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Hi, My name is Norma Stanley and welcome to Disability World. Hello,
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and welcome to Disability. This is an edition of show
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that we discussed issues of import and impact as people
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with disabilities and the disability minitry across them, across the
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world and right here in Metro Atlanta. It's Normous Stanley
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and the Disability World speak with leaders and inherantce.
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You know his and.
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People are making a positive difference now communities as to
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the disstability community.
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And in some ways some do it in ways that
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are not visible.
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And so we want to make sure that those who
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are making impact, whether their authors, whether their business owners,
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whatever it is is, how impact that positivity impacts families
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like mine. I want to make sure people know and
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what they're doing. And today I'm excited on one of
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those amazing his name doctor reg And Howard, and he
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is is the spiritual director of Truth and Transformation Ministries,
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and he is author of clue putting one called Magnificence,
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which came out last year, and he just released a
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new book that we'll be talking about today, and I
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want to go ahead and introduce ms and doctor rather
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Led Howard.
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And then.
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Thank you for being a part of disability world today.
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Reverend Howard, thank you again, and so talk about your book.
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Well, let me first start off by saying that.
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Magnificence from a spiritual standpoint is the ability to align
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your body, your mind, and your soul with the presence
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of God that's within you, and realizing that oneness allows
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all of us to be able to manifest our magnificence
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so to speak. You know, the scripture talks about pressing
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toward the mark of the high calling, and so the
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book manifested your magnificence.
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I just simply took twelve.
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We we know that there are many African American historical
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figures who manifested their magnificence.
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And the basic thesis of the book is that.
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The reason Harriet Tutman or Marcus Garvey or Rosa Parks
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were able to do what it is that they did
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was because of their direct connection, knowing their direct connection
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with the spirit of God within them. So Harriet Tutman
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in the book represents the spiritual luminary of renunciation. Renunciation
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is a spiritual principle that allows us to renounce those conditions,
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those circumstances that do not serve us and she realized
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in her mind that the institution of slavery did not
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serve her. She said that slavery was against the law
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of God. That's what she came to realize. Now she
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had an awareness or consciousness that allowed her to step
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into that. She was no different than any other African
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American that was enslaved on that plantation, But the major
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difference was her awareness. And we all have the awareness
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to step into who and what we are, to step
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into our magnificence. So she used that spiritual principle and
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stepped into that magnificence. Now she has some difficulty along
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the way, and you mentioned that she had a disability.
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She had a disability known as epilepsy because she had
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been attacked as a child and slave master had knocked
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her on the head with a piece of steel and
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as a result of that, she was left in a
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field for two days without medical attention, just laying out
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in the field bleeding for two days. When she arose
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from that situation, that debilitating situation, this is how we
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know that the God presence is real. As a result
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of her being able to rise out of that situation,
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and she was immediately put back to work, she began
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to have visions of stepping into freedom, and that was
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and those visions inspired her to free herself and to
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free as many people who wanted to go with her.
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You know, she made multiple trips.
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She freed herself, She made multiple trips back to that
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same plantation to rescue her mother, to rescue her father,
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to rescue manyfit members of her family, and also other
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people that were on the plantation that were ready.
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To to go.
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So the disability that you're talking about is a reminder
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to all of us.
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Nothing stops us but us.
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And when we have the thought that we can achieve anything,
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we're able to step into it. And you know, I
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was talking about prayer. My new book is about prayer.
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It's entitled You Are the Prayer that you pray. We
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have to become a living prayer now, especially these days.
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Harry Tutman demonstrated through her life's example that she was
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a living prayer. In other words of thoughts, the feelings
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that she had about herself, because she had to feel
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good about herself and what she was doing in order
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to be able to do it. The words that she
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spoke and her behaviors all demonstrated that she was in
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alignment with the magnificence of her own being. And I
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want to share a quote from something that she said.
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This is what she said. She said, I.
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Had reasoned this out in my mind that there was
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one of two things I had a right to liberty
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or death. If I could not have one, I would
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have the other. So that reminds us, she demonstrates and
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shows us that we always have a choice. There's no
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such thing as our back being up against the wall.
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And see when.
