3 two one do you feel like success has been avoiding you do you feel like it's been evading you do you feel like it's been running from you do you think it's been like trying to make sure everybody else can have it but not you well I've got news for you success isn't hiding from you you're hiding from it success isn't running from you you're running from it um and if you'll stop being scared of success your life will change people have different reasons for being scared of success there are literally people in the world who are afraid of success because they're afraid their success will create somebody else's failure I've heard people say I don't want to make too much money there might not be enough I want to leave some for everybody else as if them making more money somehow takes money out of somebody else's pocket that would be like me walking around holding my breath and you ask me what I'm doing and I say I'm holding my breath why are you holding your breath I don't want to breathe too much air there might not be enough left over for everybody else it's insane it doesn't make any sense you not doing your best doesn't make anyone better did you hear what I just said it's not going to make like you not you not giving your all it's not going to oh well I'm not going to give my all because if I do somebody else might not be able to give their all it doesn't it's nonsensical it's ludicrous it's just it's it's a level of insanity that can't be measured and there are people who think if there's that unfortunately we bought into this lie this Li of an idea that well I don't want too big a piece of the pie because I get too big a piece of the pie then there won't be enough pie left over for everybody else well that'd be fine if God would have made the ideal environment for man a bakery but God's ideal for environment for man is not a bakery it was a garden what's the significance of that well the significance of that is in a garden Garden that has trees and crops those fruit that those trees produce have seeds inside them and when you consume the fruit it exposes the seed so in a garden environment consumption creates production or at least the possibility of it and so people don't even realize the byproducts of just being successful success has byproducts people who you'll never meet will benefit because you decided you're going to live to the best of your ability and not just keep yourself down because I'm worried about somebody else there are people who are afraid that if they make too much money they can't get to heaven because they've misinterpreted Matthew chapter 19 I don't want to make too much money I want to get into heaven as if somehow being poor buys you a ticket to Eternity it's a like first of all let me help you understand something there are no isolated doctrines in scripture everything in scripture supports everything else in scripture and unless you study the entire thing you're not going to understand how to wrly divide the word of Truth where you compare spiritual things with spiritual things yes the scripture says yay it's easier for a camel to enter into the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of Heaven yes that's exactly what it says but you did you read it you heard it preached but you didn't study it and the people you heard preach it didn't study it either how do I know I studied it I didn't want some man's opinion of what it said and I studied it compared to all the other verses in scripture because because whatever it means whatever it does mean I'm not even going to talk about what it means I have did a whole video on that called why evil people are rich go watch the video okay so if you if you want to know the answer to that I'm not going to answer that right now but whatever it means it can't contradict or negate the blessing of the Lord it maketh rich and he addeth no sorrow with it it's not going to contradict that so both of those verses have to be true because if both of them aren't true neither of them are true man You Came Out Swinging today the first time the word rich is used in the Bible it's talking about Abraham the friend of God and it didn't even say he was rich it said he was very rich go read Proverbs chap I mean Genesis 13: number two and Abram was very rich in cattle and silver and gold it didn't just tell us that he was rich it told us how rich he was he was very rich it didn't just tell us how rich he was it told us how he was rich he was rich in cattle silver and gold cuz he didn't want some of you pseudo overp spiritualizing people to say this not talking about money it's just talking about a noble Heritage no it's talking about rich in cattle and Silver and Gold there's a verse in scripture that says a good man in Proverbs it says a good man leaves inheritance to his children's children and just so we're not confused God tells us what an inheritance is house and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a Prudent Wife is from the Lord that's what the scripture says house and riches are the inheritance of fathers how many y'all know you'd be better off if your father would have left you some houses and some riches H let me somebody talked to me about mortgage free living ladies and gentlemen mortgage free living and so and so please don't smack your neighbor okay okay okay so so so so so understand that hiding from your help is a part of the human condition running from your remedy is part of the human condition wow being scared of success ESS is part of the human condition and so people will intentionally not succeed because somehow or another they believe that's going to mess something up I want to read a story about a person who