The Lyricism Of Life Podcast
The Lyricism Of Life Podcast
Christ Should NEVER Be Replaced! : C.R.E.A.M! (Christ Rules Everything Around Me)
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Christ Should NEVER Be Replaced! : C.R.E.A.M!
(Christ Rules Everything Around Me)
Some people have replaced Christ with:
Confusion Rules Everything Around Around Me
Chaos “ “
Crisis “ “
Compulsion” “
Complaining “ “
Complacency “ “
Companionship “ “
Let’s dive into some of these replacements
Whatever you give permission to rule in your life, you’ve chosen to submit to everything it comes with.
When you remove Christ from being the head of anything in your life, you invite other things to rule in your life which could redirect your path.
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Good evening, good evening. Welcome to the lyricism of life. Come on in. I am your host, Apostle, Pastor Pasha, aka the Lyrical Apostle. Come on in. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Thanks for joining us tonight. We welcome you. This is going to be a great show. This is going to be a fun show. And invite somebody to come on and tell someone to tell someone to tell someone else.
SPEAKER_03Shalom, shalom. Hey babe, how you doing?
SPEAKER_00Hey, how are you, babe? I'm beyond blessed. How are you? Good, good. Did you eat?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but I left you a lot. It was. They changed it. I didn't see any red peppers, didn't see any green peppers, but you don't eat those, so it's all good for you. Okay. Good.
SPEAKER_00So this is gonna be a fun show.
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah. It's gonna be fun because I'm because I'm here. I'm the one who makes the show fun. I'm the one who makes it fun and entertaining. I'm the one who brings the smiles and the loves, the joy and the energy. Amen.
SPEAKER_00Come on, won't you come on here and be nice?
SPEAKER_04I am nice.
SPEAKER_00You don't always bring the energy.
SPEAKER_04It's very important that people care what they look like. It's very important and that they care taking care of themselves. That is your outside also reflects your inside. And it's very important for people to do that and to lose that that energy and that joy. You know? June 25th, I'm gonna be 60. I saw all your commercial you did that May 11th, you're gonna be 50. It's very important. What to produce?
SPEAKER_00What commercial did I do that said that?
SPEAKER_04Uh well, I guess commercial is the wrong word. What you did tonight to advertise for the show. You said you're gonna be this last show you're doing at 49.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm just pinpoint. I don't remember saying that. That's why I said that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you said this is the last show I'm gonna do at 49.
SPEAKER_00Yes, I said I I don't remember saying May 11th, I'm gonna be 50.
SPEAKER_04Yes, I'm like May 11th is your birthday, right?
SPEAKER_00Yes, I'm just saying. I didn't remember saying that.
SPEAKER_04In particular. I'm pinpoint.
SPEAKER_00You laughing, but I'm pinky.
SPEAKER_04You pinpoint, but I'm in. Hallelujah. Let's go. Hallelujah. Man, I'm excited in the name of Yahshua. I mean, I'm very, very excited. I'm excited that my faith has grown. My faith about us going to Oxford, our faith, my faith about how we're gonna get there's grown, hallelujah. How we're gonna eat is grown, how we're gonna uh transport from point A, B, and C. I'm excited. Amen. I'm excited about the great things. I'm excited about the young men in the ministry, Minister Andrew, Minister Brian, my man Hanif, bringing in uh great change, Pastor Abdul. I'm excited, you know. Very, very excited. Are you excited, babe?
SPEAKER_00Yes, I am. I'm very excited. Okay, I'm very excited. Okay, that's what we want to do. Yeah, I'm in. That's right. Um, tonight the the topic I chose, I was listening to uh Wu Tang. And Wu Tang is I like that stuff you got on your lips, girl.
SPEAKER_04You didn't have that on the lips when you did that video, though. That's cool. Come on, babe, Wu Tang. Come on, come on, stay on that dude. Did you do your fingernails? Is that why you put them in the video like that?
SPEAKER_00No, I just want to know why you cut me off to say that.
SPEAKER_04Well, I'm saying I'm saying I can see I can see the reflection. I see the the the the Can I can I finish what I'm saying? Yeah, most definitely.
SPEAKER_00Don't let me hold you up. I brought water. Oh, today you brought water, not soda. Yeah. Okay. So I was listening to Wu Tang, and you could do that and be a pastor?
SPEAKER_04Of course. Oh, so that's not a sin? You you supposed to be a lyrical apostle? You're up there laying hands on people in the prayer line. You listen to Wu Tang? Is Wu Tang?
SPEAKER_00I am the lyrical apostle. Okay. And and Wu Tang's words don't change me. I change their words. That's why I flip songs. Oh, whoa.
SPEAKER_04I'm in. Come on, flip this marriage. Come on, girl.
SPEAKER_00You know what, babe? There's nothing wrong with that, baby. This is your last show coming on here acting abused. This is your last show.
SPEAKER_04There you go again. I'm not acting abused.
SPEAKER_00You are. There you go. Come on here and say stupid stuff like, flip this marriage, you gotta love me, you gotta treat me right.
SPEAKER_04But what was your subject? Again, what's your subject?
SPEAKER_00Christ should be the head of your cream. Christ rules everything around me. But for some people, and even some things in the past, Christ wasn't the head of my life. Christ wasn't the head of some people's lives now. Christ rules everything around me. Confusion rules everything around some people, chaos, crisis, compulsion, complaining, complacency, and in some cases, companionship. In all those cases, it always takes me back to. Do all those begin with the C? Yes, because it's removing Christ and replacing those things.
SPEAKER_04Maybe you need to uh, you know, kick the lyrics up, write something about that. That's powerful.
SPEAKER_00Yes. I was meditating on how we easily replace Christ when we get angry. We we replace Christ when we want, we want certain things and we feel like he's not answering us. So we remove him and we replace it with other things. Anything that's ruling your life outside of Christ is going to bring you to another path that you shouldn't be on. It's going to be a good thing.