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She was knocked in the head with that piece of
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steel and she arose from that condition that she had
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been in, that debilitating condition that gave her epilepsy, it
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still turned out to be a blessing quote unquote in
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disguise because you began to again get visions of how
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she could free herself. She began to really realize that
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slavery was not ordained by God. And see everything that
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we're going through right now, go ahead, did you want
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to ask me something.
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I was gonna go affirm with your.
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Okay, And everything that we're going through in present day,
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with everything that's going on in the political environment, this
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is an opportunity.
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Just like Harry Tullman, this is an opportunity.
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For us to rise, for us to renounce the conditions,
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the circumstances. If she could do it in eighteen forty nine,
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certainly we can do what we need to do in
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twenty twenty six. Being on a plantation is a mindset.
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She was on a physical plantation, but she also had
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to rise off the limiting beliefs, which are the plant
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which is the plantation that's that was within her mind.
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We're going to have to do the same thing right here,
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right now. We don't have this. We don't have epilepsy.
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Many of us don't that have maybe inter viewing audiences.
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We don't have epilepsy or anything really withholding us or
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stopping us. So she's showing us that, or she has
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shown us that through her example, that we can do
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all things through the God presence that exists within us.
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And the same God presence that was in Harriet Tubman
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is the same God presence that's at work within us.
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We just have to activate it, We just have to
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use it absolutely.
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Sharing that actually with my brother earlier, that whole mindset
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is so important because what you think about you bring.
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About yeah, and one of the things that I'm doing
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through my new book, You Are The Prayer that You
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Pray is laying out a four step process in terms
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of how to keep ourselves aligned with.
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The spirit and presence of God.
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So I'm working to expand our understanding and awareness of
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what prayer is. Traditionally, we've been taught that prayer is
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what we communicate to God, either verbally or silently.
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But it's more than that.
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Prayer is what we think, how we feel, the words
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that we speak, which is what you just said, and
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then our behavior. Our behavior it takes on, has to
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take on, the demonstrates the commitment that we have to
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our prayer. So we have to animate our prayer through
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our behavior.
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So it's a four step process.
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I'm going to say it again, it's our thoughts, because
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everything is initiated through thinking. First, it's what we feel.
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I've got to feel good about myself. I can't pray
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in doubt. I can't pray in fear because I'm not
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stepping into the greatness of who and what I am.
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If I'm praying in fear, I'm not praying with faith.
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So I have to I have to feel good about myself.
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I have to speak the words of power, my words
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have to be in alignment with my prayer, and my
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behavior has to demonstrate my commitment to my prayer. In
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other words, if I say I want to be healthy,
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I can't.
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I can't eat.
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I cannot eat a whole bunch of food and not
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exercise and not drink water and not eat vegetables. See,
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we've got to We've got to cooperate with the will
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of God. If we say that we desire something, then
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we have to take on the energy of our desire.
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If I want to be healthy, I've got to take
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on the energy of divine health. If I want to
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if I want to experience upgrade abundance, I've got to
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take on the energy of abundance.
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You know what I'm saying. There's some practical things that
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we have to do.
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May have to sit down, you may have to make
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a budget, you see what I'm saying. And so there
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are different things that we us to do so that
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we remain in divine order with what we say that
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we want. Because the truth really is what you desire
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you already have. We can overcome, we can move past
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human quote unquote human limitation. So Harry Tupman had a
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quote unquote human limitation that showed up as epilepsy. But
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through her divine persistence, her unwillingness to give up on
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the idea of freedom, she was able to move beyond
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her perceived disability.
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And that's very key.
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That's why that's one of the reasons to go back
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to answer your question from that's one of the reasons
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why I chose her because she definitely was an overcomer.
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She really lived out.
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The notion that I can do all things through God,
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through Christ, which strengthens me. And if we begin to
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really understand what it was saying in terms of Christ,
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Christ means one who has elevated his or her awareness
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into union with God or into union with his or
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her higher self. And so we all have the ability
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to rise into union with our higher self, our god Self,
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because even Jesus said, these and greater things shall you do. Also,
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so that means that we've got to go even further
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than what the master teacher has taught us.
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So these these, these these things.
