Three Steps to Keep Fighting Until You Win | Thompson Talks with Tony and Christina bölümünün tam dökümü

notes. 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:34.080 We had to scrap the notes because I want to encourage some people. 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:35.599 Christina wants to encourage some people. 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:37.919 Christina didn't even know we were doing this, to be honest with you. 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:40.400 I came back from the bathroom and he told me. 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:48.159 And I wanna, I wanna I wanna encourage you, we wanna encourage you with this. 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:54.000 There's this story that everybody, most people, even if you're not a Christian, you've heard of this story. 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:55.759 David and Goliath. 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:03.199 Both sides were almost at a standstill. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:19.199 And this giant, Goliath, was taunting God's chosen people, and God's chosen people were sitting back. 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:24.399 And for lack of better words, not even lack of better words, they were in fear. 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:25.839 They were scared. 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:28.480 They didn't want to fight. 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:36.959 They didn't want to battle, they didn't want to swing, they didn't want to go after the dream, the goal, they didn't want to chase the vision. 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:38.079 I'm talking to somebody. 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:50.079 They didn't want to fix their marriage, they didn't want to fix their finances, they didn't want to try to uh get career success, they didn't want to go after the business goal, they didn't want to pursue God, it's hard anymore. 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:57.199 They didn't want to find a good church, they didn't want to fix their prayer life, they didn't want to raise their kids anymore, they didn't want to do all these things. 00:04:57.279 --> 00:04:58.959 There's I'm talking to somebody. 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:00.160 They would listen to me. 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:03.040 They were sitting back because they would look look at watch this. 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:04.800 The enemy was taunting them. 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:14.399 And for some of you watching this, life has gotten so bad that all Satan gotta do is taunt you. 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:19.040 He don't even gotta swing anymore. 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:32.079 He doesn't even have to throw certain things anymore, he doesn't have to throw certain weapons anymore, he doesn't even have to uh uh uh uh uh shoot the gun anymore, figurely speaking. 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:36.480 All he gotta do is wave it and taunt you. 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:41.040 And fear creeps in and doubt creeps in. 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:51.759 Goliath is taunting them, he's taunting them, and this shepherd boy comes up on the scene. 00:05:51.839 --> 00:06:12.000 I'm fast forwarding with a dad gone with some stones and a slingshot, so to speak, and says, God will deliver you into my hands, yeah, yeah. 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:17.519 You uncircumcised Philistine, God will deliver you into my hands. 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:22.480 Yeah, you

no match for me, and you're no match from for God. 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:29.360 Matter of fact, because I rock with God, because I'm in covenant with God, because God is my father, watch this. 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:34.720 Because I have a relationship with God, you're no match for me. 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:35.600 Yeah. 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:38.800 Yep. 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:45.199 And he and he was thinking about the lion and he was thinking about the bear, he was thinking about what God had did in the past. 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:47.120 And that's the first thing I want to give you. 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:50.639 The first step to fighting the fight until you win. 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:51.600 Write that down. 00:06:51.759 --> 00:07:07.439 The first step to fighting the financial fight until you win, the first step to fighting the spiritual fight until you win, the first stop to first uh uh uh um step to fighting the marital fight, come on, the the the parental fight with your kids, come on. 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:10.079 Whatever the business fight, come on, talking to somebody. 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:19.120 Whatever the fight, the mental fight, the first daggone step to fighting the fight. 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:30.079 One of, because I'm gonna say it's the first, one of the first steps is remembering where God brought you out of. 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:31.600 What he brought you out of. 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:41.920 Remembering what God brought you out of. 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:57.439 Me and Christina are in a season right now where we sense this shift happening because we just walked out of a season that was by far the worst season of our lives. 00:07:58.480 --> 00:07:59.360 Correct? 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:02.319 Hard. 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:23.839 At times it felt hopeless, and one of the key things that helped us in this season, in this tough season, is going back to some stuff he brought us out of prior to this season. 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:24.720 Yeah. 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:28.720 Because sometimes all I can hold on to is watch this. 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:32.399 Sometimes, Christina, all we can hold on to is what he did. 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:38.320 Because if we can hold on to what he did, we can remember who he is. 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:39.120 Yep. 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:40.320 Yep. 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:42.799 Say this verse, yeah. 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:48.639 And so for some of you, you're looking at the current moment and you're for watch this. 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:54.720 The current moment is so daunting and so dark that it's making you forget what he did in the past. 