March 11, 2024 • 17 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's your favorite life coach lin Asian Angelina, and welcome
back to another episode of Transform Your Life Podcasts. This
is the safe space where we have conversations that help
you to transform your mind, transform your heart, and ultimately
the decisions that help you to transform every single aspect
of your life. So what I want to talk about today.
(00:21):
I had a week, y'all. I had a week.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I had a week.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I got a week, and it was really challenging for me.
I'm not gonna lie. It was really challenging for me
on an emotional level. A lot of personal things are
shifting in my life. And thank god it was not
(00:45):
the business blues this past week for once. But yeah,
a lot of things are shifting in my life. And
you know, sometimes our resistance to change can be hard.
Notice how I said our resistance to change, because the
moment that you accepted it becomes a lot easier. It's
our inability to accept that things change. And it's not
(01:08):
always easy to accept that, right, but once you do,
it does get easier.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know, you're new normal. It gets easier day by day.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And you know, I was really I was having a
conversation with someone this morning and I was being a
little vulnerable, and you know, I shared with her that
I left home at fifteen, and she was like, oh
my gosh, like what first of all, like that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
She's like, you know, I would say that I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I'm not because you are so incredible, and she was
just affirming me, and I was like, you get it,
Like you get it because I have those exact same sentiments.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I never feel sorry for myself.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I never pity myself for the hand that I was
dealt because I know and trust that God has given
me this special set of circumstances for me to be
able to grow in some way that others just aren't
called to, and that's just what it is.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So I never pity myself for it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So you know, I know that what I want to
talk about today is really just like never folding. You know,
my favorite thing about me is with all the things
I love about me, you know, my grittiness, my determination,
my discipline, my grind, my heart, my love for people,
(02:37):
my gentleness, my compassion. Look at me going on myself
sometimes you gotta do that, gash yourself up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
My love for God, my boldness for him.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I love the fact that I do not fold.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I love the fact that I am.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
One of the most persistent people that I know, and
that's a great quality to have. It's a strong trait
to carry, especially being an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
But also being a believer.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I feel, you know, and I would challenge you, as
you're listening to this, to think about you know, I'm
sure everybody listening to this has a story in their
life where you know, it was hard, it was challenging,
it was difficult, and instead of throwing in the towel,
you press through and you got better. But then there
(03:30):
are some areas in your life where you know you
keep giving up. You know you keep quitting. You know
you keep throwing in the towel.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know you.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Keep saying it's too hard when God's already given you
everything that you need. You know that, and I want
you to take evaluation of those areas because it's going
to require in this season something new from you. It's
going to require a different mindset, a different heart, a
different community for you to.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Be so it by.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Different vision for you to be able to get over
the humps that you're presented with. You know, I play spades,
and I often think about you know how sometimes I'm just.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Don't like the worst hand ever, like this is terrible.
But then I go.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Into it with such confidence because there's a knowing inside
of me that Number One, I have a partner on
the other side of the table, and even though we
can't talk to each other, I'm gonna trust that they
have something that's gonna be able to pull us through
as long as we're working together and collaborating properly, as
long as I'm leaning on and depending on them in a.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Way that allows us to get through this game. It
requires a lot of trust.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Now, sometimes if you play spades, sometimes it's nothing you
can do. You egg and partner your hands is terrible,
and those other two people who are not.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Nearly as good as you will win because they've been
dealt in easy hand.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Okay, But sometimes your partner has what it takes. And
in this case, I want you to think about God.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
The other morning, when I woke up, I had to
do my five am morning call for Black Women Transform,
and I shared this with them because I'm always.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Transparent and vulnerable in my community.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And I got on the call and I said, y'all,
when I woke up this morning, I didn't feel like
I had it. I didn't feel like I had it
in me to get on this call. So I had
a very candid conversation with God. I didn't try to
do an impressive prayer. I said, God, I know that
I don't really have it today, but I know you do.
I trust that you do. So what I'm gonna do
(05:38):
is I'm gonna get up, I'm gonna make my bed,
I'm gonna put on my gym clothes, and I'm going
to get prepared to do what You've told me to do.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
That's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And I did just that, and I had one of
the most amazing connected calls that morning because I didn't fold.