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Are our design. Principles, are designed for us to move
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forward and upward and onward. And also I want to
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note one other person in the book, uh Mary MacLeod
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Bethune Mary McLeod Bethune was able to push past all
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all of the racism and all and she founded Bethune
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Cookman College. And one of the things she was registering
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students to vote. This is in the early nineteen hundreds,
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registering students to vote, and she as one woman, pushed
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off the Ku Klux Klan when they came to accost
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her and almost tear up the campus of Bethune Cookman College.
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Most people don't know that.
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But see, there are many things, many different examples that
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we can pull from use today that will give us strength,
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that will give us power and say, if this person
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did it in nineteen fifteen, or if this person did
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it in eighteen forty.
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Nine, I can also do it too.
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I mean, we especially need the strength and power of
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the ancestors now. We need to be able to draw
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on the strength and the power of the ancestors in
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order to overcome all of the negativity, all of the
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vitriol that we're experiencing right now.
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In this current political moment.
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And again through your podcast, you're you're demonstrating to us
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that we can overcome that. You are taking something that's
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quote unquote seen as negative in the on the human realm,
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and you have created a platform because you've gotten the
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divine idea from the spirit to help elevate all of
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our awareness, our consciousness around quote unquote disability. And you
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mentioned Bishop Aver He's he's had a lot of health challenge,
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but he's also demonstrating through his life's example that you
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can overcome what seems to be not able, not you know,
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not easily overcome, that you can overcome what is so
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call an impossibility.
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What medical science says is the impossibility.
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See in a lot of instances, medical science has to
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catch up with the realities of God.
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Yeah, I think there's something that says, guard your mind
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because again, what we think about is what we bring
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about and not peop don't realize that. Well, you know,
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it's so important to be careful what you let in
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so that it doesn't sit and turn it to something negative.
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And we also have to saturate our mind with the
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truth daily.
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We do it through We do it through meditation, which
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is listening to the God presence. We do it through prayer,
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which is affirming the God presence in our life. We
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have to affirm the God presence through our relationships, what
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we eat, our exercise and keeping our bodies in alignment,
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many different levels to continue to realize our oneness in God.
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as Harriet Tupman overcame her disability.
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And I know who else I wanted to mention in
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the book, Madam C. J. Walker. Madam C. J.
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Walker is known for straightening hair, but the real truth
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how she made her millions was growing black women's hair
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and teaching them how to keep their hair healthy.
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Madam C. J. Walker lost her hair, but she.
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in a dream, said, it's just the spirit speaking to her.
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use it on other women's hair and their hair began
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to grow back. And so that's how she became a millionaire,
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became became so successful that Avon Cosmetics used her business
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model of sales agents going from door to door to.
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There are so much genius among us, but much of
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it has been forgotten. And so that's why, you know,
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that's why I wrote that book Manifesture of Magnificence.
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to be black in this society, you have to overcome
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certain things, just like.
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and operating as us. And so we can overcome anything
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in the human realm because the spirit of God lives
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within us. That we can that we can overcome and
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move through any circumstances, situation, or condition that appears to
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be negative. See, we've got to live out of more
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than just the human realm only. And now you know
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you've heard me say that over and over.
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Again, that we were judged by the five senses.
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et cetera. But there's a sixth sense in us, which
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is the spirit, and the spirit of us has to
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inform all of the other senses. And when we don't,
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when we don't live from the spiritual realm. We get
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ourselves into trouble. It's just like with the spirits what
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the scripture says about be in the world but not
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of the world. See and when we get when we
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when we when we live in the world, I mean well,
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when we think we are of the world, that we
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get ourselves in the as you just mentioned, we get
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ourselves in some deep trouble.
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So we're here, our feet are planet on the earth.
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in us, through us and as us, and it informs us.
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I've said it over and over in the.
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Podcast that we have the ability to do all things
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through God, which strengthens us, and that all things are
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possible through God. We just got to begin to see
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ourselves doing, being.
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See and because you're perfect, cold and complete in God.
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It's about your beau at the end of the show
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and how people can meet you if they have any
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questions and want to.
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Get to your books.
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Okay, my website is doctor Reginald Howard. Doctor is spelt
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out doctor Reginald Howard dot com.
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You can reach me there.
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I also feel comfortable giving out my telephone number you
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may reach me for spiritual counseling. I am an ordained
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minister and also have a PhD in psychology. My telephone
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number is for zero four two seven four forty three hundred.
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You may contact me to coordinate a spiritual counseling session.
