Episode 32: FIRST THINGS FIRST

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Hey y'all! Jessica family. This is Jay. And this is Katina. How y'all doing? How y'all living? How y'all feeling? We're in the building. What's up, people? We hope y'all had an amazing week. We hope it was edifying and it was blessed for you. And honey, we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna get into it. We don't have no time to waste. The year going by fast. Ain't it? So why why we need to waste time? We need to get in here and get it done, okay? Say that, say that. So, main topic for the day, put it in your ear. You're gonna wanna stay around. First things first. Yeah, that's a good one. That's something to ponder on. You don't even know where that's going. We yeah. But when you get it, we just don't get it. We're gonna get it. And we're gonna get it. We're gonna get it when we get there. That's right. All right, y'all. You know it. Here I come. Ain't playing with it. If you had a birthday, if you had a birthday, if you had a birthday, happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Happy, happy, happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. And we gotta say a special birthday to a friend of Jessica's Bible that has been on here and spent time with y'all. Yeah. Happy birthday to Nisha Michelle Bagley. Happy, happy birthday. We look, we gonna we ain't even gonna say that we prayed because we know your birthday was coming up. Absolutely. We know it was edifying. We know you had a bomb. Absolutely. And we know you was in them hills, girl. Um yeah, um, mm-hmm. Sound like you had a wonderful time. I'm so glad you had a great time. So glad you had a great time, Commission. Ooh, y'all sis. Yes, you did your night. You did your night, girl. Sparkle it out and everything. You did it, baby. All right, so guys, you know we gotta get into this mood. And I'm gonna take a moment because it is so important, especially in this time, in this day, in this age, this season. We have to check in with one another. Yes, we have to check on one another. We have to. People are leaving here daily, and they are not old. They are young. We lost a producer not too long ago, and he was 29. Wow. Like, that is young. We have family celebrities, we have family members that are just leaving here so fast. Facts. Check on your people. Yes, check on your people. Make sure they're good. It's a quick call, it's a quick text, it's a quick show-up, it's a quick pop-up. And I'm one that don't like pop-ups, but baby, if you ain't heard from me and you don't think I'm good, if you don't come to my house, team up, I uh it's gonna be a problem. Oh, you girl, you know you ain't that ain't even a question. That ain't even a question. Check on me, okay? Let me not show them. Let me not hear from you. And you one of the people that I love. I love them. But there's some people that you might not even care too much for. It's still, if the Lord put them on your heart, you better check on them. Yeah. All right, Tina. So my mood today, um, I am grateful. Amen. I am very grateful for all the things that God has done, all He's doing and all He's gonna do. I have a grateful heart. I am grateful for air to breathe. I am just grateful to be able to stand up and to walk with a new walk, with a new talk, just walking into newness and thanking God for being able to do so. Amen. That's good. That's good, Jay. I mean, I I'll piggyback off of that because why not? Why not? I I'm gonna say the same thing. I'm grateful as well because when you started naming off things and listing things, sometimes we go from day to day and not pay attention to how much God does for us. You know, we even when you're in the middle of your struggle and and your hard times and your trials, but then when you look back and you get beyond that stuff and you're like, oh my gosh, the Lord bought me through that. And oh my gosh, the Lord bought me through this. So I will say the same thing. Girl, I'm grateful. I'm grateful. God has been a provider, He's been a way maker, He's been a healer for me. There's nothing that He has not been for me that I've not needed. So I will definitely piggyback off of that and say, I am grateful to God be all the glory. Just to be able to say thank you. Thank you. All right, y'all. Well, like I said, remember to check in with your people. Please do. It's your favorite, it's my favorite. It's your friend's favorite, it's your family's favorite, it's your pet's favorite. Because I hope you didn't turn it on for your for your pets. Let them hear me. Because my nephew pups love it. Okay. They know just because podcasts. They know just because podcasts, they get edified, they be excited. Really? Let me tell y'all really what it is. They hear their mama's voice. They listen. They know Jay's voice too. And it's common for them, and so they relax. You know, her dogs like to get out and escape and stuff. So when they hear her voice, they know better. They can't leave. Girl. Yes, they do. They are funny, they are tripped. But anyway, WWYD, this is what would y'all do? This is the opportunity for you, our listeners, our supporters, our fans. Girl got fans. Ain't that cute? That is so God. That is God. It's so God. Because I look at things and I be like, who in the world am I that somebody wanna even be my friend? And be like, oh, it's just because really? Really? Wow. Be the glory. Well, we thank you for it. We do, we do. Um, so yes, this is your opportunity where you get to have control over this segment. And you get to ask your question, you get to tell your scenario, we get to chat about what might be going on, what might be happening in your life. And then we work through it together. It's a little problem solving, you know, a little conflict resolution. It's a little something. Right. So you can DM us on all the socials, or you can send us an e an email at just80s at gmail.com and we are happy, willing, and ready to chat about it. You know we like to talk, y'all. Right. Chatter, chatter. Chatter, chatter. We want to