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Speaker 2: Hello, I'm CHRISTOPHERINEE.

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Speaker 1: Hazeler, and welcome to this episode of Keep It Positive Sweety.

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Speaker 1: If you can't tell, we are not in Atlanta, we

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Speaker 2: Stephanie E.

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Speaker 1: K Okafor is a dynamic and passionate leader paving new

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Speaker 1: grounds for how faith is engaged in today's culture. She

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Speaker 1: is a notable author, executive pastor of The Potter's House

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Speaker 1: at one LA, and a talk show host who aims

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Speaker 1: to deliver a message of audacious faith, renewed would hope,

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Speaker 1: and God's unconditional love. Her profound teachings are both impactful

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Speaker 1: and transformative, altering the lives of many on a global scale.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Stephanie E. K okafor Stephanie, Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for coming.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm glad to be here.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I'm happy to be in LA and I'm just

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Speaker 1: excited to be catching up with so many amazing people.

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Speaker 1: So when they said that we had you as a guess,

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Speaker 1: I was super excited.

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Speaker 3: No, this is great.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we are talking about the power of your dreams.

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Speaker 2: Will you just tell us a little bit about yourself?

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 4: So I'm Stephanie. I was raised in Nigeria. Born and

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Speaker 4: raised in Nigeria. I moved out here when I was

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Speaker 4: in like I think about I was about fifteen twenty

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Speaker 4: and sixteen, no, sixteen for college.

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Speaker 3: Okay, where'd you go to college? Was it here? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I went to college here. Okay cool.

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Speaker 4: And it was just like from that moment it was

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Speaker 4: just one thing, that's the next, and God was just

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Speaker 4: kind of like orchestrating my steps until Yeah, and now

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Speaker 4: I'm a pastor.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, at one church when I travel here, that's

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Speaker 1: the church I go to.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I love one church.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. That's amazing. So what you have a book coming out?

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Speaker 1: It is entitled well we have it here, but is

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Speaker 1: entitled The Power of Your Dreams. A Guide to Hearing

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Speaker 1: and Understanding how God speaks while you sleep, and that

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Speaker 1: comes out August twentieth.

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Speaker 2: So we're excited.

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Speaker 4: This is your first book, it's my first published but okay, yeah,

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Speaker 4: tell us about this the process of this book. Initially,

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Speaker 4: I was working on a book called Judas a Love Story,

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Speaker 4: which would sound crazy because everybody thinks of Judas as

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Speaker 4: a betrayer. And there was this revelation God had given

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Speaker 4: me about the love which Jesus embodied when you look

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Speaker 4: at his relationship with Judas, and so I was working

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Speaker 4: on that and then the Lord just interrupted the whole

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Speaker 4: thing and it's like, it's not yet time for that book,

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Speaker 4: but I want you to work on the book about dreams.

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Speaker 4: And dreams have been a constant for me ever since

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Speaker 4: I encounted God. So I was nine when I first

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Speaker 4: And then the consistent place that I always had encounters

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Speaker 4: And so when he told me to write the book,

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Speaker 4: it was really the book really comes against this whole

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Speaker 4: misconception about First of all, people think like, I'm not

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Speaker 4: it is literally everyone dreams. And you know, the Bible

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Speaker 1: So the old means spiritual maturity because if you're reading that,

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Speaker 3: About yeah, everybody dreams. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And it has to do with the consistency. So it

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Speaker 2: Wow, that is so powerful, Sephany, Oh my goodness, because

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Speaker 2: I dream, but someone dreams. I'm like, what did that mean?

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Speaker 1: You know, so you were nine years old when an

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Speaker 4: So my father was murdered when I was a baby,

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Speaker 1: Wow, that is so beautiful. So God came to or

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Speaker 2: When did life?

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Speaker 3: That's crazy?

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Speaker 2: That is like you were like awake, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So at nine years old, how did you know?

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Speaker 4: I was so that day my mom was looking for

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Speaker 4: So I go to my mom's because I was a

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, so the one day, the one moment

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Speaker 2: I said just like that, like here you go again.

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Speaker 3: But I think back up, like, oh God, forget before

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Speaker 4: But then he walks to my mom opens her palm,

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Speaker 3: So here's a crazy thing. He closes it.

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Speaker 4: the Storm'm like, mom, this just happened. And she's like Stephanie,

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Speaker 4: I think you were sleep dreaming. I'm like, no, I'm

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Speaker 3: So She's like, go back to bed, look at my arm.

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Speaker 4: It was wild. So I'm like, no, like this happened.

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Speaker 3: And so in the morning, her pastor calls her.

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Speaker 4: But there's so many layers to that dream of messages

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Speaker 4: because when you start exercising, because there are things that

442
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Speaker 4: when God wants to expand your territory, not just influence

443
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Speaker 4: in regards to like fame, but influence in regards to authority.

444
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Speaker 4: When God wants to expand that, he starts by giving

445
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Speaker 4: you almost like how do I even put this? He

446
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,639
Speaker 4: trains you with your current surrounding, right, so when you

447
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Speaker 4: know how to pray for your like immediate territory where

448
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Speaker 4: my house is, right, where I live, my neighbors. When

449
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Speaker 4: I can pray outside of me and the Lord starts

450
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Speaker 4: giving showing me things connected to people outside of me,

451
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Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, because it's one thing when

452
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Speaker 4: you have influence that just comes from the world, like

453
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Speaker 4: when people just like you and people, those are things

454
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Speaker 4: that they can also take from you. When God gives

455
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Speaker 4: it to you, nobody can take yes. And so when

456
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Speaker 4: God wants to give you authority, he starts by showing

457
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Speaker 4: you how to be a person of prayer. And it

458
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 4: could start small, it could start with your family, it

459
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Speaker 4: could start with different things. And when you are a

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Speaker 4: good steward over that, then he starts to expand you.

