Episode 14
Importance of aligning money with values
Are you ready to revolutionize your relationship with money? In this eye-opening episode, I sit down with financial powerhouses Weslia Echols and Willa Williams to unpack the crucial connection between our values and our finances.
These dynamic women, known as "your financial big sister" and "your financial auntie," bring a wealth of wisdom to the table. They share their personal journeys of financial transformation and offer invaluable insights on how to align your money with your true purpose.
Key Takeaways:
- Discover the concept of "steward identity" and how it can reshape your financial mindset
- Learn why contentment is key to financial fulfillment
- Understand the importance of seasons in your financial journey
- Explore how to create a cash flow plan that aligns with your values
- Gain insights on building wealth intentionally and leaving a lasting legacy
This conversation goes beyond typical financial advice, delving into the spiritual aspects of money management and the power of trusting God's unique path for your life. Whether you're struggling with debt, seeking to grow your wealth, or simply looking to gain a fresh perspective on your finances, this episode offers practical wisdom and inspiration for your journey.
Don't miss out on this transformative discussion that will challenge you to rethink your approach to money and empower you to walk in financial freedom and purpose.
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Transcript
Welcome back to another amazing episode of
Speaker:Laquita's Toolbox. I am your host, Laquita
Speaker:Manley. Y'all. I am so excited today. I am
Speaker:so, y'all. I know my regulars like
Speaker:Laquita. You always excited. When are you
Speaker:not excited? That's rarely because I be
Speaker:excited in my sleep, y'all. But I'm for
Speaker:real. I'm excited today because I have two
Speaker:absolutely amazing women of God in the
Speaker:studio with me today. Miss Wesleya and
Speaker:Miss Willa. They gonna be dropping gems.
Speaker:You already know the deal. Get something
Speaker:to write with and something to write on,
Speaker:because y'all know people. Pen and paper,
Speaker:don't forget. But we do. I'm trying to
Speaker:tell y'all, I met these fabulous ladies
Speaker:because we are part of another mastermind
Speaker:type group together. And I thank God for
Speaker:that, that group, because I've been able
Speaker:to be blessed by a lot of people to help
Speaker:not only my brand and my podcast grow, but
Speaker:just personal growth and development. But
Speaker:before I bring Wesley and Willa in, let's
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Speaker:ladies, y'all, I ain't gonna say come on
Speaker:in the room. Cause you already. Yes.
Speaker:Welcome to the toolbox. Welcome to the
Speaker:toolbox. Let's see, who we wanna go first?
Speaker:Who we wanna go first? Let's start with.
Speaker:Let's start with Miss Willa. Miss Willa,
Speaker:let us know who you are and where you
Speaker:from. Hey, I'm Willa Williams,
Speaker:affectionately known as your financial
Speaker:auntie. That's who I am. A lot of people
Speaker:ask, where does that name come from, your
Speaker:financial auntie? I have a lot. I wish I
Speaker:could show you my hands. They're spanning
Speaker:as wide as this room. That many nieces.
Speaker:And I love each and every one of them. And
Speaker:nephews, too. Guys. Nephews, too. But
Speaker:sometimes they want to talk to their
Speaker:auntie about finances and not necessarily
Speaker:mama or daddy, because auntie, she's not
Speaker:going to be judgmental. She's going to
Speaker:tell them like it is. And if they. If I
Speaker:see, when I see their mom or their dad or
Speaker:getting on them, I just go right along
Speaker:with the mom and daddy, then later go back
Speaker:and say, now, you know, you shouldn't did
Speaker:that, but I can't let the niece and nephew
Speaker:do that. So I have to make sure that they
Speaker:understand it's good to come to your
Speaker:auntie. And so that's, that's where my
Speaker:handle of the financial auntie comes from.
Speaker:But I'm Willa Williams and truly love the
Speaker:Lord. Truly, truly love him. And love
Speaker:being able to share financial knowledge
Speaker:and wisdom with the universe. All my
Speaker:little sisters and brothers love to do
Speaker:that. So your new adopted niece, you
Speaker:gonna. Join, you are joining so many other
Speaker:adoptees, but that's okay. Erase, adopt
Speaker:me. Erase the adopted part. You could just
Speaker:be a niece. Oh, see, that's what I'm
Speaker:talking about. Auntie. You gonna talk, I'm
Speaker:gonna listen. Cause audience, y'all know I
Speaker:take notes when we doing this for real.
Speaker:All right. I take notes. All right, y'all,
Speaker:y'all have met auntie. Auntie, Willie
Speaker:Williams, your financial coach. Come on
Speaker:through, miss Wesley and talk about it.
Speaker:Hello. I'm so glad to be here. I'm so glad
Speaker:to be here. Will is your financial auntie,
Speaker:and I'm your financial big sister. There
Speaker:you go. And so, as your financial big
Speaker:sister, I am also here to just kind of
Speaker:tell you like it is and, and kind of guide
Speaker:you along the way and with no shame, no
Speaker:judgment. I'm your financial big sister
Speaker:because a lot of the people that I coach
Speaker:are just that. They're like my, they're my
Speaker:younger version. They're the younger
Speaker:version of me. And I wish that I had some
Speaker:of the guidance, wisdom and knowledge at
Speaker:that age when I was 10, 15, 20 years
Speaker:younger than I have now. And so to be
Speaker:positioned to be able to help them gain
Speaker:that financial knowledge and walk their
Speaker:unique path for financial fulfillment, I'm
Speaker:just so glad to do that. So I am your
Speaker:financial big sister, and just like the
Speaker:auntie, you know, sisters talk. Sisters
Speaker:talk. Sisters know stuff, you know? And
Speaker:like will it say, it don't get to mommy
Speaker:and daddy, but sisters talk. And we come
Speaker:together and we can work it out. Sisters
Speaker:to come together and work out a problem
Speaker:and resolve it. Yeah. Without mom and dad
Speaker:before mom and. Daddy even know anything
Speaker:about it. You know what I'm saying? Well,
Speaker:you said that the scene that popped in my
Speaker:head was a scene from the Cosby show when
Speaker:Vanessa got drunk. Yep. Yes. Yes. I, we
Speaker:have been that, you know, our. We are
Speaker:referred to that by our clients a lot.
Speaker:You're just like my auntie, or you remind
Speaker:me so much of my sister as we are engaging
Speaker:with them, and so it just stuck. And so
Speaker:that's who we are. Will, your financial
Speaker:big sister and your financial auntie.
Speaker:Listen, y'all, we have our financial
Speaker:auntie. We have our financial big sister
Speaker:in the house. I know y'all better be
Speaker:somewhere with something to write with and
Speaker:something. But per venture, you are not.
Speaker:Just turn the podcast up a little bit
Speaker:louder. You have to either turn it up loud
Speaker:to focus good or turn it down low to see
Speaker:where you're going. I don't know why that
Speaker:is, but turn this up high so you can focus
Speaker:on what they're about to say, because they
Speaker:are about to drop some gems. But before we
Speaker:get into the gems, though, let everyone
Speaker:know right, right now how they can learn
Speaker:more from their financial big sister and
Speaker:their financial auntie, because you guys
Speaker:have an amazing podcast as well. Let's
Speaker:talk about that. So y'all make sure y'all
Speaker:hit those notification bills and like and
Speaker:subscribe, not just to the toolbox, but
Speaker:you also gonna like and subscribe to. And
Speaker:what's the name of your podcast? Wealth
Speaker:and wisdom, together with Wesley and.
Speaker:Willa, available on all major podcast
Speaker:platforms. Absolutely. Absolutely. Y'all
Speaker:want to download that? Yes, you do. You
Speaker:do. We. It's a weekly podcast where we
Speaker:drop gems. The goal of the podcast is to
Speaker:help you to walk in your steward identity
Speaker:as you discover your unique path to
Speaker:financial fulfillment. That steward
Speaker:identity, like, that wasn't something
Speaker:we're gonna talk about. I just need y'all
Speaker:to understand, like, why. Why we do what
Speaker:we do. Because, you know, so the word
Speaker:tells us in ecclesiastic 711 and twelve
Speaker:that, you know, wealth and wisdom work
Speaker:well together, right? So it says that it's
Speaker:good to have wisdom along with an
Speaker:inheritance because it's a clear advantage
Speaker:to those who see the sun. For together,
Speaker:wisdom and money are, like, in this. They
Speaker:both offer protection from life's
Speaker:misfortunes. But the real advantage of
Speaker:knowledge is this wisdom alone preserves
Speaker:the lives of those who have it. So our
Speaker:goal is to make sure that you are walking
Speaker:in the divine wisdom that God has provided
Speaker:for you to attain financial fulfillment.
Speaker:And we say fulfillment because everybody's
Speaker:doing financial freedom. Like, I mean, we
Speaker:get it. Financial independence, financial
Speaker:freedom. But there are people who reach
Speaker:that, and they're not fulfilled. They're
Speaker:not happy. They have torn relationships.
Speaker:They have deteriorated themselves
Speaker:mentally. They've done all the things to
Speaker:get the wealth, but the wisdom is
Speaker:understanding that. Is it fulfilling? Is
Speaker:it what God called you to do? Do you still
Speaker:have your joyous health, healthy
Speaker:relationships? Yes. Yes. So when we walk
Speaker:in our steward identity, there's a process
Speaker:that we go through to make sure that we're
Speaker:going to attain financial fulfillment,
Speaker:that we're going to get this wealth with
Speaker:the wisdom, so that we stay centered in
Speaker:the line. I love that. And I just to add
Speaker:to what, what said is our paths are
Speaker:individual. They're individual to us from
Speaker:God. And so we have attained the wealth.
