1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,920 What is up everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Young in Love Podcast. 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:13,680 A podcast where being young in love has absolutely nothing this zero to do with your age, but 3 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:18,560 instead has all to do with your maturity, your growth in your experience in love over time. 4 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:20,080 My name is Darius Covington. 5 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:23,800 I am the host of this podcast. 6 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,840 Let me just say the support over on YouTube is growing. 7 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:34,480 I appreciate those of you who are actually watching the podcast on YouTube, on Spotify 8 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:37,280 and Apple and all those other streaming services. 9 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:41,560 The ability to be, what's the word I'm looking for? 10 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:45,440 The ability to feel more like a community and read your comments is impossible. 11 00:00:45,440 --> 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00:02:09,800 It is it is truly it's really amazing. 33 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,960 It is truly I am truly grateful for for all of it. 34 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:20,560 As you can tell by the title today, we are talking about one of the videos that actually 35 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:21,560 went viral. 36 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:27,680 And I'll give you a backstory to the video that I'll insert real quick right here. 37 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:29,080 There's a backstory to that video. 38 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:33,080 One day I was walking through the mall and really just trying to figure out what I was 39 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,640 doing with my content over on Tick Tock. 40 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:39,360 A lot of you know me in the beginning, I was doing a lot of normalizing ministration kind 41 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:45,400 of videos, learning about ministration as a man, experiencing or trying my best to experience 42 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:53,000 and go through the challenges that a lot of women faced with, whether it be period struggles, 43 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,240 pink tax, the list goes on and on. 44 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,880 So I did all of those things and I was trying to figure out what the next strand of my podcast 45 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,120 or excuse me, next strand of my content was going to be. 46 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:05,120 That was great. 47 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,360 I enjoyed it, but I felt like there was more that I had to offer not to the world, but 48 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:14,800 just more, more creativity, more wisdom that I had to offer. 49 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,520 Then one day I was walking through the mall and I felt like the Lord spoke to me and told 50 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:22,120 me to start this short series podcast on Tick Tock. 51 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:27,700 And he gave me the first, you know, the first snippet that he gave me was is that oftentimes 52 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:31,520 he hears our tears and we don't ever have to utter the words, but just be just through 53 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:32,520 those tears. 54 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,300 God's able to translate those tears into words. 55 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:40,560 And I wrote my notes because I don't want to just be doing things just to waste time. 56 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:42,400 So I wrote my notes and said, I'll do it. 57 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:47,360 If it gets 20,000 views in seven days, I will, I will continue to do this podcasting thing. 58 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,840 I already had all the equipment that I bought. 59 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,800 I think last year, because I knew I knew I was going to do a podcast eventually. 60 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,760 I used to walk around at work during my break. 61 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,080 I walk outside of what lap the building and I would just be having a conversation with 62 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,680 myself, imagining I was on this podcast. 63 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:04,680 Hello. 64 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,760 Hello, strange. 65 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,720 And here we are. 66 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:20,280 So seven days I posted that video and in a couple of hours it had 20,000 views and in 67 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:23,920 seven days it had, I think it was 1.7 million views that it had at that time. 68 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,800 I think now it's at 2 million something. 69 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:31,960 And then video since then have have also run their way up the ranks. 70 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,960 And so that moment there and so that moment there was obviously the video goes for just 71 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,400 a few seconds and then after I finished saying what I'm saying, the video cuts off. 72 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:44,040 But right after that video cut off, you see me glance out the window and then the video 73 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:48,560 cuts up, but I glance out the window and just started to think about the prayers that I 74 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,760 had that were once tears that God had eventually heard. 75 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,360 Or I think that God was hearing the entire time. 76 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,400 And I think that in the right season, in the right time, and God was able to process or 77 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,840 to manifest the blessings that were supposed to be attached to those miracles. 