And there are so many times in my life that
I could look back and say, God gave me this hand,
and my only job is to play it.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
My only job.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It is not my job to throw in the towel,
because guess what happens when you do that.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You don't grow.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You might you might say, redeal me, give me something better,
But what you miss is the reason why you got
the hand in the first place. What you miss is
that creativity that you were supposed to grow. In that
critical thinking ability that you were supposed to grow, in,
that character that you were supposed to develop, that community
that you were supposed to find when it was hard.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That's what you.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Missed out on. When you say give me another hand,
this is the hand that I was supposed to have.
So I'm gonna throw in the towel. So I want
to encourage you as you go into this week to
not throw in the towel. Don't give up, don't fold.
It's not an option. You gotta stop looking at it
like it's a viable choice, because it's not. Not. If
(06:57):
God has called you to a purpose. Not if God
has called you to do something special, something that's bigger
than you, something that you can't even fathom.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
If God has.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Called you to something that big and enormous, do you
actually think that you at this level.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Can achieve it. Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
You have to be shaped and molded into the person
who can achieve it, and that's going to require some discomfort.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
That's gonna require some pain.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And the reason why most people fold is because they
are allowing themselves to go through feel that pain and say,
this pain is way too much, it's way too unbearable.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I don't like it. I hate it.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I'm gonna go the other way instead of just feeling
that temporary moment of pain, that temporary moment of discomfort
which we all have to go through to get to
that real joy, that real fulfillment, that real peace, that
real love, that real success that's on the other side.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Not this false idea, not.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
This artificial idea of love, success fulfillment, joy, peace. No,
we want the real thing, and the real thing is
on the other side of discomfort. The real thing is
on the other side of wherever you have to grow
the most. With my clients, I use a three question
method that gets them to make sound decisions.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
And that three.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Questions that I use I use it with myself also
all the time is what do I think, what do
I feel, what do I know?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And the reason why I use it? You know, I'll
share an example.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You know, sometimes when you're going through discomfort and pain
and you know a new normal, or you're confused, or
whatever the case may be, you start to talk to
yourself differently. You start to think thoughts that don't really
align you with the fact that you already have everything
in you to get through it. So you start to think,
you know, this is way too hard. I'm not cut
(08:51):
out for this. I'm not equipped for this. There's no
way that God called me to do this. There's no
way that I have a enough knowledge, that I have
enough charisma, that I have enough foresight, in sight, enough popularity.
(09:11):
If I don't have the looks, I don't have the voice,
I don't like. All these thoughts starts to come into
your mind, and then that creates an emotion. That emotion
starts to tell you I should just stop, I should
just quit. I shouldn't press forward because that's going to
be too much on me. It's too painful for me
(09:32):
to keep pressing forward. But the problem is most people,
they make their they make their decision in that what
do I feel? They make their decision in that emotional space.
But then the last question that you should ask yourself
is what do I know? What do I know when
(09:53):
it comes to this situation where I'm feeling weary, while
I'm where I'm feeling tired, where I'm feeling confused, where
I'm feeling lonely, where I'm feeling lost, where I'm feeling abandoned,
where I'm feeling hurt, What do I know? I know
that God will never leave me, He will never forsake me.
I know that it is my job to trust in
(10:14):
the Lord with all my heart and lean out on
my own understanding, and in all my ways acknowledge him,
and he will direct my paths. I know that I
am to seeking first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all other things will be added then to me.
I know this, and that's where people are supposed to
make their decisions, but they're making their decisions on shaky
(10:35):
ground and the emotional space. And the reason why I
could come on here and I could confidently say I
never fold is because I make my decisions from the knowing.
I decide in that knowing space, and it's not always
easy to do, because the knowing space sucks. Sometimes God's
work sometimes he wants you to do something that is
(10:56):
far beyond with your flesh ones that feeling that emotion, like,
don't forgive them, be angry with them, treat them how
they treat you. Don't press forward in this business. Nobody
else is doing this. You're not gonna win. You come
from poverty. There's no way you're gonna be a millionaire.
There's no way you're gonna succeed and do great things.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
There's no way. That's what your emotions tell you.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But then the Word, the true and living Word of God,
is the anchor that you should be operating from when
it comes to making your final decision on what you
should do, should I press forward or should I fold?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And if you're.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Anchoring yourself in scripture, ten times out of ten, you
will not give up on yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Not nine times, ten times out of ten.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
If you're truly making decisions from the place of truth,
from the place where there is no lack, from the
place that you can put all of your confidence in
because it does not change, you will ten times out
of ten continue to press forward because you will have
a peace that passes all understanding. You will have a
(12:08):
joy that only comes from the Lord. So I would
encourage you, as you're listening to this to take evaluation
of your life. Look at your life and be like,
what's that thing I know I folded on that I
know God called me to.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
What's that thing I folded on that I know I
should still be in right now? What's that thing I.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Folded on that I know I'm supposed to be pressing forward?