Speaker:But in order to enjoy that path, enjoy
Speaker:life now, continue to build wealth and
Speaker:reach financial fulfillment. You need the
Speaker:wisdom, and so many of our clients will
Speaker:come to us. And, you know, I have the
Speaker:resources, but I just don't know what to
Speaker:do now. I just don't. I'm not fulfilled.
Speaker:I'm working, I'm grinding, I'm doing. And
Speaker:it's just, I don't know what it's for. But
Speaker:we have to help coach them to begin to see
Speaker:and understand, you know, and attain the
Speaker:wisdom that they need to reach the
Speaker:fulfillment, identifying their personal
Speaker:path and reaching out and strengthening
Speaker:their relationship with God so that they
Speaker:can get on that path and enjoy the wealth
Speaker:that they've attained. That's our goal.
Speaker:Yes. I love that. Listen, y'all, we barely
Speaker:tend a little over ten and a half minutes
Speaker:into the podcast. Like, I'm tracking that
Speaker:time, right? But they have already dropped
Speaker:a, an amazing tool, so I hope y'all have
Speaker:written it down. Wealth and wisdom,
Speaker:biblical principles we will understand
Speaker:from the scripture. Wisdom is the
Speaker:principal thing. And without it, we lack
Speaker:understanding. Without it, we lack the
Speaker:ability to advance and to grow. Because
Speaker:knowing it is knowledge. Knowing what to
Speaker:do with the knowledge you have to cause it
Speaker:to produce for you is wisdom. So y'all
Speaker:writing that down and then your steward
Speaker:identity, come on, we're going to break
Speaker:that down. Not all the way down, because
Speaker:y'all need to connect, but we don't give
Speaker:y'all enough to be greedy, right? We gonna
Speaker:give you all enough to be greedy. But, and
Speaker:then even what, Miss Willow was like your
Speaker:own individual path. I love that so much
Speaker:because all, oftentimes when we think
Speaker:we've carved out a path or laid out a
Speaker:path, what we fail to realize is how much
Speaker:outside noise has influenced the decisions
Speaker:that we've made. Absolutely. To create
Speaker:this path. And then when you get there,
Speaker:you reach the destination or you're on
Speaker:your way to the destination. And my
Speaker:pockets may be overflowing, but I am so
Speaker:unhappy. I'm. Let's not even use the word
Speaker:happy because happy is based off a
Speaker:happenstance. I don't got no joy, right?
Speaker:I'm not broke, but I ain't got no joy. And
Speaker:then it's for some people, the, the
Speaker:hiccups that they're experiencing along
Speaker:the way is because that wasn't, that
Speaker:wasn't your path. That wasn't the way that
Speaker:God wants you to come into your wealth.
Speaker:That isn't the way that you're wired for
Speaker:wealth. Come on. So, you know, it's like
Speaker:shiny object syndrome. So I want to try
Speaker:all the things, and I don't speak against
Speaker:any of the various ways that we can gain
Speaker:wealth. God has given us the ability to
Speaker:create wealth. So that means that that is
Speaker:an abundant, that is an infinite. You
Speaker:know, the ideas, the witty conventions,
Speaker:all of that. All of that is going to come
Speaker:to us. But what's yours? And oftentimes we
Speaker:try to mimic and copy what someone else is
Speaker:doing to reach a certain goal, but. But we
Speaker:haven't sat down to identify what it is
Speaker:for us. And then in some instances, like,
Speaker:for me personally on my path, although I
Speaker:had, you know, I became a financial
Speaker:advisor. So let me back up so, you know,
Speaker:just a little bit more about my path.
Speaker:Okay? As will have mentioned, that we had
Speaker:separate paths that got us to the same
Speaker:place. I got my dream job as a financial
Speaker:advisor. I was so excited to be able to
Speaker:get this job working. I was going to be a
Speaker:stock broker for a major securities firm.
Speaker:And it was shortly after the birth of my
Speaker:second daughter. She was two months old,
Speaker:and she was diagnosed with a condition
Speaker:called failure to thrive. And so that is
Speaker:going to the doctor trying to figure out
Speaker:what's going on with her because she
Speaker:cannot keep food in her stomach and she is
Speaker:not getting nourished. And so she ended up
Speaker:being in a hospital for a month after test
Speaker:after test after test. She's in the
Speaker:hospital for a month. I have this job. And
Speaker:fortunately, my manager was like, I know
Speaker:you can't be in the office. I need you to
Speaker:deal with what's going on with your
Speaker:daughter, but you have to pass your series
Speaker:seven on the first try. So I had a time
Speaker:frame with which to pass my series seven,
Speaker:and I had to pass on the first try or I
Speaker:was going to lose my job. So with our
Speaker:support system, I'm studying, we're doing
Speaker:all of these things, and she gets beyond
Speaker:that, and I'm so excited. She gets beyond
Speaker:that. And so we're trying to keep the
Speaker:balance between, you know, what's going on
Speaker:with her so that my two year old that was
Speaker:at home isn't. Her life isn't torn upside
Speaker:down because mommy and daddy's putting so
Speaker:much time on the baby girl, right? So we
Speaker:move forward. They're going, they're in
Speaker:school. They're toddlers. I'm working. I'm
Speaker:doing the thing. My husband starts his
Speaker:business. My husband owns an it staffing
Speaker:company. He starts his business. I'm in a.
Speaker:The financial services, and that's, like,
Speaker:that's entrepreneurship, because, you
Speaker:know, that's commission driven base, and
Speaker:you got to find clients, and so you're
Speaker:working just like a business owner. So I'm
Speaker:working. Barely getting the latch key by
Speaker:six. Dropped them off at eight. Barely
Speaker:getting the latch key by six. Come home,
Speaker:and now you're trying to get them in bed
Speaker:by eight. You feel me? You trying to get
Speaker:them into bed by eight, and then you got
Speaker:to turn around and do that all over again.
Speaker:And I'm like, this is really not what I
Speaker:envisioned as, of how I as a mother and
Speaker:how be raising my children, because I grew
Speaker:up in a single, single mother, single
Speaker:parent home. My mother was a single, so
Speaker:she had to do all the things. And I know a
Speaker:lot of what I did because I knew she
Speaker:couldn't be there. We gonna leave that
Speaker:right there? Cause I'm. I am. I'm renewed.
Speaker:I'm transformed. But. But do you hear what
Speaker:I'm saying? I'm trying to do all the
Speaker:things. So I prayed. I said, God, what? I
Speaker:don't like this. I don't like how I feel.
Speaker:This is not what I had envisioned, but I
Speaker:need you to speak to me and let me know
Speaker:what to do. And so he created an exit for
Speaker:me. He created an ability for me to have a
Speaker:job that gives me the flexibility that I
Speaker:needed. It was half my salary, but it gave
Speaker:me the flexibility that I needed. But then
Speaker:I had to trust God and what he was doing,
Speaker:and I had to be accountable to what I
Speaker:prayed for. Come on. So I had to surrender
Speaker:to him. I had to trust him. I had to
Speaker:earnestly seek him all along the path as I
Speaker:was making this transition. And then I had
Speaker:to be accountable to the prayer, and then
Speaker:after that, I had to walk in wisdom and
Speaker:obedience. So my husband and I had to do
Speaker:all the things that we needed to do for us
Speaker:to make that adjustment. With my salary
Speaker:being less and not feel like we were going
Speaker:to miss anything. Yeah. Oh, my. Right. Oh,
Speaker:my. Yes. So I had to step into my role and
Speaker:responsibility of what I prayed for, and
Speaker:this is what I wanted to do, and I needed
Speaker:to be able to do it regardless of what was
Speaker:going on around me. I needed to stay on my
Speaker:path. Come on. My path did not look like
Speaker:everybody else's, but at the time, we were
Speaker:still succeeding financially and growing
Speaker:and. And earning more, doing less and
Speaker:earning more. And you have to trust God.
Speaker:Know that we will be able to earn more by
Speaker:doing less. How that happened, only God
Speaker:does that. Yes. Come on. And so. And then
Speaker:you have to stay diligent so that you can,
Speaker:again make sure that all the things around
Speaker:you are operating as God would have you,
Speaker:so that you could stay on your path for
Speaker:financial freedom and fulfillment. And
Speaker:that's what we did, and that's what led me
Speaker:on my path. Like, my path is different
Speaker:than somebody else's path. Yeah. And the
Speaker:things that we chose to build our wealth
Speaker:is a little bit different than what some
Speaker:people have chosen, you know? Yeah. We
Speaker:have investments and things like that, but
Speaker:we also have alternative investments that
Speaker:we invest in. Like, they have value that
Speaker:some people might not. Might not do in
Speaker:other ways in entrepreneurship, you know?
Speaker:And so my path was different than Willis
Speaker:Path. But if you could hear the steward
Speaker:identity you walking in, that steward
Speaker:identity is making sure that you remember
Speaker:you don't own nothing. God does. Come on.
Speaker:Yeah. Yeah. And so how are we gonna manage
Speaker:with confidence, the money and the
Speaker:resources that God has given us? How are
Speaker:we gonna live with purpose, and then how
Speaker:are we gonna build wealth intentionally?