SPEAKER_04Can you see how my hair matches uh my beard? That's powerful, babe. Now, while you you getting that, right, about all these C's and within the C's of Christ, you know what I'm saying? Hallelujah. We want to build on that, but we can also build on this too, okay? You wanna hear this? What I what I wrote down on this on this on this envelope. I was I was um I had on my gloves. I was cleaning up a little bit. Listen to this. And I want you to tie it in because you are that lyrical apostle, and you can put things together. And I I'm not gonna lie, I love your energy tonight. I love your energy. I feel it, you know? Holy, come on, smile, babe. Listen to this. You listen? I want you to tie this in with listen. Have you destroyed your own love story? So many people come in and they they destroy their own love story. But if you destroyed your love story, you also have the power to heal it. That being true, and going back where you say Christ rules everything around you, as I was speaking to a few people today, Apostle Steve, Apostle Kingdom Art, Kingdom Art, Apostle Louis, Apostle Armabare Farrell. We have a life that before we do anything, we we ask Yahweh's input. Right. Uh and that being true, people have to make sure they're not destroying what they prayed for. Yes, they have to make sure they're not substituting the sea of Christ for the sea of confusion. Yes. And be honest, pinpoint. When did your relationship change? When did your love story change? When did your love story change? And how did it change? And were you the reason that it changed? Was it a belief? Was it something that you initiated it? Was it something that that you lose? That's very important because a love story has to be watered every day. You know, uh, for instance, my mom is not here, my dad is not here, but I I water their love story every day. And that's what Yahushwa Hamashaq teaches us. He teaches us, I I go away to prepare a place for you, but we should always water our relationship with him. We should always water that relationship. So it's very important. With me, we have too many emergencies to lose chaos in our relationship. We have too many, we we we never know what phone call is gonna bring us. We never know, right? We never know what emergencies coming our way, and what, but we have to be make ourselves available. In order to make ourselves available, we have to, at all costs, protect our love story. That's perfect.
unknownRight, right.
SPEAKER_04So you go on, tie the two in.
SPEAKER_00I want to hear you tie the two in. Well, when you when you talk about having a love story, a love story can't work if you do not have Christ as the head, because Christ is the reason why we have accountability. And so, you know.
SPEAKER_04Now, now when you say Christ is the reason that we have accountability, would you please break that down? How do me and you have accountability in this relationship?
SPEAKER_00Because we have to always go back to Christ. We have to always go back and say, is Yahweh in agreement? For instance, if we feel like we have a disagreement and we're not coming to terms where we can agree, then we have to go to the I'm gonna tell Jesus on you. I'm gonna tell Jesus on you. But listen, that's right. That's not in a way where you're like getting religious, because sometimes people can mistake in oh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, it gets spooky in the relationships. In other words, they don't like to deal with real issues. So they'd be like, oh no, no, we we just gonna we just gonna pray it away or we just gonna you're saying spooky, but the Holy Ghost is the only ghost that don't scare the hell out of you.
SPEAKER_04He just scared the hell out of you, so he got nothing left, but what the heaven left. He can't. No, but that's powerful, babe. I think that that's that's uh that's powerful because to me, not to me, but part of our love story is our daughters. Yes. And it's the the responsibility that that's that's the love story that they that they know. And it's because of that they desire marriage. Our daughters desire marriage because of us. Right. They also, I mean, I hear them talk how they want to bless me with grandchildren. I think that's funny, but it's funny, but it's power, it's powerful too, in the name of Yashua. But they understand it's a continuation of the love story. Now, what I was also meant to tell about the love story, and also about the sea, the Christ, the confusion. It's very important what you add or subtract from your love story. Yeah. And adding, subtracting when it comes to love stories, has more to do with relationships, other relationships that don't fit in. Any relationship that does not fit into your love story will bring disruption, will bring chaos, right? Will bring confusion.
SPEAKER_00Let me let me add to what you're saying. I want you to add to it, and I want you to go back and hit back to your title and bring it out because you know I'm flowing. Christ rules everything around me. So listen, whenever you remove Christ and you're dealing with your love story, it's like you said, people add or subtract things and then it takes away from the love story. Excuse me. Whenever you take away Christ, first of all, and you add other things, you become a different person. So if you take Christ out of Christ ruling everything around you and you add confusion, or you add crisis, you add complaining, if you add compulsion, if you add complacency, any of those things can change you from the person you were when you entered your love story. So then you become someone else, and now you're bringing in a whole different warfare because you have become someone else based on what you removed out of your love story, which is Christ. So I think that's powerful. You said tie that in. How does it how does it go with your love story? Can you see?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, why why? Because I'm looking up like this? Yeah, you're looking over your glasses. Because I'm nearsighted, so so I can see close. So my glasses, my glasses make the video blurry.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_04But when I write, when I write, what you call? So when I'm looking like this, I'm not you're not blurry. If I take it off, you're not blurry too.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so that's my my granny vision. My granny vision, you know. But to me, it's I think love, wow, this is powerful. Love never negates work. People don't like to admit that love takes work. Love takes labor. Scripture says, Yahweh is not unrighteous to forget your labor of love, which you have shown unto his name. Off the top of my head, Hebrews 6:10. Love takes labor. So every relationship that is worthwhile that you love is gonna cost you labor. It's gonna cost you work.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_04In other words, love doesn't work by itself. Woo! Oh my goodness, I feel the anointed for Yah so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. Love in itself does not work. Love has to produce a work, and you should know them by their fruits. So every love story takes work, it takes continual work, but it should be a labor of love, it should be a labor of pleasure and a labor of good. So when you love someone, you care how they feel, you care, you care about their state of mind, you care about their emotions, you care about their feelings, even if you do not agree with their emotions, even if you do not agree with their feelings, you care about it and you come into a meeting place. But within that meeting place, there is labor. You know, how can two walk together unless they agree? What's so powerful is that two people can not agree but still have love. But they have to come into an agreement where their love crosses paths where they do have agreement. And it's in within that agreement that they can move toward toward healing, and that's very, very important. And what I feel and what I what I feel led is that people have got to put the work in for love. And like I said before, I think the the number one thing that protects our relationship is guarding and protecting our heart and what will relationships we allow in our relationship. Right. You know, because there are some relationships that are roadblocks. There are some relationships that there are some relationships within itself is is is is is just confusion. There are some relationships that are just chaos. So I'm constantly warning and praying that our daughters do not fall in love with chaos, our daughters do not fall in love with confusion and call it love. Our daughters will not fall in love uh with that ver adversary and call it love. Spiritually, our daughters do not fall in love with Satan and call love. Our daughters do not have a baby with Satan. Our body-baby our babies do not have children with adversaries. Uh and that's where the prayer comes. But prayer is easy when you pray in love. Healing your marriage, healing your relationships is easy when it's love. Because love never fails, love doesn't quit, love is long-suffering, and so forth. And love, a byproduct of love should be peace. Right. A byproduct of love should be peace. So when you love someone, you you want you want to experience that peace. You want to you want to flow in that peace. And where I am, I demand peace in all my love relationships. I demand it, you know. But once again, you can't be afraid of fighting to get to peace. You can't be uh afraid of of saying what has to be done in order to acquire that peace. That's that's very, very important. And I'm empowered by that in the name of Yashua. So and even now, I think with us the challenge with with us is keeping our love story young as we grow old together.
