The Hope Hotline - The Hope Hotline | S03-E05 | 01-22-2025

Episode Date: January 22, 2025

The Hope Hotline | S03-E05 | 01-22-2025

Real Talk. Real Talk. Real Talk. Real Talk. Hey everybody. Hey everybody. I don't know if you can hear me. Can I hear me? Talk to me. Okay. Hey. Hey. No, I can I don't know if you can hear me. Can I hear me?

Talk to me. Okay. Hey. Hey. No, I can't hear squat. Are you plugged in? All right. Well, we're just going to pretend.

Can all get connected? I hear it. Oh, hey, everybody. How you doing? Okay. Well, do we want to just get with, so listen, on Saturday, we told you guys we were doing something. On Saturday night, in celebration of our good friend Kristen,

every one of us in the hope, well, except for maybe Sarah, doesn't know her very well. But all of us, for the most part, Kristen is like, she's our people we love her and when she left a part of us left with her so in celebration of her return we did this

play it some people haven't seen this yet hope you're gonna search far and wide to find this place, right? I had to search far and wide. But she found it. We have a tire. We all had our shirts. We all came to find this place. That place got packed. We're an hour early.

I'm being unstressed. All very confused. I don't know what's happening. We have paper and we have a tablet. I'm scared guys, I'm scared. scared look there's a snack bar oh so good and a smoking room I'm gonna dive as well oh I'm not supposed to be holding that

and this lady gave us a hook up she told us what to buy shout out to that lady how about some memory bath tapes down there that's right That's me. Apparently the fries were delicious. Fantastic. I haven't had fries in I don't even know how long. I can't even tell you how long.

So 63. That's the best. I don't even know how long. I can't even tell you how long. She was 53. That's the best picture. She's the best picture. Normal was starving, and that's all she was allowed to have was salt packets. She had more. She chose not to. I don't know why Ty documented that. Because it was bad.

And you guys going into a gross bathroom was the funniest thing ever. I don't know why Ty documented that. Because it was bad. And you guys going into a gross bathroom was the funniest thing ever. Because you guys, I'm surprised we didn't have like forks, wipes with you. That's why you squat. I've been worse than that. I was really scared to walk in. They shouldn't. The fun is just about to begin. So it took an hour for us to get this game started. We were early.

I know. Sorry about that. An hour of preparation for this very moment. And we also had no idea what we were doing. So you play on the tablets. We've never played bingo before. You play on the tablets and then there's all different ways to win. She's writing.

So there's, yeah, there's a paper. You play on the paper and also your tablet that also has bingo cards on it. And it ain't regular bingo, people. It's not. You have to follow whatever pattern they say you're playing. You have to follow the pattern. You have to follow the pattern. You have to follow the pattern.

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It's not. You have to follow whatever pattern they say you're playing for that game. And it's kind of stressful. Look at Talia. She was so nervous. I was nervous. I was too. I'm not gonna lie. I only just wanted to know. It was very frustrating.

We were in Captain Cowboy's shoes. That place was full too. There were so many people on there. I don't know why people do this. And you're like, there's a smoking section which was full. And then there's a section known as non-smokers. We still had a lot of people in our room. And we still smell like smoke. That's why we're here.

That's right. So this is the... Now this is all the... $250. $250. I'm gonna get jumped in the middle of your life. Okay, get prepared three. Get prepared. I'm gonna win. I'm gonna win.

Three, nine, ten. Bingo! Bingo. They were not happy. I know they weren't. They were unfair. Oh. Sorry.

I won. I was like, this is it. You did. Good job. You made me to claim it. I'm leaving. He was stuck. Nobody wanted to sit around. We're a little loud.

We were. We only got punched a couple times. Just having a little one? Yeah. Bingo. B know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

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spare table because we don't have pages. Mama obviously looks like she's not ready. And those people were not happy with us either because we didn't give no tip. We didn't know. We didn't know. We did at the end. We learned real quick when she did not look happy with this either because we didn't give no tip we didn't know we didn't know we did at the end we did yeah we learned real quick when she did not look happy with us look at all that so yeah welcome back kristen we love you very much that was fun

so funny yeah that we that was like three hours of footage. Yeah, and then the whole entire time, you have a screen, and the screen shows you what pattern you're doing. Oh, my gosh. The amount of times that I had to say, it's on your screen. You didn't need to say it. Or Heather or Kristen. What are we doing?

I don't remember. It's on your screen. It's on your screen. I knew it was on my screen. I didn't have time to look at my screen. Well, make time. It's so hard to describe because it's like, I don't even know what their names were. And they were like the weirdest.

Butterfly. Butterfly the diamond. Small. They don't look like a butterfly and it don't look like no diamond. No. So Hope, will you ever do this again? No. No. Probably not. will you ever do this again? No. No.

Probably not. First of all, it stank in there. It was. It's very stressful. You're not having fun. Like bingo should be fun. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. You can't talk. We kept getting shush because we were laughing and having a great time. True. And like if you miss one number because you were doing something, then to try to catch up and look at all your things, it's like you don't breathe. You're holding your breath all the time. It's too stressful.