Speaker:And that's what I had to learn to do in
Speaker:that process. Doing less but earning more,
Speaker:and then making sure that I'm maximizing
Speaker:it as God will have me, because we gotta
Speaker:manage and multiply it. It ain't just
Speaker:about managing. Oh, say that again and
Speaker:multiply it. That's our responsibility.
Speaker:So, listen, y'all, she dropped a whole
Speaker:testimony in about five, six gems. I'm
Speaker:lying with the five or six. It was more
Speaker:than that. That's just the number that
Speaker:rolled out my mouth when she said what she
Speaker:said. I'm thinking, like, my God, did you
Speaker:write a book? You need a book. I'm just
Speaker:saying, a workbook said that this week.
Speaker:Well, in less than 10 hours, says the
Speaker:Lord. Right. Dang. Listen, sis, because
Speaker:that your testimony is unique to you, your
Speaker:blueprint, your footprint for you and your
Speaker:family, and what you guys considered
Speaker:success is unique to you guys. And the
Speaker:path that God said do. Absolutely. You had
Speaker:to trust the process. Absolutely. And
Speaker:trusting the process, you got to your
Speaker:desired end. You got to trust God, trust
Speaker:yourself, and trust. And trust you. You
Speaker:act like you've been on our website, girl.
Speaker:But no, but seriously. And then, too, so
Speaker:let me tell you. So that was when my
Speaker:daughter was an infant. My daughter is.
Speaker:That daughter is 27, all right. My oldest
Speaker:is 29. Come on. They're dual degree. Come
Speaker:on. They don't. I'm an empty nester. Come
Speaker:on. They're doing that thing, ain't it?
Speaker:One they hold wrong? Come on. That's the
Speaker:other side of that. So it started there,
Speaker:but we walked that thing all the way
Speaker:through, and like you said, trusting God
Speaker:and trusting the process. Yeah. And you
Speaker:got to trust yourself. That was a hard
Speaker:decision to make. Decision that's real.
Speaker:Because when God is saying, do a, b, c,
Speaker:and d, and I'm looking at my situation,
Speaker:and I'm looking at my capability, you
Speaker:know, yes, I can do all things to Christ
Speaker:who strengthened me, and I'm like, lord,
Speaker:you want to strengthen me. Forget what
Speaker:Paul said. Strengthen me every moment.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to go out there
Speaker:and do this right here, Lord, because, you
Speaker:know, stuff will happen. What's going to
Speaker:happen. But you have trust in the God, in
Speaker:you. If he trusts you and my husband with
Speaker:this plan and telling us this is the way,
Speaker:yes. To what, he has determined success
Speaker:for us, and I'm trusting him, then I gotta
Speaker:trust me. But we oftentimes don't trust
Speaker:me, trust ourselves to do the thing that
Speaker:God says to do, and understanding that
Speaker:mistakes will happen, hiccups gonna
Speaker:happen. But if I'm trusting him and I'm
Speaker:trusting him in me, then he already knew
Speaker:the hiccups was gonna happen anyway. Now,
Speaker:what's right? That's right. As a child of
Speaker:God, you already know he's not gonna go
Speaker:back on his word. Come on. Yeah. You got
Speaker:to walk in it. There are so many ways.
Speaker:That's Wes's story. Let me share a little
Speaker:bit about my story, because our past were
Speaker:different getting to where we are. But we
Speaker:bless God for those individual paths. Now,
Speaker:for me, when I started out, we had a two
Speaker:parent household. Initially, we ended up
Speaker:with a one parent household. My parents
Speaker:split, and it was so traumatic for me. I
Speaker:made a decision that I am never going to
Speaker:be in a position where I would be left
Speaker:with all the bills, really have to pay my
Speaker:way through where I'm going to live, no
Speaker:money. I'm not the breadwinner walks out
Speaker:the house. What am I supposed to do? So I
Speaker:told God, I ain't going to be there,
Speaker:nowhere. And I went on my trek about doing
Speaker:that. I learned everything I could about
Speaker:finance and housing and how to have
Speaker:somewhere to live and how to make money
Speaker:and do all that. But it wasn't fulfilling,
Speaker:and it definitely wasn't rewarding. I
Speaker:eventually had to surrender, and I
Speaker:surrendered to the lord. And when I did,
Speaker:he gave me a husband who bee was very
Speaker:patient with me, because when you
Speaker:surrender, you ain't always all the way
Speaker:in. You better talk about it, because I'm.
Speaker:Still like, you know, well, okay, well, I
Speaker:can do that. I can still. So my husband,
Speaker:he was just saying, I don't know what's
Speaker:wrong with this girl, but she gonna be all
Speaker:right one day. So he patient. But once I
Speaker:really began to surrender and trust the
Speaker:Lord for what he was telling us to do, we
Speaker:had gone through our own business. We had
Speaker:a rental property business. We both worked
Speaker:our own full time jobs. So he put us on a
Speaker:route to prosperity. And to be able to
Speaker:assess, access the things that he wanted
Speaker:for us, trusting in him, really being
Speaker:prayerful, we had to. I know I had to. I'm
Speaker:like, father, you gonna have to help me,
Speaker:because this is not easy. I can't. I can't
Speaker:do this on my own. I need you. So walking,
Speaker:really walking that out, seeing what he
Speaker:wanted for us and then walking it out was
Speaker:what I really needed to do. But I also had
Speaker:to be accountable. I had to be accountable
Speaker:to what he was telling me. Now, Willie,
Speaker:you can't be sliding over there talking
Speaker:about you living in a dispensation of
Speaker:grace and God. Gonna forget. No. Get
Speaker:yourself on back over here and do what I
Speaker:told you to do. And loving him, you want
Speaker:to do that. And knowing that you yourself
Speaker:are you a child of God and you have
Speaker:responsibilities. And so I just continued,
Speaker:continue to do that to trust him, trust
Speaker:myself, making sure that he could trust me
Speaker:also and to trust the process. And it just
Speaker:made me continue to, like you said earlier
Speaker:about happiness, forget about happiness.
Speaker:It made me be able to be diligent and
Speaker:seeking to walk in the joy and the peace
Speaker:of the Lord. That was the only way to do
Speaker:it. And my husband and I were successful
Speaker:in our business. We have both retired from
Speaker:our full time corporate jobs. You know,
Speaker:I've been retired for 14 years now, but I
Speaker:retired to be able to do this. This is to
Speaker:share. To share the route. To share the
Speaker:pathway, to share that. It's okay to have
Speaker:your own unique pathway. You don't have to
Speaker:seek after what the Jones has got, and
Speaker:definitely not the way they got it. I've
Speaker:always said that when I see something that
Speaker:someone has, I pray for them and say, God,
Speaker:thank you that they have that. But it
Speaker:tells me that it's attainable. And then if
Speaker:it is for me, the Lord will show me the
Speaker:route that I need to take in order to get
Speaker:that everything ain't for me. But whatever
Speaker:he has ordained for me, he has not taken
Speaker:from me. And I have prayed and really been
Speaker:strengthened in order to get it and to
Speaker:understand that once I got it, many times,
Speaker:it's there for me to be a conduit, to
Speaker:share it with somebody else. It ain't
Speaker:always all for me. It is for me to share.
Speaker:And so we've done that. So, you know,
Speaker:being a young person, a teenager, a young
Speaker:married, newlyweds, and not really having
Speaker:a financial mentor, that's the other
Speaker:reason why we call ourselves your
Speaker:financial auntie and financial big sister.
Speaker:That is one thing that Wesley and I have
Speaker:in common in that nobody was there
Speaker:teaching us these things when we were
Speaker:trying to build. Nobody. We don't want
Speaker:that to be the case for those out there
Speaker:who are looking for someone to do that
Speaker:now. We are here to help teach you and
Speaker:guide you on how to build right now, how
Speaker:to build on your individual path that God
Speaker:has ordained for you to reach your
Speaker:financial fulfillment. Listen, y'all, I'm
Speaker:about to shout up. In here, don't do it.
Speaker:Listen, I gotta. I keep telling myself
Speaker:that I gotta get my son to program the
Speaker:claps. I'll never think about it until I'm
Speaker:in here and need the clap. I need a
Speaker:hallelujah button and everything. Don't
Speaker:forget. Amen. Now, y'all give me some
Speaker:amen. Amen. All that in here because, oh,
Speaker:my gosh, that is. Your stories are so
Speaker:uniquely different, your journeys. Yeah.
Speaker:But the constant is, it required faith, it
Speaker:required obedience, and it required
Speaker:wisdom. But most importantly, it required
Speaker:submission. Absolutely. You both had to
Speaker:submit to the will of the father. Had to
Speaker:submit to the will of the father. Willie,
Speaker:you submitted to the will of the father.
Speaker:And your man came. Lori. Single women.
Speaker:Lori still here, girl. Beyonce. All the
Speaker:single ladies. Listen, she didn't say
Speaker:nothing about her life was in shambles. It
Speaker:was probably well organized. Who will or
Speaker:machine, financially and otherwise. But
Speaker:the part that she was missing and needing
Speaker:and wanting amazing. Cause I didn't hear
Speaker:you say you was looking for him. No,
Speaker:because I. My goal, remember, my goal was
Speaker:to make sure that when one came, or if one
Speaker:ever came, you wouldn't need. Walk on out.
