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Speak. Let me tell you whywhen the step God, God, keep
talking about will the step guard me? He said, will step God?
God, You don't know what I'mtalking about. Let me tell you,
will step God? And check thisout, God, God, let me
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break it down to you God,Jesus sort of time cheap Hey, heyday,
Hello everyone, Good evening, goodevening, good evening. This is
the sound of yours truly missus devilslayer. Yes, this is she aka
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pastor Keya aka wifey okay, adaughter, friend and Amen, Amen,
Amen, good evening to all ofyou. Shout out to the nations,
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for tuning in, for your consistency. We appreciate your support. Thank you
for coming back on again just toyou know, listen to what we have
to say. Amen. I knowI want you to. I want you
to hear what the Lord has foryou tonight, not necessarily what I have
to say, but what the HolySpirit wants to say to you tonight.
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So I thank God for you andwe continue to pray for you and your
families. Wherever you all, wherever, excuse me, wherever you are across
the globe. Amen. Amen.Shout out to Jerry Royce. You're listening
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our story, and also to promoteour new upcoming project. So thank you,
thank you all, Thank you all, thank you all. Were just
coming down off of such a busy, busy month, and we thank Jerry
for being so patient with us aswell. So we're just getting back on
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track, getting back on track,you know, a lot has been going
on as you know, and yeah, we still giving God praise y'all.
It's about the awesomeness of God.Just testifying. My husband had an amazing
testimonies speaking of my amazing, wonderful, so patient husband, Sho. I
have to shout out to double slayerof all slayers, the slayer, King
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Slayer, my husband, Pastor Dwayne. Hi, honey, taking care of
business. Please pray his strength inthe Lord as he's out and about taking
care of business. Amen. Yes, Amen. He gave a wonderful testimony
about him getting inducted, I willsay in to the MTA. So we're
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just continually praising God and we're justgoing through transitions with that as well.
But not only that, though we'vehad a book signing you all that have
been following us faithfully. We justcame off of a book signing, The
Art of War on Divorce, y'all, a book on relationships, not just
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any relationship, though we are focusingon marriage specifically. It's a whole movement.
It's not just a book, butit's catapulted. It started with a
book with doctor Kim and her husband, doctor Noble, just recently, so
congratulations is to the nobles for hisfinish, his completing his doctorate. So
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they are both officially officially doctors Amen some body. So we just thank
God for those two and just themspearheading this movement, y'all. The war
are on divorce, the art ofwar on divorce actually, and yeah,
talking about the awesomeness of God,y'all, I just can can can I
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have a moment just to be transparentwith you all and share my testimony a
little bit. For those of youwho haven't known, I have been physically
disabled since the pandemic. So mesaid, what yet? Yes this,
yeah, bro, since the pandemic, since the pandemic. But God is
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so good because he has shown hisgrace, his mercy, his awesomeness,
his magnificence, his majesty through itall. And I am forever grateful.
Amen. And so we're talking aboutwhat happened last weekend and this weekend.
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So the fact that I have I'vebeen limited, I'm going to say and
I decree declare that this is justtemporary. I been limited in my mobility.
I've been having a lot of helpand I'm so grateful because listen,
if you need the help you needto get the help, whatever help looks
like for you. I have awhole entire medical team that is working with
me, right, I mean fromearly as eight o'clock. I am one
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blessed mama, you know, Andso I can't even be upset because God
has definitely made sure he is takingcare of me throughout it all. And
yes, it's been challenging, buttalking about the awesomeness and how God is
so awesome, I want to goahead and turn our attention to scripture.
Amen, Amen, because I knowy'all want to dig into the Word,
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but I want to also encourage youall with this scripture. So it's tewo
Corinthians twelve and nine, and thenI'll go back to my story. But
you all know this. I knowyou all know this first, but just
to give some context, Amen,this is Paul. You know. I
love Paul. Paul. Is youknow why I love Paul's because he's so
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transparent And for those of you thatknow about First Corinthians chapter twelve, he's
just being very transparent with the HolySpirit about his weaknesses. And I love
the fact that Paul is also sohumble as well. If you read a
couple of verses before that, hetalks about this thorn in his flesh.
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And I believe all of us havesome sort of thorn or Achilles tendons,
some sort of weakness that we have, right that prevents us maybe or keeps
us or even disables us. Itcould be mentally or even physically. You
know, we tell the Lord whywe can't do something because we're like,
oh no, I got this goingon. You know, I got that
going on. I can't do that, Lord. And so even in the
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midst of all of that, right, even in the midst of all of
that, the Lord has a responsefor Paul, and then God, you
know, Paul is also like pleading, like oh my, oh gosh.
