
Remember who's providing feedback. Look at how Google has put
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AI on this pedestal. We can't even go to real
Google or former Google. We gotta get AI. We got
to get the artificial definition on Glory. We got to
get what's not real. But even though they want to
make this big deal about artificial intelligence, somebody human still
had defeated the information. It's not sitting there. Even though
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a musk is saying now that he's his whatever he
called it, his super robot is human. Now got a
human brain? Where to get it from? Who's missing? Who's
missing in your state? And they can't find it? Who's
been found headless? Where where you get the human brain from?
And how do you preserve it? How did you preserve it?
(14:21):
How did you what you kept it on ice? You do,
like you know when they're transferring human organs and stuff
like that. I mean, I don't know if you all
have ever seen that. But my first, my first, my
first husband, who's my excess with you know, he had
they had a heart transplant. The helicopter with four people
on it had to go get it, preserve it, put
it in this this this styrofoam carrying thing with all
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read lettering and stickers all over it, and only one
person could carry it off the helicopter. I watched this
and they could only and the timing of transferring that
the moment they come off that they've got to have
that patient prep ready and under adesthesia. They got to
be ready to go. And there was another patient ahead
of my of mister Lewis, and I said, no, we'll, we'll.
(15:05):
I have time to be sitting up here. You know.
I came to visit out of respect. You know. He's
my oldest son's father. So he's in my town having
this art transplant. Okay, I hope you realize God has
changed now, He's got to change your heart. He's got
to give you another heart. You don't you still don't
want to give him praise on that one. You're still
not checking yourself, judging yourself. God has given you a
new heart. But he was second in line the moment
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I'm sitting there praying, I'm just I wasn't even praying.
I was just talking out lot. I said, I don't
have all night for this. What we do with heard
the helicopter. Nurses came in quickly, mister Lewis. Unfortunately, well
fortunately you're up. Does the other patient struck up fever?
We can't we can't operate on him. We can't open
him up with a fever. You're next. Let's go. I said, okay,
(15:48):
I'll see you in the morning. I laughed. And he
received the heart of a twenty six year old who
was in a motorcycle accident earlier that day, and he
was an organ doner. So here's a sixty plus year
old man walking around with a twenty six year old heart.
And I told him when he came back out of recovery,
I said, if you don't get the pitch, if you
don't get God's point, now, I don't even know what
to say about you. God will preserve you. I will
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keep you no matter what's going on right now, and
the world is done. Here we go Bible in action.
You want to see the Bible, it's in action. Just
stick your head out, watch the news. It's an action. Now.
Some of this prayer won't even touch it because it's
got the role itself out. I've asked you all before.
You know, Jesus knew probably around age twelve, as God
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was probably you know, really going over some conversation with
him as he was trying to play as a young person.
But he's got he had business. And then the parents,
you know, Mary and Joseph lost him and he's in
the synagogue teaching at twelve. I'm sure he knew. I'm
gonna have to train some people. I'm gonna have to teach.
I'm gonna have to pray for some people that's not
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gonna believe this. They're not gonna be the best folks.
They're not gonna be the higher my these they're not
gonna be. I'm a man, I'm I'm I see I okay. Lord,
God said, no, you're gonna have to go in a
cave sometime and get some people. You're gonna have to
touch people with deadly diseases. That are supposed to be contaminated.
You're not supposed to touch him. You're gonna have to
be talking to a woman that's been with about five
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or six minute. They ready to stolen her. You're gonna
have to talk to the Samaritan woman by the well.
What year was that? Did you get the name of
the donor? Uh? No?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And that was oh god, well over ten ten years ago,
twelve years ago. But you know, can you train Judas
a Judas? You know he's your enemy. You know he's
got to complete some things he's got to go do.
Can you train a Judas knowingly? Because Jesus knew what
was coming? And guess what, had he not trained Judas?
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Had Judas said you know what in front of the
soldiers and whoever he was was hiring him. You know what,
I don't want to do this. No, because Jesus I've
seen him heal some people. I'm gonna step out. You
get somebody else to do the dirt, you know, you
get somebody else. None of the disciples gonna text this.
Where will we be? It's all part of the history
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and nobody knows what that is. Nobody knows really what
that means. Sorry, guys, nobody knows what that means. We
don't know what's meant to happen and what's being triggered
by the devil. We don't have that. We know what
we've studied in the word. We know what conflict. We
know rumors of wars and wars and and and and
you know people parents are turning against each other and
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things like that. So we know that because we've studied it.
We just don't know what it's gonna look like. Hey, Trey,
it's okay, it's all good. You push it through. We
don't mind. We're not minding distractions tonight. And we're gonna
talk about our topic too. We're gonna get to that.
But and I'm gonna circle back back to it. But
all we can all I can say is just be encouraged.
Just be encouraged. I know that there's some happy stuff coming.
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God is getting ready to just pour out blessings. Revival
is getting ready to happen even the more. And it's
going to probably happen in smaller sections. It's not going
to be at the big stadiums, as some people may
be thinking this, cause it's not gonna be at the
megachurches because the people are laughing at megachurches right now.
Most of them. People are not going to the megachurches anymore.
They're smaller churches popping up, but they're coming up with
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different agendas. So you gotta be very careful who you're
listening to. That's why it's important even more to study
your words.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I can jump in on that one real quick. Sure,
I heard something today that shook me. The teacher said
I can handle a fake profit. What I can't handle
the fake A teacher that's misinforming people.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
That's dangerous because that person can affect the person's conviction,
and that's dangerous.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
And affect future generations of just that one person, that
one person sitting and listening to this misinformation, going home
and discussing it at dinner, discussing it at the next
family picnic or the reunion, and impacting generations. They're like,
what what did he say? Well, that's right now. That's
a little fella out there. That's all I want. That's
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the only credit I'm giving. He's probably we listen here
because we know we hear the truth here. Oh, Anastasia,
hear the truth. I got you. I got you, Thank you, sweetie.
But a little fello out there saying, prophet to prophesize
old news now and what was another thing he's saying,
speaking on speaking in tongues is old Now. You don't
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have to do that, hey, l the k Yeah, who
told me? Can you give me scripture? When you miss
quote stuff? When you put your little idea? See this
is where That's why when I talk about my books,
so when you I'm sure when pastor the rice is this.
These are our thoughts, this is what God has given us.
(20:49):
We back it up with scripture. It's not so much
we're looking for you to agree to it, but we're
just letting you know. Here's some information, here's a pondering thought.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Here.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
My book we've been worried too, is about I'm the
practitioner becomes the patient. It's what I went through. Is
my journal, It's my thought, It's my conversations with God
that He's allowed me to release. It's not the tell
all end all you know. Ooh. I want you to
see God's glory. I want you to see when a practitioner,
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a professional person, a social worker, a therapist, a teacher,
a woman of the gospel and a warrior. Ah, I
want you to see what we even go through, and
how I had to fight to stay here, not to
come back because I didn't even know I had died twice.
So that's what that's. So don't take these books and
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oh my god, did you read it? You know, Pastor's
gonna be writing a book. He don't know it yet,
but he's gonna be writing one and and and you
know he kind of know, but he don't really know,
but he kind of know. He's embraced it. He's at
the point of embracing it now. He knows it's in
the hopper. I know that one day I have to
write a book. Trey's gonna be writing a manual on
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community resourcing when there's nothing else left. She didn't know that.