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I'm also on Facebook as Reverend Reginald Howard.
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No we peach your phone number again please for.
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Zero four two seven four forty three hundred, and my
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Facebook is R E V. Reginald Howard. That's Rev. Howard
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Reverend Reginald Howard on Facebook and also r e V
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So again for all the works that you're doing with
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but and for many people, but we're looking for you know,
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the impact you're going to have on the masses.
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So thank you again, Thank you, I appreciate you and
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look forward to being with you again soon.
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Well, thank you, Reverend Howard. We are at the end
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of our show and time goes so fast. We love
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these conversations with people who we know are making a difference,
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and we want to make sure that you know, the
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viewing audience gets a chance to meet them and learn
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from them. So we really appreciate Reverend howse about today,
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So appreciate you tuning in to disability World today and
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look forward to our next episode. And again we have
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a lot of great things for in the community who
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are doing the same things. So keep your channels tuned
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into this world. And to meet again, please
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Hi, My name is Norma Stanley and welcome to Disability World. Hello,
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and welcome to Disability. This is an edition of show
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that we discussed issues of import and impact as people
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with disabilities and the disability minitry across them, across the
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world and right here in Metro Atlanta. It's Normous Stanley
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and the Disability World speak with leaders and inherantce.
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You know his and.
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People are making a positive difference now communities as to
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the disstability community.
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And in some ways some do it in ways that
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are not visible.
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are making impact, whether their authors, whether their business owners,
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whatever it is is, how impact that positivity impacts families
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like mine. I want to make sure people know and
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what they're doing. And today I'm excited on one of
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those amazing his name doctor reg And Howard, and he
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is is the spiritual director of Truth and Transformation Ministries,
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and he is author of clue putting one called Magnificence,
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which came out last year, and he just released a
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new book that we'll be talking about today, and I
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want to go ahead and introduce ms and doctor rather
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Led Howard.
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And then.
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Thank you for being a part of disability world today.
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Reverend Howard, thank you again, and so talk about your book.
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Well, let me first start off by saying that.
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Magnificence from a spiritual standpoint is the ability to align
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your body, your mind, and your soul with the presence
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of God that's within you, and realizing that oneness allows
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all of us to be able to manifest our magnificence
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so to speak. You know, the scripture talks about pressing
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toward the mark of the high calling, and so the
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book manifested your magnificence.
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I just simply took twelve.
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figures who manifested their magnificence.
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The reason Harriet Tutman or Marcus Garvey or Rosa Parks
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was because of their direct connection, knowing their direct connection
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with the spirit of God within them. So Harriet Tutman
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in the book represents the spiritual luminary of renunciation. Renunciation
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is a spiritual principle that allows us to renounce those conditions,
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those circumstances that do not serve us and she realized
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in her mind that the institution of slavery did not
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serve her. She said that slavery was against the law
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of God. That's what she came to realize. Now she
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had an awareness or consciousness that allowed her to step
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American that was enslaved on that plantation, But the major
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difference was her awareness. And we all have the awareness
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to step into who and what we are, to step
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into our magnificence. So she used that spiritual principle and
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stepped into that magnificence. Now she has some difficulty along
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the way, and you mentioned that she had a disability.
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been attacked as a child and slave master had knocked
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her on the head with a piece of steel and
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in the field bleeding for two days. When she arose
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know that the God presence is real. As a result
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of her being able to rise out of that situation,
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to have visions of stepping into freedom, and that was
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and those visions inspired her to free herself and to
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free as many people who wanted to go with her.
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people that were on the plantation that were ready.
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we're able to step into it. And you know, I
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was talking about prayer. My new book is about prayer.
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a living prayer. In other words of thoughts, the feelings
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that she had about herself, because she had to feel
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alignment with the magnificence of her own being. And I
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This is what she said. She said, I.
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one of two things I had a right to liberty
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or death. If I could not have one, I would
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have the other. So that reminds us, she demonstrates and
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shows us that we always have a choice. There's no
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such thing as our back being up against the wall.
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steel and she arose from that condition that she had
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been in, that debilitating condition that gave her epilepsy, it
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still turned out to be a blessing quote unquote in
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disguise because you began to again get visions of how
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she could free herself. She began to really realize that
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slavery was not ordained by God. And see everything that
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we're going through right now, go ahead, did you want
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to ask me something.