Speaker:It'd be fine. Won't bother me. Because I
Speaker:had mine together. I had. When you gonna
Speaker:leave? They just said, go ahead and free
Speaker:yourself. That's it. That was it right
Speaker:there. Oh, I think it was Bishop Bonner
Speaker:that says, you know, promote them to their
Speaker:destiny. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I can't
Speaker:breathe. Are you. I wish y'all could see
Speaker:the face she made. Cause she was real
Speaker:serious. And our unique paths brought us
Speaker:together because we were members of the
Speaker:same church. And so we were actually
Speaker:charged with leading stewardship efforts
Speaker:at our church. And so we're teaching
Speaker:stewardship and we're teaching. And, you
Speaker:know, it's like, yeah, you know, pay your
Speaker:tithe and make sure you do that off the
Speaker:top and make sure you, you know, you know,
Speaker:all the things. All the things. And I. And
Speaker:I. And I don't regret none of that. But
Speaker:then when you teach that and you teach it
Speaker:over and over and over again, and people
Speaker:are still. They don't. Not fulfilled and
Speaker:they're still not on their path. So then
Speaker:they start to question, well, what's wrong
Speaker:with God? What's wrong with this? What's
Speaker:wrong with that? And then they start
Speaker:looking and say, well, denied. A past is
Speaker:doing this and the past is doing that. And
Speaker:I don't. That's not that. That's. That's
Speaker:not that. And so I do agree that we do
Speaker:have a responsibility not only to talk
Speaker:about the gender, the generosity that is
Speaker:part of our character as christians and as
Speaker:a steward, but we do also have to talk
Speaker:about and give the tools and the skills
Speaker:for members to manage and multiply. See?
Speaker:Right. I got some pastor friends that's
Speaker:gonna come from whatever they at YouTube.
Speaker:Come on. Because the body needs to know
Speaker:that there is nothing wrong with
Speaker:abundance, because that's why Christ died,
Speaker:so that we can have life and have it more
Speaker:abundantly. And then there's nothing also
Speaker:wrong with wealth and there's nothing
Speaker:wrong with riches. Come on. There's
Speaker:absolutely nothing wrong with it. But what
Speaker:happens is, is when we start loving those
Speaker:things and finding security in those
Speaker:things above him. Above him. When you're
Speaker:walking in your steward identity, that
Speaker:don't happen. See that? Right? That
Speaker:doesn't happen. Look, walking in your
Speaker:steward identity keeps you centered. It
Speaker:keeps God first. It keeps you seeking his
Speaker:righteousness. It keeps you thinking him.
Speaker:Can. Can I say this? You write, my little
Speaker:short experience in church finance taught
Speaker:me a couple of things. One, most churches
Speaker:are broke because the second thing is,
Speaker:only two to 5% of people faithfully tithe
Speaker:and give, like, them two separate things.
Speaker:That's true. Less than 2%. Okay. How big
Speaker:your church is. And with that little money
Speaker:coming, I used to be getting looking, you
Speaker:know, getting a water bill out the mail
Speaker:and the like. My God, let's pray on this
Speaker:offering. Wouldn't. But that and how we
Speaker:gonna make it. But if people don't get it.
Speaker:Because all we know is, when we go into
Speaker:the building, the lights work, the air
Speaker:works, the. You know. And if you are the
Speaker:type of ministry that has a fellowship
Speaker:hall that's active, then I need my little
Speaker:snack in between service or for my
Speaker:children, because I will, you know, I'm a
Speaker:super saint. So I open the door and I
Speaker:close it. But I bring them children with
Speaker:me, so it better be something back there
Speaker:in the daycare. And if the church ain't
Speaker:got a daycare, then we ain't coming. And
Speaker:all of this stuff just goes to work.
Speaker:Because the Lord practices. He provides
Speaker:miracles. He does. But stewardship, like
Speaker:your stewardship mindset, your stewardship
Speaker:model. Yeah, I believe and, well, this is
Speaker:my experience. I don't know about y'all.
Speaker:My experience is people are lazy in that
Speaker:they don't want the discipline of
Speaker:stewardship. What they want is the Lord to
Speaker:rain manna and pigeons from heaven. But
Speaker:they forgot. He gave a set of instructions
Speaker:on how Israel had to still go out there
Speaker:and gather that stuff. Yes. They still had
Speaker:to work. And we think that I'm not
Speaker:diminishing any of the principles of
Speaker:prayer because I'm only here today because
Speaker:of them, because I have a miracle working
Speaker:guy. But stewardship matters. He wouldn't
Speaker:have it so much in the scripture if it
Speaker:didn't matter. Don't really. If you really
Speaker:dig in a Matthew 25. Come on, let's talk
Speaker:about it. Because if you really start,
Speaker:there are two stories. I love the story
Speaker:about the ten virgins. Willa know because
Speaker:Willa breaks that thing down. Come on. But
Speaker:is you ready? But I love the story of the
Speaker:parable of the talented. Yeah. So when you
Speaker:said, we can just pray. So when a master
Speaker:left and he gave one. Five. He gave one.
Speaker:Two. He gave one one. He gave them the
Speaker:talent according to their ability. To
Speaker:their ability. That's right. So that means
Speaker:that everybody has something different.
Speaker:Yep. So you could. God could know that you
Speaker:have the capacity for the one talent, but
Speaker:you still keep trying to do five. And
Speaker:that's why you can't get your one to do
Speaker:what it's supposed to do. Come on, now. So
Speaker:let's recognize the fact that everybody's
Speaker:not gonna be this everybody's path. It's
Speaker:not gonna be the same. But we have the
Speaker:same assignment. Come on. And the
Speaker:assignment was when he came back, when the
Speaker:master came back and he said, well, what
Speaker:did you do with what I gave you? The one
Speaker:that had five said, you know what? You
Speaker:gave me five, and I got five more. He
Speaker:doubled that. When they had two, you gave
Speaker:me two, I got two more. The assignment was
Speaker:the same. Take whatever I have given you,
Speaker:take whatever I have, the resources I have
Speaker:provided for you, and I want you to
Speaker:increase it. I want you to manage it, and
Speaker:I want you to increase it. The one that
Speaker:had one, he said, well, what would you.
Speaker:What do you have? And he said, I. Well, I
Speaker:knew you to be a shrewd master. I knew
Speaker:that, you know, like. Like, if you came
Speaker:back and I didn't have this, and I. So I
Speaker:just hit it. I just, like. And the master
Speaker:said, you could have least taken it to the
Speaker:bank. You could got me some interest or
Speaker:something. You couldn't. You couldn't. And
Speaker:if you really knew me and you knew I
Speaker:wanted you to, like you manage. As a young
Speaker:believer, I would read over that and hear,
Speaker:you know, sermons on that and thinking to
Speaker:myself, God, you real rude about it,
Speaker:though. Why, like, here's this. When I
Speaker:have nothing, he just had. You gonna take
Speaker:it from it and. Give it to the one with
Speaker:the most. And that was because my lazy,
Speaker:undisciplined mindset my lazy,
Speaker:undisciplined mindset did not understand.
Speaker:Even though we talking about it, we
Speaker:shouting about it, we ain't meaning it.
Speaker:Lord, whatever you need me to do, I'll do
Speaker:it. No, I didn't mean that. I didn't mean
Speaker:that. Yeah. When I researched it, the
Speaker:talent, it's a lifetime of wages. One
Speaker:talent was a lifetime of wages. So the one
Speaker:that have five, he have five. Lifetime of
Speaker:wages. Wages. The one to ten. So the magic
Speaker:said, I'm giving you everything that you
Speaker:don't need in your. Life, and you ain't do
Speaker:nothing with. And you ain't do nothing
Speaker:with it. Wait, come on. Look. What a life.
Speaker:Yeah. Study it with a talent's worth. Come
Speaker:on. Yeah, come on. No, it just. It makes
Speaker:me as you're talking about that, Wes, it
Speaker:makes me think of two other stories, the
Speaker:ten versions, of course, God is providing
Speaker:you things. Are you preparing to be ready
Speaker:when he shows up? Are you? Store housing.
Speaker:The word talks about store housing.
Speaker:Putting a little aside so that when he
Speaker:calls on you to do something, are you
Speaker:going to do it? Will you be able to do it?
Speaker:And as you, we served in the positions of
Speaker:the. I was over the finance team. Wes was
Speaker:our finance officer. And so we could see
Speaker:what came in those envelopes, but we had
Speaker:eyes on what walked in that door. And some
Speaker:things didn't quite look equal. If you had
Speaker:this, that and the other is this. Well,
Speaker:now I know why. This is all you got left
Speaker:for the church. Now I understand why. But,
Speaker:you know, it wasn't up to us to judge. We
Speaker:just try to encourage, encourage and
Speaker:encourage and, you know, try not to judge
Speaker:and show in the word how being obedient to
Speaker:what God says. Yes, he will provide you
Speaker:with everything you need. When I think
Speaker:again about those, those versions, and I
Speaker:think about how some prepared. Mm hmm.
Speaker:Well, it wasn't like they were caught by
Speaker:surprise. They knew what their purpose
Speaker:was. They were going to meet the king. He
Speaker:was coming. They wanted to be ready. So
Speaker:they, well, we don't quite know how long,
Speaker:so we're going to take a little extra. And
Speaker:so. How dare you, you five. How dare you
Speaker:ask me for the summer, man. No, listen, I
Speaker:sacrificed. I worked, I storehouse, I did
Speaker:whatever it was I needed to do to make
Speaker:sure that I was gonna be there. I would
Speaker:not lose my post going on back. Going on
Speaker:back and get you some back to the post.
