Walking Together: How Dr. King and Nehemiah Show Us the Power of Interdependence

The podcast explores how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement and Nehemiah's biblical wall-building mission demonstrate the power of interdependence and shared vision in accomplishing God-given missions.

• Faithfulness requires us to be steadfast to God's calling despite obstacles
• God places specific missions on our hearts that require collaboration with others
• Dr. King's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech resulted from numerous partnerships and collective effort
• Nehemiah had to secure letters from the king and organize workers to rebuild Jerusalem's walls
• Shared vision requires partnership - no great mission can be accomplished alone
• Successful partnerships depend on choosing the right collaborators who add value
• Both Dr. King and Nehemiah faced significant opposition yet persevered through prayer and community support
• When God gives us a vision, He provides the connections and resources needed to fulfill it
• Faith means taking the first step without seeing the entire staircase
• Many of us hesitate to pursue God's calling because we want to know all the details in advance
• Our generation often gives up easily while previous generations persevered through much greater hardships

If you feel God calling you to something greater, remember that it starts with giving your life to Christ. ACT: Acknowledge you're a sinner, Confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus died and rose again, Turn from your ways, and Seek a Bible-based church.

Chapters

• 0:00 Faith and Dr. King's Legacy
• 9:22 Interdependence and Partnership
• 16:14 Nehemiah's Wall Building Mission
• 24:54 Shared Vision Requires Partnership
• 31:00 Overcoming Challenges Through Collaboration
• 38:22 Faith Takes The First Step
• 44:51 Closing Prayer and Reflection

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Then I look up and I just thank God Lest as I can be there, for I'm gonna lift your name high. We just kickin' it and havin' that conversation Cute for Christ. Every home so often I look up and I just thank God Lest as I can be there, for I'm gonna lift your name high. We just kickin' it and havin' that conversation. Cute for Christ, we'll see right back. Thank you. Every home so often I look up and I just thank God. Bestest I can be. Therefore, I'm gonna lift your name high. We just kicking it and living out the conversation, you'd fall and cry.

Speaker 1: 1:35

Holy spirit reign, holy spirit rule. Do what you wanna do what you wanna do. Move how you gonna move, how you gonna move. Use who you gonna use, who you gonna use. I'm so very grateful for the opportunity to build community and truly be examples to the youth. It's a new day with a new way. Do what you say. Okay, I will obey praise to the father for options to blossom my god's, to declare that my god is the dopest. Salute, respect to the blooming of god and kiana, my girl. She give hope to the hopeless.

Speaker 2: 2:00

You could be going through something because hey everyone, this is kiana, your creator and your host of q for christ. And look, you know, using this dude, this new technology ain't always the greatest when you ain't used it in a long time. So y'all, pray, pray my strength, hallelujah, thank you jesus. So, anyways, anyways, we are here with the books of the bible and I am so excited about um today. Um, how are y'all doing today? Look, let me tell y, tell y'all how the enemy want to come in. He want to come in because he done got where the Harvard video ain't working. Let me tell y'all that ain't nothing to deal with y'all. So, anyways, how are you doing today, hillary?

Speaker 3: 3:02

I am doing wonderfully, blessed and highly favored. I am so glad to be here on today to be able to share with all of you on today.

Speaker 2: 3:15

Yes, I'm telling y'all, it's gonna be a good, good day. I'm so excited about what God has given us. Anyways, thank you for being on here and your time. How are you, elder Harper? We can't see her Beautiful face it's alright Doing pretty good. Glad to be on here with y'all, glad to be in the number.

Speaker 2: 3:38

I'm telling you God is so amazing and he's so good, but you know what he has won again. That song has been in my spirit, um, it just dropped in my spirit a second ago, so, um, anyways, anyways, as y'all know, this is the books of the bible. We are up here, um, with the books of the bible I'm so excited about today. First, I want to say happy ml key mlk day, happy martin king day, and, and so tonight we are going to continue to talk about what god has given us, about faith, but we're gonna add a little twist to it. So I'm so excited about it. It's going to be like a tribute to Dr Martin King, on top of talking about interdependence and all that stuff. So I'm so excited.

