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Before You Get Emotional, Act, Or React, Count The Cost
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The Lyricism Of Life
Season 2 Episode 19
Before You Get Emotional, Act, Or React, Count The Cost
Emotions will have you wanting to be validated or justified via an action which often warrants a reaction whether good or bad but how much will an action cost you? What will the reaction cost?
Growing weary in well doing is an emotional attack because you grow impatient believing you’ve invested too much time without being paid back in whatever way you were expecting.
When you grow weary in well doing you will be tempted to leave your post. If you remain weary in well doing you will ultimately leave your post.
Leaving your post means you stop standing guard. The first thing you stop guarding is your heart.
Once you stop guarding your heart it becomes hardened. This puts you in a danger zone because this means you no longer care about your position spiritually, mentally, or emotionally which knocks you out of position physically.
How much is this moment, seconds, or even a few minutes of raw emotion going to cost you?
What will it cost you?
Is it or was it worth what was spent?
Don’t grow weary in Love.
Don’t put your expectations in being rejected.
Empower yourself by giving yourself time to think things through before making a decision to act or react.
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Shalom, good evening, and welcome to the lyricism of life. I am your host, Apostle Pastor Pasha, aka the Lyrical Apostle. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's been a long day, but I want to welcome everyone. Come on in, come on in. Tell someone to tell someone to tell someone else to come and journey with us. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Hello, everyone. We share the live and invite someone to journey with us tonight. Come on in. Come on in. Hope everybody had a great day.
SPEAKER_04Hey, babe. Hey, how you doing there? Good? Yeah, how you doing there? You sound a little muffled, but other than that, don't mess nothing up. But I see you uh you uh you brought your father back, but you really can't see his picture, but that's okay. Come on. I'm ready. Let's go. It's been a it's been a very long day, a day of emergencies and blessings. So let's get the blessings on. Let's go. Shimmy, shimmy, y'all, shimmy yeah, shimmy yeah. Give me the mic and I'll take it away. Believe me, y'all for the supernatural. Amen.
SPEAKER_00All right, so you got the mic. Is there anything you want to start with?
SPEAKER_04I was I was I was really praying and hoping you would start with.
SPEAKER_02I can start.
SPEAKER_04I'm ready. Um, yeah, I I just got home. So yeah. I haven't I haven't seen you since like uh 1 p.m. or something like that. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, mm-hmm. Yeah, I've been working hard, hardly working, working hard. Yeah. No, but but great, mighty uh things are taking place. I'm excited, you know. I'm excited about what Yahweh's promised. I'm excited that he has prepared a place for us. I'm excited by every emergency turning into good news. I'm shalom, shalom, and welcome everyone. Excellent.
SPEAKER_00Yes. So well tonight I figured I open up talking about. Well, let me just say the title. The title is Before You Get Emotional, Act or React, Count the Cost. And emotionalism is a is a is a touchy subject because a lot of times, why are you smiling like that?
SPEAKER_04Smiling because, you know, uh, I I basically, you know, tell you that all the time, you know. Get that love back, you know. Oh boy, here we go.
SPEAKER_00Is this every show's opening? I mean, come on, this is starting to get like don't don't don't belittle love.
SPEAKER_04Don't belittle love.
SPEAKER_00I'm not belittling love, but that's just the opening statement for every show. You just got home.
SPEAKER_04I didn't say this was every show. It is though. Just go back and watch. I'm just saying, like right now, you could you can really take the high road and and kick out a lot of positivity and show forth that love, show for that grace, especially when you know your man has been working real hard. You haven't seen that.
SPEAKER_00So let me ask you something, hardworking man. Let me ask you something. You say you haven't seen me in since 1 p.m.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00So the first thing you want to say to me when you come on the show is I tell you that all the time. It's like you don't tell me that all the time. Like, come on.
SPEAKER_04I do. Show fuck that love. Uh-uh. Especially now that we're going to be able to do that. We got no time, we got no time to allow any hormones and anything else interrupt with the goodness of the love or the grace of the magnitude that Yahweh has blessed us with as we go to a whole new level.
SPEAKER_00Especially always trying to give us a cheap shot.
SPEAKER_04You know, I don't give cheap shots, so don't give cheap shots. There you go again, thinking that somebody's setting you up for failure. Don't give cheap shots. That I'm not what come on. Come on, count the cost. This ain't no cheap shot, babe.
SPEAKER_00Talk about your day. Come on, because I know you won't talk about it. So go for it.
SPEAKER_04No, I want I'm gonna talk about uh what we're talking about.
SPEAKER_00Oh, believe me, you got some emotion in your day. Say what? Believe me, you had a lot of emotion, emotions in your day today.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, I've been dealing with uh police officers, emergency people. Yeah. But I'm I'm really I'm really excited because we got us another uh apostle Ivan Avon, you know, and that that's a that's a rarity. That's a very, very rarity.
SPEAKER_00All right, so let me just since you act like you don't have nothing to say because I know you're gonna say. No, I'm I'm trying to allow it. All right, let me okay, let me open it.
SPEAKER_04Set the tone and bring the energy, the charisma, excuse me, the zeal, the hope, the power, the might, the passion, you know, the passion.
SPEAKER_00Let me talk.
SPEAKER_04All right, session to the energy. You're gonna let me talk? Giving them hope, strength, possibilities. Especially when you're no, your husband, your man has had a hard day and you haven't seen him since one. I mean, electrify me. Come on. So I'm reading.
SPEAKER_00Did you ask me what I did today?
SPEAKER_04Now there you go. You want to compete. You want to compete.
SPEAKER_00I don't want to compete. I'm just asking, did you ask?
SPEAKER_04I was doing the Lord's work. Okay. And what was I doing?
SPEAKER_00His son's work, right?