That's why she's looking like that. She didn't know that news.
This is what God does. Over half the people I've
seen over a thousand people who were court ordered for classes,
anger management and post control. That's for peopleho's stealing HIV classes,
parenting classes, and at least forty of them, forty percent
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have walked out with a toititle of a book, a
new career, going back to school, and had no idea.
I don't know these people until they walk in my office,
until they joined me on zoom. This last plan I
had this young man going through girlfriend. I'm just do
turn baby, Mama, turn on him and he's he was
trying to hold it, but he had He said, oh,
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I believe in Jesus. I do believe in Jesus. I
hope he's not left me. I said, no, son, he
won't leave you. He won't leave you. Just cry out
to him. You have your moment right now, let's do it.
That's what that's what we're ready for. That's the harvest.
That's the chosen. Who don't know that chosen. He didn't
think he was worthy. He's a young fellow, but he
was wide open and soaking up everything like a spoint.
(23:09):
Can a living be made writing? Well, yeah, it depends
you know your job, you know, it depends on what
you would have if you allowed God to use you. Yes,
because I'm at a point I don't have my book.
My books never have to go on the New York bestseller.
The fact that somebody could read my book and say,
you know this this I couldn't stop reading it and
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it changed their life. That was the one or one
that was it if I reached that one and nailed it.
And now I got people. I got twenty copies, complimentary
copy Folks not only say hey, I want one, but
they sent money. That's never happened in the time that
I've been writing books. That's never happened. I just sent
off a few, and they're saying, give me two because
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I want to give this to somebody else. I ain't
read it yet. He didn't read my other ones.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I just want to expound a little bit, and and
I can't. I'm sorry. I can't say who said I
can't remember who said it.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Can you make a living at writing? But if you
look at it, and I know we're talking about writing
books or novel or manuscript, but writing.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Has led to people making songs.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Writing has led to people making plays and movies, you know,
things that come to that. So you know, writing can
can kind of lead you to making a living.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
That depends on how you do it. You know, sometimes you.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Just think you're sharing a story, but look how many
songs that are out there, people sharing their personal stories,
and they've have become it and not knowingly, you know,
I was just writing about my life, you know, or
making a movie. I was just writing about some people
I knew, you know, characters that are in comedy or movies.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
People just writing about people that they knew. So yeah,
and writing, you know, it could be a way of
expressing yourself.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Poetry, you know, that could be you definitely can make
a living at it, you know, but.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Unless you, you know, I would have something to back
it up right now, and then.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Then is what she's trying to nicely say, not at first,
I'm sorry, Trey also be a coping skift. You know.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
People writing is a way of releasing and so you
know that that's a way of looking at things too.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
So yeah, that's why journaling is very popular, because you
write down what's on your mind and then you go back.
I give you a few days, don't look at it,
and then I'll tell you in the third day, pick
it back up and read it again. Look what you
were thinking three days ago, and then we go on
from there. Yeah, I mean poetry, you know, you write tray,
I yeah, one thousand percent correct, just writing down your ideas,
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trying to get your thoughts out of your head onto
onto paper. So you know, I pick it up as
a second stream of income, you know, because and people
if somebody asked me to day, so where are these?
Can I get this off out of my car in
the back of the car, because I'm eliminating the middleman.
I appreciate my publisher, but no, I appreciate being on Amazon.
(26:07):
I'm on Amazon. It's on an e book print right now,
as an e book formulation. There. I appreciate all that.
But I got them. I got him here and I'm
gonna get the rest when they hit the market on
July seventh. You can pre order right now. You can
go to Amazon, but you won't get my autograph. You
won't get a personal message from me. So if you
(26:28):
you've called me, you know, yes, sir, call me. You
got a drink some water after that, But he said, yeah,
I'll pick up, I'll pick up, go ahead past. What
were you gonna.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Say, Oh no, I was. I was just going, you know,
the autograph and all that.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yeah, I got amen, And I probably have, yeah, a
book signing for that one, you know, probably maybe in
the month of all or something. But you know, just
going back to the scripture, and I got to come
back to doing some shout outs. In a minute, Luke.
I mean, I'm sorry, I keep saying Luke Chapter one,
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Psalms one twenty one. Yeah, something's in Luke. I gotta
go look for it, because, okay, Luke five, I'm seeing
Luke the number five, Psalms Chapter one, twenty one, Verse eight,
Elda K. I was just sharing that this was my
word this morning, my verse this morning. The Lord shall
preserve I going out and I coming in from this
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time forth and even forever more. I don't know who
wouldn't serve a god. I'm a parent, and I'm not
gonna preserve the kids. I've taught them everything I know.
I've taught them everything I know. You don't get it. Yes,
your choice. I guess what God had to check me.
He said, you know their decisions don't reflect you. He said,
We're beyond that. I said, thank you, Lord, because I
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know some parents are laden with this guilt. Now, these
are parents who didn't do right when the child first
came into the world, and I heard it. I know
the stories back and forth. And now you've got a
fifty year old child that you're still being committed to.
You still got to pray their bills, you still got
to do this and all that kind of stuff, and
because you feeling guilty because you weren't the right parent
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when they were younger, and they're holding you hostage to that.
I've had that in sessions. I know some spiritually, some
faith oriented folks that's gone through that, And when even
when you call it out, they still don't want to
hear it. They can't. They know that guilt is so
heavy and God can't bless you. Then you step out
third party. I'm taking a look at you and what
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you keep calling me for prayer for, and I'm like, well,
it's your wall, it's your concrete, it's your divider between
you and God. I can't pray you out of that.
You got to accept responsibility. My brother, who is married
to his husband in Germany, said to me out of
the blue one day years ago, I know in God's
eyes I put Thomas before him and I know I
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have to pay for that. That's on my record. I
love somethings one to any one. Thank you. Ld k.
Tennessee is in the house. Who you know And I'm
telling you, I don't know, I can't. There's nothing more
we can say. I just please, just and you'll find
yourself that was just burning in you. Pastor when you
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were a little boy, did you ever thought that you
were going to be a pastor?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Did you ever think you'd be working for an insurance
Let me ask that, did you want to be an
insurance agent?
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I'll tell you what. It was sixteen when I said
I'm going to work for a restaurant because everybody's got
to eat. I was a manager for different restaurant concepts
for twenty five years. Yeah, every time I would change
to a different concept. Within the first year, I got
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bored when I realized I was being prepared for some thing,
know for what? And insurance gets into my path helping people.
I'm talking to people and then all of a sudden,
I meet this young lady by the name of Gina
who was once my client, and before I knew it,
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I was marrying her. And because of my wife, she goes, so,
when are you enrolling in school? And that's when I
took my path to being a pastor. So, no, you
just don't know what you're being prepared for.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
You really don't, So we can't. So that's for those
in the audience, you know, especially those folks you know
up north there. You really don't know. All I wanted
to do was get back to the stage. That's the
only thing I dream I could ever remember, even saying
out loud, I wanted to this. I love singing and
entertaining people and acting. I loved it. Had no idea
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that years later I'll be a cameo actor doing voiceovers
all the side. But my main thing was case management,
being in the trenches with clients who who were hopeless,
who had no voice, and I was loud enough for everybody.