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with everything that's going on in the political environment, this
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is an opportunity.
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Just like Harry Tullman, this is an opportunity.
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the circumstances. If she could do it in eighteen forty nine,
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certainly we can do what we need to do in
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twenty twenty six. Being on a plantation is a mindset.
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to rise off the limiting beliefs, which are the plant
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which is the plantation that's that was within her mind.
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right now. We don't have this. We don't have epilepsy.
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stopping us. So she's showing us that, or she has
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shown us that through her example, that we can do
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all things through the God presence that exists within us.
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is the same God presence that's at work within us.
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use it absolutely.
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through my new book, You Are The Prayer that You
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of how to keep ourselves aligned with.
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what prayer is. Traditionally, we've been taught that prayer is
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what we communicate to God, either verbally or silently.
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that we speak, which is what you just said, and
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then our behavior. Our behavior it takes on, has to
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take on, the demonstrates the commitment that we have to
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our prayer. So we have to animate our prayer through
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I'm going to say it again, it's our thoughts, because
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everything is initiated through thinking. First, it's what we feel.
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I've got to feel good about myself. I can't pray
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in doubt. I can't pray in fear because I'm not
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stepping into the greatness of who and what I am.
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If I'm praying in fear, I'm not praying with faith.
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I have to speak the words of power, my words
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have to be in alignment with my prayer, and my
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behavior has to demonstrate my commitment to my prayer. In
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other words, if I say I want to be healthy,
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I can't.
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I can't eat.
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I cannot eat a whole bunch of food and not
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exercise and not drink water and not eat vegetables. See,
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we've got to We've got to cooperate with the will
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of God. If we say that we desire something, then
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we have to take on the energy of our desire.
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If I want to be healthy, I've got to take
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on the energy of divine health. If I want to
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if I want to experience upgrade abundance, I've got to
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take on the energy of abundance.
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You know what I'm saying. There's some practical things that
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a budget, you see what I'm saying. And so there
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are different things that we us to do so that
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we remain in divine order with what we say that
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we want. Because the truth really is what you desire
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you already have. We can overcome, we can move past
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human quote unquote human limitation. So Harry Tupman had a
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quote unquote human limitation that showed up as epilepsy. But
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through her divine persistence, her unwillingness to give up on
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the idea of freedom, she was able to move beyond
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her perceived disability.
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That's why that's one of the reasons to go back
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to answer your question from that's one of the reasons
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why I chose her because she definitely was an overcomer.
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She really lived out.
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The notion that I can do all things through God,
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through Christ, which strengthens me. And if we begin to
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really understand what it was saying in terms of Christ,
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Christ means one who has elevated his or her awareness
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into union with God or into union with his or
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her higher self. And so we all have the ability
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to rise into union with our higher self, our god Self,
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because even Jesus said, these and greater things shall you do. Also,
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so that means that we've got to go even further
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than what the master teacher has taught us.
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So these these, these these things.
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Are our design. Principles, are designed for us to move
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forward and upward and onward. And also I want to
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note one other person in the book, uh Mary MacLeod
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Bethune Mary McLeod Bethune was able to push past all
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all of the racism and all and she founded Bethune
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Cookman College. And one of the things she was registering
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students to vote. This is in the early nineteen hundreds,
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registering students to vote, and she as one woman, pushed
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off the Ku Klux Klan when they came to accost
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her and almost tear up the campus of Bethune Cookman College.
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Most people don't know that.
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But see, there are many things, many different examples that
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we can pull from use today that will give us strength,
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that will give us power and say, if this person
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did it in nineteen fifteen, or if this person did
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it in eighteen forty.
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Nine, I can also do it too.
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I mean, we especially need the strength and power of
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the ancestors now. We need to be able to draw
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on the strength and the power of the ancestors in
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order to overcome all of the negativity, all of the
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vitriol that we're experiencing right now.
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In this current political moment.
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that we can overcome that. You are taking something that's
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quote unquote seen as negative in the on the human realm,
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and you have created a platform because you've gotten the
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divine idea from the spirit to help elevate all of
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our awareness, our consciousness around quote unquote disability. And you
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mentioned Bishop Aver He's he's had a lot of health challenge,
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but he's also demonstrating through his life's example that you
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can overcome what seems to be not able, not you know,
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not easily overcome, that you can overcome what is so
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call an impossibility.