SPEAKER_00I think it's um keeping our love story pure, safe. Yeah, but that don't disagree with what I said. Who said I disagree with you what you said? Okay, who said I also think in getting older, we also have to listen to one another.
SPEAKER_04Well, who not listening to you? You in what sense am I not listening to you?
SPEAKER_00Who said I disagree with you? Where did you hear that? No, I thought you were talking about something else. I what? I'm just saying, I'm just hey that's what I'm saying. You have to because even in something small, not listening to one another, it could turn into something big. You know what I'm saying? If you feel like I'm listening. I'm listening. I'm I'm listening. One thing about togetherness and the power of marriage and the power of learning what marriage really is, because when you get married, it's young, it's fresh, everything is new, and so you you're learning one another, but as you get older, you begin to understand what marriage really is. What marriage really is, what commitment really is, what love really is about in your marriage. And nine times out of ten is none of the things you first started with. So the older you get, your marriage changes. It has phases, it has different stages. And you have to make sure that you're loving your mate, your marriage, that you're enjoying every phase of marriage. But what what when you say state and phases, what are the state and phases you talk about? Just in getting older and being together for so many years. Marriage changes over the years, but if you quit on your marriage based on one phase, it won't last. That's just through kids. So you quit when we had kids? How did I quit? We have four kids. So where is the quitting at? You cannot be serious when I'm talking and something we're throwing me off my my phone.
SPEAKER_04Well, you gotta be more flexible, babe. That's what I'm trying to bring into your life. You got you need to be able to do that. Babe, no.
SPEAKER_00Uh-uh.
SPEAKER_04No, you gotta be able to bend.
SPEAKER_00No, no, I don't agree with you. It's not about flexibility, it's about when I'm you just like to be silly when I'm talking, so you crack yourself up.
SPEAKER_04I like the I like the show for energy spot.
SPEAKER_00No, that's not it. That's not not that's not it.
SPEAKER_04You can't be serious all your life, you know.
SPEAKER_00That's that's not you can't be goofy all your life. Except for when you're I'm not goofy.
SPEAKER_04Okay, except for when you're talking. You wish I was goofy.
SPEAKER_00No, I don't wish you were goofy, but let me just tell you this.
SPEAKER_04And get back to the subject.
SPEAKER_00Can I tell you something?
SPEAKER_04Get back to the subject.
SPEAKER_00Can I tell you something? Yeah, go ahead. Tell me something. When you are making your points and you are talking about something real powerful, I let you talk. I do not interpret. I'm not letting you talk. Oh my gosh. What time is it?
SPEAKER_04I am letting you talk. Come on, go. No, don't go talk. Go ahead. I'm listening. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00Go ahead. Add to what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_04I'm letting you talk. I'm adding to it. I'm letting you talk. Go ahead. I'm finished. Add to what you were saying. I'm what I'm saying is don't mess up your love story. Especially when you have a unique love story.
SPEAKER_00Right. So that has to be on both sides. Nobody should be messing up their love story in no way.
SPEAKER_04Well, am I messing up my love story? Are you messing up your love story? Of course I'm not messing my love story. I'm making it. I'm not messing up my love story. I'm making it. You know? And so forth. Yeah. But it's it's it's empowering, you know. So let's go back to some of those C's you were mentioning. Mention them again. Mention your open statement again.
SPEAKER_00Christ should be the head of your cream. Christ rules everything around me. And we shouldn't be replacing Christ with confusion. We shouldn't be replacing Christ with chaos. Boom. Don't complace them with chaos. We shouldn't compla replace Christ with crisis. Crisis.
SPEAKER_04And Christ is come and go. We manage crisis. Right. Yeah. But it doesn't become the head of our relationship.
SPEAKER_00It doesn't become if you remove Christ, it does. And that's the point. And in anything or in everything, removing Christ creates problems. And that's not just removing Christ and one thing, because once you remove him in one thing, it becomes like a trickling effect. He starts to disappear in other areas. And if it that becomes really scary. And at some point we've all almost gotten to that point where we remove Christ from our lives on purpose. And it's like Yeah, but that's dangerous. It is.
SPEAKER_04And I can't lie, I have not I have since wow.