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:57.120 He got you out of some stuff in the past. 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:58.000 Yeah. 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:00.639 He delivered you out of some. 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:01.840 He listen to me. 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:03.600 He saved your life. 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:04.480 Yeah. 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:07.759 He brought you from A to B. 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:18.639 He helped you climb some mountains, overcome some valleys, get through the wilderness, dry seasons of your life. 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:20.159 He brought you through some stuff. 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:21.360 He brought you through death. 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:22.799 He brought you through pain. 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:24.320 He brought you through fear. 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:26.080 He brought you through discouragement. 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:28.480 The times where you were crying to yourself? 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:28.799 Yeah. 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:30.480 You thought you were lonely? 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:32.559 Nobody cared about you? 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:36.240 Remember that? 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:40.240 Do you remember the days when you cried yourself to sleep? 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:43.440 And he and now you don't cry no more because he got you out of that. 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:48.000 Do you remember the days where you were so frustrated that you thought about taking your own life? 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:50.080 Do you remember when he got you out of that? 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:56.159 Do you remember the days where you felt like, why should I live? 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:58.080 What's the purpose? 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:02.320 And you were laying in your bed. 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:08.799 He got you out of that. 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:12.799 Somehow he got you out of that. 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:19.440 When you were struggling financially and he brought the job, he put the job in. 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:34.399 When you were trying to figure how you were gonna raise your kids by yourself and he gave you help, when he saved you from some accidents, some mistakes, do you remember? 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:35.600 Do you remember? 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:37.279 Do you remember that? 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.960 Psalm 77, 11 and 12. 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:44.559 I will, I will remember the works of the Lord. 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:47.440 Surely I will remember thy wonders of old. 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:48.159 Come on. 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:49.120 Remember. 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:50.480 And we forget. 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:53.600 So David remembered. 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:55.120 Have to. 00:10:55.919 --> 00:11:03.120 He remembered, he remembered what God did, and that helped him to know who God still is. 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:05.360 He's still the same God. 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:05.759 Yeah. 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:06.639 Does not change. 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:08.799 The season is changing. 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:12.639 The people who are making up your season is changing. 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:14.480 But he's still the same God. 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:15.679 Same God. 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:17.200 He's the exact same God. 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:24.960 See the trick, what Satan does is he gets you, he tries to make you think that because the season is different, that God is different. 00:11:27.919 -->

00:11:30.399 Because the season feels unfaithful. 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:35.440 The season feels depressive. 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:38.320 The season feels suicidal. 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:40.559 The season feels dark. 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:42.240 The season feels scary. 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:45.759 And he wants you to think that God is all those things. 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:49.200 Because the season feels that way. 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:59.919 I just remember some times in my life where the season was tough. 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:06.960 And somehow, some way, I didn't, I remember being in some seasons where I didn't know how it was gonna get better. 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:12.320 And what's crazy is, man, I'm getting emotional. 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:12.799 Watch this. 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:22.720 What's crazy is I literally remember sitting in some seasons, I swear to y'all, where I had no control over change of the season. 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:33.600 I couldn't push a button to fix it, I couldn't push a button to solve it, I couldn't push a button to put any of it together. 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:36.879 It was broken and it was out of my control. 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:40.080 And I could listen to me. 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:49.519 All I could do was go to God and reflect on what he did, some stuff he did, some victories he had given me in the past. 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:54.559 And that's what got me through it. 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:55.440 Yeah. 00:12:55.759 --> 00:13:00.879 And so today I do the same thing because it's some stuff in my past that he got me out of. 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:02.799 Yeah. 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.759 And I know five years from now, I'm gonna be able to do the exact same thing. 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:08.399 Yeah. 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:09.840 David remembered. 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:10.240 Yeah. 