461
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Speaker 4: So now not only are you having influence in places,

462
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Speaker 4: but you have authority in those spaces.

463
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Speaker 3: And so when you.

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Speaker 4: Start exercising it, so outside of what God could be

465
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Speaker 4: speaking to you personally, because one of the ways God

466
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Speaker 4: works is in and through. So even when he gives

467
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Speaker 4: you a message, there's a message that's for you and

468
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Speaker 4: there's a message through you. So there's something he's showing

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Speaker 4: you concerning yourself, and there's also something he's showing you

470
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Speaker 4: concerning what you ought to do concerning others. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 4: So I would encourage you to start praying for your environment,

472
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Speaker 4: pray for your neighbor, even focus on that neighbor and

473
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Speaker 4: start praying concerning protection and the covering over them. Because

474
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Speaker 4: when God sees that, God begins to expand you. And

475
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Speaker 4: that's when you walk into rooms. You may not own

476
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Speaker 4: you know what's happening in the room, but your voice

477
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Speaker 4: will control what happens in the room. Right.

478
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Speaker 3: It gives you a thorty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so good.

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Speaker 3: Wow, we got to talk more. That's all right. But

481
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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: You shared five facts about dreams, and one of them

483
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Speaker 1: being that a dream can come from self, God, or

484
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Speaker 1: savany How do you distinguish between the three?

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Speaker 3: Ooh, Chad, let's perfect example. As women.

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Speaker 4: Like when it comes to marriage, I'll use that as

487
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Speaker 4: a perfect example. So, for instance, if there's someone a

488
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Speaker 4: woman is attracted to, right, especially unfortunately Christanity, you know

489
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Speaker 4: if there's someone she's attracted to, because you're already meditating

490
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Speaker 4: on that person.

491
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Speaker 3: You think about the person, you're like, oh my god,

492
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Speaker 3: this is someone I would like to marry, and X,

493
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Speaker 3: Y and Z.

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Speaker 4: You can start dreaming about the person, right because you're

495
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 4: already it's it's what your mind is already set on.

496
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Speaker 4: And so when and this is how you know that

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Speaker 4: theseel dreams that come from you because the fruit of

498
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Speaker 4: it again speaks. So when you have a dream about

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Speaker 4: a person and you're like, man, I think that man

500
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Speaker 4: is my husband, how does it come from self?

501
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 3: You become a stalker.

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Speaker 4: You start going on their Instagram, you have a fake page,

503
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Speaker 4: checking their stories.

504
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Speaker 3: Of you, start stalking you that already that came from you,

505
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Speaker 3: that care that is not from God's.

506
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Speaker 4: Not Because here's the thing and this I'm using that

507
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Speaker 4: as a perfect example. Because God will never give you

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Speaker 4: a dream that will validate an idol. You will never

509
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Speaker 4: give you a dream that will cause you to worship

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Speaker 4: something right.

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Speaker 3: He will.

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Speaker 4: He will never give you a message in general. So

513
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Speaker 4: if God knows that you are not in a place

514
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Speaker 4: to handle those words.

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Speaker 3: He will not show it to you. That So when

516
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Speaker 3: people have a dream and the moment.

517
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Speaker 4: They say, oh man, they told me I had a dream,

518
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Speaker 4: God show me my husband.

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Speaker 3: My first question, what did you do? If they tell me?

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Speaker 4: Social media said girl, that is.

521
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Speaker 3: And then you start trying to create ways to hang

522
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Speaker 3: out that is not.

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Speaker 4: You get easily like your emotions easily overtake you right

524
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Speaker 4: where if he starts telling you about some girl and

525
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Speaker 4: you start crying, But.

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Speaker 3: God, you show me, nah, it ain't at all, you know.

527
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Speaker 4: And because emotions have a voice, emotions can.

528
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Speaker 3: Engage with you.

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Speaker 4: They can speak to you, and they're very close to

530
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Speaker 4: mimicking the voice of God. So you can wake up

531
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Speaker 4: from that kind of dream and your emotions are telling you, oh, man,

532
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 4: God is confirmed, this is your husband. Throw it away

533
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Speaker 4: when it's God it because Jesus is the word. So

534
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Speaker 4: when he gives you a word, however he gives it

535
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Speaker 4: to you, whether it's in a dream with symbols, when

536
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 4: you can interpret the word, it also comes with his nature,

537
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 4: so it sows a seed of himself in you. So

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Speaker 4: when the Lord gives you a word about your husband,

539
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Speaker 4: you're not You're chill like okay in your time. You

540
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Speaker 4: know you don't you?

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Speaker 3: And that's why we have to be honest with ourselves.

542
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Speaker 4: We have to be self aware when we don't get manipulated,

543
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Speaker 4: when we're just like allowing things to.

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Speaker 3: Be what they are.