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What medical science says is the impossibility.
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See in a lot of instances, medical science has to
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catch up with the realities of God.
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because again, what we think about is what we bring
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about and not peop don't realize that. Well, you know,
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it's so important to be careful what you let in
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so that it doesn't sit and turn it to something negative.
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truth daily.
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We do it through We do it through meditation, which
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is listening to the God presence. We do it through prayer,
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which is affirming the God presence in our life. We
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have to affirm the God presence through our relationships, what
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we eat, our exercise and keeping our bodies in alignment,
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because the scripture says that our.
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Body is what the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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many different levels to continue to realize our oneness in God.
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as Harriet Tupman overcame her disability.
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And I know who else I wanted to mention in
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the book, Madam C. J. Walker. Madam C. J.
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Walker is known for straightening hair, but the real truth
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how she made her millions was growing black women's hair
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and teaching them how to keep their hair healthy.
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Madam C. J. Walker lost her hair, but she.
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in a dream, said, it's just the spirit speaking to her.
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She was willing and obedient and followed the spirit.
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She was able to grow her hair back.
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use it on other women's hair and their hair began
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to grow back. And so that's how she became a millionaire,
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became became so successful that Avon Cosmetics used her business
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model of sales agents going from door to door to.
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There are so much genius among us, but much of
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it has been forgotten. And so that's why, you know,
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that's why I wrote that book Manifesture of Magnificence.
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to be black in this society, you have to overcome
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certain things, just like.
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and operating as us. And so we can overcome anything
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in the human realm because the spirit of God lives
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within us. That we can that we can overcome and
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move through any circumstances, situation, or condition that appears to
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be negative. See, we've got to live out of more
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than just the human realm only. And now you know
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you've heard me say that over and over.
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Again, that we were judged by the five senses.
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We typically we just judged by what we can paste, touch, see, here, smell,
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et cetera. But there's a sixth sense in us, which
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is the spirit, and the spirit of us has to
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inform all of the other senses. And when we don't,
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when we don't live from the spiritual realm. We get
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ourselves into trouble. It's just like with the spirits what
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the scripture says about be in the world but not
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of the world. See and when we get when we
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when we when we live in the world, I mean well,
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when we think we are of the world, that we
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get ourselves in the as you just mentioned, we get
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ourselves in some deep trouble.
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So we're here, our feet are planet on the earth.
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But at the same time, it's the spirit that moves
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in us, through us and as us, and it informs us.
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I've said it over and over in the.
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Podcast that we have the ability to do all things
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through God, which strengthens us, and that all things are
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possible through God. We just got to begin to see
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ourselves doing, being.
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And having what we've never had had before.
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See and because you're perfect, cold and complete in God.
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It's about your beau at the end of the show
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and how people can meet you if they have any
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questions and want to.
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Get to your books.
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Okay, my website is doctor Reginald Howard. Doctor is spelt
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out doctor Reginald Howard dot com.
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You can reach me there.
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I also feel comfortable giving out my telephone number you
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may reach me for spiritual counseling. I am an ordained
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minister and also have a PhD in psychology. My telephone
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number is for zero four two seven four forty three hundred.
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You may contact me to coordinate a spiritual counseling session.
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I'm also on Facebook as Reverend Reginald Howard.
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No we peach your phone number again please for.
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Zero four two seven four forty three hundred, and my
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Facebook is R E V. Reginald Howard. That's Rev. Howard
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Reverend Reginald Howard on Facebook and also r e V
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So again for all the works that you're doing with
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but and for many people, but we're looking for you know,
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the impact you're going to have on the masses.
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So thank you again, Thank you, I appreciate you and
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look forward to being with you again soon.
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Well, thank you, Reverend Howard. We are at the end
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of our show and time goes so fast. We love
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these conversations with people who we know are making a difference,
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and we want to make sure that you know, the
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viewing audience gets a chance to meet them and learn
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from them. So we really appreciate Reverend howse about today,
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So appreciate you tuning in to disability World today and
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look forward to our next episode. And again we have
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a lot of great things for in the community who
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are doing the same things. So keep your channels tuned
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into this world. And to meet again, please
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