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00Oh man. So, okay. Before you get emotional, act or react, count the cost. So I was just meditating. A lot of times I see these really, really powerful stories they'll show on on Instagram, not Instagram, on Facebook. And they talk about families and stuff that's happening and you know, things that they've gone through. So I was watching this one woman, her and her husband, they they married like right after high school, something like that. And they were going through IVF treatments. And so she was showing her journey like each time she got a no, each time she she received losses, and they went through a period of 10 years. And 10 years of no's. 10 years of no's and a few losses. 10 years of losses. Yeah. And so she was just saying how she didn't care. Like she was just gonna, she was gonna keep going because she's like, this is gonna happen one day. This is gonna happen one day. And then I started to to meditate on, you know, when we're on the road or path to get to the place that Yahshua has prepared for us, like the word on Sunday when you were saying uh Christ has prepared a way and have prepared a place for us. At what point do we say we're gonna cut off the limit of how many years we're going to proceed to get to the place that he's prepared? And sometimes, well, a lot of the times when we quit on our mission or on our journey, it has a lot to do with the emotions we experience. For instance, growing weary and well doing, that's an emotion. That's a that's an emotional attack. Because when you grow weary and well doing, you're constantly believing that you're putting in work, but you're not being paid whatever it is you think you should be paid for the work you're putting in. And so then, you know, you're tempted to to leave your post. You're tempted to quit while you're on your mission. And we've seen it. We've seen it uh happen a lot of times when people they just they quit on their mission because they're Well, can I I'm gonna ask you something, always do this and keep your thought.
SPEAKER_04What was the last time you were tempted to quit and quit on what?
SPEAKER_00The last time I was tempted to quit. And to quit on what? I would say that happened mostly while I was writing, like writing my book, because sometimes it was like, you know, am I doing this right? Is this gonna come together the right way? And so it's like maybe I should just stop here and then pick it up at another time. So those were some of the thoughts. And that that honestly is like a quitting mentality, because it's like, no, if you had a word to write a book, or if you had a word to do something or to go somewhere, then you can't just stop because you don't feel emotionally connected to it at the point or at a moment or in a moment, because now you're risking cutting off a blessing that comes with it just from you obeying.
SPEAKER_04Let me ask you another question, because you said something very deep. You said you don't didn't always feel emotionally connected to it. That's deep because though you were writing your book, you weren't feeling emotionally connected, and you need that, excuse me, you need that emotional connection to to push you forward. And I can see so many parallels in other areas. If you lose the emotional connection, you lose feeling for it. And you you you you need feeling to help uh push you ahead. And then when you truly believe in a promise, there's no time limit on it. Right.
SPEAKER_00And what quitting makes you lose connection when you already put it in your mind that you're gonna quit, then that helps you to disconnect. And a lot of times, like, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed writing my book. But the part where you disconnect is when you start feeling like, okay, am I doing this the right way? I've never done this, this, I've never done this type of book before, I've never done this, never done that. How am I sure that this is gonna all come together correctly? And then it's like you have to stop yourself in the moment of quitting. You have to stop yourself in the moment of disconnecting, and you have to reinforce the word, reinforce your faith, reinforce what you know that this particular mission, what you're on this mission for, what it's set out to do, and what Yahweh promised on this mission. So it's like you stop yourself. If you continue on a mission of quitting, that's when you really disconnect. And then in disconnecting, you leave your post. So we all have posts. We all have a place that we're supposed to guard. Your loved ones, your your ministry, your word, you're supposed to guard. And the first place you lose, the first post you leave, rather, when you disconnect, is your heart, because the word says to guard and protect your heart. When you disconnect from something, you leave your heart, and your heart turns hard. And so it's like, no, emotions could be a deadly game if you don't, you know, get a hold of them.
SPEAKER_03Grab the reins of them.
SPEAKER_04Grab the reins of those emotions. I like this because I'm I I look forward to keeping you accountable to all these powerful words you're getting. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00We keep each other accountable. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Watch your finger. Watch your finger. My mother, I about to say my mother's not dead, but oh my gosh, yes. My mother is dead. So I guess you can't. I can't. I can't. But um, no, what you're saying is powerful because uh, you know, I I spoke to my Uncle Harrison right before I jumped on here, and a picture came up with me and him from Facebook the last time he visited mom before he died. And he was telling, he was telling me, like, I'm still alive. Uh, and he was talking about, you know, his his his son having a bunch of children with with with white women, which is, you know, his lineage is increasing. But he was telling me you have to fight. And he says, I'm gonna be 86 in May. And I was like, you have outlived all of the men that we know. You've you've outlived Granny's brothers, you've outlived your father, and so forth. And I just tell him how that ministers to me, and within it, you can't quit. And he was telling me that, you know, I don't do nothing but sit around and lay around with my breathing machine on at oxygen. I said, no, but the the blessing is that you hear it, it's assigned to me because I'm hitting 60 and I got a 14-year-old. And I'm gonna be 60 before while she's still 14, and so forth. But it is a reminder of the fight. It's a reminder of what to fight for and to get the end result and not to allow the wrong emotions to sidetrack you. And today, well, you saw it today because you you you were right there when it began, when the emergency phone calls began, and there was only one thing I I could say, I'm gonna be there. And in being there, I was beyond blessed because I got to see, I mean, I got to see, for lack of a better word, I got to see Apostle Ivan moving his ministry, actually, someone greater than Apostle Ivan moving moving their ministry. The whole having a person that pushes me into my ministry, pushes me into what what I'm called to do. And then the the the triumph of everything. Oh my goodness, I don't want to cry here, but it goes back to what you're saying before to stay focused in the see the the triumph of everything is uh when his mother called me. And his mother called me, I guess, about I guess maybe maybe 40 minutes ago, and she was like, You have no idea how thankful I am of you and your sister. She said, You you have no idea how Allah and God sent you. She said, Uh, we are not the same faith, we're not the same religion, but we do serve the same love. And to hear that to hear that from someone who is a very adamant Muslim, to hear that, so I had to tell her the testimony of when I went to uh Palestine and when I prayed uh in the Dome of the Rock and how