I mean, listen. We won more than anybody else in that place. People were not happy. And Heather was not kidding when she goes, we're going to get jumped in the parking lot. Because if you saw

the riffraff that we were hanging out with in that joint, you'd be scared too. You'd be like, yeah, it was definitely interesting. I had no idea. I've never played bingo

at that capacity before. Never been. But I thought, you know what? Let's go play bingo. Let's celebrate Kristen back. And there you go. That's what we were like. This is just a few of them.

But they'd be like, field goal, field post. And that was the first one. But you can't describe that. If Hope's like, what shape are we doing? And we're like, field post. That doesn't help. Yeah, because which ones are you supposed to get right so it's like and then there's ones where it's the whole entire card right right blackout tell you and that's speed

that's the speed one speed round yeah which was slow speed round was the slowest slowest and you can't talk like they tell you there is zero talking. Which is hard for all of us. It's very hard. Because that's all we do. I know. And then we didn't know what to do because I was like, wait, is it, it's all of them? And I couldn't ask because you can't talk. Stressful.

Yeah, you can't raise your hand. Thank you, Heather. Because Heather's in here. Like you can't raise your hand either. Yeah, exactly. Because volunteers are scarce because they get paid by tips. And we didn't know we were supposed to tip them and they're not happy.

No, of course not. They're standing there waiting for you to tip them after they bring the cash over to you. Heather kept saying, we're getting dirty looks from them. Why are we getting dirty looks? And they're like waiting. Like, hello?

Maybe they're just in bad moods. I don't know. Probably when you come up and buy the tickets, you probably could say, if you tickets, we probably could say like, if you win, we, we work off tips and stuff like that. Cause obviously we were new and said,

we didn't know what we were doing. We told the lady we're virgins to this. You did never done this before. You did say that. And they were not helpful in that area, but we did pay. We gave them their tips, the rightful tips.

Yes, we did. And you paid a play too. So there's that as well. It's an investment. That's right. They don't make any the rightful tips. Yes, we did. And you paid a play, too. So there's that as well. It's an investment. That's right. They don't make any of that money, though. No, they don't.

But no, would you guys go back and do it? Heck yeah. Talia says yes. I want to. Talia says heck yeah. I had fun. Vanessa? No.

No. What? No, you either. None of you guys would either? Yeah, well, I mean, it's a one and done. If I was like on a cruise ship or somewhere where there's like nothing else to do. Yeah. But I don't know if I would choose to do this again.

No. Yeah. I mean, I can like we made all our money back. So which I knew was going to happen. Yeah. Just so you know, I knew there was no loss coming. I really did. I was like, there's no risk for me.

We're going to win our money. I didn't. I will tell you, I got a little nervous when I saw the amount of people that we were actually playing. I know. I know. Because I was like, that's a lot of people. It was a lot to have the odds to win against that. Or like, and we won every like we won two of the biggest purses that you can get. Yeah. And didn't have to split it either. And we didn't have to split it at any time. Because what happens, guys? Most of you don't know how bingo works either, I'm sure. But what happens is you play for three levels.

The first one's 50, right? The second one's 100, and the next one's 250. You're playing three games on one card. The last biggest prize is the 250. But if somebody else gets bingo at the same time as you, not that person gets $250, you get $250. No, you split the purse. Right, right.

So we didn't do that. But other people did. Yeah. They weren't happy. Right. But we were told that what happened to us doesn't happen. It was like winner's luck, kind of first time winner's luck. Yeah.

We're like last time winner's luck too because he ain't going to come back. Yeah, exactly. We out. We're done. We're not getting no more of our money. Right. I know. We definitely didn't fall into the addiction of it.

So that's good. Yeah. So we got all of our money and some. We did. Like by a lot. By a lot. got all of our money and some. We did. Like by a lot. By a lot. Heather and Vanessa literally carried us. A hundred percent.

Thank you, Heather and Vanessa. But also, it's not like, sorry, no offense, but it's not like it was a skill that you had to, like they won on the iPads and the iPads just won. That is true. The iPad actually won for them. So if I would have got their pad, it would have been me yelling bingo. True. But, yeah, because there wasn't much thinking going on there.

No, and it's not, yeah, you weren't like paying attention and being like, but both of you knew at some point that they were going to get bingo. So they literally claimed it, that they were getting it. That's true. So good for them. Good for them. You got to speak it. Got to speak it. Into existence. That's true. Good for them. You got to speak it into existence. Even if it's bingo, even if it's gambling,

and even if God doesn't really like it very much. No, I don't think God cares. Unless you're addicted, of course. Right. Okay, so real quick, what do you think about that? Where's the line? Well, to be perfectly honest with you, a lot of people that I know that are solid believers, they play poker and stuff like that.

And I see nothing wrong with it. I see where it's wrong is if you hope that like the lottery, people play the lottery for fun. Right. People play the lottery for fun, right? But if it's your hope that that's how you're going to make your living or if that's how you're going to make it, then you're off. So you should not do it. Especially speaking you're off. If you think like someday I'm going to hit the big numbers and then I won't have to work.

