Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents

Keep Your Chin Up

• Regina Swarn • Season 7 • Episode 33

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When the world feels like it's spinning out of control, sometimes all we need is a gentle voice of reassurance and wisdom. Regina Swarn delivers exactly that in this heartfelt pep talk, offering a lighthouse of encouragement for anyone navigating stormy waters in their life.

Regina opens her heart about how faith has been her unwavering foundation through life's challenges. "He's been my rock, he's been my shield, he's been my everything," she shares with sincere conviction. While acknowledging that not everyone shares her beliefs, she gently suggests that learning to pray might be the anchor many are searching for during these turbulent times. Her personal testimony of how prayer transforms her daily experiences serves as a powerful reminder that spiritual practices can provide profound comfort when we feel most adrift.

"Travel in silence" becomes a central theme as Regina warns against the dangers of broadcasting plans, especially retaliatory ones, on social media. This wisdom extends beyond online behavior to encompass a broader philosophy about handling life's challenges with strategic discretion. Similarly, her insights on competition hit home when she advises listeners to focus on becoming their best selves rather than outperforming others. "When you strive to be the absolute best that you can be, nobody can compete with you because you are the best," she explains, offering a refreshing perspective in our comparison-driven culture.

Perhaps most poignant is Regina's reflection on posthumous support versus showing love while people are still alive. "Give a person the roses while they are alive... don't wait until they're gone," she urges, recounting her sister's experience of feeling forgotten during illness, only to be claimed by many after death. This heartfelt plea reminds us all to express appreciation and love to the people in our lives today, not tomorrow.

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Good evening. I'm Regina Sworn. Welcome back to another episode of Regina Sworn Audio Series Presents. I'd like to give you a place that you can contact me.

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Contact me at swornregina, at gmailcom. At gmailcom. Thank you to those who listen to my podcast. It means so much to me, those who support this podcast monthly and those who like and share Very important Thank you. I just want to give a little encouragement this evening, a little pep talk. Every now and then I do that and I feel led to just come on tonight or this evening and give just a little pep talk, a little encouragement, to all of you who listens to my podcast. I want to tell you guys that the world right now is in an uproar. It's crazy and maybe your life is affected by everything that's going on. I don't know. But if you listen to some of my past podcasts, I give you my advice on what I do, what's best for me, because sometimes what's best for another, because sometimes what's best for another person is not always best for you, but it works for me because I was brought up in. Anytime I have troubles or anything going on in my life, or when I feel like I'm friendless or whatever, I was always taught to just pray. And when I feel like I'm friendless or whatever, I was always taught to just pray and depend on God, and I was taught that and I do that and it works for me.

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I try to encourage my listeners. I know a lot of you. Some of you out there don't believe in the Lord or God. I do, you see, and that's where my joy comes from. Is the Lord? I get my joy from the Lord.

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And a lot of people will say, well, I'm not a very religious person, but you know, I hear people say that all the time. I'm not religious either. I'm not going to say I'm religious I don't like the word religious but I am a person who loves the Lord, who believes in the Bible, the word of the Lord, believe in the Bible, the word of the Lord. So I'll keep it there, because religion can be all types of religion, but I believe in the Holy God above and again. I know things are rough and things are really tough for a lot of people right now and my advice to you if you only learn how to pray, get to know the lord in this time, sometimes the lord will take you through things to bring you, draw you closer to him. A lot of times that's what the lord is trying to do a lot of times. You know people are not aware of that, but that's a lot of times. What the lord is trying to do is draw you closer to him. I thank god for just being good to me. He's been so good to me all my life, all of my life. He's been All of my life, all of my life. He's been my rock, he's been my shield, he's been my everything, and he still is and he always will be Always.

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I had things on my mind that I wanted to speak on and I will probably make a topic out of this. You know, in the news I see a lot of people. Their mouth sometimes can get them killed. Sometimes, when things are going on in our lives, you cannot argue with the fool Meaning. If someone is coming against you or if you know some information about something, you find that information about something or someone is doing you wrong, or to go undercover.

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Don't get on TikTok, facebook, instagram and post all of your business. What are you going to do? I see it happen so much People saying I'm going to blow the lid off of this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that and the next thing you know they're deleted, they're out of here. Travel in silence. Learn to travel in silence If you've got to do something. If you're going to do something, then do it in silence. Do not have such a mouth that you got such anger. I think it is where you got to get online and you got to tell everything you're going to do to do. That's very unwise. But if you're going to do it, then do it in silence, behind closed doors. Don't get online and blurt out everything your plans. That's not wise at all.

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So I wanted to kind of touch on that, because I'm going to do a topic about that coming up. I'm not sure when, but coming up. I'm going to do a topic about that. It's getting dark, I'm sitting on the patio again. But, yeah, just be careful, be careful. I speak to people all the time and I said just be careful.

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So tonight I just wanted to come on and just give you a pep talk. A pep talk means I talk about a little bit of everything. I'm thinking about kind of shifting the gears. Right now I'm thinking about a topic that I spoke on about better than yesterday. That topic focused on people always trying to compete with this person and that one and that one and that one, and one person told me one day I want to be better than you and I'm training the person and I one day I want to be better than you and I'm training the person and it's I want to be better than you and and like and that's what sparked me to say being better than me is not going to help you.

