Gratitude At The Crossroads

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Welcome Back And Gratitude Check

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But when I say I know who you really are, what you are, perhaps you'll understand.

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Welcome back, guys. Welcome back. We made it. We made it through another week. We made it through a blessing of what we call life. I just want to take this time to appreciate the things that we always take for granted. That we tend to overlook. And I'm guilty as it, you know, I'm guilty as it as well of where we just cruise. We cruise by people who are less fortunate. We cruise by people that we deem unnecessary. We even cruise by our loved ones. The people who are always in our corner. And we just don't take the time to give them the recognition and the honor that they deserve. Whether it being because we don't care, or we feel that somewhere in our mind that they owe us something. And most of the time it's not necessarily the case, but we are bombarded with stress, children, jobs, mental health, and then we just get so self-absorbed within ourselves that we forget that life is still happening, and we just tend to allow things to pass us by, and it's not always a good thing because, like it or not, life is still happening, and it really does put a bad taste in somebody's mouth, especially if they're close to you and they see your downfall, they see your self-sabotage, you know. I mean, but we can only just blame ourselves for that. Because there's nobody holding a gun to our head and saying, Oh, you have to appear to this, we have to ignore people because this happened to us. Oh man. If we can all go through life being selfish and seeing that that one way is creating stress and not yielding the results that we deem is necessary for our lives or what we feel that we deserve, wouldn't it be common sense-wise to change it up a little bit? To at least try to do something a little bit differently that we don't usually do. And I mean, whatever that might be, it doesn't have to be something extravagant, but it can be something that could be very minute, but that minute thing might be very important to you or to the people that's around you. So again, guys, let's never take for granted that there could be people in your corner that is always watching you and always wanting the best for you, and always praying for you, and never wanting anything bad to happen. But we all know that in this life that we live, as long as we have breath in our bodies, man, we're always gonna have a problem. We're always gonna have struggles, we're always gonna have a new problem that arises literally right after we just solved our last problem. There's nobody on this earth that doesn't go through that. But I'm here to tell you, Ken is here to tell you that there's a light at the end of the tunnel. And if you can just persevere and you can just smell the roses as you're going through your strife, because after a while, those burning buildings will be rained on. So now it's just sudden, it's just a burning building that's already been burnt, meaning you can't go back to it. That place is gone, and there's no point of holding on to something that's already been burnt and let go. So it's within your best interests to keep moving forward, to change your viewpoints, and to understand that even within negativity, there's positivity and something good out of it. Alright,

Stop Ignoring The People Closest

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that's my opening remarks. So let's dive into it. We're at a crossroad, guys. I'm at a crossroad. You're at a crossroad, your friends are at a crossroad, your enemies are at a crossroad. This country, this world is at a crossroad. Now, Ken, what the heck are you talking about? A crossroad. I'll tell you. In this crossroad, in this definition that I'm using the context in, there are a series of events that will be transpiring that none of us can control. There are people into working within networks and government behind the scenes that we don't even know, never even heard of, that's plotting your downfall, that is not thinking about your best interests at heart. Why? Because they are trying to protect themselves, and within that, doesn't matter where you are in this world, we all will suffer. We all will feel the burn of somebody else's choices, which is extremely important now, more than ever, to band together, to listen to each other, be a helpful shoulder, be somebody there to be supportive, to be understanding, to be a beacon of hope. Now,

A World At A Crossroad

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even with saying all of that, there is some solace in it, there is some peace in it. Where when the person gets into a fight, the one thing that's on their mind is I don't want to get hit in the face. I don't want to feel pain. I don't want to get hurt. What's going to happen to me if I lose this fight? Well, guys, take it from somebody who has been punched in the face multiple times is always gonna hurt. At some point, even though fire and brimstone is gonna ring down, there is good news. There is a time of where we can say I believe in something more than me. I believe in a higher power. I believe in something that can be so huge that we cannot even imagine within our finite

