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I remember praying one day.
I'm out praying 3 o'clock in the morning.
I'm talking to the created at 3 o'clock in the morning.
And I ain't where I want to be.
And I'm like, God, I ain't where I want to be.
And he was like, you stop being a victim.
I said, what you mean, a victim?
Well, it ain't my fault.
My mom got pregnant at 17.
It ain't my fault.
My daddy wasn't there.
It ain't my fault.
They couldn't get along.
It ain't my fault.
He said, boy, you grown.
The decisions you make right now is up to you.
I believe that there is no life without a spiritual life.
It's God's power, his hand, his leading, his guiding, his just alone ability to give you the grace to overcome,
to give you the grace to persevere, to give you the strength to push through.
push through. This is where real transformation, real conversion, real life change happens.
There's so many of us we give up because we prayed once and we prayed for about five minutes
and because it didn't happen the way that we wanted it to happen. We gave up on prayer.
God said, no, I need you to stay in this fight. Don't give up just yet. I need you to hang in there.
Pray until you see your child come back. Pray until you see your child come back.
Pray until you see your sick loved one get healed. Pray!
When God has something for you, it doesn't matter who stands against it.
Because we are all spirit-tural beings having a human experience.
At a certain point you're going to hit something, it's going to test that level of faith.
And my definition of commitment was always staying true to what I said I would do,
long after the mood that I've said it in has left.
Like, am I gonna stay true to my beliefs and my core and my essence of who I am as an individual?
Even if I get a paralyzed right arm and hand, am I going to stay true to it?
Even if my little career that I thought I was going to have disappeared, am I going to stay true to it?
Even if one day I'm in a football game, the thing I love to do, the thing I've been practicing my whole life,
and in one moment it gets wiped out.
Am I going to stay true to?
Can you lift your hands and trust God when it seems it all hope is long?
I'm not holding it back.
I believe it.
on the floor I'm giving you everything that I had every stitch of belief in me every drop of blood in my body
trust you Jesus and anything you want good you can have so claim it work hard to get it
put God first put God first in everything you do everything that you think you see in me
everything that I've accomplished, everything that you think I have, and I have a few things.
Everything that I have is by the grace of God.
Understand that.
It's a gift.
Well, I have traveled the world, and I have spoke to millions of people.
But that's not the most important thing, the success that I had.
The most important thing is that I've been protected, I've been directed, I've been corrected.
I've kept God in my life and has kept me.
humble. I didn't always stick with him, but he always stuck with me. So stick with him.
In everything you do, if you think you want to do what you think I've done, then do what I've done.
And stick with God. In order to achieve your goals, you must apply discipline, which you
were already done, and consistency every day, not just on Tuesday and miss a few days. You have to work
at it. I pray that you put your slippers way under the bed tonight so that when you wake up in the
morning, you have to get on your knees to reach them. And while you're down there, say thank you
for grace. Thank you for mercy. Thank you for understanding. Thank you for wisdom. Thank you for
parents. Thank you for love. Thank you for kindness. Thank you for humility. Thank you for peace.
Thank you for prosperity. Say thank you in advance for what's already yours. That's how I live my
life. That's one of the reasons why I am today. Say thank you in advance for what is already
yours. True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof of it.
to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already.
I'll say it again.
True desire in the heart, that itch that you have, whatever it is you want to do,
that thing that you want to do to help others and to grow and to make money,
that desire, that itch, that's God's proof to you.
Sent beforehand already to indicate that it's yours.
Anything you want you can have.
So claim it.
Work hard to get it.
Put God first.
That's not always going to be easy.
But if you trust him, he will see you through.
Proverbs 3 and 5, trust in the Lord with all your heart.
And do not lean into your own understanding.
Bible says in Psalm 46 and 10, be still.
And see, stillness required his discipline.
You have to trust God to be still.
We are so addicted to moving.
We are so addicted to talking.
And then we don't realize when we walk away and we think it's done and it was nothing but a band-aid.
But God is the physician.
Bible says in Psalm 46 and 10, be still and know that I am God.
You can't be still unless you trust him.
It says, I will be exalted among the nations.
I will be exalted in the earth.
This means that whatever it is that you face in the earth, Jesus will be exalted.
And I need to trust in the risen Savior.
He is the one who was and is and is to come.