Speaker:But you miss out when you're not obedient
Speaker:to what God tells you to do upfront. So
Speaker:often we miss out because we don't heed
Speaker:and trust him. Yes. And do what he tells
Speaker:us to do upfront. And like you said, some
Speaker:people might think that that was mean. How
Speaker:come y'all didn't share? Well, that was
Speaker:God's plan. Come on. That was his plan.
Speaker:That was. It was his way of getting his
Speaker:principles across. Yes. Obedience leads to
Speaker:your fulfillment, for sure. It does. It
Speaker:truly does. Saturday, this past, no, this
Speaker:past Sunday night, I met with a gentleman
Speaker:who has some particular insurance products
Speaker:and I met with him and my parents because
Speaker:my parents, my, my dad will be 70 on the
Speaker:fifth. And there's some additional
Speaker:products that he needs outside of what he
Speaker:has through his retirement from his job
Speaker:and Medicaid, Medicare, because he don't
Speaker:qualify for Medicaid because he got a
Speaker:retirement. I complained about them people
Speaker:later, but we're looking at these
Speaker:products. My mom is not quite retirement
Speaker:age. Anyway, the conversation went over
Speaker:into stewardship and what the products
Speaker:were going to cost and how we were going
Speaker:to make sure that they had everything that
Speaker:they needed at the price that they could
Speaker:afford. And so as we got to talking about
Speaker:stewardship, I shared with them, with the
Speaker:agent how the Lord blessed us through
Speaker:stewardship. Because remember, I told you
Speaker:when I heard this story, I had a problem
Speaker:with it. It hurt my heart, hurt my
Speaker:feelings. It made me mad every time we
Speaker:went through it because I didn't
Speaker:completely get it. And I was one of those
Speaker:people also, too. Let's be full
Speaker:transparency because I'm dotting the eyes
Speaker:across in the tease, Lord, while you just
Speaker:ain't. Boom, making it happen. Boom,
Speaker:making it happen. So for a long time, my
Speaker:husband wasn't a tither, so we couldn't
Speaker:tithe. He was a giver, because he is very,
Speaker:if this don't add up in the budget, this
Speaker:ain't happening. And I'm not doing this
Speaker:until this add up in the budget. I'm a fly
Speaker:by the Steve the pants kind of like, no,
Speaker:if we do it, darling, the Lord is going to
Speaker:provide. And he just looking at me
Speaker:sideways, oh, this is what we gonna give
Speaker:this month in offering. Yeah, this is no.
Speaker:So we get to, he gets to a place and he
Speaker:realizes the principle. We are five
Speaker:children strong. And when we, when he got
Speaker:it, I didn't have a job when I was talking
Speaker:about it, I still had income coming in. We
Speaker:done moved to the other side of the
Speaker:planet. Like, we went across the Atlantic
Speaker:into England. But somehow, by the grace of
Speaker:goddesse, and it's not even somehow, when
Speaker:we made up in our mind, he was like, okay,
Speaker:we're gonna become 100% tithes and 100%
Speaker:givers. So this means, and we are less in
Speaker:income because I can't work no more. Ain't
Speaker:no job for me. We're going to do this what
Speaker:it made us do. It changed my mindset. It
Speaker:changed his mindset. We had to learn what
Speaker:stewardship really meant because now we
Speaker:living off of the 80 of one income instead
Speaker:of the 80 of two incomes, because we
Speaker:buckle down on the stewardship. We paid
Speaker:off two mortgages, got out of credit card
Speaker:debt, and helped to take care of my mother
Speaker:in law until the Lord called her home and
Speaker:to take care of my grandmother off of the
Speaker:one income. The income didn't change. He
Speaker:in the army. And until you get promoted,
Speaker:it's the same. We don't have a. I got a
Speaker:question for you. Yeah. During that time,
Speaker:did you feel lack. No, not at all. I was
Speaker:living my best life in Europe. We were
Speaker:always, listen, y'all. What your girl was
Speaker:going to do was have the army sponsoring
Speaker:me to be an expat somewhere. I haven't
Speaker:been hither and everywhere. Okay, that's
Speaker:it. The very first time we were able to
Speaker:take our family to Disney, we'd go to
Speaker:Disney in Florida. We went to Euro Disney
Speaker:in Paris. Listen. For seven nights, and we
Speaker:stayed in the park. I didn't have to get
Speaker:the budget hotel. And not all people of
Speaker:God, we're getting the budget hotel out.
Speaker:That's right. That's right. Wherever you
Speaker:are on your journey, wherever. You at in
Speaker:your morning. But at that point in our
Speaker:life and in our marriage, yeah, we were
Speaker:better with the one income, and we were
Speaker:paying his mama's mortgage, my
Speaker:grandmother's mortgage, child support, and
Speaker:we still had the children in our house.
Speaker:Living in an economy where the value of
Speaker:their money was greater than the value of
Speaker:mine. And you know why? You said you was
Speaker:talking. You talked about how you. You
Speaker:grabbed hold of what that stewardship
Speaker:meant to you. I had to. That that's what
Speaker:provided the alignment and the focus so
Speaker:that you could stay on your path. Because
Speaker:if you were looking beyond that, it's all
Speaker:of those other things that would have
Speaker:brought in discontentment. Those are the
Speaker:things that would make you feel like I
Speaker:should be able to do Xyz, I want to do
Speaker:this, that, and the other thing. But
Speaker:because you were so focused on your path
Speaker:and you were trusting what God was doing
Speaker:for you, it was good. You were fulfilled.
Speaker:It was good. You were fulfilled, and you
Speaker:were content. And you were able to see.
Speaker:See the more than enough. Yes. Yes. You
Speaker:were able to experience the more than
Speaker:enough because you did not have anything
Speaker:that was pulling you or speaking against
Speaker:it or showing you you don't have enough.
Speaker:You're really lacking in this area. And we
Speaker:forget that. That that's what the enemy
Speaker:wants. The enemy does not want us to know
Speaker:that we have abundance. And if we can't
Speaker:get to the point where we can be content
Speaker:and understand what we work with, like you
Speaker:said, you got a budget. Yeah, I got a
Speaker:budget. And your budget isn't to be
Speaker:restricting. Your budget is to help you
Speaker:create that container of contentment. Come
Speaker:on. While you are walking the path,
Speaker:journeying on the path to the more than
Speaker:enough it might not seem like it's more
Speaker:than enough at the time, but you keep
Speaker:journeying and you keep trusting God. Mm
Speaker:hmm. And you keep your focus. You'll be on
Speaker:the other side, just like you said. Like,
Speaker:well, how did, how did we get here? And
Speaker:that's how I know for us, it was like,
Speaker:wait a minute. Mm hmm. And that's, that's
Speaker:what's different. The kids college is paid
Speaker:for because. We was doing the test. Yeah,
Speaker:yeah, yeah. You know, the, this is taken
Speaker:care. Of because the house is paid for.
Speaker:Houses or cars paid for. Yes. Because we
Speaker:never went beyond. See, there are things
Speaker:in life that have you live beyond your,
Speaker:but beyond your means. That part, that's
Speaker:the difference. That, that's it right
Speaker:there. You are walking your individual
Speaker:path and not the path that others come on.
Speaker:Thought you ought to be walking. Because
Speaker:I'm not. Right. Not the path that you
Speaker:looking at something. Maybe that's what I
Speaker:need to be doing. No, you surrender and
Speaker:you were walking. You were living out your
Speaker:sewer identity. Absolutely. Because I
Speaker:promised you somebody was going to tell
Speaker:you why you paying your mom and your
Speaker:grandmama's mortgage. That's not your
Speaker:responsibility. Somebody wanted to tell
Speaker:you. Like what? Td Jake says I will step
Speaker:out of the spirit for some. No, but I'm
Speaker:just saying there are zero things. Just
Speaker:like somebody will easily want to tell a
Speaker:christian, don't pay your tithe. Mm hmm.
Speaker:But that's what you value. And that's the
Speaker:other thing. Get that part, other thing
Speaker:that leads, that keeps you on the path and
Speaker:keeps you focused is that you know that
Speaker:your money is aligned with your values.
Speaker:That part you, that whatever paying for
Speaker:your mom's mortgage, your grandmama's
Speaker:mortgage, whatever that meant for you. And
Speaker:there would be no me without. My mother in
Speaker:law. There would be no being. And I, the
Speaker:drop. Yeah, we're not going, we under, we
Speaker:try to take the time to understand what it
Speaker:is that you value. Yeah. What is it that
Speaker:you value? And now is your money aligned
Speaker:with what you value? Because that could
Speaker:bring discontentment to. Because you doing
Speaker:this. But that ain't, that's not what
Speaker:you've put your money on the things that
Speaker:value because then you'll feel that level
Speaker:of contentment and it'll keep that joy
Speaker:because it's, it's, it's a part of who you
Speaker:are. It's a part of what you do. It's a
Speaker:part of your system. Yes. You're so,
Speaker:you're so right. Because looking in that
Speaker:we have been married a long time. But by
Speaker:the time we got to England, my youngest
Speaker:was in the second grade, and our oldest
Speaker:our youngest was in the second grade, and
Speaker:our oldest was in the 9th grade, and we
Speaker:had never been to the place where we had
Speaker:three months of his income saved up. Three
Speaker:months of his gross income saved up, it
Speaker:was like every time something happened, we
Speaker:had to blow a hole in it. By the time we
Speaker:left England and we were there two and a
Speaker:half years, by the time we left England in
Speaker:those two and a half years to transition
Speaker:to gold, to spend the next five and a half
Speaker:years in Germany, not only did we have
Speaker:three months of his income saved up, we
Speaker:had more. By the time we left Germany, we
Speaker:had six months of his income come saved.