78 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:06,240 But for a long, I remember for a long time, there were a lot of prayers that I had that 79 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:10,880 I didn't verbalize because some I just didn't know how to verbalize others. 80 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:13,640 I didn't feel were important enough to verbalize. 81 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:19,560 But even those tears, even those those prayers, even those small those things that seem small 82 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:24,640 to me, God heard those things and translated them on my behalf. 83 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:29,280 And I think there's and I think that there is something to say about a God who cares 84 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:35,480 enough about our tears to even listen to just those. 85 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:42,320 You know, because I like to often say that if I was God, we would be terrible. 86 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:44,080 I mean, I would. 87 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:49,480 The fact that like he made it, he gave us two eyes, two legs, two arms, two ears, a 88 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,520 mouth, a nose, and they function like I even think about just as simple as eyebrows. 89 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,440 Like they say eyebrows are there because they block the sweat from coming into your eye. 90 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:59,440 Man, you're not getting no eyebrows. 91 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:03,440 The way I'll be acting out here, you know, I get you ever seen you ever been on Twitter? 92 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,160 The way I'll be acting on Twitter, you're not getting no dag on eyebrows, not giving 93 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:08,160 them to your legs. 94 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:09,160 You're not getting those. 95 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,160 I'm put a leg on the side of your hip, one leg on the side of your hip, the other leg 96 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,240 where it's supposed to be now figure out how you're going to walk. 97 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,760 You know, I would everybody would be discombobulated. 98 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:25,400 But the fact that God is gracious enough to us to have given us our bodies to function 99 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:29,320 in a way that makes sense and then on top of that. 100 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:35,160 And then on top of that, to incline to our prayers on top of that, to hear the things 101 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:36,160 that we pray. 102 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:40,320 And then on top of that, that even in the even in the times when we don't have enough 103 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:47,160 energy, we don't have enough words, we don't have enough faith. 104 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:53,120 To verbalize what our prayers are that he and all we have are tears to give. 105 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:57,680 All we have is moaning and groaning to give that even in that that God hears the moaning 106 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:02,920 and the groaning that God sees the tears and he's able to translate them into prayers on 107 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:04,160 our behalf. 108 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,240 That's crazy to me. 109 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:07,740 That's insane to me. 110 00:07:07,740 --> 00:07:10,960 If you want to know what love is for me, that's love. 111 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:11,960 That's love. 112 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,800 Carrying, caring enough, caring enough for me is love. 113 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:26,600 And the fact that God cares enough about our lives to see us when he cannot hear us. 114 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:28,220 That for me does it. 115 00:07:28,220 --> 00:07:29,220 That does it. 116 00:07:29,220 --> 00:07:30,920 It does it for me. 117 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:32,680 It does more than enough for me. 118 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:38,720 But before before we jump into this podcast episode, I we usually would play a game, but 119 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,620 I want to ask you all a question, a very honest question. 120 00:07:42,620 --> 00:07:44,420 How y'all doing today? 121 00:07:44,420 --> 00:07:46,640 How y'all doing this week? 122 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:47,780 This will be posted on a Monday. 123 00:07:47,780 --> 00:07:49,200 So it's at the top of a new week. 124 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:54,600 But how in these past seven days, how have you been in these past seven days alone? 125 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,000 Tomorrow is June 5th. 126 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,000 How are you doing? 127 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 How are you doing emotionally? 128 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,520 How are you doing physically? 129 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:03,520 How are you doing spiritually? 130 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,200 How are you doing mentally? 131 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,360 If you're on a platform where you're able to comment down below, comment down below. 132 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,800 Let me know how you been. 133 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:25,480 Yeah, I think sometimes in life, how are you is such a passing greeting that people ask 134 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:26,480 us how we're doing. 135 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:33,320 And we naturally just respond and say good, even when the truth that is not that even 136 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,800 when the truth is something else, I don't think that we take enough time. 137 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:44,080 I think it has become such a repetitive and such a greeting question that we don't answer 138 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:45,080 it truthfully. 139 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:50,000 And I think that we also haven't taken the time to understand the importance of us sitting 140 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:56,120 down and asking ourselves, looking at ourselves in the mirror and asking ourselves, how are 141 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,800 you doing? 