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Speaker 4: You know, God, place, there is a confidence you have

546
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Speaker 4: about just like you know your name, there's a confidence

547
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Speaker 4: you have that this will be. Now when it comes

548
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Speaker 4: from the enemy, you have to look at the nature

549
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Speaker 4: of saying. You know, the Bible says he comes to steal, kill,

550
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Speaker 4: and destroy, and so if it's gonna if it thinks that.

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Speaker 4: For example, a woman has a dream about, you know,

552
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Speaker 4: a guy. She finds out he's in a relationship and

553
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Speaker 4: she's like, you know what, I'm just gonna wait and

554
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Speaker 4: I'm just now she's doing all the things that are wrong,

555
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 4: she's stalking, she's doing but on top of that, she

556
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,439
Speaker 4: feels this and she's waiting from a place of fear,

557
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 4: like she's it's this place of like you know what,

558
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 4: you start moving in anxiety and fear and panic, like

559
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 4: you know what, I'm just gonna gonna believe God. But

560
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 4: you're praying, you're doing the spiritual things. But what's your

561
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,159
Speaker 4: motive is fear. What's your motive is anxiety? Because what

562
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 4: the enemy is after to steal your time. Yes, so

563
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Speaker 4: you have someone the guy clearly tells you I only

564
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Speaker 4: see us as friends, and you're like, I'm just gonna

565
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Speaker 4: wait for him.

566
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Speaker 3: I know God is gonna change his mind. I know this.

567
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 4: The enemy is talking to you because he wants to

568
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Speaker 4: steal your time. He wants to literally steal the years

569
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 4: of your prime waiting for a.

570
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Speaker 3: Man that's not coming.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, that even and to some women it even

572
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Speaker 4: goes to the extreme that he could be engaged and

573
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Speaker 4: you're still there, like, God, if this is you, I

574
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 4: know it's gonna it's not your They're not gonna make

575
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Speaker 4: it to the altar. I've seen this happen time and time,

576
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 4: and I'm like, the enemy is stealing your time. So

577
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Speaker 4: the nature of the enemy still kill destroyed. So when

578
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 4: it comes, when, when the when your actions are moved

579
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Speaker 4: by things that is gonna take rob you of time,

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Speaker 4: rob you of healthy relationships.

581
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Speaker 3: Right when all of a sudden, maybe you.

582
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Speaker 4: Talk to a girlfriend of yours that you know, it's

583
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 4: someone who gives you sound wisdom, and the person is like, Hey,

584
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Speaker 4: I don't think this is gonna work.

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00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 3: I think you should move on. When a voice comes

586
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Speaker 3: to your mind and says.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, she's jealous of you, she doesn't want,

588
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 4: she doesn't understand. She's just stops talking to her, And

589
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 4: now you start looking at her in a manner that

590
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 4: is suspicious.

591
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 3: What is he doing? He's trying to caut off lifelines.

592
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 4: From So his nature is in your actions. When you

593
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 4: see you, you are acting out of what is the

594
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 4: nature and the goal of the enemy. It came from him.

595
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 4: And here is the tricky part, because it's an idol

596
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 4: in your heart, it's you. Unless you are truly someone

597
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 4: who are You're willing to say, God, I really want

598
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 4: what you're about for me, then you will be able

599
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 4: to recognize the enemy when he comes. Because it's just like,

600
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,959
Speaker 4: why are so many people deceived today? Because it speaks

601
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 4: to what they desire?

602
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Speaker 2: Yes?

603
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Speaker 4: Yes, Why do people go to psychics and on Saturday

604
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 4: go to church on Sunday because they're so hungry for like,

605
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 4: just hopefully the psychic will tell me if I'm going

606
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 4: to get the job or not.

607
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:43,719
Speaker 3: I just need a quick answer.

608
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 4: And so you convince yourself this is going to work

609
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 4: for me because it's connected.

610
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 3: To what you desire.

611
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 4: The same reason why a person will go to a

612
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 4: church with a false teacher or a false prophetor whatever.

613
00:28:55,480 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 4: Why because you're speaking to something you want. Yes, and

614
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 4: so you're like, yes, preach, yes, all he said is

615
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 4: that your man is coming.

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Speaker 3: And come on, yeah. Wow.

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Speaker 1: So when you talk about being able to interpret genes

618
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Speaker 1: and then we have fortune telling. You just talk about

619
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Speaker 1: how people go to the fortune teller on Saturdays in

620
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Speaker 1: church on Sundays, how do you know, just for people who.

621
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Speaker 3: May not.

622
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Speaker 1: Understand, like, how do you know when it's witchcraft and

623
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Speaker 1: when it's of God? Because you have prophecy, but then

624
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Speaker 1: you also have fortune telling, which sometimes it can be

625
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: a very blurred line between those two.

626
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Speaker 4: I think what people even one of the things that

627
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 4: people have to grow and understanding is there is a

628
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 4: spiritual realm that is real. Just as this physical realm

629
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 4: is real, there's a spiritual realm that is so.

630
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 3: Real, and they're in that realm.

631
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 4: There is I remember a lot of how God has

632
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 4: really like was through teaching me the supernatural. But there

633
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 4: is a realm known as just the realm of knowledge,

634
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 4: the realm of information. Everything that has been and everything

635
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 4: that is is known. That's why even in the Bible, Satan,

636
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 4: when you know, Satan comes to God and the Lord

637
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 4: is like, hey.

638
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 3: Where have you been? He's like, you know? And then

639
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 3: the Lord says, have you considered my servant job?

