A Tale of Two Cities – A Love Story Beyond All Barriers

On this moving episode of One Step Ahead Radio Show, host Dr. Marlene Mack sits down with Troy and Tanisha Williams to share a love story that transcends distance, challenges, and expectations.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Good afternoon, and welcome to s O S Radio Live.
I am your host, Marlene Matt or should I say
doctor Marlen Matt Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. I have a fat,
a fantastic show ready for you this hour. I want

(01:03):
you to buckle up. I want you to get the
tissue box ready. I want you to just get somewhere
and sit down. I have two amazing people that are
here with me this afternoon. I want you to see
Troy Williams and his beautiful wife, Tuanisia Williams. They are
my guests for the next hour, and boy do they

(01:23):
have a story to share with you onto this evening.
So stay tuned as we get ready to go back
to our guest, which is Troy Williams and Miss Tuanisia Williams.
Please welcome them right now. So this is Troy and Tanisha.

(01:43):
I want you guys to introduce yourselves to my audience.
I know they're out there watching. I've been talking about
you guys coming on this show all week to share
your phenomenon stories not a story, not a story, but
a story. So I would like for you to just
introduce yourself and tell tell us a little bit about
who you are.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Hello radio world out there, Hello everybody, and I want
to say congratulations getting to doctor Marlene with the radio show.
And I want to think everyone that's responsible for this
opportunity to share yess. My name is Troy Williams. I
was born in York, but I was raised in Elizabeth.

(02:26):
I went to Elizabeth Heights, who graduated in nineteen eighty four.
At that time it was one church that Elizabeth was
Tabernacle under the late Bishop Nathan Jackson, where I was
raised at.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
And my father James Williams and my mother you know Williams.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Those are my parents, yes, and my siblings, yes, we
have many of them, lots of lots of siblings.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
My baby brother Pastor Jimmy Williams, and.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
From Ma Reese to Reesa Sharmon first Lady May, my
brother Reggie, my brother Derek, and my sister Sheila, first
Lady Bullock, and my brother baby brother Philip. That's that
was on my father father's side that we had from

(03:22):
my mother's side. But anyway, but God is good and
it's a blessed to be here, and yeah, I'm ready.
I'm ready to the transition.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Shout out to the William's family and Elizabeth.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
So but yeah, I'm on my second marriage with my wife, Tanisha,
who I've been married to for almost four years now.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
The October thirtieth will be four years. A new faith
with God.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Wow, new career and education.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Uh. I am a university student online okay wow, and
just ready for some more of the neon next step.
So thank God is about to do for us. So
that's just a starter.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
What's going on with me?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, you want to tell us a little bit about you?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (04:20):
I like to say thank you to doctor doctor, doctor
Mac and the rest of the staff. You welcome and
help make this possible. We're so grateful, godly grateful for
this opportunity to share our experience. I am from the Brunswick,
New Jersey. I am one of nine children. The family

(04:40):
is known as the Walker Family and the Brunswick.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay, wait wait, wait, wait wait wait. You from a
big family. Joy, You're from a big family nine and
I'm actually number nine. I'm the baby, the baby. So
you both got big family from both sides. Okay, that's amazing.
I always wanted to be a part of a big family.
My family is very small, so I am so happy

(05:05):
to know that you guys have a big family. That's
amazing on both and you note and nine wow.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
And we have nine children and nine grandchildren collectively number nine,
so it's amazing. We both are in education. I'm currently
studying at Key University along with my husband to be
a school teacher, and we both work in the same place.

(05:32):
So it's it's it's pretty amazing. And I just thank
God for the journey that he has us on. It's
been beautiful since me and my husband got back together.
And I'm just looking forward, like he said, to our
next this journey that God has us on, we're looking
forward to it. We don't know what else is going
to take place, but we're saying yes to the leading.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
So this journey before we went on, you guys shared
a little bit with me about some of the journey
struggles and the things that you guys who went through.
But before we get into that, can you tell us
a little bit of how you both met, how y'all
met each other.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Okay, I'm trying to make this real quick. Nineteen I
believe it was ninety three or ninety two. She was
twenty years old. I was twenty four. One of my
childhood friends introduced me to her. I was living to

(06:40):
live a lifestyle back then. So many people are no,
one don't know I was in the entertainment business. But
I was introduced to her, introduced to her through that,
and that was over thirty something years ago.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Wow. So when you say you were in the entertainment business,
you want to answer that question briefly.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
I am a child of God. So but anyway, Yeah,
I used to be a melk dancer for about fifteen years.
But I met her during that era of my life. Okay,
when I was doing that.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
You guys were very young at that tity young, and
you met each other well over like twenty some years ago,
thirty years ago, and okay, and then you missed Tanisha
and you met him around that same time.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
I was twenty years old and he was twenty four.
We became best friends instantly. The attraction was definitely there.
We were both in the entertainment field at the time
and everything, so you know, it was this amazing journey.
We just kind of like it's lived life freely. We

(07:58):
were just enjoying each other's company and this you know,
enjoyed every moment. So it was this an amazing, amazing
journey in the beginning when we first met. We always
loved each other from the beginning, since we were twenty
and twenty four. You know, I always knew that I
wanted to be with him. I always, you know, always

(08:20):
knew that you know, he was the one so in
my heart. So it was a blessing after God brought
us back together thirty years later.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
So at what point, what was some of the struggles
that you guys went to that ended up leading up
to your separation because there was a period where y'all
had lost communication with each other, right.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, for me, for what I can gather might explain
to you years ago, when I gave my friend a
party at this place which is no longer called World Paradise.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
It was an erb to New Jersey, and I gave
him a birthday party.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
And on that night I gave direct instructions because we
was partying in and drinking everything, having a good time.
I said, do not mam get on his motorcycle because
he wanted to ride his bike. Even though he could
ride the bike, I said, please don't let him get
on that. And they assured me at the time they