Speaker:All right. Still living my best life.
Speaker:Yeah. Like, you know, they was like, okay,
Speaker:when you retire, you gonna might miss one
Speaker:or two months or something, right? Oh, we
Speaker:good. We good. We good. We had two in
Speaker:college. Praise the name of the Lord. We
Speaker:good. Like, we are so good. And I. The
Speaker:answer is, our mindset changed. And
Speaker:because the mindset changed, the way we
Speaker:responded. Yes. To everything changed, the
Speaker:way we prioritized, yes, everything
Speaker:changed. So we were able to take, like, by
Speaker:the time we got to Germany, I was able to
Speaker:work. Oh, then that was just gravy on top.
Speaker:Yes. You know, that was gravy on top. But
Speaker:when my mindset changed and his mindset
Speaker:changed and we came into an agreement, we
Speaker:were in alignment. The income didn't
Speaker:change, and we were, like, at a place of
Speaker:repentance for a minute, because, God, we
Speaker:always had what we needed. We were just
Speaker:very poor stewards. Yeah. Because this
Speaker:right here, my mindset was wrong. So we
Speaker:didn't even know we were bad stewards. We
Speaker:didn't. We sitting in y'all financial
Speaker:class, rolling our eyes deeply to the
Speaker:back, like looking at the back of my
Speaker:cranium, because y'all don't understand
Speaker:what I'm going through, and I don't know
Speaker:why this keeps happening to me. Yes. You
Speaker:know, I understand demonic assignments and
Speaker:all that, but the. The demonic assignment
Speaker:was us. And that is true. That happens.
Speaker:Yeah, that's right. It was our poor
Speaker:spending. Yeah. It was our decision
Speaker:making. God didn't change. No, he. You
Speaker:changed. I changed being. He had. Your
Speaker:path was already set. Yeah. But when your
Speaker:mindset changed, not only your mindset,
Speaker:but you and your husband came in alignment
Speaker:to that path. Yes. That's the first step,
Speaker:girl. That's the first step. Importance.
Speaker:Listen. Important step that stewardship.
Speaker:But that experience is what makes me think
Speaker:the way that I think about why so many
Speaker:people in the body of Christ struggle
Speaker:financially. Now, we still do have some
Speaker:folks that believe that, you know, poor is
Speaker:humble and that's where the Lord want. I
Speaker:don't even know why y'all believe that,
Speaker:but that's your business. But by law, why
Speaker:did he say. That'S a whole nother. Like we
Speaker:can. We could do a whole episode on that.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, I know theologian or nothing,
Speaker:but even in the Torah, every. All of the
Speaker:men of God that he used the men of God. I
Speaker:promise you. I promise you. If Moses left
Speaker:and took all of his servants and all of
Speaker:their families and all of this when he
Speaker:went to the wilderness, he wasn't broke. I
Speaker:want to say if Abraham took all of his
Speaker:people and his wife and lot and all of his
Speaker:people, they were broke. And Jesus wasn't
Speaker:poor. He wasn't. How could Jesus, if he is
Speaker:the son of God and God is the creator of
Speaker:everything. His daddy was a. How he chose
Speaker:to live was on him. Was on him. And he was
Speaker:walking his path in alignment. In
Speaker:alignment. The assignment his father gave,
Speaker:that his. Father gave him, yes, but so, so
Speaker:to look at him and say, that's why you
Speaker:can't judge people. You can't. I can't.
Speaker:Listen, there's some people that walk
Speaker:around because they want to look rich and
Speaker:they want to look like they got it and
Speaker:they don't. And if that's your. If that's
Speaker:you, okay, that's. That's you. And you
Speaker:gonna come to a point where you're gonna
Speaker:figure out how you're gonna. You're gonna
Speaker:come to a crossroad with that. But then
Speaker:there are people who you'll look at and be
Speaker:like, they ain't got nothing. Hmm. Hmm.
Speaker:You thought all the way wrong. People are
Speaker:living their life as purpose by God and
Speaker:they are walking the path that is for
Speaker:them. There are people who like luxury
Speaker:items. There are people who don't. There
Speaker:are people. Cause again, what do you
Speaker:value? Yes. Yeah. Yes. That's what some
Speaker:people. If Jesus didn't value designer
Speaker:sandals. You can't sit up here and say
Speaker:that he was poor and he was broke, because
Speaker:Jesus was just never broke. And his
Speaker:circumstance of his birth was the
Speaker:circumstance of his birth and how God
Speaker:ordained that for him to come to us. But
Speaker:that did not mean that Jesus. And it
Speaker:didn't say that they couldn't afford a
Speaker:room. It did not. That's right. That's
Speaker:right. Wasn't that they couldn't get a
Speaker:room. I'm just saying if the Lord could
Speaker:give Joseph a dream and say, you better
Speaker:run the Egypt, buddy, he didn't get there
Speaker:for free. Wife and his child there and
Speaker:have somewhere to pay for the state when
Speaker:he got there. Yeah, we know now how
Speaker:Christianity, in a word. Well, we've
Speaker:always seen how Christianity and the word
Speaker:can be used to weapon. As a weapon to
Speaker:weaponize. But unfortunately, I think
Speaker:culturally in the church we've used the
Speaker:word to justify poverty. Come on, that's
Speaker:real good. Yeah, we've justified while we
Speaker:are in this state. And that's episode
Speaker:number three. We gonna talk about we
Speaker:didn't, you know, and again, and I'm not
Speaker:talking about name it, claim it,
Speaker:prosperity gospel. That's not what I'm
Speaker:talking about. I'm talking about just
Speaker:knowing that you have the capability, the
Speaker:ability, the capacity of whatever God has
Speaker:put in you. And if you walk it out, you
Speaker:can get to a end. Yeah. Now if you don't
Speaker:want to walk it out, then you're going to
Speaker:be stuck. You will be stuck. Come on. If
Speaker:you don't want to transform your mind, if
Speaker:you don't want to think like him and walk
Speaker:the path that he is showing you and do the
Speaker:things that he's telling you to do, walk
Speaker:in wisdom and obedience, then, yeah, you
Speaker:will be stuck. And I think we as a church,
Speaker:we shouldn't use the word like you said,
Speaker:you know, pipe being poverty is humble.
Speaker:And that association, that's, I think
Speaker:we've did a disservice. Absolutely. On
Speaker:the. Come up. Come on. So now that when
Speaker:you have people that are understanding it
Speaker:and saying, hey, no, this is you, then it
Speaker:gets a little twisted. But in people's
Speaker:minds. But it's. No, it's not. It's not.
Speaker:And so walk your path. Yes, yes. Be a
Speaker:steward. Know that you are a steward. Know
Speaker:that you. That is a responsibility that
Speaker:you have to manage and multiply. Yes. And,
Speaker:and God is going to uniquely show you
Speaker:what, how he wants you to do it. Yes. And
Speaker:you know what? In that walking it out, you
Speaker:have to do it unashamed. Ashamed. Yeah,
Speaker:don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed. If God
Speaker:said this is the way you're supposed to
Speaker:go, then go that way. Do that. Yes. You
Speaker:don't have to have designer sandals. Come
Speaker:on. You don't have to have the top line
Speaker:model of anything. Whatever God has
Speaker:ordained for you and whatever is okay for
Speaker:you, that part, it doesn't have to be. I
Speaker:think in terms of my cars, a 2007. I love
Speaker:my car. I'm right there with you. What I
Speaker:love is I have no bondage to a car. Note.
Speaker:Thank you. And for so many years, it's
Speaker:still. But let me. Let me clarify. Well,
Speaker:because you trying to. You trying to play
Speaker:it down. She got a 2007 Mercedes Benz. But
Speaker:the fact is. No, no, no. And the only
Speaker:reason why I wanted to bring that is
Speaker:because it's still what she wanted. It's
Speaker:what she got it how she wanted to get it.
Speaker:Yes. Paid for. And she's driving that
Speaker:thing, you know, paid for. For ten years.
Speaker:And people come up to me, what year is
Speaker:that car? Because, you know, that
Speaker:wonderful husband of mine, that man, he
Speaker:keeps that car. Imagine, yes. Yes. When it
Speaker:has a need, it's taken care of. It doesn't
Speaker:cost us anything. And it looks just. It
Speaker:looks like a may box, to tell you the
Speaker:truth. I mean, that's what it looks like.
Speaker:But it's my car. But if it were a
Speaker:Chevrolet, if it were one of these little
Speaker:suv, little bitty, teeny little things, it
Speaker:would still be okay. Yeah. If I wanted
Speaker:another car. There's no desire for that.
Speaker:Come on. But if I wanted it right. And she
Speaker:got what you wanted. What I wanted. Thank
Speaker:you. Appreciate them value. I ain't paying
Speaker:for. I got, girl. But, you know, you
Speaker:should not be ashamed if you're doing what
Speaker:God has told you to do. If it's a season
Speaker:of frugality, when you want to say no,
Speaker:then say no don't mean you can't afford
Speaker:it. Come on. It just means that I don't
Speaker:need that right now. I got my mind set on
Speaker:something else. Something else is more
Speaker:valuable to me. There's another goal, and
Speaker:that I'm gonna say for. But, you know, you
Speaker:right. As we begin to speak, we just go
Speaker:over on and on, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker:episode number four. I best stop. No
Speaker:liquidity toolbox audience. They gonna be
Speaker:back a lot. Look, we'll be the financial
Speaker:advisors for the, you know how they had a
Speaker:segments where we're like, we won't have a
Speaker:financial work. Just. Carlos here. We
Speaker:have. When your listeners have questions
Speaker:about finance, just let her know. Get with
Speaker:us. We can handle. Yeah, send her the
Speaker:questions. That's right. We'll answer
Speaker:them. Y'all hear that? Send the question.
