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We see you Welcome Charles welcome to the to the to the live Welcome my brother Facebook family YouTube family. Thank you all moderators. Thank you all Appreciate it. Appreciate that. You know that congrats on quitting Yeah, oh Man, um, but yeah, thank you all so much for joining We definitely have some announcements to share with all of you. We do appreciate it So please tag a friend Tag a loved one a brother or sister An associate you can even tag some enemies. I know they probably will love to Yeah, might as well, huh? I know I got quite a few of those but anyway definitely Thank you for for joining here on today. So We do have an announcement we as you see on the thumbnail that is an actual an actual resignation letter that I turned in over two weeks ago to my former employer for almost five years almost Within five years. It would be almost five years come come July matter of fact July 2nd. We've been in five years so anyway We have We have decided to to hang up our our I guess you can say corporate world hats You want to call it that? Yeah, and so we have decided to step away from the Corporate field and to get involved into full-time content creating and also ministry. Yes Ministry And we'll we'll share with you how that took place. We have been sitting on this for almost What? Almost a month almost a month, but how long have we been you know talking about it? Yeah talking about it How long we've been?  Don't don't worry about the horns and air horns blowing and nothing like that You just go ahead and and just let let let you know the consequences of nature take its course with this guy right here. Yeah But yeah anyway, so No, you're not don't lie. No, you're not. No, you're not There you know, there's nothing good in you. 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So anyway But we do appreciate that so let's get started there. All right. It is February the 9th February the 9th and I have been home for over Almost a month it meant a fact January the 12th was my last day actually working. That was my last day We made the decision and notice what I said. I said we made the decision to decide for me to to Go ahead and hang it up and to come on home and to do what we believe the Lord is calling Me to do now Who put the bug in my ear? I Wouldn't call you above though.   How long matter of fact put up put up a put up a one if you have been following Our journey with even with my wife Working and then deciding to come home and then finally coming home Let me know if you have been following us that long. Yeah, that way you can kind of like, you know, what we're going with this with the history We're talking about probably three to four years If you have been if you have been following us and have been tracking and just just going with us and Walking with us through our journey Together so let's see. Okay. Yeah, look at him a lot. Let me put some of these up here. Thank you so much Amanda Thank you. Thank you Thank you, sister Put your volume down ma'am. You don't listen. Yes, it is. It was it was it was You need to be paying attention to focus Yes, you did. So look at look at all these people that have been following us. All right, man That's what's up y'all. We appreciate that. So y'all been y'all been tracking with us that long Okay, so so then y'all know y'all know basically we have been praying Initially my wife had started working. Hey, to make her get to see you sister I'm my brother doing cure for the soul. 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Yeah, but you've been following us for a couple weeks, but we're welcome So you about to find out our little journey in just a moment um So anyway, so y'all been following us, you know that my wife had started working give us the year so people can Can you know I started working in october of 2018 2018 And what caused what caused my pride of 2018?  My i'm in wife. What wife of mine? I have been home since 2008 2008 okay, seven 2000 it was right before I had madeline. Okay. Yeah right before madeline. Okay, and um, yeah I quit my job then and came back home And then three years later after madeline was born then kaylan came So yeah, I've been home ever since then so okay, okay, so So now what caused or what were some situations and circumstances for you know for you to Or for us to decide for the time that it would you know be best and helpful for For you to get back out into the workforce And to uh went to work Well, we have been talking about it. Well, there were some Uh financial needs that came up for us for our household and um You asked me you asked me Um, would I have a problem going back to work now?   We made our um our prayer list so to speak Yep, and we would go to starbucks starbucks starbucks starbucks. Yep, we did and why do we always go to starbucks? What was up with starbucks?  Yeah, they are they have stuff It had a right. They would have it done. Yeah, shout out to it. I don't know what she had now She moved up. So then when she left the store just went it just went down down here from there We didn't go there anymore. We don't we don't we got all it's not the same. Yeah We didn't get starbucks starbucks anymore. We make our own.  Yeah, whatever you got that Curating stuff or whatever you want to say. So anyway, and we had we started praying over that We made it very specific. Yes. We did. We asked the lord. Yes. Let's be with the job. Yes, we did We said we wanted to be something easy Not stressful. Mm-hmm. We said we wanted to be close to home. Yep. Yep. Yep. We said we wanted to be a smooth transition um What else did I ask for? Oh the hours. I wanted the hours to be, you know, minister to our family Um, because we still home school. Yep. Yep. And um Those were just a few of the things that we prayed about and specifically asked the lord to do.  Yep. He answered it. Yep. He did And even then some. Yep. He did came alive even then some came alive. I had the most Chill job Tell since you ain't working anymore. Tell the tell the family Tell the youtube and facebook family. Tell tell social media land How kush was your job miss woods? I'm gonna take a sip right here. My job was so kush that um I would watch the news when I got because I had to be there seven o'clock in the morning We're actually 645, but you know, um and my co-worker and I We You know, we were always You know Skating in wait when we were supposed to But he understood that and I understood that too. So it was no it was no big deal It was no big deal. We weren't late. I mean, we never opened a bank late So that was not the case, but she had a kush job I would watch the news on my phone. What is she's doing? I'll play games on my phone play game. I watch tv on my phone play games y'all I'm out here.  Can you please do something working?  I'm gonna shake and see how y'all doing stuff Less than 15 minutes away from the house y'all. Oh, yeah less than 15 now probably 10 because she If there is a dps a law enforcement officer that may be watching this live I have nothing to do with the speed of velocity That this woman that the lord has given to me drives. I have told her I have admonished her I have lovingly rebuked her now. This spirit Has transferred To my other two daughters And what kind of spirit is that I have a heavy foot. It's the speedy Gonzales spirit. I have a heavy foot. That's what it is Yeah, yeah, you then if I take my shoe off then it's even notice this notice So notice all this that I have to I have to deal with but y'all but y'all think I'm the problem So I you have your Levinas you have your Natasha's you have your cure for the souls and leave me shan alone No, what about what about me? What about what about me? What about my feelings? What about what about me? And how I feel but anyway, um, so she basically Had every prayer answer and and and and the interesting thing about this and reason why we're we're going this route before we go To where we are a little back. Yeah, so to just bear with this. Okay.  So it was it was a blessing. It was an answer to prayer It was something that we had asked the lord to uh to do and he and he faithfully did Um, and so so we we asked for the lord to move. He did and then we pivoted How long before after we say lord, thank you They would say, okay lord, uh, yeah about this job. Um, can we can we uh, uh, uh, uh bring bring her back I would say it was at least three years in though. So we prayed for me three or two No three because we prayed for a whole year for me to come home. Okay. It was at least a whole year Because the goal the goal was was for her to come home as soon as possible. Once we got some financial Things insituated. Yeah, we wanted to make that happen. So graduated two Yeah, those first that was a huge break That was a huge break. It really was because that means that the tuition went down much much because we were only paying for two instead of four Yes. Yes. Um, so yeah Yeah, and somebody had asked the question before we continue on they said uh slave of christ said have you Have y'all done a video on your home schooling experience any good resources on starting the process challenges advice time dedicated to it Ideal work schedule or demand for husband and wife. That's a good question. Thank you. Um, we we we have not really touched on it Or we know we've touched on it. We never really like dive into yeah, and I think we need to I think we need to Yeah, that that'd be a great idea. Yeah, there's a lot of resources out there. Absolutely a lot of resources Uh and and super chat me see kevin. Thank you brother. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. Thank you so much for the super chat. Appreciate that Um, so yeah, be great. Good to see you my brother Uh, we're here. We he got a good new. Oh, he got a man. You got a you got a new job boy Boy, that's on top of me. Let me give it to you. Let me give it to you bear with here. Here. Come y'all here. Come Y'all Congratulations my brother. Congratulations. Yes. He has a new job. Oh, that's great. Yeah, man. Appreciate it, man That's good. That is great. All right. So anyway, so so back to the to the, you know Right, we talk about the working and we prayed about you coming back home Opening up to us praying about me returning home.   We were not ungrateful Uh, but we just knew that by god's grace He had allowed us to be able to We we prayed that he would allow us to transition And to bring her and to bring her back home. Okay, uh, because We believe that she was more effective At home Then she would be of course being you know, being at work and trying to you know, do All the all the home, uh Administrative stuff and then school Homework, I mean it but god was good But god was gracious god was god gave her the grace to do that for the time that that we that we did, right? Um, but there was a transition. Okay, there was a transition so we prayed ask the lord to allow her to come home and and um And there was some hesitation I would I would say that was some hesitation that was that was you know going on because we wanted to be sure Yeah, we wanted to be sure and I would say it was on both sides. Wouldn't you yeah? Yeah.  Here's what here's what I want to do. Here's what I I Think we may want to work toward doing it. So we talked about, you know Transitioning and her and her, you know ease in herself back home. So this is what she tangibly did She would take her checks And she would act as though basically you we're living off of mine And I said, okay, so One day I asked her I said, hey, um, I said, uh, did you get your check? Yeah, I got it I said, okay, uh You're gonna put it in there. Oh no, no, no.  