(09:24):
wouldn't let you know that wouldn't happen. So I left
the club and went home. I received a phone call
like two thirty in the morning that he was evolved
in the accent and he had died.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
So a lot of people didn't know him by his
real name, and they really didn't know him the way.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
That I did because we grew up in Elizabeth.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
We went we played football together, we went to high
school together track, and then we wound up in his
business being together football time, so nobody can identify him.
I was the one that the identify the body, and
I always wanted to go on to his parents' house
to tell him that he had passed. So that kind
of like took a lot out of me. And and yes,

(10:12):
and during some time after that, I lost interest in
what I was doing with the dancing, and then I
wound up moving away and got married. Then the rest
is history up until the time to came back together. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
And for your wife, Tunisia, the were you around the
time of that accident.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah, I was around as well, and he was also
one of my best friends as well at the time
when he passed away. The gentleman that he that he
spoke of and I was weird when he passed away
and everything like that, but I didn't I didn't reach
out because I was in my in my pride, being

(10:56):
prideful and still hurt because you know the way we we,
you know, we separated, we had a little fat and
you know, I just didn't want to be the one
to say I'm sorry first, you know, which it was
something that I always regretted and I always said that
I ever got back in contact with him, you know,
I wasn't going to let him go, you know. And

(11:20):
that was a really really difficult period for him as
well as for me, because like you said, we were
all friends. We all we were all young growing up together,
this living life and freely and this, you know, making
mistakes and having fun together, right you know yah, you
know when that happened, it was very tragic for all
of us. And you know that were surrounded around that time.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
You know, I could I could still see enjoy to
just even talk a little bit about the night of
that accident. It still bothered you in five it.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Was yesterday, you know, bout him every night m h.
And when I when I went through something in my
life periodically, he would come to me in my dream
and I'll be I see him in the buidence is
not going to look for him. He'll look at me
and then he put his head down, and then then
I go look for him and he'll be gone. But

(12:18):
during those times in my life, I was I didn't
say lifing, but I was living a secret life, you know.
I was. I was living a secret life of of
of addiction and dragon you said nobody knew about. And
I was a functional addict.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
What that that means?

Speaker 4 (12:40):
I had a full time I had two full time jobs.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
I was still in college taking care of a family.
It didn't stop me from from living.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
But that void was still there because at that time,
not knowing, having never really variance or even admitting that.
You're adding that you're crying out for help when you're
abusing yourself constantly like that, and you have never known
because I kept myself up.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Until I couldn't do it anymore.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
So you were able to go to work. I still
want to function what you had to do, but you
were still taking Yeah. Wow, So m would you contribute
the fact that that when you said void, could that

(13:34):
board be the loss of your friend that kept you
it was.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
It was a combination of things, because.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
When the truth hits you and you realize that a
certain lifestyle you don't want to be remembered for. I
didn't want to be remembered being a dancer, you know,
I want to be remembered being more than just that.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Right, even coming out of high.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
School losing uh scholarship Syracuse University, you know, full ride,
I could have ran track or played for I could
have been playing professional football. I could have you know,
I could have done some things. I carried that on
top of the death of my best friend and then

(14:22):
my first marriage didn't do too good wow, which was
an intricate part of my life. I had some good
people that was in part of my life that just
didn't work out. I don't discredit anybody, to be clear,
I don't discredit anybody. I love all my children that

(14:43):
I have. I had two sons by my my wife
and everything. I was very close to her family. I
was a blessing to her family. We kept good friends
along the way and even personal I was involved with
when when I met my wife down It's still an

(15:04):
intricate part of us, real close to us. We don't
take no I don't take no credit from anyone. I
have some good people in my life, but that void
is just it was just too heavy. And then growing
up being in church and black people may not have known,

(15:29):
maybe they did, you know, Alcoholism ran in my family
on my father's side. My father was a preacher, you know,
and you know it trickled down. But I was functional.
I didn't make up any excuses for what I did.
I just did it. But when I totally submitted HM

(15:54):
to change, I was able to change my life. God
took the taste.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Out of my mouth.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
And that that is something that you know, one of
my favorite scriptures, weeping may and do it for a night,
but joy will come in the morning. You can go
through so many things, but like you said, Troy, God
took that taste out of your mouth, and you can
go to rehab. There's no rehab better than God. Because

(16:26):
what they say, won't he do it?

Speaker 2 (16:30):
He did it in two days. I put myself in
the program, but in two days he because my mind
was made up and I didn't want to lose my wife.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
I'm trying not to.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
It was it was life. It was life change for me.
You know, you get tired of messing up. I was
tired of messing up.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know, Yeah, yeah, I get it. But you know
what I'm looking at. Look at you now. You ain't
even begin to say all the things that you were
tired of. You just hit a little bit of it.
But I want to go to Tunisia because tanisha YouTube

(17:33):
together and y'all story is just unbelievable. Last week I
launched my live show and I told my story and
I thought that was what I've gone through was so much.
It's not gonna take away what I'm going through. But
to hear the things that you two went through, we
haven't even scratched the surface of what really took place.

(17:57):
So I want to I want to. I want to
go to you right now and give Troy a little break.
And you, I know for a fact you was in
a wheelchair like I was. Yes, but I wasn't in
that wheelchair as long as you was. What what put
you in that chair and what inspired you to get
out of that chair? And how long has it been
since you've been out of that wheelchair?

Speaker 4 (18:18):
Well, all I can say is that it was God.
In May of twenty twelve, I had been diagnosed with
fiber tumors, something that's very common among black women. I
had thirty of them. I was in nursing school.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Of the time, you had thirty what you had thirty
five or tumors at one.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
Time at one time?