Okay, first of all, that's not biblical mindset. It says, if you don't work, you don't eat. So everybody should be, um, not wanting a get out of jail free card, if you will. Um, you should be finding what you're doing your job with ministry mindset, then God's going to flourish you in that job because you'll do everything in excellence because you'll be representing him in all that you do. So really, wanting to gamble and wanting to... Most people that gamble are,

like if you saw the room that we were in, and I'm not busting on these people, but a lot of them, I wonder if they worked all day. They came in their slippers, their pajamas, some of them. Do you know what I'm saying? Some of them are retired and things like that. So maybe that's just their fun money, right? But there are some that you just sit there and you know that that's their hope,

that they win that jackpot, and that jackpot will sustain them for a period of time. That's just unhealthy. Spiritually speaking, it's wrong. And do I think it's sin? No, I don't think it's sin. I don't think that if you, you know, play bingo or you play poker or whatever, you're going to go to hell.

But I think that if you don't keep a healthy mindset, then it can take you down paths that can destroy your life, which that in turn can lead to sin, which can lead to not going to heaven. So all of it is, you it is a slippery slope to somewhere. Make sure that slippery slope is heaven-bound,

kingdom mindset, and ministry-based. That's what you got to make sure. If that task or that thing that you're involved in or your hobby or what you love to do or your job is not based on those principles then you're out of order yeah and I and I say that even when I worked like I've not worked for the church all my life I just started working for the church in 2022 every job that I had everyone knew I was a believer unless I wasn't saved at the time, which was only four years, pretty much that I made four or five years, five years that I went

through a five year period of time. And listen, I did that right too. Cause everybody knew I wasn't saved at all. There was no questioning it. So, but every job that I've ever had, pretty much everybody that came in contact with me knew I was saved, knew what my mission was. I was leading people to the Lord or I was witnessing or discipling. I was praying over people while they were sick, even in sales jobs. And people would go, I do sales, so I really can't do that. You can, please. The Lord's going to open doors. I literally would walk into people's

houses, especially when it was COVID time. And you're expected to wear a mask and stuff like that. I didn't do it. Or if they wanted me to wear one, I always asked them to go outside, which leads to other things like you're not afraid. No, I'm not afraid. Why aren't you afraid? And then you can talk about the Lord. There's always doors that are open for us. It's whether or not you're bold enough to walk through them, which led me to being able to pray with them, disciple some of them, like a time of discipleship where you're teaching somebody something. Maybe that's a believer. Most people weren't saved. So it was an opportunity to either be an example or to speak life. But I mean, it brings to my thought, like what I think about is like Lee, Kristen's husband, is like every job that he's done is sales related, right? And every job he's ever done, he was like me. He has been so successful out of the gate.

Every job that I pretty much had where I was in sales, I don't know one that I wasn't either the best or like the best rookie at what I was doing where people are saying, how are you doing this? Because I've never seen that stuff done before. Favor. You know, like I say,

I pray over everything that I put my hand to will prosper and I will be found with favor wherever I go. And I bless, actually I pray that, I actually pray that over everyone in our church this morning during my prayer time, as well as mine and my family's. But I have a specific thing that I pray over every single person that attends this church or calls Foundation Church their home, whether it be that they watch via satellite or through the web or whatever, as well as the people who personally attend here. But one of the things I will say is, one of the things that Lee is, Lee is like me.

Lee has, everywhere he goes, everywhere he goes, he's been successful. He's like always the best of the best. And he says the same thing. He's like, it's not me, it's God, it's favor. I can't explain it. It's just, I believe what the Word of God says so I just believe wherever I go no matter what I do and I do too I always say put me in you can put me in whatever

you want to put me in whatever scenario you want to put me in and I will be successful it's a mindset first of all because I don't quit second all, I'll be successful because I know what the word of God says about me and about my abilities. And if I keep first things first, I'm going to be successful. And that's what Lee's like. I'm blessed. He always says I'm blessed. But one of the reasons why he is blessed is because he takes every single opportunity

that has come his way or is given to him, I should say, or he tries to drum up where he's doing ministry. He's praying over people. He's getting people saved. I mean, all the time. He has a story pretty much every day that he could tell you where when he was doing sales in people's homes, now he's in a management position. So he's working with the,

with, with staff and, and he takes those opportunities. But one of the things he misses about going into people's homes is being able to minister to them. And like, you can do it. I hear people say,

I can't do that because we'll all get in trouble with my company. Bull crap. It's not true. It's not true. I've done it. I've done it for corporate and I didn't get in trouble where I was working with police officers and FBI agents and CIA and all different levels of law enforcement to privatize. It's baloney. I was able to witness and talk to them as well as the people that I work with. You can do it. God will make a way. You be willing, he is able. That's all I can say

about that. But if you're looking to get rich off of one thing, the lottery, bingo, you ain't going to get rich off of bingoingo i can tell you that right there but if you're looking to make some money the fast way that ain't it true it's not it and so but if you go to vegas like that those places i'm telling you yeah it's the same kind of people doing the same kind of thing as what we saw in the bingo parlor. It's a mindset. It really is. It's sad. It's really sad that people just want to try and get rich quick because they don't really understand the gifts and the talents that they have been blessed with and that God wants to use them in. and they just sell themselves short.

Yep. It's sad. Don't let that be you, man. Oh my gosh. Look at the qualities in the, you know, in the, in the investment that God made in you because he is very vested in you. So what he did is he set you up for success. Look at those things that God has birthed in you, like the gifts and the talents that he has given you, and then draw off of them and use them for your career or whatever.