reminds me of me but he also reminds me of you and you and it's really interesting this this whole story is interesting don't forget now in the Book of Romans it tells us the things that were written a four time were written for our learn those of you who don't read the Old Testament you are shooting yourself in the foot by the way for those of you who don't read the Old Testament the New Testament is not even the New Testament it's just the half Testament because you never read the Old Testament so you don't have anything to up update you ain't even got the app and you ain't you trying how you going to update the app you don't even have the app okay sorry yeah I got a little attitude Okay so it tells us the things that were written before time were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope God put these stories in scripture so we could see ourselves in them when you read the Old Testament stories do you see yourself in them okay I'm going to read Judges chapter I mean it's like it's judges is kind of like watching a really intense action movie right so in Judges chapter 6 and I'm not going to read all the whole story to you I'm going to tell you what happened in the story and then you can go back and read Genesis CH 6 7 8 and9 go read it yourself but I'm just going to we going we going to get the story started Genesis chapter 6 starting with verse number one it says and the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and the Lord delivered them into the hands of Midian into the hand of Midian seven years so they did evil in the sight of the Lord and God delivered them over to their enemies for seven years now we have enemies that want to destroy us right you have enemies that want to destroy you one of them you take with you everywhere you go see the scripture tells me that our enemies are the World the Flesh and the devil see the world attacks me in my ambitions how does it do that by making me desire you to think something about me see me needing you to believe something about me is worldliness wow wow did I did I go too fast see when you're going through life as a people pleaser you are suffering from worldliness you want to you want to you want to go along to get along you want to get in where you can fit in you want to sign the banana and be one of the bunch you want to be like all the people you see on TV or in the neighborhood or at school or at your job your they that compare themselves among themselves measuring themselves by themselves are not wise that's what the scripture says get to the place where you're more concerned about what God thinks about you than with what some man thinks about you and then our flesh our flesh don't attack us in our Ambitions our flesh attacks us in our appetites my desire to feel something H I did a I did a video called Satan's secret weapon it's like the weapon that's killed more people than the atom bomb more people than what so-called gun violence what's that food most Americans dig their grave with a knife and fork the World the Flesh and the devil the devil attacks us in our attitudes and he attacks us in our aptitudes our attitudes how by making me think I'm better than you see Satan wants you to elevate yourself above other people and see God wants you to understand God wants you to understand that you ain't better than anybody and he put you here to God put you here to please him and serve those people that come across your path and see I I did a whole bible study on this last week so I I already know how hard it is to people CU people in sometimes requires a lot of energy can I get a witness but it's still our responsibility it is not good for a man to be alone it's not good for a woman to be alone Lon I I did a whole video I ain't even going to go there but see what happens is either you think you're better than them and you don't want to be around them or you think they're better than you and you don't want to be around them oh Lord you talking good now M the World the Flesh and the devil understand that you are exactly who God says you are no more anyway I I if we going to do that after every verse we we ain't going to even almost get through so and the Hand of Midian prevailed against Israel because of the midianites the children of Israel made themselves dens which were in the mountains and caves and strongholds in Israel they have these mountains that are they're really fascinating they're Rock mountains but they have caves in them so it's so fascinating and the scripture says we're talking about the children of Israel who were delivered into the land of milk and honey now they're hiding in caves from their enemies okay what does it say it says um and so it was when Israel had sown so they planted seeds the midianites came up and the amalekites and the children of the East even they came up against them and they encamped against them and destroyed the increase of the earth till Thou come unto Gaza and left no sustenance for Israel neither sheep nor Ox nor ass they killed they they killed all the crops they killed all the animals Israel didn't have a chance they didn't have a shot the midianites had them covered midianites the malachit people from the East oh yeah wait but wait there's more for they came up against their cattle and their tents and they came as grasshoppers for multitude for both they and their camels were without number and they entered into the land to destroy it and Israel was greatly impoverished poverty is always the result of spiritual warfare period Satan is the god little G of lack the thief cometh not but for to steal to kill and destroy that doesn't mean he's coming to kill steal and destroy it means