Finding Peace In A Higher Power

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minds. In this world, there is nothing, nothing more sweeter of knowing that there is something greater than yourself. Because guess what? Your problems, your cares, your worries, your rewards, you can cast all that away. You can worry about one specific thing, one specific being. Whether you believe in Jesus, whether you believe in Muhammad, whether you believe in whatever. So what does that do? Can't I mean you're not making any sense? Makes perfectly good sense. Your peace will come because you know that with outside of yourself, there is somebody working for the greater of you. So the stress and the trials that you have on a day-to-day basis, you can just give that away. And focus on the things that really matter. Your soul salvation. Get more in depth with the higher power. Understand what they mean to you. Because we can't we can't uh keep relying on humans, humans will fail you. You yourself are a human. So guess what? You're gonna fail yourself, you're gonna make mistakes, you're gonna have some misunderstandings. So let's go back to what I said in the beginning. Why continue to do something when you already know the outcome of it? Right? Because you already tried it once, twice, maybe three times, maybe a thousand times already. Because you're comfortable, you think you know better. Everybody on this earth has a purpose, and until you can tap into that, your life is gonna stop. Ken, where is all this coming from? I tell you.

Tomorrow Is Not Promised

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There's so much killing. There's so much war. There's so much famine. There's so much loss. There's so much selfishness. So much negativity that's going on. And I want you to know there's always a better way. This world is doomed for a reason. It's always meant to be that way. The presidents, our ambassadors, the people that's in power, they can't do anything to stop it. It's a huge machine that we're just cogs with parts and pieces that make it up. And if one falls off, guess what? That one can be replaced. Now, who's to say that's not gonna be worse than the last one? Guys, we have to stop getting into this tizzy of saying that we I have to do this, I have to do no no no no no. It's not your job. Literally, you didn't make yourself, right? So let's cut the BS guys. You didn't make yourself, you didn't wake yourself up. You are not keeping yourself breathing right now. None of us are. If the air strips away, we are all good as dead. Literally. There's no way of fighting that. Tomorrow to second, it's not promise, guys. We have to get out of this of this notion of saying, oh, I can do this tomorrow. Ah, you know, if I don't do today, I could do it tomorrow. Tomorrow is not giving assistance, brother. It's not we are so we are so confused in the fact that our lives that we live every single day is something that we control. No, we don't. The only thing we can control is the choices that we make. Based off of those choices, there's a reaction that happens, and within that reaction, now you just gotta let the chips fly. Because you made a choice, so wherever that choice leads you, that would be on you because you started the domino effect, but you can't control the in-betweens because now you're incorporating other powers that be. You understand what I'm saying? So, meaning once you tip over that one chip, hey man, you just gotta let that thing go. So stop with the micromanaging, the stress, the woe is me. Don't allow your past to dictate. I mean, come on.

Use Mental Health Resources And Share Hope

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We're in a day and age now, if you are at a certain age, that we have so much communities out here, we have so much online help that even if you don't want to go and talk to somebody, you you can't just sit here and listen to certain people's traumas and and triumphant overcome. I mean, the war battle of mental health. I mean it's amazing stories out here, guys. And you have ample enough resources to dive into to use for the benefit of yourself, and whatever gems that you can get from, say, people, I mean, cool, and I'm sure the person who would be presenting that help would feel amazing because at least it's just that one person that they helped, and now you're creating a chain reaction. The person who's doing a podcast made a choice to start the podcast to say his piece, to say her piece. You somehow heard it through all these platforms. Now it's your job to take whatever that you got, whatever gem that you got, and you spread it. That's your that's that's that is within your your human right to share the good news, share the gospel. There's people out here who don't even know who Jesus is. There's certain people out here who don't even know any other religion but what their own homelands have taught them. Some people don't know the goodness of the Lord, they don't understand what it is to feel at peace. To literally just cast your cares upon him because he just cares for you just that much. Ken, why are you talking like this, man? This is a different you. I'm the same person, you know. I just wanted to have a different perspective on this one. Like

