Episode 23: WHO IS YOUR SUPPLIER?

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SPEAKER_03 0:00

Hey y'all! Hey y'all! Welcome to Just Cause Podcast. I'm Jay. And this is Katina. And we're in the building. How y'all doing? What's up, people?

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How y'all feeling?

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It's a new week, y'all. It is. And we just zooming through 2026, like it ain't nobody's been this next week. We are in April. Girl, we in spring all the way. Like, what in the world? We in spring, but today I'm wearing a jacket. What is up, bro? No, I got on a whole lot of stuff design things. I'm saying I need the weather to decide what it wants to be. If it wants to be winter, if it wants to be spring, because it has me purple. Yes. Okay. Tina, you said I let the weather I let the weather design. I thought about that song, but anyway. No, that's right.

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So, y'all, okay, so we're doing this new thing where we let you know what the topic is first so that you can decide if you want to skip and come back or stay and stay while all right. So the topic today is who is your supplier?

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Who's your supplier? Isn't that deep, y'all? That is deep. That is deep. And now you already tell me where this is going. We don't know which way it's gonna go. We're just gonna start talking and see what happens, okay? All right, y'all. So let's get into it. You ready?

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Here we come. Oh, happy birthday. Happy birthday, happy, happy, happy birthday, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy birthday. Oh, happy birthday. Oh, this girl did a whole remix. That's a whole I like that one. I like that one too. I'm not gonna be able to do it again. Oh my god, ain't nobody gonna remember it. No, nobody's gonna remember it.

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Happy birthday to you. We are so happy that you saw another year.

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We are grateful, okay, that you got a little spring birthday.

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All right, so it's new beginnings all around the way, right? So we pray that you have an amazing time or that you had an amazing birthday and that God gives you many, many more. Yes. All right, Tina. Let's get into this move. How we shake it, how we moving. Oh, wow. Let me see. Okay, so my mood. I am I feel I feel um reassured. Ah, I feel reassured. We getting ready to talk about who is your supplier. I know who my supplier is. Come on now. It is him. Okay, period. It is don't give too much.

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Don't give too much.

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Oh, we gotta get into it. We gotta get into it. But look, so my my mood today is I feel reassured. I feel reassured even in the blind spots. I feel reassured even in the unknown. I feel reassured. And to feel reassured is to feel light and to feel free. Okay. God, I feel like, I feel like right now in my this space that I'm walking in, God can, he shall, and he will do any and everything. That's what I feel like. I feel good. Period. So I'm gonna piggyback on that because you know how we do a piggy piggyback. Um I feel motivated.

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Oh, good.

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And I think we compliment each other, right? We do. Like you feel reassured. I feel motivated. I feel motivated to do everything, move forward with everything that God has laid before us. And this is like the season of like, go get it.

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Like, it's yours.

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Just reach your hand out there and get it and take it. So I feel motivated. Amen. Amen. Amen and amen again. Okay. Motivated and reassured. Period. What else would you ask for? Okay. I'm just saying. Moving along. Moving right along. And why? And let me just say this too. It is so important that you check in with your people. It is so important that you do a temperature check. Just say how you how you doing? What like what's your what's your mood today? Or like how was your day today? Whatever the case is, just open up the conversation so that you can check in with one another and make sure that everybody is good.

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That's right.