SPEAKER_03Ooh. I would have to say I I'm mature. I would have to say since the age of
SPEAKER_04Since the age of I don't have to say 24, I have not removed Christ on purpose. It's just dangerous. And I have done it in the past. Now, especially with studying the life of David Samson, when you study imperfect people, what you'll find out about these imperfect people within scripture, regardless of their sin, regardless of how low they went with their sin, they never let go of Yahweh. There was a complete separation between their sin, their humanity, and their relationship, their spiritual relationship with Yahweh. To the point that Samson did not allow prostitution to interfere with his relationship. And then when Samson went into his relationship with Delilah, sad that he was completely ignorant. It wasn't until he lost his strength in his hair he knew, oh wow, I lost, I lost Yahweh. And within it, Yahweh was was teaching us that decisions in this life will affect your relationship with him. Even if you're not aware of it, it will affect his relationship with you. But that's a sign of maturity, immaturity for me or someone who has learned to force Christ out of their life, to me, is a form of spiritual suicide when he's the light of the world and he's the life. He's the life and the light of every creature. So that's very important. Very, very important not to uh to cut off that light and to to recognize different levels of anger and frustration because in different levels of anger and frustration, as we were speaking earlier, and then I was carrying on that with Apostle Steve, how Adam was very explicit. He blamed everything on Yahweh. He said, The woman you gave me, he immediately said, Well, the woman you gave me, in other words, things were going really good, Yahweh, until you gave me this woman. This woman you gave me just messed up my life. And what I plan on ministering on, and I can't let go, you never recover, you never recover from the death of a child. It is a level of grief that you have to live with. It's a level of grief that you there's no such thing as getting over that. You can live with that grief, but you can't get over it. Uh that being true, I war and pray never to suffer that. But in the same token, we have to remember the first marriage and the first family, they suffered the death of their child after the death of two children. They suffered the death of Abel because he was murdered, and they suffered the death of Cain because they never saw him again. But within that, that's when they begin to understand the consequence of their sin. And I never want to come to a place that I understand have to constantly relive the consequence of my sin or reality. I war for that grace, I wore for that uh for that mercy. And once again, that's what I'm very determined to build and to keep holy the love relationship. By warn, I never want to take for granted my children coming home safe. I never want to take for granted you coming home for safe. Uh, as you know, you know, I thought you were having a difficulty breathing one night, and I woke you up and said you need your pump, you know, and so forth.
SPEAKER_00That's not the full story.
SPEAKER_04It's it's it's the short version. I mean, the short version is you're still here, right? And then I loved you enough. I loved you enough. I loved you enough to tap. He's like, Do you need your pump? You need to take your pump? And you've been taking your pump the last couple of nights. So thank me for it. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_00What did I ask you?
SPEAKER_04I think you asked me if you stopped breathing.
SPEAKER_00I'm like, you just watching me not breathe.
SPEAKER_04Like I how about watching not breathe? If I'm like, excuse me, excuse me, wake up. Do you need your pup? That's not that's not me watching you. That's that's me being proactive. Like, whoa. She was she quiet, it ain't moving. And usually when you sleep, you always your toes always move. Your toes are always moving. I'm like, man, her toes ain't moving. I'm like it. Y'all would give it, then y'all would take it away. I'm like, wake up, Jesus. Hallelujah. But I woke you up and said, Do you need your puppy? Like, uh uh, and you know, hallelujah. I don't think you need it more.
SPEAKER_01I can't.
SPEAKER_04What? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You still here? Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that did real good. That did real good.
SPEAKER_00Everything, yeah, but even the net. You were like, do you need your pump? And now asleep. I'm talking to you while I'm asleep. I was like, no, I don't think so. And then you're like, okay. Now, you according to what you said, I was supposed to be waking up, and and you're supposed to tell me get the pump. Because I could hear you, you know, you're not breathing sometimes or something, whatever it was. Why did you think I needed my pump? I never even asked you.
SPEAKER_04Maybe because you were super quiet and not moving.
SPEAKER_00That doesn't mean I needed a pump.
SPEAKER_04I thought you said No, but remember the other time I I thought you were the furnace. Like it. I thought I thought I had too much water in the in the pipe. So click, click. And I'm like, that's not. I went downstairs and checked the furnace. I can't even say like that's not the furnace is you. So that sounds crazy. But I'm like, man, I thought that was a radiator. That's you. Hallelujah. But see, you see how you see how I keep the love story alive, though. You know, I'm on guard. I'm on post. Okay. I'm on guard and my post because I believe every love story has an end result, and that end result that it gives life not just to the relationship, but life to others. And once again, what I was blessed with, once again, when you deal with true love, you have to deal with the labor of love. You cannot raise children without having the labor of love. You it's not possible. And and and then endurance. And that exists in so many uh relationships and so many platforms. I mean, and that's part of that's that's part of the blessing. Like for instance, we were I was greatly blessed by Kaya's faith. You know, you know, and so forth. I don't know if we talk about it now because she has special treatment, you know. No, but once again, her faith. How but I think the difference is don't take the wrong way, I don't question Kaya's decision making because I know Kaya is gonna first question Christ. So that brings it brings a confidence. Imagine that if you have a mate that doesn't check, that's going back to your subject. A mate that doesn't check with Christ first. And and and I hope you check with Christ before you make a decision about our relationship or a decision and what we do. I love my profession. I love my level of professionalism, I love my level of expertise, I love what I do. I was telling Apostle Steve earlier, bragging on Tatiana's, she loves art. Because she loves art, I don't want her wasting time on other subjects. I was saying how I because I love what I do, I I I do my research. Please don't take the wrong way. I don't I don't need the structure of school to give me drive to do what I do. I do what I do naturally, and that's a that's a blessing. I believe don't take the wrong way, but when people, this is gonna come kind of when people want to be respected in their field, they have to do what is required or what is the minimum in their field. I love what I do, but I don't get my strength from my field. I get my strength, my direction, my vision from Yahweh Elohim. And I'm not looking for acceptance from my peers. I'm looking to please my savior. There's a difference. I'm looking to please Yhoshua Hamashiach. And there's a drive, there's a fire, there's an anointing that school can't give, that only the spirit can give. And I was meditating, you see a lot of people who are coming up against Apostle Paul, against Apostle Paul's teaching. But the fellow realized about Apostle Paul. Apostle Paul is all of us. We're those who met Yahshua just by a voice. We heard his voice. And his voice gave us such a power, such a change, such everything. And that's what today, if you hear my voice, hardenized heart, what am I saying? It's a love relationship that's been built. I believe there's some people who go to Bible school because they're angry over a doctrine, either angry over, don't take the wrong way, they can be angry over homosexuality, they can be angry over trans, they can be angry or whatever. Say they want to go to school and get the degree and get what they believe is necessary to say I have the qualifications to say what I believe. Whereas everything I believe, everything I believe, does not come from a book. Everything I believe comes from a person. It comes from Yahweh, Elah, Yahushua Meshiach. Everything I believe. And our relationship, don't take the wrong way. Our relationship, we are responsible for our relationship, not Christ. We are responsible for our relationship, not Yahweh. It's not Yahweh's responsibility to make sure our relationship works. That's our responsibility. It's not Yahweh's responsibility to make sure, don't take the wrong way, that our children are raised. That's our responsibility. Right. And so forth. And sometimes people do not like to meet the requirements of that responsibility. There is that responsibility. Uh, you know, a Jessica's going to a dance, she's going to a party, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah, and that's taking up a lot of time and a lot of money. And if I'm correct, this it's it's it's gonna be it's gonna be the Shabbat, right? Yeah. So, so, but within it, there's a confidence. You know, I know Jessica. I I don't know where you're gonna be, I know I'm gonna be. You don't know where who's gonna be. You're gonna be. What do you mean? I don't know where you're gonna be. I know where I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be preaching, I'm gonna be teaching. You're probably gonna be somewhere picking up Jessica and I'm gonna need a filmer. You know, but Holly, the good thing is it's it's a confidence. It it's it's it's a confidence, and I just want to emphasize keeping Christ ahead. Christ rules everything with me, and don't be afraid of editing and revisioning your love story. You're gonna need to, as you that's every love story, I got to have to happen. Listen, I see you doing that. Yeah, yeah, I see you scratching. Every love story, just the powerful, every love story goes through its different seasons. Right now, what does that mean? Come on, break that down to me. What does it mean? Every love story goes through its different seasons.