640
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 4: He knew who Joe was, he knew where Joe lived,

641
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 4: he knew how many kids Joe had, He knew about

642
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 4: his wife, He knew Joe's entire life. This was because

643
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 4: it's information that exists. The difference now you have God

644
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 4: who is all knowing, and he's all knowing, not just

645
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 4: because of the past and the present. It's all knowing

646
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 4: because he's also in the future. That's what separates him

647
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 4: from everything he is. Everything is in him past present,

648
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 4: future Satan. Rather now Satan is limited because he knows

649
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 4: past present and he has a whole you know.

650
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 3: Or chart in this company right right.

651
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 4: And so their demons we have the Holy Spirit. They're

652
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 4: evil spirits that also work with people. So the fortune teller,

653
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 4: they're not always lying. They could tell you your name

654
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 4: because it's known. They could tell your address, it's no.

655
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 4: They could tell you what your grandmother wore when she

656
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 4: passed because it's known information.

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00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 3: Everything that was and is is known, and.

658
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 4: That's where so now. But the end goal is that

659
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 4: they use that to grip you.

660
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, your sister.

661
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 4: Is this, But then it goes from there to gain

662
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Speaker 4: access to your trust, for you to open up because

663
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Speaker 4: in the spiritual realm, where there is agreement, there is access.

664
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 4: So then if they now tell you, oh, you're gonna

665
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 4: get married in three years, and you're like, oh my gosh, yes,

666
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 4: and then you're gonna get divorced and the next one

667
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 4: will come.

668
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 3: You're in agreement with everything, and what you don't realize

669
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 3: is that they're cursing you. They're cursing that marriage.

670
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 4: So they're saying, yes, they don't even know when you're

671
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 4: gonna get married, but they're sending a curse to whatever

672
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 4: whenever you get married, right and now. And then sometimes

673
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 4: even when they say something like you're going to get married,

674
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,959
Speaker 4: the enemy knows how the send counterfeits to back up

675
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 4: what he's saying. Right, but how do you know the difference?

676
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 4: Number One, the Bible says there is no other way

677
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 4: than through Jesus. Jesus is the way, the truth, and

678
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 4: the life.

679
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 3: And so that's one layer.

680
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 4: If the person and if you're if you're involved in

681
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 4: something that they are not in submission and surrendered to Jesus.

682
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,479
Speaker 3: They're surrendered to another spirit.

683
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 4: And just because they have information about you does.

684
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 3: Not mean that it's holy right.

685
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 4: But then there's another layer because they're also The Bible

686
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 4: also warns us a false prophet, So there are many

687
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 4: people that could masquerade using the name of Jesus, but

688
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 4: they are not of him. That's why Jesus would even say, like,

689
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 4: in the last days, you know, there will be many

690
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 4: who will come to me and say Lord, Lord, Lord,

691
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Speaker 4: and he will say, get away from me.

692
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 3: I never knew you.

693
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 4: And then he calls them workers of iniquity, and so

694
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Speaker 4: he's like, this was never about me. You are giving

695
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 4: over to the enemy a long time ago, right. And

696
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 4: so the other layer is why people have to have

697
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 4: a personal relationship with God for themselves because one of

698
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 4: the things that God uses to mark his own it's

699
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 4: not the knowledge that they flow in, it's not they

700
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 4: move in power, is.

701
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 3: That you would know them by their fruits.

702
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 4: If their lifestyle does not match the fruits of the

703
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 4: Holy Spirit, it's not the Holy Spirit.

704
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 3: Yes, no matter if they say Jesus, no matter if.

705
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 4: They have a church, no matter if they were across

706
00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 4: if you're life, because the Holy Spirit. And why he's

707
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 4: so strong on that, because for someone to take on

708
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 4: a position as a pastor or a leader in any capacity,

709
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 4: that means you have walked with God in such a

710
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 4: way that the Holy Spirit is evident through.

711
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 3: Your life before you can lead people.

712
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 4: Yes, and so it's not a place where you can

713
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 4: make an excuse.

714
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 3: No, then don't be a leader.

715
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 4: Still if you're still in a place where that area

716
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 4: God has not worked on it, sit down, don't lead

717
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 4: people into your mess.

718
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 3: Right.

719
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 4: And so when he says you will know them by

720
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 4: their fruits, because to recognize them in any capacity of leadership,

721
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 4: then there is a walk they have done in a

722
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 4: secret place with God that you can see the fragrance.

723
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 4: You can smell the fragrance of the Holy Spirit on them,

724
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 4: you can pay, you can notice it in humility and

725
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 4: patience in different areas of their lives. So one layer

726
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 4: is first of all, are they serving Jesus? But secondly,

727
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 4: so you.

728
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 3: Don't get deceived. Do they remind you when.

729
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 4: You're around them? Do you feel like you want to

730
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:02,479
Speaker 4: get closer to God or them?

731
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Speaker 3: Yes? Wow, that's good. That is so good.

732
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Speaker 1: Wow, Siphanie, you are just amazing. So I want to

733
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Speaker 1: talk to you about something. Yes, I'm forty one, I

734
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: am Well, you know, we feel like it's okay, I'm

735
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 1: ready for love. We feel like we are, but sometimes

736
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: God is like you think you're ready, but you're not ready.

737
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Speaker 1: And you did a four part series on YouTube to

738
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: call what is marriage?

739
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Speaker 3: So I want to talk about this because.

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Speaker 1: You said five rolls of a godly husband are a leader,

741
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: a learner, a loyal partner, a provider, and a protector.