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Because again, we are accountable for one another. Right? And so we just want to make sure that everybody is good. And everybody is in the space and they are moving forward and trusting that all things will get better. Because we are not, we're not oblivious to where we are as an economy. Who could yeah, we're not. So we just want to check in, make sure, because this too shall pass. Pass. And listen, y'all know and understand that everything we do is authentic. There's no fake here. No. So just like we're telling you guys to check in, we check in with one another. We check in with one another when we're not doing the podcast. Every day. Every day we check in. And we even we have our own lives and our own families, but still, it's still good to check in with your people, even though you have your, you know, you have that part that's set aside and certain things that set aside that you discuss there. But there's other things that are set aside that me and her, me and Jay, that we discuss in our check-in, just to make sure that we're cool, that we're good. So know that everything we're telling you is authentic, it's real, it's true. Like we're not telling you to do something that we don't do. We pray, that's what we preach. We do, we do, we do. We definitely check in on one another, make sure everything is good. And it's not even like, it's not even as if there could be um something going wrong or something going bad or whatever. It's just it's I don't know. Sometimes it's just a feeling. Like it sure is. I'll be like, okay, wait a minute, I ain't heard from her. Right. Uh let's call it. She will. And I always send a little gizz the pull-up because I'm about to pull up on you in two seconds if I don't hear from you. If y'all would have seen the one yesterday. Oh my gosh. I was like, okay, well, I've just been working. That's it. And that's fine. That's fine. And I, you know, you got you got a little minute. You ain't, I don't give her 24 hours, y'all. I'm sorry. She gotta strong two minutes. Minutes. I will call them nephew, I will call it husband, I'm gonna call whoever. Like y'all get it up there, right? But that's the way that it should work with your people. That's the way it should work. If you those that you are close to, and sometimes it's not even the ones that you are close to. Sometimes you just gotta check in on the others, yeah, because you don't know what they're going through. So that's true, and it's important. And if and if you get that feeling, yeah, if somebody called come across your mind that you need to check on them or that you need to reach out to him, maybe we ain't got their phone number. We got social media, and that you need to reach out, please reach out because they could be gone tomorrow. I have had that to happen. The Holy Spirit has told me to check in on people, to have these con, you know, to reach out to them and have a conversation. And it might, the conversation might be, hey, how you doing? And it might be something like if it's someone that I knew from a long time ago I went to school with, you know, he brings something to my mind or to my thought about what happened in school. And so I reach out to them and say whatever it is to discuss whatever it was that, you know, the experience was. And then I turn around, and a few days later, they are gone, gone away from this earth. That's sad. It is. So it's important that you check in. I've had it to happen with friends and you never know. You never know. Maybe one you could have said something that would have changed the trajectory of their decisions or life or whatever. So it's just very important. We we have to to be intentional, yes, and that's what we've been talking about too, is just being very intentional. Yes. So, all right, y'all. Check on your people. Yes. Um, here I come. It's your favorite. This you go, it's my favorite, it's my nephew Pop's favorite, baby. It's even these crazy cousins of my favorite, okay? W D. What would y'all do? This is the opportunity where y'all get to participate. You get to step into the building, step into the conversation, okay, and say, look, I got some on my mind.

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You know, I'm dealing with some situation. I don't really know which way to go.