I mean, how many of ustimes we're like, God, please,
no, I don't want to dothis, no, plea know me.
You know, that's kind of howI felt tonight, because I don't like,
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I'm gonna put myself but I alwaysshied away from public speaking my entire
life. Right, So here Paul, he three times he's pleading with the
Lord to take it away from me, this thorn in his flesh. We
don't know exactly what it is.It just says the Bible says, a
thorn in his flesh right. Sohe's like pleading with him. And I
love what the Holy Spirit, whatGod has to say. And Paul says,
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but he said to me on allof that, Paul is, you
know, pleading with the Lord.And he's like, but he said to
me, my grace is sufficient foryou, for my power is made perfect
in weakness. I'm gonna let youall sit on that for a second.
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My great is sufficient for you.My power is made perfect in weakness.
And I'm gonna read on says Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly
about my weaknesses so that Christ's powermay rest on me. I'm gonna go
ahead and reverse ten. That iswhy, for Christ's sake, I delight
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in weaknesses and insults and hardships andpersecution and difficulties. For when I am
weak, then I am strong.I think this is the whole gospel right
here, right. We don't doanything in our own strength. And I
believe somebody needs to hear this.And I've come to encourage you, beloved
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sister brother, that when you're aweak, Christ is strong. I mean,
listen, it's not about what youbring to the table necessarily. Thank
God for your talent, thank Godfor your strength. But listen, good
Lord's like, no, all Ineed is your yes. Honestly, all
I need you to do is justto show up. You know, we
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really renewed our minds and got thatperspective and really really digested that a lot
of us would take It would takeso much pressure off of us when God
asked us to do something, becausewe know that we're not going there in
our own power, right, We'regoing there in obedience one, and we
know that His power is going tomeet us there. It's gonna meet us
at the point of I was gonnasay the point of contact, but it's
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gonna once we show up. Hecan show up. We give him our
yes, and then God, wecan just rest in that and allow the
Holy Spirit to do his thing hiswork. Right this, even in this
call of leadership and pastoral leadership,Oh my word, like, I shied
away so much because I always thoughtlike I wasn't good enough, I wasn't
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qualified, I wasn't as good asmy spouse, I wasn't well versus my
spouse. Blah blah blah. Iwent through this whole like last year after
being ordained. I've been ordained forabout two years pastoral ministry. Now.
God called me to the pastoral ministryalongside my spouse about two years I think
three years now, and I waslike, pastoral pla, what you know?
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I'm like, what does that evenmean? What does that even look
like? I'm like, that meansI got to write a sermon? I'm
so bad at that, like speakingwhat? But well, all I'm here
to tell you is whatever God hascalled you to do or told you to
do, he equips you. You'realready equipped to make. The mistake that
E've made in the garden is thatshe was she was deceived to think that
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bye by the serpent, you know, Satan. She was deceived to think
that she didn't have She didn't,she didn't How do I say this Holy
Spirit? She was. She wasdeceived because she didn't know who she was.
But she already had what she neededinside of her. But the edemy
deceived her. Right. And sowhat I'm trying to say is you already
have everything that you need to fulfillwhat God has called you to do.
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You just have to show up.A wise businessman said, the opportunity is
going to show up wherever you're wewherever you feel your your your weaknesses and
you can't, God is there tomake his power perfect where you're strong,
I mean where you're weak or whenwhen when when you're weak, He's strong.
That could be even a physical physicalweakness. And I went back to
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talk about me being physically weak forabout I mean it's about been some years
now and I've really had to seethe Lord strong in mindy and the awesomeness
of the awesomeness of God come throughfor me in my physical body the way
that I've never seen him, andit's been ohso awesome, like what I've
never seen God move physically in mybody the way that he has every year,
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just a little bit of healing littleby little. So I'm telling you
that your process, whatever you're believingGod for what if it's a weakness in
your in your physical body, thatHis strength is being made perfect in you
right now. If you're on yoursick bed, whatever it is, that
the power that is inside of youis working on in Koda bashita, the
power that is inside of you isworking right now, hallelu is being made
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perfect right now wherever, whatever infirmity, I speak to it right now,
and I cast it off of youand not decreed in the career wholeness right
now, Ia kada bashita, whateverit be, cancer, lymphoma, ia
kada bashita, I speak wholeness toyour body right now, in the mighty
name of Jesus, Covid, whateverit might be. Holla and Louis,
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I'm thinking the Lord Jesus right nowthat his power is being made perfect in
your in your weakness, amen.Amen. And and like I said,
his grace, you can still goforth in the power his grace like I've
been on here in pain, andand it's only because of my husband.