Yeah, I say we're doing that now, huh? She's like, yeah, yeah So she treated it like look she treated she treated me like a look Okay, so bread winner. You shall be we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna see how it and Ironically and in a strange way it just started to work itself, you know, like that now We're not we're not trying to give anybody any pie in the sky You know a story But because of course there were everybody's situation. Thank you. Thank you everybody's situation Yes, yes That is different. Yep. Yep. So so the worst thing you can like that Listen, you know the but the worst thing you can do is compare your family Your situation to somebody number one guys says don't do that Stop comparing yourself amongst yourself because all that does is create covetousness It can create bitterness and create jealousy. Yes. It can create confusion in the household. I mean Envy all of that So don't do that. Yeah, do not do not compare your situation to anybody else's Thank you sister for the super chat. Thank you sister. Thank you sister. We appreciate it.  Trust me Everything will work yourself out and do time by god's grace and and and so for us That's what we had. That's what we had to do, right?  I mean you started doing the videos. I told you to start chronicling Oh your videos. Well, yeah, but that was we already knew what was coming then Okay, but but I think we had the my birthday with my birthday You didn't you know, you just quit you just quit. Yeah, but prior to that for prior to that. What what were you doing? When did you give your when did you give your notice? In september. I gave them 30 days. I gave them a 30 day notice. I didn't give them two weeks because That was the type of relationship that we had And I wanted to and I know how hard it is to find somebody to replace you Especially in finance and that type of thing. Right. Um, so I gave them 30 day notice. Yeah, she was in she was in banking She was in banking and then to find somebody else. Yeah. Yeah So she did that so she basically does fast for so she came home. Okay. She came home So you said what? What was the tipping? Yeah, what was the tipping? Yeah. Yeah. What was it that you say? Okay, you know what? Um, you have your tissue do you want? Bless you. Here. Excuse me. Thank you Okay, but just in case um, well I know For us during the Pandemic A lot of companies were Making mandates and things like that. Yeah I was gracious. I was grateful rather that my company did not. Yeah We did not receive an email that said we had to do this or not. Right But I could tell there was starting to be a shift um and then also There were some issues with I don't want to say management per se. Just say just say personnel or whatever mean, but you know Yeah, just personnel. Yeah, it was just it was just a lot of changes Being made a lot of requirements. Yeah um Not not per se Help the requirements, but Educational requirements. All right. This thing is that you knew like, you know what? I already know There's not gonna be you know, something I'm gonna continue doing and so you started like planning your planning might plan your exit So um, and so yeah, so when you when so when you decided to come home Um, how did it feel? Coming home. I mean realizing after I got home when I was planning to come out. No, no, no No, when you actually when you actually came home when I actually came home. Yeah um It felt like I was Back in my element. Hmm.  I'm the morning person. She's she's the night out. Okay. I am not the morning person We do shift work like yeah, so so Real quick he liked it by god brother. Thank you so much man Don't even know these people. Oh, don't know this brother. Thank you. Thank you for the super chat. He liked it by god Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, but Yeah, so he said that he had been following us for two years Wow. Yeah for two years and he said he won't realize how much we've been a blessing Uh to him and and we really appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Um, but yeah, so go back to your So she she's not a morning person at all Nan no and when I first got the position at the bank I started out part time y'all I started out part time I worked every day during the week and I had to work every Saturday. Yes, but my schedule was so So nice to where I think two days out of the week I had to be in at 10. Yeah, and then the other two days I had to be there 12. Yep And the bank closed at four So, um, and then on saturdays, it was nine and three. Yeah, so I mean nine to no nine and 12. Yes Just three hours. Yeah, that's what I meant to say. Yeah, so Um, but yeah, she she's the night. She's a night person. Yeah, I'm the I'm the early riser And I've been that way since I was a teen. As a matter of fact, I've been that way since I joined the military in Okay, that's how long it's been. Um, so just just give you a little bit of Little give you a little bit of a dynamic of what we do case in point My wife yesterday We're gonna talk about it now. We're gonna talk about this. Yes. Oh, yes, it does people need to know What kind of people they're dealing with and what make us and what make us do what we do What make us click or make us function so She's the night out. I'm the morning person, right? So I'm in bed. I'm I'm trying to go to sleep. Okay She's what she watched an entire season An entire season it was only five episodes, but it was that entire season for that particular show See, see you see you see that that's how that's how that's how much she went through See, okay, but not okay. So okay, so so She watched it And and I wanted and I went to sleep. She couldn't stop couldn't stop Not only couldn't she not stop, but then she leaves the tv on No, I turned the tv off last night. I did I didn't watch king and queens. I didn't watch any of that. I turned it off because it was late He turned it off. You said last night. Mm-hmm last last night. Yes keyword last Night So so so Any other night the tv is on watching both of us, right? The remote is on her side of the bed. So I got to do like dog on mission impossible And reach over and do all this stuff to get to the to not wake her up Although I'm woke up because the tv on but anyway, you you and you know You that doesn't wake me up. You can turn the light on that's not gonna wake me up. I don't care I'm not I'm not that easily. Yes, you are. You know when I and then when I try to tip out the room Then when I try to tip out the room she wakes up Well, yeah, make that make sense Oh Really appreciate it man. You got some history with us then um but yes, so so I get up early in the morning, um 330 maybe four o'clock And it just for me when the house is quiet. I'm able to do I'm I'm more effective To do what I need to do in the morning. I've been that way since again since I was a young team but so our our I guess our schedules It overlaps a little bit, but when I'm tired, I'm tired. I mean when I'm when I'm done I am done She can but she can she can stay up and then I'm like, okay. It's two o'clock in the morning Why? Why why why are you up you and and and then she then she goes to sleep And then act like I am so tired. I wonder why What if I say that you get up at what time you get up you go to bed at two What time what time you like it? No two in the morning. What time was the bed last night? It was like 12 30. No, ma'am It was 12 30. No, ma'am. I know what time the last episode Okay, so so so so what time you what time you are you on average go to bed midnight? Yeah, maybe one Yeah, because king queens king queens and and and everybody love ramming comes back on again You didn't watch it earlier that night and then it comes back on again. I'm like, okay. Did you do not just see this? But anyway So so anyway, so back to back to what we were talking about now You asked the question what made me come home She said what what was the what was the bug that made me come on again? Not a bug but she was the one that was basically like, okay now it's your turn.  There's some things we need to accomplish getting the shot Getting the shot. There's some things you need to accomplish There's some things we need to get done in my mind, right And so she's like, well, all we need to do is this this and this And then we if we start on it on building up your channel and building up the marriage thing And so she already has Plans right and I had a problem with that. I had a problem with that In my mind, I was saying, you know what maybe two years give or take right maybe two years Uh, then we can kind of like circle back on this conversation I guess the lord must have heard it I guess he must have heard the conversation because that's exactly what he did not do so Fast forward to where we are today. So now I'm working my plan was to say two years and we're going to, you know Move myself into exit and now the goal was What what has always been the goal for us? Go ahead. Our goal was for both of us to be in full-time ministry. Why? Because we know we know first of all, we know Where our gifts and callings are um And we are More effective when we can give 100% yes versus us splitting our time between serving nine hours over here Are you serving 12 hours over here? and Being in the truck and not being able to You know devote time to that.  Why haven't I had time because I've been busy today? Yeah, you know, and then people would call you and stuff and you can't really Minister the way you need to When you're driving because you gotta pay attention when you drive it. Of course. So um, but yeah So so then what what made me quick? I think that's the way everybody's one wants to know What what was the what was what precipitated? What was the the the root uh of me basically Us deciding Yeah Yeah Yeah, really. What was it? Ma'am, this is a christian program This is we we we are saved over here, ma'am. We say we sanctified holy ghost field folk over here See, you know, I my my my sensor ain't on yet. I gotta I gotta add my sensor app on here To put your finger over the beat. I don't have one of those yet ma'am So you had to behave yourself So but no, so what what was the okay? That was the means, you know the ultimate cause the lord did it, right? How did how did this situation? I guess Occurred to where as we decided it was time to come home You know the writing goes on the wall That's it Okay, so why you say had been on the wall because they kept doing the same thing over and over again And which was what cutting your hours? Was it just it was just a few hours? No, I mean this was Going from Let's say 10 hours.  It's basically lying. I mean and and if y'all know anything about me Yeah, I know I have my receipts I've always kept my receipts Didn't matter who it was when you start when you start, you know, peeing on me and calling it rain or or lemonade Did I I got I got I got a I got a red dot you so There were opportunities that were given to me Or presented to me and then when I accepted It would be reneged.  