And then I never wanted to be a private therapist,
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never because I thought they were you know, just you're
you're you're not doing your people well, you're you're cheating
on the clients. You don't want to be in the trenches,
so you want to be behind the little ivory tower
in your little office with your look ouch and you're
matching chairs. And wasn't. It wasn't until I got here
in Orlando twenty four years now that got open that door.
But I'm a resource person. I can hear you talking
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and I say, well, you know, I don't mean to interrupt,
but I hear that you're saying this, and that try
this really Yeah, try that. I had to remind one
of my former students just having some family issues. I said,
go back to class. What did I teach you as
a case manager? Put you You can't put your sister
hat on, you can't put your mother hat on. You
put your case management hat on, and you're going to
talk differently. You don't tell folks, oh, she don't have
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a place to live. She'd been living with you. And
if she's gonna watch this. You know I'm saying this
out of love. But what did I teach you case management?
One on one? One? Thing? You don't say you can
let the powers be. I don't know where she's gonna live.
I do know her check follows her, so he'd about money.
So I want to take a little brief pause here
to give some shout outs to some folks who've just
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been helping us along the way. And guys, you know
you all need my host co hosts. You all need
to be doing this too. Just write some notes to yourself,
some people that you want to give a shout out to, whoever,
all companies or even if CVS treated you well in
your local CVS neighborhood, you can give them a shout out.
But the Kevin Gray, I've mentioned him before. He's a
gentleman out of Canada. Uh. He has a Limb Loss
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Connection virtual support group every other Sunday. He's doing great
things and just having allowing this, you know, allowing us
those who have suffered limb loss or limbed difference to
have opportunity just to talk about this story and and
and even if this still having some issues or whatever,
he allows that. So I want to give Kevin a
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shout out. Even though his last name is Great, we
are not related, Okay, I just want to let you know.
And of course clutch Maid who has successfully made our
prototype handbag. I am very proud of that. Yes, ma'am.
I'm getting ready. Now we're going into talking about what
how many are we gonna make and how much we're
gonna charge. So I'm looking forward to that that. I'm
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excited again. See, I always wanted to have a daughter.
I've always wanted to have a son, and I wanted
to have a daughter. And I had no idea this
little thing will follow you prompt me into becoming a
sales an entrepreneur. I ain't have no idea. I just
wrote the book. I just wrote the book, I ain't
trying to sell it to anyone. And next thing, I know,
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she's like, and you know, we started going to the
pop up shops and stuff, and she opening up this
whole new world to me. I mean, I could teach entrepreneur,
I could teach how to be a leader. But you
got okay, I got a little thing here. Oh god,
it's already got five minutes, ten minutes. All right, guys.
But like I said, your leaders are born. And if
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I'm teaching you and all of a sudden you realize
you're a leader. You already had the DNA inside. It
just had to be prouded, had to be knock, not
who's there leadership? Yeah, but I thought, nobody don't want
me to talk. That's why. That's why when people tell
you don't say nothing, you don't need to say anything,
because you know, you just keep talking. I've been told
that all my life. And look at me. I'm a
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podcast host. I've been a teacher on the college level.
Come on, now, I didn't make this up. All right.
I want to go back to because I want to
talk about our elderly. This is World Elder Abuse Month Awareness.
They the reason I believe. This is me. I believe
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the reason why funding has been taken in certain arenas
is because it was it was, it was abused. It
didn't go to the populations that it needed to go to.
And that's just me. Nobody even heard let me say this,
But I'm saying this because I'm talking from the inside out,
because I know resources are out there and the right people,
the Donald trot and the hopeless folks, the folks who
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have no voice, they're the ones who didn't have not
received the services. And now we've got we still got
tarps on houses. We still have the blue tarps, and
they're not supposed to be there. Once the hurricane is
done and you've been found eligible to get the tarp
off your house, it's supposed to be removed because the
repairs follow up. But look where we're at now, Okay,
and now people has kind of been not dissolved but
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put on a burner and they're going through investigation and audit.
I upset, not really, they got houses with blue tarps
still on them. I got apartment buildings with blue tarps
on them. Y'all say something, Just pray for me.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Well, I guess you're a tough back to follow. That's
what sure, Yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
It is unfortunate. You know, the elderly are one of
the most.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
Vulnerable populations, if not the most vulnerable, you know, just
looking at the resources people evilness, I mean, taking advantage
of people who can't defend for themselves or maybe not
even make the right decisions. Are very trusting of folks,
and I just that is just one thing that gets
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under my skin, you know, when you take advantage of
people that really need the help and assistance and support.
And sometimes we tend to think as a whole that
because a person is elderly, that we need to just
go ahead and just let them wither away and go somewhere,
and that's really the time of their life that they
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should be wonder years, you know, the best quality of life.
And sometimes people are oh they need to just go
sit down. No, sometimes they You have a lot of
people who are older or older got more life than
some folks.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
You know.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
I can tell you that some people that can walk
circles around me, ninety some years old can walk circles
around me. But I think it's just society as a
whole does not pay attention, you know, They should not
have to go without food, shelter, clothing, insurance.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
They should be taken care of. They really should be.
And it's just.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Unfortunate that that people take advantage of them. And I
hate to I'd hate to be the one that doing
that and have to meet my maker.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
I'd hate to do that.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Men, amen, and they have wisdom. My advisory counsel for
my nonprofit are made up of people at least over
seventy plus years old. And all I'm doing is this time,
what do you think about this?
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Well?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Know, you know what you and I'm listening. And I
did that as a child when I would go see
my grandmother once a year, I said on the porch.
My cousins will tell you no, she sat on the porch.
She didn't come in play with us, or when she
talked about things. One lady said, well, what were you
my one of my cousins and I have older cousins
like they were like seventy and ninety. That's that's the generation. Yeah,
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they were seventy and ninety. And one cousin married this
woman and we were out there and we were talking,
and all my cousins are listening to me and they're like,
you know, sitting on the bench that my dad made
in naw And so I came in to get some
water and she said, can I ask you? What were
you talking about? Also, oh, the movie Friday the thirteenth,
She said what I said, yeah, a Friday at thirteen.
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She's like, oh, because I have never seen she said,
I'm a teacher and I've never had students sit at
the edge of their seat listening to somebody. I said, oh,
then I have a cousin, my favorite cousin that I
looked just like, this is Jacksonville. That's a nurse. She said, Well, Lisa,
when I told her about my first book, she said,
I wasn't surprised. I knew you were going to do
something with you talking and stuff you're teaching. I'm not
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surprised you teach it on a college you a professor.
I was a surprise. I said, Oh, okay, you know,
but my seniors, I'm gonna work for them. I'm gonna
do whatever they need to. We're gonna probably do some
outreach this year for them, whether it's at a independent
retirement community or whether it's at an assistant living facility
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or hey, guys, my avid listeners out there, the five
of y'all, six of y'all, let me know in your town,
if you've got an assistant living or a convalescent facility
that needs some assistance, let us know. Okay, let us know.