Oh, there's so much that Iwant to talk to you all tonight.
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And I'm thanking you all for justallowing me. Thank you, jarref allowing
me to be on this platform.But his grace, my husband has taught
me so much about moving in God'sgrace, allowing his grace whether you're not
feeling good, whether you're feeling good, and being consistent, allowing God's grace
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to take you. And that iswhat it means when God said, when
God told Paul, his grace issufficient because through it all he can get
through anything. With the grace ofGod. He can get through insults,
a weakness. Some people, youknow, have a weakness with an offense.
The grace of God, His graceis sufficient for you. Hardship,
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My grace is sufficient for you.Persecution, My grace is sufficient for you.
In difficulties, Paul, my graceis sufficient for you. But Jesus,
no, I don't want to gothrough this, you know, I
don't. I don't want to.I don't want to go I don't want
to bear my cross. My graceis sufficient. The grace of God is
sufficient for you. Whatever challenges youmight be facing. If it be a
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degree, you're going back to getyour PhD. Lean on the grace of
God, because it's not it's nothing, and it's not going to be in
your own strength. You need thegrace of God, which is his emerited,
his anointing right, his unmerited favor, his mercy, all of that
packaged up and won the grace.Amen. It's not by our works,
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it's by the grace of God,and so we need to start leaning on
that and having more confidence those thatrely on Him and trust in the Lord
God. Holland Lujah greater work shallyou do? And damnly, those that
know their God and will shall dogreater works. We need to start trusting
in this grace to get us through. Halle lujah. Amen. So back
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to what I was saying about weaknessand hardship. You know how many know
when you're when you're going through physicaldisabilities or any sort of in anything that's
limiting you, that that takes atoll on you. And so I have
been persevering by the grace of God. It is only by the grace of
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God that I have been persevered.And I'm just glad to see the grace
of God carrying me through twenty twentyfour to go through let's see nineteen twenty
two or three, try four,six years of not being able to walk
on my legs, six years ofnot being able to walk all my li
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was all it has only been thegrace of God. So if I can
do it by the grace of God, if I can push through my weaknesses
and get on this platform, it'sjust me alone having anxiety and overcoming panic
attacks. You can too, Amen, ay man, Hollylujah. I can
go on and on and on andon and on on that part. But
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I want to. I want torevisit the Weekend, y'all. Okay.
I hope that encouraged someone. Iknow that it did, Amen, because
it encourage me. Now, let'stalk about the weekend, y'all. Let's
talk about this book because I gotthis book in my hand, and you
guys need to go get this book, okay, called The Art of War
on Devorce my husband. If youlooking for the chapter now, I'm not
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gonna read the whole chapter, buthis chapter, if you look for his
chapter is called to quit or notto quit? That is the question,
okay, by Pastor Joy Matthews.My chapter is called The Refining Process of
Marriage by Pastor Key and Matthews,and it just shows how the two of
us are so different in our inour in our writing styles and our personalities,
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but we just somehow fit God God. We just compliment each other.
Amen. So about last weekend,giving another testimony, I saw my family
show up for me in a waythat I've never seen, which is another
testimony the awesomeess of God. Ididn't really know how this whole thing was
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gonna get down. Like I said, I'm like rolling on wheels. Y'all.
Got a wheelchair. I got awhole bunch of stuff, Thank the
Lord, to get around. ButI'm just like, huh, what is
this gonna look like, Laurie.I just knew that I knew that I
had to show up, you know. I wanted to show support. We
were gonna this thing needed to godown, but I had no idea in
my mind. I was also sooverwhelmed and stressed out just with some personal
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things that I needed to take careon. I was like what I said,
Oh Lord, this was the momentwhere it was like, all right,
my grace is sufficient, you know, all right, Lord, your
grace is sufficient. I just hadto I had to just let go.
I had to let go, rightand my mother, my father, I
mean, people showed up that Ididn't even think were gonna show. I
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didn't even think anybody was gonna showup. But we had about nine people
that showed up, y'all, ninefolks. The house was packed, packed
packed. My dad stepped in,like my husband he unfortunately he was away
as well. So like I said, I needed I needed support. So
I had. It was like Godjust rallied the troops and I'm just amazed.
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Like that to me was the awesomenessof God. I mean, my
dad was help me lift me upthe steps, y'all. I mean we
had to gather all the way up. I mean, I'm just speechless.