Speaker 2: 4:34

So, before I go any further, I am going to go right on in with prayer, because we want to move swiftly, since we had technical difficulties and so. So I want to be you know, be swift with everything today. So, anyways, I'm going to say a quick prayer, then we'll move forward, okay, so, dear heavenly father, we come to you, god. We say thank you. We say thank you for everything that you have done, god. We thank you for even bringing us to this day, god, january the 20th. God, we thank you now for 20 days into this year where we'll be able to. We have done so much in these 20 days, god, and we thank you now because we know that you're going to take us further, god, and so we just love you, god, for what you're doing.

Speaker 2: 5:23

God, we just thank you now for the houses that are represented on tonight. God, go with them and go with their family, touch them from the crown of their head to the sole of their feet, god. God, we just thank you now for anybody that is on here, god, that is looking and searching to be able to know about the books of the Bible. God, we just thank you now because we want to be able to be a vessel for you and give them what you have given us, god, and so we thank you now for what you're doing, god, we thank you now for anybody that is on here, god, we ask you to hide us behind the cross. Allow them to see you, god, and so we thank you for what you're doing. We love you, we honor you, we cherish you. It's in Jesus name that I pray. So, hey, y'all Look. Amen, I need to chill out.

Speaker 3: 6:13

I need to chill out. Hey, good evening.

Speaker 2: 6:18

Yes, I love that. I love that. Yes, so I'm so excited because we are using a new app today, which is something that you know help us be able to get the message across, not just one platform, but a couple platforms at the same time. So we are talking with people from YouTube and a lot of people from the Q for Christ pages and stuff like that, so I'm super excited about that. So, anyways, like I said, we want to jump right on into it. And so, since it is, we are celebrating Martin Luther King on today because, of course, we know his birthday was January 15th, but we are celebrating him on today I wanted to kind of bring what he did and into our message on today, and I'm so excited because, if you know him, you have been following us. We have been talking about faith and and of course, the F is for faithful we want to be faithful, we want to be faithful to God, to the calling, what he has called us to, and then we want to be available to God's will, whatever he has called us. We got to make sure that we say, yes, here I am Lord, yes, and then we are to have been talking about the interdependence and then, um, we got the teacher book coming up next, and then hunger.

Speaker 2: 7:54

So today we are talking about how Martin, how, how Dr Martin Luther King, with you know his and how he had to the interdependence, and so how all of us had to work together, all everybody during that time had to collaborate and go into partnership in order for him to be able to do what he had dream right, for his dream to come about. And so, um, I'm so super excited about this because it, you know, we know that, that you know the I have a dream speech was one of the most iconic speeches that in history, and especially for us and those that um there marching, I know my mom, you know she used to make us go to all the marches because she was a part of the marches back then, and not to say she, oh, look y'all, I know y'all thinking, no, I don't think that. So, when you think about the interdependence and how Dr Martin Luther King had to rely on others, what comes to mind when you think about that? Either L Harper or Hillary.

Speaker 3: 9:20

Well, I mean, it was a lot of people back then. I know Martin Luther King, he could not have done all of that by himself, right, a lot of people coming together, working together to get it done, and I think you know everybody's name wasn't mentioned, of course, because it was a lot of people that was behind the scene. And we're still, even today, finding out who was there and who did this and who did that, and you know it took a lot of work from everybody.

Speaker 2: 10:00

Hey, yes, yes, it did, and um and so, uh, elder harper, what do you think about it?

Speaker 1: 10:14

I know, I wish you could get her video on it anyway, what you think about it no, yeah, I agree totally with hillary.