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
And I was having a lot of you know, difficulty
with my cycle and things like that. And then the
doctor talk to me. He said, you know, what you
can do is too much blood. You're gonna either have
to get the search redone to get them removed, or
you're gonna have to get blood transfusions because you're going

(19:04):
to bleed out. You know, you could dia from this.
And I was a nursing school at the time. I
was a single parent, and I was apprehensive to have
the surgery because I was trying to figure out my life,
how I was gonna take care of my kids and
who was gonna take care of them and me while
I was going through the process at the time, the

(19:27):
young man that I was with helped me and I
decided to have the surgery. And when I had the surgery,
I winded up passing on the table. The only thing
that I remembered is that when I was under I
remember seeing my daughters and the young man that I

(19:48):
was with at the time in the room with the
doctor and they were crying and I didn't notice. It
was like an out of body experience, and I knew
I had went in and had the surgery some contemplat
in my mind. When I'm seeing this, I'm just like,
this doesn't make any sense, not knowing that I that
I had passed. When they so you you you you died,

(20:11):
I died, and you saw yourself and I saw myself
like my children in the other room talking to the doctors,
and they were they were with the young men that
I was with at Simon. I was crying and I
was like, I didn't understand. And then when they brought
me back to the doctors brought me back, I kept

(20:32):
falling down and I couldn't understand what was going on
with me. And then my children kind of like explained
to me everything that had happened and the very thing
that I that I saw when I was under They said, mom,
that that happened. That was that's really what happened. We
were in the room talking to the doctor and he
was saying to us that he couldn't understand why he

(20:54):
couldn't bring you out of the anesthesia. They couldn't wake
you up. It was supposed to be an hour procedure,
and they couldn't bring you, bring you out of it.
And I didn't know that's what happened to me, And
so I knew, you know, I felt like I was like,
you know, I understood that it was nothing but the
grace of God that I still wasn't even here. And
then at that time I started falling down and I

(21:18):
went from a caine to a walker, from walker to
a wheelchair in a matter of weeks. And come to
find out they had cut my vegas nerve, which gave
me permanent nerve damage.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
At the time, the vagus nerve, can you elaborate, like,
tell us a little bit, what what? What purpose do
that nerve serve?

Speaker 4 (21:37):
And controls all your motility in your body, all the
motion for your heart, for your your lungs, for your bladder,
everything it controls for your stomach, controls everything. So because
of that, I winded up getting what they call a
gastro paresis, which meant my stomach was partially paralyzed, which
means meant I no longer had the ability to digest

(22:01):
my food on my own. I had to do artificial digestion,
which was given to me by taking a pill like
four times a day for my food to even digest. Wow,
because of what happened to me. And then I winded
up being in a wheelchair for over ten years.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
And you know, I told my story last week that
I was in a wheelchair for a number of months
and I left the wheelchair, went to the Walk of
the King to rehab, constant rehab, constant rehab.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
But you were in the wheelchair for how many years?
Ten years? And I had a nurse coming in full
time five days a week, and the doctor had pretty
much just giving me up because they said it was
there was no cure for what I had. They couldn't
reverse it, and they said I would be in the
wheelchair for the rest of my life.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
And see that that right there, I know that had
to spark some fire in you, because I know you're
not and you didn't, because I'm looking at you right now,
didn't accept that report. Right, So when you were going
through this, you and your husband now were not together.
Y'all was totally doing on opposite things. Now and back

(23:17):
to you, Troy, when she was going through that, what
else were you doing in your lifetime? What are the
things that hit you hard that you that you can
tell us about.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Well, I'm gonna tell you this. Twenty twelve, I was on.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
The brink of separating from my family.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
At the time, I was still using but this particular
day I wasn't using an house. I went and visit
my family in South Jersey. My sons wanted me to
come back out on the grill from the grail man. Okay,
you know, so I did that. I said, Wow, I said,

(24:07):
I'm gonna really separate from my family. You know, my
manager was pretty much over because there wasn't I felt
there wasn't anything they had left between me and my
wife at the time as far as intimacy is concerned.
And like I said, I always did my own thing.
But this particular day, I didn't do anything. I said,

(24:29):
I'm going for a walk. I walked around the corner
and I can remember looking, you know, Desila Street, the
Soil Street.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
I don't remember anything.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Else after that.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Wow, oh my god, I.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Had got struck by a pickup truck going eighty miles
an hour that hit me and knocked all and knocked
me out of all.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
My Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
They found my body a hundred feet up inside of
the restaurant parking lot, mangled. I don't think they could
air lift me to the hospital because my body was
so mingled up.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
But I wound up in the hospital for a couple
of months.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
I was.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Rehad mm hm.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Reconstruction on my face, my job on, almost lost my eye,
right eye, got titanium, face, leg head, I had hip
replacement like you did, had to learn how to walk
all over again, that type of thing. Yeah, but God
brought me out, you know, wow, a lot of I

(25:49):
had a lot of entries. But I'm still here. If
you were to see me, you wouldn't know if I
didn't say anything. But that happened in October two thousand. Well,
so I'm a testament.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Let me interrupt you. So your your accident. You was
just crossing the street, minding your business, and a pickup
truck on seventy eighty miles an hours hit you, knock
you clean out of your clothes. You was landed one
hundred feet in somebody's parking lot. You with so many
tumors about to bleed out, went under the knife. The

(26:27):
doctor cut your vascular vegas nerve twenty twelve, May.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
Octo.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
My surgery was May twenty twelve, okay, where I had
to have a total hit replacement and the doctor accidentally
cut the nerve and half that diagnosed me with and
the roperty. But look at us now, yes, take take

(27:07):
a look at us. Yes, take a look at us.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
We look good.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
And this is nothing but God.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
This is nothing but God, all of it.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Because you know, you two know, I know what it
is to wake up and not know what's going on,
to wake up and being so much pain. They can't
give you enough pain.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
Killers to take the pain of us.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
And we both know, the three of us that just
because we're giving an ill report by someone means that
we cannot accept it. And I'm looking at you guys,
and I know for a fact y'all didn't accept it.
But something went on, something went on later down the

(27:59):
road that made you after being away from Troy for
what twenty years, almost thirty years, because the last time
you all was together having a good time was probably
at that party where his best friend died in a
motorcycle accident that night. So Troy went his way. He said,

(28:19):
he gave up that lifestyle. He wasn't doing entertainment and
no more. He was done with it.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Right.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Who knows what happened with you at during that time?
Besides that surgery, there were other things going on with
you bound to that wheelchair about to be evicted. Right, Okay,
What how did y'all get to this point with all
of this that has taken place in your life? Tenician Troy?