Kingdom first, career second. What do you think? Do you think it's sin? No, I don't. That's why I did it. I do. I think you need to, like, if you struggled with addiction, with that kind of stuff in the past, maybe just stay away from it. If it's something like, you know what I mean? Yeah, if you're an addictive personality. Yeah. Yeah. Or if you, like, used to play games on your phone and it was, like, you know, gambling stuff back in your old days and you did spend a ton of money and you got in a debt over it it, like maybe just don't play bingo. Maybe don't go do that stuff. And it's just like with

like new age stuff, like if you really struggled with like worshiping crystals and stuff, like maybe just don't do new age, like don't, maybe don't do yoga. Like, but it, like it's not sin to stretch and it's not a sin to go and play games with your friends. Um, but everybody has their own convictions. And so again, it's just not forcing them on everybody else when you feel convicted about something, too. Yeah. Well, that's the thing. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

The Bible says. So don't put something on someone that you feel convicted or compelled about. Unless it says specifically it's sin, then listen, don't do it. Yeah, correct. But if it's not, if it's one of those gray areas, then gray is for you. It might not be for somebody else. Correct. So again, don't put something else on someone that you, that's're thing. Right. Maybe somebody else doesn't deal with obsessive compulsive disorder and you do and you have

to overcome it. So you're one extreme to the next extreme. Well, don't just cause you are, don't put that on somebody else. They get, they're balanced. You've got the problem. They don't got the problem. Right. So don't like cast disparagement on them because you're the one

with the problem. Right. Yep. It's so funny. Like the critical eye really needs to be focused back on the person instead of like,

you're the one that has an issue. Right. Yeah. So let's focus on you instead of other people. Right. It's not what happens though

because if somebody else can't do something, then they feel like if I can't do it, you shouldn't be able to do it. Bull crap. Yeah. I know. Bull crap know crap i know get your house in order yep yep so yeah good what what vanessa do you think it's you probably wouldn't have done it if you did scared that god's gonna come back and or jesus would come back and you'd be stuck in the bingo

parlor what's the pample comes back can. What's the plan B? Jesus comes back. Can everybody hear her? Yeah, speak up. Sorry, I still don't have a mic, guys. I'm sorry. Aaron. I'm sorry. 9-1-1.

No, if Jesus comes back and for whatever reason I'm stuck on this world or in this earth, I have a plan B. What is the plan B? I said this plan B when I was like 12 years old so i might have to re-evaluate but it was oh my because everybody during that time frame thought that like jesus was coming back any second yes and we were running around like and then that movie came out left behind right and i was just like oh my gosh i need a plan b oh my gosh um what is my plan b i don't even know i think it was like i was gonna like endure until the end and like get my head chopped off.

Yeah. And be a martyr and make it to heaven that way. Right. That's it. That sounds like a perfectly normal 12 year old thought. Yeah. Thank God you're 12. Thank God that's because you were 12.

Because, um, I don't know if that's biblical or not. Are you afraid? Were you, do you think it's a sin to go and play bingo? No, absolutely not. But I agree with both of you. If you have a problem, if you have an addictive personality,

maybe sit this one out. That's it. Check your heart. Check your heart. And you know if you have an addictive personality because it's hard for you to stop doing things. Even some people have games on their, not like not gambling games,

but they'll have those games on their iPads or on their phones or whatever. And I've had the games on my stuff, but it's never been an issue for me not to do it. Right, to like get up and walk away from it. Heck no. I know. Like I don't, like I don't care.

I can go days, like I had a game that I used to play all the time and they teased me about. But I didn't play it every day. And I only played it on certain like on podcast night when I'm screaming. But even that video of it, like even that, I'm like, yeah, I don't have to have it. I didn't. I don't even do it. Like, you know, based on that, that like can you like if you think drinking coffee

will kill you if you don't have a cup of coffee in the in the morning don't touch coffee sorry it's true but you need to be able to and this is coming from a person that loves red bulls and alani's but i can tell you if i wasn't able to drink one for a day two week or whatever i'm not gonna die. And it's okay. Like not getting a cup of coffee should not move you. It just shouldn't. And a lot of people, it does. So you need to evaluate those things. That's why fasting is super important. You control your flesh, not your flesh control you. And when I see people, even though it's funny, they'll have something about coffee on their teeth. They have a t-shirt coffee a t-shirt that talks about

you know don't talk to me until i get my first cup of coffee i literally think to myself you're owned you're owned yeah you're owned not me i wouldn't wear that shirt just because nothing has authority over me yeah i if i thought for a second something had authority over me i would fast that until my flesh ruled didn't rule me in that anymore i ruled that that's my spirit man would that's how you have to think about it nothing owns you yeah it's very good you own it yeah it's a total freedom in your life really should be it really should be but i mean like there are things in people's lives like this thing right here they're so addicted to this thing it's insanity yeah i agree like if you can't not go on a social

media site for two or three hours without going oh my gosh I wonder what you got a problem you got a problem so listen don't let something own you and if it does fast it or get rid of it if fasting doesn't solve it get rid of it it. Yeah, absolutely. It's not good. You should always let your spirit man rule and reign because that's how you're going to hear the Holy Spirit dictate to you what you should and shouldn't do. But if other things have a dictation over your life, they'll dictate you and they'll take less priority or the Lord will be less priority. You say a cup of coffee can't be it. Bull crap if if you're not getting your cup of coffee in the morning makes you grouchy there we go yeah true that means Jesus doesn't yeah that's why you