SPEAKER_00I said that earlier in a different way. I said that it goes, it goes through different changes, through different phases, and you have to be there for the different phases of your love story. You have to, because that's what love is. And and love is not about always feeling good or always feeling up to. It's love is about more than that. And love embodies and it encompasses so much more than what we think it does. And you learn that in marriage. You learn that by being long-suffering with your mate, being patient, going through whatever your mate's going through with them, especially if you have a mate that gets sick. It's like, what do you do? You don't quit. You have to go through the different phases with your mate because those are the those are the promises you made to your mate before Yahweh. It's like, no, marriage is going to change because people grow old together. There's everybody who has who have a successful marriage who has been together for years and years and years, they've all experienced some sort of point where they wanted to quit in their marriage. That's just human nature. It's like when things get rough, it's like, wait a minute, because I know.
SPEAKER_04Well, somebody gets on your nerves. Right, yeah. The first thing is to get them off your nerves, especially if they're heavy. You just want to push them all off, just so your nerve can breathe, your nerve can catch some air. You know, it's like having someone sit on your chest, but the person just too big and you're suffocating.
SPEAKER_00You know what?
SPEAKER_04Why would you why would you feel anything negative about it?
SPEAKER_00Because you're not supposed to say that. Say what? If somebody's all big and sitting on your chest and all that.
SPEAKER_04People can't people can't produce pressure in a relationship. People can't produce pressure in a relationship? No. People can produce pressure in a relationship. Yeah. Yeah. And and that's a common. You have to protect your your your your your love story, you know? And and and put because I tried to kill myself, and because I meditated on killing myself for two years, I always mentally work out. But I mentally work out beginning in the spirit. I police my thoughts, I police my emotions, I police my feelings. I I I I do it, it comes naturally. Please don't take it the wrong way. I only think victory, you know, and this is the faith that overcomes the world, the faith in Christ Yeshua. I take it very, very literal. I take a greater seed that's within me than he that's within the world. I deliberately fight for victory. I deliberately think victory. I I deliberately I will myself to be healed. When I was at the doc the other day, I'm constantly praying, constantly speaking, especially when I'm dealing with people that are nasty and who don't care. And I constantly say, Yahweh, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna put my trust in people who are not gonna do the best for me, but I'm putting my trust in you, that all is well and so forth. So there's a drive. But what gives me the drive, once again, this is my love story. My love story with Yahweh, my love story with you, my love story with my daughters, my love story with ministry, my love story with helping people. All the emergencies we had today. The only way you could handle emergencies is the love ministry. There's no other way. Because I mean, there's there's no other way. You so I don't don't take it the wrong way. I don't view emergencies as interruptions. I view it as as my calling. Now, with us, it's very important for emergencies not to dis disrupt us. It's very important for us to flow together. And I don't see emergencies disrupting us. I see I see us moving. But then again, like I said again, it come goes back to maturity. And when maturity is, I'm no longer fighting Yahweh. I'm no longer resisting Ruakakadesh. I'm not resisting the spirit. I don't fight when I'm wrong. I'm not gonna fight when I'm wrong. And I I I can't I can't put my energy into the wrong things. And I've seen I've seen too many people do that. I've seen, for instance, if there was something bothering us right now, we need to fix it now, Asha. We need to fix it now. You see what I'm saying? Why you laugh? Why are you laughing? See, that's a pretty smile you have. You need to have that smile before you go to bed. You need to have that smile when you see me in the morning. You know, that's the smile you need to have. Not that frown and stuff. That that's no, seriously, that makes a difference, babe. It makes a difference.
SPEAKER_00You do not wake up smiling, stop. Like what's the difference?
SPEAKER_04That's because you up there saying, I said hi to you. And I said, I did say hi to you, babe. No, you didn't. I said, I did. Well, I'm gonna go lie. You didn't hear me say hi. I did say hi. You want to work on your love story, babe. You know? And you want to make sure you don't put the wrong C in there. Chaos. Confusion.
SPEAKER_00You need to make sure you put you don't put the wrong C in there. No, I don't. And I I I don't.
SPEAKER_04And and and I look, I look, I look forward, you know. I I I remember a lot of words you got. And I think the majority of all your words leave. Be the example, be first. Be first in everything you do. There you go. You have that serious vote. Because you're like, what words are he talking about?
SPEAKER_00No, I'm just listening.
SPEAKER_04You know, you know, you know, and so forth.
SPEAKER_00No, I'm empowered, you know. What's the most romantic thing you what's the most romantic thing you've ever done for me?
SPEAKER_04Oh, that's easy. Look at me. Be me. There's you ain't never met nobody like that.
SPEAKER_00Uh-uh. This this that's that's that's the wiggle room.