he ain't coming unless he can kill steal or destroy are y'all tracking Israel was greatly impoverished because of the midianites and the children of Israel Cried unto the Lord isn't it funny how it takes people s years to cry unto the Lord SE going to take you seven years to repent you knew what you did wrong the first day you did it yeah but you know I just need one more night with them frogs one more night with the midianites one more night with the Grasshoppers what are you doing okay anyway um and the Church of Israel Cried unto the Lord because of the Midian because of the midianites and the Lord sent a prophet unto the children of Israel which said unto them thus sayith the Lord God of Israel I brought you up from Egypt and brought you forth out of the house of bondage and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of all that oppressed you and drave them out before you and gave you their land and I said unto you I am the Lord your God fear not the gods of the amorites in whose land you dwell but ye have not obeyed my voice see oh by the way we come asking God for stuff that he already gave us the power to get but he takes back that power or he restricts that power when we are disregarding him see see there there are times when God will block your blessing because you're disobeying him God brought the midianites to punish Israel wow let me ask you a question what in God's word have you been disregarding so that he has he's had to bring your own version of the midianites to block you just just a thought sometimes you better off just asking folk than telling them cuz they know they already know yeah and um and it said um and you have not not obeyed my voice and verse 11 and there came an angel of the Lord and sat under an oak God ain't stressing he sat just sat down good that's a good place to sit I love how the Bible is written it says U came then came the angel of the Lord sat o under an oak which is which was in ofra that pertained to joash the abizer and the and his son Gideon threshed Wheat by the wine press to hide it from the midianites see Gideon is working in secret to help his family because he was afraid of the enemy what enemy are you afraid of what what illusion are you afraid of what real thing are you afraid of here's here's why you being afraid of something is a problem because fear is a controller and what you fear controls you and that's why God desires for us to only fear him because he is the only one that deserves control am I going too fast wow and it says so he was hiding um and then verse 12 and the angel of the Lord appeared unto him and said unto him the Lord is with thee thou Mighty Man of Balor and Gideon said who me and Gideon said unto him oh my Lord if the Lord be with us why then is all this befallen us and where be the Miracles which our fathers told us of saying did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt but now the Lord ha forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of the midianites and the Lord looked upon him and said go in this thy might and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the midianites have have not I sent thee Gideon you mighty man of Valor who me I the Lord am with you if you're really with me why is this happening this happening this happened and this happened see see here's what we don't understand we want a God in a box huh we want to rub our Bible three times make four wishes and have them all come true am I telling the TRU but see see I got a question for you what do the Lord require of thee because the angel of the Lord said he said he said go in this your might go in your might what what's he saying use what you got I'm not going to I'm not hey hey guys I'm not going to ask you to use something you don't have but I'm going to challenge you to use what you have hey Gideon go in the strength that you have now Gideon's now even more confused than the beginning of the convers ation he said go in this thy might and Gideon said oh my Lord um and then in verse 14 he says and the Lord looked upon him and said go in this thy might and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the M midianites have not I sent thee and he said unto him oh my Lord wherewith shall I save Israel behold my family is poor H that's interesting my family is poor in manasse and I am the leased In My Father's House wait a minute so I'm in an oppressed nation in a poor family and I'm the smallest one in the bunch and you want me to go save him that's right because your strength I mean his strength is made perfect in your weakness God doesn't call the qualified he qualifies the called and if he's called you to do something and he made you for a purpose don't be hiding from that purpose because you're afraid it might not work oh Li it's amazing to me you know what's amazing to me I remember when I was on The Struggle Bus and I lived on a struggle bus for years and all the stuff I do right now I could have done then there's only one thing that was missing my perception of me was all Jack sideways because of the circumstances that I found myself in I'm talk I'm talking about I'm talking about after I'd already made millions of dollars after I already had six figure months and multiple six figureure months I found myself broke as a joke and ready to choke sitting on the patio on the back porch of my house crying on my white shoulder this is working baby I'm who me I can't stuff I'm doing now I could have done then but you know what I couldn't do then I couldn't see them what I can see now the Eyes of My Mind were blinded by my circumstance but I want to show you something about perception God has given all of his children a