Free Will And The Blueprint Of Faith

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it or not, guys. My beliefs, my understanding. As Jesus Christ has died for us, He died for our sins so that we can have everlasting life. This world that we live in is but a test based off the choices that we made, because we have the ability of free will. Yes, we can make our own choices. He gave us that right. But let me put this little nugget out here. When you know what to do, right? You have a blueprint of the beginning, the middle, and the end. Would you exercise your free will to choose something different? Even though you already have the winning blueprint, no. So that being said, he already laid out everything for us. We have a blueprint of life, of what we can do to be a better person, to be an upstanding human being, and to be a follower of him, to give people what in his mind he was the embodiment of love, unconditional love, something a human being can never do. They try though, but we're not perfect beings, he was perfect in everything, and he's alive and well, and the only thing he told us to do within his mandate is cast your cares upon him. He already fought the fight for us. We don't even have to do. Nothing but trust him and follow his commandments. You know, I say all the time, some of the simplest things to do in life can be the most difficult and challenging. Why is that? Because again, in our minds, we always try to take the difficult road because we think if we can overcome the difficulties, now we can hold our head up high and struck our stuff. Because we went through the muck and the mire, right? Even though we really didn't have to go that route, but we did. Me too. The hard-headedness of human beings is crazy to me. And even though I am a human being, right, I sometimes find myself real perplexed because it's like, dang, bro, you really didn't have to do that. You really didn't have to take that role, man. The other side was so much more peaceful. It looked more narrow though. Because guess what? Not too many people want to follow that. Not too many people believe that. They only can believe what they see, right? They believe in their ability to make a situation happen and solve it. And it might work once or twice, maybe three times. But eventually those things, those choices that you thought you made that was so good and dandy will catch up and you will realize. Still won't get you nowhere. It

Social Media And The Loss Of Identity

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really sucks because you know growing up I fought against normality. I still do. I still do. I fight with I feel that people's expectations on society, on what you think is right or what you think is wrong. You are pushing it onto my ideals, like your ideals is the world's ideals, and so you're following a blueprint that is doomed, and so it's also no individuality, everybody's the same, every everybody's characteristics are meshing together. There's no person's identity that you can really spy and say, Oh, yeah, they're they're different. Social media has convoluted everybody's minds to think that you can be a certain person and live a different way. As long as you look like that, you are that person, but your life is a mess. That's why mental health is going nuts. It's jacking people up because you have people that's traveling, making things look spectacular, their relationships are amazing. They have been going and seeing and accomplishing. Man, look here, that's been a bunch of baloney. You know how many people who have been behind those lenses, behind those cameras, that can make it look so well, and they can even trick themselves into thinking that their life is marvelous, but deep down they are dead inside, they have no way out. It's like they put the jail on top of their own minds and hearts. So now everybody's individuality is the same. Everybody's wants and desires are the same. Where is the where is the like people who fight against the normality of this world? Knowing that I don't want to just put on makeup because the next girl put on makeup. I don't want to use the same makeup palette that they are using. I want to be different. I don't want to get the same haircut that that guy got. I don't want to have the same beard style that that guy got. I don't want to be able to be at the same jobs or be an entrepreneur, but knowing that you're not doing anything in steps to become an entrepreneur or even studying or figuring out the things that you even like in the first place because all your friends and family are telling you what you should do, what you need to do. It's easy to do this. And I feel like if I were to accomplish this, then I can do this, and then no. You're making life so more complex than already needs to be. It's already complex. You don't need to help it. Life is amazing, guys. I mean, I'm serious. Life is amazing. Life is literally what you make it, your choices would dictate that. But if you're only thinking about yourself, you ain't going nowhere. I promise you that. Miserably.

Success Without Purpose Still Feels Empty

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Relishing the fact that, oh man, I got my dream job and I got my family where they need to be at. My children are going to the schools that I wanted them to always go to. I got the amount of money in my banking account that I've been working hard for. I got my dream husband or wife. I got this amazing life. Guess what? If air just disappears today, all of that will be null and void. What would you have to show for? What would be your legacy? That you gave your kids a lot of money. That you got the husband and wife that you ever wanted. And understand this too, guys, because this happened to me. You actually got everything you have. Like you got everything you wanted. You worked so hard to get to a place in life that you deem necessary and benefit uh beneficial to you and the people that is around you. Right? And you get to this precipice, you get to the top of your mount summit to find out it's not enough. You would never be satisfied. You know what you will be satisfied with though? That you kept the promises that Jesus has laid out for you. That you listened to him. He will give you so much satisfying moments and love that you yourself can't even give to yourself or to anybody who can give you a present. That satisfaction that you are looking for, that you are yearning for is not something that you did for yourself. But what you can say, excuse me, what you can say, I made the choice to follow his commandments. That is what you can be proud of. That you made a conscious decision to think outside the box. And not to mention, it is a completely different road than any road that you have ever chosen in your life, or somebody who was chosen for you. I promise you that. Guys, I'm telling you, you cannot believe me or not.