He is Alpha and Omega.
He is the beginning and the end.
He is the first and the last.
And he is with you right in the middle.
And if you're going to trust God, you cannot lean into your own understanding.
You can't lean into what looks pretty, what looks perfect.
You can't lean into what makes sense to the naked eye.
You can't lean into what everybody's telling you to do.
If the father is leading you to go in a certain direction
into uncharted territories to conquer in an area where you have never conquered before,
the time is now to rise up and make it happen.
Moses had to believe something he had never seen.
He had to walk and do something.
something he had never seen anybody do. Moses had to become the man he had never had in his life.
Moses had to trust God. In the face of gross adversity and turbulence, in the face of people
that did not believe that he was the one that was to lead them into a promised land.
even if you are tired, even if you are weary, even when you don't completely believe, can you trust God?
The Bible says in Exodus 14 and 21, and Moses stretched out his hand over the sea.
And the Lord calls the sea to go back by the strong east wind all the night and made the sea dry land and the waters were divided.
But God told him that he would do it.
And with many of us, God tells you that breakthrough is coming.
are about to be broken, the miraculous is going to be at least in your life, and he's going
to speak to you before you see it, and you've got to catch the word before you see the
manifestation. You have to stand on the word of God before you see it. Stand on it before you
see it. This is the beauty and the brilliance and the power of leaning not to your own understanding,
but trusting the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God who was, it is, it is to come.
the God that is already standing at the end.
He's at the beginning and is with you right in the middle of the worst hour of your life.
Listen, I think one of the most underutilized things in the world is prayer.
I mean, prayer is powerful.
Prayer moves mountains.
Prayer changes lives.
Prayer connects us to God.
I mean, literally, think about it.
You have a moment, an opportunity within each and every day to talk to God.
I mean, we're talking about God, the creator of heaven and earth, the creator of the universe.
You have an opportunity, a moment to pause and talk to God.
God is asking us, will you pray?
Will you pray?
Rather than worrying, will you pray?
Rather than being afraid, will you pray?
Rather than complaining about everything going wrong, will you pray?
I promise the moment you start praying.
everything around you's going to change.
The moments you start praying,
that weight on your shoulders
is going to get lighter.
When you start praying,
all of a sudden in your heart,
it's going to feel so much better.
When you start praying,
your perspective,
it's going to get so much clearer.
When you start praying,
your family is going to start coming together.
When you start praying the things
that used to drive you crazy
and the things that used to stress you out,
is going to be gone from your life.
When you start praying,
you start to pray, I'm telling you the things that were driving you crazy, will all of a sudden
begin to disappear. When you pray, you will change the world. It is our time. It is our moment.
We got to start to pray. Pray, pray, pray until something moves. Any time that you want to sit
with God, God says we can have a moment. Anytime that you want to talk to your creator,
God says I will sit and talk with you I will literally meet you I will literally show up in your prayer closet just to spend a moment with you
Can I tell you something? Prayer may not be your thing
You may be saying hey I don't really like praying. I don't really know how to pray
Prayer is just not what I like to do prayer is not my thing
That's fine but prayers God's thing
Spending time with you and talking to you
you and having conversation it does something for God the Bible says that if we abide in him he
abides in us it's this idea that we can have relationship and connection that when we sit down and
stop to pray that God literally stops with us and he has this moment of connection and my question to
you is will you only do the things with God that please you or will you start to do the things that
please him are you the tired of person that says God I only want to do the stuff
that makes me happy I only want to do the stuff that hooks me up I only want to do
the stuff that I like but I'm not trying to do none of the stuff that you
like no no no no God says if you draw nigh unto me I'll draw a nigh unto you
in other words closer you get to me the closer I get to you and if God likes
prayer you got to get you a place in your life when you say hey this may not be
my thing but God if you like to talk then we're going to talk
God, if you want me to spend an hour with you today, that's what I'm going to do.
God, if you want me to get into a prayer closet, close the door, and just be a distraction free while we talk,
then God that's what we're going to do.
And I'm telling you right now that God is saying, it's time to pray.
It's time to pray.
It's time that you get into a space where you spend time with God.
God said, hey, when are you going to talk to me?
When God has something for you, it doesn't matter who stands against it.
God will move someone that's holding you back away from a door
and put someone there who will open it for you.