promise and he puts that promise right in front of us clear as day and you know what we do we start pursuing that promise and the Very God that set us on course to pursue that promise ordained that same God ordained that the enemy come and block our vision with a problem and the enemy objective is to block your vision of the promise as if the promise weren't there but God ordained him to bring you the problem so you could strengthen your perspective and God said I want you to put the problem right in front of him I want you to put the problem right in front of her so that they can learn to pear through the problem and focus on the promise as if the problem weren't there but the en want you to focus on the problem is if the promise isn't there the promise is there and the problem is there but you got to learn to look through the pro problem before you can make it through the problem because if you can't see it you can't seize it and you don't see things the way they are you see things the way you are and Gideon was looking at himself all wrong hey Mighty Man of Valor who me yeah you I'm going to use you to deliver Israel but you don't understand I'm in an oppressed country in a poor family and I'm the runt in the bunch and you telling me I'm going to do it oh yeah let's don't get it confused now and he said wherewith shall I save Israel verse 15 behold my father's my family is poor in Manassa and I am least in my father's house and the Lord said unto him surely I will be with you I love the fact he said surely I will be with thee and thou shalt Smite the midianites as one man you're going to kill all those people who are as grasshoppers like they're one person now here's the interesting thing about M about Gideon Gideon and Midian I didn't even realize they rhymed until just now somebody should write a poem about Gideon and Midian maybe it's already been done anyway um if not maybe I'll do it um Gideon here's the interesting thing about Gideon God created Gideon for that moment he was created for that challenge he was created for that time of Oppression he was created specifically all of the events of his life were there to prepare him for that moment so God knew Gideon could do it before Gideon knew Gideon could do it can anybody handle some good news let me hear you say I can handle it God created you for all the problems you face to be the Victor over them before he created you God created you for your success in fact he he he put you here specifically to solve the problems of other people you were created for it Gideon was created for it but he didn't even know it how many of you how many PE how many of you on YouTube right now you don't even realize that you were created for great things Mar how do you know I was created for great things you don't even know me but I know the image of the great God you were created in did you don't create something in the image of something great to make it something other than great I'm not confused in fact what does it say in the Book of Psalms chapter 8 it says oh Lord um how oh Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the Earth what is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him for thou has made him a little lower than the angels and has crowned him with Glory and Honor I don't know that sounds like Prett important stuff to me but see you got your perspective of who you are from somewhere other than whose you are and you let the school system tell you you're not smart and you believe them and so you go around your whole life acting like you ain't smart and hiding from learning because you had a teacher in elementary school that didn't like you I had a teacher in elementary school that didn't like me I had a bunch of teachers in elementary school that didn't like me I didn't know they didn't like me but more importantly I didn't care that they didn't like me cuz I didn't get myself worth from them my mama showed me my worth when I came home from her school one day and said and she said would you learn school today baby I said I learned that I'm made that I'm a higher form of animal she said don't you ever say that again but you ask me right she said you're not an animal you're made in the image of God I'm like I didn't understand why she got so bad out of shape about it but I knew one thing I wasn't going to say no more not now not never Mama wouldn't play it I ain't never I ain't saying that no more right no sir teacher or no teacher right no I'm way more scared of her than I am y'all I ain't thinking about y y put whatever grade on there you want to Mama got something worse than a grade she got a switch she know how to break off a switch can I get a witness okay anyway y'all don't know nothing about switches in 2024 how do you know they don't know nothing about the kids wouldn't be acting so crazy in public okay that's anyway anyway I digress and and and and interestingly enough we get our perspective from all of the people of who we are from all the people who didn't believe in us and we go through life holding on to that holding on to the identity what's that that's all the things that all the people told you you were not the identity that maybe your parents put on you the identity that your teachers put on you the identity that your classmates put on you the identity that your siblings may have put on you or your cousins or somebody that you looked up to or the cool kids in school or the jocks or the cheerleaders or the whatever or the whoever or your boss or your employer or maybe you were unfortunate enough to be even be married to somebody who would happily remind you every at every opportunity who you are not and here's what God has