142 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,560 How are you doing? 143 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:04,280 How are you feeling? 144 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:05,640 How's it working for you? 145 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:09,400 I think that those are important questions that we need to ask ourselves. 146 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,000 And I'm curious, I'm concerned and I'm curious. 147 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,560 I want you to answer it to yourself, but also let us know down in the comments section. 148 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:18,520 How are you doing? 149 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,160 Let's let that be our weekly check in. 150 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:32,680 But however you are feeling, whether it be good, whether it be not that good, know that 151 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:37,360 whatever you're going through, that you are not going through it alone. 152 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:41,800 Not only are you not going through it alone, meaning you are not the only person who is 153 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,420 going like history repeats itself. 154 00:09:43,420 --> 00:09:46,320 There is no situation that you can go through the Bible. 155 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:47,720 The Bible talks about, I'm a paraphrase. 156 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,880 The Bible talks about how there's no situation that we go through. 157 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:52,040 That's uncommon. 158 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:53,040 There's no situation. 159 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:57,520 There's no experience that you're going through that somebody else has not faced. 160 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,120 So you're not alone in that way. 161 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:00,880 I'm pretty sure there's a friend you can call up. 162 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:02,800 There's a family member you can dial up. 163 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,480 There's somebody online that you can meet who has gone through this situation. 164 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:10,920 And when I say gone through, I mean, like they're out of the situation and they're able 165 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:13,560 to give you advice and give you input. 166 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:19,780 The answer sometimes is just Google away to find out what the solution is. 167 00:10:19,780 --> 00:10:23,040 But whatever you're going through, whatever you're facing this week, whatever you will 168 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:27,440 be facing in these coming weeks, to know that you are not going through this thing alone, 169 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,760 that of all these seven billion people in this world, that there is somebody else who 170 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,480 has faced this exact same situation that you're going through. 171 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:36,560 And they've been able to find the light at the end of the tunnel. 172 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:38,240 And so how important is it? 173 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:43,320 How important it is for you to know that though you might feel alone, though you might feel 174 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:48,480 confused of why you have to go through this, why you have to face this issue, why you have 175 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,140 to face this problem, just know that you are not alone. 176 00:10:52,140 --> 00:10:56,120 And going through this, there is somebody walking along trying to figure out the end 177 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:58,040 to this, just like you are. 178 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,400 There are people who have already gone through this situation, who have found the end. 179 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,600 So be encouraged that there is a light at the end of this tunnel. 180 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,800 There is a solution at the end of this problem. 181 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,200 In this situation that you're going through, no matter how long you've been going through 182 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,720 it, there will come a day where this situation will be behind you, where this test becomes 183 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,800 a testimony, where this mess becomes a miracle. 184 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:24,880 And when these tears also transform into miracles. 185 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:31,600 So you're not alone in that aspect, but you're also not alone in the aspect that God is walking 186 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:32,600 with you. 187 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:39,000 I love the scripture that talks about how God goes before us. 188 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,320 That is the scripture that I rehearse. 189 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:44,360 Every situation that I go through, I remind myself that the Lord has already gone before 190 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,720 me, that there's no battle that I have to fight, that God has not already surveyed the 191 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:52,680 land, that God has not already went and calculated what the enemy's plan is ahead of me. 192 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:56,800 That every situation that I go through, I'm not alone because God has gone before me. 193 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,920 And even while I'm on my way to that situation, on my way to that problem, God is walking 194 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:01,920 there with me. 195 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,560 And when I find myself dead smack in the middle of that situation, trying to figure out how 196 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:09,960 I'm going to make it out of this thing, God is right there alongside with me, walking 197 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,680 me through and walking me to the end of the situation. 