Speaker 2: 10:18

I think, um, that's, that's a big deal, that you know, it was a great big project, a great big vision. It was huge, and nobody can do something like that by themselves. And I've heard it often said that, um, if the thing that we think that we can do, the vision that we have, if it seems like we can do it ourselves, that is not from the Lord. So he really depended on plenty of people to accomplish what he wanted to do Exactly. And so, yeah, I mean, we have to know that you know our vision. Yes, god, give us the vision, but we have to have a circle, we have to have some people that could help us accomplish these goals. And so one of the correlation that in the Bible that God put to kind of today, you know, kind of, you know, show the similarity of what happened between Nehemiah had to, he wanted, he had a burning to go back and help build the wall for his people, and, and so we I'm a read Nehemiah 2 and 17 to 17 through 18. I'm trying to get you up to speed because, is you know, and I'm going to try to get you up to speed because it's you know, and I'm going to try to go fast, but you know, nehemiah, he was working for a big king and you know he was the cup bearer, where you know that was a very extreme job, where he tasted the wine before the king drunk it to make sure it wasn't any poison. But his, you know, his brother came and his brother told him how it, you know, their country was being burnt and and how it was the sadness that came on his heart and so he wanted to go back and build a wall, and so the verses that I read to y'all he had to really have the courage to be able to ask could he go back? You know what I'm saying. But he had found favor in the Lord and he asked God to. You know, please help him find favor in the king's heart.

Speaker 2: 13:03

And so, right here, where, where I'm gonna read to you, is nehemiah 2, 17 through 18, and I don't want to, I can't go back and read too much because I know we, for the sake of time, but I plead with you all, I and I do this every week Please go and, you know, read the whole, the whole chapter, and don't just read that one chapter. Go back and read so you can get some context and be able to. You know, I can give you a little bit and get you up to speed. I can't, you know, I won't be able to sit here the whole time. You up to speed. I can't, you know, I won't be able to sit here the whole time.

Speaker 2: 13:48

So so anyways, verse two, 17 through 18, it said then I said to them you see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem is desolate and lies in ruins and its gates have been burned with fire. Come and let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we would no longer be a disgrace. And his brother was coming and asking him this. So in verse 18, it said then I told them how the hand of my God had been favorable to me and also about the words been favorable to me, and also about the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said let us rise up and build. So they thoroughly supported the good work. So at this point he had already found favor with the king and they told him they gave him everything. Now found favor with the king and they told they gave him everything.

Speaker 2: 14:48

Now, when you think about that, darlene, you know how sometimes we'd be so scared to even ask people for stuff when we got to burn it in our heart for certain things.

Speaker 2: 14:57

How, you know, when you look at this and you think about what Dr Martin Luther King had to go through when he thought about it like, ok God, you called me for this, and you know when he had to, like, go ask, how do you think he felt in that moment when they had to say, oh, I got to go ask somebody to help. You know, I'm thinking, maybe, that what you mentioned regarding the passion, that burning in the heart, there's something about a dream, there's something about a vision that really pushes, that really drives, yes, and it there's an unction to function on the inside of us. So there it, there has to be some mobility and that picks up the momentum. And I believe that he was able to ride the wave of the momentum that was created. And it's not to say that you know he probably didn't have hiccups or challenges, you know, along the way, but you know he probably was realized.

Speaker 2: 16:13

This was a selfless mission, you know and it just kind of had to be done, and that to me, I mean, you're not thinking about yourself so much, you know, right? So, though he may have probably had some apprehensions, I don't think it probably bothered him too too much, right? Because you know, like you said, when you you know, especially when you have found favor with God and and it's sometimes you know we have to we have to know that it's a God given mission, right? So when you got a God given mission, it don't matter, like it's, yeah, it's it's difficult to open your mouth. When you know that you got God backing, it gets a little bit easier, right?

Speaker 2: 17:07

And so you know. So the first point that I want to talk about is the shared vision. That requires partnership.

Speaker 2: 17:16

We know that Dr Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement, was not a one-man mission, right, you know, dr King, he partnered with organizations like Southern Christian Leadership Conference, other leaders like Ralph Abernathy and Bayer Rustin and a lot of people that, like you said, hillary, a lot of people wasn't named. It was a lot of activists. That wasn't named. It was a lot of people that marched and protested and prayed for this change. You know, and just like how Nehemiah, you know he had to get a lot of people. You know the king had to write a letter to allow him to be able to go past and allow a letter for him to get the material to help build the wall and stuff like that.