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Or I know which way to go, but I don't really want to go that way. And so I just need confirmation that I shouldn't. Okay. So, yes, you can send us a DM on all the social media platforms. You can send us an email if you old school. Like, you know, I send emails a lot. Just 80s at gmail.com and keep them coming, y'all. We love reading them, we love getting them. We it's very entertaining. It is. It's very entertaining. Yes. And so we just really appreciate your participation, okay? All right, y'all. This one right here is from Danielle. She says, hello, ladies, my name is Danielle. My son has been being bullied for about two years. We have talked to the principal and nothing has happened. We have attempted to talk to the parents of the cup of a couple of the boys, and there is no cooperation. We set dates to meet, and something always comes up. I don't want to move my child in his final year of middle school, but I don't know what else to do. My son has asked me to stop coming to the school because it makes things worse. I honestly don't know what to do. Please help. I can speak on that. I can speak on that from a personal side when my boys were in, um when my boys were in middle school. Okay. So my kids are close in age together. They're only something like 15 months apart, something like that, right? Oh yeah, we got it in quick, my husband. Anyway, so um, so when my oldest son was in middle school, he was having a hard time um socializing and making friends. And because he was having a hard time, whomever it would, you know, whomever that would take him in, like he would like gravitate to that. And I don't, and kids, they do things to please other kids. And so my son, he was the type, because he's like a he was a big, like he's always been a big teddy bear. And so he was the type that like he would take his things to school or whatever, and he would give things to these kids, or if he had extra money, he would give money to these kids. And I'm like, and it took me a minute to figure out what was going on because kids are very private about certain things, especially if they know that if the parent finds out that it's gonna change the trajectory of what's happening. Yeah. So what ended up happening was um, you know, when my son went to school for a while, you know, everything was good while it was good. And he would come home, he'd be happy, all that stuff, and he would act like a normal kid. But when the bullying began, I could tell a difference in his character, you know, in his care, his mannerism when he came home. He seemed very like he seemed very shut off and he didn't play as much and he slept more, and you know, almost like signs of somewhat like of depression, maybe, you know. And understand that even though these kids are young, they do, they do deal with issues of depression. They do. So you have to be careful and pay attention. Anxiety. They they deal with this stuff. All that stuff. Because think about it, you as an adult, if you have to deal with a bully on your job all day, every day, how are you? How would it make you feel? It's the same thing for these children. So he would come home and his his mannerism had changed. And um, what happened was they had a um uh a break. Like I think it was like a it was like a winter break. And his whole who he was, everything changed and he was happy again. He was the kid that I knew. And as soon as we he went back to school, as soon as school started back, he went back to that same kid that he was before. And I said, Hold up, wait a minute, something's not right. Something is not right, something is not right. Now, I'm I'm a very, I'm very in tune with my Lord, and I pray. I pray, I'm gonna pray about some stuff, and the Lord is gonna show me some stuff. He never fails me, he never lies to me, nothing never falls to the ground, he does not play. Period. But I started praying about some things, and when I prayed about those things, I asked that the Lord reveal to me what was going on. So when my son came home one day, he had like a sticker on his back. I said, Oh, they're doing this kind of stuff. So I tried to reach out to the teacher, same thing, no response. I reached out to the teacher about three times, no response. Now, see, you got a different um, you have you have a different um um thing that's happening here because you already reached out to the principal, but I will tell you to go over the principal's head. You go to whomever it is that's gonna listen and let them know what is happening because it's important and it's imperative. But the Lord started to reveal to me who it was, how many it was, what they looked like, and I could see the situation. So after the Lord revealed to me all these things, I had already, mind you, I had already reached out to the teacher and the teacher didn't respond. So I called someone that um that I knew that would hear me, that would listen to me, because when I would drop my kids off, the secretary, the secretary in the um in the mornings, we would chat, you know, we would speak when I dropped my kids off. So we were familiar with one another. So I called and I spoke with the secretary. If the principal is not listening to you, get in contact with somebody else, whether it be the secretary or another teacher, because that is you holding them accountable. Yeah. So I created an accountability. When I spoke to the um secretary and I told her what was going on, and I told her, I said, I've had a conversation with my kid, and my kid will not be bullied. And what I have done is I have told him, I have taken the proper measures to um warn, to warn, to attempt to warn the teacher and you know, of what's going on, but I didn't get any um, I didn't get any resolve there. So then I went to talk with the um uh with the secretary. And so now there was an accountability. Well, as soon as someone outside of that person that I tried to speak to knew, like I said, that accountability was um put in place and something was done immediately, immediately, and I discussed with them what I my whole conversation that I had had with my child because I had already told my child what you're not gonna do is allow someone to um to harm you or hurt you and you not defend yourself. Come on now, defend yourself. Come on now. There you go. We're not getting ready. I'm not getting ready to, I'm not the the type of parent that um teaches my child to provoke anything, but I will teach my child to defend themselves. So that is a conversation also that you will need to have with your child because for one thing, a lot of times bullies are bullies because they know that the kids are afraid, and sometimes you gotta speak and build up the confidence in your child. And once they say something back, a lot of times they will back off. And that's what, and you know, and I I that's one of the things that we learned. But creating the accountability with someone else outside of the one that would not listen, it got the job done. Next thing I knew within the next day, it was the next day, they sent out a letter and they sent out a voice message to every single parent on their phones, um, tell talking about bullying and how it was not gonna happen and it was gonna be it was not gonna be tolerated. Because some sometimes things are a work that you just have to press. And it's your kid, and you are your kid's advocate. So continue to be your kid's advocate. Um if the teacher and the um principal are not being accountable, talk to talk to another teacher, talk to the um the secretary, other people in other positions, and if that doesn't work, then you go to the board, the um, the board system or the school board system or whatever, whatever may have you, and begin to talk to them. Make sure that they know what's going on. That number one holds those people accountable and it also keeps your child out of trouble and keeps you out of harm's way as well because I told you what was happening. Do what Tina said. Oh my Lord, do what Tina said because you don't want to know what I would do. And I I am going to say that um I'm gonna speak to the fact that you reached out to them parents and them parents didn't respond to you. Yeah. And that is an indication of where their kids get it from. That's right. Okay, because if you don't want to address your child in their wrongdoing, and you don't want to hold them accountable, and you don't want to take responsibility for your child, because at the end of the day, they're minors, and so you have to take responsibility for your child and your child's actions. And so if it had continued, because like I said, do what Tina do, Danielle, do what Tina said, do. Do you hear me? Do what she said, do not do what Jay is talking, getting ready to say, okay? So um, so yes, so listen to me. If they did not, and see, I don't have no kids, so that's another disclaimer. Um, but if they were not listening and I didn't reach out to the parents and everything else, baby, I'm going to the school and I'm gonna show up and I'm gonna know who them boys are.