I mean it was just you know, and I understand things happen in business You know where things get slow and all that kind of stuff But not not to the level and not to the point to where it has now caused me to contemplate whether or not I can Can I really afford to work here? I mean, have y'all ever been there before have y'all ever been to where You have to ask yourself. Can I afford to work at this place? Can I can I afford to work at a job? Literally, can I afford to work here you driving across town? So that's gas. So so I get up 435 o'clock in the morning My shift technically does not start until 9 30 But they were what they were called appointment runs That was start earlier than your scheduled start time 7 o'clock So if my start time is 9 30 and you have a 7 o'clock appointment for me, then that gives me two and a half hours So now you multiply two and a half hours times five And then you multiply that times the overtime that I would get This is this is a lot of money And then they have it taken away and then to give excuses that you know aren't true And then this continues to happen over and over and over and over again As though you don't notice it then you want the you want these individuals to give you 100 effort But you're not compensating them for the work that they have done and and by the way I've always been a person that would go to work early Just in case there were things that needed to be done. I had done that since I've been there, right? So so I'm sitting back watching this and sitting back looking at how all of these things are so you go Aside from the favoritism aside from the you know All of that right? I did my job Faithfully so right But then it got to a point to whereas it was so bad. I had to write the ceo of the company 10 pages aliyah ain't got nothing on this. She gonna have four. I got 10 one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 10 pages And it was detailed And this company is supposed to be A christian company matter of fact the owner Yeah, the ceo Work our christians. Okay now So I said, hmm christian company christian values christian company christian principles christian company christian rules In my mind Yeah, so what I did was I appeal to the company Based upon their biblical christian principles now and you couldn't appeal to them through the dog on handbook Because they didn't have one. I knew she's gonna say that. What kind of company doesn't have an employee handbook They don't have an employee handbook. That's on purpose. They don't have an employee handbook Because they don't want you to come they they don't want to come back and say well Because it's written the book you're supposed to do a b c d. Yeah, they don't have an employee handbook So since they don't have nothing to refer to they can do whatever they want and they and they and whatever they want Is exactly what they did. Yes. Yes the ceo and oh by the way, so the ceo, how did I give it to the ceo? In his hand just like that. Yep He just happened to he just happened to be there And oh and let me give you look this now. This is funny because This was the same time you and I Did our response to Echoes and soundbites That's saying. Oh, no. No. No. It is. No. It is what it is. It's okay. It's okay. It is what it is I ain't sure about that This is it was the same the same week matter of fact the day before the night before I had to See the ceo who came to the company He he basically made a visit to the company to tell about how the company was doing and things like that I said, okay. Well, there's no better time Then then the present for me to give it to him. So what I did was I started that sunday to write my statement out I Had it finished and completed And while I was doing that my wife and I had wrote up our response to those people aka the mob And that morning we went to bed at one o'clock that morning. We did it. We started at 10 o'clock and finished at one I got up at 4 30 left the house at 5 30 Got to the job around 6 6 30 Gave it gave this letter to the to the ceo. He was surprised and so were the people because they didn't think I Was gonna do it but I did And so one of the things I said was um, well, I gave scripture Because I was stating issues that were unethical Stating issues that were uh, just wrong. It was it was demoralizing and I laid it all out And this is in march. This was in march of 2022 last year started happening round january february Of 2022. So y'all this didn't just happen overnight. No, this wasn't a knee-jerk reaction to Something that just happened one time. No, no this had been happening for over a year though Matter of fact, it was it even started having before they changed managers because I had to have the right of a statement of complaint To hr when she was there About how they were treating me and things of that nature.  What is what what is right and fair Because you know that you also have a master in heaven Colossians 4 1 Matthew 7 12 So in everything due to others that what you would have them do to you for this sums up the law and the prophets Luke 6 31 due to others that you would have them do to you And then I quoted the ceo's words To buttress How this is supposed to be a company that values All people including their associates. I eat at drivers and so he said quote I would say that the single most important key to our success has been the philosophy that my grandfather operated the company on And the philosophy that we still embrace throughout our company today This philosophy is to take care of our people Who take care of our customers who take care of our future end of quote And that wasn't happening now this is I'm not I'm not blaming the the the president or the ceo because He's not everywhere to see what goes on, but You're responsible for your company and if there are things that are not right Ie like you said you don't have a handbook The how we're gonna hold people accountable But you want us to be able to come up with things that we don't have any Any documented, you know rules to stipulate and hold by but anyway So this was 10 pages. I'm not going to read it all here But my point was In light of that They they they caught wind of it.  They have the right to they have the right to keep you under Under 40 as long as your benefits As long as your full-time status is not is not affected But that was not the culture at the time, right? And we weren't living a stravagan or nothing like that either We weren't right. I'm just making sure that we that what I have is what I'm supposed to be, you know working with I mean, I'm a I'm a driver. I'm a truck driver. I have all these endorsements So why should I struggle over here when I can go somewhere else? And I'm not the only one there. A lot of people have done that at that location of the company who I quit because of mismanagement And like there are a personnel mind you these individuals are probably in their 20s Maybe 30s.  We we we don't have nothing else here. I mean, it's it's it's pretty much Then ran his course. It's pretty much where we need to go ahead and do something else because this is not working. Okay, so um It was one was one morning. We had uh my my wife and I I don't know could you please tell her this Thank you. Um so So this this is this was what would cause us to say it was enough So every morning my wife and I we pretty much talk I mean all the time, right? So, um That morning. I'm on the phone with her I'm doing my this was on the appointment run. Okay, remember. I told you if they have appointments early appointments before your start time I was doing that so all of a sudden The manager comes up to me and says hey, hey, where where are you going today? I said, I'm going to session session going to my appointment. He said, yeah, I'm not gonna be able to Let you do it. I have to get this and so on and so on. So I mean and she was on the phone She was on the phone when this had happened and this wasn't a one-time thing y'all So I want y'all thinking if this is a one-time incident. Oh man. They tripped. He left his job because of one thing No, no, no, no, no this 10 pages y'all 10 10 pages 10 pages so I said, okay He said, well, you know, can we talk in the office? I said, sure Going to his office. He him and in Han about, you know, I you know, man, I hate to see you come in early and say now mind you I've been coming in early You had no problem giving me these appointments Oh, but remember they had a problem what you're doing that too before. Yeah You sitting in the break room too long sitting in the break room too long. I mean and I'm always I'm always doing something I'm always trying to get in and get out. I don't I don't lag around right so The man tells me that he feels bad that, you know, he don't have anything for me. I'm like, well, yeah, you kind of did But you took it away. Thank you for the super chat. Sandra. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much um You just took it away because, you know, basically, uh You can now interestingly what he took was what people didn't want These drivers didn't want to do the work that I was doing. I had no problems It's called hooking up sets and if you if you know anything about trucking It's where you have two 28 foot trailers that are connected together And you would have to hook them take them to the location Unhook them and then hook up another set and bring it back to the terminal Had no problem doing that because it was two and a half hours of extra extra time extra money It was all it was all good Had no problem doing it. I did So all of a sudden it gets taken away and this and this this was this was a consistent thing You promise it to me then you take it away Promise it to me and oh by the way, I got the text messages to prove all of this This is not this is not just hearsay. So there was there was the the The particular position or the rot was up for a forbid I said, okay. Well, you know, he brought he brought to my attention if you want it, you know He's got to go through the process most of these guys he said they're not gonna want it. So Most likely you're gonna be doing it.  He decided to quit. He quit I send the manager a text message. So so as it's safe to say that This position is mine now not yet He texts me back not yet. I'm like, wow, okay. This is just just just games just games, right? So That that that that on the on the 12th of january january 12 January 12th going to the office. Like I said, my wife was on the phone with me. We were talking he he takes the he takes the the the the the The assignment the route That was that was given to me Um, and gives it to somebody else and my wife basically was like, you know what? You don't need to keep doing this. I said, are you thinking what I'm thinking though? She said, yeah I'm thinking what you think instead of I've been I've been thinking what what I've been thinking I said, okay. I said, and what is that? Because I want to hear her say it. I said, and what is that? And what did you say? It's time for you to get out of there It's time for you to get out of there and then what and what did I say to you? I said, what? I said, are you sure and I say why I said, why are you saying it? I said, why are you saying this? You always ask that question. I said, what are you why I said, why are you saying this? And what did you say? You have to pay attention to it I got the chat right here Okay, but what did I tell you? Okay, maybe I just talked to myself So here's what I told you I asked you were you sure you said yes, I said I said, um, thank you. This is sondra. Thank you so much Um, you said I said, okay, financially where are we? You said, well, we have this and then you know When you leave it will this will this bid on what we have from from what you get back and I said, okay I said then I said but now you do understand That I'm leaving You said, yeah, I know that And she she she like what yeah, I know that that kind of thing And so now We both agree. We both agree Can we saw how this thing was just playing out? And and here and here's what we're trying to say to some of y'all some of you all know That god is using situations to frustrate you Like he did with me because sometimes we won't leave until he makes us leave Right and and that's and that is what he did with me He basically always does with us. Yeah, he basically forced me out, but he used this situation Consistently to say, okay, you know what okay because like my wife was saying I know what