you should really you're like a cup of coffee can't do it it does if it makes you in a bad mood and your behavior is no longer Christ-like, then that thing owns you and Jesus is in second place. Because Jesus and his being Christ-like should be where you're always rising to the next level and portraying him and being like him and all the things. So does that make sense? Absolutely. And if there's areas of your life

that you're not progressing in and you're not leveling up this is a perfect opportunity to think like what am i doing every day that if i didn't have it you already feel like almost anxious about it and then yeah that might be it and if if you say no way it can't be that try it well that's what i tell people all the time that tell me about that they don't, they're not in the word every day. Um, what I say to them is what everybody, it's just like you said, everybody has one thing that they do every single day. That's their thing that they love to do. Like, I don't know of anybody who doesn't have one thing that they do every single day. And I tell people, before you do that one thing, read and pray. Yeah, that's good. Before you do that one thing.

You're not allowed to do that one thing until you've read and prayed. If you keep yourself from doing that one thing, you'll make sure you read and pray. Yeah, that's perfect. It's a great exercise. And then once you got that down, reading and praying will be nothing every day. Yeah. It'll be great exercise. And then once you got that down, reading and praying will be nothing every day. Yeah. It'll be like systematic.

Yeah. But nothing should have priority. That one thing should not have priority over what, it's like I said this a couple Sundays ago, but it's one of the things that I love Kenneth Hagin says. It says, well, Smith Wigglesworth said this part, which is starve your flesh, feed your faith. Starve your flesh, feed your faith, which is by reading the word of God. And that's what he was pertaining to. And Kenneth Hagin used to always say that when he would read the word, that he would say, let's go feed our faith.

Because off of what Smith Wigglesworth says, every man need make sure that they eat their three square meals a day and snacks. But are you feeding your fleshly body more than you are feeding your spiritual body? And you need to evaluate that. How much of your spirit man gets fed versus your carnal man. And if you're making sure you're getting three square meals a day for your fleshly,

you know, your faith will show how skinny you are and how malnutritioned you are based on how you respond to crises. You know, anything that might be out of the ordinary in your normal day. If any suffering, anything that's out of the norm comes your way and causes your anxiety to rise up, how malnutritioned are in in your spiritual life will convey how you respond correct so feed your faith your spirit man and then you need to exercise it because again things are going to come your way uh it says you'll face many trials in this lifetime but i'll deliver you from them all so you already have a promise that you'll face many trials in this lifetime, but I'll deliver you from them all.

So you already have a promise that you'll face many trials in this lifetime. Okay, when those trials come your way, based on the faith that you've, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Depending on how much time you spend in the word, building your faith will determine how you respond to that trial.

And knowing that you'll win in the end, you should stay calm as a cucumber. But if you don't know the word, then you're going to fall apart. And that's normally what people do. Yes. It's so funny because me and Tommy were in Tampa on Monday night, and we just left somewhere, and I said, and I felt a prompting in my spirit. I literally felt a prompting in my spirit to pray over a hedge of protection around both of us because we were in two different vehicles. So before I pulled out, I prayed out loud. I spoke my prayer out loud over Tommy and I.

Do you not know, like 15 seconds after I pulled out, my tire totally deflated as I was getting on the highway. Totally deflated. Tommy and I literally, I cannot believe that there was, as soon as we got on there, we got that there was as soon as we got on there we got off that exit as quickly as we got on and then he found a gas station where we changed the tire very quickly and I rode home on a spare very slowly but um and thank you to Nick Hanson Hanson Automotive for my new tire that you put on this morning for me very quickly. But I thought to myself the next morning,

the Lord reminded me of that prayer and that feeling that I felt. And I've sensed the Holy Spirit say that could have been way worse. That could have been way worse. And I don't know, like somebody was turning into me. I ended up, I had a nail in that tire and I did not know it. And so somebody was pulling, when I was pulling out, somebody was pulling, it looked like they were going to be very close to me. So I kind of like stayed really close to the curb,

which made my tire hit the curbing. That's what made my tire deflate. And, and I literally am like, if I was, if, if I spent a lot of time, not in the word and not in prayer, I might not have heard him. Yeah. Yep. But because I do, I literally, and then it was, and it literally and it was smooth sailing everything but I just sit there and go people need to invest in their spiritual walks because God will like what could have been so bad ended up being

a piece of cake and people will go well I wouldn't have had the money to pay for the tire you would have because if something happens God will make sure that you have the money to pay for the tire. You would have because if something happens, God will make sure that you have the means to take care of it. He's good about that. Trust me.

If he has to make manna fall from the sky for the Israelites to be able to be fed, he'll make sure he doesn't have a mint in heaven so he's not printing money and he's not going to make money fall from the sky. He's not a counterfeiter. But he'll make sure that the provision is there for you by whatever means necessary. I've literally not had the money to pay for a tire. I had a little bit of money to pay for a little bit of a tire, but I didn't have all the money to pay for a tire. I went into like a tires, a tire kingdom or whatever one time. And the guy behind the counter said to me, he goes, you know what?

And he was a Christian. I didn't know. He goes, you know what? I feel like I'm supposed to give you a break on your tire today. I'm going to give you a really good discount on this tire. Like better, basically going to give it to you for what the, not the retail, the wholesale price is.