talk about something that's worth talking about. Okay, period. Mm-hmm. Have to make sure we throw that in because you know how fucked it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, something worth talking about. Like y'all said, y'all like to talk. Yeah, we like to talk about stuff that that means something. Yeah. That's got substance. It makes some sense. So this um this one today is from Julian. Okay, Julian. Okay, Julian says, Hey, just cuz, ladies, I need your help. My boyfriend of a year wants us to move in together and save money. He knows how much I make, but he will not disclose what he makes. I told him I need to know so that I know what to look for for us price-wise. I asked him point blank, what do you make? And he said that is not real that is not relevant. Should I move forward or just stay where I am? Tana. I'm about to pop. I'm about to pop. Well, Jay. Go ahead. Julian, don't you leave your house. Do not leave your house. After a year, people show you who they really are. Do not leave your house. If you're gonna move, move by yourself. Because this is somebody that is not being a team player. They're not being cooperative already. And if you want to have secrets, you can't have those types of secrets, and you want us to live together. Right, right. You want us to come together. That's why it's so important that if you're married, then that's something different. And you made that commitment and you don't have to worry about it because your commitment is there and all things are on the table. That's why, in my opinion, and I say just because in my opinion, that is better if you're married, because you don't have to worry about all the extra stuff. And then at the other part of it, too, a person has the opportunity to just leave you without any cause or anything if you're not married. They just give up pate stuff, bye. I don't want to be here no more. Like, that's just not stability to me. And that's that's like those um unknowns that I don't rock with. I don't like gray. The color gray is ugly to me. I don't like gray areas, I don't like spaces, double spaces between things where I gotta read between lines. I don't like none of that stuff. That's just my opinion. Well, listen, girl, listen, listen, listen. My okay, you heard everything that Jay just said. But girl, listen. My thing is, like Jay said, people start showing you who they are and what their true colors are early off in the relationship. And when you don't pay attention to those things, it's not as if they're going to become better. They're just going to magnify themselves over the over the time or the age of the relationship. So pay attention to the signs. If money is an issue now, the disclosure of money is an issue now, it will definitely be an issue later. And sometimes people have power trips when it comes to money because they're more of a lover of the money than they are other things. And that is a dangerous place to um situate yourself in. So, girl, I'm gonna tell you, um, pay attention. Pay attention, pay attention. Is this something that you really uh want to travel down? Is this a road that you really truly want to travel down? I'm saying it's a secret now, Julian. It's a secret now. So if it's a secret now, what do you think it will be later on? And and I and Jay said something too about um uh you didn't you say something about um when there's no commitment, like they can just get up and run. Yeah, they can just leave. Yeah. So they got money sitting there on the side, don't want you to know it, and then somebody else comes along and they decide that they're tired of the relationship, and you didn't even know they were tired of the relationship. And now they gone. Now they're gone and they out. And see, that's another reason why you know that's I was real slow to speak because I I you said boyfriend, you're not even married. So that's another reason that I was really slow to speak because number one, Bible says that we shouldn't even be, we shouldn't even be doing that, you know. So, and I like I'm just gonna always keep it Bible and keep it real with you. I'm not saying that these things don't happen and people don't do them, and I'm not saying that um that you know calling anybody to to be perfect, but there's a reason why the Bible speaks of these things is to avoid some of those um particular problems that would arise. So just putting it to you, you know, in those terms, um, just pay attention, like pay attention. Pay attention. Like you're looking, he's showing you the signs already, and nine times out of ten, if this is an issue, it like I said, it sounds like power or um control is a thing. And if power or control is a thing, you might find later on, and then you said it's only been a year. I know it's still fresh, it's real fresh. You might find out in a year from now that those controlling issues, like I said, as they magnify, it might be something that you can't handle. So pay attention. And the other thing too, Tina, what if, because she said she told him what she makes. Yeah. What if he was like, Oh, we make me you make enough for me for both of us. Right. I'm good. Right. I'ma keep my money. Right. And you see how we both thought that you didn't say it, but I knew what you were gonna say. Yes. That's that's exactly what came to my mind is that, oh, he knows what you what you make, but you don't know what he makes. Yeah, he he's making plans for his money. And that means that he can give you as little as possible. Yeah, he's making plans. He's like, oh, she got it. And don't think that this stuff doesn't really truly happen. Because this stuff really happens. I've heard people tell you tell stories or talk about things like this. It really truly happens. Don't put yourself in that position. Don't, child, because it is not okay. Because we got even if you just had a roommate, you gotta be transparent. That's right. Y'all got bills, y'all sharing bills and stuff together. That's right. That's exactly what you're doing. So you gotta be able to say, well, this is what I