SPEAKER_04There ain't no wiggle room. That's be me. Yeah. And what what uh the other romantic things, some of the other romantic things I'm doing, I mean, getting my loving wife and my loving family to Oxford, even though I'm broke. That's loving. I mean, and you talking like it's loving too. That's loving, and that's that's that's a a lot of faith. And then let me ask you, but it's very important to have fun at it. You know, it's it's very important to have fun. It's it's it's it's you have to you have to make it fun because I know what I want to do. What I want to do, I want Timmy to be able to study and do her homework in our presence. That's what I want. I want Timmy to have Nana's the wait where she has Nana's space in the living room. Nana's space is where my mother used to always sit in the little room. Now Timmy sits there. That's her seat. You know? I want to have that in Oxford. I want to have my family together as we make jokes, we make plans, we have visions. I mean, and who who knows, uh become the Hannif, become the minister Andrew, become the minister Brian, and see who I run into, I'm in the name of Yeshua. So I have I have a great expectation. But all that's love uh for me. Even to the point when we said Monday, this getting frustrated and look for a place. We can't find a place. The places we want is no longer available. So it's like, man, and that to me, that's our love. That's exciting. You don't think so? Now, what's the last uh romantic thing you did for me? No, no, no, it's my turn. What was the last romantic thing you did for me? Everything. Okay, name one.
SPEAKER_00Take your kids to school every single time. I pick them up and put them down.
SPEAKER_04You the yellow boss, that's right.
SPEAKER_00I take them to school, I take them for food. Yeah, that's romantic. I take them for clothes, I take them for everything. Amen. I do everything romantic for you. Amen. That's right. What do you do? You come on here and act like you're abused.
SPEAKER_04No, no, no.
SPEAKER_00You I don't know why you take it uh offensive when um Well, when I when you come on here and say, I bring the energy to this show. I I'm the one who brings the smiles. You forgot?
SPEAKER_04I'm not gonna forget we're not gonna take a vote on it because I love you. We got a vote. Oh yeah, yeah, hamburger. Hamburger. But I I feel look, I also feel this too, because since you did that video, you forgot you did when you said this is your last show being 49.
SPEAKER_00That's what I said.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I didn't say this is my last show being 49.
SPEAKER_04Your birthday is the 50th on May 11th, maybe you're gonna be 50 in a few days. Don't be offended.
SPEAKER_00Don't be offended, okay? Don't be offended that it's a birthday before yours, okay?
SPEAKER_04Hey, I'm I'm blessing.
SPEAKER_00You mentioned my birthday not one time, romance.
SPEAKER_04I mention your birthday every time I say we're going to Oxford. Every time I say we're going to Oxford, you know what?
SPEAKER_00You know what?
SPEAKER_04Every time I say we we we believe in your mommy for plane tickets, that's your birthday. And and you know I'm telling the truth. Well, thanks for telling me, because let me know. Happy birthday to me then. The gift that I would have given you for your birthday is all going to Oxford.
SPEAKER_00And we were telling me that. That's right.
SPEAKER_04It's like hallelujah. I can't do both. I can't do both. Hallelujah. Won't he do it?
SPEAKER_00Well, happy birthday for all of us. That's what he does.
SPEAKER_04Because look, my birthday, June 25th, is before Oxford, too. So hallelujah. It's all about it.
SPEAKER_00Well, well, then your gift going for food.
SPEAKER_04But how old are you? But see, like that, like this, I find this romantic. You smiling, me seeing your teeth, you know, you throwing your hair back, you know. I mean, and I I saw when you gave your your testimony, you you go back and forth. It's it's very powerful and dramatic, whether you're 19 and 20. You gotta discern the crowd. I know it's you gotta deserve the crowd. But this crowd, I'm gonna be 19 when I lost my father.
SPEAKER_00I was actually 20, but you listen, the reason why I confuse that is because the year leading up to his death, I was 19. And so it's to me, it's it's the same thing. Like it's all he died in February. Your birthday's in May. He it's but it was a it was a um I was nine. Okay, I was 19.
SPEAKER_04No, he died, his birthday's in February.
SPEAKER_00No, his birthday's not in February.
SPEAKER_04He died February 28th, right? Oh my gosh, no. What day did A shut down daddy's brain?
SPEAKER_00February 2nd, 1994.
SPEAKER_04Wow. You don't know the poem. He just made it out of January.
SPEAKER_00You don't know the poem.
SPEAKER_04I don't know the phone. Poem. You don't know the poem. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You don't know the book. Uh let me say this. The best part of Ursha I knew. Okay? And that became passion.
SPEAKER_03Which part? That you love me. That's the only part that matters.
SPEAKER_00See how you say loved me?
SPEAKER_04You think you still love me with the same passion as how you did when you first met me?
SPEAKER_00You were crazy about me, baby and I think you just ran all the way up the cliff with that.
SPEAKER_04And just I get on your nerves now.
SPEAKER_00I think, I think I'm looking for a little bit of the same love.
SPEAKER_04What you would get the little bit of the same love if you keep the same fire. No, you didn't.
SPEAKER_00Yo, you, I'm telling you. What? What? This little way too much on here. I don't even hear none of this when you ain't on the show. I think I'm doing a pretty good job till you get on air.
SPEAKER_04No, you are doing a good pretty good job, babe. Nobody's saying you're not doing a pretty good job.
SPEAKER_00No, it's all good.
SPEAKER_04Is that still the Princeton shirt you have on?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Oh, it's a Nike shirt.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I got just a I believe the last time we went down there to Princeton for your sister's which which year was that? I can't remember. I can't remember one of her highlighted years. You know how they bring all of the graduate classes? It's a real cool event. It's a lot of walking, but it's real cool. I couldn't find y'all that day. I'm I'm you never met up with us.
SPEAKER_04Maybe to complain, maybe at Starbucks. I'm I think I got Starbucks, but I I'm not into big crowds and stuff like that. So they're not and so forth.
SPEAKER_00You didn't drop down there. That was cool.
SPEAKER_04It's very important for people to not be afraid to put work into their love story. Very, very important. So when you get off of this Instagram live, what type of work are you gonna put into your love story?
SPEAKER_00Um, I'm gonna put my food in a plate. I'm gonna put my fork into the food. And the love story begins while I eat.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that that's about right. You love eating. I mean, that's a love story.
SPEAKER_00I love eating good food.
SPEAKER_04Well, I hate to disappoint you. Don't, please, don't, please don't. It didn't hit the spot for me tonight. I mean, so I ain't cooking, so it's gonna hit the spot for now.
