God's Gift Through His Word T.Drake

All right. Hello, hello, everyone. How are you doing tonight? I hope you are doing well. And you see the lights, we're going to get into our message about making your decision. We're going to talk about it. And first of all, let me get myself into this live on my other device. So I can be part of the conversation with our Bible study. So we're going to do that real quick. Make sure I mute my house. There's no weird noises coming. Take that down. Hopefully that helps out. We'll see what happens. Okay. I think we should be good to go. Turn that all the way down so there's no extra Background noise. Okay. Okay. Well, here we go. Do this here. All right. Boom. Here we go. So let me close this one off for a minute. You just want to get the minute. So right now we're just going to get into this. And before we do, I am going to go ahead and have our music. And then when I come back, we'll get into this message and we'll pray and we'll do our thing. OK, so you know what I'm going to do. Here we go. All right, so I am back. And what I'm going to do right now is I am going to go ahead and pull up my screen. So we're going to talk about making a decision. So we're going to go and jump into James. So let me go ahead and pull that up. Let me present my screen so I can let you guys see what I will be reading. It wasn't working. I can't even say it. So let's do that. All right. And look, you guys, I figured it out. Oh, yeah. Okay. So we are here. So I'm going to go ahead and read that. Hopefully you guys can see it. And we're going to be in, of course, James chapter 1, verses 2 through 8. And it reads as such, my brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience, but let patience have its perfect work that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, With no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord. He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. So let me go ahead and pause the cause. Let's go ahead and pray before I get into the rest of our message and our scripture. Holy Father, Lord, I thank you right now. for this time to be with you, Lord God, to be in your word. I pray that this message, Lord God, would bless someone and help them, encourage them along their way. Lord God, as you show us, Lord God, in your word, what you would have us to do, Lord, let us not have you in our life as an afterthought. Lord, let us consult you in every decision that we make. And Lord, when we make the decision, Lord, let us stand on it. Let us walk by faith and not by what we see, Lord God, and help us to trust Lord God, that you will redirect us if we're going the wrong way. Lord, I thank you for the time and this allowance for God. Just to share a little bit of this word with Lord, these are precious, amazing, and lovely people. Lord, I thank you for the meeting of different people. I thank you for a beautiful day today. Lord, I thank you for the friends and family. Lord, I thank you for the roof over my head and the things that you have provided for me. Lord, it is not lost on me and I don't forget it. Lord God, I don't want to ever Thank you, Lord God, that I did anything on my own. Because, Lord God, that would be false and a fallacy. So, Lord, as I go ahead and share, Lord, let the Holy Spirit have his way on today. In the name of your precious son, Jesus, I pray. Amen. All right. So, as we've read that, let me go ahead and pull up our next set of scriptures. And I will jump in that. We think it will do it better this way. Let me do it. I'll do it like this. Okay. This. Two. Like what? And three. One, two, and three. Yes, okay. So we are going to be in Proverbs 16. We're going to use this passage as well.

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All right.



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Hello.



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Hello everyone.



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How are you guys doing?



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Hope you guys are having a fabulous day.



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Hope you had a fabulous day



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I know I did my arm is



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still a little bit messed up.



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I went in yesterday I think



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I guys told you guys that I



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went to the va got my shot



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and my arm was banging



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yesterday It is still yet banging now



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But it's okay because that's



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not going to stop me My arm



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is just going to do what it



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does and it will eventually



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of course come around to



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being back to normal so for now,



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it's just a little bit sore,



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but Before we get into all



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the good stuff and juicy



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stuff about what we're



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talking about Which is



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talking about friendship



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and I love talking about friendship Uh,



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but before we do that,



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we are going to do what



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what we always do So I'm



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not even going to tell you guys



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because I'm just going to do



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my Q and I'll be back.



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All right, so I am back.



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Hello.



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Hello Okay,



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so we are going to talk about



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friendship and friendship



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is a gift It's a gift and I



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said friendship is a gift



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do not abuse it and I've been uh,



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I guess this has been a



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thing For me and I have



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always really Enjoyed



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having good friends solid friends



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But it's when you have those



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friends that you thought



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were friends and they



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really turned out to not be friends.



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Oh, my.



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It turns out to be something else.



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So I was just watching a



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couple of clips that were on Instagram.



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One was one of these actresses was saying,



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if you want to if you want



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to have a friendship,



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if you want to have friends, guess what?



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The great verse.



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And I'm going to quote the



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verse that she said and



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read the whole thing.



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KJV, it says a man.



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that hath friends, show himself friendly.



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And there is a friend that



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sticketh closer than a brother.



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So basically you got to be



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All right.



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Hello.



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Hello.



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How are you guys doing?