I'm called to do and I know how effective I am when I'm when I'm in my element and in my lane And I'm in my zone Um, and then I would see things go on in the world I would see people put up content and I'm like, man, I don't have time to do that I don't have time to do that. I you know, um, even if I wanted to I'm working 12 The 13 matter of fact, I'm up 14 hours a day and I'm driving for 12 That's a lot of time, right? So So I'm looking at what what I would that desire to do and did at the same time I'm like, you know what lord, maybe maybe Maybe I should maybe I should But then I'm like, no, not yet. I'm not sure you said, okay We'll we'll start we'll start thinking about it in a year. I did We'll we'll plan for a year. Yes. I did. I did and the law was like, um, right I mean he shook it and so so here's what happened now So when we made the decision ladies and gentlemen, here's where here's where it starts to get good for y'all And thank you all for your patience That day that day when we decided That it was time for me to come home and to plan my exit and we and I said we both said it I said, you know, I'm done. I'm done. Right. I'm done. Yeah. We're all right. We're done then later that day Later that day I get a call from our church That our pastor secretary wanted to My pastor secretary contacted me and said, you know, pastor would like to meet with you And I'm like me with me. What do you want to be with me for? You know, not not in a negative sense. I'm like, huh, what do you want me for now? Ironically, he and I had conversations, you know at our men's breakfast, which is a Wonderful excellent ministry, man. I'm glad that I'm able to, you know Be around other real godly men and have real conversations at the church that we attend. So We we uh, so I'm at I'm at work A few hours after me and wife decided that I'm gonna come home. I get a call from the church The pastor said he wants to meet with me Uh, when will you be available? When will you be available? Now? This is this is this is uh, the 12th of january I made the decision. I decided that I'm coming home. That's it. That is it But you were still at work. I was at work. I was driving. I was at work. I was in the truck I got the call. I was in my truck that last day. I was in my truck got the call from the church Pastor secretary contacted me said that the pastor would like to meet with you Uh, uh, when wouldn't you be available? I said, well, I say this is what I said. I said well right now I'm I'm at work. I said I don't have any time Uh, throughout the week.  Let me get with the pastor and see if he's available When when she did that I got off the phone and I don't know if I called you or text you or something, but then I said to myself, wait a minute I said, I just said that I'm done So if I'm done Then I'm done So when they called back When she called back she said, well, will you be available on, um On saturday, I said, yeah, I'll be available saturday But when he did well, then something came up. He had a funeral. He had to he had to attend to And so I said, we'll tell you what?   I'm done I'm done None of that matters now. I'm done.  I'm not even angry. I wasn't even angry I wasn't even angry. I was like, okay So I said, let me take some time get some counseling and and I did I toss and trusted men and some women some sisters and brothers that that we that we value and we uh, We trusted some of you are in the chat and some of you know that we have these conversations, right and so But one of the one of the pushes I'll tell you this also what two of the pushes were this Two of the pushes were this one Was a sermon that I heard Okay, one was a sermon that I heard from our pastor Said in title get out of the boat Oh, and I was sick this day too.  I really don't so anytime. I you know, I'm not feeling well Then you know something is wrong. So anyway, and I plus I hate missing church. So if I'm missing church, something is going on You said we left you. Yeah. Yeah, my wife and kids left me My wife and kids left me alone so I was watching it on the stream They were at church and then they're talking about how to worship was I'm like, man.  You know to come out on the on the water now I don't know about you. I just know for myself I know what the lord was dealing with my heart and dealing with my family and my wife and I regarding the decisions that I knew that we were gonna have to make And it was that moment where the spirit of god used to use our pastor to speak a rama word. Yes. I said rama Yeah, I said it To use and speak a rama word or right now were a right now situation to to our situation to help me to begin the process Of stepping out of my boat and walking on faith And walking by faith what god had called me to do I'm saying that because it was prior to me making the decision that I even know anything about Knew nothing about, you know, the pastor getting ready to call me or anything like that He preached that sermon a month or two ago. Maybe a month ago give or take before, you know, we decided It was early this year. It was this year. It had to be this year. It was this year, but I'm saying early january No, no, not early january. Maybe a week or two Maybe it could have been in january. Mm-hmm It had to be just before the new year because I quit in january Yeah, I quit in january, but it was the second week of january, right? I quit the second week of january this year, dear But he preached that sermon before it may have been the week before or maybe the end of december It had to be before new year. It had to be before the new year. I know that for a fact Had to be before the new year. So anyway So I I I was I was struggling And it wasn't much it was it wasn't much of fear than it was just uncertainty If that makes sense y'all, um, and so I'm listening to the sermon y'all and I'm just like Okay, lord You show right You show right He musted up enough strength in my body for me to sit up in that bed and watch this sermon Wish and I was there but watching that sermon and it spoke to me ever so clear, of course she comes home and says so It's listening to the sermon I said, I said, yes, I did. Well, what'd you think? I said I said it was good. That's it. It was good I said, yeah, I said it spoke to our situation. Mm-hmm Mm-hmm Get on that, right? So I'm like like I'm the one that's the only one that that's that's dealing with this, but I said, okay No, what no no problem. No problem So that was one that was one that was one message that spoke to me Another message that spoke to me was what my sister Latanya Quinn a.k.a cure for the soul Yeah had brought On her channel. Yep The I forgot the name of it, but I know the phrase I don't know if that was the name of the Choose your heart. Yes. Now remember that choose your heart. Yes And I remember where I was when I was in Livingston, Texas making deliveries And I had to pull over to the side of my truck And hear the rest of what this sister had to say and one of the things she said was None of nothing in life is going to always be easy. You're going to have to choose your heart Thank you pick your level of heart Pick your level of heart And I said I said man And she was just going down through different scenarios. I mean whether it was relationships, whether it is a job, whether it is help choices Whatever the case might be since you need to put that link in in the chat so people can hear it Yeah, you need to put that link in the chat this real talk. So That spoke to me. I mean the lord is like This is just just I mean just just All of it in my body, right and y'all one of the things that we Continue to pray During all this time and then before was asking the lord to make it clear to make it plain Yes Make it unmistakably clear that it is you speaking to us and this is not our flesh Telling us something that we want to do right And it just seemed like he just kept lining stuff up. Yeah just lining it up. Yeah I mean one one one one issue one scenario one Circumstance after after the other And this is the link y'all y'all need to check that out really I I guarantee you you'll be blessed if you watch it I really I really do So anyway, so so those those two those two messages those two words Were were an encouragement to me and in fact, let me let me see if I can Share my screen with you all And I'll let you Have a listen to what? To what we were We were blessed by and this is just this is a short. Okay. This is a short so you can probably Go to hit go to the channel impact church of the wellness and check it out so Y'all can see that hopefully and let me know if you can hear it. There's only a minute long so check it out If you don't get out of the boat You will never have an opportunity to see the power of god work. You will never begin the ripple effect It would never have this continuous Underlating movement outwards To impact those around there must be a moment an event Whereby you move out by faith and allow god to use you for his glory You got to get out of the boat so often people say well, you have to explain and break it down until people get No, you know what it means to get out of the boat. You know what it means if you're seeking employment Let me tell you something don't think it's gonna come and knock on your door No, it is not it's not coming and not on the door If you need a loan to get your small business going let me tell you something Nobody's gonna come knock on your door. Just hey, I got some I got a space. I want to rent to you No, it's not going to happen Getting out of the boat says I'm going to seek. I'm going to if you don't get out of that boat Let me you would never have an opportunity to see the power of god so That's that's the uh All right, so that's that's the that's the sermon.  Yeah, I I believe it was sister. I absolutely I believe it was I believe it was hoping I'm talking to a sister, but I believe it was I believe it was my confirmation. Um, and and and again This is why I asked one of the questions in the in the in the description, you know, how do we know that you are That you are walking in faith or are you know, or are basically following uh subjective feelings That's up to you to decide that But when you know that god is dealing with you and you know that god is speaking to your heart And this is why this past month has been a challenge when it came to, you know Me doing these you're doing a couple videos these few videos that I had when I had sister bevelin and and ed mayon I knew I'd cross them flag and and I understand that um, but Contrary to what some people may think That sister didn't even know what our situation was Um, but sister latanya knew Of course my wife knew And and a couple other brothers sisters knew what god was dealing with me, uh about and so All I can say was okay lord, okay You know what it's it's time for me to make that move It's it's time for me To make that move and and and here we are so now we haven't even gotten to the to the good part yet Here here's the here's the good part so We we uh, we made the decision the pastor I met with the pastor And we we talked and um Make a long story short He presented me with an opportunity Um, because we're we're our church is it's growing and and and they're planning on making you know different Changes and and planning another uh location ironically in in our area Ironically in our area Yeah, and so he he asked me would I be interested matter of fact he first asked me um What are my plans? Do I plan to be in any type of full-time? I said my desire is to do that.  