(28:45):
How with all those years gone, you're here? You that
y'all gonna moved on? Husband, wi is the other children?
How in the world did y'all two get back together
after all those years? What did that?

Speaker 4 (29:03):
It was all God? Say it again, it was God.
God will be all the glory. Like he says, God
has put together, Let no man put us under. It's
all God. We have to give the credit fully to God,
because without him, we wouldn't even be here. We wouldn't
even be here until our testimony. We wouldn't be here

(29:24):
for our families. We wouldn't be here to do anything.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
How we got here.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
Well after my accident and I was going through my
handicap It was May of twenty and nineteen. During May
twenty nineteen, I moved into my apartment. At the time.
Prior to that, I had been evicted from the house

(29:51):
that I was in that while I was handicapped. My
partner had left me while I was handicapped, and I
had to figure it out. And I said, God, who's
gonna want me like this? You know, I wanted more children.
I wasted all this time in my life. I was
going through a depression, and I said, you know what's

(30:12):
going to happen to me now? And I felt like
all I had was my mom and my mom at
the time was sick. And I just began to pray,
because I've always been a prayer warrior, and I began
to pray, and the Holy Spirit dropped my husband's name
into my spirit, and he said, Troy Williams. And I said, wait,
wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Just you you you handicap. Yeah, you're still in the wheelchair.
You are about to be evicted, right, the love of
your life has walked out on you. And God drops
Troy William's name and your spirits. Yes, that's powerful, Yes,

(30:56):
go ahead.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
And I just began to pray, and I said, you know,
what is it that you want me to do? You?
You know, I haven't seen this man in over thirty years.
You want me to pray for him. He's sick, is
somebody in his family's sick? What is it? Lord? I
was praying for God to give me direction on how
he wanted me to pray. And I said, Lord, I
don't even know where to find him. If I knew,

(31:19):
even if I where would I start? And the Holy
Spirit began to minister to me, and he said.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Google him.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
And when I googled him, the first account that came up,
and I didn't have a Facebook at the time, Google
him and his Facebook account came up.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
So you tracked him down down on Facebook, our Facebook Facebook.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
So for May of twenty nineteen, I started sending I
created a messenger because he wouldn't remember me by my my, my,
my real name, which was Tanisha. He would have remembered
me by my Dan's name that he gave me, which
was Coco. Okay, So I created a message and I
put that down, Yes, And I put that down on

(32:07):
the messenger, and I started sending him pictures and messages okay.
And I just you know, I just said, no, are
you okay? God, drop you on my spear. I just
want to make sure you're okay, you know, please, you know,
accept my friend requests or just reach out. Here is
my number. I left the number of pictures messages and
I did this for like about six months.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Amazing. Wait wait wait hold up, okay, wait, so you
googled him, you found them on Facebook, and for six
months you kept texting him in boxing him or whatever,
boxing him, No response, no response, nothing until October, a
little bit before his birthday, which is October.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
Twenty ninth, and responded.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
So after after six months, he responded, yes, okay, and
go ahead tell us some more about that.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
He finally called me and he said, well, babe, this
is you. I said, you know, yes, daddy, it's me. Yes,
And I told him that it was me, and I said, well,
you know, God dropped you in my spirit and I said,
I just want to make sure you're okay. I said,

(33:19):
I didn't forget what you did for me all those
years ago. I remember when you know, my daughter's father
died maids. He took care of me and my daughter. Wow,
And I didn't know how I was going to make it.
And then he showed me about the business and I
was able to try to support myself, even though that's

(33:39):
something that I really didn't want to do at the time.
I did what I had to do to take care
of my daughter, and he helped me, and like three lepers,
I wanted to come back to him and say thank.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
You, you know. And I don't want to be powerful
and preach. But when you do the right thing by
a person, sometimes they take ten years in that person's heart.
They know who helped him, and they'll find you, even
if it's to just say thank you, you know. But see,

(34:13):
God had a plan and the plan is slowly rebuilding
now and we want to get to that. So now
he responded, you thank them, but you said something that
was really powerful to me. Troy was still going through
what he was going through, but yet he still had
in his heart to help you. Yes, and your family.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
You know a lot of times we go through our
own mess. We don't have time for nobody else. We
want to be about me, myself and I on the
petty party. When you can find someone that can just
take time and know that they're going through too and
they're gonna help you too, that's a keeper. And I'm

(34:54):
saying that to say because Troy is my god brother.
We had to say saying god mother, fum Glenda Gunda Lucas. Okay,
and if I remember, it was just me and Troy.
That was my brother. I was his sister Tracy right
off of Clinton Abbey in Newark, right and I remember

(35:16):
we used to be together and she used to do
things for me and Troy. Troy had that heart back then.
He was always a person of giving, okay, and always
have the saying it's better to give than received. So
back then, what we went through, we may not realize
that it was preparing us for this moment. All right,
for you guys to tell your story. And I want