We can adopt them and we'll spearhead. You know, you
be the team league. Yes, you'll lead this. You're gonna
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lead us. Yes, because some of y'all need to come home.
Stop hiding behind the wings the shadows. You lead it
by making a phone call asking the facility do you
have any need? Do your residents have any needs? You know,
do they have people, you know, family to come and
visit them and things like that, and get back to
us on that. All right. I don't know what is
getting ready to do. He just I'm hearing this for
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the first time. As you're hearing it, all right, Pastor
you're sitting there, you know, stroking your beer. Come on,
bring up, bring it up, bring it up, whatever is
on your mind. What's on your mind? Oh guys?
Speaker 4 (40:10):
Now, well, right now, I know that there's someone out
there who's praying and trying to get answers from God,
and the Holy Spirit led me to Ephesians Chapter one,
verse three, and it says, blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Christ, who has blessed us with
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every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. I
don't know who needs to hear this, but the answer is,
blessing is yours. You just have to believe. Take it.
It's for you.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Everybody, reach out, Go ahead, sir, sorry, stop.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Stop stop questioning the Lord.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
I want everybody put their hands up. As he's talking.
Put your hands up, both of them, both your hands.
Put your hands up. Yes, yours.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Take it, got your name on it. Take it. Stop
questioning it. Take it now. You're fighting, but you're supposed
to fight because the devil doesn't want you to have
that blessing, because the devil's a liar. Whoever is praying
for it. The answer is it's yours.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
And you believe it. You believe it. Remember the revelation
God gave real quick. He said, you know, people asked
how long do you pray about a thing? And the
Lord said, let them know. They keep praying it to
you believe I'm going to do it. You keep praying
until you believe that God's going to do it. I
don't repeat prayers anymore on some things I don't even
pray about. I was like, you know, I was wondering,
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what would it look like if this is next thing?
I know, I got an email coming, got a request coming,
I got a text coming. All I'm just thinking out
out and don't be looking for no box. No box exists.
That's your education, that's how you were raised. If you're
in military and things like that, you raise a certain way. Yeah, amen,
thank you, Thank you, pastor. That's what we're doing doing.
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We don't hold up the Holy Spirit. Let him do
what he does best. Set the captives free. That's it
for us. That's our time. You stay blessed, you stay focused,
keep your hands up. If you put your hands up,
then you need to be expecting a blessing in the
next twenty four hours or less. In Jesus' name, we pray.
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See you next time, same station, same time, Night night
Speaker 4 (43:13):
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Good evening, good evening, and welcome, Welcome, welcome, welcome, Thank
you for taking out time to join us this evening
here at setting it straight with Ms Gray.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I have fabulous co hosts, we got an awesome engineer,
and now we have a fabulous audience that's gonna be
here with us tonight. But before we go any further,
we're gonna ask Pastor Miguel to lead us in prayer.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Friendly Father, we are so thankful and grateful for this
day that you have blessed us with. We thank you
for the strength and the energy that you have given
us for this day, and still you're giving us the
strength to hear what you have to say. Lord, This
show is yours, This is not our show. We are
a representation of the Kingdom. And as we speak, Lord,
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are these are your words that are being spoken. May
every conversation be blessed with grace, mercy and love. May
our words sedify and help those who are seeking answers
You have provided for us to deliver your message. Lord Jesus,
we submit ourselves to you. We surrender who we are.
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We crucify ourselves onto the cross, because it is You
that lives in us, not us live. And Lord, we
turn this time over to you. Speak to us, Speak
to those who are hearing you, and those who are
listening for the first time. May the words that are
used and spoken today much their lives that hear you
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directly because we are your best for Jesus, we turn
this time over to you, and we pray all this
in the mighty name our Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Amen, Thank you, sir, Thank you sir. Giving God praise
and and we're we're continuing to give God praise. It's
just he's just so awesome. He's so awesome. But I
want to say, Pastor, how how has the week been
for you.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Week has been amazing. God has really revealed so many
things in so many different ways that in a paper
that I wrote for school, he spoke to me and
revealed his love for not only me, everyone that we
we we need to stop stop taking it for granted.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
As much as stuff that's going around all it is,
it's noise. If we take time and listen to what
God has to say, you will hear and you will
see how much He loves us and how much he
wants to bless us, just a matter of us opening
up our hearts.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Amen. Amen, and yes, I concur with you. This morning.
I was, I had just read an article. I don't
know why I looked it up the other day, but
you know I didn't. I forgot that AI does a
lot of talking now on Google. That's the first conversation
or response you get is usually from the AI. And
(04:22):
I was, I was concerned because I saw I wanted
to look up the use of the char tooth brush
that has charcoal charcoal bristled toothbrush, and of course here
I read it. Hey there, hey mickey, thank anesthesia and
for the compliment to pass through there, thank you. And
(04:43):
I was like I want. I looked it up years
ago because I heard about using you know, the charcoal
based toothbrush, and I thought, okay, so I got into
it because it's you know, it'supposed to really clean and
stuff like that. And as I've shared with you all before,
but my teeth are dull or discolored because as a child,
I used to chew adult vitamins. We didn't have adult
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vitamins back in my day as a child when I
was a child, so my discoloration is very different. And
I've confused all of my dentists, even when I've gone
for dental studies and I used to participate in them
a couple of times a year and they give you
a free toothbrush and all I got inflows, but they've
always bring out their mock teeth and look and said,
(05:24):
your discoloration don't match any of this because it's either
nicotine tar or drinking excessive drinking, smoking coffee, tea, you
know that type of thing. And I said no, but
I'll keep telling you how my teeth became discolored. So anyway,
but I like to keep this coloration as is. I
don't want to get worse. And I think I shared
(05:44):
with you all that a few months back, I went
to the dentist and I asked what there were two
spots on my front teeth and she said, oh, that's
weakening enamel. I said, oh, my god, weakening enamel. Oh geez,
what is it? I mean, I drink with a straw.
As you all see, I have straws in all my cups.
I have all kind of straws. I have extended straws
and everything else. Because it's just for my convenience. It's
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just for my convenience. So anyway, I'm reading this art,
you know, I'm looking up looking it up, and AI, oh,
it's horrible. Charcoal is rough and and and and it's
you know, just not good for the teeth, and you know,
it's abrasive and all this. I said, I think, And
I didn't think then, and I was like, oh my god,
what am I supposed to do? Not brush my teeth?
(06:26):
What kind of toothbrush cut should I use? And I
know that a lot of times you see the uh,
the small you know, as far as texture of a
tooth brush medium, you know, they don't have the other
ones any anymore. You know, there's more heavy duty Judier
made it for a word, so it's more smaller medium,
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that's what you get. So and I'm like, oh my god,
I can't believe that. So and so this morning I
get up and I'm I'm I'm getting on my routine
because I had some errands that have some medical errands
today and so I'm getting I'm looking at the tooth person.
I said, well, now I got to go to CBS
and go get me some tooth brushes. Shop at CBS
because I have a great coupon opportunity and they paid
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me the shop, so you know. Anyway, and as I'm like,
I got to use this one because I don't have.