can do, this is how I can bring it to the table, I can pay half, I can do this, or whatever. That's right. Like, girl, give them half the way. Some people will use you like that. They think that your money is their money, and they start counting your money and making plans with your money. And starting. Right. How you have money to go out to eat. People enjoy it. People will do that. They be counting your money. I saw you at such and such restaurant. On your social media. All on your social media watching what you're doing, counting your money. Oh, and then the next time that you talk to them and you see them, they got all this extra to talk about concerning what you're doing. Yeah, people will count your money. Mind your business. You don't know how your business is a blessing to get there. Mind your business. And if you stay out of my business, just just mind your business. If you stay out of my business, then you probably could have got a blessing. You could have been there with me. Say so. Anyway, that was point well told. All right, then Julian. Well, honey, we hope we said something that's edifying and that's gonna help you, and that is gonna um be something to help you to come to the right decision that is best for you, and that's gonna be edifying for you. Yes, yes. But girl, tapping you on your shoulder. Don't you move with that man? All right. Main topic: meat potatoes, little steak, a little broccoli, a little mashed potatoes. First things first, guys. So, first things first. I know that can go either way, whichever way, but the first thing that I think about, and me and Tina talked um talked about this as well. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6, 33. Homegirl gave y'all a scripture today, so y'all better know that this thing has got to be in her spirit, and it's about to be fire. Come on now, because you know, Tina the walking Bible. Don't stop. Yes, she is not. Let me tell you something. That is the utmost compliment that I could give you because you know the word. Thank you. Thank you. You know the word. And you'll say, wait a minute. I'm gonna look it up. And I use pages. Or she and that phone, honey. That phone, we can let her know what's up. I'm gonna look it up. Because people, you know what I realize with you have to come with the word with people because if you come with the word, that's what closes their mouth. Because they're not going to argue with what is written in the in the word of God if they serve God. They're not. And if they do argue with it, then they're just arguing with their father. That's all. That's it. And we know that that ain't even got nothing to do with us. We step on out of the way. Wrong daddy. Wrong daddy. You arguing with the father. So, yes, so that when when I think about first things first, for me, that's first things first. Cause um, maybe I want to say, like, in this last probably two years, I've had to go back to the first things. I've had to go back to what did God say first? Um, what did he say concerning my life? What did he tell me? What have I heard? Uh and not just what you just retained and you never went and studied and got the word yourself, not what you heard over the pulpit through the years, but you never vetted it, or you never went and confirmed it, or you never studied it. I'm talking about when you know because you done went and you didn't study, you didn't read it, you are starting to apply. So I'm talking about the application season. I'm talking about the applying season. That's good. And so when you had, and when you're in your applying season, you have to go back and say, okay, God, but what did you say first? Because some of us are looking for the Lord to say the next thing, but we have not completed the first thing. And so if we have, oh, I feel the anointing, y'all. If we have not completed the first thing, then how will how is it that we can release God to give us the next thing? That's right. Because we still hadn't done the first thing. Some people they sit around and they wonder why they're not further than where they than where they are. They they figure that they should be beyond where they are. And the reason that they're not beyond where they are is because they've not done the first thing that God instructed. And that first thing being whatever it is that he spoke, whatever it is, the instruction that he gave. God said, seek ye first the kingdom of God, and then all these other things will be added. Seek ye first. And sometimes And His righteousness. And his righteousness. Yeah. Because if we are not, if we are not following, if we're not following the instruction in which he has given us, then you cannot get, it's like walking down steps. You can't skip over steps. Come on, Tim. If I step on the first, if I miss the first step and I go to the second step, but I keep trying to jump over steps, guess what happens? Eventually, my feet might mess around and get caught up. And where do I end up back on the ground where I started? Why? Because now I need to start over and go back to the first step. Getting back to the basics, getting back to ground zero, level zero. What did God tell you first? And this is blessing me, y'all. What did God tell you to do first? Because if you can fully accomplish what the Lord told you to do first, then you can start to like see your trajectory. You can start to make progress. You can start to like move on this journey. It is not okay to be stagnant. It is not okay to still be in the same place that you were in 10 and 20 years ago. Something is wrong, something is wrong, and you have to, we're individuals. We have to individually get to the root of why it hasn't changed. That's right. I'm gonna tell you something, be very transparent. I started saying, God, what is it? Why come I can't get over this hump? Why come I can't move past this to go? Because you see, you see the blessings, they're right there at your fingertips. You reaching out to try to grab them. And it's like, what am I missing? Help the people. Seek first God's kingdom and his