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Hello.



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Hello.



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Hello.



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Hello.



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How are you guys doing?



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I hope you guys had a great, great day.



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And now we are, for me,



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having a great time right now.



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Excited to be with you guys



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and happy Thursday.



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And of course, when you hear this,



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you'll be like, hey,



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it is totally not that time.



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But I got out of here late.



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You know, sometimes you get tired, right?



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You're like, ooh, me.



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But I woke up.



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So anyway,



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I know that my consistency about



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what I've set myself to do,



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I'm going to stick with



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that and I'm going to do it.



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So today we are going to be



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talking about sexual sense.



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You can get caught up.



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You can.



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And we're going to get into that.



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But before I talk about that,



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let's go ahead and pray.



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And then I've got some



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scripture for you guys.



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So I got a lot of scriptures



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and we'll just talk because



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that's what we do over here



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in these streets.



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And if you're new to me,



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my name is T. Drake,



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podcasting godmother of connection.



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And this is what I do.



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I sometimes have Bible



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studies and go through different books,



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and sometimes I just have



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conversations either about



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some topics that are going



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on in the world or some



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things I've gone through personally,



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and whatever the Lord leads



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me to share about, that's what I do.



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So we're going to go ahead and pray,



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and then we'll get right into this.



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Here we go.



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Gracious Heavenly Father, Lord,



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thank you for this time where God did



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once again, be in your word.



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Lord,



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it is always a privilege and an honor,



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and Lord,



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I am humbled to be able to do it.



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Lord,



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I thank you for the allowance to even



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be in your word and that



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you are allowing

Jesus can provide peace that surpasses all understanding. You can have peace, not like world gives. Peace the way the Lord gives it is so much.

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Alright, hello, hello everyone. How are you doing? So, it is late night and of course I am on sharing and this is going to be the start of my 16th days. But before we get into this, you guys know what I'm going to do. What I'm going to do, I'm going to go ahead and get the theme music and then we'll come back and talk about our topic, which is... Don't let abuse change you. Definitely don't want to do that. So let me be quiet and here we go. Alright, I am back with you guys. So yes, I was just giving you a slight intro into the title of this particular podcast slash content slash stream and it is called Don't Let Abuse Change You. So definitely don't want to do that. So I wanted to talk about that because there's just there's always something that needs to be talked about. And because I have just done that PBS special with those lovely ladies and Miss Laura Flanders. I wanted to still continue talking about that because there's other abuses that happen and sometimes we kind of don't talk about any of them. But in particular, we'll be talking just about general abuse. And I think we're going to just tailor this one to, of course, domestic violence. It might go somewhere else as well, but for now, we'll just do that. So before we get started, I normally... do bible studies on here but and not on here because I haven't been on in a while but normally do my bible studies whenever I'm going live but today I will be pulling a little bit of scripture and hopefully during this entire 60 days, I will definitely be utilizing more scripture, and I'll be definitely using John 15 for a lot of this with the relationship between Christ, the relationship between others, the relationship between the world, and definitely want to talk about that. But we're going to go ahead and just jump into this topic right now. So we do have a purpose and you have a purpose I have a purpose the lord has set a purpose for us long before our parents even knew who we were and sometimes going along our journey we run into abuse And you could either have abuse in family, abuse with relationships with significant others. You could have abuse in all myriad ways and different venues and different places and spaces in your life. And sometimes those different types of abuse, they can cause a lot of damage. And we know it. I know it. You know it. And those damages can be mental and emotional, physical, financial, and spiritual, digital, and they're hard to deal with. And as I share with you guys, I share from a lot of experience of having to really navigate the abuse of And I'm not going to put a trigger warning on here because I'm hoping I'm not going to say anything triggering. If I do, I might go back and edit it to say trigger warning, but I'm hoping this is benign enough that it doesn't cause anyone to be triggered. But if you are, if something happens, doesn't sound right or it troubles you please turn this off take care of yourself because I definitely want you to do that I don't think I'm going to be bringing up a whole bunch of things uh as far as the situation of of old abuse so it should be okay So when I talk about this, and I talk about it for a myriad of reasons, not because I'm trying to give myself a pity party and not because I'm trying to put anybody on blast, but I am trying to help others to be aware and be cognizant of abuse. And as long as I have breath to talk about it and speak about it, I will. So when I was going through my different abuses and domestic violence in my life, it was just easier to bury all of it. And some of the abuses I went through when I was younger kind of led to the abuse that I had when I was older and all these different things, kind of these escapes. And when I look back, I saw that I was trying to navigate and handle That was harmful to me. And it wasn't always easy. So sometimes people will think that you're just doing stuff and they have things to say about you.

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