to say hey Mighty Man of Valor hey Mighty woman of Valor I got something important for you to do I'm going to deliver the thing that's been oppressing you into your hands I'm going to deliver the multitude of oppressors into your hands so much that you are going to slay them like they're one man see Gideon was created for that Gideon was called for that he was called to it but you know what we do we go through life ignoring the call because we look at our capabilities or lack thereof and say surely you can't be calling me you got to be calling somebody smarter than me somebody better looking than me somebody taller than me somebody who can talk better than me somebody more educated than me somebody with more degrees than me surely you can't be calling me I'm calling you because of those things not in spite of those things see I don't want any flesh Glory into my presence so my strength is made perfect in your weakness if you had all the answers you wouldn't need mine if you had all the strength you wouldn't need me to deliver you I got you got this cuz I got you and I created you for this and I called you for this y'all picking up what I'm putting down but don't make the mistake of thinking that you were only created for Success do you understand gibian is going to be successful before he lifts the first weapon against the first enemy God already told him it's a wrap it's done before it gets started see here's our problem our problem is we're so acquainted with time that we lack an acquaintance with eternity what does that mean well in the realm of time there's no such thing as the present it cannot exist well we can't experience it it can exist cuz that the present can exist in time but we can't experience it we don't have the ability to perceive it why because we're Bound by time so as soon as I say now it becomes then now is forever evaporating but guess what in the realm of Eternity there's no such thing as the past or the future there's only the present eternity is the forever now God knows the end from the beginning because the end is the beginning and the beginning is the end and all of it's right now it's a moving picture to us but it's a snap shout to God it's a fully produced film in the in the theaters of Heaven you're worried about what's going to happen I'm not worried about it why cuz God's not worried about why because it's already happened it just hasn't you just haven't experienced it yet you haven't allowed yourself to step into the thing you were created for the thing you were called for to and now the thing you're being challenged by you've been invading it because it's hard you've been invading it because it's bigger than you you've invading it because you're in an oppressed country and you're in a poor family and and and you're the run of the bunch what could I possibly do I didn't do good in school what could I do I wasn't an athlete what could I I'm not musically inclined what could I do go in this thy might go in your strength use the things I gave you and stop looking at other people and thinking I gave them something and gave you nothing cuz you are delusional you know what Gideon did God said here's what you do call The Men of War down by the river and I'm going to pick the ones I want to go and he said when they come down by the river you have them get some a drink of water he said the ones that bow down to the river and lap up water like a dog send them home but the ones that pick the water up to their face with their hands take them there only 300 people that took up the water with their hands now what's the significance of that well the significance of one of one of the reasons we know we're not animals one of the reasons is because animals this in an animal this exists to serve this in a human this exists to serve this are y'all tracking that's why we're not supposed to lower our face to our plate and lick the food off the plate but we use utensils because when we use utensils to eat food it's a picture of sacrificing the temporal on the altar of the Eternal it's a picture of sa sacrificing the flesh on the altar of the spirit and so what I do is I use my utensils to bring my food my body is sacrificing to my mind to my head are y'all tracking and he said I want people I want people who understand who they are and I can tell if they understand who they are when just by they know this person knows they are a person of dignity they're not going to lower their face to the river they're going to bring the river to their face there were 300 people who did that do you'all remember how many people it said the mid midianites and the alites and the people of the East were they were without number they were as grasshoppers they and their camels they knew they had it going on we've been we've been winning this battle for seven years now here's what happened Gideon starts walking in faith and doubt huh he did he started walking in faith and doubt hey does that remind you of anybody huh huh I see him in the mirror every time I look in one right I'm walking in faith and doubt and he said Lord if you're really calling me let me know that you really calling me for this here's what I'm going to do I'm going put out a fleece piece of cloth on the ground when I come back tonight when I come back in the morning if the ground around the fleece is dry and the fleece is wet then I'll know you called me woke up the next morning ran to the fleece took it squeezed it out filled up a bowl full of water you know what he did he walked in faith and doubt he said Lord I know you I I I saw you did that but I just want to make sure that I didn't miscommunicate what I what I was asking you to do so let