742
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:34,439
Speaker 3: Yeah.

743
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Speaker 1: So for me, I'm at an age where i feel

744
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: like I'm ready for love. I'm ready to share my

745
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 1: life with someone. It gets lonely, you know, and I'll meet.

746
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 2: People and I'm like, oh, like.

747
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 3: Oh, this is the one that's me.

748
00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: So I want to know, as just from woman too,

749
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: what do you feel like? God will let me know

750
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: when it's time. And because I've met people, I've met

751
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: men that are lovers of Jesus. I've met men that

752
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: were raising the church. We may have kind of fallen astray,

753
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: but still go every now and then I'll come with

754
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,919
Speaker 1: you. You know, that's what you want to do type of thing.

755
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: But I know at the age I am now where

756
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: I am my walk, I want someone that can lead me.

757
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,240
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, and I'm not the one always dragging

758
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: them to God. Want less you get our Bible or

759
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: let's go to church on Sunday? What do you think

760
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: about the sermon? How can we apply this to the week.

761
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: I'm really big on that and just trying to find

762
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: the right person and knowing that it is from God.

763
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, one of the things I'll say is

764
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 4: definitely like people say, trust God, trusts God. But to

765
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 4: give context to it, trust God as the father who

766
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 4: gives away his bride. And what I mean by that is,

767
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 4: you know, in the natural, on the wedding day, you

768
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 4: have your natural father or whoever could stand in who

769
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 4: walks you down the aisle and gives you away to

770
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 4: your husband. But that's a husband that is known right

771
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 4: when he's unknown, the heavenly Father. If you trust him,

772
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 4: if you first of all, if you position yourself in

773
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 4: a place where God, I'm not willing to settle just

774
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 4: to have somebody.

775
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 3: Right.

776
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 4: Yes, there is a call you have on my life.

777
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,959
Speaker 4: There's a call on who the person that you see.

778
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 4: There's something you have in mind concern in my marriage

779
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 4: because in the series I talk about how marriage is

780
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 4: God's idea. It's his first institution, right because there is

781
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 4: a purpose even concerning the home. And so when you

782
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 4: have a desire to, you know, receive what God designed. God,

783
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 4: I want a man who knows you. I want a

784
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 4: man who can lead this home. I'm also willing to

785
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 4: be submissive, you know, on understanding even what that means and.

786
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 3: All of that.

787
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:51,399
Speaker 4: But it's to say, God, whenever you truly believe it's

788
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 4: the right time, lead me to him, present me, to

789
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 4: let him see me and know, because what happened with

790
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,879
Speaker 4: Adam and Eve is still the pattern of God if

791
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 4: we are willing.

792
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 3: And so with Adam and Eve.

793
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 4: You see where Adam is asleep, you know the whole

794
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 4: thing he takes out, you know, his rib.

795
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 3: But it's not just what happens when he's asleep. He

796
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 3: wakes up.

797
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 4: God did not just put Eve in the garden randomly

798
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 4: by a tree. Adam is just gonna walk by and say,

799
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 4: I ain't seen you around here, right, his pride, he

800
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 4: presents Eve the Bible that just said he brought.

801
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 3: Eve to Adam.

802
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then when he looked, he's like, oh wow,

803
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 4: this is bone of my bone, flushing my fledge. Da

804
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 4: da da da da. The same way you have then

805
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 4: you fast forward. You have the story with Abraham when

806
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 4: Abraham wanted his son to get married. Yeah, he tells

807
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 4: his servant, He's like, look, go to my hometown and

808
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 4: get my son a wife.

809
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 3: Right.

810
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, The servant is like, you know, Lord, you show

811
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 4: her on all this stuff. When the servant goes, it's

812
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 4: about if you involve God, the servant could have just

813
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 4: gone and whichever woman he saw, he's like, okay, let

814
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,399
Speaker 4: me just see if this woman will work.

815
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 3: He says.

816
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,919
Speaker 4: He's like, Lord, if you have truly prospered my way,

817
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 4: right then literally like revealed to me who is gonna

818
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 4: be the wife? You know, And then he gives and

819
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 4: there's a wisdom that comes upon him and then he

820
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 4: talks about he was like, let it be that the

821
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 4: one who is willing to give me water and also

822
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 4: offer water to his donkeys be the one God.

823
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Speaker 2: Back to them.

824
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 4: So then you know, Rachel comes, he sees her and

825
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 4: he's like, wow, she's beautiful. He asks for water and

826
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 4: she's like, oh, let me also wall of your donkeys.

827
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 3: He's the one.

828
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 4: But that was not a random and I know, like

829
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 4: you know, as you know for in churches, you would

830
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 4: hear it taught in so many beautiful ways, like oh,

831
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 4: she was selfless, she was this, which that shows that

832
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 4: she was selfless, but that also shows you there was

833
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 4: a spiritual influence in that moment. There was something that

834
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 4: influenced him to even think that. And there was something

835
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 4: that made her even aware because God is like, no,

836
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 4: this is the one and so, and literally presents.

837
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 3: Her before the servant. He sees her like just orchestrates

838
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 3: her to come to the world. At that time, he

839
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 3: orders her steps.