End Times Awareness And A Choice

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You may not be a follower of Jesus, you may not even believe in the Bible, but do understand this. Atheists, Wickants, anybody who believes differently than Christianity. And honestly, I don't, I'm not even considering myself a Christian. I'm a what I call non-denomination, so I don't believe in man laws. I believe in what that Bible says. But what I can say that everything that I've read in that book has been coming to pass. There's no other book on this earth ever written that states forbade them to timestamps in events that will transpire when it comes down to the end of times. We all have to wake up. Jesus loves you. Jesus is waiting for you. Honestly, there's no better decision that you will ever make in your life than that. Better than your newborn child and your and marrying the love of your life, eating your favorite food. This is way bigger than yourself. The legacy that you can live and to die for, you have no idea. You have no idea what you can accomplish if you would just be obedient. You it would be something out of a fairy tale. And there are people on this earth right now who can attest for that. Some of the works, some of the stuff that they have done within their lives, they can't even explain. It's crazy. To create peace. I'm sorry, I'm gonna rephrase that. To express the peace that he has shown me.

Second Chances And Harsh Truths

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Because I know I'm not the only one to know that in life we all went through some hellish situations that we have all overcame. That has nothing to do with the works and the choices that you have made because some of us have hit rock bottom and we have crawled out of that, and don't think you did that by yourself. And if you think you have, then you are mistaken, and you are doomed to fail again, worse than what it was before. There's certain situations in your life that you can recall right now. I bet you, I I bet you that you could be like, How in the world did I get through that? Well, let me let something let me let me let you in on a little secret. That's the Lord talking to you. You are here for such a purpose, for such a day, for such a year. To live because you have a purpose and you have a job to accomplish. That means it's not your time. And if you can recall some moments, because I know there's multiples, ask yourself this. In that moment, did you think you deserved it? I mean, really be honest with yourself. Did you really think you deserved that second chance? Because you got that second chance. And look at what you're doing right now. Look at what I'm doing. I'm not making good use of it, that's for sure. These are the harsh truths. We can all sugarcoat it. We can all say, oh yeah, I'll do the best I can. No, you don't. Because if he did, the words that I am telling you right now won't be hitting you the way it is right now. But I want you to understand this is Wall Within Love. Not bashing nobody, really in the same mix as you guys. But this is coming from a very healed place. A place that I know that you know that this is just no gray area, you know, it's just black and white. So

The Road Gets Harder But Worth It

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in the ending, I would like to say that I know it's hard to make a different choice to what you're not used to. To do something that is well above your pay grade. But what I can't promise, if you were to go this route and you were to trust a higher power, I guarantee you they will not fail you. You will have a different peace and a different type of love for yourself and the people that surround you that you have never felt before. And you will yearn to help, and you will year to want to spread more good works, good news to the people that you know that don't know or don't believe. That's how you know you're in a good direction. By the way, once you get into that mindset, let me just give you a four warning. It gets harder. It gets so much harder. Things that you've never dealt with before it will come after you like a flood. You wanna why? It's because you're on the right track, and the enemy wants to deter you because he does not want you to win. He wants you to die, he wants you to burn with him because his choice that he made put him in that predicament. But the good news is you still have a choice, you still have a chance, you still have time, as long as the breath in your body, you still have a chance to make a difference. And don't allow other people to dictate your choices to spread good news, good works, good love, unconditional love. Because they themselves don't want to believe, but it's okay because what you can do is you can pray for them and ask God to give them a heart of gold, soften that heart of stone, and allow them to have an open mind, to open up that spirit, man, that they out that we all have to receive the unconditional love that you yourself have experienced. You're not the only one fighting this good fight, sister brother. We all out here, we all soldiers for the kingdom. So saying that, it's your boy broken in the whiz, and I love you guys. Thank you for listening. And I'm signing out.