Speaker 2: 18:06

And so when you think about that word partnership and see a lot of people don't want to humble themselves enough to have to be in partnership with people. But when you think about doing great things and how it requires that partnership, you know, like for me, you know, I know, like the scripture says in Ecclesiastes 4 and 9, two are better than one. So you know, when I think about this, and so I'm looking at you, hillary, because you like, you got something to say. You like, you got something to say when you think about that word partnership, how heavy or strong that word relies to you.

Speaker 3: 18:51

Well, it all is determined on who you're partnered with, right? You know, if you have an awesome partner that is doing things and all hands on, I don't mind being partnered with you. But if you have somebody that's going to let you do all the work and they take all the credit, then that partnership is not a great partnership. So it all depends on who you partnered with.

Speaker 2: 19:23

Yeah, right, it all depends on who you partnered with.

Speaker 3: 19:25

You know Right.

Speaker 2: 19:27

If you partnered with God, then yeah, Girl, I was thinking. You know, a net partnership made me think about a marriage. You know what? I'm saying Like everybody, have to do their part.

Speaker 3: 19:39

Yeah, everybody have to do their part.

Speaker 2: 19:48

And everybody have to have that shared vision. And when it comes to that, you know we have to make sure that we are, you know, to achieve the vision I feel like you got to make it plain right.

Speaker 2: 20:03

Yeah, you got to be on the same page, because if you get somebody who is seem like they're on the enemy team it's like Lord Darlene, what do you got to say about that little shit? Look. I went Lord Jesus about that little shit. Look, I went, lord Jesus. What you got to say about that, elder Harper? No, I don't have anything, I don't.

Speaker 3: 20:37

You just got to make sure you got the right partner, honey. You got to make sure you got the right partner, man.

Speaker 2: 20:48

And Harper, what you got to say about that. Like you know, I'm trying to come back for that. I'm stumped back for that because, hillary, I'm stumped, I don't have it. Lord, have mercy. But you know, like you say, you have to make sure that they're not. They're leaning on the Lord's side, leaning on the Lord's side? Where do you stand? Who's on the lord's side? That that is so true because, um, you know.

Speaker 2: 21:26

But you know, elder harvard, have there been any visions that god has given you that you just had to, like, lay down and humble yourself in partnership with and say you know what, I'm gonna do this with somebody, with you. Um, I think it was the opposite for me because, um, it's been more of he's wanting me to do things myself. I think I've been more quicker to look and reach for help and want assistance and things like that. So I'm kind of on the other end of the spectrum with that. But partnering overall in general is still good, and the partnering that I do have to endure is the pushing, is the pushing when I don't want to be pushed. So that's still a form of partnering, because there may be times where it does get hard or challenging, or we don't want to go or move or it's not the flow that we are looking for, but that help is there and Darlene, you got something there, because a lot of the movies that I've seen with Martin Luther King, he had to be pushed.

Speaker 3: 22:42

He had to be pushed to do a lot of stuff. Sometimes you have to be pushed A lot of people are pushed into their greatness.

Speaker 2: 22:57

It does go both ways. You know I'm saying you, I mean, but you know that and at in the end, even if you are going to be pushed, they, you know that it's a god, god given mission and it's like, okay, well, I'm a, you know, I'm gonna push you. I'm gonna push you because I need you. You know what I'm saying. Some people don't add value to it. So if they're not going to add value to it, then you ain't got to push them, you got to worry about them. Look, I don't need you anyway. You know what I'm saying, so I shouldn't have to push you. But when you know that God has sent you to this person or whatever, then that's when you have to say, ok, I need you, you need me, let's, let's get this together. And you know, I see a picture and I wish I had, or I could have, could have displayed it, but one of my, one of my um, they may have put it up and it was a picture of fish that um they were, they were all all together. It was like fish that made one big fish to kill the shark. And it was like, oh my God, it was so powerful. Because if we all can come together like that, we can all get the mission accomplished, which is to go against the enemy right, you know what I'm saying. And so that was so powerful in itself I was like, wow, that's such a powerful thing, so, but anyways, moving on to the next one is the overcoming the challenges through the collaboration. And I think that what we was talking about that's one of the challenges is when you got to push somebody and like, for me, that's one of the challenges Like God, you know this person, I got to pull a teeth. I ain't you know. Like my God, ain't no dentist, you know what I'm saying. Like I got to pull a teeth, you know.