me let me get you to do it in reverse I'm going to put the fleece on the ground when I come back in the morning I want the ground around the fleece to be dry and I want the fleece to be wet I mean I want the ground around the fleece to be wet I want the fleece to be dry he comes back there's de all around the fleece he picks up the fleece the fleece is dry wow this must be God you know what the beauty of being alive in the day when we have the cannon of scripture we don't need a fleece I don't need a fleece all I need is the promise of God what was the purpose of a fleece he was he was he was confirming that it was really God talking to him with the fleece you don't need the fleece we got the word the word's better than a fleece and when you walk in it you can discover that he say I don't understand the Bible I got two things I want to say about that number one it ain't the parts of the Bible you don't understand that you got a problem with let's start there and the other part is maybe the reason you don't know more of the Bible is because you're not doing the part you know because here's what the scripture says if any man will do his will he shall know the doctrine obeying what you know is the tuition you pay for getting to learn more okay so he's walking in faith and out God says okay time to go Smite the midianites the scripture says they took a pitcher and a lantern and a horn well first he no he had faith not doubt again because he go I said okay he like Lord I know you showed me the fleece but like one more thing he said okay I'm going to show you go down to the camp of the midianites and if you're afraid to go by yourself take your servant with you and I'm going to show you what they're saying so Gideon sneaks into the camp of the midianites and he hears him talking about um um um some barley coming into the camp of the midianites and destroying it and then this the guy he said that to is that not the sword of Gideon the son of uh I forgot his father's name anyway um of the children of Israel that God has delivered him into our hands he's like God told the enemy what I'm going to do to what what I'm going to do to him the enemy already knows I'm coming to destroy destroy him get he's like I got this now I mean how much more you don't need more confirmation than that they go down they fight the midianites here's what the scripture says that the people of Midian rose up against one another in the confusion with the the horn they blew the horn and the lanterns and the pictures and and then it says they slew 120,000 men 300 how did 300 people go and win against 120,000 men and then 15,000 people ran away and then Gideon went and after them and slew them and it says it says they were faint yet pursuing I love that they were faint yet pursuing just because you're tired doesn't give you an excuse to not finish the fight why because you were called you were created for this you were created for the success you've been hiding from I don't know why you're hiding maybe you're hiding because you're worried about what people think about you that's the temptation of the world again maybe you're hiding because maybe you're hiding because you're lazy you just don't want to be bothered I don't know maybe you're hiding because you're afraid if you make too much money you can't get into heaven ridiculous maybe you're hiding because you think there's a limited amount and if you make too much there be won't be enough left over for anybody else but I submit to you that Satan knows something you don't know he knows he can't block your blessing so you know what he does he mental blocks you from your blessing he can't keep it from you so he keeps you from it by making you not even desire it in the first place real talk my people by thinking you're not good enough I'm too small I'm too poor I'm too oppressed I'm too this I'm too that I'm not good enough I'm suffering from I'm just me itis inflammation of the I'm just me gland and certainly the god couldn't be using me to deliver my my people what if you're the very one what if you're what if you taking this relationship with God thing so seriously that other people realize what they're missing out on because they see your walk with god what what if what if you become obsessed with pleasing God and serving people so much that it causes other people to desire their life to change stop being scared of success stop hiding in the wine press threshing your wheat stop doing little bitty Deeds of Entrepreneurship business whatever stop stop being secretive about the fact that you have a desire to set your family free I I when I got on this journey everybody in my family didn't understand me fortunately for me I had Polio as an infant I walk with a brace on my leg my whole life people made fun of me I got got I came out I came out the wound people making fun of me oh I'm I'm all right don't be don't feel bad for me I'm all right you know what it did it made me tough enough to know that I need to like me if nobody else ain't going to do [Applause] it I need to be okay with me if nobody else ain't okay with me and I am here to tell you I I've before rejected in business and I'm going worry about it child please that's the worst thing that ever happens to me I'm going have a great life everybody in my family didn't understand what I was doing man why don't you just get a job like everybody else I don't want what everybody else has everybody else knows what they have is not enough but they want me to be like them it ain't in me I have a vision that's bigger than that God called me to do great things what makes you say that how how how can you say that well he called you to do great