840
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Speaker 4: Everything works out, and I will give you my personal

841
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 4: example even for me. I remember when I was a pastor,

842
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 4: and you know, I was spending a lot of time

843
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 4: in the church, right, But because as a pastor, I

844
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 4: didn't want to be corrupted in my heart when I'm

845
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 4: meeting people because we're a young church. There's a lot

846
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 4: of good looking men there, right, And so I made

847
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 4: a covenant with God. I was like, God, I'm not

848
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 4: going to date anybody in the church, and I'm not

849
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,240
Speaker 4: doing that to protect my heart.

850
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 3: I don't want to be praying for somebody.

851
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 4: And be asking if this is at the same time like,

852
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 4: oh yeah, I would love to have a pastoral counseling

853
00:40:54,920 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 4: meeting with you over right on dinner that's when you

854
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 4: sit and talk, right, it would be a mess. And

855
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 4: I remember, like my mom was just like where are

856
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 4: you gonna meet, you know, meet to But I was like, God,

857
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 4: if you are my father, you would figure it out, come,

858
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 4: make it happen.

859
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 3: And when you know it's true, you just know. And

860
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 3: so how I met my husband.

861
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 4: It was a baby shower and the bait It was

862
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 4: during COVID, so the people nobody was gonna come because

863
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 4: it was COVID, and so I remember the lady had

864
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 4: hit me up and she was like, hey, no one

865
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 4: is coming, if you could come and even bring a friend,

866
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,760
Speaker 4: And then I brought one of my besties, Brenda.

867
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Speaker 3: I said, girl, what you do right?

868
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 4: And so we both go to the baby shower and

869
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,919
Speaker 4: he was the only one that came from the guy side,

870
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 4: and I remember the moment he opened his mouth. Brenda

871
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 4: looked at me and she was like, oh, listen, it's

872
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 4: a rap? Was he just like it was like his

873
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,720
Speaker 4: language just and one of the things that he said.

874
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 4: So literally the day before we I was talking with

875
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 4: Brenda and we were like, we're talking about I was

876
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 4: just sharing about my frustration and dating and it was

877
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 4: literally this guy who I was talking to and he

878
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 4: told me, he was like, I'm intimidated by you. I'm

879
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 4: a kid, how are you intimidating me? And so we

880
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 4: were just talking about that. So then there was a

881
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 4: part and cause it was a it was a baby

882
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,399
Speaker 4: shower on the boat. So I'm sitting on this side

883
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 4: of the boat and he comes and he says, do

884
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 4: men tell you No? Do do people normally tell you

885
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:44,439
Speaker 4: they're intimidated by you? I was like, I said, oh yes.

886
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,760
Speaker 4: He said, oh, so you've been talking to boys.

887
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 6: I said a poet, yes, boys.

888
00:42:58,120 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 2: In my mind, I.

889
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 3: Was it was around at that moment. It was around

890
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 3: like yes, I that I love it.

891
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:13,479
Speaker 2: Oh my god.

892
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 4: But it was just like who he is was literally

893
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 4: like God packaged him for me.

894
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:21,359
Speaker 3: That's lit I can.

895
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 4: And it was so interesting because I remember years prior,

896
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 4: I'll be praying. I'm like, God, when is my husband coming?

897
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 4: He didn't even talk to me about that.

898
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 3: The Lord literally told me he said, you're going to

899
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 3: be a mother at thirty two. Wow.

900
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 4: And I'm like, I'm asking you about my husband, not

901
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 4: when I'm going to be And this was in my twenties.

902
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 3: Wow, So mid twenties.

903
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:41,439
Speaker 4: The Lord is saying I'm going to be a mom

904
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 4: in thirty at thirty.

905
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 3: Two, I'm like that that's some years. Lord.

906
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 4: So then in my mom I'm like, well, if I'm

907
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 4: going to be a mom at thirty.

908
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 3: Two, I have to be married before. But literally I

909
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 3: became a mom at thirty two.

910
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 4: And I remember when the Lord told me that my mom.

911
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 4: I told my mom. I was like, Mom, I don't

912
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 4: know when I'm gonna get married, but this is what

913
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 4: God told me that by thirty two I'll be a mom.

914
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 4: So that union is so symbolic to the family we're

915
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 4: supposed to raise.

916
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 3: So God has already gone ahead of me.

917
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 4: He's like, I'm already taking care of your marriage, and

918
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 4: I'm now talking to you about your children.

919
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 3: Right. Wow.

920
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 4: And so when you trust your heavenly Father to present

921
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 4: you and to open the eyes of the one who

922
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,399
Speaker 4: is for you, that he will present you in such

923
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 4: a way that you would be seen by the right one. Yes,

924
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 4: And why that is important is we have to be

925
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 4: okay with rejection, because rejection is literally God saying I'm

926
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 4: not opening the eyes of the wrong people. I'm not

927
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 4: gonna let the wrong person see you. And so when

928
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 4: a person that you like that it just doesn't work out, that's.

929
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 3: God shutting the eyes of the wrong ones.

930
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,240
Speaker 4: That if you're a counterfeit, I am going to shut

931
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:49,919
Speaker 4: your eyes that even though this person is I mean

932
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 4: a catch of the catch.

933
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 3: You're not gonna see it.

934
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 4: You're gonna see the things that you're like, I don't

935
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,360
Speaker 4: think I can do it. You're gonna see that the

936
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,879
Speaker 4: fact that, oh she's a pastor, I'm intimidated by that.