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Oh my gosh.

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And I'm gonna have a conversation with them kids. I'm not hold on, I ain't gonna put my hands on nobody, but for my baby to say, I don't want you to come back to the school because you make it, because you make it worse. What do you mean worse? That because who putting their hands on right and we don't know, we don't know if they putting their hands on them or calling you out your name or whatever. Because let me tell you something, I was bullied in school. Really? And all y'all know who y'all were that used to bother me. Yes, and now they tuning in to listen to you. Come on, listen, and everything talk about me. Look, let me tell you, kids are cruel. They will talk about the things that you cannot help, they will talk about your teeth, they will talk about what you look like, they will talk, girl. Let me tell you, I used to wear dresses every day because of my religion. They will talk about that. Girl, they will talk about that, they will talk about your status if they think you're poor. They'll talk about kids, kids are cruel. They will talk about the way you say certain things, the way you look like all of all of these things, right? Right now, and kids will do that, right? So the Lord knew that I didn't need to have offspring because if my offspring went to school and somebody would in this and this was a situation for my child, I would have been at first of all, my child would have been in there thinking, like, I cannot tell my mama. And I would have been paying attention, like Tina said, to their behavior. And I would have been like, oh, don't even worry about it. You wouldn't even know when I went to school. You wouldn't even know. I would have been somewhere lurking, trying to see what in the world was going on at this point in time so that I can address it, okay? Because at the end of the day, no, I'm not gonna put my hands on your child. No, I am not. I'm not gonna say I'm gonna threaten them now. Because I will say if you mess with mine one more time, right? We're gonna be in court because I'm taking your parents to court. Right. Okay. So I ain't threaten you, I threaten your parents. That's the accountability, right thing. Don't play with me. Okay, we will be in court and I will be telling the judge about your raggedy parents. I like you because your parents are not holding you accountable for the things that you're doing to my child. I like it. And then on top of that, I'm still gonna move my child because you won't give them a live in hell while they at school for the rest of their years. Like, don't play with me. You do not want I want to do that, I would do this stuff for my nephews. Oh, girl, you already know. I already know because you know, I'll show up. I show up. She is charged on this situation, and she even be trying to tell me stuff about mine. I'll be like, hold on, wait one minute. No, this is mine. What you what you mean? I know you do it for your nephews. Jessica's podcast. I don't care. She never talked to my nephews like that. I'm sick of her. Like they ain't my kids. So don't care. Don't care. I be like, uh-uh. Don't come to him like that.

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She'll try. You don't win, but she'll try.

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Even with the dogs. Who are you talking to? She'll try. She'll try. You know, so you know, it is what it is. But Danielle, do what Tina said. Okay. But I like what Jay said because you're still holding the accountability when you say, I'm gonna take you to court. Take them to court. Oh, yeah. Bring some authority in there. Because you don't want to mess with mine. When the parents start having to take um responsibility for the mess that they have made, it changes the tune of things. So I no, I like that. And you know what I tell my part. You know what I tell my child? If you hear the word snitch and they try to say that you did it, say it won't me, it was my mama. Right. Take it up with my mama. Because I don't care. I do not care. You're not getting ready to mess with mine. And here's the thing: here's the real deal, Holyfield. The real deal, Holyfield, is that if we brush this under the rug, then suicide happens. Exactly. Exactly. And these kids start. Now you you hear about these things with these kids bringing guns to school and these mass shootings and things like that because things swept under the rug. You have to pay attention to the signs when it comes to your children. Even the ones with the children that are bullying. Parents, pay attention to how your kids' behavior is. You know your kid better than anybody else. The way that they behave at home is nine times out of ten the way that they behave when they are out or they behave that much worse. The worst one or the other. So pay attention to the behavior of your kids. Guide them in the right way. And not and not always try to think that they're innocent in a situation. They're not all it is not that. You know what? That's the thing that gets me. Yeah. When parents act like their kids are never at fault. You know your kids. Yes. You know your child. Oh, my child wouldn't do that. Yeah, he wouldn't do it in front of you, but you don't know what he'll do after. Let me tell you something. I heard one of my nephews cuss over the weekend. It like to took me out.

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Because you ain't never heard that side.