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:11.279 Yeah. 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:12.879 Let me keep going. 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.919 Let me keep going while my daughter is crying with my father-in-law. 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:17.440 I don't know what's what's going on in the other room. 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:20.000 We're gonna keep flowing though, because this is this is heat. 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:24.799 Um, David, David, this is the part I really want to get to though. 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:29.120 Because I said, I said, fight to the end and fight until you win. 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:34.960 Fight until the victory is yours, tangibly, where you can touch it. 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:35.919 Yeah. 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:40.159 This is how cold David was in this story. 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:42.639 David already knew. 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:44.799 Watch this, watch this, watch this. 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:47.440 Let me go to this verse real quick. 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:49.600 David already knew. 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:51.600 Let me see if I can read it. 00:13:52.159 --> 00:14:01.440 David asked his brothers what the reward was for killing this giant. 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:14.559 I wanna wanted to put into perspective for those who don't know, like just to picture like the imagery, Goliath was about nearly 10 feet. 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:15.039 Yeah. 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:16.240 10 feet tall. 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:24.159 And David, the Bible tells us that, you know, he was just a normal young man. 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:24.720 Yeah. 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:25.360 Right? 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:30.639 So maybe he was around five, probably my height, five, three. 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:32.000 Okay. 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:36.639 And, you know, that's scripture doesn't quite say that, but just an estimate. 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:42.799 So just imagine, you know, the close to 10-foot giant in me. 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:43.279 Yeah. 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:45.919 And that's what what you're describing. 00:14:46.240 --> 00:15:03.440 I know you're scared that I was just saying, like, at every everything to respond to everything you said, like, there's so much that I've gone through in my life where looking at it, it's just like, you're looking up, you're, you know, you're just, you feel so little. 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:04.080 Yeah. 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:04.960 That's good. 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:15.519 You, you feel like, how can I, you know, everything in your brain and your natural reasoning, like, how can I handle that? 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:17.840 How can I, I got this to deal with and this. 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:22.559 And you're looking up at what now is facing you dead in the face. 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:22.960 Yeah. 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:28.960 And no matter who's around you, like it's something you and this thing is dealing with. 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:29.200 Yeah. 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:35.600 And you, and you're looking at it and you're wondering, like, how am I going, like, what what am I gonna do? 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:42.480 And you're and you're doing and and I think the thing that like just really spoke to me, and you mentioned you get emotional. 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:52.480 I'm just thinking, like, reminding myself, like, no matter what I'm facing, like the hard seasons we've been through, the thoughts that I still have now. 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:52.799 Yeah. 00:15:53.039 --> 00:16:02.320 Like things like I'm looking at it and I'm telling myself, and I'm remembering, like, I don't have to do it alone. 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:03.360 That's good. 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:06.080 Like, God is with me. 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:06.799 That's good. 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:12.320 And remembering, like you said, it's easy to say, God, you've forsaken me, where are you? 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:17.360 And even why why would you allow this tenfoot thing to come in my path? 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:20.240 Why would you bring me to whatever the case may be? 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:21.360 It why? 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:21.919 It's good. 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:25.679 Why isn't it

smooth selling when I see so-and-so smooth sailing? 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:25.919 Yeah. 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:28.399 So-and-so and so-and-so don't even believe in you. 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:29.279 It's good. 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:30.320 Why? 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:33.759 And I forget and I have to remind myself. 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:34.480 Yeah. 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:36.240 Like, so you're speaking to me. 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:41.120 Like, godly, you say you, the Holy Spirit laid this on you, Tony, to speak to others. 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:45.120 Like, you're speaking to me because I still have nights. 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:57.600 I just told you about like things that I was thinking, like, you know, like grief is a continual and just different things like the weight, the busyness, like, it's just a lot. 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:00.879 And sometimes it's like, wow. 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:02.639 And you just have to sit still. 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:05.759 And sometimes you just have to close your eyes. 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:09.759 I'm gonna, I'm not gonna look at what's around me. 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:11.920 I'm not gonna listen. 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:13.440 I'm not gonna smell. 