I have a channel. We do we do all that kind of stuff, right? um, no, sis, it's called, um It's called impact church of the woodlands Impact church of the woodlands, but I think but but I thank you and if not I have to look at the look at the link But it should be unless they took it down because sometimes I know sometimes they take it down Maybe you can find it, but it should be um, get out of the boat. I finished what it's called But she made she's gonna try to look it up. Okay. Okay.  No, we're not to believe every spirit Matter of fact, that's what that's what John tells us in 1st John 4. Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirit Whether they be from God and he doesn't say test the spirit by the spirits. No, he says just test it It's really whether they be from God. Why for many false prophets have gone on to the world And I'm not saying that the word of God is not complete. Y'all know me well enough to know that it's not how I get down But you're not gonna convince me You're not gonna tell me that God does not use people to speak to his people In some weird shape form of fashion. He does I will say this as well Remember I did a sermon. I did a lesson on Charles Spurgeon and him prophesied to people now We have no problem with Spurgeon prophesied to people When the canon of scripture was closed And these people knew exactly They knew exactly what this man was saying was true because it was for them And all I'm saying is is that know when God is dealing with you Know when God is speaking to your heart and know when God is bringing someone in your life that you tested As you don't just take anybody's word. No, you test it you test it with the word You make sure that what they're saying number one It speaks to your heart and to your spirit and you confirm it with the word of God Um, I couldn't find it. Okay. No worry about it because I don't think it's like labeled under that It may be under the ripple effect. Ah Yeah, yeah, look under look under the ripple effect. It may be under one look under the ripple effect It may be yeah, it's because he did a series called the ripple effect. Yeah That's the short. Oh, that's the short. Okay. So so anyway, um, I do I do also know this I know that had I not Made my step There was no guarantee that God was gonna make his now. He was already moving He was already moving By frustrating situations by causing me to to to try to you know, figure out How am I going to do certain things and to know when my time is up and I can only say this It was only by the timing and providence of God because once I once we made that decision and once I said That was it. That's when I got the call. Yeah That's when I got the call and ladies, let me add this too um I know that sometimes it's For some I won't say everybody but for some It may be difficult for you to trust your your husband's leadership But it is important for us to Trust that our husbands are hearing from God too And follow him as he's following Christ and not try to be a hindrance or a What should I say a like a a wet blanket?  Yeah, I would say um also So what does this mean for us? What does this mean for us? Can I know some people have questions as well? So how what are y'all gonna do now? What how y'all gonna make it financially things like that? God has been providing God has been providing um again this opportunity that is presented itself Um, I didn't look I didn't go looking for it. Right. I did not Go looking for this ministry position at all We still know what the Lord is going to do, but we know it has been presented to us. Is it it to me or whatever? um And so, you know, we we're in the process. We're in the planning You know stages of process for us to get things get things going I I would say this by God's grace. There is no fear in my heart. I mean none I I can't explain it I can't even articulate it other than God will give you perfect peace whose minds have stayed on him Isaiah 26 3 and if he's not fearful Then I'm not fearful. Yeah And someone asks the question. What is the position that you mentioned? I had no I didn't mention it. It's uh executive pastor Executive pastor And here's the interesting thing as well. I didn't I didn't it didn't matter to me Whether I would be pastoring or being in a in a pastoral role You know, I just wanted to serve And that was and that was it and so, um, I say that because In my mind, I'm like, hey, look, I'm I'm I'm good doing this right here Uh doing, you know stuff on the side, you know, whatever the Lord wanted me to do But I knew I could not be effective Being in that truck For as long as I am And still do with the Lord. I mean he he had he had to do this He had to do this And and and he is uh, he is thank you sister. Appreciate it. Good to see you. Um Yeah, I know, huh Um, but yeah, so I'm I'm I'm really I'm really just, you know Going with with God's flow With this, um, and we'll we'll keep you all posted as things progress But I wanted to share this with the body Christ with some of y'all, but one of like How's he putting all these videos out? Have y'all been noticing that? I mean, did I tell myself? That it was like What what you know, what what's about all these videos? Um, somebody said what's executive pastor? That's a good question Pastor I'm not I'm not the lead It's just a title y'all And and I understand trust me. I understand.  At least yours was At least yours was No two hour messages either. Yeah, I know, huh? Yeah, but but I um, we're still we're still going through the through the process and what you know What these things want to tell just logistically and things of that nation, uh, but yes, it has been It has been you know asking me uh presented me presented to me to consider Um, and so I believe this is where the Lord wants us to be We have been blessed by the church and we really have we have been blessed by the church I mean we we actually our family actually enjoys And loves going to church because the worship is just crazy. I'm not saying crazy bad. I'm to my crazy good Uh, the message of course is on point. I mean we we enjoy Being in the fellowship We really we really really do Um, and we have been praying for that as well too We we have been praying to be at a place where we can worship god freely And hear the word of god and not have to worry about us saying amen or being people I mean we we're free I don't know if y'all understand. I don't I don't know if you understand what what i'm talking about. Hopefully some of y'all do Yeah, I mean it's it's I mean people are free to worship And that was one of the things the pastor talked about in our new members class. He's like man. Look, you know We we want people to be free to worship god We don't want no dry dead and not you know, and you gotta be manufactured Yeah, we're not talking about yet, but we're just saying that people, you know You don't know what people are going through And uh, and the worship team they they're just man that they're the phenomenon that they really are And I just I just am I'm blessed and grateful to god to be able to uh to be where god wants us to be And again, we don't know all of the details, but what we do know is that this is this is something that god is doing Um, and and we're and we're definitely, uh, pleased and and grateful for that now Some of you all have asked as well, you know about you know about ministry and about How weird, you know, uh, some people want this you wanted to support and and Oh, see look, I'll say something else walking down the aisle with I hear I've already stepped into the aisle myself on a few occasions Y'all y'all y'all know what it's like y'all know what it's like so, um But some of you have asked and wanted to know how you can support First of all, thank you First of all, thank you for even for even asking that because it does take money to do ministry It takes finances to do what god has called us to do and so The links are still located below at the bottom of our videos. You can you can always support the ministry That way what we are going to be doing Uh, we're going to try to have online uh counseling Of course privately for those who want to have private counseling, but we we're going to start branching and moving that out Um, because we know people have been emailing goes matter of fact one brother is mentioned earlier. Yeah, uh Have been wanting to have counseling. This is now. This is what we're also saying We don't want to take you away from your local church. We're not we're not sheep herders. Okay Um, what we want you to do is go to your local fellowship Hopefully and this is why this is a problem. A lot of churches don't have bill for counseling at all and a lot of the leaders Either they're they're not equipped, but they should be it should be. Yeah Or they'll just blatantly tell you we don't do that here right and and they send you off somewhere And that have been said I mean people have been basically just sent off like my wife You said, you know to other other ministries if you if you are giving your offering And if you are giving your time and resources to your fellowship to your local church, then they should be able to counsel you That that's that's that's that's supposed to be what is taking place, but I know in reality. That's not always the case And that's not always the case But I would just say that we're here for the body of christ. So we're not gonna we're not gonna turn anyone away Uh, we're gonna always point them to you know, number one the scriptures and also help them to find a ministry or a church That is going to to serve them But we know that people have needs you know that people are looking for answers And so we want to use the the ministry that god has given to us to be able to be a blessing to to those of you so Those of you who want to do that our email information is still on the On our on our channels if you have not subscribed to the love life and marriage channel We would encourage you to do so because that is what we're trying to use to push and to create more content And to have more viewers to uh to follow that channel So that way we don't have to do these simulcasts and the and the subscribers and the subscription base could be going toward that That channel is what to of course bcb You know most of you all are coming from that from that original my original channel But we want to push the marriage channel Is what to and it's not and it's not just for married couples. It's love life and marriage So if you're single, you know, if you if you're no longer married if you're divorced We want to cover all of that We want to cover all of that Um, and since you said that some people prefer counseling with you both as opposed to someone else. Yeah Yeah Um, but yeah, so so that's that's what we that's what we want to do. Okay We want to be a blessing To those who have been a blessing to us and and so, you know, that's what that's what we want to let y'all know I don't know what else you may have just to share because I've been doing all the talking but go right ahead speak from the heart you I didn't know if we were going to talk about our touch on I know you mentioned briefly the website I didn't know if you want to talk about some of the nuances That we plan to have on the right. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, we're still working on it. We had a brother trying to Working on it for us Like it's like seiko was saying we want to have a section there for counseling For men women Couples singles and do all of that and have that under one umbrella. Yep, then have also We talked about having classes Either probably either pre-recorded. Yep classes. Yeah, um that can be downloaded. Yep. Um, and Yeah, so we talked about that The other thing was You need to bring your notes. No, I didn't because I didn't know I was going to What else did I say Sure was because you wrote him down Yeah, I'm all in your little link. You gotta have a link of different ministries on it on the channel and stuff like that So the counseling would fall under. Thank you brother. Thank you, man. Thank you brother. Appreciate you sir. Oh, thank you Yeah, s and s s and s ministries. Yeah That's gonna be the counseling Um brother umbrella for that so there there's a lot of things we want to do So, please be patient with us. I know what like with the bcb merchandise. We're trying to find another vendor Because most of our hats that has been to draw and so we want to create more designs. We want to create more Uh more merchandise, but we but for some reason for the past year or so the the uh the t-spring vendor that we have they they just stopped um Distributing I think I some kind of rules for Stipulations for you to even put the hats in the store So I'm in the process of finding another vendor for us to use for our merchandise Um, and we're also going to have love life and marriage merchandise as well. Yep. Um, I designed a shirt, but I haven't like Signed off on it yet. I'm not sure if that's exactly what we both want so we can both agree on So, yeah, I don't want anything to look too feminine But you know I don't want to look no, I don't want to look looking too cheesy either. So we're gonna, you know, but I trust the judgment I mean, I'm the you know, I just want to do I just want to teach I just want to you know do commentary all that. I mean, but right now this is what we are So we're where you know, like with video and editing and things like that. I'm doing that my wife is What the what I haven't we haven't brought it up yet No, because I got to change the name because there's somebody else who has that same name Yep. Yep. Yep. Even though they don't have a lot of views, but I you know, y'all know how that is because somebody has to My stuff try to lie, but anyway, y'all know how it goes But I said that earlier He mentioned that Yeah, you know what let me know Cory. Yeah, we we need to find one. Seriously. We do we need to find Yeah, yeah But yeah, so that's that's what we're trying to do Brothers and sisters ladies and gentlemen, we're we're just we just want to be obedient to what god has called us to do um and We ask for y'all's prayers. We ask for your support We're not gonna be we're not gonna be on it.   You know i'm saying nobody nobody that we've been recommending are pimping anybody. No grift is over here You know i'm saying uh, but um, it's it's a labor It's a labor of love and it also it's also a initial time, you know of uh in devotion, so If if people have been blessing you then you want to you want to be a blessing to people Me and by the fact paul even said that he says if i have So You know spiritual things unto you isn't is it is it wrong? Is it bad? Is it a sin for me to reap the physical blessings from you? So it's it's a it's a reciprocity there and um, I think we need to always be mindful of that That when we when we have people that are doing ministry Whether in your local church If you you're following people's channels and things like that and support support god's people And see we were supposed to go ahead. Yeah, you got a few minutes. Go ahead. Come on. Talk about But just a split second go right ahead dear go right here. Now ladies and gentlemen before she goes there The thoughts and opinions by miss Sharon. They would there's not necessarily reflect those of Love life marriage of the woods or the bcb channel. Yes, they do Okay, y'all we are brothers and sisters in the lord, right? I mean we are so You would think that Each of us would try to Uplift encourage and support one another, right? Yeah, you would think that right true that true that true that So why is it so hard? in the body to Have to We're we're acting like crabs in a bucket um You want to give an example go right here? Well, that has been the struggle that I've been dealing with for the I don't know how long I mean You asked someone to Again, just this is I mean He's the only one this person Just in general You asked someone to Put you in touch with somebody else because you know that that person has been in touch with this other person Because you have something that would probably be beneficial and The platform that they have is big enough For you to be on and to support To get the message out especially when this person is asking for people Who have the kinds of qualifications that you have so jason whitlock acts He basically went in on the viewers and said that he blames jason whitlock said this he said he blames comedians And preachers. I don't know why you say comedians, but maybe because of the the the audience and the influence that they have so he said he fought preachers and comedians and particularly black preachers that he said black preachers and comedians for What we see going on in our in our society amongst our people because the influence that we have He said we should be doing more to better our people then for them to be you know In the condition that they're in and that resonated with me. I'm like, well, excuse me Over here. I'm a black preacher and and and I I I feel you you know, um, I want to be able to Bring what god has called me to bear and to speak it in the in the spheres and the in the in the realms that he may Caught me to be right So I know some people who know jason whitlock Right and every individual that I reached out to There was an excuse. There's an excuse. I mean, I'm just being real. I'm not I'm not listen. Listen y'all I'm not hating I'm not cloud chasing I'm not angry or nothing It's not even about that. It's not even about that. It's just common decency for Brothers and sisters to want to uplift each other. We are all Trying to get to the same goal. We're all trying to bring other people into the kingdom That's what I thought we were doing But it seems like Folk would rather hoard their success Instead of sharing it with their other fellow brothermen It's it's the crab. It's the crab in the bucket that's out. This is call it for what it is and and again for me I'm just speaking for myself I have I have by god's grace never never Use my platform and hoarded it for myself I let's let's go there real quick. Let's go there real quick How long have I been doing this this quote unquote social media podcast? radio thing How long? Right. Yeah going on 11 now. Yeah Since since 2012 is when I started the youtube channel, but prior to that with blob talk radio Sermon audio So a lot of a lot of a lot of these cats that's out here I've been here before they even came by. In fact, somebody's same dude. Somebody's same cats In cateces. I used to bring on my platform. We used to bring on my channel used to bring on my broadcast and and you know because it's if If we're talking about body life We don't we don't listen. We don't play with that We don't play with that we we really mean what we say so this is why I'm I'm intentional This is why we're intentional when we talk about supporting people's channels that we know that are good You know I'm saying like latin and like cori like dyna like christina. You know I'm saying people that you know like like That christian fam and and and and like chelsea's live line I mean people that we have you know have either interacted with have been following this stuff They've been following ours. It ain't no click stuff It's christ that we're trying to promote. That's it, right? So if if you have an opportunity To go in places that I can't why would I stop you from doing that? I like the xabc channel I even think about that. Come on. Come on. Come on because shout out to kevin shout out to anthony shout out to bill yeah, because Even though like that channel too Even though you started doing that wasn't 2019 Yes, 2019. Yes. Yes. Yes. Well, these brothers have picked up the mantle. Yeah and are running with it. No, they're blazing They're picked it up and running with it. They're blazing. Yeah, and there's no there's no competition here. Nope. Nope They're doing the same thing trying to get people out of there. That's it Oh, that's the bottom line. That's the goal and they and they should be more so because they were in it I'm an outside dude. I mean I was doing this stuff because I saw an issue I saw what god had called me to do and I dealt with it and I'm doing a little bit of it still now But them brothers, they're the ones that's running with this stuff. They were in it. Yeah So they they've they've they've involved in that they were involved in that call So why would I be like man shoot get them man? I'm not putting the body I'm not putting the body onto that channel. No I intentionally when I realized they wanted to do this stuff. I brought them on mine Yeah, and I told people and it was still tell people go subscribe to that channel Right go support their ministry. Why because we are in the body of christ ladies and gentlemen And unfortunately, this is this is how this is how we got so many stab wounds in our back My wife about to go there y'all she about to go there when we started that People that were close to us even in that time at the beginning.   Thank you Yes, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, man. Thank you. I do appreciate. Hey joe. What's going on man? Good to see you, man Good to see you man. Long time no see bro. Good to see you my brother glad you're doing well um, but yeah, so so this this is why I don't um I don't take too kindly when I when I see people trying to change Individuals into what they want them to be. I'm like, no, you're gonna have a problem with me. Um, Because I'm not called to be what you want me to be. I'm called to be what crisis calling me, right? So it's not Yeah Yo Y'all stretch our hands over to the east coast Stretch our hands over to the east coast the proverbs. That brother need prayer, but he crazed it. Uh, let it do Yo, but um, but yeah, so so This this is this is why again, we are we are intentional about supporting and let me say this to you all as well Let me see y'all the city y'all as well It ain't always about money. Okay This brother said this is all I can afford. He gave five dollars, right? Do you know what you can do when everybody gives something or or even if you don't have finances, but you have You have a you have a skill or you have You know an ability it's it's this man. Listen body life. We plan with it y'all We're underestimating the power of God leave y'all don't understand. I'm trying to tell y'all Everybody has a different role to play. Listen. Listen Peter told delay man when he was begging him for money. He said silver and gold. I do not have He said he went press on he did he ain't got no money He went with me. I have nothing Nothing nothing. He said look, I ain't got no money. But what I do have I'll give to you Peter had the gift to heal Some of y'all have gifts that you are sitting on You have talents and resources that you are sitting on that someone is needing for you to use And I'm speaking from experience. I'm not I'm not speaking on some high horse or some perch upstairs No, no, I'm telling you because this is why I know what God has called us to do Yeah, he called us to do it But we can only do what God has called us to do but we can do it together with each other's help Let me show you in scripture real quick Um Ephesians 4 Ephesians chapter 4 And let me share my screen Verse 11 he caves he gave some as apostles and some as prophets some as evangelists Some as pastors and teachers why for the equipping of the saints for the work of service notice to the building up Of the body of Christ now, you know, I gotta go to one more verse. You know, I gotta go to one more one more Passes I gotta go to first Corinthians chapter 12 