righteousness. So we gotta clean some things up. That's right. We gotta sweep. That's right. The song tell us sweep around your own front door before you try to sweep around mine. Come on. So now it's time to clean up. So we're in a cleanup. And it's okay to be in a cleanup season. It is a beautiful thing to be in a cleanup season. Because that means that you're getting rid of stuff. That's you are getting rid of clutter. You don't want no clutter, you don't want to be a hoarder. We talked about it before. I'm not gonna be no spiritual hoarder. Come on. I'm not about to take all this mess with me right on to the next. We're not doing that. That's right. That's not what we're doing. And the thing about it is we have to cut it off and stop it now. That's right. Jay, it's so many people, like you said, that are stagnant and they they have been in, quote unquote, been in Christ forever, for years in their life, and they don't see the movement. They don't see the progression, they don't see the growth, they don't see themselves going from level to level, and they actually look at other people and they compare themselves, which you shouldn't, but they look at other people and they compare themselves and they're like, wow, you grew quick. I do you know how many people I've heard tell me that? And I'm like, I don't understand what you mean when you say that, because a relationship with Christ is personal, and if your relationship is is tight, like my relationship is tight, then you should see the growth in your own self. I see the growth in myself and what God is doing because I can recall the old me, and I can recall I can recall the feelings that I had, I can recall, you know, the things that I've done, I can recall the thoughts in my mind, I can recall all that stuff because sometimes that stuff is still there, and I have to say, get Satan, get thee behind me. I can recall that stuff, but it's because of my relationship with him that I can continue to keep moving forward and not stay stagnant. Relationship is so important. It's I I can't, it's so many people that I've heard say that. Before they're like, wow, I'm watching you, like I've watched you and you've grown. And I'm like, but that's a but even in that, Tina, that is a blessing. That is your testimony speaking for you. Amen. Because the Lord said, I will reward reward you openly. Amen. Okay. So when you show up and you stand up and and you are just living your life and people recognize God on your life, see the change in your life, see the blessings all over you, that's God rewarding you openly. You don't even have to say anything. You ain't got to tell nobody you just got a new car. When you pull up, you'll see what God done. That's right. You ain't got to tell nobody you got a new house. That's good, Jay. If I invite you for the house woman, you will see. Right. If I invite you. Because we were talking about access, everybody ain't getting access. Everybody can't get access. Everybody ain't getting access. And if the Lord wants you to know, then for some way and somehow, then you will know. That's right. But until then and in between time, I'm just living. How beautiful is it to just live in Christ. To just live and let Him grow you. Let Him do the things in you and the changing and the molding in you. Y'all, I am being molded and changed every day. And I am shaving away. You know how like the Potter, like um when he's trying to take shade to shave those excess that's not supposed to be there. Like shave that off of you. I feel it every day. And I'm like, God, I just need you to continue to do that for me so that I can be aware. Because I'm not getting it right every day. And that's my that's my thing that I I think we do within ourselves. It's like, Lord Jesus, I just keep just it's the same thing. I know what's gonna happen. I know what this happened, this is gonna happen, and it just takes me. And it but the thing about it is that's a blessing in that because now you're sick of it. Right. That's right. But you know what? The only way you can see it, the only way you can see it is if you're in Christ and if you have that communication with him. Because the people that you love or the people that love you, they talk to you, right? It's like, it's like if I'm looking at you and you have something on your face, you're gonna like I'm gonna tell you because I love you, hey, you got something on your face. Well, that's what Christ does. Yes, but then here's the other beautiful thing, too. This happened to me yesterday. My sister said, watch your mouth. Okay, and you see that and see that means that you see that there's a change. Right. And you see that that shouldn't be there. That's right. You see what I'm saying? That's right. Like you see that it should be different, right? It shouldn't be the same thing. Should not be the same. You should not be in the same place that you were in years ago. Your walk with Christ is daily. And if you are walking with him daily, God is gonna take you on a journey. And if you are on a journey, that means that there is continual motion or movement. When we are walking from place to place and taking steps, we are moving. We're not in the same place. We are moving from one place, one destination to another to another. And if we're talking to Christ like that, that's what he's going to do. And he will put you in position for those other things. Like Jay said, there's God, he be trying to bless us, y'all. He be trying to bless us, y'all. And we can't even get to the first blessing, and he's already in our future and worked out another blessing because everything for the Lord it works in sequence. He has everything worked out for us, but we can't get from one place to the other until we make the steps that's required to take in order to get there. But he'll even come back. He already in our future, but he'll come back. Only God can be in our future, past, and present. He is the only one that can be in our future, past, and present. But he will come back to us because sometimes we get alone on the wayside