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And I'm like, and I said, okay, Jay, it's very important how you handle this situation. Right. Okay. And so I said, boy, if I ever hear that come out your mouth again, you and me are gonna have a problem. I didn't tell their parents. I didn't say anything. I handle it. Right. Because I said, your vocabulary is bigger than that. That's right. I said, and you're smarter than that. I was like, I see the grades that you bring that you done brought home before. So I know that you're smarter than that. So choose some other words. Right. I was like, people that use um terminology and stuff like that are weak. I said they're weak. They don't know how no other words, they don't know adjectives, they don't know synonyms, they don't know anonyms, so they can express themselves. I said, but guess what? You do point sick of people. Point made. Anyway, point made. All I'm saying is, if you don't protect them, who will? Parents do right. Period. All right, y'all. We're gonna come on down the road, y'all. We done made it to the main line. Y'all ready? Jesus on the main line. Uh tell them what you want. So y'all heard this in the beginning. Who is your supplier? Tina take it. Um with a topic and say, Here, Tina, take it. Really? Okay, whatever. Whatever. So this is what I have to deal with. Oh my god. Okay, but I'm gonna okay. This is what I'm gonna open up with, and then I'm gonna say, Jay, take it away. So look, this is what I'm gonna open up with. So we're talking about who is your supplier? Yes, this can go so many ways. What do we say? We got all kinds of suppliers out there. Let's go, let's talk about it. We got uh we got all kinds of suppliers out there. That's some good supplies and that's some bad suppliers. I mean, even in business, we got suppliers. Come on now, and we call those suppliers vendors. We do, we call those vendors, but in this particular case, I think where we're going to run to and kind of quickly is who is your supplier? Who do you believe in? Who do you trust in? Where does your faith lie? Period. Where does your faith lie? Who is it that you believe in and trust in? And when I say believe and trust in, I mean absolutely fully trust in. I'm gonna take this back just a little bit to when I met Jay. Right before I met Jay, the Lord was dealing with me about a few things that he was doing and he was moving around in my life. And those things he was dealing with me about, I had been praying and asking him about things in business and things, um, things in um in my walk with him. I had been praying about some things, right? And God had gave me some answers, but the answers that he gave me were very vague. And you know what the answer he was that it was that he gave me? Right. I am putting you in a trust me season, in a trust God season. Trust me with your eyes closed, trust me that with your back turned, that I'm gonna do and provide everything it is that you need. Come on now. He said, I'm gonna put you in a trust me season, and you're gonna walk this season until I tell you otherwise. Because what I'm gonna do in this season is I'm going to build who I am in you. Oh, wow. And I said, Oh my gosh. I said, Lord, I don't know if I should have asked you for what for what I've been asking you. Okay. You got to be careful what you ask God for because he will give it to you, but you don't know what the measures are. You don't know what you don't know what that process is to get there. So when he told me this, I said, okay, Lord, I'm gonna trust you. Now, what I didn't realize is that the things that I was praying for and the things that I was asking for were because we can ask God for anything. He tells I I trust and I believe my father. Come on, my daddy, I'm gonna ask him for any and everything that I want. He told me there is nothing too great for him. Everything. Everything, everything, all of the things. We're going to ask him for any and everything I can imagine. And most of the things that we have, like as goals or um places that we would like to reach, you know, when it comes to our walk with the Lord, it requires, it requires an unexplainable faith. And so I took those things to the Lord and He said, Okay. He said, That's not a problem. He said, However, the way that I do it, it will have to be done in a way that man can't put their hands on it. Right. So God gave me, so God said, I'm gonna give you my divine favor. So when I tell y'all that right now, in this season of my life, my supplier, I am walking in his divine favor. I'm walking blind. Okay, so when Jesus sent out the disciples, he told them there was a season where he told them, I want you to go and I don't want you to take any money with you. I don't even want you to take a change of clothes. I want you to go. But in me sending you out this way, what I'm doing is I'm teaching you to trust me. I'm teaching you to understand that I will provide every need that you have and even the things that you want. I'm your supplier. Yes. Jesus told them, I am your supplier. Believe me and trust in everything it is that I've already showed you. So understand, to have that type of season and to walk in a faith like that meant that I had to depend on God to do miracles. And miracles are things that man cannot perform. They can't perform them, they can't do them. So, in order for something to take place or something to take to happen, it means it's out of reach of man and only God can touch it, which means it has to be divine. It has to be divine. So, in this season of me walking with the