Yeah, yeah the body the body chapter Because we we we playing y'all we are playing with this First Corinthians 12 verse 14 For the body is not one member but many verse 15 If the foot says because I am not a hand I am not a part of the body Is it not for this reason any of the less a part of the body? And if the ear says because I'm not an eye I'm not a part of the body Is it not for this reason any the less a part of the body if the whole body were an eye Where would the hearing be? Excuse me if the whole were hearing Where would the sense of smell be but now notice not saco not sharing not nan one of y'all Has placed the members each of them in the body just as he does. I know it is god But now god has placed the members Each one of them. That's intentional ladies and gentlemen This is intentional just as he desired do y'all see that Just as he the lay old just as he decreed just as he sovereignly desired it verse verse verse 19 Oh breaking news. Hold on Secco, I would like to have a con I like to have a discussion with you on why you are a cavernous I would love to email me bro Email me your number and let's have it Secco woods and welcome to the channel Secco woods S-a-i-k-o woods with an s at yahoo.com Make sure you uh put your information in there so that I don't get it as a spam because I get a lot of emails And I don't want to um put yours in the trash by by accident But email me and uh matter of fact, I put the the email right there. You can see it Hopefully you see right there Don But thank you for for um for coming on the channel. I do appreciate that Prober you say it's a troll site. It's a troll Okay Young down reborn says a troll site if it's troll, that's fine if it if it well If it is that's okay. No big no big but I appreciate it problems. Thank you for putting putting me on that. Okay um But look what the text says in verse 19 If they were all one member, where would the body be? But now he says verse 20 There are many members but one body and if the eye cannot say and the eye cannot say to the hand I have no need of you Or again the head to the feet. I have no need of you on the contrary It is much truer that the members of the body would seem to be weaker are necessary Even listen, so we we we talk about our body. We talk about the spleen and all that kind of stuff Well, it may not be important to you It's because it's not seen but it's important to the body Whatever that spleen is called to do god has it in our body for a reason He says verse 23 on those members of the body which we deem less honorable on these we bestow more abundant honor And our less presentable members become much more presentable Whereas our more presentable members have no need of it But god has so composed the body given more abundant honor to that member which lacked In other words those things that are out in the forefront. Yeah, you already going to get the you already going to get to be seen and all that But those that's that's that's not out in the forefront. God says you just as important You're just as valuable to those seen and those present Invisible parts of our body And the reason why he says so that there may be no division in the body But that the members listen may have the same care for one another and if one member suffers All the members suffer with it If one member is honored all the members rejoice with it Now you are christ's body And individually our members of it and that's the key We're all members of christ's body.  We're all we're all slaves on god's plantation Sheep ain't stars We're sheep. That's it. That's all we're called to be And and if we're called to be god's sheep Then there should be no one ever Thinking go having the mentality that you're better than somebody else We're all called to do god's work We're all called to do what the lord has called us to be and he's called us to be faithful because be faithful And so I say that because I say that because this is This is the reason why It's important for us to always encourage each other To encourage each other We never know what people are going through We never know. I I know for a fact and we're by the wrap up. I know for a fact That there have been times in my life where I've questioned whether or not The lord wants me to continue to keep doing this thing And he Always in the timing that he has done it has been impeccable. Someone will ask me Um Do you know where I can hear or find a sermon on such and such and like, yeah, I have uh, I've done Wait a minute. You have a sermon channel Stuff like that Yeah, or or when when it is When it is somebody asking a question about a topic or whatever the case might be And I point them in a direction way this even if it's on my channel or someone else's and I'm saying It's those little things that God allows to speak to our hearts and then, you know, I got you I got you You know I'm saying so I just say this I just say this I say all that to say this brother and sisters we we are We're prayerful We're we're encouraged We don't know what tomorrow is going to hold but we definitely know who the one who holds it And we're not seeing that as as a cliche God has listened God has done things in our lives I know for a fact that it was God I mean the house that we live in that was God I'm serious the house that we live in it was God It was God. In fact, I don't share that quick story about how We were advised so I was counseled by by well-meaning Leaders. Yeah Well-meaning financial consultants. Yeah Well-meaning brothers in christ you said Y'all are so far behind because because of my job. Once again, hello and others.  I don't believe God is telling me to do that And Probably within a week or so Father within a week We had a friend. Yep And her church pay for And pay for our To get us caught up.  Mm-hmm. We asked the lord to Increase my husband's VA benefits So that the mortgage would be covered He did that Sure. He did. I didn't even know that I had when I I didn't even know that I had service related disabilities That I've been dealing with to this very day. Didn't even know Didn't even know and and a brother of mine said, um, bro, you need to you need to have these people look at your medical record Because you did them this stuff this stuff is probably most likely service related And so what happened was I gave my medical records over to this to this organization Who specializes in supporting veterans make sure to get the best and most out of their benefits and, um And and not only they do that this was during that time not only they do that But they had to give me back pay for the time that I had filed and so Y'all are y'all are talking to people right now who by God's grace Our mortgage by God's grace has been covered. Yep Our mortgage The united states government pays for my mortgage and that's just that's just awful what they found So so we're looking at the things that God has been doing The things that God has done The people that God have used in our lives for whatever season and reason that he had them there and have been gone or whatever case might be And now we look back and say, okay. God did this. We know this was God. He's doing this now And so we want to be an encouragement to you the viewer those who may even watch this stream later You need to make sure number one That when God is telling you something you don't give up on what God is telling you And it can come from people who mean well listen to me well meaning But if you know specifically That the Lord is speaking to your heart About something I'm trying to tell y'all Don't let anybody nobody sway you don't let them move you. That's what this faith. Don't faith ain't listen Golly sincere faith remember by the way faith is a spiritual gift ladies and gentlemen God has given some people the gift of faith to believe God for the impossible Oh, come here paul remember paul when he was being shipwrecked out there in acts And he told them man Oh, let me just go there Can you do can we get we got a few minutes? Do y'all mind if I go to one passage description? Do y'all mind? Let me boot this clown out. Let me boot this clown Where where is that? How do I boot him? How do I boot him? It's the way that I do it. Let me see Let me see. How do you boot him? I think it's uh Yeah, we'll move from broadcast Is that it? Okay Y'all go ahead and boot him out. Let me go and try to ban him Um Precise you bro Let's see now. Now y'all got y'all church. Y'all got y'all church handle preach all pass the ticket time pass them Um, thank you. David. Yeah ban them for life. Absolutely. Thank you. Thanks for our verse. Thank you, bro. Um Let's go here. Let's let's go here and and and my wife it gave me some ideas as well because I know that There have been sermons that I have I have uh Have haven't finished preaching and have even preached but the lord has been giving me more things to talk about and I'm going to be doing some some uh Some Bible study and preaching and teaching on some of these things as well too because I think we gotta find a way You're gonna find a way to put those sermons on the website as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah so they'll be accessible right and and and we will uh, we'll definitely know how to do that because I know it's it's it's uh Is needed. So, um Let me see. I'm looking for John see what I want to do this one here Yeah, I'll go here. I'll go here. I'll go here. All right Acts 27 open your Bibles to Acts chapter 27 Acts chapter 27 And I'll try to wrap it up Um Wrap it up here I just want to see the spot that I wanted to look for because I know this is going to be Okay, yeah acts 27. All right. Let me go ahead and share the screen All right acts 27 When it was decided, um, make sure I got my comments as I can see y'all's comments Uh, when it was decided that we should sail for italy They proceeded to deliver paul and some other prisoners to a Syrian of the august Of the augustin cohort named julius and embarking in an emigranians ship Which is about to sail to the regions along the coast of asia We went we put out to sea accompanied by aerostarkis A macedonian of thessalonica the next day we put in Sighted and julius treated paul with consideration and allowed him to go to his friends and receive care From there we put out to sea and sailed under the shelter of cypress because the winds were contrary When we had sailed through the sea along the coast of sicilia, sicilia This is a silly excuse me In pamphilia, we landed at myra in liscia There the centurion found an alexandrian ship Selling for italy and he put us aboard it when we had sailed slowly for good many days And with difficulty had arrived off Off nidus since the wind did not permit us to go farther. We sailed under the shelter of creek off salamone And with difficulty Selling past it we came to a place called fair havens near which was the city of liscia When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous since even the fast was already over Paul began to admonish them now paul is listen paul is warning them Paul is warning them he says Men I perceive that the voyage will certainly be with damage and great loss Not only of the cargo and the ship but also of our lives So no paul is telling them like look, okay now we continue on with this. We're gonna lose everything including our lives But the centurion was more persuaded by the pilot and the captain of the ship than what was being said by paul Because the harbor was not suitable for wintering The majority reached the decision to put out to the sea put out to sea from there If somehow they could reach phoenix a harbor of creek facing southwest and northwest and spend the winter there Oh, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, let