because we're so stagnant and we be on the wayside, like you said. You're sitting there and you're trying to figure out, Lord, why can't I get over this stumbling block? Why can't I get beyond this place? And it's because that's the word stumbling block. That's it. And it's because there's something that God has told you to do that you have not yet done. First thing is. You can't move to the next step, you can't move to the next place, and you can't see the fruit of that labor until it's actually planted. You gotta plant a seed in order for it to reap a harvest. Yeah, you can't have a harvest without a seed. And the seed has to be, the seed has to be nurtured. You gotta go and check on that thing and you gotta tend to it. You gotta make sure it's water, you gotta make sure it's got proper sunlight, you gotta make sure that the conditions are right. Because when the um when the frost comes, what do we do when the frost comes and we have uh we have plants and we have bushes and things like that? You gotta go and cover it. You gotta go cover that thing up and bring it in the house. That's it. So there's there's different things that we have to do in order to nurture and to groom the seed that God has planted. That's where our work comes in. That is where faith without works is dead. Okay, so many people they say, faith without works is dead. And then they ask the same question, well, why and I beyond this? You've not done the work. You ain't working in it. You've not done the work. I used to work with um, I used to work with this um this person, right? And every day, every day when I went in, God would always show up. The Holy Spirit would always show up and get the ministering. Every day. And some days I would be like, Lord, I just want to hide. I just want to hide in this little cubicle over here, just cover me up so nobody come over here, nobody see me. But every day the Holy Spirit would show up because the assignment was ministry. And every day the Lord would speak a word. But as the Lord would speak the word, that particular person would say, you know, like I I I see it's just like the same thing. Like, oh my God, I tell you what happened. Okay, I'm okay, this is what happened. I come into the job every day, the Lord showed up, speak the word every day. But then God started moving me and He started doing different things because your assignment is not always in the same place. There has to be some type of progression, right? So once you complete an assignment, God will move you and put you to the next assignment. These steps that we're talking about. So I would come in every day and I was starting to get weary. I was starting to get weary because it was time for me to move on. But this particular person would come to my desk and they would be talking and all this stuff, and I I let it be known. I was like, God has blessed me, and I'm gonna get ready to put in my notice, and I, you know, I'm gonna be doing this and I'm gonna be doing that. And their response was, oh my gosh, like you already, like you already leaving, like you hadn't even been here long. I'm on a mission. I'm on a mission. I am here to perform the assignment that God gave me and to complete it. And when he tells me that that assignment is complete, I ain't sitting around, I ain't wavering, I'm going on to the next thing. Yeah. It's because when you stay in certain places, things become rotten. They do. They become rotten. And you find yourself in situations that you ought not be in because you stayed when you shouldn't have stayed. Keep it moving. Follow the instructions. Girl, I've done been there before. You can stay somewhere too long, and when you stay somewhere too long, the Lord will remove you. You don't want God to remove you. You don't. If the Lord told you to leave, you need to pack up your stuff and leave. That's right. Because if you continue to stay there, you cut you're out of place. That's right. You're somewhere where you're not supposed to be. So the enemy has jurisdiction. That's right. He does. Because you are somewhere that you're not supposed to be. So whatever happens from that point that you stay to the point that God removes you, and it's sad that God gotta literally pick you up and move you. Right. But that God removes you ain't no telling what you're gonna encounter and what you're gonna deal with. That's right. In that process, because your butt is not supposed to be there. You're supposed to be gone. You've been gone. You're supposed to be gone. And then think about the blessing that is still waiting on you. You delayed your blessing because you didn't go. That's good, Jay. It's waiting on you. That's good. And guess what? It belongs to you. It belongs to you. And if you never show up, then God will raise somebody else up and get to somebody else. Okay, Esther. Okay, Esther. The blessing belongs to you, but you're not in place. You're not in place, so you do not receive the blessing. Esther wasn't trying to miss her blessing. Esther was like, okay, because Mordecai told her real quick. He was like, if you don't do what God has called you to do, he'll surely raise up somebody else. And you and your household and family will lose their lives. We that's a see, that's another thing, that's another thing that is tied to or attached to the instruction. Sometimes we find ourselves in positions and in places of um of let me see, um, consequence. Because we don't move, we don't do what God tells us to do. If God says, I'm about to raise my hand, like I'm about to lift my hand, I have you covered and I have a hedge around you, but I'm gonna lift this hedge up because at this point in time you should have moved. I've already told you to move from this. I gave you direction, I tell you where to go. And he raises his hand up and he lifts his hand up from you, and the favor of God is gone, and the anointing of God is no longer on you like Saul. Saul lost the anointing because now you went outside of the instruction or you didn't seek God first, and now you find yourself in a position, in a