I don't know what your future is,
but if you are willing to take the heart away,
the more complicated one, the one with more failures at first than successes,
the one that has ultimately proven to have more meaning, more victory, more glory,
more glory than you will not regret it.
The light of new realization shines on you today.
Press on with pride and press on with purpose.
When completing a long climb,
one first experiences dizziness due to the high altitude.
But once you become accustomed to the climb,
your mind opens up to the tranquility of the triumph.
Oftentimes, the mind is flooded with realizations that
but for some reason harder to come to when you were at a lower elevation.
At this moment, most of you need some realizations,
because right now you have some big decisions to make.
Right now, I urge you in your breath, in your eyes, in your consciousness,
invest in the importance of this moment and cherish it.
You should celebrate, but this moment is also part of that celebration.
So savor the taste of your triumphs today.
Don't just swallow the moment whole without digesting what has actually happened here.
Look down over what you conquered and appreciate what God has brought you through.
Remember, the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.
There may not be a tomorrow for you and for me.
Time is short.
Our lives are brief.
Someone asked me, what is your greatest surprise in life?
And I answered the brevity of life.
If someone had told me when I was 20 years old that life was very short and would pass just like that, I wouldn't have believed it.
And if I tell you that, you don't believe it either.
I cannot get young people to understand how brief life is, how quickly it passes.
It seems like yesterday I was in.
in school.
You know, we have on television today, the early Today Show
and the Today Show and the This Morning Show
and the Good Morning America show and the CBS News Night
Watch and NBC News overnight and ABC News Nightline,
the Tonight Show.
And everything today reminds us of today
and reminds us of the importance of this moment
and of this hour and of this minute.
I graduated from college 40 years ago,
this next year.
A war had just started.
We went by train and bused everywhere.
I drove a car.
You had one.
No such thing as a holiday inn.
No McDonald's hamburgers.
I don't know how we made it.
No Kentucky fried chicken, no interstate highways.
Elvis Presley was just a little boy.
The Beatles had just been born.
Never dreamed of a space shuttle.
Roseville was seen.
was still present, it seemed like he's going to be present from then on.
And most of you were not born that are here today.
And how quickly the years pass.
There may not be a tomorrow for you and for me, because there's a warning to time.
Do not halt between two opinions.
Fools say that time is long.
Every morning we have 86,400 seconds to spend and to invest.
and each day the bank named time opens a new account for you and for me.
It allows no balances and no overdrafts.
If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.
I believe if you start your day with God, it's going to change your life.
I believe that how you start will impact how you finish.
And if you start your day right, you can end your day right.
there are too many people who aren't having success throughout their days, not realizing that the way
they started didn't give them the motivation and the inspiration and the jumpstart that they really need.
But we're going to solve that right here.
I'm going to tell you how to start your day.
And it starts with this, your day with God.
Nope, you're not starting your day with your spouse, even though you love them so much.
You're not starting your day with your kids, even though they're precious and beautiful.
You're not starting your day with the television.
Nope, I know that's your favorite show, but you got to tell everybody and everything to pause so that you can get some time with God.
I believe this.
I believe that when you start your day with God, you receive the fuel that you need to be successful throughout the day.
So many people go throughout each and every day on eat.
You are empty.
You have poured out and given us.
many people you you find yourself emotionally empty you find yourself spiritually empty and you are
frustrated and tired and annoyed and irritable what it is is you don't have any fuel for your day but when you
start your day with god and you rest in your presence you come out of that moment filled with
feud and I'm trying to get you feud for the rest of your day.
Here's what you got to do. You got to get up early. That's right. You got to set your alarm clock.
You got to wake up early in the morning. The Bible tells us that Jesus grows up early in the
morning so that he can start his day with God. Man, you got to get up. I'm sorry, but you can't
keep sleeping until 9 o'clock. Whatever time you choose, I need you to make a decision today. I'm getting up
early stop sleeping your time with God away you'll have to wake up the first step to
success is to get your mind right the second step is to get your mouth right the
words you verbalize are a direct reflection of the beliefs that you have
internalized I can spend two minutes with you in conversation and by the
words you use and the faith that I feel behind those words I can tell you exactly where you're
going in life. Words set outcomes in motion. God has given us the power to create with our
mouse when you are going through the trial, the tribulation, the challenge, the struggle,
whenever it is you're facing. I want to remember this. Your mind, your faith and your mouth
are your weapons. Success has to be first.