Speaker:If you have at Laquita Monley.com, send
Speaker:the question. There you go. For you, I
Speaker:could listen, like, so much. Did you
Speaker:unpack right there. Yeah. I remember when
Speaker:we bought our first apartment complex. My
Speaker:husband had been deployed several times at
Speaker:this point, and we. They were back, and we
Speaker:was taking his soldiers and their families
Speaker:out to lunch and everybody pulling up in
Speaker:these new biggest cars, big trucks and
Speaker:suv's and all of this. And at that point,
Speaker:we had a 99 suburban that was paid off.
Speaker:And then a friend of his had this little
Speaker:old. I don't even remember the year model
Speaker:of the Mitsubishi, but it was a Mitsubishi
Speaker:Mirage girl. And I could sit in the front
Speaker:seat, literally, and you could touch the
Speaker:back seat. The thing looked like it should
Speaker:just die, but it ran. And that was his
Speaker:work car. And we had been saving because
Speaker:we knew we wanted to buy either a duplex
Speaker:or where we are. We call them a fourplex.
Speaker:It was a four units. We wanted to buy one
Speaker:of them. And at that time, I had stopped
Speaker:working because we also knew we were
Speaker:getting ready to move. And we got these
Speaker:five kids. My husband is an e six for the
Speaker:military people. He's e six with five kids
Speaker:and child support. So we had to have some
Speaker:money to show that we could hold that
Speaker:thing up for three to six months. And one
Speaker:day, we, at this lunch, one of his
Speaker:soldiers who had just bought a house and
Speaker:had that car, the new car. So, of course
Speaker:they were teasing him, and he was like,
Speaker:this, gotta give. And I said, you know
Speaker:what? We were in the process of closing.
Speaker:We were in the process of closing, so we
Speaker:couldn't make one move. And I was like,
Speaker:when you drive up in your little mirage
Speaker:or. Or we're in our truck, we're driving
Speaker:up to something that has more value and is
Speaker:going to continue. Yes, we bought it in
Speaker:the crest. This was, like, 0708, and the
Speaker:market was crashing. But the benefits we
Speaker:got for buying it when the market was
Speaker:crashing, because the builder wanted it
Speaker:off his books, they paid our mortgage for
Speaker:six months. It was already four tenants in
Speaker:it, so it was already in the black when we
Speaker:bought it. Because God is faithful, glory.
Speaker:He is faithful. Like, when we pull up into
Speaker:that, because the plan was to move out of
Speaker:where we were and to move into the unit as
Speaker:soon as one was available. What this is
Speaker:doing is for us, it was the discipline.
Speaker:Because you get mad when you, the boss and
Speaker:your stuff is raggedy and all your
Speaker:support. You don't have to tell me that. I
Speaker:live that life. Come on. That's. That was
Speaker:our business. We had rental property. I
Speaker:remember when I told my husband, I'm not
Speaker:buying carpet for nobody. Else until we
Speaker:get some mad about it. We had a
Speaker:replacement refrigerators a couple of
Speaker:weeks ago. Thank you. I need a new eye
Speaker:makeup, but. We got to put them fridges in
Speaker:them. Girl. And that's just the enemy. Mm
Speaker:hmm. When it all came out in the wash. Of
Speaker:course, thank the Lord that we did, and I
Speaker:will. That taught me a lesson. Like, I
Speaker:don't give two reps as long as that car
Speaker:could get me from a to b. I don't care how
Speaker:it look. We didn't pull. I'd have pulled
Speaker:up to the region. I'd have pulled into the
Speaker:embassy. You know, a lot of. And be like,
Speaker:park that bags. This is my room. Like, we
Speaker:gonna. You don't. I don't already checked
Speaker:in before I got there. I'm gonna. I'm
Speaker:going to relax hard because the fact that
Speaker:I ain't paying no. Some of these people
Speaker:paying thousand dollars or more. Yeah,
Speaker:that's right. That's right. For, like,
Speaker:seven, eight years. And after you don't
Speaker:put down a significant deposit, I mean, a
Speaker:significant down payment. Yeah. Like, now
Speaker:we finish. If that make me no money, why I
Speaker:got a note on it. You. Know, my husband
Speaker:was doing. Oh, Lord, sling, not slingshot,
Speaker:but, gosh, what is it called that he does
Speaker:when they do the short hauls? What is that
Speaker:called? Can't even think about it. It's
Speaker:like a. He's not a, like, big rig trucker.
Speaker:We don't have people to do that. Oh, okay.
Speaker:We had to get some dualies and some. The
Speaker:name of it. When we first looked at the
Speaker:things y'all, new trucks was about the
Speaker:time we got everything together. It was
Speaker:over $100,000. I fought to take me now,
Speaker:but it makes me money. You better make
Speaker:your money right. It's the mindset of
Speaker:annoying that how it can bring in income.
Speaker:That's right. How the asset can grow. Yes.
Speaker:And so. But that's also part of the
Speaker:mindset shift and how you look at your
Speaker:money. Yeah. Think about it differently.
Speaker:Yeah. And so it's just. And it's based
Speaker:upon what it is. Based upon you. Mm hmm.
Speaker:It really is. And. And you have to be okay
Speaker:with it. You take me back to when I was a
Speaker:field inspector and I had mileage. I would
Speaker:get mileage for driving and doing my
Speaker:inspections. I bought a car, was $400 cash
Speaker:just here. This here's the car. It was
Speaker:okay when I first got it. After a while,
Speaker:it started to smoke. If you went over 25
Speaker:miles an hour now in the area where I
Speaker:work, metropolitan Detroit area. It was
Speaker:like, uh, everything was by freeway, but I
Speaker:knew the streets. I learned every last one
Speaker:of them streets. I drove that car. It
Speaker:wasn't banged up or anything. It would
Speaker:just smoke. I drove that car everywhere I
Speaker:needed to go, did my route every day and
Speaker:every month. I got my mileage check, and
Speaker:it paid for that car over and over and
Speaker:over again. And I was fine. I just didn't
Speaker:go past 25. Come on. I was, okay. It's
Speaker:what we gotta do. The mindset and the
Speaker:things that you think are important. It
Speaker:was important to me to work and do my job.
Speaker:It wasn't important to me to go out and
Speaker:get transportation that was gonna cost me
Speaker:more. And I was bringing in that. That
Speaker:wasn't what I wanted, right? I wanted to
Speaker:be safe and to work a vehicle that was
Speaker:going to bring me what I needed. And
Speaker:that's what I did. Again, unashamed of it.
Speaker:Yeah. I was like, thank you, father. When
Speaker:we had that little Mitsubishi Mirage,
Speaker:because it was a gas saver, this was like
Speaker:I said, it was in the gas prices was
Speaker:stupid. I lived. I left this suburban
Speaker:parked whenever possible. If we weren't
Speaker:going somewhere with all five of them and
Speaker:both of us, we're going to dinner, we're
Speaker:going to lunch, we're going to do this or
Speaker:whatever. Yep. In that, not going to
Speaker:church in the ride or we going to church
Speaker:if my parents got the kids. Why we moving
Speaker:at suburban? It's a million dollars.
Speaker:That's it. We go in this mirage, man. And
Speaker:it was like what you said. Well, it
Speaker:wasn't. Nothing wrong with it was. Ours
Speaker:was ugly on the outside. It was ugly. I
Speaker:didn't care. And it wasn't important. It
Speaker:wasn't. I had to get an emergency. We're
Speaker:looking for. There you go. We had to make
Speaker:an emergency trip to Mississippi, and I
Speaker:was the one that had to make the trip to
Speaker:go pick up my stepson. My husband was
Speaker:still here with all of the kids, so I left
Speaker:him the suburban. He's like, you're gonna
Speaker:go rent a car? Nope. It cost me $25 to
Speaker:fill up in the AC work. I'll see y'all in
Speaker:two days. He was like, period. Didn't even
Speaker:cost me a $100 there, see? A $100 filled
Speaker:up the tank of this. Walking your
Speaker:individual path that God had ordained for
Speaker:them, uniquely. Yes. I love the store ship
Speaker:that you guys teach. Like, that is a
Speaker:blessing, y'all. Liquidity toolbox. This
Speaker:is not the last time you gonna hear from
Speaker:Wesley and Willa. I'm gonna figure out a
Speaker:way to make this segment a regular.
Speaker:Really? Because that. That mindset is what
Speaker:hinders a lot of new entrepreneurs. Yeah.
Speaker:It hinders a lot of new entrepreneurs
Speaker:left. I understand bootstrap of your
Speaker:business is not ideal, but if I have to
Speaker:bootstrap my business, and that's the only
Speaker:way I better learn how to live tighter
Speaker:with what I'm working in my regular job in
Speaker:order to keep the discipline going. Right.
Speaker:So that I can get to the place where my
Speaker:side hustle is making the money. That
Speaker:takes a whole different mindset. Can't
Speaker:quit. I can't give up. It don't look good.