place that maybe you have to on your own. You on your own. You on your own. In a rotten, stinking, dirty place. Yeah, I said stinking. Stinking. I said stinking. It does stink, it don't smell good. It don't smell good. You find yourself in positions and places that you made yourself accountable for. That it became your home because you made it your home. And then here's the here's the catalyst today. You did it, but you're angry at everybody else. Right. You did this, you made the decisions. You did, and I'm talking about me. There was times that I should have left. Girl, you're talking about a whole bunch of people. I should have left. And I stayed. And then I wanted to blame everybody else, but I stayed. And I knew I was supposed to leave. Why do we think we know better than God? God gave us an instruction to tell us to do something. He tells us to leave or he tells us to go because the season is up, but we don't listen. Yo, I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna be so transparent. So, look, I was going to this church and I absolutely love this woman. God blessed me, and he gave me this woman. He gave me this um this woman of God that I served under for years, and I absolutely love her. I love her to this day. But God had already begun to speak to my heart, and I had been at that church for a long time, but I loved her, and I didn't want to move or leave because I loved her. But let me tell you, it made it so easy to be under her because she could pray for me and I didn't have to pray. So, guess what? I'm not growing if I'm not praying. She could speak the word to me, and I didn't have to study. So, all it did is it made me um, what is it when we enable or it crippled you. It did, it crippled me. It made you handicapped. And God was trying to get me to another place and to another flow and to another level with him, but I was missing it because I was being disobedient. You know what the Lord did? And because I continued to stay, and the Lord had already been telling me, it's time for you to go, it's time for you to go, it's time for you to go because you start getting signs. The Lord will give you signs. He kept telling me, but I was like, no, uh-uh. I'm gonna just stay right here. I'm gonna stay right here. You know what God did? He moved her. I said, What more? I was like, Will you get it? He was like, I because I told you you did not listen. So he moved her. She went on and got her blessing, and then I was sitting there looking stupid. Because I was like, oh my God, what am I gonna do? And God was like, You're gonna do exactly what I told you to do. Now that you realize that you're behind because you should have been doing what I told you to do. Now it's me and you. Now it's me and you. Now you are charged to do what it is that I told you that you are to do. Now you're gonna have to seek me. You're gonna have to pray, you're gonna have to pray for yourself. You're gonna have to pray for your household. You're gonna have to, you're gonna have to speak the word. You're gonna have to be the one to read. You're gonna have to be the one to study, you're gonna have to be the one to pour out and to teach to your to your family. You're gonna have to be that one. God has a way. Tina, I was handicapped in the spirit for years. Oh, that's good. I like the way you put that. I had to write it down, girl. Help some people. The Lord dropped it, and I'm like, oh my God. And the thing about it is when you're handicapped in the spirit, it's not necessarily your leader's fault. That's right. That you're handicapped in the spirit. That's right. You're the one that's dependent on that walker. You're the one that's dependent on that cane. That's good. You're the one that's dependent on them crutches. You're the one that's suspended, depending on that scooter at food line to take you around so that you can get your groceries. Right. Like you're depending on this when you, God has given you power and gifts and you know the word. Right. The word is in your belly. You done been sitting like a little wine. Right. Just getting fat. Just getting fat. You so fat that you're about to explode. Right? And it and and your leader is doing what your leader is supposed to do: pouring into you and pouring into you and pouring into you. And you greedy. And you ain't greedy. And you ain't even going and releasing it nowhere else. Nope. Even if you're not releasing it to your family, it may be somebody that you come in contact with that you need to release it to them. Because you know what? Just like we talked about hoarding, it is not okay to hoard the spirit and not and not share God with other people. It's up to them if they receive. That's right. That's not up to you, but you gotta share. That's right. And you gotta release. Sometimes we be in here and we be so full. And if we don't release, then we're gonna explode. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. But you can't receive anything else unless you release. You can't. If if if a cup is full, there's no other place for it to go, but then for it to overflow, unless you just pour that cup until the brim and then it just sits there. But then what good is it? You need to be pouring out. This overflow, it should go, it should be poured out, it should go and extend to other people. And you know why you gotta pour out? Come on, talk about it. So you can get fresh water. Say that. And water is a spirit. Say that. You gotta get fresh water. That's good. You pour out. God gotta pour fresh anointing, fresh oil back into you. Mm-hmm. Girl, you're talking good. And it's gonna be new. You're talking good. It's not gonna be the same as what was in the cup before. That's right. Because you've done that. You got that. That's right. You digested that. That's right. You released that. That's right. So now you got the fresh, the new. And now it's time for you to start seeing those blessings. That's right. To start seeing that expansion. Remember when God says I will enlarge your territory, He will enlarge your territory. That's right. If you're