spoken into existence. Now the words you say are either moving you closer to your dreams or moving
you further away. I'm gonna tell you the secret. When you learn to tame your tongue, you take
control of your destiny. You get behind the steering wheel. When your mouth matches your mind,
which aligns with your faith, nothing can stop you. That's what I'm talking about. What I say,
blessed and unstoppable it's your faith your mind and your words walking in agreement
together your mouth carries full command of the realm around you you have the
ability to bless curse heal or destroy every time you utter something out of
your mouth acknowledging this transformative power is essential to building a
life of success breakthroughs starting to mind but it's your mouth that
the change in order to seize possession of the victory, you have to do that with your words.
So shall my word be that go forth out of my mouth. It shall not return it to me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereatoo I sin it. Now it's time
to declare the blessing. Every cell, muscle, tissue, fiber, joint, ligament, bone, organ, system in my
body is functioning in the perfection which God intended to function.
I call forth healing, complete restoration, for I will restore health into the end.
I will heal the end of wounds, say it the Lord.
My body radiates greatness.
No sickness will have any dominion over me.
I think like a champion.
I speak like a champion.
I work out like a champion.
And when I sit down at the food table, the food I put in my body helps make me a better champion.
My body is holy.
My body is the temple.
The spirit resides in my body, and I will treat my body with respect.
I align every ounce of my being with my message.
I look, I feel, I radiate greatness.
I speak over my finances.
Money comes to me easily, frequently, and abundantly, in God's perfect way with no burden added to it.
I am the master of money.
Money does not own me. I own it. It serves me. I don't serve it. I am the head and not the tail. Above, not below. I will lend to many nations and not borrow. I am a millionaire. That's right. I said I'm a millionaire. Scarcity and lack have no place in the life of a Christian. Isaac planted his crops that year. And he harvested a hundred times more grain than it planted for the Lord blessed him and his wealth continue to grow. Money's coming to me.
down, shaking together, and running over.
My storehouses are overflowing with you, Lord, the overseer.
I wrap every dollar with grace, love, and for the betterment of your kingdom.
I speak over my relationships now.
All the right mentors, mentees, coaches, teachers, people who have knowledge that I need
to fulfill my God-given calling are now coming into my life.
My marriage is one of unity, one of love, one of passion, one of friendship.
We are united together as one under the one true God.
I speak life over my wife.
Love, joy, happiness, encouragement, inspiration, uplifting.
Every word I speak builds her up.
No sickness has any dominion over her.
The devil has no place in her life.
She is prosperous.
Unsafeful, annoyed it, less than unstoppable in the name of Jesus.
The devil has no place in my home.
As for me of my house, we will serve the Lord, united as one.
I refuse to give the devil a foothold in my life,
because no corrupt communication shall foresee out of my mouth.
Fear has no dominion over me.
For the Lord did not give me a spirit of fear,
but a power and of love and of sound mind.
I believe. Champions don't run from fear, they attack it.
I'm not in chains. I'm not in bondage. I'm not a slave to anything.
For he who the sun sets free is free indeed and I am free.
Alcohol, drugs, lust, greed, pride, bitterness, jealousy, unforgiveness, anger, eating disorders,
panic attacks, PTSD, cancer, heart attacks, strokes.
None of these things have any dominion over me because I'm blessed and unstoppable.
God is limited. I didn't make a mistake. God is limited.
For I know, this is God talking, for I know the plans that I have for you,
declares the Lord, plans to prosper you, not harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.
29-11. The only way I can
justify this particular text is because
God is limited.
That is got to be it. Why? Because God says
I know the plans that I have for you. And for a lot of us,
the plans that God has for us, those plans are not happening
in our lives. So I'm going to say it again. God is limited.
He limited because of you.
If you don't catch this, you're not going to catch the message.
God says, I have plans to prosper you.
And so you've got in some terrible marriages.
You've got in some terrible relationships.
You've made some crazy financial decisions.
You ain't living the way you're supposed to be living.
Your health is not where it's supposed to be.
And so it has to be that if God is alpha and omega,
if God is the beginning and end,
if God is all powerful and all knowing,
the only way I can explain why your life don't look like Jeremiah 29
is because you're putting limits on God.