that took place. And of course, she said, You have no idea how you have ministered to my family and the love that you and your sister shone, and not that, but the ministry. And to hear that, to hear that when to be exhausted and to be out of strength and to to almost be tempted, because the enemy will try to come in and tempt you, then everything you did was in vain. And I I refuse to to let that go. That's because when I see uh Minister Natal, Pastor Princess, Pastor Monique, and Pharaoh, Ron, and King Damart with their children, I'm constantly reminded, you know, of what we do is love, and that love never stops building. But how many times within the story of love that something tries to come and sidetrack you or or or or or to diminish what you're doing. And that's coming, it's very important to have the the the the right emotions. And this is what I meditate on very speedily. It's Yahweh who gave us emotions, it's Yahweh who gave us feelings, and it's Yahweh who gave us passions. I always say Yahweh gave all that for something positive. So I'm determined that my emotions, my feelings, and my passions are gonna be used to fulfill his word and to fulfill his purpose. You know? Um and let's be for real, when we're really tempted to quit, or quote unquote, when we're tempted to be weary and well doing, is when we feel we we've done enough. And we almost feel justified not to do anymore. Right. But it's at that point that you really find out what some would say is your your breaking point, but actually it's your strong points. You know, when you when you when you give in, when you give in to to faith and hope. And these strong points have to be built within within relationship. And that right there to me is powerful because what you can't grow weary on is an ordained relationship, a relationship that Christ Your Hoshua Hamasha has loosed in your life. You you can't you can't be weary, you can't grow weary in love. But the scripture says love never fails. You know, and and and and that's powerful with within itself. And then I I I I I I think in this mode, so I'm constantly thinking, man, everything that went forth today holds a reward. Everything that went forth today holds a reward. And what I kept telling the young man, I kept telling him, you have to remember the purpose of all of this, the purpose of all of this is for your family to witness the love of Yahweh Yeshua. That's that's that that that's awesome. And and that that's beyond strengthening. You cannot grow weary in love. You know, you can't grow weary in love. You know, when was the last time I got on your nerves? And because come on, let's be frilled. It's only when you get on a person's nerves that you're tempted to be weary in love or tempted to to draw back. Because sometimes you draw back, sometimes you hold back. I love you. Sometimes you there you go, breathing heavy. There you go, breathing heavy. I tell you that if if if we're gonna help people, if we're gonna help people, we could it. We can't, we could we gotta be honest. You need counseling. Okay, I do need counseling because I've been counseling all day.
SPEAKER_01And they say I'm crazy. Crazy. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00You know what's so deep. Um, oh, you said when is the last time you got on my nerves? Well, I didn't really see you today, so you didn't get on my nerves today. But okay, let me just be honest. All right. So you are you are a person. You you don't you don't you don't allow no in any form when it comes to faith.
SPEAKER_04Oh, faith. I've been talking about sex. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00How did you get sex out of faith?
SPEAKER_04You said I don't allow a no. Okay. I can't. All right, we call them out faith. There we go. All the promises in him are yes and amen. Go ahead. We're on the same page. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00You said no before, but okay. Let's go back. Oh yeah. There you go again. But go ahead. It might be one time in my life, what you say.
SPEAKER_04When you were when you were acting all mean and and and and and and okay, that's back in maplewood, but go ahead.
SPEAKER_00Okay, then you said no one other time, then. Well, okay. Let's stick to the subject. Focus, the focus, the focus. When I say you don't allow no in a faith move or in faith period, you don't give room for doubt, you don't give room for I don't know if I could do this. When we have a goal, whether it's a trip, whether it's when you're going to minister, it's always this mode you get in where you're like, I don't care about nothing else, this just has to happen. We have to get there, we have to make it, and sometimes that could get on your nerves. But in the end, you gotta respect the fact that the the whole plan is we can't allow certain things to come in with the possibility that it won't happen. For instance, if we allow doubt to come into certain things, then there's you give possibilities or you give a pathway of something not taking place. So if we give any doubt, so we can't make it here because of, or what if this happens? We're not gonna be able to do this. You can't create those those gateways, otherwise, you create pathways for doubt to come in to work against your faith. You are a person who are just like it's faith or nothing.
SPEAKER_04Now, you saying that, let me tell you that was so funny that happened. So here it is that you know the world has changed. So for a lot of medical people to come in, well, this is what happened with today, for a lot of medical people to come in, first they say we're not coming unless the police is there. Then they say, then we're gonna also come with an undercover police officer. You you you hear me? So here it is, it's like, okay, you we you got this medical emergency, and we're in a public place because we're basically the union library, and then the union police, well, they roll up. You know what I'm saying? So, so I mean, everybody can see this. So you and and I was gonna be the point person because I didn't want anybody uh being embarrassed. So letting the police know while they're there, and of course, they they come out, as far as I'm concerned, they just come out, they come out, and I'm gonna protect my life.
SPEAKER_00And the without even being under threat.
SPEAKER_04Yes. That's the deep part. In the midst of that, because let's remember the medical person who also showed up with an undercover of a police officer, which I don't know how can be too much undercover when they got a bulletproof vest. Or saying police on it, you know, and and and so forth. Everything is for the safety of the of the individual, but not so much for the help of the patient.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_04In the midst of this, I'm talking to them, you know, hey, officer, this is who I am, blah, boom. This is the status, this is what's going on, blah, blah, boom. And I get a phone call. And don't ask me why, I don't know how, but I answer the phone call and I said, wait, wait. So I'm talking to the union police, I'm telling them everything's going on, boom, boom, boom, boom. Then I'm talking to the medical expert, you know, I'm letting them know that there's a safe environment, what's going on. There is no threat, but we do want help. Then when I go back to the call, excuse me, it's the people who messed up my Jaguar.
SPEAKER_00No way.
SPEAKER_04Yes. There was they were saying, we need the battery back because the battery, the battery's brand new. And I said, Did you hear my conversation? Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're real busy. You're with the Union Police and you're with the medical and EMS. I said, I am a real bishop. And remember the prayer that was prayed over you. When I get a moment, I'm gonna call you back. I said all that to say this. That was Yahweh. And and and and to me, that had to be ministered, you know, because I'm not accepting a no.