pouring out, if you're building, if you're extending your territory, He's gonna pour out and bless it. That's right. And you know something, Jay. You said a very you said something very important. You were talking about the leaders doing what they're supposed to pouring into us, but then again, like we not doing what we're supposed to. But you know what? And some people they get stagnant and they get still and they get quiet because the the excuse, and I'm saying this and I mean it, it's an excuse. The excuse is, oh, I don't know how. The Holy Spirit is your teacher, and this is important, this is for somebody today. The Holy Spirit is your teacher. Man is not your teacher, the Holy Spirit is your teacher. If you have a relationship with God, a relationship with Christ, he will lead you, guide you, and speak to you. He is your teacher. You do not have to feel like you have got to be um taught by man to do certain things because some things that God has for you, man can't teach you because they don't have an experience with it. I was looking at a um at a video uh last night, and the guy said, if you have a question about tongues, then don't go and ask somebody that doesn't speak in tongues. Why would you go and ask them? They have not had that experience, so they cannot teach you. Only the experience. They can't teach you, they can't tell you. Only the experience can teach you what it is that you need to know. But only God will speak to you and teach you in perfection. Yes. Man can try to give you, they can try to give you a little a little knowledge and they can try to give you um a little direction, but it's the Holy Spirit that teaches us, and we use that as an excuse. Well, I didn't or I don't because I don't know how. Seek ye first the kingdom and his righteousness. Ask God. The word says, knock and the door shall be open. And if we ask God for knowledge, if we ask him for wisdom, if we ask him for understanding, he will give us those things. That's his word, that's his spoken word, his promise. So we have to go to God and we have to ask him, Lord, help me show me how. Lord help me, explain to me this. You I don't have understanding of that. Lord, give me understanding. Are you praying and are you asking God for guidance? Are you praying and are you asking God to be your teacher? Are you praying and asking him for knowledge, wisdom, and understanding that comes from his throne? When you are praying, you're seeking God for these things, then you are in a placement of God and you are in a place where you can hear God and He speaks to you. This is where the relationship comes in. Yeah, I'll tell you this, Tina. Um, I remember, and it was like toward the last I was an armor bearer during that time. And um it was to the point we talk about being handicapped in the spirit. We talk about God speaking to you, and you should be able to hear the voice of the guy of God if you have a relationship and God teaches you and He perfects things in you and all of that. It got to the point, and this happened to me for about a year. Wow. It got to the point that before the um leader prophesied to me, I knew what was gonna be said. Come on, come on, won't the Lord do it? It I knew exactly what was gonna be said. Oh my god. And I said, okay, Lord, like if this is happening like this, and the Lord told me that I had needed to leave disobedient. He had told me that I had that I needed to move. And that's and that was the word. He said, You need to move. Do you know that person ended up leaving at some point and going to um California? Really? No longer accessible, see, no longer accessible access. And I remember, and they didn't leave until like, you know, some years later. But to me, in the back of my mind, I always had the option. Right. God has a way, and he has a sense of humor, and his sense of humor is better than ours, because sometimes he leaves us looking like crickets. Yeah. Like, Lord, oh, you trying to be funny. And he like, mmm, did that. Because we did not listen. We didn't follow the city. But we are here. We are here trying to do it on our own. Yeah, because we know better. Because we know better than God. And another thing that we end up getting caught up in is listening. God already told you what to do. Seek ye first the kingdom and his righteousness. His righteousness. Yeah. His. Not somebody else's. His righteousness. His righteousness means his word. His spoken word. Not somebody else's. But we'll go and listen to what somebody else tells us. And then apply it. And apply it. But God told you. Then the Lord never told you what to do, and you're gonna try something different. Yeah. It on the line. That's such an insult. Why? It is crazy to me. And then when we sit back and think about it now, and again, that's what the what we're talking about is growth. Yeah. Because we done been there, we done done that, we didn't, we done dealt with the consequences of doing it. Right. And now we're on the other side of it. And for me, I'm daily praying, God, I don't ever want to go through that again because that was too much. Come on. It's and it lasted too long. Right. Like I don't want to stay there. 