Everything I have is charcoal. So here I am brushing
my teeth. And the Lord said, remember I made everything.
Remember I've been crying all day. Remember I made everything.
I allowed things to be made. You have forgotten hard
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to find a good toothbrush. Thank you, misty, thank you.
I'm not making this up. But God said, no, I
made everything. And remember who you were talking to, who
responded to you artificial intelligence? Of course coal charcoal would
be abrasive because that thing is thinking that you start.
You're talking about a piece of charcoal and you're brushing
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your teeth with it. That's it. All I can do
is do this in the mirror, like you have so
much mercy for me, You have so much mercy for us.
You waited until I turned twenty one and a half.
You waited on me, You waited, and yet you still
and you hear me talking, You hear me. Oh my god,
(08:13):
I'm getting ready to panic because I'm getting distracted all
because of what AI said about charcoal toothbrush. Most Yeah,
it makes most of your brush soft. Yeah, most places
make you want to brush soft, right, And I get it.
So I was like, oh my god. So because I'm thinking,
you know, with my charcoal toothbrush bristles, I did this
to myself. I weakened my enamel. You weakened enamel? Well, yeah,
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I did it. I'm like, oh my god, you keep forgetting.
And guy said, I made, don't forget. Don't forget. I
made everything. Don't forget that. There's nothing that gets by me.
And I always remember the devil will turn everything I've
made into dungle into boo boo because he's a copycatter.
And I'm like, he said, all you want to do,
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you could continue brush with your charcoal. Just get the small,
get the less, get the soft, get the soft, thinking
that small they get the soft, soft and medium, get
the soft next time if that's gonna make you feel better.
But you continue brushing with your your charcoal, you're fine.
So then after that, I walk out, and you know,
I've told you all I do my uh oh thanks,
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no bow bit, No, okay, sorry about that. So I'm
I'm going to my word. You know, I'm reading my word.
Every morning. I get a verse and I recited one
hundred times, and I got my clicker, and I'm clicking,
you know, one hundred times. And this was the word
I got this more. It came from Psalms chapter one,
verse eight. The Lord shall preserve thy going in. They're
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going out, and they're coming in from this time fourth
and forevermore. And me just let me say it again
without some bumps here, Luke chapter Psalms, chapter verse eight.
The Lord shall preserve that going out and thy coming
in from this time forth and even forever more. He's
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gonna preserve me. So I know y'all sitting there and say, well, okay,
why is this such a big deal. I'm glad you're
thinking that, because I'm gonna tell you. I had to
go look up preserve. Let's look up preserved. The word preserved.
Here we go. First definition is a transition transisitive transisitive
verb to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction. Preservation,
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to preserve means to protect is written in caps protect.
Second definition to keep alive, intact or free from decay,
Free from decay, big word maintain in caps. Third one
to keep or save from decomposition, from decompting, and of
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course the can to pickle. Similarly prepare for future use.
For definition to keep up and reserve for personal or
special use. He said, I'm gonna keep you. I will
preserve you. You're coming in, and you're going out. You're
going out, You're coming in furthermore from now and even forevermore,
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but this time and forevermore, for this time and forevermore.
If I go to the right church, if I give
the right, if I get I've become a pastor, even
though I wasn't called to become a pas No, I'll
preserve you. I'll keep you. Let's go a little further.
I went, and I had to go to the thesaurus.
The synonym for preserve is diligently preserving the ancient statue
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for future generations to enjoy. That's English. That's the English
miriam toking, or just chew it and swish it around
for fifteen minutes, spit it in the trash. Okay, got you?
Thank you. Another synonym conserve, keep up, maintain, save. So
here's some related words. See if any of these kind
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of strike you. Service, support, sustain, manage, defend, guard, shield,
here we go, cure, fix, heal, and the rest rebuild, reconstruct, rehabilitate, rejuvenate, restore.
I preserve you, I will protect you, I will guide you,
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I'll preserve. The Lord shall preserve that going out and
I coming in from this time forth and even for evermore.
The song says, who wouldn't serve a god like this?
I'm slightly go ahead.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I was going to say, as you were reading that,
I was looking at the different versions of that psalm,
and you did touch on a lot of them. But
I think that there's one synonym that you used along
with keep that is very powerful, and it's coming from
the New American Standard Bible nineteen ninety five version, and
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it's the Lord will guard you're going out, you're coming in.
That to me is a very powerful word, to let you,
let you the reader know what you mean to God.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
This Yeah, he said, I got you. And again go
back just a few seconds, a few minutes before that,
I'm in the bathroom struggling with the charcoal toothbrush medium
and he's reminding me I made everything. Don't you get
distracted over this what AI says, Remember who's talking to you,
Remember who's providing feedback. Look at how Google has put
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AI on this pedestal. We can't even go to real
Google or former Google. We gotta get AI. We got
to get the artificial definition on Glory. We got to
get what's not real. But even though they want to
make this big deal about artificial intelligence, somebody human still
had defeated the information. It's not sitting there. Even though
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a musk is saying now that he's his whatever he
called it, his super robot is human. Now got a
human brain? Where to get it from? Who's missing? Who's
missing in your state? And they can't find it? Who's
been found headless? Where where you get the human brain from?
And how do you preserve it? How did you preserve it?
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How did you what you kept it on ice? You do,
like you know when they're transferring human organs and stuff
like that. I mean, I don't know if you all
have ever seen that. But my first, my first, my
first husband, who's my excess with you know, he had
they had a heart transplant. The helicopter with four people
on it had to go get it, preserve it, put
it in this this this styrofoam carrying thing with all
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read lettering and stickers all over it, and only one
person could carry it off the helicopter. I watched this
and they could only and the timing of transferring that
the moment they come off that they've got to have
that patient prep ready and under adesthesia. They got to
be ready to go. And there was another patient ahead
of my of mister Lewis, and I said, no, we'll, we'll.
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I have time to be sitting up here. You know.
I came to visit out of respect. You know. He's
my oldest son's father. So he's in my town having
this art transplant. Okay, I hope you realize God has
changed now, He's got to change your heart. He's got
to give you another heart. You don't you still don't
want to give him praise on that one. You're still
not checking yourself, judging yourself. God has given you a
new heart. But he was second in line the moment
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I'm sitting there praying, I'm just I wasn't even praying.
I was just talking out lot. I said, I don't
have all night for this. What we do with heard
the helicopter. Nurses came in quickly, mister Lewis. Unfortunately, well
fortunately you're up. Does the other patient struck up fever?
We can't we can't operate on him. We can't open
him up with a fever. You're next. Let's go. I said, okay,
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I'll see you in the morning. I laughed. And he
received the heart of a twenty six year old who
was in a motorcycle accident earlier that day, and he
was an organ doner. So here's a sixty plus year
old man walking around with a twenty six year old heart.
And I told him when he came back out of recovery,
I said, if you don't get the pitch, if you
don't get God's point, now, I don't even know what
to say about you. God will preserve you. I will
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keep you no matter what's going on right now, and
the world is done. Here we go Bible in action.
You want to see the Bible, it's in action. Just
stick your head out, watch the news. It's an action. Now.
Some of this prayer won't even touch it because it's
got the role itself out. I've asked you all before.