In even though it's uncomfortable, even though it's hard, even
though it does not look like anything that I desired
for myself in my mind.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
What's that thing?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
God has called me to some crazy things in my life, y'all,
And I'm telling you, surrendering is the best.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Thing I've ever done.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Because I never would have imagined that I'd be a
life coach when I was younger. I never even knew
what a life coach was. It wasn't the thought in
my mind. Being a speaker with my raspy voice, My boy,
I hated my whole life. There was no way I
was gonna do that. But God told me to go
now and walk this unlikely path, and I just did it.
(13:12):
And it was hard. I had setbacks, I took l's,
I felt pain, I felt disrespected, I felt abandoned, I
felt mistreated, I fell in loved, I felt broke, I
felt confused. I felt like I was in some of
the darkest seasons of my life. But that knowing got
me up every morning, that knowing kept driving me, that
(13:37):
knowing was the source of my determination, that knowing was
the source of my strength. So when I say my
biggest flex is that I never fold is because I'm
not relying on then Asia alone.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I'm relying on the.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Supernatural strength that's within me, that is the strength of God.
And the reason why most of us fold is because
we're not relying on Him. We're relying on our own
on ourselves. We're relying on our own understanding. We're relying
on our limited perspective and our limited view of what
our life should look like. When He's like, girl, I
got so much more for you. Man, I got so
(14:14):
much more for you. That's what you want if you
could just give up on that dream, that little dream
that you have that you think is supposed to be
comfortable to attain, and you walk this path with me
and trust that I got your back, and trust that
I'm your partner on the other side of that table
with a good enough hand that's gonna get us through
this game.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
If you trust that.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Oh, you have no idea how I'm about to blow
your mind. I am about to give you more than
your heart's desires. I am about to give you beyond
your wildest dreams and imaginations. Ephesia three and twenty says
he is able, for it is him unto him who
is able. To do exceedingly and abundantly above all that
we can ever ask or imagine.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Why are you limiting.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yourself so only what you can ask or imagine when
God is able to give you.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
More than that?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Why are you folding and what you can ask or
imagine when God is able to give you more than that?
He's like, I'm giving you something that you didn't even
dream about. This was your dream, But your dream does
not even scratch the surface of what I have for you.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
But you gotta play with this hand. If you play
with this hand, you can have it. You can't.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You can't ask for a redeal. You can't ask for
something that's easier. You ask for something that everybody else has.
If you play with what I gave you, I am
going to blow your mind. So look at the area
of life. Get pick it back up, Pick that hand
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back up. I know it sucks, I know it's uncomfortable,
But I need you to find yourself in a space
of knowing, anchor yourself in the truth, anchor yourself in
a word, and allow that to be your decision making
authority from here on out.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I pray that as you listening.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
To this, you know you feel like God is with you.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Because he is.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
There is never a time he's left your side. If
you feel like he's not with you, it's because you left.
So you need to get back to where he is.
Get back to your solid and firm foundation and stand
on it and allow that to be your source. And
everything else can be a resource to you. Whatever He
wants you to have, he's going to add it to
your life. On this path with this hand that you
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were dealt that you are deciding to play in faith.
So make sure you click the links that are below,
join the community, reach out for one on one coaching.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You cannot do this walk alone. You need other believers.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
You need other like minded people who are going through
this coaching every day, who are growing, who are supporting
you on your journey of getting better. You are not
called to do this alone. So I love you. I
pray that this inspires you. Listen to it again if
you need to, but share it with somebody else that
you love and care about. Because it is time for
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us to stop giving up on ourselves. It's time for
us to stop giving up on God's promises to us.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
And believing that the easier path is the best path.