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_04You know, I do remember telling them this if you want that battery, you need to call Jaguar, because that's that's that's where that car is. You know, you need to you need to call Jaguar. But in me not accepting a no, you know, in me not accepting the no, I believe Yahweh's answering prayers I didn't even pray. I I I in other words, I see a connection in it. I see I just see a connection in it. That's not that's not possible. What I will say to the medical person that blessed me, when the ambulance pulled up, the medical person told the police, why is that here? And I said, I I believe it's there for standard procedure, because the guy said, No, it's not supposed to be here. Because we already went that route. We're on a we're we're we're we're on a higher level now. But seeing that and listening to what you were saying, I what I'm hearing from Yahweh, Yahweh's not giving me a no on a lot of things. Because what you know and everyone knows, I've put that to rest. I'm not I'm not dealing with that car, whatever you want to say it. I put that to rest. I put it to rest. You know, I put it to rest. But Yahweh interjected that while I was giving my most. If you understand what I'm saying, right while I was because I was giving drink today.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I know. And you you just keep going, you always keep going.
SPEAKER_04But it was it's it was funny though, because with every roadblock, going back to the no, right? So I can't sell too much. So here it is, you know. I didn't eat, so I'm like, you know, so let's hook up with Apostle Louis. Then Apostle Louis didn't have what I wanted, and because of that, we had another detour and we found this whole new Jamaican spot in Union. Finding this Jamaican spot in union, the new apostle Ivan Avon got me praying for people. So here it is. I'm praying for people that I never would have prayed for if I didn't have this emergency and if certain people didn't have oxtails. Right. And because I was in, and I'm just, and this person is constantly saying, This is the word from Sunday. Yahweh has prepared a place. This is the word from Sunday, Yahweh's prepared a place. And you cannot avoid how Yahweh was in charge of everything, and within it, it was to the point of refusing to accept a no, even when this individual was giving me no about getting help. And now that individual is at Beth Israel Hospital.
unknownWow.
SPEAKER_04It's a whole new level of help. Wow. Once again, going back to what you're saying, not accepting a no and not being weary and well doing. Because what I kept saying, I kept confessing, two things are happening today. I'm building another minister, Andrew. Yes. Yes. Uh, and the sacrifices that I made with Minister Andrew, I am building another minister Andrew, and right now we are going to win Muslim families. Families. Yes. We're going to win African families. Families. And it's happening in great power and it's happening in great might. But it goes back to what you said not accepting a no and not being weary. And that's where I am right now with our girls. Uh-huh. And for Timmy Chris to body slam us. Because if you remember, Timmy Chris was adamant that she was making us into what she needed us to be. And I'm not going to allow anyone to outhope me or to outfaith me. And it just put my faith into a whole new, whatchamacallit, but also to hear this young man's mother say, a Muslim lady say that you are my father. You are my son's father. Was one of the she said, Bishop, you are, she said, Bishop, though we do not have the same faith and we do not have the same religion, you are my father. You are my son's father. And I knew where that came from. That came from love. But that was the love also that Dr. Post Chris had planted and so forth. I knew where that came from. You know, so forth. And I know we had a significant emotional event with the Union police officers, other than the fact that him inviting them out, Shabbat, and Sunday, and getting prayer, is because I kept telling them, though you did not help me, you have put pushed everything back on me. And I told this to the to the medical expert too. I said, You have you have pushed everything back on me. And now you have not helped me in any way. But now I have a greater responsibility because I still have the same medical emergency, but now I also have to deal with homelessness. Right. And and so forth. And I told the police officer, if you were in my situation and position, you would do the same thing I'm doing now. And they agreed. So once again, it just goes back to everything that you said not accepting a no and not being weary. When Yahweh, you know that Yahweh's pushing. And I I think Doc prayed a prayer with this young man and his mother that was all. She prayed a prayer saying, I need you to speak to the you 30 years from now. I need you to speak to the you and give the you 20 years from now access to the person you are now. And I need the you five years from now to speak to you now. That is powerful. Yes. In other words, you want to get you wanna get through this. Right. You're gonna get over this. But there's not the time to be weary and well-doing. There's not the time to allow your emotions to work against you. Because I remember when when when the when the police officers first came up, they were ready. And I I tell them, you know, in situations like this, in situations like this, people come to protect themselves, but not to help. You know? So it's very important for you to know there's no threat here. But then, no, that's that's good.
SPEAKER_00That's good. And you know, some people don't have that wording when when situations like this arise in their families or you know, just with their loved ones. And we've seen it play out the wrong way. So it's deep that you said that the standard procedure now is for them to bring police officers, both plainclothesmen and you know, regular officers, but the training is still not there. So it's like, how could you change the procedure but not implement training? Like, it's it's how do you do that? It's it's not right. That's not right. Because again, like you said, they show up ready, but it's like, why are you so ready and there's no threat? You should show up ready to help, not to kill.
SPEAKER_04And that's I put up a video of a of a black woman who was going to the bank to take out$5,000 of her money. Yeah. And she got arrested. Yeah. And then people want to know why she's upset. And they keep asking for her ideas like the bank has my ID. Right, right. You're not giving it back. You ask me for my ID. Ask them. They call the police. But once again, it's being aware, what I would call it, being aware of your caller environment. And what I kept telling the young man, I kept telling the young man, you might have to go through some difficulty, you might have to go through some pain, you might have to go through a form of humiliation. But remember why. Yahweh is winning your family. Powerful. And through all of this, two things are being built: trust and love. And trust and love are very powerful tools of communication. Very, very powerful tools of communication. And speaking with my uncle is a reminder to me, staying healthy, staying young, staying diligent. Because you know, right now, you know, I'm in I'm in my live or death die mode that we can't, we can't, no, no depth of physical harm come to us because we have a mission in the Oxford. And we there's the there's there is absolutely positively no turning back. But we get to see step by step Yahweh honor his word and be and be and be faithful to his word. And that within itself is powerful. But going back to say, when it comes to love, you cannot be weary and well-doing. And you can't cut corners.