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:18.079 I'm and cut off your senses and say, but I'm gonna remember your thought. 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:20.319 I'm gonna remember God. 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:28.400 I'm gonna remember the one who's brought me through, the one who can, who sustains me, the one who knows it all. 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:34.000 Because when I'm looking at it, my natural, I don't see it, it seems impossible, but I know the one. 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:37.519 And um, I just think that's really powerful. 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:39.599 Um, yeah. 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:54.319 So summarize your your point, that'll be number two, is uh we went from remembering what he's brought us out of, yeah, brought us through to this is what you're basically saying in summary. 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:59.759 Stop measuring the problem, stop measuring the giant, and start measuring God. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:00.559 Wow. 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:04.640 And and it's an oxymoron because you can't measure God. 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:04.960 Yeah. 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:09.039 When I'm he can't be measured. 00:18:09.119 --> 00:18:09.519 Go ahead. 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:17.839 Just like when you talked about the remembering, like, like everyone knows about like the grief of my mom. 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:18.240 Yeah. 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:35.039 But like when I remember what God has done, like we talked about like some funny stuff with the cheating and stuff, but like we we we see these people being killed by the, you know, their their significant other. 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:35.440 Yeah. 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:35.839 That's right. 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:45.920 And I dated someone where I constantly, and I tell you, like, who's to say that couldn't have been me? 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:46.559 Yeah. 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:51.680 I remember God, God got me out of it when it seemed like it wasn't gonna end. 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:56.079 And it was like he closed that door and he protected me. 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.480 I remember you talked about that accident, us spinning on the highway. 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:01.279 Yeah. 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:10.160 I remember us, you know, being starting the business and not knowing what was coming. 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:10.960 Yeah. 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:15.839 I remember feeling, you know, low in my job. 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:21.440 I remember feeling like an inadequate parent and like what's going on. 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:26.400 And do truly you remember, do my kids love me going through postpartum and things? 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:29.119 It's just things that I remember. 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:30.400 And they seem so big. 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:31.440 Seem so big. 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:32.319 Giant-like. 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:33.440 Giant-like. 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:36.720 But God got me through, He got you through the things. 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:39.440 Ooh, you want to share some things you remember? 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:43.599 The measurement, I will in a sec, but I want to I want to draw this point home. 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:48.160 Um David kept mentioning God all throughout. 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:50.960 You will God will deliver you into my hands. 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:58.720 The the the the the army, the Israelite army, they were focused on the size of the giant. 00:19:58.880 --> 00:19:59.279 Yeah. 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:02.400 David saw that he was uncircumcised. 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:02.559 Yeah. 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:03.440 Goliath. 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:04.000 Yeah. 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:08.880 David wasn't focused on the size of the giant. 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:09.440 Yeah. 00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:12.240 David was focused on the size of his God. 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:13.759 And so watch this. 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:18.160 I want to I want to bring this point home because because you you spitting real quick. 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:20.400 You spitting real bad, like in a good way. 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:30.799 It is it is very easy in those dark seasons to dwell in the size of the problem, to live in the size of the problem. 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:31.200 Yeah. 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:37.359 It is so easy to get wrapped into the weight of depression, the weight of grief. 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:45.759 Like it literally feels like it is sometimes these negative seasons or tough seasons are holding you hostage. 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:46.319 Yeah. 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:50.960 With a strength and a grip that can't be broken. 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:51.519 Yeah. 00:20:53.039 --> 00:21:00.880 But what's crazy is we forget, watch this, that there was this sin grip that was taken care of by this Jesus guy. 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:01.279 Yeah. 00:21:02.160 -->