You know, Jesus knew probably around age twelve, as God
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was probably you know, really going over some conversation with
him as he was trying to play as a young person.
But he's got he had business. And then the parents,
you know, Mary and Joseph lost him and he's in
the synagogue teaching at twelve. I'm sure he knew. I'm
gonna have to train some people. I'm gonna have to teach.
I'm gonna have to pray for some people that's not
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gonna believe this. They're not gonna be the best folks.
They're not gonna be the higher my these they're not
gonna be. I'm a man, I'm I'm I see I okay. Lord,
God said, no, you're gonna have to go in a
cave sometime and get some people. You're gonna have to
touch people with deadly diseases. That are supposed to be contaminated.
You're not supposed to touch him. You're gonna have to
be talking to a woman that's been with about five
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or six minute. They ready to stolen her. You're gonna
have to talk to the Samaritan woman by the well.
What year was that? Did you get the name of
the donor? Uh? No?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And that was oh god, well over ten ten years ago,
twelve years ago. But you know, can you train Judas
a Judas? You know he's your enemy. You know he's
got to complete some things he's got to go do.
Can you train a Judas knowingly? Because Jesus knew what
was coming? And guess what, had he not trained Judas?
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Had Judas said you know what in front of the
soldiers and whoever he was was hiring him. You know what,
I don't want to do this. No, because Jesus I've
seen him heal some people. I'm gonna step out. You
get somebody else to do the dirt, you know, you
get somebody else. None of the disciples gonna text this.
Where will we be? It's all part of the history
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and nobody knows what that is. Nobody knows really what
that means. Sorry, guys, nobody knows what that means. We
don't know what's meant to happen and what's being triggered
by the devil. We don't have that. We know what
we've studied in the word. We know what conflict. We
know rumors of wars and wars and and and and
you know people parents are turning against each other and
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things like that. So we know that because we've studied it.
We just don't know what it's gonna look like. Hey, Trey,
it's okay, it's all good. You push it through. We
don't mind. We're not minding distractions tonight. And we're gonna
talk about our topic too. We're gonna get to that.
But and I'm gonna circle back back to it. But
all we can all I can say is just be encouraged.
Just be encouraged. I know that there's some happy stuff coming.
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God is getting ready to just pour out blessings. Revival
is getting ready to happen even the more. And it's
going to probably happen in smaller sections. It's not going
to be at the big stadiums, as some people may
be thinking this, cause it's not gonna be at the
megachurches because the people are laughing at megachurches right now.
Most of them. People are not going to the megachurches anymore.
They're smaller churches popping up, but they're coming up with
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different agendas. So you gotta be very careful who you're
listening to. That's why it's important even more to study
your words.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
I can jump in on that one real quick. Sure,
I heard something today that shook me. The teacher said
I can handle a fake profit. What I can't handle
the fake A teacher that's misinforming people.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
That's dangerous because that person can affect the person's conviction,
and that's dangerous.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
And affect future generations of just that one person, that
one person sitting and listening to this misinformation, going home
and discussing it at dinner, discussing it at the next
family picnic or the reunion, and impacting generations. They're like,
what what did he say? Well, that's right now. That's
a little fella out there. That's all I want. That's
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the only credit I'm giving. He's probably we listen here
because we know we hear the truth here. Oh, Anastasia,
hear the truth. I got you. I got you, Thank you, sweetie.
But a little fello out there saying, prophet to prophesize
old news now and what was another thing he's saying,
speaking on speaking in tongues is old Now. You don't
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have to do that, hey, l the k Yeah, who
told me? Can you give me scripture? When you miss
quote stuff? When you put your little idea? See this
is where That's why when I talk about my books,
so when you I'm sure when pastor the rice is this.
These are our thoughts, this is what God has given us.
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We back it up with scripture. It's not so much
we're looking for you to agree to it, but we're
just letting you know. Here's some information, here's a pondering thought.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Here.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
My book we've been worried too, is about I'm the
practitioner becomes the patient. It's what I went through. Is
my journal, It's my thought, It's my conversations with God
that He's allowed me to release. It's not the tell
all end all you know. Ooh. I want you to
see God's glory. I want you to see when a practitioner,
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a professional person, a social worker, a therapist, a teacher,
a woman of the gospel and a warrior. Ah, I
want you to see what we even go through, and
how I had to fight to stay here, not to
come back because I didn't even know I had died twice.
So that's what that's. So don't take these books and
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oh my god, did you read it? You know, Pastor's
gonna be writing a book. He don't know it yet,
but he's gonna be writing one and and and you
know he kind of know, but he don't really know,
but he kind of know. He's embraced it. He's at
the point of embracing it now. He knows it's in
the hopper. I know that one day I have to
write a book. Trey's gonna be writing a manual on
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community resourcing when there's nothing else left. She didn't know that.
That's why she's looking like that. She didn't know that news.
This is what God does. Over half the people I've
seen over a thousand people who were court ordered for classes,
anger management and post control. That's for peopleho's stealing HIV classes,
parenting classes, and at least forty of them, forty percent
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have walked out with a toititle of a book, a
new career, going back to school, and had no idea.
I don't know these people until they walk in my office,
until they joined me on zoom. This last plan I
had this young man going through girlfriend. I'm just do
turn baby, Mama, turn on him and he's he was
trying to hold it, but he had He said, oh,
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I believe in Jesus. I do believe in Jesus. I
hope he's not left me. I said, no, son, he
won't leave you. He won't leave you. Just cry out
to him. You have your moment right now, let's do it.
That's what that's what we're ready for. That's the harvest.
That's the chosen. Who don't know that chosen. He didn't
think he was worthy. He's a young fellow, but he
was wide open and soaking up everything like a spoint.
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Can a living be made writing? Well, yeah, it depends
you know your job, you know, it depends on what
you would have if you allowed God to use you. Yes,
because I'm at a point I don't have my book.
My books never have to go on the New York bestseller.
The fact that somebody could read my book and say,
you know this this I couldn't stop reading it and
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it changed their life. That was the one or one
that was it if I reached that one and nailed it.
And now I got people. I got twenty copies, complimentary
copy Folks not only say hey, I want one, but
they sent money. That's never happened in the time that
I've been writing books. That's never happened. I just sent
off a few, and they're saying, give me two because
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I want to give this to somebody else. I ain't
read it yet. He didn't read my other ones.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I just want to expound a little bit, and and
I can't. I'm sorry. I can't say who said I
can't remember who said it.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Can you make a living at writing? But if you
look at it, and I know we're talking about writing
books or novel or manuscript, but writing.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Has led to people making songs.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Writing has led to people making plays and movies, you know,
things that come to that. So you know, writing can
can kind of lead you to making a living.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
That depends on how you do it. You know, sometimes you.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Just think you're sharing a story, but look how many
songs that are out there, people sharing their personal stories,
and they've have become it and not knowingly, you know,
I was just writing about my life, you know, or
making a movie. I was just writing about some people
I knew, you know, characters that are in comedy or movies.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
People just writing about people that they knew. So yeah,
and writing, you know, it could be a way of
expressing yourself.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Poetry, you know, that could be you definitely can make
a living at it, you know, but.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Unless you, you know, I would have something to back
it up right now, and then.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Then is what she's trying to nicely say, not at first,
I'm sorry, Trey also be a coping skift. You know.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
People writing is a way of releasing and so you
know that that's a way of looking at things too.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
So yeah, that's why journaling is very popular, because you
write down what's on your mind and then you go back.