(35:38):
y'all to continue to tell this story because you've already
listed a list of things that most people couldn't go through.
They would have thrown the towel in. But I want
the listeners or somebody that's out there listening know that
you're gonna go through stuff.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
You gotta be strong and have faith. You gotta know
that you know that God is there for you. And
that was part of my my testimony, perseverance. Perseverance because
I don't receive it reports and I don't do negativity,
and I don't do bad any thing.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Is now, we grew up in church and I know
the way. And for me, I was contemplating suicide. Oh
my god the night that I called her.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Oh well, so six months when you finally got back
in contact with her, you were thinking about taking your
own life. My god, my god, right before you called.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
I tried.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
I was. I tried.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
I tried, well let me.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
He wouldn't let it and won't let it get to me.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
When I said, I tried to smoke everything that I saw,
I couldn't even get hi.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
I just wanted to take it away.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
And I opened up that message with her mm hmmm,
and I told her what was going on. I was embarrassed,
you know, I didn't like what I saw on the mirror.
But at the same time, I had been looking for

(37:22):
her two years before that happened. I spoke to her
friend of hours and he said he knew where she was.
And I said, Yo, like you said you knew where
Coco was at, like like herking brother?

Speaker 4 (37:37):
Uh like real like.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Any anyway, because somebody know my cousin. I have a
cousin named Quasi James over me. Uh, it's my family.
And let me tell you, I didn't even have to
say the name. And we hadn't talked to her in years,
and I said, guess who I grand it to, Guess
who I'm with? And he said, was sounding your voice?

(38:02):
It sounded like.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Coco.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Love that name right on, right on and now. And wow,
Like I said, I left everything that I had to
be with this show. Meeting God saved my life, but
he sent the right one to pour me out of
what I was in. God makes no mistakes, and we've
been together ever since, and the journey is real. And

(38:29):
I got to meet and learn who Tanisha is because
I didn't know Tannisia.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
I knew Coco, you knew Coco.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
But getting to know who my wife Tanisha is and
who she is now, it's it's amazing thing to me.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
I loved someone because I didn't know how to do
that before.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
So since you speaking about how wonderful your wife is
and I know she is, and how how wonderful it
is to get to know her, you shared something right
before we went on air about who she really is
to you. Out of every person you've been with in
your past, there's something phenomenon I think you need to

(39:11):
just share as a man about your wife.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
I'm gonna say this I've learned to know who my
wife is. It takes a special man to love someone
like my wife because she's been through so much. It
takes a special person to love her the way that

(39:37):
I do. And I'm saying on the airwaves and people
know who Troy is and I have never I'm a
good person, but I have never I have never been
faithful to a woman before. Oh my God, in my
entire life. But that's when right here, Yes I'm faithful.

(40:05):
And if you don't think a man could be faithful,
he can be faithful, especially where I come from.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
I come from the gutter, a man who.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
I wouldn't say it was a manipulator, but I was
a piece of work. But I got cleaned up. I
got cleaned up, and he can do it. Fellas, there
is no such thing as I can tressed and belief.
You talked about a man that was a mouth dancer,
who's seen and done everything in the book Jesus, and

(40:38):
still here today.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
And God has kept me.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Disease free, Jesus, no STDs, no sistances from that lifestyle
that he kept me. And to be here with my
wife who deserved to be loved, and I deserve to
be loved. Yes, so I had to learn who Tanisha was.

(41:08):
My wife, not my friend, not my girlfriend Coco, but Tanisha.
So but it feels amazing to love one person genuinely.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
And I'm satisfied.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
Wow wow.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
For me.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
And I'm telling you something. You know, she is had
the opportunity to meet her just today, you know. But
I do follow you guys on you know, social media,
and I'm like, okay, I'm gonna get them glasses.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
And y'all know me.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
I'm gonna get high glasses. I'm gonna get just look
at the camp because I want them glasses. I want those.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Just so y'all know, I'm in TMO Anonymous, my husband.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
Shopping.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Oh my god, y'all look great. You guys look fantastic book.
We had one our viewers up here from the chat,
miss Adrian Torras. She said, you guys, your story is amazing.
God is good. Words of encouragement, you know, And we
thank miss Adrian for just coming in and chatting with us.

(42:27):
But I want to go on to something else. Okay,
So let's let's do a little fast forward. Because we
have listed tragedy, we have listed a lot and you
guys have been through some some really tragedy, some really

(42:49):
things that, like I said, some people will just gave up,
you know. And we didn't even touch on the fact
that Troy had pastay cancer in a bleeding appendicitis. It
was my append Just just just share a little bit
about that because I want to. I'm trying to build

(43:09):
this one unline.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
In two thousand and seventeen, I believe I was a
security guard in elizabeth at this Korean supermarket call Foodzar.
They have them all over New York Jersey City. So
I was, you know, work hard at my work of
harlic then, but I didn't realize at the time that

(43:36):
I was sick started throwing up at the store. When
I was in in Jersey City. I made it back
across the plastic skyway, leaning on my steering whel because
I have to set up. I went straight from one job,
I went straight to the next job. Pulled in the
parking lot, I couldn't get.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Out the car.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Say take some time off, drink some ginger ll or something.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
Right, it's not done in an hour, just go home.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
So by then everything was looking gray and black, So
I didn't know what was going on. So the next
morning I called my father and I was able to
crawl down the stairs.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Come walk.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
I crawled down the stairs and come and find out.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
Get to the hospital.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
They got to take my opinions out.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
They said that they had poison my whole body.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
You on your way out if.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
I would have stayed out then other day. So I
was able to had that surgery, but still had something
wrong with my coalon. So two days later they put
me robbed with Johnson for a whole month. The whole month,
I couldn't eat or drink anything. And my favorite channel

(44:49):
was the food channel. So that's how I ate looking
at the food channel. But God brought me through that.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Wow, he brought me through that.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
And then recently a last year Christmas Eve, I got
the results back from PSA levels that I have prostate cancer.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
My god.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
And then March seventh this year, I had the surgery
of this year, the surgery in March and April thirtieth,
I went in from my first checkup and they didn't
find anything. Our PSA levels was blailed the radar.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
Oh my god, cancer free, cancer free cancer.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Get your checked out again. Set again, get your PSA
levels checked out. Go get your prostate checked out. Don't
wait till you get fifty five sixty, do it when
you forty forty five.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
You get checked out. Better late than never.