Are you kidding me? He's like, no, I really feel like that's what I'm supposed to do for you. And that's how it'll work. I didn't have the money for the whole tire. I wasn't even sure how I was going to get the money for the whole entire tire. But God knew, and that's what will happen for you. You just have to walk it out, and you have to believe. So no questions so far that we've reached.

But that's okay. That's okay because sometimes that's what needs to be said for people to hear. You just got to pay your tithes. God will come through every time. Don't count on bingo. Don't count on going to a place like Vegas or what's that place in Tampa? The Hard Rock. The Hard Rock, which smells to high heaven.

I know. It's such, that place is dirty. Yeah. You can get emphysema there. Oh my gosh. If I wasn't a believer, I would. Right. I could kill Talia for going, I'm going to die of, I'm like, great words. Great words.

Speaking life. Great speaking life over yourself there, Tao. I think she repented right after that. Balloon. Lord knows I'm joking. Atlantic City is another one. Oh, yeah. That's true.

It's another one. Get it rich quick schemes don't work. It's kind of like the same people that always sue everybody all the time. It's like the same person. They never get ahead ever. They're always in a car accident, always suing to get the most amount of money. And then they're broke again because that's what they do. And they never, ever end up wealthy.

It's the same stereotypical individual. It's the same spiritpical individual. Yep. Yep. It's the same spirit. So break out of that. Don't do that no more. Like work hard. Yeah.

Be happy. And the thing is when you do, like then you have ownership over something and then you have like a level of like pride. Respect for yourself. Yeah, exactly. And then God's like, yes. And there's a reason why you're probably good at it because God probably gave you the talent to be good at it

instead of just hoping and praying that you'll win a $12,000 jackpot. And then you go home at the end of the night disappointed because you didn't. And then you probably drank because you're disappointed. And then it's just this spiral effect. Oh, man, that one guy that was next to us who was playing that, he was mad. He was not happy he lost. I know. His eggs were all in one basket for that pot.

Was it the same guy that had like 20 of them? I think he had more than 20. But yeah. No, he had a lot, Vanessa. He was a lot. You sit there and go, what a waste of money. I know, because that was like three hours of our time. Like, if we

would have worked for three hours. Well, if we didn't show up an hour early. Yeah, but they were there. All those people were there. Yeah, they were getting their pregame on. I know. So like maybe go get a part-time job for the amount of hours that you spend, you know? It's crazy.

I don't know. It's pretty wild. It is pretty wild. Pretty wild. All right. Do the thing really quick. We're going to do the share really fast. Yeah. Like two seconds.

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I have a Sunday after church the day that I heard the news and I was so excited. But yeah, so that's that. And then obviously we have our merch available and always available here at church and also on FoundationChurchFL.com. You just click shop and it's available for you right there. Beauty, baby. baby yeah done and done hot diggity so let's do our first question okay it's very interesting question it says do we know from birth that something is wrong a sin or do we have to be taught that it is wrong sin a lot of

parents i think let their kids get away with murder because they're like they don't know any better they do know better. Example, a child that grows up with cannibalism, which, what are you talking, like, this is funny. I'm like, cannibalism? Like, how? Yeah, I mean, that's pretty extreme. Yeah, an example.

A child that grows up with cannibalism would think it is okay since that is what they grew up with until they are instructed otherwise. Well, I don't know about that. Because cannibals have to kill something, which is a human being. Which is murder. Which is murder. So I think the terror of watching somebody be killed or murdered might make you think, this ain't such a great idea.

I think there's pretty much everything in the Bible, I mean, excuse me, everything that you could possibly do that's a sin. I think that even like the 10 commandments, there's something on the inside of you that goes, ick, this ain't right. At a very young age, like very young age. So let's look at Romans 2, 14 through 15, because it basically tells us that there's something that God birthed in every single one of us to know right from wrong. So Romans 2, 14 through 15, this is the Amplified Classic, says when Gentiles who have not the divine law,

so remember, there's the Jew and then there was the Gentile. The Jew had the law, the Ten Commandments. The Gentile did not. So what Paul is saying here is the Gentiles don't know right from wrong because they don't have the law. But do they? Let's read. When Gentiles who have not the divine law do instinctively what the law requires, they are a law to themselves since they do not have the law. So they, even they don't have it, instinctively they know this is wrong to do. So they do actually have the law. So they, even though they don't have it, instinctively they know this is wrong to do.

So they do actually have the law. They show that the essential requirements of the law are written in their hearts. That's why God judges the heart. That's why Jesus, when he judges us, it'll be based on the heart, not the outward man, because a lot of people pretty up the outward, but the inward is where it really matters. So the law is written in their hearts and are operating there, with which their consciences, since of right and wrong, also bear witness. And their moral decisions, their arguments of reason, their condemning or approving thoughts,

will accuse or perhaps defend and excuse them. Sounds like we know right from wrong, pretty much from the beginning. Romans 2, 14 through 15. Is that the same one? Yeah. I don't know why I did that one twice. Is that a different version? Oh.

Then you start even. It is. Okay. It is. I think it's the New Living Translation. Okay, I'll check. Or was it the New King James Version? I just forgot to put it down.

I think it's King James, New King James, if I remember right. It is NLT. Oh, I'm wrong. Yep, you got it. Okay, so what I did is I pulled the same from another version, which is the NLT, which I usually always go between NLT, New King James, and Amplified Classic. Because those are the best as far as I'm concerned.