937
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 4: Oh she's doing I'm intimidated by that. But when it's

938
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 4: the right one, God says, I will open your eyes,

939
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 4: they will see you, they will know you, and they

940
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 4: will recognize you as Oh you belong to me, your

941
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 4: mind like we belong together. Right, And so I would say,

942
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 4: trust God. Keep your standards biblical. There's there's cultural standards,

943
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 4: you know, but keep make sure that the things that

944
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,879
Speaker 4: are non negotiable are the things that reflect the heart

945
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 4: of God.

946
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 3: The cultural standards be flexible.

947
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 4: You know, he may not be five to seven, I

948
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:41,919
Speaker 4: mean six seven. Hold up, now, all heights matter. All

949
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 4: heights matter. But I'm just saying I'm tall, but that

950
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 4: just hit. But he could be five seven child, All

951
00:45:51,080 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 4: heights matter. Okay for you if you.

952
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 3: Are five to receive your blessed.

953
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 4: Listen, but you you keep your my th biggest and

954
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 4: keep your standards biblic Yeah, those are non negotiable. The

955
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 4: cultural things be really flexible on you. The things that

956
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 4: are like defined by culture. You know, how who he

957
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 4: has to be, how tall, what field?

958
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 3: Because you're you're.

959
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 4: Functioning on limited knowledge of yourself. God knows you from

960
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 4: an eternal perspective. You know this version of you, but

961
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 4: you don't know the you that God is going to say, Hey,

962
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 4: you're going to open a studio one day, and I

963
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 4: need you to be the business man.

964
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 3: I hope you just I've been thinking about it.

965
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 4: Yes, there are things that God sees about you that

966
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 4: he knows the kind of man he's connecting you to,

967
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,240
Speaker 4: not because of your now, but because of the totality

968
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 4: of who He's called you to be.

969
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 2: So sad, where have you been all my life?

970
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 3: Right here, girl, I'm trying to tell you, thank you

971
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 3: so much. Thank you.

972
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 2: It's incredible.

973
00:46:55,960 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 3: Thank you.

974
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: To close out the show, we do what is called

975
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,720
Speaker 1: positive outcomes, and I'd love for you to hang around

976
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: so you can give our listeners some advice.

977
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 3: I love it all right. So this one says Hi, Crystal.

978
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: I am forty four year old woman and over the

979
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: years I have said that I did not want to

980
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,240
Speaker 1: get married. I thought I always wanted to be a mom,

981
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: but not a wife. I now know that I was

982
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: saying that out of fear and want to refocus my prayers.

983
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: Do you think that God understood that it was actually

984
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,800
Speaker 1: fear and not my true desire. I worried that because

985
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: I rejected marriage for so long, that God will not

986
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 1: bless me with it.

987
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 3: That's so funny, she said.

988
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: Because I was having a conversation with this guy, a

989
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 1: potential and he's like, do you want to have children?

990
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 2: I was like, well, you know, I'm getting older.

991
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's in the cars me, so

992
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 1: like I'm just I'm okay if I don't. And he said, no,

993
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 1: give me the real Like, what do you really want?

994
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: He said, don't give me that surface leveled answer. And

995
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us, as women, we do

996
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,439
Speaker 1: out of fear because we don't want to get hurt

997
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: or rejected. Me say, well, I just want this, I

998
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:57,879
Speaker 1: don't want the full thing.

999
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 2: What would be your advice to her?

1000
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, the beauty is that he's God, and God doesn't

1001
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 4: just see what we are. He's not just looking at

1002
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 4: what we're saying, and he's looking at where it's coming from.

1003
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 4: He sees the fear, he sees the you know, the uncertainties,

1004
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 4: he sees the ignorance, he sees the trauma that causes

1005
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 4: us to come in agreement with these things. And he's

1006
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 4: so kind, he's so loving, he's so merciful that he's

1007
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 4: just waiting for you. He's right there. He's like, I'm

1008
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 4: just waiting for you. Whenever you're ready, I have this

1009
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 4: for you. It's available, it's right here. And we have

1010
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 4: to be patient with ourselves. You know, when the Bible

1011
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 4: talks about God is love. And the first thing when

1012
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 4: you know in First Corinthians and it describes love, the

1013
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 4: first attribute is love is patient.

1014
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,439
Speaker 3: God is extremely patient.

1015
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 4: With us because the truth is even though we're grown,

1016
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 4: like in our eyes, we'll like we're grown, right, But

1017
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 4: when you think of a baby, you know, I have

1018
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 4: a nine month old daughter now she's gonna be ten

1019
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 4: months soon. And when I look at her, when she's

1020
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,879
Speaker 4: doing things that are like mistakes, Yeah, she.

1021
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 2: Doesn't know that.

1022
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 4: I know that, but I recognize she's a baby. You're

1023
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 4: a baby, and you're gonna get older and you're gonna

1024
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 4: learn and you're gonna know that. This is why, like

1025
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 4: when I'm taking you from this and you're crying, you're

1026
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 4: gonna understand it. When God looks at us when we're

1027
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 4: functioning from pain, ignorance, her He's like.

1028
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 3: Oh, you're a baby, and it's okay.

1029
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 4: I'm gonna hold you and whenever as you get older

1030
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 4: and not as you get older in knowledge, because in

1031
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 4: the natural realm, we get older through time and the

1032
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 4: realm that God is in, He's there's time is.

1033
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 3: Not a thing.

1034
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 4: How they look at us from an age perspective is

1035
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:53,760
Speaker 4: by revelation, by wisdom. When we grow in our knowledge

1036
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 4: of God, that's out. That's what he sees us maturity.