00:21:03.359 This sin grip. 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:04.559 Watch this. 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:06.240 This is for this for somebody. 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:10.480 The strongest grip ever is the grip of sin. 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:11.200 Yeah. 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:13.759 That's the strongest grip that exists. 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:15.119 It's the grip of sin. 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:15.440 Yeah. 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:17.359 Jesus took care of that grip. 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:24.000 If he can take care of the strongest grip, I'm speaking to somebody that has ever existed on the planet. 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:27.359 He can take care of postpartum. 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:29.680 He can take care of grief. 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:32.400 He can take care of family dysfunction. 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:34.720 He can take care of addiction. 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:37.279 He can take care of marriage problems. 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:39.680 He can take care of financial problems. 00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:44.160 He can take care of despair, pain, hurt, doubt, fear. 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:48.880 He can take care of you not knowing the next move or the next step. 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:50.799 He can take care of loneliness. 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:52.000 Tell me what it is. 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:59.759 All you gotta do is remember there was this grip called sin that was that was gripping all parts of who you were before. 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:06.160 Christ and somehow, somehow, God's love worked into your heart. 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:10.240 You chose Jesus, and that grip got taken care of. 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:18.319 And so if he could take care of that grip, what is depression? 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:21.359 What is grief? 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:32.319 I'm this for some what's a what's a and I'm not trying to sound insensitive, but what's what's a what's working through a miscarriage? 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:38.240 What's working through financial issues and problems? 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:39.920 Come on, what is that to God? 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:41.200 Healing. 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:55.680 And so remembering, number one, number two, proper measurement, measurement, which is not measuring the problem, but measuring God, the size of God. 00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:59.119 And then let I wanna I want to end it with this. 00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:12.160 Not finishing, not quitting, I should say, not quitting until the battle is won. 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:18.160 There's this picture, and we go on, and I'm gonna tie to this. 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:32.079 There's this picture of uh uh um two two like cartoons, took two cartoon guys, one on the top, one on the bottom, and they're they're digging for some some diamonds. 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:39.920 And you can see that one guy uh basically gets very close and turns and quits. 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:45.359 I mean, he was he was probably one more dig away from getting to those diamonds. 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:47.200 But he quit. 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:51.759 And the guy on the bottom had just gotten started. 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:59.920 And basically the picture or the caption is the the guy on the bottom ends up getting to the diamonds. 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:06.400 Cause he's because he he he ends up just finishing the job. 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:07.759 Okay, watch this. 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:10.559 The job's not over till you get to the diamonds. 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:11.039 Right. 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:14.480 You came for diamonds. 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:15.039 Yeah. 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:16.799 You didn't come to just dig. 00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:17.359 Yeah. 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:18.799 You came for diamonds. 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:19.119 Yeah. 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:21.440 The job's not over till I get the diamonds. 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:23.680 The job's not over till I win this battle. 00:24:23.759 --> 00:24:24.000 Yeah. 00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:27.839 The job's not over until I go to the next level of my speaking career. 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:33.359 The job's not over till I go to the next, until I get my wife out of, watch this, corporate. 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:34.960 The job's not over. 00:24:35.599 --> 00:24:40.240 The job's not over until me and Christina become multimillionaires. 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:48.799 The job's not over until me and Christina are able to pay people's bills every single month who need it and to be able to minister to them on that type of level. 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:54.400 The job's not over until we are able to pour into people on a larger scale. 00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:56.079 The job's not over. 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:56.799 Yeah. 00:24:57.119 --> 00:25:02.480 Until we see the things we know God has promised us. 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:06.480 Until we see the vision is touchable, tangible. 00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:08.640 Until we can taste the vision. 00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:09.440 Yeah. 00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:11.359 The job's not over. 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:13.279 He look, watch this. 00:25:13.440 --> 00:25:15.839 I want you to, I want, watch this, watch it, watch it, watch this. 00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:23.039 David said, I'm not only gonna kill you with the stone, I'm gonna cut your head off. 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:29.599 So, in other words, the job's not over till I cut your head off. 00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:35.119 The stone was just a prerequisite to the cutting off of the head. 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:41.119 I need your head because I need to show people what victory looks like. 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:41.759 Yeah. 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:47.680 I need your head, Goliath, because I need to show people what defeat looks like. 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:53.119 I need your, look, I need your head, uh uh uh uh Goliath, so I can show people don't mess with me. 00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:58.559 I need your head, Goliath, so I can show people, watch this, how big my God is. 00:25:59.359 --> 00:25:59.680 Yeah. 00:25:59.920 -->