Lord, and I'm still in that season because God said, This is how I'm gonna build you, this is how I'm going to make you. I don't need you to depend on nobody else. I don't need you to depend on the voice of man, I don't need you to depend on the advice or the instruction of man. I need you to hear me and hear me clearly. And so, in that, in this time and in this season, I've learned to hear God's voice. Period. So I hear his voice and I hear his voice clearly. That's why nobody can steer me away from what it is that I'm supposed to do or what my instruction is. I don't care who it is, I don't care what the face is on that particular person. And it could be somebody that I love. I don't care. Yeah, I don't care because they do not supersede the instruction or what it is that God is telling me to do. Because in a faith season, when you're walking with God and you are completely and totally yielded to God in faith, he means for you to walk and to go out and do what he tells you to do without having in hand whatever it is that you need. And for you to walk in a season where you don't have the supplies in hand, but you trust God and that he will give you what you need, that's going in blind. And a lot of times, us as um, you know, us as men, we want to have we want to have the plan. We need to know what the plan is. We want to have the materials in hand, but sometimes God will put you in a path or tell you to take a walk where he's not gonna supply you with that. Listen, in my faith walk season, I had been praying. I'm telling you, be careful about what it is that you pray for if you're not willing to go through for it. Because in that season, I had prayed and asked God to do things, like I said, in business and in my walk. And I had prayed and I said, Lord, I need you to send people that I can work with, but I can't work with just anybody. I can't work with just everybody. Whoever it is that I work with, I need to be able to trust them with my eyes closed. I I need to be able to do a trust fall with these people. If I tell them to do something, I can turn away, walk, walk away, go somewhere, come back, and they will have done exactly what I told them to do. And God did exactly that. This is how I met Jay. God did a major thing just through the prayers and just through the obedience of walking and him being my supplier. Everything that Jay and I do, and like you guys are getting to see the product of what it is that we do because everything that we do, we're doing it by faith. We're walking by faith. We didn't know anyone to call to tell, you know, to talk about our news, uh, our podcast, to say, hey, look, put us in our in your newsletter. We didn't know anyone to call to talk and say, hey, look, put us on your TV show. We that's all God's doing. Everything that God is doing for us in this season, it is all God. He has been our true supplier. Not only does he supply for us through our businesses, but also in our lives and in our families. Every single day. Some days we wake up and we're looking at, well, how are we gonna do this? How are we gonna do that? And I know there's other people that are facing some of the same challenges. How are you gonna pay this bill? How are you gonna eat? How are you gonna get the care that you need? I promise you that God is the supplier. Yes, He is definitely the supplier, the provider, He is all of those things, and I echo everything, everything that Katina has said. I echo it all because I am living and I'm walking in it with her. We are right here together in it. And there was something that took place um right before we started this podcast. And it was a it was a faith, it was a faith leap for us to do this. It was a faith faith leap for for Azalea E. Great to come to fruition. It was a faith leap because sometimes you can think the most detrimental thing is happening in your life, right? You can look at something and say, Oh my god, what am I gonna do? How is this gonna happen? Because you were depending on something, but the Lord is jealous, right? So the Lord is a jealous guy, and He don't want you to depend on anything else around him. So if everything was to stop today, your flow of finances, your anything, if everything was to stop today, who are you gonna depend on? Who would your supplier be? Who would you go to? Right? And so the wonderful thing about this is a long time ago, when I was being bullied wearing them skirts and stuff, I got the foundation of who God was, right? I got the foundation of who Jesus is, and I know him to be everything that I need in my life. And so, no matter what situation I'm in, no matter what season I'm in, I am totally dependent on him. Amen. Totally, unapologetically dependent on God and looking for everything. And see, for some of this is a testimony, and I look, I don't even think I need to give it right now because there's so much more to come. But this is a testimony. Stay tuned, there's more to see. Talk about it, talk about it. Stay tuned, there's more to see. Because when you see us, know that God is our pilot. Come on. When you see us, know that He is leading and directing us. Like Tina said, He put us on Atlanta Live, he had them feature us in a podcast, um, podcast magazine, he had someone nominate us for a women's podcast award. Like these are the things that God is doing. And guess what? We are just showing up. Tina talked about just going without a purse, going without a wallet, because God has given you instruction and told you I've already been there. They're waiting on you. They're waiting on you to get there.