198 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:17,280 But it's up to us to remember that God is with us the entire way through. 199 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:21,160 I think that oftentimes we can allow our situations to discourage us and to make us think that 200 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:26,240 we're walking through these situations and these seasons alone. 201 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:30,080 Because oftentimes it can feel, if we're telling the truth, oftentimes it can feel that we 202 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,400 are walking through these situations along. 203 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:36,560 Oftentimes it feels the song, nobody told me the world, there's a song that says, nobody 204 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:41,520 told me that it would be this easy, but I don't believe that you brought me this far. 205 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:48,000 Oftentimes it sometimes it does feel that God has brought us this far, just dropped 206 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,120 us off. 207 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,040 That's what these negative situations force us to think. 208 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:55,680 They force us to believe that we're alone, that nobody else in the world has ever gone 209 00:12:55,680 --> 00:12:56,680 through this. 210 00:12:56,680 --> 00:12:58,760 Nobody else in the world has ever made it out of this. 211 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:02,000 And that also that God is not with us while we're walking through this situation. 212 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,360 But I believe that if God is allowing us, if God is letting us go through it, then it's 213 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,840 because he can trust us to go through it. 214 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,960 Quick story, I recently, I don't know if I told this story already, but I was recently 215 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:14,560 on my way home from Jersey. 216 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:15,560 I live in Virginia. 217 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:16,560 I was on my way home from Jersey. 218 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:21,160 That was a six and a half hour drive on the way home. 219 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:22,160 My girlfriend had called me. 220 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:26,760 We were on the phone and I had stopped at a gas station thing. 221 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,400 So I was trying to get some food real quick. 222 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:37,320 And when I stopped there, I got back in the car to go home and the car would not start. 223 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,960 The battery had to I'd never had issues with my car battery before. 224 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:42,720 We're in twenty twenty three. 225 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:44,720 I got the car brand new in twenty twenty one. 226 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,120 So it is a twenty twenty one. 227 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:48,120 So I was lost. 228 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:49,120 I was a little bit confused. 229 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:54,440 And if I'm honest, I'm about to cry because I live in the middle of nowhere in order to 230 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:58,320 get into in order to get to the middle of nowhere. 231 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,480 You have to go through the middle of nowhere. 232 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:05,060 But randomly I turned around and I mean, I was at this gas station for maybe like twenty 233 00:14:05,060 --> 00:14:07,760 five minutes and I turned around and there was a Wal-Mart. 234 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,560 I'd never seen this Wal-Mart the entire time I was there. 235 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:13,400 Obviously it was there, but I just never seen it. 236 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:17,160 And being the fact that I go through a lot of the roads that I go through, like I don't 237 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,800 drive on interstates to get home most of the time because the interstate is like an hour 238 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,960 away from this town. 239 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:29,760 So there's not there's no main highways with main these big stores or whatever. 240 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:32,440 So there was a Wal-Mart there and. 241 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:33,440 I was like, whatever. 242 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,400 So I before I went to Wal-Mart, I was asking people, I was like, do you have jumper cables 243 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:38,240 because my car battery's dead? 244 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:39,920 I need some help. 245 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:41,760 Nobody had jumper cables. 246 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,800 If you're a man, put some jumper cables in your car. 247 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,840 Just you'll never know when you're at a gas station and a woman, you know, something happens 248 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:47,840 to their car. 249 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:49,280 You wouldn't be able to help her. 250 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:56,540 So anyway, I went to walk to the Wal-Mart and on my way to the Wal-Mart, I just felt 251 00:14:56,540 --> 00:15:00,960 like something was about to I had these urges very often that something's about to happen. 252 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:02,660 I never know if it's good or bad. 253 00:15:02,660 --> 00:15:05,740 It doesn't happen every time, but it happens pretty often. 254 00:15:05,740 --> 00:15:09,800 And I had this urge that something was going to happen and I walked into the Wal-Mart and 255 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:11,680 the auto center was in the back of the store. 