Because it's not. It's not.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
There will be some ease when you are in Christ,
but a lot of it. It will be the shaking,
the making, the molding, the disrupting of whatever you thought
you were, whatever you thought you needed. You're going to
be stripped away from that, and that's the best thing
that could ever happen to you. So be grateful for
that and let Him use you, let him work through you,
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let him take complete control of your life by surrendering your.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Will to his will. I love y'all, Peace,
It's your favorite life coach lin Asian Angelina, and welcome
back to another episode of Transform Your Life Podcasts. This
is the safe space where we have conversations that help
you to transform your mind, transform your heart, and ultimately
the decisions that help you to transform every single aspect
of your life. So what I want to talk about today.
(00:21):
I had a week, y'all. I had a week.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I had a week.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I got a week, and it was really challenging for me.
I'm not gonna lie. It was really challenging for me
on an emotional level. A lot of personal things are
shifting in my life. And thank god it was not
(00:45):
the business blues this past week for once. But yeah,
a lot of things are shifting in my life. And
you know, sometimes our resistance to change can be hard.
Notice how I said our resistance to change, because the
moment that you accepted it becomes a lot easier. It's
our inability to accept that things change. And it's not
(01:08):
always easy to accept that, right, but once you do,
it does get easier.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You know, you're new normal. It gets easier day by day.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And you know, I was really I was having a
conversation with someone this morning and I was being a
little vulnerable, and you know, I shared with her that
I left home at fifteen, and she was like, oh
my gosh, like what first of all, like that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
She's like, you know, I would say that I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I'm not because you are so incredible, and she was
just affirming me, and I was like, you get it,
Like you get it because I have those exact same sentiments.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I never feel sorry for myself.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I never pity myself for the hand that I was
dealt because I know and trust that God has given
me this special set of circumstances for me to be
able to grow in some way that others just aren't
called to, and that's just what it is.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So I never pity myself for it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So you know, I know that what I want to
talk about today is really just like never folding. You know,
my favorite thing about me is with all the things
I love about me, you know, my grittiness, my determination,
my discipline, my grind, my heart, my love for people,
(02:37):
my gentleness, my compassion. Look at me going on myself
sometimes you gotta do that, gash yourself up a little bit.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
My love for God, my boldness for him.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I love the fact that I do not fold.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I love the fact that I am.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
One of the most persistent people that I know, and
that's a great quality to have. It's a strong trait
to carry, especially being an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
But also being a believer.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I feel, you know, and I would challenge you, as
you're listening to this, to think about you know, I'm
sure everybody listening to this has a story in their
life where you know, it was hard, it was challenging,
it was difficult, and instead of throwing in the towel,
you press through and you got better. But then there
(03:30):
are some areas in your life where you know you
keep giving up. You know you keep quitting. You know
you keep throwing in the towel.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know you.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Keep saying it's too hard when God's already given you
everything that you need. You know that, and I want
you to take evaluation of those areas because it's going
to require in this season something new from you. It's
going to require a different mindset, a different heart, a
different community for you to.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Be so it by.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Different vision for you to be able to get over
the humps that you're presented with. You know, I play spades,
and I often think about you know how sometimes I'm just.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Don't like the worst hand ever, like this is terrible.
But then I go.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Into it with such confidence because there's a knowing inside
of me that Number One, I have a partner on
the other side of the table, and even though we
can't talk to each other, I'm gonna trust that they
have something that's gonna be able to pull us through
as long as we're working together and collaborating properly, as
long as I'm leaning on and depending on them in a.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Way that allows us to get through this game. It
requires a lot of trust.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Now, sometimes if you play spades, sometimes it's nothing you
can do. You egg and partner your hands is terrible,
and those other two people who are not.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Nearly as good as you will win because they've been
dealt in easy hand.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Okay, But sometimes your partner has what it takes. And
in this case, I want you to think about God.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
The other morning, when I woke up, I had to
do my five am morning call for Black Women Transform,
and I shared this with them because I'm always.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Transparent and vulnerable in my community.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And I got on the call and I said, y'all,
when I woke up this morning, I didn't feel like
I had it. I didn't feel like I had it
in me to get on this call. So I had
a very candid conversation with God. I didn't try to
do an impressive prayer. I said, God, I know that
I don't really have it today, but I know you do.
I trust that you do. So what I'm gonna do
(05:38):
is I'm gonna get up, I'm gonna make my bed,
I'm gonna put on my gym clothes, and I'm going
to get prepared to do what You've told me to do.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
That's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
And I did just that, and I had one of
the most amazing connected calls that morning because I didn't fold.