Oh, my, my, my.
If this text is right and God's got to put it,
plan for you and you got all kinds of stuff on your vision board but some of the stuff ain't happen
you are limiting god god got a whole bunch of limits and they all start with you take the limits
off of god please take the boundaries off god take the chains off god free god up and let him be the
creator in your life but why do i stress peace y'all the reason why i stress peace because it is a biblical
It's from the word of God.
Peace is so deep.
The Bible says, blessed are the peacemakers.
You are limiting God.
Shame on you.
You hypocrite.
You're always talking about non-believers and how they don't respect God.
You know God.
You know God.
You know God.
And you put the same limits on God that non-believers put on them.
The Bible says, and the peace of God.
Peace comes from heaven.
heaven and the peace of God with surpassive all understanding will guard your heart and your mind
through Christ. I don't hear what I'm trying to tell you. Do you know that it's peace job
to stand before your heart? Do you know it's peace job to stand before your mind? When you have
peace, it protects, it binds the enemy. And you wondering why you can't sleep. And you wonder why
you have a spirit of anxiety. You don't have your protector. I dare you to get your protector.
I dare you to get your protector, which is peace.
Let God protect your heart and your mind.
We already know what to do when God says yes.
What will you do when God says no?
In the words of an older gentleman, he told me one day, he said,
young man, you can't speed up the river and you can't slow it down.
At a certain point, you've got to have some faith.
When things happen to redirection, it's a part of the jerk.
It makes it even sweeter.
In the end, when the purpose is greater and about something,
greater than you.
But this is what I've understood.
In life, some people don't need you to preach a sermon.
They need you to live one.
Faith is a substance of things hopeful,
the evidence of things not seen.
And I'm like, God, are we moving like that?
And I come into my junior year,
and I'm about to get exactly what I want.
About to get this thing called NFL.
10 games away from this dream, this thing that I've been working
for my whole life.
My whole life is dedicated to this.
One game. I got the paperwork that states I'm about to be an NFL drafting.
NFL on top of the paper. Inky Johnson projected top 30 automatic multi-millionaire.
Now all you have to do, the hard part's over. Just play the next 10 football games. Inc. You made it.
And I go out in a silly game against Air Force, two minutes left, and I go to make a tackle that I can make when my eyes close.
And when I hit him, every breath from my body left, my body goes completely.
I fall to the ground, I blacked out, my eyes open, I'm still not, you know, too concerned,
because it's football.
When my eyes open, guys run over ink, let's rock, man, let's go, let's finish them off.
And I'm like, I can't.
I say, I can't move.
It's a shock, neck to my toes, I can't feel anything.
Shock leaves, it stays in my right arm and hand.
I'm like, maybe I got a bad stinger.
They put me on the spine board, willing me off the field.
Doctor says to me as he's walking beside me, I don't know how you still love.
son you don't have any post we get to the ambulance my father's standing there
I'm like pops I laid it on him right I put it on him right but dad's like yeah but I
think you got the worst part of this one doctor say we're gonna take you over
run a couple tests bring you back into the room everything will be cool they run
the test they bring you back into the room mom comes in kisses praise son
you'll be fine doctor rush in and boy says hey man got a rush him back to surgery
he's about to die we don't perform in surgery at night
I guarantee you, you won't be here anymore.
And now the thing I placed my identity in, now it was going.
That's why I laugh at people when they say, man, if I could just get this, I'll be,
man, if I could just get this position, I'll be, woo.
Man, if I could just get this amount of money, I'll be.
I'm like, but what happens even if you get it or you don't get it?
What happens when God says yes and no?
Like, do you have the ability to accept what you don't understand?
Can you still see God's plan when it didn't go the way that you thought it would go?
Can you handle when things get off course?
I'm sitting there and I'm thinking like, man, I'm eight games away and God is redirecting me.
And I'm like, God, just let me get to the NFL, didn't redirect.
Like, let me get the contract, didn't redirect me so I can help my family.
And God's like, no, son, I need you to really go that way.
And I'm like, you're sure.
Like, I need to go this way.
He's like, no, I need you to go this way.
I got something greater for it.
Now I might take a little longer to manifest, but I got something.
I'm even sweeter.
I said thank you God.
And I thought it was over after football got redirected.