SPEAKER_00I love you.
SPEAKER_04But it's it's like I said, it's it's it's it's about empowering yourself. But I want to say this too.
SPEAKER_00Okay, because don't let me forget what I want to say.
SPEAKER_04Well, write it down. But going back to what I was saying, everyone has to be honest. When did they interject something into their love story that became a negative? And they need to fix it now. Because when you fix something now, it gives hope. When you give hope, you give new beginnings.
SPEAKER_00A negative interjection could be other people's opinions, it could be other people, and that's one thing that I was happy about us in our relationship. We were determined not to allow things or people to interject because sometimes that was easy.
SPEAKER_04And I know I interrupted you, but I think the blessing some people don't understand. I told you they um I showed you this thing, which grandmother are you closest to? And they said the majority of people are closer to their mother's mother, you know, and then we said in our relationship it's not true, and our relationships, well, in my relationship is true because I was closer to my mother's mother. But for our children, they're closer to the father's grandmother, they're closer to to my mother.
SPEAKER_00The father's mother. Yeah, that's that's just something wrong. You said they're closer to the father's grandmother. And I too. Yeah, but you you you meant to say their grandmother.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. But the blessing is they still closer to your mom than my mom. In heaven, right? But the blessing is I I never I never was forced to go to any of your family functions when I know they don't like us.
SPEAKER_00And that's because I wasn't going to be functions.
SPEAKER_04Or I I it was real easy for me. I just dealt with Granny's family. Uh that became that's our family. We we don't we don't have, don't take the wrong way, we don't have a Jefferson side of the family, we don't have a Fogel side of the family. And that turned out to be a blessing. It's a blessing that we don't have, babe, we don't have to fake. We don't have to, we don't, we we've never had to fake in family, and we've never had to fake in relationship. And that's a blessing. But I thought it was deep because when you saw it, it's like the majority of people they say was closer to the mother's mother than the father's mother. That was true because I wasn't, you know, I was closer to mom's mom. But in our family, they were closer to my mother, which is which is which is powerful. But once again, it's it's it's the love story, you know? And that's what you you you build up and so forth. But it's also about empowering, bringing change, because that's that's what gives hope. All that gives instant hope. And that that that brings gratitude and so forth.
SPEAKER_02Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_04Agreed. I know you agree. So you gotta eat this up. So what changes are you gonna bring when you get off uh this Instagram live?
SPEAKER_00The same changes you're gonna bring. Yeah, but you shouldn't take it as a negative. You should take it as a positive. Who said I took it as a negative? But giving it to the idea of the idea of the side. Why did you take that negatively?
SPEAKER_04Giving people ideas how they can't do it.
SPEAKER_00Why did you take that negatively?
SPEAKER_04Okay, just go ahead, go back. What changes can you or others bring as soon as they get off this Instagram live?
SPEAKER_00I told you the same changes you. No, no, no. You are not we are one. We are one.
SPEAKER_04There are people listening that would like to hear ideas. What would you like to see me change? I'll ask you that. Oh my goodness, I don't believe this. What's wrong with that?
SPEAKER_00It's not about you.
SPEAKER_03I know, I'm just saying you said what changes. Okay. So I'm gonna ask you that's a legitimate question. Here you go. Letting people know how you can interject joy, happiness.
SPEAKER_00I interject joy and happiness. Oh, that's how I'm sorry that you're not showing up to experience it.
SPEAKER_04That sounds defensive.
SPEAKER_00Okay, I'm just telling you. How do you say I think you take things too personal when you just said it to me? Who else gonna take it? You're talking to me. You said I think you just let people know how you're gonna interject Joy after.
SPEAKER_04Okay, for instance, okay, if you used to cuss me out tonight, you should stop cussing. Okay, if you have a bad habit of just flying off the handle and cussing out, you should stop uh cussing. If I tell you, if I tell you, if I tell you that you don't communicate and you don't communicate well, you should leave here tonight and put forth an effort to communicate better because you not communicating destroys your love story.
SPEAKER_00See, you put it in a different way. Now understanding.
SPEAKER_04No, I didn't put it in a different way. I didn't put it in the world.
SPEAKER_00But you did? No, I didn't. But you forgot to say, for instance, if you were doing this, then how would you take care of this if this were were happening? That's that's a better way to give an example because it's like you said, how would I tell or how would I share with somebody if I were in a situation, how would that go? If I were cussing you out, I would definitely stop cussing you out tonight. Tonight.
SPEAKER_04And if you were being negative and standoffish, if I was being negative and standoffish, leave the show and start a start a conversation, a positive conversation.
SPEAKER_00Or if if I were harboring information or harboring feelings that I didn't want to talk about, but have been harboring them.
SPEAKER_04If you were cheating, I don't think I want to hear tonight that you were cheating, but you can you can start up something positive, you know, how you want to bring healing and bring change, you know.
SPEAKER_00I wouldn't want, I wouldn't.
SPEAKER_04I'm saying, babe. I I uh it's to me, it's real powerful that people destroy their own love story. And it's powerful, you can it becomes that I couldn't deal with that. I believe.
SPEAKER_00I think I think thinking before you act, like we were talking about before, that's a big part of it. It's like you can't just jump out there and do something and then be trying to regret it later. It's like, especially if you do something that's really destructive, and then you're like, I didn't mean to do it, I was in the wrong hairspace, and it's like you in your hairspace. Y'all, y'all can y'all can hit the road. But I think you have to you have to assess a situation and know that you you don't want to destroy your marriage or destroy your love story when it comes to even vocalizing certain things or just you know, feeling like you want to be heard. Because sometimes you could destroy your love story and then the only thing you accomplished was being heard. And so it's like you know something about being heard.