Speaker 2: 25:08

So we know that even with Dr Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement, he faced a lot of oppositions, including threats, violence and systematic injustice. So we know that Dr King relied on the strength of the collective to persevere, to persevere. And then Nehemiah rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem. He was not without opposition either. He had enemies that he had to deal with, like Sambalat and Tobiah. They mocked and tried to discourage the workers. And so we know that even when you do have the partnership, you have to know that you are going to face those challenges, those different types of challenges. Right, we know that it's going to come, we don't have to worry about it. We know one thing that's going to happen for sure is we're gonna get those oppositions. So when you, um think about that word, and uh, and, and even some of the challenges that happened, um, with dr martha luther king, um, especially like the violence that went along with it, um, how do you think that he felt when he had to deal with that? You, you know.

Speaker 3: 26:16

I can imagine him not feeling good at all.

Speaker 1: 26:21

He was like God you know why?

Speaker 3: 26:26

Why me Right? Why do I have to do it? You know they did a lot back then and I thank God that you know for them, because if it was me, I was, I think they were built different back then.

Speaker 2: 26:45

Yeah, they were built different Like for real Like you know, and even though I mean girl, just looking at Nehemiah and how he handled his, he prayed and organized the people to defend themselves while continuing to work. You know what I'm saying. That's almost like Dr Martin Luther King. Dr Martin Luther King always wanted to result with no violence. Right, right, you know. And yes, you know, like you said, I mean I'm sorry. I mean because you are what you were saying. I'm sorry. Oh, oh, no, I was saying, oh, mama says he had to rely on God. Yes, he really did, because I mean violence is violence. You know that those hardships were awful and, like Hillary said, I really can't imagine, because I think they probably really lived at a high level of stress because you know they were concerned about their lives, you know for a lot of this stuff.

Speaker 2: 27:59

You know it was always very risky.

Speaker 2: 28:06

It shouldn't have been. And yeah, I believe, like she said, you did have to rely on God for strength to continue. It probably was a lot and I think that that's why people who are called, who are chosen, they're given the grace to be able to go through those things. Right, right, and like the Bible says in Nehemiah 4.14,. It says don't be afraid of them. Says in Nehemiah 4, 14, it says don't be afraid of them.

Speaker 2: 28:41

Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your home. So when you know that right there in itself, like, like you know, like my mom just said, you have to rely on God, you know, even in those things, those are the things that we have to do is know that God has our back, regardless of any situation that comes, any obstacle that come. You know our God is greater, greater is he in me than he is in the world. So we have to know that we don't have to. That is one way that we can help others overcome those challenges. You know, and make sure that we always, always speak of how God is, is with us. You know what I'm saying and especially, you know when we know that it's a God given mission. Right and especially you know, when we know that it's a God given mission.

Speaker 1: 29:38

Right, oh yeah, you can't mess with me when I know that it's God.

Speaker 2: 29:40

I know that God sent me. You know what I'm saying, like you know. So, anyways, the next one is trusting God and relying on other strength. You know Dr Martin Luther King Jr. He relied on prayer and his unwavering faith in God. That was his foundational and leadership and his foundation of leadership. So he also trusted in the gifts of others to make the movement successful, like speech writers and the community leaders, and played key roles, and so, and with Nehemiah, he trusted God. Throughout the building process he had the interest with all the people that was going to help, the talents and the strength of others and stuff like that.