00:26:18.799 I need you to listen, I need people to know that the next time you try to touch this man of God right here, yeah, the next time this demon, this giant, the next time this enemy tries to touch my house, the next time you come after my house, this is what's getting ready to happen. 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:20.240 See this head right here? 00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:24.240 You see the blood coming, because bro, we we think a head, it was a head. 00:26:24.319 --> 00:26:28.559 You see the blood coming, you see the vein, you see the bro with head. 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:36.720 The next time you touch my house, bruh, let me show you what's getting ready to go down. 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:37.519 Yeah. 00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:41.839 I'm finishing this so that people watch this. 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:45.200 I'm watching this is this is this is speaking to Christina. 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:47.599 This is speaking to somebody watching this right now. 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:49.359 You in the thick of the battle. 00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:51.920 You in the thick of the battle, bruh. 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:53.920 You in the thick of it. 00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:54.799 Wow. 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:57.519 And you feel like quitting. 00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:59.759 I need you to finish. 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:02.240 I need you to cut the head off. 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:06.640 I need you to, I need you to walk up to the giant and I need you to cut the head off. 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:10.319 If it's the if it's a financial giant, I need you to cut the head off. 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:13.359 If it is a spiritual giant, I need you to cut the head off. 00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:16.240 If it's a kid giant, I need you to cut the head off. 00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:19.359 If it's a mental health giant, I need you to cut the head off. 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:23.039 If it's a marital giant, I need you to, I need you to cut the head off. 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:26.799 I need you to fit, you can't finish until you cut the head off. 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:28.319 I won't, listen to me. 00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:30.079 In this season, I took listen to me. 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:35.119 I told, I told God, because this is, I told y'all, this is the craziest season that we've been in. 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:35.920 Yeah. 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:37.839 The craziest by far. 00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:39.519 The craziest. 00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:41.680 The hardest by far. 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:46.960 And I didn't, I I was gonna did you want to repaint the season? 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:50.400 The season, like, like in a in a nutshell, you wanna do it? 00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:51.200 No, you do it. 00:27:51.359 --> 00:28:20.400 In a nutshell, that when I say the season was difficult, in a nutshell, man, you're talking about a diagnosis of a terminal illness in your mother and mother-in-law during your during the during a time where you've just had your first kid. 00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:28.640 So postpartum on the first one, you become her confidant. 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:44.799 So you don't even have time to focus on you, you don't have time to focus on your your your kid as much as you would like to do in certain uh structured timings of bath and nap and rest and all these different things. 00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:48.480 So you're almost neglecting yourself, you're neglecting your mental health. 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:52.799 And as a husband, you're watching your wife fight for her mom. 00:28:55.599 --> 00:29:00.480 And you're fighting to support also your dad and your father-in-law. 00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:08.480 And you're pushing with this diagnosis and this prognosis of there, you only have so many months. 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:17.279 And so you're also trying to create memories and you're also trying to make sense of what the heck is going on because you've never experienced anything remotely close to this. 00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:17.759 Yeah. 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:24.000 As a daughter and as a son-in-law, as a daughter, I mean, as a wife and as a husband. 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:29.039 You're trying to make sure your marriage stays fresh, also, and your marriage stays intact. 00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:32.480 Also, you're trying to keep a sharp mind so you don't go crazy. 00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:42.640 The what ifs are hitting you, all these different things of what if this happens and and what if that happens, and and and what if what if she slips away in her sleep and what all this stuff. 00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:50.480 And you watching, you watching body changes and mind changes uh in your in your mom and in your in your mother-in law. 00:29:50.720 --> 00:30:00.799 So much hurt, you're seeing the disease change the person that you care about like crazy. 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:06.319 You're watching this in real time, and watch this. 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:08.079 There's nothing you could do. 00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:14.720 You talk about hurt, there's nothing you could do but support and be there. 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:20.880 And you're praying, and you're fasting, and you're believing. 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:26.160 And in the midst of all that, hospice comes. 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:53.599 Hospice gets hit, and you sitting there, sitting there with a belly, big belly, because you now on your second child, and you trying to ask God, hey, can you just hold her here so she can ah so she can hold Oakley, your second child? 00:30:53.759 --> 00:31:00.640 Can you just keep her, just keep Lord healer, heal her, but but keep her here so she can at least meet my second child. 00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:05.519 And it doesn't happen. 00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:12.559 And so you're confused and you're trying to figure out what the heck is going on because everything's surreal. 00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:17.359 Nothing makes sense. 00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:21.440 Your world as you knew it is crushed. 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:50.000 And then comes more postpartum,