I give you a few days, don't look at it,
and then I'll tell you in the third day, pick
it back up and read it again. Look what you
were thinking three days ago, and then we go on
from there. Yeah, I mean poetry, you know, you write tray,
I yeah, one thousand percent correct, just writing down your ideas,
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trying to get your thoughts out of your head onto
onto paper. So you know, I pick it up as
a second stream of income, you know, because and people
if somebody asked me to day, so where are these?
Can I get this off out of my car in
the back of the car, because I'm eliminating the middleman.
I appreciate my publisher, but no, I appreciate being on Amazon.
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I'm on Amazon. It's on an e book print right now,
as an e book formulation. There. I appreciate all that.
But I got them. I got him here and I'm
gonna get the rest when they hit the market on
July seventh. You can pre order right now. You can
go to Amazon, but you won't get my autograph. You
won't get a personal message from me. So if you
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you've called me, you know, yes, sir, call me. You
got a drink some water after that, But he said, yeah,
I'll pick up, I'll pick up, go ahead past. What
were you gonna.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Say, Oh no, I was. I was just going, you know,
the autograph and all that.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yeah, I got amen, And I probably have, yeah, a
book signing for that one, you know, probably maybe in
the month of all or something. But you know, just
going back to the scripture, and I got to come
back to doing some shout outs. In a minute, Luke.
I mean, I'm sorry, I keep saying Luke Chapter one,
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Psalms one twenty one. Yeah, something's in Luke. I gotta
go look for it, because, okay, Luke five, I'm seeing
Luke the number five, Psalms Chapter one, twenty one, Verse eight,
Elda K. I was just sharing that this was my
word this morning, my verse this morning. The Lord shall
preserve I going out and I coming in from this
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time forth and even forever more. I don't know who
wouldn't serve a god. I'm a parent, and I'm not
gonna preserve the kids. I've taught them everything I know.
I've taught them everything I know. You don't get it. Yes,
your choice. I guess what God had to check me.
He said, you know their decisions don't reflect you. He said,
We're beyond that. I said, thank you, Lord, because I
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know some parents are laden with this guilt. Now, these
are parents who didn't do right when the child first
came into the world, and I heard it. I know
the stories back and forth. And now you've got a
fifty year old child that you're still being committed to.
You still got to pray their bills, you still got
to do this and all that kind of stuff, and
because you feeling guilty because you weren't the right parent
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when they were younger, and they're holding you hostage to that.
I've had that in sessions. I know some spiritually, some
faith oriented folks that's gone through that, And when even
when you call it out, they still don't want to
hear it. They can't. They know that guilt is so
heavy and God can't bless you. Then you step out
third party. I'm taking a look at you and what
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you keep calling me for prayer for, and I'm like, well,
it's your wall, it's your concrete, it's your divider between
you and God. I can't pray you out of that.
You got to accept responsibility. My brother, who is married
to his husband in Germany, said to me out of
the blue one day years ago, I know in God's
eyes I put Thomas before him and I know I
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have to pay for that. That's on my record. I
love somethings one to any one. Thank you. Ld k.
Tennessee is in the house. Who you know And I'm
telling you, I don't know, I can't. There's nothing more
we can say. I just please, just and you'll find
yourself that was just burning in you. Pastor when you
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were a little boy, did you ever thought that you
were going to be a pastor?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Did you ever think you'd be working for an insurance
Let me ask that, did you want to be an
insurance agent?
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I'll tell you what. It was sixteen when I said
I'm going to work for a restaurant because everybody's got
to eat. I was a manager for different restaurant concepts
for twenty five years. Yeah, every time I would change
to a different concept. Within the first year, I got
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bored when I realized I was being prepared for some thing,
know for what? And insurance gets into my path helping people.
I'm talking to people and then all of a sudden,
I meet this young lady by the name of Gina
who was once my client, and before I knew it,
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I was marrying her. And because of my wife, she goes, so,
when are you enrolling in school? And that's when I
took my path to being a pastor. So, no, you
just don't know what you're being prepared for.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
You really don't, So we can't. So that's for those
in the audience, you know, especially those folks you know
up north there. You really don't know. All I wanted
to do was get back to the stage. That's the
only thing I dream I could ever remember, even saying
out loud, I wanted to this. I love singing and
entertaining people and acting. I loved it. Had no idea
(30:53):
that years later I'll be a cameo actor doing voiceovers
all the side. But my main thing was case management,
being in the trenches with clients who who were hopeless,
who had no voice, and I was loud enough for everybody.
And then I never wanted to be a private therapist,
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never because I thought they were you know, just you're
you're you're not doing your people well, you're you're cheating
on the clients. You don't want to be in the trenches,
so you want to be behind the little ivory tower
in your little office with your look ouch and you're
matching chairs. And wasn't. It wasn't until I got here
in Orlando twenty four years now that got open that door.
But I'm a resource person. I can hear you talking
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and I say, well, you know, I don't mean to interrupt,
but I hear that you're saying this, and that try
this really Yeah, try that. I had to remind one
of my former students just having some family issues. I said,
go back to class. What did I teach you as
a case manager? Put you You can't put your sister
hat on, you can't put your mother hat on. You
put your case management hat on, and you're going to
talk differently. You don't tell folks, oh, she don't have
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a place to live. She'd been living with you. And
if she's gonna watch this. You know I'm saying this
out of love. But what did I teach you case management?
One on one? One? Thing? You don't say you can
let the powers be. I don't know where she's gonna live.
I do know her check follows her, so he'd about money.
So I want to take a little brief pause here
to give some shout outs to some folks who've just
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been helping us along the way. And guys, you know
you all need my host co hosts. You all need
to be doing this too. Just write some notes to yourself,
some people that you want to give a shout out to, whoever,
all companies or even if CVS treated you well in
your local CVS neighborhood, you can give them a shout out.
But the Kevin Gray, I've mentioned him before. He's a
gentleman out of Canada. Uh. He has a Limb Loss
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Connection virtual support group every other Sunday. He's doing great
things and just having allowing this, you know, allowing us
those who have suffered limb loss or limbed difference to
have opportunity just to talk about this story and and
and even if this still having some issues or whatever,
he allows that. So I want to give Kevin a
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shout out. Even though his last name is Great, we
are not related, Okay, I just want to let you know.
And of course clutch Maid who has successfully made our
prototype handbag. I am very proud of that. Yes, ma'am.
I'm getting ready. Now we're going into talking about what
how many are we gonna make and how much we're
gonna charge. So I'm looking forward to that that. I'm
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excited again. See, I always wanted to have a daughter.