My life got redirected two, three more times before I even fell into my purpose and my mission
and what I was supposed to be doing, I got redirected two three more times.
I'm thinking I'm going to be a coach.
Just like every guy when he finishes the game and I'll just coach.
God's like, okay.
I'm like, this is he.
Nope, no peace.
And I always tell a story about when my faith was
fortified in my life into another level was the only thing I had at that moment was a prayer
and a book and the prayer that I prayed was Lord I don't know what you want me to do exact
prayer I don't know what you want me to do but people keep coming to me telling me speak
in you need to speak and I'm like I'm not speaking and God brought me to the point where I had
nothing and I was on my knees and I said Lord listen I don't know if this is what you want me to do
but I submit and let's rock and the next morning I woke up I had my book I had written
I got up and I looked at my wife myself I said I'm going to take this book I
So I got my book, I got my suit, it's hot, every door that opened I ran in it.
I'm hey man, Inky Johnson drove from Atlanta, they're like, get out of here.
I'm like, man, open people are rude, man.
I thought, geez, nice, you give away cars, like you rude.
So after getting kicked out like four doors, I go to the back of the building,
I sit down, I put my back on the building and look up to the sky and I'm like,
God, man, I thought it was you.
I'm like, man, my wife would you be out, man.
I get up.
I looked down the side walking at this moment.
There was nobody for Oprah and the security guard.
I'm talking about nobody else.
She's walking toward me.
I'm walking toward her.
I get a couple feet away.
I stopped.
She grabbed my suit.
She said, hey, that's a nice suit.
I said, thank you.
I said, I drove from Atlanta.
I wanted to get you my book.
I said, oh, cool, great.
I said, well, do you mind taking a picture?
We take a picture and I'm going to walk off.
She said, I gotta get in and do my show.
I said, all right, thank you.
And I'm going to walk off, and her security says to me.
He said, hey, yo man, come here.
I stopped.
I went back to him.
He said, I just want to tell you something.
He said, what just happened never happens.
He said, now, I don't know what's going to come out of it.
I don't know a book club, show.
I don't know about any of that.
He said, but I just want to make sure I tell you what just happened never happens.
Like, God, are we really moving to the point where I can get up in Atlanta, Georgia?
Look at my wife.
Don't know.
Nobody in Chicago.
Don't know nobody on Oprah's staff.
And look at my wife and say, I'm going to meet Oprah.
I got a certain level of faith that I'm going to meet Oprah.
And God puts me face to face with Oprah
and puts the book in the hand.
I say, God, let's go.
And so now I live my life a certain type of way
according to what God has done.
I live my life a certain type of way
according to the power that I know the Lord possess.
I live my life a certain type.
Like when I go to the Lord in prayer, I go, whoa.
Like at a certain point, like what is it really about?
Like, and I know the initial reaction
when we go through things is to say, man, why did this happen to me?
And this is an honest reaction.
Because sometimes good people go through some crazy stuff.
And some of the things we go through, I'm going to just be real.
It's not a scripture board.
At a certain point, you're going to hit something.
It's going to test that level of faith.
And my definition of commitment was always staying true to what I said I would do
long after the mood that I've set it in has left.
Like, am I going to stay true to my beliefs and my core
and my essence of who I am as an individual?
Even if I get a paralyzed right arm in hand, am I going to stay true to it?
Even if my little career that I thought I was going to have disappears, am I going to stay true to it?
Even if one day I'm in a football game, the thing I love to do, the thing I have been practicing my whole life,
and then one moment it gets wiped out. Am I going to stay true to?
Because depending upon if I'm going to stay true to it, a lot of other people's belief in their Christian journey is predicated upon that and my belief in my Christian journey.
In other words, I've seen a lot of other people say, Inky, I want to give my life to Christ,
not because of something that happened with me, but because of something I've seen happening.
And people have the nerve to ask me all the time, Enki, why wouldn't you change what happened to you?
You've got a pair of lives right on in hand.
I'm like if you only knew and if you only saw the works that God has done in people's lives around me.
What he's done in me, yeah, it's great, it's cool.
But what God has done in the people's lives around me, like you can't put a price on that.
We already know what to do when God says yes.
We already know what to do when our prayers get answered.
But the question that I have for you in this rhetorical,
what will you do when God says no?