So I have to give a shoutout to my family. I have to
give a shout out to everybody thatcame out that I didn't expect to come
out to support the cause and supportthis movement, to support this bulk,
to support the signings. I loveyou, my grandmother, our friends,
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thank you, thank you, thankyou, my husband and I from the
bottom on top of our hearts,as I always say, thank you so
much for coming out and supporting.I thank my family and we just love
you. And that, ladies andgentlemen, is the demonstration of what the
awesomeness of God looks like. Amen. Amen, Now this weekend, so
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this has also been something on myheart, right, I want to go
back to this book because, likeI said, because of my situation,
you know, I've been at home. I don't really go out to services
you know like that, but I'mable to do virtual, So I go
to a lot of virtual I goto a lot of virtual meetings. You
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know, I still stay plugged inand so for them so on, and
so something that has been on myheart for quite a while now to really
address. And it's been on thistopic of forgiveness. And I went to
about to to to virtual services wherethis topic kept coming up, you know,
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forgiveness and well, how you knowor how do you forgive someone?
And uh, you know, uhhow do you how do you forgive?
And what does that look like?And and so I wanted to bring this
full circle and uh, forgive meall. I'm pulling up my notes here
because I did have something prepared,but I'm allowing the Holy Spirit to take
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me and to move me. Howeverthe need needs to be met tonight.
But forgiveness and this idea of forgivingin the Body of Christ, it's been
something that's been heavy, heavy,heavy, all my heart. We need
to master this, y'all. Thisneeds to be a way of life.
Forgiveness, right, forgiveness, forgivingour brothers and sisters. And I believe
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that because we are in the Bodyof Christ, we are in the household
of faith. The Bible says weare held to a higher stander and say
that again we are hell to ahigher standard. So God, what does
that mean? God requires more fromus. We are the Christian, the
Christian, the christ in us.So we are supposed to be walking this
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word out. We are supposed tobe demonstrating what it looks like to forgive
quickly. Like Scripture says, letme give the the Scripture here it says.
First, it says Ephesians four thirtyone says, get rid of all
bitterness, rage, anger, harshwords, and slander, as well as
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all types of evil behavior. Itsays, instead, be kind to each
other, tender hearted, forgiving oneanother, just as God through Christ has
forgiven you. So forgiveness and beingin these in these Bible studies, everybody
seems to have their own idea whatthey think forgiveness is right. But we
always got to go back to theword. We need to if we want
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to line up biblically and make surewe're doing what Christ is asking us to
do, we need to go toScripture first. And so it clearly says
here that we have to be kindto each other and tender hearted forgiving one
another. So this right here,he says that this is our mandate.
We're supposed to be forgiving one another. Now, look look at how tewod
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Corinthians twelve and nine comes in place, because this is where for some of
us it could get a little murky. Right, It's not always easy,
obviously, and this is what theseare some of the things that we were
discussing, like, how do youforgive when somebody's like really really hurt you
to the core? You know,when God is asking you to forgive quickly?
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You know? This is what thisis right here, this is the
answer. His grace is sufficient foryou when you're weak, When you're weak
or you think you're incapable, it'snot going to be in your own strength
one, but it does take adecision which you can do. But guess
what. His grace is sufficient.You can do anything. You can forgive
anything. Listen, I'm gonna saythat again. You can do anything in
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Christ because you have Christ inside ofyou. You can forgive anyone, not
because of your own strength. It'sbecause of God in you. And that's
something that is very important to understandas a believer, that we don't forgive
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in our own strength. I knowthat some people think that just because as
they have feelings, they still havefeelings of resentment and anger that they haven't
decided or made the decision to forgive, and it's not so, it's a
process, and it's something that Ido believe that I'm going to continue to
teach, maybe on a different platform, on the how tos and taking how
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to go, how to take youall through the process, because it's not
a one time thing. As wecan see in scripture when the disciples when
in the Gospels and Pewter's coming toJesus, he was like, Laura,
how many times y'all forget my brotherwhen he sits against me? And Christ
is like, up to seven times? Okay, I tell you, not
seven times, but seventy seven times, and that's Matthew eighteen and twenty one
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and twenty two. But the pointof the matter, what he was saying
is as many as times is needed. Right. We don't put up,
we don't put a cap on itand be like, well, I forgive
you for that, but I'm notgonna forgive you for this. And sometimes
we hold as much grace as Godhas given us. Sometimes hold we hob
with that grace. We don't giveas much grace as we oh Lord Jesus,
We don't give as much grace aswe want. Quota we don't give
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to people as much grace as wealways asking God for which is messed up.