Speaker 4 (45:59):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Wow, So this list is still building. Yes, Okay, I
want to I want to touch on something that's real
close to my heart. But I want to need you
to talk about it because it happened to her, Okay,
at a very very early age. And this is very

(46:22):
sensitive to me because I didn't go through what she's
about to share with us, but I had siblings, I
had close girlfriends that went through something similar, and I
need you to speak on it because to go through
that and what Troy has went through and all these

(46:44):
other things, I want someone out there. No, you can
get through it. You can get through it.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
Yeah. So when I was seven years old, I was
molested by my uncle. When I was fourteen years old,
I was raped by my boyfriend at the time when
I was virgin and to his friends. When I was
sixteen years old, I was kidnapped and I was put

(47:16):
into child trafficking. So I've been through weight.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Wait, you were seven and you were raped by a
family member. Then you got in your teens, you were
raped again. Then you were just just say it again.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
I was put into kidnapped and put into child trafficking
when I was sixteen years old.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
That's see I I is there anything else because this
list of the things that you guys went through, and
I'm getting chills. I'm getting chills just just because I
went through so much and I'm looking at beauty. I'm
looking at I know this is all God, And I

(48:07):
know that this story does not stop here. I know
that you guys got to continue to put this story
on the role because if there's anything you're talking about
drug abuse, sex trapping, you're talking about rape, you're talking
about depression, you're talking about suicide, you're talking about losing
a best friend, you're talking about pasta cancer, you're talking

(48:30):
about a major car accident that made his body almost bonic.
Me and Troy was talking the other day because I
got a Navy place and got a hippie place, and
he's showing me his car. He shure, I got this.
We can sit back and laugh of those things. But
when we went through it, and the back of our
mind was we're going to get through it because of
the faith. Because of the faith, you know, and I

(48:52):
want you guys to us, bring everyone up to date
right now, because when you think on the goodness of things,
my baby soul cries out, I'm not I don't have
what I want, but I'm.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
Not what I used to be.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
You know, remember Troy and Church A Change. Sharon used
to sing A Change. I still sing it to you, okay,
And that's my song. And I can hear it as
if we were in church and them folds up wooden
chairs A change. And I know you don't want me

(49:31):
to sing it, so I don't even know. I know
everybody don't want me to sing it, so I'm not
even gonna tempt to sing it. But a change is
gonna come.

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Over me and I'll never forget that song.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
So tell, Tell, Tell, tell everybody some of the major
fantastic things that are going in your life since y'all
have renighed and gotten back together, the goodness of grace,
talk about the two tales of the city, talk about
your careers and first time home. Let let it rang out.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
Tell everybody's the goodness of God.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
I'm going to start off half of it and I'm
let my wife finish the rest of it. Okay. So
my wife been praying that we get a job that
we don't have to work nights or weekends. Because I
did security and I did the housing inspection thing that
requires overnight sometimes, and you know a lot of hours.

(50:25):
I put in for security positions at the school, arm
guard positions, but you know, they were using police officers
at the time, so I didn't get the job.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
So I was a little discouraged.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
So she went and somebody pulled her in to go
find an application for education. So she gets the job
as a teacher's aid as assistant. So she run back
out to the car. I'm in the car. I'm mad,
Maybe come bringing your application. They waiting for you. I

(51:00):
think they can pull us into the back door. I'm like,
I don't want to be No, I ain't trying to
do that, gonna I'm just gonna come. So we goes in,
We go through the process, We get back in the
car on the way home. Before we even get home,
I get a call back and ask me could I

(51:20):
start working that Wednesday. I ain't even finished my paperwork yet.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
So we both get the same job, work at two
different schools, So now we don't have to work at
nights or weekends.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
Wait, wait, wait, I'm looking at teachers.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
We work with teachers, assistants, professionals from p K to
fourth grade, a right to some children and the regular kids.
All right, so we get the jobs. We get that.
And then the wife wanted to go back to school.
I want to go to college.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Look at God, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Were both are full time students at King University. Wow,
we're online and we're both on the Okay, that is
the rest of of some of the good stuff that.

Speaker 4 (52:19):
Okay, go ahead to me.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Your turn, your turn, your turn, girl, tell it.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
Yes. He didn't want to hear. He didn't want to
go to that interview. He was He was like, I'm
not going. You're going by yourself. I said, the Lord
said for you to come and for you to bring
your bring your resume. Okay, you to the back door.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
I want to do that.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
So I told him, you know, to this come and
I said, the Lord put it in my heart, and
you know you need to come as well, because God
is going open the door for you. And he didn't.
He wasn't really too adamant with that. He was he
was a little apprehensive. He was like, you know, I
don't want to I don't want to do that. I
don't want to go go through any of that. So
I said, uh, you know, I said, you know this,

(53:00):
be obedient, you know. So that's that's my thing. You know,
when the Lord speak, do exactly what he's telling me
to do, even though it don't make no sense to me.
I try to do exactly what he's asking me to
do because he has worked miracles in my life and
I've seen him move Jesus, do you know miraculous things?
You just follow and be obedient. You don't have to
understand the whole picture. But when God speaks to you,

(53:21):
it's important for you to adhere and to listen and
follow through because you never know, like my bishop is
preaching about, you never know, Bishop Jersey Rate, you never
know what your next is going to be. It's important
to follow whatever God is telling you. To be obedient.
It's better. Obedience is better than sacrifice. So you need
to be obedient to whatever God is saying to you,

(53:43):
whether it makes sense to you or not. So I
thank God that you know, he did it here and
he brought his application in. We both got the jobs
working at the school, and not only that they were
unionized so we didn't have to worry about job security
because we had job protection. On top of everything else.
We have to work weekends, and we both, like you said,

(54:03):
we're both for students at King University. We're going to
be teacher and counselor. We'll be graduating in twenty twenty six.
And my husband Will were pursuing his master's for to
be a social worker after that. And so, you know
things that it's been speeding up. God has just been
opening the doors for us. Recently, he opened up the
door for us to get a new purchase a new vehicle.