SPEAKER_00And when it comes to love, you cannot have an expectation of rejection. Yeah. Because there that hinders love. Emotionalism can put you into a form of, like we were just saying, creating gateways of doubt, creating gateways where you allow a possibility of something not taking place because of your lack of faith, or because of your expectation in the wrong thing instead of the right thing. What I know is when you left today, you had one plan, which was pray that I can win everybody to love. That is what you said. That's right.
SPEAKER_04I forgot I prayed that, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And that's what you said. You said I wanted you to pray that, and that's the goal.
SPEAKER_04So now let me interrupt you for a second. Write this down because you got what you but this is what I was telling the young man, and I was telling Minister Andrew. I am proud to walk in my professionalism. Right. In my professional field, I don't come across young men like this. In my professional field, I know this is an oddity and a uniqueness that I cannot allow to slip by. It's what we used to teach in leadership class. It's called you have to be able to recognize John Maxwell wrote about this. You have to be able to recognize mavericks. This young man is a maverick. This young man is a maverick. There is there is very few people who has his spiritual skill set. Right. Right. So it was worth it. The spiritual skill set. This this young man usually calls right after prayer, seven o'clock in the morning. And everybody told us not to even call me that time. But he has a skill set. I mean, this is something I was telling my fighting six. We have to recognize our children are not us, and we have to respect that they're different. We have to respect, don't take the wrong way, quote unquote, they don't want to be holy rollers, they don't want to be ministers, they don't, they don't want to be, for lack of a better word, church. And we have to respect that, but also within it honor our uniqueness. Uniqueness that we gave Yahshua our youth, but not to hold that accountable to our kids. We have good kids. But having them the freedom to be who they're called to be, and so doing, we show more reverence to our calling and to being chosen. So I interrupted you because I wanted to say, though today was hard and though today was very weary some, I recognize the uniqueness. I recognize the uniqueness that in my life in the earth and in my life in ministry, is it's a rarity to come across a young man like this. It's a rarity. Um and that's where I don't take the wrong way, but if I'm at bat, I'm going for the home run. I want to bring everybody home on base. But it is the temptation to get emotionally overwhelmed. It is the temptation to to want to quit. I remember when Minister Andrew came to relieve me. And I remember I told Minister Andrew, look, I'm through. I'm checking out. Um, and I told the young man, look, I don't I don't have any more strength to convince you. One thing I'll say about me, like, I'm checking out. I don't I don't have any more. Look, I've given you everything. Docs lay things out, but I don't have the strength to disagree with you. I'm not gonna try to disagree with you, I'm not gonna try to convince you. I will say this about me, I'm going home. You know, and I think that's another blessing. I know when it's time to check out, you know, you know what I'm saying? Right when it when it when it when it's time to check out, but it goes back to what you're saying. I want you to remember your point. Because this way, with our marriage, regardless of how bad you try to mess up this good union, how you might try to come in and throw the brakes while we're doing 150, I'm gonna stick this thing out. Because I recognize you could just be going through a moment. You got a good thing going for you, and I'm not gonna let you mess it up.
SPEAKER_00I want you, I want you to expound on what you're accusing me of.
SPEAKER_04No, I want you to go back to the thing I told you a note on, not to forget.
SPEAKER_00Okay, I remember. We're talking about not having an expectation in rejection. Because that will hinder, that'll hinder anybody from receiving love. If the first thing you believe is that you're gonna be rejected, or the first thing you believe is that you're not gonna experience real love from somebody, then you're gonna put up a defense mechanism. And yeah, you always said it when we got marriage.
SPEAKER_04I don't know if you remember that. I knew it wasn't gonna work. I knew it wasn't gonna last. You know, I knew it wasn't gonna work. I knew I'm like, how could you you just said I do like a month ago, and now you're saying I knew it wasn't gonna work. I knew it wasn't gonna last. That would make me so upset. I wish I had the strength to leave you, but I didn't. Because it was a pride thing. I knew it wasn't gonna work. I knew it was like if you knew it wasn't gonna work and you knew it wasn't gonna last, why say I do?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but that was that's that's a a defense mechanism, like yeah. Oh yeah, you can be mean. You can be mean, you got your brother in you. I just don't want you shooting. You got your brother in you, okay?
SPEAKER_04Oh, Alice. Uncle Harrison said, I told your sister she got to do more than just come to money, come to church and count money. She said, I told Alice she got to do more than just come to church and count money.
SPEAKER_00To the moon, Alice. But what I was gonna say. Oh what I was gonna say is the the defense mechanism is I know this wasn't gonna work because that's when emotions it warrants, okay. I gotta I gotta move on defending myself.
SPEAKER_04I just noticed. Are those shades you have on top of your head? Yeah. But you're in the house and it's night.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but I want them today. So you still oh yeah, of course. But I want them today. They go in my shirt. Okay, all right. You see, you can't see. My shirt is is black and beige, and then it has some stripes on there, and my glasses are black and beige. Oh, okay. I just noticed it.
SPEAKER_04I'm like, yo, she got she got shakes on, yeah, and we ain't even got lights up there.
SPEAKER_00We got lights up here.
SPEAKER_04Oh, you know what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_00I mean, you know, it's we could use more lights because this room is big and dark.
SPEAKER_04Oh man. Oh yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But thinking about counting the cost, when you talk about defense mechanisms, that's another thing that can cause you to totally just disrupt your blessing or disrupt the plan of Yahweh because you have you feel like you have to defend something that's not even there. So it's like I'm constantly saying, okay, I knew this this marriage wasn't going to work, or yeah, I knew he was gonna disappoint me because it's like, yeah, this was too good to be true, but I'm not letting it bother me while it was bothering me. While it was bothering you. While it was bothering me, because it's like again, growing weary and well doing in your own marriage. It's like I I put time into this, I loved him all these years, and now that's how he's gonna treat me.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but those years didn't count. We wasn't married. I was a good friend. Yeah, you was a good friend.