Speaker:Now. Where can I tighten this? Where can I
Speaker:tighten that? Oh, my God. I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker:These people said I need a va. These
Speaker:people said I need to get this coaching
Speaker:program, this, that. I need to do this,
Speaker:that. And the third, I. A dollar better
Speaker:make, you know, 15 cent better make a
Speaker:dollar or something, because I ain't got
Speaker:it, so. But how can I still work my
Speaker:business like that mindset? You can and
Speaker:you will. Yeah. If you have the right
Speaker:mindset. If you have the right mindset,
Speaker:yeah. And really just seasons of time.
Speaker:Yes. It tells us that it's four season.
Speaker:That's a season of frugality that is going
Speaker:to get you. That's, again, a part of your
Speaker:pathway. Yeah. Season of frugality. That's
Speaker:a part of your pathway. And again, it's
Speaker:what you value. So at this, in that
Speaker:season, I'm valuing what I'm going to do
Speaker:to make sure that my business has what it
Speaker:needs, even though I'm working this job.
Speaker:So I'm going to make the adjustments for
Speaker:in areas that I don't value as much.
Speaker:Right. So I'm going to make those
Speaker:adjustments so that I can have this money
Speaker:going here. But you really have to sit
Speaker:down and look at where is my money going
Speaker:now? So you understand what to cut?
Speaker:Because a lot of things, like I said, a
Speaker:lot of times that money is going to things
Speaker:that it don't. We don't need to pay for
Speaker:that. We don't even. We don't even like
Speaker:it. We don't even watch cable that much,
Speaker:or we don't even. You know what I'm
Speaker:saying? We're paying for XYZ and we don't
Speaker:even. We don't use any. We don't need it.
Speaker:We don't use it. So whether that be a
Speaker:vehicle, whether that be a car, whether
Speaker:that be you know, you got a five bedroom
Speaker:house, but you only need three bedrooms.
Speaker:You know what I'm saying? Whatever it is,
Speaker:however way you need to make the
Speaker:adjustments during that season of
Speaker:frugality so you can get further along and
Speaker:where you want to go, then you make those.
Speaker:Trust yourself to make those adjustments.
Speaker:Trust God that he sees what you're doing
Speaker:and he knows your need and he's going to
Speaker:meet your needs and then trust the
Speaker:process. Yes, trust. That is like Willa
Speaker:just said, it's only four season and
Speaker:you're going to get on the other side of
Speaker:it. But we have to have that, that mindset
Speaker:shift. We have to know that in our hearts
Speaker:and then know that we're doing again
Speaker:what's uniquely required of us, of you.
Speaker:Yeah. Yeah. Beautiful. Listen, I know I
Speaker:done kept y'all way over your time, and
Speaker:this conversation is real good. That's why
Speaker:it's gonna be multiple parts. Ain't just
Speaker:stop here. We can do good to us, too.
Speaker:Believe me, we're passionate. We'll talk
Speaker:about this. Love sharing. Yeah. Truly. And
Speaker:I love it, though. It's, it's. What if I,
Speaker:if somebody had to ask me, supposed to ask
Speaker:me, what are the key foundational things
Speaker:that you've had to do or do or would
Speaker:recommend at the top of it is changing the
Speaker:way I think, changing the way I think
Speaker:about any and everything spiritually and
Speaker:naturally? Yeah, it's, um, I. It's part
Speaker:of, you know, when you think about, like,
Speaker:the overall process, the first step is
Speaker:evaluating where you are. And when you
Speaker:evaluate where you are, that's gonna make
Speaker:you think about your mindset, and it's
Speaker:gonna help you see, well, am I actually
Speaker:walking in my stored identity? Am I
Speaker:actually embracing it? How about. But have
Speaker:you also stopped to envision what the
Speaker:future looked like? Like what? What does
Speaker:that look like for you? Have you dreamt
Speaker:with God? Have you, have you written down
Speaker:the dream that God has for you? Do you
Speaker:follow him saying, like, write it down?
Speaker:What is it? What does that look like?
Speaker:Yeah, yeah. But then do you actually have
Speaker:a cash flow plan that aligns your money up
Speaker:with that value, with what you value and
Speaker:what you dreaming about? Build the
Speaker:foundation that makes that happen. Come
Speaker:on, now we hear it. Write the vision and
Speaker:make it plain. Right? We do that like you
Speaker:create the outline, we write it down.
Speaker:We're praying about the guy. We'll believe
Speaker:in it. Now, what are the action steps?
Speaker:What's the action? How you gonna line that
Speaker:cash flow with that budget spending plan
Speaker:whatever you want to call it, and make you
Speaker:feel good about how you gonna manage your
Speaker:money. Also, how are you gonna multiply
Speaker:it? Like you said? You said, I don't buy
Speaker:nothing that ain't appreciated. So, yeah,
Speaker:how are you gonna, what are you gonna do
Speaker:to multiply it? Like, what? What, what is
Speaker:God, how is he showing you to do that?
Speaker:Yeah. And, and granted the fundamentals,
Speaker:the basics. Yeah, we got you all day on
Speaker:that. And we gonna teach you how to
Speaker:invest. We could teach you how to get out
Speaker:of debt. We can show you, we can
Speaker:strategize. We can do all of that. And
Speaker:anything else that God has you calling you
Speaker:to do, we can connect you with people. If
Speaker:he's saying, you know, I'm really led to
Speaker:do property. Okay, well, let us show you
Speaker:how, coach you and make sure that you are
Speaker:being accountable to doing that. Or I just
Speaker:want to do. I'm being an entrepreneur.
Speaker:Okay, well, let's do that, or I'm gonna.
Speaker:Whatever. However, there are many ways for
Speaker:you to build the wealth and for you to get
Speaker:appreciable assets. So do that. And then
Speaker:after, or while you're doing that, then
Speaker:you also have to think about what is your
Speaker:legacy? What is the impact and the
Speaker:influence that you're gonna leave this
Speaker:world? How are you gonna make sure that
Speaker:all that you've worked for is going to
Speaker:actually get to the people that you wanted
Speaker:to get and bless. Bless the people, bless
Speaker:the organizations. What is your footprint?
Speaker:How are you going to be? You know, my
Speaker:husband and I, we refer to ourselves as
Speaker:super seed sores. We like to sow seeds
Speaker:into other businesses, things, people. How
Speaker:is that? Is how are you going to use your
Speaker:generosity? Like Willis said earlier, we
Speaker:ain't. It's not about to. It's not about
Speaker:amassing all of this. Wealth for yourself,
Speaker:for ourselves. It's to advance the kingdom
Speaker:works. But what is my assignment in order
Speaker:to be able to do that? Yes, you're going
Speaker:to give your tithes and your offerings,
Speaker:but God is going to call you to do
Speaker:something else, too, because he knows that
Speaker:you have abundance in your storehouse,
Speaker:because you've done what he actually do.
Speaker:So now when he tells you so, it over here,
Speaker:you're able to do it. Yeah. Ready? And you
Speaker:can do it. Do it with joy. With joy.
Speaker:Cheerful giver. Cheerful. Yeah, a cheerful
Speaker:giver. So there's, we talked about the
Speaker:spiritual, but I also wanted to bring a
Speaker:little bit of the practical together. It's
Speaker:a balance we have. When he gave, when when
Speaker:Joseph interpreted a dream of the seven
Speaker:years of lack and seven years of plenty,
Speaker:it was work required. That's right. That's
Speaker:right. Work required on his part. And
Speaker:Pharaoh was smart enough to know that if
Speaker:he could interpret it, he needed to be in
Speaker:charge of it. Yeah. And it wasn't just the
Speaker:storing it and saving it. It was how it
Speaker:was going to be distributed. Egypt and the
Speaker:people of the earth that was coming in.
Speaker:What is it? We gonna talk about that? You
Speaker:know, I love the story of Joseph. And when
Speaker:you say that, it makes me think about how
Speaker:not only did he go through the things he
Speaker:went through to become Pharaoh's manager,
Speaker:when his parent, he, no matter his polo
Speaker:brothers threw him away. He was there.
Speaker:Yeah. To help them during the time of
Speaker:famine. Not judgmental. Yes. Not angry.
Speaker:Yeah. But just so happy. Yeah. To be able
Speaker:to do it. To be able to do it. Yeah.
Speaker:Building up the kingdom. One of us at a
Speaker:time. Come on. That's. That's what he was
Speaker:doing. And we have to learn to do that,
Speaker:too. So. Yeah. They raised him up. Yeah.
Speaker:Deliverer of his people, literally. And he
Speaker:walked through his life every challenge at
Speaker:a time. Yes. We won't go through all his
Speaker:challenges. You know, Oliver's life,
Speaker:prison. We won't go through. Not all of
Speaker:that. But he did it. He did. He didn't
Speaker:say, always me, Lord, why you didn't. He
Speaker:didn't say that. He kept before him the
Speaker:vision that God had gave him that dream.
Speaker:Yeah. He kept it before for him. I know
Speaker:you can have us on here. We'd be here all
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Speaker:what just came to my mind just then,
Speaker:y'all, look, we had a beautiful time. Yes.
Speaker:On liquidity toolbox today. This episode
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Speaker:which will give you, in the end, the
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Speaker:process, and you got to do the work. And
Speaker:the work start with you. That's. That's
Speaker:what I've been getting from Willa and, and
Speaker:Wesley this whole time. The work starts
Speaker:with you. God has given up every man
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