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You want to be better than you. You want to strive to be your best. Because when you strive to be the best that you can be I'm talking about the absolute best that you can be then nobody can compete with you because you are the best. And that's where people get it wrong. It's so crazy because people are constantly clawing and scratching and trying to be better than the next person, when all you got to do is strive hard to be the best you, that you can be the very best. And when you got that confidence in you that you are the best, then everything around you you can't even see what's around you because you focus on your ability. You, you can't even see what's around you because you focus on your ability. So think about that.

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I wanted to throw that in this little pep talk that we're having right now. Think about that the next time that you look at somebody else and want what they got and want to be better than them. And you know that falls in the jealousy a lot of times. A lot of times it's not jealousy. A lot of people want what you got. True enough. But again, just be the best you that you can be. Strive every day to make yourself better, concentrate on making you the best you, and there is no competition when you do that. So I had to throw that in our little pep talk. There are just so many things I want to cover tonight and I'm not going to try to cover all of them, but I just want to say that you know I want to. I want to talk on support. Right now I'm shifting the gears again. That's why this is a pep talk. I'm talking on support tonight.

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A lot of people they don't even see you. When you're alive, you're doing things. You got all kinds of things going on in your life, but as soon as you're gone, as soon as you die, as soon as you're dead, then that's my brother, that's my sister, that's my dad, that's my mom, that's my uncle, that's my friend, that's my friend right there when that person was living. How much did you contribute to their lives? How much did you or do you support a person even now in your life? You know, the funny thing is I have this podcast is I have this podcast and it's supported by thousands of strangers that the Lord put into my life. Thousands of people listen to these podcasts. I'm so amazingly grateful for that, because the Lord let the people hear that needs to hear, and when I say thousands mean thousands, listen and download.

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But sometimes your family, sometimes your friends, they tend to gravitate away from you. That could be out of jealousy. That could be out of them not believing in you Again. That's why I'm bringing it back to. You've got to believe in yourself. You believe in you. If no one supports you, you believe in you. If no one support you, you believe in yourself. But a lot of times, support at the death and this is going to be a podcast in the future, it's going to be called support at the death people love love you to death when you're gone, when you're gone, they love you to death when you're gone. When you're gone, they love you to death.

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I think of my sister Laura. A lot of people, a lot of family, a lot of friends. They was like we talked every day, we did this. We did that. Well, my sister painted a different story because we were close and we actually did talk four or five times a day during the time of her you know, sickness, illness when she was about to pass and even before that we were very close. She painted a different picture. She said why don't they call me? She painted different pictures. She said why don't they call me?

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Getting on TikTok, facebook, leaving a message for a person, leaving a message in Messenger or something like that, that is not calling a person, that is not being in contact with a person. That's why people get it so wrong, just because you leave a person a message and they respond back to you. That's not what's wrong with picking up the phone. Do it the old-time way, the old-fashioned way. Pick up that telephone, make that phone call to your relative, make that phone call to your cousin, make that phone call to your friend. But people don't do things like that. They don't do that.

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And when you're gone, when you die, then there comes all this support. You don't know that once you're gone, once you're dead, you don't know. Give a person the roses while they are alive. Put the roses on a person while they are here. Put them there while they can still smell them. Don't wait until they're gone. They don't know that you're doing all these things on earth after they're gone, so do it while they are here, don't wait till they die.

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You know, this podcast is popular with so many people, but the ones who are closest to you are the ones who hmm well, but but then the Bible say that a prophet is without honor except in his own country. That means that you're not going to always be supported by the people who are closest to you family or friends. You're not going to be, and I've had to learn that the hard way. Because when, when my family sometimes and my friends don't support and I'm like, but why? This is so good and everybody else loves it? What's going on with them? It could be jealousy sometimes, and it could just be.

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Sometimes people just fake. They're fake friends, fake. A friend is going to always be a friend. A friend is going to always be a friend. A friend is going to always be a friend. A friend, indeed, is a friend, is one that's going to be there for you regardless. They're not going to just go away and dissolve into the sunset. But I just want to throw that in there about support after death. I'm going to do a podcast about that. Another thing I want to cover and this is already going on 15 minutes, but another thing I want to cover is I'm going to do a podcast about Use, about use you up. You ever heard the song called Keep on using me?

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Until you use me, until you use me.

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I love such old songs, oh my God. But it's that point right there that I love. Those O songs, oh my God. But it's that point right there that I love so much.