And there are so many times in my life that
I could look back and say, God gave me this hand,
and my only job is to play it.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
My only job.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It is not my job to throw in the towel,
because guess what happens when you do that.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You don't grow.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
You might you might say, redeal me, give me something better,
But what you miss is the reason why you got
the hand in the first place. What you miss is
that creativity that you were supposed to grow. In that
critical thinking ability that you were supposed to grow, in,
that character that you were supposed to develop, that community
that you were supposed to find when it was hard.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That's what you.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Missed out on. When you say give me another hand,
this is the hand that I was supposed to have.
So I'm gonna throw in the towel. So I want
to encourage you as you go into this week to
not throw in the towel. Don't give up, don't fold.
It's not an option. You gotta stop looking at it
like it's a viable choice, because it's not. Not. If
(06:57):
God has called you to a purpose. Not if God
has called you to do something special, something that's bigger
than you, something that you can't even fathom.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
If God has.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Called you to something that big and enormous, do you
actually think that you at this level.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Can achieve it. Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
You have to be shaped and molded into the person
who can achieve it, and that's going to require some discomfort.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
That's gonna require some pain.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And the reason why most people fold is because they
are allowing themselves to go through feel that pain and say,
this pain is way too much, it's way too unbearable.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I don't like it. I hate it.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I'm gonna go the other way instead of just feeling
that temporary moment of pain, that temporary moment of discomfort
which we all have to go through to get to
that real joy, that real fulfillment, that real peace, that
real love, that real success that's on the other side.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Not this false idea, not.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
This artificial idea of love, success fulfillment, joy, peace. No,
we want the real thing, and the real thing is
on the other side of discomfort. The real thing is
on the other side of wherever you have to grow
the most. With my clients, I use a three question
method that gets them to make sound decisions.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
And that three.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Questions that I use I use it with myself also
all the time is what do I think, what do
I feel, what do I know?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And the reason why I use it? You know, I'll
share an example.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You know, sometimes when you're going through discomfort and pain
and you know a new normal, or you're confused, or
whatever the case may be, you start to talk to
yourself differently. You start to think thoughts that don't really
align you with the fact that you already have everything
in you to get through it. So you start to think,
you know, this is way too hard. I'm not cut
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out for this. I'm not equipped for this. There's no
way that God called me to do this. There's no
way that I have a enough knowledge, that I have
enough charisma, that I have enough foresight, in sight, enough popularity.
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If I don't have the looks, I don't have the voice,
I don't like. All these thoughts starts to come into
your mind, and then that creates an emotion. That emotion
starts to tell you I should just stop, I should
just quit. I shouldn't press forward because that's going to
be too much on me. It's too painful for me
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to keep pressing forward. But the problem is most people,
they make their they make their decision in that what
do I feel? They make their decision in that emotional space.
But then the last question that you should ask yourself
is what do I know? What do I know when
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it comes to this situation where I'm feeling weary, while
I'm where I'm feeling tired, where I'm feeling confused, where
I'm feeling lonely, where I'm feeling lost, where I'm feeling abandoned,
where I'm feeling hurt, What do I know? I know
that God will never leave me, He will never forsake me.
I know that it is my job to trust in
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the Lord with all my heart and lean out on
my own understanding, and in all my ways acknowledge him,
and he will direct my paths. I know that I
am to seeking first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all other things will be added then to me.
I know this, and that's where people are supposed to
make their decisions, but they're making their decisions on shaky
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ground and the emotional space. And the reason why I
could come on here and I could confidently say I
never fold is because I make my decisions from the knowing.
I decide in that knowing space, and it's not always
easy to do, because the knowing space sucks. Sometimes God's
work sometimes he wants you to do something that is
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far beyond with your flesh ones that feeling that emotion, like,
don't forgive them, be angry with them, treat them how
they treat you. Don't press forward in this business. Nobody
else is doing this. You're not gonna win. You come
from poverty. There's no way you're gonna be a millionaire.
There's no way you're gonna succeed and do great things.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
There's no way. That's what your emotions tell you.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But then the Word, the true and living Word of God,
is the anchor that you should be operating from when
it comes to making your final decision on what you
should do, should I press forward or should I fold?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And if you're.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Anchoring yourself in scripture, ten times out of ten, you
will not give up on yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Not nine times, ten times out of ten.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
If you're truly making decisions from the place of truth,
from the place where there is no lack, from the
place that you can put all of your confidence in
because it does not change, you will ten times out
of ten continue to press forward because you will have
a peace that passes all understanding. You will have a
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joy that only comes from the Lord. So I would
encourage you, as you're listening to this to take evaluation
of your life. Look at your life and be like,
what's that thing I know I folded on that I
know God called me to.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
What's that thing I folded on that I know I
should still be in right now? What's that thing I.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Folded on that I know I'm supposed to be pressing forward?