Speaker 2: 30:32

So when you think about that and we talking about interdependence, right, and so, like the Bible says in 1 Corinthians, 12 and 12, just as a body, though one has many parts, but all has many parts, form one body, so it is with Christ. So when you think about that, the interdependence and how this right here shows that we had to rely on others, they had to rely on other strength, what comes to mind when you think about that? I mean, because I know, like I said, we've been talking about interdependence, but when you think about a God-given mission like this, like Dr Martin Luther King and like how Nehemiah, what y'all think about that, I think that it's a person would have to move with total and complete faith because, looking forward at what you're supposed to be doing, you're going. What the lord put on your heart, um, you literally are now, I'm not gonna say waiting for things to fall in your lap, but you definitely have to be stepping forward and reaching out at the same time, you know it's like you just automatically know the Lord is about to provide Right, because how else you know literally how else so is is that that faith is reaching. And so if he was praying, then he has had already obtained those things through prayer and his actions was really just following through with what he believed he had already received.

Speaker 2: 32:21

So those connections that he had to have with various people, like you said, in the community who helped him with various tasks and everything had to be like like strategic people in certain locations, all of those things are very, very like I have to be God led, you know, something so large, like at the magnitude that he was able to accomplish, I mean that really this really could be, um, an example of a move of God, like of you know, the power of the Lord, the Lord coming through for what you know, accomplishing what he wants to get done Right. And I use people like him for examples regarding faith and things like that all the time, because I just believe that when he chooses people to advance the kingdom and advance society, he is taking I'm not going to say taking over, but he is orchestrating things Like you said behind the scenes, you see.

Speaker 2: 33:32

So when we see manifestation on the outside of all this great action and all of these things taking place, we have to know that it wasn't, you know, people by themselves just coming up with ideas, doing stuff. You know, for that level of cohesion and community and things like that, it just the Lord has to be in it, right and and, like you said, especially the the um faith that he had to exhibit. Like can you imagine the faith that you had to exhibit, especially when you were? You know, um, and and I'm saying you know Dr Martin Luther King, but even Nehemiah, and I can even go back to you know how moses had to depend on certain people you know what I'm saying like you know that faith um especially to accomplish things as this big of a magnitude right you

Speaker 2: 34:31

know, um, just like with, and the only reason why I was thinking about moses, I was thinking about how you know the people, the children of Israel was praying for a savior, and I know that even during the civil rights, a lot of people was praying for a savior. You know what I'm saying. Like was praying for a way out, praying for a different, a change of things, and, and when God you know we would they were praying about it and God put it on his heart, you know, and for him to, you know, have had to have that unwavering faith and say, okay, you know what, I'm going to do something about this. You know what I'm saying. And I need it. Like Hillary said earlier, all hands on deck, like I need, I need everybody, that that is gonna help.

Speaker 2: 35:21

It might not be, it might not look good on the other side, but we're gonna make it right and so, um, you know, I think that that that is that is very huge. You know, I'm saying like to, especially to complete a vision that big and that huge. So, when you think about the vision that God has given us, you know what I'm saying. Like we have a little small vision. You know what I'm saying? Wow.

Speaker 2: 35:52

You know, we be having vision like writing a book. You know what be having like vision like writing a book, you know saying like oh, I just gotta write a book you know what I'm saying, or not just saying, you know, god, give us, give some people little vision.

Speaker 2: 36:11

They be scared to even, you know, partnership with others and and these and people like dr margaret king had to get, you know, do something so huge and so great. I could just imagine all the things that he had to deal with, you know I don't even think he imagined like he even saw the change that was coming.

Speaker 3: 36:38

He just knew he had to do something. Their bats were against the wall. Like I said, I can't imagine being born in that time.

Speaker 2: 36:51

I could just imagine Literally I mean you know like I said and Mama could attest to it, I know she marched once, once or twice, I think it was. I can imagine having to just march for my freedom. You know what I'm saying. When we got all this freedom to do whatever, you know what I'm saying and we take it for granted, we don't want to partner with nobody. We don't want to share nothing with nobody. We don't even want to share what the Lord done, did for us. A lot of people don't even want to tell the goodness of Jesus. They be scared. You know what I'm saying, and it is not that they don't want to. Some people they are scared because people think you boasting and bragging or whatnot. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2: 37:46

And sometimes we have to recognize that God places people in our life for a reason. You know we got to learn how to lean on other people. We got to learn on, you know, like, be willing to take their gifts or help them, you know. And so we got to be as people. We got to be united for the God given vision, you know. You know.