256 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:15,040 You can make a beeline straight to the back of store to get to the auto center from the 257 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:16,960 door that I walked into. 258 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,700 Instead of doing that, I decided to walk around and then to the back. 259 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:25,400 And as I'm walking around to the back, I passed these two young people who were my age or 260 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:29,880 younger between 20 and 25 who were arguing or they just had, they were just having a 261 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:34,360 discussion that seemed a little bit heated, but the guy was a worker. 262 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,160 The girl was just, you know, some girl. 263 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:41,720 So I didn't think anything of it and I walked past the aisle and I get maybe two aisles 264 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:47,600 down and I hear like the scuffling sound of like somebody hitting another person based 265 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,080 on the way that he was talking when I walked past the aisle. 266 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,880 I obviously had to assume that it was him hitting her. 267 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:59,200 So I turn around real quick because, you know, there's a lot of things that I might play 268 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:00,200 with. 269 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,200 I don't be playing with don't put your don't put your man hands on a woman. 270 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:07,640 Turn around real quick to go to the aisle and they were gone. 271 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:08,740 Right. 272 00:16:08,740 --> 00:16:13,440 But on the next, literally the next aisle over, there was a Walmart associate there 273 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:14,440 and I went to it. 274 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:17,440 I said, you don't hear these people on the other side of the aisle fighting. 275 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:21,880 She was like, no, no, ma'am. 276 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,000 I've been a lot of things in my life. 277 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,220 I had never been dumb. 278 00:16:25,220 --> 00:16:26,220 You hear these people. 279 00:16:26,220 --> 00:16:30,400 If I hear them, my ears are the size of nothing. 280 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:31,400 They're tiny. 281 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:35,080 If I hear these people, you hear these people woman. 282 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:36,080 So I'm like, well, they're fighting. 283 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:37,080 We got to go fight them. 284 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:38,360 So we go to the other aisle. 285 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,240 We're like looking down all these aisles and we can't find these people. 286 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:43,240 So she's like, hold on. 287 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,240 I'll get the store manager who's like right around right around the corner. 288 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:48,120 This is why I shop at Target. 289 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:52,400 So we go we go to the we get the lady and I'm like, I think I'm like, I'm pretty sure 290 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:56,000 I heard a guy and I'm pretty sure I heard this guy hitting this girl, but we don't know 291 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,400 where they went. 292 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,480 And so she's like, hold on. 293 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:02,480 So she takes off. 294 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:06,160 She like, you know, walking fast in front of us trying to find them. 295 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:10,000 And she turns the aisle and like you can hear them scuffling at the like as we're getting 296 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,000 closer, you can hear them scuffling. 297 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,000 She turns the aisle. 298 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 She's like, hey, stop that. 299 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,120 And then they both run opposite directions. 300 00:17:16,120 --> 00:17:18,300 I'm trying to figure out where the guy's going. 301 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:20,720 I think they were trying to figure out where the girl was going. 302 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,880 Somehow we lost both of them, but they knew who the guy was because he worked there. 303 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:25,560 So whatever. 304 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:27,280 I go by my jumper cables. 305 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:28,280 This is what we're talking about. 306 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,920 I go and I buy my jumper cables and I'm walking out and they're like, thank you so much for 307 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:33,920 your help. 308 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:40,000 Like, yeah, I go back to the gas station or obviously by the jumper cables, go back to 309 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:46,000 the gas station on my way walking to the gas station. 310 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:53,480 What I realized is that even with that thing that seemed so small that God can trust me 311 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,920 with that. 312 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,080 So my car breaking down. 313 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:00,240 Here's the thing. 314 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:04,840 My car breaking down was never about me. 315 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,680 It was never about me. 316 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:09,980 It was never about me having to learn the lesson. 317 00:18:09,980 --> 00:18:13,080 That was not about me. 318 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,600 It was about God being able to use me in this. 319 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,080 It was about God being able to use me as an example in this situation. 320 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:25,280 It was about God trusting me enough to use me in this situation where you have this woman. 321 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:30,160 Now whether or not she actually heard what was going on or not is debatable, but I'm 322 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:33,240 going to stand on the side of the debate that says that she heard what was going on because 323 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:38,040 I don't even know what she was doing in her aisle, but she was just standing there. 