But even Gentiles who do not have God's written law show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it. They demonstrate that God's law is written in their hearts for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right. So for me, I sit there and say, innately, people know right from wrong. God did that for each and every single one of us.

Why would he do that? So we don't fail. What if you don't have the Bible? What if you live in China and they don't let you have one? For the longest time, people lived in Russia. They weren't getting the Bible unless they got the black market. How would they know right from wrong?

What would be the difference between them going to heaven and to hell? God set them up to fail? No, no. We all have a conscience, okay? All of us have something that you may say, well, it's guilt. Okay, well, then that's still your conscience.

All of us have something that says inside of us that this makes us feel right about doing it or this makes us feel really bad about doing it. That is how God set us up for success. And most of us, I can recall very young knowing right from wrong. Before I even went to school, my parents didn't have to tell me,

don't do that because that is bad. I knew some things were not a good idea to do without being told them. So it was best that I did not do them. All of us, if we are honest with ourselves and think back as early as we possibly can in life, we would have to be able to say, some things were not told to us. We just knew. Don't do it. Or that's okay. We can do that. We won't get in trouble if we do that. What is that then? That is what God does for each and every single one of us. It's basically like what Paul was saying to the Romans, saying in Romans, is even though the Gentiles do not have the law,

they know. Their instinct tells them, this is right, this is wrong, even though they didn't know the Ten Commandments. Same goes for us. So I would say to you that, yes, that child, if they grew up in cannibalism, still knows this ain't good. This ain't right. This is wrong. Galatians 6, 7 says, do not be deceived. God is not mocked for whatever a man sows that he will also reap. Now, if that scripture is true, it did not say,

unless I did not tell them that it isn't, or unless they just, you know, they're out in the jungles of whatever. No, they get off scot-free. No, that does not have any caveats to it because the Lord knows that each and every single one of us, when he designed us one of us, when he designed us and made us, he put something inside of each and every single one of us that give us

a conscience to understand right from wrong. And if we choose to do opposite of that, we will reap what we sow. That's the facts. That's what we call cause and effect when we were growing up in elementary school. Cause and effect. You do something, it's going to have a result of something else. That's what people in the world call karma. But we know what karma really is. So yeah, truth. Ladies, what do you say? That's a great verse. Good finds. Romans 2, 14 through 15. I mean, it doesn't matter what our opinions is really at the end of the day. The Bible is very clear. I mean, that was a great verse. I know. When I read that, I was like, it's a mic drop. I know. Because there's times, again,

where there's gray areas. And they could probably fight and say, well, yeah, but they see everybody else doing it. And so everybody else is eating them. And they could probably fight and say, well, yeah, but they see everybody else doing it. And so everybody else is eating them. So they probably just think that it's right, even if it feels wrong. But the Bible is very clear. And you know. You know. You know.

And I kept thinking to myself, like when I was younger, like before I found that scripture, I was like, I know. Right. I know. Right. Right. You do. You totally know.

And that's why some people will see people and be like, well, they don't, they're not Christians, but they're good people because they know the good people know the right things to do morally. They just, they have good character. Exactly. And so it's just, it's inside of them that they know to be good and it's written on their hearts. Um, so that great, that's great. I have nothing else to say. Mic drop. I was like, man, thank God for that scripture. Cause I'm like, I have nothing else to say. Mic drop. I was like, man, thank God for that scripture. I know. Because I'm like, I know there's something in there because how would I know from right from wrong when I was very, very little? There's got to be something that clearly

says that. That one was good. And there you go. God never fails me because when I read that scripture, I was like, bingo. There we go. I felt just like you did. Yeah. And it's good for clarity. So nobody can really like argue that one either. Not that they're probably trying to argue it, but like they're looking for clarity and be able to tell somebody else now they have a verse to be able to share with them. Yeah, totally agree. Totally agree. Now, listen, we got a new little graphic up for real estate appraisals. I'm going to tell you the same old thing, but I'm going to change that up too. But in case people are like, what's going on?

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The green grass. The green grass. We long for the green grass. We should have driven up there. Oh my gosh and it's snowing in parts of florida so the green grass we long for the green grass i should have driven up there oh my gosh it's super cold our trees even changed color like the fall did you notice that last week yeah i started changing like i we pull into the church and i feel like i'm driving down like somewhere in the fall right i felt like i was in new jersey the other day. Oh, yeah. When it was cold and it was rainy. I thought it was D.C.

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And it was like two months ago before Christmas. Yeah. We were talking about my friend. I got a text from my friend telling me that I remember I almost started crying. Did we ever talk about why I almost started crying? I don't think you did. You didn't say a name, but you said,

I think you kind of explained it just a little bit. Okay. So I have a friend and some of you know who this is, but I have a friend named Tara and Tara has a beautiful horse that she has had for, I think, 19 years. It's a long time. Like this horse is probably, outside of her own mother and father, and siblings, the longest individual. And you're going to go, it's not a person.

It is a person. It is a person. It is a person. It is a person. It is a person. The longest individual that she's ever known outside of her siblings, like I said, aunts, uncles, and things like that. She loves this animal. Anybody who's ever had horses,

they love their horses. Horses are like dogs. Some people don't love that. Like Tracy doesn't love her dogs. Like me and Tom love our dogs, but you love your horses. Like we probably love our dogs. I love my animals.