Speaker 2: 38:16

So I mean like, when you think about that darling, like what I said about how people don't want to, even want to do the small thing. They only want to do the small challenges. All right, yeah, because I don't know the world we live in. Like I said they were built different and we just be on some other stuff too. It's like, why is it so hard for us to just like be happy for each other to um, to do, um, like to, to not be jealous or to or to, you know, encourage? And I think some groups got it going good, but some it's like it's still a challenge and so, and on the other aspect of what we're talking about, yeah, his task was so great and there are small things. Oh my gosh, now I feel like we talk about me again, because I mean the simplest stuff that has to get done you know, the smallest thing.

Speaker 2: 39:23

It's, like mine, monumental, like it's just so big and it's I can't imagine all the stuff that he had to actually not let the ball drop on him. You know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 39:37

Like what if he was like eh, I'm not going to do it today, or you know, right, I'm going to wait for so-and-so to get back with me, girl, and we be, so, like you said, we be ready to just cancel it. Well, it is a little slow, but we be ready to just cancel it. Well, it is a little snow, but we be ready to cancel it. It's just a little snow. And we be like uh-uh, I ain't spending the go-ahead. You want me to march?

Speaker 3: 40:08

Uh-uh, my daughter came to me and she was like can I stay at home tomorrow? It's going to be cold, right? No?

Speaker 2: 40:19

And they had to march in cold weather. We be ready to shut it down.

Speaker 3: 40:27

Shut everything down.

Speaker 2: 40:29

I don't even want to go to work tomorrow. It's supposed to be 12 degrees and feel like six degrees and I'm like, look at it. It's supposed to be 12 degrees and feel like six degrees and I'm like, look at it.

Speaker 3: 40:37

It's going to be eight degrees here.

Speaker 2: 40:39

I'm like y'all ain't going to close this door, ain't nobody going to be thinking about this stuff? You know what I'm saying, like, and we be sitting up here just complaining, complaining, complaining, when you have people like Nehemiah and you got people like Dr Martin Luther King that say you know what my heart burns for this? You know what I'm saying, and so we have to keep in mind that. You know Dr Martin Luther King. He once said faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Oh my God, oh my goodness. And so we know that right there, that whole statement and what we've been talking about is faith, right.

Speaker 3: 41:27

Yes.

Speaker 2: 41:29

It takes faith to do all of what Dr Martin Luther King Jr did. It takes faith to do all of what Dr Martin Luther King Jr did. It takes faith to do all of what Nehemiah did. It takes faith to do everything that we have talked about thus far. It takes faith, you know, and so you know, when you think about that taking that first step, when you don't see the whole staircase, oh my goodness, that is a that's such a powerful statement. You know I'm saying when um because a lot of people.

Speaker 2: 42:02

You know they don't see. They want to know the whole, how it's gonna end. You know where it's gonna start, what, what's gonna happen, who gonna be there? You know how, when people call, when you're going over to somebody's house, you're like who all over there? I don't know.

Speaker 3: 42:17

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 42:21

I think that's the craziest thing.

Speaker 3: 42:24

Sometimes we like that, even when it comes to working a job, if you don't know exactly how much you're gonna get paid and when you're gonna get paid, you'd be kind of scared like uh, oh, my goodness, right, you know, I don't even want to take this leap and not know, not know the known right, oh man, so anyways, anyways, we, I wanted to make sure we highlighted what dr martha luther king jr did on tonight.

Speaker 2: 43:07

Um, I didn't want to hold too long because I knew that we, you know, since, since our technical stuff got a little difficult, we, you know, I didn't want to hold too long. So, but I think, I really think that this is something that we need to keep in mind. You know, dr Martin Luther King Jr was very important in our lives when it comes to our freedom, right, and you know, and the only reason not the only reason, but the correlation with Nehemiah he was very important to the wall in Jerusalem, right, because it made history, the wall in Jerusalem, right, because it made history. And so we need to keep in mind that, whatever God has called us, we can link up with other people so we can accomplish God's visions, god-driven visions, god-driven missions. God give us all this. So we have to make sure that we are driven missions. God give us all this. So we have to make sure that we are not holding back because we don't want a partnership with someone, or not holding back because we don't want to share our vision with someone, and not hold it back because we don't want to rely on nobody else.