and then comes the grief, but it's really the next level of grief because you were already gr you were already partly grieving because you were watching the woman who was healthy and vibrant almost dissipate. 00:31:50.640 --> 00:32:05.119 So there was already grief going on when she was breathing, she was here, and so now there's there's the next level of grief because she slipped into eternity with God, and now you got two kids. 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:23.759 Breastfeed one, speech therapy, you couldn't establish a step a schedule, so you are trying to fix what you really couldn't do before. 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:32.559 I mean it was golly, and then from there, then hitting the one year mark of my mom, and you know, just a continual. 00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:41.839 And the thing is through it all though, God, He hasn't changed. 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:51.839 And and I and I can say that, I can say it, but I can say through it all, it was a heavy still is lingering parts of the heaviness. 00:32:52.720 --> 00:33:03.119 Um the Holy Spirit did this episode because we weren't even going this route. 00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:08.160 Yeah, we had a totally different episode planned, but I want to end it with this. 00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:12.480 Gave y'all three points. 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:17.039 Remember what he's done, what he did for you. 00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:22.720 The second point was, what was the second point? 00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:25.440 Um I'm blanking on the second point. 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:34.960 Oh, measure God, stop measuring the problem or the giant and start measuring God, was that which is an oxymoron. 00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:40.319 And thirdly, fight until you get the victory, fight until you see the victory. 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:43.680 And the fight's not done until you see that victory. 00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:44.240 Yeah. 00:33:46.480 --> 00:34:07.119 And so if you are if you're watching this and the discouragement is unbearable to a point where you I saw a post on Facebook and it was a girl saying she she was she was so hurt by life that she was thinking that she couldn't live anymore. 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.159 And people were commenting, like, hit me up, reach out to me. 00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:12.800 I'm telling you right now, we're we're here for you. 00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:14.559 Me and Christina. 00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:26.079 Because the one thing that isn't really talked about in here, in this passage, as much is the the the need for community. 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:32.480 And so we don't, we're not transparent on this podcast just to be transparent. 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:36.559 We're not into games or gimmicks, we're not into sympathy. 00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:39.199 We don't do this for sympathy. 00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:55.920 We're transparent and vulnerable because we hope that y'all can pull some encouragement so that you can see Tony and Christina have been through some stuff, and these jokers is thriving. 00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:57.920 They still doing their thing. 00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:02.159 They're waking up every single day and they're hunting. 00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:07.199 Some days they don't feel like hunting, some days they don't feel like fighting. 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:09.119 Some days they do feel like giving up. 00:35:09.199 --> 00:35:09.840 We're human. 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:12.480 Some days they feel like throwing in the towel, we're human. 00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:17.119 Some days our feel my feelings and Christina's feelings tell us to stay in the bed. 00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:19.599 Our feelings tell us that it won't get better. 00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:22.239 Our feelings tell us that we should just give up. 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:24.079 But God. 00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:29.840 But God, what he does is he helps us to redirect all of that. 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:33.840 And I will continue, listen to me. 00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:35.920 This is for the men if you're watching this. 00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:41.840 I will continue to fight first and foremost for the purpose God has given me, that God has given me. 00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:45.599 And number two, I will fight for my family. 00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:51.360 Like I like the next season, I'm telling y'all, watch this. 00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:52.960 I'm telling y'all right now. 00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:55.440 I'm not a bragging type person. 00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:57.440 I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't brag. 00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:00.239 I share testimony, I share God's goodness. 00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:03.039 But I'm gonna let y'all know something right now. 00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:14.719 I'm preparing you for what may come across as a brag when you when I start talking about the next season of our lives. 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:20.400 And and the reason why I'm preparing you is because I want you to remember this episode. 00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:27.199 I want you to, if you still watching this, I want you to remember that Tony said he was never bragging on himself. 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:30.639 He was bragging on the goodness and the glory of God. 00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:31.679 Wow. 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:45.519 That as much as we talk about the messed up stuff as we wrap this up, as much as we talk about the dark stuff, it is not even close to his glory and his goodness and the weight of that. 00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:46.400 Wow. 00:36:48.239 --> 00:36:50.559 And so we're head hunting out here. 00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:54.079 We head hunting, man. 00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:58.000 Unapologetically, we will fight, we will fight. 00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:01.039 And I hope you're doing the same thing, whatever the battle is. 00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:04.079 It says the battle, listen to me, the battle belongs to the Lord. 00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:04.559 I get that. 00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.679 But there's a piece you gotta play, there's a role you gotta play. 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:09.360 The battle belongs