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Sometimes people can come into your life, be it a relationship, be it a friendship, be it an organization or whatever. They can see you from afar. That's why I say sometimes you can't blabber and tell all of your business, you can't brag about what you got, because somebody's sitting out there just waiting, okay, to take advantage of you, not just waiting, okay, to take advantage of you. And sometimes people will use you. They will use you until they have used you all the way up. I know people like that. I know I've seen situations like that. Has it ever happened to me? No, because I have a limit on what. I let people, what type of people, come into my life. I can spot them very, very fast and then I have visions. So God showed me through visions about people. But people will use you. People will use you and you think you're doing the will of God. You think you're doing something good and people will definitely use you until they use you up. Sometimes you could be sitting in a really good place in life and have everything you've ever wanted. And then people who come into your life, or a person who comes into your life, they act as if they love you. They will gravitate you like they love you. And then the next thing, you know you don't know their agenda, but they have an agenda they're using you, they are using you. They are using you. You are doing everything, you are paying for everything. You are doing everything and next thing you know, you'll start to borrow this. Borrow that You'll find that your finances are not there like they used to be. Be careful out there, ladies, be careful out there. Guys, be careful out there. Ladies, be careful out there. Guys, be careful out there. Girls and boys, grandmas, be careful. People will use you Until they use you completely up. Be careful and don't always tell what you got. Why do people have to brag on All the things they got? Why do people have to brag on all the things they got? Why do you have to do that? You're drawing attention to yourself like you are some type of money tree. Don't do that. Please don't do that. Please don't do that, because people will use you until they use you up, and that's going to be a topic. That's why I'm having this pep talk tonight to uh, give you a little bit encouragement and I'll let you know some topics that's coming up. Um, yeah, and I'm really excited about it.

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A lot of you asked me about doing the, the podcast about my favorite shows of the past, and I'm definitely going to do that. That is coming up. I've already made the list out. You know I like the old time movies. That's my favorite, the black and white movies.

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But if I had to pick television, I love when it was Highway to Heaven with Michael London, you know from Ponderosa. I like shows like that. You know I like good, clean shows. I don't care for all these up-to-date things, I just don't. That's why I don't watch television, unless I'm watching the weather or some black and white movie. But if I see something like Columbo and I love Columbo yeah. If I see something like that, I love Columbo. Yeah. If I see something like that, or if I see something like I love Lucy you know things like that I love stuff like that. I love television like that I do not look at all the garbage out there now, I just don't. People ask me did you see Such and Such last night? And I'm so lost. I don't know what they talking about and because I don't look at all that stuff.

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So I'm gonna do a podcast about my favorite television shows from the past, and they're gonna all be from the past. It's not gonna be anything up to date. So don't look for anything now or for, yeah, last year or year before that, or it's not gonna be any of that. It's gonna be way, way, way, way back when, because I love stuff like that. I could sit there and watch highway to heaven with michael london. I can just sit there and watch that, um, bonanza, um all those things like that. I love shows like that, so I can sit there and watch those. Love colombo, yeah, I love colombo, so I can sit there and watch those. Hello colombo, yeah, I love colombo, so I can sit there and watch things like that. You know, so, yeah. So I just covered a few things here tonight and that I just wanted to talk about.

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I want you all to keep your chin up and no times are troubled. I know your lives may have been affected by a lot of things right now. Try not to buy into all the propaganda that's going on. Try not to do that. If you don't know the Lord. You don't know how to pray? Then learn. This is a good time to learn how to pray. This is a very good time to learn how to pray. Do not be drawn into all of this stuff that's going on around you, because it's so easy to do that and if you have been directly affected, then this is a good time to learn how to pray.

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But a lot of people take again to social media out of anger and it's just not a good thing's not a good thing. It's not a good. Look, I don't look at the things on TikTok, my cats. I made a TikTok for my cats but I delete friends on there. Who wants to be friends? I don't want to see all that stuff. I'm not. I don't care about all that. I want to keep life clean and, yeah, I just want to keep life clean. So I don't buy into all that stuff. So it's not that I don't believe in what you're doing or your, your TikTok account or whatever. It's just that I don't. I don't want to see. I don't want to see any negativity. I don't want to hear about any negativity. I do post my cats up's fun to me. I don't have to have friends on there, people try to become my friends so they can have another friend to add to their thousands.

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No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm thankful, I'm grateful, and so I just want you to keep your chin up. I know it's hard, but learn how to pray. If you learn how to pray, then that will eliminate a lot of things in your life. It will definitely do that. I have to pray before I go to work because I don't know what kind of night I'm going to have, and a lot of times I'd be so happy that I did pray, because if I don't, oh my god, it's like everything everybody comes out of the woodwork, everything, and everybody comes out at you. You'd be surprised. You would be totally surprised. So just keep your head up, keep your chin up, do the best you can and watch the Lord how he will come to your rescue all the time. He's been so good to me, and I just want to come to you tonight to just kind of encourage you and again talk about a few podcasts that I have coming up.

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I want to thank all of you who support this podcast. It means a lot to me. It means a lot to me when you listen to podcast. It means a lot to me. It means a lot to me when you listen to it. It means a lot to me when you support it. You know it means a lot. My podcast comes from a place of real events. This is not stuff made up, real life, and so I'm just thankful. I'm very thankful to the Lord for being good to me, because he's my all in all, he's my everything. Without the Lord, I can't do anything. Without him.

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I can do nothing. I can do nothing without the Lord. I would fail. Without Him, I would be drifting like a ship without a sail.

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Have a great night, god bless.