324 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:44,400 But obviously that would have happened and I don't think that he would have did anything 325 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,840 crazy to her, but who would have intervened had I not been there? 326 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:50,960 Because when I was there, nobody else was trying to intervene. 327 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:52,880 You know what I mean? 328 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:59,480 And so I say all that to say, I went back to my car, literally just put the jumper cables 329 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,960 on the battery and a guy walked up to me and he was like, hey, you need a jump? 330 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:03,960 And I was like, yeah, please. 331 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,720 I was like, I'll buy you some food if you do it. 332 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,000 He was like, no, you're good. 333 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 This just happened to me last week. 334 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,320 His wife pulled the car up. 335 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:15,040 He put the jumper cables on his car, fixed them up because they were in the wrong spot 336 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:19,200 on my car, started my car up and I went home. 337 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,280 I didn't have to beg anybody after that. 338 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:25,080 I didn't have to beg anybody from that point that I came back to help me get a jump. 339 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:26,600 This guy just walked up to me. 340 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:31,440 This guy just walked up to me, saw me, saw that I was in need and helped me out. 341 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:37,240 I say all that to say a lot of the situations that we go through have nothing to do with 342 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:41,200 us. 343 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:47,560 A lot of the trauma that we experience have nothing to do with us. 344 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:52,160 A lot of the things that we go through that might cause us to carry baggage have absolutely 345 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,200 nothing to do with us. 346 00:19:55,200 --> 00:20:01,120 Most times or sometimes it's because God can trust us to go through those things and to 347 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:04,720 help somebody else out who might not be able to go through it and come out in the same 348 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:06,520 way that we did. 349 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:10,800 But if God knows that he can trust you, but if God knows that he can trust you, then God 350 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,840 will use you for situations that might sometimes be great situations. 351 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,200 People might look at you and be like, yeah, I want to be like you. 352 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:22,740 But I also believe that there are some situations that God, if he can trust you, he might allow 353 00:20:22,740 --> 00:20:28,360 you to go through some dark seasons so that when you come out of that season, he can trust 354 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:29,600 that you'll give your testimony. 355 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:30,880 He can trust that you'll help somebody. 356 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:34,520 He can trust that you'll reach back to people who are going through that same situation 357 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:40,560 and help bring them out into a better place that you've been able to get to. 358 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:44,880 And in the situation that we go through where all we have to give are tears and we might 359 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:50,640 not have any words to give, I believe that God honors the strength of our words. 360 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:58,560 I believe that God honors the strength of our words because oftentimes praying to God, 361 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:03,880 most times praying to God, praying to God alone is just a faith thing, but I think that 362 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:11,080 oftentimes praying to God to help you out of a situation is a faith move. 363 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:16,960 And I believe that God honors our faith move when they're rooted from a good place. 364 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:21,280 I believe that God honors our commitment to be faithful to him. 365 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:28,920 I believe that God honors our commitment to still trust in him, even when in most times 366 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,520 this might be a hard area to trust you in. 367 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:36,800 I believe that God looks at our situation and he knows our heart and he knows what we're 368 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,320 going through and he knows you're going through the season, it might be a little bit hard 369 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:44,080 and it might be a little hard to trust me, but when we muster up the words to say to 370 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,480 God, hey, I need you. 371 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,720 Even in this situation, I still believe that you're able, even in this situation, I still 372 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:50,720 believe that you're faithful. 373 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:55,040 I believe that God hears those prayers and that he honors it. 374 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,880 I don't believe that that means he'll come right away and get us out because he honored 375 00:21:58,880 --> 00:21:59,880 our commitment. 376 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:03,400 I believe there is a time and a season for everything and there are certain situations 377 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,480 that we have to go through and certain things that we have to experience for God to bring 378 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,040 us out on the other side. 379 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:13,780 But I believe that God does honor us when we are able to put those words to gather up 380 00:22:13,780 --> 00:22:17,200 the strength, to muster up the strength and the faith, to actually pray to him when we're 381 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,640 going through these hard situations. 