(54:26):
It's it's the first first new vehicle that we've had together,
my first new vehicle that I've ever had in my life,
brand new to the same week.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
Wait, wait, y'all got a new car, new car, brand
new car, brand new, not certified pre owned, No, no,
no certified own brand brand new, brand new. Okay, we
got it to smell like you smell.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
The less a new car, smell it white.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Yeah, look at God. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
And then we got that same week you got to
prove preapproved for a mortgage. Because we have been believing
God and praying for the God to open up a
door for us to be able to get our mortgage.
We've been working on our credit. One of the elders,
Elder Marvin, at our church. Yeah, shout out told Marvin
and so we were working with him and Bill gently

(55:20):
on our credit and everything like that, being obedient whatever
he told us to do. So we could you fix
us so we could be able to get complete our goal.
And our nephew, Kevin Bullock, who works for Crown Mortgage,
he reapproved us for a mortgage.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
We're now.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
Yes, we're now currently looking for a property for the
budget that we have, and we investigative. We found out
about the down payment assistance they have available for first
time home buyers, so we're we apply for all of
that as well, so we're eligible for that as well.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
And you guys are not playing.

Speaker 4 (56:02):
God is not playing God.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
God don't play with job.

Speaker 4 (56:07):
God play with job. And we're currently working with one
of the young ladies at our church, to Quitta. She's
a relatior. She's currently helping us. So it's all of
the mind connection that God has orchestrated all of this
in our life. You know, sometimes you look at things
like it says we can man do it for a
night but joy coming in the morning. And it is

(56:29):
definitely true, you know, and and and the children also
got during that same week, the children also got brand
new jobs. My daughter got a new job working as
a property manager. She got an eight thousand dollars increase.
My my baby daughter got another job working for rober

(56:52):
with Johnson and she got working from home. That's what
she that's what she prayed for, that's what we have
been praying for. So it was like a trickle down.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
That got a job working for Common tomorrow all the same.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
Yeah, it was back to back. And then one of
our other son got a job as well, and then
on top of that, our daughter, our oldest laughter, got
engaged right behind that. So it was like when God
says he will do exceedingly in thebund believe of all
you could ask and think according to the power that
already works in you say, it's a trickle down effect.
When you are faithful to God, he will be faithful

(57:29):
to you, and not only just to you, but he
will bless your seed as well. And that's what He
has done. And he has manifested so many miracles in
our life. You know, nothing that we deserve because listen,
we know we we we were living in sin and
we weren't we We didn't do anything to deserve any
of the blessings that God has given us, but for

(57:50):
the grace of God, and he has blessed us and
opened up doors, and He's given us another chance. Like
has God workers sings a song, it gives you a
second chance. And but I tell you he's given us
a second chance of life. I mean, we've been able
to travel out of the country for the first time
more than Oh my God, you know, things that we
never thought we would be able to do, going through

(58:13):
being sick and all those things that we went through,
and it's just like He's given us like he's starting
us all over again, all over again. And it's this
is a blessing that He's manifesting all of these things
in our life. And you know, we thank God for
our bishop, Bishop georgey Right and our spiritual mother, Pastor
Mary Seawright, because they're teachings that we've been learning at

(58:35):
Abundant Life. We've been applying him to our life. And
the Word is true. God's word is true. He is
not a man that he should lie, nor the son
of man that he should repent. If he declared the thing,
he will do it. And we are living proof that
if you just believe God and take him at his word,
let God be the truth and every man be alive,

(58:56):
he will do exactly what he said, and he'll do
be on whatever you ask or whatever you think that's impossible.
Nothing that's too impossible for him to do. It's impossible
for a man to do it, but for him, it's
nothing impossible. So if he tells you this diamonds hanging
from the ceiling and you believe it, you can have it.
You have it, and it's all what you believe, and

(59:17):
it's really really true. And God has manifested so many
miracles in our life that we we are humble and
we look grateful and we give God all the glory
and for everything that he's done. Not just we just
don't seek his hands, but we seeking his face because
we want to be effective in the body of Christ.
I always like this, like this, like to do this

(59:38):
prayer to my husband. We go up to sow our seed.
We're praying for God to make us philanthropists for the kingdom.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
I didn't, I wasn't. I was trying to.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
Because I'm I ain't trying to get all my stuff
for all the time. We just got this getting away now.
And I've never been and I've never been a tiger,
and I grew up in Yes. Let me tell you something.
Say it. I get my paycheck, I make money on
the side, I take that ten percent and I give
it right on that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
Thank God is continued to.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Bless and people on the street that we don't even know.
I wrote down that one through what you got, give, give.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
And you know what, Tunisians foy, I have that principle too.
It's better to give than received. Give with that good heart.
You know. I tell a lot of people sometimes they
may get.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
You expect give it from the heart.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
And give it from the heart. Yeah. So I am
with that now.

Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
And I like the.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
That's what.

Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
So be careful entertained strangers, because you can be. And
so I you know, when I read that a long
time ago, years ago, I just held on to that
principle because I don't believe that anybody that you meet
is by accident. Just like for this, it's always a
divine connection because God don't make mistakes. It's always in
the mind connection what he puts things together and it's

(01:01:10):
his hand on it. It's nobody that can do anything
about whatever. Whatever it's for you is for you. And
when God has his hand on your life and he's
orchestrating it, everything that He said and he spoke over
your life is coming to pass. I don't care how
long it takes. But you just have to believe that
you receive those things you ask for when you pray,

(01:01:32):
and God will do it, and you just have to
hold on. Just like what our healing, just like with
delivering from the addiction, everything that we went through, from
nervous breakdowns and everything, the cancer, everything, we was just
standing on the word of God and believe in God
for what he says. He has been faithful.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
Let me let me because you know my wife keep
going on and on, but let me talk you right.
But I'm her though my wife is a prayer warrior.
I want to tell you what happened to me went
right quick, back opened up my eyes. We was this
when I was drinking. Something happened whatever, whatever, And next

(01:02:11):
thing you know, I'm looking for my wife and she gone,
I'm like, where is she at? My wife was in
the living room. She had a prayer short cover over her.
She was on her knees. She had the prayer, the
war prayer. If any bab you don't know about the
war prayer, I'm talking about when you pray about going

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to war with devils and demons and when you going
to war in prayer. She had that and she was
on her knees. I went back in and snuck back
in my bedroom and sat on the edge of the bed,
and I just knew I saw somebody walk in my room.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
M I went straight down on my knees and started praying.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
And I got up and I asked her to forgive
me for whatever I said, whatever I did, and straighten
up my act. It was just the beginning of what
was what's going to be happening. So my wife is
a praying woman. So it's different when it's different when
you have a praying wife. Yes, yes, that that that
loves God. And my dad told me this is a

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special woman because a lot of people not gonna make
me take her zeal.

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
That's why I protect her the way that I do.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
Are You're supposed to be her.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
Heart and I protect her, you know, So I love her.
I love I love this from it so much. Man,
I love.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
You guys, are you already know you're living walking testiment? Okay,
I learned that word a long time ago. Testimony. You
can't give it until you pass the test. And before
you can spell the word testimony, there's that word T
S T. And you guys went through so many tests

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that you pass. And to see the alcoholism, the drug abuse,
the depression, the suicidal thoughts, the passtay cancer, the rape,
the sex trafficking, the molestation by family members, to just

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just to go through all of that, and this is
just how good God is because you could be down
on your last it's that faith as tiny as a
what you see.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
Okay, that's all you need.

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
And to the listeners out there, if you've been following
this story, I'm gonna let first of all, I'm in
awe because you guys have encouraged me. I went through
a lot too. But to sit in your presence and
feel your energy and your there's nothing but God on you.
There's nothing but the goodness and graces of God on y'all.

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So if you wanted to tell someone out there that
feels like there's no hope, that nobody cares, that that
darkness is never gonna stay darkness. What what message would
you give someone? Because I'm sure there's somebody out there
that needs to hear this, and you guys need to
take this. Put it on a road, put it in

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a motion picture, come up with some T shirts, do
something because you can't let it stop. You have a
gift of surviving. You have so many stories and I
know life pushes us back, but we always know to
do what take one step? So what would you what
would you say?

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
I'm gonna go first because you're gonna be your version.
Because she knows, she knows the scriptures. I know some scriptures.
She knows how to back up what she's saying with scriptures,
which is more powerful. But I'm gonna say, from my
own experience, for anyone that's in doubt, that you can't

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make it and anything that you're doing. And my mother
told me time and time and time and time and
over and over and over again. She said TC. She said,
put God first and see what happened. Put him first.
I understand what you're saying. Try God, put him first

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and see what happens. Until then, you're not gonna know
what's gonna happen. Put God first. Trust in God, give yourself,
your own forgiveness. Forgive yourself and trust God and see
how He will change your life. There's nothing, there is

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nothing on this earth that can.

Speaker 4 (01:06:59):
Do that for you. God, God, what he has done.

Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
For me, he can do it for you. Stay encouraged,
stay motivated, Love yourself first. Love yourself first, because if
you don't love yourself, you can't do anything for anybody else.
So staying courage, stay motivated. Know that God loves you.

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Put him first in your life. And I promise you
cannot guarantee you that everything would be all right.

Speaker 4 (01:07:30):
Yes, I just want to say God is able to
do exceedingly, in abundanly above all you could ask. To
think according to the power that already work within you.
When you trust God, he will not let you down.
He already know what you need before you even ask.

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He know what you're concerned about. He know what you're
worried about. He know what's going on in your family.
He know what's going on in the night season when
you can't sleep at night. He know what's going on
at work. You know what's going on with your children.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
He know.

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
But when you cast all your cares upon him, he
will take care of all of it. I don't care
what you're going through, because he said, no weapon that's
formed against you will be able to prosper. He never
told you that the weapon wouldn't be formed, but he
lets you know when you read the scripture that it
will not prosper. And every tongue that rises against you

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in judgment he will condemn. And you need not fight
in this battle because the battle is not yours. It
is the Lord's. And He is faithful that promise. So
be encouraged. Keep on trusting God. If you don't know him,
accept him today, because you can't live in this world
without him. Because he is the one that overcame the world.

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He is the one that has control over everyone in
this world because He is the Alpha and the Omega.
He is the beginning, He is the end. He is
the creator of all things. And apart from God, you
can't do anything. You can't do anything. Yes, So put
God first in your life and keep him first in
your life. Yes, and don't let anything separate you from

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the love of God. Yes, be encouraged. Know that God
is with you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
I hate to end this. My heart is so heavy
and so full and so encouraged. My favorite scripture is
Philippians four and thirteen. I can do all things through Christ,
who strengthens me. And I want to thank you guys
for coming on and sharing that story, and to the

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listeners and the followers out there be encouraged. I hope
you got something out of this. I hope you learn
that you know you could do all things through God
who strengthen you. Will never give up on your dreams,
keep pursuing rest of being, but put God first. In
love yourself, and remember, if life takes you back, take

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one step ahead. Thank you for tuning in. I'm your host,
mss Mack. Until next week, have a great week.