things too I'm just willing to acknowledge it you created for great things you are called to great things you will be challenged by great things here's my question for you are you going to step up to the challenge with your 300 soldiers and slay whatever is your Midian 130,000 I mean 120,000 plus 15,000 135,000 strong as if they're one man I'm not going to hide from mine I may get killed in the battle I may get wounded from the battle but I ain't going to hide from the battle I'm going to fight it I was in the sixth [Applause] grade right here in Tampa Florida so we lived in Pennsylvania we lived in I grew up like my first first first through fifth grade from time I was born pretty much I was born in Florida my parents moved to Pennsylvania when I was an infant all the way through the sixth grade I lived in Pennsylvania and I lived in this little town called lewn and people in lewn they don't talk like people in Florida they talk like here what what are you's doing then once in a while and that's how we used should talk then mar mar what are you going to do then I don't know we're probably going to go up over the Boondocks then once in a while that's how we talked right yeah that's how I grew up talking we moved down here to Tampa they didn't talk like that so we started going to school kids on our bus I won't say everything they said about I say why y'all talk so proper I don't know man that's just how we talk we just talk how we talk they hated us because we talk different you know why you know why children hate different because they feel like who they are is not enough they don't have enough affirmation from their parents they don't have enough affirmation from other children they don't like themselves and in order to feel bigger they have to make somebody else feel smaller so we have to teach our children that who they are is enough so they don't go around bullying people and trying to prove that they're something that they're not because they feel like they're not something that they are don't ask me to say that again I'm going to have to go back and watch the video make sure I said it right so these kids used to pick on us every day and I remember one day like I know that we we got terrorized I mean the the junior like the the central Florida junior terrorist Association were all on our bus all the members and so we're getting ready to go to school one day and I said dad do we have to go to school these kids always pick on us he said well I'm going tell you what you do boy you grabb the first one you grab by the collar and you beat him about the head and shoulders like like beat him within the inch of their life and I said and I'm in the sixth grade now and I said but Dad what if it's a girl he said I don't care nothing about [Applause] that that's what he said my dad's hands were as hard as a 2x4 he worked construction and plumbing his whole life and when he said I don't care nothing about that I didn't want those hands coming at me I was way more scared of him than I was of him grabb him with he gave me the speech like it was his William Wallace moment and he gave us a speech before we went to school and sure enough our bus stop was separate from theirs there was like 20 30 of them I don't know they come down to our they were a block apart they come down to our where we get picked up and they want to beat us they want to beat us up and so um this girl I remember her name her name was Deborah Anne she comes at me my dad said he don't care nothing about that P this other girl tries to hit me with a stick I'm wrestling with this stick we had a girl in the sixth grade she was 6 feet tall her name was Mary it should have been Goliath me and this other girl wrestling with this stick and it accidentally hit Mary in the head and she said why you hit me in my head with that that's it and I said it wasn't me it was her she grabbed me she picked me up she threw me on the ground they start stomping me and beating me I got I had a big old knot on my arm like it was out Went to went to school went to the principal's office to whatever came home told my dad what happened said did you get one of them yes sir okay then he said and you know what they never mess with us again that's right ever put a beat down on one of them I'm I'm sorry it's the only time in my life I've ever hit a girl it's the only time in my life I ever hit a girl I've never done it since never did it before but my dad told me get a woman out there you going to get another one you come home y'all I don't know my parents didn't have my my parents no violence doesn't solve anything no they said no it's going to solve something anyway I don't I don't even know I don't even know why I told you that story but I was scared I'm telling you I was scared I was scared of Mary the patrol that was 6 feet tall I was scared of all those 30 kids coming down there picking on me and my five little brothers I was scared but you know what I did I did what my dad told me to do and guess what happened exactly what he told me what happen happen you beat one of them within an inch of their life they will leave you alone for the rest of your life and guess what they did they left me alone for they left me and my brothers alone never said another cross word to us ever boy that was one of the most I thought my dad and I'm I'm like I thought my dad was plumber turns out he's a prophet cuz what he prophesied came true so what am I saying I'm saying I know it's not easy I know it's scary do it anyway because you were created for it you were called to it and now you're going to be challenged by it all right my peeps stay blessed by the best and I'll see you on the next video