It's messed up, and we haveto do better me as me as
well. Listen, this is forme too. We need to we need
to do better, We need to. These are these are conversations that are
being had. So obviously I knowthat it's something that we're struggling with in
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the Body of Christ. We're strugglinghow to maintain forgiveness. We're struggling how
to forgive, and it's stopping up, blocking up the anointing, the creativity,
things that God wants to do insideof us because we're we're holding grudges,
We're we're not letting things go.We really don't know if we are,
and so this needs to be clarified. But the one thing that I
want to clarify is that one Christcommands us to forgive, We're supposed to
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be forgiving one another. And thewhat I had to share in these groups
or with one of the groups isI'm thankful for partnership. And it goes
back to my chapter about the refiningprocess of marriage. I talk about it,
you guys have to read it.But I'm thankful and I'm grateful because
my husband and I partnership covenant hasa way of making you into the person
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that you need to be, makingyou to a better person. I am
more forgiving because of I'm able toforgive quickly because of who I'm married to.
I'm able, I'm a more forgivingperson because of who I'm married to.
Likea thank you, Holy Spirit.So yes, it might be hard
for you to forgive old hurts,and sometimes yeah, that's the awesome awesomeness
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of God to put you in acovenant or a partnership where you can have
some help. It might not bea marriage, but you can have a
prayer part you can have somebody who'strusted to help walk you through this because
it does it is. It canbe challenging to help you. But I
want to specifically just highlight the beautybecause you know, marriage sometimes gets a
better rap, but the benefit andone of the refining processes that we can
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go through a marriage is being betterin our love walk. And I'm so
grateful that I'm able to forgive quicklybecause I've seen a man that I've been
married to for so long do it. I've seen people insult him I've seen
oh my god, I've seen himbe meek in times when I'm like,
listen, I need to go jankthis person because they shouldn't be talking to
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you, like like I was astraight up fuck anyways. But I'm like,
do you want me to go talkto your boss? Because why should
talk? I have seen this manmodel meekness in a way where I'm like,
I don't know who's this man.I don't understand it, but he
has been such an example to mein my walk. And that's what marriage
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friendships, you know, ironing,sharpening iron Honestly, get linked up with
someone in forgiveness of this area inyour life is becoming a stumbling block where
you feel like you can't even shakestuff. You need to get around somebody
that's not like you. You needto get around somebody. Find somebody who
can forgive quickly so that can ruboff on you. Amen that grace that
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they have. You can learn theirways. Listen, if you want to
learn somebody, go into scripture.Jesus was a perfect example. Lee.
Jesus was a perfect example. Speakingof Jesus, let's go to the word
says while he was being crucified,Jesus said, Father, forgive them,
for they do not know what theyare doing. That's Luke twenty three thirty
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four. People, fellow saints,you all know exactly in scripture where that
is when he was being crucified,and he still had the audacity. He
didn't curse those folks. He hadthe audacity to forgive them. My goodness,
is anything else we should be ableto if we even just think about
that, that right there, weshould be able to release, impardon folks
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quickly and not hold that grudge.I mean, who do we think we
are holding people holding people holding theiroffense holding. No, we need to
let that go. One. Myhusband said that it was petty. You
know, my husband's quick to callme out. You know what I'm saying.
It's like, why you know?And another scripture that I love too,
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that also is very good Colossians threethirteen. Right, it says,
make allowance for each other's faults andforgive anyone who offends you. Remember the
Lord forgave you, so you mustforgive others. Listen, he's telling us,
remember the Lord forgave you. Heforgave your past, your present,
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your future, sins. Listen,if you sit back and think about all
the things that you did. Itgets easier and easier just the thought of
it. You'll be like, hmm, well you knowing, but I know
what you're talking about. You're like, yeah, but those no listen.
It has taken me, I think, like five years to really really get
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some things out of my system.So I feel you. I'm here with
you. Yes, it's and that'sthe process that has to be that I'm
looking to teach at a later time. But I'm here to tell you that
His power is made perfect in thatweaknesses, in that area where you're still
holding on that bitterness, there's gracefor you. There's power that God has
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that can release you from that bitterness. You don't have to struggle with that.
