Standard Operating Procedure: Leaving the Pit Behind

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Welcome back welcome back we're
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back with the progression podcast man we always
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talk about progress the progression podcast man
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i'm your host 007 man it's so good to be back with you man it's been a great
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year great week great day great hour great minute great second and i'm so glad
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that God woke me up this morning to talk to you today.
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Man, I got something real important to talk about.
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I got to set a standard right here. I just got to set a real standard.
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And that standard, I'm going to tell you, my standard operating procedure,
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I'm going to tell you a few of them.
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I'm not going to tell you all of them, but I'm going to tell you a few of them, man.
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Like I say, it's the Progression Podcast.
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We speak on liberation, education, and elevation.
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I was liberated from the street life, educated in the prison system,
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and elevated once I gave my life to Jesus Christ, right?
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Second Corinthians 5 and 17, therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
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Old things are passed away, and behold, all things are brand new.
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That's what I'm about to talk about.
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Old things being passed away, and all things being brand new, man.
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Hey, man, I always want to tell you that I love you, and it's tight,
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but it's right, but we're going to get it right. Y'all ready?
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We're going to talk about the standard operating procedure.
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Now, you know, when you're in a business or in the office,
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you know, in my office at work, you know, we have a standard operating procedure,
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and we do things a certain way, but what I'm going to tell y'all right now is
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I'm not going to be that long on this one.
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I'm I'm going to just keep you a little bit. I'm going to cut across the field.
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I'm going to make a long story short, and I'm going to make a short story not so long.
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I want to come from Ephesians.
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Ephesians 5, verse 16 and 17, make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.
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Don't act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.
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Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.
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Don't act thoughtlessly, thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.
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Standard operating procedure. I'm going to tell you a few things I'm done with.
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These things that I'm done with, this is one. Proving the point.
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Now, going back and forth with people about proving the point about something
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that I'm trying to tell you, something that I'm trying to get into your head
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and you're not believing it, hey, man, I'm through with proving the point.
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Because proving that point to you, you might not get it, right?
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I'll tell you what it is, and I'll tell you what it ain't.
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And if you don't get it, hey, that's on you, man.
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Proving the point. I think that my life is a Bible to other people.
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Sometimes they'll never pick up that book, never read the scripture.
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So your life got to be the scripture for them, right? So I'm the point.
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I don't want to prove it to you by saying it to you and going back and forth
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with you. I'll just show you my life, show you how I move, and maybe that'll
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be your point that need to be proven to you.
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I'm not proving no point no more. I'm not going back and forth.
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Y'all remember the song?
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I'm living my best life. I ain't going back and forth, right?
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Think about it. I'm living my best life. I'm in God. That's my best life.
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Man, me being in God is my best life. I remember back when I was in the streets.
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I was in the streets and I thought that was the only thing. I was doing that
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pit living. I always talk to y'all about pit living.
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Pit living is when you're in a pit and you're with all these people that's in the pit with you.
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They're in the pit with you, and you're getting pats on the back.
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They're saying you're doing good because everybody's in the pit,
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and we're all having fun.
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But once you come out the pit, you get to look down and see,
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hey, man, I was in that little old pit.
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Man, it's a big world out here. I'm living my best life.
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Man, I'm living a godly life. Not to say that I don't mess up all the time, because I do.
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And look, everybody all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
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But we don't make it an excuse to say, well, you know, they doing this.
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So, you know, I'm excused for no, you're not.
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We all mess up, but still we strive to be better, right?
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We get salvation. We get salvation. And our ultimate strive is for sanctification, right?
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Proving the point. And I'm through with proving the point to some people, right? Wasting time.
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These are things that I'm done with. 2025, I left it behind.
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I'm in 2026. I'm telling you some new tricks.
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Wasting time, right? I'm not going to be wasting my time trying to convince
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you of what you need to do to get your life straight.
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I remember somebody asking for advice, and then they didn't do what I told them
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to do at first, but then they asked you for some more advice.
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All I'm going to say is, hey, do the first thing I told you to do.
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Man, just do the first thing.
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I'm done wasting time. I don't know.
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You know, I want to tell you a few times what it is and what it ain't.
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Then you can look at my life and you can see I'm not wasting no time just steady
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or trying to get you to come on on this side.
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Because I'm telling you, man, I'm telling you what I have, what works for me.