SPEAKER_04Make sure you're you're right before being heard. Otherwise, it's just a whole lot of it's you you you just can't take certain things back, and that's I think that's been the greatest blessing of our marriage. We haven't said damning things to each other. You know, you we haven't, I mean, you just there's certain things you just can't take back, you know? And I think that goes with the love story. I would never tell you something that would destroy you. Thank you. And hopefully you would do the same thing with me. Because that's no, I wouldn't. Because there's certain things there's certain things you you can't you you just can't forget. You can't you can't you can't erase. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00Right, but people who say things to destroy people, it's it's two sides to that because it you're not only just saying it to the person that you supposed to love, but you're saying it to the person. So it's like you could destroy somebody, y'all break up and you still could be destroying them as a person. You know, it's like you don't want that on you where somebody is walking away based on, you know, and and they're destroyed based on something you said, or and they carry that with them the rest of their lives or whatever. That's wrong. You know, you nobody should want to destroy somebody to that point. I think that's very that's evil.
SPEAKER_04I think one of the reasons I would never destroy you also, because my four daughters need a mother, a healthy mother, you know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I don't think they would just let you say something to destroy me either. How would they know if they're not in the presence? If you said something to destroy me, you think I wouldn't tell them? You think you just be walking around a hero after you destroy me? Like what?
SPEAKER_04So you would you would personally go out and destroy my relationship with my daughters if you were mad at me.
SPEAKER_00No, no, that's different. Uh I don't go out to destroy our our daughters if I'm mad at you now. Like, no, that's no. Hey, I'm just responding to what you said.
SPEAKER_04No, you're not because I am oh my goodness. We don't have a money checked on here. Come on.
SPEAKER_00There's a difference between being mad at it. You would tell your daughters. No, cannot talk. There is a difference between being mad at somebody and and destroying them. That's not the same thing. So I would not try to tell our daughter something because I'm mad at you and try to destroy your character. That's not what I do. Now, if you try to destroy me, that's not fair for you to just be walking around like you know you ain't do nothing. That's crazy. It's like no, in other words, it's like I don't know why she's out there on the street. I don't know why she's homeless and just walking around a hero.
SPEAKER_04No, I wouldn't let you be homeless.
SPEAKER_00I wouldn't let me be homeless.
SPEAKER_04That's just I wouldn't let you be homeless. I would take you to a shelter somewhere. I would get you some McDonald's or something.
SPEAKER_00That's crazy.
SPEAKER_04Uh-uh. I wouldn't let me be homeless. No, because you if you're homeless, I'm sure you write another book. We don't need that. A bad book. We need good books. That's what we need. Good books, not bad books.
SPEAKER_00Read the book so you can talk about it at some point. Well, the the thing is, I told you that I love who I marry.
SPEAKER_04I love who you are, and that's that's what I meditate on. And plus I've heard the stories of the books. I don't need to, I don't uh, I know, you know, it's off of so. But no, this is this is powerful. But people have to go leave here, tell their love story, recognize all the people that make up that love story, and know that is also a labor of love.
SPEAKER_00Yes, yes, powerful. This is uh this is the 20th episode of season two, which is right.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I don't know how you count these episodes in these seasons.
SPEAKER_00I'm just telling you, season three comes after this. But so it begins in May, it begins in June. Well, the last time, I'm trying to think how how it went with season.
SPEAKER_04Why don't you just wait until next year? Like like season three would be January. This way I could keep up with it.
SPEAKER_00You can keep up with it by just looking at the numbers.
SPEAKER_04Why can't season three just begin in January?
SPEAKER_00Because that's not how seasons go with the with the episodes. You can't just be having like 80 episodes in one season.
SPEAKER_04Uh uh now you're gonna make me go up and look about seasons, okay?
SPEAKER_00I just don't You don't think I did?
SPEAKER_04So seasons start in June, May?
SPEAKER_00No, I'm not doing it like that. Because you don't take breaks, so we don't we can't even go along with that. You a season, you're supposed to have a break when the season ends. Any show you ever watched. I know you worked eight jobs, but I'm gonna have to look and see.
SPEAKER_04Uh okay. I'm gonna have to look at Rush for Limbaugh and these other people see how they did their seasons.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, do that.
SPEAKER_04Well, well, keep your love story alive, babe, and keep the right C in your relationship.
SPEAKER_00You can say let's let's because that means you're inclusive. You're including yourself. Oh, okay. You know, don't just don't exclude yourself out of keeping your love story, little daughter. Thank you.
SPEAKER_04I ain't the problem in this relationship, my man.
SPEAKER_00You found a problem in your relationship? No, I did not say that, babe. Come on. You need to go, you need to do playbacks. You need you come on. You can hear yourself. You just said I ain't the problem in this relationship. And I said, Oh, you found a problem in your relationship. I didn't say that.
SPEAKER_04There you go, change my voice.
SPEAKER_00But that's how it's coming out in my head.
SPEAKER_04Well, my man, it's 1003.
SPEAKER_00Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_04Yep.
SPEAKER_00Great show. Christ be the head of your queen. Christ rules everything around me. Let Christ rule everything around you. Happy 50th birthday to me because by the time I come back, I will be 50 years old, which is crazy to me.
SPEAKER_04That's right. And pray that she has a wonderful time in Oxford. I'm in. You have birthday meals in Oxford. I'm gonna pray that through now. And it's all by faith.
SPEAKER_00Well, does that mean I ain't going out on my birthday either, right?
SPEAKER_04Hey, uh, we got taxes due.
SPEAKER_00Hey man, I'm gonna do it.
SPEAKER_04We got taxes due, so we can eat at home. Amen. Hallelujah. It's all good though. I'm hey, I'm excited. Hey, it's all good.
SPEAKER_00Come on, that's all for our birthdays. Come on. Hey, I'm in. You're right. Hallelujah. That's right. Come on. Take one for the team, literally, the whole team.
SPEAKER_04It's not taking one for the team, it's his family. That's what I'm saying. It's a team. Yeah, but but this is good.
SPEAKER_00This is this is a bad. I'm good. I'm good. It's a team, you know? Hey, I don't mind just sitting in the house for my birthday. I'm awake.
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna wait to celebrate. Hey, I'm I'm excited. You know how my faith is, we're gonna be millionaires before we go to Oxford.
SPEAKER_00My faith is knowledge, Joe, is making me think.
unknownYep.
SPEAKER_00Yep, hallelujah. Well, that's powerful. Thanks for joining, everybody. Until next time, we will see you next week.
SPEAKER_04And hopefully, there'll still be the same season.
SPEAKER_00Good night, everybody. Love y'all, love you, baby. Love y'all, love you.