SPEAKER_00So it counted. It counted to me.
SPEAKER_04And then, but we got married, and all of a sudden you you was what's that that big guy with the hands, Ralph? Wreck it Ralph? Wreck it Ralph. Like, yo. I'm like, yo, she really out, she really out to to break this, okay. But you can't be worried while doing, you know.
SPEAKER_00I think I was I think it was a cry for help that you just wasn't helping. I'm the only one you ain't saved. It's like even in our own marriage, even in our own marriage. You lay on the track, you like, get up. The train is coming, and I ain't telling them you there.
SPEAKER_04Hey, hey, it made us stronger, it made us stronger.
SPEAKER_00Hey, for sure, for sure.
SPEAKER_04It made us stronger, and it's a constant reminder. I I don't care who you are, you cannot keep what Christ gave you outside of Christ.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_04So, what I meditate on, the only thing that's gonna keep my marriage is me being in the place that Yahweh blessed me with my marriage. The only thing that's gonna keep my daughters is me being the place where Yahweh blessed me with my daughters. And I think so many people get distracted and forget that if you the kid was, what's it the kids? The kid was like, you know, we learned so much from Daniel talking about his marriage, you know. She's he's like, we didn't know if if it was an advertisement not to get married. Like Dan, like Daniel was talking, we didn't know it was an advertisement, like, don't get married. He said, then he makes like, you better know yourself before you get married. Like, is he advertising? But the blessing is that they were listening, and they got something from it, you know? They they got something, they got something from it. Um but they're like, whoa, Daniel is basically like, don't do this. They're like, they're like, he has a real powerful deep voice.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but they're gonna remember that the rest of their lives. Yes. Like, no, and you know one day you start gonna know yourself.
SPEAKER_04Like he didn't get a message the the the night before he got married because he he he ministered that night that bottom.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yo, he ministered that night. He did. Yeah, but then they they they still made us come in that button with jacking and was dancing down that aisle for three hours just to get to the to the um front. I'm like, well y'all hurry up. Like if I'm hungry.
SPEAKER_04No, but it's it it's it's it's so powerful to recognize what makes you weary. And listen, weariness is only in vain when Christ ain't in it. Wow. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's it's it's um it's destructive too. Yeah, it's very good. But that's that's that's like depression. You get weary and you leave Christ because it's like who's there to support you and help you back up? That's like walking and you have a disability and you try to walk without a walker and you know you need a walker. And it's like Christ is your walker. Why would you leave him back there? It's like where are you going without him?
SPEAKER_04You know? No, that's that that's uh that's beyond powerful and beyond a breakthrough, you know. But it's it's it's these things that you have to keep before you. What I always meditate on, human beings are so distracted. Yes, yes. And it's it's it's sad and it's pathetic. I mean, you would think if we all knew, we all know we're going to die, then we would really uh cherish this time. So when I was driving, right, I was I was I was driving and Yahweh spoke to me and he says, you know, you've you've only seen about to see 60 summers. Think about that. Yeah, that's that's that's a small number. Even if you live to be 150, only see 150 summers. You we have to do a better job of recognizing how precious life is. You're respecting it. And respecting it. It's only 60 summers. 60 summers. And you you you have to recognize how how precious it is. And that's what I'm I always wore for everyone in the ministry because Yahweh told me today when I was praying, Trump's not gonna have any effect on you. Trump and his decisions, the racism, Trump's racism, his hatred is gonna fall back on his supporters. It's gonna fall back on his supporters. I am so thankful, so blessed that there are no black military leaders being used to destroy the US military. That's all being done by white racist men. They have destroyed the US military because they follow a pedophile rapist. They have destroyed it. And where we are now, New America is a must. New America is is a is a mandate. You know, it is a mandate and it is a must. And Yahweh is letting it be known that America cannot be healthy without black, Latinos, Native American Asians. You know, it's it's it's profound when it's taking place. And the only people who are going to be erased are the people who try to erase us and those who tried to erase Christ out of Christianity. Can't be weary. Can't grow weary, not being not being weary, and so forth at all. You know, and so forth. Right.
SPEAKER_00Well, though the way you stay or you keep away from growing weary is is through faith. Because it's a constant Well, the scripture says we go from faith to faith.
SPEAKER_04Now, in order to go from faith to faith, and faith comes by hearing the word. We got some people who try to live off of last month's bread. That gets stale, it gets mold in it. You know, you eat mold, you get sick. You know, hallelujah. So you gotta need that fresh bread. It's so good when you know some scriptures. You know what I'm saying? Yes, indeed. When you know some scriptures, you know, you got something. You got something. One day was I speaking to Sister Tanya. Was it today? Yeah. Or was it today? But I remember speaking with Sister Tanya, and she's like, I'm having a hard time praying for people because they don't want to hear the name Yahweh. I was like, You don't need to why just pray for them. You know, just pray for them. You don't need you don't need their agreement and so forth. Show forth, show forth the love. But I have an expectation because when you are weary and you've given your all and you've done it in your hushua mashiach, you have a great reward in this life. Yes. Yahweh told me something powerful. He said, write your books because you deserve to have what I promised you. But in order to have certain things that he promised me, I have to walk in a new wealth. In order for me to walk in a new wealth, there's new things that I have to do. In order to have new do to do new things, I've got to make time for it. You know? And people have to make time, they have to make time for living their dreams. They have to make time for building their dreams. And then to recognize that a lot of times Caesar wants to enslave you by taking time from you. So you don't have time to invest in your dream, you don't have time to invest in your hopes, you don't have time to invest in your vision. You just stay in that slave labor of trying to meet or pay the next bill. You know, you can't do that. You have to you have to move forward in great power and in great money.
SPEAKER_00No, that's why Yahweh wants us to stay busy occupied. Because when you start, when you start becoming idol, that's when you get bored. That's when you don't know what's the next move. You know, so there's a reason why he he wants us to stay busy. So it's always constantly moving to the next thing. It's like you said, like today, you were with uh Porter, well, somebody greater than Porter, and it was you were seeing that no, this person is always constantly looking for the next do you know what makes him greater than Porter?