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What works for me is the only way I got out of jail, out of prison,
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was Jesus Christ himself.
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It ain't me. I'm telling you, if it was up to me, I'd still be in fifth ward
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doing some wrong thing, drugs, whatever I was doing.
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I'll be doing that. Jack in. I'll be doing that.
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So it ain't my power. It's God's power. And I'm telling you,
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Jesus Christ is the only way I could do it.
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And man, I'm telling you, if you try this, just try it.
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The Bible says, taste and see that the Lord is good. Why did it say taste and see?
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Maybe it's because, you know, people look at food and they say,
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oh, that looks good. And then they taste.
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But the Bible says taste and see. First, you have to taste.
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Go get them in your life. Go do what he says do.
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And then you'll see. I'm not telling you I'm going back to this point.
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I'm not telling you that everything is going to be peachy clean.
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It's going to be hunky dory and all your problems will be solved.
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All I'm telling you is that, man, it is better on this side of Jesus.
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All that other stuff, I'm not even trying to hear it. You could tell me your philosophies all day.
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All I know is this proven thing that I've seen.
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My whole life coming together once I gave my life to Jesus Christ.
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I was in a jail cell and I gave my life to Jesus Christ.
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Hey, things start moving about out of the jail cell for me.
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Man, things start happening, sinking up.
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Once I got out, not to say I didn't do bad things, not bad things,
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but I wasn't following his will.
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But I'm trying to tell you, a lot of people, they don't rob.
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A lot of people, they don't scheme and con people like I did.
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But they won't acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Lord of their life.
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So you might as well go ahead and act a fool.
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Because you got to be all in. I talked to my boy the other day.
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We talk about bawling, right?
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Bawling. You want to be bawling? You got to be all in.
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Man, you got to be all in this thing, right? So right now, I'm not wasting time.
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I'm not wasting time with people. I'm not wasting time with situations.
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I'm not wasting time with foolish talk or gossiping or nothing like that.
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I'm not wasting no time with that stuff, right?
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Especially this. I'm finna go into the next thing. I'm not entertaining things
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that have nothing to do with me.
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If someone comes to me and say, hey, man, you heard such and such,
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man. What you think about it? Hey, man, I don't want to hear it.
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It's going to stop here because I don't want to hear things that don't have nothing to do with me.
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Hey, man, I pray for my partners.
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You know what I'm saying? If they need me financially, spiritually,
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or whatever, man, I'm there for them.
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But you know what? I'm not here to gossip with nobody else about my partners.
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My partners is my partners, and their situations is their situations,
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but I'm not here to gossip about it, right?
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Hey, man, I'm not entertaining those things that don't have nothing to do with me.
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If they doing that in their house, hey, they doing that in their house.
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Hey, man, that's still. I got my own thing to do.
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Hey, man, let me tell you something real quick. It's a thing back in the day, right?
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So when President Obama was running for office, he had a preacher that he used
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to go to his church. His name was Jeremiah Wright.
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And they had said this sermon, and they took excerpts from this sermon, right?
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And they were saying he was saying GD America, right?
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And I wanted to know the context of that. So I wanted to listen to the whole sermon. So I did.
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And that sermon, it really wasn't about that.
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So he said, when the Twin Towers got hit by the planes, he said,
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God, he dropped to his knees.
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God, what are we going to do? This is a catastrophe.
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What are we going to do about this?
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He said, clearly, God told him, why are you worried about that?
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You need to get your relationship right with me.
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I can't be worried about Hushu, Mimu, Jojo, and what's happening in their house.
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I need to worry about my relationship with Jesus Christ getting it right.
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I can't worry about a no-no-no and how they acting a fool out there.
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Hey, I can't worry about that. I got to worry about what's in my house,
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in my business. This is my business.
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It's a standard operating procedure
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in my house. And that's what we're going to do for me in my house.
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As for me in my house, we will serve the Lord.
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I mean, the God of all gods, man. I was deep down in the depths of dirt and
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God had to reach way down and get me.
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My heart was messed up. My mind was messed up. I had a messed up mentality.
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What I'm trying to tell you is I'm not entertaining things that have nothing
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to do with me because that's a big waste of time.
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Like I said in that point, it's a big waste of time.
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Now, I want to tell you things that I am doing this year, things I'm doing this year.
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Right. That, you know, I decree and declare that these things are going to happen. I'm a practice.
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Discipline. The practice of discipline.