I just don't like when they poop and pee in my house. So no, no, no. I love Daisy more, but I can leave them and not be upset about it. I can leave Delilah and not be upset. Yeah, so I have a horse, but it's more Mackenzie's horse. Like, this is her thing.

Oh, okay. But I do love it. But Mackenzie is like. But Mackenzie is like obsessed. Right. Yeah. That's a great. Thank you, Tracy.

You're very welcome. Obsessed is correct. She is. People who have horses are like Tom is with dogs. Yes. Obsessed. Yes. And they act like, oh, yeah, they're so annoying.

But then as soon as something happens, they're like, oh, my gosh, my baby. Like your kids. Your kids annoy you. I know. It's true. But don't mess with your kids. Don't. Exactly.

That is horse mom. There you go. Okay. Yeah. Perfect. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome.

Because I'm like, how do I explain this? Obsessed. So Tara's got this horse that is like a child to her. Like it's her person. And even more than a child. It's like her mate, her significant other besides Drew. And his name is Romeo. Well, Romeo, it was not looking good for Romeo, actually.

It was looking pretty bleak for Romeo. And she had been dealing with it for a very, very long time. And the Lord showed her some very significant things through this process. And one of the things that she finally had to succumb to, and I tell you this story because it's a beautiful story, but there are some of you that might relate to this story in another way in life, right? So Romeo became, per her, like, there's God, there's Romeo, there's Drew. Her husband.

And she's like, something's wrong with this picture. Romeo should not be in this position. And so what she had to do is she had to get things right. Now, you're talking about a person who's only been saved. They got saved at our church, what, four years ago? Three years ago? COVID. Yeah, I think it's like 2021.

Yeah, so it's been three years ago. Yeah, probably about that. So, and has grown. Yeah, insane. Like a monster. Like a monster, yeah. Quick, like the word tells us we can, right? Correct, yep.

If we keep our priorities our priorities. But one of the things she realized is Romeo was in a position that he shouldn't be spiritually speaking in her life. And not that the Lord was allowing certain things to happen to Romeo, but she realized, I got to get things in order here. And by doing the things,

by doing things and getting them in order, because Romeo was not good. The vets weren't saying things were good. He's an older horse. And like it looked bad. And so he couldn't walk. Can you show the video? He was not able to walk at all.

If you look at his, what would be like our wrist. His wrist, it was extreme. I went out and saw him. It was so swollen. He was in significant pain. His hoof, they thought, was, I can't remember how it was, but the hoof, if the hoof is bad, then the horse has to be put down. If the leg is bad, what was it that they thought that was wrong with the hoof? Yeah, I can't remember. But I know for a fact, because we've dealt with this with our horse,

if the legs or feet go bad at that age, too, even though horses can live forever almost, it's not good. No vet is going to give you a good diagnosis. So this really was almost like a worst-case scenario. Yeah, and the vet was giving her bad reports. She kept saying to me, I'm not believing that report. I refuse. And she asked me to stand and believe with her for a specific thing.

So she and I, as well as I'm sure Abide, your group, a bunch of us were standing in faith. But the Lord told her to do something specifically, and she kept fighting it for months. And finally she said, okay, I'm going to submit to you, Lord. She did the very thing that she was fighting the Lord on because she thought that she should be the vessel that was part of the healing. And she's like, you know what? I'm going to remove myself from the equation, Lord, and I'm going to do exactly what you said.

So she did exactly what the Lord told her to do. And it was literally within two weeks, if not sooner, it was sooner, I believe, that horse got a good report. What she asked us all to believe for was exactly what the vet came out and said. And he was like i can't even believe this right like maybe an abscess or something it was an abscess yeah and then it which he did not believe right but all of a sudden it popped and they were not like thinking yes like it was yeah not what it was not what they suspected at all in fact they pretty much knew that it wasn't that it was that. It was like two or three

other things. So look at the horse today. This is what faith can do. And this is what obedience does. So if you look at the dark horse that's running now in the front, that is Romeo. That was Romeo, I believe she said. She sent this to me today. So that is Romeo today believe she said she sent this to me today so that is Romeo look at him that should not be guys but that's what things look like when you're obedient to the Lord you do what he tells you to do

and you let your pride down and you're like you know what Lord if you tell me to do it even though I want me to do it even though i want me to be the one or i want to do it my way you don't get the results that you want when you do it your way you get his results when he does it you do it his way so and be very careful because she was very careful as to who she asked to pray and stand with her. You say, well, that's an animal, and faith doesn't work the same way.

I dispute that. If you ask anything in my name, I'll do it for you. And I can name other scriptures that fall right in line with that, one right after another. And so we asked in his name and he did it for all of us specifically though for Tara. And I just encourage you today that if you're believing for something, evaluate yourself just like Tara did. Evaluate yourself and say, Lord, what is the missing link here? What would you have me to do? Be willing to do whatever it is that he's telling you, even if you have to fight your flesh and it not be what you wanna hear, do it.

And you'll get the results that you're hoping and believing for. I can promise you that. He never fails and he always keeps his promises. That's just the guy and the God that we serve. He is faithful in all things and in all ways. So hold true to that, hold fast to that. And I will see you on Friday.

And thank you for joining us. Bye. Real talk. Real talk. Real talk. Real talk.