me just say this Sometimes the majority ain't always right. Hello Hello, is this thing on? Yeah, the majority ain't always right sometimes Being in the company of one who got since is better than all of people who think they have since majority say crucified Didn't they though verse 13 When a moderate south wind came up supposing that they had attained their purpose They weighed anchor and began sailing along creek close and shore But before very long they rushed down from a land a violent wind called the Iroquillo And when the ship was caught in it and could not face the wind we gave way to it and let ourselves be driven along Can you imagine being at the mercy of waves? The rudder ain't working. None of this stuff is working. You are at the mercy of the sea verse 16 running along I'm assuming running under the shelter of a small island called clauda We were scarcely able to get the ship's boat under control After they had hoisted it up They used supporting cables and undergirding the ship and fearing that they might run aground on the shallows of suretus They let down the sea anchor and this way let themselves be driven along the next day as we were being violently storm tossed They began to jettison the cargo And on the third day they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days And no small storm was appealing us from then on all hope of our being saved was gradually abandoned other words They're being afraid They're scared They said it was dark. This is what paul was talking about being shipwrecked A day and a night in the sea Darkness And these are men by the way, these ain't no women on here on this on this ship. These are men verse 21 When they had gone a long time without food Look at look at the text y'all verse 21 Then paul stood up in their midst and said men you ought to have followed my advice. In other words, y'all should have listened to me Didn't I tell you Paul says you should have listened to me You should you should have followed my advice and not have set sail from creed and incurred this damage and loss And let me say this by the way, this is free. This is free y'all A praise god. Thank you uh, uh kl for the super chat. Thank you.  I know by the way In other words paul said I told you so See some of us don't want to tell somebody we told them so after we didn't told them so Sometimes you need to be heard sometimes that you I told you so need to be heard When you've been told because paul said listen, I told y'all Before we even set sail We are to wait And how many times do we get in trouble by not listening and not waiting? I did I did a sermon you can go on sermon audio. I may I may have to retease that again called Uh, when you or when we refuse to wait on god It's the story from uh, it's the story from samuel And and actually doing what saw When saw refused to wait and it cost him but knows what paul said He said you should have followed my advice in verse 21 And now they've set sail from creed and encouraged his damaging loss But notice the faith that he has now in light of the foolishness of these men paul still has faith verse 22 Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage for there would be no loss of life among you but only the ship But only the ship For this very night an angel of Of the law of the of the excuse before that's very night an angel of the god To whom I belong and to whom I serve stood before me saying do not be afraid paul You must stand before Caesar and behold god has granted you all those who are sailing with you Listen, sometimes our blessing comes to other people's obedience. Even though we're disobedient How many of us have been riding on the faith coattails of others come on How many of us have been riding on the faith of others?  We ain't looking for a bible part two We're not looking for the 67th book of the bible. No, we're not But god has spoken some things to you and I that you know It must come to pass and I know for some of y'all y'all think I'm sounding spooky. I'm not sounding spooky. Listen Listen, I had god had god has healed my body first year. We got married. Was that the first but then the first year the first year First year I got first year we got married.  It's all spots. It's all spots, but it but it caused me to double over and I was writhing in pain And my wife told the lord lord you just gave me this man And now you about to take him from me And we went to the elders of our church And the men laid hands on me And they weren't quote-unquote cares matter. This wasn't a cares matter church By no stress of the imagination. They went James five Yeah That man matter of fact that man when I went to have my checkup He said to me he came with me. He came with me that it was a deacon. He came with me Came with me And then they laid their hands on me and That cyst or those those lumps that they saw on my liver that was causing me pain When I went back for my checkup, they said it was gone. Matter of fact, they they ran They ran me under that ekg thing or whatever they call that thing. What is that? Scan they remember that whatever I ain't no medical person. I'm a preacher But they ran me under that scan way had to have my whole body go through that little that that that thing that you know, yeah They put they had me that they injected me with some dye to make sure that whatever they saw Wasn't there they couldn't they couldn't understand it.  It's not still a healer. Now. I'm not saying that I believe in quote-unquote healers But I do I do believe in the great physician. Oh, yes. I believe that god heals god. He's still heals today He he heals through means and he heals through miracles both ways So you're not gonna convince me otherwise. Thank you serene. Thank you um So And I think a lot of us we need we need to have our we need to have our faith Tuned up because there's a lot of things I believe that god is not doing in our life because we're downplaying Of course we use wisdom, but wisdom comes from god wisdom comes from god And and listen james says and if any of you lack wisdom And that if is the first it's the first class condition in the greek in other words since you lack wisdom and you do Let him ask of god because we all need to be wise And he said he gives to all men liberally without reproach Wisdom is free if you want it And so my encouragement to all of us today tonight I first of all, I hope and pray that you all there are encouraged by what we're saying I hope and pray that you all will stand behind us and what we're and what we're striving to do and support this ministry however the lord leads you to do so and We're trusting and believing for god to do more things we've already prayed that forgot to blow our minds I'm listen. We've been listen.  Let's see some minutes When I when I was looking at the wicked man like lord, what is this? He's until I go to the house of god Psalm 73, excuse me, Psalm 73 He said when I when I was looking at how the wicked was making it and how they were prospering He like man, I'm sorry for some kind of way about this until I came until I went into the sanctuary So I don't I don't I'm not focusing on what other people do Whether these people have more subscribers than I do and it didn't happen when I first started When they first started doesn't matter to me It doesn't matter to me Unlike the proverb he says give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with what is my portion that's it Because when you are content and when you're faithful and the little guy says I can bless you with more So the subscribers I got I pray to god But I want god to do more because I want to reach more for any glory. We want to reach more for the glory And so that involves all of us. We need each other. We're not independent We are interdependent. We need each other to grow We need each other to get the word out and we need each other to make this gospel So relative and so real That we are the living epistles that paul talks about right before all men And we all have a story but our story Is behind the veil of the ultimate story and that is christ that he came to this earth To give his life a ransom for many And some of us are living witnesses in testimony that have been saving an amazing grace So how dare we Horde that gift and not get the word out and not support ministries who strive to get this word out How dare we Your style is your style my style is my style our style is our style for the glory and honor of god So let's continue to support the body of christ Let's continue to keep encouraging each other There's some of you who need to call somebody and let them know you've been thinking about them You don't know why the lord has been putting them on your mind, but you know, they may need that word of encouragement It's not always about it's not always about dollars y'all Yeah, I mean it's just it's just simple like the simple simple text message simple email whatever the case might be You know what god is doing So let's do what god has called us to do force glory I'm done. Are you done? Are we done? We're good All right, so Hopefully you all have heard our heart and we definitely appreciate you all for joining us on on this live Um, if you have any comments or questions leave them in the in the comments below Please share this video Uh, please like this video. Please also like the love life and marriage channel. Please subscribe to the uh to the channel We really appreciate that because this is how we get the word out Um as well got a super chat. Let me see where I got me go. Let me go Let's see what we got. Okay. David. Thank you brother. Thank you so much for the super chat And if anybody else I've missed thank you for the super chat. I'm I'm toggling back and forth Between both our our channels the love life and marriage when and also the bcv one, but brother. Thank you so much For that moderators also. Thank you as well. Bobby. Thank you Thank you for your prayer and your support as well to an encouragement. We definitely appreciate it, Bobby um But yeah, so uh tomorrow I have not put up the the promo for the uh for the live But it's going to be a low one tomorrow afternoon. I'm going to do a response or reaction video to jason whitlock and uh patrick bet david i'm going to do a response video to that in the Whole issue that has been going back and forth with these two gentlemen I I do believe there's a there's a perspective that's being missed In this whole issue um, and so i'm going to i'm going to address that low one tomorrow On the next live. So if you're able to tune in Tune into it. I'll put the promo link up if not tonight I'll put it up in the morning first thing because i'm always the first one to get up in the morning anyway Everybody else asleep. So yeah, yeah, everybody's asleep on your brother But uh, but listen again. Thank you all for your prayers. Thank you for the encouraging words Thank you for the super chats. Thank you for the support. Thank you for your love gifts Thank you those who have been supporting us through the cash after the sale I've seen you in on the phone as well too. Thank you all so so much For that we really really do appreciate that And we want to be putting out more content So keep us in your prayers on that because it's just us we just we're the ones that's basically doing this work We don't have no team yet yet But uh, but lord willing, you know, the lord sees the same and says the same we will we will do that but anyway, um But that is our time And uh, we do thank you so much for yours And until next time Bye See Yeah, y'all see how she treats me. I I didn't even say bye yet. I ain't no I didn't say bye yet No, I'm not gonna say bye yet because see I feel hurt. I feel triggered.