382 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:26,320 But I also believe that when we don't have the ability to do those, that God lends us 383 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,600 these things called grace and mercy. 384 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:34,440 And even in our tears, he hears the prayers that our mouths could never utter. 385 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:39,720 I believe that there are tears that we, I believe that there are tears that we shed 386 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,560 because we don't have the words to pray. 387 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,960 But I also believe that there are tears that we shed because we started a prayer and somewhere 388 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:53,120 along the line of realizing that this is too much and that I probably don't have enough 389 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:58,040 faith for this or I've tried to have enough faith for this for so long. 390 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:03,560 And it's been so hard to keep on to that faith and somewhere along that prayer, we can't 391 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,640 utter any words. 392 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,640 Our tears begin to utter words that our mouths cannot. 393 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:15,240 I believe that God hears those too and he honors them. 394 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:19,440 I believe that God sees those tears and he picks up this pen in heaven and he picks up 395 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:24,960 this book in heaven and he writes out, he transcribes what those tears are saying that 396 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,840 our mouths can never. 397 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:36,960 I believe that God honors those moments of vulnerability that we submit to him. 398 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,980 So praying oftentimes looks different. 399 00:23:39,980 --> 00:23:42,680 Sometimes I can pray to God and I have a lot of words to give. 400 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,240 Other times I pray to God and I don't have no words. 401 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:50,800 No matter how hard I try, I can't come up with any words because all I have are just 402 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,600 a bunch of tears to give. 403 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,720 That's why, and I've rehearsed this in my mind all the time, that if you're ever to 404 00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:02,040 ask me a characteristic of God that I love the most, it's that he's a God who hears. 405 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:07,460 He hears when I have the loudest prayer, when I have the loudest praise, God hears that. 406 00:24:07,460 --> 00:24:10,960 When I have the lowest praise in the room, God hears that too. 407 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,560 When I have the loudest prayer, when I have the loudest sacrifice, the biggest sacrifice, 408 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,420 I believe that yes, God hears that. 409 00:24:16,420 --> 00:24:20,960 But I believe that when I have no words to attach to a prayer, to a moment of prayer, 410 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,760 I believe that God hears the tears, that God hears the hum, he hears the moaning and the 411 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:26,760 groaning. 412 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,840 He hears the anger and the frustration that I have to give in moments where my words cannot 413 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,840 verbalize what I'm feeling on the inside. 414 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,820 That's why I love that we have the ability to call God our Father because I think a good 415 00:24:37,820 --> 00:24:42,120 father is able to look at their child, a good parent is able to look at their child and 416 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:43,600 understand what's going on. 417 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:49,720 My sister, man, y'all people with children, I don't know what kind of books y'all be 418 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:50,720 reading. 419 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,240 I don't know what y'all be doing. 420 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,600 I don't know how y'all, especially mothers, hear me out. 421 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,720 I don't know how y'all understand the difference between cries. 422 00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,760 I don't know how one cry means that your kid is hungry. 423 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,000 The other cry means that they're hot. 424 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,640 The other cry means that they just pooped. 425 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,840 I don't know how y'all able to transcribe those different cries, but I think a good parent 426 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,400 and a parent that pays attention to their child is able to come up with those, is able 427 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:12,400 to do that. 428 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:17,120 But I think in the same way that oftentimes I don't have the words to express, I don't 429 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:18,640 even have the tears to express anymore. 430 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,200 Sometimes I just have anger and frustration to give to God. 431 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:27,000 Sometimes I have the emotion of disappointment to give to God. 432 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,320 Sometimes by my actions, I'm not going to go to church as often as I do. 433 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,560 I'm not going to read my Bible as often as I do. 434 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,720 I believe that God is able to transcribe those. 435 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:40,040 I believe that God is able to transcribe and to translate those emotions, to transcribe 436 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:46,640 and to translate those physical changes and understand the true prayer behind those things. 