to the Lord. 00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:10.480 The victory is his. 00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:11.599 I get all of that. 00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:14.559 But there's a part you gotta play, and I'll play my part. 00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:22.320 And I won't quit, and she won't, listen to me, she will not quit in this season, the darkest season of our life. 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:23.599 She will not quit. 00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:25.280 I won't let her quit. 00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:28.480 We hunting heads, bro. 00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:28.960 Yeah. 00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:36.079 And so, with that being said, if you're watching this right now and you are, you are low right now. 00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:43.599 Again, you're feeling, you're feeling like, man, this is by far the toughest season I've ever been through. 00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:46.400 Tony, I got so much weight on me. 00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:48.639 I'm carrying so much by myself. 00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:50.239 I'm lonely. 00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:55.039 I don't I don't know that I have someone who can advocate for me. 00:37:55.199 --> 00:37:57.840 I don't know that I have someone that can support me. 00:37:58.159 --> 00:37:59.280 Well, let me help you out. 00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:00.480 I know somebody. 00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:04.320 I can make the introduction. 00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:05.360 You gotta listen to me. 00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:07.920 You gotta decide to build a rapport, a relationship. 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.559 I can make the introduction for you, though. 00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:15.599 I know a guy who is not a person, but a spirit. 00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:19.840 I know someone who can take all of that off your plate. 00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:22.880 I know someone last night when I was, it's crazy. 00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:25.360 Last night I woke up, I didn't even tell Christine this. 00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:28.480 This morning, I should say, I woke up at 3, 4 in the morning. 00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:29.840 I went back to sleep after, though. 00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:31.760 But for an hour I prayed. 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:36.320 And I read uh Psalm 37, I believe it's 23. 00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:42.960 Uh I might be butchering the reference, but it says, uh, the steps of a man are established. 00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:46.480 Watch this, by the Lord when he delights in his ways. 00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:51.840 I know somebody that if you delight in his ways, he'll establish your steps. 00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:59.679 So what may seem like a lost moment in your life becomes purposeful. 00:38:59.920 --> 00:39:00.719 That's good. 00:39:01.039 --> 00:39:02.800 Because of a delight in his ways. 00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:07.119 But the only way you can delight in his ways if you have a relationship with him. 00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:12.400 And so right now I want you to close your eyes and I want you to repeat this prayer after me. 00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:17.840 Jesus did something thousands of years ago on the cross that took care of your sins. 00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:22.159 He gave you a clean slate if you decide to take advantage of it. 00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:29.440 You couldn't have wiped your sin if you create, if you made one bad decision, you sin. 00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:35.199 He listen to me, he did something that will wipe it and put you on a better path. 00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:45.760 And so if that's you and you want this relationship with God, you want uh uh uh established steps, you want some peace, you want some um unbelievable joy. 00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:49.280 Repeat this prayer after me. 00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:53.119 Heavenly Father, thank you for saving me. 00:39:53.440 --> 00:40:07.679 I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that he came to this earth, lived a sinless life, died on the cross for my sins, was buried for me, and rose again on the third day. 00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:18.880 Because I believe that, I ask you, Jesus, to come into my heart, wash me in your blood, cleanse me, give me a fresh start. 00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:21.599 In Jesus' name. 00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:22.719 Amen. 00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:27.280 If you said that prayer, welcome to the family of God. 00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:31.679 Um, it's the most important decision you you'll ever make in your life. 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:33.280 Heaven is celebrating right now. 00:40:33.360 --> 00:40:33.920 I'm hyped. 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:35.199 Christina's hype. 00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:47.679 Um, and like we always say, reach out to us, email us, DM us, let us know that you made that decision, and we want to give you some resources uh on this journey, this new journey that you're on. 00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:52.400 We're so incredibly hyped and uh and and excited for you. 00:40:52.559 --> 00:41:00.159 And so with that being said, we hope you enjoyed this complete, how should I say, uh pivot, if you will, of an episode. 00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:03.039 Spirit-led pivot of an episode. 00:41:03.119 --> 00:41:07.280 We 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