SPEAKER_04Well, there's three things, but the one one I want to mention now, he reverenced my time. I mean he reverenced my time. Whereas Porter demanded my time. Porter demanded my time. There's a big difference. Right. There's a real big difference. When someone reverences your time, they they recognize the time that I am spending it's miracle time, if for lack of a better word.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_04And the the genuineness, I know that after he spoke with me and Doc, and I wish when I went, he said, uh, one of the first things I did when I got off the phone with you and Doc, I called my mom and I apologized. That was awesome. Yeah, that was awesome. Whoa, that was awesome. Wow. Wow. You know, that that I mean that was that was awesome. You know what I'm saying? Because once again, that's someone you know how you can minister to somebody and you know they're there and they they were there. You know, and you you knew they were there, and you knew you just you just you just know breakthroughs are taking place. But listen to what what happened.
SPEAKER_00The mom thanked you because she knows you broke through sickness with love.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That's not always easy. Because she didn't do it. Though she though the person knows like their mom loved them. They know that, but anger wants to give them a different story at the moment. That's why it's like before you get emotional, act or react, count the cost. Because anger, emotions, is always trying to warrant other things that can cause you to throw away something or or say things that you can't take back, or to throw away something that you'll never regain, you know, and and it's like for him to apologize to his mom, love broke through sickness. And that's something that is not normal.
SPEAKER_04And another thing that was so powerful, when he was speaking to the police officers, and then what the medical uh professional was Latino, when he was speaking to the police officers, he says, You have to understand that I come from a family of immigrants. There's a lot of pressure on us. Oh man, he was he was kicking it. There's a lot of pressure on us to be successful. And I saw the Latino woman, she was shaking her head, yes. And I knew the other people, it was one white uh police officer, the other through were black. But in other words, I come from a household that we have a high expectation, which is sometimes translated as pressure, and that pressure can break you because you have to you're constantly proving yourself. But he was also letting them know, though in crisis, I'm gonna get through this, I'm gonna get over this, and I'm gonna prevail. But it it administered, and let me I just gotta say this real quick, and that's why we have to well, I want to say it the right way, I don't want to say it the wrong way. We have to remember that our children are special, and in being special, to always encourage them not to settle for being average, right? Or to settle for comfort when we've been given a commandment, don't be weary and well-doing. That's a commandment, right? Be not weary and well-doing. Right. Meaning that when you want to quit, don't quit. And right when right when what what drained me, the last thing that the last gut punch was, you know, I mean, we even called Jorge. So man, oh yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's like, and at first, like, look, we call it Jorge, but we I need Jorge to show for his own family. Yeah, I'm gonna say it public. I do. I'm good. That's that's facts. Having everything and then having everything set up, and then having said, no, I'm not gonna do that. You know what I'm saying? It's like, okay, I'm in, hallelujah.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_04Because I I had I had Minister Andrew and Louis said a different time. I was like, yo, Minister Andrew, come on over here. Uh I'm about to leave. You're gonna take this person one or three places, okay? Uh Beth Israel, Monclair, or Penn Station, no, I'm stopping. On the block. But right now, hallelujah. I'm not weird well doing, but I know I I punched the card. I did what Yahweh told me to do. And I'm telling you, when you do that, you have a uh you have a piece because the hardest thing I ever had to go through was Timmy Chris. I never went through something hard than that. I mean, you know, when I the whole thing with Timmy Chris, I was like, no, I can't talk to her. You just talk to her. I can all I can do is pray. You know what I'm saying? All I can do is pray. You know what I'm saying? Especially when you talk and people feel like you talking. Why are you doing this?
SPEAKER_00You trying to give me a sign? No, it was catching my face.
SPEAKER_04I've done you give me a sign. Like, I'm saying, how you give me a sign? You ain't nowhere near me. Give me a sign. What time is anyway? Uh that's become I'm so blessed by Timmy Chris because that was hard.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that was real hard.
SPEAKER_04I mean, I remember time like, oh, she got an extra earring, and I I'm like, I'm not talking to her. I'm not doing it, I'm not I'm not talking, I'm not talking to her. I'm just gonna stay here, pray. I'm not doing it, you know. But look how Yahweh rewarded. You know, so you you can't you can't lose hope. And then, like I said, Uncle Harrison still being alive, that that motivates me. He's not in a nursing home, you know, and so forth and so on. You know, so I'm motivated, but we cannot be weary and well doing.
SPEAKER_00You can't put along the way, just like I was we were talking in the car today, me and the girls, and we were saying, like, it's amazing how Yahweh is in his perfection. What we were praying for last year didn't happen last year. What we're praying for last year? What are you talking about? For our family to be able to go away.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And it didn't happen last year. But it wasn't like, you know what I'm saying? It wasn't it wasn't like, oh man, Yahweh, you know, I don't know why you didn't allow this to happen, this, this, that. And it it Yahweh just showed up in a whole different way, you know, that we weren't expecting.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I think I still need deliverance, though.
SPEAKER_00I'm listening.
SPEAKER_04I still need deliverance because I'm turning this into a ministry trip.
SPEAKER_00You can turn it into whatever you want. We will save living.
SPEAKER_04But but I I the good thing is that we evg differently now. So I don't care about it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's not like it's not like you can't minister. I mean, it's just who who we are. But you know, we are going off.