1037
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 4: So when you're functioning from a place of like, God,

1038
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:01,959
Speaker 4: I don't want this because I was hurt, he said,

1039
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:04,320
Speaker 4: it's okay, you're a baby, and that's all right, and

1040
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 4: I'm gonna send people in your life that would reveal

1041
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 4: my love. I'm gonna send wisdom to you. I'm going

1042
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 4: to send help to you, even for some even in

1043
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 4: the form of therapy. That's God's showing you, like, hey,

1044
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 4: you need to be aware of what is trapped in

1045
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 4: that true right and as.

1046
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 3: You heal, He's like, okay, cool, that's the business.

1047
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 4: I got some kids for you girls, right.

1048
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 3: He's not holding that against anyway. I love it.

1049
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 2: Thank you for that.

1050
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: So we like to ask our guests what I'm going

1051
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 1: through and what I'm growing through. Is there anything that

1052
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,439
Speaker 1: you're going through or growing through?

1053
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 3: Ooh, that's a good one. That's a really good one.

1054
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 4: I think for me, it's really the season of fully embracing.

1055
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 4: It's so interesting because even though people will not understand

1056
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 4: you when I say this fully, but for a long

1057
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 4: time I've been hidden even though it doesn't look like

1058
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:04,359
Speaker 4: but hidden in the sense of knowing what God has

1059
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 4: called me to do there, but it was there was

1060
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 4: things that He was kind of like nurturing and just

1061
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 4: protecting even though it feels like I've been in a

1062
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 4: public eye space or whatever. But fully embracing, you know

1063
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 4: who God is calling me to be in the now

1064
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 4: and knowing that it's going to stretch me in so

1065
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 4: many ways. And I think that working through that working

1066
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 4: through because there's different levels of people pleasing, right, I

1067
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 4: think we conquer it on different levels. I don't think

1068
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 4: we just won and done, like I am not a

1069
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 4: people pleaser. I think there's different stages of life and

1070
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 4: I have been in. There's a stage where I was

1071
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,840
Speaker 4: that I didn't really care about what people think. But

1072
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 4: when you're about to come into a new venture and

1073
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 4: you know, come, we've come, you know, show yourself in

1074
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 4: a new way, there's this sense of like, our people

1075
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 4: loyal to you because of what they've known, you know,

1076
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 4: are people connected to you because of what you you know,

1077
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 4: the expectations you.

1078
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:08,760
Speaker 3: Meet in their lives?

1079
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 4: Right, But when you start saying some things that they

1080
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 4: don't like, you know, what's.

1081
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 3: That going to look like?

1082
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 4: But it's to conquer that on a new level for me,

1083
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 4: like you know what God is, me and you and

1084
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 4: whoever you've connected to me in that season.

1085
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 3: That's all right. I love that. I love that.

1086
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: To close, we feel in the blank, keep it blank, sweetie.

1087
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take something that you taught me today.

1088
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: Keep your foundation or keep your standards spiritual? He said,

1089
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:38,880
Speaker 1: you need to have your spiritual standard.

1090
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 2: It's not worldly standards.

1091
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say, keep your standards spiritual, sweetie.

1092
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:43,879
Speaker 2: I love that.

1093
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 3: I love that.

1094
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 2: What would you do?

1095
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,319
Speaker 3: I would say keep it off.

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Speaker 6: What I want to say, you can say.

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Speaker 4: Because what I'm thinking of right now is ice s cream,

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Speaker 4: But that is not That's what I'm getting answered.

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Speaker 2: There's a Geni's down the street and what's on like

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Speaker 2: that's fiance.

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Speaker 3: But let me be serious, I would say keep it honest.

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Speaker 2: I love that. I love that.

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Speaker 3: Stephanie.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you, Thank you, guys, Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for tune into this episode of Keep

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Speaker 1: It Positive.

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Speaker 2: Sweetie.

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Speaker 1: If you want to write into our Positive Outcomes listener letter,

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Speaker 1: that's l u V.

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Speaker 3: Stephanie.

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Speaker 2: Tell the people whe they can find you.

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Speaker 4: You could Instagram Stephani Actually everything Stephanie ek okafor.

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Speaker 2: And yeah awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, And guys, make sure you get

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Speaker 1: her new book, The Power of Your Dreams, A Guide

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Speaker 1: to hearing and understanding how God.

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Speaker 2: Speaks while you sleep available now.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for tune into this episode.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime in between time, you know what to do.

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Speaker 1: Keep it positive, Sweetie.

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Speaker 3: Lord, thank you for this day, God, and thank you

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Speaker 3: for uh this conversation. Man.

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Speaker 5: God, you already know you saw this moment before the

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Speaker 5: beginning of time, and so we just asked that their

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Speaker 5: words and their UH conversation.

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Speaker 4: Would align with what it is that even God.

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Speaker 5: I pray that people's lives would be transformed, impacted and changed.

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Speaker 5: God no nerves for either either of them. God just

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Speaker 5: giving the ability to flow in conversation. God, you need it,

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Speaker 5: you got it. Thank you for every person in this

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Speaker 5: room living their dis and talents. God, they will return

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Speaker 5: to them one hundredfold. And we just blessed Crystal for

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Speaker 5: the whole day.

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Speaker 3: God, you give her supernatural strength. And Jesus, we pray

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Speaker 3: a man