You don't have to struggle with that, sister brother, resentment for the
rest of your life. I'm speakingto somebody who thinks that they're going to
be hurting for the rest of theirlife. No, you do not have
to be hurting. You do nothave to deal with that. All you
have to do is make a decisionfirst that you want to release it and
you are willing to let it go, and then guess what, grace,
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Grace comes in, sis bro Grace, Grace comes in to help you when
you are weak. Goda kasheed Shanda, thank you Holy spirits and every day
listen, it's gonna be an attackon your mind. Yes, just like
anything else that you receive by faith, it's it's a faith. It's gonna
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be a faith thing. It's gonnabe a faith faith thing. When you
forgive quickly, right, you're gonnahave to continue. You're probably gonna have
to continue to do it over inyour mind. Not to say that you're
doing out of works, but youhave to discipline the mind because those thoughts
will come back. You know,the Bible says casting down imagination. That's
where the work comes. Now,you gotta be a good steward now because
every time it comes up and say, nope, I've set my will to
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forgive that person, I will notrehash that image. That's what I'm talking
about. That's where the process comesin. Because you already made a decision,
and just because that feeling might havecome back, it does not mean
that you did not make a decision. If to forgive, it just means
that your your soul needs to lineup fit quote a Bashia. Your soul
just needs to line up, andsometimes that soul gotta be beaten to some
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mission. Sis, bro, realtalk. I'm just speaking from experience.
Sometimes it take two years, sometimesit takes five years. It just depends
on how bad you want it,how bad you want to discipline yourself in
the righteousness, how bad you wantthat resid due to be gone. Because
guess what people say, Oh,I can forgive, but I don't forget.
Listen, I don't want to rememberanything. I want to look at
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you in the purity. And Ibelieve that that's possible. If you want
it, you can ask ask yourfather to get rid of those horrifying memories,
those insults. He can do it. Look, the blood of Jesus
comes to watch you as white assnow, Amen, white as snow.
So it's possible. Just I don'twant to remember, I say, God,
I don't want to remember. Iwant to look at them as clean
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as you look at me. Youknow, every time they come, like
my husband was good at that,Like something I would say or do that'd
be off the wall and he'd bewaking up like nothing. Ever, I
always admired him for that. I'mlike, he just wake up like he
modeled this for so long that itjust rubbed off on me, Like he'd
just be like, oh, okay, moving on. I'm not sure if
that I'm still here this day.I'm like, Lord, is this because
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he's a man? Is it becauseit's just Dwayne is Like? I'm like,
oh, because he's a streets he'speculiar. But I knew that I
needed to be like that, right. I was like, I need to
be like that, Jesus, Ineed to be like that my emotions,
don't you know. I'm like,I need that. I wanted it,
you know, So I put inthe work, says Bro. And I'm
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still doing that. Putting in thework not works, but the work meaning
what the Bible says, renewing ofthe mind, the soul, right salvation.
You gotta you gotta renew your mind. That's the work. That's the
labor. You know, you gottayou gotta be a good steward over this
brain, this soul. You gottamake sure you put your input matches your
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output. That I say that youroutput matches your input, Jared. You
know, so what I'm saying isthat listen back to Second Corinthians twelve and
nine, all of this I'm sayingwe cannot do in our own strengths.
We cannot forgive biblically the way weneed to meeting. Letting go right,
ridding ourselves of anger, resentment,things that come back. Yes, that
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those feelings will come back. I'mjust here to tell you you will say,
yes, excuse me, part ofme, part of me, guys,
part of me. You will.You will forgive. And then the
next day, probably even the probablytoo minutes after you be like, oh,
that person comes in that feeling.But you gotta take authority. You
have authority over all power of theevil one, the wicked one, of
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what thoughts. You have to stewardthose things you got just you just gotta
do it. You have to stewardit until those things are no longer a
bother for you. You've got tocatch up to that deliverance. Amen.
And that's what I'm passionate about teachingthe Body of Christ. I want to
serve notice to the devil that you'renot gonna keep it some darkness anymore.
We're gonna get this, We're gonnamaster it. We're gonna live a lifestyle
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forgiveness because there's so much more thanGod has for us in this area,
and we're gonna we're gonna know whatScripture says and what God requires of us.
Right. Another thing that we spokeabout in the Bible in these groups
was reconciliation. There's there's there seemsto be a little bit of uh,
misunderstanding about whether or not what reconciliationis, which is a twofold thing when
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I was doing my studies, andthere's just yes, some gray areas regarding
reconciliation reconciliation as well. I don'tknow I have time to go into reconciliation,
but forgiveness and reconciliation, these aremy notes. Skills should go hand
in hand, all right, thisis what the Lord told me. It
should go hand in hand. Butit doesn't always, unfortunately, because like
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I said, we are human.So whereas you might want to forgive your
offender, they might not be readyto forgive you or even reconcile. But
I will say that biblically speaking,if you are in Christ, Scripture does
say that we're supposed to be reconciled, meaning restored back down to harmony with
one another. Now, friendship isa whole nother thing. Reconciliation can meaning
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back to friendship as well. AsI said, it's two full. However,
God does desire for you to bereconciled restored them to peace with your
brother and sister in the household offaith. I'm telling you it's in scripture,
y'all. I'm telling you it's inscripture. Be reconciled to if you
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have offense to get anyone. That'sin Matthews. That's in a gospel when
he was mentoring his disciples. Thatwas one of the things that he was
sharing with them. If somebody offendsyou or there's offense, you have to
go before you go to God andyou're praying to him and what have you.