SPEAKER_01 35:57

He's ahead of you.

SPEAKER_03 35:59

Yes. And sometimes I know, especially with this economic crisis, and you know, you want you want to be in a place to where, you know, there's just more than enough and overflow and all of that. And then you find yourself in a place to where you're in need, or you need somebody to reach their hand back for you and pull you. And in this, in what Katina was talking about, she pulled me. She pulled me when we got ready to start the podcast. And when um with Azalea E Great, because let me tell you something. Jay Evans wasn't thinking about Azealia E great at that time. For me, but God was. And so for someone to pull you and say, come on, look, I see everything that you're doing, I see how you striving here, you going here, and you getting up and you're doing this and you're doing that and doing that. God will raise up the blessing for you, even when you don't see it, even when you don't even know which direction to take to get to it. And when and when you thought that it was gonna come one way and you reached out that way, and you got the door slammed in your face, it's for a reason. It's for a reason. You can't be mad at the people, you can't be mad because guess what? They want your blessings. That's right. They didn't, they they went a blessing. And they weren't raised up for you for you. They weren't a part of it, they weren't a part of your next season, and you they're not a part of your blessings.

SPEAKER_01 37:28

That's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 37:29

That's what ends up happening. Because here's the thing: if you have and you don't, you put yourself in a whole different category, in a whole different space with God. Anyway, if you have and you don't, and if your brethren or someone asks of you and you don't and you can, then you already set yourself up. So you can't go back and look at that person in their blessed place and be like, oh, I should have, I could have sold here. Wow, I could have done this, but I chose not to. Wow. So then guess what? God sets you up to where you are a spectator and you just get to watch.

SPEAKER_01 38:10

That's deep.

SPEAKER_03 38:11

You don't get to participate.

SPEAKER_01 38:12

That's deep. That's deep.

SPEAKER_03 38:13

You don't get to eat at the table.

SPEAKER_01 38:15

That's deep.

SPEAKER_03 38:16

You just get to watch.

SPEAKER_01 38:18

That's deep.

SPEAKER_03 38:18

You just get to watch the show on TV. Well, you could have had a front row seat at the taping, at the airing. Oh my God. See, that's heavy. That's heavy. That's deep. God is the true supplier. He is the true supplier that it does not come from man. And sometimes man thinks that they have the power to play God. And they think that they are the ones that are the supplier because of what they have in hand. But God does not need, he does not need, but he chooses to use whomever it is he decides to use. But just like we talked about before, if you won't do it, God will raise up somebody else to do what he called you to do or what he told you to do. But God is the true supplier. He got a whole alphabet. He has a whole alphabet. If he, if Jesus told the disciples to go out and to preach the word and to bring the people in and not to take anything with them, don't you think that he knew that they were gonna be in need of somewhere to lay their head? They were gonna be in need of um to eat, they were gonna be in need of money to pay for different things. He already knew that. And so he was their supplier. All he was doing was building up their faith with them, sending them out, with them not having in hand what it is that they thought in mind that they would need. In yeah, in the in in the flesh, what they thought or what they figured that they would need. But sometimes, but it ain't sometimes. The flesh does not run parallel, the flesh does not run parallel with the spirit. It don't. The spirit operates in a whole different way. And we have to operate according to what the spirit says. Understand that if you are out, Jesus told them, go out and go preach. And they ran into all types of scenarios in which they would be in need. They had to feed people, they had to feed themselves. There was a time when um when Peter and the disciples and Jesus, they had came into Capernam. And when they came into Kapernaam, it was a tax collector that was there waiting ready for them and said, Hey, does your Jesus pay taxes? And Peter said, Yes. More than likely, yes, he absolutely does. He pays taxes. So he turned and he left and he went to go tell Jesus, like, yo, what's up? Because remember, Jesus had done them out and then told them, Don't take nothing with you, don't take no purse with you, don't take no change of clothes with you, don't take your staff with you, you don't need an extra staff. All you need to do is go as you because everything else will provide for itself. Right. Because your work and your labor is worth its pay. So now in this situation, I'm like, I'm just giving you that as a reminder. So now in this situation, now the um tax collector has come to Peter talking about, yo, um, where your taxes at? Where your where your taxes at? Where Jesus' taxes at? Because understand, he was going to be tested in everything. They were going to see if Jesus was going to behave like man, or if he was going to behave supernatural, which is something that they already didn't understand. They wanted to see what his behavior was. And you know what Jesus, his some his um response was? His response to Peter was as soon as Peter walked up, because this is another thing, and it goes back to how God will how God will um reveal things to you because he knows all things, he already knew what was on Peter's mind when Peter came back to come and tell him, yo, the tax collector asked me about, you know, about this fee, about this money. So as soon as he walks in, Jesus says to Peter, Hmm, who it who is it that you think that the king would require to pay taxes? His children or others? So Peter responded, it would be others. And the Lord said, Absolutely. He already knew what was on Peter's mind. So I'm telling you, God is the supplier, he is your supplier, he already knows what it is that you're in need of. So you know what? Jesus had a response for him because Jesus had to break that thing down to Peter because Peter was probably thinking in his mind, why are they asking for um this man to pay taxes? They know who he is. Why would you require that of Jesus? But Jesus was like, no, don't worry about it. I'm gonna take care of it, I'm gonna handle it, and I'm gonna show you how, and I'm gonna do it in a supernatural way so that you see, but not only that you see, but all the rest of the disciples see that this is how I function and this is how faith works. So, you know what he told Peter to do? He said, Peter, I want you to go to the lake, and the first fish that you pull out, it'll be money in the mouth of the fish. Period. And you're gonna take that money and you're gonna pay go and pay your taxes, and you're gonna go pay my taxes. God is your supplier. There is nothing you can be in need of and he not show up for you. Period. That's all I got to say. Period. So I only got one thing to add to that. Your faith ignites your supplier, your provider. Because your faith, you already know that it's done because you're walking in faith, you're walking by faith, and then God does the rest. Nothing else to be said, nothing else to be done. Done. So who is your supplier? What God said, who the man say that I am?