437 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:51,520 But I think that there's a greater weight to that when you understand that God is able 438 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,840 to hear you even in those moments. 439 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,520 This is the last thing I'm going to say. 440 00:25:55,520 --> 00:26:02,600 I think about the story of Abraham and the Bible going up to sacrifice his son and how 441 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:07,040 we know because we read the book, we know because we have access to the book, we know 442 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,880 that Abraham got to the top of that mountain and there was a ram in a bush and he didn't 443 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:15,120 have to sacrifice his son or kill his son and sacrifice him to God. 444 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:21,320 But I oftentimes imagine myself in Abraham's shoes, walking up that mountain of sacrifice, 445 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:30,520 walking up that mountain of sacrifice and the emotional turmoil that I would feel knowing 446 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:35,800 that I have to sacrifice one of the things that God blessed me with, knowing that I have 447 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:41,140 to sacrifice one of the one things that I prayed for and don't want to give up, knowing 448 00:26:41,140 --> 00:26:46,000 or walking up this mountain and knowing that I'm walking into a situation that I don't 449 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,000 want to be in. 450 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,520 I'm walking into a situation that seems too hard for me to deal with. 451 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:57,100 I'm walking into a situation that I never imagined that I would be in. 452 00:26:57,100 --> 00:27:01,320 But here I am, walking up this mountain. 453 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,160 Here I am walking through this situation. 454 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:08,000 I believe that Abraham was walking and the Bible doesn't tell us this, but I believe 455 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,640 that Abraham was walking and I believe that there were some tears that were forming in 456 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:12,640 his eyes. 457 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,200 I believe that Abraham was walking and he was mentally confused. 458 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,640 Where is God in all of this? 459 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:24,480 I believe that Abraham was walking and walking into moments of depression, feeling that I 460 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,360 have to give up what I want, feeling that I have to give up the thing that I love so 461 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:29,880 much. 462 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,560 And I believe that some of us are in the same position as Abraham. 463 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,280 We might not be sacrificing no kids and no mountain, but I do believe that we're walking 464 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,760 into situations that we never thought that we would have to experience. 465 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,840 Walking into situations that we don't know what the answer, what the outcome of this 466 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,160 situation is going to be. 467 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,600 I have no idea how I'm going to figure this thing out. 468 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:55,080 But I think the more that we walk to the place that God has called us to be, the more he'll 469 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,720 make it clear. 470 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,860 The more he will make it clear. 471 00:27:59,860 --> 00:28:02,800 The more he'll translate every single step that we take. 472 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,200 I believe that God will translate every tear that drops along the way. 473 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,240 That God will translate every moment of depression. 474 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,560 That God will translate every moment of sadness as we walk along the way. 475 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:18,680 The important thing for Abraham, the most important thing that Abraham did, that man 476 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,680 kept walking and he got to the top of that mountain and there was a ram and a bush and 477 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,160 he was able to use that as a sacrifice. 478 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:30,120 But had Abraham never walked, had Abraham never kept the faith and never kept on walking 479 00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:34,840 up that mountain, he would have never saw the goodness of God. 480 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:40,720 He would never have been able to see the goodness of God in such a dark moment. 481 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,520 So I say to you that whatever situation you're going through, God hears the tears. 482 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:46,860 Keep on crying. 483 00:28:46,860 --> 00:28:48,740 Keep on going through the mental emotions. 484 00:28:48,740 --> 00:28:51,280 Keep on doing whatever it is that you're doing. 485 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:55,240 Keep on doing whatever it is that you're doing and know that God hears you in all of 486 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,240 those things. 487 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:02,800 In every step that you take, you are getting closer to a testimony of the goodness of God 488 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,800 in your life. 489 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,240 So know that God hears every tear. 490 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,800 God hears every prayer. 491 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,560 God hears every ounce of frustration, every ounce of confusion. 492 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:16,960 God sees it. 493 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:24,320 God hears it and God will provide an answer in the right time. 494 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:34,360 Everything works out the way and in the time that it's supposed to work out. 495 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:57,640 Peace out, guys.