Speaker 2: 44:33

We often all the time think that we can do it, I can do it myself, you know what I'm saying and then yourself messed up everything. Like Darlene said, drop the ball. So, ella Harper, if you have anything else left to say and you could go ahead on and pray us out, we're going to get up out of here tonight. Yes, I really, I really hope that we, you know, just don't hold back that. This is a whole kind of like system that God built, where each, each other's assistance is required, like it's set up that way. It really, really, really is set up that way, not only for it to get accomplished, yes, but also for our own souls, because he doesn't want us to think that we did anything by ourselves.

Speaker 2: 45:40

So to stay like Jesus, to stay in a humble place, to be like him, working together, keeps us I'm not going to say equal, but you know, in relationship, in partnership, knowing that it, you know you couldn't have gotten anywhere by yourself, and I think that does something to our psyche. I think that helps us from getting a big head, you know, without even realizing it. So it, he already built it in there for us to be maintained, like his character within us to be maintained. So it's it's.

Speaker 2: 46:22

It's just needed all around. It's need all around because we didn't even get into, you know how, like, when we're pulling on other people, like you said, their gifts, their talents, right, they have an opportunity to shine, they have an opportunity to blossom, they have an opportunity to pour out as well. Their part is just as important, you know, and it sets them up. It could even be a launching pad for their next place. That's what I love about the kingdom of God, because it ricochets, it ping pongs, he accelerates us. That secretary who helped him write his speech, or whoever the person was, they probably went on to do bigger and greater things, you know what I mean we continue on from there and go on to help even other people, and even in their process.

Speaker 2: 47:17

So there's a there's a level of multiplication that takes place even in this unity, with us working together. So that's our prayer, amen. So, father God, we thank you tonight, lord God, for your word, your truth, night, lord God, for your word, your truth and, most of all, your examples, lord God, tonight, that helps us to stay in faith, to stay in the faith, to stay believing and to stay trusting in the way that you have set things in order. I pray, god, that we be people who believe in you, believe in the things that you have put in our heart, believe that they can be accomplished, believe in the things that you have put in our heart, believe that they can be accomplished, but knowing they can't be accomplished without being interdependent, without us relying on each other and, most of all, partnering with you. So I pray that your people, lord God, your creation, your children, father, that we first connect with you, that we receive our salvation, god, that we call on you, that we receive what we need from you, lord, and be empowered and we have vision to be able to delegate, to go out, to connect with others, knowing that you are Jehovah, jireh and you will provide. So I praise you, God, for this opportunity to chit chat about your goodness, lord God, and I pray that we continue to share that goodness with others. In Jesus name, we pray, amen, amen, amen, oh, amen. I'm so excited that we were able to get on here and and share that. Um, like you said, elder Harper, and we know that this will not take place if you do not give your life to Christ. You have to go and start there. This is where you have to start and you have to give your life to Christ and all you have to do is act. A-c-t-s. You can acknowledge that you are a sinner, you can confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ, he died and he rose on the cross, and you can turn from your ways, your evil ways they may not be as evil to you, but they're not pleasing to him and you can seek after a Bible based church, a church that is teaching the word of God and not changing the word of God. And so we thank you. Thank you again. Thank you, elder Harper, for being on here. Thank you, hillary for being on here. We know that let me tell y'all. We know that God is real. He has brought us to this point. We know that he is going to take us higher to higher.

Speaker 2: 50:00

Make sure you are going to the website. You are going to the website. Don't forget to get your book. Grab your book why Not Me? And you could go to wwwcuteforchristcom or you could go to amazoncom. So I'm so excited. Thank you, hillary. Thank you hillary, thank you elder harper and um. So, anyways, anyways, y'all just stay cute for Christ. All right, bye y'all.