SPEAKER_01 44:06

Oh come on now.

SPEAKER_03 44:08

Who is your supplier?

SPEAKER_01 44:11

Come on now. Choose Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 44:13

So there they go. Alright, y'all. So know who your supplier, know who your provider is, honey. And get in them comments and talk about it. Tell us, tell us who your provider is. Tell us who your supplier is. Yeah. And tell us about your experience because we sure want to know. Okay. Talk to us. Alright, y'all. Well, we at the end and we're gonna do a little quick rant real quick. And baby, mine gonna be so look, mine's gonna be so quick that it's gonna that it's gonna blow your mind. Why is it when somebody wants something from you that they don't just say, can I have or may I have such and such? Why is it that they be like, I like cheeseburgers? Stop. Or I like candy. Just ask me for what you want. Right. Um is that yours? Oh, that's mine. No, I'm just holding it. Yeah. Like, ask for what you want. Be bold in it. Because if it's something that you want, first of all, I'm gonna know because you staring at me, you looking at me all kinds of way. And if you want me to share it, just ask me. Now I might say no. Right. Because if I'm in a position in that moment, in that place that I don't want to share, I ain't gonna share. I'm gonna tell you that, but I ain't gonna lie. So, you know, I'm just saying. But um, yeah, that's a pet peeve for me. Ask for what you want, because baby, if this thing you got and I want it, I ain't gonna tell you I like it. Can I have that that pin shoulder right good? Let me get it. Just say it. Can I add a piantina? Because it's pink and I like it. Right, just say what you want, girl. Yeah, you can have it. Yeah, that's my rant. Okay, here we go. So here's my rant. How is it just because you see what you see with your eyes, because you looking at you looking trying to look into my life or whatever. Mm-hmm. Talk about it. Don't be assuming that I just got it to give. Oh, don't assume, like, because when you do stuff like that, like for me, don't count your pockets, don't be counting my money. That is my exact rent right there. Is don't be counting my money. I spend my money the way I want to spend it, I save it the way I want to save it, don't be counting my pockets. Like it's because you have some people that they they they like will watch you and study you and study what you do and try to determine your value or try to determine what you can't afford to give or can't afford to give you. Yeah, how would you how would you need help and you was just da da da and you don't know? You don't know who blessed me. You know, you don't know who blessed me, you don't know who who enabled me to whatever. Right. Like you can't do what my father did. Get away. We just talked about it because the Lord is our supplier. Just because you see what you see don't mean it it has to necessarily be the whole substance of what it is that you see because faith works in a whole nother kind of way. It's what you don't see. A whole nother way. Faith works like what you don't see. And sometimes there's a lot of don't see in how people get to where they need to. Come on now. So don't be counting my pockets and thinking, you know, you can use look.

SPEAKER_02 47:39

Um let me, let me get, let me get, let me get, or you got it, you can, you know, you can do it.

SPEAKER_03 47:46

You got don't uh uh don't do it, uh-uh, don't do it, don't do it. That's my ramp for the day, period. So don't count Tina's pockets, and and if you want something, you just need to come out and ask something. That's right. Get away. All right, y'all. Well, we came down to the end. We thank you so much for spending time with us. We look forward to spending this time again next week, okay? And until then, what we gonna do, Tina? We're going to live a life and love. We out, y'all.

SPEAKER_01 48:20

Peace.