SPEAKER_04Oh, great things are taking place. I'm excited. Yeah, I'm excited, you know. But right now, I have a fierce hope of answers prayer. Once again, I told my fighting six, war, and prayed that I'm a millionaire before I go to Oxford, you know, so I got this big hope. You know, I really do believe. I really am excited. I know that Yahweh's in charge, uh, and today he proved that to me on many different occasions in many different ways. And I was blessed that people of a different faith, of a different religion saw the love and the professionalism. That means a lot to me because other ministries don't see that in us. Other ministries don't see the love and they don't see the professionalism, though our ministry is full of professionals. Uh and I'm very, very proud of that. And we're gonna continue. I I want the ministry to to grow even closer, you know, and so forth, because we we we are a family. And then to to meditate, I'm gonna keep bragging and boasting. We don't have any bad kids. Right. We don't have any bad kids in the family. That's true. That's that's that's that's that's that's Yahweh. That's something that's something to to to to brag and boast on. And we we're going to we're going to grow in that, you know. But the other thing I meditate on, Oxford is a long, long, long, long, long time away. And I want to enjoy every moment, every second, up to it. I'm looking forward to doing the ministry schedule when we're gone. I always already know how I want to hit social media. Who's gonna minister and betha Shimiawi while we're gone? And and I'm amazed by so many people who don't have a vision. They don't have a vision for who they are in Christ. When you told me you ran into Pat and Sister Martha today. Oh, yeah. You ran into them. You said by the cherry blossoms?
SPEAKER_00No, by the old church. Mount Prospect. Mount Prospect in Verona.
SPEAKER_04Walking? You started walking?
SPEAKER_00Walking, yeah. There we go.
SPEAKER_04How in the world did they get up there? I don't know, but make sure Martha wasn't trying to drown him in that little and they looked like they were having a nice time walking.
SPEAKER_00I said, Look at that little man. Oh, okay. Yeah, so we pulled over and talked to them a little bit. It's like it's real good to see you. And Pat could hear you too, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, he can't hear in church, but he can't he can outside the church. That's good.
SPEAKER_00He was like, Thanks for stopping. Thanks for stopping.
unknownNo, no.
SPEAKER_04I don't know. I don't know what Jennifer and Kelvin did to get rid of him, but oh yeah. You know, PJ won him and they lost him. PJ won his father, they kicked him out. But what Jennifer, the last time Jennifer was doing that test, she was like a awarded. All right, I'm picking up the exam. Like, yo, what in the world? She was like running to jail. Okay, you black and brown people, give me these papers. We're gonna judge them and see how smart you are.
SPEAKER_00Oh man, she's like, you jiggers are dumb.
SPEAKER_04Babe, you're on Instagram live.
SPEAKER_00I said jigger.
SPEAKER_04Babe, I don't think that's any better. Hopefully, won't you won't lose any souls. What? It's 1003.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna lose souls before you lose them.
SPEAKER_04No, no, no. You say crazy stuff.
SPEAKER_00What?
SPEAKER_04Repeat your title before we go.
SPEAKER_00Before you get emotional, act or react, count the cost.
SPEAKER_04Wow. Mm-hmm. There's a lie in that.
SPEAKER_00It's a lie in that.
SPEAKER_04I before I dare to that, I was reading how this guy felt like a FedEx man, cut him off. He chased him for 40 miles, and then drove behind him at the job and killed him. And then tried to say it was self-defense. No way. Drove 40 miles to follow him. 40 miles. And then shot him. Shot him at the FedEx parking lot. And he had three kids. You know? Terrible.
unknownTerrible.
SPEAKER_00He carried all the way. He carried her all the way. For that man's job.
SPEAKER_04And what's so sad, I guarantee the I get it, the FedEx guy probably didn't even know that the person was irate like that. You know? If people just just let it go, it's not worth it.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_04Right. It's not, it's not. It's not it's not worth it. But nope. Miracle Wednesday. Amen.
unknownYes.
SPEAKER_04And uh excited about that. So I'm in. So but next time you can't be just cutting out Larry's, he got his Scully on, his Sully hat. That's not a Scully. It's a wave cap. You said Scully. Yeah, but he he never had waves, so why has he got a wave cap on?
SPEAKER_00Because he wanted to. Don't be judging nobody who wore a wave cap if you don't know the wave cap stories and how they go.
SPEAKER_04I only wore a wave cap when we had a shag.
SPEAKER_00You wore a wave cap?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, when you had a shag, because the back was a shag. You had a shag? Yeah. And you would have you would have the the yeah. And what's so I'll never forget the one of the significant emotional events in my life is when I went to the barbershop with my dad. And he he he for some reason he he went to the barbershop, but he had a cap on. And I would always get my hair cut first, and then he would get his hair cut after me. And I got in it, and my hair was all back. And I told him, I said, nah, I don't I don't want the shag. I said, I'm gonna wear my fro again. So quote, when my dad got into the chair, he took his hat off, and all his hair was to the back. And I was like, You want the shag? He's like, No, no, no, no. I just called it back. I was like, man, if I would have got the shag, he would have got a shag. Oh yeah, right. Oh yeah. I would have seen the I would have seen a big Tim we never saw before and my family coming home with a shag. I don't even know if my family knows that.
SPEAKER_01Oh man, I wish I could see your shag.
SPEAKER_04That is funny. Yeah, you shag, and you you you have waves up top and in the back.
SPEAKER_00I remember the shag. I told you my I told you my shag story. My brother's actually. Yeah. My mother's friend had a shag. She tried to take him to get a haircut full of shags. And he was crying. I don't like that. He's like, I don't want what he got.
SPEAKER_04Hey, that's the elder Rudy Hunt is on here tonight. Hey, Elder Rudy Hunt from Richmond. Hey, come on, Elder Elder Rudy Hunt. Elder Rudy Hunt from Richmond. Yeah, we go way back. Amen. Hallelujah. Come on. That's all right. It's 10.07, babe.
SPEAKER_00It's 10.07. So we want to thank everybody for tuning in tonight. I hope you were blessed. Today was a very long day, but we had some great conversation, and it's a blessing. Always remember before you get emotional and you act on your emotions or you react to someone else's emotions, count the cost. Is it worth it? What can you lose based on this act or this reaction? Is it worth what you are going to lose? So until next time, we will see you next week. For some of you, we will see you Friday. Shalom.
SPEAKER_04Yes, we'll see you Friday. And Minister Crystal of the Rudy Hunt is on here. All right, y'all. Have a good one. You know what? I can't. Good night, everybody. Love y'all.