40 years walking around. Yes, and girl, here's a key point about that 40 years walking around. There was no escape. The Bible didn't say nothing about that. They could walk away, they could stop, they could leave, they could step out of it for 40 years. That's right, Jake. Or they could go make a tent and stay in that tent for 20 and 20 years. No, because you're gonna do this. Like you gonna do what I didn't tell you. And if it takes you 40 years, then it takes you 40 years, you're gonna do this. Maybe that's the reason why some people don't actually get saved and don't actually get filled with the Holy Spirit until they're older in age. Because God, if He says that my hand is on you and you belong to me, then you belong to me. And if it takes you 40 years to get it, then 40 years it shall it be. The Lord will say, okay, well, do you just stay there? Just stay there. I'll make sure that you your sandals don't wear it. You just wander, just stay there and keep on wandering. Your sandals won't run out. I'll make sure of Lord. I'm gonna take care of you. Because what will you say? God takes care of babies and fools. But but if you think about it, that's some real stuff. That's real stuff. Yeah, the Bible says take care of babies and fools. And I'll be saying, you hear me say it all the time, which one am I today? I ain't no baby. I'm too grown, so I gotta be a fool. I say it all the time. Because it's the truth. It's the truth. It's the truth. Just cause I will say this. Go back to the first things. The first things that the Lord said to you, the first things that God said. And if you don't know how to get there, if you don't know how to go back, go to Matthew 6, 33. Start there and build. That's right. Bill, if you want to see yourself make it on the other side of glory, you actually want to cross over into the promised land. Because in order to cross into the promised land, you have to follow the first instruction. And God has to be first. Put God first. Put God first, and I promise you, you will see your life flourish. I promise you, you see your life grow. Not only, and a lot of people get so stuck in the growth being physical and it being materialistic. And we have to be careful of that because that creates some vanity. Not saying that God does not want us to be blessed because He does. It is, it is, He wants us to be blessed and to live in abundance and to live in prosperity. However, we should not only be seeking God for things, we should be seeking Him for His spirit. Yeah, we should be seeking for His truth and knowledge. Yes, yes, yes. I mean, because how can you pour out if you don't have if you don't have the oil to pour out, how can you pour out? If you don't have the anointing to touch and to change, then how can you change? So we have to put these things first. Put God first. And when you put God first, you will see that the rest of your life is nothing but a blessing. God's not gonna allow you to do all this work because the word says that a man is worth his wages and pay. God is not gonna allow you to do all this work and he not bless you according to the work that you have put done, you put out there, the work that you've done. If you belong to him and you do his will, God is gonna bless you. Every single disciple that Jesus walked with, they were all blessed. They didn't have to worry about anything. They were all businessmen. If you think about it, if you think about it, those that he called, they were businessmen. There was a good deal of them that were businessmen. I can't tell you how many, but there were a good deal of them. They were all they were businessmen. They were blessed. They did the will of the you have to put the will of God first, y'all. Yes. Well, Tina, you said it. You said it. First things first. Apply. Amen. All right, y'all. We're about to dive on in. We're about to switch gears, but not really. We're about to dive on into this rant, y'all. I got a rant. Tina, if you don't have a rant, it's okay. Okay. But baby, I got a rant today. Okay. And it always just happened. It happened to me yesterday. Oh, Lord. My rant today is the people that if they're counting money or if they're trying to get something that's stuck together off and they lick their finger. Oh. And then they want to give it to you. That's a good one, Jay. That's a good one. So you done hoe licked your finger. Put it on something you're about to get to me. Ew. And you want me to take it like it's okay. That's ungroups. First of all, it was nasty for you to lick your finger and you're touching something. That's right. Now you done pass it from your face. And you done put it in your mouth. Ew. Then you done passed your nasty mouth and germs over to me. You took it from the money first. You took it from the money first. And then you gonna pass it over to me with your nasty germs and the money, nasty germs. And then you want me to take it and keep it and be happy. And then we are just creatures of habit. So the first thing that we're gonna do before we even get to the car, if we don't use hand sanitizer, we done touch our face, mouth. Oh I'm so disgusted. Oh, oh. Yeah. Yeah, this brings, you know what? I never became I never became so aware until COVID came around. COVID came around, I started becoming very aware. I was aware before. That's nasty. Do not lick your finger to turn no page and no book. And it's even your book. And I'm still thinking, like, you're nasty. Why are you licking your finger to turn this page? Why are you licking your finger to count out this money? Oh gosh. And then you got those that's that's wet liquors. So you can see it. That is nasty. I'm just saying. It's lava. It is nasty. It is so disgusting. And you do you that's selfish because you only think it's about yourself. And then you're gonna give it to me, and I'm standing behind the cash tracks and I take your little nasty money. Yeah, I'm still stuck on still stuck on wet liquors. Wet liquor. I can see, I can see it on the paper. I can see it on the money. Oh, you are nasty. Ew. It has to go through a whole drying process. That's disgusting. That's why I'm telling you. These people with kids, money nasty. Don't let your kids put no money or nothing in their mouth, nothing close to their mouth. They'll be having things grow up out of their mouth they won't know where it came from. And I'll be saying the money. Yeah. Ooh, that's nasty. All right, Tina. Yeah, that was good. We good? Yeah, we good. Little nasty sales. All right, y'all. Well, we love y'all. We appreciate y'all. We hope we said something that blessed you. And guys, keep up this engagement. We are loving it. Keep WWYD up and alive and moving. We are enjoying it. And honey, get on them socials. Need us on socials. Need us on the socials. Need us. Meet us. Meet us on the socials. All right, y'all. We're gonna live, laugh, and love. Till next time. We out, y'all. I be waiting for Tina to say we out or peace. Alright, y'all. Bye.