You could do it secretly, butit doesn't always mean you gotta get
up and go. But I believethat the Holy Spirit will show you how
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to handle it. Sometimes it doesmean physical Sometimes it just means, oh,
you need to take care of thatand address that. Sometimes practically speaking,
God will have you call that person. I've done it. Hey man,
you know I shouldn't have said this. This was a little bit out
of order or I was a littlefrustrated, you know, forgive me.
That's what reconciliation means you're restoring thatoffense whatever happened to the two of you.
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In peace. We're supposed to bepursuing peace with all men. That's
in scripture as well. Okay,so these things are biblical. This is
what we should be doing and theway that we grow. People say,
oh, I want to grow,I want to mature. This is the
way that you mature in the thingsof God. You've put these things into
practice and going back to the powerof partnership, y'all, is like the
best place to grow when you getmarried and your marriage is at my book,
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the refining process of marriage is allabout growth, y'all. Growth and
the process that God has been takingme through. So I encourage you to
really go pick this up, y'all. Growing in the things of God is
about practicing it. And what betterway to practice it when you're in a
loving covenant with a man or awoman, a God who loves you unconditionally,
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and you're able to mess up,make mistakes, be good, bad
and ugly in front of this personand yet see the grace of God,
the power of God being manifested throughthe both of you. And when you're
committed to the change. When you'recommitted to the transformation, he haler eluyas's
a beautiful thing. That's the purposeand beauty of marriage. And we've gotten
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away from it. We've gotten awayfrom it. I'm encouraging singles to try
to utilize your relationships, whether itbe practice. Here these these biblical teachings
that go through the Gospels Matthew,Mark, Luther, and John. And
if you want to be a Christfollower, a disciple. Jesus mentors his
disciples in the gospels. He teach, He shares with them biblical principles and
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what we should be doing as Christfollowers. How we should handle each other.
It's all about people. How arewe treating each other? Okay,
yes we might miss the mark,not Mike, we do miss to mark
right. But his grace, y'all, we we we have the grace of
God to pick us back up,to dust us off, to get it
right. But those that are singlepractice. Now. You have relationships,
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you have aunties, you have youhave nieces, you have nephews, you
have grandparents, you have parents.Put these put these principles in practice.
Colossians three thirteen. Y'all, Ephesiansfour thirty one. All right, make
allowances for one another's faults. Don'tbe so proud that you can't even overlook
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somebody because they just you know,they maybe have an off day. You
know. In another scripture chapter Iwould say is good. That will help
you gauge whether or not you reallylove in somebody the way that Christ wont
you. Is that love chapter,y'all, the love chapter. This is
what the Love Chapters pod is allabout. We're based upon the love of
God. There's different types of love, you know, but the love chapters
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First Corinthians fourteen. Hopefully I gaveyou all the right scripture, but I
always I always roll over in mymind. Love believes the best. So
anytime I want to it's disciplined.Listen, anytime I look at somebody or
I want to say something about okay, no, love believes at me.
You know, I bounce. Yougotta bounce the thoughts. This is where
the work comes in. You haveto be a good steward and manage your
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thoughts. Okay, these thoughts arenot just gonna these feelings are not just
gonna disappear you. And that's whatthe enemy wants you to think. You
have to take authority. No,God's giving you authority, he quoted Ama
Sheet. He's given you authority totake over your take, take captive those
thoughts that will come. And yougotta take the sword of the spurri just
like Jesus. Did you know itis written, You know Satan came to
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temper him. It is written.You gotta be you know. You might
not say it like that, butI'm just saying, you gotta you gotta
get you gotta say this thing.It's gotta be real. It's got to
be a walk, it's gotta bereal all. It's gotta be real knowing
for you to see results. AndI want you all to be successful.
I want you all to thrive andyour relationships and your marriage and it all
start to believe it or not.In this area of forgiving and knowing how,
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learning how to forgive and walk inforgiveness, forgivet quickly. Right.