In even though it's uncomfortable, even though it's hard, even
though it does not look like anything that I desired
for myself in my mind.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
What's that thing?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
God has called me to some crazy things in my life, y'all,
And I'm telling you, surrendering is the best.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Thing I've ever done.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Because I never would have imagined that I'd be a
life coach when I was younger. I never even knew
what a life coach was. It wasn't the thought in
my mind. Being a speaker with my raspy voice, My boy,
I hated my whole life. There was no way I
was gonna do that. But God told me to go
now and walk this unlikely path, and I just did it.
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And it was hard. I had setbacks, I took l's,
I felt pain, I felt disrespected, I felt abandoned, I
felt mistreated, I fell in loved, I felt broke, I
felt confused. I felt like I was in some of
the darkest seasons of my life. But that knowing got
me up every morning, that knowing kept driving me, that
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knowing was the source of my determination, that knowing was
the source of my strength. So when I say my
biggest flex is that I never fold is because I'm
not relying on then Asia alone.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I'm relying on the.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Supernatural strength that's within me, that is the strength of God.
And the reason why most of us fold is because
we're not relying on Him. We're relying on our own
on ourselves. We're relying on our own understanding. We're relying
on our limited perspective and our limited view of what
our life should look like. When He's like, girl, I
got so much more for you. Man, I got so
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much more for you. That's what you want if you
could just give up on that dream, that little dream
that you have that you think is supposed to be
comfortable to attain, and you walk this path with me
and trust that I got your back, and trust that
I'm your partner on the other side of that table
with a good enough hand that's gonna get us through
this game.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
If you trust that.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Oh, you have no idea how I'm about to blow
your mind. I am about to give you more than
your heart's desires. I am about to give you beyond
your wildest dreams and imaginations. Ephesia three and twenty says
he is able, for it is him unto him who
is able. To do exceedingly and abundantly above all that
we can ever ask or imagine.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Why are you limiting.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yourself so only what you can ask or imagine when
God is able to give you.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
More than that?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Why are you folding and what you can ask or
imagine when God is able to give you more than that?
He's like, I'm giving you something that you didn't even
dream about. This was your dream, But your dream does
not even scratch the surface of what I have for you.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
But you gotta play with this hand. If you play
with this hand, you can have it. You can't.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You can't ask for a redeal. You can't ask for
something that's easier. You ask for something that everybody else has.
If you play with what I gave you, I am
going to blow your mind. So look at the area
of life. Get pick it back up, Pick that hand
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back up. I know it sucks, I know it's uncomfortable,
But I need you to find yourself in a space
of knowing, anchor yourself in the truth, anchor yourself in
a word, and allow that to be your decision making
authority from here on out.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I pray that as you listening.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
To this, you know you feel like God is with you.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Because he is.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
There is never a time he's left your side. If
you feel like he's not with you, it's because you left.
So you need to get back to where he is.
Get back to your solid and firm foundation and stand
on it and allow that to be your source. And
everything else can be a resource to you. Whatever He
wants you to have, he's going to add it to
your life. On this path with this hand that you
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were dealt that you are deciding to play in faith.
So make sure you click the links that are below,
join the community, reach out for one on one coaching.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You cannot do this walk alone. You need other believers.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
You need other like minded people who are going through
this coaching every day, who are growing, who are supporting
you on your journey of getting better. You are not
called to do this alone. So I love you. I
pray that this inspires you. Listen to it again if
you need to, but share it with somebody else that
you love and care about. Because it is time for
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us to stop giving up on ourselves. It's time for
us to stop giving up on God's promises to us.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
And believing that the easier path is the best path.
Because it's not. It's not.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
There will be some ease when you are in Christ,
but a lot of it. It will be the shaking,
the making, the molding, the disrupting of whatever you thought
you were, whatever you thought you needed. You're going to
be stripped away from that, and that's the best thing
that could ever happen to you. So be grateful for
that and let Him use you, let him work through you,
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let him take complete control of your life by surrendering your.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Will to his will. I love y'all, Peace,
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