I've always wanted to have a son, and I wanted
to have a daughter. And I had no idea this
little thing will follow you prompt me into becoming a
sales an entrepreneur. I ain't have no idea. I just
wrote the book. I just wrote the book, I ain't
trying to sell it to anyone. And next thing, I know,
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she's like, and you know, we started going to the
pop up shops and stuff, and she opening up this
whole new world to me. I mean, I could teach entrepreneur,
I could teach how to be a leader. But you
got okay, I got a little thing here. Oh god,
it's already got five minutes, ten minutes. All right, guys.
But like I said, your leaders are born. And if
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I'm teaching you and all of a sudden you realize
you're a leader. You already had the DNA inside. It
just had to be prouded, had to be knock, not
who's there leadership? Yeah, but I thought, nobody don't want
me to talk. That's why. That's why when people tell
you don't say nothing, you don't need to say anything,
because you know, you just keep talking. I've been told
that all my life. And look at me. I'm a
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podcast host. I've been a teacher on the college level.
Come on, now, I didn't make this up. All right.
I want to go back to because I want to
talk about our elderly. This is World Elder Abuse Month Awareness.
They the reason I believe. This is me. I believe
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the reason why funding has been taken in certain arenas
is because it was it was, it was abused. It
didn't go to the populations that it needed to go to.
And that's just me. Nobody even heard let me say this,
But I'm saying this because I'm talking from the inside out,
because I know resources are out there and the right people,
the Donald trot and the hopeless folks, the folks who
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have no voice, they're the ones who didn't have not
received the services. And now we've got we still got
tarps on houses. We still have the blue tarps, and
they're not supposed to be there. Once the hurricane is
done and you've been found eligible to get the tarp
off your house, it's supposed to be removed because the
repairs follow up. But look where we're at now, Okay,
and now people has kind of been not dissolved but
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put on a burner and they're going through investigation and audit.
I upset, not really, they got houses with blue tarps
still on them. I got apartment buildings with blue tarps
on them. Y'all say something, Just pray for me.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Well, I guess you're a tough back to follow. That's
what sure, Yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
It is unfortunate. You know, the elderly are one of
the most.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
Vulnerable populations, if not the most vulnerable, you know, just
looking at the resources people evilness, I mean, taking advantage
of people who can't defend for themselves or maybe not
even make the right decisions. Are very trusting of folks,
and I just that is just one thing that gets
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under my skin, you know, when you take advantage of
people that really need the help and assistance and support.
And sometimes we tend to think as a whole that
because a person is elderly, that we need to just
go ahead and just let them wither away and go somewhere,
and that's really the time of their life that they
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should be wonder years, you know, the best quality of life.
And sometimes people are oh they need to just go
sit down. No, sometimes they You have a lot of
people who are older or older got more life than
some folks.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
You know.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
I can tell you that some people that can walk
circles around me, ninety some years old can walk circles
around me. But I think it's just society as a
whole does not pay attention, you know, They should not
have to go without food, shelter, clothing, insurance.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
They should be taken care of. They really should be.
And it's just.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Unfortunate that that people take advantage of them. And I
hate to I'd hate to be the one that doing
that and have to meet my maker.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
I'd hate to do that.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Men, amen, and they have wisdom. My advisory counsel for
my nonprofit are made up of people at least over
seventy plus years old. And all I'm doing is this time,
what do you think about this?
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Well?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Know, you know what you and I'm listening. And I
did that as a child when I would go see
my grandmother once a year, I said on the porch.
My cousins will tell you no, she sat on the porch.
She didn't come in play with us, or when she
talked about things. One lady said, well, what were you
my one of my cousins and I have older cousins
like they were like seventy and ninety. That's that's the generation. Yeah,
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they were seventy and ninety. And one cousin married this
woman and we were out there and we were talking,
and all my cousins are listening to me and they're like,
you know, sitting on the bench that my dad made
in naw And so I came in to get some
water and she said, can I ask you? What were
you talking about? Also, oh, the movie Friday the thirteenth,
She said what I said, yeah, a Friday at thirteen.
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She's like, oh, because I have never seen she said,
I'm a teacher and I've never had students sit at
the edge of their seat listening to somebody. I said, oh,
then I have a cousin, my favorite cousin that I
looked just like, this is Jacksonville. That's a nurse. She said, Well, Lisa,
when I told her about my first book, she said,
I wasn't surprised. I knew you were going to do
something with you talking and stuff you're teaching. I'm not
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surprised you teach it on a college you a professor.
I was a surprise. I said, Oh, okay, you know,
but my seniors, I'm gonna work for them. I'm gonna
do whatever they need to. We're gonna probably do some
outreach this year for them, whether it's at a independent
retirement community or whether it's at an assistant living facility
(39:20):
or hey, guys, my avid listeners out there, the five
of y'all, six of y'all, let me know in your town,
if you've got an assistant living or a convalescent facility
that needs some assistance, let us know. Okay, let us know.
We can adopt them and we'll spearhead. You know, you
be the team league. Yes, you'll lead this. You're gonna
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lead us. Yes, because some of y'all need to come home.
Stop hiding behind the wings the shadows. You lead it
by making a phone call asking the facility do you
have any need? Do your residents have any needs? You know,
do they have people, you know, family to come and
visit them and things like that, and get back to
us on that. All right. I don't know what is
getting ready to do. He just I'm hearing this for
(40:02):
the first time. As you're hearing it, all right, Pastor
you're sitting there, you know, stroking your beer. Come on,
bring up, bring it up, bring it up, whatever is
on your mind. What's on your mind? Oh guys?
Speaker 4 (40:10):
Now, well, right now, I know that there's someone out
there who's praying and trying to get answers from God,
and the Holy Spirit led me to Ephesians Chapter one,
verse three, and it says, blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Christ, who has blessed us with
(40:32):
every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. I
don't know who needs to hear this, but the answer is,
blessing is yours. You just have to believe. Take it.
It's for you.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Everybody, reach out, Go ahead, sir, sorry, stop.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Stop stop questioning the Lord.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
I want everybody put their hands up. As he's talking.
Put your hands up, both of them, both your hands.
Put your hands up. Yes, yours.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Take it, got your name on it. Take it. Stop
questioning it. Take it now. You're fighting, but you're supposed
to fight because the devil doesn't want you to have
that blessing, because the devil's a liar. Whoever is praying
for it. The answer is it's yours.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
And you believe it. You believe it. Remember the revelation
God gave real quick. He said, you know, people asked
how long do you pray about a thing? And the
Lord said, let them know. They keep praying it to
you believe I'm going to do it. You keep praying
until you believe that God's going to do it. I
don't repeat prayers anymore on some things I don't even
pray about. I was like, you know, I was wondering,
(41:41):
what would it look like if this is next thing?
I know, I got an email coming, got a request coming,
I got a text coming. All I'm just thinking out
out and don't be looking for no box. No box exists.
That's your education, that's how you were raised. If you're
in military and things like that, you raise a certain way. Yeah, amen,
thank you, Thank you, pastor. That's what we're doing doing.
(42:03):
We don't hold up the Holy Spirit. Let him do
what he does best. Set the captives free. That's it
for us. That's our time. You stay blessed, you stay focused,
keep your hands up. If you put your hands up,
then you need to be expecting a blessing in the
next twenty four hours or less. In Jesus' name, we pray.
(42:23):
See you next time, same station, same time, Night night
Speaker 4 (43:13):
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