It's a process and it takes practice, but it's doable because you have Christ
side of you, that's living inyou, that's breathing, moving in you,
the Holy Spirit. Right, hallelujah. So where was I making allowance
for each other? Was give meon scripture Colossians three thirteen. Right,
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forgive anyone who offends you. Youknow, it could just be a simple
Listen, we live in a hurtingworld. I was just thinking about that
the other day. I'm like,my gosh, Lord, it's just i
mean, we are a light,a city upon a hill. We are
a light. So if anything,even if for now our light am I
saying, I'm not stumbling over mywords. I'm so excited. I forgive
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me Jesus what I'm saying. Ifanything, we need to be on our
word, thank you, Holy Spirit. If anything, we need to be
in our word even more now becausethe world is hurting and they need to
see something different. All right,No attitudes, even you have an attitude,
go to the word. Just startreading. Just read a scripture,
and you'll see how quick you beingcoming into coming into contact. Just with
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the scripture, which is the livingword of God, the anointing, you
can be so surprised how your moodwould change. We just have to be
disciplined, that's it. You justgotta be disciplined, says. You gotta
be dis you gotta want it,you gotta have a desire. The Bible
says, seek those things that areabove. Right, you just gotta make
time. You gotta make the timebefore you watching the movies, which I
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love. I'm not just watching moviesthe other day and I watched like four
movies. But you gotta need timefor spiritual things and to cultivate and grow
your your love walk. Okay,that is the very rod, as some
leaders call it, that's the veryfoundation. Without it, we are nothing,
y'all. Titles don't mean nothing,nothing, it means nothing. He
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quota bashita, it means nothing ifyou don't have the love of God rooted
and grounded in your life. Okay, hallelujah, hallelujah, Thank you Jesus,
Oh Glory be to God. Wejust give you thanks right now.
I'm giving you thanks for the wordthat has gone on the fourth Father,
Oh quota can continue to go onand on about this topic, but I
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know that we are pressed for time, Lord, and so I'm just closing
out. Father. I thank youLord that this word has fall fallen upon
hearts, that we're ready to receive, and that they then it's bearing.
It will bear fruit. Father.But I'm just giving you things right now
for this word Lord, manifesting fruit. Lord, you want our fruit.
You want fruit, Father, SoI thank you for the fruit Father that's
gonna come forth from every individual,from the individual, from the sound of
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my voice right now, in themighty name of Jesus. Lord, to
come forth this year, Lord equotain fullness and in maturity, Lord,
that we will be loving people.We will be forgiving people, and that
will be there will be a differentiationinstead of a likeness that people will say,
oh, well, I can't tellthat this is a Christian or not.
No, no more. Gone arethose days he quote ah ba sha,
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gone are those days? We willbe the people that Christ has called
us to be. We'll walk worthyof the calling that God has called us.
There be a differentiation in the mightyname of Jesus to create. So
in your life, how led lujah? If something that I said tonight resonated
to you, resonated with you,and you're saying, you know what,
I can't do this on my ownanymore. I'm trying. I've tried.
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There's got to be something greater toI need help. Help. Well,
I'm here to tell you that JesusChrist is the help that you are looking
for, and he's the only help. He is the Bible says that he's
the way of the truth and thelife. He's the only one that I
know that could get you out ofyour mess and make your mess into a
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miracle. If you would like toreceive Christ into your life and you want
to say yes to Jesus, pleaserepeat after this prayer. Heavenly Father,
I recognize that I'm a sinner andI don't want to sin anymore. I
believe you died for me. Ibelieve you rose for me, and I
believe you're coming back again. Comeand live inside my heart. Lord over
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my life, as my husband alwayssays, make me shape me into all
that you would have me to be. And I receive this forgiveness this day.
Thank you Lord for forgiving my past, present, and future sins.
And thank you Lord for saving me. If you just said that prayer,
the Bible says that you are bornagain. You're a new creature in Christ.
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Old things have passed, Behold,all things are made new. If
you like to learn more about thisforgiveness that we've been talking about, the
forgiveness that you just received, youjust received a loaded package. Hey man,
The heavens are joy rejoicing right now. Reach out to us at u
FL Ministries i nt L at gmaildot com. You can reach out to
my husband if you like doing thepastor or myself Missus Devil Slayer, We'd
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love to talk to you, oryou can shout us out on the gram
at the Love Chapters pod, whicheverworks best for you. But listen,
I am I believe that you aregonna be great, and like we always
say, we love you and onlyGod, Jesus and the Holy Spirit love
you more until next time. Chatfor now, let me tell you why
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when to stop? God and Godkeep talking about will to stop? God
and me? He said, willstop God and God. You don't know
what I'm talking about. Let metell you will to stop God and Me.
Check this out God, God,let me bring it down to you
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God. Jesus toward the time toldme God, help the stop