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See, discipline will hold you, will keep you when you're not motivated.
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Some days I'm not motivated to do certain things.
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Right. But the discipline of a thing will keep you going. The discipline,
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if you have discipline, discipline is one of those things that we got to have.
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And you know what? We never look at the words discipline as disciple.
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I'm a disciple of Christ.
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Discipline. I need to have discipline. And man, I'm telling you,
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that's one of my practices this year.
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I'm not saying that I wasn't disciplined, but let me tell you,
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in the streets, I was disciplined on foolishness.
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And maybe now I'm more disciplined on stuff that God wants me to do, right?
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So I want to practice consistency.
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Consistency. When you have discipline in your life.
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Consistency is the key. You keep doing the thing the right way.
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You keep doing, like I'm saying, discipline will keep you.
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If you keep on going like that, even though you don't want to do it,
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you still do it because it's just in your mind. It's just discipline to do it, man.
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Right? Now I'm going to tell you my last thoughts, my last thoughts.
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And man, I want to thank y'all for subscribing to the Progression Podcast.
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Man, we on Apple. We on every platform.
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Spotify, you can get podcasts. I'm there, man. You can get it.
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And then I got some real good news, man.
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I am in 70% of the prisons that are all around the United States, man.
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I'm going to be there probably by March. Man, this podcast will be reaching
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my brothers on the inside.
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Man, I'm so glad. I'm so happy. My man, Trey Nine, hit me on to it.
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And me and him, we going in there and doing our thing, man, because our brothers
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and our sisters in prison on their little tablets they have,
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they need encouragement.
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They going to get out one day. They need encouragement even when they in there
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to get their mind right. Right.
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And so I'm just telling them. Right. And let me tell you something.
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This is a standard operating procedure, but I'm going to tell y'all the real.
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I'm going to be grateful. I'm going to be grateful. Amen.
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A lot of times I look at things and I say it could be worse.
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I could be in the hospital. I could be in the graveyard.
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Amen. I could be in prison right now. I'm grateful for the things that God has done.
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And I want to practice being grateful.
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I want you to practice being grateful.
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Amen. Me and my homeboy, we had a talk the other day about, we was talking about Paul.
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Me and Gifty was talking about Paul on the phone the other day.
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And I think we was in Ephesians.
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Now, I think we was in Philippians and he was reading a letter from the church
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of Philippi and they had sent him some stuff, you know, coats and stuff like
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that. and he wrote a letter to them.
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And in that letter, I'm not going to go through all of it, but he was saying
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something like, I thank you for what you've done, but I know what it is to go
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with and I know what it is to go without.
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I've had plenty and I know how to go with nothing.
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Hey man, be grateful for what you have, right?
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I tell people all the time that marriages, cars houses tennis shoes everything
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everything decays if it doesn't have care,
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if you don't care for it.
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Your marriage will decay if you're not grateful for your wife or your husband.
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Your marriage will decay. Now, what you have to do is appreciate that person
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that God gave you that's in your life.
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A car, if you don't get the oil change, that car is going to go kaput. It's going to decay.
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If you don't wash your tennis shoes off, I'm just going through the list that I just said.
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Hey, they're going to look dirty and they're going to start leaning too.
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Hey, man, your kids, everything will decay if you don't put that into them.
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So be grateful for what you do have.
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I don't have a Bentley or Rose Wars outside, but I think I'm going to get one.
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I want one of them walls that have the doors that do like that.
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The two-door I really wanted, and I think I'm going to have one before probably
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the year. I probably want to have one.
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Hey, it's what I want to have. You know, that's what I want to do.
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Now I know some people, oh, you don't need that.
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Oh, Christ, let me tell you something. That's what I want.
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God gives me everything I need.
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My daily bread has been given to me, and I'm so grateful for it.
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But some things I want to do, I don't want to do it.
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Now, if it's for me, it's for me. And this is my standard operating procedure.
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Things I'm done with, I'm done with proving the point.
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I'm done with wasting time. I'm done with that stuff.
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And I'm done entertaining conversations or anything that doesn't have anything to do with me.
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Things I'm doing this year discipline consistency
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hey and the last thoughts I said I'm being grateful man thank y'all for having
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me man subscribe to the progression podcast I'm on YouTube too hey man go to
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YouTube hit that notification bell hey man every time I have a show you will
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know hey 007 man I love y'all peace.